Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 13, 1881, Page 2

THE DAILY BEE E. ROSEW ATER: EDITOR? Ir is an ill wind that blows nobody good. The great April riso of 1881 has effectuslly demonstrated that Dillonville is mot a safe place for permanent building of any discription. Masor GENERAL PoPE has arrived at Washington and immedlazely went into secret session with the secretary of war. Isit possible that Pope con- templates another brilliant campaign with headquariers in the raddlel Yr was very lucky that the mam- moth Dillonville elevator was mnot built Jast winter. It would have Soated down the Missouri aud prob- ably have been landed high and dry on the Nebr:ska shore somewhere be low Plattem-uth Tre Cou.cl Blofis Nonpareil hos gigged back on Governor Gear. The Governor made « aad and unpardons- ble blunder when he sppointed Judge McDill to the Kirkwood vacancy in place of Marstall Charman NaBiASEA is to be honored by President Garfield with a porition up on the cour: of claims—a tribanal mext in importsnce to the national supreme court. Tais position will, we learr, be tendered shortly to Hon. Clinton Briges, one of the most dis- tinguished juriste in the west. This sppoiutment will b> heartily approved by the people of this state, whose es- tesm and confidence Judge Briggs enjoys in an eminent degree. Tae Peunsylvaia legislature 1s devising stringent measures to prevent the consolidations of competing of telegraph lines. A bill passed the Penneylvania senate last week om- ‘bodying the principles laid down by Jere Black that the state in granting charters torailway and telegraph cor- porations, and suthorlzing them to condemn property by exerclsing the power of eminent domain, these cor- porations do not acquire vested rights or absolute titles to the lands over which they pass. The bill In question provides whem any telegraph company, owning end ocontrolling & telepraph line in the state shall consolidate with auy other company, owning and controlling a competing telagraph line, the compet- ing telegraph line and all franchises and property connected therewith for the operation of the same within this state shall bs forfeited to and become the property of the Commonwealth. ‘Whenever any such corporation, etc., own- ing and controlling a line of telcgraph. shall hold & coutrollivg interest in the stock or bonds of any other telegraph corporation, etc., owning a competing line of telegraph, or shall acquire by purchase or otherwise any other com- peting line of telegraph, the stock and bonde 80 held and the telegraph line, together with all franchises so pur- chased or otherwise acquired, shall be forfeited to and becoms the property of the commonwealth, Any holder of stook or bonds of any such telegraph ~empany who sball have been op- posed to the consolidation with or ssle to the oompeting com- pany, end shall not have sssented thereto or acyuiesced thercin, shall be entitled to such_pro-rata shara of the proceeds of the #ale of the telegraph property as his bonds shall bear to the whole am uut outstanding; bat in o ease to excesd the par value of his bonde and mccru.d ioterest therson. No competing lioes are allowed to purchase suy of the oscheated prop- erty. This bill after & most protracted stroggle passed the s:uate by a vote of 27 t010, and it is confidently pre- dicted will peas ‘the lower house by & large majority. “OMAHA has hes wn ardinance Gpon her municipal stacutes that prohibits the construction of frame buildngs within certsin limits, This erdinance it practically a dead letter. Daring the past year a number of frame houses have been reconstructed and eularged; tinder boxce have been reiocated within the firs limit, sham brick buildings, with four-inch walls plastered against Taruber frames, are being erecied ou our principsl thoronghfares with reckless disregard for the pablic safety. No complaint bas been wade in our pelice court against such flagraut violations ef the apirit as well s the lotter of the fite limit ordinance. It is not £ be expected that private citizens, aud e#pecially business men, will swear out warrants against violator of the fire ordinance. They nataral- ly shrink from any act that would involve them in a feud with suybody. The city marehal and police have is- mentably failed to enforce the fire or- dinance, mainly because other daties require all_their vigilance and actiyi- | ty. Meantime Omaha continues ex- posed to » terrible confiagration and our merchants and house owners are compelled to pay Tor this risk in high dnsurarce rates. This state of affairs demands prompt attention at the hands of ournew council. The fire limit ordinance shouid be. reconstructed.; The building of four-. noh brick - tinder - boxes should be absolutely prohibited. Every person _ that _proposes fo erect s bpilding of sny kind with- o the fire lmlt ghould be re- quired to procure & building permit. Such permit - should only be granted upon presentation- of. building plans, and no departure from such plens in essential particular, should be allowed. The ohief of the fire department should be required to aot as fire, mar- sbal. Tt should be made Eh' duty to inapect all the buildings ercoted with- in the city limits. and wherever any defective chimuey is found fe shonld order it rebuilt, and if the owner failed to comply with his orders he should enter complaint in the police court. Tae fire marabal ehould also be espe- cially charged - wish preventing the erection of any buildings within the fire limita for which a permit had not been granted. O.her mea-ures look- ing tc the same end s10uld be devised and adopted from tima to time. THE IOWA SENATORSHIP. The senatorial contest in Iowa has fairly began. The leading papers of the Hawkeye state are ranging them. sclves around thelr favorite candidates and a brisk tusilade has been opened all slong the skirmish line. So faras we can observe from our distant and disinterested standpoint the contest is being waged by the per- sonal partisans of each candidate, maioly with a view to a division of political spoils. No man hasas yet planted himself on a platform of fixed principles, and no candidate has nounced his views upon the living is- sues of the day—and especially the relations of the people toward the railway monopolles. The so-called leading organ of the republican party, the Des Moines Register, owned and edited by an out- snd-out raliroader, has thrown chaff into the eyes of Iowa farmers by preaching s crusade sgaisst the barb wire monopoly, while it is paving the way for the railrond monopolies to captare the next legislature, snd with ]fih it, the nextsenstor. The Davenport Gaztte, s paper that has upon every other issue pursued = straight- forward course, has become the outepoken champlon of James T. Wilson, whe in congress and out of congress has been the most prominent monopoly capper In all Tows. The Gozette n its leading editorial on the seoatorial issue expresses impliit confidence that James T. Wilson will be the almost unanimous choice of the general assembly next winter. In support of this convie- tion we are told that such a result ooght to be reached in the In- terest of the state and nstion. State and natlon, indeed! Has the interests of Jay Gould and other monopolists become the Interest of the state of Towa and the Americsn republict Whose interest did Jim Wilson repre- sent in congress when the Credit Mo- bilier job was put up! Whose inter- est did he represent as government director of the Unlon Pacific railroad, when he played into the hands of the highwaymen that constructed that road. Why did Wilson represent the Uunion and Central Paclfic railroads in the lobby against the Thurman act to ‘compel these monopolies to pay the interest on their debt? And why did Wilson act as the chief counsellor of this gisat monopoly before the Su- preme court when the validity of the Thurman act was belng tested | We ate amazed that reputable pa- pers 1iko the Davenport Gasette should commend for senator a man who of all others has been the most faithless and mercenary public man Towa has produced. It strikes us that the time has come when Towa should no longer be content to be represented in con- gress by men who are mere spoils dis- tributors and patronage brokers. The successor of Governor Kirk- wood ought to be a statesman whose past record is a goaranty of unflinch- ing fidelity to the mass f his constit- uency. The grest body of the people of Towa are farmers and they ought to berepresented in the United States senate by a man who will legislate in the interest of the producer. It isan insalt to the intelligence of the peo- ple of Towatosay that only corpora- fon attorneysand monopoly henchmen have the'right to aspire t> a weat in the United States senate. Although the re. publican preas of Towa has exhibited lamentable short-sightedness in ignor- lug thegrest issue between corporate monopolies and the people, they cau- Dot rerist the tide that is aweeping the country from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific coast.” This issue will, we confidently ‘belleve, euter into the senatorial contest in Yowa within the Ma. Sxzaais bas inBle miod's eye the ideal news for Omahs, & paper that will devote its edltorial | columas to sermons and temperance lecturey, and- refuse to_ publish any sdvertisments exospt eburch and faneral notices, charity fairs and free lectures, ‘Such & paper edited by gontlemen who wesr whitéahokers snd | esrn_their living ax Sunday School | teachers socording to Mr. | Sherrill helpthe existing papers, and jon fhis polut we agree with [him.| Sush & paper would | demonstraté in very short time that a majorlty of the Omahorribles relish sensational accounts of some boarding house scrape or a church scandal with & good deal more zeet than they do Henry Ward Boecher's ‘very latest effort to ralse the standard of morality in Brooklyn. Tox Scorr, who has retirsd from the presidency of the Pennsylvania railroad on account of mental over- work, is in no immediate danger of dying in the poor house. According to relisble accounts poor Tom is worth from twenty to thirty millions. An- ‘other striking commentary upon the transportation question. Millions up- en millions wrung from the producers of this comntry by extortion discrimi- and stock jobbing for the per- #onal banefit of one man. —_— THE Bew ma) e A I:;;h ;‘u Phlhd-lyM.: Sunoanced in hia £ St Ahat 1 would be b paspene s free the city from & pactisan polics,— a example fcr mayors who were not. el “‘eing-smashers’ toimitate. —{Chieago T The newmayor of Omaha who was elected both as a “‘ring-amasher” and “‘slate-smasher” will emulate the ex- ample #et by the mayor of Philadel- phia. — st the Voorhees-Mahone altercation in the senate, The Detroit ibune sees it from » Shakspearean bite your thumb at me, sir! D— b.l.m to vim—a It you eay you bite your thumb at him, it will be unlawful; he will hnm’mc rales on you. V—rh—s. No, sir; I do not bite ;{’m&‘:‘mb at you; but I bite my M—b—ne Then, bliea clean thumb. V—rb—s. Then T do bite my sir, you do not 1 open my mouth snd put my footfla st you. ey glare at each other.) n H—Il to V—th—s. art thou hurt? V—rh—s. T am spread. Is he gone, and hath nothing! My mouth is as deep as & well and as wide as & barn- door. Ask for me to-morrow, an’ you shall find I bave swallowed mysel. ‘What! PERSONALITIES, Whittaker Is going to lecture. He that hath ears to hear let him hear. Gail Hamilton cures her corns with poultice of scft soap and cranber- ries. Private Dalzell wants to be Com- missioner of Patents. He has filled his caveat, and it is therefore a case of *'patent applied for.” If Voorhees and Mahone decide on a. gunning match, the former should be allowed to use a telescope sight. Brignoll says that he s not Emma Abbott’s off night tenor, and that she does not prefer Castle to him. He is angry with a Utica critic who said that he ate garlic and that he could not as Romeo climb to Juliet's balcony without derrick. It .askes very little difference to as whether Sitting Buil or the men who send dispatches sbout him who surrenders. All we want Is to see full jostice dove. Those border cor- respondents must be suppressed if it takes the whole army to do it. John Botts, of California, sald to Henry Green, “T will live to spiton your grave!” Green sued for dam- agos, and the jury regarded his feel- ioge hurt just 2 cents’ worth. His grave will be kept Green whether spit on or not. There is a pletaresque story tola concerning Secretary Kirkwood and & person of high civil rank in Wash. ington upon whom he once called. The Towa senator, who was personally official, waited his issing the several callers with such answers as their business requlred, the great man slow- ly turned his office chair, and looking the secator over from crown to sole, said, coolly: “Well. my man, what can I doforyou? You look as though you would be most at home on a farm!” ‘Water Route of Transportation. Davenport Register. Asat no previous period, the at- tention of sagacious men, who are concerned in the solution of the cheap transportation question, is being di- rected to the advisability and necessi- ty of & more thorough extension, im- provement and use of water routes of transportati.n from the interior to the sea-board. Several causes have co-operated to this end. The failure of the great trunk lines of railrosd, between the east and the west, to provide adequate faclitles to move the vast crops of the grain-produciog state to the Atlantic ports they must resch in order to secure a re- munerativo market, may be cited at one of these. I this fact has been demonstrated, it would seem certain, the fatility of a rellance upon the rail- roads alone. 1f the mammoth corpo- rations controlling the great east and west lines cannoc farnish the cars ne- cessary to move the crops, then, of course, resort must be had to other modes of transportation. Another roason s to be fonnd, doubtless, in the greatly awakened fear of consoll- daton and pooling regime upon which all the larger railroad com- panies have fully entered. It is clearly seen that the vast com- binations thus reeulting cannot fail to be injurlous to the interests of the The effect of multitodinous foems of a tion to which the public quently subjected, in_consequence of these united efforts of railroad mana- gers, must be met by the opening up of other transportation lives. Yer, another reason, and doubtless, the most _potential, after all, has now become forcibly cperative. This is, the demonstrated chespness of freight transportation by water. The steadily iocreasing use of the Erie and the Welland canals in the east, and the recantly awakened aoctivity of grain shipments on the Miselssippt, by the barge lines to New s, have farnished a mass of sta- cal facts in that direction which caunot be gainsaid. Hence, we find that at the recent meeting of the New York produce exchange, held on the bth inst., a series of resclations were unanimonsly adopted declara- tive of the absolute duty of the New York state goverament to devote in- creased attention to the development of the Erie canal system to its full ca- YM“L The firat two of those reso- utions were ua follows: ResoLveo, That the wonderfal growth of the state of New York in the past 1o population, in foreign and domestic commerte and In material wealth, by reason of which she bears the unchallenged title of “‘Empire State,” has been largely due to the wise and far-seeing policy which con- stracted ber system of iateroal water ways connecting the chain of lakes with the navigable waters of the Hud- son, and that, to this pelicy more than to any other cause, if not to all other causes combined, is due also the permanent position which the oity of New York holds as the commercial metropolia of the Unlted States: Resorvep, That the position here- tofore held by the city and state of New York is in serlous jeopardy and cannot be much longer retalned without prompt and vigorous action, aa rival seaboard citles, by heroulean efforts, by the lavish use of capital, and by sn availing of all resources of eoglneering skill, have gone far to- wards neutraliziog the phical sdraatages of our iate wad toward wresting from us trsffic in products of the great west. Canads in pur- suance of an ealightened public policy and by vast expenditures, has nearly completed the improvement of the Welland canal, which will be ready for operation in a fow months, and last, thoagh not losst, the Misaissippi and’ New Orleans route comes up as one of our most formidable competi- rs. Then followed » third resolve affirm- ing the duty of New York City to be one of advance and aggressivenees ““in connection with her water ways,” to the end that “‘ch and better facilities” may be afforded for trans. portation. The next resolution de- clares in faver of the adoption of the pending amendment to the state con- stitution, so that the state will no longer bo restricted in expenditases upon canals to the amount received theretrom for tolls; this being accom- ied by & demand for a farther en- }::menz of the existing ocanals, Thea, the concluding resolve afirmed it to be the true policy of the state to favor and provide for free canals, to the end that the produce floated upon the great lakes may reach tide-water at New York, instead of being drawn off to the Welland Canal and so to the porta of the dominion. All this is particularly noticeable in connection with the effort being en- tered upon to secure a completion of the line of water communication be- tween the Upper Misslssippi. river aod New York, via the Lakes, That through route lacks completion only because a suffisient degree of public attention has not been given to the thumb st you! Look you, sir, I bite my nose off at you! ~Sdeath, sir, T bite my head off at you! Whoop, ir, noeded constraction of the few miles once take the palns to examine the map of Illinols 'lfi.ll:l that that yet un- closed gap s one which should no longer have existence. It is to re- move that gap—to extend the present Tllinols and Michigan Canal system from Hennepin to the M ppi— that the construction of the Heune- pin-Rock Islind canal is demanded. Thus, the friends of that enterprise are simply clasping hands with the New York Produce Etchange in ask- ing that there Il indeed be snall water route of tramsportation direct from the Upper Mississippi to the Hudson and New York harbor. —_— Modern Highway Robbery. Chicago Tribune. Mr. Leland Stanford, the autocrat of the Central Pacific railroad, would do better to content himself with hoarding his $40,000,000 of fortune, accumulated from construction pro- fits, watered stock, and extortions from the public, rather than seek ad- ditional notoriety by public attempis to justify the highway robbery in which heand his associates have been indulging during the past ifteen years, The term “‘bighway robbery” is advisedly, for the highest courts in the land have declared the railroads to be public highways, and the extc tions of which the Pacific railroad managers have been convicted are just as much 2 species of robbery as that committed by Jack Sheppard or Dick Turpin in former times. The pablic mus. ‘‘stand snd deliver” before it can travel the highway, built by govern- ment money and credit, that runs be- tween Omaha and San Francisco. The amount exacted is gauged, as are the soms demanded by banditt1, ac- cording to the ability of the victims to pay. Leland Stanford is one of these audacious highwaymen who are not ] satisfied with extortion. but desire to advertise their exploits tefore the world and glorify their professional achievements. In the latter effort Mr Stanford is not nearly so successful as he has been inextortinga huge fortune from that portion of the American people who have been compelled to pay him tribute and furnish him a fortune that would amaze even Orcezus himself. The scoring which the transporta tlon committee of the New York Chamber of Commerce have recently given to Leland Stantord in reply to the letter he wrote justifylog his career and that of his associates in the Central Pacific and Southern Paclfic railroads is a fitting supple ment to the indictment prepared by Mr. Daggett, member of corgress from Nevads, which the author was mot permitted to deliver in the house of representatives, but whioh was printed in The Con- gressional Record of Febraary 27 last. M. Daggett then demonstrated that the vast property of these two cor- porations, owned in the main by Stan- ford, Huntington, Hopkins, and Crocker, represents $302,363,602 of stock and 8115,806,683 of bonds, and that the actual investment of the cap Italists was not more than §12,500. These gentloman paid taxes on less than $150,000 in the aggregate when they went into_railroad business, and to-day thelr railread property alone is worth, over and above all the real and fictitious indebtedness, more than 186 millions. They have ter years been compelling the public to py them § per oent dividends on the vast amount of bogas stock which did not cost them one dollar, and 6 per cent inter- est on bonds which were issued to represent extenslons of roads that was really built out of earnings over and above the 8 per cent. divi- dends. These extertions are made up not merely from the outrageous through rates that are charged upon freight to the Pacific corst and by means of added extortio discriminations agaiost interior points. The practice is to charge on freight billed to a town in Nevada not merely the through rate to San Francisco or Sacramento—which is thesame, though there is a diflerence of 140 miles in distance—but to add to those rates the additlonal and doubly-exorbitant local rates back from San Francisco to the interior point of shipment, A single instance will 1llustrate the prac- tice: Reno is 306 miles east of San Francisco, and hence that much near- er New York. The shipment of a car-load of coal-oil from New York to San Francisco costs $300, but from New York to Reno the charye is $536, because the through rate to San F\ cisco is charged and then $236 are added ss the local charges from San Franclsco to Rino. It Is by such means that Leland Sianford has been able to accumulate a fortune of $40. 000,000 to $50,000,000 within fifteen years, and_his associates in like pro- portion. There Is no other govern- ment on earth that would telerate like practicas. It is well enongh to expose and de- nouace the Stanfords, Goulds, Hunt- ingtons, Vanderbilts, and the rest, bat there Is no hope of reform in this course alone. These men are callous to all kinds of denunciation. They are not-to be reached by any sugges- tion of shame or any consideration of sympathy or justic. They are ready to defend the spoils they have already seized, and to justify a continuation of thelr highway robbery in the fu- ture. The blame for the condition of things which they have been permit- ted to establish must rest upon the people themselves. The only effect- ive and enduring remedy is to be sought from the government. But the government In this country is a gov- eroment of the people. = Men are elected to the state legislatares and to the national congress to enact lawafor the protection of tle peoplo. The courts have held that it is com- potent for each stute to supervise and regulate the management of railroads within its own boundary. By a parity of rexsonlng, it i equally competent for the United States g regalate railways that tray more states. Indeed, the constitu- tion gives express authority to con- grows to regulate commercs “‘among the different states.” In the case of the Pacific railroads, the very legisla- tive acta that brought them into ex:s- temce reserved the right to congress to repeal, alter, or amend whenever 1t should become necessary to take messures for the protection of the public agalnst extortion and abuse. Why has nof been done in this direction! Why has it been im- possible to secure at the hands of congress a single measure of reliet] Why is it that the Resgan bill, which once pasted the house, was allowed to die in the te? Why is it that Judge Resgan was never again able to put his bill upon its passage in the housel Why Is it that every measure of rellef whiclis proposed in congress is raled out of orsu, amended to its death, talked down and defeaced by a resort to all the devices of legislative avoidancel “There is something rotten in Denmark.” Congress has been temporizing with the American people in this mat. ter. The corporations have too many attorneys and tools in the national legielature. The time has come when the people must assert their representatives. The members of the present congress—whether rep- resentatives or senators—who wish to save themselves in public life will be prepared next December to assiat, and not to_retard, the project of national regulation of inter state railways with all the experience, resourcee, and ability which they can command, yet wanted to connect Chicago with the Missimippl. Any ome who will The men who take sides sgainst the people in_ thia issue, eltberly openly or covartly, will be marked for defeat and disgrace. The *‘highway robbery” of our time must be punished and | put down. NEW YORK CITY'S GROWTH. ITS AMAZING DEVELOPMENT DURING THE PAST SIXTY YEARS. New York Telegram Within sixty years New York has grown from a thriving seaport town to beone of the largest citles in the world in point of wealth, size, popula- tion and commercial importance. London acd’ Paris have taken centa- ries to achieve the position they now hold. New York, commencing her rapid career of growth in 1820, has sprung suddenly to the front in a little over half a century. The opentng of the Erle canal and the constrauction link by link, of the leading railroads, which gave it communication with the great lakes and the valleye of the Ohio and the Misslasippi, initiate the|period of New Yo imperial growth. Tts progress at oace became mors raipd. If the shade of Peter Stuvyesant, erstwhile of New Amsterdam, could suddenly take alook today at the city that has sprung from the little serm cf a metropolis which he in the flesh regarded as a place of marvelous proper dimensions and Importance, the doughty old hero would stand aghast, The oll>wing table conveys such an idea of the growth of the city during the sixty years just past as cau be githesed from a presentation of tho pumber of its inhabitants and the value of its real and pereonal estates for each decade from 1820 to 1880, in- clusive: Real Perioml Population. Estate 2 123,000 8 67,5 Year, 5 182 8 29.504,158 57 654,938 (5,011,8 1 flods e 1880..0.01,200500 942,571,600 201,104,057 From 1870 to 1880 the popu'ation of New York increased 264,298, or about 28 per cent. London lies on both sides of the Thames, Paris on both sides of the Seine. In compar- ing the population of those capitals with that of this city we should take in both sides of the Norih and East rivers. Looking upon New York, Brooklyn and Jersey City as one vast center of population, we have & met- ropolis of 1,884,007 souls, thus New Vork Brooklyn . Jeriey Cit Total 594,00 R gid accuracy cannot be claimed for the census returns of population. The time of the year in which the enumeration is made is not the best for sscertaining the trae number of inhabitants. This circumstances ope- rates s'rongly agatnst New York and other Iarge cities, Thus, the census is began at a time—June 1—when many people are already In_the coun- try and after the exodus to Europe has set in. Those who have made this subject a study claim that the popala« tion of New York at this present wri- ting is over 1,250,000 and that the ncgregate povulatiop of Now York, Brooklyn, Willismsburg snd Jersey City exceeds 2,000,000, I these es— timates are correct this metropolis, in point of sizo, comes immedistely after London and contalns the second larg- est agglomeration of population ir the world. Thin city has grown with a rapidity hitherto unknown in any of the great centors of population. New York has probably in the immediate fature ten years of prosperity such as it has not seen in the past. ~We may sately awsume an increase in population of thiriy.thros and o third per cent, dur- ing the coming decade; nor is there any reasen why the increase should not be equally great durisg the ten vears next following, This would give New York, Brooklyn and Jerse ity an agar: gate populationof 2,666 000 in 1800 and of 3 555,000 in the year 1900. 'That this city will during the next fifty or sixty years become the great center of commerce and finance for the whole world seems tolerably certain. Who shall ssy to what imperial proportions New York may have grown when, I the remoto future, Macauley’s much overworked New Zealanders standing on a pile of Westmluster bridge, gzes upon the ruins of London and wonders what manner of people lived and worked among those ruis The Pullman car porters about to inaugurate a “strike,” not for “fifty cents ail around,” but for increased 1y, If the Puliman company is war- ranted, it no doubt would be best to pay their porters good aud living wages and have the “fee” system dis- continued. The compazy would make many friends if they would not allow their porters auder any circumst, to_receive pergnisites or fee oblige them to give the same attea- tions without them. The following restrictions rather prove the portera are not overpaid. They are re- | quired to buy two suils of clothes a year, at from $20 to 825 ver wuit, and the division su- perintendent dirsots them whera r. buy. They aro also required to puto chase two caps, a summer and & win- tor cap, at $2 60 each. If they lose a key it costs them §5. For every | picce of linen they lose they have to pry the following prices: Pillow- slips, 50 cents each; shoets, SI. each; towele, 25 cents each, Locl on sl the cars are the same, and the porter is_held responsible for sll the linen. Porters are all pald 815 per month. When a porter fills two posi- tions (a light run), that of conductor and porter, he 1s paid $50 per month. It they collect a berth ticket and lose it they pay 50 reuts Condensed Benefit. The way people now use the great beverago—boer—It would be supposed that each glass thereof is brimfal of benefit; it may be. But there is an- other liquid of national reputation, every bottle of which is filled with immessurable bencfit to such as need its services. Mr. Edward A. Ken- ney, superiateadeat of the Boston beer brewery, Boston, Mass., thus spoaks of it: ‘I distributed several bottles of St. Jacobs Oil among those of my men subject to severe pains caused by exposure to heat and cold, and they report that it never fails to cure them. I can therefore safely recommend it to all parties suffering from pains of any kind.” Women's True Friend. A friend in need is a friend indeed. This none can_deny, especially when assistanca is rendered whea one is sorely afflic:ed with disease, mora par- ticularly those complalnts and weak- nesses 20 common to our female pop- ol Every women should know that Eleotric Bitters are woman's true friend, and wili positiveiy restore her to health, even when all other reme- dies fail. A single trial will always Prove our assertion. They are pleas- ant to the taste and onlv cost 50 ents 8 bottle. Sold by Ish & McMa- hon. 1) Eacgien's Arnmica Saive The Brst Sarve in the world for Cuts, Bralses, Sores, Ulcors, Salt eum, “ever Sores, Tetter, Chapp- ed Hands, Chilblains, Coras, sud all kinds of Skin Eruptions. This Salve Is guaranteed to give perfect satiafac- tlod In every csse or money re funded, Price 25 centa per box. or sale by 8dly Ish & McMahon Omsha, i s'")lvul $12a day ai bome easily made; eash | |oatat trea. Addrems Tras & Co.Portind, M | ! 620, *g:170nd 11:19a m 3 F loaded to fall ‘apacity with @ ¥ S RMANRENEDY RHEUMATISH, Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago, BacSache, Soreness of the Chest, Gout, Quinsy, Sore Throat, Swel- ings and Sprains, Burns and « Scalds, General Bodily Pains, Tooth, Ear and Headache, Frosted Feet and Ears, and il other Pains and Aches. N Proparation on earth a5 safe, sure, simple Bemedy, A tral catalls but the conparatt trifing outlay of 5 Cents, and every ous Ing withepain can bave chesp aad poriive of s claiima, Ve Diectlons In Eleven Languages. ¢ 80LD BY ALL DRUGGISTS AND DEALER! IN MEDIOINE. A.VOGELER & CO., Baltimore, Md., U. 8. 4. Geo. P. Bemis ReaL Estave Acewcy. 16th & Douglas 8is., Omaha, Neb. Thts ageacy doce STRIOTLY & brokerage bust neas. Does notapeculate, and therefore any ar- gning on fts books aro lnmured to fta patrons, (o stead ot being gobbled up by the agent BOGGS & HILL. REAL ESTATE BROKERS No 1408 Farnham Street OMAHA NHBRABKA. Nebraska Land Agency;. DAViS & SHYDER, 1506 Farnham St. Omaha, Neor. 400,000 ACRES carefully selecteod land in Easters et vaaka for sale, Great Bargaing in {mproved farms, and Omahs dtrp 0.F. WEBSTER SNYDER, Late Land Com'r U. P. R. R AtobTte BTRON RRND, ‘Lawis rmD, Byron Rqed & Co., oupmar EETABLISTD REAL ESTATE AGENCY IN NEBRASKA. oep & complete abatract of title to all Real Estate {n Omaha and Douglas County. mayltt $2.250,000 ROYAL HAVANA LOTTERY. EXTRAORDINARY DRAWING, APRIL 12th. 15000 TIOKETS ONLY, 7°2 PRIZES. SMALLEST PRIZE, §1,000. 1 Prizs $L0C0000 17 825, T brize 20000 $Pr zcs, $10,(00 each £0,000 100000 $ Prizes, 6.0000a h 40,000 000 722 Prizés am'Ug to $2,250,000 00 $160; Halves, 8:0; Quarter: Tenths, $16; Tweuticths, §5, Forsieths, i goserued entircly oy the 722 Prizes, $16,110. 2, Lialves, 81, ROMAN & CO. Lok & Co, New ations and _mo Successors to T irect all o mi MAN & CO, 8t BXCELSIOR Machine Works, OMAX.A, BNEE. J. Hammond, Prop. & Manager. The most thurough aprotnta! and_complete Machine Siops and Foundry fn thostata. Castings of every deccription manufactsd. Engince, Pumps and evory olass of machinery made to order. pectal attention given to Well Augurs, Pulleys, Hangers, Shafting,Bridge Irons,Geer Catting, etc Flanstor now Machinory, Meachanical Dragght ag, Hodela, te., neally efecated. 56 Harnev. M. R. BIS g 233 g g8 a8z S art Cor.of Plficonth & Donglas 8t,, R PASSENCER AGCOMMODATION LINE | OMAHA AND FORT OMAHA Conuects With Street Cars Gormer of SAUNDERS and STREETS. +3:03, 6:37 and 7:20 p. . LEAVE FORT UMAHA: 76 m. 0145 d 12:45 p. m. *The 8:17 a. :00 p. m. rus, leavi ha, and the Omaba, afe usnaly regular passengors, The 0:17 & m. run will be mado from the poat: office, corner of Dodzo and 15th snrshta. Ticicets can e procured from strect cardry- ors, or trom drivers of hacks. CAR FARE. 35 CENTS. INCLUDING STRE " BUSINESS COLLEGE, THE CREAT WESTERN 6¢o.R. RKathban, Principal. Oreighton Block, OMAHA Send for Circular, vt THE WERCHANT TAILOR, Has Just received his Spring Stock, and has?5) Mérs to select from. . Cal exely and gety oar Ehoice.* Cleaning and repairing of all Kinds. One Door West of Ornickshank’s. ep iy CHARLES RIEWE, UNDERTAKER! Motallc Cases, Coffins, Caskets, Shrouds, etc. Farn mStres . Othand11th, Omsha, Neb. Tol aranats a=lacs v nntis attaniad to, GEO, . PARSELL, M. D, | Rooms fn Jacobs Flock, up stairs, corner of Capital Avenue and 15th street. 1435 Sherman_ Averue. May e comsuit ed at resi ence 7 t0 0 p . except Wednesdays. SPECIALTY —Obstetrics ani Discases of Wo- men. Cffice hours 910113, m. and 2 t0 4 p. m. und_s5to7v.m m12-6m NOTICE. Any one fhaving dead animals I will remove hem free of charge. Leave orders southeast corn ¥ of Harney and 14th St,, second door. CHARIES SPLITT, B B e iems, damee, NEW HARNESS SHOP. Samp es wor Co for hims-lf in the large th of the souhesst corner Sts. He il employ a large workmen and will 81l ail orders 11y and cheaply, (B S E. BURDICK. orce of s “HRREN BANKING HOUSES. THE OLDEST ESTABLISHED. BANKING HOUSE IN NEBRASKA. CALDWELL, HAMILTONSCO BANKERS Buslness traveacted same sa that o an lncor- parated Baak. Accounts kept fn Carroscy or goid susject to sight check without notioe. i Certificates of deposit tsssed payable fn throo, stx and twolve months, bearing Interest, or demand without ntercet. Advances made to customers o approved se. caritles at market rates of nterest Buy andsell gold, bills of exchavze Gevern ‘meut, State, County and City Bon Draw 8ight Dratta on Encland, Iand, and all parts of Earope. Sell Earopean Passage Tickets. GOLLECTIONS PROMPTLY MADE. sugldt T. S DEPOSITORY. land, Seot- First Narionar Banx OF OMAHA. Cor. 18tk and Parnham Streets, OLDEST BANKINC ESTABLISHMENT LN OMAHA. (8UCCESSORS TO KOUNTZE Brog.,) ReTABLISHED 1 1566 Organizad as National Back, August 36, 1565, %.| Gapital and Profite Over$300,000 | 1n Epeclally anthorised by the Receotasy or Treagury %0 recoive Bubscription 10 the U.8.4 PER CENT. FUNDZO LOAN. |ANDSTILLTHE OFFICERS AND DIRECTORE Hxzwan Kouwra, Proatient, Avevsros Kovwras, Vice Frestisat. H. W. Yars, Cashler. A o, Attoraey. fonvea, Davie, Ass't Cashlar, This bask receivesdepostt without regard to toa, ala. Dubltn, Edinburgh and the principal citles of the contie nant of Europe. Sells passage tlcketa for Ewmigranta tn the In. man_ ne. m ylast HOTELS THE JRIGINAL. BRIGGS HOUSE ! Cor. Randolph 8. & bth Ave., OHICAGO ILL. PRICES REDUCED TO $2.00 AND $2.50 PER DAY MINGS, Eroprietor, OGDEN HOUSE L1 y Cor. MARKET ST. & PROADWAY Council Blu Onlinoo Street ka all trains. RAT) FRONTIER HOTEL, Laramie, Wyoming. The miners rosort, gonl s aro sample room, attention given % trav kY W INTER - OCEAN HOTEL Oheyenne, Wyoming. First-clses, Fine arge Samplo Rooms, one block from depot. Trainestp from 20 minates t0 2 hours for dianer 0 a0d from Depot. Kstes §200, £260 2 According to roor; 'ugle meal 75 cen . fowa: o and from Being the story cf the Alexander Croos, D. D. “Bibie for the Young,” re parent will | ou should cir- | . Lou LION Contimues to Roar for Moore(s) ARNESS & SADDLERY, ‘e Residence | & No. 404 8. 13th St. 1 have adopted the Lion ss a Trade Mark, and all my Goods wiil be stamp- ed with the Lion and my Name on the same, No Goods are genuine withoat the above stamps. The beat material is used and the most ekilled workmtn sre employed, sud at the lowest cash price. Anyone wishing a price liat of goods will confer a favor by sending for one. DAVID SMITH MOORE. L. VAN Car, M. D, E. NEBRASKA Menicac anp surcical INSTITUTE, 1gatxs, M. D. Now open for the reception of pa ents for the TREATMENT OF ALL CHRONIC AND SUEGT CAL DISEASES. DRS. VAN CAMP & SIGGINS, Physicians & Surgeons, Proprietors, n&l& ’E'lfl'l!-‘gfllfil(mfiflfilfl 14TH A. W. NASON, B EESINE R S OFncs: Jacob's B ck, corer Caplio A7s. aad 6th Street, Omaka’ 6> REMEMBER That Every RBAL Singer Bewing Ma- chine bas this Trade i principal | Mark cast into the Iron Stand and em- bedded in the Arm of the Machine, THE SINGER MANUFACTURING CO. AT WHOLESALE HALLADAY WIND-MILLS, CHU Near Union Pacific Depot. REMOVED! THE NEW YORK GLUTHING HOUSE Has Removed to 1309 FARNHAM STREET, (Max Meyer’s Old Stand.) Where They fhall Keep Constantly on Hand an Immense Stock of MEN’S, BOYS’ anp CHILDREN'S CLOTHING, HATS, CAPS AND GENT'S FURNISHINC GOODS PRICES ALWAYS THE LOWEST, 22Call and Hxamine Goods and Prices.wg 1309 Faroham Street, Omaha, Neb, e MORE POPULAR THAN EVER. The Genuine SINGER NEW FAMILY SEWING MACHINE. ‘The popular demand for the GENUINE SINGER in 1879 ax-seded th.¢ . any previous year during the of a Century in which this 014 Reliable” Machine has been befors the public, 1878 we sold 836,422 Machines. In 1870 we sold 431,167 Machines. Excess ever any previous year 74,735 Machinds Our sales last year were at the rate of over 1400 Sewing Machines a Day | For every business day 1a the year, The "0ld Reliab'e” Singer is the Strongest, the Simplest, the Most Durable Sewing Ma- chine ever yet Con- structed. Principal Office: 4 Union Square, New York. 700 Subordinate Offices, hi‘\v United States and Canada, and 3,000 Offices inthe Old orld and South America. sepl6-ddwtf N S L PIANOS = ORCA J. S. WRIGHT, "% GHICKERING PIANO, FOR And Sele Agent for Hallet Davis & Co., James & Holmstrom, and 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 Organs exclusively. Have had years exzperience in the Business, and handle only the Best. ~J. 8. WRIGHT, 218 16th Street, City Hall Building, Omaha, Neb. HALSEY V. FITCH. Tuner. DOUBLE AND SINGLE AOTING POWER AND HAND PUFPS r, ngine Trimmings, Mising Machi BELTINC HOSE, BRASS AND IRON FITTINCS, PIPE, STEAN #A AND RETAIL. R 3 RCH AND SCHOOL BELL: A_T. STRANG, 206 Farnham Strast Omaiis, Nab AL WAKEFIELD. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN LATH, SHINGLES, Pickets, Sash, Doors, Blinds, Mouldings, Lime, Cement, Plaster, &c. STATE AGENT FOR MILWAUKEE CEMENT CO., OMABA, NEB. v J. J. B. DETWILER, THE GARPET MAN, Has Removed From His Old Stand on Douglas St., to His NEW AND ELEGANT STORE, 1313 Farnham Street, Where He Will be Pleased to Meet all His Old Patrons.