Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 5, 1882, Page 4

| { i 1 e HE PRES]- The Omaha Bee.|™*"™® “gEvoy - Mr. Blaine has for the present ro Tablished avery morning A Sundays [ tired entirely from public life, and The only Monday morning dat | srpotes to devots Himself to tho o ooy | velopment of his private interests TEKRMS B One Year, Six Mo MATL:—~ 10,00 | Three Months. £3.00 5,00 | One 1.00 MHE WEEKLY R TERMS POST PATD — published ov- | No one, howover, imagines for a mo ment that the ex.secretary has cast [ away all political ambition, or intends | o permit himwelf to be permanently | shelved in the obscurity of commer. Cite, Teat 2.00 | ThreoMonthe.. 50| ia) jursuits. On the other hand, it Six Months, 100 | One o 0| scems equally cortain that Mr. ANl Communi. | Blaine has not, as some of to News and Fditorial mat- | the journals have stated, already gre Ahould be addresced to the EDITOR OF | hopun an active canvass for the BUSINESS_LETTERS—All Businest | ropublican nomination in 1884, A Dettors and Remittances should be ad. dressed to Trr OMANA Pratsing . Cou- PANY, OMAHA, Drafts, Checks and ¥ office Orders to be made payable to the ordar of the Company. OMAHA PUBLISHING (0., Prop'rs Ei ROSEWATER, Editor. PraNsyLvania is kocking down the official persimmons and Don Cameron holds the pole A wacox bridge over the Missouri at Omaha is bound come and cannot be delayed much longer. Every lover of law and order in Omaha is emphatic in declaring that the low dives of this city must be closed. Bostox has increased her city debt one million during the past year, un- dor what Bostonians consider as a very aconomical administration. A LirTLE snow fall now and then is relished by the best of men, but it is serribly aggravating to the liverymen that have invested in fancy sleighs, A DISGUSTED contemporary regrots that Master Shepton's prophecy did not eome true, ‘“‘as its fulfillment would have shut Guiteau's mouth.” Tur Sprinefield Republican asks what our great capitalists are doing. Their principal occupation just at present is wateriny stock and clipping off coupons, @ommissionkr Raum recommends the abolition of the fee system in the United States marshal's office and the subatitution of salaries commensurate with the respousibility of tho position. Dr. Mriier writes irom New York that he is becoming converted to granite block paving. Tue Ber has maintained from the outset that no other material will meet the require- meonts of our city. EveRry railroad in Nobraska reports increased earnings during the past year. That dreadful Doane law which waa to cripple capital and destroy in- dustry and trade does not seem to have got in its work. Ox= hundred thousand people wit- nossed the Atlanta cotton exhibition just closed. The management expect to more than clear all expenses, and perhaps to realize a handsome little dividend on their stock SeNATOR VAN Wyek is receiving the commendations of the state press for his manly battle in favor of the St. Joe land grant settlers. No greater iniquity has ever been perpetrated by the corporations, assisted by the na- tional land office. Russia is thirteen days behind of the rest of the world. Her Christmas occurs to-morrow and hor New Years doos not take place until the 13th inst. This is due to her adherence of the old style of reckoning, which was abandoned by England in 1762, This change in the calendar was ordered by Pope Gregory in 1582, Ar the end of the next fiscal year, after paying $100,000,000 for pen- sions, there still remains a surplus of over §60,000,000 in the national trea- sury. The Philadclphia Press asks what can be done with such an enor- mous amount of surplus revenue? Lot the government invest the surplus ng the great wostern water- in impro ways. — CoMMENTING on the proposed re- tirement of the silver certificates the Bt. Louis Republican oxprosses grati- fication that the intelligent financiers of the country who are not tainted mth the single gold standard mono- mania are unanimous in opposing any movement that contemplates the with- drawal of the silver certificates. We have no other paper money in this eountry so entirely in accord with the principles of a sound financial system, and it would be a very grave orror to mahe a back step towards the policy of irredeemablefiatmoney by withdrawing the silver certificates. The silver cer- | prominent Cloveland gentleman is re- sponsible for the statement that Mr, Blaine has cloarly defined his posi- tion on thequestion within the last two months. stated to Governor Foster that he had 1o idon of making any canvass for the office and would make no effort in the usually accepted meaning of the word as apphed to politios. T, the convention should come to the conclusion that his name would best fill all the requiremonta of the situa- tion he should not object, but would He is reported to have however, accept, and so far as lay in his power, justify the confidence that the party had placed in him. He added that he had no intention of going into any such fight as he had made in 1880 and 1876, and if the honor ever camo to him, it must come hecause the reo- publican party would have it so. All this amounts to an admission that Mr. Blaine will again be a candi- date for the presidency if the way seems at all clear for a successful can- Those statesmen who are al- ready making preparations in advance vass, to erect their lightning rods will do well rot to ignore the electric attrac- tion of the late secretary of state. Tt has given the nomination a very close call twice hefore and may do better since its owner has three years of license in which to study the coming political thunder clouds. Under any circumstances *‘politics are mighty onsartin,” and Mr. Blaine with the added honors of an excellent nervico as secrotary of state, is likely to prove a very dangerous competitor in the presidontial race if he feels so inclined, interviews and statements to the contrary notwithstanding, Tur OManA Bek cites the Daniel case at Now Holena, aud the Olive tragedy as evidence of n lawless spirit which it assumes exists in Custer county, but which never existed ex- copt in the fertile imagination of the news editor of that sheet. Cus- ter county ‘without a district court is a8 froe from crimo as county in the state, and such flings eome with bad grace from a paper published where the foul murder of Watson B. Smith goos unavenged ; where a class of citi- zens are banded together to resist state laws; whero the last term of court showed up two murders cuses, two arson cases and nu- merous other crimes of less degree, and where'burglaries are of a nightly ocourrence. It 1s all very well to pomt to isolated cases here and there in this county as evidence of lawlessness. But it does not fol- low that because we have no courts we are worse than our neighbors. Lot Tur Bk pee to it that a little more justice is administered at home before it attempts to besmirch the fair fame of the citizens of Custer.—Cns- ter Leader. Tur Bee has not assumed that a lawless spirit exists in Custer county, aud it is willing to admit that any comparisons between the obedience paid to the laws by our frontier neighbors, and the respect manifested for their enforcement in Omaha would bedecidedlytothe disadvantage of this city as at present governed. It is one of the worst results of the prevailing condition of affairs in Omaha, where the entire city government seems banded together to nullify the laws, that such criticism as the above can- not be answered by a denial or turned aside by apology. It is virtually settled that we shall have an extra session of the logisla. ture this winter. This opportunity to secure logislation that will enable Omuha to raise the nocessary paving bonds should not be neglected. Goy- ernor Nanco, wo understand from re- liable authority, has expressed his willinguess to include the proposed amendment to our charter in his call provided he has assurance that the Douglas delogation in tho legislature aro ngreed upon the amendments that It is all important, therefore, that the delegation from this county shall meet to deliberate and if possible agree upon the vital points that are to be inserted in the smendod charter. A preliminary meeting of taxpayers to discuss the proposed amendments in their various bearings, should be held at an early day: in order that the mewbers from Douy las county shall clearly understand what their constituents desire thew todo, Such a meeting to discuss the are required. tificate is the very perfection of paper | puving problem could be called by the currency, in the fact that it is repre- sented dollar for dollar by the actual coin, while neither national bank notes | be. invited, nor greenbacks have such a backing. They are in volume greatly in excess prosident of the board of trade, to which the Douglas dclegation should In our opinion the time for deciding upon the material with which to pave our street has not yet of the actual eoin which is available |arrived. The main question and the for their red emption, while the idea!|only problem uow to be solved is the paper currency should be represented dollar for dollar by coin. With that sort of backing inflation is impossible, aud without it inflation is inevitable and only & matter of degreo raising of tho means necessary for paving the principal streets of Omaha next spring without crippling or bank- rupting the owners of lots abutting on the paved thoroughfares. [HE OMAIIA DAILY BET: THE FAILURES OF 1881. \ comparative estimate of the fail- ures of the last year, with those of the year preceding, shows a marked incres o. Through the courteny of Mr. D. H. Goodrich the Omaha man- ager of Messra, R, G, Dun & Co,, Tur Bee is furnished with the follow- ing interesting comriorcial statistics The busmess failures throughout the United States for the entire year are reported at 5,582 in number, with liabilities amounting to 81,1566 This indicates an increase of 847 in number, and increased lock-up by bad debts amounting to fifteen and a half millions. In order to show the comparative figures for a series of years the follow ing table is inserted Failures, 0 In remarking on the above figures, the Mercantile Ageney in its annual circular says: “‘The above figures indicate a ma- terial increase in the number of fail- ures for the year 1881, and a growth in the loss by bad debts considerably over last year. An indication of this sort can hardly be interpreted to be a favorable sign as to the condition of the country, yet, when a comparison is instituted betweey the failure fig- ures of last year and those of previous years, for instance, 1878, it will bo seen that in the proportion thoy bear to the casualties of that and previous years, both as to the number of fail- ures and the amount of liabilities, the reeult is not unfavorable. It should alsc be recollected, that while the failures and liabilities of 1881 are only slightly more than one-half those of 1878, the volume of trade is prob- ably now four or five times as great as it was then, while the number of persons engaged in business is cer- tainly eighteen to twenty-five per cent greater. As to the proportion of failures to those engaged in busi- ness, our statistics show that in 1876 the failures were 1 in every 63 per- sons; in 1877, 1in 73; in 1878, 1 in 64; in 1879, 1in 1 in 1880, 1 in 158, while in 1881 the proportion was Lin 140. Tho advantage in favor of the year just closed over the average of yoars is thercfore very marked.” Attention is also called to the fact that there is a vague senee of uncertainty regarding the future, grounded upon the experiences of 1872-1873. The conditions which preceded the last crisis, 1t is claimed, resemble those which now prevail, viz.: enormous extension of trade, great expenditures on railways and publice works; in- creased growth and ease of credit, as illustrated by the large loans of the banks; and a general disposition to lock up quick capital in assets of an unrealized character. This feeling in the partial failure of the grain crops in the west; in the decrease of exports; the increase in imports; the large reduction in the earnings of leading railroads, involving a lessened income to the investors in this class of property, and the great decline in the realizable prices of securities represented on the stock exchange, as compared wish six months ago. While it is true that all these elements are suggestive of a changing condition of things, it is doubtful if they can be interpreted adversely to the general prosperity of the trade of the country. The extension of business seems, on every hand, to be of a most healthy character. There ia little or no ac- cumulation of stocks of manufactures in any locality, while in numerous de- partments of activity orders are far ahead of the greatly increased produc- tive power.. Though it is true that the grain crop has not been up to its usua ‘average, it should be borne in mind that for several years very ample rewards have been realized by the agricultural community; while in nearly all peoducts, except grain, the yields of previous years have been maintained. Prices, too, continue so high that the result to the agricultural producer is not far short of the aver- age of late years, ¢ The circular, which is very full and complete in its statistical detaiis, con- cludes as follos: “The political and financial outlook soems equally without a disturbing element, With some additional legis. lation by which the laws relating to bankruptoy can be regulated and made uniform, and with favorable conditions as to woather, crops and trade gen- erally, the opposite of which there is no reason to anticipate, the prospect for the future seems certainly most promising. It is true that failures may increase and individuals suffer the penalties of « depariure from logitimate businoss principles, from undue competition or unwise expan- sion. Some will by failure seek to increase their store, and still more may be the victims of loss of confidence, the result of the absence of a protective law. But that theso casualties will be large in pro. portion to the number of people en gaged in business, or to the magni tude of the transaction, seems as un- likely now as at any time in the last four yoars, The prospect is that, us compared with any country in the world, failures wilt’ continue” not only to bo less numerous in proportion to the number engaged in trade, but far less in amount of average liabilities, and ina far smaller ratio to the ex- tent of business tranactod, so that the | United i safety of the mercantile, manufactur- | ing and banking communities may bo | sot down as better assured than that of the same classes in any other country,” —_— ACCONDING to a table just published by the department of agriculture tl States has one-fourth the horses, one-fifth the cattle, one-ninth Swidow and we obtaining on false £3.10 for an_im who needed a night's fined 85 and coste for Furuns rea o total of n. In th heep and 1,611 h Leon Sturdecant, n Fairmont youth of 16, s the latest victim of the treacherous shetyg He went out gunning and re- turned with his cheek terribly man, 1 the sheep and almost one-half the |, spects of TeCOVEPY nte " swine in the civilized world, Russia | able 4 . » . Seventy-five Wyomoreans, “armed to has more horses, and that country and PR MR A o L g the Argentine Republic more sheep |termina e the woly s in that vicinity, sn! y ited States \we are | returned in the evenin, tle-scarred than ths United States: but these are A03. WeaPy, with Whe oavosssen of three the only countries whose number of live stock is larger in any particular, — Syari-rox caused 450 deaths in New YorkICity in 1881 against thirty- one in 1880, "Che same story comes from all parts of the country, through which it has been spread by the free intercourse enjoyed Nothing but compulsory vaccination evorywhere. | can stop the spread of the scourge all Omaha should not lay behind other westorn cities in precautionary measures. over the continent, NeBRASKA readjusters propose to give this state a new deal all around during the coming campaign. RAILROAD NOITES, Five corporations now, control the twelva lines centering at 1udianapolis, The Northern Pacific is stakinga branch line from (iraud Forks, to the Brit. ish line, Trackl; worth, named city, Dec. 31, 1on the Leaven- n at the first There are sixteen gavgs of grader« now at work on the Missouri Pacific extension in Atchison county, Kansas. ‘I'he Brotherhond of T.ocomotive Engi- ceers i ed 1,500 members during 1881, and instituted fifteen new lodges. Three hundred feet of the Omaha & Paul ice bridge over the Mis: i at Si City, have be the ing of tloati Tt will take a week to repair damag s, The ek & Westorn has been ivcor. porated in Kansas; to construct @ road we tward 250 miles. The ["nion Pacific presented in the directo- dney Dillon, Hanuibal Joe railroad com any lias served notice on the g vernor of Missouri that its attorneys will ask for an injunction against the proposed sal he road, for interest due on £3,000,000, "There are 3,000 men now working on the Northern Pacific extension between Miles City and Coulson, 175 miles west of Miles City, Tha eng nee s expsct t com- plete the road to that point by Juve 15 next, and to Bozeman by December 1, 1882, A charter hasbeen taken out_for « new nar ow gauge railroad, of which M. P. Bush, Buffalo, N. Y, is president. The road will run from the line of the Buffalo, New York & Puilad Ipiin road at Awrora, southeast to Williamsport, Pa Work will be commenced as sonn as pseible. Beginning on Monday next the trains of the New York, ylvania & Ohio of apprehension finds some suppert | Ch railroad, which have her. tofore run on the the track of the Cincivnati, Hamilton & Dayton railrond will enter Cincinnati at will depart from the new depot of the burg, Cincinnati & St. Louis railroad, running via Xenia to Springfield, where tlu-i conncct with the track of their own road. The_Danville, Olney & Ohio River rail. road has necured connection with the Chicago & Eastera Illinois, thus obtain- ing_entrance for the former road into Chicago. The line will be extended this winter to the L wuisville, New Albany & St. Louis railrond and to the Ohio river, This will ultimately give the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad direct connection with “hicago. The New Y .rk, Liake Krie & Western railroad company announces that from ary 1 it changes its through freight and passenger lines from the western con- nections heretofore used to the Grand Trunk railroad on the north, connecting therewith at Buffalo, and to the Penn- syltania western system on the south, connecting therewith at Mansfield, Ur- bana and Springheld, Ohio, The B. & M. company have incerporated into their time tab e an order thut *“‘conp- ling by hand is strictly prohibited in all cases where a stick can be used to guide the link, Sti ill be provided at train hendquarter ikes” were the boys' favorite Iast season, but since the en- forcement of the Sl b law the demand for “‘sticks” has ex the supply. Texas leads the ntry in respect to railway building, having added last year 1,411 wiles, which final returns will prob- ably increase to 1,500 or mere. Colorudo appears to cowe next, with about 500 miles, Towa comes next with neary 500 miles, and Dakota snd Ohio aiso rhow, thus far, between 400 and 500 miles, In- diana, Illinois, New Mexico and New York appear to_have added between 300 and 400 miles. Nebraska added 250 miles. Another new road has been projected in Texas, It will run from New Orleans to the Sabine river via Operlousas, a distance of 220 miles, thence to Dallas over the trunk route, absorbing that road a dix- tunce of 250 miles, thence northwestly to the boundary line of the state in Bagley county, a distance of 400 miles; thence via Fort Sumnec to Isleta, in the valley of the Rin nde, where a junction with the A . is made, The entire distance of the road is 1,80 miles, P. sera have been laid before congress by the president showing that the ngit of way across the lands of the Choctaw nation in the In i ritory was 1ot ob- tained by the St. Louis & San Francisco vailroad ~company without formidable | opposition, Thé tight of way granted is 200 feet wide, and an additional 2 0 feet at stations for a distan e of 400 feet in Lingth. The company will pay the Indian 30 each quarter, perpetuall and the money is to bo used for schools, * The line will extend 125 miles in the Indian coun- try. STATH JOTTINGS, Nidney has the telephone fever. Work has commenced on Dorsey's new black in Tremond, A wolf hunter of Hickman broke his shoulder blade in the chase. The new hotel at Wyomore, nearly complated, contains forty nine rooms. The Union 1 cific comm hayve ordered another side track at L City. The Lincoln Land company have de- cided to build & flouring mill at Wyo. more, Sidney mourns the abrupt departure of Todd & Henry, combination of beats, Total deficit, 81,50, The total capital invested in business and business buildings in Crete amounts te over #600,000,—Union 'he boerd of county commissioners of se county have rescinded the action incorporating the village of Wyomore, The Allisnces of Furnas county will meet at Heaver City on the 14th to organ- ize & county alliance and exteud the or. ganization to every preciuct, The Missouri viver closed at Nebraska City, December 31, 1881, and passengers erossed on the ice January 1, 1882, Nows, Wo are open for connecsion here. y Three “swart Alecks” of North Platte jack-rabhits, Collinsville, the new station on the I, & M. near the state line, is)ej the prospects of being the division quarters, The comypany hes built at that point ten switches, all of which liave the appearance of being permanant, Duringthe years immediately succeed iu: the orgar ization of Puelps county, in 4, fraudu'ent warrants to the amount isned. In 1879 the county trensurer was enjoined from paying any of these warrants, and now the board of commiss'oners have effected a settle- ment with the holders at 50 cents on the dollar, issuing funding bond < in the sum of 10,500 to pay the indebte 'ness, The original warrants were to pay for wood at 830 a cord, et ALONG THE “Q." Taking in the Town of Prescatt by Moonlight. Prescar, Apams County, lowa, Decomber 20,1881.--The people along the eastern division of this railroad quite frequently speak of it as the “Burlington road,” while in western Towa ‘‘The Q,” means the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy. Seven miles east of Corning on the *‘Q.,” and ninety miles from Omaha, we find the little hillside village of Prescat, with half a dozen stores of general mer chandise and groceries, two or three hardware stores, drug store, harness ture store, wagon shop, several blac smith shops, two lumber yards, sev- eral grain dealers and stockmen, o meat market, a lawyer, four physi- cians, two hotels, a fine two story school house and two churches, and a population of about three hund Like many of its pretentious neigh- bors, this settlement has sprung up pince the railroad necded a sta- tion here. There is no nowspaper m the town, but a hard working tradesman furnishes one or two neigh- boring editors with weekly reviews of town procress, clever discussions of the political and financtal stuations in the nation, and is respected by his neighbors as an exponent of what is «quite often to them anunknown quan- tity. It was long after dark when we left the train, and. with gripsack in hand, found the Polson house, and inquired why the bell was calling to the high school building, and found mine host, with lantern in hand, ready to start in answer to that bell call, to hear an address by one of the citizens of the burg, on the tariff ques- tion, and we accepted an invitation to Ro, a8 ‘“‘every body” was to go. The oppressions of monopoly and the slavery of political intrigues were briefly and quite pleasantly presented, while THE OvAsA BER was mentioned as “‘The only great paper of the west that had dared to face the tide and speak the honest convictions of the people on many of these great issues,” all of which were introduc- tory to the subject of moderate tariff, or ‘“tariff for revenue only,” and anti- monopoly. We saw at once that Tue Bee was read here, and the people in every village and hamlet are looking to it ssthe herald of truth, an ex- pounder of the great questions before the people, and a trusted and fearless advocate of justice. This town is a good local market for grain and hogs, and is agitating the butter and cheese question, Mr. 1. Polson and his wife, feelmg that they had long since seen their strorgest days on a farm, heve opened a hotel here that is a marvel. The house is a home for the farmer when he comes to town with his produce, and the commercial man finds as ood a bed as he can find in the state, while the table is a farmer's table, as it has 80 often been seen on the old New England Thanksgiving day, and the happy traveler will find a variety and abundance, while my lord and lady, in person, stand by and encourage him to eat, and then only charge s dollar a day. Tt is needless to add that they must soon enlarge the house. This is a trading center for a large section of country, whose people are iutelligent, industrious and prosper- ous. Buokeye, Kidney Complaint!Cared. B. Turner, Rochester, N. Y., writes: “I huve been for over o year subject to serions disorder of the kidueys, ana often unble to attend to business; 1 procured your Beknocn BLoon Brrrers and was re- lived betore a half a bottle was used, [ intend to continue, as 1 f wfident they will entirely cure ue.” P al size 10 conts, DAVIS & SNYDER, (506 Farnham 8t., ... Omaha, Nebra “?0 (e lele] Caro.ully selodiod iand mfign o mgm mle. reat Rargaing In lmprovad farma, and 0. ¥. DAVIS WEKLSTKE SNYDER Tand Com'e 11 B » John G. Jacobs, {Formorly of Gish & Jacobs,) UNDERTAKER. Farnham 8t,, Old btand of scob Gl wrw ov Talagranh Salicited E 1417 i, W. J.CONNELL, ATTORNEY - AT - LAW, Orrion—Front Rooms (up stairs) in Hanscom' oew brick bulldiug, N. 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