Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 5, 1892, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE e ————————————————————————————————————————————————— e et e GRAND ARNY DEPARTMEN Notes from a Private Diary on the Siege of Vicksburg, LAST WEEKS OF THE UNION SIEGE Bullding Barthworks to With That Did Not Exist $ines Wi « Th nd Artillery pd Counte Flag and the t Followed, Tho nssnult on Vicksburg took place on May 10 and 22, 1863, and on the night of the 24th the siege operatic earnest. The ofY teers failed to grasp t first. Wo withstand heavy private in the New Yor ting that we had cap General Pemberton's the battles before he hind the works surrounding Vicksb although tho t oven the * closecnough to view th There »s of artillery uscd against us in those day Although the night of 1y 25 was hardly d cnough to , with a heavy line of pickets in advance to fire in the divection of a powdor fl ing toward us, we marched beyo line of artillery, nrmed only and shovels, We w and men who had lain around carclessiy one year before at Shiloh, with no works and an enemy in frort. We now realized fully ‘pleasant’ it just to have alittle 1’ to get L hind. We were formed in perfeet lir and th detail allotted 80 much to do, the very low tone ns the cnemy’s line of works could be dimly seen. There wi no hesitating or hurry to see who would throw up the first shovelful, butal gan togother, every shovellul goin Between the man and that complote range of mouvntains. One shovel fol- lowed cach pick, and, « we were un molested, we soon felt quite easy, even becoming jocular, Suddenly a cloud that had hidden the moon passed away, and ‘‘pop! pop! “hist! hist!” came the rifle bullets among us. There was no order given, no running, but everybody dropped, and each vied with the other to sce who could hug the ground the closest. "I'he chango was sudden and complote, and as the firing censed in ashort time we soon rolled over on our backs and watched for another cloud to cover up the moon. In the meantime we kept up a whispered conversation, a kind of tel- egraph, and learned that none of our detail had been hit by o bullet, though two or three had nearly pinioned the selves on tho point or handle of o pick We iy so close to the grouna and everything was so quictt the next cloud covered the moon the confederates must have rotived, for we were at work again and not molested to any extent by their throwing lead at us, It seems strange, but it is nevertheless true, that in the short time the moon was shining brizhtiy on us and the low conv tion in progress there w men who actually went to sleep and gnoved, though not worn out by hard work, and only a few minutes beforeall had been excitement. This g chance for amusement, for soon dozen shovels were pluced so as to fall easily, but together, at a signal, com- bined with twenty handsful of dirt, on the sleeper. imagine that bundle blue cursing until the air_was blue, and the luughter and_ pretended sympathy. “Aro you hurt, Tom?” *“How did you get hit?” *‘There was no gun fired.”” We dug our trench three feet wide and two feev deep, connecting with the next detail, and 50 on, until it dayhght ar as we could see the right and left was o iine of fresh earth. The pioscer corps during the day felled trees, cut them to proper lenzths, and brought them to convenient points, so that the following night we rolled them to the trench, stood them on end in the excu vation, braced them up and then jumped over the pile of dirt and shoveled it against them from the confederate side, at the sume time digging a ditch and throwing that 'th on top. On the inside of this line of works, which was built principally on ridges, the ground was leveled off, the works lined up with cane hrought from noar-by canebrukes, o prevent the wud sifting through, and a step built and braced up. A log one foot-1n diameter was then placed on top of the works and the ground levelad thavit iy soug. As a solaier stood behind the works thoy were higher than hiz head, and when on the step the log protected his head. Now, by taking @ piece of eane and running it under the log a few times you could put your gun through and sight as long as necessary with comparatively littlo danger, as the con- s began in e and engi- e at to build works to writes o , forget of union s sit intion oceoded ordinance Ti ed field almost all artillery position *mule whackers,”” who came troops of were only oneor two picc sh co 1 . how wis wits just federate ball ‘must come through that | small hole to injure anybody., Almost every man hit~ during the siege was mortally wounded, as it was above the chest, The confederates could not place o on their works, ns our artil knock it off, so they resor ent devices, one of which w hole through their works, spouting to support the earth, and five through it. Every morning our first duty was to look for some new tricl, and when a ball came too close it was followed until it hit, and its course studied until it was pretty well settied about where *he” wus. Thea there were soon [ifty union men after that one confederate. We lethim alone, watehed for the smoke of his gun,and finally located him, By shifting around from place to place wo finally got so we could see through that hole, when nobody was behind ity but when it darkened the next time there were fifty bullets put into that hole. That casemate was plugged, and probably the man. There were o few instunces where we failed to do the work, and when we did give it up and pownted out the objection- able sharpshooter to the artillery the bole was unceremoniously closed, and the punner would ask if we hud any more. - i One morning, as it began to get light, the onemy’s works in our immodiate front looked so much higher thun usual that socu everybody was up and out to see, and ingenious opinions were offered a8 Lo what the confederates had done during the night. Oflicers were duly notified. [tsoon developed that some admirer of Now Orleans Jackson had conceived the brilliant idea of lining the top of their works with cotton bales. We infantrymen were *'not in it” this time, but the artillery had it all their own way—one percussion shell to each bale, up in the air it went, and then there was a f.ll of cotton that looked liko snow. It was fun for s the whole army was out. The artilery from the adjoining divisions sent a fow flanking shells ove:, and every snow storm brought a cheer from us to the men who had worked all night for our edification. Uncle Sam and the stay-at- bome taxpayer *puid the freight.” “This main line of works wus buily for log y would 1 to diffe o bore a uso tin 18 sre the same officers | order being given in a | hat by the time | of | hoth artillery and fnfantry At regu- Inr and the hest positions wore situated | the batteries, of which our division had | throe, one of them boing a thirty-pound | rifled Parrott, and they could bo fired almost ns urately ns our muskets, Major Taylor, chief of artillery on Gen- ernl Sherman’s staff, used to como | around every few days, morning or evening, thus eseaping the mid-day heat, and have a littleartillery practice We nlways turned outin force to look | &n, to see where tho shell nit, and when the order was given to “five” generally | looked over the log, The confederntes | adopted for a short time a style of mass- | ing nbout fifty m d pouring a volley into the embrasure, the object being to hit somebody by chanee. In order for them to do this they had | to expose themselves, Tosay the least, it was irnitati nd we felt that it 1w stopped The batteries gener- ally took turns in this practice; there- fo ore were two resting. These were Jonded with “fuse’ shell, perhaps 200 rifles were pushed under the log, and as the order to “fire” given to the practice battery we took the same order and sent over « wagon load of lead to that massed troop. 1tinvariably silenced that little band. | I'here was a V-shaped fort in our im- medinte front, and Major Taylor de- cided one morning whal was in The Parrott battery opzned on it and literally tore the point out, so that the o could t It was simply a higher pile of mud—nothing in it | and would have been asplendid place to sweep our lines with artillery had thoy had any to use. One sergeant that morning showed his Yankee ingenuity in sighting his picco by making o wooden wedgre and driving it under the breech with wagon hammer, as the | serew that was made for the purpose had been broken by tho recoil of the gun early in the practice. During tho forty days sicge each battery along the entire line was required to throw ashell every half hour into tho confederate lines night aud day. One morni { o'clock there was o terviticartillery practice, and we ceased work and sleep to iearn why. We soon wered all about it, We were ors- deved to get ready for an assiuit if this stillery fiving had any effect on the confederate wroops, our lookouts to be the judge: I'rom all they could see it dia not distweb anybody behind thut big | pile o earth. 'To us” tho display was magniticen ong us it was dark, ticulurly the fuse shell, as we were be- hind it and could the fuse burning | as itsped forward on its errand of de- | struction. When it burst there was no | | harmless lot of stars to full, as in fir | works, but every piece moint maim ing or ‘death to whomsoever it | hit. A shell lired into the confederate works was wasted, as it oaly made a hole to bo filled up again from the in- side, but if it burst about on a level with | the enemy’s works the picces scattered | and might hit somebody, the pieces con- tinuing forward, or in the dircction the shell was fived, nover going backward. Another benutiful display we had were the mortar shells fired from the | Mississippi river hoats These were | imu in size, and at night we watched them as they rose higheg and higher in the aiw, every revolution showing the tiny fuse burning, and finally bursting away up ever so high, and there was a cloud of fire spreading | outand finally disappearing. After it | had disappearcd we could heur the noise | of the explosion, and some minuates after wo could hear the second explo- | sion, which came from the mortar from which the shell was fired. A confeder- ate told the writerafterwards thatif the shell did not explode, but fell, it sank into the ground decp enough to form a | well. These shells were fired intention- | ally with such heavy force as to pass en- | tirely over the city of Vieksburg and burst between thoe eity and the confeder- ate line of works in =our fronta Many | burst prematurely and wrecked houses. | The confederate camps were caves close | to their lines of works, and compa | tively few were hurt in_proportion to the amount of lead and iron thrown at thom. | The main line of works being com | pleted our enginecrs next laid out | innumerablo lines of *saps,” and tl were dug so ns to communicate with each other and were as intiicate as the | streets of Boston. An o-derly could carry dispatches from the division on the right to the one on the left without being exposed und any man who was surprised by tho close cail of n bullet was requircd to report the sume and it was remodicd, These saps led directly to our hittle picket forts which were in hailing distance of the confederate lines, and muny talss we had with the latter until stopped by positive orders. Many men would have shaken hands could they have reached ueross the works. There were regiments on | opposing sides recruited in the neighborheod. Our picket duty was very severe as it was for twenty-four hours and we wer | required to keep up an ince | lade in the direction of the orks d and night. Our shoulders ould ache from the “kicking™ of t muskc 1 besides we could not the use of firing at nothing. But | tary ordors aro milivary orders must be oboyed. These little forts were or bick so that we could plainly L our line aad if driven out held by the enemy. The duty in these t forts beeame monotonous to such a degree that it was unusual to see commissioned officer inthem. A ser | geant was considered suflicient and he | Simply calied on the different corporals to bring his detail to the front and then | the noncommissioned officer knew full | well he had got to fire or his detail | would not. That western army was a | peculiar one und an ofticer had 1o be one | of the boys or resign. | We were on duty thero evory day, one day in the picket forts and the next | in the works, Ior the purpose of min- ing oursaps, after passing the picket | forts, were very close to the encmy’s works, in fact, in plain view, but the were 5o closely watehed thal if a cor federate looked over his works to see whut wo were doing he was lucky if he lived o try 1t again, Suflicient know!- o hud been obtained, however, for the confederates to make un 1-fashioned | V-shaped evesiwough of two boards, | strongly cplaced togethor. ~This it pushed over their works and pointe: | toward our open sap. Next tney placed a fuse shell at their end of the'trough, | lighted the fuse and let iv roll into our sap, where it exploded; but we were warned, and uo one wus hurt. ‘They cheered, and we ‘“tigered.” | We ceased worlk, retired to our store | ficlds, built & gubion ten fectiong by three, carvied it to a safe distance, and | at night pluced it on end near the point of our sap, fillad it with earth, and then upset it in front of our excavation, It looked like n huge boiler, and it was nonexplosive, but put a stop to explo- sives, us wo only had to roll it ahead and work behind it. They rolled a few shells at it, we cheered, and they threw | the useless trough into the moat. Qne morning, after working since mideight, and volling our gabionaheud, | wo found just out of rench & peach tree with four ripo peaches, We wanted them. but =it wis sure death | get them. Even a hand wonla been shot off. A Michigan lieutenant, having charge that night, came out to 8ee how the work nad progressed. He also discovered the fruit and it made was insi seen. W soo confederate mili- and i n at tho s soen by coutd not be [E | left sume | it fusil- | him hungry. [Te disappeared and soon roturncd with two cana poles Fitting the small ono into tho larger he took off hiis boot, fastenad the strap 1nito the end of the pole, reached out under a peach and pullea it off, the peach drop ping into the boot. The peachos were soon in the licutenant’s nossession, nnd we all had a taste of the fruit, but the boot was nlmost useless. During all this time wero not neglected. On the vidge wa leveled it made berths of cano mate with hark, and fitted into forks driven into the ground. They were as comfortable and cool as a spring bed Four men to a_cot, a8 two wero always \y on duty, left two rubber blankets protection from rain or sun, while th other two were for actunl duty on the line. Food wns bountiful, more than we could eat, and wasted, burned, except colfea, which aceumulated until we had bugs of it. Wo were on duty every other night, in fact, two hours on and four off almost all the tine, yet with this continuous artillery and” musket firing, day and night, we slept and ate well, and there was havdly such o thing as a sick call We didn’t have time, and, with the ex- coption of now and then a little “growl, there never was a healthier or happier army in existence in the latter part of June we began to mine under the V fort in our front, and by the fourth day we dissovered by the sound that the confederates had antici- pated our scheme and were min 10 blow up our mine. It w race. We mined just fast enough to keepuhead, as wo could hear their picks and thus tell where they w We were told by the usual “‘grapovine telegraph” tha the mine would be exploded and an as- t made on July 5, and on the evening of July £ we littlethought of any change until that assault should be mude. Oa tho morning of July 3, soon as it was light enough to discorn objects any distance, we were greatly surprised to see a number of small white flags dis« played along the works in our fr. Firing immediately ceased, except General Osterhaus’ front. He was on our right und b ven notice that he would not r mize o truce ; from General Pemberton on of o truce violation by the confederates eurly in the Vickshurg si men who wero siceping awoke, and soon the en- tire Yankee army was looking over tho logs instead of under them. Soon the confederates were doing the same, and s time passed both sides became more contident, and in an hour were all cithor standing or sitting on top of our respective works looking at each oth and the men in the picket fo:ts wer talking to the previous night’s enemies. Hundreds of men left the main line and went to the picket lines to talk, and by 9 o’clock some of the confederates from Mizsouri had foand old friends in our ranks, wera invited over, accepted, and were soon in our camps gorg- ing themselves with food. On their return they took all they could carry. In othier words, the two armies, noncommissioned officers and ivates, fraternized and were shaking hands, eating and taiking of the siege as happily and friendly as if old friends. By noon orders were given to put o stop 1o this and it was done to a certain c. tent, but there was not a confederate who' slept that night on an empty stomach, July 4 was a bright, beautiful morn- ing. and about 9 o’clock the confederate regiments marched out between tha lines, stacked their arms, unbuckled their cartridge boxes, and hung them on the bayonelsof their guns, “about faced,” and marched away from the guns that had held us there so long. One would naturally think we were happy, and we were, but at the same time there was not an exultant cheer given as those brave men left the guns dnd their alone. The only choer given that day was when General Grant and stafl rode over the surrenldered ling of works, he rest of the story is well known, Grant paroled all the prisoners, and as fust as they signed they wero at liberty to go where they pleased. The after- noon of the 4th of July was devoted to inspecting the works we had fired at for s0 many duys. We did not wonder much why we could not take them. By dark we were again in our quarters to cook and rest, as we were to march immedi- ately against General Johnston, without oven heing ailowed tosce the city of chsburg. our quarters the sides cf into galler poles sewed into for n HE ILAD THIRTEEN WIVES, A Matrimonial Bad Man Bed Advice A strangor about 40 veass old mitted suicide in a boarding nouss in Los Angeles, Cal., a few daysago. He remarkable letter in which he said that he was a member of one of the sgest and most prominent families of this county. whoss ancestors came rrom Jamestown. After confessing to having committed murder, the writer say: “During w period of about twenty-one years I have beer married to thirteen different women, In every case, except the first, mv sole motive was to secure money. not love or affection. three children by the first and one all the rest except three. Ono of the women to whom I've been married haa $300,000 in her own right, three others had from $150,000 to #200,000 and none of the others was worth less than $10,000, My rule generally was tolive with my wife unul I got the money in my control and then | was off for new ficlds ives Some Death \ e | to win another fair bride, I always had plenty of money and went in ihe best of style, and only operated in and among the aristocracy of the country. In this sphere my vain and giddy vietims were easily captured, and it wus often a case of ‘love at first sight’ with them. 1 have some hesita tion about leaving a statement, but for se al reasons | e decided to do so. *1tirst, thoss ound me, of course, know nothing of my intentions and ure perfectly innocent” of what I am about to do, nnd this statement will relieve them of any suspicion. cond. It may ben warning to somo | good women, who are too often ready to reccive and entertain strange men of whom they know nothing more that they wear a silk hat, display o lot of diamonds and toy with a gold-headed cane. Boeware of this class, *1'hird, If these would-be detectives and oflicers of the law will pay more at tention to the eluss of men whom I warn | the women ugainst, 1 can assure them to try to | have | that they will succeed in their business better. 1 have often seen n poor, dirty und ragged tramp dragged to juil, whoso only offense wus 10 begr o quacter or a dime to buy & much-nceded meul, while perhaps half a dozen of the worst crimi- nals in %he countey, like myscll, were lookers on, but in the guise of gentle- men whom Mr, Ofticer would scarcely dare to look at, much less attempt to grrest.” BUNDSCOU“ 1ES, SCHOOL DISTRICTS, WATER COMPANIES, ST.R.R.COMPANIES,cic Correspondence solicited. N.W.HARRIS & COMPANY ,Bankers, 163+-165 Dearborn Btreet, CHICAGCO. 15 Wall Street, NEW YORK. 70 6tate 51, BOSTON, SVANTER., regimental colors stunding | m- 1 huve | by | than | THE SPECULATIVE WARKETS Compar tations Olosed Lower Yesterd QUITE FREE LIQUIDATION IN There Was & the Clo: Considerable me Realizing Resulting in Activity Stocksand Bonds, In Pork Decl n Some small ¢ quotations Cnreaao, Tl Dec. 3 knockod off the leading Cha Compared with Jast closed ye lower. Corn lost ' Whe it receipts in the liveral, 1074 cars, and the heavy exports, 458400 bu. fr consts during tho week, against 346 the previous week, had o tendency tho selling. Fluctuations wero w ra Corn holders showed couragement, | The receipts were @) cars mate, and 83 gradod contract. The west was favorable for marketing, was at the lowest pofat for the | Ontswas heavy and declined sh fluenced by the froe liquidation of 1 ana tho woaknoss 0. Final pr tha lowest, quotations Neison Morrls was 4 buyerof w ¢ able quantity of pork and lard du 1t hour of the session. On th there was come el red down 1 e bele S off un for M i outs, 30 ca pors ables wero ¢ there was free lig in ¢ und were i 45,000 1y The loading fu CTICLES. 1 as follo TG | oW WiEAT No 1her May Cons N Decombier Juniary May OATS N3 Jecomber Lnnary | Poiid | ambor. .. Janu May Ly Decemb Jnnuary May SHOIT RIS January May . i Cash quotations were s follows: FLovie-We winter: patents, & winter straits, 8.2@349; spring pate | @110 sprive Seraits, § WiteAT—No, 6264 2 sprinz. | 4 . 310514, INOTIY SEED- PHe, § Mese, por Dbla $1400; short ribs, es dry salted shoulders (hox short. cloar sides (hoxeds, 35028, 75. |~ Wiisky— Distiliers’ finished goods, | 8115, |~ Evoan—cutl durd YA 4%, The foilowing were the roc | ments today: 90, lard ,d5e; granulated, bei stan- 2ipts and ATTICLER. WECEIPTS. |8 Flour, bbls Wheat, bu . “orn, bu ... Onts, bu Itye. bu 19,00 144.0)) 01,000 00 3,09/ 05000 i{(h\'hAY od with Feiday Night Wheat Quota- northwest were again deal the under last . DECEMBER the past two dags has about recoverad the de- | iine of the enrly partof the week. Shippers and specnintors’ have shown & tendvncy to take Hoid, but the local demand has been so nrent And eastarn markets S0 uncertain that Their DUFohases hAYe Ot heen vory oxtensive o far, It anything cows aro welling rathor Detter than toward the close of last woek, ut 1y Fato decent cows are bringing very decont \res JUst b piose The stocker wnd feador trade hias been fa- Qifferout. For some ranson or other thy coun- try demand has heen very Hmited. fome say this 1s on account of the fnabllity of feeders to securo stock hows ow the cattle. The ast duy or two, he business pickad ap trifio, but on th f stockers nnd foeders pricesars from ¢ lower than & week or ten days ago, while thin rough stosk enttlo aro practically unmorehsntabie, Tho week elosed with only a falr rin of cat 1 tln. Oferings ineluded nll kinds of catt o but principally tho moner kinds There was wgood genaral demand and on the ceneral ran of stock prices ruled strong. On_ the best cattlo denlers could not come to Sitisfactory torms, but about evorything ol<e so'd in gool season. Common to fAlr 100 to 1i0-ib na Tives 8old at from &54) 0 $110, while fatr to | ImMporters and manu frs very good ol nt fron £.95 10 #.0), flour aacks, burlap Cow stuff sold stronz to adime higher than Ul Friduy. Recolpts were not excessive, and the demand wis Urisk, Extrome siles of paor to R00( CowS Wwere nt trom 1.0 to tho bulk at from $101 to $23) Quite n few bulls changed hands at fully Stoidy prices from from$130 to 8247 There w Clianze. in tho ealf niarkot, Good to chofen veuls sold ut 1 from 8,00 to $.00, with. common lurge calves Faotory 1 yoariings at from 8.2 to 2 Business was not very live.y wnd foeders. There Wwas perhiaps n s fhily improved country demand. but prices wero noLquotably advanced. AS usual there wis practically no outlet for common thin stock cattle. They could not moved nt any rico. Sales were ut from 8100 Lo €115, hut the bulk of the decent stuff sold at from $ 10 #2.05, OGS~ The weok's supply 0,000 e vier than last wook o Ay CORN AWNINGS AND TENTS, Omaha Tent-Awning | Wolf Bros. COMPANY o 1 r, Toward in COVERS AES. banners.o BAGS AND TWIN'S. Bemis Omaha Bag COMPPANY hipy wore today on t, wheat \ 18 Off 10, i pasmonts. 1 sy, But om both 15,000 b to check ithin BOOTS AND S40tS, Morse-Coe Shoe Company, of dis- uidation. estl- weather th and Douglas Stree a We nre making ¢ n stockers ALl D & "o close Kirkendall, Jones COMPANY. Whol KRubber Shoo ( HOL-100 Harney St Amer, arply, In- SHOE Co., Jecember nizht's and rubt 10 1 s been nbont hough nearly OMAHA Manufacturers’ and Jobbers’ Directory & Co., { Kin s, 16, Sond BI13Y0 LES, H. 0. Daxon, Hand-Sewed | ~ HARDWARE, e Rector & Wilhelmy | Lobeck & Linn, COMPANY hardwaro and Anles” tools, W4 Do Ty St Corner 10th and Jackso: HATS, W.A.L. Gibbon & Co, Wh LUMBER, A. Wakefied,| Charles R. Leo, ! AmoricunTort’ | Tiardwood lumber, wood Vit comont. Mwan ko i and Quiney oo \‘- kel walte i [ otn ana Do aktas LIQUORS, | MILLINERY, | Bk & Horet, |1 Ot 8 0, 1quor dealers John wnd tors Jobbers notions, Guipt, X1 Tarnam St 100 short of the recelpts for th oar. The market Bt but there has indortono and any break followed by a further advanc ably changed shipoinz and spe conl. S 18 cor demand OMPAFALIVOLY Douglas Sty while all loe s continuo fre all tinies Pricos for the week el higher than last week highor than w year ago, The hoss are tunni 1y evenly af present about 0 (bs. heay er than Tist month, and_ono year (I following table shows the averize welpht of hogs by months for tho past Six years correspon - has fluetu Loen i was quicklv considor- ring tho © rosult- ng, and COAL, COYE, Omaha Coal, Coke & LIME CO stroi Wt i hozs, buyers nt ws: DRY 6OGDS. Ty Ty o Harn Ury ottons, fur it MONTIIS. TR02. (1801 (1807 wor e any i ward Jnnuary Fobrunry FURNITURE, Tuly Augiiet i | 2 Septembor ¢ olatared Octobor 3 ire. | Uil Nove U Wholesate on Dee ——— e e __ GRICERIES, D. M. Stecie & Co., Blak 12 Jones St., Omahia Uphol th sts nmiber 14) Offorinzs were stizhtiy more Hberal th last Saturday. the gener.d quatity good. fully upto the averaze. Conditions favored tho sellers. There was no shipping or specuintive demind to speat of, hut with Ch quoted e higher all locul ‘buyers started out aft the hogs anda brisk. firm maret wis the sult. Gool to choleo buteher and heavy weight hozs sold Inrzely ot $100 to £5.95, with uon ORUCS, EV J 10t ana Harne 3.50@3.00; nts, 4 %) Omaha Omaha COANITE, fur FURNITURE CO Eagle Cornice Works Carpenter Paper Co. M. E. Smith & Co., Kitpatvick-Koch Dry ering | Beebee & Runyan [ , Bruce & Cof, | ¥ St PAPER, 01LS, Standard Oil Co., Honting OV:RALLS, ETC. King & Smead & S8 pants, vornlls, oto St st 1xle proase, ote. OYSTERS, David Cole & Co., W { ssale oystors. faney color ¥ SO Sy, t i PRODUCE COMMISSIDN, oA L | Branch & Co., das. A, Clark & Co., | Produce, trutts of an| B | hovse, oRES, i e, ST St Kinds, oystors, % STGVE REPAIRS. SASH, D1ORS, Omaha Stove Repair | M. A, Disbrow & Co., epatrs of stov st mouldings. 1 tee, 1200 and lzard 1207 1 WOODEN TIO Counetl Ch Be It resoived of Om the mayor concurri That, woo'len sidewalss bo o the eity of Omalia s desizaato | holow in tive days aftor the publication of thi ou, 0F the personil service thoreof ince is wuthorizel and sidewalks o be lud to t tho streets specitied horein, and structed of pine plank of such widt thicknessand b lald upon Jjoists ¢ atmensions and insuch manhor s seribed by the specifications on file office of the board of public works an 1ts supervision, tow West sid + of 25th & stde nddition No 2, present g West side of 25th avenuc, fot Frod Dollone’s nddition, prosent wide West side of 25th nvenue, 101S 108 7 Fred Dellone's addition, preseut wide. SIDEWALK —~CONSTRUC common to fair Hght and mixed hogs at from £5.80 10 5,85, Business was Lrisi from start to tinish and the pens were eloared by 11 o'clock, the bulk of the hozs solling at from £.85 to 85,00, azninst $5.75 10 & E v and $1.50 to urday List your 3 were no stivep re all RIS . Omala, N on the cor- | A o ved today. want some good air demind tor vl are quotably s hield over from 1 bunch of stochers z00d nutives, $45 @147 § 5204503 common and £00d 10 choleo 40 to nstrue . per 100 351570 grad 0@ sold for # 10 1 fuir to good wosterns, stoek sheep, $2.5571,50; el 0°1br Tambs, §1.00G@550. ship- | cnteaao, THE Bie, ) - Thore wis a vor tle, and they were all want day's prices, or ut an_advance of from oe to 10con Thuriaay's quotations, Sales wers on basis of fron $L00 to #323 for Inferlor to ex- trieorws, heifers and bulls, from 8L to 115 for stockers and foaders, nid from $30) to #5.0) for common Lo oxtri dressed beef and shippinz ram to Hixnt run of ent- 1 ut fully I enue, N T, grade, } rade, | Barioy. by Ou the Produce exehuy murket wns 18@ e, toduay th 203201 resh, 2 Omaha Produ The week cldsed dull e Markets. nd feature r the fi anything. Such buyers as ther ket hought very sparingly. hingto encourage deulers that the markets nre pretty weil el and that retail stocks must have heen ry materlally during the last ha week APiLES—Quotations at stock, $8.5064.00: cholc BANANAS —Quotations arc: Fuir shipping stock, £,00250 per buneh, BUTTER—A few salcs of choiee selo 0 to the retail trade at 1820, but of the recelpts tring ouly 1@iGe. butter is quoted ut -6e. CURANBERIRIES—Quotations cherry, b Cape Cod, 80,50, CELERY —Quotatio | “The ket wis | strictly fresh | ¢ chickons, $1.00%4.50; | 1023 ja Omah: 0 Tnney, $.00 are: B0@45. hot very rck; cold a | red " head | #%5: viue | teal, #1517 | weese, #0075 bits, squirrels, saadles, 150 decer ¢ #) mallard teal, * 82.00; wixed ducls, $1.50 11 geese, #1000 B0 : small rabbts, & antelope earcass vit—Per box, £5.00, Good white clove: 1s | . LeMONS—Messinas, choice, #5.50G0.01 | #6.0,@0.20. OYSTL Soe per ONIONS. Spanish, $1.1 ~Prices remain unchange: Juotations Ho! or crate. sent are g [ quotation I TOES “olor, Quotations Hon wnd Utal market 18 slow and factory. Turkeys are tho slowest | thing: they are quoted wt se; zec ¢ for dressed: drossod chiciens, se. SWEET POTATOEs—Choleo Museat I1inols stock. §1.7114.0) per bbl, TANGERINES—A few tanzerines h rived on the market and sold ab #5.0 or #4.50 per half box, VEAL—Quotutions_are: lurge and neavy, 3 aro: Small and LIVE STOCK MARKETS, How Receipts Compa ously Stendy—Hogs ) OMAIA, Doc. 8.—This Is the only tho country of any consoquencd t gain in receipts of wil kinas of stock over lust, Chicazo shows & decrease | hogs and'sheep. while Knnsas City bix decrease in hozs Under tio stances the flzures are a source of tion to all friends of this market, K Omaha have veen us follows: CMtle, 10,214 Cattle ach Hig o Recolpts the past week Iteceints weok provivus | 0 vipts for Nove | Recelpts e 11 months of 1501 Increase this year. ;.. 105, Tn the cattle market the past we ations have been few and unimportay matured cattle conbline 1o sell at i miun. butofferings of this c'ass cont cldgediy Hmitod, ‘The half fat und cattio continuo 1o seil very unovenly satistuctorily, but the lmprovement 'WOUR HEAL May depend upon the way yo i treat A gs which nature gives. 5 never fails to relieve the system of im Purities, and is an excelleat toric also. * Permit me to add my name to your m centficates in commendation, of_ the great properties contained In Buifts Specific s “Joun W. DANIEL, Anderson “Treatise on blood and skin diseases wnai’ — © Many 0f our AGENTS are SELLING fro 0) worth of ¥ rAlPlflw AUTOMATIC STEAM CO D00’ Fumain 116, OF Work when you Wight be waklog mo Tn summor. Apply for teris, liai OOKER CO., 121 8. %th 5t., Omabs. as tho produce market Was concernca. Ipts woere not large, but this was offsot by Thero s d that Is the fact nre: Bell beil and bugle, $.00: late woiden plover, green wing spe s id dles, 140 10Gs12¢; Live pigeons, $i. quoted Monoton- k short A few bottles of S. taken at the proper time may insure good h for a year or two. 1 hereforeact at once, for it IS IMPORTANT that nature be assistedat the right time. g S He Wants to Add His Name. certainly one of the best tonics I ever used. SWIFL SPECIFIC €. Aviaia, Gaw Enst side of 2ist stree sive. Vonton place, pfosent Wesi side of 215t strect, Jots 110 8 in block % Wilcox's second addition, p grade, 3 fect wiie. West siie of §0Lh street, lot 7 bloek 4 | Ng 2, repaired or i feet wide, estsile of 3i strect 1513, present srade. 4 feet wide Wast side of 53 1 street, lot 1 block wddition, present grade, § fect wid tside of sid stroet, lots [ and fifth addition, present grade, steers. The calf market was seantily sup- plied and was s from 81 § rices range | fr. % Lo $5.6) for | and mixed stufl 1o from 315 10 8540 for prime medim and | heavy weizhis. ew of the offerings of medium unl hoavy | welghts went — below 95, and the buik brouht from #.00 to £.20. These fizures In- dieate an adv v's prices of £ uaking ace for the week of to#e por 10 1bs. Supply of he * from Tocal and caster for culls and lig fovr o prime Us. and at froy o buttor duiry. Mhe: very Very 55 50 far e iand fer on the neluded the e uivided betw buyers at froi pigs. from i vor w 86 VY. Reed' wide. West side of id streot. lots ! and & d up X Tsane & Seldon’s addition, present grad reduced 1f of the % 20 T DOoF to choice | “There was one or two | oL Rateaey & Seldon’s addition ots 1 and 81 . pr verad treet. lots 1 and § 1 medinm und trades at §6.5) he sheep market was steady at from $1.50 | 10 $5.00, culls seilinz at from 31,00 to £2.0). poor to falr sorts at from $2.75 to #155 and voou to atfrom $4.00 10 ¥5.00. ‘There was also an ed morket for lambs. They were in adat fr E Good 04,25, to good wide, West slde of 3id cted roll the bulk Creamery t s'de of 33 street, lots 1and 8 b Isune & Seldon’s addition, present grad; | wide. Enst side of 33d street, lots 1 to W A Redick's add tion, present wid, e 0gs, 13,000; shoeep ine t side of 332 street, tax lot 12, present grade, 4 foet widd And be it further resolved: That the board of public works bo an by is authorized and dirocted to cause of this resolution to be publishe ! in t cinl paner of the ity for ono weak sorved on the owners of sud lots anid such owners shail within five duys af publication orserviveof such copy con said sidewalks as herein required, th voard of public works cause the sam done, the cost of constructing sald sid reape-tively to be assessed wrafnst t esiite, lot or part of lot in front of anc ting such sidewnlks Passed ov, 22d, ctiy story grouse. ke snipe, £1.25 0.G10,00: ducks, 1 Can 910 @1.5). E P DAVIS President Oty ¢ JOIN GROVE -, at 0: fancy, Attes Ve GEO. P, BEMIS, aat Approved: own, 8 NOTICE TO CONSTRUCT ST To the owners of tho [ots, parts of wte deseribed in' 16 \bove r i \ ONE ENJOYS Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts §en:ly yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys- tem effectually, dispels colds, head- aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever pro- duced, pleasing to the taste and ac- ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial n its effects, prepared only from the most Lealthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most pngu]ur remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50c and’ 81 bottles by all leading drug- gists, Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro- cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try 1t. - Do not accept any substitute, CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, LOUISVILLE, KY. NEW YORK, N.¥. MEB.VUUSDIS&REERS And all DEBILITY any CURE ero on - 1 and cach of you ara her riet wooden side ks dire siution of the city ccuncil and eity of Omaha, of which theabo $e20 oW, BI Chairman oard Omaha, Neb., November negrown, y not unsitis eof iny 10 ducks, gt vublie W 23, 180 ino and avo ar- ) per box ton 13 eiverd Docen Troposals for Sonled comptrolicr Removing Ele will be rc otiice up 1o 4 b m. moval of the election Lo i the replacing of the cted by the coineil for fon: suelielection hooths ken apurt. removed 1o the place of s turned requirel and put tozeth reful, proper wor km anlike the contractor upon so replieing sai i 0 1100 1] FCDIIPS NUCesSATY Lo put L in good order. except painting. ind t | thesame in good order until afier th tion, The contractor stall receive onc of the contruct price when said boot Stored, und two-thirds Immedinte’y af elect'on for which the same shali i und put in order. A certified check dol Is required to accompan id aht is reserved to rejrct wll Dids. PHEO. OLS OMANA, Decomber 1, 1802 Countr proposals fat, 7e; stor as the her pirket in ) show this yoar » 1n both shows n cireum- ratificn- eceipts at m 79, Shel ne To tho stockho and Cattie Co.: Not stoekholders of the Ozulixla Land and smpany thiat the zeneral snnual sudd comp ny witl be held wt tne office company, in the city of O, st Draskn, on Wednesday, December 1802, 0t 'two o'clock p.nn, for the electing directors of the company 1o the ensu £, und for the transac any iand il other business of every k charaeter that muy be nted -t meeting by the usseiibled Kholders. EDWAID I LAWRENCE, | JONATIAN ABEL. Seerciary Omuhin, Neb., Nov. 10 1302 100 15, fluctu- it Good big pre- inue de fod and un- In prices ™ the warn- n e T and train thit e PERMA T and tone will send ( s prosorty Adiross, Lo of Sherifl's Sale, A by virtue of an exceution by Frank E Moores. clerk of the distr within nnd for Douglis county upon judgment rendered by it Septémber term, A, 1. 150 Morchunts Nationul bank of Missouri, and azainst the M Rallway compiny of Omaha huve levied upon the follow property us the property of Metropol tin Cable Wal sy comp Omahr, Nebraska, toswit “Track un bed, intiud valls, Ues, Lntes, (rogs, splices, wires, switches, 'y trolicy Cross wires ete. ete. unle ceryth ng inz 10 suid track and the operating U @5 an electric e g of sl Metropoiitan Cable Rullway compuny ¢ street and on Dodge strect i the andon Doige street as exiended. Wo \venue, Underwood avenue and Wilson or strect in Dundee Pluce or i ot t in yunty of Douglus and Btate r Ono car house (frane bul jocuted on lot 1, ble Dundee Place. Douglus county, Nebr YI'wo 110LOF passenger curs numbered r tively two ¢, and three @. “Hecord stock cortifiente Look and s pany al the fran suld eompainy, which Include wnd urivileges secured thereby on the 1th dayof Deccmber, A wenclogat 10 o'clock w . nder Kun ropolitar Nebra des 5 DUTIH OMAIIA, Union Stock Yards Company, South Omaha. 1 wny other curative 2 It ,S.C ed 1ee. Sheep market 1o the west Wood Brothers., Telep) Chicago. JOUN D DADISMAN, |y WALTER £ WOOD, 4 Market Reports by wall and wire cheerfu b upplication Perry Bros. & Co., Live Stock ( Roow 61 Exchange Bullding, South Omabs Telephoae 1167 South Omaha el i ¥ tur om $200 to pK[RB or small e mone AUNOLD hise gri the and |y i) | tax lot 14, section ity of O ul of said ¢ OLU el | with- 5 v sach le on I oanl such is pro ' th lu LG fect lock 3 L6 foct fusive, present Lillside s i feet block 1 o4 feot A feet hlock O lon's additlon,present grade, 4 fect ok 1 4 feot lusiv 1 here- e e Lor be uniess ter the 1St et it tho o to ho v ). d abut neil. yor. LIS, s an esolu- fiod to 21 by i 1y R, onthis’ at the \ber b, oths 1o S usn o P X nn hooths © same o keep s are tor 1 1 of lifty cach wny or EN. oller. DGt Hala Land 10 th et ssuel [ th as Clty, ) Cabl 5 1 y of 1roud nercof ' i 0t tod 1o rieh 1 will cor of sulddauy | the onst £ At bl Blader or vid ccution, ti oS, b door of tho county c Ly of Onthi st Sa il provorty fon t L best £ for Casil, 10 satlsty " sald ex= four hundred forty-six und 01-100 130D Jud sment. and s steen and ars 1649 “Costs. With Intorost on suid amounts from the Wth day of September, 1802 and the acerain <onsabdjudzdmens and exceution, GEORUE A, BENNE P Shoeriff of Douglas County., Nc HAMILTON & MAXWEL Atto ahia, Nebraska, Deceml 1, 189z, d2tsm urt | | | i raskn. LAKL 10vs, O Notie Seatol proposals will | tine on or betore 2 o'clo Ly of December, iS02 for Uills for the lexisiatu way be ordered Dy elther houso thereof. 1o be { printed i “bid form.™ which fs shown and desiznited as class one (1) under the printing laws of the stato of N Vo tho printing of one thousand nial reports of LEOASIIOr, SCcrotur received at . of tho I » pronting of with such matter as raski, nd bin Hn's in eloth covers 1,000) copies cach of tho bion= widitor of public aceounts, Ny of stite, conmissioner of public Iands and “butldir - Durein of 3 inbor and industrial statistios: and five huns drod () coples each of the blonnial reports of the attorney zencrul, superintendont of pub- lie Instruction, state’ librarian and adjutant | general; one ‘thousand (1. ples to board of transportation for 18 5 s roport state ordercd printed by sxeept sueh as may enter into of the*journals, which e fesiznited us class 1408 of Nebraskn, unde s one, ieat y eight pago; 15 doubl thtle p than twer is and form a of work uted shall be pr smull fourteen (1) inehes lo (') fnches vwenty-eizht (%) ream, and except shal eontain not lines of solid matter of seven (1) inches in length, and the lines shall be success vely numbered, with a blanic only in eich space between the Hines, The ttle page of sald Lills shall contain not less than eithteen (1 1'nes as above, with three @) inehes additonal space allowable for Aispiay title matter. Eacl bid shall state what the bldg ing 1o do tho wori complete for, por p the th nid onc-hate paper to bo ip to tho , each -five (35) is will for hundared (300, coples eich bitl, 1lso wdditionai hundreds that iy be LUl at the same tino as hundred (o0 ineluding com= worl, stitching, folding work of material entering Into the fon, DAper, pr o nder class one shall be rder by the con riactor 1o retiry of state within three eiptof the order by suid cons tractor from the ehairmun of the fommitteo on printing, in cither branch of the exislitu ALl work oxecuted under cliss thrco i) sha be prin‘ed in long primer, brevier and nos Feif type, on papor to be nine inehes long by six (6 Tnches wid ie page, piper (o be forty-five (5 pounds to Lo reiun, of twenty = ¢ four by thirty six whito book. Each bid un- der clins Uirco shall stito whit the bidder i3 witlinz 1o do the work complete for, per pige, S reporvor item in the elass, inelud{ng yosition, prper, pross work, stitehinz,fold= 1all work of niaterial entering into the v requived.s Galley anid pa 0ol Imust Vo farniched when reqe ire s by the oficers of the exccutive departnont or the chairman of e committee on printing, i either branch S Tegislature. Work when coiploted to b vered free of expense it the stto houso, 4 Proposals for work In each of the above not be constdercd anless the same punied by w hond in the sum of ive thousind £,600 doilars With 1wo or more sure= e that 1 ease the party proposing forsuch comtract shall b 2wardo §the siame such diars ty will, within five () days aftor the award to Jim of such contr nier into bonds for tho calthful perfor hercof, as provided by Jaw wnd the the torais of theso proposals. Dosals shull be b rked “Proposais for publie printing” und addrossed to the stutg bourd of printing in carc of the secrotary of state, Lincoln, Neb, Gonltracts ob cliis one o awarded as i vhole, Contracts on eliss threc @) as above speclfied will bo wwarded tn whoie or in partas the Dourd may elect Simpies of the work to be oxocuted under cluss one () and three () may be seon b the office of the seeretary of staic Contracts on above elissos one (0 and throe 30 riun two ) ye rs from December xeept the reports of the bourd of tri on find state hoard of azriculture 0 he conpieted within sixty diys’ af wwirding of the contaict Tho state printing board reserves the toreject any of i as above spociied W t 1 bids. JOIN ALLEN, Socretory of State. | d B NLL Sttt \ THOS I Auditor Public 1, 152 State Jusurer. NTON, Accounts, N0y Printing Board Lincoln, Neb, Noy PROPOSALS FOR BUILDING MA TERIALS. United States Tnaian Servico, Agency, South Dakota, Nov. 16, I Senled propos s, enaorsed “Proposais for Tumber, windoas and bardware,” us the case 3! My Lo ano addressod o tho undersigned nb | P Kiaze agency, South Dakots, will be re= o s ageiley until 1 o'elook p.m. of Deceniber O, 1505 for fuenishing and dulivers Ing at this ubout I feet ussorted Tumbe 08, 20) (00t 10k 85, window sush and 10,600 pounds wssorted * natis, i (Uil st and description of which way be obtained by applicstion to the under Hiddors must stato spc rice ch nrticlo under riot es when delivered will be subj id inspoction iUls resvrved Y part of any bid Vest intercst of th seevior ERVIFIED CHECKS, Each bid must be accompanivd by o certi fied chock or draftupon some United States depository. or solvent national 1ok, ln tho vicinity of the restdence of the bidder. mude puyitblo to tho order of | the conmlss or, of ndiau affairs, for ut leasts per cent of the amount of the proposal, which check or draft will be forfeltel] 0 the United SUites in Cise wny tldder o bidders receiving no award il fall 10 promptly executo & contract with ood und sufliclent suratios, otherwlso 1o be revurned (o the bidder. 1 ds acconpan'ed by cash in leu of & cortls fied check will not be consiJered For further Information apply to Ciptaim G. L. Brown, U.S, A Acting Unlted, Statos ludisn azent. Nlsdzl ¢ Pine Ridze fieally the kind and offered” for de.ivery to reject any or all it deemed for the