Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 12, 1888, Page 3

e s * SOME EXCITING EXPERIENCES, — Ohapters From the Lives of Express Messengers. THE RESURRECTED CRIMINAL Between Two Fires—One Man's Hair iBuddenly Bleached—In the Tenn- essee Mountains—Caught By a Wila Cat. 8t. Louis Globe-Democrat:0 Nearly every member of the convention of ex- pressman which met duing the week at the Southern hotel, has at some time in his business career performed the duties of railway messenger; and although most of them haye long since been pro- moted to more lucrative if less exciting positions, they all had stories of an ex- cititing nature to relate. One of the oldest expressmen—in ex- perience—is Mr. John F. Gossman, of Camp Dannison, O., who entered the express service in 1850, and still does messenger duty. He now runs between Cincinnati and Pittsburg, over the Little Miami and Panhandle roads, handling’ as much cash business, pos- sibly, as any through messenger in the country. He has an accurate knowledge of the vicissitudes of a messenger’s life, and a faculty ot talking straight from the shoulder that is only acquired by 1ong contact with men of the world. “I ran through Kentucky during 1862 and again 1864, on the Kentucky Cen- tral, and had to make some short turns in order to keep company money out of the hands of the guerriilas,” he said. ‘At one time I lay in my. car a whole day at North Benson, Ky., while the uerrfllu on one side of the town and e garrison in a federal fort on the other disputed with solid shot, shells and bullets for the possession of the train, The fort saved us, and that night I packed up the money and got away ten miles on foot,several burned bridges Feventing the eseape of the train, tuk- ng & hand-car for Louisville at the first piece of unbroken track. ¢Another time we left Covington for Lexington, having Postmaster-General Montgomery Blair among the passen- gers. Pete Everett’s guerrillas opened on the train from a dry creek bed at Lair’s station, sixlyy-flvu miles out, and the regular train guard—they were . on every train those days-—had a rattling fight with them before the guerrillas re- tired. When the shower was over Mr. Blair picked up a baby belonging to a woman who got off there and went away unsuspected with the ‘mother, thus un- doubtedly preventing his own capture, and the train backed to Covington for a better start.” Concerning the much-disputed ques- tion whether train messengers have op- portunity to tamper ‘with packages in transit, Mr. Grossman dectared that it is impossible for a messenger to do a neat job of sealing on a moving train—even provided he had all the materials handy —and he could get an expert messenger to support him in the statement that the only man who reaily has the oppor- tunity to steal from money packages ia the one who counts and clusses the en- velopes. The original and final recei ing clerks, at opposite ends of the line, and the messenger merely |~ccexpt, for a package ‘‘said to contain,” ana Mr. Grossman cited several instances where banks making complaint-that packages hid been tampered with had ended theirinvestigations by quietly discharg- ing the employe who had sent out the money. In x\l‘} his experience of twen- ty-nine years as messenger, Mr. Gross- man said he had never been called to account for but one lost package. That packnge, containing $90, was lost be- tween . Cinecinnati and Chicago, and though he was detained from his run several times to permit the detectives to interview him, he was ultimately re- lieved. ot all suspicion, and the con- signor’s agent. paid $90 to the consignee and accepted his dlsclmr;iru without complaint. The ‘‘dummy” envelope kL ok s matn fepnai lonaate dangerous witness against the man who prepaves it, and he stated that if & man proposes 1o steal a sum of money passing through his hands he had better refrain from any attempt to account for it as such atfempts invariably lead to discovery. One of tho best known expressmen was Wm. Willis, very recently deceased who was personally known to many members of the convention. Mr. G ham of Evansville, states that Willis’ hair turned white in asingle hourunder the following circumstances: Willis had a run on the historic Fredericksburg & Richmond railroad,in the interest of the Souther Express com- pany. One night soon after the close of the war Willis was making his run inan old box car. The{rame was full of holes and crevices, and the messenger had only an o1l lamp, without chimney. for light. On this occasion he had left his car at a small station and did not return to it until the train was in motion, when he discovered that the wind had distin- guished the only light. He was with- out matches and was beginning to won- der how he would get through his busi- ness at the next station where import- ant deliveries were to be made when a more seripus matter engrossed his at- tention, From the opposite end of the car he began to hear mysterious sounds, first resembling the heivy breathing of a half conscious person, and soon devel- oping into well defined groans and inar- ticulate speech, Asno one had been in the car with him Willis at once con- cluded that it was a ruse of robbers to get him within silencing distance, and he is prepared himself for a deadly encounter. Creeping stealthily to within reach of the body from which the sounds pro- ceeded. Willis presented his revolver and warned the intruder that he was not to be traj Juped, assuring the man, who continued groaning without cessa- tion, that if he moved a hand he would be killed, After this the groans gradu- ally subsided. and the next station was made in dead silence—so far as the oc- cugants of that car were concerned, ‘When the train Hulled up for the next stop Willis yelled lustily for help, which soon came. fhw were quickly brought and the horrible discovery was maude that Willis' prisoner was a° dead man, whose head {uul been beaten almost be- ’ond resemblance to anything human. The poor man was a commercial trav- eleer, who bad been robbed, fatally beaten and thrust into the ear by his murderers at the last station, where the messenger had been absent. The ex- perience so worked upon Wilhis' nerves hat when he leaped from his car 1n Richmond depot his hair was turned from an auburn brown to snowy white. His wife screamed with fright when the messenger entered his house, and his babe went into & paroxysm of terror at ui.{ln of him for weeks afterward, But ‘Willis lived to make hundreds of runs after that, and died quietly in his bed only & lew months ago. r. Graham told two other stories of adventures incident to an express mes- senger’s life, both of which bave untjl now been kept from the public - prints. In 1864 he wu'racked outhe Nashyille & Chatwabooga road in a lonely spot in the Cumberland wmoumtains, between Cowan and Tantalon, Tenn. r loaded principally with fish and ressed meat, but he also had a chest full of valuable smalt freight, and he decided to wait in his car for the relief engine. The few passengers who had shared hig misfortune, learning that the debris conld not be cleared to let the train through before morning, had crossed a wide gully by torchlight and found quartersina mountaineer’s hum- ble cabin, leaving Graham alone to guard his car. The spot was desperately lonely and was _miles £way from any- thing resembling -established civ- ilization, and as Graham sat on his chest, counting the slothful minutes he heard no sounds of life outside the car save the hooting of a dismal owl and. occasionally the shrill scream .of a wildeat in the distance. About midnight the owl left the vicinity, ana Graham, un- able to endure the oppressive stillness, was arranging his boxes and blanket to take a nap, when he hecame conscious— rather by ftuition tha perception, for all his intellectunl fi ties were pain- fully nctive—that human footsteps were stealthily approaching the spot. There was no light outside, and, as a measure of safety, Graham e‘nm,'uhd\od his single kerosene lamp and awaited his visitor with impatience and a well- tested Spencer rifie. The man walked round the ecar once twice, tried and failed to open the pl\ding door, and seemed hesitating for a plan of procedure, when Graham was more than startled by the shrill, omi- nous scream of a wildcat close beside the car, on the side npgosne to that where the bushwhacker d heen standing. There was no time for Graham to decide whethér to admit the human marauder to save him from being chewed up by the cat or to let them fight for the mas- tery of the situation, for in ten seconds the cat had leaped upon the car, and thence—judgging from the sounds—di- rectly “upon the man’s shoulders. There was screaming, growling and - yelling, and the sounds of & "mortal combat ~_for about a minute—Graham thought it was a week—and then the messenger heard a gunshot, followed by retreating footsteps. He supposed that the man had thrown the cat from him and suc- ceeded in getting in adisabling shot, but he never knew certainly, for when da; h ht came the ground where the fight had taken place was littered with shreds of homespun cloth and spattered with blood, but whether man or beast had been worsted he could not tell. Neither was present to give an account of the fight, and Graham was satisfied to let the matter rest without investig: tion. The only thing of which he was reasonably certain was that both were after plunder—the man for anything worth taking, and the beast for fresh meat—and that both had been defeated. He ran the route for several years after- ward, andmet no more bushwhackers or wildcats, but heard one resuscitation story that, he says made his hair stand on end for wecks afterward. Being wrecked at Harpeth river, on the Nashville & Decatur, in Alabama, s00n after the battle of Franklin, Gra- ham and another trainman walked over the field for several hours, and then sought a neighboring farm house for supper. The travelers were most hos- pitably received, and enjoyed the ex- cellent spread. Afterward they went upon the inevitable front veranda to cultivate and be cultivated by their host. One of the first points in his personal appearance that attracted their attention was his snow-white hair, between whichand his ruddy face,ath le- tic figure and general showing of youthful vigor there was such marked contrast that they ventured to comment upon it. “*No; I'm notold enough yet, gener- ally speaking, to have white hair; but.I came honestly by 1t, ll.n(] if you have time the story is yours,” said ‘the host, with the urbanity of the well-bred Ten- nessean, and he proceeded to unfpld the story. Two years before, in 1862, he had been sheriff in Greene county, Tenn., and while in office had been re- quested to hang. a man named Kirby. The execution was conducted on a prim- itive plan, near the cemetery adjacent to his own farm, an old elm tree serv- ing as the gallows, and a dozen or twenty special deputies as assistant ex- ecutioners. There was no attempt at dislocation of the neck, Kirby being simply lifted up to go thrnugh the dance of death upon atmospheric support, and when the leading. physician of Green- ville said Kirby was dead the body was lowered and iaterred inashallow, rock grave near the roots of the tree, witl barely so0il enough thrown on to hide the unpainted pine coffin. A week afterward the sheriff, in re- turning to his farm from his office: at Greenville, had oceasion to pass the gal- lows tree about dusk. As he came op posite Kirby’s grave his horse shied, then stopped and tried to turn around. Boing Bold to bis course, the animal re: fused to move forward at his master’s command, but stood trembling, snorting and endeavoring to take the back track. His master could not humor his charg- er’s caprice, and struck him sharply with his rawhide riding whip, where- upon the animal leaped l:ul'wurd, dl;,ur- ing the spot o) ite the grave by a high houlll)g flpmushed madly home, defying thu rider’s utmost exertions to stop him. Reaching the rear gate of the sherift’s woodland pasture the horse cleared it without an instant’s hesita- tion, crossed the pasture, jumped an- other gate leading into the rear yard, and burst into the sherifi’s house. Nor did he »m{) until he had traversed the main hallway aud been brought up against the wall of the sitting room be- yond. The members of the sheriff’s family were fortunately all sitting upon’ the front porch ~and no one was injured by the frantic equine’s entrance, but it required several hours’ hard work on the partof the farm hands to get him out of doors. When this was accomplished the horse refused to be led to his accustomed quarters, and was permitted to remain in the door-yard. All his former intelligence and docility were gone, and in their place were R T timidity that seemed wholly unaccountable. The horse refused all food, and in three days died, without sign of disease. The sheriff himself was so unnerved his remarkable adventure that he did not leave the house for three days. On the night of the third day, impelled by a miserable impulse, he decided to visit his barn. It was a bright moonlit night, and he took no light, nor did he arm himself, as was his usual custom in those days of bushwhacking and forag- ing, and yet he said he felt certain that 4 strange adventure—stranger than that which he had last encountered— awaited him, As he approached the great doors of the threshing floor “which were open the sheriff taw a man sitting on the sill, and & second glance assured him that the figure was none other than that of the vagabond Kirby, whom he had executed ten days before. Without an instant’s hesitation the plucky sher- iff bounded forward and seized the fel- low’s throat, demanding what miracle A baah Beblaruma! o heing Rin haak from the dead. Instead of resistin ) the feliow threw up his hands and sai "Le'.[iA my throat, and DIl tell guu Al en if you will give me oue square meal you may take me to jail and hang me over again Then came the story: How the Greenville doctor hagd 'k&ud 0 find the His ear R T DO T Y R 5 TV Mg s THE .OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, pulsations and respirations that had not wholly succumbed to the pressure of the noose; how Kirby had come to in his coffin; how, by, struggles almost super- human, he had succceded in raising his coffin lid and in accomplighing his own exhumation; how he had dreaded the re-enforcement of the penalty of the law, and had concluded to make the grave his home by day and to forage for food atnight: and how, worn out by the terrors of his fears of recapture, and by weakness for want of food, he had started to surrender to the sheriff and take the sentence of the law, when his resolution had given way and he had sat down in the door- wl:llu to think. he sheriff took the man to his house, fed himyand hid him for several days from even the family. Then, accepting legal advice that the man could not bhe hanged again, after having been duly pronouned dead by a physician, sum- moned for the purpose, the sheriff took the man into his employ. ““I raised a regiment soon afterward,” said the sheriff, “and joined General Claiborne’s brigade, and Kirby was the first, man 1 recruited.. He fell near Gen- eral Claiborne there in the Yankee works.” pointing to the Franklin battle- field, “and Kirby was nearer the Yan- kee muskets'when he fell than any other soldier in the brigade. He was one of the bravest of the many brave men who into the confederate army. My hair? Oh, yes, I forgot to say that it turned white in the night after 1 had fed and hid Kirby,and my nerves didn’t got steady for six months.” Mr. Graham’s story was vouched for by severalother express messengers who have run over the Nashville & Decatur route, among others, Mr. C. L. Loup, of Memphis, who personally knows all the parties \'e(errotrbo or mentioned. s A Reprieve For the Condemned. ‘Wretched men and women long con- demned to suffer the tortures of dyspep- sia, are filled with new hopes after ‘a few doses of Hostetter’'s Stomach Bit- ters. This budding hope blossoms into the fruition of certainty, if the Bitters is persisted in. It brings a repricve to all dyspeptics who seek its aid. Flatu- lence, heartburn, sinking at the pit of the stomach betiween meals, the ner vous tremors and insomnia of which chronic indigestion is the parent, disan pear with their hateful progenitor ost beneficent of stomachics! who can wonder that in so many instances it awakens grateful eloquence in those whao, benefitted by it, speak voluntarily in its behalf. It requires a graphicpen to describe the torments of dyspepsia, but in many testimonial received by the proprietors of the Bitters, thesa are portrayed with vivid truthfulness. Con- stipation, biliousness, muscular debility, malarial fever, and rheumatism are re- lieved by it. N FACTS FOR THE FARMER., Whatothe ¥armers Have Done. Chicago Tribune: We offer to our readers without. present comment the following startling figures as bearing on the tariff reform and kindred sub- jects before congress and the country: First—The aggregate volume of agri- cultural food products exported to Europe and other foreign markets be- tween the years 1874 (the year after the great panie) and 1887 exceeeded $4,000,- 000,000, the exact figures being $4,281,- 806,078, Second—The exports of merchandise between 1859 and 1873 were exceeded by our imports during the same time by mnearly $1,200.000.000 (ex- act figures, $1,176,078,981.) In other words, the balance of trade wentagainst this country by that amount, and bonds and other securities had to be exported and sold in Europe to pay the de- ficieney. Third—Until 1878 the exports of west- ern food products has seldom exceeded $100,000,000 in a year, but in the year 1874 the amount bounded up to $29,527,- 836, and has gone as high as $421,860,787 (in 1882), representing more than half the total exports of the United States that year. Fourth—Since 1873 our western farm- ers have exported to the markets of the world so much food products that the balance of trade in our favor has ex- ceeded $1,650,000,000. They have thus paid off all our foreign debts, drawn gold from Kurope to this country, kept the precious metals extracted from our mines at home, bred thousands of mil- lionaires, and enriched everybody ex- cept themselves. TIs it not high time they had & little protection by enjoying a peace tariff in time of peace? nriching Milk by Feeding. American Cultivator: There is a great natural difference in cows with regard to the richness of the milk they give, and this is only partially modified by feeding. Jersey cows make yellow butter, and a good deal of it, according to the quantity of milk, even in winter, If the food be dry and poor they will not give so much. A cow that naturally gives thin, ‘mor milk may be made to give somewhat better milk by giving her rich food, as corn meal or ‘oil men meals. l’rnhul)ly if this was continued while the cow is bearing a calf the pro- geny will inherit this tendency to put more of the milk into the cream pot. In this way our large milkers may be bred as ct{uully remarkable for buiter pro- duction. There is a hint in this fact also against neglecting the feed of cows while they are dry and near dropping their calf.” It might make trouble with their bags to feed rich or succulent food at this time, but this is undoubtedly the best way to duvulapgood animals for the dairy either for milk or butter. Seasonable Hints and Suggestions. 1t is not safe to suddenly change the fo0d of cows from the dry hay and grain to an exclusive green diet. ii rye shall come in for pasturing allow the cows but a few minutes upon itthe first day, gradually extending the time every diy thereafter until they shall become ac- customed to the green food. In this manner may be avoided bowel diseases and a falling off of milk. Any community of farmers can, by co-operation in the purchase of a thor- oughbred male, greatly improve their stock in a single season,and at but a small expense to each, while the en- hanced value of the stock would more than compensate for the effort. It reully costs nothing to improve, as im- provement is simply adding additional value to the stock. Let spring plowing be done as early as possible, 0o as to turn up the cut- worms and other insects, which exposes them to the frost. Another advantage is that the frost will assist in pulveriz- ing the soil. Now that the hens are laying well, and the cold weather is passing by feed less corn and more meat. A pound of rough meat chopped and fed to a dozen hens once a day will be amply re- paid in eggs. Kindness controle and guides any and all animals, says the Live Stock Indica- tor.. This is true when their life com- mences with such treatment. A bull or a heifer that has run with its dam and has had no attention from man until six or twelve months old will fear every ob- ject that is new to it. be it man, boy or anything else. Overcome the lu.r and it is ready w0 be taught. «There are in America over 4,000,000 farms, large oa mnll They _cover nearly 30,000, s of improved land, and their total value is something like $10,000,000,000. - These figures are not, of course, comprehensible. They sim- ply convey the idendf vastness of area and equal vasties€ol importance. The estimated value of the yearly products of these farms is between $2,00 4,000,000 and £3,000,000,000. | Every poultu' Jhouse should have a foed-box. It saves food, and it is a very poor plan to 'thréw the food, more especially the softfood, in the dirt or in shallow dishes, The latter are liable to be upset, and the contents trampled under I«ml and “whsted. Besides it does not show the true spirit of the fancier. Professor Arngld, a well-known au- thority, has clearly proved the wasteful- ness of giving corn meal to eattle with- out_carefully mixing with more bulky food. Watering the milk in the cow isoften a fact, as the quality of the milk is reg- ulated by the food, and milk may be deficien solids without having water added to, it by the milkman. In using eggs for batching the larg- est and strongest chicks will come frem eggs laid by the hens or fully matured pullets. Ejgs that are small or double yelked are not suitable for hatching. All young animals quickly learn to eat ground oats, and there is no ground grain is better for them. They will grow and thrive upon oats even when drawing milk from the dams. 1f the wood ashes be carefully saved and applied to the canes of blackberries and raspberries early in the spring the result will be rapid growth and strong canes. A cow left in the barnyard on very cold days and compelled to drink ice water will fall off in the yield of her milk more than sufficient to pay for warming the water. The truly beef cow is a small and brief milker, often failing to give sup- port for her calf, and the ultimatum is reached when the beef type actually undermines the functions of mother- hood and promises the obliteration of & beef family, while motherhood, in its broadest and most complete. sense,. is he predominant trait of the dairy cow. A preat waste on any farm is the care and keeping of poor old horses never fit for rugged service. The cost is usually greater than for animals of full strength and uscfulness. 01d fruit cons may be profitably used for starting early plants. gy~ sheils can aiso be used, placing the shells in the ground with the plants. As: the roots of the plants shali oxpand they will break the shells and grow in the ground. In this manner the earth around the young tender plants, such ns peppers and eg plants, will not be dis- turbed. There is a decided tendency among our more progressive breeders Y0 build up breeds of hogs and cattle with’ more lean meat than fat. This movement has been brought about 1n part. by the grow- ing objections of éonsumers 10 so' much fat, especial ‘here. pork is concerned and the waste entailed. In feeding with a view to the production of more lean meat close pens mnd large rations of corn have given piace {0 a. run for hogs in daytime, with a warm shelter for the night, and a. varied ration, in which corn forms bu} a smail part. —— PROTECTED BY FATE. A Man Who is Not Likely to Die in a Railroad Accident. It has always been a superstition among railroad men that oné accident on a railroad, %o matter how unusual | the circumstinces connected with: it might be, is sure to be followed by two more of a similar character within a short time. The truth of this has been noted repeatedly, but never in so strik- ing a manner a$ in three recent occur- rences. - These three accidents were also attended by a piece of gaod fortune toone individual that makes these oc- currences still more remarkable. W. Williams is employed by a New York railroad as a buyer of tiesand lumber. His business takes him to va- rious parts of the countr; A fortnight ago he was in the northwestern part of West Virginia. He had business af alumber station in the mountains known as Slider’s mills. A narrow-gauge rail- road runs by heavy gradesand sharp curves into this region. No passenger trains are run on this toad. Williams had intended to go to the mills one day in the caboose of a freight or lumber train. He had taken his place in the caboose when he learned that there was some doubt about his being able to get back to keep an important engagement, and he made up his mind to postpone the trip. The train was in motion when he came to this conclusion, but he jumped off. While the train was going up one of the steepest grades on this road it broke in two, the caboose and two other cars separating from the other cavs and at once starting back down the mountain. The conductor and a brakeman were in the caboose. The speed of the runaway cars became terrific, and at last they were thrown from the track. They(})lungcd down a steep embankment, and the condnctor and brakeman were crushed to death in the wreck of the caboose. Tuesday of last week Williams was in the Pocono lumber region,in Monroe county, Pa., along the line of the Dela- ware and Lackawanna railroad. He was at a mill near Pocono Summitt,at which place he was to board the caboose of an east bound stock train. He got to the station just in time to see the train pass- ing out. His disappointment was great, as he had an agreement to meet a_man in Stroudgburg on important business. An hour or so later his pleasure at miss- ing the truin was much greater than his disappointment. The Pocono grade at that place is fourtéen miles long and ninety feet to the mile. The stock cars were fitted with air brakes, but as the train started down the mountain the en- gineer found that they would not work. The train was composed of twenty-three cars loaded with cattle, besides the en- gine and caboose: Is ran away down the grade, clearing the fourteen miles in eleven minutes. The then head car jumped the track, and all the others oiled ufter it in & ravine nearly one hundred feet deep. Two or threé per- sons on the train were killed and 400 cattle were crushed to death in the ruins. Last Thursday Williams® business called him to the lumber region of Me- Kean county, Pa. A lumber railroad known as the West Branch railroad connects the Brie with the lumber mills, No road .in this country en- counters such steep grades or makessuch short curves as this lum- ber railroad. Itis confined entirely to traflc in lumber and freight. Will- iams had gone up the road to Steckler’s Mill, He had intended to return that same afternoon to make a connec- tion for Bradford, Before the train he was 1o take came along he concluded for some reason to wait until the next day. The train consisted of five cars loaded with lumber, one freight car,the engine and a caboose. In going down what is known as the Hazleton mill grade the trainmen lost control of the train. It dashed down the mountain at terrific speed, and at a sharp curve near Bel- kuapn camp left the rails. [he train was thrown down a steep embankment, and in the wreck one passenger, the conductor, and the firomen were killed, iy o L A RN . A 7 TR 1 ‘MARCH 12, 1888, There were several other personsriding in the caboose, every one of whom was badly hurt, two fatally, A man with whom Williams says he would have been sitting if he had been on tne train was ode of the fatally-injured passen- ors. esides these thrée remarkable in- terpositions of fate in his behalf Will- inm says that he escaped from two prev jous frightful aceidents by similar good fortune. Some years ago he was at Lackawaxen, on the Delaware divi- sion of the Erie railway. He was going east, and was waiting for a passenger train, when he discovered in the en- gineer of a freight train that had stopped at the station for water, an old- time friend. The engineer invited him to ride as tar as Port Jervis on his en- gine, and Williams consented. Before the engine was through taking water Willinins received a telegiam from a contractor he had been doing some busi- ness with asking him to remain until the riext day, as he had left something out of his contract. Williams remained. The freight train had run to within four miles of Port Jervis when the when the boiler exploded. The engi- neer, fireman, flagman, n brakeman and another person were blown to pieces. Some time after that Willinms was rid- ing on a locomotive on the Atlantic and Great Western railrond. Hg knew the engineer, and for several milles oc- cupied his soat in the cab. Finally he vmated itand the enginecer sat down. The change had scarcely been made wlwn the connecting rod on that side of the locomotive broke. The heavy por- tion next the cab was whirled baok ward and crashed through the end of the cab, crushing the engineer to death. A SURE GURE OR NO PAY. e Our Magic Remedy WILL POSITIVELY CURE UIII cm You ermake no charge. 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Halves, $10; Quarters, $5; Tenths, $2; Twentieths, $1, LIET OF PRUE: 1000 Tize are. 8130 Prizes amounting to....... » ny further informatig lopelabates ot ey (urlher ioforiotiog apbif to -ml llnmulm ‘I‘lln ore !la ullll return wall drllury %:V.L\l“ .%‘Il:" ly ;’::;:ut josing an envelope bearing d AL S, express mone New York Bxchange i unflulry mm' express (at our expense) ad orders. op Jurrency by N, ) Lk OrM. A. DAUPHIN, SOt WASHINGTON, D. C. Address Registered Letters 1 NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK, NEW ORLEANS, LA. ! Ml‘ MBFR “That the presence of G -nue o .b"'n.u nmu aid Inwfl‘fy; il e s willarawa Higer 40 P REMEMUER that Jinent of sll prizes is GUAKANTERD BY mrn s oAl Bhvics Loy rewdont 3 fastitution whoss Cheriared radhis s 64 10 the kighest eourts; therefors, Veware of iy e e HURCHILL PARKER Denler mc Agricaltural Imnlemenlx,'!ladis, Carriages and Nufiin J'::‘I::L‘::’I‘ between #th and " LININGER & METCALF CO., Agricultural Implements, Wagons, Carriages Buggles, Kto. Wholésale. Omaha, Nebraska PARLIN, ORENDORF A MARTIN, Ofesale Dealers Agricaltaral lmnlsmentx Wagnns & Buggics 501,50, 806 and 007 Jones Strect, Omaba. . P. MAST & C Manafacturers of Buckeye l]l‘llls Sceders, Cultivators. Hay Rakes, Cider Mills and Yutan Pl eriz Cor. 14t and Nicholas Streets. T WINONA IMPLEMENT (] -THE Agricaltarel Implemems Wagons &Buwss o Corner 14th and Nicholas Streets. OMATARRANCH J.F.SEIBERLING & CO,, (Akron, Ohio,) Bt s Bk MOLINE,MILBURN&STODDARD Co Manufacturers and Johbers in Wagons Bnmes, Rakss Pluws l-:tc. Cor. th and Pacifio 8t A HOSPE, Jr. Artistx' Materials, Pmnns and Umns, ~W. V. MORSE & CO., Juhners of Boots and snm 102115106 Douglas St Omahiy, Manufactory, Sum: mer St., Boston. KIRKENDALL, JQNES & CO., (Nnccessors to Heed, Jones & Co.) Whotesale Manufacturers of Boots and Shioes onts f0r Joston: Rubhor Shoe Co. 1102, 1104 & 1100 Aenes 1or o B O, Nobraak Book-ellera and Stationers._ H. M, & S. W. JONES, Ruocessors to A, T. Kenyon & Co, Wholesale & Retall Booksellers and Stationers, Finé Wedding Stationéry. Commercial Stationery. l' ol Stzoet Owaia, Neb: Y EE CO., °¥"u‘,‘."t'£’«8‘.’..§§m. e, Teag, Coffoes, Spices, Baking Puwfler Pllvuflnf l'xlmcu ),«uumy mn%lnn Eto. ent for the M facturers haw) Ipportets of crec“kary, Wssare, Sai, Chimiers, ©_Kte. Offce, 817 auxsl Omnh-. Nebraske., PERKINS. QATCH & LA.UMAN, lmm\rlmunflJ(\!»btru-! ’ Crockery, lagsware, Lamps, Silverware; e 11616 Farnam N N-wl-nxmp Buitding. —_ C GEO. SCHROEDER & CO., . (Successors to McShario & Hchmmer) Produce Eummlssmu ami Culd Storage, fiIDDELL & RIDDELL. Storage aud Commission Merchants ‘Specialties—Butter, Fggs, Choese, Poultry, Game, Oyste ms«mmmnsmi Jubbers of- Harfl ang sm CnaL 200 Eouth 13th Street, Omaba, Nel J.J. JOHNSON & C l(aliufacmrers of Tllingis White Lime, - AL {,ym of Conl, Coke, Goment, Plaster, Lim e, and Sewer Pipe. : Oiee, axton Hotel, " ‘elephione 1L FUEL CcO., SHIDDEI‘S of Coal and- Coke. 214 South 13tk St., Omaha, Neb. ‘M. E SMITH & co., ]er (00ds, Furnishing Goods and Nunous. Hmnnflllml)mlfll - 1ith £, Omabs, Neb, . KILPATRICK-KOCH DRY ¢ GOODS Co Tmporters and Jobbers in Dry Goods, Notions Gents' Imrnlshlng g‘[;::‘h‘l lhlil;;::rkl"ll.h llllll Huaney ... Crocorics, PAXTON, GALLAGHER & GO., Wholesale - Groceries and Provisions, %06, 707, 700 and 711 8, 10th 8t., Omaha, T McCORD, BRADY & C Wholcsale Grocers, 12th and Leavenworth Streets, Omaha, Nebraske. Furniture, DEWEY & STONI E, Wholesale Dealers in Furniture, Faroam Street, Omaha, Nebraska, CHARLES SHIVmMRICK, Furnifure Omaha, Nebraska, Hardware. 'EE, FRIED & CO., Jobbers of Hardware and Nails, Tiaware, Shoot Tron, Kte. Agents for 11 les, Mlatng Powiior £5s Umatie, Nobe Heato HIMEBAUGH & TAYLOR, Builders’ Hardware and Scale Repair Shap. Mechsaics' Toole and Bumalo Scalos. 1 I Bireet: Omaa Nebrakda, 10 DoV RECTOR. WILHELMY & co., Wholesale Hardware, 10th and Harney Sts., Omahs, for Austin Powdér Co. .v‘.a':fl' w"“’r}' ' g Fairbanks Standard Soal MARKS BROS, SADDLERV co., Wholesale Mapufacturers of Saddlery & Jobbers of Saddlery Hardware And Leather. 1404, 105 and 147 Hurney St., Omaba, Nebraska, Noav; Hardwar W. J. BROATCH, Heavy Hardware, Iron and Steel, Bprings, Wagon Stock, Hasimare, Lumber, Bich d 1211 Harney Sireel, Omaba. JAMES Wholesale [rtmzaml Stegl jon and Carriage Wood Stock, Heavy Hard o 317 and 1210 Leavenworth B Owaabe, Neo, © 1205 Wi Hate, Caps, Eto. W. L. PARROTTE & CO., Wholesale Hats, Caps and Straw Goods, 107 Haruey Street, Omaha, Neb, “Lumber. OMAHA LUMBER CO., All Kinds of Building Material at Whulesale 163 Btreet and Union Pacific Track, Omaba. LOUIS BRADFORD, Dealer in Lumber, Lath, Lime, Sash, Doors, Ete. Yards_Corner Tth and i C i\huu':u'bv Douglas; Cormer Ilealer in All Klnflx ur anber __13th and California Streets, Omatia Nebri FRED W. GRAY, Lumber, Lime, Coment, Bte., l.‘tr. (‘omrrfli unn Douglas su 0|nm. T T.W.HARVEY LUMBER CO., To Dealers Only. o OMce, 103 Farnam Street, Omaha. JOHN A. WAKEFIELD, Wholesale Lumber, Etc. Tmported and American Portiand Cement. Stal Agent for Milwaukeo Ilydrlnllr(emflt nd Quiney White Lim CHAS. R. LEE. Dealer in Hardwood Lumber, Wood Carpets and Parquot Floorine, 8th and Dave'se iron Works. PAXTON & VlERLlNU. Wrnmml and Cast Iron Building Wnrl Eogioes. Brase Work, Genoral Foundry, Machine aod iacksmith Work: | Offico and Works, U: I Ry. 'and THih Srcot, Omabn: “"OMAHA WIRE & IRON WORKS, Mannfactarers of Wire and Iron Railings Desk atia, Window Guards, Flower Stands, Wire S1gns, Kte. 123 NOrth 166h Street, Om "OMAHA SAFE and IRON WORKS, Man'frs of Fire & Barglar Proof Safes « Vaults, Jall Work, tron and Wire Feneing, Signs, Bto. G, Androon, Prop'r_Cor. 1ith And Jackson Sta. CHAMPION IRON and WIRE WORKS Tron_ and Wire. Fences, Ra BA_ Sercens, furban L, mtores, Improved Awning: swmith Ma P Biacksmith Works. &0 South IMEAGHER & LEACH, Plre and Burglar Proof Safes, Time Lum General Agents for Diebold Safo, & Look Co.'s Vaults and Jail Work, 1il5 Farnam Sroet, Omaha. 1. OBCRFELDER & CO. Impnmrs & Jobbers in Mllllnery & Notions 210 and 312 South 1th Kireet, J T ROBINSON NOTION CO.. Wholesale Notions and Farnishing l}flmlx 408 and €05 B uth 10tk 8t., Omaha. VINYARD & SCHNEIDER. Notions and Gent's Furnishing Goods. 1105 Harney Stréet, Omaha. CONSOLIDATED TANK LINE CO. CoO., Wholsal Enflflfiflflfl and Lutricating 0ils. Axle Grease, Ete., Omaha. A. H. Bishop, Illnm: Paper. T CARPENTER PAPER GO, Whiolesale Paper Dealers. Carry a ige stock of Printiug, Weapping and Writ ,.ar._Bpecial attention given fo car [oad orders. Printers ‘Materlals. "WESTERN NEWSPAPER UNION, Auxiliary Publisters, Dealurs In Pype, Prenss and Printers’ Supplies. BSats T Serebts Gunira, Suppliee. boa Rubber Goods. OMAHA RUBBER CO., ‘Manufacturers and Dealers in Rubber. G[IDflS . 21 Clothing and Leather Bolting. 1005 Farnam Straete —_— e Pt Pumns Pwes antl Engings, 3team, Wl(ef. lhll'fl and l"lll S 030, 2 ot 124 FArAh Birect O CHUHCHILL PUMP Ci Wholesale Pumps, Pipe, - Fittings, . 3team and wntor Bupplies. Teadquartera for M Foost & Co'n gooe: T Farmamn Sty Ommahs " U.'S, WIND ENGINE & PUMP CO.. Steam-and Water Suppliss, Halliday Wind “I]]l 018 and 920 Farpa G. ¥. 1oss, Actiog Manager. s, Snas BROWNELL & CO., Engines, Boilers and General Manhmnrr, . Shoet Iron Work Steam Pamps, Saw Vv enwortt Sireet. Ot Lol PHIL. STIMMEL & CO., Wholesals Farm, Ficld and Garden Sees 911 and 915 Jones Stroct Omuha, Btorage, Eo(vgardlng & Commission ARMSTRONG, PETTIS & CO., Storage, Forwarding and Commission, Branch houdo of the Hemey Bugky Co. Bu nuu Wholosilo wnd rotal 0and 1312 Téard Sirot, Giatiae Felophone No. 110" OMAHA MANUFACTURERS. _Cornice, EAGLE CORNICE W()RKS. Manufacture Galvanized II'I]H aud Cornice, John Epeneter, Propriator. 201, nd 106 and 108 © North b 1001 Btroot, bt STORZ & ILER.‘ Lager Beer Brewers, 1521 North lgthteenth Street, Omaha. Neb. Overalls. CANFIELD MANUFAC Manufactarers of Overalls, Jeans Punts, Shirts, Ete. 1102and 1104 Douglas Btreety Omabs, Neb. M. A. DISBROV I3 CO.. Wholesale Mauu? scturers of Sash, Doors, Blinds and Moulings, Branch Hu! 12th and Izard Streets, Omaha, Nob,, BOHN MANUFACTURING CO, Manufactarers of Sast. Doors, Bl Mouldings. Stair Work and Interior Hat L Lumtr ml. and IA)Il"lllqullh OMAHA PLANING MILL CO.. Wanafacturers of Moulding, Sash, Doors, And Blinds. Turniog, Stalrwork, Henk and Omice ne leton_Avenue. H. K. SAWYER. lflllllrflcllll‘lll! Dealer in Smoke Itackx. Britchings, Touks and Genoral Holler Kepairt - Breot Onatin, Hob, 2o 8" —S00TH OMAHA. FALNER, N, P, RICHNAN, 3, . BIANCRAND: PALM!R RICHMAN & CO,, Live Stock Commission Merchants Ofmoo—Wooum 24 Oppasite Exchunge Bullding, Unio \‘.'uuu ‘Oniiha, Neb. . e ——— , Bouth Ow McCOY BRO Live Stock Commission Merchants, Market furnished free on spplication 3[00[““ and o Ay T i Natjonal Hunk st Bouth Oitialis 4 #lock Yords, Houth Omaba. s, SE0n. LORIMER,WESTERFIELD & MALE“ Live Stock Commission, Roow 16, Exchs iidiog, Uni ck stu, IS fiioo Siow Yort ALEXANDER & FITCH, Commision Dealers in Live Sock. Goom 2, Oppgalie Kxchaoge Bullding, Union 810 UNION STOCK YARDS CO., 0f Omaha, Limited, Juka k Boyd, Bupviialendeat