Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 7, 1886, Page 2

DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1886, gf ¢ THE DAISY OF A FUNERAL. How Jim Hastings Was Shot and Placed at Placerville. A Young Woman Whose **Second Pa Was Shot Just Like the First" ~A Sorap at the Grave. Denver Tribune-Republican: A miner from the San Miguel country was met by a Tribune-Republican reporter at the Ameriean House last evening. After shcwa g some specimens of ore from that which he thought cond to none brought out of Pitkin county, the conversation turned to life in the San Miguel and Dolores county. Then the visitor told of a funeral at Lower Placer- yille, in San Minguel county, some time ago, which he thought equal to Buck Fanshaw's grand send-off. He said: “There was a man named Jim Hast- ings, who kept a saloon at Lower Placer- ville, which was about as rongh a settle- ont a8 Virginia City in its palmy days, ly not so extensive. Winter was a H‘eM time for the miners to gather at ustings’ to sample vall, tan, refined kerosene, tanglefoot and other products of the chemical labratory. In the sum- mer the drinks were divided between Telluride and Pla ille, the liquor was g_lcnlnlnl in those days as it is now. 'emperance nrmclslm were scarcer than mermaids in those days. “One day a man named Bill Jones after getting well corned up on whisky he had bought of Hasti wandered in- to the saloon with a six-shooter and sent in for Hastings, who was eating his din- ner, to come and have a drink with him. Hastings went out, but he had his ax with him and ordered Jones out. “‘Well, you needn’t be so huffy about it, sesing that you sold me the liquor I got full on,’ replied the man. HE DROPPED HIM. lastings repeated his invitation to skip, saying, ‘Getout of here. I don't care fur'ynur six-shooter or your entire arsenal.” Then he made a pass with his axe at Jones. It grazed his head. That was Hastings’ last voluntary move. Jones dropped him in his tracks with a ball through the rt, and then walked leisurely out as though nothing in par- ticular had happened and skipped the country. p first the community knew of 1t when the dead man’s 'n{)- daughter ran up the street crying, ‘My papa's shot! y papa’s shot, just as my first papa was killed.! After being , calmed and i"fi the story, she ex- 3 gll ined that she didn’t’care” after ali, er mamma had been through the dead man's pockets and got all_his money, so they would be provided for any: how. The boys thought that they must have o funeral so as a Jim Crow carpenter made a box larg onough to hold half a dozen Hastings,the boys rolled the corpse up in blanket: tumbled him into the box, hammered down the lid with blows as though from an auctioneer’s gavel, the box was tilted across the back of a burro, and then the procession started for the grave. And suchu&zmc«- ion! Every mother’s son was full, including the disconsolate wid- der and another particular female friend of the dece: 1. There was no minister within 100 miles, and he was inaccessible because of the snow. But then the sur- roundings of that funeral were in p keeping with the racter of the gentle- man in box. The only two sober men in the camp were delegated to dig the grave. . But they were not looking fora mastodon burial-case, snd had only dug for a d cent-sized coffin. So when the motley procession, whose ludicrous attempt to 10 look and act soberly turned the whole thing into a farce, finally wandered on to the seeng the coffin would not go in the grave. "A vigorous stream of profan- ity was turned on, but that did not help matters, and the grave-diggers — who were the only ones sober enough to han- dle a spada—had to get into the grave and do their work over again, much to their disgu Even then the box had to be jammed into 1ts place. A QUEER RITUAL. “At this moment some one suggested that u hymn and prayer would be emi- nently appropriate, but none dared to volunteer. Finally some one in a fit of desperation cssayed: eh ““When I can read my title clear.” a recollection of boyhood in a more eivi ' ized clime. But he struck it in the key of A, and the first line ended in a broken- necked sort of a squak that flattened out the entire crowd. After such an effort no one certainly had the hardihood to attempt prayer. So, amid that maudlin ong of mourners (¥) the sober men gun to shovel in the dirt. When th grave was perh .of prayer so afl he started out on what s a tack with three shee his helm pointing six ways for Sunday. Instautly every hat come off, and heads were ducked, with a suddenness th their 1 clergyman ramb] ts of the t nts and stre the weey female compar t business h shedding t: th woman to shed 0 another woman's man? Sk suspacted this woman had by her late ligge lord’s affection “”fig widder knew it. So she it corpse and all else was forgotton, as’ one by one the mourners took a hand in the racket, The combatants desisted finally from sheer exhaustion, and the widder was borne defeated from the ficld, on the same burro that ol in her hus The grave was forgotten until the pext : v, when the two sober men return: _to linish their job. A rude cross was set the head, but at the foot, for ers had got twisted around as to h the deceased lay. Then they - seratohed on the horizontal arms, ‘He * Rests in Peace,’ with a hand pointing ‘Nidown, instead of the other way. When "“the news got out of the camp, the stato pers referred to the killing as » minor yent. e —— FOR THE LADIES ONLY. of the Greatest Mystories of Life ~Managing a Husband. New Orleans States: One of the great- . est mysterios of life to me, and one that * still remains so after much thought and . study on the subject, is just how some women do manage a husband so charm- _digly, while others make such doleful Ilfiurufl 1 was a visitor on_one oceasion in a certain household, which I will not * name here, where the man of the house ‘was not an object of tho least solicitude “the part of any member of the fam- n) t, ho was simply tolerated as a ~ gort of draught-horse to keep the family chinery moving. ‘The imvpression med o pervade the minds of wife d children that he stayed down town day “‘having a od “time," telling and having innumerable “nips’’ h that mysterious “‘other man,"” and the hard, dull routine of business thing he ever troubled him- 1 used to feel really sorry would come home such & oareworn look on his face, for I knew o well what an_exacting wife he o hiterally ku&l‘hh nose to the one. When would oye sus- S o R piciously, and in a_harsh, fretful voice ask him “why: he did not come home sooner,” and then would commence such asoried of questioning and a regular sioge of systematic nagging that if 1 had been a man in his place it would have driven me ont of the house. Not a bit of it. This wife knew her man and the man was used to this sort of *“ home rule,’’ the one object of his life being to keep peace in his famiiy. Instead of reading the riot act to his domestic tyrant, and as serting his authority as 1 have seen other men do under similar cirenmstances, he was one of the most amiable of husbands and complied with eve demand of his wife with the most loving submission. What is strong meat to one would be vois- on to another and 1 would not adyise you to try this walk-over system until other means had failed. Some men love to be petted and ised, and if they don't get it at home y are pretty apito seek it elsewhere. All the erying and scolding you can do will not “‘keep them in at night.”” They are jolly and jovial in disposition, and love good company and congenial com- panion m\n and tie world is tull of just such “jolly fellows;' and if the counter attractions of home and fireside are not brighter and better than they find out- side, the lesser attractions wif’l o to the wall. These are the sort of men who have been used to the gentle, tendor ways of loving mothers—mothers who used to look at them with fond, appreciative cyes, which even the film of death cannot blot from their memory, who had always kind words of welcome, to whom they could always take their boyish cares, disap- pointments and aspirations, foeling as- sured of that sympathy which was ever alive and responsive, kindling a flame of love that brightened overy shadow of their boyhood days. There are any number of men, especi- ally among the soft-learted of their sex, wlo dearly love to be managed. They %iory in hearing the persuading voice in their ear and foel loying arms around their necks. A petition, supplemented by glowing tenderness, although the ob- ject of the caresses may b well nndor- stood, will be granted before it assumes shape in words. They take a pridein their quietness, enjoying the situation immensely, from the very consciousness of their supremacy. Being masters of the situation, they observe with inward amusement the little artifices and wire- pulling of the fair diplomats, and par- don them for the mere pleasure it gives them of yielding. 'Chey never lose sight of the fact, however, that if necessity re- quired it “they could kick over the traces and smash_the whole equipage intoa thousand splinters.”” Woe be unto the woman who loses sight of this fact her- self by this seeming go-as-you-please pace to be into drawing the rems too tightly and rendering these Samsons restive, and force them to the conclusion that they have been too in- dulgent and that it ‘was about time “‘to put a stop to all this sort of thing.” Wihen to draw a line requires the most ing judgment on the part of | matters pertaining to domes- Men are_perverse animals at best and are dreadfully jealous of their prerogatives as lords” of creation, and being the heads of at loast their family, when they know their power is recog- nized and properly acknow ed in the houschold, they seldom feel there is any oceasion to rise up in their strength and assert their authorit; There are many stupid husbands who do not know that they are being man- aged, and many clever women who make their husbands believe they are the most submissive of wives, gaining con- trol of them without once alarming or wounding their self-respeet or vanity, making them think the way they are being led is just the way they had planned, but [ believe, after all, the best advice Tcan give you, my fair bride, is the same as a wise “woman once said to her only married daughter: “Give your husband his own way for twelve months and you will have yours for the rest of your life.”” ————— CALIFORNIA SPECULATING. Story of the Rise and Fall of a San Krancisco Book-Keeper. San Francisco Correspondence Sacra- mento Bee: I am confident that the romance of a stock gambler will never be writton. Life here is too rapid, too pushing for men to pause and reflect on that curious ‘‘hasbeen’ of San Francisco. But I never stroll down Pine street, or Imger in the shadows of Pauper alley, butT meet some one who would be en- titled to a_place 1n that unwritten romance. The tall figure, a face clean cut and refined, gait slow and painful from the effect of an old wound, is before me as I write. James D. Walker ten years ago was & member of the bonar firm, and his check was good for £500,000, aye, or a million, at any bank in the untry. Then Flood and F bought him out, and Walker opened a broker’s oflice under the Neyada bank and did all the business of his former partners. In these times klood, Fair and Mackey were on the top noteh of speculation, They wer: nging the murket at their own sweet will, and 1 \z or breaking thousands who were battling with the flerce tide of stock gambling. Alexan- der Austin, or “Sandy,” as used to call him, had just as tax collector, and went Walker. How they did make things boom! The high salaried clerks—tho book-kecper got $100 a month, and had a sumptuous lunch served every day i large room in the re i expe of the fi were enormous, but so was th ness. The partners wer wring $20,- 000 2 month, but they werg stunding on the brink of a precipice. Ilood remarked that other and outside brokers were ma nipulating certain stocks pr s hi own broke This would never do, so he called consultation, und informed the Walker firm that this sort of thing wonld not do, that there was a traitor in the amp somewhere, and that, unless he was detected and fired, thewr relations could not continue. Close and carnest investigation 1S made, but without avail. "Then cam a transaction of more than ordinary im- portance, but to the intense disgust of the bonanza firm, it was apparently forcseen and anticipated by these same outside brokers, kept posted, apparently, by some traitor in the Walker-Austin camp. Then the bonanza people changed their broker, and from that hour ine for- tunos of Walker & Co. bogan to decline. Matters grew worse and worse. Austin committed suicide. Walker sold & mag- nificent manston in Oakland which cost him elose on $500,000 to prop up the wan- ing glory of the swell firm. At last it was a clean case of bust, and I don't be- lieye Mr. Walker to-day could put his hand an $200. I saw him looking wist- tully at the Nevada Bank building, prob- ably comparing the different states of Flood, the member, and Walk member of the bonanza firm, covered when too late that the high- priced bookkeeper was the traitor. He sold his emplo but no luck ever came of his treachery, and he is to-day kecping books for a Hebrew clothes- dealer in Portland, Ore. g Walker is but a li')m of hundreds of others who have had their chance and their day on Pine street. With a strange fatuity these wrecks still cling to the locality where they made and lost for- tunes in the past, though nine-tenths of them have not & dime to_speculate with, and could not fie‘ credit for a glass of lager, when their names a decade ago were sufficient guarantee for a dozen or fifty oases of cham 0. few have pulled out with a small stake, and there are some on the street there yet who have a little money, and would speeulate if they saw an opering, and not a few fauatics who await the coming of the Mcssiah—the discovery of another great bonanzu. a wife in tic bliss. penses r bu ANOTHER STRIKE. The Modest Demands Made by the School-Boys of Frog's Corners. Texas Siftings. But the climax came one morning when the teacher found himself alone in the eitadel of learning, and all the scholars outon a strike. They had sssembied on the “green™ in front of the schoolhouse, and uttered de- risive cheers as he frantically rang the bell for school to ‘‘come in."” Then he tried versuasions, afterwards threats—said he would send for the *'trus- tees” —but none of these means availing, he wisely concluded to wait events. Finally, after consultation, a deputation of boys advanced somewhat guardedly to the school house door, whore they were confronted by the amazed and irate mas. ter, who demanded to know the cause of this mutinous and threatening demon- stration A big boy, who headed the delegation, spoke up and said. “We've struck, and that's all there is aboutit. We have got we've resolved that this ere school shall tie up until they're righted.'” “Thon he presentsd the following list of reforms demanded, which he said must be acceded to or the strike would be in- definitely continned: 1. A reduction of the hours of study. 2. An increase in the periods of recoss. 3. Noon to begin at 11 o'clock and ex- tond to 1:30 or 2, according to the condi- tion of the weathe! 4. School shall let out any afternoon when there is a base ball match or circus within fifteen miles. 5. Any scholar who wants a ‘‘reward of ment"’ to carry home to his parents can have it at wholesale cost price. 6. Ferrules to bo made of soft wood. 7. The old-time custom of punishing boys by compelling them to sit with the girls shall be immediately restored. 8, A boy who hiolds up his right hand and says, "YImm«. sir, may I go out?” shall be allowed to go, whether it be necessary or not. 9. The number of boys allowed to go and fetech a pail of water shall be - croased from two to four, with_proper allowance for time consumed in going and coming. 10. No boy shall be puished for offensive words spoken in* debate with another boy. 11. While believing in arbitration on eneral principles, we insist that two hoys who have a grudge to settle shail be allowed to fight it out between them- seives. No tenchor need apply & whip on account of it. 12. Any boy who tells on another boy shall be boycotted. 13. No boy shall be kept in after school except at his own request, as when an- other boy is lying in wait to lick him. Tt THE LATEST IN STRIKES. Radical 1deas That Have Emanated from Pniladelpnia and Louisville. New York Times: The progress of civ- ation is full of chee ‘:m]w('lfl. None, , are more striking than the ra- pidity with which a radieal idea spreads among the people. Emerson said that every reform bogan as a private opinion. The gentleman who first conceived the idea of the strike probably did not foresi cer of the child of his brain. The acks of Louisville are among those upon whom this noble thought has re- cently dawned with overmastering force. They have decided that, although'5 cents has "long been deemed’ sufficient pecu- niary corpensation for a shine, they can zot 0 by combining. They have thy ore struck for one dime for one shine, and have issued a manifesto declaring that they ‘“‘will black no man” for a nickel. As unfortunately often happens, these Knights of Labor have not taken the trouble to sec whether they can get what they want without striking. They never asked any one to give 10 cents. They havenot shown any good reason why they should have 10 cents. We believe that this great strike will in the end fail. The gentlemen of Louisville are abundantly able to black their own boots. Chose who are unable probably have footmen or other servants who do_not belong to the bootblacks’ organization, and who will consent to ofticiate with *‘scabs” for a considera cents a week extra wages. T lle bootblacks should haye tried arbitration. They may order al tic-up, but as the shoes of probably accustomed to that, the inhabitants regard the future with equanimity. Philadelphia, always ambitious to out- i o of the west, and van of progress, outdone Louisville. A few days ago ilors in the naval asylum in that city struck against veal potple. They declared that it was bad, :nu&. n}l.vr marching into the dining hall ‘and sitting down to dinner, they simultancously arose and ma { out again dinnerless. They demand plum duff, lob s dandy funk and salt horse; but the the line at veal potpie. Lacking de information, we eannot speak fr the merits of this momentew ) Weare not informed as to whether the ancient marmers found fault with the crust of the pie or the ves he ave been of the kind which is x ured for trade purposes only, I the public has unquestionably lost confidence. The veal may have been of that ety w hich 18 familiarly called “bob.” But whatever the merits of the strike may be, it opens’ up a future whose roseate hue is wholly delightful to the mental vision, faiy Hereaft when a boarding-house keeper insists upon giving | y day for dinner rost beef over-done, 'y trl Let them march into the dining hall, sit down, rise up agan, and depart dinnerless, Itistrue that the boarders will But, then, what merit is there s “who will not go hungry n submit to eat- ing what he does 7 The la may r y , and may for non-union boarders to take the pl of those out on a strike; but the union men can then march in and smash the tandlady’s plates and cups and saucers; They can also, if necessary, smash the heads of the ‘“‘rat” boarders. They will probably be arrested and punished; but they can be happy in the thought that they have been martyrs to a great cause, and have emulated the example set by illustrious freight-handlers and street-car drivers of the days of yore. There is also a chance for the paupers of America to follow out this great idea. harity gives the pauper bread, but he tires of it sometimes. Let him strike, Let him loudly say, “we don't want bread; we want pie.”’ If the charitable organization do6s not comply with the demand, let him refuse to take anything at all from it, and thus drive it out of the business. We could © many other suggestions to the oppressed and down- trodden of this cruir d and despot-ridden but it ary. Our only regret in connection with t atter is that Marcos Bozzaris not live to see the outcome of the divine idea to which he gave utterance when he promulgated the “doctrir ‘‘Strike, for your altars and your fires." e Children need a good cough medi- cine. Red Star Cough Cure 15 free from opiates, B When She Sald Beans He Took It Boston Advertiser: ‘I don't want any castor oil,” said a sick little boy, petu- lunI‘y. “and I won't take it.” “Why, Horace," expostulated his moth- er, ‘‘don't you know that castor oilis made from beans?” And the little boy, whose faith in his mother Is perfect,” took the dose and feebly asked for more, i Halford Sauce is capital tor dyspeptics. coould be' scen *an Indian whose hut is sur ARBOR DAY ‘' AMONG INDIANS Thonsands of Tréés Planted by the Noble Rods on Yahktén Reservation. Sy Sowling the Seetl of Civitized Comfort on Treoless Plains—Progress of the [ndiaws in Agriculture ~Putting in Orops. YANkTON AakNcy, D. T., April 26.— [Correspondence of the Bek.]—While congress has beeti enffaged in lengthened and vigorous debates upon the best solu- tion of the Indian question, and agitation upon the subjeet has long engaged the attention of the leading papers of the country, the Indians themselves, so far at least as those upon this reservation are concerned, are awakening at last to atrue sense of their situation and are quietly working out for themselves the problem of self support and independ- ence. Onone of the oldest reservations of Dakota it might be supposed that the Indians should by this time have been far advanced in material progress, but by reason of bad management in former years at the hands of unseraputous and negligent federal ofticials, it has been only in recent times that any real inter- est has been shown by the Yanktons in agricultural and mechanical pursuits. Even when fortunate enough to be under .| the management of a competent agent desirous of advancing, teaching and encouraging them, a change in na- tional administration or = the re. tiroment of the persons from volitical life to whose influence such officer owed his appointment, has brought with it a_change of agents, and the good officer was too often succeeded by one totally ineflicient to attend to the duties of the position, the progress, per- haps, just begun under the former agent, has been WHOLLY UNDONE BY HIS SUCCESSOR. Thus, the Indian has suffered by reason of tho ups and downs of political life, of which he knows nothing and cares still lTess. Ewmbracing more than 400,000 acres of arable land, capable of producing in abundance any crop indigenous to this climato, this' reservation presents the most favorable inducements to the cul- tivation of the soil, which returns to the husbandman ample and substantial re- muneration for the labor expended upon it. The onlv r¢ y tho Yankton Indians is, as before mentioned, because of the in- capacity of former agents or their i ference to the ultimate wi the wards entrusted to their charge. But under the fostering care of an honest agent they are rapidlyf§divesting them- sclves of ‘the indolence which has en- veloped them and are awakening to the advantages of labor and to a_knowled, of the wealth to be extracted from bosom of Mother, Earth. A ride about the reservation strates this fact. Everywh plowing and s yet the Indians have 1ot master tails of agriculture, but th ¢ on the high road to more ptimate knowledge of successful labor in thisdirection. Kach help the other old trival relati in times of war into the peaceful pursuits of the famm, theycan be seen in bands traveling about the reservation plowing this man's ficld and sowing that man’s plot. Your correspondent count- ed nine teams and 1s many men en- aged in vlowingmndseeding a ten-acre ate. Thus they assiat one another and will continue to do so until taught to rely solely upon theirown individual eflor was my good. fortune to wit- st Saturday what I beleve o the first observation of ARBOR DAY AMONG THE INDIANS. ally instituted by a c t first only obseryedin that finally become almost uni- 1, and its celebration among the In- s marks an epochin the history of the aborigines not soon to be forgotten, and the benefits of which will increase with increasing yoars until their former treeloss plains are covered by the beau- tifying results of b and therefore successful arboriculture The flag ‘“flung to the breeze’ from the top of the agency Iib- erty pole up the 24th inst. ushered in Arbor day and announced a holiday to the government (-mplo*-\ ‘or days previous the Indian voli gaged in _procuring iz, i e i1 -the. bottom lands bordering the river obtained -~ a good jon. Ground had and had supply for the oc been broken and the day commenced by planting a thousand embryonic forest trees on the campus’ of - the government boarding and industrial school. } the Indian boys schiool under the supervision of their superintendent industriously engaged all day long in commemorating the estab- lishment of Arbor day, within thie Indian domain and at the snie time: learning a veluable lesson in horticulture, also Paul issi chool, the day was the Indian prove a blessing to future generations of St. Paulites. fon of trees s asure ation, will not be de- holds good among | Indians Wi as in civilized communitie Show me runded b well-kept, neatly trimmed grove of tre Wt will show you one who is leading the race of self-support, wnose farm Dbears evidence of careful and intelligent culfivation, Who is progressive and lib eral. - And so, in riding over this reser- vation, no surer indication of the degree of civilization attained by the inhabitant of an Indian house or the owner of an Indign farm. than the number of trees composing the grove about his claim. Arbor day, instituted by a citize Nebraska, litingly roceives its oflicial in- troduction into thé Indian countr, the hands of anothier Nebraska citizen, the present agent of the Yanktons, May the seed sown that day among these Indians who vl = striving for better things, ., _bear fruit in beautiful groves which shall eover this reservation in the néar future, and which shall owe their orij Jfio the example set the owners of the y, the first observ- ance of Arbor day in their midst, All honor and éredit/ to that Nebraska pioneer, the Hong J"‘i Sterling Morton, who instituted thé' cistom of observing this day of which‘} ife, and by precept and example h moted its. success. Had he never performed anything els worthy of commemo Jmn. his one " deed will entitle him to the gratitude rity, perpetugting his memory long monuments of bronze and granite 1 into dust. Future gener: zens of these once treeless raivies will ‘“rise up and call lessed.” Arbor day was but the inauguration of the planting at this ageney for the spring. l'ans and walks, and drives are laid out to be surrounded and ornamented and beautitied by the foliage of th and the ash, L THE STORY OF A BOAT. Built for the Purpose of Becoming & Confederate Cruiser. Philadelphia Times: The ship Andro- meda, Capt, Henry Kron, eleared from his port on the S0th ultimo, bound for wundo, Germsny. This fact is ikely to awaken an interest i of ‘the average veader f him not 1 wind and departures, known and unknown, “tramps ' and “liners,” are noted every day. But the Andromeda has a history, almost a romance. At one time she was a probable factor and instrument in the handsof a confederacy; she might have me of national intere: carries kerosene to ous Ge in-teade, and ecarries it in novelty may be compensation for the loss of the romance. In the early part of 1881 somo English- men, having watched with evident satis- faction the numerous profitable eaptures of the Alabama, conceived the happy thought that there was room for one more such craft on the water. They laid the keel of what was to be_a larger, and in every way a better vessel, and hurried her forward to completion. They did good work and made a staunch ship. while they no doubt looked forward with intense satisfaction to the time when, sailing under a commission from the confederate government, she should make war against the Yankoce merchant marine and_bring gold and silver gulore to the pockets of her enter- prising owners, The ship was launched, christened in the usual way, her machin- ery made ready for placing, and every- thing wus being rushed forward with n}l hossible haste, when news came that the carsarge had followed the Alabama into Cherbourg and that a battle was probable. Probability became a fact on Sunday, June 19, and” the Alabama's sun wont down, not in_a sea of glory, but stem first ru(l full of holes. Rear Admiral’ Raphael Semmes com- pleted one more variatioft to h r as o farnier, preacher, lawye well—nayal 'commander, dropped his sword in the water, jumped after it, atidiwad sooh ploked by, tho Bnglish Decrhound and carried, with others of the rescued, to Southampton. It is.said that Admiral Semmes sought a conference with the owners of the new ship. It is not doubted that he was able to present excellent credentials and to give numerous instances of past success as indicative of future possibilities, but the news from Cherbourg dampened tho Englishmen’s ardor and Semmes was not weleomed with any excessive degreo of cordiahty. The owners would not teplace the Alabama with their new ship. They would wait awhile. Con- federate bonds were losing their golden hue and cotton’s crown was getting very shaky. With their usual caution they considered a guinea in the pocket eral on the war-troubled and e age-infested waters, and so, in rail- road parlance, they side-tra 1 the one- tme-intended ally of the confederacy. Their decision W wisely made. he rch through Georgin made eventful the closing months of 1861, while April 1865, found Grant at Appomattox, and the north w up and the south w: down. No interpretation of international law could second Alabama anything clse than_a pirate, so the own- crs of the new »)xir stopped her embry- onic roman in the first chapter and changed ler into a freighter, an ! np at that. The machinery was sold, and as a full-rigged ship h 1ron masts, she became the Andromeda. kor nineteeen sailed the ocean blu 'hen hands und now hails from seester , on the river Weser, lifty odd miles from A CORPSE AS SECURITY. Cold-Blooded Proceeding of a Tuc- son Undertaker. Cases where dead bodies have been held for debt have been of frequent oe- currence, but those have been rare where adavers have been kept in the custody of the creditor for a longer period than few days, and rarer still where the creditor has been able to slowly make up his bill by gratifying morbid " curiosity, at a small admission fee, to gaze on s ghou and ghastly curiosity. Tucson, Ariz., has one of “these rarest of rare < with a St. Louis sttachment. In 881 Col. James Edwards, of that city, loeated some mining property somo distance from Tucson, and with a party of half a dozen started out to view it. Among those who uccompanied him was Mr. Max Kotany, also of this city. man from G apids, Mi yluyud as purveyor for the exeursior e wasa peculiar character, with tastes, but well prese was a passion for currant jelly, and when he purchased the supplics for the party for the trip over the plains two-thirds of the sume in bulk Wei,‘_’ll( was composed of currant iclly. When the party arrived at the place where the elaims had been located and purchased, the mines were and the work of deyelopment pgan, Col. Bdwards and Mr. Kotany luhl for home after the work was well under way, the of the party rei nd Rapids member f superintendent The opening of the mines proved a very expensive and unprofitable undertaking, and con ble money was sunk in the work, which had just “about been aban- doned, o await a change in the ch of the country and in the climate, of . awnter being the one when the me ill and died 8 15 was notified reccived the body A tow days. | to send the body home it was raised and _emi wker brmging ina bill ot 3 '8, This the family vefused to esented to M. Edwards, 10 settle the cluim, as he shad not ordered the embalming, and us the superintendent’s ate -was already indebted to him. The unde ki - fused to give itup.. That was in Mareh, 1882, and he still holds the body i his ofmce i a rough box, where he visitors 25 eents a head for the of lpoking nt the remains. Mr, and Mr." Kotany have both body since o v it_looks perfectly n. ural, and Mr. A. J. Weil letters which testify to the same effect. The dead Vs family still reside in Grand Rapids, where he has a brother who is a physi -~ An Experiment Worth Trying, Wall Street News: A business man in in, 11L., went to a minister, the other ay, and said: “‘We have a mortgage on this church huillliu;fi( of $700. [ have a chanca to go in a pork deal which will pay me about $2,000 in thirty days. If I'should make the deal and pay off the mortgage do you think the Lord would be displeased with ne?'" “Well, Brother Hastings,” was the re- ply; L have herctofore held that the Lord was against this sort of speculati and while Ishan’t attempt to decide matter for you, I think it’s an exper worth trying, especially if you subscrib an additional hundred to the new bell.” - ‘The tunnet of Posilip; fine specimen of ar Millions of human beings year, for nearly twenty centuries, passed through it. R: n chariots and other ancient vebicles have left their autographs scraped and seratched into the lining stone, and modern wagons and carriages stiil rub their hubs aguinst it, leaving their traces for generations to come. Yet another universal language has been invented. In addition to the two German svstems of Schlegel (Volapuk) and Steiner (“*Pusilingua’™) a system has just been published by a Luttich philol- ogist with the name’ of “Nal Bino,"” or langue universelle. ——— Omaba will be represented in the con: yention of the unational association of brewers which will convene in San Fran. cisco on the 10th inst., by Charles Meta) He leaves to-day and goes by way of St. Louis in the company of a number of brewers from all parts of the country. EMENTS. FANLONS IN "FANTASMA'" Speaking of this production which will be presented at Boyd's opera house this evening and Saturday matines and night, the San Francisco Chronicle says: A crowded house greeted Fantasma Iast night. The Hanlons have always been popular becanse they give a kind of entertainment of which ther are now almost the sole and certainly the best representatives. The old pantomimo h almost departed any way, and every r changes the characteristics of what remains of it. The Hanlons have the knowledde of the humor of mechanism. To describe Fantasma is impossible 1t is a story and only two speaking parts, The interest and entertainment, fi( y en- tively in the stage mechanical tricks, which are innumerable in variety and & con t surprise. Not only in small matters, but in <ome large and striking scenes, the ingenuity is very excoptional, the huarricane scene for instance, and even on the first performance last night the mechanism worked very complete The Hanlons do innumerable clever things. The piece will prove popular. Police Court. J. H. O'Neill, a soldier from Fort Omaha, and John Harris, & negro, were arraigned before Judge Stenborg yes- torday on a charge of fighting, The bluecoat, it seems, went mto the Palace saloon about 7 o'clock M. Wednesday and beginning in an unbecoming manner, was efected by the negro. He resented such treatment, and fought vigorously for what he considered his rights. ~ He thrashed the earth with the negro, and but for timely interference might have jured him seriously. The police ap- l ared on the scene justin time to arrest both principals. O'Neill was released this morning on payment of » fine of %5 and costs. Pat Rockbud and Barton, two chronic drunkards, were fined §5 and costs for into: ion. Thev were sent up to the county jail in default. Pat Kearney, hronie,” was released, ns were Jadden and Chas. Gocethe. hts were given bread and water sentences. to act The Court House Plans. The county commissioners do not agree with Architect Meyers that an additional story to the court house can be put in at a cost not exceeding $90,000. One of them offers to bet u 875 suit of clothes that no contractor can be induced to take the job for iess than $175,000 or $200,000. The matter will probably be submitted to a yote of the people Brevities, Marriage license was yestor to Georgo L. Bellows and S ries y granted h R. Jefl . Van Ness, Rush Miser and Frank rton, three boys who are going astr: ill be taken to” the Reform school to- During the month of April there were fifty deaths and 100 births in this city. It was the most prolitic month that Omaha has ever known. Judge Wakeley made an order yes- terday confirming the sale of property by the First Congregational church to John A Creighton. The oase of Haubens vs Lange, an vy aflair, was cal Judge MeCulloch’s court yesterday continued until June 5. The next meeting of the board of trade will be held on Monday night, when an- booming discussion of the Union c relief bill will take place. e argament in the mandamus swit brought by Brennan & O'Neill to compel the council to award them_the contract for grading, will be heard in the ~district court on noxt Monday. The three Sarpy county prisoners who have been doing time at the county jail, and one of whom, Jus. Fox, jumped from the train whilo en route “to- this rty, red-faced, crying baby, covered with mud from head to foot, was picked up on the streets yesterday, and t the Women’s Aid association ut Sixte and Farnam, where it will await a claimant Mary Novotrcy, a young Bohemian gul, exhibited signs of insanity some time ago and was confined in the county She was taken by her friends to Joseph’s hospital, but has become he and has again been con- I'he Unit, to-morrow ; teur will be delivered by Mrs. Dr. 1, and an essay on the relation be. tween mind and matter by M Edison. Convyersation on the influence of mind over matter will be led by Mrs. Dr. Dins- moor. Angust Spi rested in Chi s, one of the socinlists ar- 1zo us being implicated in the dy riots, is known to many people in Omuha. ke spent a day or mn On <t summer, coming out here to deliver o pienic address. Before he loft he had 2 debate on the labor ques- tion with Editor Schnake, of the German Tribune, at Bohemian hall. he following 1s the weather foreeast for the week ending Wednesday, May 12 ‘Opens cool, loeal frosts in northern section—windstorms_and rain show: (snow flurries possibly) north, h rains west, rainy and cool in most sed tions—a warmer ehange to summer heat id consequent geney activity, thunder storms and hail show- ech A The exposition management has se- cured for a eoncert on May 19th Men- delssohn’s Quintette elub, "and Miss Edith Edwards, the soprano of that or on. The latter, it is said, will ively appear.” Joseph Hler and George ¢ from the Pa- pent about a month betwe cities of San Franci and Monterey, Mr. Iler pronounces Monterey the finest watering place in she world. 'Wm. E. Iler, son_of Peter Lie of this city, was loft to enjoy a longer a quaintanee with that purt of the country. Personal Paragiaphs. _A. J. Osborne of Newton. Ia., is in the city. A. K. Marsh of Sutton, Neb., is in the eity. Cal. John Doniphan of St. Joseph, is at the Paxton. W. H. B. Stout, of Lincoln, was at the Millard yesterday. Mr. and Mys. J. J. Imhoff, of Lincoln, are atthe Millard, W. H. B. Stout, of Lincolu, registered at the Millard yesterday. J.8. French and fumily of Wayne, Neb., are visiting in Omaha, Morris Elgutter hus irned prolonged trip to California. R. M. Ray, of Kansas City, represent- ing a prominent oil tirm, is in the city co. E. Powell, Falls City, H. 8. ws and wife, Lincoln, are at the Caufield. T. M. Marquette, Lincoln, while in at- ce unon the United States circuit court, is & guest at the Millard John 8. Casement, of Paine the railroad contracto) from his early conncction with the oon- struction of the Union Pacitic, is at the Paxton, Mr. W. Smith, who has for several yeurs been chief clark in the construction epartment of the Union Pacitic, leaves on Suturdsy to take a place with Mr. Mc Murray in the claim department at Den ver. after a ville, Ohio, THE SPECULATIVE MARKETS. A Ohangeable Day on 'Ohange, With Prices Weak and Lower. WHEAT AGAIN TOUCHES BOTTOM. The Cattle Market Higher, With Re- ceipts Oleared Out — Country Shippers Warned to Look Out For Breakers, CHICAGO GRAIN MARKET, Cricaco, May 6. Telezram. |— WieAT—Speculative markets wero overy- where eased up this morning. Grain was lower at Chicago and stocks lower at New York, “Wheat,” said John Cudahy, “has not been as well evened up in a year as it is todday. Trade is so still just now thatif any- body sells even a little wheat, the price runs off. June wheat opened at S0ie, and run down to 70%@i08;c in half an hour. The ex- tremely fine weather had something to do with it. Morcover, the apprehension of a panic was so far allaved that whatev- er support was given yosterday sim- ply for the purpose of prevent- ing & panic, was withdrawn this morn- ing. The market was free to act and went down as a consequence. Stocks were acting the same way at New York. By noon June wheat was down to ¢, and puts were good for 50c on every 35 Invested in them last night. Cables came In with wheat steady butslow. June wheat sold down to T8ige, the lowest point again. The point from which the market loomed up on this' last bulge was T6igc for May. The carrying charge was 2@3'4c, and never under 1%c, %o that June is seiling to<lay where it sold when the market was at the ‘bottom. Both Ream and Cudahy. the old timo sellers, wero put- ting out wheat again when the ‘pit_became the weakest. The close for wheat at 1e'clock was 1837c for June, 8o that puts at_the close were worth more than st noon, It is said that one trader, Mathews, boukht puts last night on 601,000 bushels. Cudaly 1s said to have bought puts on H10.000 bushels and to haye sold call to an equal amount. Report. The following report is furnished by Chandler Brown Co.,of Chicago and Milwau- kee: June wheat opened 80} and sold gradu- ally down to T3cand closed at 783 at1p. m. The continued labor troubles being the cause of the decline. Corn X In sympathy with wheat. Steady and quiet. 2:30 p. m.—\Wheat weak; 26 loads taken for exvort. Corn and prov] OPTIONS. WHEAT— May .. - EEEN CHICAGO LIVE 8TO0K., CricAGo, May 6.—[Special Telegram. |— Carrii—The offerings to-day were very light, and again gave salesmen a decided ad- vantage. The general demand was 0o and the supply was soon cleared at good, strong prices. Sales were 16@l5¢ higher than yes- terday, and 20@4)c higher than a week ago. The advance this week has been somewhat spasmodic and irregular, but all kinds of oat- tle have advanced in prices, owingto the small supply. Shippers and dressed beef men were buying and business was soon done at their prices. Other markets were stronger to-day in sympathy with ours. Kan: and St. Lows both reported an about 10c. *“Tell country shippers to look out for breakers,” said a salesman, The ad- vance in_prices’ this week is whoily due to light receipts, and many lar'e lo's of cattle will probably soon be hui- 18 the market: - Distillers-Ted eattlo wers n very large supply, and found ready sale at advanced prices, also sold 420 head to'S There were ne qod they 3 d ity Nearly 8 1bs, d at steers sold af 5 18, Ship- b slop-fed cat- bought the ippers Loo i 5, averaging 1020 DS, —''he market was active and again about he higher than yesterda best assorted heavy and bui P $ 15504403 bost mixed, $1, L 2; light, §1,00@4.10, 15" pigs sol 1.0, largely FINANCIA L. New York. May 3 $ ¢ per eent. MUERCANTILE PAPER—4}{@5 NEY—On call, ensy LI cont. StknLiya Lxenaxar—Dull but steadv; $4.50%; or sIxty days: $4.50 for demand. Govinxakxts—Dill but steady, STocks - Stocks were irregular af the open- thoneh the majority of the active list 1an advance of @7 per cent. Among clawanna, New York Cen- re & Hudson, while several nged. The market was ac- dealings, and although thero were a few slight advances in tie first fow minute rkot soon became weak, Towards2 o'clock there was a fractional rally, but the market was heavy and dud durhig the last hour, closing at or near the lowest prices of the day. BTOCKS ON WALL 101 11 per STREET. 8% cent bonds, 8. 434 New 4's. Pacific 6's of ifie k Islana. L. &8, F. referred . & St. (I 5 037|St. proferied.. Texas Pacifi LukeShore 1072 Unign Pacific Mich. Conifr: ! " preferred. .. Mo, Paci 110 lw.-m-... Union St L. & 1. I Northern Pac... 23 0.1 & N.. preferred...” 5i% (J"ll.'.\(-;l) PRODUCKE, y 6. Flour—Quiet but steady 1owinter wheat, $440@i47; Was6r; Wisconsin, $4.70@ soft spring, $4.70 $i50004, \ Backs. go for May; 8030 for bige for May; 803 for Wk for May; W¥e for Harley . Timothy—Prime, $1.72, Pk sy r 8910 for May; 80T f Pork—Kasy | $9. or May; §9. lor $0.28 for July. 4 $5.95 for Juii —Easy; $5.87)¢ for May; m..&‘h‘:’?&f“;fl:.'dm $4.00@4.10; shor! clear, $5.9(@1.00. B W