Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 8, 1881, Page 4

i When Governor Hayes became pres- | ident he the thorough reformation of the eivil selected his proclaimed as his mission Published every morning, except Sunday The only Monday morning daily. TERMS BY MATL £10.00 | Three Montl | service He eabinet | mainly with a view to purifying the federal offi s and enforcing rigid econ One year Six Months. .. 5,00 | One LOO| iy, strict accountability and thor- | Teason of the high handed frauds com- | port 2 ,‘g,;,,.,,,],‘..,.,,,.‘, 1 every department, | mitted by the New-Mesican land bodies contain a large portion of the e . dw: 10 Uit J et o, { mo lligent, Dest informed anc THE WEKLY BEE, published ev- |y 4 0 scandals of Belknap Babeock | Tng: most intclligen t informed and ery Wednesday ; most thoughtful of our agricaltural TERMS POST PAID & Boss Shepard fresh in public mem " { : Onranisod ; | One Ye £2.00 | Three Months . 50 |ory, the county was disposed to ro-| , ~THE SAENGERFEST. JERET AT G i Y Six Montha. .1 1,00 | One 50| zand the reforms administation of My | THe opening of the Swngorfest, |last, the growth of the socioty hns ;‘,‘ b i :';]1 1 ;‘ Had the | Which takes place this evening in |far icceeded the anticipa ayos with much fave ad the | CORRESPONDENCE Al Con cminent statesmen of the late admin- | (™A 18 an cvent of moro than|tions of ita friends until cations relating to New slight importance to our ecity. The|at the present time the Farmer's Alli- | ion lived their up to ters should be addressed to the Eni s Tie Ber, [ programme BUSINESS LETTERS -All Busine Aressed to T Ovana resnisniNve Cow. rANY, OMAnA. Draft, Checks and I |e i e B midde payablo to the [ o ok it hins lately oxperieticod nt the — [ OMAHA PUBLISHING CO., Prop'rs | E.ROSEWATER, Editor, by dismissing from the | service every man tainted with cor ruption and teplacing them by men of | rthe known integrity and high charac ntry would have been spared the mpany exposure of star route swindl And the star reute rogues are by no | means the only ring of plunderers that | flourished under the late administra | tion. As was foreshadowed by 'l'nr:; the most in-| of the Circu Bee some weeks ago, famous frauds were hatched and suc is a groat deal of popper sass in tho Trish stow. BT bargo line question 1s becoming | Plumed himsclf on living up strictly to | of vital importance to western produ- | civil service reform rules. A late ocets, number of the Illinois Staats Zeitung gives publicity fto the scandalous } {GeNERAL GRANT has arrived on the | frauds perpetrated by the New Mexi- field of action and the stalwarts have |can land ring. Translated the article taken heart. reads as follows: The discoveries of the stupenduous star route frauds, made by the present cossfully accomplished right under the nose of Secretary Schurz, who had —_— Jiv Brarse says he wouldn't be in Conkling's shoos just at prosent for a million dollars. —_— Conkang and Cornell is the stal- wart ticket. Poor Platt has been lost in the crowd and can'’t be found, —_— Deatns by lightning are repotted numerous throughout the country. Albany is the next place to be heard from, swindlo scarcely less gigantic, and certainly more corrupt, which had term of the late adwministration, been the connecting link between the confederates of the star route, and the fexico, a By bribing the U. 8. officials and by performing the most daring feats of swindling and forging, this ring in Mexico is | has succecded in getting possession of | ¢ shown by published statistics, which [most of the valuable lands of that sce- | ¢ prove that within seven months 68,- | tion of country. The head chief of 000,000 e vesind W this ring is lawyer Catron in SantaFe 00K jnvested in rallways fand tho leading members Judge and ming enterprisos. Prince, U, 8. territorial court and the —ree—— surveyor ( Epwix Boorit haa dined with the | Genl.” Henry Atkinson. t Prince of Wales, and several of tho [, It i8 evon asserted that Tke -Stock- T . ton and his band of road agents in English papers, which have bofore de- | New Mexico and Colorado, wo o nied the fact, now suddenly discover | ciates of the ring and have been used [t —— AMERICAN interests 2% that he is a good actor, to defeat the ends of justice in such |¢ — ] f the territory where the ring “Tue: greatest show on carth,” ad- | happened Lo operaté at the time when courts might have interfered, vertises a circus whose tent ean seat ; indisputable 10,000_ N]!uu(:\lu‘rn: that Judge gave cireus exhibitions to 90,000 peo- | never made an effort to sup- plo at a time and never published the|Press this — band — of robbers facts on their hand bills, Political prejudices do not seem to ——— stalwart Republicans like Catron and| | Tue late Thomas A. Scott left by Atkingon worked side by side with |, will property amounting to nearly | praminent Democrats liko Waldo, $20,000,000. He espeeaily directed [ Connolly and Wilson - like brothers in his wiil that no inventory of his |All anxious to get‘gholdfZoffthe 1and; personal property should bo flod, wor did it ihake any difforenco wheth: er the lands were public or priv. HeNky ViLLagp, the latect railrond king who has sprung into notorioty, claim of some poor miner. The existence of this ving is said to was formerly a newspaper reporter. | date back to times before chie inaugu- | master James s searching for new | be republican in republican localitivs This affords another glimpse of the | Fation of Hayes, but if so,%it never, at |, rich field on any time flourished so well, as during f g his administration. ) to journalists, “lak old text: “By their works ye culminatory point Special Agent An- shall know them,” has not been drop- | gell happened to get on its track, and ped from tho revised edition of the | being o very trustworthy man, ho soou | N , = a discovered that Catron, at that time Now Tostament. Jim Wilson's at- | ynited Statos district attomey, mis- tention is respectfully directed to this | used his ofticial position for the pur- fact. pose of furthering the ent land grab schemes, 3 Mx. CoNkLING knows that he is in |large amounts of money belonging to Ry he United States were illegally ox- I e T T e R R T same tactics which he pursued in tho | mail “could e proven against original | administration, being closely followed | streef up, led to the disclosure of a land grab | convenience and accessibility cannot be | its menbership and aid in controlling | boen flourishing during the whole | 148 been successfully carried out, and | The annual Ex-Senator Dorsey seems to have | tendanco to assure the success of the | will b awaited with great interest by | enterpriso. The robbers of the land grab ring, the |$hould be crowded at oy headquarters of which were i New | Suchan opportunity for genuine musie- |al enjoyment may not soon again be | the election of the next legislaturc and | presented to Omaha, a rich treat for our people, which they | course of the alliance will be detor- neral of new Mexico, | comes to our city the vis s0- | efforts on behalf of mus in their love for the sacnge One { if they are foremost in enabling others | use the Alliance for personal ends. and | to enjoy the results of careful study | Such men the Farmers Alliance will, | Prince | and rigid trainis have existed in this ring as the most | tax on tobacco. which cost only 82 the property of a rich man or the |ing the unique quality of the ten, o— | by experts to be very cheap consider- Alliance now propos to take the course so successfully fol- Tuat telescopo with which Post- [lowed by the monopolics. Tt will | o of 40,000 power. About the time the ring reached its | is likely to escape. the senatorial succession to Governor | which will sweep from power every Cornell. r differ- | bered as the indi that | founded a boating college in Tthaca. him, | mixed up in the star route business THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, ..ll'A\'I'I 8, 1881 | | | for reasons of his own retained Wil | A HEALTHY ORGANIZATION, The healthy growth of the Farmer's | portant bureau in the interior depart. [ Allian {ment. Whether willing or unwilling | & circu | Mr. Schurz share the | Which is published [ odium which falls upon his adminis tration of the interior department by | braska according to the secretary’s re organized alliances. These | linmson at the head of the most im | in thisstate may be seen from letter of Secretary Burrows elsewhere in our must now | columns. There are at present in Ne preparations for the coming festival | ance bids fair to be a powerful major have been made with a willing heart | ity of Nchraska's voters, which will and an open hand. The idea had its [ soon hold in their hands the determin origin in the brain of our German | ation (nestions of most vital im citizens, but Omaha merchants, with- | porta to every producer of the out respect to nationality, have aided | and encouraged the | The Swengerfost hins been planned on | undertaking. 80 far has won for it the confide an extensive scale befitting the com- i‘:uul T importance of the city in{Tt has devoted held. Tt will [silent; bring to Omaha the largest body of |and banding in an unparti trained singers ever gathered in M-.Jnmv‘:‘ all farmers who felt that n - great a. All the local singi mercial its cnergies toward which it is to be influencing public opinion n organ soc must be The {met by a stand of rly five | Nebraska producers for prineiples of | hundred voices and the orchestra forty | justice and equity. The pieces. Both chorus and orchestra | ser have been studying and drilling con- | organization has been proof of its sin- | stantly since the inception of the fes- | cerity and the care”taken by the snlvf ival and have reached a degree of offi- | ordinate bodies to examine into the clency that is highly gratifying. The |record of applicants for admission, | concerts will be given in the building [and forbid the use of its name for | erected for the purpose on Fifteenth | partisan political purposes and Capital avenue which for | the carnestness of those who compose | bras| ties will be fully represent full chorus will number ne: cer issucs determined very con itism hitherto maintained by the indicates its organization, surpassed. Every preliminary detail meeting, which con-| | nothing now remains but a large at- [ venes in Lincoln on September Tth, Fal engerfest building | every friend of the ‘s Alliance. If our producers cxpect, ns the certainly hay ne concert, | son, to control | 2 every rea 3 | The excellence |aid in filling the state offices with men | of the programmes and the efticiency in sympathy with their aims, there is | of the participants in the exercises of | much work to be done before the con- he festival are suflicient guarantee of | Vention. There the policy and future sught not and will not neglecs. mined upon, It cannot expect to re- On behalf of Omaha the Bee wel- | main strugy a pwsive spectator of tuo which will take place during ng soc ies. They will reccive from our ens o cordial appreciation of their [ domination. Ea for its support by men whose past re- | the next two years against monopoly v bids will be made | al culture in he Missouri valley, They will find | cord will give thelie to the professions hat our German citizens arc notalone | Which they then make. _bundeven | politicians will ender Scheming | lieve, refuse to assist o eEat o countennnee, Their influence as a Brsmarox has lovied an additional | non-partisan politieal force depends This is intended to | upon such action, ent his financial schemes from | the Alliance confines it’s membership to actual farmers, Tt has o still great-| | er advantage over the grange in pro- Lek Duc raised two pounds of tea | ,000. Unlike the grang, ending in sm fessing its in ntion of making itsclf id | g, Thia is as an active force in politics. The | if honest and efficient candidates are onstellations of star routes scems to g — ples, but anti-monopoly all the time, Tuk administration caucus of the | By such action Nebraska producers ew York republicans have offered | will work a revolution in this state | Mr. Cornell will be remem- | vunal and dishonest ofti idual whose father | poration tool. and cor The Bee commends to it's readers —_————— : Sceretary Buniows able letter which Tr is bad one h for & man to be excellent advice, irse of the Farmer's Alliance | speet of the people of this state. | | most fastidious s adoption it w | or to|point at which any settlement had No guilty star | Bomivated, democratic where demo-[and in a crats will best carsy out their princi- | 0 it quil contains a great deal of practical and i Chicago convention last June, any more successful. x Tue reports presented at the Na-|after to escape pre tional Millers’ convention at Chicago, | ¢ yesterday, indicate that the crops of JTowa and Nebraska will grain producing states, Wiy don’t Nebraska put in a bid ’flm appointment of his successor, for the vacant land commissionership 1 Nebraska has vital interest in the public land business, and inasmuch as she has been littorally ignored in the distribution of federal patronage—she is justly entitled to that bureau. Tk Paris anti-smoking society of- fers a prize for the best answer to the question, ‘‘How can children be kept from smoking 1" Locking them up in a safe with a time lock warranted not to open for twenty-one years sooms to be the only remedy. Ir will be a desperate expedient, but the stalwarts at Albany, failing to carry their point, propose to combine with the democrats and force an ad- journment. Such action will seal the political doom of every republican who takes part in the performance. Tue Philadelphia Press has been in- vestigating the earnings of a number of street railway corporations which profess themselves unable to reduce fares. Several of the companies re- port annual dividends amounting to nearly ninety per cent. This is pov- erty on the half shell, e Tuk feat of. the French in annexing Tripoli has incited Ttaly to & like per- formance in respect to Tun The Bultan, who was caught napping in the first instance, has ordered forward tho troops intended for the war ness. Elkins and [Elkins left Now Mexico soon there- i ccution on a charge [ With Cronin's nose is rubbing it in. | political rights to every voter and ias The result of | Evenin Nebraska such a thing won't | adjourned for active work in the cam- Angel's investigation and of his r ports was the foreed resignation compare | Grtron as United States district attor- favorably with those of the rest of the | ney, who returned to his law business and continued to act as chief of the | London should at once be imported to 1t ro- | and also that Elkins, then delegate to|and to have his compensation cut mains to be seen whether they will bo [ congress, was his partner in this busi- | down $88,000 in one year on & route | Catron wero parts| | ners in the law business at Santa ¥ of alleged murder, | f W. Boudin, & brother of the post: master of Santa Fe, having been made | evidently in the interest of thy ring, instead “of being an impediment, | turned out fo be a groat advantage. No other of this band of swindlers was molested or prosecuted, and the business went on and flourished, The assistance of the new district attorney became of great value to the ring. ho means most frequently used were bogus or forged pre-emption, homestead and land grant entries in the United States land oftices. so that thero appears to have been eriminal collusion between the several oflicors, An ideaof the extent of can be form- od when it is stated that the ring is now in possession of the most valua- ble and best lands in the territory.” It is too late to lock the barn after the horse is stolen. It is to be expected that the federal officials implicated in these frauds will promptly bo asked to step down and outf and it is bavely possible some of them will pelled to disg be com- There is no doubt in our mind that these crooked officials would have been deposed long ago had Generol Wil- lismson been disposed to dislodge thew. But why was Williamson, whose connivance with the Nebraska surveying rings notorious, retained Mr. Hayes! was 80 of Tk B called attention to Mr, Williamson’s peculiar associations and and subsequently pointed out some against Greece and they will immedi- ately occupy Tripoli and prevent sur- prise in that quarter, of the flagrant violations of the laws and rules in connection with the pub- day. But to connect him in addition | ticket during the whole term of | caloulated that in this war 15,000 fam- More than two years ago the editor |so much of an inerease to the antecodents in a letter to Mr, Bchurz | layers, carpenters and the like, Tik Malone readjustors in Vigin- hat carried only one ounce of mail a | ia have nominated an excellent state 1 & platform ealling for equal work, paign. The real issue involved in she contest is the fair treatment of the A NEW industry lately organized in | colored voters and the declarations of Readjuster’s platform will uttract —_— the United States. A company ad- | to its support thousands of the eolor- vertises to keep an eye on the gas |l people who were practically dis- moters in private houses, and for a | franchised under Bourbon rule. small compensation to prevent over- ~— sharges in the gas bills, To do this| Tue length of the railroads built in they employ a staff of men: expert in | the United States in the year ending the operations of the meter, which | April 1, 1881, was 6,1 are mostly vecondite mysteries of ma-| the miloage of the precoding twelyve chinery to the ordinary housekeoper. | months. At 25,000 a mile, these 500,000, Ir any poor fiteman from Towa comes over the river this week with- out knowi miles, twice In support of its claims to public pat- | railroads would cost €15 ronage, the company publishes certifi- cates, showing that they have saved for their clients the value of 1,473,000 foet of gas which had wrongfully been charged to them, and which the gas companies have had to admit as over- | charge. enough to purchase ticket first ho will be robbod ot twenty- five cents by the Union Pacitic bridge swindlers. Oun own Val will probably come up among the active coparceners of the star route ring, It squints that ctively pushing forward a plan for mereasing the settlement of Algoria with French- men, concerning which The Akhbar Tur French government is _——— gives some interesting particulars, | Tue comumissioner of Indian affairs The idea appears to ho to make a colo- | hus ordered the payment to the Pon- nization graut of 50,000,000 francs | cas of the money due them under the with which are to be erected 500 vil- |act passed by the late congress. lages, containing churches, " schools | and all 8 for the colonists, Burned on the Water. | National Associated Press, New Yok, June 7—4 p. m.—The vernment | steamship Glen Logan which sailed convenien whose well-being is to L of the be the conce ble of caring for themselves, ssengers wero landed at Maranham, ilies can be settle gricultu- | and landed at a port ral population, and 3,000 families, the heads of which shall be masons, brick- The | land for the villages and farms is to be purchased by the state from the Arabs cargo of miscellar o~ Fell Through an Elevator, pous freight. until they may be supposed capa- | from this port for Pernambuco, Bahia | water power is unfailing and_almost It js|dnd other South American ports on | eone t ® | May bth, was destroyed by fire. The | the factory line with most satisfactory 1 in Algeria, forming | Biruzil and the crow o ped in boats | forward and alled Clara. The | simmon, Glen Logan was an iron steamer, 220 STAN feet long and insured. She had a large CuICAGO, June T—4 p. m.—A boy THE ELKHORN VALLEY. [A Trip Through a Region Teem- | ing with Agricultural Plenty, Booming Towns, Their Business Men and Manufacturing Interests. | Two Men Drowned while Bath- | ing Near Norfolk, Correspondenc of the Bee. orpoLK, Neb., June 6. —Our con | tinued jaunt up the valley of the Elk horn has not been without interest. Previous conceptions in regard to the soil, character and other features of this feature of Nebraska have beer materially modified by personal in [ spe | serty and sand-hilly, as generally un | derstood, south of the Platte. On the | contrary, it pos tion. Tt is by no means so de- sses attractions that readily and strongly commend them- | selves to the favorable regards of the archer after a land “flowing with milk and honey.” Does he wish to engage in cattle-raising, sheep husbanday, manufacturing en- terprises, or general agricultural pur- suits? Then let him come, and he will find abundant opportunities and ample encouragement at hand. To be sure, the Elkhorn has been on a general and very unusual “‘tear,” this season; jumping its banks, float- ingaround and over a large territory of as fertile terra firma as can be found in the world, and so has kept back the usual spring and summer work Indeed, we noticed corn gathering be- ing prosecutec ate as June 2, and that thousands of acres of corn ground remained unplowed; but, with the warm, dry weather since and now pre- | vailing, the work may yet be success- fully accomplished. Outside of the immediate valley well ns upon the higher points within, the cron prospects were all that could be desired; and the numerous and sleck-looking herds of cattle and | tlocks of sheep so frequent encounter- cd were assuring indexes that Nebras- kans are rapidly learning which is the buttered side of their bread. WEST POINT | may be properly regarded of the beautiful and lovely valley of the Elk horn. The name originated the town | oven business can bo erowded back to a good house of worship, two gram | warehouses, a bar k, hotel, and_sever- | al first-class busines s houses, also the count k. gister. John A. Ehrhs is the Nashy of the besiles being local practitioner, notary | public, M. W. of the ¥ lodge, | id a good fellow generally, Several | fine residences are in irse of erec tion, and there is evidently a bright future in store for Stanton he | crops last year were excellent, and | this has been uniformly the ¢ as it will be this year. That the country | has not filled up more rapidly appears almost miraculous to one as he looks | ion the induc its everywhere held out, and the muniticent gifts be stowed by nature. One reason is found in the fact that railroad facili ties are of but comparatively recent | enjoyment, but the 8., C. & P. rail | road has removed that impediment Another reason exists in the fact that a considerable portion of the land is in the hands of speculators, ‘This and, however, is now on the market, | and may hal at prices ranging | | from &2 50 to £5.00 per acr As it | is mostly of a choice quality, home- | seekers can certainly do much better | by purchasing than by emigrating so | | far west as most of them go in search | | of homesteads, t. at is now | left, and being so noved from market and the other advantages of civilized life. NORFOLK. Wo now reach the shire town of Madison county, having a population of 600. Here we find the junction of the North Fork with the Elkhorn river, aad of the 8., C. & P., with the O. & N. W, R. R., it being thus a point of much commercial import- ance. To a considerable extent, the town site was unfortunately located, the ground being too low, and there- fore subject to North Fork overflow and the usual muddy concomitants. The early spring freshets poured their maddened torrents through the main still disagreeably apparent. These un-, beyond remedy; for the banks of the not very formidable cxpense. the present, the town has not been incorporated; and so, every man be- ing] a law unto himself, there has been 10 01 to secure the wtage of protection A movement is now being made, in the direetion of incorporation, and its od effects will not be long in mani- esting themselves, A preliminary | survey is being made for a’ new town atthe S, C. & P. depc A few! buildings there may be the result; but | the old town has the inside track, and will hold it; for the residences and more altitudinous locations, and all vill be well, in the fact thatat the time of its | the Western most valley. The site | s admirably chosen fora city, which | it will one day become in the proper sense of the term, having already a | population of 1,000 or 1,200, The lo-| cation is upon the east side of the Elk | :n made in the horn, with a gently sloping | hillside ~ in the back-ground, | and the beautiful river | flowing in front and glistening | in the sunbeams. Though having ex- cellent agricultural tributaries, the West Pointers do not depend ively upon these, but to a consde extent turn their attention to manu- fucturing pursuits. So that here is the most extensive paper-millin the state, and this need never be idle for vant of water. The mill is a long, two-story structure, built of brick, most substan manner; xtensive additionsare now being made. Near the paper mill are the large and famous flouring mills, which are being run to their fullest eapacity, and yet experience difficulty in meeting the laree and increasing demand for their excellent products. There is also ucar at hand one of the largest and mwst successful ereamerics in the west, largel, raged at pres- ent in condensing milk. A handsome percentage is returned upon the capital mvested. The court house built i 1873 by the Krause brothers, isan imposing brick structure, comparing favorably with any in Nebraska, As a specimen of architectural taste and substantiali- ty of construction, it rivals the bess and from. its towering eupola charm’ ing views can be had m all directions, embracing water courses, natural and artificial groves and variegated land- scapes. Ground is now being broken fora new brick school house, that will meet the rapidly-increasing require- ments of the community,and will cost $10,000. Five church organizations have good houses of worship, whi others make use of Krause's commo- dious hall, which is also used for gen- cral lecturing purposes, theatrical e hibitions, ete. There are three news- papers, (one of them Grrman,) which have good offices andappear to be well patronized,as thoy deserve - this being wspeciully the case with the R\![mbli- can, The Masons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias and Knights of Honor have organizations, and are successful in their operations. There are two largo hotels, (the Pennsylyan- in and the Neligh), complete and ex- cellent in their appointments, as also several smaller ones, adapted to the means of guests. A large number of business houses, including the two banks, are built of brick, evineing en- terprise, liberality and good taste as well as good sense, Busines was moro active than we had noticed anywhere during many miles' travel, The peo- ple were in good heart over the abun- dant crops in prospect, and the brisk business sure to follow, We found Congressman Valentine intensely busy; for, in addition to his public duties at Washington, he has a arge logal practice, and has a watch- ful care over the varied interests of his state —embracing constituency. There is at West Point a g ening for a woolen factc itrated, and could be utilized in What capitalist will come ner this ripened per- results. This cleanly and beautiful vill bears the honors of the and hired or sold in small holdings to | ¢, shaft in O'Brien’s tinware factory lic surveys verbally. But Mr, Schurz the colonists. this morning and wae killed. y | There i | world. k is certainly a lively and thriving town, and has some of the best business men in the state. Matheson’s bank occupies a command- ing position, not only in the commu- nity, but generally in the monetary He is a fine financier, and is ably seconded by Cashicr Lowe. Brick business and dwelling houses being pushed with a vim. The i churches qud schools are creditable to the community, and by 1o means | unpatronized. awak serve able paper, and is having de- success, constant me hotels —the Valley Home and the Nor- folk, which.are well keps. ; A woolen. factory and a creamery could not fail of success here; and w Norfolk was for a long time the |u home of the-late Hon. Frank Welch, business strects, and the effects are [ Kredter in proport nizad or systematic effort made [ 43d the wateh contained in the n will leav tion.is to be he 20, st to some extent, and business is | coming man for ol and wants the place for Will Cumback, The Journal is a wide- | Indiu o T'he flovaing-mill is a [ St. Louis h large, good structure and is kept in | tion, knewn } Unbe th advise competent and proper parties | e to come and.survey the field. at Evansville, Ind, The enterptise is a mon ster one, giving employment to fiftecn hun- dred hands, It is reported in Canada that an Ottawa manufacturer of friction matches has been aid $100,000 in consideration of his with drawing from manufacturing matches in this country The Distnond match compan, Haven, O vith & capital of twenty-nine other large match companies in the United States. A new industry south - the springing up in the cultivation of jute. In g woil, properly cultivated, 4,000 pounds of the fibre can be produced. A mill is to be built at New Orleans to work np the sea- son's crop, The Ame n iron works, Pittsburg, y employ in their rolling mill, chain and t factories, foundry and machine shops at their blast furn: and coal and coke works, about 3500 men. In their mill there are 76 puddlin crap and 30 heat- ing furnaces and 21 trains of rolls, besides 63 nail machines in their nail department, Mr. W. H Vanderbilt has recently order- ed 105 new idard eight-wheel Tocomo- tives, with five-foot drivers and 17x22-inch cylinders, Of these, fifty for the New Y ork Central, thirty for the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, will be milt by Ellis Brotl henectady, and the Lake Shore at the motive Works, erson N, J, 1 of celluloid is said to be obtained from well-peeled potatoes which are treated for thirty-six hours with a solu- tion of _eight parts sulphuric acid in 100 parts of water, T Iried between blotting pressed. 1t is further ated that in ce smoking nufactured out of this new are quito equal in - appear- ance to the meerschaum, By heavy pres- sure the material acquires such a Hardness that Dbilliard balls ean be manufactured with it The production of steel in this country has grown to greater proportion than is generally supposed. There ar y-three stecl works in- operation, thirty in 1870, and the manufacturers of this article are greatly encouraged from the fact that steel is, in many instances, being used where iron was supposed to be the most desirable, The greater durability of 1 makes it the most econom 1 the greater first cost, and_the gain in the volumes of consumption of steel has been on than that of iron. The value of steel products, therefore, promises at no distant day to largely ex- The mass i rand then favorable features, however, aré not'| ceed the rame class of products of 1ron, A watchmaker in Newcastle, Penn., river may be readily protected, and at [ says & Pittsburg paper, las completed a set Up to | of three gold shirt studs, in one of which is atel that keeps exeellent time, the ¢ being about_three dinmeter. The three studs ar by a steip of silver inside the sl is wound up by turning the stud and the hands are set by turning the one ow. But perhaps, the most remarkable thing abong the liliputian achine, is that it works with a pendulum, like o clock, and the pendulum wiil act’ with case and ever position the tinie- , even if it be turned wpside e POLITICAL POINTS. i journ on June coville, of Buffalo, N, Y., New York this week for o two uoaths’ run in Europe. A mon-partisan prohibitory state conven- Lat Jackson, Mise, July It has been resolved by the 8 Pennsylvani Congre ngers in Towa o wind of the r Thomas Grosvenor is said to e th citor general, and as he s an Ohio man it seems plausible, Senator Ben Harrison leads the war on ommissioner of Internal Revenne Roum, Promiunent re eving local journalists do hat woman suffrage in U purified the ballot to tent.—[Chicago T'ribun Mr. Riddleberger is no more potent in g himself at Riehmond than he was ashington. Some further readjust- nent is necessary in. bis case. There are many aspirants for the gov- ha el and his memory is kept green in the | ernorship in Minnesota, but the suggestion nin office seams hearts of the people, for' they loved | that Gov, Pillsbury him for his many genial qualities of to be well rece e lr?vv.h: people. head and heart. amodel institution is the O LeS ture! xlmrim iy...,..-.-\4-x|lz se iuub‘,- ARG Ok i) s have been “introduced, and thus On Friday evening last a largenum- | far ouly twenty-seven of them have be- ber of men and boys were enjoying | come law. the pleasures.of bathing in the North | Thereis o growing fecling among, the Fork, near Norfolk, when some rea- :lcum;ra'tn “{.‘"}i‘]'l‘:""" the ln11<n "}“ -Tmn son—probably simpl o = ail- | to vote for this fall is one Allen G. Thur- cried for help. Mr. Fagan, who had | "0 €hieying hinsalt at Pari | twenty-six years of age,) has not been apitalship of | struction, Stanto: ty, having a population J R S e baving, b hont' ] PR g b g g S class people, in all respects, knowing named Alberts foll through an eleva- | how to make a stranger feel at home. a court house and Masonic dressed, plunged into. the water with cuing the drowning man, one of Fagan's boots, and pulled him to the bottom of the stream, where both drowned together, Search was at once made for the bodies, and that of Fagan's recovered on Saturday mor- ning, minus one of his boots, It wa laced ina coffin and _dispatched to his sortowing fumily, living in Trag county. At this writing the body of the German (probably twenty-five or recovered. - Fagan's age was about forty, and he leaves a wife and several children, Tur Bews new departure—new dress and new make-up, 15 much com- wented upon, and highly commended by the people, who wish it the fullost measure of success in its contest for the right. JAUNTER, INDUSTRIAL. The emery-wheel works at Wei sport, Carbon county, o bo ealarga, Cotton factories are iner minion. Two new companies have just been onganized. . Paul expects to rival in the facture of boots and shoes, even the Liynn, of Massachusetts, There are 3,300 m . comative works at Paterson, © Thelrw ages amount to 81,650,000 uunuaily, | age Belting company, of Concor are ‘to rebuild, on 4 lange sou buildings which' were recently de stroyed. loyed in the The copper ng mill at Houghton, Mich,,is now rolling out about 3000 pounds of copper per day, giving employment to some 200 hands. The Lehigh Vall ng to expel a substitute for g on all through train | The Varicty Iron Cleveland, Ohio, have secured more land or the purpose of erecting a large building, 'rn.‘ employ 133 hands and report trade ilroad com, t with electr n lighting the cars Works company, Blast seventy-eight shiy aggregite of 115,000 tons haye been in England, and on April 1st, there were 800,000 tons in course of con- The Baldwin locomotive works, Phila- during April, which, with one exception, is the largest month's business the frs has er done. An effort is being made to bring the arolina_propeses to vote, ir Au- gust, on the quostioa of prohibition of all his clothes on, for the purpose of res- | intoxicants exospt wine and hard cider, The latter | These beverages, if well mixe had sunk, but probably seized hold of | sutfi would be r heal ntly stimnlating for th Tho liver-padi delegation from howling Hoosierdom s in Washington clamoring for a change. They ought to have f-reign missions somewdere, and the more i fhe better. Thay a'e too noisy s well s 00 numerous. Jerome B, Choffee ried Gen, Grangs sof rado and go into active business with Sena~ tor Teller, and to run f X Chaffee is said to have suffered mater losses in his mines, and to be wonth not over $600,000, G Plaisted, of Maine, has ordered a #pecial election of representatives. i con- gress to be held in the second district of that state September 12, to fill the vacancy cansed by the election of Mr, Frye: to the United States senate, At Marshallton, Towa, the state green- back convention expressed sympathy for the Irish land league, and all dowe-trodden people of the globe, A resobation was pansed favoring the election of president, vice-president, and United States senators by direct vote of the veopl: Senator John T, Morgan of Alabama, in a letter to a relative in Kentucky, express- es the opimion that Senator Beck, of tucky, i the most useful mamon the dem- ocratic side of the senate, and it would a calamity to the democratie party, and above all, to the south to lose his services in that body, The greebackers Mary Nash for s public instruction sct that she is barred b; last legslagure passed an act men eligible for county, but not state su- perintendent of schools. But it is all the sawe whether a greenbuck candidate is el or otherwise, hose daughtes u Lord Angus Cameron is booked for Lond Roscoe's seat in the houseof lords at Wash- ington, Imagine the mantle of the late lordly personage from New York - ing upon the shoulders of the | from Wisconsin ~ He would be | by the f blue_and black-¢ ties from in vain for the blonde Adonis from Utica *1 feel,” said the fat passenger, as the train crossed the Ohio line, “‘that I am in the land of statesmen, There is a smell of the postoftice in the air, and the low, sweet sound of 4 consulate is heard in the dewy distance. 1 see the shadowy forms « tto be, and outof the drcamy impossible Isee the sad pros ession of never-to-be supreme juc It is & dear and favored land, this grand old step-mother of presidents —_— { Burdette, “owest {mauiblu cash prices always guaranteed and but one price asked at Bushman's Dry Goods Store, Douglas east corner Fifteenth and south- hall, four church organizations, with | Missouri ear works from St. Louis to streets,