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A LONDON TRICK. Hew an American Judjre Narrowly Kscaped Robbery in the Strand. The reputation of London confidence men and sharpers is well known. They have an excellent field for their work, tendon is so vast-that it is difficult to 'find them even if the detectives are promptly upon their track, and thoy change their quarters frequently. Then the number ot visitors to this great Babylon is so large that victims are found without much difficulty. As many of these arc transient visitors, if the bunco men as they would be called an America; I do not know what cor responding term is used here make a good "haul," they leave the city or lie 5n hiding until they feel sure that their .victims have gone. Then they can not jbe identified, if arrested, and of course jwiJl escape prosecution. An American gentleman whom I met the other day told me of his narrow joscape from being robbed by what I am told is an "old London triek Be is a. criminal judge in one of your South ern States; and one would suppose that jsuch an official would be on his guard against tricks of all kinds. He has tcen in London many times before his present visit, and thought he was pretty familiar with the city and its ways. "Let me relate his experience in his own words. "I have bce,n living," he said, in a jpnvate hotel in one of the streets lead lug froxu the Strand to the Thames, not far from Temple Bar. It is a convenient place to reach and I found t comfortable and convenient in every jway. I have been in the habit of going to my lodgings at all hours of the day aind "night I was on my way thither .through the Strand about one o'clock one morning, and had almost reached (the street in which my hotel is situated tWhen I saw a woman not far in front iof me apparently stumblo and fall to the sidewalk. She was alone. She cried out as if hurt, and I hastened my steps and ran to her assistance. I helped her get up. but she complained of great pain in her ankle, and 'could hardly stand. She began to cry bitterly, and said she didn't see bow jshe was to get home. 1 asked her (where she lived; she named the street, which I knew was more than a mile away. I told her that she would have 'to take a cab, and that I would call one. Still crying and complaining 'that she was severely hurr she said she .could not take a cab, as -.he had no money to pay for it Wy S3'mpathies were "aroused, and I said iliat 1 would five hor enough to pay her cab-fare, put my hand in niy, pockrt and pulled (out some silver coins. the same time, I stepped toward a gs-lainp in order to pick out the righ- t. mount. "Quick as a flash of glitning the woman seized ny wrist. -Mid some of the coins went rattling down to the pavement At this moment three other women appeared I had seen nothing of them before. They seized me b the arms and around the waist. 'I instantly comprehended the situa tion. I was the victim of a confidence game, and was being robbed or would tbo in a moment unless I made a vigor 'ous resistance. I had ruy umbrella in ,my baud. I struggled violently with ithe four women, and at length man 'aged to break away from them. I started on a run at full speed for my hotel, only a few rods away. All the women were in hot pursuit. You (know all those streets running from the Strand down to the river descend Jpretty rapidly, and as I was going down I got under such a headway that .1 could not stop when I reached my house. I stopped just below it, how Jevcr, and tried to turn, when the (Women seized me again. Thoy ipounded and kicked me viciously, jbut did not get anything out of my jpocket.s. I used my hands and feot and umbrella as best I could, but I am afraid they would have been more 'than a match for me. "By good fortune, however, while .the struggle was going on in front of my hotel, tho door suddenly opened and the landlord appeared in it. I told him I needed help and ho came out The women then set up on him, and taking advantage of tho opportunity, 1 broke away from them and ran at full speed into the hotel. 1 found that my umbrella was pretty badly used up. and my arms and shins and body wcro soro for several days. Sinco then 1 "have carried a stout cano whenever I lam out late at night I never asked the landlord how he came out of the fight I was too glad to get away my self to bother about him; but I fancy he suffered little damage. I only lost a few shill'ngs." "Why d:d ou not make an outcry and alarm the police?" I inquired. "Ah," was the answer, "that was the very thing that I was careful not to do. Don't you see. they were four to onc,and if a policeman had come, the chances were that they would accuse me of as sault and 1 would be locked up for the night Or, if my story had been be lieved, they would have spent the night in the police station a matter of no eonsequency to a woman of that class and if the matter had gore further, I should have gone to the police court to prosecute them. I did not care for publicity in that way. Oh, no. I didn't want the police to have any hand in the matter so far as I was coucrned." London Cor. iV. V. Tribune. "MJT DER VELO AROUND." io A Bicyclist's Rule Through Germany and Ills Meeting With an Intelligent Land lord. Rolling over fair roads into the vil lage of Oberkirch, I conclude to re main for the night and the first thing undertaken is to disburden the bicycle of its covering of clay. The awkward looking hostler comes around several times ami eyes the proceedings with glances of genuine disapproval, doubt less thinkiug I am cleaning it myself, instead of lettng him swab it with a besom, with the single purpose in view of dodging the inevitable tip. The proprietor can speak a few words of English. He put; his bald head out of the window above and asks: "Pe you Herr Shtevcns?" "Yah, yah," I reply. "Do you go init der veld around?" "Yah: I goes around mit the world." "I shonst read about you mit der nodspaper." "Ah, indeed! what newspaper?" "Die Frankfurter Zeitunq. You go around mit der veld." The landlord looks delighted to have for a guest the man who goes "mit der veld around," and spreads the news. Duringthc evening several people of importance and position drop in to take a curious peep at me. A dampness about the knees, super induced by wheeling in rubber leggins causes me to seek the privilege of the -kitchen fire upon arrival. After listen ing to the incessant chatter of the cook, for a few moments. I suddenly dispense with all pantomime, and ask in purest English the privilege of dry ing my clothing, in peace and tran quillity, by the Kitchen fire. The poor woman hurries out soon returns with her highly accomplished master, who, comprehending the situation, forthwith tenders .me the loan of his Sundav .pantaloons for the evening; which offer I gladly accept, notwithstanding the wide disproportion in their size jand mine, the landlord being, hori zontally, a very large person. Outing. Girls can marry at the age of jftoreaywrsiB the State of Maiae. A FAMOUS RELIC. IneMeata Jlecalled by the Uneartala.ef the First Portrait of General Grant. Speaking of arts and artists at the Capital, leads us naturally to a carious tale of the defeated ambition and fruit less endeavor of an artist once known briefly to fame, yet very well known. Underneath the crypt of tho Capitol is the vault which Congress devoted for the reception of George Washington's mortal remains, but' which "never 'was used for that purpose, because Wash ington's will fixed his resting-place at Mount Vernon instead. Curiosity tempted me to go down there and have the "gloomy cavern "lighted-np. It has a flavor of a tomb about it though no body has ever been buried there. la the farthest corner from tiie entrance is the wooden framework of a bier. Covered with blacky cloth and other trappings, it has done duty at several State funerals. It was last used for Garfield in the rotunda above. This is where it is stowed awav until death strikes another equally "sh:n:ng mark." A grim little subterraneau hole, truly, that brings to mind all those shudder ing stories of prisoners in basement dungeons, shut up by cruel Kings in living tombs, like the Man in the Iron Mask, which makes the reading of his tory such a heart-ach'ng business. Well, over'on one "side of this weird little chamber is a roll of faded, dusty canvas, and close by is an empty frame that once was brightly gilded, bat it it now tarnished and dull. At the foot oS this empty frame appears the inscrip tion: "Font Donelson Shiloh Vicks burgh." It once mc'ostd a 1 fe sized por trait in oil of General Gr.mt. and it is this Ki trait which is ro!l:d up ou the neg jted and forgotten canvas. The story of this work of art ie interesting. It was painted by a then young artist of Illinois, named Antrobus. shortly after Grant took command of the Union armies. It presents him sitting outside his tent in full uniform, an.1 is a very ambitious effort There is no doubt. Architect Clarke says, that it was the first portrait ever painted of Grant after he became the central figure of the war on the Union side. Young An trobus went out to one of the battle fields bearing a letter to Grant from the latters friend, Elihu B. Washburne, and the General sat for him right there in front of his headquarters tent An trobus finished and framed the portrait and brought it to the Capitol. It was exhibited in the rotunda for a long time, and, as Grant had just then sprung to the topmost rung of fame's ladder, it was the central object of in terest to all visitors. Scores of thou sands of poople stood in front of it and scanned the rugged face of the man so lately revealed to tho Nation as its de liverer. Antrobus had an idea that tho Govern ment would buy it, or rather that Mr. Washburne. who was chairman of the Committee on Appropriations at the time, and commiss:oncd him to go on the batt'e field and paint it tor the Gov ernment Mr. Washburne disclaimed any suoh intention, and the Government did not buy it. So there it hung In the rotunda, until, in order to stop the exhibition of all kinds of absurdities in the way of alleged art. Congress passed a law prohibiting the placing of any thing for public view in ' the rotunda that nad not been bought and paid for by the Government Then it was that the Antrobus portrait of Grant in front of his tent, in 1863, the first ever painted of him after he became the great com mander, was taken out of the frame, rolled up, and consigned to the ob scurity and neglect of the vault below the crypt. Antrobus disappeared from the Capital, a badly disappointed man, and has never since been heard of. Probably he is dead, but tho picture would bo worth the while of the heir, if ho has any. to look after. It has an ovident historical value apart from its art merits, which are said to be quite mediocre. Washington Cor. Boston Globe. mum A COLORED IRISHMAN. Hew ?! Garlic .T.irgon A ton tihed a Tip prary Man. The principal families of this colony were the Flahertys, the Connellys, the Tuells and the Whelans. The first slave property that came into the colony is said to have been a negro child of seven j'ears of age, bought by a Mr. Tuell at public sale of an in solvent debtor's estate. In connection with this negro boy I remember to have heard an amusing anecdote, related by the late Daniel Dywer, solicitor at the time, nearly half a century ago, a-lead-ing wholesale grocer of Louisville. I was his guest and seated at his own table, when he related the incident "The Irish settlers at Cox's Creek," said Mr. Dwyer. "had been raj custom ers for many years. It pleased them to deal with a countryman who could speak their own mother tongue. One day I was waited on by one of their number. Patrick Tuell by name, who bought of me a very large bill of goods. His instructions were that his goods be delivered to his negro, who would call for them on the following morning. Since you must have observed it, Mr. Webb, I need not tell you that what is known as the brogue of my country is in my case ;neradicable. Though it is something of which I am not ashamed, I am not a little sensitive to its mimicry by those who Nuve it not Well, on the following morning, after I had closed my business transactions with Mr. Tuell a negro fellow, some twenty years of age, entered the store, and with as honest a Tipperary brogue as ever fell from tongue, asked for his master's groceries.' I had but one idea, and that was that the black rascal was trying to imitate my own matter of speech. Picking up an axe helve I made . after him. and be frightened at my demonstrative attitude, backed out of the store and leaped into the wagon that was standing in the middle of the street Turning to me before he could reach the saddle horse of his team, with a piteous look, he asked in native Irish what he had done to offend me. I was utterly confounded, yon may be sure, and the weapon I held dropped to the pavement as from a nerveless hand. Questioning the boy, I found that he had been brought up from childhood in his master's family, where he rbad -not only.contracted the brogue "I had re gnrdtd as'A mere mimicry, but had learned with other children, to under staad ?and speak, the Celtic of the family's inter-communication." Fram B. S. "WtbVt Eistory of the Catholic Church in Kentucky." .A Plea for Fresh Air. Professor Beclam, the distinguished German hygienist, has opened a cru sade against the horror of night air and draughts, which is especially prevalent among his countrymen. "Sleeping with open windows." he says, "is most mnjuitly descried among the people, as well as night air in general. But night air is injurious only in swampy regions, whereas on dry soO, in the mountains and everywhere in the upper stories of a house, it is more salubrious than day air." "Draughts," he adds, "are not 'injurious unless we are in a glow. To healthy persons it can not possibly do as much harm as the stagnant air in a ekes room. The fear of draughts is qaite groqr-dless. though it affects most mdple in a manner which is simply ri Oienlous." .V. T. Post. - e m Tumbles lined with India rabbet among the newest things in the k trade. N. T. Sun. WOODS IN WINTER. The Tune of Tear Ww Trees Aim I Their Individuality. Let us walk out into the -inviting woods. The trees can never ho so fully seen aa now. Their painted trunks, relieved against this neutral foil of snow, disclose a surprising wealth jof color; and the exquisite tracery of branch and twig, the essen tial elements of the tree's beauty and character, heretofore largely concealed by the perishable garniture of foliage, is now revealed. The true tree, freed from -all disguise, stands forth liko an athlete stripped for the contest Ob serve the soft, blending tones on tho bolo of this smooth, dappled beech. See the infinity of refined grays, browns and-greens- which everywhere spread and intermelt upon its surface. "The painted beech," it has been happily called. Yes. it is the palette of the svlvan studio. It is Dame Nature's sampler. Upon its gray surface she mixes and tests her sober and subtler tints, to bo afterward disposed in those artfully artless contrasts throughout .the landscape. You shall find this sil very sample on yonder rock-maple, disposed in one telling splash, divided vertically by the brown fissures of the bark. This bright ochery remnant re appears on the hickory beyond, in strong brilliant touches here and there upon the shingly shades; and the broad rock hatd by has received lavish-decoration in mottled circles of this palo sage green. Here is the array of tints with which sho paints the antiquated stone walls, and here the sheeny gray by which she has reclaimed tho ram bling miles of splintered rails. The virescent drab of poplar, the rosy ash of young maple, and the varied mosaic of ttia mossy bowlder, all find' their complement here. With its clean, trim contour and bright, smooth complexion, wo may readly appreciate the estimate of Thore'au. " No tree has so fair a bole or so handsome an instep as the beech." This latter feature, however, is often lost in the winter woods, as the trees stand knee-deep in snow, and the comely slope of their feet, clad in vel vety moss, is concealed from view. It is a common error to suppose that winter effaces the distinctions of indi viduality among the various trees. Nothing can be further from the truth. "Are you the friend of your friend's thoughts, or of his buttons?" said Emerson, as though we should knew our companion only by his dress. Many of our trees announce themselves even more distinctly in February than in June. The shagbark was never barked as now. The white birch re veals many more of her distinctivo pallid features; and in this unseason able weather the tattooed buff satin dress of her cousin, the yellow birch, seems more than over conspicuous. The tupclo never more effectually as serted its precious whimsicality. The white oak audibly rustles its identity; and the marbled buttonwood-tree hangs out a tell-tale label from every twig. Look at this scraggly silhouette against the sky over this lichen-painted wall. Who needs the hint of the brown frozen apple lodged among the twigs to call its name? Is it not written in even angle of its eccentric spray, or even in its shadow in the snow? Like wise the elm with pendent nest, tho spiral fluted hornbeam, and sugar maple too. Who would not know each from a fragment of its bark? Scarcely in a less degree do the linden, the ash. the various willows, oaks, and maples, the chestnut and the tulip tree, assert their individuality and claim recognition. To tho curious ob server they soon become familiar, and1 he can name them alL W. H. Gibson, in Harper's Magazine. m MIGRATORY BIRDS. Time of Their Departure from the North western States. There is nothing stranger in the ex perience of those who study nature than the peculiar characteristics which arc associated with the coming and going of certain classes of birds. The common observer will notice flocks of blackbirds or wild pigeons, but is un able to tell anything connected with the laws that control the movements of all species of birds that may or may not remain in a certain locality. Some of us know that most all classes of birds are strictly daytime workers. They seek places of safety at early twi light. The wrens, martins, blue birds, nut hatches, woodpeckers and somo other scansorials all retreat into their respective places of abode, whilst tho kingbirds, jays, robins, (inches, larks, kin fishers and scores of smaller songsters select bunches of grass or trees of thick foliage wherein to pass the night. You rementber last April how glad you were when yon heard the first mocking bird of the season? Of course you do, bnt did you ever think of just how that same excellent bird of song pursued its journey from a far distant clime to come and help make cheerful the people of northern lands? Every spring I observe that the very first mocking birds of the year aro heard at early morning. This is duo to the fact that the birds came during the previous night If you are up early enough and have the interest to do so. you may see the arriving of some classes of migratory birds which return to this latitude during the months of April and May. In this region we have threo specimens of birds that are classed as migratory, those that may or may not change their place of living, and that are strictly confined to the local ity. The larks are the first to come and the last ones to go south. They usually appear about the middle of March anil remain until November. According to careful observations, the following is a correct account of when the birds took their departure: Wood Peewee October 10 Kingfisher -. Octobers Variegated scansorial Bluebirds Red headed scansorial... Chimney swallow Swallows.......... ........ Rain crow.................. Goldfinch Mockingbird Barn swallow. Bob o'ltnk Humming bird Vultures Kingbird..... Corn crake.... ............ Uv se itiej, A .August IS October 30 ..September 30 October 11 ..September 25 ..September 25 August 10 Augusts August 17 August 10 .. ..August 31 October! October 5 August 10 ...Septembers ..September 10 , October 8 October 18. whipporwill Cat bird..................... September 41 M Peewee October 101 The mocking birds as a class had vanished by the first week in August, yet I saw two of them as late as Septem ber 23. They had probably come from the far north, or they might have been delayed bv caring for a second or third brood of little birds. Burlington (la. J Post. m The notion of one heat driving ont another gave rise to the old-fashioned custom of placing a burned part near the fire to drive ont the fire; a practice, says Dr. Bucknell, certainly not with out benefit, acting on the same princi ple as the application of turpentine and other stimulants to recent bnrns. This was one of the many instances of the homoeopathic doctrine in old times. Boston Budget. An Italian astronomer declares that the plane Mars is peopled by in telligent beings, who are trying to at tract attention from dwellers on this planet He is now engaged in making experiments with a view to discover rhat the messages mean. "ADAM AND EVE." A Soldier or Fortune and His Wife Bedaeed to Crab-Catching:. Every morning visitors to the Central market can see near the fish depart ment an old and shriveled couple, be fore whom are placed baskets of crabs, which they peddle out until the bell strikes the hour for the closing of the market The old man and his wife are known as "Adam and Eve," and spend the day along the wharves, catching crabs in nets, and in the morning sell them in the market, and thus manage to procure enough of the necessaries of -life to keep-body and soul together. Their sleeping apartments is a 6x8 shanty on the western wharf, where they have squatted for years. The old man. whose name is Bernard Buolenti, speaks English very imperfectly, but in .a conversation baa with him a couple of days since enough was learned to show that his career had been a check ered one. Born in the province of Ca labria, in the southern part of the Ital ian, peninsula, in 1815, his early days were passed in a quiet manner in the manufacture of the famous white and red wines for which the province was celebrated, and in the playing of cards, a great passion among his countrymen. Marrying at the age of twenty years, he became involved in a difficulty soon 'after with an Arnaout. aud stabbing him to the heart fled to Spain, arriving in the northern part of that country during the height of the Carlist war. and espousing the cause oi Don Carlos, followed his varying for tunes until be was compelled to nee-to France in 1839. Buolenti then drifted to Trieste, on the Adriatic, where he angaged in merchandising, and in a few rears acquired a competence. Tiring of a commercial life he emigrated to South America, and entering the Bra zillian army rose to the rank of a Maiov of cavalry, but for some fancied dis obedience of orders, lost his commis sion. He then drifted to the Pacific side, and remained in Chili for several years, without bettering his condition. When Maximilan moved upon Mexico, Buolenti made bis way to that country and was given a subaltern's commis sion in the Austrian contingent and served until the downfall and execution of the Emperor at Queretoro, declining to leave the country when Bazaine and. the foreign troops departed. After the death of the Emperor, Buolenti. upon whom age and hardships were making inroads, made his way to Vera Cruz, and eke'! out an existence in that place until some years ago, when he managed to get to Galveston with his wife on a passing schooner. There he embarked i the crab-catching business, which ho has followed ever since, and the old couple, dressed in rags, form one of the most striking of the many queer sights to be seen along the water front of this southern seaport With all his poverty the old man scorns to solicit alms, and, with a spark of pride, will exclaim: "Me no tramp; me no beggar; me old soldier. Ualveston (Tex.) Cor. St. Louis Q lube-Democrat. A SMART YOUTH. How a Tanas' Man Managed to Establish a Prosperous Business. Three months ago a young man ot twenty-two and his mother landed in Detroit from an Eastern State with less than twenty dollars in money. He had been promised work, but reached here to be disappointed. The household goods were here, and the couple hadn't enough mouey to go away on. It was, therefore, decided to rent rooms and re main and search for work. The young man made every e.Tort. but was unsuc cessful. His money was nearly gone, and houso rent was coming due again. when, one evening as he passed up Grand River Avenue, he heard one lady say to another, as they stood in front of a bakery: "Dear mc! but I wish I could get hold of some old-fashioned doughnuts such as mother used to make." "I've said that every day for the last ten years," replied the other. The young man followed them home and made a note of street and number. He then laid out all his money in lard and flour and carried the goods honu and said to his mother: "The people of Detroit want old. fashioned doughnuts. You shall males them and I will sell them from housf to house. I will start out with the first batch to-morrow morning." The doughnuts four dozen of them were ready by seven o'clock, and in half an hour he had sold them and was back. Next day he sold twelve dozen, and the next thirty. He bad struck a good thing and he bad sense "enough to manage it He started out to take orders from house to house, and the result was astonishing. Two girls had to be hired to assist the mother, and he had to hire two boys to help deliver. He now fills orders for three hundred dozen doughnuts daily, and the women have divided up the time so that One is constantly at work turning out the goods. Flour is purchased by the bar rel and lard by the hundred pounds, and the business finds new customers every day. There 'is a lesson in this for the hun dreds of young men who roam about a city declaring that there is nothing to do and no way open for them to make a living. They may not all turn dough nut makers and peddlers, but there are other fields to be worked, and, if well worked, must give permanent occupa tion and fair profit Detroit Free Prtsu Why Many Take the Road. "Fine weather, eh?" "Yes, very fine." (Pause of five minutes.) "Ever see nicer weather'" "No." (Another pause.) "Say. isn't this nice weather?" "Indeed it is." (Third pause this time of longer duration.) - "This is nice weather?" "Very nice." (One turns to his paper, and the other begins to doze! After a ride of six blocks further the paper is folded up and the owner leaves the ear.) "Well, so long. Nice weather?" "Charming." That's probably one reason why so many people not only refuse to ride on the cars, but walk in the middle at the road. Detroit Free Press. When Jones went to look for rooms he was shown about the premises by as handsome a chambermaid young, bright and fair as ever gladdened the eves of a bachelor. "What suite do you think you should prefer, sir?" she asked. Jones said he couldn't help it if he was to die for it, and he replied, in his most killing way: "Sweet Eigh teen." "If yon mean me," responded the girl, "I'd have you to know that this 'sweet eighteen' is already en gaged." Boston Post. There is some talk among Ieadjif society gentlemen as regards the intro duction of lavender and other light colors for trousers and dress purposes. These were in vogue some fifteen years ago, and were generally liked. K.T. Graphic. Land in the city of London proper costs $15,000,000 an acre. Editors and plumbers contemplating the purchase of land will hardly miss this golden op portunity. The Macon Telegraph claims that Georgia chartered, built and conducted the first female college in the world. "LITTLE MAC'S" LOVE. The Tint Sire ting Between General Cleliaa and tha Lady Who- Beeasaa Ve rne Wife. - It was a clear.- cold Saturday, after noon in 1830 when - the General found himself for the first time in Baltimore, Md. Ho put up at one ot the hotels, and be ng tired out immediately reared. The next morning he went to a church in the neighborhood. "He" was ushered into a pew-near tb?e altar ThVpew had already one occupant cin it, Jibwe'rer. ThLf was a handsome young lady.'She was very handsome. A slender, -delicate figure draped in. gray silk with a wealth of blonde, ha'r rolled about-her graceful head. Th:s was all the General could see at the first glance, but he Jelt at that one moment that" the young lady before him was the only one whom he could e er love. Until now the General's time had been too much taken up with, business cares to give much thoughtto love, but now a new feeling thrillel his heart and he actually blmbed. He knelt down and opened a prayer-book, but paid little attention to it His mind - was taken up with the fair young devutee by his s'de. At last he saw her features. Her eyes were the color of a cloudless sky. and her mouth of the rosebud variety, with ripe cherry lip-. The General feasted his eyes on th's pioture until the services were over. " As she was leaving tiie pew she glanced at the General, and then rosy blinhes chased one .-.other rapidly over her fair counts ' .i-e she not:ced for the firsi "i. -.ii beneral's admir ing eyes fix-" o u her. She walked slowly home oard one of the most fashionable quarters of the city, totally unaware that the handsome young fel low was follow, ng close behnd her. She entered one of the handsomest houses in the city. leaving the General, as he afterward expressed it standing in the street looking like a ninny. He learned that the house was owned by General R. B. Marcy. an old war worn veteran. George himself had had a taste of war life during the Mex ican trouble, and had retired when it was over with the rank of Capta:n. He remembered that one of bis school mates at West Point was named Marcy. He made inquiries, and learned that General Marcy was the father of his old school companion. It d d not take him long then to renew his acquaint ance with General Marcy's son.. who was delighted to meet George again. He introduced the latter to his parents and also to his sister Ellen, who had made such a deep impression on George at the church. He bezan at once to I, ay assiduous attention to the peerless ttlo beauty. It was plainly seen after awhile .that his love was recipro cated. Ho asked and obtained Gen eral Marcy's permission to wed his daughter. They were married in May, 1860. Mrs. McCiellan confessed that she was as deeply smitten with the handsome young soldier on the day of their first meeting as he was with her. Since their marriage Mrs. McCiellan has ac companied her husband wherever his dnties led him. N. T. Star. LASSOING A CALF. ililmiviiianilii fthleli the Victim far Moipatad to tlio Uat of It Ability. A yearling calf, who hung down his head In the meekest manner, and whose large eyes seemed to be chuck-full of sorrow over some calf-calamity, was in a yard on Second Avenue the other day. when along came two young Buffalo Bills. They had lassos made of stolen clothes-lines, and they bad been prac ticing on every hitching post for half a mile around. As soon as they saw that calf they real:zed that thoy had struck a bonanza. Here was a living, breath iug th'ng to practice on, and they lost no time in going to work on that imag inary buitalo. As tho c'alt stood stock still it was no great feat to throw the nooses over his head. The trouble was to get them off again. As the sl'p knots t;ghtened the calf backed o(T and utttcred the most doleful bawls, and he seemed so utterly meek that the boys climbed the fence to secure their ropes. The calf backed off until he had them twenty feet from the fence. and then a sudden change took place all over him. Down went his head and up went his tail, and the first boy hadn't quit rolling over aud over when the second followed after. They got up to go down again, and the calf had both of them ncely cornered when a pedestrian rushed in and turned the scale. "How d'd it happen?" he asked. "We t-took him for a b-buualo!" howled one. "And I'll n-never hunt another!" sobbed the second. "I'm going right home and trade off my bowie knife for a rat trao, and if anvbody'U buy my pistol I'll' soil it for half a dollar. Mis ter, do vou think we've been morjullv injured?" The pedestr an thought that internal injuries might possibly "set in" in ease they were out much" after dark, and they l'mped away with white faces and tearful oyes. DelroiFree Press. ss e a MAKING BAGS. An Indattry TCIiosr Growth Itna Bean A tottNliln. Hardly half a century has passed since the first bag was tnn.ed out in New York, in a sal maker's loft near the Battery. The man who first made a business of bag-making carries on business yet at the old stand, and his one of the two New York houses that have refused to join the loan pool and continue to do business independently. The exporta tion of American grain, that grew up suddenly. ad the ewing mach-ne gave enormous impetus to the busfries-. Ma chines that turn out a hundred bags an hour, sewn and finished, have replaced the blow and laborious work of hand sewing of the early days. Now over a hundred kinds of sacks are made, from the coarsest gunny-bag for cocoanuts and cotton seed to the nobby shatuckett corn bag. that makes serviceable every day wear for Brazil'an planters at the end of his journey. Thirteen kind- of sacks are made to hold coffee aione. But all of these are sold. Scarcely any of them ever come back. It is a curi ous fact for instance, that of the two or three millions of coffee sacks of a certain make made and sent out annually from New York, never one was known to re turn. Every bag of coffee that arrives in this port is resacked before it is started on its land journey south or west Another sack is simply drawn over it and thus secured against catch ing cold in our variable climate, the coffee is shipped by rail. These sacks are peculiar and easily identified, did any return by chance; bat none ever do. "In forty years," said the oldest bag-maker, "I never saw one come back." What becomes of them no one seems to know. Doubtless in some odd corner they serve a meful purpose in after-life of whioh their readers little dream. y. Y. Express. m m When DyAamite MV be Used. , "That" remarked Alexander, as he watched the explosion of one of his royal residences in Moscow, "that re minds me of a statue of Minerva. "And why, your Majesty?" deferen tially inquired the Lord First Groom of the Buckwheat-eakes. ' "Well, you see it is a bust of Pallas." The court wore fall mourning for a week. The Xmmbler. OF GENERAL INTEREST. Civilization marches with the quickstep. A Sioux chief rides a bsoytjcti Aparrot that sings "Love js Like a" Red, Kcd Rose" is a California cariosity.- . .. . i gPhitadelphJA ha.a curiosity, in the sh"aiepf the oldest hand fire engine in the country. It-has been seat to New Orleans'ferexhihitidB).-- " i.2 -r A; svmUrgbtvieitcin. dksaesss; ejifoa(enfiTeis4 L9L.bc ngjnade.in New York. to be used iH'a soap factory.. 'It will "hoU thirty six 'tons ofiaeltedtallow. :iV.'r. Mail: The relaU -liquor license in Fulton Countv.'Ga., exceptUng; Atlanta, has been ;ncreased-te4wenty-five thousand dollars, 'five t:ntes the original. tax; and presumably prohibitive. Atlanta Con stitution. Grog:shops have been abolished in Russia, and hereafter the sale of liquors will be permitted ohlv in hotels 'and restaurants, which i shall each pay a license of eight hundred and twenty five dollars. An English traveler maintains that there are five other peaks of the Hima laya range mountains higher than Monnt Everett (29.002 feet), heretofore thought to be one of thehighest eleva tions in the world. At a recent trranee fair in Lnnen- I burg County, Vu.. the wife of Rev. M. Allen exhibited a curiosity in the shape of a ladv's bonnet, made entirely of fire-cured tobacco. It was a beautiful specimen of ladies' handiwork. Chi cago, Times. A St Louis drug company recently received a packaze of aloes' tied up in a monkey skin. A writer in a Western paper thinks this method of packing rather rough on the monkeys, for it takes thirty or more of the Jittle fellows to lurnish wrappings for a single hun dred weight of the drug. When a prisoner breaks out of the Arizona Tcrritor al prison at Yuma the Yuma Indiawi are employed to trail him -and bring h;nr back, which they rarely fail to da Their latest achieve ment was trailing and capturing a Mexican named Lopez, who escaped from the Penitentiary a short time ago. A soldier at Salt Lake,- who used the United States mails to defraud peo- le in Ireland by, informing them of egacies supposed to have been left to them, which would be paid on receipt of money to close the estate, has been sentenced to eighteen months' impris onment and three hundred dollars fine. Favorite musical instruments: For the farmer, hoe, boy! (hautboy). For the politician, an organ. For lovers, the mouth harmonica. For some ho tels, the vile inn (violin). For burg lars, ths loot (lute). For aged single ladies, the piano forty.. For commer cial travelers, the drum. N. Y. Inde pendent. The London Spectator says Paris is steadilv losing ground. -and" there is something lacking from the brilliant capital of former days. A recent cen sus shows torty-two thousand apart ments empty, as compared with the customary twenty thousand. High cost of living drives many, however, out of the city itself to surrounding towns. The wealth of Lincoln County, N. M., four years ago was seven hun dred thousand dollars. One year ago it was two million dollars. Now it is four million seven hundred thousand dollars. And nearly all this great amouut of wealth is invested in cattle, less than twenty per cent being in real estate and other taxable items. SL Louis Post. In a recent case before the Stipen diary Magistrate at Charlottetown, his Honor stated that until he got sufficient evidence he would postpone it till tho "millennium." wheroupon counsol mildly suggested that, in the event of the evidence not arriving at that re mote date, seeing his honor's powers were so extensive, he might postpone the "-millennium." Montreal Gazette. The Queen of Great Britain and Ireland rules over 310.000.000 of people (an increase in fifteen years of 55,000, 000), occupying an area of almost 10. 000.000 square miles. The trade carried on by these 310,000.000 amounts to $5,500,000,000 a year. Their flag floats over three-fifths of all the ship ping on the seas. London, their capi tal city, has (with its suburbs) a population of 5,250,000! No civilized empire has existed at all compared to the British Empire, either in ancient or modern times. . .The dinner-horn iz the oldest and most sakred horn there iz. It is set to musik. and plays '"Home, Sweet Home" about noon. It has been listened to with more rapturous delight than ever any band haz. You kan hear it further than vou kan one of Rodman's guns. It will arrest a man, and bring him in quicker than a Sheriff's warrant It can otftfoot enny other noise. It kauses the deaf tew hear, and the dumb tew shout for joy. Glorious old instrument! Long nay your lungs last! Josh Billings. There is a -boom in the peppermint oil market in Wayne County. The prices paid for the oil vary from two dollars and e'ghty-five eents to two dollars and ninety-five cents per pound. The advance is 'due to heavy orders from Europe, where Immense quanti tities have been consumed this year in the treatment of cases of cholera. r It is believed that prices next season will be the highest ever known, and thou sands of pounds of the oil are being held back with this expectation. Buffalo (S. Y.) Express. The lamp craze has broken ont among fashionable ladies of Albany, N. Y. As soon as they see a new style they either buy it or trade an old lamp for it Many of them make de signs of their own. The prevailing style is to have a large jar mounted on a brass or pedestal, representing some thing artistic. The lamp is set in this jar or vase, which is usually of a choc olate color. The shade is made of splashed ware, is glass, of course, but looks as" if some liquid gold or other material had been splashed over it Albany Journal. A man who emigrated from Ger many last May and settled near Mentor, Ohio, was surprised the other day by his dog Fritz, which he left on the other side in charge of his brother, walking up to him wlile at work. -.How the animal .succeeded in traveling the. three thou sand or more miles was a mystery to the man, who wrote to Castle Garden offi cials and asked if Fritz entered the country through that port The reply was. that he did; that he never left the woarf at Bremen after his master sailed, but waited until another vessel came in and went on board, hiding until the vessel naa oeen some asys at Cleveland Leader. -Missionary Ridge. The battleground of Missionary Ridge has been converted into a straw berry patch. Yankee colonists have climbed with hoes where Yankee soldiers nuhed with, bayonets, sad the earth has reddened alter each invasion. On these sonny slopes the rardeaer finds his ideal home and the berry laatfy perfects itetlf. Land Uaat went hscciaff a few yean s at two dollars aa acre bow eosasaaMs two and fifty- dollars an acre, and natives starved on Ave' handled now are Few Issfaskn tpmimm rjisjtf a tea acres. - JmBmBB CaBBBBBBBBa For Instant Dse As a reliable remedy, hi cuncs of Cruun, Whooping Coub, or mi.Kuii L'vlih, and for tlia prompt relief and t-uru at throat and luajr dNt-ases, Aver" cherry Pectoral is Invaluable. Hra. K. U. Lieny. Council Bluffs, Iowa, writes : " I cousnjer Ayrs Cherry Pectoral a ino nnpuribnt runedj for home us?. I have tested its curative power, in my family, many times during the past thirty years, uuJ have atref known It to fail. It will re Mere' the most serious aaectious of the threat and hngs, whether in children or adults." .John H. Stoddard, Ietvhunf, Vs., writes: "I have never found a n:i-U-Idas eojaal to AYER'S Cherry Pectoral for the prompt relief of throat and !un diseases peculiar to children. T cou:d.r ft an absolute cure for all such uuecti.ius, and. am never, without it in the Lou-e." Mrs. L. E. Herman, 187 Mercer at., Jeuy City, writes: "I have always iVuud Arse's Cherry Pectoral useful iu uty r.r.n Dy.1 B. T. Johnson, 3It Satas. lid., writes: "For the speedy cure of uidi.-u Colds, sad for the relief of children :i:l!iot ed with Croup, I have never found :m 'thitf'eeval to Ayer,8 charry IVi-ton,). It is the nwst potent of all the reiuediut I have erernsed. W. H. Stickler, Terr.: Hants, lad., writes: "Ayer Chorn enteral cared my wife of a sovere lun.r SsTsctlan, supposed to be Quick &n sejnptlen. We now regard tha Pcctor.il as a nowehold necessity." E. M. Tireck earidge,BrtHerd, Minn., writes: "T ass snhject to Bronchitis, and. wherever I f9, am always sure to have a bottle of AjUfs Cherry Pectoral with me. It Is without a rival for the euro ef sreaceJal afcrtJom." PAKEO BY r. J. a Iyer ft Ce.,LoweU, Mass. Wor safe ey all Druggists. COAL LIME! J.E. NORTH & CO.. 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