Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 4, 1881, Page 4

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Eveny dollar charged by the rmil ronds for moving grain in excess of “paying rates” is a dollar wrongfully extorted from the farmer, Sexator VAx Wyek's lotter to the New York Tarift convention is attract- ing n great deal of attention and favorable comment from the press throughout the country, —— room Twue New York Herald asks whether mining pays. Goyernor Tabor and Judge Bowen, of Colorado, think so. Tom Nast, who lost $40,000 at one lick, isn’t quite 8o certain about it. OnaHA needs and must have a mar- ket house. St. Joe, Kansas City, Leavenworth and Atchison have mar- ket hiouses, and Omaha cannot afford to remain withot one much longer, Moxey is “cheap” and living from 20 to 40 per cent. higher than it was u year ago. These two causes oporate to the disadvantage of those who de- pend upon fixed incomes from invest- ments. SEcrRETARY Fols the coinage of the silver dolla rotary Folger had better consult the constitution, which make silver the money metals United States. ER wants to stop Sec- gold and of these from Nebraska willy accord- airman of a being a second termo ing to usage, become ¢ committee, and that will enable him to support a private secretary at tho expense of the government. BurN1NG corn worth fifty cents a bush- ¢l is an expensive little household ex- pense which a number of Nebraska farmers are now compelled to indulge Coal monopolies, like all other robbers, plunder the punplu to enrich themselas. Kriven is regarded as out of the speakership race. He is chiefly inter- esting as a national zephyr,— Denver Tribune, December ! There is so much wind in Colorado that a cyclone only ranks as a zephyr in Denver, The Denver Trilune is a very unreliable weather prophet, Ex-SeNxator BourwrLl of Massa- chusetts who was head of the treasury during the first term of General Grant and one of 306 that died with Grant at Chicago has been tendered the secre- taryship of the Navy. Mr. Boutwell is one of the ablest if not the ablest man yet named for a position in Presi- dent Arthur's cabinet, SOMETHING FOR NOTHING New York has an honest and sensi- ble mayor. He has vetoed a rosolu- tion of the hoard of aldermen granting the free use of the streets to the tele- graph and telephone companies for the purpose’of laying underpround wires, and has accompanied his veto with some very emphatic worde relative to worporations and city franchises. He says that approval of the alderman’s resolution “‘would be equivalent to a free gift to a wealthy corporation of a right which is of groat value o them, and which ought to be of great value to the city.” He adds that if the burden of taxation in Now York is ever to be reduced it must be done by taking advantage of wvery possible source of income, and not by donations of privileges which possess a market value, No sounder words could] have been spoken in their application to the re- lations of city franchises and corpora- tion demands. Eastern cities have passed thoe day when they can furnish capital with an opportunity for reap- ing unusual returns without claiming some share in the benefit which they derive. Philadelphia is already ex- amining her horse railroad fran chises, and claims that under their provisions the duty of keeping the streets clean andin repair devolves upon the companice. Brooklyn has refused the franchise to several com panies organized to build elevated rail . roads, on the ground that the terms |y, of such franchises do not promise sufli- ciont inducements to the public purse to warrant the inconvenience which they would cause and the heavy profits which they would return to the o ers. In a number of states laws tor- bidding the issuing of bonds to corpc- and the is being more the intercsts of rations have been a rlight of w carcfully y privilez uarded in the publie, It is a general principle which iould have a wider application in the even® that a public franchiso to a pri vate corporation ought never to be granted without §the certainty of a valuable consideration and fair partic. ipation in profits above the ueual mar ket rate of interest. Whilc ments of all kinds which whilo capital is entitled to a fair re- improve- concern the public should encouraged and turn for its use there is no reason why should be practically placed at the mercy of and public and private propoerty remuneralive investments be found for the the corporation without some counterial- benefit o ancing returns in the interests of the people. In nine cases out of ten, in- stead of bonuses being given such or. for the franchiscs asked at the hands of the public. There is no reason why the laws of cquitabio trade should not maintain recoived in return in such cases as well as in the ery tranac- tions of an ordinary e day busi- nows THE NEW SPEAKER. For the first timoe in 8ix years the control of the house of representatives will be in republican hands and under the supervision of a republican wpeaker. The choice of the party caucus at its Saturdey's meeting fell upin Gen. J. Warren Keifer, of Ohio, and his election is virtually an ac- complished fact. Gen. Keifer has a splendid record at his back and will upon the duties of the oftice with every promise of heing a worthy successor of James G. Blaine. He is a native of Bethel township, Clark county, Ohio, where he was born on a farm in 1836, ceiving his education in the common schools and graduating at Antioch enter years of age. Mr. Keifer was admitted to the bar in 1 wd continued the practice of law until 1861 when, at the firing upon Sumpter, he enlistod in the army and was shortly after- wards commissioned as Major of the Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He rapidly rose in the service. In 1862 he received his commission a8 colonel and passed through the soverest battles of the Virginia cam- the head of the One Hun- dred and Tenth Ohio Tnfantry, paign at sus- taining severe wounds in the battle of the Wilderness May 1864, Upon hs return to the army in No- vember of tho same year, ho was ap- on pointed brigadier-general, by brevet, “‘for gallant and meritorious services,” roceiving his commission as brigadier- general in the following December. During the closing scenes of the war in the campaign in Virginia. General Keifer was.distinguished for his effe- ciency and bravery, and upon the mus- tering out of the army in July, 1865, was breveted major general of the vol- unteers. His entire service in the army extended over a period of four years and two months, in which time he was four times wounded and par- ticipated in the most severe engage- ments of the rebellion. an army officer was re His value as cnized by the government in his appointment on November 30, 1866, as licutenant- colonel in the Twenty-sixth Uni- ted States Infantry, which he declined and resumed his practice at the bar. In 1868 General Keifer entered pub- lic life as a member of the Ohio sen- ate in which body he soon took hig rank as an ablo and active repre: uvnm of the people. He was a dole- gate to the national republican conven tion in Gincinnati in 1876 and was elected in the same year to the Forty- Fifth congress from the Eighth Ohio District receiving 17,728 votes ag 14,012 for his opponent. Incongress General Keifer has been a consistent advocate of republican principles and an efticient worker in the party inter- st Reprosenting a state in which railway corporation are a powerful political factor General Keifer is one of the few public men that have boldly taken position against corporate mon- opolies. It is gratifying that he owes his nomination largely to this senti- ment, nst AN INDIGNANT NEWSPAPER Schuyler Horald, We regret the avpearance of the bun. comba advertisement of Titk Ovana Bk on the fourth page of this issue, headad *“I'he Farmers and the Railroad, It i nothing more nor lexs than a breach of faith on the put of Mr, Joselyn, of the Western Newspaper Union with the pub- lishers of the Herald, The Hevald is not w supploment of Tiik OMANA Brx, vor do we ‘propose that the e lumns of the Herald be a wedium for cireulating editorial matte wny other puper, hing than news, unless o The Hirald hs an npmlnn f its own tonching public affaits the (elative rights of furmers snd raiiroads, farmers' alliance an well a the status of Senator Van Wy ck; and when wo see proper wo will huye no’ hesitancy or fear o express opinion For the pr nt it is sufticient for us to w; don't Tur in many thin d among others wedon't beliove that as i factor in the dovelpnont of this western country Ty Bek is as true 1o friend of the farmer as are the! corpo. rate powers, against which o its nik spirit it opposes with soun ing teimpets welf-sggiandziemont. And we give o Mr. Joslyn in this public manner uch s 10 be the character of his advertiding watter, he t supply the Herald's *outside,” A corporation editor nover his mouth without putting his toot in it. If the highly indignant bulldozor who threatens to withdraw his patron- w opens ganizations, large sums ought to be | college, Ohio, when less than twenty | FHE"OMAHA DAILy. BEE: | to work m northern Orewon at a point age from the Western Newspaper Un ion becauso it has seen fit to insert the prospectus of Tie Bee in ita <‘patent insides,” had taken the tronble toread that offonsive advertisement, wmstead of jumpingat conclusions, he would a commodions ass of Tue Br The outburst of not have made himself by denouncing nihilist or communist. article that has caused such an indignation contains the following ex- plicit declaration: pioning the common in‘erests of again-t corporate encroach. ment Tue Bre has never voeated the r wan'on dedruction of rail- Inws that would bank. it in<ists that all their pate the confiscation ¢ property o rupt these corporations, by 11 deal fairly by [ rone, that they shall not contiscate roducts of the farmer by extor tolls, and that they shall not evade their just burden of taxt 1f there is any nihilism or commun- { inm in this dec way railways wha aration, let corporation make the however, their owners most of it. We that in the eyes of these lienchmen everybody that does not wear the brass collar is a nihilist editors and prosume, monopoly every man t of the methods employed by rail expresses disappro patrons or e taxation is & communist. What a pity those hirelings haven't the power of the autocrat of Russia. They would banish every subscriber of Tk BEE to perpetual misery in some penal colony and burn the editor at the stake, The against inserting the prospectus of a partizan paper of op- posite politics as an advertisement, is decidedly refreshing. Every metro- politan daily in America requires weekly exchanges to advertise its par- tizan prospectus in paywment for the vade their just shave of protest difference in value, No with a thimble full of brains would kick about the sentiment expressed in such advertiscments, and we are sure the editor of the Schuyler paper, although professing the demo- editor cratic creed, would never have opened | hin if the partizan advertise- ment had been inserted for the U, P, Omahia organ with a republican brand. mouth WESTERN RAILROAD PRO- GRESS. The completion of the Northern Pa- Miles City near the junction of Tongue river with the Yellowstone op- posite Fort Keogl, is a source of con- gratulati Although its progress duving the past iently rapid to the wishes of the pioncers, yet it hus cutits way through adifticult coun- [ try and bridged over three hundred streams between Bismarck and Miles City. The work of construction has boon entircly within the bounds Montana during the year now closing, principally on the division between Glendive and Miles City, which will be open for public traflic on the 15th of the present month, On comple- tion of bridge over Tongue river, and the ice bridge at Bismarck, through trains from St. Paul and Duluth will run to the *“So- dom of Montana, Miles City has heen dubbed. Operations the main line west of this point will be suspended for a time, and the force employed in” the loveling of yards, building sidetracks, depots, ote. Should the weather continue moder- ately mild, the graders push west to connect with the Forsyth dwision of 100 miles. In Washington territory the construction corps moving east would make a re- spectable army. There are 2,000 mon employed on the Clarks Fork division alone, with 2,000 Chinamen on the way, and this forco will plow up many 1 to tho peoplo of Montana. year has not been sufli the temporary on will miles of virgin sod during winter months. Three hundred more are patting the finishing touches on the grado between Umatilla and Pendleton, which will be ironed in the spring. The grado is now completed to Lake Pen d'Oreille, and the track within a fow milos§ of it. The weather in this vicinity is anything but comfortable, orders have been issued for all hands to strike tents for winter quar- ters, Engineers are exmwmining the Columbia and Snake rivers to sclect suitable bridge sites, on which work will be commenced in the spring. It will be seen from the above that there still romains a vast amount of labor and to make both ends of this great work meet. The dis- tance wlroady covered on both ends is longer in miles than that which romains, but the couutry is vastly more diflicult to penetrate. Two yoars will be required to com- plote the bridges over the Missouri at Bismarck and over the Columbia at Wallula. The former has been under way for nearly two years, and not a single span is completed, The Mul- lun pass tunnel near Helena will bo another tedious job. Tt will be 3,800 feet long. Beyond that another tun- nel 600 feet long must be bored, and between them an iron bridge 1,300 feot long with a central pier of mas- onry 225 foet high. 1t 18 estimated that the work will be finished in twenty-six months. Allowing a lih of time for unexpected delays, it is cortain that the largest portion of 1884 will pass away before unbroken trans will reach the mouth of the Columbia from The Oregon Pactic railroad com pany, comnosed of capitalists whose uames are kept iu the dark, has gone oral margin Lake Superior monopolies to extort money from their | bont 120 miles south of the mouth of thg . Columbia river, Yaquiva bay, to build a standard guage, steel rail road southeastward to Boise City, Idaho. I'wenty miles of the road between the bay and Cornvallis, in Benton conn ty, 1 ready for the iron, 10,000 tons ot which are due in San Francisco this month, by three steamers, The Port- land Standard claims that the coin to build and equip the entire line is on hand. The road will be extended into eastern Oregon by the close of next year, and to Boise City in two and a half years, whero it will meot the “Oregon Short Line” of the Union Pacitic, = Like all new ronds sceking privi in numerable promises are made and low rates of tranaportation proclaimed n advance, This is significaut, as showing that the history of railway highwaymen has ponetrated the in- Tho company only sk the people to give the freight and terior of Oregon. passenger business to tho Oregon Pa- cific when comploted, provided it is the A line of steam- ers will ply hotween San and Yaquina in connection with the road. This road is doubtless the eaper route. Francisco MONDAY, DECEMBER 5 1881 proper spirit’—the same kind of spirit that now haunts the tax payers of Omaha and Douglas county. Twenty-year bonds at seven or eight have always beon a per cent. consolation to new railroads. Possi bly Cedar will learn wisdom from her spirit,” This company is said to have entered into a compact to build with the Sioux City & Pacitic a branch from Fremont to Lincoln. This is the road for which Gailoy, the troubadour, bled so sweetly before Saunders county shut his wind. neighborsand refuse the The New Senate. Cincinnati Commercial ien Congress meets, Monday next, the frequenters of the senate ‘"lllu\n s will look down on un unusu A.]y large number of members who are alout to begin their first regulay rislative term, although eome of them were present at the called exe- cutivo session of last March, A scrut- iny of the list, however, reveals the fuct that a great majority of these members are by no means new to congressional expericnce, as they have served in the house of repr sentatives, Among the latter are Senators Lapham and Miller, of New York, the story whose translaton to the senato last spring, as the result of the warfare of Conkling upon Garfield, which ended in that bitter tragedy, is western division of the Oregon Short Linc of the Union Pacific. The proposed Utah and Wyoming railroad, the first division of which has been surveyed, starts at Corinne, Utah, and runs almost due east to Brigham City, and then northeast to Laketown, on the southern extremity of Bear Lakoe, in Utah. From here the road will cross into Wyoming, near the southeast corner of Tdaho, and connect with or cross the Oregon Short Line, and push on to some (as yet) unknown pert in the interior of Wyoming. This road, if ever built, could be utilized advantageously in shortening the enormous twists on the Union Pacitic in eastern Utah and western Wyoming, The Denver & New Orleans rail- road, of which Deacon Evans is the head centre, is not the most favored corporation in the west. In fact its path is a thorny one. Beginning with Denver the violent epposition of both press and peoplo had to be overcome, and the Deacon’s spare moments were employed in writing public explana- tions of the company’s intentions. The fact that the road was Gould's | { under sufficient to bring down upon it the wrath of the business men of Denver. Their ex- perience with the long and short haul discriminating was a costly and ve when negotia- ting for right of way and city privi- leges he found obstacles in his path which hard cash could alone remcve. The sinews of war being plentiful the road pushed out from Denver until the Rio Grande crossing was reached, Here the fight was taken into the courts, and after a few months’ delay the deacon came out with colors flying. From this point the progress of road toward the imis- tress of tho gulf was free of serious opposition until the adyance agents struck the vicinity of Trinidad. The people of this town and Las Animas county entertained‘‘great expectations’ of the benefits which would follow the completion of the road, securing a meuns of shipping its coal, coke, iron and rock throughout the state. Its hopes were of short duration, how- ever. A representative of the mining interests was informed by the deacon that the D. & N. tended becoming cc 88 COMMON carr influence was rates onJ. G.'s roads ious one, and Deacon Evans hegan 0. company in- well s and that they in- tended to manufacture coke and carry these articles lusively for them- selves, and not for others, “We can- mot agree to carry these articles for other people,” remarked the deacon, ““lo compete in - the market with our- selves. Weshall probably mine coal farther south than Trinidad to exceed three miles from our main line, while your city will be twenty miles away. 1f your people will grade, tie and bridge a branch road I will wron and take in as a part ot my own, and it will carry your merchants their goods —always providing they pay for it." A soft answer turneth away ordinary wrath, but Trinidad is boil- ing. The deacon's liborality is a gen- uine oasis in the desert waste of rail- road rapacity, and should be blazoned on the glistening domes of the Sierras, Tho sudden change of the Union Pacific construction force from the Greeley, Salt Lake and Pacific to the Laramio and North Park branch was brought about by the sudden appear ance of 4 surveying party of the Den- vor and Rio Grande in that forbidden region. Blickensderfor and Budd | miners as and not moved by forced inarches in front of the Coloradoans, and drove stakes and turned sod at the rate of a mile a day. The Rio Grande Company are evidently determined to bring all mineral bear- ing regions in Colorado in direct com wmunication with Denver, and rural interlopers must koep their hands off. They have driven their stakes through Middle and North Parks, and are now moving toward Laramie City. The president of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha railroad has publicly aunounced that the ad- vance of that line in the diree- tion of Niobrara, Nebraska, during the coming spring and summer, de- pends on Cedar county showing ‘‘a too well remembered to need further mention. Another cx-Representative from New York appears in Senator Van Wyck, of Nebraska. For many years Mr. Van Wyck was one of the inost prominent Republicans of New York, and was long a member of Con- gress from an interior district, but was at last ejected from his seat by one of those tactional fights Conkling had been accustomed te foment in the State. Another new Senator, but long a member of the house, and well known in other fields of public uscfulness, is General Hawley, of Connecticut. ~ Senator Hale, of Maine, it is hardly neccessary to say, has had a long and brilliant career in the house, so well is he known to the entire nation. Senator Mitchell, of Pennsylvania, was a member of the house when he was transferred to the senate a3 a compromise to end the long and bitter struggle Dbe- tween the Cameron and anti-Cam- eron factions in that state. Senator Aldrich, of Rhode Island, chosen to succeed General Burnside, was taken from the house, where he had long served. Senator Jacksen, ot Tennes- see, had also been a member of the house, and we believe was such at the time of his senatorial clection. ‘na- tor Sawyer, of Wisconsin, was fornev- cral terms one of the most ¢ u- ous members of the house, and were I hat body would no doubt be a formiduble contestant for the | st I Those Senators who are enti | new to Congressional ¢ «jerienc unusally few io number. Most prom.- | inent among them is Senator | of Virginia. Since the events of the called session it seems an anor 11 hiw & new member; yethe such, as he hus never had any experience in practical legislative work, either in the Senate or elsewhere. Senator| Harrison, of Indiana, enters the Sen- ate without having had experience of any kind at Washington, and he has yet to learn, together with his colleagues in the same plight with himself, all ‘‘the ways that are dark and the tricks that are vain.” Sena- tor Sewell, of New Jersey, is in the like predicament, and 8o, also, is Sena- tor Miller, of California. These ex- haust the list, and it will be seen from this analysis that in the legislative ex- perience of its mewmbership, the senats about to assemble has not been sur passed by any of its predecessors. In its political condition the senate has an interestiug aspect. It has beenformally classed as 37 republicans, 37 democrats and 2 independents. This, however, is the classitication of those demoerats who take a roseate view of the situation, and while hardly daring to group ]Junu, of Tllinois, und Mahone, of Virgiria, with the demo- crats, bravely put them under the| caption of independents. This ar- rangement may possibly afford the democrats some comtort and does nobody any partic- ular harm, since it is well known that both Davis and Mahone have declared their intention to act with the Repub- licans, not only in the organization, but generally. Indeed, neither of them have now any optionin the mat- ter for each, during the callodsession, not only drifted apart from the Dem- ocratic side, but burnt his bridge be- hind him. The Senate, therefore, at its organization, is close, but i safely redecmed from Democratic domina- tion, In the character of its membership the senate rarely, and certainly not in recent years buen so high, On the democratic side Senators yard, Pendleton, Hill and Brown of Geor- gin, B of Kentucky, Ransom of North Carolina, Lamar of Mississippi, with others, have proved themselves equal to any of the duties incident to the place. On the republican side the infusion of the mew blood has made it partieularly strong. With such men in the body as Edmunds, of rmont; Anthony, of Rhode Island; Windom, of Minnesota; Conger and Ferry, of Michigan; Hoar and Daw €8, of Massachusetts; Frye and Hale, of Maine; Allison, of Towa; Logan, of Illinois, ana Hawley, of Connecticut, the party is not Il)u-l) to lack cither force or wisdem in its direction. In these members is comblned large ex- perienco in public affairs, together with varied ability and politi- cal acumen, Combining with these such new Senators as Miller, Harrison, Van Wyck and others, and it is evident that the republicans have little to fear in any exigency that may ariso. While the republicans have good reason to b satisfied with the senate as it stands, all partics can tind cause for eatisfaction in the body. The public welfaro is to be mostly found in the close political division. | That fact not only puts each party, | but each individual member, upon | good behavior. Crude or vicious | legislation is not likely to be develop ed from a sentate thus constituted —_— Ratlroad Legislation Fremont Tribune. The advocate ef the cheap transpor tation question, and wany of those who are directly mto:entuf ) wrest- their freight tariffs by govern mental legislation are now circulating a petition throughout Nebraska se. curing signers, and expeet to present the petition at the coming session of congrass asking for a redress of griev inces and that some active steps be taken to check tho growth of the great monopolies and enhance the interests of the producer. The persons who re most diligent in carrying the thing forward, say they look to congress for a remedy stating that in doing so it will excreise the power conferred upon it by the constitution to regulate com- | merce within foreign nations and be tween the states, The general tenor of the petiticns | is to the eftect that these greats thoroughfares are for the benefit of | the public at large, and that each in- dnuln al is entitled to the same rights and privileges in their nse and that there should be ne discrimination in favor of any red party orset of | men, The petition urges that therail- roads are mot run in the interests of the public service as they should be, but are conducted solely with the idea of suddenly amassing " {heir owners a large fortune without any regard to the unjust extortions from the labor- ing and producing classes thus failing to execute the trust committed to them, The petition further states that *‘through combinations and consolida- tions, the railroads of the United States have become such a monopoly as was never contemplated when char- ters were granted; beneficont inven- tions whicli ought to inure to the pub- lic benefit are largely monopolized, and, through Construction Companies and other devices by which fictitious basis of cost is cstablished, the public are everywhere enormously over- | charged for the construction and use | of steam highways, Through excessiv charges and unjust discrimination enormous wealth has been suddenly accumulated by those who control these highways, while the farmer, the manufacturer, the miner and the mer- chant have been deprived of their fair profits, and labor has been robbed of its just reward.” It then goes on to say that there is something more to the subject than a mere business aspect. The morals of the people are corrupted by the meas- ures resorted to by the monopolies to maintain and enlarge their power, thus poisoning the stream of justice, not only along its course but a'so at its fountain. The prospective results of the petition is to compel the railroad cnrwu ations to performn their public dutiesto all alike for a certain, reason- able, specitied compensation and to forbid under a heavy penalty the ex- tortions and discriminations now practical on the people at large, What the results will be can not be definite- ly forcknown, but those directly in- terested are sangnine in the success of their cau IOWA BOILED DOWN, Gilwan has organized a canning s Moines talks of building another Free Wi at Sponcer, They g to Grundy Center Sating hay for the Dtis rebuilding a chureh eastern macket will bea new industry Le Mars this winter. The Marshulltown canning worksintend putting up 1,601,000 cans of suudrics next season, The state sion in De in December. The grand tota born during 1581 b rs $113,085, Dennison dedi ated on Thanksgiving day the hetter the deed. It is claimed that Fort Dodge hav as and for glass-making purposes as ¢an be found anywhere, The 4 al meeting of the S » held a range holds [nmt 8 its annual ses- the second Tuesday improyements in Sun ot up it round num- i 29,000 opera honse e better the duy ate Teach- Oskaloosa v lady dentist, surprising how 1 men i have teeth that need fixing. . Y. MeDonald, the Dubuque manu- [uturu‘ is making ngements to start a branch concern at Clinton. lies a land loague of 40 memters and has ser t $1,145 to the nu- tional land league in Ireland. The Odd Fellows of Keokuk claim the finest ha'l in the s ate, and in connection th it is a library of 1,100 volumes, he Decorah fivemen and city authori- ties propose to celebrate the completion of the new water woiks with iwposing cere- moniex, Col. Abernethy, and it is that town ¢ snverin- 1, recently sold wr Denison for tendent of public his f b o arm of 2 The new ferry Loat at led teams and ax every trip, Keokuk ¢; 1 many cattle It issaid to be & mou ien kil'ed a fine nd o the 27th, app old, and the first seen nized a board of k of 210,000, with power to iner unount to- $10°,000 £ The shares of stock ar T'he Des Moines Glucose .ump ny has juist finished the shivment of thirty car- loads of sugar to St. Louis, where it grades Al andix o ered equal to the best enstern wanufacture, The Duvenport Gazette says that o we! informied giain merchant “of that makes the statement that corn will reach the glar of ¥1 per bu-hel before for market, Pierce, a prominent attomey Towa, was found dead in hed He had heen for n of the Uni t few days had A to stroug drink, His death States Court, o been addict is supposed to have resulted from ruffoca- tion. ‘The banquet of the traveling men in Des M ce at the Aboru hous Decewber is to be a strictly t affair, no wine being allowed, gramme insicates that G spond to the toast, and Gov.-clect future. Near Mu Lung, aged L, way handling a g sccidentally discharged and lllulhll) Hv.- off lhe whole top ulhulnml cattering the Loy's bra . His father, d one year ag: Y was ge ting ready to grave when the anci nperate he pro- Geanr will re- the past,” Towa in Sherman to ine on the a 54 ute over his dnt oceurred, Anna 8, Howe, befo @ the distrit week for killin last summer, w of wirder in who has been on trial court of Marion last her hus! 1 by pofsoning on the 26th nd guilty the scoond \wl com | | 8th stred For Sale By BEMIS, FIFTEENTH AND DOUGLAS SIS.,, No. 1, New house, 7 rooms, ngar Salinders, $1200. No. 2. 2.story house, rooms, well, cisternand barn, Webster, near 16th strect, $2500, No. 3, Houso of 10 rooms, on_Harney, near- h strcet, stoue foundation, $4000, No. 4, Large house of 11 rooms, on Webster streot, hiear Creighton College, 83600, 0.'6, Tlouse of 7 rooms, on Case, near 174 nm;,is No.'7, lloummt,flfl rooms, 3lots, on 17th street ooms, on Case, near 14th, No. 9, House of 8 rooms, kitchen, etc., or Cas, near 13th st cet, $300. 10, House of 3 rooms with lot 22x132 fect, on Cass, near 14th strect, $600. No. 11, House of 6 rooms, on 10th street, near Douglas, 44366 fect Jot, $4000. 1 6 rooms, brick foundation, on. th street, $1000 No, 10, 1 sbory new Houss of 6 rooms, brick toundatfon, off St. Mary’s avenue, near convent, 1500, f 5 rooms and summer kitchen on 20th stre ar clark, §2000 No. 15, House nlxrnnnu o Sherman avenue (16th streo No. 1 cellar, t, $1600. lu rooms, near st amd & lots, ibcks west o High 300, touse and 3 lots on road to park, near e, £3500, 11} lots ear Hascall’s, South ull qu on Davenport street, e mm port, near 12th str. | lrvmmn a 3266 feet, on 0. 2 lotson 17th nd 1 lot on 10th strect, near 3 Nouses and 1ot on Jackson, near 13th 300. 9, 5 houscs and 11ot on Californ t, 25000, 0, 1)-story hrick honse of 4 rooms with. cet, on Sherman avenue (16th streot), 0. , near , 1i-story house and 33x66 fect, on 13th. e Howard street, £2000, ~story house of 6 rooms and two lots < house a .d full lot on Capito th streot, 22500 2 three-story brick houses wi lot 44x r 15th street, % 0 cach. ooms with 1} lot Paul 82750, 550, House of 5 rooms with 44x66 feet lot, on mh Btrect, near California, $2500 N House of & rooms with lot 150x150 feet, car Colfax Ktrect, 3500, ouse and 2 lots on Chicaizo, near 20th. . 45, Large house of 7 rooms, closets pantry, well and cistern, on 18th, near Clark street, $3500.. No. 46, Large house with full block, near new’ shott ower, £3000. No. 47 Touse of 9 rooms with lot, on Pacifle, near 11th street 53000 No. 49, Briak house of 11 roouu, well, ¢ stern, at the house, good barn, etc., on ear 17th strect, $6000, House of 6 rooms, cellar, well, etc., on neir Paul strect, $5000, House of 6 rooms and cellar, It 33x132, Mary'savenuc, near convent, $1 and 8sx120 foet, Daven 1000, 26, House nnm 10 rooms, on_California, it stre &7, lowse Y0, vooms, summer. Kitehin, vell, good ban, ete, near St ul stree emoo No. 65, Now horuse of 1 roomin, Webster, near 224 stroct, €2 N Four houses with } lot, on 12th street, near Case 22000, No. 60, House of 3 roows on Davenport, near 1 strect, 000, 61, Tlouse of 0 or 10 roomis, on Burt strect,, nd strect, $65000. House of 4 rooms, 1 story, poreh, col- stérn and well, on Harney, nedr 21st street, good barn, on. House of 4 rooms, closets, basement Whito Lead Works, #1000, uilding onleased lot, on' Dodav street, r post office, store below anid roms above, 0. house of 12 rooms, every- sth, near Cl #0000, 1}-story hotise, 6 rooms, cellar, wel 1, on Jackson, near 12th, '$1500, Brick house with lote, fruit trees, jth, near Capitol ayenue, $15,000, 5, House of 4 rooms, basement, lob Wx teet, on M: 76. No. 70, 13-story house, Erooms, on Cass stroed, ncar 16th stroet, 4000, No.77, 2-story house, 11 rooms, closets, fur- ace, fruit trecs, barn, etc., on Farnhaw, near th stroef l‘ 35000, No. 81, % houses with 9 rooms, and other with rootus, on Chicago, near 12th stroet, €300, No. 52, 1}-story house, 6 rooms, 4 closets, well Al 100-harrel cistern good barn, on Pierce Bt, near 20th (1 corrall), §1500, No. n, -story houes, 9 rooms, coal shed, good well, cistern, ou } lot, on- Capitol avenué, nea 12th, #2000, » 2-utory house, § rooms, 4 below and & oscts, collar, well and ciatern, with & cres ground, oh Saundors street, near Barracks, ete., on No. 18 No_ K5, 2 stores, house on leased § lot, lease runs 2 years from \pnl lat, 1581, on Pacitic Bt,, near UL P. depot, $500, No. ), Houso, 10 rooms, well, cistern, ete., near 15th and Harnoy strects, ##00. 7, 2tory housc, 8 roows, well with 40. Large house of 10 rooms, well, ewm barn, cte., on Cass stroet, near No. 89, ster atreet, Larg GEOQ. P. BEMIS' « utenced 1o tho Madison Pen y for eighteen years, She Jilled ber hustaid 10 warry a i Iilinois. Lena Stan- sentenced three yea She w two months eld, born in tl ing the control of our great railways from the hands of the owners and reg- Juil. She stole the hun.uxu BECUTE LUNeY 1o got her seducer aut Real Bstate Exchange | A , } 4,‘3 { ] | Ly ) h [ \