Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 12, 1881, Page 4

T e —— tion, 4 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, DECEMBER 12 1881 ==-_._____——-————————————-—-———‘———— The Omaha Bee. Pablished every morning, excopt Sunday, The only Monday morning daily, TERMS BY MATL:— One Year,....810.00 | Threo Months,$3.00 Six Months, 5.00 | One . 1.00 IHE WEEKLY BER, published ev- TERMS POST PATD:— One Yea .§2.00 | Three Months. . 50 Bix Mon + 100 | One LW CORRESPONDENCE—AIl Communi. eations relating to News and Editorial mat- ters should be addressed to the Eniron o Tre Bir, BUSINESS LETTERS—AIl Business Letters and Remittances should be ad dressed to Tie OMARA Pupuisnine Cou- 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 Otrculation. John H. Pierce is in Charve of ';ht Mail Clreuation of THE DAILY BEE. 1. 1. Chamberlain correspondent and Guiteav's latest inspiration has forced hin.| to overdo the insanity dodge. OwmAHA wants a free commerce be- foro she will be ready for a Chamber of Commerce. Tk the experts are to be believed the step from insanity to crime is a very small one. — Txp1ANA has nearly 15,000 school teachers ‘‘Hoosier illiteracy” will soon become a thing of the past. ————— PHILADELPHIA is about to be lighted by electricity. Insnrance rates may at once be expected to advance. Tue readjustment the country is most in favor of is a readjustment of the arrears of pensions swindle. WyoMING complains that no indus- try can live in the territory unless the Union Pacific is taken in as a special partner, Tue apecial meeting of the Farmers Alliance will be a business meeting, The producers of this state will vote as they talk, SENATOR VEST seems to be all wool and a yard wide on the river ques- That sort of Vest fits exactly the ideas of the people of the Missouri Valley. Burre is rapidly making good her claim as the liveliest mining centre in the wost. A telephone exchange with one hundred subscribers is scon to be completed. A B1LE has just been sold in Lon- don for $8,000. The enterprising book sellers of Denver succeeded in solling three last year for twenty-five cents each. THE NEW SECRETARY OF STATE The name of ex-Senator Frederick . Frelinghuysen of New Jersey will in all probability be sent to the sen- ato to-day as the successor of Mr Blaine in the state department. In many respects the nomination will prove accoptable to the country. Mr. Frelinghuysen is a man of lar perience in public lifo, of scholarly unblemished ittainments and of reputation. He comes from a family of prominence in national politics and of high distinction in their native state. His grandfather was a dele- gate to the continental congress, an officer in the Revolutionary war, a general in the army, and a United States senator in 1703, His son, Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen, the uncle of the coming secretary, was also in the United States senate, being elected in 1829, In 1844 he was the whig candidate for vice president on the tleket with Henry Clay. The present Mr. Frelinghuysen was born in 1817, was attorney general of New Jersey for five years, and in 1866 was appointed to flll a vacancy in the sen- ate for the full term of six years, end- ing March 4, 1877, Mr. Frelinghuysen is a lawyer of eminence and a large property owner near Somerville, Now Jersey. He has always been prominently identified with the republican party and an car- Our exchanges are devoting a great deal of attention to ‘“The Work of Congress,” more attention in fact than congress itself seems to be giving to the subject. Tue Herald boasts of its Platts- mouth report, half of which was de- liberately stolen from Tue Bee. The Herald's unearthly cheek would be appalling if it were not ridioulous. Iv there are any other Nebraska journals whose feelings have been hurt by Tue Bee's anti-monopoly sentiments let them speak right out. The people are anxious to hear their gentle voices. Dk, Miuier responded at Platts- wouth to the toast of “the Union Pa- cific railroad.” A statement of com- missions for professional services would have been highly interesting in that connection, OxE of the most mournful sights of modern times is the grief of the Ne- braska monopolies over the oppres- sion which the Doane law causesto the people of this state. It is all the sadder because it is so genuine and disinterested, —_— Generan Kinesrriok's doath will assist in straightening out the South American diplomatic snarl. Now let Minister Hurlbut's recall and the ap- pointment of new and ‘experienced men follow. Hot headed politicians rarely make good diplomats. — A cuanper of commerce would doubtless be an improvement to our <ity, AndZjust as soon as corporation discrimination against the grain and cattle interests of this city ceases it will be forthcoming. The demand for such an institution will at once create a supply. GouLp has captured the New York and New England railroad and pro- poses at once to water its stock in tho interests of ‘“‘an enlightened public policy.” “‘An enlightened public poli- cy” will shortly be compelled to lay hands on the railroad robbers who force the producers of the country to pay dividends on willions of dollars of flotitions capital, nest worker in astate of strongly democratic tendencies. He is an ar- dent admirer of General Grant and was a strong supportér of his candi- dacy at Chicago. It is understood that President Garfield had his name lunder consideration in forming his cabinet but finally decided not to ap- point him on the ground that New Jersey having gone democratic he could not ignore the republican states in order to give her representation in his cabinet. When Wayne MacVeagh retired rumor has it that President Arthur offered Mr. Frelinghuysen the attorney-generalship which he de- clined to accept. No one credits Mr. Frolinghuysen with the abilities of Mr. Blaine. He is not 8o aggressive and is not likely to make a brilliant record for the de- partment. Still, no very great bril- liancy is necessary in a secretary of state in the present peaceful stato of our diplomatic relations with other countries, and Mr. Frelinghuysen, with his large experience in public af- fairs, will probably do as well as any other honest man of ordinary abilities who could have been selected. —_— THE VIENNA HORROR. The latest dispatches from Vienna place the loss of life from the burning «f the Ring Theatre on Friday at nearly thousand souls. The calamity is the most appalling of modern times. Four hundred persons perished in the burning of the Brook- lyn Theatre in 1876, and two hundred and fifty’ wero lost last year in the conflagration at the Nice Opera House. The victims of the Vienna holocaust number more than those of both Brooklyn and Nice combined. The cablegrams give a frightfully graphic picture + of the acenes attending the dreadful disaster. An audience of nearly two thousand persons, mostly of the poorer classes, were seated in the building awaiting the rising of the curtain. The gas had just been turned on the stage when the flames were seen bursting through the procenium. A terrible panic ensued, during which, to add to the horror of the scene, the gas went out, leaving the long winding staircases and passages which fur- nished the only egress from the gal- leries in perfect darkness. In a mo- ment the whole auditorium was ablaze. The doors were choked by a mass of shrieking and praying humanity, vainly besceching a help which could never reach them, Hundreds were trampled todeath. Mothersstrangled their children to save them from the agonies of a borrible death and then throw themselves over tho gallery to the floor below. The cries of the per- ishing could be heard in tho streets amid the roar of the flames and the crash of the timbers. Every occupant of the galleries was burned to death, and of those who eseaped from the floor below muny were 8o mangled and burned that death soon relioved them from their sufferings. As usual in such cases the disaster seoms to have been the result of crimiual caveless- one ness, Reports aro couflicting a8 to the immediate cause of the fire, By somo it is attributed to the negligence of & workmen in the handling of a spirit lamp. Others lay the blame to sparks from the electric- al lighting apparatus. But if the rules proscribed by the city authorities for the safety of audionces had been fol- lowed every life could have been saved oven had it proved impossible to ex- tinguish the firo on the stage. The theatre had an iron curtain to cut off communication between the stage and the auditerium, but it was not made use of in the panic. The theatre was also required to have oil lamps along the exit so that the way could be dis- cerned in the event of the failure of the gas, but this had not been done. At the first alarm the attendants w‘Po(l a3 rapidly as possible the iron curtain was left unused, and and the audience left to panie and death, A rigid official investigation is to be made, and the responsibility will doubtless be placed wher . longs. But no placing of responsi- bility or punishment of offenders can bring to life the souls which perished on Friday evening. All Vienna is in mourning, and the light has gone out never to be relighted in hundreds of homes in the Austrian capital. Of course no amount of regulations will prevent disaster panic has once taken possession of an audience but the knowledge that such rules exist and will be carefully en- forced is the greatest of all prevent- ives againat panic. Omaha is behind other not having any law regulating her places of amusement. Now York has a law prohibitihg any management from selling any more tickets than they have seats, and pro 1g rigidly as to the means of exit. where a cities in vic Ohicago has very strict regulations as to doors, fire plugs, hose, and ob structions in aisles, Omaha has none of these. One of her theatres is a firetrap of the worst kind, That amply protected against fire and panic is due entirely to the generosity of its constructor and the wisdom of its architect. Such disasters to struc- tures as the recent Philedelphia mill disaster and the Vienna theatre horror should teach our council to enact at once a rigid protective law, not only for places of amusement but for build- ings of all classes where human life can be endangered. Boyd's opera house is TaEre has scarcely been an issue of Tur OMAnA Ber for months which has not contained more or less abuse of Congressman Valentine. If anyone's acquaintance with Rosewater is so limited as to lead them to believeo that this arises from pure motive, we wish to remind them of the manner in which this man treated Mr. Valentine's predeceseor durin% the life time of that gentleman, If there was any- thing vile and abusive that Rose- water did not say of Frank Welch, it was because his demoniac ingenuity did not happen to conjure it up. After he had assisted in hounding the lamented Weich into a premature grave, he was one of the first to gather around his bier and pronounce extravagant eulogies upon the life and character of the :fm:euad. During the life of P. W. Hitchcock there was no crime in the calendar that this wholesale de- famer of character did not accuse him of. The funeral rites were scarcely over when Tue Ber bogan and kept up a series of eulogies that would have led the uninitiated to think that the two had been not only co-workers but warm friends. Hence we s2e how empty are the present outbursts of the little automatic volcanic down at Omaha. —[West Point Republican. Tue Bee has never hesitated to ex- pose and hold up to public inspection the corrupt practices and failures in official duties of Nebraska’s public representatives. Such exposures it has made regardless of consequences and in spite of the threats of the newspapers and the attempted bull- dozing of the corporations. Every charge which Tue Bee has made against such men it has substantiated by facts and figures which were never answered and could not be over- thrown. When corrupt cappers of the monopolies, like the edi- tor of the West Point Re- publican, assert that Tus Ber has over retracted one word of the criticism which it has made against certain public men, they utter a deliberate falsehood. It isan old proverb that criticism should besilent over the dead. Words of praise for the good points of a man's charactercan never be perverted into apologies for failings whose mention would be out of place beside an open grave. They certainly can never be twisted into retractions of previously proven charges against either his public or private life, Tus Bee has no war to make upon the dead. It has no desire to rake up unpleasant memories of the past. But it stands by every charge which it made against the public career of men Seeaker Kkiver is just at just at presont besct by a lobby composed of representatives of the railroads and those interested in cluims and public grounds and buildings, who are urging the appointment on certain committees of members who are known to be open to corrupting overtures. It is stated that the committecs on claime, Pacific railroads, and public grounds and buildings are those which offer the most inviting field for the lobby Tt is highly important that unscrupulous men should be carefully territories neglected in the composition of these committes. The real work of congress is done in the committee. The power of the cemmittees in smothering or facilitat- ing legislation is so well known that a large part of the importance of the speakership, in a party sense, is de- rived from his duty in their appoint- ment. Mr. Keifer is known to be a legislator of large enough experience to understand tho necessity of the ut- most caution in his selection of mem- bers for committeo work, He 18 suffi- ciently well versed in 1he ways of the house to understand lobhy influences when he sees them. No congressmun who is suspected of being either cor- rupt or weak should find his way on a committee, Tur prospective postmaater brigade has invaded Washineton, There are 300 vacancies and 1,500 applicants. WESTERN RAILROAD PRO- GRESS. The Denver extension of the Bur- lington through the Colorado “‘desert” is being pushed as fast as muscle and weather will admit. Gangs of graders cover every fifty miles of the road. The company has en‘ered into a traffic contract with the Denver and Rio Grande company, which insures a pay ing business from the opening. Den- ver business men watch the progress of the road with great interest and will give it a traffic boost of considera- ble dimensions. The liberal prices paid for right of way and city privi- leges has also tended to place the company in a high altitude with the people. The completion of the branch of the B. & M. from Nemaha City to Wymore will secure to that company almost every strategetic point in southern Nebraska, ‘“Hold the Ter- ritory” has been the secret motto of the management and a glance at the map will cessfully it has been accomplished. The first train over the road Iast Monday. Conuecction is made at Table Rock with the A. &N trains for Lincoln. Pawnee City gushes over the advent of the cars and the county swells the chorus of thanks- giving. show how suc- ran The Wabash strikers have secured their five per cent. in ono township for the proposed Shenandoah, Sidney & Pacific branch, through southwest- ern Towa to the Missouri river oppo- site or near Nebraska City. Three more townships remain to be heard from before work is commenced. A mild form of bulldozing has been re- sorted to by threatening to change the route if those three townships—Ben- ton, Prairie and Walnut—refuse the blood money. This fact establishes the truth of Tur BEr's assertion that the road will be built, bonds or no bonds. U. P. surveyors are foraging be- tween Lincoln and Beatrice for a suit- able route and five per cent aid. Judge Maguire is feeling the finan- cial pulse of the Black Hills people in favor of a Black Hills and Bozeman road. As yet the symptoms are not very alarming; in fact his success is limited to resolutions and whereases, of which article Deadwood recently donated an extravagant amount. Lawrence county, of which Deadwood is the seat, is already sweating under a blanket mortgage of half a million. With the Chicago and Northwestern and the Milwaukee and St. Paul head- ing for the Hills through the heart of Dakota, and the Sioux City and Paci- fic and the Omaha and Black Hills branch of the Union Pacific through Northern Nebraska, there seems no special need of haste in building a local road through territory which the eastern trunk lines will cover in a few years. Branch lines are only profic- able to the builders who sell at the first opportunity. The Denver & Rio Grande is the pet railroad of Colorado. Tt is con- trolled by citizens of the state, who refuse to sell or pool their fortunes with eastern roads. Gould is said to control one-third of the stock, and his disreputable bull methods have been brought to bear upon the stock to de- preciate its value, with the evident intention of securing a controlling in- torest. In this he has failed. The South Park narrow gauge was built a8 a ocumpetitor, supported by the trunk lines, but its success is limited to the enormous number of engineers, firemen and employes killed by the ditching of trains. Now comes the Denver & New Orleans company, con- trolled by Evans and Loveland, two of Gould’s mountain mossbacks, which proposes to build a line southward parallel with the Rio Grande, as far as Pueblo, but the people of Denver determinedly refuse granting the company any aid or favers of anykind, believing that its ultimate intentions are inimical to the interests of the city and state. The mainspring of this opposition is the fear that Onaha and Kansas City merchants would control a large share of the trade of the state, The Republican asserts that “‘if the Rio Grande were run as a part of the Union Pacific system it would be to the interest of that road to carry merchandise from Omaha or Kansus City to Leadville, or any other loeal point, at a lower rate than the goods could be carried to the same point if reshipped ;at Denver.” The value of the Rio Grande as an agent in the development of the mineral wealth of the state is obvious. It taps the mumnes on the Gunnison, Leadville, Elk Moun- tain, San Juan, Red Cliff, and the coal fields at El Moro, and makes possible the working of low grade mines in these regions, The road will soon form a part of three through lines, A third rail between Denver and Pueblo, 120 miles, completes a connection between Denver and the east by the Atchison & Santa Fe route. The second is beeween Salt Lake city and cast, when its Gunnison line is built through the canon of the Grand river into Utah and to the city first named, The thud is from Den- ver and the heart of Colorado to Mex- ico and New Orleans, over its line now completed to Espanola, within 23 miles of Santa Fe, but ultimately to be extended to El Paso, Tts El Moro branch will be extended in time through the Pan Handle of Texas to Fort Worth, and connecting there with all parts of Texas, The entire energies of the company are now turned to the Salt Lake extension. The grading in Utah county is finished and ready for the iron. The heaviest part of the work between Salt Lake and Provo is bridging the river. The company has purchased depot grounds in Salt Lake city equal to forty acres and an outlet southward forty rods wide, in all ninety acres. The com- pany makes friends of all with whom it comes in contact with by promptly meeting all obligations and paying liberal wages. s The contest against the issuance of Lancaster county bonds to Galey's, Lincoln and Fremont roads goes to the supreme court on the question of jurisdiction. The county court sus- tained the motion to dismiss, The business of the U. P. road is now so great as to require an average of a train every hour. Everything on wheels is being employed to move the enormous traffic of tho road and yet the supply of cars is inadequate. The Denver short line is proving a most important feeder. Passenger and freight traffic are increasing steadily. The Missouri Pacificis moving to- wards the Nebraska metropolis at the rate of two miles a day. The contin- ued favorable weather has enabled contractors to push rapidly through the country and a junction of the graders and spikers is expected early in January. This road will be 168 miles long and in- crease Gould’s Southwestern system to 5,340 miles. Other branches and trunk lines of this system now under way will foot upa total of 5,056 miles. Gould and his associate have also filed charters in Kansas for a railroad from Salina to the northern line of the state. Dispatches intimate that the Santa Fe company have relin- quished their charter for aline in that direction, leaving Gould an open field in Northwestern Kansas. Sioux City is the unfortunate pos- sessor of a railroad Munchausen. In fact, he is a Munchausen, a Vennor and a Tice rlled into one. He is the only authenticated - speci- men of the class in the country, and his observations of prospective railroads and mammoth combinations are only limited by the boundary of the continent, The northwestern corner of Iowa is en- tirely too small for his comprehensive range of vision; he reaches out for the great beyond and behind and pub- lishes to the world his *‘inspirations,” illustrated with a map of Sioux City. Last week he observed a dark cloud in the northern horizon and a frown on the face of VanHorne, of the Mil- waukee road. This formed the basis of a union of the latter road with the Canadian Pacific. Anon his massive eyeballs swept southward and pierced the Mnd of the shotgun and magnolia. Here a giant corporation was about to overshadow the land with an army of graders and tracklayers, who would merely tip their beavers to New Orleans and pass on to a part forty miles beyond, where the cereal wealth of California would be transferred direct to Eurcpean steamers. The authorities should disarm him or the Deity will soon be charged with anotler crime. Yankton is aroused on the railroad question. The prospect of securing the Central Pacific branch has forced the citizens to bestir themselyes, and already a company has been organized to build the connecting link between Lemar’s and Yankton. The Press says the Illinois Central will iron and operate the road if it is graded. This would prove a great boon to the city, giving it direct connection with Chic- ago and the east superior to any exist- ing route. The Utah & Northern is within 800 feet of the city limits of Butte, Mon- tana. A deep ravine of several hun- dred feet yet remains to be bridged before trains can reach the depot in city, Supt. Clark was up there re- cently and informed the citizens that the company would enter into the coal business at an early day and furnish the “‘black diamonds” at 16 per ton. Dozens of Nebraska towns aro shivering for a ton or two and can't get it any price. Regular trains on the Missouri Pa- citic will begin running into alls City next Wednesday. The new de- pot will be completed by that time, The B. & M. charges five cents a mile for passengers between Culbert- son and Collinsville on the Denver ex- tension, The winter bridge over the Mis- souri at Sioux City will be opened for traftic this week, Correot. The leisure moments of ex-Speaker Randall are now devoted to inventing a policy for the democratic minority in the next house of representatives. So far, Mr. Randall has not met with very flattering success. —Omaha Bee. Guess you're right.—Philadelphia Press, Choke Him Off. Kansas City Journal, With congress and Guiteau both helding forth at tho same time, Washington is really taking an undue share of the attention of the country, One, at least, should be choked off. One and Ouly Philade'phia Press. In the senate there are twe Davises, two Cam two Hills, two Millers, two Jon There is only one David Davis, IOWA BOILED DOWN, Cedar Rapids will soon have n woolen mill. Smallpox is said to have appeared at Grinnell The city of Des Moines has over 813,000 in its treaso: Farmers are still plowing, The S'orm Lake Creamery sends butter direct to Eng'and. A new Methodis® church at Aurelia will be dedicated Christmas, Ottumwa honses of ill fame have been closed by ordec of the mayor. Red Oak, having water works, has a chemical engine to aispose of, Lettsville and Grandview Dubnque has sixty-five business houses with a capit i of £40,000 and up The valuation of the Sac county is $2,282,- ax levy is 283 050,80, cases before the atate su- preme conr! in session at Des Moines, Dubuque's building improvements dur- ing 1881 were worth over a million d: llars. The First National bank of Storm Lake has been authorized to commence busi- ness, Forest City feels very weli satisfied over having improved $20,000 worth the past season. The total amount of tax levied in Polk county for the year 1831 amounts to $450, 474 38, The butter exhibited at the recent con. vention at the Cedar Rapids was valued at 226,000, Mrs. 8. C. Johnson has been admit'ed to the bar at Knoxville, Her husband is alio a lawyer, The recent grand_jury in Sioux_county found seventeen indictments against saloon men and druggists, There has been no new cases of smallpox at Bellevue for nearly two weeks and it is now hoped the worst is over. The artesian_well at Sioux City has reached a depth of 575 feet, Water rises within fifty feet of the surface. During 1881 $45,238.23 were raised in Cedar Rapids in the form of taxes, of which personal property amounted to $441,952, The executive committee of the state anti-prohibition society will meet at Towa City on the 14th to outline a plan for self defense, In excavating fora building at Keokuk a few days since, a rude stone sepulchre was unearthed, containing a portion of a human skeleton. R. D. Stephens, of Cedar Rapids, offers to put 81,000 into each of ten new manu- facturing enterprises, just to give the place a boom in that line, The grape sugar works at Iowa City con. sume 1,500 bushels of corn duily,” The capital stock of the company was lately increased to $210,000, Two men have been arrested at Glen- wood charged with stealing a sack of mail from the depot last Wednesday, Thesack and contents were recovered, A gentleman seeks to locate in Cedar Rapids with a paper and card-board mill. He suggests a stock company with a cap- ital of 820,000, of which he offers to take one-half. Tn 1849 there were only 349 frame and 35 brick and stone school houses in the state. To-day there are 10,210 frame, 701 brick, 237 stone and 73 log institutes of learning. Henry Lamar, of Muscatine, will be 105 rears old if L es to the 26th of March. 1is_health is excellent and his spirits good. It is thought he is the oldest man in the state. ‘When the national dairy conventi'n at Cedar Rapids adjourned, the husiness men of Towa City had a special train waiting for them, in which they were tiken to that place, where they were entertained. Orrin Rodeers, aged 17, while walking on the top of a fraight train at North M. Gregor, stubled his toe, stumbled, fell | c- tween the cars and - as killed. Both legs were run over and mashed out of all sem- blance. A Drace of burglams was taken in at Sioux City Friday. An amateur cracks- man was shot at in Goeway’s store and ar- rested at Griffin’s. Another tenderfoo: came to sell a watch where he had’ stolen it, and was taken in, At the close of the Cedar Rapids dairy convention upwards of 60,000 p.unds of butter was sold at prices ranging frem 39 to 66 cents per pound. Some of the ex- hibitors, adding premiums to eales, re- ceived as high as $1.50 per pound for their butter. In the lprlnq of 1879, at Sidney, Fre- mont county, Wilber Howell under strong provocation struck another young man named Brainard on the head with a chair, and from the «ffects of the blow Brainard died. Howell had just had his trial, been convicted of manslanghter and sen- tenced to impiisonment in the penitentiary one day and to paya fine of 2500, together with the costs. About a year aco Howell married, and his wife presented him with «a babe on the day of his conviction. Citi- zens of Sidney have petitioned Goyernor Gear to remit the fine on payment of tbe costs, 921, on whi There are STATE JOTTINGS. Oakland has organized a land league, Pierce wants a brick layer and plasterer, A Grand Tsland will ships feed to Den- ver. Flue Springs is to have a new brick yard. The prospect hole at Decatur is down 619 feet, Albion has orgenized 2 hook and ladder company, The round housc at Culbertson looms up immen A ste grist mill is to be built at Wood River. slack legs' Pawnee county, mprovements for the past year will foot up £3,000, ell, of David City, will soon build an elevator there, Culbertson needs a bank io which to #to e her surpluy shekels. The ladies o' Falls city contemplate starting a publio library, A geplleman from Tllinois was relieved of $72 s! the Lincola depot, Menvo Frey ana Otto Prebnow are in jail at West Point for stealing timber, R. H Stuart, of Grand Tsland, has arranged for the manufacture of his patent wenther strip. The first child born in the new town of Wayne was a daughter to Mr. and Mrs, Joawes Britton, A Dbutter famine is prevailing in Ne. ligh, Nobutter fit to eat can be had for love or money, Mr. ' Van Hom has sold the Clifton house, Nebraska City, and goes iuto busi- ness in Lincoln, Tsaac Crable of York has some 25 acres of corn that is turning out sixty-five bushels to the acre, Traac Cost, aged twelve, of Antelope county, playfully perforated the heart of his brother with a pistol, A destructive prairie fire passed through the country in the vicinity of West Point, ruining several farmers, The brother of th ons of Gems haw been started i ition to the Sons of Liberty in Grand Island. Senator Van Wyck has tiken h's car- riage team to Washington, and with it o carload of Nebraska hay. The ¥ remont foundry has during the Jast year manufactured seventeen eujines Jos. 1} to 40 harse power, The apparatus for the Fremont tele phone exchange has wrrived and will be put in place imediately, Pawnee county tumed over & the Lepublican Valey railroad. prevails among cattle in bonds run for a period of fifteen years aud are to be uced only in payment of ths com- pany's taxes in the county The Decatur (Burt nwnn'y{ Herald bobs itepate before the public. "It isa neat, tasty an 1 newsy local | aper. The piles for the Platte bridge at Fre. mont are in place and & large portion of the superstructure put in place, The experimental well water at Lincoln has been analyzed, The fluid is suitable for domestic and temperance purposes, There isa great searcity of laborers in York ¢ unty, farmers finding it out of the question to obtain help, even at advanced wag A Lincoln g'rl named Annie Specht is pletely crank on religious subje. ta wassent to the home of her biother Syractise, Neb. field fs bosming. Tt has twenty- five buildings and more going up. Among new ent-rprises are a steam flouring mill and woolen factory. The new depot at Pawnes is being built. Tt is 20x40, two stories, giwing five resi- dence rooms on the second floor for the agent and his family.} The Farmers Alliance, organized only a little over ayear ago 1n Nehraska, now numbers three hundred local lodges, avd i still rapidly increasing. The vinegar works of Nebraska City will be removed next March to the new building to be erected near the foot of Fifth street near the railroad track. Mr, Thomas Collins, a farmer a few miles southwest of Brownville, had one of his arms broken by the kick of a horse, from the effects of which he died. It is said the State Supreme Court has rendered a decision that no license can be issued under the Slocum law for less than £500, uo matter for how short a time, The authorities of Lincoln has called an election for December 27th to vote on the question of issuing 10,000 water works bonds to solve the water works problem, Quartermaster-General C. H. Baird has disbursed 875 to each company of the national guards in the state of Nebraska for armory rent for the year commencing June 1, 1881, S. T. Corbett and Frank Bela, two em- ployes at the B. & M. shops at Platts. mouth, were severely bruised by timbers from a car falling upon them. Corbett's shoulder was dislocated and his thigh broken. Hastings enjoyed an elopement sensa- tion last week, Lillie “'o‘:yler Ieft the domicile of her dad and went east on a tour with Jim Fathropp. She took the old man's purse along and left several milliner bills behind as souvenirs, The supreme court last week disposed the insurance fee case in which ex-Audi- tor and exiled Leidtke was interested, The court held that “all fees earned or collected Ly the auditor of public accounts belong to the state, and are payable in advance into the state treasury,” T. J. Smith, late of the O'Ne 1 Record, is soon to start & paper at Long Pine, The place, Joung as it is, has already a popula- tion of 300, contains five saloons, lumber and coal yard, three stores, one medicine shop, two livery stables, hotels, meat mar- ket, f ed store, blacksmith shop, etc. At last accounts, Deputy Marshal Mc- Mains was stillafter Stanton (foc the kill- ing of Myers, mentioned last week), hny- ing traced him to Atchison. There he Fought a ticket for the south or southwest, it could not definitely be discovered which. Tt is probable that he has made his way to New Mexico ere this, It must be con- fessed our people are not anxious about his capture.—|Pawnee Enterprise. A sad and fatal acci'ent happened at Covington on Wednesday morning. . W. Corlin, a carpenter, at work on the St. Paul winter bridge, an1 who resides at Blair, had occasion to gonear tha ma- chinery that raises the large hammer to the pile driver, when the coat tail of his overcoat was caught in some manner, drawjng him upward. His left side was torn open and his left shoulder torn from his body. Corbin was 35 years of age and leaves a wife. Mr. R, M. Pridges, of York, writes to correct a statement made in THE BEE: “We boast of wost excellent echools, and in ths various crades, from the kindergar- teu to the seniinary, we enoll nearly s'x hundred pupils. Our enrollment in the primary aepartment i< 104, but on accomt of the prevalence of whooping cough the atter dance ran down to 63. Your state- ment gives thece figures as the aggrezate of all the schools. Ido not ask epace, but simply a correction in the ‘jo'tings,” which 1 feel you w 1! quite willingly give, as the statement reflects upon our schools and does injustice to our city Your daily is on fi'e_and is oaily consulted by our ad- vance 1 jupils, numbering in our grammar 8 hools more than yu have given us on the full reg ster.” ORLEANS NEWS, , For the two past seasons this part of Nebraska has nothad as bount ful crops as some sther secticns. Nevertheless our towns and coun'y ire gaining some good and permanent improvements, among which is the Sentinel office, wkich is re- ceiving the finishing touch, and will be ready for occupation soon, The building is of vo d size and will be commodious, and is agood addition to the south side of the equare. O, K, Olmstead’s flouring mill will soon be ready for work. The machinery is being put in place. This will is eituated on the Repub- ican river and has powers in the rtate. This mill will add material to the business of our town when it cnce gets in running order. C. Boehl is also building a four run mi 1 two miles west of town on the Appa. This mill will be equipped with all of the late improved machinery and will be recond to none in the state. Such improvements as these are a benefit to the county and are good property for the owners. Several sub- stantial residences are beiog built in the town, which we are glad to note. g quantities of broom corn was raised in.this county, which is findinga ready market here at 80 per ton, ast herds of sheep are beinjs brouzht to the valley and there are saveral large flocks owned in the vicinity f Orleans, J. R. Kenne- dy, our fellow townsman, at the present time has a flock of oyer 1,(00, all high grades. I shall have more to say of the sheep business in a future letter. I am sorry to chronicle the failure ot Manning Bros., of our city, one of the old reliable grocery and dry goods firms. They made an assignment in favor of C. Conts. TRAV] nber 8, 1881, What évery one should have, and never be without, is THomas' Erecrriq OiL. It i thorough aud sife in its effects, produ- cing the most wondrous cures of rheuma- tisw, neuralgin, burns, bruises and wounds of every kind, dli-codlw To Nervous Sufterers THE GREAT EU—EPIAN REMEDY. Dr. J. B, Bin;;son's Bpecific MEBDICOXINE. It 1 & posjtive cure for Spermatoirhes, Bemina Weoknouk, Impotancy, snd all discases rosulting frow Self-Abuse, as Mental Anxioty, Loss: Palus in tho Back or Side, iscases > ful success. I l‘lmrhlcu for them and get full par- c, #1.00 per package, Or six pack- Addzess il orders B. SIMSON MEDICINE C Now. 104 and 106 Main 5t. Buflalo, N. Y. £old In Omaha by C. . Goodwan, J.'W. Bell, f agow 1oF §0.00, 1. 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