Omaha daily bee., 1889-11-03
DR.. G. H. Bowers, 5a6 FIRST avenue.
A Venerable Relic.

Mr.. Horace Everett discovered vener-
able relic, while overhauling his Office the
other day, and brought it to THE BEE office
for inspection. 1t is the bound file of the
first issues of the Council Bluffs DAILY Non
pareil, from the first ISSUE January %, 1852,
to September Of the same year. 1t was
vigorous little sheet, edited and published
every morning by William w. Maynard. 1t
was fourcolun.n folio. The four pages
were 10x1S inches in size, and it was pub
lished in this form until March 30. when it
was reduced to a three-column folio, with
pages Sx12 inches The heading was
luminous, artistic affair, representing the
American eagle standing on a box in the rays
of the rising sun, with his talons clutching
bundle OF arrows. On the side and top OF
the box is the shield and other paraphernalia
Of the national escutcheon. The box rests
upon tablet that represents printers i'm
posing stone, and the letters forming The
name of the paper are standing upright on
the stone on either side of the box. Atten-'
ton is called to the heading and the artist
who made it in an editorial paragraph which
says: 'Our readers may consider the cut at
the head of the Nonpareil as standing puff
for William Ward, the ar hltect, by whom it
was designed and engraved. Mr. Ward de-
sires us TO say that, although his facilities
for engraving are Misunderstanding no ma
chinery but jack-knife-yet in the matter of
architecture he acknowledges no rival on
UQo MI WdTu Is tuo NcltTdUlc
architect whose last and best work in the
city was the building Of the Washington
avenue school two years ago.
A hint to advertisers, of very suggestive
Importance is found in the abbreviated
columns. The only advertisers were DR.. w.
r. McClclland, who is tnow a prosperous
physician in Denver; Officer & Pusey, the
we'll known bankers; Rees & Co., wholesale
grocers; the company part OF which firm
is still represented by Samuel Haas; X. p.
SnotU 1rV pnnls and prprnriaS vyhO IL still n
prosperous business man in the city; ii. Z.
Mutt and n. p. Conant All of those men
are living, and are prominent and prosper
Gus.
The railroad advertisements showed that
the Burlington had been completed to OF
tumwa and the Rock Island TO Marengo.
The only means of reaching the outside
world was to stage IL to either OF these
points. The telegraph had been completed
to the city and the Nonpareil announced
that It had contracted for all the Associated
Press dispatches, but the editorial announce
ment one Friday morning that its editor
hoped to get out annother issue by the fol
loving Tuesday II the telegraph line was re-
paired in time to get some news, indicated
that the service was not up to the
present standard. The telegraph courier
bore some astounding news. One
| General Logan and another the killing Of
| General Sherman. Four days after the fall
| of Donelson the showed up electricity broke
loose hong enough TO carry the Intelligence TO
| the Nonpareil readers
The local columns were filed with plants
| of hard times and severe weather. One item
| announces twelve weeks of continued deep
| snow without a thaw, and a dispatch from
| Des Moines says two feet of fresh snow had
| fallen there. Wheat was worth 40 cents a
| bushel and -four ST. so per sack. Corn oats
and potatoes were quoted at 10 to 20 cents
| per bushel, aud one dealer announced u spe-
| cial sale Of calico at 25 cents yard.