Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 8, 1890, Page 3

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE MU‘V DAY DECEMBER 8, 1890, THE OMAHA BEE COUNCIL BLUFFS, OFFICE, NO. 12 PREARL ST, Telivered Ly Carrler inuny partof the Clty, B W, TILTON, « « « MNANAGER 1ELEPIONY Pusine Night ¥ MINGIE MENTION, N. Y. P.Co. Council Bluffs Lunber Co.. coal. Just look at Ty Bri's sworn statement. of ircutation, Burt Smith w toxication and d Charles Hill, were the names arrested yesterday for in- turbing the peace. Jack and John Meyers en by three vagrants Who Mcmbers of the excelsior lodge are ro- quested to recollect that the meeting to bo held this even be for the purpose of cleeting officers, George Caperon dicd y his residence on the Collins sixty years old and was among tho old pioned Johin Green was arr toxication, and will be line with the other un what Judge McGee has to say stord: fa quite morning at 'm. Ho was well known v for In- stand in and Lear morning. who sted yestords smpelled slunates this himen as assaulted in n Broadway saloon o fow ings ago, is mssing, Hehas loft the , but has not returned to his home in Min- . His feiends are uncasy about him, Henry nd Samucl Huff, boys, we 1 and 1c pd up vest upon_ the lk.um of stealing a_file spent the nightin the city jail and will have @ hearing this morniug before Judge Mo A new paper will soon_make its ar at Marion, It will be called the Af can and will be edited by Chiarles Curtis, as- sisted by C. 13, Jones of Council Bluffs and John Willis of Dubaque, of thie State Anti-Prohit and will be published weekly. Two or threo phys attendance at the bedsid Stringham, tho step-d den, ; y fn constant of little baby of Bert Hay- the friends out the night. Hhu, was malignant diphtheria a week ago last nizht. The county auditor has been notified by the contructors that the new Avoca jail will be finished December 11 and ready to tarn over to the board of supervisors, The bo willmeet in Avoea on that date as a com of the wholo to inspect the jail and found built according to contract to accept it. ‘The city eouncil will open the bids for the building T8 the note at the me Wednesday night. The levee will be as wide as an ordinary street and nearly a mile long. It will requirea great many thousand cubic yards of dirt, and will give employment to the dirt naulers all winter. Fred Herman has been considerably an- noyed by the publication in some of the pa- pers of ihe city that he had placed bis nime the bond of Belgin, the young mau who was arvested for indecent conduct near the Bloomerschool. Mr. Herman is not on Bel- @in's bond atall and does not feel at ail dis- posed to favor the young mau, Itis said that at the next city council the aldermen friendly to the Twin City street railway company will make an cffort to have the ordinance of that com- pany taken up d as origiaally pr i at ther are now four aldermen who willvote for the or nance with the addition of two or three ac- ceptable amendments and that there will be more added to the list before the meeting. The city council will not meet tonight, but the reguinr weekly session will be he Wednesduy evening. Itis expected the important by s that will come before it will be the reconsideration of the Twin City street car francnise. A strong public ment in favor of the ordina has become, more fully understood and it is likely that the council will be asked to grant the de- sired charter by a petition signed by a lavy number of citizen Mrs. Teressa McMahon has brought suit in the district court to annul her marriago with Charles C. McMahan. Mrs, McMahon is daughter of Colonel Charles Fox of this city. She was warried to her husband at her parents' dence in this city in 189, and has three children. McMahon is a printoc by trade. The divorco is sought on the grounds of inability of the husband to support bis family, Heis at pres. ent working athis trade in this city, although ho has not been living with his wife siuce the S duilure of the Omaha Republican, ‘Phe bids that have been submitted by con- tractors to erect the buildings required by the new gas company will be opened at the ol the architects, Bell & Berlinghof¥ tod mediately aftérward ameeting of the ofiicers of the company will be held either at the of- fice here or at'the Millard hotel in Omaha to receive the report of the architects on the bids. If the bids ure favorable the contracts will be awarded at once, and the work will be commenced us soon a8 possible, This state ment is mado upon the assurance of Messrs, Harris and Lee, the principal officers of th company, putting in - their plant. There will be no smoke stacks or chimneys about the buildings, and externally the piant will have little appe: of gasworks, 1t is reported that several board of health are s adyisability of adopting mory antine regulations in diphtheretic diseas The dangerous malady stiil retains its hold upon the childven of the although there are fewer cases now than there were a month ago. Some of the members of the board favor tablishing as quarantine regu- tions as are adopted in small pox casos, and quarantine all members of nfected familic and impose severe penalties for the {ufrac tion of the rules. At the present time people are permitted to pass in and out of infected houses at will. There is avery earnest de- sire.to have the disease stamped out entivel, before winter thoroughly sets in. Another reminder has been given the pub- lic that the butchers held a pienic at Love- lund last summer and passed a memorable day. “Uncle” George Drake, one of the old- est and best known butchers in the city, has engaged a lawyer and made preparations for bringing a suit for faise arvest against Mrs, H. C. Moorchouse, a lady who lives near Lovelana, “Uncls” George had something to do with the beer stand where forty or fift kegs of bger were disposed of, or at least Mr: _Moorchouse imagined he had, and a weels or two after the event nad transpired and half a hundred fellows had recovered from the effects of buttered heads, she filed informations in a local justice’s court and had him witha lot of others arrested upon the charge of selling intoxicants, The ouly prosecuting witness was Mrs. Morchouse, nd ‘she failed to muko the charges sticl Drake and all the othevs were honorably di charged, but “*Uncle” ( © Was 1ot sati fied, and he now brings suit against Mr Morehouse for §,000 damages for false accu- sation, arrest and imprisonment. The case will bo brought in the superior court. e A Christmas ‘What shall we buy for this puzzles you come in and see our lmluh\\ attractions;” brilliant diamonds; gold and silver watchos and chalns; quaint, novel, now avterned jewelry, rings, bracelets, necklaces, lockots ; gold-headed canes; solid silver and plated ware: too many novelties to name; you must see them to appreciate them, they are so artistic and beautiful; visitors wel- como to see our display. C. B. Jacquemin & Co., No. 27 Maiu st. —t—— Coming Parties. The Dodge Light guards will give their opening party for the season on December 50, The affair promises to be a very brilliant one and will undoubtedly mako the holidays pass more pleusantly to those who attend. The committeo ave C. E. Woodbury, J. W. At- wood, C. H. Ogden, R W. Bixby and D. L. Ross. Tho ninth annual ball of the Bluff City ‘Typographical union No. 203, takes plice Christmas night. The boys have just had printed a very attractive “hanger,” 'makiug dment. It will be s masquerade attacked meeting of the members of the nsidering the tringent qu; the aunoun, ball, and will be a big success. The second annual bail of Union Pacific asseubly No. 1500, Knights of Labor, takes place at Masouie temple December 12, The ball promises to be success, e Scott House, 85 ct, meal, 25 cts, e Gents furnishing goods, the latest in neckwear, at Ottenbelmer’ 414 Broadway. two small the { told the On | THE NEWS IN THE BLUFFS, Rumoss of a Bensational Arrest Absut to be Made by the Police. WORK ON THE NEW WATER WORKS PLANT. | Initial Sermon of the Newly Chosen Pastor of the First Baptist Church—~Minor Mention and Personal, It i lice undertones in po- Blufls woman is being whispered in circles that a Council likely to have a serious charge placed against her on the new register at the police station From the information that has leaked out the identity of the woman has been pretty well established and the prosecution will depend upon the willingness of her vietim to face the notoriety necessary to prosecute her. He is described s a middle aged, well-to-do busi- ness man of Omana, On Saturday afternoon he was in the eity anxiously hunting for her, and car ve nearly get- ting shot by an indi husband, He had detailed the cireu of the robbery to a railroad man with whom ho is acquainted and to whom he applied for infor- mation ¢ iing tne woman, He had met her Saturday afternson in a fashionable wine room in Omuha, and while enjoying o bottle of wine she had advoitly succeeded in securing his purse with its contents, £330, The robbery was discovered a moment after woman left the place, Her victim fol lowed quickly to the t but only had the satisfaction of seeing her board a Council Bluffs motor a block away. He endeavored 1o attract the attention of the conductor and ran toward the motor, but it started up at once and did not stop until it passed on to the bridge, He waited impatiently until the next m ne aloug and followed her, His dis ouof the woman enabled the railroad 1 recall to memory the fact that ne had scen such a looking woman, and aha man where he thought she lived, Following the directions he entered the gate of a residence on Broadway. As he went up to the door he ci glimpse of a woman_ sitting by the window whom he ht looked ~ like the person ho was o anxious to sce, He pped vig- ously on the door but got mno re- spouse _and then went to the back door und pounded it with agood deal of en- ergy. Still getling noresponse he returned to the front door and was proparing to give it another vigoros thumping when it was opened and he was confronted by u man who blandly inquiréd what he wanted 'ni looking for a woman who robbed me, ind 1 think she lives here.” The words ‘ted likefive in a muss of very fine tow, and the bluzc of wrath t gleaned from the husband’s face startled the Omaha man. “Ilive bere, and the ouly woman there is heie is my wife, and do yoi mean to intimate that she fobbed you?, The Omaha man was too much confused to answer as it dawned upon him that he must have made a mistake, and was prepaving to leave hurriedly the husband intimated that if he didn’t clear out he would shoot moro holes in him than there is in a family slkimmer. He left the yard while the hus band was frant seavching fora revolver, The Omaha man concladed that it would be better to let the pd hunt up the woman who had robbed hiza thau to incur the danger king another mistake and gettiug shot. sturned to Omaha atonce withont giving ame or stating his intentions in regard to futuveaction, A stock of over £250,000 to select. from, Lest that life-long exporience can wather be found at Eisemans’, corner nud Pearl street, Council Bluffs, e S J.C. Bixby, steam heaung, sanitary en- incer, 913 Tuife buildinz, Omiha; 203" Mor riam block, Council Blufts, et TRANSIORMATION SCENE. Grand Holiday Display. At the BOSTON STORE, COUNCIL BLUFFS, The Boston store's grand Christmas_open- ing display takes place Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 11th, 12th and 13th. The store having been recently enlarged and 1o modelled to double its former capacity, mak- ing it one of the best lighted, best ventilated stores in the west. Now occupying st vooms 401, 403 and 405 Broadway, Our thousands’ of patrons find it a pleas- ure to trade at the Boston Store, where they receive courteous treatment, polite clorks, one price to ever body and that always the very lowest ma ket” price, everything purchased wiil be found 99 times out of 100 lower than they can be found elsewhere, Our aim, standard ds, our prices always the the lowest. The of holiday ioods excells all our consisting of dolls, china tea s books, rocking horses, glas: goods, leatber goods, ckboards, efc. We show ains in our dry ¢oods de- vartment for this weels well worthy of your attention. HOLIDAY GOODS, JOND FLOOR. Boston Store, 1 Bluffs, Ia. PornemiNanas, WirmLaw & B.—See show windows for holid: the to- of pla : Money to loanat straight 5 per cent per annum. E. S, Barnett, agent. ———— Buy from Eiseman direct and get your £00ds at wholesale price, y — The New Baptist Pastor, The newly chosen pastor of the First Bap- tist church, Rev. L. A. Rall, appeared in the pulpit yesterday for the first time since tho church took formal action on the matter. He was greoted by a lurge cougrogation and lis- tened to attentively. While there was na- turally some curiosity as to what the new pastor would do, how he would act, how he would wear, and sll that, yet the earnestness of the speaker and the attractive wanner in which he presented his thouguts soon caused mere curiosity to give place to the more ennobling desire of drinking in the truth which he presented in so pleasing a cup. Mr. Hall looks like a youngman; has dark hair end moustache; heavy dark oyebrows which he raises if surprised when he reaches any special voint or climax; is of medium stature and woeight, and has fow ot the cl marks in mauner o was annoyed ruthi yosterday, from a cola, w ing it a little difticult for him to use accustomed esae, but even with this disad- vantage it proved an attraction, well rounded and strong one, evidently well 'adapted and well used to public speaking. He made little vefevence to the new rela- tion established between iim and this peo- ple. In his prayer he touchingly usked for blessings 1o follow the pastor who had just left them, and that the grand work done by him might be furthered by wise and carnest efforts on those still Jeft in the field of labor, In ki mon he spoke briefly of the new relutionship, payiug tribute” o Rey. D, Cooley for having laid so broud, so deep and s0 firm a foundation and expressing the hope that the people would earnestly and pray fully eo erate with the new pastorin build- m{ wisely upon this foundation. The new preacher gave an expository ser- mon on_the words, **Work out your own sal- vation with fear and tremoling, for it is God which worketh in you.” He spoke first of salvation aud the many different meanings as used indifferent places, Oue of the causes of misunderstanding wmon g those discussing phases of truth, was that they did not agree oa the meaniug of terms, If one meaut by salvation oue thing and another meant a far diffcrent thing, they could not intelligently discuss matters con- cerning the higher life, They should first get at each other's understanding of the meaning of the word. Sometimes salvation meant uiullrly a saving from material troubles or physical ailments. Sometimes it was used to signify forgiviess of sins—a salvation or saving from the guilt of past transgressio In the text it meant more than this. Paul was writing & letter to those who had been forgiven. The salvation which he meant was broaderaud nore far reaching. The salvation merely from guilt or from the power of pust sin, was an lucomplete sulvae it with | excellent points, among which tion, \\’\wn one had been forgiven of sin the real work of salvation was but com- menced. One must avail himself of every possible means to be suved from the power of sin, must strive to come into permanent and complete harmony with God, ot only in his heart, but in intellect and will. Christ was the perfect pattern, and for men to con- tinue going more and moro into this likeness was the well rounded salvation to which Paul here referred. This salvation was not the work of a moment, but of & lifetim Paul laid emphasis on ur own’ salva- tion, The work was an_individual one nec- essarily. In this age men were fed in multi- tudes,” Nowspapers and literature, culture and learning were scattered with a liberal hand by the progress of the age, but still each one must gather for himself, out of this wealth of material the strength of well developed manhood and womanhood, Noone could do it for snother. Each must do bis own thioking. So in the higher life. must work out his own salvation, No h, no preachiers or teachers could do the work for him. It was a work to be undertaken with fear and trembling. _The general, who was over- confldent, like Xerxes, was liable to defe Greeks confronted his millions of armed men, Oneof thesurest incontives to success w the realization of responsibility and the ne sity of exerting one's self to the utmost. The fact should not_be overlooked that “God worketh in you."” Man must co-operate with God in_working out a true salyation, Man alone could do but little, and God him- self couid not make of man that well rounded character which came from man's own rnest endeavors when working with God, The two must work together, A stock of over 250,000 to select from at isemans', —— e Council Bluffs and Omana transfer company has purchased a large invoice of od hay, which will be sold at the lowest ot price, and in quantities to suit pur- ~Ordors addressed them from par- and outlying towns will be iiven prompt attention. Buy your coal and wood of Telephone 136, The Attraction This We k. The attraction of the people looking for holiday goods is entirely centered at man's store. It calls out thousands of s and children to visit their holiday depar ment. People are astonished when they our iminense varic The guestion of eve one s, how could they get such an assor ment togethor? aud how cun they sell their goods so cheap! on is, because we d don't believe in arge profit system that other houses do. We sell them close and sell lots of them. Ev tof tho world has contr toour display for this holiday se matters not t you wart to buy our store and you ‘will findit. We have goods for the poor, the medium and the richest, and goods for all classes of trade, and cheaper than you can find them elsewhere. ‘Therefore, mike no mistake, call at Iisemans' store before yoa thinkof in- vesting a cent, for the purchasing power of $lat our stow is equal to &2 elsewhere, A word to the wise is sufticient. Hexny Esyay & Co. Broadway and Pearl streets, Council Bluff PRI B Chinese goods, Japanese novelties atNo. 830 Broadyw: s gifts. Jim Long Best $1.00 per day house in . B. Fuel Co, Scott House. the city. An ‘.mmmmm for the money el awing pub- 1d sm all ln|\ 't goods ot Working on th aterworks, The last few days of chilly weather have made it somewhat unpleasant for the work- men engaged in the improvements that aro being made upon the waterworks plant, but despito the frost Contractor Weaver has a large force of men at work on Lower Broad- way. The work includes the additional sub- it 'y reservoir at the main pumping station and a new apparatus at the river, a mile northwest of the reservoirs. Pumps will take the water directly from the river at this point and force it through an immense main pipe into the subsidarvy basins. Heretofore it has been conducted through an open diteh from the initial station and has occasioned some complaint and a good deal of difficulty. The new engine house at the river in now in- closed and the workmen are busy putting in the boilers. The stand pipe which is also to be erected at the river is on the ground. The big twenty-four inch pipe has all been laid and coyered, and in about two weeks water will bé running through it and the open diteh which has heretofore been used will be abandoned and partly filled. The new reser- voir at the Broadway station is only partiully completed , but enough of the wali are up to show its solid and substantial chavacter. When completed it will make the Council Bluffs waterworks one of the finest in all the we Where ordinarily it is customary to use concreto walls eight and ten inches thick, the walls of fhe new reservoir are being made twenty inches and two feet thick. The new reservoir will not bo used until spring. The company is in great haste toget the new pipe into use on account of the troublo it having with clogging of the pipes and wells with ice from the open ditch, C. A E ‘0. are going out of the re tail trade and will close out their fine lineof ladies’ writing and office desks, book cases chiffoniers, parlor tables, parlor and chamber suits, fulllln;: beds, plain and fancy rockers, cabine's, mirrors, ete, ete. for less than cost, ———— Wanrted—Boys at American District Tel- egraph oftice, Largest Houy n the West. Being thelargest house in tho west we &'hcul‘ful‘iv invite the public to compare our stock and prices with those of other houses, knowing that we are in position to not only give you the very largest variety to select from'but also to save you equal to one-half on other houses' prices, ~Try us, Hexgy EiseMan & Co., Broadway and Pearl street, Council Bluffs. The Maubatvan sporting headquarters, 418 Broadway. —_— Wanted--Room and board for two n private family. Georar W. HEWrTT, Brown Building. The Knights of Labor Ball. ‘The members of the Knights of Labor as- sembly No. 1300, acomposed exclusively of railroad employes, nearly all off whom are with the Union Pacifi¢,have arranged a novel programme for their second annual ball to be given in Masonic temple on Friday evening, The grand march is entitled “Council Bluffs’ and the waltzes, schottishes and quadrilles are varlously styled “Omaha Knights,” “Denver ghts,”” “Federation,” *Ballot Reform,” “Eignt Hour System,” “Organiza- tion,” ~*Equal Rights,” “armers’ Alliaice," “Labor Press,” and many other decidedly original terpsichorean appellations, The members expect to make this one of the finest parties of the season, and antici- pate a large. attendance from L)umlm D andother cities, — verybody is Invited, The second entertainment of Rev, Thomp- son's magio lantern performance will take place at Eisemun's store tomorrow, Monday evening. The scenes of the Johustown flood will be {ufl{ exhibited, also many other his- torical and comic pictuves, It costs you hoting 10866 th Come and bring your chil- dren aionr. Time of performance, 7:15 to 8:30 Monday and Kriduy evenings, and dur- mgall of the holiday evenings. Room for 10,000 people. Pty A New Brick Machine. A new brick machine possesses some are a thorough mixture of the eclay, the pro- duction of a perfectly homogencous brick, sharp and clean in the edge, straight-sided and perfectly uniform, It works hard or soft clay equally well, the ouly lahor required being that of one man to feeld it and two boys to take away the brick. The machine is said to turn out 20,000 bricks a day of ten hours. e Long-Distance Hypnotizing, Dr. Agnus of Chicago claims to have hyruutlzud men ata distance of eight milos, THE BANK OF ENGLAND Origin and History of John Bull's Great Financial Bulwatk, BY SCOTCHMAN PATTERSON. FOUNDED Buat fiis Fellow Counttymen are Not With fts Walls— What the Visitor Secs ~Vaults Full of Gold and Jewsls, in the world reputation as Whata h v financial institution enjoys such a history or does the Bank of England. tory would prove in volums and extent, if minutely executad, may be judged from the fact that the bare titles of the acts of parlinment passed upon the sub- ject of its affairs ocoypy moro than two hundred and fifty pages of the indexes to the statutes at large. The bank owes its origin to a Scotch- man, by name William Patterson, who also founded the Bank of Scotland, says the New York Commercial Advertiser, He wasa man of generous nature and lofty ideas. Sometimes there was much of the impracticable in his schemes, though usually a substratum of utility inall that he undertook. In founding this institution he proposed to relieve the embarrassment which continued to press upon the treasury for several years after the revolution of 1688 by raising, in shares, £1,200,- 000, the whole of which was to bo loaned to the government at 8§ per cent, the lenders being incor- porated as a joint stock company under the name and deseription of the Gov- ernor and Company of the Bank of Eng- land, with the vrivilege of keeping the accounts of the public debt, paying divi- dends, ete., for which an allowance of £4,000 a year was granted to them, This proposal having heen accepted, the first bank charter passed in 1604, under the provision of a particular uct of parlin- ment., [t is curious that, although !uumll'd by a Scotchman, Scotchmen are chewed by the bank. What the first u[ tho race did to entail a ban upon his fellow countrymen is not rec nnllv] hut it is mmmunl\ said in the city lel three descriptions of porsons are cx- cluded, in practice, from employment at the bank; namely, Jows, Quakers and Scotchmen, The bank commenced its business on the 1Ist day of January, 1695, at the Grocers’ hall in the Poult Sir John Houblon was the first rnor and Michael Godfrey was fivst deputy gov- ernor, Houblonwas a French merchant whose father had fled from Flanders on the persecution of the duke of Alva. His house was furnished in princely style and he gave splendid entertain- ments which added much to his popu- i e time of its founding the banlk issued notes for £20 and upward, and discounted bills at 1"\l1-~» arying from 43 to 6 per cent, In 1696 there was arunon the bank which caused its tem- porary suspension, when its notes were at 20 por cent discount, The capital was sed to Lfl‘illl 171, In1710its as further increased to £ and other increases made from l,lmr\ to tinie since then have brought the total capital to its -mresent figure, £14,553,000, In 1734 the bank moved from the Poultry to Threadneedle street. The present building stands ip four parishes, and is reared on the site of Sir John Houblon’s house und many other build- ings, including the church of St. Chris- topher Stocks, the bu ground of whichnow forms the garden of the bank and is known to every visitor in London The first erection comprised what con- stitutes the present centerwith the court. In 1770 the eastern wing was added, and in 1804 the western wing with the Loth- bury front was completed. The general banking room opened to the public 1s & spacious apartment and modern in appearance, The visitor is struck with l{lc air of respectability and business pervading the entive place, Its air is one of conservative solemnity and decorous activity, while the demeanor of itsemployes is saturated with formal propriety. The messengers and attend- ants draw attention by their dress, which consists of a swallow tailed coat of a del- icate salmon color—with silver buttons —a flaming searlet waiscoat, black trousers, and a high silk hat. Anorder to view the director’s room and certain other parts of the building may be obtained on presentation of the card of any reputable banker or merchant of the city, In the vaults be low ure tobe seen (if by any means the special favor and permission to visit below is granted) the bullion which is the collateral for the notes, and bags of sovercigns, and a large quantity of gold ornaments, such as rings, bracelets, nock- laces and coronets, the residue of the Ashantee indemnity, much of the origi- nal quantity of which has been melted down and coined. The first issue of ten-pound notes was made in 1759. In 1793 the five-pound notes were issued, and in 1797 notes of £1 and £2were circulated, but in 1884 the bank relinquished the issue of all notes under £. These Bank of Eng- land notes are a legal tender every where in the United Kingdom, but at its own counter, where, upon demand, they ave required to bepaid in gold, They are the safest pieces of paper in the world, as under any circumstances the bank could payevery one in gold without touching one pound of its cap- ital. The object of the charter of 1844 was to secure at all times the conversion of every bank note into gold whenever so demanded, That object has been completely attained, but the effect has been to accumulate considerably more than would have been neces- sary had the interests of the sharehold- ersalone heen considered. This stock of bullion, bearing no interest, and held only for the integrity 0f the banknote, isin one sense a drawback, but the im- mense benefit derived by the country from the equality of the note and coin far outweighs = any attendant disad- vantage, b . One of the most notable events in all the caveer of its maddgement, past or present, is the recent assistance render- ed to Mr. Baring Bros. through the medium of its guarantee, which latter stands for gold itself. The bank is managed by a board of twenty-four d rector: ght goout of office eve year, and eight come in. When the period of election draws near the direct- ors make out a house list of the names of those they wish to have as col- leagues, and the house list is uniformly voted. The directors each receive for their services the sum of £500 per year, The present governor is Mr. William Lidderdale, whose salary is £1,000, The deputy governor, Mr. David. Powell, also receives £1,000. Mr. Frank May, the chief cashier, is well known the world over by his signature on the bank notes, At the present time no notes of a higher denomination than £1,000 are is- suod. The paparof which these notes are made is produced at a special factory in uuumshf.-e. Something like 15,000 | reams ave annually supplied to the bank, each ream costing about £1. "The dios by which the water marks are made and the plates used for printing are manu- factured at the bank. A number of counterfeits have appeared and been discovered at various times, but the ousness of the best of them is ap- 100 o a touch, The pen- for counterfeiting is very heavy, added to this fact the vigilance of stectives connected with the bauk, riminals have courage enough to exercise their forging ingenuity. At the present time no forged noles are known to be in eirculation, The policy of the bank has been sniled many times on both sides, Pam- phiets and” papers have been written attacking it covering many shelves of the British museum. Of course, many of these papers are just in their criticism and_many are unjust. The management has not been without its faults, The volumes of information col- lected together on banking and cu rency by parliamentary committees be- tween the years 1797 and 1819 tend to show the reckless conduct into which the bank colicctors fell at that juncture of history. In 1824 the amount of gold in vauits amounted to £14,14: est sum that had ever been held up to that time. During the panic of 1825 the demand for gold was enormous, Kver effort was made to procure gold at any price. Meantime the accumulation of the bank had drifted away owing to the turn in foreign exch and before the middle of Decembe ik, which at the beginningof the year hadupwards of £14,000,000 in gold, had but £1,000,000 left, The mint worked day and night, but fast us sovereigns appeared they dis- appenred again, Such was the then condition of affairs that the ministry 5 actually consulted as to the best manuer of announcing that the bank had stopped payment. But a mere trifle occurred which changed the aspect of things, and by which the run for gold was stopped. It wassimply the production of somo old £1 notes, which a clerk happened to re- collect were in some parcels in the libra- ry, which had been signed before the passing of the act for their withdrawal. These notes were brought out and issued to the country bunks and b passed them upon the public in lieu of gold. In November, 1889, the reserve for the bank w: 141,188, At the same time the notes in circulation represented £25,- 263,180. Notes unemployed, £11,012,070. The amount of bullion on hand at the close of the week ending November 13, 1890, was £18,821,567. The total divi- dends for the past year were at the rate of 10 per cont. T present price of the bank stock is £315 pe alty and the ¢ fow as- the 000, the larg- a8 hare. The cus- tom of quartering soldiers in the bank building over night nas been in vogue since the Lord George Gordon riots. The guard consists of thirty-six men, and they may be seen every evening at 6 o’clock marching up to the bank from the tower, All tho cle of the institution are required to be- punctually in their places. To prevent any tardiness a fine of £11s imposed on late comers, and it not unfrequently happens that delayed out-of-town clerks are oft-times obliged to take a eab and drive post haste to the bank to insure their being on time. A stor told of one of the Rotk childs, wlho, wishing to test the bank, sent a messenger with a check for £100,000 (£500,000), payable **to bearer which was presented at the counter for payment. The bank refused the money and the result was that in le minutes’ time a notice was pc banking room of the Rothschilds to say that the Bank of England had sus- pended yment. The notice created much excitement and alarm. As soon, however, as news was received at the bank, word was sent to the Rotschilds to say that their check would be paid, and the notice forthwith came down. Lot De. Birnev cures catarrh, Bee bldg. s Romance and Strong Drink. A middle-aged woman, who looked quite respectaple, both in features and r in tho Twelfth district police station on the charge of drunkennoss, says the Philadelphia Press, She said she was Martha {)Iln- lap, and didn’t deny that she had been drunk,but she told a story that was both romantic and pitiful. The police found in the bag that she carried her “‘winter stock,” as she called it,of summer novels of the most silly season sort. 'Their titles ran from ‘*Wedded and Parted’” and “Lost Wife”’ to “*Drifted Apar: She said she intended to read them over and over again, and thought she could keep them interesting to herself till spring. Then she told this story: In 1878 she ran a with Montague Dunlap, & young artist, who came to her native village to sketeh the fine land} scapes there. They met one day on a country road and loved at once. Dunlap was poor and proud, while her parents were comparatively wealthy, Thoy op- posed the match and an elopement’ was the result. On their r turn they were met by the irate father, who disowned her, but to save her from poverty v her'$1,000. This she coufidingly gave to her artist husband, Her idol was rudely shattered at the end of o week, Montague ran away and heforgot to give buck the money,” She had wandered far and wide searching for the truant, but had becn unsuccess- ful in her quest, His cruelty had driven her to drink and de: There was no marriage ceremony. She has been employed as a housekeeper by e Claslint loneu Nl alTente. eighth and Cumberland streets, but he discharged her on Tuesday. Hoer mind was ovidently diseased [rom reading ro- mantic, love-lorn literature. The mag- istrate, after hearing herstory, let her go. P T. P, 0'Connor's Career, Mr. O'Connor isa graduate newspaper reporter. His entire political carecer has been in London. He came therea poor boy, and picked up o living s best he could about the newspaper offices in Fleet street, say . Crawford in a Washington special to the Chicago Tri- bune. Aftera time he became a news- paper reporter, and during his expe ience as a reporter visited Americn, where he worked on the New York He ald, Several years ago, through the in- fluence of Mr., Labouchere, he got to- gether a syndicate of £30,000 for the es- tablishment of the London Evening Star, This paper promised to be independent, personal, and to work outside of the beaten lines of English journalism, These promises created such an interest that the paper started out upon the first day with a eireulation of over three hun- dred thousand. This fell off tremen- dously during the week and steadily de- creased during the month. But in a very brief space of time Mr. O’Connor made o place for the paper,which becamen valu- able property inside of the year, but un- fortunately Mr. O’Connor did not have full control of the property thus erected by him, and 8o in the end, after two years of struggle with the stockholders, Mr. O'Connor sold out his interest to them for £15,000. This represented to him a net profit for his two years’ work, a8 whon he started in he had nothing. Mr. O'Connor intends, when he returns 10 London, to establish a Sunday morn- ing newspaper. He is under contract not to start o daily puper in London for the next three yeurs. e 1 Dr, Birney cures catarrh, Bee bldg l - and large yields will i Like Humpt; Dumpty “on the wall, All the soaps hove a great fall When SANTACLAUS Soap Tell your Gro you must have NTA CLAUS" THE POTATO'S SUCCESSOR. A New Vegetable That Northwestern Farmers Intend to Cultivate, Albert Meyer, the of Still- ater, was in St, | the other day, and in tho course of a conversation o the potato crop and farmers, gave an_interesting reporter for the Globe of erous plant that he thought would be introduced in Minnesota and be as much of astaple as the potato. S“Will it flourish in climate?” *Undoubted chemist, ul a talk to a this soil and y. Twill tell you about it. A few years ago a sciontist discoy- ered in Jopan a plant vesembling the votato, and sent samples of it to Bevlin and 510 be experimented on, experiments have be ble sue- cesses, and the new potato has been ex- tensively introduced in Berlinand Pa especially in hotels and rest rants. A number of farmers our vicinity, with whom 1 ¢ on the subjoct are will on the plant next Prussian society of pains to make experiments vlant. The scientific name of the plant is *Stachys tul ‘.’ but as to their form they might be called pine cones. ‘Stachys aflinis’ is another name, and wtely they given it anothor name *Stachys Sieboldii.’ The cultivation of thesame asthe old potato, and they have been found over one hundved kind in one hill, some say as many as 500, but this is probably ted. They are of course, not 1S our - common potato. According to the Garden I the organ of the socicty, the anal the fruit i Wate Protein Awmide. in nversed periment The Roy with the ngger Aslite There is nwllhm- -IL *h galactan, a substance shys, oflinis of vifera is an reenble tasting vegetable when boiled in sult water and served with butter and parsley sauce. Some people like them secthed in oil. but that a mere matier of taste. Prepared like ‘pommes de terro frites’ (potatoes cut in small slices and fried in butter), they are claimed to be a delicious dish, The taste isat like that of a sweet potato, but one will soon find a very fine piquant taste. They donotneed to b peeled, but are only washed cleanin water, which is another blessing to the housckeeper, They are kept in the ground as late as possible and preserved packed in sand in the (,n'll.\r during the winter months, posed to the air they will shrink and lose their nice, white mother-of- pearl like color. The plant is winter hardy,and thrives in any climate, Frost does not hurt them, and to have them always fresh they arve left in the ground and dug as wanted, [n our elimate it is best to keep them ‘in a diteh inthe cellar, W? Perring, inspector of the rogal botanicil garden in Berlin, in- forms me_that the produc vory large, and that there are many enthus- iasts in favor of the new plant in that city, which prophecies the plant o great future. The expectations of high prices lucea good many farmers to make o trial with the new plant. I have alveady quitea number of ovders for sced.” Loy Dr. Birney cures eatarrh, Beo Bldg, B An Accident Case. An ‘“accident case” has been intro- duced in which provided in conven- ient form and ready for use eve pliance likely to be required in the event of an aecident of almost every na- ture, and the ubserce of which often causes permanent injury and sometimes fatal result: The o is filled with rolled bandages, dressings, ligatures, absorbents, tourniquet, ete., together with a few necessary instraments and a book of instructions for their use. Sim- ilar instructions ave printed on the out- side of thecase, ‘The case is recom- mended for use on all trains as well as at stations where a large amount of switch- g is done, s0 that in the event of in- juries to train hands which are con- stantly occurrinly there will be on hand some ready means of procuring tempor- ary help. nor sug between both, o \SWIFT's SPECIFICS. s. 5. o' CURED ME ENTIRELY OF 2 MERCURIAL RHEUMA- \QNTISM AFTER | WAS MADE PHYSICAL “\A WRECK. JNO. H. LYLES, SORENTO, ILL/ $1.000 WiLL BE PAID TO ANY CHEMIST wHo wiLL FIND ON ANALYSIS OF SWIFT'S SPECIFIC 8. 8. 8., ONE PAKTICLE OF MER~ CURY, 1001DE OF POTASH OR ANY POISON- OUS SUBSTANCE, | WAS CURED BY SWIFT'S SPE- CIFIC 8. S, 8. OF THE WORST FORM \&,) d' OF BLOOD POISON, D. H. KAIN, MT. VEE_NO‘I, ILL, NEBRASIKA National Bank U. 8. DEPOSITORY, OMAHA, NEB. Capital. $400,000 Surptus Jan, 1st, 1890 - B7,80C ~Henry W. Yates, President; o ent: C""{,‘::,"...“" w. 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