Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 11, 1887, Page 11

| § ) - AH!! Real Estate A {m ¥ ‘arnam st gt lint revised Do Dec 10, . South I7th st, near e e .U Center, 3 room 0 h &1, near Center, 7 roos onse 408 North'lith st. n ais, Brooi ouse, 1ot 31x1%3 M) w7 foward, near Bt s, #ood Broom "house, rooms Targe, ‘house fronts enst, fiew and well built, desirable place, £2500; %650 cash, balance $25 per nionth, ' This i3 & good place, on casy terms, 406 Virginia ave, near Leavenworth st, good 7 room house in_ excellent re: rth . #, convenfent to Hiounie b use, renting for rmonth, P 2100 3,000 42 Lake st, near 21st st, Groom’ hotse, lot 4sxiz.... dioiiioiss 4,000 Spruce st near 10th, ' G-room cot uge, will trade. 2,800 h, first class Beroom house, well, cistern and outbuild ings, all in good repair, one block from street cars, lot Mx1: 484 Bouth 16th st near Leavenworth very central location, good 6-roomed house, lot Zix 12, east front 481 North 21st st near Manderson, 1 block from car line, new 4-roomed hnlm, | lot 50x124 49 In Boyd's add near Belt ‘iine, & roomed house and barn, with 2 full 10ts, one a corner, east front. 472 Omihi View, “&room house, 406 2,500 1,600 24 4 T, near Belt Line depe in Oak Chatham and nnl l;lm ks from street car, & new 7 room house and full lot for! 2,000 In Walnut Hill a Kuml 6 room hn||~|-, well and outbuildings, south front, cheap at ' 2,250 462 2ist lll'll' Munvl»rfl one hlock from car line, o0 ise, barn wllll l||l Inl IIIN Isa very cheap 1,000 r 25th, convenient o cars, a b 1 house with lot s0x 12 This s a good home at 3,000 th st near Leavenworth 1u a high mmanding location, surroundings A 1, a well built 6 room honse. facing enst, with two lots, each & corner, shrubbery and t t lhunw kl'n % add room house Hx 16 455 i ation, 4 Juter, 1y lot- 4 Hiteh basy Annial payments at Reside Webster st neas street car, O Davenport miein Lincoln pluce choice lots, one a corner, east front lexirabli for i 34 cash, on’ Webiter st near the Convent, u thon; elegant resic south front sridun,convel- runs nm "T'h 4,500 o2 it Virginia 100150, tiou 0 04 ve hote st front, This is a specially fine locat Ao i Iy Yot in il desirablo additions wnd Tocations at e ranging from 850 upwards, oxx Propert 148 Farnam st near 24th st foot lot, sy terms, good location, per foot uth 10tk .‘| 60X 140, sewer and all or The 'n\ location. 142 Cass near 15th st, 9 room house, B8X1R2 % Chucago hea st price numed on’ property in same lot his property 15 ¢ eation by Onuuia and wi Californa st., B0X182, 0 ho 5, rent . 15,000 . 44,000 t near 15th st., 4 an improved plec uying 8 good 90,000 3 an’finproved pro paying #2100 per year, price & Il Rei s proDerty Lt sooq st cluss mortguge paper, no cash re- quired in this trade.... Stock Farm for Sal Within 30 milex of Omaha on railroad; 50 acre #tock farm good buildings, shed room’ for stock and feed cattle, windmill, pipe running er, 00 ucres’ hay land, res plow land. 1l well for 825 per acre und take $5,000 cash; Will also take on_the trade, Omaba House and 1ot worth #1,500 to £2,000, 'South Omaha Property. 1000 1310t dn Boyd & Shurp's add it 4460 £1,600 each, easy terms 5 Tots ench lot at. 26x00 ft on N s Also 2 desirable locat i w Fuiway, and_Sonvenlént to R South Ames eal Estate Agen 15 2 1 maKe a spec m'y ot orth Omahu, for sale or rent 408 Cunning 5t ) N M STICKNEY & 00, oproperty in N tizens' bank, YOI SAL offor h & spocaT biargain 150 Acre Of land four miles From stock yards, At 4125 per acre, on Une of U, P, R, K. \h umxu Opp. P. 0. T IST your property for Eaie Wt unu LISpotswood, i 6th e JHOR SALE-Three six place. Albright, corner, Igm-m b} r Walnut Till, #2; i, Cre ghton bk, ]!- you have anything to sell it with C. €. Spotswood, exc lmm.e 1ist Woie 8 16th, 664 25,000.00 caxh wanted in &35 000 d nahu's best realty: obect e profit OR try Bhin ‘FV(' ¥ eal; some : will t 11, ik reighfon blk! vaham, T Albright. Birsiness pr w. Albrigit, in South 15th 8t 1i CHRISTMAS PRESENTS The following is a list of a few of the bargains at FERGUSONS’ Great Housefurnish- ing Establishment - where they furnish houses from cellar to gurret, ever A handsome writing dosk A nice casy willow rock A nice hunging | An easy rocke, SAT Omaha, rame 8.00 A lnege size mivror, A Smyrn walnut L rug. . . 1.00 A splendid plush parlor suit...... 25.00 1Al to those wivertised by other DUses at §75, A hed voom suit for. . I EX) Equal to those_advertised by oth Parlor suits, sheffincers, wardrobes, 1ses. ool e more heat Avessing und a fe cost. ses, folding beds, 1 stoses below FURGUSON FURNITURE CO,, 715 and 717 N. 1gth strect, GOTHAM'S - FOREMOST CGIRL. Miss Eva Van Coartlandt Morris Makes Her Debut. A VEXED SOGCIAL Women's Wearisg Apparel-Two Dis tinguished Belles—The Death of a Lovely Girl -- Clara Bell Letter. QUE STION NEW YORK, Dec, 8.—[Correspondence of the BEE.]—Miss Eva-Van Courtlandt Mor is the foremost girl in New York this week. She made her debut in so- viety, and she did it well. The city journals told in general termsof the re- splendence of o ball and supper that completely filled the big Delmonico building, ordinary customers being ex- cluded from even the restaurant after midnight; but the accounts really slighted the girl herself, for at most she got no more than u single sentence, de- seribing her as a tall brunette ina re-' markably simple white costume. She was no beauty, but she was a niece of Mrs. William and that sufficed. What wer experience: Well, she stood beside her mother in a reception room, and bowed to the arriving people as they passed through on their way from the dressing room to the ball room. hat duty lasted from 11 o'clock until 1, by which time several hundred bouguets, handed toher by guests, were massed on i sereen behind her. t she went to supper on the arm of her cousin. the newest John Jacob Astor. and was an hour at table, eating little and never touching the glass of champagne that fizzed and became lifeless at her elbow. At 2 o’clock she entered the ball itself and danced with Henry Coster, a noted old beau, at the lead of a cotillion. Afterwards she waltzed with younger fellows, chatted with girl friends and went home at 5 o'clock in the morning —not as fresh, perhaps, as the milk maid who.in the song, emerges at that dewy hour for duty, but a great deal morve in- teresting to the obs Next to the bridal ¢ of a young girl, her “coming out” costume is the crucial test of task and income. Miss Morris’ CSWEE of costume was an e ation was a low-nec T SIMPLICTTY” ample. d, no-slec The found- d slip If of what one would call ‘rose wh yellow white be ivory. or eream, then pinkish white is ro The ma- terial was corded silk, heavy and lus- trous. About the walking-length skirt was o box plaited vow of Vallenciennes four inches deep, at $5 o yard. In each plait of the luce hung pendent an arti- icial half-blown blush rose. Up one like a panel went row after row of and buds. Dra the silk of ethereal silk gnuze, with satin stripes in - pur Opposite the panel, on the vight side, was a big pocket arrangement, made of satin folds interlaced like basket work and spring- ing out of the top was a splendid ¢ luster of blush half blown and buds. The girlish chest of the debutant ad- mitted of the upper half the corsy being made of overlupping rows Valenciennes and of intermingled buds, and a hip corset of satin, laced behind, v waist. There were fifty of lace and 500 The material that formed the s was $100 for five yards, the slip #50, the roses and the making were #100 and so the simple rosebud dress of a miss in her teens, without any jewelry or display, cost $500. “How foolish to spend money in a girl’s dress,” said a male guest, inno- cently, “when she can be $0 pretty in materials almost worthless.” The minds of such men as Berry Wall and Bob Hillard are agitated over the great question: Shall the dress shir be held in place by one stud or three? This demands more than a passing thought. The boarding house pie- chested man ean get along ve 11 with one button. But the alde corporation and the developed breast of the man built on mother’s Christmas mince pie plan required three studs to keep him in reputable shape. Thelate Colonel Jim Fisk had four buttons on an inside flap of his ~h|l't hmom and lh('ll Sht LeR-darat dia- mond ctly in_ the center where it made believehold the whole business. One of the funniest revelations in the shirt bosom line was made the other night, when A SLIM JIM of doubtful worth stood up among the carlier seats in the opera house to re- move his coat. It stuck in the slecve, and his companion gave a vigorous pull The under coat came half off and the vest rose like a living thing. There was an ominous crack, and flying out of the low cut vest came a false bosom, with a ng starched stifly hanging to the corner of it. The poor fellow spasmodically struggled to tuck it in, but, like Banquo’s ghost. it would not down. It returned again and again to torment the wearer. When shirts are s0 cheap and laundresses so trusting, how a man comes to commit the indis- creation of a dickey who can tell? the male fiterary creature gets the fine work in on the subject of ved the slend roses. over-dr = WOM WEARING APPAREL, it certainly is the most amusing thing he do It is doubtful if a feminine fushion writer would make such a me; of ascientific article on parabolic re flectors or variable cut-offs. It wasa bt l\!lu;.;.hu;.‘ with the details of an actress’ costume who spoke learnedly of her black stockings, and enfled chenille graceful dangles of muraboat. of these mistaken men sutly undertook to deseribe Mrs. Cleveland. dark leghorn ing and velvet “She wore,” he said, **a at_with plumes of veil- itting well up in front.” This was a triumph. On the oc referved to Mps. Cleveland a felt hat. Is it hkely that the first lady in the land, and quite a fashionable one, would put on a straw hat on the last of November? But what in the name oi millinery and the fine arts are “plumes of veiling and vel- vet?” The lady probably had in her hat the stiff standing foops so much worn at present, and the seribe set them down s plumes. It is o wonder he never thought of calling them foliage., After awhile the hat that fascinate )um was fully deseribed, and he proceeded o ex- patiate on her dre: which was of Sdurk purple plush, with strips of dace brocude on each arm, and a double strip of the same on the waist.” plush is discernable, but the tado” ian staggorer. Tho froc |\ made according to this expert, *wit some degree of bouffontness, und three pleats in front. "he sleeves were small, and eclung closely, but were much smaller where the lace brocade enci cled them than atany other point.” This is much cleaver than ordinary board- ing house Nee. The llllM'«'llIl'm!l women of this free muutry ave been growling over Mrs. Clevelund’s receipe for brown bread, but I would like to see the most skilful analytical-minded THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY DECEMBER 11, mofdiste in this land tackle a. piece of purple plush and undertake to repro- duce this costume by the description given of poor Francis Cleveland'’s dress. A western newspaper once engaged the services of a noted cook to fill half a column with his best recepies. This is the way he told the ignorant females of that famed city how t8 make a Spanish omelet: “Beat the eggs to a high froth, fry some onions in a piece of butter, chop mushrooms and mix with the to- mato, soda cracker crumbs should be used, peper and sault the mix- ture well, shake some flour with milk thoroughly mix, and toss as soon as brown.” This was a darling. The uninformed womsan who could make a Spanish omlette out of that could make Spanish flies out of dried huckleberries. Let us hope that the young man who described Mrs. Cleveland’s dress is n better seamstress than he is a fashion writer, or he will mend his socks this cold winter with postage stamps. TWO DISTINGUISHED BELLES have put themselves conspicuously be- fore the public this week. One is Miss Minnie Seligman, of the socially and financially foremost Jewish Seligmans, who made her debut as a professional was small in & < "and she was o won- der for cool self-possession. The other was Miss Elsie de Wolfe, n swell am teur, who is expected to follow M Potter to the rv;.'ulm' stage. She played in “The School for Scandal™ at a char- 1ty matinee. Sheisnot a beauty and her talent is not remarkable, but she is in fashionable vogue. Meanwhile Mrs. Potter goes into [ spell of one-night towns, where she may run across much disen- nhuuhm-nt In the of curious ex- riences with audiences, about the Finniest of ik tHiNEE happened this week at Pool’s theatre, which is a cheap and rude east side house, though b longing to the estateof thelate M Alexander T. Stewart. The play was T'he \Imn-mw of Paris, ank (. Tannehill was the dreadful assassin, He started up the stpirs to the room of his v m. A creek warned him to be more cautious. He puiled off his boots ovder to mount in his stock This point had been thrilling sive to ordinary audinences, but he the gallery was crowded by jocose boy: one n( whom, as the actor cautiously moved his boots, sang out: “O, my HOOL COTN! Other tormentors caugh't instantly at the opportunity, and as he tip-toed wingerly up the stairs, eries of ‘trim em,” “file “em down,” O, my bunion,” and *‘whe-e-c-w,” accompan- ied every step. Such an uproar of mer- riment ‘was never before aroused by mimie tragedy. Tannehill will hery after do his Bowery murdering with his boots on. The death of Nellie Coe, which more paragraphs in the newspapers this week, provides material enough for a dozen movels like “As in aLooking She was a beautiful girland in trunk were found every letter she 1 ever received, numbering 2,000, 1t impossible to tell how many person’s have already seen them, or how m andfuls of them are now cireulati in the circles to which the people of the newspapers, coroner’s office and police have ace The letters tell a queer story of human nature. It appears from them that the girl Nellie Coe was the daughter of a farmer in northern New J , and that from comfort the fam- ily was reduced to misfortune, appa ently after the death of the father. A mother and two sisters were left, and though none of these women were able to Write, except with painful mechanical gensstroken, they corresponded - freoly. Nellie came to town and became o sen- timental expert. She gave to her ac- quaintances the imp on that she was operating in Wall street. So she was, but her speculations were in hearts, not stocks. She worked industriously as a fascinating borrower. The letters sent to her by the .male friends she had acquired in town are a revelation. But that any one may see for himself the facts in the case, it would not be believed that in this city and in this country—after the warnings in every novel and newspaper against letter writing and against the betrayal of one’s identity in compromising con- nections—there would be found so many men who would put themselves com- pletely in AN ADVENTURESS' POWER as her dupes did. There are the official letter heads of the railways, municipal officials and mercantile houses by which these wooers are employed, and their imp names are often signed in full, their home affairs described at length, and heir address set down. Young men write carnestly and sinc if to a relative or dear and yet near! all buu'ny in the same letters a vague fear that they are being 1iipo: . “Thove you are tellmg me the truth,” is a frequent phrase. ‘Whenever I call without first sending word, you are sure to be out; I sometimes think you are not honest with me,” suys one. “Your nhmkw were down again and so T did not call,” says another, ‘‘but it seems to me theéy ave down most of the time.” In the same letters these simpletons send various sums of money. *I am only able to send you five dol- lars,” says one; “‘if that storekeeper presses you, tell him you will have money by Thursday, for I will surely get some for you by then. T have not the hole I am But soon both of us will be in better umstances.” Money rained in on in these letters, and how she spent it is told by her death from alcoholism, and by her sending odd presents and and sums to her friends in her old vil- lage home. At times she must have been] luring simultaneously many men into cou: and possible matrimony. At the ve last there an obtuse old fellow anx- ious to let her share what he had, and he was amazed at the cause of her death and the revelation of her correspond- ence. For yvears other men had looked to her as a confidant, a friend and a sympathetic companion, to whom they could boast of their suc or carry their confession fortunes, ervors and repinings. » not blind to the w them, but evidently sought to de themselves, or to picture the case not as bad on her side as they felt it must be, for she must have been able to clear up told you half the trouble- in. Many she deceived in_their presence the doubts that as- sailed them when she dis appointed them, or th re- flected on the cence they saw of her treachery. In all probab there was no one who pretended to sympa- thize with and feel a fondness for them, That she was not wholly mercenary and heartless, is shown by her not having attempted to blackmail them. She was simply u good-natured, selfish, beautiful animal, looking out for the comfort of the moment, and never hoarding or plotting against her future. Altogether there have not been many such ruugh exposures of the adventurously sonti- mental life as this girl’s death has brought about. CLARA BELL AT ey The Harvard annex has had a very stuntial growth. The original intention of the society that started the movement eight yeurs ago was not to build up a colleg for women, but simply to repeat for women the collegiate instruction that was already pro- vided for men by Harvard colle It was nul intended to create a college, tul @ college has been created, se sub MEXICO'S FLOATING CARDENS The Feast of the Flowers—A Pen Picture of Floral Beauty. SOME PICTURESQUE RUINS. The Tax on Flowers—A Waving Sca of Popples—A Rolstering Game— How Bulltailing 1% Practiced Among the Greasers. Written for the Sunday Bee, A sparkling. crigp morning and with the blood tingling through our veins from pleasant excitement and anticipa- pation, we set forth to enjoy la fiesta de la flores (the feast of the flowers), these brilliant and lovely productions of the country being displayod in picturesque stalls and booths along the banks of la viga (the canal) and coquettishly toss- ing their pretty heads from gaily draped boat and gondola. As we go, bands of music pasy us on their way toblend har- monious strains of music with the sweet odors of this day of the flow- ers, Gallop to the dainty fair, gay horses mounted by gayer caballeros going to smile upon the ladies who, in their turn, go in pretty, fresh costumes to put, “'so like a woman,” the flowers to blush. The sun has collected all of his glittering, early morning beams, blended them into_one mighty, golden whole, and suffused the day and_scene with it. We the old, ruined, stuc- coed walls of a cast ONCE INHAB D BY CORTES, but a sudden turn in the rond puts an end to retrospect and discloses the canal in gala dress, “like a thing of fairy creation rather than the work of mortal hands.” Up and down for half w mile or more, walk and* drive the throng of pleasure seekers, while in the *flower garlanded booths and dewy leaved decorated stalls. stand pretty Indian givls selling the national beverage, pulque, and radishes. which are dexterously cut by clever hands into fect semblances of full blown \e hoats used on the canal for ing merchandise are long, wide bottomed, propelled by poles. Those used for pleasure rides, pc 58 LWO rows of cloth covered ts and protected from the sun by uxu awnings, something u{h-r the style of Venetian gondolas. Skirting the canal is the pasco de la Viga, the once aristocratic drive of the resorted 1o by the fashionable ones ing Lent because of its seclusion, It is a fine, tree-lined drive dignified by a colossal bust of Guatemozin, THE LAST A7 ¢ EMPEROR, so treacherously murdered by Corte: who is so cha v depicted by I,g Wallace in his A Fair God.* These flowers are \)xuu;hl from the chinamy or the once “*floating gar- dens’ of LakesChalcoand Xochimileo to which the canal leads by pretty turns and twists, rippling under massive stone bridges ladened with ancient inserip- tion and murmuring through the grated archway of la garita (custom house). :d and collected on : flower, or vegetable brought into deral district. From here the canal broadens intoa clearer stream whereon lie the round leaves of aquatic plants, cheerily enters broad fields soon interlacing and connecting the gardens. As we have left the fiesta so fur behind, let us visit these famed cultivated plots of ground, hut as we approach them it is necessary to change our hoat for a smaller one in order to penetrate the narrow waters surrounding and nourish- ing them. Togoback alittle, these gar- dens were more numerous and more beautiful in the Aztec time, notonly here but they existed also in lake Tezeuco. hey were simply constructed by plac- ing layers of turf on the matted aquatic vegetable growths toa height of several fLL[ above the water, being held fast by piercing each one with u long willow pole to the hottom, \\hu'lq took root. helr cultivators lived then, as to-day,on them. Each garden is from one to two hundred feet long, by fifty to one hundred broad. Slowly we thr our watery way amongst calla lilies and the drooping branches of low growing trees, in_and out among the gardens, laughingly pushing their banks to see if they will move, but they no longer rebound to the curious touch. Several of the large city markets are supplied from here with flowers and vegetables carried before daybreak in boats which are artistically loaded the night before and kept fresh by night dews. Whole gardens flourish the wet, curling leaves of lettuce, from big to little plants, and delicious is it, eaten crown of Bwoas x'i"lll with the snow 0\ er it for a fresh salad. Other gardens cultivate only flower: -3 hcmg a of tossing, bright-hued ruppum. an- other of sweet-peas sprinkling the air with tender perfu reminding us of our grandmother’s gardens, where Spanish was never spoken, and where women never puffed the aromatic ciga ette. Yet another one cultivating pink and white roses, while for a back- ground to ull this loveliness isa mag- nificent, snow-capped. voleanic moun- tain range. With our boats well laden with these |n tty trifles of nature, we land at the Indian village of Santa :\mm. swarming with half clad men and women, as well as a multitude of thin, hungry, fox-faced dogs who sniff, with alick of the chops. at your somewhat trembling ankies. Here we athirst for red and white ‘mlqm' and hunger for hot tamales, both of which we enjoy while listening to a band of strolling musicians and watching the high-heeled, white, satin-booted Car- mens dance to their perfect time, midst clack of castinets. Twilight guides us homeward through la Viga. idly we lounge in the boat while slowly leaving the gardens behind us, passing Indian ity seulling homeward from market through the soft night; pass gay parties of revellers mando- ts also, with sign sending forth sweet notes from lin and guitarra, Past tou watching even the roadside pig gloomy \'\pl'n'mugn\ and curious fol grunts and burrowings. HOv hangs the rich purple eve,” and in deep twilight shade sublimely htllaxux«. colored summit of Popc petl. Midway the grounds of that elub devoted to the per- fecting of THE LOFTY, ROISTERING GAME down the stream are known as colern, (literal translation, bull-tailing) a game lacking even the dignity of a bull fight as el as its picturesqeness, We once witnessed this club give an exhibition of the owess in the art of tail pulling at fiesta in honor of the birthday of Pres- ident Porfirio Dias, Theentertainment was given on the racing ground of the j ey club, members of which club, it emembeyed entertained Mr, Sn-dgv\uk‘ s0 liberally from the cornu- copin irituous ‘plenty. The day u}.- pne (1 W uR inferior horse racing, after the completion of which, a long and narrow space was fenced off and a young bull emitted like a big spark of " fury, at the upper end, followed by members of the Tail club, and on this occasion their friends, who consented to appear in bouor of the president. All well e mounted on flery steeds dowp the in- closure streaked after the bull, who, as they tear past, they must, with some skill catch by the tail. so twisting that member round the manly leg that the unlucky creature rolls over and over. If heis not injured, he will rise with a stupid, bewildered air, ouly to be re-rolled by the next suc- cessful tail puller. In a frightened string. fly by the bulls pur- sued by excited gentlemen. The bund ‘\lm’« triumphant music and ladies in “arisinn toilets applaud these dashing tailpullers and hope that the president will enjoy many another such a day. ANOTHER GAME of even less ennobling nature is in- dulged in for which it would be difficult to tind & name. A certain number of hens are captured and planted just so far apart up to their necks in_ sand. Then mounted horsemen rx||l-hh.\' ap- roach the poor, little ombed heads, skillfully lean over their horses, pulling a hen from out the sand. He who successfully does this can have the hen if he can protect her from the other riders, who make frantic plunges and dives after her, often rending her wing and leg, until there is nothing left but a few blood-stained, speckled feathers It reminds one of women pulling theiv pretty next-door neighbor to pieces, with their tongues—of course. ‘With some shame, be it known, considenable enjoyment we once twice and or VISIT These places are A COCK PIT. renerally opened dur- ing a uumblmg r religious fiesta and are well patronized. You may be fami- liar with such pits surrounded by rows of ruised seats: and the queer, rickety little band stand ragged, out of tune play Vicious cocks are tied by the leg to the seatsin among the rment, patrons of this beautiful amu: ustily erowing for their turn either to win or to die. stand excitedly round the pit betting on this proud cock and flinging within with emphatic shrugs, the silver dollars After weigning each one o long, sharp steel spur is tied on amidst the pulling out u} their feathers, to make them more valiant, as they say of the bulls when prodding them with iron hooks before entering the ring. Now,away they go at each other, the little spur glittering first here, and then there. It does one good to see so much fight. They are well matched and do not kill each other as soon as desived, simply be- come exhausted so that their owners tenderly raise them, and opening their beaks blow down their throats. This fresh air impregnated, one would judge, with much spirit, thus reviving them, and they fight again until one falls a vietim 10 the spur of the other. Since congress unnulled the law against bull fighting within the federal district, several plazas de tovos (bull rings) are in course of construction in the city limits. One on the Paseo is compléted, and furnishes amusement for the people not only by sunlight but by electrie light at night. Such are the various sports sunny neighbor, Mexico. of our The Southern Presbyterian church is ap pealing for funds to prosecute missionary work among the negroes, It has been decided that the general con- ference of the Methodist Episcopal church shall be held in New York city, begiuning on the 1st of next May It is probable that before many years the venerable Monumental church of Richmond, Va., will become the cathedral of the Epis pal diocese of Virginia. Rev. O. Walker,of New London, Conn.,has a great record as’ an industrious preacher. He has been absent from his pulpit only two Sundays in thirty-five years. The Young Men's Christinn association cel- ebrated their Thanksgivingover the fact that the good people of that city raised 214,000 for them to pay off their indebtedness. There are many people who think that be. fore many years the non-Episcopal prot ant denominations will recognize the neces sity and value of assistant ministers in large city churches. An_extraordinary effort was made this e tQ increase the “Peter's Pence” collec- n the New York diocese. That it was coessful ls shown from the amount stated d—$36,655.07. The Misses Drexel, daughters of the late P. A. Drexel, hove returned to Philadeldhia from a visit to various Roman Cutholic mi: sions among the Indiuns. They were much interested in the work of the missionaries, and gave $100,000 for its furtherance. In the kingdom of Wurtemburg, Germany, 75 per cent of the population were protest- ants in 1843, and only 22 per cent were Cath- olics. Since then. and especially during the last ten years, there has been a large increase in the Catholic population. According to re- cent statistics for every thirty-five Catholics that became protestants there ar estants who have become Catholic The proposed new Leo Home for German Catholic immigrants, to be located near Castle Garden, New York city, will soon materialize, as nearly £25,000 have be ceived by the treasurer of the fund, General Muehlsiepen, of St. Louis, ) 1€ fund is the result of jubilee collections German Catholic churches throughout th country. The Irish-American jubilee collec tions are sent to Rome. The Baptists of Cunada have agreed to a cept Mr. McMaster's bequest of three qu ters of a million of dollars on the testat terms. The money is to be used in founding @ universi With a view to this same end a charter has been granted by the Ontario legislature for the union of the Toronto and Woodstock colleges. Whether the new uni- versity will be located at Woodstock or in Toronto is tobe _determined at a spe se8- sion of the board of home missions. The Germans of Bohemia belonging to the Romish Catholic church are reported to be alarmed creasing number of he sem- inary at Prague, accord it cen- sus, only twenty-seven were Germans., At Leitmoritz there were only forty-four Ge mans to sixty-seven Czechs. At Budwe there were 105 Czechs and seventeen (e mans. At Konigsgratz 122 Czechs and twel Germans. Total, 432 Czechs and 100 Ge According to the proportion of Ger- chs, Woich is thirty-seven to six -thrce, there ought to be 195 German and Czech students, 0- sixty prot- mans, 1887 —SIXTEEN PAGES. A CATALOGUE OF PRICES AT THE ASSIGNEE SALE 1515 Douglas Street 1515 Next to Hospe's Art Store. Gents' hand sewed shoe, $2. This shoe is positively worth §5 Gents' hand sewed French call shoe, $3.25, worth 8 in any store in the country, Men’s heavy sewed buckle shoe, $1.20, worth $2.59. Men's hand sewed calf shoes, $3.00, worth $7.00. These are made by the best work- men, Men's low shoes in all styles, of the finest of calf. hand scwed, $2, worth a $3 bill, Choice of the finest low shoes mude, $2.75, worth $6. Gents' alligator slipper, 80c, worth $2.00, Gens finest of alligator and velvet slippers, $1.00, worth $2.50. This slipper is made of the choicest of alligator skins, is kid lined, hand welt, The velvet slipper is made of | fine silk velvet, embroidered in silk in Kensington styles. Men’s calf boots, $1.65, which are positively worth $3.00. Men's tongue boots, $2.15, worth $1. Men's kip boots, $140, worth $2,75. Men's grain leather bootss$3.00, worth $7.00. These are made of the best of Phister & Vogel grain leather, are 26 inches high and guaranteed to keep out the water as well as Juuber You could not possiblv get a better boot made to order. Ladies' extra high cut shoes, 20 buttons high, 1.20. This shoe is worth $3.00 the world over. Is made of fine curacoa kid in the latest style, Ladies’ pebble goat shoe $1 25, worth $3.00. Ladies' finest Tampico goat shoe, $1,75, worth $3.75. Ladies’ toe slippers, 25c, worth 75c. Ladies’ finest American kid gipsy cut sandal, 16 buttons high velvet front, $1.68 worth $4.00. This is the latest style in the cast. Ladies’ kid button shoe, worked button holes, $1.10, worth $3.00. Remember the place, and don’t be misled by dealers who make it a special business to have what they call an assignee or bankrupt sale, but merely keep goods to palm off on the unsuspecting public. Ours is the genuine assignee sale. ‘We have come to stay only until our stock is closed, but immediately aftsr the expiration of ten days we will sell the stock to dealers. Yours, respec:fully, ASSIGNEE. 1515 Remember the place, 1515 Douglas Street Next to Hospe's Art Store. Hanisone HOLIDAY PRESENTS Family Bibles, Photograph and Scrap Albums, Books for Children and Adults, Writing Desks, Fancy and Office Baskets, And a Large Assortment of Xmas Cards and Novelties, for sale by H.M. & S. W. Jones, 1522Don HILL & YOUNE, 1211 and 1213 Fanam Strect LRATURE Carpets, Stoves, House Farnishing Goods. WEEKLY AND MONTHLY PAY- MENTS. SPECIAL SALE CUTLERY MON AND SILVERWARE! DAY MORNING, We willplace on sale a nice line of Silver Knives and Forks, Carving Sets,Manicure Sets, Fine Pocket Cutlery, Dessert, and Table Spoons, Fine Plated Spoons, Scissors, Shears, etc., etc. Our prices will surprise you and the quality of our goods will please you. We have hundreds of other articles too nu- merous to mention. Every article warranted. CALL AND SEE US BEFORE BUYING. F.V.ATWATER&CO.,1603-5 Howard-st. e