Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 1, 1881, Page 4

A 4 Thrérdor-miaha Beé. Published every morning, except Sunday. only Monday morning daily TERMS BY MAIL:— £10.00 | Three Months £3.00 5.00 | One 1.00| a Months WEEKLY BEE, published ev Vednesday AMS POST PATD: AT......$2.00 | ThreeMonths.. 50 1.00 | One “ oW One Y Six Months CORRESPONDENCE—AIl Communi eations relating to News and Editorial mat ters should be addressed to the Tur Bek. BUSINESS LETTERS—AIl Business Letters and mittances should be ad dressed to THE OMAHA PUBLISHING CoM- pANY, OxAnA. Drafts, Checks and Post. office Orders to be made payable to the order of the Company. OMAHA PUBLISHING 0., Prop'rs E.ROSEWATER, Editor. John H. Pierce is in Chare of the Ciren- ation of THE DAILY BE! New York butchers to the number of 400 are on a strike, OmAHA is bound to become a great city, but it will be by the earnest and energetic work of her citizens and not by newspaper gas and wind. SECRETARY BLAINE now carries a stout walking stick. Tramps of the Guiteau stamp will take notice and govern themselves accordingly. Tuere is lots of room for improve- ment in Omaha, Boston for instance, owes forty-one millions, while Omaha has as yet borrowed less than half a million. TippLES is receiving the compli- ments of such journals as know him best, over his recent marriage. The genéral opinion is that it was a mar- riage out of mode. Tue city council of Davenport is a very punctillious body. They have removed the city marshal of Daven- port because he neglected to enforce the dog ordinance. Cn1eaao grain speculators are hap- py over the prospect of a tight squeeze in wheat. The general opinion is that there will be a decided crowd upwards for the next few weeks, Tur Milwaukee Sentinel says that the straightest sect of Wisconsin tem- perance people keep themselves in the shade thissummer. Thats whats the matter with Kansas, too. Faus Ciry is rejoicing over the prospect of a competing line of rail- road. The sensible citizens of Falls de not believe that consolidation as- sists shippers to lower rates, Kansas Crry claims that it is easier to obtain a divorce there than in any city in the Union. This important statement is respectfully referred to Nebraska’s discontented woman suf- fragists, ‘WaLL street stock gamblers are com- plaining that bogus reports of the president’s condition are used to in- fluence stocks. The consciences of Wall street brokers are very tender when their ox is gored. Tur average of railroad capitaliza- tion is $60,000 per mile. The aver- age value of the roads per mile is $18,- 000 per mile. The difference repre- sents the amount out of which the public are swindled to pay dividends. Tue ganiuTwhu presides over the Inter-Ocean washstand in the Council entered that body before Mr. Bratxe. During his long congressional v:\rvvr" he has neyer made a speech in favor| of civil service reform. It took| the pistol shot of a murderous | assassin to bring Mr. Dawes | to a realizing sense of the great im i | portance of a reform which he had heard discussed for years and upon | CIVIL SERVICE REFORM. | SENATOR DAwEs, of Massachusetts, has joined the army of civil reform ersand comes forward in two letters to the Springfield Republican with his views on the great and important | question of reforming the civil ser- Mr. Dawes has been for vice over twenty years a member of congress, He which he had never ventured an opin Dawes asserts that n bill nor the Eaton commission attempts to ion. Senator neither the Pendlet cope with the whole evil, and proceeds to speak of the relief of the president, which, he says, is “‘an essential part of the work before us,” The chief executive is, he says, being killed by the exerciso of the appointing power, and by its attendant perplexities. This work must be taken out of his hands, and turned over to others. He thinks it would be well for the president actually, as well as in theory, to break up the work of his administration into seven parts, and freeing himself of everything except control, hold each cabinet officer per- sonally responsible to him for the per- formance of the work in the part as- signed to him, making the tenure de- pend upon a result brought up to the standard fixed by the president him- self. “Mhis is probably as impracticable a scheme for reforming the civil service a8 any which has yet been proposed. Tt failsto remove the greatest obstacles encountered in administering the pub- lic service, and in addition takes away from the president his per- sonal control and for his responsibility whole admimstration. There are two great objections to such plans for reforming the civil ser- vice as are advocated by Mr. Dawes and Carl Schurz, The big fight for spoils is not over the littlo offices which the civil servi reformers would relegate to the heads of de- partments under an elaborate system of rules and examinations. 1t is over the large offices, the cabinet positions, the collectorships, the foreign mis- sions and consulates, the large post- offices, which themselves have a large number of employes under them that the {most Dbitter battle is fought. How are the rules of civil reform to be applied to these officials 80 a8 to assure us competent and re- liable men in the larger offices. Are our customs and revenue coilectors, territorial governors and judges, mar- shals, district attornoys and postmas- ters of the great cities to be subjected to the samo tosts that department clerks are subjegted to? If so, who are to be the examiners? There are seven departments represented in the cabinet, two of which represent the army and navy. Will the presi- dent, who by the constitution is the commander-in-chief of the army and navy abdicate his power to the headsof these two departments. Sup- pose Guiteau had been an ex-applicant for a position in the army or navy, would Mr. Dawes have been in favor of army and navy reform ? And yet it is a very common thing for men to appeal for appointment and promo- tions in the army and navy. Another obstacle to the kind of civil service reform which Mr. Dawes and others desire to inaugurate is the tenure during good behavior. In a frec country where every citi- zen has a right to aspire to posi- tions of honor and trust, it would Bluffs Nonpareil office is evidently playing it fine for a sinecure in Union Pacific headquarters or a position in Gould's advertising bureau. A fow days ago he regaled the country with the detailed plans of Jay Gould's pro- jected railway anaconda, which was to gird the continent in bands of stee(a)l. Now he claims to have dis- covered the trueinwardness of Gould's scheme with the Western Union Telegraph lnes. According to this self-appointed keeper of Jay Gould's conscience the prime object of gob- bling the WesternUnion was to give the country cheap telegraphing—so cheap that it will shortly be cheaper to for- ward a telegram than it now costs to mail a letter. The 1.-O. man had better soak his head in that wash- stand. If Jay Gould was as intent on cheapening telegraphy as he is to earn & big dividend on his telegraph stock he would never have consoli- dated his Amerisan Union lines with the Western Union Telegraph, He could have duplicated the entire West- arn Union system of wires for less than twenty millions, but by consolidating he guaranteed dividends on nearly forty millions of water that had been injected into Western Union from time to time, . We should be pleased to have the L. O. washstand man enlighten us oy what method of reasoning he reaches the conclusion that it is necessary to pay eight per cent., dividend on one hundred millioas in order to cheapen telegraphy, when every telograph line in this country eould be duplicated for less than a quarter of that enor- mous sum. be unwise and unjust to to establish a caste of office holders tenure during good behavior means life tenure and life tenure means the creation of bureaucracy which is the germ of ar- istocracy. Supnose the men who now hold all the lucrative federal offices in the country were honest, competent and faithful, they would under the proposed civil service reform continue in their offices during the balance of their lives unless promoted to some other office, The average oftice holder is robust, and the chance of their dying from overwork 1s very slim. To confer office upon all men employed in the civil service for life would bar out ambition and boget an unrepublican system of government, Mr, Schurz, who has had ample opportunity to ex- perimont on civil service reform, lays groat stress upon the theory that con- gressnien and senators should net in- terfere in appointments. But M. Schurz ought to have taken his own medicine when he was the doctor, When he was Secrotary of the Interior THE OMAHA nDAILY?BEE: MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 1881, cause they were backed by congress- men and senators whom he desired to placate, Now, we have advocated civil service reform for many years but we want to see it applied where it will have a practical effect without antagonizing our republicam form of government There can be and will be mno objection tof competitive examination and promo tions according to merit and length of service for clerks in the departments and | weo should even be williug to concede that these clerks hold their positions We should during good behaviors | favor andinsist upon some standard of ability for the higher appointments such as representatives in the diplo matic service and in branch that But all these higher offices must neces- Four years may be too short a term, but three times four years might be fixed as a limit. Tn a government like ours wo must trust largely to the good judgment of the president for the choice to the very highest positions within the gift of the nation. If a president can be trusted with the appointment of a chief justice of the supreme court, a general com- manding our armics or an admiral commanding our navies, he certainly can be trusted with the appointment of collectors, marshals, district-attor- neys and postmasters, If inany in- stance he has made a grave blunder, the senate is authorized to review this act and rej ct his nomination. With such safeguards thrown around the civil service the country is in no im- minent danger of being wrecked. The great trouble about our civil ser- vice appointments is not with the president or heads of departments who cannot know each ofticer they ap- point, but with congressmen and sen- every requires professional ~training. sarily have a limited tenure. ators upon whose recommendations they rely for the most part. What the country really needs is a congressional service reform vather than a civil service reform, a higher grade of congressmen and sen- ators who will recommend none but men of the most undoubted honesty and known ability. This is what the people demand and where they must look for the remedy. If Mr. Dawes will endorse only honest and faithful men for appointments in Massachusetts there will be genuine civil service reforn in his state, and if the senators and con- gressmen of other states really desire to improve the public service thoy can readily do so. THE NEW SOUTH. The tide of wealth which tor years has been flowing to the west, seeking investment in railroad and industrial schemes seem suddenly to have turn- ed its current toward the gulf. Capi- tal which has so long shunned the South as a field of investment, now seems to be overflowing the whole section. New schemes are announced almost daily and willing investors are readily found to assist in pushing for- ward the development of the country. The unsettled condition of south resulting from the civil war, the ovils of slavery, the stolid indiffer- ence and exclusiveness of its people, and the greater inducements held out by the west as a field for investment are the principal causos which have herctofore kept capital out of the south, The west has reaped the bene- fit of southern misfortune and indifter- ence, and has so long been steadily absorbing all the surplus capital with- in'its reach that it has ceased to offer the same inducements to capital that it did five years ago. Awakening toa sense of their loss, the south has now thrown off her indifference and is in- viting the approach of capital. The railroad system of the South is the first great interest to receive the attention of Northern and European capital. As a rule, the roads have been few, badly equipped and poorly managed. The value of railroads as wealth developers has never been fully appreciated by the Southern people, and now the north is teaching them a lesson, The New York Herald last week published a letter from Augus- ta, Ga., detailing some of the larger investments made in the South within the past eighteen months, It appears that in this brief period there has been subscribed for investment in that portion of the South east of the Mississippi and south of Rich mond no less than $100,000,- 000 of Northern and European capital. This has been chiefly for the purchase of railroad stocks, for the improvement of old roads, and for the construction of new ones. Part of it is represenied in manufacturing and' mining companies, organized for the south and miscellaneous schemes,such he always required endorsements of sonators and congressmen for every fmportant ofice in his department. He put lus clerks to the trouble of competitive examinations, but he ap- pointed men as surveyors general who didn’t know an engineer's transit from an six-inch equatorial telescope, and he appointed men a8 receivers and registers of land offices who were utterly untit for such positions, both as regards busi- ness ability and moral character, Worse than all, he kept men in office when it was a notorious fact that they were dishonest and incowapetent, be- as the £5,000,000 company, which has undertaken to drain the Florida ever- glades. The railroad investments are most important. There are seven syndicates in the field, which have taken in hand seven different railroad systems. The Cincinnati & Georgia contemplate a great cartwheel system, centering at Atlanta and radiating to all points of the compass. The Georgia Pacific has in hand a new line directly west from Atlanta to the Mississippi. The Norfolk and Western occupy the field in southern Virginia. The Er- langer syndicate of Frankfort capital- ists have in view & number of lines, the | old and new, which will extend from New Orleans and Vicksburg to Chatta- nooga and Bruuswick, Georgia,. The Clyde syndicate, the Louisville and Nashville, and the Baltimore and Ohio are older organizations with new am- bition in southern railroad develop- ment. The combined capital involy- ed in these seven railroad schemes is not less than £90,000,000. If to this is added the Cincinnati Southern the sum total of investments sonth and east of the Ohio and Mississippi would be swelled to the enormous figure of £120,000,000, Such an influx of capital 1s breath. New roads are bringing new wealth to pov- erty-stricken The sale purchase at adyanced ing a new life inte the south. regions whole- prices of the old stock held by southerners has sent large sums of money into the sonth for new investment. The wveo- ple are awakening from their lethargy. They are discovering that they are bound to the north not only by the ties of nationality, but also by the bonds of commercial interest. With the cultivation of her fertile fields, the building up of her teeble towns and the development of her vast mineral and industrial resources the New Sonth will soon cease its sectional bit- terness and realize its position as an integral part of a great and pros- perous country. Tar Lincoln Democrat pertinently asks: ‘‘What is the difference between robbing a train at the risk of one’s life and robbing the people through bribing a legislator?” In the one case the penitentiary; in the other a raise of salary. STATE JOTTINGS. Cattle on Wood river look well. Blair is to have a military company. Dorchester is to have a cornet band. North Platte has a post of the G. A. R. O'Neil will soon boast of & grain eleva- tor. Pnete wants a business men's associa- tion. Franklin s to lave a paper about Au- gust 1st. Ulysses is endeavoring to organize a post of G AL R. I. W. Olive shipped 1,000 beeves one day last week, Tecumseh’s new dedicated on Sun Spring Valle ashington county,’ is to have a Methodist church, Butler county holds her se fair September 2 and arney is to suffer under a woman’s e convention in October, June, one firm in Columbus shipped 26,865 pounds of butter. George Ouken, living in Lancaster coun- ty, was killed by his horses last week. St. Paul is excited over the elopement of Christopher Crow with his cousin, A new road is being surveyed from Genoa up the vulley of the Skeedee. In some parts of the state harvest hands are getting from $2.50 to $3.00 a day. Nineteen hundred dollars was paid out to one man for hogs Saturday at Hardy. The amount to be awarded to fast stock at the coming Saline.county fair is $4,600. The ladies of the Baptist church of Hastings are moving fora church build- ing. Several of the old soldiers in the vicin- ity «f Riverton have lately received pen- sions. ‘West Point has a match factory capable of turning out 1,440,000 matches u day, that is 7,200 boxes. The price of putting up hay this year in Ifax county ranges from 79 cents to $1.25 perton, E. M. McWilliams, a sewing machine agent, was arrested last week in Nebraska City for embezzlement. Of the fourteen hundred people in Brownville at least two hundred and fifty attend church frequently. Land sales are lively in Nemaha county, and prospects are fair for a very large in- crease of sales this fall, Schuyler at the present time contains five church edifices—notwithstanding one of them is a canvas structure, A saloon, livery barn, residence and harness shop were destroyed by fire at Ta- ble Rock last week, Loss 825, The U. P. has offered to replace the North Bend bridge for $2,000 in cash. The citizens have accepted the proposition, Baptist church was nth annual Tue erops of Dawson county, heretofore considered by some people as & part of the desert, will Do among the. very best this year, Mrs. Aun Muney, of Columbus, was killed by a runaway” team. The team be- came frightened at the violent barking of a worthless cur, The butter and cheese association of West Pomt has been awarded the contract for building the new hiygh school. Contract pricea little over $10,000. Fifty-one houses have been built in Oak- land since spring while a cheese factory, a ROw BriCk Do and b half, and & new hotel will soon be erected. The Columbus Association of Co tional churches and minsters will meef Norfolk, August 10th, to take action re- garding the proposed Academy. The new margin, ind & Cooper, says a correspondent of the State Journal, offer to build a ten thousand dollar steam il at Humboldt, if the people of that place will give a bo- nus of $500. ok laying on the Fort Niobrara ex- tension is going on at the rate of a mile and a half a day. The track is put down in good shape, and is left ready for bus. iness. O'Neill is to be reached in a few days. county’s wheat this season, » fields and the will not be up to the expecta- several weeks ago.—West Point Republican, A dastardly attempt was made last Fri- day night by some unknewn person to enter the room of a lady stopp hotel, by means of o ladder up at the win- dow.” Tt frightened the occupant of the room nearly out of her wits, and it is & great pity that the guilty partv is allowed to escape, for a wan so fi»w should meet a just puishment at the hands of any com- munity, —Hardy Herald, ——— Geo. Meredith, Jersey City, writes: ‘“The SPRING BLOMSON Yot sant tas s had the happiest effect on my daughter; her head- ache aud depression of spirits has vanished. She is again able to go o school, and s a8 lively as & cricket. 1 shall certainly rec- ommend it to all my friends. Price 50 cents, trial bottle 10 cents. augl-lw at the | j IOWA BOILED DOWN. e hopes to have a creamery. Atlantic has a building association. Mason City and Clear Lake are connect- ed by telephone. Harlan has let the contract for an 818, 000 school house, A canning factory is about ready for business at Vinton, T'he Clinton street car track is to be ex- tended to Riverside. The northern part of Pocahontas county is rapidly settling up. Capt. W. H. Ankeny of Clinton gets a back pension of $4,500, Shenandonh is to have an opera house | with a hall 50 by 90 feet Cholera is very prevalent among the hogs in Dubuque county. A flowing well has been struck at Inde. pendence at a depth of 92 feet. The Ida county fair will be held at Tda Grove, September 15, 16 and 17. The Harrison county fair will be held at Missouri Val ey, October 4, 5 and 6, In Keokuk canning works have 150,000 cans ready to fill and more & making, In digging » well near Battle Creek strong indications of coal were found, A distlllery will probably soon be erec- ted between Mount Pleasant and New London, The wool clip of Monona county for 1881 is estimated at not far from 85,000 pounds. The contract for bulding a new court house at Oskaloosa has been let for $75,- 000. Spirit Lake has voted a 5 per cent tax for the Des Moines & Northwestern rail- road. The new Presbyterian church at Fort Dodge, now building, will cost about 817,000, The assessed value of the real and per- sonal property in Liun county is almost $10,000,000, The Eastern Iowa Veteran association holds its annual reunion at Maquoketa October 5, 6 and 7. The general reportis: Wheat light, but corn, oats, flax, barley and the rest, all that could be asked. Glenwood is to haye two new hotels, to cost not less than $10,000, and & fine new brick bank building. Red Oak is to have a barbed wire fac tory—if the monopolists who control that business willallow it. The Cherokee County Normal institute will convene at Cherokee August 22, and remain in session two weeks, A strango looking worm, supposed o be the regular army varmint, has attacked the wheat fields near Mapleton. If the autummn is late this year the C., M. & St_P. extension to Council Bluffs may be through before snow flies. Farmens in the vicinity of Ottumwa are offering as high as three dollars a day for harvest hands; and they are scarce at that price. Work on the Fairfield extension of the Fort Madison and Northwestern narrow guage road to Fairfield will soon be com- menced, The farmers of Grinnell and vicinity have organized o farmers’ protective asso- ciation to combat the barb wire and other monopolies. Tipton feels quite sure now of the South- western railroad since a load of plows and scrapers fit for that work has been brought to that place. A delegation of thirty from St. Louis arrived at Spirit Lake the other day, and all the pleasure resorts up there are filled to overflowing. N, . Frederickson not long since bought 30,000 acres of Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad lands, and has already dis- posed of 16,000 acres, all sold to actual set- tlers. The new directory of Des Moines shows a population in the city of 25,34 i crease over the United Stat 2,967, There are fourteen hundred new names. All ‘members of the Towa First are re- quested to meet at the court house, in Muscatine, at 2:30 o'clock p. m., of the 10th of August next, which day will be the 20th anniversary of the battle of Wilson's Creek. The Umion district fair will be held at West Liberty on August 31stand Septem- ber 1st and 2d. Among tne premiums are cighty special offered by citizens, in the children’s department. The young ladies employed in a Cedar Rapids overall factory struck for higher wages on Monday and held out until the next day, when they dutifully asked ver- mission to retnrn to their labor. A prospect shaft five feet square is being sunk in search of coal on the line of the C, B. & Q, two miles from Knoxville, It has now gone down sixty-five feet, through two veins of coal, and a rich lead is ex- pected at the depth of ninety feet. Dr. J. Donnelly, of Tipton, is about to commence an notion against A. Swartz- lander, for_alienating his wife from hin and depriving him of his company, affec- tion and support; and he thinks about 20,000 of Swartzlander’s money would be o nice salve to his wounded heart, A Muscatine man gathered 3,000 quarts of red raspberries from one and one-eighth acres this season, or about 2,600 quarts to the nore. The cost of gathering and mar- Keting was 3 conts and the average whole- sale price obtained was 11 cents per quart, Five men called at the Dubuque jail on Monday afternoon and_wanted €0 see Clark, the murderer ot Hazeltine, the cir- cus man. They were refused admittance and went away, and now the suspicion is that they were friends of the murdered man seeking revenge on his slaughterer, Mrs. 1. J. Hager, a_rosident_of Towa since 1855, and of Burlington since 1861, died at the Intter place on Monday. She at one time held the chair of English_Lit- erature in Wesleyan University, at Mount Pleasant, and wis for many years a teach- er in the public schools of Burlington, Nearly two thousand patents of Des Moines river lands still await claiming by the various owners of that number of tracts, many of them purchased twenty- five years ago. Owners of lands along the Des Moines valley, whose first evidence of title is only a certificate, should apply to the register of the state land office and ob- tain the patent or government deed there- for, ‘The newest railroad project in To styled the St. Louis, Newton and western, and is to run from Mount ant, the terminus of the compleied pr via Newton, Nevada and Fort Doy v, and possibly o o son- Northern Pacific. The the proposed exten- hased and delivered. Secretary Blaine's foreign policy is to be *‘vigorous” in no particular more than in respect of the complaints of German-American citizens, who are torced by the German government, upon their return to the fatherland, into the army, or, in lieu thereof, into These cases occur oftener than is generally supposed. Under the last adwministration they were not settled with that rapidity which could have been desired. Many of them were not eettled at all, and they accumu- lated constantly, To-day there are some fitty cases of this sort in the hands ot our Legation at Berlin. They are comparatively simple in their origin, but become very complex in | their settlement. A German comes to the Umted States, becomes a naturalized citizen, and settles down. Years elapse; he returns to his birthplace. He is con- scripted; he refuses to serve, alleges that he is an American citizen, and therefore exempt, and 1s thrown into prison. Then he appeals to the American minister, who informs the state de- partment. The latter investigates the question of the man’s citizenship, and then instructs the minister. This process has just been had in the case of William Brisk, of South Manches- ter, Connecticut, and Minister White was instructed by telegraph to-day to secure his release as speedily as pos- sible. Assistant etary Hitt aid to-night that Brisk's case was simple, and he had no doubt that he was now free. He | praised highly the admirable organiza tion of the Berlin legatien, and the accurate knowledge of these cases and the law respecting them possessed by its officers, He considered it better equipped for such work thanany other legation in Europe. He said: *‘When I was at Paris we had many cases of the same sort; most of them were, of course, like this Brisk case, merito- rious, but some of them were entire- ly without merit. Often they return- ed to France, having been here but citizens for a day, with no otherintent than to live in France exempt from the burdens of a French citizen. We never had any difficulty with honest cases.” A PERILOUS RIDE. Fast Time Made by the Consulting Physiolans to Washington, Washington Special to Baltimore Gazette. The ride of the two consulting physicians to Washington must go into history as one of the most re- markable on record. Dr. Frank H. Hamilton received the dispatch sum- moning him to Washington at his house, 43 West Thirty-second street, Now York, yesterday. It took him only ten minutes to prepare for the journey. He left the house at about two o'clock, with the remark that he did not know when the next train would start, but that he would get a carriage and go to the ferry so that he would be ready to take it. The dis- patch, which was brief, he took with him., He hastened in a carriage to the Desbrosses street ferry, where he learned that the first train for Wash- ington was over the Pennsylvania railroad at 3:40 o'clock. It would ar- rive in Washington at 10:20 o'clock p. m. Some time was spent in in- quiries as to the departure of trains on other roads. Then he crossed the forry and entered the Jersey City passenger waiting room, where he was recognized while he was making in- quuries at the palace car window. Su- perintendent Juckson, who was in his office in another part of the depot, was sent for. A very brief time suf- ficed to make him aware of the situa- tion. He hurried away from Dr. Hamilton, and seven minutes later the latter was rushing out of the depot on a special train. 1t was about 3:10 o'clock p. m. when the depot master and the train dispatchers received no- tice to be spry. Engine 915, ome of the bect of the ordinary engines, with a five-foot driving wheel, was hitched to a new Eastlake coach, and, at 3:20 it was run out of the depot. The new Eastlake coaches are chiefly remarka- ble for their high ceilings, their low and comfortable seats and for the ele- gance of the panelings of light, un- stained maple and ash. Each panel is carved after an original design, They run very smoothly. The freight trains were all ¢ot out the way, one after another on side tracks, in time to allow the special to roar past them without slacking speed, but two passenger trains delayed the doctor fifteen minutes. He arrived at Philadelphia at 5 o'clock, a dis- tance of 99 miles in 100 minutes. The engineer was A. Vandergrift, and the conductor was H. W. Headly. At Philadelphia a stop of but a few min- utes was made, in which to change engines and allow Dr. Agnew to get on the cars. From Philadelphia to Wilmington, with a stop at Chester and other places, the run was made in 27 minutes, the distance being 26 miles. A dispatch had been sent to Wilmington for a brakeman, and a man named Humphreys was detailed to ‘“‘make the train,” At 05:27 the special came dashing through the city at the rate of at least eighteen miles an hour,and the interprid brakeman stood near the track. He made a desperate grab for the rear platform, and at the risk of his life succeeded in gaining a hand and foothold, The carsteps were pro- tected by a wire railing, and he was carried a considerable distance cling- ing on to this before the conductor came back and unlocked the gate. The train arrived at Washington at 7:50 p. m. - an average run from New York of almost fifty miles an hour, and from Philadelpkia of over fifty-five miles an hour, This is the fastest railroad time for the distance ane considering the stops on record. Cornell Coll‘ege_. The Classiical, Philosophical, Scientific and Civ- il Courses compare favorably with lleges in the o ven in the Preparato- il Departments, and in the Conserv- Twenty Professors and Teachers. Superior Buildings, Museum, Laboratory and Apparutus, xpenses Low. Fall term opens Sept. 15, For catalogues or other infermation, address Prrs, WAL F. KING, D, T Iy 1208w M. V Business (College, THE GREAT WESTERN GEOQ. R. RATHBUN, Principal. Creighton Block, OMAHA, .- NEBRASKA. &arsend for Circular v 20d&wtt J.P.ENGLISH, ATTORNEY - AT - LAW, 810 South Thirteenth Street, with J. M.Woolworth. Clarkson & Hunt, Buccessors to Richards & Hunt, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, _ 8. 14thStreet Om ha Neb. A. G. TROUP, ATTORNEY - AT - LAW, CHEAP LAND FOR SALE. 1,000,000 Acres ——O0F THE— FINEST LAND N e EASTERN NEBRASKA. SeLEOTED IN AN EARLy Day—~ot Rat Roan LAND, Bur LAND owNED BY Now RESIDENTS WHC ARR TIRED PAYING TAXES AND ARE OFFERING THEIR LANDS AT THR Low PRICE OF 86, 88, AND $10 PER AORE, ON LONG TIME AND EASY TERMS, WE ALSO OFFER FOR SALE IMPROVED FARMS —IN— Douglas, Sarpy and Washington —— ALSO, AN IMMENSE LIST OF OmahaOityRealEstate Inclnding Elegant Residences, Business and Residence Lots, Cheap Houses and Lots, and a large number of Lots in most of the Additions of Omaba, Also, Small Tracts of 5, 10 and 20 acrces in and near the city. We have good oppor- tunities for making Loans, and in all cases personally examine titles and take every precaution to insure safety of money so invested. Be ow we offer a small list of Seroran BaRrGAINs. 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 BOGGS & MILL. FOR SAL 23d streets, $1600, Very nice FOR SALE 5:%. i v with barn, coal house, well cisf t trees, everything complete, of property, figures low FOR SALE Avenue. FOR SALE FOR BALE (e vitveTuch ana Torn goop location for boarding house. Owner wil sell low BOGGS & HILL. FOR: SALE tmazewhonseion ful 1ot in Kountze & Ruths addi- tion. Thia property will bo sold very cheap, BOGGS & HILL. Enquire of Jas. 994t o and lot ter stroets shade and A desirablo GGS & HILL, Splendid_busines lots 8. E. corner of 16th and Capita BOGGS & HIEL. Touse and lot corner Chicago and 215t streets, $5000. BOGGS & HILL. 1OR SALE—A top pheaton. Stephenson. FOR SALE S oiisiac et fo at once submit best cosh offer. FOR SALE A.fcu s acambie T A FIN R RESIDENCE—Not in the market FOR SALE FOR SAL Ower will sell for $6,500. # fine house, $2,300, 0 BOGGS & HILL. FOR SAL 4 good lots, Shinn's 34 ad @ifon 8150 cach. of 8t. Mary's avenue, $150 to §500. BOGGS & HILL A very fine residence lot, to some party desiring to bulid BOGGS & HILL. About 200 fots in Kountze & Roths addition, fust south Chese lota are near business, surrounded by fine improve ments and are 40 'per cent cheaper than any othe Tots in the market. Save moncy by buying thes Tols, BOGGS & HILL. FOR SALE 10w siavte tor ne dence, on Park 3 blocks 8. E. of depot, all covered w troes, Prico extremely low. $600 to §700, BOGGS & HILL. FOR SALE fome, very, chesp loto Lake's addition. BOGGS & HILL, FOR SALE Step, comer lot, corner Douglas and Jefferson Sta. BOGGS & HILL. FOR SALE ot on 20th, 21n, osth, r 29th and 80th Sta., between Farnham, Douglas, and the proposed extension of Dodge street. Prices range from §200 to $400, We haxe concluded to give men of snall means one more chance to secure & home and will build housos on these lots on small payments, and will scll lots on monthly paymenta. BOGGS & HILL FOR SALE 1%, acrce,5 mics trom cty, about 30 acres very choice valley, with ruming water; balance geutly rolling prririe, only 8 miles fom railaoad, $10 per acte. BOGGS & HILL, FOR SALE {00 screstn one tract twelr miles from city; 40 acres cu tivated, Living Spring of water, some nice va leys. ‘The land is all first-class rich prairie. Pric 10 per acre, BOGGS & HILL. 720 acres in one body, 7 miles FOR SALE I Fremont, is all level land, paoducing keavy growth of gruss, in high valley, rich soil and” 3 mies from railrosd an side track, in good sottlement and no_better lan can be found, BOGGS & HILL. FOR SALE &oifi it nts on this lan pract , determined to opening for some man of means. LOGGS & HILL, 2,000 acres of land near Mil- land Station, 8,500 near Elk- th part of coun- 2to8 miles from Flor- - es weat of the Elkhorn, #4 10 810; 10,000 acres scattered throagh the coun- ty, 86 to §10. fThe above lands lie near and adjoin nearly every farm in the county, and can mostly be sold on sinall cash payment, With the balance in 1-2.8- 4and b vear's time. BOGGS & HILL, Several fne residences prop FOR SALE e ive, pussncespron and not known In the market as Teing for sle. Locations will only be niade knowa £ purchasers “meaning busines. BUGGS & HILL. IMPROVED FARMS .yt 1 mprove farms around Omaha, and in all parts of Douglas, Sarpy and Washingtou countics, Also farws iu lowa.” Fer description and prices call on ™ 3 BOGGS & HILL. usiness Lots for Sale on Farnam and Doug- Io lus strects, from §3,000 to §,600. ! EFOR SALE e o s I A good 8 business lots uext west avanoed of # 008 Gt Imwnic Y 3T FOR SALE juistnes tov vt ot 014 BOGGS & HILL, FOR SALE e por vt youns rounded by improved rms, ouly 7 wiles frow clt . Cheapest laud onband. " BOGGSMULL,