Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 25, 1888, Page 6

THE SUNDAY BEE COUNCIL BLUFFS, OFFICE, NO. 12 PEARL STREET. Delivered by Carsler in Any Pars of the City at er enty Cents ek, LW TTLAON . "MANAGER. TELEPHONES: Busixess OFrice, No. 43, Nianr EDiron, No, e B e MINOR MENTION N. Y. Plumbing Co. New spaing goods at Reiter’s. United States court convenes on Tuesday next. C. A. Beobe received an invoice of five car Joads of furniture yesterday. Colorado coal at Council Bluffs Lumber Co., 900 main street, telephone No. 257, An infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. J Johnson, who reside on Seventh street, was buried yesterday afternoon. The wedding of Miss Jennie this city and Mr, Charles Dougl umbus, O., is announced by car proxim. The members of the fishing and hunting club wiil hold a meeting Tuesday evening to settle up the accounts of the past year and arrange for the coming season. The challenge issued by ¥. J, Rreeze has heen accepted by F. E. Vandenverg, The Jatter is a rapid skater and a good race is anticipated. The date is fixed for Saturday evening next. Messrs, Glascow & Caldwell have opened & new haraware store at 152 Broadway. Both . eutiomen aro well known in_the city, hav- ng been employed during past years with the most prominent firms in that business. Ross, the colored barber released from cus- tody yesterday morning after reciting his concealed weapon story, was run in again last night, in company with his partner Grady, who owns the gun, He will probably 0 to jail. No. 805 Broadway has again opened with a new management, but the same business that was formerly conducted there. The Chicago Tea, Coftee and Spice company, with Messrs, Andersend Johnson managers, are engaged in the enterprise, Judge W. C. James will build an elegant 4,000 cottage in his ark during the present season. Allen & Bell have prepared the plans and _specifications, and the contracts are let. The work will be commenced as #00n as the ground settles sufficiently. Yesterday afternoon bids were opened in Allen & Bell's office for the construction of the Dr. McRae flats. The contracts were not let, as certain changes in the specifications must be made first. These will be made immediately, and then the work will pro- ceed. A chapter of the Northwestern Legion of Honor will be organized during the coming week by B. C. Winkle, deputy grand com- mander. The organization embraces the five states of Towa, Nebraska, Dakota, Kansas and Minnesota. The local council will begin ‘with above thirty charter members. lirath, of , of Col- for the 4th o Money at low rates on first-class farm security. Burnham, Tulleys & Co., 102 Main street. ———— For all female diseases consult Drs, Moser & Van Ness, opera house block, rooms 4 and b, Council Bluffs, Correspondence solicited. g Nobbiest styles_in spring overcoats at John Beno & Co.’s. g SO IR, The young ladies of the Presbyterian church will give an Easter Bazar and supper Tuessny, the 27th inst. Dec- orated eggs and Easter cards for sale. No. 506 Broadway. T Union Abstract company, 236 Main street. paat et tomndibon The party who took the box of pru- nells from in. front of Troxell Bros.’ store last Wednesday evening is known and he must either return them or settle b{ payment. If this is not done imme- diately he will suffer the consequences. —_—— Personal Paragraphs. Mrs. Pfeiffer loft last evening for Chicago. Mrs, H. O. Cook is rapidly recovering from her recent serious illness. Mrs, W. H. McKenzie and daughter,Mabel, are visiting with friends at Loveland. Mr. F. A. Conover and his son will leave next week for California to spend the hot months. Superintendent W. J. Hancock, of the Wells Fargo express company. has returned rom nis éastern rrip. Mrs, Charles Runyon, of Stanbury, Mo., is visiting her mother-in-law, Mrs. Runyon, on South Eleventh strec Dr. Cooley will visit Omaha this afternoon to assist in the dedication of the Beth Eden Baptist church, on Park avenue, Mrs, John Adams, of Monona, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. John Hinkle, who live near the Chicago & Northwestern roundhouse. Miss Hassinger, of Crangeville, T1L, is the fimug of D. S. Brenneman and family, on adison street, and will remain a couple of weeks, % Mrs. H. F, Stewart returned from Chicago i;cuwrdn,v morniug. She was accompanied y Miss Mellie Richmond, who will take charge of the trimming department of Mrs, Stewart’s millinery establishment. — E. H. Sheafe loans money on chattel security of every description. Private consulting rooms. All business strictly confidential. Office 500 Broadway, cor- ner Main street, up-stairs. B For Sale Cheup—Lots near the bridge parties who will build at once. Ad- ress or call on J. R. Rice, No. 110 Main street, Council Bluffs, e The Motor Line. The jury appointed to condemn the “‘stock tracks” of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad company for the crossig of the motor line on Ninth street, yesterday after- noon, was unable to agree and adjourned till to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock. Mr, Reed announces his intention of pushing the mat- ter now as fast as he can and go through it rough-shod, as he was unable to effect a com- promise. Me promises to have the line in operation by May 1. ek S i Turned Over the Books, Auditor Hammer took his seat as a city officlal yesterday. Ex-Auditor Kinnehian has finished his work of closing up his books, and they were turned over to his successor in the _best of shape. Business in the office was ‘unusually light for the first day, and the new incumbent improved the opportunity to got the gencral run of business, and acquaint himself with his new work. e CabinetPhoto Free. Every purchaser of a Domestic sewing machine for cash or on monthly pay- ments from this office during the next ten days will receive one dozen cabinet shoum of themselves taken by Sherra- en, in that artist’s best style. Remem- ber ten days only., No canvassers, 105 Main St. e — 8. B. Wadsworth & Co. loan money, o Poultry, eggs and butter at Fearon’s, 11 Main street. ey Fresh Milch Cows. Thirty fresh milch cows for sale singly, or in lot, by B. Marks, —~— Notice to Architects. The board of education of the inde- ndent school distriet of Council Bluffs, R il aonsidon all pians ¢hat ‘may’ be filed with the secretary, Charles M. Hurl, Esq., on or before the Tth day of April, 1888, for u three-story, eighteen- room school building, to be erected on the present site of the Washington ave- nue school house. The cost of saxd build- ing not to exceed $40,000. No payment will be made tor any plan unless the same shall be adoptéd by the board. The right to reject any or all plans is expresslg reserved by the sajd board. THEODORE 8, CoucH, J. J. STEWART, Commiittee. ” b Sl Sheale loaus money on veal estate. GRAND TEMPERANCE RALLY. In Which Many of the Churches Will Unite. 'TWAS NO MURDER AFTER ALL. How Liily Oxley Died—The Knitting Company Incorporated — “Jack Kane's Pocket Book—Court Doings ~Personal Mention. Services of the Day. The churches of the city will unite in a grand temperance rally at Dohancy’s opera house this evening. Inasmuch as the motives of the movers in this matter have been im- pugned by the democratic organ of the city it is but fair to all concerned that the facts which have iead to this meeting should be made known, Some days ago Mr. A, Over- ton conceived the idea that a general tem- perance awakening was a moral necessity in this city., He visited various prominent business men of the city relative to the mat- ter, the result of which is the present an- nouncément. That it is a political move, in any sense, is disputed in the fact that Mr. Overton has been a life long democrat. Neither he nor his associates in this work have political or any other axes to grind. The following gentlemen will deliver ad- dresses: Hon, L. W. Ross, Colonel R. C. Hubbard, Jacob Sims, James McCabe, Revs. Dr. Phelps, Crofts and Rees, The speeches are limited to ten minutes and different phases of the question wiil be discussed. It will be seen that most of the churches ih the city have discontinued their services for the evening. Let the opera house be filled. :TODIST Episcorarl Cnurcn—The pas- tor will preach at 10:30 a. m., Sunday school ut 12 o'clock, noon. No service in the even- ing owing to_the ‘‘Muss temperance meeting at the opera house. Baptist—The pastor will preach 1 am. on the second coming of Christ, Sunday school at 12 m., young people’'s meeting at 6:30 in chapel, union service in the opera house in the evening. PRresvYTERIAN—The pastor has returned and will preach in the morning at 10:30, Sabbath school at 12:00. The congregation will join 10 the union temperance services in the even- ing. Strangers and others cordially invited. SAINT PAvLs Cuunel ivine service to- day at 10:30 . and ) p. m., Sunday school 1 bible class 12:15. , “‘How to meet death,”evening sermon‘‘Sparks of life.” Mr. 1. M. Treynor will sing the psalms at evening service. Young men and strangers cordially welcomed. T. J. Mackay, Rector. Y. M. C. A.—Rooms corner Main and Broadway, open Sunday fram 2 to 6. Meet- ing for men only at4 o'clock, led by Mr. Overton. All men are cordially invited. HarRMONY MissioN—Services to-day at 8, o'clock conducted by Rev. T. F. Thickstun, Sabbath school at 4 o'clock. Prayer meeting Thursday evening, subject *“The influence of family worship,” Phil. 4:6. 1t is desired that testimonies of answered prayer be given. LArTER DAY SaiNts—Elder Mark For- scutt will preach at Saints church to-morrow morning at 10:30 o'clock. Subject: “Bap- tism.” He will also preach at 7: in the evening. The public are very welcome. ATHOLIC, ST. FRANCIS XAVIER—Mass at 6 o'clock and mass will be afterward every half hour until high mass at 10 m. The singing at the high mass will be by our own city and the best Omaha talent combined. B. P. McMenomy, pastor. Sr. Prren's, CatioLio—Mass at 8 and high mass and sermon at_10:30. Sund school at 2 by the pastor, Vespers at 3:30. Adolph Wesseling, O. S. B. = R Travelers! Stop at the Bechtele. Piles cured with certainty. Drs. Moser & Van Ness, Council Bluffs, Ta. A il S s Furnished rooms for, rent. 881 Third avenue. SUEI AR Lillie Oxley Was Not Murdered. The investigation of the Lillie Oxley case has not yet disclosed any foul play features, and it looks as though the verdict of the cor- oner's jury should have been accidental death instead of suicide. Colonel Dailey and Coroner Waterman have been energetically looking up the matter, and have examined at great 1éngth the thrae parues wuo aione nave any direct knowledge of where the deaa girl obtained the fatal dose of morphine that ended her life and the manner in which it was secured, These three are Mury Hoben, alias Frankie Park, Mollie Stanley and *Big Nosed Jack,” a visitor at the Clover house on the night of the tragedy. The testimony of these parties all goes to prove that the mor- phine was obtained from the Stanley woman at the solicitation of the dead girl and taken by her in full knowledge of what it was and ifs effects, and claiming to be an habitual morphine eater. In view of these facts, Colonel Dailey is opposed to having either of the partics arrested, as each of these women, although at sword’s points in everything else, steadfastly disclaims that the other had any’ criminal intent or was criminally to blame in the matter, and the testimony of neither would convict the other. No action whatever will be taken at present, and the matter will rest pending further develop- ments, The ‘‘probable murder” theory is entirely quashed, and the worst that can be made of it is criminal negligence. Tt is acknowledged by both that the note found in the dead girl's hand was not genu- ine. Mollie Stanley says that she and Frankie wrote it together, that Frankie began 1t and she finished it. Frankie denies all knowl- edge of it until it was found on the corpse. They were both concerned in getting the morphine for Maud, and becoming scared at its fatal effect, fixed up the note to ward off suspicion from themselves. When first brought before the investigators, the Stanley woman lied by the wholesale for two straight hours, but finally broke down and told every- thing connected with the affair in a straight- forward way that is now believed.. Her last story can not be shaken in any particular. The Park woman firmly adhered to her ori nal statements through a three hours exam nation, although many of statements are known to be false. For out-and-out brazen- faced audacity and nerve, honors are easy be- tween these two. ————— A full live of crockery and glassware at Lund Bros., No. 28 Main street. A Latest novelties in the Star shirt waists at John Beno & Co.’s. sad it ok, The Easter bazar, under the auspices of the young ladies of the Presbyterian church next Tuesday evening promises to be an enjovable affair. Supperserved from 6 to 8 o’clock for 85 cents, First door east of Pacific House. o ol i The Knitting Factory. This enterprise for Council Bluffs is now an assured fact, The stock has all been taken, the plant is enroute for this city and the formal organization is made. The fol- lowing are the wcorporators: F. O. Glea- son, Frank Cook, Ed. W. Hart, E. H. Sheaf, A. B. Walker, P. C. DeVol, F. J. Day, M. E. Meyers, W. Mullen, Geo. F'. Wright, M. F. Rohrer, H. L. Shepherd, J, D. Edmundson and W. E. Haverstock. The directors se- lected are M. E. Moyers, W. Mullen, F. O. Gleason, W. E. Huverstock and J. E. Meyers, of which board W. E. Haverstock is presi- dent; W. Mullen, vice president; F. O. Gleason, treasurer! M. E. Moyers, secrotary and gencral manager. ~ Articles of incorpora- tion were filed yesterd: The location is not yot settled upon but all details will be seitled before the plunt arrives. 1t is expected 1o have the factory in operation within two weeks. It will give employment to forty operatives at the outset but the plant will be increased as the bLusi- ness shatl demand, ——— New Oity Directory. Changes in residence or business can be made by addressing D. C. Dunbar & Co., Omaha. —-— More Evidence Against Grant. A pocketbook belonging to Jack Kane, olias John Graut, containing. bogus checks Mud other suspicious papers, s been found 3 THE SUNDAY BEE. MARCH 25, and will be introduced in evidence against Kane. It was thrown away by its owner last Tuesday a while he was bei chased by Officer Quinn, rnd a8 nothing o the kind was found on his a sourch ‘was instituted with the mnm . oo Oatch On to This, Mr. Charles Probstle is prepared to supply you with & harness the equal of any on earth. Fine work and harness novelties a specialty. Single, deuble and track; also a good class of farm work. A complete stock of gents' and ladies’ riding saddles, driving boots, robes, all kinds of whips, ete. Give him a call. [— District Court Doings. The case of Pace & Schmid vs, John Mike- sell occupied the attention of the district court yesterday. The suit is brought to re- cover damages on a sheep transaction, Messrs. Baldwin & Holmes appear for the sllmliff and Messrs. Sims & Ford for the lefendant, The jurors with the exception of those sitting on the case, have been dis charged. This week will be devoted to equity cases, and the present term of court will adjourn next Saturday. The grand jurors for the next term were yesterday notified to_appear on the 3d of April, at which time Judge Deemer will open the April * rm of court. Call anu seo the newest styles of by knee and kilt suits at John Beno & C p 2 Bebarrt Found—Opportunities toinvest money and make 100 r cent. Inquire of Johnston & Van Patten, 33 Main st. One Pair-—-In Court. Business was rather light in police court yesterday. Harry Williams was fined $7.60 for drunkenness. James Ross, a laborer, ‘was charged with carrying concealed weap- ons. He said that he went toadance in company with a friend, and while there his companion became involved in a littie difi- culty with an Omaha visitor, and drew a re- volver to shoot him. Ross took the gun away from him, and started home. The owner of the weapon tried to get it away from him, and failing to do so, had him ar- rested. The court accepted the explanation and the prisoner was discharged. pedidbon-trtotvol4 Mrs. H. F. Stewart, 341 W, Broadway, has returned home, having purchased a full line of millinery goods for the spring trade. Her annual spring opening will occur this week. Dates will be an- nounced later. Wait for it. —— Wanted—Experienced salesmen canvass family trade. Union cific Tea Co., 400 Broadway. to Pa- Yo s mogan i Meeting of the People's Protectors. Preparations are being made to hold the annual meeting of the city marshals and chiefs of police of the state in this city on the 15th, 10th and 17th of May. This is the third annial meeting, the first one having been held at Cedar Rapids and the last one at Des Moines, Heretofore but_about sixty towns and cities have been represeuted, but it is expected to largely increase the number at the coming meeting, Notices are to be sent to every city and town of auy size in the state, asking thom to send representatives. City Marshai Guanella has the matter in charge, and hns visited the various hotels of the city to see about making arrangements for the accommodation of the visitors. g, Bismarck on the French Language. St. James Gazette: A rather amusing resume of the views of Prince Bismarck respecting the study of French and of other languages is contained in a com- munication which M. Rendu hasread to the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences in Paris. M. Rendu was one of the delegates who were sent in 1863 to the Congress of Social Science at Berlin, and while in the Prussian_capi- tal he unfolded the plan of Comte Sclopis for the fouudation of interna- tional schools in which pupils were to study the language of each country, going from England to France, and 50 on. The suggestion was favorably re- ceived in France, and when mooted to Prince (then Count) Bismarck by M. Rendu, the Prussian premier expressed his approval of it. When, however. Rendu explained that it was proposed to found a branch school in Berlin, and that a subsidy would be expected from the Prussian government for the pur- pose, the count gdonivs & djfferent tone. ‘You knot,” sald he, *‘that Prussia is a country of beggars. The idea is a good one {or you people who literally reck with gold and silver, but I have other fish to try; and, besides, you must un- derstand” that we are not the people whose interest it is to encourage such studies, We Germans are conversant with English, particularly with the former, almost from birth; while you French have the - audacity, as well as the disadvantage, to know no language but your own, _ That ignorance is the effoct and sign of the supremacy of French before which foreigners bow down and dispense us from the necessity of studying other tongues; but we want to put a stop to that audacity.” In an- other conversation with M. Rendu, the count remarked that ten years before the date of the congress nota soul at the French embassy in Berlin under- stood a word of German. Then the count quoted Shelling, to the effect that German was majestic. strong, and sonor- ous ns an organ. “‘I am satisfied with the national organ,” added the future chancellor of the German empire, *‘and the time will come when I intend to have all my despatches written in Ger- man, and when I shall find means to make them understood even in France.” The chancellor has certainly kept his word, and the most remarkable proof of this is the prevalence of the study of Germau in every school and college in France at the present day. A Good Little Detroit Boy. Mrs, Shamm gave a small but very elegant tea the other evening, and, as a reward for being good for two hours,she allowed her son Bertie, aged 10 years,to sit at the table with the guests.” Asan example of cold-blooded villiany, says the Detroit Free Press, we give a few of the remarks made by Master Bertie during the progress of the meal: “Ma,” he asked first, *'whose spoons are these?” **Hush, dear,” said Mrs. Shamm, He hushed for a second, then: “‘Ma, whose big glass dish is that?” “Little boys should be seen and not heard,” said Mrs. Shamm, with a sickly smile that did not conceal from the guests the fact that there was a fearful reckoning in store for Bertie on their departure. “Say, ma,” he put in, interrupting Mrs. Moneyweight, who was the special guest of the occasion, ‘‘that isn’t our silver cake basket, is it?” “‘Bertie, didn’t you hear Mrs, Money- weight speaking?” chides his distressed parent, “Well, I'll be quiet if you'll tell me whose pretty glasses those are. They're Mrs. Baxter’s, ain’t they?” “Bertie!” “Oh, ma, T forget to tell you that Mrs. Hooker wants you to be sure and send buck her teaspoons to-night and— oh, ma, did you know that Sally broke one of Mrs. Walker's nice tea cups, and —oh, what a pretty plate this isl' 'Who does it belong to¥” The doors filvd hardly closed on the last guest when the neighbors were ap- prised by a sound whose import could not be mistaken that Bertie's time of reckoning had come. e e There are probably few men who have fed sheep for fifteen or twenty years who cau say that they in every case found them profitable, says the Wool Journal, and yet more men could probably say this of sheep than could say it of either hogs or cattle. BEATS THE_LELgP”ONE. Elisha Gray's Woriderful and Valuable Invéhfipn, Chicago Herald: Prof,, Elisha Gray, of Hiz:fimd park, has just gompleted an invention scarcely lesslwenderful and valuable than the telephone, of which he was also the inventdt, But of which he was defrauded. ‘'Wifhin a few days™ said the professor, yesterday, *1 shall give a private fesk, of my new telautograph, an invention which will largely supplant the telephone. I have already tested it to my satisfaction, over and over again, and on Saturday 1 shall give an exhibition Yo shme gentle- men from the east. 1 haye just taken it 10 pieces to make some slight altera- tions, or I would show it'to you now. “By this invention you can sit down at your office in Chicago, take a pencil in your hand, write a message to_me, and ns your penéil moves a pencil here in my labratory moves simultaneously and forms the same letters and words in the same way. W hat you write in Chi- cago is instantly reproduced facsimil You may write in any language; write in shorthand if you like, use a code or cipher, no matter, a fac-simile is pro- duced here. If you wish to draw a pict- ure it is the same—the picture is repro- duced here. The artist of your paper can, by this device, telegraph his pict- ures of a railway wreck or other occur- rence, just as a reporter telegraphs his description in words. The two pencils move synchronously, and there is no reason why a circuit of 500 miles cannot be worked as easy as one of ten miles, “This telautograph will supplant the the telephone for many reasons. It can be worked in exchanges, just as the tel- ephone is, or by private wire. It has many advantages, too. It is noiseless and devoid of the many annoyances €o common to the telephone. It will be much less affected by induction. There will be no trouble in_catching words or sylabios, letters or figures. No misun- derstandings will result. Besides, it leaves a record at both ends of the wire, and there can be no dispute about what is said, For all commercial transac- tions this would be an_invaluable fea- ture. In ordering goods, or in sales of stock or grain or in transmitting names or addresses its superiority over the tel- ephone is obvious. Kor desuitory con- versation, it is true, it would not be so rapid of working, for the reason that one cannot write as fast as he can talk, but, on the other hand, it would e many of the delays and annoyances in- cident to telephonic communication. “When one person wishes to commu- nicate with another by the telauto- graph he pushes a button, which rings an annunciator in the exchange, or in the office of the person with whom he wishes to converse. Then the first arty takes his writing pencil rom its holder—and this may be pen or pencil—and writes his message upon a roll of paper. As he writes so writes the pencil at the other end of the wire. Finishing his message, he.adds a cross, or any other simple token that he has finished, when the sccond party takes down the pencil and wrifes a reply. Thus a conversation can be, carried on eusily and_quickly, and when it is fin- ished another simple word—say the tel- egraphic signal ‘80'—wi]l indicate the end. Both parties havea full record of the conversation, and each pssesses the other’s autograph. “In writing,” continued the professor, “‘your pen or pencil is attached to two small wires, and these wirgs regulate the currents which control the pencil at the other end of the wire. But these wires give you no trouble. You hardly know they are there, and can write with as much facility as if they were ab- sent.” “Can this invention be used to advan- tage commercially?” *Yes. It will not cost more than $15 or 20, and is easily kept in order. I have tried it again and again, and it works more perfectly than the tele- phone, and is much less liable to have its usefulness interfered with by induc- tion.” But this is not the only greay inyeu- tion Prof. Gray has in hand. He has just completed also an automatic switch- oard for telephonic exchanges by which the user of a 'lo})houu or telau- tograph can put himself in communica- tion with any other instrument. To do this he has simply to touch a button a certain number of times corresponding to the number of the other instrument. If the wire leading to thut instrument is already in use he is informed of that fact by the ringing of a bell, and he then waits a few minutes, as he is now so often compelled to do, and then pushes the button again. By this in- vention one person in an exchange can do the work of thirty or forty under the present system, the duties of the one being merely to keep the automatic ap- paratus in orde S ENGINES IN THE SULKS. Examples of Peculiar Superstition on the Part of Locomotive Engineers. ew York Press: ‘‘Locomotives are funny things,” said an Erie railway en- gineer, “and I have seen them when I believed they were actually human. T get the sulks and have balky streaks, and when they are in such moods you can’t make time with them any more than you con fly. Then again, they’ll be as “chipper and willing as a thoroughbred horse, and you actually have to hold ’em in to kéep from run- ning into stations ahead of time. “Take the case of Josh Martin and Gad Lyman, two of the old-time Erie engincers, the former being still alive, I believe, and the latter having died only a few yearsago. Neither of them had a superior in skill as engineers in their day. Josh was running a locomo- tive that he’ was greatly attached to, and the sequel proves that the attach- ment was mutual, “For some reuson or other the super- intendent of the road wan Josh’s locomotive for use on a, portion of the road that Lyman was running on, and ne ordered Lyman and Martin to ex- change engines, The old fellows who remember it say that when Josh’s engine was run away from Port Jervis Josh cried like a baby, apd that the en- gine herself was all broke up at the parting, for she was an hour longer than she should have been in getting to her new field of labor. “Gad Lyman took chayge of her, but she had made up her mind that she wouldn’t work under him and she didn’t. She persistently got stalled with the lightest of train, and could not be made 10 make her time, under any circum- stances. After a week’s trial Lyman reported the engine ‘no good,” and she was condemued and put-on the grave! train between Piermont and Suffern. She worked as balky and sulky as ever, and the superlntendént ordered her to be broken upand thrown on the serap heap. “T suppose the stubbornest locomotive that was ever put on a road was one of the ‘Twin Sisters,’ a couple of splendid machines built by the New: York Cen- tral a few years ago. They were made exactly alike in every particular, from the same patterns, by the same work- men and of the same materials. There wasn't a man on the road that could tell which was which until th numbers were painted on them. They were beautics, and the engineers who were assigned to duty on them were the envy of all the boys. When the engines were put on trial one of them developed amazing powers of speed und strength. “Sne could take a freighttrainupa Prof. 1888,~SIXTEEN PAGES. grade with scarely an effort, and with a passenger train could strike a fifly mile an hour gate with eafe. The other one wouldn’t go at all. Even when pulled wide open she would sim- ply give a few spiteful puffe of black smoke, a few turns of her driving wheelg, and then would stop, The way she exhausted steam showed that she was a vixen. They put her in the round house and kept her there for six months, thinkin that she might get over her sulks an run allright on another trial. One day they fired her up and tried her. She started off like a beauty and ran two miles in a little over two minutes. Then the old spell came over her again, and she took ihe sulks worse than ever.” Pl -l oy Finding of Hidden Treasure. A letter to the Baltimore Sun from the east shore of Virginia says: Per- sons arriving here yesterday from Pun- goteague, in the lower part of Accomar, report that Lorenzo Mears, a tenant on the Fair View farm, situated near there on Nandua creck, has recently found a large quantity of gold and silver Eng- lish coins, which, sccording to an old tradition, were buried there during the revolutionary war by o wealthy English- man. Tradition has it that this man, being a tory, and not sympathizing with the coloniesin their contest with the mother country, buried his money and went back to England, where he intended to stay till the war was over, but he died there without reveal- ing the exact spot where he had buried his money. Many years after the revo- lution some of his descendants in Eng- land came to Accomac and procured permission from the owner of the place 10 make search for the buried treasure. After spending much money and several months in a froitless quest for the money they returned to England, and nothing more was ever heard of the hidden treasure till it was repor that Lorenzo Mears had exhumed it from it from its hiding place. It seems that Mears made an effort to keep the matter from the knowledge of the pub- lic, but a little boy who lives with him went out to the neighboring village of Pungoteague several days ngo and in- formed several persons that his **Uncle Renzie” had dug up an iron pot full of gold and silver coin which twomen could searcely bear. Mears is reported to have confessed that he found some money, but denies that it was in such large quan- tity as has been reported. Several of his neighbors have seen some of the coins. They are quite old, some:bearing the image of Charles . and others that of George T1I. The name of the revo- lutionary owner of the land is no longer known here. The farm where the mys- terious treasure is reported to have been found is the prettiest and most pictur- esqueon Nandau creek, It belongsto the heirs of the late John Pitts, of Acco- mae. Close by was the seat of the fa- mous Queen of Nandua, who ruled over the Indian tribes in that section, and not far off 1s the general burrying- ground of the Indians, where the bones of the buried skeletons may still be seen protruding from the steep side of the creek, which the current in the creck is fast washing away. The local- ity is fullof old traditions, and those who are best acquainted with ‘the localivy are inclined to believe the report about the finding of the hidden treasure. sSoms e Some Astonishing Statistical Results. Christian Advocate: A recent speaker says that the negroes in this country have multiplied eight times in a cen- tury. As t‘my have 7,000,000 now, in 1980 they will amount to 192,000,000, If they maintain the same relative rate of increase they will. The whites in ten years by birth and immigration have increased 30 per cent. At this rate there will be 800,000,000 whites and over 200,000,000 negroes—in all 1,000,- 000,000—in the United States in 1988, Who believes either of thesc state- ments? By that method one can prove that the Methodist Lpiscopal church will soon have more communicants than the world will contain peovle, Last Year {¢ gained 5 per ¢éntnet. This rate will double its membership every four- teen years. Hence, in 1902 it will have 4.000,000: in 1916, 8,000,000; in 1930, 16,000,000; in 1944, 32,000,000; in 1958, 64,000,000; in 128,000,000, and so, doubling every fourtcen years, in the year 2084, less than 200 “ye from the present date, there will be 2,768,000,000 of members of the Meth- odist 1y ()V:ll church in the United States alon Toil on then, brethren. Do not let the fact that, according tothe figures of the speaker quoted above, there will be only 6,400,000,000 negroes and 13,200.000,000 whites—in all™ 19.- 600,000,000—of people in the United States at that time disturb you. Who cares for a little deficit of 3,168,000,0007 Great is statistics! Of course, other de- nominations arve deluding themselves. They think they are increasing: but as we are going to include the whole popu- lation, and seyeral thousand millions more, they must cease to exist! The only trouble is that if some of them con- tinue to grow as at present the multi- slica tion table will wipe us out in the pame way, SPECIAL NOTICES. NOTICE. PECIAL advertisements, such as Lost, Found, ) T For Sale, To Rent, Wants, Boarding etc., will be'inserted 'in this column at the low raté of TEN CENTS PER LINE for the first in- sertion und Five Cents Per Line for each subge- quent insertion. Leave advertisements at our Cfice, No. 13 earl Street, near Broadway, Coun- cil Bluf WANTS. ANTED—At once housework, 305 1 MO TRADE-A clean sto hoots and shoes, for Council Blifs of Omaba property, or for land in this vicinity. Address B 2, Beé office, Council Bluffs. ANTED—A_good shoemaker with kit of 100ls and #100 capital; good Lako View. T will furnisly shop general store rent free. For further particulars ddress J. P. Therkelsen, Lake View, Sac Co.. all Joseph_Therkelsen, 111 Upper Broadway, Council Bluffs, )R RENT—Furnished room for gentlemen, three blocks from dummy depot. Refer: ences required. Address 8, & £. Lee office, JOR S, heap for cash or would ex- change for Council Bluffs or Omaha prop. erty, a retail stock of boots and shoes valued at 6,000, Call at store No, 620 8. Lith st.. Omaha, of address R. Martin, same place and number. 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NG AGENTS ON COMMISSION. INCORPORA ED 1878 Co. MASSILLON, OHIO, MANUFACTURERS, SIZES FROM 25 T0 250 HORSE POWER. — AUTOMATIC CUT-OFF Especially Designed for MILLS ELEVATORS ~—AND— i ELECTR IC LIGHT PURPOSES, : ENGINE. Branch House, Council Bluffs, Iowa. SEND FOR CATALOGUE, E. C. HARRIS, Manager. COUN EMPLOYMENT OFFICE, 724 BROADWAY, UP-STAIRS Ts ready to furnish first-class help of all kinds, contoactors, hotels, restaurants and private places. #100 por month made by young lady or gentle- man, Inquireat this oftice. A. C. LARSEN, References: First Nat'l Bank. R, H. HUNTINGTON & CO., COMMISSION MERGHANTS. WHOLESALE FLOUR, FRUIT & PRODUCE, NO., 104 BROADWAY, "EGAN & KIMBALL, PLUMBERS, STEAM AND GAS FITTERS, No. 552 Broadway, Opera House Block, Council Blufls, Telephong No, 284, 7 NEW SPRING MILLINERY lbll‘DOUGLA' 8F., OMAHA,NEB, DR. 8. STEWART, VETERINARY ~ SURGEON, HOSPITAL AND OFFICE 45 FOURTH 8T, Councl Blufts, Ta. Veterinary Dentistry 2 Specalty ACCIDENT INSURANGE. $5,000 AT DEATH! #25 weekly indemnity for injury. Costs but 15 per year in_the Old Reliable United States Mutual Accldent Assoctation of New York. KILLMEL & KELLEY General Agents, Opera Houge Block. Roor THE TROTTING STALLihN ITOIRTR L2 Standard No. 4006, chestnut stallion, foaled April 10, 1552, Bred by C.J. Hamlin, 13uffalo, N. ¥, 'sired by Almonarch (record 2:243() son of Almont, first dam, Lucy, by Hamlin's Patchin, sive of the dam of Bell Hamlin (record '2:18%(); sccond dam Ly Rysdyk's Huwbletonian. ' Norway stands 16} hands high, and can trot better than 2:30. T stallion will be permitted to serve s few mares i 845 the season from March 1st to July 1st. For particulars ecquire of WADE CARY, Council Blufts Driving Purk, or No. 417 South 14th 8t., Owmubia.