Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 17, 1880, Page 2

“ ———————————— e ——— T ~\ THE DAILY BEE| AX DMFUDENT QUARTSTIR The farce by which the impudent E. ROSEWATER: EDITOB.__ | jmposters who were defeated at the late election hope to rob the people of Douglas county of their representa- tionin the coming legislature has be- gon. The sham investigation into the alleged miscount which these cheeky clsimants have conjured up is now in progress before His Honor Judge Riles. The cadaverous Baldwin who was set down upon by his own party in his own county snd never did want a re-count, is the chief Taxsly Fox has induced Barber to put his hand in the trap firet. —_— Tz scquittal of Messrs. Healy and Walsh in Dublin yesterdsy is the first grest triumph for the Irish Land Lesgue. May it be but the fore- ronner of many to come until Ireland for the Trish becomes nolonger & cry ‘but sn accomplished fact. 75 — the bureau of statistics, sho e ik s I G eY singular fact that there Is fencing enough in the state of Indiana to en- circle the world thi-teen times. This is doubtless the result of the care be- stcwed by politicians in the late can- vass, Fence mending has become po- litically historical. contestant on the first day was Gates Barber, who, as we ssid several times before, is a splendid horse jockey, and who is & good deal more fit to superin- tend & race track than to make laws for the people of this state. This man was rejected by his own precinc: by an overwhelming vote, snd is beaten 1o the county by over one hundred votes. And yet he has the cheek to present himself in Omaha as & claim- ant to the legislatare. The quartette of imposters who are making this contest allege, in their sworn petition, that sixty or mcre votes, castin the First ward for them, were wrongfally and illegally counted for their opponents. This is a bare- faced lie, and they knew it was a lie when they signed the petition, Mr. Coutant himself was present at the count of the First ward, and so were others of the quartette. A recount of that vote, made at the instance of Mr. Coutant, failed to change the re- result in any pariicalar and Mr. Coutant expressed himself as eatisfied that the count was fairly made, as (B TEE first of the appropriation bills has passed the house, and $100,000 has been devoted to the seacoast de- fenses. The next bill of importauce which will be discassed is the Missis- sippl improvement sppropriation, which proposes to donate $1,800,000 for the improvemeet of the Mississippi river, under the direction of the sec- rotary of war, and in scoordance with the recommendations, plans, specifica- tions and estimates made under the supervision of the Mississippl river comgpission. Ty coffee trade s stagoant. The falure of the coffee and tes syndicate in New York will benefit the trade and cheapen the articles to consum- ers; and, besides the-ollapse of the eastern firms composing the syndi- cate, an unprecedented crop s arriv- ing from Brazil. This will be good | we are informed, by a reliable party. reading at two thousand Republican | I the recount of the votes breakfast tables this morowg—{Re | now shows any other re- e sult, the ballots have been That depends: If there sre tive persone at each breakfast table and each of them devours the Republican with his coffee, the above item bas en- lightened two thoussnd peoyle. Oth- erwise it's only the four hundred and twanty city subscribers who have had these choice morsels dished up to them. tampered with, and there is no use to disguise the fact. The constant ab- sence of the county clerk is, to say the least, decidedly singular and leaves most unfavorable impressio, espec- ially when it is borne in mind that the election of the man to whom the certificates were awarded was conceded by all, and for three weeks after the election no one said one word as to the pretended miscount or any othsr irregularity. The whole business is an infamous plece of legerdemain, concocted by an unscrupolous gang of politicians, and condemned by every decent man in this county, democrat or republi- can. When the legislature learns the trae idwardness of this proceeding they will send the impudent quartette home with a rebuke that they will re- ‘member for the rest of their years. = Chicago Inter Ocean, hrough ts representative, Mr. J. W. Rob- bins, is doing & grest and S for Nebrasks, ae well as for the Trans- Missouri west generally.—[Republi- can. Two months before Pagett and Stinchcomb skipped the country, pur- sued by the howls of the infuristed people whom they hsd imposed on in the rural districts by their adver- tisements, the Omsha Republican, through whese columns the bogus re- views were issued, announced that Pa- got and Stinchcomb were “doing = great and useful work for Nebrasks.” Praise from such a source is praise in- deed. Jupee Jerewiam S. BLack enjoys a world-wide reputation as the fore- most suthority on constitutional law in the United States. His letter on the relations of the peopls of this country to the railroads, which we print elsewhere in fall, has created a profound sensation. It presents the only logical and legal view of the American railway system in its rela- tions to its creators, the people of the United States. The subsidized and brass-collared editors may pooh-poch Mr. Black’s declaration that the rail- ways are siply tenants at will exer- cising their privileges as public car- riers over the psople’s highways. They may pronounce Mr. Black a socialist communist snd monomaniac as they are in the habit of calling everybody who refasesto recognize thesupremacy of the railroad kings. But they can- not with all the legal and edit talent on their pay rolls shake the im- pregoable position on which Mr. Black has planted himself. It is hardly necessary for Tae BE to apologize for producing this letter at such a Iste day. Our readers are aware that mauch of our space had been given at the time this letter appeared, to the article published by Mr. Thurber in Scribner's Montily. We could not afford to follow that voluminous article with Mr. Black's letter “to the exclusion of other subjects. Hence the delay. A good thing will always keep, and Mr. Black’s letter is by all odds the best article from a strictly legal standpoint, which has yet ap- peared. The railroads don't own all the lawyers and editors of the coun- try yet. TweLve months ago Judge John F. Dillon resigned a life position as cir- cult judge of the United States to become the consulting attorney of the Union Pacific monopoly, and now Jus- tice Strong has resigned his seat on the supreme bench of the United States, the most honorable position to which any lawyer could aspire, to scoept the position of counsel to the Philadelphia and Reading railway company. What conclusions can we draw from these remarkable changes! The railroad kings, with their grip upon the throats of the producers of the country, can demoralize our ju- diciary by tempting baits thrown at judges sitting in the highest tribunals known to this government. Planted upon the great highways of the country the] feudal barons of the nineteenth century say to the indus- trial and producing classes, “Hands up!” With princely incomes drawn from a levy upon the products of the country, these robber knights of the railronds can afford to Le very munifi- cent in enlisting great lawyers and drafting even great judges from the supreme bench into their service. Such & spectacle cannot fail to awaken serious apprehensions in the minds of thinking men for the safety of this republic. With state and national legislatures bribed with passes and corrupted with promises ~of more valuable rewards, with our judiciary under obligations for thelr appoint- ments or election, with the most exalted judges of the nation exchang- Ing the sacred ermine for the livery of railroad kings, what will remain of this republic a quarter of a century, hence. except the name. Of all aristocracies, the meanest, the ‘most despicable and the most danger- ous to human liberty, is the aristocra- oy of wealth acquired by lawless levies through chartered privileges. The people of Massachusetts revolted from England m 1775 for im- posing stamp duties upon them without representation in the British parlisment. What represen- tation will the people of this country have in this government, if the rail- road kings make our laws, dictate our judges and fill all the offices within the gift of the national govern- ment with tools and cappers, who have aided them in subjugating the people. The colonial stamp du- ties were & mere bagatelle compared with the duties and imposts which the people of this country pay to the Jay Goulds, Vanderbilts and Tom"Scotts. Just think of it. Nine months ago Kansas Pacific stock was almost worth- less, quoted at about five cents on the dollar. By consolidaung that bank- rapt concern with the Union Pa- cificand merging the stock of the two roads together, Jay Gould is now re- alizing 109 on Kansas Pacific stock. For every §100,000 invested in K. P. stock he has made a net profit on over $2,000,000 without adding one dollar to the actual value of the road. And yet the Pacific rosds, built dy the government, owe the nation $84,- 000,000, besides a large amount of ace crued interest. Let this man Gould and other rallway kings continue in their career of rapacity unchecked, A Curious case has recently come to light in Salem, Mass., involving the right of a person to support him- self or herself by honest work. A girl, 14 years ol?, esciped from an slmshouse and obtained work for §1 perday. The suthorities discovered her whereabouts and returned her to the almshouse, where they insist upon keeping her as a pauper. The per- sons who gave her work declare their willingness to provide her with a home and steady employment, and intecd to bring the case into court to see whether a strong, healthy girl can be compelled to remsin & pauper against her will. Tae Trish- Americans of Omaha have organized a brauch of the Land League with a strong list of members and an admirable selection of officers. The meeting was enthusiastio, and the specches made and the monies col- lected, show that Omaha is deter- mined to, be fully abreast of the rest of the world in aiding a rapid solution of the Irish problem. Tax BEE echoes the sentiment of the League, “God Save Ircland ” Pig Iron. The forthcoming report of the Cin- cinnati chamber of commerce by Su- perintendent Maxwell says of the trade in iron in that city, that it has been marked by impor‘aut events, in cluding dangerous stimolus and equally rapid decline. The total production of pig iron of the nine states tributary to Cincinnati were 876,000 tons, showing an increase cf 150,000 tons over the preceding year. Of this increase Missouri made 37,000 tons, Michigan 31000, Ohio 28,000, West Virginia 20,000, Teanessce 13, 000, Indiana 11000 AllbunnSODO Goorgia 4000. Kentucky showed o decrease of 1400 ton#: The aggre- gute sales hero of pig iron from first hands to actually go into consumption were 250,000 tons, an increase of 46,- 000 tons over the preceding year. The value of the business at the av- erage price will be $8,750,000. and what will hinder them from con- verting this republic into @ set of with vice-regents at every important rallway centrel RAILROAD REGULATION. Judge Blagk’s Letter to the N. Y. Chamber of Com- merce. A Strong Argument in Favor of Legal Restraint, The special committee on rallroad transportation of the New York chamber of commerce addressed a serics of questions to prominent men in various parts of the country in re- gard to the right of railroads to regu- late prices, and respecting other teples raised in considering the subject of inter-state commerce. The most im- portant reply thus far received comes from Judge Jere Black. A synopsis of this letter has already been given in Tag BeE, but on accountof the interest which it has call forth the full text is given below: Yoxx, Pa., Nov. 16, 1880. Committes on Railroad Transportation of the New York Chamber of Commerce: GexTLEMEN—You propore a move- ment in favor of some legal regulation which will compell railway companies to perform their duties to the public on proper terms. wil answer your question as directly as possible, but without ob- serving the order in order in which youput them. You desire above all things to be just. The legally vested rights of Tailway companies, like other rights of property, are sacred, and no viola- tion of them comes within the scope of your design, But on this question railroad men misunderstand their situation. They believe, or pretend to believe, that railways are the property of the com- panies authorized to run them, which is a cardinal error, and the parent of much false argument. A public highway cannot be private property, and a railroad laid ont and built by the authority of the state for the purposes of commerce is as much a public highway as a turnpike road, canal, or navigable river. Tt is the duty of the stato to pro- mote intercourse and trade by making highwaysof the bestsort through the territory. To this end she may take 1and and materials, which is an exer- cisa of the power of eminent domain. She can_build & _rallway at her own expense, using the direct agency of her own officers, and after it is built she can make it free to ail comers, or rhimburse the cost by special tax on individuals who have occasion to use it. She can delegate the taking and the taxing powers to a corporation or » natural person; and that is what she always does when she grants a rail- ro:d charter. But in eitber or any case the road belongs to the state, and the people have a right to use it upon comipliance with necessary regnlations and pagment of the proper tax. The corporations who have got into the habit of calling themselves the owners of railroads have no proprie- tary right, itle, or claim to the road¥ themselves, but a more franchisoe an- nexed to and exercisable thereon. They are the agents of the state for the performance of a public daty. If the franchise is forfeited or surrender- ed, or if it expire by efflux of time, the state takes poesesston of the road, and rus it herself, or employs a new agent. The company can not keep thoroad any more than an outgiing collector of a port can appropriate to himself the custom honse where he did his official work. The state, having need fora public highway at a particular place, makes a contract with a corporation to open and put in condition to be vsed; and by way of reimbursing the builders and operators, she authorizes & tax upon those who travel or carry mer- chandize over it. But this tax must be ressonable, just, uniform, prescribed and fixed, so that every citizen may know before- hand exactly how much he must pay, and so that when he pays or tenders the proper am-unt he will acquire an absolute and perfect right to the use of the road. The amount of the tax, toll or freight in any case is not a sub. ject of bargain between the shipper and the corporation, but a thing to be settled, fixed and prescribed by public suthority. If the compsny may charge what it pleases, then the road is not a public highway; the public has no right in it at all, and the charter which authorizes the taking of land to build it is unconstiturional and vo1d: These rrlnmplea were stated by Judge Baldwin in Bonaparte against the Camden and Amboy Railroad company (1 Bald. Rep., 252) You will finda more extended discussion of them by the supreme court of Pennsylvania, in Casey against the Erie and Northeast Railroad compauy (2Casey’s Rep., 287 ) 1 do net think they are opposed by any bigh auth- ority, but no doubt they have ofton been overlooked in judicial decisions and intrinsic arguments. The railroads being public properts, in which all the peaple have equal rights, and the companies that run them being public agents, it is absurd tosay thatthe state hasno right to regulate and control them in the per- formance of their functions by such laws as will prevent partiality, plun- der and extortion. This isa power of which no free state can disarm it- selt by any act of its judicial, legisla- tive, or executive offlcers. They could as lawfully sell the state out and out, and deliver up the entire population to sack and pillage. Butare not the franchises property in which the compiny hss a vested right? Yes! The uniform, reasons- ble rate of toll from all persons alike, according to the use they make of the road, is a power that the state may be- stow upon any person, natura’ or arti- ficial. But no lawtul franchises to take toll on a public highway can exceed those limits. A charter that goes beyond t! Those _companies will oppose any effort to brirg them down to s reason- able rate with the argument that such reductions is a violation of the con- tract between them and the state. But on the principls laid down by Judge Baldwin, in the case above mentioned, a charter is inoperative which authorizes s maximom «f toll or fare so high that the compiny is able, without exceeding it, to exclude the people from uriug their own road. In the granger cases from Iowa and Wisconsin the bargain was that the companies might fix their own rates. Baut the supreme court of the United States held that & subsequent law to retain them within ressonrble limits was no vi lation of the original con tract. The principle applies to a com- pany whose maximum rate is un- reasonably high, because such a rate practically the same thing as o imitation at all. The conclusion that all the railroad corporations in the country may be constitutionally restrained to reasona- ble and just chbrges is not merely drawn from the fact that railroads are public highways. If they owned the corpus of the road and used it in the business of & common carrier, they might be compelled to behave them- selves justly to all their customers and submit to any regulation for the pub- lic good. The unanswerabls opinion | of Chief Justice Waite in Munn agt. llincis (Otto 4, p. 113) settles that. | The reasonableness of the freight ' tolls or taxes that may be charged upon any railway will depend on the expenses of runniag and renairing it nd on the cost of construction. The itter will, of course, ve the principal element in the calculstion, for the tolls ought to be high enough to give the corporators a fair proht on the capital they have actuslly invested. But many of thess corporations have issued large amounts of stock and mortgage tonds, for which the holders have paid nothing. Another way of enlarging their dimensions is to wa: ter stock under the pretense of in creasing their capital, while, in fact, the additional shares are divided among themselves without putting a new dollar into the business. Of course nobody thinks that the real cost of the road is to be measured by the nominal amount of these bonds and shares. It is easy for a compe- tent engineer to tell how much any road ought to cost, supposing the work to be honestly done and liberally paid for. That being ascertained, you have the true basis of a calcula- tion which will show how much the tolls ought to be. Most of our western ro2ds were built with the proceeds of public lands granted mediately or immedia‘e- 1y by the United States to tho several companies_which now have them in charge. They did not really coat the stockholders ~anything, and in some cases they got lands worth & great deal more than all expenses of mak- ing, stocking and running the roads. The two companies between Omaha and San Francisco raised in cash out of government bonds, lands and mortgages of their franchises four or five times as much as they n-cessari- ly expended upon the roads. The stockholders, without paying anything, put the enormous surplus into therr pockets. These roads, thus built at the public expense, and in some cases paid for by the public five times over, are now claimed as the private prop- erty of the companies, and the right of the public to use them as highways is denied. Nevertheless, I think the claim of these companiesto take reason- able tolls stands upon the same foun- dation as that of companies whose roads were built by the stockholders themselves, at their own proper ex- penze The grant of the lands in- vested the grantees with atitle which cculd not be revoked if the conditions of it were performed. If they sold or mortgeged the lands and invested the proceeds in the construction of a rail- road under a charter from a state or general government which authorizes them to take a fair profit In the shape of tolls, ihey have as good a right to the tolls as if the capital to build the road had been raised by themselves; that is to say, those companies which built the railroads with capital donated by the public have the same right as other companies to charge a reasonable toll; but their demand of excessive tolls, though not worse in law, seems in the eye of natural reason a greater outrage. If railroad -corporations have tne unlimited power which they claim, then all business is at their;mercy; ag- riculture, commerce, manufacturers must suffer what they choose to in- flict. They may rob labor of the bread it wins and deprive all enterpriso of its just reward. Though this power does not belong to them legally, they have been permitted to usurp it, and I need not tell you that tuey have grossly abused if. We know that they make their exactions with an eye sin- gle to their own advantage, w.thout considering any right or interest of the public, They boldly express their determi- nation to charge as much as the trade will bear; that is tosay, they will take from the profits of every man's busi- ness as much as can be taken without compelling him to quit it. In the ag- gregate ths amounts to the moet enor- ous, oppressive, and unjust tax that waa ever laid upon the industry of any people under the sun. The irregular- ity with which this tax is laid makes it still harder to bear. Men go intoa business which may thrive, at present rates, and will find themselves crush- ed by burdens unexpectedly thrown upon them after they get started. Tt is the habit of the railroad com- panies to change their rates of trans- portation often aud suddenly, and in particular to make the charges rain- ously high without any notice at all. The farmers of the great west have made a large crop of grain, which they sell at fair prices if they can have it carried to the eastern ports, even at the unreasonable high freights of last summer. But just now it is said that the railroad com- panies have agreed among themselves to raise the freight five cents per hun- dred weight, which is equal to an ex- port tax upon the whole crop of probe ably £75,000,000. The farmers must submit to this highway robbery or else keep the pro- ducts of their land to rot on their hands. They submit, of course, as 1l other classes of industrious people submit to similiar impositions. Common justice imperatively re- quires that freights be fixed, sottled and prescribed by law, and that they be not changed at the mere will of the - railroad companies. A grain dealer at Baltimore gets a reduction or drawback which is_denied to oth- ers, and he makes a fortune for hir- self while he rains his competitors by underselting them. A singlo mill at Rochester can stop the wheels of all the rest if its flour be carried at a rate much lower. By discrimination of this kind the profits of one coal mine may be quadrapled, while an- other with all its fixtures and ma- chinery is rendered worthless. Such wrongs as these are done, not only n a few sporadic cases, but gen- erally and hubituslly on a very large scale. Certain oil men, whose refin- ery was on Long Island, got rebates amounting to §10,000,000 in eighteen months; sud_seventy-nine houses (I believe that is che number) engsged in thesamo business were broken up. The creditors of the Reading rail- road, having coal lands of their own, made discriminations between them- selves and others which drove all com- petition out of thefieid, gave them the monopoly of the Philadelphia market, and enabled them to charge for their cosl as they charged for their fre|ghu —whatever they plensed. Thus p e sIr eI e emEra el suffer together. Worse still than that, the prosperity of large commaunities is Dlighted by the refueal of the rail- roads to carry the products of their farma, garden, and shops, unless they submit to the payment of rates much larger than what are charged on simi- lar goods from other regions much further away from the ccmmon mar- ket. The case you mention of $4 from New York to Salt Lake and only $2 50 to San Franciaco is perhaps not the most unrighteous, bucit is as gross a violation of legal principle as can be conceived. If the railways belong to the peo- vle, then the rights of e precisely equal, and all discrimi tions are uulawful. Without refer- ence to the public right of property, they are so shamefully imperious in their general effect, and in their par- ticular consequences, that mo well- governed state will endure them. These railroads and transportation companies connect themselves with everythinz. The promotion of com- merce, internal and foreign, the inter- est of buyer and seller, the rights of producer and consumer, the needs of the poor and the prosperity of the rich, all cry aloud for some system of mansgement which will compel them to do the duties they owe to the public | P, fan faithfully, at rates reaconsble, fixed, ! uniform and equal, without extortion, | without wanton changes, without dis- crimination. The laws necessary for this purpose are notdifficult to frame. If you will | look at the constitution of Penusyl- | vania'as amended in 1878, you find in | in the seventeenth section a_series of provisions which, if carried outand enforced, would be amply %uffictent. But the nulru.d men and their advo- cates have managed to impress the legislature with the idea that they are above the constitution. They assert that restriction imposed upon them in the interests ot justice, equality, and fair dealing is a vi of the contract embodied in their charters. Al this {s no doubt very false doctrine but they contrive in some way (I really do not know how) to make the state authorities accept it as true. I maintain that all the states have a clear and indef e right to protect their people againet euch wrongs, and to exercise the power as a sacred duty. When the duty is properly performed the internal trade of .each state will cense to be enslaved and crippled as it is now. But the commerce between the states will still be open to inequal- ities and liable to oppression and plun- der by transportation companies un- less the national legislature does some- thing to save it. Cougress has power “‘to regulate commerce between the states.” Is it not strictly within the scope of that authority when it makes & law forbidding carriers through the_state to injure, impede, or destroy the gen- eral trade of the country by exirava- gant and discrimfnsting charges? 1t that be not a regulation of inter-state commerce, what would bef ¢The pow- er being c/noeded, an effectual mode of righting the wrongs now complaned of can easily be devised. Doubtless you are right In the be- Tief that public optnion will be in favor of your movement. Reflecting men cannot deny its justice. But the in- fluence of these great corporations can hardly be calculated. The have methods of defense and offense which make them almost invincible. You have refetred to portions of their his- tory which proved this. Some of the state governments are literally subju- gated by them n It_will require a strong organizaiion and much labor to reduce them. Undisciplined mili- tia in the open field make a poor fight against regulars intrenched. What are corn-stalks agsinst cannon! Such is truth againstgoney. You ask what T think about regulating these affzirs by the sgency of commissioners. In England I believe that plan_has been a complote success; in California I underztand it has been a dead failure. This paper is much 1 z r than I intended to ma¥e it, nd A au- swer to your ques'ion , it is lees cate- gorical thax it vug t 0 by But you must take it as it i, «:d believe me your obedient servant, Running Close to the Brink. Sparta, (Wis.) Herald, Mr. 0. W. Hubbard, of thls town, recently narrated the:e particulars to our reporter: More than two years ago, my wife was atta sked with Sciatic Rheumatism_or pain in the right limb, and it became very severe would Pains commence in the hip and extend to .ho knee, and down to the foot. Just as s00m as she would retirs for the night, it ‘would become far more severe— breakiag up her rest, inducing sleep- lessness and making her very sick We employed the best medical help in thecity. In the course of medi- ication, a severe attack of bleeding at the noso resulted, lasting about four hours, which nearly cost her life. Nothing produced any permanent ben- ofit. Finally she was induced to try St. Jacobs Oil, aud when” she had uvsed one fifty t botile of it, ste was entirely relieved from the pains and rested quietly and easily After three mcnths,—feeling slight symptoms of the complaint returning, she procured another bottle,using which occasionally keops her free from all pain I would rather pay five dollars a bottle than have her suffer as formerly, “THE GREAT DERAVRENEDY RHEUMATISM Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbay n, Backache, Soreness of the Chest, Gauf, Quinsy, Sore Throat, Swell- ings and Sprains, Burns and Scalds, Euuml Bodily Pains, Tooth, Ear and Headache, Frosted Foet and Ears, and all other Pains and Aches. raion o earth equale S Jacons O imple and cheap External oty S et vt the compamirely riing outay of 69 Centey and every one e ing with pain can have chesp and positive proof of ita claima. Dicections in Eleven Lan, S0LD BY ALL DRUGGIRTS AND DEALERS 1N MEDIOINE. A.VOGELER & CO. Baltimore, M4, U. BURNED OUT, But at it Again. 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THE SINGER MANUFAGTURING CO. Principal Office: 4 Union Square, New York. 1,500 Sllbordxmte Offices, in the U nited States and Canada, and 3,000 Offices inthe O ‘World and South America. ‘sepl6-diwtf ISH & M:MAHON, Successors to Jas. K. Ish, DRUGGISTS AND PERFUMERS Dealers in Fine Imported Extracts, Toilet Waters, Colognes, Soaps, Toilet Powders, &o. A tull line of Surgical Instruments, Pocket Cases, Trusses aud Supporters. Absolutely Pure Drugsand Chemicals used In Dispensing. ~Prescriptions lled at any hour of the night. Jas. K, Ish. Lawrence McWahon. AB2AFARNANM STREBT. SHEELY BROS. PACKING CO., PORK AND BEEF PACKERS * Wholesale and Retail in FRESE MEATS& PROVISIONS, GAME, POULTRY, FI CITY AND COUNTY ETE, ORDERS SOLIGITED. OFFICE CITY MARKET—1415 Douglas St. Packing House, Opposite Omaha Stock Yards, U. P. R. R. TELEPHONE CONNEOTIONS. BANKING HOUSES. —_ HOTELS. THE OLDEST ESTABLISHED. BANKING HOUSE IN NEBRASKA. CALDWELL, HAMILTON2CO ' BANKERS. noss transacted same as ttat o an Incor porsind B “Aesounta) ept in Currency or gold subjoct to sight check without notioe. Certificates of deposit lasued payable In threc, alx and twelve months, bearing Interest, or oi demand without Interet. Adeances mads to castomen on spsrovel e curities at market rates of inte Buy and sell zoid, bils of uchnn Govern ‘ment, State, County and City Bonds. Draw Sight Dratta on Enland, Ireland, Scot- tand, and all parts of Earope. Sell Buropean Passage Tickets. GOLLECTIONS PROMPTLY MADE. augldt TU. & DEPOSITORY. Finst Narionar Banx OF CMAHA. Cor. 18th and Farnham Streets, OLDEST BANKING ESTABLISHMENT IN OMAHA. (EUCCESSORS TO KOUNTZE BROS.,) SoTABLISEND N 1856, Organized s a National Bank, August 20, 1865, Capital and Profits Over$300,000 Specially authorized by the Secrstary or Troasur- to receive Subscription to the U.S.4 PER CENT. FUNDED LOAR. OFFICERS AND DKI(IC ORS HrMax oecaron Koumrns, Vie Pretdont H. l. 'Yarss. Cashier. A szuml Attornoy. B Davi, Aot Cashier. T8, beak recetves doposit. without regard to Tssues time certificates bearing Interst. Draws drafts on San Francisco and princh eities of the United Etates, alsy London, Dubl Edinburgh ...d the principal cities of the contl: nent of Sells pn-gn go tckets for Exignaten the Io- man mm Machine Works, OMAELA, NEE. J. Hammond, Prop. & Manager. ‘The most. .houm; appointed and complete Machine Shops and Foundry in the state. Castings of every description manufacted. Engines, Pumps and every ‘class of machinery ‘made to order. pecial attention given to Well Augurs, Pulleys, Hangers, Shafting,Bridge Irons,Geer Cutting, etc Planstos Machinery,Meachanical Drauzht a, Models, et neatly sxecnied. 56 Harnev St., Bet. 14th and 16th SHOW CASES MAMUPACTURED BY O. J. WILDE, 1317 CASS ST., OMAHA, NEB. £8°A 200d asmortment alwags on hand THE MERCHANT TAILOE, red to make Pants, Suits and overcoats D Peles B woskamacship g arantesd ot One Door West of Ornickshank’s. 8101y JNO. G. JACOBS, (Formerly of Glsh & Jacobs) UNDERTAKER | 7 Parnham St., Old Stand of Jacob Gis ORDKRS B TRINGRAPE soLICIT* PASSENCER _Aipggvgyfio_numu LINE OMAHA AND FORT OMAHA Street Cars oS With HAMILTOR STREETS. "t Red Lm a8 follows: ., 9:45 8. m., and 12:46 p. m. +330, 6115 and 816 p. m. *The 8:17 8. ' run, leavinz omatis, and the 00 p'm.run, Taving Fort Omaba, o uemally losded o fall ‘capacity lar passengers. ‘637 a. - ran il e mae frora the post office, corner of Dodge and 15th sreht. Tidketscan be procared from treet cardr- ers, or trom drivers of hacks. 2R S Bk S WNOLO biNG STRE SLam 7168, NEBRASKA VINEGAR WORKS ! ERNST KREBS, Manager. Manufactarer of all kinds of VINEGAR. Jes St Bet 9th and loch. OMAH4, NEB. DE. A. S. PENDERY, CONSULTING PHYSICIAN, RMANENTLY LOCATED HI$ MED. e ICAL OFFICE, 68 Tonth Street, - OMAHA, NEBRASKA THE ORIGINAL. BRIGGS - HOUSE ! Cor. Randolph St. & bth Ave.. OHICAGO ILL. PRICES REDUCED TO $2.00 AND $2.50 PER DAY Located in the husiness centre, convenient to places of amusement. Elegancly farnished, containing all muxdern. mprovements, passenes slevaior, e J. . CUMMINGS, Fropritor. OGDEN HOUSE, Cor. MARKET ST. & BRUAI)WAY Council Bluffs, fowa: Online o Strest Railway, Omnibus ‘o and from all trams. - RATES—Parltr floor, §3.00 per days second floor, 82.60 per day ; thifd floor, The best farniahed and moet commodions nthecity. GEO.T. PHELPS P 'FRONTIER HOTEL, Laramie, Wyoming, The miner's resort, good accommodations, rsmmnple oom, Chla essnatie. Soccia siention iven 2 travel e SR G HILEINRD Propristor, INTER - OCEAN HOTEL, Cheyenne, Wyoming. First-cinsa, Fine arge Sample Rooms, one block from depot. Trainsstop from 20 minutes to% hours for dinner.. Free Bus to and Irom Depot. Hates $2.00, §2.50 and §3.00, according to room; s'ngle meal 75 cents. . . BALCOM, Proprietor. W BORDEN, Cnief Clerk. 'UPTON HOUSE, Schuyler, Neb. Flist-class House, Good Meals, Good Beds Airy Rooms, and kind and accommodating treatment, Twogood sample rooms. Specis attentlon patd to commercial travelers. 8. MILLER, Prop., Schuyler, ob, a5t Geo. P. Bemis Rear EsTaTe AceNcy. 15th & Douglas Sts., Omaha, Neb. This sgency does aTRITLY & brokerage bust- noss. Does notepeculate, snd therefore any bar- &aing on 1ts books are insured to lta psirons, in stead of betng gobbled ap by the agent BOGGS & HILL. REAL ESTATE BROKERS No 1408 Farnham Street OMAHA - NEBRASKA. Office —North ide opp. Grand Central Hotsl. Nebraska Land Agency. DAVIS & SNYDER, 1506 Famham 8t. Omaha, Nebr. RES carefully selected Iand in Eastern |-ur-n o i Bargainsn tmpscved farms, snd Ouaba DAV . WEBSTER SNYDER, Late Land Com'r U. P. B. B dp-tebTee G LIS REED, Iiyron Reed & Co., oLDRsT mATABLIERD REAL ESTATE AGENCY IN NEBRASKA. 'UIP ) cmnpi-u l;?):;:'lh:lcgsl :0 KENNEDY’S EAST INDIA all Real masttt s 1 = g5 % a LR ] £k £5 § T b - 5 n cE: « ¥ BITTERS ! FIRE! FIRE! EFIRE! The Popular Clothing House of M. HELLMAN & CO., Find, on account of the Season so far advanced, and having a very large Stock of Suits, Overcoats and Gents' Furnishing Goods left, They Have REDUGED PRIGES hat cannotfail toplease everybody:. REMEMBER THE ONE PRICE CLOTHING HOUSE, 1301 and 1303 Farnham St., Corner 13th. G00DS MADE TO ORDER ON SHORT NOTICE. PIANOS = ORGANS. 4 GHICKERING PIANO, FOR And Sole Agent for Hallet Davis & Co., James & Holmstrom, aud J. & C. Fischer's Pianos, also Sole Agent for the Estey, Burdett, and the Fort Wayne Organ Co’s. Organs I deal in Pianos and Orgacs exclusively. Have had years experience in the Business, #hd handle only the Best. J. S. WRISHT, 218 16th Street, City Hall Building, 0m.|h 1, Neb. HALSEY V. FITCH. Tuner. DOUBLE AND SINGLE AOTING POWER AND HAND PUMPS Steam Pumps, Engine Trimmings, Mining Machinery, BELTING HOSE, IHIS& AND IRON FITTINGS, PIPE, STEAM PACKING HOLESALE AND RETAIL. HALLADAY VllHil MILLa, GHURGH AND SCHOOL BELLS A L. STRANG, 205 Farnham Strast Omsaha, Neb HENRY HORNBERGER, BSTATEH AGENT FOR V. BLATZ'S MILWAUKEE BEER | In Kegs and Bottles. Special Figures to the Trade. Families Supplied at Reasonable Prices. Office. 239 Douglas Straat Omaha TO THE LADIES AND GENTLEMEN : PROF. GUITLMETTE'S FRENCH KIDNEY PADI A Positive and Permanent Cure Guaranteed, i i caseof Grave, Disvten, Dropy, Brights Disnse Kidneyw, Incontinenco and Reténtion of Uribe, Tnflamation the Kidreys, Catarrh of the Fiadder, Hish Colored Urine; Pain in’the i or Lions, Nervasa Wealkness, snd in fact 3 ‘Biadiier and Urinary Organs, whether contract® by private iacases o theaviae. Thi grest romedy bas boen T Wik succems for neariy ten years i France, with the mos wordertul curative oflects,” 1¢ sires oy absorption: no oaateots internal medicines being reqnired. ‘e have hundreds of testd. moniais of cures by thia Pad whe il sse had e LADIES, If you are suffering from Pemale Weaknews, rhaeo, or disecses peculiar to females, or in fact any disease, sk Jour draggint for Prot. Guiimette’s French Kidney Pad, and Take no other. Tt he has ok gok i sond $2.00.and you Teceive tha Bud by retuen mal - Address U. 5. Bianch FRENCH PAD CO., Toledo, Ohio. PROF. GUILMETTE’S FHENBH LIVER PAD ‘WIIL positively curs Fever and Billious Fever, Jaundic T o the Lover, Siosiash snd Diogd” T ea oy b st e st Asksour draggist for thle ad s ake o ther e s ¢ Lewp i, o $130.1; 2 FREBCH D'CO,, (U. &. Branch), Toledo, Ohio. and receive it by return mai MAX MEYER & CO., WHOLESALE TOBBACGONISTS | Cigars from $15.00 per 1000 upwards. Tobaceo, 25 cents per pound upwards. Pipes from 25 cents per dozen upwards. Send for Price List. MAX MEYER & €O., Omaha, Neb. HORSE SHOES AND NAILS, Iron and Y/agon Stock, At Chicago Prices. ILER & 0O0., iOLE MANUFAOTURERS, OMAHA, Neb. W. J. BROATCH, 1209 and 1211 Harney Street, Omaha. i .~ A