Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 2, 1882, Page 4

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Every dollar saved in the transpor- tation of commodities is a dollar inthe pockets of the producers. — Severan of our saloon men have turned over a new leaf with the new year by going into a businoess in which Slocumb has no interest. —_— O~NE of Omaha's New Year's reso- lutions should be to securc at es ocarly a date as possible good and substan- tial paving for her principal streets. EtoureeN hnndred and eighty-one has gone and the world still moves. Mother Shipton can now be laid on the shelf with other antiquated frauds. Tur Cleveland Leader denies the story that Mr. Hayes refused to sub- scribe to the Garfield monument fund. The ex-president put down his name for $260. Mr. Hayes is eaid to bo worth over §800,000, a large portion of which was inherited from his Uncle Burchard, ONE of the most striking commen- taries on the value of our public school system is shown by the census roturns that the illiterate class pro- duces on the averago thirty times as many paupers and ten times as many criminals as the class having a reason- able common school edueation, HaviNg been elected president of the Wabash company, Jay Gould sig- nalized his accession by passsing the January dividend. A heavy decline in stock was the natural consequence and in a few days we shall hear that Gouid's game of freeze out on the smaller stockholpors has been success- ful. DuriNG the past year $200,000,000 has been invested in railroads in the United States. This vast amount of capital awaits profitable returns in the shape of dividends and a large portion is placed in watered stock of shaky corporations. At least $12,000,000 additional annually will now be levied as a tax on the people of the country. Tur census of 1880 gives the wool clip of last year as 35,100,868 fleeces of 156,680,493 pounds aggregate weight; adding second clip in Texas and California, 12,000 pounds, and 30,000,000 to 35,000,000 pounds of pulled wool, the total product would be 228,000,000. Ohio led the states in yield of wool, its clip amounting to 26,006,766 pounds. California gave the next largest production (spring clip), 16,798,036 pounds. The dif- ference in number of fecces produced in the two states was not so great as these figures would indicate, Califor- nia yielding 4,162,349 and Ohio 4,- 902,480, The average weight of the Iatter was 6.10 pouuds, and of the former 4.04 pounds. The lightest floeces wore clipped in New Mexico-- 1.92 pounds each. In New York fleeces averaged 5.14 pounds each, and the 1,715 180 taken yiold 8,827,000. SyarL rox s rapidly spreading throughout the weat and the disease is noted as being of a peculiarly fatal type. It is now provalent m portions of Towa, Kansas, and Dakota and has broken out with great violence in sev- eral of the Indian reservations. 8o far no cases have been reported in Omsha, but there is good reason to spprehend that our city canvot entirely escape a disease which seems to be becoming epidemic. It is the duty of our peo- ple to use every preventive against the possible arrival of the scourge and at the ssme time to protect themselves againat its spread should it put in an sppearance. This paper has no inten- tion of getting up & amall pox scare, but it believes that every one who has not been vaccinated within the last seven years should st once take this precaution against the disease. No fact is more theroughly substantiated than that vaccination is & sure and cheap romedy sgainst small pox. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. THE YEAR'S BUSINESS The yoar which has just drawn to a close has furnished a remarkable com- mentary on the clasticity of American trade and industry and the stability In the face of a partial failure of crops, en tailing a loss of £400,000,000 in the value of our yearly products, a remark of the basis of our prosperity. ible extension of our railroads, which taxed severely the financial resources of the country and a disastrons war of rates, which greatly drained the dividend paying powers of our rail roads, the general condition of trade and mdustry 18 as satisfactory as it has been for many years, and the prosperity of the nation remains ap- parently unimpaired. The dangers which threatened the commercial interests of the country during the past year have been great and numerous. The terrible winter prolonged late into the spring, blockaded all roads, and seriously crippled a large number of lading trunk lines. Trade and transporta tion was greatly interrupted, the movement of the crops was impeded, much grain was winter kilied, and the loss in cattle on many of the ranges was enormous. The snow had hardly melted before a season of destructive floods came which did enormous damage and retarded planting, and theso were quickly fol- lowed by the longest and severost drought which the country has ever known and which extended over the greatest area recorded in the history of the country. Hay and crops were burnt, animals were starved or killed to escape the loss of feeding, and man- ufacturers wore arrested at many points by lack of water, The New York Public attributes the railroad war to this extraordinary succession of unfavorable weather. For the ex- traordinary weather led railroad man- agors to expect a greater loss of crops than actually resulted. They sold their stocks early in the year, and have been waging a great war of rates for six months in ordor to get back the samc stocks at lower prices. Strictly speaking, the actual loss of crops did less harm, considerable as it was, than the exaggerated expec- tation of loss of crops. Early in the summer it was very gonerally believed that there would not be half a crop of wheat. The whole world was care fully advised that this country would not have wheat enough for its own consumption, and that the bad planting seagson would make the corn ecrop a failuro also. Even with the terrible drouth which followed, the yield of all grains proved greater than was an- ticipated in May or June. But the expectation of great disaster set on foot gigantic speculations, not only in railroad stocks, but.in wheat, corn, oats and cotton. Prices were soon rushed up to the point at which, it is now evident, they cannot be main- tained. High prices here caused for. eign consumers to supply their needs as largely and quickly as possible from other sources, and thus deprived us of markets for our surplus. The enormous speculations ab- sorbed an immense capital, and caused monetary pressure. ‘The act- ual decreaso in yield, now supposed to be over 90,000,000 bushels of wheat and 440,000,000 bushels of corn, was largely neutralizod by stocks left over from last year, so that there is now littlo reason to expect that markets can be found for the surplus actually vn hand. Thus, while the real decreaso in yield, at last year's prices, would involve aloss of over $300,000,000 in wheat and corn, and a vory large sum in other grains, hay, vegetables, fruit, animal food, and cotton, the loss was greatly increasod by speculation based upon expecta- tion of much heavier loss, To add to the disturhance caused by speculation came the assassination of President Giarfield which created dis- trust, disturbed values, and for a time retarded business and checked enter- prise. Still the wonderful confidence of the country never deserted it. De- spite of theso most extraordinary events commerce, trado and industry have advanced with great strides, The aggregate tonnage ronds and canals s reported as mmch larger than during amy preceding year. Tho exchanges were greater by over 26 per cent than in 1880, indicatinga remurkablo increase in the general business, and even when tho speculative elemont is elim- inated at least 20 per cent. more trade has been transacted in this country than during the preceding twelve wonths, which is indeed a remarkable showing, The country now enters upon the new year with overy prospect of oon- tinued properity. The only cause for alarm is n the speculative mania which has 80 often threatened value and created distrust, If this receives the check which the sober judgment of capitalists would dictate, 1882 promises to be the most remarkable year in commercial, industrial and agricultural development which our country hus ever witnessed. — Neskaska stands tenth in the nnm- moved on rail- ber of wiles of amilroad track laid in forty-two states and territories. —— The telephone rexvice in Des Moiues is pronounced » buisane. Some dhfmlrd subscribers are throwing out their fustru- wents, [HE OMAIA DAILY B! IOWA BOILED DOWN, Marshalltown is consideiing the paving uestion, Des Moines is promised a paper mill in the spring. Material it on the ground for a street railway in Red Oak, The present population of Humboldt i Vetween 900 and 1,000, 1. T, Barringer will try the culture of pine trees in Palo Alto county The wi ter term of Grinnell college will esmmence on the Oth of Jaunary, The new German Evange T Pocahontas county unsold school land, known as the 16th <ection lands Small 1 at Atlan getting A citizens’ meeting in Davenport the other day votedunanimously for a paid fire department. The Catholia congregation at Carroll have purchased a bell weighing 1,200 pounds; price, $400. Creston now has eight salo ns, which cach pay an annual license of 81,600, a yearly revenue to the city of 812,000, The Webster county tax lists for 1881 +how a total assessment of 83,437,236, on which is raised a total tax of 2115, 83, The new Odd Fellows’ hall at Keokuk x is vetting altogether too plenty e, and neighboiing towns are 1 was thrown open to the public last week. 1t in one of the finest halls in the west. Work in atill in progress on the railroad running from Manning to Audubon, but it will be at least two months before 1he track is laic, Boone is red hot, having on hand a church rcandal, a Sunday school scandal, a scho 1 seandal and half a dozen common scandals, The product of the Boone county coal mines for the year just closing is placed at 2,250 tons per day, valued at the mines at 81 per ton, The city of Burlington has just recov- ered fr.mthe estate of John Taylor 816, 000 for back taxes, which Mr, Taylor dur- ing hix lifetime avoided paying by false awearing. The little town of Asbury, five miles west of Dubuque, is excited over the elope- ment of Nathaniel Thomas, aged 60, with Mrs. Mullholland, aged 40. The latter left a husband and several young chil- dren. The mayor of Daveuport hay issned a proclamation requiring general vag tion. This applies particularly to children, who must pre-ent o phys certificate before attendivg schools at the close of the holiday vacation, Chas, L. Hallock, a young man of Exira, has been held in §1,000 bonds t» answer for the sedu tion of Miss Edith DeLong, of Pottawaitamie county, the Intter at the time of tie offense being a wember of the family of the young man's father. Mre. Mary Aar n, the oldest woman in Dubuque county, died on the 27th, 965 yenrs, or four years o'der th u the con stitution of the United States, She was born in slavery, but was Lought out of it by her hushand, though ex-Senator Jomes, over fifty ycars ago. The Hawkeye a has list of the improvem:nts in Burlin ton in 1881, an | wwys the ngurozate expenditure is over £000,000. Of this sum 348,000 is cred it dto the Chicago, Bur ington & Quincy road. ‘The next largest expenditure is for the Burlington opera house. Davenp rt requires a license to be taken cut by grocers. dry hake & and other tradesmen of 85,50, including the city clerk’s fee: bil'iurd and pool table houses, ench 816; real estete agents, 810 50; hacks, $10.50; drays, 83; expres wagons, 85,5 tioneers, 100, and ped- dlers, §120 per annum, Hon. L. S. Ax'eli of Boomer township Pottawattamie cornty, a former member of the state legislature and present post- master in his town, was probably fatally in{ured on Christmas day by the acciden- tal discharge of his lfl‘ . The muzzle of the gun was under wnt arin at the time and the contents through his arm .01 entered the 1ight side of the face, ebster City note, duted the 25h, says: “‘Zublin & Eastman have ju-t sunk & drive well, near the east b idge on Boone river, for the | urpose of starting » creamery next eprlng. When at a depth of thirty-six feet they struck water, of the fenine centrifugal quality, which propels taclf four or five feet ubive the surfuce of the earth. The strewm fills a pipe one inch in diameter,” The supreme court of Towa has decided that where a justice of the peace, by error of judgment, conceives an act to bo & folony which'is not, and & man is im- prisoted thereby, the person making the complaint is liable for such false imprison- went, under an actiou for mulicious prose- cution, In action to recover dam:ges for the unlawful sule of intoxicating liquor, from the owner of premises whereon such sale is made, it must be shown that the owner of the premise« consented to such sale. It is not enough that he had knowl- edge of it and did not object, From the report of the commissioner of internal revenue for the fiscal year endin; 80 151 biet llowing 1" gleansd. contained four factories und made 23,269 pound of plug and 2,698 pounds of smoking tobacco, the total product eing 25,948 pounds, and manufactured 20,282, 209 cigars. The state operated three grain distillories whoke individual ca pacities was above 500 of grain per day, using H47, bushels of grain during the yoar. total quantity of spirits ex- orted during the year was 1,963,642 wul- ons. The total exportation was 337,370 gallona below what it was last year, a to tal of 9. ilons in whiskies bringing this up 1 STATH JOITINGS. Wymore is not ripe for rye guire. Hog cholera iy reported in Stanton county. The signal service hus made C'rete a ig- nal station, Nebruska City has soured on the vioe: gar factory. A History club has been organized at Central City. The Boatrice pork packing has bugun slaughteiing, Humboldt's carriage factory employs twenty-five men. Duvid City expended 28,000 in build. iug and improvsiments during 'S1. ‘There are no saloons in Louisville, yet holig hiwarity mingled with uncorked spirits, Wheeler county is beginning to loom, and Cumminsville has an eye single on the ocounty seat. The next meeti: Medical Society in May next, Miss Browne, of Aurora, swallowed the contenta of the wiong hottle and narrowly escaped death, The explosion of a lighted lantern in the Baptist church at Pawnee Uity nearly created & panic, George Cahoon, of Hall county, was {"ud by his girl, and is now in ufi' state nsane asylum, Uy, exults over the item of $3500 freight charges, on goods delivered ’;1 the town during November. The editor of the Hardy Herald has joined the countless throng of editoria postinasters in Nebraska, Plattamouth has organized & debating socie'y. The rattle of jaw bones will pow be heard oo Quality hill. any dis- of the Nebraska State 1l be held at Hastings Johu Tangeman, his son Herman, und Mike Bachler, are putting up a large flour will at Talmage station, on the l'rfin Par cifi The Decatur coal prospect hole is bot- tomless, Tho tubing aud deill foll 1uto & MO cavity after they had gone over 600 foct, onl yet, o B, & M. rond Jacks only 15 miles of pleted to the Missonri_river, in wh ch gap will be closed up early in the spring. The U. P, snrveyors are at work in ( ty, n few milex sonth of the Lan yanty line, and hope to reach I3 a in a few days. Two farmers near Valparaizo indulzed in horse race with farm wagons one duy last week. resulting in one of them being thrown out and badly brui The tax delirquents of Wahoo are frothivg. The treasnser sent ont & d nm- harged five per ¢ in aid s nce the howl, he Madison Chr. nicle has diccovered meanest man, He owel thres years subacr ption, ¢ o of which he pail, in or. der to reduce the amount helow a snitable claim, B. B, Mills, of Republican City, now i the Black Hills, has sent to his fri nd apecimen of the oil of northein Wy 3 where he has made a1 cation. The oil is of a reddish brown color and, being pl iced on pajer, the oil sonks through leaving a sediment re embling pulverized soapstone. The four _months’ babe of Mra. Me. Alary, of Weeping Water, was frightful- ly burned an | disfigured t week, It fell from a rocking chair on 'hestove, and, althouch instantly rescued, a portion of the face an | tongue stuck fast to the hot iron. The little sufferer is reported deing well, ja¥cemont's Herriny was nearly boxed la t week. He swallowed twenty dro:s of choral to ease ;. pain below the belt, but o stomach pump relieved him, He next mutilated his arm with a piece of glass, which alwo failed to shuftie him of A third attempt was equa'ly fruitless, and he is now abroad looking for the unloaded shotgun. Ben. Beckett, a manipulator «f mint julips, at Fremont, looked down th> barrel of & six shooter in the hands of C. L. Jew ell of Colorido, one evening 1 st week For a minute or two theprospect of a fune- ral was above par, hut Sheriff Gregg flashed on the scene and set the spa kling Jewell where the brightest rysof sun. whive pale and die out. Jewell came eas to av nge the wrongs of his sister and pun ish her bet ayer, but he struck the wrong man. He has sobered up and returned ‘o his mountain retreaf a CORNING, IA, A Very Busy and Well Laid Out City. Conxixa, Adams county, Towa, Do cember 27 —~Twenty-five or thirty years ago Dr. Loomis, so well-known all over the middle and easternstater, and for many years president of Alle- ghany college, located and laid out Corning, Adams county, and, it iv said, is still owner of many valuable lots here, worth thousands of dollars. The duc- tor had just made a tour of the world, stopping eight or ten years in the Orient, principally in China and Japan, and when he used to talk so familiarly of the ‘pig-tailed” Celes- tial, who paints his shoes white when he blacks them, ard lets ouc his bowels to atone for having forfeited the honor of wearing two swords by defrauding the government ina ‘“‘land grab,” or mail contract, and sandwich his eastern pictures with scenes and invidents of “Our Great West" we placed China on the other side of the great gult of impossibilities, but west- ern Jowa was next in the scale of wonders, and we hoped some time to ‘go west.” Ten or twelve years ago, wien the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad came along here seek- ing a roadway to Omaha, it found a half dozen houses and a postoffice and several pretensious little towns wrest- ling vigorously for the county seat. But Corning, like its illustrious name- sake, Erastus Coruing, was a success, and to-day it is one of the most pic- turesque young cities in the state. LOCATED about eighty-five miles from Omaha onthe C, B. & Q railroad, on the eastern branch of the Nodaway, and, like the claseical Athens, the ‘‘city of the violet crown” in the Central plain of Attica, surrounded by little hills on every side but the south, this modern Athens, is on a southern slope, with its railroad statione sur- rounded by lumber yards, elevators, grain houses, corn bins, coal and brick yards, shops and foundries, at the foot, while along the slope, now being graded by the city engineers, are the busineas streets, with a public square still further up on the hill, and the court house beyond in a com- manding position, and where the student of nature may have his fill of the sight-seeing. Tu the eastward, spread out like a map, are the fenced fiolds along the gentle side hills, with here and there a farm house, and wagon roads stretching for miles away over hills and valleys, the iron horse in the velley, and the clean fields re- minding ono of the Susquchanma scenery from a mountain top. To the south the railroad with its buss line, to the east the quiet scevery of rural lifo, to the north and west, the throng of little mounds covered with native timber, that almost hide the clean and beautiful dwell ings, seem to fll up the picture with a “‘bold relief,” while on every hill top, and away in the back ground still higher, muy be seen princely mansions in the modern atyles of architecture peering out above the trees, and whose towers stand like sen- tinels on the walls to champion and command the legions on the plains, The loug lines of sidewalks, so well kopt, crossing each other like the streets in the city of brotherly love, are seen to advantage from this stand- point, aud when the city fathers shall finish the grading and cease to imitate Omaha by blocking up the sidewalks with building mnwrinrnud new flag- stones, this soonery might well furn- ish & -nbimt for the painter. The splendid flag pole that stood by the oourt house, painted white and bound with iron, aleenu(iull of the purity and strength of the republican party, and that carried the stars and stripes now the county seit of in the campaigns of ‘80,000 majornty,” has been taken down and ‘‘gone into dry-dock,” while Adams county this fall, as in the last legislature, hes a representative tooindependont for the “straight republicans,” but sensible and straight enough to get the votes of this intelligent county. THE GROWTH DAY ,JANUARY 2 .88 rolling, with good soil, well ac grazing, and the northern half counted smong the best wheat and corn lands in the state, while there is plenty of water and timber along the Nodaway wid other streams, and good water is found in abundance by digging tifteen to twenty feet. Looking about for some noticeable buildin scattered around within a mile husiness centre, very many costly and clegant residences ranging, probably in cost, atfrom $20,000 to $50,000 each, and among the owners we find D. 8. Sigler, Frank M. Davis, A. M mer, H. Rawson, G W, , while several large brick busi- ness houses are being finished this winter, and more to follow. Two good banks, six churchéds, two hotels, a $20,000 brick school house, a stone jail, a steam mill, a foundry and machine shop, two liery stables, two or three elevators, a half dozen law firms, and as many physicians, brick yards, stock yards, creamery, started this fall, two or three good stene quarries, plenty of waod, hickory, elm, maple, cherry, bass- wood, cottonwood aud oak at 3 50 to £5 per cord, and the best of soft coal at 84 per ton, delivered, and a dozen active little towns in the county, which are largely supplied here. Prominent among the hittle villages is CARBON, eight miles to the northwest, on the middle Nodaway, with a population of 300, having two or three churches, three or four stores, two hotels and ono of the finest mills in this part of the state, which is owned by Frank M. Davis, of Corning, who is employ- ing the modern improvemen's to make it a model mill, and altogether this is a lively little town, with 2 tri-weekly mail. ~ Half way to Carbon we pass QUINCY, the old county seat, with two or three stores and several small shops, still alive, while four miles north of Quincy is the village of EUREKA, having 100 or 200 inhabitants, a mill, stores, postoftice, shops, &e. MOUNT £TNA, ton miles north of Corning, is a pleas- ant village of about 300 souls, and has a mill, creamery, several stores, shops, churches and timber. CARL, like Eureka, is on the Middle Noda- way, four miles east of Mount Etna, and’ twelvo miles from Corving, and containg 200 or 300 people, with one ot two churches, several stores md shops. NEVINVILLE, in the northeast corner of the coun- ty, and twenty miles from the court- house, ‘was laid out, perhaps twenty years ago, for a city, and built up lurgely by a colony from the Western Reuserve, is a scattered town of 200 or 300 people, with four stores and churches, and a good graded school. The Methodists have this fall dedi- cated a very good church. THE ICARIAN COMMUNITY. Three or tour miles east of Corn- ing is a peculiar institution, or asso- ciation, that is said to have branched off from Nauvoo, and rettled here thirty years years ago. They speak the pure Freuch, maintain the family, but eat at one common tuble, manage their business through a central com- wittee, dress in the primitive and prescribed fashion, are somewhat clanish in their dealings with others, are usually industrious, and vote the republican ticket. They have until within a short time, lived in log houses, gegerally, but the s.ciety has been divided, the younger cliss being destrous to adopt the costume of other pfil;lnlc about them and build good wodern houses, and this they are now doing, and they form a community by thewselves. The two form a settle- meut of about one hundred persons, with a good mill, shops and trading houses pecuhiar to their notions, and made a severo struggle for the county seac when that (uestion had to be set- tled, Nodaway and Brook, westward on the railroad, have been noticed in a former letter, and Presc it aud Crom- well, eastward on the same road, will be noticed in another. CORNING, with & population of 2,000 or 3,000 hus so far neglected its manufacturing interests, and the private enterprise lights the more important street cross- ings on dark nights. A wind mill and water tank, fur- nishing water to two ‘‘plugs” in the business part of the town, is the only fire departmeut that can help the ‘“bucket brigade,” and this sesson, when the corn and wheat crops are a general failure here, and the business interests lack their usual activity, the city wonld suffer a severe loss if u firo would start in some of the ‘‘wooden rows,” in the business part of the town, and then the door would be lucked when the horse is stolen, I'he vative torest here has added much to the beauty of the city, and the artful display of evergreens and ornamented trees and flowering shrubs in great varioty, and the gen- eral good taste in laying out lawns ~ and door yards, and laying out and improving a park in the heavy native timber, when oak, cherry, hickory and elm, m stately proportions, aro contrasted with the delicate cut leaf weeping birch, larch, and the Kilmarnack willow indicate an enterprise and refiuement beyond » speculation or a stock broker. Among the leading business houses we notice the mammoth store of TWINING BROTHERS, Hardly anywhere in weastern Iowa have we met such wide-awuke, ener- getic men, and they carry a larve stock of drugs, holiday goods, books, and musical instruments, They ai located in one of the best situations in the place and do a very largo business by selling the best goods at the lowest figures, !(A. soon as we mounted the hill by the court-house and looked over the trading houses, it struck us that some one was being sold out here b{ the sheriff and we hurried along wit! the people on the street to see the fun. The room was full, and Christ- mas olose at hand, the windows full of goods, and the sidewalk crowded. A wagon going up the street was car rying away a fine organ, and another was beiug loaded in a dray, backed up of the town is an important and no- ticeable feature. The whole country is suitable for farming, being quite by the sidewslk, and @ laughing gen- tleman, without a hat, was securing the packiug and giving orders quiet- ly, and we at once asked who was do- Ato g all this, and the clerk turned in v astonished way to inquire if wo had been loug in the United ates, and we went away, asking John Garvin to explain, and he whis- pered that everybody knew these boys were brothers of Mrs, Santa Claus, and that the old man had set them up in business, aud at the close of the year he keeps them looking up the dividends while he takes an in- ventory; and he sends the man who tunes organs and pians out the house because he is very sensitive and can- not bear the noise, although he 18 a good man in that business, and_they don't want to lose him, for by his holp they are selling instruments at the rate of 5,000 or £10,000 worth year, They read Tre Bee. The banking house of Geo. W, Frank & Dorrow have large, beautiful rooms for their business, and do a heavy business. One of the curiosi- ties we saw whilo eyeing their papers was an original and very comprehen- sive form of a check on the bank, given to a farmer for some corn, and is as follows : Geo. W. Frank & Darrow, bankers, pay to Thomas Goodenough, or order, twenty-five dollars, in full (advanced) for 2 loads, each 26 bushels, of his best, select, corn, no poor ears amongst it. Signed J. STEPANDPETCHRM. Mont & Brown, an energetic law firm, are located in Mann’s block and have the reputation of doing a good business and are thorough men. The press is represented here by A, B. Shaw & Co., who publish the Adams County Union, a *‘true blue” republican, and W. H. Hoxie, who works off one or two thousand of the Guzette overy week. Brother Hoxie is pretty well known at home and abroap, and don't ‘‘go much” on moncpoly, with his “oldest paper in the county.” A. J. Salts, M. D., after an ab- sence of several years has returned like Rip Van Winkle, to resume his business, and finds he is last in the city he had helped to make, he furniture business is monopo lized by the Hallistree Bros., whoare very gentlemanly business men, and read The Bre. Farrington & Reynolds in the grain and coal trade are gentlemen of culti- vation and thorough business men, of tbroad 1deas, and many years ex perience, and believe in Tue Ber John W. Bixby, of the law and insurance firm ot John Bixby & Son, is one of the enterprising business men of the place who carries respol sibility with safety, and, as a_justice of the peace, is an honor to the people who have elected him, and we were placed under obligations to hum for assistance in looking up the ihterest of the town and this paper. Shuman, Allen & Co. seem to lead off in’the role of meat venders, while W. 8. Lyon has the restaurant and confectionery and a good business that keeps him happy. The Park house sends a free 'bus to the trains and W J. Gavain, the quiet and gentlemanly proprietor, and his pleasant and accomplished wife, krow how to ‘‘keep a hotel,” and they have plenty to do, for the travel- ing men know where to find a home when in Corning. There 18 one other attraction just now here, Col. W. W. Patterson, of Kearney, Neb, who built the first house in Creston, and laid out Kear- ney, and who has been 1dentified with many of 1ts in.provements, and who was with Col. Thorp in Omaha and Lincoln, four years ago, and who has been engaged in various parts of the United States for years in the manu- facture of artificial s.one, has just se- cured a patent on & new process fer manufacturing stone, much cheaper and of greater utility than anything heretofore known. The principal features of this new invention and wonder are a finish with which he coats the stone where a polish or fine surface is needed, as fine and more durable than marble, and in any color imaginable. The uniting of the stone into one solid stone, so that a house can be made of one solid stone, as though chiseled from the solid rock, cellar, foundation, floor, walls and roof, and the coating of inside and outside, finished with the same material, in all the styles fancy may sugyest, and the same may be applied to the brick walls of buildings, making them like marble, and that will stand fire and water. The colonel proposes to send some men into Nebraska to put up houses, lay sidewalks, make hog pens and grain houses, bank vaults, chimneys, stoves and stove linings, fire-walls wherever they are needed, mill-dams, cellars in low ground or in the water, churches and dwellings, and control the waters of the Miss- souri and keep them within bounds, ard doit at avery low figure, just what the sand cost. “The colonel has made plenty of money for other people, and some of the first business men of the npation are taking hold of this and recognizing that it is really a great invention, and as soon as the colonel has put his house in order here he will return to Kearny to stay while he lives, and already he is constantly receiving ap plications for territory, which he always rofuses, saying he will manage the business himself, Think of fire- proof, marble walls that don't cost any more than common plastering, and then ask, ‘‘what next?"” BUCKEYE. Nil Desperandum. When your girl gives you t he mitten, and ou feel your heart is broke, Don't give w)y to black dispair, but treat i as & joke, Get your health 1n first-class order, a bot- il of Spiivg Blossom buy, And gaily join » singing class, and for an- other sweetheart try. P ice 70 cents, trial bottles 10 cents 2 1w Matter of Application_ of Justis Keaster for Liquor Lices NOTICE Notice is hsnh{ iven that Justis Kess. ler did npon the day of December, A, D., 1881, file his avplication to the Mayor and ( Ilr Couneil of Omuha, for license to well Malt, Spirituous and Vinous Liguors, at Thirteenth, between Pierce and Wil. liam street, Second ward, Omaha, Neb,, from the 1st duy of January, 1882, to the 10th day of April, 1882, 1f there be no objection, remonstrance or proteat filed within two weeks frem De- cember 9th, A, D,, 1851, the said license will be gra. ted. KESSLER, A plicant. Titk OMaBA DAy BrE newspaper will publish the «bove 1otice for two weeks at the expense of the applicant. The City of Oniaba is not be charged therewith, J, L O JEWETT, Deql9-12¢ City Clerk, s — Qo T o FARMS, ands. For Sale By BEMIS, FIFTRENTH AND DOUGLAS S8, —— No. 268, Full Jot fenced and with emall bulld ing on Capitol Avenue near 25th streot, 700, fior 267 T arge lot o block 95 by 270 fect on Hamilton, near Irone street, $2,600, No. 266, Full corer lot on Jenes, near 15th street, §3,000. No. ‘263, Two lote ou Center street, near Cum- ing strict, 890, No. 252, Lot onSpruce street, near 6th stroet, 50 ga1S- 291, Two loka on Seward, near King strvet, ¢ - 251}, Lot on Seward, near King street, No. 249, Half lot on Dodge, near 11th street 82,100, No, 247, Faur beautiful residence lots, near Creighton College (or will sell 8 parate), 83,000 No, 246, Two lots on Charles, near Cuming 46}, Lot on ldaho, near Cuming street, A . Lot on Farnham, near 15th street, 24,000, No. 2.3, 1ot €4 by 133 feet on College streot, fary's Av . 0 No. 233, 120x152 feet on H Uit up), $2,400. TIXBI0 fe 2, Lot on Vier sirce 231, | ot 41700 feet, ue and 22d strect, 31,0 7, Two lofa on Docatur, i ar e sroet, ) each, { ot 143 30-110 by 441 fect on Sherman Aveuuo (16th str et), near Grac 0. N Lot 23xit fect on Dodge, near 13th make an offer. rd, $600. A ovenue &, 200 . .cholis stieet, 7, Two lots on 16 b, near Pacificstreet, 00, No. 205, Two lots on Castellar, near 10th street, I, 0. 204, beautitul residence lot on Division strect, near ¢ ming, §550. No.'208, Lot «n Saunders, near Hamilton street, $860. No.199}, Lot 16th street, near Pacifi-, 8500, No. 195}, Three lots on Saunders stroet, near Seward, 81,800 No. 1984, Lot on 20th street, near Sherman No. 104}, Two lots on 22d, Dear Grace street 0 e ch, No. 1014, two lots on King, near Hamilt 500, street, g1, No. 192 lotson 17th street, near White Lead W rks, $1,060. No. 1884, one full block, ten lots, nar the bar- racks, $405. No. 101, ot on Parker, near Irene strect, $300. No. 158, two lots ou’ Cass, near 2lst wtreet, (gile edge;) 86,00, No. 181, loton Center, near Cuming street, 8300, No. 180, lot on Picr, neir Seward street, $050. No, 175, lot on Sherman avenue, near lzard street, 21,4 0. No.'174}, lot on_Cass, near 14th, $1,000. ot on Pacific, near 14th wtreet; make of No. 166, six lots on Farvham, near 24th strees, 91,45 to 32,000 each. No. 163, full block on 26th street, nes race course, and three Tots in Gise's addition near Saun' érs and Cassius strects, 2,000, No, 120, lo* on Callfornia. street, near Creigh ton colleg:, 8425, * 0. 127, acre lot, near the head of St. Mary's avenie, $3,000. N bout two acres, near the head of St. Mary's avenue, $1,000. 5 N ton 1th strect, near White Lead o, 30 No. 128, sixteen lots, near shot tower on the Bellevue road, §75 per ot No. 132x18” feet (2 lots) on 15th street, near Poppleton's, §1,600. No. 117, thirty haltacre lots in Millard and Caldwell’s additions on Sherman avenue, Spring and Siratoge strects, near the end of green car track, %50 to ¥1,200 cach, No. 89, lot on Chicago, near 22d streot, $1,5000 ¥, lot on Caldweil, near Sauuders street No. 86, corner lot on Charles, near Saunders street, $700. No.'8', lot on Izard, near 21st, with two sm 2 4 No. &3, two lots on 19th, near Pierce street, 1,600, B 018, three lots on Harney, near 10th street, foet on Oth street, near Leaven- 0. eet, on Paciflc, near sth strees, 83, W) No. 09, GOX132 fect, on Douglas street, near 10th, §2,600. NO. th, cishteen lots on 214 25d and Saunders streets, near urice and Saunders street #400 each, bh No. 6, one-fourth block (150x136 feet), nearuia® Convent of Poor ¢! the end of red stric Lots i~ Harba also in Parkur's, Sh V. Suith's, Redi k's, , iake's, and all ot adaitions, at ary prices and terms, 802 lots in Hanscom Placo, near Hanscom Park jces rom 5300 to 8800 each, Ono' hundred and ffty-nine beautitul resi- dence lots, located on Hamiiton street, half way between the turn table of the red strect car Line and the waterwo reservier and addision, and Just west of tho Convent of the Bistery ook Claire in shinn's aduition. Priccs 1ange from 75 to $100 each, aud will be sold on easy terme. Tracts of 6, 10, 15, 20, 40 or 50 aeres, with bu Idings and other improyvements, and ud; the o ty, at all prices, 500 0f the beat resldence 'ote in the city of Omaha—any location you do ire—north, € ¥ south or west, and at bed-rock prices. 220 choice business lots in all She principal business sircets of Owaha, var) ing 10w L 7,000 each. H Two hundred houses and lota rancing from 80010 15,0, aad located u every put of the ity Nelwon's, Termace, _ Bemis’ ReaL ESTATE Acency, 16th and Dc13'a Street, ODMAELA nNBEB.