Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 6, 1881, Page 4

g “The Orfia{Ha Bee. Published every morninz, excapt Sunda The only Monday mornine dails TERMS BY MATL One year 10 M Six M ‘ . THF FX ¥ ery W TERMS oS One Y 200 Three Momthe | ¥ Six Mot % On X N " T r Al T - P . should b . . wa Cox . . and Post sie payable to the | e S QXAE! PUBLISHING 00., Brop'rs E.ROSEWATER. Editor. f the Ciren. THE DAILY BEE n the | g1 and Lower Missouri Val ly elowdy weather, occasional Je winds moatly easterly, sta er temperature, gencrally high ations for Momday, o1s has now three English rran Tysen is said to be seri- implicated in the star route Axxiovs Exqeiner. No “corned” beef is not subject to a fine of 10 un- der the Slocumb law. tho presont difference of opinions is among poli Tur attitude of Vice President Ar- thur as a political hucksterer is dis- grace to the administration, the party and the nation, —_— Tue teleegraphic announcement that “Mr. Conkling is confident of suc- cess” should be stereotyped. It would save considerable type setting. —_— Tae Nihilists are said to be ex- perimenting with the Kecloy motor. Tt has broken up every capitalist who has invested in it, and might prove servicible in St. Petersburgh. —— “‘Arr you going to the ball this aft- | ernoon?” is changed in the fraternity to ““are you going for the | ball this afternoon?”’ ““Not this after- noon.” “Good afternoon.” ——— ParNeL declares that “‘the Irish are | maturated with disaffection, and jusly | 80.” The reason probably lies in th fact that they have been spong 80 long by lazy landlords. THe number of dissatisfied N Xans who are leaving for other states | has grown beautifully small since the ™ spring seeding has shown itself, —_— THe largest elevator in the country has just been completed at Brooklyn for David Dows. It will store 2,500, 000 bushels of grain, and its cost was $2,000,000. GeNrRAL GRANT is on his way to Albany to take a hand in Lord Ros- co¢'s cause, He proposes to fight it ~vut on that line if it t. s all summer, ers | 0! s | fifteen thousand for distribution at th fairs. Every i unusually su Tesources of our sf Tue legislature of New Ham is in session. Its p 1 will be to choose a successor in the | scnate to that pliant tool of lics, E. H. Rollms. Bill has copper-bottomed his trousers and is waiting for his chance at the scra- | torial seat. —_— SeCRERTARY WiNDOM denies that there have been any dissensions in tho cabinet, or} the slightest focling of discord. Mr. Windom says that| his information and belief is that Mr. Blaine was in no way responsible for. the nomination of Robertson. “This disposes of another ‘“‘stalwart” lie. pal bus Lasr June the national convention of window-glass manufacturers agreed to close their factories on the lst of June or reduce their workmen's wages. A number of factories now refuse to stand by the agreement and continue in operation. A conven- tion's arbitrary action could not stand against gthe demands of an active trade, and now daylight is seen through the agreement in’ a number of places. —— WATER-WORKS are ve 'y important factors in a city's industrial progress. The grape-sugar company which is about to remove its establishment from Buffalo to Des Moines, Towa, or the other, party supremacy or ex- istonce is in any way involved. ticians. ports its pros hundredths of the press the country champion the administ tion. In New York State itself, overy leading republican supports General Gartield, & the return of Mr. Con seat of republica very districts boasted were have petitione and iny sent these ideas and are willing to labor to advance them, DISRUPTING THE PARTY, The hopes of the democracy, and { & number of republicans, gonism of Roseoe Conk- will result the fears that the ant the admi tion of i sruption party, are groundless. No who has passed through the exper- THE IOWA SENATORSHIP, We admire and respect the man who dares to avow his honest senti- ments, even when opposed to the views we hold, and the principles we | advocate. We despise and loath the sensible republican | moral paltroon who dons the mask of | ers and ind hypocrisy, and makes profession « THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: M})NDAY, . | THE CROPS. Tun Ber presents to-day the result of our enquiries relating to the condi tion of the crops throughout the state The summary is and western Jlowa. | an interesting one, first for our farm ctly to every merchant he | in the west prosperity or ¢ as of the last twenty years, fears faith that is not within lim, because | pression of trade and commerce is 8o 1te Nor is there any ¢ in the present outlook which | gives indg for the belief that ser jous sion exists cither among | the leaders or in the ranks| and file of the republican party, The howls of a few f are 1ed to the cries of a little . shorus of disappointed office scekers, Even in New Y rk state where the conflict is| Mr. Conkling's adherents are placed on the and find pologize for the | defensive themselves forced to partisan and ill considered action of their c By the mass of the party throughout the country, the dif- between Mr. Conkling the administration is viewed ference and simply as an attack by a senator on the presidential prerogative and the subsequent troubles re- sulting from the resignation of Messrs. Conkling and Platt, arc Tooked upon as a fitting retribut for an act of childish folly. The four and a half wmillion voters who cast their ballots for President Garfield, while they regret that the difficulty has oceurred and that party harmony has been fo time disturbed, cer- tainly do not view the trouble as a matter in whose solution in one way The fact is manifest that in controversy the only The republican party sup lent Ninety-nine urnal not oaly opposes in the serate. A vast ma; voters thn uwnils v s pls has madie teme wl Tus Ge o aw wguiin it premr al manier sl e s s o e Lk tdwr wut mor oushed mpubilms e Golowed the swmue anume, G oo shaa it v Gy Wi dem . Ssiloowang s Daawe vl ible front to the foe Tho “republican party,” Chicago Tribune, “follows no leaders. | 0t the relative cost of shipping grain to Liverpool from Chicago and St. Tt is a party of ideas, and cares little for individuals, except as they repre The more ac tive and ablo of the laborers naturally take a position in the van; but if they falter, if their faith grows weak, or in dis, qust cr anger they turn aside, others take their places, tho ranks close mo, and the great party moves on without a halt and preciatle loss of strength, without ap- The de- serters may. trudgo on for awhile in lonelinessand bitterness of spirit, but such of them as do not early regain their party fall back ultimately into the ranks of the democracy,which fol- lows substintially the same paths as the republicans, only a quarter of a century in the pear.” o involving £3,000,000 for the n of one hundred and thirty A Posse five miles o road has been brought by | the ern Pacific ‘exa Pacific against the South- | Ex-Judge John F. Dil-| lon and lis law partner, Wagner| Swayne, aw the attorneys for the| plaintiff. Mr. Dillon is the nephew | of his uncle, Bidney Dillon, and will | bo remembered as the party who gayve the famous deeision iu the terminus| question, W r Swayne is the son | e, of the United States supreme court. ch a team ought to be able to exercise enough { influence to bulldoxe any railroad in the conntry of Justice Sways i (e B | Boumk die, but none resign—My James A. Marr, chicf clerk of the first | assistant pos master-general, celebra ted his eighty-first birthday last weck and the employes of the department | presentod hin with a silver service as a testimonial of their good will. My Marr has beer in the postoftice de- over #ays it is foreed to take this step be- cause the clty authorities charged ex- tortionate rate for water. At the fig- wres demanded the water required would cost the company $42,000 per year. At Des Moines the company will get water freo; corn, its principal article, can be bought for 27 to 80 wents against 50 to 62 cents in Buffalo, and coal will be 50 to 76 cents per ton heaper, partment fifty years, during which neriod he always accommodated his political views to the peculiar com- plexion of the party in power. — OxE thousaad stocking weavers are coming to this country from Chemi- | expressly as an olectioneering | Towa, s the |in the face of t} | been vacant | school of journalists who are doing e it is popular, The contest over the now in progress Towa se a most extraordina sec men who y spectacle been lackeys of corporate monopolies mak have el [ public denial of their past record and | swear by all that is good and holy that which for years th they sincerely entertain views y have been com batting as monstrous heresics, Wo see men who have been the paid re tainers of the Credit Mobilicr corpor ation in the lobby of the national | legislature aunt their the producers and ilution of the We see devotion to urging the railway traflic, politicians - who have been notoriously strikers and henchmen of Ghamy candidat machine corporate monopolies, \ this bogus anti-monopoly and we are that and intelligent republi- amazed some hone cans have tenders, ven duped by theso pre- In Nebraska such brazen duplicity would meet with the severest rebuke. It remains to be seen whether Towa | can b hoodwinked by such | imposition, A few ago we quoted from the of James F. Wilson, in| which he planted himself on the monopoly platform. baro-faced days open lotte ti- | Since then the | closely and intimately dependent up on the annual harvest that the pros atorship presents | pecg of an abundant yield ean hardly We fail to be checring news to the whole life-long | gale and retail dealers throughout this m of the country, 8o Notwithstanding a severe and prot- racted winter anda wet spring the cr [ prospects are on the whole unusually favorable for a heavy yicld and a bounteous harvest. The acreage of excepting winter wheat, we both in Ne- all cer shows a mnrked inc braska (he acrenge of ud Towa, spring wheat is greatly increased, in some counties of Nebras less. Anav agoof porhiaps 5 would give an acre- ast year with prospects of a heavy yie In of Nebraska, especially throughout the Republican vall most ent over the western portion the outlook for a large erop is promising, a8 the acreage has | been nearly doubled and the grain 1 thickly and strongly. The winter wheat crop, excepting in somo portions of Western will be less than last year the se- verity of the winter season and the | has come Towa, swing up of many hundred acres for corn planting being laxgely respousi- ble for 1) 5 Corn is not makin as good a show- vat speech of Mr. Wilson at the Honnepin canal convention, propared | ment, has been soread broadeast over I Mr. Wilson had no reec that speech would make most anybody | beliove that he is N unc humbug and f Mr. Wil nenra. ¥ W ey | hicago papers -river” transporta- | ble | lowing estimates | st all remar! Louis, which are furnished by the St Louis Repibl Cost of shiy Chicago to Liver mshel of corn from l, via lake and canal: Cents, Lake rate to Buffalo G Al 7 Cost of ‘shipy St. Louis to 1. con erpool via New Orleans: Ce River rate to New Ol River in Transportat Ocean iate, New Orleans to Liverpool Ocean iusuranee ., . Total... These figures indicate that the movement fnow in progress is based on sound and cconomical prineiple A statement of the cost of shipp grain from Omaha to 8t. Louis by r and rail, will be the next thing | in order and when made, will be. in teresting re ding for our farmers, Tuk Brx ackuowledges the recopt of the first number of the Omaha Sun- day Item, the linedl successor of Dick Stols’ sparkling weekly, formerly pubi st Central City. The new | paper is! not ouly worthy of theforuer | reputation of it's editors, but is in every respect a credit to our city, and deserving a hearty support from our citizens, He fills a place which has herotofore in Omaha Journalisw, viz: A bright, spicy and original local weekly, edited much to give the Great West a high place in the temple of humarists, We | bespeak for our new contemporary a long and pros xistence, Dukixe the month of May 76,6 i uts landed at Castle Garden. At this rate one million inhabitants would be added to the population of the United States during the coming year—or what is equal to double the number of the present population of Nebraska. Combined with the nat- ural growth of 'population and contin- tinued at that rate, the next national nitz, in Germany. Consul Kaley will ‘probably be or hand to direct this movement to Nebraska where we have 80 many ‘‘tender feet.” census will show a population of sev- enty millions in the United States. What a revolution such marvelous growth will imake in the next decade! |ing grossly exaggerat ing as might be desired owing to late planting and a moist spring, and from cots will fall nearly 10 per cent. Lelow last year's yield. The | present carliness of the season makes any cer- tain pred but the in- tion impossible, ereased acreage, which will - scarcely | fall below fifteen per cent., scoms, un- der favorable circumstances, to assume ) fully equal to last year's har- Of the smaller grains the acreage has not been materially increased. Qats and 1 ished ac Larley re in remarkably tion, Rye shows a dimin- wze with the probability of less th In the Rep acreage of broom corn and millet has been great- Iy increased and in other portions of 1o three-quarter crop, an valley the he state re attention has been paid ng of flax seed, All of these prosiucts will show a greatly in- to the pl present reports the outlook for large s is re than good and our farm- bok forward to a heavy harvest. z appointment of Senator Kahlo, ndiana, to the consulate general n, is not popular in Germany. 1sul Kreismann, who has held the place for twenty years, has greatly attached himself to the German peoy who t. prosperous uk the manner of his removal insulting in the extreme. It Appears that Consul Kreismann was not even sled for his resignation, and the first intimation he had of any intended change was the announcement in the ne Kallo is an insignifi- it Hoosier politician who says that he sought the office to pleasc his family, and will do all he can to encourage German immigration to Indiana, This is about as extended a view of a national mission as a small- bore Tndiana politician could be ex- pected to take, but it speaks very lit- tle for the sagacity of the state de- partment in selecting such a man for 80 important an office. —— Tue difficulty of obtaining reliable news of the troubles in Ireland creased just at present by the efforts of the English ministry to prevent crrrect reports of the disturbances which are daily oceurring in that dis- tracted country, from reaching the public. A ‘government which de- ils and suppresses dispatches contradict- 1 reports of outrages, with no other view than that of inflaming the popular mixd against the Trish, is deserving of the severest denunciation. —_— scends to tampering with the 1w Tur Sutton Register revives a well- known bit of political history and tells achunk of truth when it 3 “Somcthing like a year ago The Omaha Republican announced day by day, until the sitting of the Columbus wention that Nebraska was solid for Grant. Majorities were put down in figures, But when the convention et it was found that figures do lie most villaineusly, Fully two-t of the convention were for Blaine. w The Republican, with even less truth, is saying that Nebraska is al- most solid against the President in the Conkling business.’ Lance quantities of grain are being shipped to Buffalo from Chicago for four cents a bushel. It costs three cents to transport. a bushel of grain across the Omaha bridge. —_— SAkAH BERNHARDT is soon to be married, and the bells will again be ringing for Sarah. The Dubuque Rifle association have made i rend festival on muf"nfi:.h‘.:: &zi-.:wh. wilg M‘ decorsted sad flu- winated, \ 50 per cont, in others | tive labors within the tyled doors ceat |for a time, reminds us and is sym- 4 | the craft for admirable work, officient g ; ofticers and the general good manage- So far as can be determined from | i JUNE 6, 1881, > THE LODGES. i | 8t. John's Lodge A. F. A. M;— | Scottish Rite Gleanings, | The Triple Link—Items of In-| The Free Masons. | As the summer days approach, the time draws near when the craft will be called from labor to refreshment and | work in the lodges be suspended for | the summer months. We realize dur- | | than ever before the fact that the [ A, 0. T. U. is at work raising to a de | gree that we cannot behold, temples | of beauty all over the earth, The| | forests don their livery of green, the | lawn becomes bright and glossy and the dew decks all nature with pearls and diamonds. This season when ac- bolic of the rest and pleasures of a coming season that is in store for all Masons, a time of refreshment to| come in the hereafter—in immortality, INSTALLATION, The constitution of Mt. Moriah Lodge of Perfection, No. 2, A.*A." 8.+ R.", and the installation of its of- ficors took place on Monday evening, May 27th. A number of the brethren outside of the order were present and witnessed the beautiful and impressive ceremonies, Grand Commander Al- bert Pike 33°, escorted by Auditor General Wm. M. Ireland 33° and R. C. Jordan 33 of the Supreme Council, together with Win. R. Bowen33’ were met at the door and received by the lodgein due form. The master Gus- tavus Stevenson 32° then surrendered his gavel to the Grand Commander, the wardens stations being filled re- spectfully by Bros. Jordan 33° and Bowen $3°, Inspector General Treland oting as Master of Ceremonies. The lodge was then dedicated with the us ual attending symbols of wheat, o and wine. The dedication concluded, the following officers were installed for the ensuing yoar: Gustavus Stevenson, John G. Tayior, 21°, H. Korty, 30°, J. W Needham, 30°, Orator; Geo. W g tinger, 80, Secretary; Elbert T. Duke, S urer; Gustavus Anderson, 30°, Almoner, John J. Monell, 28" . of C; Franklin 'P. Zimmer, 30°, r. Expert; Fred James Borthwick, 30°, Jr. Exp.; W. E. Annin, 30°, Capt. of Guard; Charles Turney, 18°, Tyler, and J. 8. France, 18°, Organist. ST, JOHNS LODG Of the three Blue Ledges of our city, St. Johns Lodg, No. 25, A. F. & A. M., although the youngest has ned an enviable character among ment of its aflairs Masonic. During the past scason it has done a larger amount of work than either of the other lodges, und its membership is nearly abreast of the largest in the state. Owing to the departure of Bro. Kent, J. W., the south has been | vacant of a regular elected ofticer for | three months past. The E. A, degree | will be worked next Thursday evening THE ROYAL ARCH. The first meeting of delegates, out of which arose the General Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, was held at Boston, October 24, 1797. This convention adjourned to meet at Hartford in January, 1798, and there organized the Grand Chapter of the northern states off Ami the] 9th of January, 17 journed meeting was held, which re- Solved to change its name to that of “General Grand Royal Arch Chapter of the northern states of America,” but on January 9, 1806, the present style was adopted. viz: ““The General irand Chapter of R. A. M. for the U. 8. of America.” The sessions were first made septennial, and New York was fix the place for the first con- vocation, September, 1812, Dut it ed to meet] at tho appointed time, and a convocation was held in New York City, June 6, 1815, at which important measurcs were taken for the regularity and peina- nence of the organizati WASHINGT( The Hon. Francis ylies, in his eulogy on the life and character of P. G, M., the Hon, Benjamin Russell, who died in 1845, says: *‘While in the army he had seen a meoting of Freemasons, among whom was Gen- eral Washington, and he was pu to discern how it ¢ould be that a ser- geant, also in the lodge, should be above his venerated chief; this led him to inquire into the practical benefits of Masonry, and resulted in his joining the order, in_which he finally Tose to be a Grand Master.” ORAFT CULLINGS, Past Grand Master G. W, Lin- inger is expected home next Wadnes- day from an extended tour through Europe and the Holy Land during which he has made a study of Masonry in foreian lands, Albert Pike 83 © Grand Comman- der of the supreme council, A, and A. S. R., for the southern jurisdietion of the United States left on Friday for the east accompanied by Wm, M. Treland 83 2 auditor of the supreme council. The weeks visit of these brethren in Omaha has been produc- tive of great good to the craft and will long be remembered by the brethren of ('I‘: der. The Knights of Mt Nebo Com- mandery No, 11, of Hastings b, have issued anagnificent invitations for the installation reception and ban- quet of their commandary which take place on June 14th at Hastings, Freemasonry is quite prosperous in China, At Shanghai there are three lodges, working under English con- stitutions, two under Scoteh, one un- der Americans, and one under Ger- mans; two chapters, one English and one American; one Mark lodge, be- sides several bodies of the ttish | England as mark there are nine lodges and 3,112 members, The Gramd Lodge of Hungary has, it scems, twenty-two lodges and 1,104 members, Sir 1. R. Coleman, of Louisville, has recently returned from a pilgrim- age through the Holy Land, bringing | terest from Various | with him mpny relics replete with in | terest to the craft. 5 S | “Seven Templar bodies existed in ly as r body numbered in England and Wales at last return, 116 commanderies. In the United States there 600 comman- deries and 50,000 Knights Templar. Ancient Accepted 8. R. Bedies of the Orient, ot Rochester, N. Y., held their thirticth semi-annual reunion, )p | ing this season perhaps more vividly | commencing on the 22nd of May, and 1. | ending on the 25 25th. Louisville is noted for its celebra- tion of 8t. John's Day—the 24th of June. Formany years the Masons have made St. John's Day the most Louisville, Ttis a ul )u-lul.lf. Business is suspended, and everybedy participates. This year it will be observed ona wmore extensive scale than ever. The festivities ate to be- ne | gin on the 22d of June, and last three arfield days. Sir Knight James A, will attend. The Odd Fellows Oregon held the twenty-sixth an- nual session of its grand lodge on the 18th, Seventy-three lodges were rep- resented by about 200 members, Three thousand ‘and twenty-nine members are reported, being an_ increase of 128 for the year. Fourteen thousand and fifty-five dollars three hund and forty-three cents has been paid out for relief during the year, The assets of the lod re §11% There seems to be some difliculty between Grand Sire Roth, cf the Ger- man empire, and the patriarchs of that jurisdiction. He has suspended Farns- worth encampment, No, 1, and ex- pelled severalof its members for insub- ordination, and also suspended the D. G. lodge of Brandenburg for persist- ent violation of law. Tt is also re- ported that all of the lodges of Berlin (except Humboldt, No. 6) have with- drawn from the jurisdiction of the grand lodze of Germany. Eighty-six fithousand is now the number of members in Pennsylvania. The order is doing better there now than for tvo or three years past, and it is thought that the Keystone state may yet gain the point for which it was aimig some time ago, namely, 1,000 lodges, 100,000 niembers, Fidelity Lodge, No. 14, D. of R., as recenily instituted at Concord, New awpshire, with 177 chaater members, The encimpment books in German have just seen completed. The deg-ce chartshave been received reand are ready for deliv- 3 eucampment charts are promised by the 1st of July. A charter has recently been issued for Prins Hendrik Lodge, Nc. 3, Am- sterdan, therlands. ~ The order prospers very well in Holland. The Odd Fellows of Cincinnati will dedicate a monument, erected to the memory of the dead of the order, at the session of the Sovereign G. L. The French brethren will be pleas- ed to know that the rituals in the Fronch language are now being print- ed, and that the degree books are also being completed. The Grand Lodge of Wisconsin will assemble in Milwaukee on the Tth of June. The officers’ headquarters will be al the Newhall house. A delega- tion of grand officers from California will pay them a fraternal call. MISCELLANEOUS, Over 300 new members of the A. O. T. W. have been admitted in Califor- nia during the past month. The Royal Arcanum reports a mem- bership in the Eastern States of 30,000, American Forestry is doing steady work on the Pacific coast. The new body of the American Le- gion of Honor started in Omaha begins its history with brilliant prospeets. Considerble activity is noted in the Knights of Pythias [Direct #ll communications and mat- ter for this department to *“W. E. A.” Fraternal Societies, Brrk office, Oma- ha, by Thursday of each week. ] L IOW4 BOIL®WD DOWN, Creston it to have a new church, Keokulk if to have a bucket-shop. Governor willdeliver the Fourth of July oratior at Marengo, Des Moines expects to gather in g factory, which will employ 200 hand s vill hold @ city election on the nt Dubuquecomplains of a scarcity of ten- ement house, Fruit propects in Polk county are not encouraging The gran¢ lodge of Towa GGood Templars meets in Algona on August 30, Waterloo artics are planting 100 acres ans e new treamery at Humboldt is ready in opeations, » arv complaints from all parts of the state of 1 Taborers. The snprene court of Towa will meet at Des Moineson Tuesday, June 7. al organized an insur- ance compady with a capital of £100,000, Clay cowity has 1,000 acres of peat beds. mceorting to the State Geologist's report: From evey corner of the state comes the most glewing uccount of the prospect. ive cropu. 1t is propwsed to connect by telephone all the towes in Jones county, with Ana- mosa the cainty seat. ( that Jefferson is to have uge line of the Wabash from Des Moines Sheldon mrties have taken a contract to break 1,000 acres for Close Bros, & Co, in Osceola cowty, The spire »f the new Methodist church in Des Moizes will be 15) feet high, mak- ing it the hghest in the city. Ottumwah new street car tvack is being pushed witk zreat energy, and will soon be completel, On June ¥ith and 16th will occur a pub- lic sale of 200 short-horus at Marshall- town. Bands of inmigrant wagous pass through Ida Grove learly every day. There is ageneral belief that the yield Rite. A new English lodge, Northern Lodge, No. 670, was recently consti- ‘There are ninety-one bodies of the Ancient and accepted Scotish Rite working under the southern jurisdic- tion, The membership of the respective German bodies is 43,931 Under the Grand Lodge of Den- fruit this seon, in wost parts of the state, will be extrenely light. John A. Fasson has arrived at his home at Des Moinw, and will remain there till fall. The Severth Day Adventists will hold their camp-hecting and conference at the fair groundy” Do Moines, beginaing on e ued J. W, Mdatyre§ s youns Englishman, 6. The grand | popular festival of the whole year in | | was drowned in the Des Moines river Des Moines, the other day. Two counterfeiters were sentenced ag Des Moines thy other day. one for six and the other for nine months, The annual Methodist rnmfv meeting of the Davenport district will be held on the grounds of the association, near DeWitt, commencing Tuesday evening, August 16, and continuing one week or more Elida coal nm}.zu y and of Al aloosa, the other day, the 28,000, Articles of incorporation of the Minne purchased Towa South have been filed with the st ATy, Ca 83,00,000, Principal place e board of trustees of the asylom of inded children at Glenworn Taye cted a debt of $6,000 by carclessness and extravagance, and are unable to make good the loss, A few days a the 1-vear-old da ' of a farmer near Dunlap was bitten on the wrist by a rattlesnake, The girl lingered in terrible agony for twenty-fony hours when death put an end to her niisery, Council Bluffs has another railr. ta, Towa and W through Decorah, Charles ity, Greene and Ackley, Towa, to Council Bluffs, Audubon Advoes “Two wagons wn by eight yoke of cows, hailing from enfield, passcd here on their wood. One wagon lore one enormous chickett coop containing between 400 aud 500 fowls, A young man livingon n farm abont ten miles west of Hampton, named Rob. ert Burns, while planti orn the other day was struck by tighinivg and justantly kiled, The upper part of his body was terribly blackened. The Plymouth camp-meeting will he held at Vanghau's grove, six wiles south eMars, commencing June 15, won the 2:d, Tha Plymiuth county charges will hold their quarterly meetings at the rame tine, Between 2and 3 o'clock Monday morn- ing Kirkpateick snd Bactis' drug store, n & Sketer’s general store, Free. Turaer's and Philip Hatwick's sa. loons st Atlantic were eutirely consumed by fire, only oue hilliard tab'a heiog ¢ ed out of the contents of the four build. ings, Tue tire was supposed to be the work of incendiaries, Decoration day was prett served as a holiday thr There were the usual f and quiet gatherizygs at th heroes dead, with national wusic and pat- riotic speeches. Nothing of unusual in- terest oceurred® Flax will be the princip section this season The will he necessarily be a good smaller than it was last yeay, but there need be no fear of a famine in this profitable staple. Of wheat the act will be unusually small, partly o to the backward spring and partly because it is known to be both and unprofitable and uncertain crop. The scarcity of laborers is proving a great drawback to the construtction of railroads throughout the state. Companies have been compelled to advance wages ful- Iy 50 per cent. Hand-bills have been dis- tributed over the C. M. & 8. P. comps offering 23, »()l]mr day for teams carpenters and $2.00 for shovelers to work on the Council Bluffs extension, The route of the Wabash road from Des Moines to Albia has been definitely located and the contracts let forits constru will run directly north from Albia, ing the Des Moines river south of Pell and thence along the river to Des Moines, Horace Everett, of Council Bluffs, has a 3,000 acre farm near that place, Upon it he has planted 200 bushels of black wal- nuts, hickory nuts, coffee beans and pecan 2,000 larch, 200 Scotch pines, and 300 apple trees. , He has also built three grain houses and five miles of wire fence, and at present i king 800 acres of prairie, A Dos Moines snecial says the lass to Towa farmers this year from poor seed will amount to 82,000, ‘I'he following patents were issued to cit- iv«-!n» of Towa during the week ending June rd, James H. Barnes, Newton, adjustable eccentric. 5. K. Minton, Des Moines, horseshoe. generally ob. graves of the pin this e of corn W. W. Yokum, Parkershurg, stove- drum, Mushroom Cultivation. The Garden. On arriving at Arcuell one is pre- pared to find some unusual industry carried on; the large tracts of undu- lating ground, uncultivated and un- fenced, covered with a scant growth of grass and weeds, with, dotted here and there, peculiar wooden air-shafts, looking like dismantled windmills, make up a picture of desolateness and neglect that is unique in the neighbor- hood of Paris. One’s first impression on alighting at the station is that the place is ownerless, Scrambled along the muddy that did service fora path the station, I struck the road on which was the house of the **champignoist” to whom Lhad been directed. Be- hind the neatly kept house and g den was a yard, with some heaps hot manure being turned by sever wen, ono of whom was the proprietor, On reading my introduction he polite- ly expressed his willingness to help me, and explained the mode of pre- paiting the manure (the same as among us:;) He then led me to the door in the middle of the yard that apparently opened into nothing. When this door was opened there came out a rush of contined air, laden with the musty smell of mushroon pawn, bringing the conviction that a stay below to be pleasant would have to be short. On a shelf just inside were some small spirit lamps fixed to straight wooden handles about one foot long, two of which monsicur lighted. Taking one for himself and giving one to me, he bade me follow him down a steep incline, damp and slippery from the water trickling down the walls on both sides. At the bottom of the incline, which terminates in some steps, was a cham- ber of sbout ten feet square, from which branched off galleries six feet wide, to all appearance winding like a maze in all directions. In each gal- y there were three beds, one against each wall and one in the widdle of the usual conical form, though only about eighteen inches ortwo feet high, cased with the white dust of the pul- verized stone, which T concluded, fo- gether with the perfect darkness and the absence of any covering over them, serves to give the Paris mush- rooms the besutitul white skin for which they are so semarkable. Never before have 1 seen mushrooms growing s thickly; they were literally on top of one another, muking it a difticult performance to step between the beds without knocking some off, Pure Water, Cuicaco, June b.—With a view of furnishing an unlimited supply of ab- solutely pure water for the use of the city, Mr. George R. Bramhall, a prom- inent architect, has prrfected plans for an immense aquaport to be located eight or nine miles out in the lake. Two tunnels are designed to connect it with the city. The entire cost is esti- mited at $3,000,000. «