Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 9, 1886, Page 5

| t 1 i — THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1886 PUSHING TO COMPLETION. Rapid Progress"Being Mad on the North- tern Branch to Lincoln, NEWS FROM THE STATE HOUSE, Work of the Board of Public Lands Baildings ~Lands Forfeited in Holt County—Court News and Politics, TFROM THE DEE'S LINCOLY BUREAT]. The Lincoln branch of the Chicago & Northwestern that is being built to this city, and upon which the limit of time for construction is placed at November 1, is pushing work all along the line from Fremont south, grading camps being already estabiished within six miles of this city. The right of way for the road through Sannders and Lancaster coun- tics has all been secured, save and except a few isolated exceptions, and the pro: pects now are that the road will be com- pleted to the capital at a date nearor tember 1 than November 1. The road will run past the fair grounds of the state agricultural society, parallel with the B. & M. railroad, and upon completion will be a valuable auxiiiary to the latter com- pany in handling the freight and pas- senger traflic that centers at the grounds on fair week. The Northwestern, after crossing the Platte riv ix miles west of Fremont, erosses Saunders county to Wahoo, and between the latier place and the river two towns have been platted by the company--one at Pine Blulls postof- fice and one at Colon, between Wahoo and Lincoln. No town sites haye as yet been surveyed, and the possessor of natural towns and town lot speculators must possess their souls in pa tience, N. C. Abbott right of way man for the company, left vesterday for Fremont and Wales on bus- ness for the company. AT THE STATE HOUSE The board of public lands and build- ings met at the land commissioner’s office yesterday in regular monthly ses- sion, ‘having for the s work the monthly routine regarding” public lands and buildings. The board failed to com- rlete their work in this branch, and ad- iullrm-ll until Thursday, holding a session to-day to t edueatiol isact business regarding the nds. At this ion the report of the appraisers upon the school Jands in Hayes county wiill be received, and if approved, these lands, which com* prise some of the finest grazing lands in the state, will be opened subject to lease. The commissioner of puh[‘iu Jands and buildings has dec 1 forfeited to the state 1,200 acres of school land in Holt county, the forfeit being for not paying lease rental and being delinquent to the 1 + state in the same. The land will be ad- vertised for a releasing on July 10, at the appraised value. Inthe seei ‘s office artic of incorporation were filed incorporating the Blue valley bank, of Hebron, No- braska, with a cash eapital of §25,000, the corporation to run from June 1, 1856, to alike date A. D., 1906, The incorpora- tors are J()fil'l)h A. Buller, H('ll;:lmin Young, John Cropsey, J. H. Stickle,John Henry Quilmeyer, M. H. Weiss. IN DISTRICT COURT. In!district court before Judge Hayward, the case of William Barr, who stands by information charged with perjnry, was on trial to a jury, the district mmrm?', sted by R, D, 'Stearns, prosceuting the This case is the outgrowth of a hat was tried at the fast term of the district court in which Tom Carr was prosecuted under the Slocumb law by the law and order league for keeping blinds before the windows of his saloon. Barr was ono of the jurors whe heard the case, and the jury failed to agree, stand- ing for two days, eleyen for acquittal and one for conyiction. The information now filed against arr, and upon which he is tried for perjury, recites that at the trinl when he was a juror, that he swore he knew nothing of the case, and the ]u'os()cllliun is attempting to prove that Barr knew all about it and had so ad- mitted to the jury at that time and after- wards, The jury returned a verdict of not guilty. POLITICAL, There is a roaming rumor passing through the political cirel es of this politi- cal centre that a boom is forming out in ond congressional district for C. 8. on 18 asuccessor to James Laird as representative in congress. Mr, Harri- son was for some yoars a resident of York, and 1s now living in the Republican valley, from which place comes the announcement from his friends that he will be groomed for the congressional race, :\mi‘lh:n. he is builded of winning timber, MINOR M TION, The B. M. is using the broadaxe again 1 regard to the passenger conduc- 5, but whother it means a general nge, the railroad boys are unable to i Some time since Conductor Webb, with a freight run out of Lincoln, was re from ducy, and Sunday last Con- ductor Edson, of the main line passenger run between Pacitic Junction and Ha: ings, was relieved and Conductor Carter was given his place. General Vifquain, who was banqueted at the Windsor Monday evening, left yes- terday for Barranquilla via Washingion, where he will receive final instructions ing his duties. His friends in Lin- coln mourn. S. H. H. Clark of Omaha and Alex Jetes,of the Missouri Pacitic railway com- pany, are in the city on business matters concerning the Lincoln extension of that corporation. W. Bookwalter, of Wwiio onee upon a time en as a demoeratic candidate for governor of Ohio, is in the city, ealled by legal business in the district cous Hon. A5 eld, bears him coumn- H al Baggage Agent Marsland, of the B. & M., and Mrs. Marsland enter- tuined the Arion club at their pleasant home Monday. evening, and the straw berry season and products were called into active nssistance, Representative Neweomer,of Blue Ihill, Webster county, was in the city yester- day, viewing ‘the scencs where the Ne- braska legislature saved the country. J. Stilson Pottor, of Nebraska City, and of the law firmof John C. Watscn, was doing the capital yesterday and enter- taining his friends abd himself ‘The Lincoln base ball elub have gone to Leavenworth to cross bats with that clab in a sevies of four games. Their friends prediet great things for them down in the Kaw bottoms, and want to pit them aguinst the Union Pacitics on their return home Thie scheol board has re-clected the old corps of teachers, and in so doing follow the sensible track that good teachers are 100 good to Jose. WOTAL ARRIVALS, The following ireamoag the prominent Nebraskans vegisterad at the difierent hotels H. Derby, Bellwood, L. Carter, Ashland; D. A. Campbell, Plattsmouth; C. M. Todd, Omaha; E. D, Wheelock, Beatrice; B, 8. Buker, Fairbury; J. M Tobinson, Plattsmouth; L. D, Hawtherne, Yors; A, F Rust, Omaba; 5. H, H. Clark, Owata; B, W. Blair, Omaha; C. P. Need- nam, Omaha; G, C. Freemau, Liberty; S. 1. Butler, Sewary R. M. Rankin, David City: Coarles A. Harvey, Omaha; W. W 1; 1, Cutbartson; A. Crawford, Soward, J 5ls01 Patter, Nebraska Cityy George Vroudti!, Friend. LIFE AND DEATH IN MUNICH, An Iuteresting Chapter on Beer and Subsequent Burials. G Hem-{ Horstmann, for several years I at Munich, has published an in- teresting volume of reminiscences of his visit abrond. In deseribing the cemetery at Munich the writer say . The corpses are kept forty-cight hours in the ‘“‘deadhou before interment. Each coflin is numbered. and outside, in the vestibule, a framed list gives the name and age of each occupant. Great precautionary measures are taken against the chance of burying anyone who might possibly be only in a trance. A corpse is not allowed to {n' kept more than twent, four hours in the house (quite a wise reg- ulation in cities, where many fam living under the same roof). It is then taken to the “‘deadhouse” at the ceme- tery. When the coffin has been placed, aving s slipped over the middle finger of the corpse, having a connecting wire to the ceiling, and from there carried over to an adjoining apartment, where the wire is attacned to a bell having number corresponding to that of the coffin. The slightest movement of the body would cause the bell to ring, and the attendants would be at once notified. In sush cases they have their special in- structions as to what is to be done. In the large halls there is quite a net work of wires with the ends hanging down, and it rather unpleasantly reminds one of a vast telegraph oflice wher good deal of business is being done. The quiet corpses lying there side by side, with their fingers in the rings, make a weird and mystic impression on one-— those poor hiiman batteries, charged with all the miseries of earth, with their wires connecting with eternity. 1f those wires were inbued with the power of transmit- ting the expressions of the hiving soul, w tales would be theirs! 1 often used to think how horrible it wounld be should one of the bells begin ringing-—suppose the dead of night, when the great graveyard is deserted by all save the thousands of ghosts that haunt it--the losts below ground and those in the hall silently awaiting their turn to be shoveled in—-and the soiitary living watches 1 the charnel ante-chamber And yet such things not unfrequently happen. From the swelling of the bodies the hand ships down, and the bell rings, The watchman--hardened old chum of the dead--like a sprightly waiter, saun- ters in to what is wanted; but he only has to ise the , leaden hand to its place again. This pgement. of the rings and ar bells is made probably more ation of the public than for no ease has occurred, since on some thirty years ago, of any of the occupants of the “deadhouse’ coming to lif ain. The little children alone lie there in groups by themsely and have no wires :l\l:\vln-(rlu them. “It would be a poor work on Munich,’ says Mr. Hortsmann, “if one chapter were not devoted to beer. Ba kes the lead of ail nations in the consump- tion of beer, but Munich out be all F in.” The babe at the breast is sip of beer. Before it is vear old it 1s knowing in the matter of béer, and claps its hands joyfully when it sees the sparkling brown juice in the Before it can walk it is generally ture honored with the present of a mini beer glass, which becomes as necess: table equipment for it as the spoon it with. fi'lus measure of beer one g Munichis no humbug. The law requires each glass and each mug shall bear on that its outside its government i to its capacity, and a horizon ground into Ju-, glass or stone showing the exact level which the liquid must have. Thisline dare notbe less than one centimetre (half an inch) from the rim, 1s to allow for the foam, and the Is must be filled to that mark olid beer. There are 5,482 brew- B 1 , ora little more than one to each 1,000 inhabitants. In the United States there are 2,500 breweries, or one to each 20,600 inhabitants. In Munich there are 20 breweries, the largest pro- ducing 7,000,000 gallons of beer per annum. In all Europe there are 40,000 breweries, producing 74,800,000 barrels of be Of this quantity Bavaria produces 8,070,000 barrels. The city of Munich annually consumes 783,000 barrels of beer, or 473 quarts per head, or 1 3-10 quarts per day—more than thirteen times as much as the average amount for the American cit Horstmann ven- tures to sny t re thousands of men in Munich who drink eight quarts every day of their lives, while there are many who drink ten and twelve q h If this quantity were divided out into the ordinary American 5-cent glass it would fill sixty glasses. But although such im- mense quantities of beer are consumed in Bavaria the amount of drunkenness is much less there than in other countries, and a drunken man in the streets i most never seen, a fact alleged to be due to the richness of Bavarian beer in dex- trine, and its comparative freedom from cohol. The Bavarian winter beer con- ins about 4 per cent. and the summer beer about 44 per cent. of alcohol, while inglish porter contains from 6to 7 per cent, and ale from 6 to 9 per cent.”” o One of the small,roc nds of Py mid luke, Nevada, is alive with rattle- snukes, It is supposed that the pro- renitors of these snakes were wafted to the island on bunches of tloating reeds or rafts of driftwood. ‘I'here are thousands, if not millions—the people about the lake say millions—of the r: tlers on the island, and their ht to it there is “‘none to dispute.” ‘The reptiles have their homes among the rocks and feed npon the eggs and young of water- fowl and dead fish that arc cast on the island. Stories have been told of these snakes rushing forth in a body, hissing and rattling, to attack any one landing upon the island, The rattlesnakes of the 1.~')xmd, when disturbed, glide away and hide themselves in the crevices of the rocxs, just as would similar snakes on the mainland, though they nalt and show fight when hard pressed, - Very Precise, Texas Siftings: The Rov. Whang- doodle Baxter somowhat bowildered his congregation by e “Cistern and bredoren, daz will be a r:lllllugl reting in dis buildin' to-morver ebenir : “What's de hour?” called out a mem- er. “Yer ¢an come as soon or as lute as you plenses, provided yer all get neab ut scben o'clock, perzackly.'’ e Sovere Measures, Texas Siftings: *Tacre are no erusad ers or prohibitionists in my section of Kentue remarked a Kentucky colo- nel at Washington, “But what do people do thero to check the curse of liguor?’ “Well, whon a man tofuses to monkey with the flowiug bowl 1 treat him. " his ueighbors a reat him?" 5, they treat him with sil tempt. Heis iallv ostracised. con- —— Garland's Friends. Texas Sift An Arkansas man who was in. Washington abott ab. apnoint ment in tho attorney general's depart went, telegraphed to his wife— *ave had w with Gar- land. Much p result.” The intelligent telegraph operator madoe it r “Have had private interview with girl and much pleased with result.” The gentleman’s wifo took the next train for the national eapital. e A Frenchman bas inveoted an auto- maton which plays upon the piano with exprossion and briliiancy. —~~— Miss Rose Hopkins, of an influential fawily in Audvnried, P eloped with » horny-banded cay laborer of the minos. i THE MURDER OF A MISER. A Bloody Orime Which Startled Aristo- cratic New York Thirty Years Ago. THE MYSTERY YET UNSOLVED. A Dark and Devilish Deed Unavenged ~Money the Motive—Sketch of the Cunningham-Burdell Tragedy. A piercing shr through quiet, a ck of “Murder!” rang ocratic Bord street, in New York city, one stormy night thirty years ago. Once only did the ¢ go forth, and then all was silent, save for the rattling of the rain and the moaning of the rapidly rising wind. The hour was half-past 10 o'clock on the night of Frid January 30, 1857, A gentleman living at No. 86 Bond street heard the ery, but he was unable to tell from what direction it came, and as it was not repeated, he closed his door and retired. Next morning the city was shocked to hear of the mysterious murder of Dr. Harvey Burdell, a wealthy but eccentric who lived at No. 31 Bond street, Dr. Bardell owned the nouse, ot which he was in the habit of letting the greater g for his own use only the reception parlors, operating room and bedroom on the second floor. In person he was a fine portly man of middle age, A man of strong passions and ungovernable temper, he had few friends. In spite of his invested wealth, which was 1d hus farge and remunerative prac his mode of life was 80 penurious as almost to entitle him to the name of miser. His house was usually let to persons of questionable character, a class among which he had many intimates. “Hé kept his_own servant, an extraor- dinary Irishgirl nameda Biddy, who, al- thou, ture, possessed I in most respects an singular orant cre: acility for ac quiring foreign language: French, German and Spanish, she spoke with flueney, having devoted all her spare time to study. She was devotedly at- tached to the doctor. On May 1, preceding the murder, Mrs. (Tlmning?\:un, a buxom widow, with two children, took possession of the house. Like others of the doctor’s tenants, her reputation was none of the best. The other inmates of the house were John J. Eckel, who was generally supposed to be paying court to Mrs. Cunningham, Suod- grass, a youth of eighteen, who was very attentiye to the two daughters, Helen and Augu. Daniel Ulman and Hannah Conlan, the cook. A small boy took charge of the doctor’s rooms and called every morning for the purposes of making thie fires N Cunningham _appears_to divided her affections between Mr. E and the doctor, each of whom_ did his most to supplant the other, with the re- sult causing frequent uproars in the house. y On October 28, 1856, Mrs. Cunningham was married by the Rev. Dr. Marvine—to whom it never been clearly proven. The certificate states that it was Dr. Bur- dell, but 1t is by no means ¢ n that l{n As T was not personated on the oceasion. his lawful wife, Mrs. Cunmngham, would, of course, have been_entitled to her legal share of his estate in the event of his sudden death. Whether they were married or not, however, furiois outbreaks between the couple continued to be of frequent oc- currence and matters finally came to such a pass that the doctor determined to look out for another tenant. While Dr. Burdell was out at dinner on the evening preceding the murder, Mrs. Cunningham asked Hannah, the cook, what woman it was that she had shown through the house that day. Hannah replied that it was a lady who was about to take the house. “When does she take posse asked Mrs. Cunningham. “The first of May,” replied the servant. “He better be careful; be may not live to sign the papers,” the mey. What time the doctor. came home that night is unknown, but the exact moment of the murder is fixed at half-past 10 o'clock, and the time when the cry of murder was heard. It was 8 o’elock in the morning when the boy came, according to custom, to make the fires in the doctor’s rooms. He brought a seuttle of coal from the cellar and setting it down opened the door of the front room on the second floor. It struck nagainst something which seemed heavy and yet yielding. The boy, who was whistling merrily, pushed i i and stepped into the room. ion?" sight which met his gaze s him rigid with horror. On its back, w! arms outstretched and eyes staring blankly at the ceiling, lay the body of the owner of the house, the head resting in a pool ot bloon. Blood was_everywhere— on the walls, carpets, furniture, splashed five feet high on the door and spurted to the very ceiling. The boy's terror found ventn a shri that was head by cvery soul in the house, Mrs. Cunningham, with her family and boarders, were quictly at breakfast in the basewent, apparently all unconscious of the awful scene up-stairs. On learning what had ocecurred ave way to a wild outburst f grie ickel exhibited little concern. The room 1n which the body was found had evidently been the scene of a territic life and death struggle. The furnitur was tossed about in every direction and hardly an article was found to be free from the stain of blood. No less than fifteen distinet stab wounds, any one of which was suffici to have caused death, were counte the corpse, which was fully cloth They had the appearane of hiving been inflicted with a long; narrow dagger. Around the neck, sinking dvel]nly into the flesh, was the mark of a small” cord showing that strangulatior 1 tirst been attampted. This failing, resort had b had to the dagger. ‘I'he gas wus burning full. The bed had not been siept in. A complete ex- amination of the house disclosed the startling fact that there were blood marks on the hell, even in the attie room and on the very steps leading to the scuttle in the roof. The spirit of murder scemed to have stalked through the house, leaving every- where the gory trace of its linge The nows of the murdor spread like wildtire through the city. The police wore scarcely able to control the ex: crowds that surged through Bond street to gaze at the windows of the room in which the tragedy took place. At the coroner's inquest, which was held in the honse, medical experts test fied that the strokes of the dugger had been delivered by a left-handed eruum Mrs, Cunningham was left-handed. The verdiot charged Mrs, Cunningham and Eckel with the murder and they were conveyed to the Tombs, The case inst Eckel was dismissed, but Mrs. Cunningham was placed on trial on the 6th of May. She was ably d fended by Henry L. Cliuton. Distriet Attorney A. Oakey Hall conducted the prosecution, but he was unable to estab- lish anything against the accused except the existence of & motive. The * trial lasted three days, and the !ur,v. after deliberating for an hour and a half, roturned a verdict of “unot guilty. Mrs. Cunningham, who had assumed the name of Burdell, immediately re- turned to her home at No. 81 Bond sfrees. Not sutistied with havi; F escaped the penslty of the erime, which there is little doult “that she ecommitted, and baving become entitled bt right of dower toa third of the nmrdered man's wealth, she determined to gain possession of the whole of it, and in furtherance of this oh{m‘( conceived the remarkable idea of palming off on the aunthorities an infant 'u-ir to the estate, A Dr Uhl wag taken into her confi- dence, with the understanding that he was to receive £1,000 for his share in the on. but the doctor promptly inted the district attorney with the of the widow's ingenious acq lv:\llu‘ul:\r.- ittle plan Mr. Hall entered cagerly into the spirit of what appeared to him a huge joke and actually undertook to supply the nec sary Infant. Indne timo Mr3, Cannin ham announced that all was ready for the interesting denonment. Disguised as a Sister of Charity she went to a house in m street, where the intant, borrowed by Mr. Hall from Belle- vue hospital, was delivered to her by Dr. Uhl, and_carried it to Bond street in a basket, The next day the arrival of the heir was duly announced and then Mr. Hall and a policeman stepped in and arrested the “mother.” She was soon atterwards, however, set at libert The little girl who was used in carrying out this remarkable fraud was named Matilda Anderson. *She and her real mother were placed on exhibi- tion at Barnum's museuu. Mrs. Cunningham soon afterwards wentto California_ Eckel was imprisoned in the Albany penitentiary for complicity in some whiskey frauds in Brooklyn and died there. The house in Bond street, which is but little altered in appearance is frequently shown to strangers as the scene of the “mysterious Cunningham-Burdell mur- der. —— BIG JIM. *We Thought We Knowed Him, But We Didn'e," ““He's a bully!" “He'sa coward!” “He's got to hang? “That’s his third man!* The one narrow street of the frontier town was filled with a surging crowd of excited men, There were Indian fighters, scouters, gamblers, —tramps, miners, speculators—everything and orybody. Every town has its bully- ery fron- town. BigJim was the bully of Hill He could drink more, curse loutler, shoot quicker, and start a ro sooner than any other man., When he shot Limber Joe it was a standoff. It w rough against rough. Wloever went under the town would be gainer The death of his second victim brought him a certain respeet, for he had given the man a fairshow. There was a limit to the number of men one might shoot in Hill Ci It was three times and out. Big Jim had killed his third. Two hundred men—all excited alt crazed--all indigdant--some terxibly City oused, surged down the street to the Red Star saloon bent on vengeance. Big Jim and the man he had Killed were alone in the place. “Bring him out!" “‘He’s got to hang!” “Bring out thé bully and coward!" There was & rash, but it was checked. Men had pistols #nd knives in the hanas, but the k‘iFllt of Big Jim with a v big “navy” in_each hand cooled "their r A life for a life is no revenge. They lied when they called him a bully. ond run or bluster and daro not stri They 1 when they called him a coward. Cowards do not remain to face death. Big Jim advanced-a Ittle. The crowd fell back. He stood in the door and sur- veyed the mob as another man might have looked up at the pine_covered crest of Carter’s peak. The mob grew quiet. There were 2000 right hands ciutehin, deadly weapons, but nota hand movel Two hundred to' one is appalling odds, but the one was master. Sceming to face every mau of them—seeming to cover every breast with the black muz of his revolyers—the man backed away up the road into the durkness, out of their sight and hearing. He said not a word. Thore wasn’t a whisper from the crowd until he had disappeared, Then men drew long breaths of relicf. A terrible menace had passed away. Out into the darkness—down the rough road—over the rude bridge, and there Big Jim put up his revolvers, turned his face square to the west and stepped out with- out a look back to the camp. It was ten miles to Harney's Bend. = Men driven from the one camp took refuge in the other. The half-way landmark was a bit of a valley skirted by a creck, Wayfarers who were jour uyinfi by team many times halted there. n this night there as a lone wagon. Under the canvas slept a mother and four children. Resting agamst a wheel was the husband and father, his eyes piercing into the darkness—lis ears drinking in every sound. Big Jim had not reached the valley when the still night air was rent with v whoops, the crack of rifles, the sereams of a woman and her chiidren. Indians had discovered the lone and almost de- fenseless family. There were five scalps to adorn their lodges. he bully and the coward had not been discovered. He could find a safe hiding place. Did he? A half dozen screaming, yelling fiends Bullies strike yet wer dmm“f‘ about the wagon—shooting, striking, dodging, closing in on the one white man, who somehow escaped their blows and bullets—when there was a cheer and a rush, and the navys bogan to crack. Sixty seconds later dead silence had fallen upon the valley. One—two—three¢ dead Indians. The immigrant leancd against the wagon, faint with a wound in his head. The wife looked out with an awful terror at her heart. Bullets had chipped and splintered wheel and body. *Who are you?" asked the immigrant, as a figure approached him from the darkness, “Big Jim." “‘You have saved us from a massacre.” “Yos, it was well 1 happened along! Rouse up the fire, for there is no further danger.’ Wlhen the blaze caught the fresh fagots and lighted up the little valley the imm grant counted the dead Indians again— one-—two—thre He turned with ex- tended hand, but Big Jim had departe, Next day, when men from Hill's and Harney’s found his dead body beside the rocks a mile away, with fiye wounds which had let his life blood out, they whispered to cach other: “We thought we knowed him, but we didn't.” ——————— There have been fdund 275 varietics of MOST PERFECT MADE Prepared with special regard 10 bealik. No Amwonis, Lime or Alum. PRICE BAKING POWDER CO., _CHICAGO. $T. LOUIS JIM GIBBS' YARNS. A Florida Humorist and His Adven- tures by Flood and Fieid. A correspondent of the Philadelphia mes writes from Eustis, Florida: Jim Gibbs, the eracker humorist of Suwance county, 18 a wiry young fellow of about forty, a hard-working mer, and a semi-oceasional lover of oid, red liquor. He has bright, small eyes, a face the color of old tripe, and a ‘moustache that is the shadow of things hoped for. Jim isa good fellow, quiet, peaceable, hos- pitable, and ' is ‘saturated ' with natural, genuine, purcly Ameri- can humor, He two voices, one a decp bass coming up from the depths of his inner economy, the other a charming falsetto, suggesive of the ambi- tious school girl, who attempts to reach high C without first going through the ! proparation. ‘The humor of his ya is enhanced by his startling change from one voice to the other. Many of your readers will remember him, as they have been delighted listeners when stopping at Live Oak. Jim never smiles or laughs himself and at his best when he is about one drink abead of the game. A PRETTY HEFTY CRAWFISIT, “IIl swear, boys,'" said Jim one day, ashe stopped his horse in front of the sa: loon and swayed easily in his saddie, “'1 don’t want to sce no more heavy rains like we had this week. They're about gpiled my crop. Woss inat, them blame crawfish is crawlin® all over my _\w_nr]l. My dog bagged one the t'other night.* “How was that, Jim?" inquired one of boy: “Well, you see, I'd just gone to bed. I couldn't go to sleep, for I hiad been sorter riled at the rain, and all ter onct the pup commenced barkin® like tne devel. 5 thought 'twas a coon in the yard after the chickens, so I slipped on iny, pants, took a lantern and went out. What do you think I saw? Boys, I'll swear hit was the biggest crawlish T eyer seed in all my life. Hit was on hit's hind legs a-sparrin’ at the dog. I sicked the pup on, but the crawlish whipped him out_in one round. I went into the house after my gun, but when I got back the dog- goned thing was gone, I was sorry, for [ was goin’ togive hit tomy friend Senator Bill Bryson.” “How big was it, Jim?" asked onc Iaughing listener. “Boys, I'll swar hit was as bi oods hox,” pointing to a dr about three feet square. A MASSACRE OF WILD DUCKS. “I'll bet a hundred of fodder that I've got the best gun there 1s in old Suwance, said Jim, “and Tonce killed more ducks with hit than the hull blame town of Live k could eat in a “Where is it, Jim? “I've got hit right home now, ain't I, Jo “‘How long is it, Jim?" ‘‘Hit's twenty foot lang, if 1t'sa foot. My old grandfather fit the Injuns with hit, You Kkin put yer whole arm down the barrel. "One day last winter I got up right airly to go down to the pond duck hunting. = T loaded the old gun with a pound of powder and six pound of shot and started off. I had to use about a barrel of moss for wadding. The gun was 8o heavy I couldn't carry hit, 5o I drug the plagued thing through as that 2oods box the bushes n I got to the pond 1t wasn't quite sun_ up. The pond was kivered with ducks. boys, I'll swear I never saw so many ducks in my nateral life. I rested the oger. 5"“ on a branch and pulled the ti sentlemen, the dog-gone thing kicked. Hit cut my lip through, busted my snoot and kicked me onto the head. Yes, sir, bit kilt me dead. When I coma to I was kivered with blood and oould scarccly see. I hurried to the house quick’s could and got my face fixed up. I was that weak I couldn’t walk much, and it was two hours afore I went back to the pond. I'll swear, boys, the gun was still smokin’ and a forty-acre ficld t’other side the pond was kivered with ducks. I wisht I'd took better aim. I b'lieve I'd a Kilt all they was in the pond. “How many did you kill, Jim?"* “Well, [ on’y got seventcen hundred. I'd a got more, but some on 'em was so badly shot up I didn't keer to bother. Fer all, that gun cuttin’ up so and bustin’ of me an’ the load hadn’t gone outin' of it, fer about a week after Tom put ona and kilt a hawk with it 500 yards ofl “What will you take for that gun, Jim?? “Taint fer sale. I'm goin' to keep hit ontil nex’ ’lection an e of I can't make some nigger democrats with hit."” A CURIOUS CIGAR. “Thank you, that smells like a good cigar. The poorest cigar I ever smoked was one I got at Houston some time ago. Hit was at night, Tom and me had been to a party, I think, and as we passed through that place 1 'cluded 1 wanted a smoke. We had plenty of ‘old red’ with us, but no smokin’ terbacker. We druv up to the store and I hallared for the man to come down, Hit was about mid- night., Hit was a long time before I could wake him up, and when he did he skeered to come down. I reckon he thought we was kukluk. Soon’s he found out 'twas me he como down and opened the door a erack and asked what 1 wanted. I told him a cigar, He handed somethin’ out and hit ‘was so lon, I thought hit was o broom-handle. 1 told him I wanted a cigar and sez he: ‘That’s a cigar, and chcn[i at fiye cents.' So I lit hit and rode off. Hit was so doggoned long hit struck agin the - branches over- head and filled my eyes full of ashes and sich, scrapin’ ‘the bark offen the branches and skeerin’ my hoss. I broke off part and kept on smokin’, but it was still too long, so Tkep' breakin’ off picces and putuin’ 'em in my pocket. When I got home I was still smokin' and had a pocket full of cigars, That was the longest cigar I ever seed, and I was two hours and a balf gettin’ home, t0o. What was it made of, Jim?" “Why, bear grass and wahoo bart. Hit green, too, for he made hit in the mornin’ and tuk hit in the mght afore hit was halt dry.” THE GAY AND FESTIVE TEXAS PONY. One year ago a Texas horse trader brought a lot of the most vicious ponies to Live Oak and disposed of them to the neighboring farmers, either by purchase or trade. Jim is always swapping horses and he was one of the first to become of a pony. He had no trouble n ng it to the saddle, for heisa or one horseman and a fearless rider, but when he came to break it to harnéss he had a regalar pienie. He told us of his troubles one day, with the same impassive countenance nnd the change of voice that is o part of his vatural be- #''I'll swear, boys, them Texas ponies is sak of lightaing. 'Tother day I hitched mine to the wagon and went to loading up fodder. 1 hud about three hundred bundles on when the pony got skeored like, and off he started on a dead run, wagon and all. Hit was the dog- gondost race [ ever sced Hit run riglit through the wooas about forty miles I guess, and when 1 fotched up with nit afier & two davs' sare h, hit bad a wad of grape vines 'round hit as big as that there stone over yonger. ‘I'ne wagon was all bruk up, and 1 never did tind but one bundle of fodder; hit was sca all over the yurth. Now good-by, I mus’ be goin’. Come out some day aud seu my eat that's big as a yearlin' i cotched hit by the collar ‘tother day and bit drug me half way up a big ehuinberry tree. - 1 closeat competitor, the iron yacht Priscilla, is in New York bar bor receiving new sails for t gatta of June 19, The Purit tered great re- | Its Enormous Total and Wide Distribution, Caprices of Fortune. A partinl list of the prizes above One e during 18 v Company those who have requested it. Roceipts for the amounts aro on file offices of the Compan; DRAWING OF Morgin Brown, Nashvi Frank Naomo, 'Wood wards Francisco, C R W. Tucke Mrs. J. 8, Dwy Atraham Lot Wm. . May, W. J. Kovort: . Fitzgerald, Jotn Wynne, Datroit, Mi . Natjonl Exchngo Bank, Bosion, Snss.. n, Granbufy, Tex Mound City, i1l A. A Korus, Catasnuqua, W Trube,City Nat'l Worth,Tex DRAWING OF JULY 14,188, Homer, Brookston, X wori, Conn . 1th at.. Donver, Col ckenroth, 321 Montgomery st , San o, il C. A. Pensley, Porsia, lTown J. D, Jinks, Brookland, A John Camcron, Wichitn Bowery National Bank, New York Britton & Kountz, Natchoz, M 6 Mrs. P.J. Denson, Atlanta, Ga Jen; County Bank,Novth Vernon,ind JW arry, Waco, Tox AT James H. Downoy, Louisville, Ky Louisville City Nat'i Bank, Louisville, Ky ¥. Ashton, Philadelphin, Pa . UGUST 11, 1883, 3 Markot st.,, San DRAWING OF Gebhardt Tepping, Franeisco, Cal Frank 3. Bisniarok, Dik nk Noble, London, Ont.,'Canada, ¢ through Molsons Bank. London, Ot Chas. Rode, Humboldt ave., Mily aukeo, Wis (GRTARY ¢ Metropoiitan Nat'l Bink, Cincinnati,0hfo J. M. Rriant, ith Whit Ind Wolls, Fared & Co.'s Banlk. Sin Franci Edward Straub, Croscont Oity, Cal. ... Wm. G. Widmiyer, 6 Centro Markot, Washington, D. C. o . Wm. L. Lewis, Washingto) Wn: J. Brown, Madison, H. 18 Myors, 1006 Bultimore ave., Kansas City, Mo. .. 0 Frod Attingo cisco, Cul..." Honry Ditiman, 1015 Uniion st., cisco, Cal.. o Edwara Kajsor, Now York Adolph Rudolph, New York e DRAWING OF 0. Smock Leavenworth, Kas. b | Paris, 5 J_A. Clerey, 1068 Washington ave., Ni York City Goo. . Jack Wolls, Fargo Martin Cresnl a, San Fra J.H. Jurgens, 1 more, Md. Jose H. Pratt,Guatemala, A. T. Kinsey, Red Cloud, . First National Bank, Los Angeles, Cal. . Anglo-American Bunk,Sun Francisco,Cal Poter Berry, Globe Vill.ge st., South- bridue, Muss. ki, J. E. Bernstrom, Greenport, N. V., col- lected through Chatham Nat'l Bank, Now York. 5 5c0, Fairmount DRAWING OF OCTOBER 13, 1885. AntonioVerdogo, Wells, Fargo & C0.'s Bauk, San Francigco J3.D. Hill, Bay St. Louis, Miss...... % Augusts Kovlin, Louis Hymel, 't Algicrs, La A. 0. Guillot, H. Von Dundell, Guaymas, Moxico Mrs. H. M. Kibben, cisco, Cal Patrick Connor, 5 Francisco, Cal Win. Harty, Hav R. Hamména, L AT Burr, J¥, ville, Vi H. Byostine, St. Joseph, Mo’ . T Ttounsavoll, with Adam: Columbus, Ohio. re @. 1. Huldomar, Kansas Gity Mo . DRAWING OF NOVEMBER 10, 18! M. B. Nclson,76 Morrimac st, Boston,Mass H. Bettys, Mt. Olivet, Ky . . ascal Belle e, Railrotd South Sun Fran Cal Joseph Pobl, Traverse Cit Armund Prenu, 195 Esp OFlSADAE TR x Stato National Bunk, New Orioans, L Wells, Fargo & Co.’s Bank 8an Franoisco . J Paul Lomaitre, cor. Larkih st. and Gold- en Gate ave., San Francisco, Cal Bank of Madison, Jaokson, Tenn ¥. Gross & Co., San’ Antonio, Tox. Johiu Brunton, Galyeston, Tox W.P. Campbell & Co,, Floronce, Ala. . Joseph Denis, 1 Boyd'st., San Fraucisco. ‘A. M. Cook, T18 Market t, San Francisco. DRAWING OF DECEMBER Wm. M. MeArthur, Limington, Me. . C. B. Riehards & € bankers, 61 Broad- ‘way, Now York...|........ Teon Murtho, 19 St. Charles st, New O leans, La.. S 2 Chas. T. Pardoo, caro Carhart & Br Park Placo, New York ... . Jugob Murzolf, Blacks Station, Cal ansing, Kus, Mrs. Margarot A. Naglo, Mre. Mary W, Nell, J Memphis,Tonn Columbus R. Lewis, San Francisco, Cal.. Tieok Daomste™ | Carrallton, Ky T, C. Hand, 49 W. Tth &t, §t. Paul, Minn . A. M. Gendron, Boston, Mass . ... s Geo. N. Tichonlor, Tucson, Ariz A.T. Bock, Lancaster, Ohio 1.C. herty, Blizavillo, Ky & Anglo-Californian Bank (Litited), Sun Franciseo, Cal... .. Bouno Basch, 264 Eim st, DRAWING OF UARY 12, 1886, M. Ditrichsicin, care M. Gross, 3 Chuu- bers st, New York 3. F. Benson, 7 Main sf, Kansas City, Mo 3. Schwartz, Kunsas oy % LWV Burnds, Windsor Hatol, Kuiisas o Dhicago, Til E. A. Birnsido, Cincinnati, Ohio Joseph Wittonkellor, Chicago, 11} 4 Albion 1. Simmons, 135 Elm si, Manclies- cisco, Cal. J. 1. Martin, 0,01l ... 5 5 G Br ann, nTex . J.C.Klelnfolder & Co., Houston Tex DRAWING OF FEBRUARY 9, 1580, Annfe Smith, 113 Liberty st, New Or- leans, La . seeecains . A Doyle, 5 Broudway,New Vork Thowns Shorhan, + ¥rador.ok Scharf.70) DoKalb ave W. R. Jonos, Murphysboro, 1. Gottfred Anderson, stenmer “Onward, ot st. wharf, Bun Franoisco, Cul'. Vellg, Fureo & Co., Sun Francisco, Cai us. Foith, Viekshurg, M Randolph, 1415 Wi , Carlisie. Now Mexico Daklund, Cnl ? 's Bank, Sa ch, Red Wing, Minn , Fargo & Co.’s Bunk, Sau £ DRAWING OF MARCIT 16, 184, Francisco neisco Fied Wolp, Montgomery ‘uud Clay Sun Francisco, Cnl W. G. Colmery, Kaseiusko, Mis. . . W. A. Thomas, colloo ugh Lk of Livermore, Livor: Ca 3 John Graves, 414 E. 1 \ New York C. Kurtz, nati, Ohio C. L Yolng, London, Ky J. . Martin, §t. Helena, Cal Canal liank, New Orloans, Ln Miss Adolin Pawelion, with Mmo Mililn G. 1. Moor = Ouer, + Sun Francisco, Cal d st, Pittsiio'd, Mas. DRAWING OF APRIL 13, 158). ‘Thieodore Loutz, 8 Williams Court, Los: ton, Mase Rufus ¥, Ha , Portland, Mo Ernest Ants, 841 Buroune st, Now Or- leans, Ta . Juhn Daste, Clazi 8 nd Calliope sté, New Owleans, la . Loyd C, Frouch, Colesburg, Ky Herey Lote, Putterson, N, J A Minning, Var Insrector, bore & Michigan Seuthern it It. Do ake leds . Jokwpl Placet, 710 Case st Davonport, In Jose Il Fenie, Gustomala, C. A M iurke. Wagh nflon. B ¢ on 8t, Chicego, Paridiso, Nov Toxua Rxpresg Co., Galvieton, Tox 3.1 lattie, B Wushingson' e, Brook- 3otk Wokelis, Pl ) i au wgelin, Plackuoyv | 0.1 Loot ¥ew Vork : ¥. B Chanee. Thou- sand Dollars, paid by the Louisiana State Lot- the yoar ending May, , together with the names and addrosees given to the Company by the holders, omitting at the £30,000 15,00 16,000 15,000 5,000 000 51000 2,000 2,000 2000 "TEMBER 8, 1886, 1,200 1,200 ‘1500 15,500 10,000 6,000 5,000 6,000 2400 21000 2,000 5000 1,200 1,200 15,000 15,000 30,000 15000 15,000 1st Wiborg, 1433 Bouth 10th st. . Nob. ceee . . 80,000 orvisor Avibur M wmento si, San Francisco, Cal 25,000 Captain Jancs Gurvin' of Garvin & Co., an Francisco, Cal B 26,000 Wolls, Fargo w Co s Bank, San Franciseo 15,00 Olaf Andorson, 410 Chostiut st,San Fran- cisco.Cal. 15,000 Merchints Nutional Bank, Gineinnati, 6. 16,000 Ira Anderson, New York ... ¥Fred Bode, Arenzville, Tlls. ... DRAWING OF MAY 11, 188, W. funt, Vineton. Ala., through City Na« tionai Bank, Seima, 'Ala lw Wells, Fargo & Co.'s Hank, San Francisco N Harry Johnson,collecte: lhrn\lKh‘l"In!ul; oy Stedwo rain Master C. 1. Railway, Claveiand, Ohi l&.a Jolin Olson, 10 F ¢th st New Jork .. 184 C.H.Bessey, West Bnosburgh, Vi collectod through Nat'l Park Buok, Now York.. 15,000 Edward Quinn, Allinnce, Ohio, through Adams Express, Cloveland, Ohio 5.& QA Kimmet, Baltimor 5 O Huvvaed, Los Aneoles, il 5,000 3. Miflor, Halsel, Ky, throu ‘0., Bowling Groen, Ky, < %0 Gratiot at, Detroit, Mich. 1,500 Benjamin ford, Conn J. E. Mathew y R 1. Ballew, Peincetor, Mo C. K. Spencor, Jacksonvillo, FIn A, Lippman, Oakland, Cal. ... For full partiou'ars of the Grand Quarterly Drawing of the 15t inst., see schome in another eolumn of this papor to-da, —— The O1d, Old Motor. Philadelphia Bulletin: It was no disap- pointment to the people who had been in- vited to witness anexhibition of the Keely motor to-day on they learnod that it was not in condition to “‘mote.” A hun- dred or more previous disappointments had prepared them for the prosent onoe and made it a fulfilled expectation rather than a matter of regret. [here was some talk,’ said Seeretary Sehullormann this morning, *‘of having an exhibition to-day, but jt was not pos- itively decided upon. 1t is my impression, though Mr. Keeley will be ready to give a tost of his smaller engine some time noxt week. Heis wirtually through his Iabors. The various parts of the machino are completed; all that remains to be done is to adjust them. To the unso- phisticated this would apoeat simplo task, but as a matter of fact it is a very difficult one. The small vil parts must be ground down to a nicety upon an_emery wheel before being adjusted; this requires care and delicacy. ‘Iho The engine will have a power of from ten to to fifteen horses and the coming exbibition will compriso tests in guns nery, wood-sawing, et The exhibition will be privato. Mr, Keely is hard at work on his larger engine—ono of 200 horse power—and 1 am confident that before the expiration of two months ho will exhibit in public with results that will not only startle the world, but also revo- lutionize scientifie theories of long stand- “l ing. The etherio foreo which Mr. Keel produces permeates everything—wood, metal and stone—and the time is not far ant when it will be a recognized ele- t in the practice of medicine. I be- lieve it will cure cancer and tumor. It is wonderful “Was it not rmpo.\.-,d}n run an engine from Philadclphia to New York to-day by the use of Mr, Keely's forcet” Not 1. That was not dreamed of, No one who has confidence in M. Keely’s engine doubts its ability to propel a train of cars or anything else moveanble, but it was not pi .pnsofl to make any tests in that direction at present. They will come in due time. ‘The tests which Mr, Keely has in immediate view are not on so large a scale, but they will practicaily prove that the motor is the coming force in the world, supplanting compressed air, steam and’ eleetricity. 1t will sup- by furnishing vibratory i on which will not be susceptible to the dangers and disad- vantages ot the telegraphie wires. More- over, it can be made to produce a vol- uminous light fully as brilliact and as steuly as the electri e It Needed Re-Christening. Texas Siftings: *“‘And this is Frank- fort-on-the-Main, " said’a traveler musing- ly, as he paid what he considered was an exorbitant hotel bill in the city. “It ought to be re-christened.”” “What would you call it?" asked the cl«:!'lk nkfor The Great Southern Remedy for all BOWEL TROUBLES AND CHILDREN TEETHINQ, Thero are V"{ few who downot know of this it bush growlng alongside of our mountal und bills: but very few realize the fuct, that the little purple berry, wi bave eaten ln most cve) there is'a pri elple 1o 1L hiy ui.unum) offect on ¢ bowels. Dr. Bl 's Huckleberry Cordial the GREAT ROUT) BWN MEMEDY (hat restor flm little one ln'lhlnl. 'T!fl cures Diarrhoes ol nentosy and Cramp. Phon il iy connidered that at this mason of the y*ar sudden and davgerous attacks of the bOwL) re 80 freauent, i we Lear of 80 thany de uccunlnr hefore a phys Callad i, 1t 1a fmportant that evers old aniuia ‘provlie macives Wit o speedy relief, lowe of which wil] relieve (| i‘ in and save much anxloty, ek leberry Cordial 15 asimploreniedy which Ay CLl 14 pieasod 1 take. Prico, 50" &unta n boitle, Manufactured by WALTER 1A YLOK, Atianti: Gi TapTor's Chierolies Wemmedy af Rwer and Y fetiro Conginy Cront ki gumption. Price 2 ots. and 61 b For gale by the 1.T. ClarkeDrug Co., and all druggists. ne LIKGOLN BUSINESS DIRECTORY Tteceutly Built. Newly Furaished The Tremont, ZGERALD & SON, Proprietors, Sth and P Sts.,, Lincoln, Neb, Iates £1.50 per duy, Stret cars trom houso to any part of 1ho vily J. 1, W, HAWKD Architect, OfMces—33. 54 42, Riewards Block, Lincoln, Neb. Elovaior on 1t strer t. Brovds e 1 GALLOWAY LE. BT 10K K. M WOODS, Live Stock Auctioneer Bules mude in all parts of the U S. at faie reies. Hoom 8, State Block, Lincoln, Nelia Golloway uud Short Horn bulls for sale. B 1. GOULDING, Farm Loans and Insurance, csponden m 4, Ricba Public Sale, Benver, Col., June 101h, 188G, CATILY P 0 rogard to lo s Iiock, Ling + solicited. 40 head of Show Short Horng. Biates & Cruc shunk, Z-ycarolds, woighin %: bulls sod helfors. “Address Field and Rarw, Tor catalog: ues wr, Col. . M. B u, Liucoln, Nol. Col. i, M. Woods, Atetionce: When in Lineoln stop at National Hotel, Aud got a good alaner. o J. A FEDAWAY, Vi