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every al'ernal- Friday cvcniie.; at K. il I".
liall. Transi.M.I l.rol Imth an- rcspcef nnly i:i
Vilcil tualtcii.l. F. K. Wlill.-, Ma-.n r Workman ;
Jt. A, aite. Foreman ; F. .1 iMhi;:;hi, Omtm rr ;
J. K. Morris. Ucenr.ter.
("Ta ss : a m r no. x:-. i r.i o 1 1 : u n woohmk n
of Aincricii MiM'tnsi :oinl aii'l fiHir. Ii Moii
d ay veiling at K. of I'. hall All transient,
brother an' requested In ne-ei Willi n. I.. A.
JiOWi'H i.cr, Vcneial'lc Consul ; W.C. Wilfil,
"Worthy Adviser ; 1", M.-rgcs, kx Hanker ; .1. H.
Morris, 'lrk .
IH.ATTSMOtJ l ll LOUCK Nt. s. A.O. V. W.
Meet every alternate Friday evening at
JCo.-k wood hallat xo'rloi-K. All iraiiMcnt. Im.iIIi
ers an rcs I fully invited to attniil. . A.
tSntsche, M. W. ; S. C. tin- -n. F.oreiiinn : S. ('.
Vill, Uiteonti r ; t-. A. New.-iMM-f. ovitm or.
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I'ost Surircoii
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K.'L'uhir iiiccl inirs. iinl ami 4tli Tluirsdy of
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Avood lilock.
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AND
Special Attcnt-on ziyeaWatch Repairing
WE WILL HAVE A
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HOLIDAY
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LilDrary - Lamps
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ni'. nn mill llnttnuTifi
AT THE I SITAL
Cheap Prices
-AT-
SMITH & SLACK'S.
WHEN "yIFwIht"'
CALL ON
Cor. 10th ::k1 (JratiUc Stn- ts.
Contractor and Builder
Sept. 12-Om.
JULIUS PEPPERBERG,
MANUKACTrur.n ok and
WHOLESALE & RETAIL
DKM.Kl! IN THK
Choicest Brands of Cigars,
including our
Flor do Pepperbergo'Sand 'Buds
FULL LINK OF
TOBACCO AND SMOKERS' ARTICLES
always in stock. Nor. 26. 1885.
Jewelry
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Latest by Telegraph.
r.oltltHi:i AMI STOI KN.
TEXAS NECROES IN ARMS.
Mantagorda County tho Sccno of
tho Hostilities-
A Bnnd of Colored Men Rosolve to
Avervgo tho Unprovoked
Murder of a Negro
Constable.
II0I ST0N, Tl-.X., Sept. Hi. W)I1 VS
...il!;lit. in last -v niii"; tliat. an insurm'
lion w.'H iiiiiniiieiit aniwii tlie Mafk.s in
Matai(oiila county. Tin; sln iill of that
county .suit a courier to the sheriff of
llia.oi ia county asUin"; for ininiediatc- as
sistance. Tin; courier stated that, over
yoo in j,'ro s were ill arms in inataorda
ami excitement, union"; lln; whites was
very iMf-at. The troiil'le nrofc over an
attempt- of ;i colore I constahlc to arrest
a white man who resuleil on Carney creek.
The consfaUc was found leal and the
negroes oi the viciuiiy ik iiuvi: n;
inurdered ly white men living Hie
vicinity.
L:iter reports last, ni-ht stated that
sheriff Hickley h.d raised a posy of fifty
white men and started for Matagorda,
while tin; sin ii IT of Matagorda was cn
route to the scone of the trouMe with 10(1
mounted men. At nron the id arming re
port reached the city that the sheriff's
Con es had arrived ami hostilities had 1-
gun. The negroef. have heen largely i
inforccd. Tin; Houston light guards
have ! : 1 Vr t. ! nvo on a
sp.'i i-il trai.i . ' '
Wo-ther Probabilities.
Wasiiiku ion, Sept. 27, 1 a. ni. Indi-
:ations for Nehraska: Warmer; fair
weather; northerly winds, diminishing in
force and shifting to light, southeast-
ernly.
Another Avoca Victim.
Eei Oak, la., Sept. 2G. Miss Annie
Merill. who was injured in the Afton
wreck on the 15th inst., died to-day of
her injuries.
Died of Apoplexy.
1ki0k, la., geit. 20. Mrs. Clark,
wife of Judge Clark, one of Iowa's old
est settlers, died to-day of apoplexy.
An Iron Mountain wreck.
Little liocK, Akk., Sept. 2G The
north hound passenger train on the Iron
Mountain railway was wrecked near
Walnut liidge, Ark., this morning. The
menihcrd of the Texarkana. and Hot
Springs G. A. 11. posts were among the
passengers en route to St Louis. The list
of casualties cannot he ohtained at this
time.
Tho Purchase of Bonds.
Washington, Sept. 20 The total
atninount of honds purchased hy the treas
ury department to-day was $1,253,250,
of which A!,0T.,2f!f) were four and a
lud fs au.l Si 77,l.iO were fours. Tin; total
in.ount of money already p:ud out for
honds un.lcr tho circular h '.),rif.4,
which represents $8,1 V0 prim:iial and
Sl, i08,07:J premium on the honds. These
payments are in addition to the purchase
of l,ror.:',0(H"our and a half per cent
honi-s under a previous circular. The
interest due Oct. 1 on four per cent honds
nimniunitiiigto 0,71,tMf, was paid hy
th.- treasurer to day without a ivhate.
Natural Gas Produces a Big Coom
II Kit mm in, la., S.-pt. 20. Itisdouhtiul
if any town in Iowa ever had such a
hoi m as Herdon is now having. It is
all on account of the natural gas found
here. Ten wells have heen hored and
in every case t!:e gas was found at a
depth of from 1 15 toir.OTeet. The pres
sure is vat ion dy estimated at from 20 to
70 pound to the si pi a re inch. The
Herdon Natural !as and Li ml company
have s.-cured 320 acres for a town site.
They are in !! of wealth and experience
and are using every effort to hoom the
new town. Quite a numher of husiness
firms have heen induced to locate here
and at least three manufacturing estah
lishnients have heen s-cured, viz.: A
large foundry and machine shop that
will run entirely I'V natural gas lor near
and power; a planing mill and a hroom
fa. torv. Negotiations are now going
on w it Ii several others. It is thought
the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul com
naiiv will hu'dd repair shops here.
. llerndon is located in the noitheast
corner of Guthrie county, 110 miles from
Council Bluffs and fifty-two miles from
Des Moines, at the junction of the V ahasli
Western and the Ch cago, Milwaukee &
lu .nn n iwrfectlv level
OU x aui ui.iw- i v
prairie in a rich farming country, and
there is no town within fifteen miles in
either direction except Panoe, twelve
miles southeast Three weeks ago the
population of llerndon was less than
fifty, while now it must he 200. Two
families are ul ready using the gas for
cookimg. lighting and heating their
houses. The land company display the
gas in their office in a grand shape.
Three hrick Mocks are in course of erec
tion and small frame houses are Leing
huilt at. a rapid rate, and everyhody is
wild with excitement. The adjoining
Ian. Is have cither heen hought. or are held
at fohuloin prices. Over 200 lots have
heen sold in the last two weeks. A largo
"an" of men and teams are at work
grading the streets. The H'Tiidon II nlc
lij lit Kilil made its first appearance yes
terday. SHELTERED IN TENTS
Thousandsof Veterans Housed Un
der Canvas at St- Louis-
St. Lor is, Sept. 20. -The national
salute from Camp Washington heralded
the dawning of the itay and aroused the
army of veterans and committees whose
duties called them to early trains. A
tine mist dampened the atmosphere this
morning and gradually resolved into a
steady rain. The first train this morning
liroivdit in y-reat crowds of veterans and
visitors. The l'lieilie sh.pt; had hardly
stilled down he fore the nearer west
poured in with Colorado, Arkansas, New
Mexico and Texas. The Iowa and Mis
souri contingents reported ir.uiiy men
fi'd announced the coming of many
thousands more. Several hundred have
reported from Pennsylvania. Early in
the mi. ruing the Kentucky posts escorted
their department commander to Ins head
quarters and then moved to their tents.
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois quietly passed
through the street, seeking shelter and
greeting coimades. By noon the rail
roads had hrought in 10,000 citizens,
soldiers and many more.
The feature of the encampment is the
shltering of largo numhers of old yeterans
in tents. Tried at each encampment
he fore in small numhers the plan gave
such satisfaction that it was decided to
thus house vast numhers, anil the execu
tive committees arranged to care for a
p-reatcr concourse of people in the field
thau has ever hefore heen attempted in
any land, except in times of war. I er
haps no canvas city of such proportions
has ever heen huilt in so short a time.
Within two months 3,500 hints with am
ple room for 25,000 soldiers have heen
put together and pitched in the ten parks
of the city all wthin a radius of two
miles. The douht whether tho hoys
would take to the tents has heen dis
pelled, for more applications for such
shelter have heen made than tents are
made ready for. All the afternoon
and evening the arrivals of the
veterans and their families have been
incessant. This evening visitors were
entertained hy receptions at the various
posts and headquarters. Owing to the
inclemency of the weather it was agreed
to-night that in case of a light rain or
drizzle the parade should take place t s
per programme, hut in case it was impos
sible to form, or the ranks were broken
hy heavy rain, the parade should he post
poned until Wednesday morning at 10
o'clock. In event of a postponement the
annual encampment session proper will
not liegin till Wednesday noon. Gener
al Fail child, staff and patty arrived this
evening.
Ix-rt Humle.l YVrltlrtff.
'It looks like copjierplate," remarked
a prominent teacher of ennianship to a
rcp-ortor, sus ho exhihtted a handsome
isjHi imcn of ehirography from among the
many sjux-imens in his largo collection.
"It couldn't havo heen written very
rapidly," suggested tho reporter.'
"It was, though as rapidly as tho
writer could make his ringers move,"
"lVoluihly he is a professional penman;
bookkeeper or teacher, likely?"
"Neither, ami he only learned to wrrto
four years ago. Ho was a soldier. Dur
ing tho war lie lost his rijrht arm. After
tho war ho became a traveling salesman.
Five years ago ho lost a leg in a railroad
accident, and then took up penmanship.
He had to learn it all over again. But
by perseverance you see how much ho
has accomplished. Ho is the secretary of
mining company down town and dtoAvs
$10,000 a year salary. One odd thing
about this is that he never was a good
penman when lie had both arms. But
in learning to use his left hand ho ac
quired the art of making all of his char
acters plainly. He made them 6lowly at
first, and now he can't write badly, no
matter how rapidly he works."
"Did you ever know of a man's learn
ing to use both hands equally well?"
There are a few instances on record.
I heard of a man once who not only
wrote witji both hands, but wrote with
them at the same time and a different
sentence with each hand. He was the
wonder of the profession, but he waa
more of a freak tlian anything else. Am
bidexterity is a great accomplishment, but
rach experiences as that are not v aim
able, save as curiosities. ' 'New York
Mail and Exnreaa.
NATIVES OF THE NORTH.
Tr;nifiititf Apct Urn f tlio Inhabitant
of tliff Aretlo ICfgloiut.
When we wero nt John llowland iniy, n
mouth g', on tho Arctic coast, 1 whs visit
ing on the Hunter, where tho sailors were
ncrnping off the piix-es of the jjutn adhering
to the tint t. ends of th wlial.-lx iih. Tl na
tives stjMxl ly, anil ns the Ioiijj shavings with
roiloil oir nutherod them all up, en ting what
they e. .ni. 1 hull, fin. I storing the rest away
in their eati.ws. I t'Lste.l of tilt) stullout of
curiosity's sal;e, lut ilr'il it ns simui ns I
e ni M. Tim flavor is about ns I wi.ul.l im
oiii.. a rotten raw iH-niuit t b For ii
steady ili. t, I should hesitnto Iwtwivn that
mid fail Ii, I. lit the natives all evident ly rel
ished it, exeii'dinjjly, and they chewed hy I ho
hniir. ns n sehiMtlgirl would a pieceof f;iiiu.
'i'hrt yr.-atest, fi-ast I lmvi seen th natives
have was rihoiit two wwks ago, when several
whalers f 'e lyingatanehor under Kast ca',
on tho AM.ttie shore. A whalu was raisisl at
tho .sout hward, working rapidly up along tho
shore. Tweiity-fivn or thirty whale I mats
were imm.ili.ihjl v lowered, and the gauntlet
was too iiiiieh fur th whale, llo was soon
captured ion I alongside the hueretia to ho
cut in. S"en cniie loads of natives came
oil' t claim their share of tho whale, which
custom has !. lined ius the fins, flukes (th.
tail), and all tho lean they can cut. ofT.
The whal. was a very largo one, mak
ing in the vicinity of 110 harrel.s of oil,
and producing aliout 2,!(10 jmxiu.Is of
whalelione, hence t.hr was a great
amount of lean. How tho natives
did work to save this! To me tho whole scene
was most amusing. Work was liegiui about,
8 o'clock and finished wui after midnight,
I tilt, the sun set, only to rise i:i an hour or two,
so it was daylight all tin i lime. Tie; officers
of the ship were giving their orders, llio
donkey engine, was pulling away turning tho
windlass, w Inch rallied like, a ilo.eii li.s.-ivy
log chains. Twenty or thirty natives wero
yelling like fiends. Hugo sheets of hlulilMr
were heing hauled in t.t the gangway.
Everything was excitement and noiso. T2$i
sea all about the ship w.-is red with hIoc.il, ami
natives weru crawling all along tho whale's
carcass, holding big sheath knives in their
teeth, cutting off a piece of meat when oppor
tunity offered, and jabbering away like- so
many monkeys. When thoy wero through
with tho skeleton, it seemed as if they could
not have romoved any more meat even with
a piece of sandpaper. AH their canoes wero
loaded down iw full as they could carry with
meat. Now that tho work was over, tho
feast followed. The most toothsoiuo part of
tho whale to them is tho black skin from tho
lips, tho fins and the flukes, and these opened
the feast. Imagine a man or a woman, with
a slice of meat the size of a four or Ave pound
steak, surrounding a corner with an expan
sive mouth, then sawing off the corner and
writhing all over in order to chew up tho
whole piece and not drop any from his mouth.
This is the happiest moment ono of these
natives could wish for. Cor. Chicago Times.
Almost a New Magazine.
It ia not publicly known, jierhaps, that some
time since a syndicate was formed by Dr.
William A. Hammond, Julian Hawthorne,
Georgo Parsons Lathrop and Irving Bacheller,
whoso object was the establishment of a. new
magazine in New York. Tho scheme came
very near to the climax of realization, but
was liually upset, and Dr. Hammond and Mr.
Bacheller washed their hands of the affair
aud stepped down and out. Recently, how
ever, Dr. llanmiond, who still has a largo
sized literary hee in hi-s honnet, has ljeen in
negotiations with Mr. F. Ii. Thurher, with a
view to booming a now magazine with tho
solid backing of this well known capitalist.
Thin scheme had progressed some way when
Mr. Thurber called in as an expert in his
councils a well known advertising agent on
Park row. Mr. Thurber knew well that ad
vertisements are tho sinews of the success of
a magazine, and he asked for an approximate
estimate from this agent, who has charge of
the "space" of tho established magazines. Tho
agent of course was impartial and presented
a resume of frozen facts as to the history of
several defunct magazines, such ns Tho
Galaxy, Tho Manhattan, etc. Finally, as the
narrative of the fortunes sunk in such ven
tures reached its climax, Mr. Thurlwr ex
citedly burst forth with: "That will do, thank
you, sir; no more American opera for
me." New York Graphic.
Impolite Heidelberg Students.
My impression of the students was far from
flattering. They are tho coarsest and most
impolite jicoplo I ever saw. When wo drove
up to tho hotel thoy eyed the girls Intently,
aud one of them bad the rvo to come up
and try to talk to one of them. My Hessian
blood boiled, and 1 walked up to him and
stood between bim and the young lady and
inquired of tho proprietor, who was standing
close by, if this was a sample of bis servants,
for if so I preferred to carry my bag up
stairs myself rather than trust it to such a
pei-son. You should bavo sottii that student
flush up. The other students laughed nt
him and ho became furious. His face was
covered with scars, and I extectcd a challenge
to light a duel. One of the students said
something to bim and he walked, away.
Heidelberg Cor. Brooklyn Eaglo.
HLPalmer&Son
GENERAL
INUSRSHCE - AGENTS,
Represent the following time
tried and fire-tested companies:
American Central-St. bou s. Assets
Commercial Union-England, "
Fire A'socla loii-Pbil; detphla, "
Franklin-riiilacle'i hi i. "
Home-Ni-w Yoik. "
Ids. Co, or North Ame ie. Plul. "
IJverpooI&London & Globe-Eng
No ill I rltish .v R'ercantile-Eng "
Norwich Union-England.
Springfield F. & V,-Sprlngf eld, "
$1.25,O0l
2.59C.314
4,145.576
?.U7,106
T.s. 5.5T9
8,474.262
(539.781
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1.245.4GG
3M4.915
Total Assets, 912.115,774
Losses Atiustrt ni Paid at tbis Agency
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Coiiiineiicu:' TO-DAY, JULY 12th. and continuing until
September 1st.
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AS THIS IS
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without reserve, it will be to the
ot Cass County to
Ilxwing in view the interests
multitude to thare the benefits ot
consideration ex-ll to other dealer3
under this clearance sale.
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DO NOT DBItAY !
We go to Xw York soon to inalce our Fall I'lsrfTiascs,
and we kindly request all ofour friends indebted to us to
call as early as possible and adjust their accounts.
Yours Respectfully,
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individual interests of all i:l:z'-m
tak" adva7it:ir; of the
ot our customers, ami to enable the
this great sale, we will under 1 o
wholesale lots of giods embractd
Dry Good Khupo.
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