Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 3, 1888, Page 13

THE OMAHA DAILY UMMER IN NEW YORK CITY. | Entoresting Inoidents in the Life of Bishop Newman. WHAT THE CLUBS ARE DOING. 014 [Coins and the Prices Paid For Them-—Buffalo Bill's Wild West Return of an Irish Agitator. New Yorr City, May 20.—[Correspond. ence of T Ber.)—The summer amusement #eason promises to be unusually brilliant, There are no international events arranged for among the yachts, but the various clubs are in exceptionally good shape. On the turf, there will be a positive embarrassment of great races, and the various forms of athleticism, from rowing to running matches, are certain to be unusually well representea. The base ball clubs, professional and ama- teur—not a well marked line of distinction in these days—have already begun opera tions, with no diminution of public interest. In the line of what may be called summer shows, we shall have Buffalo Bill and his merry men at Erastina, from Decoration day onward. At the other end of Staten island, Imre Kiralfy will present a spectaculur drama of unheard-of magnificence, under the title of “Nero, or the Fall of R " The fact that this will require the participation of some 9,000 performers, is sufficient evidence of its magnitude. Coney 1sland will be shorn of none of its glory, and Rockaway beach will have all its customary allurements, with doubtless some new touches for the holiday- making thousands from the metropolis and its adjacent communities. Could we get at the amount of capital invested in “‘popular amusements” during the summer in this locality alone, the total would be an impress- ive one. And, besides all these, there will be the great and the growing excitement of the presidential election to keep the public mind employed and furnish an endless supply of matter for the newspapers. There will cortamnly be distractions enough in the summer of 1588 to satisfy the dullest of minds. . o Clubs are more and more popular and prosperous. The Manhattan fs closing ne- gotiations for its daring but judicious pur- cliase of the Stewart mansion, The price was fixed finally at $50,000. Nevor a satis factory home in'spite of all the two millions spent to make it such by the Stewarts, it will serve club purposes admirably. The Union is to extend. its premises under an ad- vantageous arrangement with Mr. Cornelins Vanderbilt, who builds the addition for them on very favorable terms. Mr. Edwin Booth has just acted the fairy godmother to the Players' club by giving ita house on Gram- mercy park, and furnishing it in addition with ‘many costly adornings und interesting relics. 'The Southern association of the city, which has grown to be a strong organization, arc planning to get suitable pormanent quar ters. The Fellowceraft, the new club of work- ing newspaper-men, writers and artists, has taken a large house in a desirable location, and is now ‘‘at home" to its many friends, And last evening, on motion of ex-Governor Chamberlain, it was resolved by the Yule Alumni association that inquirics should be made during the summer as to the expediency of starting a Yale club. Thus the bachelors are making an aggressive campaign of it. " The week has furnished a feast for numis- matists. Dr. W, E. Woodward's large and rave collection of coins and unique medals ‘was being sold at the auction room of Bangs & Co., on Broadway. The bidding most of the time was rather animated, the aggregate of the day’s sales being about 3, The most spirited bidding was for the gem of the collection, an 1804 dollar, which was secured by James E. Randall, of Philadelphia, for 8600, All the coins sold to-day were the most_interesting of the collection, excent the American copper coins, There were buyers present from all parts of the'country. Anong them were Prof. d Frossard, the” compiler of the catalogue, who represented buyers from many states and Europe; Messrs, Col lins and Hayes, of the treasury department ; Major Nichols and Mr. Alden, of Springfield, Muss.; Charles Steigerwalt, of Lancaster, Pa.; Chapuan Bros., of Philadelphia, and Mr. Farrington, of Saratoga. Thesale began with colonial' coins, A Hog's 1sland shilliug sold for '$110, Massachusetts willow shilling for £33, a pine tree shilling for 521, a rare New Jersoy cent for $.7.50, i George Clinton New Yorlk cent, $00; anothe r New York cont, with the fizure of an Indian wiclding a_tomahawk and the arms of the state for £50; a remarkably rare and fiue pat tern quarter dollar, issued in 1755, with thir- teen stars and tho motto: “Nova Constella tion,” sold for $43; a Martha Washington half dime, snid to have been coined from silver plate belonging to George Washin ton, for $17.50, and a covper dime of 1792, §15, A collection of 100 silver coins of imperial and free citics of Germany sold_at remarka- Dbly good prices, Among the Amcrican sil- ver dollars of 1704 the prico was from 375 to 185, and half dollars of 1796 and 1767 went for $55 and $46 respectively, A quarter dol lar of 1804, the finest specimen known, brought 100, One of 1527, accounted one of the rarest dates, sold for the same suw, “The election of #ohh F. Newman, who was born sixty-one years ago in Rive Points, in this city, a bishop in the Methodist Epis copal church, s able in- cident in ' a romantic Joscph Howard in a 5 icated at Cazenovia seminary, o com od his ministerial life in contral Now In 1855 he returned to this city and rose to ominence in his church, and achieved great famo us an able and eloquent pulpit orator. In1%60 Dr, Newman went to Pales tine and on his return wrote ‘Dan to Beer- shobn.’ For some time ho preachied in New York, and from here went to Now Orloans, and while thero established three confer ences of the Methodist Episcopal church in the south, one in Texas, one in Mississippt and ono in Louisiana., The New Orleans uni ¢ was founded by him, as was also the u Tescho university and the orphans’ He also established and edited the New Orleans Christiun Advocate. For three years, from 1869 to 1874, ho was stationed in Washington, at the Metropolitan church, and during this time was chaplain of the United States senute, *In 1573 ho made a trip around the world, traveling more thau # thousand mites through Asia un horseback. On his return he wrote “Trayels und Palaces of Babylon and Nino vah' Again he was appointed to the Motropolitan church in Washington, and after remaining there for the full limit of three years, was stationed ut the Contral church, in this city, und remained there for three years, The ecumemcal confercie, Beld in London in 1581 saw him a delegate and on his return he accepted a call to the Madisou avenue Congregational church in this city without, however, severing his con nection with the quarterly conferonce of his church, Next followed his third pastorate of the Metropolitan church in Washington, where he is still the pastor. Dr. Newmau was called to mimster o' General Grant during Ris lony illuess, and oMciated at his funeral, and it was he who delivered the funeral ora tion over the body of General John A, Logan in the senate. 1 imagine Dr. Newmau doesn't stand umong his fellows, nor in the community, as s very bright and shining re- Digions light, He has tine peraonality; 18 a fine looking man, an adept in the tricks and manners of a trained orator; he has always been w show parson and will be & show bishop. “He s one that said to me in Mount McGregor the day after Graut died that ho was very plad that the book was going to be profitable. as four families would have to be supported from its proceeds. Iam very glad Lie has the bishopric, because of all mei sup- posed to be serfants of the Most High, bLe will best appreciate the pomp and ceremony which attend the kiud of service he best likes to perform. . Sir Thomas Grattah "Esmonde, the Irish agitator, sailed on the Alaska Tucsday, u visit of eight months to this countr hus been iu nearly every state and City of Mexico. He has made ue: hundred speeches in favor of home Ireland, and has been enthusiastically re ceived by many branches of the National league. At a meeting of the exccutive cowm- mittee of the parliamentary fund association, held in the Buckingham hotel yesterday, it was resolved to send $10,000 to the Irish par mentary party by Sir Thowmas Esmonde. In speaking of his visit here Mr. Eswoude sa I have been in nearly all of your large citles and in many of the small towns Wherever I have boen I have found the #ame whole-hearted sympathy for the cause of home rule. ) find earnest support of Par- nell and Gladstone and a well settled convic. tion that home rule will be firmly established before long. 1 have been predicting 1t two years hence—certainly soon after. The sup. port of the American public is of the great est value to us, both morally and flnancially There is no doubt that England is fast com ing to the belief that home rule is far more desirable than the present system of oppres. sion. I hope to return again before long." Buffalo Bill has opened his Wild West on Staten Island, and it is thought the season vill be more brilliant than ever, The new Indians added to the show, together with the old ones, ate dog and whooped all night Tues- day. The oceasion was the advent of a new animal in the camp. Old Vie, the queen buffalo of the herd, became a_proud mother last Wednesday. Last night being the fifth after the wide-awake baby buffalo's birth, tne Indians determined to colebrate the event in their own way. The baby is a well-pro portioned little reddish-brown creature, scarcely two feet high. As it was born on the day the Indians arrived, they called it “Good Medicine,” and said it would_bring them luck. The only question was, Would it live! and five suns must pass before that could be determined, as they have passed the Indians say they will all have good Inck, which means lots to cat and drink cigarettes to smoke, and as long as baby lives the show will be a success, The World contains this personal mention of Rod Shirt, the great chief: Red Shirt, the Sioux chief, who came back from Lon recently, is to be seen on Broadway sometimes now. He is one of the most re- markable of Indians, a diplomat in mind and habit, and a facsimile_of Napoleon I. in per- sonal appearance. Red Shirt has even caught the little corporal’s favorite attitude, arms crossed over his bosomand brow lower- ing, and uses it effectively. He talks English easily, but when_he was presented to Queen Victoria he spoke in Sioux, and had his in- terpreter close by to tell “the Great White Mother” how ‘‘indian love her heap big much like Great White Father,” and other picturcsque phrases which the ideal Indian chief is fond of . Pt —— PEPPERMINT DROPS. 'Tis 2 a. m., the man is seen Who late has wooed the cheering cup; He shakes his key, and mutters “darn The man who plugged this key-hole up.” Customer—*“This stuff isnot fit for a hog KO‘L":AL" Waiter—"All right, sir. Don't cat it. If you don't want to be robbed of your good name don’t have it engraved on your umbrella. The letter that never came absent minded person left ou a fire alarm box thinking he had mailed it. If the world were willing to aceept most. uen at their own valuation it would have to go into voluntary bankruptey in a fortnight. Mother—And the serpent, as a punishment for tempting Eve, was made to crawi all the rest of his life. Bobbie—Well, mamma, how did he get along beforc! A woman never wants half so badly to learn to ride horseback as she does when she sees how becoming a riding habit istoa ‘woman she doesn’t like. Occasionally one gets an idea ofthe sig- niticance which may attach to a name. An astern costumer’s announcement reads: ““‘Woman's Apparel, Notman's,” cte, A man who sets out to be the architect of his own fortunes makes a mistake; he should be jthe architect of somebody whose fortune is already made, if he would make mobney. A Montana man had a valuable mave stolen from bis stable. In advertismg his loss he u{s: “I will give the mare and $50 cash for full and reliable information regarding the funeral of the thief.” There are 320,000 species of insects in the world, and if you lie down on the umbra- ieous wood this summer, for a noonday nap, they will be happy to entertain you by their distinguished presence. Mr. Merredit, proudly—*You know, grand- papa, my wife is an heiress in herown right,"’ andfather Heapeross—*0, gaul swiz woman barber. 1 had one shave me oncet, v to Yorl, and my jaws ached an’ burned five for a week.” Agent—Can I put a_ourglar alurm in your Citizen—Nop; I had one once. What was the matter! Wouldn't it n—0, ves, it went off eusily cnough. Burglar got into the Louse one night and curried it off. “Beg pahdon, mum, but you dropped your veil in the—the lift,” said the bell-boy to the departing guest, narrowly watching the ef et of his words. *‘Jumes,” said the pleased cw York lady to her husband, “give the boy two shillings, He takes us for English people.” “Tonuny,” sald the old gentleman, sternly, “I understand that you were hanging around the Polo grounds this afternoon, instead of being at school. 1 won’t have you wasting your time in that way. What on earth could You see or hear by pecking through a knot- hole in the fencel” " “I could see you, pa,” responded “Lonun, “‘settin’ on the grand stand and shoutin’, ‘Good boy, Danny !" ¥ - is one that an Berlin 1 to have a new cathedral. The catalogue for the Auburn theological seminary shows a total number of fifty-four students the past year. Bishop Doane, of New York, has de to dedicato the new cathedral of All Saints on AllSints’ day in September. Dr. John Paxton, of the West Presby- i church in New York, has had his vy increased from $12,000 to 215,000 a ided Should the request of certain ministers in Allogheny and Pittsburg be acceded to they will organized into an assembly of the Knights of Labor. The choirs of the churchof England in- clude 154,000 voluutury and 19,000 paid male singcrs, and 57,000 voluntary and 1,100 paid female sing: A Chinese free hospital is to be built in Sun Francisco, costing $100,000, and mauy Chinese firms 'have contributed very large suwms o aid in its erection, he Turkish government will not allow the writings of Dante, Byron, Voltaire and Paloy to enter its domuins, for these authors speak disrospectfully of Mohammedanism. The eizht hundredth annivorsary of the ity of Bologna, one of the oldest in i, will be celebrated on the 12th of The university was founded in 1058, The gift of $30,000 by Mr. Bliss, of New Yorl, for an Episcopal ehapel on | Island has been doubled by that gentle and the building will be erected at an carly date, Lane Theological seminary has been doing good work. Since 1536 it” has sent out 800 graduates, half of whom entered the howe field, and eighty became forcign missionaries. At the close of the late sessiou sixtecn young men graduated. Bishop Taylor's report to the gen. forence of his self-supporting Afric sion shows sixty local p \(41° members, forty-nine Sunday 07 teachers and scholars, and a church property valued at #31,044. The combined capital of the Methodist Boolk Concern is § ovies, was 80,577, 525,44, showinug a total increase of sales over the four previous years of $583,903.23, During the forty-eight years of the exist- ence of the foreign board of the Presbyterian church, 453 missionaries of all classes haye been engaged in the missions east and west of the Mississippi river. The foreign board has expended #520,000 intrusted to it by the governument for edlucational wor! Futher Mortara, a priest who is attracting considerable attontion in Madrid, by his fervent preac , 18 described asa “delicate- looking ecclesiastic about thirty seven years of age, whose thoughtful and worn face boars traces of severe stuay,” His eloquent sermons have so moved the queen regent of Spaiu, the princesses and the ladies of the aristocracy that they have resolved to assist him with funds for the convent chapel he has built at Ouate, in the Basque highlands, awong the mountaineers, A most determined effort is being made to finish Melbourve (Australia) cathedral, which has been building sigee 1330, During elght years £30,000 has beorhotually reeived and expended on account of this handsome structure, and as £30,000 is vequired to carry out the original plan, the building committee are avboealing for further subscriptions, In wuy case, it is hoped that the cathedral will be cleutly comploted for yisitors to the con- tenuial exhibition to attend the opening core- mony before they leave Melocurue, WHAT'S IN A NANE? Well, There ia M:;:lf You Oarefully Consider. SHAKESPEARE SLIGHTLY OFF A Digest of the Omaha Directory—Some Humor ous Facts About Names. City “And after all, what's in a name?" The above quotation is by permission of Mr. I. Donnelly, Esq., accredited to the late Willinmn Shakspeare, who departed this life several years ago. While in William’s time there might not have been much significance attached to cognomens it must be remem- bered that at that period of the world's history the Omaha city directory had not yet been published, and there is no doubt what- ever that were it possible for the shade of the departed dramatist to forsake ‘‘that land from whose hourne no traveler ever return- eth’” and pay a short visit to this globular ball of mud he would at once cause the sen- tence mentioned to be stricken from his work. Provided, of course, this arrange- ment did not conflict with the Bacon cypher business. It is plain to be seen from the following that although significance may not be attached to the titles of persons there is at least a fund of information to be izathered. But to the subject of this article. Tho directory for the present year contains many peculiar facts. As the immortal Will Vis- cher would s: “For instance”—the sur- face of the ci of Omaha is far from level because within its limits, according to the document spoken of, we find fifty-one Hills and one Mountain, There were two, but one has skipped out. The inhabitants areof all shades and colors, there being twenty-nine Blacks, of which twenty-seven are white; fifteen Whites, of which three are black; ninety-three Greens, thirty-four Grays,three two hundred and fifty-one Of this number we find rish, six English, and one Briton who must be a Scotchman. Twenty-two of thiem are Low and three are Lower, and only one is High. All occupations aro ropresented, some in large and others in small numbers. There are one hundred and ninety-nine Millers and twenty-three Mills, one Butcher and cleven Shocmakers, although what the last named class busy themselves at is a puzzle, as the directory contains no Shoes and only a pair of Boots. There ave thirty- seven Masons who have to work on thirty-six Stones and one Rock, which are suficient to begin a building at least, aud when the present supply is exbausted, can be replenished from the one Stonehill in the city limits. There is only one drawback for the Masons, namely, the fact there is but one Hodd in which to carry mortar and no hod-carrier. There are twenty-eight Carpen- ters, twenty-nine Coopers. and Smiths until you can’t rest. The Smiths are somewhat handicapped as there are only two Hammers and two Bellows in the city. All points of the compass are represented by seven Norths, one South, three East and twenty-nine Wests, In the culinary department are sixty-four Cooks,all graduates of the Omaha pie foundry, to prepare meals and seventy-two Butlers to serve them. In the event of the supply in the lardor running short, thero is ono Fish—a Pickerel and forty-one Fishers, so that it ap- oears that the aforcsaid member of the fnny tribe will be vlaying In great tuck to es- pape. There are seven Fowlers, but no flowls, excepting fifteen Drakes and one Duck. Twenty-four Hunters are on hand to supply the city with ecame which is very plentiful, and in consideration of the fact that although there are three Traps, but no trappers, the Hunters must be relied upon to capture the four Badgers, two Bears, six Beavers, twenty-six Foxes, one Mink and four Coons. Thesc when taken can be turned over to the seven Skinners, who will give the hides to the six Tanners. But twenty-ono Beards are found in the eity, and whether they are full or not can only bo de- termined by obscrving their hubits. There is but one man Hard while twenty-four are Hardy and two Harder. There are three Loves and no Lovers. A deficiency exists ich should be pro- ided for at once. WI there are eight awyers and ple of Wood there is no Saw. Should one of these be procured there would be no difficulty in keeping it in condition, as there are eight Feilers and one Feil, Only six people in the city are Fair, with ons exception, a Fairbrother. Six of the in- habitants are Mooney, seven are Moody all the time and one is Looney. There is one Counsellor and two Iees. A base ball team_could hardly be recruited in the city, as there are no Catchers or Pitchers and but one Iiclder, the latter a lady. There is no Shot in the city, although there is one Shotwell, but it is thought he will live through it, In the event of war Omaha {s prepared for trouble,for in addition to the one private and the 300 ofticers stationed at the fort we have four Spears, four Pikes, three Bowies, thir- teen Cannons and two Gunns. The dead could easily be buried us there are two Cof- fins and sixteen Graves. Spies would be se- verely dealt with as wo have a Rope for all such characters, ‘The city’s morals will not suffer as will be scen on examination, for we have thirteen Churches, fifty-i Bells, twenty- three Bishops, fourteon Parsons and one Deacon, Neither will the educational busi- ness be negle us there are twelve Deans to manage the schools in addition to the pro- fessoress of the cooking department. We are away upin society also, having eight Dulk eight Princes, seven Judges. fifty-three Kings and six Chamberlains, One Hack and one Hackman constitutes the city’s livery at present, although the one Cartwright is busy all time endeavoring to find employment for the thirty-six Carters, J Wt hair and whiskers are a novelty, are six Barbers and one Comber, who have four Combs and three Shears to work with, There is plenty of Gold in Omaha, seven- teen Goldsmiths and three Goldgrabers. The last will probably get away with the dust. In mhlil{ll)n to this treasure there are six large 5. It is sad to relate, but there is room for a temperanco reform movement in the city, there being by actual count six Bowls and three Bowlers, Besides the Big Muddy there are one Riyer and tweuty three Brooks,across which are fifu s, nineteen of which must be iron, as there are five Woodbridges. Of the population the number must be middlo-aged, as sixty are Young and only one Old Amusements are plentiful, there is ouwe & Shipmen. There Punch except in wint chased at the old stand. icre are seven- toen Parks and sixteon Groves, in whicn can bo found twenty-one Roses of various hues. Two Vil ards are inside the bonndary, and three O rds, in which Apples flourish ex- tensiv The city is well fixed for music as there is in addition to the Salvation avmy band nire Harpers, three Pipes, three Pipers, two Fid lers and twelve Horns. There is not one Whitmore, howe this is all. Although there are six Farmers ther but oue Coun- tryman and two Goodfelloy Mutters in labor circles are quiet at pres- ent, there being but one strike, that on the B, & M., and two Strykers. There is in the miscellaneous names oue Hee and one Buz- zen, niveteon Bowers but no avces, fifty-six Adaws und no Eves, although there must at one period of the city's existeuce been one of the latter as we find Eveson. The climate is divided into two seasous as we find nine Sommers and nine Winters chhave twonty Frosts, one Rain and » Snows whichall oecur in thirty-foar Days. A prowracted search through the work fails to discover the nale of Finis, End or Last 80 the one solitary All is substituted and this article is finished” by the two people named Close. Co M, J. For sailing soner one Shipp and four ¢ four Judys, but no when it can be pur. e CONNUBIALITIES. The modern widow's cruise is & voyage for a husband. That white Chicago girl who eloped with and married a gro was doubtless color blind. A Missouri widow has brought a libok suit against au editor for publishing an obit Bary that she deceased had KOne to & happier home. A Louisville drumwmer ran off with three girls between nipgteen and fifteon years at one and the same time from Jonesboro, Tenn. A Georgia_ ofitor, blessed with a protty sister, begs for an exchange with a quili- driver of the'iext town who is similarly for tunate. <illfol Mamma—I do hope the will go off to-morrow Father—Egad, 4 don't chance 1f a man suod for breach of promise were set up the defense of temporary ins: could certainly prove b case by refere to old love letters. The “clovér wedding™ to be celel the fourth anniversary of the ceremion the latest festal ¢ opruent of the ol stitution of matrimony. Maggie Hughey, a Pittsburg woma forty, was married on Friday to her husband just five hours after her lamented No. 2 bad joined the silent majority. They are original down in Georgia even in their golden weddings, Peter Cleveland, of Elbert county, the other day celebrated his with the woman who was his second wife. ‘‘How did you manage to capture such a handsome wife, Mr. Tucker, when you are ch a homely man?” “O, my good clothes 5 1just puton my best bib and tuck ceromony without a hitch, It's Eleanor's last A Rochester (Penn.) widow has brought suit for 100,000 damages against the wealthiest man of the place, because he called at the house four times within a year and will not marry her, The throwing of rice at weddings is evi dently a heathen custom, as in India and other countries to this day rice is showered on the expectant youth when he goes to the house to get his bride. Rice is the emblem of fruitfulness. The complaint made by a Chicago woman in her application for divorce is that her lord and master retired with his boots on. His defense will undoubtedly be that his other half had cold extremitics, and he feared being frozen to death. Dakota has the latest wonderful old couple —Mr. and Mrs_Salisbury, who are respec- tively ninety-nine and ninety-seven years old 0 have lived in wedlock for seventy- n of them, and are to-day bale and happy in the far western home. As a wedding party was driving through the strects of a Pennsylvania town on their way to the church at which the ceremony wasto be performed, the carriages drove overa little girl, killing her immediately. The arrest of the party prevented the mar- riage, and it has been postponed. At the hacienda of Rio Florida, in Mexico, there lives a man 120 years old. His wife is in her 111th year, The owners of the bacienda and the peog]o of the neighboring plantations anticipate the pleasure of giving this aged Indian couple a great many presents on the 100th anniversary of their ding day. The oddest breach of promise case yet is reported from Albany where the wouldn’t- be bridegroom after jilting the girl himself, was mean enough to go round telling that she had fits, and so spoiling her charms alto- gether. This was more than woman born of woman could stand; hence these tears to the extent of £5,000. At Black river Falls, Wis., a fourteen- year-old girl and a sixteen-year-old boy were maurried, with the consent of the parents. At the hour fixed for the wedding the bride- groom was playing ball, and as soon as the ceremony was. over he went back to his game while the bride resumed her inter- rupted play with some of the neighbor girls. Out in Texas an eloping bridegroom who found himself, if not between the devil and the deep sea, at least between a pursuing wouldn’t-be father-in-law and an unfordable river, ended matters by taking his sweet- heart in his arms and boldly swimming across to the Cherokee nation, where a kindly minister jnade them one in the most expeditious manner possible. A wedding octurred at Westbury a few days ago which las created no little amuse- ment and talk in the community. Henry Green, a well-to-do colored resident, ninety- three years of age, after a prolonged court- ship was united’ to Mrs. Henry Tanlier, a widow, also colored, who is in her eighty- seventh year, Both the parties huve been married before. A young man from Joplin secured a mar- riage license from the rece with the intention of mur; Sunday. Tuesday he returned the license to the recorder and asked him to change the lady’s name to another, ing that the other girl had *‘gone back on'him,” but that he was “bound to marry, all the ne.” The re- corder suys this is the third e of this kind that has occurred during the year. ————— SINGULARITIES, A calf was born on the farm of Michael iibbons, Cambria, county, Penn., without the remotest sign of a tail. There is a very remarkable apple tree in Rockingham county, S. C., it Is said, which has borne fruit for a number of years, but has never been known to blossom. Near Pendergrass, Ga., a big killed a_catbird in fair fight, biting it at the end of the tongue, and by its venom paralyzing the bird before it could crush the insect. A barrel of Ohio river water which took the place of a barrel of Ciucinnati whisky traveled 11,000 miles, and kept in a storehouse seven years before the fraud was discovered. An animal having a head and forefeet like a squirrel and hind feet like a coon hus been killed near Augusta, Ky. Several hunters of that section, when shown the carcass de- clared that they had not seen oune like it be- fore. A son of W. N. Hammond, of McDonough, Ga,, killed a snake of the coachwhip species recently that measured nine feet and five inches from the tip of his tail to the split in his tongue. It had feet like a frog und meas- ured six inches between the eycs, Surprising the antics of lightning at times In Murphysboro, 1L, last week it wrested a knifo from the hand of 4 cook (working in a hotel, whose chimney the lightning wrecked) and knocked down a newspaper repovier, Neither of the persons were injured, Mrs. Emma Althouse, the famous Attica (N. Y.) sleeper, is improving, the length of her slecps having lessened considerably, while she has picked up much m bodily health. In the last two wecks her longest sleep has been for three days and four nights. Recently every English sparrow nest un- der the roof of the Union passenger depot at Macon was pulled down. On Saturday there were six full-size nests back in place, and now there ure a dozen more, It is suid that they build by the el ric light, and thus make such rapid progr Mr. R. LjHale, of Athens, Ga., has an egg which is a very paculiar phenomenon, It is the regular shape, except av one end, from which projects a shell about the size of a goose quill fully half an inch long and open at the end, through which the entire inner portion of the egg can be sven. Six montls ago a resident of Millersburg, Kentucky, recelved a pony trom a frieud iy g in the Indian territory, and the story is that, very recently, the animal escaped from his new master, wandered off through several states, swam over a number of rivers, and on Monday last reached his old home. A strange - disooy was made upon the locomotive *Phaeton’’ of the Lowell system, Hoston & Laine railroad, recently by the engineer. A nest of rats wore found under the footboard of the cab. There were three old rats and four or five young ones. The engine is housed at Greentield i 'y night, and it s supposed that he boarded the train and made their nests, Susman Rothschild, of San Francisco, a re tired millonaire, came east to visit his brother Joseph, whom he had not seen since they two scparated after landing h from Germuny forty years ago, and reached Joseph's residence 1n New Haven just as the CArriages came back m the cemetery with the mourners who bad followed him to the grave. A recent deer bhunt near Martiu, Tenn. came to a queer end. After the sportsmen had chased the deer for sev wiles and the hounds were close on its heels, the fright ened animal turned suddeuly and running up to oncof the huuters tucked its head under his arm, as if for protection. one had the heart to kill the pleading aaimal, and the hunt was abandoned. There wasa peculiar suicide in Lancy Park, Elmira, N. Y., the other morning. A robin redbreast, deserted by 1its mate sought to drown its misery in death. Tak ing & long string, which he had picked up to put into its nest, he swung it around a bough, then wound it around his neck and expired. The body hung in the tres all day, aud many podestrisus gazed at it curiously ~ e ‘The receipts for the year of the American Haplist Missionary Union are $5%0,55%. ack spider BEE: SUNDAY, JUNE 3, 188.—SIXTEEN PAGES. MR. SAMPSON, OF OMAHA, SAYS: AND IT IS TRUE THAT The Burlington tak 8 the lead. It was in advance of all lines in developing Nebraska. It was in advance of all lines in establishing dining car service between Missouri river points and Chicago. It was in advance of all lines in giving the people of Omaha and the west a fast mail service. It was in advance of all lines in running its trains from the east into Omaha proper. It was in advance of all lines in reducing the time of passenger trains between Omaha and Chicago. It was in advance and is the only line by which you can leave Omaha in the morning and arrive in Denver the even: ing of the same day. It has been progressive in the past. It will lead in the future. Travel and ship via the Burlington. Ticket Office 1223 Farnam Street. Depot on Tenth Street. Telephone COURTING THE POETIC MUSE. Rhyme and Rhythm of a Heaven- Born Genius. THE MUSE IN A VERY BAD WAY Gen. oColby, Ool. Griggs and Capt. Humphrey Claim the Honor of Poet Lariat of the Big Blue. BeaTRICE, Neb, May 31.—[Correspondence | of Tie Bee,]—There is no sunshine without its shaaow. Some writer of «the olden time suid there was “‘no rose without a thorn Neither is there a rose without a bush. Life is uncertain and some men have bunions. All of these misfortunes sit at our thresholds, and no life is free from error. Friendships are broken and vowsof love forgotten. Truth is stranger than fiction and more rare. Here on the banks of the classic Blue, where erst- while the lusty yell of the untutored Otoe Indian resounded; where the white man came not and the buffalo played his pranks upon the plain—here, now, the busy map of civilization, with fluctuations and vast con- the home of two full-fledged, pas- sionate poets, who blend the beauty of the world into gobs of surprising grandeur, For years, with none so daring as to claim his crown, Hon. N. K, Griggs occupied the posi- tion of poet lariat toall Gage county and the country lying roundabout. I remember, as I write these lines, the thousand gers and pearls of ravishing and rythmic rhyme dashed off in the face of law by Mr. Griggs, and those who with me remember them can never forget the rounds of applause clicited thereby. One in particular, two verses of which I now rccall, fills me yet, eveu as it filled then, with a sort of a desire to die. It was: In the beauty and the splendor Of the sun-set's ruddy glow Stood a maiden, tall and slender, ‘Target-shooting ,with her bow. "Twas, indeed, entircly proper-- I shall write and tell her so, Yet I'll wager my last copper, She’d ratber had her other beaux. Any sane man, after reading the above, who would claim that the lines were not th Vi part and parcel of a heaven- genius would ‘“‘pastu; e on his grandfatber's grave. The lines dove-twltoa charming and de lightful degree: the plot 1s pleasant and so true to nature, that it appears, indeed, as though imagination and reality have blended into one beautiful hole- d there scems a lingering regret that the author did not blend with them. As a further evidence of Mr. Grigg's versatility, originality, and genius, 1 will give a few sample sl ks from hLis wild, weird and strange poem entitled, THE LAY OF THE LOON In the dank tarn of Auber at Blue Springs— Ta the olden time—long ago Lived a mad man who knew a fow things— Of the durk rolling river of PPo. Isee her—'tis the same love It vanishe ah! all oo n on my mind there's no stric- plcture— They call me a wild, woolly, loon, Well T know now the dim lake of Auber, This wisty mid region of coons Well I know, now, this dank tarn of Auber, This ghoul-hauuted woodland of loons. But to mean id baser things: General Colby has gonc from the low level of an unsuccessful politician and soared to the high realm of poesy and song, and s trying to gain, with the poet's screed, the honor and glory which his ambitions soul ycarned for, as mewber of the state malitia. He not only courts the poetic muse, but is guilty of the more inexcusable crime of having his productions printed in a Lincoln newspaper. It is said he intends joining Johu M Tnurston, who occasionally makes speeches on General t. and pive evening of song in several towns of the e where he can procure a license and get consent of the mayor and law-ubiding citize It is predicted that the gentleman will meet with suce is enjoined by Mr. Griggs who ased him of Infringing upon several pyrighted poems. My, Colby's programme is large and varied. sre give A Synopsis of it A Poem-—** a-hap-a haw,Chief of the Otoe Y L w.C A Poew lue River and the R G. M. Humphrey is un original poet W , and Las made several attempts Lo recite in public. If sucecessful,his effort alone will be worth the price of ad mission. At least it is predicted that after hearing bim every person will leave the hall. A Poem—Beatrice' seesrsele W. C SONG AND DANCE. . G. M. Humphry, N. K. Griggs Girig, will talk two hours, lence as winister Lo Smitz, unless he is expe Kritz or Litz If the audience remains otuer intecesting features will be preseated Herc isa sample of Mr. Colby's choice verse. Fair Beatrice! with a face An artist would chose to Paint an angel from— I he had a job of painting an angelt Many times and oft—Beatrice, Havy and yearned To look upon thy fair brow, And hear thee speak but one sweet word: if that ne word was only “Rats!” [Mr. Colby requests the audience to ap- plaud at this point. | This is a specimen brick of rhyme: There was an old Indiun chief, The story passes belief ; He was called Wal-la-Hap-a-Haw, To pronounce which broke his juw— And now lie's gone howe to his Pa! While many eitizons oninion that such poetrs pardonable offense, th fact that Gage county much geuius. ave exprossed their constitutes an un- re ot proud of the is the home of so AL FAnmroru. e MUSICAL AND DRAMA TIC. Rosina Vokes' nex on will begin in Canada September 1 Mrs. Langtry will begin her fall tour at Providence, R. L, September 10 Booth and Barret begin their next season at the Fifth Avenue in November. Sophie Lingwood, the burlesque actress, is now playing character comedy in South Afri Mexican opera igne, the com The Arounsons are h: written for them by Chass poser of “Nudjy.” Pauline Ducca has reached the last stage of prima donnas, She is giving swimming lessons in Vienna. Lawrence Barrett and wife and Miss Mill- ward, the English actress, sailcd for Liver- pool on Wednosday. Owen Pawett, of the Booth-Barrett combi- nation, will star' next season in a new Ameri- can comedy entitled “Whose Husband?” nd Mrs. W. J. Florence will make st visit to the south this fall, playing ecnwall’s Texas and Louisianna cir- cuits Pauline Hall abaadoned her engagoment with tne Carleton Opera company at Balti- more because the mauager would not begin the season with ‘Nanon.' Miss Ilorence Ashbrooi is New York. Her powerful S0MIE SLUEE APPEATANCce Wi features of the tour of Paris.” It is reported tha musician, has during which he is w giv which he will receive penses. Signor Capanini, it is said, intends resting in this country during the summer, and tak ing the road about the middle of November pany of Italian artists for a season back again in ting and hand the chief ranglers of Dr. Huns Von Bulow conducted Beotho- vew's niuth symphony in lerlin lately. Half an hour after the performunce Le re worl, 50 that its beauties Irving is to produce “Macbeth' in December and his admirers look forward with i st Lo the ovent. It is suid that Miss Ellen Terry will realize a long che ished wish to walk the stage as “'Lady Mucbeth.” Frank Mayo will return to *“Davy rirock tr next season as his pr ) will not dispense with * altogethier and it is likely that Katherine s will be cngaged to support him in tier drama, “Sim red at Berlin nine months ago, has rewritten, and w brought out nat the same theatre where it bas proved a fiasco. A. M. Palmer has given Lester Wallack a check for $20,000 for the performunce at the 7 Metropolitan opera house in his 1 receipts were over $22,000, 's benefit amounted Lo &6, orge Holland's to %23,000, and Jobn 0's 10 $18,000, Signor Campanini's concert tour was fin vially as suceessful as his operatic enterpr was lamentable and disastrous. Upward of 50,000 was re ed in eighty conc formanc gnor Campanini will all sumine sden’s last work was on the new comedy he was writing for Corinne This, as well as the new pioce fo W anlon, was left unfinished The late 1 possibl. tist and intimate friend of Marsden, may take up of the unfinished work and carry it rd to completion. wperatic singer atter is an_ardent of the colonel’s writiugs. Not long ¢ asked him for his photograph. Oune was sent to Lor bearing this besutiful senti ment: “lmagine amethysts, rubics, dis monds, emeralds an od toglther. Tmagine this molten to & tone, wnd you have the voiceof Sgalehl” Margaret Mather's contract with J. M Hill will not expire until 1s91, vet she nus mide a new contract with Gilmore & Tomp. kins. It is said that Mr. Hill has eungags Maurice Bareymore as leading man for Miss | Mather, and that her season will open on September § at Miner's theater, Newurk. It not been stated who Gilmore & Tomp- kins have engaged as Miss Mather's support, nor where they are to open her scason. ——— Wyoming ana rado Oil Fields. Dexver, Colo.,, May 28.—[Correspondeace of Tnr Bek.]—The fortunes that have al- ready been made by the operators in the petroleum field of Colorado, and the tenacity with which their continued efforts control the production, is arousing attention here to the oil producing districts of Wyoming. The United Oil company of fmv.‘.?. with Senator Hill at its head, ‘controls the output of thirty wells clustering about Florence in Fremont county, Colo., distant 150 mues south of Denver. This company or its usso- ciates also control the greater porion of known producing territory in_that section. By arrangement with the Standard Oil com- pany, the product of their refineries is en- tirely absorbed by the latter company. Tlie result is that consumers in_the city of Denver pay the retail price of thirty cents per gallon for first-cluss illuminating oil, Towns similarly located cast in proximity to refinerics, would pay for the same product ten or twelve cents per wallon at retail. By reason of the absorption of the bost known producing territory in Colorado by the foregoing combin there is no in- ducement for small refiners to compete for this trade. From Denver the Standurd has nineteen distributing points westerly and southwesterly without reference to the Pa cific const. Wyowing is in all respec concerned, as remote as Moutana, far and yet but 100 miles 1 to the zeal of the ils for the longer haul to Omaha and precludes the possibility at pres- ent of making Denver a distributing point for the petroleum of Wyoming, With these facts in view and the present and prospective high price for refined oils at retail throughout this northwest, serious con- sidoration is boing given by a firm of refiners to a proposition ty make Green River, a town on the Union Pacific railroad, 157 miles east of Ogden, a distributing’ poiut the present producing territory the western Wyoming field. By pipe line this is loss than 100 miles distance from the mills, and would secure against all opposi- tion, eight of the nineteen distributing points of the Denver association. It will supply tne towns of Washington ritory, Oregon, Nevada, Idaho and Montana,and compete for the trade of Nebraska, J<ansas and Dakota. kverything requisite for refining oil can be procured at home, This field has alre: as far as Den- y 4 capacity for pro- duction exceeding the entire output of Colo- rado. This territory being also free from the control of syndicates, and open to the in- dividual driller'as well s to corporatious as , there is no obstacle to the in pushing the drill. There are at present five producing wells in Wyoming with a daily capacity Y30 barrels, and ten others in process of drilling that have not yet gone the ired depth to reach sands rock in their loc Mr. G, S, formerly of Tideoute, Pu., is now ticsnake distriot wnd will superintend the drill at that place this summer for the Cdlorado and Wyoming Oil compan M. H. Goudy, of Snethport, 4., is preparing to put up o rig on a brunch of Badwater, west of Rattlesnake mountain, ‘True to their first love, throughout the terri- tory various pioneers from Penusylvania are for being arge producers, i that, by early experience, the man d a good prodiicing well, however re- mote in the Allegheny mountains, the rail- 1 always came to him, and that history is ¥ o repeat itself whenever there is cause. And the preent price for refined oil inall the distri t of the Missouri river is sufficient cause also for the ercction of one or two refinerios o care for tug production and reap the profit “When Adam dolve and Eve B, Who was then' the gentles ] man?" This conundrum antedates our prerogative in matters of polite soclety, but we do Know that in the present| age and season, our Prince Albert Coats In light welghts and eolors, are the corret thing for gentlemen's business suit,| while the same style in f black worsted is the qua non of an robe. In th .n"‘" \ ¥ each d Zaa or trads - ring Dargaing sudted to the tiu 1