Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 25, 1881, Page 2

THE DAILY BEE. £. ROSEWATER, EDITOR: Gexzras GRaxT is expected to be in time to take & hand in the Conkling fight. Sivce the laying of the water pipes has begun *“skipping the gutter” is the fashionable amusement in Omaha. § — Omroxic cronkers ought to emigrate from Nebraska at once. The coming season, with its abundant crops, will take away their occupation. Roscoe announces that he prefers private life. We should toink that the senator’s - last sensation in private life would have lasted him for a life- time. Brpcusx is pleased with the re- vised Bible. It is remarked, however, that the seventh commandment has not been expurgated. For a senator who expects a spon- taneous endorsement of his official ac- tion by the legislature, Senator Conk- ling is doing a great deal of political wire pulling. TaE revision of the bible is interest- ifig, np doubty but what the nation wants just now more than anything’ else is a revision of New York politics. Taomas Brex the Land Leaugue, has been arrested by the British government under the coercion act. The ministry seem dis- posed to commit suicide, and a few more such arrests will finish the job. AX, the secretary of Prixce LeoroLd was yesterday, created Duke of Albany. This is an outrageous usurpation of one of Sen- ator Conkling's exclusive titles and calls for prompt protest from Secretary Blaine. Tug Count St. Albante, died a few days ago in London. He was said to be the last of the Stuarts. As the count’s family is wretchedly poor it is safe to say that the body of the last of the Stuarts will not be stolen. Tae Durango Record wants girls who can get themsclves up in good shape. The editor should come to Nebraska. Omaha girls, thanks to the resourcos of fashion, canget them- selves up into any shage desired by the requirements of the season. We have no scrawny ond angular belles in Omaha. Brooks went to Washington in quest of a foreign mission, or some other soft place on Uncle Sam’s pay role. About that time his admiration of Garfield was boundless and his paper was an enthusiastic supporter of the administration. He came away in the caravan of disappointed office seckers, and ever since he has been clubbing Garfield. AN now Secretary Windom is following out the example set by Post Master General James in making & gh investization of his depart- There seems to have been a. considerable amount of rottenness in the purchasing department and the secretary is determined to find out just how much. Brooks thinks that Nye, Colson & hould devote themselves to their legitimate business of grain g and three per cent money loaning, and keep their fingers out of the wnanagement of that remarkable polit- ical journalistic and railroad concern the Kepublican. On the other Messrs. Nye, Colson & Co., believe that Brooks ought to devote himself to his Farnam street mercantile pursuits and drops politic altogether. Buswarck's hand makes itself shown in every move in European diplomacy. His latest clover stroke which he has osed proves to be the given by him to France in her treaty with Tunis. To the amazement of both Ttaly and England whose interests are threatened by the aceupation of Tunis by the French it appears that France has wrestled from the Bey an acknowledgement of her. suzerainty in place of that of Turkey, and that the grantees of peace extend- ©d o the whole country, instead of being confined to the Kroamir district. By thus action she has alienated their old allies, Ttaly and England and that is just what Bismarck wanted. Orrice or Ny 3, 1881. | Fraexn Yost—It ismy opinion that, 3f you wish to retain the present cir- culation of The Republican you had better manage to choke of Brooks, on his Conkling-Garfield fight. So far as | have any acquaintance, 1 do not know of one republican who sides with Conkling, and r-publicans merally faul to see the wisdom of forcing a fight in the party here, on what is purely a New York affair. hear many declare that they have stood about all they will of it. Respectflly Yours, uERox Nve. for “T want to d—mn_you loastily Kling your words in the Garfield-Conl matter. “Go ahead we will all fight you on that line to the end of the war.” Yours &c., §. B. Cousox. This is plain ftalk which any paper published as an honest and sincere ex- ponent of party sentiment would heed, but Messrs. Colson and Nye ought to know enough to know that the Repub- tican has not been edited in the inter- est of the party which it professes to chawmpion for more than six years. It is merely the mouth piece of a gang of political cutthroats and jobbers who train in the wake of a giant monopoly. Like a piratical craft it is always sail- ing under false colors, and the repub- lican flag at its masthead is a mere T sonal protest, wi THE OMAHA DAILY BEE--WED. NESDAY MORNING MAY 25,188 'CONKLING AND GARFIELD. Then came the m the contest g;n‘_.m Gen Garfield Conk- crisis, er- sonal hitherto, assumed the 1;’.':“ form of an issue on constitutional grounds between the executiveand the senate, in regard to the appointment of federal officers loulfw %w Yerk. In this larger as of it, the consti- Rekiinal b o ttacs Ko involved the rights not merely of the senators from New York, but of the senatorsfrom every other stste in the Union, and of the senate, iself as a part of the constitutional" body form- ing one of the three great departments of the government. It was no longer merely “a New York affair;” it wi national, and therefore also a Ne- braska affair. In this larger—this supreme, because constitutional —issue my own convictions and sym- pathies are - with the _senators and the semate. At he same time T became convinced that the president has been a victim of personal and partisan_prejudice and pressure from the direction of his “ichief coustitutional adviser,” Mr. James G. Blaine; that while it was officially Gen. Garfield, it was person- ally Mr. Blaine who was urging on this fight against Roscoe Conkling to threatened and imminent party rup- ture, division and defeat. It was at this stage of the ““fight” that the sen- ators from New York resigned. —[D. C. Brooks in the Republican.] As an exponent of the constitution- alissue between the Executive and the Senate Mr. Broos exhibits la- mentable ignorance of the letter and apirit of the Constitution. The se- cond section of the second article of the Constitution provides that the President “‘Shall neminate, and by and-with the ad- vice and consent of the senate shall ap- point ambaseudors, other public Zr and consuls, of the supreme cou S pre i st s whose oppointments arenot herein other- wise provided for, and which shall be es- tablithed by law but the congress may by law vest the appointment.of such inferior officers as they think proper in the presi- dent alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.” The judicial constructions of ~this clause are that the nomination is the sole act of the president, and is com- pletely voluntary; that the appoint- ment is also the act of the president, although it can be performed only by and with the advice and consent of the senate; and that appointing to of- fice and commissioning the person ap- pointed are distinet acts. The consti- tution here throws upon the chief magistrate the responsibility of the selection of executive agents. What who could not only have reorgan ized the committees and elected a president pro tem, but who really were masters of the situation in the matter of republican appoint- ments. Was it not an act of absolute disloyalty to the republican party to vacate two seats in‘the United States senate at that crisis? Are men fit subjects of admiration who will commit such an act! What would have been thought of the Massachu- setts senators if they had resigned their posts when Conkling ard Ben Butler pulled throngh an obnox- ious collector! What would have been thought of Reu- ben E. Fenton if he had childishly refused to fulfill his duties as United States senator in the midst of an important executive session be- cause Tom Murphy was nominated collector of New York? The truth is, the conduct of Conkling is utterly i defensible, either from a constitution- al or party standpoint. Conkling's Work for the Demo- Denver Tribune. "7 Somebody with brains is guiding the democratic party. No other theory will explain the attitude it has maintained since President Garfield went into office. At present its best ally seems to be ex-Senator Conkling. He is doing it as much good as he can, and his efforts are evidently being ap- preciated. The New York dispatches state that Samuel J. Tilden is actively employed in trying to get Mr. Conk ling back into thesenate. - Inter-party assistance in faction fights is quite common in New York, and Mr. Conkling deserves his reward. When the new senmate organizad, Mr. Coukling was a strong Mahone man. He saw in Mahone an entering wedge which would split up the soli south, and, at that time, he was very anxious that the solid south should be split. For weeks he was chief nux of the Mahone majority, and protected it with kindly fervor. Others blundered with him, but he was chief patron of the blunder. The longer the Mahone blunder lasted the worse it was for the repul- licans and the better for the demo- crats. Its failure in the democratic opposition “was a_triumph for the democratic opposition. The longer the delay the greater the triumph. Conkling continued the dead-lock for weeks, thus increasing the democratic credit, solely because he wanted the time to mature his fight against a re- publican president. - ‘When the dead-lock ended there was two ways of getting out of the re- publican dilemma, One was by d: is the meaning of “the advice and consent of the senate! Can it by any reasonable and honorable construction mean that the personal preferences, the likes and dislikes, of individual senators, shall determine the action of the senate! Can it possibly mean that the majority of senate may agree in advance that they will reject or re- fuse to consider any nomination to which any member of the majority, for any reason whatever, objects! Such a course would be a flagrant vio- lation of the plain spirit and purpose of the constitution. It would bea practical overthrow of the executive. It would substantially transfer this power to ope branch of the legislature. The constitution imposes a moral obligation upon the senate to confirm a nomination, which is not per- sonally unfit or improper,-or which does not imperil the public interest. Tt is urged on behalf of Conkling and made the basis for the abuse of President Garfield, that the withdraw- alof thenominationsof Woodford and others, on the one hand, and the ap- pointment ofRobertson without con- sulting the New York senators, is un- precedented. This is contradicted by the political history of the past twelve years. It was & common pragtice of Genernl Grant to withdraw hnomina- tions. In 1871 while General John M. Thayer was_senator from Nebras- ka, President Grant appointed the late General Silas A. Strickland " Governor of Utah. While this nomination was pending in the senate and before Gen. Thayer had time to return to his seat from Nebraska, President Grant with- drew the nomination of Gen. Strick- land without assigning any reason whatever for the withdrawal. Tt isan historic fact that Caleb Cushing’s name was withdrawn by Grant while it was pending in the scnate. President Hayes withdrew ‘quite a number of appointments while they were pend- ing in the senate. Among these were at least two Nebraskans appointed as U. S. wmarshal and one nominated as collector of internal revenue. Kv- ery one knows that Conkling and the stalwarts would have regarded it as perfectly proper for the president to withdraw Robertson’s and it is simply absurd for them now to prate about violated constitutional principles. Conkling's great grievance is the appointment of a local customs officer without his concurrence. How was it when General Grant appointed Simmons collector of Boston! Both the Massachusetts senators protested against it, and Senator Boutwell wha had been a member of presented a remonstrance signed by several thousand of the business men of Boston togother with his own per- ut avail. Sim- mons who was appointed at the in- stance of Ben Butler was confirmed by the senate, and Conkling was one of those senators who voted to overide the wiil of Massachusetts and uphold what he termed the presidential pre- rogative. How was it in the state of New York when General Grant appointed Tom Murphy to the very position now held by Robertson? Did General Grant consult Ruben B."'Fenton who was then a republican leader and a United States senator from New York? What would Conkling have said if Fenton had insisted that the nomina- tion of Marphy must lay over because one of the senators was not consulted! And now about the moral aspect of cipated by resigning his seat in the senate. Supposing General Garfield, during the war, while he was stationed at a post of duty in Tennessee, had taken umbrage to the course of Gen. Grant in not consulting him about some important movement against the enemy at a critical time had nomination rant’s cabinet 2lthrown up his commission and States. | deserted hispost of duty, what would have been said of him by the press? How would he have been weloomed it [ home by the loyal people of Ohiol And yet this is precisely what Conk- ling has done, and fur deserting s post of duty he is being applauded by men who pretend to call themsel- ves stalwarts. The desertion of Conkling and Platt from the United States senate, left that bodyin the hands of the enemy. It placed the ping Gorham and Riddleberg: chosing respectable men. This one was on the basis of Mahone's vote. The other was for & compromise the democrats on the small ofices. This shoula_ have been done at the first. Conkling, by resigning with Platt, has put both of these out of power of the party. The democrats can organize whenever they please. But it is in giving _them the chance to organize, and with it the option of not organizing that Conkling has done the party the most serious harm. Tt is idle to conceal the fact that the moral effect of a refusal to take ad- vantage of the situation is very great- ly in favor of the democratic senator They have not only acted with une ampled_decency, but_they have also acted with unexampled shrewdness. It would have been playing into the hands of the republi organized immediately on the receiy of the New York resignations. By not doing so they make contrast with the Mahone business which is not pleasant to_contemp Mr. Conk- ling gave them th to do this. B otates Conkling is disgruntlod, it is said that we are going to lose Ne York. This talk is evidence enough to the general impression that_ Conk- ling will sacarfice the party to his per- sonal interests any tim hat has been a threat of this sort implied from the beginning of the fight. His gang made the Kelly His gang feated the New dickers with Fiv ¢he chorus inConkling's prais New York is to be lost b Conkling's defection it can one effect. ically. The Republ much more impor than he is a man. Let him trade and dicker and threaten. In spite of it the chances are against his return, and the Repub- lican party will be much better oft without hin ‘What Has He Done? Cleyeland Leader. Ex-Senator Conkliug is an able man in many respects. He has brains in abundance, and they have been well stored with legal, political and liter- ary lore. He is an orator of acknow He is a shrewd and crafty political manager. After these points, what! What great national measure, indicative of ad and unselfish statesmanship, has he ever originated! In what great con- test has he been the first to throw down the gauge of battle! With what great event in_our national his- tory, outside of political mancuver- ings is his name prominently associat- ed’! These are questions that sug- gest themselves in v of recent events, and we ar review his record fo W find that instead of being an origina torand a formulator of ideas and poli- cies, he has been a follower, with power and shrewdness enough to sei an party is a organization nt has been apolitic statesman. In that gathered about him a follo for the ciumbs from his political table have subserviently done his bidding and _thus made him a_great power in his own state. He has been vindictive and ng and those he Las assisted, and they have cringed and crawled before him, until he has come to think it his prerogative to imperiously lord it over all. He has been pampered and petted, by those who have sought his favors, until he has-been spoiled, nence we find him in the ridiculous and undignified role of an overgrown schoolboy in the serio-comic_performances of the past few days. Because he could not have his own way, and his fellow senators would not consent to accept his per- sonal will as.the imperative law of the senate, because they would not make his personal fight their fight, he re. signs in a pet, and takes his “‘deputy’ with him. Mr. Conkling has had the reputa- tion of being a bold political fighter. But he has signally failed to exhibit that characteristic in this case. Ths was his first chance for a square stand. | up and knock-down political fight with a man who was his match. He invit- ed the contest; yet, the instant his an- tagonist struck out from the shoulder and delivered a telling blow squarely between his eyes that “indicated busi- | ness,” he appealed to the crowd to help him, and because they refused he threw u the sponge and_ran, closely followed by his Little Platt. It would have been ‘much more to his credit to have stood his ground and hit back as best he could from his place, and when beat- en, as he was sure to be, to have grace- fully acknowledged defeat and accept- ed the situation. He would at least have saved his reputation as a fighter. Now, even is gone, and even those who had admired him most on that account are deserting him. Man and Woman. London Saturday Review. After all, the work of the worldmust be done by men, and woman’s educa- tion, woman’s ' character, woman's place therein, must be governed by the o|ter go out of the steer business, or - | Adams. Put away the little teacup with which our Le Duc used to ts He | tending through a large number of * |and men en Tt will kill Conkling polit- | * Y We | with an introduction to the senator, pru- upon events at just the right time and [dence to surround the damsel mold them to his own advant e|with all the forms of re- PERSONALITIES. Gen. Burnside is impatient. to get a Rhode Tsland clam. ** Gorham _is % wonder| what is to become of him now. ~ General Lew Wallace, of Indiana, is a man of taste—he takes Turkey. Dr. Tanner is operating in Chicago with a patent for painless tooth pull- ing. Little Lotta will kick up Her héels’ on the shores of -Lake George this summer. 3 Platt skips along almost unnoticed in the wake of Conkling—like a dinky- boat dangling after a schooner. - Deacon Richard Smith, of the Cin- cinnati Gazette, calls Halstead, of The Commercial, “the Mephistopholes of the President.” Mr. Edwards Pierpont hasn't re- ceived any office under the adminis- tration, but he's supremely happy, nevertheless. He has just been dining a duke. One of the wealthiest settlers in Australia is Jem Mace, the moted champion of the prize ring, who landed in Melbourne two years ago with £50. He has made a fortune by speculating in mining stocks. Fanny Davenport will have a glass dress, which is to be built for her in Pittsburg. What the baldheaded men of this country want to know is, whether the garment is to be of plate. Fanny Lear, the dashing’ young American woman for whom the festive Russian Grand Duke Nicholas stole his mother's diamonds a few years ago, 18 now in London in sore financial straits. The Washington correspondent of The Boston Journal telegraphs that ““Mrs. Senator Mahone has twice been the mother of triplets.” A contempo- rary wickedly assumes that this ac- counts for General Mahone being a readjuster. John Shields, of Jasper county, Ind., has lost fifteen steers in six ars by lightening. Shields had-bet- clse put lightning-rods on their tails. Every one who has studied London signs s noticed the appropriateness of name and business which is visible everywhere. For instance: - Rumfit & Catwell, tailors; Alfred Pinch, shoo- maker; Tugwell, the dentist; Going & Gonne, auctioncers. Ross Wilkinson, nominated for U. S. marshal for tho western district of Louisiana, had been dead two weeks when his hame was sent in. An army of place-hunters lowled in concert when they learned that they had been beaten by a stiff. Will S. Hays, who has written something less than 5000 songs, is a candidate for mayor of Louisville. If elected he will driveall the disorderly characters out of the city by singing one his songs to each law breaker brought before him-a sort of Sing Sing punishment. | The latest reason given for Anna | Dickinson’s refusal to play Claude Melnotte is that she got her pants on wrong side before, and her appear- before the mirror so startled her she worked in seventeen faints in twenty minutes. This report may not be true, but it is entitled to co: sideration along with others.—Kit an on carth no more will need it. For he is now the vietim of a monster beat. Bamboo-slfoots and garden- truck he'll no longer need. Darling little Le Dac has gone himself to sced. Tn fancy-gardening no longer he'll b soaring. He's been brought to grass by Massachusetts Loring. The Abuse of Patronage. Gath in Cincinnati Enquirer, No man has yet uncovered the full scandals under our government aris- ing from the power of representatives and senators to make appointments in the name of the United States. Here we have a senator six years in his seat, and who has attained’ a national dis- tinetion on account of his party ser- vices, who is this nioment _accused of a wholesale system of swindling, ex- states, and done with a boldness and want of common prudence frightful to see. Letters are written or telegraphed ployed to increase a mail ly too munificent, and the e made a basis of extra appropriations, which_the tor in_ his place supports. Meantime bonds in blank are signed by one of his postmasters and satellites are brought to Washington by the pound the same being perfeetly worthles Why should this man have had post- masters or mail agents, or alarge hand in the post-oftice department at W ington, except in accordance with this vicious system, which, instead of mak- ing him a statesman, induced him, perhaps, to become a rogue. Another instance of senatorial pat- ronage came out not many years ago at a hotel hop in Washington, where some of the young men experts put their heads together and a certain woman who was at the hop was off color. The hotel .detective followed the damsel up and discovered that she was the mistress of a senator, one of the sly and moral sort, who always supports the most stalwart side of his party, believing that the more unreasonable his partisanship, - tho greater patriot he is. A political opponent of this man had sent to Washington this damsel in question, ator, asking him to get her anappointment, It was easily done, and the govern- ment was paying for the pleasure of the who had the spectability, even to bringing her mo- ther on to be his housckeeper. On the night'in question she had escaped from durance with a fellow-clerk, and was having a gay time at the ball. This senator probably has never had the loast idea that in the city of Washing- ton there were one hundred persons in almost daily intercourse with him who knew all about this hypocrisy. What right has he, merely on his request, to put any human being on the pay-roll of the government! particularly to corrupt the scrvice, mislead, perhaps, other young women in_the civil list, and convey to his fellow-citizens a loathsome notion of the public emplay- ment! The man is in the senate now, and is a thick-and-thin Conkling man. Again, there was a distinguished senator whose patronage extended over the whole Union, who gavea notable office in the senate to a young man as the price of an intrigue with his wife. Thousands of people knew itall the while, and it was a matter of daily comment, and even of news- snper notice; and in his moments of isgust and ‘remorse the young man himsef breathed his complaints. Why should such a senator have the making of private character around the capitol building? Another eminent senator, perhaps longer in the public service than any Living man, returned. from the Cin- cinflati convention' of 1876, and imme- diately, by the help of Grant, had the Ppostmaster of his city removed, be- cause the postmaster expressed a pri- vate opinion in fayor of Blaine for president. 1 was taking lunch with this old senator when he was chuck- ling oyer his action, and I thought to myself that a more disgusting spectacle of gray hairs T had never seen. The vices of the patronage had made hima heartless, tyrannical savage, and he could not bear in a free country to have ene of his office-holders even re- spect a political rival. One of the blackest books in the himuol;,,:: man can be vg’imn on the pai as congress- men and senators, elected only for the purpose of giving us therr experience and wisdom in framing the laws and institutions of the country. They have little or any time for such work, being | and gaugers, e | sixty mos d agreed that|; class of men who. keep sted in ad- vance of all scientific and _commercial changes, and are” engaged in holding their country up to its best_efficiency in the race for wealth and civilization. Our publi¢ men, gorged with this slave- ing patronage, are often debating the mere rudiments of political econo- my, and many apparently have never ready a book. Good fellowship, fami- liarity, coarse fidelity and genial dis- il this patronage society. How many men of fine parts have we seen go to the dogs in a very few years from the glut of personal power in politics! POLITICAL NOTES. The seat of war has been transfer- red from Washington to Albany. Mr. Dorsey will hardly come up for the Senate in Colorado four years from now. The Chicago Times expresses the general sentiment when it says: Ma- hone came in like & lion and is going out like a donkey. Congressman Murch has been invit- ed by the Michigan Geeenbr “‘come on and assist us in arrangingto carry the country in 1884.” Hannibal Hamlin is the only person alive among those who ran on the four Presidential tickets of 1860. Congressman Hammond, of Alaba- ma, bear such closeresemblance to Mr. Jay Gould that, though in moderat circumstances, he is said som fancy himself & man of millions. Geneal George Manny, of Ten- nessec, who has_been mominated as minister resident to Columbia, is a confederate brigardicr, who raised the first regiment of rebels in Tennessee. He has boen a_ropublican since the war and was a Garfield electo The New Hampshire democrats are excited over the discussion of the elec- tion of a successor to Senator’ Rollins, whose term expires three * months prior to the session of the State legis- lature in 1883. Th ause of ite- ment is the prob: that the im- mediate Legislature, which is Repub- lican, will elect, as the w opinion is in favor of the course. fn in Pennsyl- d the news- s opening carly, papers, especially thos - constituen ning to di chancesand th ral candidates for the but it is evident that there will be a struggle over the nomination. The patronage of the custom house of New York is something be desired by an ambitious The collector has the aggrezato of the s boing $1,400,000. The patronage includes one assistant collector, ten deputy collectors, forty-nine u twenty-two luborers, seven we ight foremen and tors, eighty-four assistant wei two “undred and eighty-six insp at 84 a day, four Long Island coast i ctors, one hundred and mine night watchmen, mine inspectors and their employes. Four of the em- ployes have been in the custom hou more than tweuty-one years, ten more than ninetcen years, eight more than cighteen years, thirteen more than seventeen years, and one hundred and than twelve yems. The new collector appoints his deputies on taking his office. The term of colle tor is for four years, and the salary is $12,000 £5,000 addi these tea Bismarck and Berlin- People will certainly have h astonishment of Prin idea of removing the seat of govern- ment from Berlin, and many may regarded it inthe light of airich than as a serious proposal of the great atesman. 1t is a fact, howe for years Prince Bismarck has had a seeret grudge against the German capital. He is known to be, with gard to his p matters in_genera spendthrift. Few citizens b many disputes to settle civil authorities as the chancellor about the p German yment of his own taxes. Perhaps the irritation pr duced by these petty vexations may have been the cause which has’i duced him lately to_give such free utterance to his sentiments, and pro- pose a removal of the seat of g ment from Berlin. The idea, ever, is not new onhis part. years ago he asked a deput longed to a commission for the ¢ tion of a building for the Reicl “Who told you that the Reich: to remain in Berlin? Perhaps 1 build a palace in Potsdam for it Some t; terwards, at a parlia tary soiree, he was heard to expatia on the amenities of Potsdam, and to declare that two thousand officials could easily find room for themselves there. Prince Bismark ignores aken_ place . He lives secluded in his palace or on his estate in the country. In Berlin he har self in the stree at he took an that savants or liters in his salons. Ho never app: theatre, or at the opera, o exhibition. An anecdote recently went the round of the papers, which showed that since his student days he had never been in the Berlin Museum, which has now one of the first collec- tions in Europe, and the Berlin ex bi 1879, which i of Germans, gave su g mony of the industrial skill in t! German capital; was completely ig- nored by him. Wast Point Progress, We are sorry for Sena He will never be his_own successor. Mark it. For the faith that is in us, we are indebted to the fact that The Omaha Republican, which for_the last four years has lammed it to him with- out mercy, now takes up the cudgels in his behalf. Paddock's fate ought to have been sufficient warning. The English Work on the tunnel betw land and France progresses at the rate of about twenty ‘wr day of ten hours, and h: been carried to a distance of 300 y. This hove n the shape of 4 driftway of about seven feet in diame- rds. ing near the mouth of the tunnel the west side of Abott’s Cliff. Commencing here, it runs line parallel with the line of railway, and follows the natural of the strate The idea is to continue in this way until a depth of some 200 feet below the bed of the channel is reached. Itis then confidently hoped by geologists that the character of the geological for- mations will admit of the engineering operations being advanced in a_direct line or level, so us to allow of a corres- ponding rise on the other side of th channel. The operations are on under the directions of Beaumont, the chalk being cut by a ter, « disc furnished with cutters, which is worked by one of that gen- tleman’s compresscd air engines. Tt is a most ingenious mechanical contriv- ance, and far more reasons than one is peculiarily adapted to the work which it is performing here. The disc makes two_revolutions per minute, slicing off the chalk to_the thickness of a quarter of an inch at each revo- lution. Thero is_no change in the soil, which is still gray chalk, and thete is a remarkable freedom’ from the percolation of water. ent Moore & Wyman's Engine and Machine Works, 37 Foundry street, Boston, Mass., sends the following item: My wife has been _suffering for now wholly engaged in turning men entire administration of this govern- one it consideration—what will best enable them to il their rela- out and putting others into office. In years with severe pains in the limbs, honesty are the most cultivated tuits | s to | & rht of legal | | and2 to - | Sole Manufacturers, D.T.MOUNT, ti- he dip | Mr. L. F. Thompson, Superintend- | undersigned until Oil. Now sheis cured, thanks to th wonderfully healing properties of the Oil. It hun]mbeenuledmmigmy men with splendid effect, and I can highly recommend it. - WOMAN’S TRUE FRIEND. 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Baltimore, Md., U. 8.4 _DR. C. B. RICHMOND, (Formerly Assistant stetric Hospital, fo Wil devote my entire attention to Obstetrics, Medical and Surgical Discases of the Women. Office, 1408 Farnham St. Hours, 9 a. m. to 12 B. M. STONE, M. D, General Practitioner and Obstetrician. over Edholm & 2107 Chi- gt Offce oppanite Post O Elons. R NOTICE. Any one having dead animals [ will remove them free of charge. Leave orders southeast cormer of Harney and 14th St., second door. CHARLES SPLITT. KENNEDY’S EAST - INDI A FHeavaraasn A FAMILY TONIC ‘93 ‘NOILAWASNO ‘8§juBTeF RIS SN ‘WSILYWNIHY 'VISd3dSAQ MO. B ] = & = (] ILER & CO., OMAHA. MANUPACTURER AND DEALER X 1| SADDLES AND HARNESS.|™ 1412 Farn. St. Omaha, Neb. AGENT FOR THE CRLEBRATED. CONCORD HARNESS Two Medals and a Diploma of Horor, with the very highest award the judges could béstow was awarded this harness ué the Centennial Exhibi- i Geo. P. Bemis’ Rear EstaTe Acency, 16th and Dodge Sts., Omaha, Neb. This ggency does sTricTiya brokerage business. Does not speculate, and_therefore any_bargains on its books are insured to its patrons, instead of being gobbled up by the agent. 2| Thot Tarrant’s Seltzer Aperient. 1t il do ta work specdily and thoroughly. 1t i the great triend of the sufferer from rheumatis and gout. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. A. W. NASON, Dentist. OryicR—Jacobs’ Block, comer Capitol avenue and Fifteenth stroet, Omaha Neb. MRS. LOUISE MOHR, Graduate of the St. Louis School of Midwife, at 1505 Calffonia street between 16th and Toth, north side, where calls will be promptly respond. edto st aiy hour during the day or might. " o J. H. FLIEGEL, Successor to J. H. Thiele, MERCHANT TAILOR No. 230 Douglas Street, Omabs, Neb. BRIDGE NOTICE. SEALED PROPOSALS Wil be reelved by the ene o'clock p. m. Saturdas, June o e T e ‘with two (2) approaches on “Big Papio,” between sections 14" and 15, town. 16, F. 11, acconding to and in county cleri’s office. ‘The right o reject any and all bids is hereby to relieve which I had her apply some | By order of the Board of County Commis- JOHN R. MANCH 4 Commnty Clbrk. The Oldest Bstablished ‘ BANKING HOUSE IN NEBRASKA. Caldwell, Hamilton & Co., BANKERS. | — | Business transwcted same as that of an incor. porated oank. Accounta Kept fn currency or gold subject to | sight check without notice. S ’ Certificates of deposit iasucd payable in throe, six and twelve months, bearing interest, or on demand without interest. Advances made to customers on approved secu- rities at market rates of interest. Buy and sell gold, bills of exchange, govern. ‘ment, state, county and city bonds. Draw sight dratts on_ England, Ireland, Scot- land, and ail parts of Europe. sell ticketa. COLLECTIONS PROMPTLY MADE. augldt United Statei Depository. NationalBank —OF OMAHA— Cor. 13th and Farnum Sts. OLDEST BANKING ESTABLISHMENT IN | OMAHA. SUCCESSORS TO KOUNTZE BROTHERS.) | ESTABLISHED 1856 Organized as a National Bank August 20, 1565. | CAPITAL AN FITS OVER - 300,00 Specially authorized by the Secretary of Treas- ury to receive subscriptions to the UNITED STATES oFFICRRS AND DiRECTOR = amow Tesucn time cortificates bearing interest. Drows st o S Foomelien and rincpul itimaf the U o, al o Dabi, inburgh and the privcijal e cont nent of Burope, P bank receives deposits without regard to 5o L cities of ‘man line. DexterL. Thomas&Bro. WILL BUY AND SELL REAT. ESTATE, AND ALL TRANSACTIONS CONNRCTED TiRREWITE. Pay Taxes, Rent Houses, Etc. IF YOU WANT T0 BTY 0R sELL nayldts Call at Office, Room 8, Creighton Block, Omaha. DAVIS & SNYDER, 1606 Farnham St., . .. Omaha, Nebraska. <400,000 ACRES tully selected land in Eastern Nebruka for Great Bargains in improved farms, and Omaa city property. 0.A. DAVIS, Late Land Cony'r U. WEBSTER SNYDER. RE iptebits BYRON REED. BYRON REED & CO., oLDEST EsTARLIBNED Real Hstate Apency LEwIS REED, IN NEBRASKA. Keepa compete_abstractof tileto all eal AND STILLTHELION CONTINCFS T Roar for Moore(s) Harness Saddlery. 14 Y = a =T 5 ‘ E : 2 2 g & I have adopted the Lion as o Trade Mark, and allmy goods will he S o one. DAVID SMITH MOORE. Business College. THE GREAT WESTERN QEO. R. RATHBUN, Principal. Creighton Block, oxana, o NEBRASKA €37 Send tor Cireutar. p— M. R. RISDOM, Geoneral Insurance Agent. REPRESENTS: , Assets . of Fifteenth and Doglas OMAFLA. J. G. RUSSELL, M. D, HOM®PATHIC PHYSICIAN. Discases of Children and Charonic Discases Specialty. Office at Residence, 2000 Cass street. 1to After 6 p. Hours—5 10103, J: R. Mackey, . DENTIST, Corner 15th and Douglas Sts, Omaha, Neb, Prices Reasonable. P John G. Jacobs, (Formerly of Gish & Jacobs,) - UNDERTAKER. No. 1417 Farnham St., Old Stand of Jaco &8 Orders by Telegraph Solicited. E. L. Siaarss, M. Caxr, Medical and Surgical INSTITUTE. Private Hospital X5 o the Rt e e nd SCRGICAL DISEASE Drs. Van Camp & Siggins, Physiciaus & 3irgeons, PROPRIETORS. ODD FELLOWS 3202 e mlem 4 Per Cent. Funded Loan. | pe. | ls passenger tickets for emigrants in the In —TEE New York Clothing House HAS REM | 1309 FARNHAM STREET, (Max Meyer's Old Stand,) WHERE THEY SHALL KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND AN BOYS' AND CHILDREN'S Clothing, Hats, Caps & Gent's Furnishing Goods PRICES ALWAYS THE LOWEST. CAXLI. AND IMMENSE STOCK OF MEN'S GOODS AND PRICES. . M. & MI. PEAV ¥, | 1309 Farnham Street, Omaha, Neb. More Popular than Ever. THE GENUINE SINGER New Family Sewing Machine. The popuiar demand for the GENUTYE St the ubrtasof & contry o which i In 1878 we sold In 1579 we sold 431,167 xcess over any presious year 74,736 OUR SALES LAST YEAR WERE AT THE RATE OF 1400 SEWING MACHINES A DAY. For every business da in the year. ER in 1570 exceeded that of any previ ble” Machine has bewn before the p OVER REMEMBER :. THAT EVERY REA ™E “OLD RELIABLE” SINGER 18 THE STROXGEST, SIMPLE & ER MACHINE HAS THIS MARK CAST INTO THE MOST DURABLE SEWING AND AND Iy | MACHINE STRUCTED. EVER YET CON BEDDED IN THE ARM OF THE MACHINE. Principal Office, 34 Union Square, N. Y. abordinate Offices, in the Unitea States and_ Caneds, and 3,000 offices in the Old World and nerica. diwts janosan Organs J. S. WRIGHT, —%AGENT FOR—— THE GHICKERING PIANOS. D SOLE AGENT FOR Hallet, Davis & Co., James & Holmstrom, and J & C. Fischer’s Pianos; also Sole Agent for the Estey, Burdett and t e Fort Wayne Organ Co.’s Organs. sb S EXCLUSIVELY. SLY THE BEST. 08 AND AND HANDLE J.S. WRIGHT, 218 Sixteenth St., City Hall Building, Omaha. HALSEY V. FITCH, HAVE HAD YEARS EXPERIENCE I DEAL IN THE BUSINES DOUBLE AND SINGLE ACTING POWER AND HAND PO IMPS! | Steam Pumps, Engine Trimmings, | MINING MACHINERY, BELTING, HOSE, BRASS AND IRON FITTINGS, PIPE, | PACKING, AT WHOLESALE AND KETAIL. | | STEAM HALLADAY WIND-MILLS, CHURCH AND SCHOOL BELLS. A. L. STRANG, 205 Farnam St., Omaha. J. A. WAKEFIELD, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN IL.UNIEBEIIR, Lath, Shingles, Pickets, SASH, DOORS, BLINDS, MOLDINGS, LIME, CEMENT, PLASTER, BTO. EZSTATE AGENT FOR MILWAUKEE CEMENT COMPANY. |Near Union Pacific Depot, - - - Ow NEB. ' J. B. Detwiler’s CARPET STORE. 1 The | argest Stock and Most Com- plete Assortment in The West. We Koep Everything in the Line of Carpets, Oil- cioths, Matting, Window-shades, Fixtures and Lace Curtains. THR PLA B 1313 Farnham St., Omaha. H. B. MYERS, DECORATIVE PAINTER. BEST DESIGNS. LATEST STYLES. ARTISTIC WORK. GNT Y FIOCKES KEPORK ORDRRING WORK KLARWIERE. SIGNS, PAPER HANGING, PLAIN PAINTING OF ALL KINDS, at REASONABLE RATES. 1218 Harnev Strast. Omaha. Neb. PO