Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 21, 1887, Page 2

10WA AND NEBRASKA NEWS, | Death at Musoatine of Dr. Robertuon, Pres* ident of the State Board of Health, A TELEPHONE CONSOLIDATION Another Gas Well Discovered in Guth rie County- Hawkeye Horticaltur- iste—A Colambus Book Sellor Fails—Caught While Conpling. Caught While Coupling. StrANG, N Nelson Ong. a brakeman on the . 3 slipped and fell under the wheels while making a coupling at Ohiowa station, One leg was seyered from the body and one arm mangled. His collar bone was broken. and he sustained internal injuries of a serions nature, Ile was taken to his home in Edgar. It is feared that he cannot recover, A Sclf-Locking Attachment. SurtoN, Neb, Jan. 20.—The implement house of C. W. Walther was levied upon and closed by the McCormick Reaper company The liabilities of the house are X ssots, $14,000, Mr. Walther says the attachment is illegal. He has assigned and proposes to sue for damages, Failure at Columbus, Corvspus, Neb., | |Special Tele- gram to the Bee.)—R. Harlman, bookseller and musical instrument dealer, made an as- slgnment of his stock to Dr, A, Heintz and other creditors. Liabilities about $2,000, Death of Dr. MuscATINg, Ta, Jan. erteon died at his residence in this city at 8:00 this morning, after an illness of three months, The deecased was president of the state board of health, and professor of tho theory and practice of medicine in the state unlversity. Ieserved in the war as major of the Fifth Towa, and was elected general of tho Eastern lowa Vetearn association. At the time of his death ho was grand comman- der of De Molay commandery No. 10f this city, He leaves a wife and two children, The deceased was in his fifty-sixth year and ‘was troubled with » paralytic aflliction. Towa Horticulturists, CrAnves Crry, Ia, Jan, 20.—[Speeial Tele- gram to the Ber.]—The State Horticultural socicty, in session here to-day, was strength- ened by several arrivals, amonz them A, G, Tuttle, delogate from Wisconsin and the ploneer grower of Russian apples in the northwest. Intercsting papers were read on forestry, followed by a general discussion The anhual election of officers resuited a follows: ~ President, J. Patten; vice an:sul.-m, Zusene Secor: secretary, George an Houten’ treasurer, W. Strowm. Telephone Companies Consolidate. DAVENPORT, ., Jan. 20.—|Special Tele- gram to the Bre.]—At the annual meeting held here to-day of the Iowa Union Tele- phone company and the lowa & Minnesota Telephone company, the two were consol- idated under the name of the Towa Union Telephone company. ‘T'hie company controls business at sixty-four exchanges and 516 stations. Robertson. ~Dr. W. 8, Rob- Too Poor to Live. DuBuQUE, Ia, Jan. 30.—|Special Tele- gram to the Bir.]—Gottfried Schmidt, an ailing and poverty stricken old man. com- mitted sulcide to-day at his home in this eity by throwing himself ina well. He left his wooden shoes on the edge, and the finding of then there led to the distovery of his dead body at the bottom of the well. Another Gas Well, Drs Moixes, Ia., Jan. 20.—[Special Tele- gram to the Bre.|—Another gas well has been discovered at Herndon, Guthrie county, forty miles west of this city. Gas was found at adepth of 136 feet, and {3 now flowing in considerable quantities. Thls is the third gas well that has been found at Herndon, inton After a Packery. Jan, 20.—[Special Tele- ]—Steps are being taken to organize a company with a capital of $100,00 to build a packing house here. The movement is backed entirely by Clinton and Lyons capitalists. An Overdose of N RED OAK, orphine. . 20.—[Special Telozram to the Brk.|—S. A. Archer, an old and respected citizen of Clarinda, died suddenly here trom an overdose of morphine yester- day, taken while ill. Instantly Killed. KrokUK, Ta., Jan. to the B Ia., was struck by a pittman on the steamer Tempest, on the lower river to-day and killed. - The National Board of Trade. WASHINGTON, Jan, 'he national board of trade met again in session this morning and took up the following resolu- tion, which was lost by a yote of twenty-tive to seventeen: Resolved, That the proposi- tion that 50 cents per ton be granted by the government for ten years for every thousand miles sailed by vessels, sail or steam, built and owned in the United States and engaged in foreign commer after ten yoars' p: ment to be reduced to 10 per cent annually, is, lllIh(\{lullnln'lltnl'lllu hoard, a well de- vised method of reviving the decaying and almost loat shipping interest of the country, and that we earnestly recommenda the early consideration and adoption of the method by coneress. Resolutions were adopted urging congress to consider the oxtension of the usefulnes of the postoftice de) ent to telegrahi conumnunication : favoring an enactment mak ing it unlawful for common earriers to limit their lability In any receipt or bill of lading issued for transportation, and 10 tho safe de- livery of property from one station to an- other; favoring the holding at tne national capital in 1502" of a world’s exposition_in honor of the discovery of America by Col- umbus as a movement toward more intimate commaorcial and special relations between the United States and sister nations and urging the government to prepare the necessary buildings, ete., to earry forward the enter- prise; that the' secretary of the board i structed to transmit conies of these tions to the president, both branches of con- ress and to commercial organizations of the United States. The delegates were ban- quetted to-night at Willard' L ALl tt to Cornell, Itiaca, N, Y. Special Telegra to the Bek.|—Ex-President Whito yesterday endowed the Cornell university school ot his. tory and politeal science with his superb his- tory library. It is a collection, the gatherin of whieh has been his lite-work,and numbers about thirty thousand volumes, besides some ten thousand valuable pamphilets, and many manuseripts. It has cost more than one hun- dred thousand dollars, and its present yalue i3 not easy to estimate, itis especially rieh in histori and original material such as u porary pamph- lets, ne tions of doeu- ments. rkable are the collee- tions upon Kreneh, German, Enpglish and American history, upon the widdle ages, the Jesuits and the inquisition, the early history of natural seience and of political économy - The Live Stobk O A Valuable ission Aroused. A special to the News from Springfield, (1., say special re- port has been filed with the governor by the Allinals live stock commission calling ate tention to the alarming extent to which con- tagious pleuro-pneumonia prevails among cattle in the city of Caicago,the magnitude of the interests involved and the attendan dan- ger. ‘Uhe history of the outbreak is reviewed, with the conclusion that the ne- eessity exlsts for a careful examination of thé cows that are owned in the city of €l and the towns of Hyde Park, Lake, Jdefferson and Lake View that have in any way been exposed tothe intection, “Fne board deems the slaughter of all such to necessary to- insure future ‘The . commissioners can - seareely expect the Yy in they removal of the quarantine restrictions already thrown around the movement of cattle from the state uniess this is done. 1t is thought that this will requuie the killing of at least a thousand cattle. With the premises disinfected, and & quarantine for sufticient time to render them safe wherever the dis- eased cows have been found, the commis- sioners express the belief tiat further loss will be averted. R The Vanderblits' Latest Scheme, CirtcAGo, Jan. 2.—The papers hero will to-morrow publish the assertion that if the inter-state commeree bill becomes a law the Vanderbilts will arrange to work the Nickel Plate and West Shore roads for through busi- ness from Chicago to New York, taking care of local traflic by the Lake Shore and New York Central lines, By this means it is claimed rates wouid be upheld on both ciasses of freight without violating any of the provisions of the law. The railronds ex- tending west from Chicago have all discon- tinued making second class passenger rates, and arealso moving to abolish land_tickets for the reason that the bulk of lands lave been disposed of. Kepresentatives of the lines east to-day called a_meeting with the view of taking similar action. - Senatorial Appointments Conflemed. SpeRINGFIELD, Ill, Jan, 20.—Among the appointments made by the governor and con- firmed by the senate were trustees for the soldiers' and sallors’ home at Quincy, three game wardens, live stock comnissioners, members of the board of trustees of the sol- diers and sallors’ orphan home, a member of the board of pharmacy, a member of the board of West Chicago park commissioners, amember of the state comnmissioners of pub- lic charities, a member of the state board of fruit commissioners, a_member of the state board of dental examiners, and members of the board of Lincoln park’ commissioners of Chicago. il The Freeze-Out Game Ends, CHICAGO, Jan. 20.—At A meeting of tho Colorado Railroad association here to-day the freight on railroad iron was reduced from $11. per ton from the Missouri river to common poiuts in Colorado. T'he as- sociation was induced to take this action by reason of th rotests made against the high rate by owners of the Chicago and Joliet roll- ing mills, who elaimed to have been barred out of Colorado by the prohibitory tariff, the objectof which was to foster the rolling mills Pueblo, Col. Under the reduction the il avonce fulfill the contract ry to the Colorado Midland road of 20,000 tons of steel rails, ‘Wholesale Hog Stealers Arrested. CnicaGo, Jan -A case of hog stealing on a grand scale, s ve been carried on for the past two years, came to light to-day by the arrest of the parties who are alleged to have done the work. It is claimed that during that time no less than 3,500 hog been taken from the train i & Northwestern railroad, ageregating in value between S$18,000 and’ $20,000. Dennis McGurl, proprietor of a soap factory on Western avenue, his son, Dennis MeGurl, Jr,and five of the employes of the lishment, named ~August tenry, King, Farrell O'Reilly, John Recan and Thomas Sullivan, cowprise the list of those arrested in the case. Too Sick to Go to Kome, NEw York, Jan. 20.—A long statement is given out to-night by an intimate friend of Dr. McGlynn as authorized by that reverend gentleman, in regard to his troubie. Stripped of its verbiage it is to the effect that ever since his summons to Rome the state of his health has been such that his physician has absolutely forbidden him to make'the journey and he thinks it cruel that another demand should be made on him in his present phy cal condition. He gives no intimation as’ to whether or not e would go were lie well. —-— Fatal Hotel Fire. ST, PAUL, Jan. 20. New Westminister (B. C.) special to the Pioneer-Press says: Tne New Westminister hotel burned this morning, catching fire in an unknown place. 1t was s0 quickly consumed that three guests were burned to death, One of them is be- lleved to be Campbell. The register and all valuables, including the baggage of the were burned. Other guests escaped 0 their night clothe:s ——— Swear Off Or No Pay. CLEVELAND, Jan. 20.—A Leader special from Newark, O.. says that the Baltimore & Ohio paymaster, who visited that place to-day, compelled each employe of the road to sign a pledge to abstain from the use of intoxieating liquors before he could draw his pay. This movement is said to have been 8 ed because of ugly rumorsabout drunken trainmen in_connection with the Kepublic disaster on the 14th inst. _— hat Beeame of the Bribe, ArpaNy, N. Y, Jan 1In the assembly to-day McCann offered a resolution request- ing the comptroller to report av his earliest convenience what disposition had been made of $2,000 which had been in his hands since 1551, and which is alleged to be the price of a vote for United S senator in 1581, It went over under the rules. et Out of Danger. WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—8, 8. Cox rested well last nicht and was stronger this morn- ing than he has been for some time. e sat up for two hours to-day. Dr. Bliss said to- night that Mr. Cox has so far recovered a8 to be out of danger. Sun The Biggest Unio WAsHINGTON, Jan., Vet- erans’ union to-night clected M. A. Dillon, of Washington, to be commander-in-chief for the ensuing ye: Arrested as German Spies. Pamis, Jan. 20.—Two men arrested at Lyons yesterday on suspicion of being man spies now profess to be Americans, soldier who brought about their wrrest been promoted. 'ho has e To Retail Dealers. Visit the new location of SI son & Co., corner Ninth and Le: streets and inspeet the bargs cories. Went Down With All Hands. Jan, 20.-A dispateh from pain, says that the steamer Brent- from Newport for Malta, has becn preced, and thatall o boaid bi onie wero ost. Bargains For Retail Grocers t the § Johnson & Co, fire 1l and sec them. sale. Weather. Towa: Warmer, Nebraska and low For Nebraska and weather, falr Purti ing to look atlots in Por tal, the township at the junction of the nion F B. & M. and Missouri Pacitic 1. can take t 10.55 o, m. Union n, or 11 a. . Mis- sourt 1 n, on nuary 1 meet the on the e — A Big Month, re v Buck and his assistants ve suceceded in striking balances on the unusually large smount of business transacted in the oflice in the month_of December There were received _during the month from city taxes about §330,000 of which amount all but §00 has becn utupon warrants drawn against 3 funds, su 000 gr {'by fire and wate ary 1st, is now bein s o of prices by son & Co. in their new location, corn Ninth and Leavenworth tail merchants to call and bargaius, , which was the night sold ata 0 John r of It will pay re wnspect. their dmaln rsonal Paragraphs. County Clerk Necdham was amonyg the Omahans at Lincoin yesterday -— Phe county commissioners arc still in ucolp NUARY 21, 1887, WHOLESOME SPORT. The Athletlo Tournamaent at the Ex- position To-Morrow Night. The members of the Omaha Turn vorein will make their first public appear- ance before an Omaha audience in the athletic tournament to be given at the exposition building to-morrow night. The Turnverein embraces a number of splendid all around athletes who are now, under Prof. Kummerow's direc- tion, training in the esp lines in which they hope to excel. There will be thirteen features of the programme to- motrow night, each of which will well be worth the price of admission. The programme will be opened by a ono mile professional foot race, in which Gregg, Hourihan, Hoffman and others have en- tered. The winner will take $20 and the sccond man §10. The second feature will be high jumping for gold medal. The third nt will be a one-half mile walking match for a gold medal. A number of members of the Turnveren have entered for this contest. Thelurn- verein will furnish the fourth featnre of the programme in a horizontal bar per- formance. This will be followed by pole jumping, parallel bar perform- ance, ‘one-half mile amateur foot race, a wrestling match and rope elimbing in all of which the turn vereiu will take a prominent part, There will be three bicyclo races. The first will be a boy's yele race in which a number of the speediest youths of the city have entered. The second race will be the most exciting of the evening, as it will decide to whom belongs the title of champion amateur of Omaha. Charles Peabody, Frank Mit- taver, Tommy Blackmore, Ben Fell, Thomas Fell will be among the starters. The closing feature of the programme will be a five-mile professional handicap race with Princo, Dingley and Bulloc as starters, ‘Phe programme is tho finest that has ever been arranged for an athle- tic entertainment in Om and will no doubt call out a large attendance, A fuil line of canned goods, fruits, vegetables, damaged by smoke in the an, Johnson & Co. fire, are being oftered at low cut prices, corner of Niuth and Leavenworth street. ITHE TUI‘BG AN CARNIVAL, 1t Will Take Place This Evening—The rarade. There has been a great Lustle among the members of the toboggan eclubs and their friends in preparation for the car- nival to be given thisevening. It is now thought that fully two hundred persons will appear in costume durmg the pa- rade which will precede the carnival. The club will meet at the Union club rooms, corner Fifteenth and Furnam, at 3:45 p. m. sharp, in costume, with their toboggans, for the purpose of parading the principal stre ide, The procession, starting at Fifteenth S will proceed down Farnam to Twelfth, along Twelfth to Douglas, . up Douglas to Sixteenth, along Sixteenth to Dodge, and up_Dodge to Park avenue, thence to the slide All persons along the me of march a requested to have their front windows lighted up for the occasion. The club intends having a large sleigh for the purpose of carrying the ladies wearing costumes to the slide This slide is illuminated every night, and there are alw; some of the mem- bers shiding, except on Sundays. Retail dealers only are invited toin- speet the bargains in groceries offered by Sloun, Johnson & Co. et Saving the Lamb, Officer Godola yesterday arrested Chas. Lamb as a suspicious character, As, Lamb was being searched he was recog- nized by Captain Cormick and Sergeant Mostyn as an old-time sneak thief. About car ago Lamb worked a neat game here, wling seven suits of clothes in one day. His scheme was to go into a clothing store and throw his overcoat upon a suit of clothes that'suited hi fancy. under pretext of making n pur- chas After trying a number of coats he would walk out, picki gup un extra suit of clothes under cov of ‘his great coat. Lamb has been absent from the city for some time, and is probably wish- ing now that he had prolonged his absence. ns are being offered at the great fire sale of Sloan, Johnson & Co.’s stock now in progress, corner of Ninth and Leaven- worth strects. - The O. ¥. Davis Co, Articles of incorporation of the O. F. Davis Co., of Omaha, were filed with the county clerk yesterday. The company, composed of O. F. Davis, . L. Perme and Thom rh, propose to con- 1 estate and loan busi- stock is $100,000. The sale of partially damaged groceries from the Sloan, Johnson & Co. fireis now going on at the new location of the above firm, corner of Ninth and Leavenworth strects, $10,000 worth of goods were sold Means, of ( the Millard, The revenue collections yesterday ag- gregated §$10,086.91, Hon. A, L. Williams, of Topeka, one of the r the Kansas division of the Union Pacili n the city, A quiet cocking main is on the tams for next Sunday afternoon. Sc good birds will be pitted, The bids for the county printing for the cnsuing year will be opened by the county Conmissioners to-morrow at noon, The directors of the Omaha fair and exposition association wiil meet at 1), H, Wheeler's office this evening to seleet a seeretary for the ensuing year. Mrs. . Hamlin commenced suit in the county court yesterday to secure judg- ment on a note given her by Miss B. F, MeCarthy in the sum of £212. Four drunks were tried in the polic court yesterday. Two paid a fine, one was i one wis disehar ants (wo w Al Brock received a telegram ye terday from Boston stating that “his wi had arrived the and was at th bed-side of . who s suffering from a case of typhoid fever. All members of Omaha lodge D 0. 0. F. are requested to attend th ing of the lodae Friday evening of 1mport and 1sland, is at muary is to be tra G William Latoy, of the tirm of Irvine & Latey, was married Wednesday Miss Mamic Hodges at the residenee of he parents on North Ninetecuth strect, Rey. 4.8, Detwiler officiating. A large num- ber of relatives and frie presd it of the a il appear in s Bue - ound Guilty, In the telal of ed with kidoap- The Fiend > Your, Jan. A er De Leon, ch ping girls and seuding them to Pauama to be forced into lives of shame, the jury returned a verdiet of guil The maxinum penalty is lifleen years' wrisonent ] For Poison, lhe body of the third now under arrest charged with poisoning Lis step daughter, and who it Is suspected poisoned his thres wives, was exhumed to-day and the stomach given to a chemist for aualysis, Looking YHE . GIRLS ALL MARRIED. A TYheatrical Trgupe Quickly Dis banded in the Black Hills. SipNEY, Neb, Fan, 17.—Two or three weeks ago Aleck | Bosustow, a well known manager of theatrical enterp: in the west, went inte the Black Hi! country with a small tronpe of varicty performers, most of the members of which were young women, ~He arrived here last night from’ the Hills with more money than he ¥nigw what to do with, and announced thaf, he would ¢ another company amyl go back t soon «s possible.” 1As the ctions that he had with him smonth ago are not to beseen in the vicinlty he asked what had become of them, “The women are all ap in t! replied, “every one of them. beauty of the thing. We open Rapid City, and had tremendous house Everybody in town was there. After the show the audience hed in a_body to to our hotel and serenaded ns. The next ght the same crowd was there, and on the performance was over it v rted us to the tavern. This thing was continued until the end of engagement, and when we set out for Lead City about fitty of the boys in Rapid followed after and attended” the opening performance there. Some of them remained until we got through there and accompanied us to Yeadwood, many of the Lead City lads going over, to. At Deadwood woe had some trouble. One of my best dancers and ngers had been pursued by a Rapid City man and had consented to marry him. He was determined to have her leave the company at once, and when I was laboring with her the others came up and said that they also had offors which they were thinking of accepting. I saw that the was nothing but roin ahead of me unlessI could head off' this thing, and so I told the girls that whil they were looking out for themsely they should not forget me. I had bronght them into the promised land, and I was deserving of considerate treatment. You seo 1 had always treated my peoplo pretty decent, and they felt f'iwml‘y to- ward me. My proposition was that the girls who wanted to accept offers of mar- riage should do so, but that they should inform their admirers that they were under contract with me for one year, and that these contracts could be broken only by the paymentf of a forfeit of $250. They zreed to this, and | insisted on nothing ut thar they should all hang together and o }mh| me to Sturgis, wh we would disband., understanding we set out . The boys from Rapid City, Lead City and Deadwood followed us, and at Sturgis 1 had the best houses of the season. It beat anything you ever saw. I was on the door, and th hoved aollars at me until I couldn’t away with them. After three nights ot this sort of thing we disbanded; every lady in the company was married, and I'got for each one of them. As toone of the tiest one, 1 could haye sold he alf a dozen times over. One y did pay me the amount on condition that if he didu’t ot her [ would refund it. She married him, 1 believe, and [ presume I will have to settle with the other fellow when 1 go back. Yes, I'm going back there, you bet. Just s soon 'as I ean get another company together I will try it ¢ n. No, I'm not ctly in the matrimonial agency business, but look that way a little, for the next trip I intend to put it into the contract that anybody leaving the company before theiond of the engage- t shall forfeit $250. In_this way I ng a litile money. er good nature on irls that enabled me to lay up a cent on this trip. My company would have meited away like 2 snow bank in July if the -women hadn’t been i ned to do the fairthing by me. he love-making of these fellows is absolutely irr W any- thing like alf to death. They hang around and look at and offer to do all sorts of favors for One of my ladies went to the post- oftice in Sturgis and received a couple of newspapers from Rapid City containing some able mention of her perform- ance, and when she started to return to the hotel three or four ps of 1 to carry them for her, one of them saying as he, with greater boldness than the rest, seized the papers, that ‘no woman don't carry no freight in this town.” I'm going u bet.” it DETROIT'S DRUNKEN JUDGE. Frequent Drinks Had the Effect Making Him Very Affectionate. Detroit New: When I am dead, Judge Chipman remarked Tuesday af- ternoon during the trial of the Wheaton- Beecher ease, “I want this much good thought of me by the jurors: That the Wheaton-Beecher ease is settied any I'm going to s and night, with tifteen minuts ssion for meal until it is sett After making this statement the judge began to zrow vis- ibly move mmpaticnt throughout the af- ternoon at the length of time the cas His impatience seemed frequent visits he paid his pri- On each return from these 1, heavy face, red enough mounted the benel v, until at last, it b recurring voyage his wnd more uneert n, through the leam of hi- Visits when noon, flame steps g Now and tl of his impaticnee, larity, He would turn his gaze from stolid _contemplation of the floor, and fastening it on some one of the audience or jury, look unutterable love, Then he ‘would smile painfully, Once he arose from the bench and strolled with a tragic air toward an old man who sat near the railing, Azt thou my father’s ghost?”’ he in- quired jocosely in a loud voic The old man' looked up in surprise. His honor smiled in and his face grew vedder with the excreise. Colonel At- kinson, Beeche stopped in the midst of his questioning. hipman noticed this, muf turning half around, growled: “Well, go on!” “We're waiting for your honor.” His honor strolled to his desk, Not long did _he rcmain there, however: Ho stepped down ard” oceupicd the seat reserved for the count deputy sheriff, and continued to amuse limself as his heated fancy seemed to suggest, ate in the diterngory he found ocea sion to pay still anothir visit to his pri- vate office. While he was gone in the case W stoppe On coming back he growled angrily “What's the mattery ony"? We Why don't you were waiting | Atkinson re: for vour honor," onded, wearily, 0 o0, now,E Chipman ordered solonel turnedito obey, when his honor mterrupted hint. *No, you » omy This whole case has taken long enongh dlrewdy. 1 can’t let you go on, Colonal. Alr. Beccher ought never have #e langus he did. Mr. Wheaton is#an of honor. [ would not say what Mr. Beecher said of any man, wlly my relatives, I love AMr. Wheaton, Mr. Wheaton 1san honest man, »od man, and the kindest man I ever suw.” ? Colonel Atkinson objected enlogy, as he was under th that the judge was about to give the to the jury lonel Atkinson, you and his honor committed a v smile You s yornament to the bar. 1 don't knoy Your honor, to this interrunted C “Sit down Then, in Colonel Atk you. Butl 1 like Mr Scllers,” bawled his L r tones, YIlove you, nk the world of )W you to go on. Wheaton, but-leannot keep 1 | you here longer, | possibly have changed the law. of It I had not been clected congressman, but had been sent to the sapreme beneh instead, 1 might As it is, t for the defendant Take the yer- e was tremendous Nobody ounded than the defendant I must order a verd I hope nobody is ang diet.” The surpr was mor himself, His honor adjourned court without the lof a deputy, Then he descended and ok hands with everybody he encoun d and showered on all professions of his undying love. He was maudlin, His steps were unsteady. Ho was drank. -~ LITTLE JOHNNY WICKERSHAM, A Fifteen-Yoar-Old Rebel that Didn't Know What it Was to Be Afraid, Louis Republican In October, after the death of Lyon and the re treat of the federal army from Wilson's Creek to Rolla, Mo , leaving all the south vest portion of the state free from fedoral garrisons, in almost every hamlet and town thus freedmen volunteered for the “Lost Cause,” and were organized into comps undk started south to join I'i 's army, which was then at Spring field. R. J. Wickersham organized an in- fantry company at Lebannon. The see- ond day on the march south little, fifteen- year-old Johnnie Wickersham, having ran away from home, came into our camp, When we reached Springficld our foree numbered 280 infantey. One-third of us were without arms, aad those who were the proud possessors of a squirrel rifle or shotgun were looked upon as he roc We camped a mile ont of town on the main road leading west. On either side of the road high stake-and-rider fence, forming a lane. Our camp ground was an old field nortn of the lane. It was high and sloped to a_ravine one-fourth mile toward town. On our west was a thick growth of young oak trecs, o thick that horseman could not ride through. Two hundrea yards from the young timber, toward town, we had made agapin the lane by letting the fence down to go thro nto the other field for water. Our oflicers, with few excep- tions, were down in town loading wagons with salt to send south. To the sonth of the lane, beyond the ravine, toward town, was camped the cavalry, who were per! forming picket dut About 4 p. m. on October 25, 185 usual monotony of camp life was broken by the sound of many horses’ feet run- ning on the hard rond. **There’s a race,” shouted the boys, and with scemingly onoe necord, we were on our feetn moment. x horsemen came flying down the lane from the west, Bets were freetv offered. The riders had no guns or hats. There was no jockeying in that race, but every fellow doing his level best to come out ahead. T'wo hundred vards behind and urging their horses to their utmost came thirty of Freemont's d, with drawn sabres, six town the lane they fled. Since the late unpleasantness I Lhave seen in our cities many gaudily-dressed ry companies, but I think the body guard could have outshone them all. They carried two of Colt's dragoon re- volvers in holsters attached to their sad- dles. Every piece of metal was pleted, either gold orsilverl ann gold braid and cord was used in profusion upon their uniforms, To our ignorant eyes they seemed more like gods than human be- ings. Many of the boys shotted: Law, what pretty men!” We had a regular stampede for the fence to get a better ew of them. We never thought of war or battie, but gave them a hearty cheer. We all talked at once and wondered who they could be. Many of they boys climbed to the top of the fence and waved their hats in their wild excitement. Every man was at or on the fenco when the main body of the body guard and Major White's battalion of Trish drageons charzed down the lane. wheeled in line to the fence and emptied their revolyers into us. I cannot to this day held smiling when 1 remember the surprise and wonder expressed on the faces of many of our wen when they were fired on ~ Not one of us had ever been i a fight. We had no command given us. But every man grabbed his gun and ’rlmr'l shot and bullets into the lane. The yells and oaths could be heard above the rattle of fire arms. vothing between us but the rail fence. The federals stayed until they had each emptied both reyolvers, many drew their sabres, and with oaths cat at us over the fence. Then the, n to th ravine and reloaded. It scemed but s moment when they were again firing on us from the same position, many four feet from us. ch would “raise his revolver to eock 1t and fire when bring:mng it down upon us, was the cause of their almost invariably fiving over us. Lattle Johnnie Wickersham had to this time never made use of a profane word, but, like all the rest of us, he now stood at the fence and swore hke an old trooper. o left us, this time running west. 'n minutes b L and we nothing of them. Licutenant Joe Cy then ordered us to form a line first time during the fight, about fifty feet back from the f positive orders for no one to fire untit the command was given. Johnnic Wick- ersham W on the extreme left of the line, where he could sce down the lane toward the west. Immediately in s front was the gap in the lane before men- tione Presently we heard him shout: ““Th are cominz!” An oflicer was in adyance, and we distinetly heard him give orders to charge the gap. He eame with drawn sabre at full” galloy tly for . Against our protests and commands, em- phasized by many oaths, Johnni o th Not being to hold his gun “of he knelt on one knee, placing his elbow on the other, and awaited their coming, Every ma cursed and yelled for him to comé bae but he did not move. The officer with sword uplifted to strike, when littic Johnuie fired. The bull entered the of- {iber's breast, and he fell from his horse dead, Ten feet behind came the muin body with drawn sabres. They were into the gap when their leader checked their horses, seem- moment, not_knowing what to do. As soor Johnnie had fived the fatal shot he thre down his gun, hat i and yelled and swore like mad- with I'h Craig finnlly ordered us to fire. Johnuie, although immediately between us, was unhurt, while five federals fell dead in the gap, and many wounded. After our fire they again ran to the ra- vine, let down the fence, formed under the nill, and oame charging in solid line upon us. Johnnie had tied the officer’s horse i 0 the sword and fine silver plated pistols. In his excite ment he did not notice that the charge had swept by him and driven us all b into the young oak timber. They t to enter after us, but brush and bullets too thick. We g yell, and y seatterad back over the ficld. Some sixteen or twenty started 1o escape through the gap. Johnnie Wickersham in it with re alme long self buckled around him, and a wvolver in each hand. When within twenty ps he opened fire on them wd for a moment they reigned their horses to a halt. We had then come from cover of the brush and were firing on them from the rear. They halted for only \ moment and then eharged the hoy, one of them knocking him down with ar volver. This was th tact of the fight Attert we saw not & more of them A detail was ordered to ¢lear the lane of dead men and racs. Ot the latter there wer great many, That night with our wagons and camp equipage we started south for Price’s army. On our arrival (€ ral Price gave Johnnie Wickershum o commission us captain, stood | and “ordered all of the bogs of the ago of fifteen 1n the army to report to him. On the return of the army to Springtield s eighty odd boys were uniformed and armed, and afterward did good service at Pea Ridge. —can How Chinamen Advertise, Now York Sun; The great advertising medium of Chinatown is pole in front of the Wo Kee store ir street, a fow doors from Chatham s The pole is about two feet in diameter, and it is always girdled by a belt of vertisements w on in Chinese ters on sheets of yellow, wlite, or fire- eracker red paper. © The girdlo is three or four feet broad, and thus the available advertising sp from eighteen to twenty-four square feet, This does not suflice for the needs of Chinatown, and nother telegraph pole on the opposite side of the street, out toward the cornor of Park street, gets part of the business, When the Chinese avail themselves of this _advertising medium_they are re- minded of the perversity of this western people 1n doing everothing in a way dia- metrically different from their time-hon ored oriental method. There is never any doubt as to the circulation of this advertising medium, for, as in the case of that other post The Evening, nobody clains that it circulates. It stands there the year in vnd year out and the people do the circulating. Thus there is no chance for hocus poeus. It is impossiblo that, with their not very exact ideas as to modern western appliances, th may suspeet that there is some beneficial in- fluence in the mysterious buzzing that is heard among the lofty wires, The prohi- on, “Post no Bills,* does not appear od the polo. Ifitisthere it is cove up by many thicknesses of “dead ads. On Sundays, when the Chinese from all parts of the city flock to Chinatown to pick up tho week's news concerning their race, each visitor steps up to the pole and’ consults the announcements made thereon. ‘They run largely to for cs, to lets, and wants — When a China- man has anything for sale, from a laun- dry to a pair of shops s, ho pastes an announcement on the big telegraph pole Comparatively fow of them are able to write the notices themselyes; but they know where they can find seribes who will do it for them in good shape for reasonable pay, ‘The notice are almost invariable written with admirable neat- ness, and without display. No cuts are inserted, There seems to be an under- standing that no man shall occupy more of the common space than a reasonable setting forth of his announcement r quires. Among the new advertisoments of yos- terday were the announcements, made in good commereinl Cantonese, that a laun- dry in Harlem, with awell established Melican eustom, could be purchased at a reasonable figure by applying on the E at a merchant of China- had just opened a new importation Chinese edible, for the name of which the intelligent resident of that quarter who translated for the reporter could find no English equivalent, — Home Rule Sc New York, Jan. 20.—[Special Telegram to the Bre. ] —Michael Davitt has taken pas- sage on the Alaska, which will sail next Tuesday. e will carry with him two pon- derous scrap books, containing editorials rom leading American newspapers on the Gladstone home rule bill and on the land Dbill. The books also contain all letters on the Irish qugstion addressed to the Irish Worlll by senators, congressmen_and others. The collection was made by Patrick Egan and hig name is on the back of_botk: volumes, one of which is intended for Pary other for Gladstone. They are 20x12 inclies and about six inches thick. They are bound in vellum, with massive cabs and corner pieces of silver made from dollars. On the front cover of one is a monogram in silver of the initials of r'arnell and on the other those of Gladstone. v Books. GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 1878, BAKER'S Broakfast Cocoa. Warranted absolutely pure Cocoa, from which the excess of Oil has boen removed. 1t has three times the strength of Cocon mixed with Blarch, Arrowroot or Sugar, and 1a therefore far more economl- « cal, costing less than one cent @ cup. It 18 dellclous, nourishing, strengthening, ensily digested, and Rodmirably adapted for invalids as § well aa for persons in health. W. 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