Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 20, 1881, Page 4

{ 3 - — IM'HE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TH URSDAY OCTOBER 20, 1831 l CAL OONUK‘DRUI; The omaha‘ Bee' ?\:')h.r‘\:‘r:mly Johnsen was swinging ——— Published every morning, except Sum lay, Whe only Monday merning daily, TERMS BY MAIL:— ar.. onth: I'HE WEEKLY BER, published ev. ory Wednesday. BERMS POST PAID— One Year,.....82.00 | ThreeMonths,. 50 BixMonthi.... 1.00 | One % s CORRESPONDENCYE—AIl Communic eation: relating o Newn and Editorial mat- #hould be addresod to the Enitor or L Bre, PSINESS LANTTERS—AIl Business “Weetters and Remittances should be ad- dreeced to Trr OmAuA pupusRING CoM- waNy, OMAHA. Drafts, Checks and Post- wffice Orders to e made payable to the worder of the Company. QOMAHA PUBLISHING CO., Prop'rs E. ROSEWATER, Editor. Edwin Davis, Manager of City *Otroulation. John . Pioreo is in Charve of the Mail Oircuation of THE DAILY DEE. A pravate dispatch from Nebraska Cityito the editor of Tur Bee an- nounces the death of Senator Van Wyck’s second and last child of diph- theria. The senator and Mrs, Van Wyck were called by telegraph from Wash- ‘ington a fow days ago by the sudden llness of their two children, They arrived at their home only a few hours before the death of their youngest <hild, a baby fourteen months old. The death of their oldest, a bright, gifted and genial girl, about nine years old, followed yesterday. This is a sad bereavement, in which Senator and Mrs, Van Wyck have the profoundest sympathy of the people of this whole state, Their loss is de- plorable and irreparable, and only those who have been similarlyafilicted <can comprehend the depth of their unutterable sorrow. Let us hope they may find con- dolence for their grief in thereflection that their cherubs are forever spared all the ills humanity is heir to. ALL good Irishmen now speak French, | Towa is still busy counting up its republican majority. I J| | i THE journeyman cabinet-makers at ‘Washington are again at sea, As A political sphinx President Ar- thur excels his illustrious predecessor, General Grant, — THE candidate is especially numer- ous at present and correspondingly agreeable to voters. THE Mississippi river does not not propose to wait for the convention at 8t, Louis, It is having a river boom of its own, —_— Tue New York Herald sagely ro- marks that “the democrats of Ohio usually carry the state up to the night before election day. After that the Tepublicans carry it.” Briy CHANDLER is still on deck, but he cheerfully admits that he doesn't hope for any great things from the present admnistration. Thatsolicitor generalship has been hung up to dry, EE— Mz. Winpom’s political future will be seitled on next Tuesday by the Minaesota legislature, and the im- pression 1s that the ex-sccretary will be returned to his old seat in the senate, GENERAL EARLY wants to fight Sen- ator Mahone. A few more duels like those in which Riddleberger engaged will do more to destroy the cede than all the pulpits and platforms in the country, Eyeny voter in Douglas county is interested in the erection of a first- class fire proof court house, es- pecially when the cost necessary to build such a structure will not add a dollar to his taxes, — A MAN may be a government swin- dler, a horse thief or guilty of all the crimes on the docket but if any one dares to raise his voice against the monopolies all other crimes in Dr, Miller's estimation sink into insignific- lncéa‘ S—— Tfflzflzm.‘d noveradvocates any but straight out aemocratic principles, — Herald, The Herald never advocates any- #hing but straight out corporation pol- itics, be they demoeratic or republi- can, { L —— Ar the International Electric ex- hibition America particularly distin- guished herself, Gold medals of the highest classes were awarded to Edi. son and Brush for dynamo magnetic machines, and other gold wedals to both the above named inventors for eleokri light. Kdison ceme out ahead of umdbph' the recipioht . iy | around the eircle he made himself the laughing scock of the whole country by closing neatly every speech he made at the stations along the route with the solumn injunction, ‘1 leave the constitution in your hands.” Andy Johnson's legacy has evidently become an heir-loom with the editor of the Chicago Times. That pro- found expounder of the constitution has just discovercd amother marc's- nest. When will the official term of President Arthur legally expire 7 This silly conundrum, propounded to himself by himself is answered by the man in whose keeping the constitu- tion has been placed, as followa: When will the legal term of Presi- dent Arthur legally expire. The enacted constitution declares with the utmost explicitness that *‘he [the president] shall hold his office during the term of four years,” The executive power shall be vested in a president. . . He shallhold his office dwring the term of jour years. Const., Art. 2, Sec. This is all that can be found in the letter of the constitution relating to the presidential term. It is nowhere declared, or indicated, at what date the presidential term shall begin, orat what date it shall end. The time of his election, or his inauguiation, is not fixed in that law. But it is de- clared in the most positive and explicit language that “‘he shall hold his offiee during the term of four years." If we are to accept as the law that which thepositiveletterof thelaw plain- ly means and imperatively declares, it is perfectly certain that the legal term of the present president will expire (unless he should be removed by cas- ualty at an earlier time) on the 20th day of September, 1885. ’l‘h_e exec- utive power was vested in him, he became the president on the 20th day of September, 1881. ‘“He shali hold his office during the term of four ears.” Therefore, ‘‘he shall hold {iu oftice during the term,” or period of time, which will intervene between the 20th of September, 1881, and the 20th of September, 1885. Such logic would make a horse laugh. Even Andy Johnson who had the constitution served up to him for breakfast, dinner and supper, never struck the idea that his ofticial term as president did not expire until four years from the 15th day of April, 1866. 1If he had, we don’t believe he would have voluntarily vacated the presidential chair to Ulysses S. Grant on the fourth of March, 1869. By reference to the enacted constitution we find article II, section 6, (vacancy acting president.) ““In case of the removal of the presi- dent from offico, or his death, resig- nation or inabiiity to discharge the powers and duties of the said office, the same shall devolve upon the vice- president.” Under this section of the constitu- tian the vice-president is charged with the performance of the duties devolv- ing upon the president during the per- iod that the presidency remains vacant. The vice-president acting as presi- dent can in the very nature of things only continue to exercise the powers of the chief executive until the suc- cessor to the president duly elected shall assume the office. The consti- tution expressly prescribes the mode of electing presidents through the electoral college or by the house of representatives, leaving congress to fix the day when presidential electors shall be voted for, and the day upon which the president shall enter upon his office. Congress fixed the 4th day of March as the day upon which each president beyins his term, and the constitution having limited the term to four years from that day, no presi- dent can hold office a single bour be- yond thls time, Whether his successor has qualified or not, the president cannot hold over be- yond the fourth day of March. Tt would be absurd to assume that the vice or acting president can excrcise presi- dential functions after the term for which he was elected as vice president had expired. Suppose General Gar- field had lived until the third day of March, 1885, one day before his term expired, would any sane man contend that Arthur's official term, beginning on that day, would extend four years beyond that time? Would not the successor of Gorfield elected by the people through the electoral college, and so pro- claimed through congress becane presidont on the day following Ar- thur’s induction to the vacancy made by the death of Garfield? but sup- pose that Garfield, re-elected for a second term, with a new vico presi- dent, had died during the last month of his first term, say on the lst of March, 1885, who would be president after (xarfield's first term had expired 1 Would it be Arthur, or the man elected vice president with Garfield for a second term. By the magoificent logic of the constitution expounder of the Chicago Times; Arthur would in such case continue as president for four years from the first of March, 1885, or three years, eloven months and twenty-six days after his own term as vico president had expired, aud the real vice president of the United States would during all that time re. main a cipher.. It is hardly necessary to pursue this subject further than to remark that the man who propounds the constitutional conundrum and ex- pounds the constitution for the Ohicago Z'imes is much better fitted for pound. ing rock in some stone quarry. THE RIVER CONVENTION. The Mississippi River Improvement Convention which will be held at St. Louis on the 26th day of the present month promises to be an event of unusual interest to the producers of the weat. The call for the meeting was made in recognition of the general desire expressed by various commer- cial bodies for a thorough discussion of this vital topic, looking to united action in placing its consideration be- fore Congress, It cannct be question of denied that the most importance to residents of the west is that of cheap transportation. Every experi- ment made of late years has proved that water transportation is a solution of the problem which comes nearest to complete settlement of the question at issue. It is on this account that the people of the west have determin- ed to urge upon congress an improve- ment of the great rivers without which any effective transportation cannot be secured. They point to the fact that with the area of the states and ter- ritories drained by the Mississippi and its tributaries is produced 90 per cent of the corn, 73 per cent of the wheat, 83 per cent. of the oats, 63 per cent. of the tobacco, 77 per cent. of the cotton and 66 per cent. of the value of the live hogs of the whole country. The tide of population is constantly pouring over the borders, scttling up the vacant lands, increas- ing the productiveness of its scil and assisting to feed tho world with its surplus wealth. One-seventh of all the export trade of the country goes to the ocean by way of the Missiasippi river, at a cost of less than one-third of which it can be carried by any other route. When such focts are taken into con- sideration, the great importance of improving our waterways does not need to be argued. It does, how- ever, need to be strongly urged upon the attention of congress, and this is the object of the coming convention. Every state and territory on the great basin of the Mississippi wilt be repre- sented, and the result can hardly fail to be in the highest degree beneficial, WESTERN PROVINCIALISM. A number of writers are congratu- lating the country over the departure of uncouth western manners from the white house. They inform the public that since Buchanan left the presi- dency the crudeties and peculiarities of western people have been a con- stant source of annoyance to eastern culture at Washington, and dilate upon the allegod fact that for over twenty years no people of breeding have occupied the white house. Lin- coln is pronounced as ungainly as awkward. Andy Johncon is dis- missed a8 a man of vul- gar ideas and . still more vulgar associates, and General Grant's influence is declared’to have been most corrupting on Washington so- ciety, promoting a rage for wealth and shoddy display, in which flattery was paid to the rich, no matter hov coarse their manners. Under Mr. Hayes we are told that a lack of social culti- vation and refined breeding was always observable at tha White House, while an appreciation of religious principles and an ignorance of the ways of the world were displayed which were either amusing or disgusting. General Garfield is not counted in this estimate because he was not president long enough to make his mark social- ly, and because Mrs, Garfield was so unobtrusive, and so little inclined to force her opinions upon visitors to the White House, that her short stay there will be long remembered with pleasure, But at last a change is to bo made, and General Arthur, a gentleman of remarkably fine appear- ance, of polished manners and of fa- miliarity with the well-educated socie- ty of New York, is to carry into the ‘White House a degree of social culti- vation which it has so long lacked. This charge of provincialism against the west has been 8o often repeatod that it is becoming exceedingly weari- some. No one doubts Mr. Arthur’s refinement, culture and gentlemanly qualitics but we doubt very much whether his predecessors will suffer much by comparison. A gentleman isa gentleman the world over, and the standard of refinement 1 the west is as high as that in the east. Of course the rules of society are not identical in the two sections but a comarison Is very often in favor of the west. Thereis less conventionality more originality and sparkle in con- versation and a greater amount of hospitality than in the east. West- orn society, it is true, does not pos- sees quite as many apes of English enobbery or languid low-necked women as in the east, but it more than makes up in its deficiency by men and women who can express an emotion and advance an idea outside of the conventional rut. The fact is, that taking the same classes of society in both sections, for comparison, the Westorn people are the equals of the Eastorn in toth mind and man- ners, Their country is too widely traversed by railroads for provingial- ism, and their access to the world's thought is as easy as that of their friends further east. We do not believe that the white house has sufferred socially under its occupancy by western presidents and their families and any attempt to make such appear to be the case can only be dictated by a snobbery which is even worse than honest awkwardness or credulity, Tur policy of every large and wealthy corporation is to evade bear- ing its share of the expenses ot the government. While claiming protec- tion for its property and employes against the dangers which every gov- ernment is organized to ward off,it re- fuses to bear the proportion of taxa- tion and shirks upon the shoulders of the people, already heavily taxed by its own operation, the debt which it honestly owes to the state. Every railroad in the west is an example. In somo states, notably Tllinois and Wis- consin, the polioy'of the railroad corpo- rations has been checkmated by honest and efficient railroad commissioners and boards of equalization, but in others, among which Nebraska must be classed, the railroads have found pliant tools in the state government and have snapped their fingers at the complaints of the people. Pennsylvania has lately awakened to the discovery that the Standard Oil company has swindled the state of an enormous amount of taxes and is tak- ing steps to recover the debt by pro- The plan adopged by the corporation was to claim a resi- dence in Ohio and deny the jurisdiction of Pennsylvania. By cess of law. weak-minded souls, it encourages id- iots in aspiring to office, and it has in its service, so to speak, nothing but slaves. That the time has come to do away with such a sort of citizens, but very few are bold enough to deny, and that they shall be done away with is the will of the people of Nebraska, and the time to :Ev it is at the Novem- ber election of 1882. No republican or no democrat should be sent as a delegate to any convention, county or state, unloss ho is solid on that prop- osition; there are no two ways about it, one is either- for the corporations and against the people, or for the people and ° against the monopo- ly rule of corporations. That is just exactly the qnestion, nothing more, nothing less; and the partythat shows ita sincerity in this is the very party that will win the fight, no mat- ter how much in the minority that party may be. Kor let it not be for- gotten that the farmers of Nebraska are on the watch, and we advise them, through the state Alliance, not to make any state or county nominations for offices until the republican and democratic parties have shown their cards in their own state and county conventions. That will be the meaus to foree the two great parties in this state to meet the issues, in their can- didates as well as in theia plattorms; it will, 80 to speak, act as a safety yalve to the loud puss which may bedetected in either party. CURRENCY. A waterspout killed sixty-five persons in Algeria, Nearly 11,000,000 acres of public lands were.disposed of last year. Mrs, Garfield has rent & subscription to the Michigan fire sufferers, . collusion with the state officials, and, as it isclaimed, by the most bare- faced bribery, the Standard oil com- pany succeeded 1n eight years’ time in ovading over $12,000,000 of taxes. Suit has now been entered at Harris- burg by the attorney general for $3,- 000,000 taxes and penalties, and a lively contest will result. The Stand- ard company has hired the ablest counsel in the country and will con- test the claim #4.¢ bitter end. Tre rapid reconstruction of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul line across Jowa assures Omaha of five through lines to Chicago at no very distant day. With the Burlington, Northwestern, Rock Island, Wabash and St. Paul companies bidding for the trans-Missouri traffic, there should be no danger of any further increase in freight tariffs. A pool with five roads composing its membership will be a difficult combination to handle. If the building of the St. Paul road to the Missouri results in bridging the Missouri at this point, Omaha will have an additional cause for con- gratulation. TaE house of representatives has long been recognized as the stepping stono to senatorial dignity in this country in a more marked degree than the commons in England is to the house of lords. Eight members of the last house are now United States senators; Messrs, Frye and Hale, of Maine; Aldrich, of Rhode Island; Hawley, of Connecticut; Lap- ham and Miller, of New York; Migchell, of Pennsylvania, and Con- ger, of Michigan. THE death of Governor Louis A. Wiltz, who figured so prominently in Louisiana politics during the reign of Kellogg and Packard, brings Samuel D. McEnery, former claimant of Kel- logg’s seat in the senate, to the front as full fledged governor of the pelican state. McEnery succeeds Wiltz by virtue of being licutenant-governor. Gex, Tysew's known sympathy with the star route thieves compels & change in the the first assistant post- master generalship. Judging from the as.ociations and habits of Frank Hatton, wk~ is pressing forward for Gen, Tyner's place, we should consider such a change like going from the frying-pan into the fire, ON Tuesd®y~ 500 cars of freight were crossed over the Union Pacific bridge from the transfer to Omaha. This, at $10 a car, represents the enormous sum of §5,000 for a single day's business on the west bound freight on a haul of three miles, or an annual toll of over $1,500,000. Ir is suggested that Kansas be known as the ‘‘Sunflower State.”— Leavenworth Times. Never! As long as Omaha pos- sesses the Great American Sunflower Nebraska will never permit any other state to wear the laurels which belong rightly to her. —— Kasson is still regarded as the most available man for the speakership of the next house, and all the indications point to his selection for that respon- sible position, In o Nutshell Lincoln Democrat, Railroads arc all right enough; the people only find fauit with their man- agement when it becomes oppressive; and to deny the right of the legislature to regulate their rates as public car- riers, is the height of impndonw. But aside from being oppressive in its rates, the railroad corporations of Nebraska are, moreover, political tyrants; their will is to be the aw, or elss down goes somebody's head. To this we object oven more than we do to the rates, for it checkmates all attempts to regulate such rates. In its capacity as a citizen, a cor- poration is, to all intents and pur- se8 & tyrant; it controls by the read and butter suasion; it tempts The Boston police will wear bull's.eye Ianterns on their belts next year, The fmw of Baron Steuben is in_the town of Steuben, Oneida county, N. Y, The people of Boston haye not yet relin- quished the idea of holding a world's fair in that city in 1885, and they are still mak- ing an effort to raise a guarantee fund of 5,000,000, The dukeof Sutherland is at the head of a company of Englishmen, with £2,500,000 who have bought 60 square miles 'on 'the St. Paul & Omaha railroad, 60 miles east 8{)0&0“! City, for a colony; price, $163,- In the cotton mill of which Mr, Cross, M. P., is the principal proprietor, at Bol- ton, in & thirty-foot y-wheel which runs a belt at the rete of a mile a minute. On thoends of the fingers of persons who point at the belt pencils of electric light are seen, The two great American trinmphs of the ravolutionary war occurred in October. ‘The capture of Gieneral Burgoyne's entire army at Saratoga by General Gates wae concluded on Ocrober 17, 1777. The glori- ous work at Yorktown was consummated on October 19, Mr. John Walter, of The London Times, who is now thinking of turning homeward, has been so pleased with his American visit that he declares he would like to have his family live here long enough to become thoroughly acquainted with the people. A gentleman who rencently rode through ex-Senator Dorsey’s cattle-ranch in New Mexico says of it: “It is forty by sixty miles in size, and has on it 28,000 headof cattle and 1,300 horses, The in- come from this place cannot be less than $75,000 for the present season.” Mayor Neeney; of Toronto, was charged by a neighbor womap with bewitching one of her hens to “stop laying,” and Margaret Hughes was charged by Mra. Kidd with bewitchiog her cow. The charges were brought in court, when it appeared that the “hen” was not that kind and that the cow had dwindled in milk subsequent to blnqueting upon four summer hats and contents of an old straw mattress. No fewer than five *‘enterprising show- men’ have visited ClevalunF in the hope of purchasing the funeral car which cwn- veyed the remains of President Garfield, and have offered very large prices for it— 850,000, it is said, in one case. The per- sons in authority have refused even to lis- ten to such offers, The caris to be en- closed in a handsome case constructed in large part of plate glass and preserved in the cemetery, Mrs. Ida Lewis, of Newpnrt] has just received the gold medal awarded to her by congress for bravery in saving thirtcen lives at the peril of "her own. The flatter- ing presentation speeches uttered by Lieu- tenant Chadwick and ex-Governor Van Zandt made the shy young woman so un- comfortable that the speakers desisted and the little company gathered for the occa- sion at the Newport custom house proceed- ed to congratulate the nervous heroine, STATE JOTTINGS, Hubbell will invest $2,400in a new school. Plum Creek has a population of five hundred. Richardson county has 6,000 children of school age. Work has begun on the railroad machine shops at Wymcre, Plows are trumps in Nance, and every farmer holds a full hand. Humboldt contributed 83: Garfield monument fund, John Baur was run oyer and killed by a runaway team at Scribner, The three national banks of Nebraska City have $500,000 on deposit. Greeley is the potato county of the state; 4,000 bushels have already been marketed. A great amount of hay has been spoiled in Dixon county by theunusual umount of rain, Humboldt has already eonsumed 340,000 brick this season, and the demand exceeds the supply. A company will build and ope: Columbus, The fire department of Lincoln resolve to disband Nov, 1st unless furnished with 1,000 feet of hose, The Greenwood Fagle is abroad In Cass county seeking public fayor and journal- istic recogmition, Trains are expected to run into Falls City on the Missouri Pacific railroad by the latter part of this week. The people of Greeley will vote on a proposition to fund the “county indebted ness ($20,000) at 7 per cent. The dipthheria at Jackson is reported under control, and the cases that now ex- ist are in & fair way to recover, Lincoln is afflicted with & gang of Joung snobs who loiter around the school build- ings and flirt with the girls during re- cens, . An accident_on the Republican valley branch of the B, & M, R. R., last week, ditched fourteen cars of stock, killing forty head. R.W. Patrick has purchased twenty- eight quarter sections of land near the Loup river in Merrick, for a stock farm, Price, $14,000, A horse thief was captured on the cars at Columbus with the proceeds of several 5 to the o capital of $50,000 ate » packing house at sales in his pocket, The peovle of Albion were after him, The Fremont News solicits subscriptions to s fund to erect & monument over the grave of Hon. Daniel Gantt, late chief jus- tice of Nebraska, Thomas Flatford, a short, humpbacked man, aged 40, took & French leave of the people of Beward, and his creditors offer s‘tfl for his arrest, Stuart is one of the coming towns of Northern Nebraska, 1t is in Holt county, and the Sonix City & Pacific road is the basis of the boom, Seventy-five head of beeves, seventy- five sheep, one hundred hogs, fifty calves and poultry by the ton, is the weekly bill of fare of Lincolnites, Every saloon keeper in Platta county, outaide of Columbus, was indicted at the Inat term of court. They wanted to do business under the old law, Visions of a bridge over the Missouri river fill the minds of the people of Nem- aha City, caused by the appearance of a railroad surveying party in that vicinity. An enterprising immigrant from Ger- many recently bought a farm near West Point, stock, iniplements and all, paying l-vrllun purchase the neat sum of $11,000 cash. The grand jury of Dodge last week pre- eented a wholesale lot of “indictments for violation of the Slocumb law. The listjis supposed to include every saloon keeper in Fremont as well as at North Bend and Seribner, who have been selling without the high liceose e a—— The Discovery of 8ilk and Satin. From the Manchester Times, The discovery of silk is attributed to one of the wives of the emperor of China, Hoang-ti, who reigned about 2,000 years before the Chistian era, and since that time a special spot has been allotted 1n the gardens ot the Chinese royal palace to the cultivation of the mulberry tree and the keeping of silk-worm. Persian monks who came to Constantinople revealedtothe Emperor Justinian the secret of the production of sik, and gave him some silk-worms. From Greece the art passed into Italy at the end of the thirteenth century. When the Popos left Rome to settle at Avignon, France, they introduced into that country the recret which had been kept by the Italiang, and Louis XI. eatablished at Tours a manufactory of silk fabrics. Francis I. founded the Lyons silk works, which to this day have kept the first rank. Henry II., of France, wore at the wedding of his sister, the first pair of silk hose ever made. The word ‘‘satin,” which in the ori- ginal was applied to all mlk stuffs in general, has since the last century been used to designate only tissues which present a lustered surface. The discovery of this particular brilliant stuff was accidental. Octavio Mai, a silk weaver, finding business very dull, and not knowing what to invent to give a new . impulse to the trade, P was one day @ pacing to an fro before his loom. Every time he passed the machine with no definite object 1n view, he pulledlittle threads from the warpand put them to his mouth, which soon af- ter he spat out. Later on he found the little ball of silk onthe floor of his work-shop, and was attracted by the brilliant appearance of the threads. He repeated the experiment, and by using certain mucilaginous prepara- tions succeeded in giving satin to the world. Economy. A fortune be spent in using inef- fectual medicines, when by applying Thomas’ Eclectric Oil a speedy and - écon- omical gure can be effected. " In case of rheumatism, lame back, bodily ailments, or pains of every descriptfon, it affords in- i 17 eod 1w GARFIELD Agents wanted for Life of President Garfleld. A com- plete, faithful history fromn cradle to grave, by the eminent biograpoer, Col. Conwell. Books all ready for delivery, An elogantly illustrated volume. Endersed edition. ~ Liberal terms. Agents take orders for from 20 to 50 copies daily. Outaclls any other book ten toone. Agents never made money 80 fast. The book eelly itself. Fx- perience not necessary. _ Fallure unknown. All make immense profits, Private terms free. GEORGE STINSON & CO., oc6d&wim i Portland, Maive. Western Horse and Cattle In- surance Company, OMAEIA, NEES. Capital, - - - $100,000.00 Insures Horses, Mules and Cattle against loss by acoident, decease or theft, ~Agencies in all coun- tics of the State. Send for circulars, Electi Proclamation on Court flmnu Appropriation. At o session of tbe board of County Commis- sioners of the county of Dduglas in the state of Ne' raskn, holaen ou the.dth day of October, A. D, 1881 The follewing action was taken by the board ;;Ith with respect to the construction of a Court out W Be20Wly a8, Owing to the enhanced value of Iabor and material 1t is impossible to erect a Court Howso suitable for the purpose of said county for the sum designated in the proclama- tion for the issne of boids for the construction of & Court House, submitted to the people Novem- ber 2nd, 1880; and WitkR»as, After twice thoroughly advertising the matter the lowest responsible bid for the construction of A Court House that would be fire Dioof and such as to meet the needs of the cofu- ty, amounts 1o One Hundred and Ninety-cight Thousand Dollars; and Wikieas, Th construct & suit: from the genera nty without any add1tional le by law, but the question oj such approprintion must firat be submitted to the ciectors of taid county; therefore, it ix JutoLvin, TThat the following propasition ho and the same is hereby submitted to the quali- fied electors of said county of Douglas, to-wit: Shall the county of Douglas be suthorized in the year 1882, t) appropriate from the general rovenue of the said county for that year out of fundy not otherwiso required for county pur- poses, the sum of Twenty-five Thousand Dollars, and in the year 183, from the revenue of that year out of funds not otherwise required for county purposes the further sum of ‘I wenty-five Thousand Do'lars to aid iu_the erection con- struction and completion of a Cou t House building in’ the city of Omaha for county pur- s, The form in which the above proposition shall be rubmitted shall be by ballot, upon which ballot shall be printed or written, o party pri or written, the words **For Court House Appro- paiation,” or +*Against Court House Appropria- tion,” wnd all hallots cast having thereon the words Court House Appropriation,” shall b dremed and taken to be in (avor of said proposi tion, and all ballots cast having thereon the words “Against Court House Appropriation,” shall be deemed and taken to be against sald proposition, and it two-thirds of tho votes cast at the election hercinafter provided in this be: half be in favor of the above proposition, it shall be deemed and taken to be carried. The sald proposition ¥hall be voted upon at tha genersl electi n to be held in the county of Douglas, State of Nebraska, on the sth day of Noveuber, A. D. 1381, at the following named Places Omaha_Precinct—No, one, (1) Felix Slaven's groeery; Tenth street. Omaha Precinct—No. two, (2) at Jerry Ma- honey's grocesy store. Omaha Prect . three, (3) Dr, Hyde's of- fice, cor. Douglas and Twelfth streots. Omaha Precinct—Ne. four, (4) Sheriff's office court house. Omaha Precinct—No, five, (5) Holmes' hard- ware store, Sixteenth and California strects. Omaha Precinct—No. six, (6) No, 1 Engine House, Twentieth and Jzard streets. Saratogs Precinci—School house near Grue- ning's, Florence Precinct—Florence hotel. Union Precinct—Irvington school house. Jeflerson Precinct—School house in district No. 44 Elkhorn P Platte V 00 Chicago Precinet—8chool house at Elkhorn slation, Milliard Precinct—Millard school house, McArdle Precinet—McArdle school house, Douglas Precinct—House of J. O, Wilcox. Weat Omaha Precinet—School house near Selden's. essary to upplied Precinet—Elkhorn school house, alley Precinct—School huuse at Water- CHEAP LOTS. A NEW ADDITION! o Omaha. THE BEST BARGAINS Ever Offered IN THIS CITY. NO CASH PAYMENTS Required of Persons Desir- in to Build, LOTS ON PATMENTS $5TOB10 PER MONTH. MoneyAdvanced A ik Acsist FPurchasers in Building. We Now Offer For Sale 85 Splendid RESIDENCE LOTS, Located on 27th, 28th, 20th and 80th Streets, betwesn Farnham, Douglasand the pro- i)oeed extension of Dodge St., 2 to 14 Blocks from Court House and Post Office, A'l" PRICES ranging from $300 to $400 which is about Two-Thirds of their Value, on Sm=1l Monthly Payment of $5 to $10, Parties desiring to Build and. lmprove Need Not Make any Payment for one or two years, but can use all their Means for Improving. Persons having $100 or $20C of their own, But not Enough to Build such a house as they want, can take a lot and we will Loan them enough to com« plete their Building, These lots are located between the MAIN BUSINESS STREETS of the city, within 12 minutes walk of the Business Center. Good Sidewalks ex . tend the Entire Distance on Dodge Street, and the lots can be reached by way of either Farnham, Douglas ox Dodge Streets. They lie in a part of the city that is very Rapidly Improy- ing and consequently Increasing in Value, and purchasers may reasonably hope to Double their Money within a short time, Some of the most Sightly Locations in the city may be selected from these lots, especially on 30th Street. We will build houses on a Smal Cash Payment of 8150 or $200, and sell house and lot on small monthly ‘payments. It is expected that these lots;will be rapidly sold on these liberal terms, and genun- wishing to purchase sheuld call at our office and secure their lots at the earliest moment, We are ready to show these lots to al persons wishing to purchase, BOGGS & HILL, Beal Estate Brokers, 1408 F, W. CORLISS, County Commissioners, JOHN R, MANCHESTER. County Clerk. oct1z-wik (8mAL.) North Bide of Farnham Street Opp. Grand Caentral Hotel, OUMAHA NEHB,