Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 22, 1889, Page 13

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1880~SIXTEEN PAGES PRETTY PLEADER AT THE BAR Miwaukee's Lady Lawyer Has Brains, Youth and Beauty. IS STiLL DANGEROUS, Judge Terry's Relict May Again Spread Desolation Among Mascu- line Hearts and Pocketbooks— Garters Galore—Gossip, SARAH Milwaukee's Young bady Lawyer. An entire family of lawyers. That is what the Pier family—father, mother and three daughter re to be. Colo- nel C. K. Pier, formerly of ¥ond du Lac, now of Milwaukee, is an old prac- titioner. Tis wife and his oldest daugh- ter are also practicing, and his two younger daughters are taking the law course at the Wisconsin state univer- gity. Mrs. Pier and her daughter,Kato H. Pier,graduated from the law depart- ment of the state university in 1887, and were two of the only four women law- yers who have thus far taken the law course of the state university, the other two being Mrs. La Follette, wife of Congressman La Follette, of Madison, who graduated in 1885, and Miss Jessie Hutchinson, of Richland Center, Wis. who graduated last ar. Mvs, P and her daughter ave associated to- ether with an office in the Millor lock and arc enjoying a large practice. It was Miss Pier who attracted such interestin the supreme court last week, from the fact that she was the first wo- man lawyer who ever appeared before the supreme tribunal of that state. The attention shown her was unusual, too,ns she appeared but a voung girl among the coterie of old present. Among them were ex- S star of the Interior William . Vilas, General K. Bryant and General Lucins Faivehild. Miss Pier appeared for the defense in the case of Sutton vs Wegner, arguing a motion to et aside an order of the superior court making a reference to take testimony. The case was opened by the appellant himself—J. Sutton, of Columbus and a8 soon as he had finished Miss Pier addressed the court. For half an hour her argument was followed with the closest attention by all present. Iven the dignitied judges scemed to an- preciate it as an ubusual event and mingled an increasing degree of auster- ity with a certain amount of extra in- terest in the fair young attorney. Miss Pier stated her case unhesitat- ingly, and frequently turned to and cited authorities, showing an nequaint- ance with law and a degree of self- nossession, At the conclusion of her address she was cordially congratu- iated for the successful impression she nad made, and among themselves the lawyers were unanimously of the opinion that she made an exceedingly strong and convincing argument. It wasa trying ordeal for alady so young, as Miss Pier is but twenty years of age. She has a strikingly hand- some and intelligent face, and is pos- sessed of o wealth of black hair which in a single ¢ almost trails the floor. Like the exceptional young woman of to-day she wears no bungs, but combs her hair back. Miss Pier is a native of Fond du Lac, Wis., and a graduvate of the Fond du Lac high school. Tn 1886,at the same time as her mother, she en- tered the law department of the state university, and by taking a double course in 7 obtained her degre titling her to v ce inall the s courts. Ior ten months she held a po- sition in the legal department of the Wisconsin Central railway, retiving Avpril 1 to associate herself with her mother, **Yes, Ilike the profession,” said Miss Pier to-day, ‘“‘and also the science of medicine, which I have studied, too. for some years. While, of course, the two are in no way identical, still I think it well fora liwyer to be more or less familiar with medicine, as it is often useful, particularly in the- taking of such expert testimony as is likely t, be offered in the Cronin case,” Miss Pier’s two sisters, who have just entered the state unive for a course in the law department, are Carrie H., aged 18, and Harriet H., aged 17. Be Heard From Again, ay that Sarah Althea Hill has not yet finished all the mis- chief she is capable of. She is still a handsome woman. despite her years and the reckless manner in which she has given herself up to her passions, and even yet she has a marvelous attraction for a cortain sort of man, says a corre- spondent of the New York World. Old Sharon was her dupe and Terry was completely under her thumb, and they are only the most conspicuous among a long procession of men who hav her attractive and dangerous. tremendous courage and vitali while very passionate, can be a8 cool and shurp as 1 when she is plaving umstances. She comes a family that had no and her passion for gue, excitement and adventure has induced her to break with all the tradi- tions of her station,and has,by the way, succeeded in keeping her pockets filled in one way or another eversince she he- gan her carcer. She is nbout five feet #1x inches 1 height, extremely well made, and is still geaceful, lithe and slender. She has a pale, olive counte- nanee, with delicate fentures and a pair of starry brown eyes, and her thick, wavy, brown hair has never been cut in bang, but is brushed back and ripples around her brow and ears. Her eye- brows are very black and arched and her lids white and drooping, but her mouth shows the result of the life she has led and has grown coarse and hard. However, the rest of the face may es- cape the lines plowed by passions, the mouth always reveals what the life has been, and here is not a plensant or trustworthy mouth. She is tremend- ously clever, and no man who talked to her half an hour could believe anything against her unless he had proviously steeled his heart against hor plausible manner. Sarah M Californ She Hit From the Shoulder. An Arab woman loaded down with two or three bundles and baskets and a year-old buby and accompanied by a youngster loaded with bundles boarded the 7:15 train at Srrinuliohl this morn- ing, says the Holyoke (Mass.) Demo- crat. Nothing daunted by the looks of the other women occupants of the car, her first act was to treat the infant to 1ts meal, A muxh-kwklnf young man had fol- lowed the family into the car and took aseat near the woman. He tried to start a conversation with the boy, but got little satisfaction, as the latter was not nble to speak much Eoglish, The tough young man's ticket was to Chico- e, but when that village was reached e had made up bis mind to go further, and haviog managed to find out from the boy that this city was their destination, paid the conductor for & ride here. When this city was reached the family disembarked. The womun slung the infant up on her shoulder, the child fastened its fingers in her hair and hung on like a monkey. Then they startad off, bundles and all, down Canal street. The tough youth had kept his oye on them, and when they left the depot followed them at a Titt f.. distance until the party had reached the vicinity opposite the lower | mills. Here the woman stopped as if puzzled and looked around Har. wns an opportuni for the tough young man, and he approached her and vegan to talk, What he said conld not be heard, but the woman svidently did not like it, for as he approached closor and familiarly put his hand on her shoulder she dropped the basket she had been hoiding in her left hand and gave him one steaight from the shoul- der that staggered him. Only one, but that was caough. v The tough young man wended his way back to the depot somewhat abashed by the lnughter of those who had witnessod the episode, and when last seen ho was buying a ticket for Chicopee. Women at the Maybrick Trial. It was once my misfortune to witness a trianl of this « at Leeds, says La- bouchere, w @ of the Maybrick trial in Truth. The prisoner was a woman, and she was accused of poison- ing her master by administering to him a prodigious dose of arsenic in his food. 1 shall never forget the sight that tho crowded galleries of that court pre- sented, for about five-sixthsof the audi- ence were women—women, old and young: withered crones, with one foot in the grave; childven in their teens, plump and biooming matrons, girls of twenty, who looked admivingly at the barristers when they could téar their gaze from the cowering figure in the dock., Even on the bench there were a few well-born ladies who tried vo as- sume an air of high-bred indifference. And all of these women had assembled to see one miserable creature tried for life! They 0 there resolutely staring during the whole of the proceedings. When the prisoner cried and moaned they whispered and nudged each others when she tried to avert her face from their prying gaze they craned their necks to get a better view, and openly grumbled at the fact that she was permitted to wear a veil. The foremun gave in the verdict. It whs, “Not gruilty of murder, but guilty of manslaughter,” and I say deliber- ately that throughout the audience there was a distinet murmer of disap- pointment. The ghouls were baulked of their prey; thera would be no black cap, no sentence of death, and they loft the court noisily; there was no mgrey 1 their hearts, only a sense_ that they had wasted their time, and that the prisoner was amazingly lucky, and the scene years ago at Leeds was repeated the other day at Laverpool. Tor a whole week they loated over the agony of Plorence Maybrick, and at the end of the period their patience was re- warded, for she was condemned to death. And now I have little doubt many of the woman who reveled in the horrors of that trial actively en- gnged in promoting petitions for a re- prieve! Such are the contradictions of human nature! . Thirteen f'airs of Garters. The Prussian princess, sister of Em- peror William, who is about to be mar- ried, is having made for her thirteen pairs of very splendid garters, says a correspondent of the New York World. She does not mean to add all these to her trosseau, though among them is that traditional pair of new and blue stocking supvorters said to bring brides luck, and this is the thirteenth, made of pale-blue silk and clasped with buckles set with large diamonds. An- other pair will be put awny with the rest of the Hohenzollern collection of garvters in the museum at Berlin, and the rest will be distributed among the nobles who attend the Greek prince, her husband. This is a relic of a very ancient custom that survives nowhere now save in the reigning family of Ger- many. In fragker and ruder ages it used to be the privilege of the best man, when the bride was about to reti her attendant maidens, to un garter and keep it asa troph There was always somewhat of a dispute about it, custom requiring that the groom should resist the attempt and that the best man should insist upon his privilege. Wiath the growth of more vrefined manners this custom naturally fell into disuse, and the only relic of it is in the comie opera of ““Lia Jolie Parfumeuse,” and in the marringe customs of the German royal family. The form it takes witn them, however, is that the princess should have prepared thirteen pairs of garters, all of them having buckles with her initinls set in diamonds. and of these she wenrs one pair herself, be- stows one pair on the reigning sove- reign, and distributes the others among her husband’s attendants, the eleven of the highest rank getting this bridal favor. There 15 a very curious collec- tion of these roval garters in the Berlin museum, some fifty or sixty in all, many of them extremely rich and handsome and gome very queer ones from the past generations of princesses, Some of those deposited in the reigns of I'red- erick William IIT, and IV. are marvels of elaborote needlework and bullion fringes, and are buckled with the finest jewels. Hints For Baldheaded Women, Now as to treatment for incipient baldness, thin spots, and 5o forth, snys a writer in Good Housekeeping: This is what an cminent physician said toa gentleman who consulted him for the first named trouble: *‘Have you been accustomed to wash your head in soapy water?’ asked the doetor, ‘“Yes, every morning,” was the reply. “Well, that is the cause of this bald place; stop washing and begin brushing your hair. Use a bristle brush and brush for fifteen minutes every morning and night, You may not notice any improvement for a year, perhaps not for two, but be assured you will have a fine crop of hair and never grow bald if you pursue this course,” O As fifteen minutes seems long while vigorously moving a hairbush hither and_thither over the surluce of your head, it would be well to inveigle one's friends into assisting, wouldn't 1t? 1f the bairis falling out remember that it is owing to the unhealthy condi- tion of the scalp. First, cut off about two inches of the hair, next wash in clear, cold, soft water, rubbing dry with a crash towel; then begin the fifteen minutes brushing process, &and in a fow weeks you will see the tiny spires of new hair coming ull over your head. Beware of being tempted to the use of any nostrum whatsoever, no matter how plausible the advertisement thereof; all are more or less injurious—generally more, as vou will ind out to your sor- row if you begin the use of them, Women are Not Jokers, A writer in the Washington Post has discovered that women as a rule are not fond of jokes; they listen to glever stories with simulated amusement and forget them 1mmediately. The reason for this lies 1n one of the essentials in the make-up of woman—her profound and tender sympll.h{l. Humor deals with the weakness of humanity; it ex- posvs foibles and punctures tender skin. Humor sets the world laughing at some blunder of a man. It is woman This | nature to cover up, excuse and reform. Follies are too serious in her eyes to laugh at. If women were humorists they would not be the most earnest church-workers, the most tender of nurses, and the most sentimental and rofined portion of humanity. The same inherent quality which would make a true woman, a real woman, shrink as judge from pronouncing & death son- tence, or snlli';or from shooting an en- emy through the heart, makes it im- possible for her to become a humorist. Wit a woman may have, wit she does ssess, and is a formidable adversary h her stiletto points of irony and satire. But humorous in the common acceptation of the term, in the care- less, rollicking, stinging art of current quibs and jests—never. Un-American American Girls. It is time that this practice of Ameri- can women buying titles and impe- cunious husbands abroad should receive the fullest amount of ridicule and cen- sure, sayes the Boston Globe, Itis un- American and ridiculous in the extreme and is caloulated to make the name of the American girl a byword in other countries. A prominent Amevican heiress is now negotiating for the hand of a dissolute and insignificant German prince. Her father, an American railroad magnato worth untold millions, has just joined his daughter in Paris, and she now awaits only his consent to consummate a matrimonial bargain, wh if carrmed out, is likely to wreck herentire future. Absurd as it may seem, the price which this titled pauper placos upon his hand is the payment of $500,000 worth of debts and a settlement suflicient to maintain himself and bride in a prince- ly establishment. If the father does not now take peremptory steps and put a sudden end to this foolishness he will subject both himselt and his daughter to the well merited contempt of the American people. It is buta little over one hundred years ago thatour fore- fathers spent their hife blood to expel princes from this country forever. TR S MUSICAL AND DRAMATIO. Charles Abbott and Maggie Mitchell will be married on the latter’s return from Eu- rope. Monday, September 16, William H. Crane produced for the first time his new com- edy, “*On Probation," in Chicago. Mr. James E. Murdock, the actor ana reader, wiil henceforth live in Boston, wheze he will open a school of oratory. *Mr, Barnes of New York" has struck the popular taste, and 1s playing to the capacity of the Columbia theater in Chicago at each pertormance. Louis James began his season September 9 in Bridgeport, Conn. The repertoire will in- clude Richard 1IL, Othello, Virginius and Gonez la Vega. The first of the seasgn—the manager's gay With prospects so bright for his troupe. But, alas! ere six weary months roll away, The prospects may be duns le sup. Burt Haverly, the comedian of the ill-fated “Pretty Perit "’ company that went to picces 'a few weeks ago, has engaged with Donnelly & Girard’s *‘Natural Gas' company. William Haworth’s new melodrama, “Ferncliffe,” the story of which is based on incidents of the late rebellion, was bpro- duced for the first time at Union Square theater, September 9. Mr. Ham A. Tawer—What did you think of my humble effort last night, my dear boy? The Dear Boy—O, you were an 1deal Ciaude, beyond a doubt. I am sure of that, for there never could have been a real one like yours. May Duryea, who was leading lady with the Deshon Opera company at the People's theater a year ago, is this year with Grattan Donnelly’s farce- d Mama.” The company includes also sprirghtly Della Fox, ‘“tne devilish little devil” of the ‘“King's Fool.” Mme. Valda, a prima donna who will as- sist in Mr. Abbey’s Auditorium opera season next December, has arrived in New York. She thinks that with Patti and Tamagne this will be the groatest opera organization ever drawn together. It is to be hoped that she is not mistaken, The new part which Stuart Robson is to create at_the Chicago opera house in Steole Mackaye's “Arrant Knave,” is something between Thaodore de Baruville's Cringoire and Paul Ferrier's Tabarin—the two charac- ters in which Coquelin displays the most powerful mastery of art. Miss Marie Wainwright produced “‘T'welfth Night” at McVicker's theacre, in Chicago, on Monday evening last. There was a large and fashiooable sudience pres- ent, und Miss Wainwright's Viola was en- thusiastically received with many calls be- fore the curtain during the performance. Maurice Barrymore, who will be seen in Chicago next week with A. M. Palmer’s orviginal company, is said to o made the reatest success of his entire stage career as aptain Swift. This will probably be his last season with Mr. Palmer’s cowbauny, as he goes starring shortly. Loie Fulier, well known in the west where her musical education was obtained, was married in London the other day to W. B, Hayes, who claims to be a_nephew of the ex- president of that name. It is also reported that she has taken the Globe theater for the balance of Richard Mansfield’s lease, and in- tends o produce “Caprice.”” As sheis a capricious little lady herself this may not be difcult, New York Dramatic Mirror: tecmed fellow-sufferers says that “The Story of Munkind,” the new melo-drama v runniug ut the Fourteenth Street thea- can be summed up as follows: Act I.— My God, my husband! Act IL—My God, my wife! Act IIL—My God, the willl ActIV.—My God, my husband! Act V.— My God, the willl, Act VL—My God, the child!, ‘The Emmna Jueh Grand English opera company is to be this year under the man- agement of C, 15, Locke, the gentleman who conducted the magnificent but ill-fated American opera company until it finally ran outo the rocks. The company will be staged in the same magnificent style of the Awmeri- can opera company, and the company in- cludes such well known artists as Mme. Benie Serano, Salina Kronold, Susie Leon- hardt, Lizzie McNicoll, Charles Hedmont, Edwin Singer, Franz Velta, E. U, Kmght and others, Oune of our IMPIETIES, He moved his lips in prayer, “There'll be no parting there?” And muttered as he lay and tossed, Fruit for the Mormons—Elder-berries. The dying barber's hunds were crossed, We are informed that *“Christ loves good children because there are so few of them.” Preacher—Ye generation of vipers! Um- pire (waking up)—No back talk there—ten dollars, There must have been awfully slow cash boys in the days of Job, for he says: ‘*All the days of my appointed time will T wait till my change comes,” Sarab Holland, the Georgia evangelist, gives each negro convert a watermelon. This is the firat indication of the coming mullen- nium observed for many a day. “‘Mother, is the District of Columbia in the sky *'No, my child. Why do you ask such aquestion!” “Because you told me yester- day Washington was in heaven,” Mrs, Lumkins—Do you know scientists de- clare that the Garden of Eden was situated at the worth pole! Mr, L.—Then I don't blame them for hustling into clothes when the cold weather came on. Joe—What do you suppose Sullivau will do when he quits fighting! El—I guess he will become a preacher, as he will be qualified for that. Joe—I don't see why. Hli—Why, don't you see that he will be the greatest ex- pounder in the world} On the Sunday following the visit of Forepaugh's circus to Wichita, Kan, a clorsyumu in the pulpit solemuly drew his handkerchief from his pocket, and with it came & handful of peanuts. He will be called upon to tell the deacons where he got the goobers. “What makes you po papat” asked the ministe “Are you trying o indicate the gestures in your sermon as you write?’ *No, my chuld,” sald the minister 1n a rather irritated voice. “I am trylng to make the ink flow in this pesky fountain pen.” A DYING BURGLAR'S SECRET He Kissed His Sleeping Child and ‘Went Away Forever. COULDN'T CATCH DAN HUFF. How an erprising Georaia Youth Got a Bride — My Wife's Bridge — #icd to See His Sweetheart, A man was shot in the small mining town of Gilbertson, Pa., several nights ago while burglarizing a store and was taken to the Pottsville jail, where he is now dying from the wounds. He said his name was Tom Nankeville, of Shamokin, and that he had a brother and a cousin living here. The latter was found, after a long search, living in the suburbs of this city, and was in- | formed that Nunkeville was dying and sent love toall relatives and friends, Leonard Rogers, the cousin, was uston- ished on learning of the shooting, as ho thought Nankevillo was dead. A re- makably romantic tale was unearthed. Twenty years ago the dying burglar came [rom the westorn part of England to Shamokin. He was a handsome young man, dressed well and worked in the mines, Two years later a former sweetheart of Nankeville came here with her husband. Nankeville, learn- ing of their arrival, boarded with the young couple upon their going to house- keeping, A year later he went to Port Huron, N, J., to work, and while thero a month learned of his rival’s death in the mines. Coming sack to Shamokin he paid court and eventually married the widow. Six months rolled by when he me home one night drunk. A cousin of his wife upbraided him, and that night he packed up his clothing and left—it was afterwards learned for the lake region, where he worked in the copper mines. His wife gave birth to his child six months afterwards. Mrs. Nankeville waited for her husband’s return, and after six years had olapsed was told that he was dead. She had during that time supported herself and child by doing sewing. Her health broke down on learning of her husband’s death, and to gain a home she marvied a third i Her last husband is a miner and they lived vory happily together, Two years ago Nankeville turned up alive, and learning of his wife’s marriago, ept_into the houso one night and kissed his child, then a grown woman, as she lay asleep and departed never to be heard from again until yesterday. His wife was interviewed, and on boing told of Nankeville’s shooting, expressed deep sorrow. Het duughter was reared without a knowledge of her father's ex- istence. Mr. Dan Huff some time ago became enamored of Miss Chandler, of Banks county, Georgia. They agreed to keep their engagement a profound secret from the parents of the young lady. At the appointed time they started to church just aftef the old folks had started for the same destination, suc- ceeded in getting{in advance of them and made their way hastily to Daniels- ville. The young lady’s father had grounds to suspect the probable sequel to the disappearance of the young folks, He mounted a fleet-footed horse and soon sound their trail and pursued them as fast as possible. The young couple arrived at Danielsville, drove up to Mr. Kinnebrew's and soon after the heated animal of the father passed the house bearing its master. In his haste the *‘old man’ failed to see the “turnout” standing by the wayside and passed them by. After he passed there was no time to lose. The young man obtained a license and the services of a justice and the couple were mar- ried. Soon after the ceremony theu n- cle of the bride rode up. He had also followed them, butarrived toolate. The father nad lost track of them and turned bac! He rode up and found his fifteen-year-old daughter a bride. He was excited but calmed down on finding that his rage could be of no avail. The groom 18 seventeen years of age. At Tokio, Japan, called Adzuma- Bashi — My bridge. The name has a romantic origin. A brave general who had quelled a rebelliou in another part of the empire was hastening home on ac- count of the receipt of a message that his wife was gangerously ill. On the st day of s hurried journey he found his course barred by a bridgeless river, and when, after long and anxious waiting, he managed to fiud a boat to cross in he was met by s 5 be: ] loved wife had just died, before he could arrive to press her hand for the last time and say adieu. *“My wife could not wait for me” was all the stoical warrior would trust himself to say as he stood there as i1 frozen by the shock, His sovereign, touched with compassion for the biow that had fallen upon him while away fighting for his country, or- dered a bridge to be built at the spot and named it Adzuma-Bashi. But the people say it cost the monarch only $24, since a lot of paper money wius manu- factured especially to pay for it. is a fine bridge Wife’s Theodore Flotow, aged seventy-two, and his wife, sixty-nine, were reunited the other day in St. Louis, having been separated since 1849, They came to this country in 1847, from Bavaria, stopping at New Orleans. Mr. Flotow then caught the California gold fever, and left his wife and child at New Or- leans and went out to the Pacific slope. After a few years, not hearing from each other, they each married again. Mrs. Flotow married a German vamed Lobenhoefer. They came here about 1853, and up to a few vears ago lived together very happily, when he died. The family was left in moderate circum- stances, residing on /Third and Victor streets, Mr, Flotow™ second wife also died. Mrs, Lobenhoefer heard of her first husband thropgh a German winis- ter at Murphryshoro, Tenn. The re- union was & very touching one. R Eight years ago Mrs. Martha A, Higley obtained a divorce from her husband in Winasor Locks, Conn., and ith her three q)‘;xu;"htur: and a son ip the same state to The family seeu work in the mills here, and Mrs. Higley brought up her children in a very respectable man- ner. Soon after Mrs, Higley left her old home the former husband married again, and three years afterward his second wife died, leaving one child, Mr. Higley found the life of u widower with one cin]d a not very pleasant oue, and he cast about for another compan- ion. His chiidren by his first wife had kept their love for™ their father, and they longed to see ther pareuts recon- eled to each other, Through their efforts the father came to Shelton and met his divorced wife, Theold love re- vived at sight of her and he pleaded with the impetuous ardor of his youth- ful days for & renewal of her old love. He was successful, Mrs. Higley and her ehildren lofi for Windsor Locks, and a quiet wedding will soon be brated. The case of Ashley W. Boyce, the Winsted hotel clerk, who married Miss Annje Chielson, of Palmer, Mass., on his deathbed recently, in order that she might inherit £30,000 which was held in trust for him, has a parallel in & case reported at Terryvillo, a village near Waterbury, Conn. John J. Gierding, whose funeral was held there the other day, had been sick for two weeks from blood poisoning. He had become en- mored of Miss Kate Kgan, of Ter ville, but his mother was bitterly op posed to the girl and Gierding had to meot her ciandestinely for some time. He sent for his fianceo, but when she came the mother refused her admit- tance. Gierding, hearing her voice, crawled from his bed and down the stairs, where he was found by his family and carried back to his room. He died in a few minutes afterward from the shock. erding’s father, a Danish sea captain, died some time ago and loft an estate valued av nearly $15,000. It is stated on good authority that Katie an will inherit a goodly portion of Gierding's estate. cele- Tn the book of Mrs. ilii Willis, the Samoan woman whose husband, tractor, left Alameda several de and since been missing, occur: following quaint stc of how she first fell in love with her h and: “The first thing I saw when we went alongside the ship was a white man with a bald head. That looked funny to me, as T had neverseena bald headed man bofore. e was 1 fat and nice looking, but he did not have any hair on his head, and I got my broth~r, who could talk TEnglish, to ask him, just as we got aboard, where was all the haiv that belonged on his head. And the white man told him that he lived California and they do not have any cold weather there, but had what they called ‘a glorious climate,’ und the ‘cli- mate’ had taken all the hair off his head. We got well acquainted and I liked him, because when another white man kept talking to me this one with the bald head quarreled with him and knocked him down so he could not hoth- er me At the time of the first appearance on Staten Island of the Wild W James B. Willoughby, otherwise **Jim, the Kid,” became enamored of Miss Lillian Smith of California, a champion rifle shot who was attached to the sh A romantic marriage was the v i Tlulselus of Port Ricl in the tent of “Buck 0 were in the se- cret wore present, while the father of Miss Liilian was watching eagerly out- side with gun in hand to shoot “the Kid,” as he was opposed to the match, After the marriage the bride was taken by her parents to Connecticut, and not until several attemptsdid the groom finally, by stratagem, succeed in re- gaining her. The couple have re- mained with Buffalo Bill ever since, but it now appears that jealousy has in- vaded the familyin France. Justi Hulselus, who united them in marviage, is in receipt of a letter from Parisi which the husband says that k riage is a failure,” and asks adv to the manner of procuring a divorce. Justice Hulselus, under the peculiar circumstances, does not know what ad- to give his would-be client. A Shamokin young man who is en- gaged to o young lady of that city pro- posed @ stroll to the romantic cemetery a few evenings since. She demurred at first, but as he was going away to At- lantic City she finally consented. At the cemotery thoy sat down to watch the moon,and the young man fell asleep. Presently his lis moved with an en- dearing specch ho breathed the name **Mollie.” His lady love, aflame with jealousy, jumped upand gave him a push that sent him roiling down the bank and crashing through the brush till & railing stopped him twenty fest below badly torn and bleeding. 'lle is recruiting by the sea, and the trothal is hung up. - SINGULAK be- 1S, Fish have been caught i the Gulf of Cal- ifornia at a depth of 1,400 fee! A lady at Wallula, W, T., has a rose bush that stunds seventeen feet high. A huge rattlesnake crawling along the sidewalk was on sights at Athens, the other d i 0 is u pond in New Jersey where the sacred lotus of the east has become estab- lished and proved itself hardy, although in the winter the surface of the water is frozen over. At Sandersyiile, Ga., last week M, H. Bird was engaged in placing a spoke in tae hubof a wheel, when it broke from the tap of a hammer and a minnie ball fell out on the floor, The spokes came from North Caro- ling, and it is supposed that the ball has re- mained in the wood since the trying days of 1861 and 1865, A wonderful map of O'Brien county, Towa, bus been made and was on exhibi- tion at the state fair at Des Moines, Lhe map is wholly composed of corn grains, each town and township being distinguished by different colors. 'I'he railways are marked by rows of blue-black “squaw corn,” and the wagon roads with popeorn. As a passenger train thundered along near Alleyton, Newaygo county, Mich., the other day a large baldhcaded eagle arose from be- side the track and tried to fly across the rails ahead of the train, but it was struck by the engine and was lodged against a cylinder head. The engineer then went forward and captured it. The bird measured six feet from tip to tip across the wines, Alsteamer arrived at Philadelphia the other day with a cargo of fruit and a number of tarantulas on board. Members of the crew were often obliged to keep watch at night and sweep the vipers into the occan us fast as they crawled up on deck. The vessol w loaded to its hatchways. At times the deck was literally covered with them, and some were as big around the body as a good-sizad orange, The residents in the vicinity of the city dock at Brupswick, Ga., have witnessed s0me very strange sights and heard some un- earthly noises there lately. One gentleman is respousible for the statementthat the form of a woman clad in white has been seen hov- ering over the streets, and when approached would retreat and disappear among the lum- ber piles. Another has heard gates slam, stones rattle on the housetops, and various other noises that sounded queer. They attri Dute these sights to the ghost of & woman who died thera recently. < e B TIONAL. It is now thought tho Stanford university in Calforuia wmay be opencd in the fall of 1800. A public sch ated w Dela furnishes It is expecte I at Delmar is pa and Maryland. Each state s for its pupils, what James Russell Lowell will fill the new lectureship on poetry at Johns Hopkins university the coming year. Ramabai now has nine pupils in her school in New York. ier ussistant, Miss Dew- won, has established a se class, This v mean very little by in India 1t s a revolution in the customs of cen- taries, Rawabai lately accepted an invita- tion to lecture before @ conferenco at Poo- nub; aunother lWovation, #s no woman hid o been 1ovited 1o adidress such w body. Her subject was “America aud Women.” A European teaching an Oriental language 10 the cultivated speakers of it 18 not u quent sight, vet Mr. Basil Hatl Chamberluin has held, during the several years past in the Tmperial university of Tokio, the oh . of Japauese and Philology. His **Handbook of Colloguial Japanese,” 18sucd last year, bias reactied a secoud edition. In both theory and practics it forms a thorough equipment for the mastery of tae spokou and easy book lauguige. Awerican The STAR of DESTINY | Creafing Such Excitement in the East, Will Shortly he Seen in Omaha, f:fi@w“ nE MACICCIRCLE s, —— WAS SEEN— B, THE STAR OF PE_STUM*(.\”%@Q Look, Think . Guess WHAT IT IS. Browning, King & Co, S.W.Cor. (5th and Douglas Sts. : OMAHA, NEB, RELIABLE CLOTHIERS AND FURNISHERS. SLAVES SOLD I¥ NEBRASKA, How Martha and Hercules Went on the Block. SOLD THEM TO PAY A DE:BT. Lawyer Taylor Was a Very Strong Prohibitionist, But Me Didn'v Allow the Fact to Interf With Fiis Bu At Sheriff's Sale. g b., Sept. 21.— i.]—Much has been ten on the subject of slavery in Ne- b and while the f has been es- tablished that it did exist for a short time-before the war, there a W per- sous now living to whom it will be news to learn that sluves were at one time sold from the block at Nebra: City, to the highest bidder. The only owners of slaves at ) aska City, or in the state of Nebraslka, as s the writer can learn, were Judge Charles I, Holly and Freil Nucholls, both prominent men in the communi and men who figured to a considerable extent in border slave troubles in the of John Brown. The v d by the two gentlemoen ere twelve in number, and all but two were subsequently run off by follow of Brown and taken out of the country by the underground ilroad. In the course of pioncer business transactions the Hon. Judge Holly became some- what embarrassed financially, and among his creditors was William 1. Hail, or *“Uncle Billy as he was inrly known. The sum involved When the status of Holly's financial affairs known, Hail employed counsel, an eoffort was made to find some of securing the A judgment was sccured agninst Holly, for the amount, and an execution issued, but when Sheriff Birchfield went to levy upon the prop of the judge, it was found that there was noth- ing attachable remaini William H, Taylor, a tricky lawyer of the carly days, and a' somewhat promi- republican and anti-slavery an of that time in Nebraska attorney for Hail, and L did not take him long to hit upon a plun to secure his client, although it was rather against his previous te ing: Judge Holly h: n\ two slaves— Martha and Hercules—and Taylor de- cided that these were attachable prop- ert) He ordered the sherill to secure Aves upon the exccution. But,” saia Taylor'sabolition friends, “this will never do. It is wrong and inconsistent, and the fair name of Ne- braska shall never be sullied by the sale of a human being within her bor- ders,” “D——the niggers and the state,” re- plied Taylor. his 18 not a question of sentiment, but a matter of law,” and the sheriff was urged to serve the pa- pers, Excitement began to run high aud numerous and dire threats were made against the attorney, officer and ereditor, if the order should by carried Shermtf Birchiield required the parties to give him an bond to secure him uny possible damage, The went to the home of Holly to make the levy,followed by an excited, threatening mob, The attachment was made, and Martha and Hercules were taken in churge by the sheriff, who then also proprietor of the leading botel in the city, and the slaves were put to work at the house until the dateof sale, December 5, 1560, the attachment hav- ing been made on November 17. The “property’ were led to believe that they wore to be purchased by Hail,and would therefore remain in the city, and conse- quently they were unconcerned about their future. As the duy of sale drew | and placed beside her nearer the public excitement increased, and John Brown’s men made sever: afforts to ra.se & mob to secure the two slaves and run them out of the country, but Attorney Taylor’s presence always had a quieting effect on the erowd. On the morning of the day of sale y citizan looked for bloodshed. The officer and his deputics were armed and determined, and the opposing mob was equally well prepared and threatening, while the southern element was on hand to sce the fun. An attempt was to be made to take the slaves by force when they were placed on the block. Sheriff Birchfield made his appearance with Hercules, who was mounted on the block in front of the old Seymour house and offered for sule. There was a murmur among the crowd and « sway- ing motion toward the nuctioneor. but a number of glittering guns brought the mob to a sandstill again, and when Attorney Taylor upon the scene and circul crowd they had been 1 good nature and we hoot and jeer after Hc offered some fifty tim: der. Finally Martha cven ready to cules had bean without a bid= brought out purtner and both offered for sale. “Three hundred doll % of John Brown’s men, beforo Billy” Hail had time to make his bid. “Phree hundred and fifty,” put in Unele Billy, and the bidding stopped, and the “property’ was knocked down to the purchaser, who immediately hure- ried them out of town hefore the mob had made up its mind to take furthee tion, and when thoy did start in pur= suitin the eveni Iail und his pur= chase were on uy to Missouri, where the s s were sold again, This ion o Hail alone nted the two 28 from gaining their liberty along with the remaining sluves in this city, who were soon after run out of the coun- try by Brown’s men, Following is » copy of the sherifl’s retura on the sale, and now one of the interesting doct ments on file in the district court: *This writ came to hand November 5,1860, and was served by levying on the following described pron- erty, to-wit: One negro man named Herecules, one negro woman named Martha, slaves, and belonging to Charles I, Holly; said levy being made on the 17th day of November, 1860, I caused w notice to be published in the Nebraska Cit; News according to law (seo execution that 1 would offer the above described proverty for sale at publi on in front of the court house in ovbraska in said county on the 5th day of December, A. D., 1860, between the hours of 10 o’clock a. m, and 3 o’clock p, m., of said day; and ut the time and sified in said notice. T firsk ules, and there being no m I then offered the said Hercules and Martha togetuer and sold the sume to Witliam B, Hail for the sum of #8300, He being the highest bid- der and vhat being the highest sum bidden for said property, the sane was s0ld to him. WiLL ed one *Uncle AM Bincnrieen, Sheriff, - raions. and 24th, and Ogs Sth, round wip tickets will be sold via the Sania e route at one lowest first class fare to Kansas, Texas, Indian territory, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah, reuching cities of Galveston, Austio, I't. Worth, Dallas, Oklahoma, Guthrie, Panhaadle ning, Denver, Colo= ings Puoblo,Trinidad,Salt Lake den and intermediate points, ls good thirty days. Stop over leges at pleasure while on the Santa e, For maps, rates and full information regarding ovtional routes call on or ad= dress 12 L. Palmer, Freight and Pase senger Ageot, M. Osgood, General Agent, Santa Fe Route, 1808 Farnam street, Omaha, Neb, ptember 10th tober bz T A ST SR R T