Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 27, 1889, Page 13

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THROUGH ATRENCIMAN'S EXE The Latest and Brightest Produc- tion of Max U'Rell. JONATHAN AND HIS CONTINENT. We Have a Wonderful Country, He Thinks, But Are Too Vain About It—=Omaha a F Chicago. America the Land of Conjuring. Last Saturday the latest production of thatbright and vivacious I'renchman, 1'aul Blouet, his nom de plume “Max npeared Paris. The N World's Sunday edition entire book in nearly two pug It is written in the It begins in tl world over by O'Rell,” York publishes the < of solid ithor's known the of in nonpareil. Lappiest s hrec 8Ly The population of America i3 tly eolon vein. sixty millions—m f the eart} and the Am Yos, sixty Kicking! amail Ameriea islarg ans are immense! all alive and shman was one d the An Eng ton i'ren British empire W honsting of the himun of immensity ne exelaimed to finish up with, *‘the sun son the Eng- lish possessions, m not surprised at that,” the good Frenchman, 10 keep his eye on the However, the sun ¢ New York to Suan incisco and light, on his passage, free nation which, in 1776, begged England to mind her own affairs for the futur Commenting on the marvelousggrowth of the great republic, the author suys: From east to west, America stretehes over a breadth of more than thre: thousand miles. Herc itis well to put the readers on their guard, in case an American should onc vut to them one of his favorite questions: “Whe is the center of America?? T myself imagined that, starting from New York and pushing westward. one would reach the ¢ Anierica on iving at s 0. Not so, and here Jouathan has you, He knows you are going to answer wrongly, and if you want to please him you must let your- self be canght in this little trap, becanse it will give him such satisfaction to put youright. At Sun Francisco.it appears e arve not quite half way, and the cen- of Ame is really in the Pacific an. Jonauthan more than doubled width of his continentin 1867, when, for the sum of $1,000.000, he purchased retorted the sun is obliged nnow travel from Not sutisfied with these immensities, Jonathan delights in contemplating his gh magnifying glasses, and one must forgive him the patriot- ism which makes him see cverything double. To-diy tion, strid Towns through the earth inhabitants. church hotels, and banks was, perhaps, but a year or twongo pateh of marsh or forest. To-da 5 fashions are fol- lowed there as closely as in New York or London. I Awmer iliza- iant’s opulation, hing ad progress, « inees with m to spring up town, with 20,000 schools,libraries, sa everything is on an im- mense scale. The just pride of the eiti- zens of the young republic is fed by the grandeur of its rivers, mountains, des- erts. eatars its suspension bridges than twenty . Kansus City, Minne be sb many Chicagos, Louis, Louisvilles. NATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS, A nation searcely more than a hun- dred years old, and composed of many widely dillerent cloments, cannot, the nature of things, possess very marked characteristic traits, There are Americans in pl the American does not yet exist. The inhabitant of the northeast states, the Yankee,differs as much from the western mun and the southerner as the Englishman differs from the German or the Spaniard. For exumple, call o nd he will get rking: “You 0, sir, but wes nothing.” Call o Pennsyl- ania man *a cad,” and he will get out of temper and knoek you down. Call | Westerner “‘acad,” and he will sot out his revolver and shoot you ad on the spot On leaving a vears Omaha, apolis, will Cincinnatis, St. ty, but Yankee man out of the ew York theatre one ht an Amer| iend jumped into Broadway re " were quite sixty persons packed upon the vehicle, sitting, standing, holding on to the /| on the platform, trying to keep their equilibrium s well ‘as they could. A gentlemun, well dressed and looking well bred, signed to the conductor to stop and tried to make his way throug the crowd. By dint of using his elbows as propellovs, he renched the door and wis i to alight, when a man, having been pushec people who for their expeet to travel as comfort- ably us in o uche), eried: “You are a cad, sir, a howling ead.” The gentleman jumped off the car. “Youure n cad, I say.” bellowed the individual after him, *u cad, do you h The gentleman—for he was turncd, lifted his hat and replied: “Yes, I hoar; and you, siv, are a per- feet gentlemun, The perfect gentleman looked very silly for u few moments. A hundred ds further on he stopped the car and made off, Should & minister indulge in unortho- dox theories in the pulpit, the eastorn man will content himself with shaking s head and going to anotherchurch to perform his devotions the Sunaay after, The Peunsylvanian will open a violent polemic in the nowspapers of the locsl- ity. The Kansas man will wait for the minister at the church door and give him a sound thrashing. The character of the American is glish from the point of view of its contrasts und contradietions, which are still more accentuated in bim than in the Englishman. Is there anything more sublime than the way in which Jouathau cun com- bine the sacred and profane? Helis a greater adept at it than John Bull, and that is saying not a littl wn boavd the steamer, we Amoricans who passed the e the voyage in playing pok Tho smoking-room vang from worning to rht with the oaths that they uttered v time they laid a card on the table, ) so fluent with them that hardly used the same twice in an hour. Theirstock seemed inex istible, On Sunduy, after breakfust, a young lady sat down to the piano, and {wguu laying hymns. What happened thon? ur tive poker players gathered round the lady, and, for two hours,sang psalms and holy hymus to the edification of the other oceupants of the saloon. I was dumfounded, In France we huve men who swear, aud men who sing hyms. The Anglo- at one— had five it days of Saxon race alone car both with e P do both v jual g that matte tory goes the round of viys put down to M I'witn or the late Arte when states Depow mus Ward 1 an Wi, 0 s of his cure menting the stained-g windows of This proceeding aroused the suspicions of several par- ishioners, who imagined that their new lined to lead ther neeting was « 4 osend a deputation < him to explain } the offc than he set about orn church with nues. gorgeous stor was lod to the is con- s dec ding tion was an an itios I known in the re by opened verend gentloman thus: have waited wpon t you will remove those pa from possible. We s folks, God's own light is for us, and w don’t want to_have it shut out by those images’ The worth you, sir our church as simp! wd eno are mun had prepared harangue, mmd was going o give minister the fit of it ail: but lutter, losing patience, thus interrupted him cuse me, you seem to he t igh ground: who are you, may I ask “Who mm 127 repeated the good old spokesman, 1 am a meck and humble follower of Jesus, that's what [ am, aud ——d——n you, wh ons Without traveling very even quitting the eastern con ien, you will see a complete in the rit of towns that neighhors In New York, ng without of Amer- difference are almost I am not of for instance--- speaking now of the literavy society. which [ shall speak later---in ow York. it is your moncy that will open all doors to you; in Boston 1t is your learning:in® Philadelphin and Viegini it is your ¢ ogy. Therefore, if you ish to be ceess, wle your dol- ars in New York, your talents in Bos- ton, and your ancestors in Phitadelphia and Richmond. There is to the char Y less than a century pronounced childish side of all Americans. [n they have stridden ahend of all of the nations of the old world; they are astonished at their own handiwork, and, like children with a splendid toy of their own manufuc- ture in their own hangs, they say to you. “Look, just look. is it not a beanty?” And indeed, the fact is that, for him will look at it with un- the achicvement is like are, 3 s, ver : not American criticism of compliments, nsitive to vet got over Notes,” M and eriticism. Charles nor the still older Trollope. Scar v has a foreigner set foot in the wtes before they ask him what he thinks of .the country. Nine persons out of every ten you speak to, put these three qu ou: s this you t visit to Amer- r?" “How long have you been ovi **How do you like our countr, TYPE OF BEA Y. The American men are generally thin. Their faces glow with intelli- gonce and energy, and in this mainly consists their handsomeness. [ do not think it can he possible to sce anywhere a finer assemblage of men than that which mc at the Century club of New Yor ¢ first Saturday in the month, Tt is not male by such as the Groeks portrayed i, manly beauty in allits intellectual force. The hair, often abundant, is neglige, some- times even almost disordered-l0oking the dress displays taste and care with- out even aiming at elegance; the f; is pule and serious, but hghts up with an amiable smile; you divine that reso- tion and gentleness live in harmony in the American charactor The features ave bony, the straight, the nose sharp and often pinched looking in its thinuess. At times one 's to recognizo inthe faces something of the Tndian type; the temples indented, the che bones prominent, the eyes small, keen and deep set The well-bred mind a b ) 3) forehead American is to combination of the Frenchman nglishman, hay- ing less stiffness than the latter and more simplicity than the former, As for the women, I do nov hesitate to say that in the east, in New York espe- cilly, they might perfeetly well bo taken for French women, It is the ne type, t sime gait, th ne vi- vawity, the same petulance SUI0 litude of proportions. The beauty of Ameri that of men 1w much animation of the face than to form or The average of good-looks d. 1 donot remem- ber to have scen one hopelessly plain woman during my six months’ ramble through the stites, Amcrican women generally enjoy that second youth which nature be- sLows #lso ou numbers of Frenchwomen, At forty they bloomout into a more ma- jestie benuty. The eyes retain their lire and lustre, the skin does not wrin- kle, the hands.neck and arms remain fiem and white, Itis true that in Amer- ica hair turns gray early., but, so from detracting from the woman charms, it gives her an air of distine- tion, and is often positively an attrac- tion. If the Americy descend from the English, their women have not in- herited from their grandmothers either their teeth, their hands or their feet. T have seen in Amerieca the daintiest lit- tle hands and foet in the world (this is not an Americanism), The New Yorkers and Bostonians will have it to be that Chies women have enormous feet and haunds. [ was will- 1ng to helieve this un to the day 1 went to Chicago. I found the Chieago women, and those of the west generally, prewty, with more color thun their custern sis- ters, only, us a rule, quite slight, not thin, That which my the in women, like is more to the lacking in the pretty American faces of the cast is cofor and froshness. e complexion is pale, and it is only their plumpness which comes to theirrescue after thirty and provents them from looking faded. Those who remain thin generally fade quickly; the complexion becomes the color of whity-brown puper, and wrinkles freely. If American women went in for more out-door exercise; if they let the outer air penetrate constantly into their rooms; if they gave up living in hot- houses they would have some color, and their beauty need perhaps fear no com- petition in Burope. -~ The veteran, Mrs. Keeley,who is well along in tue eighties, was oue of the spoctators on the first night’ of Lrying's *Maebetb,’ aud said afterwerd that, although she had acted in the play berself,'she had never seen the whole of it peformed before. She thinks any ?lulwuuld kill @ king if Klen Terry asked im 1o e o[ GOSSIP OF THE GREENRODY, | Anecdotes of Plays, Play-Goors, Ac- tors and Authors. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES Potter's First Night Rose C ™M gan's Reminise Mrs. was Our Mary ghlan's areis Caught Adventure hees, First Night, ald: Cleopatrs from “henefit” at had Dy ying the balcony scer om**Romeo and Juliet,” and before scurrying away again to the evening performance of Antony and Cleopatra’ snatching a hurvied meal her littl Brevoort house Very fair seemed M trifled with th vid to have witched away s vts than Murk Antony's. From her shapely head hung luxurious m of brown an admirable frame for the delicate fuce be- neath, the « cut the sensuous mouth and thoe liguid eyes—which just then happened to be bent on one of the Brevoort house waiters, She was elnd, ns usnal, in a<oft eling ing surnh dr vwn, winding and twining gracefully about her willowy ure, after the fashion wah, the dinphanous. “Do I remember my emotions on the first night ot *Antony and ( o murmured Mrs, PP ‘Say, rat shall 1 f *tthem! We had of it the unight before, rehoarsing steadily from 107in the eve- ning till 3or 4 in the morni when 1 crawled back to bed, uttorly exhausted, E apttill 2, ate a hasty meal, and about 7 o'clock found wyself in my dressing voom at the theater making 1y for the ordeal, Nervous? Well, [ faney | was more tired than nervous. The strain of the rehearsals was telling on me, and you koow I was about to make the great fort of my life. But [ found heurt of grace befc the curtain rose. 1 grew philosophic. As 1 stepped from the barge with Autony I must have been murmuoring to myself: I may fal. 1 may succeed. At the worst it will not be my first disappointment, and, please heaven, [ shall live to do bette “1 felt a hostile atmosphe in the stalls and box Something whispered to me that many had_come to the thea- ter hoping to see my discomiiture. The ch reassured m I got through the ordeal, and when congratulations flowed in after the sccond act 1 had al- most regained my sclf-posscssson. “TPo keep me up I took, as usual, a and bouillon. hat isall | myself. And so Lwent on, wellor L till Teame to the last act. [ had control of myself. Nature was and my strength [ was not as queeniy as 1 should have been: but 1 hope 1o do better soon. Come and see my Cleopatra in another fortnight an you may find it u very diffcront cffor Our Mary Was Caught. Miss Mary Anderson’s audience at Palmer’s theatre during the engage ment she recently pluyed at New Yor ys the Herald of that city, wer always impressed with the smooth course of the performances, but they probably never realized what it cost the actress to koep her presentations to the pitch of excellence. Miss Anderson was always in atten- dance at rehearsals. and during the performance she dircoted the setting of almost all the scenes. She is of a ver nervous temperament. and is grentl affected by any mishap. O night of the performance of * ter Tale™ here, in the closing act, when Hermione 1s disclosed as a statute, Miss Aunderson stepped from the pedestal and began to descend the steps. She had taken but three steps when she stopped. She swayed to and fro, but came no further and the king (Mr. Barnes) was obliged to ascend and meet her. and to the astonisifient of the audience, the scene u closed with Miss Anderson in that position. As soon as the curtain hid her from view Miss Anderson fainted. Her robes had got tan pedestal in some manner. No one had noticed it and she had been caught in atrap, unable to descend another step, and the scene hud been almost ruined. had tven back er's. She Pal she wa rooms ut the e vielding he of led about the Rose Coghlan's Adventure. New York Herald: Daring Christmas week Miss Rose Coghlan, who was then playing in New Orleans, met with the following romantic adventure: gone out one morning on for a ride over one of the running out of the eity, Her sso, which was a spivited animal wok fright at something by the rond- side and bolted. Being a ‘good rid Miss Coghlan kept her seat But the strain on her wrist beginning to tell on her strength, when a gypsy man van to her assistance and succeeded in stopping the horse. The man refused any puy for his services, und learning that there was a gypsy encmnpment near by Miss Coghlan rode thither, had her fortune told and made presents of money to the women and children. From | cuer she le d that he had never seen a vegular performun inu theater, and she therefore gave him an order for seats for the play. A day or two after she rode out to the encampment, ecurions to know if the gypsies had gone to the theater and what cffect the play had made upon them. The young mun who had stopped her horse recounted their visit to th theater, and when he spoke of the duel which Jocelyn (Miss Coghlan) lights, he added with great excitement: “1 watched you all through, lady, and I did not think you coutd handle the sword as you did, but I was veady,” and he tapped the sheath knife under his belt signiticantl wnd if you had not Killed tho man'T was ready’ to do it for you. © Mvr. Lackaye, who was Miss Coghlan opponent in the duel, now objects to her forming such realistic nequaintances, Mr. Harvigan's Reminiscences, ew York Herald: “The old variety theater has almost become a thing of the past,” said Mr. Edward Huarrigan one night recently. It was a pecu- liarly American institution, as much so as the music halls ave in London, and 1t had great respectability, too. Dramatic authors did not disdain in the old days to write far specially for the va iety houses, and some of the cleverest people could be fouud among their per formers. “Ithink the old variety stage ruined by the introduction of rum.” “Rum?”’ Yaes, the ullowing of liquor saloons, run in conneetion with the variety houses, that gave it its death blow, and the variety house as an institution has dwindled to very small proportious, “In its place we now have ‘teams’— that is, a iman and his wife who do some specialties and skotches, or brothers and sisters, and men and women who are partne Many of the best peeple of the old variety stage are now occuny- ing prominent places in legitimate drama, and I think that much of their was JANUARY SUNDAY The 27, 1880, -SIXTEEN PAGES. in the World. OWNING, KING & COMPANY Largest Manufacturers and Retailers of Fine Clothing TO TEHEE PUBI.IC Don't fail to visit our Great Special Suit Sale, which will not lastlong. going tast. Just look at them in our Fifteenth Street window. They are REMEMBER, ALL FRESH, NEW GOODS Which you can buy for half their value, $25 suits, $12.50; $20 suits $10; $18 suit™ $0; $16 suits, $8; P12 suits, $6, etc, CHILDREN'S SUITS Reduced nearly one half. Great reduction in our Hat department. UR MOTTO: One price and that the lowest. Money cheerfully refunded if goods do not suit. OWNING, KING & COMPARY, Southwest Corner Fifteenth and Douglas Streets, Omaha, Neb. MAIL ORDERS WILL RECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION. success, notably in comic opera, is duo to the training and equipment through which they made their mark in the earlier period.” MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Messrs. Booth and Barrett have begun a four weeks' engagement at Boston. Mr. Vanderfelt has gone to California to act as leading man to Mme. Modjeska. Miss Eawes, an American Spupil of Mar chesi, is going 1o sing *Julictie” at the Paris ud opora. lia Thompson, who a_short time ed this country, is seriously ill at write an orchestral symphony for the Leeds festival of next yea Bwmille Mathiéu's new opera, “Richilde,” has been produced at La Monnaie, Brussels, with an encouraging degree of success, Miss Ida Mulle will probably appear next season in a revival of one of Shakespeare’s plays, whicn is to be sent out from Chicago. 1f, however, she does not like her part i it shie will be starred in “Lattle Miss Voluey,” under the managewent of Mr. Ben Tuthill, her husband. The entire cycle of Wagner! was given for the first ti and cven without cuts at tho Berlin opera house on four evenings of the from December 14 to 21. The Berlin press speals of the great success of the perform- ances both artistically and financially It is said that on his return to M. Coquelin will be seen ¢ mar '8 fumous come A Fiearo,” and also in the title role of el let's “Chamillac.”’ There are further pros pects of *LeJulf Polonais, " Monsieur Poirie Movsicur Perrichon and Prosper Co rab Bernhardt's foreien tour has be en a brilliant success in all pects,’ says Loi don Truth, **but she will not_derive any pe manent béuefit from it, as her exper enormous, She actuaily makes her son an allowance of €240 a week, and her debts amount to £25,000, Sarah and her company alwuys lodge at the same b vhen she is ‘on tour,” and she 18 a Monte-Cristo-like host oss when things are going well and she is in ood humor.,” Marcus Mayer has just concluded arr ments with the Chicago & Alton railway for the transportation of Mary Anderson” and ter company from Boston to San | di Boston on 15 an ing a iightning trin to the Pacific coast. The special train will consist of two Pullman and soven cars for scenery. Miss Anderson will close her American tour in San Francisco, and will produce *“The Cup” there during her season Albert Niemann 18 now on the pension list of the Berlin opera nouse. He took leave of this institution, with which he has o nected 80 many years, very quietly on the 20th of December, singing Florestan in **1i delio.” He was announced to appear in **Die Gth ultimo, but requested % to be excused for that performance, as he wanted to avoid the ex citement of n public farewell, and the royal intendant granted the request. Ho will soon sail for New York, and bis appearance there as Tristan, Siegmund and Sieglried, in *Die Gotterdamimerung,” will be his lust in pub lic, as he will rétlre from tho stage for good, possessed of plenty of laurels and an inde vendent fortune. “Nibelungen “Children, the building is on fir we will to close for to-day,’” Captain W, W, Wallace, assistant su- perintendent of the Sunday-school of Memorial Presbyterian church, yester- day afternoon as he quietly ascended tho platform, suys the Philadelphin North American. *"There is no danger,” he continued, *and you will pass out by el a8 usual,” The large doors of the room opening on Bouvi street and Montgomery avenue swung noiselessly on their hinges and the wonderful scene of tive hundred children passing quietly out of o buildinh in which flames were roar- ing and erackling, with the air about them filled with millions of sparks mingled with the falling snow-flakes was viewed with admiration by the offi- s and teachers of the school and hundreds of citizens who had been at- tracted to the place by the five, S0 quietly and orderly did the httle ones leave the room thav not the slight- est accident of any description occur and not a single ery of alarm said [ ANYALSOF A NEBRASKA TOWN Some Inhabitants Who Have Made Themselves Famous. AN OVERFLOW OF HARD CASES A Few Little Incidents in Which Re- volvers Were Prominent Actors— A Newspaper Correspondent and the People He Met. Covingto 10N, Neb., Jan, 26.—[Special to T Br Your correspondent ar- rived in Covington, the wide-famed town located in Dakota county, directiy opposite Sioux City, yesterday evening about 7 o’clock. In strolling about the place, I was fortunate enough to meet several old- timers, one of whom furnished the fol- lowing information regarding the early history of the town that to-day. pe haps, harbors more bad cl proportion o its population than any other town in America: The town was loeated in October, 1853, and tthe first business established thercat was a boarding h grocery, and suloon combined. which was con- ducted by a man named Jim Weller, At that time one of the most beautifu and valuable belts of cottonwood timber to be found anywhere along the Mis- souri river, adorned the banks of that stream for miles abo and below the town site. This naturally attracted set- tlevs, and land scekers poured into the new town atan exceedingly rapid rate. there being ns many as three, and in many instances, five claimants 1o a sec- tion of lund., A sawmill was soon_ put in operation where Sioux City totday stanc and the stately cottonwoods were felled to the ground and anked™ across the B s fust as human bands could *y n, each man triving to ge s with more logs than his “near neighbo After the timber had heen thoroughly stripped. the army of home-scekers in the west, turned their attention to the fertile lands that have since muade Da- kota county fainous as a corn-growing district Here, trouble commenced in eurnest, From three to five men were located on every qu tion of lund, cuch claiming the right to hold it Quarrels, fights, and rumors of fights, were numerous, and in one instance a dispute over the rightful ownership of n picce of land abjoining Covington re- sulted in COLD-BLOODED MURDER, One P. J, Gillett, from Illinois, ac- companied by a wite and two children, in August, 1854, pre-empted and crected a small but comfortable log cabin on the land, and with spudes he and his faithful companion had labored eurly and late turning up the sod, prepar tory to planting a crop the following spri This paticular very desivable one by three other me and another, whose name your ecor pendent could not learn. One day while the trio were discussing the mat- ter in the presence of soveral citizens of the youthful burg, it was agreed that the th play a game of it-throat’ euchre to determine which of the purty should CovIN ters in piece of land was u and was coveted Brown, Johnson SHOOT GILLETT, L his being the only means by which he could be removed from the land he had chosen for & home. T party repaired to Weller's saloon, played the game, aud “stuck” Brown. Here the third party, whose name, as stated above, could not be learned, pro- the lips of any member of the large crowds. posed Lo “eut” the cards with Brown, offering to d KIL in caso Brown ime the responsibility of ING GILLETT cut” the highest card Brown “‘cut” the queen of diamonds, and his contestant the nine spot of spades. This was on the 17th of Sep- tember, 1854, and the next day Gillet came to Covinglon to procure some groceries, and the fellow the day pre- vious aliotted to “‘remove” him, invited him up to the bar to drink. along with Brown and Johnson, and while Gillett was drinking, shot him in the back, KILLING M ALMOST INSTANTLY. The murderer fled immediately to the sses near Dakota City, whe he concoaled himself for several days, when he finally wed, crossing the river in a skiff at Pon There several residents of this county who remember the occur- X whom Colonel C. D. Martin, I of the North N sk Argus; Colonel B. Bates, now in Dakota City,and others. T will skip a number of yei following the shooting of Gillett, during whicn period nothing of impor ance occurred in the way of tragedies except the carving to d hof a man named Pitzgerald, and this was the ve- sult of a saloon row. A number of years then passed away without adding materially to th of erime of the place, the next ttempt ay taking human life being made about one year ago by a saloon- keeper of the place, who shot a colored man, but for a fow paltry dollars in- dueed the son of Africa to not appenr against him, Thus things ha since Town's stringent proh laws have for the to it of Sioux City to st pustures new and ficlds more invitin The very darkest and most daring crimin- als of the Soudan district in the city op- posite this pluce, were raided by Cur- tiss and other Sioux Cit Is and compelled to abundon the and f'ee to Nebr / a town of their it. There are about forty or either divectly or indirectly in the sule of liquor, a whom seem to regard tho hiesi re- iitiou of the luws governing the traftic, either the heightof fully or ex- treme cowardi I visited Covington yesterday o v myself as to their respect for the sabbach, and found suf- ficient evidence 10 confivim the reports in circulation. Every saloon was wide open, and instead of their manifesting the least uneasiness at the cntr into their dens of iniquity on the Lord’s day, which they wiure is o violation of the law, they seemed to ns- sume an air of pride and defiunce, and the clinking of glasses together and the shuMe of the pastehoards would tend to make one forget that there was a day known in the seven as a day of rest. By some menns o certain rumseller got onto the fact that a newspaper cor- jondent was *‘on the ground,” and he took particalur pains to give it out that he did not care a steaw for news- paper reporie sounty authorities, or anyhody else, On the 10th of September last one William Crone, whose parents reside in the western purt of this county, vis ited this pisce, having upon his person some eighty odd dollars. He was in- vited to take a drink from a bottle in the hands of n man whom he supposed tobea friend, and within thirty-fiv minutes thereafter he was a corpse. After taking s drink from the bottle young Crone immediately took th train for Dakota City, the “county seut, where he had some business to transact. As the pulled into the county seat oung man complained to a p: in the same seat with him of fecling s nd after alighting from the train he started to walk up town, but when near the court house he wus seized with conyul- sions, and fell on the walk. Sheriff Brasfield at once summoned Dr, Wil- kinson, who, upon examination of the unfortunate, pronounced 1t a clear case among own. v men ted of coy of poisoning. The doctor administerep a quantity of antidotes, and left word to again call him in case the young man showed signs of recovery, but he waus again seized with o it and expired be- fore the physician could arrvive. The coroner was telc phed for and a post-mortem was held, which revealed the fact that decensed came to his donth by poisoning with strychnine. This, howcver, wias not the most startling featurcs of the young man’s sudden death. The testimony of his fathe , and several intimate convinced the large ndance at the inquest that voung Crone had been robped and pois- oncd, s it was sutisfactorily shown that he had left home the day pi us with over eighty dollars; that he was not an extravagant young, and that he could not have spent over six dollars of the eighty, while something loss than two dollars were found in his possession at the time of his death, PUNCHED COWS IN OMAHA. A Pioneer Cattleman Indulges Some Reminiscences, A stout thick-set man with long hair and whiskers streaked with silver hairs leisurely paraded through the rotunda of the Tremont hotel, in Chicago, a few nights ago, s the Chieugo Times. He wore o brond-hrimmed sombrero and the regulation French-heel cowhoy boots. His stocky form was developed in a long bear’ skin cout. The fur und the collar and cufls was of a it color, and its length made it a feature. His manner wis coxtremely terse in conversation, but i interestin He was John ,a pioneer cattl ser of the t, who had “punched cows™ over the very lund on which Omaha is now sit- uated. “Our old ranges are nigh all gone,” saidhe, *The railronds have their eye on whut little land that’s not taken up by the grangers in my country, and us stockmen will have to build fences if we want to stay in the business. Now- adays there is one thing in the west that [ miss,and thatisthe *‘tenderfoot,” e used to come up from *Bosting,” Now York and London, you know, armed with four or five kuives,an ax and a 2 libre revolver, to revolutionize the W ountry. He gencrally staid a few days, then would leave for the const. IR forget o young tenderfoot,” said Mr. Pasco merry twinkle in his ey crazy 10 be i cowboy, and came runch at Hat croek, Wyomin him that we only used e¥pericnee to handle eattle, but that h on the ranch as a horse he very easy job to watch o sm cow ponies, and I wanted much. The young foreigner said reluct- antly that if he could not be a cowboy he would have to herd hovses, So I put nim to work the unext morning, littl thinking what trouble the “tenderfoot” would us, We were just startin on the spring round-up and the new lad was watching all the horses save those that were used by the cowboys, At night just as we were about 1o Inake & shift the Englishman came dushing into amp and yelling to me. He was %0 ex- ted that he could hardly speak, but in a few moments he exelaimed: **Say Mr. Pascoe, if you ut me to herd horses you will hiave to get me another lot, for I lost the others.” We were obliged to work all night to find our horses 0 that we could go on with the worlk, and the boys nor the tenderfoot ver forget't incident,” The “Little Lord Fauntieroy’ which has been organized fc will play but one engagement before opening in San Francisco, and that will bo at Ford's opera house in Chicago, during the week of March 1 in inglish , with u s was to my I tolil men could work rder, It is o 1l bunch of man very company California, e Angostura Bitters, endorsed by physi- cians and chemists for purity and whole someness. Dr. J. G. B. Siegert & Sons, sole manufacturers. Ask your druggiste