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The Columbus journal., 1885-11-04

THREE men and q woman were
buried in the ruins of q frame build
ing the other day which collapsed on
Wabash avenue, Chicago. One of
the men was killed outright and his
companion and the woman, who was
in an upper part of the building at
the time of the disaster, received &C.
rious injuries.
The Columbus journal., 1885-11-04

On the morning of the Both ult.,
snow fell to tine depth Of three inches
at Miniwsti, Quebec. The weather
10 cold and blustery.
Mr.. SrEAD's only defence in the trial
Of the Armstrong abduction csse in
London was that the end justified the
mesns. 1t lie yet to be seen whether
the jury vii! arrive at the same opin-
ion.
The grand jury in London recently
found q true bill against Mt. Stead,
editor Of the Pail Hall Gazette. and
prisoners in the Armstrong case for
an abduction conspiracy and indecent
assault.
J.. B Duck and F. NJ. Rose, living
near Bloomington, Neb., were Or:
rested last week by sheriff Hamilton,
Of York Co., Neb., charged with OBJ
tanning about $500 worth of goods
under false pretences.
A GREAT migration of squirrels is
in progress from northwestern Mis-.
sissippi in the direction of Arksnsas.
Men are killing thoussnds of them
with sticks. Scarcity of msst is the
cause OF the movement.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has been
compelled to establish new rules at
the White II use to keep the hungry
! Office seeker 'ro'' taking up his val
liable time. =. .:.,. aside, gentlemen,
during the IL OF November.
A GRAND excursion train Of six
Pullman palace cars, one first-clsss
day coach, one smoking car and one
baggage car. passed this city Thurs
day afternoon OF last week, bound
for the golden shores of California.
ROBERT C.. BLAIR, who shot and
killed James Alexander, the othel
day not far from Ponca, Neb. has beer
captured by the city marshall of Har
tington, Cedar county. He will b
brought back to Poncs by Sheriff
PomerOy.
EIGHTY.oNE complaints have beer
lodged with the livestock com
mission, from the vicinity of Jackson
Ponca and Dakota City,ss to the prev
alence of CHAMBERS among horses. Th'
disease was first noticed there three
weeks ago
FREDERIC FLoHR, a German o
Omaha, was found Saturday mornin.
hanging 10 the limb of q sapling il
Orange grove, q short distance be
yond Hsnscom park, dead. 1t was
case OF suicide and 40 decided by tn
%coroner's jury.
The recent Dews from Bel2rad'
states that the Servisn premier ha
sent Q note to the powers in which b.
expresses a desire for peace on tn
basis Of the Berlin treaty. He ais
says he hopes to see the sultar's au
thority restored in Bulgaria and eas
tern Roumelis.
WM. PINCKNEY, formerly chic
clerk in the United States land ofic
for the southwestern district of Col
orado, with headquarters at Pueblo
was arrested the other day at 81
Louis, Mo. 1t is stated that he j
wanted on indictment in Denver 70
extensive land swindles.
1T is reported that . st. Josep
husband, who has been absent 70
twenty years, put in an appearance
the other day, handed his wife $4OO(
in cash and q deed for Q $4,000 farr
and again left. These acts are 90 IN
sccountsbly generous on the part q
this husband that they are worthy O
mention. :.
The Columbus journal., 1885-11-04

COMMISSIONER SPARKS, of the land
Office, does not approve of the policy
which Assistant Secretary jerks has
laid down of suspending the thirty
suits in Montana against those who
are charged with taking timber from
the public domain. He has written q
letter to Secretary Lamar protesting
against this.
The Columbus journal., 1885-11-04

A VIOLENT agitation of the Chinese
question has broken out in Augusta,
Ga, and the citizens have petitioned
the city council to take steps to pre-
vent further Immigration.
The Columbus journal., 1885-11-04

WORK on the Beatrice street rail.
way began last week. A mile 10 to
be built and T running by De-
cember.
The Columbus journal., 1885-11-04

AUGUST BrENLow, who was ar
rested the other night in Cleveland
for passing counterfeit money, hanged
himself in his cell.
The Columbus journal., 1885-11-04

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has issued
his proclamation for Thanksgiving,
designating Nov. 18th.
The Columbus journal., 1885-11-04

The state veterinarian has received
some hog cholera virus with which
to inoculate hogs to prevent them
taking the cholera.
The Columbus journal., 1885-11-04

A UNITED STATES fish commission
car left Washington City one night
last week to supply applicants in Mis-
souri,, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho,
Utah, Colorado and Kansas. The car
will 60 via st. Louis and Omaha to
Ogden aud will! return to Cheyenne,
Denver and Kansas City to St Louis.
The Columbus journal., 1885-11-04

A NUMBER of conservative mem.
bers of parliament arrived the other
day at Ottawa, Ont, and will
intercede for Riel. The date to which
Riel has been respited is Nov. 10th.
1t is q very questionable question any
any how, whether any body ought to
be hanged, and in Riel's condition OF
mind it is thought to be questionable
whether even the law could hold him
responsible for his acts.
The Columbus journal., 1885-11-04

SENATOR VAN WICK called the
other day at the treasury department,
Washington City, and left q note for
Secretary Manning, requesting that
he would make q condition with con-
tractors who were constructing public
buildings in Nebraska, that convict
labor should not be employed.
The Columbus journal., 1885-11-04

CITIZENS Of chihuahua, Mexico, are
talking of annexation to the United
States. We believe that our citizens
will be q little slow to extend the
area of the republic in that direction.
If communities naturally gravitate
towards US We cannot we'll help it,
and eventually the Mexicans may
make good citizens.
The Columbus journal., 1885-11-04

GEN. LOGAN one evening last week
addressed . large republican q
meeting in Philadelphia, Pa.
The Columbus journal., 1885-11-04

he is going to add q few last touches
to the campaign. He was serenaded
at the Ebbitt House by some Of his
many Washington friends.
The Postmssier-G General has gone
to Wisconsin to attend the funeral Of
his sister. Secretary Whitney has
gone to New York to register. Sec
rotary Bsysrd has been acting host to
d.. Curry during the week, and the
latter 10 making arrangements to sail
for Spain on his recently appointed
mission. Secretary Manning is
studying hard in order that be may
when Congress meets, be able to ans
wer come OF the questions which
will be propouuded by the sstute
finsncisl students. who compose the
Senate Finance Committee. The way
he carries himself before the commit.
tee will have much to do with his fu.
ture standing. The duties of the
Secretary Of the Treasury are probsb-
ably more e1acting than those Of any
other Cabinet position, and the in
terest to see how Mr.. Manning will
deport himself this winter is not sur
prising.
The Capitol is already being put in
readiness for Congress which meets in
six weeks. The comfort Of those who
serve their country in both ends OF
the building is to be more closely at.
tended to at the next session than
heretofore. Both the Senate and
House will have new carpets. The
cloak rooms, those indispensable &C
cessories to legislation, where Con.
gressmen gather, smoke, joke, and
otherwise entertain each other, ar,
being newly frescoed and furnished
An additional s0ftness and sans sOuc
touch, as it were, Is being given to tn.
lounges that Turk in pleasant corners
The House is envious of the Senate
luxuries. aud given to initiating them
Last year the Senate removed the lit
tie strips of card board with name
printed on them, showing to which
Senator each desk belonged and Sub
stituted for them little silver plates
This is now to be done in the House
and it will take three hundred an,
thirty three silver plates.
The Columbus journal., 1885-11-04

A DISPATCH received from st.
Johns, N. F., at Halifax, N. S., on the
18th uit., states that a great storm
ragged off the coast of Labrador q few
days before doing immense damage
among the fishing feet. Eighty yes.
sells were wrecked or driven ashore,
and at least seventy men lost their
lives. Two thousand persons were
reported ashore in q destitute condi'
ton. The news created great excite
ment at Halifax.
The Columbus journal., 1885-11-04

The war Office at Constsntinople
last week presented q scene of unu.
susl activity clearly indicating that
the Porte is determined on adopting
effective measures in the event of the
powers failing to agree on . plan for
the settlement OF tho Roumslisn
question. An Official report shows
that $4,000 Turkish troops are now
mustered at available points on the
frontier for active service in the Bal.
kan ~peninsuls, and reinforcements
ere continually arriving.
The Columbus journal., 1885-11-04

"A CONSPIRACY has recently been de-
veloped at Boston to take the life of q
beautiful young Irish. lady who was
some years engaged ss q domestic in
q wealthy Baltimore family. The
only son of the family made love to
her and they were clsndestincly mar
ried. The father stormed, but the
young man stuck to his bride. 1t is
said the young lady is heir to consid-
cradle property, and by getting rid of
her the property would fall into their
hands. In the attempt to poison her
she suffered terribly but recovered.
The last attempt to take her life was
to induce her to 60 to Baltimore and
hired James Donohue to kill her for
$1,000. When Donohue got the evi.
dence in proper shape he revealed the
plot to the police and Mrs. Emma
Coolidge, the leading spirit, has been
arrested and the officers have gone to
Baltimore to arrest the father-in-law
and other parties. The intended vic.
tim is Mrs. Charles j. Mullen.
The Columbus journal., 1885-11-04

TIE state general association o!
Congregational churches was in ses-
sion last week at Beatrice.
The Columbus journal., 1885-11-04

MRS. JULIA A. GRANT, widow OF
Gen. Grant, has recently made the
statement to w. r. Grace. mayor OF
the city Of New York, that Riverside
was selected by herself aud family as
the burial place of Gen. Grant, and,
for reasons stated in her note. leaves
the strong inference that her desire is
that his body remain in New York.
The Columbus journal., 1885-11-04
YOU FORGETT!

Israel don't depend solely on selling Dry Good for a living, IA he de-
rives income enough from other source to live veryc comfortably, and he has
made up bis mind to make it quite interesting in the Dry Goods and Cloth
ing line just for the fun of the thing, and give the citizens of Platte county
and surrounding country the benefit of this fun while it lasts
The Columbus journal., 1885-11-04

THERE was quite . heavy snowfall
ct Grand Forks, OAK, one night last
week. The snowstorm was travelling
south.
The Columbus journal., 1885-11-04

The Chinese farm house is . curious
looking abode. Usually it is shelter
ed with groves OF feathery bamboo
and thick-spreading bauyans. The
walls are of clay or wood, and the in.
terror of the house consists OF one
main room, extending from the floor
to the tiled roof, with closet looking
apartments in the corners for sleeping
rooms. There lie q sliding window in
the roof, made of cut oyster shells Ar
ranged in rows, while the side win
DOVE are mere wooden shutters. The
floor is the bare earth, where at night
fall there often gather together q mis-
cellaneous family of dirty children.
fowls, ducks, pigeons and q litter Of
pigs, all. living together in delightful
bsrmony.-Er.
The Columbus journal., 1885-11-04

A MAN giving his name as Herrick
H. Bridges in New York the other
day looking hungry and tired accost-
ed a police officer and said he had
robbed the store of Cumberledge s.
Smith, at Athol, Oak, of $1,000 and
had spent the money and was willing
to 60 back and take his punishment.
He was locked up and the Dakota
authorities will be consulted.
The Columbus journal., 1885-11-04
OBSERVE SOME Of NY EYE OPENERS and REFLECT.

l will finally say to my friends that my stock will always be kept up to
lts fullest capacity. and viii, be very happy to show you through and post
You on prices. no matter whether you buy OF not.
ISRAEL GIUCK.
Proprietor of the Revolution Store.
The Columbus journal., 1885-11-04

JOHN SHERMAN's pet name down
south is q "Yelper.stretcher."
The Columbus journal., 1885-11-04
After this great laundering and roaring noise of the L" onc-day cheap
sale competitors has passed away.
ISRAEL GLUCK

Steps now to the front, and prOclaims that he will from this LAY m nof only
hold q one or two days cheap sale. but will hold a cheap sale from this day
on up to the lst day Of JANUARY next. Everything in my store has
been marked AWAY DOWN, from a paper of pins to a silk dress, and from
. red bandsns to q fine wedding suit OF clothes. This is q o ga or wind, but
real facts, for when l Say . thing l mean it.
The Columbus journal., 1885-11-04

THos. WHITLEY, q travelling man of
st. Louis, was married the other day
at Beatrice, Neb., aud afterwards
went to Lincoln, and took q room, and
it was noticed that be and his wife
had not been seen since they retired.
The room was broken open and both
found in agony from morphine. They
are both alive at this time but neither
of them have recovered conscious.
ness. The lady may live but Whitley
cannot recover. II is . case Of sui.
eide. Since writing the above both
parties have passed into eternity,
leaving the mystery unsoived.
The Columbus journal., 1885-11-04

Nh. j. H. MCCALL. q citizen of
Plum Greek, Neb., met with . serious
accident the other day by his team of
horses becoming frightened; they
commenced plunging and kicking,
upset the buggy and threw Mr..
Mccall with violence on to q barbed
wire fence, tearing his clothes and
frightfully decorating bis side, shoul-
der and back. One shoulder was
dislocated. Hopes are entertained
that he will recover.
The Columbus journal., 1885-11-04

SENATOR JOHN SHERMAN made an
excellent speech the other evening to
q large political gathering at Peters,
burg, Va. He was introduced to the
meeting by General Malone, ss the
foremost statesman of the country.
General Malone esteemed it q great
honor to have the privilege of intro
ducing the distinguished senator from
Ohio to q Virginia audience. He
came there, he said, to address the
reason, and not the prejudices, Of the
people, and he bespoke for him a
cordial greeting and respectful hear
ing. Senator Sherman was cordially
greeted and accorded q most res
pectful and attentive hearing.
The Columbus journal., 1885-11-04

IT is stated that the home-rule party
has now held one-halt of it's county
conventions in Ireland. In every one
of these ParneiI's dominance las not
been ever contested. The result has
therefore been that thirty-eight Par
nellite candidates for parliamentary
seats have been nominated to receive
the home-rule vote and in every case
the nomination was made without q
single division.
The Columbus journal., 1885-11-04

w. MANGAN's residence at Auburn,
Neb, was struck Of the night of the
18th ult., by lightning. 1t had a
square hip roof and it was com.
pletely riddled, the electric fluid pas
sing down all four corners, taking of
the shingles and cornice as it went.
The family of eight persons in the
house at the time all escaped I'M
harmed. The building took fire but
Il was put out.
The Columbus journal., 1885-11-04

O0ul0u0 ~ oAN
killed.
AS many as 200 needle pointed
lightniugrod tips have been fixed
upon the rods at the top of the Wash.
ington monument to catch any thun-
derbolts that may come flashing
down.
An explosion occurred the other
morning at the Racoon pits, in Ches-
terrified county, Va. There were one
hundred men in the mine at the time,
but only one was killed and three
wounded.
The commission for selecting .
location for the soldiers home in ses.
sion last week in Chicago have ex-
perienced q difficult time and had not
at last report been able to agree upon
q location.
W. r. DAVIS, of Chicago, it is
stated at Washington, has been dis
barred from practice az an attorney
before the interior department, upon
evidence that he extorted illegal fees
in pension cases.
SrxrY.F1vE cows belonging to +.
Sattenstine, who sells milk In New
York city. were killed the other day,
being found suffering from pleuro-
pneumonia. The animals had been
ailing for some time.
Two thousand business men in New
York were recently swindled by .
map publisher, who went around
gathering up IS bills and promising
to insert pictures Of business houses
in . map, which Was meyer issued.
Sharp County record., 1885-04-16
THE OUTSIDE OF A BOOK.

Very Often More Substance and Character
on the Outside Than on the Inside.
A well-bound book will open easily
and will close firmly. While reading it
will not be necessary TO press the cov-
ers back, and when laid down they will
not cape apart. 1t will be neither stiff
as cast iron and heavy, with beveled
edges, nor limp, though fashion at
present requires it to be either one or
the other. A good binding is elastic; it
will Weld, but it will return to its place.
If covered with full crushed morocco,
which makes the finest and best cover
ing, the polishing of the leather will be
a great test of the binders care and
taste. Leyant morocco comes with a
large grain, and if left so is easily dam
aged or torn. 1t should therefore be
crushed with 'polisher, a large
Furnishing tool, and the whole appear
ance of the book depends on how this
crushing is done. 1t may be so light as
to be of little service, and to look more
like the result of accident than of de-
sign, or it may be carried so far that
the desirable variety of texture is quite
lost, or it may be uneven, spotty and
slovenly. The gilt tooling and letter
ing should, in modern books, be neat
and sharp. The ornamental tooling,
which is done with small stamps, called
irons, though now universally engraved
in brass, may be so arranged as to form
very pretty patterns or the reverse. 1t
follows that book may have as much
character in its outside appearance as its
inside, and very often it has more sub
stance. Like everything that is done
by hand, it may be vulgar or quiet,
coarse or elegant, flimsy or substantial.
There is no sort of hand work that does
not rise at times to the dignity of fine
art, and bookbinding is certainly no ex-
ception.-M Y. Times.
Sharp County record., 1885-04-16
A RICH DISCOVERY.
Observations of Sailor just Returned
From Polar Whaling Expedition.

Observations of a Sailor just Returned
From a Polar Whaling Expedition
One tribe was new in those parts,
and before us whalers had never seen
white complexiored men. So eager
were they to get wooden goods and
metal implements that they had given
the whalers who had preceded us the
very fur clothing on their backs, and
were rugged out ridiculously in clothing
of our more sOutherly latitudes. One
fellow in particular for an Esquimau4
a tall, gaunt man-cOme running ID
advance of the others and had on only
an army overcoat and pair of boots
Somebody dubbed him Abe Lincoln
He ran along nimbly and evidently fell
warm enough in the sunbeams, but ID
order to board us he undertook 70
climb up the shadOwed side OF the yes
sci. and oh! how he yelled from tN
cold. With some little work, we gN
him aboard and took him back to INT
warm cabin and the steward got him 8
pair of heavy trousers. Well, we haq
a motley crew on deck when the rest o.
the Esquimaux arrived. The two par
tally civilized tribes were rich wlu
fantastic ornaments, but the new trip,
had old knife blades, pieces of tin anu
brass tied across their foreheads ant
various kinds of more refined goou
ewelrv, such as earrings, necklaces
bracelets. They could not speak !
word of English, but seemed happy M an.
made themselves at home at once hO'
Lincoln was so delighted with his new
trousers, and, in fact, his whole outlltt
that he danced about the deck IN n.y.
clee. He cut such a fancy figure ul@
/ lust roared with laughter. / threw
back my head, opened my mouth Wu,
and enjoyed myself. Suddenly lllJ3
all clustered about me and earneS.
peered-into my mouth. l stopPS.,
laughing and thought there must "
something wrong with my appearance,
This was a serious matter to mt
those daEs-as 1 heliazed that my tIlp
fioure when ashore took many gnI
heart by storm. These half savas%
stood mutely gazing at me, and aus', ne
some persuasion my messmates gov nj
to open my mouth again. Each Esqtu
maux craned his neck forward to gg3'SI
view. "Yes, there it is, sure enousp,
They were looking at some gold hlllns. ,aps
in my teeth. And they set to lauUd nsd
ing and dancing around me as II nlsG , s1I
l learned that they took these golu lu
ings to be some new kind of ornalneD'
Cor. Brooklyn Eaote.
Sharp County record., 1885-04-16
UNREST.

Here in the years wherein | stand
gaze across the fallOw land;
Across the conquest and its cost;
Beyond the sOught-for and the lost;
And look into thine eyes of joy
Thou brown-faced, tunicked country boy!
Just thou and thine, with naught between,
Make up that sweetest olden scene.
o tender scene and sight and sound!
The farmhouse with its lilaCS round:
The poppy-bed; the locust trees;
The stllicidic hum of bees;
The well, with sturdy Oaken sweep;
The morning-glories half asleep;
The swallows, gossping; the Groom
Of doves about the barn; the noon
When kline, breast-deep, stand in the stream
And thy world pauses in dream!
Beyond, the uplands; then, the hills,
Where interlacing. creep the rllls;
Here forests, sentinels of peace;
There, fields with opulent increase;
Below, the valley, stretching far
And dim to the horizons bar.
Ny brownfaced lad I look again
From out the lairs and lives of men.
| see the longing in thy face
To grow beyond the commonplace
/ know the hurts that tween us lie,
And pity thee! For thou vert l.
-Edlgdrd L. JVdlemdn, IN Current
Sharp County record., 1885-04-16
NO USE.
How Bad Man from the West Was Con-
quered.


quered.
He looked in at the door, saw six OF
eight men around the stove, and then
he drew back to arrange his toilet.
Down the back of his neck was
bowie-knife. In his eye the Lightning
lurked, and around his mouth was an
expression to freeze the blood. When
he entered the saloon it was with a
war-whoop which should have lifted
every man a foot-high, but no one
moved When he advanced to the bar
and asked for a glass of double-and-
twisted death at forty rods, his voice
and manner should have driven the
bartender down through the floor, but
he didn't sink an inch.
This is my day for gore!" beloved
the stranger, as he held up the glass
and surveyed the audience.
Nobody seemed to care.
'Who put Tiger Sack under the sod?'
he demanded in an awful voice.
Nobody answered.
"Who run Bloody Pete out of Dead.
wood? Who made Awful Smith take
water at Denvcr?
One man said something about the
weather, but no one minded the in
quiry.
"And I've come down from the
mountains to get dozen scalp-lockS
for a new table-cloth!" howled the
straags2..-. 80 3 - 1.-n,-t "a dozen-'leyen
wouldn't do me. Whoop! Whoopee!"
At this point one of the men who had
been trying to catch a nap got up and
walked over to the stranger ana took
him by the ear and led him to the door
and gave him lift. As he returned to
his chair one of the crowd inquired:
"Who was he?"
Dunno, but he made me tired, was
the reply, and the entire affair dropped
without another word.
Goodbye, Catamount Sam, Panther
Jack and Buckskin Bill! You've had
your day. It's no use ringing up the
curtain on empty benches.-Detro't
Free Press.