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Omaha daily bee., 1883-10-26
Mayne Reid in the Mexican War.

J. Il. Irowbridge, In st. Nicholas for November.
The Castle of Chapultepec, command
ing the great road to Mexico, was success
fully stormed by our troops on the 18th
of September, 1845.
Reid was in command of the grenadier
company of New York volunteers and Il
detachment of United States marines,
with orders to guard a battery which
they had thrown up The morning of the
18th was fixed for the assault. The bat
teries were ordered to cease firing at IL
o'clock, and the attack began.
Reid and the artillery officers, standing
by their guns. watched the advance of
the line with intense anxiety, which be-
came apprehension when they saw that
about halfway up the slope there was a
halt 81 knew" he says in his account,
that if Chapultopec was not taken,
neither would the city be; and failing
that, not a man of US might ever leave
the valley of Mexico alive"
Asking leave of the senior engineer
officer to join the storming party with his
men, he obtained it with the words SEQ,
and God be with you'll" He was off at
nee with his volunteers and marines.
After a quick run across the intervening
ground, they came up with the storming
party under the brow of tho hill, where
it had halted to await the scaling ladders.
cat this point" says Lieutenant Mar
shall, of the Fifteenth Infantry, ''the
fire from the castle was 81 continuous
and fatal thatthe men faltered, and several
officers we're wounded while urging them
IN. At this moment, | noticed Lieutenant
Mayne Reid, of the New York volun-
teers; | noticed him more particularly at
the time on account of the very brilliant
uniform he wore. He suddenly jumped
Omaha daily bee., 1883-10-26
BRIEFS.
The Union Sunday School Concert
and Other Items.

The concert of the Union Sunday
School, which was announced to take
place on Sunday evening, was postponed
until the first Sunday in November, Sun
day evening next. Rev. w. b. Cope
land will preach at the usual hour, z
o'clock.
VIM. j. Tousley, junior member of the
market garden firm of Tousley Bros, has
Just returned from the West, where he
went in the interest of the firm. His
friends. and they are many, are glad to
meet him again.
Our people are likely to hare a treat in
the way of political oratory, some time
time next week. A meeting is being ar.
ranged at which Hon. Edward Rosewator
will be IL of the speakers.
The purchasing committee of the I'm
ion Sunday School Library Fund was in
town to-day. Cuckoo.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-10-26

are down on Vandervoort, as l am told
they aref'
"Yes. You know there was a grand
exposition gotten up last summer there
to whoop up Denver, and the city appro-
priated S21, 900 for a reception TO the
Grand Army of the Republic, which was
to have its grand encampment there at
the same time in July. There was a dc
felt of about S12, 900 in settling accounts,
and on Investigate w it was found that il
had been shamefully wasted at the grand
encampmcnt under Nandervoort. As the
exposition was a dead failure, they ma
tutally felt irritated over this abuse of
their hospitality, and it is more than pos
sible that they may have had some influ-
enco in securing Nandcrvoort's removal
from his official position"
Does your order have ANYTHING TO do
with political wire. pulling, anyway"
when it was first organized, in 1866,
and from that on to 1871, it was controlled
by party politicians and used for private
and politicalpurposes, whichwast tho cause
of its disruption. 1t was %rcorganized in
1872, ON a strictly non-partisan basis, and
it by right has nothing whatever to do
now with party politics. In our flour
ishing Gen. Thomas Post we have Gen.
Rosecrans and Gen. Miller, Stuart Nj.
Taylor and w. II. l.. Barnes, which
shows hat we are not partisan"
81 will only ask you one or two ques-
tions more. Have you any idea that
Vandervoort will find any supporters ana
sy~mpathizers among the Grand Army
men, aud will he undertake to carry out
his throatf'
well, yes, | believe he will, through
influence which he knows how to bring
to bear, secure u certain following among
less worthy members of the order. There
are such in all orders, and we have u
full share. But they are decidedly in
the minority. The Department Encamp-
ment will meet from the middle of De-
oember to tho middle of January next,
and 10 doubt Vandcrvoort will endeavor
to make his r%evengeful spirit felt in them
as far as he can, not waiting for another
grand e%ncampmcnt. But you may DO
sure he will find no considerable sympa.
thy or encourage. nont on this coast, and
] do not believe he will anywhere in the
order. Such men, ever striving to use
the order TO serve their own private and
personal ends, and even to carry out their
little spites and petty schemes of revenge,
are an injury to it, and tend to bring it
into contempt and disgrace. 1t is hard
to meet your fellow-citizens and be
tainted with connection with such men
in the order"
Omaha daily bee., 1883-10-26
PERSONAL.

Mr.. G. +. Goodman returned from the east
yesterday morning.
The following are among the arrivals at the
Paxton yesterday: l.. w. Russell, G. w.
Naples, Glenwood, Ia; G. Dunlevy, Wheel
ing, w. Va; NJ. ID. Welch, Lincoln; S. S.
Parker, San Francisco; T. H.. Minchart, Chi
cago; Jas. Ware, Ogallala; l.. Hagan, city;
NJ. d. Johnson, Perry, Ia; ]. A. Dryer, Salt
Lake City; Il. j. Zollcrs, Chicago; j.. j.
Clarkson, A. l.. Flint, Schuyler; G. +.
French, Connecticut; H.. Clarkson, ID. III.
Reynolds, Topeka; p. ID. Smith, st. Edwards;
III. A. Pike, Boston; r. A. Simpson, Blue
Hill; A. f.. O'Neil, j. Moran, Ottumwa, H.;
j. q. Spencer, Chicago; j. X. Moore and
wife, New York; George Shadley, Kansas
City; L.. b.. Dobbins, Philadelphia; l.. A. En-.
erson, Atchison; j. Il. Swords, st. Joe; VIM.
hurry, Buffalo, N. Y; James Cannot, Chi
cago, j. w. Dawee, Boston; o. p. Merryman.
Baltimore; General Sheidley, Kansas City;
f. f. Simons, Boston; L. s.. Room and wife,
Lincoln; j. II. Persling, Chicago; +. Prentis,
Cleveland; w. A. Robinson, New York; M.
Jacobs, Cincinnati; w. j. Brandon, New
York; A. w. Gilman, Chicago; A. Osborn,
New York; A. Il. Vegard, Rochester; NJ. +.
Hackman, st. Louis; A. Kerns, Chicago;
s. w. Russell, Glenwood, Ia; G. w Ma
pless, B. & NJ; S. G. Dimlong, Sterling; M.
ID. WEIGH, Lincoln; s. S. Barker, San Fran
cisco; T. Ii. Minchaff, Chicago; j. S, Ware.
Ogallala; s. Hogan, City; w. Il. johnson,
Perry, Ia; James Dryer, Salt Lake City; j.
II. Jailor, Schuyler; DIR. A. s. Flint, Superior;
II. A. Pike, Boston; Il. j. collars, Chicago;
@. j. French, Connecticut; III. Clarkson, To-
peka: d.. Ill. Reynolds, Powder River, w. r.;
p. ID. Smith, st. Edwards; r.. A. Simpson,
Blue Hill, Neb.; j. Moran, Ottawa; II. T..
Orvall, Ottawa; Heno Gohson, OF
tawa; /. G.. Spencer; Chicago;
j. X. Moore and wife, Wyoming; j. Is. Dob
bins. Pf iladelphia; l.. j, Calleyr, Boston;
A. Senall, Chicago; l.. Littlefeld. Nebraska;
A. 4. Vegard, Rochester, N. Y; Samuel
Kuhn, New York; j, Murnmest, Des Moines;
#. Il. Stebbens and wife, G.. W. Taylor and
wife, Shenandoah, Ia; It. r. Puget, New
Albany; w. j. Gordon, Detroit; Ben M.
Emshuss, Chicago; A kaufman, Philadel-
phia; II. Weiss, Chicago; G. l. Yeulick, Ash
land, o.; w. X. Ross, New York; i. NJ. Sent,
Boston; II. j. Nembstaelber, New York;
s. G.. Brown, Fremont; ID. Il Parsons, Pitts
ford, N. Y; ii, Perlmsky, ii. Gundry, Chi
cago; w. @. Potter, ]. w. Speer, Chicago;
w. b. Hamblin, Hot Springs; Mr., and Mrs.
w. b. Wood, child and nurse, PHILADELPHIA.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-10-26
DESERTED HER DYING HUS-
BAND.
A Young Wife Flies With n Forgcrer.
Rcpents, Returns and Suicides.

Walter WOODBURY. was n prosperous
merchant of Pleasant Valley, N. Y. He
had literary lasts. When the Pleasant
Valley Dramatic society was proposed
WOODBURY. was selected rs a leader. He
became a great ~favorite with the village
lasses.
One day n pretty Jersey belle, Miss
Carrie Wood, came to Pleasant Valley and
took part III the dramatic exercises of the
society. She was very pretty, well-de-
veloped and robust, was active and intel
ligent. WOODBURY. fell in love with her.
Pleasant Valley girls became jealous, and
discord finally ended all dramatic ambi-
tions in Pleasant Valley.
The marriage which ensued was q bril-
liant one, and the young couple settled
down in a pretty little home. Woodburn,
however, was soon seized with a fatal i'll
ness. His business dwindled away, eager
creditors seized his little stock and he
was soon pcnnilcss. His wife then sought
to support her husband. She came to
this city and obtained employment in a
leading drygoods store o Sixth-ave. For
months she worked, early and late, send
ing the greater portion of her small
earnings to the invalid at home. Numer.
Gus acquaintance were, however, formed
attracted to her department by her pretty
face and winning manners. Among her
admirer was an apparently cultured
gentleman. In the guise of a Southern
gentleman of wealth, the stranger finally
made an impression on the friendless
woman. Upon the promise of a happy
home under sunny Southern skies sho
finally fell. Without a word to her dying
husband, she fled with this man. Her
friends now say the gay Southerner was
u Boston forger who was forced to flee
from the East. After a short stay in a
Southern town, Mrs. Woodburn repent
cd and wrote to her dying husband,
pleading for forgiveness, promising an
immediate return to his bedside.
This was granted. Much time was lost
in making the journey home. When Il @
%repentant wife reached home, she found
the neighbors preparing her husbands
body for the grave. The bereaved and
silent contempt. After following the flu
neral procession to the village church.
yard, and weeping bitterly over the new
made grave, she vanished.
One week later the corpse of a beauti-
full woman lay stretched on n slab in the
Morgue. "Found drowned" was the only
clu,. Many came to gaze upon the fair
face, but none could claim her, and the
body was buried in Potter's field.
One of the many observed at the
Morgue who had been an admirer of the
pretty shop girl and knew of her sorrow
drew the connecting link between her
sad history and the Coroner's verdict,
"Found drowned"
Omaha daily bee., 1883-10-26
Improved Property.


o 90, 5Oo-12 room house, cor. 18th and California
streets, 8 closets, cellar, city water, outhouses,
etc.
2,70O-o room house on N. 18th street, closets,
cellar, %cistern, well, etc. BEDFORD s. SoSER.
s3lO0o-Goods six room house on Davenport, bet.
23d and oath, two story, C osets, pantry, cellar,
~cistern, well, nit and shrubbery, stable and
outhouses.
8 50. 100-Full size lot on McCandlish place, with
two frame cottages, one 8 room, one 3 room.
For sale or exchange.
IS 81, 1Oo-Good two and q half acre lot with five
room cottage, brick cellar, well, fruit trees, etc.
II One OF the best three CRY brick business no
on Farnsm street. Terms private.
50, 2O0-New7 room house on N. 18th street. All
modern improvements. Good location. Cheap.
Q 81, 3OO-New two story house, Queen Ann style.
All modern improvements, city water, lot look
100.
2 Two full lots st. Mary's avenue and Goth, with 8
houses. VIII DO first class business property.
Terms easy.
q s4,750-Lot e6x06, will. two houses. Cheap.
o 81, 5oO-Two houses In Nelson 8 addition, on Cen.
ter street. Outnouses, %cistern, fruit trees, etc.
Business house and lot on Douglas street, bet.
14tn and 18th. Terms easy.
4 Now 8 room house on Chicago. bet. oath and 25th.
All improvements.
55 Two new houses, one six and orher 8 rooms.
First-class and modern improvements. Terms
Easy.
80 s2,7oO-Lot 10oxl32, College Street, Redick's
subdivision, new 8 room house. Well improved.
BS g., 500-Lot 50x150, Convent street, 0 room cot.
tage, large basement suitable for rooms, barn
ETC.
30 81, 1900 room house, Thornells addition barn,
well, cist. IN, good improvements, $500 cash,
81, 500 on long time.
s4,2OO-7 room house on Davenport, bet. 10th
and 18th.
I6 Lot 115x5OO on Sherman, large house, barn and
other improvements. Lot without improve
ments is worth the money we ask tor 1t.
~ Two new houses and two full size lots on Park
avenue. Hot and cold water, and q modern
first class improvements. Houses would cost
what we ask for whole. Extra good bargain.
tS S2,600-Lot S2xl50, cor. 18th and Center, house
4 rooms, barn, water, trees, outbuildings.
40 o., 600-Five room house, lSth bet. California q
Webster. Nice property. Terms easy.
so s1,5O0-Lot 8, block s, Shlnn's I'd addition. One
and q half story house. Terms easy.
62 $3,0O0-Good7 room house on fisherman. Modern
improvements, stable, well, cistern. A bargain.
68 S6,000-Full lot, one . room and ono 6 room
house, new, 8 blocks from the opera house. Very
cheap.
81 s1s, boO-Splendidlo lot on Dodge, near 18th. Cheap
o. 1,000-Largeh house and small cottage. Excel.
lent location fnll size lot Davenport nea= 10th.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-10-26

record in the county clerks Office oc-
tober gath, reported for The BER by
Ames' real estate agency:
Jefferson w Bedford and Abraham r.
Souer and wives to Herbert +. Bundy,
W d, lots 8 and Q, block a, Kirkwood add,
$3.50.
Frank Hammer to Louis Hammer, W
d., part of lot a., in Ragan's addition, 81.
George II. Boggs and wife and Lew
w. Hill to Peter ii. Sander, W d., lot 6,
blk 4, Boggs a. Hills add, $3.50.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-10-26
Unimproved Property
FOR SALE BY BEDFoRDs&ssoUER

No.
2 81, 0O0-Lot 60X127, Indiana and Division.
s S700 each-Two lots 66xl32 each, on 18th. Cheap
and 2 lots 66xI32 each on 10th.
II $500 esch-7 lots in Yates Il Reeds addition.
% 81, 20O-l2 full size lots, Hanscom Place, one
block west Of Park avenue.
ESQ each-Two lots on Park avenue. Bargains.
Business lots on Dodge, between 18th and 18th
81 S4o0-Lot in Shinn's addition, on Seward street.
33 e3,eo0-Full lot, Reed'slst addition, on 25th and
Chicago.
40 s5,oo0-Six good lots in Hanscom Place. Bar
gains.
"a $1,000 Lot 5orl2o, on Farnam, near goth. We
cheap.
90 Four acres in West Omaha.
90 s55O-Lot in lsaacs g. Seiden's addition.
80 81, 8O0-Fine lot, Reddick's addition, Park ave.
81 s4o0-52 feet OF block 81, Shinn's addition. Fine
view.
80 81, 20o-Lot 44x6oo ON 10th. Business property
worth twice the price asked.
Oh 60, 5OO-Full size graded lot on Chicago, bet
18th and l4th.
9s SSO0-Good lot, high location, south 10th.
100 Ss,0Oo-33x132 on 10th, bet. Harvey ard How
aid.
1oS $3.50 each-Two extra good lot In iHansoom
addition. Coodhigh location.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-10-26
AN OPEN
SECRET
AMONG THE LADIES

The brilliant, fascinating
tints OfCOmpleXiOn for which
ladies strive are chiefly arti-
fetal, and all who will take
the trouble may secure them.
These rOseate, bewitching
hues follow the use of Hagan's
Magnolia Balm-a delicate,
harmless and always reliable
article. Sold by all druggists.
The Magnolia Balm con-
ceaIs every bIemish, removes
SallOwness, Tan, Redness,
EruptiOns, all evidences OF
excitement and every imper-
lection.
Its effects are immediate
and so natural that no human
being can detect its applica-
ton.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-10-26
The Ravages of Diphtheria.

GREENSBORO, N. c., October 90
Diphtheria in this section carried off, il
Is thought, no less than 800 children. So
alarming was the condition of affairs for
a time that there was a quarantine by
the people of some counties.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-10-26
SPECIAL.

0S s2,200-Lot 2l9x22o, cor. 18th and Bellyiew st.
south Omaha, near Hascall's Park, brick house,
four rooms, well, %cistern, stable, cellar. All In
good condition and nearly new.
% $25 per acre-40O acres In Washington county, Q
miles south Of Blair, on line of G. st. p. Ii. & o.
railroad. Station at corner OF this land Good
eo an Inning wa'el. " aStes III Suitixaslon
walnut and elm. Small house, good fruit and
abundance Of grapes. Is partly fenced. One OF
the best farms In the county. If purchaser
wishes, will sell homestead adjcinin good
herd OF cattle.
fgCall and examine other property not listed.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-10-26
JAM 8 MoVhY,
Practical Horse Sheer

Makes q speciality u Roadsters and tenderfoo
co.; Shops, Dodge s.sSet bsti nth and b.
Benvue House
Omaha daily bee., 1883-10-26

IS "a, 6OO-Lot 6Ox200, good 9 room house, modern
improvements, near business, on Sherman ave.
% Sl, 500-Two lots, l28xl40, with house stable etc,
Barker's subdivision.
% 81, eoo-Lot and q hall, good house, Redick's sub.
division. (corner.)
o. Lot with ! room house, Chicago, bet. 18th and
f4th.
OF l,5OO-Lot and 6 room house, Horbach's add
tion, well, %cistern, etc. Everything in good re.
pair.
Lc2 so5o-Lot and 4room house, lizard, Der. 10th aud
18th
Omaha daily bee., 1883-10-26
k|RKWOoD,

Lots in this addition are selling rapidly, and prices will be again
advanced IN a few days. These are without a doubt the most desirable
lots n Omaha, and will certainly double in price before spring. All who
havei seen them are well pleased and pronounce them cheap.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-10-26
Real Estate Transfers.

The following deeds we're filed for
Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-27
MUST BE SOLD.

a=A House, 8 rooms, gas and water, lot 55x2OO, HisH S5.OO0.
 FIN Lot 125x16O, S950. House, family rooms, gas and water lot 40x125, $4,5OO.
 Farm, first class, 70 acres, 8, 800. Central property, 45 feet front, 8, ,500 House, 6 rooms, $1 ,600
 R. E. BALDWIN'S REAL ESTATE AGENCY, fe24 d&w 298 Chapel Street.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-27
Sunday Concerts.

In view of the recent arrest of theatrical managers and members of the Jubilee sing CTS, meeting of the theatrical managers of this State was held Sunday noon at Peck's Grand Opera House for the purpose of dis cussing the question of Sunday evening con. certs and other matters relating to their busi- ness. Manager Peck sent invitations to all theatrical managers in the State requesting their presence. There were present with MT. Peck at his office, Manager Ulmer of the New Haven Opera House, Manager w. H. Roberts of Roberts Opera House, Hartford, and Manager Thomas Delevan of the Meri- den Opera House. Manager James s. Taylor, of the Danbury Opera House, wrote that he could not be present, but would endorse any action taken by the other managers. He also sent copy of bill he had prepared for the Legislature. The first section pro- vides for the ffhing of any business man ager who shall unlawfully allow an en- tertainment to be given in his house or who shall permit the giving of any obscene or immoral performance. Section second provides that the authorities of a city or borough shall upon written application give license to the owner of any theater or hall at yearly rate not to exceed - number of dollars. This license shall be in lieu of fines under the first section of the act, except those imposed for immoral entertainments.
 Manager Carll wrote that his health did not permit him to go out of doors, and inviting the other managers to come to his residence. This invitation was accepted, and the matter was further discussed at MT. Carll's. MT. Caru concluded his letter follows:
 think the first legislation necessary would be to repeal the old, inconsistent blue laws. Then pass law simply restraining would-be saints Gin sheep's cothDg) and Pharisees from interfering with their superiors Gin soul and mauhood] business and pleas ures provided it is not offensive in the sight of God and than their fanatical and misguided hearts. You can rest assured the people sound. It is the Pharisees and cranks that require curbng
Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-27
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

RerdelI's Aemory-What He Remember.
 ed and What He Could Hot Think of
 Another Key to his Desk Held by his
 Wife-The Day's DOings at the Capital
 WASHINGTON, Feb 26.-The- thirteenth
 week of the Star route trial opened with M.
 c. Rerdell still on the stand. still undergoing
 cross examination by Colonel IngersoH.
 The defendants counsel asked witness about
 an interview he had with R. B. Carpenter in
 January. 1882. Witness said that at that
 time Carpenter was his counsel
 Colonel Ingerson entered into long argu-
 ment to prove that he was not, but was, in
 fact, counsel to s. w. Dorsey. MT. Merrick
 claimed he was Rerdell's counsel. The
 court admitted the evidence and the witness
 proceeded to detail the conversation had
 with Mir. Carpenter. He did not tell Mir.
 Carpenter that the affidavit Of June, 1881,
 was made by witness of his own free will.
 He may have said that he could initiate Sen
 ator Dorsey's writing He then passed on
 to an interview with John l.. French, in
 which he told him he was playing detective for James and MacYeagh. When he told
 MacVeagh he had book that would show the accounts of Smith alias Brady, Turner and others, he does not remember that Mac Veagh jumped up and said: s'Mr. Rerdell, you are patriot" Witness said that Mir. Dorsey wrote the line ''that no such book'' (check book) existed, knowing it to be 8 lie, and the'.witness, upon being pressed, said he swore to it knowing it to be a lie. Afterward the fact was brought out that witness wife, as well as Senator Dorsey, had key to witness desk.
 The deficiency appropriation bill, as re- ported to the House, is said to be the small est deficiency bill ever reported. The amount for 1883 is $485, ,113 and the total $2 037, ,989. The largest amounts are for old claims au. dited by the accounting officers of the treas ury and for back pay and bounties to sol ! diers. House letter from the Secretary of War l in response to 8 House resolu l ton of the 17th inst, report from O. B. l Comstock, president of the Mississippi river | commission in relation to the damages by | food or otherwise to the works for the chan l nal improvement at or near Plum Point in | the Mississippi river. Mir. Comstock says ] In reference to 1,475 feet of dike, seven | per cent. of which is reported by Captain | Knight to be carried away at Plum | Point, I wish to say that the Missis- | Eppi river commission has always supposed | that long contingencies must be allowed for 1 in the construction of the work. In order to | work cheaply light works are used. In the | end it will be much cheaper to use light 1 works and lose 25 per cent. of them than to | double their strength and cost and lose 5 ] per cent. The loss at Plum Point gives no | as to the permanence of the | work when completed and is to be regarded l as one of the contingencies to which all en- | gineering works are exposed" Major | Wright, chief of engineers, concurs in the | report of Mir. Comstock.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-27
TELEGRAPHIC JOTTINGs.

It is announced that Mir. Gladstone will visit President Grevy at Paris on his way on returning from Cannes
 petition drawn up in four languages is being numerously signed in Egypt protesting against the withdrawal of the English troops from Egypt.
 5. E. Waldbridge, who has been for years the leading miller of Western Michigan, died at his home in Kalamazoo Sunday night in an apoplect1c fit. He was fifty-seven years old.
 Only ballot for @ United States Senator was taken at Lansing, Michigan, yesterday. and that resulted in a light vote, only s7 members being present. Palmer received 24 votes, Stockbridge 21, Lothrop 27, Willett g.. The rest were scattering