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Omaha daily bee., 1886-08-06

Dgf PAINTS Wi..te lead, Sc;Prenc hzi nc
l2c; Paris whiting, &lsc; whiting, gilders,
lalc; whiting eom'L lisct laupblack, Ger
PrusSfan blue, sc; tlltrdmarine, lsc ;vandyke.
brown, SC: lumber, gurnt &c; lumber, raw, &c;
sienna, burnt, 4; sienna. raw, &c; Paris
green. genuine, 25c: Paris green, common,
pc: chrome green, N V. zoe: chrome green,
K. i?c: vernilllon, English, in oil Zoe; raw
and burnt umber l 10 cans 12c; raw and
burnt sienna, 1!c: vandyke, brown. lSc: re-
lined lampblack, l2c; coach black and ivory
black, Ice: drop black. lGc; Prussan blue,
40c: ultramarine blue. lSc: chrome green. L.,
NJ. 4 D., Ice; bliud and shutter green, L.. VI.
& d., l6c; Paris green, 1Sc; Indian red. lnc:
Venetian red. W.; Tuscan; 22c: American
NJ n o. d., lSc: good ochre Ice: patent
dryer Sc; graining color, light oak, dark oak.
walnut, chestnut and ash. l2c.
DRUGs AND CvEMCALs-Acid, carbolic,
SIC: acid tartaric, 53c balSam coDaba per
h, 45c bark; SaSsairaS, per h. l0c: calomel,
per ID &c; +; chinchonidia, per oz, 4Oc chloro-
form, per ID, 2oG Doyers powders, per h,
pure, per IL, lsc; lead, acetate, per h. 2oc;
oil, castor, No. !, per gal, Sl.5J: oil, castor,
No. ., per gal, Sl.4O: oil olive, per gal, 40;
oil. ,oriFannqn, 5oc; opium $50; quinine,
L. X w. and II. ~ ). per OZ, zoe; potassium
iodde, per h, $500; salicin per on, 4Oc; sui
phate morphine, per oa. 81 so: sulphur, per
n, &c; StrNchnine, per oZ, Sl30.
NARNlsnEs-B Barrels, per gallon: Furni-
coach extra, 81 40; coach, No. l, Sl.20; Da-
extra, 5Sc; shellac, $3.50; hard oil finish,
Sl.5U.
Spirits Cologne spirits, lss proof. sl.lO;
do 10l proof. Sill; spirits, second quality,
l0l proof, Sl.l0: do lSS proof. Sl.lO. Alco-
hol, lsS proof, sos per wine gallon. Redis-
sl.5O62.00; Kentucky bourbons, s2Oo@6.u0;
Kentucky and Pennsylvania ryeS. S2.0O(cp6.50;
Golden Sheaf bourbon and rye whiskies,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-12-23
Ma MaN>ne
THE HOLIDAY SEASON.


A Few Thoughts Incident to the Happy
Time-An Apostrophe to Christmas.
Of all the holiday seasons, that of
Christmas time is, or should be, at least,
the most remembered Coming, as it
| does, so near the close of the calendar
year, and commemorative, as it is, of the
birth of the Saviour of the world, it
brings much more to those Of thoughtful
minds and thankful hearts than the mere
temporal pleasure of the seasons festiv-
tiles. 1t suggests retrospective thought
on the year so nearly gone; review
of character and conduct, not forgetting
an impartial criticism of ones own faults
and follies, and new resolves for the bet
ter in the future.
There is also much to incite a feeling
of grateful thanks for the manifold
blessings of which we are the constant
recipients. We can be thankful above all
for the coming of Him who suffered and
died for the sins of the race, and who, in
addition to His sacrifice of Himself, gave
US also such grand principles by which
&c control and regulate human conduct.
Verify, a day which ushered in the
Light of the World, and gave to it's peo-
pie the priceless boon of redemption and
life eternal, is one, to be celebrated with
Joy and thanksgiving. 1t can awaken
in the human heart none but the highest
and hottest emotions.
A writer in the Chicago NeaUS, in an
''Apostrophe to Christmas" from which
we quote, says:
80 holy Christmasl No iteration can
dull the music of thy joyous greetings.
In thy right hand thou bringest comfort
and good cheer to the children of men
in thy left hand thou dearest banner
| wherein is inscribed: Freely We have
received, freely giver
| "With thy magic wand thou TOUGHEST
| the hearts of men, and the nations re-
| joice. Thou layest thy finger on the
| purse-strings of the rich, and they are
loosened; thou auointest the eyes of
| dreaming childhood, and straight it seeth
visions of Elysian fields where mother
| love makes fairer paradise than ever poet
| dreamed.
''In thy presence men forget their
| cares, women their trials, and the scep-
ter of household sovereignty passes to
| the imperious hands of little children,
''There is balsam in thy breath for
the healing of the sore of heart and dis
tressed. Thou pourest wine and oil into
the wounds of those lacerated and bleed
ing from the hard battle with the world.
90 holy Christmas! Thou roundest
out the year with loving-kindness thou
fllest the earth with feasting and glad
ness, and the sky with the music of the
| love of God to man, and the hearts of US
all with that peace and that 10y which
we know and feel and yet can not under
stand"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-12-23

warning the woodland orchestra to put
up it's pipes and close the season. Tom
and Evelyn, coming from some concert
or prayer-meeting down town, paused
a moment at the veranda steps, and
husky goodnight" had just dropped
from Toms lips, when the moon, peep
ing through rent in feecy vail Of
cloud she had been wearing until the
winds had torn it to rags, saw him take
Evelyn's hands more tenderly than
common, or even the most courtly polite
ness required, and then, although the
moon couldn't hear word he said, for
he spoke so softly that nobody but
Evelyn-not even the big black cricket
under the fag-stone, that stopped fid-
ding and listened with all his might
could hear; yet he must have said good
night over again, and said it slowly.
For, after the moon had tried on two
other clouds without keeping either of
them, she happened to look down, just
as Tom ceased to speak. And there
Evelyn's hands lay still in his, although
he had said ''good-night," and it was
time for him to go; the quivering lashes
lifted, the brown eyes looked up into his
own, and then, the sweetest little face
under the stars lay on Toms shoulder.
And the moon, with great show of
being astonished, as though she had
never seen such a performance since
she began lowering around the earth,
made her mouth into great round o,
and pulled thick cloud over her face
and left Evelyn there, crying on Toms
shoulder.
Of all things in the world, cryingl
What under the moon was there to
cry about? I don't know, any more
than [ know why Jacob lifted up his
voice and wept when he kissed Rachel.
All I know IS what the moon saw. She
loitered around behind the clouds that
night until half-past eleven O'Clock, and
then went to bed. Just as she pulled
the coverlid Of the horizon over her
head, she looked at the house. It was
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-12-23

sniffies. And so, on this night of uni
versal rejoicing, amid all the hilarity,
the singing and shouting, the music,
the merry jostling and the animated
confusion, sweet Evelyn Barr was en-
gagged in what her brother Jack called
"the great tear act for the Christmas
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS giganteus.
Evelyn's eyes were too pretty for tears,
but what will you have? The brook that
laughs and sings in June will overflow
sometimes in April; it is only the els
tern that never rises to the passion Of
freshet.
Why, nearly two years before this
sit down, it's long story, and there
isn't much in it-Evelyn had danced and
laughed and sang her way into poor
Tom Applegate's heart, without the
slightest effort on her own part, and
with a great deal of prompt, earnest
cooperation on the part of Tom, though
it took him about a year to tell her
of it, and then the girls laughed at
him and pitied her. At least, they
said they did. There were young fell
lows, a score of them, signing about
Evelyn, weaving her name into acros-
tics, full of trees and breeze, and pass
ing hour, and opening fow'r, and
sonnets that limped along on unequal
feet: handsome young fellows, brill
liant young fellows, full of promise
and prospects, who worshiped the
ground she danced over. And on the
outer edge of this circle Tom lowered,
bashful adorer, a faint-hearted lover,
who never dared sign his verses, and
who often looked as though he were
going to say something brilliant, and
as often abruptly gave it up, and looked
at his hands, on the useful fingers of
which he carefully tailed the feet Of
his sonnets.
But the deep, still fountain in his heart
overfowed one night when the summer
had sped away and the falling leaf was
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-12-23

Nobody sympathized with Evelyn, and
nobody had fair word for Tom. No
body liked him. 'He is such fool"
said her father; 'he's been at that same
counter in my store nearly four years,
and knows less about it now than cash
boy; and besides, he hasn't dollar in
the world but the salary pay him"
'He's such duffer," said Evelyn's
brother Jack, che never goes anywhere
with the fellows and he dresses like a
guy" ''He's so awkward, !" said her sister
Fife. ale stepped on every dress IN the
parlor at the sociable, and when he called
here last week he upset the globe of gold
fish and broke your fan" "He's so
unpardonably homely and quiet" said
mamma, che actually Expresses one"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-12-23

''He's manly, and brilliant, and grace
full, and handsome" said Evelyn, de-
family, sand love him more than al
the rest of the world,'' and as she ut
tered the last and truest words Of her
defense she broke down and ran away
to cry over tin-type of an ordinary
looking young fellow with mustache
that family lost itself in its own shadow
when it felt strong enough to make one.
But the locksmith has ever been jester
in ordinary to Cupid, and the best way
to bring two young people together is to
keep them apart. There was an eternity
of loneliness and separation amounting
to four days, and then half hours par
adise of kisses and tears, and the next
day Master Toms place at the hand
kerchief counter knew him no more for
ever, and Miss Evelyn was scolded by
every one in the family who could re-. l.
ize the enorm.ty of her offense in low
ing young man who was an object Of
Indifference to other people.
II will send you away to school,"
stormed papa; ''you shall start to-mor-
row.
evil it be Kindergarten or a Sun
day-school, papa?'' asked Evelyn. 'I'm
too young to attend any other kind''
But papa was in no jesting humor,
and darkly threatened convent, with
barred windows and gloomy walls, and
when Evelyn suggested that she
couldn't get in because of the prejudice
against Baptist nuns, she was sent to
her room.
But three days after she saw Tom,
who rather favored the convent plan,
because his sister was educated at
convent school, and liked it and came
out the bluest kind of a Presbyterian
But when Evelyn told papa she would
go to please him, he said: s'Eh?" and
looked at her suspiciously, and at once re-
voked plan that had been matured for
sending her away down East, to her
great-aunt Dorothy, who lived in Maine,
in town which nobody in all the West
could pronounce when it was spelled for
them, or spell when it was given out.
IT WISH" said the old man, speaking
to the clock when he was alone with it,
1T wish I could put Tom into an insane
asylum or the penitentiary, Idon'tmuch
But still Tom retained about enough
sense to keep out Of the asylum, and as
there is no law providing for the i'm
prisonment of ayoung man for falling
in love, papa could do nothing.
So the time dragged YEARLY away.
One, two, five, ten, fifty years COM
pleted their circuits, and notes that run
twelve months from the day of Toms
Punishment began to fall due, and, &C
casionaIly, go to protest. This seems
remarkable, until by reference to the
only authentic history of the world,
from which the facts in this narrative
have been mainly compiled, it is found
that the period from September, 1884, to
December, 1885, really covered a period
of fifty years. Some of the nights were
many months long; for weeks at time
during that half century the sun did z
not rise at all, the stars were frequent =
~ blotted out, and the world rolled -
[coNTINUED ON THIRD PAGE. an
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-12-23
CHRISTMAS SAVED.
fearful Tribulations and a Time
ly Triumph.
Nv like a noisy pol
BY ROBERT j. BUROETTE.

w ike a noisy pol
itician the wind
w e n t b 10 w i n G
ar und t b a t
Christmas E v e,
clustering about
what it had done
and what it could
do; bowling about
by-g O. e rackets
with cyclones and
billiards the year
it lived in Dakota;
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-12-23

Then thoughtlessly the mother said: 1.-THE
people in their legends tell
How even yet the cattle kneel, when rings
the midnight Christmas bell
The cows and oxen in their stalls, upon
their Bonded knees adore,
AS if they saw some wondrous sights, or
heard strange music passing DER.
" But sleep, my Edith, now, nor try to specu-
late on themes so vast.
Our Christmas has no wonder-lore, the age
Of miracles is past.
"Oh! please, Mamma" Babe Edith cried,
"don't tell me such a dreadful thingl
For then there'd be no Santa Claus, my
precious Christmas gifts to bring"
The little head has dropped aside, the
flower-like eyelids softly close,
The mother, with last fond kiss, unto her
own apartment goes;
And soon the house is dark and still, while
in the frelights fading glow
The Christmas stockings swinging hang,
Like Blue Boards wives, a ghostly
row.
When, bark! door is opened slow, step
is on the landing there;
Babe Edith enters fast asleep, although her
eyes so widely stare.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-12-23

Across the frozen snow she passed, as light
as though an angel trod,
And no one heard the tiny feet, and no one
saw her there-save God.
Then softly at the stable-door the little
hands with patience wrought,
Till back it swung, upon its hinge-lo! here
was what the dreamer sought
"The age of miracles is past?'' Wise mother,
if it had been so,
How then escaped the little one the dan
gers of the wind and snow?
Who saved her in the midnight dark, from
tramping hoof and threatening horn.
And in manager Graded her, where He the
Christmas child was born?
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-12-23

And all the dear familiar tale repeated to
the little maid,
Why Christ, among the cattle born, was in
q stable manger laid;
And why no lamp was needed there, for
where the Blessed Infant lay
A concentrated brightness shone, till all the
place was light as day;
And why the cattle, in their stalls, in adora-
ton bent the knee,
And, humbly suppliant to the Babe, &C
knowledged His divinity.
Then of the Christ-child's blameless life,
and of His cruel death, she told,
While down Babe Edith's paling cheeks the
tears of childish pity rolled,
Till soothed and comforted again, and to
her mothers bosom pressed,
Babe Edith lisps her goodnight prayer, and
lays her little head to rest.
Goodnight" the mothers kiss is laid
upon her darling's sleepy brow;
Goodnight, and Merry Christmas dear!
twill soon be Christmas morning
now"
But still the clinging arms detain: "Dear
Mamma, is-it-really true?
And do the Christmas Bossies kneel? I
don't believe it quite, can your"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-12-23

FEED well the hungry, clothe the poor
And such as stand in need:
This is the way to celebrate
A Christmas true indeed"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-12-23
CHRISTMAS DREAM.

EASE tell me why
the Lord came
down, a little child
at Chris t 10 a S.
tide?"
Babe Edith Of her
mother asked nor
gave her peace till
she replied.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-31

The plate was removed and the dead mans face
revealed. Mr. Hedges glanced at it and said:
That's Pierce Weaver. / have known him
too long to be mistaken"
The coffin was taken out and laid on the
ground, the lid was removed and then Mrs.
Pierce left the carriage and approaching it looked
at the face.
"Yes. that's Jim Pierce Weaver. my husband"
she said. Now remove the sock and see the
toes"
The socks were both taken of, and the pc
culiarity described by Mrs. Weaver was found.
Other marks on the body described by the lady
were found just as she said they would be, and
then the body was again buried and the party
returned to town.
Mrs. Weaver is a progressing looking lady,
and brings with her the strongest kind of letters
from the Mayor Of Indianapolis, the Judge of
the Supreme Court and other officials. She
win remain in the city a few days
and then take her husbands body back to In
dianapois where she will have it inferred. Mrs.
Weaver has instructed Mr.. E Gown to bring suit
against the railroads. She will also 60 to Texas
and take charge of her husbands property in
that State or start another law suit
When Plerce's body was brought back to At
lanta 5000 was found on him. The Texas claim
ants have written to Mr. W. o. Jones. who has
the money, for it, but Mr. Brown has requested
Mr. Jones to hold the money.
The suit thus launched on the sea of law will
be a long and tedious one.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-31
BIRMINGHAM'S DEFENSE.
An Effort Made to Prove that Benion's Death
Was the Result of a Fall.

Medical Jurisprudence presents the most inter
est in the trial of Thomas Birmingham. The
defense SO far has not been inclined to question
that the cause of Benion's death lay in the rup-
tured kidney. Attorney Spaan who represents
the prisoner, has manifested, 80 far in cross
examination, disposition to relieve his client Of
the responsibility for administering violence
sufficient to cause the rupture He will
seek to prove that Benton, while at the
station house, suffered mostly from liquor. and
and that he lay in drunken stupor in his bunk
While in this condition he rolled off onto the
floor. 1t was violence from this fall that caused
the rupture. With this can be connected Dr.
Brennan's testimony in cross-examination. He
said man suffering from a rupture could not
live six hours. and he referred to DR.. Crosse Of
Philadelphia, as authority. Benion lived near
ly twenty four hours after being taken to the
station house.
The States witness thus going TO the relief of
the defense led Prosecutor Harding to read nm
on kidney diseases. He took Grose, and found
that this eminent authority said one with an
infamed kidney may live only few minutes,
and yet life under this condition may
be prolonged, owing to the extent
of the injury and other favoring cir
cumstances, TO few hours, and even days
and weeks Grose gave the prosecutor
another idea. One of the symptoms of rup-
ture of kidney is the emission of bloody fluid.
1t was learned yesterday for the first time that
Benion's under garments were stained in this
way. DR.. Hodges was the principal witness yes
terday for the State He said kidney could be
ruptured by external violence. and when this oc-
Cured death generally followed. His
attention being called to the au-
thority of DR.. Grose, he said it
was unquestioned. Benion's rupture could not
have been caused by falling from the station
house bunk. He did not think whisky had any
effect in this case-that s, to the extent of less
ening the strength of the kidneys to resist vio-
ence He believed Benion's death resulted from
the rupture, and that it was caused by severe
blows.
fcers testified as to the condition of Benton at
the station-house. Court was adjourned at noon
until Monday morning
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-31
A PATED BLOCK.
The Misfortunes That Have Overtaken the
Occupants of the Mortland Block.

Gamblers and sporting men are naturally and
VIGOROUSLY superstitious. The superstitions in
cident to faro, poker and all similar games of
chance are INDUCED by 80 per cent of the men
who play cards professionally. Men and locali-
ties who are unlucky come to be regarded
as ''Jonahs" or "Hoodoos," and are
Stunned by the members of the fraternity.
The Mortland Block. on North Illinois street,
opposite the st. Charles Hotel, has long been re-
garded with disfavor by the gentlemen of the
guild. as every man who ever did business in it,
either as a gambler or saloon keeper, has met
with misfortune, and the death of John Calder,
the last occupant which occurred Friday night
has settled its reputation forever It was orig
inally built by Alex. Mortland for a gambling
house, and shortly after its completion he was
killed by the accidental overturning of his
buggy. William Ridgeway was of the
first occupants "Ridgs" passed in his checks
within very short time. and George Leggett
took an interest in the game conducted up
stairs. John Achey was also in some way con-
nected with it. Achey killed Leggett and was
hanged for the crime. Next came in rapid sue
cesson two or three other gamblers. every
one of whom dropped his bundle" and
finally Harry Mcfarland took the business
was his head cook Mcfarland broke
up, losing every dollar he had, and Harris died
Then Owen Randall took it, and not only lost all
mis- money, but was carried from the house to
die Oliver Davis succeeded him, and he, too,
died in the house. Truman Featherly, an old
timer who was a dealer il the game, also died
there. Louis Landau followed and left town
Calder died at the place, Friday night, of typhoid
fever.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-31
Thomas Behymer's Insanity.

Thomas Behymer, of Brightwood, twenty nine
years Of age and a carpenter, has recently mani
tested violent insanity. For eight years, the
record of the inquest tells, he has been Eighty,
the trouble being attributable to spinal injuries
which he sustained while he was lifting heavy
timbers. One of his illusions is that he is
worth Millions and has been invited to a party
in Italy, bnt he will not go. because invitations
were not given to his friends. AT times he would
go to the other extreme by wandering the streets
and asking for relief. A few nights ago he broke
up the furniture at the home of his sisters with
whom he lived. He threatened to kill them, and
attacked one with chair. The
public took charge of him and
at the station house he fancied ne was John L.
Sullivan, and challenged his felow-prisoners.
One of them, jokngly, accepted the challenge
and getting within reach of Behymer's brawny
army was knocked down. He retired with a
black eye and bruised nose Yesterday Be-
hymer. in the character of Sullivan. expressed a
warm desire to whip Paddy Ryan. He was sent
to the Insane Asylum.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-31
Finely-Bred Trotting Stock.

Mr.. d. w. Bliss, superintendent of the noted
Bread-loaf stock-farm, the home of the renowned
Daniel Lambert. Middlebury, Vt, arrived in
this city yesterday, with two inbred Morgan
youngsters-one a two ear-old black colt by
Thought, son of Daniel Lambert, dam Never
Mind by son of Young Moscow-consigned
to Messrs. Smith & Brandenburg, of
Sugar Creek Hancock county, Indiana
and the other. bay two-year old filly, by Mo-
ton (record 2:29), son Of Daniel Lambert dam
White River by the Warren Horse, son of
Churchill Horse. by Vermont Black Hawk; con-
signed to n. A. Randall, of the Western Sports
man. Both animals are beautiful specimens Of
the renowned Morgan. family. and attracted
quite throng of horse fanciers to Dr. Elliott's
stables. on Wabash street, where they may be
seen until Monday next
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-31
Charged with Embellishments

About o'clock this morning John Kidd was
arrested by Captain Campbell, on warrant
sworn out by Edward D. Mazlin, a Frenchman
who accuses Kidd of having embezzied $3.50 of
his money. which he has for some time
had in his possession. The arrest was
made az Kids home, No. 1927 College avenue,
ard he was allowed to give bond in
the sum of $4,000, George W. Spahr and
Frank Creelman becoming sureties for his ap-
pearance. For some time past rumors have
been circulated to the effect that Mr. Kidds
financial affairs were in rather complicated con-
dition but there have been 10 charges of dis
honest conduct made against him up to this time