Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 23, 1881, Page 4

The Omaha Bee. The only Monday Published every morning, exo?, it Sunday. orming dai’,y, TERMS BY MAIL:~ a o ar.....810.00 | Thyee Months $3.00 Months 500 |Ore ¢ 1.00 e w 5, prublished ev. ry Wodnesdny BERMS POST PATD: One Year.... . 82.00 | Thr Six Months. ... 1.00 | One ee Months 50 “ ) CORRESPOND EN( ANl Communi @ations reldting to Newsand Editorial niat, Sers should be adelressed to the Epitor o¥ Tae Dre BUSIN®ESS LETTERS—AIl Dusiness Letters and Remittances should be ad dressed #o THE Oxana PUBLISHTING CoM- PANY, OMAHA. Drafts, Checks and Post- office Orders to be made payable to the order«si the Company. OMLHA PUBLISHING C0., Prop'rs E.ROSEWATER, Editor. John H. Pierce is in Charee of the Circu- ation of THE DAILY BEE. Tur x’nilmnds in politica rmust be et by the people in politics, Tur medical bulletin “‘see-saw” still continues in operation at Wash- ington, Now we are up and now we are down. Buinine railroads on the people’s money and maintaining .them . by plundering the pockets of the public has ceased to be popular among Ne- braska farmers. A great deal these days about but not a word quarter about a Every political {be honestly adn fired a revolver field reformers of declare that this our demoralized Guiteau been an and thought that the no means freo fro fluences. There need for army se; is for civil and we fully s certain branches quartermaster ments. Tre increasing growth of private schoolsand seminaries’ ifi' cug ity s -evidence that our public- schools are not doing the works expected. from. them by the people. Tur heated term in Nebraska has been productive of {a very slight in- crease in the rate of mortality. In this respect our state compares most favorably with any in the Union. Tie arrangements which are daily being perfected by the managers of the coming exhibition of the Ne- braska state agricultural society indi- ~cate that it will be the fairest of the fairs, Tae Queen has given her royal as- sent to the Irish land bill, and that measure has become a law. Glad- stone’s triumph is complete. Tt only Temains to be seen now how the re- form will operate. Wirre THONDER, the Sioux chief, grandly refused to take pay for lands which the Poncas desired on the Sioux reservation, After this when Indian tramps want a home and free lunclh they will be told to go to Thunder. ‘I is evident that the Denver Re- publican hasa personal spite against the editor of the Herald. It remarks that Tur Bee's statement of Nebras- ka's wealth in hogs ‘wns tuken from observation of our Omaha contempo- raries’ headquarters. Jay Gouwp has consolidated the two rival barge lines on the Missis- sippi. He will find it more difficult to consolidate the two great water highways on which, in the mneat fu- ture, fleets of barges fwill bring -our farmers’ prodnee down - the - viver to the sea, LAND monopolists are the bané of Great Britain; One hundred angd four men own 10,439,4332 acres of land in the British Isles. The Duke of Suth- years , _the reau . has <..collected bursed more t be radically reformed, person doubts that our civil service system breeds corruption in our body politic, but the military service is by maintain much there is in the military service. only difference is that scandals ‘and defaleations in the civil servico are mercilessly exposed, while scandals in the army are frequently condoned and publicity is suppressed. During and after the war many millions were lost through detaulting in the commissary and pay How many of these army de- faulters were ever sent to the peniten- tiary? There was corruption among the whisky crooks under General Gran''s administration, and there was also Babeock, During -the past five said and written in civil service reform, do we hear in any Ty service reform. reformer that rails nst the present civil service takes [it for granted that the military ser- | vice always hias been and always will ministered. Guiteau at President G all - the political the country orime is the fruit of civil servico. Had army officer, soldiey or camp follower, nobody would have military servico must Ne intelligent m contaminating in- is almost as much rvice reform as there service reform, there s integrity in of the civil service as The depart- internal ..revenue bu- and dis- han six hundred millions and the losses by defaulters aro less than - quarter.of -one per{lature chose Gov. But the civil sorvice needs re- forming for all that and so does the cent. military service, ber how, some residence to a st trolled ° the supplies, and was a profitable cepted such a mui jobbery. We this department ous progeny, an coupled with the Bluffs, might mention vice reform. while 'we] desire erland contgols 1,200,576 reres. Over 33,000,000 ere e canerolled by o thousand Jone llfifldredfqfl“”?’!flen subjects of the queen. ™ : Ar the anti-monopoly conference at Utica ) ‘o'lr an address to the peo- ple of New York state was issued and & platform of principles adopted. The platform says: “Farmers, - man- ufacturers and merchants _alike demand ' they shall have = ‘ad- vantages which accrue 1o them from their favorable - position, and. that the railroads they have chartered and endowed with privileges shall be operated for their benefit and not for passes by railroad corporations to log- islators is urged, and the enlargement of canals and'free tolls advocated, e— Tuwailuraof the council to pass the Slogumb at its last ses- sion killed that ordinance, and the whole proceeding ‘must . be gone through with as if the ordinance had neyer been introduced. No ordinange: ean pass at one sithing without a suspension of the rules, aud the rales cannot be suspended unlessdwo-thirds of the council sup- port the proposition. - As loug” pg five councilmen oppose the suspension of the rules to allot the proposed ordi- nance to s the law and who favor the enactment of the ordi- ot a i effect, THE PR dtis btlmuning living president without a, chief of - termination, ing the duties question * is ability may not convalescence, purchase forcing the nation whether presidential dis- A few instances of army crookedness within our own knowledge will suffice to show that greed and venality are not very rare in the military service. We. remem- years ago, promi- nent bankers and merchants of Oma- ha made a prezent of a $15,000 brick aff officer who con- of army we presume this investment, but if any officer in the civil service had ac- mnificent gift he would have been charged with bribery and remember how the commanding officer of this department, a major general of the regular army, was in partnership with an army sut- tler at the largest military post in the department, and we presume such partnerships by officers of rank in the civil service would be'looked on as decidedly improper. how another commanding general of We remember had the indecency to demand $1,500 a year from citizens of Omaha to compensate him for the outlay he incurred in renting an elo- gent private residence for his numer- d this demand was threat that if it was not complied with, he-would move the headquarters over to Council In the civil service such conduct would be called blackmailing, We other instances of military thrift ¢in the frortier that would justify a demand 'for army ser- Just now the Howland embezzlement shows that integrity is not exclusively an army virtue, and to8nst no, reflackion ? on army officers in general, wo must remind the political sooth-sayers who imn;’ fifi corruption, venality afd i M pateriey only exiit; inmr:ptiil- ! set WM,}"""“ fi"j%“fl“!.w" Wiscoxsiy has, learned by expe- of our government where the reform broom could be used with beneficial £p AND THE VICE PRESIDENT, mare anil more'clear that a grave governmental crisis is im- pending, in which the country with a may . practically be executive.. General Garfield's illness as yet shows no signs Waekened by oyer seven weeks of pain and fover o is their ruin,” The abolition of fre¢|unable ta perforin the functions of the presidency and incapable of fulfill- of his office. The itselt upon volve the duties wnd functions of chief mdgistrate upon the vice president, fiold is destined.to yecover,lovery indi- cation points to a long and lingering If General Gar- Under these circum- stances it is a serious question whether pels: it is not only the privilege but the duty of Vice President Arthur to gy sume the duties which the constitu- THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: 'I‘I’ FS plios the duty to act in the place of the president. Tt was doubtless the intention of the founders of the re- public that there should always be a man in the executive chair capable of performing the active duties devolv- ing upon the chief magistrate of a na tion, The only matter for discussion is Garfield ‘“disabled” under the constitutional If hois, there can | bo 16 question as to the right and duty of the vice- president to assume the responsibilities of the chief execu- tive. An instance of executive inability almost precisely similar to that caused by ithe illness ‘of President Garfield occurred in South Carolina. Very shortly after the re-election of Gov. Hampton in November he had his leg whether President is now provision quoted, broken by a fall, which confined him to his bed and threatened have a fatal result, The ith Carolina constisution has a pro- vision for meeting the disability of its governor very similar to that of the federal constitution. It devolves the powers and duties of the offict upon the lieutenant-governor, and, accord- ingly, Gov. Hampton, on the 13th of November, made proclamation to the following effect: ““It is my daty to make public an- nouncement {hat serious injury, re- sulting from a painful accident, has produced physical inability on my part to discharge the powers and du- ties of the office of ‘the governor of the state of South Carolina.’ and that the constitution of this state, in such case, devolves the same upon the Hon. W. D. Simpson, licutenant. goy ernor of this ‘state, Tat very day Lseut. Gov. Simpson announced’ by proclamatian that he had entered upon the discharge of the duties and powers of governor. A few months afterwards when the legis- Hampton United States senator, he sent in his resigna- tion to the Acting Goveanor Simpson, who thereupon issued a proclamation, assuming the offize of governor—the powers and duties having been taken on himself betore, In the case of President Garfield a formal notice of disability could not be served on the vice president, but the fact that the president has for weeks been unable to perform any of the functions of his oftice and is not likely to be in condition to perform them for several months affords suflicient notifi- cation to the vico president that the emergency contemplated by thejcon- stitution had arisen. The personality of Mr. Arthur does mnot and cannot complicate .the question, Elected by the veople of the United States, with the full knowledge of the contingency of his temporary or per- manent succession to the presidency, he will be responsible to them for the performance of his public duties, and they, in turn, will have only them- selves to blamoe if he proves an un- worthy substitute for President Gar- field, Much as Tue Ber would re- gret the necessity of such a step, it holds it to be the duty of the vice president when he becomes assured of the executive desi- bility to assume the powers of the presidency and to perform its duties. Just as soon as Presmdent Garfield recovers sufficiently to resume the active functions of his office the vice president.will, of course, be relieved, In our own state and. in. many othex states absence from the state of the goveruor creates a temporary vacancy during the‘existence of which the du- ties of governor devolve upon the licutenant governor, but just as soon a3 the governor sets foot on the soil of his state the authority under which the lieutenant governor performs ex- @eptive functions isat an end, rience how to grapple with the rail- road taxation question, and imposes a quxipnyublu semi-annually, of 2 per ceptof tho gross earnings over $1,600 per mile of the road in addition fo a license of 85 a mile on the length of the road-bed. The semi-annual tax on Wisconsin business of the Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha railway into the state treasury last week was $20,307.45, and the total tax of this corpdration . for 1881 will be over §58,000. Under a system like: thist of Wisconsin, Nebraska's railronds would bear the burden of maintaining the the state government. The 8t. Paul road has nearly as many miles of rosd in this state as it has m Wisconsin, Any system would be Detter than tho present one, by which Mmonopoly “tools are permitted year after year Yo brazenly exempt corpo- ration property from its share of taxes and to saddle the deficioncy upon the SENATOR VORREES, of Indiana, who has been irveverently dubbed ‘*‘the the probable candidate. The last election, he remarks, was lost by two unfortunate blunders which gave Tn- diana and New York to the republi- cans, Tt will be remembered that the “Tall Syeamore” was oven more confident of party success two be repeated. rears ago than he is now ———— y shysters uacks prac- ticing medicine. The American bar as- sociation, which held its annual session last week, has takon up the subject of legal education, and recommends a three years’ course of study in all law nted by the schools shall entitle the holders The first recommendation will meet with gen- eral approval; with regard to the scc- ond, there would be no objection to giving a diploma this weight, if the course of study were always such that the diploma really meant something. But there are many law schools which give diplomas after a very brief period of study, and without any adequate examination of the student's fitness to receive it. To permit the diplomas of such institutions to entitle the holders to admission to the bar not only lowers the professional standard, but it is un- fair to other schools of established reputation. Most young men pre- paring for the bar are chiefly desirous of getting admitted as speedily as pos- sible, and will be likely to select schools where diplomas are most easi- ly and quickly obtained. The exper- iment has been tried in this and other states, and it has never worked well; — Presidential Inability. New York World, Mr. Thurlow Weed discoursed last evening of three occasions in the his- tory of the United States when the vice-president became president by the death of the president who was elected, ““The case of Mr. Tyler,” said Mr. Weed, “‘was the first case of the kina under our goverament. The ques- tion came up in the senate how Mr. Tyler should be styled — whether acting president, president ad interim or president. I do not think it was under consideration—certainly not in those precise words — whether he should be considered a vice-president discharging the duties of president. The discussion was not confined to the senate, but was taken up very generally by the newspapers. No conclusion was reached, and Mr. Tyler was variously styled during his term. T think he was not generally recognized as Frenident, more particu- larly because his course was such as to subject him to a great deal of criti- cism. The larger part of his own party displayed an unwillingness to recognlze him as president. He was more commonly called ‘Vice President Tyler’ than ‘President Tyler.” When asked what Daniel Webster’s views were on the subject, so faras he gave them public or private ex- ])rmssion at the time, Mr. Weed said ho could not recall them, although he was intimate with Mr. Webster at the time. ‘“Was it not a curious coincidence, when viewed in the light of subse- quent historical events ouly eight years later, that Millard Fillmore, then in the house of representatives, should have voted against John Me- Keon's resolution presented when the message came in to call Mr. Tyler ‘acting president? " ‘It was only a tortnight ago, at the Manhattan club,” said Mr. Weed, “that T was mlkin; over that very question with McKeon himself, Fili- more, of course, had 1o expectation that he was forming a precedent for himself and he must have been em- barrassed by it when he afterwards found himself oceupying Tyler’s posi- tion and claiming to be full presi- dent.” #Tyler was frequently, if not gen- erally, called “his accidency,” was he not” “‘Almost universally, I think I was present in the house of represen- tatives when in debate he was called 80 for the first time; but T cannot re- call the name of the member who used the expression that clung to Mr. Ty- ler to his death.” *‘Can you explain’or suggest a prob- able reason why congress never de- fined the word ‘inability,” as applied in the constitution to the president, or provided a mode—for example, a medical certiticate filed with the secre- tary of state—of determining ‘inabil- ity ‘1 was reflecting on the subject and talking on it yesterday, and went back to the constitution to get the ex- act language, My impression is that all such questions are postponed until there is an emergency demanding an answer; and that emergency only oe- curred in the attempt to assassinate General Garfield. In the three pre- ceding cases, the death of Harrison, scliools, and also that diploma to admission to the bar order coungilpeiy It to eral Arthur The very name, dion declarcs age his when the ehief The dispatches regarding an alleged G leading zepublicans iy, v Yo discuss this emergency | doa contradictory and may not be based |.on is, howeyer, certain that Aaeoduce it at - ikt | 1 sz specific facts, the feel- the fupending nocess sity ol action by the yice president i growing even in_quarters where Gen- tall gas-bag of the Wabash,” has de- scended from his high horse sufficient- ly to permit & Post- Dispatch repor to interview him upon the political outlook. Mr. Voorhees looks upon possibility of President Garfield's th as a great misfortune to the country, not because it would be a misfortune national ¢ Senator Yoorhees gsw' the opinion that the “demooracy’'will sweep the country with General Hancock as Taylor and Lincoln prevented an emergeney involving ‘inability.’ " “Do you think congress was afraid of the question? “‘No, I do not; it was never settled because there had arisen no necessity for considering it. Now it cannot be postponed, If congress had been in session during the five weeks since Gen. Garfield’s ‘inability’ to act as president oceurred, it would have nec- casarily received attention, And now, when congress imcets again, whether Gen, Garfield suryives or passes away, the question presents it- self as one of 8o much importance that it will be settled.” *‘Could the vice-president determine question for humself?’ “The result of an attempt on the part of the president to settle that question tor himself would depend upon the circumstances of the case. 1t would become @ popular quesiion, and if the vice president -ho«‘fi:l as- sume such ‘inability’ to exist the pub- lic judgment would determine the question after all, in spite of the vice president. Our people ars sufliciently wntelligent to. cowprehend yues- tion, aud if an ‘inability’ in . of fuct existed the the vice p 43 president at once,” DAY, AUGl T 23, 1881 Soth of these crrors will not | people would accept | Cal t and recognize him | ‘‘Does not an ‘inability’ act like a resignation?” ““I think it does, iynnnfumln. in both cases,” ‘‘Would Aaron Burr, if Jefferson | hiad been shot like President Garfield, Tn effect thoy are They vacate the office | have forced himself, unlike Vice. | President Arthur, into the full presi- | dency? “Most undoubtedly, 1 think Ar thur in this emergency has acted with enlightened consideration and the greatest delicacy.” In_concluding the interview Mr, Weed said he wished to add that Mr. | Filtmore, after the death of Pr Taylor, was recognized and_spoken of everywhoere as President Fillmore — unlike Tyler's case there was no “‘ac- cidency”“—and he was very generally recognized as full president, OCCIDENTAL JOTTINUS. OGALIFORNIA. Diphtheria is raging quite extensively in the lower portien of Amador county. In Humbolt county there have been gathered about 10,000 bushels of wild hlnx-kl»crrio-n this season, Telephone communication has been es. tablished hetween San Jose and the sum- mit of Mt. Hamilton, a distance of twenty miles, The Dblight has attaked the potato eml. of various farms along Coos river, and considerable damage has already re- sulted, A band of elk, numbering from 150 to 200, has heen several times seen, recently, near the Klamath river, in Siskiyou and Del Norte counties, The grape outlook in Sonoma Valley was never more promising than at present, and, no doubt the exceptionally large crop of last year will be exceeded this season, The phylloxera scare is over. A fire, originating from the carelessness of hunters, has been raging for several days in the Gabilan mountains, south of Hollister. It has burned over 3000 acres of vovernment land, besides an extensive area owned by individuals, and has de. ;tmlyed a large amount of timber and stock eed. Sierra City has a population of 400, with 250 at the mine, three miles distant, The rock is only werth from 8250 to 85 per ton, but by economical management it is made to |m§ a dividend cach month. There are thirty-three arastras on the steam below the ‘mine, to work the slum from the quartz mill. WABHINGTON TERRITORY" Colfax has hac an $8,000 blaze. The coal recently discovered on the Palouse is causing more or less excite- ment, Over 100,000 feet of lumber was‘re- ceived at Puyallup during the month of June, Columbia county will have brilt not less” than 12 echool houses by next October during the past year. There is a great demand for all kinds of workingmen on the sound, on farms, in logging camps and saw mills and on the railroads, T'he assessment on all coal lands in King county was raised to the government price of 820 per acre. This move will add about $80,000 to the taxable property of this county. OREGON. has been discovered near the head of Big Butter creck. Diphtheria is raging in some portions of Jackson, many malignant cases being re- ported. Portland witnessed last week the impos- ing ceremonies of the investiture of Arch- bishop Seghers with the pallium. About 15,000 bushels of flaxsead will be harvested in Paradise valley, and nearly 100,000 bushels have been contracted for at. 95 cents. Blight has attacked the potato crop on various farms along the Coos r, Coos county, and considerable damage has al- ready resulted. The Oregon R. & N. Co. has laid its track to & point_eleven miles beyond Bolle’s Junction, where the road branches to Washington territory. A large natural cave has just been dis- covered at the head of Williams creek, Josephine county. It convects a series of subterraneous caverns or chambers, through which a person can walk some 400 or 500 ! yards from the entrance, UTAH, § | in the market in abundancs The floods have done heayy damage to property in the American Fork canyon. Lumber is coming to Salt Lake from Cottonwood and Beaverhead ~ canyons, Idaho. Work on the Salt Lake & Western rail- road is being hindered by a scarcity of surveyors., There are g being imu iron mine: The fruit trees in I are literally breaking down under their loads. The town never saw &' more plentiful crop of fruit. The Utah county board of trade has been awarded a contract to supply the Denver & Rio Grande railroad with 77 000 ties, d prospects of some work tely done on the southern MONTANA, At Benton coal is selling at $13 ton, ‘The water in Smith viver is very low. Deer Lodge county wants more laborers. Fancy prices in real estate rule at Ben- on. to The productions of the Judith valley are rgported to be wonderful, Four weeks run of a mine on Squaw Gulch gave a retort of $4000, The old school house at Sun river has been bought by the people, and will be used as a Catholic church Ll the future, A fire at Hugh City, Baker mining dis- trict, on the Gth inst., destroyed buildings and other property to the amount of $8000, A gentleman from the Judith says that last spring, when he moved there, there were but seven ranches in sight, but fow there are forty. * The western sheep drive ix arvizing a month earlier this season than usual This will give the flocks time to recuperate and get in good condition to winter, Glendive is prospering. The: contra for 500,000 brick made with Manda ties has been cancelled and a new contract for 1,200,000 entered into for railroad work alone, The building activities of Helena were never more noticeable than now. Not less than fifty structures of all kinds are in course of erection, among them many of the largest and most costly mercantile structed in ) 1t is estimated that upwards of $400,000 will have been ex- 'wut!cil in mercantile establishments and | 25 within the city during the present ntana, | e o | NEVADA, Work on the Nevada aud Oregon nar- row gauge is going forward rapidly. There are about 125 or 130 men at work grading on the Eureka and Colorado rails roud, About twenty-five sacks of packed snow are daily sold in Vjrginia City by ne dealer, for use in place of ice. T'iye thousand head of cattle have heen | Td from Winnemucca this season, about two thirds of the aumber coming to ifornia. Eureka Con. has declared its regular monthly dividend of 50 cents, aggregating | ident [© | Watermelons and all kinds of fruit are 5 blocks and magmificent residences yet con- | 000, and swelling the grand total of dividends to #4,705,000. The discovery of & rich ledge near Pal- | ieade in creatine great excitement. A new district has been laid out, called Safford district, and fifty locations are already % has commenced at Mojave, on the A connectin thern Pacific with the Central Pacific at Wadsworth, | The line will pass through Lone Pine and | Independence. WYOMING. Buffalo is prospering and growing rap- {idly, | Johnson county has an assessment of 1,000,000, me's opera house will be com- pleted by December 1st. Continued developments are reported from the Copperopolis district, It is believed that a gang of horse thieves are operating around Laramie. Government surveyors are in cen River locating a road to the South Pass, Work will at once be begun on the sur- vey of the railroad from Laramie to North Park. About 150,000 head of sheep have Deen driven to points on the Union Pacific rail- road from Ogden this season. Thirty-two coal shutes are being built at Medicine Bow, and a large force of men are now at work laying the founda- tions, Theverdict of the corover's jury in the killing of Dawson at Cheyenne, charges C. H, Landreth, Jas, Crawford or Frank Barnes with the murder, A mica mine has been discovered about fifty miles west of Cheyenne, Large sheets, 18x24 inches, have been taken from it. The mica is as clear as glass, Thirty-five thousand dollars has been refused for a half interest. COLORADO. Gunnison has driven out the gamblers, Gunnison has decided to construct two fire cisterns, The daily yield of the Ten Mile mines is about 440 tons. The Eclipse smelter at Silverton is in successful operation, Alma’s new water reservoir will have a capacity of 20,000,000, Nine Leadville mines have paid divi- dends during the year 1881, The Frnin crop on the Mancos is a large one and harve-ters are busy. Fort Collins is looking to Cheyenne for asupply of ice to mend its waning store, Five new mining companies fi'ed arti- cles of incorporation in Denver Monday. The right of through Fort Collins for the Greele; It Lake & Paclfic will cost the town £6,000. The St. John's mine, at Montezuma, Summit county, is valued by its present owners at $400,000 gallons, The mines of Colorado have paid 000 more in dividends than those of any other state in the Union, during this year. Three thousand acres of valuable coal land have just been located in th N Park by the North Park & Pacific compmy. The Greeley, Salt Lake and Pacific has about 400 teams working on the giade be- tween Fort Collins and Greeley and up the canyon. The grading contractors are advertising for 200 more teams, The Alma Smelting company has been organized at Alma with a capital of 8250, 000. The necessary money to build & thirty-ton furnace has been raised, wa. chinery purchased and _shipped, and ground purchssed upon which to build. Gold Park camp is about to come out. This week the newly-erected stamp-mill with nva{)u:ity of 75 tons per day, will start, and hundreds of tons of ore are ready for delivery. Gold bearing veins abound in the vicinity of the camp, and those most interested in the place have strong hopes of a great future, IOWA BOILED DOWN. Tted Oak want a street railway. There are forty-six licensed saloons in Clinton. The Jasp-r county normal was attended by 225 teachers, Le Mars business mien are moving for the o zation of o fire compan; Estherville, in Emmet county, expeots to be a railroad terminus this winter. fonticello, during July, shipped 180,- pounds of butter and” 9,880 pounds of The Turn Verein of Muscatine, is about to ere building 60x130 feet and two stories high, icultural society tt on September use next spring. One hundred and seventy-five hands are at present employed in the Marshalltown cauning works, A dozen buildi in 8 g% are in course | struction in and in the about the town no one knows At Monticello, Ancuct 15th, My, Anthony dropped dead ‘while Tn th for fishing bitss ver, The fifth annual meeting of the District Editorial Ax ion will Le held at Web:ter City, Thursday, October 20t hy 1881, An old landmark at Des Moines is abou to disappear. The old Avenue House is u new in being torn down to make room fo building, o were in Towa, accord- h'e report, eleven cases of fatal sunstroke,and seven cases of death by lightning. The Blanden farm, north of Manson, re- cently turned off 100 steers at ents ver pound, which would bring their aver- age up to X A gang of burglars went through Shells- urg, Tuesday night to the extent of seven houses, securing about %300. Ameng the victims was the postmaster, Pottawattamic county has obtained » judgment of 81,100 against Mac coun- ty for maintaining in the inrane asylum for several years & person said to bilong to Madison county, The first annual encampment of the wa national guards buw been postponed djutant General Alexander to Octor ber 8, "It will be held in Des Moines and continue five days, of Builing. house on 11th, partially decomposed with evidence of death from a musket shot, but whether murdered or suicide s | not known, At Des Moines the Bufialo Glucose npany are putting in 4 stean pump of ty of 5,000,000 gallous f water daily, to test the capacity of Dean lake to supply water for their works. If found wtory the building will be begun at On the 16th inst., while Gustave Poleske was digging out some sand in the bank Jjust south of Malcom, the varth ana sand above fell in on him and killed him in stantly. He was a fanoer; leaves a wife and child, and was 20 years of age—a nac tive of Germany. of Miss Kate Shelley, the ine, have held a meeting to appoint u comwittee to receive the contris butions now being raised for her and o take such uther stejis as may be necessary to secure for her c}m benefit of all that a generons public may bestow. The largest soclal gathering held in Green river is to have a library and|S | veading room. I mie's new firg bell is in place. Tts the Maquoketa | | Ninth | * [of Capt. H. M. Way and wite, at the » 16th inst. Capt, Way is er of that cit and is widely wn in Southern Towa, and esteemed everybody. The captain, his wife and daughter received many valuble silver Presents, Red Oak's water €05 works_eost abor Donds he del the bonds to draw six per cent interest. The city owns the works and rents the water privileges to the citizens at a ve low figure, and receives enough from these rents to more than pay the running ex- penses and interest on the money. And 1o tield s clamorous for o similar systenn. e and other Hamilton raided _the orchard of Wm I'rank Lord, an employe of Mr. Spicer, ordered _them' to halt. The boys, nct complying, Lord gave them the benefit of the contents of nshotgun, A number of small shot found lodgment in the side of young Prestige, one shot taking effect over his eye. His wounds, though painful, are not dangerous, Lord was arrestes held in £800 bail, Alittle child, 8 or 4 yenrs old, was dis covered in front of « moving freight train, about eight_miles west of Davenport on the 120h, The heavy train could not be stopped in time to_save the toddler's life, and Fireman W, Bender weat it op: Hoo foot-beard, reached out beyond the pilot as far as he could, grabbed the child and saved its life. The train was stopped, and the little one was handed over to its mother, a Davenport lady, visiting at the house of Farmer Schraeder, Frank Alumbaugh, the temperance agi- tator, was arrested at Kxira recently, on complaint of saloon keeper namod 1 ohn Workman. ~Alumbaugh's_alleged offense beingexposing his person. The Atlantic Tel- egraph relates the affair as follows: “Mon. day evening after Alumbaugh's lecture, the night being warm, he retired to hix room in the Houston House, undressed in a room in the second story, put on his night shirt, and sat down before an open window to cool off. John Workman, o sa loon keeper, saw himi by the window and called another witness, and then had Alumbangh arrested for indecently ex- posing his person, The trial was held the same night before the mayor, D. L. An- derson, and Alumbaugh was acquitted.” Bradstreet's has a review of lowa in- dustries, and the prominent onesare: Agri- ricultural implements, employing 1, persons; brick and tile, 2,600; flour and grist mill products, 8,000; Tumber, 6,0005 cheese and butter, in factories, 1,000% slaughterine and meat packing, 3,000 more, or some 15,000 persons in all. The admirable water power, the fine coal fields, and the dairy advantages, says Brad- street's, are opportunities m strong com- bination in fowa, but adjacent states shars them, and her growth in manufac- tures is but a type of the expansion of such industry, especially in the west. Don’t Throw up the Sponge. When suffering humanity are enduring the horrors of dyspepsia, indigestlon, or nervous and general debilfy, they are too often inclined to throw up the sponge and resign themselves to fate, We say, don't do it. Take Brirnock BLoon BitTeRs, the unfailing remedy. Price $1.00, trial size 10 cents, eodl AGENTS WaNTED EOn the Fastest Selilog Book of tha Age! toundations of Success. BUSINESS AKD €OUIAL FORMS, The laws of trade, ‘ezal oms, Low to ‘rans. ct buciness, valutble tables, ko-ial etiquette, artamontary tsage, how (0 chuduct pubiic brsine. & 6 f ot it ia's comnlnte Ga'de to Suce coms for a1l olaacs A family necessi v. Adiress. for circ lars and speclal terms, ANCHOR PUB. ANHING O, Rr T, . Mo, OxAnA. July 11, 1881, To Lucy A. Zeller, non-resident; defendant. Youare hereby notified that on the 31st day of May, 1881, William Zeller fileda potition againss youin the District Court of Douglas county, Ne- braska, the obfect and prayer of which are to ob- tain a divorce from you on the ground that you. have been quilty of extreme cruclty towards the plaintiff, without good tause. You are required to answer eaid petition on or before Monday, the 224 day of August, 1581, WAL ZELLER, Plaintiff, By BiMeoN BLoow, his attorney, jyls-wit CARPET HOUSE | J. B. DETWILER, 1313 Farnham 8t., OMAHA, NEB. Body Brussels, 21 sels, 115 to §1 Best i Mattings, Oil Cloth and Widow Shades at Lowest Market Prices. Largest Stock and Lowest Prices, Samples hfl-uislu»xl at yare rling bull, on J s farm, six inilcs west of Omicha, auglowat 4. 1. McELDON, 6000 Agents wanted to sell the Life of PRESIDENT GARFIELD, Including a full and accurate account of his brief but eventful administration; the great c with the “Stelwacts” headed by Conk diabolical attemve to assassinate him, yarticulars of his case, one of the most, er and remarkable on reord, excited cal ‘The intense interest. thousands 1o desire full parti- @ this book must sell Kansas O PROBATE NOTICE, . " aulowit » nty, Avgust 16th, A Preseut, HOWARD B, i A MITH, County S| matler of the estate of Ferdinand Thum, deceased; On reading and filing the petition of Thum, prayiug that the Inatument, th filed and purporting to be the last will and tes mentof the said deceased, may. be proved, ap. l.mw.l, allowed, probated and recorded as the st will and 'testament of said deceased, and that adwinistration of said estato may be grante id um, as execu ri 'hat September 10th, A’ D. 1881, at ock 8. m. is assigned for hearng said poti- tion, when all persony interested in said matter may appear at a County Court to be held, in and for said County, and show cause why the praycr of petitionershould not be granted; and that no- fice of pendency of eaid perition and the hearing thereof, be given 1o all personsin -rested In said matter, by publishing a copy of this order in Tis OMAIA WREKLY Bek, & newspaper printed in said for three succossiy e weeks, |rior to sai 1 g HOWARD B. SMITH, County Judge, 8tate of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss: At a County Court, held at the County Coupt Koom, in‘and for said County, August ‘1st, A D, 1501 Prosout, HOWARD B, 8MI0H. County Judge, Ln the matter of the estate of Joseph I, Nel. sou, decensed cading and filing the praying that t| yutition of Martha y Instrument, pur- orting to bo ‘a duly anthenticated copy of the fast will and testament of waid deceasd, wud of the probate thercof, by the Cireult Court of Fountain County, State of Indiania, and this flled in this Court, may be allowed and record 28 the last will and testatent of wid Joseph 1 Nelson, decensed, in and for the State of Ne. brask. D. 1881, at 10 & said petition, uterested in said matter may [ " , in and for s4ld County, and rhow cause why the prayer of petitionershould not be granted; and that notios 0f the pendency of said petition and the hearing. thereot, by given to all porsons intercsted 1y matter, by publishiug copy of this order in Tax OMAuA WERKLY Bie, & nowspaper printed in said County, for three successive wecks, prior to said, day of hearing. [A true copy.) HOWARD B. SMITH, l'? by Judge. PUBLIC KINDERGARTEN, Couucil Blufls, lowa. Conducted by Miss Sura Eddy, of Chicago, Ills, Will begin Eopt. 5, 2881, M1 i W R A ) Creston fur year was given in honor of the twenty-Gfth anniversary, of the marriage 981 Boniue St., Chica, Norwal Kg. Course, For particalars apply wadl August 20th, to 30. 210wk