Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 28, 1886, Page 7

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Everylady may have it; at least, what looks like it. Magnolia Balm both freshens and beautifics. A MODEST DAMAGE CLAIM. Mrs, Emily Agard, of Rookford, Illinois, Bues the Oity for $6,000. THE NEW FIRE LIMITS. Taking Jewelry Out of Pawn —The Grand Jury—Beating a Land- Iady—The Coasting Carnival —Local Miscellany. Mrs, Agard's Claim. Mrs. Emily Agard, of Rockford, Il nois, commenced suit in the United States cireuit to obtain $6,000 damages from the city of Omaha on account of the death of her husband, who, it is alleged, died from injuries received in falling off a defective sidewalk. On the night of Sunday, January 7, 1884, Mr. James B. Agard, at that time stopping in Omaha, was walking along Capitol avenue eastward, returning from church. Ata point between Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets he fell on the sidewalk, which it is aileged, was rotten and insecure, The ground which was hard and shppery had been cov- ered with a Dight fall of snow, and when Mr. Agard fell from the sidewalk, he was_ precipitated vio- Tently upon his leg. He sustained a se- vere fracture of that member. He was a strong. kealthy man, though fifty years of age, but mnevertheless his injuries proved fatal. Despite the fact t rec 1 the best of medical treatment, he died in a fow weeks, He left a wife and three children in- Rockford, Tllinois in comfortable g .. The peti- tion of the wife, Emil rd, alleges that she has been deprived of the income of her hushand, and that her consequent loss up to the present time has be £5,000. In addition, it is alleged mc than $1.000 s paid out for medi treatment. So that the total of the in- demnity asked for is $6,000. Why the suit was not started before does not ap- City Attorney Connell, aboul the case yesterday, s should defend on two grounds: That the sidewalk was notin a ous condition, but that the acci f an unfor- of Mr. when « d that he dang: dent was merely the result tunate mis-step on the part Agard, Sceond: That the city had neyer re- ceived a notice, either actual or con- structive, that this sidewalk in that plac was in a dangerous condition, and henc could not be held linble for idents oc casioned by such defect even if one really existed. NO MORE FIRE TRAPS. The Same to be Prevented New Fire Ordinanc At the meeting of the council Tuesday night, Councilman Daily introduced an ordinance extending the fire limits of this city. The ordinance was passed. It in- cludes territory not now inclosed m the five district, and will be found to strike localities which, it was thought, would fong he exempt from restriction, Com- mencing on Marcy 66 feet east ot Ninth, it extends to Farnam, thence taking a ag course to hth, Douglas, Ninth 1in, Dodge, Eleventh, Capitol avenue, Fourteenth, Davenport, to a point 66 feet i th, thence north to alley Culifornia ~ and Webster streets, thence east to ¥ teenth, thence north to between Webster and Burt, thence L to a point sixty-six feet cast of Sixteenth, thenee to Nicholas, thence to a poinf ix feet west of Sixteenth, thence to alley between Cuming and est to Twenty-third, south line of lot 9 block 1913, west to Saunders, south to south line of lot 2 block 208}, thence east to Twenty-third, thence south to alley be- tween Burt and Cuming, thence east to a i i west of Sixteenth, thence avenport, thence to Seven- teenth, thence to alléy between Douglas and Farnam, thence west to Twentieth, south to Farnam, east to Ninetecenth, south to Harney, east to Nineteenth, south to the one-half section line on south line of lock 2504, thence ecast to centre of block between Seven- teenth and Eighteenth _streets, south to point 132 feet north of St. Mary's ave- nue, southwesterly parallel to that avenue to Twentieth, thence south to a point 132 fect south of St. Mary’s avenue, thence northeasterly parallel to south line of St. Mary's avenue to Nineteenth, thence northeasterly to Eighteenth, thence to alley in block 2, Kountze & Ruth's addi- tion, thence st to Sixteenth street,south to alley between Jackson and Jones, thence cast to lot line in center of blocks between Thirteenth and Fourteenth, thence south to north line of Marey, thence east to the pont of starting. No building may be erected in this dis- trict the outside of which shall not be constructed of either brick, stone, iron or other fire-proof material, under pen- alty of $100 for any building or addition so orected. When erected, such building shall be declared a nuisance, and torn down. In this district no wooden build- ing shiall bo enlarged. Neither may a frame building within the di removed to another building damaged by fire to the extent of 50 per cent of 1ts value shall be rep: Any builder or moger aiding in viol this section be fined §100 for every building worked on, This ordinance re- peals the old one and goes into effect as soon as signed by the mayor, by the between THE OTHER SIDE, ‘What Mr, Preissman Has to Say About the Replevin Suit, William Preissman, representing the Tenth street pawnbrokers A. Kline & Co., called at the Bee ofiice yesterday ve the correct version of the un- ant aflaiv i which be figared Tues. He says that he loaned last week $26 to a woman by the name of Gould, on some jewelry, stor- day the husband who claimed to have some lien on the jewelry, deter- 1ed to get them out of pawn withont thiough the unpleasant process of redempt Accordingly replevin pa- ued and placed in the hands elling who he w ed, ealled for 10 cents worth of wiridges, They were , given him, and Lo tilled his revolver, Just at this moment another party stepped into the store and bought a pai his dist {e ol My, Priessman’s atie t. When he turned around the constabie was at the open safe search- ing drawer and apartment in it, Mr. Preissman at once thought he must be a thief, and started toward him, ex- claiming, “What are you doing th “Don't come here,”” answered Rustin, 1’1 blow your brains out,” at the same time presenting the loaded revolver. Preiss- man, of _course, well aware that discre- tion was the hetter part of valor, stepped back. Rustin continued to ransack the safe until he secured the bracelets and chain which’ Myrs, Gould had pawned, He then showed his writ of replevin and walked out of the store langhing. “Mr. Preissman says that Rustin did not show his tar ar his writ of veplevin, but acted more like a thief, My, l‘. declares that he will criminally prosecute the constable. Constable Rustin, in convesation with & reporter yesterpay denied emphati- cally that he had drawn a revoiver on Preissman. THE GRAND JURY, County Commissioner O'Keeffe Thinks They Should Resign. A leading citizen yesterday met a connty commissioner in the Paxton hotel, and in the course of a warm conversation informed him it was the impression of many good men that money had been used in the drawing of the present grand jury. The commissioner said that so far s hie knew the impression was both un- just and wunfounded, and he would be willing to spend money to ascertain if it were based on fact, citizen further stated that he was constantly mecting the best men in town and was in position to know whereof he spoke con- cerning public opinion, In a short time the county board was informed of the suspicion which was entertained, and each "‘J the members protested ais imno- cence and displayed an eagerness to have the cb bstantinted. Commis- sioner 0K at if he had any influence with the jury he would exercise it to induce them to re n. Not be he teared investigation into the manner in which the body had been formed, but because | new that, act ast the jury would be censured, There were come before the jury upon which public sentiment ~was strong., It the jury found anindictment in either, it would “be condemned, if it didn't, it would be condemned. As at present constituted, it was, in the estimation of some of its eritics, designed to indict a certain man; by the opposing clique, it had been formeil to allow that man to go free. The jury was between two fires. It could not stand both, no matter how honestly it may have been drawn, nor how well it was disposed to do its duty. He had been to sec one of ~the members of the jury and had said to him that if he (O'Keefc) were drawn as juror, he would call a meeting of the othe and try induce them to resign. Mr. O'Keefe did not say what the juryman proposed to do under the circumstancy This plan would re- lieve the memb from criticism and abuse, and invite any person or persons who knew about money being employed with the commissioners to come forward and tell what they knew. and two cases to BEATING A LANDLADY. J. W. Smitn Tries the Costly Experi- ment and Lands in Jail. J. W. Smith is something of an adven- turer. He has a happy-faculty of living by his wits. A few weeks ago he landed in Omaha, with little cash but plenty of cheek. He went to boarding at the residence of Mrs, Eleanor O'Donahoe. He informed thi lady that he had proeured a job at Steph- enson’s barn and would pay for his board in avery few days. ‘lhis fied Mrs, O’Donahoe and Smith was allowed to eut his meals for many days unmolested and undunned. T howeyer, f O’Donalioe, thinking it strange that Smith did not offer to settl in asked him for money. i some excuse, but ot ofter to produce the cash. Being r d, howev he finally remarke that he had atr in Council Blutis with lllcu(v of money in it. Would Mrs. O'D. end him the pultry sum ot $1 in order that he might go over to the Blafls to get the trunk, so that he might puy her? Certainly she would Smith took the money and ‘started as he said for the Bluffs.” A friend of Mrs. O'Donahoe agreed to accompany him to the depot, but Smith gave him “the slip, and did_not go to Council Blufis. This excited Mrs, O'Donahoe's suspicior vestesday she had her false and y boarder arrested and lodged in jail on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. ABULLET THROUGH HIS HEART. How a Former Resident of These Parts Came to His End. Last Saturday a mysterious case of either murder or suicide was committed on the line of the Union Pacifie, a short distance east of Hardin, in Colorado. The victim was named Alex. T. Estelle. He was about fift s of age, and had » some time previonsly been leading the { arancherin the neighborhood of He is supposed to have lived Blufls, and in the vicini ssouri Valley' at anot v point of time in the past. His remaing were found in a sitting position backed against u telegraph pole with a hole through his heart, Itis supposed that before the fatal shot was fired, the vie- tim held an up me post,an y ruc ell to the ground, Beside him was found an old-style Smith & Wesson revolver. One chamber was empty. The bullet went upward and o the pole at heig Y victim, A ye cide was returned Ogallala’s New Church, The new Congregational church at The exercises were conducied by Mis- sionary Superintendent Maile of Omaha. A large audience attended morning and evenmng and pledged a remaining debt of A cash contribution of §150 was given by friends in Omaha, also twelve dozen chairs, two chandeliers and a pul- pit lamp were presented by the ladies of the place. Aneat pulpit was made by one of the skilled mechanics of the town. v school and church has been ed hiere by Rev. L. E. Brown, who also is prinei of the public school. A new building for the latter will be erceted the coming season, worth $3,000, Ogallala and vicini an intelli- gent and enterprising el ot citizens and an assured future before it, John Bull Gets There, boarders of the South Stock Exchange were sitting the fire the other evening, con- versation lagged and the hoys were looking homesick, To revive their spirits the proprietor, Johnnie Richart, offered to “set ‘em up” to the man who would tell the biggest liec. The stories which followed would have made even a Baron von Munchausen envious. The last man, a late arvival from her Brit tanie majesty's kingdom, told a short story but one straight to the point: “Johunie Richart is"a man who would never tell a lie,” It is needless o add that he took the pri; The Omaha about 5 here last night didn’t reach town until this morn- 1 The €. B. & Q. from the east came in about half an hour hehind time, the Rock Island about three hours and the Northwestern about the same time. All I eastern trains were unobstruct The temporature today was quite ' about 0 o'clock. At 12 o'clack the thermometer showed ¢ with the prospect of u still i during the afternoon. The prognestic tion for to-morrow shows decide warmth during tie greater part. of day. SOME PECULIAR ~ PEOPLE. It Takes All Ritdls of People to Make a . orld The Number of Strange and Eccentric Characters Found in Every Community and Neigh- borhood. It is a common expression, says the Denver News thit it takes all kinds of people to maked® world,”” but very few persons have any idea of the number of eccentrics, sometimes erroncously ealled cranks (often because their motives and purposes are not understood), that live in every community. Some ten years ago there lived in Syra- cuse, N. Y., a young gentleman of for- tune and education named White. Mr., White had a hobby of a peculiar Kind, which earned for him the title of “‘crank,’ and was of great service in his native town. White's peculiar mania was the extinguishment of fires, and to this end from his own private purse he built an engine house,procured the most improved chemical engines, with magnificent horses to draw them, employed a sufli- cient force of men, and actually caused to be erected throughout the city a pri- vate telegraph-alarm system, by which an alarm could be sent to him in the shortest possible time. He slept in the engine-house, n fact lived there, and, although there wa regularly organized fire department in the city, White and his volunteer aparatus were nearly always the flrst at the fires, and not only did good service but stimulated the regular department to extra exertions, to tlie great advantage of the |I|||hli M White, who was of a decidedly scienti and ingenious turn of mind, was the in- ventor of many of the devices now used by fire departments throughout the coun - for quickly harnessing horses, it bei his aim to annihilate time so far as possi- blein getting to a fire. He adhered to his hobby for some y nd then mar- ried an ‘estimable y of good family, built himself a dwelling immediately op- posite his beloved engine-house, and placed directly over the head of his bed an enormous alarm gong. To this, how- ever, his wife, after a short experience, made strenuous objections, whereupon, with a very proper respeet for her wishes, he one day concluded to abandon the pet hobby of 'his life and donate the whole outfit, which had cost him_so much time and money, to the city of his birth, In Detroit, Mich,, there lived some 2o an old gentleman named C: who, having plenty of means %:r:xl ied some idiosynerasies which would entitle him, in the minds of some, be to c ered a cranks Wr. Cass’ peeun isted in making collecti of pictures, books and wor art, but of clothing for hig personal use, and he is credited withhaving been the owner of al hundred “complete suits, melud- ing hats and ghoes, which were ar red around a large dressing room adjoining bedroom, eacl suit having its own and pair " of shoes or boots clothing was brushed every the shoes kept polished, and everything in perfect order for wearing, and each day he'ippeared on the streets elad in a different suit. There resides in Philadelphia @ yqung man named Moore, the son of 1 y distiller, but who, notwithstanding fhis father’s business, never in his life drank a drop of any kind of liquor. Young Mr. Moore, who is a married man,-hid seyeral hobbies or con- ceits that he indulged as a means of spending the very hberal allowance of $1,000 per month made him by his father, which would seem to entitle him to be- long to the great army of cranks. When he was m: d his father gave him a beautiful residence in a fashionable por- tion of the city, worth perhaps $20,000. The house was furnished in fitting style, and from that time all Moore's ingenuity and the allowance made him by his fath- er were. devoted to alterations and changes of the dwelling and filling it with bric-a-brac and costly and curious articles. Aftera couplo of years the in- terior resembled a museum, for which it would seem that all the countries of the arth have been ransacked. The different rooms of the dwelling, some fifteen in number, were unique in all their ap- pointments, and contained everything of uxury that human ingenuity could *de- vise. " The owner was so proud of the ion, for that is the best designa- tion of it, that he employed a relative to exhibit the mterior to any one curious enough to examine it. The'collection in- cludéd over one hundred pairs of cups and saucers of the finest manufacture, 1 cost him from $30 1o $100 per Turniture of odd and costly de- zn, window-shades of the most oxpen character made of spun glass, @ » number of ingenious clocks, paint- nting a small fortune, and T cans and smoking applinhecs, all hem mmported, and ™ placed in a pressly set apart asa smoking- room, are only asmall part of the cur- ious things by this eccentr gentleman. Having remodeled the in- terior several times, and filled the rooms until it was almost impossible to move around in them, his med o new formin the shape of a mania for dogs. Purchusing five acres in the sub- urhs of the city, he cansed to be erccted 3 kennels, which are the home of large number of fi 1 and expen- sive dogs of different s requiving the services and watehful 2 of two attendants, My, Moor been re- rded for his expense and trouble in this regard by regeiving a number of zes ut the different beneh shows in the t for his pets. So much store does he place on his dogs that he caused the hody of them which had died to be buried i his garden, is credited with having expended handsome monu- -nll which mgrks his canine friend's tomb, The countryabémnds with centric tastosbwihich wr ious ways. A few years ago a gentleman evidently of weallh and certainly of cul- turo and roflAst, organized a’ i strel troup in an caster, He gave his name as Cpirles de evidently an assumed o hand- S0me, & gool , and perforny S instru- ments. His House, which s o small dingy-looking brick, in an obscure street and Where hoovidently lived alone, filled with paintfhgs, “statuary, engray- in and works‘of art, costing him, doubtless, miimy thousands of dollurs. and yet this Mang not over 25 years of an ygtes, stranger not” only to ghbors buuto the men he engaged wvel with him, and after an unsue- cessful tour of six months ntry, during which he paid eve ty promptly, there not one o com) sre he really start. After nd his effects dis d from the y as mysteriously d come, and the wholé thing he came a nine days wonder to those who ad met him, Denve ns & number of men who might be classed as eccentrics were their peculiarities as well known as some of those mentioned. The: late Tony Dela- ney was noted for wear nel suit on a by one or more dogs, s marvel to bis’ acquaintane ould keéep this kfud of attive so spot lessly: white, and it .was not until his A that thémystery was solved by the 10t only h The day. discovery in his rooms of a number of suits of the same material and mak new country like this nec contains many characters whose manners and habits are odd and eccentrie, because so different from those of their fellows, those in Colorado alone being enough to fill many chapters, LITERARY DUDES AND DUDINES. Who Imagine Themselves Blessed With Genius and Play the Part of Apes, F. E. Huddle, There is no other class of people that stana as high in popular estimation as iterary people. As a natural outcome of this fact, there is no other class of peo- ple whom dudes and idiots ape to suc violent extent. A fool with money is quite likely to buy a lot of books and put them in a nicely finishod hook-case, and after fitting up'a room in his house to ae commodate them and naming it “libra ry,’’ and strewing its floor with papers and magazines and covering his center able with a mess of writing materials which would make a real liters man sick at the stomach, he sits down and runs hi: gors through his hair to make him look studions and waits for company, which he r es in his alleged library — and es with a lot of small talk on large subjects. A real literary man never wants lis working hours imposed_ upon with soft- headed company. * If there is one thing in the world of which he wants less than any other thing in the world, it is comp: ny. He would be more willing to be struck by lightning than by some rattle- brained dunce who wishes advice that will enable him to become a celebrated writer. He would rather take a good mauling than be called upon by a_young man of undoubted genius, A 1literary man knows j what genius_is. He knows that l‘w worso case of it can be cured by the application of a_ shingle in broken doses at the seat of the disease, He knows by his own experience that all there is of genius ina man, is the back- bone t would induce him to eat 1p- per of serap-iron and wash it down with castor oil, if he could not get anything better, coupled with a foundation of good, il that would not be draulic jack-screw or broken har, Aoy young man who has these qualities, is 23 much of a genius as he would be if he had been born in the light of the moon with $40 in his pocket and a half completed novel under his arm. Men are not born authors or anything clse great. A man docs not come into the world with a box of genius pped on his back like a soldier’s knapsack any more than chickens born with spirs, and no man was ever charged with genius, until, by hard work he managed to dig up treasures that others were too lazy too mine. When a man, after s himself tor half his life and wor aches and his t loes some ished piece well that other people arc surprised at its pe tion and beauty, th y folks that hav been sleeping away the hours when he s at work, awake, rub their eyes and at his work, and then go among nds to tell them the great lie that he is a geniu; L haye neverseen any such thing as iug in my life. I have no faith in the t great literary men and women n like frogs, and that even while mere {adpoles, they wiggle into prominence by the use of il which falls off when ~their fore- legs appear. There are men and women dying in our great country unknown and unhonored every day, who pos 1 at their birth all the geniuses that cameinto existence when Di his first order for breakfast demanded a dry diaper. women being born and living dying ev day without having risen to renown, only because they lucked the indomitable self-relinnce and strength of hat enables a man to vise light- he has Dbeen knocked down for the hundredth time. These people who fix up everything nice and pretend to be literary, are only T ry dudes and dudine: hey would make good statutes perhaps, but i never do anything to make the world proud of them, and I wish in this connee- tion to assure them that unless they take a strong physic and work ofi’ som their genius, they will be } when old Father Time com z cuts an arm-fullof literary men with his sickle. Literary work never makes any- body famous who is born with genius. A man aflheted with genius has too many aches and pains to allow him to do the hard work that meets the approbation of ical wor By the time he cures s not strong enough for idea th e LOCKS WHICH ALMOST SPOKE. A Correspondence With Hair Carried on Between a Convict and His Friends, A correspondence with hair was once attempted by a notorious Par in durance vile and his comrades outside, A letter was sent to the prisoner from his sweetheart containing merely a lock of hawr wrapped in the leaf of a boo juiler did not _consider the souven portant enough to be delivi few days there came a similar inclosure and yet another. “Lhiis aroused suspicion, and the gover- nor took the matter in hand. ined the leaf of the book; i common novel, twenty-six page. Then he'studied th ind no- ticed the small quantity of the gift. ing the hairs he found them of un- sth and twenty-six in number, the same the lines on the page. uck with the coincidence he laid e hairs along the lines on the page which they respectively reached, beginning at the top with the smallest I After some trouble 1 end of each hair pointed t letter, and that these lettc formed a slang senience which informed the prisoner that his friends were on the watch and that the next time he left the l:ri-«)n to be examined an attempt would e made to rescue him. The goyernor made his plans accordingly. The atlempt le, but the rescuers fell into their cquul | found l‘m( the - na Obituary, The Total Wreck (Ar correspondent of the Atbuquerque (N. Mex.) Democrat mentions the death of Jim ans, and I _loves a shining mark. ndy when she turned loose He never played a short eard or looked a bet, a fact that is rec > unsullied pages of the book of life above. He was square and open i all his dealings, and never weakened on a bluff us long as he had a chip to back it up. Our camp is in mourning to-day, the somber emblems of death being dis- played on every All is black and rloomy, and nearly* all the boys drink lack port wine in fionor of hi have sent to the railre ger to come out and black our hoc ing the usual thirty days' period of mourning. Dock Divis, who got a paie of blac at the grand opening Slattery's bazar last week, is the proudest man in thif camp. Alas, poor Jim! But why should we mourn, for heis happier now. Away beyond yonder shining, star-studded bat- tlements of glory Jim is standing to-day with his breeches in his boots, listening to the music ang frying to cateh on to the points of the game We lost, and heaven took down the het, and why P 1 we kick? If the cards run agin us it isn’t on account of any - funvy busi ness of the dealer’s, TEE CHEAPEST PLACE IN OMAIIA TO BUY FURNITURE, BABY CARRIAGES, Elc.': Is AT DEWEY & STONE'S One of the Best and Largest Stoclks in the U.S. to Select from. g No Stairs to Climb. Elegant Passenger Elevator , M. BURKE & SONS, e ——— LIVE STOCK COMMISSION MERCHANTS, GRO. BURKE, Manager, UNION STOCK YARDS, OMAHA, NEB. REFERENCES:~Merchants and Farmers' Bank, David City, Neb.; Kearnoy National Bank,Kene ney, Neb.;: Columbus State Bank, Columbus, Neb.; MeDonal Natlonal Bank, Omaka, Neb. Will pay custome A TERRIBLE CONEESSION, A Physician Presents Some Startling Faots, Can It be that the Danger Indicated is Universal. The following story—which is attract- ing wide attention from the press—is so remarkable that we cannot excuse our- selves if we do not lay it before our readers entive: To the Editor of the Rochester (N, ¥.) Demoerat: Sie:—On the first day of June, 1881, I lay at my residence in this city sur- rounded by my friends and waiting for death. Heaven only knows the agony I then endured, for words can never seribe it. And yet, if a few years previ- aus any one had told me that I was to be brought so low and by so terrible a dis- I » scotfed at the ids I always been uncommonly strong and healthy, and weighed over” 200 pounds, and hardly knew, in my own experience, what pain or sickness were. Very many peoplo who will read this statement re- alize at times they ere unusually tired and cannot account for it. They feel dull pains in various parts of the body and do not understand \vll,". Or they are exceedingly hungry one day und en- tively without appetite the next. 'This s just the way I felt when the relentless which fastened itself upon me first began, 1l I thought nothing of it; that probably 1 had taken a cold which would soon pass away. Shortly after this Inoticed a heavy, and at times neuralgic, pain in one side’ of my head, but as it would come one day and be gone the next, I paidlittle attention to it. Then my stomach would get out of order and food often fatled to digest, caus t s great inconvenience. ct, even ysician, I did not think that these things meant anything serious. I fancied I was suffering from mal and doce- tored myself accordingly, But I got no better, "I next noticed a peculiar color and odor about the fluids I was passing— also that there were large quantities one ind very little the next, and that a persistent froth and scum appeared upon the surface, aud a sediment settled. And yet L did not realize my danger, for, in- deed, seeing these symptoms continually, I finally beeame accustomed to them, and my suspicion was wholly disarmed by the fact that £ had no pain in the af- fected organs or in their vicinity. Why 1 should have been so blind I cannot un- derstand! I consulted the best medical skill in the land. Ivisited all the famed mineral springs in_America and traveled from Maine to California. Still I grew wors No two physicians agreed to my malad Ono sald Lwas troublod with spinal ir tation, another dyspepsia; another, heart disease; unother, general debility;another congestion of the Dase of the brain, and 0 on through a_hist of common diseases, the symptoms of many of which I really ha In this way several years passed, during which time I was steadily grow- i My condition had veally be- come pitinble.” The slight symptoms I at irst experienced were déveloped into ible and constant disorders. My ht had been reduced from 207 to 50 My life burden to myself nds, I could retain no food on ¢ stomach, and lived wholly by in- tions, Iwasa living mass ‘of pain. Iy pulse was uncontrollable. In my my I frequently fell to the floor and clutehed the carpet, and prayed for Morphine had little or no eflt lening the pain. Yor six da nights Lhadthe death-premonito coughs constantly! My water was_ filled with tube-casts “and struggling with Bright’s disease of the Kidneys in its last sta ! While suffering thu v from my pastor, the Rev. Dr. Foote, at that time rector 'of St. Paul's copal church, of this city, I felt that it was our last i , but in the course -of con- ver: . Foote detai to me the many remnrkable cures of cases like my own which had come under his obseryi- tion, Asa practicing ph, yoand a duate of the schools, T derided the ny medicine outside te regular s being in th st beneneial, So solicitous, howe s Dr. Foote, that I finally promised I would waive my preju- dice. began its use on the first day of June, 1831, and took it according to” di- rections, At first it sickened m(-l'hm this 1 thought was « good sign for one in my debilitated condition. ~ I continued to take it; the sickening sensation departed and I was finally abft to vetain food upon my stomach, I a few duys I noticed a decided — change the bet also did my wi f coughs cex than formerly. I was 50 rejoic improved condition that, " upon had believed but a few days be my dying bed, I vowed, in ‘the of my family and_friends, cover T would both publicly 1y make known this remedy good of humanity, wherever and whenever 1 had an opportanity, and this letter is in fullillment of thut vow. My jmyp ment was constant from that ti in less than three months 1 had ga pounds in flesh, becamo entire from pain and I believe I owe my lite and present condition wholly to Warner's s re, the remedy which'I used covery I have thoroughly re-in ted the subject of kidoey dif- ficulties and Bright's "di , and the truths developed are astounding. 1 there- fore state, deliberately, and as a physi- cian, that I believe more than one-half’ the deaths which occur in America are caused by Bright's discase of the kiducys. This may sound like a rash statement, but [ am prepared to verify it fullv, Bright disease has no distiictive features of its own, (indeed, it often develops without any pain whatever in the kidneys or thejr vielnity), but hus the symptoms of nearl every other common” complaint dreds of people dig v, Whose by are.anthor i as SApoplexy, ™ 4B plaiut;” “Rhewmati e wis resence ly Hun- Bank, North Platte, Neb, Omaus draft with bill of Iading attached, for two-thirds value of stock. and tho other common complaints, when in reality it is trom Bright's disease of the kidneys. Few physicians, and fewer people, realize the ent of this disease or its dangerous nnd insidious na- ture, It steals into the systom like a thief, manifests its presence if at all b the commonest symptoms and fastens it self in the constitution before the viotinm = is aware of it. It is nearly as hereditar as consumption, quite as common an fully as fa Entire familics, inheriting: it from their ancestors, have died and yet none of the number knew or realized the mysterious power which was removing the Instead of common symptoms it often shows none whatever,” but brings death suddenly om convulsions, ap- A art disease. o has suffered, and knows by bitter experience what he says, I implore every one who reads these words not to neglect the slightest symptoms of kidney difliculty. No one can afford to hazard such chances. I make the foregoing statements based upon facts which 1 can substantiate to Tl fare of those who bly be sufferers such as I was is an awmple inducement for me to take the step Ihave, and if 1 can successfully warn others from the dangerous path in h I once walked, I am willing to en- 1l the professional and personal consequences, B. HENION, M. D. Rocuester. N. Y., Dee. 80. —— STREET RAILROADS ABROAD. Wonderful Results From George Francis Train's Experimental Mile. London Railway Times: It is some- thing less than thirty years since George Francis Train obtained power to lay down an oxperimental tramway from Kensing- ton Common to Westminister road, a dis- tance of about a mile, and though the work was most unsatisfactory to the pro- moter, as it had to be taken up at his own expense after a very short existence, in it we mustrecognize the germ of a great industry from which the public is perhaps deriving greater advantage than the whose money has brought about 1ts developments. The experimental mile has now grown to 656 miles in England and Wales alone, re- enting a total expend cupimi of 513,070 out of d £14,051,- 846. T'hese miles and money are divided between 136 undertakings, which gives age length of a fitfle under five for h, with an average capital of £72,1 T'his is made up, of course, of small lines inremote provineial towns and undertakings of greater magnitude, by which the metropolis and large cities are served, from Blackpool, with its mile and a quarter of road, constructed at a cost ot £7,000, to Liverpool, London and Manchester, where the enpital is :d by hundreds of thousands, rs that the growth of tramway enterprise during the past ten years has v, although not altogéther sat— A finanolal point oF ¥ amount of capital of scenrity was ninety-four mile it pital had 1d the miles to 194, 70,000 of capital invested, i 1. So, year rown until representing Two year grown to £4,6 and in 1880 £6, representing 264 y year, the. enterprise we lind recorded for ending the 30th of June, length of line amounting to 656 miles, constructed at a cost of £0,500,000 of nee in construction has un- been rapid, even more so than mmmercial vesults would seem to it profits have, upon the whole, certainly not been in a fair proportion to the of such trading concerns® On the English and Welsh lines it appears that the te income from all S0l earncd L year was £2,004,276, of £1,601,270° was ab- sotbed in working cost, lavingnet £493, 006 as o return upon a p capital of £0,0682,116, Taking the income and ex- penditure in round figures, we may set the former at £500,000 and the latter at £10,000,000, which shows in the aggregate of 6 per cent all round among lines, of which nine serve the metropolitan area, With tramways, as with railways, sue- cess necessavily depends upon the log ty to which thei uln-nuium are confined and thus we find substantial profits earned iu some places, smaller returns i others, and absolute losses in other nine London lines figur ture of capital to the amount of £2,795,- 112; but from this we must deduct £128,- 000, the amount which the Croydon and Norwood represents, as only six months' returns are given in that case, and then have left cight lines, stand at a cost of G12,18; . The for an expendi- e £ The Congo Free State, The Congo Free State has entered the postal uni: A list of postal rates rang- ing from live to fifty centimes adopted, and five different” postage stamps has been issued, bearing the profile of King Leopold and the words “Etat Inde- pendant du Congo.” The business of the new state is transacted at Brussels by four nunisters who preside over the de- partments of justi finance, foreign il 1 c and the interior state is divided into ministrative distric eiach hav- overnor, and all being under the of Col. de Winton, the adminis- zoneral four governors have experience on the Congo,and were among the most trusted and enthusiastic of dtauley’s licutenants - Whon Haby was sick, we gave ho: astoria, When shie was & Child, she cried for Castoris, Whien she bocame Miss, sho clung to.Uastorisy Whea she had Clildren, she gave thow Castoriay