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ESDAY NOVEMBER 3, 1886 from 3 to francs per 100 kilo- s equignlént to an increase of about 10 cents par. bushel. hiave been strengtbened by hght recepts and an improved demand for export. Prospects are favérable for arrivals of new corn in good condition at an earlier date than in prayieus y look, coupled wath the senee oflarge reserves of old crop in farmers' hands, holds in check tendeney to speculation for been ruinous to the mine operatives, of necessity it must be in order to servo the aim of that polic An Effective Rebuke, The defeat of Chureh Howe by an ovor- whelming majority 1s the emphatic re- THE DAILY PUBLISHED ;ETlEliv MORNING. TERVA OF SUBSCRIPTION ¢ Dafly Morniag Edition) fn Ter, One Voar. ... For 8ix Months. ... Yor Threa Montha The Omaha 8 nddress, One Y ea asone of general Corn prices That journal says that never the coal miners so poorly 1 they have beon sinco the formation of 1l combination in 1877, buke which the rapublicans of the district have sdunistered to the volit vagabonde who were responsible for the oluding Sunday s, and. this out % | nomination of the Nems inst Church Howe wus not e i among them s oxists to-day. ures of the bureau of industrial statis show that during the year 18% those persons employed about the anthracite conl mines received au average of onty OMATIA OFPICE, NO. 014 AN WASHINGTON OFFIC I8 FARNAM STREFT. throughont the entire district from NO. 515 FOURTEEN © latte river to the Kansas Highue-pricos, Local jobbers report business active and country merdhants order Omaha’s bank ¢ t report were still beyond the OOMRESPONDENCE: All communications relating to news and edt- torial mattor siould be addressed (o the Evl TOI OF THE Hre. BUSTNESS LETTRRSE All business lottors and remittancos ehould bo Addrossed to THR DR ¢ PUBLISIING COMUANY, an nomination without they wers The returns made by the com- o the burcau show the average rs as follows: 1% i 1884, $0.80; 1885, $6.67. 2 the pay of the miners has been the character and record good as an clection, Henceforth the fitness of the cane t be made paywble to the orderof the coupany. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS. E. ROSEWATER, Enrros —_——— THE DAILY BEK. Sworn Statement of Cireulation, State of Nebraska, County of Douglas, | Geo, B. Tzsehuck, Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual cireniation of the Daily for the week ending Oct. 20th, 159, was tunds for grain shipments in the e makes money #s firm as it usually i tion for integrity and political honor will be carefully weighed before republican conventions venture to place the seal of ———— Pire in Railway Cars, The late railway calamity, horror of the hurning of most of the unfortunate vietims has again directed who were then earning more than £12 a month are now satisti $50 n month. thieir approval upon his candidac Contract work which then paid $16 a month is now done for $8 or cot to all classes It 15 also noted ter paud and in myg under - idea that any man, however dis must bo supported bocause he has re 9, and 0 on with ros of work about the mines. that the miners were by better condition when w dependent operators than tha under the rale of the combination. The primary aim of the coal combina- as the miners are concern n that of repression and oppre romceimbered 20 one of the ceived a republiean nomination is effect- ilway cars o8 remarks t time, to the use of fire in One of our contempors he will be & bonefactor who shall invent amethod of heating cars without having ach of them, and constant peril that existsin theuse of lamps and stoves chief moral improbable that rai way oflic ively dispelled by the outcome of the election in this district. secretary of The Mr. McShane's clection is in no sense a separate fire Saturday, Oct.23 o Tesday, 2., man who enjoy party and of the people. that gives Governor Thayer between six h-monopolists of Gowen, remurked i to the labor troubles in the ocoal regions that they could only bo pa men who were then the rrying railroads. In a district y important matter than they should be, and it is one concerning which it is certainly the province of the public to have something to say, and respect which it might very properly exercise a is remarkable this age of invention no method has beon devised for the heating and lighting of s which would do away with the use of fire in them, but in the Sworn toand subseribed in’ my. this 30th day of October, A, I Notary Pubiie. first_duly sworn, secretary of the ompany, that the of the Daily Bee for 10,575 copies, 3 for March, democrat ¢ e 10 sueceed ngains ¢ temocrat could hope to sueceed ngainst 0 by the fiv presidents of the co: In pursuance of the policy of repression, one of the fivst things done by the coal to import foreign labor republican. of Church party ‘from Goo. B. Tzschuck, bein, deposes and Hee Publishin crave daily eirculati the month of January, 185, wa for Fubruary, 18%, 10,595 copic: 1889, 11,537 copie's: for Api 1505 15,208 conk for August, 186, 12,464 copies:for 1886, 13,030 copies, Subscribed amd sworn to before me this 2d day of Octobe supervision, combination his nomination ‘tion has sim- ply voiced the best element of repub- Hundreds of republicans in their disgust at the situation declined to nts were employed at New York to arrange for the hire of hordes of Huns and Poles, who swarmed in until the abscnce of this icable to provide tthe destruction dter seeurity of cars by fire in the e dent, such as that at Rio, than is us found on railway trains. know what sort of stove was in the ¢ of the Chicago, Milwaukee & combination The entire ctty region,’ says the Record, *‘is under the fect of the six miners are being thousand unnece: put at work in the coxl rly 100,000 men and hoys has been compelled to remain in s for more than one-fourth year, working on less than thi time and recewving what amounted to less an three-quarter y The poliey of the combination find some palliation it the results had been at all to the advantage of the con- ed their vrotest agaivst vend and corruption. Notary Public. We do not While no republ cun rejoice over the success of the oppos- ing party there is consolation in the fact that Church Howe has been retired from the political stage and that reckless re- HEERS for the living and tears for e 3 ry laborers have be I'nE large proportion of voters yest day seem to have “‘comse to the seratch.” a lesson that which they are likely to remember for some years to come. “‘roorback” will now be to private lifo untit calls him out. Dovaras and Sarpy counties have had eir first tasto of the political disadvant- ages of the Asnland cut off. sons of economy. In parlor and sleep- cars, at least those of late construc- ting apparatus apartment of its another campaign tion, a patent used, enelo The County Ticket, Up to the hour of going to pre: turns from the various voting v in the county are too mine the result. to the election of a m ticket and of C cape of lire even in a su But the ordinary coachos, very gen- vrovided only with the old- having a few and improvements, which may nger from tl there is the least possibility of it, but are lucless for prevention when it against the ‘The probabilities point jority of the demo- ampbell as float Tug labor vote in New York surprised it came noar bemng a vory painful surprise to Mr. Hewitt. fashioned stov is an utterly selfish and grasping scheme of the compa designed to do, against both nd the consume working at this time. is greater to-day than it was when hi paid to the all the prophets. Howe is chiefly responsible for the ve: Hundreds of republicans stayed aw from the polls in disgust, tion folly also had its ef many republicans to vote the democratic ticket straight from stem to stern. combination of Howe and the prohibitory was too nauseous for foreign clement in the republican party to swallow. Now that this cruel war is over the will be able to discuss some- Rouders will The prohibi- thing besides politics. doubtless be as much pleased over this ught to be just as precious and fact as editors. ought to be j \s precious an j surely guarded by the carrier as that of another. thut a part only of the passengers are subjected to may become a danger and almity it was alone that were dangerous in its el its operations aud unjust in its ¢ It is believed that the luw break it up, and it ought 1o be and unsparingly enforced. The New Lit The opening cter, oppress ‘Tur enthusiasm of the *‘packing house" crowd for Mr. Shane was not uproarious g political firm of Boyd & Miller wore an anxious air all day which was not rehieved up to the time of tho close of the polls. not the ordinary ¢ burned, but only one of the sleepers was saved from the fierce conflagration. Had they been filled with imprisoned passon- gers the horror of the catastrophe would have been greatly iner of railroad compani They should supply their with the most improved form of heat primarily to safety, that If they will not do this voluntarily, then they should be com- pelled to by act of law. of Lincoln. A Sign of the Times. The result of the elections throughout the state as shown by telegrams up to the time of going to press, indicates a gen- eral falling off in the republican vote. For a large part of this, loeal of course responsible. part still, ropublic their own blind folly, supreraacy is so strong that its leaders imagine it unassailable, whatever the ons and whoever the candidates, is laid to the minc will sooner or “PoLrTics surprises in marked the versatile Count Smoltalk to Mr. Pickwick some years ago when they met at Mrs. Leo Hunter's party. itics doesn't seem to have changed much in this respect in the past thirty years. current number of The work has bee expeetation, and in its pre ead by thousands of re e would fail to cateh aglimpse of its For more than six- the Century Mag- awnited with ent - form will in this matter is n only blan Whenever par pages in book form. teen years Mr. Lincoln’s former private sucretaries, Messrs. John G, Nicolay and en engaged on the work, and the portion now published is evidence that the promises of the pub- is the latost an be obtaine “PERNIOIOUS activity democratic disease which Doctor Cleve- land proposes to treat. very littlo pernicious activity for Mr. Cleveland in some quarters whon the next presidential canvass begins to mat John Hay, have b WasmNGTon Crry, it is said, was never duller in a busines: Trade is stagnant, and while ome building in part, doubtless speculative, there is no general prosper- ity. The heavy gos rd, has seriously affe trade of the city, and the numerous dis- ssals from the government printing oflice hus also been seriously felt in a There will, of course, somewhat of a revival when congre mples and the hosts ot oflice again evade the capi ascendency. the First district for a united party and a reputable cundidate arepublican success by four thousand majority was a certainty. strength of the party deceived its leaders into permitting the nomination of the one man who above ali others represents re- publican corruption in this state. result is seen in the defection of several thousand republican whom will never agamn return to party allegiance, and in the grown of an inde- pendence of party ties which will make a large vote an unknown quantity in sub- sequent elections. Nothing but the heavy republicen ma- jority in the state was responsible for the folly of the prohiitory resolution passed at the state convention, been anything like evenly divided the tainty of the loss of the foreign vote would have prevented the costly blunder The effect 15 seen in the transfer to the democracy of a large number of yotes formerly republican and in the permanent alienation of thousands of faithful supporters of the republican Towa has had the same experi- ence and her splendid banner majority of 80,006 has dwindled down to a mere fraction of its former magnificent pro- 1t progresses from The greatest pains have been expended in sifting and prepuring the abundant material which Mr. Lincoln and his fam- ily placed in the hands of the biogra- phers, and the resources of the art de- partment of the magazine have been taxed to give graphic and faithful repre- sentations of the scenes and incidents of As a result the public may confidently expect the final biogra- phy of Abrahum Lincoln, so far as 1t can be prepaired by his contemporaries, a pieture strongly yet the greatest DuRING October the national debt was decreased by thirteen mlilions. United States possesses the unenviable distinction of being the only nation on the globe which wrings mitlions of dol- lars annually from its people to pile up a needless surplus. business dire Lincoln’s life. Sm— voters many of Hexgy HiutoN becomes logntee of Mrs: Stewart's ostate, 8i- duary legatee of A. T. Stewart's fortune he made himself one of the wealthiest ecitizens of New York by wrecking the commercial intorests of the dead mer- 1t is safe to presume that his grip of this harpy on the remnants of tho Stewart fortune will be no less sure, is the order of the day in the election now in progress. number of tickets and the heavy vote polled will make the count a tedious one. kull returns will, doubtless be a matter of several days. conscientiously chant prince. ground of contemporaneous history and colored by a faithful reproduetion of the stirring scenes i which the martyred president took such a mighty part, The work is one of national interest. No adequate biography of Mr. Lincoln has yet appeared, because no biographer has had access to the family papers. Other lives of Lincoln have thrown side lights on the character of the one great genius of the civil war epoch, but none have touched, as Messrs. Nicolay and Hay now do, the secrets of his home life of his personal surroundings, and of the four years of agony which this brave but tender-hearted hero suffered as chief ¢ ecutive of a nation in the throes of civil Had the parties autobiography, soon to be pub- nted not to have a breath arcely be called ACCORDING to report, Lord Butler wiil take Miss Stager, daughter of the late Anson Stager, to Englard as Lady Butler, while James Russell Lowell will bring to the United States Dowager Lady Lyttle- ton, to be thereafter plain Mrs. Lowell, 'Pne American girl gains a title and the already twice married English woman loses one; but it may transpire that the Iatter has made the batter i lished, is war of scandal iv it. 1t can an autobiography on th made at Lincola. Tue oleomargs » tax has gone into The clection ery of *‘look out for bogus tickets' will now be ¢ “look out for bogus butter," THE cable cars will not bloom until the do blossom out the with the Omaha Horse ation of Sur- vk, was simply enge and offers no sugges- all men who have the power to dismiss others from employ- mentns? Subject to the same danger. nam ! 15 sEVERty-two Tir attempted assas: veyor Beattie, of New Y will be no conflic Railway compan,; THERE is a temporary lull in trade but western business centers, more than keeping up with Year by year, as old issues fude nway into the mist of the past, party lines set more loosely upon the rank and file of The campaign of hur- rah and red light israpidly passing away. Torches and speeches and processi are not the most effective way nowaduys oters tothe faith, s men hiring their sorvants, voters are [ s for the theories on wiiiv! didates vretend to base their action ihan cter and references from the Capacity, hon- —— fon unless it be 4 0 The Business Situation. intelligent voters. The bank clearings show a shght de- merchandise t reached expectations, sbservers attribute this change in the situation to the unusual temporary reaction following unusual activity, to h lahor troubles in New York state and elsewhere have contributed. iron trade, that thermomeier of indus- I conditions, shows no abatement in The mills and factories are and values through e list are well maintained. The grain markets are though the intel Tho would-be years old, and it fl effect on s mind of the dism feeling of hopelessne determination to even with the man responsible for his upress, Kug ng winfor in Malta, Queen 1sabetla stitl elings il some day again be nio will spend much 1t 1s said that to the hope that she seated on the thronedf Spain, It is quite the propgr caper tor royalty to literature | nowadays, iightout a volume en- candidates themselves, fidelity and common sense are de- wded, not platforms and pledges, The requirements of to-day haye a distinet conneetion with the individuality of the . The tume when a party dictum was the court of last resort to the mem- rs comprising the party has gone — and Miners' Wages WeLLs, the brakeman who negle the switeh at Rio, the conse- quence of which was the terrible di on the Chicago, Milw: railroad, bas boen jai seems 1o be that the hlame rests wholly on him, but as we romarked a few d ut lack of vigi! attention on the part of the freight con duetor renders him measurably respon- sible, and it would not bein the line of striet justice to punish the subordinate t the man in full char; — sarRaM published several days ago in the BEE, announcing the assign- ment of the Bighth Infantry partment of the Platte, has been con fdicial advices from The regiment will in of Roumania has y-employed, ukee & St, Panl The fecling Queen Victoria can draw If she cannof movement of both winter and spring wheat has been quite active during the week. continued moderate, but the amount of wheat on passage to Kurop, 56 of 440,000 bushels, which indicates relatively free shipments from countries than the United States, features of the situation have the improving tendency recently noted in the market, and have encouraged freer selling, under which prices have ined about 13 to 2 cents per bushel. however, coutinue Ilighldnd scenery are pronounced superior to those by many Seateh artists, Queen Vietoria's hialth is said to be better it has begn_ for several years, and more guests are boug moral than at any time since the Prince Con- he appa IO, 4 ARy Lxports have Coal Combination surse of the sylvania in iny ering with the monopo- listic schemes of the cosl combinations in that state has quite naturally greatly and among the obviously ums advanced by the w- terested parties to justify the poliey of the combination 18 the statement thut i creases the wages of miners. ficnit to understand how any intelligent could make a claim so 1ed as this with any expecta- tion that it would be accepted by any- body qualifigk to reason. ) princess of Austria, owing to bad times among the lacemakers, has ordered that all the ladies of the court circle shall patronize exclusively Austrian 1ace. herself given extensive orders for it. King Menilek, of Shoa, a vassal of King John of Abyssinia, makes all the priests at his capital wear the uniform of Italian gren- vorite smusement is playing with paper balicons and blowing incensed them Preposterous o to the de- Torry in Chiengo. The forcign marke! a few days be assigned by G to their stations, and before many woeks will have exchanged the uir of Avizona fora Nebraska and Wyoming wiuter | of the Eighth Infantry the troops in the department will consist “of one regiment of Ca and six regiments of infuntry, the See ghth, Soventeentli adiers, and his for a gradual recovery in values as as the movement from farmers' ds bogius to fall off. The proposed increase in mmport duties by the French government cucourages the expectation aciive demand from French buyers in anticipation of the effeot of The proposed advance The Philadel- wlich has done excellens srvice in demonstrating the wrong done the publie by these combinations, and in their aections, goes into an extended statement showing that the peliey of the combinations has The ex-Empress Eugenie at last sees the hopelessness of the Napoleonie outlook in France, and nhas withdrawn the pensious whichrshe has paid regularly 1o the support- érs of the Bonaparte dynasty ever since the fall of the emplre, The empress of China has reigued twenty With the ar combatting ond, Sixth, 5 and Twenty-first: bigher im posts. years, and will resign next February in favor of her son. She Is said to be exceedingly pro- gressive, and but for the men who formed her conncil would have had ralronds throughout the empire. Queen Victoria during the forty-nine years | of her reign hias spent only twelve days in Ireland, and Mr, Labouchere wants her to celebrate her jubilee by giving in memory of those twelve days twelve pence to each in- habitant of the neglected island. Prince Alexander of Battenburg, late of Bulgaria, has just bought the Charlottenfeld estate, near Schaffouse, Switzerland. [tis situated half way between the city and Neu- hausen, and overlooks the valley of the Rhine, The prineo vaid 100,000 for the estate, which belon ed to the heirs of arien wateh merchant who recently died in Russia, Thesultan of Turkey is a consin of the Iate emperor of the French, He is direetly descended from Mlle, Dabue de Rivry, who was captured by Algerine pitate< and be- cane the favortia ‘wife of the then sultan, and she was a Creole, first consin to her g Ia Tagerio-the Embress Josephine, grandmother of Nupoleon 111 Queen Victoria has received from Glasgow avresent that is said 1o hein charming faney of design and exauisite workmanship, worthy of the great Bienvenuto ( ni himself, 1t isan clegant parasok, the handle of which is a vtobe of presenting the earth, upon which her maiesiy’s possessions. are marked by inerustations of precions. s10nes. The English people have been wanting the earth for along tin King Kalakaua has invited the Pacific Yaeht elub to visit him at Honolulu on Nov- on the oceasion of his fiftieth e intends to celebrate the event by aseries of festivities, A pala near his ownat the club's disposul. and in order to induce as large atten ce of vachts as pos- sible he has offered threa prizes for ocean ces, one valued At $1,000 and two others at W00 each. The invitaiion will probably be accepted, and if a suflicient fleet mages the rin it will be in all respeets the most import- antyachting event that lias ever taken place on the Pacitic coast. - Woman's Will, Phitadelphin Pres There will be no contest over Mrs, A. I\ Stowart’s will. A woman's will is uot to be t asi ————— 1nin Blu Philadelphin Press. The beautiful Tyrian purple which Miss Cleveland deteeted in the literary atmosp'iere at Chicago turns out to be only a deep, dark indiconlue, S Total Prohibition. Washington Post. Atlanta, Ga., enjoys total prohibition just vet there were: twenty-two arrests for drunkenness on Saturday and Sunday by a prchibition mayor and velice. This is a little worse showing thun lust ye The Pen is Mig han the Pittshwrg Chronicle-Telegraph. The world is agog, and no wonder, 1 ween Too many aré writing ol what they have seen Each one is ambitious to tell what he knews, In prais.nw his friends or debasing his foes! One makes an assertion and quiekly Come in from all quarters to prove that he Sword, lie: And the world doesi’t know Just what to be- ieve When all are so willing to write and de- ceive. And all this because "tis the fanc To throw down the sword and of men up the ary As the sword was to honor and. trath, is the pen T'o what is most vicious, most mean amongst men, AFTER THIRTY YEARS, A Man Who Was Thought to Have Been Murdered Turns Up. In 1856, wnites a Cobleskili, N. Y., cor- respondent of the Now York World, when Cobleskill was but a hamlet of three or four hundred 1nhabitauts, when the stag: nehes made their daily trip: trom Binghampton to Albany, before the advent of the Albany & Susquehanna railroad, one of the two country taverns was kent by dent of O s 8 then called the Union hotel. Jor was required in those days, a gemal host, who would meet his cus tomers as they drove up to the door, an put up their horses himself in the enc of the hostler. About the middle of Sop- tember, 1856, just as the sun was decilin- ing, there appeared hefore the Union hotel & man mounted upon a_dark brown horse abont si ars olil. Instead of a saddle the stranger used a sheepskin and in place of a bridie and n gale only a common headstall and L The stranger, who appeared to be an Irish man about twenty-eight or thirty years of age, dismounted. The horse was led into arn and the traveler was furnished upper. No question was agked as business or destination—for in thos days no hotel rogisters were kept. How- ever, he gave his name as Martin Ma- and told Mr. Beekman that he was s way to the western partof the state to seek a place to settle down; that he had lost his wife and had left two ildren, a boy and a girl, residing with his sister in Brooklyn. But he fauled to stato where he himself came from, Ma- seemed to be well provided with and 1t was remarked to him at the time that he would be much botter off should he ride in a wagon instead of belt, that he was looking up a howe whereat to settle with his children, but when it came to buying the wagon he would "bo obliged to rc then expose his imagined he sinister gleam in Beekman's eye, moment terrorized, of the front was on fire with proba- ble robbery and possible death, and he took a bee-ling ing to himself that it were his horse than his life. Ho was for a made an excuse sville. reason better to lose He kept the road Canajoharie, ad did not stop From there and they came mining business of a goodly for whenee he took the cars until ho reached St. he wrote for his famil had become posse Mr. Maloney is now vi t Canajobarie and call on the man who has been so much wronged by his strange conduet. SINGULAR SOMNAMBULISM. The Explanation of a Scries of Ouri- in a Keatucky morning, five or six years merchant in a town in to find that he had been to the amonnt of and a diamond pin had been taken trom his clothing, while he and lus wife had slopt through the night unusual was T'he first thing was to lind out y door and no violence had boen Kentueky awoke uuconscious how the burgl window was [ s, while the merchant was irm in his belief that the house | robbed byloutsiders, the find no evidence to sust erything went to show tl ate of the house Besides the mer L clerk in the colgred cool etectives could as the offend- , und two color hen, far away, and could not for ¢ the merchant’s em- poly for seve one was a re possible to suspect 1t was thercfore 1 as well as in her own tongue, was a cident was of course the talk of the family for the next fortnight, and it had out when'another surpri ot yot been worn € Was sprung on nt awoke at his usual | ¢laim became t ad been mysterionsly Again the merch hour to find thut he 5 had been taken from his pocker, and the gold wateh which he h bortowed of his” sister-in-law that ain the doors and win- day was gone. ) dows were found all right, ceints and doubttul was u startding oxpose. It wa t one of the She was questiono wis the thief, nd in her indignation at being | that she was whn suspected of such ants would 1 they not been fi ant would as soon them. The elerk natur the situation, his own wife 1t embarrassed over ted on occupying a room at the store Matters ran along for about th sister-in-law, s wife absent. she had gone down sta {ily threw on his clothes o It seemed that th suspicion of s, and each 3 , had been the It 'was explained vich old man. - He diedin a_short time, and si Then the out to find hes one of the ser ter the robbery o 1o bed. She had s across the upper hall in such it must be broken by and the breuking must ¢ 1 came, but she door in time to sec ' wife deseending the stui chant found th and he spent a quart ing around hefor s then came from the direction an tield, and though he is amazement at her ac him without & word, 1id looking straight of an hour her expressing, | ot steaight. to | Could that frowsy, w and up stairs, and the bed and moment Wis us quiet 48 an) That it was a c; s could be no doubt; the burglar se of somnambulism 1 his clothing and Tho wife was told of her adventu credit his words. v money or burglars, nor had she the re- motest idea of how far she the house, or haqa pulled on her stockings Coope this the commons, Shopiwssom quarter of a mile from the house, was a large burdock. oxaminad the stump, and there wrapped in u piece of burlap, wi two watches and and fully a ‘Lhe merchant the lost money. not remember ever h. ump, and she had cert horseback. After remaining two days and nights at Beekman’s hotel, Maloney coneluded to buy an old wagon'and har of Beckman and continue his jour- His barguin was made, the wagon harnoss paid for, and several Cobles- Killians were at th v morning to_see "M 15 they called him “off.”” Just before being ready for departure Maloney and Beekman weny into the hotel while the villagers awaited their return. Ten, fifteen, and twenty minutes elapsed, and the by standers were becoming impatient when Beekman, returning with flushed fa nd iw‘lllllt}_{l{ excited, declared that when Maloney and he entered the house the former excused himself for a moment, went out the front door and did not com Becoming somewhat puzzied at bsence, Beekmun had sought the ) Lo see if Maloney hud not returned No stone wasleft unturned o dis- cover the whereabouts of the missing Irishman, but ail cfforts were futile Then there weve whisperings and finally mutterings against Landlord Sam Beek- man. Shortly after the disappeara Maloney, Sam built an 1ce house wh reached to the bottom of his cellar, the gossips located the corpse at (he bot- tom thereof; others allege that they saw | & wagon driving hurricdly away from Saw's barn about 11 o'clock on the nyzht of the Trishman's_mysterious disappear ance, and soie of the more superstitious even went so s to say thit th_.-)v heard shouts and groans in the attie of ing hotel, believing that Sam had locked his guest up-stairs in order to seeure the money which he was supposed to possess. Thus matters progressed; the stranger did not appear, bis horse being taken eare of by Beekmad until the ing cen openly ac- cused of the murder of Maloney by a man named Faulkng Beekman bhad F nor arrested fo , and in obtaining a judgment of $100 against him. About ten days ago & man about sixty yours of age, Tobust in avparance, his fn. tinged' with gray, with elastic step | and carrying a gold-headod cane,ulighted. | froma train at the station. He wus sur ed that this was really Cobbleskill, ¥ barn on the Sund never gono within fitty feot of it in her | Py provided for thirty.ci On two other within the next month she got up and wandered over the house in her slecp, seeming to be in sear Lut not finding 1t. waking hours. h of somevhing, y be termed, then loft her ns suddenly wis not known her walking son e THE PRETTY CRACKER GIRL. to walk again except in Atlanta Constitution La Rue, of Sherman’s army Blankviiic at th summer morning was Lo swear and his sce- was to laugh, young fellow of infinit Tho tired troopers snothing in convineed that all s copt the stove, ources he dud | “PHH that there wa Geogin mountain or tifty houses sty round the pub- 1 dozen was oc jority of the inhabitants hud fled to the mount an old woman who had her besd poked out of ner cabin window, Captain La Rue wd, and then a look flashed from his bold is worth looking at,” winging on tue gat iy federal eavalrymen before, and in her anxicty to | are o geod viow, ! receaved the followinr ¢ new nspivant for | unconscionsly which showed Ler pft Lo the best ad 20 Fox, Esq.: Dear’ Sir—1 Look at that protty eracker ghei,"’ said a big fellow, as he vattled iis sabre to " & \o girl was evidently Divinely tal her lissome figure rey of its gruceful ¢ Gty Suttivan he can i in which ahic sh secied 1o be a part of Al was s perfect: | 5 duzzling and Under her rastic, He began to ask questions and . finally told Jumes N. Borst that he was the missing man, He said thut when ne ar rived in Cobleskill, nis whole world possessions being his bhorse and 3917 i n’ meney, §900 of waich be carried in hig l Ru running through he shy eyes of bl 01y 1 itself like a ood of. o Her har was o very much mistaken there is trouble store for her.” The raiders rehed the honse and stole overy thing worth carrying ofl, They burned the unoccupied dweilings, and’spent the day in making the village miserable, d'he *eaptain did not find the time hangin, heavily on his hands. Ho nuud dgunarters at the house occupicd by Jinnic and her mother, and his appearance was so warli the old woman busied herself in_ the Kitehen, loaving her daughter to keep the self-invited guesy under surveillance, It was long after midnight before the troopers rode out of town on their way back to the mam body of the army. How it came about was never fullysoxplained, but the eaptain’s spirited charger earricd a double burden, and one of the riders locked wonderously like Jinme, Among the Americans who did valiant n Maximilian's army, after our s over, was Captain La Rue. The captain had a wifc who was the toast of all Mexico, from the eapital city to the Rio ! In the Awcrican ocolony there we strange rumors about this beautiful woman, It was said that she looked like an angel and acted like a sho devil, There were queer stories, too, about her carly life. It was whispered that La Rue picked her up with a lot of other plunder in & mountain town in Georgia, just for a lark, but it turncd ont serions busing 1t soems that the girl took it into her head to fall in love with him, and she made life o burden to him until ho murried her, and took her to Mexico. La Rue was killed along with Prince Im m, and when the prince’s widow atled for Enrope, Mrs. La Rue went with her. Almost anything can be done with a girl, provided she is eaught voung, A ¥ or two more in th bleak and poverty-stricken mountain hamlet would have tirned Jinnie into 8 commonplace young woman. As it was, she wus thrown into a strange civele just at the time when she was feverishly cager to mmitate those who woere above her in the soc senle. She stripped ofl’ the provine husk that enveloped her. She studied Men, Women, costumes, mManncrs, news: papers, theatres, everything that could throw light upon the f; ny: led saociety. For sueh a woman to rn to talk well in French and Spani le v and the subtle ism, what wonder Rue was soon matter. With her b witehery of her magn is it that Lugeme anathematized by wil the prudes in Par It was some time in 1870 that a certain 1k of hotel cireles in Washington. The elaimant, a charming woman, swore that she was a unionist, and that Sherman’s vaiders had destroyed something over ono hundred thousind She was dollars’ worth of her pm'wny in north cked up by o fow 18, who o i Jiad quite an fidavits, bt the ease looked m the first, Finally there Shown tapanper, had never vy property, and had cloped from s native town during tho wai with voeated he adventor this exposure, | baek ther Her e ss left Washington aft vina few rs she nin the role of a lohbyist. tumes were gorgeons, he splendent and her litte wine e voted dehghtfully dan In the long run, howoev b Hed. Men we un Hess) dewlings with the La Rue woman,and she disappoared, Such a cur always tends downward. A fow yoar: La Rue muaried a lost his fortune in Wall st 5 sy, grasping adventuress struck out blindly in eve m. She was wanted inone rswindljng, and in another wiling, Society everywhere lengued itself agmst he A fow days L Philadelphia court throw out & suit brought by this won nst 2 weak old man. who had pl mself in her pov ry and pe g collapsed before it ot fairly under way. As the plaintift rushed from the court room in fit of impotent rage, a by- .\l:ulltlv'x’ caught a Georgian's arm and “That woman was Eugenic She marmed old ———, you know The Georgian was thund inkled old hag, gray hair and ved eyes, be the charmer who had once been the taik of two continents? That was her lagt public appearance. She will next be heard of when she reg- isters at an asylum or a prison, or is fished out of the river and carried to the Morgue. e Colonel Watterson's Kemarkable Drama, : The New York Sun says Chicago Now. it for sev. terson has been thinking of writing n play for Joseph Jeflerson, and that hein wded to base this play upon Fenimore 's story of “The Spy.”" Mr. Jefler- son, who 15 now in Chicago, corroborates toment in part. ‘I'ne part he does not corroborate is that about Fenimore He has at faith in Watterson's ability to writo & snccessful drama, and he says he has talked with Watterson about it o number of timos About fonr yoears ago the scheme was at perihetion—since that time it has deelined until Jeflerson coneluded it had been abandoned. ‘The oviginal it of the male and famale, In the thivd d ic intercst centeced, us it were, upon stove which the author intended to introauee for the purpose of illustrat- ing the evils of the tariff on iron. Upon reading tho draft over Mr, Jefferson found that ther number of char; torson replied that it w haye but Jeflerson showie more consistent with dramatic ethics to b sary to sustain the action of and the in terest in the play finully consented to eut out as many of the characters ag Mr. Jefferson thonght best, und after reading the play over was anunne e in the pic wry Wat- his desire to el state in the union repr tod, that it would be sy only such cha CLers 15 w Colonel Watterson n A, Jofierson expressed hinisolf as uld be omitted exe An Omaha By Underthe e pise ion of “*Another Boxer | who Wants to Iight Sellivan,” the o lice Gazette in its laat issie says SALOmhin there is a boxer whom sport of th clion are gugor to wst Jotin L. Saliivan.” His name is Billy Monihan. e stands five foot ten and w balf inclies i height and weighs 100 pounds. He has figured in SUVeril ro nosnd timble battles and for the past two months iins been lewrning how to He knocks every man he mcets, m s friends desive o pit him against Sullivan, and have au th I hi to dssue o challenge to the upion, Yestordauy Richard K. Fox cinment trom the Richant K w o rendy 1o m W OMAHA, Neb, Johis L.Sallivan at any Moniban caunot be a very widel section for none of men seon o b

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