Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 8, 1882, Page 4

¢ 4 The Omaha Bee Published eve;y morning, except Sunday. he only Monday morning daily, TEKMS BY MAIL — $10.00 | Three Months, $3.00 5.00 | One . 1.00 AR WEEKLY BEE, published ev. ery Wednesday. BERMS POST PAID:— $2.00 | Three Months.. 50 1.00 | One PEETY CORRESPUNDENCE—AIl Communi. eations relating to News and Editorial mat- ers should be addressed to the EDITOR oF Tuz Bre. BUSINESS LETTERS—AIl Business Betters and Remittances should be ad- dressed to THE OMAHA Punuisuing Cou- pANY, OMARA, Drafts, Checks and Post- office Orders to be made payable to the order of the Compan; OMAHA PUBLISHING 00., Prop'rs. £i ROSEWATER. Editor. i We have had enough facts about the railroad question, What the country needs uow 1s legislation, Ouaxnes Fraxcis Apaus lost $20,- 1000 at bunko, Charles Francis should know better than play such games. —— Last week government bonds sold at the highest figures ever touched by those securities. Four per cents on Friday touched $1.19) JInssn James is dead and old man Bender is reported captured. Mis. souri is rapidly wrecking her reputa- tion as the robber state. PHILADELPHIA is complaining that her police frequent saloons. Omaha's police don’t know that such things as saloons are running in the city, E————— Turee thousand marble cutters are striking in New York and not asingle militiamen is under arms. Governor Cornell will not learn a lesson from Nebraska, OmARA republicans of the stalwart stripe were the bolters in the city election contest last Tuesday.—Sew- ard Republican, And they were most beautifully scooped. Frank HratoN has modified his or- der forbidding postmasters from run- ning with the political machine. Mr. Hatton has]] been postmaster once and ho knows how to circumvent & civil service order. From the ocourt of claims to the navy department, and from the navy department to the St. Petersburg mission is Mr, Hunt's record of office holding for the thirteen months end- ing April 7, 1882. Em—— AND now no one of Hascall’s friends can be found who suspected trauds in connection with the recent election in this city., A fraud investigation might place the brogan very rapidly on the other foot, and Hascall isn’t likely to forget it, either, Boumpastes Furioto Por is work- ing for the support of sentimental ‘eastern congressmen in his aspirations for General McDowell's stars. The man whose headquarters were in the saddle puts in a vigorous protest against starving Indians on theagency system in vogue in the southwest, and threatens to revolutiouize affairs on his own responsibility. CorNerLivs J, Vaspersivr left a fortune of over $500,000. Not a dol- lar was left to any one bearing the Vanderbilt name, The will bequeath- ed $225,000 to his friend and compan- ion George Terry, an old hotel keep- er, and the remainder of his property was devised to nephews and nieces and relatives of his wife, There will e no contest of the will. E ] Tur effect of the presidents veto of the Chinese bill upon the Pacific coast will probably prove fatal to republican sucoess this fall, Democratio support of the measure was gained in order to to used for political capital for that party during the coming canvass and the interposition of the executive veto will throw the odium for thefailure of the bill upon the republican party. Other bills have already been intro- duced in congreas, but they must take their place at the bottom of the calen- dar and it is safe to say will nover veach a vete, The democracy in the house are too elated over what they consider an excellent republican blun- der to permit any anti-Chinese meas- ure to be made special over bills claim- ing precedence on the calendar. — . Acanwe are told that Governor Nance has decided to delay his call for an extra session until next month, “The reason given for this change of heart is that the governor desires to include in his call such legislation as may be necessary toward ratifying the change in the northern Nebraska boundary, This is all very well, but people will naturally suspect that there is a darkey in this woodpile somewhere, Suppose the governor 3 did not include the proposed change W of - £ lines in his eall, would that prevent him from issuing a sup- call to cover this casy while theTlegislature was in session ! “There is no doubt now that the ses ' sion will last fully two weeks, and if the convenes the latter of this month, it can hardly con- | elude its labor before the middle of I'fils UMAHA DALLY BEE: SATURDAY APRIL 8 1582, THE UPDEGRAFF BILL. Mr. Updegraff has introduced a bill into the house of representatives for the appointment of a board of commissioners to regulate inter-state commerce. It provides for the ap- pointment by the president of mnine commissioners, three of whom shall serve for one year; and on the 1st of July of each succeeding year vacancies shall be filled by the appointment of threo commissioners. The board shall have especial supervision over that portion of the business of railroads from one state to another, with power to fix a schedule of rates with a view to allowing the companies to earn six per cent on the cost of their roadsand equipments, It authorizes the board to examine the books and accounts of railroads, and requires the roads to make sworn reports each year to the commissioners of their business, ex- penditures, etc.; empowers the board to determine and decide what shall be deemed net profits; to hear com- plaints, and if allegations are sue- tdined, to assess upon the railroad or railroads three times the amount of damage showd to have been suffered, which assessment may be enforced in the district court of the United States. The bill provides that in caso of complaints of violation of any laws of the United States the attorney general shall file information and trial by jury shall be had, and in case of a verdict the fine shall not be less than $600 nore more than $10,000. The bill prohibits any discrimination, re- bate, or drawback; authorizes the commissioners to summon witnesses, call for books, papers, etc., in case of investigations, but requires said in- vestigations, when possible, to be held where the principal office of the defendant company ia situated. The measuro is more radical in somae of its provisions than any yet introduced. It supplies some of the deficiencies in the Reagan bill, but i objectionable on account of the excessive power which it gives to the commissioness. Railroad commissioners are not very different from other men, and have been found perfectly capable of being approached by bribes to close their eyes to many of the most flagrant evils of which the people complain. With three only in the board it would be much more easily controlled than if the number were larger. What the nation needs is such a railway law a8 will leave as little as possible to the judgment of the railroad commis- sion beyond taking note of infractions and prosecuting offenders, PHNNSYLVANIA has been suing the Btandard Oil Company for back taxes, and has lost the case. The suitturned upon the question of the right of a state to tax a corporation doing busi- ness within its limits upon the whole of its capital stock, The Standard Company was a foreign corporation owning only certain terminal facilities in Pennsylvania. ‘Out of the three millions of back taxes sued for the state recovers only §33,277, the court holding that the state had no power to impose taxes except on the property actually situated within the borders of the commonwealth. The especial value of the trial was the light which it threw upon the enormous profits of this gigantic mo- nopoiy. It began with a capital stock of $1,000,000, increaring it first by profits to $2,500,000, then to $3,500,- 000, and at last to $25,000,000. Be- sides this enormous growth of capital stock, it declared dividends frem 1872 to 1880 to the amount of $101,425,000, making net profit of $32,000,000 in eight years. Its dividends have fre- quently been 100 per cent and its en- tire net earnings are placed at §42,- 000,000. This is the gigantic corpo- ration which menaces even railroads, purchases legislatures and strangles eompetition by taxing every kerosene lamp in tho United States, REFERRING to the sudden taking of Jesse James, The Cincinnati Com- mercial says: “Mr, James, who died suddenly in St. Joseph, Missouri, the other day, and is much lamented on the border, was one of our subscrib ors, Though aman ef remarkable career, he passed ander an assumed name- -that of Thomas Howard, He led a retired life, because he desired to avoid litigation, The man who shot him said, in tellivg the story of the final tragedy: “‘During the day he would stay around the houseand in the evening' he would go down town to the news depot and get the papers. He said there were men here who ought o know him, but they never did. He toox the Chicago Tribune, Cincinnati Commercial, and Kansas City Times ularly, and always knew what was going on all over the world. About a week ago he read a piece in one of the papers that Jesse James' career was over, and Charlie said he was awful mad about it.'” m——— Jesse R, Pawrrrioce, of Maryland, the new minister to Peru appointed te succeed the late Gew, Hurlbert, has had a long career in foreign affairs of this country, He was at one time envoy extraordinary winister plenipotentiary to Brazil, and at another time minister resident to Hounduras, Salvador and Venezuela, and also scrved as arbitrator on the part of the United States to adjudi- cate the claim of Earl Dundonald, a subject of Great Britain, sgainst the and government, which arbitration resualt- ed in an award of £58,67b sterling to the claimant, OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. Parliament has adjourned for the Easter holidays, after which the de- bate on the ‘‘cloture” will be resumed. Two preliminary votes on amend- ments to the bill, resulting in a good majority for the government, foretell the success of the measure.» It has been somewhat modified eince its original introduction but the leading Cloture differs somewhat from our form of “‘previous question” in being prepared by the speaker, and not by # number of the house, Briefly stated, Mr. Gladstone’s proposition provides that debate may be cut short and a division ordered at the discretion of the presiding officer if the proposition be sanctioned by more than 200 members when the features are the same. majority exceeds 40, or by more than 100 members when the majority is less than 40. These restrictions are in- tended to prevent the forcing or pass- age of bills by a majority,in an empty honse, The tone of the English papers on the feeling in this country in favor of the release of the Irish-American sus- pects is moderate but firm. A leading article in the Times maintains the right of every government to protect itself against alien or domestic ene- mies, and severely criticises the asser- tions of General Grant, made to the deputation from the meeting that waited upon him. The Times con- eludes with the opinion that the Brit- ish government will notify our gov- ernment that favorable consideration will be given to the case of any citizen of the United States, who will, if re- leased, agree to leave the country. As the Times is the recognized organ of the British government, this ex- pression is significant as pointing_to the vrobable solution of this quest.n, unless more active measures are taken on the part of our government to se- cure the immediate release of the prisoners, An immense German emigration? is preparing to leave for the United States. A recent letter from Frank- ford says that the actual number of German emigrants who left the coun- try by way of Hamburg, Bremen, or Stettin in 1881 was 184,369, In 1880 the number was only 94,966; so that the increaso in the past twelve months was nearly 90,000, or almost 100 per cent, But these numbers do not represent all the German emi- granta of the years in question. Many did not emigrate from German ports, but left by way of Antwerp, Rotter- dam, or Havre; while others passed through London, Liverpool or Glas- gow. In addition to the 184,369 who left by the three German ports, there were 20,178 Germans who last year emigrated direct through Antwerp, making in all 210,647 for these four ports alone, , The numbers who passed through Rotterdam and Havre in 1881 have not yet been ascertained by the German authorities, while most of those who went via London, Liverpool, or Glasgow are included in the Hamburgh, Bremen, and Stettin returns, Altogether, when to the 210,647 Germans who emigrated by Antwerp and the three German ports, thoso are added who went via Rotter- dam, Havre, and other routes, it is probable that the total of German emigrants in 1881 will be found to exceed a quarter of a million, So far during the past month the de- partures from Homburg and Bremen show a large increase as compared with last year. From Hamburg, in fact, during the past month there have twice as many persons emigrated a8 twelve months ago, and when the fine weather approaches the tide of emigration promises to continue and greatly outnumber the large total of the past year. The majority of the German emigrants belong to a class which make the most excellent col- onists, They are mostly small farm- ers, or sons of farmers, whose pros- pects in this country have for a long timo past been those of diminishing prosperity. Thousands of the thrifty peasant farmers of the Rhine districts are leaving for America, as in their native land they have for several years past not been able to live with- out encroaching on their smalland hard.earned capital, They are selling off while they have something left, and are following their relatives to the states, where in a few years they are certain to be proprietors of large and prosperous farms. It is a signifi- cant fact that the population of the large towns, and especially the manu- facturing districts of Germany, contri- bute in proportion to their numbers a much smaller percentage of emigranis than the agricultural classes of the empire. The cost to Great Britain of the Afghan war is now set down, in round numbers, at §108,000,000, but this estimate does not include the annual paywments for political pensions or al- lowances for Yakoob Khan and for various Afghan refugees, to say noth- ing of the peneions granted for wounds, orto widows of officers who were killed, or tothe heirs of native sold. iersfentitled to pension, some of which will continue to be paid for the next thirty or forty years or even longer. The Tory reaction, of which some talk is heard in England, will hardly be aided by this citation of Beaconsfield’s reckless and extravagant policy. In return for all this expenditure of capi- tal and vast sacrifice of human life the English government receives ab- solutely nothing. The population of Russia increases more rapidly than that of any other state except Holland and Denmark. Tt doubles itself in fifty-eight years. The period in other countries is as follows: Denmark, 56; Holland, 57; Germany, 08; Austria, 95; Switzer- land, 00; Italy, 141; France, 1¢ The births per 1,000 inhabitants are: InRussia, 49; in Germany, 43; in France, 26. The death-rate is higher in Russia~37 {per 1,000— than any European country excepting Hungary. The mortality is greatest among children. The death rate of infants one year old in Russia is 1 in 4, in France 1in 5, in Prussia 1 in 6, and in Eogland 1in7. The most re- markable contrast between Russia and the rest of Europe is the comparative absence of illegitimacy. Therate per 1,000 iliigitimate births, which in England is 61, in Ilaly 66, in France 73, in Germany 88, in Sweden 96, in Denmark 110, and in Austria 124, is in Russia only 30. The scheme for the establishment of a government tobacco monopoly, elab- orated by Bismarck, has provoked unanimous opposition throughout the empire. The parliaments of Bavaria and Saxony first declared against it, and Baden has since requested its representative on the Bundesrath to oppose the measure. The principal argument employed against the mon- opoly is that in the preeent state of matters it would ruin thousandssof families, and even, as in the case of Bremen, entire towns. The proposed indemnity of $80,2532,000, large as it scems, is ridiculous when compared with the interest involved. It is esti- mated that the receipts from the mon- opoly would amount to $83,464,906, and the expense to $41,367,946, leav- ing & neat produce of 842,096,960, which again would be reduced by various charges to $39,717,100. The monopoly would be placed under the personal direction of the chancellor. : No provision is made for the division of the profits among the various states. A drought is prevailing in Austria and Germany which is without pre- cedent during the present century. Vienna is threatened with a failure of water supply from the mountain springs at Payerback and Gloggnitz, and even such rivers as the Danube and the Rhine are shrunken to less than half their normal dimensions. The bed of the Ilatter river waa crossed dry-foot near Ketsch one day 1ast month, and the Roman ruins at Altrip have been left bare by the re- ceding waters, On the 14th of Feb. ruary, at Bonn, the Rhine fell to two inches below the lowest water-mark hitherto registered there, just seven- ty-six years ago; and the committee of the Bonn Carnival club availed themselves of the opportunity thus afforded them for the performance of a supremely eccentric feat, by hold- ing a conference after dark on an oaisis of dry land near the middle of the river-bed. Having conveyed a table and chairs to this oasis and gone through the regular formula of a committec meeting, the celebrants carried an effigy of Prince Carnival, escorted by torch-bearers, from their club house to the mid-stream place of rendezvous, which they - then illumi- nated with Bengal fire. The jolifi- cation that ensued lagted far into the night. After executing an elaborate programme of humorous speeches, comic songs and bacchanalian choruses, the committee subscribed a protocol recording the proceedings, unique in their way, of the ‘“Kap- pensitzung,” enclosed the document in & metal case and buried it in the bed of the river asa record of the high-jinks celebrated upon that very spot by the Bonner Fasching-Verein, on St. anantini.‘fi;ght. 1882, It seems strange to read of strikes and labor riots in Spain, Few people have supposed that the average Span- iard felt enough interest in hard work to get excited on the subject. The rush of immigrants to Mani- toba continues, Saturday 400 ar- rived at Winnipeg, and 1,000 more were expected, The young metrop- olis of the far northwest is said to be densely crowded. There is a scheme on foot in Lon- don for providing ‘‘a burial place for pet animals, dogs, cats and little birds,” An association has been formed calling itself *‘The Zoological Necropolis company (limited),” which seoks to supplement the efforts of the societies which care for anumals in life by seeing to their interment after death, _— Ohio'Congressional Redistricting. National Press Associution, Corumsrs, April 7,—In the house re-districting was special order. The minority report was agreed to—ayes 78, nays 20, This gave the republi- cans 15, and the democrats 6, Vallandighaw's amendment giving the republicans 11 and the democrats 10 was defeated—nays 50, yeas 28. Koons offered a substitute giving the republicans 16 and the democrats b districts. Locke offered an amendment giv- ing the democrats 3 and 1 doubtful. Recess. HONEY FOR THE LADIES, The oleander is now a fashionable flower for parlor decoration, Ladies with Titian red hair should wear only black satin and jet. The newest thing in wall decorations this spring is papier mache. At sprirg dinners ¢ lettuce and strawberries will be served with the fish, Handsome parasols have frills of lnce, and others a bunch of flowers on the top. The servants at some of the watering Jlacen this summer will be uniformed in the English style, Such things as elopements never hgure in the romances of China. A Chinaman might steal a dog, but a woman, never. The sunflower and the lily are seen in printed dress fabric-, and_in millinery or- naments, lacepins, bangles, and fancy buttons or enamel under crystal. White foulard night.dresses appear with shirring over the shoulders and upon the sleeves, and are trimmed with Medici lace and bows of white satin ribbon Very long stocking-mits in tan, lichen reen, fleh and almond tints, and also in lack and white, will be wuch worn when the weather becomes warm enough. A bride's traveling dress is «f dark ruby velvet. Another is of gendarme blue cloth, fastened with steel buttons and looped on one eide with bows of satin sumlime, A St. Louis street car driver went home and pounded his wife whea he heard that he had fallen heir to 850,000 There a‘e various ways of betraying deep emo- tion, Four young ladies in Michigan, wish- ing to find a life of alventure on the laine, started down the Gr.nd river in & boat, They have not since been heard from, Irish batiste, in soft pale shades of color, as sky blue, lilac, shrimp pink, with green and gold ostrich plume:. They wore longz, tan-colored monsque- taire glovee, and bunches of crimson roses fastened under the chin und cariied in the hands, There is a great deal of talk in Colum- bus, Ohio, over a_recent marriage. The bridegroom was W, D). Pugh, son of & judge, nephew of a mnember of congress. pir;to 8250,000, and_of very respectable social counections, The bride was Ella Boggs, & dancer ina low comcert garden. Pugh knew that Le wonld be ostrac N and #o started for New Mexico with his wife, after closing the busine-s affairs, in- tending neve: to return MUGSICAL AND DRAMATIC Qaymond Holmes will man the Day- ton Soldier.’ Home Theater this summer. A young New Orleans octoroon, Lydia Montrose, is one of the coming winter’s &:butantes, The Fun on the Bristol Combivation iled for Karope last week. Liverpool is he first stan Hoey and Hardie's Combination openin San Francisco on May 10th at the Bush- street Theater, Mr. Jefferson will reappear in New York late in September, at the Union Square theatre. ‘Wachtel has left Wiesbaden and gone to Berlin, where he will sing this summer at Kroll's theatre. Frederick Pau'ding has returned to New York fully restored to health, He says he will star again next season, Now that Oscar Wilde is in “Friaco,” Billy (beg pardon) William Emerson will probably revive the *‘Big Sunflower.” Minnis Cummings announces that ehe will_take the road again. We call upon the Board of Health to protect us from this epidemio, Mr. Gladstone witnessed the last per- cresm, ivory, fawn, and corn color, will be among the list of popular summer fabrics. An Jowa woman wroto te Queen Vic- toria asking her if she intended to wear hoops this summer, and she has been to the postoffice over twenty times without receiving a reply. A woman naver quite forg ets the fellow who was hopelessly in love with her when she was young, She would give the world to possess his scalp, just to exhibit it to her grand-daughters, A brakeman who lost » hand while cou. pling cars got $5,600 from a Chicago jury, When a brakeman now offers his hand to a young woman, she knows just what that hand is worth,—{Boston Tran. ish lace drapes many of the stylish visites and cloaks of black satin and surah, but in the height of summer all foundations will be dispensed with, and the rich lace alone will be used for visites and dolmans over toilets of the palest colors, New evening shoes of pale Dlue, lilac, fawn or black velvet, \are laced up the ironts with slender chords of gold or silver, and the pointed toes are covered with embroidery worked in gold or silver threads intermivgled with silver, gold ant amber beads, hey are made over Spanish lasts, and have high Fré¥nch heels, A woman in New York accused of swindling jewelers out of 81,000 worth of jewelry, brought into court three pairs of twins, the oldest of whom were only four years, The children were turned over to tha society for the preveation of cruelty tochildren, and when the separation took place the cries of the six twins were 8o piercing that everybody had to hold their ears, Among the model bonnets from Paris are poke-:haped Panamas, lined with vel- vet aund trimmed with handsome satin rib. bons, trails of the most exquisite flowers, and aigrettes and pompons in soft and beautiful tints, One of these is faced with dark laurel-green velvet. Around the crown is & wreath of smilax, wood moss, and gold-tipped mignonette blossomsinter- mingled. At the left side is set a cluster of wild roses, overshadowed by two full ostrich tips shading to pale gold, The reen satin atrings are embo: with a ace design in gold color. Handkerchief pouchesand bags continue in fashion, They add very much to the delicate finish of full dress designed for any occasion, be it ball, party, wedding or opera, Some very dainty onesaccompany newly imported garden party toilets, many of them in envelope shape being made of eatin, exquisitely hand-painted and trim- med with gold or silver lace; others in the form of tiny muffs s re bordered with white marabout feather trimming, but the pret- tiest of all are in Greek style, depending Jow on the skirt from a tine gold or silver ehaletaine, and trimmed with Grecian em- brodery and bows and eads of satin ribbon, For spring and summer wear fancy silks will in great demand, In taffetas, Louisine, glace, chene, and other light silks, are found some novel and attractive patterns and combinations. These fabrics make inexpensive and dressy costumes which, with care, will last two seasons, especinlly if a thin lining is used in mak- ing them up, A pretty model for a sea- side costume is made of fine shepherd’s- plaid silk in black and gold, Three kilted ruffles trim the underskirt, and the full l)annhrl are MTG with black lace, Lon looped bows of black satin, faced with ol gold, are aaded, acd the visite is of the same material, trimmed around the bot- tom with two ruffles of lace. A zigzag fall of Ince is arranged down each side of the visite in front, which is elosed with tiny gold buttons, A woman was buying tea at a place in Washington whbere, on certain days, dia- monds, rings and purses of wmoney are given away as prizes in a vertain number of packages sold, The other day a lady stepped forward and invested her dollar, “Ll] give you $5 for your package before opening,” said the clerk, She declined. 1t was opened, There were only fifteen cents in it. She bought another package, the same offer made and declined, There were only fifteen cants in that one, She bought a third packsge, “I'll give you $35. She hesitated, then consented. Tc was opened and found to contain $500 in gold pieces, This attracted attention, and the buying of $1 packages became very brisk. A gentleman followed the lady to her hotel and asked her name. Mrs, , said the clerk, It was the wife of the proprietor of the tea store, ] CONNUBIALILIES, W. H, Leake, the well koown , was married lately in New Zoa- Miss Hamilton, of San Francisco, was married in Faris, France, on Tuesday last, ts Sir Sidery Hedley Waterlow, Marriages between gentlemen of eighty and pinéty years and_widows of & corres- pon period of life are becowming re- marl froquent, and yet they say that warciage is on the decline. - A young wan of Port Jarvis was en- to mamry & young lady, but she aded on him. He then took a step fasther and proposed to her mother, They e now hossing that girl together, Miss Hattle 1{ooper, daughter of Hon, . H. , ex-representative to con- fnu from Utab, is to be married to deutenant Young, of West Point, & son of the late Brigham Young, in the fall. Queen Euuns, of Holland, has prepared for har sistar Halen & wodding siit which will be of snall we to that young lady in the warm and dingy winter of Kogland. It is & magoiflcart sledge formed like & swan, painted io the Watteau style and lined with a quilted blue satin, As compared with the population, there are mose Muuriages in Frauce than in England, The percentage is given at 88 for the former an | 36 for the latter, In France, bowever, the birth rate continues to decrease, which is regarded by French economists &5 & very ominous fact, At » fashionable church wedding re- cently the bridesmaids were dressed in short, di veen velvet dresses with large Gainsboropgh Rats of the same trimmed formance of the *Flying Dutchman” by Carl Roea's company in London, care- luuy studying the text book between the acte, And now a project is on foot to estab- lish an Aeademy of Music for Scotland, A meeting has been held, and subscrip. tions of $500 each received from the Duke of Buccleuch and the Earl of Rosebery. It is a striking proof of the increasing popularity of opera bouffe in London that within the past eighteen months three new theatres devoted to that species of entertainment have been erected almost within a stone’s throw of each other. Strauss's operetta, “The Marry War,” has turned out to be a very successful ven- ture at the Thalia Theatre. It has at- tracted large audiences all the week and rewarded the managers for their enterprise and judgment in bringing it out so prompt- Iy and well, An audience has & right to expect pro- tection from the elements when seated iaa hall or theater witnessing a play, yet Haazel Kirke was given a few nights since at Wabash, Indians, under a roof which leaked 0 badly that umbrellas had to be put up during part of the performance. The fo'lowing fourteen operas were giv- en at Leipzig during the month of Febru- ary: “‘Carmen” (twice), ‘‘Aida,” ‘Freis- chutz,” ‘‘I.’Africaine,” “Fra Diavolo,” “Hans Heiling,” ‘‘Faust,” ‘‘Rattenfan- ger,” “Tannhauser,”*‘Lohengrin,”“Rhein- gold,” “Walkure,’ terdammerung.” It will be noticed that “‘Aida” is the only Italian opera in the list; and even that is not really an Italian opera, The dates of the fifth musical festival in Cincinnati under the direction of Mr. Thomas are the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th of May. The principal solo_performers will be the saméasat the New York festival and some of the numbers of the pro- amme will also b the same. Following is purpose to vive every part of his festi- val schemes & dignified and noble value, Mr. Thomas has this year made the after- noon programme contribute to the educa. tional influences heretofore confined to the evening concerts; instead of a series of un- related pieces, he presents each afternoon a number of selections from one of the masgerpieces in opera, On the first rnoon there will be four pieces from Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro;” the second will be given up to Wagn r, the excerpts beiug_made from “Die Meistersinger,” Das Rbeiu- gold,” “Die Walknerc” and *“Die Goatter- dammerung;” the third will present four feces from Weber's “Kuryanthe.” The arge works of the festival will be Mo- zart’s “Requiem,” Handel's “Dettingen Te Deum,” Bach’s *Pasion-Music, ac- cording vo St, Matthew,” the third part of Schumann’s **1'aust Scenee,” the second act of Berlioz’s “Fall of [roy,” and W. W. Gilchrist's *“Forty-sixth Psalm.” The symphonies will be Beethoven’s seventh and eighth, Schubert’s ninth (in C), and Liszt’s *"Dante Sympheny.” —— RULIGIOUS, ‘Tlm Presbyterians in Minnesota number 9. It is #aid that five denominations have 250,000 memnbers in Texas in a population of 750,000, A Hartford church is connected by telephone with the house ot 100 members of the congregation, The fifty-second general assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian church will meet in Huntsville, Ala,, May 18. The Rev, T. J. Knapp, D. D., a Baptist minister of Colorado, has left that denomi- nationto join the Protestant Lpiscopal church, The pope will hold another consistory in May when the archbishop of Cologne and the Papal Nuncio to épnin will be created cardivals, The Methodist Episcopal church in- creased the number of its churches last year by 844, and the value of its ehurch property by mare than $2,000,000. In 35 years the number of ministers in ths Christian connection has iocreased from 926 to 1,254; of churches from 875 to 1,124; of memvers from 28,892 to 76,000, The general synod of the Reformed Presbyterian church will hold its annual session in Dar ington, Penn, May 17th, the Rev. J, G, Boice preaching the open- ing sermon, The Kansas Methodist confere: horts 17,522 members 3 gain of 3,469 probationers—an increase of 634, It hus 211 local preacers, 169 churches, and 819 Sunday schools, The general assembly of the Southern Presbytsrian church will meet in Atlanta, Ga., May 18, The opening sermon will be preached by Dr. R, P. Farris, moder, ator of the last assembly. OF all Protestant Evangelical denomina- tions there are 496 churches in the city of New York for an estimated Protestant population of 500,000 to 600,000, The number of *“‘missions” is 133, of which 118 are Protestant. The Metropolitan tabernacle, London, (Mr. Spurgeon’s chur:h,) continues to grow. 1t now has 5,810 members, Last ear 279 were received by baptism, 68 by tter, and 85 by profession, making a total of 382, but there was a decrease of 815, The original Scotch National covenant o0f 1638 is still in extstence. The venera- ble perchment was exhibited recently at the sitting of the Victoria (Australia) Presbyterian general assembiy, The resent owner, the Hon, W. Pearson, is a ineal descendant of one of the siguers of the covenant. Do Not Be Deceived. In these times of quask medicine a: gisements everywhere, it is truly gr: - my to fivd one remedy that is worthy of praise, and which really dues as recom- mended. lictric Bitters we can vouch for as beivg a true and reliadle remedy, ond one that will do as recommended, They iuvarisbly cure Stumach and Liver Complaints, Disenses of the Kidneys and HOQ§ES LOTS! BEMIS, FIFTEENTH AND DOUGLAS 818, —— No. 187—LAnos Fixe Hevst axp Consan Lot near 92nd and Webster streets, 10 rooms, stable and splendid order. A bargain at £600, 178, House 8 rooms, tull fiot on Pierce nea 2uth street, 81,660, 177, House 2 rooms, full lot on Douglas noar 26th W reet, 8700, 176, Beautiful rosidonce, full lot on Cass near 10th strect, $12,000. 174, Two hotises and § lot on Dodve near 9th street, 81 500, 176, House three rooms, two closets, etc., halt 1ot oh 21t 1 ear Grace atroet, 800, 172, One and one-half story brick house an two 1ota on Douglas near 25th stroet, §1,700, 171, House two rooms, woll,cister: it tull lot noar Pierce and 15th stroet, 170, One and one-half stery house six rooms and well, half lob on Convent stroet near 5% Mary's avenue, $1,850, No. 170, House three rooms on Clinton street. near shot tower, §325. No, 160, House and 88x120 foct lot on stroet near Webster stroot, §8,500, No, 168, House of 11 rooms, lot 83x120 foet on 19th niar Burt street, 3, ‘o 167, Two story house, © rooms 4 closets, good cellar, on 16th strecy near Poppleton's 000, No . 165, New house of 6 rooms, halt lot on Tzard near '19th street, $1,850. No. 164, One and one half story house § rooms on 18th street r ear Leavenworth, $3,500. N. 161, One and one-half story house of b5 rooms near Hanscom Park, §1,600. No. 168 Two hotuses b room each, closets, etc on Biirt strect near 25¢h, 83,500, No, 167, house 6 rooms, fuli lod on 10th streot near Loavenworth, §2,400, No. 166, House 4 large rooms, 2 closeta half acré on Burt street near Dutton, 81,260 No, 166, Two houses, one of b and one of & rooms, on' 17th street near Marcy, 3,200, No. 164, Three housos, one of 7 and two of & rooms each, and corner ' ot, on Cass near 14th stres, 85,000, * Ne. 163, small house and full lot on Pacil near 12th street, $2,600. . Ko 1¢1, One story house 6 rooms, on Leaven worth near 16th, $3,000. No. 160, Honse three rooms and lot 92x11 egiried,” and *‘Got. | & near 96th and Faroham, $2,600. No, 148, New house of eight roome, on 18th street near Leavenworth, §3,100, No. 147, House of 18' roomson 18th stroet mear Marcy, $5,000. No, 146, House of 10 rooms and 1} lots on 18th street near Marcy, A No. 145, House two large rooms, lot 67x210 fea onSherman avenue (16th’ street) near Nicholae, 3,500, No 148, House 7 rooms, bard, on 20th strect near Leavenworth, §2,600. No, 142, House 6 rooms, kitchen, ctc., on 16th street near Nicholas, $1,675. No, 141, House 8 rooms on Douglas mear 20th street, $950, No.'140, Large houre and two lots, on 24t near Farnham street, 88,000, No, 189, House 8 rooms, lob 60x160} feet, Douglas near 27th stroet, §1,500. No. 137, House b rooms and half lot on Capito aventio near 28d screet, $2,300. No. 186, House and halt acre loton Cuming street near 24th 8550, No. 181, Houso 2 rooms, full lot,, lmrd nean 21st street, $300. No. 129, Two hcasca. one of 6 and one of 4 £oomi, au'lessed 1ot on Webter nast 20th sireet, , 500, 'No, 127, Two story Fouse 8 rooms, half lot on Webster near 19th 83,600, No. 126, House 3 rooms, lot 20x120 feet on 26th street near Douglas, 8475 No, 125, Two story house on 12th near Dodge streot lot 28x60 feet $1,200, No, 124, Largo house and full block near Farnham and Contral street, 88,000 No, 123, House 6 rooms and large ot on Saun- dera strect near Bariacks, §2 100. No. 122, House 6 rooms and half lot on Wab- ster near 16th street, $1,600, No. 118, House 10 rooms, lot 80x00 fect on Capitol avenue near 22d street, §2,950. No, 117, House 8 rooms, lot 80x126 feet, on Capitol avenue near 22d 81,500, No, 114, House 8 rooms on Douglas near 20th street, §750. No. 113, House 2 rooms, lot 66x69 tect on near Cuming street, $750. No. 112, lirick house 11 rooms and half lot on Cass noar 14th street, 82,500, No. 111, House 12 ' roomson |Davenport nes 02th street, §7,000, No, 110, Brick houso and lo 22x152 fee on Cass strect near 15th, $8,000, No. 108, Large house on Harney near 16th ro)t, 86,600, No 109, Two houses and 80x1 8 near 14th street, $3,500. No, 107, House 5 rooms and half lot on Izar ear 17th'street, $1,200. No. 106. House and lot 51x198 feet, lot on 14th near Pierco street, 000, N Two story house 8 rooms wish#} lob rd near Saunders-streot, 2,500, , One and ono half story Bouse 10 rooms ster near 16th street, $2,500. {880, 102, Two housea 1 rooms each and § lot on th near Chicago, §4,0:0. No, 101, Houso § rooms, cellar, etc., 1} lotaon South svenue near Pacific streer, 81,650, No. 100, House 4 rooms, cellar, €., halt lot on Irard street near 16h, 2,000, No, 99, Very large houso and full lot on Har ney near 14th streot, 0 000, No, 97, Large house of 11 rooms on Sherman ayenue near Clark street, make an offer, No, 96, One and one half scory housc 7 rooms Tot 240x401 foct, stable, eto., on Sherman ave- nue near Grace, §7.000. No. 02, Largo brick house two lots on Daven- port stroet near 19th $18,000. No, 00, Large house' and full lot on Dode near 16th stroct, 87,000, No. §9, Large hause 10 rooms half lot on 20th ear Oslif ornia street, 7, o, 88, Large house 10 or 12 rooms, beautitu} corner 1ot on Caes near 20th, $7,000. foot lot uo No. 87, Twe story house 8 rooms 5 acres 0 and on Saunders stroet near Barracks, 82,000, No, 86 Two_stores and & resiacnce on I half lot,near Mason and 10th street, $500. No. 84, Two story howe B rooms, closets, etc., with b acres of ground, on Baunders street near Omaha Barracks, $2.600 No, 63, House of 9 rooms, halt lot on Capitol avenuo near 12th street, §2,600. No 82, Ono and one half full lot on Plerce near 20th No, 81, 'lwo 2 story houses, one of 6 rooms, Chicago 8t., near 12th, 3,000, No. 80 House 4 rooms, closets, ctc., large lob on 15th street near White Lead works, 81,800, No, 77, Large house of 11 rooms, closets, cel- r, etz., with 1} lot on Farham noar19th street, No. 76, Oreand one-halt story house of § roows, lok 60x83 feet on Case near 14th stroot, 84,600 No. 76, House 4 rooms and basement, flo lojuisy foet on Marcy near Sth street, $975. 0. 74, Large brick house snd two full lots on Davenport near 16th street, §15,000. No. 73, Ono and one-haif'story house and'lo 86x182 feet on Jackson near 12th street, ¥1,600. No. 72, Large brick house 11 rooms, full lof on Dayel' port near 15¢h street, $6,000. No. 71, Large house 12 rooms, full lot on Call. ornia near 20ch stroet, §7,000. No, 66, Stable and 81ull'lotson ran instroeh near Baunders, §2,000, No, 64, Two story frame building, store and roomis above, on leased lot on’ Douge 16th steeet, $400 No, €8, House ¢ rooms, basement, ete., 1o 99x240 féet on 18th etrect mear Nail Works, 1,700, 'No. 62, New house 4 rooms one story, full lob No, 68, House of 7 rooms, ull lot Webster near 21st street, §2,600. on Haruey near 21st street, $1,760. 'No. 61, Large house 10 rooms, full lot on Bur near 21sf street, §6,000. ‘No. 60, House 3 rocms, half lob on Davenpors near 23d stroet, §1,000. - No. 60, Four houses and half 1ot on Cess near 13th strect 2 6500 e o 6 rooms acd full lot, Harncy near 26tk strect, 3 e adses and full ot on Case near \ §3,200, BEMIS ReaL EsTare Acency orinary difficulties, We know whe eof we speak, and can_readily say, give them atrial, Sold at fifty cents a bottle by Schroter & Becht, 16th and Douglas Street, OMAEA, - -~ WEB [ A