Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 19, 1889, Page 11

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDA A LONG AND BUSY SESSION. A Vast Amount of Business Tran- sacted by the Council. THE DOG ORDINANCE ADOPTED A Communication From Comptroller Goodrich Relative to the Short- age In the Police Court Clerk's Accounts. The City Council. I'he shortage reported in the accounts of Police Court Clerk J. Woods was placed vefore the council at its meeting, last night, oy the following communication from City Comptroller Goodrich: “In the matter of the report of the police e, 1 find several discrepancics between docket and report which lave been sharged up on his June docket. Tam also in possession of a number of receipts for the month of March, April and May for fines paid by prostitutes, whiclf have not been ac- zounted for in any of his reports, amounting in all to §330, which hus also been charged ap for June. Fowler cindorfl, architects for the new sity hall, presented a communication, recom- mending that all the brick walls now on the sity hall grounds be taken down, the work hfio done by contract, and the amount to be | Jeducted from the 50,000 fund, The mat- | ser was referred to the committee on public property and bulldings. A communication wus presented by I Festuer and others, complaining of the cun bersome and unsightly system of overhead wires, proposed by the Cousolidated street railway company, and asking the council to prohibit further extension of such wires by the company. The watter was referved to the committee on streets and alleys. “T'he contract and bond of Hugh Murphy for all brick paviug in the city during the yoar 1880 was ugain preseuted for approval. The contract was for the paviug of the streets awarded to tho Kansus City Paving gompany, and going to Murphy, by that com- pany's forfeit, as the next highest bidder, r. Wheeler said he thought it was a fact that could be proven that there was a col- lusion between the Kansus City Paving com - pany aud Hugh Murphy in the matter. He would oppose the contract and would oppose all kinds of sculduggery in which the city’s interests were at stake, Mr, Bedford said he could not understand why Mr. Wheeler had accused Mr. Murphy of collusion with the Kansas City Paving company, as other contractors had been iven a part of the contricts forfeited by the Kunsos City Paving compus, Mr. yder accused Mr. Whecler of in- dulging in spite work in his churges against Mr. Murphy. Atter considerable desultory discussion the contract was approved. ‘T'he council went to comuittee of the whole for the consideration of the proposition. to rent the board of trade room for use of the council. The lease was approved by the council with the modification that the council have the use of the exchange rooms for twenty-five day uicetings in each year. Tl council then took up the new dog or- dinance, which provides, i addition to the taxing provision now in_ force, for the muz- zling of ull dogs running at large when the mayor shall require it by procluma- tion; also the appointinent of & poundkeeper, who shall take charge of all_ untagged dows runnivg at large and keep tnem for a number of days, to give owners a chance to redeem thew, upon puyment of a fee of £2, unchuined dogs 1o be kiiled oy drowning or some sure and safe method; the poundmaster to receive a fee of $1 for the killing of each unchained dog, the amount to be paid out of the general fund, The ordivance as awcnded was adopted. The report of the city attorney recom- mending the paymentof §250to H. McGuckin and 250 to M. O'Neil, in settlement of their clains against the city, now pending in the courts, wus adopted. ‘Lhe action of the board of public works in excluding Utica cement from public works for the present year was sustained by the council. y The resolution of the board of fire and police commissioners, designating stands for cabs, hacks, uud other vehicles, was re- ported to the council and tabled in short order. Contracts and bonds were approved as fol- ow! Ed Phelan & Co., for the grading of Jones street from Iourteenth to Sixteentn; John A. O'Keefe & Co., for paving of alleys with Colorado sandstol J. E. Riley & Co., for paving Clark street Irom Sixteenth to ,l‘wunly-founh. and Vinton from Twenticth to Twenty-fourth, with cedar biock on sand and plank; the Barber Asphalt Paviag company, for the paving with asphalt of Izard street from Sixteenth to Eighteenth; J. W. Furnas & Son, for paving Pine and Worthington streets frow Eightn to Leuth, with Colorado sundstone. A communication from Judge Berka, ask- ing the council to authol some one in chiarge at the station to accept bail for pris- ouners arrested during the night, was placed on file, as the amended charter prot that the clerk of the police courtis authorized to perfown the service usked by the petitioner, “The report of the police judge, showing the adjudication in his court of 1,005 cuses in May, and the collection of $1,65 in fines, was referred to the committee on finance. The city comptroller reported that there is now due to the city from the Cable Tramway company for damages to sewers and reset- ting curbing on Twentieth street, § 3, which the compuny hus refused to pay. The mutter was referred to the city attorney with instructions to collect the amount due. A request from the motor company for ermission to commence the work of laying racks across the Eleventh street viaduct, was referred to the committee on viaducts and railways. A hvely discussion was evoked Ly the re- port of the committee on paving, curbing and guttering, recommending the approval of the action of the board of public works in excluding Mankato and Utica cement from the public works for the present year, Councilmen Towry and Haseall were strongly opvoscd to the proposed approval, City lngineer Tillson oexplained thav the board of public works iad excluded the ce- ment because they had not stood the test. An adjournwent was taken at midnight without any action wtwon the report. ——— SOUTH OMAHA NEWS, A Grist of Accidents, John Bohan, an employe in the hog cut- ting gang of the Armour-Cudahy packing company, while trimming a side Tuesday afternoen had the misfortune to cut four fingers off of one of his hands, and received o bad gash on the back of the hand, requir- ing a surgeon to put in eight stitches, Susan, the young daughter of Mr, and Mrs, Chester A. Evans, playing with an axe Puesday afternoon, cut the index finger of her right hand off. A surgeon was called, who dressed tho finger. Snortly before noon, Tuesday, a man, whose name could not be ascertaine who was employed n_ the new smoke-house of the Hammond Packing com- pany, was precipitated a distance of about fifieen fect by the breaking of a plank, on ‘which Le was stending, The man alighted on his head and received serious but not fatal injuries. He was removed to his home and properly cared for, SOUTH OMAHA NEWS, A Policeman Made a Target, A gang of vags h made the x. change crossing dangerous for some time, and Monday night, between 10 and 11 o'cloc] while Police Officer Loye went there in re- sponse to the request of citizens and began uostioning a gang of toughs about their gunun, one of the men stepped aside, and, drawing a reyolver, fired three shots at the officer and then fled, OMicer Loye tried 1o run the man down, but getiing between the cars he eluded him in the dark. Ofcer Loye deserves great credit for his courage- ous efforts 10 arrest the villain, Ore of the bullets came near being fatal, as it just W the head of i‘nnlf Clifford, of the uion Pacific depot force. £lectrie Light Dividena. The stockholders of the RElectric light powpany are delighted with tho result of the Brst six months' operation. Although only sixty per cont of the tock Lus been paid in @ dividend of #8510 a share has clared. This is equal to 27 per cent profit. The stock issued 18 §14,300, and the amount sold is #6,107.17. An assessment of 40 per cent has been levied to buy the new 50 in- candescent light system. been - Injured in a Wagon Upset. The delivery wagon of the South Omaha Tce company, upset Tuesday morning when rounding the corner at Twenty-sixth and | Twonty-second strect, throwing Henry Moyer, the driver, out and badly injuring lim, Mr. Moyer is badly jammed and bruised all over the body, but the surgeon summoned thought that his injuries were not fatal unless he had received internal hurt. Mr. Moyer was removed to J. Egiers’, Third ward and well cared for, Notes About the City. J. W. G. Touch, who has been spending three months traveling through the west, has roturned, and hus accepted a position with Swift & Co.’s Packine company. Mrs. Robert Robinson, Tuesday afternoon, was taken suddenly and seriously ill. The Caledonian society, at its last meeting, decided to hold a picnic July 4. Ex-City Engineer R. H. Lawrence will start this morning for a short visit to Colum- bus. Mr. and Mrs. Lon Kelloge, of Milwaukee, Wis., are the guests of Mrs. Frances Gilbert, who is a sisterof Mrs. Kellogg. Court Magic City, No. 168, L. 0. O, F., will hold its regularsemi-annual meeting Wednes- day evening, and will elect oficers. All mem- ed to attend.” Mrs, Eli H. Doud is listed among the sick. B. Lomson has returned to Atlantic, In. A villisrd match for big stakes is on the tapis. Arthur W. Saxe has returned from Lin- coln. Mrs. Black, of the Third ward, is among those on tho sick hist. Martin Tighe, of Valparaiso, is ig the city seeing to the grading of his valuable lots on Pwenty-fifth and O streets. John Giecason had a horse fail over the bank into Q street Tuesday afternoon, re- ceiving such injuries that it had to be killed. W. A, Taggert, of Kansas City, is the guest of Dr. J. M. Glasgow. The city council will meet in A. O. H. hall, Rewley's block, next Monday, June 24, from Ua, m. 1 5 p. m. to sit as a board of equaliza ton, The Sobotker base ball club has ordered suits consisting of black caps, white belts, white flznuel shirts with a blue dot. and blue flannel pants and marvon stockings. Hellman's Case. Yesterday afternoon Judge Iorka gave his decision in the cuse of the city vs. M. Helman for muintaining an uusafe building, the hearing ot which consumed the greater part of last week. In a somewnat lengthy docu- ment he summed up the arguments of both sides and fined the defendunt £30. This means that the building inspector’s order to tear down two stories of the structare should have been obeyed. Held to Court. Frank Abshire, the fellow charged with forcing Jimmy McDonald, a boy 7, to com- mit a most revoltmg crime against nature, was held to the district court in the sum of ¥ S Preston Succecas Groen. James E. Preston, contracting agent of the Chicago & Northwestern, at this place has resigned his position and been appointed passenger and ticket agent of the Chi- 20, Milwaukee & St. Paul, to succeed J. H. Green at this place. Mr. Green, who has been appointed passenger and ticket agent of the St. Paul & Kansas City road at Des Moines, left for his uew field of labor last eveniug, 130tk these gentlemen are among the most popular and able youne railroad men in this eity. Mv. Green will be welcomed in his new sphere of operation as his _departure 1s regretted here among his friends, Additional Sleepers. The patronage of the Chicago-Denver trains, Nos. 5 and 6, on the Union Pacific hias grown to that extent that the accommo- dations have become inadequate, and the company within_a few days will put on an additional slecpi hoon each train The manner tne accom- modation to the traveling public has been improved within the past six months, on the Union Pucific, hus had a tendency to attract to it large patronage, which forinerly went to the northern and southern roads. Oregon Railway & Navigation. The ofiicials of the Union Pacificare jubi- lant over the outcome of the annual election of the Oregon Ruilway & Navigation com- pany, held at Portland, Ore., Monday. For some time past they have been considerably worked up, owing to the determination mani- fosted by Henry Villard and the Northern Pacific clement to obtain control of the line in question. A the election resulted favor- ably to the Union Pacific, its officials do not fear any further controversy concerning the control of the lines forming the Pacific out- let. The Burlington Relief Fund. The voluntary relief department estab- lished by the Burlington is meeting with much fayor and support from the employes of that compuny. The books have been open to membership but o short time, about two weeks, and the membership now numbers over 2,000, The lists for membership ure kept open’ at ull the general and division headquarters. About twenty-five of the employes here have joined and the aversge vate of enlistment is forty per day. Railway Teiegraphers. J. H. Flanagan, J, Q. Goss and D. O. Free- man have gone to Cleveland to attend the grand convention of the Order of Railway ‘Pelegraphers, which will convene to-day and remain in session one week, The home delegation will endeavor to have the next session held here, and took with them letters from Mayor Broatch and President Martin, of the board of trade, bearing on that point, Railroad Notes. General Superintendent Calvert and Chief Engineer Weeks, of the B, & M., at Lincoln, were 1n the city Monday. Miss C. M. Jackson, daughter of Conduc- tor Jackson, of the Union Pacific, has as- sumed the position of stenographer for Gen- eral Passenger Agent Lonax. Yesterday 8,000 tons of steel rails were or- dered by the Omaha & St. Paul road for the Norfolk branch from Emerson west. All the iron rails are to be replaced with steel. ——— HIS EXYEKS ARIE OPENING, Mount Began to See Him- self. “Are you going to resign?” was the ques- tion put to Chairman Mount, of the county board. “1 feel very much like doing it,” said he, “but have not fully made vp my mind as yet. One thing is absolutely certain, I am getting awfully tired of this eternal bicker- ing. However, fifty big taxpasyers have spoken to me and said I should not resign." “Why don’t you put an énd to the eternal bickering" “How! I suppose it could be done by get- ting right up and damning the members. but that I don’t want to do.” The chairman, who has had his head shaved close, observed further that he was in his own estimation very much of a fool for be ing commissioner at $75 & month and mile age. Mr. Depew Has a New Story to Tell. Chauncey M. Depew boarded & Sixth avenue elevated train last night, suys the New York Sun, unli)' to find every seat occupied, An- Ivishman with a toil-stained garb, seeing the great rail- road manager looking about for a seat, arose, and with a brogue that would have made Pat Roony doubly famous, exclaimed: “Hero's u sate fur yez, Misthur De- phew.” “Ah, thank you, my friend,” re- sponded Uhuuucey M., “Lat what will you do for a seat?” “Phat wull Oi do, Misthur Dephew? Yurrah, me good mon, Oi've bin sittin’ up at a wake all noight, an’ divil th’ bit toired am Of at all at a1l,” How Mr. VETERAN MASONS, A Remarkable Gathering in the Line inger Art Gallery. Last evening, at 6 o'clock, the second an- nual banquet of the Veterin Masons' associ- ation took place in the art wallery of Mr. G. W. Linioger, in his palatial residence, eor- ner of Eighteenth and Davenport strects. No banquet was ever given in Omaha under mofe auspicious circumstances, The gentlemen who lined the banquet board were acquainted with one another and fellowship in the Masomec order, extending back for neatly o quarter ' of a century, imparted to the occasion the nature of a brotherly reunion, which made it not only remarkable but at the same time most en- Soyable. The tables were spread in Mr. Lininger’s great art hall, To many of the banqueters the art-covered walls were a revelation. Upon them, o to speak, looked down the genius of the masters of almost every clime, and the Holy Land, to which had often waj dered the minds of many of the more studi- ous gue was represented by several of the choicest gems in the collection, The hall was lighted with several hundred gas jots and on the table candelabra with parti-colored glass, and brasss inclosures aroundjthe flame added greatly to tho decor- ation.. At intervals boautiful pa'ms, ferns votted plants lent an almost tropical luxuri- ance to the scene, Around the table sat the following veter- ans: Rovert C. Jordan, George W. Lininger, William _Cleburne, Eaward _Rosewater, William R. Bowen, Newell R. Wilcox, Pa- pillion; Augustus A. Egbert, John Logan, Henry' T. Clark, Eben K. Long, Thomas A. Creigh, Ehas C. Wilcox, Wymore; Henry C. Akin, Lomuel H. Case, George Armstrong, Robert Holiingsworth, Nelson ;Henry Brown, Charles K. Coutant, Alexandoer Atkinson, Leverett M. Anderson, J. Van Valin, Nelson William J. Mount, George B, France, York Tholemiah A. Megeath, Alex H. Jay, Osc ola; Duniel H. Wheeler, Horatio L. Seward Alfred G, Hastings, Lincoln; Robert W. Furnas, Brownville: Robert G. Jenkinson, Bernard Newman, Hugh G. Clark, William wles, Edwin R. Richardson, Nebraska Jacob King, Pavillion; James R. Cain, Lee P. Gillette, Beatric Many of the above mentioned gentlemen have been members of the association since its incoption. They were supplemented by the following, who were on a list of twenty- five gentiemen from all parts of the state, who were yesterday electod members of the association: Cantain Henry 1. Palmer, Omaha; William F. Bechel, Omaha; Bennett Goldsmith, West Point; Allen, E. C. Haskell, Dr. A. B. Somers, Omaha; . Towe, O'Neill; Jacob Hot- hower, William H. Mann, Wilber; William E, Greene, Omaha; Rush Robinson, Omaha; W, J. Allison, Ogalalla; A. G. Keys, John H. Miller, Springtield; Thomas G. Rees, McCook: Justin A. Wilcox, Mc- Cook; Jeremiah Marlett, Nemaha; Rev. Edwin Richardson, Crete; William K. Tur- ner, Eik City, and'J. T. Ringo. Among these gentlemen sat the following ladies: G Mrs. H, C. Akin. Omaha; Miss Sue Cain, Falls City; Mrs. T. A. Megeath, Omaha; Mrs. Henry Brown, Omaba; Mrs. George B. France, York; Mrs. Dan H. Wheeler, sr., Omaha; Mrs. A. Atkinson, Omaha; Miss Alice Egbert, Omaha; Miss ' Ella Lininger, Peru, 113 Mrs. Frank L. Haller, Omaha, and Mrs. ‘Georze W. Lininger, Omaha. The spread, which was served in excellent style by Schlunk & Prince, was as follows: Consomme ial, Olives, Radishes, Beets, Mixed Pickles, Spring Lamb, Green Peas tuffed Spring Chicken, Sugar Cured Ham, Smoked Buffalo Tongue, Roast Veal, Lobster Salud, Chicken Salad, Potato Sulud, Raspberries with Cream, Boston Cream Pufls, Chocalate Eclairs, Neapolitan Ice Cream, Assorted Cake, Kisses, Fruit a la Royal, Oranges, Bananas, Cherries, Nuts and Raisins _ Cream Checse, ice Tea, Cafe Noir, Cufe au Lait. After the repast, when every guest was in the best of spirits, H. T. Clark, who acted as tonstmaster, cailed upon a number of the gentlemen and the response in specches com- prising anecdote, history, experience and def votion to the cause was most cheering. Among those who spoke were George B, France, of York, grand master of Nebraska: Juage = Frizelle, of Tennessee; A. G. Hare, of Oregon; Grand Secretary Bowen, Omaha; E. R. Richardson, Crete; ex-Governor Furnas, Brownville; E. Rosewater, editor of Tne Bee; K. Cous tant. Omaba, past grand master; A. G. Has- tings, Lincoin; Past Grand Master Kain, of Falls City; Captain H, E, Palmer and G. W. Limnger. At the close of the addresses the gentle- men _retired to the parlor where they joined in thanks to the worthy host und sang “*Auld Lang Syne” and thén departed 10 their respective hotels and homes. JAY COOKE RICH AGAIN. Vicissitudes of Fortune in the Career of a Noted Banker. Among the pushing throngz of Broad- way to-dny was an old gentleman clad more in the garb of a countryman than that of a great financier. His clothes were plain, and his white slouch hat with its brim gave him the appear a well-to-do farmer, says a New York letter to the Evening Wisconsin. The hair and beard of Jay Cooke is now snow white, but he still moves along as if contented with life. No one familiar with his every-day appearance would think he was the famous banker, the man who has handled more millions than any other private individual in America: failed for more money than any other, and finally has grown rich again after he had grown old. While ho is by no meuns as familiar a figure as he used to be, and does not mingle in the uncertainty of *‘the street” as of yore, he is more frequently seen among the bustle of business than almost any man of his age. Jay Cooke has had a singular career. When the war broke out he lived out along Lake Erie, at Sandusky, and Salmon P. Chase, while secretary of the treasury, first gave him a big start in life, which he followed to disaster, and then built anew from nothing. Mr. Cooke never forgot or neglected his home 1n Ohio, and one of his charities is a beautiful home onan island in Lake Erie, a few miles from Sandusky, which he bought and named *‘Gibral- tar.” He had it laid out in wild, roman- tic walks, and built a commodious stone castle upon it. He provided the honse with every imaginable comfort and put into it a competent housekeeper. To this retreat he would invite each sum- mer ministers of the gospel of different denominations who coula illy afford to take a summer vacation. Mr. Cooke lives with his son-in-law now, Mr. Barney, who does business near the famous old banking-house on Third street, in Philadelphia, over which Mr. Cooke once presided, and where the Northern Pacitic railroad was projected. In many respects Jay Cooke will go down to history as one of the remarkable men of our time. In a little church out at Frankford; near Philadelphia, he has a son preaching to acongregation who can hardly afford to pay him salary enough to liquidate his horse hive. So the curious turns of life are again illustrated in Mr. Cooke’s carcer and in that of the family he has raised., e She Was All Right, Boston Courier: “Have you a mag- niflcent wardrobe?” asked the man- ager, addressing the actress who had Just applied for an engagement. “*Why, no,” she replied have no wardrobe atall, I’'m in the burlesque line, you know.” And she was engaged on the spot. — Colored Cress Coat Light or dark blue, gray, brown, hottle-green, purple and lilac dress coats are coming in rage in London, with metal or brass buttons, JUNE 19, 1889.~-SIXTEEN [LORD BYRON'S 08 The Romance in the Life of “Childe Harold.” A PASSION OF YOUTHFUL DAYS In Atter Years He Wrote of Her “I've Seen My Pride Anothaws Bride Newstead Abbey and Its— Relics. A Schoolboy's 1dol. "The bright little river Leen winds through English Nottingham famous nowadays for 1ts pork pies and lace curtains, and onco the scene of many notable events, says a writer in the Sunday Post-Dispatch. It washes the base of the high, rocky hill upon which ounce stood a castle buflt by William the Conqueror, and near which Charles I, raised for the first time (August, 1642) the royal standard and so begun the war that brought him to the block. Over the stone parapet which still crowns the summit of the hill gentle Mistress Lucy Hutchinson must have often leaned with anxious heart, strain- ing loving eyes to catch sight of the returning banners of the godly Colonel, her husband, hastening back to his home in the castle, after asharp fight with the king’s troops—ever on the wateh to worry the sturdy Puritan com- mander. (Those who have not read Mrs. Hutchinson’s book have a rare treat in store which ought not to be forgotten.) Some sixty odd years ago a comvany of small boys were bathing in the his- toric Leen, when one of them, more ob- servant than the rest, shouted: “THERE COMES BYRON'S FUNERAL!” My informant looked up and saw a hearse and two or three carriages ap- proaching the town along the London road. He and his companions hastened ashore and into their clothes, and from a convenient epot watched the dismal train pass by—bearing the remains of the poet who, whatever may be his de- fects, has achieved a fame that will surely live as long as language lasts, My small boy afterwards saw the coffin, when it rested for a day in the great room of the Red Lion Inn, and he thinks now—though he did not then— that it was something to seeeven the coffin of the author of *‘Childe Hurold’s Pilgrimage.” The curious visitor may read, in the old record book of Hucknall-Torkard church, this entry: George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron, aged thirty-seven, was buricd here July 16, 1824, by Charles Nixon. This ancient sanctuary stands in the little village of Hucknall, which is about three miles from Newstead Abbey. The village is the meanest and dirtiest T have seen in Eng- gland, and the church itselt is not very much better. It is built of common stone, with low roof, narrow aisles and windows, bare wulls and pews of plain varnished pine. To the right of the chancel, close up to the communion rail at an elevation of perhaps 10 feet from the floor, is a simple white marble tab- let of Grecian design, with this inscrip- tion: In the vault beneath ‘Where many of his ancestors and his mother Are buried, lie the remains of GEORGE GORDONX NOEL BYRON, Lord Byron of Rochdale, In the County of Laucaster, The author of “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.” He was born at London on the 22d of January, 1888, He died at Missolonghi, in Western Greece, On the 19th of April, 1524, Engaged in the glorious attempt to Restore tbat coontry to.her ancient freedom And renown. His sister, the Honorable Augusta Mary Leigh, Placed this tablet to his memory. Near by is another and smaller tablet of the same material, surmounted by the armorial bearings of the Loveiace family, and wlth this inscription: In the Byron vault below Lie the remains of AUGUSTA ADA. Only daughter of George Gordon Noel, Sixth Lord Byron, And wife of ‘William, Earl of Lovelace. Born 10th day of December, 1515, Died 27th Day of November, 1552, R I P is “Ada, sole daughter of my se and heart.” She would not be buried with her mother nor with hus- band and children, but by her own most urgent dying request was laid by her father's side—the father whom she had known only through his books. Of all the innumerable tributes to Byron, this token of his daughter’s faithful, unchangeable confidence and love is to me by far the most touching. The drive from Nottingham to the ANCESTRAL HOME OF THE BYRONS, ten or twelve miles, passes through un uninteresting country, and conse- quently is not particularly pleasant. But the traveler will be amply repaid for the time and trouble by what awaits him av the journey’s end. Newstead Abbey, aside from its associations, is one of the most attractive spots I have ever visited; but space permits of no attempt at dcscripdun, nor indeed, is 1t necessary—for has not the poet him- self described it in immortal verse? Enough to say that you are reminded of him at every turn., Thero is the lovely artificial lake in which he swam and sailed; there is the oak tree he planted, and the monument he erected to “Boatswain, a dog,” there is the lonely and gloomy wallk, upon one of the treés of which he carved his own name and that of his sis- ter the last time they were at Newstead together; there are his dressing and sleeping rooms, with all the furniture as he left it; and there/over the mantel in the state drawing room.is the match- less portrait of Byron in bis twenty-sec- ond year, by Phillips. Nocopy does it any sort of justice, It is, it seemed to me, the most superbly beautiful human face pencil ever painted.. The famous skull-cap, which Byron had made from the head piece of one of the monkish owners of the Abbey, wasonce kept in this room, but is no longer visible, the late Mr. Webb, to whom Newstead be- longed, having the ghastly relic de- cently interred in the chapel beneath, T was told that the main reason which induced him to do this was a tradition that so long as the holy skull was thus desecrated, so long would there be no lineal heirs to the Abbey estate. Hav- ing a family of children he got rid of tne anathema by planting the text thereof in consecrated soil. Whether this act of sepulchral reparation was effective, I do not know. In a cabiuet are shown Byron’s box- ing gloves, cane, swords and helmets he wore in Greece, and many other per- sonal souvenirs which bring him very near to you. But to me the most inter- esting article in the collection is an old and well-worn three-edged BASKET-HILTED RAPIER, the identical weapon with which ‘‘the Wicked Lord”—the poet’s immediate redecessor in the title—killed Mr, illiam Chaworth, his nerghbor, in the duel fought in a London tavern, Jan- vary 56, 1765, The coroner's jury having found a verdict of murder, Byron was sent to the Tower, where he remained until the middle of April, 1766, when he was tried by his peers in Westminster hall, and acquitted—that is, found guilty of manslaughter only, for which there was no punishment for a Peer, except tines. Ho returned to Newstend, however, a branded man, and from all accounts acted as if he were a lunatic—as perhaps he was, to a certain oxtent. That ho deserved the name of “the Wicked Lord,” there is no sort of doubt, and his death in 1798 seems to have been a relief to everybody —friends, if he had any, as woll as enemies, of whom he had more than enough. If he ever regrotted the fatal duel, no one knew it, and hoe kept this sword in _his bedroom until he died. Two or three inches of the lower end of the leather scabbard have boen re- moved, exposing the triangular point of steel which let out the life-blood of poor Chaworth, This auel naturally made a foud be- tween the two families, but social in- tercourse had been so far renewed by the time_our Byvon became master of Newstead. that he was a welcome guest at Annesley hall. There he met, when o Harrow schoolboy of 15, Mary Anne Chaworth (pronounced Cheweth”) then seventee the great niece of the man whom his great uncle killed. ome authorities say she was Byron’s. cousin, but, if so, it must have been several degroes re- moved. The romance which grew out of this acquaintance is familine to all readers, The love between them was, doubtless, all on his side; girls seldom love boys two years younger than them- selves. That Byron loved \ 'l worth—or thought he did—is certain, She was married in 180 and he wet her for the first time after that event in 1808, dining at Anuesley by invitation of the husband. Of that interview he wrote, in 1811, this: T've scen my bride anothers bride— Have seen her seated by his side Have scen the infant which she bore Wear the sweet smiles the mother wore, When she and I in youth have smiled, And fond and faithless as her child— Have seen her cyes i cold disdain, Askc it I felt no seeret pain; And T have acted well niy part, And made my cheek belie my heart, Returned the freezing glance she gave, Yet felt the while that woman’s slave; Have kissed, us if withoat Cesign, The babe whict ought to have been mine, ‘And showed, alas! in cach caress Time had not made me love the less. Long years after his (and her) UNITAPPY MARRIAG he wrote thi My M. A. Alas! why do T say my? Our union would have healed feuds in which blood has been shed by our fathers. It would have joined lands broad and richj it would have joined at least one heart und two per- sons not ill-matched in years; and, and, and —what has been the re 1 The drive from Newstead tak: within sight of Annesley Hal may see, ng above the tree tops, ¢ chimneys aud gables of the man which was once the home of Byron's Mary. Itisa sight not easily forgot- ten. Everyboay at all familiar with Byronic literature is a re that her marviage was no happier than his. How much more unhrppy, how much worse, in many ways, very few know. Byron, bad as he may have been as a husbund. was an angel compared with the man (or devil) to whom Mary Chaworth linked her fate. His name was John Musters—familiary known as “Jack™-- and he belonged to a good old family 1n the country. BEven at the age of 55, when my informant first knew him, he was o matchless specimen of physieal manhood. Tall and perfectly formed, and elegunt 1n every movement, with herculean strength and *‘a tongue that could charm the birds out of the trees,” no wonder that the girl of 18 was fascinated by him wben he was in the fine flush of youth. Jack Musters was renowned as the best rider, the best jumper, the best dancer and the best pugilist in the whole Nottingham region On a certain occasion, however, he met his master in the “‘manly art of self-de- fense.” There was a chimney-sweep in the town who. in addition to that busi- ness, was professor and practicer of the aforesaid art, and never missed an op- portunity to improve himsell therein. He bad long desired to have a fistic di cussion with Jack Musters, but of course the aristocratie gentleman would not gloves or bare knuckles with the eep. So the latter devised the in- genious experiment—knowing the char- acter of the man with whom he haa to deal, Heone day walked out to Annesle Hall, duly equipped with piscator paraphernuila and deliberately SAT DOWN TO FISIT in the private fish pond of the proprie- tor, which was-at a little distance from and in full view of the munsion. Mus- tevs, happening to look out of the win- dow, suw the sooty [zaak Walton drog ping his line in pleasunt, but prohib ed places; and, taking heavy hor: whip, procecded to interview in hostile fashion. Mr. Sweep, watching for a bite in the pond, got a tremendous one over the back from the whip. dent 1y he was expecting this hot reception, and was veady to reciprocate, for the lash had hardly touched him before he hit out from the shoulder with his “right” and sent his antagonist *‘to grass” in very handsome style. Gen- tleman Jack—game to the core—picl himself up, laid aside his whip, threw off his coat, told Sooty to do likewise and a battle began then and there which lasted —with sev- eral rests for renewal of wind—nearly two hour Pinally Jack “threw upthe sponge, confessed himselt 1l beaten, shook hands with the vi took him into the house, gave him o glass of wine and also a free and full permit to fish in that pond as long as he lived. S0 Sooty retived, somewhat bruised and battered, but with all the honors of victory and champiouship; also with Dbetter wine in his stomach than he had ever tasted before, besides the perpetual fishing privilege, whi I believe, he was too chivalrous to ercise. The reporter, to whom I am so much indebted, in one of his many business visits to Annesley, was admitted to the bed room of the owner. Being young and curious in those days he used his eyes vigorously and saw all that was to be seen. The' dressing-table was coy- ered with the various articles usually employed to resist, or conceal, the rav- ages of an inexorable time. There were rouge, powder, oil, pomade, and every- thing else in that line; showing that the veteran Adonis—then verging on three-score—knew how to equip him- self for the service of Venus. But altogether the most remarkable feature of the apartment were THE FORTIFICATIONS, Heavy iron gratings protected every window, and every door had as many locks and bolts as a prison cell. Jt was, in short, a regular fort, from which the occupant could notbe dislodged, or even reached, without a siege; and there were preparations for anticipated attack ir the shape of guns, nistols, and other warlike material Why should John Musters, esq., rich, well-born and well- bred, go into this combination of citadel and dungeon o sleep? The answer discloses the Is itany wonder that the prince of devils, John Musters, esq., was obliged to make his bed-room an impregnable fortress? The wonder is that it saved him from the killing he so richly mer- ited. But he was saved and died quiet- ly in his bed (without, I believe, banefit of clergy) a few years later: thereby demonstrating the old, old truth that not all the irredeomable villians geot their deserts in this world, whatever may await them in the next. The last time my reporter saw Jack Musters he was still in fine preserva~ tion, indicating an easy conscience and good digestion; arrayed in hunting scar- let and top boots; mounted on a power- ful thoroughbred which he sat like a | eentaur, galloping through the archway ;\;hi;'h led to the court-yard of Anesley all. Such was the husband of tho only woman probably Byron ever really loved. A more terrible fate could senrcely have befallen Mary Chaworth had hell itsell been ransacked to pro- duce it R Ny A TRAGEDY IN EVERY ACT. She Wi “Frimousse’ Boston Courier: I am about to v play in five acts, to he performod by Mme. Sara Bernhardt. But, before b ginning I wish to know if my wor likely to be succossful. I, therefore, ask your advice,expecting that you will answer with ti wlinoss, shall accopt with plensure all the sug- gestions which you offer me, being quite decided to follow none of them. This is my plan: First act—A drawing- room. Mme. Sara Bernhardt enters, and declares that she is weary of lifo. She seizes o kaife and cuts hor throat. aflect- h scene of a person whose throat is cut. She dies. Socond net—A smiling lundscape. A river running through it. Mme. Bernhavdt walks along the banlk, says that life has nothing to offer her, d throws herself into the river. Very realistic death scene of a drowning person. She die Third act—A palace. Why a palace? I do not know; but one must give some opportunity for dezoration. Mme. Sara Bernhardt appears. She has made up her mind to comnut suicide,and poisons herself. Very well ied out repre- sentation of death by poison. She dies, Fourth Act—An attic. (That scene will not cost much.) Mme. Sara Bern- hardt, tired of existence, has scated herself near a charcoal stove and allows herself to be suffocated. Very exact impersonation of suffocation by char- conl. She dies. Fifth Act—A street. Mme. Sara Bernhardt alking through it when a chimney falls on herhead. Very real havrowing death scont of a lled by the falling of a chim- She die AS you may pereeive, this ¢ ially planned with the inten iibiting the powe of the great tragedienne and of giving full scopo to hov resources as & dying person of the fivst order. You muy object that my heroine, as she dies at the end of each act, should not appear in the following acts, Butt onl called stage trick. Shy s o great many of them. ides it allows the ence to come in whenever they At whatever hour they ar re sure to arnh Bernhardt That is the important point. STOPPED THE SHOOTING. Die Five Tin m P ing How a Bold Soldier Suddenly Got to Be a Corporal. Just hefore the fight at Williamsburg my compuany was on picket at the front. ays the New York Sun. 'The man on the left of me,as I went on gu 10 o’clock one night, was named Jack Klein. He was a good-natured, obedi- ent fellow and not easily put out, but that night he out of sorts, and, as the rebel pickets were constantly firing in our direction, Jake finally got his dander up. It was against orders to leave his post, but afier a while he came Jumbering through the bushes like an ox-team and growled out: “Vhell, shall we do sometings? “What can we do?” 1 asked in “Pake 'em some prisoner, eh?” “You'd better go back and keep quict.” **But dose rebels vhas shooting all der vhile. Dot vhysn’t faiv play, 1 belief I go onfer und sthop him.” “Well, hurey up,” I veplied with a laugh; and to my sur: e und conster- naticn he started off in the direction of arcbel picket post. I called to him, S through the eturn. il right. T maice dot feller herself or pring him in some oner: © was gone half an hour before T heard ything. Then the [ crashing in the bushes, some swearing and growling, and Jake appeared with a full-rigged Confederate infantryman, having & firm cluteh on his coliar, “*Here vhas dose ’ he an- nounced as they cume to a halt. “‘IHe doan’ promise to keep still, und so I pring Lim along.” Jrat the onery Dutcaman,” growled the Johnny. ‘*He stoie up behind me and jumped on me like & mountain be- tore I heard him,” **Who vhus some Dutchy Julke, *You was.” “Look oudt a leedle, ole knock off your head! T vhas in my mouth; all der ves Come along und behave make you dead as erowbs Jake had actually captured a picket on his post and brought him off & pris- oner, und he did it as coolly asany of tho rest of us would o out to drill, The reb was so0 mad he eried, but he wa turned over to headquarters, and Pri- vate Jake Kliine had *‘corporal” as a handle to his name after o few days, —— A Hunter's Curious Mishap. Luellen Haley, of Ocala, says the Suvannah News, a loverof hunting, was taking his favorite vecreation last I day afternoon in the. fields northeast of Ocala and filling his game bag with quail, when an ident happened to him that came within a hair’s breadth of ending his existence. His dog had set a quail and he shot it and was in the act of drawing the trigger on another when a strange dog came rushing toward him from the rear, ran under Tis legs and upset the youug sportsman, while his gun was hurled from his grasp. The butt hit a stump, causing the wea- imn to dischurge, and the charge struck faley in the left side, tearing away every particle of clothing and blacken- ing his flesh, feller, or 1 only Dutch s vnion, herself, or I e Qost of Chuncse Labor, R. J. Franklin, the United States consul at Hankow, has published an in- teresting description of rice culture in central China, He states that the working classes subsistalmost wholly on rice, and that the cost of living for a family of six persons is about 20 cents a day. " This accounts for the cheapness of Chinese labor. Field hands receive from $7.50 to $10.50 per year, besides food und lodging. -~ Explaining His Smalluess. New York Sun: ““How is it your Tommy 18 s0 small of his age, Mrs. Driggs?” Oh, the little dear always was a shrinking. child,” explained his mother, GOSSIP ABOUT RAILROADS, The St. Paul Cut Apparently No Nearer Sottlement. CHICAGO JOBBERS @RESTIVE, The Trunk Lines Not at All Alarmed— Cattle Carricd by the Alton and the St Panl—Consolida- tion of Utah Roads, Another Postponement, Cnreaco, Juue 18.—~|Special Telegram ot Tk Bee, |~ The Westorn Freight associa= tion beat about the bush again to-day, snd finally postponed action on the northwestern break in rates until next Friday. The reason given for the postponement is that it will give time to figure on how the threat- ened abolishing of pro-rating via Chicago will affect the question. The actual reason is that the western roads are hoping and praying each day to hear from the trunk lines that they will stop pro-rating with lake lines, if the westorn lines will keep on pro= rating via Chicago, ‘I'he trunk lines do not appear a particle alarmed at the prospect, and have taken no action whatever. Means time, the Chicago board of trade is becom- ing exceedingly restive, under thoe present discriminatory rates agaiust Chicago jobbers, and 1t is doubtful ‘lr further deluy will be ¥ ugreed to after \ The Alton's Cattla Trafic Ciicaco, June 18.—[Spacial Telegram to Tue B he Alton oficials declare Pres- ident Miller's New York interview to be very ‘“foxy."” Sud one of them to-day: “Mr. Miller quoted the correct figures, when he said the St. Paul had, in the last five months arried 2,900 cars of live stock to tho Alton’s 0. But St. Paul fig from Kunsas City to you, cattle from Kansas City to Chicago is the only thing in controversy. The 1,430 's of the Aiton include all the live stock t of IKansas City by us. Itincludes of horses, sheep and hogs 'T'ne rect figures on cattle trom Kansas City to Chicago, between Jauuury 1and May 8L, ave: Alton, 1,215 cars; St. Paul, 2,150 cars. The latter, instead of taking the loast of the six roads, as its longer line would comvel it to do at cqual rates, it took more thun any. The Alton, for ten , has beon carrying 40 per cent of the live stock business 0w we dont get 10 per cont. We propose to get. back our 40 per cent. Consolidation SaLt Lake Crry, June 18.—|Special Tele- gram to Tue Bre.)—A copy of the articles of consolidation and azreement between the Oregon Short Line, Utah & Northern, the Utah Central, Salt Lake & Western, Utuh & Nevada, Ogden & Syracuse, the Idaho Cen- tral and the Nevada Pacific companias, which will be adopted at the coming stock- holders meeting, has been reccived here. T es provide that the said eight rail- way companics unite, form and cousohdate their r ions, capital stock, railroad property, and franchises of every discription, to continue in existence fifty years, the cousolidatad companies to be known as the Orezon Short Line & Utah Northern Railway company, The first elec- tion of the board of directors of the consoli= dated company, hereby formed,shall be held at the city of Sult Lake, on the third Wednes- in M ), and annually thereafter, at the s ace. The names and residences of the first directors of said company, wno shall manage 1ts affairs until the anoual election, ure as follows: Charles Francis Adams, Fred L. Ames, F. Gordon Dexter, 1. F. Atkins, Siluey Dillon, John Sharp, W. H. Holeomb, O. N. Mink and G. W. Cummings. 'The ofticers are us follows: Charles Francis Adams, president; W. H, Holcomb, vice president; G. M. Lane, sccond vice president; Oliver N. Mink, comptroller; Jumes Harris, sccretary; Alex Millar, treasurer, and L. S. Anderson, assistant treasurer, The terminus of the consolidated rouas are Granger, Wyomng; Huntington, Oregon; Garrison, sontanas chum and Bose City, ldaho; the following points in Utah: Frisco, a point near Pleusant Val- ley, Tintie, Eureka, Silver City and Stock- ton; in the stute of Nevada, Steptoe, and Ash Meadows. The roads now constructed and to_ be built will azgregate 2,224 miles in Wyomin ho, Montana, and Ne- vada, 1he principal place of business in Wyoming shall be Cheyenne; in Utah, the city of Sult Lake; in Ldu Pocatello; in Butte City, in Oregon, Hunting- ton; in Nevada, the town of Reno. The daily papers here state that Omaha will control the line from that city to Gran- ger, and that Salv Lake will operate the en- tire balanc tem. Our citizens gen- day ut the news. ousand men areat work on the Den- irande Western railroad near Utah, nkton to Norfolk, June (8,—|Special Tele~ J—The profiles of the 1 to Norfolk have been y for inspection by 1 Chief Epgineer From ¥ YANKTON, D gram to Tne road from Yaukt completed and ¢ the Land. June 18, —|Special Tele- gram to Tie Bee. | —Nunierous prospecting rties are leaving for Devivs Tower and sity, north of here, where rich placer suid to have lately been discov- I Rich discoveries are ulso rted (o have been made south of the Uncle Sam gold mine, near the linestone placer deposite Looking O Lean Crry, Da - The Wabash Case, 01200, O., June 15, —The Wabash case in the United States eircuit court closed this af- ternoon, Judge Jackson giving the decision, In the question involving the payient of the difference of interest between the old 7 per cent bonds and the new b per cent ones, from the present time to the date of their maturity, the motion was disallowed. Decle sion was reserved on the otber points. - A Family Orazed by Poverty, Information of lunacy against an en- tive family was filed in the circuit court this morning, says a Louisuille, Ky., disputeh, The fwmily consists of Mps, Catherine Boyle, her daughter, Miss Nova Boyle, and two sons, William and Frank Boyle. They live at No. 807 ‘West Walnut strect, and have hereto- fore been considered refined people. Their home is in a little frame cottage, and they have been on the ragge: edge of poverty for some time. The mother and daughter are members of Christ church, the most fashionable congregation in Louisville, and have been objects of charity for several months, Poverty was thought to he the cause of their exceedingly reticent and retiring manners and habits, but lately the report circulated in the neighbor- hood that the Boyle family were acting queer, and the attention of the charity orgenization was drawn to them, An investigation was made by two physicinns, and evidences of insanity were aiscovered in each of the foup members of the family, They have heen living in the grentest distress and poverty for four months, and for weeks had not enough food in the house to keep body and soul together l“inull}y they would have nothing to do with the ladies of Christ church, who had been previously assisting them, and were fairly starving to death and losing their minds at the same time It i8 thought that the mental aberration of the Boyle family has oen caused by the pinch of poverty., Itis nearly cer- tain that if the discovery of their cons dition hpd been delayed much longer the whole family would have been rave ing maniacs.