Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 31, 1881, Page 4

. Al ‘«:he Om_aha Bee. Tiished every moring, except Sunday, The onily Monday momning daily, , TEKMS BY MAIL: One Year.....810.00 | Three ‘\lnnflu.‘;‘.g‘ for cheap transportation will grow sonstantly as the crops to be marketed inerease in bulk and prices fall. The leas the value of a product the less the cost of transportation must be to ena ble it toreach the market, for men can not raise wheat when the cost of car Six Months, 5.00|One ., 0| vinge eats it up bofore it renches the consumer IHE WEE published ev- | ¢ railronds are already complain Rt EURT EALUES [ ing thst the low rates of the last sum- One Year...... 82.00 | Three Months. . 50 Bix Months, 1.00 | One .. 20| mer forced upon them by the freight —_— | war cannot be further reduced and CORRESPt CE—All Communie | dividends paid to stockholders, and be entertained of any further exten Tre B BUSINESS LF Detters and Remit nces shonld be ad dressed to THE OmAnA PupLisiNe Coxe t office Ordeis to be made payable to the PANY, OMAHA. Drafts, Checks and T order of the Compan: OMAHA PUBLISHING C0., Prop'rs Ei. ROSEWATER, Editor. Now has Deen “‘docked’ ““lost time.’ —_— that there Guiteau should be no more Every disorderly dive closed in our city moans less viceand crime among our growing youth. Thk visit of Manager Potter to the Pacific const is believed to have some reference to a Pac outlet from Denver of the Burlington system. Ttlooks as though Sargent was the coming man for secretary of the in- terior. President Arthur will make a grave mistake if he sends in such an appointment. A xomper of Mr, Blaine's friends say that the appointment of Bill Chandler to the navy department will not be considered any compliment to the cause of the retired secretary. Jay Gouun received in his Christ- mas stocking a couple of bankrupted railroads and a few millions of highly watered stock. Nearly the entire country has to contribute to Gould's Christmas presents now-a-days. TrxNEsser is still divided over the question of paying the state debt on which issue u republican governor was elected last year. The entire state is divided into debt payers and law tax men and every possible oh- stacle has been thrown in the way of carrying into effect the law dirécting the issuing of new bonds. Members of the legislature who voted for the law have been charged with bribery, but the charges were not maintained; the matter was taken court in the shape of an mjanction suit and an attempt has just been made to in- fluence the supreme court by whole- sale threatening, but the attempt failed, all judicial dction has so far been in tavor of the debt payers, and it is expected upon all hands that a final decision of the case next month will direct the issuing of the bonds, and that the long fight will then be ended. Novertheless, there is plenty of violent talk, feeling still runs high, and the demecratic party is now div- ided and comparatively helpless. into REceNT newspaper discussion con- corning the Popular Science Monthly, which arose from its publishers with- drawing their names from the North American Review on account of its giving utterance to Ingersoll's views on Christianity, has brought Mr, You- mauns, the editor of the Popular Sci- ence, face to face with those who have accused his magazine of publishing ‘‘everything of interest written by pronounced atheists,” or ot “pro- nounced atheistical tendency.” He denies the chargs, in the form pre- sented, but confesses and defends the publication of articles by Herbert Spencer, Huxley and others holding like opinions. The editor draws the line in this manner: ‘‘Between him who belives that re- ligion is a great and sacred reality and him who denounces it root branch as a delusion originating in fraud and knavery there can be no common ground, There are not the [ United States should take measures to yards, so arranged that an ‘same opinions,’ but diametrically posite opinions. A criticism of reli- gious errors, however treunchant it may be, if it gives the subject sincere and respectful consideration, is as dif- TERS—All Business sive cut in rates liinited | by their roads, the extravagant They are the exorbitant capitalization of salaries | paid to officers, and the great cost of | operating these lines. | Tt is becoming clear that the water transportation for the solution more every year ntry must look to of the problem for the cheap earriage of raw products to the sea hoard. The great water ways of our continents are not limited by man’s greed or avarice. Nature demands no divi dends on her streams and lakes. The west demands of the national government such an imn- provement - of natural highways, as will render them free and unrestricted to all who apply for | their use. By such action it will not | only furnish cheap transportation but force the ri ds to do the same, OUR FOREIGN POLICY The English journals are violently indignant over Mr. Blaine's canal dispatch, and enquire angrily what business the United States has to have a foreign policy which may conflict with those of Kuropean na- tions. The London Economist pro- poses that of the United insist upon abrogating the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, which guaranteed the neutrality of this country, on all questions affecting the cutting of the isthmus, a compro- mise may be entered into bétween the two governments by which the canal, except for the purposes of toll, shall be declared a part of the high seas. This is decidedly cool and refresh- ing. The United States is at peace with all the world and intende to re- Itis for this very reason that she proposes to see to it that no foreign nation shall have an oppottu- nity to pick a quarrel with her o count of her The Pan, main so. definsive weakness, Clayton-Bulwer treaty was a decidedly one sided aflair in which the United States was overreached. The statesmen of the United States have never regarded it with favor, and, although it has stood for the past thirty yeare, steps ought to have beon taken for its abrogation long ago. Thirty years have made a considerable difference in the circum- stances of this republic. Within that period we have grown from 23,000,- 000 to more than 50,000,000 people, Our commorce, foreign and domestic, i8 no longer counted by millions, but by billions, and we have a new na- tion growing up on the Pacific const. Under this changed condition of af- fairs the United States can no longer afford to be bound by a treaty the provisions of which give great Brit- ain, with her prodigious maratime superiority, control of the canal in case of war botween the two countries, Tn whatever “light English statosmen and journalists may regard this iatter, our own gov- ernment should insist upon controlling the canal independently of all other powers. Ne dispomtion xists to close a commercial highway against Eng- land’s trading ships or those of any other country in a time of peace. Self-preservation, however, demands that we should secure oursclves sgainst hostile assaults, and neither England nor any other power should be per- mitted to use the canal for the pur- pose of attacking our Pacific posses- sions during a period of war. Great Britain has so managed that an cuemy and | can only reach her Indian and Aus- | width of the boulevards. tralian possessious by the way of Cape of Good Hope. 1In like manner, the Pacific possessions oxcept by way of China or Cupe Horn, The guarantee of the neutrality of the canal as a portion of the Ameri- THE OMAIIA bill, two or three of these being relics of the last session, Quite likely also the English land laws will be brought up for reform, and the omnipresent Trish question will play no unimport ant part in the debates and iegislation The liberal majority will not feel as onsy a8 it did in the last session, for in the recent ‘‘by-elections” the con- servatives have made considerable waina, After the last the liberals majority of 166 oyer the conservatives, bur the liberals over the other parties seneral election and home rulers had a combined, only 46, The upshot of recent events is that the home rulers are quite inclined to go with the con- servatives against their former allies, } while, les this disaffection, con | servative gains in the special elections amount to twenty votes, Hence, it is apparent, the loss of a few more seats embarrass the liberals, the in possession of the | wonld sorrous even if it did not leave home rulers actually balanee of power, | Capital punishment is rarely inflict- But wh Nabit men to destruction—marrying them {ed in Prussia the Iady in {dulges in of luring poor first and murdering them aftersards _severe measures become necessary. Moved, probably, by some considera tion of this sort, the criminal court of Glatz, in Prussia, has condemned to death a certain Frau Widow Bittuner whois proved tohave poisoned one hus- band sixteen weeks after she became his wife, another honeymoon had been thrice told. The kaiser and king ie said to be extremely reluctant to sign a death warrant, and he can rarely be prevailed upon to do 80; but a man-killing woman is his especial abhorence, and Widow Bitt- ner is not likely to receive a repriove. France is rapidly extending her do- minion in the South Sea lslands and England is becoming exercised over the fact. The great European repub- lic, it appears, does not think of glory in Tunis to the exclusion of the idea of power in the Pacific. There is con- siderable confidence in England that a route for ships across tha Tsthmus of Panama will sooner or later be con- structed. This will to a great extent change the course of travel from Great Britain to New Zealand and A ustralic On the direct line between Panama and New Zealaud lies the Low Archi- pelago. There is no other suitable place for a coaling station between the New Zealand Public opinion and before the L. Crimen. is a British in England of course puts this and that together, with the conclusion that the insig- nificant islands of the archipclago must be held under British control But France long ago, with shrewd foresight, discovered the same advan- tage, and now seeks to extend a pro- tectorate over the coveted soil. The greater part of Fastern Polynesia is under the French flag. The French only last year gained possession of the society group, and, it is believed, they propose to annex everything east of Samoa. The Fiji Islands, almost alone, are left to Great Britain, north of New Zealand. Over these various plots and counterplots, the enlarge- ment of colonial power and mainten- ance of cheap prestige. there are many heart-burnings among the jin- goes on both sides of the channel. Just now, however, beyond doubt, the French are getting ahead of the En- glish. And yet English control is preforred to French by the Polynesian natives. colony. The electric railway in Paris has been 80 successful that it has found capitalists who are ready to support a scheme for its permanent establish- ment, and Messrs. Siomens are en- guged in settling the preliminaries for an elevated electric railway around the vity. The proposed railway is to be about fifteen feot wide, carried on pillars 130 feet to 160 feet apart, which would occupy but a compara- tively small proportion of the total The pro- posed gauge is four feet, and there are to be stations at interval's of 400 intending OP- | prevent an encmy from roaching its | passenger would not have to traverse more than 200 yards to reach a sta: tion, Lord Roseberry, a man careful ferent as auy two things can be from | can coast line is necessary for this in hi'A -uu.xm'enu and friendly . to & spiteful, ruthless, and exasperating purpose, and Secretary Blaine's posi- America, said in a recent speech that assault apon the religious sentiment of the community. And when these opinions are published for no other reason than to startle and shock the public by their audacity, and for no other than a sordid purpose, the case is still aggravated.” Among the twenty articles of this nuwber there are none to be found of the kind so hotly attacked by the religious press of the country, and it is probable the publishers have wisely taken a timely hint Tux great problem of the future for the west is that ot cheap transporta- tion. In no other country is cheap carriage of products as essential an element of prosperity. Our export trade is mainlyin raw articles grown a thousand or more miles from the soaboard and which inust be carried very cheaply to water if it is able to bear [ the public measures to be considered | cral fold by adopting the the expense of tpausportation across | will be nuportant amendments of the | grado tion will receive greater and greater endorsement in this country the more it is studied impartially and in the light of the growth and development of the American people. OTHER LANDS THAN OURS, The English parliament convenos early in February and will find no end of business laid out for it. Up to De- cémber 1, aside from all general’ and politioal measures, motice had been given of intention to apply for 244 private bills, but as the list includes 44 duplicates, the real total is reduced to 200. Last year, before December, only 126 independent measures had beon started. Of the 200 to be asked for, thirty-five relate to railroads, soveral of them concerning new lines or extensions, and the others petition- ing for additional powers. Among the worst Irish outrages were perpe- tratedto satisfy eontributorsin Ameri- ca to Irish relief funds. Lord Rose- berry doubtless believes this; but he, like other Englishmen, is blind to the fact that England faces in Ireland not a row stirred up from abroad, but the last problem which can overtake any society, a challenge by force to the existing distribution of property Such a challenge may be crushed by force, but the collapse of the Irish Land Court, under a tlood of appeals, shows that it cannot be met by any concession short of the cure involved in local solf-government. If England cannot concede this, there is nothing for England to do but hang another bundle of bayonets on the safety valve, Tur ltalian senate has broadened the vlectoral base of government sev- lowest of reading and edueation, the water. Production is growing [rules of the house of commons, a|writing, stripped of any property very rapidly, Rapid production bankruptoy bill, the Riv, ' consery- qualification, as the basis of suffrage, meaus low prices, and the pressure |ance Lill, and the corrupt practices | Lt is one of the singular anomalies of DAILY BEE: Italian polities that the radical dep- ities and the libernl left come from the ignorant, and the conservatives, with most of the centre, from the better educated provinces in northern Itaiy. Tt will not be surprising if this change adds to the national Tt- alian legislature what Ttalian politi have long needed conservative bal last T special asylums for the relief and cure of the aftlicted, Germany 18 de- clared to have the any nation in the world, Jargest number of For deaf asylums, for the 30, and for epi leptics 115 her total is 176, ranks next after Germany 70, England mutes she has 31 blind 31, tor lunatic. France with 65, and Russia last, with only 18 | asylums. Since 1867 no fewer than 2,800 louses in Edinburgh that were pro- nonuced unfit to live in have been pulled down: more than 82,500,000 was at the same time spent in city improvements. The result of this on the death rate is interesting and {instructive, Tn 1863 it was “wenty- 8iX in a thousand. ina thousand. Now it is twenty Large numbers of socialists have recently been expelled from three im- portant German towns; they number inall 420. For each town the num- ber is as follows: Berlin , Ham. burg 195, Leipaic 70. Nearly all have wivee, children and relatives depend- ent upon them for the necessaries of life. England to seek new homes and many have come to these shore. Four of them had been in the Germaun parlia- ment, Many of them have gone to By degrees the public sentiment which forced the English parliament to pass the Irish land act is forcing the courts to construe acts already in existence more liberally in favor of the masses of the people. Justice Denman has just decided that under the reform act of 1867, amended in 1878, the occupant of any furnished or unfurnished room who is not a lodger is entitled to the elective fran- chise. Under this decision manhood sufirage is practically established in English towns and the ballot put into the hands of thousands who never be- fore possessed its power. The government has divided the disturbed localities in Ireland into five or six districts, each of which is to be under a superior magistrate, who will have entire control of troops and police with a view to prompt action in the event of disturbances. This is regarded as a preliminrry step towards the enforcement of the pay- ment of rent. In 60 per cent of the land cases alveady decided by the assistant commissioners appeals have been taken, Thers are now on the docket 300 appeals. ' The chief com- missioners sit for the first time as an appeal court at Belfast, on the Gth of January. Prejudice against American beef does not die out in England, and the SATURDAY, conl in_cold weather and costly ice in warm, life is hardly worth living, unless r in one or both of these one can be a dea necessities,—| Boston Transcript Mark Twain «aid in his Philadelphin speech at the pilgrime’ dioner: “On this ta lo I see water and milk, and even the deadlly lemonade. Y ou are on the down ward path, In a few years you will surely reach cider, Panee while it is not 1an comes ont in a crowd, and ays he will not ran for office, he reminds one very mich of that other man wlo pin- ned a temperance pledge on his coat, s that son me would ask him to drink un th i A Germantown man who owned the house next to him refused to_rent it to a to four old m © of companions! of , have fowls, mtleman went home the other night cold and s | to his wife: *1 Leen told to take hot tea ) tea, celery er ten, baked baved apyle said tea, and burnt sy the kympathizing ch do think you il “If yom h o objeetion.” ‘T think I will take the hot win n detected ste en the cha itting to any to inflict, o of expulsion or yenalty the farner chos chop which was done to the musi “large _concour: people of the pates temptingly So he sentenced them to of specta- wn are put- the way of ter's supply of fuel rendy for them. Tho Same Dear Hand. The bells ring out a happy sound, The earth is mantled o'er with white, It is the merry Christmas night, And love and n’irth and joy abound. And here sit you and here sit I 1 should be happiest in the land, For oh! T hold the same dear hand I've held for many a year gone by It ix not withered up with care— Tt is as fresh and fair to see As sweet to hold and dear to me As when with chimes upon the air, On Christuias nights of years ago 1 held the same dear, little thing And felt fts soft caresses bring The flushes to my throbbine brow. Ah, we were born to never part “This Jittle hand I hold to-night And I-s0, with a strange delight 1 press it to my beating heart. And in the midnight s solemn hush 1 bless the little hand I hold Tn broken whispers be it told Tt is the old-time bob-tail flush! RELIGIOUS. Bishop Stevens will officiate at the con- secration of Dr, Courtland Whitehead as bishop of Pittsburg, to take place January 20:h. Rev. Mr. Jenckes havin, rectorship of Paul’s Episcopal church at Des Moines, the vestry has extended a call to Rev. W. H, Van Antwerp, of Lah- way, N. J,, but formerly of Omaha, The Rev. Nicholas A. Gallagher, now Vicar-General at Columbus, O., has been appointed Coadjutor Bishop of the Roman See of Gialveston, T' he Rev. Mr, iallagher was ad; strator of the diocese Columbus e death of the late Bishop Rosecrai Mr. Joseph M. nett, of Philadel- phia, has given a rite in that city, em- bracing about 11 acres, for the propored Methodist Orphan Asylum which Mrs., Bishop Simpson is especially intevested in, and for which .000 has been raised. ’lf‘llle site is at Five P ints, on the Schuyl- 1l “Fhe annual sale of the pews in the Cen- tral Congregational cburch, Brooklyn, of which the %{e\'. Dr, H. M. Scudder is rosigned the pastor, resulted in the receipt of 219,000 or rental, and premiums for choica of $2,- 00 The salary paid to Dr. i is 8,000, and the annual expent church is %10,000 more, The free-cl:urch system among the Epis- copnl churches of Massachusetts has ad- vanced so far that there are now about forty parishes where the sittings are en- tirely free; some partly through endow- ments, some through gifts, but many car- consequence is that many butchers sell the imported meat, which is really better than the home-grown, for ‘‘English beef,” while any one who wants some of the cheaper American beef is given a piece of an inferior British animal. At one London mar- ket beef is sold for what it is and has won a high reputation. It is often said that meat which takes an ocean passage of ten or twelve days in a refrigerator is better than that cut up and sold and perhaps euten the day after killing. The English have a cu- rious practice of sellinga ‘“beef crit- ter” at so much a pound through, from whatever part a piece is cut, so that the best pieces bring very much less than in this country, while the inferior parts fetch more, ago Liverpool received no American dressed beet; now it takes 3,000 quar- ters or more a week. The ofticial navy list for Germany for the year 1882 has been published, and it appears that the entire fleet now comprises seven armored frigates, five armored corvettes, twelve un- armored spar-deck corvettes, five gun- boats of the first class, one armored battery, thirteen armored gunboats, two still in process of construction, four torpedo boats, four mine layers, three gunboats of the second class, eight dispatch vessels, a transport, eleven training and school ships, eleven vessels for harbor service, and eight pilot boats. —_— PEPPERMINT DROPS, *‘Fxcuse the impudence of the clerk, as he is my son,” is the sign havglng up in an Towa hotel. A New Yrok tourist who ate an alliga- tor beefstek in Florida didn't get the taste out of his mouth until he had eaten balf a pock of oniuns und four dozen herrings. New Jersey in exhibiting a cow which has hooked Q:’vn boys to d'eath, broken a man's arm and crippled a woman, A de- faulting bank teller would stand no show in that state, ‘What is the moon good for? asked Prof. Miller; “what are its principal uses!” And the smart boy looked np from the foot of the class and said: *To rest the gas companies,” *What is the greatest charge on record?” asked the professor of History, And the absent-minded student answered: Seven- teen dollars for hack hire for self and gir] for two hours. "~ [ Puck, . The patent oftice s isued patents on 591 different styles of spring beds, and yet the number of men who cowe in at widnight and pull off their boots with the fire screen is on the incroase, Lt is predicted that the ice will be hizh wext summer, What with bigh-p ic.d | Five years | » ried on in entira dependence upon what the people vonscientiously contribute from Sunday to Sunday at the ervices, The congregation of the church in Washington where the late president Ciar- field used to worship have decided on a plan for the erection of A new memorial church, Xknough funds are on haod to warrant A beginning. 1t is proposed to to erect Rthe edifice on the site including that of the old church. It will be eighty- five fect wide and one hundred and ton feet deep. The Bishop of Rochester, which in- cludes a part_of London, says he has 1,- 800,000 souls i is ‘diocese, There are soven parishes with more than 20,000 souls, five with more than 15,000, fourteen with more than 12,000, and ninteen with more than 10,000, There are also twenty-two parishes with incomes less than ~£400 year where no curate was kept, Seyenty- three churches are needed. On the 2d of January the pre mad- for Synodical reorganization in the Pr:sbyterian church will go into effect, All the synods in each state will be con- idated, so that the synodical boundaries shall conform to state lines, There will be 23 wynods under the new regulation, two of which are abroad. The synod of New York will contain 20 Preshyteries, 1040 ministers, 792 churches, and 130,574 com- municants, Bishop Hennessy in a recent sermon spoke. the increase of the Catholic church in Towa, In no state in the union, he eaid, has the progress of the faith heen more rapid, demanding an increased niim- ber of priests. Sixteen years ago when the preseut. bishop assumed charge there were in all Towa but forty-five priests; now, after the diocese has been cut in twain, the northern half, the less densely populated, has more than 140 priests, an there are some parishes without any priests The Rev, John Davies, in the course of his sermon at the Chapel Royal, St. Jumes' Paluce, Christmas Day, reforred to the apoearance of the revised edition of the New Testament as one of the most re. markable events of the present year, The demand for the work among Anglo Saxon peoples, he said, was an exceptional event in history. He also ref to the im- portance with which the appearance of the work was awaited in the United States, to which country he said the greatness of future nations belongs. At Plymouth church Rev, H. W. er received 18 persons into mem- bership during the last official year, 170 of these joining on confewion "of faith, Forty-nine of the new members were men, the balance w . There were str'cken from the roll durivy the year, l.i' death, 18 men and 18 women; by dismission, 20 men and 14 women. and by discipline, 34 men and 87 women. This left a net in. crease of 43 in mewbership, making the total number of members now on the roll 2,084, of which 1,679 are women. The total number of scholars in the Plymouth Sunday schools and missions 15 given as 2,398, and there are 204 officers and teachers. ous A Lady's Wish. “Oh, how I do wish my skin was as clearand soft as yours,” said a lady to her friend. *'You cau easily make it 80," answered the friend “How?" inquired the first lady. 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