Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 16, 1881, Page 4

The Oméha Bee. Published every The only Monday morning daily rhing, except Sunday TERMS BY MAIL One vear Six Months 00 | One 1.00 THE WEKLY BEE, published ev. ery Wednesday TERMS POST PATD One Year £2.00 T Months 5 Six Months 1.00 | ( . . 20 CORRESPONDENCE —All Communi- eations relating to Newsand Fditorial mat ters <honld be addressed to the Tue Bry BUSINESS LETTERS—AN Business Letters Remittances should be ad dressed to THE OMAMA PUBLISHING (0 PANY, Osana. Drafts, Checks and Post office Orders to be made payable to the order of the Company OMAHA PUBLISHING 00., Prop'rs E.ROSEWATER, Editor. and of the Cireu John H. Pierce is i jon of TH JIAILY B Trar Grant interview is generally sidered as an unfortunate opening of the Sphynx’s mouth. TuE pauper-strick from Chicago have reduced the freight tariff on grain to twenty cents. —_— 1 pool lines east Bex Burier is to defend the star route thieves in Washington and pro- poses to twist the truth as crooked as his own eyes. — Jiv Keexe has sent a trusty agent to St. Louis to purchase for him a lin of Misissippi river barges. Jim is Keene for any new means of invest- ment which and barge lines will certainly fill the bill. promises large profits, SENATOR SAUNDERS can doubtless put a bright plume in his helmet by pulling through a liberal appropriation for the proposed improvement of the Missouri river, but he must sce to it that, there be no more bogus rip- rapping. CiviLiziNg the Indians is progress- ing with a great deal of vigor in south- ern Colorado. A new station of the Denver & Rio Grande road has been established on the southern Ute reser- vation with the usual accompaniment of saloons and dance houses, Dr Miuier very generously offers to pull Senator Saunders through with the barge tow line, but Miller's tow lines can’t be depended on. They have always broken in every scnatorial campaign and left his proferred can- didates high and dry on the sand bank. —_— Proressor Avauey and Perihelion Paige occupied the samebod Tucaday night over in Council Bluffs, and we shall look for another marvellous revelation foretelling dire disaster to the inhabitants upon this globle when the tail of the next comet strikes the eliptic of this planet. RaiLroan “rivalry” means that certain big companies agree upon cor- tain rates and a certain pro-rata share of the business. The arrangement goes into effect' and pretty soon each road finds that all the other roads in the pool are playing it a little too fine. Then there are protests and a new arrangement, which works about the same as the old. Rivalry of tlis kind is very spirited, _— tiling by Jay Gould of articles of incorporation of the Missouri Pacific railvoad of Kansas, with a capital of §600,000 to lay a track from Atchison to Omaha, indicates that Nebraska is at least to have a down the river line, which will not only open up a portion of her territory hitherto closed to active co merce, but which will also connect her lead- ing commercial metropolis with the great southwest, —_— Larest advises from Maine repre- sent that Justice Clitford, of the Uni- ted States supreme court, is gradually recovering. Wlhen he engages in conversation it is noticed. that his memory is very defective. While he may'linger on this side of the grave for many months longer, and possibly for years, he is not likely to ever re- sume his place on the bench. His successor is now being acttively can- vassed in New England, where it is conceded the candidate will be chosen from, . E—— THERE seems to bea likelihood that the Burlington and Missouri road will not permit Mr, Gould to trespass on their territory without retaliating. It is rumored on good authority that they will soon construct & line from Beatrice, Nebraska to Salina, Kan- sas, which will cut three Gould roads, and divide the live stock traffic of the Union Pacfic. Other mmors state that the first move toward the von- struction of the down-the-river line by GouM, will be followed by the building of a road by the B. & M., Jjoining Plattsmouth and Nebraska Oity. This sort of warfare would prove beneficial to our people,. When ;o;u- fall out, honest men get their ue. £10.00 | Three Months,£3.00 | IDITOR OF | - [that their interests were | THE NATIONAL LAND OFFICE. The whole country, and especially [the people west of the Mississippi, anxiously await the choice of the suc- [of the defeat of any antagonist of Toad for The ars been |cessor of General Williamson. | national land office has for y the nest of jobber when fully uncovered will overtop the As the custodian star route swindle. [of the national domain the commis | sioner of the United States land office I had at his disposal millions upon mil lions of broad acres on Uncle Sam's farm, and the way he farmed it out to the giant monopolies | would furnish a most interesting chapter of knavery. The Pacific rail | roads alone were endowed with over | fifty mullions of acres in the heart of [ the continent, and we may rest assured [ well taken care of by General Williamson, who their in- appointed chiefly at | stance. The great mineral belt on both sides of the Rockies, and the vast tracts of government lands from Texas to Washington territory, offer an im- bers of the Dorsey brand. With o rupt — commissioner in - collusion with land rings, there is no limit to systematic plunder and robbery of the government No wonder there is such an active in- terest shown in certain quarters about filling the vacant commissionership. One report that reaches us is to the effect that General Williamson's right hand man and former chief clerk would be promoted tothe full rank of commis- sioner, We know nothing discredit- able to this worthy chief clerk, but deem it safe to remonstrate against it. must have been associated more less with the corrupt gang of sharks that made it their business to control public to gobble vast tracts of valuable lands by bogus claims. Another report represents Senator Plumb, of Kansas, urging thoe appoint- Any man trained by Williamson or surveys and managed ment of a candidate of his own choice. 1t will be safo for Secretary Kirkwood to fight shy of Senator Plumb’s pets, for no other reason then the notorious fact that Plumb is an active capper for the railway monopolies Tf Mr. Plumb has influence cnougiv to pro- cure the appointment of the next commissioner he will have influence itrol his conduct in mat- ch he or his assoclate mo- nopolists have a vital interest. What the people of the west, sand ospecially the homesteaders and pioneers who settled or intend to settle on the public do- main, demand, is a commissioner who comes into the office clean handed, with no obligations for his place to any corporation, corporation attorney or land jobber. They demand a man who has been tried in positions of great responsibility and was never charged with or even suspected of a crooked act. There are many such men to be found in the west, and if the west cannot supply such a man, then Secretary Kirkwood or President Garfield should find a man that pos- sesses these primary qualifications, wherever they may be able to find him, It is true Uncle Sam’s farm is grow- ing smaller every year, the lands have for the most part been donated to subsidized railroads, but millions of of the Mississippi that still remain under the con trol of the natural land office must bo taken caro of by a commis who is competent and cannot have aeres west sion be bought. Tt is most edifying to read in the Omaha Bee an claborate defense of Chauncey M. Depew, the railroad at torney, now running for United States senator in New York, coupled with the declaration that because a lawyer i retained by a railroad, it is no sign that if he is elected to office ho will be the tool of a railroad. 1t is absolute- ly true of every honest lawyer in the land, but it is unusually refreshing to read it in a sheet of the Bee's calibre and character. Let it be remembered. ~ Lincoln Journal. : Bk has made defense of Chauncey M. Depew, nor has it pub- lished any such a statement as that credited to 1t by the Lincoln Journal, This paper is opposed to Mr, Depew’s candidacy on the ground that all his past afliliations have been with the monopolies, and it hasT expressed that opposition & score of times during the present canvass. Tur Bee quoted the New York Times, » paper which is equally op- posed to Mr. Depew’s election as the show that in some of the strongest anti-monopoly journals of the country Mr. Depew and Mr. Conkling were both placed on the samelevel as hav- ing been retained by corporations, to defend their interests against those of the people. We do not believe that Chauncey M. Depew is & necossity, As we have said before, theve are a score of republicans in New York fully asable as Mr. Depew, and with a clearer record on the great question of the day, who would fill Mr. Conk- ling'splace at Washington with greater credit to the republican party and the Empire state. But why are the two republican monopoly papers of Nebraska so vio- lently in favor of the return of Sena- tor Conkling. Why is every western journal in the pay of the great cor- rations and who, like the Lincoln ournal and the Omaha Kepublican, mense field for land-sharks and job- | senator from New York, in order to |\ | are owned body and soul by monop olies like the Burlington & Missouri, and Union Pacific railroads, in favor | Mr. Conkling? Tsn't it suspicious on [ the face? | and hirelings of corporations to charge | y 3 o1 8y | their opponents with inconsistency on | - The wholesale discourtesy and | THE STREET RAILROAD PRO- | JECT. and fraud, which | impudent presumption for these tools [be submatt. The project of another street rail Omal de seems to be meeting with a of favor from our great to the people, it would | undoubtedly carry by a large majori a question for which they have been | 1ack of enterprise which has marked | for years forced to struggle againat |the conduct of the present horse rail- | thority over it and compellingit to ¢ | the opposition of just such lickspittles and fawning monopoly creatures as the | | Lincoln Journal and Omaha Republi- | can Tur failure of the Hotel scheme, which | some weeks ago, is now made certain "l'hn- Kitchen Bros. | theirinability to carry out the contract, | Grand Central was rumored have announced | and have informed the successors of the hotel company that they are ready to turn the property over at a reason- able valuation to any parties who will This action of | the Messra, Kitchen is right and just. of the was made, this | erect a hotel upon it When the first announcement of the plan paper was beset with requests to*‘show the Kitchen's was believed failue and to acheme to gobble up the property de- by our eitizens hotel purposes. While all the circum- stances looked suspicious | more than half inclined to wait the come has proved the wisdom of our up” Jbe a what J noted for we were for further developments and out course, Now that a clear and unineumbered title can be given to this magnificont location for a hotel it is to that active measures will at once be the of a building in every respect as large and s hoped taken to secure ercetion handsome as the old Grand Central Thero is ample room in Omaha for two first class hotels. The “Millard” will find its accommoda tions strai first y of our city two hotels, of the first- class would find a large and paying new Ubofore the close of its | ar. With the present population But whon we take into the of Omaha, which is manifesting itself in every branch of wonderful increase of population, it will readily be seen that within two years time our present and prospective hotel accommodations will be totally inadequate. Tt is therefore pleasing to the Ber to announce that steps are already in progress to secure upon the old Grand Central site a spect commensurate with the impor- tance of Omaha. The matter is in the hands of men who do not propose tolet it drop until it is an accom- plished fact. patronage. consideration rapid growth business and in a ow hatel in every re- IN accordance with the universal fitness of things the Omaha Herald now attempts to monopolize the credit for the Missouri niver barge project. Years ago when Ture Bee urged the organization of a barge line at Omaha the Herald threw cold water on the proposition and after column of figures to prove that the channel of trade never could be diverted from the east and west to a north and south line. Tt was the syme when Tue Bek urged the building of grain elevators in Omaha six years ago, while the Herald insisted that gaain elevators never could be made to pay in Omaha, published column Ix New Hampshire the transporta- tion question and its relation to the senate s under discussion, Rolling, the present working hard for s although known for years to have been | a pliant tool of the Union Pacific in congress, he has felt compelled to Senator incumbent, is re-clection, and come forward and deny any active hostility to the national rogulation of railroads. Mr. Rolling was shrewder in his votes in the senate than some On the Thurman bill, in the earlier stages of the discussion, Mr. Rollins quictly voted against the hill, but when he saw that the railrcads were certain of other senators nearer home, defeat, he changed his vote and re- corded himself among the senators who voted for the passage of that measure* —_— Wirh all the exact information on the subject that it is possible to ascer- tain, and the closest estimates in the cases of inexactness, the money in the United States was composed and held May 1, 1881, as follows: IN THE HANDS OF THE PEOPLE. L 84,077,218 C... B3YTIN 008 £820,901,210 TORIES, Gold, $302, 904,904 Sllver . 8,080,719 Paper currency . 159,552, 57 Total in public depositories, §470,038, otal all kinds of currency outstanding . ......0000.. $1,121,439,499 That the sum total now exceeds slightly one thousand three hundred millions there can be no doubt. —_— CrLavroN county, Iowa, has declared or Larrabee for the governorshi You can tell a fellow nowadays who has & stalwart star-route sore on his back, by the vigor with which he denounces the em- ployment of A. M, Gibson to tell the truth about the inside works of the system of tranaporting empty mail bags. [t should be understood t Mr. Gibson was en- geged on account of his accumulated and | investment expose | ¢ Ansl'ud information. The fact that he had for years abused the president person- ally, was notimportant. wercial Cincinnati Com. | question, whate: management has made a good way g opening for competition, and a new line, taking in the limits of the city | and extending its operation to Hans com park would doubtless be a paying But before the privilege is granted t cupy our public thoroughfares, the city council should take the greatest ) any new corporation to oc care to throw around the concession | ion of every safeguard for the prote the publi Privilc street railroads in large cities are es for nterests among the most valuable of municipal grants. A Philadelphia paper the following exhibit of the capital stock and dividends of street railroads in that city ves Total paid in Divi pital stock 192,000 580,000 125,000 1 D . Frankford and South wark D) 500,000 102,000 ' town ... 571,000 120,000 n oand Coates 150,000 45,000 Hestonville and Man- tau . . Lombard and South Philadelphia City Phil. and ( Ridge Avenne Second and ‘1 13th and 15th........ West Philutelphia 17th and 14th 6 )00 1,077 105,000 100,000 230,000 Total .. Lo 26,008,000 4 The average of the dividends paid by the companics was 16 2.3 per cent., but some of the companics paid divi- dends of over 50 per cent. on the capital invested. There were 90,804, - 765 passengers carried at a cost for | \d operating the roads of 82,694,903; from all other sources, $262,964 — total receipts, 84,947 867, The difference between receipts and | cost of muntaining and oper 2,167,314, leaving more than a mil- lion to be devoted to taxes, interest and expenses before dividends were declared. Whilein Omaha it is not to pected that the receipts for a number of yoars will equal those of the Phila- delphia companies, still such carnings and profits strongly suggest that such conce: g was be ex- ions are a valuable considera- tion which cities should not part with without sccuring to the citizens sub- stantial guarantees of accommodation, and fair contributions from the com- panies toward street and city exponses, repairs Not an Open Question. St. Louis 5 In a recent number of The North American Review, Mr. George Tick- nor Curtis, as the paid advocate of the railroad corporations, was per- mitted to present such arguments as his ingenuity could frame in support of the doctrine that the roads and franchises are the absolute property of the corporations, and that they have the right to regulate charges for service and methods of business with- out restraint from the state, unl the ltter explicitly reserved to itse the right to intorfere when their charters were granted. The gist of his argument was that the state, in granting charters to_railroad corpora- tions, with the privilege of charging undefined tolls for carrying pas. andmerchandise, made a con- the obligation of which cannot be inipaired by subsequent legislation, We do not care to raise any inquiry as to the ethical or professional pro- priety of Mr. Curtis’s conduct in em- ploying his talents for pay in an at- tempt to make out a case for the | extreme pretensions of the railroad companies, under the guise of dis- cussing as & jurist a_question of gre public importance; but we do pre- sume to maintain that the position he took in his Review article is not sus- tained by any respectable body of le- gal opinton. 1t has against it all t} foundation principles of public law and all juridical authority relating to the subject But the 1 aspect of the railroad question is one that few understand or feel an interest in. - The number of persons who have made a thorough study of it, unless in a strictly pro- fessional way, is very small, and the number who are disposed to make any such study is scarcely larger. Thoso who do care for discussions relating to tho fundamental principles of law af- focting railroads and their relation to the state probably read Mr. Curtis’ sophistical argument, and the same persons will take interest in an article in the June number of the periodical in whichitappearodsetting forth theoppo- site doctrine. The writer of this article is Mr. J, M. Mason, & lawyer of con- siderale local repute in West Virginia, who appears to have had occasion to give the subject a thorough investiga- tion. He shows how and to what ex- tent the ancient principles of law n regard to public highways and com- mon carriers, the power of eminent do- wain, and the franchise of charging tolls affect the modern railway, uni makes perfectly clear the logical basis snd the legal sanction of the right of the state to refiulnte their charges in sccordance with the higher and wider interests of the community. But while all this is interesting to a fow students of the subject, it touch, side of the railroad question for which the people at large care little. More than that, it is putting in controversy, or treating as if they were in controversy, questions that have long been settled. We have no doubt of the soundness of Mr, Mas- on's conclusions, but they are thor- oughly established, not only as a matter of argument, but as a matter of jurisprudence. The right of the state to regulate the action of railroad corporations in matters affecting the public interest is not really I‘Jipon to i ver their paid attor- neys, like Mr, Curtis, wmay pretend. & | where the people ma There is no civilized country in the world where serious ques tion is made of it. To the ordinary mind it can only appearas an absurd- | ity that a corporation created by the state and exercising a public fran And is it not the height of | ¢itizens, and should such a proposition | chise granted to it by the state for a | specific purpose and” with a view to [ public benefit should be at liberty to abuse its privileges and virtually plun der and oppress the community while | the state is incapable of exercising au gard the obligations which accompany the use of public rights and functions, The people care little for the legal | discussion, simply because they have | Ino manner of doubt regarding the rights and powers of the state to do | what ought to be done i the pre mises, The question of living interest is not what can the state do, or what are | | the legal limits of its power in dealing | with corporations, but what is it nec- s or expedient to do. Here is a liscussion that is by no means ex- hausted, and one in which all intelli- | gent people take an interest. There is growing more and more every day a vague dread of the power of corpora | tions to which privileges have heen | granted by public law. Tt is felt |that a time come when the | people will have to grapple with this power and wrench its clutches m the institutions of the country. | Tt is not only absorbing to itsclf the fruits of labor and the grain of trade and pilling up wealth in the hands of [ the few, but it 18 controlling legisla- cisions of courts in its own interest. We are now at a stage in the contest vindicate their authority and place these opportuni- | tics under the regulation of law with- out a struggle. They need to be con- vinced of the occasion for doing this and to be guided to the best method of doing it, but to argue to them that they have the right to do it is a waste of breath, Of this there is no doubt. Curiosities of Commerce. The balance of trade in favor of the United States for the year ending June 30, 1880, was §167,000,000, but the statistics of our foreign commerce present some curious details not gen- erally so well known as the aggreg, excess of exports over imports, W sell to every country in Kurope more than we buy from it, with the single exception of Greece. Our trade with that little state is so tnfling that the exception is hardly worthy of note, so thatit may be said that in the present trade relations of the world, the con- tinent of Kurope is, throughout its whole extent, our debtor. Our ex- cess of exports to that continent, | over imports from it, maounts to $348,000,000. During the year un- der consideration Great Britain took from us in excess of what she sold us, $243,000,000. The sum of our im- ports from that country was $210,- 000,000, so that she paid us cash for more than half her purchases from us. This enormous cash balance was not settled entirely by an actual transfer of money, but the equivalent of money was paid for it all in some way or other. Of the other nations of Europe, France owed us a cash balance of over 30,000,000, Belgium 822,000,- 000, Russia §12,000,000, Netherlands 810,000,000, Spain_ $9,000,000, Ger- many £5,000,000, Portugal £4,000,- 000, and Ttaly £2,000,000. We are not a profitable customer for that con- tinent whose civilization is old and whose labor is cheap. We do not want its cheap products to a very great extent, and we draw on it largely for its money. It is perhaps an injury to the prosperity of Europe that it is not able to control the best market in the new world, and more especially is the industrial enterprise of Great Britain cramped and deranged by our pohicy of governing our own exchanges. When it is remembered that her trade with us exhausted her of 243, - 000 of her mone; a single year her violent tendencies to free trade will not excite surprise. But it must also be remembered that there was no free trade in British statesmanship until Great Britain achie through pro- tection the complete control of her home market—that is to say; until there was no danger of competition with her home manufacturers at home. Her example is too instruct- ive to be cast aside by us in order to relieve her present necessiti we must reach the stag ment when free trade profitabte to us before adopting But while we draw so Europe for its money we port very little to = the ¢ wiil become it, largely on trade is against us. We are largely over-buyers in the rest of the new world, where, it seems, Europe finds markets for the wares which she can not sell to us, We paid 1,000,000 in money to Cuba, which was cniefly on account of sugar, Out of a total import of §65,000,000 from that is- land, only £11,000,000 was paid for by exported merchandise. To Brazil we sent a cash balance of 843,000,000, having bought of her to the amount of 851,000,000, without selling her than i more $8,000,000. This is mainly a coffee bill, so that we paid ~ for sugar and coffee, in cash, to those two countries nearly $100,000,000, China also took over £20,000,000 from us in cash, and only $1,000,000 in merchandise, to pa; for our purchases there. The Brimfi East Indies drew from us §19,000,000 in money to pay for 21,000,000 of imports, thus showing a payment of nearly $40,000,000 to the great silver- using countries of the east. But our silver dollar, containing as it does, 16 per cent. of fiat, is not available for the payment of this balance, our sil- ver producers, strangely enough, be- ing determined, if possible, that their product shall not be used as money anywhere else than at home During the railroad tem- pest about to sweep over Mexico; not a dollar of our silver can be used in thst country, although it is just the money the Mexican laborer wants. The fiat in the silver dollar is not good over the boundary. Our trade with Mexico is very light, yet she is capa- ble of producing all "the sugar and coffee which weneed. Instead of less than $8,000,000 of imports and ex- ports, if Mexican production were properly stimulated, our commerce wit! exico would soon equal that with Cuba and Brazil combined. Nor would it be so one-sided an af- fair as it is with those two coun- trios. We export to Mexico now nearly as much as to Brazl. Al though we buy of her but little, be- [ tion and endeavoring to sway the de- | St. Louls Globe-Democrat. | f the world, and here the balance or | [ | cause she has little to sell, we pay her y in merchandise, thus show their consumptiou of our only by her own scanty production, The transfer of our Cuban and Brazilian trade to Mexico would prevent the annwal drain from us of &100,000,000 in money, and cheapen the staple ducts, for a supply of which we are now chiefly dependent on Cuba and Brazil. But it should be remembered | that it is only through protection that we have been enabled to evade Mexi co for a purpose mutually beneficial to that country and ourselves | entirely ing that wares is limited CITY OF SHADES TREE. | | How Blair is Prospering in the Dog Days; Correspondence of Tk bEE. Bramr, Neb., 15. among the most beautiful and Gr - Blair pros June i | perous towns in Nebraska. er taste has been exhibited in the beau | tifying of yards and shading of streets than is usually seen in western towns, lit is due Major Barrett, one rly superintendents of the & Pacific Railway, for the which was this prise by him personally. It is asserted the two parks between the depot Some er | of the enter- | | start given | grounds and the town that to-day occasion so many happy re- marks, were ted under his orders, and at his own personal ex- pens The Sioux Clty & Paci ilway company owned the town site, and in giving title to any lot insert the proviso that at least three trees shall be planted on the street in front of it. This insures endless shade, and truly no town can boast of more beau- tiful streets. Blair was founded in | 1869, and named in honor of John 1. Blair, then chief proprietor of the Sioux City & Pacific company. Its history is one of moderate but steady growth and continued prosperity. The present population is 1,700. It has sixty business firms, fourteen pro- fessional men, a steam tlouriug mill, five churches, two railways, and a graded school, employing eight teach- ers and attended Dy 649 pupils. The increase in attendance during the The Blair Pilot of ol ns an admirable re- view of the city, in which the city treasury isreported in a lourishing con- dition. An excellent trade is enjoyed by all her merchants, and Blair is known to all the traveling men as a prompt-paying town. A number of fine brick buildings have been erected on the business streets during the past year, and a number will he added to the list this season, J. H. Hungate is preparing to build a brick building for his bank on the corner ot Washington street and Walker avenue, and Gus Lundt will erect a brick building on Walker avenue adjoimng it, for his hardware store. The blacksmith and other shops are being moved from the busy part of the town to make room for mercantile houses. The steam mill has been purchased by Scott & Webb, a firm from Towa, and is kept very busy. The St. Paul & Sioux City and the Sioux City & Pa- cific will build a union passenger depot at the crossing of the tracks. The St Paul & Sioux City will build a freigh depot a little to the south of it, and the Sioux City & Pacific a new freight warehouse somewhat to the west of the new passenger depot. The hotel accommodations of Blair al better than ever. Messrs. Cheney & Clark are running the City Hotel in fine style. Major Cheney is known as one of the best hotel men in the west, and this is the fourth ho- tel in this section with which his name is connected. A sad accident occurred Sunday, a few miles south from here. John Rosenbourn, twenty yeads of age, was drowned while bathing in a water hole known as More's lake. The lake is not more than ten feet deep, anc ninety feet wide, and was not consid- ered dangerous for anyone who could take care of himself in the water. Tt is said that Rosenbourn was an ordi- nary swimmer. past year is 104. POLITICAL CENTER SHOTS Mr, Bradley extraordinaril ver suspected what an ted liar he was until the telling him about it. t ballot at Albany showed Platt to be gaining on Conkling. This isthe first instance in history where the tin-kettle threatened to over » thedog.—[Wash- ington Capitol, A stroke of modesty would kill an Ohio icke h gallon key of see they can't weenstomed to, 1 [Peoria Demg Secretary Windom is said by observers at Washington to be very severely afflicto ! with the presidential itch. He Id member the fate of Bristow Jobn Sherman, —[Courie *“Honor will not buy a bre k Blair, readjuste andl has paid [Courier nothing for previous breakfasts, Journal, ‘The Hon, Montzomery Blair has emerged from his si to remark that, with the exception of Mr, Tilden, Mr. Conkling is the most popular man in New York, Is it possible that Mr. Blair has overlooked Tommy Platt. —[Atlanta Constitution, This is only the second tin period of fifty years that the New York legisla- ture has run its session into June, But the circumstances are a trifle unusual, Perhaps the example set this time will pre- vent the session ever again bei tended for the same cause,—[Peoria Tran- script, Mr. having stopped Duilding chicken s long enough to remark that Mr. Conkling is undoutedly a lunatic, ien, Grant stops smoking long enough to remark that Mr, Conk] i gentleman and excee All the ex-presidents ha is a high-toned gly level-headed- 1g spoken, the Houses, LOTS, FARMS, LANDS BEMIS’ Real Estate EXCHANGE 16th & Douglas Sts., OMAHA, NEB. 4000 *FIPENELOT 04 10 s2500 ench 250 HOUSES AND LOTS, ™ ~t) €275 to $18,000 each. ~ BUSINESS LOTS, 1)00 500 to $10,000 each 2(() FAms 900,00() Actrs Laso 1() 000 ACRES IN DOUGLAS COUNTY ~ 7 000 ACRES IN SARPY COUNTY ’ LARGE AMOUN , O Suburban Property, IN ONE, TEN, TWENTY OR FORTY-ACRE LOTS, WITHIN ONE TO FIVE MILES FROM POSTOFFICE. $250,000 TO LOAN AT 8 Per Cent. NEW MAPS OF OMAHA, [PUBLISHED BY THIS AGENCY, 25c each; Mounted, $1. Houses Stores, Hotels, Farms, Lots, Lands, Offices, Rooms, etc., etc., TOZRENT OR LEASE. Taxes Paid, Rents Collected, Deeds, Mortgages, and all Kinds of Real Estate Documents Made Out at Short Notice. This agency does strictly a Brokerage business. Does not. speculate, and therefore any bargains on its books are in- sured to its patrons instead or being gobbled up by the agent. Notary Public Always in Office. chicken-coop building and smoking will BOW Fiooasd a6 USUAL, {Chicago Tribune. Senator Sessions, who is charged with bribing Assemblyman Bradley at Albany, is a swooth-faced, clerical looking man, with a white tufted beard and a soft hat. Mr, Sessoins,like many other Albany poli- ticians, has the reputation at the state capitol of holding a stiff hand at poker. At home he is said to be prominent in camp-meetings; but both these reports may do the semator injustice. He has been long in i long enough to bave been abused as ‘‘Fenton’s striker” by most of the newspapers which now Mxxc his denial hi bas been diversified by many rumors of interest as to himself and otbers,—{Spring- field Republican. &&rCALL AND GET CIRCULARS and FULL PARTICULARS at Real Esate Exchange, 16vu AND DOUGLAS 8TS.,