Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 25, 1884, Page 4

4 LS THE OMAHA BEE Omaha Office,/No.;016 Farnam 8. Oouncil|Blufls Offce, No 7 Pearl St. Btreot, Near Broadway. Now York[Oftice, Room 65 Tribune Bullding. i Pablished every morning, except Sunday' The only Monday morning daily. NS B WAL 10,00 | Threo Months ., 5.00 | One Month. . Per Week, 25 Cents. TR WREKLY BEW, PUBLISHED NVERY, WRDNRSDAY, One_Yont. Bix Monchs - YARMS FOSTRAID, e Yoar... /82,00 | Three Months Bix Months, . Ono Month Amerioan News Company, Solo, Agonte, Newsdeal i In the United States. CORRRAPONDRNOR, A Oommunioations relating to Nows and Editoria matters should be addressed to the Eorron or Tum B, ; BURINRSS LuTTRRA, All Businoss Totwors and Remittanoes should b addrossed to TiR Ban PUALISIING COMPANY, QMATIA Dratts, Cheoks and Postoffioo orders to be phy Able to the order of the company. § THE BEE PUBLISHING C0,, PROPS’ 'B. ROSEWAT E , ditor, A, H. Fitch, Manager Daily Circulation, P, 0. Box, 488 Omaha, Neb, Poon AcrE is to be left out in the oold. Nobody wants to adopt the off 'un, Mu, Lamn’s friends are very anxious concerning the health of Judge Gaslin, Tur B. & M. gravel trains did excel- lent work, as usual, in the second dis- trict for Laird. The railroaders are all out of politics, but just keep your eye on John M, Thurston next Wednesday. It is now whispered that Captaln Her- man wrote Hendricks' letter of accep- tance. This explains why it was so short and sweet. SERGEANT BRAINARD, one of the Gree- 1y survivors, has already begun lecturing. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Turne aro now ten littlo republican candidates for the office of commis- sioner of public lands and buildings, but after Wedresday next thero will be only one, Tue same old ring that wanted Loran Clark in the state treasury,will shout for Charley Lamb next Wednesday. As be- tween Lamb and Clark it is a choice between lamb and sheep. Tnr Honorable Peter Schwenk was bound to get in a resolution in the Co- lumbus convention endorsing the bril- liant public career of E. K. Valentine. There is some gratitude in Peter. He Tk board of public lands and build- ings still preservea sepulchral silenco | about those school land frauds. Is the robbery or the gravity of the accusation? | universal demands of the press for an ex- planation? propose a few simplo questions, easily answered, as affecting the question of their guilt or innocence. ral govornment make the generous do- nation of the 16th and this state? that the lands thus donatedshould not be sold for less than seven dollars per acre! the leasing of lands when they could not bo sold for that price! question easy we further ask was it not to obtain some revenue from the same; to obtain a fair interest or a fair price. How could revenue be obtained from a nomi- nal valuation? lease the lands to obtain more population why did not the board lesse to actual settlers only? creased valuation to actual sottlers? Have not the capacity and tact state offices at Lincoln, have beea par- questions are simple, and lot the answers assembling of the state convention, so SEPULCHRAI SILENCE, board paralized by the magnitude of the Dare they continue to ignore the almost To aid them from their prostration, wo First, For what purgose did the gone- J6th sections to Second, Why did the stato provide Third, Why did the state provide for To make this If it was desirable to Does the Lincoln ring leaso at in- much business to lease to in- dividuals as the Lincoln ring particularly when tho Lincoln ring is composed in part of clerks and subordinates of the stato board, and who are/presumed not to be of 8o large statue as the members of the board. Fourth., How many acres of land have been leased by the present board ! In what counties] located? At what ap- praised value? Fifth, What clerks in the different board as ties to or interested in sald leases Animmediate answer is desired. The bo plain and unequivocal. The people de- mand it, republicans demand it beforethe that in case the answers are not satisfac- tory, they may nominate men who will save what has not already been etolen from tho school lands, and, if possible, rescuo from tho hands of the spoilers those already stolen, and take the neces- sary steps to bring to justice those who may have beon engaged in conspiracy and robbery. SCHOOI, LAND LEASES AND PRE-EMPTION LAWS. Dowxs, Kas., Aug., 19, 1881, Editor of Tty Brr, 1. Doos tho ruling of the board of pub- lic lands inNobraska apply to all school has not forgotten his master. Pork oounty promises to give Mr. Laird a majority of 500, This ought be done easily enough.—Hastings Gazette-Journal, e @ | | 1f nobody runs against Laird he can probably get the above votes in Polk and Adams counti Awmona the assets of James D. Fish,the bankrupt president of the Marine bank of New York, are forty shares of Keely motor stock. If that is the kind of stock Mr. Fish was speculating in his opera- tions were certainly of a very scaly na- ture. Ir only costs ten cents to send a ten- word message from St. Louis to Chicago. This is cheaper than writing, and the wires are kept red hot with commercial lotters. The rate between Omaha and Council Bluffs, a distance of less than four miles, is twenty-five centa. It was within the power of the republi- can party to place in nomination candi- «dates whose election by from 3,000 to 10,- 000 majority in each of the three con- greasional districts wonld bo an assured fact. The wery narrow margin by which the present delegation escaped defeat two years ago in the state that gave Gar- field 28,000 majority, was a popular protest that should have beon heeded in the Ffrst and Second districts as it has been in the Third district. That party succeas is eeriously imperilled in the renomination of Weasver and Laird will hardly be denied by any well- informed person—however much he may be attached to either of these candidates. 1f defeat does come, as it almost surely will, in one or both of these districts—if men of character, ability and integrity are mnominated by the opposition—the blame cannot justly be laid at our door, Some very important changes must he made in our city charter and in the rev- enue laws of the state by the next legis- Aature respecting property asessments, taxation, revenue collections, and sala- ries of marshal, mayor, clerk and other officials. Would it not be timely for the city authorities to take action toward a thorough inquiryinto the wants of the city and & discussion of the measures which it is essential to have incorporated into our laws next winter. It has been customary to wait until after the election and often to within a fow days of the session and then we usualy get an ill-di- gested and hastily compounded set of bills, upon which even the members from this county disagree. The result gener- ally is a set of crazy-quilt amendments, which, like the celebrated viaduct bill, have to be killed of by the courts in gr- der to prevent disaster and confusion in municipal aflairs, The proper time for stating our wants to the delegation from Douglas county is before they are elected, or forthat matter before they are nominated. Let every candidate understand what is expected of him. If he dissents and proposes to represent his own sweet will rather than the wish- es of the community let him stay at home, lands, oronly to the school Zlands in Keith county; in other words, will those who have leases dated in 1880 have to obtain new ones? 2, Did the new homestead law repeal- Ing the pre-omption and timber culturo act pass the senate. or is the old law still in force. A. M. Houuxo, ANSWER. 1. The recent ruling of tho state board of public lands compelling the re- turn of the leases of school lands in Keith county, to bo substituted by new leascs, applies only to Keith county. This was owing to an exposure of the fact that the school lands in that county had been fraudulently disposed of. They were ap- praised at a nominal sum—their value being put at only a fow cents an acre, whereas they are worth from £3 to $7 per acre. They were not advertised and the lenses were given in a secret man- ner to a syndicate of land sharks. The whole thing was a fraud from beginning toend. Thisis acknowledged by the board by its act of calling in the leases. But Keith county is not the only county in which our school lands have been fraud- ulently given away to speculators and land-grabbors. 1t is the opinion of the Bek, however, that loases dated in 1880, will not have to bo replaced by new ones, unless procured by fraudulent appraise- ment., 2, Thebillto repeal tho pro-omption and timber culture laws was passed by the house of ropresentatives by a vote of 149 to 40, It had not been acted onbythesen- ato bofore congress adjourned, and is therefore %still *pending, hence the pro- emption and timber culture laws remain in full forco. That they were pealed was an outrage, because under those laws gigantic trauds have hsen per- potrated by land-grabbers, who have been enabled to rob the public domain of mil- lions of acres. The timber culture law especially was gotten up by and for the sole benefit of land sharks, and they are still taking advantage of its provisions, not re- 7HE ONE MAN POWER, A new doparture in Nebraska politics has been inaugurated by Governor Dawes. When the Saline county republican con- vention met two weeks ago ho had him- self invited and suthorized to name the delegates to the state, congressional and judicial conventions, The example st by Mr, Dawes has been followed by candidates for congress and state offices in other counties wherever these conventions where made up of dummies and henchmen, A more debasing innovation in politics can hardly be conceived. I¢ will do more than any other agency to destroy what there is left of self-respecting manhood in the republican party of Nebraska, 1t is a hundred per cent worse than tho machine which packs primary elec- tions and manipulates conventions When a single man is given the unlim- ited power of naming delegates to one, two or three conventions, to nominate judges, district-attorneys, coagressen and state officers, & political dictatorship is created which tramples under foot all individuality, and reduces the delegates in convention to] mere tools. In the ac-; tion of Governor Dawes, the one-man power has reached the height of audacity party power and insolence. desires to survive, the must be frowned down and crushed out. 1t the republican one-man It is bossism in its most offensive form, Even the rallroads have never done anything s0 bold and impudent as this, County committees have arrogated to themselves the power to appoint delegates to conventions instead of allowing them to be elected by the people, but under the Dawes plan we shall presently have no need of either primaries or conventions. The whole power of appointing state officers, congressmen, and all other officers from constable to United States senator, will be delegated to a syndicate of half a dozen small bore bosses. Ii the republi- can state convention doesnot denounce famous practice in the mest em. phatic manner it will be direlict in its duty to the principles of republicanism and the great maas of the individual voters in Nebraska, A STRIKING CONTRAST. Ina recent speech Mr. John Bright, referring casually to the existing depres- sion in trade, said that while the the trouble might be said to be world- wide, it was ovident that England was sufforing less than any other country on either side of the Atlantic. His esti- mate of the relatively small shrinkage in England is borne out by the trafic re- turns of the leading English railways for the first half of the present year, as com- pared with the corresponding period of 1883. The great Northern, the Lan- cashire and Yorkshire, the Manchester, Sheflield and Lincolnshire show small gains; the great Western, the London, Chatham and Dover, the London and Northwestern, and the Northeastern small losses. The only company which is obliged to reduco its dividend as much as 1 per cont. is the London and Northwestern, which drops from 7 to G per cent. per annum, its ag- aregate capital being £89,000,000. There is a large amount of new capital going into extating railways in the way of im- provements and eoxtensions, the Lanca- shire and Porkshire alone calling for £3,- 500,000 to be expended in the next cighteen months, The Great Northern calls for nearly £2,000,000, the London, Chatham & Dover for £1,752,000, and the Metropolitan District for £1,000,000. Here is $40,000,000 worth of new work cut out on four old English railways in a dull season. The comparative prosperity of the British railways con hardly be as- cribed to the free trade policy or any artificial drops which support the traf- fic in Great Britain. The British railways are honestly built and honestly managed, under the rigid supervision of the government The stock dividends are issued only m money actually invested. Fictitious ap- ital has no place among the assetsof . Brit- ish railroad. In this country near.y every railroad is built by credit mob’.ier inside rings, at extravagant outlays or wretched cquipments. They are u aally bonded for all they are wrrth and then unlimited quantities of stock are issued and kept afloat in tF market by stock gamblers. When the lambs have been plucked and th patrons have been tqueezed out of all they can possibly con- tribute, tho watered stock naturally shrinke and depreciates, and dividends are passed. These periodic stock panics must continue until the American peo- ple have wrung the water out of all the fraudulent stocks and put an end to all stock inflation by rigid national and state laws. NEUTRAL IN NOTHING. Fresosr, Aug. 23, 1883, Editor of T By I have been a constant reader of Tue Bk and took the paper as neutral or anti-monopolist. I find out you had bet- ter hang your flag for Blzine and Logan, and you will find host of others from here, G, A. Unvrry, A Gorman Clevoland and Hendricks or bust. Wo fail to understand what the writer really means, unless it is that he wants to find favlt ‘with Tue Ber for support- ing Blaino and Logan, 1If he 1sa con- stant reader of Tur Bex he ought to know that this paper is neutral in noth- ing. It takos its position upon every issuo, and maintains ic. In this nation- al campaign tho issucs are simply be- tween the democratic and republican par- ties, Blaine and Logan are not anti- monopolists, neither are Cloveland and Hendricks, ~ Whenever and wherever the anti-monopoly issues are squarely met Tur Bee will be found where it has always stood—against corporate monop- ly and for the peeple. Sioux county, where the noble red man still roams at large, and where the cowboy is in all his glory, was represent- od In the third district congressional re- publican convention by one of the noblest red (headed) men that ever gathered political scalps tor a pastime. His first name is Vio Bierbower. Asa member of the congressional campaign committee hewill sce that Sioux county casts its full quota of thirteen votes for Hon. Gearge W. E. Dorse . Is Douglas county to have no candi- dates before the republican state con- vention, excepting those for state super- intendent of publio instruction? rmes Piles are froquently proceded by & sense of welght in he back, loins and lowsr part of the abdomen,causing the patient to suppose he has some affection of the kidneys or ne organs, At times, sym toms of indigestion aro present, as flatuoncy, unessiness of the stomach, ete, A molstcre like perspiration, praduciug » aery disagrosablo itching particu- arly at nlght after getting warm in_bed, its very common attendant. Tnternal, External and Ttching Piles yiold at once to the applica- tion of Dr, o's Pilo Remedy, which acts directly - the parts aflocted, Sbaorblug th tumors, aliaying the intense | , aud o feoting o permauent oure Where other rem dies have failed. Do not delay until the dra'n on tho system produces permanent disability, but trv it and be cured. Bchroter & Becht, ““Trade supplisd by O, ¥ G y OMATTA ALY REE--MONDAY. AUGUST 2° LT RARY NOTES, McPherson's Hand-book of Politics for 1884 is on our table, filled, from first page to last, with the political which enter into political d The important legirlation effected during the last two years includes the Civil Service Act, the Tariff of 1883, the American Merchant-Marine Act, and the Supplemental Act touching Chinese Immigration. Of these, the first two were enacted by the Forty-Seventh Con- ssion. gress and the last by the Forty- Eighth, The entire record of proceedings of each is contained in this volume; also the action upon the unsettled and pending questions of the Electoral Count, the Presidential Succes- sion, the Nations] Bank Circulation, the Trade Dollar, Inter-State Commerce, National Aid to Common Schools, Sup- plemental Anti-Polygamy Legislation, Unearned Land Grants, Enlargement of the Navy, and the priociples on which our pension system to soldiers and sailors is to be reconstructed. Of the decisions of the supreme court, printed in full, three are of commanding interest-—those relating to the Civil Rights Act, the “Le- galTender,"question,the **Anti- KuKlux" laws. The chapters devoted to the detailof constitutional movements in the various states, and of constitutional propositions in the two houses of congress, show with clearness the tendency of political thought and the direction which political activity will take. The questions of the future are enwrapped in these sugges- tions, and they deserve more than hasty perusal, The hand-book isas impartial state- ment of the important political facts of the period, and will be invaluable to campaigners, debaters, students, editors and all intelligent citizens, 1t is_pub- lished by James J. Chapman, Wash- ington, The September Centruy aims to rival the August “Minsummer Holiday num- ber'’ in entertaining summer reading, as well as in articles of unusual importance. Mrs, Mary Hallock Foote has given a ro- mantic story of Monterey. The other short story of the number is a humorous dialect story of southern life, called *‘The Brief Embarrassment of Mr. Iverson Blount,” by Richard Malcolm Johnston, Charles G. Leland’s “Legends of the Passamaquoddy” Indians (with illustra- tions drawn on birch bark by a Quadi In- dian), has the interest of fiction as well as a value to students of folk lore. Henry James's two-part story, “A New England Winter,” is concluded, and Boyesen’s longer novelatte, ‘A Problem- atic Character,” is continued. Mr. Cable's novel, *‘Dr. Sevier,” appraaches the conclusion, which will ha printed 1n the October number. *“From Coventry to Chester on Wheels,” the opening illue- trated paper, recounts the experience of Mr. Joseph Pennell, the artist, during a trip on a tricycle in England. W, J. Stillman’s second paper, descriptive of his yackt journey, “On the Track of Ulysses,” is even more attractive pictori- ally than his first paper. A stirring in- cident of life in foreign lands is also given in Horace D. Warner's description of *‘A Tropical Hurricane”in Costa Rica. Prof. S. P. Langley, the well known as- troacmer of tne Alleghenoy Observatory, bugins in this number a series of illus- crated papers on the *“New Astronomy.” An essay of extraordinary importance to physical science in this country is J oseph Edgar Chamberlin’s analysis of ‘The Foreign Eloment in our Population.” Besides this, there is an unusual quan- tity of excellent poetry and miscellan- eous matter in the editorial and other departments of this magazine. The Manhattan for September is cno of unusual interest. Among the con- tents are ‘' The Chalico Bearers,” a poem, by Elizabeth Studdiedford Me- Chesney, with illustrations by Jessie Curtis Shepherd, ** The Misericordia of Florence,” by Ada Bakounine, with il- lustrations by Mcllhenney,; ** A Glance at the Hungarian Capitals,” by J. W. Davis; * Balzac and Literary Circles of his time,,” by James Lane Allen; *‘ Na- nee,” a story, by Hope Ledward; sketches entitled: ‘‘On a Siamese Pa- goda,” by David Kerr; *‘The Grave- Digger’s Scene in Hamlet, "by Honry F. Randolph; “Californian Acadia,”” by est Ingersoll, and soveral others. “Trojan,” the serial, is continued; Kate Fields keeps up her lively chat in *My Diary in London,” and John Bernard adds to his ‘*Retrospactions of the Amer- ican Stage.” The “*Iiscent Literature,” “Town Talk,” and *‘Salmagundi” depart- ments are attractive and diversified. The Manhatan is growing ravidly in popu- larity, and promises to come to the front rank in American magozines. Tho Soptember number of Harper's Magazine is iu itself quite a tour of Eu- rope. Mr. Rideing describes *A Run Ashore at Queenstown,” including Blar- ney Castle and Killarney, with many il- lustrations; passing on to Lond.n, there is more of R:v, Treadwell Walden's ac- count of *“*The Great Hall of William Rufus,” with its portraits of the early kings and queens; crossing to I'rance, Miss Humprey’s pon and Mr. Reinhart’s pencil describes tho lifo at the French sea-gide resort, Trouville; aud, finally, the artist Boughton strolls farther in Holland. At home, Mr. Ernest Inger- soll descrlbes the **Wheat-fields of the Co- lumbia,” withillustrationsby Redwoodand a paper by J, . Pyle, with illustrative dingrams, explains *“The Reservolr Sys- tom” now under construction to equalize the supply of water In the Mississippi. There are sketches, with fine portraits, of George Fuller by Frank D. Millet, and of Charles Reade by Robert Buchanan, the frontisplece of the number being a reproducion of one of Fuller's paintin, Further instalments of Roe's ‘‘Nature's Serial Story,” with Gibson's and Diel- illustrations; of Blacl “Judith Shakespeare;"” of William Sharp's *‘Tran- scripts from Nature.” with Alfred Par. son's illustrations; short stories by ‘‘A Working Girl” and Rose Terry Cooke; a one-act comedy, *“A Cloud on the Honey- moon,” by.J ulian Magnus; and a number of poems, by Will Carleton and others, fill out, with the editorial departments, a brilliant numoer, The frontispice of the September **Pop- ular Science Monthly” is a fine portrait of Prof. J. P. Lusley, chief geolegist for Pennsylvania, and president of the Amer- ican association for the advancement of science, of whom a biographical sketch is iven, The leading article of the num- er is by Prof. J. P, Cooke, of Harvard University, on ‘‘Scientific Culture; its Spirit, its Aim and its Methods.” *'The Upper Missouri River System,” by Les- ter F. Ward, is an illustrated article de- o8 [scribiog the action of the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers in continually cutting away on side of their valleys and build- ing up the other In **Where and how we Remember,” also illustrated, M, Allen Starr, M, D, presents the evi- dencesupporting the view that the various functions of the brain have each their definate location, ““The Astronomy of Primitive Peoples” and **Chinese Coro- ner's Inquests” are interesting asshowing the vagaries of i science. In ‘“'National Health and | activity facts | down on a het stove until heated, then remove contain Ammonis, Alum, Lime, Potash, Bone | Phosphates, (prove it by ' the above test). It is brepared by » Physician and Chemist with special regard to cleauliness and healthful: noss, minds untutored in | 1884. Work,” Sir Jamea Paget strikingly pre gonts an add:tional reason for sanitary in the loss which results to the nation from the sickness and early death of its workers, The **Chemistry of Cook- ery” and ““Morality of Happiness” series are continued, and the other articles are “‘Aims of the Study of Anthropology, by W. H. Flowers, F. . 8; “Sorgum as a Source f ," by Henry B. Par- sons; “Hygiene for Smokers,” by Dr. Felix Bremont; “How the Dodder be- came a Parasite,” by Joseph F. James; “Sun-Kinks,” by T. O'Connor Sloane; “TheZ Problem of Population,” by Chae, Morris; and “‘Protection against ~Light- ning.” Cassell's Family Magazine for Septem- ber presents an interesting table of con- tents, together with ita usual number of finely executed engravings. This is one of the most entertaining magazines pub- lished. One of its special features is articles of practical information, under the head of “‘The Gatherer” This de- partment alone is well worth the subscrip- tion price of the magazine. In fiction Uastell's magazine always contains charm- ing short stories by the very best authors, and its descriptive articles, which are plegantly written, are handsomely illus- trated. — POLITIOAL POP-CORN, “What are the wild iwaves saying, Sister, the whole day long: Why, probably they Fer relief f5om the camy 8¢, John is aware that all prohibition signs fail in dry times, The Tllinois prohibitionists have Fobls for a candidate and hobbies for o platform, Th close of the campaign will show the in- dependents in a truly pitiful plight.—Elgin News, The quadricnnial befuddlesomeness of the partisan newspaper is now approaching its worst stage, The real fssue of the campaign is apparcotly fast narrowing down to “Have we a Joseph among us?" The Germans thronghout New York Uity aro organizing to work for the election of Blaine and Logan, The republicans of Indiana wero never moro thoroughly organized than now, They are not only organized but enthusiastic. Notwithstanding that thousands of partisan organg aro shouting, “The campaign has _be- gun—full in,” the people do not seem to fall. How ephemeral is famo! Since the June convention not one diagram of President Ar- thur’s pantaloons has appeared in the fashion papers. In presidential y well to harvest the candidates’ crop of wild oats early in the swmmer. There's more serious business on hand for the fall. The attempt to 1 paign against Mr. ing but harm to tho c [Sthenectady Union Cloveland has gone fishing, but there's money says he wou't catch a fish with the head ¢n the wrong end. Nature doesn’t in- dulgo in froaks of that sort. The Washington clerks ave to bo accorded half fare by the railroads, for themsclves and familics, good for thirty days, when it comos time for them to go home and vote. What Mr. Blaine did soms thirty two years ugoas u teacher in Kentuck is of sm concern o people, and the democratic party refuses to fight the campaign on such issues. ult in noth- s opponen Puck to-day to Purk of M 3, when that very patriotic and consciencions journal referred to Gov. ornor Cloveland as “tho_creature of monopo- ists,” We appeal from ch 14, 1883 Ono hundred and forty-five members of the Stebblefield fumily beld a reunion at Bloom- ington, Il Among them ara forty-eight yoters. all of whow will voto for Blaiue and Logon. To say_that Butler will not hurt Cleveland in New York, is sheer folly, He is running to del him, not to recure his own eclection, and he frequently succeeds in doing what he starts out to do.—[Taylorville Journal, The oldest voters, who remember how Jack- £on was abused, do not call this a campaign of scandal, One of the mildest stories told about Jackson was that ha was a cannibal and frequently had a vourg bigger cooked for his table, The independents, instead of adopting Cloveland, should have nominated some men- ber of the Adams family as their can- didate. Thero js no safity for the indepen- dents except in sticking by the Adums family. The Tllinois democratic committeo announ- ces that Carter Harrison will “swing around the circle” on a special railroad train making apeeches at all the stopping places, Andy Johnson was the father of this experinicnt, and we all know what hecame of hir The campaign can he snid to have_opened, Seandal storics ware started_about Cleveland and Blai Mr Blaine has sued the In- n 0,000 damages, Ouy ned republican brethren got full than we expected.—{Kansas City quicker Limes. The Fulton Democrat published at Lewis- ton, the leading democratic paper of Fulton county, has desorted tha Cleveland ranks and run up the standard of St. John. This is one democratic prohibiticn paper if the world should never sco another. — (Bloomington Pun- L count both of their friends. ( o president of tl im of New York, and Mr. 19 of the original incorporators of the national prison asociation of tho United States, formers Tha Age, of Houston, Tex., offars this singu- lar prize: A reward of $50 will be given for the best written or printed peseription of o political ‘independent’ The' description to b embraced in not mora than 100 Jines of not 1 ten words each, and to be forward Ago office by the st of September, ise Mr. Cleveland in o from the indopend- ow_it, and they also v, if it g f order to recure ents, and the pe know that the d fico, will rule. No individual man or weak lly liko tho indopendents wil rulo them, or even help rule. — We know to our sorrow how it hos ruled in the past. She: “Wha 0 you 80 absorbed in reading, my dear?” He: “Schurz on Blaive,” She: “Cioodness gracious! What will the papers print next, T wonder? The minute a man ruos for offiee they cannot even let the pocr fellow's shirta alone, 1t's u downright out- rage, 1 thiok."~[Cincionati Saturday Night, this _state Advices from various parts note the fact that the re) g, cetinge, almost without exception, 'y large- Iy attended, the people exbibiting & degice of interest thus early in the convass that has been quiet unusual heratofors in- great politi- cul campagns, This is cheering augery,— [Chi- a0 JORIRAL The flutter which has been caused amonz Clevelend’s supporters by sthe announcement that Butler will run against hiw, is, in o measure allayed by an accassion which has recently been made in his benefit. Some of his Southern supporters have eent h “'the left hind foot of & graveyard rabbit shot on the grave of the Jate Jesse James.” Wit this charm on his person the New York gov: ernor will be invincible sgamst ill luck and can encounter all the hazards of the campaign without fear, That 15 at least the deduction from the prevalent supposition in the south e ORIGIN§OKX AMMONIA, Ammonia 1s obtained in large quantities by the putrefaction of the urine of animals,—&n. eyclopedia Britannica, Every housckeeper can test baking powders containing this disgusting drug by placing » can of the “Royal” or “Andrews’ Poarl to the cover and smell, Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder does not m-e-w-2m Mr, Laird’s Nomination, Laird's Spcech—No Favorite With the “Bee™ Defense of His Record, flis 20 Days of Agony Correstondence of Tie Bri. Hasrixas, Auguet 21,—On last eve- ning the second convention ever held in this congressional district renominated Mr. James Laird, on the first hallot. The preliminary canvass has been short but sharp and pointed. A large number of staunch republican papers have boldly arraigned the incumbent on his official record—and to some extent on his perso- nal record, which is honoy.combed with that looseness of conduct said to be a characteristic of Grover Cleveland, the democratic candidate for president. Up to within a few days it was confi. dentially believed that the opposition would have a decided majority over Laird, but the result proved disappoint- ing. This result was largely brought about bp the active work of the B. & M. railroad. At Red Cloud, McCook, and other points in the Republican valley the railrond strikers carried everything be- fore them, In one day, it is reported that seven men started out on the line of the road, on passes telegraphed for by Mr. Laird. Cap. Phillips and Roadmas- ter Campbell were the managers of this, RATLROAD POLITICAL BULLDOZING, Some delegates were offered passes to the convention and return if they would agree to vote for Laird, otherwise they would bave to pay their fare. Some sworn affidavits on these subjects will be published before the close of the cam- paign. Polk and Butler counties overy one said, would be against Laird, and if they had been he would have been de- feated. All reports agree that the people of those counties are bitterly opposed to him, and yet he had the delegates solid. Cap. Phillip is_credited with inventing the scheme which captured Butler, It is safe to say that Laird cannot carry either of these counties at the election, Nor can he carry York, Seward, Clay, Saline Jefferson, Kearney, Phelps. Franklin or Harlan at the polls. At least such is the claim of persons thoroughly posted in the politics of those counties. Judge Gaslin declined to allow his name to go before the convention, rightly believing that no republican is bound by the action of represertatives so elected. Hon. Geo. B. France received the hand- some compliment of 57 votes on the first ballot. Next to the railroad influ- ence, the most active forces in behalf of Laird were the SALOON KEEPERS AND BUMMERS. all over the district. The roputable pso- ple of Hastings confessed with shame, that the fellows who ran his campaign belonged to these classes. Supporting Laird through local pride, and the ex- pectation of favors from congress through his efforts, they yet had to take a back seat in the management cf affairs—the bums are always nearest his person and affections. Senator Manderson’s cortificate of good character and spotless habits may do for dress parade, but to those who know and have known for years of his mode of life, it will only excite & smile of de- rision, After the business of the convention was over Mr. Laird made a lengthy speech in justification of his record in general and of his Fitz John Porter vote m particular. Although attractively de- livered it was like most of Mr. Laird's speeches—more windy than solid; a regiment of words to a corporal’s &quad of 1deas, He began by referring to the calumn. ies of the press, mentioning by name Tk Bee. He considered himself a very much abused man. His triumph at the convention was evidently a surprise to bim on his own confession. Believing that he had earned the compliment of a second term, the fear that he would not be accorded a renomination caused him to “‘experience an agony for the last twenty days” such as his hearers *‘could not know and such, as he trusted, they might never know.” Tho convention, by a numerous and very decided ‘‘no” refused to make his nomination unanimous, and there were a large number of delegates who openly de- clared their intention not to support him, The for of Laird’s nomination has seriously jeopardised the election of a republican congressman from the cec- ond district. % e — it esolutions Passed by tne Lancaster County Teachers. Wo, the commirttee on resolutions re- port for the consideration of the Lancast- er county instituto the following: Wiikniias, the educational interests of this t hould cherish that such " aud ultivated by and educational gather- caster nty teachers do the ensuing voar at the high school builc the city of Lincoln, for the purpose of social reunion, and literary_entortamment, One of these meet- ings shall be in December, and the other in February. Resolved, that o ap- pointed to secure lecturers for these occasions, of which committee the county superinten- dent shull be chairman, Whereas, the motto of the teac her +bould be *'Onward and Upward” in his pro- fession, aud WhEREAs, Carefully selected reading is most conducive to advancement, therefore be it Resolved, That immediate steps be taken towards the organization of & county teach ers’ library, To accomplish this we would suggest that every teacher place in the hands of the county superintendent, who shall act as librarian, one or more books pertaining to ed- veatien, The said Looks xhall constitute a circulating library for the Len of thote who shall aseist in the formation of it. If at any time apy teacher remove from the county or leave the profession he cr she may be entitled to the work contributed, In addition to the use of this circuldting library, we would rec. «mmend the course of reading a8 prepared by of Kansas it, pmmittee of fiv e J. M. Greenwcod, ity, Missouri, or the Chautsuqus reading course which already has been adopted by siaty thousand students, In view of the fact Professors Grant and Draper, Mrs, Tiffany, Miss Byam and Miss Ball have la- bored arduously during the session of the in- stitute, therefore, be it Rewolyed, That we extend to them a vote of thaoks for their efforts in our behalf. We would acknowldge the same ubligation to the gentlemen who so kindly favored us with leo tures during the past scssion, Resolved, That we consider the past session of the Normal institute a very profitable one, {poumics VIFN THE 20 DISTRICT. | The Reilvoads and Bummers Securo | y commend otre worthy and_efficient dent, for his untiring zeal in behalf of nr schools, for his co-operation with the teachers in their work and for his efforts to elevate our avocation to th ity of & pro- n we hereby pledge him our hearty \pport Kesolved, That & copy of these resolutions o forwarded to the State Journal, the Work, and the Omaha Beg, Signed. | LAwnRENCE FossLEn. Wit T, CLing, Committee, | EvILY PULIFFSON, LFEONORA, RREVE, Mus, N, G, FRANKLIN, The above resolutions were adopted by the unanimous and hearty voice of the Lancaster county teachers and 1t appears to us that both the teachers and the in. stitute instructors as well as their super- intendent must be made of the true stuft to call forth such an expression of their sentiments. — ers is a household word all over the world, For over 50 years it has advertised itself by its merits, t 18 now ad- vertised to warn the pablic against counter- feits. The genuine article is manufactured by i, B, Siecort & Angostura ¥ SPENSION, —The bank at Marg)- terday, and_C. A MISSOURT 81, Louts, Augnst field Mo., suspende Brooks has Fean appointed receiver, - The 1 bilitics are reported to e 230,000, Asects unknown. LANCASTER BOLT CO'S, FAILURE, LaNcAsTER, Pa., August 23,—The Lancas- ter Bolt company assigned to-day. Liabilities 267,000, WAKNER'S BANK. Avnion, N, Y., August 23, —The situation at the suspended bank remains the same. Nothing will be known until the chest in the snfeis opened, It is thourht that it will be opened today. The bank officials and persons in charge will say nothing. Those who had confideuce in Warner and the bank ar losing it, Depositors are offering claims for 70 and 75 per cent, and there are no takers, E. K. Hart, of the Orleans County bank, says his bank is'prepared to pay all it owes, but there lias been no run and none is expected. The sheriff, in the suit by W, A, Parmley, has taken possesoion, Iverything was found belonging to Warner, which was not much, No provision was made by Warner for the support of his family, A ST, LOUIS DISTILLER FAILS. T, Louts, August 23,—Reports were circu lated yesterday that the Jacob Ambs Distille ing company were in trouble, and that more then one of their checks had been thrown out of the bank, but on statement of the firm that the matter had been satisfactorily wbout it in the news dispate ived t y, however, company divided their assets among creditors in propottion to the amounts due them, and announced their intention to retire from busine: It is stated that eeveral of the creditors ac ed the allotment of assets, but the Continental bank objscted, and late this afternoon fi ttachient suit against the E Tha liabilities of the te be §110,000, and their assets The firm e said owns the Wood have done an extensiv Among the assets are said to be 510,000 iu whiskey in bond. DAVID NICHOLSON'S Ml Exiract | —OR— LIQUID BREA FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS. This unoxcalled Extract of Malt is a refreshing, nourishing Tablo B verage; o pleasing, wholesome and invigorating Tonic; & remeaial Beverage, assist- ing the constitution t overcome the various weak- ening and wasting maladies, snd buildiog up a heal hy body sgain. THE NICHOLSON LIQUID BREAD IS REALLY [13 ’” The Beverage FOR NURSING MOTHERS, 24rOn sale at Schroter & Becht, M. Parr, M. B, Powell imrod & C Trade supplied b, ioholsox North 6th strect, § C. A.WILSON,M.D. (Faculty Prize Modical College of Ohlo, SPECIALTY PILES, FISTULA, And other Discascs of the Anus and Rectum. Boyd’s Opera House, *“Sufimaryiise OMATA, N eveod and wtt 18 and 15 ouis, Mo e Col OPENS FOR SECOND YEAR Septl7, 'S4 1 and Art Dopart Luition low, Fuly equipped ' facult ulars, Kov. W. W. Harshe dent, 1. C M. Doy lalots, Bellevuo, Nob. 1y wo 2w0 Commers Classical, Scientific, Bth tho Facuity JOSTETTERS " fo ble gro strong when Hoste tor's Stomich Hitor isused to promote as- similation of the food aud enrich the blood, Indigestion et obsticle to an acqui- tion of strength by the weak, iy an aii i 1 of this peerlesy i Loss of ‘ tpocd STOMACH ed by tho | reat in. vigorant, whith T braces up the pay- ical energios and for ifles the constitution agalnst discase, For salo by 1 drugiists and dealers gor orally T, SINEOXID. MANUFACTURER OF GALVANIZED [RON CORNICES. WINDOW CAPS, FINIALS, ETC. Westem Cornice-Works, [BON AND SLATE ROOFING. C. SPECHT, PROP. avd we hereby express our gratific:tion that to wany of our pumbir have availed thems <elves of the excellent opportunities ¢ffered. Wo “iecommend, furthemore, that every seacher of Laucaster county read at least one book on Kindergarten Methods during the ensuing yeur, We, the teachers.! 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