Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 5, 1881, Page 2

E. ROSEW ATER: EDITOB — Iris suggested that the star routes arethe reerzanized fast lines to the penltentiary. — Sr. Louts parsgraphers who thought the rise in the upper Missouri excru- clatingly funny sre now sesching for thelr rubber boots and flatboats. —_— Iravy will take the ceosus on De- cember 3lst, It is unfortunate for Italy that she has no Dillonville tramps This oversight wili compel reduction of thousands In the number of people listed by the enumerators. — ‘WeiLe immigration of the poor is pouring Into the country, emigration of rich is golog on with agood desl of gust. Five handred cabin psssengers with nearly two thourand Saratoga THE DAILY BEE.| tranks sa'led by Earopelast Saturday from New York, It is difficult to find out whether the Herald is worse informed upon current evente or past history. The sunouncement that Lieut. Schwatzks discovered the remalns of Sir John Fravklin will doubtless be news to that intrepld explorer. A wusex of citizens of Council Bluffs have applied for an injunction 40 restrain the Amerloan Construction Company from building water worke in that city. The grounds upon which the injuncifon In aeked are In general the same upon which leading citizens of Omaha asked sn injunction rgainst the Holly Company. The: ssme ays- tem of direct pressure was applied over there upon Councilmen and newspepers by the water sharks. Omama, Neb., May 2, 1881. To the Editor of Tux Bax Will you please decide a bet throngh your columns: The population of Ohicago; the populaticn of New York Oty and suburbs; the population of Brocklyn, N, Y., in 1880 by United States oensus returns; and oblige sub- soriber. U. P. The population of Chicago under the last census was 503,304, St. Louis 350,622 The pupulation of New York City on Jane lst, 1880, was 1,206,500, This includes only the city proper. When thesuburbs are taken into con- sideration Brooklyn with 566,689, Jer- sey Oty with 120,628 and the adjacent towns in Long Island and Westchoster county with some 75,000 population additional must be added, making & grand total of 1,969,000 inhabltants. In round mumbers New York and sarburbs are oredited with s popula- tlon of 2,000,000 The population of Brooklyn has ‘been given. SOME POINTS IN POSTAL REFORM Postmaster-General James Is doing a noble work n reorganizing and puri- fying the postoffice department, and no section of country s better dis- posed to revoguize hie valusble ser- vices than Omsha and the west. We cannot, however, approve of the order respecting the rallway mail service recently issned by the department avd whish, if enforced, will work the gravest injustics to one of the hardest working class of public servants in the postofiice department. Under the operation of this order, the pay of three quarters of the malj clecks will be very seriously ro- duced. Out of sixteen men running on the Unlon Paclfic from Omaha to Kearney, four will recelve $1,303 per sunom, and twelve, who formerly earned $1,150, ‘will be reduced to $900. This reduction in pay, more- over, is made with no consequent re- duction in the hoars of labor, and apperently directed only to those clerks who bandle the mail on the eastern end of the overland route. On the Union Pacific there are only four clerks who draw the maximom pay of 81,800 yearly. On the Cen- tral Paclfic, which handies = much smaller smount of mail than the Unlon Paclfic, there are thirteen head clerks drawing the ssme salary. When comparison fs made with the B. & M. rallroad in our state the injustica is even more apparent. Oa that road the amount of mail matter is a trifle when com- pared with that which passes over the overland route, and yet with only two clerks on & car one mail agent on the B. & M. receives $1,300 per annum and the other $1,150. It is unfair to the highest degree that the Increased effizlency and skill of mail agents who have been years in the employ of the postal railway service should be discounted in thie manner. Within the last throe years the smount of mail matter ban- dled by the overland postal clerks has inoressed from 10,000 ponnds dally to over 30,000 pounds, and o work this enormons amount of mail, three less men are employed than three years ago. In 1875 three local agents were employed at the transfer at s salary of $1,200 each to handle mail. Since that time the amount of mail has trebled and yet under the late order of the postofiice department the pay for the same number of men is $900 each. This is not true economy. In- creased efficiency in employes should bo met by increased rathor than di- minished wages, aud all the more so ‘when new and more laborious duties are constantly added. The whole country is interssted in the overland postal service, and were the facts known we feel sure that the protest agalnst this proposed change would ring out with no uncertain sound from every leading journal in the land. Senstor Van Wyck has interested himself greatly in the matter and states that he will nse every exertion o his return to Washington to lay the real state of affairs befsre the depart- ment. He considers the order un- just to = class of public servants whose labors have hitherto been too little recognized, and if personal in- terest and active endeavors at the capital can accomplish it, he hopes to SENATOR VAN WYCK. Onana extends a cordial welcome to Gen. Van Wyck, who is In our city for the first time tince his election as TUnited States senator. s visiting Omaha for the expross pur- The senator poee of acquainting himself with the wants and needs of thecity and with especial reference tothe guestion of Protection to our river front. No subject is of more vital importance to Omaha, and when the barge line is established none will be of more importance to the whole etate of Ne- braska than the permanent protection of thebauks of the Missourl river. The lste dissstrous flood, which destroyed that portion of the riprap constracted by the government engineers above the smelting works,renders immediate action necessary in order to prevent the wrecklng of the Important estab- lishments that are now exposed to the action of the water. Senator Van Wyck's pressnce in Omaha is very opportune and Mayor Boyd as president of the Omaha board of trade has very properly issued & call for a meeting of the board this ovening at which the neceeslties of the situstion will be discassed and placed before the senator. We hope that our merchants and manufactur- ers will manifest an ective interest by their presence this evening and that there will be a full meeting. ANTI-SUFFRAGE. Beatrice Exprees The fow newspapers of the state that have seen fit to raise their voice against the proposed woman suffrage smendment, are either very ehort of ammunition or else are saving it for the fioal charge, Argument against it is something that has net appeared in & Nebraska newspaper, yet we notice & #quib seml-occasionally that looks and sounds as though intended to be fanny or sarcastic. But for something real downright funny, that would csuse a corpse to laugh or s bronze image to grin, Tk OMAuA Bee has bit it. Tue Bee refers to women suffcagists (without the use of guota- tion marks) as long haired men and short haired women. This remar] ble funnicism is followed by & quarter colnmn of twhat we suppose was in- tended for argument, but in which wo find nothing for any champlon of the eause of woman suffrage to answer; and after reading the extract, we are sure our readers will wonder that Providence permits -l\m-fl;, to edit a leading dsily paper. Says Tie Bee: “Why den’t A ek all oue young men who are over the age of eighteen aud be- low twenty-one on & perfect equality with women? A woman is of legal age when eighteen, » man is an infant in law until Te in twenty-one. A woman may inherit and own property in her own name when she is eighteen. A man caunot inheiit, own or dispose of property until he i twenty-one. woman controls her earnings after she reaches the age of eigh- teen. A man's earniag’s belongs to bi parents up to *the age of twenty.one. A ‘Woman may give herself away in ma-riaze at the age of eighteen without consu... snybody. A man under twenty-one can not legally marry unless he has the consent of his parenis or guardians., A man is sobject to military duty from the age of eighteen. A womaa can stay at home all ber lifetime and let the war rage. When a man dressed in female ap- parel appears on the streets ot a city be is Gragged betore. the magistrate, ined and put in jail; while we see women every day on our streets wearing yucu's hats, sport- ing breeches, ‘rubber boots, ulsters and short hair without being interferred with. When will these barbarous impositions on man cease? How long are men to submit to such opprossive and unjust discrimina- tion? Will the gallant defenders of wo- ‘man’s rights please tell” Theso latter questions of Tax BEe aro easlly answered. Those ‘‘imposi- tions,” surcastically so-called, will exist’ only_until the fool-killer gets around; and as they exist only in the mind of Txe BE: man, we adviee him to take legal steps at ance to have the fool-killer aforessid bound over to kesp tho peace lest ho should be hurt before he can get in out of the wet. The long-haired men and short- haired women who want to abolish all distnctions between the sexes have very happy faculty of clinching ac argument. Whenever aneditor dares to express dissent from thelr views he s at onoe branded s lanatie,a fool or s vhisky toper. When Tur Bek called attention to the fact that our lawa recognize the difference In sex by scoording to women speclal privileges and cxemptions by resson of their earlior development, the editor is politely informed that he is a fool and a innatic. Now, we ask, In all seriousness, if all political distinctions are to be abol- fshed between the sexes, why should young men over eightesn bo rated as rainors, subject to the control of pa- rents and guardiane, while women over eighteen are free agents aad be- yond the control of anybody? I this disorimination it favor of women is just and proper, because & womsn at 18 s as mature in body and mind as & man st 21, would It mot natarally follow that women above the age of 18 should have the right to vote, whlie men cannot vote until they reach the age of 21. Oar aim, in calling attentlon to the recogultion of the physical and mental difference botween the sexes — by our present lawi— was simply to show the uiter inconsistency of the long-haired men and short-baired women in clamoring for the abolition of all legal and polit- loal differences between men and women, If every man who refuses to joia in the effort to nullify the laws of God and mature is a fool, a lunatic of & whisky toper, the men in putti- coats aud women In breeches will have to create a new world of their own. Tk international monetary confer- ence will acoomplish nothing decisive. It's mombers are so thoroughly tied up with instractious that very little Power is grauted them for final nego- tistions without further conference with their governments. Nowadays a0 ambassador is little else than a clerk at the end of a telegraph wire. —_— CoNonzss has expended millions of dollars for the improvement of the Mississlppi river. Perhaps the late fioods may induce the M. O.'s at Washington to bestow a littls less at- tention on Squeduck creek and more on one of the grest arteries of trade #ee the salaries of the railway mall ' which taps the richest agricaltural clerks restored to the former figures. | couatey on the globe. Effect of the Rise In Wages and Prices Chicago Tribune. X The general advance in wages now demanded in all parts of the country should not be accepted a8 an_unmixed evidence of the prosperity it indicates, becauseit lacks that permanency which alone assures real prosperity. That community enjoys the highest degree of prosperity whose laber places within the reach of the greatest number of persons tbe possession of the greatest amount of thecommodities contributing to the wants and comforts of the humsn family. This degree of prosperity is not to be measnred by rates of wages, becsuse wages are but things ore exchanged. The nearer the whole population can come to the enjoyment of the greatest abundance of the world's goods, the nearer they are to the greatest prosperity. The rise in wages is not of itself evidence of an increase of prosperity; thue, when wages sdvance 10 per cent. and the cost of llving advances 20 per cent. (ss the middle men mark up thelr goods,) the means of purchasing are serionely reduced. Daring the last sixty days the demand for in- creased wages has beon general. In maay employments thers was un- doubtedly a disproportion of the wages paid to taose dependant on their daily earnings, and to the extent that this insufficiency has been corrected no more than justice has been dome. Whilewazes are largely to be measured by the cost of living, it must also and always be remembered that the great factor in making up the cost of liv- ing is this item of wages. Wherever there is & gecersl advance In the cost of Iabor, which is properly the cost of production, the cost of living neces- sarily advances n foll proportion. In point of fact, therefore, the purchas- the mere agents for which other|p of them who left the faths penniless are almost wealthy at pre- sent, and certalnly none of them are want. 1 shall recommend emigration to our poorer peasants when 1 return home. ] ““After remalning three months in Boston I set out for tho west, in the terrible winter, for the sole puzpose of visiting my countrymen settled there, I found the Norwegian population of Minnesots, Wisconsin, Dakota and Nebraska to aggregate (irrespective of Danes and Swedes) over 600,000 souls. With such a strong represen- tation onme might expect that these would take a part in and would be important factors, for instance, in opposing and killing such ridiculous, narrow- minded measures as the anti-treating bill. But here the whole miachief lies. Although of 21l Scandinavians, orwegians are the most cnter- prising, pushing out into unknown reglons and braving all_dangsrs, they are unfortunately etill a priest- ridden people. The Norwegian church synod in the west, com- posed of 175 paators, controls tho consciences of almost all ouremigrants, and for fear tho lstter may lose falth in their rieid Calvinistic creed, they are forbidden even to attend the American public schools. Thus they geew up in ignorance, ignore politics and the great social questions of the day, and are only good for manual labor. I have always oppcsed and shall always combat this narrow- minded, unmodern spirit wherever I meet it.” INfiUSTRIAL NOTES. Bangor, Me., i1 to have a new cot- ton factory, with a capital of $1,000, ing power of wages, after a general | 000. Two new knitting mills are to be erected at Schenectady, N. Y., this spring. The and substantial advancement, fatls to keep on an equslity with the increased oost of living resulting from that vance. It is, moreover, attended with serious drawbacks. Any Increase in the cost of production is attended with a reduction fa the demand for con- samption o the part of the great ag- ricultoral class, and consequently o reduction in the amount of labor em- ployed to preduce goods. 1t should be borne in mind that the tillers of the soll constitute one-half of the American people. The amount of domestic manufactures and import- ed gosds they can buy is is determined by the cost. They get a certaln amount for_thels products, whose price is fixed by the forelgn-market quotations. When mechanics and Iaborers iu the citios are forcing up wages by strikes the farmers are un- abls to work up the price of crops. Hence, as fast as town-made goods and wares aro forced up in price by strikes the powarof the farmers to pur- chase those goedsfalls off in the same proportlon, for they have so much money to_ speud snd mo more The dearer the goods the less the farmers can parchase, Therefore the town-strik- ers aro cutting off thelr market for their maunufactures by artificially en- bancing the cost of producing them. But man do not usually stop to reason on consequences. Their rale is to grasp at a dime near thelr noses al- though they may lose a dollar at their arms’ length. Tt is possible, then, that the cost of living and the cost of production may be so sdvanced by a general rise of wages that the purchasing power of the advanced wages msy be less than it was before the rise, and that the amount of labor employed may be re- duced as a consequence. This is just what is now happening, In viewing this matter as an evi- dence of prosperity the fact must not be everlooked that there have been since January, and sre now, an aver- age of 2,000 workmen landing on our ehores every day; that, allowing one- half of these seek homes in the coun- try, thero are ac least one 1,000 mea daily thrown into the cities and towns seeking werk. These men come bere with limited meavs; they must find work or perish, and that they will find work at the best wages they can obtain is a practical necessity. They havo to_support thomselves and fami- lies, aad 30,000 of these labor-seekers are added to our city population every month, who are thus becoming com- petitors with the present population. How long can the rlse in wages con- tinne in the presence of this stream of competitive labor, which soon must accept employment at whatever wages it can obtain? The tide of immigra- tion now pouring into the country is not limited to unskilled labor; it in- cludes mechanics of every branch of trade aud of every industry. These men are at our dours; they are asking for work, and asking for work that they may have bread. The inevitable consequence of every general advance in wages, is to s crease the cost of all American mani factures that the country is flooded at once with forelgn goods. The de- mand belog reduced, and the supply being far in excess, production must cease, and the goods on hand must be wold af a sacrifice. That is a story that has become familiar by its fre- quent repetition. It has not been more than a year sinos it was most painfully and expensiveiy repeated in this ceuntry. Two years ago there was » general advance in prices and in wages; then came the inflow of forelgn goods; then the stoppage of American production, the dlscharge of labor, and the reduction of wages. The boom had been calamitous, instead of being beneficlal. Wages had returned to their ordinary level, and industry and production were resumed, and 20w comes another general demana all atong the line for an advance in prices from 20 to 25 per cent. This rise is demanded in the face of the fact that between July 1,1880, and July 1, 1881, no less than 100,000 able-bodled workmen have come into the country and ai now and will be seekingemployment a necessity for bread, and at whatever wages they canget. The oft-repsated story will follow. The general ad- vance in wages will necessitate are- duction of employment; the increase in the cost of living will leavs the in- creasod wages less remuncrative than before; forclgn goods will pour in from foreign workshope, and Ameri- can goods will cease to be exported. The boom will be succeeded by a de- cline. A decline In employment, s great decline in e, snd the seem- Ing prosperity of the labor will close with a prostration that will continue until prices go back to thelr natural condition. Now we are in a_season of strikes, which are avoided by submission; but sixty days hence wages will have less purchasing power than now, and then will follow strikes which will be met by saspensions of employment, lock- outs, discharge of workmen, and a period of time and production lest. In this fitfal, spasmodle, thoughtle ‘tampering with prices there is an im- mensity of evil. The thoughtfal man will search them in vain for any pros- pective abandance they offer to any one. High prices and reduced pro- duction are the opposite of prosperi- ty, and sny and all efforts to benefit mankind otherwise than by Increasing the material abundance which can be obtained for laber mast alwaya prove abortive and disestron Scanc 10 the West. Feom an interview with Biorosen. Tn what condition do you find those of your ccuntrymen who have im- migeated to the United Statea?” “IT have no hesltation in saying that the change they have undergone has { been decidedly for the better. Maay Everstt Mills, Lawrence, have pat up a 36-lamp Brush e light. A new yarn mill, of brick, three stories high and 350 feet long, is to be erected at once, at Taunton, Mass. A new cotton mill is to be bailt at Calats, Me., to contaln 30,000 spin- dles, employ about 500 hands snd cost aboat §500,000. Buffalo, N. Y., has twenty-eight elevators, with an aggregate capacity of 8,802,000 bushels. Three have a capaclty of 600,000 bushels each, two 650,000 each, and one that will store 1,000,000. The building of the Portland (Me.) smelting and reduction worke are nearly completed, and operations will begin In & fow days. The most im- portant industry it s supposed will be the extraction of sulphur from cop- per ores. The men employed in Krupp's tm- Tmense manufaetory are workiog night and day In supplying orders for large guos from sbroad. Roumania has er- dered 100; Greece, 700; Sweden, 50; Holland, 110, aud Italy, 400. This Goes mot look much as though the relgn of peace has actuslly com- ‘menced, or is very near. The weavers of Bohemis are in great destituti In upper Silesia, Prussia, therels no improvement in the impoverished condition of the peasantry, Their situationls summed up thus: ““No grain, no potatoes, no food for cattle, no seed for sowing, Soow and cold without, hunger and sickness within.” Soup houses and public kitchens have been started in seventeen villages. A new flourlog mill is to be erected in Mioneapolla which will be the largest in the world, The building will be ar much s 250 fect square and six stories high, bosides a storago elo- vator with room for half a million bushels of wheat. It will turn out 5} barrels of flour per minute, 333 bar- rels per hour, 8000 per day, 2,400,000 ‘barrels per year; (300 dsys). It will re- quire 10,000,000 bushels of wheat per year to supply it, and the value of its aonual product will be at least §14,- There were packed in Chicago, dur- tng the year ended March 1, 1881, an sgaregate of 5,752,191 hogs, by far the largest number of hogs ever packed in any clty in the world in one year. The receipts of live hogs dur- ing the year were 7,009,355 and ship- ments 1,304,690. There were made during the year 316,884 tlerces of lard, 269,070 barrels of pork, 23;- 757,603 pounds of green meats, 38, 165,035 of green and dry ealted, 11, 872,895 pounds of Cumberlands, 60, 642,845 pounda of short ribs, 38,10 906 pounds of short clears, and 52, 579,140 pound of long clears. Pleas for the Railroads. New York Times. Statements of some of the railroad ‘magnates have lately been published, in which they reply vaguelyto charges made sgalnat tho management of transportation interests, and Mr. Albert Fink, pool commissioner of the trank lines, sppears in one of the or- gans of corporate monopoly as the de- fonder of tho railroads against the at- tacks of thosewho advocate their regu- iation by law. Neither tho remarks at- tributed to Mr. Goold and Mr. Van- derbllt or the lettors of Mr. Fink meet the real case at all, but they seem to be intended to dlvert attention and to give the Impression that all the railroads need Is to be let alone. Tho great operators scont the idea that they or any combiuation of men can exercise control over the transportation interests of the country or give the character of monopoly o any part of the railroad system. They declare that competitlon and the prin- ciples of trade enter into the business to such an extent as to bringitin substantlal accord with the general interests of the commaunity. They cannot maintain rates above a certain normal standard, nor command pa- tronsge except by doing justice to their customers. Mr. Fink devotes his efforts to ehowing that certaln charges against railroads are wildly exaggerated, and that though there msy be cases of extortion and of un- just discrimination, they do not con- atitute the general methods and prac- ticos of the companies. “All general pleas of this kind are apart from the purpose of controversy. Thera is no doubt that both the wealth and the power of Individual railway magates is popularly exaggerated. There is unquestionably a tendency to accept flagrant instances of wrong- dolng as characteristic of railroad man- sgement, when they aro In reality ex- ceptional. But it does not satisfy the publio tobe told that the power of wrong-doing is not constantly and universally exerclsed. It may com- mit its outrages only sometimes or in certsin places, or when it suits its purpose to do 80, but those who are ltabl to be its victims have s right to claim that it shall not be aliowed to dlsregard themandates of justice at all, If anybody pretended that railroad business was itself a monopoly, that all mansgers could maintain their charges st any figare they pléased, and tax the industries of the country | at will, it would be something of an’ answer to show how many millions had been tunk In transportation en- terprises; how many companies had gove into bsokraptcy, snd what a moderate percentage on the entire capital involved was represented in the aggregats of dividends paid. Bat the argument_in favor of criminal ;but that the community shoald be protected against exceptionsl crime, and that no instance should be permitted to pass with impunity. There can be no denlal of the injury and injastice that have been_done in certaln cases by those pracfices of railroad corporations which are subject to condemuation. Men have been ruined, enterprises have been wrecked, placss have been rendered desolate, in order that other ‘men might flourish, other enterprises succeed, and other places be bullt up, because railroads wonld for the time profit by the wrong. The ovils of speclal rates, of discriminations, and of unregulated charges and methods have been too fally shown up, and the consequences too plainly exhibited for any one to make denial of thelr exiat- ence or of their injustice, Neither Mr. Fiak nor the other de- fenders of railroad methods can deny the specific facts, and they do not at- tempt it, but they make broad and sweeping statements abont the whole transportation business which do not meet the case at all. Rallroads have done mush for the development of in- dustry and commerce. They have become absolutely essential to the ma- terlal prosperity of -the commanity. They arein » general way subject to the laws and influences that dominato trade. They share in depression and. prosperity; they are subject to rivalry and competition, they must conform to the requirements of their sitnation to succeed. And yet it is true that many lines can, within certsin limits, exarcise s power over the interests of citizens and communities that it 1s not safe to leave without regalation. I railroads do not generally practice extortlon and have no desire to do 80, there can be no possible harm to them in legislation for its preveniion, If they do not, as a rule, practice dls- crimination’ or pursue a policy by which their customera suffer injustice, orif they have no desire to do any- thing of the kind, why do they object to measures for the prevention of these things? If there are cases in which considerations of sound policy in management, and of wide public interests as well, require & departure from rigid rales, such 8s could be lald down by leglslation, why object to a tribunal which shall examine the re- quirements of the situstion and act as arbiter between the roals and the public? In short, can railroad mana- gers who have no desire to do wrong or to enjoy fllegitimate advantsges, but are anxious that public interests ehould be subserved and the rights of all equally maintained, glve any rea- son for opposing leglslature whese sole purpose is to prevent wrong, even in exceptional casee, and to secure, at all times and in all places, the just rights of all partios. —_— Renaming and Extension of Streets Oxuama, May 3, 1881, To the Editor of The Beo. Avy person who will take the trou- ble to examine the plai of Omaha will find that many streets already latd outand bullt toin the different addi- tions are on the same line but have differant names—although extenslons apparently of the orlginal streets or streete of other additions. Asuggestion presents itself that the clty council ought to give one name to all streets on tho same line and discard the everal other names thereto attach- edand compel the proprietors of ad- ditions hereafter to conform thereto. Take for example Phil. Sheridan, Twenty-sixth, Centre and Campbell streets, on same line and at right an- gles therawith. Leavenwerth, Plum and Coburn streets and many others are in the same condition. Where a streot is not exactly on the same line but takes the travel mostly from the extension nearest its ending, it might bs well to give it the name of the strest of whish it might be “consider- od as an extension. If proprietors of addltions do not wautso many streets asia the original plat, let taem make what streets they do Iay out conform to those with which they join. By following this arrangement tho house numbers will be regulated by tho streets which have regular and lengthy extensions to the limits of the city, although there may be some short streets intervening, and will an- swer the same purpose of correction lines in surveys. To follow this plan will Injure no cne, produce more uni- formity, bemore satisfactory to our residents acd more easily understood bysirangers. It will cost nothing now, but If every proprietor of land is permitted to lay out his ground and obatruct streets there will be millions In It In the future, as we already no- tice persons erecting fine and costly edifices, immediately in the line of streets which probably may at some future timo be forced throngh at great expense and considerable annoyance and detriment to the owners. Such a course of proceedure will produce more uniformity, make a better impresslon, appear mors regu- lar on the maps and avold much an- pleasant confusion smong our own citizens—and others. The various names for the sams street will be fouud very annoying fand unsatiafac- tory to visitors and smong our people generally, but more _particularly with those who reside in_the additions where the greatest disarrangements | will be fonnd, not only as to name of ‘strects, but more particularly to num- s, Arr. D. Joxes. ‘The Champion Swimmer of the World. The world-famed swimmer, Capt. Paul Boytcn, thus closes a lengthy article commending the remedy: I do not see how I could get along without St. Jacobs Oul. Wworthy of Praise. Asa rale wo do not tecommond pat- ent mediclnes, but when we know of one that really is a public benefactor, and does positively cure, then we con- sider It our duty to impart that fn. formation to all. Eleotrlo Blters are troly s most veluable medlcino, and will ‘surely cure Billiousness, Fever and Ague, Stomach, Liver and Kidnoy Complaints, even whereall other rem- edies fail. We know whereof we speak, and can freely recommend them to all. —[Ex. Soldat 50 cents & bot- tle, by 1eh & McMaho @) G. J. RUSSELL, M. D, Homeopathic Physician. Discases cf Children and Chronle Diseases 3. Specialty. Offico at Residence, 2000 Cas s 8t Hours, 810 10 a. m., 1102 p. m. and atter § p.m. apisdim i}y made; eash CoPorting. J. R. Mackey, DENTIST. Corner 15th and Douglas Sts., Omaha, Prices Resscnble. 708 week 815 day at o BT e NOTICE. Any one fiaving dead animals T will remove bem free of charge. Leave orders southeas comn of Harney and 14t St., second door. CHARLES SPLITT. TWO DOLLARS WILL SECURE THE WEEKLY BEE legislation is not that all men are thieves and all human dealing rob. For One Year. TE®m Great German REMEDY FoR 4 RECUHATISY, NEURALGIA, | sciaTica, LUMBAGO, BACKACHE, COuT, SORENESS CHEST, SORE THROAT, QUINSY, SWELLINGS FROSTED FEET EARS, GENERAL BODILY PAINS, TOOTH, EAR axp HEADACHE, All other Pains \y teifing outlay of 5 with pain can Bave DIRECTIONS 1Y ELEVEN LAXGUAGES. SOLD BY ALL DRUGQISTS AND DEALERS IN MEDICINE, A. VOGELER & CO. Baltimore, Md D. T. MOUNT, Manutactarer and Dealer in SADDLES axp HARNESS, 1412 Farn. St. Omaha Neb, . 4. Ageot Lor the Celebrated Concord Harness ! Two Medrlsand a Diploma of Honor Wit th Very Higheat Award the Judges Could Boctos was Awardod thia Harness at tho Centenuial Exbibition. s and_ Landle's Sad- T P ‘FuomeSuniog ¥no WHNBWNODY ‘B15CWARA IO £ J 2 < o < AFIA, Neb. HAMBURG - MAGDEBURG Fire Insurance Company, HAMBURG, GERMANY. s paid up biith Tots] Assats, Jan, lst, 1590, Home Office STATEMTINT —or TuE— United States Business, Jan. 1, 1881. ASSEST. Bonds deposit Unitod Sta : Andin hands of Trustecs Uni Market Valuo Total Unobjectional Assots. -8150,315 94 LI ABILITIE: Unearned Promium Fand, 131,705 Unpaid_Lurs 30 Other Liabilit LY ized by the Magd Fire lusurance Co., when that Company up ita entire Trans-Atlantic direct busice. transterred the field to the Hambury the latier Company cnits part agreeing European business _except at -Hamburg yicinity, the Magde ed by ‘means of re taken by the Humburg-Msgdoburg direct. The Mardeburg maintainethe most intimate biisin-ss relations with the Matdeburg Re-Insurance Co., Magdeburg General lnsurrmze Co., com: ¢ jointly » capital of $17,600;000. G. H. KOCH, Manager. 8 Nos. 161 & 163 La Sal'e St., Chicago, I, and however, to bo interest- insarance, in the business MURPHY & LOVETT, Agets, Omaha, Neb. STATE OF NEBRASKA. INSURANCE DEPARTMENT. iglas, State Nebra.ks, is hereby duly authorized to transace the busint-s of Fira Insarance for the cucrent yearin aid Couaty, as Ageuts of the Hamburz- Magdeburg Firo Insuranco Company, of Hamburg pirs of | Gormang, “sazlect 1o all tlons and limitations of the 1aw recul- e Insurance Compan esia tt 3 In Teatimony Whereof, 1 have heteunto set my band and toe seal of the Auditor of Public & - count, the day and yea: sbovs wriltan. WALLICHS, Auditor of Public Ascouats In Chare of Inswance| moat, DE. BLACKS RHEUMATIC CURE War ranted a Safe, Certain and Speedy Cure for Rheamatiem In ail curalgia, Lame Back, Pain in the Breast and Side, Stomach and Kidnoys, &e. I: I remeds, a Tonlc and Elood. removes the Disease it improves calth. SMITH, BLECK & CO., PROPRIETORS, | PLATTSHOUTH, NEBRASKA. | Fain [n the an_interna. , and whileit C.F. . ha LEGAL NOTICE. Charles G. Let, non-residert defendant: Ycu are heriby notife ! that on April 16t 1881, a petition was flled - he Listrict Court within and for Douglas C.u ty, pIaIDSif], agurn ad pr " Lie, with a sbor. time 0 bs fxed 4 premaia s decribed in s SGth 24 fert of north 114 t, of e (1), block. in the City of i, ond C unty acd State, ‘oge: e v Tronsncss ay bo oriered o and the proceeds appiled bo the paym Smoant o found de 15 il siAmU, With interest,coats and 5 reasora mis:s or any 3 ‘et you are required to answer eald petition al on the 30th day of May, 1851, it | lowest z]—,sh price. o gonera. | THKE OLDEST £STABLISHED. REMOV ED I BANKING HOUSE | THE NEW YORK GLUTHING HOUSE IN NEBRASKA. Has Removed to CALDWELL, HAMILTON2CO 1309 FARNHAM- STREET, BANKERS. (Max Meyer’s Old Stand.) ‘Busiziess transacted same a8 that o an Incor- poratec Bax} Accounts kept In Currency or gold suboct to sight check without notlea. oslt lasuod payable fa thres, months, bearlng Interest, of 03 demand without Intercst. Advances made to customers o approved so- curltios at market rates of Interest ‘Buy andsell gold, bills of oxchange Gevern- ment, State, County and City Bonda. Draw Sight Drafts on Encland, I Iand, and all parts of Earope, Sall European Passage Ticketa. COLLECTIORS PROMPTLY MADE. augldt T. 8. DEPOSITORY. Where They Shall Keep Constantly on Hand an Immense Stock of MEN’S, BOYS’ axp CHILDREN’S CLOTRING, HATS, CAPS axp GENT'S FURNISHINC GOODS. PRICES ALWAYS THE LOWEST. #9Call and Examine Goods and Prices.#a HMiM.PEAV Y 1309 Farnham Street, Omaha, Neb. el B i e o SN MORE POPULAR THAN EVER. The Genuine SINGER NEW FAMILY SEWING MACHINE. The popular demand for the GENUTNE SINGER in 1879 exceeded that of any previous year during the Quarter of a Century in which this “Old A TR Reliable” Machine has been before the public, Gapital and Profits Over$300,000 | 1n 1878 we sold 356,422 Machincs. In 1879 we sold 431,167 Machines. Excess over any previous year 74,735 Machines. Our sales last year were at the rate of over 1400 Sewing Machines a Day | For every businoss dav & el “0ld Reliab'e” X REMBEMEBERXR .Po'!nlc)::x:-m{uq. That Every REAL Singer is the Strongest, the Simplest, the Most land, Scot- Finst Nariona Bank OF OMAHA. Cor. 18th and Farnham Streeta, OLDEST BANKING ESTABLISHMERT IN OMAHA. (SUCCESSORS TO KOUNTZE BROS. RoTABLISHD 1 1860, Organized 58 a National Baok, August 20, 1363: Spectatly uthortsed by the Bocrotary or Treasary %0 recelvo Babecription 1o the U.3.4 PER CEWT. FUNDED LOAN. OFFICERS AND DIKECTGRY HEmizax Kevwrzs, Prestdant, AvausTus Komwras, Vico Prectde Casiler, F.H.Davis, Ass't Guehler. | Singer Sewing Ma- ficates boadng interezt, Sea Fraacineo and principal also London, Dubil Mark cast into the Durable Sewing Ma- otheont | yron Stand and em- chine ever yet Con- bedded in the Arm of the Machine, d THE SINGER MANUFACTURING CO. Prineipal Office: 24 Union Square, New York. 00 Subordinate Offices, in the United States and Canada, a 80 Offices inthe C1d World and South America. sepl6-décwtf PIANOS = ORGANS. J. S. WRIGHT, neeke GHICKERING PIANO, FOR And Sole Agent for Hallet Davis & Co., James & Holmstrom, and J. & C. Fischer'’s Pianos, also Sole A%ent for the Estey, Burdett, and the Fort Wayne Organ Co's. Organs. Ijdeal in Pianos and Organs exclusively. Have had years experience in the Business, and handle only the Best. J. S. WRIGHT, 218 16th Street, City Hall Building, Omaha, Neb. HALSEY V. FITOH. Tuner. DOUBLE AND SINGLE AOTI POWER AHD HAND PUMPS Steam Pumps, Engine Trimmings, Mining Machinery. BELTINC HOSEZ, BRASS AND IRGH FiTTINCS, FiPE, STEAM PACKING AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. HALLADAY WIND-MILLS, CHURGH AND SCHOOL BELLS A. L. STRANG, 305 Farnham Street Omaha, Neb A. WAKEFIELD. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN LUMBER, LATH, SHINGLES, Pickets, Sash, Doors, Blinds, Mouldings, Lime, Cement, Plaster, &c. STATE AGENT FOR MILWAUKEE CEMENT CO0., Near Union Pacific Depot. OMARA, NEB. Furope. Sella pessage okats for Kemlgranta 1o the In. e, yldtt struet: HOTELS THE JRIGINAIL. BRIGGS HOUSE ! Oor, Randolph 8t. & bth Ave., OHICAGO ILL, PRICES RE: $2.00 AND $2.50 PER bAY Located In tho busiuess centre, convenlont of anusement. Elegantly farnished, all Todern. Improvements, pamenger e J.H. CUMMINGS, Bropristor. OGDEN HOUSE, Ocr. MARKET ST. & BROADWAY Council Blufls, Towa: Railway, Omnibs to snd from FRONTIER HOTEL, aramio; Wyoming, , ond sccommodation Spocni Depot. to rooim; gingle meal 'AGENTS WANTED FOR OUR NEW BOOK, ‘Bible for the Young,” 1 he Scriptures. by Ror. Geo. D, D.. 1 imple sa sisrac. G and youm ey varent, wii ars, Sou Shonld eir ulars with extr _erms. HAMBERS & CO. St. Louts, Mo ANDSTILLTHELION Continues to Roar for Moore(s) o A CARPETS. CARPETS. CARPETS. I have adopted the Lion as a Trade Mark, and all my Goods will be stamp- ed with the Lion and my Name on the ssme. No Goods are genuine without the above stamps. The best. material is used and the most skilled workmen are employed, and at the "Angone wishing a pri ot gooda will confer a favor by sending for one. DAVID SMITH MOORE. X Caxr, M, D, J. B. DETWILER, THE CARPET MAN, E. L. Sicorss, M, NEBRASKA Meica ano surcical INSTITUTE, ® Is now prepared to promptly fill all orders at his NEW AND ELEGANT CORE, = : 1313 Faznham Street, 2 e X = PRIVATE HOSPITAL. Now ocen for the recepl TREATMENT OF ALL C N CAMP & SIGGINS, Physicians & Surgeons, Proprietors, o0tk 150 Gk gt ORNER 14T In Variety of Design, Beauty and Elegance of A. W. NASON, Material and Finish, and in Quality and Quantity to DEINTIST, |selectfrom, Mr.D offers inducements to purchasers ISAAC EDWARDS, Piai ap16 e satdt ntift, Oreics: acobe B ck, corner Osplzo Ave, and - unequalled before or since the flood. th Strest, Omake?