Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 12, 1891, Page 3

/ THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY. JANUARY 12, 1801 THE OMAHA BEE CCUNCIL BLUFFS, OFFICE, NO. 12 PEARL ST, Tellvered by H, W, TILTC arrier in uny part of the City MANAGELR TELEMHONES: Business Office, No, 11 Night Editor, No. 2 MINOK MENTEON. £.¥. 1, Co. uneil Blufls Tumber Co.. coal. The late Al + Liacy had $5,000 insur- ancoon his life, 148 been puid to his estat The a musical evening. Four of the five fullow for the burglary of Sickel's storc in Fremont Neb, clim Des Moines as their home. of them say thiey were born there. dont J. J. Steward of the board of education has determined to call an extra ses- s10n of the voard some evening this weelk, for the purpose of transacting routine’ business that was not attended to at tho lust meeting. Rov. 8, W. Malbic of Des Moines ad- dressed the young me mecting at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon=in the Youn Christian association rooms. At2 o'clock T, Show addresscd L ad meu's e ing at the same placo. Rev. T. W. Fleming, preached a sermon in hodist Mutual Ald society will give ntertainment at Masonie hall this who were arrested o blind evangelist, Masonic templo yes- ternoon at 3 o'clock on the subject of temperanco from a gospel \dvoint. He was greeted by a largs audience. The text was “Cry Aloud and Spare Not," ie ladies who have sc officers and di the woms 1 hospital have their annual report report almost ready for publication. It will show that they have done a good deal of charitable work during the year. Twenty- fiv, iper ve been cared for with- out compe Dan Williams, a fellow who is supposea by the police to be an all-round erook, completed a thirty days’ sentence in the cotnty juil on Saturday night for stealing a lot of clothing on Lower Main strect. Before 10 o'clock he had celebrated the event by getting very drunk, and was taken to the station by Of- ficer Kelley. He refused to permit Deputy Marshal White to search Lim, and before thie operation was completed Williams hud to be 8 choked. The Stuart dr company conclnded a week's engagoment at Dohiany night. The play was a light, rollicking comedy that immensely pleased the au Delighted audiences ha n dismissed at the close of each evening's peiformance, und the com- pany is assured of n he: welcome if thoy ever roturn to Council Bluffs, A better natured theatrical crowd is seldom gotten to- gether, They are all on excellent terms with each other and they appear to have subtle skill in gotting into the good graces of the audience, The new Trinity Methodist church will be dedicated tomorrow, T'he pastor, RRev. Alex- ander, will be assisted in the dedicato s by Rey. Dr. Merrill of Omaha and Rev. Dr. Stuart of the Broadway church Friday evening the St. Andrew brate Hobby Burns' birthday by a select ball and entertainment. ihe com- mittee on invitation consists of J. R. McPher- son, James Macrae, J. R. Bell, John T, Oliver, Donald McKinzie, E. Gilbert and James Patterson. Supper will be furnished by ladies’ relief corps of the Grand Arm Tifty-two of the saloon men of the city have paid their £0 liconse for the month of January, and the majority of the remaining thirty éxpectto be on hand before 9 o’clock this worning with their checks. T'he checks will be received and the license issued. If hey fail to come around the marshal and his deputies will make a general round up ¢ arrest all of the aclinquents. The net results of the mayors new order so far has been to turn into the ity treasury #2,600 for the month, and it is quite sure that the sum will exceed 3,000 before night. This is the lar.est amount ever col- lected for saloon licenses for a single month in the history of the city. The new order has also had'a wholesome stimulating effect upon the liquor dealers. On the 10th of last month only three had paid their Decem- ber license, and at the "close of the month u‘::uuty-thme had failed to settle with the city. LB e Buy your coal and wood of C. B, Fuel Co., 539 Broadway. Tolephone 136, The Council Bluffs Paint and Oil Co. has ovened up under supervision of assiguee. Cash patronage solicited. —~—— J.C. Bixby, stoam hoating, sanitary en- glncer, 23 Merriam block, Council Blufts Pomona Brand Hoarhound tablets will re- lieve your cough. Powmona stamped on each tablet. Ask your druggist or candy dealer for them. —— and lap roocs at cost at 7 Main street. —— For Sule—415 acres, one mile from market ; finest grain or stock farm in Pottawatamie county. Verycheap. Most ofground has been in tame grass from five to ten_y particulars see Ohio kKnox, § Main Council Bluffs, Ia, Horse blankets Theo. Beckman . For street, The most complete line of blankets and comforters, losiery and underwear in the i t the Boston Store, where good goeds, o8, cash and ono price to_all1s their Bos'ton Store, Council Bluffs, Truths From the Pulpit. Rev. (. W. Crofts yesterday morning preached an excellent sermon on the theme *‘The munifestation of Christ through his people.”” Hochose as his text passages in the prayer of Christ as recorded in the enteenth chapter of John. Ho dwelt par- ticularly upon the unity of God and Christ together in the heart of the churgh, all being united iu one. The church was not & mere denomination of sect, but consistod of all those who were actuated by the spirit of Christ, and such lovers of Christ forming the true church, were to be one with God and with Christ. The further manifestation of Christ was shown in the tenderness of heart and repent- ance of sin, which came by receiving the teachings of Christ. 1t was shown in the in- creased confidenceand trust in God. Another manifestation wus the desire that others be saved, and that the coming of the kingdom of God be hastened, such desire being expressed in enthusiastic work to bring about that end. Two simple illustrations, among otlers, clearly illustrate the speaker’s ideas. “You will remember that Christ said ‘1 am the light." Ho also said, ‘Ye are tho light of the world.” His disciplos were to make mar.- ifest this light. The degree of importance to beattached to a Christian lifo1s justin pro- portion as it makes Christ manifest, just as the real value of alantern on a dark hight is the amount of light it gives. The lantern may be of cheap material, or it may be of silver, or even of gold, but its real value tothe belated traveler on'a dreary, darlk road is the light it gives, 1'ho material of which it is made matters much less th the light itsclf. So fine creeds, eloquent sex mons, showy pretensions, pleasing avowals of belief, all are as nothing compared with the amount of light which one s\mple Christian heart allows to shiue forth for the gaidance of his brother." “We should be filled with the fullness of God. Not asthe cup is filled with water, The cup does not partake in “any sense of the water, and when the water is~ emptied it is still a’cup, no different than before. The heart should be filled with the fullness of God, s the plant and the tree drink up the water and convert it into the foliage and fruitage, making it a part of its own life, and 80 taking it iv through every tendril and leaf, that it accomplishes its mission and de- velops the growth of beauty and delight,” ——— Great success, Reliable goods, Fair dealin Bowom pric ALC. B. Jacquemin & Co., No. 27 Main street — ‘The Boston store, Council Bluffs, is_show- ing special value iu blankets and cow forters for this weelk, T'he best %o Loso in tho country is to be found at the Boston Store, Council Bluffs, elther in gents half hose, in wool or cotton, fn ladies’ all wool or cotton, in misses all wool or cotton. Bostou Store, Council Blufts, [HE NEWS IN THE BLUEFS. Farmer Olothard Tells the Stiry of His Oon- nection With the Oreat Land Steal, HE THINKS WILLS HYPNOTIZED HiM, And Says the Latteris the Only Guilty Person—Talking City Politics uths From the Pulpit. Farmer George Colthard s occupying o four by six steel walled rooin in the county jail. He was shown to his apartment in the ccond ter of cells in the big cylinder at 11 o'clock on saturday night. How long he will remain there is a guestion not yet answer. able. His friends say it will not be very long. Itisthe flrst time he has ever been arrested and the shame and humiliation of his situation has well nigh prosteated him. He had a number of visitors rday be sides the reporte Th iucluded o well known att from Missouri Valley and his two brot Mho attorney has looked after Mr. Cothard's legal business for many years and tney are on most intin and friendly terms, Colthard's brothers awe prominent and wealthy land owners in Har sison county. ‘I'hey spent a great part of the day with their relative and cheered him greatly, The attorney's presence was also reassuming. Ho ls thoroughly cogmizant of all the circumstances of the great land swinale as far as bis former client is impli- cated, and p ses to have no doubt as to what (! me will be. Colthard claimis that only oneside of the story has got intothe papers, and that when the Tacts are all brought out the aspect of the case will bo materially changed. [n talking about it yesterday. he told a part of his story, afte afirming solemnly that he was not wilty of any wrong doinz. His story throws all thie blame for the eriminal of the case upon Wills, whom he says s a marvel- ously ~ shrewd ' fellow, and whom Col- thard's friends declave has exorted a derful, almost hypuotic in- flience upon’ the old farmer. As is well known, Crlthard’s farm adjoins a large track of land owned by Sam Haas of this city, and several yoars ago they got into o dispute about a division fence. Be dispute was amicably sottled a mor contr arose overthe right to old road that Colthard had used for He is one of the oldest cit is of the and has owned the large track of land wh use an Iiis home is located since 1561. The use of the roag, he claims, was necessary in getting to and from a portion of his farm that laid near the vriver and when the dispute over tho fence was on Haas forbade bim using the road. He continued to uso it, and trouble foilowed thiek and fast. I'rom wordy disputes on the farms the matter srow to a legal vattle in the district court, and Flaas finally procured an injunction restraining his neighbor from us- ing the road at all It was at this juncture, Colthard says, that the serpent in the shupe'of Willis came and tempted him, Willis had recently come out from Galesburg, IiL, whero he professed to have béen well acquainted with the Dennis fumily, who formerly owned the land now held by H He told Col- thard a long stc received from thi which he claimed to have surviving member of the Dennis family, to the effect that there was a serious irregularity in the transfer of the land to Haas and that the oviginal Deunis was not in o sound mental condition when he made the deed; that this fact cast a suspicion upon tho validity of the title. small consideration he would undertake to ret a qut claim deed from the only s 2 Den- nis who could have a legal etaim upon the land, This person, he alleged, was Mary; that e was well acquainted with her and could get her to sign a quitclaimto the whole tract. Colthard saw in this an oppor. tunity to get even with Haas and eet hold of a club that ke could wield upon the Council Bluffs cupitalists with good effect. Ho con- sidered vhe proposition and finally ~ordered Wills to procure the quit claim from Mary, realizing, he says, that he wis purchasing 4 lawsuit in which he expected to atleast make it interesting to Haas. After getting his commission Wills disap- peared for a short time, When he returned he had the deed duly signed by Mary Dent He says ho had no supposition that the deed was o fraud, but believed it to be genuine, He consulted with his attorney about it and the attorney, also ignorant of the fact that Wills had picked up a prostitute in Council Bluffs to {mpersonate the Mary Dennis, took the deed to Logan and had it cod on record. Fortified with this the attorney advised Colthard to go ahead and use the old road in violation of the courts injunction. “When,on the third of January, Haas had Colthard arrested for coutempt, the attorney in making his answer alleged that Colt! 1 atitleto the lanas and could not be guilty of contempt in useing the road. This answer Colthard signed, but now says he did not know that it contained the allégation of proprietorship, which is Wills suggested that for a to pected to b0 used against him at the trial. All subsequent trans- fers and mortgages he claims to have no knowledge of, and consequentiy no responsi- bility for them. He says the first intimation he received of the existence of the mortgage negotiated by Wills was given him by his attorney, who had_discovered it when it was filed for record, The attormey demanded an explanation, which Colthard could not give until he “found Wills. Wills informed bim that he had impersonated him and fixed up the mortgage for a purpose, and when the time came he would release it. He says he went to his at- torney and urged him to get the fraudulent mortgage off the records, butthe attorney told him he must make Wills release 7it. at once, for it was afelony that would make Colthard trouble. He was continuonsly urg- ing Wills to release the mortgage until the discovery was madeand the war broke out, He adwits that he gave Wills $00 for obtain- ing what he supposed was the genuine quit claim deed from Mary Dennis, and vehemently asserts that he has no con- nection with and no knowledge of any of the other subsequent attractions which were worked by Wills and Webber. He says the Galey deed was obtained in the same man- ner by Wills, who cluimed to have discovered Elinor Stewart, the only surviving heir of William Galey, Thequit claim deeds were made to Wills, aud when the latter sold the interests thus obuiined to Colthard he wanted to make the deeds to Colthard's fifteen-year-old daughter, but Colthard told them to make them to his wife. This is substantially Colthard's story, and he teils it 50 earnestly and in such a straight- forward manner that all of his friends pro- foss to believeit. Tuey say they have no- ticed the wonderful influence that Wills has obtained over Colthard. They pronounce him to bea very dangerous wan and Col- thard his vietim, There are some things that arenot ex- plained by M, Colthard. On the 7th inst. a telegram sent from this eity to Colthurd at California Junction which read like this: “Come at once or send 200, papers all sigied.” The telegaam was_sigued by Web- ber, According to Colthard’s story, neither Wills nor Webber bad auy papers’ in their possession at thut date of which he had any knowledge, It was about that time that the Omaha notary bad acknowledged a dozen or more deeds to the lauds. The case will probably be called for pre- liminary bLeaving today in Justice Patton's court, — ‘The best French cook in western Towa isat the Hotel Gordon, Couneil Bluffs, e Bargains in blankets and comforters at the Boston store, Councii Blufls; this week, Talking About Spring Elections. The fact is recallea oy the politicians that only about six weeks intervene until the day arrives when the people must vote for the candidates selected by the various parties for the annuol spring elect The winter has been 5o mild that people scarcely realize that it is half gone, but the stir among the politi- ciaus recalls the fact, There are not many vacancies to be filled at the spring election and not much of a fixht is anticipated. There will be aldermen to choose aud two members ot the board of education, aud that is about all, In the Third ward a member, will have to be chosen to Al out of the unexpired term of the late Alder- | than that, ne announces that wverott's torm as the reprosentative of urth and Mikesells of the Sixth ex- sires, and the ocial days of Aldermanat- argo KKnepher are drawing to a close The dominancy of the democrats in the city, and the probability of the election of any man who ma; democratic politicians, and they have alread begun to divide the offices amoug themselves and their friends, Alderman Knepher says positively that he be a candidato for re-election, and friends announce that he must not be con- sidered in the apportionment of the spoils. Several condidates are already meationed for the place, among thewn px-Alderman J. P. Weaver, who has a good record as an_alde man to fall back upon; J. C n, Brooks Reed and G. H. Jackson, Reed lives in the Second ward and would would be el- ible, but Jackson will have to change his residence if e hopes for the fulfillment of his ambition to become an _alderman. His residence s in the First ward, which is now represented in the council by Caspar and Alderman-at-lirge Wood, Three aldermen from one ward would not be permissable, In the Third ward the selection of S R. Wadsworth to complete the term of Alder- man I s about conceded. The feet standing ready to step into Alder- man Everett's shoes from the Fourth are owned by J. A. Murphy and U. H. White, with the bulk of the politicians in the party stronely in fayor of Murphy. The vacancy in the Sixth will probably be contested by W. B, Fisher or W. H. Whip- ple. J.H. Hunt is also mentioned among the republicans as a probable eandidate. There is no stampede of applicants for the caucios that will oecur in the school board the expiration of the terms of Stowart and Blaxsim, Since the late trouble in that ody it is feared that it will bo difficult to get deslrable citizens to discharge the duties of the thankless and foeless oftice In addition to these ofiices one missioner will be chosen, Itis probable there will be a straight party fight and no citizens' movement. The American District Telegraph Co, has been reorganized and is now prepared to give prompt service, Special attention to express and parcel delivery Why pay #1.50 when you can get jnst as ‘gflml fare and beds at the Scott house for L00¢ vark com- Special prices on ladies and_gents under- wear this week atthe Boston Store, Council Blufrs, LITERARY TOPICS, “Kent Hampden,” the new serial story an- nounced to appear in the Youth's Com panion, by Mrs, Rebecea Harding Davis, begins with fivst number in January. Its incidents arelaid in West Virginia, which was Mrs, Davis’s home n_her girlnood days. The illus- trations by W, P, Suyder are especially fine. G. W. Dillingham, publisher, New York, announces for January, “Her Husband’s Friend,” by Albert Ross, author of “*Thou Shalt Not,"”ete. This is the fifth book of the Albatross Series, by the same author, which in twenty-two months has had a sale of 267 000 copies, and there is yet no falling off in the demand. The New Year is opened by The Kinder- garten, (Chicago) with a fullness of good good things. The “Systematic Science Les- i ons," the “Primary 3 the regular music lesson, the stories and poems, which are fei- tures of every number, are specially strong ‘and inter in the Januavy number, They are uc anied by ““heaps upon heaps' of good things, suggesting 1o mother and teacher original ways of bandling their prob- lems. 1y published Dec long poem descriptive of the Passion Pla mmegau, which will be accompanied by es of illustrations from photographs 1 at the last prosentation of the play. 1t is worthy of note that just one-third of i cen- tury ago the same writer contributed to the same periodical that popular poetical satire, “Nothiug to Wear,” themost porfect, literary production of its class written in this coun- try. In the January number of The Forum Dr. Austin Flint of New York will publish an ar- ticle on “T'he Revolution in Medicine.” Dr. Flint explains the method not only of Dr, Koch's treatment for consumption, but the probable early extension of a similir system of treatment to most of the other diseases that are caused by bacilli,such as diphtheria, typhoid fever and measles. This is perhaps tho fivat comprehensive and philosophical ex- planation that has been made for lay readers of the pratical applications of the results of bacteriology, The second instalment of the *‘Talleyrand Memoirs” in The Century for Fevruary will deal almost entirely with Talleyrand’s rela- tions with Napoleon Bonaparte, and will in- clude anumber of highly ioteresting anec- dotes of Napoleon; namely, the scene when they first met; Napolcon's snubbing of a for- eign minister; his stranze attack of epilepsy, ete. Talleyrand does not hesitate to tell how he thwarted Napoleon even while he pre- tended to beserving him. He describes his plotting with Napoleon early in the latter's career, and then his plotting apainst him. This instalment will aiso give Talleyrand’s reason for his rupture with Bonaparte, Cor uuunuiulg with the January (1891) num- ber, Current Literature will be issued in a new form—doublo the number of pages; sizo and style that of the standard magazines. The broad page, and aristocratic clumsiness, are given up with a regret softened by the fact that the new shape is made imperative by trade requirements, Current Literature in cf lation and standing has come to be classed and placed with the leading maga- zines, and comroercially speaking it must be made to fit, that place. ~Libraries petition a book form for binding; advertisers demand the conventional page for the display of their trot and dealers insist upon a vni- form size to properly place the magazine upon their stands, Wo are of the opinion that readers as well as dealers wiil be pleased with the change, which, after all, is only to a more compact and popular form. Wiih the February number, Short Stories will be raised 10 the same page and form as Current Literature, and with & new dress, new form, and the editorial work intended to ve put into the publications during the coming year,they will be well worth the price of subscription & cach or # for voth. S s Sporting Notes. JohnS. Barnes who was billed as the “millionaire manager’ a brief year ago is mnning fake sprint races outat Spokane Falls, He has such good people as Skinner, “English”” Gibson and Weinberner on his stafr, Ed Rothery leaves for New Orleans tonight to “witness the Dempsoy-Fitz. simmons fight next Wednesday night. "Roth- erv isa pugilistic connoisseur, and he is a trifie “leary” of the big Australian, although astrick Démpsey partisan. Florida will Soon be the Mccea of northern tennis play: A large tournament, in which costly prizes will be offered by the proprietor of anew hotel at Magnolia, near St. Augu tine, will be held next March, shortly after the tropical championship. Jack A. Wood has just imported from the famous Lord Lonsdale kennels, Lancaster- shire, Kngland, a haudsome King Charles spaniel, at a cost of $100, Mr. Wood is also the owner of a pair of pugs that would cap- wre u prizeon any bench. Rollo Heikes won the prize match at stan- dard targets at Davton in a field of a dozen shooters. A high wind was blowing, but the victor got 93 out of 100 clay birds. Heikes will visit Omaha in the near future for a match with Petty and Parmelee, Matsada Sorakichi, the Jap, and Bert Scheller met at St Jmcsflh in a Graco-Roman wrestling match. The Jap was twenty-six pounds lighter than his opponent, but he won three falls in twenty-four minutes, Of course it was another fake. That's the Jap's best bold these days. The Council Bluffs rifle club has accoptea Fred Fuller's challenge to shoot any member of their club for %0 a side, 200 yards off- hand. The match will take place next F'ri- day ofternoon on the Dunmire & Cross rounds across the river. The sporting ed- tor of T holds the stakes. Fuller's has probably Mr. Sackett, treasurer of the Bluffs clab, George Siddons, the Peoria_light-weight opponent uot_as vet been named, but is states that he will tight Dan Daly, the 120- pound pugilist of South Omana according to Police Gazotte rules, for 8500 or §1,000; or he will fight dohnny Van Heest of the Twin City Athletic club, Minueavolis, at 120 pounds if the elub will offer a purse. Further he will fight any man breathing at 120 pounds for §00 or #1,000 4 side. w lard, N L, E. Robinsou is in the city at the Mil} be put up_has sstirved the | (THE STORY OF ISLED NOUND e — Cougrass About t>Do Jnshiee to the TFirt Ex-Slaves Who Ppligit. DID BATTLE WITH THEIR MASTERS. A Letter President Lineoln Wrote— The Marvelloas Recort of the First Kansas Volunteers—A Ques- tion Answored, Wil the freed slaye fight his old master!' Twenty-eight years ago the government de- sired an answorto this problem, writes *W. B.S" in the Globe-Democrat. It got one. The sequel is *'a bill for the relief of cortain officers and entisted men for the Pirst Kansas colored volunteers.” This bill has passed the house. It has been reported favorably and is on the calendar of the senate, Before the dth of March it will receive the presi- dent's *‘Benj. Harvison.” And then tardy justice will be done to the men of color who shed their blood at Island Mound, On the 25th of October, 1862, General Benjamin F. Butler put ex-slaves into the trenches at Baton Rouge and fought tiem against General Dick Taylor, But two days earlier than that, colored troops fought their first battle, Thoy fought on Missour: scil, and an ex-confederate general, Francis Marion Cockrell, can tell his fellow sena- tors,when the bill comes up, whether this first colored volunteer regiment fought nobly o not. In August, 1862, Senator “Jim» Lane of Kunsas left Washington with President Lin- coln's authority to riise a regiment of ox- slaves. It was muchof a problem in Wash- ington whether ex-slaves would fight. The emancipation ‘proclamation had not been is- sued. The rebellion was onlya little more thana year old. The prejudice of the army was strongly against colored troops. But outin Kuusas the old Free state fighters were clamoring for authority to turn the slaves into soldiers and let them fight for their rights. Colonel J. M. Montgomery, while commanding a brigade in Kansas, equipped his train with ex-slave teamsters. Still later Cotonel Charles H, Jennison, the terror of the Missouri boraer, swept Clay and Jackson counties almost’ clean of ne- groes, took them to Kansas and turned them over to Richard J. Hinton, the be correspondent, and George H. Hoyt, Boston. lawyer who went to Virginia to_de- fend John Brown. And Hinton and Hoyt picked out 120 of thebest of these fugitives, and organized them into a party of scouts. The others were enrolled and allowed to go on promises to report and enlist when the federal government got ready to accept col- ored soldiers, That parolling was a fine bit of looking into the future, Hinton organized, unifortoed and armed his black scouts and took the field with them against bushwhack- ers, Haileck, in St. Louis, heard of this and was enraged. He orderod Jennison to St. Louis under arrest and put bim in Gratiot street prison, He sent after Hinton. The newspaper scout dodged and started for New Mexico, but ouly toretur when the storm had blown overand to work his newspapes connections so successfully that Jennison war given his liverty. MeClellun and the democratic generals pro- tested, but all the same those pestiferous rad- icals in Kansas kept clamoriug for the enlis ment of the slaves to fignt for freedom. Along in March, 1802, two regiments of so- called Indian home guards wero organized to rotect the southern Kausas border. The ited States mustering officer sent down to them in remarked grimly as he looked down the dusky line that they were “‘pretty black Indians” And so they were, Tw fifths of them were negross. But the reco; nition of the ex-slave as a soldier had not yet come, In August Lane carried to Kansas the au- thority to raisea colored regiment. He trans- mitted the authority to James M. Willaams, Henry Seaman, John Bowles and Richard J. Hiuton. These four men belonged to the Free state fighters. They needed no exhorta- tion to energy by Lane. They opened their camps. The negroes, who had run away from Missouil and who had taken Hinton's novel parole to present themselves for enlist- ment when called, began to flock in. It was not mauny days before eight. companies were full. The FKirst Kansas colored volunteers was ready to be mustered, but there was no provision for swearing ex-slaves into the army. _Williams was recognized as the col- onel, Scaman as the lieutenant colonel, Bowles as the major, and Hinton as the ad- jutant. Weeks went byand the regiment had no legal status, The companies hung to- gether. Theyobeyed orders, They drilled. I'here wvas no pay day andthero was no pro: pect of any. No orders came from Washing- ton, Up north the controversy over the question of enlisting negroes grew hotter, It seemed as if theadministration almost re- pented of the authority given Lane, Butthe First Kansas colored volunteers were not to be discouraged. At length General Blunt ordered tho companies of exslaves of to southern Kansas. They would at fewst attract lo attention down there, he evidently thought. They were given instruotion in o general way to protect the southern border.. A Major Henning of the Third Wisconsin, had charge of thedistrict to which the colored volunteers were sent. He concewved the bright idea of “finding out what the niggers swere nade of.’ One day, about the middle of October, the major sent an order to the camp, directing the colored volunteers to go into Missouri and break up anestof bush- whackers, The colonel, the liewtenant col- onel and major were from camp. Adjutant Hinton ond the senior captain, Dick Ward, picked out 250 0f the most promising of the ex-slaves, and marched away: into Mis- sourl to attack and disperse a band of sixty or eight guerrillas, as thoy supposed. Amarch of fortyor fifty miles brought the detachment to its destiuation, Instead of a nest of less than a hundred bushwhackers, Islind Mound, in the Osage valley, was oc- cupied by a camp of confederato recruits, numbering not tess than %0 men, under reg- ular confederate ofiicers, General Cockrell, who was home on a recruiting visit, was in the camp. Not until they had gone too far to draw back did theofcers of the colored vol- unters realizo their position. Captain Dick Ward, as_senior captain, was in command. He and Hinton consulted, and decided that it would never do to retreat. The eyes of the whole country were on the ex-slaves. Mes- sengers wero seut back to Paolaand Fort Scott, toexplain the situation and to suggest roenforcements. The colored troops took possession of high ground overlooking the valley, threw up light earthworks, raised the flag and called the place Fort Africa. The first day there was skivmishing, aud the ex- slaves got their noses full- of the smoke of battle and saw some cancasian blood flow, The next day there was some more ighting, and the ex-slaves had the best of it. The third day, tiring of a Fabian policy, part of the command, which had: been sent out to hold a bluff, pushed forward into the valley and brought on agenuing battle. The federates advanced and fell onthe little p in advance. Then the;whole force of ex- slaves was brought forward on a run, and the fighting was general. ¢ The crucial test of blaek courage came when Adjutant Hinton got 140 of these ex- slaves into line and prapared fora charge down into tho valley gk the coufederates, As he ran his eyes alougihe line the adjutant thought he saw sigus of wavering. “Better be dead freemew than live slaves, he shouted, with a mighty eath. *Come on." “We's comin’,’” was the reply in chorus, As heplunged down the hill the adjutant looked tack over his shoulder and saw the bluck line following without a break. The black line and the whitecolumn met. 1t was haud-to-hand—tne Missouri slaveholder and tho Missouri ex-slive. As a_ball ploughed \hrough the adjutant's thigh he scarcely kaw it, for his attention wus absorbed by a sceue he mever forgot, A great coal-black negro had come face to face with a confeder- ato offioer. The excitement had brought out some long-forgotten strain of barbaric bat- tling in the negro, As he moved aloug, bis eye-balls rolling and his teeth gleaming, this negro chanted in bis deep bass tones, slowly -u.‘l solemnly, “Surrender, you black scoundrel,” shouted the Missourian. “Nev—ah—by-Je—sus—Christ,” saug the exslave with all the emphasis of registering a solemn vow, nd plunging forward he drove the big sabre bayouet through the white man's breast. twisted the blade and made a horrible wound enough tolet out a dozen lives, Still chanting, the ex-slave looked at his bloody bayonet and then turned to seek anothier vietim. As ho did so he saw the adjutant’s oyes upon him, and he sang in his dep, drawing tongs, exultantly “Ilgot -bim -~ My, ~Ad) — ton, I-got— Nim. " he exslaves were armed with the old Belgian musi 1 been left in the Jepartmen! of Fremont's brilliant but not altogether practicable manage- ment. Tho Belg muskets had boen thrown _aside > by white sol- diers. But they were good enough for ex-slaves to dvill with. They had been is- sted o thess negro companies by some ofl- cer who had 1o idoa thoy would ever get into battle. They failed as firearms aftora fow rounds, and then their owners scized them the barrels and mado elubs of them in the an as unfit for u: Nand-to-hand fighting, When the union offi cers went over the battie ground the next day they found the remmants of forty of these muskets which had been smashed in_the couflict beforo they were thrown away. As the battle was waning and the con fed- erates were retreating, the adjutant of the ex-slaver saw one of hismen staggering back. The negro had been shot through both arms near the elbow. His hands hung limp and useless, ana the blood was dripping from them. But up under the arm- pit hie hugged his broken Belgian musket “Ldidn’t lose my gun, Mr, Adj—ton; I got my gun, sah,” the ex-slave called out, proud- Not a ‘murmur escaped him abont the shattered arms, but he had saved his yun and he claimed credit for it. T'he bill which is near! through this con- gress has for its object aaact of justice to the ex-slaves who were killed and” wounded at Island Mound. These ex-slaves won their not 1 flest battie, but they had ven mustered in the United States service, had been ‘employed.” That was all. The govern- ment wasnot prepated to make them sol- diers, The bill proposes that with respact to the pension laws and the army regulations those who fell at Island Mound shall bs C "L.’Iillted the same as if they had been mus- od in. One of the heroes of Island Mound was An- drew L Crew. He wus @ young newspaper man from Kansas, He commaaded one of the companies of exslaves, and had the regiment been mustered he would huve held the commission of captain init. Crew fell in the front. And when the wounded were gathered up Crew's body was found at the entrance of a littie vavine, Six dead con fed- crates layin frout of hi His revolvers were empty. After [sland Mound there doubtabout ex-slaves fighting. Kansas colored was no longer despised. Ad- Lunmt Hinton wrote out the report of the attle and Senator Pomeroy in person car- ried it to the white house. The senator today treasurers an autogruph letter from Presi- dent Lincoln, in which the lattex weites ! My Dear Senator—I wish you would ex- pressto your voung friend, Lieutenant Hui- ton, and 'to the gallant ofticers and men asso- ciated with him, my gratification at the vort which you have read t me today. 1 de- sire to say that the evidenco preseated both of personal courage and discipline by the men of color and those who commanded them in this engagement which the report de- seribes, is such that Ishould feel warranted, if it had not already been decided upon, in in- viting the men of color in the United States to enter the armi nn}; navies thercof for the defense and maintedfince of the Union,” In November, 62, the president wrote this. In January following he issued his proclama- tion. Theservice was open to men of color, The F' Kansas colored volunteers were mustered into th been on duty full baptism at months earlier to1ts record, F today stands hundreds of regi the war. But, was no more The First army, although they had six months, and had their Island Mound uearly three ‘The regiment proved true r actual lossesin battle it 0. 17 on the long list of the pents which participated in hanging the estimate and ug into consideration the length of ser- o und the losses, this regiment of ex- slaves climbs to third place. It performed one feat which ought to e it a piace in his- tory. There is nothing just likethat featin ilitary annals, The regiment lelt Fort Smith on a sudden emergenc marched seventy-two miles in eighteen hours, and went into battle within fivo minutes after ar- riving on the field. — - - FAITHFUL HEARTS. A Couple United Afier Walting for a Quarter of a Century. The wedding of Miss M J. Cloak- ley to Mr. James Portar, which occurrod in the United Presbyterian church of Springfield, O., marked the culmination of an interesting romance of love and fidelity numbered with pathos, The story, one of noble self-sacrifice, has just become publie, and after waiting a quar- ter of a century faithful hearts are made one, says o dispatch to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Many years ago Rev. Jcseph Cloakley, D.D., Tather of Mi Mary Cloakley, fulfilled his first duties as & young Presbyterian pastor at Mount Pleasant, a rural village in west- ern Ohio, During his pastorate there he married the pavents of Mr. James Portsr. From this event a frienshin arose between the two families, and there Mary and James, who are nearly of the same age, passed their childhood. From the constant society of early child- hood an attachment was formed which ripened into mutual affection. Subse- quently the two families were separate Miss Mary, with a high sense of filial dutyand of love for her parents, who were growing old, expressed it her will never to wed during their lifetime. After a pastorate of twenty-five years Rev. Joseph Cloakley passed away on December 8, 1884. True to her resolve, Miss Mary remained with her widowed and invalid mother. During this time correspondence did mnot cease between the lovers, although the years of wait- ing had been long, ‘Several times Mr, Porter, who had become a wealthy wholesale merchant of Pittsburg, vis- ited Miss Cloakley at her pleasant home on West Jefforson street, Just one year ago last 4th of July her mother, who was almost a helpless invalid, died. The marriage took place soon afterward. RN s e Emerson on Tobacco. Emersom, remembering the habits of conviviality to which some undergradu- ates snceumbed, once asked: “Did you ever think about the logic of stimulus? Nature supplies her own. It is astonishing what she will do if you will give her a chance. In how shoit a time will she revive the overworked brain! A breath under the apple trees, a siesta on the grass, a whift of wind, an nterval of retirement, and the balance and serenity ave restored. A clean creature needs so little and responds so readily; there is something as miracu- lous as the gospel in it, “Later in life society becomes a stim- ulus, “Occasionally the gentle excitation of a cup of tea is needed; a mind invents its own tonics, hi(' which, without permanent injury, it makes rapid rallies and enjoys g00d moods, “Conversation is an excitant, and the series of intoxicants it excites in health- ful. But toba cco—what a rude crowbar is that with which to pry into the deli- cate tissues of the brain!” 1t must not be inferred from this pas- sage that Emerson himself was a total abstainer from tobacco, though he smoked but rarely and never until he was fifty, i —— Colonel Ingersoll's Retort. That was rather a neat retort Colonel “Bob” Ingersoll got on a fellow lawyer while arguing a case lately, says the Brooklyn Union. The legal brother annoyed the doughty colonel consider- ably by his frequent objections, until the latier said: “Mr, ——, if you don’t stop interrupting e I shall have to change my opinion of you,” “I thounht, colonel, you were & man who never changed his opinion,” “Well,” said the quick-witted Peor- ian, I may be compelled to change it some day, and you'll probubly be there to twit me about it.”” This neat allusion to the colonel’s well known opiniou on the non-existence To Soft Coal GOING LIKE | What is ? Best in the market. Telephone 48. of a certain futnre state suggestive of old fushioned lucifer matches proved effective, “The objector ceased his ob- jections, e THE DONK WORE TROUSERS, And the Disasteons Which Followed the nt, Count Papasogli, an Ttalian nobleman doing business at a junkman on the Kast Side pretty well up town, ntly pro. cured a donkey, and ho uses the animal | us abeast of burden, hanging baskets | over her back, into which he loads tho various things that he buysas he goos about on his routes, says thesNew York Sun, A few days ago when it was fearfully cold, the prudent and kind-hearted count, knowing that the donkey must spend a good portion of the day standing at the doors of houses whi master was haggling over prices and woights within, determined to furnish the beast withan outside covering, so that sho | might not takke cold and getsick with | pneumonia or gome other of the numer- ous diseases to which donkeys are sub- jeet. So he bought a horse blanket and spread iv over the donkoy. As a matter of course he found that the blanket was “too much of a good thing.* ‘“What had we best dc wife, “Cut the blanket to fit,” was theveply. **And what shall we do with what's left?” “Muke two pairs of trousers to keep the poor heast’s legs warm.” There was nothing astonishing in the suggestion of the countess to the man who heard it. Hehad been brought up in a dountry where donkeys wore rousers to keep the flies off their soro legs, and it seemed to him the most ural thing in the world that his wifo should propose donkey trousers as o measure of protection against the cold. He took the length of the donkey's legs, und the countess made the trousers in a hort time **Din bono!” excliimed the countess when she saw the little donkey drossed up inovercoat and trousers, “Che bella fignara! But tho Harlem small hoys wore of another mind. They did not éndorse the countess’ judgment that the donkey was o fine-looking creature ‘in her new clothes. They rolled on the sidewalks ready to die with laughter as it dawned ! upon them that they had actually seen a four-legged beast” walking about in trousers. Recovering from their paroxysms they undertook to worry the count, and it is hardly necessary to say that they suc- coeded. Barely an hour elapsed from the time when the count embraced the countess and bade her good-by, calling her a thing of benuty and the joy of his life, grateful to her above all measure for what she had done with the horse ( blanket, before he was back again cover- ing her with reproaches, yelling at her that she was a “wooded head,” and “‘all- around-good-for-nothing.” Prosently in his rage ho actually bent the countess on the head with the doar key trousers, until the poor woman begged for mercy. The count’s moth. in-law chanced to come in justat this time, and she persuaded the count that he had had enough, Then ho went off again in search of old iron, old hats, dat old bootlegs. - L L This John Oat is a Terror, The big tenement house No, 132 od his he as' De- lanoy street, has been in a mild state of excitoment, all because of a large Thomas cat, which from a feline stand- pointowns the house, says the New York Morning Journal, Mrs. Dennis Carr owns the cat, and though there are some half adozen other ladies in the house who just dote on cats, they have been robbed of their pets since Mrs, Carr brought her com- panion into the tenement. The cat in question has been named John, after Mrs, Carr’s late husband, and in the words of the neighbors, “John is n terror.” The first night, that John arrived at 132 he deliverately went to work clearing the house of all Tab- bies and Thomases he could find, Infuct he was so enthusiastic that he kept the entire house awake most of the night and came out with but one raw spot over his left eyo. All appeals to Mrs, Carr were in vain. Finally an appeal was made to the se goant on duty at the Eldvidge street sta- tion house, who advised the complain- ants to swear out a warrant against Ms, Carr for disturbing the peace or to kil the cat. This latter method was chosen the least expensive, but strange to sny, John disappeared for three days; but when he did return he found his old enemiesin possession againand he went right to work chasing them out in the street. Then the people in the house warned Mrs, Carr that if John was not gone by the following Monday she wonld be ar- rested. She says she’ll fight the case, e The Duke of Portland’s Winni The duke of Portland’s winnings on the turf this year, which are now placed at the extraordinary figures of $625,000, cause that portly and pn‘m]ur young nobleman to be looked upon by the world at lurge with even more envy than ever, says the New York World. A few yenrs agohe was a comparatively unknown momber of the %'mu'ds‘ with thirteen people standing hetween him and the dulkedom of Portland, e never even dresmed of succeeding to the title. fate siniled upon himand the th people died off, and at thivty years ho is PROF, KOCH RECOMMENDS SODEN'S MINERAL PASTILLES. Troches wade from the Natural Waters of Soden, Frankfurt, Germuny) for SORE THROAT OATARRIE, 1S and COLOS as th ) best and most e fFective remedy, Dr. Koch said: A cough for which I tried many other medicines., whieh had not the slightest effect, soon became botter and has nowentirely disapoeared through use of Soden Mineral Pastilles. 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