Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 22, 1881, Page 4

=3 1 The Omaha Bee. Published every moming, except Sunday The only Monday morning daily. TERMS BY MAIL. £10.00 | Three Months £3.00 t Months 5,00 | One 1.00 HE WEEKLY BEE, publisied ev ry Wednesday. RERMS POST PATD One Y £2.00 | Three Months 50 Six M 1,00 | One LRt ) CORRESPONI eations relating to New ters should e addressed to t! All Communi and Editorial mat LDITOR OF 38 LETTERS—AIl Business Ietters and Remittances should be ad- dressed to THE OMAHA PUBLISHING CoM- pANY, Owana. 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 E. Nebraska Republican State Cen- tral Committee. The members of the Republican State Central Committee of Nebraska, are here- by called to meet at the Commercial Hotel in the City of Lincoln, on Wednesday, the 316t day of August, A. D., 1881, at 2 o'clock p. m., for the transaction of such business as may properly come before the Committee. James W, Dawes, Chairman, Cnete, August 12, 1881, uraskA will have a stato fair this year of which she may well be proud. Laws made by the representatives of the people must be enforced by the people. — The Ohio democracy are in the con- dition of drowning men clinging to temperance straws. The developements of the territor- | NO MORE MORTGAGES | TurLi cently incorporated, has organized by coln & Fremont railroad re | electing a board of directors and these | in turn have'elected a president, vice president, treasurer and secretary. A special from Lincoln to the 8t. Louis Globe-Democral says . It is understood that propositions for aid will be submitted to a vote of | the people along the line within the | next week or ten days, and if the | company meets with the success it de. serves in securing aid, ‘work will be- | in on the road githout delay. There is the milk in the A company build a railroad from Lincoln to Fre- cocoanut has been organized to mont, The enough to pay for the incorporation company has raised money papers a seal and a preliminary sur vey. If the people in the counties and precincts through which this pro- posed road is to run, vote the bonds to pay for building the road the company will see to it that it is built —And when it is built, the con- struc tion company will find a pur- chaser in one of the trunk lines, for which this road in due time will be- come a branch, and when that trans- fer has been duly made ‘‘the com- pany” will retire with a cool $150,- 090 or more in county or precinct bonds in their breeches pocket. This has been the true inwardness of every branch road organized by enterpris- ing citizens of Nebraska, whether in Lincoln or in Omaha, and it is safe to predict that is to be the out- come of the Lincoln and Fremont scheme —if the people are foolish enough to vote the bonds, We ex- pect, of course to hear from our Lin- coln contemporaries that Tur Brr 18 an Omaha paper, and Omaha does not gant a road from Fremont to Lincoln, This is all bosh. Twne Be is in favor of all the railroads that capitalists will build in Nebraska with their own money. If the men who organized the Lincoln & Fremont road have the means to build such a road—and are ies means increasing commercial im- portance to our city. Tk condition of the president is such that the nation's anxiety may at any moment change to the nation’s SOITOW. UNSCRUPULOUS corporation man- agers have converted a public interost into a private system of swindling the public. Nexr to being placed in nomination for a public office the position of presi- dential physician seems to be the most unenviable, Tie editor of the Herald is o weath- er-cock on a wind-mill. His latest veerings have exhibited themselves in the temperance gale, Every monopoly henchman with political aspirations has a number of reasons why the farmers’ alliance is a humbug of the first water. Bvery additional report trom the interior of the state adds new encour- agement for a heavy corn crop. Late rains haye helped late plantings. Tue B. & M. are about to move towards Denver. When they reach there, combination and pooling will deprive the public of the much boast- ed benefits of competition. NEeBrAskA’S farmers are becoming interested in politics nearly as much a8 Ncbraska railroad managers, and for the same reason. They want to “‘protect their interests.” Tae growth of every aty depends largely upon ihe ability of its citizens to grasp natural advfitages and com- mercial openings as they are offered to them, Tue Bee repeatd that Omaha wants more enterprise and less wind, Tur Ber acknowledges with thanks the receipt of an invitation to and catalogue for the Fourth Annual Ex- hibition of the Central Nebraska Fair Association, to be held at Hastings on the dates from September 19th to 234 inclusive. — Tur New York World wants the democracy of the Empire State to throw overboard John Kelley. John willing to risk their money in such an enterprise, Tur Bre will bid them God speed. But when they at- tempt to buitd a railroad upon capital thatis to be raised by mortgaging the farms and homes of the people along the proposed line of the road their project cannot be commended. If, as they represent,this projected road is to become a connect- ing link for the Chicago & Northwest- ern railrond—that corporation is able to build it—and will build it withot aid from anybody, justas soon as they think it will pay them to operate it. Any man who will vote a mortgage on his farm for the benefit of a railroad construction company is a fool and any man who will vote a mortgage on the home of another man against his will td put money in the pockets of a brace of speculators is a knave, These are our honest, unbiased senti- ments, and we express them becauso we believe our patrons expect 'I'me Bee to oppose every scheme that tends to enrich speculators at the pub- lic expense. A DREADED POSSIBILITY. The dangerous condition of the president once more brings the coun- try face to face with the possibility of a change of chief executives. Such a change is always a matter of serious apprehension. But if General Gar- field should now be called away there are good reasons for believing that the nation would be found in a much bet- ter condition to bear the shock of the sad event than she was six weeks ago. When the news of the attack upon the president was first flashed across the wires, the announcement like a lightning stroke from a clear sky ap- palled and stunned the nation, Pub- lic feeling was avoused by factional strife and rent by party passion, In the confusion anl agony of the hour there was no opportunity for reflection upon the constitutional se- curities against anarchy and confu- sion and no time to measure the safe- guards which the wisdom of the found- ers of the government had provided for just such times of peril and na- tional need, Distrust and fear min- gled with factional recrmination, and cast a shadow of distrust upon the sterling common sense of the peo- ple of the republic which had so many will refuse to be the Jonah of the hide-bound bourbons, even with the chances of being swallowed by the re- publican whale, —_— e Omaha is agood business centre and is growing rapidly but her future must not be left in the hands of si or eight enterprising merchants while the remainder of her citizens heartily applaud newsgaper inflation and but- ton up their pockets. E—— We are told that the keepers of sa- loons in this city, who, in defiance of the law, continue the traflic in liquor, threaten, if they are prosecuted for wviolating the law, to retaliate by car- cying the war into Africa, and filing complaints against temperance men and pious frauds who rent houses to prostitutes and gamblers. By all means let them proceed with- out delay. If some of our pinks of piety make & living by renting houses pofes [ gl el ol punished. The law is o sespector of persous or stations. times previously shown itself able to cope with great national emergencies, But the long and weary sickness of our patient president las afforded to the nation an opportunity to take stock of its resources, It has faced the danger which threatened it and learned to place confidence in the con- servative forces of the government, The death of President Garfield would be even more seriously mourned to-day than it would have been on the fateful evening of July 24, The heroio traits of charac- ter which he has shown, his bravery, his manly patience, his genial temper- ament, undaunted by suffering, his tender devotion to family ties—all have endeared him still more to the American people than before the as- sassin’s bullet laid him upon a bed of sickness. Still, the conviction, born of a bitter experience, has grown upon our people that though it's president wmay die, the gov- ermment will live. His nerveless handsway drop the rod of authority but it will be taken up by another aud the government still survive. THE OMA llAWDA] LY_BEEE v.\l() DAY, 9 Ry AUGUST 1831 | Ruters mag die—the law mever. A | wisely balanced constitution, an ably constituted government and a patri- otic and law-abiding people would [ hasten to fill the A new presi- |dent wonla the White | House, and with the chart of an over- | powering public sentiment by which step into rvice, a government of | the people and for the people and by | the people would still continue its great work without anarchy and with to mark hi out disturbance, | President Garfield’s death would ele vate to the presidency Vice-President Arthur. Tt is safe to say that the change would be recerved to-day with less bitterness than six weeks ago. The course which he has consistently pursued since the great calamity has begotten the confidence and even the respect of the people. Should he be called to the high position now pied by General Garfield he would be eeu- sustained and encouraged by the best wiihes of the entire nation, With every incentive to follow in the steps of his predecessor and maintain a public policy which has been acceptable to the nation there is every reason to trust he would fulfil the expectations which his dignified and manly course have raised 1n the minds of the peo- ple. If President Giarfield should die, which God forbid, there is every rea- son why, in the midst of the univer- sal sorrows and mourning which the event would create, there should yet be a strong trust in the stability of our institutions and the adequacy of our national security. Mr. Tiuoen, whose disappearance from state and national politics was 8o industriously commented upon some years ago, has suddenly reap- peared from his seclusion, It seems that the old gentleman has become tired of his favorite occupations of railroad wrecking and tax shirking, and once more is vigorously grooming himself as a candidate for the presi- dential contest in 1884. Mr. Tilden hopes that republican defection in New York will make a good open- ing for a lively democratic campaign. He has commenced opara- tions by endeavoring, through licuten- ants in the rural districts, to set up delegates for the coming state conven- tion, in which he hopes to win over the anti-Tilden democrats by giving them two good places on the state ticket. This ticket Mr. Tilden ex- pects to carry through at the polls, owing to the stalwart defection in the republican party. Tt is asserted that he will be the democratic candi- date for governor in 1882, and, this gained, the democratic candidate for president in 1834, Mr. Tilden reckonswithout his host in several particulars, In the first place New York has had sufficient ex- perience with his political methods to very earnestly rebel against his re- appearance in the political arena. In the next place, the anti-lilden ele- ment, headed by Kelly in New York, will not submit to any compromise on the basis of Mr. Tilden’s candidacy. Any calculations which have for their basis widespread defec- tion in the republican ranks will fail. And, finally, should Mr. Tilden succeed in capturing the state, he will find all the arguments which were used against his canvass at the Cincinnati convention still in force but increased a hundred fold in weight. The country has had enough of Mr, Tilden. Nothing but a great financial crash, the boon of democratic candi- dates, can bear him on its crest into oftice by the yotes of the people. Tt is certain thatcrime runs in fam- ilies and it soems to be equally true that noble traits of character are also hereditary, Following the examplo of his uncle, the founder of Vas- sar college, Matthew \assar has bequeathed a large portion of his property to that and kindred institu- tions in Poughkeepsio. Tho collego receives §130,000, the Vassar Broth- ers’ homo for aged men $15,000, the Vassar Brothers' hospital $85,000, and the last named institution is also made residuary legatee, giving it probably a very large endowment. Another charity, the institute for the Poughkeepsie Scientific and Literary association, is not remembered in the will as the project was begun after the will was drawn. The surviving brother, John Guy Vassar, announces that he renounces in advance all logacies under Maithew's will, and will erect the institute as a monument to his memory. — Messes, Iuex & Co., wholesale liquoe dealers, announce that hereaf. ter all goods for the state of Nebras- ka will be shipped from Council Bluffs, Yowa, where they propose to establish a branch house. This move, we are told by the Omaha Republican, in language most childlike and bland is one of the resulis of the Slocunib law, “‘whichinterferes with thegovern- ment license to such an extent that the company cannot do business un. der it, as there is no provision for companies or corporations, but only for individuals to take out licenses, even were there a city ordinance passed, This will do to tell the marines. Poor Slocumb has sins enough to answer for ~but his bill cannot pre- vent Omaha distillers and brewers from doing business in Nebraska, especially if the city conncil should pass an ordinance in conformity with the law. Tf the Slocumb law inter- feres with the government liconse of distillers and products in sell brewers to sell their Omaha they could no liquor or beer to points outside of Nebraska any more than to | But the Doane law against discrimination does pro points in Nebraska. hibit the railroad companies from giv- ing Tler & Co. any lower rates or re- bate for shipping a given quantity of liquor to & given point in Ne- braska than they to any other finn or individual for shipping the same quantity of liquor to the same placo. The Doane law does not extend to points in Towa, hence goods billed from Council Bluffs can be shipped at spe- cial rates, which explains the new de- pariure, Our correspondent at Rosebud In- dian agency presents the readers of Tur Beg the most authentic narrative yet published of the career of Spotted Tail, with a graphic description of the travic death and bu- rial of the great Sioux chief. Incidentally Mr. O, M. Carter, our correspondent, who, during three years residence at the reservation, has enjoyed ample opportunity for obser- vation, gives a most gratiying ac- count of the marked change that has taken place in the habits and mode of life among the great body of the Sioux located at the Rosebud agency. Few people in this section would have believed it possible that these savages could be induced to adopt civ life'in such a brief period. d modes of Tax Dodging. Denver Tribune. The press of the country is alto- gother too tender on tax dodging. It i8 in pure essence a species of evasion but little above grand larceny in the moral scale. but universally practiced has some weight in excusing those who would be willing to pay their full share of taxes provided their less scrupulous neigh- ors were compelled to pay up. But atter all the plea is a weak one and unworthy of true citizens. Because our neighbors dodge just debts is a reason for exposing their dodges, but is no sufficient pretext for going and doing as they do. Many honest poor men believe,with a feeling of bitterness, that one of the ways to get rich is to learn to swear lies to the assessor. The money thus saved, if put at compound interest or shrewdly invested, accumulates rapid- ly and in the course of ten or fiftecen years may made a man rich, who otherwise would only be worth a few thousands. It has almost come to be the rule to condone this sort of mor- ganatic perjury, and to wink at the shrewdness of the citizen guilty of it instead of insisting with' earnestness that he be exposed and punished. And it is one ot the worst signs for the future that the toiling masses are coming to the conviction that there is one kind of taxation for the poor and another for the rich. Every business man knows that it is a favorite trick of rich men to have their bank turn their money into ex- empt government bonds the day be- tore they muke their return, and to convert the bonds back into money the day after this dishonorable dodge is consummated. Thisis as bad as swearing that one's property is worth only one-tenth its actual value. The very men guilty of this proceeding when taxed with asking usurous interest upon the money they lend invariably respond that they Kuvo to pay four per cent. of that interest in taxes. If pushed, they point to the law thus taxing money. But in near- ly every case they here perpetratea deliberato falsehood. They make no return of their money and pay no taxes upon it. All the interests they receive is clean gain, All talk about curing this evil by changing the tax laws is simply so much quackery. There is but one genuine rmnmlyy for this and kindred symptoms of moral decay. Tt lies in cultivating a healthy police sentiment which is not afraid to force the richest man to do his duty. This thing of courting and cowering and toadying to wealth must be fought, sten step, everywhere and all the time, by those at the helm of public opinion, whose duty it is to resist the encroachments of shoddy corruption. EDUCATIONAL NOTES, There are 585 Chinese children in the San Francisco public schools, An endeavor to abolish the German langunge in the Louisville high schools has just falled, At Greenock, Seotland, the school board bas just prepaved a series of eight swim- wing lessons for the school children—for girls as well s boys, In the primary schools of Lancaster, Penn,, writing has béen introduced in the first, and second divisions, geography is used as a reading book and oral instruction is given, Thomas 4, Edison has found it necessa- Ty t0 establish o ‘l'll!iufi school in New York for his men, in whichthey can be ed- ucated in the elementa'y principles of wiring buildings for the electric light, Gen, D, H, Hill, who was one of Lee's division commanders, is now president of the Arkansas University. The school has 440 students and General Hill makes a popular exceutive. Mrs. Edwards, of the Carnaervon school of navigation, England, has re. ceived seventy.five pounds from the royal bounty aud special service fund. She has taught navigation to hundreds of mates now in the British merchant service, The study of American classics, or model selections from favorite American authors, both in and poetry, was in- troduced as u half time study during th last term of the Milwaukee high schoo and was pursued with enthusiasm aund s cess, 1 .I"I;bnillll I.mlv-rduu :onlo'rud lug year 566 doctors wenty-nine o Biose being omorasns Thor wors 15,210 students in the eleven Prussian universi- ties last year. P y claimed the largest nuwber, total number of teachers was 948, It is officially stated that the prepara- ol and in essentially the same way. The plea that it is all [} There is accordingly o duplication of stu. | dics which simply wastes time, A discus. sion as to the feasibility of teaching such | branches in primary schools has called out from a New York feacher a relation of an | instance of hoys of nine years who, at the end of ments- renight, were making their own | nd performing simple experi- STATE JOTTINGS, a charch bell. 11 is running. Hebron has street sprinkling, Calvert will soon have a bank. Pilger is to have a ch factory. Hardy i« to have a hroom factory, The railroad has reached O'Neil. Burglars raided Hastings last week, The debt of Adams county is £50,000, \ Work has begun on Osceola’s new court house, A cans mont, Howard is enjoying quite a building boom, Oakland has erected sixty dwellings this swmmer, The spire of Oakdale's Methodist church i raised. Beatrice wants a three thousand dollars school house. Tecumseh is to have a Catholic church, Cost, 5,000, A new Odd Fellows hall will be erected at Fremont, Crete's new mill will be in operation six weeks hence. O'Neil's new Catholic church will be Wailt of Lrick. Furnas county brags of seed onions six inches in diameter, Fairbury wants a brick yard and a man to make brick in it. Alma's wheat market bushels the first day. ‘West Point's new Methodist church was dedicated on Sunday, Stanton’s G, A. R. will attend the Lin- coln re-union in a body Furnas county physi ized a medical associatio Fires have been started in the Union Pacific shops at Grand Island. “The corn and oat crop of Boone county is splendid, but the wheat very short. Kearney ha Superior's 1 factory has opened at Fre- Lought 1,000 ans have organ. Hastings is to have a new bank, to be| A known as the City Bank of Hastings, Elk Croek, Johnson county, is to have a new brick school house at a cost of $1.500., Creighton has organized_organized & post of the Grand Army of the Tepublic. Anew precinct has been organized in Dixon county, called Wakefield precinct. Lincoln ladies are moving in the matters of obtaining a state Home for the Friend- ke The brick machine of the West Point B. & C. association turns ont 20,0000 brick a day. The West Point Butter and Cheese As- sociation will build an addition to their paper mill. The Columbus Driving Park association has purohased forty acres of land for a half mile track. A drink of concentrated lye nearly ended the life of little Johnny Johnson, of Adams county. The Otoe County Sunday-school conven- tion meets in Nebraska City on August 23d and 24th, oon keepers in Fairmont are experi- encing difficulty in procuring the petition- ers required by the new law. A Mr. Campbell, of Seward county, raised a crop of oats this year which aver- aged fifty-two bushels per acre. Damage to the Jefferson connty fair grounds by the spring rains was so exten- sive that no fair will be held this year, More cattle will be shipped from North Platte this season than for. any previous year, Cattle all in excellent condition. The old solliers of Crete are making the necessary arrangements towards the or- ganization of a post of the grand army The amount of money to be distributed at Columbus for the flax sced that has been engaged for delivery is estimated at $40,- 000. The Old Settlers’ re-union of Jefferson, Saline, Fillmore and Thayer counties, is to be held at Alexandria on the 17th of tember. The railroad from St. Paul to ¥t, suff will run on the north side of the river, leaving Scotia, North Loup and Ord in the cold, In atte ing to step on & moving train near Lou| le last week, Mrs, M. D Hartson slipped under the wheels and was fatally injured, A bold attempt of Mr. Boyle, of Cal. vert, to sell mortgaged goods, was foiled las week and the would be swindler com- pelled to disgorge. Mr. Edward Hendley, of Grant, Wash ington county, has a sow which recently gava birth to a litter of thirteen pigs, one with two perfectly formed heads, Mrs. Tauner, of Tecumseh, attempted to commit suicide lvst week by taking sul- phuric ether. A worthless husband was the cause of hertrouble, It is estimated that within eighteen months all of the twe x buildings cently destroyed by fire at Pawnee t{ will be replaced by substancial brick build- ings. The barn, a team of horses and 150 bush- els of oats belonging to A, B, Ilark who lives near Kearney, were cousumed by fire last we Cause, the boys and a box of matches, David City's school board had a wrangle over the removal of partitions in ihe school house, An injunction was gotten ont and served, but not until the partitions were removed, Tecumseh has a local sensation in the attempted shooting of Elder Henry, Scas dals tongue has not been idle respecting certain relations of the Elder in regaad to his parishioners, The contract for ;;vrmlin;; the entire dis- tance of the Union Pacific extension from St. Paul to Fort Hartsuff has been let and will be finished justas rapidly as men and teams can complete it The terminus of the Sioux City & Pacific will be likely to remain at O'Neill city for the halance of the summer and also the coming winter, althongh track-laying will be pusised beyond O'Neill until the cold weather sets in. chlmlru now being taken by the Alma school district to build a three thousand dollar school house this fall. When the building 15 completed a graded school will be established and other arrangements made for maintaining a first-class school at this po The: farmers near the mouth of the Weeping Water are thresk their small grain, and find that their wheat is ranging from five to twelve bushels per acre; vats thirty to fifty, and barley twenty to thirty, Corn bids fair for a much better crop than was anticipated during the dry weather they have just passed through. Last week Judge Baker, of the Medi- cine, sold, on the cars here, 107 stee twos and threes, at the exceedingly g price of $72,50 each, No mistake of the printer in this, for, in words, it was seven- ty-two dollars and fifty cents each, nettin him over seven and one-half thousand dol- lars. The result of feeding these cattle here is so satisfactory that Mr, Baker in- tend to abandon his feeding farm over in eastern Iowa and hereafter feed in Ne- braska.—Sidney Plaindealer, Don’t Throw up the Sponge ‘When luflifln% humanity are enduring the horrors of dyspepsia, indigestlon, or nervous and general debilty, they are too nclined to throw up the sponge and themselves to fate. We say, don't Take DBusnock BLoob Birtess, ‘t‘h ize do it unfailing edy, Price $1.00, trial 10 cents. b 00' eodlw, 7 VEOCIITL SIMMERINGS, In Which Matrimony Has a Large Part. Notes From the Week. SOCIAL NOTES, The movements in Omaha social circles during the last week have not been numerous or startling. On Thursday evening a pleasant party was given at the residence of Mr. Charles Turner on Sixteenth and St. Mary's avenue, Hoffman's orches- tra furnished the music, and dancine was kept up till a late hour. The same evening a pleasant little gathering took place at the residence of Mr Henry W. Yates, when Miss Reba Yates entertained a few of her friends in her usual charming manner. Mrs. G. S. Myerson celebrated her birthday Tuesday by giving a social in honor of Miss Clara Myerson, of St Louis, who is visiting Omaha. Among those participating were the Misses Whitnell, Mary and Ida Freeman, Messrs. France, Shepley, Colley, and many others, An enjoyable time was had by all. HYMENIAL, The number of weddings which have taken place during the past week in which residents of Omaha have been interested parties is reallv alarming for the bachelor brotherhood. On Tuesday afternoon Col. Mat. Patrick, of Omaha, was united in the holy bonds of matrimony to Miss E. 8. Burdett, of Worcester, Mass, The wedding took place at the residence of the bride’s parents and was private. n elegant reception will be given Mr. and Mrs. Patrick on their return to our city. On Monday last Mr. J. Wakefield, the enterprising lumber merchant of this city, was married to Miss Robi- doux, of St. Joseph. A large and fashionaole gathering of invited guests were in attendance to witness the nuptials and the presents were numerous and elegant. Mr Wake- field has many friends in Omaha who will wish him all happiness in his new réelation, YOKES. Rev. Mr. Maxfield tied the nuptial knot uniting Mr. Samuel Parmlee and Miss Mary Albertson last Wed- nesday. Mr. Harry Lee and Miss Rosa Horey were married on Monday last by Rav. W. K. Beans, Mr. Dolph McGregor was married on the 12th inst., at St. Clair, Mich., to Miss Mary Canan. His friends generally were in ignorance of the contemplated step. Dr. Hyde leaves to-morrow for the east and will return with a partner. The wedding of Miss Bertha Tsaacs and Mr. Fred McConnell. of Salt Lake, will take place on Wednesday next at 12 o'elock. A large number of invitatiors are out for the wedding reception which will follow the cere- mony. Polite Personalities. Miss Lizzie Ogilrie, who has been visiting Miss Wyman in this city, ye- turned on Friday to her home in Ot- tawa, Canada, Charles J. Green and wife have " | returned from Lake Minnetonka. Gilbert M. Hitchcock left for De- troit early in the week upon news of Dr, Monell’s illness, The Misses Ada and Eva Gladstone left on Tuesday for Clear Creek,lowa. Mr. Lee Overstreet and Miss Pink Overstrect, of St. Louis, are visiting at the residence of W. A. Sharp, on Douglas street. Major . Stevenson leaves to-mor- row for Baltimore and Wasihngton, to be gone about two weeks, Miss Lottie Lawson has returned from o two weeks' trip to Colorado, A. J. Simpson is onco more shaking hands with his friends, after an ab- gence of some three weeks at Lake Chatauqua, Mr. aud Mrs. Oscar K, gone to Lake Minnetonka. Davis have The Misses Sadie and Emma Bush of Clicago, are in the city, the guests of Miss Nellie Ingersoll. Mr. Samuel Burns and family have returned from the east. Mr. and Mrs. Elbert T. Duke are home again, after a five weeks’ trip through the eastand C #ublic Notice: Omana, August 20, 1881, To the Dealers in Spirituous aud Malt Liquors in the City of Omaha: The undersigned, having been re- quested to act as a committee ‘‘to se- cure by the use of all honorable means the enforcement of the state and municipal laws regulaiing the sale of intoxicating liquors in_this city,” and having accept>d said tr would urge upon you, as fellow citizens, a compliance “with the so-called ‘‘Slo- cumb law,” at any rate that you cease putting yourselves in open opposition and defiance of said law, We ask you in all kindness, can you maintain yourselves for any length of time in open opposition to the law of the land? Tn deciding this question can law abiding citizens and lovers of good order hesitate? We are not strangers to the fact that among the means to evade the law it is suggested that grand juries will fail to indict and traverse juries refuse to convict. We feel authorized to give the assurance that no such tri- fling with law, with justice and de- cency will ever be tolerated in the court oyer which James W. Savage presides. It must be a desperate case where crime would seck immunity from punishment through perjury in the jury-box. Be admonished not to add this to the other offense. of setting a known law at defiance. Let us, therefore, urge upon you, notwithstanding the law may work some hardship in your uiesence therein, that you observe the same and thus avoid the strife and bitter- ness that is liable to follow your per- sistent resistance thereof. A request from you will secure the passage by the city council of the or- | dinance necessary for a compliance with the law, It must be borne in mind that the evils arising from the improper use and sale of liquors are wide spread and every day apparent in this city. We had hoped that the city council would have passed necessary ordi- nance, which would have placed the enforcement of the law in the hands of our ecity government. Such has | peen purposely prevented. It there- fore appears nec ¥, if any pro- ceedings are had, that individual cit- | zens act. Having been reauested to |act as a committee for this purpose, although the duty devolving on us is one that is not at all tasteful, and one which we will enter upon, if con- strained to do so, with no little relue- tance, still when it becomes apparent that it must be performed, it will be, and performed systematically, thor- oughly and persistently. Not alone in securing the enforcement of the law, but in aiding such as are unable to do so themselves, in the prosecu- tion of civil suits for damages arising from the sale of liquors in this city. An impression seems to prevail that in the absence of bond the dealer is absolved from liability for personal damage arising from the sale of liquor, In answer to this erroneous view at- tention 18 called to section 2 of the Slocumb law, showing that the liabil- ity is the same whether bond is given or not, We make no threats, we simply an- nounce a determination to faithfully and conscientiously perform a trust which has been given us, and this we shall dowithno iil willtoward any one. Your fellow citizens, Warsox B. Ssith, OscAr K. Davis, Witniam Fremin, ROSWELL SMITH, J. W. Reegrs, Committee. aug20-1t THE MAYOR'S EDICT Io Close Up the Saloons on Sunday Partially Obeyed. Front Doors Were Kept Wide Open in Some Cases. The city marshal on Saturday night informed the different saloon-keepers that they would have to close up promptly at 12 o'clock, and that they would also be obliged to keep their places closed during Sunday. This measure on the part of the marshal is not under the Slocumb law, necessa- rily, as there already is a city ordi- nance for the closing of saloons on Sunday. The marshal’s mandate was pretty generally observed yesterday, and the old topers were very wrathy A few saloons, however, kent wide open doors, and seemed to make no pretense at closing. These were very soon located by such as were disposed to indulge, and the re- sult was that all who kept open did a rushing business. All of them made than erough to pay the that might be imposed. Many other places were accessible through the rear doors and there con- gregated the old ‘‘soakers” in the greatest delight. In a conversation with one of the aforesaid topers he said that he deemed it as very great infringement on the personal rights of an individual not to be able to get his_regular liquid ‘rations.” Ho said the town would be sure togo to the “‘demnition bow-wows” if the Jaw was not repealed immediately. He took an enlarged view of the sit- uation and talked much on the consti- tutionality of the law. To hear him one would think that he had made the law an especial study for years. He quoted the constitution with rela- tion to private rights and put hypo- thetical cases from which he drew de- ductions quite unanswerable. It was suggested to him that the best way to have the law repealed and regain his private immunitics was to follow Gen, Grant’s advice with regard to bad laws — enforce them strictly until the authorities saw the injustice of them, He said that might be all right, but he wanted to know how the citizens were going to get their toddy in the meantime, He could not be persua ed that the Slocumb law would allow him to drivk at all, and any way it |did away with trea'ing, and that | would work the greatest injury to him, for therein had been his chief means of obtaining drink. Finding him irreconcilable to the change that had been wrought, he was left to pon- der upon the numerous wrongs the temperance people had put upon him, Saturday night there was a great deal of drunkenness noticeable upon the streots, It appeared that many were filling themselves in anticipation of the drought that would prevail yester- day. In many instances they were successful, as their staggering forms plainly showed, thereat. more fine POWDER T e b gestible food. Sold ociy In cans, by AIIG:L‘::‘ ROYAL BAKING,POWDER CO New York, ot P