Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 25, 1881, Page 4

} .THE DAILY BEE. 4 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, JULY 25, 1881. E. RQSEWATER, EDITOR: The reaction in the condition of President Garfield, which eavsed so much alarm and anxiety Saturday, ‘has awakened the country to a real- ization of the fact that the president i by no means out of danger. He has safely passed another crisis. The wurgical operation that was performed by Dr. Agnew, of Philadelphia, Sat- wurday night, to prevent blood poison- ing, has produced the desired effect and the symptoms at last accounts— are more hopaful. e - g -~ Henearrer a few senators may die, but none will ever resign. Now that Conkling has capitulated, it will e in order for Mr. Brooks to vetire and make place for the gifted Fred, Nye. Tr.any business man thinks the ad- wertising rates of Tue Ber are ex- orbitant let him read the exhibit we wnake about comparative circulations ©f Omaha dailies, OxE of the most delightful develop- wents of politics is the disposition of the creature to get above the creator. ~Denver Republican. And Nebraska contains more of these ingrates than any other state in the Union. Uncre SAM is carrying agood many murgoons and doctors on his pay roll that do not earn their salt. The Whnited States army of 25,000 men has a medical stafi of some 200. The navy, with 8,000 men, has a medical staff of about 1,000. The marinc hospital service, which has about 26,- 000 patients annually, has but thirty- five medical officers and the same number of active assistant surgeons. Ir is now definitely settled that the St. Louis bridge will, on the 1st day ©f August, pass under the control of the syndicate organized by Jay Gould. “The syndicate has guaranteed weven per cent interest on the bonds, five per cent on the first preferred stock, payable in one year, and three per THE CAMPAIGN IN I0WA. The people of Towa will hold their state election on the fourteenth of October. With a republican majority varying from fifty to eighty thousand, the election of the candidates nomin- ated by the republican state conven- tion, is a foregone conclusion. The canvas for these candidates is now a mere matter of form. The men nominated at Des Moines are, for the most part, well known for high charae- ter, ability and integrity. No serious charge has been or can be made against any of them by their political oppo- nents, and therefore their nomination will be ratified with the usual ma- jority. The only important and vital issue before the people of Towa in the present campaign, is the choice of representatives in the legislature. At no time in the history of the state of Towa have the people been more in need of honest, fearless and unpurchasable law-makers, The coming legislature will determine who is to represent the Hawkeye state in the national senate. In making their choice the representatives should not merely be governed by personal or localpreferences. The United Statessen- ators do not representa particular town or county in the national legislature. They make laws not only for their own state but for the whole nation and in the irrepressible conflict be- tween giant corporations and the pro- ducers of the country it is of the ut- most importance that only tried and true friends of the producers should be chosen to fill such positions. The body of the people of Towa are farm- ers. It is their vital interest that their products shall be transported to the markets on tho seaboard at reas- onable rates. It is their interest that the public carriers that have been chartered by their own legislatures and by congress shall transact their business impartially, and it behooves them to see to 1t that no man goes to the next legislature who is mnot in active sympathy with them in the effort to curb the power and greed of monopolies. The dan- ger is that local politicians, monopoly henchmén and cappers will manipu- late the primary elections and nomi- nating conventions and the farmers who vote the republican ticket will bo asked to support the nominations made fraudulently, simply because they are made. The party lash will be cracked over their heads and they will <cent on the second preferred stock, payable in three years. The first mortgage bonds of the bridge amount to $5,000,000, the first preferrod stock.to $2,406,000, and the second preferred stock to $3,000,000. The stock of the Tunnel <company amounts to $1,250,000. With such a load to carry the new managers of the bridge are not likely = give the people of St. Louis reduced bridge toll Tuey do nothing by halves out in ‘Colorado, not even in the matter of libel suits. Ex-Governor John Evans of Colorado, formerly president of the Denver Facific and now president of a projected railroad known as the Den- ver & New Orleans railroad, has in- wvoked the courts of Colorado to com- pel the Denver T'ribune to pay him the trifling sum of four hundred thousand dollars for damages he claims to have sustained by reason of the publication of an alleged libel. Four separate libel suits, each for $100,000, have been filed, and others may yet follow. One of the articles that has caused such tremendous damage to reputa- tion and character as cited in the plaintifi’s petition, represents the ex- governor as playing a confidence game on the people of Denver in con- mection with the road he controlled, that proved disastrous to Denver tax- be told, if they vote for any other man but the regular nominee of a packed copvention, that parsy in- terests will be imperilled. There is no danger that the Iowa legislature will be democratic, and there is no danger that honest repub- licans, elected upon independent tickets, will vote with the democrats. Here in our own state of Nebraska the people have long since refused to obey the mandates of monopoly man- agers when ever they procure nomi- nations of their henchmen by bribery or packed conventionsy Qur republican farmers have in the 'last two senaturial contests risen in revolt againat the misrule of corporation managers and in almost every instance men who were known to be monopoly cappers were deteated and independent republicans who wore n active sympathy with the pro- ducers have been elected in their place. Our last legislature made up of one hundred and sixteen members was overwhelmingly republican, but the independent anti-monopoly ele- abuses incidental to the exercise of almost limitless powers by great cor- porations, is one of supreme gravity. It must be solved by congress in the exercise of its constitutional power to regulate tho commerce be- tween the states and the people of of the states must enact uniform laws regulating public carriers in their local traffic within the states. Tn ex- ercising these powers no war need be waged against capital, but the rights of their patrons to fair treatment and reasonable tolls must be protected at all hazards, The people of Towa will have an opportunity to protect them- selves and incidentally to protect the people of the whole country, by elect- ing a made up of independent and honest men who can neither be bought with money, office or railway passes, men whose sole object will be to faithfully represent the material interests of Towa and conscienciously discharge the trust reposed in them by their constituents. legislature CHEAP PASSENGER FARES. The sharp competition in passenger transportation between the great castern trunk lines has brought down passenger fares and this so-called rail- road war has resulted in a large and profitable increase of business. While there must be a limit to the volume of travel it has time and again been dem- onstrated that a cut in rates is always followed by an increase of travel that kept the measure of ultimate profit up to the average standard, In other words, 1n this, as in all commercial transactions, the amount of business is governed largely by the inducements offered. The reduction of rates of vostage and reduction of telegraph tolls are ex- amples in point which railroad mana- gers should profit by. We never have been able to under- stand why railroad companies should charge so much more for carrying a man from Omaha to Chicago or San Francisco than they charge for ship- ping a steer or a barrel of flour over the same distance. Railway mana- gers will point to the fact that passen- gers are transported at greater speed, in more costly cars, But cattle and merchandise have to be loaded and unloaded, while passedgers put the railroads to no expense for handling and transfer. An- other reason for high passenger rates is said to be the limited volume of travel as compared with live stock and merchandise, This disproportion is, however, mainly due to the high passenger rates, Let the railway managers reduce their passenger tolls and passenger travel will multiply. A railroad company would make as much money in carrying ten ‘men a given distance for 8100 as it would 1n carrying five men the same distance for, say $90. The reduction in the rate per capita, and the required in- crease of rolling steck and motive power, would be more than overbal- anced by the constautly enlarging number of passengers; and thus pas- senger tariffs would be regulated, not by arbitrary figures based upon lim- ited business, but by a caloulation looking to the number of persons to bo transported, as freight tariffs take into account the quantity of stock and grain likely to be shipped. It can never be practicable, we know, to ship passengers at so much per hundred pounds, as cattle and hogs are shipped, ana we do not con- ment was in absolute control and all the machinations of the monopolies were unavailing to prevent the elec- tion of General Van Wyck—a pronounced anti-monopolist —to the United States senate. It is to payers. This charge, according to the | be hoped Towa republicans will not plaintiff, was caused to be published falter in their duty. We know that at the instance of the Danver & Rio | the editors of leading papers have been Grande railway company, or some |subsidized, that many of the rural pas agent or ofticer thereof, or some per- #on or persons interested in said com- pany, and in preventing the, con- pers have been muzzled and nearly all the working politicians are more or less in collusion with the ‘railroads. struction of a rival railway of |This should not discourage the great the said Rio Grande railroad. The proprietors of the Tribune are | discard the asked to come down for daring to pro- pound the following connundrum: There are two questions which John Evaus will not answer and an- swer truthfully, The first “is: Have you not ehanged original plans of the Denver & New Orleans in a most radical de- gree and with a pu; ! The second us: Didnot this change come after the consultation with Jay Gould and Union Pacific authoritios, and an agreement whereby you were to ro- ©eive a certain amount of money? These impertinent 180 said to have been inspired by the Denver & Rio Grande railway com- pany, '}nu(or the T'ribune must come down with $100,000 «tq make good {and protect their questions are|demanded in the body of the republicans, Let them counsels of all parties who are mot heartily in accord with them in their offort to elect an honest legislature and success is certain, Quite apart from the olection of the United States senator questions must come up before the next legislaturo that will test the fidelity of members to the interests of the producers. Towa has some laws on her statute books to restrain railways from oppressing their patrons, but more rigid laws are very near future. The threat that capi- talista will not build railroads where legislatures limut their charges patrons against the damages sustained by the de- axtortion and discrimination is ab. fumed ex-governor, surd. Capitalists will build railroads If the experience of Tur Bee in |where they can make it profitable. the matter of libel suits can be ocon- They are building railroads in Wis- aidered a criterion, a fair estimate of | consin and Ilinois, where the laws , the damages which any Colorado jury | are more rigid than in Iowa and they ‘will award to the complainant will be | will continue to build them until the iwenty-five cents for each $100.000 | entire field is occupied, The relations z-‘. ~ As & precedent wecan cite | of the railways to the people will have the verdiot in the oelebrated libel | to be defined by law and the sooner suit of ex-Consul General to Shang- theyaro defined the better it will be hai, John O. Myers, against ‘T |forall, Omana Bex for $20,000. The plain- tiff after three years of litivation se- cured a verdict of five cents, which The consolidation of the great lines undor. one management, the pooling of their earnings, and the watering of ‘Was recognized bydlpsnhulmk,muuingnr‘wulhrmnu amost liberal allowance for the plain- it dsnioid sk Wl v over the Union. The problem of protecting the people against the tend for anything so absurd as that; but surely if 200 pounds of beef or pork can be carried from the Missis- sippi to the seabord for 50 cents, a man might be hauled®over the same dustance for considerably less than fifty tivaes as much, even under pres- ent circumstances. We have in mind the great t'unk lines, mainly, where through travel is the rule. On short- er lines, and in local business, there are certain modifying circumstances, both as to freight and passengers, that make the problem more confus- ing. But even in these cases there is room for improvement, There is no reason, for instance, why a through ticket between terminal points sho uld cost less, as it often does, than a tick] et to some intermediate station, when the cast of delivering the passenger at said atation cannot be said to equal that of conveying him on to the end of the route. This and similar forms of discrimination are manifest y un- their passengers. It is unjust and un- reasonable to compel the people who are jobliged to patronize these roads to make good the expense of carrying tnese dead-heads, who for the most part dre political bummers and barna- cles. Tue Kansas City Mail quotes Shakespeare for the benefit of the fal- ler. primate, as follows: Lord Cardinal Conkling: “This is the state of man. To-day he puts forth the tender leaves of hope; to- morrow blossoms and bears his blush- ing honors thick upon him. The third day comes a frost—a killing frost—and when he thinks, good easy man, his greatness is a ripening, nips his root, and then he fallsas Tdo. I have ventured like little wanton boys that swim on olad- ders, this many summers in a sea of glory At length my high-blown pride broke under me, and now has left me to the mercy of a rude stream that must forever hide me. O, Cor- nell! if I had served my country with half the zeal I've served my friends it would not have left me thus out of power and naked to mine enemies.” Commiss1oNER Raum is said to be incensed, and shocked at the turn affairs have taken in the districts wh re the moonshiners operate. He had been led to believe that these gin-mill outlaws had repented and quit their bloody business. He now discovers that he was mistaken. The moonshiners are as active as cver wherever it is safe for them to bushwhack revenue officials, Commissioner Raum has his dander up and has organized a mounted patrol of eight able-bodied and fearless men in buckram to watch, pursue and capture the moonshiners that are operating in the Georgia district. The honor- able commissioner might as we'l have armed a squad of women with broomsticks as to organizo a pa- trol of eight to pursue ;and capture a band of gin-mill outla JonN W. BooKWALTER, the Demo- crrtic candidate for Governor of Ohio. owns 17,000 acres of choice lands in this state. These lands are located in Pawnee county, and their value is $150,000. If Mr. Brookwalter would come to Nebraska to settle down on Governor with a fair prospect of suc- oeas, providing he returns to the re- publican fold, from which he strayed after strange Gods. There is no show for him in Ohio this fall, and in all probability there never will be. AN EYE - OPENER That Hxposes a Disreputable Confldence Game ‘Which Has Been Played Upon Credulous Business Men For Many Years. On Tuesday last the contract for city advertising was awarded to THE Bek by the city council without a dis- senting voice, upon the unanimous recommendation of the committee on printing. 'This action is denounced by The Omaha Republican as a frand, and the editor of The Herald has per- sonally condemned the city council for awarding the contract to Tue Bek. This warfare upon our councilmen is not made because these papers re- gard their action as unreasonable or unlawful, but in order to create the impression among the business men and taxpayers of Omaha, that Tue Bee has been subsidized at the public expense. The award having been made purely on business principles, we assert,and will presently show that although the rice paid Tue BEk is from fifty to a Imudrcd per cent above the other bidders, it is by far the cheapest medium of advertising, and the only medium through which the popu- lation of Omaha can be reached. In other words] Tue Bee, when circulation is made the basis, is by far the lowest bidder. Incidentally we also propose to ex- pose the ’;{ltemnfio impositions practiced by The Republican and Her- ald upon their advertising patrons abroad where their relative value as advertising mediums is unknown, A COSTLY EXPERIMENT, Two_years ago the city council re- quested each bidderfor city advertis- just and without any plausible excuse and it is such things as these that help to make railroads unpopular and to stir up public feeling in favor of unfriendly legislation, The railroads would find it to their own interest in every sense, 1t seems to us, to manage their business with a view to encouraging travel by less- ening its cost. It is undeniable that, under our regular passenger rates, a journey to any extent is a luxury which the mass of people can not af- ford, and in which they indulge only from necessity, or by a pro- cess of ‘‘saving and scrimping.” People cannot always make use of ex- cursion tickets, and four cents a mile in Nebraska is literally an embargo on travel for everybody who is not absolutely obliged to travel. The railroads on this side of the Missouri should reduce their passen- ger rates and get rid of the grand ar- my of dead-heads who at present con- stitute from tairty to forty per cent of ing to furnish a sworn statement of the city circulation. TuE Bee was the only paper that complied with this request, the other bidders refusing to furnish any information about their circulation, The council, nevertheless, awarded the contract to The Republican becauso it was the lowest bidder, but this cheap advertis- ing medium proved to be the most costly in the end. Proposals publish- ed in that sheet failed in most cases to reach the oKs of bidders, and the city was compelled to print and circulate hand bills containing such proposals. THE CITY CIRCULATION, For the benefit of the taxpayers of Omaha, we invite attention to the following statement: Edwin Davis being duly swom, depases and says that he is manager of the city circulation of THE Daiy Bek, that the average daily circulation in the city of Omaha, for the month ending June 30th delivered by carrier and exclusive of news dealers and street sales was 2012, That the average daily circulation, during the three weeks ending Saturday July 21st delivered by carrier and exclusive of news dealers and street sales was 2020, Epwix Davis. Signed and sworn to before me this 231 day of July, 1881, at Owaha, Neb., John Rosicky, [sEaL) Notary Public, his big farm he may some day run for | 3; This only covers papers delivered by carriers within the city limits, but as will be shown in another sworn statement below, Tae Bee circulates an aggregate of 503 dailies through newsboysand dealers, making the total arrculation in the city 2.5]23 vers. The aggregate city circula- !‘i.(lln of The H‘e%aldgnnd Republican as delivered by carriers is as follows: Republican 440, Herald 623 or both combined 1,063, which is about one- half of the daily Bee's delivered in the city by carrier. Tue Ber employs 14 carriers in its city delivery. The Herald and Republican employ five carriers each, or ten carriers for the two. The averace number of pa- rs delivered by each carrier of Tue ®is 140, The average number de- ivered by each carrier of The Herald 104, and of The Republican, 88, Tt is self-evident from this exhibit that Tue Beeis the only paper in which advertisers can reach the population of Omaha, and therefore its bid even at 200 per cent. above any competitor would be much the lowest. FICTITIOUS CIRCULATION, Tt is the custom of newspapers to furnish the various newspaper direc- tories and advertising agents with statements of circulation. These state- ments are either certified under oath or made upon honor., While Tug Bee always has cheerfully turnished these parties sworn statements of its circulation and our subscription books are always open for inspection, The Herald and The Republican have never yet made a sworn statement and the directories and agencies have taken their figures upon honor. The figures they have furnished publishers of directories, advertising agencies and business men range all the way from 2,000 to 4,600 daily, aad 3,000 to 6,000 weeklies. Cook’s Chicago directory, which claims to give exact figures for each paper, quotes the Omaha Republican daily, 3,100; weekly, 6,000. The Omaha Herald daily, 3,000; weekly, 3,260, Wolfe's city directory of Omaha for 1880 quotes the Omaha Republican, over the signature of C. E. Yost, man- ager, dailies, 4,620; weeklies, 6,400. As a matter of fact, for which we have tho very best proof, the aggre- gate circulation of t{;css papers is as follows: Omaha Republican daily, 1,720; Omaha Republican weekly, 2,160. Omaha Herald daily, 1835; Omaha Herald weekly, 960. The following is an exhibit of the aggregate circulation of Tue BEk: A. R. Souer being duly sworn deposes and says he is secretary of the Omaha Pub- lishing Company, proprietors of THE Bk, That the average (‘nily circulation of THE Bk for the month ending June 30 was 4,584, of which 2,523 are in the city of Omaha, delivered to city subscribers, “sold to news dealers and news boys. That the average weekly circulation urT"nmel.\- BeE for six months ending June 30th was 843, A. R. SouER. Signed and sworn to before me this 23d day of July, 1881, at Omaha, Neb, Jouy RosIcky, Notary Public. J. W. Morrison being duly ‘sworn de- poses and says that he 1s the foreman of the press room of THE OmAaHA Bek and keeps a record of the class and number of newspapers printed under his supervision, and upon careful comparison of records finds that the above statement is correct a8 regards to the daily and weekly Bee. J. W. MORRISON. Sigued and sworn to before me this day of July, 1881, at Omaha, Neb, Jonx RosIcKY, Notary Public. Newspaper directories are published by advertising agents, and nearly all these agents quote certan papers way ur and others way down as a matter of self-interest. Papers that live on a fictitious circulation allow them special commissions, which no publisher of an extensive circulation will consent to THE CONFIDENCE GAME. The confidence game played upon credulous business men here and else- where by The Herald and Republican would, if pursued in any other calling, be refnrde as the most disreputable swindling. Hereare parties obtaining money from day to day under false retenses and downright falsification. For a paper. that has only 960 weekly subscribers to set up a claim to 3,260 is no better than selling oroide watches for solid gold, mixing sand with sugar or selling 30 pounds of flour for 100. 1t is fully as cheeky and as criminal in the publishers of The Republican to set up a fraudulent claim of 6,400 for their weekly at a time when they did not have over 1,800. IMPUDENT IMPOSTORS. The worst im posture has been prac- tised in this city upon churches, be i- evolent societies, workingmnen's or- ganizations and other parties that have paid for circulating hand-bills through The Herald and Republican in the papers delivered by carriers. Pacties applying for this privilege are told that it will take from 1500 to 2000 hand-bills to supply the city subscribers of these dailies, and the have paid for printing 2000 hand- bills when less than one-third were actually printed and circulated. This is not much better than robbing a contribution-box or vicking a blind man's pocket. We have exposed other frauds in this community and have been tempted to show up this imposture, but we have thought best not to engage in such warfare unless we were forced into it. A PROPOSITION, We expect of course that our con- temporaries will question the veracity of this statement. If so we make them this proposition: We will do the official advertising for the city of Omaha free of charge for the next fiscal year, if the proj prietors of The Herald and Repubh- can will publish a statement sworn to by their pressmen and business man- agers covering the circulation of the daily and weekly editions of their pa- pers for the month of June, 1881, or the preceding six months—with a de- dailies delivered by carrier, the aggre- gate number of dailies circulated to subscribers and the aggregate number uffiwwkly papers mm»d out of their offices. P. 8.~The circulation of Tur B:z is just as well known to the managers of The Herald and Republican as their’s is to us—because in a ity like Omaha these matters are always with- in the reach of publishers,and the num- ber of carriers, and quantities mailed through the postoffice and ciroulated through newsboys are readily obtained and compiled, tailed exhibit showing the number of & What Others Say. The Omana Bee has been awarded the city printing—not because it was the lowest bidder in dollars and cents, but because its bid was the lowest and best when its circulation was consid- ered. Another afternoon paper, with a very limited circulation, offered to do the work for less actual money, but the council rejected its bid and gave the advertising to the paper that would reach the greatest number of readers, The council was right, intended for general information, and the best medium should always be secu The saving of afew dollars is no equivalent for keeping people in ignorance of their most im- portant municipal affairs. A paper with a large crculation cannot atford to fill up its columns at the cost of setting the type, any more than such lawyers as Marquett or Masor: could attend to a police court, assault and battery case at the regular price. There need be no fear of steals. We have never heard of a respectable newspaper being overpaid. ft is one of the anomalies of life that a news- paper is expected to work for cost, while other people are allowed to ex- pect and exact a profit.—[Lincoln Journal, June 22. STATE JOTTINGS. Gralton s to havea school building to cost 8, 'The assessed value of Clay county s §2,- 071,806.80, Burchard is the name of & new town in Pawnee county. Work has commenced on the Platte bridge at Fremont. The new Methodist church at Hastings has been dedicated. The new creamery at Crete is meeting with flattering success. Hastings has secured a new flouring mill with four run of stone, The new Catholic church at Madison waa dedicated lust Sunday, Oneman at Hardy hasshipped over 8100, 000 worth of stock wince June 1. Lumber in Lincoln has advanced in the 1ast sixty days about forty per cont. Tt In sald Gen, Weaver received 800 for every speech deifvered in Nebraska. The Universalists of Hebron and vicini- ty ave talking of bullding & church. The railrond from Nemaha to Calvert will be completed within thirty daye. There are now (5,000 head of cattle at Ogallala, and s like number yet to coie, The amount to be awarded to fast stock at the comving Saline county fair i §4,600, Mrs. Fred Rush, of Rising City, was suddenly made insatie one. day thip week! There are in Dodge county 46,081 acres of wheat to 12,208 of com and 12,276 of onts, The Sioux City and Pacific company are building extensive stock yards i Blair. The alliances of York county will hold a convention on August 20th to nominate a county ticket. A recent enumeration of Burt_county gives a population. of 7,451—4,042 males ud 3,409 females, Cattle are held at unusually high figurea at Ogallala this season, consequent- 15 sales are limited. The headquarters of the R. V. division of the B, & M. has been moved from Has: tings to Red Cloud. Atlee Hart makes a Chesterfieldian how to the public in assuming control of The North Nebraska Eagle. TheB & M. surveyors have located a 534 | north and south line of railroad through Chester in Thayer county. A large number of sheep ranches have been located on Lodge Pole creek, north of Sidney this season. Eloven cars of hogs, worth $,000, were shipped from Oakland, Burt county, to Chicago one day last week. Mr. A. C. Crown, of Otoe county, was drowned in the Nemaha river, near Te- cumseh, last Sunday week. The total tax levy in Adams county is 17 mills on the dollar. In Lincoln county it is over 40 mills on the dollar, There are at present thirteen licensed sa- loons in Nebraska City, and $6,500 has been paid into the school fund. The demand for harvest hands exceeds the supply in all parts of the state, Wages range trom $2 to $2.50 per day. Stone is be?np{)put in the ground for the U, P. hotel building, at North Platte. It comes from a quarry south of Beatrice, The B. & M. land department will send out 100,000 bills for the coming soldiers reunion in Lincoln, to bedistributed in the east, The total valuation of property in Gage county is 82,718,928, an increase of 305, 033. The levy is eighteen mills on the dollar, Tt is estimated that there will be about 80,000 head of cattle, or about eghty trains of stock, shipped from Grand Island alone this fall, John W. Bookwalter, the democratic candidate for governor of Ohio, owns 11,720 acres of land in Pawnee county, worth §120,000, A meeting will be held in Oakland next Saturday to reorvanize the Burt county agricultural society and arrange for a county fair in the fall. John Bruckner while at work with a gang of men on the U, P. branch, be- tween Columbus and Lost Creek, fell dead the victim of sunstroke, The farmers' organization of Thayer county propose selecting the candidates for office a few weeks previous to the holding of the political primaries, Alittle child_four years old, belonging to a Swede family named Bredenburg, was struck by lightning and instantly killed, near Wahoo a few deys ago. Recently o sister of Henry Arrant, of Kearney, came over from Germany. Thursday week she thought it would nice to go out and help to harvest, which she did without any bonnet or covering on her head. The result was that she was sunstruck ¥nd died in a few hours, perintendent Touzalin says the cars will be ranning from Nemaha City to Cal- vert within forty days, if enough men can be found to lay the track in that time, The increase of Adams county is figured thus: Wheat, 50 per cent; corn, 40; bnri;{ and rye, 35; votatoes, 50; broom corn, 85; flax, 40, and all very much superior to the crops of 1880, & A block “H’ mi uildings in Hastings week, Loss, $35,000; inuunnu\u‘fl. . This is the second large fire at that place within two years, uite a number of enterprising citizens of Columbus have formed a new joint stock association to establish & fair grounds and driving park, with a capital stock of 500 as a basis, Norfolk, Oakdale, Albion and Genoa are making special efforts to secure the Congregational academy that is to be located somewhere in the North Platte country within the next vear, Last Monday the little son of Mr, Wal. temath, of Sterling, Jobnson county, was horribly burned and died in grest agony, after three hour's suffering. He poured kerosene un a smouldering X Under the operations of the Slocumb 1aw Columbus has developed an euormous number of ‘“sick” men. During the month of June 639 persous applied to the drug stores for their “‘medicine.” Old Mr. Seckaty, about séventy years of sixteen or eighteen urned on s-zmw aue, living soutpuet of Blorting, Joor o DA% imissod his il the ‘oihes! dav 1t Public advertising of this character is | | seems he has attempted to take her life several times previous but has not yet suc. ceeded, The university heretofore located at Osceola has been removed to Fullerton, President Fleharty and other trustees were at the.latter place, and the citizens subscribed so Diberally that the transfer was agreed upon at once. From the abstract of assessments in Dodge county for the year 1881 we take the following figures: Total value of personal proper 1,041,203.62; value of real ee tate, £1,320,305; number acres of im proved real estate, acres nnim, roved, 100,907; total, number of improved village and city lots, 1,244; yn. improved, 2, total, 8,813; number of acres cultivatod in wheat, 46,081; cor, 2,208; osts, 12,276; barley, 608; mead, Two crews_of tracklayers on the B, & M. met last Monday in the vicinity of Diller, Over 200 miles of what will even- tually be the main line between C| and Denver are now completed and it iy expected that it will be the main line from Crete west until the gap between Wymore and the Missouri is completed The road traverses the best portion of | Nebraska and is bound to do a large local as well as through business,—Fairbury ! Gazette. The pay car on the A. & N. had quite a little circus down near Tecums last Tuesday. Engineer Warren Fuller picked up & two-year-old heifer and made beef of her in short order, but in the meantime the back trucks of the car were thrown off the track. About this time, too, the train struck a small bridge where about fifty horses were tied that belonged to a arty of men that were hunting for Hrnwll(‘(l boy in the Nemaha. The ani- mals stampeded and it is said that loose. horses were scattered over the country for mules around. Bradford, P Thomas Fitchan, Bradf I enclose money for SPRING BLOSSON, a8 T said I would if it cured me. My dyspep- +inhas vanished, with all its symptoms, Many thanks; I shall never be without it in the house.” ~Price 50 cents, trial bottles 10 cents. 1241w FEENEY & CONNOLLY, BOOTS, SHOES, ~* AND SLIPPERSI Of e ery grade and size at At Prices Heretofore Un- heard of. Pa., writes: They have this week added to their stock a splendid'new Jlot of Ladies and Misse's FINEST FRENCH KID SHOES Reccived direct from ‘the manufactory. Ladies. are respecttully invited to call and see them, Also their Side Lace, Polish, and Side Button, Pebble Goat & Grain FROM $1.25 up, ! THEY HAVE A FINE ASSORTMENT OT AMERICAN KID SHOES VERY OEBAP. /‘ Childrens’ Shoes, Slippers and Sandals in endless: / variety. MENS' HANDSEWED BOOTS AND SHOES, ot all kinds a SPE "TALTY, The BEST QUALITY OF HAND-SEWED BOOTS AND SHOES IN THE CITY, AND Lowest Prices Guaranteed Pegged, RTAN] 'REW_F. Al 'ASTENED and ACH EWED rom 81,25 up, Their SCOTCH EAGLE GRAIN CREED. RAILWAY SHOES wre selling rapidly and they have this week added an assort- ment of, “(REEDMORE"BOOTS To this department. Feeney & Connolly carefully study the requirements of their customers, always having on hands the least thing asked for, a8 their pricen are acknowledged by every pie s very moderats, their trado is booni~ ing beyond their expectation, A Perfect Fit Guaranted or the Money Refunded, ONE PRICE ONLY i~ A FULL LINE OF FARMERS' SUPPLIES, at prices beyond competition, 512 Sixteenth Street, Between Califor- nia and Cass street. Opposite Wm. Gentleman's popular grocery store. |\ Jy-maw KENNEDY'S EAST - INDIA B el A FAMILY |[TONIC am EEVERAGE ILER & 00., Sole Manufacturers, OMAHA.