Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 20, 1886, Page 4

b 3 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE . SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1886. THE DATLY BEE. OMATA OFFIcE,N NEw Yok Orrr WASHINGTO! Published every morning, exeept Sunday. The gy Monday morming paor published in the ate. 0,914 AND 010 FARN AN 81 oo 65, TRIBUNE BUILDING 3 FourteesTH ST, TEAME BY MATL: $10.00 Threo Months 5,00 One Monuth One Yenr ix Month e WeEKLY Dee, Published Bvery Wednesaay. TERNE, POSTPAID. One Yonr, with promium One Yonr, without premii Bix Months, without premium ‘One Month, on trial . 250 100 2.0 1 10 CORRESPONDENCE: All communications relating to news and odi- torinl mattors ehould be addressed to the o TOR OF “HE 1) PURBLISHING COMPANY, AfAL . s and’ postoflice orders 10 be made payuble (o the order of the company. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS. E. ROSEWATER, Eptron. Tue surprise at the breaking up of the Transcontinental pool is not so great as the surprise caused by its holding to- gether 5o long ns it did. ToERE is a great scarcity of good ser- vant girls in Omaha. This dearth of do- mestic help may be due to the announce- ment of an enterprising Dakota journal- ist that he ean supply ten thousand women with husband, SINCE the return of the predicted cold wave St. Paul newspapers are preparlng to urge General Hazen for one of those vacant major-generalships, The preser- vation of the ice palace is the question of the season in Minnesota’s capitol. Tug: salo of unlimitod first-class tickets from the Missour: river to California points for §60, caused by the breaking of the Transcontinental pool, is a big thing for the scalpers. They will invest every dollar they can raise in these tickets. Ysevrr Duprey has been released and 0O'Dynamite Rossa says that while he will not attach a dynamite bomb to her skirt, he will keep his eyes open and his trig- ger-finger ever ready to get in the first shot next time A ¢oop good imitation of olecomargarine is now on the market. When the law is passed compelling manufacturers to tint bogus butter pink, a rider should be addod to color the bogus oleomargarine blue. The public havi right to know what they are buying. Tre murderous Apaches have added eight more murders to their long list. It 18 about time to round up these butchers and start a graveyard with them, but the people of Arizona and New Mexico need not expeet the United States troops ever to accomplish such a desirable result. Now THAT the exposition building is open a grand gladiatorial combat be- tweeen the rival leaders of Nebraska's democracy has become a possibility. Let them hire the hall and fight it put in thatarena. A crowd whick would pack the building would be assured without further advertisement. JKansas Crry is agitated over the rumor that John I. Blair is negotiating for eable line stock in that city and ownersof those securities have at once doubled the price of their holdings. Kansas City nev underestimates the value of anything Kansas City, from an energetic census taker to a broken down horse rail THE papers of Dotroit arve still vigor- ously carrying on the war against rail- rond dead beatism, and continue to refuse to publish time tables free of charge in their columns. Last week a dealer offered to the Free Press an advertise- ment which contained with his own an- nouncement the time card of the Michi- gan Central railrond. The Free Press declined to publish it and suit has been begun against the paper in consequence. rds have been of great ty during the year or more in which they have been in opera- tion. They have added to our resource; as o market for western producers, have incrensed owr manufacturing facilities, and are to-day stimulating the growing and feeding of a better class of meat cat- tle throughout the section tributary to this oity. During the past fall and win- tor, with markets everywhere depressed, the Omaha stock yards buyers paid higher prices than any of their com peti- ‘tors. The farmers and fecders of Ne- braska are Jearning the advantages of patronizing home purchasers of cattle and hogs, and tho coming season will show still greater advances in the busi- mess and sale of the yards than the past OMAHA'S 5to adyantage to this Inquiry Into Capt. Orawford’s Death. Senator Manderson yesterday intro- duced a resolution of inquiry in the senate calling upon the secretaries of war and state for information as to what steps had been taken by the government in regard to the killing of Capt. Emmett Crawford. The murder of this brave soldier by Mexican troops, so called, while he was on Mexican soil, pursuing hostile Indians, demands prompt satis- faction and reparation from the Me government. The evidence is conclusive that the Mexican uniform was used to cloak the operations of a gang of con- scienceless banditti who were masque ading as soldicrs while actually engaged in plundering whatever eame in their path. After talking with Capt. Crawford and histening to his explanations of the obj of his expedition he was deliber ately shot down in cold blood by these Greaser highwaymen, and the doter- mined stand of the scouts of Licut. Maus alone saved him from sharing the same fate. Capt. Crawford leaves dependent rela- tives in reduced circumstances. He was treacherously murdered by men wearing the uniform of a nation which is assumed to be on friendly relations with our own. His life was taken while he was com manding an expedition of the United States which was on Mexican soil, in strict accordance with the treaty stipula- tions. Mere formal apologies and expres- sions of regrets should not be nccepted as sufticient reparation for this outrage, The Best is the Cheapest. This paper is making no war any paving contractor or for any paving contractor. The bids Lin for the various materinls which may be chosen by our property owners. The BEE has assured itself and it assures the people ot Omaha that any wooden pavement is merely a temporary substitute for a sub- stantial paving material. It reads in the experience of other cities which have gone blindly into wholesale paving with this material a lesson to Omaha, which, whether our people profit from it or not, will sooner or later enforee itself upon theirgood judgment. From the outset, we have declared that in certain portions of the city a wooden block pavement is the best under the circumstances. We refer to the steep hills in the residence streets where a plastic pavement would be too smooth and a stone block too expen- sive. But we have insisted and still insist that on any street where traflic is com- paratively heavy or where gas and water mains have not been genorally tapped by house connections a wooden block pave- ment will prove an unsatisfactory and a costly experiment. Its surface can never be brought to its original condition after it has been displaced and the wooden blocks once crushed, are porous, fibrous, retentive of filth and unhealthy. The ad- vocates of wood blocks are urging the merits of cedar blocks upon property owners on streets now partly occupied for business, and which will shortly be entirely given up to the purposes of trad There is & tendency to cover the best por- tion of the new paving districts with this material because it is cheap. Without the slightest personal feeling or personal interest in the matter, the BEE is con- vinced that a mistake and a serious mi take will be made if permanency, solid- ity and utility in our public improve- ments are sacrifled to cheapness, It is a mistaken policy. The best is the cheap- est. re on THE city has won a substantial victory in the Peabody grading case which w; decided this week against the plaintifts, The verdict that damages by grade must be greater than the resulting benefits in order to form a good ground for recov- ery 15 a proper and an equitable one. It paves the way for the prosecution of much needed publicimprovements which have been hampered by the possibility of large verdicts for damages against the city, If property owners on streets which bid fair to be thoroughfares into and out of the city are wise they will cheerfully join in demanding that permanent grades suited to the requirements of traflic be established at once, and that the work, when done, shall be finished for all time A cut of five feet when fifteen is needed, toopen up a street to the approach of business is yery poor cconomy. Omaha has dallied and temporized too long with the grading question. The interests of individual property owners and of the city agree in requiring that there shall be a radical reform in the matte: HaviNG asserted its dignity in the resolutions about removals the senate should now bucklo down to business. At the present rate ot working neither branch of congress is earning its salt. —_— ANOTHER large whnolesale lumber yard is to be located in Omaha. A brick yard with a capacity equal to all those that we have is the most pressing need of this Ir is not surprising to learn that the Pacific railroads have sent their - %o Washington to protest against the bill requiring those companies to pay the cost of surveying their unsold lands. The dand grant roads have evaded so long tax- ation on the immense domain given them by the people that they are convinced that any action to place them on an equality in this respect with the poor sottlers would be an injustice of large proportions. So far as Nebraska is con cerned, the Union Pucific is so rapidly disposing of the landed estate that a few years time will place the company be- any fear of the operation of such a .+ Delay is what thetax shirkers are plending for, and that is precisely what ought not to be granted thewm, Faruer Berrs, well known in Omaha, is once more in trouble with his ecclesi- astical superiors, This time the offense is not connected with ritualism or ru- brics. The bishop of Missouri is oftended at the vigorous tirnde which Father Betts made at Father Jardine’s funcral, and declines to confirm his communion class during the coming Lenten season unl the clergyman apologizes for the reflec- Hions cast on the head of the diocese in that remarkable discourse. Father Betts has refused to retraet hisstatements, and aecuses the bishop of going out of hi way in applying the term *“priestly hands " steoped in blood” to his episcopal self. As Father Betts s happy than when controversial - warfare, there are pects of a iively interchange of . elvilitics by mail in the diocese of Mis- souri. The question of ecelesiastical dis- eipline is a tender one, but it is difficult :M how it can be avoidedun the present never more engaged city. A GreAT many candidates are prepar- ing to bloom with the flowers of spring. That's about all most of them will do-- simply bloom. TisBLES has turned up again with the Ponea Indian case in his pock Other Lands Than Ours, Parlinment has once more opened its doors and the responsibilities and cares of oftice have already begun to press upon the shoulders of the Gladstone ministry. The cabinet is fighting now for time. Discussion of Irish measures has been doilnitely postponed until some future date in March, when several remedial measures are promised. One statement of future poliey by Mr. Gladstone is posi- tive, and t is that coercion will not he renewed, and this is taken by the Irish party as an index that large conces- sions will be substituted for the blundering policy of former admin- istrations. The whigs have not yet formally decided on the measure of the support or opposition which they will give to the liberal party, Me. Morley's triumphant re-election to parliament from Newecastle-upon-Tyne will unques- tionably have the effect of emboldening those liberals who have previously hesi- tated about following Mr. Gladsione in his search for home rule. Mr. Morley has been made secretary for Ireland be- cause of his pronounced views on the Irish guestion. In speaking to his con- stituents he told them bluntly that what he and his chief were after wi way to meet the wishes of the homo rule party, and yet not sacrifice the union. - By giv ing him an increased majority the New- castle liberals have done their full share | hundred toward proving that the body of the Eng- lish working people are willing to give the Irish a chance. ' The home office 18 receiving general blame for the wretehed handling of the late riots and Mr. Childers has been forced to defend himself by showing that the public failed to inform him of the oc- currences until several hours after th first riot had broken out. A radical re- form of the London public gystem is like- ¢ to be the result of the avalanche of indignation which is pouring dows upon the home office through the columns of the press, Travelled Englishmen inform the ministry through this medium that a New York policemen would have prevented all the disturbance which is now generally admitted to have been incited by the thieves and pickpockets who hung on the edges of the great crowd at Trafalgar square. This is a compli- ment to the New York squad which New Yorkers may be inclined to dispute,' but it shows the gen- eral that the London force of “babbies™ is unfit to deal with such emergencies as presented themselves last foeling s complete chango of front in controversy with the astounded Europe, The bill to reveal the provisions of the Falk laws which he has so long held were necessary to the independence of the empire com- pletes the journey to Canossa which he bonsted so loudly he would never undet take. The chancellor has discov- ered that the support of holic representatives in the Landtag s indispensible in carrying out his schemes for maintaining the treasury of the empire, The passage of the bill giv- ing the government a monopoly of the manufacture and sale of spirits is im- peded in its course. The extension of the anti-socialist laws is a matter of doubt. To call to his uid the clerieal party, repr senting a third of the citizenship of Ger- many, is the object for which the chan- cellor has been striving and the repeal of the Falk laws is the price which he is prepared to pay for such assistance. " Austrian discontent at Bismarck’s Polish policy is increasing and has shown itself unmistakably in the reichsrath g Vienna, wh a violent attack on th German chancellor was made by a del e from Guallicia. The iron prince denounced as more heast than man and as a habitual drunkard, and the state- ment was made amid loud cheers that the alliance between Austria and € many was purcly official in its characte and that it had no foundstion in the sym- pathies of a large portion of the people of both empir Dispatches state that Prussia’s proposed expulsion of the Poles is causing the most intense excitement throughout the Polish portions of the Hapsburg domain. The Austian-Polish press is filted with attacks so bitter, and often so libelous against the German chancellor because of his recent policy that the German party in the Austrian parliament has indignantly and eflectu- ally protested against their continuance. ae The Greeks are still insisting that Turkish territory or war are the only alternatives, and the efforts of the powers to prevent what seems a certain infrac- tion of European peace have not so far been erowned with the desired suc- cess. A combmed flect of German, English, French and Au re now lying in Suda vent the outbreak of hostilities King George's ships and the Turkish iron- clads. ' The “‘scientific expedition” lately sent by the Russian government into Thibet was equipped after a fashion decidedly too warlike for purposes of pure or ap- plied science, nor is it easy to connect the presnmad ohieots of such an expedi- tion with the killing of 400 natives. There is little doubt that interesting discoveries were made, nor that the reports by the leaders of the party will exhibit the country tray 1in such a light that a burning desire will at once spring up in the Russian heart to possess it. This is generally the outcome of Russiun scien- tific expeditions into territory contiguous to the Russian empire, and the govern- ment of China will look with little favor on exploring parties such as that which has just returned feom Thibet. * It is not unlikely' that Cannda will be induced by the prominence given to in dustrial arbitration in this country to take rly steps to establish ‘“‘courts of con- liation" for the benefit of her producers. 'he failure of English laws on this sub- ject seems to be satisfactorily explained by the fact that they give enforcoability to the findings of boards of arbitrators. Had it not been for this defect and the disappointments which have resulted from it, Canada might long ago have enacted a law of the kind now demanded by her artisans, * The London Economist shows that home rule would involve the addition of £2,000,000 to Irish taxation, and it asks advocates of disruption if they are pre- pared to puy the cost and how they will raiseit, The solution of the problem is not diffienlt, Great Britain now disburses annually ten times two million pounds to support in idleness pauper peers and beg: garly foreign princes. These vast sums might be saved and applied to the ameli- oration of the sufferings of the poor. The great tracts of land now held by the crown and absentee lords could bo cut up into small holdings and sold on long time, enabling the poor cotters to carn decent livings and thus decrease the poor rates. There ave no obstacles in the way of granting justice to Ireland that cannot be surmounted by the exercise of common sense, and it is useless for the tory press and statesmen to struggle. Home rule is inevitable, ' One point in'the arrangement hetween Prince Alexander of Bulgaria and Turkey, apparently insigniticant from a European point of view, was the nature or the nead- dress to be worn by the prince, because the red fez is obligatory on ull Turkish oflicials, and the prince would not con- sent to adopt the fez on nting his homage to the sultun. H refore to wear the uniform of & Turk eral of cavalry, which includes the same cover- ing for the head as is worn by garians, and the prince will be made w mushir of the empi becoming in Turkish naer Pasha Mr. Labouchere makes bold to coin & word. Says he: “Aun interview with the name of the interviewee (the word re- quires coining in these days) left out is ruther poor reading.” the Bul- | ., his name thus | | compel thew to keep the p T PERSONAL POINTS. Phil. Armour's pay roll amounts to $5,000,« 020, Senator Fabor, of Colorado, s a man of many mines, Jay Gould controls secnrities with a par value of $439,000,000. The empress of Javan speaks English with a sort of pigeon-toed accent. state of the late J. B. Lippincott of delphia 1s valued at §3,500,1 Frank 0. Dame, who died in Boston last had a life insurance of $110,000, Congressman Glover, 'of St. Louis, has sued the Missouri Republican for §100,000 for libel. It is said that Confucius never said a word atdinner. Perhaps the dinner was cooked to suit him, The duke of Edinburg refuses to forego his claim to the throne of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha for the £100,000 offered him by Bismarck, Oscar Wilde is contemplating another visit o America, and will be *accompanied by his wife. I'hey will “do” the mining districts. Senator Jones has built the largest quartz millin the world at his Junean, Alaska mine, which is yielding him much wealth. It is said that when Senator Edmunds wants to go toboganning he simply pours a pail of water on a hill and breathes on it. George W. Childs sent $100 to the Balti- more fund for a monument to Francis Seott Key, the author of the **Star-Spangled Ban- ti, a natural son of the late King mmanuel of Italy, is living in on a pension from the Italian govern- ment. Senator Bullitt of whistle during the war Star ealls this gallant, 18 Fairbanks, the inventor of ale, recently celebrated his ninetieth birthday, and still lives at St Johnsbury, Vt. Ilis long life is due to the correctness of his w hs. Asked how he succeeded D. Armour replic B principle when tl side to get on his, times a millionaire, that he has been on his life. Rev. Dr. J. G. Armstrong, one of the most eloquent Episcopal clergyman in the southern states, having been convieted of drinking beer putable houses, was by Bisho p Beckwith sentenced to suspension for ten y He was formerly a Presb; terian o Olfo, and pe mitted rumors to be cireulated that he was J. Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Lincoln, Grant Could,Talk, But He Wouldn't. Oshkosh Times. Gen, Grant set Sherman an excellent ex- ample, and Sherman ought to know by this time how golden silence really is, particular- 1y in a man who cannot talk i Fighting a)Stone Wall, Nebraska City News. The editor ot the Omaha Herald s still fighting the administiation with about the same success as that achieved by the William zoat when he tried to “butt” down a stone wall, [ ed. on meeting Miss “Al, I heard yon and the New York in business, Phil always made ita Almighty wasn't on my As Mr. Armour Is many we take it for granted the Lord’s side most of - The Next U. 8.'Marshal. Papillion Times. Frank Ircland, of Nebraska City, who claims the honor of ‘being the handsomest man in the state, is cmphatic in the state- ment that he will be the niext United States marshal for Nebraska. e S DA A Succession of Brilliant Triumphs. Chicagh News, Senator Sherman Iivested fn a 10-cent lot- tery ticket ata Hebrew “fair in Washington, and drew a $5suit of boy’s clothes. That eminent statesman’s career is one long sue- cession of brilliant triumphs, AT Ingalls’ Crost. Chicago Ilerald. On the crest adopted by Senator Ingalls, of Kansas, is a motto in Latin which, being in- terpreted, reads: “He wins who is awake,”” and it might be added that in sccuring n sen- atorship in the state from which Ingalls hails he gets there who sees the boy el ol The Modern Interviewer, Chicago News, As a matter of fact, the modern interviewer isone ot the most useful and instructive, as well a8 best-ahneed, gorvants of the publie, "Through him we see into the minds and learn of the hopes, purposes, and deeds of all man- kind—philosopher and laborer, misanthrop e and trifler, clergyman and convict. Ho should not be impudent, although he may be persistent in aoing his duty. — The Vicissitud Hailey (Idaho) Neuw % How uncertain are the vicissitudes of this life! A man may be shooting along on snow-shoes over the beautiful snow lying on the numerous hills about this city, exulting inall the vigor of youth, and overflowing with an abundance of animal spirits, and the next minute he may be in an adjoining coun- ty under twenty feet of snow, without hat or at, waiting for the spring thaws to set in, Philosophy of the Weather Bureau. Oh, 1 amthe chief of the Signal Division, Of literature I am a light; “The newspapers make me a butt for derision, But they print every line that I write! of Min iCe. “The people all yearn for my last lucubration; They rush for the paper each day. And before they have looked at the news of the nation, They must see just what I have to say, Some ignorant fools dare to laugh ai my HUeSSes At what the day's weather will be; But when a man once knows tho key he confesses My predictions were right to a T, My secret? Oh, well, 1 would just as soon tell you; Whenever'I say *twill be war Just get out your ulster; the cold will com- pel vou, For we're'in for a howling cold storm, If Lsay 'twill be cold,'you may know it fiction, 3ol1 Your light linen duster will do; In short, évery time that I make a prediction Just the opposite’s suye to come {ruc, e The Insomnia Boston Herald, Tt was the American humbrist who s best remedy tor insomnia Was a good night's sleep. The power to sleed when and where one wills isa_gift of Providence quite as de- sirable as memory, beauty, or any of the other nice things whiclyare presumed to be heaven-sent. Men of, the largest mental ability have been noted for the ease with which they could taka those cat-naps, far more invigorating than -hibernation, and which repair the nervous waste and allow them in waking hours fo ccomplish hereu- Lean tasks with their brains. That insomnia 15 totally unknown to these ready sleepers would be assuming too uueh, for the disease, t s, falls alike on the cold-blooded delver and wiry, lmpulsive workers, raking them foreand aft with beautiful impartiality. i W) SRRN Preparing for a Love Feast. Grand Island Independent, The two hostile democratic brethren Morton and Dr, Miller. both busy in Wash- ington after the spoils, have discovered, th; government has been stingy in granting favors to Nebraska demwocrats, in order to Now in | order. to get the loaves and the fishes, ar- rangements are making for a love feast. Dr. Miller proposes to shake, and it will be a beautiful sight t5> behold, when Miller and Morton embiace. Miller a lnessage the condition, that Collector Post be retired in favor of A. Crawford, In this way a place would be found for a democrat, and an opponent to run for congress against Laird. When after the patched up truce the spoils are gathered in, the w be re-open o el A An Insurance Anomaly. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. A year ago the fnsurance companies with- drew from New Hampshire on account of certain alleged unjust legislation, and it is now discovered that the number of fires in the state has decrcased by 60 per cent, This scems {o prove that property burns much more easily when it 1s insured than when it is not— omaly that offers a new oppor- tunity to the fluent and indefatigable insur- ance agent, who is never happier than when wrestling with such abstruse ideas, - BROWN €O With Vigorous, Ahead People. Awxsworti, Neb., Feb. 16.—[Corre- spondence of the Bek.]-/This town, the county seat of Brown county, 13 located on the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Val- loy railroad, 278 miles west of Fremont The country surrounding it is splendid land. One man last year 5 bushels of wheat from eleven ac 3 The town was started in the spring of 1883, and in the summer following forty- three business houses were erect 1 present year will probably witness a big change in Ainsworth, as the Union Paci- fie from Ord is expected to come up the Calamus river and tap the Elkhorn val- ley road atthis point. “The population of the city is estimated from 1,000 to 1,200 people. A $1,000 school house and ) church e erected here last year. We h opera house 40 by 100 feet, and a_court house the same size. The nk of Ains- worth ‘armers’ and - Merchants’ of our money 7.1 Fuank, Woodward ¢, and Munson & Ackerman each keep age al stock.. Hoftmeister & Co. Lathrop & Co. and H. Warner are the draggists. — Chaney, Smuails Bros. and Wivel & Moyer, hardware; W, H. Oveutt and J. F. Burns, hotel keepers; Mrs, Landis, I. F. Merithew, Wm. Jones, M. V. Day and E. Stevenson, restau Allard & Brubaker, bakery; S. P. and Collins Bros. our grain buyers Leroy Hall and Finney & Witliam$ sell Tumber, The Iatter named firm call this their headquarters, they having yards at six other points. They ave all having o rushing t and expeet the town to boom for th six months. CMISTLETOE Cushioned Push- e next The Balky Horse. ew York Sun: “Before L experienced ed from th 1 of my 5" said o man who had been quietly sucking away at a corn-cob pipe, *I had- a little juf' of my own. It was that of r¢ iling” dry goods, clothing, boots and shoes, and” Yankee notions around the country from a peddler’s wagon. The partieular little point in which 1 excelle 1 secuving my goods at low prices. I finally beeame so smart that I got most of them for nothing. “One day asI was driving along a ighway in'Ohio, a farmer stamped me to trade horses. After some beating around we made an_ even exchange, and T got & handsome strong limbed lorse in place of a_spavined and broken down i It was my solemn belief that he 4 of astolen horse, but seruple of conscicnee did I have. 1 lad & heavy wagon, drove two horses be- fore it, and ecalculated t I nad mado just $100 out of the trade. I drove six- cen miles after making the trade, und proved himselt a dand I had had my eye on a certim o, goods store in the village of P— for veral months back. That night, rything around the village ot s quiet, I slipped out, harnessed up, and drove the wagon_around back of the store. You sce, T intendad (o make o e purchase at bottom figures, and I didn’t want the proprietor around. I had brouget along a inch auger, and twenty minutes was time enough to hore my wity in throngh the back door. A boy about 16 yi old slept in the store. My first move was to capture him. Before he was fairly awake I had him tied, blind- folded, and gagged. Then 1 proceeded to make my spring and summer selections. The town was as quiet us a graveyard, and in about an hour I had uli’ the load the wagon wouid carry. T might rems right here that the stock wa o a view of giving my custome; vantages of a falling market ‘The young man had been ver) during'my work, and as I was rd go I went over to him and expressed my gratification at his conduct ~ As it lacked only two hours of daylight, T as i to be of good cheer and for some early riser to come in lieve him. He promised to remain quiet, and I got on the wagon and drove off’ with the feeling that I had made a good night’s work of it. I was intending to ive ten miles due west and then run the goods_into n certain hiding place About a mile beyond the village was long hill, and as we eame to it that new horse suddenly came to a dead halt, 1 put on the whip, and he began to kick n about two minutes I was made lize that 1 had been stuck on a ‘profes- sional.’ I knew by his actions that he was a balker from w ck, and not only mulish about it, dedly vie- ious. “Now, gents, m the language of Shakespeare, hore was & go. I got down and conxed and flattered and scolded und rouudud, but that hors 1 made up his mind not to move, and was ready to die in his t; I jabbed him in the hams with a brad awl, but he kicked the dush-board into splinters to pay for it. Istarted a fire under him with news- pipers, but he backed out of it, 1 was in a box. Time was slipping past, and time was everything to me. That infernal beast would neither take the hill nor turn around. I unharnessed him to walk him ound, and he rushed atme with a seream, knocked me over, and then turned and galloped off. My plan w to cut the other horse loose and take myself off;but before I could do it a doz men piled on to me. That stoye clerk had worked himself loose and given 1l alarm Being as I'm in a confidenfial mood this evening. I will inform you tha ing attorney, a judge, and six jurors retired me to Columbus for the term of eight years.” —- The Turner's Hon, The subseription wasquerade ball given in Germania hall to-night y the loeal Turn V n, will be a most i enjoyable affaiv. Aside prog of novel en nments has been arvanged. There e 0 Miksdo dance, w0 tizht rope per formanc: dog exhibition, a Ge museum and other things, one of w be uproariously clever, but of w nothing yet ean be said. - Bohemlaus Organizing, The Bohemian citizens of the first and second wards held a meeting in Hofi: man's hallon South Thirteenth street last night, arstory 1o org K. W.I wus addr John Rosick Hoffman and of Mr. Kas| for t the ad- The 2 Frank J. Caspar, Bandhauer, Geo. Berka. ) name mentioned candidate council, as - - Gen. Cowin says that the insane tax case will probably not be appealed (o th court, us the other counties do not show au disposition to | to Morton, proposing « tiuee suid 0 coutain | biek up Douglas in contesting the matter. 1 by vW | Judge | FIGHTING FOR & BIC FORTUNE The Story of a Logal Oontest or the Bs- tate of a Negross, A Mixed-up Affair in Which Appear Many Points of Inter The New York World of Fob. 10 says Final argument will be heard to- New City, R and county, before Sur rogate Geo W. Vincent in the famous contest for the possession of the estate of X rd Hesdra, late of Nyack. Besides luable property in that viilage it con s of half a dozen tenement houses in city, and is worth altogether abont $150,000. The main issue of the present proceedings, however, which Judge ;Vin cent will have to determine is whethe: Mrs. Amanda Tordoff, a white woman, is a blood relative of Edward Hesdra, or the adopted daughter of the latter's de- ceased brother Solomon,who was regard od as a colored man. The property has been in litigation ever since the death of Cynthia Hesdra, the wife of Edward, in whose name it stood. Although she was regarded as a white woman, and haa a pure-blooded white mother. her father was black. Her dark colored nephews and nicces became her special charge Many of them were employed in her ndry, and most of ler patrons ary said Lo have been inmates of disreputa- ble houses. On her death her husband claimed this property, but as they did not have any children it id he had no right to it,as she died intes After awhile he produced a will in which he was named s sole legatee. Cynthia's rolatives declared the will o forger, When it wus offered for probate it whs contested by Cynthia’ elut The surrogate is said to have declared the will a forgery, but when the question was carried up to the supreme court and ed before jury in 1884, it was ae- clared genuine. ~ Edward Hesira hecame <o elated that he went on a debaueh and died June 6, 1881, After the death of Cynthia, Edw stalled the widow of Solomon He his housckeeper. Her daughter, Amanda Tordoff, was with her. When rd died Mrs. Tordoft elaimed the estate on the ground tha his nicee and only blood relative she alone could in- herit, as no will could be found. Not- withstanding her holding and keeping the props she did not apply for letters ot administration. An application made by Constant Hesdra, an aged negro, of No. 242 Nas- sau street, Brooklyn, was withdrawn, and then Charles A. Dunhy wyer of Fairview, N. J., on April_8, 1885, peti- tioned to be appointed_administrator, as he claimed to be a ereditor for $ his petition Lawyer Dunham all Hesdra left no next of kin. the petition was set for A and on that day Mrs. Tordof petition to be appointed administratri leven days prior to that her mother died. There has been a singular fatality attending other witnesses whose testi- mony was very material. Ch s of fou i and other suspicious ecireumstances conneeted with the death of Edward Hesdra, his si Hetty, and others have been investigated after much talk on the part of the claimants to the fql. ni. but nothing wrong wasever estab- ished. Judge Weiant had held several hea ings, when Lawyer Dunham took a new tack and claimed that the property went to the state, because there wis no legal heir to it. ' In a letter to Attorney Gen- O'Brien Lawyer Dunham sa, 'l s good 1son to believe that wsed left a will, which, it may be er will be discovered Solomon H 1, about thirty-five ye 1go, took in* from the street .n.umfnng‘ or waif, or bright little girl, and being withouf progeny cared for and broughv her up as her’own chiid. to wou roof, nu rd in- ra as Mirs, safely o her prote: scame the Mrs, Tor- dorfl’ who elaimed to be a nicce and sole next of kin of her protector her_position of housekeep doff soon acquired conside infinence over the intestate, and it was his inten- tion, as I know from having been his legal adyiser, to make_ler a logatee to the tuna of &3 Miimerous friends and connec ‘of the intestate through his fi nfidently believe that somebody, taking pity on the sorrows of the poor old an Hesdra, who was u'rr:ulf troubled about his property, ielped him to an euthanasia, It is cor: tain that Ins sickness, death and burial were attended by cirenmstances caleu- lated to excite painful suspicions “But, remarkable as was th tate’'s death, it was searcely mor the demise a few days ago’ of Solomon Hesdra’s widow, the woman whom Mrs. Tordoff pretended to be her mothe “This woman has been frequently ur persons conneeted by marringe with ntestate to declare in the presence of Tordofl herself whether or not the n child and daughter of but she aimost invari- Sive Answ or refused to answer at all. - On one oceasion recently, when she was being scevorely presseil, M { " doubtless, anticipating a fuvorable response, joined in urging [ 1o speak out. This seemed to nettle the old woman, anw she broke fort “Wha intes- Solomon Hesc ably gave o This gir] grew | cer h Napoleon's asmy," she €aid, an§ exhibited a picture of a very good-looks i Frenchman with powdered haip, : fiy grandmother was also of that faith, They came to America and bought aplan' tation near Norfolk, Va., where they owned many slaves. Solomon Hesdra, my father, was born in 1808, and Uncle Ldward was three years younger. Among the slaves was _one named Lucy, and when she was sold sho begged 0 hard for my grandmother to take her lit- tlo boy Constant_that she did. Ho was educated with her two boys and was known as Constance Portiock, but he changed it to Hesdra and was induced to claim to be Uncle Edward's brother after leath and apply for lettors of admin- ation on the estate. When my father was 10 years old, the plantation being sold, my widowed grandmother brought her two boys and Constant to New York. She gaye them a little money and they learine the cabinet-maker trade. My mother's maiden me was Hetty Day, and her folks wero Orange county Quakers, but my father kept his Hobrew faith, Afier working as a cabinet-maker he started a cigar and barber shop in Spring street, above Wooster, and was there for thirty or thirty-fiye years. T was born there July 80, 1815, Afterward we moved to Mount Vernon, where he had a shop. They did not bring up the question about my not being thel \er until my poor moth- erdied. I married a man who acted very badly abused me, and my father took me home when my daughter was o year old. I was afterward divorced, My father died in 1880 “Do you suppose a woman could make all th y Aunt Cynthin _left by washings" she asked, nele Edward de money in the cabinet business and sted it. He got into some trouble and deeded some of the proverty to his wife. That is how so much stood in her name, but a good deal of it was actually his own. have received many blackmail- ing letters on account of this suit T trouble with Mr. Dunham is that wanted uncle to go and live with him just before he died.” Vi et How Lew Wallace Came To Writo Ben-Hur." Cleveland Leader: Judge Huntchins oceupied a seat beside Gen Lew Wallace the banquet of the Loyal Legion in Cincinnati and during the general con- ion he asked the general how he to wi the kable book: 3en-Hur,” Gen. Wal ied, T was F(ving down on tl sissippi river on a boat, and was vu_;u_)mp] myself in my te-room, when the door, which was zhitly ajar, was opened, and Col. Robt. Ingersoll entered and said: ‘‘Gen, Wallace, I want to talk with you.' ** ‘Let me set the text and TN talk,’ I answered. AL right, your texty’ **Is there a God?' I asked of the great unbeliever, by way of a text, ‘I don’t know, do you?' ““Is there a heaven?’ ‘I don’t know. 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