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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-01-16
Society of Engineers.

d. j. Whittemore, chief engineer OF
the Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
Railway, has been nominated for the
Presidency of the American Society Of
Civil Engineers. The position, a purely
honorary one, is considered a worthy
object OF ambition among the most emf
nent members of the profession of engi-
neering. The society's membership list
contains over 100 names, including the
foremost engineers in every portion of
the American continent. The election
will take place at the annual meeting of
the society in New York city on the
third Wednesday in January. Mr.. Whit
temore is native Of Chittenden county,
VT, and passed his early years in that
State, where also he received his educa-
ton. He began engineering in 1847 on
the Vermont Central and Vermont and
Canada Railroad, serving until it
was completed, and then going upon the
Great Western Railroad of Canada,
where he had charge of portion of the
construction. He was next occupied on
the Central Ohio Railroad from Wheel
ing to Columbus. He went to Milwau-
kee in 1858. His present position has
been held by him since 1866.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-01-16

"THE President of the United States
was once a boy like you, my son. ex-
planned fond father to his heir !" be a
good boy and some day you may become
President" "Thep If I'm bad boy, "
responded young America. may be-
come Vice President, hey, dadY' Ihe
question was referred for future con-
sideration, ,--Boston Courier
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-01-16

A CORRESPONDENT of the Chicago
NcWs writes of n visit to Molokai, the
place which the Sandwich Islanders
have reserved for the victims of leprosy.
This mysterious blight, which prevails
30 extensively on the beautiful islands,
is not simply skin disease, as most
people think, but painful decaying Of
every portion of the body. Nine years
is the longest period n leper has been
known to live, seven years being tho
usual limit of the disease Old women
live longer and suffer more than any
other victims Families often hide Their
afflicted relatives in the mountains, but
the police officers bring more than a
hundred lepers every two months to the
hospital at Honolulu, where the doctors
examine them and consign them to ban
ishment to the leper settlement, from
which death is the only escape. Many
touching stories are told of the devotion
the gentle islanders show to thor loved
ones who endure this horrible death in
ife. One young physician, finding a
leprous spot on his hand, gave himself
at once to the authorities and went out
to Molokai to study the terrible malady
for the benefit of medical science.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-01-16

"WHAr do you do here to keep
b;s town %" asked railroad pas.
sencer of a resident of Yuma, IN Ari
zone while the train was stopping for
supper. "Dop" was the reply, "lets
eoal--we had fort here once--that gave
orr town start; now We have the Ter
ritorial Penitentiary here, and that in.
creases our population amazingly, such
as it iR."
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-01-16

Mrs. PoNsoNBY DE ToMKYNs (pointine
TO her books): "They are not many,
Lord Adolphus, but they are all friends
dear old friends" Noble Poet (taking
down volume of his own poems and
finding the leaves uncuD: "Ah hum
I'm glad to find that you don't cut all
your old friends, Mrs. de Tomkynsr J
Mrs. p. de T. is ut a loss for once.>
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-01-16
AN AWFUL TIME.

AN AWFUL TIME.
Ethe!--,"I hear that twenty-four-
o'clock time dial is proposed"
Edith--"Yes isn't it awful? Oh, il
I only had the inventor OF that thing
here, wouldn't pull his hair !!
Ethel-."But pa says it will greatly
simplify matters" -
Edith-"Simplify them, indeed ! 1t
will drive us all crazy"
Ethel-"In what way, DEAR"
Editl--"Why, pa and ma nearly take
the roof of now when dear Augustus
stays until after u. Just imagine the
fearful time / would have with them IL
the new dial were adopted and he should
stay some night until hrh past "a
o'clock l'-PhiLddelDhia Call.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-01-16

ELLEN TERRY presented the public
her full mental statute when she wrote
in response to a request for her auto
graph. "Those who love me call me
Nellie" 1t is that "ie' business which
makes the modern girl appear such
weakling. Ellen is good name, and 50
is Mary, Katharine, Nancy or Elizabeth ;
but Mamie, Katie, Mamie and Bessie
are what Professor Pygmolion Whiilles
CPiggy," for shorD would call "good
chewing gum names" In our horror OF
being considered strong minded, let us
not indellibly stamp ourselves weak
minded.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-01-16

"WHAT has become of Miss Blank
who was always such favorite in your
set ?" "Her father failed some weeks
ago, and all they had was sold by the
sheriff" Poor thingr "And now
they have to live in little rented house
down town." "What a change How
she must grieve p "Yes. She is SO
much changed that even her best friends
would not recognize her. met her on
the street to-day and did not know her
at all, poor thing !"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-01-16
A GOOD judge of the article will find,

A GOOD judge of the article will find,
nine times out of ten, when he orders 4
bottle of French vine in New York that
the vintage is either Ohio wine or very
poor California wine. Very little of the
wine sold in this country ever saw a
French vineyard, although it may have
been doctored and fortified in n French
laboratory. In this, however, the fancy
labels on the bottles deceive thousands
When American wine is sold without
vivacious adulteration it ia thinned by
adding about one-third water.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-01-16
Az experienced cultivator of German

An experienced cultivator of German
carp SAWS tnlt this new industry fully
warrants the construction Of ponds fol
the purpose. Stock ponds, however,
may be easily converted into carp ponds
ut little cost. 1t is advisable to CON
stlTIct ponds in such manner az to per
nit the water to be drawn off. The fish
then can be captured and assorted.
Those intended for breeding purposes
can be returned to the pond while the
remainder can be placed IN tanks or
boxes here they can be conveniently
handled for marketing. Draw off the
water enables the fish cultivator to get
rid of branch minnows, frogs, turtles,
etc. Warm water, of course, is best for
growth, and every pond should contain
a place about three feet deep for the fish
to winter. Carp is really vegetarian,
lie will eat anything. He will
also do as well without feeding rs
chickens. A ton of carp can be raised
off a one acre pond, and even at ten
cents pound this would amour to 5000.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-01-16

The following table will show the
number OF emigrants who have arrived
in New York during the present year
from foreign lands:
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-01-16

If we add to this number the army
and navy, We nave force in the employ
Of the government over 10000 strong.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-01-16

MANY young man who works hard
during the day allows his hands to go 70
waist during the evening,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-01-16
FOUND OUT.

"What has become Of 'Bowery Mike
who kept n saloon which was popular
resort for notorious characters some years
ago?'
"He is in the Legislature.
"And his partner, where is hep"
"He got found out and is in the Peni-
tentiary."
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-01-16

THE C vii ist includes an army of men
over $1,000 strong. Excepting the post
masters and ra lway mail employees, thi,
army is classed by states as follows;
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-01-16

NORTH CARoLINIA will levy no State tax
next year. The Western North Caro-
lima Railroad Company will pay into
Treasury 5000, 900, which sum will carry
the State government. .....-
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-01-16
TIE JOKER'S BUDGET.
WHAT WE FIND IN THE HUMOROUS
PAPERs TO SMILE OVER.

STATIONERY POETRY.
Why did the penholder 80 tight
And let the paper cutter so2
When Papa Terry knew 'twant right
To have a ruler for a beau.
Why did the inkstand idly by,
And note that things weren't ssraight2
II should have tried to rubber dry,
And make the paper weight.
Merchant Traveller.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-27
Personal.

Mayor Anderson was at the Ogden yester
day.
A. L. Young, Of Malvern, Sundayed at The
Pacific.
Judge Loofbourow spent Sunday at the
Ogden house.
Sheriff Dan Farrell, of Glenwood, spent
Sunday in the Bluffs,
Mrs. j. b. Atkins and Mrs. j.. w. Chap
man are visiting in Burlington.
The irrepressible Bob Harris, Of Missouri
Valley, was in the city yesterday.
A. b. Thornell, the republican candidate
for district attorney, is at the Ogden,
Thos. Millett, the superintendent of The
paving, has gone to Des Moines for a few
days.
Rev. ID, w. Comstock Of Hogan, has &C opt.
ed a call as pastor of the Congregational
church at Oakland.
G. s. Hoagland left for Peoria, ILL.,, Satur.
day evening. He expects to return and take
in the commercial mems gathering.
Mrs. B. Shontz, wife of Jailer Shontz, has
returned from her visit to her old Canadian
home. 1t was the first time she has been
there in eleven years.
Rev, Father McMenomy has returned from
Creston, where he was called by the news of
his aged mothers dangerous illness. When he
left she was past all danger.
DIR. Archibald, of the U. s. A., who is now
stationed at Fort Lincoln, Dakota, is in the
city, looking after his stable Of ~trotters, and
shaking hands with old friends, who are al.
ways glad to greet him.
Rev. Father Weber, who during his eight
years residence in Westphalia has succeeded
in building the finest church and one of the
best school houses in that county, is to return
to Germany on account of his health.
j. A. Perkins, who has done such efficient
service as assistant secretary of the Iowa and
insurance, company here, left
yesterday for Denver, where he will look after
tho interests of the Farmers and Merchants
company. MIR. Perkins is not only
q wide awake and experienced insurance man
but will make friends wherever he may go.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-27
AN OLD CRIME.
A Man Arrested for Stealing a Horse
Seven u ears Ago.

Constable Tom McGin, of Nicola, ar
rived here yesterday with a prisoner
named Nose, whom he placed in Jail here
for safe keeping to await the action Of
the next grand jury, the fellow being un'
able to furnish the $500 bonds required.
The charge against him is that of horse
stealing. 1t appears that eve years ago
last April Nose appeared at Nicola and
hired q horse of Remington Bros. for q
drive out into the country. He forgot to
return and nothing was seen or heard OF
him until the other day when he appear.
ed at West Philadelphia and was recog.
uized by Sheriff George Rainbow, and
identified by two other men. He was al
once arrested and will now have to stand
trial. During his absence he has been
in the far west roaming about.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-27
COMMERCIAL.

COUNCIL BLUFFS MARKET.
Wheat-No. ] milling. 6O@65; No. 2, So
No. =, 30; rejected 35@ 40.
COrn-New, 25@2S.
Oats-For local purposes, 35.
Hays OO@7 90 per ton; baled, 60@6o.
Rye-35c.
Corn Meal 80 per 100 pounds.
WoOd-Good supply; prices at yards, Q COG
Coal-DOliyorod. hard, 0 80 per ton; soft
4 30 per ton
Lard-Fsirbank's, wholessling at 9fc.
Flour-City -four, / 50@2 %.
Brooms-2 95@S 90 per doz.
LIVE sTooK.
Cattlc-Butcher cows 8 25@3 70. Butcher
steers, 8 1904 90.
Sheep 50@3 60.
Hogs UUG4 %.
AND FRUITS.
Poultry-Live old hens, &c; spring chickens
2 lO@S 80 per doz.
Butter Creamery, 25c; choice country
22c.
Eggs-l7 per dozen.
Vegetables Potatoes, 30G4Oc per bushel
!, onions, 40@50c per bu; apples, cheice cooking
or eating, 2 %; bsaDa, l 50G2 90 pei
bushel; Sweet potatoes, 2Ac Der ID.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-27
The COMMERCIAL Tourists

To-day is the opening one of the gath.
ering here of the commercial travellers,
who come by invitation of the mayor to
see Council Bluffs and enjoy Its hospi-
t~alities. The arrangements Tor their re-
ception and care are about complete.
There will be carriages at each hotel for
the free use of the tourists, and music
has been engaged. A large quantity of
cut flowers, bouquets, ETC., have been
ordered at Caspar's for adjoining the to.
bles of the hotels on Wednesday, when
when the special feast is to be spread
from l o'clock to 8 o'clock. Three
electric lights are to BIO placed along
the center of Broadway, one
being at the corner Of Maine and Broad
way. The skating rink Is in the best
possible condition, and it is respected that
the committees already announced will
serve promptly. There are already a
goodly number of travelling men at the
hotels, but the most will probably not
reach here before tomorrow, and
Wednesday is to be the great day.
Whether the affair proves a great SUCCESS
VI NV, SouiiOii blulls IL ReUJlDR u good
deal of free advertising out of it, and il
the visitors are royalty entertained they
will go away with pleasant recollections
of this city, and cannot but be favorably
impressed with its location, growth and
improvements.
Tho following commercial men were
registered at the hotels yesterday:
l.. Haus, Chicago; S. LANCER, Chicago Chas.
Il. Funk, Chicago; w. p. Christy, pesMoines
w. A. Fry, Omaha; Il. A. L. Hunter, ILL.,; j
II. Amanus, Burlington, La j. NJ. VanPelt
Colundbon, Iowa; j. thinner, Paris, France
Q. Linope, Rome. VIM. b. Findley
Boston; II. G Kelley, Burlington
RIA Lunhan, Rock Island, ILL.,; ii Il Hack
man, st. Louis, Mo-; Geo p Carpenter, Cedar
Rapids; w III Stevens, Des Moines; Nj ID
Allen, Boston; G III Brownell, Minneapolis;
Arnold Barber, New York; j S Ingram, Chi,
cago; j II Pearson, Des Moines; Il III Scott,
Rockford; Ill q Belden, New York; j B
Morris, Chicago, VIM Rood, Binghamton, N Y;
Il w Wood, Mopnoketa: S Il Smith. Chicago;
j A Marley, Dayton. o; w l. Gibbs, Chicago;
X Il Montgomery, n Y; III III Jones, Chicago;
s III Ehrh 1T, New York; G A Herrick, Chi.
cago; j ii Phillips, Chicago; w b Judd,
Co Incil Bluffs; II Alexander, Chicago; ii S
Boas, Chicago.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-27

mon, and after the sermon it was an
nounced that SS49 was still due on the
church. The amount was promptly raised
ten persons giving $50 each, and the bal
ance being in smaller amounts.
The residence of NJ. j. Davis, about a
mile and a half south of Avoca, was
burned to the ground Saturday night
together with all the contents. Mr..
Davis has been working at the carpenter
business in this city, and his wife vas
away from home at the time. The loss
is a heavy one, as there is but little in.
surance.
A woman, giving her name as Anna
Clark, was yesterday placed in Jail for
being drunk. She was the only Sunday
prisoner in the lookup. She has been
there several times before, and always
promised to leave the city for the oity's
good. 1t Is a mystery where a woman on
a Sabbath day, in a prohibition state,
Chh gu uEluh ehOuBh W MANU- heI bipoyj
without money and without friends.
Strange!
1t is not 30 sure a thing that Chief
Skinner, of the police force, will resign
on the first of the month. He has talked
of doing sc for some time past unless
matters were adjusted satisfactorily to
him. The pay is small, police force and
the marshals do not get along smoothly,
there is some jealousy in the police force
itself, and while Skinner is ''boss" in
he is not in fact, and his subordi.
mates realize this. Unless there is some
in affairs he will resign, but he
evidently hopes for a change.
The Macedonian, although a republi-
can paper, does not seem to like
the sort of speeches which Scott is max
ing. 1t says, in speaking of the meeting
"We were surprised to see so
many out, as the campaign, especially in
this district, has proved to be little less
than a mud throwing one. This kind of
Is not appreciated here and was
not what they gathered to hear. Mr..
Scott evidently thought otherwise and
his cutting remarks consequently fell far
short of the mark intended, doing more
harm than good"
Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-27
Real Estate Transfers,

The following are the real estate trans.
fers filed for October % and reported to
THE BEE by p. j. Mcmahon.
Co. Treas. to A. b. Walker, lot 8, block IS,
Beers sub. div, 1920 {.
Geo. Richardson 4 Co. to III. S. Gregory,
lots IS and nineteen, block 2, Voorhis' add.
$500. 90.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-27
Closing Ont.

To close the business I,,offer my stock OF
miscellaneous books, picture, fancy goods,
notions, fire screens, e%asels, willow and
can high chairs and children's rockers,
at prices never known before in the west.
FL. e. Seaman, paper, books and station.
cry, 504 Broadway, Council Bluffs.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-27

The Keokuk canning works the past
season put up AGO, 085 Cans of tomatoes,
and are now at work on 100, 900 cans OF
pumpkins and squash.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1884-05-22
Nominate Men of the People.

fTOA1 uiG 1kcU0cIhg JOUI7iul-
The greatest trouble with the DEM
ocrats in North Carolina is in getting
olt the vote.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1884-05-22

DEGRADED in my life as when tonight
heard a leading republican say the
convention claiming to be..republican,
could find no republican in the State
who was competent to be put at the
head of the ticket; out of 125,0OO re-
publican voters, no one was tit, III the
estimation of this so-called republican
convention, to be governor of North
Carolina My God fello,c citizens, ,chere
aoas TfuU! Any body before York,
The sour kasm, as the late Mr.. Ward
would have said, both toward the act
of the convention and Mott -Elector
at large, was fully appreciated by the
large crowd, and several minutes
elapsed before he could proceed. But
he continued for some time and every
sentence was served in condemnation
of the sell-out of the party by Mott
and his man, most damaging ar
raignment of the record of the head
of the ticket, and positive declaration
that he, and many more OF the true
and tried republicans of this section
at last, and he believed of the State,
would show Mr.. Mott that though he
can sell out the party, he can't deliv-
er the goods. He was loudly cheered
by republicans who were present. At
the conclusion, Mr.. ]. G. Pritchard, one
of Motifs lambs, feeling all broken up
by Mr.. Lusk's speech, winked, blink
ed, nodded, and finally hollered at
Trull, the immortal Trull, to come to
the front. Trull came, but not to
make speech, but to say he would be
heard during the campaign in support
of YORK. The way he said this
impressed his hearers with the idea
that since the fatal deed was did, he
had been hanging around lamp-post
and heroically practicing on the use
of the name, until he had thrown his
very soul and gizzard into the thing.
We don't know what will become OF
his soulif he keeps up his licks, but we
do know by November his gizzsrd
will have to be laid up for repairs
Trull was the last for the evening, but
York has proven a thunderbolt, fol
he has split the G. O. p to smithereens
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1884-05-22

The late Hon Judah p. Benja-
min once lived in Salisbury, n. C. and later in
Fayetteville and Wilmington.
Buxton got more votes in York's
district than did York. and York got only los
more votes i'll his own district than did Dock
cry.
- The New York produce ex-
change invited Gov. Jarvis and staff to be pres
ent at the opening exercises of its new building
on Tuesday, May 9th.
= Congress has granted to the heirs
of the late Hon. Walter F. Pool, who was elect
ed to Congress from the First District, arreara-
gos Of pay aud perquisites, amounting to the
sum of S7.737.5o.
= All the Raleigh papers notice
the death of Handy Lockhart, colored, feehis
nnetieth year and speak in high terms of him
as good and useful citizen. He was friend
and playmate with Andrew johnson.
- Bishop Beckwith, a North Car
Gilman by nativity, is having trouble with st.
Phillips Church, Atlanta. His choice of vestry
men was disresarded and others We're elected.
Then Rev. j. g. Armstrong, of Richmond, Va,
called and has accepted.
- Gen. Clingman has an article i'll
Health and Home on the advantages of wet tob-
3cco IN q police. 1he General recommends
the Use of wet leaf tobacco to allay irritation
and inflammation. He however, warns against
too free a use of the remedy.
Rev. Jas. B. Latimer, Ph. D.,
formerly of Davidson College, now pastor of
the Second Presbyterian church of Memphis,
was elected last week to the chair of Church
History, etc, in Union Theological Seminary,
Va, and has accepted the position.
- Mr.. Geo. B. Everett, of Mitchell,
Dakota, has declined proposition to go a
Territorial delegate To the National Republican
Convention OH the ground that he is Federal
office holder and resident not u
have fully identified himself with the people.
The Crofters in Robertson coun-
! ty doing we'll, falling readily into the Amer
lean ways, and easily accommodating themselves
to the changed conditions of life. Some of them
express feeling of enjoyment and sense of
freedom where they can shoot and kill game
without having the law taken upon them.
They are to be Joined by twenty-five families,
who are expected to arrive in May.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1884-05-22

From, tie Ne,c Be,mc Journal
One of the colored citizens of Tren-
ton walked up to G. H. Foy's desk and
inquired of Mr.. Foy if that was the
place to reddish" "Why," says Mr..
Foy, @what do you mean?' why"
saws colored man, 81 want to vote and
and | was told to come here and red
dish"