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: IJU a. .:, 3srz 3 1"HE ADVERTISER THE ADVERTISER r I . ... . n.li a.v.TAXxaaccHxs. ?.c.sacx. FAIKBROTaER & 11ACKEB, Pabliabera. dt Praprifct? fi. W. 'AXSEBOT &. t. C. HA.CJULS. Published Every Thursday Morning ADVERTISING KATES. OBetach.onayt;.. . ., , .. , 1100 ( 0J? 100 Xach roeoe!Ioc tech. pr rr- Oa Inch, per month. TBIOIB, IN ADTANC O copy . on Jor . . Oae copy, atx saoathi .82 e . lee 58 . ,J c&ai4iuc-nliaea.sersiealo t') LK1 aartrtUfiaeats at If ml ratea- 0a c,ni (IOIIsm or Nonpareil. or la)nr3tJamiosJ.G eacrnubc.Beatlasertlc3.Mc. 4gAlltfaaslentJYertUaiaatisiugt be jali forta adraace. Oaeoapy.lhte monthi. jfT No paper sent from tha offieannIpWKt. ESTABLISHED 1856. 1 Oldest Paper in the State. PROWKVTLLE, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 29 1880. VOL. 24.-NO. 32. BEADING &ATTER OS EYERYPA6E OFFICIAL PAPER 0FTHEC5UNTY mM f iff I t r T ) T LOFFICIAI. DIRECTORY. District Officers. B. a.POTJVD - y r WATSorc fma h. hoover Jadse. Dltrlet Attornoy District Clerk. Couittv Officers. Atrv Tnr.T. County Jnrfce -5- .1" VV-TV Bhrlfl Coronpi Survivor School SaperlntPtjiJent ton rr. shook. rSA-E REDFBEW Coamiutonere - City OEloor. j i toi-Trt . - zona. w. wvc i,.n nontwiNj ... Mavnr -Police .Twice -Cleric ...TrnMnrr .. ,Maranal 1stWard w .irni"" A. TT aTMIW f - t "VT9 mr.T.. 7L HUDDVRT. 'J ,....-. 3rd Ward SOCIAL DIRECTORY. Cliurehes. atltvn. n and 7-ro r. tn. ttniftv Hcnnni r rS n-. TrdTr fUuir Thursday ureatnjr. S. V Wttv. Pnstnr. M.i'nCTaf::r.o-c'oclc." W J. Wf.issbr. Pastor. Chn-fh fonrnlmth.wrrTrownrmi'. SM- boh, Pa.tor. p.,1,.11. tj--' -r? 4t 5ir'' of !vrh tmn"th. WoV-o-s . m. ratfcorCaniintatr. PriMt. TVM'ao- PrlnC'T-l- Vl A'1r TTT ' Al tnnt J?,Emnr. T. Halir.. 1st T-tPrmMlftto; Mlvi ir.-iarv- MMnurr- MlJ Anna W. Mc liaaaU aailllNKra-M J. Horgaa.lsi Prltaarj. Tomnlo of Honor. f r. Crr1l,llv WoV--nr-,1. Tr0 L. WWII. W U I . Wm. r Hoover W. Tt-r : T. C Hicicer. T..V- j,v . Mm nrAce "'" C. T : iiisi aiary Hawicsr Sec- Mrs.t q ''"n'.r't.Scpt. TIotI R'l.n ClnT Mfc' h- .t Tiu Hr of e-xh tnoatU. B. M. Bat ie7 Irss . A. n.ontnor. S. i. o. of o. r. arnrnrll!p T.v1 V.. . . T.O.il.JV-Rem" l.h..i,r.,..-."- '-.Tited. A.H.G.linoro, ''l. Tm. rochran. fipev. r-nrr;!itnrJ6y. P.Mllp Crother. . U. T. C. K.n-.py. R. Sec fvnlltt" or "Pvtliln.-?. M:pV". .'.vr-nlnff In Masonic Hnll. Vl-ltlns jri-'t ..ii!lv Invited. I. H. Biucr, C. v.. V. D A JiiniJJ. K. Of It. P. tI-xsohIc BtateS -. "n -avnrtlav on or nf"-r.t5le,," &?wZS forlirp,. IwtncMon Vsw laturfonrse. J.C.McK6.ughron.V,.sr. B.F.80U- Brawitllo Chntr Vn. 4. XI. .iT1?1 nPP!'ncpon.lThnrsrtii,of''arhinnnth. A.B. Davison. M. Till. P. B.T.Tta'Bpy.BPC. M( rineinoman.lP)rTVo.3.K.T.-Sjtwi . ii e-ondMnnlivincPhmonin. lt-w. Fi-nai TE.C; A. W.Vlckelt.rrfC. nrr. R. TV Farnas. M. P. So?. K. T. Raiaey. B.-re'iry. A.lir!,antnvVn.a.-O'-.1r'0tthcT:pJterntRr. flttpfl iSK"n??hlrf Monday la each moath. K-s. E. C. Handley. tV. M. SfclHoa. pji".ji: John TUth. Vi-p Prt.: . A. 0 orn. JSItt O. Minlet: P. Corhran. F E. Johason. Tno-nas BV.h. Oeo. Crotv.J "V Rovlt. riHrr xo-tl-n Tl. M. Bailey. Prs.: A.H. Ollmrp. ec: W. H. Honvcr. Chornl Tnion.-J. C. McNauKbtoa. Treat. J. B. Tlvkpr. Spc. Kink' TJi-nmitlR Vnclntl;i.-W.T. Rogers,- rret J. B. Dixor. Kec. and Treas MKronUmrnrnT nnnrt.-T). T. Smith Mn- p7rMnir5."to". E. Huddart. Treasurer and Bnsl- ceM Manager. BUSINESS CARDS. 1 fi HOTiTjADAY. A , Phrslctnn. Snrceon. Ohatetrlclfin. OrdnalP In 1W Wat d In B-n-ynvllle 18W. Once.U Mala street, Brown v!l!e.reb. QTUIiTl & THOMAS. O ATTORXRVS AT L.A-VV. Oflee. over Theodore Hill & Co.'s store. Brown llle.Tfeb. Tl. scnrrK. . 'ATTO!lSrATUW. omr.. ovr J.L McOee& Bra's store. Browavllle. Nebraska. a a. oshotv. l. ATTORNEY ATT. AW. Office. No. Si Mala street. Brownvlle.eb J H- BROADY. J. Attorney and Connaelor lit L.ti-, Office ovarStAtB BaaS.Browavllle.Neb. WT. ROGERS. . Attorney unfl Conn'tloratLaw. Wlllelredlll?put attention to any4e"i.,7Mil, entrimerltohWcaro. OSceln the Roy bulldlnc. Brown Tlllc, Neb. j W. GIBSON, BU.CTSniTK IXO HORSE 8HOEK 7orkdono to order and satisfaction imaranteed First street, between Mala and Atlantic. Brown vllle. Neb. AT. CLIE, FASniONAHLE BOOT AND SHOE 3IAKER rCHa CUSTOM WORK made to order, and flts always rnaranteed. Repairinc neatly and promptly done. Shop. No. C7 Main street. Brownville.Neb. MABSH HOUSE, JOSEPH O'PELT, PROPRIETOR. Hverr Stable in connection with the House j-Stao oS-p for all points East, Wet.-w XS-North&aoutri. Omnibuses lo-ft tf-connect with all iralns.t4 A3IP1.E ROOMS ON FIRST FLOOR B. M. BAILEY. SUItTEB AXD DEALER IW LIVE STOCK. JJROTTXV1LLE. NEBRASKA. Farmers, please call and get prices; I want to handle your stock. Ofnco First Matlonal Bank. JACOB MAROHN, MERCHANT TAILOR, and dealer la FlaeEngllsU, Fier.cn, Scotch and Fancy Cloths Testings, Etc., Etc. BrovnvIIIe. XebraKfta, B. Bell Andrews, 1VL D, HOMEOPATHIC HYSiciAH mm. S2-WI11 clve prompt atteatlaa to all night calls-a cm.i TiPTitlon Elren to "Medical and Bcrcieal TStof Womennd Medical and Surgical Dis Stflie Eye? Office over Gates' store, next Dr. rin. li-vdVnce "" dr north ol Br&tions. iwre-w fiSS?SS. the Vea hotte S!8 Hervtras Sufferers-Tie Great European Bea-eij-Dr.J.B.Sinpson's Specific Medicine. Tt it a positive cue for Spermatorrhea, 8tmlaal wenkaes Irapoteacy. and all dUtasus resulting from seif nbnxe.a.) BEFORE. AVTBR. raental nnilety. loss of memory. P-Oas la B-iek or rid, and diaeasPH that lead to con-snajptton.'nianl-ty and n early Krve. The Hpe ciec Medtclnp Is beiax used with wonderful ucces. Pamphlets ient free to all Write for thpni and set lall particulars. Price. Sppoirlc. f l.W pr fcaefcaee. or kIx pacltaces for tt W Address aIIotdPrstoJ.B.SIMP--ON MEDICfiTE CO. N'on. 101 and 108. Main MrePt.EatJMn. 2f."V. 3-Soldln Brownville uyA-. W. JJIck-ell.6yl-al VUTHOEIZED BY THE C. 8. Q0VERX31EXT; O F BIiovIfVIZL,I.E. Paid-up Capital, $o 0,000 AntJwrixcd tt 500,000 18 rilEPAREDTO TRANSACT A General Banking Business BUY AD SELL COIN & OUBBENOY DRAFTS on all the principal cities or the United States and Europe MONEY LOANED On apnro-ed security only. Time Drafts discount pd. and special aecnmmodntlon ktro ted to deposit rs. Dealers la GOVERNMENT BONDS, STATE, COUNTY & CITY SECURITIES "DEPOSITS "?ec!rpd pavable on demand and TNTEREBTal lowed on tlmocertiCcatesordeposlt. DIRECTOR'. Wm.T.DPn. B. M. Bailer, M. A Handler. Frank E. Johnson, Lather Hoadley Wnj. Tralsher. JOHN L. C ARSON, A. R. n A VISON. Cashier. President. r.CMcXAUOHTON.Asst.Cashier. ESTABLISH3D IK" 1856. OLDEST IREAJu ESTATE A-G-BISTCY IN NEBRASKA. William M. Hoover. Does a general Rsal Etate Business. Sells Lands on Commission, examines Titles, makes Deeds, Mortgages, and all Instru ments pertaining to toe transfer of Real Es tate. Ifas a Complete Abstract of Titles to all Reaf Estate In Nemaha County. 1 At Tlio OROCERYAND PROViSIO y STORE 03F Hi T. Le Joiner Is the place to gat Groceries, Provisions, Confections, Fine Cigras, Toilet Soap, Canned Goofa, Fresh Butter, JEtc, Etc., Etc. Wo also kePD all tho best brands of! flonr. and everything usually kept lnl a urst ciass grocery store. We have in coa- FEED STORE , necilon with our ; houieuflrsic.asi TUTTJS INDORSED BY PHYSICIANS, GLERGYMEH AND THE AFFLICTED EVERYWHERE. THE SBEATEST MEDICAL TBimBPH 0? 7HS AQE. Tf57TC dThCS Dr. Tctt has scc SUisO riLLefcccdedlncomWaisgln CURE SICOEADACHE. pgt TOTT'S PILLS iK-fedTS piirf nvcpVor wrrisa Toxic . CURE DYSPEPSIA. Their first apparent nKi.n ws... . . efioct So to Increase tho ThTT'5? PH Q appetite by caaalug the IU I WIS xliW food to properly as CUnE CONSTIPATION, binalatc Thnsthesys- teat is nourished, aud TI?""VJOi rjP I by their toalcachonoa I U I I O rtiLi 'ho d!g-tiTO organs, CLiRF PH PC regular and healUiy e- uunc n. vusticas aro pro- t U 8 I U liLLOdsptabUity to nourish CURE BILIOUS COLIC. 8 ?' nence thc fc efficacy la cenng ccr- HTirt nif 3 evoas debility, mciir EUIi O r js.i,OScholrdJsPeP!awast- Cere KIDHEY Complaint. giRhceas of the livtr, chronic coastlpation. end lmaartins health & lUH'S PILLS CURE TORPID LIVER. TUTT'S PILLS .WRAaTAPPETITL I strength to toe system. Said eTcrywbere. Price SScect. OSca 53 Murray Street, NEWrOKK. QHARLES HELMER, FASHIONABLE Boot and Shoe Havlnc bought the cus tom shop of A. Robison, lam prepared to do work of all kinds at Reasonable Rates. SRepalrlDg neatly and 2K2a?iy proinpuyaoue. IK 8faop-No. 62 Main Street, MrcnenvHle, JVebraska. Firs! National Bank Wt 1 3fep EEgP Vfesvf T0NSOBIAL. The old Barbershop No. 7 la now owned and ran by J". JEl. Hawkins. It Is the best fitted shop In the city, and the place la'generally patronized by tho people. Mr. Hawkins keeps asnohlhtants who are not Experts at The Business, and gentlemanly and accommodating In their conduct. All kinds of T0KS0BIAL WORK dono'promptly and tatiafactlon guaranteed. THE BEST DYZS tnado are always in preparation. ls now proprietor of the 1 HFMIil and Is prepared to accomodate the public with GOOD, FRESH, SWEET Gentlemanly and accommodating clprks will at all times be In attendance. Your patronaae solicited. Remember the place tho old PascoeHbop, Maiu-st., SSroivnvitle, - JVcbrasfca T jQi- Jt60 jc , & Undertaker Keep a fall line ot mmmmm Ornamented and Plain. Also Shrouds for men. ladies and Infants. All orders left with Mike Felthouser will receive prompt attention. 3- Bodies Preserved and Embalmed. r,G 3Iain Street, BR0WXYILLE, XEB. r V ZEsTQ- 43, QSEFH BODY Proprietor Old Reliable MHT MET. Give Hiui a Call And you vrill be well Served wltli tUe best the Market affords. 3STO. 43. 0 0 A area Palmer. Ecbt. Johnson NEW RESTAURANT. Palmer & Jolmson. First Door West or the Did National Bank BuIMla?. This firm, havlnsc fitted up these roomB wll run a first class restaurant, where pood warm meals can bP hud at all hours. They give their customers the best viands In the market, including fresh ousters served in tiny manner called for. Try the New Restaurant All OrdersTor an Ex press1 Left Tvilh Them trill be Promptly attended to ABBOTT & EMERY, Workers In W ood andlronj at the old place, fo"t of COLLEGE ST. WAGONS, MACHINERY, PLOWS, ETC., promptly repaired. All kinds of BLACKS1HITHING done to order, and Satisfaction Guarantied. T ETTER HEADS, " . m BILL HEADS Neaxly printed atthisofflce. TWISTS I E.U csuUj id U U. S. fci rU Dm " Cjciopwlli r Thmj, Horth KiKrirUf- Ij isUcrifttOK. Te .uth iM. with food ntr.x; funkb tU cviitt tnt Aifcrw LvrrcyiTtCTiL res. con r s ss, et.xtM, Me. ruL a A ! A fiBFK a w a BESIEGED BY INDIANS. A Thrilling Chapter of Border War fare. One nf the mopt remarkable fights in the annal- nf Indian warfare took place eleven years ago. whan, Con gress having authorized the employ ment f frontiersmen against the In diana, then very troublesome. Gen. George A. Forsyth, then and still up on Gen. Sheridan' staff, was selected to head an expedition of fifty picked men from the Kansae horder. He set out from Fort HayeB Aug. 27, 186S, Lieut. F-. H Beecher. a nephew of the pastor of Plymouth, being second In command. After scouting eight days and seeing no Indiana, though signs of them were everywhere apparent, Forsyth reached Fort Wallace and proceeded to refit his command. On the 10th of September the Indians at tacked a train near Sheridan, a btnail railroad town eight miles from the fort, and Forsyth's party was sent after them. So closely did he pursue thesavages that they broke intosmall squads as is their custom under sucii circumstances, and scattered. Having lost the trail, Forsyth pushed on to the Republican river, where he found the trail of a small war party, which grew constantly larger as be followed it, till at last it became a broad and well beaten road, along whieh evidently large droves of cattle and of horses had been driven. No Indians, however, were to be Been. At 5 o'clock ou the evening of tiie eighth daj' out thecommand went in to camp on the Arkansas fork of the Republican, which just at this point divided and surrounded a sort nf inland a strip of eund and gravel about 100 yards long, around which flowed the "river," if that name can be applied to a stream some eight feet wide and two or three inches deep. There was only one day's provisions left, but Forsyth, feeling that he was within striking distance of the hos tiles, resolved to go on next day. At dawn of the morrow the guard gave the illarni, "Indians!" and the fron tiersmen started up, each grasping his rifle with one hand and his horse's lariat with the other, that the Indians might not stampede the animals. Six Indians dashed up, rattling hells, shaking buffalo robes und firing their guns : a few shots dispersed them, but the four pack mules bad broken loose and galloped awjjy with their prpclous loads, and three horses that had only been hpbbled escaping with thm Some of the men started out in pur suit nf the Indians, but Forsyth, un derstanding that the stampede was only the prelude to an attack in force, ordered them" back and bade all sad dle ud. They were still tightening the girths when Grover, the guide, placing his hand on the commander's shoulder, exclaimed, excitedly, "Oh, heavens, General, look at the In dians!,' "Well might he be excited," says Custer, who has so vividly told the story. "Over the hills from the west and north' along the river, on the op posite hanks, everywhere and in ev ery direction they made their appear ance. Finely mounted, in full war paint, their long scalp-locks braided with eagle's feathers, ami with all the paraphernalia nf a barbarous war party, with wild whoops and exultant shouts, on they came." Forsyth In stantly ordered his men to lend their horses to the "island" and lie them tn the few busheB that grew there in a cirole, and lying on the sand within the line nf their animals, sell their lives as dearly as possible. Thus be gan the fight, the Indiana in turn dis mounting and crawling on the sand up to within a short distance of the inland, to open almost at point-blank raime a galling fire on the party from Spencer and Henry rifles 8" soon as it was daylight a-td th Indians cold be distinguished, it was found that they were surrounded by nearly a thousand warriors, Brules, Sioux, Cheyenuea, and Dog Soldieis. The first care of the besieged was to intrench themselves by thinwing up witli their knives little mounds in the form of a circle. Ere this work had been accomplished two men had been killed and several wounded, Forsyth among them. A Minie ball, striking him in the thigh, ranged upward, and inflicted a very painful wound. A little while after, an he lear.eiljforward to caution some men about firing too rapidly, another bullet struck him betweeu the knee andankle and shat tered hit. left leg. At the Bame in stant Dr. Movers, who, the firing be ing too hot to allow him to attend to the wounded, had taken a rifle to aid in the defense, was shot through the bead. The hills surrounding the fight were thronged with women and chil dren, assembled to torture the cap tives they were confidant o.f making, all chanting war-songs and filling the air with whoops and yella, while round the circle of fiuhting men rode the medicine-men and'ehiefs encour aging the warriors and cursing tbe frontiersmen for skulkinglike wolveB. If the scouts were now beginning to drop the Indians, the Indians' fire was telling on the encampment, "There goes the last horse, any way!" one triumphant Indian shout ed at 9 o'clock. Shortly after this about 120 "Dog Soldiers," supported by some 300 or more mounted men, mustered just beyond rifle-shot. and. headed by the famous chief. Roman Nose, prepared to charge the scouts. "Superbly mounted, almost nakpd, although in full war-dress, and paint ed in the moat bldeoaa canner, form- ed with a front of about sixty men, they awaited the signal of their chief to charge, with apparently tbe great est confidence." At his order the dis mounted Indians poured a tremen dous fire upon (he American, per forming the part of artillery in sileno ing the fire of th besieged, and pre paring tbe way for the assaulting column. 8aysCu8ter: "Seeing that the little garrison was stunned by the heavy fire of the dis mounted Indians, and rightly judging that now, if ever, was the proppr time to charge, Roman Nose and his band of mounted warriors, with a wild, ringing war-whoop, echoed by the women and children on the hills, started forward. On they came, pre senting even tq.the brave men await ing the charge a most supprb sight Soon they were within the range of the rifles of their friends, and, of course, the dismounted Indians had to slacken their fire for fear of hitting their own warriors. This was the op portunity for the scouts. 'Now,' shouted Forsyth, and the scout, spring to thir knees and casting their eyes coolly along the barrels of their rifleB, opened on the advanoing sava ges a deadly fire. TJnohecked. un daunted, on dashed the warriors; steadily rang the clear, sharp reports of the riflt-s of the frontiersmen. Ro man No"e falls dead from his horse. Medicine Man is killed, and for an in stant the column, now within ten feet of the scouts, hesitates falters. A cheer from the pcouts. who preceive the effect of their well-directed fire, and the Indians begin to break and scatter m every direction, unwilling to rush to a hand-to hand struggle. A few more shofs and the Indians are forced back beyond range. Forsyth inquires, anxiously, 'Can they do hot ter than that. Grover?' 'I have been on the plains. General, since a boy, and never saw such a charge as that before.' 'All right; then wearegood for them."1 In repulsing the savages I tie scouts had lost heavily, among the killed being young Beecher. The Indians kept up a continuous fire, but by this time tiie miniatureeartii works affordr ed a good shelter. At 2 o'clock and again at sunset tiiey charged the scouts, but, having lost their best leaders and being dispirited by the unexpected stubborn resistance, they were more easily beaten bank each time with heavy loss. At dark they cpaspd firing, and Foray h could "take stock." Fournjen had been killed, four o'hers-wer.eumortally wounded, ten others "Jiad .rpbgii&dj wounds of less gravity injall. twenty-three of fifty-one men had been hit. All of his horses had been killed, his sup pile" were exhausted, he was without medical stores, the Indians had com pletely invested him. and the nearest post was 110 miles away. On the oth er side of the account he hail beaten the Indians, had plenty of ammuni tion, water could be had by digging in the sand, aufl the carcasses "f forty-odd mules and horses stood for the commissariat. A- well wa9 dug, the wounded were made ap comfortable as possible wtb -.blankets, the earth works wer'sCfengthened with the dead animals and saddles, and lurgp quantities of horse and mule meat were cut off", and buried In the sand. Two scouts, Trudeuu and Stillwell, the latter a slight, beardless I103' of 19. were selected to run thegauntletof the swarming Iudians' and carry dis patches to Fort Wallace. 110 miles dis. tant. and. crawling nut into the sand, as soon as It was dark, were seeti no more. On the seconcd day of the siege no charge was attempted, hot the- In dians kept up as heavy a fire as po-si-ble to tease the scouts into uini; their ammunition, but the Americans were now well sheltered, and only answer ed where a bullet was Iikel3' to tell. At night two more scouts were sent nut, but failed to elude the vigilance of the Indians, and were driven back to the encampment which placed a gloomy look upon the probable fate of Trudeau and Stillwell. Th Indians kept up the firing during the 19th, hut about noon their women and chil dren fctired from the nills a hopeful sign. Later they sent in a flag of truce for a parley, but the frontiera nien were too wary to be entrapped. That night Forsyth sent too more messengers, bnjiiivan and Ply ly, with dispatches asking for assistance. "I am on a little island." the message read, "and hayestill plenty of ammu nition left. W-e are living on mule and horse meat.'and are entirely out of rations. If it'jwas not for so many wountled I woud comoin ami take the choices of whipping them, if at tack'&fv They are evidently sick of theLfbargains I can hold out for six dayBlpnger, if absolutely necessary. Oije fourth day the main body of IndjaiiB departed, Reaving a small in vesting forbOLTTh wounds of the in jurednver rudely- dre-sed, shelter were constictlcl und soup made from hon-e-flpati. On the sixth day. how ever, the first trails of gangrene set in, and the ntife party wan almost overpowered with the intolerable stench from the carcasses of the dead horses. Foad-there was none. For syth assernt led the men and bade those who would go and leavs the wounded and those who preferred staying in camp. 'and taking their chances of aid coming from the fort. All voted to Jtay together till tlieend. They lived on putrid horse-flesh rub bed with gunpowder for two more days. On jhe 25th Col. Carpenter, with.the catalry, came up from Fort Wallace, wiicb Trudeao andStillwall i had reaehed in safety. "When he reaobed the Island he found the de fenders in tbe most pitiable condition, yet the survivors were determined to be plucky to the last. Forsyth him self, with rather indifferent success, affected to be reading an old norel that he had discovered in a saddle bag ; but Col. Carpenter said his voice was a little unsteady and his eyea were somewhat dim when he held out his hand to Carpenter and bade him welcome to 'Beecher's Island,' a name that has since been given to tbe battle-ground." Of the fifty-one men who went Into the fight eight were killed, eight were disabled for life and twelve others were wounded. The Indians, who were seventeen to one, admitted sub sequently a loss of seventy-five killed. A MINISTER IN 3IANA0LES.. Ills Alleged Intimacy with a Female Member of His Church Causes Him Trouble. Special to tho Inter Ocean. New Yokk. Jan. IS. The Tribune has a rather amutdng but sensational clerical scandal. The Rev. William M. Trumbower, a student of the Syr acuse Theological Seminary, was ap pointed in April last to take charge of the M. E Church at West Hoboken. The new pastor was eloquent in the delivery of hia serrannt), and this made him a favorite with the elderly portion of the congregation. He was agreeable and pleasant, and withal prepossessing in appearance, and this made him a great favorite with the younger members of his congregation. He was 23 years of aeennd unmarried. Just before Christmas a young lady made a remark reflecting on the char acter nf the pastor. Shesaid thatone Sunday evening while returning from ohureh, sh walked behind him, when he was in company with Mrs. Sarah Boh, In whose family he was then boarding, and overheard Mr. Trumbower make use of very famil iar language in hisconversation. Miss Du Bois repeated the remarks she had overheard to some of the church members, and at the next church ser vice the pastor took occasion to speak against tiie Bois family. He charged Miss Du Boia with having "set her cap for him." and. failing to succeed in her schemes. Had put forth these storips for the purpose of injuring hi standing and reputation. The up shot of the affair, which at the time created much feeling, was that the Du Bois family withdrew from the church, and. at asubsequent meeting the Rev. Mr Trumbower apologized, and the rqatter wan dropped. Theaf fatr had hpen published in the news papers, however, and Joseph Boh. the husband of the pastor's landlady, grew suspicious of the relations be tweeu his wife and his boarder. He at once began keepinir close watch on the movements of both. At an early hour on Saturday evening Mr. Boh told his wjfe that he "guessed he would go to New York" to do some marketing. She quietly assented, und the hustiand left tbe room, but did not leave the houe. He cautious ly removed his shoea in the hall, and, lying at full length on tiie floor, lis tened to the conversation that passed between the young pastor and his wife. mong other things, he heard them discussing a plan to elope. At thin point the husband, unable long er to restrain ills wrath, hurst open the door. He at once ordered the pator to leave the house, which the latter, without waiting la put on his hat. made haste to do Mrs. Boh started after him, when her husband seized her. and a desperate struggle ensued, which resulted in her esca ping. She fle-I into the street, with her husband in hot pursuit Boh was rapidly gaining upon her. when tiie pastor stopped, and polling a re volver from his pocket, cried, "Srand hack. man. or I'll shoot!" Boh halt ed, aud the pastor, followed closely by Bob's wife, disappeared in the darkness. They ran to the house of Trustee Daniel P. Westervelt. Here the church choir was practising. The pastor excitedly and breathlessly told that he was being pursued by a mad man, and asked protection. Boh had the Rev. Trumbower ar rested on a charge of assault witii In tent to kill, and the pastor passed Sat urday night in the lockup. In tbe morning one of the trustees went his hail on condition tnat he be allowed to lock the young minister up in his house. This was done, and the min ister passed Sunday locked up in tbe trustee's front parlor. Population Statistics of tho Globe. The population of the globe may be roughly assumed at 1.421.000 000. di vided thus: Europe. 309 000.000; Aia. 824.0000 000; Africa. 199.000.000; Oieania. 4.000 000; America. 85 000. 000 It has been calculated from the mortality tables of known countries that the annual number of deaths throughout the world N 35 693,350, or that in other words 97.790 persons die paoh day. On the other hand, the balance of population is more than kept up by births at the rate of 104.800 per day. Seventy new lives are ush pred In pVtv minute of the 24 hours. London Times. A weatprn editor avs one hog Is worth a d"Zn lov letters, and thev cannot be Introduced as evidence In a breaoh ofpromlte nit either. Z0E0ASTEB, A LECTURE DELIVERED IN' THE UNITARIAN CHURCH BY RET. IT. E. C0PELAND, SUNDAY EVENING, DECEMBEU2S. Where the Idea of the Derll Came From. Thirteen hundred, or aa some au thorities assert, 3.000 years before Christ, Zarathrustra, or, as he is com monly called, Zoroaster lived in Bad ria and taught that system of religion commonly known as Maglaniam. whose sacred book is Zend, Avesta. We know nothing of thia Chaldean prophet, but his words formed the re iginn of the Medes and Persians, whioh is atill believed and practiced by the Paraees of India ft people dis tinguished for purity of life aud gen eral benevolence. The first peculiarity of the religion is that it iia,s no temple and no image of deity except the fire, which was kept burning night and day by the Chaldean priests. Those fire worship pers, aa they have been called, looked upon fire simply as an emblem of dei ty, the purest and most spiritual of which they could conceive. In tbe Zend Aveota, the most an cient of all sacred books, we read that from that time proceeded forth Or mazd, the good god, and Ahriman, the devil ; for 3.000 years they reign together over the universe; for the next 3,000 vears Ahriman rules alone; for the next 3,000 years they contend. and then Ahriman forever conquered, Ortnazd la to rule forever more over an earth purified by fire. We read that into Eden where the Chal deans first dwelt, whioh bad two months of winter and ten of summer, there entered a 6erpentofice who so changed the climate that these seven mouths of winter and three of Bum mer, which change compelled the first men to migrate to a warmer coun try, and the Chaldeans settled in the vale of Cashmere, the Hindoo belong ing to the same race settling in India. Science has proved that S.imarcaud, now for seven long months bound in chains of ice, was formerly a tropical region, and indicates that region as the Eden from which the Aryans were compelled to migrate. The Zend Avesta teaches that victory is assured to Ormazd in the great battle between good and evil by tho aid of Methra or Sosiooh a Savior, whose powerful efforts are aided by the acts and thoughts of all good men. Ahri man shall finally be conquered and the earth be purified by fire, which Ahriman sends to destroy Ormazd and all the good; but which fulfills the purpose of God and results in a final conquest ot evils. Judgmput Iw passed on all men, who clothed with tbe old bodies, go, the good, to Paradise, the bad to hell; there the bad shall be tortured for three days, and these purified shall join the good on the renewed earth, aud Ahriman a No purified, all evil shall end and hell be abolished. The kingdom of Heaven on earth, gained largely by tbe efforts of all good men and women, in conjunction with the Savior, U a fundamental doc trine of Z roasters. To advance thia result men must be pure in thought, word and deed ; purity of life is all important, whence a multitude of commands concerning purity of body and mind. Here we have in sacred books the oldest in the world, many of the doc trines supposed to be peculiar to Chris tianity, art a bodily resurrection, a Savior or Messiah, a final judgment, a kingdom of Heaven on earth, a devil, and a good God, who finally abolish es evil. None of these doctrines are found in Judaism until the return from captivity; tiie devil before that time was unknown, so that we may assert that the devil was an invention of the Chaldean. We find also in the Zend Avesta an account of the fall of man, a serpent in Paradise, only in this case an ice serpent, a flood, and a creation much resembling similar accounts in Gene sis, and when we remember that tbe Zend Avesta was written hundreds, if not thousands of ypars before tbe Bi ble, we cannot well avoid the conclu sion that these religious id us in the Bible were borrowed from the Chal deans. Even if we suppose them original with the writers of tbe Bible, we must grant to the authors of similar Ideas in the Zend Ave6ta an inspiration from God. Either, then, the writers of each of these sacred books were in spired or neithpr. And since tbe Zend Avesta is far the oldest book, the authors have the first claim to be called inspired writers. Wehave traoed home to the Chalde ana the idea of a Devil, and unless we are prepared to admit that Zoroaster was a. son of God. inspired by the Al mighty, we must reject the common idea of tiie Devil as of purely human origin. Omaha Ncuss. Remedy for Chokixg Cattle. Remedy for choking cattle Is oppor tune about this timo, when they are -more than usually exposed to tbe danger of getting an apple, potato, or small turnip Btuok in the gullet. A certain remedy la said to be to open the mouth of the choking animal and throw upon its tongue, away back, a tableapoonful of saltpeter, then let tbe beast go, and the obstacle will ' either pass out or in, In a very short time, k Toper's Terrible Death. TheScuylervIHe(N". Y.) Standard relates the following: While comingin tills direction with a load of oabbagea in the afternoon, Henry Paris, with whom was An drew Patrick, near Gannon's me) Warren Haigbt, a meat peddler, rid ing homeward with a team of horses, having been out during the day sell ing meat. Ashe passed Paris remark ed to Patrick ; "That man is on fire' Patrick said, "I guess not ; I didn't see anything." Paris said, "I know he is on fire, for I could smell fire." They turned around and looking back; saw a horrid spectacle. Haight was the center of a pyramid of fire, tbe flames and smoke rising far above his head. The horses were on a keen trot and the poorsot, who was being devoured by fire, was screaming wildly for help. Patrick jumped oqtof (he wagon and rushed hack shouting to the Gannons, who were just then emerging from a pota to field, and they stopped the team and extinguished tbe flames tbaC were eatiug up the man's life, by throwing blankets over him. He was taken home, but remained in a drunk en stupor until midnight, when ha aroused sufficiently to explain that be had been drinking heavily in Schuy- . lervllle; that some one had lighted his pipe for him, butthat it had slip ped from his mouth aud setbis clothes on fire ; and that he could have pub out the flames when they first started only that be had on a tightly-buckled belt which in his stupid oondition ho could not unfasten. His clothes wera of cotton material well daubed with grease, thus affording rich fuel for tbe ghastly conflagration. In tho morning he died. His chest and body were a solid mass of charcoal, and a great hole, reaching nearly to the bone, had been burned in bis leg:. Haight was a peculiar man. Ha was keen, tolerably well informed and bad an extraordinary memory. He could make money easily, but In variably spent it for whisky, and tho town periodically interposed its be nevolent stores between hia famiiy and starvation. Whisky kept hia poor and whUky killed him. If ever a man died "as the fool dletb" it was this Haigbt, who was so drunk while sitting on his own funeral pyre that be could nut raise bis hands to save himself. One man who saw him while burning, says it was the most awful sight he evr witnebsed. The jjjmaajuahnil nuaKI -.lvftafl o- IhAiiah it was a barrel of tar burning, and ho all the time screaming for help. Tho horses had turned out on the side of the road and stopped. He was taken home by one of the Gannons. About midnight he became conscious, and told hi j wife where he got his whisky. He was forty-three years of age, and leaves a wife and six children, all girls. Jfovel Courtship. A young gentleman, happening to sit at church in a pew adjoining one whioh a young lady occupied for whom be conceived a sudden and vl olent passion, was desirous of enter ing into a courtship on the spot; and the exigency of the case suggested tbe following plan : He politely hand ed his fair neighbor u Bible open with a pin stuck In the following text second Epistle of John, verse fifth "And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that whioh we bad la tbe beginning that we love one an other." She returned it, pointing to tbe second chapter of Ruth, versa tenth "Then she fell on her face and bowed herself to the ground and said to him, why have I found grace In thine eyes, seeing that I am a Strang er?" He returned the book, point to the thirteenth verse of the third Epistle of John "Having many things to write unto you I would not write with paper aud ink, but I trust to come unto you and speak face to face." From the above interview a marriage took place. & w " Worthy of a Senator. General Garfield was in Cleveland when he was nominated for the Sen ate, having refused to go to Columbus to conduct his canvass in person. When the news reached him be ex pressed deep gratification, but said be was not surprised. Speaking to a Leader reporter of tbe reason which kept bim at a distance, he said: "I belive in lifting political canvasses of this kind to a higiier standard. Of course, there are cases when it be comes necessary fora candidate to ap pear in a fight. If I had been person ally assailed it would have been my duty to go, and I held myself In read loess to go if It became necessary In that way ; but to make myself a solic itor of votes, I could not do it. I would rather have lost the place than secure it in that way. Besides. I wish ed to keep myself from becoming en tangled with pledges and promises, so that I might go into the Senate with, my whole freedom and aot with Inde pendence on all questions." . Bran Is. a valuable food for horses in reducinUbe Inflnmatory effect of stimulatin&fnod. Made into mashei It has a cooling aud laxative effeot, but used in excess, especially in a dry Estate, It Is aptjto form stony secretions nthe bowels of the horse. Stones .produced from the excessive use of bran have been taken out of horias' aftertJMta, weighing raasy pound;. if.