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WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 7, 1S88.
Mb. West, go east.
Mrs. Jons A. Looan Las sailed for
Europe.
Georoe Gordon, who last week had
registered illegally, was sentenced to
Sin?; Sinjr for two and one half years.
At Jacksonville, Fla., on the :id inst,
the board of health rejiorted thirty-six
new cases of yellow fever, and two
deaths.
C. E. McCheax, United Stated con
sular agent at Portsmouth, England,
died at that place on the evening of
the 2d.
At Chicago on the 1st the Highland
hall military academy, in the suburban
town of Highland Park, burned at noon.
Loss 330,000.
A fire at Los Angeles, Cal., an the
30th ult, burned the Santa Monica de
Iot, occupied as a storage warehouse.
Loss $100,000.
One day last week in the state quarries
at Elliottsvillo, Ind., a large stone fell
upon two men named Johnson and Akin
killing them instantly.
Burglars on the morning of the 3d
at OldOrchard, Me., blow open the safe
in tho iost office and stole cash and
stamps amounting to 500.
Last week ten cases of small pox were
reported at Kaswick, a small village in
the northern part of York county, Ont.
The place has been quarantined.
The president has issued a- proclama
tion designating Thursday, November
' 29, 1888, as a day of thanksgiving and
prayer throughout the United States.
The schooner yacht Brumhilda, John
J- PhelpB owner, sailed from the upper
bay, New York, at daylight, on the 3d,
bound for a voyage around the world.
A woman named Caroline Gabriel, who
recently landed in New York on a Bre
men steamer and came on to Philadel
phia, is now reported to have the small
pox.
An explosion of hot metal occurred at
the Table iron works shortly liefore
noon, at Ilttshurg, Pa., on the 1st inst.,
killing one man and seriously injuring
two others.
Tun yellow fever at Docatur, Ala., as
reported on tho 1st for tho hist twenty
four hours eight new cases, all those
who have been exposed as nurses and
attendants.
Jons- II. Wilkins, clerk in the rail
way mail service on the New York .t
Pittsburg railway, was arrested last week
in New York charged with an attempt
to rille letters.
On the nightot the 1st inst,at Greens
burg. Pa- Amanda Montgomery and
Gus Wineman were run down by a
4 freight train on the Southern railroad
- while taking a stroll, and killed.
A vous lady named Thompson, on
the south side of Des Moines, committed
snicidoon the night of the 4th inst, by
shooting herself. No reason for the
deed has been given to the public.
A great society event occurred at
Beatrice on the evening of the 30th, the
marriage of Mr. O. Jansan Collman of
Broken Bow, to Miss Harriett A. Pad
dock; daughter of Senator Paddock.
While four young men James Daves,
Henry Gormley, Win. Sellen and Chas.
Cogin were sailing in Dorchester bay,
Mass., on the afternoon of the 4th, the
lMMit capsized and the three first men
tioned wore drowned.
On the morning of the 3d inst., at
3:50 at Memphis. Tenn, an earthquake
shock was felt. People sleeping in the
upper stories of buildings were consider
ably alarmed. The duration of the
" shock was only a few seconds.
Bill Short, a miner, shot and fatally
wounded Mrs. Alma Barns, a widow, a
few nights ago, at Litchfield, Kan. The
shooting occurred at a dance, and was
caused by tho refusal of the woman to
allow Short to escort her home.
Last week men at work in Silver
King mine at Wakefield, Wis., blew out
a quantity f rock which exports say
" will assay the extraordinary sum of
$8,000 a ton, and indications are favor
able for an abundance more of the same
kind.
Terrible prairie fires were reported
on the 2d inst, at Jackson, Minn.
Henry Bay was burned so badly that he
cannot live. A four weeks old baby, a
sixteen years old girl named Mollie
O'Connor, and a woman and her son,
- name unknown, "were burned to death.
Louis Bbubaker of Washington, Kas.,
while recovering from an attack of
typhoid fever, called his mother to his
room one day last week and cut her
throat, killing her. He then made an
ineffectual attempt to kill himself. He
has been placed in jail and is now con
sidered a raving maniac
It was stated last week at Eagle Pass,
Texas, that a wholesale system of freight
robbery had been discovered on the
Mexican" Central railroad, which has
been carried on for the past two years.
JTbe total loss to the company is estimat
ed at $50,000. Three conductors, a
fcrakeman and a former agent of the
road are in jail, and twenty or thirty
More employes of the road are likely to
Jw arrested."
Early Caltare is Illiaela.
Mr. Oberly tells an amusing incident
of his younger days. It was when he
had been elected assembly -man in Illi
nois. He was frightened, he says, when
' the time came for him to go to the Capi
tol at Springfield, for he was conscious
that he was not the possessor of a pol
ished education. He feared that he
would be paled by the flashing of bright
intellects all around him. He took his
seat on the first day in fear and tremb
ling, but in five minutes he was put
perfectly at ease and was made to think
that perhaps he might be one of those
who would "shine." This was what
wrought the great change in his mind:
"Mr. Speaker," said one assemblyman,
"there are no ink in the inkstand."
Young Oberly was amazed. "By
gracious," ho thought, "is this tho kind
of timber they send here?" Hope rose,
when another assemblyman, since fa
mous as "Long Jones," and known to all
the good people of Illinois, rose, and,
"Mr. Speaker," said he, "there are ink
but it are froze in tne bottles.
This was all young Oberly needed to
put him perfectly at ease in the legisla
ture. Chicago Herald.
At a Hollowe'en frolic in Carlisle, Pa.,
where the students built a fire for a joke
and the firemen attempted to extinguish
it and a conflict ensued, both sides
suffer,- coming out of the contest with
cut and bruised heads and faces. Some
of the wounds are quite serious. At
Washington the Bame night as tho sis
ters of the Academy of the Visitation
were about to retire they were startled
by the loud noise of an explosion,
which rattled the window frames.
Next day a long piece of iron pipe
was found in the inclosed yard
surrounding the buildings, by the
school children, which . had leen
bursted by an explosion. The affair
was nothing more than a Hollowe'en
joke. Would it not be a good thing to
dispense with all these Hollowe'en,
-useless jokes and abandon the custom
entirely!
A German named Fred Lehman, liv
ing near Hnmliolt, Iowa, left his six
months old baby in care of older children
while he and his wife went to a political
meeting. The child was left on the floor
of the kitchen while the other children
were out playing. A young shoat came
in and attacked the child. Before its
cries attracted the older children, the
hog had eaten off tho fingers of the
baby's right hand, a toe off each foot,
one ear and part of another, and had
horribly mutilated tho helpless infant.
It was several hours more ljefore medical
aid could be procured. But tho child
will probably live.
A committee representing the women
employes of the Keystone manufacturing
company of Philadelphia went to Oaki
view the other evening and presented
Mrs. Cleveland with a very handsome
gold watch, the product solely of women
artisans. Tho watch was made espe
cially for Mrs. Cleveland. Mrs. Charles
N. Thorpe made the presentation
speech. . Mrs. Cleveland accepted the
gift and made a happy and suitable
acknowledgment to the committee.
Who says the farmers are not manu
factures? The idea is not new, but
every barn in the land where animals
are kept is a kind of manufactory. The
animals are the mechanics; hay, oats,
grain, roots and other food crops are the
raw materials which are to be worked
into salable products, requires a vast
amount of labor, capital, skill, and good
business management. Should not the
fanner then be as fully protected as
other manufacturers? (Prairie Farmer.
A. Shaver, ex-county treasurer of
Clark county., Mich., was put under ar
rest last week on the charge of appro
priating lietween $1,000 and 1,300 of
county funds during his term of office
in 1874. In that year he was found in
his office one night bound and gagged,'
and ho declared he had been robbed of
of $4,000. His story was not generally
believed, and the present arrest is the
result of a subsequent investigation.
What remains of Buffalo Bill's Wild
West show, has taken up winter quar
ters at Gen. Beale's 6tock farm eight
miles north of Washington city, and
about one mile south of the Maryland
Agricultural college. The farm is locat
ed in a romantic place, and now filled
with the king of the cowboys, Buck
Taylor, cowboys, buffalo, horses, etc.
A special was sent from Lake City,
Col., on the 1st to Denver stating that
all buildings including the immense
hoisting works at Frank Hugh's mines,
one of the most extensive in the district,
burned that day. The loss will reach
many thousand. The origin of the fire
is unknown. The owners of the prop
erty are residents of London, Eng.
A cannon belonging to the Balbach
battery at Newark, N. J., on the 2d inst,
was prematurely discharged while the
battery was returning from a democratic
parade, and the charge struck Cornelius
Richards, taking effect in one of his
shoulders and his head. He was taken
to the city hospital, where he died in a
few hours. He leaves a wife and five
children.
Inspector Watts, of police headquar
ters at Boston, armed with a pick-ax,
shovel and diagram, started one day
last week for Montreal. It is under
stood that he went out in search of the
pot which was secreted by "Old Joe"
Fowle, and which is said to contain
$8,000 in gold, the result of Fowle's va
rious swindling operations in Boston.
Br direction of the president, the sec
retary of state on the 30th ult, informed
Lord Sackville that for causes hereto
fore made known to her majesty's gov
ernment, his continuance in his official
position in the United States is no longer
acceptable to this government.
Mrs. Cabbie Tdbner, a teacher in the
Little- Bock university, committed sui
cide one day last week by throwing
herself into the Arkansas river. It is
supposed that domestic trouble was the
cause of her rash act.
The eastbound passenger -train on the
Iron Mountain road was stopped by
train robbers one afternoon not long ago
naar Newport, Ark. The passengers
were robbed of- $200. No details given.
NEBRASKA NOTES. '
They are boring for coal at Fairbury.
The -Hardy Herald takes potatoes on
subscription.
It cost Charles Seuter 91,150 for se-1
during a Chase county girl.
Arrangements have been completed i
for the erection of a $50,000 sisters' con
vent In Hastings.
A Ulysses man cleared up $15,000 on
the recent raise in wheat.
The German American bank of Fre
mont was organized the other evening.
Scotia's saloonkeeper has been arrest
ed for. selling liquor to minors and on
Sunday.
A party of Minden capitalists are pre
paring to incorporate the long talked of
canal company.
A lady with a- revolver dispersed a
gang of too enthusiastic politicians at
Scotia the other night.
It is reported that hog cholera is de
stroying.the hogs rapidly in the south
ern part of Otoe county. . N
William Parker, a one legged soldier,
broke his only leg by falling off a wagon
at Burnett the other clay.
At Arapahoe on the 4th Harry Bryan's
sixteen months old boy died from eating
bread with rat poison spread on it.
A farmer named Davis, near Syracuse,
lost several hnndred head of hogs by
cholera and two horses by glanders re
cently.
The ladies of the charity club at Fre
mont have commenced preliminary ar
rangements for their annual charity ball,
November 15th.
The new bridge at Omaha is finished
and during last week thousands of peo
ple from Council Bluffs and Omaha
crossed and crossed it.
William Filbert, of Stratton, accident
ally fed his hand into the gearing of a
eano mill a short time since, ne sup
ports but one hand now.
The Lincoln paper mills began opera
tions last Tuesday. They furnish em
ployment for forty men and will turn
ont eight tons of paper daily.
Hon. James Ewing, present member
of the legislature and candidate for re
daction, died at his home in Wood
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River at 8:45 a. m. on the 31st ult.
Henrv Champion, a Merrick county
farmer, after having been engaged for
nineteen years, has finally married Mrs.
Annie Williams, of Mason connty.Hl.
Tho first marriage in the new county
of Grant was solemnized at Whitman
last Wednesday, the high contracting
parties being David Hilla and Miss
Lnefender.
A hunter near Fremont a short time
since discovered a cottonwood which
measured twenty-eight feet in circum
ference, and it is said that is not much
of a country for trees either.
Tho dead body of the daughter of O.
T. Barto, ex-treasurer of Dixon county,
who wandered away from home Tues
day morning while delirious, was found
Thursday in a creek, drowned.
Emma Kell, a domestic at the Arcade
hotel, Lincoln, had her arms badly blis
tered the other morning by a rag satu
rated with oil, (with which she was
cleaning a heated range) taking fire.
Gamblers, gossipers, profane and ob
scene conversationalists, non-church go
ers and people full of petty meanness
were denounced from the pulpits of the
three Ulysses churches last Sunday.
Ida A. Montgomery a sixteen years
old girl of Wheeler county, died very
suddenly the other day. As she finished
on the piano she remarked that it was
her farewell piece and in five minutes
was dead.
Mr. Bell began Tuesday morning to
take down his engine house at the eleva
tor. He will enlarge it and place the
plant for the electric light in it, together
with the engine which furnishes power
for the elevator. David City Tribune.
A prairie fire at Orapolis one day last
week, resulted in destroying some valu
able property. Several hay slacks and
a number of fields of corn were consum
ed. Most of tho property lost lielonged
to Messrs. Vandevenner, Stnll & Fry, of
Plattsmouth.
A policeman of Norfolk is doing his
best to train up the youths of that town
in the way they should go. He has
started on his task by taking all his lit
tle friends to n show at the opera house
the only requirements for admission be
ing that they had clean faces and re
mained off the streets at night.
The last Schuyler Snn contained a
quarter column of paragraphs concerning
typhoid fever in Colfax county. Twenty
six persons, besides two entire families
are afflicted with the dread disease.
Many of these cases are in and near
Schuyler, some at Rogers, some near
Clarkson, and Howells. A Schuyler
doctor is tending one case in Saunders
county.
As Mr. and Mrs. Whitney were in the
field last Wednesday husking corn on
his farm, about seven miles east of
Scotia, Mrs. Whitney, who was driving,
fell back over tho seat on to the corn
dead. Her death is supposed to have
resulted from disease of the heart. Some
two years ago she had an attack of
paralysis of the heart but it was suppos
ed had entirely recovered, and was ap
parently as well as ever when she went
into the field.
The alarm of fire given at Crete on
the evening of the 30th proved to be the
dwelling-house of Mr. Page. It was dis
covered by the neighbors and soon ex
tinguished, but not until the walls and
furniture were badly damaged. The
origin of the fire is a great mystery, as
the family were absent! Mrs. Page is in
the east. The house was only occupied,
at night and there had been no fife dur
ing the day in the room where the .fire
was discovered.
. A shooting tragedy occurred in Hast
ings on the evening of the 2d inst. Frank
Fauster and David Crinkalbw, said to be
gamblers and desperate men, met in the
Southern saloon, where a few words
passed, when both drew their revolvers,
and commenced .shooting, eight shots
were fired, three striking Fauster, kill
ing him. instantly. Fauster lives in Red
Cloud, and has a family. 'Crinkalow got
away and has left the city.
A brick mason, named Billy Glenn,
who worked here on the new bricks on
the north side of the square, and who
was on almost a continual drunk while
here, being landed in jail several times
for the offence, was killed one day last
week at Lincoln by the cars. We have
been unable to learn the particulars, but
there is no doubt that he was under the
influence of liquor at the time. This
scores one more victim for the dram
shop. David City Tribune.
Sam Wellbaam, a. section hand at
Wamerville, met with an accident last
Tuesday night, which although serious,
may not prove fatal. WeUbaum and
several .other faction men had been to J
Norfolk on a hand car to procure mor-
phine for a sick man, and when returning
the hand car jumped the track near
Wamerville, and Wellbaum was thrown,
off, striking on his head. Concussion of
the brain was the result Dr. Long, of
this city was summoned, and attended
to the injured man, but is unable at
present to say how badly he is hurt
. Madison Chronicle.
John Stackhouse, a wealthy farmer
near Emerson, was taken to Fremont a
few days ago to be treated for hydro
phobia. The family as a last resort sent
him there to be treated with the famous
madstone, which if applied to the wound
is said to absorb the poison and thus
avert' the horrible and inevitable death
of the patient If it was not caused by
a wound, or the wound is healed up tho
patient is bled from a vein and the stono
applied. There are only three such
stones in the United States. The afflict
ed man was securely shackled, hand and
foot, and wore a base ball player's mask
to prevent "him from inflicting injuries to
himself and others. "Mr. Stackhouse is
said to have contracted the dreadful
mania from sausage he had partaken of.
Stanton Democrat'.
Mil. REED IN KNCLANIt.
A Nebraska Earner's View from Abroad.
Ed. Journal. Tho iuitortance of the
political issue before the American peo
ple to lie decided next month, has
grown upon mo so much since I have
been" in Europe, I cannot refrain from
sending somo of my impressions. To uiy
mind no such vital question has been
before the people siuce slavery was set
tled. No one supposes that free trade
will at once bo adopted, if Mr. Cleve
land .is elected, but the tide will be
turned in that direction and it will be
infinitely harder to oppose the tremend
ous forces being brought to bear, both
at home and abroad, to accomplish this
end sooner or later. Let a decisive ma
jority be given in favor of protection now,
and our people can safely take up other
questions of importance that are urgent
ly pressing for attention. Could tho
honest, fair-minded American voters see
what I have seen these last few weeks, I
would not fear for the result. I do not
believe there is an unbiased man in
America, who could go through tho
streets of Leeds, look up at the windows
of the rusty, dingy old factory buildings
that are scattered all through that great
city, hear the click of the shuttle from
dawn till after dark, see the pale, tired
looking faces of the operators as they
make their way to their homes no, not
homes to those little rooms on crowded
streets where they eat their scanty meals
and 6leep, and waken to go through the
same tomorrow and next week and
next year, and each year as long as life
and strength continue, without tho re
motest prospect of anything better, but
fearing something worse, I say I do net
believe there is a fair-minded American
who, after seeing this, would cast his
vote favoring a principle that must soon
er, or later bring our American cloth
weavers into the same terrible struggle
for a mere existence the American me
chanic with his present wages can only
with strict economy and careful manage
ment, secure for himself and family a
reasonably comfortable, home, and lay a
trifle by for a rainy day. Reduce these
earnings by one-third or one-half and
where will you leave him? Where yon
find the European mechanic of today,
and as sure as his product is put in
competition with the European mechan
ic's ho m list take the European mechan
ic's wages, or find something else to do.
Leeds is tho metropolis of the woolen
manufacture in Great . Britain, but is
only one of the hundreds of towns in
the north of England all bristling with
the stacks of factories. In passing
through the country yon scarcely leave
the outskirts of one city before yon see
the black cloud of smoko hanging over
another, and they are great cities so far
as population goes to make great cities.
Leeds, judging from area occupied, an
American would think to lie a city of
50,000 or 75,000. Instead it has 309,000
population. Other cities looking to
have 25,000 to 75,000 have 75,000 to
200,000. They are not cities in the bet
ter sense of tho word. They are great
factories, the men and women working
in them being but parts of the ma
chinery." Sheffield is an old town of much his
torical interest It reaches back to
Saxon and Roman times. Mary, Queen
of Scots, spent 14 years of her imprison
ment here. As early as the thirteenth
century it was noted for the manufac
ture of " whittles," as knives were called.
In Queen Elizabeth's time a large num
ber of iron workers from the Nether
lands settled here, and from that time
the place has been the foremost city for
the manufacture of steel goods,especially
cutlery. But I found " myself much
interested in the men and women that
live there now. I talked with the man
ufacturers, and with the workmen. I
went into their houses, and learned how,
for generation after generation, the same
families had worked at the same busi
ness, expecting from it a bare subsist
ence, unless some misfortune overtook
them, then the parish had to take care
of them. The manufacture of knives
and other edged tools and silver plate
ware which are the leading occupations
here, call for skilled labor, and as a
class the workmen are intelligent. But
to see an intelligent looking man stand
at his little anvil and form one particu
lar piece, a knife blade, say, just that
one special size and shape, one after an
other all day long, and to think of him
doing the same thing day after day the
whole year through, to see him hurrying
to turn off as many pieces as possible,
and to know that even then he was only
earning enough for the bare subsistence
of himself and family, was inexpressably
sad to me. Yet a large portion of the
people of this city are doing just this,
and Sheffield but represents the scores
of similar manufacturing towns of Great
Britain. Our American mechanic has a
hard-time enough now, but there is hope
and with reason that there may be bet
ter things for him, or' at least for. his
children, and that ray of hope makes an
infinite difference between the two.
But some of my Nebraska farmer
friends may say, "What is all this to us?
We are an agricultural people and only
interested in getting our clothing and
machinery aa cheap as possible." But it
is something to us western farmers. If
we have not sympathy with our fellow
countrymen in the factories, a little
honest consideration will show us that
our pockets are interested. The notion
has prevailed 'so long in this country that
i God made two kinds of men, a small
minority to enjoy the things of this
world, a large majority to do their bid
ding, that most take for granted it is
true, and they submissively occupy the
place assigned them. Not only are our
working classes of different stuff but
they create such an atmosphere of inde
pendence, that the foreigner is affected
by it at once. Before accepting the
meagre wages received for European la
bor many of our mechanics will come on
to our western lands, where they can at
least make a living. .What will be the
result? Every man who leaves the fac
tory aud goes on ' to a farm takes one
family from the consuming class and
adds it to the producing. Our farm
products are not wanted abroad at what
we would consider remunerative prices.
When in Belfast I passed a large mill
where they were unloading wheat and
stopped to make some inquiries. "No,"
the proprietor said, "we are not using
American wheat; we did at one timo but
can buy the Russian cheaper now.". But
a day or two ago I was passing a feed
store here in London where a barrel of
corn stood at the door. It looked like
an old friend. (No com is raised in this
country.) I stepted in and told the pro
prietor I was pleased to see something
from my own country again. He laugh
ed, bill said, "that did not come from the
States, but from India. We did use
American corn but now we can buy tho
India corn considerably less." The fact
is when we come to deiend upon foreign
markets for our products wo will come
in conietiliou with cheap lalior thosame
as the mechanic. More than 90 per cent
of our grain is already marketed at home.
By encouraging our American industries
by a judicious tariff it will not be long
before our own country will absorb -the
remaining 10 percent If we take tho
opposite course, we will increase our sur
plus, which must lie disposed of abroad
at a lower price.
The manager of the well known firm
of Joseph Rodgers & Sons of Sheffield
had kindly shown me through their large
establishment. I remarked that their
goods wore well and favorably known in
America. "No," says he, "the goods you
have reference to are made by'a New
York firm. We once had a largo trade
there but of late years your tariff has
kept us out, except for a few fine goods
that you can not make." I said I sup
posed thoy' were watching our present
political contest with a good deal of in
terest, then. "Yes," ho said, hesitating,
ulmt ire know well enough you Ameri
can. aiv not such fools as to adopt free
trailed Free trade in our country would
be thousands of dollars of advantage to
his firm every year, but ho knew the dis
advantage it would be to us, and had the
candor to say so. While every thing that
money and influence can do is being
brought to bear by England to influence
tho coming election in favor of Mr. Cleve
land, should that result lie secured we
would stand lower in the candid estima
tion of the intelligent Englishmen who
helped secure it, than if the republican
party succeeds.
I have written to too great length, but
lam thoroughly interested in this matter
I wish I could convey some idea of how
it looks from this side to one who has
only learned how much he cares for his
own country and his own people by an
enforced absence from them.
J. H. Reed.
I.ONDO.V, Enicland.
HECOMiEtf'lONS OF AN OLD SETTLER.
The Town Company Build a Hotel -The Cleve
land Town Company Organized Survey
tbeir Town Lots and Commence a Hotel
The"l!ardTime"r 1857-The Three Print
er Thomas Sarris and UN ial Fate The
Flrxt Insane Person.
BT 1KOOMAK.
At and previous to the spring of 1857,
the Elkhorn and Loup Fork Ferry Com
pany maintained a ferry across the Loup
Fork river, near the point where our
late bridge was located. In the spring
of that year the Town Company began
the erection of a two story frame hotel,
containing four rooms on the first floor
and six on the second. It was complet
ed and opened in the fall, Francis G.
Becher being the first landlord, and
his sisters the landladies, which
building is now a part of the Grand Pa
cific hotel.
At this time speculation in town sites
was running high, and the Cleveland
Land Company was organized, and a
body of land two and one-half miles west
of the Columbus town site was claimed,
surveyed and laid ont into a town site,
and the ferry moved there.
The erection of a hotel which should
eclipse the one building at Colnmbus
was commenced but the hard times of
1857 coming on during the summer the
work was suspended and it never was
completed, until it was moved to Co
lumbus in 1868 by George Francis Train
and is now known as the "Hammond
House." The town project fell through,
nipped by the untimely frost of the
prairie, and the river at that place not
being suitable for the purpose the ferry J
was moved down again. There were
here three Ohio printers, John Siebert,
Henry Lindenberg of Columbus, Ohio,
and Thomas Sarris of Cleveland. The
two former soon returned east, enlisted
when the war broke out, and at its close
founded the house of M. C. Lilly & Co.,
Columbus, Ohio, dealers in society goods
of which they are at present members.
Thomas Sarris was a young man of good
education and considerable ability, ami
ambitious with all. At that time we
were attached to Dodge county for rep
resentative purposes in the territorial
legislature, and Sarris was desirous of
being the representative. Securing the
support of Platte county, he started out
to make a canvass of Dodge county, and
the time passed on and he did not re
turn. On investigation it was learned
that he had been at Fontanelle, and
the last time he was seen, he had left
that place to walk across the country to
Fremont "the 'rest is silence." The
supposition is that in crossing the Raw
Hide he got into deep water and was
drowned, 11 so nis body was never re
covered. Thus, disappeared a young
man who might -have become one of our
prominent citizens, identified with the
progress of the country.
At the commencement of the settle
ment of this town the Columbus com
pany set apart a number of lots, scatter
ed through the plat two of them to be
donated to persons who should build a
house upon them, and that year a num
ber of cabins were built upon these lots.
A Swiss by the name of Greenfelder had
put up a set of logs on one of them, and
while the house was in an unfinished
condition he became insane, and went
home to his friends.' The probate, judge
felt it his duty to care for the estate of
the lunatic, aud therefore appointed a
guardian for the estate, an inventory
was taken, the property sold according
to law, and fortunately brought enough
to pay the fees of the. court and of the
guardian. Judge Speice was the purchas
er, and the logs were those that formed
tho .walls of his old time residence.
The Youth.
Byron Millett, in a communication to
the Journal, after very highly com
mending (he graduates of the High
School last spring, further, says:
The work that has so well started and
the foundation so well laid by the teach
ers, ought not to lie left to itself to raise
its suierstructure by its own unaided
efforts. But a great responsibility de
volves on every member of the commu
nity, particularly on every parent- to
carry ahead this good work, and give the
young the opportunities to develop the
highest possibilities of their manhood
and womanhood. Those who lend their
efforts in such good works deserve credit,
and will have the satisfaction of feeling
that they have not lived in vain. Pleas
ant environments and 'good associations
should surround the individual, so that
it would be easy for him or her to do
right, and difficult to do wrong. Among
other things I might suggest that a city
like Columbus ought to have at least one
fine reading room and hall for literary
exercises and social gatherings as often
as once a week,, with music, singing, dec
lamations, speaking, etc. There can lie
no doubt that much good would lie ac
complished to have such programmes
rendered by local talent The mind and
heart would thereby lie fed instead of
becoming more or- less of a waste after
quitting school. The young men who
might attend such gatherings and take
part in their exercises, generally sfieak
isg would have something lietter to
think of and aspire to, than to attend
haunts of vice and travel the downward
.road. Themistocles, tho Athenian
statesman,- is recorded as having said
that ho never learned how to tune a
harp, or play upon a lute, but that ho
could tell how to raise a small and in
considerable village to glory and great
ness. He did it, too. He showed his
faith by his works. He demonstrated
the fact that a country to be great mnst
have men, which in any day and age
means women as well, and how are you
going to have them in the grandeur of
their nobility and character unless you
develop them. Tho material is with you.
Will it be cultivated and fashioned? I
am in hopes so. It is no mere sentiment
that the creature environments make
him what he is. It is according to na
ture's decree from which there is no
escajie. Illustrations might be given in
definitely to illustrate these points, but
I will forego giving any at this time, and
close with this quotation:
"Many a man if he had been sheltered
"from childhood from tho bleak winds
"of adversity and mild and entwining
"gales had -played on his brow, would
"have afforded an example of truth and
"generosity and honor, who now from
"the stress of temptation. has sunk
"into meanness and lying and rohhery
"and outrage."
Winter Climates for Invalids.
The elements which constitute a per
fect winter climate are not all meteoro
logical. While ideal weather is the pre
dominating part of a perfect climate, yet
the physical characteristics of certain lo
calities often neutralize the effect of
bine sky, balmy breezes, and equable
temperature. A friable ash-like soil,
which easily lends itself to fill the air
with fine dust, the presence of low-lying
swamp and morass tosend forth noisome
exhalations and poison the otherwise
pure air with geruiBof malaria or fever,
are important elements in winter cli
mate, but their description and limita
tions belong rather to the domain of the
chemist and physical geographer than to
that of the meteorologist It is the me
teorological phases with which this
aricle must particularly deal.
This line of research excludes, then,
two important climatic essentials; the
purity of the air and the relative dryness
of tho soil--essentials which for any
health-resort mnst lie chronicled by the
local scientific and medical authorities.
Other very imiiortant qualities are
moderate warmth, small variability of
temperature, wun less man tne aver
age daily range, freedom from excessive
phases of either absolute or relative hu
midity, genial, gentle winds, frequent
but not heavy showers of rain, and a
large proportion of possible sunshine.
In short, a moderately temjierate, fairly
oViand sunny climate is the desidera
tum, the difficulty of finding which in
perfection has well lieen termed an idyl
lic quest-(Gen. A. W. Greely, in Scrili
ner's for Novemlier.
Sheridan in thr tierwan Camp.
On the afternoon of Auust 21st. I
had the pleasure of dining wth the
king. The dinner was a simple one, con
sisting of soup, a joint, and two or three
vegetables; the wines, ri ordinaire
and Burgundy. There were a good many
persons of high rank present, none of
-whom spoke English, however, except
Bismarck, who sat next tho king and
acted as interpreter when his Majesty
conversed with me. Little was said of
the events taking place around us, but
the king made many inquiries concern
ing the war of the rebellion, particularly
with reference to Grant's campaign at
VicksburgiSUggested perhaps by the fact
that there, and in the recent movements
of the German army, had been applied
many similar principles- of military
science. "From Gravelotte to Sedan,"
by General Sheridan, in Scribner's for
November.
ADDITIONAL LOCAL.
Nebovllle.
That's all right, Byron, we think it is
your "move now," only do not forget
your old friends.
Miss Mary Ericsen is visiting at her
home near Lindsay over Sunday.
Mr. Dan Jenni, one of our industrious
and hard-working farmers, took a lay off
and visited -mends in Madison county
last week.
Our literary meetings are quite largely
attended,'and everybody seems to take
an interest in it Mr. Leavy, our presi
dent, is a very energetic young man who
makes it an aim to make it both inter
esting and instructive. Question for
debate Nov. 10, is Resolved, that intem
perance has caused more misery than
war. Affirm, W. L. Leavy; deny,-Theo.
Brugger.
Henry Kersh has sold his entire corn
crop' to Brugger Bros, and is having it
husked and hauled away by several men
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COLUMBUS. NEBRASKA. '"
Last Thursday evening inite a num
ber of young people met at the resilience
of F. Mnrolf and took possession of his
new built granary. Dancing and merry
making of all kinds were kept up until
late. Special thanks are due to Geo. V.
Welman and Fred. Marolf. jr., for fur
nishing music, also to A. lirugger and
W. Westbrook for sullying tho more
bashful youths with young ladies.
Thank you, Imivs, one good treat fc worth
another. n. t.
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Mr. Larson has a new wind mill.
The aged mother of Jfr. Sven Nelson
was buried two weeks ago.
J. F. Abrnhamson has 1hiii. building
a kitchen on the house of 4The Shoe
maker." Oliver Guiles, K.sj., is fencing his
quarter section of land near Mount
Pleasant.
J. C. Caldwell of Limluuy lin:l at.
Palestine Friday.
Mrs. W. -f. Irwin who has I Hen so dan
gerously ill. w are most happy to say.
is recovering very rapidly.
Mr. AUktL Cldibert of Illinois, who
recently owned a farm in this vicinity,
has sold it to a Kev. Fayette Perry of
Morgan Park, III.
P. A. Eklundbrotlicr of Sven, is plas
tering Peter Barr's hoiwe.
Prof. Wilson of the Sweil iiniversity
on the Lookinggla.H.s visited at Palestine
on .Saturday last.
A teacher has lieen engaged for the
Palestine school for the winter. I hi not
know his name or residence.
Corn buskers are scarce.
Dan-.
The Xfftots of Novel Reading.
The mischief of voracious novel read
ing Is really much more like the mischief
of dram drinking than appears at first
sight. It tends to make all other literary
nourishment intolerable, just as dram
drinking tends to make all true food in
tolerable, and to supersede food by drink.
The voracious novel reader of today, as
we have said, rejects Scott, because Scott's
novels contain so mnch good food that it
Is not mere story telling. The genuine
novel reader detests what he calls tame
stories, stories in which the interest is
not exaggerated and piled up ten times as
high as the interests of ordinary life. He
wants always to be feeling a thrill of ex
citement running through his nerves, al
ways to be living in Imagination through
the concentrated essence of the perils of a
hundred adventurous lives. Instead of
toiling calmly through the ordinary hopes
and fears of one.
No state of mind can be more unwhole
some, because none is more calculated to
divert the energies from the sort of quiet
tasks to which they should be habitually
applied, and to beep them stretched on
the tenter hooks of expectation, waiting
for a sort of strain which is never likely
to occur, and if it did occur, would cer
tainly not find a man's energies any tho
better prepared for it for having been
worn out previously with a long series of
imaginary excitements. The habit of
dram drinking, it is said, leads to fatty
degeneration of the heart, i. c, excessive
fattening round the heart, and weak
action of the heart hi consequence.
So, too, the habit of exciting novel
reading leads to fatty degenera
tion of the literary mind, L e., to an
unhealthy and spasmodic action of the
imagination, and a general weakening of
the power, of entering thoroughly into the
solid interests of real life. So far as we
know, the only effective cure for this
habit of literary dram drinking a cure
not always forthcoming is amoral shock
of some kind which exposes the hollo w
ness of all these unreal interests, and
makes them appear as artificial and melo
dramatic as they actually are. That,
however, is a cure which is an extremely
painful one, almost cruel in its disillusion
izing power. London Spectator.
Taw Cure ef Peuasstle watasals,
The family eat is regarded with far
greater respect in England than America.
Every householder in New York, when he
packs oC for the summer, leaves the. eat
to live in the- streets. The consequence
is that during the hot weather the cats of
the) Empire city cry aloud and shout; they
wail in anguuh to the earless moon in
Mans "mostaiusicall.mostBielancholie."
They make night hideous for callous
hsBTtnrt man, who Ignores their affection
and rejects their companionship. Among
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but soilness ox Heart is quite compatible
with strongness of mind. Whether tho
Baroness Burdett-Coutts was cranky- or
not as a connoisseur in husbandry she
shows admirable judgment la tho caroof
animals. And her care for them when
they cease from age or malady to be ser
viceable beasts of burden entitles her to
Eublic homage. At Holly Lodge, her
eautiful suburban homo at Oigbgate, sho
keeps her worn ont horses, donkeys,
cattle, dogs, cats and other pets in- well
tended pastures' and stables until .-they
die. And sho visits them with the re
gularity of a doctor, sparing nothing that
can give them comfort. - Others here and
there do tho same.
I have seen pedigree cattle with famous
names and records, living in luxury to. a
grand old ago, and I have also seen poor
folks' broken down horses and pets kept
in country quarters at an expenso they
could but ill afford. "The merciful man.
is merciful to his beast." What of New
Yorkers and their cats? If they sneer at
tho baro idea of imitating the example of
those who have established a homo for
cats in London, let., them do something 1''
better. For a. very small fee tho crtr . "
doner who locks up house to go a-holiday S
making can have his cat properly cared
for until the family return. This is com
mon humanity and common sense. If tbe
wealthy New York hooaeowuer cannot
afford to keep his cat all the vear round.
I he should have it killed rather than
crueiiy suDjeet to lae aorrors or now
York street life. New York Cor. Globe
Democrat. People efXew Bumswlch.
Thoy are a splendid people here. There
is a certain dignity about evary ono of
them far mora striking than with any
English In England. And what is better,
they are truly kind hearted and polite. I
used to know, a quarter of a century ago,
some of those grand old Hudson Bay com
pany's factors; and fino fellows they were
brave, cultured, chivalrous, gentle and
good, but with a roaring sort of way with
them that suggested the entrancing Man
itoban Indian summer with a lurkinn-.
howling blizzard element beneath. These
aro like them, lllmato has had to do
with it; true culture of brain and brawn,
more. They are near enough to the btates
to be emulative; far enough from Eng
land to abhor incivility.
They and all New Brunswick folk
are less pretentious than we; more toler
ant than others of their nationality. In
all that makes sociologic distinction,
these people aro immeasurably better
than Englishmen, and infinitely leas the
time servers and snobs than somo Ameri
cans. I should say they had got further
away from tho England wo profess to
condemn than many of us whose cheeks
should flamo for our cockney apings; that
they were, in moderation, level headed- .'
ness, clean culture, and in tho freedom -.
from feverish ambitions and vanities, far -
in advance of most of our commumtlc
that they possessed the best of Old
World equipoise and conservatism, and of
New World virility; and that if by any
good fortune of diplomacy or war their
country should becomo our country, wo
would secaro a fine bit of possession
and as admirable a class of people as are
now within our farthest boundaries.
Edgar L. Wakeman's Letter.
A XoB-Traasfsrabto Railroad Ticket.
A young railroad man of Atlanta has
come to tho front with an invention la
the way of a ticket that will bring him.
fame and an enviable bank account. It
Is slmplv this: The purchaser of an iron
clad ticket is not to be required to write
his name or make any formal declaration
as to his intention in regard to the ticket.
Nothing of the kind. The agent who
sails the low rate round trip points his
little camera at you while he gives you
your change. It records the image of the)
purchaser in an instant The agent pulls '-.
out the slide, rubs his chemical sponge
over tho sensitized paper and there you
are. In the upper left hand corner of the
ticket he pastes that picture, puts it ia
under a stamp that embosses, the edges,
and unless yon can find somebody that,
looks enough like yon to risk the chance
of a return on your image, the ticket will
carry the original purchaser and nobody
else. Atlanta Constitution.
RlTers Which risk Desert.
Close observers have aseertaai that
rivers running through treeless) tracts of
country are nearly, if not quite, .destitute
of fish, and that fish will desert a etreami
from which timber has been removed,
although they previously swarmed there-",
in. In the propagation of fish it is not
enough to placo the fry in water; they
must be provided with food, and the best
means to do this is to nreserve the bar-.
der trees and Insure a steady supply of ":-"- - -water
and food by preserving the forester'
wnrTirn ulnSiSBsujlyof-fhsi.1sJssrel. LV -"-.
new forests are imTnr afrit emttoTkanssJ
ranges, many a stream now nearly
uurmg tne ary seasons will be
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