Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 26, 1882, Page 9

75T TV Th DALLY BER: 'I‘lIVURS?DA’\/Y OCTOBER 26 THE TEMPLE OF JUSTIC:. Imposing Coremon‘es (f Laying ! the sowe e s wod. tae Corner St.m. .Upc-n Which the Magnificeut New Court House Wiil Au Immense and Brilliant Pro oessio:, Half a Mile The Coremonien Condnoted by thoe Masonio Graod Lodge. Bloquent Address by Hon. Andrew J. Poppleton. The laying of the coruer stone of the new Duglas county court houre took place yesterday, underthe auspiccn | ;) of the grand lodga of Fres and Ac- cepted Masous of the jarisdiction of Although the day was chilly, with a oold wind blowinyg the duast in clouds through the streets, it did uot appar- | § the attendance, sssembling at House quare about 1 o’c.ock and the hill for an hour was blacsk with people on their way to witness the great event in the history of the most pro- grossive county in the state, Av 1 o'clock the proccesion began | the ancient masonio ritual, the usual tests formipg on Sixteenth Capitol avenue, in frout of the M- sonio Tewply, and at 2 o'vlock took ap the line o1 wareh through the prin- us already puclished. As|and Vir. Poppleton then deliveied the foi. Douglas strset to Ninth | lowing oration: ently lessen crowd began wud | #poli d and | ro oipal streets, it passed down and up Faraam street 1t prosented & most Lmposing appearance, being over half & mle 1 levgth, aud brilliant throughout with Amerioan, Irish and ers of | Krench province of Lo isinus, The price the various societies partioipating, as|stipuiated was $1:,0 0000. Tae ceded well as the rich uniforms and regalias worn by the several orders, The procsssion passed TaE BRE in the following v1der aud atrengeh: Grand Marshal F ank E. Moores, The city wisr hal aud deputy with platoon | Wyomiig, Idsho, Mont ns, Washington of sixteen pol ce, Ancieut O der of Hivernians B nd, 1, Ancienr Order of Hiber- 01, with the Irish w5 ra wud stripes, The Cigar Ma'crs Uui n, thicty strong, | a The D .wmirh Society, 101 Dauish sod “American fl gs Mayor Boyd aud Hou, A, J. Poppleton, orator of the day, in carriage. The Councorcia socicty, tifty members and ner The Omaba G'ee Clu , tweaty mem! ers. T County Commissiones, Ar ht ct and County « flicials, The Cl1 Settlers Arsociation, The Union Pacitic Band. Mount Culvary Commandery No, Kuights Templar, n o Mastor Ma:ons of 8t. Johw's L de No, 1;.”1 Capital ons hundred strone, Ths Grand Commandery of Kaights Tem- lac, The Granl boifi-? A F & A M of obri The procession extended from Ninth street half way up the hill leading to the court house block, over | it the Fo.leral land lawe half amile in length, and was at- ded by a vast throng of speota- nds as early as 1 o'olook completely ot ecked, eixht yea ‘ove 3ll the sp.ce belw en the the b. ilding was vacujled by fully three | tory Lo lose its tirst governor, mong »hom were maoy | of South Caiolina, thiee da roofs of the adj.ining | vival within its limits, the unusual [ were devolved upon the secretary, 1h .mas From the lirge|B Cuming, who theiehy bec we wciine thot ladjes, while t! budoings grom.ed uuder wephi of small bo) ddrick on the mnorthea t coruer of the | governor, iqndstion depended the corner stone, tearing the follow ng iusciiption s Masonio Fratercity, Grand Mastor of Oct. Zth, A. M., bBS2, And on whe e t side Fraok W. Corliss, County Commissioners, The iron besms of the structure were 0 ored to kive space to the atteading s ci- wsien, and a platiorws was coustructed for the mewbers of the Grand Lodge, the in- osts and the orator of the day, At 3 'olock thy procession reached the sorthwest ga'e of the grounds, and headed | its exterior boundaries be n: desoribed ir Koights Templars, filed | the following words: ‘Commencing he wpon the fl>oring aud received ths mem. | mouth of the Pla te river, theaco nor.h preceded | along the west bauk f the Missouri river 10 & point one mils north of Oaixhs, thence nd Mr. Popploton, took | west lung the south boundary of Wush- ington county twemiy miles, thence routh ten miles more or less to the Platte river, the oo east to the placeof beg nnirg” [v and on behalf | will thua be reen th.t as mapped out by the ers requested that the | exeoutive, it included the whole of tue 1 byth: Musonio fratcr. | present county of Sarpy, and thit ite mity, to which Grand Maswr Liuiuger [noit: boundsry was vot fuctber north than made the fullowing respous MR LININGER'S ADDUESS by the ewourting o iog Grani Muster Linir ger, their places on the platforw, Mr Coow, the, cuntractor, bearin, in his arms the proa hed the yrand master of Architdor Me; coruer i ne e lu LU IKOL MU PEOPET LBk we 810U o fow words upon o o support of vur suthority sni not | park © bres. y thanks for ik {ansuiioly ) fro 4 the county o &8 0! DOu{ 4 county ( +ither ol Wi be. | 800 roivy ) to lay this eor. | View, "{.‘:’_{f;:"",":": the| rug BRIOK BUILDING AT OMAHA OITY,” 1 bava one of the finest | Iodiostes but one of that character in the | jn Oc pber, 1855, in the room oocnyied by building ercc ed by f for o g ¥:mlk ‘r";l.\ custom of laying correr stones for ) ©°mpany for the use of tie l-gitlative Ve { na-em sy, aud sitaated on ot 7, in block 124, ws platted by A, D). Jones, fr nting our foref thers boen 94 nogligent aw | ®%#¢ 0 Ninth ntreet between Farnsw We in this renvect the present gen ration | 404 Dovglas It was used for thy of ihy world's history .4 fortuae to see for wmyself & d becowe ¢ nviveed (f thief. in recent travels in the old world . insion. 008 B tone; wna R build. our city aud state. pub.ic buildiogs is au iucleut ove, but wuch neglected in this ©untry, T vws been m /. go ety and govern ture gencrations ad every duy's re-earch awong these ol disclos & some e v ideas tous. Whi thivk that we are livin age ot science, art and it 15 only pecersary ¢/ visit the museum: io C iro’ Exypt, or Nales and eonvinerd that we ha in an ad | The q wueh et tol aro, iuventions can be eir original b dicity audine ne the preceot, Pow peli, D, 79, foruishe: | Clancy, H""hfiq?fl"x",; 'h mas Davis, i mpton, J, Me. the general condi | Neal Laibaw, Andrew J, Pmd;w-. H. 1o of the world at this (artica'ar period 1 do not cite ¢ i« a4 showing that we are {indebted to the fateruity for things | broogtt to 1i ht do Pompe i, but as many Ii % have been un jea orrubora es the wor'd's his ory st this porienlar pe. visd, In the eignth certary Coarlemigoe, n we are per stone of the chiurch at Alx L Chap. Benvath this woue, in & well-ce mented vaut, he deposited very mary da and re fo, togeti er A tobe he holy v stmen the Virgin Mavy, § sy of the Holy wri inw aud » chri<tisnity up to that period, hdnodffi ul'y in tracing many of the emHlens of hecraft The corner stoues ot Holy R of, Nororows, Melrose aud many other abbevs huil in the twelft contiry have turnth d the r fail quota of intormation. Thevu tou of Inyiog ¢ rner stones i+ quite crmmon in Kogland and the ughout Kor.pe There o but few imi riaut works unde tasen wihcw. first making the usncl dee posit 10 the northeast coraer of the strue i e, whethe 0 k, bri e or an: puble ain idea seemn to be 10 pay the dibt ave wwe t) future transmit ing (o shem the ugh whonld God, 4 our tiest Culy, theo, t . oings of the Groat Architect of the Uaiverse upon the #o'k in which we are abiu: to eneage, [ there ore comma d the utmost wlenca and el upon il b+ unite with onr grand ohiplain in an ad- ens to the T irons of G ues, He then called n Grind Chaplain R v. James P.torson to iuyoke the diviie blersir g Grand Seoretary Bowen read the list of Ar o es depositel m thy rtone, wmomg whi h were list of the vatioul, state rud muui ipal ofti sers, sundry coine and docu ments and copres £ | Hg OMAHA Beg, Hor- wed Repuntic n AL er sugiug |y the Glee (lun he stone was Inid wceo ding to et wal Iaiil by the grant mas-er, ni co with Corn, wine and oil, Peo lams in of +hia fact havin ¢ heen made, the Gire clah and wudivnes joinsd 11 sin.ing ‘‘Awerica, Hon. A.J. Poppleton. Ia the yes 1803, N.poleon Bonaparte, then tirt oueul of Fravce, wold to the Uwnited Siaton of Americs, Tnomos J. f for-on b ng at that _time presid nt, the territory comprired ull the country now included within the gsographical limits of the states of Louisiavs, Arkaneas, Mis. souri, I, wa, Minncsota, Ocegon and Ne braska, und the gre ter part of Kiusa and Coloradn, 1t also included Dakots, and most ot the Tudiau territory, Lhis vast dowain wax thus withdrawa from the srhitrament of Enropean powers and the un_ertain issuss of the period ot the Na poleonic wars, uni remitted throuzuout ust it entire lenkth and breadeh to (he embers, with | obsourity of un uuexplored, uuknswn and impvnetrable region From that day uniil May, 1854, a period The Dauish B otherhiod, filiy sirong, [of tifsy-one years— he country wow known ‘The Omaba Tu uverei a8 the stato of No raska=108 me of u the fifty members, | state of var sdoption; t) 8 me the siate of o1r birth; 1o ull tha stkte of one pride and affction, —remaive |, in the langusge of the federal st «tutes, INDIAN COUNTRY, untouched by civilizatien, tae range of the buffslo aud the csmpiug geonod « f the Tu- dian, penetrated onl. at rewote 1wt vk by the sdventurous and 8o iury fur t o ler or the devotel snd indomitable | visst, we king to tlant tte cro 8 in the remotest soitiuides of thiy vast emire. comprised withia the boundarie: tanelle us he d «her. Ta May, 18 4 hy treaty, this tribe ced d 1t to 1he United Sestes and on the ¥0th dy of May, 1854, Uong ess, by wha' is known in histry as the K.nsa« and Nebrarka bill, gave to Ne- bruyka, which included it, un or.anized terfitori 1 government and extenden ovel hus opeuing i und Mormon exa ine of 184 THE DISA TROUS PANIO OF 18 7, 1854, and on the 23 d d proclamation was e desiguati Burt, Wash neto Fierce, Foiney, B At this moment DOUGLAS COUNTY HAD ITH BIRTH, Tha use of the words, . wity, sod nfers to the Councit Blul resslons of 1854-5, and 1855-G PRIMITIVE POLITICN, ?\Vllh there beundaries and preciucts the 0 ot election in Douglus county was held, resulting, with t mely aid from Couneil Blufls, in the ohoice of, exclusively, Omaha men. Al the first bills int towards making U, the world's blstory, | Lowes b aret bile lntraduced foto the d L bou: daies of Omuha snd Otoe couuties &t | and lo ate the reats of Justice thereic on baving been divided byorder f the house on Tuesday, Februsry 13, 1835, \his_beiog the last item (f busices fransacted in the forenoom of that day, the bill was finally passed, the followin; s, among thor, 80 of then sl | neul i .r;llln names, voting for the Lill: Ans. o Arnold, Wil fam N, Byers, Willia A. D Goyer, st to eury Coristity north, who uudoiitedly belomed ¢ watme cwsc of builders of «w udnta, 11d_ the O. Parvie, W. A. Ri han'aon, John A, Singleton, Robers B Whi speaver of tne hous , Avdrew J wan one of the most active fri bill bat heing precty votiog « X sepe fo ea e of tie his name roo'nm tion of the seting gorernor but + betituted the nume “Omaba” in plws of “D uglas” In tni sompett where it rece tion was not en* tire hospitatle. Wedo e«day, Febroary 14, 185 Jow ph W, Paodock, ochief cletk of the Lower nouse T ported by ‘o @ 8 go tiom the he " o the enveit infomati m ot theps sege of the bill, Thureda,, Febiu ary B, oumotion of A . Jones it was taken from the table pamsed to a second ting avd refer el to the ¢y« mi tee on oty reats nod connty boundaries, K Fetruary 16, Mr of mes reported ba s« the i1 nended its pasage, St urday, Fehruary 17, 1 wus acain taken np s sunet eration whe Conrcilmsn M. H Clatk, res d ng in Fontanclie and repre. went uy Dowlie ¢ noty, MUVED 10 STRIKE 0T * OMAHA" re D . Jinements un 23 wien vr Cinck reo wheriupon the tate «f the good pame 0 natin” is thits wententt usly narrated by the clork of the council, George L. M lier, Mr. Clark = oved (0 awend by st ont ** mwh " and inserting “Doug) fore o mnty, which was sg-eed to,” Site Febrasry 24, ths snmended bill +as e to the houre, where an iveffactual eff it was mads to restore the nume “Owahba” The wri er of this rddrers had of lending that onret, but wa toaliy obliged t suceniut to 1he superior bers mar-halled by the f.iends of the Patron S 4t of Damooiacy, Stephen A Dougl Lt isdae tc the nve mem- bers of the h ted ngunst the e Ounha, that ors recorded, viz : n R, olsm, ). Richardson, 1 hiviog 1n ou: numbered wi h Brown, Jo o R pe ners Iy the honored de . The resuit ot +his legi:lation was chrys. talve L into w nw wpproved M rch 2, 1855, whichditfere 1chictly from the proclatiation «f the weving wovernor, in that it tixed the northern boundacy of the eounty “three to th .t adva ciow tide of western immi- tive cuntrol 18 been in the bands of & i gration, which st in with :n- Californi [ i g e e g i line equi-di t.nt from ocesn to ocean »ud wansged th-m with honesty, prudence, the orgatioc sc: the acting governoratonce | Parker, Oliver P. Hu f. proceeded t organize the territ rial gov- | Allison, Juhn Kell ernment, October 21, 1864, he issucd hir proclamation ordering & c-nsus_as a basis of legislative apportionment, The census | cnase, Vnomus Wilkinson, Jeijmin P, baviog been © mplited and report:d | Kuy Nuvember 20, 1854, on Novewber 2 , 1854, he issued rules wna regulations for hulding the tirst ele tion £ r del: gates iu Congres snd members of the Legislative Assembly, g the | jus duy and prescribiog the bou daries of the | ju-tice, o unties, who @ whati ants should ¢ au- thoiizen to p rticipate in theelection, vir : | oourts, provided for by the organio uct Fenver Ferguson «f Michigan, Eiward R Hardin of Georgin and Jawes Bradley of [ Corliss, co.coived and planued Tadiana, By proclamation, dated Decea ver 20 1854, the acting goveinor aseignrd theso judyes to their respective districts, us fo lowe: Fenner Ferguson, chief ju-tios, Donglas und Dudge counties; K {ward R Hurdin, all the couoty lying south of the (s Platte river; James Bradley, Warhington [ o8 and Bure counties. It also requiced the | "84 rupremws con't 1o hold & misiou ut Oms ha onthe third Monday of Februa:y, 1835, | PF:% #ud the £ st dis rict oo urts to e held in : Belle- p view, Nebraska City, Fiorence. Accord. |P Fioue & Dodge, Douglus, Cass, chardson —eight in all atted A% the Muwion houte at Belle- f was alo the fint gone sl ot [0fces f the Union Pacific rai- road company, beiog o ocoupied from Do+ the custom iy | ember, 1868, ntil the full of 1863, when every age frow thie tiet form tion f soci. | they were trunsferred 1o the present head- ats 10 transudt to fu. | 90arters building, hitory of the times y Jiced iu the corner st ne o1 sec et vault. Our work to-day will be s feeble ymit tioy of theirs, In woet of the anciewt temples, monssteries and r stope or recret veult edufico has vielded wuch i en north of the town of Florence, tor- metly knowo as WINTER QJARTFRS.” Tt will be seen that under this legislation the turtnoes of the mbitious youug meén whu bid choren Bellview as their base of Operations wers Lot cerved to their satis. tavtivn, Lt had uo distinet representation and 118 votes wers swallowes up by the su, @i r puwbers of Omaha, who were wrful nt o let thiic courtesy ontiun their juigment. Accorvivgly ot the suas oceediug wension of 18 5o, thrugi the off .t mainly of Bevjswin . Rwkin sod Silws A, 8 ricklan , wn act was passd viog that portion ot Donglas county, wentation « f ons mewber in the counil +nd two fn (Le h use, 1hough ietainng it for )l oibier pu poses ws parta d parc L of Douglas county, This wes but u it ge wu remting pluce m the march b cow plete ty. Acoondi py, at tho ¢ uuty of Sarpy, babilitation as w the ressivn of B3 courbsting rubstn dly of the terniwry carvid out by Douglis us un eection s ¢t ict, wis created by act aporoved Fob. ruary 7, 18°7, aud Lenvitt 8, Biown, Chase 3. Hall «uy wua Silas A- Stricklang made isiouers 10 focate the county seat wan bx d hy them at Bellview pis prace oaily clo-ed controversy between the wrecked, li'e- travg a weoughy up i us, that t'e mn whom in our wem:nis of stranee wn i checkered iife, |hr ugh which, of the cunty of Douglas, wus| however, there sver shoue the inextin- the specfal po s+rion of the Omaha|guishuble hpht ot lofty patriotism and tribe ot Iudiuns, then led by L gan Kon- | tiue courage, was «y thiscity of Omaba teuderly borne to y nder hill and commit- ted to un himored grave. THRE BOUNDARIES OF THE COUNTY. bels g thus tinally adjus ed, its subsequent ¢ oeec und dev lopulent—littie vexed by | sbii uing legislati n—depended chicfly upon | o but with t | nstural resources snd wise goverument For 26 years ita executive and adwinistra- eoonomy and nuccess, During the lony perod fr. m 1854 ¢ the | 0, It was the il -fortune of the new terri- | present time the following peisons have | fir.g fifie:n vities £ the mation —the {wene )."t'nnl;‘fillrl rerved as couuty cowmissioners, in the o1+ | jgih ity to.d y being Now.rk, Mow Jer- ter his ar- The uot rpp-ar in the record, Th- bill a (med ro ain d the houndaries 1 xed by the om it went to the wide | over by the foll wing jadges in the order mentior ad: Fein:r F rguen, | Auguetus Hall, Wiliiam_ P 1t Keilogg, | Wiili m Kellogg, George B Like, Jam: s W, Bavoge, sud the presen . iucumbent James Neviile, aided and wsisted by « bar whior has ) ever suffered by comyarison with nefehboing state ,and rime (f wh m bave won & national e, utation in vhe pro- few o, Bue T sheuld doinjustice ¢ that porticn f the bar « hy practiced in ts cour s of law an i equity while Nebreska remaired & ternitory~ f om £54 to 1867 ia 1 not make special merti o of the men whose vuices rang londest aud longe-t in THR PIERCE CONTENTIONS which during 1bat | eriod vexed ccurt and jury, L nume them n the order of Sheir arrival, to my best r leetion: O D Richsr (#on, ¥ xperieuce Estabro k, Cli 104 Briggs, Jobu L. Redick, Jsmin ( Chapiian, J.mes M Weoworth, William A. Little, Go.rve B Like, B. E. B, Ken. nedy, Chatles H Biown and George W, Doate, 1 beg 1150 to add to this li-t my own namn, Most of them were eminen Iy practi ing lawyers — constently in the thickest of the fra d one «f thea, Willjam A, Liule «f honored memory, wus by common ¢ neent the greate-t crim- mal lawyer Neb ws o has yet pe duced, ed with him, often ly he was a tiwer of siren th, as a0 oth- g but untring industry sud dleepless vigilance could ava | sgainst disvetrons cetent. He was elected the firat chief jns- tice of the st , declived the flice by rea. on of i) health, aud sgn after gied near Au ora, L ijoois, sincerely mourned by his profe sional a w tes nd the state which had just clothe « him wiih its bighest hoo. ors, THR PIRST CKNSUS (F NEDRASKA, taken and repite | to ths wcti g governor Novem er 20, 854, was made by districts and showed o total jopulation of two thousand s-ven hunored and thi « Dstitutivg Swipy c.unty, & 1epies wy nd bitter itizens ot the rval towns iu which fierco wnivomtics were bred, pol tesl fortuues wade and ug Iriends to. porarly e - ud the yr gress and pr 8. erity of buth o muuaities seriously retarfe . But tune, the swouther, tha hesler, tne comolo’y the meiiawr, 1 2t years sy xon 1n 1854 e would That pordon of thy wstate mnow|have a moet cracited—in 1878, wfer a r-lw - thirtesi of whom were slaves, brought iuto the territory by suthern imm grants wnd wostly residiog st Nebraska Uity, Ihe Fifth dighict, ¢ nvlnhing almost the dentical territury originwly induded in o — Y cit'an and states and nations ear to earrn 1 see stately wpi-es piece ud shelte ing chucches ac whore thiestold the vhiow of pera cus tion, the dungeon, the rack, the fu ot the sta e have never fallen, heart to heart, ha, the f cas of in.ent us g youth, the Snrne an of liberal lewrning, towsrds which the foot steps of wisdom 1ain, even as tue wise men g hored rom the esst towards the eternal ich pour.d ita - falgence upon the All these things I see, and L f ¢l that, with ruch a p &t snd ruch a frure, life hs teen indee | worth liviy and the men and wonen who have thus f boine ity Iahors ard triute and haraships and pe.ils will nee than the proud municipality of w wiruct re vhall forever stard the crown 1 verwty of Om de-pined Nizarene, In the language of one whose 1ifs +hed iaw and helped to anchor, deep vnd safe, the f undations «f a per. petusl e natitutional earliesc light of m roing gild it and pare. ing day Jinger and play upon its sua mit,” . - HUB PUNCH iy acceptab o. fine fce, len onade or hot wa er, it makes a aplen il “night cap” Trade sopplied at mannfuctnrcrs’ pricea by Fumiliss eupplied by on going to bed, M. A MeNamans, A, M. Gladstoue, Omahs, N:b, WANTED—A first class double-cyl- inder press feeder at this cfice, ORARGE BLOSSOMS A Pleasant Wedding on Burt Street and Other Nuptials. A very happy and enjoyable event occurred yesterday at the residencs of on Burt and This was the N. Merriam, Twenty-hrat streets, marriage of Mr, Frank Porsinger, the well know and popular young banker, Douglas county, showed a populition of 61, none of whom wers slaves, Aoao her conrus was taken in pursu nce of law ba. tween the 11¢h day of September und the 11th day of o uber, 1835, showiog a pops ul tiom of 4,651, incluning residen’s uvon the distrior iu R chardson ounty known as the h )f-brecd tract, eleven «f whom were slaves, O tnese Donglas county h-d 79 , & gain in nearly & year of ouly 146 There tigurea convey a faiut suggestion o. THE APPARRN /LY HOPRLESS OCTLOOK for Uinaha, st that time opp sed and an- tugouized a8 it was by the entire South Platte wi d wost «f the North Plut e coun- tey. ‘I hrough what lahor and stratesy and well fought parl amentary snd other bat- tlos this teemis g mio ropolis was carri d intact and uoharmed through the succeed- iug yenrs, there is 10t tine to recount here, but'there are livii g wen who p s sess the wupieme g litication for writing thathistory « hih l’lrgll ascribes to /B jeus —men Wb ean tiuly may with him, Al thess things Lsaw, and a part of them I was, Auninin 1360, while the nation trem- Had feom ceuter to circun f-1encs with the approschiog throes of owil war, the fed- eral ¢ nsus taker aid hi< work, giving the 8 ote & popilation of 18,841, and the coun- ty 4,828 rtill & modeiwre gain. To e vex dicads thews ftigues increased to 122,493 tor the state and 19 982 for the o voty, while yet another rai ea them to 452,402 £ thestate 3,645 for the county. In the meautims production, comwerce uud every branch of industry had GATUERRD BTRENGTH AND GROWTH until in this yoar, 1882, the county has renched an ace-sed vau cion 9 855 - 59 87, has & cultivated uc ewe of 70,556 accer, producing # (rop valued xu $16.,. 529, whiie its chivt town, the good ity of Omady, haoutstipped all its sivals io our ownetate, Kususand Iows, and challeng & hens'en 1ou:f (ha whole worid (9 its con- ced d cisims ascueof th-c i-feives f the United States. I 1850 Omana bad no piace on the wap [n 1850 16 d d not ex. d 2500 Io 170 it nmumbered over 16,000, etsnding No, 83 in the rank of cities. Xa 188) 1t moved up to No. 61, thus pa s1ng 19 of its rivals, with & popula- tion ot 316 0. In 1790, ninety-two years ago Nuw York hats population of only 84,181, Ch cago does not appear in the «enruy tables until 1840, when it makes itn popul wion of 4,479. When we remember that we are sitvated two hund edun | fifty miles eass of a meridian that wore than ha't of our territory lies £ that meridian, th prediction may ma ioone huniret years muahs will take rank well up amony the | der mentioued, leaviug without excoption | vay, with a population of | 36,100, By law his daties | an hunorable rec rd: Jese Liwe, Thow Huyman O, Hapuwi E cke, h £ W, Yorli, election of the pubiic of the respe tive dirtric, as follo ingly oo Mouoay, Murch 1", 1355, THE FIEST COUBT OF BRECORD thal, Licle busives was trans Davis, Sylvanus Dodge, James H. MoArdlo, Harrison In pursusnce of the maodate { [ sohvwon, Antrew J Critebticld, Jas, M rd, Thouas H. Kdward H C aplin, Jous Gi-e, Henry iwin H. Sherwoud, M, W, Pur- | withia its limits the chief city o; the stato— ‘Ll legis aive amewbly, hy aot | 8t rere wterva spproved March 16, 1855, reorgauiz d the | and t the brick huildig st Omaha city | courts und fixsi the time of holdivg then | sem in Douglus county on vhe secon i ‘I ueainy n March snd the thirs Tuesd.y of Octo. [ proached that tur i stream loto a suce ter of each ye r. Accordingiy the next | cession of wooded bluffe which - tretched A BBI¥ KVIDENT FACT. We hold it to be seif-evident that a po- Jiteal community £0 foriunate iu its birih, its grow b, ite j:resent ~itua ion, as the © unty 1 D.uxls, itsfert eacrea garmhed wi h fruits of indusiry ard plenty, holdiog @ people Jovivg peace, order, ko 1iety, law. t, Joseph B, R.dfield, Fred Diexe , | lenrning, culiure—sented in the shadow « f toleraut churcnes and free public s hols— I'he next step after providing for the|shonid enthrome the ad. iuistration of r’.cm p vvided for | justic in & structure in barmony with its by the orgsnic uct, was to oryanizs the [ven fident aud sacied funcim in the The election was to be be'(d Decewber 12, [ cou ts an i guaranteo to the new political |rtete, Bowiog to this unsp ken bohos; ber u | cowmunity ~that o-utral function f wl|with the full useent of the penple of t koviroments—tihe administrati n of [ county, aide) (.y one who for The president had appointed as | bus beeu their prudeat, s f judges of the suprewr aud distiict | ¢ unselior, Jobn C. U win, Lany yesrs wod wise the present n 18, Frederick t and K, W, baard of Gonuty comwm D exel, Benjanin P, THE NOBLE BTEUCTURE whoe coiner-stone has tlis day heen plael fn position, May it rie in i s rength und wuty to comolete perfes- iion stund forever the sufe shelter of ness agwnst strength, innoeence st guilt, the persecu ¢d agwnst the persecutor, the «ppresse | againet the —a sanctuary whose cho en hixh. P ients shall, in the langu e of th-ir oath, ‘administer justice without reg rd to 'du «qual 1ight to the rich and to the pool Ou the 13th of October, 1874, standing upon this identical sp t, a4 far 88 the eye the Sulpbur Sprivg The north bouudary | ever beld in the county, 1hs district conrt | ¢ ul reach, 1 0 tuken of buman habitati’n of Odiwnaciey at that tiwe was near Buct | of the tirst jaoicial distnes of Nebra ks, strews, nocth f which lay what was knowa direthren and Fellow-Citizens; - Tt would | #8 the Ned Jeffrs’ ol ym, not then d|a atohn. Fort Owaha sud the driving e both sicunted upon tersitory th o [ .uson, chief justice; Yighe | 1melaced in Wasbiogtm county, % ooroer ».0' 68 of pub o ed fices with | (. Which Florence was the o ly | whels of the © .o, Guien of our 4D Je.t oratt, but to | VOHPE precinct, Toere were two | motion, d fusitation [#9tuK (reciots in Duouglac county, wet d the visiem, rave & few soattred with, practically, like jarisdiotion t+ our | tructures clustered »1 mg the Ihwa bluff resont district osurt, was opened at the | - nd here and there dosting the platean on ivsion houre, Belloview, by Feuner For- [whch Om ha hus since bam bwml. i R Doyle, mar. | To the west and south there stretched +d, the | avparently infimitless exp nre, & prime: jusaice being simply set in ) val solitude of undulating pr.irie, broken y the green crest of 01k ut groves ‘P'o the north the di e of biuff c1wed upon the switt tof the Misscuri—rinki g 88 it ap- curs district court was held by the o lef justion | swuy towards the ouncil tires of the ex- the house o [ repiesentatl: es fa *'the brio still liviag—wil firget ‘he »cone. THE FIAAT BLOODY TRAGEY Y and a leading citizen of Omaha under a rest for @ capital crime, the grand jury r fused to return ao indcts being made 'y ¢ unsel for the discharge, Oliver Porry Mason, then knowlcdge, been surpassed, sud owner was Dr, Charles A. Heory, THE PRISONEB IN IHONS, of the territury being uodsr iuvesvation, e grand jury bad exonerated—and uatil the erection of the court house, which for over tweoty vears has afforded to the ourts ard bai of the county a court room | to whom the hl-\mL morter caged by of exceptional convenionoe and comfoit | Watt and Stevenson for the administration of justice. The dis- twict court of Douglas county has been pre- ! sengers which girdle globe and bring l plorers, Lowis and Clark, kiodied half ccutury befire nesr Fort Calhoun. To buildiog st Owahi,” None who were | the cast the b 1d outline of bluff skirting i rosent at that court and there s1e many | the Musouri valley I+ oked down up na 1ev 1 expavse of waste prairie bottom, DESTITUTE OF ANY BADGE OF CIVIL BATION, suve the rude buts in Which tue Latter Day Saiots had wrestled with the rigurs of ent. A motion | inho-pitable winters durir g their sorrow. ful pilgrimage to the vall ys of the moun. tains. 1t was & scene of siogular ioterest o0 daye in tie tenitory since chief ju-tice of | —peaceful, solitary, fililr g +he soul with & the state, kn wn to less thun half a dozen wen in the rom, rose avd uddressed the | €00ing the bruye heart and rtrong urm to court in_a phillivic, characterized by all | the storw and stroggle an!conflict of the o qualitics which have since become | futore ewpire which shoud rise fiom its tawiliar to the people of the state, inten:i. | bosm. fied by youth, the matural stimulous of | = Standing upon the same spot one hun- strange péople, novel surroundings, client | 4 ed years later, but looking out from the six months in irons aud & just canse, Iu all the varied exbibitions of his character- istic oratorical powers rince made n Ne. braska. thut day’s work, has never, to my sonse of islation and lon i but teas dume of this towering tewple of jus iz, [ o n land teeming with penty ‘sud hos. soming with beauty, I see the steel-luid highways »t our docrs Jaden with the world’s traffic and travel. Isee the ever This court was afterwards held, for some | Fev Ving wheel of cmmerce bearin: the years, in Pioncer block, whcee projector | Pro ucts snd arts and eulture of dis'ant countries tu and fro past cur gates. I see the heavens darkened with the emoke ot Iaboriug o gines I eee THOUSANDS OF BUSY HANDS AND HAPAY VACES food and raiment. 1 soe the air swarming with alectric mes- of Central City, and Miss Hattie D. Gale, a lovely and accomplished young 1ady, who is well known in the musical circles of Omaha, The wedding occurred about noon yesterdsy, the nuptial knot being tied by Rev. J. B. Muxfeld, presiding elder of the M. E attendants were Mr. H Persinger, a prominent Dea Moines journalist, aud Miss Avice [Izschask, daughter Bruvo Tzschuck. about a ecore of relatives and intimate friends present, and at the conclusion of the all-important ceremony the congratulations were numerous and The wedding dinner, which followed in due cowrse, was of the wmont elegant character, and all ia all the occasion was a happy one, beyoud even the usual course, The presents were numerous and handsome, and among others the re porter noted the following: “‘Longfellow,” Morse; mlver Bower stand, Miss A. Chuffee; st silver knives, forks and spoons, Me. and Mrs. N silver buter dish, sugar bowl ana vream pitcher, Mr. aud Mrs N, Mor. ciam; silver card receiver, Mrs, Belden; student lamp, Mrs, B. Tzschuck; silver berry aish, G, B, Tzschuck; pallet, Mrs. plaque, Mr and Mre, J. A. Guileepic; oue pair gold bracelets from groom, Frauk M. Porsinger; silver cake basket, steel engraving, L. Suith; sewing machiue, N. R Persinger, Jeutral City. The happy couple left in the after- noon for theie future home in Central chorch, The | lvor room, BLAKE-MUNGER. Mr. J. R. Blake, ot Scribner, will ) day be uvited in marriage to Miss M C. Munger, of this city, the osre- mony takiog place at ths resiaence of Mrs Everett Hurlburt, The wedding wkes place at 9:30 this morning, and Rev. McCanclush is the offisiating TOIY NOrBS, large delezation «f Kuights of Pythias from Davenport, I, pyd Owmaha a visit. Thsy came over from Conncil Bluff+, where they meet in were Damon No. 10, Davenport No, 50 and Cour de L:on No. acc)wpanie | by Strasser’s splendid union bund, probahly one of the finest in the Among those present were Bros. Goorge Metzer, of D mm ludge No. 166 W. Waddell, of Sto en's 'odge No. 84; Krauk Zenies- chek, ludge No. 50, snd B, Gand iker. I th evening the band & renaded Tas Bie offi e, giviog some remarkably fiue D. D. G. C, —L st eveninz Albert B. Hunt, better known here as Harry Hun', gave a pri- vate masqierade party at C-ntral hall, Everythiog th t could have been thought «ft)and t) the comfo t of his guests was well proyided by he jolly young h.st, and a hillisnt success crownel. his «ffirts, H fiman’s orchestra furnished the nusic, Mhe fllowing firmed the commiitee of Harry Huut (msnager), Henman Bublitz, Alf Arpaman, John Curry, ¥ M, Snow and M. A. Berd. ~The Juy G u'd party, now en r ute to Ouwuhs, arived st Wieping Water lust evo ivg and cust anoior there for the nisbt, Me. Gonld be n¢ adveree to travel- They wi | arrive in Omaha about noo. to-day, —An error was wade yei terday in re- gawd to the agency of the celebrated (ilobe fink cut chewis g tobacso. re sole agents for Omaha ~The rapidly incressicg business «f the telograph department « f the Union Vacifio rallvey necessitates the ercotion of two pew lives from this city to Omaha. gang of wen commenced work this morn- ing—Liacola Demacrat, 234, wProf. Aug. Walther and Julius T, Festoer were in Fremont yesterdsy to mabe arrangemeuts to give a grend con. certin the opera house some ime in No- [aerangement: : H. 8 (lurk & Rilrosd Matters Speds! Dl s ch (0 Tas Ben Cuicag), October 26.—The West- ern Trunk Live association met here today to consider the recent action of the Eastern Trunk Line af tion in awarding to the Rock Island roud one-third the seaboard emigraut The secretary w siructed to notify eastern lines that ths award was not accordance with existing agreements. It is announced the Nickel Plated completed arrangements by ill ran from Buffilo, business west, efec ory norin which its trains over the Erie to K mira, thence over the Lshigh valley into New York city, aud when the Lehigh Baffalo, trains will rect over its track from the Plated terminus, s completed to DOLAN & LANCWORTHY. An Extensive Bstebli hnent and Its Claims to Patipnage. An Immerse Btcck avd a Bteadily Iccreasing Cus- tom. A couple of important events in the history «f Omaha are noted in tc- day's Bee, the laying of the court house corner stons and the beginning of the work of paving the streets of the city, that the evidences as well as the right to a claim of metropolitan imporiance may be visible to those who take an interest in the weifare of the city. But while theso two events are of the hizhest importancs and intereat, Omaha cin boast of that which goes further still toward substantisl growth and pros periy, vzianumber of substantial wnd «nterprising establishments, which have entered the arcua ae rivals of the great houses of the east in their res- protive lines of busiiees. Among those who are justly entitled to the first rank on this hat s the well- known house of Dolan & Lsngworthy, Nos 110 and 112 Fourteenth street, between Dodge and Douglas, These well-kvown dealers in heavy hard- ware, wagon stock, ete.,, cceupy the entire three-story building and base- ment named above, and although in the city for a comparatively short time have already jusufied their own expectation of the tivld they oc cupy and met with a merited recogui- tion from patrons of the city aud sur- rounding territory. A Bek reporter visited their estab: lishment yesterday, made a recon- nuisance of its extent and invontoried bricfly its atuck and it was no smull undertsking. The building is 45 by 75 1eet 1in mze and has 15,000 feet o nd in addition the firm ocoupies a large brick warehouse in the rear with their valuable stock. A has:y glance at the enaless varicty of gwds kept was enough to con- vince the reporter of the hopeless- ness of attempting a detailed de- scription, On the basement floor were found au immense variety of heavy gouds, such as horse shoes, naile, thimble skeins, hubs, etc, while the floor above was cqually crowded with bar iron und steel, plow steel, ¢prings and axles, and malleables of every descrip- tion, Here, too, the space occupied by ehelving was filled with builaers’ hardware of all sorts, sizes and value. A space is reserved on this flyor for the offics, which is a busy ecene at all hours of the day, and where every- thing is found 1u the shape indicative of prompt and business-like attention 10 'he orders and 1ntcrests of patrons. Oa the eccond fljor is an extensive live of wood stuck, wagon and carringe makers’ material, which is continued in the thira flior, and 1ncludes every imagioable thivg pertaining to a bug- gy or wagon, from the smallest piece to jobs eutire aud complete, except as to painting aud trimmiog alone. A depurtment is also allotted to the dis- play of carrisge tcps, cushions and eimilar stock, all of the most unex ceprionable make and quality, There is nothivg ever demanded in the ex- perience «f wagon and carrisge mak- ers not to be found on one of the four floois described. In the warehouse alluded to above is carried a vast amount of hard wood lumber for wagon makers use, embracing ouk, hickory, ash and poplar, sll high grade stuff, and only carried by firms extensively engaged in this businees, The firm, whose establishment is thue bii fly desmibed is composed of Mecsers, William Dolan and L. H. Langworthy, Mr. Dolan is from Du- buque, and has been engaged in his present business ever rince 1865, and has consquently familiarized himselt with all iis detaile, able to buy with caution aud judgment, and ready to give cnstomers the benefit of his knowledge aud experience in every way, Mr. Langworthy went into the business in 1877, hecoming a partner of Mr Dolan in Dubcque. 1n Jan- uary, 1881, the firm appreciating tne advantogis and growing importance of the tield, came to Umaha and be gan buriness aud as their transactions for 1882 are double those of 1881, which were then more than satisfac tory to them, it will be seen that Omaha was the place for them and that 1hey are the men for the place. They have not only made extra ¢fforts to introduce and sell goods to Omaha manufacturers but handle goods man- ufactured in Owaha and push their claims in every ~ way abroad aud with gratifying success. They uot only wholesale but do u retail business, and at their house suything from a pound of nails to ten car loads f iron or steel can be pur- ohiased, and with the equal assurance to tho purchaser that whether his order be Jarge or small he will re- o-ive equ.l consideration and square daaling, The house is represented on the road by two men, one heirg Mr. Lang- worthy, the busivess manugement av home being left to Mr. Dulap, and he hss conducted i most ablg, Their torritory covers the country tributary to the U P. as far west as L ie, south to Kansas, north beyond the termini of the rail- roads, and invades lowa for a very considerable distance in the east Chey are extending these limits all the 1ime, and have already achieved a high reputation for push and vim, as well as for business integrity and enterprise. There is no house in the city to be more commended or deserving of warmer wishes for succees than that at the head of which Mewrs. Dolan and Langworthy stand, and where Tue BEe wishes them the succees they so rickly deserve. - s CULITING SCRAPE. A Feroclous Tussle on Lower Twelfth Street. A serious afiray took place last evening about 6 o'cleck on Twelfth street, near Douglas. A man known a8 ““Windy Joe,” who formerly worked for the Homans, and Dug. Barns, who runs Harry Lucas' lunch counter, got into a friendly tussel on the side- | wa'k, over a silk handkerohief, and it gradvally verged into a quarrch The {wo got out into the s'reet and Joe drew & knife or rizr and slsshed away at his opponent, it fl ctivg four wounds, one f which vewrly provid fatal. One cut was acroes the bresst, seveting a couple uf buttons, & second itfleted acuton the richt arm and another wade & horrible gach acroes the right side of the ncck, through which the jugular vein plainly pro- trud:d. The wounded man had his injaries atrended to by De. H, W. Byde, who found it necessary to twke seven strches in the cut on the neck, and who says it was a mirsculous croape from death. 1t was a hair-oreadth ercape from murder for **Wii dy Joe,” At a late hour Jast night the police were locking for the man who ¢id the cutting, and it was expeoted that he would be 1 j il before morutig. Just how serious Burns wounds may events ually prove is uncertain, THE BIC BASINS. Completion of the Immense Res- ervoirs (f the Water ‘done by way of sodding the banks, Works, Some Fine Work Scon to be Exhibit:d to the Cmuha Fublic, Our citizens generally will be pleaced to learn that the upper reser- voirs of the water wiks company, lo- cated in West Omuha precinot, ara now permanently finished and ¢qual in completness to anything of the kind 1n the United States. Abuut a year ago the basins were made ready for the reception of water, but the brick work was real'y of a temporary character, the inten. tion being that when every partiole of the earthwork was thoroughly settled to construct the brick work that is to last for all time, 8o it was about two mounths ago the contract for the woik was let to MacRitchie & Nichol, the celebrated owil engineers an contractors of Cai-~ cago, men who have succesefully con- structed more reservoirs of this kind than ay ficm in this country and who have at the present tume several oth- ers under way. Charles Mac- Ritchie, the senior pariner, came here in person with his able assistants, Messrs, Pattofi and Beals, and not a momeut's delay was made in commer ciog and contuuing the work, until on Tueeday their con- tract was completed. About an hun- dred me= and teams huve been em- ployed all the time, and the work of repuddiing and Jaying the doubla laved brick walls has been done in a systematic manver—-certainly to the satisfaction of the disinterestea me- chavial eye and undoubtedly to the satisfaction of the water works com- pauy, for their interes s have been | gvarded in the most critical and skil- ful manner by Hugh Murphy, than whom there is no one in the west bet- ter suited to iuspect just such ocon- struction. Not a foot of bank has been puddled, not a hod of ce- ment awixed, not a brick laid to solid rest, without Murphy's immediate supervision, and if his verdict is that Mac Ritchie and Nichol have done their work well, it is safe to bet that such is the case. Some additional work remaius to be gravelung the tops thereof, et when, undcubtedly, the reservs will bs thrown open to-the ex+mina- tion of the city officials and the Omaha public, and then two immense reser- voirs will greet the eye that would be an ornament to any city, as they are to ours, besides being something whose solid, permanent uvscfuluess is at once apparent to the most disinter- ested, Mr. Mac Ritchie during his short stay in Omaha has made many friends among our staunch business men, for his push and knowledge of the pro- fcss10n and business of his choice. He 1oft last evening for Freeport, Tllinois, where his firm have other large res- ervoirs to conetruct, leaviog behind & reputatior for the highest skill and iutegrity in contract work. 1 The new water works company have settled right down to business it seems, and everything that is don now is of the ‘‘rock of ages” atyle. The settling basins on the river bot- toms are being placad in & permanent condition. David Wilkie, of this city, bas this work in charge, and when he finishes our oitizens can rest assursd that the work at one end of the line will be done as satisfuc-orily as the other, for Me. Wilkie has established a reputation in his particular line of ¢omtracting since his arcival in Owaha that shows he at the head of his busivess, POWDER Absolutely Pure. Thie powder never varies, A marve o urity, strength and wholesomeness, ore economical than the ordinery kinds, and cannot be sold in competition with the multitude of low test, short weight, alum or phosphate powders, Sold only in can Rovar Baxiag Powpss Oo, Wall 8¢, New Yok " ) f