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

!l 4 The Omaha Bee Published every morning, except Sunday, The only Monday morning daily, TERMS BY MAIL — One Ysar.....810.00 | Three Months,$3.00 Bix Months, 5.00 | One o 1.00 TFHE WEEKLY BEE, published ev- TERMS POST PATD:— One Yen 2,00 | ThreoMonths. . 50 8ix Months.... 1.00 | One - 20 CORRESPONDENCE-—AIl Communi- eations relating to News and Editorial mat- ers should be addressed to the EptTon or Tae Bee. BUSINESS LETTERS—AIl Business Lotters and Remittances should be ad- dressed to TrE OMAHA PupLisuiNg Cou- PANY, OMAHA, Drafts, Checks and Post. office Orders to be made payable to the ordor of the Company. OMAHAPUBLISHING C0., Prop’rs Ei1 ROSEWATER. Editor, _Gz}nmnnn Vax Wyex is proving himself an active investigator. Justice CoNkuine will sound strangely to ears accustomed to “‘the senator from New York,"” FemaLe suffrage is again worrying the Massachusetts legislature, where a bill has been introduced to confer upon women the right to vote on municipal Ik UMAHA DALY BRE: THURSDAY MARCH 2 1882, EXCESSIVE RAILROAD BUILD ING. Some months ago Mr, K. P, Vining, general freight agent of the Union Pacific, was interviewed by a San Francisco paper upon the rapidity of western railroad construction. Mr, Vining expressed the opinion that the country was being overstocked with roads and that more lines were being projected and built than were de- manded by present needs or than could be profitably operated for many years to come. There may be some difference of opinion as to the soundness of Mr. Vining's judgment as applied to rail- road construction in the far west. This is a country of magnificent dis- tancos, thinly settled as compared with the Atlantic seaboard and rapid- ly fiiling up with an industrious agri- oultural class. The development of the mineral resources of the territo- tories is as yet in its infancy, and for many years to come may be expected to yield a constantly increasing reve- nue to transportation lines. But capital in the enst and abroad is al- ready becoming alarmed at the heavy expenditures of the trunk lines for | their construction account and the re- cent heavy decline in stocks and the large sales of American secunties in England are said to be largely the re- sult of a feeling that the roads are pushing forward the development of a affairs, Dovaras street property owners have decided to take the bull by the horns and pave from Ninth to Six- teenth street on their own respon: bility and without asking the ecredit of the city for the prosecution of the work, Da. Buass isto get $26,000 for his profession services rendered to tho late president. The weight of the bulletins and the muscular exercises in writing them was taken into ac- count.” GeNERAL ROSECRANS objects to Mr. Blaine’s opinion that the Army of the Cumberland was greatly disorganized at the time Garfield became connected with it. Mr. Blaine has several his- torians and many army officers on his side of the case. Tue plan of dropping Secretary Kirkwood from the department of the interior and making room for him in the Austrian mission will not meet with general satisfaction through- out the west. Mr. Kirkwood is mak- ing an excellent secretary of the inte- rior and any change would not be in the line of an improvement. " { the railroad managers. great system to an extent unwarranted by the present snd prospective traffic and prejudicial to the dividend paying vowers of the corporations. For several years past there has been a rage for consolidation among Vast systems have been created by the purchase and linking together of isolated bank- rupt roads and connecting lines have been built in all directions to join the smaller links into a single great chain. Three yéars ago Mr. Vanderbilt said that there were five trunk lines from Chicago to the coast without traffic enough for three. Since that time four additional systems have been be- gun. The Chesapeake & Ohio has been completed so that it is enabled to compete with the Baltimore & Ohio. The Wabash combination has entered the arena, The New York & Chica- go is being constructed parallel to the Lake Shore. The Lackawanna ex- tension is being puthed rapidly to- wards Buffalo and the Ontario & West- ern is rapidly approaching completion as an additional link between New York and the lakes. Immense sums are being invested in these new lines in the hope of future dividends. Each one will divert a portion of the traffic from the older lines, which are now stocked to their full capacity. Vast amounts of stock and bonds are being ONE of the most monopoly ridden of states is New Jersey. Undera law lobbied through its legislature some ten years ago, all railroad property is exempt from local taxation. Taking advantage of this grossly unjust pro- vision, the railroad companies center- ing in Hudson county, opposite to New York city, have acuuired by pur- chase vast tracts of valuable river front which before was subject to tax- ation, in Jersey City and Hoboken, and assisted largely in carrying on the government of the two cities. Since its purchase by the railroads the loss to the citizens of Jerzey City in taxes alone has been over $200,000 annual- ly. A bill has now been introduced in the legislature making all property hereafter acquired in cities by railroad corporations subject to local taxatien, and notwithstanding a vigorous fight by themonopoly members, it has passed the house by a vote of forty-six to eight. The anti-monopoly movement is bringing forth good fruit in New Jersey and is spreading rapidly in all the counties. Tue Ber has been a consjstent ad- vocate of the interests of the laboring classes, and a staunch upholder of the rights of labor, It believes that labor is entitled to living wages, It has always insisted that well-paid work- issued and thrown upon the markev for investment purposes and .specula- tion is rioting in the stocks of roads which sooner or later must fall into the hands of the courts and litigating stockholders. 8o far as the effect upon the gam- blers who deal the railroad cards is concerned, the general public cares lit- THE EXPRESS CASES. The long legal fight between the railronds and the express companies has finally resulted in a victory for the latter. The opinion of Justice Miller, which decided the controversy, was rendered last week in ‘the circuit court of the United States at St. Louis and is of the highest importance as defining the relations between trans- portation companics and other com- The was mon carriers using their lines. the based was that of the case upon which decision Adams express company vs. the Atchison, Topeka & About a year ago the at- tompt was made by a number of rail- the company from off their lines. This action was resisted by the express company who claimed that they had a right to travel on the railroad as long as they paid a reasonable compensation for the pas- Santa Fe. roads to oust Adams s and for the uee sage of theirmesseng of cars for therr pac! the railroads refused to take either ages. Thereupon the Aduma express company or their messengers, and the latter sued out an injunction to prevent the railroads from putting off their messengers and | to compel them to transport their merchandise. Justice Miller in rendering his decis- ion statés at the outset that the ex- press business has become known and recognized as a distinct a..d necessary branch of the transportation trade and to deny tothe companies the right to carry on this business through their messengess paid to protect and assist in the rapid forwarding of the parcels is distructive of the business and of the right which the public have to the useof the railroads in this branch ot transportation. The court further decides that it is the duty of the railroads to furnish every converi- ence for the safe and proper transpor- tation of express matter on their roads and that the use of!theso facilitics shall be extended on equal terws to all who are actually engaged iu the express business. Only reasonable remuneration for this service can be demanded, and the right of the court to determine what such reasonabla re- muneration is is distinctly affirmed from the bench. This decision is of the highest im- portance. It marks another advance in the rapidly accumulating decisions which define the powers and duties of common carriers. It settles the question that railroads are for the public use, and cannot be used for the private ends of an unscrupulous man- agement. In addition it reaffirms the decision that the service by common cerriers must be rendered without favors or discrimination, and that charges must be fair and reasonable. The most interesting point advanced is that which aflirms the right of the courts to determine what charges are just and reasonable, and gives to the victims of railroad extortion a safe and secure remedy by appeal to the courta. AccOrDING to the new apportion- ment bill if the states having an in- crease of representation which neces- tle. It is more interested in the cer- tain results to the money and loan markets, which affects all prices, and more than all, in the fluctuations in tariffs and the war and truce policy which is sure to result from the fights of the rival lines to secure traffic and alternately cut their own their own throats and those of the public. Nothing is more certain than that every one of the fierce wars of rates by the trunk lines is followed by an advance in the tariff sufficient to more than cover the losses of the war, and for which the public have to pay. Railroad competition has always been a sham, and the over-production of railroads will be used as an excuse by the management to maintain exorbi- tant rates by showing earnings insuf- ficient to pay more ‘than ordinary dividends on the capital invested. 80 long as railroads are unrestricted by law in their charges, and the pub- lic are at the mercy of whatever charges their management may choose to infliot, just so long will capitalists continue in their belief that railroad- ingmen are more profitable to em- ployers than employes working on starvation wages, It has further in- sisted that labor has the right to chose its employment, and to change whenever, in its opinion, its best in- terests will be subserved by such <hange. The right of laborers to ing is the most profitable of invest- ments and that the dividend paying power of the lines is only limited by the avarice of the managers and the power of the people to bear the tariffs imppsed on their products, It has sitates a new apportionment do not make a new redistrictricting before the congressional election the in- creased number of congressmen must be elected at large. Some of the friends of Governor Nance are urg- ing upon his excellency that an extra session will be expensive and useless and at the same time distasteful to the railroad politicians, It is easier to control one convention at which three congressmen are nominated than three separate conventions, at each of which only one candidate is solected. Recognizing this, the rail- road managers are opposed to the calling of an extra session, and argu- ments against it may shortly be ex- pected to appear in the monopoly or- gans. It may be well for Governor Nance to remember that the senti- ment of Nebraska is overwhelmingly in favor of redistricting the state, and that the earlier the legislature 1s con- vened for this purpose, the better it will be for all concerned. Fairbrother Calls the Turn. Tuk Omana Ber is without excep- tiou the best paper in the state.— [Tecumseh Torchlight, Not by a dam's height, AL, Read the State Journal and Omaha Repub- licau before you decide which is the best paper in the state. You might read the Courier, too, while you are about it,—[Calvert Courier. We'll go you two better, and call been the unbridled license granted to atrike for higher wages cannot be the railroads in this country more denied. Any man has the privilogeof | thed anything else which has been demanding more pay for his services responsible for the state of affairs wheaever and as often as he wishes. Combinations formed for the pur- which is now so loudly deplored on the New York stock exchange, and poso are called strikes, one of which | the difficulty will only be adjusted now exists in Omaba. But while|When the transportation lines are lh’iku-'ue permissible so far as they represent individual demands for in- creased pay, no man or body of men brought under the control of laws which will compel publicity of their transactions and put a stop to the have the right to prevent by farce|Outrageous plundering of the public other laborers or mechanics from working at the wages which they themselves refuse. This is an in- fraction of the laws which is certain to prejudice public opinion against their case, and in the end to react injuriously against the end which they aim 2t by striking. No reasona- ble man in Omaha believes that a dol- lar and and a quarter a day is enough to support & family on, And the de- mand of the laborers for a reasonable advance above this figure will meet with a general sympathy which can only be destroyed by acts of violence and offenses against law and order. which has made them in the past the most powerful and prosperous pirates on the face of the globe. Waex the time comes to let paving contracts the city council should be on ite guard against a class of sharks with which Omaha has had some ex- perience in times past. These wmen, who are unfitted for the work, both by inexperience and character, gointe the business of contracting for the purpose of making a stake by not carrying out their contracts, As they are enti irreaponsible, it is impos- llbl:nmly An;‘remed; for the qou which accruee to the city. oudown., Wo said that THE OMAHA ¥R was, without exception, the best paper in the state. That's what we meant when we said it, and that's what we said when wo meant it. Tue Bek is fearloss in its criticisms, op- posed to all evils, when they are nown to exist; is ‘ably edited; a friend of the people—and its enor- mous circulation in this and other states corroborates our statement, “‘that 1t is the bestpaperin the state,” When Tue Bee, a few weeks ago, was trying to purify the mor uls of Omaha—one of the hardest towns in the west - the Republicun simply pimped for the 80 odd hell- holes of that sanctified city; it 18 sub- sidized by the monopolists, and, like the Etate Journal is always on the fence. To say auything about the State Journal would be foolish, as we all know it is simply a taffy machine —which exists on stato steals. The Lincoln Democrat is by far the best paper in Lincoln, aud the second best in the state. And Mr. Courier you know it.—[Tecumseh Torchlight. Fifty new cars are being built at the shops of the Virginia & Truckee railroad, at Carson, Nev., for the Csrson & Color- ado road. It is found that Shey can be built more cheaply there than fhey could be purchased in the east. STATE JOTITINGS, ‘ ,? case of small-pox is reported at West Potut. The Wayne Review is the sunflower Nebraska journals, An Towa oipitalist has made arrange- ments to start & bank at Wymo The city of Calvkrt is troubled with wolves, four and twodegged beasts of prey. A Bl Springs genius has coralled the U. P. boom at that town and now claims & patent on perpetual moti n, Four hundred acres of broom corn will be planted by Orrin Sherwood, He offers to guarantee $60 per ton to | wants to raise broom corn at his own shed.—Harlan County News. A member of Rock Creek Alliance No. 201, Jefferson county. writes that farmers are taking gre .t inter progress of the organization. Very few farmers re- fuse to join the Alliance, A wan named . an employe of the | 18 & M, at Lincoln, who lately arived ut Canada, was taken with small'pox on urday, and for want of any pest_hous i hamber for two da and the il wembers are beside themselv ith race, fe.r and | grief and have refused to occupy the room. Another county heard from, write:: “I eee in February Lyth that 1 yal Bu Willow county, claims the ribbon for t aud scraped had two hogs that weighed pounds each, live weight, I had 10} that averaged 544 pounds, 5 of them tw lve months and 5 nine mouths (1d, They were of the Poland { China breed.” It takes a Plattsmonth man tothorough- ly engineer an edito i1 puff. Last wees the owner of » new rest.urant down there decided to (,lwn up with a grand flourish, and in onder to give it ths requisite amount of respectability and tone, he i a1 the scril es of town t» “see him during the quict hours of evening. They came in pairs, armed with patient elastic bowels and buruiste ! teeth waistbands prepared for an emergency and_appetites starpeued for a square weal, The mem- of the feast were visible in the next edition. Deacon Bushnell “*‘pawed the col imded air’ with pious exclamatior Shermin painted the emotions of a stomach in glowing colors, and McMurph: loudly clapped his palms for more, 3 always safe to strike the scribes of Quality Hill T elow the belt. y ST RAILROAD NOTES. The Pan Handle roa | has 364 first-class es in use on its lines Already 287,000,000 in railroad subsi- dies have been promised by the govern- ment of Mexico. The business of the Pennsylvania Cen- tral system of roals for the calendar year 1881, amounted in gross to the unexampied sum of 811,124,000, Pen d'Oreille Lake, one of the most pic- turesque points on the Northern Pacific, is 2,010 feet above the sea level and is 460 miles east of Portlaud. The men at the head of the Denver Rio Graude Railroad company made ar- rangewents to push forward into Mexic a distance of 720 miles. Locomotive engineers on German rail- ways receive from $225 to £340 per year; ¢ nduc:ors, 8160 to S180 per year; brake- men from $150 to $165 per year. The Leavenworth, Topeka & South- western railway is said to_be an offspring of the Chicago, Rock Island & Puci Right of way has been grantei for 2 miles west of Leavenworth, and construc- tion work is well advancel hetween Leavenworth and Topeka, e The Wabash company now compels its brakem:en and switchmen to use an ash stick in making a coupling, and have sup- rlied such articles to the employes of that branch of the service. Making a coupling without using the stic’ is cause for instant discharge of the employe. The Mexican Central railway has been comg;etedfiu a point 104 mile: from Paso del Norte” The Texas Pacific Railway com any is end avoring to secuce a Mexi- can gran to construct a bridge over the Rio G ande at El Paso to tap the M.xi- can Centrul at 1'aso del Norte. The gross earnings of the Northern Pa- cific in Minnesota for 1881 was $1,609 - 04, The classification of these ea ings is as fullows: Total freight earnings, $1,2 3,383.91; traflic, 8252, 512.66; mails, .32, telegraph, $1,752,57; rents, $1,588.43; $2,018.64. The sta at 2 per cent is $32,1 A syndicate, of which it is surmised the Milwaukee railroad company is the prin- c1p] member, has purchased 3,000 acres of coal fields of the Philadelphia Coal Com- pany, thirty miles northwest of Deadwood. 'he beds have been thoroughly developed, showing veins eizht feet J’rici', of an ex- cellent (*unlity of lignite, valuable formilil, locomotive or domestic use. The New York, Lake Erie & Western Railway Company has. decided to build a double track on the line west of Hornells- ville, and for thar purpose has made a sale of its “‘prior lien” bonds which amount to $2,500, The Erie road now ha- dou- tle tracks from Jersey City to Horne!ls- ville, and accomplishment of present pur- pose of the company will make it ¢ouble track the entire length. Mr. Henry Hitchcock resigned his posi- tion as superintendent of the Galesburg division of the Chicago, Burlington & Quiney railroad company a few months ago after twenty-five years of efficient sorvics, and the directors recently pre- gented him an elegant gold watch and chain, which had been appropriately i seribed, together with a copy of compli- mentary resolutions handsome y eograved on parchment. Toe Fitchburg R ilro: sac Tunnel route) has greatly incre: terminal facilities in Boston for the re- ceipt and shipment of all descriptions of merchandise and freight, exporte | and imported. A new covered dock, the first df fiva now in course of construction, large enough for the lirgest class of stearships afloat, and a grain eleyator of 600,000 bushe!s capacity have just been opened for business, An inventor c'aims to have produced a railroad switch that can be operated b levers controlled by the engineer in the cal of alocomotive by which the switch ean be successfully closed or opened when a train is running at the rate of sixty miles an hour. The levers operats on a halance wheel between the rails opposite the switch in such & manner that th shifting rails can be move | either way at the will of the engineer The articles of incorpovation of the Towa North-ru railway company hive beon filed in the « tce of the secretary of s'ate. The principal place of business of the com pany is at Newton, and its object is to construct and oper.ve a railroad, commencing at the town of Colfax, Jas er county, and running thence ina north- wasterly directisi to a oiat in a northern 1 ¢ line 1 thesta e of Towa; also to € teuet @ sperate branches or exten. sions thercto, Capital stock not to ex. ceed 33,000,000, divided into shares of $100 each, miscellaneous, ax on the gross sum 70. DO NOT BE DECEIVED, In these times of quack medicine advertisements everywhere, it is truly gratifying to find one remedy that 1s worthy of praise, and which really does as recommended, Electric Bit- ters, we can vouch for as being a true and reliable remedy, end one that will do as recommended. Theyinvari- bly cures stomach and liver culllj)lllillll diseases of the Kidneys and Urinary difficulties, We know whereof we speak, and can readily say, give them a trial. Sold at fifty cents a bottle by & McMahon (3) when scalded | Right Rev. Bishop Lynch, Charleston, South Carolina. No Roman Catholie, prelate, cler- gyman or educated layman, within the limits of our states and territo- ries, will hear without abiding regret, of the death of as Bishop Lynch, for of & centary the #o distinguished a churchman nearly a quarter Catholi diocete of Charleston, rdinary of the cceleciastical South Caro- Chri The Right Rev. Patrick N. Lynch, whose singularly brilliant carcer as citizen and bishop closed last Sunaay forenoon, at Clarieston, S. C., was born in the county Mouaghan, Tre land, in the early daysof Mareh, sixty-five years ago. Within a year of his birth his parents emigrated to South Carolina and settled on a farm not far from Charleston. 1t appewrs that young Lynch inherited his tran- scendent talents from both parents, who were quite remarkable specimens of Irish culture in the first quarter of this century. The celebrated John England, an- other great Irishman, and the first ishop of Charleston, had ample op- portunity for appreciating the promis- ing seminarian under his charge, and when sufficiently advanced in his classical 2ourse adopted him as a dio- cesan subject for clerical education in the celebrated Roman college for mis- sionavies, popularly known as ‘‘the Propaganda.” Ttis highly probable that Bishop Lynch was among the most prominent Irishmen who ever pursued ecclesiastical studies in any Roman collcge. Having received ordi- diocesan, Bishop England, in 1840, he was immediately appointed as semi- nary professor, cathedral assistant, priest, and episcopal secretary. Within a few years he was president of the seminary and vicar-general of his diocese, and about twenty-five years ago he was raised to Episcopal rank, Daring the war of Secession in the southern states. Tn 1865 he nccepted the issue of the war as a truly 1 for nearly twenty years, in his social relations among northerners, nobody could fail to feel for the overwhelming losses entailed by the war on this noble but sorely distressed prelate. As theo- logian, philosopher, lecturer, preacher, essayist, linguist; and general scholar, he was scarcely ever supassed and rarely equalled in the United States hierarchy. Within the past two years his name was forwarded to Rome as ‘‘diguis- simus” to be co-adjutor to the cardi- nalarbishop of New York, and had not his physicalinfirmity so influenced the Roman authorities, in all human probability his remains would be lying in state to-day within the walls of the magnificent cathedral in Fifth avenue, New York. We take a mournful satisfaction in giving this summary biographical notice of this eminent prelate, and we ex- press our earnest hopes that no member of the Americun Catholic hierarchy, of his varied eru- dition and eminent services to church aud country, will be called for many more years, to swell the list of de- ceased prelates whose memories are revered by every liberal-minded citizen within the limits of our en- lightened and progressive republic. 'Postoffice Changes in Nebraska, During the week ending February 26, 1882, furnished by William Van Vleck, of the postoffice department. ESTABLISHED, Anawan, Knox county, James H. Nickerson; Carson, Nemaha county, Jobn W. Ford; Hatton, Lucoln county, William A. Vroman. POSTMASTERS APPOINTED. Baird, Nuckolls, county, Samuel C. Baird; Brooks, Howard county, James A. Howks; Congdon, Dawson county, Emmon J. Godfrey; Eik Val- ley, Dakota county, James Knox; Gi- rard, Saline county, John Blackmore; Pleasant Ridge, Harlan county, Mrs. Mary M. Carhile. Iowa. BSTABLISHED, Bromley, Marshall county, John C. Armstrong; Galtville, Wright county, Robert B. Hamlin, POSTMASTERS AFPOINTED, Adel, Dallas county, Walter A. Noel: Castle Grove, Jones county, Charles C. Scott; Corwith, Hancock county, Oliver H. Stilson; Danforth, Johnson county, Berthold Byer; El Dorado, Fayette county, Paul Buech- ser; Mount Sterling, Van Buren county, Aaron H. Thatcher; Nugent's Grove, Linn county, O.J. Nugent; Washburn, Black Hawk county, James Brown, ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE. nation at the hands of his illustrious dashing gallop, followed by her irate brother, but the girl had the best pony and won the race, her brother following at a distance until he per- ceived that his horse showed signs of exhaustion then he turned home- ward, but had to hoof it part of the way, the poor horse dropping dead by the roadside from having been ridden too hard and far. A day or two after another brother of the girl hearing that she had returned to the Gosper county chap's ‘‘doby,” and was frying his venison for him, ete., Jes THOURSTCE 01 ¢ TEYMOn TP | huckled on his artillery and rods resentatives of various Protestant | verto the “‘doby’” determined to denominations - will sympathize with | have his sister or blood, he found the | the Roman Catholic hierarchy and |girl epgaged in houschold duties, people of onr republic for the loss of and Nluhmfl‘:‘lrl l“t m.lllm- )Vn-r n-; disti R “Maste of | come home with him, ut was un- v distingwished “Master of | gyccoaful. The Gosper county chap tinn theolog Trishman | appeared on the sceno and prevented | in the old land or settled in “‘far|a tragical termwmation to this affair foreign fi will fitil to join in the | by showing up a marriage certificate, sorrow which the death of an illus- [and otherwise convineing the big trious fellow countryman usually | brother that things were straight. evokes amongst all classes and ods. | The big brother left the youny couple to enjoy their remantic honey moon, and murmered as he rode home, all's well that ends well. The partics are all well known in this community. A GREAT RAILWAY BRIDGE. Mountains 800 Feet Deep. N. Y. Horald, On the top of the Allegheny moun- tains, at the point where the Brad- ford extension of the Krie railway is to pass, is a slight impedi ent in the way of & ravine 300 feet deep. The chief engineer of the Erie, Mr. Cha- nute, yesterday exhibited to a re- porter of the Herald his plans tor getting over this impediment. For some time it has delayed a railroad connection between that section and Pittsburg. Tt is virtually a valley, running lengthwise the mountain range, whose walls are 2,200feet above the level of the sea, and whose bottom is washed by the waters of Kinzua creek. In some places the depth of the valley is 700 feet, and 800 feet was about the first favorable crossing point that was to be found. The place is about twenty-seven miles from Johnsonburg, the terminus of the extension, and about thirtecn miles from Bradford. Work was be- gun last fall upon a structure which, when completed, will be the highest railway bridge in the world. The length of the bridge will be over 2,000 fect, that distance to be covered with twenty-two piers of iron and twenty- three spans. Trinity church and its his early associations had soinfluenced | steeple might be putbeside thelofriest his mind as to make him one of the [ span and yet be fifteen feet short of most prominent Catholic secessionists | it. Two low stone piers will underhe each iron one, the total masonry work amounting to 2,200 cubic yards. The couniry thereabouts is tremely wild, and Mr. Chanut that the masonry work, nearly completed, rescmbled from the approaches a forrest of piers. The length of the prers will be 40 feet and the length of the spans 60 feet. he piers will be 110 feet wide at the base, tapering gradually to a width of 12 feet at the top. Mr. Clarke, of the firm of Clarke. Reaves & Co., of Phe- nixville, Pa., the contractors of the iron work and the builders of the ele- vated roads in this city, called the re- porter’s attention to the fact that the piers at the baso would be one- third of their hight, which was considered by engineers to be the cor- rect proportion for a staunch struc- ture. The Tay bridge, whose fall re- cently cost 8o many lives, was con- structed, he said, of piers 80 feet high and only 10 feet at the base. In a few weeks they would have a mnall army of men employed in the ravine putting up the iron, and they xpected to complete the structure by about the 1st of June. Its total cost will be about §300,000. Mr. Clarke said that some railroad bridges across wide ravines were lowered in the mid- dle, leaving a downward and upward grade. This would not do for the Erie at this point, because no engine could pull the heavy freight trains up such a grade. There will be a consumption of 2,500 tons of iron in the whole structute, and some of the hoisting methods employed in putting up the string pieces of the elevated road will be used again there, Work can be continued upon several pieces at once. Both Mr. Chanute and Mr. Clarke agreed that there was no railway bridge in the world of so great height as this will be, The Kentncky river bridge is 276 feot high, the great Pe- ruvian railway bridge is 235 feet, the Portage bridge, on the Erie’s maiu line, i 4 feet, and the Niagara sus- pusion bridge 1s 275 feet. aid A Seat for .Bores. Denser Tribuiie. Forsome time pasta dilapidated chair has oceupied a prominent place in one of The Tribune editorial rooms. It occurred to one of the gentlemen of the force to utilizs it as a pitfall for bores. So Le carefully cut the cane seat out of 1t, pasted a paper over the yawning hcle thus created, and ar- ranged a lot of old exchanges over the pasted paper in such a manner as to creatc the impression that they were thrown there from the exchange table. Very naturally, the visitor would plank himeelf in this inviting chair, and as naturally, tumble through the pupers upon the floor, Mr. Henry L. Feldwisch, the gifted editor of The Inter-Ocean, had heard of 'this little scheme of entertaining strangers, and in his paper of Satur- day made an elaborate notice of it Last eveuing he paid a casual visit to Blopement, Bxolung Race, .and &|qpe Tribuue éditorial rooms, and for- Happy Finale. getting all about his expose of the Dawson Co. Press treasured seccet, dropped iuto that There was alittle dance on tho|same chair with a comfortable sort of south side of the river, near the Gos- |4 sigh. There came a crash like the per county line, & fow vyenings sivce, | bursting of a mill-dam, aud Mr. kcld- and among the merry people there, | wisch went through the irail seat of was & prominent Platte preeinet | that ohair like gres Lining, He farmer (8 middiv agod, wol to b doublea up Nk oa ) Keije, his bachelor) and his best i, to whom | knees striking Lim i (he chiu wnd he was to be married on the follow- ing Sunday. He was happy aud had a jolly time, when the party broke up “assisted his fair fiaucee to mount her pony and then went to got his own steed, but returned to find the damsel gone and with her a certain Closper county youth, He roturned home, uttering curses, not loud but deep. The uext day u brother of the young lady proceeded to the resi- dence of the Gosper county younz man, found his sister there alone, and induced her to accompany him home. They rode several miles to- gether when suddenly the girl seem- ed to change her mind, wheeled her horse, and took the back track at a knocking out two front teeth. His cars caught on the sides of the chair and were badly lacerated. It took | two printers and a reporter to extri- oate him from his cwbarrassing pre- dicament. The next time he g away one of The Tribune's practical jokes, he will perhaps have a care not to tamper with the object of his be. trayal Ansistant Postmaster. CINCINNATI, O,, Sept, 2, 188, H., H. Waryer, & Co.: Bigs—I Lave used your Safe hidney and Liver Cure for chronic dysauntery, contracted while in the army, with Crossing a Ravine in the Allegheny | which s |, P —— HOUSES LOTS! For Sale By BEMIS FIFTRENTH AND DOUGLAS 8T8, 178, Mouse 8 ronms, full 1ot on Pierce near 20th street, #1,650. 177, Hovss 4 rooms, full lot on Douglas near § rect, §700 Beatiiful residence, full lot on Cass near 812 nesr Oth c., hald n, two closets, brick house an stroet, 81,700, 1 rooms, well,cistern, stable, tull 1ot near Pi-rce and 13th stre t, One and one-haif story houte six rooms nd well, hsli 1ot on Convent s'rect near St ary' e, #1,350, use 1hree rooma on - Clinton st reet an ' 83x120 fect lot on t street, §,600. House of 11 raou v, lot 38x12) fect on Burt street, 85,000, Two story’ house, § rooms 4 closeta, cellar, on 18th strec. near Poppleton’s soc 4,000, No . 166, New house of 6 rooms, half lot on Tzard o ar'10th sireet, $1 850, No. 164, One and ofe hilf stor house § roome on 18th street ) car Leaver worth, $3,600. N. 161, One and onc-ha f story | ouse rooms near Hanscem Park, $1,600. 0. 168 Two houses b rooms each, closets, ete Burt street near 25th, §3, No. 167, house 6 rocm, near Leavenworth, §2,400. No. 166, House 4 Iarge rooms, 2 closcts balf acre on Burt stree. near Dution, §1,200, No. 165, Two houses, one of 5 and one of & rooms, on' 17th street near Marey. #3,200, No.'164, Thrce houses, one of 7 and two of & roous each, and corner ot on Cass near 14th street, 85,000, Ne.'168, small house and full lot on Pacifie near 1_th street, $2,600, No. 151, One story house 6 rooms, worth near 16th, $8,000. No. 160, Hor se three rooms and lot 92x116 1 car 96th and Farnham, $2,600. No. 148, New house of ¢ight rooms, on 18th stre-t n: ar Leavenworth $3,100, No. 147, House of 18 rooms en 18th strect near Marcy, §5,000. No. 146, House of 10 rooms and 1} lots on 18th street near Marcy, $6,600. N two large rooms, lot 67x210 fee b avenie (16th street) near Nicholas, of & ot on 10th street on Leaven. 600, 'No 143, House 7 rooms, bain, on 20th sticet near Leavenwortr , 82,600, No, 142, Hou ¢ 5 rooms, kitchen, te., on 16tk street near Nicholas, 81,875 41, Hou.e 8 rooms ou Douglas near 264h Tote, on 2 , Larce houte and two near Farnham stre: t, §8,0 0. N , 1, use 8 rooms, lot 60x166} feet, on as vear 27th wtreet, #1,500. House b rooms a1'd rect, $2,300, and bl acre lot on Cuming alt lot on Capito a nean 21at & 8800, No. 120, Two houses oie of 6 and one of 4 3, o leased lot on Webster near 20th stroet, Two story | ouse 8 car 19th 83,600, 26, House 3 rooms, lot 20x120 feet on 26th & re:t near Douglas, 3075, Two story hotise on 12th near Dodge X6 feet 21,200, 1 rge house and full block near Farnham and Cen ral ircet, §8,00c, No. 123, House 6 rooms and large lot on Saun- ders & reet near Bariacks, 82 100. No. 122, Houso 6 rooms and haif lot on W eb- ster near 15th street, 81,600, No. 118, House 10 rooms, lot_30x80 foet on Capitol avenue near 22d stréet, §2,950, No. 117, House 8 rooms, lot 30x126 Capitol avenue near 22d 81,500, No. 114, House 8 rooms én Douglas near 96th rooms, half lot on feet, on treet, $760. No.'113, [Touse 2 rooms, lot 60x99 fect on near Cumir g ntreet, $750. No. 112, Brick house 11 rooms and halt lct on 183 near 14th street, 82,500, 0. 111, House 12 ‘roomsfon [Davenport near 20th strect, §7,0 0. No. 110, Brick house and lot 22x132 fect on Cass strect near 15th, £,000, No. 108, Large house on Harney near 10th strees, 86,600, No 109, Two houses and 36x152 foot lot on Casa near 14th street, 3,500, No. 107, Houso 5 rooms and halt lot on Izard B ear 17th str et, §1,200. 0. 106. Houre and lot G1x198 fect, lot on 14th near Pierce street, $600 No. 115, Two story house 8 rooms with 1 lot on Seward near Saunders street, $2,800 No. 103, One and one haif story house 10 rooms Webster near 16th street, 82,600, No. 102, Two houses 7 rooms each and § lot on 14th near Chicago, $4,0.0. No. 101, Honse 8 rooms, cell r, etc., 13 lots on South svenue near Pacific stres , 81,650, No, 100, House 4 rooms, cellar, ¢te., balt lot omlzard streot near 16th, §2,000. No. 99, Very large ho ney near 14th streer, $0 No. o7, avenue near Clark sircet, make an offer. No. 96, (e aud one half s.ory house 7 rooma lot 240x401 feet, stable, etc., on Sherman ave- nue near Grace, 87 (00, No. 92, Large brick house two lots on Daven port street near 19th §18,000, No. 90, Large hovse’ and full lot on Dode near 16(h “tre T, $7,00). No. 89, Large hause 10 rooms half lot on 20th near California streer, §7,600. No, 88, Large house 10'or 12 rooms, beautitul corner loton Cass 1 ur 20th, §7.000. No. 87, Two story rouse 3 rooms 5 acres o land «n Saunders strect near Barracks, $2,000. No. 85 Two_stores and a resii«nce o leased half lot,near Mason and 10th street, 3800, No_&4, Two story hou ¢ 8 rooms, closcts, eic., wiih b acres of ground, on Saundcrs street near nd full lot on Har- No, 81, 'Iwo 2 story houses, one of ané one 6 rooms, Chicago St., near 12th, §8,000. No. 80 House 4 rooms, closets, ete., large lo on 1€th stre-t ucar White Lead works, §1,300, No, 77, Large house of 11 rooms, closets, cel- Jar, et 'with 1} lot cn Farnham nc>r19th strees; . 76,0 lot 66xK fe No. 75, 32 ct No. 74, Large brick house and two full lots on Davenport near 16th strect, 16,000 No. 18 One and one-ha f 'story house and log 36x152 feet on Jac son near 12th street, §1,800. No. 72, Large brick house 11 rooms, full lo§ on Dave port near 16th street, $5,000. No. 71, | arge hou € 12 rooms, full lot on Cali- fornia néar 20h street, §7,000, No_66, d 8 tull'lots 0o Franklin stroot near Baund ), No. 64, Two'wtory frame building, store below and 100ma above, on leased lot on’ Dodge near 16th strect, ¥800 No, 68, Huuse 4 room 0 feet on 1sth st cand one: ullkmr{‘hom of 8 room, . t on Casy near 14th street, 81,600, e 4 rooms and basement - log i Marcy near sth street, $376.1 wom basement, o , lob near Nail orks, oix 100 %0, 02, Now house 4 rooms one story, ull los on Harney ucar 21st street, #1,760, No, 61, Largs house 10 1008, full lot on Bur noar 2ist wircot, §5,000, No. 60, House 8 1o ms, halt lot on Devenpors near 250 st re. t, #1,000, 0 69, Four houses and half 1ot on Coss near 030 No. 58, lo near 21t stre No. 57, house of 6 ¢ o, lot 60x140 feet on 215t street near B, Mary's avenuo, $3,000, No. 66, House of 10,0oms, full fot on Calitor: nis 2int street, 8,600, 0, 60, I ‘two full 1ota oo 19th steeot «enr Paul. 84, y h s L ool A 4 ot 7 rooms, full lot Webster 5 full lot on Farn, %y ms, hall ot ou Lacif ith full block near &hor 0."46, 1 ooy, closots, eto., 18th street near ¢ 3,000, No. 44, Houce and full lot on Chickzo near oot £6,000 use and two lots on Chicago nes 000, liso 0f 8 roows, 1§ lots on 10th near stroet, §8,060 No. 86, Two 2 story brick houses with lob 44x182 féct ou Chicago near 18ta strect, 85,600 e Rear EsTare Acency the wost bappy resulls. fah 28-dlw Josern H. TaokNTON. 16th and Duagla Street, - AELA - DIEIX. rge houte of 11 rooms on Sherman: Omahn B.rracks, 82 500, No. &3, House of 9 roors, hal lot on Capitol aventie 1 ot, 82,00, No O roome * ull lot A 3} e