Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 1, 1883, Page 4

THE GMAHA BEE. Published evers morning, except Sunday, The @aly Monday morning daily. ERNS KT WAL ne Year.. $10.00 Three Monthe 8ix Months 5.00 | One Month... IR WERKLY BRR, PUBLISIIRD RVERY WRDNRADAT. 00 0 TRRMA FORTTAID, One Yeur ... .00 | Three Months, Six Montha . .1.00 | One Month American Nows Company, Sole Agents Newsdeal- @re in the United States. CORREAFONTRNCR. A Communications relating to News and Fditorial mattors should be addressed to the Eetron ey Tis Ben, .80 %0 BUSINESS LETTRRA, ANl Business Tottors and Remittances should be addrossed to Tg BrR PURLISIING COMPAXY, OMATA. Drafts, Checks and Postoffice orders to be made pay- able to the order of the company. THE BEE BUBLISHING C0,, PROPS. E. ROSEWATER, Editor. Ex-Sreaxer Kerren lifts his coffin lid to remark that Blaine will not bea factor in the coming presidential struggle. Secxerany Teerer is doing excellent service to the country in protecting the mational domain against land sharks and corporate land grabbers. Tae government at Washington still lives, although the president, his cabinet and General Sheridan are more than a thousagd miles away. Tag flow of gold from Europe to this country is & healthy sign of American prosperity. During the past week the amount reachad nearly a million and a half, i Tae president has passed through Hell's Half Acre, and the Devil's caul- dron. Now he will be prepared to go through another siege from the office hunters. Tug trial of Frank James, the Mis- souri bandit chief, is liable to last as long a8 the trial of Dorsey, tllle star route thief, and the result will be the same in both cases. Fat fees for the lawyers. . ‘Tae muster rell of the grand army of postmasters of the United States foots up 48,049, of whom enly 1,176 are ap- pointed by the president. A fact worthy of note is that among the presidential postmasters few die and none ever re- sign unless thoy got a better office. S————— If Garfield had lived, what an inter- eating supplement he could have written to Dorsey's confessions, — New York Star. If Garfield had lived, Dorsey would never had dared to utter the dastardly libgls that he has published or his con- feasions-~to besmurch the name of a man who is in his grave, Tt now transpires that Dr. George L. Miller, the editor of the Omaha Herald, abroad for the purpose of examining g::en Victoria’s lame knee.—Chicago News. New we have a rational explanation of ‘ the mission of our esteemed colleague as well as the object in yiew in getting bap- tized by Bishop Clarkson, of the High +«church. When her majesty's knee is re- set by the distinguished Pawnee doctor she can do nothing less than confer on him her garter, and let him go back to America “Knight of the Garter.” Honi 80it qui mal-y penae. Tae fact that corporations have no souls has again been forcibly illustrated. The cowardly action of the American Rapid Telegraph company in acceding to the demands of the striking operators and now going back on their voluntary arrangement with the men because the ‘Western Union has defeated the strike, is something that the public and the operators ought not to forget. Com- pared with tho American Rapid the Western Union is a striking example of corporate fair EI'Z‘ AccorpiNG to the Graphic Uncle Ru- fus Hatch is finding some elephants, or perhaps we should say hogs, among his noble British guests, In a dispatch from Yellowstone park one of the John Bull touriste is said to have cost Hatch §2600 sinoe he left England. The British trav- elors consume much costly wine, and one of the party even had the underclothing which he brought on his journoy charged 40 the host.” Lord Hoadley is said to be much mortified at such exhibitions, and poor Uncle Rufus is quoted as saying that if he gots out of this scrape with enough money to keep his family through the winter he will never do the liko again, —_— CoMMENTING on the latest edition of Henry V. Poor's railroad manual the Bpringfield Republican calls attention to the effects of stock watering by railroad jobbers as follows: “The weakness of the American railroad system is the con- stantly widening gap between nominal capitalization and real cost. "It is both a financial and a moral weakness. It was a financial weakness in the long period of depression, when hundred sof millions of so-called stock was foreclosed out of posseesion, and is always a moral weak- ness from the fact that a ficticious capital is not entitled to that *‘reasonable” re. turn which thg common law allows the common carrier. Mr, Poor shows that the last 28,000 miles of railroad in this country, the product of the last three years. has been accompanied by an ex- pansion of capital and debt amounting to $2,033,000,000, or $70,000 a mile, where- as the actual cost was not over $30,000 a mile, At $30,000, & net earning of $1,800 will pay 6 per cent on the cost, ‘but at 70,000, it takes a net earning of $4,200 per mile to pay 6 per cent on the cost. S— Tax Ohio campaign, which promised at the outset such & sweeping victory for Hoadley and the democratic ticket,looks wery blue at this stage of the canvas. Judge Hoadley is sick “‘under the strain” ‘which he is supposed to have been wear- ing since his nomination. The Capital, a democratic newspaper at Cleveland, announces that it “‘will not be parade as the purchased chattel of John Wesley Bookwalter and George Hoadley,’” and that “no trading millionairo in news- paper back offices in Cincinnati shall its proprietary allegiance as a dem. the highest bidder.” transfer in our ocrat to In short “‘we shall oppose the election of Hoadly.” The Cincinnati Commeroial- Gazette throws light on what is here re- ferred to by giving the details of the pur- chase of the delegates to the recent dem- ocratic county convention, was 810,925, divided among 92 delegates. The regular price of a delegate was 8100, but the Eleventh ward delegation of thir- teen men had to be paid twice over, as the custodian of the fung the first time There were other eases of slight variations and took the $1,300 and “lit eut.” inequalitios. Dexven is organizing a rival street rail- road line. The charter of the Den- ver City Street Railway company grants to it the exclusive privilege of operating h- ree cars withing the limits of Denver. This would prevent any rival line from competing, provided the exclusive privi- lege, or rather monopoly, was upheld by the courts. All recent decisions, how- ever, maintain that no legislative body ean grant the privilege to the exclusive use of the streets of any city for the con- veyance of passengers, But the projec- tors of the rival street railway line do not propose to contest that provision of | the horse car charter nor to compete with it in the use of horse cars. Its plan is to adopt another motive power. They propose to establish a cable line propelled by steam or electric motors. This may be suggestive to Omaha capitalists who wish to boom Omaha by extensions of stroet railway lines OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. The British parliament was prorogued by the queen last Saturday. The session just closed has by no means fulfilled all the promises made by Gladstome at its opening, but it has not beer entirely bar- 1en of good results, Several very impor- tant measures have been enacted. Fore. most among these are Mr, Chamberlain's bankruptcy bill, the agricultural holdings bill, and the corrupt practices at election bill. The agricultural holdings bill is of vital importance to the farmers of En- gland and Scotland. It introduces tho principle of tenant right and secures compensation for unexhaust- ed improvements made during occupancy. The Corrupt Practices bill, will de much to prevent bribery and corruption at English elections, if it does not put an end to the practice altogether, To these acts should be added, the Passenger's Duty bill which exempts from taxation railronds that carry nassengers at the rate of one penny per mile. Only fow acts velating directly to Ireland were actually passed, Among these T. P. O'Conners Laborers’ pill, the steam Tramways bill, the Fisheries bill. The Tramways bill will be of vast advantage in affording re- lief to the distressed Irish farmers. The bill appropriates a quarter of a million for assisting emigration It also appropriates an equal sum for the reclamation of portio of Ireland par- tially or wholly uncultivated and for re. moving to those districts families from the over populous districts. It also con- templates the encouragement of the same work by local companies, The bill gets ita name from those sections which guar- antee to persons constructing narrow gauge steam railways in Ireland a certain percentage on the investment, The English house of lords seem bent upon keeping the English people aware that Mr. Parnell and his followers are not the - only body of obstructionists in parliament. They have defeated three measures this session on which the public generally had agreed, and they have emasculated a fourth. They finally thraw out the bill to legalize mar- ringe with a deceased wife's sister. They voted down the bill to pro- hibit the abominable cruelty of pigeon- shooting matches; but as the princess of Wales has made them unfashionable by announcing her purpose to attend no more of them this vote will not matter much. Tt will not save an aristocratic present discredit and speedy oblivion, They have thrown out the bill to reduce the suffrage in the Irish boroughs to semething like the English and Scotch interest The swag THE DAILY BEE ~-OVAHA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1688, order to escapo from a difficulty, and |forget every promise when the exi- goncy has gone by, And though China Tias 1o absolute control over Annam and no direct claim to justify interference, it looks with increasing jealousy on the ex- tension of French influence in Cochin China, and the diversion of a tradeit has found profitable, And without engaging in actual war the Chinese can give the French a vast deal of trouble. Indeed, the principal resistanze the French met in Annam was from the Chinese, The hold of France on Annam is cer- tainly firm enoughmow. Butits value to France in the near future is likely to be very small, The example set by America in the matter of rapid reduction of the national debt is alleged in England as_a reason for moving more quickly in fhat direc- tion; but_the specific proposals are not connected with American example, as they originated in 1859, since which date the debt has been reduced from £787,- Of late years, the reduction has been at the rate of £8,000,000 a year, but for the whole perind the average is not half 8o much. The bill Fefore parliament proposed to pay off £173,000.000, or a trifle less than a fourth of the delt, in the next twenty years. At this rate the whole debt would be discharged by 1063, The British national debt may be said to exist only in the shape of perpetual annuities. As the debt was contracted by Mcorting bids much below par, the nominal iuterest is very low,—three per cent., in fact. But the interest on the sums actually received by the Treasury is very considerable. As a consequence, the debt can be discharged only ata loss to the government, unless at times when the interest of money is very low. If money is worth as much as three and a quarter per cent. a year, itis more prof- itable to go on paying three pounds sterling a year to the holders of one hundred pounds ~nterlin§ than to pay him the one hundred pounds sterling and be done with him. But for the bonds which represent this sum the government received but eighty or ninety pounds sterling at the start.” So the English debt is in the worst possible shape for discharge; it bears really a high interest, but its nominal interest is #0 low that the E:rmoipul can be paid only at a loas. The English people, however, prefer to tike the luss and do something towards the discharge of the debt before the coal mines are exhausted or some other calamivy has occurred to put a stop to their national prosperity., This they do in a characteristic fashion. Whoever holds “‘consols,” and wishes to convert a perpetual into a terminal annuity of a proportionally larger amount, can effect the change by an arrangement with the commissioners of the sinking fund. The resignation of the Spanish ministry shows that constitutional government in Spain is little or nothing more than a name. The ministry which has ru-:f,rncd bodily was nominally liberal, and, in theory, at least, represented the prepon- derating sentiment of the country repre- sented in the congress, or elective cham- ber of the cortes. As in the English constitution, its character, as defined in the terms of the constitution, was that of a responsible executive, its responsibility being not to the king, but to the congress, and its functions being the maintenance a8 well as the execution of the constitu- tion. Yet it resigns not by reason of a loss of its supporting majority in the con- gress, not by reason of a withdrawal of public confidence, but on account of a division among its own members on the question whether it shall or shall not re- mstate the suspended law of its own ex- istence, or overturn it idefinitely. Prime minister Sagasta, who is recognized s one of the ablest leaders of liberal (though not ultra) opinion, has resolutely insisted upon a prompt restoration of the constitutional guarantees, which were su- perceded by the rule of military force upon the recent outbreaks; butin this he has been antagonized by General Mar- tinez do Campos, the minister of war, and by some others of his colleagucs. In no country where constitutional gevernment, under a responsible execu- tive, is areality, could such an event oceur. It could not occur in Spain if it were really a state governea under a con- stitution, or if the bulk of Spanish peo- ple were fi‘ted to maintain or to receive constitutional government. The Swiss are beginning to worry about the great increase in tneir foreign population. This in the country at large 18 small—only 74 per cent, but in some cantons, purticulur&y those near the bor- ders, the foreign-born residents number from 34 to 374 per cent of the entire pop- ulation. When itis considered, too, that the influx of foreigners has for the past ten years just about equaled the emigra- tion, and that this has averaged 6,000 a ear, the growing nervousness of the Swiss peoplo does not seem strange. A slight increase in the ratio, against the natives, might place the foreigners in these cantons in _the majority, and lead to disagreeable if not disastrous conse- quences at any time. About 96,000 of Aw foreigners in Switzerland are Ger- mans, and there are over 50,000 French, Italians and Austrians, The wildest disorder continuesin Hun- garian and Croatian towns. At Egerseg, Hungary, the shops are closed and the Jews are fled, In the Croatian towns the people have fought so persistently against the public use of the Hungarian level, thus giving the Irish agitators an. | language that the satraps of the conquer- other good reason for insisting that there is one rule for England and another for Ireland. The French war in Annam has ended more suddenly than any one expected. The capitulation of the emperor was as much of a surprise to the French them- He was not only convinced that further re- sistance would be useless, but narrowly escaping with his life during the first day’s bombardment of the forts and bat- teries at ths mouth of the River Hue, he was thoroughly scared. By the terms of the treaty he is willing to sign, France selves as to the rest of mankind. Bouet, the French commander; the An namese are to pay the costs of the war, and all outstanding difficulties respecting the enforcoment of existing treatios suring the rights of foreigners and thei immunity from attack will be satisfac- In short, France getsall she insisted upon at the outset, and a But France will still have to contend with the inborn preju- dice of all Eastern Asiatics against for- eigners and their chronic incapacity to understand the binding force of treaty obligations, They agree to the terms in torily adjusted, good deal more. is accorded an absolute protectorate over the empire; the native troops are to be placed under the command of (General ors are afraid to put up the proclamations which caused the trouble. = At Zagorien three officials were .wounded and four peasants killed, The peasants have fled to the high hill. The cabinet at Vienna is botween two fires. It must keep the pugnacious Croats in Austria-Hungary, and yet it must so punish thew as to smooth the ruffled feathers of the Hun- garians, The volcanic eruption on the island of Java is the most dreadful calamity that has been chronicled since the destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum nearly two thousand years ago. The population of Java aggregates over 10,000,000, Fully 100,000 inhabitants perished in the buried and submerged cities and villages. De tails of the eruptions and overflows of burning cinders and lava which have en- ful‘ed whole sections of the island, buried cities and towns, and of tidal waves which have swept a: thousands -| of lwuplu. are most graphic. The scene of horror has perhaps never been sur passed in the world’s history. Batavia and Anjer have suffered most. " | The are the two most important cities in rithe Island of Java. Both are at the western end of the island and near the outlet of the Straits of Fundy, & narrow channel which separates Java from Sum atra. ‘The first eruption seems to have come frem one of the small islands in the straits, then to have passed speedily to the coast, and is & short time the old vol- cano of Gunong Salak, back of Batavia, was in full eruption, for the first time since 1609. The destruction of life seems to haye resulted chiefly from fires started 000,000 to something like £700,000,000. ( by the red-hot stones and lava, and from tidal waves, which washed away whole willages of fishermen on thecoast botween Batavia and Anjer Head. The great disaster is one which might have been ex- pected at any time, a8 Java is situated in the very center of veleanic activity. All the Islands which stretch from Java and Borneo to the Indo-Chinese const are of voleanic originand include 109 active voleanc There is not an | island, it is said, which is not pierced with one or more outlets, Java has 45 voleanoes, 28 of which are active. A long range of voleanoes run from these islands through Formosa to Japui and t1 Kamschatka, which has fourt cross tiie Pacific in a semi-circular line to our own continent, but diminish in num- ber in the mountain elevations which stretch along the whole Pacific coast of North and South America, . ) The scene of Mr. George W. Cable's new novel, “Dr. Sevier,” is laid in New Orleans, the time being the eve of the lute civil war, a glimpse of the beginning of which is eaid to be given in the elos- ing chapters. Besides the creole types, of which Mr. Cable is known as the originawr in fiction, this story is said to present a variety of characters of different nationality, drawn with Mr. Cable's well known insight and sense of humor, The novel will be an important feature of the new volume of The Century, the first chapters appearing in the November number. The Western Bchoolma'am. Chieago Tribune, in_‘‘consols,” | W Not bashful, nor yet overbold, And unl{ twenty-two; With hair like threads of gleaming gold, ‘With eyes of azure blue; With little hands, with pretty face, Just tanned a healthful brown— Sha is the daisy of the place, The flower of the town. Vith kindly words, with friendship warm, In aprons white and clean, The children swarm about her form Liko bees about their queen, By love she moves and sways their hearts; They think her wondrous wise, And all her gracious acts and arts, Seem porfect in their eyes. No smiles to them seems half sosweet, No frowns as hard to bear, No look of pity so complete, As those her features wear; No voice more dear than hers to hear, In poetry or prose; No praise more pleasant to the ear Than that which she bestows. Tho village boys, when she goes by, Can scarcely speak or'stir; She is the object of each.eye; They fairly worship her, | being wet apart by the government for th European powers should unite in the suppres- sion of Mohamuedan pilgrimages to Mecca, by the occupation of the Holy City, which iy w0 charged with pestilence almost always, and which rends so frequently the scourge of chol- era over Kgypt and the east, A religious community that seems to bear a close resenblance to that of Oneida and whose leaders claim the power to_work miracles, has just been discovered in Schuyler county, T, t is known as the Pilgrim band, and i« grow- ing raj The success of its proselyting movements is being shown throughout Schuy- ler county, and in several other counties, There are about 4,000 Mennouites, or Ana- baptists, in Manitoba, divided into ten or twelve viilages, and occupying the richest land. They came seven years ago, & large reservati clusive use, Their elders decide minor disputes, but the power belongs to the people, without whose consent no_buxiness of impor- tance can be transacted. They are, of course, subject to the proviucial law. The Faith Cure convention at Old Orchard, Me., has closed but prayer meetings will be d three times a day for several week corl occurred in the case of Miss Gibbs,of Oshawa, Canada, whose cerebro spinal meningit six yoars' standing, was suddenly cursd, and in the case of Miss Jennie C. Clark, of Ber- wick, Me., whom heart disease scarcely allow- ed to reach the convention, The centennial convention of the Protestant Episcopal church in the United States will convene in October for its opening service at Christ church in Philadelphia, the place where the first convention met one hundred years ago. Nearly 86,000 have Leen expended in restoring the church as nearly as possible to its About 230 persons attended the conventi The most striking cures in answer to prayers | i, during the recent session are alleged to have SENATORS AND SIOUX. Visit of Senators Lngani,r Cameron and Darwes to Sionx City. The Reservation Question—Lands in Beverality -~ The General and His Army Friends. Sioux City Journal, There were theo real, sure-enough senators in the city yesterda; constituted a specinl senate investigate the Sioux question. senators were Gen, John A. Logan of | Illinois, H. L. Dawes of Massachusetts, | and Angus Cameron of Wisconsin, came over the Millwaukeeo After a breakfast at the Hubbard honse, and a stroll around town, thoy re- | of [turned to their Pullman car o the Sec- | ond street union truck and calimly await- ed the coming of a reporter, He came, In response to his request for a senator to inteiview, ANGUS CAMERON OF WISCONS N was sent into the dressing-room at the end of the car, where the newspaper man waited for his prey. The scene was im- These | They ! i road from Chamberlain, arriving at this city at b a. appearanco when the first_convention assem. h‘ml within its wulls, The history of the church is interesting. 1t was erected in 1695, during the reign of Willian IIT,, and was built partly of wood and partly of brick. In 1727 the present edifice waa built, and was nine years in process of construction, In 1754 the tower and steeple were built and a chime of eight bells was hung; a portion of the money to defray the expenses was raised by lottery. Many relics of anti-Revolutionary date have been collected by the committee of the church. There are many interesting asso- clations connected with this church that are deserving of mention; the contiuental congress asgembled here for worship on the 20th of July, 1775, the day having been set apart for general humiliation, fasting, and prayer throughout all the American provinces. Ben- {:nln Franklin and Robert Morris were mem- rs of the vestry of the church. Brother Blaine. The party hopes may wilt and wans, The party sick and shattered be, But Brother Jamen Gillespie Bluine Tn happy in his librarce; For James G. Blaine, ho 1s writing some sort of a historee. He sees how mighty Conkling fell - Rolled down from high ambition’s Alp; Ho hears the Tudepeudent yell Gloat over Billy Chandler's scalp. Like some sweet fuiry sprite she seems. A breath might blow away— The spirit of their midnight dreams, Their idol all the day. She draws them to the villags church Far nore than sermon strong, With anxious eyes the choir they search; They luok at her and long, And, when with solendid voice she sings, They loose their heads in love; Their feverish fancies float on wings Beyond the clouds above. The grave old fathers of the town Gaze with admiring eyes, ‘When like an angel she comes down, They cannot hme their sighs. The buxom wives, with glances sour, Soon lead them from the place; For they are jealous of her power, And envious of her face. Her soul ix like a sparkling brook That babbles on its way Through nunuy fields, through shady nook, By banks with blossoms guy. Al day, at school, with patient grace Sho rules the noisy crowd; Then homeward walks with happy face And soul without a cloud.! In simple hatof plaited straw, In tasteful muslin gown, Her handsome face aud form I saw Whilo passing through the town, T watched her, while she sweetly smiled, When children were xllnmixxn*: T wished I were once more & child, A cherub to be kissed! ENcese J. HaLL, EDUCATIONAL NOTES. The public schools of Columbus, 0., cost $328,000 in 1882, Cincinnati had an enrollment of 34,254 pu- pilsin 1882, Cost per capita on enrollment wus $18.25, ¢ The total number of children of school age in Towa is 604,739, while the average attend- ance iy but Chicago had on enrollment of 68,614 pupils in 1882, The cost per capita on enrollment on thix tax was 817.37. ‘The average number of teachers for each of the 32 principals in the intermediate and district schools in Cincinnati is just 18,2, Sal- ary $1,900 each. The Rev. Dr. J. A. Lippincott, professor of mathematics in Dickinson college, has accept- ed the chancellorship of the university of Kan- #a8, which was recently offered to him. Two houses, 18 teachéis each; four, 17; three, 15; four, 14; seven, 13; nine, 12; one, 11; two, 10; four, 9; three, 8; six, 6; three, 5; two, 4; total, 554 teachers—an average of 11 teachers for euch principal, An industrial school for Indian girls will soon be established at Muskogee, Indian Ter. ritory, Cooking, sewing, and all the details of domestic arts to prepare them for thorough Christian housekeoping, as well as from text ;r;k.. in the schosl room, will be taught the rls, The first grammar school in Cincinnati with twenty-one teachers, has one principal, salary 22,100, Boston has fifty grammar schools, each under the care of a male head master at a salary of $2,880. Excluding principals, these grammar schools have !go following teachers: The Paris municipal council has voted the sum of 35,000 francs to_enable pupils in the different colleges to make holiday journeys to different countries for purpones of instruction. 1t is also proposed to send three teachers, two malon and one female, to. tho sxhibition now being held in Zurich to study Swiss methods of instruction as illustrated there, President Seelyo, of Amherst college, says that & four years' acientific course was organ- ized which u student could pursue with no knowledge of Greek anlounly a slight knowl- edgo of Latin. After an experience of ten years it has been found that the best scientific students have, in every year, without exception, been the classical students, college his become 8o thoroughly that the best work in science is to he done only on the basis of thorough grounding in the classics that it has discontinued its scientific a8 soparate from its classical course. —_— He seos and wears a cheerful grin, Poor Windom buried out of sight: Ho nees, and doesn't care pin, The Stalwarts and the Half-Breeds fight. Ho sees aspiring candidates Bring up with care minutest booms; The making nor the breaking slates May lure him from his studious rooms. He sees Grant doing Gould's behest; Bon. Butler devilling Frisbie Hour; From out the wild and whooping West He hears Jack Logan's Injun roar. s James a candidate? O, fiel He's nut at present on the track; Perhaps he doesn’t caro to try When party prospects look so black. But he'’s a man of so much vim — And if he credits bland Depew, And finds the office chovsing him, ‘What would you have the pvor man do? And so, when comes Cenvention Day, Should you be much surprised to sce That Brother Blaine had much to say About the slate of G. O, P.? For James G. Blaioho ot r his historeo. Wants a good end fo storee, o ] Extreme Tired Feeling. A lady tolls us “‘the first bottle has done my daughter a great deal of good, her food does not distress her now, nor does she suffer from that extreme tired feeling which she did before taking Hood's Sarsaparilla,” A second bottle effected a cure. No other preparation contains such a concentration of vitalizing, enriching, purifying and invigorating properties as Hood's Sarsaparilla. — WHEE! LER COUNTY. Tts Advantage for Slock Raising and Farming—-Some Plain Facts. ‘WhEELER, August 20, 1883, The Wheeler crops are looking well. Grass is very heavy. It hasbeen a very wet season 1n these parts, but the storms and water have not done any damage. We have not had any hails to speak of or wind that has done any damage. This county is like all Nebraska. It is good to make men rich. I'll tell you how we do it. In the first place we buy a herd of cattle or sheep and turn them out on the grass to fat them, for we have plenty of permanent grazing. Then we got hay put up for 7be. per ton or do it ourselves. We have the best water civileges in the state; the sand ills are full of ponds of good water. They do not dry up in summer nor stagnate. This county is not a farming county, though we have some good farm land, about one-fourth is clay soil. the valley land is a sandy, alluvial soil. The valley land is the boss land for grass. We think we can compete with any county in the state for hay and summer grass, Some men have settled on the valley land with the intention of farming., These men have failed because they had no money to buy stock. ~They have to depend on farming—and its ro go—to make money. Such men would sell cheap. Men with money 'wnuldAdu well to come this way. There is no tim- ber here nor stone. Our nearest market if fifty miles. The present county seat in Cedar county. Cattle does better than sheep, though sheep do very well. We are Yuving fine hay weather, and the ranch men are improving it. Orp Saxoy, RELIGIOUS, ‘I'ne Rev. Henry Ward Boecher is in Port- land, Oregon, and expects to be in San Fran- cisco on September 1. Canon Godfrey Pope, is mentioned as & probable successor to late Bishop Colenso as bishop of Nutal. Mr. Jeremish Miltank, of New York, will build a church to cost £26,000 in the town of Milbank, Dak., which iy named after him, More than 800 pilgrimiges will be made to the sanctuary of Lourdes in France this year. Taking an average of 1,200 in each pilgrimage the total reaches 900,000, not couuting those who go alone or in private parties. ‘The National Baptist says that the first Sunday school of Sweden was started 32 yoars sgo in Stockholm, Now there are in that city 46 schools, with 630 teachers and 6.425 scholars, in the whole of Sweden 20,000 teachers, and over 200,000 scholars, The first Presbyterian church in Nebraska was estahlished in Nebraska City by the Rev. H. M. Giltner iu 185. The bell used was from a wrecked steamboat, the Genoa, and was bought by Mr. F. 8. Nuckolls, of Nebraska | 5 GIE_R S OREAT E OEt B AXIN. = CNREB A A Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago. Backache, Headache, Toothache, i iruises, s -y AN RE City, aud given to the church. 1t is seriously proposed that soveral of the L VOGELER 00, T gt TNV pressive. _On the left hand looking north, and close heside, rose the ruins of what was a hotel away back in war time, but had several times been partly burned down, and _is now given up to decay and tramps. On the left was the alleged union depot, a monument to early rail- road days in Sioux City. Around were freight cars, and directly in the fore- ground were the marble wash-basius, put in regardless of expense by Mr. Pullman, and not yet cleaned that morning by the porter. Senator Cameron wore a_gre) woollenshirt and a kindlysmile, thefros stubble of a two weeks' beard acquired in the Indian country softening the outlines of a strong and _healthy-looking face. The reporter asked about the party. The scnator saithatd THE COMMITTER as appointed consisted of the three sena- tors already mentioned, Senator Morgan, of Alabama, Senator Vest, of Missouri, and Delegate McGinnis, of Montana, ‘The two last named had gone up the Mis- souri to visit the Assinaboines and Black- feet. Senator Morgan had telegraphed just as the party was about to start west that he could not come, The committee had been appointed to visit the Sioux jand report what was best for the govern- ment to do with them. The committee had first VISITED THE CROWS on the Musselshell in Montana, This tribe has a reservation of 6,000,000 acres, but is doing almost nothing for its own support, and must be further civilized before it will be practicable to give the members of the tbe land in severalty. The first Sioux agency visited was Standing Rock, Here is about 3.500 In- dians, among them Sitting Bull, Gaul, Little Wolf- and others who were lately hostiles. The agent, McLaugulin, speaks Sioux and is doing well with the people he has in charge. These Sioux under- stand what it is to have LAND IN SEVERALTY. Some of them have already taken allot- ments of land. Some okthese allotments are of 160 acres and some 320 acres. This agency is on the west side of the river on a part of the great Sioux reser- vation. At Cheyenne river agency the Sioux had at one time been in charge of Swan, a military man, and afterwards _a civil agent of the same name. The Indians made considerable progress under these two agents, but lost itall under the agentship of Love. A Pennsylvania man is now in charge, and under him the In- dians are doing well. The reporter asked if the prospect of removing this band to a new agency north of the Cheyenne river did not dis- courage any attempts at making perma- nent improvements. Senator Cameron sat down on the seat at the end of the basin bench, and said quietly that he had not noticed that the Cheyenne river Sioux feared removal. The senator was not to be cheaply trap- ped #ito stating whether the Cheyennes would be removed this way. Then he continued the story of the journey. THE CROW CREEK SIOUX are on the east side of the river. Their reservation is one made by executive order, not a part of the great Sioux res- ervation, and comprises some 600,000 acres of excellent lands, Some of the Indians here are raising creditable crops, and the entire band is doing well, The lower Brules were the last band visited. These had utterly refused to sign the treaty for ceding a part of their reservation. The Sioux at this agency are a fine-looking people and have some flourishing crops. The reporter asked about the trealy the Brules refused to sign, STORY OF THE TREATY. The Wisconsin senator explained: ““When the Sioux treaty of 1868 was made, by which the Platte country was ceded, it was stipulated that hereafter in ceding any Sivux lands three-quarters of the men of the tribe must sign. When the treaty cuding the Black Hills was made this stipulation was not observed, but congress ratified the treaty. The Cures Scrofula, Erysipelas, Pimples and Face Grubs, Blotches, Boils, Tumors, Tet- ter, Humors, Salt Rheum, Scald Head, Sores, Mercurial | | Diseases, Female Weakness| and Irregularities, Dizziness, | |{Loss of Appetite, Juandice, | |Affections ot the Liver, Indi- gestion, Biliousness, Dyspep- sia and General Debility. A course of Durdock Bl Bitters will satisfy the' most Skeptical that 1 1 the Greatest Blood Pus o fealers everywhere. Tanguages. TRICK, §t.00. FOSTER, MILBURN & CO., Prop's, Buffa's, N.' commission appointed last year to treat with the Sioux for a part of their reser- vation took the Black Hills as a prece- dent, and did not attempt to secure the signatures of three-fourths of the men of the tiibe. The senate might have ap- proved the treaty any way, but it came in during the last days of the session, when there was not time to discuss so impor- tant a subject, and so it went ever. Be- cause of this unratified treaty the senate appointed the committee of senators to visit the Sioux.’ Would the committee report favorably on ratifying the treaty? This, the senater said, had not been discussed by the committee. The commit- tee would prepare a report and presentit to the senate. This was a eenatorial way of saying that the report would be to its peers and not to the reporter. Overlooking this stand-off, the reporter asked about the plans for INDIAN CIVILIZATION, It had been urged, the scaator said, that the Sioux should have a start in stock. This was answered by the argu- ment that with stock alone the Indians would retain their nomadic habits. The men who knew them best favored hav- ing the Indians farm in the white way, both in stock and grain raising. *‘The Sioux,” he said, ‘‘are sufficiently ad- vanced to take land in severalty. ~ We have a very good opinion of this people, now that we have seen them.” From what Senator Cameron_said and from the way he said it, as well as from what he declined to say, the reporter infers that the senate committee's REPORT WILL RECOMMEND: 1. That the so-called Sioux treaty be ignored. 2. That the Sioux be required to select land in severalty. 3. That the great reservation generally be open to them for selection. 4. That the lanis not selected be sold to settlers. 6. That the proceeds of the sale be used to further Sioux civilization. HE GETS AWAY. Now as regards the presidential sit- uati n——" began the reporter, persua- sively. ““Evcuse me,” said the senator, ‘“‘but we have been in the Indian country so long that we have ceased to think of pol- itics.” Then he inquired of Towa politics, and said that Wisconsin was in luck this fall in that it did not hold an election to choose so much as a road supervisor, and the reporter took his leave. SENATOR LOGAN was, of course, the lion of the party. A number of his old army comrades paid their respects to him, among others Maj. Cheney, Capt. Culver and H C. McNeil, All theso had belonged to the cerps that wore the forty rounds badge. Postmas- ter Kirk und other politicians also called on the senators. Gen. Logan was not well, having caught a severe cold while fishing for bullheads from the stern of the steamer Batchelor as he voyaged down the Missouri from agency to agency. This cold had been followed by a slight congestion of the lungs. On account of this indisposition the senator did not go out te dinner yesterday, their dinner be- ing sent them from the Hubbard house. Their car was attached to the outgoing Pacific train in the afternoon, and they are now well on their way to Valentine, whence they go by ambulance to Pine Ridge and Rosebud agenci PAVEMENT PATS. The Asphalt Rolling Out Rapidly on Bixteenth Street, Contractor Grant, who is pushing the asphalt paving on Sixteenth streot, says that they have laid 2400 yards in two days, 1322 yards Thursday, and 1100 the duy before.” 'Thin is rapid work. The last block of those they intend to finish before the fair will have the stone down Tuesday noon, There will be five blocks in all, from Cass to Izard sticets, before the fair. A force was put on Harney street plough- ing it up yesterday, so that during the fair week the machinery and rollers cam be transferred to Harney strest, and no time be lost. 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