Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 14, 1882, Page 4

o 4 The Omaha Bee ‘Published svery morning, except Sunday, Whe only Monday morning daily, TERMS BY MAIL — v+« «810.00 | Three Months,$8,00 5.00 | One .- 1.00 THE WEEKLY BEE, published ov. ery Wednesday. TERMS POST PAID:— One Year......$2.00 | ThreeMonths.. 50 Bix Months. ... 1.00 | One « w N OORRESPONDENCE—AIL Communi. eations relating to News and Editorial mat- ora should be addressed to the EDIToR oF Tae Brz. BUSINESS LETTERS—AIl Business Hotters and Remittances should be ad- dreased to THE QMAHA Pupuisnine Cou- ANy, OMaHA, Drafts, Checl and Post- office Orders to be made payable to the order of the Company. OMAHA PUBLISHING 00., Prop'rs. EiROSEWATER, Editor. “How soox will John M. Thurstou grant that permit to Governor Nance to call the legislature. Tar new secretary of the interior agrees with Trne Bee on one proposi- tion. He believes a dead Indian is & good Indian, WTar next thing we shall hearjof will be the erection of a monument to the sainted Jesse James by the sorrow- ing citizons of Missouri. WasuiNGrox dispatches announce that tho cabinet has come to adecision on the Fitz John Porter case, which will be made the subject of a special communication to congress at an early day. Tue New York elevated roads cost $18,000,000 and pay interest and dividends on over 864,000,000 of bonds and stocks. Aud yet New Yorkers who ask for a reduction of fare are denounced as implacahle com- munists, " Tir new secretary of the navy, M¢t. Chandler, was ' the leading champion of district representation in the national republican committee, and at the late meeting of the com- mittee he got away with George C. Gorham, who was the champion of the unit rule. When the committee ‘meets again we shall see whether Mr, Chandler has undergone a change of heart since his appointment to Presi- dent Arthur s cabinet IN connection with the rumored re- tirement of Minister Lowell and the proposed appointment of Alphonse Taft as minister to the court of St. Jamer, The Cincinnati Commercial thinks that President Arthur will conclude that the public service would be improved by sending a lawyer in- stead of a poet to London, as a poet instead of a lawyer is going to Cork, Sexaron Cmicorr, of Colorado, was a citizen of Nebraska in 1856, when he resided in Burt county, rep- resenting Burt and Cuming counties in the lower house of the legislature, whicn met in Omaha in the winter of 1856-567. In the spring of 1859, Mr. Chilcott left Omaha for Denver with others infected by the ‘*Pike’s Peak or bust” fever, SoME of our congressmen are advis- ing the extension of the pension list to the civil service. No country has stretched the pensioning principle to such a limit as the United States, ‘Out present list will be a heavy bur- den to bear for many years to come even with the continuance of its pros- perous times. Any further extension of its provisions to other departments than the army and navy ought to be emphatically opposed, ToroNro, Ont., April 10.—The “‘T:nm" the boot and shoe factory girls and the Grand Trunk chockers and shed men are on a strike here. A conference in reference to a com- promise between the strikers and their employers, is being advocated the press as the only way in which the difficulties can be arranged. This is in the British dominion, But the Toronto papers do not de- nounce the workingmen and working- women a8 hoodlums and communists. They do not denounce strikers as out- laws and call for troops, On the con- trery they recognize the fact that the only rational way to settle difficulties between employer and employes is by conference or arbitration, e—— Jupce Wywie is determined to per- mit no technicalities to stand in the way of a speedy trial of the sta route ringsters. The counsel of Brady, Dorsey & Co, were quite con- fident that the judge would quash the indictments under the provisions of a Maryland statute enacted in 1882, They were mistaken. The judge declared that tho statue of 1723 'was null and void as far as the District of Columbis was concerned, and that. his court had undoubted jurisdiction in the premises. Furthermore he decided that the indictments for con- spiracy both against the star route and the straw-bond swindlers were good and sufficient in all particulars. He concluded by doclaring the re- cognizance of Btephen W. Dorsey forfeited, and ordering his arrest. The Jjudge aleo remarkad that the cases of Dorgey and Brady are similar in their hinracter. M T resolution of Senator Morgat. calling the attention of the senate to the increasing commercial intercourse between the United States and Mexi- co, and the desirability of a reciproci- ty treaty is exciting much comment in the east, Mexico is perhaps more intimately connected with the west than _with any other portion of the country. Railroads built with Amer- ican capital, engineered by western men, and constructed by western con- tractors, ar® rapidly penctrating the country from all directions. Kansas, New Mexico, Missouri and Colorado are already connected by rail with the republic south of the Rio Grande, and much of the future trade between the two countries must pass through the wost before reaching its destination. Last year we sent to Mexico goods valued at 11,000,000, receiving in re- turn $8,000,000 of Mexican products. This small beginning, if stimulated by a reciprocity treaty, will result in the building up of a large trade between the two countries, The agricultural productions of Mexico are almost lim- itless, owing to the different zones in which her districts are located. With little fuel and no water power she can not become & manufacturing country, and must send her raw materials elso- whore to, be worked up into finished articles. In return she would purchase from us almost every kind of manu- jactured goods. A proper reciprocity treaty would make it to her interest to trade almost exclusively with the people of the United States. Tsx appeal of Messrs. Ingersoll and Burrows of the Farmers Alliance to the merchants, shippers and working- men of Nebraska on behalf of the con- ceated anti-monopoly movement i timely and worthy of careful o eration, The array of facts relating to monopoly abusea in Nebraska and elsowhere presented in the address would be startling if most of them had not long ago been familiar to & majority of our readers. Corporate monopolies have mnever recoived a more thorough and better deserved scoring for their oppressions and ex- hortions, and for the corrupt means which they are employing to fasten the,chains more closely upon the pro- ducers of the country. There is no doubt of the necessity for unity of action in resisting the aggressions of the corporations. It is & question, however, whether pro- #ossional men and merchants in our cities and towns, especially in Omaha, would enlist openly in a cause that has their sympathy, and will doubt- less have their support when it can be given without risk of being black- listed by the monopolies, The same is true of a large portion of our workingmen who do not care to jeopardize their situations by openly opposing their employers. Tt is for these reasons that few anti- monopuly leagues have as yet been formed in Nebraska. 1he baneful in- fluence of the railway corporations has made itself felt in suppreasing such evidences ot public opinion upon the question of corporate political su- premacy as can safely be expressed in states and cities further east. It has been given to the Farmers Alliance to inaugurate the fixst general movement of the produceras againet monopoly ag- gression and they will certainly be be supported at the polls by the large majority of merchants, profes- sional men and workingmen who for obvious reasons do net at present, deem it advisable to organize branches of the National Anti-Monopoly League, ‘Wz have risis with our fire department that calls for decisive d- Ak OUMAHA DALY BEE: FRIDAY APRIL 14 i~82, mayor does not deprive the volunteer firemen of their privilege to select their company officers or other general ofticers, such as president, secretary and treasurer of the department. It is now a matter of self preservation to stop this eternal squabble over a chief, and it can only be done by abolishing the annual elections which were allowed a choice by courtesy only, When it becomes known that these annual elections don’t mean a soramble for a $1,600 office, there will be more harmony in the depart- ment. Tar sooner some means are taken for cutting down the surplus revenues of the country the better. In the first place an unnecessary tax of $150- 000,000 is laid upon the people and in the second place the presence of such an enormoua surplus in the treasury in & constant inducement to the mo#t gigantic jobbery and fraud at the na- tional capital. There are now enough subsidy schemes before congress to swamp the treasury for ten years to come, One effect of the great num- ber of unworthy jobs which are being forced upon the attention of congress- men is to prevent action on such sub- sidies as are really necessary for the proper development of the country. Another effect is to postpone indefi- nitely a readjustment of the taxes on on imports which the changed condi- tion of trade since the taxes were im. posed renders advisable in the inter- ests of our people. * The carcass hun- tons are afraid of diminishihg the funds available for other purposes and have joined in urging the tariff com. mission which will effectually. pat aside the question of revenue reform for a number of years afid meantime keep up the surplus revenue. ArtENTION Wwas called a fow days ago in THE BEE to the urgent neces- sity of providing some reserve water supply in case of damage to the mains or reservoirs. Our former remarks are emphacized by the report of the accident to the Denver water works, By the bursting of the main water pipe in that city, on Tuesday last, several streets were submerged, many cellars flooded, and the entire water supply of the city cut off for several hours. During that time, if a fire had started| there would have been absolutely no fire protection, and the hose carts would have been useless. Fortunately for Denver, her works have) been re- certly reconstructed,so that the old wa- ter works were stillavailable, and after four hours delay water for domestic use and fire protection was flowing through the pipes. Omaha is less fortunate in this re- spect than Denver. There is only one main leading from the river to the reservoir. Should this main burst the city would be entirely with. out water., On this account it is highly important that the fire cisterns snould be kept filled. The suggestion of the city engineer for an additional main pipe from the pump- ing works to the storago reservoir, is also worthy ot adoption,. When the water works are completed according to the terms of the contract with the city and accepted by the council Omuha will have a system of water works ample for all ordinary wants, But we should take all reasonable pre- cautions against accidents thatlars liable to prove disastrous. Tuk Omana Bee and the ticket set up by the laboring men carried the day in Omaha, and that city may look for another year of mismanaged affairs, When such conflicts spring up as the late one in Omaha it is next to impos- sible to secure competent men for aotion on the part of Mayor Boyd and the city council. The property owners of Omaha are taxed from $15,000 to $20,000 a year for keeping up a paid fire department. ' Every member of this force, from chief down to drivers of hose carts, draws his pay from the city treasury, These employes of the city are appointed by the mayor subject to the approval of the council the same as all other officers and employes that are not elected by the people. As chief ex- ecutive the mayor is keld responsible for the efficiency of our paid fire do- partment, and it is wrong in principle and dangerous in practice to relieve him of this responsibility or deprive him of the appointing power, by al- lowing the volunteer firemen to dic- tate whom he shall appoint ohipf of the paid fire department. It was proper enough, perhaps, in our mayors to allow the firemen to ohoose their chief as long as the vol- unteer and paid firemen were able to agree upon such a choice, but the disgraceful scramble for the office de- moralizes thewholefire dppartment and is liable to produce a rupture between firemeon in the midst of a great fire, Such & crisis calls for a heroic remedy. Mayor Boyd must now assume the entire responsibility and make his own choice of fire chief, We don't propose to enter into a comparison of the claims of rival can- didates. We simply ask on behalf of the common iuterest of all citizens that the mayor appoint the man who in his judgment is the most compe- tent and reliable for the position, If the council disapproves the mayor's cholce jt will be his duty to appoint suother. In taking away the power to name their chief from the force the office holders, for the simple reason that the best men cannot be elected because prejudices are too strong against thom.— [ Pawnee Enterprise. Why will Omaha suffer from another year's mismanagel affairs? Are the men elected this spring incompetent or dishonest? Are they in any respect inferior to the men that were retired or defeated? Why can’t editors of papers in the interior of the state divest themselves of prejudice and inform themselves better about affairs in Omaha? Why do so many of them form opinions on nothing better than baseless slanders and hogwash]evolved by the corporation organ grinders who always prediot terrible thinga if Tue Bee is sustained 1n a political contest! Noruing buv a contested seat in congress seems to be able to bring out the true inwardness of southern elec. tion frauds, The Mackey-Dibble case has shown that in the Second distriot of Bouth Carolina in 1880, in forty- five precincts, the total list indicated 27,079 persons as voting, while the bal. lot boxes showed 83,826 ballots, In other words over six thousand ballots wore stuffed into the boxes to return the Bourbon candidate to congress, — POLITICAL NOTES, !fifiiovcmg;d:{ulr, of Tennessee, is o por e can te for governor in thy coming campaign, § h Mr. Ames, one of the new stockholders :L tlll; ll‘:lhm‘ .\dverthe;‘;[ l;u an eye on e licutenand Asaiachbu. Soda, 1 1 gt emerngmailp ' Masmbob The prohibitionists will open the cam. galgn in Connectiont by holding their state convention at Hartford April 19, A full state ticket will be nominated, - James B. Weaver, the greenback candi. date for president in 1880, will contest fmfi uf"':}l;- Towa congresional 'd.:lrluu this nll. € New arrangement of istric will probably end his politioal e """ Congressman Orapo is said to have con. sented to enter the field us & undldnt: ‘;:r the nomination for governor of Massa: chusetts, He is vory pdpular in his own district, having been elected to congress by almost 10,000 majority, Proctor Knott is a tikely eandidate for governor of Kentucky, The present exec- utive, Blackburn, seems to be almost as anpopn ar in his own party as among the republicans, ‘I'he reappearance of ex-Governor Hend- ticks, The New York Times says, in his celebrated act of riding two horses will deepen the popular suspicion that this em- inent straddler is making ready for the presidential ring of 1884, The Minnesota Senate, by a vote of 30 to 8, found Circuit Judge Cox guilty of teven of_the eighteen articles of impeach- ment. The verdiot deposes him fr.m the bench, and disqualifies him from holding office for three years, The Nevada Republicans will hold their State Convention Septemver 4. All the important State effic-s are to be filled and # Legisiature elected. An earnest effort will be made to redeem the State from the Democrats and send & Republican to Con- gross, Democratic oandidates for governor o Pennsylyanis are getting plenty. Besides James H. Hopkins, Rovert 1. Paiterson, Robert E, Monaghan and Eckley B. Coxe supporters. The latter is said able and possessed of a first- Ex.Senator Oglesby, it is reported, will enter the race for the succession to Acting Vice President Davis' chair, The other candidates most frequently named are Governor Cullom and Green B. Raum. The legislature which wiil choose the new senator is yet to be elected. Jasper Blackburn will be the republi- ean candidate for congressman-at-large in Arkansas. The democratic state conven- tion of Arkunsas will meet at Little Rock on June 15 to mominate a state ticket, o congressman-at-large, appoint a new state central committes, and frame another platform, Major Townsend, the present secretary of state of Ohio, is said to desire a re-lec- tion, He has not escaped criticism in the sdministration of his office, however, and earnest opposition will no doubt be made to his renomination, This is the most im- portant state office to be filled this year in Uhio. The sentiment of the Georgia independ- ents at their meeting the other day in Atlanta seemed to be in favor of nominat. ing ex-Congressman Felton for governor. A mass convention of the party has been called to meet at the same place June 1, when a state ticket and a congressman-at- large will be nominated. The Kentucky Independents are mak- ing an energetic canvass of the State, Even the Bourbon papers admit that large audienees attend their meetings and much enthusissm is manifested. The Inde- pendents, show their faith in the justness of their cause by luvlb-ng their opponents to discuss the issues with them in public, The recent redistricting of Mississippi is enid to be the worst gerrymander ever perpetrated, and it is causing widespread dissatisf on in _the Democratic ranks. One district has 70,000 more people than the one next to it. The blunder is likely to lead to a serious spht in the party, and may result in givine the Republicans sev- eral Congressmen. After lonkiw over thenew congress districts in u Sentinel concludes that the republican representatives from that state will be re- tired with the exception of Pound and Guenther, The new arrangement of the districts has been the subject of much criticism, and is ascribed to William T\ Price. - He has long been a candidate for a nomination to congress, having been de- feated nine consecutive times. It 1s be- lieved now, however, that he will succeed in securing & nomination and election. The new apportionment makes six strong republican and two strong democratic dis- tricts, and one that is doubtful, ional A Voice From Omaha, 1412 Dodge Street, Omaha, Neb., May 24, 1881. H. H. WARNER & Co.: Sirs--I had suffered 15 years from a combination of liver and kidney trouble until cured by your Safe Kidney and Liver Cure. aprl0-dlw 0. B. RoaErs. STATE JOTTINGS. St. Helena is without a saloon, St. Paul is forcing the ice cream season, The press of Alma and Orleans lie down right together, - Telephones in Grand Tsland will® rent for $4 per month, The round-up of the southwestern stock- men commences May 15, Mrs, James Knox has been appointed postmistress at Elk Valley, ‘Wayne wants & brick-yard bad. There is plenty of good clay thers, Salt Creek is now in a condition to ac- commodate the political dead. There will be a great gathering of Odd Fellows at Red Cloud on the 26th. A terryboat is running between the Ponea landing and the Dakota shore. Lincoln is to have another bank with a capital of $100,000, Judge Kelly at the head, The Blue Springs light artillery are pre- .0g to give C. M, Murdock the grand Bounce. The annual shearing of the southern Nebraska sheep breeders’ association will commence May 4. ¥ ; Travel to the Black Hills via the Sid- ney route is assuming something of itsold- time propositions, Tom Turner of Fremont has bought 15,- 000 sheep in southern California, which he will drive to Dodge county, J. G. Hunter, a Sidaey scockman, drop- ped his wallet near a peanut stand, Lst week, and now mourns the loss of $140, During the past year there have been 851 arrests made in Lincoln, 287 of which were convicted or bound over to the high- er_oourt. Wymore can now lift up its head and feel as proud as any burg in Nebraska, 1t had its cyclone, and all it lacks now is & murder to make it a first c'ass city. ‘The entire floating and bonded™ debt of Lincoln is $167,679.69, and the assessed valuation will this year reach nearly $2,- 000,000, or an actual valuation of $6,000,- A 16-year-old boy named Kemnitz, liv- ing near Sribner, the other day caught his arm in a corn sheller' which so muii- lated it that smputaticn at the shoulder WA DeCcessry. Berious losses by the storm of last Fri- day are reported in Gage county, Russell snd Hugh Dobbs lost eight head of valua- ble cattle by drowning, and Mr, Brazil lost 1,100 sheep; valued at £5,000, in the same maoner, Bridyes have been washed out of s number of small streams, and the wind wrecked several barns and buildings in the vicinity of Beatrice, The railroad company are “kicking against the. pricks® and endeavoriug to avoid the payment of their taxes levied for school urfiul, and through their at. torney, A. E arvey, want to compro- mise with our commissioners, but in the anguage of Holdredge, at the rocent Omaha labor strike, the commissioners can't see as they haye anything to compro. mise, it being & fair, legitimate levy, and the company should pay their taxes the same as homesteaders, —{ Arapahoe Pio- neer, E———— Won't Raise the Wages. __ Assoclated Frose, PriLaveLrHIA, Pa., April w...A prominent operator in the Clearfield region says emphatically they won't give the 10 cents advance demanded or any fraction of it, preferring, if neoung. to keep the mines idle any length of time. th *Aquo SIPYY 0] . INAYVD 3C INIM» isconsin, The Milwaukee . AN APPEAL FOR ORGANIZATION, To ihe Merchants, Manufactur- ers, Professional Men, Mechanics, Shippers and Workingmen of the State of Nebraska, SECRETARY'S OFFICE, MeLroy, April, 1882, Fruiow Cr 8:—One of the fundamental principles of our govern- ment is that every individual citizen shall have equal rights before the law, in the pursuit of happiness, and in the accumulation of this world’s goods. Our government in its origin was to government of individual opizion y expressed by the ballot, the ma- jority to rule. But the combinations of private interests known as corpora- NenrAskA S7ate FARsERS' AvLr umr,} tions, have entirely overridden these fundamental principles. In the case of railroad cor- porations, they were created by the law-making power for the sole pur- pose of carrying on the business of transportation. By law their work is limited to the work of building and operating railroads, and the rights actually conferred upon them are only the flg{h necessary for that purpose. But taking advantage of the power growing out of association and combi- nation, they have usurped rights and privileges which, if allowed to con- tinue, will scon destroy every vestige ot the traditional liberties of the people, Leaving their legal and proper sphere, confined to which they form one of the most beneficent encies of mddern times, they have thrust themselves into every economic and political interest, and here their influence has become blighting and malign, What branch of the govern- ment have they not invaded and cor- rupted] What source of gain have they not grasped ? What private rights have they not abridged and in- fringed! ‘We have elected our legislators to see_them vie with each other which shall most quickly bend the willing knee to these corporations. We have sont senators and representatives to congress to see them bhecome their supple instruments. We have chosen .governors to find them only their most obsequious and humble servants. We have established courts of justice and law—those most sacred deposito- ries of the liberties of a free people— to see them debauched to be the ser- vile tools of these great corporations. What source of gain have they not grasped? The black list is too long to enumerate. By watered stocks they have evaded the reasonable restric. tions ot their charters, and imposed enormous unearned taxes upon the products and labor of the people. By adopting the rule of ‘‘what tho traffic will bear,” they have made themselves partners, without investment, in every industry of the eountry—the rinciple of the highwayman. y discriminations between individuals they reward political favorites and ar- rogate to themselves control of pri- vate interests. By discriminations between places they interfere with natural laws of growth, ruining some localities to build up others where their own interests are concentrated. They have monopolized mines and rendered our -u;l;lply of fuel precarious and unneccessarily costly. By their rings within riogs they levy an unnecessary tax upon ev- ery staple article consumed by the people. By chicane and trickery, aided from time to time by their tools 1n congress, and by su- preme court decisions on put up cases, they hold 9,000,000 acres of land in Nebraska, Kansas and Colorado, in their own right, salable and transfer- able by them at will, but unpatented by the government and free of all tax- a*ion—which im poses an annual bur- den of vaxation of $500,000 upon the people. What private right have they not abridged and infringed? When the value and the purity. of the greatest private right which can insure to the American citizen are impaired by their invasion of our politics and their cor- ruption of our government—the right of a free ballot—what need of nam- ing any other invasion? This is the sum and total,,the final expression of all private rights in the United states, estroy it or abridge it, and you destroy or abridge every right and every liberty which is builded upon it. That these corporations do systematically destroy or abridge it by injecting themselves illegally into cur politics—by their interference with the machinery of our eclections, and by the corruption of our officers after they are elected, no intelligent citizen will for a moment deny. Every oflice, every position of trust or honor, every interest, the private rights and material welfare of every individual citizen, is subordinateto the gains and ambitions of this unshapely monster which has been misconceived in the womb of free institutions, Pile upon this Pelion the Ossa of their en- deavors to undermine our free press, and control aur thonght and our in- telligence, and mnothing remains to make up the appalling total but a final epitaph upon our faded liberties, and our subverted government. Fellow citizens, shall this melan- choly epitaph be written! We say no! ten thousand timesno! We, twelve thousand farmers of the state of Nebraska, appeal to you, mer- chants, professional men, manufac- turers, shippers and workingmen, to join us in this mighty negative. We appeal to you to organize—to stand shoulder to shoulder with us-for what! To destroy any healthy rule of law and order?—to subvert any useful institution? —to infringe upon any established and just nght of property! No, mnot for a sin- gle moment, Bat to say that you are opposed to any further extension of corporate power as assumed and con- trolled by monopolistic rule—to say that you are in favor of restraining the rights and privileges of corpora- tions within the reasonable limits pre- scribed by law, and to say that you will vote with us to sustain these prin- ciples. We point you to the growth of this power for the past twenty yaars, and to the fact that it is yet in the infancy of its development. We warn you that another twenty years at e same raie of progress will place it entirely beyond your control, We appeal to “you to organize, as organi- zation afiords the only means of giving the force of law to your views. We ask yon to organize in view of the approaching election. While we xo not invite you to join our Alliances, which are compcsed exclusively of farmers, we point you to the National Anti-Monopoly League, whers all can meet upon com- mon ground, in which simple rules of orgagization are already formulated. We are informed that a call will soon be issued for a meeting to organize & state league in Nebraska, We invite you to form clubs and send delegates to that meeting. We invite you to our meetings —we will meet with you and consult with you; and will fully vo-operate with you in all measures for the general welfare. The organization of the anti-mcnop- oly league is by tewnships, ocunties, districts and stai It comprises to- day as large, respectable, wealthy, and influential a body of men as were ever associated together in this coun- try for a laudable and beneficient pur- pose. It is open and honorable, with no secrets, pass-wordsor dues. Its secretary, Henry Nichols, 60 Barclay street, New York, will furnish docn- ments and information. Issued by the Nebraska Stato Farmera' Alliance. E. P. Incgrsors, President. H. 0. Brarow, Ch’'n Ex. Com J. Burrows, Sec. and Ch'n State Organizing Com. All Nebraska papers are respeotful- ly requested to publish the above ap. It Was His Sister. Loulaville Courler-Journal, Four years ago, in the neighboring city of Cinciunati, lived a young girl whom it will do to call Florence. She was the child ct wealthy parents, and brought up amid all the luxuries and refinements which riches alone can procure. She was naturally bright, and the advantages of intellectual training in the best private schools of the city were nut thrown away. While she was possesuad of all these attractions, they were not the best gift thatnature had bestowed uponher. She had inherited a voice that an angel might have envied. Sweet an clear, it caught the ear of every listener, and won admiration on all sides, She became not only the pet of the éon- servatory where she studied, but the pet of society as well. Her father's partner had a son, who both physi- cally and mentally.was scarcely less attractive as a man thanshe wasa woman. He was a graduate of Har- vard college, and a man of more than ordinary parts. His sister was Flor- ence's intimate friend and schoolmate, and these three constitute the dram- atis personm of the story to be re- lated, Financial reverses impoverished the family of which our heroine was the all-important member. From a resi- dence in the most fashionable quarter of the city to a small house in a seclu- ded neighborhood went the bank- rupt’s wife and child, and he, a crushed man, died with the chagrin and mortification of his failure. Want and penury and neglect were the lot of the survivors, and forsaken by the friends of their prosperity, actual star- vation stared them in the face. It was then that the girl, overcoming her maidenly modesty with the love of a dependent mother, took to the stage as a ballad sin- ger. Night after night she drew rounds of applause from the enthusi- astic audiences of the Vine Street opera house. As she has been a pet of refined society in palmier days, 80 she now captured the admiration of the less fastidious audiences at the varieties. The reaction had set in, and she gave all her energy to the work in hand. The atmosphere was just enough tainted with the abandonment of sin to make it excit- ing, and girl like she was too enthusi- astic to see the danger. It was about this time that her father’s partner’s son, the young Har- vard graduate, fell at her feet. She yielded to his entreaties and fell. Be- fore her shame had become evident, the mother, for whom she had risked and lost her most precious treasure, died. Grief sent the girl deeper into shame and her life became one of illicit pleasure. Whatever may have been h.r course after that it matters not. About 1 o'clock this mora- ing there was a singularly sad scene in one of the Jefferson street ‘‘cigar fronts.” Flor- ence was there a common prostitute, She was the centre of an admiring group. Aftera while the madam came 1n and said that she had a new girl to take her place among the houris. She called her, the girl came. There were two shrieks and two women fell sense- less on the floor. The new girl was the sister of Florence’s seducer. Gen. Torbet's Way. Torbet, of cavalry fame, who was lost at sea last year with the ill-fated Vera Cruz, was a good fighter and a hard worker. While having a kindly heart for the trooper who was always ready for ‘‘boots and saddles,” he hated a shirk and had his own way of meeting the complaints urged by shirkers to get rid of duty. Just be- fore breaking camp in the spring of 1865 the general attended a sick call to see the state of health in his com- mand One after another of the boys came in for prescriptions, and by and by a strapping big trooper, who was g notorious nhixfi(, entered the tent with his hands on his stomach, Torbet took him all in at a glanco and then thundered out: “‘What are you here for!” “'Sick,"” was the faint response. “What ails you?” “‘Snake in the stomach.” “How long has it been there!” “Six months.” ‘‘Surgeon,”’ said the general, as he turned to the officer, ‘‘zall in two men, cut this man open and remove the snake! We are going to break camp in ten days, and we haven't time to coax the reptile :‘p!” Fifteen minutes after that the man was out on the line grooming his horse, and by noon he looked well enough to eat his way through a bar- rel of pork, Bucklin's Arnica Salve. 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P HOUSES For Sale By BEMIS, FIFTEENTH AND DOUGLAS 818., e e No. 187 ~Lanan Fixe Hovan AN Corxer Lov near 2204 and Webster streets, 10 rooms, stable and splendid order, A bargain at $6000, 178, House 8 rooms, tull flot on Pieros nea 20th stroot, 81,660, 177, House 4 rooms, full lot on Douglas nea 26th stroet, $700, 176, Beautiful residence, full lot on Cass noas 19th street, $12,000, 174, Two housos and § lot on Dodge near otk 176, House three rooms, two closets, ete., halt 1ot on 218k 1 car Grace stroet, $300, 172, One and one-half story brick house an two lots on Douglas near, reet, §1,700, 171, House two rooms, well,cistern, stable, ete tull lot mear Pierce and 18th stroet, §950. 179, One and one-halt story house six rooms. and well, hall ot on Convent stroot near 8% ary's svene, §1,860 0. 170, House three rooms on Clinton skreet. orar shot tower, §825. No. 160, House and 88x120 feet lot on street near Webater stroet, 8,500, No. 163, House of 11 rooms, lot 38x130 feet on 19th ncar Burt street, $6,000. ‘o 167, Two story house, 9 reoms 4 elosets, umsm celiar, on Sth stret near Poppleton's No. 165, New house of 6 rooms, half lot on Isard near 19th street, $1,850. No. 164, One and orio half story house 8 rooms. on 18th street r ear Leavenworth, $8,500, N. 161, One and one-half story bouse of b rooms near Hanscom Park, $1,600. No. 168 Two houses & rdoms each, closets, eto on Buurt street near £5th, §3,600. No. 167, house 6 rooms, full 1o} on 19th strecd near Leavenworth, 82,400, No. 166, House 4 large rooms, 2 closets half acre on Burt street near Dutton, 81,200, No. 165, Two houses, one of 5 and oneof & rooms, on 17th street near Marcy, $3,200. No. 164, Three houses, one of 7 and twe of § roows each, and corner ' ot, on Cass near l4th stroet, §5,000. N, mall house and full lot on Paci near 12th stroet, 82,600, No, 11 One story houso 6 rooms, on Leaven worth near 16th, #6,000. No. 160, House three rooms and lot 92x11 near 26th aud Farnham, $2,600. No, 148, New house of cight rooms, on 18th strect near Leavenworth, £8,100. No. 147, House of 18' roomson 18th stroed near Marcy, §5,000, No, 146, House of 10 rooms and 1} lots on 18th stroet near Marcy, 86,600, No. 145, THouse two large rooms, lot 67x210 foe onSherman avenue (16t street) near Nicholas, No 143, House 7 rooms, barn, on 20th street near Leavenworth, 82,600, No, 142, House b rooms, kitchen, etc., on 16th strect near Nicholas, 81,875, No. 141, House 8 roos on Douglas mear 26th strect, $950, No,'140, Large house and two lots, on 244 near Farnham street, 88,000, No. 139, House 8 rooms, lob 00x166} feet, Douglas near 27th street, §1,600. No. 187, House 6 rooms and half lot on Capito avenue near 23d screet, §2,800, No. 186, House and haif acre lot on Cuming street near 24th 8350, No. 181, House 2 rooms, full lot,, Izard nean 21at street, $R00, No. 120, Two ht.ases one of 6 and ono of 4 rooms, on leased lot on Webster near 20th street, 600, No. 127, Two story bouse 8 rooms, half lot on Webster near 10th $3,600. No. 126, House 8 rooms, lot 20x120 feet on 26th street near Douglas, 8675, No, 125, Two story house on 12th near Dodge street lot 28x66 feet §1,200. No. 124, Large house and full block near Farnham and Central strect, 85, No. 128, House 6 rooms and large lot on Ssun- ders strect near Barracks, §2 100, No. 122, House 6 rooms and half lot on Wab- ster near 15th street, 81,600 No. 118, House 10 rooms, lot 50x90 foet on Cavitol avenue near 22d stroet, 82,050, ¥o. L1, Houso 8 oums, lot' 8126 *fest, on Capitol avenuo near 32 §1,600. 0, 114, House 8 rooms on Douglas near 20th streot, §760. No, 113, House 2 rooms, lot 66x09 feet on near Cumiog stroet, $750. No, 112, Brick houso 11 rooms and halt lot on Cass near 1ith street, $2,800, No. 111, House 12 roomslon [Davenport nea 02th strect, §7,0.0, No, 110, Brick house anc ot 22x132fee on Cass strect near 16th, $3,000. No, 108, Largo house on Harney near 16th strot, 85,600, = No 109, Two houses and 86x182 foct lob Cass near 14th streot, $3,600, No. 107, Houso 5 rooms aud half lot ou Izard near 17th ‘street, §1,200. 0. 108. House and lot 51x198 fect, ot on 14th near Pierce strect, 8600, No, 105, Two story house 8 rooms with 1} lo on Seward near Saunders street, 2,500, No. 108, One and one haif story house 10 rooms Webster near 16th strect, $2,600. §No. 102, Two houses 7 rooms each and 4 lot on Tith near'Chicago, 84,010, No. 101, House § rooms, cellor, etc., 1} lots on South avénue near Pacific stroer, 81,850, No, 100, Houso 4 rooms, cellar, ¢, balt lot on Izard stroet near 16th, §2,000. No. 99, Very large house and full lot on Har ney near 14th street, 89 000, No, 97, Large house of 11 rooms on Sherman avenue near Clark strect, make an offor, No. 96, One and one half story house 7 rooms lot 240x401 feet, stable, etc,, on Sherman sve. nue near Grace, 87 (00. No. 92, Large brick house two lots on Daven- port street near 19th §18,000, No. 90, Large house' and full lot on Dode near 18th etrect, $7,000. No. 80, Large hauso 10 rooms half lot on 20th car Califoraia street, §7,600 No, 88, Large house 10 or 12 rooms, beautifu} corner vt onCass ncar 20th, 7,000 No. 87, Two story house 8 rooms 6 _acres o and on Saunders stroet near Barracks, $2,000. No. 85 Two_stores aud a resiacnce on I half lot,near Mason and 10th streot, §300, No. &4, Two story house 8 rooms, closets, etc., with 6 acres of ground, on Saunders stroet near Omaha Barracks, §2,600 No, £, House of § roows, halt lot on Capitol avenue near 12th street, 82,600, No 2, One and one half story bouse, 6 rooms full lot ob Plerce near 20th street, $1,800. No, 81, 1wo 2 story houses, one of 9 and one ‘hicago St., near 12th, #,000, No, 80 House 4 rooms, closets, on 18th strect near White Lead we ,800, No. 77, Large house of 11 rooms, closets, cels 1ar, etc,, with 13 lot on Farnbam near19th street, 0. #3,000. No. 76, Oreand onmh‘llmx house of 8 rooms, lot 66x85 feet on Cass near 14th street, $4,600. No. 76, House 4 rooms and basement, lob 164x182 feet on Marcy near 8th street, $676. 0. 74, Large brick house and two full lote on Davenport near 16th street, $15,000. No. 78, One and one-half'story house 86x182 feet on Jackson near 12th street, ), No. 72, Large brick house 11 _rooms, lod on Daver port near 16th street, $6,000, No. 71, Large house 12 rooms, full lot on Calls ornia near 20th street, $7,000. No, 66, Stable and 8 full'lots 00 ran in streed near Saunders, 2,000, No. 64, Two story frame building, store below and rooms above, on leased ot on' Douge near 16th street, 8800 No. 63, House 4 rooms, basement, etc., lo 93x230 feet ou 15th street near Nail Works, 1,700, "No. 62, New house 4 rooms one story, full lo No, 68, House of 7 rooms, ull lot ‘Webster near 21st street, §2,600. on Harney near 21st street, §1,750. No. 61, Large house 10 rooms, full lot on Buré wear 218t staect, £5,000. No. 60, Hous¢ 3 rocms, balf 1ot on Devenporh near 25d street, §1,000. No. 69, Four houses and half lot on Cass near 18th strect $2 600, No. 12, House 6 rooms ard full lot, Harney near 261h street, §2,000, No. 9, Three houses and full lot on Cass near 14th street, §3,200. No. 7, Housé 9 rooms, well, cistern, etc. 3 lots, on 17th near Izard street, §3,000. No. 6, House 7 rooms, lot 66x88 foet on Cass near 17th sireet, $4,000. BEMIS' 16th an ONLA & Ll