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Omaha daily bee., 1883-07-17

The papers have been very quiet about
that heavy purchase of landsin the south
western part of the city, which we noted
some weeks ago. / understand that pay
ments are now being made on the con-
tracts for sale, and the entire transaction
will probably be completed within a few
weeks. Talking with a prominent citi-
zen of Nebraska, who is in a position to
know, hegave me neutrality-suspicious.:
Eighteen hundred acres of land are now
owned by the syndicate. They extend
from Summit, on the Union Pacific track,
over across the b. & M, track to the Mis-.
souri, river. 81 cannot give you full de.
tails" said my informant, "but the bar.
gain is now practically completed, and
the success of the scheme certainly as
sured. Large stock yards and packing
houses will be erected, and an industry
that will employ at least 1000 workmer
will be added to Omaha. That means al
increase of $4,000 to our population
within the next three years. There are
several millions of dollars backing the
enterprise, and the friendship of both the
railroads have been secured by the man
ayers"
Omaha daily bee., 1883-07-17

THE government has discovered the
fraudulent entries of Sc, 900 acres of rich
public lands, and cancelled them. 1t is
unnecessary to say that these do not in
clude the lands given to railroad compa-
MES which have failed to carry out their
contracts.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-07-17

| understand that Senator Henderson
says that it was no trouble Mt all to get
Hall removed when he had once made up
his mind. On the 30th of June he wrote
to the postofice department requesting
his suspension and Coutant's appointment
was promptly forthcoming, The talk
about any other man but the senator hay
ing IA hand in the business is all bosh.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-07-17

"What's the matter with the beer this
SUMNER" asked the red-nosed lounger on
the Wabash corner. at all has a queer
taste. A brewer told me the other day
that the high price of hops has compelled
all the brewers to use various adulterants
rs substitutes. Glucose has been used
steadily for several years but various
other articles are now being tried in the
place of hops. That accounts for the
complaints about the after effects of beer
which you hear SO much among the boys
this summer"
Omaha daily bee., 1883-07-17

*Far more valuable than those golden
apples of Hesperides are the life, health
and beauty of Womanhood. Mrs. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound restores and
preserves all these.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-07-17

BETWEEN the cyclone andJudge Lynch
the voting population of Iowa is likely to
be seriously decreased before the fall
elections.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-07-17

HAYTI now ha one war vessel and
there is no telling how o o she may
hace two. Mr.. Chandler must be on his
guard,
Omaha daily bee., 1883-07-17

MAYOR CHASE has the best OF grounds
for vetoing the paving ordinance. He
cannot be consistent with his record and
do otherwise.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-07-17

Pat O'Hawes has returned from Wash
ington and his glistening shirt bosom and
polished boots may be seen almost any
Pats hobby is civil service reform, which
he denounces very emphatically as "d-n
nonsense" "Pooh," said our old contin-
gent congressman to me the other even
ing, don't you worry yourself about civil
service reform. I'm on to that long ago.
Examinations are a humbug. You can
make up your mind that senators will
still have the say about federal ap-
p%ointments, examiners or no examiners. III
q first rate political worker wants a job
he's going to get it. The examiners will
attend to that. 1t reminds me of q little
incident that occurred in Washington
continued the ex-pieman rs he laid his
finger impressionely on my coat lapel.
"Duringt the short lived era of civil service
reform under Grant, Treasurer Spinner
and a New York friend made a trip one
Saturday afternoon to Cuney Island.
the pair fell among the sharpers who
stripped both of their money and comp
elled them to borrow enough to get back
to New York. 1t was a new experience
to Spinner and he never forget it,
A year later the panic came and his
New York friend went broke. He packed
up his grip sack and started for Wash
ington to get a job in one of the depart
ments and made his first call on the
treasurer. SPINNER" said he, "lm
dead busted and have got to get a job"
"Hum," said the treasurer, I'D like to
give you a desk but these civil service
service rules require an examination. Take
this note in to Boutwell, and he will give
you an order for examination" So the
applicant walked into the secretary and
returned to Spinner with his endorsed
note in his hand. "Well' ~"'' 81 r,
slim, what do you know about geog-
raphy. Set right down there and I'll
examine you myself. "Where is Coney
Islandl An island lying off New York
harbor, answered Jim. What are the
chief productionsl' quered the treasurer
sharply. "Monte sharps, blue fish and
d--n FOOLS" answered the applicant.
Correct, said Spinner, you've passed,
take that desk over there and report for
duty tomorrow morning There's your
civil service reform worked scientifically,
said Pat and you can just make up your
mind that that's the way its going to work
now in spite of Mr.. Eaton and his
aesthetic commission.
"Lsee," remarked q postal clerk as he
Omaha daily bee., 1883-07-17

Speaking about army matters, Lieut..
Leyden has left for his three years de-
tail as instructor of military tactics at
Meadville college, pennsylvania and
Lieut.. Rowland has also been ordered
east and will be detailed for duty at West
Point. Nothing Is quite so soft said a
young lieutenant to me yesterday, as a
detail as military instructor at a college.
You are your w boss, free from re-
straint and your two months vacation
every year is not deducted from your
leave of absence. The Point, isn't bad,
either, and some officers are lucky in get
ting there. Take Wyatt, for instance.
He hasn't served q year with his regiment,
the 9th cavalry, in the last five years, and
if he can work the proper strings he
won't for the next five to come. Politi
cal influence in the army is a big thing
and can be used in other ways than get
ting sentences of dismissal committed o.
revoked"
Omaha daily bee., 1883-07-17

THE Indian government is to give the
ameer of Afghanistan a subsidy of $780,
600 year-ameer trifle.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-07-17

'Lsee," remarked a postal clerk as he
leaned meditatlvely against the steps of
the postofice, that General Wander.
WORT, commander of the g, A. r., has
travelled 81, 966 miles in the discharge of
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Omaha daily bee., 1883-07-17

Pete Shelby has returned from the
west and his flowing curls float up and
down Farnam street with all their old
abandon. Pete expresses no surprise
that the council have ordered the cross
streets paved with sandstone and thinks
they have performed their duty-towards
the railroads-like men. He is very
much disguised, however, that the BEE
has dared to intimate that he is at all in
terested in the job, but gazes skyward
when the question is asked him why he
few around the streets for weeks trying
to get heavy shippers over his line to
sign for sandstone. Both he and MI.
Horace Newman wish it distinctly under
stood hat in the whole matter they
have only been working for the railroad,
not for themselves and they object to any
talk about a sandstone ring or Colorado
stone jobbers. What difference it makes
to the public whether these two officers
of the Union Pacific have been endeavor-
ing to buldoze through a job which will
swindle the city out of thousands of
dollars, in their own interests or whether
they have been acting i'll the interests of
the railroad, nc m can figure out. The
result is the same in either case whether
Messrs Shelby & Newman have been
working for their own pockets or as
cappers for Bill Stout and the
freight department of the corporation
which they serve. Both must have the
hide of a rhinoceros if they don't vince
under the remarks heard on every street
corner, denouncing the jobbery of the
sandstone swindlers and the bold defiance
of public sentiment on the part of the
city council"
Omaha daily bee., 1883-07-17

''This is about the time of year" said
the clerk in the army headquarters as he
finished his days work and folded up the
single sheet of paper, upon which
he had been figuring liesurely
since . o'clock, "This is about
the time of year when numerous
inspection trips become necessary for
the health of officers, particularly of the
staff. In other departments, inspections
are called junketing trips. General
Howard recently inspected the Yellow
stone Park and General Sheridan is to
inspect it again next month. These pro-
longed p%icnics are very convenient things.
The wal department bears all the ex-
penses and the orders always bears the
endorsement. "The journey is required
by the public service" Quartermasters
provide teams and pack trains, the com
missary is called upon for the solid pro-
visions and the medical stores come in
handy in case of cramps in the
stomach, which occur very frequently
during such trips, and can only be re-
lieved by liberal libations of ''spiritus
frumenti." In the hot summer months
when the headquarters is hot and it is
hard work to find anything to do except
to draw salary, an order for al inspect
ing trip comes as a sweet boon tofatigued
1%fficers. They are great inventions, and
as they are supposed to be in the line of
duty, the time occupied is not subtracted
from the officers allowance of a months
leave each year"
Omaha daily bee., 1883-07-17
TONY Tux.

| happened to meet Church Howe the
other evening. The statesman from Ne
maha seemed to be in uncommonly good
humor as he sat in front of the Fourteenth
street porch of the Paxton with his hat
cooked over one ear and a tooth pick
airily poised in the corne of his mouth.
''The question of who is going to be our
next supreme judge" said Church, els
worrying some of the boys a good deal.
Gaslin has got his eyes turned towards
Lincoln, but there's hardly enough hang
ing connected with the supreme
bench to suit the judges frontier
taste. John ID. Hays of
Seward will be a candidate | understand
and Dilworth and Hamer are also men
toned. Now Gaslin is a friend of mine,
a particular friend, but Tn inclined to
think that the antagonism between the
Judge and those of the supreme bench
who hold over, would cause a good many
dissenting opinions to be filed in case of
his election. Within the last four or five
years the supreme court have reversed q
good many of Gaslin's opinions and set
aside several Of his verdicts, and the old
man doesn't yearn towards the bench.
You remember that the time of the
Kearney lynching the Judge immortal
lied himself by the quiet remark:
"'There's n verdict the supreme court can't
set aside. And you bet they didn't"
"Hello Church" called out Frank Col
PETER from across the sidewalk. "What
are our politics going to be this fall, re
publican, democrat or granger}" "Wait
until after the corn is cut" replied the
statesman from Nehama, "and I'll tell
you"
Omaha daily bee., 1883-07-17

! his duties and delivered 1873 addresses in
= ehalf of the Grand Army That's an
inn. eresting item but I've been considera-
hiv n lzzled to know what duties the par
,or,s,h refers to-his duties as chief of
the mSSi ,%'ervice or as commander OF the
G. A. X. 1t is a crying outrage that this
man neoleets his duties as he has done
during the pags three years. Nine-tenths
of his time is ,rs,,t in junketting trips
to G. A. r. posts, s,od most OF the other
tenth in working he p%olitical wires for
the railroads, If ne attention of the
department could only b.. called to his
gross neglect of duty and cons, al' :,
ton of regulations, even Judg.' mller
couldn't hold him in his position any
longer. 1t makes me smile to hear OF
General Vandervoort. Paul was a high
private in an Illinois regiment and never
saw much heavy fighting before ne was
captured and run into Libby prison, He
has been trading on his services
in the war ever since and shaking the
bloody shirt in every political campaign
in order to clinch his claims on the party
for the position which he makes a sine
cure of. Hall was a bad enough post
master, but Vandervoort is a worse chief
clerk. If John b. Furay spoke his honest
minds he could make the fur fly about
those regions. Vandervoort claims that
Manderson's being an old soldier will hold
him his job in spite of any charges that
may be made against him and that the
G.. A. II, will back him to a
man. | don't know much about it, but
the G. A. r. in Omaha have a supreme
contempt for their mouthy comrade and
if / remember political history, General
Henderson has had some experience in
conventions with Va%nderwoorth's dirty
political tricks"
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1883-03-16
LIGHT SPARKS.
Has Judge Noonan flickered?

Has Judge NOOnan fickeredI
Next Sunday is Palm Sunday.
Wood goes up as the thermometer goes
down.
The walls Of the third story of the High
school are going up.
The Recordar's court receipts this morning
only amounted TO 81.
March is considered the best month to
hatch spring chickens.
There is rumored robbery of registered
mail on one of the railroads.
The diamond ring will be rallied Saturday
night, March II, at the Globe saloon. ct.
The weather bulletin shows the weather to
be below freezing point at several places.
License was issued yesterday for the mar
riage of Charles Hughes to Miss Salie Ridley.
Thomas Dunbar, who was found drunk
on the streets, was fined s. this morning FOR
being drunk.
"A non suit was taken in the Federal court
to-day by the plainti1 in the suit OF Lyans VS..
Brown and others.
"A railroad train running q mile minute
would take l75 years to make the trip to the
Sun-an excursion none of us will take.
The damage suit of Mrs. Catherine Dieter
against the city, because of the city's having
opened street through her property, is on
trial i'm the District court.
An express wagon ladened with lumber
was this morning so firmly Embedded in the
mud opposite the County Jail, that much Diff
Guilty WAS experience in removing it.
Colonel Belknaps candidacy for Alderman
in the Second ward meets with enthusiastic
support. His well known energy and enter
prise suggests him as the best man for the
place.
The committee having the Purim calico
ball in charge has received a letter from Coy
ernOr Ireland in which he expresses regret that
his official duties will not permit of his being
present.
The Odd Fellows celebration on the 18th of
April, when their cemetery will be dedicated
is to be under the direction of Messrs Z. II
Clifford ii. X. Judd, ii. G. Miller and Joseph
Renker.
The tin spOuts that are being put down in
front of the new courthouse are not at all
ornamental. We suppose they are intended To
catch the tears shed by the figure OF Justice
that ornaments the roof.
-Messrs. Mayer & Sons have decided to open
their new store in the Ole building on COM
merce street on Tuesday next, and will then
exhibit such novelties as will surprise ana
delight the fair ones of the city.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1883-03-16
NEWS OF THE. WORLD.

WACO has 500 population.
CONGRESSMAN REAGAN is reported seriously
i'll in Washington.
BRADY is holding the fort ON the Star route
trial witness stand.
A. l.. ADAMS, member of the Legislature,
died yesterday in Austin.
A BILL to settle the State debt of Tennessee
at 30 cents on the dollar has passed both Houses.
JOHN NJ. COMING, of Geneva, New York, has
been rendered the position OF Chief of Bureau
of Engraving.
1T is again rumored that Secretasy Foger
will leave the cabinet at an early day because
of impaired health. .'
THE appropriation for the support of the
State Government is S3,6i0,39O. Democratic
economy with rengence.
IT Is stated that Joe Brady, one of the CON
spiracy prisoners, has confessed to the murder
OF Cayendish and Burke.
THE clergy of County Mayo have denounced
the Government for its heartlessness in not
relieving the suffering of the people.
AT EAGLE PASS Clay Drye, for murder in the
second degree, got five years in the peniten-
tiary, and Mexican burglar got six years.
THE difficult feat of kicking two men at once
has been performed by highly accomplished
mule ut Connersyille, Ind. The mule survives.
dying by inches writes the Nun If Ken
mare OF the furnished people of Ireland. la
the counties DONEGAL, Clare, Mayo, Galway and
C0nnemare the suffering il terrible. Cats she
says, fight with children for possession of the
sea weed by which life is sustained.
THE first seduction under promise of mar
riage case ever tried in Nodaway county, Mis-
souri,, has resulted IN the sentencing of Il Young
man named Frederick to three years and a hall
in the penitentiary. During the trial the chief
witness for the prosecution, was n Miss Lam
ming, holding i'm her arms her H-months old
child.
PATRICK EAGAN is in New York Among
the letters of welcome one from Mrs. ParneiI
reads: - hope your visit to America will he
teligence of the Irish race in u solid and hal
moniouS movement for the daily, continual
practical advance of the Irish nation toward
its rights, and their ultimate place and sphere
OF active freedom and prosperity" ~
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1883-03-16
LOCAL PERSONALS.
Items Cleaned in the Hotel Corridors and
From Various Other Sources.

From Various Other Sources.
Mr.. E. II. Stuart, of New York, has returned
from Austin.
Mr.. F. j. Robinson, of Fort Worth, is at the
Menger hotel.
The Hon. Don A. and Mrs. Pardee have taken
rooms at the Hord hotel.
Mrs. Pinkney Jones, of Eagle Pass, has ar
rived ut the Hord hotel from Boerne.
Judge J. A. Ware has returned from Eagle
Pass and is at the Hotel Maverick.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Miller, of St. Joseph,
Mo-, are registered at the Menger hotel.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thorn, Miss Carrie Thorn and
Sheriff Boatright, of Uvalde, and Deputy
Sheriff Gildea, OF Kinney county, are at the
HOrd hotel.
II. NJ. Bramard, a member of the publishing
house of Bramard & Sons, of Cleveland Chi
cago and New York, is at the Hord hotel.
Sergeant William Lieder, of Troop X, Eighth
cavalry, has been granted furlOugh for sin
months, with permission to go beyond sea.
Rafael Bidauri, A. l.. Carvaial, John G. Hill,
mas, arrived on the Laredo train and are guests
ut the Hord hotel
Bishop Parker, of the M. T.. Church South,
arrived i'm the city from New Orleans last even
ing, and is a guest Of Rev. II. j. Thral. He
will preach on Sunday at Paine church.
Messrs. John Treauer, representing Deere's
ploughs George K. HILL of Akron, Ohio, l.. X.
Lakewood, of st. Louis, ID. Il. Cahill, all com
mercial tourists, are staying at the Hord hotel.
Mr.. Bryan f. Warren, of Bay City, president
OF the National bank of that place, paid the
LIGHT office pleasant call yesterday. His
vile and daughter are with him. They will
spend several days in the city. Mr.. Warren
visits Texas with view of making some in
vestments, and will go out to-day 10 look at
some OF the large sheep ranches west.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1883-03-16
MODEST JUDGE MASON.
He Pretends He Doesn't Know lie Hal
Been Attracting Attention.

lie BretenuS He Doesn't Know He Has
Been Attracting Attention.
"YOu've been stirring things up little, "
said friend to County Judge Mason this
morning.
In what Way" the Judge returned mod
estly, looking us innocent as he could, as if he
didn't know.
by trying to get paw from the United States
Government and from Dewitt and other cOun-
ties for the keeping of prisoners here. To he
sure"
20, well, I've only done my duty. When
took charge of my Office | saw such work
hadn't been attended to, simply because it was
everybody's business in general and nobody Is
in particular to attend To it. And I'm going to
get that money, too"
IAN right, Judge, the LIGHT will back you
in any such undertaking, and when the next
campaign is come all the people will flock to
hear your speeches"
And vote for somebody else" laughed the
Judge as he turned away.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1883-03-16
THE MILLERs DAUGHTERS LOVE.
A Romantic Story Forming the Plot OF
Hazel Kirke.

A Romantic Story Forming the Plot OF
Hazel Kirke.
Hazel Kirke, the play which is to be pre-
sented this evening at Turner hall, is one of
the most idyllc dramas Of the American stage
and has attained almost unprecedented success
in this country. The story upon which it is
founded is of simple and affecting character.
Dunstan Kirke, an honest but stubborn Eng
lish miller, having received pecuniary aid
from Squire Aaron Rodney, has betrothed his
daughter Hazel to him. Lord Travers, who
is on fishing excursion, falls into stream
near the mill and is saved from drowning by
Kirke. He gives his name as Arthur Car
ringford-the family name Of the peer-and
being nursed to health by the beautiful Hazel.
he falls in love with her, and she with him.
Squire Rodney discovers the position of the
two lovers and gives her up, but Dunstan
kirke insists upon the contract being carried
out, and as Hazel refuses to comply with his
wishes, he drives her from home, cursing her.
Carringford takes Hazel to Scotland. and
there marries her, but through the stupid
bunderlng OF servant he is married ON the
English side OF the Scotch border. and there
tore the marriage is considered illegal. They
are living happily together when SQUIRE
Rodney, learning the facts Of the case. visits
them and reproaches Carringford, but OF, bling
assured that he is really married to Hazel.
leaves them. Lady Carringford, the mother
OF Lord Travers, visits Hazel and tells her m a,
she is not legally married, whereon Haze
leaves Sarringford's house. The old miller IS
now blind and poor. The daughter bovers
round the home and finds his hear, ;e .,;Il -.
against her. Squire Rodney, still true 10 his
love Tor Hazel, now offers TO marry her and
shield her from disgrace, but she again re-
iuses INN. Her agony is intensified. and in ,
III oil temporary insanity she throws herself IN.
10 the mill stream. The miller hears her erie,
ana ms stubborn spirit is broken for he think,
tnat she is dead. She is, however. saved nv
carringford, who has been seeking her AZ
is forgiven, and it then transpifes that ~,
marriage IS legal. The cnrtain faIls mon ~,
happiness ofall interested. - 0A N''
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1883-03-16
MRS. BECKMANN's ACCIDENT.
Under a Moving Car by a Mule,
but IJniniured

Knocked Under a Moving Car by q Mule,
but Uninjured.
A mule knocked Mrs. Beckmann down and
dragged over her the car to which il was
attached, on san Pedro avenue, short distance
north of Mr.. Dunbar's residence, last night.
The driver stopped the car as quickly as he
could and then FASTENED 10 Mrs. Beckmanil's
assistance. She was found lying engthwiSe
under the car, and was unhurt. She is an old
lady, and is the mother of Mr.. Joseph Beck
mann, well known master shoemaker of
Commerce street. She was carefully pick.ng
her way home through the darkness when the
accident occurred. She states she could not
hear the usual bell ringing i'm warning of the
cars coming, and thinks there were no bells on
the car. The occupants of the car did not see
MIS-. Beckmann till the car was upon her. A
street lamp I'm the neighboThOod would have
prevented the accident.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1883-03-16

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