Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 25, 1882, Page 4

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Tanr legislature has been adjourned sine die. So has K, O, Carns’ repu- tation. . Tae Lot lo ille races close this week, and Kentucky will not be heard of again for a year to come. E——— Joux M. Taourston's U. P. lobby has adjourned from Lincoln to the eorner of Farnam and Fifteenth atreets. RosescN says he doesn’t ‘‘care a d—-n for newspaper ocriticism.” From the tone of the public press it is very plain that newspapers do not not care a big D for Robeson. A meview of the labor market throughout the country published by The Boston Herald shows that the cost of all necessaries of life has ad- wvanced 26 per cent during the past year, and rents 20 per cent. Wages meantime have remained almost sta- #ionary. A. T. Stewartr & Co. are advocates of early closing. The Chicago branch and the New York wholesale house have put up the shutters, and the re- tail establishments will soon follow suit. Asa business wrecker, Judge Hilton is a success. CARNS WHITEWASHED. The outcome of the investigation into the charge contained in the affi- davit of J. C. Robberts, chairman of the houte railroad committee 18 just what might have been expeoted. By adopting the majority report of the committee appointed at the instance of Mr. Oarns, the senate has stultified itself, and sot an example that must woaken public confidence in the in- tegrity of our legislative Every momberof the senate that voted to whitewash Carns was aware of the fact that Mr. Caros had disgraced the high office_he occupies when he al- lowed himself to become the bearer of corrupt proposals to the attor- neys and officers of a railroad corporation, Discard if you please the entire testimony of Robberts that charges Carns with making corrupt proposals to him on behalf of the rail- bodies. .| road and assume that Carns truthfully testified to the exact state of facts, and Mr. Carna stands self convicted as an accessory to one of the greatest crimes of which a public officer can be guilty. When Carns was on the witness stand he admitted that he had consented to 20 to Mr. Thurston the attorney of the Union Pacific railroad, with a de- mand from Robberts for a large sum of money as a consideration for his vote and influence in preventing rail- road legislation. On his direct ex- amination Mr. Carns testified as fol- lews: Question, What lead you to believe that Thurston was the proper man for him (Robberts) to see? Answer. Because Thuraton was the attorney for tne Union Pacific rail- road, and he certainly would know about these matters. Q. If anybody else had made a sim- ilar proposition would you have re- ferred him to John M. Thurston? A. Yes, sir. Q. You wero friendly towards the railroads? A. I was friendly towards the rail- roads in so far that I did not want them injured in any way. Q. Any knowledge that yon might have possessed at any time about it that you considered would be detri- wmental to the railroaa interests, you would have communicated to Mr. Thurston, would you not? A. Idon't know as I would have told Thurston anything that was told me in confidence, Q. Aunything that you knew was go- ing to hart, or you considered un- friendly to railroad interests, you would have communizated to Thur- ston, if you knew he did not know it? A, Yes, sir; I wonld rather use the word unfair than unfriendly? Q Will you etate all the conversa- tion that took place between yourself and Thurston 1n regard to this matter aud where 1t was? A, It was in Mr. Thurston’s room. My recollection is that Maxy farmers have planted pota- toes extensively, owing to the high prices brought during the past winter. ‘The scarcity of the potato crop was #0 marked last that within twelve moths 4,600,000 bushels were im- ported to this country from Great Britain, Germany and Canada. BSoUTHERN plantations are rapidly disappearing, to give way to small and well cultivated farms. In Virginia there are now 118,614 farms in the state, against 83,849 in 1870, of which 83,631 are ocoupied by their owners, 13,392 rented for money, and 21,694 on shares. CororADo men are provenbially lucky. A, C. Hunt left Freeport, L., for Denver in 1858, arriving there in 1858, Subsequently he was appoint- od United States marshal of the terri- tory, and then governor. He has just sold a coal mine near Laredo, Texas, to Jay Gould for $2,000,000 The property cost him §20,000 less than tive months ago, Ir the extra session had cost twice as much as it did, Nebraska would have no cause for dissatielaction, It is worth & oonsiderable amount of money to the state to know the shys- ters and frauds who have exposed their hands in the late Lincoln me- nagerie, and the voters ot Nebraska will profit from the experience. — Tz printed report of the house in- vestigating committee concerning oharges of bribery .and ocrruption against the membors of the house affords ample proof that the short- hand reporter employed by the com- mittee is either incompetent or has been tampered with by the clique im- plicated in the bribery charges, Much of the Feport has been grossly garbled to smother the facts drawn out dur- ing the investigation, but the work is 80 clumsily done that anybody who was present and heard the testimony cannot fail to detect the imposition, —_— Tag hflmmunud sucoess of the Burus bill in the senate must be re- 88 due in no small measure to decisive action of the house, un- der the leadership ot Mesars. Slocumb, wd W phomge of the The mpt 11 the house wia I told him that T had received a proposition this evening from a man connected with the ratlroad committee that might surprise him. Tt surprised me some and 1 thought he ought to know it, I simply communicated this to him, I thought he ought to know it and he could act as he chose. Now could any honest man pro- nounce Oarns blameless in the faes of his own testimony? Suppose Mr, Thurston had chosen to comply with the alleged demand of a bribe made by Carns on behalf of Rcbberts, would not Carns have become a party to the bribery? Had ho not on his own ad- miseion been acting the traitor to the public interest by being in collusion with the railroads in the effort to pro- vent legislation which tue constitution he had sworn to support required the legislature to enact? The constitution of Nebraske expressly imposed the duty on the legislature to en- act laws to prohibit unjust dis- crimination, extortion and abuses, railroad companies, and when the legislature sought to ensot these laws, Carns made himself the tool and cap- per for the monopolies. He was in collusion with Thurstun -to obstract legislation, and prevent, if possible, the enactment of the very laws which were demanded by the people, and commanded by the supreme law of the land, But the people of this state cannot be made to believe that Mr, Carns told the whole truth on the witness stand in this case. He had concealed the knowledge of the facts, and shielded tho man whom he charges with & grave crime until the publica. tion of the Robberts aflidavit com- pelled him to enter upon a defense of his own conduct. Ho had shown on the witness stand that he was a volun- tary co-laborer with the nrail- road lobby that sought by fair means or foul means to thwart the will of the people, Isit preenm- able that he would hesitate to add to the crimes he was guilty of that of perjurygto shield himsel(? View his position from any direction and every unbiased person must conclude that Mr, Oarns was seriously compromised. The committee that investigated was appointed by acting president Dins- more, but its make up was doubtless suggested by Carns, The report of ‘result of no small degree of super- the majority which the senate adopt- w’nuq tactics, under the|ed exouerates Mr. Oarns, but the ip of Mr, Church Howe, aud | high court of public opinion, which to that gentlemen the gratifying result | gannot be influsnced by railroad pres- ::.o bo largely credited. —Republi-| . o "y already pronounced Mr, Carns guilty of the gravest offense riously the : F:hmhl Hawp of I:h.‘:!‘:ion“?’uifi; w_bluh » presiding ofiof-r of a logisla- 884 Maswrs. 8l20um aud Wyndham “"’V::‘::v:ul;::ml:“t.hou ht of th ol 1 ¥ea off and on ix the employ orthe B. | g 00" of My, Rubbmi or the &M. When corporate monopolies | mative that impelled him to make the to secure a new lease of | the people condemns Mr. Carus as & p man who has betrsyed & high public _power to control the politios of the ! ol “z‘ m-ufi..'v’:m iate. private life. " pool their forces, they do 80 because | affidavit against Ou-mi‘nlh- verdict of they d STUBBORN FAUTSE. Sramistics of the Nebraska peni- tentiary have just been published. They show 270 prisoners under the care of Warden Nobes, of whom 207 were committee from Nebraska, the remaining 63 being territorial and United States prisoners, Of the oc- cupations of prisoners when received, 62 woro farmers and 42 laborers, 19 weore herders and 12 winers. Horse stoaling heads the list of crimes with 48 commitments, followed by 32 mur. ders in the second degree, 30 for rob- bing, and an equal number for grand larcony, while 23 burglars are con- ficed within the bars, The Method- ists are moro largely represented than any other denomiuation inside the prison, b1 ocriminals professing that crecd, followed by 47 Catholics and 12 Luthcrans, while 132 of the prisoners belong to no church organ- ization. Only 48 criminala are of foreign birth, the remaining 222 claim- ing nativity in the United States, Of these Illinois furnishes the greatest number, 30; New York, 28; Ohio, 23, and Missouri 19. Four of the con: victs only are born Nebraskans Twenty-three are serving life sen- tences, two for 25 years, four for 20, one for 17, mx for 16, twenty-nine for 10, and the remainder for lesser terms, As to their habits, forty-eight pris- ones were temperate, 137 moderate, and eighty-five intemperate. Twenty- three are illiterate and 232 can read and write, while fifteen can read but oannot write. The obove exhibit knocks on the head almost every theory which forms the stock in trade of the visionary re- formers who point to our peniten- tiaries as the text for their impractical schemes. B ginning with John B. Finch, and ending with Mrs, Colby, the champion of female suffrage, we have time and again been told that ignorant foreigners, disbeliovers in the gospel, and intemperate people, make up nine-tenths of the convicts in our penitentiaries. Theso assump- tions are flatly contradicted by the statistios of the Nebraska peniten- tiary. Here we find that out of 270 conviota only 48 are of foreign birth, the remaining 222 being native Amer- icans. Compared with the aggregate population of the state, that would show the convicts of foreign birth con- siderably below the average ratio of foreign citizenship. Again we are told that low-bred and ignorant men are largely in the majority in our penitentiaries, where- a8 wo find that out of 270 convicts 232 can read and write, 16 can read, and only 23 can neither read nor write, Temperance is claimed to be an ab- solute preventive of crime, but we find right here that out of 270 only 87 were intemperate, 137 moderate.in their habit, and 48 absolute abstain- era. Roligion, or rather the profes- sion thereof, does not acem to keep people in the straight and rugged path of virtue, for we find here that more than one-half of the entire number of conviocts were church mem- bers. Facts are stubborn things, and the facts that are gathered from the above exhibic show conclusively that vice and crime are bred alike among the pious and among those who disbe- lieve, among those who are born on American soil and those who are born n foreign lands. Man, whatever his racs or creed, is the same animal everywhere, subject to the same laws of nature, to the same temptations, afflicted with the samo passions and appetite, and liable o the same vices. There is no royal road to virtue, Tus prosperity of the French peo- ple is large due to their frugality and thrift. In this country the abund- ance and cheapness of fuel have not made it necessary to utilize the enor- mous quantities of coal dust that ac- cumulate at the mines. In France this dust is now extensively used in the form of patent fuel or bricks. Mr. Gifford, United States consul agent at Nantes, says in the April re- port to the state department that the natural supply in the yards of the coal merchants in France is insuffi- cient, and that the manufacturers im- port a large part of their dust from Cardiff, Swansea and Newport. The process of manufacture is very simple, the coal dust being mixed with pitch, a substance obtained from ocoal tar and the mixture pourcd into oupa attached to a belt, each cup oon- taining just enough material for a brick of the size desired. In its move- ment the belt passes this material through a chamber, where it is ex- pised to hot steam which fuses the two substances into one mass. This is poured by the descent of the belt into moulds, where it is subjected to an enormous pressure by a hydraulic press. The total cost of this fuel is $476aton. It is claimed that the “‘briquettes” are better than ordinary coal for exportation on sccount of their compact stowage and freedom from dust; also for use on locomotives on account of economy of space, and because firomen can always determine the amount of fuel they employ in & given time, the exact weight of each brick being known. There is a de- mand for coal in France too, from the United States, to be used in the manufacturo of this fuel, REDUCING THE REVENUE. Immediately after the disposal of the contested election cases, it is be- lieved that the house of representa- tives will take up the bill for the re- duction of internal revenue taxes, which has been prepared by the com- mittee of ways and mesns with the ndvico and co-operation of Commis- tioner Raum, This measure is much more moderate than the one which was sat down upon by the republican eaucus, The original propositien contemplated a heavy reduclion on the main tobacco and whisky tax amonuting to about $12,000,000 on the former aund $28000,000 on the latter, This great dccrease in the internal revenue was strongly urged by the extreme protectionists in the hope of heading off any move- ment for extensive cutting in the tar. iff rates, The present internal revenue bill provides for a reduction of taxes amounting in the aggregato to about $24,000,000. Of this amount nearly £7,000,000, taking last year’s collec- tions as a baeis, will be taken off by repealing the taxes on bank capital and deposits, bauk checks, matches and proprietary medicines. Under the provisions of the bill an additional reduction of $3,760,000 will be caused by taking off nearly 50 per cent of the special taxes paid by liquor dealers and tobacco manufacturers. The tax onliquor dealers is to be reduced from $26 to $12, and that on dealers in manufactured to tobacco from €5 to $2.40. An additional $3,000,000 will be caused by a lightening of the tax on cigars from §6 to $5 a thousand. The neoessity of cntting down our enormous surplus revenue is appar- ent. No other country in the world would willingly submit to the out- rageous taxation which the people of the United Stetes endure for the pur- pose of piling up each year in the vaults of tho treasury department a surplus of §100,000,000 above the cost of runving the government. These taxes upon the people are collected by the indirect method of a protective tariff, and the war taxes of the inter- nal revenue department. Both are excessive, In truth there is crying need of reform, The tariff commis- sion is the reply which congress has made for the demand for a reduction in custom duties, and the internal rev- onue bill is the answer to the request for a lopping off of taxes imposed in the first instance as a war necessity and retained long after there was any call for their continuance. One of the worst features of this excessive taxation, and the largs sur- plus revenues which it creates is the fact that national extravagance is fos- tered and encouraged. Just as long as thero is a large surplus constantly accumulatiog in the treasury there will be a tendeucy to transfusien in pub- lic expenditures and high handed job- bery in the capital. The internal revenue bill is & step in the right di- rection which must be followed by a judicious adjustment of our present custom dutiel Tur Philadelphia Record calls upon the city authorities to remedy the gross injustice of inequality in the matter of assessments. It seems that Philadelphia is suffering in a less de- greo from the same condition of af- fairs as that which disgraces Omaha in her property valuation, The Record says: There is an injustice in the inequal- ity of assessments on city properties that is scandalous both in the mauner of 1t and the matter of it, Properties in the outlying wards are assessed at more than actual selling prices, whilst properties in the heart of the city are assecsed at & rate of undervaluation that bears no semblance of proportion to real value. For a property on Chestnut street, assessed at $16,000 $80,000 has been offered and refused within & few days. The loss in taxes to the city of Philadelphia in this one case is at least $1 000 per annum. The whole system of assessment needs revision, If valuations were prop- erly equalized and adjusted, as the tax rate now stands, there would be plenty of money realized to make all ueeded improvements, to pay the in- tercst on outstanding indebtedness, and to mak~ necessary provision for maturing bonds, But we are con- stantly straining at gnats and swal- lowing camels. A man of moderate meaps, with a three or a five-thou- eand-dollar house, pays taxes on at least 76 por of its value, while inves- tors in property cantrally situated get off with taxes assessed on & valuation of 20 or 25 per cent. This is an out- rageous perversion of the taxing power as well of very bad policy. There can be no worse mistake in municipal management than to overburden ac- tive industry by discouraging and dis- criminating against the owners of small , holdings. They are the very lives of the cit E——— Pugllist, Barber, and Pitcher. Troy Pross. On Tuesday evening Sullivan, the prize pugilist, entered Thomas Bren- nan’s saloon, in n, where he met William Hogarty, a diminutive barber. He made some remark about the lat- ter's wife which the little barber re- sented and called the pugilist a liar. Bullivan repiied with & blow, which Hogarty dodged. The knight of the razor being no match for Sullivan phy- sically, oracked him on the head with » pitoher and laid him out on the floor. Bullivan grabbed Hogarty as he fell, and, being the under dog in the fight, the pugilist was at a disadvantage. He managed, however, to get the bar- ber's right thumb in his mouth, which he chewed vigorously, while the bar- ber g t in some telling blows before they were separated by friends. No complaint was made to the authori- ties, and great efforts have been made to keep the master out of the news papers. BTATH JOTTINGS. Endicott has a brass band Riverton wants & shosmaker, The measles have got a grip on Herman, Dentists find plenty of work in Wayne, There are 270 prisoners in the peniten- tiary. Blair is complainirg of high rates of in. surance. The prosp ots for a lar,e new hotel in Blair have gone up, The Lancaster oounty fair will be held Septomber Hth to 8 h The *“Union Spy” will be produced n in Bluir absuc 4th of July tiwe, Neils G dtfreidsen, the Vallay aty murderer, got a sentence of Lwenty years, The Custer Leader will next month bee @in publishing a history of that gory coun- b The Fremont creamery will run wagors #hrou.h Washington cousty to collect cream, The Calliope is the name of the paper just started at Endicott. It makes lots of whin music already. The wife of Rev. Mr. Griffith, of Oak- dale, was joited from a wagon on the i5ih and her spine was injured. Riverton has a new paper, The Froe Prees, by J. Jay Lane. It looks neat and the sample copy gives evidence of ability, The oldest s:n o' John Kelsoe, living in York couuty, on Indian Creek, was killed by ligh ning during the st ru on the 19uh, The officials of the Sioux City & Pacific, at a meeiing at Cedar Rapids on the 16th, dec ded to keep Creighton the terminus for an indefiuite time, One George W. Smith is held at Lin- coln on complaint of a girl named Mary Hurs for what the Democrat calls *‘pro- miscous propogation.” In o : @ parts of Harlan county they go ninety feet for water. In otherparts they don’t go after water at all—not if there’s anything stronger in the jug. The Dakots City Eagle has begun its seventh y Diring the six years of its profane and otherwise career, it has pros- pered and it undoubtedly deserves to, It 18 & lively local paper. A Sutton somnambulist named Kenda!l walked through a window, cashing bim- telt neverely, romsed the yard and went over a fence before his family missed himy He was returned to the house and awak- ened. The Oakdale Pen and Plow tells of the aivestures of two young men there who ‘serenaded a couple ot giris who were not at home, and incid-ntally speaks of “the old 'uuln and the dog bolting out in their shirt tails,” School Notes. David City has 282 scholars. There are 89 schools in Dydge county, Buffalo county has 3,054 school children, Pawuee City pays its principal $.0 a month. The Franklin school house is partially eaclosed. A new school house will be built this summer at Clear Oreek, J. W. Barry, of Beatrice, is principal of the Fairbury schouls. Tekamah'’s new school building must be finished by September 1, The sumwuer normal school of Gage county will last five weeks, A select school, to last through vaca- tion, is tulked of at Hastings, David City hae & German cliss which meets twice & week for instruction, A local teachers’ institute will be held at Silver Creek, beginning May 25, ‘The Alma teachers’ institute list week was & success, It will mee. again June 10th. The new Bloomington sachool house will soon be under way. It will bs built of brick. The school board of Wayne have con- tracted for 50 single seats for the use of its school. The Alzernon (Custer county) district voted $50 for the erection of & sod school building. / We will wager & new hat that Alda fur- nishes more s/hool teachers, in_proportion to ber populativn, than auy other town in tie state. - Woud River Guzette, J. T. King, the superint-ndent of the industrial sch ol at the Winnebago age reports the school in & flourising ¢ndi- tion, the stiendance increasing and gen- eral sat sfaction nmong the Indians. the children a good example,” says the Dakota Ei i ‘It a freight train 380 rods backward, d 10 rods, the number «f inches between the cow: and the swall boy with a milk pail cr msed the track just before tue train erossed him.” Ve are glad to say that the rumor of harsh tieatwent on the part of one of the teachers of our schools, was, upon inves: tigation, found to have been magnified. Iu fuct there was no grouud for such a charge., Parents 100 ofien take the -tate: ments of ¢ ildren, who imagine they have been abused, as tiuc, and fly into a rage and often say things they afterward re- gret.—Falls City News, One of the “‘query box" questions at the teachers’ association, at Plum Creek was: *‘Why are meo like tea?’ One old bache- lor present crusiily answered, ‘‘Because the Iadies seem to have a special liking for the green variety,” Though prmiy good, that is not the correct answer; itis *be- cause their good qualities cannot be appre- ciated until ufter they havebeen kept some time in hot water.” Farm Notes. Mr. B, R, Folsom has rye four fest two inches high,—{T kamah Burtonian, Tue acreage of corn in Clay county has been increased 100 per cent in two years, Judge Griffey, of Dakota City, is fenc- ing his 30) acrc farm between that place and Covington, A Wyoming man named J, M. Chad. wick will winter a flock of 10,000 sheep near Central Usty, P J. Dempster has just finished wetting out 60,000 tices on his $iwber claim north- east of Republican City, A Mr, Burton, of Orleans, will bring 18,000 head of sheep into the valley about the first of August, from New Mexico. J. M. Strahan has finished fenciag, and now has nearly 2,500 acres of fine pasture land enclosed by a good substantial fence, —[Wayne Review, Considerable corn will have to be re- planted in this county, having rotted dur. ing the cold rainy weather of the past two or three woeks, —[Niebrara Pioneer, Mr. Horton vas mad the other day, He took the county surveyor out Lo his tiwber cluim to rwn out the lines for him, he nos being satisti d with his former sur- vey. Afier runuing out his lines he foun that his breaking was several hundred foet from his land on the achool section,— [Pierce Call, The farmers of Ssward county are turn- ing their atteation to raising broom corn, aud find it a very prfitatle crop. Mr, Jobes informs us that he will have out about ffty acres this year. Will and Ed. Butler are putting out 100 acres, and a number of other, will have more or less, — Ground has been broken for the freight depots in Denver, and they will be hurried to completion, He reported that the road would be opened for freight trafic June 1, end a month later firat.class through passenger trains would be put on the road between Chicago and Denver. Mr. Potter is much pleased with the diligence of the contractors, and pointa with pride to the fact that in 223 working days 247 miles of road were built—a rapidity which has neverbeen excelled in this or any other country. To shorten the time and distance be- tween Donver and the east, the Bur- lington will at once build a cut-off feom Forest City, on the Kaneas City, 8t. Joe & Council Bluffs division, to the Atchison & Nebraska branch—a distance of ten miles. This necessi- tates crossing the Missouri river en s transfer boat wuntil a bridge can be built. This cut-off will shorten the distance from the east to Denver about sixty milee, — Ho May Well Bs Jovfal Toreka, Kan., May 12,;1881. H. H. Warser & Co.: Sirs —After nineteen years of unmitigated suffor- ing from chronic kidney disease I fin- ally found joyful restoration to health in your Safe Kidney and Liver Cure d22-1w D. B. Owens, U. 8, SUPREME COURT. A Look at the Men Who Compose the Court of Last Resort. H. J. Ramsdell in The Philadelphia Press. I dropped in on the supreme court aday or two ago. Whata jolly old set. There was the chief justice,with iron-gray hair, thick and stiff, and whiskers just the same, a big nose and a big mouth, wrapped in his black silk gown, but looking very little like a chief justice. But he st ends to his business, leaves politics to the dogs, and is respeoted by his associates. On his right, oldest in commission of any one on the bench is Justice Miller, round and fat, and sixty-four, a little bald and closely shaven fi On the bench he is as cross as a hatchet, for he hates circumlocution and shams (and half tho bar is made of them); but off the bench he is as jolly and kind and gentle as any man ever saw. He has been regarded for ten years as the ablest man on the bench. The three last appointments on the bench may change this, but I doubt it. On the chief jutice's left is Justize Field, appointed as a Republican, but now a pesky old democrat. Heis tall, bald-headed, spectacled, full- bearded, with a Jewish cast of coun- teance. Smart he is, too, as all the Fields are, He writes strong opinions, and is popular. He is a most enter- taining compauion, and a great trav- eler and scholar. Drink? Yes, once in a while. Miller and Field, re- spectively, are the two oldest judges in commission on the bench. Justice Bradley is the next in point of rank —a thin, refined, closely-shaven, gray-haired, scholary, judicially-look- ing old gentleman, who doesn’t seem to have much to say to any one. Jus- tice Harlan, fourth in rank (except- ing, of course, the chief justice), is a specimen Kentuckian—a giant in his way. Big body, big head, big hands, big feet, long legs, long arms, and long headed, without a doubt. He is at least six feet six inches in hight. He rents a furnished house from a friend of mine, and my friend had to have made, especially for the great Kentuckian, a nine-foot bedstead, with mattresses, blankets, eheets, etc., to correspond, and also one for the son of the judge, who is as tall Judge Harlan was a sirong acquisition to the bench, and is popular on the bench and off. Chew tobaceo, did you say? Well, T should thiuk so, and he knows a gl when he tastes it. There is not much known of Justice Woods. Ho 1su grizzly, slouching man, whose personal bearing and appearance are not at all ment, but he doesn’t look like one. Justice Stanley Matthews is built on a big model, physically and mentally. As an intellectual force he scarcely has a superior on the bench, Heis quiet in his intercourse, and does not seem to care to extend his acquint. ance, Justice Gray is a tall, white- quarrel than win a cause, When he first came on the bench here he was nearly killed with heavy eating and drinkiog, but that timeis over. As the old judges are very tenacious as to the rights of seniors, he is not likely to be popular Justice Blatchford, the last appointment, looks like your own George W. Childs, and is, there- fore, clean, genial, affable, well-dressed and kindly natured—else looks do not count. Chief Justice Waite lives in a handsome house on Rhode Isiand avenue; Judge Miller owns a house on Massachusetts avenue; Judge Field has a large well built house on Capital Hill—a present from his brother Cyrus—a Ebrtion of what was once | kuown as the old capital prison. In this building Olay presded three terms as speaker of the house; in front of 1t James Monroe and John Quincy Adams were inaugurated president. John C. Calhoun died in it. Judge Bradley owns and occupies the house on I street, which was given to Gen. THE MeCALLUM WAGON BOX RAGKS. WEIGHT ONLY 100 LBS, A= ANTED = ~, MM\R"N To 8 AR Can Be Hand ed By a Boy. The box necd never be tiken off the wagon and all the chelled Grain and Grass Seed Is Saved ! 1t comtaless than the ol1 stylo racka. Krery standard wagon I8 told with our rick comple e. s of Bourbon | striking. He is a judye by appoint- | § haired, peppery old bachelor, who | snaps up everybody, and had rather | & Grant, and from which he was first inaugurated. Gen. Sherman then became the owuer, and from him Judge Bradley purchased it. Judge Harlan lives in a costly rented house; Judge Woods boards on G stroet; Judge Matthews is building & very imposing aud costly mausion on Connectiout avenue, opposite the Brit- ish legation; Judge Gray boards at Wormley's, and Judge Biatchford has just purchased a $50,000 house on K street. The mutations of time affect even the supreme court, for of the bench twenty years ago not a single judge remains—all dead. Ouly two jndges of the bench of twelve years 2go remain—namely, Miller and Field —all the others are dead, exocept [Seward Bl The Burlington Caicazo Tribuve, M.y 20 A Tribune reporter had a brief in- teruiew yesterday with General Man- ager Potter of the Burlington, who the day previous had returned from the end of the track of the Denver extension. He smd that if nothing happened to prevent the tracklayers would lay the last rail of the Denver extension » week from Mondsy r Extension. Davis, now in the senate, and Swayne, retired. — Nearly a Miracle F. Asenith Hall, Binghamton, N, Y,, writes: 1 suffered forseveral mouths with a dull pain through the left lung and shoulders. T lost my spirits, .ppetite and color, and could wi b diiculty keep up all day, . My mother procared sowe Barioek Blood Bitters; I took them as directed, and have felt no :Aln since firs: week after using them, and aw now quite well,” Price w BUY NONE WITHOUT IT. Or buy the attachmwents a~d app'v them to your oid wagon box. For salo in Nebraska by J. C. CLAvK, L ncoln, Manxixe & Hixss, Omaha, Freo kooK, Grand Is and. Hagouxrr & GRXRY, hast ngs. CHAR' 8 BCHEODRER, Co'umbus, SrAvooLE & FUNK, Hed C ond. 3, M, CRANK & (0., Red Oak, Towa, L. W. Kusseu , G enwoo , low . And avery first cla's deal(r in the west, Adk them for descriptive circular or tend direat 0 us J, McOallum Bros. Manuf’g Co., Offics, 24 Wost Lake Stree*, Chicago, may3s-lw MURRAY IRON WORKS ©0. Burlington lowa. 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