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COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1882.
WHOLE NO. 630.
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CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION.
C. U. VanW VCK, U. S. Senator, Neb
raska Cit .
Alvin SaUXDKRS. U.S. Senator, Omaha.
E. K. Valksiine, Itep.. West Point.
T.J. Majors, Contingent Rep., Peru.
STATE DIRECTORY:
Albinus Nasck, Governor, Lincoln.
S.J. Alexander, Secretary or State.
John Wallieus, Auditor, Lincoln.
G. M. liartlctt. Treasurer, Lincoln.
C.J. Dilvvortb, Attorney-General.
W. W. Y. Jones, Supt. Public Inslruc.
C. J. Xolie-.. Warden of Penitentiary.
yHVAl'i,,iey' t Prison Inspectors.
C. II. Gould,
J. O. Carter, Prison Phvsician.
II. P. Mathevon,Supt. Insane Asylum.
JUDICIARY:
Geor-e II LakoJ AsocIate juge.
AiiiHa Cobb. )
S. Maxwell, Chief Justice,
FOURTH JU1MCIM. DISTRICT.
G. W. l'o.t, Jtulce. York.
' M. II. Hei-M-. District Attorney, Waboo.
C. A. Newman, Clerk.
LAND OFFICERS:
M. . Hoxie, Register, Grand Island.
Win. Anyan, Receiver, (Jrand Island.
LEGISLATIVE:
State Senator, M. K. Turner.
Representative, G. W. Lehman.
rir'TV DIRECTORY:
J.G. Mixxiu-., County Judge.
Jolm Slsiutler, County Clerk.
J. Y. Early, Treasurer.
I). C. Kavan:.iii:h. Sheriff.
L.J. Cimer, Surveyor.
31. Maher, )
Joseph Rivet, V Cmintv Commissioners.
H.J Hudson, )
Dr. A. Heintz, Coroner.
J. E. Monerief Supt. of Schools.
uyron .Miiiett, ,
W.M. Cornelius,f ,,U
U1IUII.UIUCU, I In.li.nrtWPnp
CITY DIRECTORY:
J. R. Measrher, Mavor.
A. It. Coffroth, Clerk.
J. It. Dekman, Treasurer.
W.N. Hvnsley, Police Judge.
J. E. North, Engineer.
coi'xcilmkn:
l.r IParrf lohn Itickly.
G. A. S"hroeder.
2d Ward I'at. Hays.
1. Cluck.
3d Ward I. R.ismussen.
A. A. Smith.
Columbux Pom OlMco.
Open on Sundays trum 11 a.m. to 12m.
and from 1:30 to G v. M. Business
hours except Sunday (i a. m. to s p.m.
Eastern mail? close at'll A. m.
Western mail- close at 4:Li.m.
Mai! leave- Columbus for Lost Creek,
Genoa. St. Edwards. Albion, Platte
Center, Humphrey, Madison and Nor
folk, every day (except Sundays) at
4:3.rip. in. Arrives at 10: Tm.
For Shell Creek and Crcston, on Mon
days and Fridays, 7 a. m., returning
at 7 P. m.. aine d ij s.
For Alexis, Patron and David City,
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays,
1 r. m Arrives at 12 M.
For Conkliiifr Tuesdays and Saturdays
7 a. in. Arrives fi p. in. same days .
I). I. Time Tuble.
Eastward Hound.
Emigrant, No. 0, leaves at ... 0:25 a. m.
Passcng'r, " 4, " ".... 11:00 a. in.
Freiirht, " S, " " .. 2:15p.m.
Freight, "10, " "... 4:30 a.m.
Westward Hound.
Freight, No. f, leaves at ... 2:00 p. in.
P.tssung'r, " 3, " "... 4:27 p. m.
Freight, "'J, " ".... 6:1)0 p. m.
Emigrant. " 7. " " 1:30 a. in.
Every day except Saturday the three
lines leading to Chicago connect with
U P. trains at Omaha. On Saturday
there will be but one train a day, as
hown by the following schedule:
O.. N. & It. H. ROAD.
Time Schedule No. 4. To take effect
June 2, '81. For the government and
information of employees only. The
Company reserves the right to vary
therefrom at pleasure. Trains daily,
hundays excepted.
Outward Hound
Inward Hound.
Norfolk . 7:20 A. M.
Munson 7:47 "
Madison .8:20 "
Huinphrev9:0ri "
PI. Centre 9:48
LostCreeklO.09 "
Columbus 10:55 "
Columbus 4:35 p.m
LostCreek5:21 "
PI. Centre 5:42 "
Humphrcv0;25 "
3Iadison "7:04 "
Munson . . 7:43 "
Norfolk . . 8:04 "
AI.1UO.V BRANCH.
Columbus 4:15 p.m.
LostCreek5:31 "
Genoa.. . G:1C "
St.Edward7:00 "
Albion 7:47 '
Albion ...7:43a.M.
St. EdwardS:30 "
Genoa . 9:14 "
Lo-t Creek9:59 "
Columbus 10:45 "
B. & M. TIME TABLE.
Leaves Columbus,
" Bell wood
" David City,
" Garrison,
" IMysses,
" Staplehurst,
" Seward,
" Rubv
" Milford
" Pleasant Dale,...
" Emerald
Arrives at Lincoln. . .
r.-
V:45 a. M.
6:30
7.20
7:40
8:25
.. 9:30 '
. 9:50 4
. . 10:15
10:45 "
. 11:10 4
.. 11:50 M
Leaves Lincoln at 12:50 p. M. and ar
rives in Columbus 7:00p. m.
Makes close connection at Lincoln for
all points east, west and south.
h. liters & co
BLACKSMITHS AND
"ew Brick Shop 0oiitp IlrlnU's Drug Storr.
ALL KINDS OF WOOD AND IRON WORK ON
WAGONS AND BUGGIES DONE
ON SHORT NOTICE.
Eleventh Street, Columbus, Nebraska.
50
NEBRASKA HOUSE,
S. J. MARMOY, Prop'r.
Nebraska Ave., South of Depot,
COL.lJ.TllSI?i, IV Kit.
A new house, newly furnished. Good
accommodations. Board by day or
week at reasonable rates.
jarSetw a Fli-ttt-ClaMN Table.
Meals, 25 Cts. Lodgings 25 Cts.
3R-2tf
COLVllIBlJg
Restaurant and Saloon!
E. D. SHEEHAN, Proprietor.
t3TWholesale ind Retail Dealer in Foreign-Wines,
Liquors and Cigars, Dub
lin Stout, Scotch and English Ales.
XS'Ktntucky Whiskies a Specialty.
OYSTBRS in their season, by the case
can or dish.
lit Etrt, featk ef Dsyat.
BUSINESS CABDS.
TR. CARL. NCHOTTE,
VETERINARY SURGEON.
Office at Dowtv. Weaver & Co's store.
A XDERSO. BOE.,
BANKERS, Collection, Insurance and
Loan Atrent, Foreign Excbauge and Pas
sage Tickets a specialty.
pORNKMUN A: SUl.LlYAIV,
ATTORNEYS-AT-LA W,
Up-stairs in Gluck Building, 11th street,
Above the New bank.
TJ 3. llUlSO.,
NOTARY PUBLIC,
12th Street, 2 doors west of Hammond House,
Columbus. Neb. 491-y
D
r. mi. i. tiiuimtoju
11ES1DENT DENTIST.
Office over corner of 11th and North-st.
All operations first-class and warrauted.
C
1III'A0 BAKBEK MHOl"!
HENRY WOODS, Prop'r.
lEverything in first-class style.
Also keep the best of cigars. 516-y
G
i:i:k st riedek,
A TTORNEYS A T 'LA W,
Office on Olive St., Columbus, Nebraska.
2-tf
G
O. A. HULLHORST, A. 31., M. D.,
IIOMEOPA Till C PHYSICIAN,
JSTTwo Blocks south of Court House.
Telephone communication. 5-ly
TXf f, MVi:its, n. .,
HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN.
Will attend to all calls night and
dav.
Oilice with O. F. Merrill, east of A A N.
Depot. SI 3mo
fcALI.ISTEK BROS.,
A TTOR2TEYS A T LA W,
Office up-stairs in McAllister's build
ing. 11th St. W. A. 3IcAllister, Notary
Public.
r 1. EVAKS Tit. !.,
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON.
2ST Front room, up-stairs in Gluck
building, :bove the bank, 11th St. Calls
an-wered night or day. 5-0ui
J. M. MACFARLANI, B. R. COWDKRY,
AU:ni7 aai Ustoiy TvXtt. Cellectsr.
LAW AX1 COLLECTION OFFICE
OF
MAC1 ARL AND & COWDER5T,
Columbus, : : : Nebraska.
G
EO. L. 3ICKELVEY,
PROPRIETOR OK THK
VCITY I1ARUKR SIIOI !h
j3T'I'weIftht St., five doors west of the
Haiuino d 52-tf
j; n.RiNCiii:,
llth St., nearly opp. Gluck's store,
SeMs Harness, Saddles, Collars, Whips,
Binnkets, Curry Combs, Brushes, etc.,
at the lowest possible prices. Repairs
pr mptly attended to.
BYRON MILLKTT,
Justiceof the Peace and
Notarj- Public.
BVKOX niLLETr,
ATTORNEY AT LAAV, Columbus
Nebraska. N. B. He will give
clote attention to all business entrusted
to him. 248.
T OU1S SCHREIBER,
BLACKSMITH AND WAGON MAKER.
All kinds of repairing done on short
notice. Buggies, Wagons, etc., made to
order, and all work guaranteed.
lESTShop opposite the " Tattersall,"
Olive Street. s.25
W
AC2.M3R Sc WESTCOTT,
AT THK
CHECKERED EARN,
Arc prepared to furnish the public w.'th
good teams, buggies and carriages for all
occasions, especially for funerals. Also
conduct a feed and sale stable. 49
JA31ES PEARSALL
18 PREPARKD, WITH
EIRST-CLASS APPARATUS,
To remove bouses at reasonable
rates. Give nim a call.
TOTICE TO TKACHKRS.
J. E. Monerief, Co. Supt.,
Will be in his office at the Court House
on the first Saturday of each
month for the purpose of examining
applicants for teacher's certificates, and
for the transaction of any other business
pertaining to schools. PG7-V
TAMES SALMON,
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER.
Plans and estimates supplied for cither
frame or brick buildings. Good work
guaranteed. Shop on 13th Street, near
St. Paul Lumber Yard, Columbus, Ne
braska. 52 Gmo.
WILLIAM RYAN,
DEALER IN
KENTUCKY WHISKIES
Wines, Ales, Cigars and Tobacco.
t5?Schilz'8 Milwaukee Beer constant
ly on hand.gI
Eleventh St. Columbus. Neb.
Brs. MITCHELL & XABTYH,
COLUMBUS
uEDitii i mm INSTITUTE.
Surgeons O., N. & H. H. B. R.,
Asst. Surgeons U. P. li'y.
COLUMBUS,
NEBRASKA.
JS. MURDOCH & SON,
Carpenters and Contractors.
Have had an extended experience, and
will guarantee satisfaction in work.
All kinds of repairing done on short
notice. Our motto is, Good work and
fair prices. Call and give us an oppor
tuuitytoestimateforyou. ETShop o
13th St., one door west of Friedhof &
Co's. store, Columbus, Jf ebr. 433-y
ADVERTISEMENTS.
MILlERY! MILLIMRY!
Mrs. M. S. Drake
HAS JUST RECEIVED A LARGE
STOCK OF
SPRING AND SUMMER
HIILIIEBY AN FAICY
S3T A FULL ASSORT3IENT OF EV
ERYTHING BELONGING TO A
FIRST-CLASS MILLIN
ERY STORE.aa
Nebraska Avenue, two doors north of the
State Hank.
27-tf
BECKER & WELCH,
PROPRIETORS OF
SHELL CREEK MILLS.
MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLE
SALE DEALERS IN
FLOUR AND MEAL.
OFFICE. COL UMB US, NEB.
Dr. A. HEINTZ,
DEALER IN
I niivsaival MBiavHaif
WIN KM, LIQUORS,
Fine Soaps, Brushes,
. PERFUMERY, Etc., Etc.,
And all articles usually kept on hand by
Druggists.
Physicians Prescriptions Carefully
Compounded.
Eleventh street, near Foundry.
COLUMBUS. : NEBRASKA.
SPEICE & NORTH,
General Agents for the Sale of
REAL ESTATE.
Union Pacific, and Midland Pacific
R. R. Lands for sale at from $3.00 to $10.00
per acre fur cash, or on fire or ten years
time, in annual payments to suit pur
chasers. We have also a large and
choice lot of other lands, improved and
unimproved, for sale at low price and
on reasonable terms. Also business and
residenco lots in the city. We keep a
complete abstract of title to all real es
tate in Platte County.
021
COLUMBUS, NEB.
PILLMY'S BM!
BUY' THE
Patent-Roller Proc ss
MINNESOTA
FLOUR!
ALWAYS GIVES SATISFACTION,
Because it makes a superior article of
bread, and is the cheapest flour
in the market.
Every sack warranted to run alike, or
money refunded.
HERMAN OEHLRICH & BRO.,
GROCERS.
l-3m
M. BECKER,
DEALER IK ALL KINDS OF
FAMILY GROCERIES!
I KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND A
WELL SELECTED STOCK.
Teas, Coffees, Sugar, Syrups,
Dried and Canned Fruits,
and other Staples a
Specialty.
GoodN DellrertNl Frre to aay
part efthe Cilj.
I AM ALSO AGENT FOR THE CEL
EBRATED COQUJXLARD
Farm and Spring Wagons,
of which I keep a constant siipplv on
hand, but few tbejr equal. In style and
quality, second to none.
CALX AND LEARN PRICES.
Cor. Thirteenth and J5T Streets, near
A. &N. Depot,
HIS CRAZY-BONE.
fte man that struck his crazy-bone
All suddenly jerked up one foot
And hopped th.-ca vivid hops, and put
Ills elbow straight before him then
Flashed wbtte as pallid Parian stone.
And clinched his eyes, and hopped again.
fie spake no word ho made no moan
He inuttcral no invective but
Just gripped his eyelids tighter shut,
And as the world whizzed past him tho.
He only knew his cruzy-bone
Was stricken so he bopped again.
-J. W. Bfetf.
BULL-FIGHTS IN MADRID.
In every crowd and cafe you see the
tall, shapely, dark-faced, silent men
with a cool, professional!' murderous
look like that of our border desperadoes,
whose enormously wide black hats,
short jackets, tight trousers, and pig
tails of braided hair proclaim them
chulos, or members of the noble ring.
Intrepid, with muscles of steel, and
finely formed, they are very illiterate;
we saw oue of them gently taking his
brandy at the Cafe de Paris, after a
hard combat, while his friend read from
an evening paper a report of the games
in which he had just fought, the man's
own education not enabling him to de
cipher print But the higher class of
tiiese professionals are the idols, the
demi-gods, of the people. Songs are
made about them, their deeds are paint
ed on fans, and popular chromos illus
trate their loves and woes; people crowd
around to see them in hotels or on the
street as if they were heroes or star
tragedians. Pet dogs are named for the
well-known ones; and it was even ru
mored that one of the chief swordsmen
had secured the affections of a patrician
lady, and would have married her but
for the interference of friends. Certain
it is that a whole class of young bucks
of the lower order "'Arrys1' is the
British term get themselves up in the
closest allowable imitation of bull
fighters, down to the tuft of hair left
growing in front of the ear. The espa
aas or matadores (killers), who give the
mortal blow, hire each one his cuadrilla
a corps of assistants, including pica
dores, bandcrilleros and punterillo. For
every fight they receive five hundred
dollars, and sometimes they lay up
large fortunes. To see the sport from
a seat in the shade, one must pay well.
Tickets are monopolized by specula
tors, who, no less than the fighters, have
tbeir "ring." and gore buyers as tne
bull does horses. We gave two dollars
apiece for places. .Nevertheless, the
route to the Place of Bulls is lined for a
mile with omnibuses, tartanas, broken
down diligences and wheezy cabs to
convey the horde of intending specta
tors to the fight on Sunday afternoons;
a long stream of pedestrians files in the
same direction, and the 3howy turn
outs of the rich add dignity to what
soon becomes a wild rush for the scene
of action. The mule bells ring like a
rain of metal, whips crack, the drivers
shout wildly; and at full gallop we dash by
windows full of on-lookers, by the foam
ing fountains of the Prado, and up the
road to the grim Colosseum of stone
and brick, set in the midst of scorched
and arid fields, with the faint peaks of
the snow-capped Guadarrama range
seen, miles to the north, through daz
eling white sunshine.
Within is the wide ring, sunk in a cir
cular bit of terraced granite crowned by
galleries. The whole great round, peo-
Slcd by at le:tst ten thousand beings, is
ivided exactly by the sun and the shad
ow soly sombra; and from our cool
place we look at the vivid orange sand
of the half-arena in sunlight, and the
tiers of seats beyond, where swarms of
paper fans, red, yellow, purple and
green, are wielded to shelter the eyes of
those in the cheaper section, or bring
air to their lungs. No connected ac
count of a bull tourney can impart the
vividness, the rapid changes, the sus-
Eense, the skill, the picturesqueness, or
orror, of the actual thing. All occurs
in rapid glimpses, in fierce, dramatic,
brilliant and often ghastly pictures,
which fade and re-form in new phases
on the instant The music is sounding,
the fans are fluttering; amateurs stroll
ing between the wooden barriers of the
ring and the lowest seats; hatless men
are hawking fruit and aguardiente
when trumpets announce the grand en
try. It is a superb sight: the picadorec
with gorgeous jackets and long lances
on horseback, in wide Mexican hats,
their armor-cased legs in buckskin trou
sers; the swordsmen and others on foot,
shining with gold and silver embroidery
on scarlet and blue, bright green, saf
fron, or puce-colored garments, carrying
cloaks of crimson, violet and canary.
At the head is the mounted alguazil in
ominous black, who carries the key of
the bull-gate. Everybody is punctual,
orderly, ceremonious.
Then the white handkerchief, as sig
nal, from the president of the games in
his box; the trumpet-blare again: and
the bull rushing from his lair! There
is a wild moment when, if he be of good
breed, he launches himself impetuous as
the ball from a thousand-ton gun di
rectly upon his foes, and sweeping
around half the circle, puts them to
flight over the barrier or into mid-ring,
leaving a horse or two felled in his
track. I have seen one fierce Anda
rasian bull within ten minutes kill five
horses while making two circuits of the
ring. The first onset against a horse is
horrible to witness. The poor steed,
usually lean and decrepit, is halted un
til the bull will charge him, when in
stantly the picador in the saddle aims a
well-poised blow with his lance, driving
the point into the bull's back only abont
an inch, as an irritant You hear the
horns tear through the horse's hide;
you feel them go through yourself. Ribs
crack; there's a clatter of hoofs, harness,
and the rider's armor; a sudden heave
and fall disaster! and then the bull
rushes away in pursuit of a yellow man
tle flourished to distract him.
. The banderilleros come, each holding
two ornamental barbed sticks, which he
waves to attact the bull At the brute's
advance he runs to meet him, and in the
moment when the huge head is lowered
for a lunge he plants them deftly, one
on each shoulder, and springs aside.
Perhaps, getting too near, he fails, and
turns to fly; the bull after, within a few
inches. He flees to the barrier, drops
his cloak on the sand, and vaults over;
the bull springs over too into the nar
row alley, whereupon the fighter, being
close pressed, leaps back into the ring
light as a bird, but saved by a mere
kair's-breadth from a tossing or a
trampling to death. The crowd follow
every turn with shouts and loud com
ments and cheers. "Go, bad little
bull!" "Let the picadores charge!"
"More horses! more horses!" "Well
done, Gallito!" "Time for the death!
the matadores!" and so on. Humor
mingles with some of their remarks, and
there is generally one volunteer buffoon
who, choosing a lull in the combat,
hrieks out rude witticisms that bring
the laugh from a thousand throats.
But if the management of the sport
be not to their liking, then the multi
tude grow instantly stormy; rising on
the benches, they bellow their opinions
tothapresident, whistle, stamp, scream,
gesticulate. It is the tumult of a mob.
appeasable only by the speedier blood
shed. And what bloodshed they get!
A horse or two, say, lies lifeless and
crumpled on the earth; the others,
with bandaged eyes, and sides hideously
pierced and red-splashed, are spurred
and whacked with long sticks to make
them go. But it is time for the
banderilleros, and after that for the
swordsman. He advances, glittering,
with a proud, athletic step, the tradi
tional chignon fastened to his pigtail,
and holding out his bare sword, makes'
a brief speech to the president: " I go
to slay this bull for the honor of the
people of Madrid and the most excellent
president of this tourney." Then
throwing his hat away, he proceeds to
his task of skill and danger. It is here
that the chief gallantry of the sport
begins. With a scarlet cloak in oue
hand he attracts the bull, waves him to
one side or the other, baffles him, rein
vites him in fine, he plays with and con
trols him as if he were a kitten, though
always with eyo alert and often in peril.
At last, having got him " in position," he
lifts the blade, aims, and with a forward
spring plunges it to the hilt at a point
near the top of the spine. Perhaps the
bull recoils, reels and dies with that
thrust;but more often he is infuriated,
and several strokes are required to fin
ish him. Alwavs, however, the blood
gushes freely, the sand is stained with
it, and the serried crowd, intoxicated
by it, roar savagely. Still, the "many
headed beast" is fastidious. If the bull
be struck in such a way as to make him
spout his life out at thS nostrils, becom
ing a trifle too sanguinary, marks of
disapproval are freety bestowed. One
bull done for, the music recommences,
and mules in showy trappings are
driven in. They are harnessed to the
carcasses, and the dead bulks of the vic
tims are hauled bravely off at a gallop,
furrowing the dirt The grooms run at
topmost speed, snapping their long
whips; the dust rises in a cloud, en
veloping the strange cavalcade. They
disappear through the gate flying, and
you wake from a dream of ancient
Rome and her barbarous games come
true again. But soon the trumpets
flourish; another bull comes; the samo
finished science and sure death ensue,
varied by ever-new chances and es
capes, until afternoon wanes, the sun
becomes shadow, and ten thousand sat
isfied people mostly men in felt som
breros, with some women, fewer ladies,
and a sprinkling of children and babies
throng homeward. George P. La
throp, in Harper's Magazine.
-
A Serious Case'.
Would Plato have acted that way?"
queried his Honor, as Charles Gillem
toed the mark before him.
"I swan to Goshen if he would!" was
the prompt reply.
The prisoner" was a little old man
sixty-two jears old. bald as plate glass
and not a sound tooth in his head.
" Would Cato have been such a
dunce?" continued the Court, as he
looked down upon that shiny pate.
"No, sir Pll be darned if he would!"
exclaimed the old man.
" You came in from the agricultural
districts yesterday. You had several
errands. You bought a pair of sus
penders for twenty-five ceuts; a red
handkerchief for half a dollar; a bottle
of perfumery for a quarter, and then
you slanU'd your hat over your left ear
and went down on the Central Mar
ket." " Yes, I did swan if I didn't!"
" You saw a woman there who pleased
your aged fancy."
" You bet I did! She was as purty as
peaches and as plump as a pullet Yum!
yum!"
" Scarcely waiting to ask her the price
of new potatoes, you led off with tho
statement that you owned a big farm,
had money in bank, was a widower,
and wanted to get married in time for a
summer trip to the seashore."
" That's it that's just what I told
her. Judge, and she acted pesky mean
to me."
" You had not been acquainted with
her abovo seven minutes when you
asked her to be yours. In reply she
bombarded you with cabbages, and you
knocked twenty-six bottles of horserad
ish off a bench and was arrested while
rushing through the streets bare-headed.
Mr. Gillem, had Cicero conducted him
self in that manner, what would you say
of him?"
"Tuck it right to me, Judge, fori
deserve everything but death for my
foolishness! Judge, I wasn't drunk."
"Perhaps not."
"No, I wasn't It was one glass of
beer and my being a silly old goat that
got up all this fuss. She was a mighty nice
woman, though. I've been a widower
for eighteen years, and I've had my eye
on 'leven thousand different women,
but I never saw anything to beat her.
Judge, how can I settle this case? I
feci darned bad to think I've come to
town and raised a row, and I want to
do what's right How much will kiver
the damages?"
"It's a serious case."
" You're just right it is! Tve been a
tough old pill in my day, but this is the
worst scrape I ever got into."
"Are you going home?"
"Goin' hum right away to-day
this morning by the fust train. 1
hain't used to the ways of a town, and
I've had trouble enough. Will you take
fifty dollars and call it square?"
" I guess five will do. You are old
and innocent, and we make allowances
in such cases."
"Only five dollars! Great jewhitta
kers! but I don't see how you can pay
rent and keep going! Here she is. Judge,
and I tell you I'm a thankful mai I
come within an inch of going to State
Prison, and you bet Pll never forgit
your kindness. Can I go now?"
"Yes."
"AU right all right Fm so happy
that I'd like to give a yell and crack my
heels together. Good-bye, Judge
good-bye, all here I go!" Detroit Free
The statue of Washington which is
to ba erected on the steps of the United
States Sub-Treasury, on Wall street, by
the New York Chamber of Commerce
will be thirteen feet high, above the
pedestal. The figure will be standing,
with the weight chieflv on the left foot
and will be in the civil costume worn by
Washington. The right hand will be
extended at the level of the hip. It is
to be completed in time for the centen
nial anniversary of the evacuation of
the city by the British, November 25,
1883. N.'Y. Times.
m m
In the list of voters in Ward One,
Augusta. Me., may be found the names
of the United States Minister to Swe
den, two ex-United States Senators, an
ex-Governor of Maine, an ex-Judge of
the Supreme Court of Maine, the largest
newspaper publisher in the country, the
heaviest railway magnate in Maine, a
Judge of the Superior Court, and Gen
erals, lawyers, doctors and ministers ia
large numbers. Boston Post.
A Chinese Mazeppa.
On Wednesday of last week there oc
earred a thrilling tragedy at Brookville,
in Arizona. On that day, within about
four miles of the above-named town,
there were three cowboys. Their jing
ling spurs, their long-horned and
hrightly-mounted saddles, on which
were coiled like long, lithe, limber
snakes, rawhide riatas, the predomin
ance of bright color displayed in saddle
blanket and clothing, the gleam of the
polished pistol and knifo, and the rude,
active health and vivacity of horses and
riders, made them a picture pleasant
to look upon, when such an inspection
could be made with safety. They were
known to their associates as Jake Mc
Cray. Billy Folansbee, and Tom Dil
wortli; but whether these names were
conferred on them at the baptismal font
was a matter of considerable doubt and
conjecture. They had been carousing
in town, and were then on their way
back to their rendezvous. Suddenly a
Chinaman appeared, laden with baskets,
and with a dog trot slowly approached
them, and his little pig-like eyes showed
that he had an instinctive fear of the
horsemen. This was an opportunity
for cruel sport which the cowboys could
not let pass, and Jake McCray said to
his companions: "Boys, let's have a
China Mazeppa. I'll lasso the China
man' an' yons ketch a steer, an' we'll
tie John on an1 run him through the
streets of the town." To this okl
proposition Billy and Tommy jovfully
assented. In a few seconds Mcdray's
riata was describiug circles in the air,
and Ah Sin, dropping his burden, fled
for dear life ; but after a few bounds the
unerring riata encircled the limbs of
the Mongol, and he was jerked and
thrown ten feet in the air by the bound
ing horse of the cowboy. In the mean
time Billy Folansbee and Tom Dilworth
had pursued a huge Texan steer, and
Bill had thrown his riata on the animal's
horns, while Tom. by a deft underhand
throw of the rawhide, had encoiled the
animal's hind legs and thrown him
prostrate on the ground. There he lay
E anting and bellowing out defiance at
is captors, although in their expert
hands he was as powerless as an infant.
Billy and his companions shouted to
Jake McCray to bring over the prisoner,
and added parenthetically: "Be kerful
and don't kill the darn critter, as there
won't be any sport in giving a dead
Chinaman a ride." Jake McCray was
careful, but not as considerate as he
might have been, for, when he arrived
where the steer was struggling, the
Chinaman had lost the best part of his
blouse and about half the cuticle from
one side of his body. They fastened
the riata to the horns, and the trained
animals held the steer fully as well as
though the riders were in the saddle.
The trembling Chinaman made piteous
appeals to his captors, and even fished
out four $ 20 -pieces from some recesses
in his clothing, and offered them as a
bribe for liberty. The money was ap
propriated, but the longed-for freedom
was denied him. They laid the prisoner,
breast down, upon the steer and pulled
his hands well down on the shoulders
and tied them together. Then his legs
were pulled apart and secured firmly on
either side of the animal's loins, and the
Chinaman was tied so firmly on the
back of the animal that he looked, as
McCray expressed it, as "though he
growed there." The fastenings were
then removed from the steer. With
blood in his eye, and shaking his great
breadth of horn defiantly at his torment
ors, he charged suocesively first at one
horseman then at another, while Ah Sin
was yelling alternately, "Police!" and
"Murder!" in broken English and Chi
nese, at the top of his voice. His cap
tors made the air fairly ring with devil
ish merriment. Finally the "fiery, un
tamed" steer was headed for town, and
then began a race which beggars de
scription. Over gully and ditch he went,
making stupendous bounds each time
these obstructions were encountered,
and each bound being accurately
recorded by the Mongolian, for he fairly
rent the air with his screams, and the
length of the cry was regulated by the
distance covered by the steer in a jump.
The cowboys were more than delight
ed with the "success of their scheme.
The steer would endeavor to turn, but
his remorseless tormentors headed him
at every point; when endeavors to make
these turns would develop abnormal
bursts of speed, long-drawn-out wails
would issue from the unhappy Mongol ;
and when the animal settled down to an
ordinary ran the cry would sink down
low, and thu9, like the music of an
..Eolian harp, would the moans rise and
fall. The wild, frenzied bovine ap
proached a gully fully eighteen feet in
width, and, with a fierce snort and
bound, the steer gathered himself in one
supreme effort and cleared it by a
scratch. Jake McCray's horse, following
a little to the right, and at a narrow
place, also successfully jumped across
the dry chasm. But Bill Folansbee and
Tom Dilworth, following immediately
behind the Chinese Mazeppa, both came
to grief and were landed, horse and
foot, in the bottom of the ditch. Tom
recovered first and hurried his horse
along the bottom for a quarter of a
mile, and finally clambered out; but
Folansbee lay stunned in the bottom
while his companions continued the mad
chase. The steer was turned at midday
into the main street of the town. All
the dogs in the place chased the frenzied
animai and barked in chorus ; horses
broke from their fastenings, and behind
came McCray and Dilworth, shouting
like wild Apaches. The frenzied ani
mal, with his human burden, followed
everywhere by shouts, barks, and inde
scribable din, shot through street and
alley, was headed into square and plaza,
and finally succeded in going through
the Orion saloon, breaking up two flour
ishing pokor games, making his en
trance through the front door and his
exit at the back. His Nemeses, McCray
and Dilworth, as though playing "fol
low my leader," spurred their foaming
and reluctant steeds through the same
passage; and, although the proprietor
protested with a six-shooter, they, too,
made their exit with safety.
Up the street, with renewed vigor,
flew the unwilling Mazeppa and the wild
beast, the latter running amuck now
and endeavoring to pierce every living
thing he encountered with his long,
sharp horns. Suddenly, when in front
of the Court-house, the steer stumbled
and fell. Deputy Sheriff Charles Smith
took advantage of this, and with a few
quick cuts of his bowie knife released
the Mongolian Mazeppa from his peril
ous perch. The released Chinaman
threw himself under the protection of
the officer of the law. The harried
Btcer, seeing his mounted persecutors
approaching, struggled to his feet and
darted away. Tom Dilworth, when he
discovered his prisoner free, loosened
his riata aad shouted to McCray to
catch the steer, and he would capture
the Chinaman. Swinging his lasso
around, he charged up and loudly called
on the Deputy Sheriff to stand aside.
The officer of the law drew his pistol,
while the Mongolian crouched ami
trembled behind him, and the Sheriff's
deputy shouted defiantly: Touca him
at your peril." Without a second's
hesitation the riata was thrown, and
encircled the officer and Chinaman, but
before the line was tightened by the
quick-turning horse the crack of Smith's
pistol was heard, and Dilworth fell dead
from his saddle. Tho horse, frightened
by the falling body, bounded away, and
the two or three turns taken around the
horn held the riata firmly, and the brave
officer and abused Chinamaa were
dragged, bumped, and jolted through
the 'main street. The dogs made mat
ters worse by their barking, and th
citizens endeavored to intercept the mad
career of the riderless horse. Finally,
after dragging them a mile, the riata
broko. They were picked up, but so
badly were they bruised and torn that it
was hard to tell which was Caucasian
or which Mongolian. McCray, seeing
from the outcome of affairs that there
would be trouble, hunted up Folansbee,
informed him of the fatal termination,
and both fled in fear of their lives. Of
ficers are in pursuit, but ss yet they
have not been arrested. San Francisco
Examiner.
The Financial Difficulties of a Marquis.
I have been notichig, also, tho case of
the Marquis of Iluntly, who has pulled
himself into a nice financial picMe.
Some bill-brokers loaned him money,
understanding that his property was un
incumbered. He docs not seem to
have told them so, but they so under
stood it. And, right here, let me warn
you, on visiting London, to beware of
bill brokers, tailors, and others, who
would like to be your creditors. I have
had a little experience of that kind my
self, only I was. fortunate enough not to
get bitten. I had a letter of istroduc-
tion to the Earl of , when I came
over here, and in due time presented it.
The other night I drifted into the stalls
of a theater where the Earl had a private
box, aad between the acts he did me the
courtesy to beckon me into that more
Bechidcd resort. I went, of course, and
hail a very pleasant hour, because this
particular Earl is a mighty nice fellow,
and a bright one, as well. Imagine the
sensations which
percolated my very
marrow when, visiting
the American
Exchange next day, I found a dozen
letters from all kinds of tradesmen in
viting me to their shops, and extending
the most unlimited inducements by way
of credit I didnt understand it at all,
until I had unveiled the fact to a British
friend, who told me this anxiety to gain
my custom was based upon my experi
ence in the theater. I was supposed,
from ray association, to bo a very Mul
doon in financial solidity.
" But what," I asked, "if I accept
these offers, buy unlimited quantities of
things, and then don't pay?"
" Well," replied my friend, "you'll
go to jail, as sure as you're a foot
high."
From which it seems that these En
glish "trades-people crowd you into ,de0'
as deeply as they can, and then lock you
up for accommodating them. That is
what they seem to have been trying with
the Marquis of Huntly. One fellow
named Nicholson loaned him $10,000,
and, as soon as he went out of the coun
try on a pleasure tour, brought criminal
proceedings against Huntly for having
obtained the money under false pro
tenses. This, of course, only served to
stir up the others of whom he had bor
rowed at different times, and presently
suits were in covering some $37,500
more. Huntly was deeply in debt, as
most Englishmen of his class are. His
visit abroad was made with a view to
having his affairs straightened out, by
his friends and agents. He heard of
the proceedings while he was in Albania,
where he might have stayed if he had
wished, and those fellows could not have
touched him. But bo came straight
home and surrendered himself. How
much bail do you suppose they put him
under a man who clearly had no idea
of running away? Only $180,000, for
an alledged indebtedness of $47,500.
He found the bail, though. Lowlon
Cor. Chicago News.
French Detectire Methods.
The Paris detective service has dis
played considerable acuteness in discov
ering and securing the man Delphin
Grosjean, one of the four suspected of
the murder of Mme. Galsterer, in the
Rue Labat. The police had arrived at
the conviction that he had left Paris,
and had reason to believe that his hiding-place
was a locality called La Chap
elle. But there are in France about two
hundred communes bearing that name,
and it was no small test to search them
all. A commencement was made with
those in the neighborhood of Paris, and
all the La Chapelles in the departments
of the Eure. Seine-et-Oise and Seine-et-Marne
were tried without success.
On Saturday morning three detectives
who had been sent into the department
of the Oise informed M. Mace that they
were on the track of the man, who they
believed was working in a brickfield at
La Chtpelle-aux-Pots, about ten miles
from lieauvais. Grosjean had arrived
there five or six days before, and was
busy at work, no doubt hoping that the
police would never think of looking for
him in such an obscure place. The
officers, in order not to oxcite suspicion,
dressed themselves in laborers' clothes,
soiled with clay and brick-dust, and ap
plied for work, pretending that they had
been employed in the trade. One of
them even simulated a limp and related
to the men that he had hurt his foot in
charging a kiln. By that means they
were aljle to loiter about the field to be
sure of their man, without exciting sus
picion. It was resolved to arrest him
on Sunday, when the men were idle,
and thuy would have a chance of find
ing him alone, as, in the event of their
being mistaken, this would prevent dis
order in the works. They had not to go
far to seek for him, for they had no
sooner started than they met the sus
pected man coming towards tiieni on
the high road; he approached, and
asked one of the officers, who was smok
ing, for a light. The officer had the
man's photograph in his poeket, and he
was thus enabled to examine him well.
When sure that he was not mistaken, he
suddenly affected surprise, and, holding
out his hand as if he had not recognized
an old acquaintance, exclaimed : "Why,
is it you Delphin, old boy?" "You are
wrong," tho other stammered out;
"that is not my name." "I am right,
and you are my prisoner," the officer
returned, slipping a handcuff over the
man's wrist. Galignani.
An article in an exchange is headed
" Jay Gould to Sue for a Reputation."
What a man who is worth fifty millions
of dollars wants with a reputation is a
problem too deep for the average mind
to solve. Mr. Gould is rich enough to
buy a reputation if he wants one. We'll
let him have 'ours for one-third of his
wealth, and not a cent less because it
is the only one we have. Norrisioutn
Hmrald.
SCIEXCE AXD IJfDUSTUT.
The invention of fire-proof papers
seems to leave no excuse for the 'de
struction by fire of public records and
other valuable manuscripts.
An experiment has been made be
tween Melbourne and Albury which
shows that ordinary telegraph wires
will, for a distance of 200 miles, serve to
convey telephonic messages.
The English weights and measures
in common use in market reports or
agricultural produce are Uius uetineu ;
A truss of straw, 36 pounds; a truss of
old hay, 56 pounds ; a trus of now hay,
60 pounds. Thirty-six trusses consti
tute a load. One stone of butcher's
meat is 8 pounds. An odinary stone is
14 pounds, a quarter is 28 pounds, a
hundred-weight is four quarters, or 112
pounds, a bushel of flour 56 pounds, a
sack of flour, or five bushels, is 280
pounds. In dry measure three bushels
equal one sack ; of grain four bushels ;
twelve sacks equal one chaldron ; eight
bushels or two sacks equal one quarter,
and live quarters equal one load. Chi'
caao Times.
Experiments show that the new
chrome leather the result of the new
tanning process by bichromato of potash
exceeds in tensile strength the bark
tanned article; also, that after it has set
under the necessary stress, it still re
tains an extraordinary amount of elas
ticity, which is available for tightening
machinery belting on pulleys. An illus
trating this statement, the fact Ls shown
that a piece of chrome leather bore an
ultimate stress of 8,297 pounds per
square inch, while a piece of bark leather
only bore an ultimate stress of 2,672
pounds per square inch this example
roving the sample of chrome-tanned
eather to be stronger than the bark
tanned by some fifteen per cent. N. Y.
Sun.
Herr A. Gentilli, of Vienna, has
invented an instrument named by him
the glossograph consisting of an ingen
ious combination of delicate levers and
blades which, placed upon the tongue
and lips and under the nostrils of the
speaker, are vibrated by the movements
of the former and the breath flowing
from the latter. The vibration is trans
mitted to pencils, which transcribe the
several signs produced by the action of
the tongue and lips and the breath from
the nostrils upon a strip of paper moved
by a mechanical arrangement. Similar
to shorthand, a special system of writing,
which may be fitly termed glossogrnphy,
is produced, based upon the principle of
syllable construction and combination of
consouants.
PITH AX I) POINT.
It is the season for raising things.
The first thing generally raised in the
spring is the rent. After that come
spring radishes and greens. N. Y.
Graphic.
A school board in New Hampshire
summarily dismissed a school teacher
who got mad when the boys pegged him
with snow-balls. He supposed that he
hired out to peg the boys.
At a recent concert in London tho
fog was so thick that the musicians were
invisible to the audience, and the cor
nets and trombones had to be replaced
by fog-horns. N. 1. Post.
The New York Sun says that it is
perfectly natural for a (log to attach
himself to something and love it Don't
believe it. Ho is no sooner attached to
an old oyster t-an than he loves dim dis
tance. Detroit Free Press.
Nine per cent, of the Yale graduates
become clergymen, and quit ripping up
sidewalks, stealing gates and heaving
brick-bats through chamber wiudows.
The other 91 per cent, go out into the
world and whoop 'er up. Detroit Free
Press.
A family paper published a long
article entitled "housekeeping hereaf
ter." "Merciful heavens," groaned a
distracted mother of five children, and
keeper of one husband and two serv
ants, "if I thought there w:us going to
be any housekeeping hereafter, Ideclaro
I'd never die."
Together they were looking over
the paper. "Oh, my, how funny!" she
said. "What is it?" he asked. "Why,
here's an advertisement that says: 'No
reason ible offer refused.' " " What's so
odd alniut that?" "Nothing, nothing,"
she replied, trying to blush, "only those
are exactly my sentiments." If that
young m .n hadn't taken the hint and
proposed then and there, she would have
hated him. Home Sentinel.
Burdette writes from Nantucket:
"Many of the old houses in the town are
shingled all the way over, reminding
one of the houses so common in St.
John. Tho shingler, when lie shungle,
apparently began at the baseboard,
shongle right up the front of the house,
over the cornice, up to the ridge-pole,
where he crawled over, wentright along
shingling, and shangle head first on
down the other side of the house to the
ground. Perhaps it was not done in
this way. I do not assert that it was. I
only say, and I say it very meekly, that
that is the way it impressed me, and if
any man says I am a liar, I will take it
back, right immediately, and admit that
the shingles were pasted on with gum
arabic or the white of a'g.'''' Burling
ton Hawkey e.
The Peculiarities of Small-Pox.
It Ls one of the most communicable of
all diseases, being both contagious and
infectious; that is, it may be communi
cated by touching a person who has it,
or by touching a garment that he has
worn, or an article that he has handled;
or it may be carried in the air, and thus
communicated to a person who never
saw nor ever came very near any af
flicted with it. It may come from hand
ling paper money ; it may be brought by
mail in a newspaper or letter, or in a
package by express; it mriy be caught
from a fellow-traveler on a railroad, or
from a passer-by in the street, or from
the casual visit of a friend. The germs
of it will remain in bed-clothing, carpets
and the like for montlis, and perhaps
for years; it respects no season of the
year and no spot on the earth. It visits
the tropics; it has slain its millions in
Mexico ; it nearly depopulated Green
land ; it reaches the mountain tops, and
breaks out in mid-ocean ; it has no fa
vored localities ; the whole earth Ls its
home. Its most frightful slaughter was
in the seventeenth and eighteenth cen
turies. But in those days there were no
railroads aud no steam, and but little
commerce, no express companies, and
but little mail matter, and but very little
travel in any way. In these days of
ceaseless intercourse and perpetual run
ning to and fro, if the disease were un
checked as it was then, its ravages
would probably soon depopulate tho
whole civilized world ; and perhaps this
proposition would remain true if the
word civilized were stricken out, for it
is a well-established fact that the dark
skinned races are much more suscepti
ble to it than the whites, and are also
more likely to die from its effacLs
Exchange.