Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 24, 1885, Page 7

FOR AL BY S. A. PIERCE, 10D Main St. Council Bluffs Retail Boot and 8hoe stors Where big bargains oan always be found. NOLL'S PORTABLEV Pneumatic Beev Fancet CIVILIZED COUNTRY PATENTED IN EVERY, Price $18.00. will be made to pirties orderi half dozen Faucets at one time. For further particulars inquire of R V. RAIN, Council Bluffs, lowa, Agent for Western Towa and Neb A liberal discount| y gl H.riLBERT 209 Breadway, - - Counci DRY GOODS. 10 yards print.... oT gnol sheoting Auflolk Jonns ..., 3 allwoul, 300 per yar 1 shous at prices as 1w a3 any house in the 32 baraPajan 18 boxes matehea. Bost syrup, per {GHARLES H A y without § i Sh ot A o g without Shoulder by Abdominal, ks ! mad, N s and Europe LEWIS SCHIELE & CO.,, Sole € of Patent and Manufartarers, 390 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, RLES H. PATCH, 1517 Douglas Street, Omaha, And Leading Houses Everywhere, LOOSE'S EXTRACT CLOVER _BLOSSOM The Great Blood Purifier. IT OURES , Huyors, Sorks, ULCERS, SwELL- INGS, TUNORS, ABCESSES, CaTARRH, BLoOD POISONING Sart Rugvy, E all blood and skin diseases, L PINT BOTTL druggists, or address J , Mich. Send £or testimon!als. ‘@remained & relim, per galon oglish Currants 14 po oa kenuioo Lewss 1y pound cavs ttrawberrics’ in syt pound canspeaches, in syrup 00| 10 pounds atichigandriod appics. 00 10 pounp? evaporated a 0 Lorllard climax tobac Nasy plug tobacco, o Natirallowt tohs jound Flour, all brands from 32,10 to 3 50 per cwt. 1 1 1 5] L 10 1 1 GOODS FOR CASI ONLY Lower Than Any Other House) IN THE CITY, S. H. FILBERT, S. H ATWOOD Plattsmouth, Neb. Bree ¢ of thoroughbred and high grade i8Herelo d and Jersey Cattle, And Dueoc and Jersoy Red Swine. Manlmod Res ored of)tmlhluhm rudence turo Decay, Norvous Dobilit Lddrass.’ YOU NC I o have trifled o MEN of all ages, who find their POWER and vitality, nery manl W rarried Men nd resp M} v fal long 11fo and the lov: e Proofs. manhiad e 1ab,1877.) Addr silows s d power, ‘m» are » who are weak, Lol outniul vigor a NS and LOSS A no@Young Bethune, s The Cllmax Medlcal Co, 504 St. Laiiis, Mo, RUEMPING & BOL Manufacturers of Ornamental GALVANIZED IRON CORNICES, FINIALS Dormor Windows, Window Caps, Metalic Sky Lights, &c. Work done in any part of the country, 516 8, 12th St., Omaha, Neb, Tin, Iron Slate roofers, . F. GOODMAN. Wholesale Druggists AND DEALER IN Paints, Oils, Varmisfies and Window Glass OMAHA, NEB. Wholesale Glothiers M. HELLMAN & CO,, 1301 AND 1703 FARNAM STREET, COR, 13TH, OM A ELA" NEE. DEALERS IN Hall's Safe and Lock Comp'y FIRE AND BURGLARE PROOF SAFES, VAULTS, LOCKS, ETC. LOSO Farnapi. Street, Oimeaha CHAS. SHIVERICK FURRITURE UPROLST® Pawerger Elcv itor to all flooes, RY AND DRAPERIES, 1203 and 1310 Faroam OMAHA, N THE DAILY BEE-~FRIDAY, JULY 24 1885. BLIND TOM AND HIS MASTER. Held Fifteen Years as & Slave. Adjndged a Lunatic, his Old Master Becomes his Committee and Gains a Fortune by Exhibit ing him as a Musical Prodigy—H ther Left to Die in ‘Want, The suit brought by the mother of} the fate of that strangely endowed hu'| an belng. The facta developed on thel prosentation of a petition to the judge of] the county court of Fauguler, a fow| ays 8o, can leave no doubt In mind that Tom 's Invaluable services hl\a eesentlal conditlons for the use that has) een made of his talente; bat he has othing to show for the many thousands,| robably & hundred thousand dollara thaf he made for hls master. “Tom's mother fs now Washington, poor, jand depsndent upon the charity off friends. She Is a small woman, a thor-] lough-blooded Afrlcan in descent, but not| black, Her complexion Is that of the Crew men on the Libarla coast, which is ldescrlbed as dark brown, Her halr and] foatures are African, Her son Thomas, 8s she calls him, ex hibited his wonderful musicsl talent be fore he was a year old. He was born en- tirely blind, bat a surgical operation en-] abled him to sae Indistinctly; a faculty] which hestill retains, belng able to dis-| tingulsh larze objects and to move abou a room without a guide. In his infancy, he was attracted by the singing of birds,| the barking of dogs, and stmilar sounds, and would endeavor to crawl to them Hearlng the piano In the house of his| master, he would endeavor to crawl to It; Jand at length succeeded while the family, were at dinner, They wero all surprlse to hear a tune played, and thelr eurpris became amszement when they diecovered that tho lfttle blind negro baby pro| tduced It. Tom was born in 184!, and thls won. erful dlscovery of his talent was made in| i Hls master, it is said, took him to} [Oolumbus, Georgla, and had him Instruct- led {n musle, and began to exhiblt him for| mcnoy when only five years old. To slave untl the closel of the war, when he was bound by bis parents to Bethune, the master, for| five years, at the end of which time hof would besome of age. The terms were, that hls parents, Mingo and Charlty] Wiggics were to racelve §500 per annum, be placed In a comfortable home with| maintenance, and that Tom was to re-| ceive §20 per month with 10 per cent on| all protits. The contrast wes for five years Bothune paid s>me money from time to time, but never accounted for the profits,| and shortly afterward removed to Vir| ginfa where he bought an estate. On] the 25th day of July, 1870 Bethune,| without notice, it is ssld, to Tom's pa- rents, whom he knew to be allve and resldent In the wretched cabin in which| he had placed them, near Columbus, had] Tom committed to the keeping of his son,| John G. Bethune, as a lunatic. It fs) aald this summary process by which al freeman was deprived of his liberty; was| requiring aoy of the the laws have provided to be observed.| There no examination by experts,| nor notice to parente; and thus was Tom| forced undor the pretoxt of lunacy, t become the scrvant of hls old master's son. Bethune exbibited this slleged, o decreed, lunatlc all over the country as a musioal prodigy, and made immense sums of money. 1t 15 said that he made $10,- 000 clear during ona season in California Tom's committee, or mastor, Is eaid to have been {mprovident land spent large sams In fine horses. Thel famlly were poor at the close of tho war, and remained #0 until the revenue from Tom's talent mado thom rich. Tom, in the meantime, has been kept in_ close confinement, oftentlmes unde ;Block and key, and no person has been allowed to communlcate with him, Hel has grown up In absolate ignorance o everything except music. For severall years at a time ho was not returned to his mother, and then only for a few days He knows nothlng of either dlvine or hu- man relations, except lmplicit obedlence to his waster. John G, Bethune died In 1884, Hia| father, James N. Bethune, who was on the commitmeat bond for $20,000, went] into the Fauqu'er court, where Tom had| lbeen committed as a lunatic in 1870, and dating judge watved the legal require ments of the certificates of physiclans o other witnesees; and, Indeed, an examin- atlon by pbysicians or others would have beon Impostible, as Tom at that time on exhibition arlotte, in North Car olina, 400 or 500 miles from Fauquier Court Honse. It was not until this second commit ment of Tom to the Bethunes tlo, that hl before in extreme poverty, witout having seon his son in a dozen years. The) Bethunes were rolllog In wealth, earned| by Tom, while his parents were livirg and dying In destitation in the wilds of] Gecrgls. The old womsn says she w not able to buy medicine for her children,| of whom she had twenty, thirteen being| uow alive, It ls needless to add that she was unable to procure counsel. It was under such circumstances that some persons volunteered Tom was plsylng in New Orleane. mother was taken there, and & writ of] habeas corpus was sued out for Tom, the} object belog to try the question of leum custody claimed by Bethune. To avoid the inqulry Bethune ran away, taking (Tom with him, The mother then deter:| mined to pursue the Bethunes, and i Ialm or release her son. She) friends to) becomo a) oltizen of that state. Bethune came back] to Virgiol towns, but publicity as much as posslble. Whea he reached Warrenton, the county seat of Faquler eounty, Tom's mother presented her petitlon for a writ of habeas corpus, At firat the judge re fused to lasue the writ; but after sending for and cousulting with Bethane, ke con- ed to do 8o, aud set a day for the| ng h petitlon eet forth the facts that Tom had been committed without legal examination, that he had not been| sobmitted to the jarisdiction of the) eourt, toat he had not bsen examined by s physiolan, that no witnessss had teati- fied to his insanity, that he was deprived| Jf his liberty without due process of law.| that he was exhibited for galn by his) committee contrary to law, that he de- rived no benefit for such galn or profi that he was deprived of accessto or Inter- lconrse with bis mother and famlly, that] he was subjeot to such oruel treatment, that his mind was not allowed to devel-| on, that he was Intentionally kept in ig norance and prevented from knowln, what I right, and that his committee, knowlng and intentionally, kept him in tate of Imbeolllty for the purpose of aking galn and profit out of hls sondi- {on, that his present state of Imbecility was the result of systematio ard inten tional treatment by hls committes, tha he was not a lunatic at the time he wa| jcommitted and s not alonatic at th present time, that he Is entitled to bl iiberty besause he is sane, and the moth.| r demanded In npen court that her son) be examined and If found eane that he the Bethunes had been robbing him for] iwenty years under leqal forms without ber knowledge or consent. Bothune answered by slmply proscut-jf ling the commitment under which hel s ted and the judge decided that thal was sufficlent. The court had sald In 1870 that It was satisfied that Tom was a) c; he would not examine him be-| stve, and the presumption wae, were a lanatlc In 1870 he was a- lanatlc] In 1884, He therefore remanded Tom) back to the custody of Bethune, and| ded by way of emphasts, that James N othune was the only man who should| have chargo of him. This was equlvalen to declarlng by this Fauquier judge thay a man who has once heen declared a lunatlc must romain a lunatic forever,| land that the committee who exhibited| the lunatlc in public and realized largel sums from it, which he approprlated tof his own use, was the only proper per on to be entrusted with the responsible) duty. Tae couasel for the mother, of course,| excepted to this ralllng, and set out thelr exceptions in full. The judgel digned them, and they form part of o) record In this case. In this extremlty the connsel for the imother turned to the courts of the} United States, They went before Judge| Hughes of tho eastern divlsion of Virgin- (a with a new petition, setting forth that} her son was held in slaveny and had not| rocelved the benefit ef the emanclpatlon lawa of the United States, that he was| held in involuntary servitude with ut} due process of law. Judge Hughas aranted the writ, and made It returnable] at Alaxandr'a, Virginia, where he was holding a ci cult court. At the hearlog he decided that tnel allegation of slavery was not suatalned,) and that he had no right to examine into the finding of the court of Fau-| quler county. He examined Tom as tol illegal restralnt, and Tow anawered| promptly that he wished to remain with| zhu Bethunes; that he was treated kind-| ; thet he cid not want to go with hisj muther that the people who were seek- ing him would take away hls plano and not allow him to play, and he did not] know what they would do to him. But when questloned further by the judge lat the suggestion of counsel for the pe- \itloner, he as promptly replled that he was instructed by the Bethunes to make| these answers; that the Bethunes told| bim his mother would tske his planol from him, snd not let him play, and thatthe Bethunes had told him his mother] was with a garg who would do him any llnjary. Judge Hughes, in hls concluding re marke, said {f Tom were set at lberty, It was evident he would go back to Beth-} une. He cculd not examine the ques:| tfon of sanity, because he had no juris: diction In the case, the commlitment of question, lolrcumstances of the case, he would re- pesl this case to the The writ was dlsmissed,| each party paying Its own costs. It appears from this statement that Bethune, slnce the expiration of hls con-| tract with Tom’s parents, has been under| no legal obligatlon than to clothe and] feed his ward. That contract expired by| limitation in 1870, since which time, as) the guardian or committea of the alleged) lunatic, Bethune has accumulated a tor tune, and no thanks to poor old Charlty) Wiggins, the mother of hls valuable| property. The stadied and, it seems, [successfol attempt to sllionate the sfiec. tlons of the child from the mother, is] the crowning Infamy of this bustaess, Will not & court of ¢alty somewhere in- terposs to make Bethune account to Tom)| for his carninge! e — “The Ourcast x vor.’ A great stir has recently been made In London by 8 psmphlet with this ftitle, showing the utter misery of the degraded, classes. Many of the poor peopie have come to thelr mlecry by strong drink, wero holped up by glying them Brown's [ron Bittors, the sum of human misery would bo groatly lessened, Spend a dof lar st the druggists and glve some needy| invalid a bottle of this invalusble tonic el Ul Making up the Loss, Rochester Post Express, "I don’t understand how the railroads an siford to reduce the fare to one cen! a mile,” “Oh, ita very slmple,” “They have to make up the loss In ome way. *They do.” “How?" «Make the sleeping car porter dlyide with the company.” MALARIA prevented snd thoronghly] jeradicated by Duiry's Pore MaLt WHISKRY) per bottle, sold by Druggists and Grocers, —— The Longest Flight on Recosd. Philadelpbia Timea, One of the flack of ten homing pigeons| halonglog to Dr. W, B, Jobnson, of Key-| port, L, I, that was set free at Bristol, Tenn , at 5:0: m, last Wednesiay got| home on Thursdry st 7:51 a. m., baving made the fastest time on record for s 500-mile flight. Nothing bas yet been heard of th ng that were set free at ht yet attempted in thls country, 1 jowners of the plgeons are not uneasy at the delay, The birds were moulting,ané 18 exy they will reach their destl nstlon fn a day or two, Ten homing cons from I’hilsdelphis were freed nsacola, Fla., on Wednesday to fly ¢ wiles to Philadelphia — The produce exports fr the past week were val New York durio 86,129, Returning from Strange Lands, Jones bad been in Europe for thre months, and as be landed at the station| lon his return home, and proualy grasped| his valise that was covered with foreign| steamship and rallroad lables, he felt that] the admiring weloome he would recelve) from friends and acqualntances would fall little short of an ovatlon, The first friend whom he met sald “Hello! Jones. Folng away? “‘Golng away '’ repeated Jon lsome disgust. *‘I've been away. Three months, Vienna, Berlin: 1 think of golng away myself,” Int rupted his friend. ‘I think a week at, hi rope| Teok In London, Parls, " waid Jones, hurry- 2 The next man he met sald: ““Boen away, Jon he replied, with losened en- , “been_In Earope for {lreq " Was all over tho continent, land saw everything worth see: “Come to think of It, 1 belleve 1 did hoar something about your belng In| [Earope. Well, 80 long, old man.” The next person Jones encountered askod him when he expected to take hi summer vacation, and by the time hel reached his houso his enthusiasm was 8o cooled that ho gave his left hand to his wife, and bestowed a grateful look the direction of the dog, which stood on the porch, wagglog & welcome with hls tail. The Virtue of Oatmeal, A Scot writes to the editor of the New] York Sun as follows: Sir—I read this inf [the sunbeams: ‘‘The Physlclans’ Investi [zator has watched for a number of years| the effect of oatmeal on childreu, and| thinks It makes them weak, mentally and physlcally. As an exclusive dlot It fm| poverithes the bleod. The Scotch, though strong, are a dyspeptic race, and,| at all events, what may be good for them| is not necessarlly so for us in this climate.” This 1s a falr sample of the sort of] rabblsh which med!cal cranks are so fond| of giving to the world. A short time ago one of them denounced the use of] tomatocs for food, as causlng cancer, and) many persons, on the strength of this absurd statement, dlscarded them from| thelr tables. As to meal, 1 would] say: 1. 1 have llved some years In Scotland and 1 know that dyspeps!a is iar less pre- valent there than in Kngland or the| Untted States. Thore who have it are, as o rule, those who have discarded oat- meal as too plebelanand have adopted richer and less wholesoms dlet, with co-| pious drenchings of tea. 2. No one ever proposed to use It ns) an exclusive dlet, but used with other| Jarticles it 1s highly nourlshiog and sana- tive In It effects on the stomach and in-| Constipation, that bane of] zatlon, {8 unknown among oatmeal As to its specific efizcts on children,| my observation leads me to think it the ideal food. I have slx of my own, and should be glad to match them for bone,| sinew and brain with an equal number of Amerlcan children fod on buckwhent eakes, pork, ples, baked greasy boans and other abominations. They have all eaten| oatmeal froely, with other things, and we are now experimenting successfally on the second generatlon. e A Fit of Abstraction, A dry goods clerk took hia girl out for] lsome 1ce cream the other night, and in moment of absont-mindedness, thinking] that he was waitingupon acustomer, said cordlally: ““Anything elec?” She took lemonade and cake. T Pozzoni, No name ls better and more pleunmly nd widely known than that of Mr. J.A ozzonl. For many years he has made he belles of Parls, Germany and Lon- Everybody admlres besuty 1n la Nothing will do more to produc or enhance It than a use of Mr. Pczzoni preparations. e Their Late Brother-in. Texas Siftings, A fashionable Austin lady, Immediate- ly aftor the death of her husband mar- riod his brother. A visitor at the hous notlcing the pleture of her late husband,| asked who It was. is," she repliod, hesltatingly, “‘my decensed brother-In-law.” ““Mine, too,” lazonleally remarked the new husband. e e, ‘The Proper Study of Mankind Man," ays the lllustrlous Pope. If he had in- claded woman in the lfat, he would havel boen nearer the truth, if not so poetical, Dr. 1R. V. Plerco has made them both a life study, espectally woman, and the pecallar derangementa to which her de- iable, Many women in) 1) " bless hin with all thelr hearts, all thoee chronic ailmentspecullar to thelr| sex; such as leucorrko:s, prolapsus and| other displacements, ulceration, ‘‘internall fever, bloating, tendency to luternal lcancer, and other ailments. Prles re uced to one dollar. By druecists, e —— A Qneer Recruiting Officer, [New York St “Recruits Wanted. U, 8. Army,”| ald the sign, and In front of the office tood a fine-looking soldler In & new| uuiform, “How is the recroiting business,” I asked. *‘Poor enough. We are not averaging five recrults a week.” “Then your ¢fforts at obtalning acces- slons to Uncle Sam’s army are not very ucoessfali’” “‘Sucoessful [keep people from enlisting, tartliog response. “'That's scarcely conslstent with your postiton,” I replied. ‘Bot it is with my consclence, sat-and dog's life, and to any If ing young feller that wants to join I eay, Keep away, if you don't ST lavery.' 1f it waen't for Vquor I should be In a better business myec f 1 walked on, and pondered the strange lanomaly of & rearuiting soldler who did| iis best to prevent the hirlng of re erults. Why, I do my best tof was thel It is When she was 3 Child, she ories When she bocame Miss, she Wieo RealEstate Bedtord & Souer 213 South 14th’Street, Have a large list of]inside business and resi- dence property, and some of the finest suburban property in and around the city. We have business property on Capitol Avenue, Dodge, Douglas, Farnam, Harney, 16th sreets, Howard, 9th, 10th, 13th and We have fine residence property on Farnam, Douglas, Dodge, Davenport, Chicago, Cass, California streets, Sher- man, residence streets. ditions. Hawthorne. Millard& Caldwell’s Reed’s First, And al the other St Marys and Park Avenues, in fact on all the best ‘We have property in the following ad- MecCormick’s, Kountz & Ruth'’s, Impr'nt Association Wilcox, Burr Oak, Isaac & Seldon’ss Hanscom'’s West Omaha, Grand View, Credit Foncier, Kountz' First Kountz’ Second, Kountz’ Third, Kountz’ Fourth, Svndicate Hill, Plainview, Hill Side, Tukev & Kevsors Thornburg, Clark Place, Mvers & Richards Bovds, Additions to the City.: South Omaha. We nave the agency fo ne syndicate lands in South Omaha. These lots sell from $225 upwards, and are very desirable property. The evelopment of the packing house and othar interests there, are! rapidly building up that portion of the city. Kirkwood. We have a few lots left in Kirkwood addition, which we offer at low prices, terms $25 down balance $10 per month, level ground and are desirable. These lots are on high Hawthorne. This addition is more centrally located than any other new addition near the best Schools in the city. All the streets are being put to grade the grades have peen established by the city council, and is very desira- ble residence property, only 16 blocks from Post oftice, prices lower than adjoining additions for a home or investment. beaten. For SaLe—House and lot on 21st St, Easy foot on Farnam St., near Fon SaLE~TLot In Walnut hill, 200, Fon SaLE—Lots on 20th, 8550 each, 2 aores with elegant residence, Jgood barn, fine trees, shrubery, fruit, hot and cold water and all conveniencesj first olass property in every respect. Fok SALE 66 foet on Farnam street, near 16th. Good business property cheap. For Rext—Room 44x75, 9 foor, on 14th roet, These lots cannot be For Sare—~Housa and lot, 25th and Ohloa go street; splendid corner, 83,600, Foi SaLk—First class business block, 845, ok SAte—4 lot on Wheaton St.; goo llnum» 81 500, ¥oR 8aLe—Fine corner lot in Shinn s addi tion, $750, Fou Satk—Tot in Millard Place, specia bargain. Fox Ikask—Fine business property on 16th t., and St. Mary's Avenue, For Sark—j lot on_Chicago St., 15th and 14, with good Louse, 33,000, batween We will furnish conveyance jfree to any part_of the city toshow property toowr friends and customers, and cheerfully give informa- Btion regarding Omaha Property, Those who have bargainsito offer or wish property at a bavgain, are invited to see u Real {Estate Agents , |44h 81, bet. Farnam &Douelas