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THE RED CLOUD CHIEF
l C. HOSMER, Publisher.
RED CLOUD.
NEBRASKA.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Over sixty per cent, of the adult
male population of New Mexico can
neither read nor write.
It is estimated that the exportation
of wheat from South Australia in 18S4
will amount to eleven million bushels.
Mexico i not disposed to shut out
the Chinaman. The immigration ol
Chinese coolies is being encouraged as
a powerful force in the colonization ol
the cotton, sugar and cofl'ee lands, that
is now taking full form and force.
IHE WORLD'S D01KGS
4 Summary of the Daily Xewi.
The Lake Voorhees cattle range oJ
Wyoming is the greatest in the world,
no doubt. It comprises one million
acres of land, forty thousand of which
are enclosed with a barbed fence, and
has a water frontage of thirty miles.
The range will freely accommodate
seventy-five thousand cattle. It has
fifteen thousand head.
Old Mrs. Septima Meikleham, the
granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson, has
declined the offer of Mr. Louis Sehaefer.
the Ohio philanthropist, to give her a
home, and will continue to live at
Georgetown, where she and two daugh
ters are wholly dependent on a third
daughter, who draws $1,000 a year as
:lerk in the Patent Office.
A number of human bodies in a good
state of preservation, dressed in orna
mental costumes, and evidently belong
ing to a prehisto-ic race, have been
found in a mound in Desha County,
Ark. The apartment in which they lay
was paved with stone, supported by
stone pillars and overlapped with huge
wooden beams in perfect condition.
A max worthy of memory in an III
zoverned land was Prince Stourdza, ex
Hospodar of Moldavia, whose death at
the age of more than ninety years is an
nounced. His first official act was to
reinstate sixty thousand peasants in
land which had been taken from their
fathers by Turks. " He freed all his own
serfs and three thousand others, greatly
improved Galatz and Jasiy, endowed
hospitals, schools and asylums all this
out of his private fortune and gave
agricultural interests such stimulus
that land during his administration in
creased in value fifteen fold
James K. Keene, when he left Cali
fornia, was worth an immense fortune.
The Sunday before he left he said to a
friend, who was expressing regret at his
departure and predicting evil from it:
There is my balance sheet; it shows
that I am worth ..", 000,000. That is
$5,000,000 in round numbers against the
40,000,000 of the bonanza firm. The
'arger will always attract the smaller,
and it is only a question of time as to
my losing my fortune if I remain here.
I will travel. I am sick and have
enough, and will keep out of specula
tions. "He told a truth, but unfortu
nately did not act upon it.
An expert connected with the Penn
sylvania Geological Survey estimates
ihe amount of the coal still remaining
in the anthracite region at 8,000,000.0
tons. Sliculd the present rate of coal
production be continued the supply will
'.ast about two hundred and fifty years.
Only forty-six per cent, of the volume
oi uiu coai in any given vein gets tc
market. The pillars left standing tc
support the roof take thirty-three per
cent, of the whole, and twenty-four per
cent, is wasted. Until quite recently
only twenty-seven per cent, of the coal
rein could be used. The pillars required
forty-one per cent, and thirty-two per
cent was wasted.
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.
I.- the Senate, on the 3d, the calendar of
jases unobjected to was proceeded with unit
naiiy btllswcre read thethird timeand passed.
The House bill fixing rate of postage on mail
natter of the second class, when Mint by per
jonsotherthan publishers ornewg uncut, was
passed in the shapcit came from the House, ex
;ept that the newspaper-limit or weiKht forone
lent postage was extended to four ounce
tii the House u resolution to adjourn on the
5td of June was introduced by Mr. Kldrid?e.
The House then took up the Lcsris-Iative
Appropriation bill with amendments, as re
ported by the Committee of the Whole. The
imendments prohibiting committee clerks
from performing work or a private character
fort lie members, was rejected. The amend
ment exempting all distilleries which mith
en bushels or less from the operation of the
arovisions of title S3, revitcd statues, except
is to the payment of the tax, was adopted.
Veas, 118; nays. 74. The remaining amen.l--nents
were agreed to and the bill pa.-cd.
Veas. IS1; nay. 40. Representative StewHrf.
3f Texas, introduced a bill authorizing the
1'resident to issue a proclamation carrying
nto effect the Mexican KeciprocitvTreatv
whenever he is satisfied that the President o'f
Mexico has issued a similar proclamation.
Ox motion of Mr. Ingalls the Senate, on
the Sd. resolved that when It adjourned it be
Jtitil the Cth. In accordance with unan
mous undei standing the Senate proceeded to
:he consideration of the calendar of case un
objected to. Among the lull read a third
:ime and pased was a bill introduced hv Mr.
-onger granting an annual leave of fifteen
Jays-' absence' with pay to letter carriers. The
aili passed authorizing the sale ot a portion ot
:he Fort Hays military reservation to the
Eilik County Agricultural Societv of Kan-a.-;
he bill providing for the sale of the fiickapoo
liminished reservation in Kansas. A hill
oasd fixing the cost of the site lor
.he public building at Leavenworth. Ka..
it not to exeeeil flOU.GWl: and the
House bill authorizing the construction of
3ridgcs aero.- the MisMjuri Hiverat Lcaven
r orth, Kas.. and near the town or Hulo. Itich
lrdsoii County Xeh. Sixty-two Mils in all
were passed In the House. Mr. Pavsnn. nf
Illinois, as a question of privilege, called up
for consideration the bill reported from the
rommittee on .Public Lands, to prevent the
jinawiui occupancy 01 puuiic land. l'as-el.
The House resumed consideration of the bill
:o forfeit the Oregon Central land grant. An
intendment offered by Mr. George, of Oregt.ii.
'o confine the forfeiture to unearned lands
. lost by a vote of em to 97. The vote on the
3asnge of the bill ttood yeas lilt, nays 22 no
juoruni.
The Senate was not in session on the th.
. In the House, Mr. Hopkins, of Pennsyl
vania from the Committee on Public Build-
ngs. submitted a report on the charges of eor
uption or collusion in regard to the selection
if a site for a public building at Brooklyn. X.
V. 'J he report was agreed to and a sub-committee
was authorized to be sent to Urooklvn
for further investigation. The Oregon Cen
:ral land grant forfeiture was taken tin
tnd passed Veas, 13S: nays. 2t. The
senate amendments were non-concurred
n the bill establishing a Bureau of Labor Sta
.ities. The Senate amendments wete con
curred in the Joint resolution tnakinir an
idilitinnal appropriation for the relief of suf
ferer in Louisiana from the overflow of the
Mississippi. A bill was passed amending the
ict to exclude public lands in Alabama from
he operation of laws relating to mineral
(and. The provisions of the bill were ex
tended to the States or Louisiana. Florida and
Arkansas. Mr. Henlev. of California, then
sailed up the bill forfeiting the land. granted
to the California JC Oregon Itallroad, except
uch lands as were granted for that portion
3f the road which was completed before the
1st of July. INS). After vigorous remark bv
Mr. Cobb, of Indiana, in support of the bill, a
vote was taken on its pa-sage. It stood:
Vea. $i; nays. W. There being no quorum
the House adjourned.
The Senate was not in session on the
5th In the House, on motion of Mr. Peters,
of Kansas, the Senate bill pas?cd authorizing
the construction of a bridsre across the Mis
souri River ut Leavenworth. Ka.. The House
then proceeded to vote on the California and
Oregon Land (5 rant Forfeiture bill, with the
result of yea 145. nays 6. There wa no quo
rum. A call of the House disclosed the pres
ence of 21U members, and the hill was
P ed; yea l.V. nays in. Mr. Pavsoii.
or Illinois, called up the Senate bill to re
peal section one of the act entitled "an act
making a grant of lands in alternate sections
to aid in the construction and extension of the
Iron Mountain Railroad from Pilot Knob, in
the State of Missouri, to Helena, in Arkansas,
approved July 4. 1N3G. In com-ideration or the
forfeiture the Iron Mountain Railroad Com
nanv is released from the obligation of
land grant railroads. The amendment
was adopted excluding from this re
lease that part or the railroad between
Poplar RJuH.Mo.. and the Arkansas State line,
and as amended the bill was passed. Mr. Lewi,
of Louisiana, called up the bill for the forfeit
ure of the New Orleans, Raton Rouge A: Vick
bnrg land grant. Messrs. Ellis, of Louisiana.
Belford. or Colorado, and other Republicans
filibustered. Without acting further the
House adjourned.
Of all horses in President Arthur's
stables the one which, perhaps, excites
more inquiry and elicits from visitors
more of iuterest is the clean-limbei',
trim-looking little Indian pony given to
Mr. Arthur by an Indian chief last sum-mejroa4js-trrrrf
lirough the Yellowstone
rark. In the interval x.i the gift of the
pony and the present time every effort
has been made to tame and break him
in, yet without avail. Those in charge
of him state that never for a moment is
he off his guard; ever keenly alert
and watchful of the slightest movement
Dn their part to prevent and balk their,
designs, he successfully eludes every ar
tifice which human ingenuity can invent
whereby to subjugate and render him
like unto other horses.
The explosion in the Pocahontas mine
in Southwest Virginia, by which so
many men lost their lives, is now at
tributed to the presence of a great deal
of fine coal and coal dust on the floors
of the mine. The dust, mingled with
air, constitutes an explosive mixture
which can be fired by the approach of a
flame of any kind. In the Pocahontaj
mine, where this dust was very abundant '
there was no lack of opportunities for
the introduction of flame, as it was cus
tomary to use a great deal of powder in
blasting out the coal. Some of the
powder was undoubtedly wasted bv the
inexperienced miners and mingled with
the tine coal, thus adding to the danger.
A locomotive with an open fire was also
being constantly run into the mine. It
it considered certain that there was no
fire-damp.
rOMTICAL AND PERSONAL.
A. W. Kelley, the poet, known as
"Parameus Mix," died recently at Frank
lin, Ky.
Martin R, H. Witter, of St. Louis, has
been elected President of the International
Typographical Union.
Oscar Wilde was married to a Miss
Lloyd in London on the SJ.
A Portland, Ore., special of the 4th
says: Complete returns of the State elec
tion are still wanting. The majority of
Herman, Republican, for Congress, will be
fully 1,700. I- is believed Thauer, Demo
crat, has been elected Supreme Judge. The
returns received are that the Legislature
will have a Republican majority of four on
joint ballot.
Five members of the Democratic Na
tional Committee, who form the sub-com-aiittee
of arrangements for the coming
National Convention, met in Chicago on
the 4th and appointed local committee.
W. J. SriCEK accepted the general man
lgement of the Chicago & Grand Trunk
road.
Ulysses Grant, Jr., was a defendant
n the Supreme Court at White Plains, N.
i., recently, in a suit brought Ly John P.
Bailey for ?10,000 damages for injuries
illeged to have been caused by one of Gen
jral Grant's Arabian stallions which Were
presented bv the Khedive of Egypt. The
:ase was continued.
William H. Vanderbilt, Cornelius
Vanderbilt, Sidney Dillon, and othtr
Lave been elected Directors of the South
rn Canada Railway.
Marine Bank, shows: Liabilities, $4,230,
81: nominal value of real and personal es
tate, $1,179,392; estimated actual value,
Si8--',594.
Govprnor Hoadley has issued a proclo
mation calling the attention of the Ohic
people to the World's Industrial and Cot
ton Exposition at New Orleans.
G. T. Foster & Co., wholesale medicines
at Detroit, have failed.
D. Lutz & Son's brewery burned at
Pittsburgh, Pa., the other night. Loss,
80,000.
It was reported that fourteen persons
were killed i ecently in an accident on the
Missouri I'acitic i'ailroad between Uen
mson and Gainesville, Tex.
Tim following additional particulars of
the death of General Babcock haw been
received: General Babcock, with clrrks
I rom the Fifth and Sixth Lighthouse Dis
tricts, arrived on the tender Pharos oil
Mosquito inlet, Fla., on June 2. A large
whale boat with seven men went off to him
about twelve o'clock. On her return Bab
cock and party embarked in her to come
ashore. On the outer bar breakers the
steering oar was broken, and the boat filled
and capsized. The General held on to tin
boat until she reached the shore breakers,
when he and all hands were torn from the
boat and be with three others were
drowned.
White and black outlaws were commit
ting outrages in Beaufort County, S. C,
burning houses, destroying crops and steal
ing stock.
Macalister & Co.'s planing mills nt
Cleveland, were damaged to the extent of
i3),(XA) the other morning, by a fire of un
known origin.
Three hundred leading merchants at
tended the annual banquet of the Mer
chants' Association at Plankinton House,
Milwaukee, the other night.
A Coshocton, O., special says: The
Democrats of the Sixteenth District re
nominated Beriah Wilkins for Congress.
Charles C. S. Bra ly and George M. Jewett
delegates to Chicago, and instructed theiu
for Tilden and Hendricks.
A fire in Liverpool recently destroyed
three thousand bales of cotton in Zarega's
warehouse. The aquarium in Bishopsgate,
London, with several lions and bears was
also burned.
The Elevated Railroad bill, which had
been dragging along in the St. Louis Muni
cipal Assembly for many months, and
which verybody thought was killed, wa
taktn up by the Council, recently, and
passed.
A decline of three cents in whisky at
Cincinnati on the (5th was regarded as n
disruption of the pool. A leading distiller.
a member of the pool, directly declared tc
customers that he would not base invoices
on pool quo,ations of high wines, but would
base on 1.0$. That actioir becoming
known, the quotation of high winesdropped
to that figure.
Mrs. Jones, an old lady living a few
miles north of Stan wood, Mich., w
walking to town on the railroad track re
cently and was caught upon a long bridge
by a freight train. To escape she leaped
from the bridge to the water, a distance ol
thirty feet. When picked up she was un
conscious and could not recover.
Adolphcs Bloomenau, of Bay City, the
jockey crushed under his horse at the rncej
at Lansing Mich., died next day. Ed.
Nichols, injuied at the same time, was re
covering.
A gang of drunken roughs went to the
agency of Gipps' Brewing Company at
Streator, 111., and demanded drink. Or
being refused they assaulted the son-in-law
of the agent, who was in charge, and he
drew his revolver and shotone Mike Ryan.
The wounded man was not expected to live.
The failures of seven days reported are
In the United States, I'M; Canada, 16
Total, 215.
Several horses died and a numbei
were sick in the vicinity of Shabbona, 111.
The disease was said to be pink eye. Some
farmers also lost a number of pigs, the lat
ter from undetermined causes.
NEBRASKA STATE NEWS.
AVDITIONAI. JASPATCIfEN
The Natic nlists piradcd the streets of
Newrv-, Ireland, oil the S:h, with Lands and
bani.ers. A meeting was held outside the
town, and on the return of the Nationalists
from the meeting they threw stones, and
when they reached the Prot -slant quartur
of the town the Pro'estants retaliated. Sev
eral shots were fired. The police and troops
interfered. Four Nationalists and sevrrnl
Orangemen were crrested. Many persons
were injured.
Twenty deaths occurred at Havana from
yellow fever during the past week.
FRANC-and England have agreed upon
bisis o. conference upon Egyptian af
.'alrs. The terms of the agreement have
been imparted to the powers. They aflirm
.he pnncipleof temporary ffccupittion of
Egypt by England, to which no limit is
Sxed, p;opj?e an international control of
tne i ower to audit the whole system of
revenue and expense in Egypt. England
recognizes the sozerian rights of the Porte
throughout E;yi'tf includ.ng the Soudan,
and France foiiually abandons all claim of
dul control.
J. H. Squier & Co., bankers and brokers
of Washington, clo-ed their dcors and made
an assignment recently. They dealt prin
cipally in army und navy accounts, and
were unable to realize on them in time to
m el unexpected demands from outside
cie llto'.s.
Winslow & Rogers shoe factory at
Salem, Boston, burned recently. Lots,
Jl'Xl.UJO. Brlieved to be incendiary.
The comer stone of the new Catholic
A malicious itemizer insinuates that the
supply of preachers and lawyers exceeds
the demand at York.
Tiik ninth anuual session of the Ne
braska Eclectic Medical Association met at
Omaha on the 'JMli of May and was called
to order by the I'roiilcnt, W. II. Babcock,
who, dclivciol Ids annual address. J. L.
Hickman. O. M. Mimm. K. M. Butler. II. J.
Alexander mid 1.. I. Polk, were admitted
as memlMTH. An umi-tuhiirtit to the con
stitution wan otterril eoiititiiiig tilt: :i(lnii
Ion lo mt-iiihfi.-Oilp to e, null Kites nt a icgii
lar iiirilli'ii! college. An iiiii'iiilmeiit was
also ptc.M'iiteil dunging the rniiitltutioii so
that un aiiH-iidmi'iit ean lie adopted at the
sumo meeting ut which it i.i iie.-ehti'd. The
following ulluvi were elected: I're.iiileiit,
I. Van Camp, of Omaha; ViVe-l'u-Iilciit,
1.. K. Polk, of liayiiionil; N-cietary I:. J.
Grimes, of Lincoln; Trcisiiicr, II. V.
Yates, of .Spriiigtield; Mould of (Vn-urs, .1.
A. Woodwuid, of Omaha; O. M. Mon; and
K. M. Butler.
Bi'Kdi.Aitvathl robber havegrown to-ucli
a pitch in Lincoln that it lias been ug
goled that the Mayor idler a rewanl ot mui
bundled dollars tor the head of any one
who may be killed in the act.
Ct'Mi.vc County has appropriated Jj-,00
to fix iii the leading roads of the county.
Major I). II. Whkki.kic's barn at 1'latts
inouth was reduced to ashes by an incen
diary the other nighL He ligined his loss
at S550, with S'-iOO insurance.
Tiik German Lutherans have just occu
pied their new church at Fremont. I he
building and grounds cost Sli.OUO, which K
nearly all paid.
Tiik next annual meeting of the Ne
braska Eclectic Medical Association will be
held at Omaha on the third Tuesdav in
May, 1SS."i.
Tiik oilicial call is published for a Ue
puhlicau State Convention to be held at
Omaha, August 27, for the purjxise of
placing in nomination candidates for five
Presidential Electors. Also, for Governor,
Lieutenant-Governor. Secretary of State,
State Treasurer, Auditor of Public Accounts,
Commissioner of Public Lauds and Build
ings, Superintendent Public Instruction,
Attorney-General, and such other business
as mav be presented to the convention. It
is recommended that no proxies be admitted
to the convention, except such as are held
by persons residing in the counties from
which proxies are given.
A kkmiiknt of South Lincoln left his
cellar door open the other night, and a stray
var, looking for a place to slt'p, spied it
and entered. From the cellar he found his
way up to the second lioor, entered the
siKire bedroom and went to bed. He had
performed this feat very quietly and had
not disturbed the inmates. In the morning
the lady ot the houe went to the foot ot
the stairs and called "breakfast" The
tramp heard it and called back to cook his
beefsteak rare. I he man of the house was
summoned to make an investigation, but
w.'ien he arrived on the scene the vag had
vacated as stealthily as he had enteret
Jack Hani.ky, the convicted prize
fighter, has taken up his quarters in the Pen
itentiary. An unknown man was killed by the cars
at Gibbon recently. The body was cut in
two.
Onk of the appropriation bills which re
cently passed Congress contained an appro
priation for a bridge across the Niobrara
and Bazil Creek in Knox Comity. In con
sequence there is a real estate boom.
Phillips is the name of a new town laid
out on the B. it M. Road about twelve miles
west of Aurora.
Ai.nKirr Mitc-uhli. was recently arrested
at Omaha for the murder of a man named
Thumb at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, laA March.
He was taken back to Cedar Capitis for
trial.
Sr.vERAL prisoners recently attempted
to break jail at Lincoln but were thwarted
by Mrs. Metick, the Sheriffs wife.
RIDDLE'S RIDDLE.
rhe rr"lilrnt of th Iefunrt IVnn Hank
TelU Why Thin r Tliu.
rrrTSBfKGli, Pa., June .'.'.President
Riddle made a statement of the affairs of
' the Penn Bank and the causes which led to
its collapse. In it he charges the bank di
rectors with being concerned in the oil pool,
which wrecked the bank, and tells how the
failure was bioiight about. He recites how
the position of the Presidency was
foR-od on him, and he soon discovered
that loans on oil collateral were exceeding
the collateral at the low prices .then
ruling. He complained to Cashier Reiber
and the Vice-President, who he had told to
hae these accounts maiJe up, and he told
them he could not see what was to be done
unless by personal exertion they could get
all the jieople to buy enough oil to put the
pi Ices up, and buy enough on the bank's ac
count to make good these accounts. "I told
.Mr. Collier," he said, "and I told part of the
board, viz: T. 15. Laughlin. and J. N.
Blown, A. M. Cavit and Major Swearingen
ot my intention, and told all of
them that 1 wou'd not then or any
other time buy a single barrel
formy-elf. I had only a wish to makeup
tlne accounts. 1 went East and the board
knew the nature of my errand. I had a lot
ot people there to buy, and a lot here to
buj. The .sole purMise of this scheme was
the profits f the bank. I had no individual
inlen-st in the venture at all. In May,
lfcfci. a large lot of oil was bought and the
piiee advanced. In the midst of tills I was
again taken sick. That was the time the
accounts named in the papers its ficticious
accounts were made; tome here for any
gain to go to the bank to make
up the.se old bank accounts; others
for individuals who would hope for a
divide. Now then, I want to say that these
directors did know all about this after I
went to New York to get sutli parties, as I
couhl buy oil with parties here and in Oil
City. I told these directors of the purpose
of my going. They bnv:ght out one f the
parties that transacted business through mo
on their individual accounts, as the accounts
in bank will show."
Kiddle, then gives in detail the names of
parties engaged in speculating with the funds
of the bank. The oilicial statement of the
bank directors, made later, characterizes
Kiddle's allegations as false in every par
ticular. They assert they knew nothing of
the oil speculations until after the bank sus
pended. CAUGHT AGAIN.
Aboit one thousand persons attended
the recent auction sale of town lots in the
new town of Barnestown on the Otoe
Reservation. Lots sold at prices ranging
from S-0 to 5315.
A Well-Known Hank ICoblxr and Thief Ar
retted lit Fifth Avenue Xrw York.
Nkw York, June U. Cufe Minor, a wcll
kaown bank thief, was arrested in Fifth
avenue for complicity in the robbery of a
bank in Augusta. Ga., March tM. He was
taken South. Minor, who is about forty
five years old, has been implicated in
nearly all the large bank robberies
which
ten or tw
such men
tie Horace, Little Billv Burke and Molly
Matches. He is of good appearance, has
great gift of gab. and possesses the art of
engaging a cashier's attention while a con
federate is sneaking the cash to perfection.
AVhen arrested he gave the name of George
Williams. The last time he was arrested
by Inspector Byrnes after the robbery of
the Bank of Baltimore, September 25. 1SS2,
TERS05AL A.D LITERARY.
Baltimore has voted to build aincr,
oment to Thomas Scott Key.
Mr. Corcoran, of Washington. Vu
shaken hands with every Prevail u e '
cept C'eorge Washington.
Mr. Yan Pliou Lee. a Chine-e "-j
uate of the Springfield IPgh 7. ,
has joined the editorial sta?l" of liiZ
Auiukc.
Mrs. Booth, editor r.f Harp,..-,
lluzur. g-ts 4,000 per year, nn I m ,'
Mapts, fur writing e.xehis.vc'v i(,r ,.
Iturti und Home, gets Sfcf.OoT j)tr u.,
Cassius M. Clay lives qu'ctlv -. . ,
Kentucky farm, taking litt.e or V ".. j'
of public affairs. "I'm not al-.ne.' ' .v
says: "I have my sheen, cattle. V."
birds and flowers: besides, am"wr ",
a book 'my memoirs." A J. .'"""
Reuben Bassett left PitM."r
thirty two years ago for Pikes i,."
and after traveling all over the w.r' '
and makina a fortune, he return,-' ."
his old home recently to speii I t!,e n
aiainderof his days- l'iU.'ft,L i
Mr. .John C. Kno. the collated ev
Pres.dent of the Second Nat onal l;a llv
of New York, took the wooden siioi'u
at Yale College a few years ao aa
honor irenerally accorded the nWt pon
rjlar man in the class. X. V. jnMnr..
'Dr. Chapin's wit." said Henr!
Ward Beecher, "flashed like the .yoke"?
of a wheel in the sun." One i&v he
sat. on Bcv. Dr. Kmerson's hat, and
then instantly arose and pa-sed the
crumpled hat to the owner. s.ivin-.
You ought to thank me for that., fur
your hat was only silk, but new i is
sat in."
A Nantucket correspondent of tie
Boston Ulobv says of the late Charts
O'Conor, the great New York lawyer
"On one occasion he laid a ten-dJlIar
bill ou the plate at the Koman CataoK
Church. At the next serv ee the p:
mentioned the cireumstam e. and Kirm-
13- praised the donor. 'JVuir sa
vory angry. 'They will rt no moro
from me,' he said. ?nd they did rt
O'Conor gave with a ffberal hand where
he believed the object a worth?
one Ile has distributed Si0.,oi- "
Nantucket,' said one who knew some
thing of his acts."
Mrs. IIarr"et Lane Johnston. :h
niece of President Buchanan, oiuet'e
lady of the White House, and a wortiir
object of admiration the land o;-r.
again sutlers in the death of her hisl
band, H. E. Johnston, the Bait niero
Danker. Mr. Johnston died in Xw
York of pneumonia. Mrs. Johnston"
two young sons died two years ago, ono
in Baltimore, and the other, not six
weeks later, in Paris. The parents re-
au tne targe nans roouenes 1 weeKs later, in Pans. The parents re
have Iieeu committed in the past ( centlv endowed two hospitals in Bal i
twelve years. He is an associate of . cwre; in mem0rv of the children. O
mi as Jojinny. Ionian Lig Lice. Lit- js ,hfi Harriet Lano Johnston Itepifi.
for Girls and the other is
aurses. Ciicaijo Tribune.
for
pira
tta:niD!T
IIUiflCROUS.
Owing to the crazy- juilt man's,
society young nicn on small inc-mp
haxe been obliged to fall back on .tne
old black tie. It is too narrow for a
of S62.000. he managed to eseane eonvie-
4lS?t t?l t-. ai I'nikllMI ti !' luukli iB.mar
niti. 111, c .- iwiivitu u itaiu 7vti lunula .1 - iiiii .
those who robbed the Firt National Bank ' patch and too black to be attractive-
of Detroit of S:;- 0(h) in lSTf). tin Midillrw nurifvru rosi.
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town savings ju:uikoi mj,uu m isi. ami
the Philadelphia Safe Deposit Company of
STI.OOt) in railway bonds in 1SS2. He also
had something to do with smaller affairs,
such as the Brooklyn Posf-oflice and Provi
dence Gas Coniiauy robberies.
.
A b'cHE.VKCTADT dispatch says President ! Church of S'. Francis X ivier, corner of
Potter, of Union Ct liege, cables his accept
mce of the presi lency of Hobart College.
Miss Cora Peters, a young lady of
twenty-two, has been missing from her
home at Vevay, Ind., for a week. She was
sent by her mother for some groceries and
never returned.
3IISC ELI. AN EOCS.
Berlin disj atches state that Gernany's
colonial policy is being much discus.-eu ny
the Crown Prince Frederick William and
Bisirttrck.
Earl Graxvillkw3s preparing a note to
Washington in relation to the collection of
conspiracy funds within the jurisdiction of
the United State-.
Tne French Parliamentary Committee
iri uiring into the importation of American
silted meats approved the report, agreeing
to such imports after the meat i by micro-
Ginud and Lindell avenues. St. Louis, was
Inid on the S:h with imposing ceremoni-s
and in the presence of an immense throng
of people.
A suit has been filed against the direc
tors of the Penu Bank, of Pittsburgh, by
over two hundred depositors. They
charge negligence and dishonesty, and ask
ihe court to make the directors and ollicers
personally liable for tae deposits.
The Senate was not in session on the T:h.
The House discuss-d the repeal of the
timber and pre-emption law?, and on a
vote being taken, no quorum was present,
when an adjournment took place.
The other evening the large round house
and repair shops of the Wabash, St. Louii
& Pacific and the St. Louis, Des Moines &
Northwestern Railroad, at Dss Moines, la.,
burned to the ground. It was supposed tc
be the work of an incendiary. Nine en-
.il. -..-.! . - A.I - a. -
cope or oiuerwise mmuieiy examined, at ; gines were strovecl, also all tne ma
the same time it-urges the prohibi i m of j chinery stalls in theVepair shops, together
the impor ation of fresh meats from coun- with one passenger coach. The approxi
tries wlit-re it is known trichinosis exists-, j mate loss was ili'5,0" 0. The two latter
Tue Quarantine and Sanitary Confer- roads were left with 110 engines tc
ence at New Cvleans- adjourned to meet at ! send out train. The Sr. Louis, DsMines
& Northern had only two engines left on
Pensacola, in May, 1SS3.
The schedule in the insolvent assign-
meut of Jain?s D. Fish, ex-President of the
the entire road, and the St. Louis,
Moines & Northern onlv one.
Dej
There is a good deal of excitement at
P.tpilliou over the arrest of one of the oldest
and best known citizens of Sarpy County,
on the charge of horsestealing.
One of the elevated wire bicycle perform
ers who fell during the circus performance
at Columbus died from the effects of the fall.
1L.nk Petit, who has been engaged In
running a ferry-boat across the Platte Kiver
dt Oieapolis, has disappeared aud it is sup
posed that he has been drowned.
The South Presbyterian Church at Oma
ha was dedicated the other Sunday.
Nick Bi:i;ur.a horse-trader, and reported
to be afflicted with lumcy. killed a man
named Williams, near PJattsinouth. and
then shot himself through the heart.
The little two-year-old son of F. A. Sav
age, of Lincoln, lecently fell into a bed of
nwlv-made mortar, ami was seriously in
jured about the face aud eyes.
Lincoln's town clock fund is S'JoO slum
of a success.
The State Board of Equalization hnn
raised the assessment of the B. A: M. line
$2,000 a mile. The returns to the Auditor's
oflice show the business of the 15. fc M. tc
be largely in excess of the Union Pacidc.
Weeimno Water continues smiling at
the prosjiect of another railroad. ,
The northern part of the Stale is boom-
niir. O Neil has over one hundred and fifty
houses going up.
Hon. C. II. VanWyck will deliver ar
oration on the second day of the Bun
County Fair the coming fall."
Akolt three thousand head of yearling
cattle were Iwuglit by Ogallalla parties re
cently. They came from Missouri and
Texas.
At a recent election at Albion, the propo
sition to bond the district in the sum of 5,
O0J to build a school house was unanimously
adopted.
It is stated that about three hundred
claims have Ix-en taken up on the Omaha
reservation and at least two hundred aud
fifty farms have been ojiened.
A woman named Fraizcr came so neat
being crushed by the cars at North Bend tht
other day. that a lortiou of her dress wn.
torn by the wheels. The shock of her nar
row escape prostrated her for some time.
A section of the Platte bridge at Fre
mont w;as moved by the recent flood, but the
damage was repaired in a few hours.
Decoration Day generally observed.
There will be an important addition tc
ths assessment roll of Lincoln County nex.
spring, .rjoui 3..oo acres of railroar.
land, which has heretofore escaped taxation
will be listed.
One night recently burglars entered the
residence of Judge Wakely. at Omaha,
through the cellar. After having gone 111
stairs, too many Ixilted doors were encouu
tered for them to bo able to make anv pro
gress. They returned to the cellar and
there they found and carried off a set ol
harness valued at S150, also other propcrtj
All the larger towns of the Stat-i sic
preparing to celebrate the approa.Vn:.'
Fourth.
Aj. old gentleman from Wisconsin wa
receiitly roblH.il of one thousand dollai at
Omaha through the bogus check racket.
l'tiblic Dent.
WAsrrrNC.TON, June 4. The following is
the public debt statement for May:
41- percents $ i'iO.WO.000.00
ff . - - . .- M.n.bi-.i)U.UM
Kefumllnjr certificates
Navy pension fund
Total interest bearing
Matured debt
I.ciral tenders
Certificates of deposit
Cold and silver cert itJcate
Fractional currency.
A Case of Melancholy.
The Musruump roo.ts on the hollow loj.
Itie Miirwup sit in the tree:
Whenever I jear the Hogwip sins.
My heart L sad in tue.
J
debt.$l,2t.S4ri.K.V).00
UW.273J8
;Mfi-a.4si.oo
i.uin.uo.on
SItt.IUt.-KI.00
c,isi.:fr9.3l
Total without Interest
Total deht
Total interest
Citsh in trea-urv
Deht le-s cash in the treasury.. l,4.'i.?&7.tf69
Decrease durinjr- Jliiv. 4.7tK41JM
Decrease since June :. lsxa 6I,&St.7I4.S8
CUItllKKT LIAUILIT1ES.
.TO.&s2n.31
1 ,S tStOT, 1 5.o7
io.na?.9to52
ns;t.-is,ffrr.4g
Interest due and unpaid.
Debt on which interest
ceased
Interest thereon
(Jold and cilver certificate? .
Cash balance available
has
1,4KVC.15
l-,'.TST5J3e.!
:i.Sl "."I
2'rt.ii-i:r,i.i.io
14.V17.t)J0.33
-v U .
available assets.
Cah In treasury ?
Bonds issued to I'aritic Kail
roads, interest payable by the
United Statts. principal out
standing Interest uecmed not yet paid...
Interest paid by the united
Interest repaid by companies
by transportation service. ...
By cash payments 5 per cent,
of net earning
Balance of interest paid by the
United States
.$ :ss,4ts.ti:r;.49
3s?,3cs,r;.48
1.615.5S7.W
61.160.79S.S2
1S.120.S.U12
6.15.10S.S7
42.3fv5.279.S3
Knocked Into a Cocked Hat.
Little IJock, Akk., June ." Word re
ceived from the Indian Territory says B. J.
Fuller, a Kansas stockman, while in transit
with a herd of cattle from Arkansas to Kan
sas, through the Indian Territory, was ar
rested and Ids stock seized by the Chero
kee authorities, who acted under Cherokee
laws, which prohibit driving stock through
the Nation, between April and November.
The United States authorities immediately
released Fuller and leseued his property.
Indian Agent Tufts, in dismisskiir the case,
said: "The Cherokee authorities have no
right to arrest and take possession of the
property of a United States citizen, under
such circumstances." This is a test case
and virtually annuls that part of the Chero
kee stock law.
Exit Frame Balldlngi.
Portland, Oiuc. June a. FIro to-day
destroyed a number of wooden buildings
heie. Over half a block was awept away,
very little being a.-ived. The loss will ex
ted titty thousand dollars. The hisuraueu
Is about half the loss. Tho Arc U retributed
lo tiu. incendiary.
At a dinner recently iriven bv Mt.
Mackey, the California bonanza man's
wife, in Paris, the table was coveted
with a veritable grassy lawn in minia
ture, the center-piece was replaced by
a small pond of water, in which fishes
leap'M about. Karc Mowers took the
place of trees.
Daniel Keirn, a Berks County fPa.)
farmer, walked teii miles to Kendiug
Monday with a grain bag containing
.5o,0:U in gold and silver coins over hi?
shoulder. He had kept it in the house,
tut recent burglaries were edging up so
cloe to him that he concluded to
bank it.
Wheneverthe Snoirpap toots his wot
To the wail of the Nipwhasrhen.
And the .Miscfunk chirps in the otilly iiiirat.
You bet I am lonelv then.
T rnnt HorU f
Lonsr ago some wag spoke of the
harbor's children as "little shaver.s.,r
But it is quite new to allude to the
212.MH.1ro.00 ; children of the upholsterer a? " little
I4.ouooouoo taekers:" to those of the butcher j
1 "young lambs; to those of the car
penter as "chips from the old block."
ami to the angry man's as "LtLe
pets.
Prof. Wiggins has broken loose
again, long enough to make the pleas
ant announcement that a per paretic
earthquake will shortly make a tour
through this country, trimmed with!
Asiatic cholera and cyclones. But con
sidering: that this is election year, only
most literal advertising can "make thi
thing a success. Life.
"Now,"' said the Boston school
teacher, "the question 1 am about to
put to you is an extremely difficult one,
and to answer it correctly you will be
obliged, metaphorically speaking, to '
imitate the trunk conformation ot tha
dromedary of the desert." . Western
school-teacher would have put the ques
tion and said, simply. "Now bump
yourselves." Chicago Tribune.
Here is the closing section of a let
ter which Walter Scott's betrothed sent
him two months before their marriage:
-'Before I conclude this lamous epistle
I will give ou a 1 ttle hint- th)f is. 1
not to put so many "musts' in cur
letters. It is beginning rather too soon;
and another thing is. that I take the
liberty not to mind them much. tuf i
expect you to mind nir. You must take
care of yourscf. you mut think of me.
and believe me yours, sincerely. C. C."
An old gentleman who Lad pro
voked the hostility of a fashionable lady
whom he had known in bovhood was
asked, by his wife what he had done tc
incur the lady's displeasure. "Nothing
at all." replied the innocent old man,
"on the contrary, I was cordial to her,,
and spoke of the time when I used c
draw her to school on a go-cart neariy
half a century ago!" His wife threw
up her bauds and murmured: "How
stupid men are!" Chicago Inter Ocean,
Santa Barbara probably pos-sses
the smallest team of mules in the coun
try. They are hitched to a street-car.
wnich is often taken for a cable dummy
in consequence. The other day the
passengers were surj nsctl by the car 1
fetching up with a sudden bump while'
on a down grade. After peering care
fully over the dashboard for a few mo
ments, the driver said: "Well, I'm
domed if them pesky critters haven't
got under the car ag'in." San Fran'
cisco Pott.
"Howd'y do this marnin', .Mm.
"Mulvaney?" "Furty wull. I thank y
Mrs. O'Doughan." "Wuz ye at th Miid
dleshang conshirt, I dunno?" "Dade
an' I wuz." "And how did ye Ioike the
entertainment. Mrs. O'-Ooughan?'
"Purty wull pur-ty wull, barrin some
disbcrarjan se-" " Phat wuz the
chune?" "The chune is it? How cud I
define the chune whin they wuz whip-saw-in
thira faddles so vahameutyez cud-
dent moind th' step at all at all." ra&
ord Sunday Alait.
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