Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 21, 1881, Page 2

THE DAILY BEE| E. ROSEW ATER: Pavvock’s song to that historic Sirat ballot: *T'm walting my darling for thee.” Ir i snid that the electrlc light will produce freckles. This accounts for the strong feminine opposition to the new Invention. —_— Sexator Brae is already address- ©d facetiously as “Mr. Secretary, ENCOURAGE IMMIGnATION The present session of the Nebraska legislature should take steps towards to our state the great tide of emigration whi Europe to the eastern shores of tl continent. Other staies have lonz ago demonstrated the advantage of advertising pabilities and re- sources. Kansas quadrupled her pop ulation and built up her frontier by o generous k. Iows and Minnesota owe their lm- portauce in the census to advertising in the cast, and Nebrasks, through direct their cap op settled beyond all reasonable con- is flowing from | and property are imbedded in the snd it Is said that his resignation is already written. This will annoy Roscoe more than Sprague and hie shot-gun. the aid of her railroad companies and | rary bureaus has received a of the successful waves b set their facos ¢ ertile prairies of th No state or terrltory off bet cupied lands or more fer- tile fields for intending settlers thun our Competing rallr es and neighboring boards of small portic of immigrati annoally ho Jacos Ricu has been confirmed by the menate as pensicn agent for Ne- braska and Tows, with headquartcrs at Des Molnes. The anuual busin 1s said to amount to several mill yeacly, and thero is little dout Jacob has struck it Rich, this time n have persistently dec s p orth unchallenged Toss and de Let the pr legislatare take up the subject. Tur bill to legalize dissect LR whould commend itself to the legisls- ture. A provislon should howerer be inserted requiring the decent buricl | bles of facts and figures. setting forth of the remaiva of dissected subjects, | the advantages of our state as a f and prohibiting the export of bodics | for settlers, the out of the state for medical p our industrial tural progress, our echool syst our facilities for wool growing and stock raising, sh distributed. s rge influx sottlers cannot be Statistics show that there is an fm- iment ve of our and agricu Tuz wonderful power of the Irish Land League over the people of Ire- Yand isshown in the repression cf lawlessnces and dlsorder more thin in any concerted action ln its mem- bars. The ability which this singular organization has shown in preventing ant relation between the str srmed collisions betwesn the pevp'e | of immigration flowing into the north- aad the military is a remarkable ev | wost and the carrent of broadstu dence of its power. and live stock that has set in from th ragion to Europe. The growth of ricalture and the increase of popula- tion in our state go hand inhand, avd our greatest increaso in populaticn mast come from foreign countries, Apart from the value of their labor the average amount of money and per- eonal property t by immigrant into country estimated at from eighty to cne - dred and fifty dollars. The value of each indisidast's toil and services to GaMBETTA'S succoss in the late | thestate is placed by competent au- French electlons kas been a compl.te | thori atleast eight huodree 4 dol- triumph for the moderate republi- rd {o ©sus and & sore disappointment to the | spend a reasonsble sum of money in commanists and Bonapartists, The | inducing prospective sttlors to locate communists have little reason for dis- | within jher bordere. A single year appointment. Thelr forces, though | would amply repay the expenditare. strong In numbers, are scattered and | Our state, with her vast terrltory as disorganized. Although a party of | yet ‘noccupied, camnot afford to te doep seated convictlons and gonuine | idle aud waich tho cfforts of her principles, with courageous leaderr, | slsters as they tura to their own ad- they are rent by factions ard |vintage her listless inaction. Nor debilitated by constant disputes s io | 81ould ¢ flny Ghihin. | N e dividuals, comauntties or corpora- Louise Michel, & gray-haired womsn The settlement of her of fifty, with the courage of a martyr | unoccupied lands would accrne as and the perseverance of a saint. The | much to the interest of the state at Bonapartists, on the other hand, are | 1atgo as to the immediate neighbor- without leadars and without followers. | hood, and the state should be wi Over such opponents, Gambetta's tri- | to bear their portion of the expens: wmph was a foregone conclasion, Tur Bk hopes that this daty will not be neglected by the legislature now in session. The coming year will from the ould be compiled and he advantages to our te of a of imm overestimated. Tuk defeat of the home rule amend- ment in the house of commone matter of course. Ite friends never avticipated its passage and framed it simply to place themselves on record a8 opposing coercive moasures in Ire- Iaad. Both liberals and cons atives united fn votlng it down, and after twelve days of fruitless disoossion parlisment has begun the business of the sossion a bro each the is Nebraska could well aff o du'y be left to pri leader is tions. ng Taisis an era of magnificent en- terpriees, and the mext decade will | Witness an emigration witaess the exacution of the grandest | old world unprecedented in history. projects ever realized in this or any | The steamship linoa saro already en- other country. Corporations are con- | larging their accommodat wolidating and pooling interests. Tie | ticipation of the thousay railways of the nation are now con- | waiting for s trolled by two o three daring capital- | seek thesh ists of unbounded wealth and unlin- | southern 1tsd meavs. Tmmeuse sums of moncy | subject of of and stock are seeking settlement and The stream of golden wealth is pour- | so ing from the continent to | Ca: our shores, ready to mid an: undertaking, however darin which promiees remunerative retur The new railroads already in contem- plation or in course of construction will give employment to hundreds of o anew era between tho twc thousands of people. The Northern They have many iuterests in and Southern Pacific roads are being | common and both labor under the us in an- s who are 0 open before & investment. adve s of their Nebracka afford to be idle? un TaE pleasant exchanga of congratu- lations betwoen Omazha and Council Blufls, in which so many of our citi- zens participated, should mark the be- gini cities. 7 | established by law, is to be taken with en to question, are already roversy. The fandamental principles | f state supervicion and regulation of the business of transporting persons common law of England, and have been repeatedly afirmed by courts wharover this prevails. In England, and many of the states of this coun- try, they have been incorporated in statutes for the purpose of securing & more preciee_application and more prompt and effective enforcement, bat nowhere have they reccived any au- thoritative c-ntradiction ss principles founded in justice and public right Seldom has any state endeavored by cxpress cnactment to curtail or restrict _ their cperation, and where this has not been done they are in full force. It is oven Juestioned whether s state has tho power by statute to divest itself of atight in whose cxercise_the people have so intimats snd important a concern, But, however thie may be, the Mazsachutetts railroad c sioners show, by abundant citatic of statutory recoguition and judi cinl_confirmation in_several states, fortified by the decisions of the su- eme court of the United at they are established beyond all controversy. They are ss old as the common law, sud as wide: governmentsl of citi: The powor of the state to exercise control over railroads, and to regulat the manner of conducting their bu ness in the interes: of tho pub should be nec to question quiry is th Al that is left for in- expedlency and the pro s action. The sioners have no trary to should b prevented by law. state they are prohibited by heavy penalties, and it is a part of the duty of the railroad commission to secu the enforcement of the law in this re- gard. The question of perferences for persons and places was decided in England under the ratlroad law in serios of _important the Iate Chief Justice and ths principle was firm lished that they sliould be rig vented. That the prevention wrong is incladed in the power of the state is one of the points determined in this country by the decisions of the supreme court. Not only that it may be done, but that it should be done in every state, may be taken as another settled principle. While the Massa chusetfs commissioners thus maintain the power and duty of the state to prevent discrimination and proferen- they do not_favor a rigid fixing of the charges of railroads by public authority or even a fixing of a maxi- mum limit. They do, howerer, con- demu the rule of ‘“charging ‘“what the traflic will bear,” instead of “‘reasonable rate” based on the ““cost of service.” They not only condemn it as unjust, but as unlawful, even where it is not forbidden by statate. In chusetts it is an indictable fonse, it is an “actionable wrong” wherever the law pre- vall These gentlemen declare themselves decidedly in favor of a raflroad com- ission as a means of securing the enforcement of the laws and tho set tlement of disputes between shippers i They rezard the alation aa ex and deserving of imitation in every state. Ui that all ra iform for like service, and must have the approval of the commissicners, who also exercise a general super. vision and act asa tribunal for tae settlement of disputes, from whose decision there is no appsal. Tho pinton that discriminations and pre- ferences should be prevented and reasonableness in rates enforced, and yet that there should bé no tarifl or maximum limit W that in favor of a commission, for y which the de: secured witho of the businees which from fixed rates. The he com e mbers of th board are of opinicn ¢ which it could not do it; y state in k on ac- of two Iustead of three-cont stamps would be reduced many thousands, presentation of the creative power; it was unquestionsbly designed to stand beforea temple; the proportions between its hight and that of tha wall or pylon againat which it was seen pro- jected, wero invariably such that from every poiat of viow the pyramidion of the obelisk was seen above ihe top of the temple. ~ Obelicks were always erected in pairs; unfortunately, we b and the people would be saved much vexatlon and loss, growing out of such mistakes, which the reccrds of the dead-letter office show are of aston- ishing frequency. The experiments of the British government for the past forty yesrs demonstrate that two conts is & fair aversge rate for the service rendered. | have but one, and it is not reasonable Qur own experlence leads to the opin- | to expect that we can get another from fon that the revenue of our depart- | Egypt; in fact, I have good ground for meftt would notbe materially, if at | sssuring you that there is not tho least all, reduced by this lessening of post- | hopo of our getting another Egyption age. Every former reduction was | obelisk unless we can buy one from followed by a corresponding increase | the Europesn residents of Egypt. in mail matter. Our postal facilitios | But I can see no reason for not having MORE POPULA SINGER NEW FAM popular demand for the GE! any previous year during Keliable Machine has In 1878 we sold 356,422 Mac] Our sales last year wi 1400 Sewing M For every busines REMBEMEIR. Machines. Excess over any previous R THAN EVER. The Genuine ILY SEWI NG MACHINE. in 1570 axcesded thatot entury in which this “0ld been before the public, o hines. In 1879 we sold 431,187 year 74,735 Machines. ere at the rate of over achines a. Day | 1a the year, 1 28 1o longer open | are now so complete that but little additional expense would be incurred in transporting and delivering a v ly larger amourt of matter. Dlany who now use postal cards in their or- dinary busincss intercourse would, if the general letter rates were reduced to two cents, adopt letters as being decidedly preferab BL;ACK HILLS NUGGETS. Madan county bas petitioned for organization. The Lead City mills are worl on short time Rapid City Is to have a sash and blind factory. A fall grown Chinaman has entered Deadwood's public school. rumor is afloat that a sale of the Grand Juncticn is impending. The ‘‘Pleasant Hours” club Deadwood has over 100 members. Rich specimens of ore have been brought in from Rawhide Butte. Deadwood's proposed mew court house and jail ere to £25,000. Work on & 600 foot tunnel has been commenced in the Comet mine at Galena, The buffslo are_twenty thousand within two days ride of Dead- The enow has blockaded for a week the castern mail between Deadwood and Pierre. The K«condide company at Galens Propoge to erect extensive works ear- lyin the spring. Deadwood wants a skilled tanner of buflalo hides, The Press says the business would pay big. The Ceutral City, Deadwood and Castern road have filed their first morigage bonds of $1.100,000. The contractors at the DeSmet mine can now furnish the mill with ore by working six days in a week. The roads on the freight lines ar a terrible condition. At the Ch enne crossing snow fell to the de, of sixteen inches on the level. The dry gulchers at Dansby, are rocking ont from two to four dollars per day, which pays them better thau to sit idle throngh the winter. A large body or ore has been struck in the Louilla mine. The ore is of the same character as the Flora Balle, Badger and other mines on the same vei Ing through bed-rock, Frank Day, a miner in one of the Homestake mines, fell down an open cut twenty-five feot, striking on his head; fell fifteen feet more and struck et. Very strange to say, ho ezeaped with only a stun and scalp wound. A rich silver discovery has been made ono and s half miles northeast of Sheridan, near Horse creek. The ore Is said to be free milling, and we are told tests have been made which return $60 por ton. The Cross mill at Custer is about ready todrop its stamps, Everything is now in place except a fow small pieces of machinery, which was either left out by accident or lost by ship- ping. They are expected to arrive in then start up. Work on_the King Solomon mine continuos incossantly. The main haft has attained a depth of eighty and a wheclis now being con- ted for hoisting from the same, The oro in tho bottom of tho shaft is said to be fally equal, if not supos toany encountered narer tho surface. The Old Charlie mine is to hav cw mill of 20 stamps right away, it isnow_ordered, ond will be on' the ground just us 300 a3 it can bo trans- count of the extent of th remedied or the i dr i to be 2ences_ opposed , is_incapsble Their gener: ported. This shows that, although we } aro now euffering nnder a season of | dull times, that the faturo is all rig] So long as new mills keep coming { wo see no great cause to complain By spring wo shall have over ono n Ar ¢ The ledge was found after sink- | a few days and then the mill will] ther obelisk, cut out of the beautl 1 red granit of Connecticut, and erected on a neighboring knoll, on which there could be cut a brief his- torical record.” had been requested, the speaker write a detailed history of the obelisk for publication in a school book, bat had declined. Ho then gave an extended acconnt of the hiero- glyphics, which have been fully des- cribod, and gave some facts about Thothmes TIil., Rameses, Thebes, Memphie, and Lucius Veras. “Thoth- mes was onabled to conquer Asta and tribute from the most powerful Aslatic Kingdoms, He built new tem- plesand restored others that had been destroyed by the Asiatic conquerors. Among the latter was the Temple of On at Holiopolis. Before that temple he erected s pair of obel- isks, of which ours is one. I have of that temple, which is as as the obelisk itself. It Is the oldest model or plan in exis tence. It was found at Heliopolis by an eminent German archzeologist, %10 =0ld it to a Californian, who sold his llection at avction in this city, where od for §60, during my enco in Egypt. I knew of the ex- ence of this exceptionally interest- ing object, and on my return home promptly purchased it.” Rameses built a ship canal from the Mediter ranean to tho Red Sea thirty-two centurfes before M. de Lesseps was born, This canal Iasted for more than {a thousaud years, so {t must bo con sidered a succe Teaces of it are to ba seon. “Thereis good reasons for beliov- ing that the exodus took place in the latter part of the reign of Rameses If, and that his woro the hosts that were swallowed up in the Red Sea while in pureuit of the fugitive Tsraclites. The biblical record does not state that the Pharaoh was vned, and had he been drowned aly would have been stated. 7a in thoso days, as in these, did not lead the van of the armies. From an Eoyptian standpoint there was | not!ing more remarkable in the flght of the Israclites than there would be to-day in the sudden de- parture from ome of our Indisn Agencles of adiscontented tribe, led by some ambitious chief; it would be a matter of considerable importance tothe Indians, but of remote inter- est to the inhabitants of the seaboard. isnothing startling in the fact the Taraclites crossed dry shod ians were drowned. combination of low spring tides, with winds from cer- tain directions, causes the watars of many estuaries, and nota- bly those of the Red Sea, to flow out 80 as to leave dry paseages across them; this combination is generally followed bya sudden and great rise of the tide, from which there is no es- cape. . “*Cleopatra had nothing to do with our obelisk. She died eight yoars before it was removed by the Romans from Heliopolia to Alexandria, for, as you are doubtless aware, the Latin and Greek fnscription on the claw of the copper crab, found betwaen it and its pedestal, states that it was erected at Alexandris in the eighth year of Augustus, which corresponds to the twenty-third year before Christ.” At the conclusion of the lectare Dr. Holton fixed the date of the com- ple of the obelisk as 1831 B. C., and argued that it was begun by Thothmes IIL., the Pharach of the lites who was swallowed p by The ase of one bottle of St. Jacobs 0il cured my son, who was very sick ith rheamatism. Thia has given the me, eat name in my neigh- borhood. S. P. 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STRAN@, 205 Farnham Street Omaha. Neb HENRY HORNBERGER, STATH AGENT FOR V. BLATZ'S MILWAUKEE BEER | 5 4 and acted upon in this and { the county. This will crue aot | 8a0ds3 of ouce hopeless sufferors, now 3 brokerage busl. | amounts. number of the Railway Age cor- | barrier almost aa impassible as the : 135 Y iy e e o=t Chinese wall. tained a list of twenty-one new rail- roads, and it is an extremely dull day that does not chronicle the in- corporstion of one or more new compaules. A railroad is projected from the City of Mexico to the Rio Grande. Across the lakes our Cana- dian cousius are striving to complete thelr Pacific rallroads. Hardly a doy passezbat new companies are incor- porated for some industry. In the south men are talking about grand consolidated cotton and suy pavies, and schemes for working up | 8 outrageous and high handed im- | o Ta¥ material near the field of its pro- ductlon. Other countries are equally in- verested. France Is investing £1,000,- 000,000 in railroads and ca; De Lesseps easily secured the vast amount of money necessary to begm his gigantic Paname canal scheme. Capt. Eads’ scheme for a ship railway acroes the Isthmus of Tehuantepec seems to b> assuminga tangible form, and Le sycees, 1if properly to comstruct & road upon which he cwm oty the largest steamships, with their cargoes 1rom ocean to ocean, for a distance of 112 miles. The Mexican goverament has given to the enterprise & subsidy { $1,000,000 acres public lands, to- gether with important concessione. This, however, is far short of the §75,- 000 which is absolutely necessary for the for the realization of this enter- P General Grant is agitating the sub- ject of & Nicarsguan canal with good prospects of success. In an able ar- | ticle on this subject the Cleveland | Leader says: “In the midst of these | great enterprises commercial and in- dastrlal projects of minor importance are springing up all over the country. We have a railroad boom, a manufac- turing boom, mining boom and & zeneral business boom. We will soon have an active real estate boom.{Many will make large fortunes and many will lose what they have. It is super- fluone to advise people to be pradent and keap out of all speculations which sre now firmly anchored in the most secure channel of commerce. They will invest wherever they think they see chance of getting rich, and asa natoral resolt many of them will emerge from the boom wiser, adder, =nd perhaps poorer than they went Into 1t encouraged, sioners of the state o tore i With a free bridge joining the two bauks of the Missourl the pleasant scenes of Wednesday will become of frequent occarrence & new and ties of trade = friendship will ba formediand cemented botween the trin o strong nounces that the Pacific railroad < o the corpor- ng 810,000,000 to the al. ctitious capital. What Tre telegraph w directors of the Un: ighly position! The producers of the west are he tune of 800,000 yearly s upon this ad- of the com- esents eight times the cost of the ‘road and equipmente, and has b g nearly twenty per cent annua i s come to the con- year, Is | commercial A few sted that ap- | er the Micsouri | hrown away on groat articlen cf the weel propri were mon of the pi for extensive commerci tion. and the 7, aorthwest.” aga Heraid unt | s of the river | “Consist art a jowel” a jewel case, order | on Haraey, Farnham, dge streets. This is a an mensure alik boys and citlos, stre coasting iz pe | mitted are speciaily designated. —_— Certaln Settled Principles | New York Timee. Among the reolies which the spe- | cial committse of the chamber of com- | merce on railrosd traneportation has | elicited to its series of questions im re- | gard to the policy of stated super-ision and control of railroads is one of more | two-ce: than ordinary value from the commi f Massachusetts. These men not only submit heir own | opinions In regard to the propriety of preventing discrimination and other abuses, but endeavor to lay down cer- | tain settled principles of law and pub- lic policy which should be taken as the starting point for legislatlon, The fi ot is, that the chief polnts which in this state continues to bo disputed fn the interest of railroad corporations, and which 8 majority of our seas lset winter treated as if They are, briefly, that irity over tho subject isam- ple and well” established; that dis- criminations and preferonces should be prohiblted by law, and just and reason: ad, ani that a board of commiesioners should be a; inted for the purpose of seeing that the provisions of the law are at all times observed, and of securing by their prompt execution justice slike business community and the state autk Uniform and Ch clnnd Leader, There is a growing demand for a heaper and uniform rato of postage, and the question will probebly be “rought prominently to public atten- ion in the near future, as Semator Blaise, has signified his intention, at an early day, to propose and vigorous- |1y aniversal two cent rate for | Tetters.” No departmer ot is slosely asso ed with the day wants postoffice. Scat- he people are, over our vast area of territory frequent visits are impossible, bat inter-communication y is an effectual substitute. tal service is & vast system, reated under the constitution and aws for the good of the people; there- fore the more closely it can be brought to them, the more satisfactorily will it ace b its purpose. Under the reduction in rates, made a few years ago, our mail servico has grown with wonderful rapidity. There now 43,000 postoftices in the coun- department gives om- 9,479 persons. Douring t year there passed through mails, exziusive of foreizn corres- ) letters and In addition to this mass of correspondence, the magazives and d 2,215,168,124 ment is not self- will never be ly Last_yeac the oxpendi- res exceeded the receipts nearly 3,500,000. Yet the people are not disposed to gramble at the extra taxa- tion necessary to make up the de- ficiency. Our service has been gradually im- proved each year, and about ali that is now needed to bring it to the stand- ard of public demand is a universsl postage -rate for letters. England has had cheap postage for forty years, and we have slowly fol- lowed, aftec her experiments have proved successfal. She now has a universal two-cent rate, while we are hampered with two and three cent postage for local and general lutters, respectively. A uniform rate would secure econ- omy and convenience in transporti and delivering letters, and simplify the work of the postoffices. The T 150 tons of ore per day, which will go atthe very least six dollrs to the ton, | cr 2000 per day, and nearly $30,000 | per month. This wil bo a mes grat- ving change from the condition of f the past year.—[Custer Chronicle. i THE OBELISK'S STORY. GORRINGE— AS TOLD BY COMMANDER SYENITE AND THE $ KILL OF THE A creNT New York Times, Jan. 11 Lieutenant-Commander Gorringe, who has successfully brought the obelisk from its Alexandrian home to our Central Park, told the story of is Ecyptian monument before the ew York associatlon for the ad- vancement of science and art, in the Brick Church, at Fifth Avenue and Thirty-seventh street, last evening. Thirty-five conturies have passed, ho said, since the obelisk was severed from its natural surroundings by the haud of man and wrought into its present form. On the banks of the Nile, about 650 miles from the sea, is an immense amount of granite, known as syenite, noted for Its free- dom from cracks, veins, or foreign substances, and the beautiful polish of which it is_susceptible. An obe- lisk now standing at Heliopolis, five miles from Cairo, taken from this quarry, waz erected moro than 4000 years” ago; and 4000 years ago a priest quarried from this place, and iransported 600 miles, & shaft weigh- ing 170 tons, which was so highly polished that the polish still remains. With all the science of our own day it would tax the most skillful work- men to reproduce the figures cut upon that shaft, and then give the surface such a lasting polish, “On_the base of the obelisk at Hatason,” continued the epeaker, ‘it | is recorded that only seven months | elapsed from the time she gave the or- | & der to quarry the stone to the date of | its final completion. To me, this rec- | § ord means that the ancient Egyptians sed of mechanical appli- ances superior to these in use at the | present day. By taking time enough, and employing men enough, there is | hardly a limit to the welght that can be moved, bat in the creation, trans- portation, that erection of an obelisk, the number of men is limited to com: paratively s few, and I am quite sure | that thers is not a man living who | would undertake in seven months, at the. penalty of his life, to quarry, | transport 600 miles, erect, carve and | polish a granite shaft 120 feet long, | s weighing 350 tens, such ss that of | Queen Hatason at Karnak. I dwell | on this fact 80 you may realizs that in | spite of the wonderful progress made in the mechanical arts in this country we are, perhaps, only on the very threshold of the knowledge pos- sossed by the ancient Egyptians number of letters that anaually go to the dead-letter office through the use thirty-five centurles ago. In my| oplnion, an obelisk is simply the ro. UM o for this y to which_they owe theirlives. 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