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r THE DAILY BEE THURSDAY APRIL 2 , 1885 r , THB DAILY BEE. XAHA Om No * B14 um lift iiw TOM OIFIOT , BOOK 60 Trnmnw usa , nun r mru . . . . . . _ | iaoo I HUM Months . I J-W " " oni . "I. f.OO | On. Month . W flfhe Wwkly B , PubUhsed every Wednesday ' eniTetr , with premium. . . . . . . . * $ On * Tear , wlthoui premium . * " Six Months , without premium . ' On * Month , on ttUl . COIAUrOftDH All Commnnc ! tloni relating ; to News nd Bdltot Ul nttteis should b addieiiod to h EDITO * OT iia Bn. iciuisa Limit. All BuilneM Letters and Remittances should be a4drM dto TB DM ro.tunwa Op . ' I | > ? " ? * . 5t fU.Oheok nd VoiJ offloe orden to b nude p J. itkle to the order ol the oompanj. THE BEE PUBLISHING CO , , Props , B. R03EWATEK , EDITOO. ' A. H. Fitch , Manager Dally Circulation , P. O. Box , 488 Omaha , Neb. _ , Avoust WKIKS is a good deal bitter judge of lager than law. Tin : United SUlci will have to put a full atop to that Colon WE hive alwya oppcsjd rings and bosslsm in the republic in party , and w do not proposa to help Boss Boyd and bis democratic ring. IT Is becoming moro and moro manifest every day that Giovor Cleveland Is prcsl dent of the United States and will re main so for four years. THEHE Is a monument on Prospect Dill over the remains of n gray haired Inoffensive workingman , who was pinned to th'o ground by bayonets. THE republican city ticket is in every respect superior to the democratic ticket. Why should republicans .desert their colors and go over to the enemy ? CITIZENS of Omaha who want good government cannot support a man for mayor who Is above obedient ? to law himself and never tried to enforce the law when ho was mayor. WITH a candidate for mayor who Is swapping oil' his associates on the demo cratlc ticket for mug frump republican support , it will bo a "devil take the hind most" race next Tuesday. THE registration books are now opon. In sorno trards now election districts have been formed , and iho only safe way Is fore very voter to personally see thai ho la properly registered. Ir Jim Stephenson decides ta run as an independent candidate for councilman ho will teach some of the high-tone : gentlemen who cheated him out of the nomination a lively lesson. Now that a full "oitizans1 ticket" has been nominated , let Mr. Boyd define his position. Will ho labor for the election of the citizens' ticket or the straigh democratic ticket ? No dodging on this question. Ir it Is true as Mr. Boyd claims tha all our public improvements were clued ; his own creation what would have be come of Omaha it Mr. Boyd had gone over to Europe for a two or thrco years vacation. Mit. Bovo and his select citizens' com mittee haw no nso for Mr. Lewis , the democratic candidate for auditor , bn they expect Lew.'s to pull their chestnuts out of the fire by roping in the working men to ( ho support of Boyd. Tin : Chicago Tribune divides the pros IdenUal nominations of Monday last into throe chases first , graduates of Weal Folnt who served with distinction in the rebel army ; second , gentlemen who were active In the democratic convention in behalf ef Mr. Cleveland ; third , brothers In-law cf distinguished men who ron do red valuable eorvico to the democratic party in tno last campaign. WITH the exception of a few workingmen - mon In Boyd'a picking house , no workIngmen - Ingmen In Omaha have come to the oup port of Mr. Boyd , unless ho is already hired for money or hai boon promise : somooQice. Whether the workingraen nominate a ticket or not , wo know enough to know that every laboring man in Omaha who has any self-rospoct wil exorolso his franchise without regard to what Ed. Wnlsh , John Quioii , or Jason R. Lowls and other such strikers , who make politics a trade , and who traffic in the votes of laboring men , do or sty. THE court house at St. Joe was re coutly destroyed by fire mainly because the tower was constructed of combustible material , and the records were partly burned. This la very suggestive to the city authorities of Omaha , as our records ATO now kept In buildings that are liable to bo wholly destroyed If they should take fire , and such a tiling is liable to happen almost any night. In the event of snoh & disaster nothing could replace the loss Ifjtho records were burned. If the delin quent lax-Uat in the treasurer's oflioa wore lost it conldn tbe duplicated bythocounty | list. Besides this there are hundreds of thousands of dollars due for grading paving and aewerago. If the Pattoa building should be destroyed the clerk's record * , together with all the ordinances and other official proofs that are requ'rec ' hi many cases pending In the courts would bo burned , The on glnoer's records are also stored in an unsafe building. Any prudent butiaoaa onan certainly Would not allow these ro oorda to be thus exposed If he could avolc it. The county building Is fire proof , ant the slty records should bo taken there aa 1900 the commlsaionerfl cm make room .for them/ THE TELEPHONE ! AS | A COMMON CARRIER. The Baltimore & Ohio telegraph "com- any in ita westward extensions naturally moots with vigorous opposition at every lolnt from the Western Union. In St. uli It was obliged to bring n suit of mandamus in the , United States circuit court to compel the Boll telephone com pany , which Is tlod up with the Western Jnlon , to place a telephone Instrument n its oflico. Judge Brewer granted the application on the ground that the telo- [ ihono company la like a common curler , and in permitting the use of its privileges it cannot discriminate in favor of any particular individual or class. The use of the telephone had been granted to the Western Union telegraph compapy , and therefore could not bo denied to the Baltimore & Ohio telegraph company Judge Treat , however , dissented from this opinion , and hold that to allow an instrument to bo placed In n telegraph company'sollico was In direct violation of a provision in the contract under which the Boll Telephone company of Missouri acquired ita rights as a licensee of the American Telephone company of Massa chusetts , and that to order it to violate this provision would deprive It of its rights as licensee. Therefore it was his opinion that tha court ought not and could not issue the maudamus asked for. The attorney for the telephone company then asked leave to take the matter to the supreme court 'on a oortificato pi division , but this was denied. Tha dc- foudanta now propose to file n supcrao- doas band to prevent the execution of the writ , and the caio will go to the supreme court for final determination. The amount involved is made to exceed § 0,000 by showing that the validity and longer existence of the contract of the Boll telephone company with the Ameri can telephone company is. threatened i this case goes as Jndgo Brewer his ordered. The probability la that the telephone company will bo defeated , for It has been decided In other and similar cases that telephone companies hold the same position as common carriers ant cinnot discriminate. GEN. STAGER'S FEA.T. The late Gen , Stager onca performed n feal that excited a great deal of wonder , ns it wai the first time tint anything of the kind hat over been done or probably thought of , said a well-known telegrapher. On ono of Gen. Stager's tiips iu the interest of his company , an engine on the Tittsburg , Fort Wnyno ant Chicago railroad broke down at night , uina miles from on office. Stager cut the wire ant by touching the ends telegraphed to Pittn- burg and Brighton for another engine. By fixing ono end of the line above and tha other beneath his tongue , ( the electric pulsations could ba felt end ha thus received reply tha' ' another engine would bo sent atpuco It was a.rcmnrkablo performance. Omaha Jce , It is an ingenious feat which is here as cribed to General Stager , but he wai by no mean a the first to accomplish it. Towards the cloeo of the rebellion , when the northern gen ornla began to realize the importance of the telegraph as a moans of military communica tion , and movable lines of telegraph came into constant requisition , the operators In the ficli soon acquired great skill. Tha font aecribec to General Stager was quito common among them. The same thing is trao of the tele graph services on both sides in the Franco 1'iuasian war a few years later. Sioux City Jownal. Our Sioux City cotomporary ovldentlj do03 not know what ho is talking about In the firat place the feat of Gen. Stager was performed twelve or fifteen years before the war , and in the next place it is not trno that It was a common practice among army telegraphers either in this country or In Europe. The truth Is thai there is not ono man out of a. thousam who can stand the shock produced by a wire charged with electricity when th < two ends are applied to the tongue as a conductor. The tongue Is ono of the most sensitive organs of the human ays torn , and the average man In attempting General Stager's ' feat would see moro stars In a second than could bo produce ! in a minute by the sledge-hammer blowi of John Sullivan upon his skull. Brie mesiagos have been received by holding the ends of a wire ( between the fingers o both hands and having the body act as tin conductor , but messages by tongue or finger pulsation are at bst estromel ] unreliable. THE lowering of the Hag over the Interior torior department- , upon the order o Secretary Lamar "out of respect" to the memory of Jake Thompson , a traitor to that flg , has aroused a storm of indlgna tlon throughout the loyal north , and has no doubt pnt to shame the respectable and sensible people of the south , for Thompson was moro than a mere rebel Ho went to Canada and there plotted am planned the dcatructlon of northern cities by incendiary fires , and the wholesale death of northern people by the attempt ed introduction of Infectious diseases. Refusing the amnesty of the Unltoc States at the obso of the war , ho died as a man without a country , and ai an enemy of mankind , hated and desplsec by all patriotic persona. Secretary La mar's respect for the memory of Jake Thompson finds but little oodorsemen either In the loyal north or in the recon structed south. In the language of the Chicago Tribune such Infamous tributes to unrepentant rebels are enough to make the wonnda of every lojol veteran statt afrish , WILL Mr. Boyd , the member of the national democratic committee , bolt the democratic candidate for auditor and po lice judge ? Will ho use his money and Influence to elect the straight democratic ticket , or is ho going to bolt It and sup port ono half of the republican ticket , which the "citizens" have endorsed ? THE lower nousu of the Illinois leglala ture lus pasted the Chicago Citizens association bill for governing primary elections , and the bill will very likely pass the senate. Tail bill legalizes pri mary elections , and provides pnniah- montsfer'ofiemca against It. It Is an optional meaiuro , that is to say the con * tral committee of any party In any olty can elect to hold Us primaries under the aw , and in that event the party is bon nd oy it. It ii similar to the Colorado law , and Intended to make the primaries an lonost expression of party choice. Such a law la needed in every atato , for under the present system the majority of pri marics are fraudulently conducted. THEUF. la In Washington an organize Lion called the Jackson Democratic Asto ciatlon , composed mostly of men who were turned out of oflico In 1SG1 for being southern sympathizers. On Inaug uration day these niois-backs marched in the procestion and presented the ap poarauco of having just been res Biirroctcd from all the political grave yards In the country. It being under stood that Grover Cleveland is taking care of all such veterans , they have eonl in a batch of applications , and now the president need not waste any time in hunting around for moss-backs. Ouu special correspondent at the na tloxal capital informs us "that there are moro mad democrats in Washington than at any time since the close of the war. ' This madness It teams is caused by the fact that Grover Cleveland continues to nuke his appointments without consult ing the party loaders or acting upon any suggestions that they may offer. The reappointment appointment of Pearaon , the Now York postmaster , who. is an Independent republican publican , has Increased the democratic wrath to a white heat. It really begins to look M if Mr. Cleveland was a pratty independent man himself. A MISSOURI farmer took to his bed eighteen years while laboring under hypochoudriacal delusion that if ho got out of his bed ho would die , and con seqnently ho has remained there over since , although in apparently good health Once bis houto took fire , but the peril o being burned alive did not shako his faith in his delusion. Ho is a democrat , and It was thought when Clo/eland was elected ho would shako off his delusion and arise and walk to Washington for an oflico , but strange to tay oven the demo cratic victory has had no-effect upon him THE BEE has after all unjust ly criticised Grover Cleveland for np pointing so many moss-backs to ollico There is some excuse for his course In regard to the septuagenarians and octo genarians of the democritlc party. They have been out ef office for twenty-five years , and if not given a chance now to nibble at the public crib they will co down to their graves hungry and withon having enjoyed the frnlta of a quarter o a cantury'a struggle. Under the oironm stances the young democracy can affjrc to wait until the septuagenarians and octogenarians have paesed away. YOUNG people can now partly realize what the newspapers were in the days o the civil war. Of courao the battles In the Soudan have not tbo vital , persona relation to ns that Antiotam and Gettysburg burg aud all the rest had , but still they are exciting enough to arouse an eager interest , and together with the wars and rumors of wars in Canada , Gautcmah China and Afghanistan are giving u mora excitement than wo have had since the Franco-German war. IN 1871 , Riel was paid 83,000 by Sir John A. McDonald to skip the country and ho skipped. As there was no agree mcnt as ta the length of time he ohoulc roma'n ' away , ho took the liberty to re turn and kick up another row in iho hope of recuperating his purse. Judging by the size of the rebellion he has stirred up in the Northwest Territory nothing lea than 8100,000 could buy him oil thl time. THE post-office department certain ! ; ought to provo self sustaining this year Senator Harris , of Tennessee , whoeo influence at the white IIOUEO Is probabl ; overestimated , receives five hundrec letters a day from his office-seoldng constituency stituoncy , and wo suppose therj ore other eonatora who are equally bom barded with petitions. ON Sunday last President Clevolanc attended church for the first time In Washington. It is unnecoseary to say that ho drew a full house. To the crodi of the congregation , bo it said , there was no evidence of undue cariosity , and a stranger could not have told that tbcro wcs any unusual event occnrrlng. IN over five hundred references to the fact that the European wars are creating a demand for American products , we have as yet failed to observe one of these paragraphs that did not'end with : "It ia an 111 wind that blows nobody any good,1 WE notice that since the announce ment that the Hazon court martial re suited merely in a reprimand , the weather has boon warm and springlike. It wasn't such a ooldj ay after all for General Hazen. Boss MANNING has served notice on al the beads of divisions In the treasury de partment calling for their resignation. Mr. Hizglos , the Baltimore "fine worker , " will aoon follow suit , and chop off the hosids of the rank and file. . TEXAS , which gave 132,000 majority for Cleveland , has at last been rewarded by the appointment of Richard B , Hab bard as minister to Japan , where the "Mother Hubbard" is all the rase. In A man unfit to bo mayor of Omaha unless ho U worth half a million dollars' Seal or th Carolina Tobacco IB the beit. REDFIEID'S RAGE. He Speaks Plainly anft Emphatically Ml the Republican , IIo Uollovcs that Uio Fnpcr IB Alter a Mnn wllh Dnr'l , CA1TEU YCST AND FIUUD1K NVK. To the editor of the BEE. Thcao two young mon nro clrcnUtlng aronnd the peanut stands and other favorable resorts for men of their Ilk , storlos , which If trno , or oven told by mon who might bo believed , might bo damaging. It scorns strange that the mutations of time should bring together from distant parts two individuals so well calculated to cngigo In buaiuoss which is so per footly nndoratood by the tuera mention of tholr names. CAI'I'EU ATI ) KUAfDtK wcro baptized at the entno time , and In the enmo bowl , and it Is said that while Oippor was entertaining the officiating clergyman , Frandlo appropriated a beau tiful solltalro worn by that functionary. This circunntanoo suggested the names , and subsequent events show- with whal accuracy their future was foretold. OAVPEII first developed hls'pooullar go nlns when U. S. marshal of Nebraska , from which position ho was Iglnomln- ously boancod because ho used vary nearly the entire funds allowed for the ofllco in sending his cappers to difieronl parts of the country , and bringing Inno cent men all the way to Omaha , that ho mlbt [ ; fatten on the mileage and per diem incident to such dlity work. Wo next find him running the Omaha paat- officoand without following him through all the moves of official ojrruption the methods by which ho depleted the revonno by Imposing Chinese brlc-a-brnc , permitting forbidden literature to pass through that office , and demanding and receiving largo sums of money for sach per week , converting o largo sum of money that was sent to Nebraska from Washington as a campaign fund to his own nso , disbursing bribe money to the amount of § 22,000 and corrupting whole legislature , defrauding a largo number of republicans to whom ho ap pealed to s vo him from bankruptcy , by ngtoeicg to issue stock for the amount to contributed to bolster up his murky concern and when asked for the stock quietly telling thcsa who had saved him with tholr money : "You owe that much to the republican party. " Ho the repub lican party. God nave UD ! Why , ho ' Wriggles in and wriggles out And leaves the people still in doubt Whether the snake that made the track Was coming up or going back ; " He and FHAUDIE have been on ell sides of politic ! , and to-day wo find them iloo ing to the democratic fold In hopes thai they may gather some of the spoils. OAVPEII and FKAUDIE are adepts al tholr profession , and know batter than to fasten on to such men as MUHFHY when the fat purto of Boyd Is in sight. OAri'Eii has been thwarted by mo many times in his cil'orts to defraud tbo pabllc and ono of the late causes for his disgua < for mo is the fact that I refused to assls him In robbing the city of fourteen foe of ground In front of his residence. And ho and FUAUDIE have now large claims against the city , which they hope to ge If I am beaten for the council. Those cla'ms are fraudulent , and will never ba paid by the now council , unices thesi acratchera for reform divert the attention of the new members by the refrain usual ly indulged In by pickpockets. Some o these claims have been paid once , others are fictitious. I have fully and fairly stated In my answer tn Mr. Turner the facts connect ed with extra grading tax. I have shown just the manner in which that tax was placed against the property. I have shown that as aoon as the legality of the tax was questioned , payment was stoppec until the disputed point could ba legally adjusted. I have shown that only 81- 100had , been paid. The specification under which those contracts are let pro vide that paving contractors ahall excavate vato "below tbo established grade cqua to tbo depth of paving material and bal last. " Stipulation of the contract reads follows : "Tho said party of the HOBOIIC part shall also do ouch extra work In con nectlonwltli this contract as the city on glneor may In writing direct : Andwhei no prica for tuch work Is specified In thii contract , such price shall bo iixet by the board of public works , but no claim for extra work shall ba allowed un- lesi the same was done in pursuance of written order as nforeaaid , and the claim patented at thn first estimate after the work was done. " Howard street never was put to grade , and the contractors removed an average of two feet of earth moro tbau was required quired by the specifications. No pareou cUims , however , that I had anything to do with this extra grading , If I except CAITEIl AND FUAUDIK. The bill for § 1,100 was handed mo on the streets , and as it is the duty of the city ongineoi and board of public works to adjust all such claims , as directed In the above cited stipulation , I handed the aamo to the city engineer and then my connoct'on with it ceased. The city engineer and boiri of public works , have heretofore certified to the council just such bills which attor thorough canvass have been allowed bjr the council , and it had become a settled policy of the authorities to pay su h bills and I insist that such action WAS right. Is it right to require a contractor to re move two feet or any other amount of earth from a street , when tbo specifica tions require them to move only to "tho depth of ptvlog material and ballast , " and stipulation No. 4'provides juat how such extr * woik shall bo paid for. OAWBII and FRAUDIE do not intend to deal jus'ly with mo and I atk nothing at their hands. They Insist on misrepre senting everything connected with those trauaactioni so far ns they refer to mo , and have willfully , maliciously and wick * odly stated what they know to ba abso lutely false. Yours , ' J. B. RKDHELB. An Old Senate Pane , From April St. Nicholas. OapUln Batsett , the venerable sergeant at arms of the senate , has been In contin uous service for moro than CO years. The captain started In as a page. At that time there was bat one in thii senate , and Daniel Webster wanted young Isaac Daisett appointed as an additional page. The other senators thought it a great ex travagance two pages for 48 tcnatorsl It was enough to bankrupt the republic ! Oiptain Bataett declares that there waaa hot debate over the suggestion of Webster. However , Webster fought hard and , with hit great eloquence , suc ceeded. So young Basiott was op- Kiintod. Although his hair la now as whlto as snow , ho loves fun and is stilt as merry as n boy. Just think of ill tie was n eonato officer when the sonata not tn the old chamber , now occupied by the supreme court ; "when the house mot In tholr old hall , now occupied by tttt- nary donated by the states ; when the evening sosiions of both houses had'.to bo illuminated by "tallow dips. " Ho had hoard Webster , liny no , Clay , Oal- houn , Bcnton and Douglas. The captain's recollection of the days when senators dressed In swallow tailed coats causes him to shudder when "inno votions' uro sriggaatod. But these "In- novations1' ' are constantly going on. It has for * many years been the custom to write the .name of each senator upon a strip of ivorywhlto wood and fasten on his desk by way of Identification , as "Mr. Sumner " "Mr. Cole " " " , , "Mr. Fonton. Last year those wooden labels wore re moved and sliver plates substituted bear ing simply the surname without the ' Mr.,1' ns "Bayard , " "Edmunds , " "Ransom. " I understand the captain has notyot recovered from this horrible act ot vandalism. Supreme Court Decisions TMntch ! H , 188R. Bank ot COSH Co , r ? . Morrison , nppoa. from Cass county , affirmed. Opinion by by lleoco , J. 1. Whore a material alteration Is ap daront on the face of a writtou instru ment offered In evidence , the question as to whether cald alteration was made bo- fbro or after the examination and delivery - livery of such instrument is in the latl Instance ono for the jury , or trial court. It is like auy other fact In the csso to bo settled by the trier or triers of f cts. Generally in such case the Instrument may bo given in evidence and may go to the jury ; or trier of fact , leaving the par ties to such explanatory ovldcncs of the alteration as they may choose to offer. 2. In cases tried to n court without the intervention of a jury , the finding of questions of fact is entitled to the same respect in the supreme court on appeal as would bo accorded to the verdict ol a jury under like clrcumstancHS , and will not bo Interfered with unless clearly wroujf. McLaughlin vs. Sandusky , onto. Kimbro va Clark. Error from Lancas ter county. Revened. Opinion by Reese , J. 1. Under the code of civil procedure o this state , now parties to enaction by way of Intervention is permitted only where the intervener claims coma interest in the subject of the action. In an ordinary action on a promissory note , and In whicl action an order of attachment has been Issued and levied upon real estate , the title to which u hold by a third party , the qneetlon of the ownership of real estate cannot ba adjudicated by the interven tion of the holder of the title ; that ques lion not being involved in any degree in thoaclion. _ In such catos a judgmen against the maker of a promissory note and an order that the attached propnrt ] bo sold will not debar the holder of th legal title from afterwards claiming till to the real estate. 2. Where an attachment is levied upon real eatato belonging to a non-roslden debtor , or which it Is chimed is owned by him , whether hold In hii own name or not , the n1 tacking creditor , acquires a lien upon the Interest of the debtor , if any In the land , which ho may enforce afte judgment by an action in the nature of a creator's bill. Such an action may bo maintained even though the origlna judgment was obtained without other set vice than by publication In a no ITS paper. 3. In an aclion in the nature of i creditor's bill , for the purpose of subject' ing real estate to the payment of a judtj' ' mont obtained upon a promlsjoiy note , the qae&tlon of the consideration or pur pose for whtch the nets was executed is an immaterial one. Where it Is alleged that the note was given only as a memorandum to show the amount to bo paid to the payee out ol the proceeds arising from the silo of properly o placed In the hands of the maker , by the payee , for sa'c , ane that _ the maker of the note contrary ta his Instructions exchanged the prop erty for real estate , canning the title to bo taken in the natno of his wife , and the holder of the uoto brought an action thereon , attached the roil estate , pro cured a judgment for the amount duo , It win hold that such action on the part ol the payee was tn abandonment of any equities lie might have arising out of the original contract , and in order to tubjeel the real eatato to the payment of his iudgrnent it would bs neceesary to provo the fraudulent character of the convey ance the same as any other creditor. Young vs. Roberts Error from Nance county. Affirmed. Opinion by Cobb , Ch. J. 1. Questions of fact and upon conflict Inc ; testimony are to bo decided by the trial jury , and a verdict will not bo sot aeido on the ground of a want of suffi cient evidence to support It , unless the went is so great as to show that the ver dict Is manifestly wrong. Sycamore & Covs. . Grundrad , 1C Neb. S. 0. N. W. Rep. 832. 2. Where an action of replevin of property levied upon by an oflicor as the Individual property of A , and the prop erty is claimed by the plalntlQ as the partnership property ot A t * B , and upon trial the jury find specially that the property In controversy was the solo property of A at the time of the levy , tbo question of the right of the creditors of A to levy npon the partnership property of A tfc B becomes unimportant , and the refusal of the trial court to admit testi mony tending to prove that the indebted- noes of the partnership exceeded the assets hold not prejudicial to the plaintiff. ' Kleeman V. Peltzer , appeal from Dodge affirmed. Opinion by Cobb , Ch. J. A transfer of prop arty from a mother to a daughter with a rent charge on a a part of It during the life of the grantor and providing that at her death a part of tbo value ot such property should bo divided between and paid to ttther daugh ters of the grantor , induced by a repre sentation of the granten that there wa great danger of her losing said properly by reason of certain litigation thoa pend ing or about to bo commenced between her ion and his wife unices she nude such transfer , when In fact there was no such danger , will bo set atido by a court of equity 2. A voluntary settlement should con tain a power of revocalijn ; if it does not , the parties who rely upon it must profo that the cellar was properly ad vise J when ho excavated it ; that ho thor oughly understood the effect of omitting the power aud that ho Intended to be ex cluded from the settlement. If ihnt Is not established , and the court eos fiom the surrounding circumstances that the seller believed the Instrument to bo re vocable , will interfere and give relief , against It. Hall vs. Hall , L. R. 14. Tree-planting 1 * systematically foaterc d In China , and during the last year 330- OCO were pbnUd In Hong Kong alone. G1U///.LKD AND QUAY. An Old-Timer Itccltcs 801110 of Ills Advcutnrca In tlio Mountain * , St. Panl Globe. The old veteran was grizzled arid griyj the winds of fifty winters had whistled through his nukcmpt locks and toyed with his flowing board. Yet ho was halo and hearty , n veritable man of the moun tains. It was in the forties that ho had loft the girl of hii choice behind him to bo cared for by the other follow , and gene with the ollior argonauto of the cost to seek hie fortune In the wilds cf the west , where soils the Oregon to the placid watcra cf the Pacific. The autograph that ho registered at Colonel Alton's ' car avansary was simple and unostentatious John Wilson , but the chirography wcs as picturesque ns the diagram of a mining camp. However , It attracted the atten tion of a Glebe reporor : and ho sought J. W. out and of course found him posed as ft petrifaction fiom the Dad Lands Againtt the bar of the merchants. Solic ited for the alory rf his wanderings , ho was reticent until ho has ? boon mcllowol by a congenial cocktail , 'ivheu ho grow gar.ulouonnd gave up the story or his lifo "It * aj in ' 48 , " ho said , "rrhon I found that the day-droaui of my lifo wai diasipatcd by the only girl I over loved refusing my salt for a young fop of our sot. This was In York ntato. It mal- torn not , but , the town was Ciuienovia , where the seminary la located. The girl'o name ? That la nakinc ; too inuoh. Man of the mountains that I am , and have boon for a quarter of a contury. 1 am too chivnlrio to betray her natno to the world In print. Fact i , 1 have for gotten the git ] , ami after many years of wandering , I am going back to tike care of her ana her children. She Is now in sere dlstrors , the husband having dcd ! a trjgic death , leaving her with a largo family and in straightened circumstances , while I have acquired an abundance of the world's treosuiva. Yes , aho was the only woman that over awakened the softer sdntimont In my heart. Throngh all the trials of frontier life , under a tent aud In a blanket in the fastnesses of the mountains , I have never forgotten this , my first love. What of my past life ? Well , it la a long and to you perhaps would prove to bo a tedious story. It has baon fall of exciting Inci dents. When In camp In the mines of the Sierra Nevada my messmate , about whoso lifo there was a mystery , dlaap- apoared and the vigilantes accused mo of hia untimely taking off and gave mo three dija to find him or snffor the jutt- Ice of a mining camp. The theory was that I had killed him for his dust , and thrown litmdpwn a shaft , to penetrate the bottom of which meant death from nox ious gas. To convince them of my innocence noconco , I agreed to descend to the hot- torn with any ono o their number whom they might designate. All stood appalled at the propanliion , yet heldmotoaccDunt for my mhaing msesmato , until finally a sturdy minor who believed in my Innocence - cenco volunteered to make the descent with mo for my eako. Hopes were pro cured and wo started oa our perilous mission. I shall never forget that awful day. I survived It , but my now-fonnd friend succumbed , and when wo were hauled np ho could not bo resuscitated. Then I was held responsible for his death , and had I not made a sneafc out of the camp that night , I would not now bo hero telling you this story. I left Borne good claims In that camp , and I guess the bays wanted them , but 1 never returned to question their title. It wasn't healthy for me in that camp. I then drifted ta Oregon , thencD to Waih- higton Territory , later to Idaho , and finally into Montana , where I spent cev- oral seasons looking f T the Last Cabin mine without arall. It was while I was on this mission tnat I had the adventure of my life. I had been In the raonntalno for months , acd given np all hopes of finding the lost mlno of territorial tradi tion when I set out for the Yellowstone , determined to return to the states. I had not seen any campfire except my own for weeks , when as I neared the river - or I saw qmoko and thought I had oomo upon the camp of some trappers or skin hunters. The night was awfully dark , but 1 made direct for the fire. Bub before - fore I got there 1 was challenged in an unknown tongue , and was almost instant ly seized and bound with thougs. I thought then that Iwas In the hands of the hoatllo Sioux and that my hour had come. After a night of apprehensive agony I was confronted by a band of In dians whom 1 believed would burn mo at the stake , but at uinrise I was taken to the tepee of the chief , whom I found to bo no less a pcrsanage than Chief Joseph of the Nez I'crce . then on that memorable march , which ranks with the cxpaditlon of Hannibal that I read of when 1 was a boy , from Oregon to the Buar Paw Mountains , where you will remember ho was rounded up by General Milts. After otccrla'ning ' that I wan not a epy from General Howard , ho treated me with the honors of war and released me on parole with all my equipments. YOJ , ho was the noblest Indian I over know , and I regret to learn that ho is held practically an a pris oner of war In the Indian territory , and his people is oxllod from tholr fair Oregon homeo , VVoll , after that experlencu 1 prospered in the Clark's Forks country and the other minoml districts in Mon tana , sold out some promising claims , got together all the money I shall need for myself , for tha woman I have never for gotten , aud for the children that onght to ba mine , took the first train that I bad seen for many years , at Cnstor Station , and here I am making n fool of myself talking to a newspaper man , who likely aa not will print these rambling incidents of a mUapont life. > But I must bo off on thin train for the oast. I think the old girl will be glad to reo mo now , and I am anxious to get thero. An Ola Yftlo Timepiece. From the Now Haven Palladium , In about two weoka the old clock which for sixty-six years announced the honm from the tower of the Yale Athu- muum In the "old brick" will bo shipped to Middlotown , where It ii to ba placed In the tower of ono of the state buildings thero. When the brave Yankee defend ers were fighliog fnc the prcsorqation of tbo states aaaiott iho English invader in the war of 1812-15,8 well-known Now Haven - ven clocWnaVerwBS toiling patiently and ( lowly upon this veteran timepiece. In these days wheola of brass and bearings of steel were wrought oat by hand , and slow and tiresome wan the work. The clock Traa pnt up for Yale college in 1814 , and performed i a duties ( ill live years ago , when the building of the Battoll chapel , with Its now cluck and bells , ren dered it no longer necessary. The clock waa made by Simoon Joslyn , of Pember Joslyn and Simeon Joslyn - father and uncle of the lite Nathaniel Joslyn , the arliit. These clockmakers were unoiig the best workers in the trade , and made many of the old s ylo kitchen and hall clooka. The clock Is now on exhibition a * , the jewelry storoof 0 , J. Moaaon & Co , workmen for the firm haviog ben employed for the past ton days In clean * ing and burnishing the parts. Although- over 70 years of ago the old clock lookt like a now machine , and Mr. Monsou satsitlsjust as good as now. When taken to pieces many of the brass wheels and stoll parts were black and ruslg , and a doo'of work had been necessary in bringing out the shining surfaces , When now the clock must have coat $400 , but the trustees of the Connecticut schools for girls have secured the historic mech anism at a much loss cost. The stool parts of the escapement show but little wear , although thoto parts are usually the first to weir out. The cogs In the largo brass wheels have alto worn won derfully well. The machinery is iu a heavy frame two foot high , thrco foot long and eight inches in width. The clock will bo placed In the sixty- five-foot tower of the now cbapol of the industrial school. AntlUtty of Hone Stealing. London Society. Ilorso stealing is a crime of consider able antiquity in England , where It has always boon regarded as dcsprdng very Bovrra punishment. Uoliushcd mentions in his "Chronicles" Hut'during the reign of Quaon Elizibolh a noted horse stcnlor named Ditch was apprehended , charged upon nineteen indictments , eighteen of which ho confessed to. It appears that between the time of his apprehension and the 82iiioni "ho appenchcd many of atcau'cg h rsee , nhoicof many of thorn wcro taken up , and ten of thorn condemned and hung at Smtthfiold , on horsa-market day , " a day specially selected , wo pre sume , In order that the warning and ex ample to such like evil-doers should be the moro notorious and efficacious among the fraternity. This mm Ditch WAS evi dently possessed of the full cunning pe culiar to his tribe , as it Is said ho prac- the dodge of acting alto the part of in former , by helping many to recover tholr stolen [ horeos , charging as a fee ton shil lings each , whereby , as Holiushod nays , "ho made fifteen pounds of current money toward his charges. " Drandi adrrrtt ! > 9d nbiolntcly pars COlVT-n XMWTvrivrr > Tq-Tyy. THE TEST : PI M R c n top down on n hot store until hc tCltti D remoTe th * cover and smell. A chemttt will not b * re quired to detect the presence of ammonia. DOES NOT CONTAIN AMMONIA. ITS HiALTm-tL > CS3 IU9 NEVEK In n , million homes for a qunrter of n cdntury It b.fr ittfod the consumers * rolInMe tet.t , THE TESTJJFJKE OVEK. PEICE BAKING POWDER CO. , IMKERS OIT Dr , Price's ' Special Flavoring Extracts , Th ilronf rttooit dtltelou * and nituralflitor In own , and Dr. Price's Lupulin Yeast Gams For Light , IlcalOiy Bread , The Dnit Dry llop Yenst In the World. FOR SALE BY GROCERS. 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