Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 4, 1884, Page 7

h COUNCIL BLUFFS ADDITIONAL LOCAL NEWS, ———————————— TRIALS OF CHURCH BUILDING. Some Details of the Difficnllies Related by the Pestor of the Colored Clarcb, i 4 3 i 18 1 True? To the Lditor of Tix Beg, In your lssue December 1st, there is an article headed “‘Caught by Cards, Or Money Collected for a Church Lost Over a Gaming Table.” I have been asked, Is it true, is it possible, fact that you have a man or men among pour peo- ple that would stoop so low as to rob the church of its windows, doors and plaster- ing? Mr. Editor, before answering the above question, allow me to ssy o few © words about the church struggle. 1 ' speak of what has happened since Aug. 18th, 1884, At the lowa annual confer- ence of the African M. E. church held in Keokuk, Iowa, Aug. Gth to 11th, I isit a ' received from Bishop J. M. Brown my | appointment for Council Blufls and Hod Oak missions. 1. reached the icy of Council Bluffs on the Sth day of August. Mr. Prayler gave my family breakfast and a room at his house. I went snd looked at the church. What to do, or how to com- mence the work again 1 could not tell. 1 had no stewards, class leaders or trus- tees. Mr. F. Bayler had been a trustee. ) Mr. Burke could do nothing, and Mr. | Willls was in Omaha. 1 haa four mem- bers of the church, and they could do nothing. I then appealed to the young men to help; the most of them refused, ‘ having for their excuse, ‘‘the preachers have robbed us.” After trying the different familles and receiviug no help, # lady taking the children gave a festival, and cleared $12, The young ladies then taking papers, said, **Send us out.” Four of them brought in $63. The next morning 1 went with two of these ] ladles to see Mr. Lawson, our carpenter, and I then and there paid him sixty-three dollars, and promited to pay him seven more in a few days. Mr. Lawson with this money bought lumber and put the roof on the church, My next step was to try and weatherboard and floor the house. I received ten dollars from both Mr. Ofii- cer and Mr. Tulleys and five dollars from Mr. Street and Mr. Percival, eight dol- lars 1 got from other gentlemen by small donations. 1 once more called on Mr. Lawson and paid him the seven dollars we promised to pay him in a few days, making in all seventy dollars for our roof. 1 then gave him the money I had with me, twenty-five dollars, and promised to pay him gome more in a few days. gave him my plan for raising the balance of money on flooring. I went to him a dsy or two later and paid him seven dollars and thirty-five cents more. One plan was to give a gold headed cane to the young man who should secure the Jargest amount of money for the church. The young men were chosen, and papers laced in their hands authorizing them to focelve donations for the church. From the taik and excitement it caused we looked for much to be done. We expect- ea to get money for eight windows, one door, and plaster our house. At last the evening came. The ladies had worked hard; they had carriea tables, dishes, chickens, pies and cakes up jinto the hall. ‘ They had spared no pains, time or money to prepare the supper. At Y one of the contestants came in; at 11 two more in and we waited on the fourth came until the city bell bell struck 12 d Mr. Owens went tolook for him d met the gentleman at the Pacific house. Mr. Gwens gave the young man to understand that we would like to see hiw, the young man refused to come. Mr. Owens came back and gave us the news, Mr. Grun will not come. The city bell by striking one, gave us to know that it was early In the morning, we then requested the other young men to report, Mr. Harry gave us $10, Mr, Fletcher .50 and Mr. Raves $3 70, making in all £19.20, cost of cake $12. We had 7.20, received from door and table , hall &6, total 815556, 1 paied ; Mr, Lawson €14.50, and went to to see Mr. T. Green, I asked him if he would please glve me hissoliciting paper. He refured to do so. His excuse was that some one had insulted him the nignt before (he mentioned the name of Owene and for this reason I could not get the paper or money. 'he money he promiscs t0 pay back to the gentlemen and ladies who had given it to him for the church, Yes, it is truc we have been struggling, and stuggling hard t> build our church For the benefit of tho ladies and gontle- men that gave Mr. Green money for us, 1 can only say for the church he has not k given us one cent. Can you say you have not recelved back a cent t'at you gave him for the church! If this is your answer, you have ours, and it is for Mr. Green to ssy whose the money is, As to the other young men I have reported what they gave. As to what they received I cannot tell. I have not received their soliciting paper, and for this reason it is impossible for me to say. One thing I know, our windows and door are not in, and our house is not plastered—our plastering will cost us §70, our windows $2.40, the chimney §20, 1 have on hand $7 of this money. Some oue might say there are enough colored people in Council Bluffs to raise that small amount of movey, Yes, and I would agree with you; but will they do it/ Can fifty be found that will take any part in the work, or forty, thirty, twen- ty, or ten! I wish I could say I have five men interested in the work—I wish I had one with enough Influence over any gentleman In the lumber husiness to get five days special credit on 200 feet of lumber. 1f they arein the city they have not shown up. Those few that are willing to help are not able. They have no money, and can do little or nothing Ladies and gentlemen will you help us? You have made Christmas presents, and those who received them appreciated the gift and were made happy. You can make us happy by giving us our house for Christmas, Your kindness we never | forget, and you will be made happy y coming to our house Chrisfmas and seo us worshipping God, Frlends will you help us, 1f you have anything for us please address me at 615 Mill street, R. H. WILLIAMSON, Pastor in charge A. M, E. Church. — Turning the Globe Over, A. B, Keith of the Crawford County Bulletin, who whittles about as sharp & polnt on his lead pencil as any democrat fo editor in the west. He Las taken the Globe to task in a manner which make: the latter squirm, In this week's issue he thas pricks the wind out of a long ed- itorial of the Globe: “Cnr esteemed contemporary, the O. B. Globe does not take kindly to the Bulletin's reply. Perhaps our facts and fignres were a little too solid for the edi torial mole hill that was tipped over on us by the Globe, disguised as a mount tain, Orawford county gave a larger democratic majority than Pottawatamie, notwithstanding the fact that wo have fower statesmen than Council Blufts and no great democratic daily to heal dissen sions, That two or three candidates should be elaughterad through personal malice and by questionable means, mora's the pity that the Globo should reach forth its esthetic politi and pat upon the backs the men upon But to quote the words of Congressman Pasdy, whom the responsibility rests as roported in the Herald: ‘The Globe knows botter. It is more indlecreet than willfully wrong.’" CENTENNIAL CONVENTION, ‘1 Over at Broad- h, The Topics way M Tist Ch The centennial convention of Council Bluffs charge and circuit mot in Broad- way M. E. church, Council Bluffs, December 3, 1884, The devotional ser- vices were conducted by Rev. J. F. St. Clair,who read two selections of scripture, Rev. W. T. Smith then took the chair, Upoa motion W, Fisk was elected sec retary. The regalar programme was taken up, and Rav. C. L. Nye nov being present, his paper, ontitled *‘History of the M. E. church from 1766 to 1784, including the organization at the Christmas confer- ence,” was read by Dr. I, D, McCreary. After the singing of a hymn Rev. C. H, Newell was called to the chair, who an- nounced that Rev. W. T. Smith would present his paper, entitled ‘‘Influence of Methodism on other denominations,” which he read. Kev. C. Smith was then Introduced, who produced a paper entitled **Heroism of early itinerants.” After the reading of this paper, a verso of the hymn *Am | a soldier ot tho Cross,” &c., was sung, and the convention united with Rev. C. M. Ward in prayer. Dr. Maxfield not being present it was ordered by the con- vention that Rev. C. H. Newal! be given the evening hour for his topic. Upon motion, the remaining topics on the programme of the morning session were assigned for the afternoon session. A motion was then made that the top ics that had already been presented be left open for discussion. Rev. C. H. Newell opened the diecus- slon, and spoke of the heroism of the carly Methodist preachers in lowa. He was followed by Brother DeLong, Rev. W.T. Smith and Rev.J. D. DeTar, who gave some reminisences of early itin- erant life. The session closed last night. Towa, T10WA NOTES, Mrs. Lias, residing near La Mars, sold 600 dozen of eggs during the past season, The agricultural fair association at Creston ran behind §883.83 at their late meeting. Des Moines authorities ure thinking of calling upon the saloon keepers of that city for monthly fines. A freight train broke in two near Red Oak, on Saturday, and several cars were pretty badly smashed up. At Webster City are two tile factories which have turned out 270,000 feet of tile during the past season. The annual meeting of the Western Towa Hortlcultural soclety will be held at Dedford, December 16-18, The Union cattle company, of Dos Moines are feeding 4,000 head of cattle at the distillery at that place, Boone has seven saloons and four drug stores, which, says the Standard, pre- vents any drought in that place. Hiram Myers waa found dead near his bed in Janesville last Friday. There is a mystery surrounding the aflair, The line of the Northwestern tele- phone company will bo completed from Ida Grove to Council Blufls this week. (ieorge Brendel was found dead in his bed at Burlington Thanksgivivg morn- ing. He had been a resident of that place for forly years. Jay Smith, of Hampton, aged 8 years, was fatally iv jured in the Recorder of- fice on the 22d ult., by being caught in the belting which runs the power press, his head being literally pounded to a jelly on the ceiling above. The articles of the incorporation of the Webster county agricultural eociety and driving park association have been filed in the oflice of the secretary of state Their principal place of business is at Fort Dodge, Capltal stock, £5,000, e— Postofli: (o] Res in Nebraska during the woek ending November 20, 1834 furnished by Wm, VanVleck of the postofiice department: Posvmasters appointed—Cedar Bluifs, Saunders county, Masses Janqaet; Brat- ton, Nemaha county, J. V. Edmunds; Kesterson, Jeflorson county, Albert S. Daggett; Pickrell, Sage county, Joseph C. White; Prairie Home, Lancaster county, James H. Welch, Discontinued - Kam, Gage county. Postoftice changes in Towa to Novem- ber 2!), 1884: Postmasters appointed - Audubon, Au- dubon county, E. S. Foster; Brookville, Jefterson county, Henry Snyder; Carbon, Adams county, S. D. Selby, Chester- field, Polk county, H, B. Mayo; Clyde, Jasper codnty, W, H, Bennett; Dahl- onego, Wapello county, Wm. A, Ander- son; Klkhorn, Shelby county, George James; Deep River, Poweshiek county, W. J. lnman; Okoboji, Dickinson coun- ty, Elmer Miles; Onslow, Jones county, M. M. Frank; Siam, Taylor county, W. G. Russell. Discontinued — Chalybeate Springs, Jasper county. e —— Puck’s Never judge a horse by his frame, Fine festhers make fine opera hats. The hornet is mightier than the pen. Amsn is known by the taxes he pays. The la heart, Long hair never made a poet or an In- dian herb doctor. A skillful fencer with the rapier 1s no match for the humbler wasp. What's in a name’ Everythiug, when you are up for & political office, You csn lead your landlord to your house but you con not make him paint it .nd weather-strip your windows, The wire mosuito frame will not pro- tect your window against the base ball, nor will & base ball catcher's mask pro- tect your nose against the mosquito, st radish s hollow at the THE DAILY BEE--THURSDAY TOYS 'OR THE LITILE ONES, Some of the Noveltics Displayed for Ohristmas 1 the Stores, Y. Mail and Fxprees Ohristmas toys and novelties for the little ones are displayed conspiciuously in all the shops. The improvements since last year have beon many, but lit- eral new novelties invented have been vory few. Mechanical toys seem to lead, and every child that can speak wants a toy of some kind that either moves or squoaks. A large tivm in Broadway, who have an immense toy factory st Bridgeport, Conn., and who buy up all the patents of new-fangled mechenical toys, have s fow N ingenious novelties invented this season. “How are toys selling this season’” cod a reporter of the Mail and Express of the head of the firm. Oh, much better than I cxpected, The run on mechanteal toys is something wonderful. The baby dolls that walk and speak, say mama aud papa at each mechanical theatrioal stride, go like hot cakes They have simply been improved upon very much, but not recently in- vented. The mechanical smoking man is & late patent, Lt isa comical figure of a man elovon Inches high, seated on a black walnut box, and a swall keg at his elbow, with the historical long pipe and mug of beer in his hand. Place ac otto in his pipe, and when wound up and the clgarette lighted, the figuro will draw and pufl’ the smoke in a perfectly natural manner. The motions of the head and arm, and the action while smoking, are porfect. Theso eell rapidly to the small boys, ambitious to learn how to smoke and use tobacco. “Then there Is the ‘walk-around,’ two figures that go cavorting around some- thing on tho style of & go-as-you-ploase walking match, This is new and salable. “But one of our latest hits is the stump orator. It is a negro with a carpet-bag in one hand and an umbrella in the other. He makes motions, pounds the desk in front of him with the umbrella, and assumes positions of appeal, entreaty, fierconess, and humor such as the orators of the day do when speaking. We paid a good deal” to the Inventor and do not regret it. The dog-cart with the dude in it driving & prancing horse will be put in the show window for the first time this season. By winding it up, away it goes until it runs down. The boar that walks about snapping his jaws cost a lot of time and money to perfect.” “Ah! heré is something,” continued the toy . man, *‘which fires the young American heart and sells splendidly. The idea is not new, but the modus operandi is the work of a genivs. 1t is our home guards. You see here are thirty-eight wood soldiers, lithographed in bright colors. A platform on which tney are placed is supplied with wood runs, and a8 the soldiers and pins are removable the soldiers can be formed iuto an endless variety of positions, and when so formed can be made to march and countermarch with the utmost pre- cision, in_single or double file, by com- panies, columns, battalions or hollow s(juares. “The Donnybrook fair toy is & recent invention. 1Itis cslled ‘Shoot the hat.’ A native of the Emerald isle sits under a ball suspended by an elastic cord. You take the ball and try to knock his hat off without knocking over the figure. It is as difticult to do as winning hats on election bets, and I ought to know, for I lost only seven.” S L Bill Nye Visits Venice His Mind, BH1 Nye has been reveling in the mis- tress of the Adriatic, where, as Childe Harold prophesied: 'Shock and the Moor And Pierre cannot be worn or swept awar.” Mark Twain had his dash at Milan. Why not Nye have his at Venico! Mark is “going” in rapid auctioneer style. Nye is in the zenith of humor, and 1s always sly, saucy and piquant. ~ Here is his de- scription of how things and persons struck him in VENICE. We arrfved in Venice last evening, latitude, 45 deg. 25 min. N., longitude, 12 deg. 19 min, E. Venice is the home of the Venetian, and also where the gondola has its nest and rears its young. 1t is also the head- quarters for the paint known as Venetian rod. They use it in painting the town on festive occasions, This is the town where the Merchant of Venice used to do business, and the home of Shylock, a broker, who sheared the Venetian lamb at the corner of Rialto and Grand Capal, He is now no more. I conldn’t even find an old neighbor near the Rialto who re- membered Shylock. From what 1 can learn of him, however, I am led to be- lieve that he was pretty close in his deals, and liked to catch a man in a tight place and then make him equirm. _Shy- lock, during the great panic in Venico many years ago, it is said, had a chattol morigage on more lives than you could shake a stick at. Ile would loan a small amount to a merchant at three per cent & month, and secure it on a pound of the merchant’s liver, or by a cut-throat mort- gage on his respiratory apparatus. Then, when the paper matured, he would go up to the house with a pair of scales and & pio knife and demand a foreclosuro, Venice is one of the best watered towns in Europe. You can hardly walk a block without getting your feet wet, unless you ride in a gondola. The goundola is a long, slim hack with- out whoels and is worked around through the damp streets by a brunette man whose breath should be a sad warning to us all, He is called the gondolier. Sometimes he sings in a low tone of voice and in a forelgn tongue, [ do not know where I have met so many foreigners as I have here in Kurope, unless it was in Now York at the polls, Wherever I go, I hear a foreign tongue. Ido not know whether these people talk in the Itallan language just to show off or not, Perhaps they prefer it. London is the only place 1 have visited where the Boston dialect is used. London was orlginally settled by adventurers from Boston, The blood of some of the royal families of Massachu- setts may be found in the veins of London people. Wealthy young ladies in Venice do not run a with the coachman, There are no coachee, no coachmen and no horses in Venice. There are only four horses in Venice and they are made of copper and exhibited at St. Mark’s as curiosities. The Accademis delle Belle Artl of Venice is a large picture store where | went yesterday to buy a few pictures for Christmas presonts. A painting by Titian the Italian Prang, pleased me very much, but I couldn’t beat down the price to any object for me to buy it. Deaides, it would bs a nuisance to carry such a ple- ture around with me all over the Alps,up the Rhine and through St. Lawrence county. I finally decided to leave it and sscure something less awkward to carry and pay for, Ihe luwlians are quite proud of their smoky old paintings. | have often thought that if Venice would run less to art and more to soap she would be more apt to win my respect. Art s all right to & cortain extent, but it can be run in the ground. It breaks my heart to know how lavish nature has been with her water hero, and yet how the Venctians scorn to investigato Its benefits. \\ hena gondolier geta a drop of water on him he swoons. Then he lies in & kind of coma till another gondolier comes along to breathe in his face and revive him, Biun Nye, | — - TOAST DRINKING The Origin of the Custom ot Present Provalonce on All Pablic Occasions, Torouto Globe, Tho present warden of York county is to be congratulated, He has the courage of hls convictions., e is a total abstainer, and he therefore feels that he must bo hospitable without supplying his guests with “strang drlnks.” On Tuesday last ho gave tho usual *‘warden’s suppor;’ avowed his princtples like man ; managed evorything to the satisfaction of all present, and showed that a man may be successfully hospitablo, and his guests both happy and hilarlous without the as sistance of ‘‘strong waters.” 1f the warden had gono a step further, and abolished althgether the idiocy of toast-drinking, he wou'd have put an- other feather in his cap, and_would have had an additional clalm to being regarded as asonsible, level-hoaded man, "There is something intensely absurd in toast and health drinking, In one cawe, but it reaches the acme of foolishness when gravely procoeded with in **honest water.,” The custom is heathenlsh and bacchanalian in its origin, and its uphold- ers and practicers have always taken good care that there should be no mistakeas to whence its sprang. Altogether it is more honored in the breach than in the observance, aed, as it is well for sensible people to show that they are not such dullards as not to be able to be pleasantly convivial without the help of artificial stimulants, 8o it is equally desirable that they should be able to manage their conviviality without hay- ing recourse to empty ceremonics which remind one of nothing but religious fetichism or botsterous debauchery. It seems that the history of these coasts is simply this: It was customary in the days of Charles IL., or earlier, to put a pleco of toasted bread Ina jug of ale, hence calied “‘a toast and atankard.” It happened that on one occasion, 80 goos the stocy, one of the *“professional beau- tios” of the Merry Monarch's time, when that phrase had a still more significant meaning than it has at present, was in a large public bath, when one of the crowd of enthusiastic admirers and on-lookers took a glassful of the water in which the fair lady stood, and drank, with it, her health to the company. A gay, hali- tipsy young fellow offered to jump in, and declared that though he liked not the liquor, he would have the ‘‘toast.” Begun in this characteristlc fashion, the custom for a while was confined to toasting” favorite beauties or mistresses n private parties, tillin course of time these toasts were given on ail imaginable subjects at public drinking meetings, ac- companied by and by with all the idioc- ies of hip, hip, hurrah,” and ‘‘all the honors,” advancing as men ‘had well drank” to still more uproarous folly. To cap the climax of absurdity, some toasts had to be drunk, not with uproarous noise, but In *‘solemn silence.” And to think of all this tomfoolery having arisen from a brainless loafer drinking the health of a questionable banuty in & glass of not surpassingly clean water. o —— GOLD IN MICHIGAN. The Preciou in th Metal Dug Up in Plenty Wolverine State, IsureyiNG, Mich,, November 22.— Threo years ago Julius Ropes & chemlat of this city discovered a quartz vein bearing gold about four mlles north of Ishpeming, while exploring for marble. A comgany was formed by him which secured forty acres of land and com- menced sinking a shaft. A small mill was built and work wasdone in a small way for two years. In the fall of 1883 8. 8. Curry, the president of the com- pany, had $400 of the Ropes gold minted into eagles. A new company was formed in tho epring of the present year, gnd £30,000 was ralsed by a 50 cent aosbss- ment upon the outstanding stock. A new miil was erectod and new machinery secured, An'additional force of miners was set to work and upon the 10th of the present menth the new mill was started up with a capacity of 500 tons of rock per day. All "the mining work done so far has been exploratory and preparatory, and only such rock has heen milled as was secured by dntting and sinking, The quartz grows richer in gold and silver as the work goos deeper. In the drifting & number of assays havo been mado of the quartz, varylng from $G to $60 per ton. One picked specimen assayed $1,500 to the ton, The rock now being treated is yielding about $15 por ton. Out of 80, - DECEMBER 4, 1884 Miss Koy and Her Valet, Chicago Herald, A crime which could not very woll have taken place In America has just been committed In Babbicombe, a little town on the south coast of England, A maiden lady of middle age named Koy, lived there alone in fine style, She had a handsome house and large estates, soveral servants and plenty of ready money. Her lifo was & peouliar one, but | the poor fisherman and their families, who madeup the principal part of the towna-people, found her an angel of money. ler charities were large and continuous, Some months ago Miss Key employoed a valet & young and fine-looking man ned John Lee. He came well recom- mended from London, and, as he appeared to have had some advantagoes, she readily accopted him as her personal servant, He accompanied her as an escort on all her errands, and was always at her side when at the theatro or in attendance upon the sccial festivities of the neighbor. hood. The young man's courtly appoar- ance and the evident favor in which he was held by his mistross soon caused a good deal of gossip concerning them, but it is probable that this idlo talk never reached tho oars of the lady. A fow days ago her mansion was found to be on fire, and, on breaking in the doors, the dead body of Miss Key was encountered in the parlor, Her throat had been cut and there was an ugly wound on tho head, porhaps not of itself sufliciont to have caused doath. A hasty oxamination of 7 6,000 Electrlo Balta rold for the Month of Sept, by us AGENTS WANTED, JUDD & SMITH Proprietors, Mannfactory 30, Fourth St. COUNOIL BLUFFA. Reforences—Any of the business houses In Counell Bluffta. Salosrooms 319, Broadway. NMetcalf Bros.. WHOLESALE DEALERS IN HATS,CAPS BUCKGLOVES, 432 and 344 Mroadway, VUOUNCIL BLUFFS8 10WA THECHEAPEST PLACE IN UMAHA TO BUY Fo U= BNl ToU=RL Is AT the house, the flames in which were soon oxtinguished, convinced the authorities that the young lady had been murdered for purposes of robbery. The bureaus and closets had been ransacked and many articles of valuo had disappeared. As John Leo was missing it was thought at first that he, too, had been killed, and a search was made for his body. 1In less than an hour the servant was found under a barn not*far from the house, and on his person were found most of the missing Jowels, Charged with the crime he promptiy confessed. The murder had not boen long in contemplation, but he had been engaged in a plot from the firat. Leo was un ex-convict seeking an oppor- tunity to reestablish himself. Seeing Miss Key's advertisement for a valet he investigated the matter. loarned her cir- cumstances, replied, and then on forged recommendations from some of her ac- quaintances procured the situation, Once in place he soon gained her esteem, At this time it was his ambition to win her affections and marry her. Ho thought he was succeeding famously. Her manner toward him became, as he thought, vory winning, and he bogan to cherish for her a feeling that was akin to genuine affection, After many exhibi- tions of friendliness on her part he made bold cne evening to declare himself and asked her hand in marriage, She treated him respectfully, but assured him that ho had presumed on her good nature, and that he must never mention the subject again. For some time this Injunction was observed, but on the occasion of some unusual exhibition of friendliness on her part he again proclaimed his lovi and insisted that she should at least give tho matter serious thought, The young woman was enraged at this, and, de- nouncing him vohemently, drove him away from her home. According to Lee's story this manifes tation of contempt on her part made him frantic, and as he feared the conse quences might be disastrous to himself he followed her to her private rooms and knocked her eenseless with a blow on the head. The thought then occurred to him that he would have to fly away, and he determinad to secure her valuables. Just as he was leaving the room with the jewels he thought he seen symptons of returning consciousness in his victim and he drew a koife and cut her throat from ear to ear. On leaviog the house he set fire to it and took refuge under the barn, hoping to remain there unde- tected until nightfall, when under cover of darkness he expected to get away. In view of all the circumstances in the caso it will cause no surprise to road that the villagers who had 8o often en- joyed her bounty were with the greatest difticulty prevented from wreaking sum- mary vevgeance on him. He was event- ually removed to jail in safety and is even now undergoing trial, Aside from the absorbing interest attached to the dreadful crime the case appears unusu- ally singular in thix country, where such relationship as that existing between her and Lee would never be maintained. [f the custom observed by her obtaina to a goneral extont in England it is probable that her fate will have the effect of changing it to some extent. Couldn’t Palin O Ay Half Drunken Man on Her, Detroit F'ree Press, The other night two men, who sup- ported a third between them, shufiled up tho front_steps of a house on Howard streot and rang the bell. Although the hour was late 1t was not a minute before tho door was opened by a woman who asked what was wanted, “Wo have brought your husband home, and he's —he's a little tired,” replied one of the men, Y ¢sh, sho tired!” slghed the wobble- 000 shares, only 1,000 are now upon the market, and these aro being held at high figures, The Phillips gold mining company,cap- ital $1,000,000, & Chicago organization, has an option upon property near the Ropes, and work is boing pushed. Tho Decr Liake company has a shaft upon the Ropes vein, 1,500 feet east, and has re- sumed active work recently. The Negaunee Gold and Silver Com- pany has property a mile and a half ea: of the RRopes, upon which some work has been done. The Madden & Hogan mine has a shaft ot fifty foet, and aseays from $6 to $34 18 per ton, The Alger Gold Mining Company is a new organization, which will commence work at once. Capt Smith Moore has a good property within the corporate limits of the oity of Mar- quette. Assays of the quartz run as high as §84. Work is being done in a number of other places, but these are the principal, All feel confident that 18805 will see a notable gold rush in the upper peninsula of Michigan, “If you do not at once remit the §100 you owe our firm,"” wrote a dun the other day to a delinquent debtor, *‘we will be obliged to put the bill into the hands of a lawyer for collection,” “My dear sir,” replied the debtor, urbanely, by the next post, ‘‘if you are happily acquainted with a lawyer who is able to collect $100 from me, I beg you to send him to me atonce, for I shall be glad to employ him in my own in- terest," Buits for Damages, Promseuni, Pa,, December At Union- town, Pa., Mine Inspector Steiner instituted a suib for criminsl negligence against the James Cole mine, at the time of the Youngs town mine explosion, by which fourteen were killed and several wounded. The families of those killed are in_destitute circumstances, aud damage suits will probably be brought, legged man in the middle, “Gentlemen,” calmly announced the woman, ‘‘you have made a mistake, My husband arrived half an hour ago, but so drunk that ho was brought in n wagon “You can’t palm no such half drunk as this on me!”" Shoshut the door on their toes, and the party shufllod down the steps to try another door. — Not long since s New Hampshire com- mitteeman was examining an infant sohool class. *‘Can any little girl or boy give the definition of the word ‘aver- age’?” he asked, For some time no one roplied, but finally a little glel hesitating- ly roplied: ‘‘Itis & thing a hen lays an egz on, sir.” **No, that's not right.” “Yen, slr, my book says so”’; and she trotted up to her (uestioner and pointed to this sentence 1n her reading book: “‘A hen lays an egg every day on an av- [Eevery Other Saturda; Nortieast Nebrask ALONG THE LINE OF THE Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolls and OMAHA RAILWAY. 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