Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 23, 1882, Page 4

4 'K UMAHA DA:LY BRE: THURSLDAY FEBRUARY 26 1o %, Published every morning, except Sunday, The only Monday morning dally, TEKRMS BY MAIL — One Soar. .. .. 810,00 | Throe Months.$3.00 8ix Months, 5,00 | One o 1.00 HE WEEKLY BEE, published ev- TERMS POST PAID:— One Year, .$2.00 | Three Months.. 50 8ix Months.... 1,00 | One .20 CORNESPONDENCE—AIl Communi. sations relating to News and Editorial mat- era should be addressed to the EnITon o¥ ITTERS—AI Business nittances should be ad. dressod to Tie OMAHA PuBLisHiNG Com- PAXY, Omania, Drafts, Checks and Post. office. Orders to be made payable to the ordor of the Conmany, OMATA PUBLISHING CO., Prop'rs €. ROSEWATER. Editor. S —————————Y Tue most profitable farms at present Dotters and —vaccine farms, Tue ever present mud keeps fresh the all absorbing problem of paving. Some newspapers mark the line for all people to follow except them- selves, . —— New is nominated, but his enemies hint that a nomination and confirma- tion are by no means the same thirg. —_— Tue Russian bear seems to have made a slap at the German eagle and Bismarck’s scream may shortly be looked for. IN the democratic Kilkenny cat contest in New York the Tammany tom seems to be making the fur fly to the best advantag OyanA and Council Bluffs must not permit interest in the bridge across the Missouri to flag. With so much Sapp the project ought to have vitality. GENERAL SKOBELOFF the Sher- man of the Russian army. He 1s not afraid to talk at all times and on all subjects without regard to the effect of his remarks. WaeN the railroads combine for sg- gression agaiust the public the pro- ducers must join hands to protect themselves against the aggressions of the monopolies. PRESIDRNT ARTHUR is said to be the slowest president in making up his mind of any of his predecessors in the White House. . He believes in the motto “Slow but sure.” O~k of the great need of the times is a college which will decline to ac- copt rowdies as students and which will not hesitate to kick such of its students out as may develop into row- dies, THE entire New Jersey delogation have petitioned President Arthuréto restore Fitz John Porter to the army. It is never too late to right a wrong, especially when done toa gallant offi- ocer. " OmrisTiNg NiussoN, the queen of song, is coming -again to America, She has lost her fortune with that of | all the Beatrice papers in regarl to her husband, who is in an ineane hos- the sale of the pital. The assurance of a hearty wel- come will precede her departure from | with the Indian department on the Paris. Tae polite personalities in the war between the New |Value. York Commercial Advertiser and the Tribune are becoming affected by the | yalue newspaper sesthetic craze; Hugh Hastings of the New York Commercial Ad-|the lan vertiser threatens to ‘‘pluck White- law Reid and wear him as a lily, if| fort to secure the lands to bona fide he don't keep his petals closed,”” T the Union Pacific shops are moved | ;. {f of the st Dt Rl nn s AL QLR TBROEE S tnsureonp and'iitio iaads might as well come along, as the tail| The to the kite.— [Denver Tribune. There is no probahility that the|any actual or prospective fraudulent Union Pacific shops will be removed | schemers. from Omaha, but if they were, Omaha that this could be consummated ex- would go on just the same and still | o remain the liveliest and most rapidly | it a favor to be notified of the first prospering city in the Missouri valley. The daey has gone by when any one industry, however large, is necossary person removed. for the existence of Omaha, The energy of jher citizens and the wealth ¢ of her capitalists are coursing in so | Person connected with the land of- many channels that the filling up of one, while folt at first, would soon be | known, and any money thus paid, so forgotten in the onward march of pro- | clearly agait gress of this metropolis, All this shop recovered, Kvery honestapplicant shall talk arises from a question whether it will not beadvisable to establish branch | overturned if only the intormation is repair shops in Colorado for the use | furnished. of the divisions of the Union Pacific 8o far as Omaha is concerned, it will not have | it be understood, it must be used for railroad in that state. the slightest objeetion if it is done. Our own shops are constantly being for speculating purposes T can safely enlarged, and mere temporary struc- tures are giving way to permanent|doubt the Indian and land depart- in which the con- | ments will each consent to send a and machinery and | #Pecial agent to superimtend the sale, and solid building struction of ca the prineipal repairs on rolling stock for the main line will be carried on as | or ring will probably find it diffioult to We | got sales confirmed. long as the Union Pacific lests. rather hope that the railroad is about to erect division repair shops at Deu. ver, for then the metropolis of Colo- rado will be placed on a par with Grand Island, Nebraska, which al- ready boasts of one of these useful ®ud ornamental appendages. THE NEW BANK. The organization of a new bank, supplied with ample capital and owned and mannged by residents of our city, is an event of no little im- portance in Omaha, It indicates, whileit supplies, a need long felt of greater faculties for the transaction of tho large and constantly growing busi- ness of this city. For a number of years past our merchants have felt that a new bank would prove a profitable investment for capital and a decided advantage to our business men, west No city in the of Omaha's size has had so few banking houses in proportion to its population and the importance of its The depots of money supply for all the states and territories west of the Missouri river, commercial relations. our banks have found their energies overtaxed in attempting to deal with them the business crowded upon This has mado them less inclined fo [seck for mmall deposits and to s mo| excont has naturally influenced their dealings with a cortain class of cus tomers, Last year tho aggregate deposits of the four banking houses of Omaha amounted to over five and a half mil- lions of dollars, while one of our banks with a capital of $200,000 re- ported deposits of 82,000,000 aad un- divided surplus funds of $167,5633 60. These figures show that there is room for snch an institution, and it will be a matter of congratulation to our citizens that its projectors and organizers comprise broad miunded and liberal business men as A. E. Touzalin, H. W. Yates, S. R. Johnson and W. V. Morse. That these men have an abiding faithin the future of Omaha is seen in the fact that they are about to make heavy and permanent investments in our midst which depend especially upon the develepment of our trade and the incrense of our material resources. Incidentally Farnam street is inter- ested in the new project. The site on the corner of Twelfth and Farnam streets, which has 8o long been an eye sore to our cf s, will shortly be covered by a substantial and elegant banking house which will be alike a credit to Omaha and a handsome home for the new financial institu- tion, 4 such SENATOR VAN WYCK AND THE LAND RINGS. Senator Van Wyck is letting no grass grow under his feet in inveati- gating the surveying and land rings of the west. Since the introduction of his original resolution in the senate calling for a thorough overhauling of the records, the senator has been bu- sying himself in collecting a mass of testimony from all available sources, bearing upon the subject to which he is devoting his attention. Rumors having been current that a ring had been formed to eecure early and fa- vorable locations on the Otoe lands, which will shortly be put on sale at the Beatrice land office. and thatmon- ey was being paid to government of- ficials to influenee them in favor of the land sharks, Senator Van Wyck has sent the following letter to the editor of the local paper at Beatrice: Editor Gage County Democrat: Having noticed several articles in toe lands, I natural- ly concluded there must be some cause, and hud weveral conferences subject. My opinion was that they should be sold to the highest bidder and at not less than the appraised But the department, as well as many who claim best to know, thought that they should be soldatthe appraised This will make the struggle for unrl‘{ location and application at office, and open the way for much scandal and more dissatisfac- tion, There should be an honest ef- Jetters who will benefit the commu- nity by making homes, and not as is often the case, the settlers soon pass- he newspapers are entitled to credit for opening up and. exposing It would seem 1mpossible copt by connivance through the land oo at Beatrice, and I would esteem appearance of any combination there, and promise the people that it shall be rebuked, and if possible the guilty If a bona fide settler or intended purchaser has paid money to a ring or fice, any amount, to secure a poction of this land, let the fact be made t public policy, can be be protected, and every ring to con. trol the sale or extort money will be The matter is with you, the people and the settlers, ’l‘hnra'muy }:’;tpbu land enough for all desiring, but let actual occupation for homes, and not say the Nobraska delegation will s tain this proposition, and have no then the department here will control the ratitication, so that any scheming “Nu matter who, if any in the land office is hit, he must take the conse- quenc s of his own act, the settlers are shamefully neglected for the advantage of swindlers and dishonest scoundrels who draw their pay from the government. The political dead duck and blath- ers kito who edits the Oseola Record makes a scurrilous attack on the edi- tor of this paper, in which among other things he accuses Rosewater of being a conspicuous alliance man at the late Rosewater had not that honor. He was present as an invited guest of the Farmers’ alliance, and spoke by request the meeting. Aside from this, though thoroughly in sym- pathy with the aims and objects of the alliance, he took no part in the proceedings either on-the floor of the convention or in the committee room, than st moncpoly tool who s convention at Hastings. before And no one knows this better the impti trying to pull the wool over the of the farmers of Polk county by professions of fiic eyes dship to the pro- of Nebraska. As to Rose- ducers water’s “object” with the Farmer’s alliance, it may be stated in a very words, It is to see them give to Ne- braska a pure and cfficient state gov ernment elected by the voice of the people and free from all suspi- cions of monopoly control, He hopes to see a legislature at Lincoln within the next two years which will fear- leesly pass such measures for the re- lief of the producers of this state as will forever put it out of the power of the monopolies to confiscate a fourth of the earnings of Nebraska farmers, while they refuse to bear their just share of the burden of taxation. He hopes to see through the farmers’ al- llance the breaking up of the corrupt local rings which disgrace so many counties in our state, and in their place an honest and incorruptible set of officials. who will feel their respon- sibility to the people and not to the railway companies, If these “‘objects” are objectionable to the stentorian straddler of The Record, he can coyer his face with his ears and think out botter ones. : Activity in the real estate market 10 Omaha is a strong indication of the steady and increasing growth of our city. Property is still on the rise, and is held firmly at prices in some instances fifty per cent above last year's figures. This is especially the case with property fronting on our business strects or on streets adjacent to those now used for commercial purposes. The sale of small lots in large numbers aud in various portions of the city is gratifying. Eachg of these transiors eans a little house in the near future and the home of a family. Whas is especially noticeable in the real estate movouent is tHf fact that mere speculation seems to play little part in it. The sales are to parties who intend to build as rap- future rise. Omaha has been afflicted with a great many of these gentle- men in times past, and could dispense with a fow of them now. THE late convention of the woman suffragists at Lincoln does not seem to have been a howling success. In re- sponse to an inquiry the Lincoln Jonrnalsays: ‘“The Wahoo Independ- ent asks, and the Omaha Herald sec- onds the question, that The Journal give an estimate of the number of at- tenaants at the late woman's suffrage convention in this city. Well, count- ing out men, the number was about thirty-five. Counting in the men, it was about fifty. Speakiug seriously, and comparing it with other bodies, the convention was a flat and ridicu- lous failure, and aside from the some- what undue prominence given it on the local page of this paper, it did not create a ripple or leave a mark on the surface of events. THE MAGAZINES, Harper's Monthly Magazine for March is before us, with its usual va. rioty of subject and treatment. The opening paper is one by John Austen Stevens, entitled ‘‘Old New York Coffee Houses.” ‘‘Typical Journeys and Country Lfie in Mexico,” by W, H. Bishop, and ‘A Canadian Piigrim. age,” by Frank H. Taylor, two well- illustrated papers, constitute the month's contributions to the literature of travel. Professor Simon New- come gives us an able and entertain- ing paper on the astronomy of the nearer hoavens, entitled ‘‘A Small Telescope and What to Sep with It.” The scope and intent of the article are sufficiently suggested by its title, The publication of George Elliott's lotters, “Elzabeth Stuart Phelps,” under the caption,, ‘“The Last Words of George Elliott.” is, perhaps, the most interesting featnre of the num- ber. The letters ¢ 11 tituteiha fullest collection of Miss Leavi’ correspond- ence yet published, and are written in a singularly unconstrainad tone. —_— STATH JOTTINGS, Dr. J. Grandy, the leading hard citizen of Humlo'de, s under indictwent for forgery. A Kearney woman who was vaccinated by humanized virus was obliged to have her arm amputated to prevent the poison of the virus getting nto the system, The two-year-old child of Mr, and Mrs, Yours, O, H,Var Wyck, General Van Wyck does not intend to rest until he has brought before the #'tention of congress the disreputable methods which prevail in many of our J. 0. Phillips, of Syracuse, died last week from Ulc‘tflwh of ‘a draught of ecarbolic aci . The sufferings of the child were frightful to look upon, Gen, Vifqua'n has sold his interest in The Lincoln Democrat to Mr. Watkivs, of Sioux City. The firm will hy made in a large majority of instances idly as possible, and not to land sharks who purchase and hold for a will publish a simon-pure democratic paper at the customary price. A destructive prairie fire swent over the Cedar river bottoms, near Fuilerton, lis week, consuming two hundred tons of hay alone. The firry biliws leaped t e r ver at a peint wh re it was abous ten rods wide, \With « strong northwest wind, fire-breaks were nnavailing, Harvard is now in a fever of excitement over the elopement of a couple who-e names are A, Gohting and Mrs, Lillian Tarner, better known as Lill Tinbocker, formerly from Doscobel, Grant county, Wis. A, Gohrine was a live y man. tie was raarr ed aboit one year ago to an esti- a danghter of a well. Turner wa« married y and ived | o erting r parents conducted he self lar cireumstancs, time with her hushand, came to Harvard with b go an | nder ve in th the 6th inst., accompin y she went to Supe Nuckolls county, and on he follywing ¢ shring return- ed and turned eve ything possibe into money, mortgazing his livery stock to L. A. Payne & Co., took the eatliest train for Superior and, as the sequel shows, was soon in the aco s of our Lillian, leaviy and a his young wife, foud parents xi s creditors to mourn his departure. Goh:ing is twenty two aud Lollian thirty-one, She said she wantd th get bie oy (and «ome fiur ) and then she would return, but wliw ! whe played a double game on the public and on her parents, Her parents are about broken-heawted and feel the di grace kecnly The wife of ing i alady of culture and refineme the sympathies of the entire + INDUSTRIAL NOTHS, During the lust year 15,000 persons have been eniployed in the Patterson, N.J., wilk mills, and have produced $16,000,000 worth of silk goods. In Hampden, Mass,, thers is an apple tr e which w s ,rafted by Robert Sessions 100 years ago. He was one of the men wio pitched the tea overboard in Boston harbor, L he amount of surplus wheat grown last. year in eastern Oreg n and Washiogton is placed at 3,736,000 bushels, ‘The acreage of 188 will he nearly double that of 1881, and it is estimated that there will be a sur- plus of 8,000,000 bushels the cominyg serson, In a small grove near Cincinnati an army of crows take sh-lter every night. They assemble by thousands, an hour be- fore dark, and an old man living near the place says that to his perronal knowledge the same grove has been their dorwitory for sixty years. The great milk traffic of New York from Orange and other counties had a s vall be- ginning in 1813, In 1849 or 1850 the first regular mi'k train was started. It created much religious excitement at the time in consequenc ving Sunday morning. The milk trains are now by far the most profizable on the roads, Up to February 1, the receipts of the 1881 crop of cotton at all | oints were 4, 533,827 bales, against 4,770, .19 ba'es at the corresponding tinie a year ago. The d - crease, there nre, 80 far is 216.892 bales, R+ports con! perceutage than usual has been marketed, been overestimate{. The b.les this year, on the aver ge than a year ago, which makes the decrease a lit le la ger. Since Septenber 1st the Unied Stats cotton factories have wed 23,154 ba es more than in the smme period last yea , but as the bales weigh less, they have really not tak- @ . as much cotton, Some interesting information respecting the advanccement of the telegiaph system been laid before the colonal purlament by the treasury. From tue document in question it appears shat ia September last the colony had 13,689 wires. a total length of 6,675 miles, New Zea- land comes next New South Wales with 9,087 miles, then Queensland with 8,967 miles, South Australia with 7,017 miles, and Tasmania with 1,000 miles. The rey- ous colonies ew Suuth Waler, £31,10; 9, Victoria, Taswinia, £7,427, rovenue producing branch of the service, side of the ledger. RAILROAD NOTES. run through sleepers to St. Paul and Miu- neapolis after April 1, 1882, The e irnings of the Chicigo, St. Paul and Omaha railway company for the firss week in Fobruiry were $73,731, an in- crease of §34,083. The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy lar quarterly d able March” 15, @ Beginning March 1st, the Union Pacific Kansas City to Ogden, -via, Denver. Through emigrant trains will b alsy run. o | corps of five members. One in Sioux City, Dr, Knott, one at Missoui Vullay, at Blair, at Neligh and one at Fremont, 188/, an morcase of $24,380.05. The I'urlington ern railroad ha- filel & bond with the Chi- cago col estor of customs, making the cor- poration s common carrier for goods im- porte | dire. ted to any port of entry. The new conpontickets being and used by the principal railroads in the Uni od S'ates, are ahead of anything in the ruilroad ticket liuo yet introduced. he follows: Class, destination and lirit, with « punch to represeat each sectiom, thereby sweeping the entire continent with one ticket. An Denver Tribune has been transferred to ® gentleman representing the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad, If there 18 any truth in tois rumor it would tend to confirm the reports that the Chicugo, Burling on & Quinoy has secured control of the Denver & Ro Grande railway, than a year past ¢ ntrolled a majority of The Denver Tribune stck. scrve as o speed resord for traine, ete, 1t is attached to the axle of the car, and sn attachment with the indicator extends into the interior, where a b x arrangement faithfully chronfeles the speed tho train his made n any part of ‘he line. the tive of stoppiog at stations, and, in short, a complete record of the: trip. It cau be locked when starting on a trip and opeved at the other end, and tells its story with- out being asked any questions, Vast profits are made out of paper rail- fiem of contractors, who have reds of miles of railway track, recently recerved u letter from a prominent railw .y official at Cleveland, Obio, telling how afew dollars may be made out of a contrac:, [he letter is as follows: A friend of mine is building two bundred miles o ad fr m Reno, Nev.,, to the Oregon state line. He sold 'the first thir- ty-one wiles of bonds to New York bank- ers at 80 cents, 8 ver cent, fifty.year bonds, put will get 90°cents for the bal- ance of the 170 miles, He will have about $200,000 in cash from subscriptions along the line, He has reventeen miles of rails laid, fourteen more graded and the ties on the 51'0\")\!. There will be a ¢ sh profit in building the road of $450,000. He algo has however, are about thirteen p unds li_hter & ;. New Zealand, 73002 South Australia, £35.112; Queensland, £16,313; The colonial telegraph ~ departmenit, looked at in the light of a | cally examined, and all such as.eon- The Chicago, Rock Tsland & Pacifio will [in the will run through Pullman Sleepers frow | missive, c has organizead troduced | of ¢ prevails at Denver that the controlling “interest of the stock in The which, as is well known. has for moe|postoffice aughorities. land offices, by which the interests of | known as Watkins & Barnhart, and they | & majority of the stock. He wants $60,. 000 for working capital for a year. You can then have your money back, and within a vear and a half your profit wonl be £150,000, and also $600,000 of stock. 1 know at the east, stock i« often considered ofn t much value, but this company will et 20 cents per ton per mile for freig/t and 10 cents yer mile for passengers, and _the road will pay for itself very soon. You wonld be astonished to koow of the im- mense traffio the road would have, and yonr stock wonld be worth p rin a ehort time, But your cash profit alone would be & nice little fortune, INGEGURE MAIL PACKAGES. Expert Work in the In- quiry Room at the Postoffice. How Careless Letter-Writers Risk the {Loss of Their Missives-- Tracing Up the Send- ers of Letters. V. Y. Times. That 8o comparatively small an amount of maill matter is lost in course of transmission a matter of cousiderable credit to the post office officials, when one considers the extremely careless way in which mat- ter to be sent is inclosed. This care lessn: 88 can be thoroughly understood only by those who have had an oppor- tunity to see the mail bags come into a postoftice and their contents dump- ed upon the assorting tables. Such an opportunity was recently granted toa Times reporter by Postmaster Pearson, of the office in this city. Hardly a pouch comes t> the office from any distance but contains a num- ber of broken packages. Thia term is apphed by the postal employes to all kinds ot inclosures transmitted through the mail, and the catalogue ot materials that are mailable would fill a closely printed column of The here without addresses or wrappers are returned to the office of publica- tion. The foreign papers that are un- claimed here, are, after 30 days’ stor- aze, sent to the dead letter office at Washington, many tons of them in the course of a year. This same disposi- tion, after 30 days of storage, is made of the packages containing samples of silk or other goods, pieces of jewelry, bits of machinery, spools of thread, boxes of buttons, hosiery, aloves, and the thousand and one other articles of merchandige that are now allowed to be transported through the mails, The artioles that are thus thrown out of the mail bags have a value, but it is inconsequential in compar- igon with that of the broken letters and packages that frequently come to | light when a registered pouch is dumped out on the sorting table. | That much of the money shipped by registered letters reaches it destina- tion is due rather to the care exercis- ed by employes of the postoftice than to that shown by shippers. Gold and silver coin, often in large quantities, is carelessly inclosed in no safer wrapper than a common business en- velope. Unless these envelops are handled with the utmost care they are liable to be 1 or broken upen by the weight of coiu strikiig against the thin, creased edges of the envelopes, even before they are ready to be started toward their destination. Sometimes a dozen or more envelopes contaning coin are placed together in one of the special envelopes provided by the department for this pupose, and by the time these have made the trip, say from San Francisco to this city, the coin has worked its way through both the original envelope and that furnished by the government and is found on its arrival here loose in the bottom of the pouch. Hardly a day passes but there is dumped up- on the sorting-table of the postoffice from a registered pouch a shower of gold and silver coin which has in this way cut through the packages in which it was inclosed and lodged n Times. Letters without envelopes, with broken or torn envelopes, news- papers, in every known language, without wrappers, packages of all kinds of material without address tags, and envelopes without letters, wrappers without newspapers, and tags properly addressed attached §to nothing at all, are the frequent con- tents of a mail pouch, especially of one from one of the foreigu countries, which cause the postal official trouble, and the public generally much pro- fanity. To an observer it seems singular to seo the postal clerks careful'y pick out and tenderly sct aside this mass of matter, which, on the arrival of an ocean steamer’s miil, accumulates rapidly. Every as 1o whether a greater | scrap of paper that is not certainly at tached to a piece of the well-preserved ut i is evident that the smink ge has| il matter is preserved, aud the ac cumul.ted mass of scraps, wrappers, envelopes, newspaper, &c., is placed in a basket and sent up stairs to the inguiry room. Incredible,as it may seem, the quantity of this material that is forwarded to the inquiry room from the general delivery alone aggre- gates three or four bushels daily. Arrived in the inquiry room, this in the colony of New South Wales has | matter 18 handled by Superintendent Jones and his corps of assistants as tenderly as though each piece of paper Victoria had | were a choice and fragile bit of gluss. The newspapers are placed in one heap, the letters in another, and the miscellaneous mailable matter in an- other, but the real work of the ex- enue derived from telegraphs in the vari- | Perts begins only when there is left for 1830 iy stat: d us follows: | simply the pile of torn and apparent- ly worthless paper that formerly con- stituted the wrappers of some of the papers or letters. Each piece is criti- tain a post-mark or a bit of writing is not a profitahie one, the balauce for | are preserved. Each letter is careful- some ye.rs past having been on the wrong ly examined, and if the addcess, sig- natureor contents give evidence of the party for whom it is intended and his whereabouts, it is at once for- warded to its destination. If mass of apparently worthless paper an envelope is discovered, evidently written by the same hand as the body of an un- inclosed letter, the letter and wrapper are together inclosed and forwarded. In case the address and signature of Railroad Company has declared its rega- | the writer of a letter can only be as- Flvidend at 2 per cent., pay- | certained, he or she is at once com- mumcated with, and asked for di- rections as to the disposal of the If the only clue that is left to the examiners is the address on what was once an envelope, that per- son is informed that such an envelope is in the possession of the postmaster, and that if he can give any idea of «hat he expects in the mail, the in- The total earnings of the Denver & Rio | closure is in possession of the post Grande for the first week of February to the | master, and will be forwarded. The clusive were, from all rources, $100,- ! 483.63, as compared_ with $76,103.58, for torn and ragged bits of paper that have been gathered from the wrecks Cedar Rapils & North- of the mail are frequently so skillfully manipulated that by being put to- gether properly, a needed name and address is brought to light, or the patchwork reveals the destination some bundle of foreign periodical literature, or of some package of more or less value e s it ot thyee sections, as | that has beon intrusted to the mails in an insecure wrapper. A record and description of every. packaze whose sender or destination cannot be ascertained is kopt, as 18 each lotter that caunot be forwarded or returned because the only clues to identify it are the yague address and signature, as, for instance, “My dear Harry'- from ‘‘your own Gertie,” names sig' nificant enovgh to the parties inter- ested, but of no earthly use to the These letters and packages, numbering hundredsin the course of a week, are held at the The Sioux City & Pacific has 1ecently | office in this city as long us the law putioto use au incewions applisnce to | will allow, and «c the end of that time forwarded to the dead letter od- fice, in Washington, there to be regis- tered and held to await claimants, shonld any appear. hoen | present pertection by Postms Pearson, and results in the discovery of many of the writers or parties who would have been the recipients, and the delivery to them of letters and packages, frequently of considerable importance and value, Less atten- tion is paid to the periodicals and newspapers, because it is almost an utter impossibility to ascertain the tinal destivation of foreign papers, bound further west, north or south than this city If they are forwarded to parties in this city, and complaint of the loss of & paper is made at the office, it is a very rare thing indeed for the loser to bo unable to find his missing paper by calling at the in- quiry room. Papers published in this country which come to the postoftice the bottom of the pouch. It is not coin alone that finds its way out of insecure packages into the mass of matter contained in the pouch. Yes- torday morning when the, contents of one of these pouches was dumped there fell out without inclosure, and with no pro- tection but a small rubber band, a package of coupons destined for one of the large banking houses in the city whose aguregate value was $30,- 000. TIn the poorly made envelope that had originally contained the coupons, and which had been broken open while in process of transmission, was also found $10,000in greenbacks. As the coupons were negotiable, it speaks well for the honesty of the registry department clerks that when the count of the coupons was com- pleted they tallied exactly with the forwarded invoice to the fiem. A singular thing about this carelessly shipped package was that when the firm to whom it had been forwarded were notitied of the ar- rival and breakage of the pack- age, they only asked the post- oftice authorities to account for the $30,000 in coupons, and knew nothing whatever of the $10,000 in green- backs which came with them. It was but a short time ago that a pouch when emptied on the sorting table brought to light several million dol- lars’ worth of bonds that had been shipped from the ather side of the water in such an insecure package that it was broken open. One pouch that was emptied in the office in this city a short time ago let fall on the sorting table $300,000,000 of the bonds of the New York Central rail- road company which were in process of shipment, and had been placed in| an insecure wrapper. Almost innu- merable instances might be cited where the coin and greenbacks or ne- gotiable bills, checks, and drafts that are dumped without wrappers upon the table, aggregated thousands of dollars. The average number of broken packages received in this city daily in the registry department of the postoffice is 60, and the value in money contained in them is from §2 upward. A singular fact in relation to these broken envelopes is that many of them contain remittances of daily balances from postmasters to the assistant United States treasurer— the last persons, one would naturally think, who would be careless in the manner of inclosing money for trans- mission through the mails. This carelessness is a source of great annoyance to the authorities, because it necessitates a great amount of labor in separating the loose mon- ey into packages tocorrespond with the amount called for in the accom- panying statements and letters. The presence of the loose money in the pouches, too, is a constant source of temptation to the men who haudle the packages. In order to remedy the trouble caused and remove the cource of temptation to employes, Mr. Russell, the superintendent of the registry department, has recommend- ed to the general postoflice autherities that an order be issued prohibiting the transmission of eoin through the mails unless it is inclosed in a prop erly constructed envelope of stout pa- per, lined with linen or some other suitable material. The result of such an order, Mr. Russell thinks, would be beneficial to shippersas well as to thegervice, and would certainly prove a check tu possible peculations by dishonert employes. Thatall pos- sible safeguards should be thrown around this branch of the service will be apparent to every one when it is utnlmr(lmt between January 1 and February 15 over 150,000 pieces of registered matter have been deliv- ered to wveople in this city. Nearly as many more pieccs have been = forwarded from her: to varions poings, avda very much 1irger Luaioer of parve s have been hundied in course of transission to other cities. That the loss of packages and letters would be very much smaller if people who use the mails would use only good envelopes, is apparent to any one who will visit the inquiry department of the New York City postoffice. e A Cross Baby. Nothing is so conducive to a man’s remaining a bachelor as stopping for one mght at the house of a married friend and being kept awake for five or six hours by the crying of a cross baby. All cross and crying babies need only Hop Bitters to make them well and smiling. Young m re- member this.—Traveler. febld-w2t HOUSES AND LOTS! For Sale By BEMIS, FIFTEENTH AND DOUGLAS ST8,, 178, House 3 rooms, fu'l lot on Pierco near 20th streot, 31,650, 177, Houso 9 roou s, full lot on Douglas near 261 § roet, $700 176, Bentitifal residence, toll ot on Cass near 19h § reet, £12,000, 174, Two' houscs and § lot on Dodie nesr oth strect, 81 5 176, House threo room, two closots, ¢ c., halt 1ot on 218t - ear Grace stroct, §30 172, One and one-hulf story brick house an tw _lots on Douglas near 98th strcet, €1,7 0 171, House two rooms, well,cistern, stable, o ¢ tull 1ot near Pi reo and 18th wire t, $050. 178, One and one-half story hou'e six rooms yd AT it ot on “Couvent irect vear St Alry's aenue, N near shot ower §325. No. 169, Housoan ' 38x120 f stecet near Webst r stre No. 168, House o1 11 10 19th n ar B 1t street, §5,000, No. 167, Two etory hotsc, B rooms 4 closets, good cul'ar, on 18ih stice near Yoppleton's cot ot on 10th ), , lot 38x12, tect on §4,000, No . 105, New house of 6 rooms, half 1ot on Tzard n ar 10th street, 81 850, No. 164, Ooe and ofie h 1i story houge 8 rooms on 18th sircet car Leave worth, 3,600, N 161, One and onc-het story ) ouse of & rooms noar Hanscom Park, 81,600 No. 168 Two houres 5 rooms cach, cloets, ete on Burt strect near 25th, $3,500, No. 167, house 6 rocms, ful 1ot cn 19th street near Leavenworth, $2,400. No, 166, Houte 4 Jarg: rooms, 2 closcts halt acro on Burt stree near Dut on, £1,200. No. 155, Two houscs, one of 6 and one of 4 rooms, on' 17th street near Marcy 83,200, No. '164, Three houses, one of 7 and two of roour each, and corner 1ot on Cass nesr 14th strect, £5,000. . Ne.'153) small house and full lot on Pacific near 1:th »treet, 82,600, No. 151, One story house 6 rooms, on Leaven- worth ne\r 16th, $3,000. No. 160, Ho. so ! 1 (ar 26th and Farrham, 82, No. 148, New house of eight rooms, (n 18th strect n ar Leavenworth §3,10 . No. 147, House of ‘13 -roomis on 15th strect near Marcy, 85,100, No, 148, Hou-e of 10 rooms and 1} lots on 18th street near Marcy, $6,600, No. 145, House two large rooms, lot 67x215 tee @ Sheru dn avenus (16t stieet) near Nicholss, 2,600, 'No_143, House 7 rooms, barn, on 20th street near Leavenwort' , §2,6 No. 142, Hou o 6 rorn street near Nicholas, $1,575 No. 141, Tou v 3 foori# on Douglas mear 26th rooms and lot 92x116 2,500, kitchen, ctc., on 10th street, 80 No. 140, 1 are hou e and two lote, on 24t near Farnhom stre t, §8,0 0. No. 139, 1. use 8 roows, lot 60x1664 fec , on Douglas wear 27¢h strect, 81 No. 187, House 5 room+ 'd half lot on Capito No. 188, House and hail scre lot on Cuming street near 24th §:60. 151, House 2 ro ms, full lot, on Tzard o 1 2Lt X reot, $800. 0, Tw houses one of 6 and one of 4 s, on leased lot on Webster near 20th strect, 0. 127 Two story | ouse 8 rooms, half lot on Webster near 19th 83 500, i No. 126, House 3 rooms, lot ‘20x120 feet on r Douglas, $475. wo -tory hoti-e on 12th near Dodge 6 feet $1,200. e house and full block near 00 Housa 6 rooms :nd Lirge 1ot on Saun- near Bariacks, ¥2 100. House 6 rooms ana hall lot on W eb- 5th street, $1,500, No. 118, House 1(_rooms, lot 30x00 feet on Capitol avenue near 22d stieet, 82,050, No. 117, House 3 rooms, lot 8Ux126 fect, on Cap tol avenue near 22d §1,600. No. 114, House § rooms on Douglas near 26th treet, $760. No. 118, [Touse 2 rooms, lob 66x99 foet on 21s¥ near Cumi g utreot, 8750, No. 112, Brick house 11 rooms and hall 1ot on © ss near 1ith street, 82,80, No. 111, House 12 rooms on Dayenport near 20th stre:t, §7,0 0, No. 110, Brick house snd lot 22x132 feet on Cass strect near 15th, 8,000, No. 18, Large house on’ Harney near 16th street. §5,600. . No 109, Two houses and 86x182 foot lot on Cag near 14th street, 4,600, No. 107, House § rooms aud half lot on Irard near 17th'str et, $1,200. “0. 106, Houte und lot 51x198 feet, lot on 14tk near Picree street, 3600 No. 1 5, Two story house 8 rooms with 1} lot on Seward near Saund: rs street, $2,800 No. 103, One and one ha { st0ry house 10 rooms Webster near 16th strect, $2,600. No. 102, Two houses 7 rooms cach and § lot on L4th near Chicago, 84,0 0. 'No. 101, House § roome, cell r, etc., 1} lots on South avenue ' ear Pac tic sues , § 0. No. 100, House 4 rooms, ceilar, ctc., half lot on Izard st r 16 h, 32,000, No. 99, Very large hou-e and full lot on Har- ney near 14th streor, §9 000, No. 7, Large house of 11 rooms on Sherman avene ncar Clark street, make an offer. No. 46, Une and ono half ory houso 7 rooms lot 240401 fect, stable, etc., on Sherman ave- nue near (race, 7 (00, . No. 2. Large brick house two lots on Daven port atree: near 19th $18,000. No. 90, Large ho se and full lot on Dode near 1&/h tre 1, §7,00). No. 89, Large hause 10 rooms half lot on 20th near California streer, $7,600, No. 53, | arge house 10'or 12 rooms, beautiful corner loton Cass . ar 20th, §7.000. No. 87, Two stor, !oife 8 rooms 6 _acres o unders street niar Barrucks, $2,000 o stores and o resi +nce Oi leased r Mason and 10th street, $800, ‘WO §tory hou e 8 rooms, closcts, e c., wih b acres of yriund, on Saunders street near Omaha B rracks, §2,600. halt lot on Capitol £00. No. 83, Houseof o0 1 avente fear 12th strc No 82, O: ¢ and onc hall sl ory = ouse, 8 rooms ull lot on Pierce near 20th street, $1,800. No, 81, two 2 story houses, one of 9 and one 6 rooms, Chicago St., near 12th, §3,00( No. 80 Houss 4 rooms, clos et on 1&th stre t ucar White i.ead works, 81,300, No. 77, L arge house of 11 rooms, closets, cel- Lur, et -, With 14 lot- n Farnhain néar19th street, 8,000, No. 70, Or can1oue-halt story house of § rooms, lot 66x8’ feet on Cass ner 14 h street, $),600, No, 75, House rooms wid barement lok 16)x182 { et o M wr 8Lh steeet, $0 No. 74, Large brick house and two tall lots on Davenport near 16th stract, §15, 00. No. 18 One and one-ha f ¥tory nouse and lot 36x152 feet on Jac son near 12th street, §1,8.0. No. 72, Lurge brick house 31 rooms, full lof on Dave port near 15th sireot, $6.0 1. No. 71, + arge hou ¢ 12 rooms, full lot on Cali- forniu near 20.h street 000, No. 65, §'able and 3 fall'lots on Franklin strees near Saunders, 82,000, No. 64, Txo'story frame building, store below and rooms above, on leaed lot on’ Dodge near 16th strect, 3800, jouse s rooms, basement, etc., lob t on Isth street noar Nail Works, large lob 1,300, 0. 02, New house 4 rooms one story, ull lob on Harney vear 21st street, §1,760. , Larg. houso 10 ro0. 8, full lot on Burk No. 60, Hovee 3 ro ms, half lot on Davenport near 23d stre t, 21,000, 59, Four hotscs and halt 1ot on Cassnear 00, 10, §3, 3t Mary's & ) lot on Califor- 10,107ms, 1ia near 21st street, h £0. 1louse 8 jooins, two full 1 ts on 19th t ot 1 ear Paul. §3,000, H No. 49, Brick house 11 rooms, fall lot on Farn: hawi near 17th street, 6,000, No. 48, House of 9 rooms, half Tot on Facific near 9th strcet, §3,000 No. 48, Large house with full block near sho tow er, §2,000. No. 45, Large house 7 rooms, closots, etc., on 18th atreet near Clark, §3,000. No. 44, House and full lot on Chicago near 21st strot, 85,000 No, 48, ll‘?\h(:‘n'nd two lots on Chicago nes 224 street, §7,600. BEMIS Rear EsTare AGENCY 16th and D agla Street, K A XS - NEE. iouse 1} ree rooms on Clivton s reot /