Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 31, 1881, Page 4

4 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY OCTOBER 31, 1831 L= a——————, The OT?.ha. Bee. Pablished overy morning, except Sunday, The only Monday moming daily. TERMS BY MATL:— © ar.....$10.00 | Three Months. §3.00 Months. ., 500 | One v 100 rHE WEEKLY BEE, published ev- ry Wednesday. TERMS POST PATD:— Qe Yenr......82.00 | ThreeMonths.. 50 Bix Mont! One T CORRESPONDENCE-—AIl Communi. eations relating to News and Editorinl mat- tars ehould be addressed to the Epiton or T ax Bk, BUSINESS_LETTERS—AIl Busines Letters and Remittances should be ad- dressed to Tur Owana Pusuisuivg Coum- PANY, OMAHA. Drafts, 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 City Caroulation. John H, Pierce is in Charge of the Mail ar:!"lhlin ufe'l‘llE DAILY BEE. A. H. Fitch, correspondentand solicitor Neprasxa hoists her flag with the two C's—corn and cattle, Erectiox day will be a very “‘cold day” for the Douglas county democ- rTacy. McVeacr thinks that a ‘‘star router” in the ‘‘jug” is worth ¢wo on the indictment. 4 Fiva THOUSAND offico-seokers in Nebraska are sitting their last week on the anxious bench. Breoner has resigned the editor- ship of the Christian Union. It was less exciting but harder work than being the popular pastor of an adoring congregation. —esm— TueRrE were only three murders in St. Louis last week. St, Louis must brace up, or Chicago will pluck from her the reputation of being the wick- edent city in the west. ARIZONA i rejoicing over the re- moval of Governor Fremont. There are several other governors of western territories who might find more healthy locations in the east. Dave MiLer owes his popularity to many sterling qualities which he will be called upon to display when the people of Douglas county clect him as their sheriff a week from next Tuesday. Tar crowded houses which have filled the opera house during the past ‘week indicate that Omaha is an amuse- ment-loving city, and will handsomely patronize good entertainments when presented in a good theatre. Cuares WoLre, the independent republican candidato for state treas- urer of Pennsy.uania will draw 20,000 republican votes from the Cameron dynasty. Byron must have had Penn- sylvania in view when he spoke of the “‘Wolfe in the fold.” Wuex Jim Keene went to Now York from CQalifornia he ok with him 5,000,000 and to teach Wall Street men how £0'run a stock market. Jim been more successful in running Rorses than Wall street. A waizer in the Omaha Post offers to wager §100 for the benefit of St. Joseph’s hospital that Chris. Hart- mann can't write three English sen- tences from dictation, Chris has now an opportunity to exhibit his educa- $ion and assist a worthy charity. Mzs. JANE BALDWIN hus been con- firmed as postmistress of Council Blufls notwithstanding that private dispatch from the Nonmpareil office, which was made publio to the disgust of John Chapman & Co. The next time the Nonpareil wants to make use of the Associated Press for private po- litical purposes it should be careful not to send its message along with other press matter. s—— Tag coming week will mark, as we trust, the beginning of a new era in the musical history of Omaha. On ‘Thursday evening the opening concert of the Philomathean club will afford our citizens an opportunity of listen- ing to the first of s series of concerts by local musicians, in which only mu- #i0 of the highest order will be pre- sentod. It is earnestly to be hoped that popular support will be equal to the merit of the performances. The effort which a fow of our musicians are making to cultivate a taste for classical music in Phis city is deserving of every encour- sgement. The appreciation of good music is one ofgthe marks of a culti- vated taste and a cultured communi- ty. A cultivated taste is, however, largely » matter of education, and if Omaha in years pest has not shown that interest in music exhibited by other cities further east, it has been due to the fact that she has had few ‘opportunities fur self-edugation in this department of art, Now that the op- portunity ia afforded it is to be h that our citizgus will seise it. i TARIFFS ANI;.I’I‘OUK WATER- The railrond managers have con- cluded that a cut-throat policy is not, in the end, a paying pokicy. The war in freight and passenger rates between Chicago and New York which hes been so fiercely maintained during a number of months, is practically end- od. Without any concerted action the trunk lines have ordered a goneral advanco in rates on freight and pas- senger tariffs, and while in the case of passengers rates have not boen ad- vanced to the old time figuros, it is bolieved that before many weeks the tariff will bo restored to substantially its former condition, This restora- tion of rates has boen dictated by the interosts of the various companies. There is no doubt that the low rates which maintained during the “war” could not be continued with- out seriously decreasing the dividends of the railroads and correspondingly diminishing the market value of thoir stocks, In fact, the genecral decline in the securities of the Vanderbilt and competing roads over which the were westorn produce sceks the seaboard is largely attributable to the convie- tion that they were earning liitle monoy on freight and passengers, car- ried at the figures of acut-throat com- petition. Railroad stocks are valuable according to the present or prospect- ive dividend earning power of the companies. This capacity to eara divi- dends depends upon $wo factors, viz: the traflic, and the amount of capi- talization of the corporation. With an equal amount of traffic, a railroad stocked for $40,000 a mile can pay twice the dividends paid by a corpor- ation whose line is capitalized at $80,000 per mile. The over capitali- zation of railronds lies at the bottom of all the extortions practiced by the corporations upon the producers of the country. It issafe to say that there is mot in the United States a single line of railroad which is not stooked at from 50 per cent. to 100 per cent, over its cost of con- struction, All the eastern trunk lines aro heavily over capitalized and the public are compelled to pay divi- dends on the watered stock. If the Erie, Pennsylvania and New York Central roads were to be built and equipped to-day and their capital placed at o figure nearly approximating their cost the ‘‘war” tarifts on both freight and passengers would return such handsome dividends on the invest- ment that the managers would be forced, as other roads have done, to water their stock in order to conceal their profits from the public. 1t is a notorious fact that whoever is robbed in the first place to build, equip and stock a railroad, the people are plun- dered in the end to make up the de- ficit, 'Construetion rings fleece the bondholders, stock watering robs the owner of stock by diminishing its value and high tariffs filch money from the pockets of the public in order to pay dividends on the watered stock and reimburse the stockholders. So ong as a reckless system of stock watering is permitted to con- tinue, ‘‘railroads wars” and fluctuating tariffis cannot be prevented. Strife for traffic to pay dividends will be followed by the cutting of exorbitant tariffs only in turn to be succeeded by their re-establishment. The time has come when the states individually and in congress must interpose their au- i o A5G thority on behalf of the people of the country and by passing and enforcing laws prohibiting stock watering, oliminate from tho railrond question one of its most disgraceful features. THE extra session of the sen- ate called by President Arthur a [fow days after his accession to the presidency was onded on Saturday night by a sine die adjournment. The senate has been in session twenty-one days, sixteen of which have been actual working days, Besides the olection of Mr, Bayard, and his sup- plantal by David Davis, as president pro tem of the senate and acting vice president, and the confirmation of the presidental nominations, nothing of national importance has been transact- ed during the session, The contested nomination of Stratham, Mahone's candidate for postmaster of Lynch- burg, Va., has been laid over till next session, owing to the persistence of the democratic minority, but the evi- dent intention of the republicans to aid Senator Mahone will, no doubt, have its weight in the present canvass in Virginia, Where the crumbs of patronage aro there are the fishes gathered together. — CoxsmTuTIONAL amendments will be voted upon in many of the states at their coming elections. will pass upon the question of biennial elections and legislative sessions; Maryland will decide upon the time of electing judges; Minnesota will consider three amendinents providing for equal taxation, prohibiting special legislation, and regulating the pay of logislators, and Colorado will fix the place for her capital, Dznver is the paradise to which all the spavined and knock-kneed theatri- cal troupes in the country fly for news- paper tafly, ? Wisconsin a\ | THE SPEAKERSHIP. The contuat over the speakership of the next house of representatives promises to be unusually spirited Tho leading candidates as announced up to the present time are Kasson of Towa, Hiscock of New York, Kiefer of Ohio and Reed of Maine, Tt has been well said that fully one-half the law-making force of the lower cham- bers sits behind the gavel. The speaker can not only promote, he can also prevent legislation. In his hands rests to o large extent the efficiency of the body over which he presided through the committees of which he has the appointment. It will readily be seen that fow men are qualified to fill the speaker's: chair with credit to themselves and profit to the country. The qualities of o good speaker aro good judgment, a cool temper, skill and tact in the ex- orcise of his power, a judicial mind versed in legislation and the practice of debate and the ability to inspire and hold the confidence ef the body ovor which he is called upon to pre- side. There are many reasons why John A. Kasson should he the next speaker of the house of representatives. His long congressional experi- once, his admirable power in debate, his cool temper and clear judgment, together with the re- spoot in which he is held by all his congressional associates mark him as tho candidate above all others for the position. Mr. Hiscock, his principal opponent, is a citizen of New York. Other things boing equal, this should give Mr, Kasson the preference. New York has already her share in the gov- ernment. The president, secretary of the treasury and postmaster geueral are all citizons of the Kmpire|, state. If Mr. Kasson possesses only equal qualifications with Mr. Hiscock he should receive the position. Whatare Hiscock's peculiar qualifications for the speakership 7 His term of service in congress has been short. During that term he has proved himgelf a good republican but he has not exhibited any extraordina- ry talents either on the fleor or in the committeo room. His record in tho house can bear no comparison with that of John A. Kasson, and his mental qualifications are equally in- ferior. The republicans of the next house of representative will ~hon- or both themselves and the country by selecting Mr. Kusson as their pre- siding officor Secrerary Kirkwoon writes home from Washington that he doos not ex- pect to be retained in office after the middle of November, and that he is setting his house in order prior to re- moval. Commenting on this, the Des Moines State Register says: The assassination of President Gar- field served Senator Kirkwood especi- ally ill. To gratify tho late presidont and the party, he gave up tho senator- ship against his own wishes, and now heis left out of all public place— greatly to his personal disappoint- ment, it may frankly be said, and greatly to the loss of public ser- vice also. The people of Minne- sota have already returned Sec- retary Windom in the senate by the unanimous vote of the republicans of the legislature. He was the choice of the republicans of that state for senator before Garfield needed him, and they thought his services with the late president only made him the stronger and more desirable as a sen- ator again. Last winter four-fifths of the republicans' of Iowa were for Kirkwood's return to the senate, and to-day of the masses of the party fully that many of the party desire his election to the senate now. Heis not only the strongest man we have for the senate as a state, but he repre- sents that type of republicanism which is in overwhelming majority in Towa. To retire him from the cabinet now because he has represented and still represents that element of the party, and also to elect to the senate a man who has not been in association and who is not in sympathy with that ele- ment or sentiment in the party, is virtually to disfrauchise this state of its strongly expressed will and posi- tion. Let the so-called stalwart or Grant-Conkling-Arthur administra- tions make up its cabinet at it will, and wholly of its own kind, as it undobubt- odly has the right to do. But why should Towa, deprived of the repre-| sentation of its real sentiment in tte cabinet, be also suppressed as to ity sentiment and position in the senate ? Mr. James F. Wilson wanted last winter to be a member of the cabinet, and Gov. Kirkwoed did not want to be, but preferred the senate. Now why in the changed comdition of things, should not Wilson go into the cabinet and Kirkwood be returned to the senate? The stato of Iowa would not then lose representation in the cabinet, and two of its very ablest | P% men would be secured to the public service instead of one. NEBRASKA'S vice president at the river convention in St. Louis was Judge Olinton Briggs. Tho following resolution was presented by the dele- gation reprosenting this state: Resolved, That in the opinion of this convention the Missouri river, with its 8,000 miles of navigation, and flowing past and through four statos and three territories, should be placed by the government in charge of a commission of engineers, organ- ized as is the Mississippi river com- mission, The Counntry. Who that has ever lived any time in the country but must have heard of the virtues of Burdock as a blood purifier. Burdock Blood Bitters cure dyspepsia, biliousness and all disorders arising from impure blood or deranged liver or kidneys, Price 81,00, trial Lettles 10 e +o 7 eodlw T STATH JOTTINGR, The Blair stoak yazds sre now completed. Wolves are numerous in Johnson convty, Utica has four firms engaged in the grain business, The Madison Chronicle is #erved on the half shel ., Central Oity has a church for every 150 inhabitants, The contract for a new hotel at Calvert has been let, The new flour mill at Tekamah is near. ing completion, A pork packing factory will soon be started in Lineoln, Do chester is preparing for prairie fires by plowing fire guards, The reform fever has struck Nebraska City The mayor and city council of Lincoln have returned trom K.lamazoo, soiled doves must go. A supper and social for the poor of Ne- brasks City netted $205, Nearly 8,000 worth of town lots were wold at Sheridan lust week A miller at Poru wna relieved of his Dbeard by & revolving shaft. A farmer in Red Willow county has just completed fencing 630 acres, Schuyler's business in baled hay this year will amount to 225,000, Twenty dollars a ton is paid for hay at shie forks of the Republican river.y The foundation of the new_ schoolhouse in West Bentrice has been built, The corner stone of the now M. E, church at Ulysses was laid Friday. The postoffice war in Hastings is over, suithblejbuilding having been found, With a fund of $7,081.00 in the treas. ury, the city of Fremont is pretty well ‘heeled.” The Johnson county farmers think their corn crop will average forty-five bushels per acre. A few more gond carpenters could find profitable employment in Wahoo at the present tin @ The B. & M. company are preparing for winter by erecting snow fences where thoy will do the most geod. The brick work on the new hotel at Wahoo is about finished and the building presents a fine appearance. 3 The three saloons in Tecumseh closed their doors 1vst week. They will open again under the Slocumb rule, The mail agents on the reute between Slair and O'Neil have secured an advance of 850 per year in their salaries, Additional school room is the crying ne- cessity of Fremont. Nearly one huudred pupils are without keating room. Crete claima the title of the ‘Flour City.” Another mill, 38x48, and fifty- nmne feet high, will soon be built, Elevator facilities at Milford will be in- creased by the erection of u new building with a capacity of 90,000 bushels, Several wealthy Towa farmers have pur- chased farms in Webster county and are stocking them with blooded sattle. Indianola's molasses factory cleaned up for the season on Saturday. ~Two thous- and six hundred gallons were made. The work of raising the U, P. track west of Fremont, where the washout oc- curred lyst #pring, is nearly finished. The Burt county court houre narrowly escaped destruction by fire during the meeting of the democratic convention. The fish commissioners have madea do- nation t» northern - ebraska of 5 000 sal- mon fry fortue mouth of the Verdigris. DrG. W. Wilkinson, of Dakota (ity, has been confirned ant commissioned as ent of the Winnebago and Omaha In- dians. County polities and politicians are red hot. The campaizn is one of unusual bitterness, and cracked skulls are-multi- plying. Articles of incorporation have been filed with the secretary of state, for the Lincoln tanning compuny, with & capital stock of 85,000, Duks's hardware store, ot Plattsmouth, was robbed lust w of 8100 worth of revolvers, knivos, eto. An expert gang is doing the town *horvughly, The new B. & M. depot at Falls City is now in the hands oi the painters, When finished i% will be the neatest depot be- tween Atchison and Lincoln, Plum Creek, Dawson county, has a board of village trustees, a bible class, a bank, and is to have, in the near future, a Methodist church costing $15,000.§ The Fremont postoffice, by order of the ostal authorities, st be located in a brick or stone fire proof building, and the citizens are now looking around for a loca- tion. One of C. P. Dowey's farms in Platte county has produced a squash measuring eighty-four inches in circumference and weighing one hundred and thirty-five pounas, A little six-year-old daughter of Mr. Henry Hooper, of Strohl, was burned to death on the 13th The child was ironing some doll clothes, and ia some way her own clothes caught fire, The public sale of lots at Sheridan, the new town at the junction of the Missouri Pacific and B, & M., in Nemaho conn was a succees, and building will com- mence immediately. Dodge county voters nuthorized the is- sue of $3,000 additional bonds for the com- pletion of the Platte bridge, which will give the farmers of Saunders county free access to Fremont, The grim Visaged veterans of the war reui\limi in Pawnee county mustered one hundred strong men on the 19th, marched on Pawnee City and demanded the inner works of a public lunch, The citizans of Blue Springs have at last determined to huiid a public hall, and will voto bonds to tha amount of 85,000 for that purpose. The building is to be of brick with two rooms below. Politicians are not always ungrateful. The editor of The Wilbur Opposition was recently publicly rreunwd witha “knotty club orcane.” The donation was accom- f,nmpln(ml with several affectionate em- races, Con Cowper, somewhat notorious as n | 3 horse thief, escaped from the jail at St. Paul, mounted a horse in a neighboring yard and departed. He was overtaken by the citizens, brought back to town and se- curely ironed, ’ Farmer Parson, of Syracuse, enjoyed one of his periodical sprees in Nebraska City last week, and woke up minus 885, n | & watch and chain and several valusble pers, Three men are in jail charged with the robbery, Twenty-five thousand sheep will be win- tered in Merrick county, In Phelps and Kearney cou ties, 200" miles west, there will bea number of new sheep ranches among the sand hills on the Platte river and within five wiles of the railroad. The Columbus )anlne house will be ready for business Noy, 25th, The build- ing will be two stories high, and situated on a tract of three and a half acres of land :y:tnx in t'lllu eantorn, part of :halcit}\;, and between the main track of the U. P. an the A, & N, The residents of Ulysses are alwa ready to contribute liberally for pub awusement, Two citizens recently entes tained the town with a pugilistic exhibi- tion, Justice stepved in and demanded 836 from the combatants, which was promptly ¢ llected from the crowd, while the victor walked off with an addition of $10 to his exchequer. CHARLES SHIVERICK, Furniture, Bedding, Mirrors and overything pertaining to the furni- ture and upholstery trade. Has the best stock in Omaha and makes the lowest prices. Bept13tf s A ) IOWA BOILED DOWN, Des Moines is to have the Herdios, Atlantic will sonn have two creameries in operation. Kirkville, for the fimt time in its Listo- ry, has a saloon, The Towa hay crop grown this year is worth o fortune, Clinton has just contracted for $7,8756 worth of sewers Sil feels the need of more dwelling houses very much, A conrt house costing £125,000 is talked of for Marshalltown, Fort Dodge already has water works, and next year expects to have gas works, There are oighty-seven manufacturing house in Dubuque, employing oy er 8,500 men. Clarion, by & majority of seventeen, hac decided to incorporate, The Des Moines cigar makers have struck for'an advance of waves,y ne burglaries were reported in Dur- on one night last week, A |-'x.,f-.| county sorghum raiser made 2,800 gallons of sorghum syrup this sea- son, Many corn fields and hay and grain stack are submerged along the Chariton river, Twenty-five hundred piles will be used inmaking the foundation for Burlington's large elevator, The university of Des Moines has now an enrcliment of 100 students, besides the musical department,, The students at the Baptist University, Des Moines, all wear uniform caps of the turban style, The Norwegian plow company, of Du- buque, have increased their capital stock to $100,000. A wovement is on foot in Muscatine to rr.'fnnim a colony for settlement in the lo- cality of Los Angeles, Cal. The Cedar Fallsdri 'rnrk association lost between nine hundred and one thou- sand dollars in their recent races The packing at Cedar Rapids is reported at 103,087 hogs against 250,564 for the sum- mer season to date, A Herdiz line of coaches is to bs run in Sioux Uity, a company for thut purpose having been organized. 3 The Ottumwa poultry association hold their annual exhibition January 17sh, 1883, aud continue three days. Dubuque expects the Milwaukee road to exrer:nl #200,000 in that city this year in building car shops, depots, etc. The Sioux county school fund received 81,935, the proceeds of fines imposed by the last term of the district court. The late rise of the Little Sioux has ruined thousands of tons of hay in stack on the bottom land along that stream. The cest of the new Presbyterian church at Fort Dodge, fully completed, will be 825,50, The expendi ure so far has been #15,000. Watson’s canning factory at Vinton, which hns closed for the season, put up over 500,000 cans of corn and tomatoes, A couple of gentlemen propose to build a hospital in Council Bluffs costing from 825,000 to $30,000, if citizens will donate the grounds. Judge Cole, of Des Moines, estimates that during the past year 150,000 tons of barbed wire were nold in the state, paying a royalty of 2,2:0,000. A Muscatine mn threw himself out of a second story window from his residence while in a fit of delirium tremens, He was badly hurt, but not seriously. Washington Allen, of Suc county, has an orchard of some 1,000 apple trees from seven to twelve years growth, which have yielded the 1'»«»:& three years from four to six hundred bushels, A 9.year-old_boy beastly drunk was picked up by the polico in Lecoines the other night and lodged in the calaboose, His father and mother, O'Hara by name, are confirmed drunkards, Warrants have been issued by the state auditor for 8886.76 for the construction of & wall at the Anamosa prison, $99.90 for the transportation of convicts, and $100 reward for apprehension of gonvicts. Tows lnst year ranked the fifth state in the production of wheat, the yield being 31,000,000 bushels; second in ‘corn, 275,- 000,000 bushels; third in_ barley, 4,000,000 bushels, and fifth in rye, 1,000,000, Tho Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northemn train wreckers captured at Mount Auburn recently, have oonfessed the deed. . Thoy are waifs sent wost. some years ago by Whitelaw Reid, and not sons of prominent farmers in the neighborhood us stated. Mr, A. Webb, living near Towa City, was waylaia by four men a few nights ago, while on his way home, They demanded of him his money. Cn his satisfying them that he had none, they told him they would take his_horse, but did not do k0. No further molestation was offered to Mr, Webb. : A sad accident ocourred at St. Mary's Orphan’ Home, Dubuque, to a nine year old orphan. tie went into the barn (on- nected with the Home, and while thero he was kicked on the head by » horse. The back portion of his skull' was broken by the hoof of the animal. At last accounts, it was thougat he could not live, The body.of the murdered man found on the railroad track near Fort Madison, on the 7th inst., with_a bullet hole through his head, hag been identified as that of the son of Charles P. Lenighan, who lives in Clinten county. ' lhe_youris man_ had a considerable amount of money with him when he left home; hence the incentive of & companion who was with him to kill young Lenighan, Some days ago two conyicts in the Ama- mosa penitentiary ¢ot into o quarrel at fhe quarry. One of the guand, fn order to quiet the disturbers, fired on the offenders, one of the buckshot taking eMect in the knec, but no serious injury was done, Fifty convicts at once mutinied und re- fused to work, but did_not dare to make a Dreak, which was evidently the object of the quarrel. The deputy warden was sent for and uhe men_were quieted down, and no further tiouble has occurred. Towa has $4,700,621 15 invested in pub- lic buildings for various purposes. The cost is distributed as follows: New cap- itol, 81,700,000; agricultural college, $351,- 96.55: deaf and dumb asylum, §32,793.- 10; tish hatchery, 819,350.70; insane hos- pital at Mount Dleasant, 8640,450.45; in- sano hospital at Independence, A774,537.- 27; normal school at Cedar Fall, 85,000; Ansmosa penitentiary, 8222,20811; re. form_achools, 8145,108.43; orphans’ home at Davenport, 8130,745; state university, 64,987.45, —— 'Don’t Know Half Their Value.” “They cured me of Ague, Bilious- ness and Kidney Complaint, as re- commended. T had a half bottle left which T used for my two little girls, who the doctors and neighbors aaid could not be cured. I would have lost both of them one night if I had not given thom Hop Bitters, They did them 80 much good I continued their use until they were cured. That is why I say you do net know half the value of Hop Bitters, and do not re- commend them high enough.”—B., Rochester, N. Y. ee other column. —American Rural Home, oct. 16-nuv, 1 Ladies, ask to see our Silk Bound, Fine, Heavy Merino Vests at Gdcts., claimed to be worth $1 by others. Weo mean what we say when we ad- vertise, and repeat that we shall cer- tainly undersell everybody in Omaha this {nll in way of the bargains we THE LODGES. Notes from Temples ‘of Mys- tery - Masons' Marks in an Ancient Land. The Regular Meetings —Goat Hairs—The Triple Link, Grand Lodge Meetings - The Amer~ foan Legion of Honor. THE FREE MASONS. MASONS' MARKS, Twenty-three varieties of Masons’ marks from the stones in the Roman Bath at El Hamma, or the Hot Springs of Gadara, are given by Selah Merrill, archmologist of the American Pulestine exploration soci- oty, in his valuable and handsome now work, entitled, ‘‘East of the Jor- dan.” He also gives specimens of the Masons’ marks on the stones on the walls of the reservoir of the ancient city of Bozrah. These latter marks strongly resemplo the Aramaic letters of the seventh and eighth centuries, B. C. The former include right angels, triangles, Roman letters, ete. All are very interesting, A MEMORIAL OBELISK. Last Thuraday night Bethel Lodge of New York unveilod an obelisk of black in the Enst, in memory of the lato Brother James A, Garfield, Pres- ident of the United States. This obe- lisk 18 not intended for a temporary affair, merely for the presenttime, but will in future be used during the per- iod of Masonic mourning for any Brother of this Lodge who may pass away. On the face the pedestal now appears the name and portrait of Brother Garfield. Onfuture occasions of this character the name and portrait of the dead Brother will tako this place, and thus remind thoso present in the Lodge-room who the lost one was, and what he was like. THE REGULARS. The opening of the month brirgs with it the regular meetings“of the various Masonic bodies, . Itis highly desirable that more interest be taken by the brethren in these sessions. A larger attendance of the older Masons is desirable, and would abate many of the mistakes made in the conduct of the lodges. A general at- tendfnce of the younger brethren is equally as desirable, for into their hands at some future day must be committed the practical direction of Masonic work. Tuesday the Chapter of Royal Arch Masons holds its regular meeting. Thursday St. John’s Lodge, No. 25, meets in regular communication. The monthly meeting of Mt. Cal- vary Commandery No. 1 will take place on Friday evening. ON JURISDICTION. The Grand Lodge of Towa has re- solved that an American Grand Lodge, legally constituted, has, and of right should exercise, absolute and exclu- sive jurisdiction over all the Lodges and the territory included within the jurisdiction of the civil government of the state, territory or province within which the same is organized; that the assumption of divided allegi- ance 18 inadmissible and destructive of the unity of government essential to the welfare and harmony' of Masonary. GOAT HAIRS, Prince Frederick, of the Nether- o lands, the German Emperor’s brother- in-law, and Grand Master of the of the Grand Lodge of Holland—the Nestor of the House of Orange, and for sixty-five years Grand Master of Masons, died on September 9th. The late General Garfield was the eighth Mason, but the first Koight Templar, who was ever honored with the presidency. He was a charter member of Peutalpha Lodge. 'The Masonic Temple was dedicated by the Grand Lodge of Ohio last Tuesday. The Grand Royal Arch Chapters of Illinois and Towa held their sessions last week. Towa Knight Templars held their annual conclave at Des Moines last shall offer in every department. Ask to see our Cloaks and Dress (ioods also, at Busnman’s, oct20tf TRIPL LINK. WYOMING GRAND LODGE, The Wyoming Grand Lodge met Jast week. of the order in the territory numbers 418, showing an increase during the past society year of 71 members, The total receipts were 81,270,38, swelling the amount on hand at the commence- ment of the year to $2,106.48, from The present membership | # in 1782, as has been supposed until The new degree of Rebokah lodge at Peorin, IIl, is duing splendidly, there being over 100 members. lately. English authority now settles the date of Wildey's birth conclu- sively. LEGION OF HONOR, Omuha Council No. 320, American Legion of Honor, will hereafter meet every Monday evening at their hall on. Douglas street, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets, north side. Members are requested to be present next Monday at 7:30 sharp, as busi- ness of importance will be transacted. The American Legion of Honor is asecret henevolent society, composed of a Supreme, Grand and Subordinate Councils. 1is objects are as follows: 1st. To unite fraternally all persons of good moral character who are socially acceptable, and if for bene- ficial membership of sound bodily health, and between eigliteen and’ sixty-five years of age. 4 2d. To giveall moral and material aid in its power to its members and those dependent upon them. 3d. 'fu educate its members so- cially, morally, and intellectually. 4th. To establish a fund for the relief of sick and distressed beneficial members, bth. To establish a benefit fund, from which, on the satisfactory evi- dence of the deathof a beneficial member of the Order, who has com- plied with all its lawful requirements asum not exceeding five thousan dollars shall be paid to the family, orphans, or depeudants, as the mem- ber may direct- This order was instituted in Boston, Mass., December, 1878, and now has over 700 councils, with a total mem- bership of,over 35,000. Omaha council No. 320, was insti- tuted October, 1880, and has now up- wards ef fifty members, and applica- tions are beingacted upon at nearly overy meeting. This council meet every Monday evening, in the hall on Douglas street, hetween Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets, north side. REAL ESTATE. We are now affering ‘FOR SALE OVER ONEMILLION AGRES: op THE Best and Cheapest Farming Land In Nebraska, located in all the best counties in- the state. 1n DOUGLAS COUNTY Alone we have about 25,000 Acres or ‘sl at 8, 810 and §1% per acre, 8 to 15. from _Omahn, 16,000 Acres 'in Sarpy County, 18,000 'Acres in Washington County, Large Tracts in all other counties in. Nebraska and Western Towa, ALSO An immense list of OMAHA OITY property con- sisting of FINE_RESIDENCES, HOUSES and. LOTS, BUSINESS PROPFRTY of all kinds, LOTS INn ADDITIONS to Onaha. ACRE TRACTS, etc., for Sale, Rent and Exchange. BOGGS & HILL, Beal Estate Brokers, 1408 Farnham St., OPP, GRAND CENTRAL HOTEL. Houses, Lots, Residences, Etc. House and lot, 10th and Marcy, £3,500. Two hous s and one lot, 18th and Loavens worth, 82,200, House and small lot, 13th and Cass, 8600, “Three hous s and lot, )2th and Cass, §2,000. house and lot, 6th ard Pacific, 3,00, House and lot, 10th and Pierce, §1,250, Fine res dencs, Shinn's add tion, 8,000, Houss and two lots. 26th and Farnhaw, $2,600° House and lot, 28th and Farnha _, 81,800 Two new hotises and lot, 17th’and Marcy. 2 200, y New houses and one-halt lot, 221 and Capitol avenue, 82,000, ertiguse, seven rooms, with et Shinn's addition, 700, 1,700, Fine residence property St. Mary’s avenue,. 5,500 Touse and lot, Davenport street, $4,000. House and Jot, Shinn's additio , 52,000, House and lot, G:h and Pierce, £2,600 Large house, corner lot, 21st wnid Buxt, low price. House and lot, Armstrong’s a fdition, 2,700, Co ner lot, mall house, Armstrong’s addition, 9.0, 1 and C pitol avenuc, 38,200 and Hanev, 82,000, ence, California strect, §7,000, Br .k house, 80th aud Dougl.s, 81,500, Full corner fot wid two houscs, 16th and Cop tol ax enue, $12,000, Foll lot and hou e, businees locati n, §7,500.. Elegaut residence, No. 1 location, § H.yse and lot, 18th and Burr, 32, Commodious reeid: nce, th ce lots, 818,000, House and lot, 23th and Farnham, 81,160, House and o ,'26th und Douglas, §1,500. Residence property, Califortiin »trect, $6,700.- Residence property, Park Wilde avenue, very cheap. Tot, 12th and Pac fic, $1,200. House and House and fot, Dodge atreet, 83,500, Two house and two thuds of a lot, 23d and Ca s, 81,600, l;r:’lnhla xcsidence, two lots on Capitol Hill, Brick residence, cholce location, $5,500, House nd oueacre, South Omaha, 560, Five spiendidiy lozated business lots, 22x86: feer each, a4 oo . o location as can be fonnd inv th city, each §2,500. Two business lots, cpposi‘e “Tns Millard,"™ south sido Douglas, between 12th and 18th, oach ,000, Six business lots on 25th s'rect, $1,800 to which outstanding warrants are de- |#2,50. ducted to make §928,60. The amount of benefits paid during the year was £878.90. PATRIARCHAL CIRCLE Three degrees, for uniformed Pa- triarchs, have been prepared by mem- bers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, under the title of ‘‘Patriarchal Circle,” The organizations are called temples, subordinate, and supreme, The chief officer is “Supreme oracle.” While the degrees are entirely outside of the regular ritual of Odd Fellowship, yet | s the 8. G. L. has given its permission to members to receive them, and a sort of a semi-official consent to their being worked under the name of the order. Rather a They should either be fully endorsed and incorporated in the regular sys- tem, or vice versa, They are said to be very beautiful, interesting, and attractive, and will be of benefit to the Encampment branch of the order. LINKS, The Wildey association of Chicago, Tllinois, have secured the services of P. G. Bire Nicholson, of Pennsyl- vania, to deliver the oration at the centennial anniversary birthday of the founder of the order, to take place in that city on January 10, 1882, Thomas Wildey, the father and doubttul policy. | 800 to Tuli corner lots, suitablo for business, §7,600. Twobusin: ss lot:, together 44x06 feet, No, location, 85,000, Six good business lots, each 22x120, each 3,000, . ’r':.:’u business lots, 22x120 1.et each, all for Business corner, 192 feet square, one of the: beat locations. . tho uity, S0000 " il 60x120 feet on corner, very cheap for all, full. lot, 15th and Harney, 81,800, Full lot, 22d and Californis, £1,600, Corner lot, Jefferson and Douglas, ¥1,200, Residence' lot, Dodge stre t, £2,5600, Large lot, 21st and Haruey, 81,600, Corner. 66x60 feet, 13th and Picree, $650. Block in West Omaha, $1,600, Brick co'tage and two lots, well improved ,000. goaventy cholce lote, Park Wilds avenue, §600 to Nincty-cight lotssouth of §t. Mary' between 165| and 20th strects, 8500 :? :7&;"!“. Ninety lots on Farnham, Douglas and Dodge l;_ulwwu‘ai)th, 27th, 280 and 30th streets. BOCuS & HILL. ¥OR SALE Just What RAILROAD MEN WANT—an EN- TIRE BLOCK OF GROUND—eight full lots, with fine ‘large houss of fourteen roows ands wany other valuable improyemente, Will divide this and sell in parcels to suit purchaser, BOGGS & HILL, Real Estate Brokers, founder of Amerfcan Odd Fellowship, was bornin London in 1780, and not 1408 Farnham Street, OPP, GRAND CENTRAL HOTEL.