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About Nebraska advertiser. (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 3, 1881)
,1...IIJIIII1.IH HWM trwm ffnm im CliomlHtry Korcals n Foror' Villainy. The recent death In our State Poni tontlnrv of V. W. Ward, thu former ShoriiTof Williamsburg County, recalls (ho circumstances Unit led to the dis covery of his crituu, which uro tho most extraordinary In our criminal annals. At tho spring lorin, 1871), of tho Court of Common Pleas for Williamsburg County, J. II. Livingston brought suit against Wmil to rocovor tho Hum of $., ()0, nionoy loaniid on Ward's scaled nolo. Ills Honor, Judge T.J. Alnokuy, presided, and by cousont of counsel heard tho ease without a jury. Tho plaintiff proved tho execution of tho note and closed his euse. Ward's counsel then produced the receipt of Livingston dated two years previous to H)V WIW Hollering from this mino tin the trial, for the whole amount due, miSo,mblo terror, at which he would principal and interest, and interest, and a witness testilied he had seen the payment made in Si 00 bills and four 9.000 hills, to l-.lv-ingstou hlm.self on the day named in the receipt. The plaintiff took the witness-stand and on examining the receipt admitted that it bore his true and genuine sigua 'ture, but solemnly protested that ho had not received ono dollar from Ward, ami had never entered Ward's home In his life, for any purpose. Ho declared that he was ruined, and that ho and his wife would be made homeless by a false receipt which ho could not explain, but which ho never knowingly signed, (in cross-examination. Livingston, who was an old man, admitted that his memory was very infirm, and that he had on pre vious occasions received a payment of $'200 from another debtor or his which he afterwards had denied receiving, but which he recalled to memory when shown his receipt. Tho plaintiff and his counsel at this tngo of the proceedings were in utter despair, for their cause was apparently lost, .fudge Mackoy, however, whoso subtle brain and practiced eye nothing can escape, and who follows crime through all its windings, directed that tlio receipt should bo handed to him. Ho then ordered tho .Sheriff to proofed to the nearest drug store and purchase a drachm of muriatic acid, and a small piece of sponge. On the return of the officer Willi the articles named, the .Judge said to the plaintiff": "Mr. Liv ingston, did you ever write a lettor to the defendant, Ward, demanding pay ment of your nionoy'"1 Tho plaintiff' answered: " Yes, sir; I wrote him inanv letters, but never received an answer from him.' .Judge Mackov then ob served to counsel: " I perceive that on the face of this receipt therearo several peculiar blown spots, and tlio original Niirface or .sizing of the paper lias been removed except in Unit portion of the paper whore tlio signature was writton Tho body of the receipt Is in the hand. Avriling of tho defendant. In my opin ion the defendant lias taken a letter of the phiiutilV's and removed the writing -with muriatic acid, and then wrote the receipt above the signature. I will now apply this acid to tho writing on (lie back of the complaint in this case; and it will be seen that the writing will instantly disappear and the paper will t once exhibit several brown spots identical with those on this receipt.'' The acid was applied to tlio paper, and ns the writing disappeared, tho brown blots were seen upon rts surface, and the crime of the defendant was clearly re vealed! Ward, at this juncture, looked as horror-stricken as Lady Macbeth when, fjazing upon her fair but murderous land, she exclaimed, as she vainly rubbed it: "Out, damned spot!" The Judge immediately rendered his decision in favor of the plaintiff', stating that it was the duty ot the solicitor to luivo Ward ptosocutod at onco for his audacious forgery. On the next morn ing Judge Maokoy loft for Georgetown, fortv miles distant, to hold court. WJtllo there ho received a lettor from a friend warning him not to return to Williamsburg, as ho promised to do, in a few days, for tho purpose of hearing an argument in Chambers, as Ward had sworn solemnly to whoot him down at sight. Tho Judge's record, however, shows that ho Is not ono to swerve from tho line of duty because of an armed enemy in his path. Ho returned to Williamsburg after an absence of live days, and. meeting Ward upon thestroot, 'demand ed whether lie had threatened to tako his life. Ward answered that lie had, but that lie had abandoned Ids purpose. At tlio next term of tho Court Ward was indicted and placed on trial for forgery. When tho verdict of "guilty" was rendered, Ward rose and dis charged his pistol twice at Livingston, the prosecuting witness, ono of the balls passing through his coat. He was in stautly disarmed and sentenced to a term of seven years at hard labor in tho Penitentiary. Ward was a man of wealth and good standing in his community. Ho died last woolc in tlio l'onitentiary, illustrat ing by his career tho truth of thoSerip turo: "Tho wav of tho transgressor is hard." -Chester 8. V.) Ilullctin. Something to be Deploivil. "Mamma," called out a the other night, titter he little boy had been snugly tuoked up in bod and was sup posed to bo far on the way toward sleep "mamma, I'm afraid! my blouso hangs by the window and it puts tilings in my mind Unit frightou me!" "You are not afraid when you know it is your blouse that puts tho fears in your mind?" " Yes, and I can't help it, mamma." Tlioro were two ladies sit ting in tlio room below who hoard iho boy's words. Ono said: " How perfect ly absurd! What won't a child do to ii ;et his mollior to come un stairs to ml I really think he oujrht to bo punished for making up such a story as that." Tho other, happily, was tlio boy'a mother, ami she said but with- outgoing to hint: "If ou am alraid of the things in your mind J on may gut out of lied, light your candle and time tho blouso down; you cm look after you put the light out and see that there is nothing at the window to frighten a good boy." She remembered, as if it were but yesterdav, a night, n great many years ago, when she lay a trem bling, horrllied child, whoso mother was dead, and there was no one in tho wide world to whom she dated to say that tho lights and shadows made by the moonlight coming through a broken slat in the blind were so frightful to her that she could not sleep, but lay holding her breath and almost smoth ering boneath tho clothes. She felt sure that her own little si-oars-'ld laugh in the morning when ho would wake and see his blue blouse waiting for him. The child, taking his mother's advice ami lighting tho candle which a kindly freak of fashion allowed him to have, removed the cause of his terror, nit out the light and went hack to Ins led. and in a very few minutes a pro found silence indicated Unit lie was fast ; asleep. One can easily feel s mouthy for what may seem like an absurd whim in a child if he or she hmi paid any attention to tho literature of nerv ousness, and knows any thing of tho many ways in which strong-minded men have been afflicted bv hallucina tions, or have been annoyed as was the old carpenter who, when sick, called his son to the bedside and asked him to make a sho'f that was in the room per fectly true, and when the son remon strated he said, witli an expression not to bo denied: Trouble's trouble: that shelf must be changed." It is to be deplored that mothers, and all those wlio have the care of children, do not possess their complete conlidenco. and so can encourage entire outspokenness and bo enabled by the knowledge thus gained to prevent a morbid condition of thu mind, which it may take years to j outgrow. Cor. A', i. 1'oxL I'caullfiil Complexions. Tho discovery of arsenic in tho re mains of the unfortunate Jennie Cra mer, and the mooted question as to whether it was administered to her or whether she had not taken it herself for the preservation of hor remarkably white complexion, says a Now York corropoudeut, has revived tlio subject of arsoiiie-eatiug in that city. A chat with one or two druggists 'and physi cians lias givuu him some idea of the extent to which this pernicious and i dangerous habit is indulged in. It has its foundation, of course, in tlio j desire for beauty so natural In every I woman, and how important a part an ' exquisite complexion plays in the i general appearance is recognized when wo note how easily a girl wins the title j of pretty, oven if hor features are poor and hor dress simple, if she has a pure, soft, white skin, that enables her to wear either the colors of bloudo and brunelto with impunity, and to doty tho rough caresses ot tho sun and wind; whilo another girl with woll-eiit features and all tho advantages of toilet is doomed to tho cruol adjective of "plain," on account of a sallow or pimpled complexion, which muthor powder nor rouge usod in decent quantities can conceal. To gain what uaturo has denied, women resort to ovorv conceivable de vice, from tho use of simple lemon-juieo and glycerine up to tlio elaborate com pounds imported from France, and the expensive treatment of the specialists who promise to make lilies and roses bloom on a satin-smooth skin. There aro a groat many Mine, Rnohaols on a small scale in New York, and each of them has hor own particular roeipo for ooauutying the epidermis. One woman has a place on Fifth avenue, whore she gives Roman baths of asses' milk to hor ladv customers for the trilling sum of$l.r ouch, and she has enough patronage to lie making nionoy fast. A firm on Broadway, thai has tho handsomest business parlors in the city, has made a fortune out of a peculiar sort of mask to bo worn over tho face at night. A stout dame on Thirty-third street uses tlio broad-and-milk-poultioo method, and treats her patrons in hor own housu. Others advertise their ability to supply a now skin, which means that they' will remove tlio old one by powerful washes. The most "tonoy" of these skin doctors live in elegant stylo, and make a profound mystery of the lotions they employ. Most of them aro art fid enough to have one or two young girls in attend - I ance, gifted with nalurallv beautiful complexions, but really to swear that thoy are the result "balm," or "bloom." who has a place near employs a handsomely of madame's Ono ol them, Union Square, dressed vouuir lady with a brilliant complexion to call nvo or six times a day to thank hor in tho presence of fresh customers for her now skin. Yet in spile of all this tho onlv women who have beautiful complexions aro those born with them. To say nothing of the compounds made up in this country, and which have reaped fortunes for their origin ators, cosmetics are imported in thou sands of dollars' worth at a time through tho year, and many of them contain white-lead and arsenic in such largo proportions as to bo positively dangerous and not infrequently fatal iii their results. The worst of experi menting with the complexion is thai when a woman begins sue liuds a kind of a fascination in it that will not allow her to leave oil', and the country girl who begins by daubing hor forehead and chin with Hour, and rubbing hor chooks with a mullein-leaf, as a city lady winds up with Uoiuuu batliB and Parisian lotions. Too Awrnlly L'ller. "Well," said a Deadwood man who had just been introduced to a Brooklyn girl, and who had been asked bv hev if they had main of those lovely frontier? I men out his wav "well, mum, we hev right smart of 'em in our neck o' tho woods." " And do they wear fringed legs and hunt thoso dear, sweet buffalo? ' asked the girl. " I'liu stage drivers wear fringe and slch, and when a buffalo shines out some ono is pooty apt to iiook on." "How supreme! And thoso gor geous Indians in their picturesque wig wams of wampum, with their blending combinations of war-paint, do you often see them?" "Oh! once in awhile wo get a hack at a buck, but mostly they are on the reservations," replied tho Deadwood man. staring. "They does come in occasionally, but wo don't trunk with thorn.' "Thu tiwcot things! And you havo such sunsets out in sour mountain fast nesses, and hiicIi loves of highwaymen! i)o you oversee those delightful high waymen i"' "Not often, mum. They get ill the brush, iukI, as for sunsets, ive get 'em pretty reg'lar in fair weather." "Isn't it just too awfully tool" ex claimed the girl, clasping her hands and rolling her eyes. " Yes, mum." stammered the Head wood man, "sometimes its pretty ileni too, leastwise it was the day that Cob bler Dully came into town on the land, slide." " An avalanche! Do you anoan an nvalanoho? Oh! can there be any thing more crysially utter than an av alanche ?" "It was a pooty tooty utter," haz arded the Deadwood 'man, dropping into his companion's stylo of expres sion. "The eolibler had a a ho had a crystally shatt up the side of the butte, and one day he was was tooing around up there and things slipped out from under him." " Oh, how radiant! How irrides cent!" " Yes, mum, and ho began to radiate to' anls town at the rate of one thou sand miles and three lurlong a minute. We seen him a -a uttering down tho side of the mountains, ripping up trees aiid rocks and tooing along, and his ir ridoseent wife llanpcd out of her shack and began to raise a row." "Poor Lily." moaned the girl; "did she stop the glorious avalanco?" "No, mum, not quite. Duffy fetched up against his shack all standing and began to howl like a blizzard, 'cause he thought ho'il lost his mine. Hut when they tipped tho land-slido on ono end there was the mine underneath just as lie left it. So ho could work it right under his winder. That was pooty considerable too, jh?" and the JJoad- woou man never wiiiKoa. " Howsublime! How crystalline!" " Hut I was going to say wo novor had a sunset since.' "So star like," murmured tlio girl. "Yes, mostly star like. You seo Iho land-slide stands there to this day on cud, and they don't dare turn it over lor fear of filling in tho town, so wo don't got any sun after o'.oven in tho morning." "A perennial twilight! So fearfully, terribly, awfully utter." "Yes," nnirmurod tho Deadwood man. " It's just about as uttor as you could get 'oin.'' And she sat and gazed upon him, wrapped in admiration, while ho foil into a roverie and wondered at Brook lyn hospitality in not providing " sand boxes" for strangers. iSrooklynEajle. Hoiiiiefs and Hats. Oponings of miltlncry at fashionable houses con linn the auuouueemeut made early in tho season that the pictures pie will provail in millinery, but that while largo pokos and round hats aro shown in great numbers, tho small bonnets and boeoininr turbans will also lind favor. There can bo no doliuite rule about these shapes, as largo bonnets are not limited to largo heads, for they aro soniotimos particularly becoming to small ladies; tho face alone decides tho matter, and in the great variety of shapes shown something is easily found to suit each physiognomy. The poke bonnets aro greatly improved in shape by the small tapering crown now used instead of tho broad lint crown, like that of an old lady's bonnet, worn when they were first introduced; indeed, nothing can be more coquettish than thoso (plaint pokes, arranged as they aro now to leave tho small sloping crown quite prominent and bare, r.ml mass all the trimming on the brim. Tlie most youthful-looking pokos havo the brim covered or edged with down, or fur, or plush witli very long pile, while tho crown is of smooth plush or of moleskin velvet. This is bountiful in dark green, brown, bronzo, or garnet pokos to match costumes, with tho full furry edge that is so becoming to every , nice; and for trimming, a bird is placed close against the lott sido of the brim, or a panache of feather tip, and on the right sido two small bands like folds of plush pass toward the back of tho crown, where thoy aro fastened by an ornament of old silver, ror dress bonnets this design is carried out in pink, white, or pale blue plush that lias moire marking upon it for the smooth sjnall crown, whilo tlio brim is covored with pearl laco, or elso white Spanish lace iu which aro two or throe rows of great white beads cut in facets; tlie strings are also of this laco; and for ornaments there aro half a dozen humming-birds placed in a row, to show the brilliant hues of their breasts and throats. There aro also Mario Stuart pokes entirely covered with pearl laoo, with leather tips for their 'trimming, but fewer white or light dress bonnets am shown than usual, as dark bonnets are known to be most becoming, and are of such rich fabrics that they are dressy enough for most occasion. A novel trimming laid on the outside of the brim and below the crown is three full frills of uncut velvet laid double, fully gathered, and overlapping. These ruf iles aro an inch deep when finished, and aro very effective when made of the glace velvet showing two colors, one of which is irr the plain velvet that covers the crown; thus a brown velvet small crown lias frills of red and brown changeable uncut velvet, and tho edge of tho brim has a gathered b tiding like a puff made of red uncut velvet. Ribbon of uncut velvet on one side and satin on the other forms a square bow low on tho le.t side, and there aro three tips of ostrich feathers at the top. Another poke that points down on tho forehead instead of projecting above it lias the brim covered with lophophoro feathers, while tho crown is greerr vel vet. There are also black lace pokes of the now heavy guipure silk laco with drooping jot ornaments along tho laco and on the strings, while black os trich tips are the only trimmings; a bow of narrow moire ribbon ties the laco strings below the throat. Anoth er bhioK poke of real Span'sh laco lias two rows of largo jet beads that are made to droop and dangle on tho edgo of the brim. A black felt poke that has a lur-beaver brim has two rows of black Spanish laco on the outside of this brim. The bows on pokes aro very Hat, and havo long loops -either two or four loops-of double-faced ribbon, and ono edsro of this ribbon is folded over so that both faces aro soon. Moire ribbon wdh rutin or plush back is very eff'eo- i 1 tivo for such bows. Thoso bows aro ! placed far back just on top of the i crown, with the middle closely strapped, and a loop falling toward each sido of tho crown, or else both loops are louj and exterrded down the right side, j whilo the left has a panache or pompon ' of feathers. Another fancy is for a 1 bow with very long loops placed with the strap close to the brim on top, and j tho loops i" tending far down the loll . side. A stvlish and usetiil .small poke I of black beaver has a doub'e how of ! blii'ik ribbon -satin on one side and nioiro on the other -placed at tho top of the crown, and falling close back upon it. Two jot turtles fasten tho loops down: a small black panache is on the lelt sido; a row ot black faceted bends half an inch in diameter is on tho oiusKiu m mo urim. -miig.s mv ijuwim up ulusu in mu uiium. "luiiuiu ontr Jmnrring ends, mas clet or plush, hemmed and not lined, is usod lor strings as well as ribbon. The groat round hats of pluh. felt or beaver are much larger than any yet worn. Thoy aro like the picturesque hats worn by players in old comedies, and have forests of feathers that droop and nod with every motion of the wear er. Tlio taporiug'crowns aro also seen on these hats, and aro usually in bold roliof. with tho trimmings of feathers and of plush massed on the wide brim. Sometimes the edges aro plain, and the brim is so broad that a plaiting three inches wide of doubled velvet is sowed inside the brim, beginning whore tho crown leaves off, and this surrounds the face, without coming near the outer edge of the brim. Smooth boaver and felt aro liked for thoso hats, but tho brim is most otton ot tur beaver, or plush with long pile, or else the edge is nound with a pull' of velvet that breaks the haul line, and is very becoming. Harper's Bazar. Can't Fool Him. A critic savs: " Wo all accept the old Greek statues as the linest models of tho highest types of physical beauty, and in not ono of them do we lind evi dence of the compression of tho loot. The toes set well apart, and there is novor to bo found on them signs of corns or callosity." Of course not. ! Tho old Greek sculptors knew their business. A Greek maiden might havo lourteon corns on ono foot and eleven ! bunions on the other, but the old Greek i would not reproduce them on a statute ' of the maid. She would not have paid i for tho marblo if he had. It is tho same ' way in our day. When a woman witli freckles and a'mole on her chin sets for i a- portrait, tlio artist knows too much ' to transfer them to the canvas. Ho j makes the sitter as pretty as a profca- I sional beauty, charges as big a prico for tho portrait, and she goes away do- j lighted. The portrait, of courso, doesn't , look any more like her than the Queen of Sheba, but she doesn't lot that trillo mar hor happiness a particle. Tho ah- , sence of corns and callosities on tho feet of old Greek statutes must not bo ac- coptod as proof that the Grecian maid ens were not provided with storm indi cators on their podals. SorrUlown Herald. Two women stopped u train near Waterburv. Conn., recently by waving a red shawl, and told tho engineer that it man who apparently wanted to kill himself had just gone down tlio track. Tho train moved on slowly and found tho man lying drunk across the rails. Tomato liuttor. To ten pounds of flue ripe tomatoes, live pounds of good brown sug:ir, a pint of eider vinegar, a t:iblepooiruleachof cinnamon, allsnieo and cloves mixed; boil gently for throe or four hours. Skin tho tomatoes be fore cooking and remove all hard parts. At Dyor's famous nursery, near Providence, H. 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The pilot-house, cabin, main 'on and Captain's office are on the saloon deck and aro luxurious in their furnishing w pes '-'liSI sseiffiL, ! mmm naj$jCi and decorations. The saloon proper is frescoed and gilded in East lake style, and the Mooring U covered witli Turkish carpet The furniture, in raw silk and walnut, ot the (Jueen Anne pattern, like tluit of thex dining-hall, and rich curtains of damask complete the impression of a veritable Heat ing palace. The four state-rooms. contain ing two berths each, are also carpeted with Brussels and handsomely furni.shed. 'Urn boat belongs to and was built under tho directions of Messrs A. Vogelcr & Co. Baltimore, Md., for their own exclusive use upon the Ohio, Mississippi and other West ern rivers, nnd is run by a picked crew of officers and men in their employ. 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