Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 24, 1881, Page 4

I'HE OMAHA DAILY BEE: ATURDAY, DECEMBER 2! 1+8]. | —— The Omaha Bee. PrMlished every moming, except Bunday. The ouiy Monday moming daily, ; TERMS BY MAIL:— One Year..... 810,00 | Three Months.$3.00 Bix Months, 500 | One . 1.00 I'HE WEEKLY BEE, published ev. TERMS POST PAID:— One Year...... £2.00 | ThreeMontbs.. 50 Bix Months. 1.00 | One “w 2 CORRESPUNDENCE—AIl Communi. entions relating to News and Editorial mat- gers should be addressed to the Eprron ox Tar Dex, BUSINESS LETTERS—AIl Bosiness Kotters and Remittances should be ad dressed to THE OMAHA PopLisuive Com- PANY, OMAHA, Drafts, Checks and Post- office Orders to be made payable to the order of the Company, OMAHA PUBLISHING C0., Prop'rs EiROSEWATER. Editor. CHRISTMAS trees look “spruce,” —_— ganerally It is now or never in the matter of purifying the city of her sluins, —_— Sowmk grim wit has sent Scoville a crape to put in Guiteau's stocking. —_— Witk the mud six inches deep all ovor the city, Santa Claus will make his rounds in rubber boots and wagon. AN exchange suggests that ‘‘merit always finds the slippery pole of suc- cess well greased with the oleomargar- ine of success. Steo, the last of the Delmonico’s died last week in New York from ex- cessive cigarette smoking. In these days the cigarette is mighticr than the sword. KAaNsas City is revelling in mud six inches deep. Omaha is immersed in a deluge and her people are calling for a line of good : substantial arks, war- ranted to wear for at least forty days. PRESIDENT ARTHOR is cautiously but surely winning and holding the confi- dence of his countrymen and his ro- cent appointments are generally ac- -oeptable to fair minded men in both parties. OvER two hundred congressmen are mortally offended at Speaker Keifer's appointments. Ninety of them thought themselves particularly fitted for the chairmanship of the committee on ways and means. Tue grand jury has adjourned without indicting that so-called dan- rous vihilist and socialist, August Arndt, who isnow deprived of his libere ty and h:ld under exorbitant bail to an- awer to the murderous charge of con- tempt of court. The lnst election in New Mexico ‘was not in accordance with the laws of the United States, and without con- ‘gress enacts remedial legislation, it is said that the torritorial law-makers cannot legally ‘assemble on the first Mo aday in January. THELAW AND THE LICENSES. The true inwardness of the attacks of Tue Bee upon Mayor Boyd is as amusing as it is clear to all business men. **The ofticial g:pur of the city” counted upon a big bonanza through its charges for publishing license no- tices daily for two weeks, and the first trouble came when some of the dissat- isfied advertisers went to tho city attor- ney and learned his opinion that one insertion of the ‘‘ad’ each week for two weeks in advance of the time for issuing license was sufticient. One of the advertisers, Mr. Brandt, of Turner hall, who had given a check in advance for two weoks' daily ad- vertisement under Tur Ber's misrep- resentaticn, ordered it woekly and stopped payment at the bank; and upon this Tue Ber looked back upon ita files and found some report about the Turner Hall theater which a ro- porter had written voluntarily, and which had been published as news, and a bill for this was made out an sent to Mr. Brand. -- Herald, The law regulating the sale ef liquor in Nebraska which passed the last session of the legistature pro- vided that all applications for licenso should be accompanied by a bond in the sum of §5,000, which bond and application should be filed in the pub- lic records of the city or county where petition was made, Its further provided that ihe fact that such application had been made and such bond filed whould bo published for two weoks in the paper having the largest number of readers and tha publication as above should be sworn to by the publishers. . Further provision was wmnde that when such terms had - been complied with, in case no objection or remon- stranco was filed against the granting of the spplication for license, then license might be granted by the pro- perly constituted authorities. This woncisely stated is that portion of the Slocum law which bears upon the granting' of license. It s over the disputed interprotation of its meaning that the railroad organs of Omaha are engaged in questioning the stand taken by this paper upom the subjoct. The first notices of application for license sent down to Tue Brx oftice by City Clerk Jewett required an afti- davit from this paper that they had been “‘inserted in Tux Darny Bre for bvo wepks.” . By overy precedent of advertising in every paper in the country these words meant twelve insertions, and wore #0 interpreted, charged and paid for by the partics in whose favor they drawn. Subsequently a notice was brought to Tne Ber for publieation with the affidavit worded in the same torms, and the attempt was made to securc its insertion twice in our col- umns. The business manager of Thr Ber tlatly awear to the accompanying affidavit unless the refused to apphcation was published for the timo required by its wording, Under the advico of City Attorncy Manderson, who had drawn up the original affida- vit, the wording in those of subse- quent applications was changed to Conse a week for two wecks,” Tur Bee then them in its columns and swear to the time as thus stated. Tur Bee made no attempt to extorc from the liquor dealers any greater sum than that required by the length of time called for in the application. It rojected no license advertising or- dered by the clerk. Bat it did refuse and consented to insert to make affidavit to two week's publi- | m in it's celumns when but two day's insertions had been made, and by 8o doing it compelled the city au- thorities to change the face of the appheations to a wording in accordance with the city attorney’s interpretation of the law A number of the most reputable liquor dealers in this city supported the position taken by Tur Bek in in- sisting that their applications should bo published for the full length of timo required by law, and in refusing to take advantage of the chango in the wording of the afidavit. Futher- more, to show tae ‘‘true indward- noss” of the position taken by this paper, the business manager of Tnr Bee suggested to a number of liquor dealers in this city that they could comply with the law and save themselves the larger part of the ex- pense by uniting in the publication of one general application, signed by all the dealers, and securing its insertion with a single accompanying aflidavit for the length of time required by law. By such a plan there could be no question as to compliance with the law and the ccsttoesch dealer would be less thantwoinsertions of asingle appli- cation of ordinary length. Thisshows how much a mere money considora- tion entered into the stand taken by Tue Bee upon the license advertise- ment question. 8o far as the dispute between one Brandv and the collector of Tne Bre in concerned, the facts are these: On October 256 the following advertise- ment was given by the clerk of John Brandt to the advertising solicitor of Tur. Bre: JOHN G. BRANDT AT TURNER HALL, Has a fine assortment of Wines, liqours, and cigars. Also a pleasant pool and billiard room, It was inserted for one/time as or- dered and tho bill was made out and placed in the collectors hands on the When presented first of December, Mr. Brandt refused to settle because he nsserted that it was & matter of news given to Tue Bee by his clerk and the Omaha Herald echoes Mr. Brandt's opinion, Will the Herald please copy it into their news columns and keep 1t standing free of charge for Mr. Brandt? Finally, Tax Ber is making no fight against Mayor Boyd. It simply calls upon him to do his duty. He is not doing his duty when he orders public records to be removed from public inspection, and in so doing de- feats one of the most important in- tents of the liquor law, He is not doing his duty when he pormits it to be understood for one moment that overy applicant foc li- with what- over record as o keeper of crimi- holes will be granted license if he files a And he fis not doing his duty just aslong as he permits 08 1ot intend to enforce both the letter and irit of the law under whose provisions this city can be purged of cense in this city nal resorts and moral hell £5,000 bond. t to be understood that he d the its slums and sinks of iniquity, Tur Ber asks James E. Boyd to h its editor has boen making him per- reply to the appeals to wh sonally for over two menths past in behalf of law and order in this city. Tax valuo of provisions and tallow exported in the month ended Nove- ber 30, was 87,705,818, against $10,- 514,600 the same month last year. The value of dairy products exported in the seven months ended November 80 was 814,330,308, against 18,062 - 787 i same months 1880, Tho total value of provisions, tallow and dairy products exported during the eleven months ended November 30 was £120,- against $128,007,783 same 347,087, period 1880, Parsox Newmax, who inspected the consulates during the presidoncy of his parishioner General Grant, is to become pastor of the Madison Ave- nue Congregationsl church at New York, "Thegeneral will go with him from the Central Mothodist church on Seventh avenue; and Dr Newman ex- peots ““to take enough wealthy men" to pay off the $80,000 debt of his now church, OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. Affairs in Ireland show no signs of The organized atrike nst paying rent scems to be grow- quietude, Ay ing more formidable. though the lead- ers give no intimation as to what good results may be eoxpected from such a course. Lists of persons who have been worved with notices and of those sus- pected of paying rents are posted at the chapels and at other places where they are likely to be and, although the police tear them down |they are soon posted again, Con- sidorable dissatisfaction is felt among the Irish constabulary in Cork at the new movement of the government in recruiting their force from the militia and soldiers whose terms neen, of service have expired. ing that the men will refuse duty with the new recruits, and a general strike is apprehended. Tt is stated that a prison eapecially designed for fomales is in course of preparation for the recoption of members of Ladies’ Land League, and that the arrest of weveral prominent members of the Dublin branch of that organization is expected. o strong in the feel- In England there appears to be a growing hatred on the part of Irish- mon towards the liberal party. John Moray, editor of The Pall Mall Ga- zotte, who has been a most vigorous anti-coercionist, was recently hissed from the platform while attempting to speak on behalf of the land bill, and is reported as being completely dis- couraged at the outlwk. It looks very much as if powder and ball will be the next argument used by the government, and Treland, with the exception of the dynamite fiends, who are trying to blow contributions from America into their own pockets, will suffer greatly from the change in policy. Bismarck’s attempt to- scare the German Reichstag into compliance with his economical programme has not been entirely successful, and ru- niors are current of the approaching dissolution of that body. The North German Gazette insists that the atti- tude of the Reichstag, since its open- ing, has been inimical to the unity of the German Empire, and says that in aflixing their signatures to the fed- eration treaty the German Princos in- tended that Germany should be un- der the leadership of Prussia, but not that she should submit herself to shifting majorities in the Reichstag. 1t adds that the German professors and provincials once destroyed German unity in St. Paul's church, in Frankfort, by adisregard of monarch- ical dynasty, and that it is, therefore, the duty of the nation to utter a time. ly protest. The new cabinet of Frauce is the youngest in age that the country has everhad. Itsoldest memberisonly 62; its youngest, 35, M Gambetta himself is only 43. The 12 members count in total an age of 612} years, or an aver- age for each of 51 years. In Eng- land the youngest man who possesses a portfolio is Mr. Chamberlain, and he is 10 years older than the youngest minister in France and 2 years the senior of M. Gambetta. Mr, Glad- stone's age exceeds M. Gambetta's by 20 years. France has not always had 80 young & cabinet. Fifty years ago the average age was GD years; 24 years ago it was 60, The resignation of Perjola, the re- moval of Calderon, and the death of General Kilpatrick, ought to relieve the Chili-Peru controversy of some of its perplexities and asperities, and enable our special commissioners to bring about a friendly understanding, even if unablo to nogotiate for u peace in terme more favorable to Pera than annexation, The popularity of young Don Alfon- 80 grows apace in Spain. He recently passed his twenty-fourth birthday, and the levee given in the Madrid palace to honor the occasion was at- tended by delegates from all the official bodies in the land, and by representatives of the various political organizations. Some time ago fault was found with the king's extreme youth, but the comwents now heard refer to the old head that rests upon shoulders, As a speakor he is called able, oven ina country where oratorical gifts are prized, and predic- tions are made in London newspapers that he will ere long rank next to Queon Victoria as the wmost popular constitutional sovercign in Europe, Tue Ttalian government obtains a large part of its revenue from a lot- tory. Every Sunday a drawing takes place in every large town, and the poor people overywhere deprive them- solves of the necessaries of life in or- der to buy chances fer the big prize which is to make them rich, The drawing takes place at the mayor's residence. The people have infinite superstitions as to how to play the numbers, and the scheme is most carofully protected by law, Soveral men who recently perpotrated a fraud on a drawing wore sentenced to twolve years imprisonment. The London Times is sure that ul- timately a Panama canal will be liter- ally a part of the coast line of the United States, through the absorption of Mexico and Central America, Mr! Walters has secn enough in the Uni. ted States to make his faith in things as yet unseen, flattering to Yankee sreatness and creditable to his own judgment, Tt 18 now proposed to raze the Ring tlieater, at Vienna, or what remains of it, and erect a monument on the site to the memory of the hundreds who perished therc. It seems that a superstition exists that the curse of (iod rests upon that particular spot. Thirty or forty years ago the city exe- cutioner dwelt there. After the revo- lution of 1847 Robert Blum, the rev- lutionist, was shot there. Many others were either hangzed or shot on the same spot ; and so tragic interest has hung about it, which is deeenped and made indelible by thejlate catastrophe. Republicanism is becoming pro- nounced in Greece, not because the is oppressive, but monarchy per so because King George has lost some of his former popularity. He has beon frequently accused of late of breaking his word, and using his prerogative to arbitrary measures. The country has a constitutional parlia- ment of one chamber, whose recent sudden dissolution by the king has excited ill feeling Some of his most influential subjects are plotting his overthrow, and the establishment of a republic with a constituent assembly. Placards have appeared inscribed, *Down with the promise-breaker.” enforce The foreign relations of Greece are not exactly order'ly and peaceful, though internally, rapid progress in the assimilation of modern material improvemements is recorded.. Rail- road construction is going onata great rate. A successful road now connects Athens with its port, the Pirweus. A canal is in course of con- struction across the Isthmus of Cor- inth. Singularly enough the repub- lican sentiment is also ganing ground in Italy, the historic adversary and conquunir of Greece. A few years ago it was the fashion among most of the upper ten thou- sand in Englind to denounce Sir Charles Dilke as a republican and revolutionist. Now, as under foreign secretary and representative of foreign affairs in the house of commons, he 18 exceptionally popular. The Prince of Wales lately breakfasted with him to meet Gambetta. Protection plays an important part in thejfinancial policy of Austria-Hun- gary, as well as in that of Germany, but it is made incidental to revenues. Though the two branches of the monarchy manage their custom attairs independently, the proceeds of duties are applied to the maintenance ot the joint army, navy and foreign service. Hence there 15, in the main, a com- mon scheme of taxation. The ministers of both kingdoms held a cabinet council at Vienna some five weeks ago, and harmonized _their views. Both nations showed financial deficits, aud it had to be recom- mended that taxes be increased. Im- ports, howaver, could not be availed of to anything like the extent which is possible in countries with more di- versified and extensive foreign trade. The tobacco, spirits, wines and sugar consumed in Austria are mainly of domestic manufacture. Petroleum is subject for duties, but the oil wells of Galicia are rapidly increasing in pro- ductiveness, and their oil is excluding the foreign article. Moderate pro- ductive duties were finally agreed on for grawn and flour, not so much be- cause Austria is at a disadvantage in agriculture as because she lacks trans- portation facilities which Germany and Russia enjoy, or rather because there are certain discriminations in through railway charges against sov- eral Austrian provinces. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Gerster is very fond of Boston, Albani ix coming in October under Gye's management A new opra house is beinz buitin oria, 1llinois, Louise Pomeray is playing in New Zea- land to great business. Haverly's colored minstrels will remain in Kngland for ahout nine months, Annis Pixley's« youngor sister, Lucy, has joined the Uates tronpe in ’Frisco, John E, Owens has closed hss s-ason and settled down in his Maryland home, Sarah Bernhardt will reappearin Venica naxt month, She was received theve with enthusiasm, Bartley Campbell’s fnew play, ~““The White Slave, ' will be producedut Hooley's theatre, Chicago, in the spring. Onicago and Boston are stricken with Unc'e Tom 8 Cabin Combinations, and in Chicago they have small j.ox besides, Edwin Booth will appeared as Shyl Hauwlet, Richard TTL, Lear and Richelien this week at the Park Theatr , Boston. Acoording to Manager Davis, Joseph Murphy’s company has been out 12 weeks, traveled 3,616 wilow, and played to 72,581 pecple. Pauline Maurel, who lately severed her connection with the Emma Abbott Opera company, will appear next season in Ital- ian opera. Jobn T, Raymond celebrated the 2 0th performance of *Fresh, the American,” at at. Lou &, with satin programmes aud a good time generally, The Paris authorities have sucoceded in per-nading two theatres to close until they can provive better arrangements for the safety of their audiences. Miss Kmma Nevada (Miss Wixow) is now lil)flng with brilliant success a Flor- ence, Laterin the semson she, goes to Milan to Scala, 5 Clara Morris is to ar at the Union Square Theatre, New York, later in this season in a version of “The New Magda- len " But is she not getting rather old for that! Burlington's new opera house will soon be finished, and on the furmal openiog, to show appreciation of the enterprise of the fulfiill an engagement at La owner, it is expected to fill the honse at $10 a ticket. Mad. Marie CGelstinger, assistod by a grand « rehestea from th+ I'halia v York, commence & brief engacement in opera at Cincinnati, Monday night. Maggie Duggan, who was the high kicker of the S ldene Troupe, is now plas ing t e soubrette parts with the Charles Harki jor, and now kicks for more "\ An exchange ways that ‘‘Campanini's terms with Mupleson are £5,000 a month, winging three times » week." Campanini has done almost as well as if he had gone into journslism early in life, Mume. Patti receives, it s stated. $7,000 f rher sin ing in the “Messiah” at Cin cinnati at Christmas time. This is proba- bly the Iargest sum ever paid a prima donna for « single ng's engagement, Mirs Maude Granger lait the Galley Slave combinatio o in Chicago last wi only won of this resignation thac -he iy in bealth, and ti t she can not stand playing Tt has not been finally Il take her place, ' ut proi ably Mew, Frank Evans will by her Auccessor. An actress at Albany Jast week 1i erally brought. down the house, The lones young man who occupied the gall ry we: to sleep and fell over the rail down into the vit, knockin: one of the orchestra chairs crazy When they pickel him up, expe ting to find him a gory co pse, he rubbed his sleepy oves, and narnestly in- quired: “Wh t it? Miss Kate Claxton and her comnany is now in New England. On the 26th inst. Miss Coaxton - ill appear in this city at Booth's Theatre, and she will then be seen again i e Two Orph: " The cast on this oceasion will include Miss Claxton, Miss Ida Vemon, Mrs. Marie Wilkins, Me. C. A, venson, Mr. James ( eil, and Mr. Edward Thorve. Mr. Thomas McWatters is now serving fas Miss Clax- ton's business manager. Wagnerians will read w following announc_ment. Richard Wag- ner's ‘Pa «ifal’ at Bayreuth, Two private performan es for the mem| ers of the Bay- renther Patronatverein exclusively will 1 lace on the 2ith and 28th of July, Fourteen public performances will ven on July 30, Augu<t 1, 4, 6, 11 15, 18, 20, 22, 25, 27 and 27, 1882 ts for the public performances at 30 marks (£' 10:.) each, may be had on anplication to the Verwaltungsrath der Buhneofestpiele, Bayreutn, Bavaria.” Annie Louise Cary dutifully writes weokly le'ters 1o her step-mother and her sister in the little t wn_of Durham, Me. One of the letters came dated at a city in Ohio. - She writes that her. throat, which has been troubling her of late, now mach better. She occasionally alludes to her approaching marriage with James Lorrillard, in New York, The wedding will occur ea'ly next fall. The last time she will ting in public will te in June next at City hall, Portland. The age of Anvio Louise is forty-one years, and that of the bridegroom-elect is thirty-five. They will residein New York., A Dur- ham gentleman, who was one of Miss Yary’s neighbors and schoolmutes, : “There wasn't a boy or u girl in the whole school that could climb a tree r iuy over afence so well as Annie Louise. Bare-headed and bare-shouldered, she once took a wild colt to break, and he ran with her to the borders ot Auburn before she stopped him She came back lavghiog.’ -[Boston Post. h interest the PEPPERMINT DROES. If a man really wants to know of how little importance he is, let him go with his wife toJthe dressmaker’s. [ Burlington Hawkeye. A Pennsylyania man who was clawed by a w lldcat, says that the feeling was some- thine like having a dozen buzz-saws turned loose on him for a highold time. A Vermont young woman who saffered a disappointment in love died last week from a pane in the stomach. She broko it into sm .11 fragments and swallowed them, Uncle Mose says something: “Polite- ness kin be mrrimi’tw fur. Tuther day I lifted my hat ter a omaun an’lost de hand- kerchief outen in"’ —[New Orleans Times. ‘I see that a couple of Cncinnati alder- men have .been indicted for receiying bribes. Is it possible that the boysin Ohio do not have an agent¥”—{Chicago A der- man; There isn noticeable improvement in canned goods this year. ‘e huve seen some labels on peach cans which must have cost all of half a cent apiece, Last year they got 'em ten for a cent, Man-who-wants-to-wallap-us: When can we spare the time to receive yon? Ob, any day you like! Time is of no value to us, We never saw the occasion when we couldn’t spare about twentv seconds to do .l._f.vor for our friend the coroner.—[ Boston uat. There is nothing which so forcibly re. minds a veteran soldior of old times on the Chickahominy as wlen an ex-mayor geo. eral of v lunteers buttonholes him on the street corner; and vsks him for the loan of a quarter. Lt recalls the days when there was no quarter,- [N. Y. Com. Adv. These are_the sort of “‘ads” the Reno pepers publish for five ceuts a line: *‘Luce & Markham’s hendquarters saloon is ne rovided with all the popular games- eno, high bhall, faro, twenty-one, ete. Tvery gawe run on the dead square. tu Fyr- % won in an hoar. Go in and sce the salt in the sugar bowl? anxious to tind out. = Willie is ing out of the window. Can you at he is thinking abont? Per- wondering what mamma will give him,before he goas to bed without his supper. Tf we were: Willio wo ol feol safer with a Latin Giramncr in tho seat of our pants.—Denver Tribune Prinier, An important suit was recently begun in the west over a lake which two corpora- tions clmmed. The judge become weary with the case, and raid: *“What use of making such a fuss over a littlo water?’ **Your honor will geo the use of ir,” replied the j luintifi’s attorney, “wh n I informs you that both parties to the suit are recently organized railroad com- panies,” - Pittsburg Commercial Gazette, v much will this cost in your ps- ed » quiet looking mav, as he handed in the following advertisement at The Hu:frlu'n counting-room yesterday: SMITH - Busted _trace, in this city, Friday, just atter dinner, Mary Smith, | == wifo of tne undersigned, and daughter of old Sam Pratt, the leading blacksmith of Denver, Col. The corpse was highly re- spected by the high-tondest famili-s, but Death got the drop on her, and she took up the buc. et with perfect coufidenes that she would have a square show on the other side of the Divine The plant transpires this afternoon ot her boarding house on Willow street. Come oge, come all! Dearest Mury thon hast left us, For you on carth there wasn't rooui; But 'tis beaven that ha« bereft us And snatched our darling up the flnme, Denver pipers please copy and send bill, or draw nt sight, By her late husband, P, Sy, RELIGIOUS. The (iermuan Baptists, or Tunkers, have 710 churches, 1,669 miuisters, avd 90,000 communicants, . In 1877 the pilgrims to the Vativan num- Dbered [31,508; in 1878, 13625, in 1879, 10,71, and last year, 10,827. A chuich in Dundee, Scotlaud, has a telephone attached t:1he pulpit for the Lenefit of invalids who cannot come to church. A new bell for St. Paul's Cath Londou, thelare st Lell in the ki has t een successfully cast Its wei, 17} tous, Ahe Reformed §Episcopal Church has been in existence eight years, bevinning with 0 clengmen, ingluding Blshon Cuzss wins, apd 20 laymen, Itnow bas 110 cler- the | 000 gymen a d about 7,000 communieants, Tt has charch property valued, at 8915,000, exclusive of incurmbrave =, The Third Presbyterian Chicago, Sunday, December 4, ree ¢ ~fty-three members by profession, and a large n .mber by lett.r, he total menber hip of the Lutheran chwreh in his country, as stated in The Lutheran Calendar for 1882, i« 783,302, enin in the past year 84, The Sguthern Preshyterian chur h ap- pears to be gaining faster in cities than In the country. In seventeen cities ite net ain in five yea & has been 10 por cent.; in the country, S per cer Dr. Courtney, of Chicago, 'in a reeent wernion, expres<ed his regret that the use chuerh of of incense, =0 expressiv. in _its symiolism was ropyed after the Reformation fiom the ritual of the urch, The Mor: ans report 17 missions, missionarie , 98 stitions with 15 outesta. tions, 1,451 native agents, 39 775 baptized alults, 206,831, baptized children, under nstruction 14,410, an increase of 1,044, All the niissions roport an increase save Jama ca and St. Thomas, The former 00, th - latter 12, The expenditures lost were The Christian Intelligencer reports that “the free charch system among the Fpis- copal churches of Mawsnchusetts has ud. va: ced o far that there are now about forty parishes where the wittings are en- tirely free; some partly through endow. ments, somo through ifts, hut wany car- ried on in entir- dependence upon what the people conscientionsly con’ribute from Sunday to Sunday at the services.’ The Protestant Episcopal Church Alma nac for 188 gives the frllowing statisti Clergy, ¢ school teachers, contributions, buras, 2 8; scholars, 2,88 £0,749,0 3.20, rgy for the year was 6 4,157, In the Norway Bapti-t union there are thirceen churches with 578 members, and ten pastora, On: of th se churches is at Tromsoe, the most northerly Baptist church io the world, being above the Arc- tic circle. Owing to the influence of the zml{ stream and the bendivg of the line of rothermal temperature, to the Boston Watchman says, no difficulty 1s encoun- tered in baptizing believeis after the New Testament model Accordinv to a Berlin rewapaper the work of revising the Lutheran translation u]l the Rible has just been hrought to a close. cide) to prosecute the printing of the en. tire Bible at its own cost, with the under- standing that as many covies as possible are 1o be circulsted by the other societies. It has been decided to follow the new or- thography in the printing. During the next two yenrs the congregations are to ex mine and judge of the revision, which is the fruit of mor than ten years of ] - bor. Then on the basis of the criti- cisms mude public. the commisgion will incorporate such changes or corrections as m y be advisabl i thsytheextent of the Germun Bible will be presented final and complete. CONNUBIALITIES. The Attorney-General of Indiana has decided that any Mayor of any wunicipal- ity in that State who performs the mar- ringe ceremony is linble to fins and impris- onment, Two instances are cited in which young girls have re en'ly marri d old beggars for the purpose of travelling about to see the country. man 50 years of a. Keokuk had a_queer ma‘rimonial jum- ble the other day, when afather’s son nar- ried a father’s. divorced wife, the father having eecured a divorce in order that he might marry his wifes sister. A boy under eighteen years of age wish- ed to marry s woman_ten years his senior in Vancouyer, Washington Territory, re- cently, and as he had neither father nor mother in the Territory, a guardian was appointed by the Probate Court togive the requisite cousent to the union, John Pilgrim, of Museatine county has be>n granted a_divorcr. He was a widower f 70 and married a buxofa young woman, who refused to shure his bed though she @id not object to his board. _After impor- tuning his wife for several days to com- plete the marriage, and she steadi'y refus- ing, John got mad, went into court and got a divorce on the ground of desertion. Thero was mariiage by telezhraph in the southwest on the evening of the 6.h inst. The bride and groom were at Fort Sill, and as there was no parfon authoriz d totie the kuot in that viuinity, the aouple had recourse to the wire, County Judee Jones, of Jacksboro, Tex., pronounced the words, and Lieutenant W. A. Glassford of the ted States sighal corps transmitted the lightniog flash that made two souls one. The Shenandoah (Iowa) Republican tella of a_divorce case there as follows: “One of the applicants for divorce in the present term of the ci cuit court of Page county, was a woman who based her pplication for a divorce on the grounds that her husband was too familiar with othe- females, She proved her allegations by one witness--a man--and in five min. utes after the decree was granted she was the wife of tha witness aforesaid. Per- haps it is ull right, but it smacks a little of a put-up job on the old man,” At Des Moines Mary E Bartlow has commenced a suit aga nst John Crabtree, sr., for ® 8,7 0 damages. The plain iff wll ges that she was married to the de- fendant October 1, 1874: that she was, prior to thut, an unmarried woman of good repute; that when she married Crab- tree she supposed he was a single man and n t a whoie orehard, Since thep, she avers, she hus discovered that he had at that time another wife, Rachel, with whom he was not living, and that a ter the second and bigamous wedlock he was cruel nd illtreated her, She ks $20,- for cruel treatment 50 for services w8 ho wekeeper, and $260 for personal property taken sway from her. radford, Pa- Thomas Fichao, Bradford, Pa,, writcs: “I ene for SPRING BLossOM, as Teait | wouldif it cur d me, My dys- pepsia bas vanished, with all its syniptows! Many thauks; I shall never be without it in the house,” Purice 50 cen's, trial bottles 10 cents, decl9-eodlw PROPOSALS FOR GRAI H¥ADGUNKTER'S DEP'T 0F T1iF. PLATTH, ) CHIEF QUARTERMANTER'S OFYICE, OMAA, Neb., Decomber 20, 1541, Healed proposals, in triplicate, subject to the wsual conditions, will be received' at this office clock hoan, on Saurday, J nuary 14, which time and place'thoy will be opened 1n prescice of bidders, for furnishing aud delivery in quantitios ax required, up to Juno 80, 1682, at Omuha depat, Nebraska, or at stations on the Unlon Paafie’ railrad, east of Kearney of £,600,000 pounds Corn and 1,000,000 pounds Oas Proposal for quantitios Irss than the wh will be reccived. Dalivery of the grain will r.quired, nce February 1, 1582, Pref ence will be given o articles of domiestic p duction, conditions of price and_quality bei equal, und such preferen.e will be given toar I ¢lis of Awericau production produced on the Pacific coast to tho extent of the consumption requircd by the public service there, The wov= orument reserves the right Lo rejiet apy or all Proposals, pounds, taini Liids should stale th rate per 100 , (hot per buskel) aud the enyelopes con- them should e endorsed *Bids and addressrd 10 the undersigned. dro requested to rubinit proposals {o livery of the Corn in new resewed: gunny of 10) pounds cach— and for delwery of tho ,tne Oats in new resewud burlap eacks of 100 pounds «ack, oples of this advertisement aud of the cir- cular of fustractions to bidders can be obta ned on application to this oflice, and ono copy each of waid advertisement wnd ¢reularshould be e tached 0 or aceompany each propossl and. foru M. I LUDINGTON, Chief Quartermaster, d N— — C. F. Manderson, Bi *S Faroham 8¢ = ATTORNEY - AT - LAWI One_of the husbands is a blind | HOUSES Lots, FARMS, Lands. For Sale By BEMIS, FIFTEENTH AND DOUGLAS 8T8., e No. 258, Full lot fenced and with emall bulld ing on Cap nue near 23th - treot, $700, No, 267, 1arge lot or block 205 by 270 foct on Hamilton, near Irene streot, $2,500. No. 256, Full corner lot on Jenes, near 15th street, %3,000, No,'263, Two lots on Center strect, near Cum- ing sire o, #9.0. Lot onSpruce street, near 6th stroet, 8050, NG. 201, Two lots on Beward, near King streot, No. 251}, Loton Beward, vear King etreet, n;é. 249, Halt log on Dodge, ncar 1th street, The Caustein Bible society has de- | 82,100, . 247, Four beautiful residenco lote, near Creighton Collego (or will sell s parate), 88,000, No, 246, Two lots on Charles, near Cuming strect, $100 each, No.'248, Lot un ldaho, near Cuming etreet, 2100, 245, One acre 1ot on Cum n.ar Dutton , 1ot on Farnhar, near 1sth street, L 1ot 66 by 1 " Avinug 3 t on Duuglw, nesr ¥6th stevet, } tect on ‘ollexe street, 241, Lot on Farham, near st reet, =550, , Corner 1ot on Bur , near 2 Q. treet, 238, 1908152 f I eu it up t on Haraey, near th 52,400, on Sherman Aveusuo ), ¥1,000. No. 64, Lot on Douglas mrect, near 23d $750. ot o Lier wree', near Seward, 3500, 0 fect, niar € pt 1. venus on, 0 1 ts on Decatur, noar rene (1th st trect, vt on Sherman 2,400, W feet on T d Ktr near Clurk, Kl ) near K 1, sé0 29, Lot on 15th, near N.chols stusr, o ). 207, Two lots on 16'h, near Pacific stroet, 1,600. l.\fi;‘m 205, Two lots on Castellar, near 10th stroet, No. 204, beautiful residence lot on Division street, near Cuming, 8850, No.'203, Lot on' Baunders, near Hamilton street, $360. No.'190}, Lot 15th strect, near Pacific, 8600. No. 19x}, Three lots on Saunders street, near Boward, $1,300, No. 13}, Lot on 20th ttreet, near Sherman, No. 194}, Two lots on 92d, mear Graco street, %600 o ch. No. 191}, two lots on King, near Hamilten street, &1,200. No. 10z}, two lots on 17th street, near White Lead W, rks, 31,050, No. 188, one f.1l block, ten lots, near the bar- 00. 101, lot on Parker, near Irene strect, §300, No. 183, two lots ou' Cass, near 2lst street, (gilt edge;) 36,,00, No. 141, lot on Center, near Cuming strect, . 180, lot on Pier, nesr Seward streot, @50, No, 175, loton Shérman avenue, near Lzard strect, #1,4-0. No.'1743, lot on_Cass, near 14th, $1,000, No, 170, 1ot on Pacific, near 14th street; makv offers. No. 168, six lots on Farrham, near 24th stroot, 81,45, to §2,000 each. No. 163, full block on 26th street, noa race course, and_threo lots 'in Gise's addition near Saun ers and Cassius strocts, 82,000, No. 120, lo* on Callfornia street, near Creigh ton colleg-, 2425, 0. 127, acro lot, near the head of 8t. Mary's avenue, £,000. No. 123, bout two ncres, near the head of Be. Mary’s avenue, 31,000, No. 126, lot on 18th strecs, near White Lead Works, 8626, No. 124, sixteen lots, near shot tower on the 875 per ot feet (2 Tote) on 15th stroet, Cald and Siratogn streets, near tho end of green street car track, ¥80. to #1,200 each. 89, lot on' Chicago, noar 22d_atreet, #1,600. 58, lot on Caldwell, near Sauuders ntreet, No, 86, corner lot on Charles, near Saunders sreet, No, No. %, lot on Izard, near 21st, with two small nonses, 32, 400, No, 83, two lot4 on 10th, near Pierco street, . 78, three lots on Harney, near 10th street, 90x132 fect on 9th stroet, nesr Leaven- 0 60, vighteen lots on 21st, 22d, 234 aud Saunders streets, near Grace and Saunders streot br dgce, ch. bihg rth block (150x185 feet), nearuia r Claire on_ Hauilton etrect, n3 0. 5, lov on Marcy, near 9th st '8, lot on Califcruia, near 21t, 51,60 , 1ot on Cas-, d s No. 1, lot + n Hariey, near 18th, &2, 60, Lots n Harbaci's first and sccond additions, aluo in Parker's w, Melson's, Termace, K. V., momith's, Redick's, Gise's, Lake's, and all othor additions, 4t &y prices and terms. u2 lots in Hanscom Place, near Hansoou Park; prices rom 300 to %00 each. Ono. hundred and Afty-nine beautiful real- dunce lot, located on Hamilton street, nalf way between the turn tablo of the red stroot car Line and the waterworxs cservior and addition, and fust west of the Convent of the Susters Poor Claire In Shinu's aduition. Prices 1ange from ¥76 t0 §100 each, and will be told on visy lerme. Tractsof 6 10,15, 24, 40 or 50 cres, W!lh \dings and other improvements, and udfoiniog city, ot all prices, ,500 0f the bust residen ‘ot in the city of 220 choice \ Usiness stroets of Omaha, vary ing fiom K00 to 7,000 each. f'wo hundred houses and lots ranging from %500 to #16,000, and located in every part of the city, Large number of excellent farms 1o Dougles, Sarpy, Saunders, Dodge, Washington, Burt, sad othr kood counties in Eastern Nebrasha. Bemis'’ Reau Estate Acency, 16th and Douglas Street, ONMAZA, - NER.