Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 31, 1884, Page 2

OMLHA DAILY BEE THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1884, BEDFORD & SOUER Owing to the increase in our business we’ve admitted to the firm Mr EdwinDavis,who| is well and favorably knownin Omaha.This will enable us to han- dle an increased list of property. We ask those who' have desi- rable property for sale,toplace the same withus. The new firm will be i, ) & JAvis, - REAL ESTATE BROKERS. 213 SouthF14th7Est, action. It in n mafe, nure and ipeedy oure And hune B dreds have: cured Bvy it when physiclans and frionds had iven themup to dio. IT 1S BOTH A "'SAFE CURE” and a "SPECIFIC,” Tt CUREN all Discanen of the Kidneys, Liver, Blndder nnd Urinary Oranns; Dropuy, Gravel, Dinbetes, Bright's Disense, Puinn in the Back, Loins, or Side, Retention or Non-lte= tentlon of Urine, Discases, Femnlo Wenknesses, Excewsen, Juundice, Biliousnessy Headnche, Sour Stomach, Dyspen= sin, Conwtipation and Pilew. #1.25 AT DRUGGISTS, 23" TAKE NO OTHER, "8 Bend for llustrated Pamphlot of Holid Tos- timonialn of Absoluto Cure HUNT'S REM Prov DOCTOR WHITTIER 617 8t. Charles 8t., St. Lonis, Mo. o, hay 1icen Tongee. ALL OTHER MFDI- CINES PAIL, an it sctsa DIRECTLY &nd AT ONCE on the KIDNRYS, LIVER and BOW- ¥18, rentoring them to & healthy welty il now Nervous Prostration, Debhity, Mental and Mercurial and other Affec Blood Polsoning, wuparalieied i Trivately. Indiscrotion. Excese, the Physical Weakness ; tlons of Throat, Skin or Bonet old d Ule Sveralonto the ociely ‘o ert B acringe improj permunasily curcd: Famphic 0 o vealed enyelopo, frec o any dnsuliat fiee or by mal frie, andinvited. Writs for qustions, A PnsitungWrirM(gn Guaraqtee WMARRIAGE CUIDE! iow A" book of grent. I Hibbincse aro promietod HAMBURG-AMERIOAN. FPacltet Company. DIRECT LINE FOR ENGLAND, FRANCE AND GEUMANY. Tho steamshipa of thly well-known lino are bulit of fron, {n water.tight compartments, and aro furnish- o with every requusito to make 'the d agreeable. Thoy carry the Unitod States Liavo Now Yorks Thurs- ymouth (LONDON) Cher- (PARIS) and HAMBUMG, and 5. Btoerage, §20 Henry Pundt, Mark Hansen, Moores, M. Toft, agents(n Omaha, Gronewieg & Schoentgen, agentsin Council Blufts, 0. B: RICHARD & CO., Gen. Pass Agts , 61 Broadway, N. V. Cbas. Kozminski & Co- Genoral Westein Agonte, 107 Washington Si.. Chica goulll. THEONLY TRUE | IRON Will purify the BLOOD, regus Tate the LI 1 KIDNEYS, Y A VIGOR of YOUTH, 1y s W Appotl i ADIES pecull 1l in DR, uAn'n:mf IRON TONIO Lo onr D ‘ullof strangs 4nd usetul informution, free., H. PHILLIPS, NERGHANT TAILOR HAS REMOVED TO 1207 FARNAM ST, A CHECKERED CAREER. Incidents in lhfi Li(sv of Col. Betts of Alabame, A Gentleman by Birth, Confederate Officer From Oholce, and Gam- bler and Murderer Through Force of Circumstances, Cor. St. Lol (ilobe-Democrat, Wesr Porxt, Go, July 27.—*‘Poor Jotts, "said an old citizen this morning,as he read the briof telegram from Wash- ington announcing the death of Col. W, H. Betts in that city. ‘*Poor Betts, he is better off now, but he was a mighty good shot in his day.” and thereby hangs a talo of a strangely chockered career, full of incidents of wild adventure, and showing how bad company and unre- strained indulgence can blight a life which otherwise might hava been full of honor as told by a eitizen who had known Betts long and well. William H Betts was & member of one of the most respec- table families in Alabama. rie was im- bued with all the sentiments of chivalry prevalent among southern youth previ- ous to tho war, ready to resent an insult almost before it was given, and at the samo timo ready to lay down his lifo for a friend or to suffer martyrdom for a sentiment. In these days gambling was a polite accomplishm nt in which nearly everybody indulged, yet to have called these gentlemen by such a rude name would havo been quickly resented, al- though the partition which divided the gontlemanly from tho professional was very thin. Among the fast young men who flourished in Columbus and Mont- gomery none were faster than ths bril- liant Betts, and the allurements of the game soon led him across the line until the professonals had their hooks firmly fastened into him and thus led him along in the course which proved to oe one of an ever downward grade. When the war called the young men of the country to the defense of the state, it found Wm, H. Botts in his placeas the Colonel of an Alabama regiment. HIS FIRST MURDER, It was while stationed in Pensacols, Florida, that irat act of violence of which record exists was committed. Col. Wetts had his wife with him and one eve- ning the lady complained to her husband of the manner of one of the men in camp. Col, Betts asked his wife to promenade around the camp with him. *‘When you see the man point him out,” said he. Not suspecting her husband’s determina- tion, presently she said, “‘There he is.” Almost instantly a bullet went whistling from the revolver of the husband, who coolly continued his promenade. As the killing waa done in defense of his wife's honor, no trouble followed to him, and in the fast culminating events of lifo on the fisld the affair was soon forgotten ex- cept among the mora intimately con- cerned in 1t. When the warclosed Betts found himself withoat money, cast among reckless men in Columbus, and he #0on became recognized as a professional gambler. FLEECING THE GRAYS, He had rooms which were elegantly fitted up, considering the times, and it was his wont to entice therein unsuspect- ing countrymen who had just disposed of their cotton. When he had won the victim’s money and wanted to get rid of him, he would ask himif he ever sawa hoodoo. Of course the victim had not, Drawing aside a curtain which concealed a closet in the room there stood a full- sized manikin, with a candle dimly burn- ing inside the skull, which thus gave light to the eyes. 'The stranger would be only too willing to leave such a horri- ble place. Twoof Betts’ intimate friends at this time were Milt Malone, who had murdered three men, for the lastof which he was convicted and sentenced to death: the other was Penn Bedell, who had killed Policeman Rasberry at Atlanta. Malone committed suicide the day on which he was to have been executed and thus gained a nominal victory over the law. Bedell was shot dead. It may readily be imagined when three such men thrived they had things pretty much their own way. = 1t was the period just previous to reconstruction, There was 10 law, and the officer who attempted to make criminals think there was, was not long indiscovering his mistake. A BULLY KILLED, One day one of the bullies of the town was imposing on a little boy, which so angered Betts that he let him have a lively fulisade, only wounding him, how- ever. As Columbus was growing warm for Botte, he next made his apppearance in_this city, where, with a choice lot of apirits, ho carried on his gambling opera- tions with boldness and dush. So open did they become that the authorities de- termined to wind them up. The ofticers surrounded the rendezvous of the gamb- lers and found the doors closed, The marshal attempted to force the door, whon he was met with a bullet from Botts, killing him. Botts was subse- N Toves & | (nEFURE) L )-VOLTAIC BELT and othier ELectaio ton W Days' Trial TO D, who are suffer. Losy_ VITaLITY, £ ly and complete Vioon and Mankoon ¢ once for Ilustrated . 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[ded. aues sent by Mull and Express, No marks on acaaue 1o indicate contents o tender. Adaress w. JAMES No. Z04Washingion CAQo, 5 et —. appropriate quently tried and acquitted of the charge of murder. One of the peculiarities of the trial was the dedication of an origi- nal poem of about a column in length, by tho prisoner to Judge O. A. Bull, wno who tried the case. When Gen. Meade issued his order requiring the registry of voters #o that they might take the oath of allegiance. Betts sgain brought him- self into prominence in a peculiar way. Going to the ofiice of the registrar an ofli- cer stood ready to take the gentleman'’s nawe, whon Betts gave the name of his black and tan dog, which he held up in his arms as being one as well qualified to vote as negroes, The officer refused, when Betts was about to try his old argu- ment on him, when help prevented fur- ther trouble. Betts was again heard from, this time in Albany, Ga. An alarm of burglary was given there one night, and the suspected spot was sur- rounded by a lot of men, Presently the burglar emerged and making a bold dash cut through the crowd and escaped. THE MURDER OF AMMONS, The next morning the matter was be- ing talked over when Betts quietly re- marked: *‘If I had been there he would not have escaped so easily." *‘Porhaps you were the burglar,” inter posed a bystander named Ammons, Owing to the flash from Betts' re- volver, Ammons knew no more of the subsequent proceedings. So notorious had Botts' character become by this time that a reward of $1,000 was offered by Governor Bullock for his arrest. In the nmor of 1870 he made his appearance in Atlanta sgain, consorting exclusively with men of his class. It was ascertained one night that he was in the room of Mauo Delasco, a well-known variety actress of that day, which was situated in the Muhlinbrink building. A number of police surrounded the house while a detective ¢ntered and secured his pris- oner, after a desperate struggle, He lwn taken to Albany, tried for the killing of Ammons and scquitted. About this | ugnt un ofictal to time Col, Botls, who had been rampant democrat, began to weaken in his allegi- ance to that party, and, like Col. Jelk Brown, becsme aliva to the fact that there was bread and but- ter in the republican party. Whon an apppopriation was made in 1879, for the overflowed of Mis- sissippi and Alabama, & congressional election was pending. It is notorious that thousands of pounds of this over- flowed bacon was sent to sections which did not know what an overflow was. Col. Betts announced himself as the re- publican candidate for the Opealika, Ala- bama, district, and had 20,000 pounds of bacon sent to that town to his order. Three daya bofore the clection Opelika was filled with negroes from all over the county, who lit bonfires in the open spaces and fried fat meat while waiting for a chance to vote for Col. Betts. The scenes of thess three days are described by the natives as having beon a pando- monium, The consequences were such that Col. Betts decided that he had bet- ter go north, where he has ‘spent the last ten years of his life. He was heard from in New York, through having been brought into court by an old friend on the charge of stealing his coat, where he quietly closed up his evidence by ac- knowledging that ho had only killed three men. B “The Dead Line,” Many old soldiers rememher ‘‘the dead line’ at Andersonville, It was a mighty dangerous neighborhood, Dyspopsia, biliousness, and liver and kidney disessos are full of perils for the sick, but Burdock Blood Hitters ars a cer- tain remedy. Sold cverywhere, SALATHIKL'S STORY, He Instructs the Nelghbors in Swine Burgery, and Tells Why Pork Swells in the Barrel, Boston Globe, “I don't guess nothing about it; I know 'tis 80, and that is all there in to it,” said Salathiel Ward, taking out a quid of navy tobacco and shifting his po- sition. Salathiel's remarks were occa- ned by a discusston among some of s neighbors as to whether salt made pork swell in the harrel. He came along and joined them in the debate st a very opportune time. “Let me tell you,” he continued, *it war in the fall of '72 that I had a shote just like onto yourn, deekin— looked near enough like him to be his twin—and he wouldn't fat, nary a bit. I gin him more'n thirty bushels o meal, and he war_ poorer when I got done than he war when I fust begun, I knowed what ailded him at once. 'Twas & black, holler tooth that wouldn’t let him fat. So one day I jest tuk and yanked out the tooth, and then I did something by accident like that made me sure o' what I'm a’ tellin’ yo." “What's that, Artimas?’ asked two or throe; this name, Artemas, being one they had given him becauso he had no resenblance to the great humorist of that name. = “Wait till yo hoar. It wur this way. Tknowed as I had to put somo saltin a hole cut on the back of his neck afore he would lay on flesh any, so I caught him and got his head right atween my shins, and {do_you bolieve me, as soon as the critter felt the knife a-cuttin’into his neck he made a equeal and a jump and went out from under me quicker'n scat. He jest runned through atween my legs and drawed that knife the hul length of him, 1t cut a putty gash, clean from his ears to his tail.” “‘I don't see what that has got to do with what makes pork swell,” remarked an old farmer, who was watching a flock THE WOMAN IN THE SLEEPER, Why 8he Never Gets One Wink ot Sleep and is Unable to Shake Down Hor Skirts, Peck'a Sun, There is a good deal of fault found over the inadequate accomodations for women in the sleeping car at present in use. A man can getinto a berth and shuck himself very comfortably. He can stand on his knees, duck his head and take off some of his clothes, and then he can lay down on his shoulders or the back of his neck and kick off the other articles of wearing apparel, be- cause when the buttons are unbuttoned his clothes are as liable to come off in the dark as in the light. But it is dif- ferent with a woman., Her clothes are pinned on with all kinds of pins, from the safety pin to the darning needle, tied on withjstrings. hooked on with hooks and eyes, buckled on with buckles, and put on in many ways only known to the fair sex. Give her a large onough room, three or four gas lamps, and a large mirror, and plenty of time, and she can find nearly all the pins, strings, hooks and eyes, buckles, etc., and what she can't find she can break at night and tie up in the morning; but place her in a small berth, in the dark, with only two oyes to watch all the holes in the curtain to see if anybody is looking, and only two small hands to find things to unfast. en, and she is in a box. Add to all theso calamities, such as pins, hooks, strings and buckles, several hundred hair pins and an invisible net that is invisible even in the daytime, and a quantity of huir that bas no visible means of support, and shoes with fifteen buttons on, or lacad up for quite a dis- tance, and you will not wonder that the woman who had her bicth made up first is the last to retire, and almost before you hear the last corset string break at night you hear her trying to get her clothes on in the morning. With all things to contend with, it is not to be- wondered at that woman are frequently heard 'to say that they neverslept a wink in a sleeping car. They dont have time to eleep. There is no place in a sleeping berth to put a bushel of pins and thinge and by the time sha has got her clothes half off she is exhausted and lays down with her mouth full of pins to wait for daylight 8o she can open the window curtain and take an account of stock. 1f Mr. Pallman would place a clothes basket in every berth,or a bureau or even a whatnot, it would be better but a wo- man’s mind cannot be at rest suflicient to sloep when she believes that her corset, on which she has stuck tae safety pins, and the bustle with the jewelry tied up in it, are going to fall out of the berth and on the floor und be commented on by a dczan male passengers, and she lays there with her eyes wide open, wondering if the porter will know enough to let her shoes alone when he finds a yard of silk stocking in each shoe, and wishing she had her two dollars back. There ought to be a place in every berth, an opening 80 & woman can stand on the lower berth and ghage her clothes down. No woman foels dressed sufficienitly to appear in so- ciety when she has had to dress sitting down, unless she can grab hold of her skirts and shake them down, Good Mr, Pullman, give tke women a show. CONVINCING, Lhe proof 5t tho pudding ;is not in chowing the string, but in having an opportunity to test the article direct. Schroter & Becht, the Druegists, have a free trial bottlo of Dr. Bo- sanko’s Cough and Lung Syrup for each and every one who is affiicted with Coughs, Colds, Asthma Consumption or any Lung Affection, of crows that had just alighted in his corn-field.” “‘You jest hold turn till 1 git done, will you? As I was asaying, that cub was a bad one, and the critter wasn't wuth sewing up. So I jest het uy a kittle of water and stuck my knife into the other side of his nock, and dressed him and salted him down. It was mighty mean pork and no mistake, and I reckoned we should hev to fara slim for pork an’ cab- bage that winter. By gosh, the rine in some places war thicker'n the meat. Howsomever, I laid it down in’salt, and thought no more about it till Miranda come to me one day and sez, eez she: Siath, the pork barrel's busted.” I went down cellar, and there, sure enough, eve- ry hoop was broke clear’n two, I got some now Noraway iron over to the blacksmith shops, and when I come to take the pork out o’ that barrel, by Jeems, if ithadn'tgrowed in thickness nearly double. It was in big white chunks 's good as you can buy at the store, I fixed up the barrel, put in a little more salt and leftit be, Well, sir, by hokey, that pork kept & swellin’ and growin’ till it overrun the barrel, and I had to get another barrel to hold it all It was very while and clear and some on it would cut upwards of six inches " “That's queer,” said the nervous far- mer, “how do you account for 1t?” “ILaccount fer it in this yer way. 1 reckon that hoy was sich a big eater, and he et 80 much thut my thirty bushels o’ meal passed into his meat aforeit swelled, It didu't do him no good you see. It was just lying locked up in his system awaitin’, aud when the salt got in there it turned the meal into fat and busted wy barrel,” ““Well, I do declare,” said a chorus of voices ns tho farmer departed, leaving Salathiel by the roadside alone. —— North Pole Expeditions, Prize tights, lotterles, walking matches, and baloon ascensions are usually humbugs of the worst sort, Dr. Thomas' kclectric Ol is not a humbug. It is a quick curs for aches aod wpruins, and s just as good for a lame- noss. e Sympathy for Both Alike. Kentucky Statesman, “*Is any one dead at your house, Jim{" *No, Bill. Why do you ask? ‘*Bocauso I saw crepe on the door last evening." “Oh! Well, that was on account of my wife's pug dog dying. She's nearly distracted over it, and is making an effort to have the body e.abalmed.” “Poor thing!" *“Which? My wife or the dog?” “Both,” o — How to Save [Money, and we might say—time and pain as well, in our advice to good housekeepers and ladies generally. The great necessity existing always 1y Py perfoctly safe remedy conveniont for the relief and and prompt cure of the silments poculiar to women—functional irregularity, oo stantpainsandall the symptoms attendant upon uterine disorders—induces us to recommend strongly and unqualifidly Dr. Piorce's *‘Favorite Prescriptien” — womrn's best friend, It will save money. wed,sat&w, ——— Gordon Oaptures Berber, Camno, July 30.—The Mudir of Dongols, telggraphs that report reached that city that § Gordon bad captured Berber, The Mudir} truth of the segerie, Dikbal 2 sscertain \Im'u.I Is Nebraska Republican? Blue Springs Motor. ‘We believe the state of Nebiaska will go republican from twenty to thirty thovsand majority if the party does not commit a blunder by allowing the rail- rond cappers to control our conventions. When 1n the convention the fightnarrows down to a U. P, and B. & M. man throw them both overboard and take up a man from the people. A combination of dem- ocrats, anti-monops and dissatisfied re- publicans can elect a congressman from this district unless we steer clear of rail- road influences. Now will the people dare do this/ Has any one the sand to stand up aad say his soul is his own? Have we, the voters of Blue Springs, the manhood to cut loose from the railroad howl we hear at every primary clection’ H the voters of Gage county the stamina to run a convention themselves, and kick overboard all the tools under the control of the railroads? Will the peoplo of the first congressional district tell such men as John M. Thurston and a host of others we might mention to attend to the legitimate bueiness of the road that employs them? We shall wait and seo. . A nowination is not an elec- tion and men do not have to support a ratlroad spike because it islabeled repub- lican or democrat. It is indeed a sorry sight to see Thurston and Howe, the acknowledged leaders of one party, and old Popploton and Tobe Castor the bell sheep of the other in this state. It i3 useless to name the leaders of both the great parties in thia state, but we know that many of them rule as the corpora- tions dictate, They have their paid tools in vearly every preoinct, Let our county, congressional and state conventions be of the people aud we will e'act every man, Let it be the work of the parties we have mentioned and we will loso half or perh Him, YT feel new. 1 was afflicted with sick head- ache and goueral debility, but Burdock Hlood Lidters, brought about an imme iiate improve- mout in my general health, I consider them the hest 13..."{5 medicine in the market.” Adolph Lallez, Buffalo, N, Y. e Perils of Promiscuous Kissing. From the San Francisco Post, A bold, bad man at San Jose kissed four young ladies in the same house, and after ward had his nose broken by a flat- iron thrown by one of the girls while he was passing along the pavement. This is why we always walk in the middle of the street, Later.—It now appears that the mis. silo wog thrown by a servant girl who iverlooked by the kisser. This com/s of unjust discrimination, e Don't be Faint-hearted, If you are In trouble, look up, hold on, give the blues good hy. If you arein paio, hive a lameness, have au ache of any kivd, go to the droggist and ask hiw for Zhomas’ Eclectric Uil Lo will do yo ory time. — v All Rules, Louisville Courier-Journal, Thus you see, my friends,” said the temperance lecturer; “‘thus you see the terrible effects of liguor, It makes men fight"- **No, it doesn’t,” said a red-nosed man in the audienve. *‘It was at the Sollivan- Mitchell affair in New York, and it was liquor that prevented 'em from fighting. 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