Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 24, 1882, Page 4

4 'K OUMAHA DALY BRLE: MONDAY APKRIL 4 i~82 e — e — THE DAILY BEE E. ROSEWATER EDITOR: ’, The Omaha Bee Published every morning, exeapt Sunday, The oniy Monday morning daily, TEKMS BY MAIL — OR Ysar.....810.00 | Three Months. 83,00 Bix Months. 5,00 | One 1.00 THE WEEKLY BEE, publisked ev- ery Wednesday. TERMS POST PATD:— One Yenr.... 8200 | Three Montha Bix Mon One . CORRESPONDENCE—AIl Communi« #ations rolating to News and Editorial mat- ors shoald be addressed to the Epitos or Tae HER. 50 20 BUSINESS LETTERS—AIl Business Betters and Remittances should be ad. dreseed to Tre OMAHA Puprisnive Cou- PANY, OMARA, Drafts, Checks and Post office Orders to be made payable to the © der of the Comnany. OMAHA PUBLISHING CO., Prop'rs. ‘Ei ROSEWATER. Editor. Proclamation by the Governor Convening the Legislature. ‘W riereAs, The constitution of the state offiNebraska provides that the governor may, on extraordinary occasions, convene the legislature by proclamation; snd ‘WrreAs, Important public interest of an utnmdfnnq character requires the exercise of this authority; Therefore, I, Albinus Nance, of the state of Nebrasks, do herel vene the legialature of said state to meet al session at the capitol in Lincoln T3 ook me ot said day for 1 purposes [X m, lor berein stated us follows, to-wit: First. To apportion the state into three congressional districts and to provide for the election of representatives therein. Seornd, To amend an act approved March 1st, 1881, entitled “An act to in- corporate cities of the first class and regu- Iation of their duties, powers and govern- ment,” by conferring additional power upon cities of the first class for the pur- pose of paving or macadamiziug streets and wlleysand als o providing for the crea- tion an Aprolntment of a board of public ‘works therein, Third. To assign tha county of Custer to some judicial district in the state. Fourth, To amend section 69, chapter 14, of the compuled statutes of Nebraska entitled “‘Cities of the second class and villages.” Fifth, To provide for the expenses in curred in uurpruninx the recent riots at Ounha and protecting citizens of the state from domestic violence, Sixth, To give the nssent of state the to the provision of an act of congress to extend the northern boundary of the state of Nebraska, Seventh. To provide for the payment of the ordinary and contingent expenses of the legislature Incurr';f] during the special gession hereby convened. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the great seal of the state, Done at Lincoln, this 20th of April, A. .,1882, ixtoenth year of the state, and of the independence of the United States, the one hundred and sixth, By the governor: ALBINUS NANOR. 8. J. ALEXANDER, Secretary of State, vernor con- Tue general imprestion is that Howgate is still ““looking for those Papers E— Tae militia expenses to put down George P, Armstromg will aggregate in the neighborhood of $35,000. m——— TaE Bible was stolen from the sen- ate chamber at Washington on Thurs- day. Bob Ingersell was seen in the lobby. ¥ Avex H, StepHENs cousiders At- torney General Brewster the ablest man who has held that position since William Wirt filled it. This will be sad news for the star routers. L i Tae American Electric, Light Com- pany of Boston has failed, The American Electric Light Company of Boston evidently was not in the fifty per cont dlvidend ring. Tae revenue cutter Corwin starts at once to the relief of the crew of the steamer Rodgers, which was burned while searching for the lost Jeannette. Mr, Bennett out to be jailed the next time he mentions the North Pole, Sm— Tue Denver Journal of Commerce says that there 1s a seeming stringency in the money market of that city. Dens ver real estate owners have recently advanced house rent 25 per cent. and the stringency in money ought not to be difficult to account for. / TrousLe has again broken out among the Arizona hostiles, and the country between Chihuahua and the Sonora line is reported full of Indians, As General Carr has been relieved from the sentence of the court mar- tial, he has another chance afforded him to insult his superior jofficer by showing superior bravery. EEm——— Mz, Braxe is said to be indignant over the report that he is to succeed Mr. Lowell as minister to the court of 8t. James, and announces that there is no offlce at the disposal of Mr. Arthur which he will accept. Mr, Blaine need have no fear of being forced to decline a nomination if re- cent appointments of the administrs- tion give any clue to the president's inclinationa. Em— THE NATIONAL CONVENTION. At the republicau convention which nominated General Garfield the fol- lowing resolution favoring the elec- tion of delegates by districts was passed: ‘‘The national committee shall, within the next twelve months, prescribe methods or rules for th lection of delegates to the national convention to be held in 1884, an- nounce the same to the country and issue a call for that convention in conformily therewith; provided, that such methods and rules shall include and securo to the several congressional districts in the United States the right to elect their own delegates to tho national cenvention.” No action on the subject has yet been taken by the national committeo further than to refer the subject to a sub committee of five, of which Secretary Chandler is chairman. Several plans have been presented for its considera- tion and as the matter is now begin- ning to attract attention, a report from the committee is daily looked for with a great deal of interest, One plan suggested contemplates the election of the delegates by con- ventions held within ths several con- greasional distriots, It is urged that this is the method intended by the national convention which designed to break up the unit vule by giving the people the power to select their own delegates in each district. An objec- tion brought against this plan is that if delegates are elected within the moveral districts it will be s difficult matter to secure proper attendance at the state convention for the appointment of delegates at large, and that in a num- ber of the southern states it would be diffioult, owing to the expense and other causes, to carry out the plan of holding both district and state conven- tions. Itis therefore proposed that the district conventions be omitted, and each state convention, after chos- ing four delegates at large, shall allow the delegations from each congres- sional district to select two delegates to the national convention, This plan is objected to n some quarters be- cause it would afford an opportunity for trading on the delegates at large, which could not be done where each district is allowed to choose its dele- gates outside of the state conven- tion, All the plans that have so far been discussed inside and outside of the national cemmittee fail to suggest any scheme that will do away with the worst feature in our present system of apportioning representation in the na- tional convention. A national repub- lican convention should be what its name implies, a convention represent- ing the republican party of the United States. As heretofore constituted the republican national conyentions, modelled after the conventions of the state rights democ- racy, have taken as their hasis the population of the states regardless of their political complexion, In the last republican national cone vention Kentucky with her 70,000 democratic majority was allowed to cast 24 votes for the republican can- didates for president and vice presi- dent, while Yowa with more than 70,- 000 republican majority only cast 22 votes. Democratic Delaware, which polls less than 10,000 republican votes, had as much to say in naming the prestdential candidate of the republi- can party as Nebrasks with her 22,000 republican majority., Alabama, which has not elected a single republican to her last legislature, cast twenty votes in the national convention of 1880, while Xansas with her 40,000 republi- can majority oould only cast ten votes. This rotten borough system places it within the power of democratic states to dictate presidential candidates for the republicans of the nation. States in which the vepublican party | is hardly known .aa’ an organization come to ‘our natibnal conventions with greater representation than the states upon which the party depends for its electoral votes. In the very nature of things, delogates who hail from staten that aro overwhelmingly demo- cratic have no constituency behind thewm that holds them strictly account able. Most of them come alwost with the avowed purpose to sellout to the winning man, Such merchanta- ble delegates become a greater sou:ce of dauger to our whole political fabric than the boases, the machine or unit rule. $ 1t behooves the unational committee to devise some plan that will do away with the rotten borough system. Let them forever abandon the democratic basis of states rights representation, Let them apportion the delegates to the national convention of 1884 ao- cording to the votes polled for Gar- field and Arthur in 1880, Let this be done, not by congressional districts, but by distriots containing a sufficient tation unless they have the republican voters to sustain their claim. SUPERINTENDENT WALKER has re- tired from the census bureau, but his works live after him. The original ostimate for completing the census . | enumeration was $2,000,000. This sum was expended a year ago and two deficiency bills have already been in- troduced in congress asking for in- creased appropriations, Mr, Walker seems to have conducted his burean on the idea that there was no bottom to the national purse and no dividing line between merely looal statistios and those of a national character, It is now two years since the statistics called for were collected, and aside from numerous bulletins issued from time to time from *he census bureau, the whole work of publication yet remains to be completed. In other words, two years after the time for the taking of our decennial census, the public are still practically ignorant of the results. The chief value of any mass of fig- ures for purposes of comparison ocon- sists in their freshness. In England the entire census was taken last year in a single day, and published within a month atter the collection of the figures. From present appearances the census of the United Btates will not be available for the use of the public until another decade has brought with it the necessity for siill snother census, and the statiotios when finally printed will be absolutely worthless for the purpose for whioh they were intended. The fault with the management of the present census bureau has been an entire lack of business ability on the part of Mr, Walket. He has had no adequate idea of the expense necessary to incur, and quite as little idea of what statistical Infor- mation was out of the line of census compilation. The first work printed and bound by the census bureau is devoted entirely to social statisties of New Orleans, containg & mass of figures proper enough for a local chronicle, but which the nation ought not to be called upon to publish at the public expense. And now, in the face of another probable deficiency, congress is informed that an enor- mous mass of undigested material still remains on hand, which,. if propared and printed, will costs nearly five millions of dollars. What is needed in a national census is acourate and condensed statistics of population, trade and industry printed in compact form and published as speedily as possible after their com- pilation. More than nine-tenths of all our public documents are too bulky, and the census report promises to head the list of those which will find their way soon after pnblication to the junk and waste paper shops, where Congressional Records and pat- ent office reports are ground up to make wrapping paper and cardboard. As usua) the monopoly organs are very unanimous in misrepresenting Senator Van Wyack’s position on the Ohinese question. The senator never intimated in his recent speech that he was in favor of placing Chinese coolies on an equal footing with other laboring men. He simply explained that he could not consistently vote for the Chinese bill vetoed by the president because some of its provisions were in conflict with International law and usage, and would sooner or later react against this country and against American citizens abroad. The sena- tor emphatically favors the restriction of Chinese immigration, but he con- siders it the duty of this government to live up toits treaty obliga‘ions with China until the treaty has been modi- fied or abrogated. mmm—— Tun house commerce committee s #aid to be committed to the Candler bill, ' which embodies the suggestions of Obarles Francis Adams to the effect that theé relief sought by the country will be found in a permanent board of railrond commissioners with power to advieo but without power to act, Such a bill is simply an insult to the intel- ligence of the country. Worse than that, it is a proposition to add to the already burdensome exactions of rail- way corporations, a tax for maintain- ing a useless board of railroad com- missioners whese only function will be to draw from $5,000 to 810,000 .8 year each out of the national treas- ury. —_— THERE soems to no reason for the lavish generosity of she commit- tee appointed to audit the expenses of Prosident Garfield's siokness and fu. neral. Ninety-eight thousand dollars to the medical attendants is exorbi- tant, It is safe to say thai in his pri. vate practice Dr. Bliss could not have made a quarter of the 25,000 allowed him nor Mrs. Edson a tithe of the $10,- (ON THE DECLINE. This paper is not in the habit of boasting about its business affairs. As the most widely circulated newspapee west of the Mississippi, ita command- ing position is recognized in this city and state, where its popularity and influence are best known. Itis only when attempts are made by designing partios to create a false impression abroad about the standing of Omaha dailies that we deem proper to expose impostare and challenge comparison. A statement was recently published by the Omaha Republican concerning its alleged increase of ecirculation in which that paper boasted of having overtaken Tur Bre both at home and abroad. The evident object of this brazen falsehood, which could deceive nobody in Omaha, was to impose on foreign advertisers. Because we did not see fit to contradict and denounce the imposture promptly some of our exchanges, notably the Lincoln Journal, indulged in comment about the recent decline of Tue Bre, which they ascribed to the course it had pursued during the Iabor troubles. For the informa- tion of all concerned we herewith sub- mit aworn statements of the ciroula - tion of Tus Bag before and since the 1abor troubles, with a detailed exhibit of city ciroulation during a period of eighteen months. We also invite sttention to the summary and chal- Ienge that accompany this exhibit: OITY CIRCULATION, STATE OF NEBRASKA, }“. Countr or DoUGLAS, Edwin Davis, being duly sworn, says that he is lessee of the city cireulation of Tun DAiLy Bum; that the circulation of Tun DaiLy Ban delivered by carriers to subscribers in the eity of Omshs, and ex- clusive of sales of newsdealers and news- boys, was as follows: January 31 910 copies April 50, 1881 042 copies May 81, 1881 003 copies August 31, 1881 September 30, 1881 October 31, 1881. November 80, 1881. December 31, 1881 January 31, 1882 February 28, 188: 578 copies March 31, 1882 758 copies In addition to the above circulation to regular subscribers by carrier delivery, the sales through newsdealers and newsboys since January 1, 1882, in tho city of Omaha, aggregated from 300 to 500 copies each day, Epwix Davis. Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before me this 224 day of Apnl, 1882. Joux R, MANCHRSTER, Notary Public, GENERAL CIRCULATION. Two months ago the publishers of Tar Ber furnished their patrons with the following sworn statement of gen- eral circulation: STATE OF NEBRASEA, Couxty or Doucras, A. R, Sauer, being duly sworn, deposes and says that he is business manager of the Omaha Publishing Ca,, publishers of THE DAILY and WeEkLY BER, that the erage daily circulation of THE DALY B for the three raonths ending February 15th, 1882, was 5,687 copies. That the average weekly circulation of Tur WxEkLy Bxr for the three months ending February 15th 1882, was 25,714 copies. A.R. SAUER. Signed and sworn to before me this 24th day of February, 1882, at Omaha, Neb, JonN Rosicky, Notary Public. A still more flattering exhibit of the steady and rapid growth of the general circulation of THE BEE will be found in the statement covering the two months ending April 15th. STATE OF NEBRASKA, }“. 2,435 copien Countr 0¥ DoUGLAS. A. B. Sauer, being sworn, says that he is business manager of Tus OMaHA DArLY Bun; that the aggregate circulation of Tus Dainr Bas for the month ending March 15, 1882, was 157,416 copies, or an average for each of the 24 publishing days in that month of 6,559 copies; that the sg- gregate circulation of Tas DalLY Bea for the month ending April 15, 1882, was 190,728 copies, or an average for each of she 27 publication days of 7,004 eopios. This includes the general circulation of the Daily by mail, the delivery by carriers* and sales by dealers and mewsbeys im Omaha and Council Bluffs, and the sales on raflroad trains. A. R, Savms, Bubscribed in my presence and sworn to belore me this 22d day of April, 1883, JoHN R, MANOHNSTHR, Notary Public, Thus it will be seen that the gen. eral circulation of Tue Bxs, which aggregated 5,687 copies before the labor troubles commenced, reached 6,669 copies when the trouble was over, and has grown to 7,004 copies | }eadf during the four weeks that followed the evacuation of Omaha by the army. Right here let us make known a fow established tacts: 1st, Tue Daiy Ber has s larger general circulation than the combined ciroulation of all the other daily papers published in Nebraska. 2, Taus Beg circulates fully three times as many Dailies in the city of Omaha as are circulated by the Omaba Herald and Republican together. 8. The Herald and Republican together cannot show forty subsari b- ers in the city of Omaha that are not of dailies delivered by carrier in this city, and number sold to dealers and newsboys, mailed or otherwise for- warded. The proprietors of Tre Bre agree to donate one hundred dosllars to the St. Joseph hospital fand if the manager of the Republican will show by a sworn exhibit of the circulation of Tne Daily Re- publican in the city of Omaha and the circulation of the Daily and Weekly Republican as compared with the above statements that Te Bes does not cirenlate six copies of its daily editions in the city of Omaha for every copy of The Daily Republican circulated in thia city during the same period, and five copies of its daily and weekly for every single copy of The Daily and Weekly Republican that is covered by the aggregate general subscription, Now let Thg Republican show up or retract. Pronisrrion does not seem to pro- hibit in New Hampshire any more than it does in Kansas. A call has been issued in that state for a ‘‘Peo- ple’s” convention, to meet at Concord on May 2d, to take sach action as may be wise to secure the enforce- ment of the prohibitory and all other laws of the state. SurpHERD will lose the greatest op- portunity of his life it he fails to secure quarters in the Washington jail for refusing to answer questions put to him by the congresstonal com- mittee. Hallett Kilbourne has just sacured a $100,000 verdict for his dis- play of obstinacy in refusing o answer congressional conundrums. STATE JOTTINGS, Grand Island has a lady barber. Oakland has levied tags on canines, i ’E‘Iiw Blue Springs Motor sports a swell ead, The Plattsmouth creamery is in running order. Plum Oreek wants a brick yard, and needs it bad. Tecumseh takes in $2,700 a year from saloon licenses. Hall county farmers have organized a county alliance. Coal prospectors are working near Ful- lerton, Nance county. Plattsmouth Odd Fellows will celebrate at Beatrice on the 26th, “The liquor men of Humboldt are organ- izing for the fall campaign. An elevator and stock yards ate pros- pective additions to Shelton, The foundation of the Grand Goos hotel at Plattsmouth is completed, The firemen of Plottsmouth are $50 bet- ter off since their annual ball, The Saline county court docket was ale most cleared at the last term. A Juniata woman sent her vote C, O. D. to the annual school meeting. Four noted citizens of Jobnson county are learning trades in the State Pen. Belvidere and Hebron, i Tbayer coun- ty, are to be connected by telephone. ‘The Silver Creek (Burt county) cream. ery has been enlarged for this year's work, The Juniata temperauce club_continues to exist, even though outlawed by Finch, The Clay Connty Sunday school con- vention will be held at Fairfield, May 18, The body of an unknown woman was found in an slough near Columbus last week. The school fund of Jackson, Dakotu county, realized $1,500 from saloon li- censes. The population of Tecumseh is 1,839, The tyrant man outnumbers the soft sex by 107. Tecumseh pays her marshal 8400 a year, the attorney 880, and the street commis- sioner $100, The citizens of Pairbury are trying to organizea creamery company with a capi- tal of $7,000. The life, liberty and happiness of the people of Wayne i threatened by the or. ganization of a brass band, Schuyler's $50,000 elevator is one of the eights of the town. It will be ready to start about the 1st of May. The unlveni:l students planted trees with prayer on Arbor day. As a fertilizer the orthodox article can’t be beat. Lincoln was anxious to prass palms with Jay Gould, but the great railroader side- tricked their palms for the present, The proposed opera house at Hasti Gl an iy h nus o s 0 close the bargain, Judge Gaslin has decided in favor of Kearne) mti in'the B. & M. \ux cases, The )x‘- decided that the levy was legal and _shotld be paid. ' The treasurer is. §7,000'abead. Wymore wants a board of trade. It is » very useful article to have in the house, Flndreds of me tolt.twelve hours day to get enough cash to trade for board at the present elovated prices. The Central City Nonpareil patrioti- cally exclaims that it s *‘published to ac- cumalate weaith for the propristar, aud for the pleasura, profit and edibeation of the people.” ‘Theras mo baso metal about that. Robert Kennedy, an old man, a resident of Boono, plunged into Beaver creek ore! one night last week, and barely death, The night was dark, e slipped off a fifteen foet bauk, Nebraska City has _a sensation in the shape of a murder, in which a negro and a e principals, The two were farm laborers, and worked for one Wm, Hopkins, four miles south of town. They tried 2o settle the re'ative rights of their races by » muscular matinee, in which the darkey proved the under dog. Au African war whoop then went up and & club descended on the head of the white wau, crushing his cranium, The funeral waa an imposing corteg The Worst Monopoly. To the Editor of The Bee. The worst monopoly is the ‘land monopoly.” It deprives men of that which is indispensible to “life, lib- | Mo affirm and challenge contradiction; that every man and woman in Amer- ica withouta home or the means to purchase one is forced to {‘beg leave to toil” to keep from starving. They are dependant on the whims of others for shelter from the storm and for work to keep yfrom starving. When others do not choose to furnish these things it is easy to see the deplorable condition to which they are reduced. From this condition of things, which might be remedied, springs every species of crime from midnight mur- der to noonday larceny, Now, I have a remedy for all these evils, and would most respectfully in- vite the criticisms of all without re- gard to party, creed or occupation in in life. I will denominate my plan thus: BECK'S POLITICAL PANACEA. Whereas all men are created with equal rights, and have by virtue of their existence, an inalienable right to all the land that is needful to their support and no more; and whereas governments are ordained to secure to men their inalienable rights, and ‘Whereas, Agriculture is the base of all other industries—the foundation of indiyidual, state and national pros- perity, security and happiness. Resolved therefore, That the gov- ernment of the United States proceed to furnish improved homes for all those who desire them and wish to live by cultivating the soil. To this end, she can improve all her public lands that are fit for farming and parcel them out in homsteads of suitable size. She can also purchase lands of individuals and corporations who have them for aale, and make homes for her citizens who desire them and need them, com- pelling them to sell a portion of their large estates when it becomes neces- sary. Resolved Secondly, To carry out the forgoing resolution, and to avoid taxing the rich for the benefit of the poor, the government shall {ssue an adequate amount of legal tender paper currency, which shall be refunded to her by homesteaders on these lands, who shall be required to refund at least 1 fpar cent. per annum on the cost of the homesteads until the gov- ernment is reimbursed for fitting up thesame. A failure to pay the annual installment due the government shall work a forfeiture of the homesteader’s olaim, but shall not debar him from taking one elsewhere when all dues on the forfeited claim are paid up. Resolved Thirdly, That these homesteads shall ge transferrable, but no person shall ever be permitted to own at one time more than 160 acres of these lands thus furnished by the government. Jacos BECK. THE GERMAN THEATRE. Miss Buschmann's Blg Beneflt Last Nignt. Yesterday evening Miss Buschmann had her benefit at the German Lheatre, At an early hour in the evening every available seat was taken, and later all the standing room was utilized. The play represented, “The Village ‘Musical Director and His Orchestra,” contained nothing very attractive in itself, but owing to the vivacity and go in the performers 1t turned out uite a successful entertainment. Miss elma Buschmann, the fair beneficiare, sustained the role of Fritz Jubel and very charming she looked in male costume, Her enactment of how fel- lows act when under the influence of much liquor was realistically true to nature. ~0ld Mr. Grossman personated Bal- thasar Bauer, the village musical di- rector, in his usual masterly style, and Mr Lindernmaun enacted the funny man very efliciently. Miss Grossmann made a charming Lenchen. She had a fine opportunity to display her undoubted vocal talent, -which was exceedingly well received. The character of Riemann was al- lotted to Mr. Molchin, who, it is needless to say, did credit to ( the part. Miss Thieasen as Felix Sack, a musical student, looked and acted her role in a very droll style. All the minor parts were ably rep- resented by Messrs. Lutach, Fisher, Bergmann, Hartmann and Schmidt and Mrs. Grossmann. Miss Buschmann has had a splendid benefit, which proves that the lovers of the German theater appreciate his- trionic talent and show it when an op- portunity offers. ¥ em—— + HIS, GRATITUDE, s 11th and Poplar streets, 8r. Lovis, Mo., March 17, 1881, H. H. Warnzr & Co,; Sirs—For twelve years 1 suffered from kidney troubles until your Safe Kidney and Liver Cure mn&ht 8 wonderful re- storation of health, aprl7dlw Joux M, Warp, Donations the Child's Hospital in March, Mrs, Harris, sausage; Mrs, P—, two glasses jelly; Mrs. P——, three baby slippers; Mrs. Bangs, one pack- e Manioca; Mrs, ——, parcel worn clothing, picture books; . Brown- son, one girl’s wrapper; Mrs. Balcom, parcel baby clothes, four crib sheets; Mrs, Hargrave, parcel worn clothing; Mrs, Smythe, B W. flour, worn clothing; Mrs. Dolan, one jar jelly, one can fruit, one chicken; Mrs, Clarkson, two cans fruit, sixteen aprons, five pairs drawers,worn shoes; rs. E. Maroney, three dozen eggs, one package spinach; Mrs. B. Reed one bushel potatoes, sausage, lettuce; Mrs. Woolworth, six sheets; Mrs, Barker, one bag potatoes, two jars ickles, two jars preserves, four cups Jelly, two cups n, MONEY DONATIONS. .85 00 10 00 POLK' 'COUNTY POINTS, The Spring Rush of Busine on the Farmand in the Oity. — \ Polities and Prohibition-A Uses loss Wart Tolerated, Correspondence of Tiin Ben, Oscrota, Neb., April 18.—~Why has not Tur Be a correspondent from Onceola? has often been asked, True, | we are not a city of any groat preten. tions, but we help to make up he busy wost 8o far as our county—little Polk—is concerned. For agricul- tural and stock raising purposes, we ask no odds of any county in the west. The small grain was about all sown before the recont rains, and it is now up and booming. The busy corn | planter is to be seen in every direc- tion, and farmers say they have never had a more favorable spring for work, We are also told that the chinta burg, which were very plenty in the early spring, were destroyed by the heavy rains and freezing nights of last week, Arbor Day will be generally observed, -— and thousands of trees planted in the county. Neweomers looking for busi- ness locations and farms can be every day in the week on our af; 3 Osceola shows signs of impmv::a:z in every direction, The new council has organised, and the clerk is prepar- ing to write up the usual number of ‘‘heavy" ordinances before hot weather comes on. Tz Bex stated some time ago that Osceola had concluded to try license another year. That is a mia- take. Polk county has never had a licensed saloon, and the present coun- cil are temfwnnca to a man. There ia considerable dissatisfaction on account of one of our druggists dispensing the liquid rather promiscuously, but that is the fault of Mr. Slocumb, not the druggist, for if a person is sick—or thinks he may be—and puts his na; - on the druggist's register, is he nif: ' compelled to sell to him? However, the last grand jury found twelve in- dictments against thore who vend the liquid, and the next will probably do equally as well, We were somewhat surprised at a recent editoriallin TuE BxE on the Kansas prohibition law, declaring it a failure, - ete. Notwithstanding that editorial, we must insist that the lag has not yet had a fair trial. Give | Kansas five years in which to try that amendment, and we doubt not the re- sult will be far different. Tae BEe has made many friends by 4 .| itslbold and sensible talks to its Omata readers on_this temperance question and it need have no fears as to its cir- culation and influence diminishing. Men everywhere admire free speech right to the point and plenty of it. The favorable notice which Tar Bz gave The Farmer's Advocate was appreciated by its patrons. The edi- tor of The Record has done: his ut- most to sow seeds of discord among the supporters of The Advocate be- cause of the connection of {Mrs. Bi- ters should deyelop as they doubtle: will under the circumstances, not that we think Mrs. Bittenhen- der’s connection with the suttrag movement any detriment the famous cause which she is advo cating. But we see the necessity of concentrating our forces if we would succeed in breaking down the mon opoly rule, The editor of The Record need ng expect to gain patronage by trying weaken the ifluence of The Advodite among the farmers, for it is a fact well established thai as a rule the in- fluence of The Record is on the wrong side of nearly all public questions, | and when it declares it will support certain men for office and honest me: will support the same, it publicly in- sults those who choose to differ with 1t in opinion; and it cannot hope to gain the friendship of many who have withdrawn their patronage in favor of The Advocate. We shall await de- velopments and write again. Lsox. | FLIES AND BUGS. Flios, roaches, auts, bedbugs, rat, mie’, gophers, chipmunke, cleared out by “Hough on Rate.” 160, SATURDAY NIGHT. | Olollnc of the Hoepital Fair-— Brownell Hall Entertainment. The fair at Oreighton hall closed Baturdsy evening after two weeks of unprecedented success, the best proof | of which is in the fact that the net proceeds will probably exceed $5,000, and suffice to build the addition s0 much needed by the St. Joseph hos- pital. The voting on the various articles resulted in their giving to the follow- ing parties: opera bonnet to Miss Maggie Dalton, ‘‘Stole” to the Holy Family chuch, carriage whip to W. A. Paxton, The Fire King's desk was sold to F. J. McShane. A large number of prizes were raf- fled off and what was left was auc- tioneered off, M, A. McNamara, Esq., exhibiting remarkable qualities as special auctioneer. BROWNELL HALL A pleasant entertainment took place fln‘urdlg night at Brownell Hall, in which the following programme was presented in admirable style: Piano solo. ... . Miss Cody Esay, “'Acting as » Profession” sen Miss Thomas Miss Latham !’ s || | Tae vain glorious boasting of the | number of republican voters to entitle i have |also subscribers of Tz Bxs, while | erty and the pursnit of happiness.” for & o Republican about its marvellous en- | the district to one or two representa- ?in:‘;xmm.""n‘. Tun Bun haa fully 9,300 subscribers | It ia concoded that all men have an | Eimia'iwhrken of the 8. B iiciie.. Tk terprise in proouring the governor's | tives, as the case may be. These dis- | gountry has been inclined to be lib-|in this city that are not reached by |inalienablo right to life. That right Ohypeh of the Nativity, uw_o_og 3 e Miss Bpark aall convening the legialature in extra | triots could bo carved out by the re-| oral but liberality should not be al, | either of these papers. carries along with it the tnalienable| ~ motal.............. L i Ko ‘A OUP OF TEA. weasion, is in keeping with the course | publican state committee of each state|lowed to degenerate into extrava.| And mow we extend an opportunity | right of means to support lifo; land is Sanau, Bister in Charge. DRAMA IN THRME SCENES, of_that sheet on every ofher aooasion, | after the national committee has des- gance. to the manager of the Republican to |indispensible to the support of life, wi uwwm‘fi'",."l:"- A Xt the editor of the Republican had the namber of to — . | sustain the claims he has made about | therefore all have an inalienable right |, Nouh Bates, Mimire, N. Y., writes:| - b, g 00b been in' his bed asleep when the|which pach utate will be entitled on| Ir Dr. Miller will take the trouble |eirculation. 10 as much land s is essential to the [ governor's proclamation reached “hi| the beals of its republican vote. If|of examining the back files of Tus | The propristors of Tus Bus hereby | support of life aud the malntenance offige, he would have fognd, out tkiat]the states are to have additional rep-|Bxa for 1875 and 1876 he will find [offor and agree to pay one hundred olms.na 1t is 'the quintescence of a4 lacge such delegates can | more pertioulars about the Platts. [dollars to 0. E. Yost, manager of the “fl_%fzm:m; oate of the telographod [ba elooted In state convention, but we | mouth surveying frauds than he could | Omaha Republioan, it he will publish | G5 [ G0Ih e they are foroed in. | Ible that T was sstonished. T can uow, e ———— from the state cagital to Tsis Ban by |all ' why 4h¢ wtates, a8 | furnish Lo the Herald in a month of |s sworn statemert of the iroulation of | o b or Into_servi. | hough 0L years of agoy, do e te Bargains in Watohes at Pattorson's, our tegular correspondent. such, should be entitled to represen: | Bundays. the Republioan, showing the number | tude s the other aliernative. I here 0dlw |just south of postoffice, l7-m.wsat : -* ot and hed the 08 | lng." e von UruE, wore T —— s Zat b AL A OF o Tals of aLE awder aud shoud | 26" Friee MOummln Glal B e | o s e e B aebeld | ol HAUSS BLOOK. - 810 and 1817 Uass B"“fi'--l‘(v