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Omaha daily bee., 1884-02-19
IOWA NEWS.

A Grand Army post has been organ
lied at Sac City.
The new wife of Fred Douglass, nee
Pitts, was once q school teacher in Scott
comfy.
The new Catholic church at Clermont
is nearing completion. 1t will cost not
far from $4,000.
There are 53l Black Hawk county tax
payers whose taxes for 1883 amount to
mere than $50, against 567 in 1882.
Phillip McSparren, of Griswold, Cass
county, Iowa, clsims to have discovered
gold in that vicinity in paying quantities.
Lessons grain elevator at Leon was
burned on the 18th, with $4,000 bushels
of grain. Loss, $4,000; insurance,
So, 200.
Senator Graves, of Dubuque, has
agreed to take half the subsidy of $376,-
900 voted in Dubuque and build 100
miles of the Dubuque & Northwestern
road.
Gov. Sherman's report of his pardons
of penitentiary convicts from January II,
1882, to January 20, 1884, shows that he
set seventy-three convicts free in two
years.
The old people of Grinnell, all over
sixty years of age, will celebrate Wash
ington's birth doy with appropriate sxer-
cises. There will be a procession, u din
ner and several speeches,
The elegant residence in Keokuk, &C.
cupied by George b. Smythe, and owned
by three st. Louis women, valued at
$4,000, was damaged 81, 500 to $4,000
by fire Monday night. Insured for So
900. Loss on furniture 49, COO to
$500; insured for "a, 900. The fire is
supposed to have originated from a de-
| fectivp tiue.
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Real Estate Transfers

The following deeds were filed for re.
cord in the recorders office, February
is, reported for the BEE by P. J. Nc.
Mahon, real estate agent:
w. f. Slpp, ct al to j. d. Edmund.
son, part sw nel 81, 20, 9S-S150.
c. ~ l. Is p. r. II. Co. to Ellen Dug.
gan, 'e nei D., n, $3.50.
G. X 4 T.. II, II. Co. to VIM. +.
Bosbyshell, lot q, block 3, Carson-S250.
Herman Martin to John II. Ward, mel
swl n. "a, 43-S2, 600.
A, Il. Walker to j. b. johnson, lots
and 2, block Z, Walnut-$200.
II 7. 9. Lord to Il. Ii CANCER, lot IL,
block 4, Bsyliss' lat adG-S2, 800.
g. L. Perkins, trustee, to j. NJ.
Rhodes, M swi IL, 70, Assoc.
Roland Ward to Artemas Ward, part
"a, Go, 49,, 700.
Total sales, SO, $3.50.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-02-19
Petticoats at the Polls.

BY Bill Nye.
There have been many reasons given
first and last why women should not vote,
but l desire TO say in the full light of a
ripe experience, that some of them are
fallacious. / refer more particularly to
the argument that it will degrade woman
to go to the polls and vote like n little
man. While | am not and never have
been a bowler for female suffrage. /
must admit that it is much more of a sue
cess than prohibition and speculative
science.
My wife voted eight years with my full
Knowledge and consent, and to-day j can
not see but that she is as docile and as
tractable as when she won my trusting
heart. Now those who know me best
will admit that / am not a ladies' man,
and therefore what / may say here is not
said to secure favor and grateful smiles.
| am not attractive and am not In politics.
| believe that / am homelier this winter
.han usual. There are reasons why i
believe that what i may say OF this sub
ject will be sincere and not sensational
or selfish.
1t has been urged that good m do
not generally exercise the right of sutf-
rage, when they have the opportunity,
and that only those whose social record
has been furnished a good deal 60 to the
polls. This Is not true.
1t is the truth that a good full vote
always shows a list of the best women
and the wives of the best men. A bright
day makes q better showing of lady voters
than a bad one, and the weather makes a
more perceptible difference in the female
vote than the male, but when things
are exciting and the battle is redhot, and
the tocsin of war sounds anon, the wife
and mother puts on her armor and her
sealskin sacque and knocks things cross
eyed.
1t is generally supposed that the fe'
male voter lisa pantaloonatic,a half horse,
half alligator kind of a woman, who looks
like DIR. Mary Walker and has the ap'
pearance of one who has risen hastily in
the night at the alarm of lire and dressed
herself partially in her husbands. This
is a popular error. In Wyoming, where
female suffrage has ragged for years, you
meet quiet, courteous and gallant gentle
men, and fair, quiet, sensible women al
the polls, where there isn't a loud or pro-
fame word, and where it is infinitely
more proper place to send a young lady
unescorted than to the post Office in any
city ia the union. You can readily SEE
why this is so. The men about the polls
are always candidates and their friends,
That is the reason that neither party can
afford to show the slightest rudeness to-
ward a voter, The man who would tell
her to go and soak her head, perhaps,
would stand bareheaded to let her pass
on Tuesday. While she holds a smashed
ballot showed under the palm of her gray
kid glove abe may walk over the candi.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-02-19
Middle Aged Men.

There ore many Mt the age of 30 to o. who are
troubled with too frequent excavations OF tho blad-
dor, often accompanied by q slight smarting or burn
Ing sensation, and n weakening OF tho system In Q
manner the patient cannot account for. On examin.
ing the urinary deposits o ropy sediment will often DO
found, and sometimes small particles of nlbuinen will
appear, or tho color will be OF thin milkish hue, again
changing to o dark and torpid appearance. There arc
many, many men who die Of this difficulty Ignorant Of
the cause, which Is the second stage of seminal weak.
ness. DIR. w. will guarantee q perfect cure In oil cases
and q healthy restoration OF the genito-urinary Or
gans.
vice, So.
All communications should DO addressed, DR.. Henry
Henry Wagner, +. O. 1880, Denver, Colorado.
The Young Mans Pocket Companion, by DR.. Fl.
Wagner, liz worth its weight In gold TO young men !
Price sl,2h. Sent by mail to any address. III
Omaha daily bee., 1884-02-19

CAUTION.

Swiftis Specific Is entirely q vegetable preparations,
and should not be conf ountcd with the various sub
stitutes mutations, no..sccret h%umbuga, 'Succus
Alterans, etc., ETC., which are now beinp manuiac-
tured by various persons. None Of these contain
q single article which enterB in'o the composition Of
s. s. y. There Is only one Swift's Specific and there
IL nothing in the world like II. To prevent disaster
and disappointment, be sure and get the genuine.
Swift's Spccia, Is n complete antidote to Blood
Taint, Blood Pois m, Malarial Poison and Skin HUI.
mour. j. DICKSON SMITH, M. d., Atlanta, Ga.
have had remarkable success Will Saifts spe.
cific In the treatment OF Blood and Skin Diseases,
and In Female Diseases. i took IL myself fer Car
buncles with happy effect.
b. Q. q. Hryny, NJ. D., Atlanta, Ga,
used switt's Specific on my little daughter, who
was afflicted with some Bloo1 Poison which had re-
sisted all so'ts Of treatment. The Specific relieved
her permanently, and l shall use it in my practice.
Our treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed
free to applicants.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC co.
Drawer Q, atlanta, Ga,
N. Y. Office, 1850 W. 23d St., between 9th and 7th Ave.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-02-19
Tribute 10 a Veteran.

AT a meeting of Abe Lincoln post No.
20, g. A. r., and veterans, on Sunday,
February IL, the following resolutions
were adopted:
WHEREAS, 1t has pleased the Almighty
God, in His wisdom, To take from our
ranks by the hand of death, our brave
patriot and well-beloyed comrade, John
J. butcher, late Of the 142d regiment OF
Omaha daily bee., 1884-02-19
Indiana volunteer infantry; therefore

Indiana volunteer infantry; therefore
be il
Resolved, That by the death of Com.
rade butcher we lose a brave comrade,
an honest and industrious citizen, and a
true and beloved friend.
Resotvcd, That we deeply ~sympathize
with the friends and relations of the de.
ceased, and tender then our coincidence
in this their hour of trial and of aflic.
ton.
ReSoIued, That the charter OF Abe
Lincoln post be draped in mourning for
30 days, and that a copy of these resolu.
tons be presented to his relatives, and
that a copy of the same be given to The
Nonpareil, The Globe, and The Herald of
this city, and also a copy to The OMAHA
Bee and The Grand Army Advocate of
Des Moines, Iowa, for publication.
Committee of Abe Lincoln post No.
80, G.. A. r., Joseph Cromer, Il. j. Alb
bott, j. L. Metcalf, ID Maltby; Veteran
association, d. L. H%utchkins.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-02-19

ing the bulldog sort of grit shown by
tho 90" in getting and keeping bust
ness. Some who Jaw the dog thus
marked thought its mother must have
been impressed by the letters on a pass.
ing tram, but this is not the fact. 1t is
hair.dye, not n birth.mark.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-02-19
Young Meh

Who may DO suffering from the effects of youthful
tollies or indiscretions viii do well to avail themselves
Of this, the greatest boon ever laid at tho altar OF suf-
ering humanity. DIR. WAGNER will guarantee to for.
eit $500 for every case OF seminal weakness or private
disease Of any kind and character which he under.
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Omaha daily bee., 1884-02-19
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!
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tain Newe.
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CHOKING, PUTRID MUCOUS

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smell, teste, and hearing II stored, and constitutional
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ton. | have not found q case that Il did not relieve
at once, and In many cases u cure Is performed by
tho use OF one bottle. Andrew Lee, Drug gist, Man.
chester, Mass.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-02-19
Complete Treatment. s1.oo-
Snecze, Snceze, Sneeze,

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tating, watery fluid; until your head aches, mouth
and throat ~parched. and blood at fever heat. This
Is an Acute Cataarh, and instantly relieved by q
single dose, and is permanently cured by ne b1ttle
OF SANPoRDs RADICAL CURB.
The only absolute specific we know OF for sneez.
ing, %snufiing, and choking catarrh, or head colds,
is SAsPoRD's RADICAL CURE, "-Medioal Times.
"After a long struggle with Cataarh your RADICAL
CURR conquered. "-Rev. s. w. Monroe. Lcwisburg,
Pm
Omaha daily bee., 1884-02-19

Catarrhal Couch, bronchitis, Droppings In the
throat, ulcerati n OF the Nasal Passages, Debility,
l. ss of 3trongth, Flesh aud Sleep cured In the ma
jori'y OF cases.
THE cure effect, d inmy case by SASFoRp's RADICAL
CuRB was so remarkable that u sceucd O. these who
had suffered without rol Ell from any Of the usual
remedies that II could not he true. therefore made
affidavit to IL before Seth ] Thomas, Esq, Justice Of
the Peace, Bostnn."-Geo. +. D~insmore, Druggist,
worchester, Mass.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-02-19
SanfOrd's Radical Cure
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one package,may now be had of all druggists for sl.00
Ask or SASPoRD's RADICAL CuRE.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-02-15
Ell Mahdi and Gum Arabic.

The toothsome gumdrop and the rub
ber-like marshmallon will soon be an
expensive luxury, and all because the
"False Prophet" thousands Of miles
away, is stirring up a rebellion in the
Soudan. Pure gum arabic composes
over 80 per cent. of all the best confec-
tionery, and comes almost exclusively
from the Soudan. Khartoum is it.
great market. 1t is brought there by
the natives and bartered to merchants
from Cairo and Suakim for guns. cart
ridges, trinkets, and other articles dear
to the heart of savage Once year,
during October and November, when
the Nile is at its highest, the yield is
foated down on barges to Cairo, and
thence shipped to the four principal
markets of the world-London, Paris,
Marseilles, and New York. A small
part is taken overland on camels to
Suakim, about a three months trip.
The unit of commerce is a bale contain
ing 500 pounds. The European con-
sumption every year is $4,000 of these
bales, while America consumes half as
many. rr .|.ay r.t. r~
Since Ell Mahdi has been disaffecting
the Soudan the price of gum has been
steadily going up, and from the usual
price of or 10 cents pound it has
now risen to 20 and there is little to
buy at that. No crop was brought in
this year, and unless the instruction
is quelled within the course of three
months there will be none next. The
Cairo merchants of course will not send
their money into the Soudan in its pres
ent state, even could their agents get
there safely. Besides this, there is
very little to bring out, as none has
been gathered this year.
The Soudan negroes having very
little of the Yankee thrift, will not work
unless they can see an immediate,return
for their labor. As Ell Obeid is already
occupied, and Khartoum is likely to be
soon, there is no chance of bringing
the crop out by water, and an over
land freightage would be most expen.
sive, taking caravan nearly year to
make the trip between Khartoum and
Cairo. Even then bale would be
heavy load for a camel. ..
Nearly all of last years crop was de-
strOyed by the Egyptian army while
they were in Khartoum. The bales of
gum were piled in large pens waiting
for the fall rise in the river to be ship
ped to Cairo. The army being short of
grain bags dumped the gum on the
ground and appropriated the bales.
OF course the next rain washed thou
sands of dollars into the soil of Khar.
toum. A Cairo merchant writing to a
firm in this city says that the price of
gum is almost fabulous, and that there
are three buyers to every invoice.
Several London and Marseilles firms
have already made fortunes out of its
sudden rise. In few weeks gum ara
bic will probably be quoted as high as
80 cents pound. At that rate candy
will be worth almost its weight in gold
--NeU York Herald
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-02-15
THE DAILY BULLETN MORNING Is 1884

are forwarded TO her, and she reads
through the most important of them;
she has also to affix her signature to a
great many papers every day. Form
erly she signed with her own hand,
using quill pen, but about five years
ago she adopted stamping machine
with q fac simile Of her signature. The
only documents which she signs now
In writing are patents Of creation Of
peers and knights of the different Or
ders. The heaviest part Of the queens
correspondence, however, consists in
sending letters to the members of her
widely-scattered family in England and
abroad. Most of the princes of Ger
many are in some way her cousins or
nephews, and no marriage takes place
between members Of the Protestant
houses without her being consulted as
to the preliminaries. What is more,
Queen Victoria is often appealed to as
a peace-maker in princely quarrels,
and the assistance which she gives to
her ministers in this way, as regards
their foreign policy, is perhaps hardly
realized. The queen writes letters
which her ministers, having the fear of
parliament before their eyes, could not
always dare to write. They must use
circumlocutory forms, whereas tho
queen can 60 straight to the point, and
never fails to do so when the occasion
demands. That the small items of
court life may not be lost sight of, one
can add that all the queens private
letters are written on large-sized letter
(not note) paper with narrow black
border and three little crowns---one i'm
perial and two royal-embossed in
white on the upper right corner. The
envelopes are sealed in black wax
with a coat of the Coburg arms en-
graved on the cornelian of a ring which
Prince Albert wore when boy.
In making notes from what she reads
the queen uses small gold pencil
case which was also Prince Albert's,
and which is attached to her watch
chain. Speaking of notes, it may be
observed that very interesting col
lection of Mr. Black s novels will pos
sibly find its way at some future date
from the queens private library into
the British museum. The margins Of
all the volumes, and particularly the
passages descriptive of Highland seen
cry, have been profuscly annotated by
the queen; and some of them have
been illustrated by sketches on the fly
leaves. Generally speaking, the queen
is not reader of novels. She reads
the Times regularly, and looks at the
pictures in Punch and the illustrated
papers; but the literature she prefers
Is furnished by books of historical or
personal memoirs. Of this last kind
she peruses every volume that appears.
Monkeys "Reminiscences "Bishop
Wilberforce's Correspondence" "Lady
Rloomfield's Memoirs" Lord Ronald
Covers Recollections," have all pass.
ed through her hands during the last
year.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-02-15

and become posted in the tricks Of the
white farmers.
~ A New York variety actress wore a
string of cranberries around her neck,
and q critic next morning referred to
her magnificent coral necklace" If
the critic had got ''rnashed" on her he
would probably have learned the differ
ence.
The young man who, at the rink
Saturday evening, observed the writer
and lady skating together, and made
some remark about "beauty and the
beast" will hear something to his dis
advantage II he will call at this office.
No punishment is too severe for brute
who calls lady beast
A gentleman who takes business
view of things, when recently asked
respecting a person Of quite q poetic
temperament replied, "Oh, he's one
of those men who have soarings after
the infinite, and divings after the
unfathomable, but who never pays
cash"
An English psychological society is
racking its brains over the conundrum,
"Are angels ever sleepy" Not very
often, but when you hear bootjack
rolling down the front stairs, you can
make up your mind that the angels
father, Is sleepy, which practically
| amounts to the same thing.
Almedical journal devotes an entire
column to telling how to fall asleep,
while we can do it in three short words:
$50 to church" This shows the great
advantage of the American paragraph
system over the old fashioned lengthy
editorial. -''
The man in South Yonkers who
spent five regular-sized hours with his
"best girl' on a recent Sunday night
and never offered to kiss her red, red
cheeks" gave as an excuse that he had
seen placard on the stoop as he came
in which, warned visitors to beware
of the paint He was a cautious young
man. ll au. .I.t... .r.ir., f...s ..
my dear" said the aunt Of young
widow to her niece one day, sis thai
your nuSUduu poIIIaio ou INC waii'
Eyes, auntie." ''How blissfully happy
and what heaven on earth must have
been his life below" simpered the
aunt "Ah, yes" said the widow
"but we, divided the thing up, so tina,
when he became blissful in heaven
became happy on earth"
"He began life young" remarks 8
writer, speaking Of an individual who
had risen to eminence. That's the
way with most of us. We begin life
young. II we could begin life old, VT
might be able to avoid the pain o.
teething, the danger of measles, and
other ills to which infant flesh is heir
But it seems to be necessary that WI
should begin life young. Somehow
there is no getting over it. ..
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-02-15
Cheap Homes
ARKANSAS AND TEXAS.

Along the line of the St. Louis, Iron
Mountain and Southern Railway, Texas and
Pacific Railway and International and
Great Northern Railroad, are thousands of
acres of the choicest farming and grazing
lands in the world, ranging in price from
$500 to $500 and $4,00 per acre, in a
healthy country, with climate unsurpassed
for salubrity and comfort. Send your ad-
dress to the undersigned for copy of sta
tis,ics ofcrops raised in Arkansas and Texas,
in 1882, and make up your mind to 60 and
see for yourself when you learn that the crop
for 1883 is so per cent larger than that of
1882. To those purchasing land owned by
the Company, and paying one-fourth, one
half, or all cash, a proportionate rebate is
allowed formouey paid for tickets or freight
over the Companies lines.
H. G. TOWNSEND, Gen'l Pass. Agt.
..... St. Louis, Mo.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-02-15
Worthy Of Praise.

As a rule we do not recommend Patent
Medicines, but when we know of one that
really is public benefactor, and does
positively cure, then We consider it our
duty to impart that information to all.
Electric Bitters are truly most valuable
medicine, and will surely cure Biliousness,
Fever and Ague, Stomach, Liver and Kid
ney Complaints, even when all other rem
edles fail. We know whereof we speak,
and can freely recommend them to all
Exch.-Sold at fifty cents a bottle by Bar
CLAY Bros. i6)
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-02-15
Queer Work OF Lightning.

Last summer, when the corn was two
feet high, the lightning struck it, kill
ing patch about one hundred square
feet in extent. 1t seemed to have kill
ed the ground, as neither weeds nor
spear Of grass has grown on it since.
The ground looks dead, and believe
it is. Occasionally these spots are
met with all over the prairies. The
people account for them Us buffalo
tramps, where buffaloes congregated
in fly time and tramped until they kill
cd tho soil, but from the above occur
renee l account for them as having
been struck by lightning. - Newport Ill.,,
Letter. 49,
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-02-15
A Grinning Deaths Head

is scarcely more sbhorrent to a refined OBJ.
server, than row OF discolored teeth made
visible by a smile. Correct the hideous
blemlsh with delightful and healthful
SOZODONT, which whitens yellow teeth,
imparts ruddiness and hardness to colorless,
unhealthy gums, and horal balminess to
the breath. The feminine mouth becomes
wondrously attractive in consequence of its
use. Leading actresses and contatrces re-
gard 1t as Incompatible.