Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 4, 1885, Page 7

i | MURHER u" "'“E uuTPusTs but slightly from; ‘“‘Look ye, ah know * | nothin’ about it.” The delirions fellow's —_— ravings had seemed strange, but now a suspicion was growing that the man who dld the murder, If » murder was done, was this Welshman, whose violent temper 1| snd vindictive nature were known to us A Mystery of the Rebellion, Told for the New York Tribune by an old soldier, } 1t wan in Virglnla durlng the sutamn m:‘,“::IX‘“&“b*::’l‘:"“;.‘!";‘.‘ghfi_'“;"rl:g;“:g of 1861, the first year of the war. 1 was |ty stirring night were crowding upon » sergeant; In an Infantry company which [me, another sergeant relieved me with had hoeen selected on account of ita fight. | orders to take the -tr‘-unlm to the -h-'!:- ing qualities to guacd an important point | tes, all but the Penasylvanian, who could not be removed. on the llne of communications. The| "y a hollow place behind the shanties war bad stripped that part of Virginia [burned the great fire where the company’s of most of ita people. Hillside and |ocooking wasdone, Its glare was hidden valley secmed to belong again to the wild | from distant observers, and the wind kept things of nature. The scream of an|off by the shanties in front and the rldge eagle soating in the gray sky would call | which rose_steeply behind, and at each out a perfect din of animal notes. Even [end was shaded by ecreens of laurel the handfal of soldlers prowled about as | bushes interlaced with pine brauches. atealthily as the foxes themselves which | In the open space before the bright e: now and agaln scampered out of the|bors that s led agalnst a hoge back- laurel bushes. Graceful deer, with|log, the men gathered to while away the with aproading antlers, sometimes peered [ long evenings untll the hour came to out from under the forest growth. One | “‘tarn in” for sleep. Many of the sol- afternoon a bear even made bold to In- [ diers were striplings, not yet out of thelr vade a ploket-post's cooking camp-kettle, | teens. But there were some there In the lcking the fat from the edge with great | groups that sed to stretoh thelr feet in- rolish and contentedly loping off before | to the ashes before that fire who could no tho stactied soldlers could realize the|doubt have told stranger tales than they character of the visitor and fix thetr bay- | told, had they been so Inclined; half-gr: onets to turn him into better meat than |zled walfs from various parts of the world; mess pork. veterana of Europeon, Asian and African One evening, just at 6,as the second ro- | wars; sailors who have sailed in all the lief was ohanging posts, the sharp crack [ known seas—one of these had made sev- of a musket rang out, from down the | eral slave voyages, another had been an rivor spparently, It adark night [ accomplice in a famous mutiny where the and nothfnu oould ba seen, At the shan- | orew killed ita master and matea and were tlea the poker-decks were oast aside and | running the ship off to turn her into a there was bustle for a moment, ush | pirate when overtaken and captured by of feot, the rattlejof their alr traps as the | an American man-of-war. There were men put en the harnesses, a carse or two | the fag-ends of humanity enlisted for as some one falled to find his own mus. | pelt and from hatred of work, and asso- ket, and then all was atill again, Cart- | ciated with honest and patriotic men. rldges woro looked at, piecos olutched | Like some of the crusaders of old they and balanced in a half jocose manner, as |were fighting for meat and drink, and if to say the *‘Johnnies” would get more | pay In a glorfous cause. Yet mercena- than they came for, and all llstened for [rles as many of these men were, and the next shot, or a volley, and the order | fraukly acknowledged themselves to be, to “‘fall In!” they were mostly brave and loyal to the Weo had a captain and two lleutenants, | flag they had chosen to follow. And over But the first lieatenant, a crusty, good |us all was a captain who was an earneat soldier who was killed the next year at|man in the cause of the Unlon, a gallant Antlotam, was serving his turn on guard |aud ekiltul soldier, very pious withal, that day. Just before dusk, we know he | and a great hater of intoxicating drink. had crossed the bridgs with a corporal | In front of the fire, within a semi-olr- and private to go to_the loft along the |cle formed by all of us at the shanties, river and up the ravines to see that all|lay Parr's body, decently strotched out wan in ordor at the posts for the night. |on the blanket in which he bad been Ton of the men also from the shanties | brought across the bridge. Fifty faces had been missing since carly in the after- [ looked down upon their dead comrade's noon, and it was supposed they had |ruggsd faco. Pare was a finely-shaped dodged the posts In crder to ford the | man with strong but good features, and, river, and had gone toahutin one of |in sailor fashion, for he had been a man- the ravines where an old negro had been | o-war's-man, he wore a thick beard en- smuggling whisky for some tlme and |clrcling his throat from ear to ear, the selling it olandestinely to our soldiers. |rest ot his face being shaved smooth. The lleutenant had intended to visit the [ There was no sign about hlm that we hat in quest of the atragglers. could see of a violent death. Ho was Minutas pessed, and though we stood | scarcely even paler than us The cap- about at the shanties with arms in hand | tain ordered the stragglers placed in the 1o sound came but the murmer of the | front rank of the semi-circle, and in bis rlvor eddying aleng under the bridge, the | indignation burat iato a scath'ng heran- sighing of the trees, and the cough of a | gue agalnst drinking. sentinel pacing his beat down the road in| The Welshman, however, drew the front of the guard-house. Suddenly [covert scratiny of all by his behavior, there was a challenge across the river. | He shook violently as his eyes searched +Halt! Who comes theral” Quick foot- [all the faces about the ring, and it was atops up the rond brought » messenger, |noticed that never once did he let his and the captain ordered me to take a|turn toward Parr's body. But while the squad to the guard-house. Down the | captalnwas at the helght of his eloquence, steep road my guard and I went at the | pointing to the lesson of total abstinence doublo-quick. The moon was rising |to be drawn from the tragleal incldent, from behind the mountains toward Win- |one of the stragglers, a very loquacious chester, throwing her white light through | fellow, of an envious mind and bittcr dis- the graceful wires of the bridge end |likes, had been uneasily watching the athwart the trembling 1ipples of the|Welshman. Suddenly, as if byan in- river. I arranged my men at the guard- |stinct, he rushed over to the body, and, house as I had been ordered, and took my | kneeling down beside 1t, called the first stand near the sentinel. A little pro. | lieutenant’s attentlon to something under cossion reached us from the other side, | Parr’s beard. It was a three-cornered and as it neared the centre, where the[gash slukiug deep Into the throat. At curving cables seemed almost to touch It | the exposure of this wound, now for the on either flank, we could see it was formed | firat time observed, another of the strag- Dy eight men bearing another wrapped | gler, usually the sprightliest young fellow in a blanket on their shoulders, and that | in the company, fell in a faint across the it was lad by the lleutsnant of the guard. | corpse. The captain ceased his eormon Behind, between two guards with fixed [and a whispered conference took place bayonets, reeled a dranken soldier. I|among the officers. was called from my astonishment by the | The stragglers were ordered to give sharp voice of the officer orderlng me to | over thelr muskets for inspection. All give him men to release his of their bur- | were found to be loaded, as was usual at den. The elght men and their burden, |such an outpost, and none had been re- and the dranken one who followed, wero | cently fired off. Barrels, and bayonets the ten stragglers to the negro hut. |too, shone like silver, without stain, or The transfer was made and the proces- | rust, or flaw, on steel or stock. The slon continued up the road tg the shanties. | bayonet-acabbards too might bave been The intoxicated man fell to the ground as | examined, but somehow in the excite- he neared the guard house with an attack | ment this was overloeked. The delirlous of mania a potu. He was a raw-boned, | fellow’s arms at the guard-house bore the enerally well behaved Pennsylvania. [search equally well. 1t was certalnly @ carrled him In and laid hlm on the | myterlons. The elght sober stragglers hard bunk, made of pine bark with a |all agreed about one thing, or seemed to blanket spread on it. The excitement of | sgree about it, that they had drank finding the dead bedy of Parr, who was |llquor freely at the negro hut and had well liked in the company, had sobered | then broken up into small parties with all the atragelers but the Pennsylvanian, | no show of 1ll-will so far, but none ap- and had made them cautlous as to what | peared torecollect who constituted the sev- they sald that could have any bearing on | eral parties, or when or how Parr became Parr's death, The body had been stum. | separated from the rest, or who had bled on In the dark by the lleutentant | been last seen in his company. All but when on the other side of the rlver near | Parr had returned to the hut for more the outlet to the ravine, as he was re- | llquor, and were there found by the first turning from the negro hut with the nine | lleutenant. The nine were sent up to scapegraces he bad met there. Before [ Romney next day and put in irons, but the body had been carried far it had been | after a preliminary examination all were examined In the light of a picket fire and | released but the Welshman, who was sent no wound or trace of violence could be |to Cumberland jail to awalt his trlal for found. murder, What was the coonection between the Stonewall Jackson ehortly afterward shot and 6 o'clock and Parr’s death! Had | displsced us all from that gloomy region the enemy had anything to do with 1t,|and destroyed the beautifnl bridge, The more than one shot would have been |Seven Days’ fight was scarcely over when heard, for all the stragglers were armed, | the Welshman, wasted away almost to s and, drunk as they may have been at the | skeleton from the effects of nearly a tlme, or rather beanuse they were drunk, | year's imprlsonment on low dlet, re- there would have been a lively fusillade. | jolned us at Harrison’s Landing, He bad But all agreed that there was but one|been let out of jail for want of evidence abot. sgsinst him, The Pennsylvanian writhed in his de-| “But what was alwa's curlous to us was lerlum on the bunk, and was held down | the after career of the young fellow who by three or four men. He appeared to | fatnted over Parr's body. He was never bave no Intercst in aaght buttho hob-|a duy well after that, though he had be- gohlln- and creeping things that assailed | fore been remarkably ackive and vigorons im (o his fanoy. But he had seml- o best athlete in a company of ath- rational moments, when he would sit wp |letes, He was constantly in and out of and oarry on ool tion with himasl! tudy and » pusle to the med- in muttered, incoberent tones not easy |ioal men who saw that he was ailing, but to understand. And whenever he spoko | oould not dlagnose his allment, He we listened, as if for a vevelation, wasted finally away and died in » mill- Our only light in the hut was from s|tary hospitel In Philadelphls, of some single candle et Into tho socket of & bay- | long Latin-named dlscase, secording to onet stuck im the earthern floor. Krom|hospital report, which had togive some time to time ho would force him. |scientifio remson for his death. He dled wolf oub of the steong hand that were|the seme day the Welshman was dls- holding him, and, as he swung his arms | charged from Cumberland jall, mournfully about, his shadow and ours{ Not leng after, in September, 1862, would be thrown upon the rude walls and | the cavalry of both sides, manosuyring ootton ceiling of the hut, making absurd, | after tho battle of Antletam, csme into yet, under the ciroumstances, frightful|contact near Harper's Ferry—a very carioatures of human suffering. Only|trifiing affalr, indeed. One of the onco did he sey anything worth while: | wounded federal cavalrymen was brought Poor Pare! but I waan't to blame." Yes, | to the rear. Death was settling down poor Parr! but who was to blame ! upon him and he began to speak to the Lt waa & dreadful thing to belleve that|surgeon in charge of s murder on the maurder could have been committed there | o tposts not quite a year before. The among comrades whose lives were In con- | surgeon, amased, llstened attentivaly stant perll for & common cause, even If land heard the dylug man nsist that » done in & drunken brawl. But there| Welshman .wn,! of the murder was was no certainty that all of the nine had |innocent. But the cavalryman, when he been much in liquor. As I scanusd the|had got that far, was selzed by the last the faces of the other stragglers L was | agonfes and his volce was silenced for- rfluhfl by one countenance, that of alever, This man, who had been trans: ittle Welshman, well-knit, about thirty, | ferred from our company to the cavalry dark complexioned, and havipg 8 piir of | regiment in which he met bis fate, was | T. which even on ordina foll of fire. o0 g' ocea- L the ta'kative at now his eyes{tention to the wound in Parr's throat. glowed like two burning cosls and his] What did he know! and h choeks were an‘ 'I:;ul Eh manoer | know it} WARE gk hay; 'y sgitated In the extreme,| The mystery of that night at th and to every question his answerod varied | Bridge S ulelndl‘np.“ Wi rson who bad called black s THE HAWKEYE STATE. Events of Moment Gathered From 4 Variety of Soarces. nd hold as Individaal posits 23,790. Thelr sarplus fand amounts to £2,163,066.27, and the undivided profits to $1,066,843 76. They have out a8 loans and discounts $21 237 985.06, aod have a deposlt with the treasury to seoure thelr circulation bonds In sum of §4,674,000. Lafayette Tnompson. a *‘freeman’ up- wards of fifty yeara of age, has just died in poverty at Ottamwa, Thompson was released from bondage by Major MoAr- thur, now of Memphis, Mo, in the early vart of the war, and thereafter followed the fortunes of the gallant soldier as his body servant, On learning of his old servana’s death the major telegraphed to give the remains respectable burlal at his expense, A correspondent who has made an In- vestigation of the mining troubles in the state reports the following facts: At Angus the men have won in a strike at the cost of thres months’ Idleness, and have also secured the resignation ot a superintendent who had become odlous to them, One man killed Is also an incldent of the strike, and the operators and the men are In a state of armed nentrality. At Des Molnes the operators are selling coal at prices that must eoon lead to trouble with thelr men, who have already discussed the question ‘at a called ing, and a strike 18 not improbable, the largest local consuming point in the state, but the peopls were well enough satlsfied with last fall's prices, and did not ask the reduction nor have they needed {t. At What Cheer 350 out of 1,000 living there have a contract prefer- ence for sach work as the companies are giving, a sort of delimitation between thoze who have been ‘‘viotimized” and those who have not. The separation of sheep from the goats Is not rellshed, but all the companles will now say is that if they can Increase thelr orders for next winter they will contract with a propor- tlonate number of mon, and profess no intention to colonize negroes, The un- employed class say they are on the verge of starvation, and they doubtless are. The business men are now unlting with them In an effort to inducs the operators to cancel their agreement, and 8o enable all hands, with economy, to tide over the dull ecason. At Centerville the 500 miners have come out, bat full particu- lara of the difficulty have not yet been recelved ~ The Oakaloosa mines are filled with colored colonists, and, as corn s still cheap, no complaint s heard. Back of these troubles is the want of legielative care for the men'’s interests. Inspector Wilson, himeelf a miner, has been largely Instrumental In securlug a ventilation law, and has done his best to enforce it, but the tardIness of the courts has handicapped bim heavily, In 1884 the miners besought the leglelature to protect them from the steadily widening bars of the coal screens. A bill was framed, but the mining committee, to which it was referred, held a few meet- ings and did nothing. Models of the screens in actual use were shown, and The Spice of Life Over the River— Accldents, Incidents, Crookedness and Other Events—the Liquid Droutlr, Sibley 1a saloonless and the thirst Is Intense. Religlon and beer downed the Ottumwa skating rink. 1t costs $50 a year to operate a billlard table at Algona. A anlform llr&l;or license of $500 is charged in East Dubuque, The Illinois Central is putting down steel rails on the Sioux City line. Davenport claims the smallest debt for a clty of its size In the northwest. Mra. J. N. Oarr, of Nevada, committed sulolde on Tuesday by taking corrosive sublimate. Duobuque Is discussing a system of sowers, Estimates of cost are clote on $150,000. Senator John Sherman, of Ohlo, s visitiog his brother, Hoyt Sherman, in Des Moines. The mayor of Clinton has began a de- termined assault upen the gambling hells of that town, The Taylor County Republican feeds the hungry tramps of the town on roller glue and tear paste. A large nall menufacturlng firm in Illinois has sent out feelers for a bonus to remove to Des Moines, Decoration Day promises to be more genorally observed throughout tho state this year than ever before. The Ottumwa high school will grad- uate a olass of thirteen young ladies and four young gentlemen in June. Tho state census of Dubuque, just comploted, gives that city a populatien of 26,330, an inorease of 4,000 eince 1880. The supreme court has decided that the Ottumwa packing house was not_re- sponeible under the deal on the board of trade. The board of supervisors of Polk county granted twelve liquor permits on Thursdey to twelve Des Molnes dealers. Dos Molnes officials continue unearth- ing contraband liquors in that town In a way that makes life a burden to the lllicit dealers. Osceola county has decided to refand its $80,000 bonds at a rate of 5 per cent., a saving, i successful, of 2 per cent. per annum, The cedar Rapids reaper works report o;daru in excess uf}: year ago, and atate the prospects for the coming season 8s | ¢he notorious fact that the miner gets no particularly flattering. R Eor A iR TG the Aokl e eaEanlEa L Sloux Clty claims a dog population of [damp was urged, but the committee 3,792,820 of all s ages, colora and |could not stop for sooty faces when a natlonalities, showing that the canine|democratic senator was their proponent race Is & whining one. and advocate. Taught lessons of clrcum- The cltizens of Fort Dodge have |spectlon and hamility by the events of pledged the slte and $10,000 required to | the last eighteen months, the republicans socure the locatlon of the Presbyterlan|now propcss to stepmother the Iowa college at that point. miners. An old German farmer was confidenced ——— LOUP OITY DOINGS. Railrond Prospects and General Busi- ness Oatlook—A Bustling, Busy Ully. Lovur Ciry, Neb., April 29, 1885, 7o the Editor:—Since 1 have escaped o narrowly from annihilatlon at the hands of the Republicana, I will promlse you faithfally never agaln to write politioal editorlals. There is something too welghty in the gejeral editorials of our day, something Indicative of too much thought, to supposs a woman to be cap- able of writing long ones that they may prove iateresting, and no one ever would bo gullty of suspecting & pa her in a woman—she waps has too much to ‘‘paragraph. olJrfixN-: Is NO:STAIRS TO CLIMB. ) 7 THE CHEAPEST PLACE IN OMAHA T0 BUY el ell=het A DEWEY&STONES One of the Best and Largest 8tocks in the United States To Select From: FLFGANT PASSENGFR ELEVATOR Bot as a kind of consolation to the Republican and In the way of gratefa ness from myeclt, I take this opportunity, with your permission, to thank the editor of the Republican for his gallantry, his courtesy towards me. 1 only felt his asm was well nigh unendurable when he spoke of my pen as not being sharper than the point of the ordinary parasol, yet was 50 good as to admit that It was WHE CUNCE SOLICITED TO INSURE IN OTHER COMPANIES, Remember These Important Facts IRNING The Mutual Life Insurance Company OF NEW YORK. 1.1t is the OLDEST ackive Life Inmura; Comp 1 4 oot yo. sharp enongh to enter hia eye, and to| it isihe LARGESY Life Insarance Gompany by fokny milions of doliars in the worid save me I can't tell whero the joke 8.—Its raten of premiuma aro LOWER than those of any other company. S in, 4=ithno iatocknel e toclalm any pach of its praflts. I aecept the reasons given by [ mistortunes of each ot er. s i e b et VA e P Y the Republican for its support of | . &=Itspreseat ava lallo CASH RESOUROES excond those of any othet Lifo Insurancs Company In the Mr. Boyd, as given in answer to my It bas recolved In eash from ¢11 sources, from Fobru: %, £2°0.£99 564,00, 1t has retur little effort, on the grounds that the Re- o publican now has moreinfluence over Mr. Boyd than the demecratic partyhas, for as Itake 1t the Republican shall now be the means of making a good republican out of in o the peoyl, in cash, 1ts cash Asse Mr. Boyd, whom I know as belng every respect a worthy man, a Nebraska 3 ploneer, one who by his indomitablewill, O A e Tudians, energy and pertoverance has done not a | Special Agent for Iowa, Council Bluffs, Towa. little in the way of helping the develop- ment of our young state. A proofs of m Februar o the let of January, 1885, amount to One Hundred and Three Mxllimi!s of Dollars 1848, 10 J 43, b Jan $116,004,911,00. MERRILL & FERGUSON, Illinois, Wisconsin, Towa and Minnesota. Detroit, Michigan, W. F. ALLEN, Gen. Agt. for Nebraska, Dakota, Colorado, Wyoming and Utah Offica Cor, Farnam and 13th St, Over 1st Nat'l, Bank, Omaha, Neb this there stands as evidence hls interests in your clty, in the way of substantisl buildings and helpfal enterprises which he has Inaugurated, all proving that success {8 no stranger to him, Our little city is_etlil indulging in the hope that the iron horse shall come steam- Ing into our valley before fall, Rallroad, in fact, Is at prescut the chlef tople of conversation, the men most Interested befng anxious to know the opinion of the voters of the county, so if there shall ba eabmitted an opportunity to vote bonda a6 a bonus the questlon shall ba pretty well dlecassed. According to the present state of aftairs $40,000 or $50,000 in bonds would not be constdered too much of o hardship by our voters es an induce- ment to sny company to bulld a line through our county, Times are improviog some. Straugers among us all the while, In fact, home- hunters come in a steady march, and they all moet with a royal welcome, as we ars ;"uhln that the country cannot gettle too ast. Some bullding isgolng on, though every one seems busy gardening or beautifylng thelr grounds by fenclng, etc. The com- mercial men maks their regular trips, most of them haviog an encouraging word for the bustling, busy little city, the queen of the Loup. Are the Cheapest, Most Durable, % ed newircular address, ke a llem out of §50, all the money he possessed, | MRS, FEYH'S STUDDED GARTER, by the anclent moss-covered chack game at Des Moines on Monday last. Postmastor Haln has received his com- mission and has taken charge of the Du- buque postoffice. He has adopted the eclssors as a cancelllng trade mark. Rev. G. W, Nemore, a colored preach- er In Sioux Clty, has thrown up hfs job because the congregation refused to pay him the plttance of $220 a year and board. At Davenport on Tuesdsy morning a runaway team of horses attached to a beer delivery outfit, frencied with fright ran Into the Mlsslssippi river and were drowned. The outfit was recovered. Van Buren county has some G0 per cent less wheat than last year. The de- cresseed acreage has been caused through foar of a return of the army worms that destroyed four-fifths of last year's crop. The Chicago, Burlinoton & Qulncy rallway depot at Bedford was broken into by burglars on last Thursday evening at about 8 o’clock, and a revolver and some other small articles were stolen. The C., B. & Q. has eight miles of fron lald on their new track between Pa- cific Junction and Oouncil Bluffs, and they will bave the twenty miles of track complete before the June rise in the old Missourl, Mrs. Helen Konechl, a Davenport woman, 40 years old, attempted sulcide with polson on an incoming Rock Island trein on Tuesday last. The would-be salcide had 8950 in gold on her person at the time, Dr. Ristine, a Cedar Rapids physiolan and surgeon, lately removed a cancer from the mouth of Mrs. Berry, of Marion, alady 80 years old. The operation was entlrely successful and the patlent is sald to be in good health, The new iron hull steamer being bullt at Dubuque s 120 feet long, with 20-foot breadth of beam, will be fitted with 250 horse power condensing engines and will be afloat for service May 15, She is to be christened the J. K. Graves. James Swearingen, who had settled down in Des Molues, purchased a home and surrounded himaelf with a family, waa arrested last week for steallng & horse in Obfo four yesrs sgo, He was taken to the Buckeye state for trlal, E. 0. Ellls the skating expert who married Mlss Aicherman, the Eldora glirl, whom he desertad after five weeks, has been arrested and jeiled at Marshall- town, charged with bigamy. When Ellls deserwed Miss Alcherman he pawned ber clothes, leaving her in a terribly des- titute condition, Two Bioux City aisters fought a duel with oase knives sbout s lover. One of them received n‘ghln!ul wound {n the waterfall, while the other got a slash scross the panfer whien will ‘disable her untll she gets @ new dress made, The lover sat on & fence and laughed like & Great preparations are being made by Sold with Other Diamond Ornaments at Fancy Prices to Old Friends, New York Journal, “‘Oh, aint those lovely!” exclalmed a beautiful young lady as she spled the al- most innumerable palrs of high heeled and French-toed shoes and slippers of the late Mrs, Feyh at her late residence No. 22 Esst Seventeenth street yesterday afternoon. It was the third day of the auction sale, and the number of people of both sexes who seemed willing to pay slmost any price for a memente of the dead woman was amazing. Ladles draped in the most expensive of Spring fashions, with dlamonds sparkling from their ears and throats, drove up in private and hired coaches and hurriedly ascended the rather steep flight of steps leading to the brown-stone mansion of Mrs, Feyh. It had been announced that the lady’s dlamonds and jewelry were to be sold, which snnouncemeni perhaps mora than anything else caused the graat crush. Mr. Charles P. Corperning, the broth- er of the dead wonan, who had on the two previous days acted as suctioneer, found that hls endeavors in pulling up the price of silk stockings had left him nearly voiceless, and he was consequently succeeded by Auctioneer Merry. Mr. Merry succeeded in putting the bldding 1n a state that resembled his name, to the infinite satisfaction of the heirs. The potent interest of the day cen'ered in the sale of the dead woman’sdlamonds. Consequently nuring the dlsposition of the bric-a-brac, carpets, etc., which were slow to be purchased, the interest in the sale Lagged. At 1p. m, Mr. Merry, notlelng the want of interest, changed the toene by holding up to the audience a magnificent diamond ring the orlginal cost of which was $1.000. The sight of it caused the eyes of the ladles to sparkle while the gentlemen began to fumble for their check books, “‘How much am 1 offered for this mag- nificent stonei” asked Auctioneer Merry. “‘Two hundred and fifty dollars,” ex- claimed & young man whose besuty ex- ceeded the surplus of his pocketbook, The hiddln% kept on uxtil the trinket was knocked down to s middle aged man, who {s well known In New York, for $700. It waas sald by friends of the de- ceased that the buyer was original pur- chaser. One of the articles that caused the most spiaited biddirgs was s diamond “igarter,” pressuted to Mis. Feyh by one of tho best known club men in this alty. 1t {8 one of the most expensive things of its kind ever seon, and when the aaot- iomeer held it dangling from his band = murmar of admiration went up from the ladles present. The band was composed of go'd snd platina, thickly studded with preolous stones, the diamond predomi- nating. There was much rivalry smong Max LINHART, e —— OOMMEROIAL, COUNOIL BLUFYS MARKET, Wi Wheat—No. 1 milling, 705 No, 2, 65; X No. 8, Oorn—New, 28¢, Oata—For local purposes, 500, Hoy—8 00 per ton; baled, 60, Rye—60c. Corn Moxl—1 50 per 100 pounds, Wood—Good supply; prices at yards, 6 00 Coal—Dellvered, hard, 950 per ton; sof 40 per ton Lard—Armour's, wholesallng at 731 Flour—Oity Aour, 1 50@3 90, Brooms—176@8 00 per doz, LIVE BTOCK. ITY, arc REM spring, long 1ife and the love and res] anhood before marriage. Proofs. stoers, 3 T6@4 00, mantiood réstored, B arried Men, or those who intend to marry, 'ERTEL'S HAY PRESSES. Smallest in Size and ILaghtest in Weight. Preecenofy kind can the amount of work proiuced, such little expo nse (ten t ons v hay raf yoad’x car,)os can be done with the Ertel Imy «d Machine TEL & CO tablished in 1868, & power, who are » Who arc wenk, OWER Kened., DY 1 Tnsting or who Ume, and for LSS monoy than + hicadacho, EMISEIONS, houghts, d r e ad ful s, limpediments to o "CONSUMPTION or ms Icading promptly remoyed by tis treatment, and vigorous s, health, vigorous ofi- 1 e restored (o vigor & X b X dreatine 3 fta Oattle—Butchor cows! 3 25@3 75, Buteber | (Estab,1877.)Address The Climax Medical Co, 504,“8:. Louis, Mo, Shoey 3 50, uog-p:a%w@@:s 75, PRODUCE AND FRUITS, Eggs— Continue steady at 11c. utter—Cholce new creamery,22@250: good held at 13 14c; choice country roll, 15@17c; fair to good, 12@14c; poor and_eld tock, 6@ 10c. The recaipts of poor and fair grades are increasing. Choice roll continues ecarco and solls readily at quotations when wrapped in cloths and well packed. Poultry—Supply is short of the demand. 310 South 13th Strect, Onahs, Neb. Dotmer Windows, Window Caps, Metallic Skv-Lights, & RUEMPING & BOLTE, Manufacturers of Ornamental GORNICES, FINIALS, Tin, Iron aud slate Roofers, Work done in any part of the country . Live spring chickens, per doz., 6 00; live old chickens, per doz., 3 50@3 75; live turkeys, per 1b., 9@10c: dressed chickens, per Ib.,12@ THE RECENTLY IMPROVED 13c; dressed turkeys, per 1b,, 14@15c; dressed REMINGTON STANDARD geese, por Ib., 10@13c; dressed ducks, per 1b., 11@12¢, The present weather is unfavorablo for dressed poultry and great care should bs taken in both dressing and packing. NO. 2 Game- Ducks, 'in far domand st 2 00 por doz,, for mallards, 1 50@1 75 for mixed and S . s 5 for toal, Ship only best killed | 26 the Highest Achicvement in Writing Vo sale for old tock, hines in the World. Onions—Cheice stock ecarce at 125@1 50 Maohtnes b the Werld per bushel; wet and sprouted, 75@1 00, With cnly 30 keys_t o an Teans Supply fair, demand light, Hond- operate. It prints 70 picked navies, 150; clean mediume, 125@ nolilng 140; dirty and unscreened, 75@100c. R P Potatoes—The market has been almost Wl nost rapid wrltiog |1 sohin» for the past week, Choico stock of any Thado as woll a4 ho tiost urabla yanicty will - bring 05@00c; fair togood | gegrmSend for free dustrated pamphet, Wyckoff, Sec~ans & Benedict, Uhicago, 111, Sole Agents, £0c. Applos —Good to choice Kansi and wourl, 325@3 75 per barrel. Market is full poor and soft atock selling at any price buyer may w 0, H, SHOLES, Council Bluffs _— Agent for Western Iowa Railway Time Table.| — . e JACOB SIMS, Attorney - at-Law, OOUNCIL BLUF18, I0WA. OOUNCILZBLUFFS, Tho tollowing are the timos of $he arrival and de. arture of dralns by central standard time, at the foosl dopoks. - Traiis loavo tranafer dopob ben min. ates oarlior and arrive ten minutes later. PIRBT, ARRITE, Office, Maln Street, Roows 7 and 8, Shugart’ and #0460 ADd NORTEWRSTRRN, Eouo block. Will practice In Siateand tate courts. 9:95 A ¥ Ml and Expros ooy x 1240 P M Accommodation 0 r M GEE apw #&iX| MANDEMAKERS & VAN, GHIGAGO AXD ROGK I8LAND, 0:25 4 M Mall and Expross s rx ARCHITECTS, 7:95 A M ccommodation 616 r bi%0 F 4 Kxproes 960 4 1 CONTRACTORS EIOAGO, MILWAUKNE AND 87, PAUL. AND BUILDERS Mol and Krprum 250 r %| No, 201 Voper Broadway, Counoll Bluffs, GHICAG0, BURLINGTON AND QUINET, Mall and Express ;‘lfl ru il ONLY HOTEL WABASH, BT, LOUIS AXD PAGINIG. In Couno Bluffs having & From Transter only, FIRE ESCAFPE. the ladies and gentlemen as to who should be the purchaser, It was finally struck off to s young gentleman, whose name oould not be learned, for $475. As be took his treasure he was applaud- od vociferously. It was sa'd that he was a very dear friend of the deceased, and would have paid $1,000 It necessary to procure the charm, There were many things sold which brought good prices, but the most costly treasures still remain, and will be disposed of on Monday. S —— %he llinois Benatorship, BruiNGreD, Ilinols, May 2.—I¢ the joint session todey 1 newspaper min for the excurslon of the gveu asaocistion to Portland Oregon, in une. They are to go over the Unlon Paclfic and Oregon short line, be gone e¢ightsen T consist of & baggege car, smoker and as many Pullman cars as sre needed. 1{The parentage of the babe abandoned at Vicar-General Brazil's residence in Des Moines a few days ago, has been dis- oovered. The father proves to be one R. 5 The mother gave birth to the chily @ small place mear Ames, when the maternal grandmother brought the b:.b':dw Des Molnes and abandoned it as o 5 11The state contains 123 national banks, baviog a combloed capital of $10,145,. d will n will sopressutatives were prosent, Morrison re: calved 16 vobes, Logan 2, scattering % our senators and twenty-sight 180 r % 8¢, Louls Kxpross 2:46 ¢ M T40r M Chlcago Kxp via Peorla 9:10 4 ¥ | And all modern improvementa, call belly, fire KANSAS GITY, BT, JON AND COUNGIL BLUYYS. alarm bells, ete., is the 1006 4 ¥ Mail and Express 640w u R #41{|CRESTON HOUSE WOUX CIVY AND PACINIO, Noe, 215, 217 and 219, Main Street, 7:20 A M Mall for Sloux City 0:50 ¥ M X ], = PROPRIETOR 750 ¥ M Exproes for 8t Paul £ 1 ¥ MAX MOBH UXION PAGIYIC, e 11:00 & ¥ Domver Exprems 485 THOS, OFFICKN, AT 5 166 P M ucoln Pass O'n 85 r M iery beknigedty iEIl Officer & Pusev. DUMMY TRAINS T0 OMAIIA, 10 & m L 1148 p.m. L -6 A m. 10w, m. Council Bluff:, Ia. W. P. PECK & CO0,|Established, - - (Bucosssors 4o Peck, Kern & Bibley. —REPRESENTING— and Home Securities, MORBSBE, ROSE & CO. - = OF CHICAGO. Hariog secured & oago Board of Trad Tow dens oromptly. W a fy Ay businem specialty. Relercnees, United Bstes oas Nadioua Bank. " Telephione 210. sad Douglas B8, N W. corner 138b 1856 Dealers in Foreign and Domeatic Exchange OUNCIL BLUFFS ARPET COMPANY CARPETS, Curtains, 0Oil Cloths, Window Shades, Linoleums, Mattings, UPHOLSTERY GOODS Rugs, Etc., Etc. Careful Attention Glven to Out of Town Orders. Upholstery and Drapery Work a Specialty. Our stock 1s the Largest in the West and is being continually replenished by all the latest and choicest noveltles, 405 Broadway Council Buufis SCHMIDT, PHOTOGRAPHER! No, 220 Main 8t., Council Bluffs, Open Suaday, Firtclass work guaranteed.