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T THE JWBCLf ISSUKD ETERV VkDNESPaV, ' " - V : M. K. TUK-jSTER & CO., Proprietors and Publisher!. tATES OP AIMTEKTISIXC;. Si K S" OFFICE, Eleventh St., vp ftairs in Journal Building. - tekms: I A I Per year .. Six months Three months Single copies .98 v, 5 iL" ' Ll s. -b-b r i k vol.xiv.-no: 9. COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. JUNE 27, 1888. WHOLE NO. 685. m Vi Fl N. "et BUSINESS CARDS. DENTAL PARLOR. On Thirteenth St., and Nebraska Ave., over FrieJhufa store. j2TOflice hours, 8 to 12 a. in.; 1 to f p. hi. Olla A.shhaloii, Dentist. .OK.i:ilU JiWl-i-lVAW. J A TTO RNE YS-A T-'LA If, Up-stairs in (Jluck liuildinsr, 11th street, Almve the New bank. HJ. HUDSON - 'i NOTARY PUBLIC. ilk Street, i dooru wet or Haniiaond House, Columbus, AVfc. .9";"' R.W..XHIJIMX03I. - RESIDENT DENTIST. ' Oiliee over corner ot 11th anil Sorth-st. All.perathuislir..t-cl:ii's .mil warranted. p K12K & i:KIK. .1 TTORNEYS A T LA W, Oiliee on Olive St.. Columbus, Nebraska. 2-tl c. 1 U. A. lll'LLII01rT, A.J1., M. !., OMEOl'A Till V ril YS1 01 AN, Jjj-Two Mock south of Court House. Telephone communication. -ly V. A. MACKEN, IlKALKIt IN ' Wines, Liquors. Cigars, Porters, Ales, etc., etc. Olive Mreet, next to First National Bank. rrAlJ.WTK BBO. A A TTOliNK YS A T LA W, Otliee up-stair in McAllister's build ing. 11th St. V. A. McAllister, Notary Public. .1. M. MACIAKLAND, B. K. COWDKRY, Attcrsey asi IXzMtj TAVz. CdlKtcr. LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE OF MACPAR1.AND& COWDDRY. Columbus, : " ' Nebraska. p KO. I. DKKHV, iM INTElt. 2r'arria house ami si,'", painting, Klazinsr, paper hanging, kaNomiiiing, etc. done to order. Shop on ISlli St., opposite Kugine llou-e, Columbus, Neb. lu-y i ii.iti;scni:, ' llth St., opposite Lindell Hotel. Sell Harness, Saddle, Collar, Whips, ltlatikcts, t uirv Comb)., ltrimhes, trunks, valine.-, utiggv tip, cushions, carriage trimmm:?, Ve.. at the lowest possible prices. Hepairs pr niptly attended to. JOIiXl.TANKKU, v Keal Estate -Argent, Genoa, Nance Co., Neb. ril.l) LANDS and improved farms 'V for -ale. Correspondence solicit ed. OibVe in Young's building, up-stairs. :kuv G A W.t'l.AKK, LAND AND INSURANCE AGENT, HUMPHREY, NElili. His lands comprise some fine tracts in the Shell Creek Valley, and the north ern portion of Wntte county. Taxes paid for non-rosidents. Satisfaction guaranteed. 20 c lOl.lLMHIIN PACKIXC CO., COLUMBUS, - NEB., Packers and Dealers in all kinds of Hog product, eas-li paid for Live or Dead Ilogs or grease. Directors. -l. H Henry, Prest.; John Wiggins, See. and Treas.; L. Gerrard, S. Corv. -vtotick t4ti:aciii:r. J. E. Moncrief, Co. Supt., Will le in his otllce at the Court House on the third Saturday of each month for the purpose of examining applicants for teacher's certificates, and forthe transactton of any other business pertaining to schools. PtiT-y A1IHS NALMO, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Plans and estimates supplied for either frame or brick buildings. Good work guaranteed. Shop on 13th Street, near St. Paul Lumber Yard, Columbus, Ne braska. f2 Cmo. J. WAGNER, Livery and Feed Stable. Is prepared to furnish the public wrth good teams, buggies and carriages for all occasions, especially for funerals. Also conducts a sale stable. 44 D.T. JJaktyx, I. D. P. Sciiug, M. D., (Deutscher Artz.) Dm. MARTYN & SCHUG, U. S. Examining Surgeons, Local Surseou. Union Pacific and O., N. &. H. U.K. IPs. COLUMBUS, - NEBRASKA. 32-vol-xiii-y JS. MURDOCK & SON, Carpenters and Contractors. Havehau au extended experience, and will guarantee satisfaction in work. All kinds of repairing done on short notice. Our motto is, Good work and fair prices. Csll and give us an oppor tunitytoestimateforyou. tSTSbbp on 13th St mie door west of Friedhof & Co's. store. Columbus. Nebr. 4S$-v UT?TGT A"TG to all. Soldiers that X JLiNOlUiNOwere disabled by wounds, disease, accident or otherwise, widows, mothers and fathers of soldiers dying in the service or afterwards, from causes which originated while in the ser vice, are entitled to a pension. New and lio-jor.tble discharges obtained for sol. diers. In:reae of Prakla ob tained at any time when the disability warrants it. All soldiers who were ratt'ti too low are entitled to an increase of pen sion. Rejected and abandoned claims a specialty.- Circulars free. Address, with stamp, M. V. TIERNY,-fiox- 485, TTisH--INOTON,'-D. C. 45-12ct COLUMBUS ""' 1 33;:m3M:- Stntrl lial ui Tuair Baltt. COLUMBUS, NEB. CASH CAPITAL, - $50,000 DIRECTORS: Leandrk Gkbrahd, Pres'l. Geo. W. IIulst, Vice Pres't. Julius A. Reed. Ijj f EDWARDAjGrEBBAnn. Abner Turner, Cashier. Bastk oT lefOMltt 11hcoubi skd Ext'lia-aare. C'ollectloHM Pre-saptly Made es all I'ulsitM. Pay latereHtt Xiate leit llH. 2T4 DRBBERT & BRIG6LE, BANKERS! HUMPHREY, NEBRASKA. BSTPrompt attention given to Col lections. tdTInBurance, Real Estate, Loan, etc. 5 JOHN HEITKEMPER, Eleventh Street, opposite the Lindell Hotel, COLUMBUS, NXU3RA.8KA., Has on baud a full assortment of GROCERIES! PROVISIONS, CROCKERY & GLASSWARE, Pipes, Cigars and Tobacco. Highest price paid for Country Produce. Uood delivered in cityr GIVE ME A CALL! JOHN IIEITKEMPEK. Sl-v LOUIS SCHREIBER, II All kinds of Repairiig done on Short Notice. Buggies, Wag ons, ete., made to order, and all work Guar anteed. Also .sell the world-famous Walter A. Wood Xowers. Reapers, Combin ed Machines, Harvesters, and Self-binders the best made. gSTShop opposite the "Tattersall." Ol ive St., COLUMBUS. 2-tlm-c H. LITERS & CO, BLACKSMITHS AND Wagon Builders, New Brick .Skop opposite Urlnti' Drug Stare. ALL KINDS OF WOOD AMD IRON WORK ON WAGONS AND BUGGIES DONE ON SHORT NOTICE. 4 Eleventh Street, Columbus, Nebraska. .10 NEBRASKA HOUSE, S. J. MARMOT, Pmp'r. Nebraska Ave., South of Depot, COLUMBUS, NEB. A now house, newly furnished. Good accommodations. Board by day or week at reasonable rates. t3THet u. First-Class Table. Meals, SS Cts. I Lodgings.... 25 Cts. 3S-2tf WISE people are always on the lookout for chances to Increase their earnings, and in time, .become wealthy: those who do no.t improve their opportunities remain in poverty. We ctTer a reat chariee to make money. We wnntJaany mea,,woBaeBt boys and girls tovork forjia right in their own localities Any one can' do the work properly from the" tirfe't t'aft.i The usinoi. will pay more than ten timet, ordinary wages. Ex pensive outtit furnished. No one who engages fail to mike money. rapidly. You can devote your whole time to the work, or only your spare moments Full infor mation -and all that is needed ent free. Address SUM80X-& -OOm Portland. Maine. Our larire OAR BE IV ,UIIKdecrihlngeoe' Free t, aTII .,We offer ihe. Latest Nov elties in KEED POTATOES, Cora. ,OoaU,and Wheat, and, the Best Collection of Vegetable: Flower. Grau and Tree ISEKPy-Every thirifr h tested. Address Blaclcsmitli ana wagon Maker u, avnia. 4t-eon-p FIRST National Bank! COX.T7BCBUB, NEB. Authorized Capital, Cash Capital, 8250,000 50,000 OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS. A. ANDERSON, Pres't. SAM'LC. SMITH, Vice Pres't. O. T. ROEN, Cashier. .1. r. EARLY, ROBERT UIILIG, HERMAN UEHLKICU, W. A. MCALLISTER, G. ANDERSON, P.ANDERSON. Foreign and Inland Exchiinge, Passage Ticket-, Real Estate, Loan anU Insurance. 2i-voM3-ly BECKER & WELCH, PROPRIETORS OF SHELL CREEK MILLS. MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLE SALE DEALERS IN FLOUR AND MEAL, OFFICE. COL UMB US, NE It. SPE1CE & 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 ou five or ten years time, in annual payments to suit pur nimiara Wa havn alno a larce and choice lot of other lands, improved and uniiuproveu, ior saie av- m price uu on reasonable terms. Also business and residence lots in the city. We keepa complete abstract of title to all real es tate in Platte County. C21 COLUMBUS, NEB. LANDS, FARMS, AND CITY PBOPEBTY II SALE, AT THE Union Pacfic Land Office, On Long Time and low rate of Interest. All wishing to buy Rail Road Lands or Improved Farms will find it to their advantage to call at the U. P. Laud Office before loftkiu elsewhere as 1 make a specialty of buying and selling lands on commission; all persons wish ing to sell farms or unimproved land will find it to their advantage to leave their lands with me for sale, as my fa cilities for affecliug sales are unsur passed. I am prepared to make tin a! proof for all parties wishing to get a patent for their homesteads. t3THeury Cordes, Clerk, writeB and speaks German. SAMUEL C. SMITH, Agt. U. P. Land Department, C21-y COLUMBUS, NEB. VM. BECKER, DKALKR IK ALL KINDS OF FAMILY GROCERIES! I KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND A WELL SELECTED S l'OC K. Teas, Coffees, Sugar, Syrups, Dried and Canned Fruits, and other Staples a Specialty. OoodB Delivered Free to aay part of Ike CUy. I AM ALSO AGENT FOR THE CEL EBRATED COQUIXLARD Farm and Spring Wagons, of which I keep a constant supply ou hand, but few their equal, in style and quality, tcond to none. CAU. AJfD LEARN PRICES. Cor. Thirteenth and K Streets, near A.&N. Depot. HENRY Gr ASS TJ3STDERTAK:EJzI ! COFFINS AND METALLIC CASES AND D1ULKR IN Furniture, Chairs, Bedsteads, Bu- reauaablea, &( Lounges. Ac, Picture Frames and Mouldings. t3-Repairing of all kinds of Upholstery Goods. o-tr COLUMBUS. NEB. O. C. SHAJSTNOISr, MANUVACTUKKJt OK Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware ! 'Jw--Wsk, JUaiBf aa Gutter--iag a f penalty. L, Esr.Shop jonJEleventh Street, .opposite 1 Heintz's Drue Store. 46-y iBBBBBBBBBBBHB YOU. If I could have my dearest wish futsUed, AM' take my choice of all earth's treasures, too. Or choose from Heaven whatsoe'er I willed, I'd ask for you. No man I'd envy, neither low nor sigh. Nor Kin In castle old or palace new, I'd hold Uolconda's mines less rich than I; .. I had you. Toil and privation, poverty and care. Undaunted I'd defy, nor fortune woo. Having my wife, no jewel else I'd wear. If aho were you. Little I'd care how lovely she might bo. How graced with every charm, how fond, bow true; E'en though perfection, she'd be naught to me, Were she not you. There Is more charm for my true loving heart. In everything you think, or say, or do. Than all the Joys that Heaven could e'er im part. Because it's you. H. A. P.. in N. Y. Sun. AN UNPLEASANT SURPRISE. "Louise," said Miss Harrison, paus ing at the foot of the stairs on her way through the hall from the kitchen to the sitting-room. "Are vou ready? I think I hear the sleigh-bells." "Oh, aunty!" called back a girlish voice from a bedroom at the head of the stairs. "I haven't even begun to dress. Do come up and help me, please." "My dear child! Why, I supposed you were ready long ago," said Miss Harrison, as she entered her niece's room. "What has been the matter?" "I became so interested in that book," replied Louise, indicating with a nod a volume lying on the floor by the table, "that I forgot all about the sleighing party," and as she spoke she caught a dress from one of the hooks in the closet, and threw it over he head. "Stop, stop," said her aunt, "don't put on your dress until you change your skirt, Louise. I see that the ruffle has been torn almost all the way around." "But I pinned it on again," said the girl. "Why did you not sew it?" "Oh, I hadn't time. Never mind, it won't show. I can't stop to find another skirt now." "But surely you are going to arrange your hair, Louise," said Miss Harrison. "It is in a most untidy condition." "I mussed it lying down on the sofa. But it will have to do as it is. I haven't time to fix it now," and Louise hastily buttoned her dress and tied a scarf about her neck. "I'll put my veil on and it won't show. Where's my ulster? Oh, there's the sleigh stopping at the door now," and she seized her hat and caught up a pair of gloves lying on the window sill. "Louise, stop, my dear. "Don't run off half-dressed. Your shoes are not even buttoned, and the lingers of those gloves are all out. Where can I look for another pair?" "I don't know, I'm sure," hurriedly answered the girl. "Never mini. I'll keep my hands in mv muff," and tying her veil about her hat, she ran down stairs and out of the front doorl before her aunt could utter another word. By the curbstone a large sleigh, drawn by four powerful horses, stood waiting. It was filled with happy faced young people, and as Louise ran down the steps, a young man pushed aside the buffalo robes and sprang out to meet her, a general smile going round as he did so; for Harry Valiant's attentions to Miss Harrison's niece had been too marked during the past few weeks to escape notice, and had caused a good deal of gossip in Briartown. Harry was a general favorite by vir tue of his wealth, good looks and pleas ant manners, and he had already ac quired considerable reputation as a lawyer. So there was a large number of young ladies in Briartown who would willingly have exchanged places with Louise in his regard, and who thought it rather hard that his choice should have fallen upon one who was compar atively a stranger to them all. For Louise's home was in a large city sev eral hundred miles distant, and she was visiting her aunt for the first time. The sleighing party had been ar ranged by the young lawyer in Louise's honor, and it proved a very important event in her life; for, coming home in the moonlight, Harry asked and ob tained her consent to become his wife, subject to the approval of her parents. Miss Harrison was sitting up for her nie.ee when at ten o'clock she came in, her eyes sparkling and her cheeks Hushed with excitement. "Aunt Margaret," she said, throw ing herself on a hassock at the laity's feet. " I am just the happiest girl in the world. Can't you guess why?" "I think lean, Louise," said Miss Harrison, in a low voice. "My dear child, you are to be congratulated. Harry Valiant is one of the finest young men "I have ever met." " And you don't think father will ob ject?" " Why should he? I think he will be very much pleased that you have done so well. And you must try to make Harrv happy, Louise." "(3h, I shall, of course," said the girl, with a little laugh. "I will begin at once to copy after you, Aunt Mar garet. You are as nearly perfect as any woman I know." Her aunt smiled. " I do not think Harry will find you unamiable or exacting," she said. " I only fear. " "That I will shock him by my care less habits," interrupted Louise. "Now, you know that was what j-ou were go ing to say. Aunt Margaret." " Something like that, my dear. Of course, when you marry you will live at home with Mrs. Valiant. Harry would never desert his widowed mother. And there is not a neater housekeeper in Briartown than she is. I don't think you could get a teaspoonful of dust if you poked in every crack and chink of her house." "I shan't ask her to let me try," laughed Louise. "But, really. Auntie, 1 think you are inclined to exaggerate my untidiness a little Surely it is not a crime to have one's shoes unbuttoned or a collar loose? The horrid pins never will stay." "They would stay if you put them in properly, Louise," said" Miss Harrison, firentlv. "But vou don't seem to think neatness or order of the slightest ini-; nnrt,npi " " I haven't been brought up to give them much thought," that's a fact," said Louise. "At home everything js at sixes and sevens. Yet we all get on well enough. As mother savs: 'What is the use of worrying about little things when we have minds to improve and cultivate?' " Miss Harrison sighed. "One need not neglect self-improvement while looking carefully after the ways of the household," she said. "But I must not keep you up any longer, my dear. It is time you were asleep. Go to bed now, and perhaps to-morrow I may be able to conrinoe you that it will be veil for you to have a little more re tard for Heavea's first law when you (boobm Harry Valiant's wife." "I tear you. will find me incorrigible, Aunt Margaret," said Louise, as she left the room. " 'What is bred in the bone will come out in the flesh,' you know." A troubled look came upon Miss Har rison's face as the door closed upon the graceful figure of her niece. "So pretty, so talented, so accom plished and so amiable," she murmured, "and yet I fear her one fault will bring her manv a heartache in the future." Miss Harrison accompanied her niece to Mrs. Valiant's to make a formal call, and Louise thanks to her aunt's care was so beautifully and neatly dressed that Mrs. Valiant, sharp as 'were her eyes to detect a flaw, had no fault to find, and was completely won by the voung girl's charming manners and lovely face. "I can congratulate you, Harry, with all my heart, she said" to her son that evening. "I liko Miss Louise so well that I hope you will soon bring her home to me." "And you will like her still more when you know her better, mother," said the young man, much pleased by this praise of his betrothed. "She is wonderfully clever. Young as she is only twenty, you know she has already written several essays for scientific mag azines, and helps her father continually in his law work." " I think you have every reason for believing she will make you happy," said Mrs. Valiant as she bent over her son and kissed him tenderly. " But Harry vou know my hobby is she neat? That is a virtue of great im portance in my eyes, sinco you are to make your home with me." "And in my eyes, too,'' said Harry, smiling. " The necessity of order and cleanliness has been so impressed upon me from my youth up, that a slovenly woman is my especial aversion. But I have never seen Louise otherwise than well and neatly dressed, mother." " MLs Harrison Is a model house keeper, I know," said Mrs. Valiant, " and very probably Louise's home is as well kept. "I will take notes for your special benefit when I pay her my first visit," said Harrv, laughing. Three tfays after her call upon Mrs. Valiant Louise was summoned home by the illness of her mother. Harry ac companied her some distance on her journey, and promised to visit her as soon as his business would permit him to do so. Meanwhile they were to cor respond. Mr. Harrison having given by letter his free consent to their en gagement. It was a cold, rainy day in March. A very dismal, uncomfortable day, Louise Harrison thought as she sat in her bed room and looked out on the muddy, wet street. Before her was a small table lit tered with writing materials, fancy work, patterns, and various odds and ends. But she was not working, for she had just received a letter from Harry m which he announced the tileasant news that he would be with ter on to-morrow, and she could think of nothing else. " I wonder what time he will call," she murmured, as she opened' the letter for about the tenth time and scanned the closely-written pages. "I must have the parlor fixed up and tell Susan to build a fire in the grate." At this moment the door opened and her father, a tall, handsome, but rather careworn-looking man, entered. " Why, father, I supposed you had gone to your office long ago," said Louise, looking up in surprise. "No; as usual breakfast was late, and I've been looking for the last hour for that bundle of newspapers I put on the shelf of the library closet a week ago. Some one has meddled with them, of course, and they are not to be found. Can't you make a search for them, Louise?" " Certainly," answered Louise, with cheerful alacrity, "and if I find them I will bring them down to vour oflico this afternoon. A walk will do me good, and I don't mind the rain at all." " I want them as soon as possible.' said Mr. Harrison. "They are of im- fortance as reference in a case that I ave coming up soon. Is that a letter from Mr. aliant? and when are we to have the pleasure of seeing him?" "To-morrow, " answered Louise, blush ing, "and I am sure you will like him, father." " I hope so, my dear, for your sake. But will he like you if you appear before him in that wrapper? It strikes me that your toilette is calculated to shock any well-regulated young man out of all sentiment." " How you love to tease, father," said Louise, laughing merrily. "You know very well that nothing would in duce me to appear before Harry in such a state as this, and she glanced down at her dress, an old woollen wrapper, faded, worn, soiled, and bearing the marks of various ink stains. "I have a new blue dress to wear. Blue is his favorite color." Mr. Harrison smiled and left the room, and Louise, only waiting to put Harry's letter safely away in the top drawer of her bureau, ran" down stairs and into the library to search for the papers. Never had her appearance been lets attractive. It amply justified her father's remark, and would have given her aunt, could she have seen it, the heart ache for a week. The soiled wrapper was minus a belt, and hung loosely about her; her hair, gathered in an un tidy knot at the batik of her head, was held in place by a broken comb, and a dilapidated ruche surrounded her slender neck. She wore no cuffs, no pin at her throat, and the braid which should have bound her dark petticoat trailed on the floor for nearly a yard behind her. A pair of black slippers, worn at the toes, and run down at the heels, completed her costume. While searching in the library closet for the papers, she came across a book on a subject which had interested her deeply, and forgetting everything else, she threw herself into a chair which stood before the open grate tire and be gan to read. ' So completely absorbed did she be come that she did not mark how time was flying. Her slippers fell off, and her feet, clothed in dark stockings, sad ly in need of darning, rested conspicu ously on the fender. But she heeded nothing, had thought for nothing but the book which so fascinated her. She was unaware that the library door had opened, and that a young man stood upon the threshold, regarding her with eyes in which astonishment and disgust could be plainly read. Nothing was lost "to his view. The soiled, ink-stained wrapper, the untidy hair, the dilapidated ruche, the slipshod slippers and tattered hose made up the details of a costume such as he had never seen before, and which he fer vently hoped he might never see again. "Louise!" -e " Harry!" With a face suffused with blushes. Louise sprang to her feet, lettiag the book fall with a crash to the floor. "I found that I could get off a day sooner than I supposed when I wrote you two days .ago," said the young man, in a voice so stern that the girl scarcely recognized it as that of her lover, " and I aid not 'telegraph, think ing to give you a surprise. I- fear, how ever, that it is an unpleasant one for us both," and without another word, and unmindful of the look of entreaty in the eyes of his betrothed, he turned on his heel and left the house. Louise cried herself to sleep that night. She saw that there was but one course open to her to pursue. The next day she wrote to Harry, releasing him from his engagement. His answer was to return to her all the letters she had written him. She never saw him again, for her Krjde would not permit her to revisit riartown, and run the risk of meeting him there, and she steadfastly declined the urgent invitations of her aunt, who would gladly have been instrumental in bringing the young couple together again. " 7 Years-have passed, and Louise Har rison is well known in the literary cir cles of her nativo city, and has. many friends who both love and admire her. But she has never married,' and the one hitter enemy of her life is that dark March day when her young lover gave her an unpleasant surprise. 7orenc B. Ilallowdl, in Chicago Standard. FoUlagthToid Folks. An interesting elopement, not in point of romantic novelty, but for the ob stacles that were woven around tho primrose path of the youthful lovers, came to light yesterday morning. Late Wednesday night duriu'g the heavy thunderstorm, a light biggy; drawn by a speedy bay horse, drew up in front of the Farmers' Ifome. A rustic lad, with a shrewd, determined look, alighted. J Throwing a silver dollar to the porter that stopped up to take charge of his baggage, he ordered night lodging for' his horse, with strict injunctions to scrape him well and have everything in good trim, by tho next morning. It was plain from the froth that covered him that he had done some good traveling. The young man then registered in the office as Joseph Shield, of Fairfield, and ordering a light supper retired, but be fore locking his room for the . night called for a long rope that would be found in the buggy, 'giving as his ex cuse for this strange action that he was morbidly afraid of fires ia large hotels. He was given a room in the rear of the building. Just before daybreak an other buggy with a frothing horse checkecLup before tho .hotel. Twoiero-cious-looktng fellows stumped into the hotel, and seizing the register ordered to be shownto that "scoundrel's room," pointing to Mr. Shield's- name in the book. They refused tp give any reason for such a demand,, except ;tbat ' they wanted that fellow "and must have'him. One held a -"buggy-wKip0 threateningly in his hand while tho.other made some secret inquiries as to, the person who ac companied.the youngman, and whether "anygifrhad been seen with Mm. ' As the proprietor held out persistently in refusing to allow them to seize the young man unless they were vested with such authority" they let out the socret of their visit. They hung around the house till it was bright daylight. About six o'clock- a man was sent up to the room of young Shield to awake him, as ordered. When the door waa opened it was found thatrthe bird had already llown. The window was raised, and a rope that swung from the case ment of the window explained the mys tery. The two strangers soon afterward, made a second visit to the hotel and were much enraged at the way in which they had been foiled by their supposed prey. Later in the morning a messen ger called with a note, asking that the horse and buggy be sent as secretly as possible to Wenzel anil Market streets, where the owner would meet it. Soon afterward the happy couple were speed ing on their way to" Jeffersonville, where they were united as Miss Annie. Meyers and Mr. Joseph Shield, of Fairfield. When the tw -strangers Teamed the successful way in which they had been beaten they gave up the chaseiand told the whole story. The bride ls,a beauti ful country girl about seventeen years of age and daughter of a wealthy farmer near Fairfield. Her parents' objected tp the marriage of their daughter on ac count of her age and advised her to wait. Finding this would not do they made threats which only brought mat ters to a hastier close. The young man secured his father's best horse and bug gy, stole his bride from the house, and getting a fair start was fully an hour on the road before the elopement was dis covered. The two brothers, as soon as they found the course love had taken, followed the chariot of the young bride and groom. Several tiraetsthe buggies were in sight of each other. Toll-gates were passed unheeded, antl the whole course to town was one protracted race. The lovers had the advantage of tho fastest horse and the lightest rig. They entered town several hours before their pursuers, and the bride was left at tho liou.se of a relative near the head of Mar ket street who had been let into the scheme. Louisville Commercial. Slang Words and Phrases. Just listen for a moment to our fast young man, or the ape of a fast young man, who thinks that to be a man he must speak in the dark phraseology of slang. If he does anything on his own responsibility, he does it on his own "hook." If he sees anything re markbly good lie calls it a "stunner;" the superlative of which- Is a "regular stunner." If a man is requested to pay a tavern bill, he is asked if he will "stand Sam," If he meets a savage looking dog he calls him an "ugly cus tomer." If he meets an eccentric man he calls him a "rummy old cove." A sensible man is a "chap that is up to snuff." Ouryoung friend never scolds, but "blows up; never pays, but "stumps up;" never finds it difficult to pay, but is "hard up;" never feels fa tigued, but is "used up." He has no hat, but shelters bis head beneath a "tile." He wears no neckcloth, but surrounds his throat with a "choker." He lives nowhere, but there is some place where he "hangs out." He never goes anywhere or withdraws, but ha "bolts" he "slopes" he "mizzles" he "makes himself scarce" he "walks his chalks" he "makes his tracks" he "cuts his stick" or is vfired out." The highest compliment you can pay him is to tell him he is a "regular brick." He docs not profess to be brave, but he prides himself oil- being "pi ucky.ii- Money isa word-which he has forgotten, but; he. talks a good deal about "tin," and "the needful,"" "the rhino," and "the ready." Whon a man speaks. he "spouts;" when he holds his peace he "shuts, up;" when he is hu miliated, he is 'taken down a peg or two," and "made to sing smalL'Js The Great Mississippi Torsade. Apart from the great fatality and destructiveness of Sunday's torna do in Mississippi the phenomenon is of special interest as a type of the Mississippi Valley whirl winds. The. tornado struck the town of Beauregard at Jfour o'clock in the af ternoon, which is the mean hour at which such tempests are experienced. Extended observation indicates that these, storms generally form in or near the southwestern quadrant of deep ba rometric depressions, where the warm, moist Gulf currents are brought in con tact with relatively cold, dry currents from the northwest. In this respect the formation of the Beauregard tor nado was normal, the deep depression which on Saturday was central in Col orado having moved on Sunday over the Southern States. The usual local Eremonitions high southerly winds, eavy thunder and the deep "rumbling sounds occurred for some miuutes bo fore the tornado wind proper struck the town. In a still more important par ticular this tornado conformed to the apparent rule, that in the opening of the season the grand tornadoes descend on the Gulf States and then extend their geographical range northward with the sun's movement in declina tion. These facts, are of the utmost impor tance as exhibiting the manner in which tornadoes are generated and borne along, and as showing that they may bo prevised and predicted a few hours at least by local observers. The "ter rific gale" from the northwest" which struck West Point, Miss., at twenty min utes past twelve p. m. on Sunday was ac companied by torrents of rain and "the largest hail ever seen" there-. This cold gale was the signal that the only factor requisite for creating tornadoes (tho warm current from the Gulf haviug been previously set up) was supplied. The West Point gale which must also have been felt at places lying north and west of that town, took place over three and a half hours before the Beauregard tor nado did its most fatal work. It is ob vious, therefore, that, with the baro metric conditions known to be- thru ex isting in the. South, telegraphic warn ings might have been .cut.by local ob servers at any points where the uorth west gale was felt in time to put ex posed towns on their guard against the desolating meteor. In such cases. a. we recently pointed out, local weather telegrams "may often he the means of forewarning imperiled districts, and ou the approach of a tornado a single half hour's forewarning may often Imj the saving of many valuable lives. It is to be hoped that the States lying in aud north of the Ohio and Lower Missouri valleys, especially those which have already State weather services, will luae no time in arranging a system of tor nado telegraphic warnings in anticipa tion of the dangers to which they may be. increasingly exposed from these frightful tempests. -Ar. Y. Herald. Curious Use of Eggs. Comparatively few persons are prob ably aware of the fact that eggs are used to any extent except as an article of food. Yet such is the case, and there Is an establishment in this city one of three in the United States which utilizes large numbers daily. A curi ous reporter for the I'ttion recently paid a visit to the Albumen Paper Com pany's works on Water street. The lirst sight which met his 'vx was an im mense basket of eggs. The reporter made known his wishes to a represen tative of the company, who kindly, in answer to numerous questions, gave all the information in his power. As above stated, there are only two other albu men paper factories in the country, one being located in Camden. N. .1.. and one at Philadelphia. These three firms supply the 7,000 photographers in the United States with the peculiar kind of paper necessary for their business. The manufacturing season begins in tho lat ter part of February and continues until near the lirst of the following Decem ber. During the season the Rochester company Uses on an average about 200 dozen eggs (2,400) per day, which makes a total of about .00,000 (600,000 eggs) per year. Grocers in the sur rounding towns furnwh the greater part of the eggs, which must be perfectly fresh. Some idea of the extent ef the business may i obtained from the fact that paper "sutlicieiit to print 200,000 photographs has been prepared in one day. The paper used is of the finest quality and is imported from France. The reporter was shown into a room where a young lady was busily engaged in breaking eggs and separating the whites from the yelks. The whites a.re prepared by a chemical process and then spread "over the surface of the pa per, leaving it glossy as seen in the pho tograph. Noticing that the yelks were also carefully preserved, the reporter inquired if it was possible to utilie them, and was answered in the affirma tive. They are nearly all sent to.Iohns town and Glovcrsville, where the glovers Use them for dressing kid. The skin antl velks aru placed together in a trough and tramped upon with the feet. A finish Is thus imparted to the skins which is obtaiuablo in no other way. Information was volunteered to the ef fect that a large number of the dogskin gloves and kid shoes worn so extens ively arc nothing more than sheep or calfskin dressed and finished with the yelks of eggs. Colonel S. S. Kddy's morocco factory is the only establish ment in this city using yelks in dress ing leather. Mr. Kddy said he also used the whites to .some extent, but only in the finishing of the roan leather. Rochester' (N. Y.) I'mon. Turned State's Evidence. "Hole on heah." exclaimed a negro on trial for stealing a saddle. "Hole on heah. Jedge." for I'se gwine ter turn State's evidence right heah." "How can you turn State's evidence when you are the only one concerned?" asked the Judge. "Don't m.ake no difference. I'se a gwine to turn State's evidence right heah, an' (loan yerself commence ter forgit it. Ef I turn dat evidence an' show yer zackly who stole de saddle, yer'll low ine to go about my business, won't yer, Jedge." "Certainly, sir, if you can turn State's evidence, "and tell us exactly who committed the theft, the law will "grant you liberation." "All right: heah's fur de State's evidence. I stole de saddle myself, an or good-day, gen'lenieu," and he walked out of the court-room before the ollicers could sufficiently recover from their surprise to detain him. Arkansaw Traveler. The daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Albany was baptized a few days ago with the name of "Alice Mary Victoria Augusta Pauline." It is need less to say. that ten sponsors were re quired, two for each name. She is a granddaughter of Queen Victoria. m The donkey never suffers from soft ening of tho brayin. N. O. Picayune. STBusiness and professional cards of five lines or less, per annum, five dollars. 33? For time advertisements, apply at this office. JSTLegal advertisements at statu rates. iSTFor transient advertising, sea rates on third page. X3TA11 advertisements payable monthly. OF GEOTRALJTNTEREST. It costs a dollar to be cremated ia Japan, and over nine thousand Japaues return to ashes by that process every year. Tho oldest oyster stand in thb; country Is in Fulton market. New York,. It was" established sixtv-one years ago. A". Y. Sun. Col. W. A. McDonald looks as happy as a boy with red-topped boou when he seaks of his "girl baby No 22." Coffee County (Oa.J Gazette. In tuaring down an inside wall of the Oconee. (Ga.) Court-house the other day, a bottle of brandy was found that had been placed there sixty years ago. Mormon missionaries, returning from a foreign tour, report that they meet with more or less success in nearly every European country. Indianapolis Journal. It doesn't take a Northern invalid very long to get well in Florida. When the first week's hotel bill is presented, he generally says: "I guess I'm well enough to start for home this afternoon." Detroit I'ost. Thousands of millions of dollars have gone in aud out of the Treasury siuce Mr. Glitillan took the national cash into his custody, and the recent recount incidental toa change of custo dians linds a balance of three cents duo the Treasurer. X. Y. Times. -( lovernor Sheldon, of New Mexico, lives in a veritable palace. It is only out; story high, and is built of mud. but is two hundred and fifty feet loug. nearly three hundred years old, has sheltered Spanish Governors without number, and always held the uame of "palace." The British petition to the House of Commons, asking that drunkeries bo closed on the Sabbath, held about COO, 000 names, was over three miles long, weighed two hundred and lifty pounds, aud was presented to the-honorable body by four policemen who gruntingly lugged it in. There is a determined effort on tho part of some of the people of Florida to divide the State into two parts, to bo known as North and South Florida. It is said the interest of the different parts are not identical. This is true, but in what State of the Union will the interests of alf parts be found the same. Chicago Times. Au object of interest to those historically inclined is the hull of the old ship Osage, which was burned by the British in the war of 1812. It lies sunk near Essex, not far above the mouth of the Connecticut Kiver, and can lie seen at low water. Many keepsakes have been made from the wood or u reck. Ronton Herald. The San Aiitouio Medical Society is in a grand row because oue of its members gave a dying man medicine after another had looked upon him and said medicine would do him no good. The thing that gravels the society most is, that the medieiue administered by this crusher of medical etiquette cured the patient. Ronton I'osl A young lady of Lincoln. Neb., has sued a well-to-do young man from tho country for breach of promise, they having been formally engaged and tho day set for the wedding. He says that he discovered that she powdered, aud he did not believe that any girl who did! that would make a good wife for a farmer. Chinigo Herald. A strauger. of respectable appear ance and somewhat suleiun demeanor, entered a Hour dealor's store in Oswego a day or two ago and sjiid that he wished to pay for a barrel of Hour fraudulently obtained thirty years ago. He "calcu lated" that Hour was then worth four dollars a barrel, and without another word he handed out sixteen dollars and went his way -V. 11 Times. -Revivalist Bliss told a Boston con gregation that Moody and Sankey re ceived a livelv reception at Oxford. Six hundred undergraduates attempted to break up tho lirst meeting. They boisterously applauded Sunlcuy when he sang and Moody when he preached. On the second night they interrupted the services bv rattling their canes. Moody went down among them, seized two of the principal disturbers, and declared that he would throw them out if they did not keep quiet. This put an cud to the young men's bad behavior. Boston Tran -wript. The fashionable people are running to buttons. A New York correspondent describes a dress recently finished for a Fifth avenue lady which carries 1,800 buttons, and required the constant labor of a seamstress for ten days to sew them on. On each sleeve there are 100 but tons, on the body, basque and collar 350, and on the skirt l.&0. Those on the skirt are arrauged in triangles, squares, crosses, stars and other curious shapes, on foundation of black satin. The dress has a satiny appearance and is very weighty -so much so that it will require a lady of considerable strength, to wear it. Ujxin tho l)ody of a man who died in Philadelphia the other day, was found a canvas belt containing several thousand dollars. He was of a sus picious nature, and had come gradual ly to distrust every human being but himself. He abandoned his wife, avoided his relatives, placed no confi dence in banks, and converting all his projicrty into cash, carried it constant ly ou his person as the only mean of saving it. And yet he died suddenly, leaving his heirs to quarrel over his possessions, as they might not have, done had a savings bank hail a chanco at them first. -Philadelphia Rress. A Philadelphia society is looking after the welfare of children employed in factories. One case was that of a little girl who had been the main sup ort of her drunken parents. She went to work at six o'clock every night and! toiled at the looms until eight o'clock in the morning, she .said, and the agents of the society say her sNry has been continued, and that during the night the arms of the little toilers became so tired and their cyus so heavy that often their heads bobbed and their hands dropped the spool which they were put ting up on the machinery. There was a watchman, part of whose business it was to go about among the looms and give the drowsy children a vigorous shake or a prod with a stick to keep them from dropping . asleep as they stood. Phrfudelphia Record. m m In consequence of the heavy mortal ity among sheep and Iambs in the present season and the low state to which the flocks in England have been reduced, the Queen has given orders that no lamb' is to be served for food in the royal house hold this year. A traveler reports having found a coin in circulation among the Malays, which is the smallest in the world. It is a minute wafer made of the gum exuded from a certain kind of tree. It rep resents a value equal to about the mill f th part of a dollar.