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TIE PURCHASED IT BY PRONY, TE Li Estate Deal. CHRISTMAS AT THE CAPITAL. The Convicts at the “F a Royal Spread -The Fitzgeralds® Hop The Day at the Differs it Church [FROM THE BEE'S LINCOLN DUREAL] On the 21st inst a short, thick-set man wearin, £ ‘top boots hotel and Sy the gue suit of rusty brown clothes, rived at the Commer ise.’ < of the house with spe and making shots. This he was. Beyond the conple of trumks full of costume numerons trips to police h nothing of interest could e | coming satisfied that “Mr. detective and on a hunt a the BEg man quietly took his trail and omnt of journal investigating on only untrammelled very was that Star Iy John T Norris, a celebrate teetive from Sprin, 1 a little he was working in the interest of Frank M. Bookwalter, the noted politician and pitalist, The next dis Norris was in close commun F. Lansing, the real e and for s unknown re whenever he nt to Lansin oflice he pretended to be nursing o « abled right hand was followed until the whole worked up, when Norris for a “show down S 1 had the matter ¢ gave the details as follows Some years ago Bookwalter inves heavily in Lincoln real estate and the property in the hands of Lansi agent, Last Sep! Bookwalter L e I , block 9, in Lincoli, at $3,000, one-half cash and the balanee 'to ran ont year at 8 per cent, He advised the sale, and Bookwalter author- ized him ton eit. The transfer was made | and Lansing forwarded the cash paynient less §100 commission. The purchaser W through Lansing for nt prop il N Vi Benig, it ontls. (ELAN 0. L0 copt. Recently Mr. Bookw suspicions that there v wrong and_employed Nor Lincoln and look the matter ove wys that his first work here was to ine the records in the county clerk s waere he found that Bookwalter of block 9 to Defenbaugh, conside £3,000, was filed on Septembe the same day is the record of deed from Defenbaugh to Lansing ation nest hinted out Defen Laysing's d man, and utterly without the small picee of block He then went bt | Any fate is better than the life T ey i of the $1,000. gzl property, consid i found that he ns to by ever 1y othier property ngz in the an hone norant old farmer whose sons | ¥ estate. He looked over Lans! and block 9 s assury d him that it was ch at and Norris went out to look over it. This done he made smother trp to Lansin office and using his sore hand as an exe: got Mr. Lansing to make o pencil_plat of the bloek, numibe the lots, and mark- ing w 1 said to be a fair valua on each. signed by Li Thursds night Nor into the privatc oflice of a cer this city, and in the presence of the dent and eashier accnsed him of ha swindled Bookwalter by means of fraudulent sale diflerence betwe advised Bookw £10,000, the present sing ter to sel ue of the Lansing kicked like the proverbial *biy steer,’ and claimed he had a right to do s he had done, and the inter In a storm. Yesterduy morning Norris began an in the name of action in equity Lansing to conve walter, to compel the title to blocl wired Mr. Bookw here the matter rests for the present. CHIISTMAS FESTIVITIES Business was ontirely suspended in Lincoln yesterday, and the day given up and the *‘pen,” where nd iron discipline have full 150 relax arden prisoners in the sses by Elder ! ~p|u1 moved and speak of the ontside. world y remembered it Two prisoners, young 1o an int of social courtes good ch grim silence s Bway the around, th ation. Birly in the morning W Nobes musiered his chapel whe dr Howe, Mr. othe allowed to come to the fron the; the W as the one a aniard and the othe wore spe in marks. The éxer by an hour’s Jait yard, after which the sig ner wius givel The bill of up for the oeeasion included roast turke vegetables, apple pie, coffee The r: of the men showe for stowing away fc The dance of the pan, waus unusuall, attendance wi cluding the two enjoyed themselves I lu saded cane, put up to b Fitzg brilliant this y and Bt popular attorney, was won by (hml s Magoon, who got 100 voles. Capt i R. D. Stoarns 15 and D. G- Courtney 10. 1. C. Austin won the china set, voted to the v tative treman, and J bost waltzers At the hotels the ¢ elaborate bills of fare Commercial vieing in thel please and satisfy their guests W Among the ehirches there was an un The children of the Christian, ptist, St. Mark’s s were day even rations rgre usual stir Mount Zion, Second B Lutheran and Episcops handsomely entertained Thu mg. esterday the UHHI CONET had their excercises, and there were «hu audiences at the Convent of the Holy St. Paul's M. K., First tional, United Breth- Nume of Josu Buptist, Cong ern, Govman M. E., African M. E. and other schools Nasby Becomes an Out-and-Out Mr. . Mugwump. In a Basteel (for the post oflis) Confe: 15th, 1885 —Ther forit? 1 hev red the messs tery to ing (‘mm in a Crooked Real | Treated to gistered as “Samuel 8. Stary For a day or two he amused simens of his skill us a rifleman, using a parlor gun number of maryellous tracted general attention to him and people began to inquire who | t that hie had a nl made rne I bo 1d, Ohio, and_that | Clevela wery was that m with J tate man, p by step the tra called upon that the Bek swn right, Norris mber. Lansing wroto ing ho i anst Samuel W. Defenbaugh. This trans tion was followed by other offers ty. Iter beeam 15 something to come to Norris xim- office deed on 16 last Right' below it and entered on in- ited some property for which he was an investment in Lincoln real s list, med to suit him. Lunsing on "his memorandum was then is got Lansing in bank m o Defenbiingh, out of the n §3,000, the price he or, and roperty jew ended Having done this, he ilter to come on, and 5l were followed in the for din- tten nd eigars. ions were not limited, and some Zing capacity ld hose com- always an important holiday cvent, The 1 hands, in- offuns’ from Owalia, ly. A gold voted to the N pwton and Miss Helwig captuved the silver cup as the \s honored by the Windsor and | in two small divty spots, which are al ellorts to kin possession uy ate X Roads (wieh is in the state uy Kentucky), December aiu't no sich a thing ¢z a dimekratic party no wmore, only in uame. It is troo we electid a sposed dimocrat, president, but wat hey we got uy Grover Cleveland, a man wich 'twere base flat- Il ingrate. 1 wuz never so thunderstruck in my life cz when 1 peroosed that dockyment, so much so bhat when the Coruers cum, en masse, Muvh 1~m,v uy my cell to hev it rulm 1y hedn't the power to do it I|‘ T v dimerera ent ac dvokatin a hig tariff, or ¢ pree Ny movemer tariff, which a dimocr goin ba frodulent sllar,” the fust time in the histr kentry that a dimocrat has refoo ind by any frod; and heer w, eratic dent ily sistin on feendish uy 3 civil servis | Butthat a st of it. Here wuz atic p wich actilly and ot reserve, insistid I not be given ont ez rewards fur po litikle servis, but suthin wich he calls | | “fitnis™ shel be taken into account h hat, blue flannel shirt and | ,. L 4m prepared now to heer the horn uv Gabrel any minit. I am now low soon Azrac wings over me. 1 my ba coked fur the onsartin ~ hercati When a dimeerat enunshates sich do trin it is high time fur an old mosshack like me to @it reddy to go. Life hain't got nothin more into it fur me, and my | restin place shood immejitly be the silent toom Ther ain't no more din We hey H.... swalleved up by the mugwumps They are ranning the glorions ol ot gan ‘|/.r\hm|, and they haye even me under cont I spose Ishel have to become a mog- wump_ myself, or dicin prizin, 1 sposo when 1 walk out uy this ecil into 1 hevens 1 shel hev to set up in Bascom'’s { ez a mugwump. 1 heer myself now | tryin to egzplain to the good Deekin Po | gram how s th t he and 1 shood cleet d,and Poliock still be colleetor and Lubbock still be in the postoflis. 1 hicer my sclf egaplainin to him wat a mug wimp reely is, Chat @ mugwamp is aoman pertikeler wicliis to pollytix wat a mild-oyed Englunder is o philosophy. That ez tie Noo Englunder soars after the onattain B R R e e politikle philosopher wich w drag the kentry from the isn't to tl and then take it back hev to instruct him - that wump wun wich is o the republikin tikk is 0 dimocrat, but o) leoves in fur the sake uv reform, and heis republican hemst votet tiekkit fur the sake of reform, sy the time that he 1s yit o republikin, 1 [ shall have to make the poor old man wich never votod anything but a dime Kratic tikkit in his Ii i never | one in the box till he «d some one wich cool reeld look it over to _see thuat there wuz navy o weh onto it T shel hev to beet it into this innocent old heed that, bein adimocrat, e must vote the repul likan tikKit this ye; nd the dimoeratie tikkit nest, and <o on, beeoz when o man votes the ne tikKit twict in conse Kkootivenis he becomes corrupt, and can't be amugswumyp at all The nugwump uy (o-day is the Inde- endent uv years gone by, wich alluz Hleeved one why alluz votid the tother. However, to do this is the ouly to offis Jis now, and Tdon’t know ez [ keer. It will be rat rechin on the deckin, but I kin standd it. T hey indulged in agood many mi | to allow 4 me in my ca 3 mugwunmpism s the way fo postoflice, then L shell he mu ump, even of L have |u 2o to 'k to find out wat a 17 the president, can I can't porform, o7 the. price . of I shood like to see him try it the | codin Ldon't know uv anything hat L ean’t s o the few y 1 hey (uln‘ rroLiuM V. Na tikle Contorsh vous Debilitated Men, thirty. days slebrated ory Apy nadpermanent eure of »on are ! of the us Belt with Elee 10 the spece hood, and all Kindred fron Also 1or wany other diseases, Conples health, curred. m Tilustraied pamphiet with full in { 1ree by addre all, Mich, - lephants, n Burmah in 158: um..- King who regned at the time, says: “Among the rest ho hath fonre white ¢l phants which are ve nge and rare, for there i none other king that has them but he. If any other king hath one he will send unto him for it,”" and he con- tinues that if he does not get the elephant “he witl make warre with him (the pos- had rather ‘ose a great part of h Kingdom than not to conquere him The trayeller adds that each of thes phants “standeth in o house gilded with golde, and they doe feede in" vessels of Iver’ and giit.” Father Singermino, two hundred” years later, says that the funcral of a féale whitd elephant was conducted with the sane forms and rites i those practised at the death of a queen Thie body was burned on a of aro after its matic woods, and three diys ashes wer aithered by the chief man davins, enshvined in gilt urns and buried in the royal cometery. A superb mauso: leum was subscquently raised over the tomb. s Mr. Frank veller in Bup- mah, “th still t objects royal fuvor and attention. Asid their divine character of being transmi grating Buddhas, their possession, ne- 1o Burmese superstition, is con- sudered o bring prosperity to the coun- i md ool fortune in war, sfore their death is consid loss than o national eals time the entire nation shave from sorrow and mourning as is eustomary in the loss of the ne: toand deavest of thedr relatives The animal Mr. Vineent saw in 1881 had white eyes and a for ad | spotted winte, appearing as if they had been rubbed with pumice stone. of sund | paper, but the remainder of the body was as plack as coal. A correspondent of th London Standard, after announci oceupution of Mindalay by the troops on November the suered whi le Thebaw's palace in @ 1 | of his own. 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ZEILIN & CO,, Philadelphia, Pa ILLUSTRATED JOUR I\ALY‘ M CAUGHT lRfl\i THE CAYW MRL ¢! lar star in her own A Provincial Paper Puts Metropolis tan Sheets to the e new departure ¢ ns by the delineatior and matters with The Omaha Clab Reception and Who New Year's Calls pered that the s and old fogy newspapers & to the old ways. to no other that the oflisis | s While the oth red has picked s, entertainm excention in the or, retained for great expen the henefit of our re 1t i with pleasure that we present this rning to the many ros - mblican some ole visit recently mad, crowding upon promise well sing hours of 1886, + here reproduced for tis supposed * hymenometer alveady been promised s his dark | Gro. S S WAL Meneny Preyared with special fegard & PfilCE BAA’WB F()“‘[VH? co., A POSITIVE ¢ the most obtinato caso in four dnys o Nian' sSulubIeMedmalad Bougues 10118 dosas of eubotis, many open hon account of & most a We hear a gr natural desire deal in these speculat 506 Farnam Streot 1l reunion of separated familics calls originat Lotis . Hotyes i u | Willow-Wallow [ The owner of this garden | spot of nature, make would | He would ney rhe troubled making money and s admitted by quaintances to be A fashionable coptiin or oil 0 3 produce dyspop continzs of the s ngs, warmer resolutions for From familics Practice in &tate, federal and suprame conrts, attentic oNvey oCU Tl Townl b nddross Sinith & Shen, it phrticuines een and pres, m‘\ to il by 1.4 on, . ALITLAD wealth and o hionable prove And a tashionabl A fashionabic chia | ghost lefuof thi ¢ Ten Years Maintained Sup A, B, C STEAM COOKED, CRUSHED WHITE OATS BEWAREOF INTATIOS Ask for A. B.C. Brand only Commercial Law and Morcantile collection epeeinity onable preach With o fas ionable < AMade of fashionl a tashionable doors Royd's Opern Hou For the fashio \\hll\\u[vll'vl did twelve or fifteen JUars ago. ain the proud gained upon the A fashionable every ti But no fashion L spenta fow the city this v Etta May of I cmont, spent a day s friends in Omaha this | aries of Cornell’s | been mised. 1 Hias $1.204000 of productive funds professors have le was given by the 53 Munr\y St, NEW YORK The Land “Land of Orange A large numl <ent who testilied to their @ ciation of the different numbers by The programme had and whs en tiul spirit and dash piano duct by Florida and Tropical Scenery, | A 1ot 40100 feet, in Ealver smm Park, Florids, oaly 310 | 8 735 60 days only. Every man, ‘woman and child should own & Jot. rolling Jand. No swamns, or mala:ia. anse stores, hotel, already built. Tivo-toro oranza grove traota, §: plat of I!m town, showing strec! fing Orange flrvn teetion of the thelt school quickly folloy The Aun Arbor university lias a vast tn Bexitance in lands and I that nniversity, thera “are no ti: s10 to Michi Miss livu eSS riano solo b; E nee of his farm build- ings quickly attr rent to the most ver that the hand of an artist ¢lu.u‘ has applied the whitewash to the state on their enfranee to the university, s Office 1110 Do Resivence 112 Capltud Ave. Telephone w0, the Hellenie society splotation fand. < wuseam fund, under the dircetion of Prof. J. E. Butler | and Miss Armistrong, tive bavk of out town, and Ill view of Hll Crecommends an poropriation tront the British government. i » boys in_ the Dexter and whisky b returned this Reside es United States | K, Now York. Addros: ni wes | o nsideration at a recent lm .x\ te n!uu institute, vernment will next month cn young, lovely and inteliigent e ladics to Parls fe MERCHANTS National Bank OF OMAEIA. arrived from ul will spend the winter with Omaha telatives. ven by the Oma It is, however, in department to_its friends laid for the event, nd they were 5 to hold a pic 1ed fum. the it l'u close nl this) animal shape, | Surplus Fund taie Oftice 1507 Farnam st Hours 10 a.m. to 2 p.o. m.vr, ng | FRANK MUR l'n\' diversion for the interval which elapsed Nervous Debility, loss o Vitality and Man- ers us lhm»“.. ipicd 5 i promptatiention restoration to or and manhood, No risk is in- - Office nnd residence 199 Farnar st . and Mrs, W, V. ings per guartea for study i ad aking their for incidental charges, Cale colleze Tibrary | ress during the L UMPHREYS’ spoaking or four decades s exeellent up|m|l\|l||lw‘ tor re- | Seiureh and roforance t thy wnivorsity, B s, | the forty volumes worth €10 the tional ministers who founded %, it has wonderfully in- | creased by wise pureha valuable private librari ille scliool hoard has exonel a primary teacher, from Veterinary Specifics H ll Iwmm ) industriousyy Physician and Surgeon. Ofice Bushman's biock, 16th and Doug.as st. sidence 1724 Wobster st Horses, Catile, Sheep 3, OGS, POULTRY, In ase for over 20 years by armers, Btockbreeders, Horse R. K., do. Used by U. €. Covernment. 5 STABLE CHART -6 Mounted un Rollers & Book Mailod Froa, 109 Fulton St Miss Minnie Turne all blae in re Mice hours 10 o 2w w5 104 p. 1, Au:l Mrs. J. C Joseph € Iukmn. sor of the coveted elephant) for it, for e for telling a lie. ward taken sick | wits shown at the inyesti ness did not result. from bourd thouht i 1t ougiit to be prohibited. antly in Tuspecting the cessories, during ion and did not which we sought for in- hesitute to freely s of punisi- “eown and wife, W HUMPE .‘.'.? Y HOLITOPATHIC SPECIFIC Ha. Council Blufls, ol modern T the opportunitics aflorded at Rughy diminish the who most kindly r sponded to our inte invited to_the housd | some of Mrs the shape of an ¢l Wakeley, Henr 1| study ot Greek and Latin is distasteful. us Debility, in eithor nodihandiorkdy speedily, thorongh- Address,with House, Dundy, Mamie Shears, A\hll' Robert Patric! OMAHA SAYING BANK CORNER I3th AND DOUGLAS STREET, ten conts in stamps for ro Pl 665 Main strect, t puidd on doposis, LOANS MADE ON REAL ESTATE. cs an_interview which always mnected with pl their heads and perform such decds of | Desmond's coon, ™ i washing the mud Joha B, Wilbur Chshior, more oceasions of the sume cl and Mis i w|-|v( rulmn Dr. R ——— ARCHITECTS. T, M. ELLIS & Co. Architect and Build OMAHA, REB, and LE> hn()lM“ oL of i |H-~uw il enrs |4 wn with water xA young Indy nity and lvuimmhw u of which was the Nllllul'lh’|I|“(|((\ll|4|‘\ ]n I]u 4 TOON-D) Senegambian it is stated, spologised for the spias ched that one of s aee 8 the shining of hoots und | injury he had s expelled for wive Ita death-jike patlo te into hysterics, ES E’YL and frighteningh er walk with the m-m.nm‘ W \\»(l wnother patent 1 The policeman, however, not disposed 10 laugh over of his threats S nd Mrs, J ll M Hml, N. Merriam, Mr. 4 and Mrs. Par wis too much readiness on [ the coon to by usod 88 & mop. apsicum Cough Drops EXCURSION TO L08 ANGEL The Great Invention, For EASY WASHING, HOT OR COLD WATER 0 BABKICor HANDS, L0 IWarm Climates Mrs, Himebaugh Leaves Onpha Jan BTN IN HARD OR SOFT, Without Har, 1 Bhirt Factorye Omaha Shirt Factory, PH. GOTTHEIMER, Manager. B8 | Fine WILBOR'S COM ‘ouneil Blufks via Union l’.wm: rail stin, and \l ~~( lax nl.u tin, PURL COD 1IVER Mrs. J. A H al Grocers, but & are of vile linl L.,-..m tip Loekets x.l s Anroles 1B HYMENOMETER ain the hands i , the great instigat For full partculars JAMES PYLE. NEW YORK; (,‘ neral Puss Haud Seen t “Here is a curious the superintendent of the insane asylum mun lnagines lh' rthat runs the fctly harmloss, thot world woulan't moy Kind of a Man. \In]uuhh u“\ oscillate over the the instriument, now moving rapidly slowly from qu AL GO..BUFFALO Y. .Upholstory & Repalrmg . but hie thinks the without him. linked in swe of u yonng man in th ness in Omaba, young ludy res e_other that of ut on North E my husband has got just the same uun\m n his head." DIRECTORY. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. Attornevs, ¥ BEVINS & CHURCHILT, N-W. Cor, 15th and Douglas Sts. W, CONNELIL, 8138, 14th Streot. GEORGE W. DOANE, ATTORNEY AT LW, lconer's Tock, 15th and Douglas, E. 1 COCHRAN, ATTORNEY AT AW, ymptlys Doubtfal claims & etions mae ty. 1509 ' SMITIT & MURPIY, Jons T DILLON. HOLMES & DILIO yms S und 10, Frenzor Block, Opposito Post J. R Sy, Jons O, Sue SMITIH & SHEA, eiven 10 the esaminntin of titles e and cofloction of clrims. Lowns ) i and o [ renl ostite ness dono with dispateh. Call on ey s at A, oo cnie, e it weobs Block WILSON & STRATTON, ATTORNEYS, tand Capitol o Cor. Merchant's National Bank Physicians, ' JAMES 1L PEABODY, M. Dy { ¥ Physician and Surgeon, denee, oy Jonc Str Office, Telephono No. 1 JAS, BECKETT RS, PHYSICTAN AND SURGEON, 1N 10th St Office and Residened [A A, ARBUCKLE, M. D, | PIySICIAY, | 4 B M. DINSMORE, A. M., M. 1), Willlams’ Block, 111 N, 1ith St. | { ) oot | 1A, WORLEY, M. Dy " Il i Stroot, Telephone 482 L VAN CAMP M. D, Ofice, 15th street, opposite T elo- | % N, 20th street. Telephone No. 30, g ( DI W. S. GIBBS, 3 | 16th and Douglas i St 7 ’|‘w lephione l‘ :t: § L CHADWICE, | fan and Surgeon, l Telephone 530, Ofice 313 S, 14th st | | o DR W, G. KEMPER, | Deufscher Arat, DI C P HARRIGAN, | Physician and Surgeon, | | R. W. 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