Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 2, 1880, Page 2

E ROSEWATER:E ——— Ir 15 nearly time for M punced =5 Ly the 1 7 Tuce Bre iu ic gers and eed on. of le ehoslipullo 000,000 be csm W city of X New \o:k City. ¢ 00,000 of the los w York by bribin boxe to extricate the mote out f the republicen party DITOR Ir. mirable a mant +icels justified in reproducing — De. Murem s still for rail job grint M ler snows which side his “bread nl The Herald on & basis itimate journalism wouldn't pay “Home of ', an of g5 percent interest. § b ng before o vides thet any refundiog bond s | € shail net be 3} per cent. ta low in v rable tin Tue plethora o e to woney on the mar 26 a G vor t112, and if reisno ressor — Four f the rest bearing great fl f u ¢ e et i wrpreosds 1o New York, raidro.d shares mn: 4 per cant. 4 e n why wh Tour < socialist srnd THE DAILY BEE e have wacks of republic:n feaud | 113 to the pe Tummany hall | £ borae in mind that traneportation { ite own ey the $10,- ch it etole from the | radicall re it e coming session of congree: de for r e hich is Fernando Wond’s, which | a'k rete Tt is understoed | ¢ Seresry Sherman wil rec cport, but whetherat 3 per 33 per cent, is not known, inter will be & peen u d 7 per cmt.dvdnés @ a premium of 85 to 40 pe bonds cout w14 not b placed st par. a01:d he Ropublican, wro taking the cry that Tue Bee is a clog to the + s of prosres of Omala byt 1mesit of 1an never he intores £ + mat ca 1 makeenou it cq itres to oppress the itun and : emplo; stributing wig » eapita d wiil never cpp e 1gitimateuse of eapi-al in ouild- «f the state, or | P! interfere with tie of the lawa « mong our merchante rajomn, Tum Bum capital, ne © povery al interiers wi «f public senti aguins th taisl and corporate it ow It f cor laboring men snd mechanicr, n, fully those o s et. Tt recog eturdy wao have made homes on . rfctor ver, shrewd and b road wrecker, is Il the the fres ment a8 corpor: f thepowerjwhich Ta: rin increasing theweal ready to welcone ment to cur anc anc ws, railroals bee ovly power are more o ox- t the _ess producers and build n the ruined fortunes of at Tre Bz raises its voice fnigmties of corpora’e monopolics, : thing Tas Bes will refuse to do. not make itself a fawuing phant to wealth and power nor ol inthe hopo of eurichiog enin the brawny muscles hard working merchants and important elo- building up the prosperity of | roads th wielded by 2 iy rilli k gawblers and railrond kings. 2 the | » er pioneers of our state upholding the interests of the T hs - jority and exposing the crookedness- orporationeas we'l asindividuals ing the wheels of progr t at leas: encmrer a mo.a by growth in the near future. s be acrime Ties Bee is w 1 il'y, fecling sure that within a ® it will e as largely in of workers in g to the igterest 85 it now seems to iy orgams to be in tle THAT OABINBI POSITION. Blanche, Tray and all the - other . s who bark with the Omaba Reprilioan are assisting the Hitcheock aemn wiging the claims of e r Hitshsoox £ x the position - £ - ary of the interior under Ger. eld’s sdministration. 21 re. 802 adduced is that Hirchcock nl efforia for Hi-eheo »oeil be formed, +rosident k wera szhool miien. wa of the Thes 3 2 clssmate of Gen, Gaifisld (¢ Wilisms eollege andon thie secourt s an intide trak on the positiir, | \& Washingt m Ntions] Republicon « thisto sar ahout the maiter: some position idinat Gubeli’s cabu<t when 1 the_ioterior fulo prine- *Tha repablewm press and peorle N bratks a'e couemirating thewr 2 Hom. P in named ome stress | this convection is plac upom thy fat that the »nd x Senator Hitch While all new presi- featmany bo talentea and able states- n, there 2 <f them than there men and worthy o anpre Darrassed ~droa: by crelyh lass = mates will embarrase relations must B3 to ment, for postion on mccount «f nevitibly him. Give the pmmew “c: an unewbrasred cpportanity to sk u5 Lis cabinet uoder a cool snd Then me. Thisis ir tend- d t2arp ytonll that class, and the re- 13¢5 1+ not wade out of suy want of ~vesoect for either of them. st hra former sohnol-snd epara Ganersl We sin- that he res | TAURBER'S THONDERBOLE: = 4 Scathing Review of ths Reil- read Monopolies of the Count-y. Thelr Power to Oppress the Producing Classes Con- stantly Augmenting. Colossel O:ganizations Deily Becoming Stronger and More Impericus. SupremeIssue Forcing It~ self to the Front. E. 7. Thurber in Seriumers’ Monthly ter Deecm- proaching the prcblem of the he railroads of this coun- , it must, first of all, us of | onisea andi land has developed under ¢ diftsrent priocigles. The uf free toall and open tc any todividusl who chooses to place | 1ds ship thereon, a vesrel could go herever its owner ch tosend it; - laws of competition, and of supply wsd demsnd, which have heretofore und potent to protect the pub- crost, applied hete, ss in other s of trade, and avswered their purpores fully. So universal was the | cperation of this law that it bas bee: upon to govern the relations of «Gs to the | ocean b pub ic, aad it r development of the £ traneportation has it become to wl—what had been fore new S o and must be rontod as such, 1874, e seate of the Unired v, i eaponse o & gene-al do d, sppointed a special com- wittee on transporta’ion. compos i of 8enators Walliam Windom, of Mitnesora; Juhn fi X .‘., "M Nor. Seorging 5, W, Johvacn, :donn H. Mitohell, f Gro g i 8. B. Conover, ot Fiorida The commitice ocovpied the entire cummer of 1874 in meking an ex Xanivet on of the subijet, “he'r renort we find the f.liow. \P ge 158): matter of taxation, there | urmen rejrecenting th- cen Chicago prarass, avd who roqu niy exerca-, | pasers o couzreas «f the, Unied + would 10t venturs 19 exert ut any timegand for any tor to-th-msdves, by ke of a ven, reduce the itry b s of dollars. A i five canis par o of cenals 14 have baen «quivalent g thecropof 1873 N to exeriasa 8¢ v a necesiity o With the sud inevitable progress of com- sation and cons: Ldation, there co sssal organiza ions are daly bbcoming r and mere imperious. The ay i# pot distant, if it has not already : when it wili be the Rute of uquire whether there the proparty of the people y of & few ponsibillfy { men, who recosniz but to their s, and no principle of scticn but peraonal and rporate sggrandizwment, than:in g someshat to the power and pacrousge of a_government ‘Girectly resnonsible to the peopls and entirel In the etate of New York, di ion rogarding railroad waiage- sent has existed for a long time; a statement of the grievances tu by the producing and other Intecest «s from time to time been laid be- | * aud investization ers were controlled by the rail- for several years Even au | 2 of grictaicta—a thing it to be the common right 1y growing stronger, and mbly sppointed an of wnine members A B. Hepburn, chairman— which oceupied uearly nine months in an iovestijation cof tne subject. I found the principsl ' charges “faily roven,” and its comment upon the sta‘e f things then developad was as fllows: 16 mistake was in not providing 1roper rafeguards to protect the pub ic iuterest, and hold 1he roads to a trict s intabily ast yea: bls committen —Hon, railroad devel ipment at the time of be enactaert of thoee lawe, but no neer pardonable in ¢ of the evide co herewith submitied), have r.pin thos- abuses hereaftir men tioned, #o glaving in their proportious as £ savor of fiction rather than actus! ory (R port, pige 7.) nvestigation did not touch the most serions phat is guestion—the political eurray dovg from the de- from corr-ct principls § \rluve railrcad his qrestion, it it n eetsary to review rifly and sketch the e of this greatest invenuon of the age. | Lios geversl'y admitted that rail- | roads, bei @on eirriers, should treat all shippe s | with equaliry k- ¢ rcumstan- | ‘&%, 84d With relaive cquai v where iccunis'asecs dffor. The functior of 1he ralroad being essentindy pub ©in va'u-e, and the vote of the smal <ligpas having had as much to io w th conferrinz the franchise un | der which ralronds are ¢ mstructed nd porsted as thatof the largeship. per, tie right of the etizen on the | hivhway hers comes in 10 limit the rerasion of the law of wholerale anc il, which governs in private trans. When the capftal actually in mailroads hus been fairly ly compensated, the reat of the ad vante, uiog from the dirco nd sp;l cation of steam ta the pur- ses «f transportation shoald be en »d by the public. Within the memory of ‘compara- tively young men, ordnary Gt rovds «ere the ouly means of communics- tion except thrt farnished by our water-ways. Trere wereoxned and kept in crder by the public. | The de- mand for improved roads resulted i. turnpike comparics, Whigh wge char tered by the state and allowed to charge tolls to reimburse the capital invested in these improved roads Their charges, however, were required to be putlicly prated, asd to be the same to all. ~ Next, the railrosd wi ) { wetion inv 3 + nly upon under their cunlr-‘ % H but so many | ¢ sclicited privileges from the etate to troet railroads on the sams prin- @slo which had governed the con- stru i uof moroved tursp ke roa: The fi+t 1des was to al'ow avy citiz-n t0 put his own vehicloon the new iron | rosds, but this was found impractio- , and the corporarions owning the road became the sole carriers over it. This was the first step toward a monopoly sround which has gathered many evils, At that time, the danger was 1ot appar- priveiple of the common cr- all shippers &1 ko was rec- and it was not unil the many w of railroad were consoli- dated inio grest systems that the power of understood and exercised. The evils, however, so0n came, but the advantrges of the oew roads were g0 enormous, and 80 eager were the people to secure them, that the evils remained fora longtime uanoticed. Among the ret of thess wes_that of fictitious cost; the rail- road law of most of the es was based up m the theory that the capit- al invested in these steam ruads was entitled toa fair return—and the pub- lic was entitled .o all the rest of the advantages. It was something like the principlo of our patent-lyw, which insurea 1o the public the benefit of all inventions after they have vielded ocertain returns to the inventor. In one sense, it was a parinership—the staze, which is the natural ownor of all highways, contributing the frunchises, whils the associations of individuals 1na corpo- rate capacity constructed the roads. Ia the steto of New York, it was stipulated that »fcr their chargea for transportation yiclded more than ten por cent., net,upon the capital actuslly contrbuted for the construction of theee reads, then the legisla -ure mi reduce o ‘chargs for transpor ch woul! not yield more ; o, in other wards, that after capi'al had been thus comjensated, hould come in for it share of the profis of the parisier-hip. 1n the shape of reduced ctawes for transportation. Thus is was made a y jrinciple that c"a-ges chould bused upon coet of ssroiss. How (hs p noipie hus been evaded by etock wateriog, by construction companies sud other devices, is well known, but until recantly it was not 50 woil known that railroad managers had formalated a new prin-ipie upoa which to base charzer, via.: ‘‘what the 1z o will bear,” nud that in the soplication of this princlple svm> of he most important evils portalim system have d-velope El rites the working of the new prine vl on the Pacific coas® “Tustead of having rates for i h iracts rdig o a man'’s proSts. For foe etance, a min in Angora hss 8 mre and gats out & quantity of t hiss no facilities lor flaxing g it, aud must send it to Sun Francisco. Ho sags to the rail- road: *‘I want to send my ore up to San Trancices. What widl you charge me a tout ““ ‘How much does it assay? ¢ ‘That is nove of your business.’ “‘Yemitie, Wewaaito know how moch 1t aways in order to know bow h 10 charge you. drty dolizes & ton, latge you ten dol- that will leave you men hes a mine, and he puts t e question: “ “What will yu take my ore to Fu\ Francisco for ¥ 4 uch does it asasy? is nove of your business.’ ¢4 He, tou, must 1, 20d he saye: © Well, it pieids 1aree huadred dol- lars & ton. “““Tnen we will char-e you one hundred doliara per ton to take it to San Fraucinoo, Tha leaves you two thirde,! *“The man has 1 a'ternative, and piys the money to .l the ore, but he becomes a disco d mine; Thus the railrosd compary s fofoing the qaestion a8 to wirst ata the restrigt. 1938 on & common esrriet, and whoth- «r can be despotic le, atbitrary in its rates, a~d vir ually sn ownerin every inter- 8t on the line. Agsin, on page 69 of the Hepburn coma fttee’s Teport, we find: Now, a8 10 the necessity for some regulaticn to protect the public, see eatimony of Mr. Rutter, pages 453 4, where he testifies that he serves the only, and only regards interest to makeittributary est of the stockholders. Vilas [restimony, page 415] the same oon‘ruiing Mr. Blanchard, sfter des- o l‘ung a railway officos as sub bject to hree practiosl tribunals,—first, the president of the road; seoond, the law aslsid down affecting transpottation and third, the unwritten law of com- merce, —aav-: “It his been our matter, while keeping within the statute law as far as I knew it, or had occasion to know it, that wherever this public unwritten law ame into contact with the intereets £ the shareholders, I believed it to be my conecientious duty to decide in favor of the sharehclder; I knew of 6o claim that the non shareholding intor.sts had upon me us a radroad officerso long as I was withn e written law, to concede its views in the matter of ra‘es. and in the man- azoment of our traffic.’ The marked wmportance which is here attached to keeping withiu the law, emphasiges tie necessity for 8 law for govern- mental control * ““What the traffio will beac” is, to scme extent, a_legitimate c-nsidera- ion in fixing charges, but, left to the uncontrolled dircretion of railroad managers, the public interest is not sufficently considere -, and out of the power to make rates, which reilrond companies have ocnferred up- on treir aceots, f.voritfam, both as hetween indvicuils and oommau: itits, has resul ed. This has prevailed, and still exists in & greater or less dogree, throughout the Unite S aws. To what «xtent in tt @ State of New York is indicated by the report of the Hep- ~uen e mmit the repurt says (page 48): = I'ne chargs that the railroads of thia state discriminate against the of thi te, and in favor of tern and foreign produeers, is fal'y proven by the evidence taken, The cha-go that they discrimivate against certain localities in the state, as com- puwed with others, is fully proven. P'he charge that they diecriminate i favor of certain indisiduals, as eom- py~d with others in the same locality, is fally proven, 1t 19 & remarkable fact that not only did the railroads oppose this inve gation, but the presidents of the New York Ceutral and Erie roads, in a joint letter to the committee previons ‘0 the investigation, generaly and specifically dented the existence of the alleged sbuses which were afterward proven to exist, _The Hepburn com- Tho f.llowing, frm Toe Graphis, | ! | jcal power, abuses which they have found it to their interest to perpetuate, is one of the most sarious of the ovils which-threaten the - public welfare. | United States S:nator David Davis, in ® recent latrer says® it exerts by combination on the - is a weil- ‘A struggle grounded caose of slarm. 18 pending in the near fature between this overgrown power, with its vast ramifications all over the usion, and ahard grip on mueh of the politicsl maohinery, ob the one hand, and tre paople {n an unorgenizsd condition on the ather, for oot 1 of the govern- h infense anxiety.” * is an_open secret that the rail- roads furnish a largo share of the money required to operate the ma- chinery of our elactions, and in all diatricts where politic:] parties are closcly matched, their money, cn the zide of the candidate who will promise to favor their intcreats, generally carrios the day. They kaow no par'y, and consult no interests but their own, and, ne & mater of course, the venal and less worthy element in our political life, under such a system as this, usually triumphs, snd men who are too honest cr too independent to bow to _corpo- rate will are so weighted fn the racs for political preferment that they sl dom come to the front; Mr. Jay Gould, in his evidence before the Now York leq‘l committee of 1873 which investigated the affairs of tha Erie railroad, cpenly testified as fol- lows: “Ldo not know how much T piid toward helpitig friendly men. ~We had four siates to look after, and we had to suit our polites to circum- stances, In a democratic district I was u democrat; in & republican ois- tiict I was a repucliean, and in a doubtful di-tiict L was doub ful; but ih every disteict and ac all times I bave al ways been an Brio man." The state of thinys unearthed by this iuvestigarun was oficialy de- sc:ibed in the report of the meu.. commtiee, as followst “Itis further in evi s been the cusi co that it 6f the managers of the Erio railway, from yesr to year in the psst, ‘to epnd " largs sums to cvoteol clections and to jufluence legin ation. In the soue 1868 mure than ono mil- lion (81,000,000) was disbursed from th tressury 16- “extraand logal sor- F. 1 ivteresung 11ems roe Mr. s tostimony, pages S36 eud vices, Mr. Gould,when last onthe staud, and examined in relation to various vouchers showa him, admitted tne pavment daring the three years prior to 1872 of lurgeeu: Barber, Tueed and ochers, and to irflaence legisla- { tion or eleotions; 11 <o smounts were charged intne ‘Iu: ia 1ul only remem er large transactions; but could distinctly recall that he hsd bsen in the habit of sendivg mouey 0 the wumerous districts a'l vver te, citer to contrel nomiva- tions or elections for senaiors and members of assembly. Ceueide-ed that, as a rale, such inyestments paid better than to wait till the men got to Alvang, and added the signifieant ro- wack, when asked a_questi.n, that it would be as impossible to spebify the n.merous instances as it would to res call to mind the numerous freight cors sent over the Erie road from day 10 day." (See teatimony, page 556 ) The report of the legslative com- mittea concludes with the fuliowing remarkable words: “Itis not reasonabls to supposs that the Erie company has been alone i the corrupt use of money for the purposes named; but th suiden rev. olution in the ditestion of this com- Py has laid bire a sccret chapter in the history of railrosd management such as_has not been permitied bo- fore. 1t exposes the tecklera and prodigal ute of money, wrurg from the people to porchase the elec'ion of ilie pevjile's representatives, aud to bribe them when in cffice. Acoord- ing to Mr. Gould, his cp:rations ex- tended into four different states. It smas_his austem to contribate money to inlluiice both nominations and elections.” 1 A recen o The New York Evening P s it ei “Wealth in Conneoticat Pulitic sabject s {.llows: Y% % # With slow but steady progress the principle has come to bs recognized, especially in the congres: sional districts and iy the demncm ic varty, that a man who Tiits aa ii- port.nt nomination must get it by the promies or implication of a liberal contribution_after the nomioation is secured. The result is the free uss of money at Connecticut_elections aind a corresponding debauchment of the political morals of the state, “A good illustration of this evil appears in the fourth covgressional district, made up of Fairtield and Litchtild counties. This is the dis- triot te resented in congress for scv eral years by Williai Biroum, afterward United States Senator, and now the chairman of the democratic national éommmittee. Probably no man ever succeeded 8o well us did he in crzanizing corraption, Ineach town was his band of workers, charged with the dispensation of fuuds on election day. - e knew his men and his men koew him, aud sfter each election, when it was found that ‘Bl Barnum had run ahead of his ticket all over hia district, men understood the ress n why. Preseatly the republica caught up the triek and practiced it in the congressional election of two years ag>, when a eomparatively obacure candidate for conaress ran ahead of Governcr Andrews in the governor's own town, where his well-deserved pop- ulwity was uoquertioned. very small town of the distriet it has now come to be the fact that a venal bard of from twenty to_tfy electora offer their votes tothe higheat bidder. sec ndary resul: has been that no men. of moderste means esn afford to run for oangress o= even for & state sena. torship., * * *Ail this, which every intelligent voter 1o Connectieat knows to b discusees this Auit is now, the fact of genersl and comprehensive bribery at _important electivns is notorious, and it is nd small 5'/gma upen the good name of & New Eugland commonwealth that the crime is stimulated by a_moral cow- ardice in communities which prevents alike the prosecution. of the briber and the bribed. A little wholescme lav and some independent yoting w.1l o far toward remedying an evil that every good ci ig:n in the stie sees, feels, and uud.ratands, yet £20 often hesica'es to rebuk: Post, Auy. 19, 1880 —_— Railroad Taxes. ‘Waboo Times. Mr. A. F. Arndt, of Wahoo pre- —[N. Y. Evening mittes accompanied their report with aseries of seven bills designed to rem- edy, in the state of New York, the ng aboses. Of these, four of minor importance were not opposed oy the railroads, and were allow. «d to become laws, but the scssion of fact that railroads objected could pars;amajority of th tehd been elected in their interest, and bils, in themse!ves just and conserva- tive, were defeated. This tendency on the part of consol- idated mrpunle interests to perpetu- cinct, the man who 18 fighting the U. P. R. B. Co. single-banded and alon wis in the city Friday last to pay hi isxes. He says he asked the treas- urer to make out his tax receipt, and | to itemize itand make it perfectly clear what each amount was for. He says that the treseurer refused to do and he refuced to pay all not cleaily itemiz-d, making a l-gal ten- der of the balaace. Tho taxes he re- fused to pay were the dog tax and the consolidated tax, which means the | railroad bond tax. He tays theso two items of tax sre h the acquirement of polit- | net lawiul, and that he will not pay | Parkand, “The rupd growth of corporate | powerand ine malign inflaence wnich | them, and defiea the authorities to col- lect. He claimsthat thersi road bonds of Saunders county were obtained by fraud aud_intimidation, and that he will fight it to the end Holdm:n that mex.- will bear the.people out in re- fasir g ‘o pay these bouds, and that he for ouehedoesn. t propote to pay 8 trib- uts toa corperation 1hat robs the oeo- pie out of their entire earnings, and i a detriment %o the gounty. He is on the right track, and we glory in his determinat on. The U. P. R R. ptcm- ited to give the people of Sutnders county & freight line for th(se honds, bat have fsiled to do this, and justics says, '‘Refuse to pay the bonds.” Such a course will bring the crisi and give the peopla who knowa chancs 1 Prova that the bends in the firat placa were carried by fraud. Railroad eor- porations should not have any moro of aright torob and stesl than indi- vidusls, and when they refuss to be honest with 1ha peopls they should betunght a lewon. The U. P. R R to be houest with the people of Sannders sonnty. . Who is more osp able than A F. Arndt to teseh them the needed leror? Goveroment Control of Rallroads. Des Moio:s Register. The Chicago Journal in discussing the problem of railroad control, con- cludes tkat the only way to arrive at a satisfactory conclusion is through a g vernraent commission. This idesis growing very rapldly, and will sweep the great agriculturs] states Bt the prorer time, unless sxmething to quiet the clamor by proper_action on the part of tharailroads. But the ultimate success of a congressional i« hovend ko The foliowi: op given by Dr. Jacub Meyer, Saint Loui+y Mich, in 1674 The Hamburz D.oocs de- servs Lo be recommended. I have prescribed 1t for irreguluritios of the liver, disorders of t e stomach apd disenses origi-ating from these dis- turbacces, and have observel the mo t satisfactory re The Drors #'80 cure constipation in‘a short time. Pr { Guilmetta's Freach 0 thor. it SV he sentsom by macl foctis giara leedto U e Rnnuifhlsm flauralgm, Sciatica, Lumbuyw Backacie, Ssrensss of the Chest, Gout, Quinsy, Sore Throat, $well- ings and Sprains, Burns and Scalds, General Bodily Pains, Tooth, Ear and Headache, Frosted Feet and Ears, and all-ather Pains and Aches. snton o carh aqua, . 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Ommes Porausu uxp DrvorC. 8 .+ v, 15ih, 1680. te, subject to the Mana, N Sealed !‘mwn.ls, in dupl veaal con ftions will bs Tooch:¢d 3t 1his oMes et 2 a'clock 1007 on D comler Ibth, which lime and rlace they will b opef: fr the furafshin, n t)uahs, (iCon cars fer Dupection and se- © piavcoat ) ) as may be required by tho Suomt-nce Do artmeut. 0.0 hundrel and ten” (i light mes-, 1 be de fyerrd by s S o and zr...“....,u.x.m ) 1t barels Pk, pu os welght an' thie eraes, st bou: 2 5200 e1ch, £ be . 2 e, is "Thres 'thosa d_(600) _poun a0 (ko i as ) came s, and Vel strapped. of hout 10 ‘pou ic Ve dod ored by Jn+. 00n 1830 ot scsarves the right o Teject opomir. i d “Prop saln acdeerged 10 the under . . THGAS 1L 0%, “wTJ. G VAPOK, {MERGHANT JAILOR Capitol Ave,, Opp. Masonié Hall, OMARA - NFB. MAKE-NO MISTAKE! MICA A}LEMG FASE T e A et oo veiuapg vou. nced tae bt halt the quauite tn gre.fug your wagon hatyou woul O apy other axo grese mace. and then your » Saiong. 1+ anewers eqally Vel Tor Ml Gearins, Threaving (Machinre, en. &c .38 for wagons—Send far Pocket rdbpedial Thivgs Worin Knowing. Maled Toany »d ress MICA MANUFACTURING 81 MICHIGAN AVENU! sa~Ask Your Dealer For It 851 80 ¥ eay at home, Slmpln wort tree. Addross Stiason & Co SHEELY BROS. PACKING CO. PORK AND BEEF PAGKERS Wholesale and Retail in FRESH MSATS& PROVISIONS, GAWE, POULTRY, FISH, ETC. CITY AND COUNTY ORDERS SOLICITED. OFFICE CITY MARKET—1415 Douglas St. Packing House, Oppostte Omaha Stock Yards, U. P. R. R, TEEINE n ONE CONNECTIONS. ISH & i MAHON,| Sticeessors to Ji DRUCGCISTS AND psn ~FUMERS. Dealers in Fine Imported Extracts. Toilet Waters, Colognes, Scaps, Toilet Pm s, &o. “v Pure A tull line of Burgical Inetroments, Pocket Cases, Truses and Suprorters. Absoiatay, Pragaand Chemicals used in ispsnsing, - Preseriptions flled at any hotr of the might. Jas. K. Ish. Lawrence McMahos. 1S2UFARNEAM STRERT. MORE POPULAR THAN EVER. The Genuine SINGER NEW FAMILY SEWING MACHINE. | CUAR M. The popular demand for the GENUINE SINGER in 1870 ex ceded hotor a0y previous year during the Quater uf a Cen ury in which this “01d Tt achive has Feen before the public. In 1878 we sold 356,422 Machines. In 1879 we sold 431 167 Machines. Excess over any previous year 74,735 Machines. Our sales last year were at the rate of over 1400 Sewing Machines a Day ! BREMEMEER, That Every REAL Singer Sewing Ma- chine hss_this Trade Mark cast into th Iron Stand and em- bedded in the Arm of the Machine. For cvery businees Any in the yoar, The “0ld Reliab'e” Singer is the Strongest, she Simplest, the Most Darable Sewing Ma- chine ever yet Con- structed. THE SINCGER MANUF.&GTURING i Principal Office: 34 Union Square. New York. 1,500 Subordinate Offices, in the United States and World und South Amer TELs. >, and 3,0 Offices inths Old cepl6-d&wtt BRIGCS HOUSE Cor. Randolph St. & 5th Ave., CHICAGO ILL, PRICES REDUCED TO $2.00 AND $2.50 PER DAY Located in the business cent-o, cemvepjont to placwe of amusement. ~Elvcun fy T taruished, oL AL B et s Gl cloriior o I CUSMINGS, Fropretor. 16 OGDEN HOUSE, Cor. MARKET ST. & BROADWAY Council Bluffs, fowa: Qlive o Stret Rallrsy, om0 ond from sl vaios, KATES Plrlir o, 3. 00 dov: Seoond oot 33 60 por diy 3 hitd e bestfurnished and mot com wodions honln mthecity. GE "FRONTIER HOTEL Laramie, Wyoming. in ¢, good sccommorations, e room, ehirten reasomabie. Special w6 HILIINRD Popeter: INTER - OCEAN HOTEL, Cheyenne, Wyoming. Finsclas, Fine arge Sample Rooms, one Bupots fnen $351 130, 0 #.0, scoriog 0 Foon; s gte e 3 ¢ EALoOM, Propieer. | _we nnunrv “Oniof Clerk. __m1o-t UPTON HOUSE, Schuyler, Neb. Flistciass Honss, Good Weals, @s0d Beds Alry Rooms, and kind and accommodating fretment, ‘Twh good sample rooms. Speca attention patd to commercial traelers. 8. MILLER, ng, Schuyler, Neb. NEERASEKA VINEGAR WORKS ) ERNST KREBS, Manager. Marutaciurer of all kinds of VINEGAR. EKALISEL ’I'Ills MERCHANT TAILOR, ired to make Pants, Suwite and overeoats rier. Prices, i and workmausiip goamnteed o vt ©One Door West of (rnickshank’s. w1y KENNEDY'S EAST INDIA alsar A FAMILY TONIC ‘NOTLIWASNOD ‘squemeSuvie(] snoyqg WENYEMevy ‘elcedssq Jov ‘N BITTERS l ILER & GO, SOLE MANUFACTURERS NBMAHA. Neb. anAInG rouss THE ORIGINAL. | THE OLDEST €STABLISHED. ! BANKING HOUSE IN NEBRASKA. CALDWELL,HAMILTON2CO | BANKERS. Bastness ‘ransacted mme a8 that o 4a Incor. porated Baak. Accounts kept {n Currency or gold subjost to sk shock i out Botice. Cortficates of ueposit fesaied pavahi I three, stx and tweivo moaths, Deariag Interest, or 03 Ganand without intersst Advaiioes mado to rustomaors on approved se- ctirvion st markat raree of interest Bay andsell cold, peof exchangs Gevern- meut, Siatd, Coanty s Oty Bondis: Draw Sight Draits on Fuland, Irciaod, Beot- and, s All pat of Earope. Ball Eurogetn Paseace Tickts. GOLLECTIONS PROMSTLY MADE. angldt U. 8. DEPOSITORY. | Figst Naionac Bang OF CMARA, Cor. 18th and Farnham Streets, OLDEST BANKING ESTABLISHMENT IN OMAHA. (BUCCESSORS TO KOUNTZE BROS.,) st 1 1560, Organtzed as & National Bank, August 30, 1869, Capital and Profits Over$300,000 RO oyt A .8.4 PER OEI'I'- FUNDED LOAN. oPFICKRS AND DINECTORS This bank recelves depostt without regard 1o m.:mm' ‘snd the s.mpu-“;‘:‘u-m Esigrants {2 $be, In- et s of i B mavieii | REAL ESTATE BROKER Geo. P. Bemis’ Rear EsTate Acency. Iflh‘ Douglas Sts., Oculu.sz. 1o sgency doos stRIOTLY ‘Dass notapecalate, ...m-.fm ) m. #3ing on Ita books e lnsured Lo 1w patrons, fn BOGGS & HILL. REAL ESTATE BROKERS o 1408 Farnham Street OMAHA = - NEBRASKA, _Office —North Ride opp. Grand Central Hotel. | Nebraska Land Agency. DAVIS & SNYDER, 1506 Farnham 8t. Omaha, Nebr. .m%mmmmr-m “’"‘“’h tmpre.ved farms, snd Omahs f Davis. WEBSTER SNYDER, TateTand ComvU.P.E B dptabite "Byron Reed & Coy, REAL ESTATE AGENCY IN NEBRASKA. oD ocomniete shatract of it to a1l Rest fn Omaha sad Douclas Cor JNO. G. JACOBS, (Formary of Gtah & Jasobs) UNDERTAKER No. 1417 Farnbam Ft., Oid Stand of Jacob Gif ORDKRS BY TRLKGRAPH SOLICITS PASSENCER ACCOMMODATION LIKE OMAHA AND FORT OMAHA tom-rels “lfll Street Cars Corner sod HAMILTON Lo § a8 follows: and 759 p.m., 172 m. roa will e 8 Dodce and 15ib surehie !ll')ellc:n @ procured from street cardriv- ara, o trom drivers of hacks. PARE. 35 CRNTA. INGLEDING STRE _CAR CHARLES RIEWE, UNDERTAKER! Metalic Cases, Coffins, Caskets, Shrouds, ctc. Farn mSires . 10thand11th, Omahe, Neb, ‘Telagraphis orders prempuly jattanded te. E. F. COOK, UNDERTAKER, 024 Fellows’ Bloek. Prompt attention civen ¢ ar irra by telearaph, T s e e BOOTS AND SHOES At » ZLOWER PIGURE than st any other shos house fn the city, P. LANG'S, 236 FARNHAM 8T. LADIES' & GENTS, SHOES MADE T0 ORDER 2p,, satiscaction guaranteed. Prices ey resson- | 1856. W gall the attention of Buyers to Our Extensive Stock of CLOTHING, AND CENTS' FURNISHING £00DS. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. We carry the Largest and BEST SELECTED STOCK OF GOODS Which We are Selling at 2 NTEED PRIGES I! — OUR MERCHANT TAILORING DEPARTMANT It CMA Is in charge of Mr. THOMAS TALLON, wh.¢ well-sstablishe reputation has been fairly earns % We also Keep an Immense Stock of HATS, GAPS, TRURKS AND VALISES' REMEMBER WE ARE THE ONE PRICE STORE: M. HELLMAN & CO, 121 & I"O’C l’ l'“h'll'll \lrt\" PIANOS = ORGANS. J. S. WRIGHT, "% GHICKERING PIANO, FOR And Sole Agent for Hallet Davis & Co., James & Holmstrom, and J. & . Fischer's Pianos, also Sole Agent for the Estey, Burdett, and the Fort Wayne Organ Co’s. Organs. 1 deal in Pianos and Organs exclusively. Have had years' ’xnanenu 1in the Businesa. and handla anly the Best. v. 9. WRIGHT, v Hall Building, 0m.nln.. Neb. A thh s‘rfiqe:,]}qu gt FITCH. Tuner. m3teodaw POUBLE AND sif'LE ACTING POWER AND HAN.! PUMPS Steam Pumps, s Trimmiiigs, Mining Machi BELTING HOSE, mxsnfl‘fi JRON FITTINGS, AP § E N Paciing HALLADAY wmn-mus"éfmncn AND SEHO0Y BELLS .. A, T.. STRANG, 205 Farnham Straat Omah HENRY HORNBERGER, STATE AGENT FOR —-\V, BLATZ'S MILWAUKEE BEER| In Kegs and Bottles. Bpecial Figures to the Trade. Families Supplied at Reasonable Pricea. Office 930 Donclas Struat Omaha GARPETINGS. Carpetingsl Carpetings! J. B. CETWILER, Old Reliabie Carpet House, 1405 DOUGLAS STREET, BET. 14TH AND 15TH (ESTABLISHED IN 1868.) Carpets, Oil-Cloths, Matting, Window-Shades, Lace Curtains, Etc. MY STOCK IS THE LARCEST IN THE WEST. I Hake a Speciaity of WINDOW-SHADES' AND LAGE CURTAINS And bave a Full Line of Mats, Rugs, Stair Rods, Carpet- Lining Stair Pads, Crumb Clothes, Cornices, Cornice Poles, Lambrequins, Cords and Tassels Ix fact Everything kept in a First-Class Carpet House. Orders from abroad solicited. Satisfaction Guaranteed Call, or Address John B. Detwiler, 01d Reliable Carpet House, OMAHA, iS=20. - Ay —— i ——