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.. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WED SDAY. JUNE 16. 1886, THAT USELESS COMMISSION. A Roview of the Work of the State Rail- way Board FIVE CASES IN TWO MONTHS. The Only Matter Decided Amounts to Less Than Two Dollars—A Costly Concern—Other State Oapital News, [FROM THE BER'S LINCOLN BUNEAD.] The state railroad commissioners, who duties have been the subject of much comment the state over, are not being punished with much hard work just at present. The BEE representative visited the room that the secrctaries oc- cupy up at the state capitol yesterday and asked of Mr. H. M. Warring, the secre- tary for the secrctaries, regarding the complaints that had been lodged with the commission during the present month, and a search discovered just one. The complaints filed with the board during the month of May were then asked for and they numbe the enormous num- ber of four! These constituted the work for the month of May and one-half of June, for as none of the railroad compa- nies have tendored a speeial train to the ies, no tour of “‘inspection” has been made to give these hard-worked of- Is the full benefit of whatever might be called additional 1abors. It might be stated that there are a tew cases filed in some of the months previous that are iy consideration,”” and some of u involve the great question of road ngs- and fences along the right of All these, therefore, combine the of the commission secrc 5 will not be uninte esting to look at the May and June enses thut are before the board for arbitration, and which pile up the aggregation of five e One of them is for crossings in th plank crossings ove i Another is for an overcharge claimed inst the Chicago, Milwaikee & St Paul company on a shipment between Blair and Hartington. Edward T. Steele wants a fenee looked after by his pls down in Richardson county, and the fourth case in the month of May was the Harrow company, of ., against the Union Pa- company, which was ion, the Union Pacitic ompany the sum of $1.84, and for which munificent sum reclaimed from the road the issi rously t upon” wh se wrestle for & month, 1s by L. W. Algier, and inyolves the |>Ili|3mg of a fence somewhere down in the kingdom of Gage. This is a short panoramic view of the astounding labor upon which the three two-thousand- dollar-a-year secretaries vent their e gies, The new work for May comp: the four cases, and one of them at settled and the i 4 hed by $184. It seems to be o light month for June, buv if the fence is built down in Gage the work of the month will Yot ho entered 4pas a whitewash. These i or views of the labors of the three ailroad tracks. good in by the Br r missioneér system, as inaugurated’in Ne- braska, is without force and effect, nnd it 5o shows conciusively that the tax- or paid money for as frag- crotaries of the railroad commission bring about. The town of Alma months ago asked for addi- tional depot privileges, and a gentleman from that place remarked that they were still asking, probabiy owing to overwork on the part of the sccretaries, who were confronted with four eases in May and one thus far in June, as shown by the records in thewr oflice at the capitol building. SCHOOL LANDS, The recent ruling of Lund Commis- sioner Scott regarding the purchase of 640 acres by one party, and only that much, was sustained by the board of pub- lic lunds and bnildings. Notwithstand- ing the plain statement made in this ral- ing, which struck a blow at school land speculators, numerous inquiries come to the commissioners’ office raising tech- nical points and questions, the inquiries showing in themselves the desire of the parties_instituting the inquiries to evade the ruling and the laws. Some of the y:n’ties who had m pped out plans for Speculation in leases and sales of educa- tional lands in the state scem to dic hard. NEW NOTAKIES. The governor has since the 1st of June created twenty-nine notary publics by issuing new or renewing old commissions, The por cent of titese commissions d show them largely in the new counties, and as “soon as Secre- tary Roggen aflixes his signature to the diplomas they will be forwarded The new notaries are distributed by counties as follows: Brown 2, Butler 1, Colfax 1Custer 3, Douglas 3, Furnas 3, Gage 1, amilton 1, Harlan 2, Keya Paha 1, Lancuster 1, Nemaha 1, Nuckolls 1, Red unders 2, Sheridan 2, Thayer Willow 1, York 2. SOCIETY EXHIBITION, The University Union society that was doterred from giving its annual exhibi- tion on the night advertised on account of a storm, has been obliged to sandwich itin this (Wednesday) evening prior to the chancellor's reception, In view of this fact the exercises will commence at the opers house at7 p. m. The difficul- ties the society has labored under ought to bring it a reward in a good house to-night. The tollowing very excellent programme will be rendered Piano solo—Caprice de Concert . s, Julia T, Beel Debate~Should 13 Condemned! .Wolfsohn ara H, Cramphorn B Spirit of the Scholar nson H. Bigelow. Baritone solo—Good Night, Farewell, . Kucken \e Lady of Irovence. y Mrs, Hemans €. Wiggenho) 50 True and Te ithel Howe. ESTIMATE OF EXPENS The city conncil of Lincoln has made its estimate of expense, and has certified to the county that the levy for 1886, in an approximuted assessed valuation of three niillion dollars, be as follows: For general fund.. For interest fund.. For waterfund. ... . For special fund, judgniont For iibrary fund."......... S mill For road and bridge funds 5 mills The council estimates necessary ontlays 10 mills ST mills © 53 mills . 15 mills and the running of the water works at $25,000, and the re rising from the water service 2,000, leaving some sixteen thousand dollars to raise on'taxes tor water works (ment is The expenso of the fire depar: pliced at §13,000. The health de al@00, Salaries, printing and incidentals £9,100. The council’s estumate o f 10 Le raised to pay interest on bonds think sowe twenty thousund dailars will be re- quird for necessary grading, lighting streots, ditching ‘and work on crossings Fiftoen thousand dollurs be required and will be raised under the five will levy for road and bridge fund. The growth of the city is 8o rapid and the de- mands for improvements so strenuous that the council feel that all that is raised under the levy will be inadequate to meet the demands, OTHER EVENTS Sherifl Curran, of Dodge county, was in the city yesterday and visited Nobles ville, where he deposited two prisonersin the pen who were sent up from Dodge county for eighteen months, each under conviction for assanit. The candidates for the pen were parties who had been too ha .E\' with razor The regents of the state university meet at the chancellor’s office to-day in their nnual meeting to audit lated, to make appropr future, and to awurd the grad: diplomas, The board has a large amount of business to transact, but expect to fin- ish up its work in one day, if possible to accomplish that end. George P. Winterstein, assistant sccroe- tary of state, been out to his old home at Geneva, Fillmore county, on a business visit to one of the liveliest towns in the state, orts state. Regent Hiatt, of Harlan eunty, is at the state e 3 attend the university commencement exercises and the meeting of the regents. “Crops out in the Republican yalley are excel- t,’ fiatt, and no bad storms tion of the state the present yes The waterworks in the city that have been in operation about a year, have an income now suflicient to” meet ail r ning expenses, and y the service is being increased w nts the statement that in a few years they will b sourco of profit aftér paying interest on the water bonds as well as"the cost of main- ancs and operation. irt yesterday showed up unkenness, and the judge cordance whether they were fiew or old offenders. After the fines and costs were levied there was not a man in the nine that could rake up the wherewith to hquidate, and in conse- quence il wers committed The efforts of the authorities are being redoubled in the attempt to clean up and purify the city. One case over a filthy alley was heard yesterday by Judge Parsons, but the evidence was not suflicient to convict and the defendant in suit was discharged. AT THE HOTETS yosterday were registered, among on{‘ny o fined them in o braskins, the following: Geo Post, York; Wallace Stevenson, N City; J. M. Hiatt, A.'W. Agce, Aurora; P11 S Dixon, Omaha! W. P. Nummaugh, Omaha; Carl G. Ventmeyer, Omaha, The June Crop of Snakes. Miss Irene Hancock, of Bartow, 5 killed a blacksnuke seven fet long and is having its skin made into a pair of slip- pers. 5 Asberry Lane, a negro of Clay county, Georgia, killed a rattlesnake which had fourteen rattles and a button on its tail and a whole rabbit inside. A little child of William Sill, of Genoa, N. Y., is snid to have been charmed by snake, The mother of the child discoy ered the snake and killed it, but the little one was ill for several days. Benjamin Stump of Greensburg, Pa., was attacked by a huge blacksnake while crossing a livf’dA Henry Khingensmith came to Stump’serescue and the two killed the monster after a severe fight. 1t measured 14 feet 1 inch in length. A farmer of Summit county, Ohio, at while passing a s_trnvf stack on ha saw the Ligads of fully 800 snakes peeping out at him. He gave a low tle and immediately the sportive iles flocked around him. Then the mer ran away in alarm. J. H. Winscott of St. Joseph, Mo. alarge spread-head viper by thie roudside and attempted to kill it with a club. The reptile cotled itself and sprang at its enemy, striking its fangs into his check. My, Winscott ran Prompt med- ical assistance saved his'life. A fight between a king snake and an adder took place in sight of & number of people at Warnerville, Ga. After a long strnggle, during which the king snake had decidedly the best of it, the adder tried to crawl away. The king snake pursued his enemy and, according to the story of an eye-witness, swallowed the adder. Thousands of rattlesnakes have their home on one of the small, rocky islands of Pyramid Lake, Nevada. It is sup- poscd that the progenitors of these rattle- snakes reached the island on branches of floating weeds or rafts of driftwood. The snakes live among the rocks and feed on dead fish and the eggs and young of waterfow! ‘L'he r 1ys s Lrunner, o bird found in Ari- zona, has a hy to the rattle- snake, and is smd oy it in a most methodical fashion. When one or niore of these birds discover a rattlesnake asleep in the sun, they are carcful not to disturb it and proced to collect the de- tached leaves of the prickly pear, w which their nests are often built. These leaves they rlm-e in an irregular circle about the sleeping reptile, viling them higher, until finul[‘y the snuke is in the center of a corral” of the spine-coyercd leaves. The snake is then awakened by a peek from the bird, It strikes and is wounded by the spines. This enrages it and evel movement adds to its torture, until it is finally killed by the spines and the bill of its winged encémy. AL A List of the Presents. \\'n;lu::fiwn Post: Wedding presents are already beginning to arrive at the white house. following. From A purtial list includes the arles A, Dana: r seryice, From Rev. Mr. Burchard: A reformed A family jar, Hon. Mr. Hiscock: A handsome but- terine dish, en, Garland: A pickle-dish, istinguished statesman: A recent bust. George William Curtis: A handsome set of wump-mugs, much chased. Joseph Pultizer: A fine electric pan for stewing Rogers: Poems, Senator Blu entitled, A Gene) From the druggist: A salver. lr. and Mrs. I, B, Hayes: A chochin- ching get and & pair ot shoes. ? Senator Logan: A wateh to keep on private pension bills. The Washington Baseball club: A cracked pitcher. General Butler: A beautiful cast, | Sheridan: ve Forks A handsome picture, 1 Divide." . Washington Childs: Bury spoon. Jacob Sharp: Oune cow. De Witt Talmage: Memoirs of the Month Men. From Associates: set. Furniture—cabinet -~ Why M. Tod Scorned the Double d, Boston Trayeller: One of Lincoln's most estecmed friends, was ex-Governor Tod of Ohio. He quaint old character, and Mr. Liuncoln loved him for his hon- esty, ability and native shrewdness. One evening when Tod was in town Lin- coln invited him over to the white house They had a long chat together, when Lincoln_finally said: “Look here, Tod, how is it that.you spell your name with only one dr 1" married s Todd, but she spelled her ngme with two ds. Al of her relatives do the same. You are the first Tod T ever met who spelled his | name with so few letters” Old Tod looked at Lincoln for & moment in his peculiar guizzing manner and then re- plied: “Mr. President, God spells his name with ouly ono d, and what 15 good enouglh for God is good enougl: for me.’* Lincoln used to repeat this story to hus in- timate friends, and every time'he did so he would laugh until the tears run down over that furrowed but grand face, ALASKA AND THE ALASKANS, The Oreoles of Alaska and the Bull Dogs of the North Pacific. SHELDON JACKSON'S REPORT. Climate Like That of Kentucky in Winter—Mountains, Sea Islands, Rivers, Education and Other Interesting Information. Mr. Sheldon Jackson, the general agent for education in Alaska, has just pre- sented A seport to Secretary Lamar, writes “Carp,” the Washington corre- spondent of the Cleveland Leader, in which he gives some very inter facts relating to that country and i habitants. He says that the weste: of Alaska ar west of San Fra as Main 80 that San Francisco is the gre 1 city of the tervitories of the United States. He describes the ex- tent of Alaska better than it has been done before. It is as large as all the New England and Middle states, together with Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Kentucky and Tennessee. It is about one-sixth the area of the whole United States, and it has a coast line twice as long as that of our Atlantic and Pacitic shores. It is as far from the northern to the southern point of Alaska as it is from Maine to Florida, and an air line drawn from one end of Alaska to the other would be as long as the distance between Washington and ifornia. THE ALASKAN POPULATION. Still th a popula- 13 or only about one-sixth of that of the city of Cleveland, and 2,002 of are white About one half of the e Eskimos and 1,756 are called Creoles, and o the descendants of nat- ive mothers by Russian fathers. The population of Alaska has a few of the acteristics of the Indians, and they 5 tirely different from the In- n tribes of the United States ave better brains and stros and they yield readily t fluences. Tl X ¢ iy @ rule, in” per- manent substantial homes and support themselves. They b great ambition to become Americanized, and the better class of them wantto build American homes, possess American furniture, dress i American clothes and be American citizens. SOME NATIVE CHARACTERISTICS. The Eskimo part of the population of Alaska is of a far different nature than is generally supposed by Americans. They re not s like the inhabitants of Greenland and Labrador, but are talland muscular, many of them being over six feet 1n height. They have small, black eyes, high cheek bones, large mouth thick lips, and fresh yellow complexions. Their hair is of a cou brown, and in many instances the men have full beards and “mustaches. They are a good-nat- ured set of people, always smiling when spoken to, and they are i’(m«l of dancing, running, jumping, and all athletic sports. They dress in the skins of ani- and buy, wheneyer they can, an clothing. The houses the live in have the outward appearance of circular mounds of earth covered yith e ypres 3 frass, with & small opfning at the {op for the eseape of smoke. Tne entrance is a small. door, and narrow hallway to the main room, which is from twelve to twenty feetin diameter. These Alaska Eskimos eat chiefly meat and fish. They do not like salt at all, and while they wiil ek their lips over decayed fish or putrid oil, they will turn up their noses at n mouthful “of the finest corned beef. They all smoke tobacco—men, women, and children, and they have at one plac an annual fair to which they come for hundreds of miles to trade. THE CREOLES OF ALASKA are mixed up somewhat in their living with the Aleuts. There are about two thousand of these lastin Alaska, and they occupy the Aleutian chain of i ds, These men are smaller than the Eskimos, and they have black hmir instead of brown. They look a great deal like the pancse, ahd have many civilized in- incts. Their houses consist of two or three rooms,and they use cooking stoves, crockery dishes, and have th feather beds cove ds. The : hung with col- and they light them with lamps. They are fond of musie, and'in nearly every home you will find a hand organ, nccordion or u music box. They are fust becoming American- ized. They dr in Ame - ments, and their women study the h- ion plates and try to imitate the latest styles. Many of them can read and most of them are members of the Russo-Greek ch, They ask a blessing at their s, and when they bid good by to their friends it is with a*'God bless you.” These people live in the gr seal islands of The Alaska ored pictur coal o1l in gl = 358 chu Alnska. L ‘ommercial com- pany y the United States government #55,000 a year as an annual rental of these islands, and it is allowed to take 100,000 seal skins every year upon which th pay thoe government a royalty of $262,500. The revenues of these "islinds during the past sixteen years have re- tarned to the government more than half of the sum paid to Russia for the whole country. A great many of these Alus- kans h ood incomes, and one village alone has a rovenue of $100,000 s year from its sale of otter skins. This would mnke §373 for every man, woman, and child in it. Another village gets $600 & year per fannly for the sale of sea otters.” These Aleuts and Creoles respect the marriage relation, which is not true of others of the Aluskan tribes. The Tinnehs, who are more like the In. dians than any of the other Alaskans, are polygamists, und they discard and take wives at pleasu 'l'huf rarely have more than three wives, but often more than one. The Tinnehs bury their dead in boxes nbove the ground. They be- lie 1 witcheraft, and it is not an un- common thing for them to kill their fe- male babies. THE BULLDOGS OF THE NORTH PACIFIC, Another tribe which practices polyg. amy are the Hydah, who are tall, well- foried fellows, noted for their brayery and fevoeity, They are known as' the bulld, of the North Pacitic, and they ha not hesitated to attack and plunder English and American vesscls, Among the Hydahs the husband vuys his wife frequently while amere givl, 1f she does suit im he can return her and the will be refund; These Hydahs e of boards and one in heigh Their houses are forty or fifty feet square, with a fireplace in the center of the floor and a large hole in the roof for the escape of the smoke. Civilized costumes wre now erecping in, and bedsteads, tables, stoves and dishes are becoming common. These Hydahs have what are known as toten stick raised to protect their dwellings, e carved logs from one to tw am@eer and from twenty to sixty feet high These are painted with horrible faces and figures and serve to drive away evil spi The Hydahs raise a great many potatoes und their country abounds in wil ries and dcer, 'hey keep these berries for wintor use i fish oil, THE CLIMATE OF ALASKA Alaska has winter and a tropical summer. At Fort Yukon the thermometer often rises above one hun- dred in the summer, and falls as low as 70 deg. below zero in the winter. Alon; the immense southern coast the elimate is *moist and warm, being in some of the islands like that of northwestern Scot land. AuStika, where a record of the thermometer his “Been kept forty-five voars, the mean thmperature per year has been 48 deg, the year round, or 41 deg in the spring, 5 dog. in the summer, 41 deg. in the fall, and 82 deg. in the winter. The greatest degree of heat re corded 1 these fortyfive years, was 87 deg. above, and of bold 4 dag. below zero. It will thus be seen that the climate of southeastern Alaska | for forty-five 3 past_been the average winter climateof Kentucdy andl West Virginia and the average simmer climate of Min [tisin the St district that radwell gold mines are, and these are now vielding from §30,000 to $75,060 in gold bullion per month THE ALASKA ISLANDS Alaska is a great isiand region. One of its archivelagoes 18 three hundred miles from north to south and about eighty miles wide. It contains from one thous. and to five thousand separate islands,and the aggregate aren of these islands is more than fourteen thousand square miles. 8Six hundred miles further west there is another group which contains ober tive thousand square miles, and tho total area of the islands of Alaska is larger than the state of Maine. THE ALASKA MOUNTAINS, Alaska has the highest mountain peaks of the United States. It and glaciers, and many of thes noce are in active order. The g of Alaska are finer than those of the Alps. There is one that extends fifty miles to the sea, and there ends abruptly in a per- pendictlar ice wall 800 feet high and eight miles broad. Thirty-five miles above Wrangell, on the Stiking river, be- tween two mountains 3,000 feet high there is a glazier forty miles long and four or five miles across at the base. It from five hundred to one thousand fect high and there are other glaziers throughout the territory from which great blocks containing hundreds of tons of ice are constantly breaking off and fall- ing into the sea. THE RIVERS OF ALASKA are among the finest of Ameri The Yukon is seventy miles wide across its five mouths, and at some points along its lower course one_bank cannot pe seen from the other. For the fist thousand miles it is from one to five miles wide, and in some places it is twenty miles from bank to b It is navigable for 2,000 mules, and is computed to be 3,000 miles long. EDUCATION IN ALASKA. A number of government schools have been established in Alaska, and an ap- propriation of £25,000 was made last year for this purpose. ~ These schools are lo- eated from 100 to 1,000 miles apart, and the teachers of only five schools are able to get a monthly’ mail. Many of the other schools receive a mail only three times a year, and one or two are able to get and send lotters ouly yearly, Only out 2,000 people among” the "Alaskans k English, and it will be seen what lifficult undertaking the education of such a people is. The Presbyterian mis- sions had established a number of schools in the territory, and the government un- dertaking is ¢ ed with them At Sitka, M s, the government officials hindered -his ucatio work and materially retavded it. s ‘y the United States” judges and others did not want the natives educated, and they did all they could t6 hinder it. There ‘is an industrial school at Sitka, and a move- ment is under foot to educate the inhab- itants so that they will be able to develop their territ nd, at the same time make good ¢ ns of them. It s cs and Their Em- ploy 08, aa i Railway News: been made that fully seventy per the train hands employed on 1 become crippled in the cour jears’ service, This statement, 1as not been denied, fails, probably, con- siderably short of the actual number of weidents, if we take into account juries which do mnot inyolve the erip- pling of the employe. Of course a large number of these accidents are perhaps chargeable to_the carclessness of em- ployes, but with improved mechanical contrivances they are nearly all ‘avoid- able. The train hands, having accepted a wrdous employment, receive in return for it a wage which is presumed to be the equivalent of the work done and the risks run in their employment. This is the as- pect of their contract, and were the em- ployes only machines, or even cattle, the matter might be left to rest in its present position, but they are human beings and units of mankind, ukin to all others of humanity. In the aggregate of units all mankind are equal. "It isonly in individ- uality tiat the vicissitudes of fortune and intellect prouuce inequalities and difler- ences. These differences and inequalities are, E 2 Railway Con Yok -5 however, only social, and the state in its duty to the aggregate must proyide pro- tection for every unit alike. ‘The first and greatest proiection is that of life and limb,and any employment which swallows up, or maims, 70 per cent of its workers within five years, is an employment which it is the state’s urgent duty to con trol and limit: Men who are compelled to labor are not free agents in the sense of creating = thel own employment. Earning their daily food by their aaily work compels them to accept any risks in- volyed in their work. In the contract with their employers they are not on an equality of terms, and as the selection of the means used belongs entirely with the employers, the state should hold them responsible for their servants' criminally if wilful, financially if accidental. This lrin('il)le, which is Kknown as the “Employers’ Lisbility," is NOW Tecogr all “over the civilized world O\UCY( in the United States, Eng- land being the last country to endorse it, About four years ago the first Employers* Liability act was passed 1 England by a very small majority., ‘T'his year the law was made to cover double its previous extent,fand it passed without discussion y. This shows nn nd the old legal myth of equivalent consideration in wage or of community of lubor is doomed to disap- pear. In England, ing to the atest report of the A ited Pro- y of railway servants, the acecidents to railway employes had de- sased nearly fifty per cent during the last ten years, viz: Year. Killed Injured. 1874, Fin 30, Lin 80, 1884 Lin 634, 1in 149, Some such a decrease as this would re- sult from the state holding the railway corporationg responsible for all aceidents to their employes, and the corportions themselves would certainly prefer a clean law of responsibility for aceidents, to the risk of repeatod pottering legi compelling” the adoption of improved mechanical safety contrivances. Left to their own resources with self interest to push them on, the corporations would soon settle thes meéchanical difliculties, and thus hasten the public object ail should have in view. islation . ol O The Kind of a Watchman He Was. Pittsburg Leader: 1 was up in the Washington oil fields a few days ago,” sa1d a gentlemun to-day, “‘and on my re- turn I had to wait nearly an hour for a train, and I amused wyself by taking in the sights around the station. A lady evangelist was there getting in her wor! in first-class order until she came to a neatly dressed young man, who I noticed had been very intently perusing the - ums of Zion's Watch Tower. My young fricnd, are you a watchman on Zion's walls*” asked the lady. The young man ustied 10 the roots of his baif Aud: said: 0, ma'ani; I am only & watchman in Cannonsburg. but I am looking for pro- motion soon.” The crowd fairly shouted with laughter, and the lady joined in. e Halford Sauce blends with all gravies, THE GREAT SONC-BIRD CAGED, The Marriage of Patti and Nicolini—The Civil Oeremony. JOY AT CRAIG Y NOS CASTLE. A Union Blessed by the Church—A Blushing Bride and Scif:Satisfied Groom—The Presents, London Special Cablegram, June 9: Tt is a far ery from London to Ciaig y Nos castle, which Adetina Patti left this morning, her own mistress, and swhen she returned this evening, logally— though s yot only legally—the wedded wife of M. Nicolas, better known to fame as Signor Nicolini. e road lies among gome of the fairest scenery of England, Starting from Paddington by the early 1ly expross, you run past Slough, whence stately Windsor is piainly visible, and red Reading with its factories. You cross and recross the winding waters of the Thames, past Pangbourne, Swindon and the Cotswold hills, where for a moment you might fancy pourself in Normandy till the noble tower of Glouster Cathe- dral comes in sight—a tiyng of beauty and a joy forever. A brief halt is taken and then on again along the ever widen- ing banks of the' sluggish Severn, past Chepstow and across the poetic Wye, just f:nlll\fulu seo the exquisite ruins of Tintern abbey. — Another halt occurred at Newport, then at Cardiff, till the belching chimneys andjdevastated hillside telis you that Swansen is near, with its copper and tin mines, its smelting’ works and its shipping. Here you change from the flying express for the slow Welsn parlinment train, and plunge into the wild hill count Up, up, up, through the exhausted mines and einder heaps, following past Swansca valley, you come at last to the forlorn little station callled Penwyelt THE DI » A'S MOUNTAIN HOME, Here you ht, and, mbling down the rocky vath, you see a erawling trout stream whirling through the green fields and woods, and a rustic bridge beyond, which, snrnjounting the terraced lawn, there rises a grav stone pile, half castle, half country house, with a great bave hill beyond it i it garden in nt. This s. It is an ideal home for and the ngest amid ich sho wins her laurels. Not even e near, 1o society at ordina at of the coliiers, who swa about. But life at ‘‘the castle,” as the marquis and the Joneses in the valley rather pompously eall the diva's seat, is not the less luxurious on that account. Onee you enter the hall of Craig y Nos, You return to culture and civilization, The castle chimes rang the hour as 1 knocked to-day. Mme, Patti and Signor Nicolini, with their wedding guests, y times ) round -among them M. Magnard, editor of the Paris Figaro, and his son; Mrs, Beatt, Kingston, Miss Kingston and Herr Ganz, the well-known conductor, had gone to Swansea, where the civilmarriage was being celebrated by the French vice con- sul. This gave me the upportunity of in- specting the building and prey ons for the religious ceremony, which takes place to-morrow at the little Protestant chureh of Ystrydgynlais, Tx miles dis- tant. The brjdeand the bridegroom have both been divorced,’ but the Catholic church refuses to recognize divorces, so, as Mmie. Patti insisted on having her sec- ond marriage ctifled, they must go to the Lady Bountiful Protestant church, of Wales. The towers of Craig y Nos were gay to- day with the fluttering” banners on " the roof—the tri-color of France and the royal standard of England floating side by side. Over the gate-w the union jack, between the stars ad stripes and the royal standard of Pfussia. In the roads leading to the castle the rag- ged rustics were busy raising poles and weaving evergreens ?m half'a dozen tri- umphal arches for the bridal pair to pass under on the way to church. The col- liers and factory hands for miles around have struck till Thursday, in honor of the oceasi Thousands of peasant dren up and down the Swaneea Valley are pmcllcin% anthems to be sung to- morrow at Ystradynlais. Mme. Patti seems as popular here as at Covent Garden “‘She’s a kind lady, she is,” said a wild Welsh lcek-eater to me to-d: S does a sight of ;i:md with her money down here. Lord knows folks need help. Most all of them are living on charity just now.” Mme. Patti is fond of fishing, and throws a line almost as skillfully as old Izane Walton. In a glass casé in the hall is a monster trout that she canght lately. Over this trophy hangs an illuminated address of congratulation from her neighbors _at Brecon. Count- less bouquets and offerings of her friends d dependents w n all*the reception Craig y Nos is sumptuously fur- y wall hang varied por- traits You see her at sweet seventeen—when her voice first thrilled America—in the flush of her womanhood and her m: ity. Yet, except for the dates on the pictures, early and 4its might be mistaken for Most of the rooms are paneled with polished walnut or oak richly carved. The chairs and sofas are stamped with the diva's nionogram, In oneof the two lur;fu billiard rooms,added to the original building by Mme. Patti, is a huge or- chestrian, ‘which plays operatic selec- tions, 1In the other is a music gallery. WEDDING PRESENTS, More interesting than all this, however, was a monster wedding enke—a perfect monument to indigestion—which agorned the table in the center of the room adjoin- ing, and wedding presents spread out temptingly on the billiard-tablo. There were bronzes and vases, silver tea ser- vices and terra cotta statnettes—enough to fill & small curiosity shop—but these were only the humbler offerings, Ina separate room were diamonds, rubie: zold and silver work, bronzes and porca- ains that princes might covet. Baron Alfred de Rothschild had sent a diamoud heart with a ruby cross in the center Lord and Lady l{ulhauhlhl had i mond sprays for the diva's De Young, of the San Francisco Chroni- ele, had contributed a characteristic Cal- ifornian tribute in the shape of a massive gold tea and coffee service. The local gontry had given a rare service of old Swansee china—and still presents keep flowing in, Perhiaps Mme, Patti valued even more than these the kind letters of congratu- lation from the queen of the Belgiuns, the prince of Wales and hundreds of less exalted agmirers in Europe and America which the post brought her to-day. Aiter glancing at the diva’s drawing room which was filled th bric-a-brac an. daintily furnished with pale blue and gold, I'strolled into the large consery tory and aviary, which to-morrow will be used for the wedding breakfast. The speeches and toasts will be disturbed u good deal by the screeching of eocatoos and parrots, the twittering of canuries and love-birds, but worse than all, tive or six volunteer bands threaten o serenade the diva, One 15 atthis moment rely ing a new warch, entitled “Craig v Ng expressly compased by Mrs. Beatty Kingston. A COUNTRY CHURCH. Leaving the castle, | drove over to Ystradgynlais church. It is an ugly little modern church, smacking of a litle Bethel. Itis beautifully situated st the entrance of the Swansea valley, and sur- rounded by a.quiet God's agre full of wol- nished, dering tombs, overbung with ancieat | Day aud nigt ¢ yows and willows. here is nothin, markable in the church. The int like hundreds of other mean interiors modern country churches. The walls are whitewashed and the gothic arches of the nave are supported by puny pillars, which .T\.-x-.-n ladies, aided by young Magns were endeavoring to disguise with ivy ‘and laurcls The chancel is brightened by an altar cloth and a gilt cross presented to the church by Mme. Patti. The edifice is a strange contrast to the handsome Catholic church at Ciap lam, where—neyer mind how long ago the diva plighted her troth to the Mar- quis de Caux. The Iittle church building I ccommodations for 500 persons, but | to-morrow nearly 1,000 will erowd into, while quite 10,000 will probably be gath ered outside to wish the bride godspeed Another mile brought me to Ystalyfera station, which I renched just as the diva nd her husband steamed in from Swansea, man and wife, Several hun- dred viilage children and work people had assembled to see them arnive. All was excitement, and the next momeat Mume. Patti, looking young and charnung in a blue pale skirt and white bodice, almost hidden_ by white lace, and wear' g a coquettish white bonnet, trimmed with white feathers, and a white aigrette, stepped onto the platform with Signor Nicolini. The happy man wore a brown morning coat and a satistied smile. He looked very bronzed and his whiskers were blacker than ever. Then came M. Magoard of the Figaro, whose ruddy face and Paris hat scemed oddly foreign amid the Welsh mountains, wedding temoins were Herr Gan and M. Johnson, with u fow ladies. Tre. mendous cheering rose from amidst the all fry as Madame Patti-Nicolini and her hushand took their seats in the car- inge, h, with a pair of thorougl breds, was :l\\':lilinfi them. The bride- h 1 groom sed his hat and the bride blushed timidly and smiled and bowed, while two lc policemen nearly lost their wits in trying to keep the crowd in line. Then the happy couple, with their guests in other carriages, dushed home- rd—over the hills and far away—to aig y Nos. e —— A LIFE ROMANCE. Winding up a Once Promising Oarecer in a New Mexico dail, Albuquerqne, N. M., Journal: William C. Heucoce [ precinet No. 26 and also police ju the city of Albuquerque. He is also sce- retary of the democ : county central committee, and likewise a_social, intel ligent young man. Educated at the 1 academy at Annapolis, he became one ot Uncle Sam's midshipmen and sailed the world around, gathering a wonderful store of general usetul information. In the beautiful city of Nice, nestled on the shores of the classic Mediterranean, he met, wooed and won one of the most beautiful and wealthy daughters of Penn- Ivania. Resigning his position in the vy, 1 cock returned to Penn- i with Lis beautiful bride. Her father presented the havpy couple with o $50,000 residence and many other sub- stantial tokens of his love and esteem. For a while everything Jssed long happily as a summer'’s dream. Then troubles came. Extravagance dissipated the stately fortune of the pair. The young wife returned to her father, sceured a di voree, and is now an exile from her na- tive land. In one of the capituls of Europe she is now leading a lonely life, ofttimes, no doubt, dreaming dreams and weaving bright ics of the bapdsome young naval oftices with whom she rode and danced and sang and plignted her troth on the slopes and avenues of Santa Moniea. Ruined in fortune, his domestic life wrecked, disgusted with himself and the world in general, Heacock came four years ago to New Mox Bright, retic, thoroughly educated and verscd nlaw, he soon” made a wide cir- cle of friends and the community turned its summer side to him. He was honored with positions of trust, honor and_ profit by the democratic party, and wiclding the pen of a ready writer, his serv were 1n demand on the local press two years he occupied the positi city editor of the Journai, and the files show that he faithfully discharged his duties. But he was accursed with memo- ries and the gaming table found him a ready victim. In his position as {uslice of the peace he collected and failed to turn over to litigants sums of money. Indictments were found against him, At this term of court he was fined $60 .and costs in one case, which failing to pay yesterday he was remanded to jail by the court. e The Parson Spoke in Parentheses. Springfield, Mass., Union: When Rev. Dr. Osgzood was pastor of the church he was conduceting an evening scrvice in the little wooden chapel that stood at the side of the church.” The pulpit was of the plainest description, and was lighted by two small oil lamps.” As Dr. Osgood was offering a praver be made a gesture which knocked one of the lamps o the floor in front of him. He opened his eyes and looked over, and, scei thie mp was not broken, ren “Well, it was good glass, anyway,” and, closing his eyes, went on with his prayer where he left o i He Knew His Men. New York Graphic: Western despepndo (who has killed ten men and is being tried for murder, remarks to his counse —That's all right; I couldn’t have picked a botter jury myself, Lawyer (in astonishment)—Why, man, three of them are Christians, They will vote to hang you every time. Desperado—Don't be too sure of that. T have done lots of favors for them and they will not forget now. I've given them Jots of business. Lawyer—Business? Favors? Desperado—Yes, business, and lots of it. Those three Christians are under- takers, - = PILES! PILES! PILES A sure cure for Bljnd, Bleeding, Itchin and Ulcorated Pilos has been discovered by Dr. Williams, iun Indian remedy), ealled Dr Williams' Indian Pile Ointment.” A si box Lias cured the worst chronic cases ot 'z or 0 years standing. No one need suffer fivo minutes after lp!nl)‘[ug this wonderful sooth ing medieine, “Lotions and instruments do more harm than good, Williams' Indian Pile Olutment absorbs the tumors, allays the intense itching, (particularly at night after euuuiwunn 10 bed), acts a8 & poultice, gives nstant relief, and is ’:ummd only for Piles, itebing of \nnvul«dmr and for nothing else. SKIN D} EASER CURED, Dr. Frazier's Magic Ointmnt eures a8 by nmfic. Pimples, Black Heads or Grubs, Blo and Eraptions on the face, leaving the skin clearand beautiful, ~ Also cures leh, Salt 1henm, Sore Nipples, Sore Lips, and 0l Y‘h;hu te Ulcors, wfiu y a“lg‘ish, or wsiled on receipt of cents. H Retailed by Kuhn & Co., and Schroeter & Courad. Atwholesale by C. ¥, Goodan. L] A barn was burned iv Bocky Vi, not long ago, and a valuable was supposed to have been burned, 10o; but the other day he was found in the possession of & milkman of a neighbor ing town, who had put his own old horse in'the barn, stole the good horse and set tive to the building to conteal the theft, When Baby was eick, we gave hor Castoria. When sbe was » Child, sbe cried for Castoria, When sbe became Miss, sire clung to Castoria, Whao eho bad Childicn, sks gave tham Castoria e Dr. Hamulton Warren, Eclectic Physi- cian and Surgeon, Loom §, block, corner “1th -and Capitol 8 prowptly atlen 13 the justice of the peace of | MosT liERI:EBIM&fl PRICE BAKING POWDER CO., CHICACO. ST. LOUIS, t® CAPITAL PRIZE, $15,000 9 Tickets only 8. Sharos in Proportion, LOUISIANA SA’I‘E LOTTERY COMPANY. Ve do hereby certity that woe suporvise thy ngoments for all the Monthly and Quarterly Drawings The Louisiana Stato Lottory Company porson manage and_control the Drawings nselvos, and that the same are conducted with honesty, fairnoss and in faith toward all partiod, and wo authorize the Company to use this corfifloato, with fac-similes ofour signatures attachod in its advertisment COMMISSIONRRS. We, the undersigned Bunks And Bankers, will pay all Prizes dvawn in Tho Loulsiana Stato Lot teries which may be presonted at our counters J. H. OGLESBY, Pres. Louisiana National Bank. J. W. KILBRETH, Pres. State National Bank. A. BALDWIN, Pres. New Orlefl—n‘s}latmnal Bank. Tnoorporated in 1803 for 25 yoars by the logi tature for Eduoational and Charitablo purpos with acapital of $1,000,000—to which & roser: fund of over 530,00 Lina since boen nddod. By an overwhelining popular voto its ‘was made a part of the presen adopted Do bor 2. D. 1879, “Tho only lottery ovor voted on 8nd endorsed by the peoplo of any stato. 1t novor §calos or postpones. Itserand single number drawings take place monthly, and the extraordinury drawings rogu- larly every three months instend of se.nf-unnu ally Maurch, 188, nohise Atato Constitution 8 NOFOto1a , boginnf SPLENUID OPPORTUN| 0 WIN'A FORTUNE, 7th Grand Drawing, Class G, in the Acadomy of Music, New Orlenns, Tuesduy, July 13th, 1846 104th Monthly Drawing. CAPITAL PRIZE $75,000. 100,000 Tckets at Five Dollars Each. Fractions in Fifths, in Proportion, A TOF PRIZES oo | st A B, 75, X 10,000 12000 10,000 0, 5, 1000 25 PPROXIMATION PRIZES. nation Prizes of §750. do 500 9 do do 1967 Prizes, amounting to. ... - $265,600 Application for rates to_clubs should bo made :vn!v to the offico of the company in Now Or jeane, For further information writo cloarly, giving full addross. 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LINGOLN BUSINESS DIREGTORY Kecently Built Nowly ¥urnisued The Tremont, TZGERALD & S0ON, Prop tors. or, fth and ¥ Lincoln, Neb, Futes§), perduy, Sueel cars trom house to spy J.H, W, HAWKINS, Architect, OMees—34 44 wnd 42, Richurds Block, Lincoln, Neb. Elevator on lith strect 3.c Broeder of “Brooder of GALLOWAY CATTLE. BUOKT HOUS CATTLE F.M WoObs, 3 Live Stock Auctioneer Bales made in ull parts of the U7, 8. at faiy rates, Kbowm 3, State Block, Lincoln, Neb, Golluway and 3hort Horn bulls £ B. 1. GOULDIN , Farm Loans and Insurance, Correspondence in regard to loans solivited, Rouw 4, Kickards Block, Lineoln, Public Sale, Denver, Col., June 10th, 1886, ow Short Horus. Bates & Cruick pacoighing 100: bulls sad 1es, Doy ** M, Nranson, Linoolas Nl:{ Col. F. M. Woods, Auctioneer, When in Lincoln st D at National Hotel, Aud et 4 good diuuer Tor “ 3.4 FEDAWAY, Prop.@