Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 21, 1881, Page 4

The Omaha Bee. Published every morning, excopt Sunday, he onty Monday morning daily, TERMS BY MAIL: One Year.....810.00 | Three Months,$3,00 Six Monthe, 5.00 | One . 1.00 WEEKLY BEE, published ev- ' PATL:—~ THE TERMS PO One Year.. Bix Months, 2.00 | ThreeMonths.. 50 1.00 20 One . CORRESPOND JE~AIll Communie eations relating to News and Editorial mat- ters should be addressed to the Epttor o¥ Trg Bre, BUSINESS LETTERS—AIl Busines Letters and Remittances should be ad- dressed to THE OMAHA Puprisning Com- PANY, OMAHA., Drafts, Checks and Post- office Ordeis to be made payable to the order of the Company. OMAHA PUBLISHING CO., Prop'rs E: ROSEWATER, Editor. Wisconsiy is happy over the thought that Tim O. Howe has the inside track A wiLp winter on the plains is caus- ing much joy among the cattle men. — ANoTHER seizure of dynamite has been made in Dublin. Dublin can now shake hands with Montreal. Tur popular demand for railway regulation is based on popular oppo- sition to the growth of a tyranicaland irrespontible corporate power. New York is about to let her street oleaning out by contract. Omaha must despair of clean streets until her principal thoroughfares are paved Krout out of twenty cities in Mas- sichusetts at the late clection for prohibitory legislation. The ma- jority for license in the whole state amounts to 12,000, voted Ir the Towa delegation can only suc ceed 1n shelving Secretary Kirkwood in the cabinet until the election is over they will feel that they have not lived in vain, Brrore retiring Postmaster Gen- eral James proposes to entor suit against the star route contractors for aoveral millions of dollars of fraudu- lently obtained government funds. senatorial Mr. Braine’s watchword is “The American continent for Americans,” No foreign governments need apply. on the postmaster generalship, but Wisconsin may be premature in jubi- lating. Jor Jounsox insists that Jeff Davis has feathered his nest with 82,000,000 of money belonging to the confederate government. Mr. Davis will have to invent a few more bogus bequests from: wealthy widows in order to cover his tracks. AN invitation has been extended to ex-Secretary Blaine to deliver the eulogy on the late President Garfield before congress. No more fitting choice could have been made. It is to be hoped that Mr. Blaine will see his way clear to accept. E— Wukrner Tae Bee is right or " wrong on any wsue The Republican is always bound to take the opposite side. Tre Bee is generally right, con- soquently The Republican is almost always on the wrong side of every- thing, hence nobody has any respect for its opinion or faith in ita sincerity. EEEEE——— Tue president has filled the vacancy on the supreme court bonch, left by the death of Justice Clifford, by the appointment of Judge Horace Gray of Massachusetts. Judge Gray is con- sidered a jurist of remarkable abilities and will be a decided advance overthe appointees of President Grant and Hayes, Bourwzil's chances for a good cab- inet position have heen greatly im- proved by the appointment of Judge Gray to the supreme bench. Itis said that the mnavy department will shortly pass over into his hands and Becretary Hunt will be rewarded with a w#eat on the bench of the court of clairas, 1t looks as if the lion and the lamb had lain down together in New York, Xt is stated that Collector Robinson will be the republican candidate for governor of that state next year, with the cordial support of the stalwarts, With snch a coalition the largest cus- tom house in the United States would soon be vacant, ONE of the first subjects to which Attorney General Brewster should di- reot his attention is to the fraudulent obtaining of their patents by the Maxwell land grant jobbers, The proofs of fraud in the transaction are clear and convincing, but legal posses- sion fiaving been obtained the title can only be attacked by proceedings taken by the department of justice. 1t ap- pears that atter Mr. MacVeagh's re- tirement the attention of Mr. Phillips was called to the matter, but he has refused to take any steps in the prem- ises. Mr, Brewster, who has the rep- utation of being a man of unswerving integrity and a practical reformer, will do well to look up the subject in the interests of the swindled settlers of New Mexico, = ——— e e MAYOR BOYD'S DUTY. Wo have no porsonal quatrel with He is an enterpris- James E. Boyd. ing, public-spirited citizen and no- body 1n Omaha has gone farther than the editor of this paper in giving practical expression in recognition of these admirable qualities. But f James E. Boyd as mayor of Omaha fails to aworn duty in oxcouting the laws, if he ' tolerates disreputable resorts and obstructs any effort to rid the community of vile do his dens, we must exercise the highest privilege and duty of a journalist to express our disapproval of his course. We still insist that Mayor Boyd, and he alone, must be held responsible for the entorcement of the Slocumb law in Omaha. The Omaha Republican attempts a defense of Mayor Boyd's course in this connection, and we cheerfully give Mr. Boyd the full benefit of that detense. In substance it is as follows: Tue Bee pitches into Omaha and the mayor of the city without regard to utility, decency or truth. Thero is no utility in a public journal assert- ing that this city is in the hands of drunken bullies and of thugs. There would be no decency in arraigning Mayor Boyd for any shortcomings which, if it exists, is due to the inad- te police force with which the city is supplied. Hereis a cityof 40,000 souls, with a police numbering only twelve, one to every 3,500 people. A community must be a singularly law- abiding community, which presents so fow cases of violonce and disorder, with a force so numerically inadequate, Nor, finally, is there any truth in Rosewater’s arraignment of the mayor, Wao asked the mayor, on yesterday, what ho had to say in reply to Rose: water’s nssertion that his first step 1 the Slocumb business was to cater o the liquor dealers by recognizing the evasion of the letter and spirit of the law concerning notice of publication from each applicant for license. ‘‘Ho sinply tells a falschood,” replied Mayor Boyd. This is decidedly lame to say the least, This paper has made no assertion that the drunkon bullics, and of thugs; but we have stated the fact that Omaha has a hard name abroad by reason of tolerating a class of disreputable dens, where bloody and murderous affrays and robberies are frequent, and we enterea protesl against the proposed issuance of license to resorts where men and boys are decoyed by inde- cent shows and debauched and robbed. The plea that the mayor can’t sup- press such hell holes because he has only twelve policemen is an insult to an intelligent community. Couldn’t Mayor Boyd suppress the St. Elmo with twelve policemen? Couldn’t he close Dick Curry’s and other dens where bloody frays have often taken place; where gambling, prostitu- tion and debauchery are carried on under the eyes of the police? One policeman acting under the orders of the mayor should be sufficient force to close any disorderly house. If the officer is resisted and it becomes a quostion of force, the mayor of Omaha can call upon every law-abiding citi- zen to help him: enforce law and if need be he can call upon the governor for military assistance, and the whole power of the state will be exerted to sustain him. The intimation that we are pitching inte the mayor because he advised the saloon men only to advertise twice instead of twelve times is disproved by the fact that the editor of Tue Ber has time and again urged Mayor Boyd to suppress the robbers’ roosts and low dens and has also made fre- quent appeals to Deputy Marshal McClure to the same effect. We had all along been led to be- lieve this would be done by the en- forcement of the Slocumb law, but the mayor's course virtually nallifies that law, Waiving the question of publication the mayor holds that anybody that pays the 8200 and files his bond is entitled to a license unless objoctions aro filed. Why should rospectable citizens of Omaha be compolled to file such objec- tions at the risk of being waylaid by desperadoes, when the mayor could relieve them from this risk by doing bis duty in closiny evory resort which harbers thieves and thugs, The Republican on hehalf of Mayor Boyd, asks what right has this Rose- water to see the names of the bonds- men, and what right has this Rose- water to s1y that license are to be granted to irresponsible parties on straw bonda? We answer as a citizen and tax payer ‘‘this Rosewater’ has the right to sce papers that are on file in the city clerk’s office, but he has askod for the names, not for personal but public use. The people of Omaha should know who the bondsmen are for the various applicants, and Mayor Boyd and the board ought to be glad to avail themselves of any informa- tion the citizens may give as to the responsibility of bondsmen—not after the license has been granted but bo- fore. When the mayor, through the] city clerk, ruled that Omaha is in hands of nobody ex- cept the board should see theso bonds until after New Years, the natural inference was that straw bonds might be accepted. Our protest againtst such rulings is on bo half of law and order aud the public welfare. If Mayor Boyd had shown backbone enough to break up such places as the 8t. Elmo, where we are told by Police Judge Beneke—eleven empty pocket-books were picked up one night after the pertormance, there would be no need of such public re- monstrance. But he seems to think his duty is to give the law interpre- tation that its only object is, to exact s heavy license fec, regardless of who may be the applicant, We don't beliove this was the inten- tion of the law, and we insist on be- half of more than r \ety-nine per cent of our people that the mayor shall do his duty 1n this emergency. In order thst we may be clearly un- deratood, we will add that we favor the issuance of license to every appli- cant who is well behaved and keeps an orderly house whether he sold liquor before the ordinance went into effect or not--praviding he files his papers and yays his dues. A DANGEROUS MONOPOLY. An alarming discovery, which must send a thrill of horror through this community has been made by the Omaha Pepublican within the last few days. This discovery is nothing less than that Tur Bee is a monopoly which threatens public security, and more paricularly the existence and prosperity of readerless newspapers in Omaha. What constitutes this terrible monopoly? Tue Ber has 2,600 sub- scribers on its regular lists in Omaha to whom it delivers papers through fifteen carriers. In addition to these it solls about 6500 on the streets. The Republican delivers 500 papers by four carriers to reg- ular subscribers in Omaha, and sells about 100 on the streots through newsboys. Tn other words, Tur Bee in Omaha five times the number of papers circulated by Tho Republican, and more than twice the number sold by both The Herald and Republican combined. We admit that at first glance thie looks like a monopoly of the news- paper circulation in Omaha and when the number and character of its advertisements are taken into consideration the case Sensible business men have a prejudice in favor of putting their advertisements where they will be read by the greatest number of peo- ple. Henco they patronize the Bee. They also recognize the fact that it is worth more to print and circulate 3,000 papers than it is to print and circulate 600. Therefore they willingly pay a larger sum for adver- tising in Tue BeE than they do toThe Republican, The state, also insists upon putting its license advertising in papers having the largest sworn circu- lation because the state wishes its advertisements too be read. The price to be charged for such advertising is fixed by law. It is the same for the most obscure and the most widely cir- culated paper. There can be no mo- nopoly in the price of such license ad- vertising which is fixed way below the sum usually charged by Tur Bek to its regular patrons. But as Tur Bre was the only paper in Omaha that circulates is no better, dared to swear to its circula- tion, under the law it has received the license advertising, and forged another link in the chain of the grasping newspa- per monopoly which is squeezing the stuffing out of ite Omaha contempor- aries, Granting with The Republican that Tue BEE is a monopoly, wherein does it differ from other monopolies which the people are about to sup- press. In the first place it 1s a monopoly maintained willingly and freely by the people, because it best mects their wants. Tur Brr has a monopoly of enterprise, of public spirit, of fearlessness in exposing and attacking evils, and in defending what it bolieves to be right regardless of patronage. This is the kind of monopoly which the people like, and thoy show their appreciation of it by supporting the paper and extending its circulation until it is now without a rival or compotitor, By such, action they incroase its value to advertisers, who in turn maintain its dangerous monopoly in advertising because they find it profit- able. But such a monopoly as that possessed by Tur Bee differs from other monopolies because it is tormi- nable at the will of the people. Main- tained by them, it can be terminated at any time when they cancel their subscriptions. Tur Ber's monopoly has never pooled issues with other and disreputable sheets; it has never crushed out opposition by lowering rates or by hired bulldozers, and it has nover forced its services upon patrons and compelled a use of its facilitics. This may be a dangerous monopoly, but the people seem cheerful under its inflictions, and show no disposition to restriot its sphere of usefulness. —_— Mgz, B, H. Bkewstik who has just been confirmed as attorney general of the Unitod States is a native of New Jersey and is sixty-five years of age. He was graduated at Princeton in 1834, admitted to the bar of Philadel- phia in 1838 and soon afterwards was appointed by President Polk to pass upon the claims of the Cherokee In- dians against the United States. He rapidly acquired a large practice and a reputation as one of the best advocates at the Philadelphia bar. Tn 1807 he was appointed attornoy general of Penusylvania, and continued in that office for two years. He has been repeatedly named for other offices, such as United States senator, attornoy general of the Uni. ted States, and district attorney of Philadelphia, but did not obtain any of them because he did not actively seek them, Mr. Brewatar has never been a politician in the sense in which that term is usually understood. He has always taken a deep interest in politics, but has never sought to profit by them. He is a believer in civil reform, and in the theory that a man should be shown to be honest and capable before he is elected or ap- pointed to office. Yot o great was his reputation and popu- larity that in 1877, when he was the working men’s nominee for district attorney of Philadelphia, he came within one vote of obtaining the nomination in the republican con- vention, although the bosses were op- posed to him. As a matter of fact, it is reported that Mr. Brewster has lost appointments to many high offices because he would not pledge himself to use their patronage for the benefit of the persons who offered them to him. Mr, Brewster is a profound scholar and an admirable writer upon historical and literary topics, and as an orator is wondrously eloquent. On the political platferm he is always welcome, and his speeches in the last presidential campaign were among the most effective delivered for the repub- lican party. Ir woman suffrage ever does become a law Senator Vest will certainly have to retire to private life, When Senator Hoar, a fow days ago, introduced a resolution into the United States sen- ate, providing for the appointment of a select committee to which should be referred all matters pertaining to woman suffrage, Mr, Vost had the cool audacity te rise in his seat and demand that it be referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, This committce, he said, had been called upon to con- sider but one bill in thirty years and he considered it was the proper place for the consideration of such revolutionary subjects as woman's suffrage. In consequence of this disrespectful remark, Mr. Vest has incurred the hatred of the woman suffragists of the country, headed by that aged but valiant revolutionary relic, Susan B. Anthony. AccorpinG to the Cincinnati Com- mercial, Ex-Senator Paddock is cer- tain of the appointment as assistant secrotary of the treasury. Our ad- vices are that Mr. Paddock has de- clined the position. We know that Mr. Paddock is held in high esteem by President Arthur, and we shall not be surprised if he receives a call for a cabinet appointment as a representative of the trans-Mis- souri region. Kansas has waved her claims, and Nebraska is certainly en- titled to recognition before Colorado or Nevada. Mr. Paddock has acquired invalu- able experience in public life, and be- ing yet in his prime would doubtless make a very eflicient head of a de- partment. Some five or six years ago THE Brr was put on the official list of the post office department. Last week our ‘Washington reperter, in looking at the records, found the following pen- cil writing on the book opposite to Tur Ber's name, ‘‘Stricken from the list by order of General Brady.” It is evident that Tur BeE no longer has a “‘monopoly” of the postal ad- vertising. It was the object of the star route thiaves to give aa little pub- licity to their schemes for plunder as possible. A paper of smaller circula- tion and less influence than Tur Bes was required for advertising the routes on whose proceeds Brady, Dorsey & Co, lived and grew fat. Increase in Nebraska Trado Simoe July, 1881. Bradstreets' January reference books that are now being delivered show a large increase in the state trade sinco the July volume, Towns that were started last spring and July were in their infancy ; now have from ten to thirty business houses, About twelve hund;;utl new firms have been added to the list in Nebraska since August, at which time the revision for the fall edition was closed. Quite a number of business houses have gone out of trade for various reasons during this time, but we are assured that the actual increase is fully three-fifths of the number stated above, The growth of trade has not been us rapid as last spring, which change is to be looked for in the fall when people become more set- tied and defer changes until spring, The books also show that since August 16th new banks have been organized, making in all one hundred and thirty-six bankinghouses in our young state. The field has been lhumugfily revised by the Omaha office for their new volume, which has been delivered to the local trade eloven days before date. FARMERS AND MECHANICS, If you wish to avoid great danger and trouble, besides a no small bill of expense, at this season of the year, you should take prompt stqps to keep disease from your housd®ld. The system should be cleansed, blood puritied, stomach and bowels regula- ted, and prevent and cure discases arising from spring malaria, We know of nothing that will so perfectiy and surely do this as Electric Bitters, and at the trifling cost of fifty cent @ bot. tle, ~ [Exchange, m Sold by Ish & McMahon, I'HE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21 1:{8]. ICAL NOTES, Tt is not believed in Washington that Logan's bill to place (ien, Grant on the retived list will aluw, The Cincinnati Cominetcial expects to see Secretury of State Frelinhy auct himself “‘with serene abil Tsham G, Harris will not be his own or anybody else's successor in_the United States ate.—[Prominent Tennessean, A Boston paper eays that the little ex- perience the Ft'n]rh- of that city have had of woman suffrage “has not been 0 en- cou og as could be wished,” their e cise of the right in cho sing members the school committee having done very lit- tle to improve its membership, “Blaive and Brown” i« a Presidential ticket for 1881 that is spoken of in the South, Mr. Brown is Senator Brown, the (reorgia Democrat, but The Atlanta (on. stitution (Dem.) says that “all great suc- cesses, whether in business or politics, are made up of a reries of compromises,” Colonel John Hay says he can not pos- sibly consent to become a candid ite for decision, the Cleveland Lea er says, is “much to the regret of his numerous frieds, who would re delizhted t) have him represent the Twentieth district at Washington.” Gene-ul Beaver denies the report that he has been selected as the s alwart cindidate for governor ef Pennsylvavia, and says: “If 1 go before the pecpls of Pennsyl- vania as the republican candidate for gov. ernor, it will not be as the representat ve of one wan or faction, but as the choice of the party, after the fairest opportunity for the people’s wishes to be made known has beeu given.” A bill has been introduced in the legis- Iature of Kentucky which provices that a convention to revise the constitution of of the st teshall be called if at the next Angust election it shall appear that a ma- jority of the votes ca-t upon the proposi- tion shall be in its favir. The present constitution, which was framed in 1850, prescribos an impracticable condition fi calling such a convention, which is thata majority of all the viters in the state shall vote in its favor. The supporters of the resent movement rely upon the inherent righ of the pevple to alter or reform their government at such time os they wmay think proj er. Gen. W. F. Fitzgerald, of Mississippi, who ran on the independent ticket for attorney general of his state in the recent electi m, says that but for Senator Liamar's candidscy the in.ependents would have carcied the state. Limar was stroncer than his party, and eaved the state to the bourbons, Fitzgerald is sure that Missiasi pi follw the example of V L. ", Griscom, of Ten- nessce, recretary of the repub’ comuittee says “‘faith and har wili male Tennessee as regularly repub. lican as Ohio.” These are possibly exag- geroted statements, made in Washington to secure the corsideration and patronage of the admin stration, but they show what southern people are nking of an 1 what they are drifting t ward. Mr H. H. Riddleberger, who has ceived the readjuster caucus nomi nited es enator from Virginia, which is equivalent to an election, is a na- h county in that state, forty years of age, d the confederaie army at the Deginning of the w r ns an infautry pri- vate, and was promoted to a_lieutenancy, but receiving a wound in the fout was 80 lamed as to ren’er him unfit for that branch of the service. He then entered the cav.lry, raised a company, of which he was mae captain, aud did rervice in the Shennand-ah val- ley. Some years after the close of the war Mr, Riddleberger bevan the publ tion of a_demccratic newspaper at ki burgh, Shenandoash county, which he afterward removed to Woodatock, the county seat. While thus engiged in journalism he read law, He rapidly de- veloped as a fluent and elequent speaker, and was eleeted to the Virginia house of drelegates, from which he was promoted to the state senate. Mr. Riddleberger was one of the first to rally to the standard of readjustmenr, and has been one ot its most conspicuous champions, OCCIDENTAL JOTTINGS. CALIFORNIA. Bodie district now has amilling capacity of 164 stamps, all of which, except twenty, are in active operation, A cow was recently slaughtered at Franktown, near Reno, whose stomach contained a large quantity of nails, bits of glass, boues, & piece of gold, and various other rare and costly articles of vertu, The Soquel paper mill is turning out 1,100 reams of brown paper per week, and cannot supply the demand. The company has 2,000 tons of straw on hand, enough to keep the mill supplied for eighteen months, Another artesian well in_Tulare county in yielding a large supply of water. It is two milew from Tulare City, and about two miles from the first one bored. The water was struck at depth of 285 for and the fow in as strong as in the wel sunk a fow weeks ago, Vine planting is progressing energeti- cally all over Los Angelos county. New Congress from the Cleveland district. This | ; vineyards of from ten to forty acres are be- ing Inidout in_great numbers_ throughout the San Gabriel beit, and in the southern part of the county a very large aren of new country will be wet out in vines. OREGON. The small-pox scare has vanished. The real estato market in Portland is un- ususlly active, The sules for one week reached 8163,008, Articles of incorp raticn have been fil:d with the secretary or state for the Salem & Waldo Hills railr ad company., The ob- ject is to build and operate a railroad and telegraph line from Salem through How- ell's prairie, a most fertile and beautiful spot in the Willamette valley, to conuect with the narrow gauge road at Silverton, MONTANA. Butte medicine men have stamped out the small-pox. A Helena doctor made $42: in 24 hours by vaccinativg 171 person at 22,50 each, The freight rate over the Utah North. ern railroad from San Francisco to Butte City in five cents. This actually compels Montava merchants 10 go to Chicago to purchase Culiforniacanned goods, IDAHO, The towns of Hadley, Ketchum, Belle- vue and Bullion are to be united by tele- phone, ix of the mines of Bullion Camp send 3,613,403 pounds of ore to Salt Lake in six months, valued at §363,035.65, The Mormons already havea very fair footing in Idaho, where they number 10,- 000 in & pcpulation of 40,000, And they are & very prolific people, Wood river is a small, clear, but at the samo time turbul nt stream, wbout 160 miles in length,, and at certain seasons it rwanms with beautiful trout. The mines ara confined to the hills on each side ofth north sixty wmiles of the stream. The mi eral region covers about 1,500 square mils of country, WYOMING. Laramie and Cneyeune are to be con- nected by telephone, Frewen beef packing establishment at Sherman is vearly finished. ‘The legislature will convene in Chieyenne on the 10th of January next. Mesars. J. H. Carey, Thoras Stuigis, Henry G. Hay, wud others, of Cheyenne, have organized the Stockgrowers' National bank. 'Fhe mew wire along the Union Pacifie is now well under way. The workmen have crossed the Nebraska boundary into the tervitory. ‘The work of the graders on the Laramie & North Platte railroad is doue, and some of them have 1t for Tdaho work on the Oregen short |i,.,,’|'h’y idad TRUTH ATTESTED. The employes of the Unim Pacific machine shops, rolling mill, and & good v of the engineers and train men, at have organized a company with iital of 810,000, for the purposs of starting a co-operative store here in town. They have already elected a board of di rectors, The amount of Laramie connty warrants issued up to this date, for thy year 1881, is $42,73L.06. About £10,000 ‘additional was nlotted the public schools and over 815,000 10 the territory, This makes the total disbursem ente of Laramie connty for the year about £68,000, 5 The Laramie Boomerang has discovered a cave near Pole mountaio, about fifteen miles hunlw Laramic, east, which it dubbs ers Roost,” akmuch as it was dis- d by a man, George Gesler, a Swede, having in his _posses-ion some property clai v a Fronch ranchman in - that d to ha o been stolen from Gesler was brought to Laramie and lodged in jail. insters have united . to The Boomerang concerning the condition of the matrimo- nia' market. Their wants are few and briefly stated: “‘We should much prefer to make a fortune in two or three years and marry that bloated capitalist, but if a man of less means should offer we should ac- cept. Now: the ages of ths young ladies run from 18 to 31, and all are quite passa- ble in looks,” Ogden is still acitating the electric light. Goshnite Indiace indulged in a drunken fight en the banks of the Jordan, and1.! one poor Indian is no more, Jack Emerson, convicted of murderin the fi-st degree, for the killing of John F. Tusner, ut Park City, Utah; was senten- ced in the Salt Lake court to imprison ment for 1 fe, The bishops of the Mormon church propose to inaugnrate an aggressive cru. sade against round dancing, and an open war is promised between the youth and beauty of the church and the aged beasts of the tabernacle, COLORADO. The Masonic temple of Denver is goon to be a 875,000 assured fact, The estimated cost of running the mu- nicipal machivery of Denver tho coming year is $101,972, Durango has purchased a steam fire en- gine, hook and ladder truck, and 1,200 fest of hoge and a cart, . Conundrum mountain is alive with men, 1 laim is befng vigorously worked. 1of the mines have large quantities of ore an the duup ready for ghipment, _ The property already owned by tho Bur- lington company in Denver cost about £300,000, and i not unlikely that the sumn will reach £300,000 before all the property desired is secured. The laws of Colorado prohibit the mar- riage of 80 near a relation as uncle and viece, and for these reasons the county cle'k had refused to issuc o license for the marriage of a Black Hawk couple, who were thus debarred from entering matri- romy in Colorado, They crossed the line and were made one. Chas. Lubbers, employed by the Electric Light company ot Denver, received a shock from the wires which nearly ended his life. He stood on the highest step of a tall step-ladder, and as he brought the ends of the wires togother there was a bright [ flash as the electricity pasted from one to the other, and he first straizhtened up and then, with a groan, dropped like lead to the pavement, DAKOTA. The Elk Point public echools have an enrollment of about 240, The average daily attesdance upon the Yankton public schools is 470. The ladies’ library at Yankt n contains nearly 750 volumes. Open every Saturday afternoon. Tickets, 32 a year. Mrs. James Faulk, ¢f Yankton, at- tempted to use the family revoiver on bur lars who tried to effect an entrance to her gouu. and Jost three fingers in the ex: eri ment. A ghelf, on which there was several hun- dred pounds of cement, in the Ksmeralda mine, near Deadwood, gave way and fel to the Lo tom of the shaft, killing James Walker and Thomas Bogy. Three other men were wounded. MlsOELl’.A‘NEO’US- Tombstone, Arizona has 1,500 voters. Albuquerque, N, M., is to have a $40,- 000 opera house. The Washington Territory legislature organized Garfield county, with Pataha City as the seat. John A. Barrett, & prominent citizen of Austin, Nevada, was +hot and killed by & notorious rough named Jennings, The wigilantes promptly lynched him. ,.a S— PERSONALITIES, President Grevy makes his own coffee, “Hayes was not our Great Father,”says Sitting Bull, *“T can prove that he was & great deceiver.” Baron von Steuben says he was never better treated than in this country. Have another glas, baron? Elias Herrick, of New York, has buried five wives, He feels that he has hard luck, Just think what it has cost him for g avestones, Private Dalzell wants a consulship, and isn't at all particular which one. He has filed an armful of papers, without desig- nating the place he prefers., The story that Bli Perkins was suffering from » cancer on hi check is denied. The facts are that the cancer came around, and after ono look at Eli's checky went away anddicd of a broken heart. Red River Juck, an Indian medicine- man, was noted for ugliness and ignorauce; et M. DBrandimere, of Muskegon, fich, - young, refined, and pretty—eloped with hiln after being three days his pa- tient, DE—“Mrs, Langtry's s present at the debut of the Jeisey Lily on the amateur stage, wore *‘a kerchief of sunflower hue thrust ith cunning oarelessness” into biy white waistcont, Congressman Chace, of Rhode Island, is & Quaker, and when he took his seat in the house the other day he affirmed in- stead of wwearing, His wife and two daughters looked down from the gallery upon bim, their fair fuces framed in demure Quaker bounets, A Washington correspondent says Gui- teau's attempts to play the lawyer are ridiculous, his ¢ rammer atrocious, his pro- nunciation bad, and his exhibitions of legal knowledge of a very scrappy char- acter. The ouly good use for him at pry)nen& ia to point & moral and adorn a Jail. Heury Clay, the grandson of the famous bearer of that namc, went to Greenland a year or 8o ago, with the purpese of join- ing the Howgate expedition there. The expedition, like Capt. Howgate was a fail- e, and Mr. Clay was left to look for the North Pole on his own hook. He did so, raveled o groat deal by dov team and yob enough of 'it. He has just reached his home in Kentueky, asa Post, : Mrs, W, J. 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D., 1881, file his applicition to the Msyor and City Council of Owmaha, for license to sell Malt, Spirituous and Vi No. 1014 Chicago Street, Omiaha, Neb,, fromthe 1st day of Janory, 1882, to the 10th day of April, 1862, 1t there be no obji ction, remonstrance or protest filed within two weeks from Dec-mber 17th. A, D., 181, the said li- censo will b grauted. k. Datnow, Applicant. Tur Oyana Dariy Bex new-paper will publish the at ove notice for two weeks at. the expense ot the applicant. The City of Omaha is not to be charged therewith. i) , City Clerk. Matter of Application of Mrs. Emelin Thume for Liqnor License. Drtven that Mry, Eamel Notice is hereby given that Mrs, Emelia Thume did, upon the17th day of December, A.D, 1881, ile hisay plication to the M yor and City Gouncil of Omahy, for license to well Malt, Spirituous and Vinous Liquors, at No, 315 South Tenth street, Third wi Omaha, Neb., from the 1st day of Jant: ary, 1842, to the 10th duy of April, 1882, 1t there be 1o oqjection, remonstance o protest filed withintwo weeksfrom the 17th of Decamber, &, 1. 1881, the said license will be grantec S"MRS. EMELIA THUME, Applicant. The OmaiiA Dairy BEE news; aper will publish the a ove notice once each w for two weeks at the expense of the apjli- cant. The city of Omaha is not to be charged therewith, J. 3. L. C. JEWETT, i City Clerk, _ VICTOR'S RESTAURANT, 1016 Faruham Street. MEALS AT AXLX. HOURS. Oysters, Chops sud Game Cooked,to Order, And Berved Under Personal Bupervision of Proprietor, ___VICYOR DUOROSS, Edward W. Simeral, ATIORNEY AT-LAW Y . Spaimaitin