Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 8, 1884, Page 5

vent its Raveges in riigons and Ci Army Orders, L DEr Wa N view ¢ | apprehonsion that a choler 1y visit this am inetru the liouten. ral commandir r attentlon to the requirements f the r¢ additio of par suls raph 2315 that, inspections b tions, and to tho offic ruquost, in ¥ month medical of the sanitary condition of the posts, | vided for therein, you direct the post manders in your department to cause the medical officers at their posts to make woekly examinations of all wells, and vaults, sinks, sowers, and other places for the deposit of filth and garbage, and to submit full and complete reports thereof to the post commanders, with the view to the application by them, or by the de- partment commanders, of such remedial messures a8 may be necessary to insure complete protection from disease 8o far as perfoct hygienic conditlons will contrib- ute thereto. Post commanders will also be instruct- ed to co.operate with the civil authori- ties to the extent of the means at their command in doing what is necessary to prevent the intreduction and spread of the cholera, R. C. Drum, Adjutant General, The attention of all officers serving in this department is called to paragraph 2310, U. 8. A. regulations; its require- wents will be strictly enforced. The use of such articles as are necessary for the treatment of disesse in families of otlicers or enlisted men in quarters is not deemed to be in contravention of the epirit of goneral orders No. 99, head- quarters of the army, adjutant general's oftice, of October 22, 1877, The leave of absence for fifteen (15) days granted First Licutenant Levi F. Burnett, Seventh infantry, in psragraph 1, special orders No. 103, cutrent sertes from these heacquarters, 1s extended five (») daya. Recruits George 110sz, James E. Oliver and Charles Krauchi, enlisted at Foro Omsha, Nab., are assigned as followe: Recruit Roes, to the Fourth infantry. Recruit Oliver, to troop O Fifth cavalry. Recruit Krauchi, to the Twenty-first in- Recraits Oliver and Krauchi, sent to their proper stativns on the first favorable opportunity, First Lieutenant Louis Merriam, Fourth infantry, is relieved from further duty in connection with the duties assigned him in paragraph five, epecial orders No. 101, current series from these headquarters. In compliance with instructions from headquaters division of the Missourt of July 24th, 1884, Captain Albert I Woodson, Fifth cavalry, (Fort Niobrara, Neb.,) is detailed to witness the, issue of annulty goods to the Indians at the Rose- bud agency, Dakota, On being notified by the Indian_agent that he is ready to issuo the goods, Captain Woodson will proceed to the agency nzmed and com- ply with these instructions, and on com- pletion thereof will rejoin his proper sta- tion. Recruits Thomas A. Adams and Frank R. Bonney,enlisted at Fort Omaha,Neb,, are essigned to troop B, Fifth cavalry, and will be sent to the station of their troop on the first favorable opportunity. A board of officers to consist of Lieu- tenont-Colonel Edwin C. Mason, Fourth infantry, assistant adjutant inspector gen- eral, Major Thad H. Stanton, paymaster, chief paymaster, and First Lieutenant Dan C. Kingman, corps of engineers, en- gineer officer, will convene at the Omaha quartermaster’s depot at 1 o'clock p. m. to-day, to inspect three car loads of hay tendered by John Lissco upon his con- tract with the chief quartermaster of the department, said hay not being deemed up to the standard required by eaid contract. Leave of absence for one month, to take effect when, in the judgement of his pos: commander, his services can bo spared, and with a permlssion to apply for an extension of one month, is granted Second Lieutenant J. S. Parke, Twenty tirst infantry. 4 Loave of absence for one month, to take effect whon, in the opinion of his post commander, his services can be spared,, and with permission to apply for an extenslon of one month, is granted Second lieutenant Edward H. Brooke, Twenty-first infantry, 'l‘llt‘T./ uming; 8§ To the Editor of T B The following appeared in the local page of your paper a few days ago: The people out on West Cuming street aro rajoicing in the fact that the council did not approve of the change of grade on that thoroughfare. It was the desire of some few “‘monopolists” to have & new cut of ten foet wade at one portion, and tha lots already be- ing thirty-four feet above the street from the tirst griding, this would, it thought, be a little too much of a good thing, as the resi donts did not care to be perched up quite so high, . The proposition only got the endorse- ment of one councilman, : The above was evidently instigated by an interested party and is untrue in al- most every particular, but it {llustrates the manner by which two or three moen have attempted to impede public inter- nst for selfish reasons, and is evidently done to create public sentiment to aid in carrying out their own selfish desires. No less than nine-tenths of the people on Cuming, Sixteenth street and in the country west want the unsightly hill west of the military bridge cutand the ravine et Cut, west filled, and they feel sadly dlsap- |avenues of the city of the dead, to the | tered the general store of B, & G, Michling, poiuted that the grade is not changed. [ melancholy notes of the bugle, 1t was not the desire of a few ‘‘monop-|ing at the grave, which 1s In the center | obbed it of a large wmount of retail [ of the cemetery, the escort of regulars farmers | formed a cordon about the grave. road. | casket, upon which olists” but of the many business men and the who come in over that army to in- | | | | the seven coun oha thomaelves aro all able to live without™ work. This ¢ | old dodge n “monopolists” when re: sorted toby rich 1 eminde’us of the old | tory **Who hill Robin,” 1 Ot Wio Kxo scts AND Wonks ¥on m1s Livisc e~ Obituary Lorits C. Johnson, a land agent resid |ing on the corner of Kleventh and Jonoes Mr, Johnson was a nativo of Denmark, and was only 56 yeas of age. Ho had estab lished a business that promised a great foture and had, during the time he re- sided in Omaha, made s host of friends His sterling qualities and noble nature ondeared him to all with whom he came In contact. None of his countrymen in distress evey appealed to him invain; his heart and moans wero ever open to the street, died yestorday at 0:30 a, m. worthy. He, inhis life, beautified the noble principles of masonry, Many brothers will mourn his demiee, Mr. Johnson was a member of St. Johnlodge A, F.A M. in Denmark and will be burled with Masonic honors, acqompanied by the Omaha lodge of Chosen Friends on Wed- nesday nextat 2p m.,from Riewe's under- taking establishment on Farnam, botween Tenth and Eleventh streets. Many sor- rowing frlends and brothers will cherish his memory. Honored In life, honored in memory. Lot friends and brothers keep his grave green. PROPOSALS FOR PAVING. The3Bills for the 50,000 Yards Opencd by the Board of Pablic Works, Under the resolution introduced into the councll by member Redfield some three weakaago, inviting bids for 50,000 yards of paving, of the three diffsrent kinds of materials used & number of proposals wero received. These bids uturday last by the were as wero opened on bomrd of public works followe: I Riley & and James Fox, 33 45, Sioux Falls granite blocks—Grading, pav- mg and ballasting, comolete, per square yard, foundation of broken stoue and sand, J. E. Riley & Co,, §3 24, B, Melqeust & Co,, $3.18, Wm, Mack, § ', B, Johnson James Fox, £3 04 Sand stone blocks—eight inchoes deep—grad- ing, ballasting and paving, complete, per square yard, foundation of concrete, J. B Riley & Co,, $3.65, J. 0. Corby, £3.45 5- Wm. Mack, 8 James Fox, $3. Sand stono blocks—eight inches deep— gruding, ballasting and paving, complete, per &quare yard, on foundation of broken stone and sand J. E, Riley & Co, B. Melquest & Cc Wm, Mack, 3 T B. Johnson, James Fox, Sheet asphalt—grading, ballasting and pav- ing, complete, as per pans and specifications (five years guarantee), per square yard, found- ion of concrete, $2 98. Sheet asphalt -same as abgve (with ton years guarantee). per square yard, foundation of concrete, $2.45. Both of these bids are by the Barber Asphalt Paving company, by U. E. Squiree, These competitive bids will enable the FLODMAN 3 FIRE, A Small Scable and Contents Burned 1 Seward and A sloel wora wrecked though fortunately no one was hurt, tho vehicles being pretty badly smashed up. There are two roasons for theso frequent mishaps, one being the reckless driving on the way down tho steep hill after leaviog the cem- etery. Another is the boastly condition of the road down the hill. The proprietors of the cemetery ought to have ths enterpaise to grade the hill properly and construct n roadway so wide thata single runaway cannot cause stampede as once or twico occurred, As it is now, a man who drives to a funeral with his family rune a great risk of having some of them killed before he gets home, — — Special sale of Linens on Monday, Do- cember 8th, 100 doz all Linen Towols Ho each, actual worth 1560 Swyiri's New Stors, 1307 Farnam Swreet. e Troubic in Mexico, St. Lows, December 7.—A dispatch from Saltillo, Mexico, says that news was recelvod there that a son of Governor Madero was ar- rested at Parros last week by the soldi ing under soaled ordors, for having ia his pos- session several hundred armsand a supply of ammunition, and that he is still in confine ment there, Governor Madero, for fear of personal harm, has gone to Laroedo, 'l'exas, “The dispatch also says that arrests are almost daily made at Saltillo of tha leaders of tho faction opposing the inauguration of Falcon, the federal candidate for governor, who is to take his seat the 15th instant, and that of course the authorities are regarded by the con- servatives as more aps to produco than pre- vent a revolution. ——m— Ly tened Strike, Pirsnure, Decomber 7 —The preccription glass blcwers of the United States met here to-night to consider the proposed reduction in wages of twenty-five per cent ordered by manufacturers, about two hundred delegates were present. 'The meeting was stiiotly secret but after adjournment, which was nearly midnight, it was learne 1 that a resolu- tion had boen adopted in favor of resisting the twonty-five per cent reduction to the Ditter end,” The reduction so far has been enforced only in this city and about reven hundred men are on a strika, It is probable, however, the action tak-n to night will result iu a genoral strike of all prescription workers in the country, in which case 8,000 men will be uffzcted, ded-m&eod 8 act- e Opposed to Tariff Legisiation, Special Telegram to THe Bre: WASHINGTON, December 7. —The project to ar Sixteenth and Capitol ' n th Avenue, | Bellwood have a v feot, with a towor 60 foot s Loup City hae already This morning at 1:40 an alarm was | for the postoffice at that pla turned in from box 61, corner of Six-| TheGormania verein, of Tekamah, will {'Canitol ave The fie build an opera house 40x100 f teenth and Capitol avenue, ro was 1 xila. e BOIAE Intd on the 84, Joo & ino amall framo etablo in tho rear|Western road from Hanover north of 7 208 morth Sixicenth, owned| Col. Hodear of MeCook, lost v head of N 2 3 p cattlo Tast week by polson from corn smnt s/ R e he flames| "y’ 3. Montgormory ha oded &, 18, had gained such headway before t ho do® [ Murphy as editor of the Bellwood Reporter, partu ived that it wasimpossibloto | NfeCook 1 troubled With a faro bank and save the buildiog. In the stablo was a | jaw abiding citizens are Lecoming indignant, horse, the property of Mr, Flodman, | Thres children were poisonod by eatingtn that was made a prey to the flames. The [ megs near Seward last week. All recoverec loss will probably exceed §200, on which | There will boa W. C. T. U, district con there was no insurance, The fire is sup- [ vention held in Tecumseh, Docomber 9th aud poeed to be incendiary. 10th. i A Block watchman Hyde was run over| A boy was badly injured by heing eaught in by No. 3's cart, and escaped with slight llln' goaring of a grist mill at Columbus Satur 2 . day. injuries. g . & The Southwestorn Nobraska Medical society P will meet at Falla City, January 10th and As i5 too often the case, there were seve. | 11¢h, ral accidents at Prospect Hill yesterday after- J. G, Mote, a quack doctor, is doine up the noon, following the funeral ceremonies de-|towns through the central portion of the scribed elsewhere, One team ran away inside | 9t8te: the grounds, and auring the ceremonies at the " Brewsr, living a few wiles routh of grave. On the way home two light buggies ln‘:: & large new barn by fire last Friday ing capes handy, ligh's grand jury came very near indict the hotel keepers for not having fire es A number of horses ar of Sutton It 18 susp been poisoned, The democrats of Lincoln aro circulating a 1 etition asking the appointnent of John M. Burks as postmaster. The Fremont school board is the propriety of introducing g schools of that place, Tt is estimated that 850,000 worth of hogs have died with cholera in Otoc county during tho past two montke, The Sisters of St, Trancis, at Grand Tsland, have bought a ot end will begin the erection of a hospital at once, At Grand Tsland the price of g increased three cents on account tion of freights to Chicago. Moonlight picnics are boing he! ah, Talk about Florida! Wh with Nebraska for a winter resor . There is talk of organizing a telephone com- pany at Norton and run coanectivg wires to a number of surrounding town: The ministerial associati the city council not to allos to exhibit in that place on Suuday, Pactios at Plattsmouth are eogaged in col locting the carcasses of hogs which have died of cholera and boiling them up iuto fat, The David Oity Republican elaims that town has some ladies ko systematic that they make up beds with the aid of a spirit level, The Northwestern banking company has closed up its business at Bellewood, Thero was not enough business to keep the bank running. The Groenwood Fagle says that the diseaso which has appeared among the hogs 15 tho most fatal disease that over visited that sec- tion of country. There are 8,834 districts in Nebraska, and 3,851 shool houses. The average monthly wages paid school teachers in Nebraska, the past year, wero 836,20, An elderly lady went to & billiard hall in David City and after delivering a locture to young men assemblod there, marched her son home aud sent him to bed. The Wahoo Tribuno says that Mr. Hedgos, living near Clenar creck, has lost over 400 nogs by cholera during the past few weeks, and estimates tho aggrogato loss upon hogs by cholera in Saunders county this fall at $200,- €00, A Livcoln woman while dressing a turkey found a nugget of gold worth fifty conts, The whole population of that town now want to kunow where that turkey hud been prospect- ing. Norfolk offers $6,000, Central City $30,000 lying in the viclnity tod that thoy have nsidering gy in the n has been 1 the redue: t Tokam*® the matter Beatrice aak more ehows * | and Fullerton $20,000 (all the locating com- mittee require) to securo the school to be lo- property ownors to know just what they | all & conference of the leading democratic | cated by the North Nebraska M. F. Con- will have to pay for their paving when they designate their material. When these 50,000 yards will be laid is not yet known but paving districts will soon be created. e ——— Special sale of Linens on Monday, De- cember 8th. 100 doz all Linen Towels be each, actual worth 16c. Swmira’s NEw SToRE, 1307 Farnam Street. ded-m&eod HIS WARFARE O’ER. Impressive Rites at the Funeral of a Dead Citizen Soldier. “Gne of the most solomn and impressive funerals that has taken place In Omaha for many days was that of the late Her- man Gieeke, yesterday afternoon, con- ducted by Custer Post of the Grand Army of the republic. The funeral cortege loft the house, 414 Eleventh street, at 2 p. m, It was led by the Union Pacific band, and following in regular order came a detachment of buglers from Fort Omaha, the hearso and pall bearers chosen from Custer Post, es- cort of regulars from the 4th Infantry, Fort Omaha, the Grand Army of tho Re- public one hundred strong and the rela- tives and friends in catriagos. One notable feature of the procession was that there were but two or three hacke, and that the long line of mourn- era were conveyed in private carriages, a rare occurrence. The line of march was up Farnam to Fifteenth, north on Fif- teenth to Douglas, west to Sixteenth, north to Cuming and thence by the usual membera of the houso for consultation in re- gard to tariff lesislation, is meeting with a good deal of opposition, even among those who oppose such leglalation at this session. Theso members aay thero is no use of a con. ferenco or caucus to decide & quise tion that ought te be patent to all. They contond that with a change of ad- ministration to distract attention together with the short time of the session any intelli- gent consideration of the question is impossi- ble, and that any offer to briug in a bill should be promptly suppressod, e — Murphy’s Temperance Kevivals, Prrvsnunag, December 6,—Frances Murphy has inaugurated another rovival in this city which promises to exceed that of eight years ago, ‘I'wenty-five thousand signatures to the p'edge were obtained since last Sunday and at the meoting at Masonic Hall to-night 7,000 people were present and at least 2,000 wore unable to gain admission. The meoting was tho lurgest over prosided over by Mr. Mur. phy. —— A Generous Editor. Niw York, December 7.—The branch of the Now York free circulating library erected and supplied with 10,000 volumes, both Eng- [§ lish and German, by Oswald Offendorfer edi tor of the “'Staats Zeitung,” inhouor of his de- censed wifo, was formally opened at 135 Sec- ond avenun to-day. Mr. Ottendorfer, Carl Schinrz, Assistant Bishop Potter and Honry C. Pellow, prosident of the board of trusteos, wado nddresse — ee— Minnecsota Bruiscrs, 81, PavL, December 7.—A hard glove fight, Queensbury rules, for , between Pasty Mellen, of Minneapolis, and I'red Webber, of St. Paul, came off at 2 o'clock this afternoon midway botween the two cities, Only a fow wero present, Five rounds were fought, lust ing 38 minutes, On the sixth rouna W failed to come to time, Doth were se: pupished and the fight was one of the hardest route to the cemetery. Crowds of citi- zens lined the streets all along the route, and gazed with respect upon the last hon- ors pald to the dead. At Prospect hill, the field music led the procession, which filed slowly through Halt- The rested a lovely The proposed ten foot cut i very short | wreath of flowers and which was draped and property s not already thirty-four | with the National colors, was lifted from feet higher than the present grade, mor | the hearso and borne to the sepulchre, half or one-third of that. Back on the |followed by the mourners. The beauti- nill where a rich man lives, and draws a | ful burial rites of the Grand Army were largo salary from the government, the |then gome through, conducted by the | horses and escaped. height to his porch may be thirty-four [chaplain, Gen. Geo. M. O'Brien and feet, but thisis not on Cuming street, | Commander Simeon Bloom. He owns horses and carriages and is able [ twelve rounds to hire a man to drlve up to his residence. | grave At the close the and fired over a short were and after Should the entire business people, work- | eloquent eulogy had been pronounced by ing meu and trades people be compelled | Mr. Jacob Hauck, in tierman, the body to walk over 1his hill' for his benefit. | was lowered in the grave, Another man who rides in his carrlage to | earth, dust to dust, ashes to ashes. and from the city opposes the cut because | is all over, The bleak wind sizhs through | will pay sll creditors of CGrier Brow, one hun the crown of the hill is not loft at his | the trees that have lost their summer | dred cents on the dollur. 1f this could be done he would |foliage and canses the circle of friends to place. Earth to favor it and eacrifice all his neighbors |shiver in the actual presence of death; who live eaet of him. The third man |the smoke from tke rifles of the funeral who opposes it strongly seems to have [escort floats away toward the tomb of nothing to do bat to fight every | him who died to save all men and the thing which is proposed for the general | desd is left aloae, sholtered by the arch- good of that part of town, less he is bought of. hus been doubled in value by the horse | field, ur.- | ing skies which have covered him before All this property |in battle, bivousc and on the tented The ranks of the Grand Army |, car and will be lmproved if the new |are thinned by the loss of another com- proposed grade is made. 1f not made Jrade, whose monument is Cumingll street with all its prospects can | any of storied bronze or sculptural mar- uever be a trade center, ble, he has been a defender of his coun- The people in this part of town feel |try and risked his life to perpetrate her deeply in the matter and will alway: existence. It | tion with the old, but General ( greater than |y oo " ¢ vo on record, It In reported to-night that Web- ber receivod sorious internal injuries from o blow on the left breast in the second round which may prove fatal, ———— Daring Robbers, KITTANING, I’a., Decomber 7. T'hieves en- Franklin township on Saturday mght and goods, A posse of wen under command of the deputy sheriff traced the robbers to theirhiding place but the outlawa outwitted themn by slipping out of tho back windows of the old house, The vherifl’s party left their horses in chargo of one man and pursuocd the outlaws, who made a circuitous route and returaed, Lound and gaggod the man in charge, stole the ——— Will lesume Business, Louts, Decomber ¢ ailed two or thres weeks sgo, will resume Lusiness Monday next under the name of tho Grier Commiasion cowpany, cash capital § 000, The uew business will have no connec- er wayn he .—Grier Dros,, who Br i STATE JOLTINGY, The citizens of Bell wood want the town In corporated, O'Neill wants the land effice rewoved from Niobrara, The Fremont debating club has organized ¢ the winter. Pat Nevilles, of Wood Iliver, is feeding 148 " Tokamah is talking of orgasizing a Chatuer qua readinfi club, Weeping Water shipped thirty-four cars ull corn durlug the past week, ference, A couple of boya on Thanksgiving day used fire to amoko a rabbit out of his earth works on the farm of Will R, Gaylord, near I'air- mont, but unfortunately the fire got beyond their c.ntr ol and burned twenty tons of hay bel onging to Ed. Field, and twelve tons bo- lonzing to Jas, C, Boyd and George Pennall. A cage of infanticide occurred at (irand Islavd Wednesday. The remains of an in- fant was found in the dirt against the south end of the Colorado hcuse, The child had an a1l cloth stuffed in its mouth, evidently for the purpose of stopping its cries, and thers were other evidences of foul play., The inhuman mother, who his been in town but a few days, s dangerously ill, Tho inmates of thsreform schoolat Kearnoy have been workiog to a good purpose during tho past season, and have raised 1600 bushels of patatoos, 800 bushels onions, 15 bushels white beans, 1000 bushels oats, 300 bushels o f roye, 600 bushe's of beets, 100 bushels of car r ts, 2 barrels of onion seed, 4000 head of cal bage, 5000 bunches of celary and 60 acresof good ‘corn, Lost Friday afternoon a farmer by tho name of A, Brady, who lives near Hastings, whilo returning hows from town, was thrown trom his wagon aud when picked up was un. conrciouns. Upon examination it was found ho was suffering with a broken jaw and dis- location of the loft wrist, also some ba and bruises about the head, The ac was causod by his toam running away and throwing him out, The Johuson County Journal kays, several merchunts and business men of Sterling - built cribs and began buying corn some weeks a ut when they asked for cars in which to ship their corn to the enstern market they were denied the use of them. The Press says the orders from railroad head quarters were { sued Lo the effect that no corn could bo loaded into cars from wagons and all must pass through t levators, This order shuts out all competition and the farmer must take just what tue elevator mon may see fit to offor for his corn or leave it remain in his crib, THE S00) e - Y DIRECTORY, The Last Chance to Entroll Among the Upper Tens, To tho Kditor of the Bik, I have just stumbled on to the attached circular, tasued by the compiler of the forthcoming society directory, and as the terms of securing social position sre given, it will doubtless prove interesting to yoar rordors. Buzz, “SuB KOBA," The Omahs Bociety Directory for 1855 will s carofully revised, and great care will bs taken by the author that only the “elite” of Omaha's society shall have their names en rolled in this most popular (%) and standard (%) work: Numen will bo foserted at the following ro. duced figures per name, which are about 50 per cent lower than iy former charges: Baukers, merchants, raflroad officials and brokers § 2 Cleoiks, base ball playe: counter-jumpers smen, hod ¢ . ré, hackmen and of lelsure......... 100 Naws inserted and no questions asked.. 1 50 Dudines ey vh Lady clorks and sewiug girls 1 Servant girl-, chamber waids and cooks, 5) Dades who can produce for the inspection of the author; at least two pair of white kid gloves, and one claw hammer coat in present. able condition will bave their names promi- e e T T T ——————— the desire WHOOPING UP HOLDREDGE regardod as altogother un. | \tueal. 1t 18 ordinarily falfilled by the " A Booming City in Phelps Connty | wid of & man a A minster, But Misg | N The Garden of the west, '\!‘u‘ Ia rd Philade!'p P - stror i d await thoe ta Oorrespondence of Trn Dxa | sl sometimen :\".1":«;‘““:.\" Holdredge is now but little over & year [¢hy superintendont of s ‘[old, but it has already assumed motro- | cation to supply her wi hor cogno- polltan proportions, and our people just | men out of hand. 1 oms that this act as thongh they had to conform to city | i and unhappy damsel is a 4y el y O | bright scholar in*Horaco Binney school customs and regulations. Our population | hut ginoe that famous alliteration of the will now reach nearly a thousand, and | threo It's was made by a New York clor wo havoe fifty busineas houses, in addition | Zyman tho Life of the girl, in her opinion, o zor boen wo ving. *“The to which wo havo two latgo grain cleva. | D88 1o longer boen worth living, *‘The name of Burchard,” piteously exclalmed the maidon, “‘ia a burdon to mo, The noighbors who treated me kindly now snoor at mo and rovilo me, and call out to mo ‘Rum, Romanism and Rebellion.” Theso aro hard lines for any girl to fall {nto, and it is to bo stucoroly hoped that a logal way of cscaplng them by a change of name will be found for her. e 1OW A n tors and a grist mill containing eight sets of rollers, also & brick yard. At the last meoting of the city council plans and specifioations wers adopted for » fine aystom of water works, which will be put in at onte. By a vote taken No-. vomber 11th the county seat was moved from Phelps Center to Holdrege, and the books and county officors are alrendy moved, A fine large court house is be- ing rapidly comploted. Four churches aro already erocted and the bonds f r the orection of a five thousand dollar school houso are already fasued. The popula- tion of this county is nearly six thousand, d Holdrege i 1ta business ocentre and and the only town in the county, Its growth is Phoonix like, and yet its boom has but fairly started. At the present rato within two vears our population will 9. Nuowton is to have eleotric 1ght., Kellogg has & large number of ompty housos. The creemery at Stowart has closed for the winter. Greenfield wants a firo engino and ac- companying apparatus, A largo quantity of wheat is being bo twenty-five hundred. Business [ 8rketed at Sioux City. lots aro in demand at from| Eastorn capitalists aro talking of start- four to slx hundred dollars, |ing a flax mill in Slonx City. ench, and rostdenco lots sell readily for The Capital soap compan f D $70 to $260 ench, Thoro are fine opan- i p company of Des Moines has been sold for §6,000. ings hero for business enterprises, Land is bocoming valuable, but there are some raro bargains to bo had yot. Wild land solls from $7 to §16 por acre, the price baing governed by the distance from mar- kot. Improved farma sell for from $12 to $20 per aoro This county has but llttle indebtedness and taxes are very low. Our citizons are clvil, industrious and public spirited. In cloven years thero has boen but one murder committed in the county and pauperism is unheard of. Wo have no prisonors; no outlaws, but the best of schools. The man who is so fortunato as to becomo a citizon of Phelps county may expect to be happy the romainder of his life. Moroe anon. Durlng November the Borlington police forco only made forty-five arrests. The colored peovle cf Codar Rapids have organized the Second Baptist church. A poultry show will be held In the op- era houso at Creston on Decembor 15th, 1Gth, 17th and 18¢h, Tho Episcopal society in Cedar Rapids is contomplating the bullding of & now church to cost snywhere from $30,000 to $00,000. Scott & Herman, china dealers at Creston, have assigned for the benefit of creditora. Liabilities loes than $6,000 and nssots £8,600, Tho American Collaction company has been organized in Keokuk, with a oap- Denorau., RREpTY Ital stook of §1,000,000. Its object is LR, the collection of debts. : E At n literary mocloty at Rushyillo last How Payne, Like Mosor, Diod in | waol the subjsos dobated was *Resolved Sight of a Promised Land., that National batika should bs abolished.” e The judge decided that the banks must Special to the Globe-Democrat, BO. Wicnira, Kan,, Deoember 2.—Wich. | Sioux City Journal: There are two ita was always the headquarters of |projects for building a telephone line from DPonea to this city, and between them the linoe is likely to be built during the winter. A Ponca gentleman is work- ing the project up on his own account, and the Omaha Telephone company, which controls the Bell telephone fran- chiso in northern Nebraska, is also figur. ing on the cost of building the line. Payne'’s Oklahoma colony. This was tho home of Payne, and one of the finest townships ot this countyZis named Payne Township, after Capt. D. L, Payne, the Oklahoma boomer. Payne's sudden death at Wellington. KKan., on the 28th inst., instead of dampening the ardor of his followers will only draw attontion to the fact that his cause was just, the courts having so decided, and after a ten e A Country for Bachelors, Letter to Springfield Republican, years’ struggle Payno dies upon hearing the newr of a decision made by. Judge Foster, United States District Judge at Topeka, which recognizes the 14,000,000 acres of land known as the Oklahoma Lands as Government lands, a portion of the public domain and only needing Con- gressional action to open the same to set- $loment. For ten long years Capt, Payne had labored in this cause. He had been re- 5 peatedly arrcsted and dragged bohind | The president's house, government house, tler wagons, had lived on raw dog aud | #reenal, barracks and = custom house, suffered innumerablo privations. His |stand on wide boulovardr, aud with the following wasa numerous one. Fully ‘bxcaption of the latter, are as well built 10,000 poople, residing in Kansas, Ne-|®® the similar buildings in any American A Colorado and Missourl, | 0ity of the same rank. Remomber that aro now members of the Oklahoma colo- [ fifteen yoars ago it was sacked by ny. To this numerous colony Payne's the Brazillian army, and look at it now sudden death on the very eve of succoss |13 & busy trading town of 50,000 people, will be a severe blow. Senator Plumb, | many of them of fine civilization. I will of Kansas, is moving in the Oklahoma not go into dust; deull)- but assure you matter. His bill was introduced last | that, though isolated, Paraguay is a state winter and will be pressed at the present | WOrth knowing, Situated in the warm session, This bill will probably ‘Zw in- | heart of South Americs, it lies under troduced in the house by Judge Peters, | tho shadow of the Sierras and between of the Soventh Kansas district, And|the two great rivers the Paranaand the United States courts having declded | Y'arage. the status of theso lands, congresslonal | Appropriations are voted by orngress action, in the establishment of United [8nd that body also fixes the malaries of States land oftices in Oklahoma, is only |the officials, ~Tho president roceives neccasary to open thom for settlement. ~ | $6,00; the vice president, §3,000; the The writer had an Intimate personal | Ministry, $1,000; congressmen, 500, acquintanco’with Payne, and the opon- |and the 'judges of the supremo court, ing of Oklahoma had becomo & mania | $150. The population is about 00,000, with him. Payne was a large, command- | 81d what is strango about it is that there ing, grave man, oasy of manners, polish- | 270 only 50,000 men and 270,000 women, od in conversation, and a very Chester. | Of courso’ tho fomales are tho farmors, field in politeness. Ho always drossed [Producers and laborers. They work as 0 frontieraman, and was n dead shot [#lavishly and ure very poor. While the with & riflo. He often boastod that|men sit at home sand drink and smoke thirty days after Oklahoma oponed lheylundnfmg;bly toil and support the would see 50,000 ssttlers upon the Ok- | amilios. lahowa lands. To fronticrsmen Payne wis known as *‘Old Ox Heart, the scout of the Oimmaron.,' His relatlons with Chief Bushyhead, Col. Boudinot, Texas Jack, Buffalo Bill and other scouts, chiefs, and frontiersmen was close and of long standing. At the time of his death he was about 50 years of age. He had & favorable acquaintance with must of tho prominent public men of the day, and was one of the earliest mettlers of ‘Lho city of Ascuncion in Paraguay s a very nice little city. Not thatit is pret. ty or pretentious, or worth visiting—but it is an enterprising, republican, go. ahead place. Most of the houses are small and old, and are built without any regard to being on the streot. You can not imsgine a more irregular assemblage of houses, but the symmetry with which the public buildings are bullt offsets this, o — They Kissed Him, Pitteburg Gazotte. W. ., Gillett, who appears in *‘The Secrotary” at Library Hall next week, tella a funny story about himeelf, in which he explains why ho knew he would take in his new part. It should be understood that *‘The Secretary” is the story of a tutor's trials, *I knew the play would euit me,” said Mr. lett, in speaking of 1t, “*for I had been a 0| people. nently inserted in large vormillion type free of charge. Kemember thix in positivly the last opportunity you will have to becowe & mem. ber of #ucioty as people whose names are not mentioned in thia criterion will be ostracised from participating in any social card parties, candy pulls, &s. All correspondence should be sent to the secretary and invento the Omaba Society Directory, unabridged, itm pd Nansas. His life in print would be a border romance. Payne served In the Kansas house in 1865 from Donlphan county, He served in the Union army during the war, and had four diecharges, He was a captain in the Nineteenth Kan- sas regiment. Payne was generous to a fault, and would loan bis last cent to a friend. Neither did he hesitate to borrow freely. He was a forcible speaker, aud had a wonderful ocontrol over his colonists, Ia his specches ho always aroused great enthusiasm, During the few years past he has only thought, read and dreamed of the opeuing of Oklahoma. He be- lieved that in the very near future the entire Indian Territory would be thrown open to settlement, He had given groat caro and thought to all of* the law gov- erning the subject, and had spent weeks in consultation with the bestlegal talent of Kansas, Kansas Olty, St. Louis, and even New York city, The Indian , Territory, including the Oklahoma lands, is without doubt the finest body of land in the union unsettled by the whites, Its settlement is a mat- ter of all absorbing Interest to the Amer- ican people, as the available lauds of the public domain sre getting scarce. This question is of great interest to western The Oklahoma country has & fertile soll, stone, timber, pure water,and the *'golden mean of climate. From the efforts of Payne and his followers will come, in the very near future, a new ter- ritory, and eventually a new state, rivel- ing in production, population and wealth the great and prosperous state of Kanses, Hundreds of people believe that the name of David L. Payne, the Oklahoma boomer, will go down to history side by side with Jim Lane, John Brown and the great Pathfinder. private tutor myeelf once and got into just such a sorspe. 1t was in 1876, right aftor | graduated from Harvard. 1 was employed in Philadelphia to act as tutcr to a gentleman's son in New York. When I got there the first persons | met in the house were a couple of handsome young girls. They had been expecting a cousin and at once mistook me for the gentleman. They fell upon my neck and gave me the warmest kind of a groeting, Talk about kissing. I got kisses red-hot from the mill. The old story about a cow pulling her hoof out of the mud was nowhere. They kissed mo forly times if they kissed me once, and then gave wme a chance to explain, When they discovered that I wasn't their cousin they collapsed. 1 told them not to blush, that kissing wasn't injurious to my health, and if they were not hurt I felt all right. T explained that I had been shaved that morning and my beard couldn’t have scraped them. It was funny, but kind of embarrassing to the glrls, 1 became tutor to the family, however, and myself and the ladies seldom afterwsrds spoke, I have often felt sorry that 1 wasn't born & coachman, The Incidents in ‘The Secretary’ are somewhat like this, only funnier, and that is why I took such a liking to the the play." Cremation continues to win favor in Germany. Thus the 200th case has just been registered at Cobnrg, where H4 peo- ple have been cremated this year alone. Theso 200 cremations have ocourred since 1878, when the furnace was first erected in Coburg, and the cases include 62 in. habltants of the Duchy and 138 foreign- ors—126 men, (9 women and five chil. dren, J. B, Hoffman Must Hang, CoLumpus, Ohlo, Decewber 6,—Governor Hoadley refused to commute the sence of J, B, Holfman, sentenced to hang December 16th, at Cincinnati, — Ashamed of Her Name, New York Advyertiser, The wish of a maiden to chinge her family name Is no’ anything new, nor L Criminal fLiability t of Tenorant ey Vow York Herald, A man atyliog himself a clan was cd to attend a sick woman 1a Worces- or. Ho ordered that she thould be clothed in flannel satarated with kero- seno oil, and that tho eaturation be re- nowed from time to time. T'hs direstion van followed and caused the death of the pationt. The dootor was indicted for manslaughter aod convicted, The case was appealed t) the sapremo court of Massachusetts, That tribunal has just given an opinien sustaining the verdict, T'ho doctor oflered rome evidence on the trial that he lad prescribed similar treatment, with favorable results, in other cases, but that in one the cffect had been to blister and burn the flesh, His council asked the trial judge t» charge the jury that 1f the dofendant pressribed with an_honest purpose and expectation to cure he was not criminally liable for the death of the patient, however gross his ignorance of the nature of tha disoase or the probable effect of the remedy; that he could not be convicted of man- slaughter without finding him_guilty of *‘obstinate, wilful rashness.” Tae judge refused to 8o charge, and the ruling s aflirmed by the supreme court. It holds that it was not necossary to show *‘an evil intent” on tho part of* the doctor, If by gross negligeuce, reckless- ness or foolhardy presumption he caased the death he was guilty of culpablo homi- cide, The defondant professed to bo a physiclan, A physician of the most or- dinary knowledge and experience Is ex- peoted tolfknow the probable disastrous effect of the remedy prescribed in this cnse. “‘The man who assumes to act as the defendant did must have done it at his perll. The defendant knew that he was using kerosene and saw from day to Aay how it worked. The jury has found that it was appliod as a result of fool- hardy presumption or gross ignorance, and that is enough.” —m— - Ancedote of Baitor Storoy. Chioago Times, Ho himsclf wroto an article entitled “Shall the Democratic Party Dle or Livel” which filled the Bourbon soul with constornation, He declared that the extension of the franchise to the omancipation of tho negroos was certatn; moroover, that ita justice was undeniable and, furthormore, that if tho party which had just been beaten overwhelm- ingly wished to live it must accept and favor that measure, and all that the re- sult of the war tmplied. All over the land the Bourbon pross attacked tho Times with fury. Mr. Storoy received an invitation to attend a meeting of the committee at Springfield. He went, and sat silently several hours in the committee chamber, listening to membors censuring the pronunciamento of the Times and threatening its director with the party's displeasure. When all tho committeo-men had relieved their minds Mr. Storey arose, took up his hat, and : “‘Gentlemen, I chought that I owned the Times. I think so still, Good night, gentlomen, Clev: nd's Sisters A Toledo (O ) dispatoh says: Mrs, N. H. Bacon, of this city, a sister of presi- dent-clect Cloveland, indignantly dis- claims all knowledge of an alleged inter- view with a correspondent of the New York Journal, which has been widely cir- culated by the press throughout the country, and whereby she is made to ex- press predictions as to the future manage- ment of the white house and views con— cerning her own and her brother's family velations. She declares the statements to be abaurdly false and annoying in the extreme, and she has nothing to make public concerning Mr. Cleveland’s future except that she and her sister entertain #0 high a personal regard and respect for thelr brother that they are glad to allow him to make his own plans, without be- ing hampered by their interference. PUBLIC SALE ~ OF— Thorovghbred and High Grade CATTLE. Horses, Eogs, Farming Tools and Machinery. 1 will offe Having sold my farn at publiosale on said farm, on the U, VEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1484, Commencingat 10 o'elock, the followlng: Eloven head of thoroughbred Short-horn Cows, suppoted 40 bo fu olf; threo thoroughbred Short: horn Heifer Oalves, two thoroughbred Short-horn alviu; o thor ughbred Bul, imported Gallo ported Galloway his Short-Horn gr. “Gilderoy,” xight worth weeing. All the above thoroughbred wiock are recorded. Alvo b5 head of high grade Short-norn cows and alloway Bull Heilerw, supp wed to bo 1n calf by my “Yanke." Also soveral cow Alwo 20 high wra h avd soon to be fresh, grado ntoers: 150 11 Maros; i Vearliog Ooltw,and & wilo 0z * olts; 1 tons of 1ay; 0 tons ¢f Millet; 1,600 bashels £ tors; 2) actes of Corn in shock; 50 bushie s of kye: 4 b M favm Luchat noon Sale will | and all toe tools and machinery u'ed on the roome, der cover ko that 1o one need dity with 10 por ount interest; 8 por cont « I for cash. Tralun over the Union Pacifio vill leave Lincoln st §:95 0'clock . m., returning at 5 wnd 6 ¢'clock p. m. and wili arrise from the norih at 11 0'clock . m and leave going north at 6:%5 p. m . All traiu stopplng at the farm, ISAAC JOHNSON, FRED, M, WOODS, Auctioneer, For catalogues of Tacroughbred stook, addrers, 0. M. DRUSE, Lioco'n, Neb NEBRASKA LAND AGENCY 0. F. DAVIS & 0., SUCCKESSOR TO DAVIS & SNYDER.} Gensral Dealers In REAT, ESTATE Q21006 FARNAM BT, undors, Taxos pald Lo all parts of tho Btate,} oy oo o wproved tarms, Nowary Publio slwava 1o office Correspond GONSUMPTION, T havo & positive remued y foF thie above diseas w i 18 0 canos Of ore kind i (it ovd Tmief M. R. RISDON, Gen't Insurance Agent PREJENTS: Phen'x Insurance Co., London, Cash 300, . Westohosi or,] Capital The Morchaots of Newark a Girurd Fise, Philadalyhia, Capiial. Wouuan's Fund, Capital. ..