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,v &A - V 1 ? t THE JOURNAL. IbMKIl r.VKUY Vi:i)NKhlAY, L. lv. TURNER & CO., Proprietors and Publishers. &T OFFICE, Eleventh St., vj) ? fairs in .Journal Building. T Kit ms: Per year . . Six month Three months Single eople- .34 OO . 1 OO SO CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION. C. H. VasWyck, IT. . Senator, Xeb jaskn ('ill . Alvin rAiM)Kits. IT.b. Senator. Omaha. K. K. v'ai.i: , ii.vk, Ui'i'- W-t l'int. T. .1. .Majors, Contingent Hep., Peru. STATK I)li:KC'TOI:Y: Ai.iii.sus X anck, '.iovernor, i.tm-oln. i..l. Alexander, Mccreturj of State. John Wallich, Aiulitor, Lincoln. ;.M. Kartb-lt. rre-murer. Lincoln. "..l. Pilwoilh, .Vttrnev-(!iMicral. WWW W -lone-, Siipi.l'ulilif In...ruc. C.J. Xb-, Warden oi Penileiitiarv. mV i'V'5 ' I ITion lM,p..ci.rH. ( . II. (ioillit, ' .!.. farter, !'riou IMiy xician. 11. 1. .M at he won,Sujt. Insane Asylum. .IllDU'lAltY: Ceor-e I! I...k.-.J .Wo(.;att. ,.,,,,.. Amaia ,oll. t S. Maxwell, t'hiel .Justice, ruruni .inniciAi. ki.stkict. u. V. I'o-t, .liulire. York. .M. It. UeeM'. PMrict Altorney, W'ahoo. LAND OFFICIOUS: M. B. IIvie. Ue-ritiT, Uraiid li-Iaiid. Win. Anan. Ucccner, (iraiid l-dand. I.KOlL.TlVK: Slate Senator, M. K. Turner. " ltepreint.itie, (5. W. Lehman. col XTY IMKKCToKY: .1. C . lli-iin. County .ludire. J. dm Mautler. County cl i k. C. A. Newman. ( lerk 1 I-t . Court. .1. W. Karly, I i.-a-urer. 1). C. Kavau-iuli. She rill". i...i. ruK-r, Mirveyor. M M. Mahcr, ) 'V .lo-eph Kiet, V I'ounl v Cotiimi-Moncis. rP H..1 llmUmi, J " iir a ii. .:..-. .-..,,..,. ' i, . I.illll A, .'iitii. 1. .1. K. MoniTi'f iiit.of School, Ityron Milieu. V. M. '(unci in- .IilMit ofthelVaee, CITY H1UKCTOUY: .1. i:. Me.-urher, Mayor. A. It. 4'ntlVotli, Clerk. .1. It. HeNni-.n, Treasurer. W. X. Ili-ll-lcy. Police -I ii tl-ro. .1. II. Xorih. Engineer. rorxciuiKx: 17 Ward John Uickly. C. A. S-hroeder. 'Id Ward- Pat. II:iv. I. OliK-k. Xd Ward 1. IEa,iiiu.i,n. A. A. Smith. 4'Itii:ilu I ok I. OtIlt:. open on Siiiiilays Irmiill A.M. to 12m. and from :"H to C. v. m. ltii.ines hour, ex-ept Si:nda K A. M. to S v. M. Ki-lcin mail eloe at 11 a.m. We-tern ni-iii- i-Iom at 4:l.i.M. Mail leave- Columbu- for Lost Creek, ttenoa. St. Kduard. Albion, Platte Center. Humphrey, Madison and Xor folk. every day (except Sundays) at 4::t."i p. m." Arrie.s at It:". For Shell Creek anil Cre;ton, on Mon day, and Friday.-, 7 a. M., returning at 1 l". M., same d.ivs. For Alexis, Patron and David City, Tue.-day-, Tliur-dav- and Saturdays, 1 r. m " Arrive- at 12 M. For Conklin Tuesday s and Saturdays 7 a. in. Arrive- 0 p. in. -time day-. tJ- - Time T:ille. Eastward Hound. Emigrant, Xo.tf, leaves at ... 0:2." a. m. Pa-seny'r, "4, " ".... 11:00 a. in. Freight, " S. ' "... t:l."i p. m. Freight. "Hi, " ".... 4:30 a. ni. Westward Hound. Freight, Xo. .", leaves at ... 2:0(1 p. m. Pas-emr'r, " :i, " " .. 4:27 p. in. Freight, " !, " " ... t:0 p.m. Emigrant. "7. " ".... 1: . m. Every day exeept Saturday the three lines leading to Chicago connect with V P. trains at Omahal On Saturdays there will be but one train a day, as -hown by the following -schedule: O.. X. IS. H. KOAI). Time Schedule Xo. 4. To take effect .June 2, S1. For the government and information of employees only. The Company rcstrve-: the right to vary therefrom at pleasure. Trains daily, Sundays excepted. Outward Hound. Inward Hound. Norfolk . .7:20 A. M. Munson 7:47 " Madison .S:2 " Humphrev!:05 PI. Centrefl: 18 ' LotCreekl0.09 " ColumbuslO:.r."- " Columbus 4:&i 1M. Lo-tCreek.":21 " 1M. Centre r.:42 " Iluinpbrevii.-2.i " Madison ." 7:04 " Mun-on 7:4.1 " Norfolk . S:04 ' AI.RION BRANCH. Columbus 4:1.") r.M. LostCreeki:;l 4 (ienoa. .. li:l(! " St.Edvvard7:00 " Albion 7:47 " Albion 7:4.'5 A. St. Edwards:) ' Genoa . 0:14 Lost Creek!):."'!) ' Columbu10:4.- ' M. II. ,t M. TIME PAHLE. .ri:4.- a.m. :) " Leaves 'olumbus, Hell wood " David City, " Oarrison, " lily es, " Staplehurst, " Seward, " Kubv v- - - Milford " Pleasant Dale, " Euierald Arrives at" Lincoln, Leave- Lincoln at 12:r0 v rives in Colunibu- 7:xir. v. M-it-..- i-ln-e I'onuection at 7.20 7:40 S:2ri S:.V !:::0 !):."0 10:l.- 10:45 11:10 ll:.-0 M. M. an d ar- Lincolu for all point- ea-t, we-t aiyl south. H. iUERS & oo, BLACKSMITHS AND AVa-oii Builders, w Hrirk Stioji o)Msit Ilrliitz'- Iruc More. ALL KINDS OF WOOD AND IRON WORK ON WAGONS AND 3UGGIES DONE ON SHORT NOTICE- Eleventh street, Colutnhus, Xcbraska. r0 "NEBRASKA HOUSE, S. J. MARMOY, Prop'r. Mebraska Ave., South of Depot, a, new house, newly furnished. Good accommodations. Board by day or week at reasonable rates. j3"Sctn a. Firwt-Cla.. Table. Meals, 2.'' Cts. Lodgings 2. Ct8. SS-2t.f COLD 'I V Restaurant and Saloon! E. D.-SHEEHAX, Proprietor. rrWholesale nnd Betail Dealer in For- ,,1, Wines, Linuors and Cigars, Dub- lfn tout, Scotch and English Ales. Kentucky Whiskies a Specialty. OYSTERS in their season, by the case can or dish. Utk Street, South of Depet. (The VOL. XIIL-NO. 11. BUSINESS CARLS. rv. r.iKi, SCIIOITE, VETERINARY SURGEON. Otliee at Dowtv. Weaver & Co's store. WURSOIV Jt ROES, HA XKEUS, Collection. Insurance and Loan Asrcnts, Foreisin Exehanije and Pas sage Tickets a specialty. A TTOliNEYS-A T-ZA W, Up-stairs in Gluck Building, 11th street, Above the New bank. H. j. hijuno:. 2TOTAUY PUBLTC, litli Street, i door woxt of llamniond Houne, Columbus, Neb. 4!U-y D k. m. i. 'riiiiKM-ros, RESIDENT DENTIST. Ollice over corner of nth and Xorth-st. All operations lirst-class and warranted. C IIIMMCiIO HAKBEK MI101! HEXUY WOODS, Pkoi'k. J2TEvervthiiig in lirst-class style. Also keep the be-t of cigars. .rlG-y r i:i:it &. ki:i:ih:k, ATTORNEYS AT LA W, Office on Olive St., Columbus, Xebra-ka. 2-tf c. G. A. IIULLUOUST, A.M., M. I)., IWMEOJ'A Till C F11YSIC1AN, j3f-Two Blocks south of Court House. Telephone communication. -ly W. r, ivi:ks, m. i. HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN. Will attend to all calls night and day. Office with O. F. Merrill, east of A & N. Depot. ."ili'.mo M cAIJJSTEK MKOS., A TTOIIXEYS AT LA W, Office up-stairs in McAllister's build inir. 11th St. W. A. AlcAllister, Notary Public PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. $23" Front room, up-stairs in Gluck buiblitur, above the bank, 11th St. C'llls an-weied night or day. -0m J. M. MACFAKLAN1, B. K. COWDKltY, Attcrr 7 isi Hotiry Kti! c. Csll:4.::. LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE OK MAC! ARXjAND & COWDBRY, Columbus, : : : Nebraska. 11. Itl SC UK, llth St., nearly opp. Gluck's store, Sell. Harness, Saddles, Collars, Whips, Blankets. Curry Combs, Brushes, etc., at the lowest possible prices. Repairs promptly attended to. BYRON MILLKTT, Justice of the Peace and Notary Public. iVKOS mi.i.Ki-r, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Columbus Nebraska. N. 1$. He will give clov; attention to all business entrusted to him. 248. T OUIS SCHREIBER, BLACKSMITH AND WAGON MAKER. All kinds of repairing done on short notice. Buggies, Wagons, etc., made to order, and all work guaranteed. iSrShop opposite the " Tattersall," Olive Street. 2S W AGS EK WIW'ItOTr, AT TUB CHECKERED BARN, Are 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 FAMES PEARSALL IS PREPARED, WITH FIRST-CLASS APPARATUS, To remove houses at reasonable rates. Give aim a call. -VTOTICl? TOTKACIIKRS. J. E. Moncrief, Co. Supt., Will be in his ollice at the Court IIoue on the first Saturday of each mouth for the purpose of examining applicants for teacher's certificates, and for the transaction of any other buines pertaining to schools. f 07-y ZtllAKI-lE SLOAi, PROPRIETOR OF THE CI 1-1 TTSTATVrAlB STOT?E! Dealer in Chinese Teas, Handkerchiefs, Fans, and Freuch Goods. 12th and Olive Sts., Columbus, Neb. 7-12in TAJIK NALMON, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Plans and estimates supplied for either frame or brick buildings. Good work guaranteed. Shop on HJth Street, near St. Paul Lumber Yard, Columbus Ne braska. i52 Ciuo. WILLIAM RYAN, DEALER IX KENTUCKY WHISKIES Wines, Ales, Cigars and Tobacco. JSTSchilz's Milwaukee Beer constant ly on hand.pS Eleventh St., Columbus. Neb. Drs. MITCHELL ft MAETYH, COLUMBUS iiEsicAL i mm rnwrn. Surne'dna O.. N. & B. B. R. R-, Asst. Surgeons U. F. H'y, COLUMBUS, - - SBBRASKA. JS. MURDOCK & 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 tunitytoestiniateforyou. 3TSbop on 13th St., one door west of Friedhof & Co's. store, Columbus, 2iebr. 463-7 ADVERTISEMENTS. IlSY! .hiluSy! Mrs. M. S. Drake HAS JUST RECEIVED A LARGE STOCK OF SPRIXO AM SUMMER MILLIKERY AID FAIGY 13" A PULL ASSORTMENT OF EV ERYTHING BELONGING TO A FIRST-CLASS MILLIN ERY STORK.JEJ Nebraska Avenue, two doors north of the Stute Hank. 27-tf BECKER & WELCH, PROPRIETORS OF SHELL CREEK MILLS. MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLE SALE DEALERS IN FLOUR AND MEAL, OFFTCE. COLUMBUS, NEB. Dr. A. HEINTZ, DEALER IN BUGS. HE1ICIIES. CHEMICALS. WIXEM, LKIVOR8, Fine Soaps, Brushes, PEEFUMEEY, 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 for cash, or on live or ten year? 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 priee and on reasonable terms. Also business am) resitlenqjB lots in the city. We keep a eompletVabstract of title'to all real es tate in Platte County. f.2l COI.UMRUN, NRB. PfllMY'S B!! BUY THE Patent Roller Process MINNESOTA FLOUR! ALWAYS GIVES SATISFACTION, Because it makes a superior article of bread, and is the cheapest flour in the market. Every .tank warranted to run (dike, or money refunded. HERMAN OEHLRICH & BRO., GEOCERS. l-:im WM. BECKER, PEALKR IX ALL KINDS OK FAMILY GROCERIES! I KEEPCONSTANTLY'ON HAND A WELL SELECTED STOCK. Teas, Coffees, Sugar, Syrups, Dried and Canned Fruits, and other Staples a Specialty. doodif Delivered Free to aay part of the City. 1 AM ALSO AGENT FOR THE CEL EBRATED COQTJIIXARD Farm and Spring Wagons, of "Which I keep a constant supply on hand, but few their equal. ;ln style and quality, second to none. CALL AND LE ARK PRICES. Cor. Thirteenth and K Streets, near A. AN. Depot. (fuUtmiitts COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY JULY 12, SOMETHING IN THE MATRIMO NIAL WAY. Face Intellectual Color and tone All the accompaniments Iteclly home-grown. Eyes here I hesitate Rather like blue; Black not an obstacle; Hazel would do. Nose of the Grecian type; Not to soem proud. Some little latitude Herein allowed. Figure that's squeezable Plump, but not fat Steer clear of scrayglness. Could not stand that. Quiet and lady-like. Dresses with taste: Ankle display able, Neat little waist. Round of home duties, her Element quite; Pie-crust especlally Warranted light. Common accomplishments; But, in a word. Those of the useful kind Greatly preferred. Little bit musical. Able to sing Claribel, Gabriel That sort of thing. Chatty and sociable. Likes a cigar; Pleasant old people, p Pa and mamma. Pious, devotional, Gentla and kind; Teach In the Sunday-school If she's a mind. Lady of such a stamp Wantiug a beau. Strictly In confidence, Knows where to go. Uirvcft Batar. TRUE HEROISM. Eleanore Grav and Dora Alton were Sreat friends; though two more dissim ar in every way it would be hard to find. For, while Eleanore was tall, dark and brilliantly colorod, Dora, was childishly slight, with a pale, lily-fair skin; and while Eleanore was vivacious and daring, Dora was shy and quiet. And, strange to say, the one you would deem least fitted to cope with the world was the one whom circumstances had compelled to do so from her earliest youth. The acquaintance between the two girls began at school, and when Elea nore graduated, and, leaving school days behind forever, came to her beau tiful home, at her urgent solicitation. Dora, whom she had grown to love as tenderly as a sister, accompanied her. The first month of vacation has passed, and the second has been en tered upon, and Dora sighs as she thinks how very scon the time will have flown, and thfcfdalightful experience that has come to her like an oasis in the monot onous desert of her life will have ended. And yet the roses of pleasure have not been entirely without the thorns that al ways accompany them. Five weeks do not constitute a great Eortion of time, but in them much may appen, and they have sufficed to im plant in Dora's gentle heart a some thing as strong as she knows it is hope less. By the terms of the deceased Mr. Gray's will, his friend Mark Eld ridge, a man many years younger than himself, but one possessing his utmost confi dence, was left executor of his large fortune and guardian to his daughter. Thus it is that the Grav cottage fre quently sees Mr. Eldridge's genial, handsome face; and thus it is also that, in listening to his fluent conversation, which opens before her broad vistas of knowledge as well as of entertainment, Dora has come to think that not in all this world is another so wise and good as worthy of a maiden's love. But not a hint of the truth does she suffer to escape, for she imagines that she has read a secret, and sue is not surprised. " She is so beautiful and bright, it is no wonder that he loves her," she muses, as the watches with a feeling of mingled admiration, tenderness and pain, the guardian and his lovely ward. The days go by until one comes which is long remembered. It has been a stormy afternoon, and with the gathering darkness the thunder begins to mutter menacingly. Sweet-briar Cottage, as Eleanore' s pleasant home is called, is situated upon a slight elevation, whose foot is washed by a narrow stream between which ana terra firraa runs the railroad. From their position in the bow-window, where they are watching with fascinated eyes the cloud-phantasy cf gloom rent ay lurid light which the storm presents to their vision, the girls can see the track up and down for some way. Suddenly a tremendons crash startles them to their feet, and at the same instant a lightning flash illumines the whole sky and surrounding objects. Eleanore' s face grows very pale as she grasps her companion's arm and points down upon the track. " Dora, the great elm at the foot of the terrace has been struck. See, it has fallen across the track. The seven o'clock express will bo along in half an hour. Dora, they will be wrecked, for the curve will prevent them seeing the danger before it is to late." Dora looks and trembles. " Can we do nothing, Eleanore?" she asks. " No, for the nearest telegraph station is across the river, and there is no other for five miles." "We crossed the river yesterday, Eleanore. Can we not do it now? I am going to try." Eleanore gazed at her in surprise. "Dora Alton, you are crazy to think of such a thing. To cross upon the stepping-stones in fair weather is quite a different thing to attempting it in such a storm as this. The water is very deep. A single false step, and your life would pay the forfeit." "Nevertheless, I shall try. I know the way; and, God helping me, I may be the means of saving hundreds of my fellow-creatures from a horrible fate. Do not try to dissuade me, Eleanore. I must go. Ana though Eleanore redoubled her terrified remonstrances, Dora went about her preparations firmly, with a look of determination upon her young face that never faltered. At last she was ready, and Eleanore strained her small, waterproof clad figure close to her heart. " God guide you and keep you, my darling," she said, solemnly. "You go for duty's sake to brave a danger that, fearless as I have always deemed myself to be, I would never dare to at tempt. I love life too well to face what seems certain death." " Ah, I, too, love life," Dora said, as she disengaged herself from her friend's clinging arms; " but something draws me on. Though I knew I never should return, I should go." Out into the storm and the darkness Dora hurries; the wind beats against her, now pushing her back, now urging her forward, until at length she stands upon the Dnnk of the little river that ripples so innocently and cheeri. . along under a sunny aky, but whose" waves now are leaping and tossing their foam crests like mad things. The stepping stones, which but yesterday wereso easily crossed, are before her, and Dora begins her perilous journey. "Come back! Dora, Dora, come back!" calls Eleanore's voice from the terrace above; but she does not heed Steadily she goes onward, but oh, so slowly! oftentimes slipping, and on the very verge of falling into the treacher ous water, whose inky blackness only seems the denser, when, for a few sec onds, the glare of the lightning shows her what progress she is making. She has gained the center of the stream; her slight form is trembling with the combined effect of the cold which strikes through her dripping gar ments and the bodily exertions she has been compelled to make to keep her footing upon the slippery rocks. Will she be able to" reach the other side? Bravely she struggles on, and at length the goal is reached and her feet touch the other shore. A short while later the telegraph op erator, leaning idly back in his chair in his warm office, is startled by the en trance of a small, dripping figure, look ing, with its disheveled hair and pallid face, like a visitant from some ghostly sphere " A tree has fallen across the track opposite Miss Gray's cottage telegraph for the seven o'clock express to stop!" Then, her mission accomplished, the brave heart stops beating and Dora sinks unconscious to the floor. Four weeks have gone bv weeks of the most intense anxiety for all that time Dora has lain between life and death. But at last the shadow has lifted and out once more into health' s sun shine she has emerged, to the heart-felt joy of the friends who have prayed for her recovery incessantly, ven when they feared their prayers would bo ol no avail. It is a bright, pleasant day, though somewhat chilly, and in Eleanore's cozy sitting-room, in an easy-chair near the bright wood-tire, Dora "is seated. Sha looks very lovely, for the fire-glow has lont a delicate color to her pale cheeks, and made into an aureole of gold the short waves of hair that cluster about her fair forehead. The door gently opens and a voice says: "May I come in?" It is Mr. Eldridge, and it is the first time since her illness that Dora has met him. The delicate color deepens as she resigns her hand to his clasp and an swers his words of greeting. They chat for a while, and then to Dora's great surprise she learns what she has not known before, that among those who to her brave deeds owed their safety from death was her friend's guardian. "I asked Eleanore not to tell you," he says; " for I wished to thank you myself, and at the same time to ask you a question most momentous to me. It is this: Dora, will you make the life you have saved more precious by laying thai dear hand In mine, and saying that you will be my wife? Ah, little one, my heart went out to you the first time that we met; but I little knew to what a strength my passion had grown until the dark hour came when I feared that death was about to snatch you from me. Dora, what is my answer to be?" "And I always thought that it was Eleanore you cared for, Dora says, at a little later she sits with a happy face and her little hand tightly clasped in hci lover's. "So'I do care for Eleanore very much; but it is Dora my heroic dar ling that I wish for my wife the guardian angel of my heart and my home," is his answer. " I am more pleased than I can ex press," is Eleanore's enthusiastic excla mation, when the blissful secret is con fided to her. " I do not believe that in all the universe there is any one noblei than my guardian, and Dora, darling, you are well mated, for nobility and heroism are kindred qualities, ana aftei what has passed you can never call yourself a coward." Dora stopped her mouth with a kiss N. Y. Ledger. His Tongue Cut Out No better illustration of the ferocitj of the Russian mobs, in their attacks on harmless Jews, can be had than the case of John Natika, now at Castle Gar den, where he arrived in company with thirteen of his co-religionists on board the steamer Greece last Saturday. The unfortunate man is completely dumb, his tongue having been cut out at iti roots by a band of drunken marauders. He is a pitiable object to see, especially when he attempts to make himself un derstood by dull nasal sounds and ges ticulations. Yesterday morning his un fortunate condition was brought to the attention of Captain Heintzman, who requested him to make a written state ment of his terrible experience. In ac cordance with this request, John Natika wrote a story, four foolscap sheets long, in Russian. Translated by an official interpreter, the same read in part aa follows: " My name is John Natika. I cannot speak, because my tongue was cut out in Russia. I lived in the neighborhood of Kiefl", my business being that of a clothier. Last October the peasants be came very abusive to us Jews and many were brutally ill-treated. At first they let me alone, but in December a band of Eeasants burned down one of my out ouses. I complained to the pristav (police captain), but no one was arrested. I accumulated a littlemoney.afact which. the moujiks soon learned. On Jan. 3 I was aroused bv a number of them breaking into my room. They dragged I me out of bed, and beat and kicked me I badly. They wanted to get my money i and asked me for it When I pleaded ' poverty they took me out into the i garden, clad as I was in my night shirt, ' and putting a rope around my neck, hung me up to the limb of a tree, j When I was half suffocated they let me down again and asked me if I would disclose the place where the money i was hidden. Again I refused, upon ' which, without further ado, one of the men forced open my mouth, and, while the others held me, cut out my tongue with a pair of shears. Thev all then ran away, while I almost bled to death. I subsequently recovered in the j hospital, and furnished the police with the names and description of my assail ants, who were, however, released on the trial." j Here Natika' s narrative ends. Some of his companions furnished to a Truth reporter the remainder of the harrow ing tale. It seems that according to the Russian Criminal onHp n nerenn ntn ho convicted of an assault unless the com plainant testifies to the facts in person case there could naturally be no ques- muu ui voruai testimony, inasmuch as, having lost his tonirim. tbf pnnmlnlniint was dumb. This quibble was immedi ately taken hold of hv tbo lnuruar Inr h Elaintiffs, and, to the surprise of every- ' ody, the President of the court ordered the prisoners four in number to be discharged. The day after this decis- i ion took place another Jew was muti-' lated in a manner similar to Natika, in ! one oi tne suburbs of Kieff. N. Y. Truth, mmtu 1882. Estates of the Unknewa. Three men climbed the stairs at 49 Beekman street to the Public Adminis trator's office, one of them beneath a heavy load of valises and bundles. These he dumped on the floor in the office. "Effects of a dead man," he said, as he straightened up. One of the other men, who proved to be Mr. Daniels, purser of the steamship Colon, then explained that there had come aboard that vessel at Aspinwall an invalid named G. Schneider, the head of the firm of Schneider & Martin, pro prietors of the Great International Hotel of that city, and that he died the follow ing day. His remains were buried at sea. and. after an inventory of his ef fects had been taken, they were tied up, sealed, and when the steamer reached her dock, brought at once lo the Public Administrator. The assistant in charge of the office was making a minute of these facts when the man who brought the effects interrupted him " Give me a dollar and let me go," said he. "How can I give you a dollar?" " Why, there's plenty of money in that envelope," the messenger replied, Eointing to an envelope that the purser ad put on the desk together with a collar box and a pocket-book. The as sistant tore the envelope open and took from it bills and gold pieces amounting to $150. He gave the messenger one dollar. Then he tickod off the items in the purser's inventory: One hundred and fifty dollars, gold watch, gold chain, amethyst ring, diamonil ring, $1.40 in sols, three shirt studs, pocket book, valises, etc. He gave the purser an itemized receipt, and the purser said that Schneider's brother lives in New York. "Now, what will the Public Adminis trator do with those things?" the assist ant was asked. "First, we will enter all the facts in what wo call our rough book, and next we will put the valuables and money in the safe," said he, "and store the goods in the back room. When the brother has qualified as administrator we will turn the estate over to him. If there had been no brother or other rela tive here we would have sent the jew elry to the safe deposit vaults, stored the valises iu our store-room in Duane street, and deposited the money in oue of the banks, which, under the law, the Comptroller specifics shall be used for that purpose. After a certain time, if we had not heard from the relativos or friends of the dead man we should have sold his effects aud turned the proceeds and the other money over to tho City Chamberlain, who would hold it in trust forever for the next of kin. We very often go through this, and our sales, which are by public auction and are advertised, are attended each time by about the same men and women. They are dealers in ecoud-hand mate rials and are our regular customers, so to speak." "You had a right to pay that mes senger for bringing those things here?" "Oh, yes; just as we should have had a right to bury Schneider and pay for the funeral if his body had been brought here. If his brother administers on the estate we will account to him, but if we administer upon it we will act exactly as if we were a nrivata nartv. uavin? - - - -- 4- i j o the debts of the deceased, collecting what was due him. and selling his prop erty to the best advantage. A cousin could qualify as well as a brother, if he was next of kin. The law is, first the wife, next the children, third the fath er, next the mother, then the brothers or sisters or cousins, malos of the near est degree of relationship being pre ferred to females, lhe f ubuc Admin istrator comes after the relatives, but ahead of creditors, friends and all others. We have on hand the case of John D. Grady, who was a receiver of stolen goods. His 'fence' was a sort of jewelry or pawnbroker's shop in Sixth avenue. He died, leaving relatives, but they were not able to give security, and a man named Haughton, who claims that Grady had property that had been stolen from him, applied for letters of administration. e applied also, and the Surrogate appointed us. We hold the estate and dispute Haughton's claim." "In the last annual report of the Public Administrator are very many names of persons classified as 'un known,' whose estates are represented by sums ranging from $5.89 down to ten cents. What about them?" " They are cases of those who die at sea often jailors; vagrants who die in the streets and in the public institutions, Eersons who die in hotels and board ing ouses, and Coroners' cases of all sorts. The master of every vessel upon which a death occurs must roport and sur render the estate of the dead person to us. So must boarding-house and hotel keepers, and the Coroners are also obliged to turn over to us the effects of those that come under their notfeo, Sometimes five cents, or even a cent, is all that is found belonging to a man or perhaps his estate may consist of a ring, a locket, or a broach, but the law makes no distinction between such estates and those like that of Theodore Gontil. the merchant, which we recently admin istered. Gentil was a wealthy New York merchant who retired from busi ness and went to Franc. He died there, leaving in New York an estate valued at over $150,000, partly in cash deposited in banks, and partly in securities. He had second cousins in Paris, who applied for the right to ad minister the estate. Wc also applied, and were represented in the Paris court by counsel. The French law is like ours, and when it was decided that his place of residence was New York, we were appointed to distribute the estate from here. It became known that there was a first cousin in Havre, and to her we sent the money, which must have proved a windfall. Of course none of tho several second cousins got anything. Had they been next of kiu it would not have gone to the eldest, but would have been equally divided among all." " Do you ever have caes in which considerable money is left and no claimants appear?" "Sometimes. That of Eleanor Mary Kleenan is a case in point She was a nurse in the New York Institution for the Blind, and died leaving no relatives and $5,600 in various savings banks. The money has been turned over to he City Chamberlain, and may never be claimed, or may be claimed 100 years hence. When it is paid over, if It ever s, It will be without interest By law lhe interest on such money is kept by the city. "Those very small estates you asked about are rarely inquired after," the assistant continued. "They are very often the effects of sailors whose people Know that they have no money, or of 'hat class of women who live under as sumed names and never tell their friends or acquaintances their true names. Con Tequently, if, a is not often the case, hey leave a bank account or jewelrv of value, nobody ever asks for it for their WHOLE NO. 685. owi people do not know their dead un der the false name that is recorded. But for this department the property left behind by those who die intestate, or while away from their relatives would often be treated as wrecked ships are among the people on coasts where law does not prevail. Such estates would be very speedily administered by neigh bors, friends, or even strangers. As it is, it often happens that a dying per son, aware of his approaching end, says to a friend or acquaintance: Do this or that with mv property. Give this to So-and-so, and do this or that with the rest of my things.' The friend, una ware of the law, promises to do as he is bid, but the boarding-house keeper, undertaker. Coroner, or some one holds the property and notifies us. The friend finds it necessary to so to the Surrogate. who explains that after the relatives the Public Administrator is next in order. N. Y. Sun. Rats and Mice. It's queer that girls are so dreadfully afraid of rats and mice. Men are uevec afraid of them, and I shouldn't mind it there were morenamillion mice in my bed-room every night Mr. Travers told Sue and me a ter rible story one day about a woman that was walking through a lonely field, when she suddenly saw a field-mouse right in front of her. She was a brave woman; so after she had said: "Oh, my! save me, somebody!" she determ ined to save herself if she could, for. there was nobody within miles of her. There was a tree not very far off, and she had just time to climb up the tree and seat herself in the branches when tho mouse reached its foot There that animal stayed for six days and nights, squeaking in a way that made the woman's blood run cold, and waitiug for her to come down. On the seventh day, when she was nearly exhausted, a man with a gun came alonjj and shot the mouse and saved her life. I don't believe this story, and I told Mr. Trav ers so; for a woman couldn't climb a tree, and even if she could, what would hinder the mouse from climbing aftei her? Sue has a new young man, who comes every Tuesday and Thursday night One day he said: "Jimmy, if you'll get me a lock of your sister's hair I'll give you a nice dog." I told him he was awfully kind, but I didn't think it would be honest for me to take Sue's best hair, but that I'd try to get him some of her every-day hair. And he said: "What on earth do you mean, Jimmy?" And I said that Sue had got some new back hair a little while ago, for I was with her when she bought it, and I knew she wouldn't like me to take any of that So he said it was no matter, and he'd give me the dog any way. I told Sue afterward all about it, just to show her how honest I was, and in stead of telling me I was a good boy, she said: "Oh you little torment g'way and never let jne see you again," and threw herself down on the sofa and howled dreadfully, and mother came aud said: " Jimmy, if you want to kill youi dear sister, Vou can just keep on doing as you do." Such is the gratitude ol grown-up folks. Mr. Withers that's the new young man brought the dog, as he said he would. He's a beautiful Scotch terrier, and he said he would kill rats like any thing, and was two years old, and had had tho distemper; that is, Mr. Withers said the dog would kill rats, and of course Mr. Withers himself never had the distemper. Of course, I wanted to see the dog kill rats, so I took him to a rat-hole in the kitchen, but be barked at it so loud that no rat would think of coming out If you want to patch rats, you mustn't begin by barking and scratching at rat holes, but you must sit down and kind of wink with one eye and lav for them, just as cats do. I told Mr. Withers that the dog couldn't catch any rats, and he said he would bring me some in a box. and I could let them out. and the dog would kill every single one of them. The next evening Sue sent me down to the milliner's to bring her new bon net home, and don't you be long about it either you idle, worthless boy. Well, 1 went to the milliner's shop, but the bonnet wasn't done yet; and as I passed Mr. Withers' office, he said: "Come here, Jimmy; I've got those rats foi you." He gave me a wooden box like a tea-chest, and told me there were a dozen rats in it, and I'd better have the dog kill them at once, or else they'd gnaw out before morning. When I got home, Sue met me at the door, and said: " Give me that bandbox this instant you've been mornanoui about it" I tried to tell her that it wasn't her box; but she wouldn't listen, and just snatched it and went into the parlor, where there were three other young ladies who had come to see her, and slammed the door; but the dog slipped in with her. in about a minute I heard the most awful yells that anybody ever heard. It sounded as if all the furniture in the par lor was being smashed into kindling wood, and the dog kept barking like mad. The next minute a girl came fly ing out of the front window, and anoth er girl jumped right on her before she had time to get out of the way, and they never stopped crying: "Help murder let me out oh my!" I knew, of course, that Sue had opened the box and let the rats out, anil though I wanted ever so much to know if the dor had killed them all. I thought j she would like it better if I went back to the milliner's and waited a few hours for the bonnet. I brought it home about nine o'clock; but Sue had gone to bed, and the serv ant had just swept up the parlor, and piled the pieces of furniture on the piaz za. Father won't be home till next week, and perhaps by that time Sue will Jet over it. I wish I did know if the og killed all those rats and how long it took him. "Jimmy Broum," Harper's Young People. in In Baltimore, according to the Day, the advent of summer is generally marked by the number of baby car riages, refrigerators-and loafers oa the sidewalks. Relative to the latter the Day says: "There is nothing like them in the heavens above, the earth beneath, nor the waters under the earth. They toil not neither do they spin, aud. as the poet said of Satan: they must sure ly be allowed to exist for some reason not clearly understood;' but when, like Caesar's slaves on the Appian Way, they come between the wind and our nobility, the law, in the shupe of a po liceman, might rid us of their pres ence." This Is one of the pasMages which the girls sing in the Yale College operet ta ''Penikeese:" " Wo have come to this nook to be tuutfbtbow to cook Anl to practice th- strictott evouumy; We can fry. boll aud bake, and construct wed dinsr-cake. In the Penikeese Sihwol ut tttutrcuoiay." 1 KATES OP AlYEirri!IIIV4 iSTBuslness and professional card of five lines or less, per annum, five dollars. rTFor time advertisements, apply at this office. STLegal advertisements at statute rate. BTFor transient advertising, see rates on third page. tStT'AU advertisement payable monthly. PERSONAL ATfD L1TKRART. Ex-Postmaster Genoral James ha bought a house on Gramorcy Park, New York, and says he prefers private to public life. Mrs. Garfield sent a young oak and two ash trees to be planted in Gar field Place, Cincinnati, the other day, in memory of her husband. Edith Simcox, an Englishwoman, has in press a volume bearing the curi ous and suggestive title of " Episodes in the Lives of Men, Women aud Lovers J' Not long before the death of Dr. Holland he wrote to a young corres pondent: " A literary lite is a hard and difficult one; look well before you choose a life so full of difficulty." Dr. R. C. Smedley.of West'Chester, Pa., is writing a history of the "Un derground Railroad " in that State a work which promises to be full of pict uresque and pathetic tales. Mr. James Monroe-Heiskell, a great-grandson of President Monroe, was married iu Philadelphia recently to Miss Deringer, grand-daughter of the inventor of the pistol c-olubratcd in prose and verse. Rochester is proud of the fact that it is the birth-plnco of a most important English, or, rather. American word. For explanation see the word " tele gram" in "Webster's Unabridged." Christian Fnion. William Black is to write a now novel, the scenes of which will be in Egypt. Stand from under when Will iain gets his Scotch dialect into the mouth of an Egyptian mummy. Neut Haven Register. Tho widow of Junius Brutus Booth is still living in a green old ago at Long Branch, where she is honored and re spected. She was a Mi Mary Anne Holmes, and was a beautiful girl in her youth. X. Y. Uraphic. Madame Nilssou has resumed her owu name, and when visitors ask for Madame Rouzaud the servant saw: "You moan Madame Nilssou, do you not?" She says she determined on this course shortly after her husband's death. Judge Barker, of Winchester, Va., who sentenced old John Browu to bo hanged, was at the Capitol iu Washing ton the other day, and attracted much attention from the curious. He is a rath er small, thick-set man, with dark gray hair. Chicago Journal. Ex-Senator Thurman receutly ap peared iu a Columbus court as couusel in a case with which he became con nected nearly twenty years ago. All the original parties to the suit except oue nr dead. It is the first time in years that Mr. Thurman has acted as counsel. X. Y. Sun. A partv of English Lords and ladies arrived in New York, by the steamship Gallia, recently, namely, the Duke of Manchester and Lord Mamlevillo and his son, Lord Randolph Churchill aud Lady Churchill, Lord Elphinstone aud the Count and Countess Montsaulntn. Madame Albani has a three-year-old son who is even handsomer than his mother. He is a sturdy little fellow with pink cheeks and large blue eyes, and tne prima donna is devoted to him. Madame Albani is mentioned as being greatly pleased at the prospect of sing ing in America next season. N. Y. lanes. HUMOROUS. An Indianapolis grocer has been found to be insane. His affliction began to be noticed as soon a ho stopped say ing "Anything else?" Riches have wings, hut the wings on the young lady's hat do not neces sarily imply fabulous wealth on the part of the wearer. Boston Transcript. Adelaide Detchon, the actress", is accused of being " the most beautiful woman in the world" by a writer in the drapiic. Here's . to Adelaide. New Haven Register. Thank a kind providence for the decorative banjo craze. After a banjo is decorated, it cannot be played on without soiling the pictures. Now, won't some good angel start a mania for decorating accorJcous? Philadel phia Xews. " Curious" writes to an art journal asking: " How does Mfissonier get his brilliant colors in his pictures?" We always supposed he put them there with a paint bru-di, but we may have been mistaken. He may squirt them on the canvas with a garden hoe. Xorris town Herald. Mose Schamburg has been annoyed by burglars prowling about his resi dence on the upper end of Austin av enue. Yesterday he went into a gun shop to buy a pistol. "What kind of a weapon do you want?" " I would like one," said Moe, "mit accommo dations for srx burglars." -Texas Sift ingi. Miss Brown, who is no longer young, was chiding Miss Moire for her foolishness in carrying a pirasol, which Mbs Brown said was useless and a piece of affectation. "1 never carry a parasol," she said. "NV replied Miss Moire; " people on the shady sido of life have no use for them." Boston Transcript. The sizzling of the soda fountain is heard in tin- land, there is quite a de mand for rock silt to be u-fd in freez ing ice cream, and then set-ins to be a tendency on the part of the weather to drift into a drv, ho! summer WV-hould he pleased to have that M.-a-ide hotel for warded to us by return Ovpre-;. Neut Haceit Register. And so you love June better than any other mouth," .-die said, gazing at the toiiiig farmer from the blue abysses of her oft dreamy eyes. Beautiful, leafy June, with its roes and its s.ing birds and its frngrauee laden zephyrs? " Yes," he replied, nonchalantly. "It's the best month to wean calves. " Brook tipi EagU. " Please, sir, I want a Bible," said a bright youth. The Bible was handed to the boy, who had been sent for it and was about to carrv it away, but he stopped a moment and inquired: " Is it this year's?" That boy had heard something about the revision of tho New Te:fctmtHit, but couldu' tell exactly what it was. loiva Statu Register. A story of -a button: "Rosalind, my dear," said her mother, who was .twecping out the front hall-way, "doe9 this button belong to your father's over coat?" - Let me aee'it. Oh, dear; no, ma! It comes from George's overcoat, isn't it splendid?" "I don't see any thing so very splendid about it." "Oh, why, ma! If you were ouly youug and such a nice young man like George should should " "Well, I shaurt have an more such work in this house. I've no objection to a little moderate hugging in the hou-e, but youug men can't hug their overcoat buttons off in my hallway, not much." And Rosa lind went to her boudoir to indulge ia 84 weep. Chicago Tinm, i
