Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 25, 1881, Page 4

T —r 4 FHE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY OCTOBER 25, 1831 g g The Omaha Bee. Published every morning, except Sunday. The only Monday morning daily, TEKMS BY MAIL:— 00|E. Boyd stands pre eminent, IHE WEEKLY BEE, published ev- ey Wedneaday. TBERMS POST PAID:~ OORRESPONDENCE—AIl Communi. etions relating to News and Editorial mat- tors should be addressed to the EptToR or K, T:‘UglNESS LETTERS—AIl Business Lwtters and Remittances should be ad- dressed to THE OMAHA PUBLISHING COM- PANT, OMAMA. D Checks and Post- office Orders to be made payable to the order of the Company. OMAHA PUBLISHING 00., Prop'rs E.ROSEWATER, Editor. Edwin Davis, Manager of Oity Otroulation. John H. Plerce i in Chares of the Mail Oirouition of THE DALY BRE, A. H. Fitch, correspondent and solicitor. _———— —— JAMES E. BOYD. Among the prominent residents of Omaha who have for years been iden- tified with her grawth and of whose success and public spirit her citizens are justly proud, the name of James Mr, Boyd is a striking example of & self- made man who by industry, perse- veorance and sheer pluck has worked his way in life from the humblest be- 20 ginnings. Born in Ireland at an early age he omigrated to America and learned the trade of a carpenter. He was one of the first settlers in Nebraska, Locating in Omaha and working at the bench with hammer and plane he soon became known and respected for these many sterling traits of character which contributed 80 Iargely to his fature success. Later Mr. Boyd located a ranch on the overland trail, where he ranched it for a number of years as a frontiers- man, Boyd's Ranch soon became widely known and its proprietor as widely popular, When the Union Puntio spirit and James E. Boyd go hand in hand. Waex finally completed Mr. Ar- thur's cabinet ought to be well sea- soned. Tae issuc Nebraska farmers are not in favor of—an unlimited issue of rail- road bonda, Ir it comes to a tusale between Ty- ner and James, Mr. Tymer will more than meet his match. CEE—————— Tae Irish situation can scarcely be. called an eligible one for young men with political tendencies. Tus political forgery dodge in Vir- ginia is said to have_seriously reacted upon the chances of the bourbons. # 9 — Pr1L AryMouR predicts a fall of ten cents in corn within forty days. Phil owns an elevator and is a perfoctly disinterested part; — Tae health officer at New York has such a lucrative position that he con- tributes $10,000 a year for campaign, purposes. Quite a healthy office. Tugre is much complaint from resi- dents in the Second ward over the action of the registrar in neglecting to publish notice of the time and place of his sitting. NEBRASKA'S representatives to the river ‘convention at 8t. Louis are J. Sterling Morton, Clinton Briggs, M. L. Hayward, C. B. Ohase, Victor Vif- quaip, O. P. Mason, J. L. Carson, “John'W, Pollack, H. T. Olarke snd R. B. Windham. 1 Dox Key is the term by which the late postmaster-general is now dubbed by prominent postal officials. - The name would have been more appro- priate if he had kicked against the frauds in his department when it took another administration to expose. By general consent the Yorktown colebration was a fiasco, The military display was iusignificant, the accom- modations for visitors inadequate, and the speeches and orations a bore. The centennial business has been over- done during the past six years and the people long for a rest. Crvix, service reform does not seem to be making very rapid strides on the floor of the senate when division of spoils is involved. The senate military committec has decided not to report favorably the nomination of three phy- sicians from New York to be assistant army surgeons, not on account of any objection to their qualifications, but because “‘New Yerk is getting more than its share of new army surgoons.” e— THE vicessitudes of politics make many changes in congress. Of nearly one hundred and fifty republicans who will be in the mnext house, only twenty-two were there so far back as the forty-fourth cougress, which met six years ago, The changes are most frequent in the ru- ral districts, where the counties insist on the principle of turn about. City members, as a rule, enjoy the greatest longevity. . - — Lyine injures any cause however good. At a meeting of the national prohibition alliance in New York last week Jay Odell, an Ohio lecturer, put the number of ‘‘drunkard’s wives” in the United Btates at 1,600,600 and the number of drunkard's children at 6,000,000. The Philadelphia Press aays that Mr, Odell has made a state- ment which every inteliigent man knows is false, and which nobody but . afool would make without . deliberate misstatement, The estimate makes one child in three the country over the descendant, and one wife in six the consort, of some drunkard. Put this way, the statement is seen by the daily observotion of every one to be as rediculous as the staple assertion that all the ‘‘spirits” made in this country rolls down the throats of the American people; less than two-thirds does, and less is usad /this way now in proportion to the population than forty years ago. Pacific road was uuder con- struction Mr. Boyd engaged in the work of its extension as a railroad contractor, filling his contracts with that promptness and fidelity to his engagements which has made his word as good as hisbond throughout the state. Bubsequently Mr. Boyd removed to Omaha, making it his permanent home and undertook the construction of the Omaha and Northwestern road of which he was made president. In his various en- terprises up to this date Mr. Boyd ac- cumulated a handsome competency, and sceing the need ef a packing house at this point decided to in- vest his means in erecting the largest structure of the kind in this section of the west, in which business he is still engaged g The people of Nebrasks at an early day recognized the olear judgment, wsound common sense and sterling honesty of James E, Boyd and called upon him to contrib- ute his services in modeling the form of government for the state. As a member of the constitutional conven- tion he was unanimously elected on a non-partisan ticket and placed on the important committee on rail- roads. Although a railroad man, he never forgot that he was a represen- tative of the people for whose best in- tereat he applied the knowledge which he had acquired through his:conneoc- tion with the corporations. It was he who framed that article of the consti- tution which provided for the regula- lation of the railroads by the people. Any other man'in such & position if disposed to work with the _railroads ocould easily have inserted provisos which would have made all railway logislation inoperative, ' But James E. Boyd, sfter a careful study of the Tllinois and other state laws, threw around the subject every provision for the protection of the people and gave to the voters of ' Nebraska a con- stitutional right to regulate ' the cor- porations and prohibit those abuses which have been a blot upon the his- tory of railroads in our state. Subse- quently Mr. Boyd served in the stato senate with equal credit to himself and universal satisfaction to his con- stituents, He was always reliable, outspoken i his opinions and un- swerving in what he believed to be for the best interests of the state. No man has been morecloselyidenti- fied with the growth of Omaha than James E, Boyd, Hore he has sunk several fortunes, and by the most in- domitable pluck and energy he has wrenched success out of failure. In every emergency where Omaha has been threatened by rival intercsts Mr, Boyd has always been at the front to ward off the impending danger, and in every instance where a public enterprise has been insugurated he has never withheld his helping hand. In the bitter fight against the Holly water works Mr. Boyd was the first to place himself at the head of those who applied for an injunction againat the water company and backed bis position by becoming & bondsman and assuming any damage suits that might arise from a failure to carry the phint through the courts. It was the bold and fearless stand which he took in this emergency that induced others more timid to stand behind him in opposition to a band of sharks, whose operations, when they become fully exposed, will surprise our citizens by the extent of the conspiracy againat the publio in- terests. Summoned to the city coun- oil against his wishes, and elocted to the mayorality of our eity, Mr. Boyd, in the discharge of executive func- tions, has fully justified the confi- dence reposed in him by the people of Omaha, and in many trying occasions which demanded ‘s firm and decided policy, he has invariably taken the position, which was held by the better portion of our community. It is not necessary to speak in de- tail of the crowning enterprise of Mr. Boyd's career in the erection of the beautiful opers house which he has given to our city, No other man in Omaha dared to undertake it. It was begun and carried to completion by Mr. Boyd while he was al- roady engaged in heavy operations which taxed his energies’ and capital, By its construction another install- ment is added to the debt which the people of this city owe to its builder and it will rerain as a porpetual re- minder of the pluck, enorgy and pub- lic spirit of James E. Boyd. THE PENSION OFFICE Nothwithstandmng the earnest pro- tests of Commissioner Dudley that his office is working smoothly and satis- factorily reports of irregularities in the pension bureau continue to be published in eastern journals and are repeated in the letters and dispatches of Washington correspondents The charge is made that a conspiracy has for some time been in existence among the clerks, who have co-operated with outside pension and claim agents in pushing through fraudulent claims. The entire pension office neceds investigation. The arrears-of-pen- sions act which was pushed through congress by the boldest demagogy threw open t} e flood|zates to fraud and perjury, and inaugurated a raid on the treasury which has cost the gov- ernment millions of money paid out to bogus claimants. Under this act & pension for fifteen years already past was conferred upon men who had never believed themselves entitled to any pension atal. The methods of taking testimony for applications without cross examination or opposing witnesses placed a premium of from 81,600 to $2,000 on purjery and proved & bonanza to a host of pension sod claim sharks who scoured the country for subjectson which to real- ize their bonuses. The increase in the number of pen- sions haa been enormous. The Buf- falo Express has pointed out that within threv years the annual cost to the government in the payment of its pensioners will scarcely fall below $100,000,000, a sum sufficient to sup- port a standing army of 200,000 men in France or Germany. Be- fore the mew laws took offect there wers only 242,765 pensioners on the roll. There are now 275,000 and the number is in: creasing at the rate of nearly 8,000 |1 a month. In the twenty years since the close of the war the government has paid out more than $300,000,000 to its pensioners. Instead of the pension lists decreasing in that time as they ocertainly should have done through the death of benficiaries they have shown a steady increase since the new law came into operation. In 1871 the pension expenditure was $34,443.60. brom that date it slowly fell, dropping down in 1878 to the sum of $27,187,000. In that year the arreage of pensions aet came ‘into operation and the figures rose in one year to $35,121,000, in 1880 to $50,- ¥77,000, this year to 860,000,000 with a prospect of $90,000,000 in 1882, $100,000,000 in 1883 and an unlimit- ed amount thereafter. No nation in the world bears such an enormous pension burden because no other nation has 8o loosely man- aged its pension department and giv- on such opportunities for frauds and swindlers 'to prey upon it's treasury. No citizen of the United Btates begrudges to the disabled sol- diers of the nation the pittance which they receive from the government. More than cheerfully do they submit to the direct and indirect taxation which such disbursement of the na- tional funds necessitates. But itisa fact which no soldier will dispute that there are thousands of men now draw- ing pensions from the government who never smeit gunpowdes on the battle field and whose pretended disabilities were incurred hundreds of miles away from the seat of war. Were the pension lists examined and the names on the roll sifted it would be found that dead men were drawing with great regularity drafts from the national treasury, that thousands of pretended wounds had never beun re- ceived and that injuries on which fif- teen years back pay had been embez- zlod from the government never had any existence except in the oftice of the agent interested in push. ing through the bogus claim, It is the duty of congress to pro- tect the trewsury. The howls of demagogues, who fear for the ‘“‘sol- dier vote” should be unheeded when justice is at stake. A law should at once be passed requiring proper proof of claims. Ex-parte testimony where no cross-oxamination is permitted should be rigidly prohibited. An ex- amination should be made of the claims already passed upon as far as practical, and the treasury saved from & continuance of the raid which threatens to prove a more serious drain upon its resources than the funding ef the national debt. Tar nomination of Hon. E, D. Morgan as secretary of the treasury will ‘probably be mcceptable to the country st large and will strengthen Mr. Arthur's cabinet in this confi- denceof the community. Mr Morgan was one of Mr. Lincoln's war gov- ernors and as chief executive of New York during the war strengthened the hands of the president and promptly and invariably responded to every call for aid. As United States sena: tor, as governor ot a great state and as & business man of wide attain- ments and great force of character, Mr¢ Morgan will bring to the portfolio vacated by Secretary Windom valua- ble executive experience, a practical acquaintance with business methods and acknowledged ability as a finan- cier, Tt is in accord with the eternal fit- ness of things that J. Sterling Morton, who for yoars has been a notorious monopoly capper, and is an out and out opponent of all legislation prohib- iting extortion and discrimination by railway corporations, should be one of Nebraska's representatives at the 8t. Louis cheap transportation con. vention, Score another for Governor Nance. There was a time, and that not long ago, when the publishers of that won. derful magazine for young folks, St. Nicholas, were able to put into one fat volume their monthl ues for one year, Tt speaks well for the enter. prise of the publishers that two well- filled volumes are now needed to bind in permanent form the twelve num- bers of the magazine issued during the oar. The {nm for the year ending ovember, 1881, are now received, and a veritable treasure-box of useful | will and beautiful things 1s this two-vol. umed book, the young people of these more = for- tunate times appreciate their advantages? Do they know that they disporting himwelf on the freesoil of Amer. lcfi and can howl at England as lond and a4 long as he pleases, and none will molest or make him afraid, President Arthur is an expert fisherman and is very fond of fishing as an amuse- ment, and he takes to piscatorial literature a5 & pastime now and then. During the »wlirvr of l}?e'&nnuhwhlh he wr vioe. president, he frequently spent an hsur or Sain the Libracy of Congremw, pouring over the books on fishes and fishine, Horatio Seymour advised his nephew, State Engineer Seymour, not to accept a nomination for State Engineer for a third time, un the groutd that ‘‘third terms” were politically criminal, The State En- ineer has been swiftly rewarded for fol. lowing this advise. Hehas been proffered and has acoepted ohnrr of some extensive landed interested in Michigan. Mr, Kelly's organin New York supports the state ticket nominated at Albany in & hearty fashion all ita own, as thus; “It i the misfortune of most of the candidates that they are net well known in the state, Their names awaken no enthusiasm, In. deed, most people never heard of them, They have our heartfelt rogrets, but shall have our support and votes, nevertheless,” An unbinsed {mtlm-u in Culpepper, V., exvresse the opinion, after carefully looking over the chances of both parties in the prosnt hot contest in that state, that the Bourbons will have a small majority on their state ticket, and thatthe Readjusters secure control of the legislature, The Readjuster leaders are rery confident they wiill can both the legislature and the state ticket, Senator Hale is livingat the old Hooper mansion in Wa hington, Senator Frye at the Ri!;ui House, Senator Blair at No, 205 have in St. Ni ichol-:l the finest mlg:(i hsuut tol Senu:o:“ Fédnxmd- in gine for young e ever e is own house on Massachusetts Avenue, in the world? The finest and best of | Aad Senator Morsill will soon be in his, its kind that is nowin existence, or cnr‘hu been ink nxim;zlflh It is im- ble to speak in too terms of :::;gy of Bt. Nicholas. llg is confes- sedly unapproached and una, ha- ble in its peouliar field. Itis & mar. vel of perfection, bolh as regards its literary excellence, its artistic merit, and its singular adaptability to the re- quirements of an eager and alert gen- eration of young readers, The volumes of 1880-1, m belgre maintain the high stan set for mgnidmoe‘g‘flnm who have de- woted their best talents to the pro- duction of 8t. Nicholas. The index contains the names of some of the nearly opposite; Senator Anthony s at No. 1807 1 strect, Semator. Aldrich_In at the Atlington, Senator Hawloy is at No. 812 Chatreet, and Senator Platt is atthe Arling- ton, Senator Hoar will pass the winter n the house built for Secretary Stanton on Franklin Square. SaE—— PERSONALITIES. It in not believed that Riddlebergen's coat ia mortally wounded. Worth, the_Parislan man-milliner, is s regular Jobn Bull by birth, Governor Foster s the first Governor to be elected his own successor in Ohio in ten | to yours. With the exoeption of Washington, Ar. thur e th oo ot Shewont Bt 1 it foremost writers of the land, and | the I smong its serial stories are two or three which are likely to be- oome classic with the girls and boys of the United States. Here we find the broezy and wholesome story of ‘‘Phaeton Rogers,” by Rossiter John- son, who has struck an entirely new vein in story-telling for boys.” Wil- m 0. Stoddas “Saltillo Boya" is another capital series of aketches and pictures for young folks; and the pa- ers entitled ‘‘In Nature’s Wonder- and,” by Felix L. Oswald, are almest as good as anything in ti\lt famous book of adventures on which so many boys of a past age were brou.;ht up, “The Swiss Family Robinson.” The phenomenal success of St. Nicholas is due, probably, to the wis- dom of its editorial management and the liberality of its publishers. It may be reckuned among the curiosi- ties of modern literature thatso many eminent persons have been pressed into the service of writing for young people. It is very likely that, if this magazine bad not been invented, we never should haye heard of Longfel- low, Bryant, Whittier, Bret Harte, Charles Duley Warner, Mrs. Oliphant and Bayard Taylor as being engaged in juvenile literature. Perhaps, when they first ventured into this rich field. allured by the bright pages of St. Nicholas, they were surprised to find that they had in themselves the rare faculty of interesting the children as well as the older folks. If for nothin, else than this, we should be grateful that St. Nicholas has been brought iuto the republic of letters. It may be truly said that the boys and girls of the English speaking race have now presented to them, in the annual volumes of 8t Nicholas, the best work by the best writers for young people. It will be a happy day for our country when such whole- some, atlractive, and enriching litera- ture as this shall displace the wretch- ed stuff with which the land is flooded. POLITICAL NOTES. Mr, Aldrich is the youngest member of the Senate. He was born in 1841, An Ohio Democrat who bet on 10,000 majority must saw ten cords of hard wood for & neighbor, Spencer, the quondam carpet-bag sena: ator from ' Alahama, has spruced up and gene to Washington, ‘The Republicans of Ohio have elected one colored man to the State Legislature, and his name is Green, Senator hshlm will be 67 years of age next week and has a venerable appearance, 8 his hair and whiskers are as white as smow. The qualities which the people of Nevada say that they give Senator John P, Jones oredit for are tact, forbearance, and good nature, T will not fight s duel, Senator Mahone; A flesh-wound Icould never get— Because I'm skin and bone, Towa's representative on the Supreme bench, Justice Miller, ia now the senior justice and takes precedence of all except the Chief Justice. Bayard made 822,06 by his three day's service aa president of the senate, that be- ing the extra compensation allowed & sen- ator ocoupying that position. The constitution of Maryland makes ministers or preachers of the Gospel or of any religious creed or denomination ineli- ible to seats in either branch of the State glslature. A significant fact concerning the Ohio election is that this is the first time the Republicans bave carried the State in the year following a pre:idential campaign since 1869, The prohibition candidate for Governor of Wiaconsin has an eye to the main chance, He has sent his wife out on n stumping tour thros the northern the state, and it is reported that making a vigorous canvass, They do say at Washington that man: oMu-.o-kon’ue muking haste to wl!.hy- draw their applications filled before the assassinat’on of Garfield, with » view to reconstructing them in the matter of arguments and indorsements. The Rev, Beecher, who is Henry Ward's brother, ran last year, in the Elmira dis- trict, as the greenback candidate for Con- gress, and was rewarded with permission to remain at_his clerical post. This year he s » candidate for assemblyman, Next yoar bo way be ater a comimlasion’ a4 con- stable. ““What shadows we are and what shad- ows we pursue,” murmured Senator John Sherman to himself as he stepped into the supreme court room in the capiol while the clerk was calling up case No, 39— “‘Haas against Ohester A, Arthur, sued as the late collector of the port of New York," —[New York World. James Redpath got out of Ireland just in time. Had he remaineda few days longer he would undoubtedly have been clapped into prison, As it it he is now Sunset Cox, who han enjoyed his trip abroad, will return o this oountry about the first of December, John B. Gon'l: huumfln:- H'lmud on peopla, ;e wan! to ot David Davi into 16, 0 Mr. Edison is. reported to bs warth $5,000,000, Probably a lightning cator: ntor was used in this estimate. Secretary Blains told the Monsieurs that he couldn's talk French with. them, bat hewas ready to plck & frogdeg with them at any time. ‘Harry Garfield plays the piao in a cred- itable masiner. Harry's prospeots of ho- coming & distinguised. man, smong the Iaios, aro good. Parnell has been offered. the treodom of the oity by the authorities. of Dublin, buk his fachites for enjoying the honor ars not any too great just now. Peince Victor Napoleon, one of the two g sois ‘of Prings ! Jetotns Napolson, Tas, with his Tather's consent, enlisted aa privatein an artillery regiment, : Coningsby Rolph Disraeli, Lord Bea- couafisld's nephew and heit, i & clever buf Samewhat soosatelo boy,. Hle, Ia shy, and Teserved ana loves muste morethan classics, The Sismene Princes recently visiting Paris before leaving botght 350 pianos for the harom of their brother the King. Hereafter publ ¢ sympathy will always o with the King, 1o juatter what he dooe I want slver,” said Jane Jackson, of Loulaville, in demanding the settlsment of Hanser's “f ot ne'll ver,” the angryman retorted, “but L1l give Jou all the lead you want” and he shot three bullets into the landiady. A refrigerator_transit company in the South bas elected for its president Charles F. Adams. This is only a remarkably well executed counterfeit of the eternal fit- ness of things. The gentleman called to he position i ot the rigid Chasles Fran. cis Adams, of Quincy, Mass. That would be too huge joke for the nerves of this sensitive country tosucoessfully withstand. A dispatch from Washington states that “the motion still prevails extensively n Chinaand Jopan that General Grant is the Emperor of America.” Our friends_in Chiun and Japan are mistaken; the Em. ror of America it a man named Sullivan, o gives $50 to & man he cannot knock out of time in four rounds. Hony Kong and Yeddo papers please copy. Tho late Louis A. Wiltz, governor of Louisian, whose death has been annouced by telegruph, was born in Now Orleans in 1813, and entered commercial life at the age of fifteen, He served in the confeder- ate army thronghout the war, and became an active politician in New Orleans after its close, - He was elected amember « the loghlature, and_alderman and_mayor of ew Orleans. In the troubles of 1874 he took & prominent part on the democratic sido. In1879 he was elected lieutenant governor, and in 1879 was president of the constitutional convention. Upon the rati- fication of the constitation hewas elected overnor for four years from Avril, 1880. ‘or & year and a half i health has been gradually failing, and & yeur ago he took & trip to Colorado for his health. Wiltz was & strong partisan demoorat and his administration has been bitterly anti-re- publican from the start. IOWA BOILED DOWN. ‘The Reform School af lora has 264 inmates Hay sells at 815 and 816 a ton at Bur- lington., The Greenback vote of the State will not exceed 25,000, Oharles City has purchesed a 81,000 chemical fire engine, The Rock City creamery made last week 2,600 pounds (f butter, There are 122 convicts confined in the Anamosa peniten‘*iary, ‘There are 525 inmates in the insane hos- pital at Mount Pleasant. Pressing hay for shipment is & new in- dustry in Monona county. ‘The contract for building the Red Oak streot railway has been let. ‘The contract for building the Red Oak street railway has been let. There are 168 children in the soldiers’ f | orphans’ ok home at Davenport. Another national bank will open for bus- fness n Des Moines, November 1, A flock of 1,400 shesp arrived in Sac county the other day from Missouri, The pork-packing establishment at Iowa City has bees s01d £ Canada partics A packing house is bei Loosa with & capacity of 1,600 hogs per day. Towa has & ulation ef 1,624,468, and contains 35,225,800 acres of farming land: The Excelsior Coal Mining Company, of Des Molaes, has led artcis o ucorpar: tion, There are 150 Medics in the Keokuk Medical College, and & class of 250 is ox- pected built in Oska- It h'cldmo\l that E. A, Abbott, of Mar. shalltown, has made 870,000 in lucky ceals in corn. Eighty-five families of Hollanders, direct from the old country, have just gone into Sioux county. A new coal mine is now in operation at the Broakschink bank, five miles south of Wobster City, Iu digging a well in Muscatine well pre- werved cedar was found thirty-six feet be- low the surface. The cost of the encampment of the Towa National guard at Des Moines to the state will be about £12,000, Twenty.five hundred piles'willfbe used in makine the foundation for the big elevator to be built at Burlington, The attendance at the Baptist Universi. ty at Des Moines, is one hundred, exclu: @ of the musical department. Judge McCrary, of the United States Cireuit Court, has set next January for hearing the barbed wi.e case, This year there has already been paid into the city treasury of Red Oak for sa- Toon and billiard licenses, $7,000. The new court house at Burlington ap. proaches completion. The furnishing of the building has been let at $5,620. There are 1,513 post-offices in_the State, of which four are first class, twenty-one second olass and eighty-two third elass, Cedar Rapids reports 170,048 h k- ed during the season to date, sgainnt 364,- 014 during & correnponding period last Only seven out of the ninety-nine countfes in Tows failed to give & Ropubli- can majority for the State ticket at the last election, The Standard Coal Mining Company, of Des Moines, haa found a five foot. veln' of conl on ground about & mile northeast of the new capitol, In Northern Towa the sight of men 1n rubber boot in water up to their ankles diggiog pototos, I not unusual from the deck of steamers just now. Mary Park 19, has_brought suit against wnu:'mwfidm.' of Ju:“‘h Ri Soott county, to compel him to father her baby or pay $5,000 towards its support. The Swedish Lutheran Shorch a Alta now nearly completed, w: the largest and finest fn_the. place. It s designed after oneof the largest churchesin Sweden. Dr. G, H. Hill has been appointed super. intendent of the insane asylum st Inde. mdence. 'The new appointee has rst nssistant of the ssylum for seven years, A crazy woman was arrested at Ottum. wa walking the strosts drumming on a tin pan. She proved to be_the woman who poisoned o family st Marshalltown last summer. At Keokuk, on the 14th, the boller of & switch mh; );-;;t and the l::omofiv'ch all and strange L ree men in the sab were néithor of ‘them sorl: ously injured. Over 100 citizons have petitioned the city council of Des Moinies for an_ordi- Bagce providiag {or. abating the nulsanss of amell caused hy tho pork packing estab- lishmenta in that city. Ottumwa officials are after a female fiend named Lou Hill, for the crime of en- ticing away from home for evil purposes, Maund & child leas than 14 years of age, of previous good character. ‘W. H. Hitchoock, of Mon! has se- cured » seoond crop of _apples the treos in his orohards. ‘Tha frait is smaller than the first crop, and but few on the trees, but the apples are perfect. The supreme_court has nssessed the Keokuk & Des Moines_railrosd_company $5,600, to compensate Peter Jefiry for the lose of a leg, caused by being thrown from » flat car on which he was standing. A compsny of English capitalists, with the Duke of Sutherland at the_head, have bought sixty square miles of land on 'the lineof the St, Paul & Omaha railroad, sixty miles east of SiouxCity, for a colony, The senor civil enginoers at the Towa rioultural colego, Amet, have finished (owe trnss on the col groun they doing all the work from. sharpening the piles to. painting. tho bridge when finished. The Little Sioux river is at an unprece- dented hirht for this seas n of the year, and the overflow is doing great_damage to the hay crop on the bottoms. In Monena county it isjestimated that not less than 5,000 tons of hay have been ruined. The golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs. James Burt,of Dubuque, wascelebrated the 17th. Judge Burt is oneof Dubuque’s most honored citize having resided there for forty yeurs, His immediate descendants ‘were present to the number of twenty-five, Bradford, Pa. Thos. Fitchan, Bradford, Pa., writes: *I enclose mnnlafy for SPRING BLossOM, as I'said T would if it cured me. My dyspep- sia has vanished, with all its symptoms. Many thanks; I shall never be without it in the house.” Price 50 cents, trial bot. tles 10 cents, 17eod1w Mary J. Holmes. Just published:—Madeline. A splendid new novel by Mrs. MARy J. HoLMEs, whose novels sell s0_enormously, and are read and ro-read T7th sueh. In‘orest. " Beautifully bound; price, 1, ’Also handsome new editions of Mrs. Holmes® ki hine, Tenll)-lt ant Su yle, Edna Browning, West Lawn, Forest House, etc., ote. ALSO, SOLD BY ALL BOOKSELLERS: MAY AGNES FLEMINC. A Changed Heart, Another intensely inter. eating novel by MAY Axks FLEMING, author of those eapit.1 novels—Guy Earlscourt’s Wife, A Wonderful Woman, Mad Marriage, Silent. and True, Lost for » Woman, otc. Beautitully bound; price, $1.60, . W. CARLETON & CO., a e Oat4deodim. Publishers, N. Y. City. Corn Shellers, 22 Wind Mills, Cultivators & Corn Stalk Cutters. Marseilles Mg O Marsetllos, La Balle Co., I _fo 2wy’ AKEN UP—Iron gray pony stallion, branded J, F. on left shoulder, at C. H. Knowle's miles West of Omahs, on the K. &, W estate’s so2Bwit farm, Send for our New Tllustra- ted Price-List No. 80, for FallandWin- ter of 1881, Free to any address. Con- tains full description of al kinds of goods for personal and family use, We deal directly with the consumer, and sell all goods in any quantity at wholesale prices, You can buy better and cheaper than at home, MONTGOMERY WARD & C0. 227 and 229 Wabash Avenue,Chicugo,I1L seléwsm AGENTS WANTED EOR the Fastest Belling Book of the Age! Foundations of Success. BUSINESS AND S0UIAL FORMS The laws of trade, legal forms, how to frans- act bueluoss, valusbls tables, socisl etiquotte, " 0, how Lo conduct public 110 Tooh 1t 18's comulete Guide ‘to" Suc. oo for i clbwen. A famiy negom! v, Addrers for clrculars aud torms, ANGHOR PUB- LINATNG 00 Rt Vonds, M-, GENTS CANVASS For books, you kno will sell ‘‘Life of President” Garfleld, Horoes of the Plains,” “Border OQutlaw “Laws of Business.” IKA WALDRON & CO., 8t. Louls, Mo. se20dawlm® GHEAP L0TS. A A NEW ADDITION! Ever Offered IN THIS CITY. NO CASH PAYMENTS Required of Persons Desir- < in to Build. L0TS ON PATMENTS $5TOS10 \ PER MONTH. MoneyAdvanced VLT, 7o L0 Assist Purchasers in Building We Now Offer For Sale 85 Splendid RESIDENGE LOTS, Located on 27th, 28th, 20th, and 30th Streets, betwesn Farnham, Douglasand the/pro- ed extension of Dodge 8t., fgsto 14 Blocks from Court House and Post Office, A'l' PRICES ranging from $300 to $400 which is about Two-Thirds ot their Value, on Smsll Monthly Payment of 85 to 810, - Parties dumnfi to’Build and Improve Need Not Make any Payment for one or two years, but can use all their Means for § Improving. Persons baving $100 or $20C of their own, But not Enough to Build want, can take a lot and we g will them enough to com- plete their Building. city, within 12 minutes walk of th Business Center. Good Sidewalks ef Btreet, and the Jots can be reached way of either Farnham, Douglas i Dodge Streets. They lie in a partie the city that is very l{ng:ily Impro ing and consequently Increasing Value, and %umhuon may Thope to Doul short time. Some of the most Bightly Locatio in the city may be selected from th lots, especially on 30th Street. We will build houses on a § 7 Cash ' Payment of $160 or ¥ sell house and lot on small mo payments. Tt is expected that these lots) rapidly sold on these liberal te: and persons wishin, 51 to J)u sheuld call at our office and sec their lots at the earliest momes ‘We are ready to show these lots tolfll} persons wishing to purchase. BOGGS & HILL, Real Estate Brokers :-; 1408 North Bide of Farnham Stre§ Opp, Grand Contral ylote¥ OMAHA NEB, ; # J gD y + 4 * le their Money within'yaums %= THE BEST BABGAINS -~ ° ——