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Omaha daily bee., 1888-06-10
An Aged PenSiOner.

Congressman O'Donnell of Michigan
is quite elated over pension case, says
the Washington ID. C.l Capitol, which
is remarkable in its way. Three years
ago John Batchelder, who resides in
Mr.. O'Donnell's district applied for a
pension. His case was hung up in the
pension office, and the prospects We're
not bright. Two weeks ago the friends
of Batcheldor wrote to Mr.. O'Donnell
and called his attention to the fact that
the claimant is upward of 103 years of
age, and that his claim must be ad-
iusted at once if he was to derive bene-
fit from his allowance. Batchelder
claimed pension as the dependent
father of young man killed at Pitts
burg landing. There was some flaw in
the evidence, but Mr.. O,Donneil soon
secured the necessary affidavits. The
case was put through. Batchelder is on
the rolls at last, and is the Oldest man
drawing a pension.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-06-10
A Horse Race TO Help a Church

Macy Bros, the well-known horse
trainers and liverymen of Versailles,
says the Louisville Courier-Journal,
have yearling by Messenger Chief,
dam Cuckoo, that they are willing to
wager any amount from 80 to 800 can
beat any yearling in Woodford county
on the track, and owing to the strictly
religious community they make the fol-
lowing novel proposition: Toany church
member owning a yearling, who is OPP
posed to betting, they make the propo-
sition that if their Cuckoo yearlipg wins
the race the loser is to come to the
church attended by Mr.. Macy on the
Sunday following the race and deposit
the specified amount in the contribution
box. Should the Cuckoo yearling be
beaten Mr.. Macy pledges himself to dc
the same for their church.
Smoke Seidenberg's Figaro and get
the best scent cigar in the world. Max
Meyer & Co. Wholesale depot. :.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-06-10

OF No. 1918 Cass street. he works at present for
the Van Court and Benedict Paving company.
years and for nearly four years he has lived In
Omaha. for three years he has worked for the
their employ to work for the Paving COMPANY.
Mr.. Fried says: For more than five years |
have been terrible sufferer, my head seemed to
be aching constantly, especially between the
eyes, and my nose would stop up, first on one
side, then on the other, often both nostrils Then
I began to notice singular noises in my ears
roaring or buzzing sounds they appeared to me
to be, and sometimes sounds like whistlng and
hammering. About this time my throat also be-
gan to give me great deal of trouble. would
always be hawking and hemming and trying to
clear my throat, often raising little hard Jumps,
sometimes of a greenish, at other times of a yell
Moaa q often haze pains the chest
would seem to me as IL I was breathing through
sponge--I seemed to be able to hear the air
passing through. began to fear that I was
going into consumption. ! was more firmly
menned 10 % nS linen or Soo iong on.
sharp pains IA my chest would extend around
to the small of my back.
catching fresh cold. never was without them.
Mucus would run from my nose, and quite fire..
have to stoop over quite frequently. and when /
did so j would become dizzy and everything
seemed to swim before my eyes. A. night my
ing would feel as tired and languid as when
went to bed
my stomach was affected. too I would sit
down to the table with what seemed good ap.
petite, but after mouthful or two my appetite
would leave me. Everything would seam to
sour my stomach. There would be almost
constant belching. disagreeabie, bitter taste IN
the mouth, and at last got 80 didn't care to
look at food.
lost flesh and strength rapidly and was al
ways feeling tired; had no ambition Every step
Itook and whatever work might do was done
with an effort, and after working while or
walking O block or two my head would perspire
and my limbs would ache as IL had done some
very heavy work
had heard considerable talk about the success
of DR.. Mccoy in such cases and read several of
the testimonials published in the daily papers
and concluded would try him. 1t was with
small hopes however, for had tried seven diff
ferent physicians and tried about barrel of
patent medicines and was about discouraged.
visited his office in Range block and consulted
him. After careful examination he told me
had catarrh and that he could treat me sue
cessfully for 1t. was impressed with the idea
that he knew his business and started treatment
and have not been bit sorry that did, fOi
of the symptoms told you of, and in short.
and owe 1t ali to the skill and success of DR.
Mccoy, and do not hesitate at all to re commend
him to anyone who is suffering from catarrh.
Mr. Fried. whose portrait graces the column
above. resides at No. 1918 Cass street. and II
willing to corroborate this statement to anyon,
doubling 1t.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-06-10
SIDEWALK PAVING.
Pertinent Remarks Concerning the
Clb's Sidewalks,
The Old Plank Sidewalk Must Co
One OF the PAYERS Makes n Plain
Statement of Facts for
Publication

A stroll about the business part of the city
shows every day an increased activity among
the PAYERS. In almost any direction can be seen
new sidewalks, among which the grauolithic
pavement seems to predoninate In another
month Omaha will be second TO none I'm street
and sidewalk paving. 1t is q settled fact the old
plank sidewalk must CO. in every few cities can
they be found except in the lumber countries
The writer or this article while strolliug about
the city recently, had his attention attracted to
gang of men who were laying granolithic side
walk on one OF our prominent streets and stopped
to watch the operation, which is quite interest
as can be found anywhere. While watching
the paving process the writer made the ac-
quaintance of one of the men, to whom the
writer is Indebted for the following narrative
which Is wholly true, and can be substantiated. d.
The gentleman in question is Mr.. John Fried,
Omaha daily bee., 1888-06-10
An AGED Georgian.

Those who have been residing in
Bainbridge for the last forty or fifty
years are familiar with the bent form
of an aged negro man, who indus
triously but laboriously crept about
the cily, says the Mason, Ca, Tele-
graph. HIS name was George McGill,
and he was a former slave of Colonel
Daniel McGill, an enthusiastic agricul-
turist and one of our most prominent
legal lights. Colonel McGill says
George, who died last week, was about
three-fourths Indian, and possessed
many characteristics of the red man;
while he was notoriously cruel to ami
mails, he was remarkably kind and gen
tie with children, often getting up by
daylight, or even at midnight, to ap'
pease their cries with mess of 'big
hominy,o pot or peas.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-06-10
A FamiIy of Centenarians.

Talk of longevity! Here is we'll
authenticated little story of a family of
centenarians in Hungary, oil paintings
of several members OF which are now in
the possession of family at Aix-la-
Chapelle. At the back of the life-size
picture of the old gentleman there is an
inscription in quaint old-fashioned
German to this effect: ''Janos Robin at
the age of l72 years Graeci Ritus; has
been married 147 years, was born and
lives at Szodora, his children, two sons
and two daughters, are still alive; the
youngest of them is ll6 years old, and
has two great-graudchildren OF whom
ono is thirty-fve and the other twenty
seven years old" The inscription at
the back of the old lady's picture is
Sara, his lawful wife, age 1853, born at
Szodora.' Aud this happy family ac-
tually emigrated from the scene of his
long labors as a tiller of the soil, and
ended his days, if the old chronicles
are right, in some corner OF Silesia.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-06-10
Not Tired of living at IaO.

There was report gong the rounds
of the papers few days ago that Sylvia
Dubois, probably as old as any person
now living, was dead. A New York
Tribune reporter, hearing several con-
Trajectory reports about the matter,
went to her home on Sourland noun
tains, about ten miles from Flemington,
N. j. The road leading to her house
(which was built for her by the Presby-
terian church Of Flemington) is mere
bride patti, and the scenery in the
.nsighborhood 10 rs rugged and wild as
Omaha daily bee., 1888-06-10
DOCTOR
J. CRESAP MCCOY,
Late Of Bellevue Hospital New York,
No. 80 and 311 Range Building

No. 80 and 311 Range Building,
Corner Fifteenth and Harney Sts., Omaha, Nsb.,
where all durable cases are treated
with success.
Medical diseases treated skillfully. Consump-
ton Bright disease Dyspepsia, rheumatism.
and all NERVOUS DISEASES. All diseases pc
culiar to the sexes u specially. CATARRH
C0NSuLTATION at office or by mali, a..
Once hours-9 TO IL u. m, 2to p. m, to 8 p.
m, sunday Office hours from a. m. TO p. M.
Correspondence receives prompt attention.
Many diseases ara treated successfully by DIR.
Mccoy through the mails, and II Is thus possible
for those unable 10 make journey TO obtain
SuCCEssFUL HOSPITAL TREATMENT AT
THEIR HOMES.
No letters anawered unless accompanied by &c
All EIaii should he addressed 20 Dr. j. Cresap
Mccoy. Rooms $40 and al. Rainge building.
Omaha. Neb.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-06-10

The Burlington takes the lead.
It was in advance Of all lines in developing Nebraska.
II was in advance of all lines establishing dining
service between Missouri river points and Chicago.
It in advance of all lines in giving the people of
Omaha and the West a fast mail service.
in advance of all lines in running Its from
the East into Omaha proper.
1t was in advance Of all lines in reducing the time Of
passenger trains between Omaha and Chicago.
in advance, and is the only line by which you can
leave Omaha in the morning and arrive in Denver the
evening Of the day.
It has been progressive in the past.
II will lead in the future.
Travel and ship via the Burlington.
Ticket Office 1923 Farnam Street. Telephone zSC.
Depot Tenth Street.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-06-10
81 PIPING OVER THE BRINK.
Stories of People Who Have
Reached the Limit.
A FAMILY OF csNTENARlANs.
An Aged Georg,an-Not Tired of Liv-
ing at 12O-Died at 1O2-Lived
119 Years - Old
Age Notes.


From the Nineteenth Century: The
records of centenarians prove that
many do well as total abstainers, but
that many also do we'll who take alco-
hol in some form or other, and for the
feeble type of constitution which is
never destined to such length of days
certain moderate amount of alcohol
stimulant is, perhaps, one, OF the
greatest blessings they enjoy.
OF centenarians, who certainly were
not abstainers, the following instances
may be mentioned: Cardinal de Salia,
archbishop of Seville, died In his 10th
year in 1885, with every faculty except
his hearing unimpaired. He imputed
his green old age to a sober, studious
life, regular exercise, and good con-
science, as well as a pint of the best
sherry at each meal, except in very cold
weather, when he allowed himself a
third more. Macklin, the actor, who
lived 107 years, two months and ten days,
up to forty lived, his biographer
states, very irregularly, brand hard.
sat up late at night, and took violent
exercise. Subsequent to that period he
proceeded by rule. He drank tea, por
ter, wine, punch, and ate fish, flesh,
fowl, ETC., until he was seventy, but he
never drank to excess. His usual quantity
was seven or eight glasses of wine. He
was always moderate at his meals, never
abstemious. At 20 he gave up tea be-
cause it disagreed with him, and his
drink with his meals for the last forty
years of his life was white wine and
water made very sweet.
Philip Laroque, who ''went to bed in
toxicated at least two nights every
week till he was 100 years DID," and
Thomas Wilmington, who lived to 107
and was "habitual drunkard, are two
further instances. Wilmington drank
nothing but gin, of which compound,
until within a fortnight of his death, he
took from a pint to a pint and half
daily.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-06-10
Wonderful Longevity in California.

On the subject of longevity some re-
markakle facts are given in Hubert
Howe Bancroft's California Pastoral. :"
The mission records show the date and
approximate age at which the Indian
neophytes were baptized, and, there
fore, the statements given may be ac-
cepted as good historical evidence.
Many of the natives reached the age of
eighty or ninety, while not a few of
them numbered their years at over 100.
Indeed, Father Martinez, of San Mi
guel, wrote that there were at that mis-
sion several Indian women of more than
100 years of age. At Los Angeles, An
tonic Valdes died in 1853 at the
age of ninoty-two, and in 1858 Guada-
lupe Romero at the age Of lis. An
Indian woman, Maria Ignacia, reached
the age of ninety-six, another Indian
reached lO2, while third died at 1877,
having danced at fandango a short
time before his decease. Maria Mar
celina Dominquez died in 1868 at the
age of 107. When the Jesuits were ex-
PEELED from Mexico, in 1867, Ursula
Madriaga was twelve years ole. He
died at Monterey in 1856. Justiano
Roxas, an Indian, who died at Santa
Cruz in 1875, was baptized at that mis-
sion in 1892; in the entry of his baptism
it is noted by the officiating priest
that he was then at least forty years OF
age, thus making him 1913 at the time OF
his death. Eulala Perez, who died in
1878, claimed to be 14O years old, but did
not seem so or present any satisfactory
proof TO sustain the claim; II careful eX-
animation of the facts seems to prove
that she was not born before l76O.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-06-10
Died at 1O2.

Mrs. Fannie Massey died here re-
Gently at the ripe age of 102 years, says
a dispatch from Parkersburg, w. Va.
She was born slave in old Virginia,
but was freed some years before the
proclamation of emancipation. For the
past sixty years she has been blind,
caused by being put to work too soon
after the birth of her daughter, now
sixty years old. The two have been liv-
ing near each other for many years. but
the ''old nanny" remembered her
daughter only as child of two weeks
old, having not been able to see her
since. The old woman had the full use
of all her other powers up to the time OF
her death. She remembered distinctly
all the prominent men of the first part
of the century, having belonged to per-
sons in Virginia whose homes were fire.
quent visiting places for the early states
men of Virginia. At almost the same
hour Mrs. Massey died Mrs. Pey-
ton, nearly as old, and also a former
slave, was being buried.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-06-10

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heavy embroidery; special value at s2.GO.
We keep constantly on hand the most com
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Black Morie silk ParasOIs trimmed with Black
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$3.50.
Parasols covered with Ecru Lace, we'll lined
and We know they are cheap at the following
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Novelties in Parasols at from sl.00 to $3.50.
We claim that we can save you from - to 80 per
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We never dsviate from our stictly ono price,
get the lowest prices that II is possible TO make
on first class goods. We have no trash in our
stock.
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Omaha daily bee., 1888-06-10
Total ,,;..;;i.....;;....;;,:: 81, ,s76

Amount of milk produced, 81, ,3is quarts
Making a cost at home of .53lc per
quart, which at sixteen quarts for 81
leaves 0.9ic, or ninety four hundredths
of one cent per quart for delivering,
Seven cents per quart is as low as good
milk can be retailed and Justice done
all around. MILKMAN.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-06-10

fit we're in the midst OF the Rocky
mountains, instead of within a few
miles OF the finest cultivated land in the
state OF New Jersey. Her youngest
daughter, who lives with her, came TO
the door. and in answer to question
replied that her mother was in. The
house, which is small structure, is
dlainly but comfortably furnished.
Seated by the stove in the one room of
the second story was Sylvia herself. She
is a colored woman about five feet nine
inches in height, and weighs about one
hundred and fifty pounds. She claims
TO have been born In an old tavern near
Rock Mills, on Sourland mountain,
March 5. 1868 Her parents were slaves,
her mother the property of Richard
Compton, and her father was owned by
John Baird. She was sold when about
two years old TO Michael Dubois. and
stayed with him until about twenty-five
year old, when he set her free. She was
at that time living at Great Bend. Penn,
with her master, and when she got her
emancipation papers she started on foot
through the woods, with her baby,
about one year aud six months old, in
her arms, for New Brunswick N. j.
There she found her mother, and
lived with her several years. From
New Brunswick she went to Princeton
to work for Victor Tulane. She was
there when Paul Tulane, who after
ward became distinguished as a phllan-
thropist, was born. After long while
she visited her grandfather, Harry
Compton, or, as he was better known,
Harry Putnam, who had been General
Rufus Putnam's body servant and after
ward the noted colored ffer Of the Con-
tinental army. AT this time he was
living at and Keeping the old sporting
hotel on Sourland mountain, which was
known as Puts tavern, II most disrepu-
table dive, where prize fights, dog fights
and cock fights were almost of daily oc-
currence.
At Compton's death Sylvia inherited
the property and continued to run"
the hotel in the same way her grand
father had until a few years ago, when
some one set fire to it and it was burned
to the ground with all it's contents.
Since that time she has lived at her
present home with her youngest daugh-
ter, whom she calls her "baby Lizzie"
baby Lizzie" is now eighty-six years
old, and is upright and hearty. AT the
close of the interview Sylvia was asked
if she was not tired of living, and re-
piled: mo, amt; I'd like to live an
other hundred years yet, and / don t
know but will, too; my teeth are good,
and if can get enough to eat, don t
know why 1 should die; there's no use in
dying-you amt good for anything
after you are dead"
Telegram-herald., 1888-01-02


A has ioekiag Taan, let by = haaes5ine
younx Lady, NA,ksd mp 70 the of3cs Of the
Murray llili hotel rseen1iy sad ssked fer =
sunshiny rsonl, oa- tEst was chssrfui and in
visinx. Hs VAS NJ John B. Herressey, Of
Rhode rsiaa4. ths famous hilAd yacht builder,
and TIA young Iady with him was his faith
fal niscs. wko accompanies him On his .rayelA
A sanSkiay rsom has . b given Aim, for
although he - blind he knows sn invisinz
room ~ wei ss II hs had two good eyes. His
lower face Il covered with hzs, long brown
bard, ard enc Of bis eycs is closed The
other locks natural, although ne csssot see
with IL There are no traces OF old age
about him, and the probabilities are that no
wiz i've 70 build yachts much faster than tbs
StsIetto. ths Now Then, ard other swift YES
ssls that yained him his reputation
A boat. hs declared, was just Ike man,
and the speed tast Was usually supposed 20
come from flns model did not have any
more 70 DO with IL than the fine personal ep-
pearancs of msa had 10 do with bis agility
or prowess. Ssesd dcpsaded on the lung
power, the machinery, the shape OF the hull
and ths sereral arrangements within tie
thought it kisAly probable that in time a
yacht could DO built 10 GO thirty-flve miles an
hour, kut one hz4 - run thirty miles su hour
before the greater achievement csald be nc
cosnsllEned. New York Commercial Adyer-
tis.r
Telegram-herald., 1888-01-02

The efforts % the telephone company Of
Austria to gss ths Bsll patent Cancelled have
at last been successful. Their manager, Mr..
II. Howard Krause, believed this poasibls
from the commencement. and with the as
sissanee OF Nr. OTTO Shzffic- the company
has been the means of ofsecurlRg free trade in
telephones in Austria. The result Of the de-
cision OF ths Austrian ministry of commerce
and the Hungarian ministry of agriculture,
industry and trade, dated Oct. g, 1897, seeIRs
10 be that al those clauses Of Bells patent
which rsfer to the telephone are cancelled,
only thsss referring 70 the mulsiplex tslegra-
ply being allowed 10 stand. Certain clauses
wsrs cancelled becsuss the Telephone com
psny OF Austria was able 70 prove prior pub
ication, and others were cancelled because
the company proved that they embodied sci
entisc principles which, according to Aus
trisn law, cannot be the proper subject OF q
patent American.
Telegram-herald., 1888-01-02

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