Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 28, 1887, Page 2

THE COUNTY SEAT OF OTOE.| A Review of Nebraska City's Busi- ness Prosperity. THE YEAR AN EVENTFUL ONE. Citizens and the Board of Trade Cons stantly in Receipt of Lete ters From Capitalists Al Over the Country. NebraskaCity Present and 1 Nenraska City, Neb, Nov spondence of the Brr|—A braska City's business prosperity fo and its general advancement, must convin the most indifferent that it has been nothing Yess than phenomes T all things the year bas been an eventful one for Nebraska City The business of the city has inerensed enor mously, vast amounts of capital have been invested in buildings and business enter- prises, new railroads have been construeted, udditional territory op nd the attention of the entire country w0 our gencral importance s claims of solid growth are bicked by the fact that our manufucturing iuterests in the past twelve months have outstripped anything that could reasénably have been expected, even by the most hopeful. For the first time some systematic attention bas been given to this il imdortant matter, and the result has proven that it was an effort in the right direction. Manufacturers from all over the country have come hiere in considerable num bers to personally investigate the city's claims us the future manufacturing center of the west, and in near v case hav reached a favorable conclusion. Others hay deluged the secretury of the board of trade with letters for informa tion of the general facilities and 88 to the encouragement offered new manu- facturers, The infercsts in this line that will be established here during 1585 will bring to Nebraska City a miut of money and an army of working men. The best advan tages are offered herc to manufacturers which cannot be resisted —a variety of raw material in abundance und most excellent transportation facilitics and the proximity of the population who use manufactured arti cles. The time is coming when established fustitutions in the east will be unable to com 1 the west with concerns located her Us B CONSCGUENCe ANy are moving i tion, und Nebraska City is sceuring 1t is not unreasonuble to belicy within the nest five years Nebraska will experience (he most marked i advancement and ria a close for in the siate. All our commer- rosts will develop in manner that will surprise even those who are the most sauguine be s in the future greatness of the city. ‘The “business men of Nebraska City are diberal in their encouragement of new ent prises and arc always ready with substantis support, knowing that they are oniy making au_investment that is certain to bring won- derful returns. Any class of manufucturers, ameaning business cun receive a hearty wel- come from City in the way of tinancial encov Our two gred houses are now in *gull operation, under excellent, management aud with millions of mouey backing them, Mr. John Tuefel, of St Lotis, has assumed the management of the Missouri River pack- ing house, and promises 1o make this house #econd to none in the state. — The two houses are at present killing 3,000 hogs per day and expect to ine number if they can be obtpin Nebraska City a record of 200,000 hogs killed last scason and will more Rhan double it this scason. The packing fovse which is to be buill next spring wi Jocated northy of the city, and it is said will be larger thun cither one here now. *Any ond questioning the uamber of Ne braska City’s population should be satisi with the figures shown by the new director, as compiled by Mr. . NCK. Orfl, of Omahi The book contains several hundred more names than any other directory in the state outside of Omahr and Lincoln, and shows an in our population of more than 100 cont in the past two years, or about 3,000 inhabitants, Such meén as' S, H. H, Clark, 1. B, Weprl, Mr. Hurlburt, and others who recognize o growing city when they see one, prediet that in two yeurs move Nebrask City wili have 25,000 people, und time will prove even the edictions’ an underesti ate. The men at the head of our prosperity now 1 s and the future importance of Nebraska City is forcordained. Commencing to-duy. the Missouri P youd by this city will be utilized as th din hing of considerable impc It is also unders will oo be i and Omal spective [Corre review of Ne s that ity main this roud between 2 The B. & M. has isst R0 into effect this week, W aments will i ol two daily passenger trains to L . with better Becommodations than heretofore—a matter Rhat will be appreciated by our citizens, It will also give people along the road an onpor- unity to visit Nebraska City ome the same duy, someth could not do before, to the disadvautage of the “wity. e best evidence of vancement is th pers. The E 1z cbraska City's ad- prosperity of its” news- ening News, which has re- ptly passed its thirty-third anniversary nd is now under new and able management, s making rapid stiides towards metropolitan® The pay enlarged twice hin a v ngements re heing pe oty ping and lectrotyping machines, and a gene 'f- ement of the busines Pross will build @ lurge st I the spring: new material, new presses and AR entire new papcr are promised from that fiico in the not distant future. The Times, independent evening paper but two years ld, hus expericnced a o success us phenomenal as the wrowth of the city tself, and fills a field of usefulness wi lit to the city. The Staats-Zeitung, Jorman weekly, hus recently mereased its acilitios and enlarged the paper, and oceu- pies the handsomest oftices in the state, out- ide of Omaba and Lincoln. Besides these e Watchman, formerly a monthly, is now . r‘\lml semi-monthly : wid two monthlies, the Poultry Review and the Autograph, a s Bhowing pr V. A democratic German Aveekly, and duily Staats Zeitung are among The promised futures The work on the new Clhicago, Burlington tgzuu ¥ bridge is progressing nicely. The I is completed and the approach on m yvest side is also nearly finished, Over “®wo hundred men ave at present employed About the bridge. lonel Schwind, of the board of trade, a ved a ltter from a gentle: \glund, interested in num erous manfactur and with capital to invest. asking for general informa- ion rog: . nd Nebraska City n purtic of capitalists from Kansas City the past week and in- ‘wosted estate, and several of them huve aunounced their intentions of doimg some extensive building in the spring. IThe outlook for Nebraska City's future grows ighter every day, and with the opening of Bpring the city will astonisi the world with some very solid growine A Despondent Wike Attempts Suicide Prow Creek ) Al Eram to the BEE. | — A Woman na wife of B. A Wilson, o photo; tompted suicide yesterday by taking & dose ©of opium at her ludging in this city Bffects of the drug were overcome, ho y walking the would be suicide for several urs. The cause of the attempt is said (o be e recoption of a letier from her husband, who is supposed 1o besomewhere in Missour d secured a divorco from tating that bo & . Wilson’s reputation is not of the best o and it 15 chary 1that he is now living With a woman who was formerly a resident of this city and who some months ag ®divorce from her husband in the district vourt. ——— Wurglarized the Treasurer's Office. Prun Crees, Neb, 27.— [Special Welogram to the Bee.! The ofiice of the pty treasurer at the court house was Purglavized. The thiel effected an entrance Bhrough a window, successfully worked the combination on tha vamlt door and walked off with 260 in cash, Ouwe hundred and fifteen dollars belonged to the deputy treusurer, 815 in loose change to the county and the balance to the Plumb Creck Buil ciation. There is no clue us to the thief but it is the nion that he was solne- one well posted as to shere the funds were and wh Then Suic Grespive, Mont., Nov. 27— gram to the Ber Between 4 and 5 o'c Saturday morning thre Sioux Indi named Finger-Nail, Sitting-in-Front Pete Matthews, confined in the jail b horse stealing, made un attack on two whit Their weapons were table knives, a pair of scissors and common chairs, with which the jail was supplied. After inflicting serious wounds on the white prisone Finger-Nail and Sitting-in-Front hange: themselves in their cell with the bunk straps. They were assisted by Pete Matthews, who, after they committed the deed, tried to butt his brains out against the walls of the juil, but was secured by Sheriff Tuttle and severs other persons. The two Indians who hanged themselve stabbed themselves all over their bodies be fore neing. Falesco Sala- maro, an who was confined ona charee of v, was stabbed in several places, and the county physician does not ox pect him to live until’ morning. The other prisoner, L. H. Turck, waiting the action of the grand jury on a charge of rape, was rd and pounded over the head with chairs in the hands of the Indian He re gained consciousness late this afternoon and only remembered that the Indi him with knive i conscious. with proper care, The Tndians tried to starve themselves to death several mouths ugo, and wfter remarking that they *would not live to be tried for horse stealing during the term of court which comim s Monda, i war puint on and no doubt s premeditated. The prisoner appeared jolly and contented last evening when the jaler made his rounds. They were allowed too much liberty, neither one of the cells being locked, only the outside door of the cage. They had access toall the cells, and the Indians waited until they thought the prisoners slept the soundcst The Ler's inquest rendered the follow- ing verdict: "hat the suid Indians, Finger. Nuil aud Sitting-in-Front, came to their death by strangulation at their own hands.” D yoming Notes, Creyexse, Wyo., N It Brp. ] —Ranchmen living in the vieinity of the Fort Fetterman wood reservation are annoyed by mountain lions which destroy ung calves and colts, During the past month Uinta county has paid out for hounties on animals. They were nearly all large animals, forty-one bear scalps being winong the trophies, Te orial Geologist Ricketts says that the 0il springs of Uinta county produce oil which is 200 per cent better than the best 0il of the Pennsylvania fields. More work is being done to develop the oil interests of Wy oming than the most sanguine expected a year ago. Laramic City is to have a new hotel which will surpass in size and convenience auy ¢ the line of the Union or Central Pacific roads from Omaha to San Francisco. 1t is to be built by and will cost £80,000, Some of the Crovk county ranchmen have Dbeen experimenting with new crops this se son. One of them succeeded in raising a fine yield of peanuts. They grew with scarcely any cultivation. it is the prevailing opinion of Wyoming stockmen that the coming winter will be a one, and th will fare bet- ter thau for seve and prisoners pecial to the u stock company od two ear loo their Owl ranch, near Che to Boston Amon the lot v of fii horses, one of them being Climax, the winner of the Cheyenne club cuj Fremont county pupers complain that there arc no muil facilities for central and north western Wyoming. The mail routes can be counted on'the fingers of one hand, and- the fucilities they offer for the prompt and relin- ble distribution of wmail matter are exces- sively meage The Northwestern railroad threatens to give the town of Glenrock the go-by end of the track is at Wolcott, about a m west of ¢ k, where a depot, side track and an engine house will be constructed. The town of Glenrock, the site of which is owned by a coul company, will not be given i station, the railroad company having an- nounced its intention of building up Wolcott instead. A Hatch, Geny ty composed of General ¢ at_ Bort Robinson, Neb., .S, Collins and Mr. Holman of Omaha_ arrived at Glenrock this week, bringing riding horse gons, Lear traps and forage for a ten ¢ ) to the head of Sand creck for the purpose of bunting bear and elk. The Mecicetse saw mill, in the Big Horn b doing an enormous business, having sawed 75,000 feet of timber and 50,000 $hingles in the last two months. The timber cut on the Meetect immense, From one tree was sawed five logs, the shortest being four- toen feet loug and the langest squaring three ot The first ship coul was made by ent by rail of the Glenrock he Deer Creck coal com- pany Friday morning last. The consignment consisted of six cars containing ten tons each, The company cts to Ship 10 tons daily. » troops returning to K m the Crow reservation, say that more Indians were killed than reported to the departinent and the castern papers. They also state thut the expedition was anything but a picnic. Buffald citizens held a public meeting orzanize o bourd of trade. Wishing to repre- sent its character by some thoroughly west ern name, a roposed insti tution be ¢ it Thar An amendment to add the word ¢ aceepted, and the “Buffulo Git Thar Eli Board of Trade” will be the cuphonious name of the association provided the general mewmbership ratifies the action of the public meeting. Survivors of the Oxford, [Copyright 1857 by James Gorden Bennett.} Prysovma, Nov. [New York Herald Cable—Special to the Bee.|—The mate and apprentice of the British bark Oxford, which was wrecked on the island of Lugon off Manilla during the typhnon of nber 19, arrived at their home here in the Bokhara, this evening. The mate expressed to the Herald corvespondent the' belief that H. M. S. Wasp must have foundered in the same typhoon. The admivalty seem to have ofti- cially arrived at the same conclusion, for some familics of those on board have had en- quiries made to them which show that the admiralty are to pension them, - Doherty's Victim Dies. (Copyright 1857 by James Gordon Bennett.] Loxnox, Nov, 27.—[New York Herald Cable al to the Bee.|—Graham, who was sho Doherty, died at the hospital Sunday. The latter will inevitably be con. victed of murd Refused t Paws, N can resu quence of the scandals, to ac the Spanish order of Isabella, the Catholie, for which he b eed 1o pay the sum of £00 wan who obtained it thereupon sue onel. The case was dismissed yest the court holding that the contract was an immoral one. An M. P. Resigns. Loxvoy, Nov. 27.—Charles Carmichael Lacatta, menber of parliament for Dundee lberal and home-ruler—has resigned, as he says, because he cannot steadily support Gladstone, who. by his immediate” attitude, hinders the grauting of home rule to Treland, pt the cross of A Murderer Sulcides. Caxton, 0., Nov. 27.—Conrad Dell, on wrial for the murder of his wife and step-son, conimitted siicide fu his cell. at the county Juil lastuight by huuging himself with 4 sheet. 1THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, NOT A LABOR OF Severe Criticlsm of Parker, Beech- er's Bulogist. Nov. 27.—[Special Telegram to the Ber.]—Mr. Ripley Ropes, treasurer of the Beccher monument fund, in speaking of certain reports regardiog Dr. Parker and the Beecher eulogy, which have been given wide publicity, said: It looks as though Dr. Parker's eulogy upon_ Mr. Beecher was a matter of busimess and fiot u labor of love. 1 expected to get #2,000—perhaps 00~ from Major Poud. Tam free to confess that T am still waiting, but my hopes of a large amount are not great now." A Brooklyn paper treats the affair as great public scandal. It quotes from D Parker's famous oration the following words : “Were some other man to claim this honor on the ground of superior genius, he should have it instantly, with my heart's absolute man shall take it from meon er love. Tomy task I bring 1f love may speak. my specch is pay the toil of lov on him in the following Words are cheap—som, bove quoted, howeve cheap in one sense, are dear in another Cheap in their essential cmptiness, dear in what they cost the Boecher monument fund, Dr. fee for delivering the culogy Dr. and Mrs, Parker's trips at high rates from Europe to America, the unasc tained amount of their board in the Catskills foa a mouth, the sum Dr. Parker got -5 — for selling the copyright of the oration to the Bachelor syndicate, the bill of £4.73 for five days’ board and five ay & la carte al otel St. George here and the u specified incidentals.’ ~ Words are chea when you consider how much they signify, words are dear when yon consider Tow much they may cost.” Plymouth church people talk of demanding an itemized account of Dr. and Mrs. Parker's expenses in visiting Brooklyn. The 2500 charged for passage is thought to be excessive praniiieh - S Leland hotel, Chicago. - SOUTH OMAHA NEWS, ;,of Kansas City, was in he LOVE. New Youk, the plea for la entire love of Chicago, is in town. llis, of Omaha, was in the city yes- L. C. Johnson, of Seward, Neb. town yesterday. s in time yesierday, over the old ar A tramp named John S ahout two miles below Albrig s yesterday morning_with _his feet and hands badly 1. He said he lost his way in the storni, hilled and sat down to rest und was He awoke, he thinks, about 10 o'clock, and managed to keep alive until day- light by exerting himself greatly. He is now at a farm house near the place where he w picked up, but will be taken to Omaha to-day or to-morrow. and is a great improvement angement. found soon asler agraphs Red Oak, . is at the im A. Irons, Philadelphia, is at the Millard . W. Smith, St. the Millard, C. P Stevens, of Fort Laramie, the Windsor, J..J. Donahoe, of St. Paul, Neb., is the Windsor., M. R. Campbell, Osceola, Ta.. the Windsor. M. Hedge and wife, of Cincinnati, O., are at the Windso 1. W. Hill has returned from a trip to Colorado for the improvement of his health. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Grover, jr. Mrs. Cora Tanner, of New Yorl the Millard. Hou. G. M. Lamberton, Lincoln. is at the Millard, ready to start for Washing- ton as soon as the Lincoln mayor and city council have been inearcerated. J. AL Williams, freight agent of the Missouri Pacific, has returned from a week's trip to Chicago, where he had a consultation with freight men and rail- roaders in gener Paul, Minn., is at at 18 at is at and are at Stole McCormick's Overcoat. MeCormick, living at No, 2 North lighteenth street, hung his overcoat, of beaver lining and cuffs, on a nail in the hall house and left the front door unlocked. his attention was otherwise engaged a sneak thief made way with the garment, and at lust accounts had not been captured. e thering in Beggars. The police have determined to wipe out the street beggars, and yesterday the work was inaugurated by Officers Dempsey and Brady, who pulled in one William Dailey, an in “pan-handler.” Without doubt Dailey will put in the winter at the county Jail, —_—— A Texas Zephyr's Work. MiNEOLA, Tex., Nov. Late last night a heavy windstorm visited this town, blowing down a hall during a colored people’s dance. Of seventy in the building five were killed and about twenty injured. Sixof the injured have leg or arms broken. Robbed. Bostox, Nov. Stetson was robbed arly Sunday morning of jewelry valued at 2,200 by a thi¢f, who entered his upartments, -~ The Liberian Mission Vacant, WasminGron, Nov, Charl H. , minister to Liberia. has resigned, Joh Murder and Suicide, JEwsey Crry, fNov. 27.—Henry Ebert shot wife and himself to-night,, The woman 1 d and Ebert will not 1i -~ TERRIBLE TALE OF THE SEA. Six Sailors In an Open Boat Nearly Driven to Cannibalism, New York Herald: Tnan open hoat, ar out at sea, their vessel sunk, their in, mate and_some of their com- gone to the hottom, without food nearly starved and almost rantic with thirst—it would be hard to nt o more thrilling picture of mis- ery than that suffered by the six sur- vivors of the Norwegian bark Augusta, who arrived in New York on the bark Union, from Pernambuco, yesterday. They were dying by inches When the Tnion rescued them and had nearly de- cided to cast lots to see who should be killed to furnish food for his famished mates. The August vossel commanded by Captain Swinsea for Aspinwall, wi patent fuel, She was manned by fifteen ahl men, besides a cabin boy, who was learning to be a tar The earlier part of the voyage was remarkably fair and was attended by nume calms that tended to delay the v pro- gress, On the morning of October 14, when in latitude 16 degrees, longitude 48 de- grees, the wind freshened and by 9 o'clock a gale was whistling through the rigging from the east. Sail was rapidly reduced and the ship scudded on her wuy with two men at the wheel 10 hold her stead, At b o'clock th of Meye vessel was hove to, some canvas was rove on the mizzen rigging and the wheelmen managed to keep the ship's head to the huge seas. The spave spurs on the main deck broke ¢ soon after this and worked havoe. The bulwarks, both port and starboard, wore torn from the vessel from the poop to the forecastle, part of which was also ¢arried overboard, Two sailors in the way of the crashing timbers were hurt, but mannged to gain the Poop. YAl hands o the g™ was Cap- tain Meyer's order, and he set the ex- wmple Nimself by ‘Hanning oue, pwe tinl lashing himself thereto. The erew soon found {1t Tmpossible to work the pumps in the regular way, and by the captain’s ovder th them from the poop by means of ropes. S0 the night wore away and the morn- ing of the I5th dawned. The wind had by this time moderated, but there was o tremendous sen running. One of the small boats caught by billow and literally sma i ments, which were earrvied away on the nevt wave, At 8o'clock the men par- took of some food with heavy hearts,not knowing but that it was the last meal they would eat. The forenoon wo slowly away. The eaptain and men got some cases of breadand preserved meits from the cabin and placed them on the poop. intending to take the hoats. Two cases of bread, n lot of preserved meats, but 1o water, had been placed in the lifebont, which the men tried to launch at 4 o'clock At this time a huge wave struck Augusta, which had broached to was lying in the trough of the sea. The wave carried Captain Meyer. the first mate and one seaman, who were stand- ing aft, overbonrd, The weather house over the wheel followed them, and the mate was seen to clamber upon the roof. Nothing more was seen of gallant Cap- tain Meyer or the seaman. Only two men were left on the bark, and they at once leaped into the seaand were drawn into the small boat. The boats were nearly full of water, and two men were constantly kept hailing. The cabin boy, who was at first thrown into the small boat wanted to gain the life- boat, and, jumping into the water, struck out for her. Mate Fulthohn and his men. five in number, in the small boat, could not tell whether the lad ever reached the other boat. . When the last two men to leave the sinking bark had gained the small boat and she was turned head up o the seas all on board looked toward the bark. They weve just in time to sce her jib- hoom disappear beneath the water. She had gone down in the twinkling of an eye,und the men had left at the very last possible moment. Not o sign was seen of the weather house on which the first mate had climbed. The men in the small bout made an effort to gain the side of the lifeboat, with the intention of lashing the two together, but the high sens made this impossible. Night closed in, and the bhoats drifted further and further apart. By day nothing was seen of the lifeboat, and the six shivering men in the smaller craft found themselves on a waste of sen without a sail anywhere in ht. In the boat was u bucket containing sea biscuit. There was also a small guan- tity of ham and a little water. Thi was dealt out, each man receiving once ser day a half of a senbiscuit, a little wam and a very small allowance of water. It was only enough to stimulate their hunger. A red shirt was raised on the mast for a signal. but day after day went by and no sail was seen. A smiall bag of petroleum was hung over the boat’s bow to quiet the sea: The wind did not blow so hard, but the seas still rolled high, Sometimes they hoisted a small three cornered sail, and then the men would take turns rowing, in the hope of sighting some passing vessel. But time went on, and on the morning of October 22 the provisions were en- tirely exhausted. The last morsel had been ten the very last drop of water drunk The men looked at ench other in de- spair. They had been hungry befor but now hunger and thivst began to be felt keenly, What were they to do? asked one another. Then one pro- posed as o last resortAhat they east lots to see who should be killed to serve as food for the others. His comrades gazed at him sternly. but their hunger made the proposal look horrible than it otherwise would have seemed. The second mate sternly refused to sanction the casting of lots or to have aught to do with it. He preferred to die rather than live by ating his fellow men. Besides, he rucd. there was 10 knowing how near succor might be and if it came afte one had been sacri- ficed it would seem nothing short of murde His talk had the desived ef- feet, and the men concluded to put off the matter until the following day. Th s grew intense as night closed in and still no sign of the looked for sail. Still the men took their turn at the oars. though their eyes were bloodshot and their tongues thick and wollen. s*Water! Water!™ was the cry, and there was water all around, but “not a drop to drink.” Slowly the night faded and the light of a new morning dawned. Toward noon a sail was n, and the red shirt used for a signal was eagerly hoisted. It wasa bark going frec, but she kept on her course,and the momen- tary hope that had buoyed the men gave way to despair. ain the sub- ject of casting lots came up, but it was Set aside for yet one more day. The 24th came. There was not so mugh sea running and sail was made on the little craft. She had been leaking all the time, and the men took turns in bailing. In the afternoon another sail was seen about four miles away. Only the royals appeaved at first, then her lower yards, and finally a full rigged bark loomed into view. Oh, joy! she was coming toward them, Up went the red shirt, and its rzl::m‘fl:llh'n waved in the ai But the bark slowly passed. In despair the men fell on théir knees and prayed for death to end their suf- ferings. But suddenly the mate saw the go in s Slowly she came about and in .l than twenty winutes the Union, for it was no other, was close to the boat. The hardy tars on board had to help the survivor {o the Union’s decks. Their parched lips could scarcely emit a sound and they conld not stand alone. Captain Peterson aund his grew gave the men every attention, aud «when the Union arrived yesterday fl?! ‘had nearly re- covered. o] There is not the. digQtest tidings of the lifeboat and hepzerew of six men, Mate Folthohn says thews was nota drop of water onboard u!':l{trjmd unless they were rescued sooner ibay the occupants of the small hoat flw‘y must have gone mad from thirst. B -—— Beautiful Home. . Seven-room new houpe. with every modern conveniencs, south and east front, on corner, céar Yipe by the door, fine neighborhood. . Price §6,000, half cash, Special bargai JoLe Rice & Co., Sole Agents. —n Dr. Hamilton Warpen, Magnetic Phy- sician and surgeon, Room 3, Crouns bloc e 16th and Capitalave. Chron and nervous diseases u specialty, Tel phone 944, e -~ Don't Fail to Visit, Hospe's Art and Music store for fin artists’ materials, etchings, engraving’s and elegant frames. . Two-seated family sleighs, small body or Portland, Parlin, Orendorfl & Mar- tin Co. Horses boarde Livery Stable, Hom - See cutters, all stylc dorft & Martin € ment is broken. the and and less 5 month. & T Ploneer it Parlin, Oren- | before. assort- NOVEMBER_28, 1887. STORY OF A STRANGE CAREER, Life and Death of Thomas Francis Meagher Recalled. EARLY DAYS AT VIRGINIA CITY. Acting Governor of Montana-Highly Connected in New York—Come mander of the Famous Irish Brigade. Helena, Mont., Correspondence New York World: I have searched the arch- ives for trac renius of Thomas Francis Meagher which might throw some light on his can in Montana and 1ift the veil of mystery which surrounds his death. It is a striking refloction on the emptiness of fame that comp tively few people know who Thomas Francis Meagher was, and still fewer who know that he was the acting gov- swwnor of the tervitory, and that the patriotic ving of some of his messages and state papers called forth the admi- m of the eastern journals of the day. the ie of his last ex- ploits, then the capital of the territory, swarming with life and activity. is now a deserted and sleepy village, A stage leaves Dillon., a shipping point for tle and wool on the Utah & Northern railrond every morning at 6:30 and volls into Virginia City at sundown. For the last eight miles of the journey the road runs along the left ‘bank of Alder Guleh, Twenty years ago this gulch which embraces the foot slopes of two long, regular mountain ranges, was the highest placer mining distriet in Montana, and an an army of gold hunt- d forth every morning and re- night to squander theiv “dirt” ming table or in carousing and v. To-day the gulch is descrted, except for the presence of a few noma- die Chinamen. who may be seen wash- ing gravel in the dilapidated sluice poxes that still remain, in the hope of discovering a stray thread or nugget of gold. The town lies up in the hills at the end of the guleh, and consists of some tolerably decent frame houses and a good many tumble-down shacks. In the early days a court house of some pre- was built, and that still re- mains, the only enduring monument in the town. There il standing on one of the side streets leading into the main thoroughfare a small, one-stc frame structure, which was occupied in more prosperous days as o banking house. Adjoining this General Meagher had 1i{5 oiiice ana passed much of his time while acting governor of the territory. All the old-timers had de. serted the place. I was unable to dis- cover any one who could enlighten me, but ascertained the names of some of those who were intimate with General her, and returned to Helena, Here wed Marshal W, F. Wheeler, the librarian of the Montana Historical societ newspaper veteran whose reminiscences of “Sunset” Co: first political eampaign in Ohio relieved the monotony of a three days’ unavailing search among the new paper files in the Iistorical society rooms. All the copies of public print covering the period of Meagher's res dence in the tervitory have been de- stroyed by fire; and the few facts T have been able to gather have come,burdencd with prolixity and confusion. through nd obscure recollections of the old-time Lvery one familiar with the h of the rebellion has heard of the famous Trish brigade which Meagher com- manded through the thickest of the bat- tles for the union and in the darkest hours of national peril.. When the war broke out he was wwed in the prac- tice of Jaw in New York City and had an office in Ann street. He laid dowa his volumes of Blackstone and opened the pages of Vauban, Emerging from the quiet atmosphere of his law office he ealled upon his counteymen by proc lamation and in public speech to rall, to the defense of the union, and they responded to the call enthusiastically and in gratifying numbers. Through the battles of F Oaks, Richmond, Manassas, Antietam. Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville the hr coming from the field of Chancelior ville straggling and weary, thegemnant of the brave fighting material that had flashed theirswords and won the praises of McClellan at Fair Oaks and Rich- mond. General Prim remarked after the battle of Fair Oaks that he did not wonder the brigade fought so well, “for,” said he. “their cheers arve as good as the bullets of other men. Meagher inspired his men with his e aration oF spirits and constantly in- i e cournge both by word and deed. Where he orderved them to charge he was the first to lead and last to retreat. His bearing as a soldi subject of universsl ad- miration.and he himself was the idol of his men After tory sident Johnson, in recognition of his services, tendered Meagher the secretaryship of Montana itory. He arvived in Virginin City, the seat of the government, at the close of the summer of 1 Governor Fd- rerson, who was about 1o leave the te vitory for some months, issued @ proclu- mation appointing General Meaghe acting governor in his absence. Meu gher’s fivst ofticial act was 1o call to- gether the legislature for the purpose of voting supplies for the expenses of the government. His constitutional right to do this was immediately called in question by the politicians and the press opposed to him. himself at first doubted his right to call the legis- lature, but, on consideration he decided to take the step and defended his course with his usual ability in_his message and in a spéech delivered at a demo- cratic convention shortly afterwards. Meagher, it is known, had some diffi- ¢ with the politicians in the tervi- he true inwardness of this it is mpossible to ascertain, but it is not unlikely it grew out of the sharp lines that were drawn between the northern and southern sympathizers and the acerbities which were the close of the great conflict. B sides wished to claim him, but Me: gher's stand was decided and uncom- promising. In answer to the politicians whose sympathies were with the north and who eavilled beeause Meagher ap- pointed southern men to office, he told them that the soldier of the south, hav- ing heroieally fought for years, had now lowered his colors and sheathed his sword; that the spivit in which he survendered, as well us the spirit with which he fought, entitled him to respect, honor- able consideration, and the frank confi- dence of his late adversarics. The s over, he, for one, *would not have planted thorns in the graves where the olivghad taken root.” ~ And so he de- fined his course, frankly and honestl but unflinchingly. For some time be- fore the accident which resulted in his death General Meagher contemplated resigning his position. The salary of his offico was t0o _scanty to justify him in retaining it. He had indeed be waited upon by a committee of the lead- ers of his own party, tendering him the nomination of delegate to congress and offering to defr all the expenses of the campuign, The nomination would have been cquivalent to election, for the democratic party was overwhelm- ingly dominent in the tereitory. But Meagher declined the proffered honor in generous tones, which, however,were tinged with melancholy. saying that he Was 100 poor to enter upon the duties of a delegate o congress and support an establishment in - keeping with the socinl position it would necessarily en- tail at the national ecapital. He in- tended vesuming the practice of law as soon ns he could be relieved of his official duties, and had negotiated for a partnership with o Mr. Bailey, one of the membersof the Montana bar. It w at this time, too, that Mrs. Meagl had arvived at Fort Benton on her w to join her husband, and Meaghe looked joyously forward to her compun- jonship and society as being additional incentives to his desire to carve out a fortune for himself in the various enter- s which were opened to him. In the summer of 1867 came the news of a violent Indian outbreak, Murders had been perpetrated on the Yellow- stone and_ on the road between He and Fort Benton, and Meagher at o issued his proelamation for the organi- zation of a mi command and com- missioned the offfeers. He was again acting governor in the absence Green Clay Smith who had succceded Gov- ornor gevton. He instructed them to proceed at onee to the scene of ra- pine, with the warning, couched in his own beautiful imagery, that “every blade of grass that sprang to the sui- light™ admonished them that the min- utes surely shortened between their arms and the red cloud of war that was traveling towards them with the stealth and artifice of Indian cunning. Then Meagher started for Fort Benton, where he wished to superintend the ar rival of arms and munitions for the equipment of the militia, and after- wards rejoined the troops in Gallutan vall He reached Fort Benton in the evening of July 1. 1867, worn out by a long day’s vide in the saddle under the rays of a beating sun. There were no_ accommodations at the fort, and General Meagher was invited by Captain Dovan. of the Missouri viver steamer G. A, Thompson, which was moored 10 the landing. to take up his quarters in one of the staterooms. The «un had just gone down when General Meagher and the captain took chairs out oni the guards of the boat for a pleasant chat. Meagher was much at- tached to Captain Doran_on account of some little Kindness he had shown the general’s wife on her way up the river from St. Louis. The night was pleas- ant—one of those typical summer nights wh are the charm of lifein Montana: but there was a storm brewing in the mountainsg and the clouds were thering. The two men lighted cigars, ' some desultory conversation, 1 Meagher took up a « Griffin - “Collegians,” lanid down, and he- gan 1o re He read appavently with much interest for half an hour, when, laying the hook down. he compls 1of being nervous and wea This was at Captain D to retire to his room, had gone only a short time when he hear splash in the water and the cry of “*man erboard.”™ The river at that point was about twelve feet deep. with a rent rushing at_the rate of nine mi an hou 1t had grown by this time to be dark and cloudy, and no object could be discerned in the er, The glints of several iterns were thrown deross the moving stream and active efforts were made to hasten his rescue, but all efforts proved useless. Cannon were fired the next day and the rviver was dragged for miles” below the fort, but the body was never recovered. There was a large coil of rope near the guard rail where Meagher fell ovel board. , It is supposed hie left his st room for some purpose. stumbled ove this coil of rope, caught at and missed the guard rail, which low and in- secure, and fell headlong into the water below. There are v L small islands risiv from t bed of the river divectly below this point, and whether the body was ever washed ashore upon one of these and becaime the prey of prowling Indians not known. The Indians were active and hostile in the neighborhood of these lit- tle islands, aud any attempt o resch them would have been fraught with danger and possibly death, so that no one could be found who had the hardi- hood to make the sho of the lowe islands. The governar of the territory, upon hearing the news.offered a reward for the recovery of the body and ordered the terrvitovial offices and buildings draped in mourning. Mrs. Mc . also offeved a large reward for the bod Resolutions of respect and con- dolénee were passed at Jus meetings ind the deepest evidences of general grief were announced from all parts of the terrvitory. Thus elosed the career of a man who at the age of twenty-three, as Justin MeCarthy tells us, wits the most linut orator in the young Ireland move ment of 1845, and who undee other con- ditions than those which prevail in country downtrodden and beset with ill- futed misfortune, might have risen to the highest distinetions of public life M was twice mavried. His wife wis the duughter of the governor of Tasmania,from which place she aided in his escape: She died at his father’s home in Ireland, His second wife 5 is fast | bril- o Miss Townsend, Long and 1 of the well knowt Istand family, and is still living ides on Madison avenue, in New York. She i< sistor of Mes, S, L. M. Barlow, He loft o son by his fivst wife whom he never saw. The child was born in Ireland after Meagher's arvival in this country. I believe this son is now in California, Meagher may or may not have touched the highest point of his greatness, but he was still in the prime of manhood, in possession of bodily and mental forces of a high order, and with the possibilitios’ of the future before him. He would have heen forty-four yenrs of age on the 8d of August following his death, and had he lived he would just now have prssed his sixty-fourth year, No mound marks his resting place, and his namo is unhonored and unknown hero exeept by the few fricnds who gathered around him while he lived i ORRIN TARBUX'S STEERS. ewich Correspondence Not long ago Ovrin T eville, bought o rs and was were stalwart w York rhox, ¢ pair of A proud of them, T} and wivy animals, with long, wicked-looking " horns, and i their eyes was an inscratable glean that could have been Kindled nowhere else but in s, After looking them carefully, one of Tarbox s bors let fall the ren SThem steers of yours, i mind me of the hogs they used to raiso out in Michignn in the woods, and which could flog o bear and out- run a wolf. Luk out fur ‘em 'Sq b Mr. Tarbox did look out for them, but one day they got out of the cnclosure and, it is said, t elled across two townships before they were eaptured and locked up again in their owner's high-walled "y This exploit was sampleof what they could do. e again, the ofher day, and more excitement than” east- ern Connecticut had expericnced since the early Indian wars. They first broke into into Caled Bishop’s corn ficld and overturned cral neres of corn shoeks, People who saw the act at o safe dis- tance say th western eyelone could not have worked more rapidly and de- struetively, As thoy rushed through the field they huskod with their horns corn " enov for a b which they swallowed on the run., To save his crop Mr. Bishop van into his lot, armed with a pitehfork, and con- fronted them, but, when he saw both steers bearing down toward him, he threw uway the fork and upe Tle barely cseaped with his lif forcmost stecr helped him over the wall and he landed on his face in the high- way. Joth anir *d_the fence at a Teap. Tt was lucky for Mr. Bishop that Jared Phillips’ tin peddler cart halted at ¢, J. Brown's house, wh wus not two rods from wher Mr. Bishop 1 the fen, without teching it.” as he said afterward: if the steers had not caught a glimpse of a bright tin boiler on the cart Mr. Bishop must_surely have been trampled and gored to death. The steers charged straight on the boiler, which dangled from one side of th struck Me. Phillips” cart and the boi amidships, and it t over with crash and a rattle that were heard by Jared and the Brown family, who wer dickering with him in the Kitchen ove change of twenty pounds of rd and o tin dipp rushed to the front of the house, getting there just after the cart had exploded. For two or three yards the street v sprinkled with all Kinds of shining tin- ware, frying pans. iron pots, hags, steel- yards, ‘washboards, clothes-pins, and lemon-squeczers, ihe horse lay in the diteh on its sic gazing steadfustly, an expression of docile amazement on his aged fae t a volling pillar of dust down the road, which betokened in what direction the Tarbox steers, which had been startled by the explosion of the cart and the fusilade of tinware, were flying at a furious pace, The st and their whirling cocoon of dust speedily passed out of sight. 1t was | 1 later by the band of farmers Philiips and Mr. Brown or- in pursuit of them, that the animals I wall, struck across the country for amile, and swam tho Quinnebaug river into another town. Riot and wrec od their pi They tove up a fine f b Charles Waldo, vdon Ames's colt so seriously that it had to be shot, spitted with their hornsseveral eattle of George L. Stetson, vipped up fences, and ravaged corn fields, Farmers vallied from all sides to huut the infuriated beasts nd the chase swelled in tho numberand grew hotter in th of the huntsmen at every mile. Ne very farmer in two or three towns was on the warpath, armed with pitehforks, stable forks, cel spears, cart stakes, shotguns, and revolvers, and every farmer had sworn that he “would Kill the critters and no quarter. Out of breath after Al hours of running, or anxious for more sport, the steers finally halted inoalot not far fron Westminister for their puisiers to ap: pronch. but as soon 1= they saw the mi nitude of the hostile demonstration the, [ setoff ona rush again. They disay peared in the woods heyond Westminis. and the lntest reports from the front bring no tidingsof either steers or irate farmers. 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