Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 10, 1890, Page 3

- - - of August Miss —— WON WITH PRAYER AND SONG Then the Young Wretch Fled With Her Cash Box. HE CORRALLED HIS BREED. The Un'que Nuptinls of Big Charley and Meetutse Nan Anarchist—. Run Loved an e Cupid Amuck. Little Romances, Archibald Cummings is wi Hackensack, At about the he Postoffice Cashier Lounsherry tempting to asphyxiate himsell in his fine on Main street, Cum- mings was quietly departing from the fushionable boarding house of Mrs. John Paton, 155 ate street, with a tin box containing #4400, says a New York dispatel to the Globe-Demoerat Miss Louise Moore owned the hox and coitents. Sheisasistor of the “late Helena P, Fair, and has an income of $10,000 0 vear, which she invests in western secur ps us fast as it comes in, excepting the comparatively small sum which she expends to maintain and clothe herself. Miss Moore is very deaf and excoedingly excentric, but young Cummings, to the sur- prise of everybody munaged to getinto her good graces. He came from the west and vepresented himself a3 the son of a Presbyterian minister. He. however, attended the First M.. 5. church, and he was very punctual in his devotion s. At the Paton boarding house he r norning, noon and night, on this fe- count, took n great interest in him, and he in veturn read the bible and veli- gious newspapers to her, sang psalms and hymus for her, and was accounted sdingly correet young man. He ame v friendly with Mrs. , Mrs. Paton’s widowed daugh- ter, with whom he was often seen on treet and at chur Being fre- quently in Miss Moore’s company, Cummings had ample opportumty to kuow where she kept her cash, and, being an ear! iser, frequently taking long walks before the vreakfast bell rang, had no dificulty in ping out with the old lady’s ti which he had removed from her room on the previous evening. He left town by the squehanna railrond to Pater- son, but the officer intrusted with the warrant for his arrest came back with- out his prisoner, Mrs, Ifair, Mrs. sister, lost $40.000 i & mining ansaction a few years ago, and itis feared that the western invest ments of Miss Moore are dubious, She said she could not believe Cummings meant to rob her,as he was so pious. Only two weeks ugo he asked her if she hud any idea of getting marvied, She 18 about sixty-five, Cumifings fou ‘here were in th part of the $4,400, two Ch peake & Ohio coupon bonds, Nos. 4. and 5,641, for 1,000 each. nted in r when was at- puidende A gentleman from Chicago was wait- in the Fort Wayne station in Alleghany last evening, says the Pittsburg Dis puteh, to board the limited for the city which expects to get the world’s fair. His meis L. A. Barseman, and he had stopped in Alleghany to visit friendson his way home from Philadelphia, where he had attended a wedding around which a halo of romance had cast its in- teresting charm. A fascinating young lady from Phila- delphia, named Jeannette Hill, was spending the summer just pussed at Charlotte, N, Y., on Lake Ontario, and before she haud been there many weeks she became un udept at handling a sail, and frequently went out on the lake for exercise and recreation. There was u young man from Cincin- nati summering at the same place, who was known as J. C. Cum- mings, who also enjoyed himself on the lake during the aflter- noons. He was of a very retiring dis- tion, and although a young mun of ellent qualities he made fow One afternoon toward the latter part Hill went down to the beach and started out for asail. Nir. Cummings was of the same mind, and abiut the same time started out on the lake a few hund feet behind the bont in which Miss Hill was sailing. They had not gone far before a squall was seen coming up the lake, and in a few moments the wind had st her bout. Before she was able to right it the suils and ropes had become tan- gled. Cummings saw the predicament she wus in and instantly, steered his boat toward hers with the hopa of as- gisting her, but justas he was about to run up alongside of the one in which she was standing the skiff veered around and he struck it amiaship. Miss Hill was knocked into the iake. Cum- mings gallantly jumped to her rescue and the boats floated away from them. He grasped her around the waist and struck out for the shore. ., He had not gone far before Miss Hill informed her preserver that she could swim. This was a surprising statement, but Cummings told her to place her hands on his shoulders and he would try to reach the beach. The water was very shallow opposite that part of the beach towards which they were drift- ing, and when they reached the second bar they were able to stand on the sand and rest a few moments. In the meantime darkness had spread its face over the waters,but the electric lights on the shore illuminated the crowds which were promenading along the water’s edge, Mr. Cummings and Miss Hill started .towmrd the shore again and soon reached the first pier. Rising again they made the lust trip, and before u week had passed Cupid had clasped their hands and the two hearts had vowed to beav as one. “Plots for stories have not all been used, us some people assert,” remarked W. A. Jennings of Wyoming in the Cwlonnade to a Philadelphia Press man, “A friend of mine,” he continued, “who lives out in the cattle country of the Big Horn basin was a witness in 1885 10 one of the most remarkable weddings of which I have ever heard. At that time a few settlers had gathered in and formed the nuoleus of what is now a prosperous farming region, but the sway of the cowboy was un- disputed. The drst wedding in that section on Owl creek was that of Big Charley and Meetutse Nance, a native sagebrush betle, The brice anl groom came seventy-five miles on horseback to the squire’s, and in «¥actly vhe same fashion. When wit im 1 lew miles of the squire’s home the. e that official, surrounded by hall & diZen cowboys, Then the bride gov 1estive und nervous, declaring that she wouldn't warry any man on earth. But the judge, the cowboys, and the groom were equal to the occasion. At & short distance stood a corral, * *Take her over to the corral, boys, sod put her in,’ said his honor, *As Meotutse Nance heard this order sho ma: her days of freedom ware over. Sho was qaickly run down and amid a volley of feminine sagebrush eloquence the de- | lighted boys started on a_lope for the corral., Renching this, Nance leaped from her bronk and started like a scared deer for some adjacent brush; but it wac no go. However, she fought vigorously and his honor ordered, *Hobble her, boys.” The boys were in ccstasies. A pair of rawhide hobbles wero stripped from a 1se’s neck, and their twist adjusted about the sturd ankles of the struggling bride. was taken into the corral and his honor! mounting the fence, bade the groom take his place by her side and catch on to her hand. This done, his honor as- umed the look of dignified importance for by the occasion and suid: “‘Big Charlie and Metutse Nance, you come inter this corral single, I now pronoance you a couple. Big Charlie, unhobblé your wife.’ “But this Big Charlie found it diffi- cult to do, and it was not until one of the cowboys hud gently cast his lariat over the newly made wife that the hus- nd was able to turn the lady loose. Then the justice called his boys to- gether, and saying, ‘Come on, be wo hain’t got no_ business here now,’ led them away. One of the boys looked back und tho happy couple were busy unpacking - their camping outfit, and the honeymoon had_evidently begun.” Socialists in New York have bec formed that their confrere, Reinsdorf, until recently a typesetter in the employment of the New Yorker Zoitung, has been bamished from the city of Lewpsig, whe he went on a visit to his wife's parent Leipsig is under military rule und all the socialists and anarchists making their home in that city are under police surveillance, says the New York Her- Reinsdorl’s ord as an anarch- istic agitator had preceded him and the German authorities took immediate steps to gev rid of him, although his ige had not been undertaken for wda purpo Reinsdorf lived with his wife in Stockton street, Brook- Iyn,and the latter some three weeks dgo attempted suicide by drowning. She is a native of Leipsig, where she is s1id to have excellent family connec- tions, and the anarchist took hor abroad to place her under the care of her par- ents, The story of Reinsdorl’s marriaga is not without romance. When a con- demned anarchist and a fugitive from justice in Germany a fow years ago the woman who afterwards became his wi under the laws of the state of New York took a deep interest in him. She was ime an unsophisticuted young girl living with her parents. She re- garded Reinsdori as a hero, and finally cast aside the warnings of relatives and friends and followed the mun of her choice to a foraign land, with poverty and privation. Her dream of happi- ness was short. The shallowness of her husband’s political pretenses soon be- came apparent, and she brooded over her fate until her mind became shat- tered. and in a fitof melancholy attemp- ted her own life, 'The doctors said the only way to save her was to restore her to her parentsend former surroundings. Reinsdorf at last agreed to this, and his recent banishment from Leipzig and enforced s ation from his wife will probubly have the result of aiding his wife's recovery. Reinsdorf is a brother of the Reins- dor! who was beheaded in Germany for his complicity in the plan to blow up the .\'iuher\mld monument. A most remarkable courtship ha: ended with the marriage of Whitman, a young man of Naples, On- tario county, and Miss Myrtie Lyon of the same place, suys a Canandaigua dis- patch to the New York Sun. Whitman und Miss Lyon had been betrothed for some time. but their marringe had been strenuously opposed by Whitman’s pa- rents, who had other and more ambi= tious designs for theirson’s alliance. Young Whitman bhecame of age a short time ago, and he then determined to end the agony at once. Hearrauged to marry Miss Lyon last Thursday night, but while on the way to the par- son’s house with his intended by = his side, he was surprised by some men, who suddenly emerged from the thicket at the roadside and stopped his horse. They took Whitman from the carringe, transfarred him to one of their own and drove rapidly to auother town, while the givl was taken home. Iuch was urged to give the other up and ag- sured that their efforts to marry would prove futile, because Whitman's family would leave no stone unturned to pre- ventit. They both vowed, howe that they would remain true, and it wi uot long before they had another schome on foot to outwit their encmies. They arranged to meet at a minister’s house, and they reached there in Without delay they joined han stood up to be made husband and wife, but just as the dominie was about to begin the ceremony an officer burst into the room and arrested young Whitman ‘on a warrant sworn out by his mother. The warrant was issued on a trivial charge trumped up for the oceasion, but the young man was compelled to goand leave his disappointed betrothed in tears. He was bailed promptly by friends next morning, and arranged to g0 toa party that night with a young lady who wa+ a mutual friend of the lovers, while a young man ssurted with Miss Lyon. On the road somewhere an exchange of partners took place, and ‘Whitman and Miss Lyon are supposed to have repaired immediately to a min- istor's residence. At any rate, they haven’t shown up since, and the natural inference is that they have at last suc- ceeded in circumventing their encmies’ schemes. A Caracas, N. Y., letter says: *“The appointment by President Pail of Gen- eral Alejandre Ybarra to be commander of the local forces illustrates the fickle- ness of Venezuelan politics, and also re- calls a bit of romance worthy of the days of chavalry. When Judge Russell of Massachusetts was the United States diplomatic agent here, Guzman Blanco wias in the zenith of his power and molded the people to his will with a hand of iron. He was absolute dietator with powers as great as those of Pompey or Cwsar, When this modern Jove frowned, dread filled the air, When he s‘[mku, all heeded well his words. barra was a general in the army at the time, a gallunt mun, and a gentle- man. The beauty aud grace of Judge Russell’s daughter captivated his warm but warlike heart, and the proud Ven- ezuelan was led tive by a light- hearted American girl, with no care or trouble to vex her. Buteareand trouble came all too soon. Ybarra und Miss Russell were engaged, but the contem- plated union n|ifi not please Guzman, And then one of Judge Russell’s reports was published and the contents so angered the diciator that dered Yburrea to break engagement, This Y barra fused to do,and he was offered the al- ternatives of expatriation or wealth and honors in Caracas, Overcome with indignant rage Ybarra broke his sword across his knee, and hurried from the rruuuncs of the man now 80 hateful to his oyes. By the uct he chose banish- ment from his native land, aud, indeed, he was fortunate to escape with his life, as Guzman was 80 wroth that he would probably have caused the assassination of Ybarra, for Guzman did not besitate at such trifles as o man’s life. However, he o 0 wild break for the hills, but | ¥ the intervention of Ybarra's rela- tives, some of whom were connécted by marringe with Guzman, he was allowed to leave the country with his brde. The young couple had a hard time of it, and the proud Venezuelan was com- pelled to lecture, and he a handbvook of the ish languages, "Pwo months ago Ybarra returned to and soon after his & ‘Iliustrious . a8 Guzman delighted to self were torn down by preconcerted arrangement, and Guzman deprived of his position as envoy extrs minister plenipotentiar,; “And now Ybarra is nppoin important position by President Pau chair by Guzman himself, and who now recalls Guzman from his post. It is whispered that Ybarra is soon to be made sceretary of war, ¢ Meanwhile Guzman is in Italy ana many people in Caracas would give a good round sum to know what the geizzled warrior con- templates next. During his dictator- ship he succeeded in acquiring o vast amount of property, and he is quite well able, if he chooses, to fit out a v sel and return to his native land. In that case a bloody revolution would be inaugurated amusing phase of such a cont would be the alarn ing haste with which many of the anti- Guzmanites would flee to the mountains for a change of ai But wedly think that such an event will occur Guzman is now too old, his health too ous to venture upon the seas like nother Napolcon returning from Elba, o doubt he would like to revenge him- self, but while the spirit may be willing the flesh must be too weak.” English and Span- se Rojus o of astill handsome woman, , alias Hamilton, came Er y night, in her kept rooms on the first floor of the flat house at 812 West Forty-ninth street a New York dispateh to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, she died from hemorrhage before Bridget Kelly, her aged seraant, could summon a phy- sician. was reported to the coroner’s office yestorday. Investiga- tion showed that the woman, who in an old letter written to her by an admirer in Pittsburg, alluded to as ‘‘the beautrful belle of Allegheny City,” died alone, with but 6 cents in her house. She must have been very handsome in her younger days, She was a brunette, and her features are still regular and fine. Her hair was heavy and black. The old woman who acted as her maid of all work said that she was forty-nine years old, a native of Pittsburg, Pa.,and had lived for many years in New York, under the various’ names of Kennedy, Hamiiton, Freligh, Winston and Mont- gomery. The woman’s family moved in respectable but humble circles in Pitts- burg, and she has a brether still living there. Her remarkabie beuuty led to her downfall. Among her few effects were letters showing that her father died in 1888, and that a contest was | ing made over his will, her brotherd puting her right to certain pronerty. The old servant said that a print dealer from New Jersey had latterly been supporting her m He knew that she had been ug trom hemorrhage, and late on Friday night he called atv the house. = When he was informed that she was dead he turned away impatiently, withovt even look- ing at the body, and left the house, although the servant called after him that there was not money enough in the house togive the woman a decent burial. An undertaker has taken charge of the body, and will hold it for some days in the hope that friends will come forward to bury it. If they don’t it will be interred in potter’s field. Flora Mays was to have been mar- ried at ner father’s residence near Randolph, Al 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, to William Merriweather, a rich farmer, says a Birmingham (Ala.) dispatch to the New York Sun. Merri- weather is forty-five and a widower, Miss Mays is nineteen, The mawch was arranged by the girl’s parents, much against her will. She was in love with & young man named George Church. Merriweather had arrived at Mays’ residence, and the guests were all assembled in the parlor awaiting the appearance of the bride, when Church arrived. Miss Mays saw him coming, and in her bridal dress ran to the gate to meet him. The young lovers leaped into Merriweather’s var- ringe, which was standing at the gate, drove to Centreville and were married. They were hotly pursued, but Merr weather’s horses were the fastest that section, and the young lovers were man and wife hatf au hour before the pursuing party arrived at Centre- ville. the TR Uncertainty may attend business ventures and enterprises; but it never attends the prompt administration of Dr. Bull's Cougn Syrup. Price 25 cents. “My sore ran in the night, and my soul rufused to be comforted.” *Poor fellow ! of courso it did. Pity he couldn’t get Salvation Oil. Only 25 cts.”! e~ AMERICA LEADS THE WORLD, In the Art of Making Pianos as Well 8 in Watches. In one thing besides railroads nnd grain it can be safely claimed, without the appearance ot spread-eagleism, that America leads the world—it is in the art of piano making, says the Chicago Herald. This is a fact that no sane per- son, unaffected by local prejudices would attempt to deny, In the details of workmanship, and in improvements affecting tone, quality, durability and artistic developement, America has progressed, while England, France.Ger- many oud ftaly bave remained aimost where they were fifty years ago. This is a curious fact, for these countries are supposed be to pre-eminently musical— further advanced in this art than America, which, it is claiwmed, is stll struggling with the rudiments; and it seems natuarl that manufacturers 1 the four countries first named should be the ones w oring 8o important a musical instrument as the piano toits highest point ot aevel- opment. Englishmen, Frenchmen, Ger- mans and Italians will often enough show talent when transplanted to this conntry, and here, stimulated by our keener business spirit, they have been largely instrumental in giving the American piano its present exalted po- sition. At home they would provably have been stifled by lfle popular preju- dice, which is strongly opposed to in- terfering with methods which have been in vogue for years, Were it nov for this apathy abroad to pergeive the advantages of new and advanced ideas, and were it not for the cheupness of the labor employed and the materials used in foreign factories, which enables the makers to greatly undersoll American pianos, this couutry would long: ago have run the foreign piano out of its own field, It took the Swiss a long time to recog- nize the wonderful superiority in point of exactness and gheapness of the Amer- ican watch work done by machinery, and 1t was only when they were threat- ened with a total loss of the enormous watch trade, which they had virtually coutrolled for many years, that they gave up theif tedious hand work and substituted machiner; - Pears' is the best aud purest soapever made, so prepared | who was placed 1n_the exceutive | AMAZONIAN MEDICAL MAIDENS, They Do Battle for a Traphy After the Manner of Men, In order to keep pace With the pro- grossive spirit of the vimus, the two higher classes of the women's medical | coliege have indulged in & regular col- lege tight. o The dispute arose Thursday over the ownership of a beautiful green cushion | which a dignified senior enptured from a less dignified junior and Jntend use for her own special comfort Philadelphia dispatch to the 3 At B o'clock on ' bhat eventful this young lady entered the lecture room carrying on her shoulder the cushion. Arriving 8t her place she threw it upon the bench, and, sitting upon it, said to her companions, “‘Oh, my! but that is comfortable.” A few minutes later the members of the junior class assembled in their dea| partment and the possessor of the cush- ion missed her comfortable seat, She informed her classmates of what had hapvened and with one voice they said. “We will ve that cushion.” The owner of the cushion, followed by her comrades, walked up to the senior and demanded her property. Oa receiving a negative answer to her re- quest the plucky junior grabbed the cushion and pulled it from unaer the senior. In an instant there was u regy lar tug of wa The members of each class came to the assistance of their IBach division held on to the cushion, pulling und wrestling, and finally they came to blows, The room was one animated mob of young and comely women strug- gling for supremacy and possession of the coveted trophy. When the janitor entered, whether intentionally or not. he engaged in the strife_and ‘soon became thoroughly mixed up in the fight. It was hard to tell which faction was the strongest. The wildest excitement prevailed when the professor, accompanicd by some gentlemen entered the lecture room. I'he professor shouted for order, but withoutavail. He then took a hand in tho fight and captured the cushion, which he bore off in triumph to his desk. Assoon as he could maks him- self heard the lecturer admimstered a short reproof to the angry maidens and finally succeeded in restoring order. Tired and tattered, the young ladies then procecded to their usual places, leaving on the floor severallocksof hair and other evidences of the buattle. When quiet had been completely re- stored the owner of the much-coveted cushion quietly stepped down to the desk of the professor and returned to her place with the prize which she, not figuratively but literally, sat upon. Infernal Ingenuity could acarcely devise more excruciating tor- tures than those of which you sce the evil dences in the face of a rheumatic or neural- gic sufferer. The agonies are the conse- quence of not checking a rheumatic or neu- rvalgic attack at the outsct. Hostotter's Stomacn Ritters have been found by skil- ful medical practitioners to possess not only remedial, but defensive efiicacy, where those discases oxists, or a tendency to them is ox- hibited. Surely T tanic_medicine, bearing, too, such specific sanction, is better than the poisons often employed, but more wosafe, not only in continuunce, but in isolated doses. The blood s depurated thoroughly from the rheumatic virus, and the nerves, slightly im- purged upon, saved from ultimate and dire- ful throes by this benign, saving medicine, which likewise exhibits marked eflicacy for malaria, kidney complaints, dyspepsia, con- supation and liver complain How State Rallways Pay. Victoria is an Australian colony with the size and populatfon of Kansas in 1880, or an area of 87,000 square miles and a population of 1,000,000, But instead of letting corporations build the railroads and giving land away to get them to _do this, Victoria has kept its land and built its own rail- roads, says the Philadelphia Press. The result is that this thriving little community of about 1,000,000 souls, or the population of Philadelphia, haa last year an income of $41,000,000, and of this sum $16,500,00 wa3 in the shape of profits on the state railroads. Seven pears ago the income from the railroads was only $9,000,000; in 1886-'8 it was 265,000, and for the year just closed it has gone up to nearly double the in- come of seven years ago, and as no one can build roads but the state, and the state i= an enterprising buiider and a good manager, the profits on the rail- roads will in time pay ull the expenses of the government. In addition, Vie- toria owns not only the postoffice, as the people do here, but all the express busi- nessand all the telegraph business, and the profit on these for this wise, thrifty little state last year was $2,140,000. Victoria has a heavy debt of $165,- 595,000, but as all but $5,500,000 was in- curred for railroads and waterworks, which pay a heavy profit, taxpayers feel tolerably happy over it, and the re- maining fraction went into school buildings, which pay a profiv in their way, t00. As all the horse car lines are owned by the people also, the cities in Victoria get more and more profit from them the bigger they get, and the taxpayer again fiuds that it pays to own these means of communication, even if he has to run in debt for them. The natural result is that the surplus last vear was $4,400,000, the revenue outrunning estimates by this amount. e California, the Land of Discoveries. Why will you lay awake all night, cough- ing, when that most effective nnfi agreeable California remedy, Santa Abie, will give you immediate reliefi SANTA ABIE is the only guaranteed cure for consumption, asthma and all bronchial complaints. Sold only in large bottles, at §l. Three for $2.50, The Goodman Drug Co. will be pleased to aupply you, aud guarantee relief when used ns directed. CALIFORNIA CAT-R-CURE hever fails to relieve catarrh or cold in the head. Six months treatment, §L. By mail $1 10, ) —_— Four Sleepless Yea An Athens, Ga., special says: Four years without sleepirig a wink. That sounds preposterous, but it is exactly the case of an old negrg now lhiving in Athens, Charley Harden is his name, and the snows of age have settled down upon him, In slaveyy.times he be- longed to John White Ill;o lived at that time in this county. L‘ harley was seen on the streets yesterday talking to sev- eral of his friends and telling them of his curious condivion, ' “For four years,” said he, “I have not slept a wink. [ hear continually a buzzing sound, and it seems as if several persons were talking to me all the time, At night Ilie in my bed with my eyes wide open, and if I do'sleep never close them, and always heir the talking., It is an awful thing to be talked to for four %eurn, and through the long nights to uve to listen to this nonsense.” Charley has tried doctors for his sleeplessness and has found no remedy, and has given up all hope of ever sleep- ing again. He, as a matter of necessity, sleeps, but his eyes never close, and all his mental faculties remain ever awake. His case is a curious one. e In Pra of Suicide, 1t is, perhaps, on no single point tha, the Anglo-Saxon and the Mongolia® stand so distinetly at antipodes as o their views of suiciae, says the Nort} China Gazette, The one 10oks at it witk horror, the other with complacency* Chinose books extol the taking of one’® life—{rom true patriotism, as when the governor of Kiangsu perished by his own haud at the eapture of the ety by the Taipings, and from seuti- ment, as when on the death of an unseen hind on the long pilgrimage. Th frequent motive is revenge; T teaches practically that spirit mwy fight with spirit. As every square has its opium -xhnr the remedy is near at hand, when a wife is chastised by her liege, o Monte Carlo is not a cir- to Soochow, There , but from general observation it may safely be put down that, com- pared with England and America.whose papers we read, the proportion of sui- cides is 100 to one, or parhaps much greater than this. Witu their many good traits of character, this feature of Chinese society is frightful. and all for- eign residents might use their influ- ence to produce a healthier sentiment. - Keep your blood pure and you will not havo rheunatism. Hood’s Sarsaparilla purifies the blood, and tones the whole most - A DUEL TO THE DEATH, Savage Fight Between a Rattlesnake and a Centipede “Ugh! What is it? ko it away!”? The frightened speaker was one of sev- eral employes of Pierce & Co.. engaged in handling hardware in the basement of the firm’s establisbment on Broad san Oakland Special to the San ixaminer. He had almost placed hand upon theobject that had startled him. “Look out! It'sacentipede, and abig one, 100, cried one of his companions. “*It must have got into one of the pack- from bananas or other goods at a southern port while the hardware was on board the vessel on its from the east.” This was ample warning careless meddling with but the hardware men determined to capture him, and after a little effort the many-legged curio was scooped up on o shovel and carried upstairs. But even then they did not know what to do with their prize. In the drug store adjoining was a monster rattlesnake, kept as a curiosity in a box in the show window. “Let’s put him in with the rattler and start o 200,” said one of the group, and the suggestion was received with ap- proval. The ccatipede was cavried in und dumped into the box with toe rat- tlesnake. An omnious rattle and quiv- ering of the body of the snake showed that he resented the intrusion, and the centipede, apparently realizing his dan- , made frantic eiforts to escape by awling around the edges of the box. he rattler glared with fury upon the venomous crawler, and attempted sey- eral times to coil and strike the in- truder: but the space of the box was too limited, and, after several vain efforts, which all the time were accompanied by an angry rattling, the snake, gliding forward with darting tongue, pradually closed up on his enemy, and the centi- pede was soon writhing in its last ago- nies. But it was not vanquished without re- talintion. The many legs of the centi pede had been doing their deadly work and when the snake moved awny from i imsell bogan to show He tossed about from side of his box to the other, rolled over, coiled and uncoiled his scal length and in every way oxcept by cries betrayed his agony to the group of in- terested spectators. Tn about an hour the body of the snuke began to swell rapidly. His strugeles became gradually weaker aud in two hours from the time tho fight commenced his snakeship rolled over and died. The poison of the centipede had done its fatal work. The body of the snake was swollen 1o twice its natural size. The rattlesnake and the centipede lay dead together in the box, and thus ended this strange duel to the death. sl bescuadiond Mrs. Winslow’s Soot] children teething, and allays all pain, to prevent the centipede, g Syrup for softens the gums 25 cents a bottle. et S PEOPLE LIVING ON A CRUST, The Unpleasant Predicament of In- habitants of Jap.n. Tokio jonrnals report that the vol- cano Shiranesan, which rises from the shores of Lake Chuzen near Nikko, broke out in eruption early on Dece ber 5. 1t was observed by the local people on the evening of the 4th that the water of the streams which have their sources near the mountain was much discolored and gave forth an unpleasant smell. Abous mud- night the sound of thunder peals was heard to a distance of seven miles from the yolcano, the noises con- tinuing during the whole night. The watchman at the hot springs at the foot of the mountain was so alarmed by the phenomenon that he fled to the nearesf hamlet, where he reported vhat the springs were throwing up jets of muddy water to a heighth of several feot. = ‘Twenty-four hours afterwards the country folks became aware vhat the mountain was in active eruption, throwing out fire and ashes, the latter of which spread over the country toa considerable extent, reaching as far as Imaichi. The eruption took place from the crater formed in June, I’B72, when the voleano became active for a time, Shiranesan was in eruption in June, 1872, The height is about 8,500 feet, The crater is irregular, and ocontains nepressions filled with water. At the dorth end there is a pond of a remarka- ble green color. At Kumamoto, the scene of the recent disastrous earthquake, while & well- digger was excavating for water at a depth of about eighteen fathoms, the base fell through and he was only saved from a descent, how far it is not known, by a rope which connected him with the top of the pit. Examination has shown that a very large cavity, depth and width unknown, exists, and this was probably caused by a recent earth- quake. The people of Kumamoto are veritably living on a crust. About midnight on December 9 the inhabitants of Mivasaki-ken were alarmed by rumbling noises nroceeding from the sea und mountain in the direc- tion of the southwest. Inquiries elicited the fact that the rumbling was caused by an eruption of Mount Kirishi~ ma. Nodamage was caused by the fire, ete., emitted from the mountain, r— Pozzoni's iComplexion Powder is univer- sally known and everywhere esteemed as the only powder that will improve the comblex~ 10, eradicate tan, freckles, and all skin dis- eases, e # Cat Eaters in Vemo -, The cows of Nenice pass their lives in dark stables and are almost the only animals in the town says a letter from venice. It is true that both dogs and cats are to be fouud if you know where to look for them. These latter are sometimes to be seen ering through the gratings of the damp, cellar-lhike ground-floor rooms in the narrow lunes, where they look as if they are suffering imprisonment under the inquisition, so dejected un airthey have, he cat is much in favor with the lower classes here for more pur) 5 than one, as we learned from a Vene- tian friend. He said that in the win- ter he finds it difficult to keep a cat about his place, for it is sure w0 be are no | | | | lover a damsel follows be- | rw—— - stolon by his poorar neighbors out their stock of food. “And no wonder,” he addsd can assure thatf kept in snow or three days af makes a very The dogs 1 1 oke | or J for two r being killed, cat o digh,” most exclusively to } found on the great lateen-sailed bouts that bring cargoes of wood from the Alps to Cadore and charcoal from Istria and Dalmatrin. These dogs are taken on shore so rarely that, should one be seen running throu the streets of Venice, it would be thought mad, and treated accordingly. - Miles® Nerveand Liver Pilla An important discove! They act on the stomach aud bowels through the A new principie. They apeedily | cure billiousness, bad taste, torpid liver, piles and constipation, Spiendid for men, women and children. S mildest, surest. 80 doses for 25 conts. Satples freo at Kuhn & Co.'s, 15th and Douglas, - A BOILING EIFFEL TOW:R, A Geyser in leetand Made to Spout by Ariiticial Means, The famous Strokr geyser was not the largest of the Iceland geysers, but was a curious and amusing one, as it could be made to eject water by artificial means. This was done by fllling up its mouth with sods,until there was no hole left by which the steam could escape, when it vomited the whole mass with a gigantie spout. On the occasion dent’s visit, says an emetic had to be rep and at last two hours elapsed these effects were rewarded. The had nearly dispaired of the erup- ver taking place, when there was sudden start among the guides, who ! were standing by the edge of the ¢ iriek from them, **He come a huge column of hoiling nded straight in the air to a height sventy feot, the spray being to a considerably dist 1 tion was accompunied by a rumbling | noise and a lissing sound as the shafts of water ascended. The visitors stood and watched effect u few feeu distant from th ing column, feeling the their feet, and as the wind blew the steam back it fell in condensed drops, | like rainy but wonderful to relate, al- | though so lately boiling, it was now | quite cold. i This great fountain display continued | fora quarter of an hour. Then, grad- | ually subsiding, the column of water got smaller and smaller, until nothing but steam issued from its mouth. It was fully an hour before it quite subsided. of our correspon- nghsh paper, the ed four time the hoil- umbling under Bpeciaitios - Hutter, | 112 H OMAHA JUBBERS' DIRECTORY, Agricultural tmploments, LININGER & METCALF €t Agricalt'l Tmplements, Wagous, Carriages Buggios, ato. Wh Omahn, Nebraska, MOLINE, MILBURN & STODDARD CO. Manufacturers and Jobbors in Wagons, Buggies, Rikes, Plows, Ete Cor. 0th and Pacific strects, Omaha. Artists’ Materlals, A. HOSPE, Jr., Artists’ Matorials, Pianos and Organs, 1813 Douglas street, Omaha, Nebraska. —___Boots and Shoes. _ W. V. MORSE & CO, Jobbers of Boots and Shoes, 101, 1304 1105 Douglne wtreet, Manofag Bumier sireet, 0 __Coal, Goke, Eto, SOURL vINING Cu, Mine-s and Snippers f Hard aud Soft Coa's OMAHA COAL, COKE & LIME CO., Jobbers of Rard and Sot Coal. 200 Bouth 1ith Nehraskn. NEBRASKA FUEL CO., Shippers of Coal and Coke. 14 South 15th street, Omaha, Nebrasks, Commission and Storage. RIDDELL & RIDDELL, Storage and Commission Merchants, agge, choese. poultry, game. owiard street, Omabia, Nob. ARMSTRONG Wholesale Cigars. €08 North 0th Street, Omaha, Neb, “Hello" 1439, = Dry Goods and Notlone, "M.E. SMITH & CO.,, Dry Goods, Furnishing Goods and Notious KILPATRICK KOCH DRY GOODS 00, Tmporters & Jovhersin Dey Goods, Notions Gents' Furaishing Goots. 1th and Harney o mab, ot DEWEY & STONE, Wholesale Dealers m Farniture, Farnam street, Omaha, Nebrs Rheumatism, EING due to the presence of urio acid in the blood, is most effectually cured by the use of Ayer’s Sarsapa- rilla. Be sure you get Ayer's and no other, and take it till the poisonous acid is thoroughly expelled from the system. We challenge attention to this testinony : — “Abcut two years ago, after suffering for nearly two years from rheumatic gout, being able to walk only with great discomfort, and having tried various remedies, ‘including mineral waters, without relief, I saw by an advertise- ment in a Chicago paper that a man had been relieved of this distressing coms plaint, after long suffering, by taking Ayer's Sarsaparilla. I then decided to make a trial of this medicine, and took it regularly for eight months, and am pleased to state_that it has effected a complete care. 1 have since had no re- turn of the disea: Mrs. R, Irving Dodge, 110 West 125th st., New York. “One year ago T was taken ill with inflammatory rheumatism, being cone fined to my liouse six months. I came out of the sickness very much debili- tated, with no appetite, and my system digordered in every way. I commenced using Ayer’s Sarsaparilla and began to improve at once, gaining in mranrth ani abon yesoveringimy usnaliheafth T cannot say too much in praise of this well-known medicine.” —Mrs. L. A. 8tark, Nashua, N. H. Ryer's Sarsaparilla, PREPARED BY Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. Price $1; six bottles, $5. Worth $5 a bo:i SCHROEDER & DEAN, GRAIN, Provisions™@Stocks Basement First National Bauk, 305 South 13th Street,- Omaha. OMAFA_ MANUFACTIRERS. 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General Agents for Hall's Safes, 831 and 325 South 10th 8t., Omaha, Bte CLARK . Pumps, Pipes and Engines Steam, waler. rhiway snd mining suphites, ote. 92), %22 and 24 Farnam street, Omaha. U. 8. WIND ENGINE & PUMP O, Steam and Water viflplllifl!. Hallidey winl mills, 918 and ones at., Omiba. G. F. Rods, Acting Manager. BROWNELL & CO, Engines, Boilers and General Machinery, Fhestiron work, steam pul waw mills, 12131208 Leavenworth stre AR & ViBl o Wrong 0 Building Work llll‘. foundry, mac .1:1‘;. and OMAHA WIRE & IRON WORKS, Mannfacturers of Wire and Iron Railings Desk rails, window guards, fower stands, wire signs, tc. 17 North 16(h street, Omahi. TTOMAHA SAFE & IRON WORKS, ‘lam’n} 0f Fire and yumar Proof Safes. enits, ork, iron and encapas Q. Audreen, prop r. ith sad Jadkson Sis. M. A. DISBROW & C Wholesale manufagturers ©f §ah, Doors, Blinds aud Monldings, Branch offoe, 1208 and l1ard streets, Omaba, Nob. EOUTH OMAHA. UNION STOCK YARD €O, Of South Omaba, Linited H. 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