Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 24, 1884, Page 7

== ———RE THE COUNCILBLUFS ADDITIONAL LOCAL NEWS, THE CITY STATESMEN. They are Told that the Mayor's Bl 18 Tllegal, The Mayor Makes Some Sensa- tional Proposals. Other Business of the Council, A meoung of the olty council was held yostorday afternoon, at which the mayor and aldermen Mynater, McMahon, Sied- entopf, James and Koeating wero pres. ent. A number of bills wore prosented and ordered pald. Some little discussion was raised about the new order adopted by the mayor and auditor, that hereafter no bills shall be vald antil read in open council and or- dored pald. Vartous explanations were offered s to the feeling of citizens that bills were being passed through the mill toosely. The question of whether the city coun- cil had any rules or not was brought up, and It waa decided informally that the old rules should hold until new enes were made. 1t was decided to suspend the reading of the minutes until some future meeting. This actlon has been taken 8o often that there aro now several hundred pages watting approval. The followlng protest waa filed: To the honorable the clty council of Councll Blufls, Towa—The undersigned residents and taxpayers of tho city of Coancil Bluffs most earnestly protest against the payment out of the city treasury of any money, or the issuing of any warrants or orders of said city for the purpose of compensating Mayor Vaughan for services slleged by him to have been renderod said said city in the negotiation in Now York city, or else. where, of any bonds of the oity for paving, sowerage, or any other purposes, Because said services were not render- by virtue of or under any contract with aaid city. Because there can bo no Implied con- tract upon the part of said city to pay for such services. Because the payment of such compen- sation, either in money or by warrants of this city, will be fllegal and ~unjustifiable and a gross misappropriation of the fands of snid city: D W Buchnell, E L Shugart, H H Metealf, J J Miller, M F Rohrer, L C Baldwin, ¥ J Day, Henry Paschol, J W Rodefer, John Hammer, J F Evans, H D Harle, J J Brown, J L Stewart, James Patterson, J Y Faller, C B Jacquemin & Co, James Porterfield, W C Jackson, P H Wind, Peter C Mller, Ohas Baughn, George Keelino, J W Crossland, Ferd Wiee, T J Evans, Keelins & Felt, L C Empkie, ¥ H Hill N. M. Pusey, who had been employed by some of the signers to the above as at- torney to represent their views, and by coneent of the councll he did so. He presonted simply the legal side of the case. He said he did not care to discuss the question as to the value ot the sor- vices rendered by the mayor, or what would be a roasonable componsation for such services. The position taken by these property-owners represented by him was that the council had no legal right to pay him anything. His first po- sition was that it was W. R. Vaughan as mayor who was sont east to sell bonds, and not W. R Vaughan as an individual. He claimed that by the statutes Mayor Vaughan in taking the office entered into a contract to perform all the duties de- fined by statute and such other duties as were ordered by the council compatible with the duties of mayor, If the council enlarged the duties of the mayor and he acquiesced, there was no just claim on his part for extra compensation for per- forming such duties. It mattered not that provious maycrs had been paid for ilke services. One fllegal act did not warrant snother. Mr. Pusey held that the council could not give the mayor compentation for services, beyond the limit of his fixed salary, uoless a special contract was mado previously. He read the opinions of Mayne & Hunter and City Attorney Holmes to the effect that the city having employed him to do extra ofticlal dutier, there was an implied con- tract under which he could claim com- penaation. He admitted that this wi z00d law as between citizens, but that the law did not countenance such im- implied contracts between the clty and one of its officials, He read in support of this an opinion of Jadge Dillon, to the ¢fizct that this compensation must be by {contract, ordinance or statute and there could be ne implied contract in such cases, [and no obligatlons on the part of the city. In taking the office at a fixed salary, he must bo content with that, and if the council enlargos duties so that fthe salary .scemed inadequate, he could resign, or if the re- quest made by the council was not com- patible with the duties of mayor, he ceuld refuee to comply. Any other rule than that lald down would lead to much mischief. Every alderman would want ¢xtra pay for some duty he might con. eider was beyond his ordinary auties alderman, There must be first an ordl- uance, law or definite contract made, The request of the council for the mayor to go east and sell bonds became a part of his dutles as mayor, to be per- formed for his salary, the moment that resolution psssed. If he did not want to perform this duty he had his remody, but voluntarily complying with the re- «uest, and performing the duty, he had 4o right to come in afterwards and claim compensation on the ground of there beiog & complied contract. Mr, Pusey cited numerous authoritles. In closing he said that if the clty council refuse to allow the mayor's bill the legality could bo tested by the mayor commencing suit against the oh{. Oa the other hand, if the councll allowed the bill, the legality could be tested by the tax-psyers com- mencing action. It mattered not how meritorious the clalm mifht be, it should not be pald unless a legal claim. Qol. Daily expressed himself as of the op olon that this discussion should have been postponed until attorneys holding difterent views could be present, but now that the argument was made he thought action on the bill should be deferred un- tl an opportunity cculd be given him and other attorneys. Mayor Vaughan then offered thatif any three of the siguers of the protest would glve the amount named In the bill tothe Home of the Friendless, or some other charitable Institution, he would do the same. Or, he would let the protest ora seiect one attorney and he would se- lect another, and leave the matter to Judge Dillon, or leave the matter to Judge Reed, Loofbourow and Lyman. If any of the protesters would run for mayor he would resign and run agalnst him, and let the people ssy at the polls who was to be endorsed. He had looked up the records on some of these protests. He also informed Mr. Pasey that some of those who signed the protest had since signed a recommendation that the bill be paid. Among them wero Henry Paschel and John Hammer. His recommenda- tion was slgned by those paying paving taxes, wheraas the protest was_signed by many who did not pay any paving tax He thought Col. Daily’s suggestion was a wise one, and that opportunity be given for the attorneys who had endorsed his bill to state their views in detail. Other business was then taken up. Petition for a lamp post on Scott streot between Mills and the end of the street, presonted and referred. Notlce was given that J. J. Hathaway had assigned the contract for filllng por- tlons of Kighth atreet to Henry Tiques. The bond of J. J. Hathaway for $1,- 000 a8 ~aptian of police, was approved. Alderman Jamos cailed the mayor to account for not reporting to the council the appointment of police for approval. The mayor explalned that he did so as regards regular police, but occaslonally 1t was necessary to appoint specials. The mayor said that if written objec- tlons were put on file agaisnt any member of the force, ho would attend to them. Ald. James sald therejwere men on the force he would not vote to confirm, A warrant was ordered drawn on the sewer fund in favor of the contractors, McAntey & Co., for 815,000, The bill of Kline & Wooltver for filllng Fifth avenue from Tenth street to the creek at 35 cents a cubic yard, was re- ceivad and the contract awarded them. Tho city attorney filed his opinion against the allowing of warrants to cover dlscounts on other warrants, The opin- ion has already beon published in TrE Ber. It was concurrod In. The city attorney also presented a re- port that the Indian creek sewer bonds were valid in his opinion, Referred to committee on sewerage. The sewer committee was instructed to select some point in railroad addition for a bridgo across the Indian creek ditch, and build the same. A warrant was ordered issued in favor of Reagan Bros. & McGorisk for §27,000, for paving on Broadway. The city auditor was instructed to make itemizad report of all warrants drawn on the paving fund, and amount paid n by property owners, Col. Sapp appeared before the council in reference to the clalm of J. T. Stew- art for damages on account of change of grade on Main street. He wanted some definite action. The committee having it In hand were instructed to report at the next regular meeting. The councll then adjourned. e COMMEROCIAL, O0UNOIL BLUFFS MARKET, Wheat—No. 1 milling, 57; No, No. 8, 45 Corn—New, 21c. Oata—TFor local purposes, 2. Hay—$4 50@6 00 per ton; Rye—850. Corn Meal—1 30 per 100 pounds, Wood—Good supply; prices at yards, 6 00@ Qoal—Deliverod, hard, 950 per ton; soft 450 per ton Lard—Fairbank’s, wholesaling at 9o, Flour—0ity flour, 1 50@2 90, Brooma—2 95@3 00 per doz, LIVE STOCK. Osttle—Butcher cows 8 35@3 75, steers, 3 75@4 00, Sheep—2 50@)3 00, Hogs—4 00@4 25, PRODUCE AND FRUITS, Poultry—Live old hens, 2 50 per doz; dressed chickens, 8c; dressed turkeys, 12ic; ' dressed ducks, 9@10c; dressed geese, 10@12c; spring chickens, per doz. 2 25, Butter—Creamery, 25@28¢; choice country 16@18c, %gg!—?‘l per_dozen. ‘egetables— Potatoes, 30@40c por bushel; 0c per bu; apples, choice cooking or 2 H0@3 00; beans, 1 00@1 50 per ver Ib, Cider—82 gallon bbl., 36, Oranges—b 50 por bbl. Butcher A Fight in tue House, Ben, Perley Poore, William B, Campbell and Abraham P. Maury, two Whig representatives from Tennessee, had a lively fight In thehouse behind the speaker’s chair, just before the final adjournment of the second ses- sion of the twenty-fifth congrees, onSun- day morning, July 9, 1838, It grew out of the irritation consequent on the pro- cess of compelling the attendance of members at_the session of the previous night. Mr. Maury was brought in by tho sergeant-at-arme, arraigned, and ex- cused on the payment of fees. He thought, however, that his colleague had directed the sergeant.at-arms where to hnd him, and they had some words, which ended in blows, Mr. Campbsll bad the best of the encounter, and he would bave knocked Mr, Maury out of one of the large windows, which opened to the tloor, and which was then open, had he not, to make the blows mere ef- fectual, clutched his antagonist by the hair with his left hand while he struck him in the face, blow after blow, with his right fiet. Mr. Maury presented a pitiable spectacle when” Mr. Campbell was dragged from him, and his most in timate friends could not recognize his features, so blackened, bleeding and swollen. The difliculty was subsequent- ly arranged without a resort to the code of honor, - — ‘ Satd Sometning Sott, Boston Globe, A small ragged urchin was observed by a philanthropic old gentleman on How- ard street grinding his knuckles into his 37 d howling dolefully. “‘What is the matter, my boy?" “‘Feller pasted me In the snoot.” *‘What did you do to him?” *‘Nothing, sir. I am a good little boy and goes ter Sunday school, and the teacher sez ‘remomber, boys, a soft ans- wer turneth away wrath,’ " and when 1 stepped on the feller's corns, and he gets wrathy, 1 jest sezthe softest thing I could think of, and calls his a dude, and he ups and slugged me! ‘‘Bloes my soull' exclalmed the old man, agshst, when suddenly abandoning his whimper, the urchtn cut” a ceper on the pavement, put his fingers to his nose, gave utterance to anecstatic *‘sold agatn!” and darted swiftly down an alley, o — He Wasn't Drank, “You're a pretty man, you are,” “Wha'z matter, m'dear!” “Alo’'t you ashamed to come home reellng drunki” “‘W'y, blesh me, m'desr, d'you zink I'm dr(bic)unk?” *Of course zou'ra drunk you brute. You can't wal tep without reeling all over the room,’ Tha'z sho, m'dear, but I ain't drunk. Y'seo I been down t' th' roller skatin’ rink, m'dear, an' I aln't got over the motion yet. Tha'zall," 1 OUS TRAMP, MakinggUnderclothing Out of Old Newspapers, AN ING Lancaster Cor, Philadelphia Times, “Will you oblige me with somo ex- changes’” asked a seedy old tramp of one the Examiner editorial staff, “QOertainly, Jake,” was the journallst's response, ‘'I'vo done it lots of times be. fore, and I'll do ft again as often. But I've a favor to ask of you in return to- day.” “Name it, boss,” returned Jake, who is one of the best known vagranta In the Susquehanna valley. ““What do you do with these newspa. pers! Read them?’ “‘Gosh, no!" returned Jake, with an emphasis that savored of insulted dignity. ‘I don't have time to read. Feel here,” satd he, slapping his leg. The journalist placed his hand on the spot Indicated and felt several thicknesses of paper. “Them's my drawers,” ex- plained Jake, as he turned up his panta- loons at the frayed bottom, displaging the paper that completely surrounded his pipe-stem limbs. *‘I have been bumming from Cave May to the Allegharfles for ten years,” sald he. “I play the banjo for money durlng the day and part of the night and then go to be don two barrels in a Duke street cellar. One barrel goes over my head and tho other over my feet. You've heard my banjo lots, but did you ever see it!" he asked, as he took the ven- erable instrument out of its well-worn case of leather. *‘This banjo s made of three pleces; one part came from At- lantic City, another from a theatre in Philadelphia, and the third from ap older instrument that belonged to me, and I mysolf made the instrument from these parts, I never get sick and wouldn't trade places with any of your folks,” said he, glancing out of the window, as if to in- clude the entire vicinity. ‘[ am as hap- py a8 anybody.” Just here a policeman came in to have a chat with the editors, and Jake Parks, looklng rather annoyed, witodrew, though the city official knew him too well to harm him, ‘‘Happy,” sald the policeman, looking after the departed; *‘I should eay mo. He's got $800 to his credit in one of these here banka. WI N NEWS, DAKOTA. Rapid City expectsa railroad inside of two yoars, The enrollment of the Mitchell city schools is D) Clay county losf 00 worth of hogs by cholera, East Pierre wants a hide and fur purchasing establishiment located there. Hautchinson is claimed to be the best county in the territory to pay taxes. The lumber is all on the ground for the new Methodist church structure at Grand Viow. School toachers to the number of 2,011 are teaching the youthful Dakota ideas to shoot. Cold weather has retarded the progross of the worls on tho Episcopal college at Sioux “alls, The flouring mill at Washburn is grinding away night and day at an 8,600 bushel bin of wheat, The Democrat is the nams of a new paper recently started at Valley City, Barnes county. Madigon spent 8160,000 in new buildings during 1884, forty-threo new structures being the result, The Argus claims that the postoftice at Far- go handles 6,742 letter day, and 2,528 pack- %08, papers, etc, Plankington proposes to hold an election. to see whom the people want for the new demo- cratic postmaster, Valley City is claimed to bo the largest primary wheat market in north Dakota; 635 - 000 bushels of this season’s crop will be marketed there, In Spink county, recently, Mrs, J. . Mills and her_ 3-year-old child wore burned to death, She was tryiog out lard, which blazed up and communicated fire to her clothing and to the house, Secretary Teller, the last of the territorial officials who clung to Yankton as the capital, is packing up _his traps to move north. He will leave for Bismarck after Christmas, sand will come back to Yankton as often as his duties will permit. His family will remain here, o The district court of the territory made a clean up last week and sent eignt men toJoliet penitentiary, The Swan Land and Cattle Company is ne- gotisting for the purchase of the I’hillips ranch on the Chug. Owing to the increass of crime and crimin- als the police of Cheyenne are reiding the dives of the town and jailing the inmates, A Cheyenne Romao quarreled with s Ju. llette and attempted to kill her with a revol- ver. The bullet shattered the Lincrusta-cov- ered wall, BBurglars raided the sleepimg room of G, JA. Searight in the luter-Ocean hotel, Cheysn ne, and secured a gold watch worth $265 and §110 in cash, The hanging of Cook at l.aramie on the 12th makes the fourth lezal execution that has tak- en place in Wyoming since its organiza The three parties precediog him were Boyer, huog in Cheyenne in 1872; Touseunt Keunsler, Cheyenne, and Leroy Donavan who was hung io Kawlins last winter. The (‘heyenne Leader thus refers to Den- vor's latest venture: Whelan's aggregation of played out variety stars and awkward ama- teurs came to a dead stop at Rawlins, Mana- ger Whelan proceeded to indulge rather freely in the intoxicating bowl, and the other mem.- bers of the troupe painted the town as red as their limited financial resources would allow, Some ladies in the company telographed to Denver and obtained money enough to get home. Juan Benito Duran shot Mrs, Adella San- chez at her residence near the corner of 1lddy and Twentieth streets, in Cheyenne and tnen killed hiwself, It took four columus of the Cheyenne papers to detail the sensation and reach this conclusion: It is palpable that Duran loyed Mres, Sanchez. He had loved her long and desperately. He probably asked her to leave her husband and go with him and she refused him, Then he killed her and killed himself, The true secret, the true strength and the whole history of bis affection for her will be buried with them. The grave will close a chapter of which none liviog may knowthe lines,” COLOBADO, Highwaymen are unusually bold and num erous in Denver, The senatorial contest is waxiog hot in the columns of the newspapers, The coal miners of Baldwin and Crested Butte are working full time, Marriages throughout the state are on the increass, Suow and cold weather produce peculiar matches, It is reported that 10 car loads of coal per day is shipped into Co'orado from the Pleas- ant Valley mines in Utah. An additional force of fifty men were putto work at the mines this week. MONTANA, The Drum Lummon mine output is avout 30,000 per week, Helena experienced a coal famine last week, Hard coal sells for $23 and soft $1.50, An extensive vein of coal of good quality has been discovered near Sheridan, A 16-ounce Caur d'Alene nugget worth 275 has recently been received at Missoula The Helona Herald is in favor of building & $150,000 court house and city bullding com- bined, On account of the crowded condition of the fienmmuy. about 50 Montana convicts are eld in county jails, WEDNESDAY, DA&C. 24, 1884, n Com ped 650,000 pounds of base bul- n'in the past month A bald esgle men nine foot from ti to tip of wings and weighing about f0 pounds, was kil'ed near Stoneville, Custer county, last week, Stophen Wiles, Montana's first convieted r, was last week sentenced by Judge to three months imprisonm n the tiATY, territorlal grand jury at Dear Lodge has indicted & Ohinese laundryman for maintaining & duisance—his wash house- in the thickly populated part of town. The output of the Helena Mining and Re duction Company’s mines from January 1 to October 31, was 378 ounces of gold, 519 841 ounces of silver, and 5,917,0 of lead, the total valuation be A great many sheep are dying because of the lack of feed, says the Mendocino Dispatch and the outlook is anything but a promising one for a great many of onr wool-growers, The Trethfall brothers, who farm 6,000 or 7,000 acres of land a few miles fram Oakdale, Stanislaus county, have had one man working for them for the past twenty-six years, They paid him off recently, and he received over $10,000. A monster hog has been raised by Oscar COochard of Mendocino county. The animal is ot the Poland-McGee breed, and weighs 1,076 pounds, is 8 feet in length, girth near the shoulder 6 feet 10 inches' is 4 foet high and but 2 years old. The owner will exhibit it at the world’s fair, A woman living in the northern part of San Luis Obispo county the other day found her infant, which she had left in its crib, hanging from the post of the crib dead. The little one evidently tried to climb over the foot of the crib and fell, the post catching the nightgown in such a manner as to litterally hang the child, NEW MEXICO. { The citizens of Santa Fe are working hard for woolen mills. After the last pay day an_unusually large number of soldiers desorted from Fort Bay- ard, Ground has been broken for the Sorocco water works. The rerervoir was purchased from Pedro Simpson. Considerable discussion is now being held as to who will be the next tergitorial secrotary. There are fully two dozen ho are anxious to venture their honor for the position, UTAH, The Mormon boys have organix:d a demo cratic club pledged against church rule and for freedom of action in politics, A windstorm blew a locomotive, tender and cars off the track near Wood's Cross re- cently. Nobody was much hurt. The Colorado coal miners’ convention failed to get the Utsh minera to join their strike, and Utah will furnish coal to Colorado till the strike ends. John M, Young has refused the right of way for a railroad on the Salt Lake city canal banks. - It is supposed that he is working in the interest of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, o Habit Makes the Horse, Thiladelphia Times, “’Momber them two old bays I used to drive?’ said Joe Troy, a car driver on the Fifth and Sixth streets line, last evening. *‘A cousin o mine, a farmer, ont beyond Tacony there, bought 'em off the comp'ny. 1 took a holiday abont a week ago, and me an my olo 'oman wo went to Tacony to spend the day at my cousin’s farm. I asked how the team was gettin’ on. He sald they made him tired; he had all he knew to glt 'em to go, and when they started he couldn’t git ‘em to stop. He was gettin’ sick of 'em and thought he’d sell 'em again. ‘Lot me have a try,’ says 1, cos, you know, beln’ as I was accustomed to ’em, 1 thinke I may be able to find out what's the matter with "em. *‘Well, he hitched ’em to a plow an’ I I gets behind ’em an’ chirrups to 'em like an’ talks to 'em, but they wouldn't move worth a cont. Well, I conldn’t make it out, when a thought kinder strikes me all plump like. My cousin’s little boy he's got one of them bioycles, so I says: *¢ ¢Aleck, where's little .Joe's bicycle?’ Little Joe's the boy’s name, He wur named fur me, you know. “I goes in an’ gets the bell off the bicycle an’ fixes 1t on to the handle of the plow. Then I takes the strings again and rings the bell, shakes the reins, and says: “4Goe up!’ “1f you'd believe me, them two old rascals pricks up their ears dirckly an without any more trouble than ask yer puts their shoul@er to the collar and sets off. Then I pulls the bell agaln and says: ““*Whoa!' “‘And they stops as easy as if they was back in the old car. Aleck I'm a genius. I don't know what he means by that, but I know he hain’t had no more trouble with the old boys since.” e Suddenly Acquired Wealth, Pittsburg Telegraph, Duriug an excursion from this city, while at Cleveland, the Kennard house was crowded, when a druggist appeared late at night at the hote] office and de- manded a bed, The clerk replied that there were only two vacant beds in the houe, one wherein was quartered a Pitts- bury morning newspaper man and the - [other a Pittsburg evening newspapar man, who were with the excurslon, “To toll the truth, they areboth pretty drunk, so you may take your choice as to which room you will sleep in,” The druggist said that he would take LLIVAN NOT IN GOOD HUMOR, His Aversion to Being Interviewed Deprives an Anxious Fublic of the Obamplon's [deas ot Men and Things, New York, December 18,—John L Sullivan is not jubilant over his acquittal on the charge of attempting to annihilate Alf. Greentield, of the Swan with Two Necks, Birmingham, England. Mr, Sul- livan slept during the night at the Cole- man house, and when seen this morning was In the humor which usually follows visitations to the dispensaries of copper distilled sour mash. “Good morning, Mr. Sullivan,” the reporter in a timid manner. ““Hello, what der yer want. 1 don't want ter be interviewed. Youse news- paper fellars always give me ther odds, because yeor have both ends and ther mid- dle of ther game,” said Sullivan, “Do you Intend to go into training agaln” “Naw-." “s it probable that Mr. Greenfield and yourself will again demonstrate to the general public the difference between the styles of hoxing representative of Britan- nia and Columbia's land?” “Naw.” “Will you moet Paddy Ryan January 10th, as was agreed by Mr. Pat Sheedy and Mr. Jimmy Patterson!” ‘‘Didn’t I tell yer I wouldn’t be Inter- viewed?" “Then ! will say you will notmeet Mr. Ryan, lato of Troy, but more recently « f Chicago?” “‘Don’t yer do nothing of the kind."” “Will you emain in Now York any length of time?" i “Naw.” Do you think of visiting the metrop- olis again shortly?"” *‘Yes,” and as the hero of Missleeippi City, Madison Square Garden and the supreme court strode off he gave the re- porter a look that completely knocked him out. sald RIS+ T The Cowboy on Koller-Skate, Paul Day. “I am more used to riding horseback, and as soon as I straddled the layout 1 was wishing I had a buck rein, becauso I expected them to stiffen their knees and go to bucking, but they didn’t. 1 walked them over to the other end of the corrall to gentle’ema little, and directly they started oif on an easy canter and were coming around back into the herd; and there was a dude there with a stiff hat who was trylng to cut out a Polled Angus heifer in a blue dress, and I fouled, roped both my hind legs in a hoop-ekirt, and it had me stretched out, ready for branding, quickdr'n a spring calf can bawl with his mouth open and his lungs stretched. But Igotup and got on again, and you ought to seen me exercise them vehicles! Of course, they'd buck, when I tried to hurry 'em, and they would rare up and fall back when I tried to stop ’em too quick; but I'll leave it to the boss herder of the tho whole lot if I didn’t gallop 'em round there for three or four hours and had 'em roll over and over with me, and didn't got me cfl.” ——— A Way to Get Even, ‘Wall Street News, He called a+ the headquarters of the company the other day, and eaid to the president: “This slate and gravel company sold me §10,000 worth of stock a year ago as a special favor.” “‘Yes, I believe such was the case.” “I have paid out $600 in assessments, and received no dividends.” “Well?” ““Well, its my turn to ssk a special fa- vor of the company. Please find some- body to take my stock at halt its face value.” ‘“We may not be able to do that,” re- plied the president, after mature reflec- tion; ““but there is a way to help you out of it. If you want to order state monu- ments for your whole far.iy, we will make the figuro very low and take your his chances with the evening newspaper mau, a8 they excelled the morning men in more ways thau one, and he doubtless would b #o drunk that he would lio quict all night. Ho went to bed and was soon sound asleep. The journalist, however, awakened about 12 o’clock,and thinkig it a long timo batween drinks, dressed himself unconsciously in the druggist’s clothes and sallied oy, Iver and anon ho muttered, as ho treated all present: “Funniest thing I ever heard of. When I went to bed last night J only hsd 25 cents to my name, and now I've got over a hundred dollars (showing a corpulent roll of bille), and I'm bound to epend every cent of 1t before morning,” He did. o — He had been Playing Foot, ball, Hartford Post, “My son, my son,” exclaimed a good mother as she welcomed her atalwart pride home, ‘‘what is the matter! What has happenedi Have yuu been run over by the oarsi” “‘No, mother, no, it is noth—" “There, it's dynamite, I know, or you wouldn't have your face all patched—" “‘I't's nothing, nothing, mother,” *‘Fell down stalrs and broke both legs. Oh, those crut ) ‘‘No, I didn’t fall down stairs; “Then you must have run against a lamp-post in the dark, or you wouldn't have your arm in a ling.” “Do keep quiet, Don't be alarmed, mother, we won by two gos touchdowns," *Well, I'm glad, it that's all; but why did they use you for the football!” S — A Distressing Accident, *“Wife, did you bring your opera glass with you'!" ‘“Yes; bat, Plngno it, I can't use it."” ,Why rot/’ “*Oh, 1 left my diamond rings at home on the washstand, stock at twenty-five cen.cs on the dollar in payment " e —— A Brave Man, Arkansaw Traveler, ‘“‘Captain,” said a gentleman, address- ing a friend, “‘I see that Jim Bowles has been in town.” ““Yes, the scoundrel.” ‘‘After his malictous slander of you | dld not, think that you would let him es. cape.” ““Hang it, T was forced to keep ous of his way. 1 was told that he was a des perate fellow.” “Desperate fellow!” repeated the cap- tain, contemptuously; why, he is the most cousummate coward in the whele conntry.” What! you don’t ay so!” an expression of sorrow crotsing his countenance. **If I had known that I would have whipped the scoundrel.” THEOLD RELIABLE THE BRUNSWICK, BALKE, COL- LENDER COMPANY, (SUCCESSORS TO THE J. 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Rallway 40 Cov ogton, Bloux City, Ponca, Harblugton, Wayae asd Horlolk, Connect at Blair ov Fremand, Onkda.s, Nellch, aud through 0 Yal satine, ormenll GRAND GLOSING OUT SALE YOUNG'S ART EMPORION Commencin 1513 DOUGLAS *81T:, OMAHA: Monday, November Consisting of Pictare Frame Mouldings, Picture Frames, Ergravings, Paintings, Water Colors, Photographs, Station- ory, Pocket Books, Purses. Ladies’ Shopping Bags, Scrap Books, Albums, Statuary,Ar- tists’ Materials, Gold, Bronze, Plush and Velvet Cabinet Frames, Brackets, Comb and Biush Sets, Jewel Cases, Work Boxes, Glove and Handkerchief Boxes. Oder Sets, Birthday, Christmas and New Year Cards, and a Great Variety of Fancy Goods and Novelties Adapt- ed to the Holiday Trade. Have You Pictures .to Frame If so, this is an opportunity of a life-time to. get them done in the best of stile, and at prices delying all competition. T have the largest and finest stock of the above goods, in the city, having made my entire Holiday Purchases before deciding to retire from the business. Failing health compels me to make a change and in crder to clcse oub my stock at once, I offer without reserve, bargains in every line such as will insure a speedy sale. This is the Greatest Opportunity ever f- fered to the citizens of Omaha and surrounding towns to seleet their Hoday Goods. Ceme ab once and e convinced that every articls of- »fered is a bargain. 24th YOUNG’S ART EMPORIUM ! 1513 DOUGLAS STREET. THE CH EAPEST PLACE IN OMAHA TO BUY Fol=fNef=T ol=f=t Is AT DEWEY & STONE'S On~ of the Rest and Largest Stocks inthe United States to Select From, NO STATRS TO CLIMB. ELEGANT PASSENGER ELEVATOR RUBMPING & DBOLTE,. - MANUFACTURERS O¥— OARAMENTAL CALVAMIZED IRCH CORNICES. Fiuiala, Wicdow Caps, Iron Crestlugs, M S anan 100y ahe llle Sky-lights, & 7o, Iron'and is ¢ ha W MAX MEYER&BRO WELERS and SILVERSMIT Fine Diamonds, French Clocks, IMPORTERS AND MANUFACTURING Rich Jewelry, Bronze Statuary, Hg English Silver Plate,Antique Brass Ware, European Holiday Novelties. WMAX MEYER & BRO. Leadiug Music Dealersin the Wes CARRY IN STOCK ALL THE CELEBRATED MAKES o OF— Pianos and Organs! Lower Prices and 'l "erms this Month than ever offered before, A visit to our warerooms solicited.