Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 21, 1881, Page 4

4 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1881. The Omaha Bee. Pablished every morning, except Sunday. only Monday morning daily. TERMS BY MAIL:— ar.,....810.00 | Three Months £3.00 Months. .. 5.00 | One “ . L0 THE WEEKLY BEE, published ev- ery Wednesday. TERMS POST PAID:— One Year......82.00 | Three Months. . 50 Bix Months. ... 1.00 | One Wiile, 0 CORRESPONDE i—All Communi. eations relating to News and Editorial mat- ters should be addressed to the Eptror or Tur Brr. BUSINESS LETTERS—AIll Business Tetters and Remittances should be ad- dressed to THe OMAHA PunLISHING CoM- PANY, OMAHA. Drafts, Checks and Post- office Orders to be made payable to the order of the Company. OMAHA PUBLISHING 00, Prop'rs E.ROSEWATER, Editor. John H. Pierce is in Charee of the Circu- ation of THE DAILY BEE Conguine will no longer be the stormy petrel of politics. _— 8r. Louts is shuddering over the prospects of a water famine. Ir any man talks about the hot weather, shoot him on the spot. Just now a sermon is like a liver pad. Tt helps to aid the digestion of a heated and weary paper. Ix London and Paris they have dis- continued street sprinkling. In Om- aha they havn't begun yet. Mrs. GARrFIELD wants to get out of the White House as soon as she can. Several parties would be willing to go into her piace. Tue president’s appetite 18 enor- mous; 80 much so that it don’t need . an official bulletin to tell us he is much better. TweNty ycars ago this day the first ‘battle of Bull run was fought. What marvellous changes this country has undergone in those twenty years, Tae Republican wants to kilow “what has become of Tue Bee's sting,” Don’t be too inquisitive, or your fate may be like that of the lit- tle boy who investigated too closely the *‘business end” of that vivacious insect, —— ‘W1scoNsIN's anti-treat law is a dead “lotter. An attompt will be madé to legislature. isconsin sampled {rom Nebraska, but in Nebraska a8} in ‘Wisconsin, sampling still continues, notwithstanding the anti-treat laws. Mz, SHERRILL has evidently never been where there was a great riot or he wouldn’t clamor for more troops. During the great riot at Nashville, im- mediately after Donaldson fell, a whole regiment of Texas rangers fail- ed to disperse the mob but the steam fire engines were turned loose, four or five stroams of water were thrown into the crowd and in less than five _ minutes the crowd had dispersed. “This shows that one steam fire engino .38 as good a8 two regiments in a riot. MR, James Reprati is a genial gentleman and a genuine sympathizer wiwith Ireland, but he sometimes gives too much rein to his fancy. His re- mark in a recent speech, that should he be arrested no English nobleman could cross the Mississippi without ; Tisk of being shot or held as a hostage for his relense, is a decided streteh of the imagination, While Americans would greatly regret to hear of Mr, Redpath's arrest, English noblemen would come and go as much as here- tofore without hindrance or molesta- tion. The sentiment of obedience to law is strong in the breast of every American and no one knows this bet- ter than James Redpath, — Parens in the Republican valley, where the crops are good this year, find fault with “the crop reports of Tug Bk, Tue Bes, in the compilation of its crop reports, used every care to secure the most re- liable statistics. Its correspondents were selected from the best inforined men of the various counties in the state. The figures as given by them were carefully examined and compared and the most favorable reports inva- riably selected. Later reports have fully verified the figures of Tue Bee. Taking as an average the whole state our wheat crop will not average over eight bushels to the acre. Of course in some sections of the state it will go fur above that figure, but the average will be about as above stated. “The hot weather is helping the corn out nicely and the prospects of an av- erage crop are good, The entire yield of wheat and corn will probably be larger than last year, owing to the in- creased acreage, but it is worse than folly to deceive ourselyes and others by the announcement of an enormous harvest. The Bux states facts as it finds thew, without gloss or varnish, DEFRAUDING THE PEOPLE. Four weeks ago proposals were in- vited by the city council of Omaha for the official advertising that is to be done during the year beginning the first of August. The council, in this as in all cases, reserved to itself the option of accepting or rejecting any or all proposals. Bids were received from the publishers of three papers, Tur Beg, the Republican and Telegram. They were referred to the committee on printing and that committee on Tuesday night reported unanimously in favor of awarding the contract to Tue Bee and the recommendation of the committee was adopted by the council. Thereupon the council is charged with defrauding the people, which means the tax payers, because they did not award the contract for advertising to the lowest bidder. Now the tax payers of Omaha expect the council to transact the public busi- ness of this city in the same manner that they would transact their own business. When a merchant pays money for advertising he usually se- lects the medium that has the widest circulation and the council has acted on the same principle. Had the council decided to put its advertisements in readerless papers or in a mush- room paper that affords no guarantee for its continuance, just because they offered to do the work cheap they would have defrauded the taxpayers. The main object of advertising by the city is to reach the largest number of people. Nearly all the advertising during the active season consists of proposals for various improvements, such as grading, building crosswalks and sidewalks, bridges, and proposals for various supplies purchased by the city. Some years ago, when the Republican was made the official paper because its bid was very low, the city had to print hand bills and have them distributed every time they had important proposals to advertise, if they wanted bids for grading or wauted to invite pro- posals from teamsters or laborers. Furthermore, very frequently the city + was compelled to advertise in all the other papers and pay full lo- cal rates. By advertising in T Ber they reach four times as many people as can be reached by any other daily in Omaha. And nobody knows this better than the disappointed young men who are crying fraud just now. They were in the employ of Tue Bee and they know that it has no rivals as an advertising medium in Omaha or Nebraska. . There was another reason why the council did not award the contract to the lowest bidder. The publishers of that mushroom concern had the au- dacity to furnish the counail with the name of a prominent merchant as their surBty and it “Perehant per- sonally served notice on the city clerk sewers, on printing that the use of his name was unauthorized and he would nnder no circumstances become the bonds- man of these parties. This made it a straw bid and the committee had to reject it even if they did not for busi- ness redsons find it to the advantage of the city to recommend a contract with Tue Bee There is nothing unus- ual in rejecting the lowest bid where a difference in quality and quantity exists, Two years ago the council advertised for proposals for fire department hose and bids were received from half a dozen parties, varying in price all the way from five to forty cents per foot. After testing different samples the council awarded the contract to the highest bidder, because it found it to be most economical as well as safer to uso the best hose rather than the cheapest. Again, a few months ago the council advertised for proposuls to light the city. A party from 8t. Louis put in a bid for lighting our streets with gasoline at $20 per lamp, and the gas com- pany's bid was $25 per lamp. There are two hundred lamps in the city, and this made a difference of over u thousand dollars per annum, but the council rejected the lowest nd very properly because the gas work were a permanent institution, and gas is bet- ter than gasoline. Buppose the city should advertise pro- posals for hay and half a dozen bids were received, the lowest bidder hav- ing a very iuferior article and the highest the very best. Tt would be economy to buy the best, although it was not the cheapest, and the rejec: tion of the lowest bid would justify nobody 1 charging the council with defrauding the people, As @ matter of fact the rates charged by Tue Ber are very reason- able, away below what the city of Lin- coln is paying their official paper, which has not one-sixth the circula- tion of Tur Ber. Besides all this, the principle was involved in the de- cision of the council whether every mushroom concern, and any paper rag that is circulated in the streots shall be placed on an equal footing with established newspapers that have been in existence for years, If sucha principle is adoptod it would be useless for a first-class newspaper to become a bidder. The city could hardly afford to advertise n a mush- room concern even if the advertising Was given away for things given away are for the most part worthless and and on the chairman of the committee the city, like any private individval, should invest its money where it will do the most good. We say this much not in apology for anything Tre Bee has done in bid- ding for the city printing, but in jus- tice to the council, which is assailed for refusing to accept a bid coming from parties who misreptesented their sureties and admit that they cannot say how long their paper will continue. —_— THE PACIFIC TELEGCRAPH. As the initial point of the Pacific telegraph and place of residence of the late Edward Creighton, one of its projectors and builders, Omaha natur- ally manifests a good deal of interest inthe reminiscences of that great en- terprise. In another column we re- produce an article headed “The Talk- ing Wire,” that recently appeared the San Francisco Ecam- iner, which is a specimen brick of fiction that has trom time to time been put in print concerning the early history of the overland telegraph. in With the exception of the facts that Edward Creighton was superintendent of the Pacific telegraph, and Gen. Connor was in command of troops stationed along the overland route to protect the wires, the whole story of our California cotemporary is the product of a lively imagination. In the first place we are told that Gen, Connor, the noted California Indian fighter, put Edward Creigh- ton in charge of a squad of cavalry and ordered him to protect and keep up the Pacific telegraph line betwecn Fort Laramie and South Pass. The fact is that Gen. Connor was placed under the direction of Mr. Creighton to protect the Overland Tele- graph and Mr. Creighton was at no time in charge of a squad of cavalry. In 1865, at the time this article represeuts the Pacific telegraph as raided by Indians, the editor of THE BEE was manager of the Pacific telegraph wires at Omaha un- der Mr. Creighton, superintendent, and Mr. W. B. Hibberd, assistant superintendent. He therefore talks by the card when he pronounces the whole story about Mr. Oreighton's exploits in thwarting the Indian raid- ers as unfounded. We are told, for instance, among other of Mr. Creiglton’s daring achievements, that he and iis squad travelled through the nlountains at night with the hoofs oft their - horses muffled with blanket pads; that the hammers with which they nailed insu- lators on the telegraph poles were thickly padded so as to muffle the sound of the knocking. Mr. Creigh- ton himself would start wut alone in the darkness and | mike & circuit of the Iudian camp reach the line heyond the break, attach his pocket .iustrument. and commence to talk to Omaha or San Francisco, send messages to oper- ators on the line and then return to camp in time to escape capture. Now Mr. Creighton was a telegraph line builder, but not a practical tele- graph operator, He never earried a pocket instrument because it was of no use to him, as he could send no message or do any talk- ing by sound over the wire. As su- perintendent of the Pacific telegraph, he employed repairers at different stations on the old overland stage route, whose business it was to keep the line in repair, and they were ac- companied by squads of soldicrs whenever they thought that going alone would be dangerous. It was m 1864 and not in '6H that the In- eians raided the Pacitic telegraph wires. But they never carried off any quantity of wire, except in one instance, and that was in their attack upon Julesherg, when over thirty miles of telegraph were destroyed and the wire carried off. In that attack and in every attempt to pull down the lines, they were doubtless led by renegade whites, The greatest trouble experienced on the Pacific telegraph was not from Indians but from Pil- grims, as the enugrarts bound for the Pacific coast were then known. It was the Pilgrims that chopped tele graph poles for kindling and fre- quently interrupted the lines by the use they, made of telegraph pole fuel. At one. time these inter- ruptions became so annoying that one Martin Hogan, who was by all odds the most daring of of Mr. Creighton's repairers placed placards on the poles warning these pilgrims against chopping them down, under penalty of death, and Hogan actually did capture and hang oune of these pilgrims for chopping down tele- graph poles. Hogan did perhaps, as much as any other person to make the Indisns steer clear of the telegraph lines. He was married to a Sioux squaw and his intercourse with the Indians enabled him to in- spire a good deal of dread as well as respect among the savages in connec- tion with the telegraph. We say this much simply to contradict the many lies that have been written about the Overland telegraph and its builders. If Mr, Oreighton was alive he would smile good-naturedly over the heroic part that he is made to play and the ramatic incidents in which he is made to figure by literary men of fertile iwagination. LITERARY NOTES Gems for the Fireside, compiled by Rev. O. H. Tiffany D. D., 8mo, 727 pp. Cloth, $4.75. Collections of carefully edited selec- tions from standard authors have be- | phatic order on their departure on come quite indispensible to every well regulated library. Life is too short and time too precious for men with ordinary leisure to search through numberless volumes for a favorite poem or literary selection. On this account a volume which brings within a small compass the most valuable excerpts of our literature and pre- sents them in clear type and elegant en- gravings is a treasure whichshould be possessed by every family. Of all the collections which have been printed of late years, *‘Gems for the Fireside” is on many accounts the most ecom- plete and best, Prose and poetry are both found within the pages and the selections are made with a masterly skill and effect from the storehouse of ancient and modern literature. The book will appeal to every emotion. Two hundred authors have con- tributed to its pages. Pathos, affec- tion, wit, humor, religion, are all duly regarded by the compiler, and the re- sult 18 a volume which stands un- equalled as the embodiment of the ripest thoughts and utterances of the best and wisest minds of all times and ages. The publishers have done their part equally as well as the editor. The illustrations are elegant and of the highest style of art, the pa- per heavy, the type cloar and distinct and the binding rich and durable. We have no hesitation in commending this excellent volume to our readers as & book well worth the money and which will afford an inexhaustible fund of instruction, entertainment and-amusement to the family circle. ““The Daughter of Henry Sage Rit- tenhouse” is the title of the new story in Scribner by the author of ‘‘An Earnest Trifler,” the first part of which, will appear in the Midsummer Holi- day (August) number - the remainder in the September. The scene is a New England water-place, and the heroine, Anne Rittenhouse, is twenty- two and a native of Philadelphia— “‘that city,” the author says, ‘‘whose capacity for producing unobjection- able children is unsurpassed.” Some |uj of the situations which mnaturally puzzle the heruine will pique the curiosity of the reader. Her eflorts to have a somewhat less dismal time, and to discover the social antecedents of her strange acquaintances —togeth- or with the struggle of Mrs. Ritten: house to restrict theirsociety to those fellow-sufferers of whose standing she felt sure—are piquant motives of a sea-side sketch, which give epportuni- ties for some keen characterization, In point of literary finish, the story is | Wl said to be a marked advancé on ‘‘An Earnest Trifler,’ A omelipe—— » AccorpiNg to Consul Van Buren, the h?lvy'l&illk of white cotton goods [for the eastern markets practised by English manufacturers is neither a fraud nor a mistake. The people of China and Japan use such goods as linings for winter garments. They claim that the sizing does not injure the goods, while it adds materially to their weight and warmth. 1In view of this, Mr. Vun Buren suggests that it might be well for our manufacturers to inquire into the matter, and adds; “Goods made especially for this market of highter weight, and prepared in the manner desired by the people, could be sold; and the question whether it should be done is import- ant enough to merit serious considera- tion.” He also thinks that in cheaper woolen goods, in groceries, provisions, leather, lamps and fittings, and some other articles, we should secure a much larger proportion of the trade. But he admits that in cotton yarn Americans cannot compete with Brit- ish producers. They ought, however, to be able to do so, as they have the raw material right at their doors, as good machinery as the world affords, and distance is in their favor. THM TALKING WIRE. How the Indians Regard the Won~ derful Telegraph. From the San Franeisco Examiner, “The telegraph line to the Pacific coast must be kept up at any cost.” Such was the imperative order ot General Pat Connor, the noted Cali- fornia Indian tivhter, to the veteran patrol upon the old California trail on the last year of the civil war, Men were scarce and the Indians were more numerous than ever before. Connor was organizing the largest military expedition ever sent iuto the hostile Indian country. He had de- ternned to open a road from Fort Laramie thmufih the Big Horn, Ton- gue river and upper Yellowstone country to Bannock and the Montana mining regions, aud to obtam a force large enouvh to insure success nearly every military fort or stockade oa the tolegraph line was deplete of fighting men, g; was the summer of 186D, and times were very exciting in the cast. Telegrams were eagerly sought for in California, but the difficulty in keeping open an_ uninterrupted electrie line through 500 miles of hos- tile Indian country was only realized by the brave but scattered military vatrol engaged in that duty. When- ever the red skins crossed the line they tore down the wire, burned dow the poles, and in many instances car- ried away the wire, and after coiling it up would throw it into the nearest creek or river, The 800 miles of line between Fort Laramie and South Pass were intrusted to the care of thirty youry aen of the Eleventh Ohio Cay- elry, under command of the late Ed- ward Creighton, of Omahia, the super- intendent of the overland telegraph line. It was to him aud his small band of cavalrymen that General Con- nor issued the above terse and em- their perilous three months’ trip. The small number of Creighton’s patrol rendered an open campaign against the Indian marrauders impossible. All itn to the line were done in the night, and all breaks on it were made in the day time The mode of destruction was as follows: A rty of young Cheyennes or ioux would gallop up to a telegraph line and throw a riata or rope over the wire, and then start off at full gallop, tearing down the wire, which was usually coiled up and car- ried away to be concealed. The mis- chievous redskins would then deplo, up and down the line, each buc squatting himself down at the base of a telegravh pole, where he kindled a fire of sage bnu‘: aftor lighting his _pipe would sit and wait patiently untilthe tall pole burn ed through and fell. The labor of cut- ting or digging up the poles was too much for the lazy savages; and as time was no object to them, they waited until the poles fell. The military pa- trol, safe within its impregnable cor- rall of vnfom loaded with telegraph poles, could see the work of destruc- tion ‘fiw;‘:\g on up and down the line but not move out.of camp until ni,ht concealed their movements. The Sioux and Cheyennes have al- ways been very superstitious about the ‘‘talking-wire,” as they call 1t, and for several years after the In- dian_war broke out refrained from meddling with the overland line. In order to impress the minds of these wild beings with the mysterious pow- er of the telegraph, a great council was called at Scott Bluffs, when the line was first built; two of the great chiefs were stationed at ts in the open plain, between the Chimney rock and Scott Bluffs, and each sent messages through telegraph operators, which were promptly delivered. Then the chiefs mounted their fastest horses and galloped to meet each other, and asked what the message was or the words he had spoken to the wire; the result astounded them; they could not explain it, nor has it ever been understood by them, and to this day a telegraph operator or man engaged in the repair or management of the ‘‘talkative-wire” is regarded as & “‘medicine man” and a person to be let alone. It was to this superstition that Creighton’s men owed their lives and exemption from attack. With the appr.ach of night tele- gr?h destroyers usually disappeared, and the repairers would start forward n their thrilling and exciting trips. 0 horses’ hoofs were muffled with blanket pads to prevent noise. No saddles were used, so as to render the horses lighter in case of = retreat or pursuit by the Indians. The instruc- tions were, in case of interruption the Indians, to scatter into the b and each to silently escape as best he could to the camp. One party would dig holes and insert the burning tele- graphi pole, after driving a large nail upon which to hang the wire. The hammers used were thickly padded so oa to muffle the sound of the knock- ing. ‘No talk was allowed, and onl; ispers when unavoidable. Creigh- ton's work was usuallv the most dan- gerous. His task wasto unreel a thin, thread-like wire covered with green silk, and stretch it from one end of the break to-the other, suspending the frail wire upon the top of sage brush or'weeds. this ahight, delicate ‘wire'the people of Culifornia received sometimes a whole day's news.. But woe to the wire if jack-rabbits were thick, ora bear or stray poney crossed it, as they often did. The frail thread would break, and the people of Cali- fornia got no more news for that day or night. Sometimes the Indians camped on the line. 1In that event Superinten- dent Creighton would start out alone m the darkess, make a circuit of the TIndian camp, reach the line beyond the break and attach his pocket in- strument, and commence to talk to Omaha or San Francisco, send mes- sages to operators on the line, and then return to camp 1n time to escape capture. The Indians never move about at night, hence there was little danger of meeting them in the dark- ness. When moving from place to place the ten wagons loaded with tele- graph poles proceeded in two lines the men in the center. When the In- dians appeared a corrall was formed instantly, stock in the center and men at the breastworks formed by the tel- egraph poles. But while this little patrol was pursuing its daringand sol- itary work, lively times were being enacted not far from them, and many brave men were dying by bullet, ar- row, tomahawk and Indian torture, STATE JOTTINGS. Arapahoe wants a grain buyer, ‘Wymore is to have a public hall, Falls City wants a street car line, o Rain has spoiled much hay near Schuy. er. Work has commenced on Tremont's creamery, The second kiln of crockery burned at Alma was & success, An attempt was made last week to burn Bartel's Hall, at Eremont, A.J. Van Horn, of Riverton, received a pension of 81,800 last week, The track on the B, & M, is laid to the west end of Red Willow county, Seventy-seven acres of land were recent- ly sold at Blue Springs for $10,000. A post of the G. A, R. was organized Wednesday evening in Republican City. The 30 yeild of Red Willow county is estimated at from 20 to 35 bushels per acre, Dodge county has decided to hold the 1t is said crops look better in the Re- publican valley than in any other part of the state, One hundred wagon loads of buffalo bones were purchased by Indianola parties last week, Four buildings were struck by lightning in Blair in one night. None very badly dumaged. The contract for building a wagon | bridge across the river at Cambridge was let last week, A large number of new bridges will be built the present summer in different parts of Cass county. 1t is the opinion of farmers near Oxford that this year's wheat crop will surpass any previous one. recently kicked by a horse, which broke his lower jaw bone. A large number of sheep ranches have been located on Lodge Pole creek, Cheyenne county, this season. The lone tree, half way between Hebron and Hubbell, was demol by lightning and wind last Sunday; The lone tree could be seen for a distance of ten totwen- or grease wood, and | dati ty-five miles from any direction, and was well kniown by almost every person in the county, During the Iate storm the iron bridge across the Sandy at Alexandria was wash- ed from its foundation, Considerable damage was done by the Sunday storm between Clay Center and Harvard-—chiefly to crops. Twenty members of the B. and M. sec- tion xang near Blue Springs were recently poisoned by eating pressed beef. Th« Red Clond Argus states that, as a rule, wheat in Webster county will yield from ten to twenty bushels per acre. A. A. Kearney, of Albion, was bound m suspicion of incendiarism. e ing impression is that he is not During & storm in Polk county a cyclone struck the honse of J . Kavenaugh and carried it seventeen feet from its foun- jon, Franklin is having a boom in buildings, more new buildings being put up and im- provements made than in any valley town iis season, The Hamilton county normal institute for 1881 will be held at~ Aurora; commenc- ing on Monday, Aug. 22, and continuing two weeks, A mg Bohemian in the employ of John Andreas, two miles west of Beatrice was drowned in the Blue Wednesday morning. A new hotel, a new hardware store, a new drug store, a new church, and four dwellings will be among improvements in Herman this year, The Franklin mills proprietors are put- tng in another run of burrs. This will e the fonrth run and still the mill is running night and day. A gang of graders are at Weeping Water ready to commence work on the Missouri Pacific, and the line has been located south through Dun' ar, Otoe county, Jackson Fritz, a farmer living about six miles east of Hebron, is now making ex- cellent cheese, in considerable quantiti-s, and intends to soon increase his facilities. The wheat crop twenty miles north of | Lo blican City will be an immense one and farmers in that locality are in good spirits. Some of the crop has been cut and threshed. A district Normal Institute will be held at Alma, for Franklin, Furnas, Go per, Hitohoock, Phelps, Red Willow and Har. lan counties, commencing August 8th, and continuing three weeks. Two car loads of lumber is on the und for the building of the academy at Franklin, Work on the building will be ushed rapidly, as school will commence n the edifice on October 1. A child, four years old, by the name of Bredenburg, living about seven or eight miles northvest of Wahoo, was struek, by lightning and_instantly killed. The bal- ance of the family were stunned and fell to the floor. Mrs. Frank Taylor, living seven miles south of Tecumseh, was: biteen on her arm and hand by a rattlesnake, near her house on Tuesday evening. She was_brought at once to this city and Dr. Fairall sum- moned. He gava the usual remedies and she has now nearly recovered. —[Tecumseh ieftain, POLITICAL POINTS. Haunibal Hamlim has not yet sad ‘whether he will accept the Spanish Mis- sion, “Hon. Samuel C. Fessenden, the newly- pointed consul to St. John, is a brother :?t'oe Iate Senator William Pitt Fessen- den. John D. Bookwalter, who is the candi- date of the young democrats for governor, was formerly a republican. He joined the liberals in 1872 If President Garfield recovers the Han- | cock and English and Garfield and Arthur battalions of Newbn‘rj'pun, Mass,, will unite a torchlight parade. Representative Chalmers, of Mississippi, whie blishod a card against Senator T.tihar, is, it is said, smbitious to ocoupy that gentleman’s place in the senate. Senator Ransom of North Carolina says the only election to be held in North Caro- lina this year is one in August. Politics do not enter it, but only the question of temperance prohibition. The greenbackers of Wisconsin have nominated E. P. Allis, of Milwaukee, for overnor; Daniel Giddlings, of Fond du iace. for licutenant governor, and Wilson H. Hopkins, of Chippewa Falls, for secre- tary of state. Politics begin to bubble in the states. The Pennsylvania democrats have held their state convention, the prohibitionists meet at Altoon . the 28th, the republicans early in September, and the democrats h.ve yet to decide the time for their gathering. Don Cameron tells the Virginia read- justers that it will be impossible to run Riddleberger again as sergeant-at-arms next winter, and says that the presenti a time to heal and not to increase political dissension. Don has been watching Al- bany and studying the decline and fall of a boss to some purpose. A somewhat erratic correspondent of a New Hampshire paper at the state capital says that the pre-ent is the first legisla- ture he ever saw in which there are abso- lutely no party lines. “Itis very much like the Massachusetts assembly,” he says “in which two-thirds of the republicans are democrats, and all the democrats are two-thirds republican,” Mark §, Brewer, of Pontiac, Mich., who has been appointed United States consul- general at Berlin in pluce of Hermann reismann, is a native of Michigan, hay- ing been born in Addison, Oakland county, in 1837. He workedon a farm until he waus nineteen; studied law and was adwmit- ted to the bar; and was elected state sena- tor and to the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth congresses, where he formed the acquain- tance of General Garfield. Senator Pendleton is said to be disgusted with the conduct of the Ohio democrats in nominating & pocketbook for governor. He was serenaded in Columbus on the evening of the day the convention met there, but refrained in his speech from making any allusion to the convention's candidate other than 'hat a ticket had been nominated which would insure work for the party., This is to his credit. The numy fair on the 2d, 3d and 4th of Octo- | B r. A liitle hoy, liv ng near Red Cloud, was | th nomination seems to have been sold out to the highest bidder, and heis likely to dis- cover on the day after election that he has paid a high price for an entirely worthiess article.—{N. Y. Tribune, L{!G AL NOTICE. In the istrict court, Douglas County. To Sa nuel C. Davis, Caroline Davis, Elizabeth . Towlinson and the' heirs or devives of Henry T’ Tomlinson, deceascd whose real names are un- known, non-resident defendants You are hereby notified that Jobn T, Davis, plaintiff and prosent owner of the land hereinaft: er deseribod, did on the 17th day of June, A. D 1881 file his petition in the district court in and for Douglas county. Neb. sgainst you as defen- dants setting forth that on the 12th day of Janu- ary A D. 1560, the said Henry T. Tomlinson aud Elizabeth 1., his wife, executed and deliver- od to the sai’ Samuel C. Davis & deed of lands situated in said county in which a portion of the lands intended to be conveyed was by @ clerical error erroneously described as the north § instead of the west § of the southiwest | of sec. township No. 14 north of rauge No 11 eas cording to the true intent of the parties th which deed is duly recorded in the office of the clerk of the county of Douglas iu book M of deeds at page 152 e object and prayer of said petition fs that said error bs corrected and that said deed be con- strued as conveying the west § of the southwest uarter of said sectlon No. one, and that the title thereto be adjudged ta be in said plaintiff or in ose lawfully cladming under him the sawe as if said e not been made and that you and cach a be forever excluded from any inter- est in said land on account of said crror and for such other to further relief as may be just and right in the premises. And your are and cach of yau is hereby notified to appear and answer said tition on’ or before the st day of August, A ., 1881, JOHN T. DAVIS, Dated June 2. 1881, Plaintlar. Wi, K. Miuis his Attorney: evsat-t 0. 1, in CHEAP LAND FOR SALE. 1,000,000 Acres ~~O0F THE— FINEST LAND —] N EASTERN NEBRASKA. SeLECTED IN AN EARLY DAy—NoT Rant Roap LAND, BuT LAND OWNED BY NON- RESIDENTS WHC ARE TIRED PAYING TAXES. AND ARE OFFERING THEIR LANDS AT THB Low PRICE OF $6, $8, AND $10 PER AORE, ON LONG TIME AND EASY TERMS. WE ALSO OFFER FOR SALE IMPROVED FARMS —I N Douglas, Sarpy and ylauhingtun COUNTIES. B ALSO, AN IMMENSE LIST OF OmahaCityReal Estate Including Tlegant Residencos, Business and Residence Lots, Cheap Houses and ta, and a large number of Lots in most of the Additions of Omaha, Also, Small T'racts of 5, 10 and 20 acrces in and near the city. We have good oppor- tunities for making Loans, and in all cases parsonally examine titles and take every precaution to insure safety of money so invested, Be ow we offer a small list of SrroiaL BARGAINS, BOGGS & HILL, Real Estate Brokers, 1408 North Side of Farnham Street, Opp. Grand Central Hotel, OMAHA, NEB. A beautiful residence lot on California between 22nd and FOR SALE 28d stroets, $1000, BOGGS & HILL. Very nige house aud lot FOR SALE 3w i wabkt, St with barn, coal house, well cistern, shade and Inult tross, everything complete. A dusiruble plece of property, figures low PP UGS & HILL. Fun SM.E Splendid_busines lots 8. E. corner of 16th and Caplta Avenue. BOGGS & HILL. FOR SALE izt BOGGS & HILL, Large house on Davenport street between 11th and 12th goop location Tor sell low BOGGS & HILL. FOR SALE Tvgnerhouses on full lot on v in, Kountze & Tuth's addi- on. property will be sold very cheap, BOG TOR SALE—A top pheaton. Enquire of Jas, F Stephonson. + © ndulee of Ju FOR SALE Sormeret o choloe low in 3 Shinn's Addition, request to, at once submit best cosh offer. - BOGGS & HILL. FOR SALE A.s aesirable res dence proparty, 0GUS & HILL, RESIDENCE—Not in the market Ower will sell for 86,500, BOGGS & HILL, House and lot comer Chicago FOR 3ALE boarding house. Owner wil 8 & HILL. an ‘MWY. A FINE . | fan FOR SALE &t @ » BOGGS & HILL A very fine residence lot, to bome party desiring to bulid 0GGS & HILL. FOR SALE a fine house, $2.300, FOR SALE Abou 00 iotsin Kountse & Ruth's addition, just south of St. Mary's avenue, #50 to §500. These lote are near business, surrounded by fine improve ments and are 40 per cent cheaper than any othe Iots in the market. Save money by buyiui thes lois. BOGGS & HILL. FOR SALE ioiabicyen fne rest 8 blocks 8. E. of depot, all'covered with fine larg trees, Price extremely low. $600 FOR SALE i, o7, oo v FOR SALE FOR SALE Some very cheap lots Lake's addition, BOGGS & HILL. corner lot, corner and Jefferson Sts, , BOGGS & HILL, 98 lots on 26th, 27th, 25th, 29th and 80th Ste., between Farnham, Douglas, and the proposed extension of Dodge street. Prices range from §200 to $400, We haxe concluded to give men of wmall mean, one more chance to securc & home and will build housas on these lots on smail poynients, and. will sell lots on monthly payments, FOR SALE : 160 acres, about 30 valley, with running water; bala prririe, only 3 miles tiom railacad, FOR SALE ot it tye tivated, Living Spring of water, some nice va lys. The land is all firet-class rich prairie. Prio ¥10 per acre. BOGGS & HILL, FOR SALE 72cresn onebody, 7 miles s west of Fremont, is all leve) ud, paoducing: keavy growth ef grass, in high valley, rich soil and” § mivs from railroad an side track, in good settiement and no_better lan can be found. BOGGS & HILL, FOR SALE Aty tmprosed tamm of \ 240 acres, 8 wmiles from city. Fine improvements on this' land, owner not & practieal farmer, determined to sell, A good opening for some man of means, FOR SALE 2,000 acres of land near Mil- land Station, 3,600 near Elk- horn, 85 0 §10; 4,000 acres in north part of coun- ty, 810, 3,000 acres 2to 8 miles from Flor- ence, 85 to §10; 5,000 acres west of the Flkhorn, 4 t0 §10; 10,000 acres scattered turough the coun ty, ¥ to $10. ‘The above lands lie near and adjoin nearly wvery farm in the county, and can mostly be sold on sinall cash payment, with the in 128 4and b vear's time, BOGGS & HILL. Several hne residences prop FOR SALE s uisiessgron and not known in the market as Felug for sale, Locations will only be made known *» purchasers “meaning busines. BUGGH & HILL, We have for IMPROVED FARMS »ii."i improve farms around Omaha, aad in all parts of Douglas, Sarpy and Washington countics, Also in'lowa.” Fer description and prices call on BOGGS & HILL. Business Lots for Sale on Farnam and Doug: lus stroets, from §6,000 to 5,000. Chea Doug} per acie, HILL. 400 acres i one tract twely BOGGS us. Io BOUGS & HILL, EFOR SALE ol it i advanced of §2,000 each. BOGGS & HILL }{I»\uhxufi 'f"‘ west of .0'“ FOR SALE htmieze FOR SALE liic ity me Nundlélnbzlm woved nns, only 7 mi.es trom i 'BOGGS & HILL