Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 21, 1882, Page 4

4 —— i UMAHA DALLY BRE: TUESDAY MARCH 21 iob2 The Omaha Bee Pablished o morning, except Bunday, 6 oniy ponday morning Aniy, TERMS BY MAIL — Ine Tsar,....$10.00 | Three Mon! Bix Months. 500 | One .“ HE WEEKLY BEE, published ev- ery Wednesday. BERMS POST PAID:— One Year,..... $2.00 | Thtee Monthe, . 50 8ix Months. ... 1.00 | One “w 20 CORRESPONDENCE—AIl Communi. entions relating to News and Editorial mat- ers should be addressed to the Eprror or THE Bre. Sk BUSINESS LETTERS—All ness Detters and Remittances should be ad. dressed to THE OMAHA PUBLISHING UoM- PANY, OMAHA. Drafts, Checks and Post- office Orders to be made payable to the order of the Company. OMAHA PUBLISHING 00., Prop'rs. €, ROSEWATER. Editor. "A Cariman joke—calling out the troops at the requests of the railroad cempany. $3.00 .00 Tug strikers don’t seem to have much respect for members of the special grand jury, Call out some more militia, Tuzrra don't seem to be many can- didates for the council this spring. What is the matter? Have they all gone on a strike? S— Soms of our home guards are re- peating with deep feeling Minister Lowell's lines: “This kind o' soldjerin aint s bit WAGES AND COST OF LIVING. Living wages are wages which will enable a man to sustain life, pro- yide for family and with economy lay aside a little for a rainy day. The question as to what are living wages in Omaha must be decided after a comparison of the cost of house rent, fuel and provisions in this sity with other parts of the country. It is the purchasing power of money which gives it value, Where a dollar can only buy what a year ago could be bought for eighty cents, we say that prices have risen twenty-five per cent. More properly, the purchasing power Like our November trainin’, Por there a man could run in doors 1f it tiras only rainin’,” No less than thirty applications have been made for the shoes of Dr- Garnet, who recenly died while min- ister to Liberia, The climate 1s said to be sure death to an unacclimated foreigner, but even the prospect of death awakens no fears in the aver- age office seeker. —_— Tur item “funeral expenses”- in congressional appropriation bills is held to cover a large amount of, what Bill Nye calls ‘‘improved cemetery promoter.” Over $300 worth of cocktails were consumed by congress- men who attended Garfield’s funeral, and the item was passed as a legiti- mate expenditure of that ceremony. Commissioner FINK says the pas- sage of the Reagan bill to regulate inver-state commerce would be a great calamity. We have no doubt of it. Just as soon as congress regulates the management of the trunk lines by law, the trunk lines will dispense with the services of the commissioner, and Mr. Fink would be without an occupation. SE—— 1r will pain many persons to learn that Vanderbilt's palace which cost nearly $5,000,000 is not an entire success. Tho kitchen is so arranged that the odors of the cooking mingle with the smell of fresh paint in the pantry parlor and the gilt on the frames in the art gallery, Beef- steak dados onions and tapes- try are well enough in their place,but too close & connection is apt to spoil the effects; THE president has given congress good and sufticient reason for placing the troops under General Crook at the disposal of Governor Nance. Now let the governor give President Ar- thur sufficient reason why he imposed on the president by telegraphing him that he was unable to suppress the alleged insurrection in Omaha before he had any personal knowledge of the situation, and before he had made the slightest effort to quell the riot. BrNaTor EpMunp's bill to regulate retirements from the army is an im- proyement on the present method, but falls very far short of the plan now in successful operation in the navy. It provides for the retirement, voluntarily vr otherwise of officers who may receive thereafter a compen- sation graduated to the length of their service, Officors who have served ten years will receiye a bonus of one yoars full pay. Two years full pay is offered as a bonus for fifteen years ser. vice. After a cortain limit has been passed in the service, the retiring officer is to be entitled to a pension, twenty years entitling him to an annual pensionlequal to one-half of his full pay; twenty-five years toa pen- slon of two-thirds and so on until forty years of service has been reached when full pay will be allowed as a pension. Provision is also made that none except general oficers shall be allowed to serve after having reached the age of sixty-two years and general officers having reached that age will only be continued at the will of the president, Senator Edmund’s bill is an improvement, on the one whish suggests half pay only for officers who remain in the service af- ter sixty-two years of age. ‘We are of the opinion, however, that what the army needs to increase its efficiency is a rigid compulsory retire- ment lew similar in design and scope to the ome now in operation in the navy and which will infure new life into the service by spurring ambition and stimulating energy by holding up the the certainty of steady promotion snd an honorsble retirement and ) provision when the approach of ‘makes their active services no availsble for the government. il of a dollar has decreased by one- fifth, and workingmen who receive one dollar to-day really receive only eighty centa in the value of the wages which they made last year at the samo rate of pay for their services. In Omaha there has been an advance of from fifteen to twenty per cent in the cost of provisions of all kinds. House rents, which have always been enormous, have not fallen. Meats have gone up from 2to 0 cents a pound, fuel has advanced thirty per cent. Flour, bread and potatoes have advanced from thirty to fifty per cent. But while there has been a general advance in the cost of living there has not been an equal advance in wages. Workingmen who had hard work to make both ends meet on last year's prices find it impossible, with the groatest economy, to support their families this year on the wages they have been receiving. This is the cause of the general de- mand for higher wages which 1s being heard in Omaha and in every part of the country. The question of the justice or injustice of this demand cannot be considgred apart from the question of the cost of living. When common labor in Omaha asks for a doliar and seventy-five cents a day it is in reality asking for wages equal to those of a year rgo. A dollar and seventy-five cents this spring will buy very little more meat, flour and pota- toes than a dollar and a quarter would have purchased last year. The pur- chasing power of a dollar has decreased and workingmen are the first to feel the effects and to demand the remedy in increased wages. THE ANTI-POLYGAMY BILL. The Edmunds anti-polygamy bill, which has just become a law, contains provisions that will result in a most radical change in the government of Utah. The bill reaffirms the national act that makes polygamy a misde- meanor, which, upon conviction, shall be punished by fine and impris- onment. It excludes from jury sers vice all polygamists, whether they ac- tually practice plural marriage or merely believe polygamy to be a di- vine institution. It declares us legit- imate the issue of Mormon marriages born belore the first of January, 1883, and makes ample provisions for am- nesty by the president for past of- fenses upon preper conditions, All bigamists or polygawists, male or fe- male, are disfranchised They are also debarred trom holding any oftice or place of public trust, honor or emolument in any territory under the jurisdiction of the United States. The most radical change which this We are aware that many ignorant people who let others do their think- ing are of the opinion that all strikes are incited and upheld by drunken ignorant foreigners. As a matter of fact, strikes are just as frequent among American workingmen and working- women in New England factory towns as they are among workingmen of foreign birth in the west. Strikes are always liable to end in violence, and nearly always entail greater loss on the strikers than on their employ* ers. But this costly experience does not prevent strikes, because labor has no other means of enforcing its de- mands for fair troatment and living wages. Strikes may often be frivolous and unreasonable, but they are nearly al- ways the laboring mans protest against ill treatment or low wages, and the disposition to seek redress by strik- ing is net confined to race or sex. The most aggressive strike of which wo have any record in this country began at Boston in 1776 when the Yankees dumped the British tea chests . into the bay. That strike was kept up for seven yoars and after much bloodshed and property destruction a conference was eoffocted at Yorktown whereby the strikers were allowed to set up in the business of government for them- selves. There were many forcigners associated with the native Americans in that strike but nobody has ever denounced them as a mob swarming with ignorance, whisky and violence. Prarron KeLLy's proposition to cut down federal taxes by taking off fifty per cent of the tax on liquors was sat down on with a loud thud by the re- publican caucis. While old Pigiron Kelley is howling so loudly about the enormoustariff on whisky and blessed- ness of high 1aciff on iron, thousands of Pennsylvauia miners are on a strike because the manufaciurers are claiming all the profits resulting from an extravagant protective policy. We need a tariff for the encouragement of American industry, but it ought to be adjusted so that the benefits are not all on the side of capital and the burdens thrown entirely on laborer and producer. Sourn Dakota will shortly be added to the list of states, the senate com- mittee on territories having unani- mously instructed Senator Saunders to report a bill in favor of its admis- sion, provided a census, to be taken during the coming summer, shall show that the territory has sufficient population to entitle it to a member of Congress The remaining territory will be known s North Dakota, and will be continued under the present territorial government. Southern Dakota is settling up rapidly, and there is no doubt that it has sufficient inhabitants to entitle it to the re- quirad representati: Five Thousand Dollars. To the Editor of the I'ce, The West Point Progress says: ‘‘Five thousand dollars reward is offered for the arrest of the cowardly murderer of Col. Watson B. Smith, Now let the eitizens of Omaha show their impartiality by offering another five thousand for the arrcst of the bill contemplates is the abolition of the present Territorial government of Utah and the creation of a board ap- pointed by the president, confirmed by the senate, which shall be charged with the duty of reorganizing the gov- ernment of The board is em- powered to canvass the votes at all elections, and issue certificates to such persons as shall appear to be lawfully elected. The members of the board are to be drawn frem not less then two political parties. The reorgan. ized territorial government will, if the Edmunds bill is strictly enforced dis- franchise the large majority of the Mormon population of Utah, and de- prive them of all the rights which our government ccnfers upon settlers in the territories. The obvious design of this bill is to crush out polygamy and the country will watch the result with a good deal of interest. — FOREIGNERS AND STRIKES, Strikes are only so many mobs, swarming with ignorance, whisky and violence. The spirit of the whole thing comes from the beggarly labor sys‘em of the overworked and poorly s_dd wasses of the densely populated irtriots of Europe. It is engrafted upon this country and fostered and |}, kept alive by ¢ i i Bk Commarial Haodny 4408 How about the strikes now in pro- gress at Lynn and Lowell, where the strikers are sober and intelligent American men and women, whose an- costors came over with the Pilgrims cowardly murderer of poor, innocent, old George P. Armstrong, who would be living to-day but for the action of | P! Mayor Boya, Dr. Millar, Datus Brooks and others, who called out the troops.” Every word of the above is mam- fostly true, and the citizens of Omaha deserve a severe rebuke that they have not before this collected enough to pay for a good detective, who would ferret out the cowardly mur- derer of poor, innocent, old George Armstrong. , It would be of ccurse worse than useless to expeot impar- tiality from certain so-called leadin, citizens of Omaha. I mean it wouls be unreasonable to expect, that the high-toned gentlemen, Boyd, Dr. Miller, Datus Brooks &c., whose in- dignation at the murder most foul, of W. B, Buith knew no bounds, will be moved by the cold-blooded murder of Armstrong, they being to alarge extont themselves the prime cause of his death. If justice is to be dealt out; if the supposed mur- derer of Armstrong is to be brought to court and the question here set- tled, if stabbing in the back of an old unarmed man, lying on the round, was an act of ‘‘performing uty,” or a murder, the workingmen themselves and their friends must take upon themselves, to collect a sum aecessary for detective work and rosecution. I for one subscribe to the fund ten dollars. Jxo. Rosicky, E—— The New Comet. Natlooal Amoclated Prose. Dxrrorr, March 20.—Prof. M. W, Harrington, of Ann Arbor university, telographs the Evening News that on Bunday wmorning he saw the new comet. It is bright and has a dis- that landed at Plymouth Rook? Were the hatters of Connectiout that went on a strike three' woeks ago foreigners, swarming with ignorance and whisky? How was it with the historio tele- grapher's strike of 1870—the most extensive strike that has ever taken place in this country. More than ninety-five per cent. of the tele- egraphers engaged in that strike were American-born men and women as intelligent as any equal number of mon and women of any calling Wil any man who has the least re- gard for his reputation assert that the telegraphiers engaged in that strike were a mobr of foreigners swarmming with ignorance, whisky and violenoce | tinot tail. It is & very pretty object, but so small that it requires a good instrument to see it. It is three or four degrees north of the star Omick- son in hericulles and is travuling slow- northward, It rises about 10 ! o¥cloo|| in th% A Hurricane, National Assoclated Pross. . Paora, Ind., March 20.—A terrific storm over this scotion, doing reat m?u, It unroofed the Hunt ouse and several buildings, blew down a barn at Foster's farm, killing two horses and damaging much pro- perty in the line of the storm, — Sergeant Masou Nationa | Amociated Press. WasuinoroN, March 20.—The Ma- son relief fund ‘un amounts to $300, ‘li’auumum pouring in for his par- on, OHARGE, OHBSTER, OHARGE ! With Gatling Guns, Howitzers and Bayonets. How the Bloodless Insurrec- tion Was Orushed. Tho King of Franoe With Twioce Ten Thousand Men Marched Up the Hill and Then Maroched Down Again. The Omaha Campaign Viewed by the State Press. DEMOURACY AND BAYONETS, Omaha —a democratic mayor—gov- erament troops. Scat!-~[Butler County Prens. THE BOY BRIGADIER, Gov. Nance has been at Omaha for & week commanding the brave army at long range, He uses the bridal chamber at the Withnell hotel, which enables him to keep under cover until the cruel war is over.—[ Wahoo Times. AN OUTRAGH ON MANHOOD, The citizens of Omaha should have armed about three hundred of them- selves and given Nance twenty min- utes to leave with his militia. Quar- toring a little army in their city for nothing but to bayonet innocent and peaceful citizens, was an ou the manhood of that city should resent. — [Crete Standard. TROT OUT CARNS, Bome people in Omaha, we fear, will me 5o _terror-stricken npé habituated to calling for the protec- tion of troops, that militia will be or- dered out over any common street row. Such as are in a trembling con- dition should- use their influence in having our lieutenant governor quar- tel there. He's a fighter and :i‘fht have a soothing effect. —[Sew- Reporter. EFFICIENCY LACKING EVERYWHERE. The calling out of regular troops to quell the labor troubles at Omnha will shed no luster on the governor of the state, nor on the mayor of Omaha. There seems to be a lack of efficiency somewhere, and the gentlemen occu- pying the positions above mentioned will merit the reproach of the country for their timidity and indecision in an emergenocy where the civil authorities ought to have been equal to the occa- sion.—[Pawnee Republican. GOOD WAGES, GOOD MEN, Omaha and Pittsburg laborers are on the strike for higher wages. In Omaha the trouble first commenced ; P¢ with the B. & M. men on the dump, but different tradesmen are now oi- ganizing into unions and joining in the movement. As a union man our sympathy is with them, but we are opposed to mob violence, and advo- cate keeping the peace, as it is the only way that laboring men can effect their ends with capital. Everybody knows that $1.75 a day is small wages to support a family at the prices of provisions.—[8t. Paul Free Press. DEAR GEORGE, YOU LIE STILL The Herald says: ‘‘Public opinion in Omaha and in the state is like a solid wall of approvad and strength” at Governor &nnne'l back for his methods in dealing with citizens of that town, Perhaps, but we don’t be- lieve it. The expression here has been one of condemnation for calling out the militia before any effort haa been made to mantain order by the organization of the police. As it is, the whole scate of Nebraska is made to pay for protecting Omaha from the violonce of its own citizens, without their lifting a hand in their own de- fense.—[Plattsmouth Journal. THE SAME OLD CROWD. Senator Van Wyck is getting par- ticulary hades for telegraphing to the resident of the Labor Union. But if Senator Van Wyck will please ob- serve where this hell comes from he will find that it is right square from 80 that of aggressive force there was, robably, at best, 1,600 or 2, ere is, there must be, in the nei, borhood of 5,000 men in Omaha, owning property, keeping stores, doing business, interested in preserv- ing lav and order. Why are such men so indifferent to the preservation of law and order, if there was danger of destruction of property? Why not combine to protect each other before calling for the troops and outside aid? Is it indifference or cowardice that usually leaves the impression that the disorderly forces of a city outnumber its law-abidingcitizens. | Plattamouth Herald. THR SITUATION IN SHORT METRR. It has become a very common thing for the railroad companies and large contractors to send out handbills ad- vertising for ''500 men and teams,” when, in truth, they have not work enough for 100. A large number of men are thus congregated together. “the labor market glutted,” and wages are cut down to starvation prices. The men thus cruelly de- ceived, have no redress. They soon strike. The doors are opened to all the dens of iniquity; the militia is called called in, and a few old men bayo- netted. Vagabonds prey upon so- ciety. The young men from the towns and villages who form our mi- Jitia are debauched by the rum- suckers and prostitutes — noi responsi- Ble as citisens for their behavior, and without the dileiglina of regular sol- diers, the militia have proven itselt a more dangerous element than the strikers. The murder commit- ted by the Nebraska militia has been ceused by Jim Stephenson’s misera- ble lie, when he advertised for 500 men, while he only had work for 75. —[Butler County Press. A REMEDY RUGGESTRD, These labor movements when car- ried to the extent it has been so fre- qyantl of late, raises profound ques- tions that must sooner or later be set- tled. No one questions the right to strike for higher wages, but to try by force or intimidation to prevent other laborers from work lhuni be, by atat- ut* made a crime with suitable penal- ties attached for violation. It is one set of organized laborers combining against other laborers who are unor- ganized. On the other hand it is pos- sible for wealthy corporations and manufacturers to so control the price of labor as to make it oppressive to the workingman. We believe that there is need of some legislation on this matter, or at least provision made whereby a competent court may rem- edy the evil in cases where there is evident wrong, With this remedy at hand there would probably be no open revolt and destruction of lives or pro- rty. Let our law-makers take notice of this emergency and remedy the evil by the enactment of such laws as are necessary to meet the case.~-[Hastings Gazette-Journal. UNNECESSARY INCONVENIENCE. The actions of the officials of Omaha and of Gov. Nance during the past week in regard to the labor demon- strations in Umaha can hardly receive the sanclion of candid thinking men, For the mayor of Omaha to become easily frightened is absurd, and for the governor of Nebraska to call out the militia and telegraph to the presi- dent to place the regular soldiers un- der his control, before he had investi- gated the need of such action, isa proceeding that can hardly escape criticism. The presence of tmogu always serves to exasperate a crowd, and should not be called on unless as a last resort. Besides this th> great expense that it causes the state to keep 500 men under pay for a week, and the cost of transportation for the soldiers, should cause some delibera- tion before such an action is taken. Itis no small maiter to take 500 men from their business without . moment’s notice, and to keep them for a week to the great inconvenience of the men and all who have business to transact with them, and it seems that not only was it unnecessary, but Omaha would have been better off if the militia had not been called. —Wy- morean. THE KILLING OF ARMSYRONG. the shoulders of the men who opposed his election to the United States sen- ate. The animus is apparent. But the honorable senator can rest serene- ly, satisfied that in telegraphing to a workingman, one ef his constituents, instead of detracting one iota from his character as a man_and a representa- tive of the people, it adds to it a hun- dred fold. — [West Point Progress. MORE SCARED THAN HURT. There couldn't have been much danger in Omaba during the recent strike. We judge so from the mer- cenary attacks made upon one another by the Omaha press. The Herald set up the claim of being the only great guardian of the city and strike preven- tive. To this The {lepnbliom replied, ullinfi the Doctor an Ass, and claim- ing that honor. The two together then pounced upon Tme Bee as the Nihilist and the special cause of all evil. Allin all Nebraska has been thoroughly disgraved by these exhibi- tions at the very seat of disturbance, by these attempts to make capital out of defiance of law and order, if there was such a thing in Omaha,--[Crete Standard, WHERK THE SHOB PINCHES, The Neligh Advocate says: ‘‘The B. & M. railroad are again making an effort to bring about a compremise of their back taxes due Antelope county, The amount they owe the county is about $68,000, and we have heard it stated they offer to give $36,000 for a receipt for all taxes up to date.” And this is the same B. & M. com- any that didn't have anything to ar itrate with the workingmen of Omaha, who were striking for Jiving wages, but is perfectly willing to swindle the taxpayers of A-telope cou ty out of $22,000 taxes. Uall our the troops, Gov. Nauce, and make this corporation pony up, and we look for seconds to this motion to Dr. Miller and Datus Brooks, the law, or- der, and justice editors of the city of Omaha. —{ West Point Progress. FEATHER BED BRAVES, Better laws snd better adjustment of labor is needed, more brains and less gab at the front. Bome study of cause and effoct aud a lttle knowledge of politisl economy might be m.i, perchance now and then 1 fixing the relations of man to his fellowman If Omaha has 30,000 people, it is presumable 10,000 are males capable of self -defense. It is said the ‘‘mob” numbered 6,000, that really ingludes bystanders, ' The occupation of Omaha b{ state and federal troops, and the killing of an inoffensive old man, is one of the greatest outrages ever perpetrated upon a free people. The trouble was caused by a miserable scoundrel named Jim Stevenson, who had a contract to do some grading for the B. & M., advertising for twice as many men as he wanted and then re- fusing to pay the wages promised, and when the men struck for higher wages and became somewhat riotous, the mayor and sheriff lost their heads and telegraphed frantically for troope, When the state militia arrived they acted as though they were in an enemy 8 country in time of war in- atead of a law observing city., Arm- strong, an old man of sixty, while passing along the streets, as he had a right to do, was stopped by a militia- man, and because he insisted on his rights as an American citizen, was knocked down, and while lying on his face on the ground, was stabbed through the back by a bayonet, and dragged to the guard house, where he died. A more cowardly murder was never committed. Unless those in command of the state militia bring the murderer to speedy punishment, the blood of the gray haired victim will rutm:ron their heads - [Falls City Journal, SPINELKSS OFFICIALS PUNCTURKED, When will the authorities of cities learn that it is a dangerous expedient to call upon the soldiery to quell local disturbances! In the Pittsburg riot the presence of the military only served to excite the passions of the lawless element. In the Chicvgo riot the onlv real trouble was hetween the ! ovor uffi sious militia and the exci‘ed mob, and in the present labor trouble in Omaha the unneccessary presence of the military and the attenda:t mel- ancholy circumstances is but another proof of the cupidity and incapacity of the proper authorities. In all of these instances it has been shown that it is not the strikers who are the mob, but the lawless element of society, ‘‘who toil not, neither do they spin,” but are ready at all times to sieze upon such occasions as oppor- tunities for spoil and plunder. We are heartily in sympathy with any organized effort on the part of la- bor to secure just compensation, and it seems, from the facts as seen by us, that the alleged riot, and the dis- ul d of the military in Oma- , should be placed where it justly !ler of Douglas county, Mayor Boyd of belonga—at the doors of Mayor Boyd, Governor Nance and the monopo:{ blatherskite who runs The Herald, seconded by The Republican. Upon them rests the responsibility for the murder of the inoffensive old man by the military mob, and they should be puni-he:ly“ acoessories to the crime, Although we do not always agree with Tue Bre, we heartily, endorse its position in this matter, whether taken from motives of policy or from inclination.—[Oakland Tndependent. BLOOD, BAYONETS AND BLUSTER. We went to Omaha on Saturday ex- pecting from the demonstrations made to see our metropolis deluged in blood when we cousidered the force brought into requisition—Sheriff Mil- Omaha, Gov. Nance of Nebraska, and the president of the United States, bucEed by the mighty powers within them vested, we expected the turbid Missouri would be dyed blood red with the crimson tide of the strikers. In old bellum days we have seen the bodies of the sturdy foemen mangled and slain, cover the fields of sanguinary strife with less parade than was made to gather the men of steel on Saturday. But our curiosicy was unsatisfied, our thrist for gore was unquenched. We saw the steady swarthy ranks file by, we heard the masured, martial, tread of the veteran and the halting broken tramp of the militia man hopping to catch step with the music as their ocaptain shouted left! left! but alas! they were not confronted by the mighty mob, they found no foeman worthy of their steel and ‘‘The king of France with twice ten thousand men marched up the hill and then marched down again.” But Dr. Miller was safe, Jim Stevenson was safe and the country was saved. And yet we questioned whether it had not been for the city if the knave who by his abuse of the working men had incited to riot and the wreteh who through his malicious sheet had led his dir- ty epithets an? *@ems of bitches” at the angry @owd had been given over to the mob for summary L\;utica. We are a triend of the la- ring man, but we haye no excuse for a mob, The laborers unquestionably had a right so strike, bat they had no right to interfere with the rights of other laborers. The remuneration that the laborers were receiving was not enough to keep together the body and soul of a heathen Chinee. And LOTS! For Sale By BEMIS, FIFTEENTH AND DOUBLAS 818., 178, House 8 rooms, full lot on Plerce near 20th street, §1,660. ”177. House % rooms, full lot on Douglas near th street, $700, 176, Beautiful residence, full lot on Caes near 16th street, $12,000. 174, mnm and § lot on Dodre near Oth streel . 176, House three rooms, two closets, etc., halt 1ot on 21st | car Grace stroet, $300, 172, One and one-halt story brick house an twe 1ot on Dougias near 26th sireot, 1,700, , House two rooms, well,cistern, stable, ete full 1ot mear Plerce and 13th strect, $980. 179, One and one-half story house six roome and well, hall lob oo Convent street noar Bi. Mary’s avenue, $1,860. No. 170, House \hree rooms on Clinton steeet near shot tower, $325. No. 160, House and_88x120 foet o on streoet near Websk stroet, §3,600. Ne. 168, House of 11 rooms, lof 88x120 fee on 19th near Burt stroet, §6,000. oM 167, Two story house, 0 rooma ¢ eloseta, 00a_cellar, on 18th streed near Poppleton's 000, No . 165, New house of 6 rooms, halt lot on Isard near 198h 850, No. 164, Ono and are Kalt stery hotuse & rooms on 18th sireet 1 ear Leaven worth, $3,500. N. 161, One and onehalf story fLouse of & T Nor 155 Twd howsos § réoumh ouch, closok, 0. jouses 5 rooms eote on Burh street near 25th, §3,600. No. 157, house 6 rooms, full los on 10th street near Loavenworth, §2, half acro on Burt street near Dution, §1,260. No. 165, Two houses, one of b and one of 4 reoms, on 17th strect near Marcy, §3,%00. No. 164, Three one of 7and two of b rooms each, and corner 'lot, on Cass near 14th street, $5,000. Ne.'163, small house and full loé on Pacific near 12th'strooty §2,500. No. 151, One & worth near 16th, No, 160, Hovso rooms near 26th and Farnham, $2,600. No, 148, New house of eight rooms, on 18th street near Leavenworth $3,100, No. 147, House of 13 roomson 18th stroot near Marcy, $6,0 No. 148, House of 10 rooms and 1} lots on 18th streot near Marcy, . No. 145, House two large rooms, ot 67x210 fee onSheru an avenue (16th street) near Nicholas, use 6 reoms, on Leaven- and lot 92x116 the poor man-don’t know what to do, | %50. Rosewater ahead of them, Miller be- hind them, and Brooks coming in on their flank—some counciling, some anathemizing and others goading them on. May God have mercy on the poor Omahogs.—[North Bend Bulle- tin, CHEAP BUT POOR ADVERTISING, Omaha and Nebraska are getting considerable cheap advertising just now by reason of the massing of troops at Omaha to preserve the peace and to keep the striking workingmen from molesting those who wish to work. Although free as air this advertising could well be dispensed with. And from the distance, it really appears as though the local authorities of Omaha and Douglas county took counsel of their fears and their expectations rather than devoted their energies towards preserving order and man- aging their own affairs. The only un- lawful act of any consequence, com- mitted up to the time of calling on the governor for troops, was the driv- ing off the workmen from the B. & M. dump, and mildly thumping a few special policemen, While this, of course, was unlawful and reprehensi- ble, yet the men soon dispersed and the usual quiet was restored. Then was the time for the local authorities to have quietly nabbed the leaders and prosecuted those who had been most active in assaulting the work- men. Instead of doing that, however, or making any other earnest endeavor to maintain the supremacy of the law, they appeal to the gov- ernor for for aid. Now one of two things is true; either the local author- ities could have managed this disturb- ance unaided, or else the citizens of Omaha and Douglas county were in such close sympathy with the strik- ers and their methods as not to be available in assisting to maintain pub- lic order. Whichever horn of the dilemma that turbulent community chooses to take, we are of the opin- ion that the rest of the state should insist upon Douglas county’s paying all the expenses incurred in doing what it ought to have done without assistance from any other source, The condition of things since the first and last assault on the workmen has been quiet. Business has gone on undisturbed. How much of this has been owing to the presence of the regulars and the militia cannot be known, At the public meetings, held daily by the labor union, peace- able means alone are advocated by the speakers,—Sutton Register. “0ddities of Southern Life,: kiodo. By Henry Watterson, Editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, See the April CENTURY MAGAZINE Sealod prodosals will be received b; signed until aturdsy, April 15th, 1 noon, for the pa /ing of Douglas ‘strect and the cross' strects between D uglas and Farn from 9th to 16:h strects, Including 9th and 16th strvets. First, For a foundation «f concrefe 9 in thickness with & superstructure composed of a creosote cedar block 8 inches in length set with asphalt a d sand, econd, For found in thickno.s with a suj the under- 2, 12 0'clock of conerete 9 inches ucture com) of creosote « pine plank 8 in length, set with a3, halt and sand. hur, For a foundation of ¢l au co. rse sand or gravel 12 lnches in thickness with a super structure com) of cedar block 8 inches in longth and not less than § nor more than bivches in diameter to be sot w1 h asphaltand « n . The Buud OF gevel fOr luuuustou 40 by thorougdly ramme orrolled. All the work to be done in ace rdarce with s-ecifications and | nder the di- Fection of the vity engineer. "Also, the city will consider proposals for pev- ing with Elm blocks or any other wateria', or any other mode of constractiou. All proposals or Mdlpo.:.«\llll blulflu‘m llu: ‘::' the names of pro suretios, who, event ot ‘contract belng awarded will enter into ® bond with ‘the city of Omaha for the true and faithtul performance of said contract. "The city coucil reserves the right o reject any & d all bids, Velopes coutaining proposals o bids shall be marked ““Proposals for Paving Douglas Street and Oross Streets 1n the City of Omabs,” aud ad- dressed to the undersigned. J. J. L. 0, JEWETT, Owuabs, March 108b; 1832 City Clor. aarls-80t D. 8. BENTON, ATTORNEY - AT - LAW ABBACH No 148, House 7 rooms, barn, on 20th street near Leavenwortt, §2,600. No. 142, Houre 6 room, kitchen, etc., on 10th street near Nicholas, $1,875. No. 141, House 8 roots on Douglas mear 26th street, $a50, No. 140, Large house and two lots, én 24t near Farnham stroct, 88,000, No, 139, House 8 rooms, lob 60x166} foer, Douglas near 27th street, §1,600. No, 137, House b rooms and half lot on €apito avenus near 23d screet, $2,00. No. 136, House and hait acre lot on Cumiug street near 24th §350. No, 131, House 2 rooms, full lot,on Ieard nesn 21st s'reet, $800. No. 129, Two houses one of 6 and one of 4 rooms, on leased loton Webter near 20th streot, 82,500, "No. 127, Two story Fouse 8 roowns, halt lot on Webster near 19th 83,500, No. 126, House 8 rooms, lot 20x120 feet on 26th street near Douglas, $676; No, 125, Two story house on 12th near Dodge street lob 28x66 feot $1,200. No, 124, Large house and_full block near Farnham and Cen ral street, $,000 No. 128, House 6 rooms und large lot on Saun- ders stroot near Batiacks, 82 100. No, 122, House 6 rooms and halt lot on Web- ster near i5th stroet, $1,500. No. 118, House 10 rooms, lob 30x90 feot on Capitot avenuo near 22d street, $2,050. 0. 117, Honse 8 rooms, lot 80x126 foet, on Capitol avenue near 22d 81,600, 0. 114, House § rooms on Douglas near 26th treet, #7560, No.'113, House 2 rooms, lot 66x99 feet on near Cuming stroet, 8760, No, 112, Brick house 11 rooms and halt 1ot on (.88 near 14th street, $2,800. No. 111, House 12 ' roomsfon [Davenport nea 02th street, 87,00, No. 110, Brick house and lot 22x182 fee on Cass stret near 16th, A No, 108, Large house' on Harney near 16th stro.t, 86,600, No 109, Two houses and 36x182 foot lot a0 Cass near 14th street, 83,600, No, 107, House b rooma and half lot on Lzar near 17th str et, $1,200. 1n0. 100, House and lot 61x198 feet, lot on 1th near Pierce streot, $600, No. 1: 5, Two story house 8 rooms with 13 lot on Seward near Saunders street, §2,800. No. 103, One and one haif story house 10 roome Webster near 16th street, 82,600, No. 102, Two houses 7 rooms each and § lot oo 14th near Chicago, $4,0.0. No. 101, House § rooms, cell ¥, South avenue near Pacitc streo ! No. 100, House 4 rooms, cellar, etc., half lov on Izard street near 16 h, $2,000, No. 99, Very large house and full lot on Har ney near 1éth street, 0 000, No. 97, Large house of 11 rooms on Sherman avenue near Clark street, make an offer. No. 96, One and one half siory house 7 rooms lot 240x401 feet, stablo, etc., on Sherman ave- nue near Grace, 87 ( No. 92, Large brick house two lots on Daven port streot near 19th 818,000, No. 90, Large house' and full lot on Dode noar 16Lb stre t, §7,000, No. 89, Large hause 10 rooms half lot on 20th ear Callfornia street, $7,600. No, 88, Large house 10'or 12 rooms, beautitul comner 1okon Cass near 20th, 7,000, No. 87, Twe story house 8 rooms b _acres o land vn Saunders stroct near Barracks, $2,000 No. 85 Two_stores and & resioence 0o half lot,near Mason and 10th atreet, §500, No_ 84, Two story hou' e 8 rooms, closets, eic., with 6 acres of ground, on Saunders strect nesr Omahs Barracks, 82 500, No. 88, Houseof 9 roos, half lot on Capitol avenue near 12th street, §2,600. WNo 82, Oue and one half story t ouse, 6 rooms Tull lot ob Pierce near 20th street, $1,800. No. 81, two 2 story houses, one of 9 and oBo @ rooms, 'Chicago St., near 12th, §3,000, No. 80 House 4 rooms, closets, etc., large lot on 18th strect ncar White Lead works, 81,800. No. 77, Large house of 11 rooms, closets, ocel- r, etc., with 1 lot «n Farnham ncar 19th street, , 1} lote on 50. No. 76, Orean ane-half story house of 8 rooms, lot 66x83 feot on Case near 14th street, $4,600. No. 76, House 4 rooms and ent, flo 16)x182 f-et or Marcy near 8th street, $675. 0. 74, Large brick house and twe ull lote on Davenport near 16th street, §15,000. No. 78 One and one-ha'f'story house an uxlli;‘o«l on Jn‘a;flwl:x ooy \leluh street, llfw. o. 72, Large brick house full on Diye. port near 16th atrest, $6,000, " " No. 71, Large hou-e 12 roous, full lot on Call. ornia near 20th street, §7,000. No. 65, Stable and 8 alllotson ran in street near Saunders, §2,000. No. 64, Two'story_trame building, store below and rooms above, on loased ot on' Dougu uear 16th street, $500 No. 68, House 4 rooms, basement, etc., lop 98x350 feot on 10th street mar Ml Works, 700, 10.'62, Now house 4 rooms one story, full lop No, 66, House ot 7 rooms, full lot ' Webster near 21t street, §2,600. on Harney near 21st street, $1,760. 0. 61, Largy house 10 rooms, full lot on Bur treet, #5,000. ousé 3 o ms, half lot on Devenport stre: t, §1,000, 50 61, Four nouses and halt 1ot on Cass neat 18th stre.t §2 600. No_12, louse G rooms avd full lot, Haraey noar 26UR strect, $2,000, No 9, 1hree houses and full lot on Cass near 14th street, §3,200, No. 7, House § rooms, well, cistern, etc., 8 lote on 17th'near Izard strest, $3,000. No. 6, House 7 rooms, 1ot '60x88 feet on Cass near 17th s reet, $4,000. No. 8, Large house 10 rooms, well, clstorn, etc. on Harnoy near oth street, $4,009. No. £, Two story house § , ote., tull lot on Wobster near 16th strect, §2,600. BEMIS' Rea. Estare Acency 16th and Douglas Street, OMAEA, - ~ NEBB HOUSES /' > f