Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 3, 1881, Page 4

| \ [ | _quire twice three hundrod and eighty- [ THE OMAHA I JAILY BEE: THURSDAY NOVEMBER 3, 1881 e b b | i he Omaha Bee. Pablished avery morning, except Sunday. Tho ouly Honday worning daily, TERMS BY MATL:— sr. ... 810,00 | Threo Monthe, 83.00 Months... 500 | One o 100 [HE WEEKLY BEE, published ev. ey We lnosday. TBERMS POST PAID:— Ono Y Bix Months. + 100 | One CORRESPOND. All Communic eatious relnting to News and Editorial wat- sorn should be addressed to the Epiros o¥ Tan 13 BUSINESS LETTERS—ALU Businew Betvers and l!»nm um?m rhr:;l;]l‘!»:'(?;‘l - Tz OMANA T'CDLISHIN 3 e owane: Drafta, Checka and Port o fice Ordeis to be made payable to the ocder of the Company. OMAHA PUBLISHING C0., Prop'rs E.ROSEWATER, Editor. Fdwin Davis, Manager of City Ciroulation. John H. Pisrce is in Charre of the Mall Uh:n stion nfl THE DAILY BEE. A. H. Fiteh, eorrespondant and solicito: Wiex Virginians cease from troub- ling, the senate is at rest. W have had a democratie sheriff in Douglas county for the last four years, Now in a good timo for a radieal change. Tae debt reduction for October wns $15,000,000. At thia rate the entire national dobt could be wiped out in ten years. Jupar Earwny, the man who en- deavored to provoke a challenge from Benator Malione, is the ‘‘crank” who turns the Louisiana lottsry wheel. ——— New Yokk's registrtion indicates that 145,000 votes will be cast at the coming election. John Kelly boasts that he can manage 50,000 of them. Cuicaco has threo hundred and cighty-seven laundries, 1t will re- seven to wash Chicago's sviled munici- pal linen, E _ — __ _ _J Nexr to his greenback somsrsault that flop of Senator Voorhoes on the tarifi question has excitod the groatest discussion among the rock - rootod “‘moss-backs’ along the Wabash caual. NavioaTioN of the waterways by Iake and canal is about to closo, and the highwaymen who control the rail- roads have again ordered the western producers to hold up their hands while they riflo their pockets by an advance of transportation rates. —— Mr. Sern Low, the republican can- didate for reform mayor of Brooklyn, proposes to make a personal canvaas of voters from house to house. Mr. Low, although only thirty-two years of age and a millionaire merchant, is no spring chicken in practical politics. PrestorNT Axriaur will not be con- sulting either the interosts of his ad- ministration or of the people of Towa by the appointment of Gen, Williani- son, late commissioner of the land of- fice, to the secretaryship of tho inte- rior. Williamson is too highly scented in connection with land surveying contracts and Star Route Dorsey's New Mexican jobs to hold any posi- tion of trust under the government, The Herald is willing to admit that, immediately after the nominations wero made, a bad improssion was made against the democratic ticket, — Herald, Nov. 1. Woe prefer tu apoeal todewmoorats to vote their ticket, because it is their ticket,— Herald, Nov. 1. In other words, the Herald asks in- telligent democrats to support candi- 00 | ThreeMonths. . rg‘ THE PAVING QUESIION: | Every apring and fall the horrible condition of our streots atarts afresh discussion of tho paving question in Omaha, Tt is « rubject which must { sooner or later receive theattention of |the eity council. No one will deny ita premsing importance. Tho pecu- niary loss to our merchants, not to speak of the inconvenioucs to the mass of tho residents, is no small item, Heavy trucking m some of our most thoroughfares, in their condition, in almost an impossibility, while in ad- dition the eonsenquential damnages to Omaha through its impreseions gained by strangers of her municipal disadvantages will form no small item in the final estimate of loss to the eity through her almost impaseible streecs. Granted the strong nocessity of paving there is still a large field for discussion as to the Nest methods which ought to be adopted in reclaim- ing our streets from sloughs of despond to thoroughfates which will meet the roquirements of trade and traffic. Haaty action on tho part of our citi- traveled present of foreign articlea for American con- sumption, until at the present rate the demand for European goods promises to turn the balanee of ex- changes in favor of London bankers. The American people are now enjoy- ing a season of unusual prosperity,and, ax usual, are living fully up to their income, Articles of luxuryare pour- ing into the eountry in exchange for our wheat, corn and meats. For- eign manufactures are being sought at the expense of our own products even when the quality 13 no better and the prices higher. The custom house is reaping a rich harvest from the ele. gant and costly fabrics which pass through ita doora and are sold to our people. Speculation is running rife in every section of the land. For- tunes made in a day are expended in an hour. Industries are overstimu- latod by the era of high prices and capital is secking investment in a thousand and one wild eat #chemes which can only end in the min of the investors. The turn in the balance of trade is an indication which may woll eauss thoughtful at- zons should bs frowned down. Omaha needs pavements, but above all sho needs pave- ments jwhich will stand the test of timy and which she will not be compolled to replaeo after a fow years wear. The talk about planking our streots is tho sheorcst nonsense, It block pavements will not be the moat. oxponsivo in the Jong run and as prop- orty owners will bo compolled to bear the expense of having the strests upon which their real estate abuta the ques- tion of cconomy and durability should e carefully considered before any de- cision is made, Tho pavemenia moat in use in east- ern cities at the present time are wood block, undressed and dressed stone, concrete and macadam. Con- crete and macadam must be left out of the question as far as Omaha is con- cerned. The first has not proven a success in any of the cities where the experiment of its use has been made, and the second 18 a temporary make- shift which has always failed where trap or voleanic rock has been avail- able. Limestone macadam has' been tried in St. Louis, Kansas City and Omaha, and in every instance, after three years wear, has been voted a failure. Tho choice 1nust be mude between the different variotieatof wood block and stone, In citids whero traffic is heavy the com- mon wood block pavements have been found to average three years before becoming seriously impaired. After this time rutting begins, and there is constant outlay for repairs, which has ended generally in the replacement of tho pavement by one of more durable matorial. In New York few of tho Nicholsen wood block pavements re- main. In nearly cvery streot where they have boen laid tho city has been compelled to substitute the Belgian atone block, In Chicago several instan- ces of the same kind have takon place. The original tar-soaked black pave- menta have univeraally proved short- lived, and chemical preparations have lately been used wich some success in increasing the durability of tho wood. Pittsburgh has had fair success with wood blocks prepared with creosote, but even in Pittsburgh thoquestion of durability has only boen tested seven years, The only pavement which has stood overy tost is dressed stone. The great objection to this pavement in this city will be its expense. Evon in northern Ohio the cost ot dressed stone pavements averago 83.50a ynrd. In Omaha apart from the width of our streots tho increased cost of stone would make such pavemonts very ex- pensive, The question will, however, arise datos for offico that aro unfit for posi- tions of public trust just bocauge their names have been placed on the demo- cratio ticket. We don't beliove any reputable citizon, democrat or repub: lican, will deliberately vote to put the management of our fcounty affaira into the hands of men whom they whether the additional exponse will not in the end prove genuine econ- omy, Poor goods are never cheap at any price, and 8 pavement which is nothing but a temporary makeshift for a permanent improvement is likely to prove doubly expensive in the long wou'd not trust with their own busi- ness. emm——— MixwsTer Hukiser, who has been the subject of a good deal of censnre for mmeddling in the Chilian and Fe- ruvian controversy, is not likely to be recalled after all. It appears that he somewhat cxceeded his instructions when he went out of his way to say that he would support indefinitely any particular Peruvian government. Inthis he was simply over-zealous, secretary Blaine wishes not only Kurope, but America, to know that the United States, as the strongest republic on the western continent, claims a protectorate over hor weaker sisters, and the instructions given Hurlbut aud Kilpatrick were in this key. They were not instructed to support Calderon, or Pierola, or anybody else, ‘‘to tho bitter end,” bus they were to give the states to which they were acecredited to understand that the United States desired to see them at peace with honor to both, They were to do all that could be done to preserve intact the territory of Peru, and to help the inhabitants thereof to good govern- anent again. This they will do. BSec- retary Blaine's policy 15 to be as vig- orous in Bouth America as in Eur- ope. run, When Omaha decides to pave, the material to be used should be selected ouly after a careful investigation and consideration of the merits of the var- ious payements and their adaptability to the needs of onr city. Hasty and inconuiderate action should beavoided even under provocation like the pres. ent. Our muddy streets can be borne a little longar if by such delay Oma- ha secures a durable, substantial and satisfactory system of pavements. —— Tan balance of tradein favor of the United States has [been steadily di- minishing during the past three months. 1n September as reported by the burau of statistics the excess of our exports over our imports was only $6,769,000. For the same month last year the excess was $17,997,000, or nearly three times as much, This merked decroaso 1n the volume of our exporta is, of coursv, largely due to the straned condition of our produce markets and the decline in the movement of breadstuffs from the interior to the coast. This will not account for the great increase inour imports, which are the legiti- mate result of an eany monvy warket und @ prosperous copntry. The high rices overywhere prevailing have also ;'u:«ed as astimilus to the importation is even questionablo whether wood Lt tention on the part of those who are living fully up to their means and sav- ing nothing for a rainy day. The ex- perience of the country shows that the invitable reaction is not many years oft. Itis cortain to come and when once on the ground a financial depres- sion is promised by the best authori- o8 Which will be unparalleled by any of the panics which have precesded it. Tue emberzlement of §2,000,000 by Cashier Baldwin of the BMechanics bank of Newark, N. J., is an aston- ishing commentary upon the loose methods of supervision of bank nae- counts practiced by both government officials and bank directors. Tho un- limited eonfidence placed in Mr. Bald- win by his' superior officers, as is too often the case, took the placeof a close exumination of his conduct as a responsible officer of & large financial institution. The result 18 the ruin of premdent, directors, stuckholders, bondsmen and depositors, The capi- tal stock is 8500,000 and the atockholders are responsible for double the amount of their holdings. The telegraph announces that even when this is assessed and collected depositors will scarcely reccive fifty cents on the dollar. The loes will fall heavily on many whose ecanty means were entrusted to the bank, To a number the failure of the bank is utter ruin, In addition, a long line of firms whose paper has beon carried by the Mechanics’ national bank will be corn- pelled to go under. - For this state of affuirs the officers and directors of the bank are vesponsible. Their duty of supervision left them no option in the mattor of a thorough knowledgo of the condition of the institution which they managad. By shirking that duty they have become morally, if not le- gally, responsible for the wholesale ruin which has resulted from their negligence. ‘I'nk republicans of Douglas county have a majority of over 800 on any square party issue ic which all fac- tionsact a8 a unit. In the present local campaign they ought to carry the county by fully one thousand ma- jority, if the party polls its full vote. Their county ticket as a whole is con- ceded to be superior to the democratic ticket. There is less tendency to ward scratching than in any local campaign that has occurred in many years. bt there is serious danger of defeat from goneral indifference. The democrats are making a very active and thorough canvaes, Their can- didates have scoured the city and county and made personal appeals for support while the republicans seem to take it for granted that theyare bound to win. This over-confidence may prove fatal, It does not slways fol- low that the party that enters a cam- paign with material advantages comes out of it victorious. An active, vigi- lant and well organized minority has froquently defeated a disorganized and demoralized majority. Unless the re- publicans infuee a little more enthusi- asm into the campaign during the fow olosing days, they maysuffer humiliat- ing defeat. Chris Hartman, if electod county treasurer, will be forced, as he was while acting as o figurehead city treas- urer, to depend upon the services of his deputy. It1s of the utmostim- portance to our taxpayers that they have a man in charge of their county finances who has the ability to con- duct the businesas of his oflice. They should have & wan who can at least write and cypher correctly, and who in an emergency could make entrics in the treasurer's books of the busi- ness transacted in his office, It is a notorious fact that Chris. Hartman does not possess these qualifications. On the other hand, John Rush, the re- publican candidate for treasurer, is thoroughly competent, and could at any time manage the treasurer’s office without anybody's assistance. For this reason, if for none other, Mr, Rush should be elected treasurer of Douglas county next Tuesday. DuriNg the past year thore were revised and settled in the oftice of the gocond comptroller of the treasury 17,035 pension claims, the amount ag- greguting $144,476,664. The ghosts of arrearage pensions are haunting the department at the rate of 8,000 monthly. Tha Year of Immigration. 8t, Jos Herad The year 1881 will atand as a most remarkable one in the history of im- migration to this country from the lands beyond the seas, On Tuesday of last weck two thousand foreignoers who have come hither to tind perma- nent homes were landed at Castle Garden, New York city, alone; and during July, August and September the total immigration to the United States was 171,803, againat 155,233 for the same quarter last year. During the first nine months of the yent there arrived oyer 100,000 Ger. man immigrants in this country, above the number for the correspond- ing nine months of the year preceding, the total number to October 1 being 105,740, or more than the entire population of Colorado, Delaware or Florida. The immense increase of immigra- tion begun early in the year 1890, ana has increased in a regulsr ratio ever since. In that year the arrivals were more numerous than in the days when the Irish were flocking to this eoun- try after their famine. During the twelve months which ended with last June they reached nearly 700,000, and during the two years then closed the aggregate was 1,120,000, a total greater by nearly a quarter than the whole immigration for the preceding five yoars, The statistics of immigration pre- sent an interesting study, nnd are re- plete with valuable information to those who would thoroughly under- stand the growth and develupment of tho great republic. Between 1820 and 1880 the total immigration to the United States was about ten millions. If the forvigners continue to come hither durin the whole decade at the rate of the last two years, we shall re- ceive between 1880 and 1890 alone more than half as many as arrived during all that lung period. Nor is it improbable that we may see an im- migration so unprecedented. Of the total immigration about one- third of this yoar's arrivals have been Germans, More than two hundred thousand Germans were landed in this country last year while the arrivals from Ireland were less than seventy- five thowsand. The Germans already have greatly changed the tone and character of our society. Thoy have introduced new ideas and new cus- toms. The Puritanism which former- 1y was dominant in the republic has found in them a persistent, if not contemptuous, enemy. They will not accommodate themselves to it. They have also seized whole de- partmonta of trade, and their greater thrift is winning for them many ad- vantages over the old native popula- tion, How will it be ten ycars from now, when two or three mullions will have been added to their number? With the exception, however, of their social and economical waye, these people leave their old traditions be- nnd them. The come here to shaie our larger liberty and free thought, and eoon assimilate their polit- ical theories with the manners of the country to which they have immigrated. The broad lands and free air of this country cannot support a wmonarchical sentiment, and the man who harbors the thought simply withers and passes from tha attention of the people among whom he moves. We have therefore the best of reasons to welcome the additions to our popu- lation that are coming from abroud. As a whole the class is the best the country has ever received, intellectu- ally and financially; they come pre- pured to buy our lunds, build new houses, introduse habits of thritt, and they mix braing with their labors, South Sea Slavery: San Franeisco Chronicle, In many of the Pacific islands south of the Hawaiian group the population remain to this day as uncivilized as they were a century ago. excep- tions aro the Society and Fiji groups; the former dominated for some years past by the French; the latter by English, American and Germans. As are all doue right under the oyes of the government and of the missiona- ries, and never a word of protest is heard from either. We aro thei justified in saying that the systemn is tolerated and encouraged by the Ha- whiinn government, and we may add, from circumatances detailed in I'he Chronicle of Thursday, not oppossd or reproved by the miasionaries. OF course these poor savages are in- capable of naking a contract that coutd be legally or morally binding onthem in any entightened country, An at loast an apparent matter of fact, they are not consulted any more than the captives of Arab sla:c dealers who rold their slaves at Benguela to the owners of slave ships for the planta- tions of Cuba and Brazil used to be Their uniform sullenness and discon- tent on the passage, the armed sur- veillance kept over them by the akipper, their manacles, and the method of treating them— live slaves—at the Honolulu barra- coon, and of driving them like cattle to the plantations, all clearly enough explain that they are not consulted in the contract. In short, that they are slaves under another name, indeed, but in the essentials alaves just like those who were formerly exported from the west coast of Africa. And, moreover, that the government of the semi-civilizod kingdom of Hawaii is responsible for the new system of slavery. It londs its flag and its laws to the support of the pirate vessels, the chaina, the armed surveillance,and all other inhuman acts of coercion. The incentive is to be found in a treaty with the United Statea called “reciprocal,” but really all one.sided, as this paper has demonstrated, and for the benefit of a sugar monopoly which is creating a goug denl of taxa- ble wealth and revenuo in that coun- try, and at the same time levying an indirect and outrageous tax of $3,- 500,000 a year on the consumers of sugar in the Pacific states and the merchants of this city, who stand as much in awe of the monopoly as the South sea slaves do of the pirates who steal tnem away from their homes and force them upon the Iawaiian plan- tations. The United States, then, are morally responsible for the new system of slavery that is in course of establishment. We are supplying the money which incites it and makes it profitable to Kalakaua’s government and tho sugar planters We furnish it, too, by means of a treaty that has been converted into an abomination to our own people and a despotism t» our merchants. We shall pay 870,000,000 this year in pen- sions to soldiers who were wounded in o great civil war against the slave- holders of the southern states. We have already paid out nearly 2400,- 000,000 on the pensions account. Having got rid of one slave abomina- tion at the expense of hundreds of thousands of valu ble lives and thous- ands of millions of treasure, we are now, but fifteen years thereafter, lend- ing the moral support of the govern- ment to the establishment of a still worse form of slavery by an unenlight- ened power in tho Pacific. The peo- ple of this state and coust earnestly protest avainst the deep damnation of this crime. The merchants of this city abhor it, and demand the abroga- tion of the treaty as a thing despotic and infamous in its operations, and of these facts thero is no doubt whatever. It in public opinion. All enlightened citizens are proclaiming it. The Chron- icle 18 daily crowded with voluntary information against the criminals, en- couraging us to go forward in the fight, and not to cease the agitation till the government shall take the in- itiative for withdrawal from the evil situation in which it is placed. STATE JOTTINGS. O d ia agitating a public library. The new and old towns of Niobrara talk of consolidating . The new round house at Wymore will hold fifteen locomotives, Seventy-five new houses have been built in North Platte during 1881, Work has been commenced on the now iron bricdge over the river at Alexan ria, A granger named Thorne was rcped in and completely bled Ly sharpors in .ia- coln, to the reat, though imissionaries have often visited them, reporting glowing accounts of the progress of Chris- tianity among the natives, they are in fact still savages, hardly any more im‘ proved in the customs of civilization than the Bushmen of South Africa, and a long distance behind the sub- jects of King Mtena, recently visited and reported upon by the dis- tinguished explorer, Henry M. Stanley. They have no sem- blance of a form of govern- . Four churches protect the spiritual interest of the 600 inhabitants cf Plum Creek. Scotia precinet, Greeley county, voted 85,000 in bonds to the U, P’. co poration beggars. Sorghum wprouts are deadly polson te utock of all kinds, A Willow Island farmer lost nine cows in two houry after eating the weed. The Union Pacifie will put in_a side track ou every five miles of their road. Thin is to prevent the long delays of trains waiting to pase. The university étudents observed the ment. The strongest chief or the most warlike tribe rules with the hard hand of brute furce. Their wars are wars of extermination; and many of them are practical cannibals; promi- nentiy those of the lower Micronesian group, This is the situation which in modern timea always afforded both the opportunity and the pirate's ex- cuse }ur making slaves of the hol‘s)len; and it fed the African slave trado for two conturies, till the moral tone of England and the United States re- volied, rose up in armsagainst it, and by treating the slavers ay pirates, de- stroyed it. Driven by British and American armed vessels from the Bight of Benin and the other barra- coons on the Atlantic coast of Africa, these pirates have recently tnnnlurye& their operations to the south Pacific, where, in a small way, they are sup- plying the sugar plantations of Hawaii with what mus¢ Le in the start but an indiflerent sort of labor, but open to great improvement aa they get along 1 their more perfect organization of the business. The reports published from time to time in T‘!’:’ Chronicle of the.e opera- tions make two things quite clear: (L) That the Hawaiian government winks at the trade, and (2.) That it Sabbath by loading their artillery with brickbats ard boring holes in the out- houses on the eampus. The prolonged contest over the lncation of the Misnouri Pacific depst at Dunbar has finully b:en wettled, and Mr, Garrow secures the depot.-- Nebraska City Newn, Thé tot.l dishur+em 'nts of the B, & M, on the Liucoln division lust pay day were $110,000. 1’ is thought that t is month's payments to employes wi:l reach $125,000. The Beatrice bond suit againet the U, P. railrond company, in the matter of en- Jjoining the payment of the Beatrice pre- inct bonds, was decided by Judge Wea- ver, in favor of issuing the bomru. The precinet app :als te the supreme court, Last Saturday a young man named Hosea, living six miles east of ann{, accide:tly shot himself while carelessly handling & revolver, The ball entered the right #ide of his face, breaking the jaw- bone and lodeing in the throat, It is thought he will recover. Noah Ager is the name of a Buda pre- cinct farmer, who c4me to - this count:y about thirteen years ago with his wifo and half a dozen children and squatted upon & piece of land about sixteen miles south of Lincoln, He has left for other fields, and numerous creditors are mourning, A liyely sensation ¢'osed the performance at the &uhrulm cpers house Monday eveniog. A man witn more women than wense, named Wymond, was actiog_ths gollant to Clara Pierce, wh n Mrs. Wy- m nd wuhed upm them in pugilistie differs in no substantial respect from the old African slave trade; but has simply discarded the name of slave and substituted that of ‘*‘contract” iabor, The vessels conducting it, like the Storm Bird, are navigated under and protected by the Hawaiian flag. Like the slavers of the old frightful “Middle Passage,” they carry guns and handeutfs and chains to subdue the refractory, and like the slaver, their victims aro fed and otherwise troated like brutes. Reaching Hono- luly, they are deported and driven under armed guards into the barra coon, labeled ready for the use of the planter who pays the contract price for their labor, These things style, but before umy great damage wus done Clara pul'ed her little xun and bazed away. Wymond received the bullet in his e'bow aud separated the combatauts. Warrants are out fur Clara aud her Lest m Upjust Discrimination. Deuver Republican, Here is a good showing of freight rate discrimination by which Denver is suffering: A heavy invuice of hard- ware paid freight from New York to Owaha, $312; from Omaba to Den ver, $088. The freight, therefore, from New York to Omaba, & distance of ovor 1,400 miles, was less than one- half that from Omaha to Denver, a distance of 600 miles. Yot even this enormous rato is & dedection from the rates charged when the Union Paeifie had no competition, SECRETARY BLAINE He Stands First in the Confidence of the Republican Party. Philadclph a T'ress The atrongest man politieally in the country to-day, considered in himself and apart from any office he may hold, is unqueationably James (1, Blaine. He has never bLefore stood higher in the confidence or firmor 1n the affec- tions of the people. To his own de- merved popularity it s his singular good fortune to inherit the lion's share of tho high favor which the late ad- ministration won for itsclf in its brief but Dbrilliant tenure of power. The tender interest and univorsal sympn- thy which the protracted sufferings of the late chiof magistrate ovoked drow nearer than ever to the popular heart the one who stood forth conspicuously as the stricken president’s right-hand man and chiof reliance. Bosh the president and soe retury of stato were stronger for their association in the four months that President Garfield was permitted to administer government, and the secre- tary steadily, though unconsciously, strengthened himaelf by his bearing through the eleven trying weeks in which the chief magistrate of the nation lay between life and death. In bringing to the subordinate position which he consented to fill such thor- ough good fecling and loyalty to his chief, the defeated eandidate for the presidency has well deserved the rich heritage of popular favor which has fallen to him in natural reversion fromn the Garfield administration, The letter published in The Press of yosterday, in which Mr. Blaine BOYD'S OPERA HOUSE! JAMPS EVOYD, Proprietor. R L MARSH, Businens Manager. Priday and Saturday evenings and St Matinee. ANTHONY, ELLIS & HATAWAYS MAJE-TIC CONSOLIDATED AGUREGATION! a UNITED BHOWS. 4 ‘The Grandest Constellation of Arists Ever Organi. 2ed for Une Adinission RAVEL'S Newly Hatehed HUMPTY DUMPTY. Headed by the Groat, the Only Grimaldi, C. W, HAVE Minco's Doubic Speciairy and Novely Co. The Tarker-Kows Inteenational Mastodon Dog Bchool The Most Intelligent and Amusing Canines Be o Prieates of the Kun, who will appear at cach entortalnment xiven by thia Mons er Aggrigation, in the re- wnrkable and original Specialtien On n Nevar te be Porgatten. mmath (o traveling in Drawing which will e open for fnspect on of the public every after- ook out for grand pArRe. Securs you roits At the jam at the ticket offico. Oc and 26c. noon, on day of exhibition. VrOtenquo wtFoet AL2:30 . o wrquette Circle Reserved, 50v, 5 __mwfen BOYD'S OPERA HOUSE I J. E. BOYD, Proprictor. N L. MAKSH, Business Manager, Tuesday and Wednesday Evenings NOVEMBKR 8 AND 9! T EX €1 Omaha Harmonic Society! Awmslsted Ly the Or_hentra ot the Omahn Musical Union The Whale Under the Direction of QHO. ¥, MAYER, WIll present for the Aee tin o Omaha Chartaing Comie Opera In three Acts, THE CHIMES OF NORMANDY, One of the Gema of Light Oper , ¢ mbining the attractive teaturen of unususlly good Musie with a plot interesting throughout. Beata st Mo ukual prices, can be sccured ab the Parquette and Drens Clreln, signified his acceptance of the proffer by Mr. Garfield of a seat in the cabi- net as mecretary of state, is a eredit to both the head and heart of the writer, aa it is aleo to the receiver of the let- ter. Early in November, as soon as the result of the election was known, the president-elect hastened to offer Mr. Blaine the highest office in his gift and the chief place in his cabinet. However the positions were filled, whatever of delay, doubt and discus- sions attended the selection, Mr. Blaine was the spontaneous and imme- diate choiee of the incoming presi- dent, and his aceeptance of the port- folio of state was urged with ‘‘such cogent arguments in its favor and warmth of personal friendship thatthe Maine senator was induced to accept the position in the same cordial apirit in which it was offered. Mr. Blaine is a man of large brain, his enemies themselves being judges, but the secret of his power lies in his pos- session of a still larger heart. A cal- cultaing politician, who balances chances, looking always to the main one, and whose rule i never to com- mit himself in advance, could have never wiitten that letter. He velun- tarily and unreservedly takes a: posi- tion which coramits him to the sup- port of Mr. Garfield's personal and political fortunes now and hereafter. His own ambition he deliberately sub- ordinates to the claims of aman whom, in his own generous language, he ad- mired as a statesman, believed in a8 a man and loved as a friend The heart is wiser than the head, and un- der its mspiration the big hearted secretary builded better than heknew. If Mr. Blaine continues in the cabi- net he will be a tower of strength to the new administration. If he shall choose rather to retire for a season of well earned rest, he will carry into his retirement the respect, confidence and affection of the people. He repres nts by far the greatest political force of any of bur public men. Not only is his personal following much the larg- est, but it is clearly itself larger now than ever before. The friendship of Blame and Garfield speaks volumes forboth of them. Each recognized and admitted the strong qualities of brain and heart of the other. Having many gifts in commoa, they were yot rather complements of each other, each possessing in abundance some qualities in which the other was deficient, If there has been anything petty, selfish or mean in the composi- tion of either of them an intimate as- sociation of eighteen years in a place and under circumstances particularly liable to friction would have devel- oped something the very reverse of that friendship which grew with their growth and strengthened with their strength. Whatever the future hasin store for Mr. Blaine, he will never cease to be intimately and tenderly as- sociated with our second wartyred president, whom the people loved and whose untimely death they will never cease to lament. — Liguid Gold. Dan’l Plank, of Brooklyn, Tioga connty, Pa., describes it thus: ‘I rode thirty wi'es for a bottle of THoMas' KcLxeTrio O1L, which effected the wonderful cure of a crooked limb in six applications; it proved worth more than gold to me.” 17e0dlw WILL BUY AND BELL RB.AX. B1ST.ATE AND ALL TRANRACTION CONNROTAD THRANWITH, Pay Taxes, Rent Houses, Htc, ¥ YOU WANY 70 BUY OR BBLL Call ad Qffice, Boow 8, Creighton Bhei.mx::-. apl C. F. Manderson, ATTORNEY - AT - LAW W.J. CONNELL, ATTORNEY - AT - LAW. Orrion—Front Rooms (up stairs) in Hansoom's now brick bullding, N. W. corner Ptteenth nd arnhaw Htreots. J.P. ENGLISH, ATTORNEY - AT - LAW, 810 Bouth Thirteenth Btreet, with " M. Noolworth. D. 8. BENTON, ATTORNEY - AT - LAW ARBACH BLOCK, Dougls 16th Sta. Umaha N Examination of Teachers. I will be present at my offico in Creighton Dlock on the finet Saturday of sach month to® x- pnine wich epplionm we may dosire to tosch in the public schooly in Douglxs county. Quar- terly examination fing Saturday in February, May, August and November, gl Sopt, bl faloT County Supt. ubllé Lasruct: Angld Itandidsctiv b A Nex Offica in the + pera House, on and Thursday morning, Novembee 8. ngd7Y A CORRKCYRD AFYIDAVIY OF MRS, LINA PETERS, TATR OF NNBRARKA, } Doveras County. Mrs, Lina Petors being firet duly swormn deposes and says, she is well acquainted with one Chris, Hartnian, and that on or about the 31st of May 1877, said Chris, Hartman then being the city treasurer of Omuba. She presented to #aid Hartman a8 such treasurer, by John ¥. Kuhn, a city warrant amounting to #25.00 principle, be- viden interest for over two years on’ the same. Affiant rave said warrant waa for. work done on the Dodgenstreet e, Affi. ant says that said Hartman told her, that wuid warr nt was not worth much, would not be paid in seven or eight years. AfS- ant says she had her taxes paid on the above kaid date, and uug]puud to put said. warrant in as cash, Atbunt further says, that shortly afterwards the xaid Hartman came to her harness store on Farnham rtreet, and informed her that he eould get #man to buy said warrant, thereupon said Hartman himeelf paid affiant the sum of 812.00 for vaid warrant, Affiant further wny#, that shortly afterwards she was ver- bially informed that said warranthad been paid in full. Affiant further says vhe sold said warrant for % 2.0, relying entirely upon the false and fraudulent representa- tion of said Hartman. Affiant rays she was then, and is now a widow, This affidavit is given to correct some error in the affidavit, sworn to on the 18th day of October, before Luther R. Wright, » justice of the peace, and been heretofore ublished in THr OMAHA BEE and Repub- ican, LINA PRTERS. Subscribed in my pres<nce and sworn to before me this 26th d1y of October, 1881, Joun MuoncHr CLARKR, Notary Publie, STATR OF NEBRARKA, }m Doveras CorNty. g John ¥, Kubn being first duly sworn, deposes and says, that he hes read the foreguing affidavit of Mrs. Linn Peters, and 1 hat the statements therein made are trueas Lo verily believes, Joux F, Kunx. Hubscribed in my presence and sworn to before me this 26th day of October, 1851, JOHN MURCHIE CLARER, cet2Teodkw Notary Public. Srate or RASKA, lm. Dovaras NTY. Samuel G, Mallette being first duly sworn deposes, and saye that he is city treasurer of Omaha: That his attention has been called to the affiduvit of Mrs. Lina Peters, publiched in the Omaha Daily Republican, in which ho swears that she, on or about July 1st, 1877, sold to Chris. Hartman, then city treasurer, for thesum of $12.00, & Dodge street grade warrant, which was in that same month paid in full, to-wit: the sum of #29.00. Affiant further says that he has examin- ed the books and records of the city treas- urer's office, and that they show; 1kt, that no Dodge street grade fund wurrant for wny amount whatever was paid in July, 1877, 2d, that but one Dodye street grade fund warrant for the amount of $29.00 was paid in the three years, 1876, 1877 and 1878, and that that one was paid in July, 1876, having been turned in_for taxes by John (i, Willis, and endorsed by him, he having paid at that time the tax on his Dodge street store lot. 8. G. MArLErm, City Treasurer, Bubscribea in my presence and sworn to before me this 19th day of October, 1831, [8KAL.] G, W. AuBROHR, Notary Public. STATE Or NXBRABKA, } Counrr or DoraLas, ™ Chris. Hartman being dul{ #worn, in auswerto the afidavit of Mrw, Peters, says: That during his term of office 8 city treas- urer of Omaha, from April, 1875 to April, 1879, be did not buy any warrant what- ever of Mrs, Peters, or any other person, and that he did not speculate in warrants, directy or indrectly, duriug his said term. Affiant further says, that if he cashed an warrant for Mra, Peters it was at its f face value, and for the facts relating to the Dodge wtreet grade tax warrants, b leave to Tefer t0. the Becompanying b davit of S, G. Mallette, tha present ecity treasurer, C. HABTMAN, Bubscribed in my presence and sworn to before we this 20th ay of October, 1881, [wraL.) G W, Alnuo-ml, Notary Public. - A. MARTIN, MERCHANT: TAILR. 1220 Farnham 8t., OMAHA, - - NEB. Good Goods ! _|Latest Styles and Per- fect Fits. .. Prof, W. J. Ander's Seleot Danc- ing Academy. A. Hospe, Jr. Hall, 1610 Dodge 8t. Class for gentlomen comme ing, Oct. 4. Clasw for ) duy o ening, Oct. 0. wethods | 'ave for ica We Itz, Glius, c., | can guarantes per wtisfaction ¢ actiolars. FOF tarus, ke call at o u“.'l:v“ A or addros 111 Capitol Av 4 srdla