Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 21, 1891, Page 15

o iz 4 R g >~ huppy tlelds THE OMAHA DAIL NEBRASKA IN THE SIXTIES., the Territory from Indian Depredators, Defending THE REDSKINS INCITED BY SOUTHERNERS, ek Troops for Roster of The Part Acting Governor Padd Played in Mustering ¥rontler Protection Second Nebraska Oavalry. PART 1T The order of General Pope mustering a regiment of o y for scrvice on the fron- tler with a view to hotding the Indians in check, came at an opportune moment, for it restored confidence in the peopls who had begun to think the general goverament had abandoncd the west altogether, and the gloomy outlook beforo them had already caused a few to move back east trom whence they came, so their wives and children might oscapo the murderous fos then roam ng at large over a defenseless country. The massacre of 8o many women and children in Minnesota, May, 1562, and a general uprising of the Indians at a later period from from Minnesota to the Rio Grande, caused many stout-hearted frontiersman to shudder with fear lest his wife and childron might fall a victims to tho tomahawlkies also; and it 1s not at all strange that many of our pioneers sought protection in more populous com- munities like southern lowa, Illi- nols and localities further east. Nor is it at all strange that the people, re- ardless of polities or southern proclivities, eaped for joy, when the order came to pro- tect their homes and families by western troops who were acquainted with the situ- ation; and felt themselves equal to the task when' armed and equipped by the general government. Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado and Dakota, having a territorial organization at that time, their influenco at Washington through a dele- gato in Congress, had about the same ef upon the authorities there that the pleading of an English peasant would have had upon the court of St. Jamos. TNot because the prosident and secretary of war hoard not the petitions of the people, and would have readily grauted all they asked could they have aone so, but because all ey os of the nation we entered at Washington, and bent on it from falling into General Lee's hands, who was then marshall- ing his forces just across the Potomac for that purpose. And further, because the powers at Washington were dotermined to make the rebellious states the battle ground which were so eager in the secession move- ment, and troops for service on the plains vould not be spared from the front. It was the provailing opinion throughout the west from 1861, '62, '63, '64, that the In- dians were incited by rebel emissaries of the southern confederacy to attack the frontier scttlements, and by that mcans draw the attention of the secretary of war to the necessity of lessening his energies in pushing his soldicrs southward and sending a portion of them west to protect a defenseless people. This opinton was well founded, for & work entitied “Iighting for Missouri,” now before the writer, published since the close of the war, and’ whose author was the adjutant general of Prico’s army, alludes to the fact that Jefferson Davis had commissioned eral Hindman as early as 1361 to proce " without aelay to Arkansas, take command of the confederate forces, arm and equip the Inafans of the Cherokec and Choctaw nations and enlist them in the confederate cause, His object was to incite ail the westorn Indians to a warlike demonstration and raid the whole countr yfrom northeast to south- west, thereby placine the federal forces be- tween two fires—tae revel soldiers in front with shot and shell and the Indians in th rear with torch, tomahawk and scalping knife, to murder and plunder defenseless women and children. Aud but for the fore- sight and timely warning of acting-Governor Paddock to the secretary of war, and tho rompt action of the secretary w directing Jeneral PPope to call out more troops aud protect the frontier at ail hazards, Davis' instructions to Hindman might havo resulted more disastrously to the west than they did. One thing is certain. The people would have to abandon all and fleo for safety, or remain to await death and destruction at the hands of a savage foe, For what fow able-bodled men there were at home, wero unskilled in Indian warfare, and,unprovided, as they were, with arms, ammunition, sub- sistence aud the means of transportation, they could do but little at best. But when the news came to arm and equip men for ser- vice and the frontier, the hearts of the people Jeaped for joy, and men, all tho way from ighteen years to that of sixty, crowded the Suiting office until the Sixth and Seventh Towa cavalry and Forty-first iufantry and the wallant Second Nebraska cavalry had their quota and were ready for marching orders. Nebraska was then, as skio is now, on the main line of travel from ocean to ocean, and tho greut balk of overland travel from tho Aulaatic states to the Pacific coast, Colorauo, Utah and the gold fields of Montana, Idaho and Nevada passed centrally through her from east to west, and as a consequence her settlements along this national thoroughfare _wore more numerous and demunded moro troops for protection than did either Minnesota, northern lowa, Kansas, Col- orado and the territories’ further ‘south. And her soldiors were called to guard the overland travel by wagon from 1861 to 1565, tho samo as they woro to guard the buildors of the Union Pacific from Owmala west ata later period. The wisdom and patriotism exhibited by the governors of the western states and terr tories in throwing avound the sparsely set- tled portions, the strong arm of the military, at the time they did. can now be wore fully appreciated by the hundreds of thousands from all civilized nations, who occupy those once trecloss and almost uninhabited por- tious of our country. No less than six or eight continental railways now traverse theso lands from the Missouri river to the Paciti ocean, and where it required a voyage of three months by ox teams, twenty-five years ago with the hardships incident to a frontier country, the trip can now be made in a Pull- man palace ear in four or five days and thay t00, at a saving of at least S0 per cent of former expenses. ‘The tourist who crossed the plains thirty yours ago and beheld a vast plain with noth- ng to break the monotony at day, but large nerds of buffaio, and the war whoop of the Indigns at night. ean moro readily approciate the change it bus undergono than one who never made the trip only by rail. The unin habited plains ho saw - then are now the homes of thousands, with rich of grain—the fruits’ of hon- est labor, The Indian tepees ho looked upon ns he journeyed westward aro tradi- tions of tho past, and in their place he will gaze upon nice cities and villages and fine churches and sehool builaings, as well as largo commerdlal industrios such as the wants of the country demand. And where Logan Fontinell, chiof of the Omaha Indians, once held peaceabls posses sion of a land opposite Council Bluffs, Ia. where that noblo chief taught his peoplo tha arts and solonco of civilization, he will thero behold a city of 140,000 population, & ratlroad contor qual to that of Chicago,'and Indus. triul entorprises sufcient to give her entire population constant amployment. Viewing all this as the writor does from an old settler and an ola soldier's standpoint, he cannot cousistently be accused of ogotism when he claims that “this great change is, in part, due to the brave soldios boys of Ne- raska, Kansas, Colorado, lowa, Minnesota and Dakota, who, after placing their wives and little ones in’ & place of safety, went forth to fight a savage foe more desperate than any eivilized foe known in common warfare who fought to a finish, for the wild Inaians took no prisoners, nor did thoy ex- pect 10 be treated othorwise than death when captured. By November 1, 1862, the Second Nebraska cavalry was fully organized with ten full companies and went into winter quarters near whore Hanscom park is now located, un il some time in January following, when the various companies weore scattered at poluts along the Missouri river from Dakota City to the Kansas line, there to await orders of Brigadior Gonoral James H. Craig who was Lthen in command of the district with head- quarters at Omaha. There beiug more candidates for dield ofti- cos than there was places to fill, Governor Baunders visited Wasbington at his own ex- pense and through his forcible as well as por- suasive arguments, ho prevailed on the secre- tary 1o grant bim the suthority to recruit two more companies thus making twelve companies, so as to give a colonel, lieutenant colonel, three majors, commissary quarter master ana adjutant, and thros surgeons. The request of Governor Saunders having been granted, companies “L'" and “M" wore soon complete and mustorod in tho service, making the second Nebraska cavalry twelve hundred strong ready for service, Soon after company “F\' Captain Laboo commanding, went into winter quarters near obraska City, a call for a company of sol- diers was issued to proceed at once to the Otoe Indian agency in southern Gage county, and assist Agont Baker in paving the Indians their rogular annuities, Upon arriving at the agenc captain learned rom their agent that the leading chiefs rofused to ro- ceive their use the post trader, Jawison, demanded that what was due him for goods the several Indians had bought should first be taken out by the agentand the remainder paid to each [ndian as his or bier name was called The presence of tho troops and a few days' consultation brougnt the Otoe Indians to time and the disteibution of their money per capita proceeded The writer, who was conyersant with the Indian language, was designated as custo- dian of the post' trader's share, which was about 90 per cent of the whola payment com- ing to them: and as each Indian’s name lod he came forward, siened the with his_or her X,and after paying th trader his amount the remainaer was heid by the agont to the Indian who receivod it—not with an exclamation of joy, but with a scowl on his face, and in his own language grufly acil “Moncheo houchee, wamoona | montaska,” which means, “The white man stoals che Indian’s monoy. Many of the soldiers thought thon and think 30 now, that the Indians ware fiecced by the sharks und hangers-on_around theso agoncles, aud the sooner tho Indian bureau was transferred to the war department the sooner the red childron of the forest would become reconciled to the fact that their ather was an honest man ing compieted the organization of the regiment, the tield officors were commission- edas follows: R. W. Furnas, colonel; W. I, Sapp, lientenant colonel; George Armstrong; major ;John Tabb, major:), W. Pearman, ma: jor; Dr. A. Bowen, surgcon; Dr. W.S, Latta, assistant surgeon; Dr. H. O Hana, assistant surgeon; H. M. Atkinson, adjutant: J. S. MeCormick, quartermaster; John Q. Goss, commis: A bravef set of men or set of field ofticers on dre: be found 1 the whole army than composed ud Nebraska Not ‘even the handsome Colonel John M. er of the First Nebraska infantry, when od in his summer clothing, looked more prepossessing than our own Colonel Fur when mouuted on_his noble charger with sword and canteen dangling at his side. . As Colonel Thayer drew his sword m 1561, and pointing it southward, saying, “Follow me, brave soldiors; for with this implement of war and the prayers of my chapluin not a vestige of treason shall be left on southern soil to write the history of who its destroyers wore,” so did Colonel iurnas draw his sword and pointing it northward exclaim, “Follow me, my brave knights of the prairies, for this day do wo ily to the rescue—slashing the say- ago foe from right to left until the whole country shall bo freoa from the redskin foos and Little Crow's heart made to feel the point of my dagger.” Littlo Crow was the leader of the Minuesota massacre of 5o many women and children it the spring of 1563, and was supposed to be working his way to the plains of Nebraska. THE FORGOTT EN ROAD, Ella Higgingon in Frank Leslie's. Within a western forest dim and still, It lies—a lounely thing; Across tho twilit dusk canaries trill, Or slant on golden wing. About the pools the lily of the west. PPuts out three snow white leaves; Within a thicket where the shadows A widowed linnet grieves. rost, Against the fallon loz and sap-veined treos The ferns pross broad, cool palms; The alders faintly murmur, and the breeze Sucks sweetness from the valms, Here fine fir noedies meet and laco above, Aud loops of gold stip through, And, trembling like a dreara of happy love, Drink all the drops of dew. Forgotten road, thy ruggel furrows tell How many & whoel bas presed — How many a foot beat like a ringing bell— Upon thy voiceless breast, The vines creop downward to thy very edge, As if thoy pitied thee, And loved somuch it were a privilego Lo rest, there silontly. Forgotten rond! full many a glad, young heart Has followed where thou lod; ] And thou hast horne full many'a one apart, Where sleep forgotten dead; Be lonely not; it is the fate of all— Of man and thing the lot; Their use outlived, tho mighty and the small Shall oao day be forgot. Yo, after many years, perchance som thought. May backward turn to theo; So, after man has passed, wrought Lives on i memory. the good he Ad." The following A Quaint Philadelphia Record quaint sdvortisement, which appeared in one of the city papers the other day, is at- tributed to génal “Tom™ Donaldson, ‘‘the man who beat Blaine,” as he is somotimes cailed in allusion to uis connection with the maasgement of the republican national paigu in 1554, and with the Burchard i deut, a title, by the way, in which Mr. D aldson takes no pleasures “To rent, N 871 Preston street; it is of no moment whother the tenant's erandfather assis John Hancock in the declaration— 3 must not be too good—a plebeian tenant pro- forred. Patricians seldom, if ever, pay vent without a legal skirmish: no boarders to bo taken; the highest uualification roquisite will be evidonco of capacity to lay twenty- ewht beans o shekels per month in advauco in the nand of the gontlemanly collector,” om Foggy Bottom. Washington Post: Maybo dar_is sech a ting ez luck, an’ maybe dur ain’t, but yoh kin feol sarting dat fish ain’ gwine ter bite un- less yoh keep yon line in de watab. Lifo am mos'ly divided between wishin’ ‘tould rain an” wishin’ 'twould cl'ar off De man kin larf b'ahity hez pooty good life insurance, Whuts pas' wm gone. Yoh kin put doe copper 1n the slot pn’ git chewin’ gum, but you kaint put in de gum au’ getde copper back When or mau stops and thinks ob what ho wasu’t afore he was born and what ho won't be after he's gone, ho feels like er mighty suwall figger, ono betwix' two mighty big aughts. Philosophy F Turning His Collar, Washington Post. The poet gay will turn his lay And beud himself to rhymo To colebrate in fitting way The merey summer time, But as he sings the wavioe leat, * And sees his versoes sprout, He deftly tucks his handkerchief To hold his collar out. Imparting Information. Now Yovk Recorder: Willio-Papa, what does o real fino corn palace cost Willie's papa (with new patent leathers ou) —Twelve dollars a pair, my son, The Only Place —Now York Horald: ars. Trotter (reading) “To lot—A cotyage, ten rooms, all modern {mprovements; mountains rising in the rear; lawn sloping to @ crystal lake; weather al: Ways cool; no mosquitoes; no malaria; reut 10 per month, Apply to" Mr. Trotter (wearily) —§ gate. aint Peter at the A Clincher. . Jowelers' Weekly : Rov. Blowhard Blucher (colorec denouncing the extravagances of his cougregation): I tells yo', brederin an’ sistern, jowelry bad its ofigln 'mong sav- agos.” Deacon Sharp ({uterrupting) : pahdon, Brudder Blucher, Iriginate yer own se'f(" A Delicate Way. Now York Herald: ““There's alotter in the Gazette this morning, Bronson, advocat- \ug your nomination for governor." “itoally | I wonder who wrote it?" “Well, it's wy opinion, Bronson, that if you treated 1ts writer 10 & cocktall you'd Qrink alone.” 1 bog yor but whar yo' THE WATER WORKS FRANCHISE Ignominious Defeat of Holly in His Attempt to Beours It ROUTING OF HI3 COUNCILMANIC TOOLS. 1y and and A Lively Struggle for Econo Justice of Other Days Those Who Figured in It Tie Bren of a fow days ago referred to the great engine which has recently boen piaced in the waterworks plant at Florence. The machino is considered one of the most pow erful of its kind in the country, and is a mar- vol of engineering and mechanical skill. Few people, howoy ook upon the mary 1'in_any mindod of tho kreat fight of which it was indirectly tho outcome, because of the thousands who visit it the great majority are those who camo to this city afier the great waterworks fight bad beon almost forgotten. It was in the summer of 1579 that Omaha took strong hold of tho question of estab- lishing waterworks. Previously tothat time she had been receiving her watér from wells., No objection was made to the liquid, how- ever, becauso 1t was as cloar as crvstal, There was a decided lack of supply, however, for fire purposes and the destruction of the Grand Central hotel impelied the citizens to attompt to remedy the defect. There was @ quostion, however, ns to whether tho water of the Missouri could be clearified for drinking purposes but that was answered pretty satis- factorily by the ofticers of tho smelting works and tho experts whoso opinions were sought at the timo, On July 8, 1570, The council recieved a proposition from S. L. Wiley & Co., to ercct water works with a capacity of mot less than 4,000,000 gallons every tweaty-four hours and, with storage basins with a pacity of not less than 2,000,000 gallons. Tho city was to have tho right to purchase the works at the expiration of ton years for £00,000, and hydrants when the number exceoded 275 were to cost §75 apieco. On Tuesday, July 22, a proposition was re- ceived from the Holly' manufacturing com- pany of Lockport, N. Y. They guaranteed to furnish 4,000,000 gallons “of ~ water daily, and requested the exclusive frauchise for twenty-five years with oqual _rights with all companics thereafter to build and maintain works in the city, The vental of fivo hydrants was to be the samo as that pro- posed by Wiley although tho schedule for privato consumption was to be shghtly lower than that of the first proposition. it was patent that the Holly bid had boen held out until after Witey had presented his and then been made so as to ocut into some of the figures offered by that party. His plan, however, differed from that puss away until gffer tho matter had been re forred “in the _courts, Corrupt schomes wora dovised to induce the council to favor the -Holly proposition and the most intense excftbment provailed when Tur Bre openly charged the Holly repro- sentatives with attemptat bribory, ~ It gave notice to Cushing to'leave the city under ponalty of being _prosecuted and also served notice on his, mssociates of its do- termination to fight ring manipulation and the press in the courts to the bitter ond. In the great fight Tng Bee was alone, the Horald, Republican''and Nows belng Holly. ' The agitation Hnd become so gener and the fecling of resontment against tho Holly trickery so pronouncod that it was de- cided to have the matter publicly discussed in the court house. F¥om a seloction of old apers the following cull hus been oxtracted t iteresting documont and a memonto ively times and is hero roproduced, 1 of the signers are still residents of Omaha, though several of them are dead. Among the latter are James K. Ish, F. Lang, 0. F. Davis, Thomas Keanedy, M. A. Me mara, O, W. Homan, Webstor Snyder, A. iickshank, C. H. Dowey and George M. O'Brien, The meeting was held ed chairman, B, Rosewater spoke, criticising both propositic Other specclies were mado. by Councilman Hascall, A.J, Hanscom, C. V, llagher and several others, and in some of them were contained exprossions of feeling wmore bitter than polite. Tho meeting ad- journed at 11 o'clock by tho adoption of the following Resoly mnss moeting to and_ fnstruct tract with nny cof dooes not contemplad of settling and supply Teast 6,000,000 gatlons. On Tuesday, August 19, Councilman Has- weall, under_a suspension of the rules, intro- duced tho Holly ordinance, Mossts. Rodman, Hascall, Kauffman, Slavin, Shannon aud Ricpen voting for the suspension aud Messrs, Kennard and Dodge against it. The ordi- nance was read a first and second time and referred to the committoe on sewerage and to roport on the following Thursday night Councilman Labaugh favored tho Holly system, but doprecated haste, On August 21 Mr, E. Rosewator swore out a warrant_for tho arrest of Dr. Cushing, charging him with attempted bribory of some councilmen, amoug them Hascall and Redman, as also some oflicers of the city government. Cushing was arrested about 5 ovlock and gave &00 bonds for his appearance on tho uext day. Cushing was di gea” on technical grounds but tho testimony showed that certain coun- cilmen expected their sharo of tho swag. On Monday, August 35, the ordinanco came upin tho council and notwithstanding the remonstrance of 1,500 taxpayers was passed, Councilmen Dodge, Keunard, Dailey and Stephonson voting no, their protests not being allowed upon the record. On Wednesday, August 27, tho council held a special mecting and the mayor., C. S, Chase, vetoed the Holly ordinauce, and the lattor was passed over the voto by tho voto which had vassed it originally. On Thurs- day, the 20th, the citizens helda rousing meoting and endorsed the mayor's veto. “Tho gordinauce passed in favor of Holly Hon. G. W. Doane . That the eltizens of Omaha, ubled, heroby recomns the cotneil to make no con- any for waterworks that wnd guarantee nsystem eservolrs holding at i, ..-——_;/'", TIE WARTERWORKS MEETING CALL. pressure from the pumps and without refor- ence to gravitation from reservoirs or set- tling basins. The proposition of the Holly people was made by the general western agent, James T. Cushing, a gentie- man who, before abandoning the city for good, came to the conclugion that the people of Omaha were not to be gulled by a party whose ability in that line was groatly o estimated by himself. Bebind this® Holly proposition, ~ there was a pool of about a dozen men, Each of theso paid about 81,000, This sum of $I2,000 was to be paid as a starter, Cushini was to put in the machin ery and his company was to be paid for it by bonding it for what it was worth, Cushing maintaining that he would nego- tiate tho bonds. All that he wanted was a favorable contract, The income from tho fire hydrants would, 1t was claimed, not only meet the iutercst but leave a sinking fund to take up the bonds when they shovld fall due, while the water rents would more than pay running expenses. In order to get this contract the council was to be ‘“managed.’r If this contract had been entored Into it would also have quired tho mavipulation of the councils for the following twenty-five years, ‘Thursday, July 25, 1579, a special weeting of the council wis held and some_furtner as- surance was given by S. L. Wiley & Co., namely, that by either gravitation or direct pressuro thoy would be ablo to throw a stream of water on the roof of tho high school, Both propositious were discussed. Mr. Kennard opposed giving tho contract to a home company and allowing a frauchise for twenty-five years. He criticized Cushing for coming W’ at tho eleventh hour and fash- foning bis prny«\_flllun after that of Wiley had been made public, Mr. Redman thought postponements would be the moeans of saving money. Mr. James Creighton ~wanted propositions ta be returnea makers and then amended, pre- sented again @ the council, and the proposition most favorable to the people accepted. Dr. Cushing sald he had changed his mind regarding Missourl river water. He could not give thom clear water but he would filter itand do the best he could. He would to form a local stock company and open the stock books to everybody. A committee was appointed to visit the Holly works at Ottumwa aund Burllugton. Thon arose « storm which did both to the uot 1-SIXTE THE CURTAINS DO Mrs. McKeo-Ranitin is a royal entertaine r ‘va(mwi at tho Loudon theaters is very dull 1803 Roso Coghlan will sail July 1. Harry L for him Minnie Maddern Fiske has Roses'™ for the Vokes company. Janauschek belioves that “‘Harvest Moon' will be a big success next season Sol Smith Russell has been visiting Joseph Jofforson at Buzzard's Bay, Mass Thero will be no less than 125 farce comedy companies in tho fleld next season London has forty-two licensed theatres; Now York has thirty-two and Clicago nine: teon Clara Morris has writton drama for the July number of tue American Reviow. Fay Templeton sailed for F'ranco last woolk, vozistored on tho stoamship as “*Miss Vano,'’ Sho says she will rotura Carotine Hill (Mrs. Herbert Kelcoy) ro- turns to England this week, She America, and says Amorican womon ¢ cloun, The announcement that this or that uctress will star next scason is bocoming tirosome, No doubt many of theso stars will suffer celipse, and quito early, too, Henry B. Dixey will noxt season entertainmant consisting of thr a melo-drama by Clay Greene, a p and the last act of *Tho Sevon Agos Tho rumor is that abig circus doal {3 on the ng to a salo of one-third part of the Sells B Y show toJohn A, I paugh, a nophow, aud Adam Forepaugh, a son of the late Adim Forepaugh The fundraed s for George S. Kuight will s00n ¢ ised. ‘The once favorite now forty years old, is little better than an imbecilo. “Thero is' talk of giving him an- other venefit in this city. The estato of the late Lawrenco Barrett has boon inventoriod by the exocutors. 1t is valued at £221,000. In a letter to his wife the tragedian bequeathed his Cassius armor and sword to the Player's club of New York. One serious play alone_survives the at- tack of warm weather in Now York. It is “Tho Merchant” at the Madison Square, and its prolonged cavecr descrves note, becauso there Las boen no undue forcing of tho play. Boston is going to_be very much fin de siocle with a ‘Theatre Libre. One of Tol- stor's gloomy horrors 18 to bo brought out in it, and probably a ody by Concourts, without a plot and without even distinct acts, This is whero somo of the actors will sum- mer: Dora Wiley, at Portland, Me.; Felix Morris, at Oconomowoc, Wis.: Annio Lowis, at Wilshington; Ada Meiroso, at Asbury Parl; Edwin Booth, at Nowport: Agnes Villa, at Ridgewood, N. J. People aro rather doubtful about the inter- ior of the now opera house being as hand- somo as it has been reprosented. There shouldn’t bo any doubt atall, for alrcady enough is done to_indicate that it will bo ono of the handsomest theaters in Amorica. Thatehor's minstrels will closo the season in this city and will immediatoly begin the rehearsal of “Tuxedo,” with which thoy will open the new National thoater m Phil- adelphia in the fall. Tho company will re- main in Omaha until their eastern engago- ment. By Houry Trving's special desire, his son Henry will commonce his theatrical caroer under John Hare, the lessee, manager and leading actor of 'Garrick’s theatre. Young Henry Irving will make his debut at that theatre during tho comiug scason as Lord Beaufoy in tho “School for Seandal.” Miss Pearl will star next season in a_ new written for England on is having a new play written writton *“Tho an article on the North give an hort vlays (tomime d an extensive wardrobo 'from will open on September tour prior to a metropo- also secur Paris, The season 7fora six weeks' litan opening. Not being able to secure a suitable attrac or the opening of Boyd’s new theater om Boyd has about concluded to post- pone the openingg until Wednesday,September 5, when tho Madison Square theator com- pany will appear in Gus Thomas’ pronounced success, “Alabama.” No stronger opening picce could be secured than this story of the south before the war. G r"“f?/)/—M 7 - bound Omaha to pay over §19,000 a vear | for twenty-five years for fire hydrauts at the rate of 80 a year, when tho same company offered to’ furnish a smaller number to St. Joseph, Mo., for §30 a year, and when Norman, another water man, made as low an offor to this city. No busis was established for assessing the works if it should bo decided to purchase them and no limit was placed upon tho value of the franchise, Under such a contract the Holly people couid pay 1or the works in fn ygars and then sell them to the city for 81,000,000, The morning after thy passage of the ordi- nance twenty-five leading citizens signed an agreement to fight the-matter in the courts. Among them wers' E. Rosewater, William ' A, Paxtot, ' James Bovd, Byron Reed, James K. Ish, Hell* man, James M. Woolworth, (. H. Collins, . J. Poppleton, Fyl €. Morgan, O. C! Campbell, W. W. Atrsh, C. B.' Rustin, Lewis Brash, Messors, Stevens & Wilcox, Milton Rogers, E. O:McShane and Clark Woodman, _ As a consequence an fnjunction was sought in tho district coutt, presided over at that tme by the late Judge Savage: Meossrs, Howo and Mrano aud Adams & Simeral appearing {of' the plaiutiffs, and Judgo Walkoley,J. C. Cdywin and E, Pritcheut, represonting the defeadants Tho case was ably arcued by counsel Saturday, September 6, and on the tho judge granted an injunction a tho same ume that the ordinance was valid By this time the Holly people had strewn the streots with water bipe, which lay there during tho winter. Tho spring returned in | 1880, and at the election the Holly crowd was ropudiated and the swindlo forever knocked in the head. ‘Thus died Holly in Omaha, and their pipes were carted elsewnere, on ——e Easy Enough to Boston Transcript: Aunt Kate ing little Edith a fairy story, prince figured “But how did they know he was & prince!' asked Edith. “On, that was easy enough," | Uncle George. *He probably had in which a broke in baccarat The proporty man of the Grand opera house in Poiladeiphia recently sold an old violin to the proverty man of the Liliputian opera company for $1.50. It now turns out that the violin is a real Stradivarius and easily worth £,000. Although 170 years old it is well pre- sorved, The present owner, Mr. Charles T, Rosenfield, director of tho 'Liliputian opera company, bought it for 8150, Tho United States aro to be treated toa genuine novelty. The Russian composer Tscharkowsky has made arrangements to take a full Russian choir to the United States next season. He will probably oven his sea- son in New York, and should venturo ‘meet with financial success, he will tako tho choir on a prolonged tour, ' visiting all the prineipal cities of the union. A similar ex- periment in Loudou & few years sinco was a dismal failure. “The Herald at Quincy, [1l, has a local re- porter who *let himself’ loose” on Miss Tom- finson’s piano recital the other might. Ac- cording to his report *she wore n whito ala- baster costume.” Further, “sio is persoually a most pleasant young woman, and can sing away up sud away down and 'trill across the score like a veteran in the vocalistic causo. She sings without apparent effort and sings naturally. That's a charm nowadays, when s0 many, women sing after the manuer of the hurdy-gardy whose music is ground out bo- tween a perforated sheot and a cylinder full s and nails and spikes,” Eilen Terry thus_describes the symptoms of stage fright: “You suddenly foel as if your tongue had become dislocated and was iying powerless in your mouth. Cold shivers begio to creep downward from the nape of your neck and all up you at tho samo timo, until they seem to meet 1o the small of your back. About this time you feol as if a centi- pede, all of whose feet had been carefuily iced, had bogun to ruu about the roots of your hair. Your next agreeable scusation is the breaking out of a cold parspiration all over you, ‘Fhen you feol as though some- body had cut the muscles at the back of your kuees; your mouth begins slowly to open without © giving utterance to a single sound, and your oyes seem_inclined to jump out of your head over the footlights. At this period'isis us well to get off the stage s Quickly as possiblo; you are far boyond the hope of any human belp,” The Musicial Courier mentions the follow- ing American singers now meeting with su cess in Burope: Emma Albani, Kate Rolla, Miss Emma Eames, Miss Sybil Sanderson and Miss Zelio do Lussan, at the Covent Gur den opera house, London; Miss Lucille Hill, Messrs, ugene Oudin and Avon Saxon, at tho Royal ISnglish overa house; Mrs. Ivan Caryll (Geraldine Ulmor), Miss Marie Hal- ton, Messes, Scovel, RRoss, David und Hay- den Coftin, at the' Lyric theater, Among those singing in various concerts: Nordic Miss Marguerite Hall, Ella Russell, Julia Valda, Miss Hopo Glenn, Katherine Van Aruhem, Antoinetto Sterling, Kigita, Mrs. Pemberton-Hincks, Mrs, Bluuche Stone-Bar- ton, Mrs. Corinue Moore-Lawson, Miss Estoy, Dotti, Valer, Miss Lucillo Saun- dors, Mrs. Bello Cole, Messrs. Orlando Har- inrich, while those in various parts of Europe are Adny, Miss Lillian San- derson, Miss Mario Van Zandt, Miss Mar- garet Iteid, Miss Tracy, Heleno Hastreiter, Maude Starkweather, Miss Risloy, Kate Bensberg, Even Mounet-Sully has yielded at last to temptation of the American doilar and is coming over to play in this country next year. He will then have been twenty years asocietaire of the Comedie Francaise and wiil be entitiod to retire, und it is natural enough that he should wish to follow the ex amplo of 80 many of s associates while he 15 still young, Of all the present actors of the French classic drama thera is nouo moro Jikely to interest us, nlthough itis bard to prediot just what impression bis intensely romantic style aud impassioned delive have upon the average Americau audience. Even In Paris they find him sometimes rather frenzied, and to seo and bhear him in oue of the herole rolos of Corneille or Racine will be an experience quite novel to- most of our play-goers. 1f he play Hamlet here, as is quite likely, we shall haveall the old questions of Hamlet's samty reopened, but wo shall see a romantio young prince who will interest and charm us in o way that not muny Hamlets have dono before, The real delight would be to see him play with M dame Bernhardt, but that may be asing Loo much of Abbey and (rau, - - Sulpho-Saline isa mild laxative, an appe- tizing drink, a naf®ral mineral water, boutled | counters in bis pocket.” at Excelsior Spriags, Mo. Edwin Booth says ho hopes to act again in | Drs. Betts & Betts Physicans, Surgeons and Specialists, OMAHA. 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