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THE OMAHA BEE : SXTtffiAf , JUW 10. 1887. BENNISON BRO'S. , MONDAY , Grand MId-Snmmor Clearing Sale For All Next Week , Will OfTei- the Coming Week - ' 'Croat ItiditccmentN Fortlie Imdlcs to Como Out Evan If It Is Warm. Next Week Grand Sale of 1,000 , Cro , chct and Marsailles lied Spreads. A Full-size White Crochet Bed Spread , 85o worth $1.25. An Elegant White Crochet Bed Spread. $1.00 worth .fl.no. An Elegant White Crochet Bed Spread , 11.25 worth $1.75. And Marsalllcs , Evtra Sizes , $1.50 13.25 , $2.75 , $3.00 , $3.CO Those have no Competitors. Monday 23 PCS. Elegant Plaids , Stripes nnd Check White goods ; Sold nil the Season at 20o to 40c per yard. Wo will close them all at 18c per yard. 35 PCS. Extra Fmo Quality Plaids , Stripe nnd Cheek White goods ; Sold all the Season at 40c to GOc per j'ard. Wo Will close them Monday at 25c per yard. CO pcs. White India Linens , OJo per yard , worth double. 10 pieces Extra Fine Bleached and Un bleached Table Damasks , Monday , 50c yard , worth 85c. Monday , 200 doz Ladies' nnd Chil dren's Fancy Bordered Handkerchiefs , Co each. Monday , 200 doz Ladies' Linen Fancy Bordered Handkerchiefs , 8Jc each. Monday only , 25 pieces Fine Imported Tennis Zephyr Lawns , striped nnd jllain , to match ; sold all season at 35c per yard ; our'price to close the lot , Ific yard. Monday only , CO pieces Renfrew Dress Ginghams , 0c per yard. Monday only , 13 yards Fancy Stripe Crlnklo Seersucker for 75c. Monday only , 25 pieces Nile Green and Buff Chambrays , 8Jc yard , worth 15c. Monday only. 1 bale 80-Inch Unbleached Muslin , 10 yards for $1.00. Monday only , 25 pieces Domestic Sat- tcens , Pinks , Blues and Reds , Cc yard. Monday , D pieces Black Spanish Lace Flouncing , 40 inches wide , $1.50 yard , worth $3.50. Monday , CO doz French Woven Corsets , 750 , worth $1.50. Great attractions all next week. Watch U8. BENN1SON BROS. , 1510-1521 Douglas st. oflAND EXCUUH10N TO CHICAGO. $14.5O For the Round Trip. Commencing on July 5 and continuing on sale until July 13 , the Chicago , Rook Island & Pacific railway will sell round trip tickets to teachers nnd ALL OTHEits that wish to take a trip to Chi- sago at $14.50 for the round trip from Council Bluffs. Two through express trains are run daily , leaving Omaha at 1:15 : a. m. and 0:05 : p. m. , running new. elegant Pullman Palace Sleeping ami Dining Cars. Ample accommodations will bo provided for every ono. Reserve pour Pullman berths nnd secure your tickets ut the Chicago , Rock Island & Pacific ticket office. 1805 Farnam street. Tickets good coing on all through express trains from July Gth to 18th in- elusive. S. S. STUVHNS , General Western Agent. Hcnnoy Buggies at Armstrong , Pettis & Co.'s 1808 Izard st. Dr. A. S. Billings wishes to announce lo his friends ana patrons that after a vacation of three months ho is now in his ofllco again prepared to do all kinds of dental work. Engineers' transits and levels at Good man's. Painters' Supplies. Goodman's , 1110 Farnam. Physicians' Supplies. Goodman's , 1110 Farnam. uftlOAGO & NOHTUWSTERN U'l' Excursion to Chicago. $14.50 FOR ROUND TRIP. Commencing July 5 and continuing on Bale to July 13 the Chicago & Northwestern - orn railway will sell round trip tickets to teachers nnd all others who wish to take a trip to Chicago or points In the east for $14.00 from Council Bluffs to Chicago nnd return. Two through express trains run daily , leaving Omaha at 0:15 : a. m , nnd 0:05 : p. m. , running palace sleeping and dining cars. Ample accommoda tions will uo furnished for everyone. He- servo your sleeping car berths and se cure your tickets at the Chicago & North western ticket office. 1411 Farnam street. W. N. BAHCOCK , General Western Agent Surveyors' Rods , Tapes and Chains at Goodman's. The Summer School ! Will open next Monday at the Omaha Commercial College on Farnam street , Tfio branches taught will bo bookkeeping , arithmetic , grammar , spelling , penman- Bhlp , short-hand and typo-writing. The term will continue six week , and bo from 0 a. m. to 4 p. m. , oaeh day. Chil dren above ton years will bo admitted. Tuition : Penmanship , $8.50 , English branches $3.50 , twite-writing ( two weeks ) $5.00 , short-hand $7.00. HOIIHBOOOII linos. Architects' Supplies , Goodman's , 1110 Fnrnam. "Over 150,000 Happy Thought ranges In use. " For sale by C. F. Gardner , 719 North 10th st. An Unknown Friend. Yesterday morning Mr. AuchMoedy the deputy county clerk , found upon his desk one ot the most unique cigar nnd match stands which ever originated in the mind of a silversmith. It consisted in the main of a hollow sliver egg , with fractured end at the other extremity of which wus a Boncgamblan of huge dimensions in bronco and oxldyzod silver looking as if ho wore coming to lifo nt two places , and With both his hat and boots on. The egg was engraved with Mr. AuchMocdy's Initials , though the generous giver is unknown. Dropped n Rook. . Jerry McCormlck , one of the street gang on west Farnam street , dropped a block of granite on one of his feet yes terday morning , fracturing several ol the small bonus nud waking a very palu- 1U1 hurt. r IMi'OUTANT MEETING. lliat Every Contractor and Material Furnisher Should Attend. There will bo a regular meeting of the Building Contractors and Material Furnishers' Protective association a ( Clark'.s hall Monday afternoon nt 3 o'clock. Matters of vital importance will coma before the association. All contractors and material furnishers , whether members of the association or not , arc urgently requested to bo pres ent. T. W. UKAII , Secretary , Ollt Edgo. Dairy Butter'at Ilanlcy's , 9C leuts. liAHOIl NEWS. Sewer hnhorcrtt Dotnnnd nn Advance In Wanes. The sewer laborers employed by Messrs. Mount & Griffin , to the number of 108 men , have for some time past been lissa'.Isliuil with the wages they were re ceiving. Matters came to a crisis ycstor- lay afternoon , when the work on Tlnr- iccntli and Lcavenworth streets , on which some thirty-nine of the men were e nployed , was rendered much more dis agreeable and dangerous through the [ irescnco of water In the excavation. The jalitnco of the men have been engaged constructing a sewer on Twcntv-lifth and llarney. The strikers , wfth some few exceptions , have been receiving $1.75 per day nud $2.00 per day was the amount asked for. As the de mand was refused by the contractors the men resolved to strike. "Wo think what wo are asking for is only fair and reason able , " said one of the strikers to a Br.K reporter.Vo work ten hours per day iiul are often subjected to great danger in the trenches. The contractors them selves have recognized this by giving $3 a day to a few of the men nnd as wo hnvo to do just the same work there i.s no rea son why wo should not I'ecoivc ' the panic Pay. " _ Carpenters Meet. A largely attended special meeting of the union carpenters was held last even ing at the Metropolitan hall , corner of Dodge and Fourteenth streets. A discus sion took plap o. in the course of which the several speakers expressed them selves as thoroughly satisfied with the action of the contractors , and the utmost good feeling was manifested. The following notice was adopted unanimously for publication : NOTICK TO RUIMIKKS. You liavlno : ac ceded to our demands of nine hours per day and eight hours on Saturday , with same pay , with the standard wa cs ut thirty cetits per hour , Wo hereby wish to assure you that there will bo no further doinn'ids Hindu upon you this season by our orK.inl/.atiou. llIK OAIU'ENTKKS UNION. AMUSEMENTS. THE GHEAT llAHKttTT CIHCUS. To-morrow morning at 10 o'clock the great parade of the Barrett circus will make the streets put on a holiday appear ance , nnd in the afternoon the first of the ; reat performances will bo given , to bo Followed , if possible , by a better one nt night. Tito reputation of the Barntt circus is so well established that it is needless for us to do anything more than simply an nounce its coming. It Is as well , though , to call attention to its wonderful une qualled feature , the great Jo Jo. Much speculation has been entered into of law as to Jo Jo's nationality , appearance , manners , etc. , nnd , it is only fair to say that wore pconlo to do nothing for an en- ; ire day but clothe Jo Jo with mysticism ; hey would then fall far short of doing the enigmatical creature justice , as he is surely the greatest wonder extant , and is consequently a fitting feature for the reatest of shows. uouis & COLVIN enters. Omaha is to bo doubly blessed this season in the circus way , for soon after the appearance of the Barrett show wo arc to bo visited by the greatest and big gest of all big shows , the Doris & Colvin show , circus , menagerie , museum , wild west and Uoman hippodrome. The long- lookod-for advent of the colossal show is near nt hand. The press throughout the entire country speaks in glowing terms of this ereat iiniuscmcnt en terprise , nnd , indeed , its magnitude is something to bo wondered nt. The show or properly speaking , the great consolidation of shows consists of n hugh three-ring circus , a monster menagerie - nagerio , world's museum and elevated theater stage , combined with a collossal Roman Hippodrome , in which Romnn standing and chariot racing , flat racing , steeple chasine , running racing , etc. , etc. , wilt bo exhibited. There are whole tribes of Indians in the "Now \ \ lid West , " who together with frontiersmen of all kinds , scouts , cowboys , guides , hunters and trappers , will give realistic scenes of life in the wild west , surpass ing anything of the kind ever seen here. The pastor of the First United Presby terian church will preach this morning "Right and the Duty of the State to Pro tect the Sabbath. " This church lias been undergoing extensive repairs and is now , with its addition , naint , elegant decora tions and now carpets , a very neat nud attractive place of worship. Co m Iny ; Hack to Omaha. The following extract from the Buffalo Courier of a recent date will bo read with Interest hero where Mr. Cooley re- Bided for a number of years before going east : There Is soon to bo another break In the local railway circle. General Agent W. 1 * . Cooler of the Union 1'acllic , 1ms tendered las resignation to toke cited August 1. he having accepted an appointment from Omaha's moat prominent real estate dealer , W. O. Albright , which will cive him lull charge of the newspaper and Advertising de partment of that gentleman's business. When It Is known that Mr. Albright spent about 540,000 last year In this branch of his enterprises , It will be readily understood that -Mr. Cooly will bo a very busy man ; but then ho Is well known ns a hustler , nnd will prove a valuable man tin nls new Held of labor. Mr. Cooley has been In railroad Ufa seven teen years beginning as a machinist in the shops of the Union I'acllic. Afterwards ho became division clerk of the Pennsylvania company , but returned to his old love as a traveling passenger agent and was stationed in Chicago. Later ho took to the plains and was Interested in the life stock trallic. and dually drifted back once more to the Union I'auillc In the capacity of traveling passen ger ogout with headnuaotors at Philadel phia. A year nco last January , the agencies of lluiralo and Philadelphia were consoli dated with Mr , Cooley as general agent. Ho established his headquarters hern and was a general favorite "on the sticet" from the day that ho llrst sot foot In the booming city. Mr. Cooley Is known as one of the shrewdest , most active nnd capable men In the business , and nls numerous friends hero will part with him with sincere regret , but at the saiuo time will wish him every possible success In Omaha. Wanted. A double corner lot inside two mile limit. Must bo nicely located. 1 want to put improvements upon it in side of one year worth $3,000. Will put if500 upon it at once. Don't want to nay any cash down. Address Box U. 53 , Bee. There will bo given a musical enter tainment at Gnynor's hall for the benefit ot the Excelsior band , Tuesday evening , July 13. All arc invited to have a pleas ant time , Admission S5e. Urovlttcs. A meeting of Castle Omaha No. 74 , Knights unit Ladles of the Golden Rule , will bo held In St. Gcorgo's hall Monday evening , July 11 , at 8 o'clock , sharp. By order of the commander. Kdward Holden , of lowe , who has been working for over three years in the mines near Ouray , Col. , was killed last Friday morning. Ills remains are now en route to this city and will bo buried from his brother-in-law's residence , Frank X. Lemieux. 400Valuut street. Time of funeral will be , announced later. MEAD- Saturday , July 0 , at 7 rv'cioolc n , m. Charles. (1. , intnut sou qf Arthur J. Mead , ago I * months. Funeral will tale ; place from the residence of A. J. Hunt , , No' . 27-5 llamllton'street.Sun- daj'4 July , 10 , at o'clock p. m. ' , THE BOOM IS NOW HERE , South Omaha the Future Foikapolls of the World. Armour & Go. Hnvo Bought And Are Now Hero The Mont Unpreeedcnt Doom Contemplated In South Omnha Investments. Nothing has occurred during the years of constant progress In the prosperity ot Dmaha and South Omaha that has hnd the sigiiiflcanco that the purchase of Ar mour & Co. , of the Upton packing es tablishment , is developing. The pur- ctiasq , announced as completed yester day , is follpwed by the extousivo nnd elaborate preparations by Armour & Co. to enlarge the plant by an expenditure of a half million dollars into ono of the greatest packing houses on the conti nent. The result Is apparent already , and other largo packing linns of Chicago are coming and arc hero ncgotiatinir to tollow the great lead of Armour. Ono thousand men will find employ ment at Armour's , nearly quite as tunny more at Swift's now packing liouso now in course of construction. J'hen followed the American Provision Comuany and other largo firms , who all announce that the bulk of their killing and packing in the future will bo done in South Omaha. South Omaha is now the third pork packing mart of the world and bids fair Lo soon become the first. TWKXTY-KIVK THOUSAND Inhabitants will live in South Omaha within twelve months,1 ! as the numerous packing houses anil manufactories will absolutely dctr.nml this inllux of people , thereby convincing proof that no prop erty for sale oilers the quick returns nnd largo profits as docs South Omaha. Lots sold there last year nt two nnd three hundred dollars will now as readily tiring as many thousands. Men foolishly pay $800 for lots in wild cat additions when they can purchase elegant lots within six blocks 01 the Ex change building for $500. Tlireo thou sand laboring men will buy property and build homes necessarily near their places of work. To capitalists this is signifi cant. Those who cannot build will want to rent , and what better investment : enId bo made than building on these lots houses for rent ? Parties buying lots now get them from firft hands and get the benefit of the in crease in price. Now is the time to in vest. Don't wait until the most desira ble lots nrc gone. The C. E. Mayno Real K tate and Trust company , corner Fif teenth nnd Harncy streets , are solo agents for the Soutli Omnhn Land Syndi cate , nnd will send out in carriages , free of charge , any person contemplating purchasing this property. IIEST1NG AT DAVKNPOUT. C. E. Mnync Thinks Omaha Is Good Knouch Place to tilvc In. When Mr. C. E. Mayno , the far-famed real estate dealer , went on his summer vacation to Davenport , la. , several Jmiiha papers took it upon themselves to say that he would make his permanent residence there and look in on Omnhn once In a while. Such , however , is not the truth , for Mr. Mayne , whose health tins not been very good for some time , lias only taken the iutvico of friends nnd physicians and will rest a short time , not iiioro.than six weeks nt the most , in the quiet little town on the Mississippi. Ho will then return , with , it is to be hoped , much better health , and his activity in the market will make a number of those who are holding oft * wish they had bought before the boom is on. In a letter to Mr. E. A. ' Benson , Mr. Mnvno states that ho is fooling first-class , anil that when ho decides to leave Duiaha forever he hopes to go to heaven , but never to Davenport. New Life Insurance. Pure Lifo Insurance unmixed with In- vestmen.t. No Assessments. Premiums Paid Quarterly , Semi-Aiinually or An- ually. The Life Indemnity & Invest ment company furnishes a contract of Lifo Insurances that for brevity , concise ness , liberality and cheapness is believed to bo unexcelled. Wnnnuu & Wnir.ir.u : , General Agents and Local Treasurer for Omaha. Nob. Mr. C. 11. Baker , General Agent Life Indemnity & Investment company , Waterloo , Iowa , is desirous of securing some good men in Nebraska to work this company. Address Omnha. Neb. Remember about one dollar a week in sures a middle ago man for $5,000 life in surance in The Lifo Indemnity & Invest ment company. The entertainment of St. Philips' Mu sical Nucleus Thursday evening at St. Barniabas Guild Hall was n very enjoy able uil'air. This society is composed principally of children , under the direc tion of i\lr. Cyrus D. Bell , and the exer cises of their last concert , as well as all previous ones , speak volumes to their credit. Interesting speeches were ma'Jo by Messrs. Gamble , Scroirgins , and the Rev. Williams of St. Barniabas and ' Miss Bakers' "A historical ,1'hIHps , : Essay , ical sketch of African literature nnd Civilization , " was n well prepared paper for which she wr.s highly complimented. The next concert will bo given on the evening of August Oth. Wo , the undersigned drv goods anil clothing merchants do hereby agree to close our respective plnces of business at 7 o'clock ji. m. , except Saturdays , Mon days , and the nth , 10th and llth day of each month , to commence on and after Tuesday , July 12 , and to terminate Sep tember 1 , 1887. LSigned.J N. Fiui : > KitiCKSKX& Co. , ArousT DOKMAX. J. P. MAU.KNOKICI.EIt , J. S. BUAXDGIS & SONS , IlKXItV HlLI.KIt , llOSKXllLATT & LUVI. AVIII Picnic. Next Thursday the Young Men's Hebrew association will give a picnic ut Ruhl's park , a pleasant resort southwest of the city. As the grounds are attrac tive , the society largo and influential , there will probably be n largo attendance. Kountzo Place. Two choice lots at considerably below present prevailing pnci-s. Must bo taken soon. Also somu other good bargains. A. II. OpMSTOCK , No. 15'3 Farnam street. The Adolphian society of the Christian church hold n lawn festival at the resi dence of E , T. Gadd , 833 Park avenue , Tuesday evening , July 12. Cake and ice cream for stimulants. For line harness and carriages , lap robes , lly nets , and horse clothing call on Mitchell & Halncs , southwest corner 10th and Capitol avenue. The young people of the So. 10th street church will glvo a social Thursday evening - ing , July U. Refreshments will bo served , Dual Orlth. The Bnnl Brith society , an organiza tion of Hebrew oitlzonsvill hold a pic nic to-day nt Prols' lake , , Wagons will Juavo Max Meyer's at So'clock tlls ( morn- Try the Omaha Sulphur Springs water. llk-o 205 Nor. 10th _ St. ' Telephone , 200. Attention it called to a lost' watch' ad vertised in the .lost column of this issne. THEFOR FOR A GRAND .CLOSING OUT SAL Commencing Monday , July llth , ' 87 Mans' all wool suits , made and trimmed in the best shape possible , former price , $20 and $25. Our price Monday , and until sold , $15 and $18. Several lines of Mens' wool suits , well made and trimmed former price , $12 , $15 and $18 ; our price Monday , $7 , $10 and $12. Boys' and CMltas' Suits at Equally Low Prices. We asl Your Inspection of Our Entire Stock. THIS IS A GENUINE BARGAIN SALE. ROBINSON & GARMON , Clothiers Hatters and Furnishers , Ramge's Old Stand , 1311 Farnam St , Doings in Police Court , Nellie Wilson and Eva Morgan , for various offenses , were lined $ ( J and costs each. They paid. John Kemo , u chronic drunk , sent up for ten day ? . James Fischcl , alias Harry Kimball , was assessed a line of $8 and costs for peddling dry goods and notions without a license. In explaining the situation to the court , ho said the reason that ho had chanced his name was because ho hail been rich and powerful in the old coun try , aud ho had yet a limitless stock of pride , and was ashamed of his poor rela tions on this side of the pond. Kimball was arrested by Chief Seavoy. Charles Wilson is back again. He was run in oy special Ollicer Mulhall , who found htm prowling about the lumber yards in the bottoms. Wilson is a well known crook , and a dangerous man. Last February hit was seen to plant a set of burglars tools under the sidewalk on Howard street. Captain Cormick was made acquainted with the matter , and lie laid for Wilson and captured him with tools upon his person , and evidently just starting out to do sonic work. Ho was sent up for sixty days , half of them on bread and water. Ho served his time , and on the day he was liberated ho entered the cathedral on Ninth street during services , made his way into the sacristy , opened the safe , and was about to imike a sneak with the gold and silver chalices , when ho was discovered and caught by the sexton , but ho pulled n gun and made his escape. In January ho was pinched by Ollieer Tom Ormsby , who has a bettor knowledge of ' crooks' than an v man on the force , in Wallares on Douglas street , and was sent up for ninety days , forty of which were on bread and water , lie was re leased but yesterday morning only to bo arrested again in the night. Ho is n rem nant of the notorious Murray gang of thieves and thugs. J. F. Wilson , John Davis and John Conner , vagrants , were sent up for ten ( lavs each. Tom Reynolds stole a coal from the rack in tlio wash room of the Union Pa- cilio hotel on Tenth street yesterday afternoon , and had the gull to try to sell it to several men in front' of the house. The garment belonged to Pcto Casey , who was tossing a ball just back of the hotel , and on coming in of course ho missed it. Ho was toKlabout : the follow who hc.il just boon there with a coat to sell , and tae crowd started Oft" In pursuit. The thief was overhauled just around the corner. Relieving him of the coat , Casey jumped upon him iiud boat him up In horrible shape , then turned him over to a policeman. He got fifty in jail , twenty on bread and water. Wnntu Itottor Cari OMAHA , July 9. To 'tho Editor of the HKK : The accommodations furnished by the street car company for North Eighteenth street Is simply outrageous. One half of all the passengers going north in the evening arc compelled to stand crowded together inside the car , or hang on the stops ami platform. Think of seventy-five people being jammed together in ft box car twulvo foot long and hot as n bake oven , to roast for half an hour after a hard day's work , and pay for the privilege of stand ing or hanging onto Uio outside of such a conveyance ! Then see ho commotion uisido and out , when passengers begin to unload. Last- evening thcrti wore thir teen persons on the platfo'rm , three of whom .were ladies , and two of these ladles 'wore compelled to step from the platform into the street , to allow passen gers to get out ° f tuo clxrlu 'Ilcl "lo cars are so full at times , it is impossible to get on the car , especially if there is a rain falling. There oucht to be some way to reach the company and compel them to urpvidc more ample moans of transportation. Ono method practiced by certain persons on such occasions , is to withhold the nicklc. Of this I cannot approve , but if it should become general the company would certainly see their way clear to furni&h more cars. Happy day it will bo for us in this section of tlie city , when the cable car company brings us relief. I. A. UuouuioK. A Colored PluHteror'H Story. Christopher Field is an claerly colored man who presented the following griev ance to a UKI : reporter this morning. Ho said : "I am a plasterer by trade , ana came to Omaha about three years ago. On arriving I tried to get work at my trade but was unable to do so , as the union plasterers refused to work on the same job with me. As I couldn't get work in this way I contracted for plas tering jobs , and have succeeded in mak ing a living. I have had n good deal of dilllculty with the union tradesmen , but hero is a letter which I think goes a little too tar , and 1 wish you would lot the public know about it : TIIKI.KTTKn. hereby notified that If you ilo not take all work out ot the hands of the colored con- tr.ictor , Field , that no union bricklayers will bo allowed to lay brink on vour woik. JJespecttully , O. 1' . SHHOM , Corresponding Secretary. "That's just what 1 call too bad , " con tinued Hold. "Although I have been working for nearly two years for Mr. Martin , he has given me notice that ho couldn't employ mo after the completion of my present contract unless this mat ter was settled. " The reporter , however , made a few In quiries among the officials of the Brick layers' union and found that Field is not altogether the downtrodden plasterer that ho protcsses to bo. According to these men , Field since his arrival in Omaha has been beating regulation prices. He has done this not only in making his contracts but also with his employes. They further claim that they have not opposed Field because ho is a colored man. On the contrary , they en tertain the highest respect for colored masons , and this is shown by < ho fact that they afliliato with colored unions south. It is true tiiat Field wax not ad mitted to the Plasterers' union , but that was because of the cutting rates at which ho was doing his work. The Brick layers' union , in justice to the cause of reasonably paid labor , was compelled , they claimed , to take the action re ferred to. _ \Vlmt Do You Hnt ? At their old nicks again on the N. E. cor. 10th and St. Mary's avo. To-morrow , Monday , July 11 , Coovor & Watts , the cash grocers , will cut the price of best Minnesota Patent Flour from sja.OO lo | 2.75 per ewt. * Ham , per Ib . . .f .11 20 Ibs partly cooked Oats 1.00 libsgood Ton 1.00 1 do cansiOosborrlcs ( 1.00 1 " " Tomatoes 1.00 1 " " Blackberries 1.00 1 " " Bonus 1.00 27 bars best laundry Soap 1.00 First-class Baking Powder , Ib cin.40 2 good Brooms " ! > Collecs , Teas , Spices at la west cash priees. Come and sco us , COOVKII & W.vrri , N , E. Cor. St. Mary's ave tlud 10th , Hoard To-morrow evening , . July 11 , at 8 o'clock'p. m , , there will bo a meeting of the board of'trado. Monday i.s the regu lar 'monthly meeting night .of the board. A MIGHTY INSECT HUNTER. Ait Entomologist and Ills 7O.OOO Specimen * * . The most eminent authority on butter flies and moths in America is Herman Streekcr , Ph. D. , of Heading , Pa. Ho is the one man who has made this place familiar to scientists in every known quarter of the globe. He has just boon created a doctor of philosophy by Frank lin and Marshall college , of his native state. The title is worthily bestowed , for not only being a man of scientific re search , he Is pre-eminently a scholar of exact learning in most of these popular branches that fall to the great student , ho is versed in some ot the dead lan guages , and haa mastered many of the living foreign tongues in which the books of his special pursuit arc writ ten. Mr. Streekcr is of German parant- age , and was born in Philadelphia on March 21 , 1830. Ho inherited his fondness - ness for scientific studios , aud evinced this inclination at a very early ago. The great depository of this lopidopteral col lection is in line . brick a thrce-.storv man sion , with FkylightH , and built in the shady suburbs of the city. Up two flights of stairs and wo have entered into a room where the largest and rarest collection of butterflies in America in de posited over seventy thousand different specimens. Hero our distinguished entomologist is happy. It is night and the shutters are thrown wide open ; dur ing the day they are barred , for sun light soon affects the lustre of his treas ures. ures.On the north side of the walla pin case is placed , looking much like the arrange ments of a largo postoinco. We are told that that is the Hied correspondence of all the distinguished scientists of entomo logical fame in this nnd foreign coun tries , covering thirty years. The world is laid under tribute by this man of ar tistic genius and scientific research to gain the newest and best information of butterflies ami moths in every corner of the globo. This collection ot insects was forty years in gathering , and in the work more than $ .JO , . 000 have been expended. Some of the specimens cost $100 , povoraltOO and sfTil , aud scores of them -5 and $ ,10. There is no privateer public collection in all this western hemisphere can equal it. The London museum has a some what larcer collection , but in order and rarity of arranged specimens this private collection would not bo exchanged for two of England's kind , and for none in the ontUo world. If lire should sweep it up something In America would have been destroyed that no century could re place. The butterflies ml-'htbo had If the entomologist should just happen to bo born and bo also endowed with porso- voronco and blessed with capital for the task. There is no country , no climate , no altitude , no holitnilo that has not been penetrated for the odd anil beautiful specimens of butterllies hero gathered. Some are as tiny arf a mosmiilo , and others as largo as a half-Hedged pigeon. The owl-motli of Brn/.il mcabtircs a foot across the wings. Where do they como from , thc < o many different little crea tures ? \Vllcn the second Ross exnodi- lion was made in search of ft northwest passage in 18S7-2U , anew now species of Colias , afterwards called Boothll , was found in a few specimens , the only ones known to this day , oho of which ciiinn later into posses sion of Strecher's collection. It Is thu only sample of the species m America. Three of tha great Papllio Antimaehus , from equatorial Africa , can be bwn hero. Only about a dozo.n are knowd. .Suites of the golden fcruMUS nud lydiiis front Haimehuira , the curious parnassus but- Uirlllcs , from 18.000 feet ulovutioin in the Himalayas und other mountains , the enormous Cojsus from Australia , which are eaten by thu natives ; the gorgeous rluphem ftics from Madagascar , without u rival in matchless colors. Then tcmio monster curiosities , half male and hall female : those of one wing , partly of one .sex and partly of another sex ; albinos , hybrids , melanos , and extra-winged and other freaks , Indians , Esquimaux , ex- * , plorcrs , travelers and missionaries , liava , -V all helped to this wonderful collection of butterflies. Among the curious speci mens may be mentioned the "bee moth , " so named from Its exact resem blance to the bco or wasp. Ho Is a very counterfeit of the hoiioy-mak- ing'insect.Vhat a freak in thcillumatod OiKcticus pairl The female has no wines , no legs , never fines light nor takes food. The winged gentleman irnclli as ha pleasoth. Then look at the eccentric re semblance to the "anchor-moth. " On the creamy buff-color a black anchor la marked like the tattooed are of the arm with the tar symbol. Here , also , is a resident of the Amazon river forests. known to the natives as "eighty-eighths'1 because of the figures 88 marked on the silvery white ground of the under side of its hind wings. Then there is the curi ous moth in Sierra Leone in West Africa , known us the "yrgus moth. " It is re markable for the unparalleled length of the tails of the hind winds in thu male. Then there is world famed "dead-leaf butterfly" of China , India ami the Paoilio islands. When the wings are open it has a surface of grayish blue crossed by an orange band , but when closed as the am- nial is at rest , the resemblance to a dead " leaf is perfect. Thn dav butterflies num ber 8,000 species , the night lies are ten times as many. To attempt a description of the bewil dering effect as case after case i.s drawn out from its hiding and samples of thu 70,0'JO specimens are displayed under the gaslight i.s himply futile. The endless variety of their forms , the gonroousnosH of their harmonious dress , have no equal among any living thing of the domain of , 'j nature. It is pretty in emerald or sap- \ phira what is brilliant in diamond or ruby , what Is rich in plume of bird or loaf ot llower , what is glorious in rain bow or sunset all can ho found in tills array of insect creationdazzling , glisten ing , gayly disporting under the Hush of light. The process of preserving them is also an art and a somewhat tedious task. They are sent ftom distant entomologists in labeled paper wraps , secured in boxes. They are in no shape ; thuy must bo put into a wooden press of particular design , must bo poised on pins and rendered pliable in a moist sand-jar and then be arranged with mathematical provision in their respective cases. Exchanges are made by the lepidopturiHt.s the world over , which go the rounds , and speci mens of insects are given and taken as the collections may lack kinds. Cocoons even are received from distant lands , and are nursed into lifo a year afterward. Reference should bo made to the sci entific works publihhi'.d by Herman Streokor. In 1872 ho began his "Lopi- doptcra , Indigenous and Exotic , " with lifo size illustrations of unknown species of butterflies in North Auicrica. That book has gone into other editions and has reachciV Mibscriburs in cvcrj part of the globe. His "Butterflies and MotliH of North America" I.s an indispensable contribution to science , and sidelight to all scientific students of Europe. It clearly places Mr. Streekcr at the head of the lepidopterists in the now world , and makes him an unquestionable au- " % thurity thu world over. A Correction. OMAHA , July ? . Mr. Polio Dear Sir : I sen by an article written in the BKB of July 2 that you are accused of having threatened run with a shotgun and com pelled mo to retire from doing.some work us ordered by Stunt & Iltimel. I de.siro herein to stuta that I' aw no shotgun nor anything of the kind , and the report 1 ] \ \ ithout foundation whatever , fuANK M. Wooi.r.r , _ JOHN E. RUSSLLL , - . f . . . if
