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Omaha daily bee., 1883-12-01
IMPIETIES.

The False Prophet is not so false as he was,
but there Is u great deal Of Justification going
on about him.
Beecher's advice to young men of 70' to go
and see the best actors they can find is not
likely to create u STAMP EIDE of the young and
giddy from the church to the theater.
Hell-to-Pay is the name of a station on the
Northern Pacific. When a man wants u
ticket he says: 81 want to go to He'll. to. PAY"
But the ticket agent tells him: "No, you can
pay right here, just as WELL"
A disheartened deacon declares that there is
no hope for the salvation OF "A mal VINO will
sit on a picket-fence for three hours and "a half
to see a base ball match, and then refuse to 90
to church with his wife because them pews is
too COMPOUNDED uncomfortable"
A Georgia preacher is reported to have re.
ceived a bar of soap for a whole years preach
ing to one congregation. We suspect there is
more lye in the story than there was in the
soap.
A Connecticut man buried his wife last Sat
urday, heard of an estimable widow in Brew
sters, N. Y, on Sunday, came for her and
took her to Danbury on Monday, and married
her on Tuesday: The paper that tells this
story speaks of it as ''tolerably romantic"
Mr.. George II. Vending is lecturing In st.
Louis, taking for his subject the problemi
"Who, what and where il the deyilY' Surely
a st. Louis audience ought to be able to an.
swer these several questions.
II know Of q woman, " said the good deacon,
beaming mildly through his spectacles, who
wants to bs foremost in all good works, but
she is so mortal slow that she never gets there
till the good works are all done. Slowy Why
she's 80 slow that when she undertakes to make
an Omel t the eggs spoil before she can break
them into the dish" And the deacon sighed
till his su%spenders raised his trousers clean NJ
to his knees. -ROckland Courier. Gazette.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-12-01
SINGULARITIES.

A cockroach has three thousand teeth.
In Bibbc county, Ala, peach trees were re-
Gently in bloom.
Bodie, California has n curiosity. 1t is u
grown leghorn rooster with two horns over the
eyes.
a Hopkins (Ky.,) county man is saving up
rattlesnake skins for the purpose of making
himself a vest. He now has over one hun
dred.
A cow in Hart county, Kentucky, recently
gave birth to five calves at one time, three of
which were well developed, alive and healthy,
and two dead.
One hundred and ten pounds is the weight
of a 3-year-o.d child named Fitz Buchanan,
who lives in Greenup, Ky.
A vessel which arrived at New Bedford a
day or two ago, brought an eagle which alIght-
ed on the masthead when the vessel was 1000
miles from any land.
J.. G. Smith, of New London, Conn, set an
incubator to hatch five dozen eggs, The result
was sixty-one chickens, and he now offers a
chrome to any one who will inform him where
the odd one come from.
White ants in the old state house in Boston
are causing considerable alarm. The little
pests have attacked the wooden Orders and
eaten their way 30 far into them that it is be-
lieved that the house is in danger of tumbling
over.
Near Kingwood, Preston county, West Vir.
ginia, recently, men working on u road un.
earthed a human skull which measured forty
inches in Giro umference around the forehead
No other bones could be found in its vicinity.
The skeleton to which the skull belonged is
supposed to have been about fourteen feet
high.
A Swede couple who live near Sioux Falls
have four children, two of them as perfect
specimens of the albino as were ever seen
and the other pair are ordinary fair.haired
children. The albinos are of opposite gender,
and the little girl, notwithstanding her off,
color, is pretty az a picture. Her hair is white
AZ the driven snow and kinky as the wool OF
the most thorough bred African.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-12-01
Among the Ancients.

The cardinal archbishop of New York
is 80.
Maine papers announce the death OF
| Mrs. Sallie Griffin, in Raymond, that
state, one day last week, at tho age of 10i
years.
Isaac Martin is dead in ~Covington, Ky,
aged SO. He was a highly esteemed cit.
izen of that county, whore he was born
and raised.
Mitchell Putnam, 1903 years of age,
travelled alone from Texas to South Car.
olina to see his former home. He was a
soldier in the wal of1Sl2 and in the Texan
struggle.
Little Rock is chagrined that Clement
Taylor, a negro, who died Friday, did not
live a month longer, when he would have
been ITO years old.
Col. James Blackburn, q farmer of Ed.
gar county, ILL.,, has passed off at the age
Of 30. He was the owner of $500 acres
Of land and commanded regiment in the
Blackhawk war.
William Latham, who died ut Bridge.
water, Mass, recently, aged 80 years and
- uhyS, was ollC VI tllo DCob hllollllCb
antiquarians in the state on all topics con.
nected with the early history of New En-.
gland.
"Pompey" Graham, an old darby al
present living in Montgomery, N. Y, it
not less than 11S years of age. He dis.
tinctly remembers the disbandment OF
the revolutionary army at Newburg, tn,
event taking place when he was about Is
| years of age At that time "Pompey"
| was a slave in the Graham family at
| Shawannunk, and after his emancipation
| he retained the Graham name.
"The other morning" says the Clarks
vile (Mo,) Sentinel, 'four boys were
sitting on a workbench near the depot
cheerfully swinging their feet, laughinl
| and talking, and bantering each other fol
a foot-race. A Sentinel reporter had tn,
curiosity to approach them and Obtain
| their names and ages, which We're as fol
lows; Andrew PECAN, aged n; JOIN
| Juett, aged 70, S. A. Edwards, aged SO
Henry Schooler, aged 81"
Omaha daily bee., 1883-12-01
MOODY AND SANKEY.
The I~ievivaIists Creating Il Great Sen.
sation In England.

Pail Mall Gazette.
Cultured society would blush to know
anything about Messrs. Moody and San
key and others of their tribe. Revivalism
in general, and American revivalism in
particular, is desperately vulgar. But,
unfortunately, the same might be said
with equal truth of every popular meve-
ment religious or irreligious, of all time.
Almost every religion has its origin
among men of low degree and the SONS
of fishermen and carpenters who create
or revive the faiths and superstitions of
marking are as a rule very Objectionable
persons in the estimation of the men OF
light and leading of their time. 1t is only
when the first fervor of the new faith be.
gins to cool and it's vitality to disappear
that polite society condescends to investi
gate its origin and to study the phenome
ma, psychological or other wise, which il
presents. The enchantment of distanc,
renders it p~ossiblelfor self respecting SOM
of culture to study the lapse of a century
with a passing sneer. 1t is somewhat ir
rational, howe yer, to subject the scoriG
and lava of extinct volcanoes to the mos
minute analysis, whole craters in full
eruption are treated as non existent; anC
those curious about such matters might
find more profit froma study, say of Gen.
Booth in the flesh than from a telescope
examination of George Fox. Nor can &
plain man see the sense of porting oveI
dreary tones describing the enthusiasm
of some preaching friars of the middl,
ages, usually exceeding dirty, and as bigot
ed as they were vulgar, while the laborl
of such latter-day friars as the American
~reyivalists, who have now pitched thei.
tent-in this case u portable iron build
ing capable of holding five thousand per
sons-in the north of London are disre
garded. Moody and Sankey are not, i
is true, graduates of any university
They are mon of the people, speaking tn
language and using the methods. not o
the refined but Of the generality. Ye
they have probably left a deeper impress
OF their individuality upon one grea
section of Englishmen and Englishwomel
than any other persons who could b
named Whatever we may think of them
However much their methods may graf
Omaha daily bee., 1883-12-01
CONNUBIALITIES.


Tennyson's eldest son will marry u Miss
Boyle.
A Bohemian pair were married in q Huron,
Dakota dry goods store last week.
r,ur,. p.,J .bo victim, of tb, T,ylorv;lle
osaa,it VII sn,n U' r,arrv a Rlonm;ngt,n can.
tIo~"nr' "N' ' 3D.
"
Harrison, Ihe boy preacher, IN heNo spring
to be married To MISS josie "riih'h' Oh ihoi-
anapoiis'
If Tennessee ministers lay up treasures, it
must be i'll some place outside OF that STATE,
~ they get an average salary Oh only Sooi /"
year.
Miss Lee, the charming American lady who
recently married an Englishmau, is declared
by competent critics to be tho most beautiful
bride that London has ever seen.
A sensible girl down east married n plumber
instead of n foreign count. The indications
are that II ~ Going To be n cold winter-Chi.
cago Inter. ocean.
Included a-,ong the wedding gifts received
Inv the 'bappv pnir" of giants in Pittsburg on
Monday was n forty. We pound loaf of bread
five feet in diameter.
~, ,r- VII. r.. u
Niiss aauoi.a m,iRhHI InaaE q hr un"n
ieAhs' "as id'nn,,y ;nnIp = souns
uo'noi, n'uou ~ ~: I''.' " I've ~ oa n
70 ProSenI . H mn yoaIs nun
nnnleu ni amn u p,"sp"o. and ,ha aa;oora
o"o:o w. ~
"rei III Pu'sui..
ThaGrand Duke Alexis, OF Russia, whose
visit to this country was social event while
General Grant was president, ID now first to
get married, AT the age OF 90; Ills CHOSEN
w,le Is .ne g ,h iiI Ga,I n"e ot ~ m.. G''a,'' ,u
r. Nil and and 70 romoin NJ Tbs ,yives Of
D Sn.mo ai ;nooS haua h;thapt, ali boon CO..
nussian paino ;m t nm,o ooan na AI an u1.n III
t ha m,a 9n cznr wbose vita "a n Dane Aiar;s,
i ~ ud pu' sJ"iraI.i n 'chisf of tbo Russian navu
" '" ~ " nay
LOUIS torkey, OF Hraiton, Dakota, VINO was
to act as best man IN the Wedding OF Marie
Perry ana Archi,ans burton, oil Grand FORKS,
changed ms NINA when ne saw ths propose
bride ana ieii IN love with her AZ hrSt sight'
no tLo a aS,a ,S w. riJ. au5 thnu mar
= Al ~ tbo sa"no t;U,o an3 ,iaco tIIot abo nwas
y - "o Wv ar;al ,ha 'mf t"n A ,oh;lama
a. rnhiIou. cantentad bimsels hv ottend;na ths
n,aJIi"" o'J ,I,aaVina hittarlu' WAY
"uu'ns ~ "''i'"e y
A bind man crossing the street, IN Boston
the other day, was on the point OF being, run
over by a reckless driver when, az the FISK OF
her own NE, q beautitul young lady ran To hi
rescue anu piloted the poor man TO the pave
ment, a rich bachelor saw the TRANSACTION
and straightway sought her out was lhtroduc
ed, %cou'ted, proposed, was accepted ana mar
ried to the heroine Inc elect mas been won
deriul: Hopeful young women may now De
seen standing III inc vicinity OF streeI crossings
Omaha daily bee., 1883-12-01

Modjeska is sporting a pair of Corsets
made for her by a Michigan firm, They
are thus described:
"One is of light, transparent, fine silk
boiling cloth, and with all its beautiful
silk embroidery and point lace trimming
weighs only five and n half ounces, with
the s%teels, zones, eyelets and buckles all
included. The other is of cream colored
satin, lined with white satin, heavily
famed and embroidered with white
silk; rich point lace encircles the bust,
and across the waist in front Modjeska,
in the form of letters which head her
show bills, is heavily embroidered in
white silk. Upon the lighter corset the
name in the same place and style of let
ters is hand painted. They are inclosed
in silk-lined boxes, with the autograph
of the countess on the inside cover"
Omaha daily bee., 1883-12-01

In December ring
Every day the chimes;
Loudly the gleomen sing
In the streets their merry rhyme.
Let us sing 10y the fire ever higher.
Sing them till tho night expire.
ILongtollow.
In n drear.nighted December
Too happy, happy brook,
Thy buildings ne'or remember
Apollo's summer looks;
But with q sweet forgetting
They stay their crystal fretting,
Never, never potting
About the frozen time.
IKeats.
Shout nowl The months with loud acclaim
Take up tho cry and send It forth;
May, breathing sweet her spring perfumes;
November laundering from the north,
With hands appraised, as with our voice,
They join their notes in grand accord,
Hail to Decomberl say they all,
1t gave to earth one Christ aud Lord:
IL. X. Hoyt.
December hung her glittering roof
OF frosty sunshine DER the earth,
Tho streamors danced across the night
Like angels in u troop of mirth.
-[All the Year Round.
When dark December glooms tho day
And takes our autumn joys away;
When short aud scant tho sunbeam throws
Upon the weary waste of SHOWS
a cold and proftless regard,
Like patron ON u needy bard;
When sylvan occupations done,
And DER the chimney rests the CUR
And hang, in idle trophy, near,
The game pouch, fshing.ro and spear.
-lSir Walter Scott.
How like % winter hath my absence been
From thee, the pleasure of the tl%eeting year
What frec2ings have l felt, what dark day
scent
What old December's baroness everywhere
shakespeare.
The sun that brief December day
Rose cloudless over hills of gray,
And, darkly circled, gave ut noon
A sadder light than waning moon.
Whittier.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-12-01

upon the susceptibilities of those who
have at length succeeded in living up to
their blue china, these men are a factor
of considerable potency in the complex
sum of influences which make up contem-
porary English life. As such they merit
more attention than they have hitherto
received from tho organs of public opin.
ion, and for that reason q full account of
the American r~cvivalists and of their SER
vices last night, which we publish in an.
other part of the paper, may be studied
with interest 10y some of our readers, and
passed over, let us hope, without too
great a shock to their feelings, by the
rest
Omaha daily bee., 1883-12-01
tinguised man. We wish him q hearty
G~odspecd, and an early and safe return
to Nebraska.
Omaha ma a Railway Center.

OMAN as n halfway center
Since the breaking of ground for the
Union Pacifc-Omaha's first railway
Omaha has become one of the most i'm.
portant railroad centers in the United
States. Tho Union Pacific has built
numerous branches and extensions, and
has absorbed other railroads, so that now
it has in its system nearly 5000 miles.
The general offices and headquarters of
the entire system are locatedsin Omaha.
The railroads now centering at Omaha
on the west side of the Missouri river,
are the Union Pacific, the Omaha q Re.
publican Valley, the b. Il NJ, tho Mis-
souri, Pacific, the Chicago, Minneapolis,
Omaha Il st. Paul, and the Kansas City,
st. Joseph Il Council Bluffs; and ON the
east side are the Chicago e Northwest.
ern, the Chicago, Burlington Il Quincy,
the Chicago Il Rock Island, the Chicago,
Milwaukee q st. Paul, the Sioux City n
Pacific, the Kansas City, st. Joseph u
Council Bluffs, and the Wabash.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-12-01
Unkissed and Kisseu.
+. W. IL. Myers. In the Athenaum.

+. W. II. Myers, in the Athenaum.
"Oh, never kiss me; stand apart;
My darling, come not near;
BE dear forever to my heart,
But be not over dear!'
And while she spake her cheek was flame,
Her look was soft and mild;
But when l kissed her she became
No stronger than u child.
All, love, what wilt thou then apart?
Thy home is thus and here;
For ever dearer to my heart,
And never over dear.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-12-01

executive committee, your brother-iu
law a contractor, you ought to be vel
posted.
G.. +. T.-Ges. The Hoxey-Davi
contract was assigned to Thomas Durant,
Oliver Ames president, brother of Oake,
Ames), John b. Alley, Sidney Dillon
NOW Gould's chief of staff, Cornelius S
Bushnell, Benjamin +. Bates, Henry S.
McComb, as trustees, for benefit OF
themselves and stockholders of Union
Pacific Railway Company and Credit
Mobilier! The simple fact, is two part.
ners went into business together, on
capital and lands borrowed from govern.
ment! If hat debt is paid, as Shcr.
mans bill provides, where is swindle.
As | said, Union Pacific owned Credit
Mobilier and Credit Mobilier owned
Union Pacific. (Thc only fraud | see is
partners trying to rob each other-that
is, Union Pacific of Gould is trying tc
cheat Credit Mobilier of Dnrant out Of
legalized dues through false p~retensionsi
Reporter am surprised that Dana
ignored your Credit Mobilier denial oil
Jraudl
G. f. T.-By the way, l did him an
injustice once. This postal from him
shows he had no intention of charging
me with anything wrong:
SuN OFFICE, July &c.
Citizen Geo. Francis Train:
There was no fraud when Citizen G.. +. II.
organized the Credit Mobilier or while in hi,
hands. That came afterward through con
gressional corruption. c. A. II.
CHINA THEN AND now.
Reporter-Did you say time was re.
duced one-half since your Chinese and
Australian clipper, three decades agol
G.. f. T.-Yes! Average time, via
San Francisco, is, between New York
and Sydney, SO days, and Sydney tc
London about AZ days!
Pacific Mail Steamship company and
Occidental and Oriental, between San
Francisco and Hong Kong, via Yoke.
hama, mail communication is regular
with Japan and China direct! Shanghai,
Corea, and North China via Japan, and
by way of Hong Kong. Yes! Hong
Kong to New York averages 33 days,
Shanghai, "a days, and from Yokohama,
"a days. Tronscontinental transit to and
from San Francisco and New York con.
sumes seven days! Average time from
London to Hong Kong is SO days, Shang-
hal, AZ days, Yokohama, 43 days, show.
ing considerable difference in favor OF
American route!
Among the Pawnees and the Sioux,
Three hundred miles from white man news,
Tht Train was stopped, the s .,ger made fast
A wire to wire and lightning blast.
Replied: He caught from off the wire
The passing news for our desire;
Rosewater will not soon forget
This wondrous Geographic bet.
Photographers grouped the crowd
And prairie speeches wild and loud,
Cheered railing our vast continent,
AS czars and kings, on pleasure bent.
My family party occupied
That famous car, Lincoln's Pride.
Lord Airley was our welcome guest,
Just zone in Scotland to his rest.
At fremont house Charles Wilson came
To have me jpurnalize our name.
(Ihree columns | wrote in an hour,
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Other excursions were on time,
AS energy advanced the line;
AS Methodist clergy, led by Frost,
The senate party Ben Wade lost.
Editors on buffalo trail,
The merchant princes on the rail,
Erastus Brooks and Richardson,
Earl Cowper and his prairie gun.
G.. L. r.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-12-01
A MAN

A REMARKABLE IAN.
Rep. They thought much of yeu then
Mr.. Train?
Train. Oh! yes. This from The Omaha
Herald of January 10Th, 1866, expresses
what the whole American press said at
the time. Have they found then who |
am2
The departure of Mr.. Train leaves us
free to say u few words concerning this
remarkable man, which we have not felt
at liberty to say before. Not a few of
our contemporaries have been busy
perpetrating indecent assaults and filings
at this paper because its editors have
dared to encounter the p~rejudices of
themselves and others, by manifesting
their confidence in the upright manhood,
unsullied morality, great ability and
striking genius of Geo. Francis Train.
All the odium that self -righteous, jeal-
Gus, ungenerous persons of this character
have sought to attach to us for what we
have done in this regard we have taken
the responsibility to accept, although we
are bound to claim, what is true, that, as
men came to know Mr.. Train in his true
and manly character, our burdens be-
came very light in that particular. In
fact it was rather strengthening than
otherwise, to ones popularity, before
Mr.. Train left, to be known as his
friend.
We are not attempting an extended
criticism of Mr.. Trains character. His
career has been both peculiar and re-
markable. AT t~hirty-six years of age,
he has become world.renowned. His So
ciety has been sought in the first cities Of
the world by the first Statement on both
sides of. the water. That he is a man OF
Fgiant power, intellectually, is too patent
to require either proof or illustration,
His versatility IS simply astonishing.
That he is a business man of tremendous
grasp and ability, the fact that hi
schemes have commanded the confidence
of the first capitalists of the world il
sufficient proof. Having seer Mr.. Train
under various circumstances, enabling III
to study his character in its different
phases, we propose to walk up to the con
fessional and say, that whilst we hav,
met many men of distinction in u day
we never yet found one who has made
more complete conquest of our re
spect, and esteem, than has
George Francis Train. We shall al
ways cherish for him a profound re
spect and warm regard, not more for hi
brilliant talents than for the nobility OF
his nature and the i~ncorruptible purity
of his character. Frank, honest, unset
fish, generous, forgiving, he has com
bined IN him, and his whole life illus
%trates, the chief elements of a true, up,
right, manly character. Being with hin
80 much during his stay here, his absence
is felt most keenly by ourselves, and by
hundr DIS of Others in this community
whe share our good opinions Of this dis
Omaha daily bee., 1883-12-01
How About the DOses,

Many people before purchasing a medicine
naturally inquire the size of the dose and the
strength of il. In using Burdock BLoOd nit
ters a t%easpoonful for the little ones and two
teasp 'onfuls for grown folks ara all that l.
neces AIRY ut one time. This magnificent
nedi line Is not only economical but very
pleas ant 10 the taste.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-12-01

but John Duff. He got out early land
Dillon was saved as Gould's figure head)
The best answer to all this is that |
hawked the contract through all the
Meses Taylors, Loves, Garrisons, Rich.
monds, Dodges, Carrots in the land, all
of whom cried ''stinking fish" Yes,
these were the contracts:
Omaha daily bee., 1883-12-01

I'm the past three months / have sold one
hundred and six bottles Of Thomas Eeiectyic
OH Never saw q medicine in my life that
liberated throat for me in twenty-four hours;
never failed to cure my children of Group"
q. X. Hall, Druggist, GRANVILLE, III.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-12-01
Throw Away S3SO.

Troubled with asthma for eight years.
Not quite two bottles of Thomas Eciectrie OF
cured me completely, after spending, over
Omaha daily bee., 1883-12-01

In the coming Mormon contest, this
Pacific railway assistance in the hour OF
need should be credited to Mormon land
G.. +. II.
When breaking ground at Omaha,
December second, si%xty.three,
Blood RED contractors cruel war
Was RED hot in intensity!
Ten billion stamps! A million men
England's Gitteauism cost US then.
Pick and speech on Missouri's banks
Won Inc the name of prince of Cranks!"
Crossing continent in seven days
The World cried out sis Trains last craze
Old Brigham Young, that night by wire,
l made a chief in council tire.
Directors; Yes, at once" he said,
And stuck by Road till he was dead.
If Gentiles now, the Mormon said,
They strike the men who used their spade;
The workmen whose labor sweat
Have placed us under lasting debt.
(Sans help through prairie wilderness
We could not then have Won s~uccess.)
q, i. II.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-12-01
December.

IN cold December fragrant chaplets blow,
And heavy horvests nod beneath the snow.
-trope.