Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 19, 1881, Page 4

4 . 'HE OMAHA DAILY BEE: ’ MONDAY, DECEMBER 19 1881, —— The O‘mfia_P_Ia Bee. Published every moming, except Sunday, The oniy Monday morning daily, TERMS BY MAIL:— ..$10.00 | Three Months, £3.00 5.00 | One . 1.00 IfHE WEEKLY BEE, published ev- TERMS POST PATD:— One Year......$2.00 | Three Months.. 5 Bix Months.... 1.00 | One .9 CORRESPONDENCE—AIl Communi. entions relating to News and Editorial mat- @ors should be addressed to the Epiron oy Tre Brr, #BUSINESS LETTERS—AIl Business Letters and Remittances should be ad dresced to Tur OMANA PupLismine Cou- PAKY, 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. A1x excessive railrond freights are paid by the producer. —_— Mr. Brarxe’s private life is likely to be of considerable public interest —_— No congressman will leave Washing ton this winter without lear ning what the anti-monopoly issue is. Ir wouldtake a goodnany shotguns to reorganize the Sprague estate. It owes 83,670,441 more than its nssets. Tie ghost of the slaughtered Holly, Cushing-Miller swindle still haunts the dreams of the editor of the Herald, Tre labor market has never been in such an excellent condition as far as supply and demand and good wages are concerned a8 it is at present. —— Carrary Eans asks for government aid in his ship railway scheme as soon as he has demonstrated its practica- bility and raised £75,000,000. It is pretty safe to say that the government will never be called on. Dexver is longing for the entry of the Burlington road into that city, and the Denver papers are calling upon the city council not to permit the Union Pacific to throw any ob- stacles in the way of that greatly to be desired end. SevENTY thousand Irish tenants have applied to the land courts for a reduction of rent. Mr Herbert Glad- stone reports that the condition of Ireland is very seriously exaggerated by the English press and that time will remedy the existing evils. Speaker Keirer is discovering that the arranging of committees is a har: der job than a canvass for the speaker- ship. Every merchant in congress wants to be chairman of the ways and means committee and every lawyer feels a peculiar fitness sor the commit- tee on judiciary. v political party has been started in St. Louis, which calls itself “The People's Protection Perty.” Jere Black is suggested as president, and Benjamin H. Bristow as vice president. An eighty-six page pamph- let sets forth the party platform. Even Jere Black couldn’t stand on an eighty-six page platform. It will fall of itsown weight, SE———— Tue plan for therelief of the U.8 supreme court which meets with most favor from the bar, contemplates the creation of an intermediary court to take jurisdiction of all cases which do not involve constitutional construc- tion, questions between states or those involving the rights of ambassadors. By this means the work of the su- preme court, which is already threo years in arrears, would be reduced nearly one-half. It is probable that a bill looking ‘to this end will drafted for presentation to congress. A rLerTER received at this office from one of our subscribers at Crete con- tains the following statement: ‘‘An agent of the Omaha Evening Telegram was here yes'erday soliciting subscrip- tions to that paper, stating it was pub- lished by Tue Brk, and on the strength of your reputation secured a number of subscribers.” This method of procuring patronage under false pre- tenses isin keeping with the character of the publishers of the Telegiam, who are merely playing stoolpigeon for certain parties who are trying in an underhanded way to accomplish what the brass collared railroad or- gans haye failed to achieve in open competition. —— Tue moral element that takes stock in Mr. John B. Finch as a great tem- perance agitator should remind that eminent reformer that threshing one, two, or even a dozen editors will not vindicate his moral character as against specific charges of Beecherism. Buch brutal conduct would not even vindicateothe most gentle whisky toper. We have had some experience with bullies who have sought vindication with the fist and bludgeon. Some of them achieved costly notoriety; others were sent to the penitentiary; but none of them were sent out to teach and preach the doctrines of Ohristian aubmission and the sublime virtue of temperance, LAND GRANT LEGISLATION According to the official estimate of the burean of railways the dona tions of public lands to aid in the building of railroads aggregate 190, 424,800 neres. OFf this vast empire, comprising nearly two hundred mil- lion acres of the public domain, less than one fifth, forty millions have as yet been patented to the land grant roads, Three of these land grant the Union Pa , Central Pacific and Kansas Pacific, which hold grants covering 26,000,000 acres- have taken out patents for less than 5,000,000 acres, The Northern Pacific, with a grant of 47,000,000 has taken certifi- cates for only about 3,500,000 acres. At the last session of congress atten- ronds tion was directed to the fact that some of the subsidized railroads had forfeited their land grant by tail- ing to build the roads in accordance with their charters, while others, nota- bly the Union Pacific, Kansas Pacitic and Central Pacific were not taking out patents for their lands in order to evade local taxation, It is evident that very earncst ef- forts will be made at she present ses- sion to recover the fosfeited lands for the benefit of the homestead settlers and compel the Pacific roads to take out their patents. The first decided move in this direction has been made by Senator;Plumb, who has introduced two bills in the senate relating to rail- road land grants. The first of these relates to railroads which have not been completed within the time speci- fied in the acts of incorporation. It provides that where a grant of public lands has been 8o made and such road has notbeen completed within the time prescribed by law, the land so granted or 8o much thereof as has not been patented or certified to such company shall revert to the United States and shall be open to scttlement as are other public lands. This bill is aimed more especially at the Northern Pacific and several of the smaller land grant roads in the southwest. The duty of Congress is very plain. They must either grant in our judicial system the better for the country. Solitary confinement for alleged contempt of court lefore conviction is a dangerous innovation. WESTERN RAILROAD PRO- GRESS. The continued fine weather has en- abled the Sioux City & Pacific to push work on their line in northern Nabraska, Materal for the exten- sion from Long Pine to Fort Niobrara i arriving at the former point, and will be put in place during the winter, The company isseveral points ahead of all competitors in the race for the Black Hills, and will doubtless main- tain its: lead, if money and muscle will do it The efforts of the Milwau- keo company to secure control have not yot been successful, Fitzgerald is pushing the grade on the B. & M. to Nema- ha City. The completion of this branch will give the company an air line from Nemaha City to Denver. Contractor The latest reports from the Denver extension state that seventy-five miles of the road west of Culbertson have been ironed, and 125 of the 200 miles to Denver graded. The favora- ble weather has enabled contractors to lay a mile and a half of irona day. A construction train has been sent to Penver, where grading has already been begun, and track-laying will commence not later than the 1st of January. Estimating that twelve miles more of track will be laid by the end of the year, when work on the west end begins, there will remain 113 miles to be covered with rails. At two miles a day, this gap would be completed in fifty-six and a half work- ing days, which would bring the ‘‘op- posing forces” to a junction by the 1st of April. Allowing thirty days tor unforescen delays, it is reasonable to expect the completion of the road by the first of May. A letter from one of the contractors, dated December 11, and published in The Chicago Tribune gives the fol- lowing information: ‘“There were 1e- moved in 78 working days 1,400,000 cubic yards of earth, 20,000 linear oxtensions of time whero reasonable showing of good taith is made or ap- ply the remedy provided by Senator Plumb's bill. It is urged by the friends of the Northern Pacific company, and with some show of reason, that the exten- sion of that road under the terms of its original charter was rendered im- possible by the panic of 1873, which threatened to bankrupt the corpora- tion and checked for several years all continued operations, In a num- ber of other cases, however, thero are very strong evidences that the large government subsidies of land were obtained on false pre- tenses and that stub-tailed roads were organized for no other purpose but to bleed the government of a portion of the national domain, Against such, Senator Plumb's bill offers a certain and equitable remedy. Senator Plumb's second bill is di- rected against a still greater abuse than the nou-performance of their contracts with the government by the railroads. It affects every land grant made in the United States that has been completed but has sought to evade its just burdens of the taxation by failing to take out patents for its lands, The bill provides that all lands granted to the railroads under the original Pacific railroad act, and under all acts amendatory thereto, shall be subject tolall legal taxes imposed under authority of any state or terri- tory to the same extent as if survey- ed, selected and conveyed to the com- panies. A her fart proviso declares that prior to the payment of the costs of surveying no taxes shall be imposed except in organized counties. This bill strikes at the root of one of the gravest abuses which the people have suffered at the hands of the railroads. If it becomes a law it will at once force the land grant corapanies to throw millions of actes of lands into the market at reasonable prices in- stead of holding them for a speculative rigo in value, and meantime robbing the states and territories of the taxes, which a purchaser would be compelled to pay. These immense land grants wero donated in the belief that they would be placed in the market’ and rapidly disposed of by the companios, If they aro at once made taxable the corporations cannot afford to hold them, The taxes would soon eat up the value of unproductive land, Had the Union Pacific boen com- pelled to pay taxes on their lands from the day these roads were completed, Nebraska would to-day contain more than a million inhabitants and the grand asscssment roll of the state in- stead of falling below $100,000,000 would be sbove $200,000,000, with corresponding reduction in the ratio of taxation. Senator Plumb's bills or measures aiming at the same object should by all means bo enacted during the pres- ent session. They are of vital nece: sity to tho people west of the Mis- souri in every state and territory. It is to be regretted that such bills have not been pushed through congress years ago by representatives of this state. It is to be hoped our Senators feet of piling driven, 500,000 of tim- ber put into bridges We expect to reach Denver before July 1, 1882, A slight difiiculty was met and over- come in Denyer at the outset, in the sudden resurrcction of a defunct com- pany known as the Denver, Western and Pacific. Last summer this com- pany began proceedings to condemn certain property along the Platte and shortly after dropped the matter. When the Burlington company came and purchased and paid for the right of way and had begun track laying, the defunct awoke and commenced track laying, tearing up that laid by the Burlington. An injunction soon stopped them and put them to eleop again. The order will doubtless be made permanent,as the Burlington company has purchased the property to the amount, of $200,000 andsecured deeds. Boatrice and Tecumsch are highly elated over the prospect of ‘additional railroad lines. The former expects the Union Pacific short cut to Lin- coln, which is now being surveyed, at an early day, and the line from Man- hattanville to Marysville, Kansas, would complete tho route from Lin- coln to a junction with the Kansas Pacific at the former town. Tecumseh is contident that the Missouri Pacific will tap her traffic vaults soon after the completion of the main line to Omaha. The surveyors of the Gree- ley, Salt Lake and Pacific have gone into winter quarters. They comploted the survey of the Laramie, North Park & Pacific on the 1st. They staked the line through North Park, Middle Park; Elzeria Park, and down Bear river to a point below Steamboat Springs. Five miles of this line out from Laramie City has been comploted and the graders have reached and crossed the Laramie river, Trains from Omaha cross the river at Sioux City on the ice bridge, mak- ing a saving of twelve hours’ time in the transfer of freight. The rivalry between the U, P. and B, & M. in the construction of fecders is now transferred to southwestern Nebraska. The incorporation of the Salina, Kan., company by Jay Gould, mentioned last week, has for its object the construction of a road northeast from Salinu on the Kansas Pacific to a junction with the Central branch at Solomon. The route from this point is as yet unknown, but it is probable that the road will cross the B, & M. near Stromsburg and eventually con- nect with the Union Pacitic i the vi- cinity of Julesburg, This would save hundreds ot miles to St. Louis and Kansas City shippers and make the shortest possible route from thoso points to San Francisco. The B. & M. is not idle in the southwest. Sur- veyors are running hines to every im- portant point from the main line. The short cut from Hastings to Arapahoe isa foregone conclusion. Towns in Thayer county are mystified by the wovements of a large party of sur. veyors, and all efforts to interview them have been fruitless, Fairmont, will give Senator Plumb an .earnest support. — Tue sooner it is understood that star chamber methods are out of place Hubbell,Chesterand Hebron are onthe ragged edge of expectation, none know- ing where the lightning will strike, The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe to three cents a mile, some time ago, and the experiment has proved an eminently wise and profitable one. The differences botween the Sonora railroad company and the Mexican government are settled and work re- sumed on both sides of the boundary. The road will form a junction with the Southern Pacific at Tucson, Ari- The line passes through a pro- ductive agricultural and horticultural section and close to the finest mines in the state of Sonora. It is expected that the road will be completed to Guaymas, on the gulf of California in eight months, The nineteen miles of unironed grade on the Norfolk line will receive the rails some time during the winter, says Superintendent Morford, of the Nebraska division The first engine on the Missouri Pacific crossed the Platte river bridge into Sarpy county on Friday last, Tron has been laid two miles south of Lowsville, and the side tracks are all lIaid in town. Rails are now being laid with the Union Paciic. Division Engineer Stone, of the Sioux City & St. Paul road, is in town, and expects to stake out the in- tersection of that road with the Union Pacitic at this place to-day or to-mor- row. He hasall the bridges staked out on the line between Norfolk and Wayne except the one asross the north fork of the Elkhorn.--Elkhorn Valley News. zona. STATH JOTTINGS. Wilbur has three saloons, Oakland has thirteen registered doctors, Corn gells at 65 cents in Nemaha county. The North Bend Bulletin has changed hands, Fremonters huve planted a suburbs on the N brara, Telephone poles are ornamenting the | $2,000 streets of Fremont. The creamery at Naponee is said to be an assured success. A Falls City girl tapped a till and spent the money in caudy. Fremont's new postoffice hes been loca- ted in the Tribune block. The Columbus packing company pickled the first porker lnst Monday. Crete’s 50,000 grist mill is completed. Capacity, 1,000 bushels a day. The town ef Pierce has doubled up in buildings and popu ation in a year, " A Lincoln family were nerly euffocated with hard coal gas one night last week. The industrious burglar of Blair is §75 ahead, and Wallace Flynn is out just that am unt, Anderson Bail,, of Falls City, has obtaiiyd a judgment of $1,500 against the B & M, David City is bi ding for a flouring will, and talk ng of bui creamery. 4 T, Jones, of Plum Creek, was killed on the 8th inst.,, by the caying iu of the roof of his house, A Seward youth sacrificed a few fingers to prove the effic cy of the toy pistol---and warble time is coming. Louis Steppins, of Neligh, o youth of 19, is no more, He fooled with "a pistol and sleeps on the hillside, ‘Wymore has been incorporated, and real estate has advanced 100 per cent. The Lincoln land comyany is r.lling in clover. L. F. Duffy, thedruggist, was run_over and killed by the cars at Culbertson on the 18th, He leaves a wife and two chil- dren, Mer. Spencer, of Butler county, hasmade during the seasgpn 1,225 gallons of sorghum syrup, which he readily sold at fifty cents a gallon, The Union Pacific is building a forty- atall roundhouse at North Platte, and is also rebuilding the railroad hotel in ele- gant style, The Denver express carries a good many Schuyler people to and from Omaha; bar- ring the early starting it is a great con- venience.—|[Herald, There are 20 41-100 miles of the B. & M. road in Knuckolls county arsessed at $105,781. The St. Joe & Westein pays taxes on $19,634 valuation, Richardson county coal is marketed at Falls City. The mine is in Shisser pre- cinct. The viiu is twenty inches thick, and the coal of excellent quality. 00 g 8 Volckman, alias Hartington, the sewing machine defuulter of Plattsmouth, was captured in Yankton snd brought back. A loose woman was the millstone that sto; ped his flight, A squad of bummers fr dead-he ded their way frol the state line to Linc In. They made themselves so ob- nexious to the company and settlers that they obtained passage in a bunch, Edmand Grant, the boy charged with the murder of his companion, Richard Dress, neur Columbus on the 3ru inst., has been bound over to the district court on the charge of murder. Ba 1, £600. death of Nellie Pierce at last week, was cnused by ered i 4 pudding, and circumstances pont to Frank Durant. He has be n srrested and placed in jail Nebraska ( ity thieves are n t over nice in their picki Two of m now lan- guish in j; ng away an iron fly wheel valued at 8175, T saved it fiom the ravages of rust in a neighbor’s yar . Sherman county is proud of her “trec corn” preacher, the Rev, John Cook. He astonished the citizens of Loup with sam- ples of stalks cight inches in circumfer- ence, with fiftecn ears. An acie of it will yield 150 bushels, A brute, named Kruan, has been jailed at West Point fur attenipted outrage on a woman at Stanton, Krum was drunk at the time, and was defeated by the woman's lit le daught v, who hammered his+ head with a cub. Heis ripe for the peniten: tary. Alexander Hicl the dump ey, ex-chief of police of Nebraska City, has been o= vi ted of manslaughter in the Otoe county district o urt, Hickey was was tried for shooting J ames MoGuire on the day of the (iarfield memerial service. Sentence was deferred . Stanton, the man who shot and killed Henry Myers in Pawnee county for being too affectionate with his wire, has been ai- rested in Missouri, and will be brought to Pawnee City this week. 1he Enterprise asserts that'a jury cannot be found in the connty to convict him, ‘Ihe U, P, company have sued out an injunction azainst the further building of the elevator of 8. (i, Bcott & Son, in K ney, because of it's 1eing constructed on Nebiaska avenue. The fact that the B. & M. Co. is interested in it has m re to do with it than street obstructi. n. Tekawah takes the chromo for the mean- est man Ho passed a dimo with two suall holes on the express company, which wan promptly returned from the New York office for re emption, Such emphatic dis- couragemento’ venal orime will strengthen the righteous these wicked days. Ed. Kelihur, of North Platte, took in he town and finally brousht up at & female *‘boarding-house.” The inmates attempted to fire him out, and battered his skull with a bottle, About this time he brought out his artillery and opened on the euomy, severely woundiug one. He Lt gono east for rests Ou and after tc-morrow the wages of all section men on the B. & M, will be re. company reduced the passenger tariff' duced to 81,15 per day, We think that the company will find it s hard matter to find many men who will be willing to work for that, for when they were paying 125 per lh{ for labor, they were always short of section men, —[Nebraska City Press. Custer county is just now in the vortex of a sepsation equal to the Olive crime of a few years ago, A gray-haired “Blue Beard” named Daniels seduced his two nieces, msml 14 and 16, and the oldest i« about to become a mother, *The old vil- lain is now being tried for the crime, If he escape the penitentiary Judge Lynch will certainly shorten his days. The little five-year-old son of Aaron May was killed at Hastings, last Tuesday. The boy, who with a number of companions were plaving around an excavation, craw'ed into a large hele and literally “pulled the hole after him,” as the top caved in killing him instantly, When taken out it was found that almo-t every bone in his body was brokea and his head was completely smashed. IOWA BOILED DOWN. A Masonic lodge is soon to be instituted in Vail, The Ottnmwa land league has sent $200 to Treland, Dubnque is again agitating the pontoon bridge question. - A Knights of Pythias 1idge his been in-tituted at Harlan, The Des Moines Marriage Dowry asso- ciation has disbanded, The Ottumwa national bank, with $100,- 000 capital, is being organized. A temperance conventton is to be held in Mulvern on the 21st of December, Spirit Lake is sure of three railroads and has hopes of getting two others, The Craig coal mines at Fort Dodge are shipping twenty-seven cars a day. New and extensive deposits of coal have been found at Lehigh, Webster county. The Clinton paper mill pays $6 per ton for oat and wheat straw and 88 for rye. Tt is expected that the new opera_house at Malvern will be completed by Christ- mas, tert, Perkins & Heeb :re going to establish an extensive creamery at Le- Mars, « Parties offer tc put un a steam mill at Humb 1dt f the citizens will dJouate It requires twenty men to do the night wotk for the railroad companies at Pacific Junction . Des Moines complains that her manu- facturing interests are ciippled by high raiiroad tariffs. A creamery is to be located at Shenan- doab, if sufficient encouragement is given by the citizens, Fish Commissioner Shaw has received rom Wa-hington fifteen hundred yearling carp for dist:ibution. Only twenty-five members attended the recret meeting of the state grange in Des Moines on the 14th, An eff rt will be made to locate the state fish mrhery at Spirit Lake. 1t now has a branch hatchery. The Des Moines & Ft. Dodge company has tmished layiny rteel rails on its line as far north as Grand Junction, The Des Moines boardof trade has 260 members. On and after January | next, the admission fee will be $50. In horing a well in Porahontas county the other day at a depth of forty feet, the augur rtruck a solid log of wood, The State Teachers’ association will hold its twenty-sixth annual meeting at Oskalvosa, December 27, 28 and 29, Conway is soon to have a first class flouring will in full operation, The ma- chinery is now being placed in position. The business men of Harlan snd Kirk- man are talking of establishing a tele- phone exchange between the two towns, A new elevator to cost $20,000 to £30,- 000 will be built at Atlantic to take the Place of the one recently burned there. Tt is now authoritatively announced that a railroad from Shenandoah to Lincoln, Neb,, via Hamburg will be built the ¢ m- ing season. The new and fatal cattle disease that broke out in the eastern part of the state #eems to ba s reading, and is causing con- siderable alurm. The grape sugar works at Towa City consume 1,500 bushels of corn d ily. The capital stock of the company was lately increased to $200,000. The total expenses of carrying on the state government of Towa for the pas tw. years was $2,242,000. This includes the payment of the war bonds. Bancroft, & new town on the Toledo and Northwestern, sixteen »iles north Algona, is becoming a place of considera. ble importance as a trading center, The Waodbine Twiner says the Masons of that place are prepsring to give the grandest ente tainment, on the 23d inst., ever at tempted in H: rrison county. Four hay-bailing machines just received at Onawa cost %450 each, snd havea united oupncil{ of eight tons a day. Each requires two horses and four men to run it. Tt cost 21,056 for support of the Ana- mosa penitentiary durivg November, There was also expended on the wall of that institution during the same periwl 21,045,05. In the district court at Eldora last week, Jud:e Henderson told a druggist that the stute ¢ nsidered it worth 1,200 for the privilege of violating the whiskey law as the af.resaid druggist had don-, Tt iy stuted that 150 butter and cheese fuctories have been built in lowa during 1581, making a total of 450 now in the state, There will probatly be a large ad- dition made to this number next spring “The city of Dubugue, the present shows a real estate valuation of $13, of which abous 10,000,000 is for total city tax 169,000 last year. reas in-valuation is over £100,000. The Minneapolis and St. Louis railroad proposes to make Fort Dodge a division terminus and to erect there the necessary shops and buildivgs if the town w 1l do- nate twenty ac.es of land and 86,000 for the purpose. The state gi and every ag ves annnually §200 to each uitur | soc ety in'good aud ding. This year $15,000 will mted, This shows ths exis- tenc of nimety societies, or one for every county in the state except nine. The reorganized Plymouth mills at Le- Mars are & sout ready tu resume grinding. Heietofore 100 barrels of flour could be made every day, but with the new mach n- ery the ordinary ran will be 200 bar- rels, and if pushed 250 barrels can be turn- ed out. Missouri Valley now claims the largest and best arvanged stock yards between Council Bluffs and Clinton, ~ They are 192 by 392 feet, divided into seventeen apart wments, and have a capacity for fifty-six cars of cattle and twelve of hogs, The yards are supplied with every necessary convenience, such as sheds, water, etc. ' Our ce from Many- ‘I had been sick and miserable so long and had caused my husband so much trouble and expense, no one seemed to know what ailed me, that I was completely disheartened and discouraged. In this frame of mind I got a bottle of Hop Bitters and used them unknown to my family, I soon began to improve and gained so fast that my husband and family thought it stravge and unnatural, but when I told them what had helped me, they said ‘“‘hurrah for Hop Bitters! long may they prosper, for they have made mother well and us happy.”—The Mother.~-[Home Journal. ~ d1-16 THE LODGES. Notes of Interest to the Breth- ren—The Third Degree— Local Mlections An 0ld Lodge Miscellancous Jot- tings THE FREE MASONS. AN OLD LODGE, Marietta has the oldest Masonic Lodge in the west, Tt was chartered at Waterman's tavern, in Roxbury, Mass., six months before the declara- tion of independence. During the war following it held its meetings wherever the army happened to be, and frequently after a hard day’s bat- tle the brethren would assemble around the mystic altar and renew their pledges of devotion to brother and country. Washington and La. Fayette frequently attonded these meetings, and Lawis Cass was after- ward a member of this lodge. At the close of the war most of the members came to Marietta to found the great northwest, and the ludge was there reopened, and has since been known as American Union Lodge No. 1, F. & A. M. They have a number of in- teresting relics, including the bullet- scarred army chest of General Put- nam, the old charter and records, and old linen cloth in which the minutes of the lodge were carried and sacredly guarded day and night during the rev- olutionary war, THE THIRD DEGREE. The following paragraph is taken from Mackey's Encyclopedia of Free- masonry: ““It was the single object of all the ancien rites and mysteries practiced in the very bosom of Pagan darkness, shining as a solitary beacon in all that surrounding gloom, and cheering the philosopher in his weary pilgrimage of life, to teach the immortality of the soul. This is still the great design of the Third Degree of Masonry., This 'is the scope and aim of its Ritual. The Master Mason represents men, when youth, manhood, old age, and life itself, have passed away as fleeting shadows, yet raised from the grave of iniquity, and quickened into another and a better existence. By its legend and all its Ritual it is implied that we have been redeemed from the death of sin and the sepulcher of pollution. “The ceremonies and the lecture,’ says Dr. Crucifix, ‘beautifully illustrate this all-engrossing subject: and the conclusion we arrive at is, that youth, properly directed, leads us to honor- able and virtuous maturity, and that | s+ the life of man, regulated by morality, faith and justice, will be rewarded at its closing hour by the prospect of eternal bliss.”” COVERT LODGE ELECTION. The annual election of officers for Covert lodge No. 11, tock place on Wednesday evening at Free Masons hall. The following oftieers were elected for the ensuing Masonic year: C. K. Coutant, W. M, L. F. Maginn, 8. W. Wm, France, J. W, Gustave Anderson, seéretary. Harry P. Duel treasurer. THE SCOTTISH RITE, Work in the Scottish Rite in Omusha continues active. On Thurs- day evening Mv. Moriah Lodge of Perfection, No. 2, conferred the four- teenth degree on a class of candidates with excellent effect. Inspector Gen- eral Robt. Jordan, 33d degree, being | ; present. The prospects of the Scottish Rite in Omaha for the com- ing year are unusually bright and ap- plications numerous, GOAT HAIRS, The M. M. degree was worked in St. John's Lodge No. 25 A. F. and A, M., on Thursday evening, the candi- date being a rising young lawyer of our city. Deputy Grand Master Pattison, of Ogden, Utah, visited in the city dur- ing the pasp week. Found at Last What every one should have, and ne be without, is THOMAS' Exectriq O1n. is thorough and sufe in it4 effects, produ- cing the most wondrous cures of rheuma- tism, neuralyin, burns, bruises and wounds of every kind, d1 -eodlw " KENNEDY'S EAST - INDIA o7 o °) . =3 =) 2] g g 2 & ey P 5 2 a8 EE [ =0 = [ q B = [ 2 3 & =3 ] 4 & 32 -9 BITTERS ILEE & 0P, Sole Manufacturers, OMAHA. DexberL.ThnE;s&Brn. WILL BUY AND SELL REAL BS'TATE AND ALL TRANBAHON CONNROT) THMREWITH, Pay Taxes, Renz’?ouse , Bte, 12 YOU WANT 70 5O 0K HLL Ol a8 Oftce, Koom 8, Creifton Block, Omata. e SIBBETT & FULLER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DA VID CITY, NEB, Bpecial attention glaen to collections in B!l{l HOUSES Lots, FARMS, Lands. For Sale By BEMIS, FIFTEENTH AND DOUGLAS 8TS,, —— No. 268, Full lot fenced and with small build ing on Capitol Avenue near 23th streot, €700, No. 257, Large lot or block Hamilton, near Irene strect, . No, 266, Full corner lot on Jenes, near street, ¥3,000. No.'263, Two lots on Center street, near Cum- ing streot, §900. Ko, 352, Lot on Spruce street, near 0th streot, 700, fect on 5th , Two lots on Seward, near King street, . 201}, Lot on Seward, near King street, Half lot on Dodge, near 11th street, , Four beautiful residenca lots, near Creighton Uollege (or will sell s. parate), §8,000. No. 246, Two lots on Charles, near Cuming , 8400 each, 246}, Lot on 1daho, near Cuming street, No. 2100, N o street, 760 N One acre lot on Cuming, near Dutton 0.'244, Lot on Farnham, near 18th street, 24,000, No. 243, Lot 66 by 133 feet on College street, near St. Mary’s Avinue, $550. No. 242, Lot on Douglas, near 20th street, 75, No. 241, Lot on Farnham, near 2 hs rect, 40, Lot 60 by 09 fect on South Avenue, Mason street, S550. , Corner Ict on Bur, near 2°d :treet, X132 feet on Harncy, near 2dth Uit up), 52,400, 71x310 ‘feet on Sherman Avenue ar Grace, §1,000, on Douglas strect, near23d 750, ) Lot on Bier sircet, near Seward, $600. , Lot 40200 feet, near C pitol avenue d street, 31,000, o lots on Decatur, nearirene stroet, ot 143 30-110 Ly 441 feet on Sherman 0 ke , Lot on 23d street, near Clark, £500. Lot on Hamiltor, near K, ¥500. . Lot on 1sth, néar Nicholas stieet, N Two lots on 16 h, near Pacific street, 1,500 No. 205, Two lots on Castellar, near 10th strect, 15 No. 204, beautiful residence lot on Division ar C.ming, 5850. aunders, near Hamilton Lot 16th street, near Pacific, $600. . hree lots on Saunders street, near rd, $1,3u0. 3, Lovon 20th ttreet, near Sherman, No. 194}, Two lo s on 22d, near Grace street, 2600 e ch. No. 101}, two lots on King, near Hamilton strect, 51,500, No.'192}, two lots on 17th street, near White Lead W.rks, $1,050. No. 188}, one'fu 1l black, ten lots, near the bar- racks, £400. No.'191, lot on Parker, near Irene strect, $300. No. 153, two lots ou' Cass, near 2lst street, (gilt edge,) 56,000, No. 181, lot on Center, near Cuming street, 2300, N 180, lot on Pier, neir Seward streot, $650, No. 175, lot on Sher avenue, near’ izard 1,4 0. .'174}, 1ot on_Cass, near 14th, £1,000, No. 170, lot on Pacific, near 14th street; make ham, near 24th strect, 26th _street, near , and three lots ' Gise's addition, ors and Cassius streets, $2,000, , 107 on Callfornia street, uear Creigh , acre lot, near the head of St. Mary's 3,000, ," bout two acres, near the head of St. enue, ¥1,000, , lot on 18th street, near White Lead lots, near ¢hot tower on the por ot. % fect (2 lots) on 18th street, No. 11, thirty halfaczs lotsin Millard and Caldwell’s additions on Sherman avenue, Spring and Saratogn streets, near the end of green street car track, %60, to £1,200 each. No. &8, lot on’ Chicago, ntar 22d_street, 1,500, No. 55, lot on Caldwell, near Sauuders street, 500, No. 86, corner lot on Chules, near Saunders stroet, $100. N No. t on Izard, near 21st, with two small nonses, 82 400. No. £, two lots on 19th, near Pierce street, No. 78, three lots ow Harney, near 10t1 stroet, fect on Oth streot, near Leaveu- Wort.. strect, #3,000. No. 75, 66x82 Teet, on Pacifle, near sth street, t, on Douglas strect, near cighteen lots on 21st, 23d_and streets, near Grace and Saunders stroet bridge, %400 each. No. 0, one-fourth block (130x136 feet), t of Poor Claire on_Hamilton stre car track, ¥860, v, near Oth st cet, 1,200, 1,600, ar the ) near also in Parker's, Shinw’s, Aelson's, Terrace, 's, Redick's, Gise's, Lake's, and all other ta.y prices and ten oty in Hanscom Plac Park; prices (rom 3300 to %500 each, Oné. hundred and fifty-nine beautiful resi- dence lots, located on Hamilton street, half way between the turn table of the red stregt car line and the waterworks eservior and addition, and Just west of the Convent of the Sisters Poor Claire in Shinn's aduition. Prices 1ange from %75 to $100 each, and will be rold on easy terms. “Tracts of 5 10, 15, 20, 40 or 80 i cres, with Idings and other improvements, and adjoining hui city, at wl prices, %00 0f the best residence lots in the city of Omaha—any location you de ire—north, ¢a.t, south or west, and at béd-rock prices. 220 choice business lots in all the ])l’ll,u:u-l business streets of Omaha, varying from $500 to §7,000 each, Two huudred houses and lots muging from $500 to 16,000, and located in every part of the city Large number of excellent farms 1 Douglas, Sarpy, Saunders, Dodge, Washington, Burt, and. other xood countics in Eastern Nebraska. near Hanscom Bemis' ReaL EsTaTe Acency, 16th and Douglas Street, N =