Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 14, 1885, Page 5

i DRAWING TO A CLOSE. The Testimeny in the Howard Hor- ror Nearly Concluded. The Proceedings of Yesterday—Testi- mony Closed, YESTERDAY MORNING'S SESSION, Elizabeth Loan sworn—1 cooked two weeks for the defendant, Lizzic Howard. Fitf} knew her about three weeks before Nettie was burned. Knew Nettie during this time: the relations between Lizzie and Nettle were most friendly. 1 was at Nettle's house about 9 or 10 Saturday morning that the was burned, and re- malned all day and night. 1 was thers Sunday morning. Some one had a con- versation with her as to how she was burned. She said to me that she was badly burned; “will you atk Lizzie to take care of me here; I never will get well; I am golog to die, and ( want to die in Lizzie's care; I dcn't know how I got burned.” She eald, she did not want to go to a hospital, wished Yo stay at home with Lzzis and not go to & hos- pital. At this time, in Lizzie's presence, Lizzle ramarked that she did not know how it happened and Nettie said, “I doa’t know either ” On Sunday morn- ing before 10 o’clock and after the con- versation above glven, Nettie eaid she was in her right mind and told us (Lizzle, Thompson and myself) that she did not know who burned her, but that Lizz'e and Thompeon would not do so. 1 did not see her die. I left about 12 o'clock Tueeday. I last eaw her alive Tuesday at 12 o’clock, Charles Edgerton—I measured the house In which Nettie wss burned. I did 0 last night. Have the dimensions. 1 have all the girl's furnitare (giving di- mensions). The mattress she lald on was buroed on each side of the slip, in the center. There were some burned places on the side also. i Doctor Giibbs—Am county phyalcian. I dressed burns for defendant Thompson in the county jail within a day or eo after he was burned. The burn was on his hand. Question by Shields—1If a person {s burned by ol so that the burn ex- tends from lower part of abdomen to top of head; the burn not deep, extendiog only to the second or true skin, and ex- tending all over the abdomen, to collar bone on right breast, none on the back; all over the face, and deeper on the face than on the breast; the eyes protably destroyed, hair burned off, on Satarday morning at 1.30, and dies on following Taesday at,1:30 p m.; a physiclan ap- pears about ons hour or little more after the burning, and dresses the wound with oil, co.ton end lime water, prescribes dosss of morphiaand opium at intervals of one hour, till relief comes, and the preecription is followed out, and the patient from Saturday morning until 4:40 p. m. Monday following, is at times asleep, but never fn complete coma state; under thege ofroumstances may or may not the patient lie passively hearing conver- satlons around her, without abllity to reacon intelligantly, and at or about 4:40 p. m. Monday Ia It or is it not extremely probabla that the patient could not Intel- ligantly understand and answer questions? Answer—She may s> lie and 1t 18 proba- ble. Cross Examined—1t is hardly a fact where oplates are persisted in, that thers are lucld intervals; it is most probable that the opiates would so bacloud the mind that the party could not reason or intelligently understand. An_ordinary dose of oplum is ons grain; of morphia from one-aixth to one-quarter of a graln. The effects of an ordinary dote with or- dinary paople wears off in six to eight hours. Dr, Bridges—In answer to the hypo- thetical question just put to Gibbs the witness ea'd it Is a fact that patieat could lie passive withsut power of reasoning as to truth or probability of statement or occurrences. In case stated here 1t might be possible that the pertoa could answer «uestions though not able to reason. John Thompson (the defendant)—Have known Nettie Howard about two yesrs snd a half. Am husband, legall, marrled to Lizzie about three yea Occupatlon for four years in Omsba has beon tesmster principally. At the time of burning was working as teams‘er; was at Nettie’s houss the night of barning. Went to bed when smelting works whis- tls sounded midnight. Lizzie, Nettie and I were thera tha night, Best rela tions existed between us three. Iartived there that night about 7 o'clock. 1 had rooms elsewhere, though I stopped there feequently in the evening after tea and romained sl night. Was pres- ent when [Lizzle Blocmfield came in for coal oil. Nettie went out into ano her room, came back with empty can. Soon after I went to bed, tome s-ldlers came in; Lizzis was a'bad with me. The lamp was then in front room cn washstand near head of Neitle's bed. It was' Nottle’s hablt to read hersalf to sleep. I let soldiers In, they went Into Nettie's (middle) room, Nettie went into her room before I went to bed. Lizzieand I “had a few words” after wo weot to bed, about a picture of a soldier Lizzle had. Nottle had nothing wha'ever to do with this dispute; she wes ia the other room. When the sold'ers came to get in, Nettie was called by Lizzie to opan the door and led them in. About that time, in Nettie's room, I heard eomething like the fall of some cb- ject. ln a moment Lizzle orfed out, *My Ged! the house is on fire.” 1 caught Lizzte and kept her from rushing into Nettle’s rcom. I went in, took a bucket of water to throw over her—put it do and took acloth cover, or something like it and wrapped Netti> in it., When I first saw Nottie she was covered from hips to top of head with flame or blaze, Several persons came in_soon atter, and two g'rls took bo'd of Nettie to put her to bed; this caused the flames to s'art afrash, or break through the cover, I took it and threw it out the door, I returaed 1o room and took the blankets and cov- ered her, When Nettle went to bed she had been drinking, When Nettie was lylng on floor a BeE reporter proposed | m, to put her on the bed and 1 told him she was better off where she was, [witness gave de- talled account of the nappenings in the house about this time, of no speclal im- ortanc ] 1 never asked Nettie it any- y could be forgiven who had done euch a thiog as that, No such coaversi- er at any time occurred between me d Nettle, or anything like it. burced my hand trying to smother the flymes about Nettle, I had a conver a- tion with Nettle Immediately after Hacket left her room. 1 had been out to the drug store and first learned that I was suspected, 1 then went into Nettie's sked her if she knew me, sbe re- plied *yes;" in 1eply to my questions she said I had never done her any hara; that wo had never quarreled, ihst the ¢id not blame me at all for the burnlog. A similar converastion was had by Lizze Howard with Nettle in my presencs about this time, THOMPSON CROSS EXAMINED, Llzzie and 1 were married three years #go in Council Blaffs, 1 had a rcom in the old Hudson River houte, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets. Would visit Lizzie scveral times a week. Netle, Lizzie and 1 were al ways frlendly, Night befora the burning, viz Thuredsy, 1 wasat Nettle's house about 8 o'clock. Don't know whosa pletare it was that caused the dispute. Nover saw the man Never saw Hasket and Connelly in com- pany. Nettio and Lizzle lived together. 1 had & reparate room because I had to get up early to work. I could not get up or go to bed at Nottis's as early as elsewhera, becauss the women did not wish to go to bed before midnight. Don't know why. 1 saw the oil can when Bloomfield came for oll. Did not see Nettle with the lamp at this time, Can was empty when Nettis shook it. 1 did not hava any trouble or dispate with Nettis Howard some weeks before the burning. I saw Wips'on and called him into the house. Adjourned to 2 p m. AFTERNOON SESSION. Cross-examination of Thompson con- tinued: Got my hands burned when per- sons pulled Nettie from ths blanket or covering. It was about one hour before 1 was arrested I spoke to Netile and she recogaized mo. In reply to my question she sald she did not blame me about the buraing. Just befora this she sald the same to Lizzle Howard, Re-dlrect: When officers came in they told me they were after me and one of them went with me in Nettle's room, when she said she and I had no quarrel, nor d!d she believe I or Lizzle had any- thing to do with the burning; also that she did not know who did it. Lizz'e Howard: Am Thompron's wife. Nottte lived with;me four different timee. She would not remain very long with me at a time. The last time ehe had been with me ab:us three or four months, I never had a quarrel or trouble with her in my life. She was the best girl that was ever in my house. She had no trouble with me or Thompion, Friday night, just before dark, she filled two lamps, one in my room, one in hers. She had been drinking some when Bloomfield came for oil. I was In bed, and and been in bed sick for a month. Saw her last before jshe was burned when she locked the door after the eoldlers went out. Just before thelr coming I had sent Nettle out for bser and whisky to use with our lunch. Thompson was not then there. He came sf.crwards. Nettie lot the goldlers out and went to her room and shut the door. Thompson sald to me that if he liked soldiers as well as I do he would go and live with them. This led to 8 quarrel between Thomp- son and myself. Nettie was in her room with door closed. I heard 1 o'clock whistle blow. Some unknown men came to tha door, but Thompson sald: “Don't open the door.” T called Nettle to go and open the door, aud at that very mo- ment I heard a scream, *‘Fire!” and saw a flaeh of light under the door, and cried out: “'Jesus Christ! the house is on fire.” [Witness corroborated the other testi- mony in thls connection in a cool, clear and intelligent manner, graphically illus- {rating the exclting scene] I heard Nettie tell Gilligan that sne il not know how it happened or who did it. [Hera a thrilling ncene between witness and the burned girl was depicted, the witnees breaking down in tears and sobs for a moment as she told of the poor glrl's helplesinets and aunxiety that her trae name should not be known, and her piteous appeals that witness should lie beside her on her uniojured arm and kiss Nettie's poor burned lips. The en- tire court room was affected for a mo- ment.] Nettie told her she knew witness had nothing to do with the buraing, nor Thompson either. This repeatedly done. Cross exan.ined: First knew Nettle four years ago. I saw her fill the lamps that nightin the front room. [Dlstrict attorney skilifally put this witness on the rack, but falled to shake her testimony in any particular. Her testimony was as clear as a bell.] The prosecution here rested and the district attorney announc- ed that the state had presented its case. The attorneys handed in instiuctions they desired and gave reference to su- thorlties. “‘Proceed, Gentlemen,” sald Judge Ne- ville, and cautioned the thickly packed audience to ba silent. MR, ESTELLE opened for tho state by admitting that no mottve for the crime had been shown by the prosecution. But, he c'almed, some facts in thewe cates must bo admisted, He proceeded in a calm, reisoning way to show that the circumatances polnted to defendante’ goilt. He denied that the burning of the weuian can be ascoanted for on the hypothests that it was an acci- dent. 1t was, in thellght of the peculiar circamstances detailed by the witnesses, impoesiblo to have been the result cf &c- cilent. Here counsel analysed the tosti- mony and after forty minutes yielded to MR, SHIELDS, who cntered into a logical examination of the suspicious circumstanc:s relied upon by the state, and with energy and forcs prescoted his views upon thelr lack of tendency to convince any Intelligent man, After forty minutes the court ad- journed until this morning at 9 o'clock. ——— The Inquest Yesterday, The coroner’s jury st upon the re- msins ¢f Anton Kaniczoy, struck March 11th, 1885, by the englne of train No. 16 of the Missourl Paclfic railroad, and returned the following verdlot yesterday: STATE OF NEBRASKA, : _ County of Douglas, At an inquisition holden at Omaha, Neb in Douglas county, on the 12th and 13th day, of March, A. D, 1885, before me, John U, Drexel, coroner of said Douglas county, upon the body of said Anton Kaniczny lyibg dead, Dy the jurors whose names wre hereto sub: orbed, the said Jurors upon their aath do tay: thatfthe wid dnton Kaulezoy came to his death by being ¥un over by traisNo, 16, Missouri Pacific railtoad, on March 11th, aud that no blame is attached to the employes on said train, In testimony whereof, the said jurors have hereunto set their hands the day and year aforesaid. WITNESSES, H, C. BurLks, 'HOS, FITZGERALD, J. B. DEWrT, B, F. Brown, Ciias, ENERSON, JURORS, C. S GoopRICH, E. F. MORIARITY, GEo, MEDLOCK, ‘Wi, NeLiGH Axtavs H. i JACOB LINDEMIE] stest: Joax C, Drexgr, Al rooer, Iathe Inqnutxmcud the engiceer sndfireman testified that the deceased was on the track; the whistle was blown long Iland rap'dly; he got off the track and they supposed all was right; they moved ahead when he unexpectedly returned to the track in front of the eoglne and wes ina moment knocked off, His conduct in re. turning to the track was singular, but it was impossibie to slop the englne in time to avoid the accident, The jury, of courée, could not attach any censure to the trsio, and in the verdict expressly ex- culpates them from all blame. e — Frish Pine Apples at Wiemers', s THE DAILY BEE--SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1885, At a Card-Writer's Table, Yeosterday forcnoon Tue Ber reporter stood for some twenty minates nesr the table where Mr, Ferguson writes viriting cards, ete., in front of ths postoflice. The different classes of people glving or- ders were noticeable, Seelng Tne Ber man the card-writer sald, ‘I can almost tell them as they come up, You perhaps have no Idea of the curijus tastes exhibi- ted. Yesterday an old lady came; she wanted something suitable for one in mourning, and I handed her a package of plain, black-bordered cards of fine materisl, She preforred another sort, and solected a glazed card with a sky-blue border all around it. Women of quee- tlonable voeatlons are the best bayers and by far the most tasty purchasers. They get the best and care nothing ex- cept that the cards are In perfect good taste—not gandy bat exquisite. Then the preashers come; they want the highest priced cards for the least money, and al- ways ask for something pla'n but buy fancy cards, Young men, as a rule, select such “as we recommend, and as they are gosd customers we play no pranks on them, unless the fellow hap- pens to be like a dudieh sort of a young- finlehed her declamation, it seemed that in her part ehe had done all that could ba done In peivt, of excellence, especially when the lady's youth and modesty were considered; yet there followed the cim plete instramantal randeriag of a sole by Miss L. Phelps, who gracefully moved from the plano amid heartily- given tokens of approval that the lady richly merited; and again was presented an intellectual treat in the shaps of Miss Ella McBride's highly creditable decla. matlon of Shakespeare’s “‘Pleading of Qaeen Oatherine,” which won round atter round of applause, and sutely the handsome queen deserved fhem, And lastly was presented the brightest and perhaps the most exquisite of all these wems, two songs by Mrs, W. W, Rhodes, accompanied by Mies Dilliance on the plano and Prof, Souer on the violin, This lady, graceful and comely of person as she Is, did not owe all the generous ap- proval manifested by her appreciating hearers to her personsl charme, for the has an exquisite volce, well trained and controlled, whose melody now full and strong, now low and tender, pervaded the well filled ha'l till the last note seemed to die far away in the distance. The dance was most cnjoyable, the bountiful supper elegant, and Unity's sociable ended, to be for a long time most pleasantly remembered, — An Affecting Scene. Daring the examinatlon of the woman ster who came here a fow days sg>. He was one of those imitation pictures of human beings, you know, with a wad of inherited money, and not an atom of brains. When this sort appears we lot his fastes spread themselves, and when he leaves, laugh at his folly, Leok at this card, Attached to it arca great cabbage-shaped rose with sn onion but- ton eandwiched between it and a sua- flower fn gorgeous colors and almost the size of asaucer. Ho bought two pack- ages of those for his ‘girl, you naw,’ and stocd near where you are as I wrote his name on them, teliing me how he was a masher, and half aloud repeating: ‘Summer may change for winter, ¥lowers may fade and die, But I shall ever love thee, While I can heave a sigh!” Just think cr sentiment and righs in a dude! School girls are sly customers. They come apd stand and whisper to each other, chat and glggle and go cff. To- morrow one of them will come in behalf of the lot of to-day or send an older friond, slyly ask me to sslect them and not to tell the other girls what sort she purchased. You would not believe it, but I have known some of these [young female rascals in their thcughtless desire for fan to offer three kiesesin payment for *a package if the card-man would premlse not to let the other girls know it. They mean no wrong, just a spirit of girlish frolick, and—a desire to have their cards. Asarule the humbler walks of life ara our best patrons and some instan- ces are amusing. I'll tell you of one this morning. A red-faced son c¢f Erin came along, he was characteristically dressed and was unmistakably poseessed of the brogue. “An thase ara the vislting papers, do you eay; and what are they worth a dozen, do you know?” Being informed, he said, ““Be Jasus, and I want something stylish and fit fora great society gentleman. - You may wrlte & dozen for me. Give me soms on shiny paper fringed all around, with plenty of green and Za bloody red heart in the middle; say something sweet on it too, for I am a lady’s man, do you mind?” Pat got his cards, but if they don’t eclipsea Dolly Varden, Mother Hubbard or a pack of Mexican monte cards, then I'm a Dutchman. Yes, sir; in our business, like you newspaper men, we see all sorts. Here, take this card; it 1s like the dude'’s I've just told you of. Keep it as a curlosity.”” ‘‘How many, sir’ One paczage will cost you'' —and as a customer approached the table the reported walked off. ——— A Brace of Presentations, Mr. P. J. Staley was again made the willing victim of a presentation snare Thuredsy night. This time the scheme wasperpetraied by themembers of Millard degree, I. O. O, F., in their hall, corner Four-teenth and Dedge. A gold headed cane was the memento of esteem which was tendered Mr. Staley. That gentle~ man replied in a feeling speech, thanking his companions of the I.0.O.F. for their kindly remembrance. In the parlors of the Millard yeetardsy afteracon Mr, Geo. W, Vroman,chairman of the vlsiting grievance commitee of the Unicn Pacific engineers, was presanted with a silver water servica snd card re- ceiver by the members of the general committze. The speesh ascompanylng the presentatlon of the gift was made by Engincer Hall of the South Park road. Hesaid: *'Bro. Broman, my asocl- ates on this committee have requested meto call your attention to a little mat- ter that you have apparantly entlrely overlooked, and you display an intention of alloning us to dlspersa with cne of the most important features of our gath- erlog grossly negleoted. You seem to forget that one of the first principles of trae manhood is a just and {rae appraci- atlon of "real worth in a fellow man. Now, sir, for the purpose of giving you a lasting reminder of this duty, I have been selected by my as ofation in their be- hslf as the representative cf about one_ thousand fellow workmen, eogineers and firemen of the Unlon Pacific rallway to present to you this silver set, not for its intrinsic worth or value, but that the memory thercof may be lald up in the archives of faithful bressts as a momento of the apprecla- tlon and esteem in which you are held by your co-laborers sstociated with you on the committee. We thall always hold you in our memory as a tried, true and falthful chairman of one of the greatest rallroad systems on earth, as you have given us wise and valusble guidance in all our deliberat and brought our mattersto a mos! otory end, Finally, sir, when we have made our last statlon and been sidetracked on that endless siding from whence no dispatcher can give us orders to retoro, mey we meet in that place where thera need be no greviences committees appointed, e — The Unity Sociable, A select company, an exhibition of fine mauticsl talent, & sumptuous spread and most enjoyable dance were the features of the Unity’s social gathering In Fal- coner's Hall last evening. The pro- grammewas faithfully followed to the end. Mr. Festaer Ina *Zithee Solo,” Mr. Northrup in a select sorg, and Mr, Boll- man in “The Grand Old Ocean” won rounds of applause. In hls reading M, Baker showed taste, practice and skill, The features of the evening being the music snd decloinstion, the Bee reporter scarcely knows how fo tell of them, bscause whkem Miss Florence French Howard 'yesterday afternoon, in closing the evidence, an exciting scene for a moment greeted the large audience, The witneas, who 1s one of the accuscd, was ploturlng to the jury the actiors of the poor, misgulded girl, Nettie Howard, when she lay on the matiress all atained and burned, her eyesight gone, her flesh blistered and charred, her lips ali swollen and torn, face and breatt and arm ban- daged and palnful, in husky volce plead- ing for the witness, the only friend left her In her life of shame, to come and lie beside her, put her head on her arm and kies her once if never agaln. Then, re- collecting her burned and swollen lips, In her agony crying out: ‘‘Ah! no, I forgot; you will not kiss poor Nettle's bllstered lips any more, I cannot see you; please do not leave me. Yon alone kcow my kindred and family, so If you love me, tell no one who I am!” 1f there be any young woman who is halting between the temptation to sin and the impulss of her better nature, that lonely, wretched, dylng outcast, Iylog helpless, and friendless upon a bed of torture, with not even the pocr privi- lege of once more beholdirg the light cf God's heaven, and piteously begging for justone kiss from the lipe of her com- panions in shame to soothe the agony of her last hour, speaks to her in trumpet tones a warni — — Sensible Gir), A beautiful young lady stepped Into a shoe store yesterday, and modestly asked to examine eome shoes. The proprietor spread before her an armful of elegant foot-wear of all sorts, from a style as flat as a pancake to one standing tall and slender as a Florida crane. Oarefully salecting a pair, she crdered them wrap- ped, paid for them, acd walked cut. “‘Well, sir- that gets me,” sald the owner of the store to a BEE reporter, ‘‘that young lady belongs to our best people; is a leading society lady and much sought after by all, and yet, blast my pictures, if she basn’t picked out a pair ot thlek- soled low and wide heel shoes; what next!” The young lady did what few of the flattering butterfiles of the day bave the courage to do. She consulted comfort, health and conveniance and in deing so showed gcod sense, unusual bravery and gave the best evidenca that she will be a pearl of a wife for somebody. e — Al the Spring Style Hats now ready. Frederick, the hatter, Police Court, The numbar of calprits before Judge Weiss yesterday morning was painfully small, and that functlonary heaved a sigh of long pain as he contemplated, with one eye peering Into dlm-futurity, the dread possibllity of having to abolish the police court at eome early day, as a useless lux- ury. John Johuson was a devout Bacchan alian who periodically lends his beaming presence to the police court room, appsar- ing generally in the roll of & “dd.” He pleaded mot guilty to a charge of iInoxication, but a trlal developed the tact that John was “‘off’ in this particular, He was fined $10 and costs, In defanlt of which he way sent up to the county basti'e, where for fifteen days he will commune with Joe Miller, Wm. M2Coyle had als> been lolled to sleep in the fond embrice of Mr, Bar- leycorn. Five dollarsand costa. James Tracy, also arraigned for drankenness, was released, as he proved that be bad been wrongfully arreeted. e Horsford's Acid Phosphate A8 A BRAIN FOOD, wr. 8. F. Newcomer, Graenfield, O., “‘In cases of general debility, and torpor of mind and body, It does exceed- ingly well.” Railway Notes. General Ticket Agent Stebbins, of the Unlon Pacific, has gone direct from St. Paul to New Orleans, where he will at- tend the meetings of the General Rail. road convention. Mesers. Kimta'l and Shelby, of the {raffic department of the Unlon Paclfic, bave returned, The vhltin&oenglnun have concluded thelr negotiations with the Unlon Pacific officfals, and have drawn up formulated artloles of agreement, which will shortly be published, he Unlon Pacific hesdquarters are belng equipped with fire escapes of the Benner pattern, one each to erected on the east and west sides and two on the north side. —— Pope, Oole & Co.'s. Embarrassment, BALTIMORE, March 13,—Pope, Cole & Co, are dealers in metals of all kinds, The firm are also managers of the Copper Smelting works, which, 1t is sald, will not be affected by the troubies of Pope, Cole & Co. Inter- ested parties rofuse tosay anything on the subject. A meeting was held to-day of the posies interested, but no information could be had , 1t is now smid that the assets of the Pope firm will prebably reach within $100,000 of the liabilities. e — Doctors are getting more and more into the habit of prescribing proprietary medicines lo theie prac'ice, especially that known as Huxr's (Kidoey snd Liver) REMEDY, for diseases of the kid- neye, liver and bladder. They know from experience that is of more value In such diseases than any prascription they can write, A WIFES AWFUL ORDEAL, A Real Expericnce That Reads as Romantic as a Novel, Carats, Me,, March 7.—A romaniis story tqualng in Intwest the plo: of “‘The ceiebrated Case, 1s creating much excitement In eastorn Maine, The head of one of the oldest and most respectable famlies in the state dled several years ago leaving a property in raal estate and busi ness investment valued at $49,200, to his dnughter, aged 17, She was the last and youngest member of & family of reven children, and her father was the ‘‘last man of his race,” as he vsed to say. He died while she was attending echool in Bosten, Her guatdian, Louls Roche, was a Frenchman of tomewhat doabtful character, though her father had the ut- most confidence in him. Roche, In fact bad managed the old man's business for him sev £l years bifore his death, The will gave 810,000 to the Frenchman and the rest of the property to h's daughter. Roche inducsd the young woman to marry him befora she was 18 yesrs old. Two years after the property was sold and Roche went to Kurope. They set- tled in Lyone, near his ancestral home, and soon after thelr arrival daughter was born to them. Six other children were afterward born to them, four sons and two daughters, Four years ago the Inst of the children died, and Roche tlring his wife, induced her to convey all of her property to him and he cut her throat and threw her body iato the Seine, She was rescued by a peacant, and her wounds were dressed, butshe had lost her mem- ory; had even forgotten her pame. The peasant fell in love with her and they were marrled. Last summer s4e had the cholera and came near dying. With re- turnipg health she regained her memory. The peasant interested weslthy people in her case, and an actlon was begun in the courts againet Roche. Sbe is now in this state In search cf witnesees to aid her ia recovering her property. Her husband’s brutal treatment will cost him his liberty for soveral years. A decree of divorce will be granted her on her return to France, and she will then legalizs her marriage with the peasant, who i3 sald to be an estlmable and Intelligent man. Sev- eral people from New England will accom- pany Mrs. Roche on her return to Frauce. e — Seyenty Years in Court. Boston Advertiser, In a cate recently arguad before the supreme judiclal court for the common. wealth, it appeared by the bill of excep- tion that the original process in the suit had lssued more than 20 years befora. Thongh this loog delay was in no matter attribatable to the action of the courts, and had, in fact, wrought no hardship to partlos, it well illustrates the slowness with which justice sometimes moves Brownivg among the volumes of the Eoglish reports, the lawyer frequently finds a cage In which the long protraction and extraordinary nature of the proceed- ings make Jarndyce ve. Jarndyce, ‘‘that intermnabls spider web of chancary sult” seem commonplace. A most remarkable instance of this kind is 1s Shedden vs. Patrick, L. R, I. H.of L. Scotch, 470. In tha% case a vexed questlon of legltimacy, which for almost 70 years had proved the bore of lord chancellers and the bane of eayeral generations of claimants, comes on to be heard in the house of lords. And there its last s*age Is most dramatic. The chan- cellor intimates thas, owing to the enor- mous documents presented, the case is almost uniatalligible. The claimants’ counsel confesses, after the manner of a college student, thas he is *‘unprepar- ed.” Then there staps boldly into the breach one of the claimants, a woman Miss Annabella Jean Shedden, whose whole life has been spent in the vain effort to vindicate the honor of her fami'y, who has all the documentary evidence at her tongue's end, and who knows no fear of the august tribunal which is to decide her fortunes. She performs a feat prob- ably unparalleled in the history of West- minster hall, She argues her cate for 23 days before the lords, till the lords them- selves, accustomed to hear the most intri- cate and profound causes treated by the most acuts minds cf a most learned pro- fession, admlit that no one csuld have presented her clalms with [greater clear- ness cf ability, Bat the deolslon is sgaiust her, and the reader feels that in her dieappointment the pathos of the story of poor Mies Flite has been raalizad. But the case has also its humorous eide. Tho noble lords attempt the delivery of their opinions, an ast which by all tradi- tion 1s pr.vileged from interruption or re- ply. But this desperate clalmant {s not hampered by tradition nov by any appra- ciation of dignity ofher judges. She breaks in with ramonstrance and contra- diction, She bullies and hectors the lord chancellor till he threatens to have herremoved from the court. She aven charges one of the lords with baing her apponents counsel and therefore her murderar. A strange scene for that coart—the pathos of a woman’s despeir miogled with the absurdity of a bewigged and dignified lord high chancellor teared upon hls own wool-sack and squirming under the comlcsl outrage of a Caudle lecture. Truly, the sheep covers of the law reports bind up many a story of ro- mance In real life, not a whit less strange in plot and clrcumstance than any Reade or Trollope, or even the ‘‘graat master,” Dickens, ever told, — The Colored Race, St. Louis Republican, Hon, J. Milton Turner, ex-United States mintster to Likerla, was met yes. terday at the Lindell hotel, and he briefly expressed his vliews of the inaug- ural and Mr. Cleveland's policy ug.,fi. ing the regro. Mr, Tarner ead: *‘1 have refrained from expressing an opin- {on heretofore on account of not having eeen Mr, Cleveland’s in ugural add) 1t the demccratic pa:t‘{. 88 such, carry out his expressed recognitlon of the rights of the negro, it will be a very fortunate clrcumstance for the race. It will relieve the negro of the apprehen- sion which has always made him act cn the defenslve in politics agalnst the demccracy, and in many sections enable him to divide his vote between the par: ties, and sostaln the men snd Inter- ests of the different sectlons where be finds his home. The negroes cf the Upited States have heretofore been afeald to vote with the demccracy because they have regarded that party as lalmisal to their rights as citizss. But if the falr and American-like position which Mr, Oleveland assumes in his ad- dress toward the negro, ehould ba second- ed by the prectice of the rank and file of the democeatic parly, the fear and appre- heuslon cf the negro will dissppear, and the race questicn will of {teelf ceaee to be known In American politics, wish to be underetood as desiring to sce the negre crowned with (fficial bonors, What be much more needs is #cacss to the trades srd employment where ho may aquira the ability of skilled arti- ssvs He needs t) be taught the value of ownership in the soll, and tta:ro per- fect abllity to gov.ra can be foand in a class whose utter poverty is thelr princi pal commoendation. In other words, to govera wisely a class should always own Jargely tho sofl of & countes. 1 would, therefore, rather attract the attention of the negro to the tettlemeat of the public domsia than t> the feuitless glare of American politics. 1 belleve tha negro, t) a great extent, has bis de.tiny in his own hande.” The Story of S| Chicago Herald, The sudden development of a colonlal policy on the part of (Germany has led to some misanderstandings between that power and Great Britain, and_there is a suggestion that the United States may even become Involved, but this is not probable. The American Idea of attend- ing sirictly to home affairs and paying little attention to what is going oa else where may not bring us colonies in all parts of the carth, but it saves us a great deal of troable. The only selzare made by Germany In its new born thrist for empire In which Amerlcans are speclally intcrested was that of the Samoan Islands., There are ha, I do notyp nine or ten in number and are situated in the Southern Paclfic Ocean. Some time after the war many adventurers from the southern sta‘cs found a lodgment there, and as the natives were tractible, the soil fertile and the climate ealubrlous, they concluded o re- main. They found cotton planting a vory profitable business, and i time they built up an extensive trade. Addi- tional arciva's from the Ualted Siates and from England soon gave the En- glish spesking colony a destded numer- ical advantage over all forelgners, and as the natlves were on particular friend. ly terms with the Amer.cans, the latter presently cane to wleld a controlling in- fluenca in the business and political affaics of the islauds. Twelve or thirteen years ag) Preeident Grant sent an ermy frlend ot his named Steinberger off on one of thoss agceeablo tours for the in- spaction of consulates, which have nct been to common of late as they used to be, and to this fact the intereat of the United States In the ialands 18 chiefly due, Steinbergar was a oltizin of Colo- rado at the time, and had great ideas of bonanzis and things. In pursuing his jouraey he came at length to Samos, and, being favorably impressed with the situation of affiirs, he resolved to ramain thera and see what he could do for him- self. Before many months had elspsad he succeeded in wlnning the confidence of the simple-minded natlves, ana by his calm assurance and fine address he soon convinced the Americans and the Eng- lish that ha was jast the man that they needed to bring thelr far away itlands to the notics of the world. Of course the relations ex'sting between himself and the then president ot the United States lost nothing In his reci'al, and the plauei- bla story which he told was well ca' caleated to impress even bet'er posted men. Upto that time the agricaltural and commerctal operations of the set:lezs had been cirrled on in a primitive way, but under Steinberger’s influence wharves and warehoases wera bullt, machinery se- cared, end other preparations made for doing a more extended butiness. When thes> things wera well under way St in- berger called 8 mceting of all the head mep cf the island and arravg:d a f.rm of government, comprising & cabnet and & patliament and a figarehead in the form of a king, who had to te a native. He then made oce f the hereditary chiefs whom he cculd easlly infiuence the mon- arch and bacame h'mself the prime min- ister at & good living salary. After all these things had been accom- plished Stelnberger set out for the United States on his long promised er- rand to secure the patronage of the president and to enlist several capltal- ists in Samoan enterprises, which his fertlle brain had conjured up. Stelnburger’s Inflaence had been so po- tentlal that the patives had come to re- gard the Unlled States as thelr natural friend snd protecter, and the American ftag had been adopted to them In antici- pation of fatura union with this country, as thelr o#n casign. The prime minister found President (irant unprepared to sanctlon further colonization schemes, His expleit In San Domingo had re- sulted disastrously and he had no diepo- sitlon to espouse any other euch cause. Stelnburger pleaded in vain, therefare, with the executive, and, after a eeries of failures with as maoy of the prominent statesmen of the tma as he could find an | 4 audlence with, he withdrew from Washington, In the mat- ter of onlisting the assistance of caplta’ he was more successful. Sev- eral moneyed men joined him, and on his ratora he at last had the satisfaction of showing the natives that he had done something for the commerc'al, If not the political, welfare ot thetr country. The fslands pro:pared amaz'ngly and in fime Steinberger tecame very rich and power- ful. All the greit natlons of the earth established consulships there, and S berger, with the English and American representatives, tock the whole manage- ment of affairs, A year ago a German mar-of-war cruie- Ing in those waters anctoced in the prin- clyal harber, and findiug that the island, “*belonged to nohcdy” its commander ran up the German ¢ and c'aimed them as possessions of the crown. The patives and foreigners who had grown mora and more American In their sympathies and who had never qulte dismimsed the {dea that they would some day be taken | under the wing of the graat rapublic, re- sented this performance most indignant'y and those of the people who had been British subject also made & disturbance, which was soon quelled. The foreign consuls all filed protests and the matter was finally referred to the British and German governments, bstween which some very pointed correspondence haa been going on of late. The upshot of the matter will probably be the recagnition of Germany'sclalms, for the is'ands do not baloog to England any more than they do to the United States, which, ay we have smeen, once refused toaccept them. The s'ory of Stainberser avd Sam- oa is Interesting as showiag that only a li tle encoursgement in Washington s peeded to develop our jobb:rs iato men in search of forelgn ay well as domestlc t. The San Domingo scheme of t Grant adminleteation will prob- ably be a lesson to all of the general’s successors in the presldeccy, and the bauble from the South Pacific offered by Steinberger and thrown awsy to become the priza of & German frigate will farnish & wiser and eafer precedent. — —— Fine Formosa Oolong and Ganpowder Tea & specialty. 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A club of which her father took And used it playing bandy. ~{Washington Hatchet, Some cookies next she doftly made, All sugared round the edges; Her pop (1n the wood-splitting trade) Found they made stunning wedges, ~ [Fall River Advance, But when she called her pa to eat Some just-constructed biseuit, The old man said his life was swect — He didn't dare to risk it [Sommerville Journal, (AT RO 25 YEARS IN USE. The Greatest Medical Trinm!h of l.hCAAge! SYMPTOMS OF A TORPID LIVER. Lossofappetite, Bowela costive, Pain in the hend, with a dull sensation in the ind, Irritabllity of temper, Low spirits, with n feeling of having neglected nome duty, Weariness, Dizziness, Fluttering at the Henart, Dota beforothe eyes, I over the right eye, Restlessne Atful drenms, Highly colored Urine, ai ONSTIP. . TUTT'S PILLS aro especinlly adapted one dose effects such Pr o T P furray StV Y. TUTT'S HAIR DYE L] GRAY HATR or WHISKERS changed to A GLO8sY BLACK by n singlo application of this DYE. 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Russcll, Fred Steelo, Bridg.r, Douglas, Robinscn, Laran i -, McKinney and Washakic Proposals for wood,cosl and charcoal will be opened Tacsday, Aprll 14, 1885. Forhay, straw, grainand bran, Moncay, May 18, 1885, Also, at Ihisoffice, Tuesday, April 14, 1685, pro- pesals for furnishing on the cars At statins nearest the mincs on Union Pacific and other adjace roads, eight thcusand tons of bitumions ¢ 2240 pounds to the ton. t this office, Monday, M v 18, 1885, for fur- t'any Railroad station— b, having Ryilway con 20 pounzs of corn and TMENT OF runm\fll.} nections with Omaha, 1 1,000,000 poundds ci oat: Also, at this office, Monday, May 18, 1885, for fur- nishing at Reilroad sta ion: on Fremoat, blkhorn aud Missout Vslley H. R., betwaen Fremort aud Va tine, Neb., 404,00 pounds of corn and 176,000 po of oits. The Governmoat rcearves the 1ight to rejeob any orall given t) articles of demestic production acture, conditions of price and quality be- I, anil such preference iven ta srticles o o production and mat ‘acture produced cific coast, to the exte by ths public scr 070 sals, ¢ and man: ing equal m o Iliere nstruotions 18 > bidding, \psyuent, ete., will be furnished on Orto the Quarte, masters terms of con appli ation to thi at various statio s uamed Bidders are r. quested to be present at opening of bid Envelopes containing proposals shou d bo marked HProposals for——— — at ——" uad addresied to the nudersignod, or to the respecthve Depot aud Post Quartermastors. v G. B. DANDY, Chict Qusrtermaster, NOW READY, WHO WROTE THEM? A MAN OF DESTINY. 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