Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 28, 1884, Page 4

i 1 4 —_— THE DAILY BEE--~-OMAHA MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1884, THE OMAHA BEE. Omaha Ofice, No, 010 Farnam St. Council Bluffs Office, No. 7 Pearl Btreet, Near Broadway. New*York Office, Room 65 Trivune Buailding. 5 Pablished every worning, except Sunday The ©aly Monday morning daily. R Y MATLL 10.00 | Three Montha. . . 5.00| One Month.. Ony Year. § x Monens. I WRNKLY B, FUCLISTIED NVERY WRDNRADAY, TRRUS POSTPAID, One Year $2.00 | Threo Months e 50 §ix Montha. 1.00 | One Month . 0 Amorioan N mpt o o In the United State CORRRSFONDRNCR, A Communieations relating to News and Editorial matters should be sddressed to the Eprror or Tnm B USINHSS LATTRRS, All Business Totters and Remittancos “should bo addressed to Titn Bex PreaiiiNG COMPANY, OMANA Dratts, Ohooks and Postoifice orders to bo mado pay- able to the order of the company, PROPS, {HE BEE PUBLISHING C0,, E. ROSEWATER, Editor. Mz. Locros Quintinios Corrivs LA M AR, of Mississippi, says that the per- sonal relations between himself and Sen- ator Edmunds have ceased. Mr, KEd- Avrmouve the bottle blowers have been on a strike for six months, the price of bottled beer remains the same, which would indicate that bottles have not ad- vanced to any material extent. Ox last Monday eovening Chestnut street, the main thoroughfare of Phila- delphia, was successfully illuminated hy eleotricity from underground wires, and the press of that city express the hope that the day is not far distant when the unsightly and dangerous overhead wires will be removed. Par. O. Hawes, Nebraska's ex-con- tingent congressman, is at lastdrawing a salary. He has been placed on Uncle Sam'’s pay-roll, having been given a position in the “folding room of the senate. This will give him a chance to ply his vocation 03 a lobbyist at the public expense. WieN Governor Murray started from Kentucky for Utah some three years ago he declared that his main business in the land of Zion would be to crush out polyg: amy, and now the valiant Kentuckian asserts that unless his friends come to his rescue the polygamists will crush him, ‘ Mz, Gueny KeNpass has had himself interviewed by the Omaha Republican about the disposal of school lands, but Mr, Glenn Kendall has not a word to say about the transfer of that safe from the offico of the land commissioner to his private business house at St. Paul. Mr, Kendall, as a keeper of the safes belong- ing to the state, is not fo man. ‘Tre new constitution” of Pennsylvania requires every person to show a tax re- oeipt before he can vote, the intention beingtoshut out vagrants and dead-beats. This has brought about a heavy traflic in tax receipts, both parties investing largely in poll tax receipts for distribu- tion among voters. While the city is the gainer in increased poll tax, there is no reform in politics. TR next regular meeting of the sen- ate committes on postoffices and post roads Wil be devoted to theconsideration of the postal telegraph. Dr. Norvin Green, president of the Western Union company, intends to be present to ex- plain how unprofitable the telegraph bus- iness has been. He will very kindly volunteer his opinion without charge, but the committee are not quite so green a3 Dr. Green would like to have them. Mz, Hexey M. Arkinson, formerly from Nebraska, is now at Washington asking for a third term as surveyor gen- eral of New Mexico. Itis to be hoped that the president will take time enough o investigate the record of Mr. Atkinson before he sends in his name to the sonate, Mr, Atkinson's relations with star-route Dorsey and the new Mexican land ring have been altogether too inti- mate even if.he was notimplicated in the COMMUTING PENSIONS. One of the most practical Fhmn for ar- resting the rapid and wreckless increase of pensioners and.the corresponding de- rlnion of the treasury is that proposed wy the New York Herald. The sugges. tion is that pensionclaima should be com- muted, and that payments, which may run ten, fifteen, twenty or thirty years, be made at once, cash down, and after the method used by the life insurance companies, saving millions to the tax payers. No doubt a majority of pen- sioners would favor this lump payment system, as such an accession of funds would ensble them to buy property or start in business. The objectors to the system will doubtless be the politicians who have found no little political profit in getting up dazzing pension schomes to séatirq the old poldiet vote aed the pen: sion claim agents who nave worked the pension mine 8o assiduously, and with such brilliant and substantial advantage to themselves, The commutation scheme would be strictly economical, and if the large sum necessary to lump the peyments is obtained by the issue of onds, the national banks would have a prolonged basis fer their system and would be relieved of the anxiety incident, to the expiration of the present bond term in 1907.— Chicago Current. The primary object of pensions to sol- diers and to seldiers’ widows is to con- tribute a steady incomo for the us- tenance of the defenders of the country, who have been disabled by military service. To commute their pen- sions by calculating the number of years that they are liable to survive,with a view of setting them up in business, will not answer the purpose. The money which these pensioners thus secure might be improperly invested and lost, leaving them destitute and a charge upon the public. Many of the pensioners would be tempted to squander their money, and the very purpose for which the pensions are granted, namely, to assist them in their old age by a steady income, would be dofeated, This is a more fatal ob- jection than politicians or claim agents might set up, and we believe that nine tenths of the sensible pensioners, who at first would look with favor upon the proposition to commute their pensions, would upon second sober thought prefer the prosent systom of monthly install- ments, Mr. Kerver seems to be having con- siderable trouble over his nophuw just now, and they are telling some pretty man, has votell against the repeal, and M. Spreckels will continue to pocket millions of dollars, at the expense of the American people. Tirk audacity of the Pacific railroad land robbers knows no bounds, For more than thirteen years they have held mil- lions of acres which were donated to thern as a subsidy, without paying a dol- lar of taxes on them. A great portion of these lands were, by the provisions of the Pacific railroad charter, forfeited to home stead and pre.emption settlement. And now theso land robbers propose toappear before the public lands committees of congress, through ex-Judgo Dillon, 1n opposition to the bill compelling them to pay for surveying their unpatented Inads, in ovder that these lands.shall be placed upon the assessment roll for taxa- tion. Why, in the name of common sense, should these landsremain untaxed? Why should this grasping monopoly con- tinue to ovade its just share of the bur- CITY WALKS AND TALKS. ‘W hile witnessing the parformance of “The Silver King' at Boyd's opera house, my mind wandered back, betwoen acts, over the amusement history of Omaha, and many in- teresting reminiscences were the result,” re- marked one of Omaha's old settlors to THE Brr's Man About Town, who therenpon drew ot from him a chapter of theatrical history which n ovo entertaining to the render, T r he first place of Omah the court hou about the first p! the old settler, Death,’ Tt was pro- John Templeton’s traveling com i nd stage. of 'l'umru«lun. the opera singer, who opene oyd's opera house, It seems rathor singular now, that T think of it, that John Templeton, who gave the first th porformanc worth mentioning, in the old court house, about twenty years ago—I can't romember exactly—should be the propristor of the oper company that had the pleasure of inaugurat- ing Omaha's handsome temple of amusement, the Boyd opera houso, When ‘The Chaniber of Death’ was played in the court house, Fa was nmere child and perbaps oven then was the ‘juvenile’ of her father's company. Her father has been & prosperous managsr, and is everywhere known as Lucky John Templeton. The conrt house used to be our place of amuse- dens of government? Do these cormor- ants propose torgo untaxed forover! Do they imagine that the eople of Kansas, Nehraska, Colorado, Wyoming and Utah will forever submit to such outrageous imponiti~ns, @ TuEne will be music in the air when Senator Sherman’s resolutions come up for debate. The democrats feel very in- dignant that the southern outragos should be made the subject of inquiry. As usual they will commit the blunder of array- ing themselves against such investigation, ! instend of joining the republicans in a demand for the rigid awforcement of a free ballot. Violence and bull-dozing at elections are by no means confined to the south, nor have they always been com- mitted by democrats. But it becomes the duty of the national legislature to devise proper remedios against these out- rages, especially where, as at Danville and C_piah, they are signalized by a spirit of race hatred and partisan tyranny. In- stead of opposing Senator Sherman’s res olutions, the democrats should heartily co-operate with the republicans in a thorough investigation, with a view of sup pressing terrorism in the south and mak- ing elections untrammeled. hard stories about him, It appears that a dog is at the bottom of the whole diffi- culty. Tyson, the stenographer, was the owner of a beautiful St. Bernard dog, which Mr, Keifer greatly admired and coveted. He asked Tyson to make him a present of the dog, and Tyson, who thought more of the dog than he did of Keifer, refused. Thisaroused the wrath of Keifer, who shortly afterwards in- formed Tyson that his resignation was wanted. Tyson, so the story goes, pleaded m vain, and he was finally bounced to make room for Gaines, the nephew of Mr. Keifer. That St. Ber- nard dog lost Mr. Tyson a position worth $5,000 a year. Moral—Don't keep a dog, Marr, ZIMMERMAN, who is under sen- tence of death for the murder of Sheriff Jack Woods at Minden, and whose day of execution is fixed for Monday, Febru- ary 4th, has appealed to the supreme court for a tria. We presume the supreme oourt will accommo- date the gentlemanly horse thief and murderer. If they cannot, however, consistently grant him a third trial, after having given him a second trial, it will be in accord with theeternal fitness of things for the members of the court to signpeti- tions for his reprieve and write letters to the governor invoking his executive clemency. It will be a very cold day in Nebraska when a horse thief and wmur- derer can't get somebody to cireulate a petition for him. —— Tux salary of Governor Irwin, of 1daho, who roturned it to the govern- ment because he had not earned it owing to sickness, has been placed in the con- science fund, This naturally riles Gow- ernor Irwin somowhat, as he had inti- wmated that the money should be the aurv‘oyor sorip swindlo, by which vast tracts of land were taken from the public domain by land sharks and speculators. CEST———— Mg, Cmavscey Derew, who figured 80 prominently as a candidate for the senate to succoed Roscoe Conkling, hav delivered himself of a lengthy argument against Reagan's inter-state commerce bill and all other legislation having in view the regulation of the railways. Mr, Depew represented the Vanderbilt sys- tem, for which he has been the general attorney for many years, Whether Mr, Depew honestly believes that congress has no right, under the conatitution, to regulate railways, or whether he is merely talkiog to earn his salary, it is fortunate that he was not selected to fill Roscoe Conkling's seat in the United Btates senate. o Em— Tax McGarrahan claimants and John Roach are on hand as usual. MoGarra- hav's claims are comparatively trifling, snd involve the ownership of & quick- silver mine in which, at most, the Ameri- «can people have but a very remote inter- est. John Roach, on the other hand, is |’ trying to enlist congress in his subsidy schomes, which would take millious out foundation of an unearned salary fund, to be increased by other officiala who might follow his example. Governor Irwin's action is the firat of the kind on record. and probably will be the: last, at least for some years to come, uotil some men are endowed with a conscience by thoir creator, EEEppRST———— Mz, Joun . Nuw has at last petired from the assistant secretaryship of the treasury, and Mr. Folger will now have an opportunity to conduct the depart- ment without political intrigus and five | in the rear. Mr. New has always boen disappointed because the president did not appoint him secretary in place of Folger. SE—eeE——— Wi have received notice of the anuual convention of baggage smashers, to be held at St. Louis on February 20th, and we are asked if our line will be repre- sented. Tnx Bxe has been an honorary member of the railroad baggage smashing fraternity for a number of years, and the Bee line will be represented, you bet, T E— Whazgses, the man who strangled his sister-in-law, was hung in San Francisco on Friday, Had he lived in Nebraska the governor probably would have relieved hiw from being mobbed, —————— AN Two years ago the editor of the The Lepublican was clerk of a house commit- tee and Washington correspondent of this paper. Now Clem. Chase is clork Senator Manderson’s committoe and ‘Washington ourresfiundent of the Ber. Two years age Mr. Rosewater had a great deal to say about ‘“The Republican re- ceiving ‘pap’ from the government,” What's the matter with the Ber now?— Republican. The Bee feels under no obligations to Senator Manderson for the appointment of Clement Chase. It was hisown choice, and Mr. Chase was relieved from duty on the Bk staff at the senator’s request. ‘We pay Mr, Chase for hisletters and dis- patches, while the Republican, through Valentine, saved the salary of an editor by having him put on Uncle Sam’s pay roll. Tuk Current, published in Chicago, by Edgar L, Wakeman, has taken front rank among the periodical publications of this country, It is ably edited, of - a very high literary character, clean, entertaining and instructive throughout. Its table of contents each week presents a pleasing variety of subjects, both from Its excellence has improved from the the editorial staff and contributors. first number, and is being maintained. ‘We know of no similar literary publica- tion in this country that can compare with it. Tuax Minnesota conviot cage has been destroyed by fire and three hundred con- victs are tomporrrily houseless, if not homeless. The penitentiary contractor, Senator Sabin is, however, not very des- pondent. He stands ready to take the contract for rebuilding the conviots® cage on a larger scale just as soon as the State of Minnesota has the plans ready— and he will proceed with the work just as moon a8 the weather will permit. With his three hundred convicts working for their board Mr. Sabin can defy Pusros Nyw's boy insists that ho knows a great deal moreabout the merits of the Fita John Porter case than Gen- When the war broke out conts and put on ;pantalets. When the war was over he was just able to fire off | & toy pistol, Ivseems that Fred. Douglas wanted to show his sympathy with the woman's rights movement by marrying Miss Pitts, His wife is one of the strong-minded agi- tators of woman suffrage, and being in despair of getting a white man anywhere wear her equal, she concluded to tie her- solf to an intelligent contraband, Tur Cincinnati Commercéal-Gazette , which is as good a republican paper as there is in the United States, says: *It is not an essential article of the republi traitor. ms———— Ir isnow in order for the dime ma- seum managers to make an offer to Gev- ernor Irwin, of Idaho, unearned salary. Hois now the great. eat living curiosity in the wild wes\. Egp— Tu citizens of Papillion, end sepocial- ly the ladies, deny that they shed tears over the eloquent and pathetio speech of Qol. Smythe in defense of MeCarty, —— but we have no advices as to whether he was baptized by an Episcopal bishop be- can faith that Fitz Johm Porter was a|, ho returned his | ¢h, moent_until the opening of Potter's theatre over J. J. Brown's store, at the southeast cor- ner of Fourteenth and’ Douglas stroots, It Was in the second story, and had n seating capacity of 400 or 500, the seats being com. mon chairs placed on an inclined plane, This was about the year 1365, Potter, who ran this theatre, was an old_theatrical mapager, Ho opened his theatre with a_stock company, in which Walter Bray was the loading man and comedian, Amone the first plays presented was ‘The Lady of Lyons. After running a shert time, business proved poor, and one night the orchestra struck for their pay just before the ourtain was to goup. The play was ‘Pocahontas,’ in which considerable mu. sic was required, This was the first right of its presentation in Omaha, Potter, who was equal to any emergency, informed the stage manager that the play would have to proceed without tho music, ‘By thunder! we can't do it)” exclaimed tho stage manager." But you can and must,’ said Potter, who thereup- on walked out upon the stage and said to the audience, ‘Ladies and gontleman, owing to the illness of the leador of the orchestra thore will be no music this evening. Luckily, however, the [play requires no music.” Thereupon the curtain ross and the play of ‘Pocahontas’ pro- ceeded. Among the prominent actors who ap- peared at Potter's_theatre wero C. W. Couldock, Mr, and Mrs. Selden Irwin, who came hers on their raturn from California, ac companied by Harry Rainforth as I man; and there were others whom I can’t r member now, among them being a very prom- inent actress, Potter's theatre gave way to the Academy of Music, built 5. Cald- well and John Y. Clopper, and wasincluded in thofsamefblock, called Caldwell block. When the Academy of Music opened it was regarded us & magnificent theatre for Omaha, and 1t really was an atteactive theatre in its duy. It was opened in the winter of 1866.67 under the management of Henry Corri, a veteran theatrical man, He was an old English actor and had been Ten DeBar’s manager for many years, Mr. Corri organized and maintained on of the best stock companies in tho United States. This was just befora everybody went to starring and_traveling companies became all tho rage, Tho city was, in thoso days, a busy place, full o transionts, brought hero by tha construction of the Union Pacific railroad, and they all patronized places of amusement. Corri’s stock company included J, F. Noyes, rat leading man, Henry Morland, first heavy man, Annie Ward, sonbrette, W. Watkins, first’ juvenile, Jean Clara Walters, leading Indy, Mra. Clementine DeBar, mother of Blanche DeBar and sister of Ben DeBar, This brilliant company played the entir season, and was well patronized. Standard such ns ‘Macheth,” ‘Hanlet,” Richard “Foul Play,’ ‘Sea of Ice,’ ‘Carpenter of Rouen and other legitimate dramas were produced. |; The following season was opened with nearly the same company, there being ouly a fow changes, Goorge L. Aiken, took the wosition of first leading man, Jean Clara Walters was dropped from the com- pany, owing to_somo trouble with Clopper, wh ' swore she should never play in the Acade: my again, Corr, of course, had to obey the order of Clopper, and_thereupon Jean Clara sued Corri for hor salary on_the ground of breach of contract, Mrs, J. D. Germon was the leading lady, and Mr. Gormon .was the leading man. Aiken remained only a short time. His place was filled by George G. Chaplin, During thik season_quite » number ofstars played ut tho Acadomy, mong thomn being Edwin Adams. Chanfrau, Couldock, Mrs. Bowers, Jean Hosmer. Proctor, Gott hold, Totta, Annie Ward Tiffany, Fannie Morgan_Phelps, Leo: Hudson, and Fannie Prico. There was n star about once » week, and sometimes a star. would play to crowded houses for two weeks; The treasursr and act- ing manager for Corrl diwing the second sea. son was Jim Nelivh, who frequently appenred on tho atagoin tho place of members who were absent owing to illness fo= some othor cause. Jim played Horatio in ‘Hamlet' with Edwin ‘Adams, also Mosos in ‘School for Scandal,’ King James in ‘Elizsboth,” Tawyor Marks in “Uncle Tom's Cabin,’ and other roles, Had he stuck to the stage ho- might have become a star in the theatrical firmament, but e prefer- red to become & starin tha detoctive field, and he is now the Allan Pinkerton of the West. Henry M. Stanley, who. has sinca becoms famous as the African explorer, was then in Omaha, and was an_ardent aduiirer of Annie Ward. " Neligh had a little setto with him on tho %treet about o diamond ring which Stanley had borrowed from Anuis, and wouldn't return, but he gave it-to Neligh, who was commissioned toget 18, During the third season Milton Nobles was the ‘juve- nile’ man, and_John A, Stevens wag the leading man, his wife Lottio Ghurch being the soubretto. Shortly. after this season the Academy was closed as a stock theatre,and Stevens included it in the Western Star circuit, which he organized, and which took in the Academy of Musie at &t. Joe, the opera house at Leavenworth,and Coates opera house at Kunsas City. Among the stars who played in this cirouit were Forrost, Barrett, frs. Bowers, Stuart Robson, Chenfran, Lotta, and othors of equal prominenes. Stevens finally lost his grip. _Ho was more or less financially embarrassed, aud the nowspapors kept turniug him over for vaious causes. Having some difficulty witithe owners of the Academy, he opened Redicl's opera house, Which had been recently complesed,but played thore only & few times, when.the Wostern Star circuit collapsed. The remainiag members of his compuny opened at the Academy of Music with Marion Mordaunt, aad phayed thero a week. From that time the Academy was conducted by different, manngers for the own- ers, and was rentod to traveliug companies, 1t mnf-llnllcd 'mn b-d | the- only :7 tro until the opening ol oyd's opera. s \ Foow wihat has become of old Fotter. Trwin is an invalid in Toxas, his ing paralyzed. Old Gorri died ago at the Forrest Home for ag Philadslphia. Anuie Ward committed sui- cide in St. Louls, Jaan. Clara Walters is in California, Chaplin is teavsling with Janau- schok, Noyes s dead, Milton Nubles ix starring it, and has stouek it rich, So has Stevaus, who as & sbar actar, suthor aud man- agen, hias come % the front in Now York, He has won fame aud riches. He was divorced from Lottie Church, audis married agaiu. Mra. Ben DoBar is numbered with the dead. So alaois J. D, Germon, Charles Royers, who vas with Cirl duslaws his second season, and Hrauk Weston, the property man, are both oW starring it ——As the Tamploton family fignge quite prominertly in the above article, the fol. lowing may poeve interesting in this connec: tion: ~ 'Thp audience at the Criterien Theatro [in , Was somewhat surprised, Friday evening, January 18th, at an aunouncement belug made from the stage that Miss Fay Templeton could not appoar, consequentl irates of Penzance” would be substi- tuted for “‘Olivette,” It seoms that she ca- BT e ok e member of the com) rving's per formance and had a substitate In bis stead. Sho sat with her daluty litale feot seating on the fouder of the fire-placo in ber 100w at the » mpn{. ‘l"inmu; -n'dwwu‘ d.nfiarmlnld. ‘hlbh: 1) , her father, finally changed bill, and shortly befors “nine o'clock the cur- taln went up o the st act. Mr, Tamplo- ton sud Mr. Oloveland, the businces pera house” is the name by which the presont city hall building, at the northweat coraer of Farnam aud Sixteoath 5f any note prasented hors | ) streets, fs yot called by some of our citdzens who w8 aware of the fact that the frame strac- ture was erected as an opera honse about the 1t wonld he hord to convines a comer that it waa really in- year 1870. stranger or & ne tended for « ments, ‘Plack C; and a chair er; mesime in the winter of 1871 erformance was given there, din the gallery, and at the same time a post under the gallery settled, Quite a scare among the andience was thus created, 1t soon subsided, however, and the porformance proceeded, This alleged_opera house never figured very prominently in th amusement history of Omaha, Thr B About. Town in the ymr mo 816,000, Only o fow performances ver given in it. Of course yon wonldn't now it 1111 11 theatre by looking at it now. v has all been changed. The galloty has been removed, and the room has Deen “divided into two apartments, one of whichisused for the city c commonly called the common council, The building, ways paid me 12 per cent interest on the inves It was always occupled by offices. 1 had it the United States court was held in church part. the old Cony onal brick first church of that denomi «tands attached to the rea the_northwest corner. Iev Mr. Gaylord usod to preside over that chureh, and it was there that I heard my first sormon in Omaha. Rev. Mr, Gaylord preached it. When I bought the pn...myi concluded to let thechurch stand as a memorial of my first church attendance in Omaha, and itis there yet. Although the opera house passed into other hands, it has always been occupied, and still continues to pay good interest. When the government \‘\ullllmk was completed the United States court and federal offices moved out and the city then rented a large portion of the build- ing. I sold the opera house along about 1873 for £86,000. 1 thought T never would get a better chance to sell it, and so I parted with it. Pattee was rannivg his lottery then, and he wanted an opera house for his cabital prize, and as thero was no opera house nearer than this one, he bought it. 1 don't remember whether the prize was drawn by any one, but if it was Pattee bought it right back, as it was such a valuable piece of property. Asthe winner couldn’t take it with him, he preferred a cash r.«'l alont. The sroperty i in the name of Caroline K. Reed, Pit thar ta the samo. a8 Pattes, The opera house was finished some time in 1871 just about the time that Rosewater started Tir Bre. had some controversy with Rosey. Ho pitched into me in THE and T retal- iated throngh the columns of Z%e Tribune and Repyblican, in which hyphenated concern I was a large stockholder. One day Rosey me out in his Bre with a burlesque illustra- tion of my opern house. He 4 its architecture, and called me the Jim Fisk of the West. I continned to make it as het for him as I knew how in The Tribume and Hepublican and ~ one day he told me that if T didn’t let up he would sue me for slander, Ono thing made him mad was I had a standing advertisement in the Tribune end Republican stativg that 'k BER for sale to the highest bicder. when he threatened to sue me for libel, I said I would quit if he would. There- upon we both guit, and we have never had a word since.” **You are still interested 1n a theatre, are you not?” **Yes, I own a balf in- torest in the” Academy of usic, I bought Clopper's half in 1870, simply as & busineas investment, and not for the honor of being connected with the theatrical profession.” P STATE JOTTINGS. Nebraska City has pat up 18,000 tons of ice at a cost of £10,500, Norfolk is promised the telephone with a connection to Madisons rk county thinks tess of township organ- ion now than before election. There aro twenty-eight pensioners in Cum- ing county, among whgm $270 are distributed monthly. James Patrick, of Seward, drew his revolver on a policeman of that place and was fined £50 for doivg it. The B. & M. Railroad company are now actively engaged in fenoing their line through Nebraska and Colorado. i'he U, P. track betwoen Beatrice and Lin- coln is nearly all put down. There isa gap of about four miles that remains to be closm(. Pawnee connty farmers, instead of shipping their corn to the overcrowded markets of the east, are shoveling it in% hogs and pickling pork. Mrs. Brum, widow of the late Charles Brum, has determined to establish, at her own expense, a free pubhie library in Hum- boldt. “Itis indeed a fact to be regrotted,” says The Burtonian, “that v have here in Teka- mah the hardest and roughest crowd of boys to be found anywhere.”” A hospital of the Sistars of Mercy will be built at Grand Tsland, The ground has been secured and a building worh $20,000 is to be erected inside of five yewns. Two caves were found in Nebraska City which some boys had filled up with chickens they had stolen of neighbors. They were “caved” 1 and the chickens let out. A Buffalo county farmer named Young ac- cidently discharged his- gun while climbing into his wagon, ~ His arm was neerly cut off at the wrist. He bled to death before the arrival of medical aid, The B. & M.. management have decided to vacate the bed of - their rond along Salt Creek from South Bend to Ashland, and place the road on the upland, This will give thew a better, and many miles shozter route. “Shall T sacrifice thes, dear girl—to gain a half willion of money, and a seat in con- ress? Shall 127 exclaims the noted North ebraska novelist, Now you're shouting. Soal her up in & cast iron case, give a leap year banquet at: the valie and’ start in as a freo trader. Awong the new things. of Seward is a five story brick mill. _Its walls are reported six foet thick at the: baso and has & 20,000 bushel elevator attachment and.a dam that has used up 100,000 foet of lomber. When finished, it will bo catled tho finest:mill in the state and worth $100,000, Carl Andrews, of Wsst Point, had an Ital. ian vender of imugos.amested for an alleged indecent assault upon his wife. The woman swore that tha prisoner attempted to outrage her, aud the prisoner denied the charge in toto, Kvidence was introduced to provegthat the complaint. was maude for the purpose of extorting mouey, andithe result was thut the judge discharged the prisoner, The friends of ex-Marshall Hickey. of Ne- braska City, who was sent to the penitentiarp for six years for shooting one Mc(iuire, whom he-was “attempting to arrest in Decembor, 1881, are still doing all they possibly can to secure Hickey's yowdon. The bar of Owe county, Judgp Pound, the district attorney, and the jury that found him guilty, lave signed a petition asking for his release. C. B. Kellogg, one of the best-informed geain-buyers in the west, informs The Beatricn Dernoorat that.there are at this time 50,000 bushels of new and 80,000 bushels of old cozn cribbied in Beatrice, and that that amonut is belng increased by 3,000 to 4,000 bustals per day. He ..08‘ the buyers also take in on an average 2,000 bushels of shelled corn, which 1a shipped aut as fast as received, one of the largest grain markets in Webraska. BAREKER & MAYNE, N, £ Cor.I3th & Farnam Sts,Omaha,Neb, WHOLESALE SHIPPERS AND DEALERS IN - Hard & Soft Coal ~—AND— CONNELSVILLE COKE! Beatrice is.} Coal. H. B, LOC or¢ Wil Paints ager of the Tea, all grades of abo stock. 1118 FARNAM STREET, . - LR STEELE, JOHNSON& CO,, Wholesale Grocers ! s Wi, 0D (formerly of Lockwood & Draper) Chicago, Man- S "(nr and Tobacco Departments. A full line of s also pipes and smokers’ articles carried in m, O samples furnished on application. Open sa to us shall receive our careful attention §a, 'isfaction Guaranteed. Pr ders intruste llv'ENTS" FOR BENWOOD 'o.."l.s AND LAFLIN & 3RAND POWDER CO "HENRY LEHMANN Jopptn OF Paner aud Wikdow Sliades. EASTERN PRICES DUPLICA)ED) OMAHA NEB, Wholesale Druggist! JAND DEALER IN Oils Varnishes and Window Glass OMAHA, NEBJRASKA. 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