Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 18, 1887, Page 16

COMMENCING MONDAY MORNING, DE SPECIAL SALE Of Plush Goods, Etc., Ete. Fine toifet cases at $2.00, worth $3.50. Fine toilet cases at $2.75, worth $4.00. Fine toilet cases at $3.50, worth 85.00. Fine toilet cases at $9.00, worth $12.00. Plush oder cases $1.50, worth $2.50. Plush oder cases $3.00, worth $4,50. Large variety of willow work baskets, pin cushions, et Large variety of ladies’ plush and leather pocketbooks. Gents’ collar and cuff boxes, and many other novelties suitable for Christ- mas presents. Remmber that this stock is all new-and that we make popular prices on everything. Attend this sale it GUILD & MAXASON, 52 AMERICA'S ROYAL ~ FAMILY. A Brief Sketch of the Astors—A Curious Story. THE SWELL PHILANTHROPIST. Robert Bonner's Peculiarities —Socie- ty's Ballet Dancer—Mayor Hewitt's Latest Inyestigation—Clara Belle's Letter. NEw Yonk, Dec. 14.—[Correspondence of the Bek.]—The death of Mrs. John Jucob Astor, and the subsequent elevation of Mrs. William Astor to the leadership of New York society, recalls the fact that this enormgusly wealthy family has in later gencrations be- come rather numerous in membership. Its hold, in fact, upon society at large is due as much to-day from its original members, Tt i8 probably safe to say that not one direct member of the Astor family, whether bear- ing the name or not, is employed or asso- ciated with anyone who 1% employed mn earn- ing a living by labor or commercial business. The Astors, since the old furrier died and left his business of exporting and carrytng in other hands, have devoted their means und such energies as they chose to put into busi. ness, into purchasing and holding real estate. ‘They ure extensive buyers and rare sellers. A marked peculiarity of the family is that the traditions of past ages are kept alive in the composition and intercourse of its mem- bers. In a country where there is a titled class dedueting its standing, socially, from birth, there is not a distinctive feature, but i Amavica, where democracy is generally triumphant, it is rare ta sce the distinctions of title and place maintained in Ta; rela- tions. 'The Astor family has its distinctive head and all the other members are subordi- nate to it and occupy their fixed place in the scale of authority and respect in the family. The recognized head of the family has been for years Mr. John Jacob Astor, the Yady who has just died, goven years old and fairly well presorved. Such little business activity as he has per- mitted to himself during the course of his life, he still maintains. This means regular visits to his oftice and the supervision of i affairs, to the extent, at least, of drawing his mcome, and divecting in a gencral way, its disbursement. He lives on the south-west corner of Fifth avenue and Thirty-fourth street, in a house that is unpretentious in its externul appearance and particularly modest in comparison with idower of the He is about sixty- T of the late Alexander Stewart, just acrose the w The house is of brick, devoid of marked " trimmings, and has for its chicf peculinrity a remarkably high stoop plain entrance, There s ' a lot btaveen ohn Jacob Astor's houso und the by houso just south of him, and in this place h Mr. William ' Astor, lives. dohn li remains the headsof th but, through the death of s w © William Astor will become tho e New York society The wanner in which this lady is distinguished from the othe Astors is by the marking of her visiting- cards and by the printing of her nume upon social invitations, etc. The head of the fuw- ily is known simply as “Mrs. Astor,” und any other Astor must place her initiul'oxthe en name of her husband befo “ stor” upon er cards or other s ments, The late Mrs. John Jacob ‘Miss Augusta Gibbes of Savannah, Ga. She was married in 1845 Her only child was Mr. William Waldorf Astor, who cnjoys the singular distinction of being the only mem- berof the family who has done anything striking outside of caring for his moncy. He trled his hand at politics and wade a respect- able failure. He has written a book or tw con United States minister to 1t morried a Miss F ‘ours ugo, and the wedding made a red and will be remem- k part in them or wit- nessed them, He lives ou cast Twenty-third street, near Fifth avenue, not far, therefore, from tho family mansions of Lis father and uncle. Mrs. * Williun Waldorf Astor's brother married millionaive Drexel’s daugh- ter not long ago. It will be seen from this that the imiediate family of the head of the house is u smallone, but the family of Mr, Astor of Philadelphia, about ceremonies attending tl letter day in New York bered by those who to __THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1887—SIXTEEN PAGES. Vs L, ) e+ NG N A T . | - GUILD & MASON, 52-523 North Sixieenth Street, | ,’ Grand Special Sale of Holiday Goods, Etc gains we.shall offer. SPECIAL SALE Of Shawls and* Underwear. Ladies' fine scarlet vests, 75¢, worth $1.25. Gentlemens’ heavy mottled, $1, worth $1.50. Fine all-wool beaver shawls, $2. worth $4.50. Tmported beaver shawls, #.50, worth $7.50. ' SPECIAL SALE Of Toboggan Caps. All of our 50c goods will be sold at 25¢ during this sale. Toboggan caps at 5c, reduced from e #1 will buy a 81.50 cap. Large variety of men’s caps 25 per cent less than regular prieces Men'’s flne seal fur caps at $2.00, worth $3.00. We make SPECIAL SALE ! Of Blankets. of blankets We will sell 300 pairs 25 cent less than they cost at fac- 25 per tories. o 11-4 white blankets, 5 pounds, #1.50 per pair, worth $2.75. Fine wool scarlet blanket, $2.00, worth 3.50, 12-4 white blanket, all wool, weighing 9 pounds, $6.50, worth §10.00. SPECIAL SALE Of White Goods. 5000 yards yard, worth 10¢. inch P. K., 2ic pér 25 yaerds only to one customer, " SPECIAL SALE Of Ladies’ Kid Gloves. SPECIAL SALE Of Ladies’ Real Lace HANDKERCHIEFS. We will show the finest handkerchiefs in Omaha. Pr 50, worth $40, 3 22,50 worth $80, 25 doz of renl Kid gloves, at T0c, for-] §13:30 worth 440 mer price $1.25, 20 doz real kid gloves at 50¢, worth e, #15 worth $20, #10 worth $15. These prices made for Monday only. OEMBER 19th, 1887. F.verythin&wlll be sold as advertised. and intending purchasers cannot afford to miss the bars e following prices for one week only. SPECIAL SALE. Of Handkerdhiefs and Muf- flers. Silk and wool mufMors 25¢, worth Silk and wool mufilers 50e,worth $1. and wool mufflers 1, worth $1.50. SilK and wool mufilers $2.25 worth $3. Silk handker , B0c, 7The,81, $1.25¢ £1.50, which is 80 per cent below regu= Children's haudkerchiefd 2{c, others sell for fe. Lavge varviety of ladies’ and hander« chiefs, all 1o be sold at greatly reduseds prices. 15¢i Silk efs 2 lar prices. children’s linen you are looking for bargains. 1 and 523 North 16th-st. Astor, brother 1o John Jaco) ively large. His wife was Miss rhorn, danghter of the late Abraham himself' a mau of greut William compar Scher ys, sho is_better fitted than hier sister-in-law was, to THE 1 s d is a more viva- cious actor in_them. x living children* Her oldest daughter, Mrs, James . Van Allen, hus been dead about six years. Her second daughter, Helen, is now’ Mrs. Roosevelt Roosevelt.” This gentleman of the double name is un ideal specimen of staliwart He fs of votea no ti ter in this 3 3 tor, is now Mrs, Coleman Drayton. — 8 two children. The daughter, Helen, just re- ferred to, has three, Another &s Carry, is' now Mrs. Orme Wilson. the remaining child of this union is John Jacob Astor, jr, who graduated recently fr ard colloge and gaade his first plunge in New York socicty this fall. There was to have been a grand ball given in his honor on the 9th of next Janu but the death of his aunt will postpone this and all the other festivities in which the Astor fam- ily might naturally engage during this sca- 80n. “There is a curious story connected with the marriage of the first daughter of William Astor, Mrs, Van Allen. She muried much against her father's will, in spite of the fact that Mr. Van Allen'was'a man of iadepend- ent means, fully capable of providing for her in the manner i ich she had been reared. She lived with him in Newport, and until her death her father never entirely forgave her for marrying against his wishes. hese married members of the Astor family live in this city, most of them upon the fashionablepart of Filth avenue, and they, of course, have elegant country seats in different portions of the country.’ That of Mr. William Astor is at Rhinebeck on the Hudson, and they all have temporary homes at Newport. The combined wealth of this family proba- biy etands without & parallel in_the d. It has been the steady cndeayor of the members of the family to und their possessions in order that they might not arouse the too bitter jealously of that class of the population which looks inimically at oarded wealth, Fos this reason John Jacob Astor, hus never given any authority for statements of his wealth that put the figures beyond £100,000,000, and ordinarily, this sum is Tooked upon as the limit of his possessions, nevertheless it is a conservative estimate, be: cause the family is constantly buying new al estate, as the income in the shape of s about an accumulation of actual greater than they can_conven- But taking £100,000,000 as cash much’ fently dispos of. a basis, and adding 10 it to the fortune of his rother William, which is more than half as great, and the fortunes possessed by the hus- bands of the married daughters of the fam- ily, there would be a total that could not fall short of $250,000,000. Fashionable WOMEN OF BENEVOLENCE ght not to be in the least discouraged by criticism, and it is with no idea of condem- vation that T describe their newest whim, L of the Vanderbilt family have magni- eudowed a women’s - hospital, the Astors have done the same for a cancer hos- pital and these notable examples have set others at work in smaller ways of the same kind, There are many institutions in which beds can be bought, the owner being theve- after privileged to select a succession of oc- cupants. Thus she can control her own be- nevolence. From the comparatively inexpen- sive metbod to that of maintaining an entire ward or of establishing a complete I al on & minor plan our modish women have gone rather exten pital fad. This is sufferers, who b) i and sur; almost com vely into the hos- good thing for the poor means of it get the best al treatment. But it is tosce the swell phil phists eagerly scarching for bencficiaries; they seen ambitious to secure the worst pos sibic cases, and are downright proud when they find something horrible or uaique. At an afternoon tea, over cups ofthe fragrant beverage, und anicd by @ dainty ni hle of cake, T alihy watrons in this kind Ok, T have dise subject you can imugine for wy bed at hospital for the erippled and maimed—a boy with one leg ke a J and the other like an S. are going to straighten him_out. and 1 t there will be a report of it in the medi- nost delightful you ougktto sce,” said the other, “the frightful tumor that 1 have discovered over in Avenue A to send to the Women's } home. Is your tea sweet enough, my dear The retirement of ROBERT RONNER from the Le@wer recalls the fact that several Sorosisters were centributors to his paper on and that uncounted other women sitors to his office with manuscripts, oems. Bonner was a bluff uncom- g man in his manners and dealt with them in an incisive way that was. not always encouraging. He would appear atan open- ing in the wi fence above a small desk, beckon with his index finger to the first one whose eye he caught, and say: ‘“‘Come here! come here! What's your namet” The name being given, he would refer to a mem- orandum at his side, and, in case of rejection, would say sharply, passing out the manu: script at the same time “I don’t care for this!" There was no mincing of the matter, no apologetic explanation that the columns were crowded, no thanks for the submission of the poem, and, as a rule, the disappointed amgtour guthor, piqued at the stern refusal, would put hor uscript in her pockes aid bounce out of the room in the meet indignant manner. They tell of a soclety old maid, wealthy, too, who sat at the anxious bench one day, and when Mr. Bonner beckoned to her with his index [nger, & corcmeny he never omitted, she trinped up to the opening. at the wire fence, and announced her name. As if by mtuition, Mr. Bonner said: ‘“What is the name of your poem?" “‘You must remember replied. “It here tw Bouner turned to a very old but invaluable clerk at a desk near by, and said: “*Have you old lovet” “‘Well,” said the clerk in a trembling, senile voice, “'if { have got any at all, it must be of an old kind.” ““‘Well, have you got a poem of that name?” said Bonner. “Yes,” said the clerk, and he accordingly brought forward the manuscript. “T don't care for this,” was Honaer's de- cision. *‘Better go out and try ‘Young Love’ or ‘New Love.” Don't bother with the old love. We want fresh matter, something for the young people.” If she had waited an hour she might prob- ably have seen Caleb Dunn® or Nat Urner, grisled and unpoetic looking survivors of the old Pfaff days, come in and sell off-hand a b v sentimental poem for §10, the invari- abie price. Good society has ONE BALLET DANCER on the stage this weck and in a meretricious burlesque, too. She is Bonfanti and this is her first emergence from retirement in about two years. In one of the discussions of the Sarosis club, incidental to some topic set for debate, one of one women members made an indiscrect reference to a danscuse as a person outside the pale of respectability. After a slight pause a dignified and hand- some old matron, one of the earliest mem- bers of Sorosis, arose and began to speak. It was Mrs. Sophia Hoffman, of a swell family. She told in simple, direct language a pathetic Ir. Bonner,"” she is ‘Old Love.” I have had it story of the pure, true and noble life of her dead son’s widow, Bonfanti This famous leader of the ballet, the daughter-indaw of Sophie Hoffman has been a respectable member of the circle in which she moved and her son. Sophia Hoffman’s grandch i ng educated and reared in the wost approved style, Hoffman made no extravagant eulogy in the course of her rvemarks, and did not in the slightest degree show any resentment at the offensive utter- ances of her associate member. When she had finished her simple defense of the woman and dancer, there was not a dry tear in the room. The discussion of the question before the meeting was the ballet dancer or the unique interruption. Mayor Hewitt received o letter which said thut a house containing & bar room, a restaur ant and a big hall had been given over to re- markable revelries; that a feature of the dances was the presence of many young girls, whose costumes were described as rep- rehensible idnight the doors were locked against intruders, even the police, and a scene of wine drinking and eating cnsued; and the writer added that if his honor felt like interfering, he could send a response to a certain address, whereupon the establish- ment would be pointed out. Mr. Hewitt had lately been ordering raids upon dunce houses, and the allegations here scemed to make out a case for action. So he wrote for particulars, and got an_ex- Planation that it wus alla joke. The place meant was Delmonico's, and the occasions werg the three resplendent debutante balls which have thus far this season agitated the most pretentious soclety. I don't get this news from the mayor's office, but from the perpetrator of the joke, a young lady friend of the Misses Hewitt, who had bet'a pound of candy on the success of her hoax. “Rut T am bound to say,” said M “that the characteristics of a fas o) ball, if copied exactly by unapproved people, in condemned places, might demand oft attention.” CLARA BELLE. —ge IMPIET IES. Adam was first man to sell a race. Search the scriptures and ye shall find autumn-leaves, A Cincinnati deacon is under arrest stealing 3.45 from the contribution box. is unnecessary to state, perhaps, that speculations dated over a series of years, The Zion Baptist church, Washington, D. C., has compelled the resignation of its pas- tor, Rev. Noah Dillard,who was charged by a deacon with sprinkling salt on the floor ‘to keep away the devil. It was a colored preacher who said to his “‘We have a collection to make this g, and for de glory of heaven which- ver one stole Mr.Jones turkeys las’ Thanks givin’ don’t put anything on the plate.”” The result was that every blessed nigger in the ame down with the rocks. ars old, had been taught by her mother that God weuld see her always, no matter if she was in a dark room. One day she was out in the stable playiig. As her moiner hiad always foobiddeg her going thére, she called her . When she came in 8hio said: “Could '00 sce me out there, mum- ma?’ Wife (returning from should have heard: Mr. Goodman's sermon this morning, my dear. I don't know when anything has made such a_profound impres- ion upon me.” Husband—"Did you walk home(” Wife—!*No, 1 took a street car, and do you kmow, John, the conductor never asked me for my fare. Wasn't I lucky (" Imparting Information—Teacher—*Yes children, the hair of our head arc all num- bered.” ' Smart bey (pulling out s hair and presenting it)—'"‘Well, what's the number of this hair?” Teacher—*Number one,Johnny and” (pulling out several more) “these s number two, three, four, five and six. Any thing else you want to know!” Smart Boy— “N-no, si Little Bessio had just finished her evening prayer. “Mammay’ she asked, while her arms were still: around her fond parent’s neck, “can I takeany doHl to heaven when T'm an angel” “No, dear: because when you goto heaven you will need no dolly.” A’ won't I have 1o plaything theref” “No, my ¢hild.” “Mamma,” said _the little onc with a rucfal sigh, ] guess I'll take my dolly and go to hell. Ourneighbors have a little fellow who has been taught to keep quict and remain in the house on Sunday, but on going to Nantucket on a visit he was allowed to go out around the house with a dittle cousin. A few days after his returned home, he says, “‘Mamnia, does God live done to Nantucket? *Why, certainly, why do you ask?” “Well, T didn't know as He did, they let little boys and girls g0 out doors Sunday.’ “Well, Mr. Shedicker, how did_you like my sermon ! usked a young _preacher. *Ye sce, parson,” was the reply, “I'm an old man now, and have to set pretty well back by the stove, and there's old Mrs. Smithe, Wid- der Taft'n_Mrs. Rylan's darters, 'n Nabby Birt 'n all the rest sitting in front of me with their -mouths wide open, a swallerin’ down all the best of the sermon; 'n waht gets down to me is pretty poor stuff, parson, pretty poor stufl.” The other evening McSaiiva tosk home fine oysters and went_down to the Kkitchen to open them. Hearing considerable noise Mac's mother-in-law called down the stairs to know what he was opening them with, “Withan oyster opener,” was the reply. for It his church)—*“You e THE SPIDER THE BEST MAY. Weir Demonstrates His Superiority to Tommy Warren. TACTICS IN HIS A FIGHT. The Minneapolis Man Could Have Been Knocked Out in Few Rounds —Another Mill Arranged— Other Local Sports. Sport at St. Paul. St. PavL, Minn., Dec. 16.—[Correspond- ence of the Bre.]—The fight between the two great featherweights at Minneapolis last Monday settled, in the minds of all who wit- nessed it, the question of who is the better man, Weir is Warren's superior in every branch of the business. Warren still main- tains his reputation of being one of the great- st 11t generals in the rin appears to havd 2 very shoulders, The Spider's tactics ar8 ne the northwest, but are nevertheless very clever. He devotes a great part of his time to worrying his antagonist by landing light blows and then getting away before his ad- versary can counter. Never qulet for a mo- ment, he keeps the man in front of him guessing all the time wherc his next point of attack will be. Warren caught him once on the chin by dropping his eyes as if he intended to land on his wind, but, although he tried the trick several times afterwara it did not work again, Warren had every in- centive to fight, being clearly the favorije With the crowd, and_every time_he landed, no matter how lightly, the audfence went wild with enthusiasm, ' But he wisely con- tented himself with acting on the defensive throughout, The Spider appears to be some- what vain. Between one of the rounds some one in the crowd yelled to John Donaldson, Weir's second, to'send him back to Boston, as he couldn’t “fight a little bit.” This net: tled the Spider, and_when he came to his corner at the close of the next round, after having sent Warren to his, covered with biood irom his forehead to his belt, he told Donaldson to ask the paity what he thought of him then. But his trainer had noi w0 say. A good many people think that W couid " have knocked out Watren'" sarly in the twenty rounds had he tried. Imyself think he could, but Weir says he held off during the early part of the fight, after he saw that he would do his man with. out much trouble, in order to give the crowd something for their money, but discoyered later that he had waited too long. What makes me think he would have knocked Warren out easily is the fact that while in one round he would punch Warren all over the stage, landing when and where he pleased, he would let up for the succeeding round or two and allow Warren time to cateh his wind, This occurred several times, but was most noticeable in the eighteenth round, when but one blow was struck, and that failed to land, while in the round Weir had succeeded insending Tommy to his coin much ‘ winded. It looked as though Weir did ure 80 much about knocking Warren out as he did to show him that he could do it, if he so desired. Jim et " r , Keenan, of Boston, Weir's backer, Did you suppose I was doing it with' a , _ Weir's backer, toothpick " Ror cortainly ot quietly re: | 1eft for home ' Wednesda He marked the old lady. “But judging from | Wa8 very much put out over the referee's the language used I though you were trying to open them with prayer.” e If you are suffering with weak or 1n- flamed eyes, or granulated eyelids, you can be quickly cured by using D. J. H. MecLean’s Strengthening Eye Salve, 25 cents a box. ————— Cordwork is a new form of ueedle em- broidery. the cord being laid down beneath button-hole stitching in lines of the pattern, It is pretty done on white cord with yellow silk, and darning is sometimes combined in forms of leaves. - - Prickly Ash Bitters warm up and in- vigorate the stomach, improves and strengthens the digestive organs, opens the pores, promotes prespiration, and equalizes the circulation, = As n correc tor of disordered system therve is noth- ing to equal it. A e e e = z decision, decluring the fight a draw. The articles of agreement specified that the man “having the best: of it"- should be declared the winner, and there was no question in any one’s mind as to who did have the best of it. Interest in hall glove fights was on the wane in the northwest previous to the Weir- Warren fight, and I think the outcome of this match has effectually killed it. People do not care so much who wins a fight, but when one fighter clearly demonstrates his superiority over unother, they like to see the best man get the credit of his victory. Then, besides this, people_like to see u knock-out above all eise. Knock-downs and bloody noses arc all well and good, but they only whet the appetite for something still more exciting. Lhave never yet attended a hall fight where a kuock-out” occurred but what I have heard the cry of hip- podrome raised, and I must confess that in the majority of the instances there were good grounds for it. Of course I hato to particularize, but when you reflect that when Mitchell fought Cardiff the former was ufter but Weir also bead on his seventeenth | money while the latter wanted glory, and the fight resulted in a draw, adding much to Cardif’s reputation but more to Mitchell's bank account, it looks a trifle suspicious. Then again, when Warren and Danforth met the last time in Mineapolis cveryone sup- posed Danforth hfbeen knocked out, but it now transpires on the authority of Danforth's own backer that it was all a put-up job whercby Warren was to get the glory and Danforth the money. These two instances are given simply because the principals are well known, but the list could be continued almost ndefinitely. Probably the best way would be to do as'the proprietor of a Duluth theater did the other evening. *He made a match between a couple of alleged vugilists, but as neither was kunocked out he kept the money. As an outcome of the Weir-Warren fight, the pro- posed skin-[l'l(b\'(‘ fight to a finish between Warren and Patsy O'Leary is hable to be declured off. O'Leary was an interested spectator at last Monday's fight and has ex- pressed a strong faith in his ability to do the Spider. He now proposes to take the £1,000 that he and Warren have deposited with the sporting editor of a St. Paul paper for their proposed fight and placa it as a forfeit for a bare kpuckel finish fight between himself and the Spider. Warren's manager has partially consented to this, which looks as though he considered O'Leary a better man than War- At any rate Weir will not have to look der'to get on a is receiv- ing chuilenzes from all To change the subject’ O 3 to congratulate herself on sccuring Frank Selce and the old Oshkosh team to represent her in the new Western association. Al- though quite a number of last season’s Osh- ‘kosh team have signed elsewhere, Manager Selee appears to have secured first-class men in their places. Looking over the men signed by the different clubs I am of the opinion that the four southern clubs— , Omaha, Des Moines, Kansas Ci and St. Louis, will outplay the northerns in the race for theg pennant in 1580. A great deal of specu- lation has been indulged in ever since the scason closed as to what Lovett and Wilson, the much sought-after battery, received with the Oshkosh club. ! Manager Selec told me that they, as a battery ived $600 per month, and that the salary list of last season’s Osh- kosh team was very close to$2,700 per month. By the way, Manager Selee is liable to shave some trouble in keeping Shannon, " who played short and captained the team last season. Kalamazoo claims that it ac- cepted his terms before Sclee did, and threaten to suspend Shannon, unless he plays there. It looks as though Kalamazoo was simply making a bluff, as they have signed some one clse to manage their toam | ce of Sh 1f Selee’s men is'old ones, witness- d with a famous St. ON-LOOKER. Omaha will have an opportuni ing ball gaes that will be pl dash and vim only cqualed by the Louis Browns. Local Sporting Gossip. The second contest for the middicweight championship of the state comes off on the evening of the 25th at Boyd's opera house. “The bout will be between young Jack Kel- lett, who holds the medal, und Jimmy Lind- say. Bothmen are in active training, and the sports are all alive to the importance of the occasion. Toey are anticipating a big night's fun, and w surely be gratified. In addition to the above contest, there is to be a ten-round set-to betwoen Tommy Miller and Tommy B e, asix-round go between Ar- thur Rothery and Prof. Ed Miller, and a gen- eral and varied athletic programme that can- not fail to give the best of satisfaction. John J. Hardi of Nebrask known as “Spike,” wiil shoot a twenty-five live bird race for'$50 a side at the ball park Monday afternoon. Prof. Billy Hawley, formerly connected with Patsey Fallon, has made an engagement with C. S. Higgins at the St. Cloud. A young colored man named Jim Anderson has recently come here from Detroit, Mich., and has talked *“fight” so loudly that he has caused a dozen colored young men to hanker after the distinction of aecommodating him. One of these, named Benjumin E. Wood, now of this cf rly of Chicago, is the first to de: Anderson’s fistic acquaintance, and hereby chalienges hiw former champion wing shot a4 H, Kennedy, belter ) to four rounds with or without gloves for 100 a side. This is a chance for Mr. Auderson to put up or shut up. [ fidelit) Jolm S, Prinece Minneapolis next Thursday, o re turn with several ¢ 'S scalps at his belt, “The Dotroits will be seen on the local for an exhibition game or two caily REWARD OF FIDELITY. A Pretended Beggar Leaves a Fortung to His Sister. ) Savannah News: A pre mance has just culminated in Rabun county, Ga. - At the base of Tige mountain, half a mile off the road lead= ing to Clayton, lives a small farmer named George W. Dillard. Mr. Dillard ie about sixty years of age, living with his wife and three sons, the latter aged respectively thirty and twenty-five. y last summer Mr. Dillard went ‘o his neighborhood postoffice, where ha found awaiting him a_letter covered with postmarks, which dencted that it had traveled a long distance to reach its destination. The superscription was written ina familiar hand but one which! he had not scen in a generation. He the seal and found it to_be from his brother, whom he had seen for last time in 1849, At that James McCurrie was a man, as was alsg George W. Dillard. The news had reached Georgia of the wonderful dis- coveries of gold in California. Youn Georgians who had gone there hag written back glowing accounts of the ty little ro< w the time young fortunes which were being made. 1 These deseriptions had the effect of hpa southward to tha 2 ihcee who drawing stii ol great El Dorado. were full of excitement were MeCurrid and Dillard. They had perfected al¥ arringements to go and were bidding the families good-by when Dillard fal- tered. The tearful eyes of McCurrie's young sister touched his heart, espec= ially as she was weeping for him and not for her brother. Throwing down the bundle he held in_his hands, he de= clared he would stay if the girl would marry him. ) To all this she cheerfully reed, 80 Dillard remained a Georgia farmer;, while MeCurrie jumped into the stag ach and was borne away. Since tha ne he bad never heen heard of, I was with mingled feelings, therefore, that Dillard started to read the lettel from his old comrade. The letter was soiled one. McC'urrie stated that he had worked against adverse fortunej decliming to write to the folks at home until he could strike it rich, but ever) year found him striking it poorer an poorer, and now, old, feeble and poorg Lis gront wish was to look once more upon his nativé kills: that he could not o g0 unless he was sent m wwugll upon which torcturn. My, Dillard read the letter io his wife and sons. “Wa must send him the money,” said the old® man, so a cow and mule were sold and the money went on its mission across they continent. Several weeks’ time brought another letter, in which the old man ex= pressed his gratefulness for the kindness done him, but he was too sick to travel ™ Am then. Last Saturday u large official en- velope was received ut the little posts office. It bears the inscription of a strange hana. The neighbors, one by one, dropped by and told Dillard of itg arrival. Tt was toolate for him to get it then, but hie was on hand early Monday, morning. As he read it his hand trems< bled. It recited thut James McCurrig was dead; that he wished to t the v of his #ister’s family: that thei mpt vespense to hi 1 had moved l\im, and thut by iy v his propoerty in California, valued at 81,600,000, wag willed in equal prts to his sister, hep husband and their two sons. The twd young men are going to Californin ta superintend the property, which the, intend to cony into cash, when lhu§ wiil return to Georgia. - Burned to De: NEWBURG Y., De ~George Bauerli and wife, aged sixty-one and fifty ht re- spect o burned to death early this ir house burned and_being in< ble 1o escape from ho builds “We've gto a hien t day,” b SIX- Ve At lnid two oge rold girl to a ¢ My papa has s in ona The Thornton Machine Co., Wholesa The WHITE SEWING MACHINE. The “Tufts” Soda. Needles, 0il, Shuttles, &c., for All Makes of house abont January 10 fo 15, sider themselves onr customers a ues will gend to dealers Water Fountains. Machines. We are just now pnblishing supply catalogue, and of 1888, and al! persoug wif® con- onr had better send in their names now, as we have but 1000 of these catalogues. and they are . only wholesale prices. BRANCH RETAIL STORE, 224 BROADWAY, COUN THE THORNTON MACHINE CO. L BLUFPS, T0WA, THE WHITE Family and Tailoring MACHINES Stand to-day the pride of one con tinued success, The White Antom: tic Single Thread, Automatic Tes sion, is the fine most elegant run- ning machine made, The Whirte, with its self-threading cylinder shut- tle, automatic bobbin winde self- setting needle, tension, release, and other Improvements, is ta-day the best family Machine to buy; less | ble to give trou dealers or to their customers ways ready and light running. The White is the. pro- ressiva nrachine of this day an of the world; touk more pre Nebrauka t ycar than all oth combined, “Blodgett's” Button-Hole Attachments. “FAMILY" BUTTON-HOLE ATTACHMENTS. 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