Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 24, 1881, Page 4

e ————————— i The Omaha Bee. Pablished every morning, except Sunday The only Monday morning daily, TERMS BY MAIL. ar......$10.00 | Three Months $3.00 Months... 500{One .. 1.00 RMS POST PATD £2.00 | Three Months.. 50 .00 | One LW, GORRESPOND! All Communi sations relating to News and Editorial mat- ters should be addressed to the Epiron o¥ Tue Der. BUSINESS LETTERS—AI Business Letters and Remittances should be dressed to TR OMAHA PUBLISHING Co! pANY, OMANA. Drafts, Checks and Post- otfice Orders to be made payable to the order of the Company, OMAHA PUBLISHING 00, Prop'rs E.ROSEWATER, Editor. John H. Plerce is in Charge of the Circu- ation of THE DAILY BEE. 700-3 is king in Nebraska. Tr looks as if ignorance is Bliss. The grain boom is just at present the farmers’ salvation, Ir is rumored that a general railroad wstrike in impending which will be as universal as that of 1877. —— SEWERAGE, pavements and gutter- ing are topics upon which Omaha cannot gain too much information. [ - GuiTrau's craziness will probably incremse if the present unfavorable news from the White House continues. DeADWOOD is trying hard to encour- age a carbonate boom but the attempt is said by knowing ones to be a sickly failure. REAL estato isrising and house rents increasing. Meantime visitors to our city are frightened away by inflation prices, ‘T'ue war of the monopolies agninst the rights of the people will be met by # war of the people against the wrongs of the monopolics, —— SWEDEN sent 6,067 immigrants to this country during July against 8,779 for July of last year. This exodus may be called tho Swedo bye-bye. Canvmoares for county offices are now beginning, to show their heads above the lorizon and wear an un- wonted smule towards prospective voters, By the time the third state fair is hield in our city Omaha will have two suctropolitan hotels in whioh to care for the guoests visiting the metropolis of Nebraska, INsIDE construction rings in rail- road schemes by which the people pay for mew roads and the managers pocket the proceeds are not popular in Nebraska, — Tag republican campaign in Ohio is not making much noise, but Charley Koster is doing a great deal of silent and effective work, He discounts the Bookwalter engine for reserved nower. — THE gran speculation in the cast is at feyer pitch, A few weecks hence the lambs will be bleating piteously over the general lowering of the mar- ket temperature. emm—— [ Our city council is yet to be heard fromon the fire ordinance question, The growth of our city and the pro- tection of property aliko demand an oxtension of the fire limits, Se————— Virainia has a colored population of 632,000. The Mahono readjusters control 40,000 votes. As the blacks propose to vote with the party which promises them equal rights and a free franchise, a victory for the Mahoneites seoms one of the probabilities of the future. — AMoxa the new officers just elected by the American bar association for Towa are George G. Wright, vice president, and Oliver P. Sheras and John M. Rogers local council, For Nebraska, James M. Woolworth, vice president, jand James Laird and Charles F. Manderson local council, " e—— Muxyesora, one of the most re- liable Wheat raising states, has har- vested a very light crop this season, According to the Pioneer,Press the average lowest yield in Bouthern Min- uesota is three bushels per acre and the highest twenty bushels, but the avel ) state is estimated at — Accorving to The Bt. Louis Past- Dispateh the managers of the Missis- sippi barge line deny the reported betweon the two rival Notwithstanding this denial the belief is general in St. place, but that there is Zfifi'fi.ma the conselida- tors to keop the compact secret. STATE AND LOCAL DEBTS, The total local indebtedness of the United States is $1,060,076,499, or about 56 per cent. of the national debt of the United States. Of this sum nearly £600,000,000 18 divided among the cities of the country, $225,- 000,000 is classified *county, township and village indebtedness, whilo the remaining £250,000,000 is apportioned as debts of states, The resenrches of the census burean, which havo been most thoroughly prosecuted by Mr. Robert P. Porter, show that while local indebtedness has grown during the last fifteen years at a very rapid rate, state in- dobtedness shows a much smaller comparative increase. The state debts to-day aggregate only $37,000,000 more than the same class of indebted- neas forty years ago, while the assessed valuation of property has over $13,000,000,000. According to Mr, Porter, in 1842 the western states were in debt $569,931,6562, the south- orn states §73,340,017, and the mid- dle states $73,348,072. 1In 1852, the first reliable report of the valuation of property, the southern states ex- coeded in wealth the middle states by $806,169,366, and the western states by $1,609,769,683. To-day the debts of the latter sections are 845,672,676 and $36,665,360 respectively; while the south, before repudiation owed $273,205,185, and to-day recognizes $113,967,242 debt. The valuation of property in the middle states has in- creased sinco 1852 from 81,693,266,« 934 to §5,316,699,187; of the western states from $807,600,617 to $5,632,- 159,609; while the southern states, partly owing to the removal of slaves from the personal property column of the auditor’s books--which has in no wiso impoverished the states—- andpartly due to a general un- dervaluation of property, has de- creased from $4,8061,970,635 in 1860 t0$2,220,144,381 in 1880, Municipal indebtedness shows much more startling figures, New England 18 debited with $120,450,737 of bonded and floating obligations; the middle states with nearly $400,000,000; the southern sjates with 875,684,237; the western states ‘with $112,469,996, and the Pacific coast with an indebtedness of 85,672,703, making the enormous total of $710,635,924. From this must be deducted $117,191,506, the amount of various sinking funds leav- ing a total net debt of nearly $600,- 000,000. Mr. Porters expresses the opinion that within the last five years tho re- form in our wmunicipalities has been carnest and effective and that a much more cheerful view can be taken of our condition in this regard than at any time since the war. The general healthy*financial condition of thecoun- try, the development of our resources and the vast immigration pouring into the country - all have aided in bring- ing about sounder methods of mu- nicipal business and have necessitated less borrowing. This criterion of excessive borrowing is the property valuation of communi- ties. Debt incurred to develop re- sources which in turn will increase wealth and the tax paying power of a city is often nothing more than judi- cioug investments. Local rings and municipal thievery do more to roll up heavy debts and increase taxation than all the legitimate taxes in the shape of bonds voted by cities for im- provement purposes. With simply kept accounts and free discussion of every measure tending to decrease taxes our municipal debts will soon show a decrease as marked in propor- tion as that which has in late years marked the course of our national and stato indebtedness, S— Tie attempt of Leo Hartmann, Russian nihilist, to establish his right of asylum and even citizenship in the United States, notwithstanding his complicity in the = assassination of Alexander II., of Russia, will be likely to raise s grave question of in- ternational comity. If the authorities of the United States should protect him from arrest, upon what ground could they demand the arrest of Gui- toau lhuu{d he escape to Russian ter- ritory! —Chicago Herald, Upon the ground that no man in this country is deprived of life or lib- orty without due process of law. In this republic even an assassin is held to be innocent until he has been in- dicted, confronted by witneases to his crime and tried and found guilty by a jury of his peers. In Russia an irre. sponsible despot is sovereign, judge and executioner, His will alone is law, and from that will there is mo appeal. His erder sends a man or woman to the scaffold, puts them to torture, forcegthem into deadly dun- geons or sends them in chains to Bibeyia. ’ The fundamental principle that underlies the right of extradition is that non-political eriminals, against whom a prima facia case is made out, are surrendered for trial in the try in which the crime was alleged have been committed. We surrender only those whom, from the nature of the acousation, we think will have a To surrender a person acoused of political assassination in -despotic Russia would be to turn him over to the merciless executioner, with a full knowledge that any trial, even if granted, would be & mere farce. We do not allow our citizens, no THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, AU matter how black their offonces, to be | tried by Turks, Chineso or Japanese, | or any other nation which we recog- | nize as in any degree barbarous, be- cause wo think they will not receive | fair pl | subjected to cruel and unusnal pun- | ishments, Carl Schurz who made international law and extradition study strikes the key note of this question when he saya in a recont review of David Dud ley Fields' proposition to include po- litical nssassing among the criminals subject to extradition. Wo trust no nation to investigate political crimes without passion or prejudice, no matter how pure its ad- ministration of justice may be, es- pecially no mation with a despotic government, If we are to make an exception to this rule in the case of assassination it ought not to be made in favor of any country the govern- ment of which is above the law, and which, like Russia or Turkey, Is ruled by the prince's will. Noither our laws nor our morality allow us totreat any man as guilty until he has been provett to be so under rational rules of evidence. We surrendercriminals, therefore, assassins as well as others, for trial, not for punishment simply; we surrender them also to judges, not to enemies, We do not give the thief up to the man whom he has robbed, but to the ofticers of justice. And we cannot give even an assassin up to the man whose life he has attempted, even if he is a sovereign, let attempts on the life of rulers be never so terrible orso frequent. We cannot, in short, sur- render any criminal to any states that are not law governed, or in which the meanest man can be deprived of his life or liberty by an executive order. Even if we were certain that Gui- teau will escape to Russia and Russia would retaliate by refusing to give him up, we should still deem it more humane and just to let Guitaau escape than to commit this republic toan unrepublican principle in the extra- dition of political criminals, y or might, if econvicted, be THE anti-monopoly conference held last Thursday at Utica, N. Y., wasa representative gathering. Among those present were men whose promi- nence in trade, whose sound judg- ment and high personal integrity gave a weight to the conference which will strongly influence public opinion upon the great question of the day. The prime object of the meeting was to organize and concentrate public sen- timent upon the necessity of a bold stand against monop- oly oppression and to® lay the foundation for a canvass in which state and national legislation will be invoked for the protection of the peo- ple and the regulation of the railways, The address issued by the conference, which ' we publish in full, was clear, concise and comprehensivo, The resolutions accompanying it ad- vised organizea action on a non- partisan basis, through a searching investigation of the records of zandi- dates for the people’s suffrage. A few years ago New York denounced in unmeasuryd terms what it was pleased to call a revolut.onary tendency of the west. Opposition to railroad dominations was termed an onslaught on the rights of property and a germ of socialism which the press of the great metropolis felt it their duty to repress. Since that time the iron hand of the corporations has been felt on the throat of eastern commerce and the opponents of the western grangers have themselves be comes the advocates of the very prin- ciples which they formerly denounced. The growth of the sentiment in favor - of national restric- tion of railway corporations is proceeding with rapidity which in- dicates how surely tne need of such regulation is felt by the whole coun- try. The western granger and the eastern merchant, the middleman and the manufacturer, the producer and the consumer, are uniting on a com- mon platform which must sooner or later become a strong and prominent issue in pohtical campaigns, Tue city council has adjourned for two weeks without taking any action whatever on the proposed ordinance to license the liquor traffic, This vir- tually means lawlessness and turbu- lence for at least six weeks, possibly until after the tall elections, If the object of the representatives of the li- quor interest is to arouse public sym- pathy for themselves and a general popular uprising in favor of the repeal of the obnoxious law they will be sadly disappointed, Thisis a law abiding community, and while the great majority are lib- erally disposed they will give very lit- tle aid and comfort to any class ‘that willfully defies the laws, or interferes with their execution, Outside of Omaha the Slocumb law has gener- ally been acquiesced in without. ve- sistance. In mang towns and ' cities the liquor dealers have given their bonds and taken out their license un- der the new law; hence the attitude of Omaha in refusing to enact the or- dinance and encouraging organized defiance of the law will meet with no popular sympathy, If the main object of the liquor dealers is to pun- 1sh the republican party by electing domocrats to the various county offices, they may also be diseppointed. The very fact that the democratic candidates for sheriff, county judge, gtc., are to become the representa- tives of any organization pledged to violate law and obstruct its proper|in enforcement, wonld react and rally | all citizens not directly interested in tho liquor traffic to the earnest sup- | port of the republican ticket. But even {f tiie programme to elect demoeratic ofiicials in this coumty should succeed, what good will it do the men who desire more liberal li- cense regulations for the liquor traf- fict What does it matter who is elect- ed sheri commissi grand jur obey? treasurer, county judge or ser under the law which and courts are sworn to The men who sell liquor in violation of the law will be indicted and punished, and by the time the city school fund s exhausted the reaction will revolutionize our city government at the next spring clection. The £1,000 license ordinance will then be passed and rigidly enforced. How much bet- ter off the men who are now urging resistance to the law will be by that time we cannot conceive. Last winter a law was onacted by the Pennsylvania legislature providing for the punishment of fraud at pri- mary elections. Tho first practical attempt to enforce 1t was made last week by the democrats of Luzerne county. According to all accounts it worked satisfactorily. In Ohioa sim- ilar law has been in operation for sev- eral years and the result has been a decided improvement in the system of primary elections. In Nebraska and especially in this city primary election reformn is sadly needed, and until these elections are regulated by law and frauds at primaries are punished as crimes, caucuses and conventions will be packed by non-residents and repeaters, ballot-boxes will be stuffed and other shameful abuses will con- tinue, Party nominations procured by such means usually fail to enlist the support of the masses and the out- come at the elections is humiliating defeat, Tue movement towards an. exten- sion of hospital facilities of St. Jo- seph’s hospital should meet with the cordial support of our citizens. For a number of years past the praiseworthy institution has been conducted under serious disadvantages without ostenta- tion and with a free tender of its beds to all patients without respect to creed or mnaticnality, It is the on- ly public hospital in our city. Carried on by those who have devoted their lives to the eare of the sick and suffering it has never pressed its claims for public recogi- tion, but has fulfilled its mission as best it could under discouragement which need only be known to be ap- preciated. Tur Bre is glad to en- dorse cordially the efforts of a number of our prominent citizens towards providing this worthy institution with the means of a greater and more ex- tended usefulness, ‘T editorial staff of The New York Herald is to be reorganized at an early day. Charles Nordoff is to be the leading editorial writer, with J, R. Young and Joseph Howard, Jr., for assistants, while the managing editor- ship is transferred fiom T B. Connery to Francis Lawley, a graduate of The London Telegraph, ex-member of par- liamement, and an uncle of Lord Wen- lock. Mr, Nordoff has acquired a na- tional reputation as a clear headed and forcible writer and there is'no doubt his advent as chief editor will be followed by a marked improvement in the editorials of the great New York daily. Railroad Tax Shirkers. Kearney Press. In our last issue, we had something to say about the Union Pacific railroad company evading - the tax on their lands which are located ten miles and upward from the line of their road. These lands are very valuable now, and the value is enhancing every year, yet because the road has not seen proper to take out their patent on them, our board of county commis- sioners has failed to assess them, It will be remembered that some time since the road employed a man named Platt to file on a quarter section of the land in question, in order to make up a case and get a decision in favor o} the company, as it was held at that time by Secretary Schurz that the road had forfeited thes@lands, and that they should be opendd for home- stead entry, This poor and beggarly corporation and great American men- dicant went into the court with the roof aud plea that the lands had en mortgaged for millions of dollars aud that they had received and had the use and "benefit of the money for years, and therefore these lands could not be reclaimed by such an in- significant pration as the govern- meut of the United States, and upon such proof the court held that the ties loaning the money to the road stood in the position of inno- cent purchasers, and therefore had a title to the land. Of course it was generally known that the lenders of the money were one of the with- in the ring or, in other w the principal stockholders of the road, in order to hold these lands without complying with the law under which they were ted and to avoid taxa- tion, loaned this money to themselves and took a mortgage on the land for it, to beat the government and the people. Yet, they are outside of the penitentiary, and are engaged to.day in fixing the price you are to receive on the products of your lands, which are taxable, whilo you are adding to the value of th:irr"l, fllm‘ h:gt taxable. The co say s ‘h‘: ‘}:i‘ govornn\l)ml l;fld-l. ;M they have passed by mertgage to inno- cent partics, and the railroad says you must not tax them because the title is the government, and the govern- |ment lands are sacred. What! tax lands to which the government has never yet given its patent, This idea sounds like treason toa Union Pacific official, so great 18 his rever- ence and respect for our ‘‘greatest government the world has ever seen. It is true that the land of the home- steader, who has lived five years on | his claim, is taxed, whether he has taken out his patent or not. But what has the homesteader done forthe country? He has not stolen £200,000,- 000 or $300,000,000 trom the general government. He has not robbed the nation of millions of acres of its most fertile lands. He does not refuse to pay his taxes. He has not erected gambling placer in Wall street in which to rob dealers in stocks, He has not built over the Missouri river a National Stealing crib, called, mag- nanimously, the Union Pacific bridge. Ho does not, rob the peopls of this section of the state of 20 cents on every bushel of grain they produce. He does not stand in the legislative halls and demand immunity for crimes committed, and therefore is mnot generally known by our grand and glorous government, and could not reasonably expect to be recognized. since it has been so long since he had anything to do with or say about the overnment of his father’s house. &Von]d it not be well to wake up, friend homesteader, mechanic, laborer and business man, and assert your rights? Would it not be well to tax the property of thia insolent, bigoted and corrupt monopoly? If the U. P. corporation can mortgage their Jands, they have sufficient tit'e to pay taxes on them. 1f they can sell them on ten years’ time, at u¥" cent interest, and give their bond for a deed they are entitled to pay taxes upon them, and the man, men or ceurt, who de- clarc otherwise are either the pliant tools of the company or their pur- chased goods and chattels, whether they be courts or com missioners, This soulless corporation has a cap- italized wealth of 100,000 per mile, upon which you have to help pay them a dividend of ten per cent and their main line is assessed only 811,000 per mile. If it was assessed at two-phirds of the amount upon which youmust pay for riding or ship- ping over it, it would pay taxes on $066,000 per mile. Tt has 40 miles of track in Buffalo county, and at $66,- 000 per mile, with a taxation of 6 per cent, it would pay to our county treasurer $170,400. If the taxation was reduced to 3 per cent, it would amount to $85,200. Would it not be justice for them to pay these sums? Do you wish them to bear their share of tlee burdens of taxation in the fu- ture? If you do crganize and propare to elect men who will be true to themselves and to you. There is danger ahead, if you delay longer, in assuming control of the affairs of state. POLITICAL POINTS. Senator George says that the defeat of Lis colleague, Senator Lamar, would be a “calamity not only to Mississippi, but to the whole south,” The press of Iowa does not favor the dual candidacy of John A. Kasson for speaker of the house of representatives and United States senator. Senator Thurman’s red bandana will wave in Ohio early in October. The sena- tor doesn’t seem to be over zealous about the fortunes of Pocketbookwalter, Boss Keyes' fine hand is said to be dis- cernible in the management of the War- ner boom in_ Wisconsin, while the federal regency of Milwaukee are not yet decided as to which is the biggest gubernatorial boat. Ex-Senator Wallace, of Pennsylvania, has retired from the practice of law s well as from politics, to devote himself to his bituminous coal interests. His intel- lect is beautifully shaped for the coal trads ix-Gov. Curtin will make an adJress at the first annual reunion of the ‘‘Sixteen- ers,” or the graduates of the soldiers’ or- rlmm' school of Pennsylvania, which will be llluld at Harrisburg on 24th, 25th and 20th, Ex-Treasurer F, E. Spinner declines a seat in Congress because of his ‘‘sense of propriety and justice to others.” Itis so rare that a declination is put on such g‘rnlmlls that many will regret that Mr. Spinner feels called upon to ment.on them, Figures of the late be pasted in the haf last year, 83,630; Readjuster Democratic vote, 3L.527; combined anti-Bourbon vote, Sourbon vote, 96,449; majority of combined anti-Bourbon vote over Bourbon vote, 18,717, The republican state central committee of Georgin at a recent meeting passed a resolution rather condemnatory of a future alliance with the independent democrats of the state, who, as soon as elected to office by the aid of republican votes, have resumed their old relations with the bour. bons, Judge Allen, who will be appointed to the Massachusetts supreme court bench, was appointed to the superior court in 1872, and is the fourth member of that beuch wlio has been promoted to the bench of the supreme court, Mr. P, Knowlton, who will succeed Judge Allen in the lower court, is a member of the Massachusetts senate, He was graduated from Yale col- ia election, to Republican vote legein 1860, i The federal officcholder in Vitginia is greatly troubled. naer which king?” s the conundrum which he labors earnest- ly to solve. It is not so long since Com- missioner Raum discharged a revenue offi- cer because he lent the light of his counte- nance, personal and official, to the repudi- ators, Raum telling him that “to exert his influence to secure the readjustment, which meant the repudiation, of the debt of Vir- ginia was looked upon by thinking men as mmoral and inconsistent with the dignit of an official.” Now, however, the cabi- net officers are wheeled into line for Sena- tor Mahone, and the federal official who would repudiate repudiators is made to feel that he must do it at the peril of his official existence. Mr. Barksdale, who was an anti-Lamay candidate for the democ nomination for governor of Miuiuifiy , thus accepts his personal defeat but the victory of his faction in a short editorisl articlé in his own newspaper, the Jackson Clarion: exciting and protracted, but finally re- sulted harmoniously, General Robert Lowry, the candidate for governor, is a Amnu' rxn. lnc:.l:rill :ln:lhn t.};la lent?\‘:‘nl» asm of the people, and the whole ticket will be suj with like zeal and de- termined effort to achieve success. Our paper is going to press as the last nomina- tion is_made, and we have no room for wmore than this bare announcement and for sending greetings to the democracy of the whole state. The employment_of female clerks was ounnidsr«rby the civil service commission in Canada, "It was deemed not advisable to umplo{lflum for this reason: 1t would be necessary that they should be placed in reoms by themselves, and that they should be under the immediate supervision of a person of their own sex; but we doubt ver{.much if sufficient work of similar character can be found in any one department to furnish occupation for any considerable number of female clerks, ujkvuuu certainly be inadvisable to I GUST 24, 1881 place them in small numbers throughout the departments, The howl of indignation that will go up at thie from the female suffragists in the United States is quite too awful to con- template, PERSONALITIES, Gen. Grant is the sword of the natiom, but Dr. Bliss is the pns, Vanderbilt is healthy at sixty, notwith- standing that he wears no mustache. Patti wears false hair and_picks her black braids with great care in Paris, Talmage i« preaching at Saratoga. He has never yet been induced to handle a toy pistol, © ¢ Peoplo have their weather eyes on Ha- ven and Vennor. They Lave experi- mented long enough. Alexander Mitchell, the richest man in the Northwest, owns a_house in Milwau- kee which cost 81,500,000, Dan Rice s getting a divorce from his wife. The poor woman couldn't lsugh at his gray-haired circus jokes. The oldest child of Mrs. Huff, of Clin- ton, T1L, is eighty-one years of age, Mrs, Huff herself is a giddy thing of 100. ““T'he contest for the various offices was | resi Whitelaw Reid was shocked in London at being taken for Oscar Wilde. Mr. Reid is too modest—he does not half appreciate his points, Yum Yum, a young Chinaman from Boston, drowned himself in the Neponset river, from home.sickness. It was not a case of yumn yum, Mr. Hayes has at last received employ- ment. He is sole executor of the will of Mrs. Abigail Warren, with an estate of $20,000 to distribute. The wife of Wm. Black, the author, is blonde, and a lady of more than ordin- ary ability. The novelist is a fine-looking ‘man, and ready story-teller, Don Curlos proposes to spend the au- tumn in Scotland, and inquiries have been made with a view to_his renting a villa at Bridge of Allan or Callandar., Iron Eyes, the father of BriYht Eyes, has six wives. Did Editor Tibbles realize when he married, how many_mother-in- law's he was getting?--Boston Post. Comanche Bill says Buffalo Bill is no frontiersman, and Buffalo Bill says Co- manche Bill is a tenderfoot fraud. These gentlemen seem to be pretty well acquaint- ed with each other. The three prettiest young women in Newport society this summer are said to be Miss Perkins of Boston, Miss Cham- berlain of Cleveland, and Miss Montague of Baltimore.—[New York Tribune, T, Mary Walker is in Washington, The Palmers having had their family reurion, the Coffin family will next meet at Nantucket. The offin family on earth i8 not very extensive, but the Coffin fami- Iy under ground embraces pretty mach the whole human family of the departed gen- erations, Frank Walworth, who shot his father in New York some years ago, is now at Sara- toga, where he has achieved a good deal of success as a tennis player. It is said that he will shortly marry a beautiful young heiress, who has spent several summers at the springs. Cadet Whittaker has written to a party in St. Louis offering to lecture throughout the country for six months for the ex- tremely modest compensation of £3000. Mr. Whittaker's ears are evidently longer than was popularly supposed. They wiil bear cutting again. Sitting Bull’s home is to be loc: Dakota, where he will chew re beef and be treated in all respects I common Indian, It would be a pi kill b and yet it would be che keeping him. ~Bug then, if we kee tean, itwould be a burningshame to kill an “Ingun.” Col. Benjamin F. Weymouth, who has just died in New , Dore a_striking re- semblance to President Lincoln, both in features and figure, and is said to have been several times mistaken for him in the street. After Lincoln's assassination Col, Weymouth sat several times for pictures and statuettes of the president. % Mme, Mustache—the only name she had--who, in the old days of Cheyenne kevt ‘a gambling house ‘there and was known in the sawe business in other far western towns, died not long ago in Idaho from poison administered by herseli, She was an expert gambler, and at one time was very rich; hut bad luck overtook her, and when she died she was penniless and friendless, Asphalt Pavements. The English have hit on a way of preparing asphalt for roads which is said to add greatly to its durability and value as a paving material. It is thus described in The London Times: Although the value of bituminous asphalt for paving has long been recognized, it has always been felt that one of its defects is a wanv of density, while another is its slipper- iness under the influence of slicht moisture, To remedy the first of these defects heavy road rollers have been used, while for the second sharp sand or some other similar material has been introduced into the body of the bitumen, The most recently de- vised method of treating it in order to remove these drawbacks, and apparently the most successful, consists in combining liwestone with the bitumen and molding the compoqud under pressure. The llme- sfone is crushed,” heated, and mixed with the bitumenat a tempereture of 252 Fahrenhei., the stone having a great affinlty for the bitumen when heated. ~ The combination is then pressed into rectangular blocks of con- venient size in molds uder a pressure of about fiity tons. The blocks are then submitted to a: cold-water bath until they are cold and ready for use, They then form a paving material of great density, and in which the angu- lar points of the limestone arealways being developed under traffic. A per- manently rough surface is thus pro- duced, which, combined with the | orrcks formed by the joints o the blocks, preseats an exoeilam foothold for horses. A portion of the roadway in Quevn Victoria street, adjoining the Mansion house station Metropoli- tan District railway, has just been laid with this material, which has been in use for some time past in the United States with excellent results. Don't Throw up the Sponge When suffering humanity are enduring the horrors of dyspepsia. indigestlon, or nervous and general debilly, they are oo often inclined to throw up the sponge and ign themselves to fate. We say, don’t doit, Take Buknock BLoon Bitregs, the unfailing remedy. Price $1.00, trial size 10 cents, eodlw, OxanA. July 11, 1861, To Lucy A. Zeller, non-resident; defcadant. Youare hereby notified that on the Slst day of May, 1851, William Zeller filod a petition e fouin the'District Court of Douglas county, Ne- raska, the object and prayer of which are 1o ob. tain a divorce from Jouon the ground that you have been guilty of extreme cruclty towards the e, widhout caxt cause, Vou are required AnsWer sai on or 24 day of Auglat, 1561, i antor; oo . WM. ZELLER, Plaintifr, By Bubox BLoow, his attoruey. 318 ik PUBLIC KINDERGARTEN, Council Bluffs, owa. Conducted by Miss Sura Eddy, of Chicago, Lils, Will begin Fopt. 6, 1581, Miss Eddy will re- seive a tow woll-qualified ladi g e Yol-qualife o8 to in Ahe CHEA? LAND FOR SALE. 1,000,000 Acres —=OF THE— FINEST LAND ] N EASTERN NEBRASKA. SeLxoTeD IN AN EARLY DAY—NOT Rar Roap Laxp, sur LAND oWNED BY Now RESIDENTS WHC ARE TIRED PAYING TAXES AND ARE OFFERING THEIR LANDS AT THEN LOW PRICE OF $6, $8, AND $10 PER AoRR ON LONG TIME AND EASY TRRMS, WE ALSO OFFER FOR SALE IMPROVED FARMS — N Douglas, Sarpy and Washingtom COUNTIES —_—— ALSO, AN IMMENSE LIST OF OmahaCityRealEstate Including Elegant Residences, Busines and Residence Lots, Cheap Houses and ts, and a large number of Lots in moat of the Additions of Omaha, Also, Small Tracts of 5, 10 and 20 acrce in and near the city, Wehave good oppor tunities for making Loans, and in all case personally examine titles’ and take every qutlun to insure safety of money so invested. Be ow we offer a smal list of Srroras BaARoAINs, BOGGS & HILL, Real Estate Brokers, 1408 North Side of Farnham Street, Opp. Grand Central Hotel, OMAHA, NEB. 103 A beautiful residence lot California between 220d and 23 stroets, $1600. BOGGS & HILL. Very nice house and lob FUR SAL on Uth and Webster etree with barn, coal house, well cistern, shade an fruit trees, everything eomplete. ‘A desirable piece of property, figures low UGS & HILL. FOR sAL Splendid _busine: I L corner of 16th FOR SALE i itoomer chicago BOGGS & HILL. FOR SALE housc, 5 rooms, half lot; only $1500. 7 blocks from court house, LOUGS & HILL. FuR SALE House of 5 rooms with § lot, near business, ¢ood locations $1650. BOGGS & HILL. FOR SALE Corner of two choice lots in Shinn’s Addition, request to at once submit best cosh offer. BOGGS & HILL. FOR SALE &ufpoperisinmae ™ A ’ ul')G S & HILL. A FINE 87N nohe maskes BOGGS & HILL. FOR SALE &iftnilty i 2 = BOGGS & HILL FOR SALE &y soatiencs ot te o fine house, ¥2,300, BOGGS & HILL, FOR SALE About 200tots in Kountzo & Ruth's addition, just south of St. Mary's avenue, $450 to £500, Theso lota are near business, surrounded by fine improve ments and are 40 per cent cheaper than any othe lots in the market, Save moncy by buying thea lois. BOGGS & HILL, FOR SALE 10ots, suitable for tino rest dence, on Park-Wild avenue & blocks 8. . of depot, all'covered with fine larg trees, Prico extrewely low, 8600 to $700, TOGGS & HILL, FOR SALE oy, sicnoer tote BOGGS & HILL, FOR SALE Siab.comsialcs, cmee BOGGS & HILL. FOR SALE &t s, 2 sy 3 5 between Farnham, Douglas, ard the proposed extension of Dodge street, Prices ange from §200 to §400, 140 give men of swall means, one more chance to socure a home and will build housas on these lots on small payments, and will scll lots on monthly payments, BOGGS & HILL. Fofl sALE 160 acres, O miles trom city, about 80 acres ves choice valley, with ruiming water; bulance geutly ralling prriric, only 3 wiles tiom railaoad, $10 per nese. BOGGS & HILL. R LE 400, eres in ono tract twely miles from city; 40 acros cu thvated, Living ‘Spring of water, same Hies va leys. The land is all first-class rich prairie. Pric $10 ber acre BOGUS & HILL, Fon SAL 720 acres in one body, 7 miley A west of Fremont, is all level land, paoducing heavy growth of grass, in high valley, rich soil and” 3 mies from railroad an ide traek, in good settlement and no better lan can be found, BOGGS & HILL. Fon SALE Ahighly improved farm of 240 acres, 8 miles from city. Fine improvements on this' land, owner not & practical tarmer, determined to sell. A good Opening for some man of wmeaus, BOGGS & HILL. FOR SALE i acss! tand near yo- i Station, 3, - horn, 88 to §10; 4,000 acres in north o ty, ¥7 to $10, 3,000 acros 2 to 8 miles from Flor- allt“:, :fowlg%b.m acres west of the Elkhorn, ; 10,4 acres scattered o Higsioio es scattered through the coun The above lands lie near and adjoi every tarm in the county, and wan sy, b at] on siall cash payment, with the balance in 1-2-8- 4 and b vear's time, BOGGS & HILL. FOR SALE e o erties hov ad ot koo i che markot 4 Yeing for sale. Locat will only be made ki 3 purchase: “meaning busines "BUGGS b HILL. BUGGH We have IMPROVED FARMS i Douglas, Sarpy and Washi faruiy i lowa.” For description and prices call on 8 & HILL. us. Business Lots for Sale on Farnam and Doug- 10 strects, {roum §,000 to B f00. o 0 8 & HILL. EFOR SALE :'iines lis next west advanced of §2 000 each. BOGGS f&l&m FOR SALE plisinem.toerizs o0 FOR SAL n W counties, Also BOGGS & HILL. £ business lots side FOR SALE b o 160acres, ocvered with young FOR SALE i For particulars apply until Aug 981 Moaroe St., Chicage, A cit;. Cheapest land onband, BOGOS & KILL P = s