Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 22, 1881, Page 4

T4 THE OMAHA D Published svery momning, except Sunday, The only Monday morning daily, TEKMS BY MAIL:— One Year..... £10.00 | Three Montha 83,00 Six Months, 5.00 | One . 1.00 HE WEEKLY BEE, published ev- TERMS POST PAT One Year...... £2.00 | Three Months,. 50 8ix Months, 1.00 | One “w 2 CORRESPONDENCE—~AIl Communi. eations relating to New« and Editorial mat- ters should be addressed to the Ebitor ox ThE Bre BUSINESS_LETTERS—AIl Business Letters and Remittances should be ad drossed to THE OMAHA PuBLisHING CoM- PANY, OMAHA, Drafts, Checks and Post- office’ Orders to be made payable to the order of the Company, OMAHA PUBLISHING C0., Prop'rs E. ROSEWATER, Editor. THE star route thieves have na con- fidence in Brewster and Bliss, Tur Mississippi and Missouri are making themselves heard in congress. Owvana must save her young men by closing the vile dens which dis- grace the city. WiscoNsIN got there, after all, on that postmaster general race. She now knows Howe it is hersolf. Rar.roAn brigandage should be sup- pressed by as rigid laws as those cov- ering other kinds of highway robbery. Vai got a commijttee after all, and he will now be able to put in his spare time in studying up pumpkin seeds and cabbage exotics. —— Arter two weeks of hard labor spent in convening and adjournment, Congress has takena rest until after the Christmas holidays. Voun P1i Irox KeuLy has been appointed chairman of the Ways and Means committee by Speaker Keifer, Mr. Kelly is the heaviest weight protec- tioniat in the country. Curistvas and New Years will be universally observed throughout the country by everybody except newspa- permen on the Monday's following the 25th and the 1st of January. Tue constitution says that exces- sive bail shall not be required. It would be intoresting to know what is generally considered ‘‘excessive bail” for a person suspected of contempt of court. A MONSTROUS OUTRAGE The land grant clause in thecharter granted in 1862 to the Kansas, Union and Central Pacific railroud compa nics provided that five years after the completion and acceptance of the Pa cific railronds by the government, the land remaining uneold should revert to the government, and be subject to entry under the homestead and pro- laws of the United States, nserted to disprove the argumentsof congressmen who opposed the gigantic donations of the public domain on the ground that such gifts would create a land monop- oly. TIts cvident force the companies to dispose of their land grants to actual settlers as rapid- ly as possible and thus to assist in the settling up of the country through which the Pacific railroads passed. The Union Pacific madeits junction with the Central Pacific on the 10th of May, 1869, Although the railroad was operated from that time on, the Union Pacific managers con- trived not to have it accepted by the government until 1874, This dodge of the corporation gave them an ex- tension of five years for the sale of their lands. This limit fixed by the charter expired in 1879, and by jus- tico and equity all lands for which patents had not been granted by the company reverted to the company. Presuming that corporations wercloy much bound by their charters as in- dividuals by their solemn, legal en- gagements, a large number of people in Kansas and Nebraska availed them- selves of the privilege granted by the expiration clause in the Pacific rail- roads’ charters, by taking up home- steads on the forfeited land grants of the Kansas Pacific and Union Pacific railroads, The monopolies at once took the alarm. A test case was ately made by the Kansas Pacific against one Dudymot, who had settled on a quarter section of land forfeited by that company with the intention of proving up his claim under the homestead laws of the United States. Land Commissioner Williamson, who has distinguished himself as a land grabber in New Mexico and elsewhere and who had been land commissioner cf the Union Pacific when first organ- ized, was applied to by the rail- road company for a decision on the case. General Williamson decided that the railroads had not forfeited their lands, and that such lands were consequently not open for entry un- emption This, provision was intention . was to immedi- estly argued, Secretary Schurz's deci sion in the Dadymot case would have been upheld. There is no occasion for entering upon a discussion of the grounas on which the Union Pacific Briefly stated, they claimed thatthey had already disposedof their {ands under the land grant by issuing mortgage bonds payable from their sale. The company knew very well that the disposal contemplated by the government actual sale to bona fide purchasers, and every sensiblo man knows that disposal of property consists in putting it out of the control of the party who disposes of it. Inasmuch, too, as that corpora- tion is still selling the lands it is difficult to see how they have disposed of it, Here, then, are the founda- tions of August Arndt's smt in the prosecution of which he has sunk all his savings and encountered the vio- lent opposition of the monopolies, It is not “a lawsuit of comparatively trifling importance,” as stated by the based their case. was Union Pacific organ. Tt involves millions of dollars of property claimed by that corporation. And this is why the Union Pacific is making such an outrageous fight upon thelcharactor of Arndt. This is why they want the case so summarily disposed of. Thay are endeavoring to prejudice public opinion against a man who is jailed on a trumped up charge, and confined in default of outrageous- ly extortionate bail which it is well known that ‘he is unable to furnish. They are straining every nerve to throw such a cloud over this case that should the decision, as they expect, be in their favor the caso will never be reopened. They are trying to bull-doze and terrorize the sottlers of Nobraska so that they will not dare to pit themselves against the power of the corporations. This is the true inwardness of the Arndt caso, and the sooner the people of Nubraska understand it the better NOW OR NEVER. The time has come for Omaha to purify and redoem herself. The coss- pools of vice and crime where for years hellish orgies have been carried on in the very heart of this city in defiance of all decency and law must be closed. The robbers’ roosts and low dives, into which boys in their teens and wayfaring men are de- coyed by indecent exhibitions, must be broken up. It 1s a burning shame and disgrace that these moral cancers der the homestead and pre-emption laws. An appeal was at once taken from the decision of Gen. Williamson to the secretary of the interior, and Cor. INGERSOLL says that White the ruling of the land office was re. AILY BEE: TIURSDAY, DECEMBER 22 1381 about 24,000 27,000, ench or & The four nurses arc to receivo 82, 500 each. Dr. Lamb, of the surgeon genere1's office, is to receive £100 for the autopsy which he made. Dr. teyburn, who was Dr. Bliss' assist- ant, will also receive a reasonable sum for his constant attendance, It i# not known what cliarge the railroad companies will jmake for the use of | I the special trains or for the construc- tion of the new tracks laid in Wash- ington and at Long Branch. STATH JOITINGS. Madison now hes four hundred houses, Arapahoe’s telephone system ix com. pleted. Wymoreans will e«terminate the wolves on the 25th, Welves ars feasting on stray turkeys and chickens near Arapahoe. Syracnse is on the boom and is enjoying wteady growth in iz and business, William Phillips, of Norfolk, was killed by the cars at Long Pine last Friday. The wason bridge over the Republican river near Bloomington will be completed in January, William Orendorf, of Valparaiso, died suddenly Inst week, by the bursting of a blood vessel, Miss Jennie Mears, of Fullerton, has been commissioned a notary public - the thied lady notary in the state, The Republicin Valley Sentinel, pub- lished at Orleans, has donned a new suit. Tho Sentinel is a typographic.] Martin-et or nothing, The well-known river mnavigator. Cap- tain 8 H. Morrison, of Nebraska City, has become so deranged as to require con- stant care and quiet. Mr, Burkeys, late of Illinois, had the painful misfortune to have one of his little hoys drowsed in the Blue river, near Dorchester. The bodies were recovered. Two livery stables of Lincoln we e vict- imized to the extent «f two buggies, and the well known step: " by two exjert “engine extrac They were making 2:40 track< (ver the prairie at last accounts, One of the jurors in the case «f Alex, H i ex-chief of police of Nebraska, convicted of manslauzhter, asserts that le would have held out for acquittal till the 4th of July but for the expense it would put the county to, The Aliza Herald announces the discov- ery of coal near the town. Mr. Frank Conklin, while boring a well, struck a t the depth of thirteen feet from the surf After striking the conl he bored eighteen inches further, the c: plentior at each turn of the au A novel case has been bronght sefore Tudge Philpo, of Lancaster county. for settlement. A convict just discharged suex Boss Stout for * 60.25 for overwork. In order to make h ence as brief as possivle, he worked day and night, and gnined Koveral months by his indusry, He waunts the aboye amount for the extra work., The North Nebraskan, of Ponca, comes out in a mammothth ten page sheet this week. contaiinng a detailed view of the progress of Dixon connty, aud the several towns therein, It is a splendid exhibit of the growth of the “‘garden of Nebraska,” and the publishers deserve every credit for their enterprise and push. Fremont has tears to shed now over the 1 heconiing have been tolerated in our midst so long. These haunts of vice and crime have injured Omaha beyond calcula- tion in oreating the impression abroad House _ruceptionl are a h_umb“K~ versed by Secretary Schurz under the | that our population is made up mainly “‘They simply convert the president of | advios of Assistant Attorney General | of bullies, rowdies and rogues. The the United States into a pump, and | Marble, now commissioner of patents, | opportunity to rid Omaha of these give everybody a chance to take a jerk at the handle. Instructions were immediately is- sued to every land officer that the land grants of the Pacific roads were for- dens of] iniquity is presented mnow. Omaha must rise en masse to protest against legalizing these vile dives by a Tue intention of the liconse Jaw [feited undor the charter and subject | graut of license under the Slocumb was to put the sale of liquor into the |to entry and that filings of claims [law. hands of respectable and responsible | upon such lands would be made mat- |can men, ' The people of Omaha will in- sist that the intent of the law shall be carried out. Taw Republican claims that the edi- tor of Tur Bee is a “crank.” The editor of THE BEE is not a crauk that turns a railroad organ, and that is where he differs from the brass col- lared editor of the Republican. Tue rapid extension of the south- western railroad system and its con- necting branches over the borders makes it probable that within eightoen months there will be direct communi- cation by rail between St. Louis and the City of Mexico. A BostoN paper says that the little experience the people of that city have had of woman suffrage *‘has not been #0 encouraging as could be wished,” their exercise of the right in choo! members of the school committee ha ing done very little to improve its membership, Woman suffrage will never bring a political millenium, , | about gone, ters of record by the government. This was a critical juncture for the railroad land grabbers. Hundreds of locations were ut once made upon the land grants by parties who in- tended to become actual settlers and to cultivate thousands of acres which had been withheld from the market by the railroad companies in in order to realize greater prices from a speculative advance value. Among others was August Arndt, who, justified by the decision of Sec- retary Schurz and backed by the ad- vice of the department of justice in the Dymot case, hiled on a ‘quarter section of land in Saunders county in this state. The railroad companies were thor- oughly frightened. They saw that the occupation of their land deparment was The managers of the B, & M., in order to take no risk, sold out their surplus lands to an inside ring called the South Platte Land compuny, in order to evade the law. But the Union Pacific, always bold and aggressive, and conscious of the unmense power which they wield, de- in In one district of Chicago made up of thirty squares, there are 500 saloons, 600 other rooms for gambling or other vices, four variety theatres of the lowest grade, 100 concert saloons, fif- teen regular gambling dens, all of -which places are supported by 12,000 persons, chiefly young men. St. Lous ‘has not yet taken notice of this itew aud has no desire to improve upon it. Tur Atlanta, Ga., Constitution thinks that under an inexorable pres- sure that is beyond the reach of in- fluence or argument, the plantations cided to put up a sham test case and wrest o favorable decision from the government. They caused their land agent at Grand Island, William Platt, to bring suit against them to con- pel the companyto yield possession of the lands thoy had forfeited. Judge Wakeloy, formerly ussistant at- torney of the Union Pacific, was re- tained by Platt, presumably at the vxpense of the railroad company, and Poppleton and Thurston went through the farce of defending the Union Pa- one file a written objection this [class of applicants for liquor license without running the risk of being waylaid and murdered. The editor of TuE B has taken that risk by calling upon the mayor to do his duty and suppress these disorderly houses.| But we ask no other man or woman to take such a risk individually. There are thousands of men and wo- meu in Omaha that feel and think in this matter a8 we do and we ask them to protest en masse. Tt in not likely that the desperadoes will undertake to waylay a whole commu- nity. But our people must act now or neyer. If these vile dens are allowed to take out liquor license to keep up their infamous vocations we never shall be able to get ridof them, Let us say to these peoplo you can- not keep up these criminal resorts in Omaha, You must find some legitimate call- ing or leave this city for the good of the community, To the impractical reformers who want prohibition or nothing, we sav—let good enough alone. You can accomplish a great deal by closing the low dens. In this you will have the active co-operation of the well-behaved, respectable dealors who keep orderly houses and are willing to comply with the law in every respect. to Tux committees to settlo the bills resulting from President Garfield's sickness and death are at work and it is stated on good authority that they have decided upon the following re- cific. This bogus suit, as might have muneration to the physicians and will split into small farms, and small|boen expected under the ciroumstan- [ nurses who attonded him in his last farmers will take the place of large|ces, was decided in favor of the Union | sickness: planters, The same causes that sliced nearly 70,000 farms from the Georgia plantations in ten years pre- coeding 1880, will cut off as many{promptly rushed into tho supreme |a brigadier as he now is, unore between now and 1890, Pacific in the United Statos district court of Nebraska because the showing was one sided. It was court on the ground that it wus a very important matter, There, inasmuch Congress will be asked to rotireSur- geon (General Barnes with the rank and pay of a major gencral instead of Dr. Wood- It is given out that no man| discovery of awill milk, which has been palmed uff on that pretty propinquity for many years as the genuime mticle, In the agony of his retching, the discoverer ex- “Miscreants with cheek to resort controls 850,000 which he proposes to in- vest in O'Brien county lands 1f Pacific Junction is incorporated ac cording to the plan now on file, itwill con tain 180 wores, g The Red Oak vinegar works have been incorporated with a capital stock of five thousand dollars, Teachers’ salaries in the Des Moines public scheols wverage %60 per month, and n those of Dubuque =38, ped during the past season 00,000 dozen eggs, and claims to be bizgest hen fruit market in the world, During the two weeks ending on the 15th the pension office at Des Moines cashed 10,000 vouchers, amounting t The entire amount of delinquent taxes in Page county, as shown by the recent sale of lands, fal's considerably below two thousand dollars, A gang of silve: coin counterfeiters has been broken up at Brooklyn, Poweshiek county, and the three ope:ators are in the clutches of the law. The German Methodists of Ida Grove have raised ) for a church buil ing, which will be commenced when the fand has reached 81,000, The supreme court has decided that the township and not, the county is responsible for hills contracted in renting halls or places at which to hold elections. On the arrival of the new railrond at Lake (‘,nr the citiz ns gave & grand ban. quet to all the employes of the road that wore present and they numbered about eighty. AFTER THEIR BEER. How Two Milesian Ladies Attempted to Capture a Keg. There are many varietics of larceny, but that practiced by two women from that historic portion of the city known as ‘‘the patch” Tuesday is somewhat novel and not lacking in humorous features, About three o'clock in the afternoon two females of decidedly Milesian accent , took in G, Zimmerman's saloon, corner of Tenth street and Capitol avenue, and asked for a *‘drap of the craythur” in the shape of two glasses of beer. They were politely but decidedly refused unless they had the du. cats to put up for the same. After consid- erable talk they departed, leaving riale- dictions in their e, About ten minntes passed, and every- thing was serene about the neighborhood, The di er of the cheering lage was ug behind the bar, w varions po sever.] rubicund ¢ oy who hd dropp: d in to see a man, and for- gotten that their visit was already tio prolonged. A} of n sudden there was a commotion in_ the colored gemmen rushed in wi ited ex- clamution that two femal walking off with a keg of beer. Thea birtender be. came su denly interested in the condition of affairs outside and rushed to the door just in time to see the preci us pair he had refused a drink a few minutes before waltzing off with several gullons of the beverago. One of the women had shoul. dered the keg, while the other had thrown a shawl over her cowpunion’s head and at- tempted also to coverthe beer receptacle from sight. They were thus of Mulligan (iuard gave chase, e “Shoulder beer, “We'll march, march away,” was changed to a double suick of the whole column, and the retreat was con- dwcted in as good order as possible. But the ordnance stores were tno cumbersome, and o they were dropped and the raaks divided. One woman went one way, the other another, and the bar- keeper sbouldered his beer back to safe prosveding to the tune , when the barkeeper villainous mode of obtaining a live- would thrive by stealing the grave to thi lihood, clothes of their grindmothers, and trade them for polecat skins.” PAWNER PARAGRAPHS, Business is on the boom and our busi- ness men are happy. Pawnee has a cardidate for gubernato- rial honors slumbering in: her midst The holidays are no» here in all their glory, and our people uxe amply prepared for them. The fine new bank building of C'. F Edee & Co, is now nearing completion, and will be the finest I the state when completed. The Cincinnati postoffice will close its doors after the 1st of Janwury, and the key returnedto the department” at V/ash- ington, Table Rock enjoys a new postmaster since congress met; or at least Tavle Rock has got its ““Valentine” in advance of the new year, Protracted meetings, holiday balls, mar. ringe bells, and 'hristmas (sprees) trees are the way our people will amuse them- selves during the last days of 'S1, ‘While Omaha has been esjoying mud, moist weather and bad roads. greatly to the disgust of her keener and higher sensi- bilities, pretty progressive Pawnee has been enjoying fine weather, good roadsand good healh. Tt cost Pawner cmmtmnl $54.80 to hold an inquest over the y_of Adulterer Myers, who was shet by Stanton some time ago. Powder must be dear to tax- payers, or else such worthless carcasses must cost the people enormously away down here, T A Farmers’ club is being agitated here and pronounced a new idea. ® This only shows how far cur farmers are behina other parts of the state in_this direction But at all hazards it should be encouraged a8 it can only be tlie development of good amony the masses, A fine new eating and lodging parlor has been opened in our ity this week that sur- pusses anylhing in that liue heretofore attempted. It s presided over 1y Mrs, J. W. Kurdick, who is well versedin the culinary art, and promises to supply a long-felt want in our city, At oue of the largest literary societies in the county, the woman’s rights ques. tion was discussed at length, and received such a severe drubbing that the decision was unanimous again t the question, This shows that we have tew, very few females that entertain orable views on such “damphoolery” as the woman's rights question s, The Pawnee County agricultural so- foty, i al meet ng the other day, ! ard by acclama- tion, and reported the society out of debt and in a fourishing condition, with over 1,000 cash on hand for next year. Thix quarters, “Buchapaiba.” e e SATISFYING EVERYBODY. How Speaker Keifer Solved the Committee Problem, Kelly Gets the Ways and Means, Hiscock Appropri- ations, and Reed the Judiciary. Williams, of Wiaconsin, the Foreign, Townsend tho Railroads, and Deering the Indians While Our Own Land Grabber Heads the Sunflower Seed Committee. HOUSE COMMITTEES, National Associated Press. THE COMPLETE LIST, WasninaroN, D. C., December 21.- Inthehouse Speaker Keifer announced the standing committees as follows: Ways and Means—Kelly (chair- man), Kasson, Dunnell, McKinley, Hubbell, Haskell, Russell, Errett Randall, Tucker, Carlisle, Morrison, Speer. Appropriations — Hiscock (chair- man), Robeson, Cannon, Burrows, Butterworth, Caswell, Ryan, O'Neil, Ketcham, Blackburn, Cox, Atkins, Forney, Lefevre and Ellis. Banking and Currency Crapo (chairman), Webber, Dingley, Moore, Cornell, Buckner, ardenbergh, Flowerand Ermentrout. Kducation and Labor—Updegrat’ (chairman), Sherwin, Carpenter, Davis, Page, Tyler, Wi Clementsy Morey, Dibble, Dowd. Rules—Mr. Orth Speaker (chairman), Robesow, Randall, Blackburn Mile Jargenson (chairman), Rich, Ward, Cobb, Moulton. - Joint Committees : On library McCook (chairman), Lindsey and Geddes; printing —Van Horn (chair- man), McClure, Springer: elections — Calkins (chairman), Hazleton, Wait, Thompson, Ranney, Ritchic, Petti- bone, Miller, Jacobg, Paul, Beltzhoover, Dugro, * Jones, Judiciary—DPeed, Willets, Robin- son, Briggs, Humphrey, Taylor, Mec- Cook, Kasson, Norcross, Knott, Ham- mond, Culberson, (uenther, Town- send (Ills.). Agriculture ~Valentine (chairman) Updegraff, Carpenter, Anderson, Gottschalk, Wadswonth, Rich, West, Cullen, Hazleton, Hateh, Dubrell; Ai’ ardson, Hooker, Scales, Wellborn, Blanchard, Ainsley. Revision of Law—McKinley (chait- man ), lobinson, Buck, e, Brumm, Hall, Chapman, Covington, Richardson, Jones, McMillan Accounts—Turner chairman , Skin- ner, Brewer, Candler, Morton, Hardy. Houk. ” Patents -Young (chairman), Skin- ner, Farwell, Jones, Spooner, Vance, Turner, Scoville, Shelly Claims - Crowley (chairman), Tay- lor, Bowman, Mason, Thompson, Ray Peel, Hill, Smith (Ills.), O'N Hutchinson, Turner, Clarke, Otis. Public Lands- Pound (chmrman’, Belford, Hepburn, Dwight, Watson, Straight, |Rice, Cobb, Webster, Mil ler. Militia- - Straight (chairman, Guen-« ther, Bayne, Houk, Morey, Valen tine, Thompson, Mosgrove, Joi (Tex.) Pacific Railways — Hazleton (chair- man), Harmer, Camp, Robinson, Ohio), Hammond, Paul, Darrell, Farwell, McKenzie, Bliss, House, Dunnell, Nolan, Priyate Land Claims-- Pacheco chairman), Norcross, Hazleton, Cor nell, Morris, Cutts, Muldrow, Wil- liams, Ford, Shackloford, Houk. War Claims-~Hawk (chairman) Updegraff, Smith, Dunnell, Chal- mers, Hall, Robertson, Geddes, Hol- man, Barbour, Chapman, Treasury Expenditures---Belford (chairman), Reed, Holman, Scranten, Thornton, Buckner, Curtin, Expenditures of the Department of State- -Deering (chairman), Lindsey. Barr, Williams, (Wis.), Herndon, King, Frost. Department of Justice Expendi- tures—Willits, (chairman), McCord, Norcross, Neal, Singleton, Blunt, Bragg. Public Buildings Expenditures Errett (chairman), Robinson, (Ohio), Houk, Grant, Wise, (farrison, La- theam. Public Health--Van Aernam, (chairman), Updegrafi, Bowman, Cullen, Hebbs, Rosecrans, Colerick, Aiken, King. Alcoholic Liquor Traftic--White (chairman), Joyce, Chase, Hepburn, Vance, Dunuell, Williams, Atkins, Davis. Congressional Library Accommo- dationa--Rice (chairman), Fapwell, Humphreys, Geddes, Gibson. Foreign Intelligence. Sv. Pererssurc, December For some time past the auth have been fully aware that the appar- ont inactivity of the nihilists was only assumed, and that plots of the most serious nature were being formed. Numerous arrests have been made from time to time withort any impor- tant results, but to-day the officors succeeded in laying their hands on a Ken, Black, Post. Postoflices and Post Roads—Bing- ham, Anderson, Jorgensen, Lacey, Farwell, Morey, Springer, Morse, Hvans, Armfield, Brents. Public Buildings and Grounds— Shallenberger, Lewis,. Cutts, Demotte Seranton, Ford, Smith,, Cook, Hewitt, Singleton, Herbert. Mines and Mining—Van Vorhis, Davis, Bingham, bulkerson, Hobbs, Calkins, Young, Casidy, Berry, ‘Wood, Brumm, Ouray. Manufactures — Campbell (chair- man), Hammond, Mills, Gottschalk, New, quick, complete cure in four days, urinary uffections, smasting, frequent or diffcult urination, kidney diseasen. 81, Druggists. Depot at C. F. Goodman's, (3) THE STORM. Fair Weather Predicted for the Holi- days--The Strests as Bad as Ewver. The storm which set in on Sunday even- ing at 7:40 and raged with such disagreea- ble effect to the pedestrisns of Omaha ever singe, was a remarkable one in several re- speats, It seems that, outside of Omaha and DesMoines, no other station reporting to this Signal Office has had much, if any, rain or snowsfall during that period, but most of the time clear or fair weather pre- vailad at Denver, Cheyenne, North Platte, Yankton, Davenport and other plices. The prevailivg wind direction at first was 8 uthe ly, and the temperature very high tor this season, bus on Monday even- ing the wind veered to the n rth, and a decided change in the thernometer fol- lowed in consequence; The highest tem- periture recorded sinee the beginning of the storm, on the 18th, was 49° Fahren- heib, the lowest 20°, The highest velocity attained was 28 miles per hour, at 9 o'cloc] ™om, nn{wtwdny, and the total amount of rainfall and meltsd snow, so far, 1.09 inches, Considering that the snow when melted measures only about ene-t-nth of its orig- inal depth, it will bo seen thatwe have had our goodly share of wet weather during this month, and may reasonably exp ct some finer weather dmving the ap jioaching holidays. At 11 o'clock yesterday it began a gentle rain, some feathery flake+ of snow falling. “Phe streets are nearly as bad as they were amonth ago and broken wagons, stalled teams and delayed street cars are again the orier of the day. The pav ng ques- tion will come ta the front, it is said, as soom a the holidays and the Slocumb ex- citement are over —_— A Renoyating Romedy is to be found in Brrnock’s Broson ir. TERS, As an antidote for s female weakuess, biliousne , 1ndige constipation, and other diseasos of o dred ature, the-e Litters are invaluable. Price $1,00, trial size 10 cents eodlw CHINBESE DIGNATARIES. The Chinese Embassy, Exn Route to is regarded as one of the strongest snd best societiesin the s and will eclipse the state fair in wo years more, Our city complains of the inefficiency of its City Marshal and only pays him $25 per month for his services, Complaints are made of petty thieving, drunkenne and fighting that have been perpretratec duflnf his administrrtion, In eur opinion any oity that cannot pay an officer of that kind miore than 1 & day for such services is & disgrace to the map on which it claims respectahle mention and ought to be stolen bliad. Who is most to blame, the Mar- shal or the City Council? PAWNER CHier, Pawxrr Ciry, December 19, ward, now holding the rauk of major in the medical corps, is to be advanced Sixce 1865 Tennessee has acquired | as the government was an interested | by act of congress to the apecial rank uearly 400,000 additional population, [ party, Attorney Gencral Devens, who | of colonel, to bo creatod for him in and has made crops every year of an|had been retained in the Ames in- |recognition of his services to the average annual net profit of $27,600,- 000, Siuce 1860 Memphis, in spite of terest in Boston, w resent the people. alled upon to rep- The Ames intercat, wounded president. Under the act to pay all the expenses incident toand the war and three epidemics, has|which is of courso Union Pacific, made | incurred by Premdent Garfield's ill- grown from 23,000 to 47,000, while |itself felt and the same shamn was gone | noss and death, bills to the amount of Nashville has crept up from 17,000 |through with in the supreme court | 8110000 or even §125,000 will come population to 75,000, Chattanooga, Kuoxville and other The growth of | wherethe judges sustained the decision | in, of the lewer beuch, There is no OFf this appropriation Doctors Bliss, Agnew and Hamilton are to re« town# has been at proportionate rates, | doubt that if the case had been hon- | ceive two-thirds, which would give to 10WA ITENS. “The iron stairways in the new capitol at Des Moines will cost $27,802, The finishing touches arve now beinz put on the new court house at Malyern, The s-veral coal companies of Fort Dodge pay out about 860,000 monthly for wages, The coal product of Adams county amounts to nearly ten thousand tons an- nually. Tywo million bricks were burned and used for building purposes in Clarinda the present year, About twenty fastucrs from Marshall county propose Jocating i O'Brien county in the spring. One Marshalltown man Washington, Pass Qmaha. Attached to Union Pacific trai from the west yesterday aftern special car which contained the Chinese k | chairman, Joyce, Cullen, Ray, Dawas, | Fulkerson, Woeat, Chase, Finley, Marsh, Morse, Stoekslager. Mississippi river improvement— Thomas (chairman), Carpenter, Pres- cott, Darrell, Rice, Msore (Tenn), Jones, Burrows, Kin, Guenther, Carey, Wi Forveign Affaira—Williams (Wis), (chairman), Orth, Kasson, Rice, Dun- vell, Lord, Walker, Blunt, Wilson, Deusber, Belmont. s Coinage, Weights and Measures— Fisher, (chairman), Beiford, Mc €lure, Lacey, Washburn, Payson, Havleton, Stevenson, Slaughter, Blade, Lane. Comanerce— Page (chairman), Rich, Townsend, Washburn, Hook, Chand- ler, Ward, White, (eorge, (uen- ther, Rane, Ross, Herndon, Naval Affairs —Harris¢Mass.), chair- man, Robeson, Harmon, Thomas,. Watson, Ketchum, Deesendorf, l\gorl;in. Davidson, Tadbot, Harris Military Affairs— Henderson (chaix- man), Hiscock, Bayne, Steele. Davis, Spaulding, Spooner, Sparks, Upson, Bragg, Wheeler, Maginnis. Invalid Pensions-—-Brown (Indiana), Pettibone, Parker, Itice, Wadsworth, Matson, Caswell, Simonton, Caldwell, Latham, McMillen. Interior Department Expenditures Eubbell (chairman), Crapo, Wood (N. Y.), Schultz, Simonton, Blan- chard, Burrows (Mo Navy Department Expenditures-- Robeson (chairman), Harris (Mass.), Harmer, O'Neill, Morris, Phelps, Turner. Public Expenditures — Rundall (chairman), Blackburn, Walker, Wood, DeMotte, Lewis, Todd, Falker- son, Martin, Guenther, Berry. District of Colambia—Neal (chair- nan), Heilman, Barr, lurner, Smith (N. Y.), Pierce, Deesendorf, Clotz, Garrison, Cassidy, Alle Pensions - Marsh (chairman), Hep- burn, Rice, Stone, Steele, Weber, Hewitt, Robinsen, Bur- rows (Mo.), Railroads and Canals — Fownsend (chairman), Dwight, Hendexzson,Camp-~ bell, Schultz, Lord, Brewaer, Kenna, Wise, Hoblitaell, Civil Service —Orth (chairman),, Kasson, Horr, Briggs, Naal, Hubbell, er, Phelps. minister to the United States, and suite, The party were accompanied by T. D, McKay, the cenial and widely kaown agent at San Francisco of the popular €', B, & Q, railroad. The Chinese winister, who is alse min. ister to Spain and Peru, rejo’ces in the badly spelled name of Ch ng Tsao Ju, He is aocompanied by his wif2, a very pretty, though highly = painted, almond-eyed lady, with feet as small as & b;l.rf"n; his secretary, Shu Shau Pang; chief inter ter Cheng Shing Pouch; aod. about & jozen servants. They came direct from Hong Kong, China, and thenge through in the special car referred to, They left in another special car on the U, E. & Q. road, and will proceed to the national cape ital as expeditivusly as possible, The mins ister s & man of fine appearance and un- doubted ability as a diplomat. His part in the management of matters during the next session of congress will be of vonsid- erahle importance, as the coast senaters will undoubtecly endeavor to eaforce with considerable vigor “the pasg legislation which has been iniwical to the Chinese i the country, Territories——Burrows Ec]mirmnw. Aldrich, Van Vorhis, Miller, Dawes, Cromley. Postottice Departient Expendi- tures ~Walker, Pound, Farwell, Rea- gar, Fighnen, Ladd. Law and Election of President and Vice President—Updegraff (chair- man) ©amp, Crapo, White, Fisher, Butterworth, House, Randall, Tuck- | clew which will probably lead to the detaction of some of the principal leadens in this latest conspiracy. Car- tain suspected persons had been vory cerefully and closely ched for some days, all their movemonts being noted. They were together in.the: rear of the building occupied by the ministry of the interior, and were carrying dynamite bombs en- closed: in orange skins, from which the pulp had been removed. The bombs were very cleverly arranged se that their explosions, when thrown upon the-ground would be inevitable and most probably fatal. Further in - formation. eoncerning the arrests is at present denied. Generali Anantchim, governor of Rastern Siberia, has had a.special con- ference with the czar at Gatchina in regard to the relief of the crew of the steamer Jeannette. The czar ordered: that all necessary supplies; money and transportasion be placed at their dis- . posal at onee. Gen. Anantchim: ex- pressed the opinion that the rest of the crew have been fallen in with by natives.and hospitably entertained. St. PenexsBUurG, December 21 Lie Nord Senie, ofticial organ of: the government, in disoussing Mr. Blaine’s-despatch, declares no guaran- tees of the canal are efficacious un- less shared in by all the powers. The question.must be settled at once for all, by making Europe the guardian of herown interests co-jointly with that of America. St. Pumerspura, December 21— General Ignatieff is superintending the arrangement for the search for the missing officers of the Jeannett & Durw, December 21.—Two boxes of rifles and other weapons have been stolen fvom Cahill station, near Glon- mel. The theft was ekillfully planned and adroitly executed,.but it is theught here it must have Eeen by the-cond vance of part of the men in charge: of the prop erty. Absconded. Natisual Associated Press \ Cuicawo, Decem!: 21, Tk is re- ported this morning that Alkert Ariendell, a well kaown wine mexch- ant of this city, hed abscondod with $95000 to £10,000 wo t his ewn. He recently visited Now York, where he collected §7,000 frem Ives, Beocker & Cu. for othor firms After, it appoars ha went to Canada. Made an Assignment. HNational Associated Foess. ©u1aco, December 2L -Tho ex- tensive sewing machine manudactory, ote., of Goodrich & Cov made an as- signment this morning Liabilities, $00,000; assots; §20,008% i i Died a Maniae National Associnted I'ross Davesross, December 21,--George Davenport, once the wealthiest citizen of this vlace, died last night at Mt. Plessarit hospital, a raving THE OCCIDENTAL | PAYNTER, Jacobs, Lindsey, Stevens, Merrison, Carlisle, Hewitt. Pensions, Bowaty and Bagk Pay- Joyce (chairman), Brown, Lindsey, Hawk, Whitthorne, Mosgrove, War Department Expenditures Briggs (charman), Miles, Stecle, Marsh, Blackburn, Jones, Sparks. Enrolled Bills—Aldrich (chair- man), Kellogg, Peirce, West, Shal- lenberger Warner, Belmont. Consuls—Prescott (chairman), Sher- win, Tyler, Bayne, Fulkerson, Me- Cowd, f’uirce, ox, Colburn, Wise Figlman, ¥ ndian atfairs—Deering (chairman), Rice, Mason, Spaulding, Buck, Rich- J. L Proprietor Corner 10th and Howard Streets, OMAHA, NEB Rates, Two Dollars Pg&flmnay. Edward W. Simeral, ATIORNEX AT LA