Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 11, 1884, Page 4

OMAHA DAILY BEE--@PNDAY., AUGUST 11, 1884. I‘liE OMAHA BEE. Omaha Office, No..016 Farnam Sc. Oauncil Bluffa OMes,:No. 7 Pearl St. Btroot, Near Broadway. | New YorkjOffice, Room 65 Tribune Building. el Pablished every worning, exsept Bunday' only Monday morniog dally. The . B Por Weok, 25 Oonta. IR WRNKLY BEN, PURLIAUED SVERY WADNESDAT. THRMS POSTPAID, $2.00 | Threo Months. 1.00 | One Month . % Ameriosn News Oom, 'y Sole ote, Newndeal o ia ibe Taimed Biamen. T oo LAR [ —— A1 Oommunioations relating to News and Rditoria =umn should be addressed %o the Eorrom or . o e All Bastoess Letvors and Remittan sddrassed to Tn Ban Pususmye Oox and Postofioo orders to ey B e T R0E BEE PUBLISAING co, PROPS' B. ROSEWATER, Editor. A. H. Fitch, Manager Dally Ciroulation, P. 0.Box 488 gmaha Nol We fear this will be a smut-mill cam- pa ign presently. WLt some one tell ‘—“— ';ilt Griggs wants anyhow? He must have it. Ttk heads of the tickets may bo s lit. 4le off as to morals but the tailsare above suspleion. THE next thing-fl;:yV:i‘l_ulurge Bt. John with waking improper proposals to ths widow Butler. Tue cold weather of the past week has sont the summer tourists in large num- bers home from the watering places. Tax dark horse in the third district is very numerous, and the chances are that he will carry off first money. Now that Mr. White is out of the way, it is likely that Loran Clark will step to the front once more asa candidate for atate treasurer. GoverNOrR DAwes is not endorsed for ze-eloction where he is best known, at his own home in Orete. This is the atraw which breaks the camel’s back. Tue police court ought to sustain the marshal in his effort to keep the alleys clean and abate nuisinces. It is no use to attempt to carry cut sanitary regula- tions if the officers of 'the law don’t co-op- erate. A LoNpvoN paper has discovered that in the cholera epidemic of 1§32 not one tobacconist died from the disease. This is a neat way of starting a boom in the tobaoco business, We supprae every- body will take to smoking now. Grover CLEVELAND's friends have worked up a case of seduction against Blaine down in old Kentucky. We thought it would come to this. There was no trouble in getting sflidavits against Blaine at the Confedrit X Roads, Dbut it will be hard to make anybody be- lieve them. N. Ki Grioos” chances to be land commissioner are gooa, His boom in Uage county last Saturday was a8 grand sucoess. — Blue Springs Motor. Yes, it would be a very nice thing to put Mr, Griggs in as land commissioner. His feet would just fit Glenn Kendall's shoes, and nobody would know that a «<change had been made* “CoroNer” E. P, Bavack, who holds the important position of superintendent of the state agricultural farm, has at last found something to do. He proposes tq Jompile the live stock statistios of Neb- raska and publish them in a catalogue. ‘This is about all the work that Superin- tendent Savage will do during his term «of oftice. During the month of July there were 170 fives in the United States which de- stroyed property valued at $10,000 and upwards. It is estimated that the prop- erty destroyed in this country and Cana- da during tlie past month amounted in walue to $8,800,000. 1t was a disastrous month to th Tue death of Hon, W, B. White, of “Tekamah, will create profound sorrow not only among the peopie of Burt county who had learned to respect and love him for his social qualities and ster- ling integrity, but a.nong ull classes of people in every part of this state where ho was so widely known, Had he lived there is no doubt that he would have wriumphantly been elected to the oftice of wstato treasurer, to which he was nomin- ated by the republicans two years ago and out of which he was notoriously de- "‘ndd. E—— Conrpramnz is made by some of the cit- izens of South Omaha that they are vir- tuallyruined by recklessgrading on streets that can never be used for anything ex- «<opt residences. We are told that heavy «damage suits will be brought against the «city with a fair show of their being sus- tained by the courts, While we have no knowledge as to the justice of these complaints we must say that there may be such a thing as too much improvement in the way of grading. There are many streets on the hillsides which never can become thoroughfares. It is not onl; damagi to propert along fiu’m mr::gmg’ make u‘;l.igpl:uy, cuts, from twenty to forty feet deep, but it is & reckless waste of money. The city of Omuhg pays one-half of the expense of all this geading, and every tax.payer is interested in preventing noedless expen- ditures. Ttis also unjust to tax people for 50 called improvements which nobody bas asked for exoept perhaps the con- tractor, and which are really s downright injury to the property-owners who are supposed to be benefitted, and for whom 100 Compai these i nts pposed to be ELECTRICITY AS A MOTOR, When Solomon sald that there was noth- ingthing new under the sun he evident- ly had no conoception of the appliance of steam, eleotricity and magnetism. Steam- ships, railronds,telographs, telephones ana electric lights have all come into exist- ance within a very comparatively recent period, The appliance of steam to loco- motion on the water was made at the dawn of the present ocentury. Sixty years ago the world was without a rail- rond, The first Amerlean telegraph line was completed only forty years ago. The marvellous appliances of elec- tricity and magnetism to the transmis- sion of sound, the production of light s | 80d motive power, are all the products of the present generation. Soarcely a day passes without some invention inthe varied appliances ot electricity and mag- netism which are revolutionizing almost every branch of industry. To most peo- ple the appliance of electricity as a mo- tive power for the propulsion ot cars on stroet rallways will appear as an entirely novel invention, The recent successful introduction of electrio motors on street railways in Ber- lin and Cleveland is after all not so much of a novelty in electrical science as most people are led to beliove. Beginning with the discovery of the electro-magnet by Sturgeon and Henry, which preceded Professor Morse's appliance of electro- magnetism to telegraphy, there were numerous experiments both in this coun- try and Europe with electric motors, As far back as 1832 Prof, Sturgeon followed up his electro-magnetic experiments, with the invention of a ro- tary motion electric motor. With this improved motor Sturgeon announced in 1837 that he had succeeded in propelling a boat and also a locomotive carriage, but no capitalist in Great Britain or America had faith enough in this invention to ad- vance the money to put it into practical use. Prof. Jacobi, of Russia, was more sucoessful in procuring the necessary means for carrying into execution his ap- pliance of electricity to locomotion, By the aid of the czar of Russia he con- structed & boat propelled by elec- tricity, and in 1839 he made a successful trip on the river Neva, to demonstrate the practical use of his in- vention. The only reason why Prof. Jacobi's motor was discarded was simply because it was too costly as a substituto for steam. Street railways were not then in use in any part of the world, hence Jacobi’s wonderful motor did not take the place of horse-power. Uriah Clark, of Leicester, England, built an electric locomotive in 1840, which was operated on a circular track for two months at the Leicester exhibition, where it attracted considerable attentlon, and was regarded as a great curiosity. Thomas Davenport,of Brandon, Vermont, who, in 1837, invented a small electric motor, which operated a turning lathe— run an electric locomotive on a railway near Glasgow in 1846. It weighed five tons, was of one-lorse power, and at- tained a speed of four miles an hour, At about the same time Prof. Page, of Philadelphia, constructed an electrin locomotive which he ran from Washing- ton to Bladensburg, on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. In all the inventions so far referred to in this article the motur was carried by the locomotive itself, but there were others in which a stationary generator was used, the electricity was conducted to the propelling motor by means of con- ductors along the track. Such was the case with Pinker's electric railway in England in 1840, Messrs, Lilly & Oolton, of Pittsburg, invented an elec tric railway of this kind about the year 1847, Twenty years ago another eclectric railway was invented in Eogland, and various ecleotric appliances for rail way locomotion have sinoe boen patented in America and Europe from time to time. Edison’s eclectric railway at Menlo Park was roally no new invention. He has not made much advance upon the ideas of earlior ecloctrical inventors. Nor is the ideas of the Cleveland eclectric stroet rail way a new thing, In that system, tho electric generators are placed on at permanent stations, an d tho current is conveyed along the track by conductors in underground condiuts. The inventors, Mossrs, Knight & Bentley, do not claim that it is really anything new, they simply maintain that they have taken up devices which are open to every inventor, and by de- vices' of their own have rendered eleotric railways an economio and a prac- tical success, That eloctric motors will ere long sup- eraede horso-power on street railways, we have no more doubt than we have that electriclty will supplant petroleum and gos as an illuminator. 1t is only a quos- tion of time when petroleum and gas will be employed to generate electricity for all the uses to which these illuminators are now put, There are those who confi- dently belteve that electricity will super. sede steam in all ite varied uses as a mo- tor, That would not be a greater revo- lution than has been wrought by steam | Hock ninoe its appliance as a motive power on land and water, Tax latest issue of Poor's Railroad Manual presents some interesting statis- tio, At the close of the fiscal year 1883 there were in the United States 120,662 miles of railroad. The share capital ag- gregated $3,708,000,682; the funded debt, $3,466,040,383; the floating debt, £332,810,346, or a total indebtedness of $7,496,471,311, or nearly throe times the amount of the public debt at the close of the civil war, The gross earnings of all railroads for 1883 were $828,772;020, against $770,209,309 for 1882, The net earnings were $309,708,721, The smount of freight transported was 400,453 439 exclusive of those carried on the New York elevated roads, was 312,686,641, In other words, each and every inhabi- tant of the country took about six rides in the course of the year. Finally, the total number of passengers carried one mile was 8,341,300,074. BELITTLING OMAHA. The next time that the Chicago, Bur- lington & Quincy railroad company ad- vertises “The Rowdy West,” it should do Omaha justice. In its two-page re- view in the Chicago Zimes, of the coun- try traversed by its system, Omaha re- ceives about one-third of the space de- voted to Council Bluffs, and about one- half as much as is given to Lincoln and Plattsmouth, That would be all very well, were it not for the gross mis- statement about our popula- tion, which is given at 5,000, wkile that of Lincoln is placed at 20,000, and that of Council Bluffs 25,000, The fact is that Omaha has over 50,000 population, and nobody conversant with the truth will dispute it. The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy cannot afford to belittle Omaha through a hired penny-a- liner, who probably was not subsidized by our merchants. As asample of the malignity as well as stupidity of the re- viewer, the following extract will suffice: The long bridge between Omaha and Council Bluffs cost $1,600,000. But then Omaha doesn’t care about that; anything to connect with Council Bluffs, ‘Whoever is in charge of the advertising or puffery department of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy road has exhibited reckless negligence to allow such flings and falsehoods about Omaha to be em- boddied in the article, or there is a dis- position on the part of the officers of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy to dispar- age Omaha. Omaha has no jealousy of or ill-feeling towards Council Bluffs, Lin- coln, or any other city or town in Jowa or Nebraska. She has outgrown alllthe petty strife for position or prestige long ago. All she does ask is fair treatment, to which she is entitled by her position and patronage. We are putting it mild when we say that pthe partlality and want of veracity in thi: called review, will make no frlends in Omaha for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and B, & M, which companies may at no distant day want some important favors granted to them by this city. Wi, Marshal Cummings, of Omaha, resignl—Stouxr City Journal, Not until the Mother Hubbard of the IHerald orders him to step down and out, Tie Boston baked bean bourbons have ratified Cleveland and Hendricks with a grand hurrah, but Ben Butler is still out. Ex-Mansman Guthrie is once more waiting for the verdict. He is waiting to hear from the supreme court. The Future of Steel. We do not mean the future improve- ments in the art of making steel, for those no one can predict. But to what great uses shall the enormous deposits of steel-making ores, lying idle under the surface of such great states as Penpsyl- vania, West Virginia, Ohio, Michigan aud Alabama be applied? Railroad build- ing will contifiue to absorb enormous quantities of steel rails, but it is not likely that the annual coustruction will keep up at tke rate of recent years. Steel cross ties are likely tc supplant wood to a larg> extent, and that will greatly in- creasy the present demand. A larger possibility, however, is' that American capitalists will begin to put the onterprise and money into steel ship building that they have so freely given to arailway coastruciion, that for risk and achivements has no parallel in industrial history. Hitherto Great, Britain, has monopolized the carrying trade and,natu- rally, the ship building. This has been due partially toour absurd navigation laws, now happily repealed in part, and partially to greater push in finding and securing fore'gn markets for the produc- tions. It is anomalous and not al- togother creditable to Yandeedom that Great Brilain rather than the United States supplies Mexico and the South American republics with their manufactured goods. She does this by maintaining direct steamship communication with them, by keeping enterprising commercial agents there that are something more than wooden figure-heads, and not least in importance by freely taking in exchange the raw materials that South America produces, Lot United States capitalists enter upon an equally liberal policy and it will not take many years for the Delaware and the rivers of Alabama (the latter state being where iron is produced cheaper to- day than anywhere in the world) to leave the Olyde far behind as ship building centors, o — THE TRIFPARTITE, Further Leports as to the Dissolu- tion of the Pool. Ciioaco, August 9.—A climax has been reached in the affairs of tho Western Trunk Line associations, formed under what has to be known se the ‘‘tripartite agree- ment” The informal anvouncement by the Chicago and Northwestern railway to with- draw from the association was a result not cutirely unlooked for, a the stroug proba- Lility of such a result was indicated in these dispatches early during the preseot week. It is_confidently ‘anticipated that the Wabash management. may follow this, leaving the Island, Milwaokee & St. Paol and on Pacific, the originsl members, the ouly remaining ia the pool. It has been con- tended on the part of the Rock Island, in the ovent of the retirement of the two roads in | ) question, that it would hold the Union Pacifie to the terms of the tripartite agreement and compel it to turn over all its business at Onisha to the Rock Island snd St. Paul roads. The genoral view expressed by the railway ofticiats here, however, is that the compa.t cavnot now be easily malntaioed, but that the matter is one which can only be determined by the lines still remaining a party to it. e L Boller Explos W51 Louts, August 9.—The boller field engine exploded on the farm of Ma Rhodes, Jackson county. Il yesterday, o iog Herbert Nowton aod James .4. Sullivan, and serlously wounding Fd Kiley. Three horses were also kil sud all sur- heat rounding the woglue which ‘was driviug & threshiog machine at the time was bur) S — Oar Wheel Factory Borned, Euzawer, N, J., August 9,—The Reading railroad car whoel factory barned this wmorn. tous, and the total number of passengers | ing. WOMEN IN THE WEST. New, York, August 7. Editor OMAnA Bxr. A clipping from your paper in the New Yg)rkgn'mm: Post, August 4th, has attracted my attention, and had it read, *‘Come ‘Vest. Young Woman,” would have been just the invitation I am longing for, You say, ‘‘there is plenty of room left for young men of anerg{ and character;” may not this apply equally to young women, or to women, who are t the giddy time of life, drinkingits 008, as it were, and walking soberly in the shade, to women engaged in the aw- ful straggle for the * mighty dollar,” who in oar crowded cities of the enst, are driven to the wall by young men of less energy and oa- pacity, and oftentimes of no character. Your closing remarks, “if you have only brain and muscle you will have no trouble in finding a market for them here,” prompts me to ask: What are the chances for brains, minas muscle? or, in other words, what prospect is there in {)oanr state for honest working women?|p m't reply ‘‘husbands,” because they are to be had here if we will take them, and the New York papersteem with ad- varflnxmom:k for homfik , ocooks, eto. for myself, to fin.x‘ the {llld where the last dollar one earns need mot go for board and keeping ng Agpunncu, where a fair day's work, will bring a fair day's wages, and where these ‘‘fertile lands, at reasonable prices” might be turned into homesteads so that one might contemplate, the advent of old age, with- out a shudder and resolve only to grow old gracefully. To quote Mr. Mantelini, ‘‘Life (in New York,) is one demnition grind.” If you earn ten dollars a week you pay eight, for board, and if you earn twenty, you r-y fifteen, for a little more style. Noth- ng can be put away, for the inevitable rainy day, and whensickness comes your portion is Bellevuo hospital, and later on, you serve for the delectation of the medi- cal student, and for the advancement of science. Now 1 am a healthy subject, and I fear, also, that for many years to come, I shall have to count the mills that make a cent, and for the sake of loved ones I long for more than tnat. I want to make a home in tho west. What in- ducements can you hold out to a lady stenographer and type-writer? Can this be incl in your list of “lucrative em- loyments?” Could I obtain a professional oothold as stenographer, either in legal, architectural or railroad work? You have bankers, brokers, agents and com- missioners who can offer workin my line, or do they prefer ‘‘energetic young men" who can cast a vote, and ultimately hope to lobby their schemes through con- Wit are the chances for women to earn a lucrative living in Nebraska—to earn it by thorough, pains-taking work, without sentiment in favor of or preju- dice against them. There are hundreds of women in New York who crowd here in the hope of an honest living, and who are unable to go elsewhere for lack of in- formation and who dare mot trust to the uncertainty and probable fruitlessnees of & search for it in other places. Of course in viewing the far weat, as the country of the fut- ure, one is prepared to partially “‘rough it” we do not expect electric lights, ele- vated railroads, nor Central park, and we shan’t pine for the daily privilege of passing Delmonico’s. Ey this, Mr. Editor, you must perceive that I am very much in earnest, in this matter, and if yon can find time to give informa- tion of the probable success in your state, of woman'’s labor, in any life be- yond that of mere house-hold drudge, your kindness will bv appreciated by one who would gladly learn, what are the real resources of the west. And if you should decide that there are no openings at present for women such as I, I hope you will continue your earnest invitation to the young men to come to that delectable land, that advan- tageous locality where they may acquire ‘‘fame and riches” in the hope thereby that there may be many vacancies here which we can suitably fill. But I fear in answer, you will only hear what **Dickens” made the bells say to ‘‘Arthur Clenham” in his lonely Sun- day musings, ‘“They won’t come, they won't come.” MARION. Candor compels us to state that brain and muscle combined are more in demand in the west than brains alone. A man orwoman who comes equipped with robust health, industrious habits, and intelli- gence need have no fears of starving in the west. All things being equal the young woman who comes west with mus- cle and brains has decidedly the advan- tage over the woman who depends upon brains alone. The working weman need not look for a husband to support her, and in the sphere of activity to which she is adapted she will meet no obstacle on ac- count of sex prejudices. Women of culture and professional training, who are not disposed to drudge in the school room as teachers, are not in such brisk demand as to insure lucrative employment as soon as they land in far western towns and cities. Any considerable number of such ladies | °V! in quest of employment might meet with disappointment owing to the fact that the field for professional women, outside of the achool voom, Is limited—not only in the west but everywhere. A lady stenographer snd type-writer capable of expressing herself as clearly and foreibly as ““Marion”, would in our opinion have no trouble in securing per- manent employment in one of our rail- road offices, banking houses, or other bus- iness establishments. A woman who comes west with sell-denial enough to forego the pleasure of supporting a hus- band is a gem of the first quality that will always be in demand, E——— STATE JOITINGS, The Minden Reporter shouts for Bea But- er. T‘h‘s. Platte river bridge at Schuyler s com- o ’I“%‘o’ new Methodist church at Sidney cost Harrington has school house. Nebraska apples are selling In Boatsice for $1a bushel. Creighton is to have an opera house and skating rink, to cost $4,000, The Congregationalsts of Beatrico are mak- yoted 82,000 to build » W | ing efforts to build & new house of worship, The Beatrice canning company booked or- ders for 2,600 cua of goads for Colorado last woek. Lightuing killed & number of valuable cattle o Pawneo county durug one of the late storms, The report comes from Holt that oll bas been struck on a claim eight from Stuart. With seven ticketa at its masthead the Cret and say I want | ¢, Vidette rises above partisan clamor an 1 tickles all classes, Me Cook boasts of a fine new school build- ing which is now nearing completion, at @ cost of £6,000, The Gage county fair opens September 30 and continues four days. Over $4,000 is offered in preminms. The supreme court has granted a new trial to Dr. Richmond who was convicted in Plattemouth of an assault on a little girl. A Tekamah girl of sensil nerves had a row with her mster and fai % 0 have the last ;y’m, attempted suicide. She was pumped The Tecumssh Chicftain is willing to con- tribute a “‘copious sum,” if it oan be borrowed, to help raise & republican flagstaff in that town, The young town of Holdregogclaims the title of the magic city of .umhwvr:'! Nebraska, Though less than a year old she claims a pop- ulation of 1000, The Wakefield Presbyterians will commence work on their new church tuilding about tho 20th of this month, Itis to be 82x18 feet, with tower and steeple. The winter wheat crop in Saline county is turning out well, Where the crop was well ut in, snd not damaged by storms, the yield 1% 28t 30 bushels per acre, The supreme eourt made an important rul: ing Jst week to the effect that “an employe of & railroad company is incompetent to sit as a juror in acase where the company is a par- fa The Nebraska "City distillery s to start again about the middle of September, The lumber for its cattle sheds has been ordered and the work of preparation will be begun im- mediately. A card writer who made himself too numer. ousin Grand Ialand was pulled and fined $57 for disturbance of the peace, It is & costly busioess to fool with the peaceful end of Grand Iasland. Stout’s quary at Louisville turns out twen- t(divn car loads of crushed lime stone each day. He runs three crushers and over 100 men in the quarry, *‘A man who is so mean as to thus sue a widow woman ought to be kicked to death by a jacknss,” aid a Tecumseh attorney at a re- cent justice court, “‘and I wish the court would appoint meto doit.” The disciples of St. Jn:fim Butler county call upon all “‘who arer: and willing to face the fire that ever rages in the van of true reform” to gather at David City to shout for the temperance ticket. The little son of Dan Wagoner of Red Cloud is said to have been kidnapped from his home, He has been missing since the 26th of June. A romard of fifty dollars is offered for his recovery. Tt was estimated this spring that $31,000 would be expended this year in buildings in Wayne. Those a ready completed and under way will cost considerably more than that sum, and it will most probubly reach 861,000, The assessor of York county never misses a chance to increase the treasury surplus. He swoopedjlown upon aChicago graindealing}frm who avoided taxes on their cribs and compelled them to pay up before being allowed to ship. . A man named Brittenburg, loaded with dis- tilled dynamite, went off the straight and nar- row path, near Lincoln, last Friday, and laid down to rest on the O.& R. V. track. His remains were gathered up by the train hands. The supreme court has issued a writ of error in the murder case of Quinn Bohannon, sentenced to be hung at Nobraska City Aug. 8th, which will postpons the hanging until after the January meoting of the supreme court. A steam thrashiog machine exploded near Kenesaw on the 4th, killing J.'A. Smith, the farmer on whose place the machine was at work. Smith was blown about twenty yards, his bowels ripped open and his head neatly cat off, The report of D. H, Wheeler, recenely pub- lished, makes a splendid showing for the st ite. Nearly all the averages are several per cent. over one hundred, which is based on the crops of Jast year, when all kinds of cereals and veg- etables were abundant. The innocent revolver gotin its work at Cherry Creek, Buffalo county, last week. Mrs, H. M. Porter stood in front of Ellsworth Murphy while he toyed with his gun and re- ceived a_twenty-two caliber cartridge in the chest. The doctors plowed around and found the lead, and saved Mrs. Porter from being bottled. The total number of B. & M. engines now number 117, and ten more are ordered and are to arrive this fall. Several yearsago 26 locomotives and other rolling stock in proportion, and when the pew locomotives arrive the iucresse in the number of new locomotives on the road i seven years will be just an eyen hundred,—[Plattsmouth Journal, The Beatrice Gaslight and Coke company has incorporated. The amount of authorized capital stock s §50.000, divided into shares of 8100 each. The corparation is to continue for fifty years, Tne limit of indebtedness ls 830,- 000. The incorporators are Charles G. Dor- rey, J. D. Kilpatrick,' Thos, Yule, J. E. Smith, Frank Barclay. The cannon ball train on the B. & M. was thrown from the track at Wymors, last week, by an open switch, The envine and all the cars except the rear cosch and sleeper were wrecked and are still lying in the ditch where they were thrown by the accident, The sleep- er and coach kept the rails, The train was running slow and no one was hurt. " A sad accident occurred in Nance county, near Fullerton, on the 2nd inst. The two sons of i, H. Chase followed their father into the harvest field. Returning home the young- er one wandered into tall grass, laid down and fell asleep, The father, returning with a load of grain, drove over the p form of his sleeping boy, crushiog out his life Me. J, A, Smith, who lived upon the E. M, Dutton farm, three miles northesst from Kenesaw, county, was iustantly killed by the explosion of a threshing machine hoiler on the 4th. He had just commenced to thresh with a steam thresher, and just as the engine was started up the boiler explided, blowing Mr. Smith about twenty yards away, tearing out his bowles, nearly cutting off his head and mangling bis legs. “Pieces of the boiler were blown about forty rods. An old man named Ming, at Beatrice, had a daughter. A young fellow by the name of Oden persisted in paying his attentions to tha girl mugh to the chagrin of the old man, but to the apperant satisfaction of the damsel, ro out walking ¢ ame upon them h & revolver in his band and , threatening to blow s hole opera blood through his daughter's lover a3 big as » pump: kiv, Oden strack the old codger and knocked him down. The girl shricksd and was carried away while the irate old gentloman was cared for by the crowd. An explosion of gasoline literally cremated a Mrs, Scott, living on Raymond’s ranch in Custer county, Friday evening. The gasoline can was kept in & closed cellar, gas from which had tlled the cellar. Mrs. Scott was going intothe cellar with s lighted lamp in her hand, and when the lamp came in contact with the gas it exploded. setting her garments on fire, which were literally burned off, She ran up staira and wrapped herself in_the bed clothing and told her five little chil 'ren to run out of the house. Falling to smother out the fire she gos out of bed, tore off her cloth. ing, carried out the gasoline and coal oil cans and ran to the barn, whra she waa found by her husband almost burned to death, The Blsir Republican calls for the banish- ment of ‘"Mother Hubbard«" up there and says: *“Why don't our city authorities follow up the exawple of Omaha and suppress the mother hubbards? Not only ladies flaunt them fo tha facos of the public in a manaer to paralyze, pfl.ri'{ aud bringinto discepute good order and morals, but Chas, Slades er and hisemployes at the red livery stablo persist in arraying themselves in baggy and iniqui- tous garments of the same description, scan. dalising the town, lrizhl-:lmimulm, orscs, snd men and women of weak nerves, We ask for velocm, hoop skirts and pull-backs!” Quin Bohansa, the spelling professor whose sente ce of death has been deferred by the supreme court, is writing letters to the papers about *how & wman feels who is under sentence of death,” In one of them he says: **Lhe fiat bas gone forth that I must be coolly and de. liberately killed on the Sth day of August.” The fiat which Quin *'coolly and deliberately sent forth” was a bullet which pierced the heart of his victim in Waverly, * He had no time to contemplate the ‘“‘awful n'n'n(wr of doath” when the wurderers bull ¢ winged his spirit to the other shore. The victim was an honored_business man; his murderer & brow- beating loafer. The crime was deliberate and co'd bloaded. Out with sympathy and seoti. ment is such & case. are sold without examination, and the purchaser does not know what he is get- CITY WALKS AND TALKS. ——Frotwell, the auctioneer, recently s0ld two large lots of unclaimed pack- ages for the express companies. These package sales, which occur about once & yoar, are made up of trunks, valises, bundles, boxes, eto, and occasionally a purchaser secures quite a valuable prize for a small sum of money. The packages ting until after he has paid his money and opened up his package. The pur- chasers are prohibited from opening the packagesin the auction room as it attracts the attention of the crowd and interferes with the sale. ‘‘Some very amusing things happen at these sales,” said Fretwell. *One young man bought a package for $1.25 and got a nice silver watch and chain and $3.00 in old coins, The next package that was put up was markea O. 0. D. $20, and a Dutchman bought it for $5. It proved to be a box of Fishblatt's medicine. He bought another box marked U. v. D. $30, and that too turned out to be some of Fish- blatt’s preparations. He was somewhat exasperated at the result of his invest- ments, but nevertheless bid off 'lnothsr box marked O. O. D, 850, which also came from Fisholatt's laboratory. ‘Gott im himmel’ he exclaimed, ‘who is dis Blattfish, anyhow! Ish der, anyting dish house except Fishblat? Notwithstanding our ruleagainst opening anything in our house, he uncorked this medicine and the room was immediately filled with a horrible stench. He was ordered out on the sidewalk with his perfumery, and a policeman who hap- pened along just at that time told him to move along with his stink factory. I picked up a long and thin package and announced that 1t once belonged to Sara Bernhardt, and like its owner 1t had gone astray. It sold for $7.50. The pur- chaser found in it a pair of blue ever- alls, an old oclay pipe, two airs of old stookings, and other rubbish, The next grip, which had once belonged to Lieut. Greely, in my mind, sold for $3.00, and contained a pair of Arctics, & pair of far gloves, and a sealskin cap. The very next grip, which sold for a dollar, had a $36 velvet dolman in it. This was followed by the sale of a box for $2.25. It con- tained three new suits of clothes, a feather bed, and eight or ten sheets. The purchaser was a woman, who soon after bought a fine suit of broaacloth for $3.00. She went away happy, as the clothes would just suit her old man, so she satd.” **x ——“The greatest fraud that I have known for a long time appears to have been this Dr. Fishblatt,” continued Fretwell. ‘‘He used to send out thous- andsof his medicine packages all over the country, marked ‘collect on delivery.’ The prices marked ;on the boxes ranged from $10 to $50, although the medicine was all alike. He marked his boxes ac- cording to his ideas of how much this or that victim would stand. Hundreds of these boxes were never taken out, but were returned to the home express office. Fishblatt refused to receive them, as they were evidently of no value to him I remember of a barrel of this stuff com ing back from Kansas City, as the con. signee refused to receive it. It was marked O. O. D., 8125, Fishblatt di- rected it to be sent back to Kansas City and collect 8100 for it. This didn't work, He then dropped to $75, and finally to $15; whereupon the victim took it, and then Doc. probably made $10 out of the transaction.” 5 *'x ——*‘I went over to Chicago the other day,” remarked an Omaha man, ‘‘and occupied a lower berth in a Pullman car. There were only six other passengers in the sleeper. When I retired I found the upper berth was let down, although there was no one to ocoupy it. I tried to shove it up, but couldn’t do it, as it was locked down, Ifound it very inconvenient to undress, and in the morning it was very awkward for me to get my clothes on again. Now, why could not the upper berth just as well have been kept up in- stead of down,as there was no call for it? I asked the porter that question and he said that it is a rulo of the company to require payment for a whole section in case the upper berth is kept up. 5o it seems that it is a way they have of mak- ing it as uncomfortable for a passenger as possible. I think 1f a passenger pays the high price of three dollars for a berth, be is entitled to all the accommodation that can be conveniently given without incar- ring any extra expense to the company. ‘So there is no possible way for a lower berth passenger to have the upper berth kept up, is there?’ I asked of the porter. *Well, sah, folks dat has trabeled know how to fix dat business, If a passenger slips a half dollah into de porter’s hand, up goes de berth, and don't you forgeteit. But de company is mighty strict about dav business, and we has to be kind o’ careful and not get cotched,” So you see the porter makes a pretty good thing of it, as he probably picks up a good many half dollars in this way.” * —*The lleep!ng‘ ;qrtarl make more money than the public have any idea of,” continued the gentleman. *‘They make for his goods are authorized by hisjem- ployers,” **x ~~=*On my way back from Chicago,” continued my friend, *‘I thought I would economize a little by going withont my dianer, but when one of the dining car waiters came through the train distribut- od an inviting bill of fare headed with the line, ‘As we journey through life, lot us live by the way,’ I changed my mind and went into the dining car and got an exocellent meal. Ifelt better sat- isfied with myrelf and everybody else after that, as a good dinner makes a man feel better natured. This shows that a little judicious advertising is a good thing. ~ Had not the bill of fare been headed with ‘As we journey through life let ualive by the way,” I would have gone without my dinner, and felt mean all afternoon, and the company would have had 75 conts less in its treas- ury.” ~——*It was in Jowa that I took dinner in the dining car,” said the passenger, “‘and I noticed that the bill of fare con- tained the usual wine list. ‘Give me a pint of Piper Hiedsieck'said I to the wai- ter. ‘Oan’t do it, sah. Sorry, sah, but de prohibition law won't "low us to sell liquor in dis yer state,’ replied the wai- ter. ‘Isn’t there any way to let me have some wine, or even ale?’ I asked the conductor. ‘There is no way to get around it,’ said he. ‘The company’s or- ders are very strict on this matter, and we can't take any chancos.’ ” THE THIRD DISTRIOT. A Lively Protest from the Home ot Jlarkson. SoHUYLER, August 10,.—Major Clark- son’s man Friday is very much incensed and seriously objecta to the epithet given him by Tae Bee, Mac is a comparative stranger in this district. He came to Schuyler recently and ever since his ar- rival trained with the wrong crowd. One of that crowd is Friday's man ‘‘Crusoe,” alias T. S. Clarkson, These fellows have made it their business to run the prima- ries in town and county in the interest of the machine and carefully exclude the kickers of two years ago. Now Tre Bee may not be directly interested in the “Bloody Third,” but indirectly it has an interest, and if it can prevent the nomina- tion of a man inferior to the present In- cumbent, or if it can frustrate the scheme of the railroad directors to smuggle in one of their tools, 1t will have the ever- lasting gratitude of every honest republi- can in the Third district. Of all the small fish in the congres- sional frying-pan this man Clarkson is the smallest. He has neither the knowl- edge nor ability ner training for this i Even as a business man he is pronounced by all who know him as im- practicable, visionary and unsuccessfal. 1 shall give you at some other time a his- tory of his business career; for the pres- ent it will suffice to state that the major don’t sail any more under his own initials, but prefers to do business under the name of M. B. Clarkson. His numerous friends in Dakota regret this change very much. As a politician, he is one of the ringmasters, and in '82 hurrahed a delegation for Valentine against the express wishes of two-thirds of the party. As a public orator, he made his first debut in Fremont two years ago bv delivering a harangue, using the vilest language. He stumped this county for Valentine, denouncing Turner a traitor and demo- crat. Then he went to Hastings, where he achieved some notoriety by bringing in a resolution censuring Postmaster- General Gresham for the removal of that political bummer, Paul Vandervort. This was the first and only great public effort of his life. Speaking of Vander- vort reminds me of the striking simi- larity in the make-up of the character of these two great men: ‘‘Your General Paul” and *Our Major Thad.” Both are mediocre men, with any amount of cheek, brazen impudence and overbearing arrogance, which qualities, when well combined, and blended, will pass with some people ple for brillisncy and dash. They all work the ‘*hail-fellow, well met trick” for all that is in it. They treat the boys with a sort of condescending familiarity, slap Jim and Jack on the back, tell old yarns, and do most anything just for the sake of getting their name up as “one of the boys,” They both use the Grand Army for a political stepping stone, They both” held government pusitions and both were bounced. Your Paul, howev- or, is a *‘genersl,” our Thad is only a major, - There is whero the similarity stops. Our Thad. is out of a job and wants an offico to retrieve his broken fortunes; a congressional seat s preferred, but if needs be, he will not refase a land or postoflice, or even a poat tradership, Colfax county will doubt- less give him their delegation out of mere sympathy, even if they do not want him, There are plenty of good men of supo- rior qualities in the Third district, and it is to be hoped that our next convention will select for}its candidate nov “one of the boys,” but a man with a olean record and one who has the ability aud integrity to represent the interests of the citizens of tho Third districe. “Sixry-Six,” e — more than the Pullman conductors, al- though the conductors get $70 and the porters only $10 per month ealary. The porters receive at least 26 cents from each nger, and frequently they get a half dollar, I venture to say chat their income from this source ranges from $100 to $125 & month, I have heard of some porters making as highas $150 a month, Some of them accumulate quite rapidly and invest their savings in real estate, while others spend their money as fast as they get it,” **x ——‘The greatest train robber of the age, however, is the newsboy,” said the same gentleman, ‘“The way the news boy works the train is a caution, I asked him the price of a pear, and he de- manded ten cents, The same sized pear I could buy in Ohisago two for five cents at any fruit staud, Peaches, that sell in Chicago three for five cents, he sold four for a quarter. Bananas, which are being sold four for a nickel in Chicago, he sold four for a quarter or two for tifteen; and everything else he had was held at the same extortionate prices. Yet he found plenty of .:fm on the train who allowed themselves to be robbed by patronizing him, One of his tricks is to gather up newspapers that he has sold once and sell them over again. This is, of course, all profit to him. [ can hardly beliove that the high prices that he uh! Base Ball at Central City, Special to Tax Bre, CrNTRAL Ciry, Nk, Aug, 8—Tn the game of base ball at this place to.d bet North Platto and Contral ‘Cityy the seea stood 15 to 8 in favor of the {mn. The North Platte boys came expecting an easy victory but could not bat the Central City pitchor. Thoy suffered fivo whitewsshos out of mine innings, ¥, o — Classical, Boientific, Commeroial and ments.” Bith sexos adwitted. Taitlon Tow, fog cheap, best of society Fully equipped | o B Address for particulars, Rov. “.“%fl l‘;amm’ % 1. C M. Des Islots, Bocretary b, Iy me 3@ e — Fatally Burned. Special Dispatch to Ve Bui Price, Neb., August 10, —Mrs. Scott, liv- ivg on Raymond's ranch, was fatally burned Inst evening by her clothes catehing fire from & gawoline lamp, which exploded, e —— Bank Statement, . ’Ii::v Yoy, A“S“%‘J(’l ~Bank ut:tamonl: Lonus, increase, $576,900; specie 86 31,600,200; " depasits inérease, 1,548,400, ro- serve increase. $984,100. The banks now hold 831,159,600 in excess of legal requirements, o — *“The best ls the cheapest.” This is an old adago and the essence of wisdom. The best medicine, and the only sure oure for diseases of the liver, kidneys and bladder is the old and reliable Huxr's [_Kldnoydmd _Ll;::] Remeoy. Physi- cians endorse it highly and ibe it in their practice, v e o | | |