Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 26, 1885, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. Orrion No. 914 axp 018 Fanwax 81, '3- Youx Orrion, Roox 68 Tamavws Bomo- [ -cb I!o-uy mmln‘(fl a':!{',' '.-':lu B Whe Weekly Bes, Publihsed every Wednesday RAMS, PORTPAID. Ono Yoar, with premiam. . One Yoar, without precaiam. Bix Months, withoul premium One Monbh, on brial Bunday. d 1o Abe - Iating te News and Editerial QLT i Bastness Lotters and Remittanoss should be tiresnsd b0 Tah Ban PUSLISHING COMPAXY, ONANA. eoks aad Post offios m-n %o be made pay+ whle b0 .. udn of the compan) THE BEE PUBLISHIN(} 00, Props. B ROSEWATER, Epron p AL Pl Munager Daily Ciroulation, Mavor Murray will be his own suc- n!;aut the only candidate who will have a walkaway. REGISTRATION beglns lo morrow, Ev- ery voter should see that he is properly reglatored. Ix the np;olntmant of Sunset Cox as minister 1o Tarkey, Tammany has been glven a amall bite of patronage. Governor Hoapiry, of Ohlo, proposes to return to private life. Perhaps he has not been cffered anything yot by Mr. Qleveland. Tar democratic edltors are beginning to be remembered. Mr. Ham, of Du. buque, has been appolnted postmaster of that clty. Tur Arab version of the late Dattles on the suburbs of Suakim would give an interesting variety t> campalga literature at the present time, Mg. Cox, who has been appolnted minister to Tarkey, will now have an pp- portunlty to take a little trip to the Holy Land. e Waex Sunset Cox puts on his Tarkish trousers and relleves Low Wallacs at t he court of the Sultan, he will tell us, ‘Why We Laugh.” Tae appointment of sach fellows as Hlggine may lead the people to conclude that while soms raccals are turned out other rascals are turned In. Sunser Cox goes to Turkey. He can now play his jokes on the Sultan, who will no doubt appreclats the wit of the great American humorist. Tue Kansas City Times saya: ‘It pays to be a grand old democrat up in Ver- mont.” But it does not pay to be a grand old democrat in Nebraska, Hicains, of Omaha, wants It dis- tinctly understood that Higglns, of Washington, is no relation of his, al- though they are interested in the same oalling. Axrsor day will soon be heraagaln, but we presume that Dr. Miller will for once omit his annual send-off for the Sage of Arbor Lodge, who originated the day in Nebraska. TREASURER BUCK 18 & lucky man, He will have to do no electioneering, and spend but little money In order to be olscted by an overwhelming msjority over Mr, Blaok, Dr. Mruzer has served notice upon the democrats that those who bolt Boyd wlll be watched and branded. Who will brand those republicans who bolt their candidato and vote for Boyd? Carr, Sam, HErMAN ls after the cflice of Internal revenue ocollector, which s worth 4,800 a year. It is the best foderal position in the state. There's nothing small about the captaln, except hls stature, AccorDING to the Republican the only mistake made by the republican city con- vention was that it did not adopt a na- tional platform on which the candidates could plant themselves squarely. This is a strictly original idea. Moxg poetry is eald to come from Wis-: oonsin than from any other state in the Union, The quantity has somewhat di- inlnished, however, since the removal of Rlla Wheelor, but the quality remains about the same. Now let us see what the Hornberger wang will do. Perbaps Boyd and the Repudlican will be left without a coun- try.—{ Republican. With the Republican and the Herald to back him, Mr, Boyd ought to be safe oven if the country should go to smash, Tuosk three thousand names on that Boyd petitlon were not all genuine. John M. Thurston denles over his own namethat he signed It, aud we know of a great many other republicans that could do the ssme thing If they were dispescd to go {nto print, Tug St. Luull Globe-Democrat fills three columns of its valuable space with a portralt gallery of Texas atatesmen, Judglng from thelr sppearance, as shown {n this art gallery, they would be better fitted for [the penitentlary than for the leglalature. O recent nominations by President Cleveland the Rochester Post-Eupress (Rop.) says: ‘‘Thess appointments sur- prise politiclazs. They were not con- sulted. We hope Mr. Cleveland will continus to disregard them, It wlill be much better for him If he starves them out end runs the goversment withont heir assistance. WOMAN SUFFRAGE INNEW YORK Itis clalmed that the advocates of the woman suffrage movement In the New York legislature propose, if poesible, to confer udon the women of that state the right of suffrage without first submitiing the question to the vote of the people. Thishas created conslderable excitement in New York even among the women themselves, who are divided upon the subject. Many of the leading Iadles haye manifested a vigorous opporition to the measure, and 110 women represent- Ing the most prominent families, of New York city have sent In a protest to the legislatare, Thelr example will undoubtedly be followed by the female opponents of woinan suf- frage In every city and town in the state, and we would not be surprised If there are mora women who do not want suffrage than those who do, The New York Commer- cial Advertiser says that there Is the grayest danger that the bill will become # Iaw, and it calls for the most vigorous action to defeat it. It considers It a great outrage that the legislature elected with- out any reference whatever to this sub- ject “ahall work a revolution by extend- ing the suoffrage to women merely in satisfaction of thelr own fads, without asking consent of thelr constituents or finding out whether or not women gen- erally desire the suffrage.” The Adver- tiser adds that 1t will be well if the women who do not wish to have the burdens of politles, jury service, ete., imposed upon them, make haste and enter the protests, snd that ‘it is the duty also of men who believe that all grave questions of this kind ehould be dealt with deliberately and declded by thewill of the people, fairly ascertained, to protest promptly and vigorously agalnet this attempt to take snap judgment.” To sy the least the proposed action of the New York leglslature is not only singular, because it Is altogether out of the usual method of procedure In such matters, but it cer- tainly s very bold for It does not propose to allow the peopls to have any voice whatever upon the queetion. It hardly seama credible that such a measure can be passed in any such high handed way, but, as we have shown, serious fears are ex- preesed by New York papers that it will become a law unless vigorous steps are taken at once to defeat it. KANSAS' BOARD OF AGRICUL- TURE. Wo have reccived the fourth annual re- vort of the state beard of agricalture of Kansas. 1t is an elegantly printed volame of over 700 pages, containing an im- mense amount of valuable informatlion of a descriptive and statistical character |of evory county In the state, accompsnied by colored sectional maps of each county. A complete summary of the progress and development of the stats since its organ- {zation is given, besides the reports for the years 1883 and 1884, Tho perlod covered by these years has been one of great prosperity in all branches of in- dustry in Kansas. The populatien during the years Increased 172,665; there were 2,000,000 additional acres put un- der cultivation; the numbers of the var- {ous kinds of llve stock have increased largely during the samo time, the Inter- est keeplng abreast with the advancement made in agricalture. By consulting the pages of this exhaustive report any one will be convinced that the state of Kan- eas has every reason to be proud of her record. The faots presented tully war- rant the state in lesning such a complete report. Kansas isa great state, and it owes its presperity In a great measure to the liberal expenditure of money in judi- cious advertising, by which it has at- tracted the attentlon of home-seekers from all over the world. Had Nebraska followed a slmilar course she would to- day have been as graat a state as Kansas, The thoroughness with which the Kansas state board of sgriculture has done its work Is worthy of followirg even at this late day by the Nebraska board. Inad- ditlon to blennial reports the Kansas board iesues annual pamphlets giving in- formation concerning the resources and oapabilities of the state to thoso seeking homes In the west, and it also publishes quarterly orop’reports, and monthly crop [reports durlng the six months beginning with Aprll, Durlng the past twoyearsthe board has published 250,000 coples of reports of all kinds, All this work s done under the supervision of William Slme, secre- tary ofjthe board, who is evldently an ex- pert at the business. If Nebraska could secure the services of such & man to ad- vertlse her resources she wounld indeed be fortunate,’and if our board would study the methods of the Kansas board it could learn a great deal, At present the Ne- braska board virtually amounts to noth- Ing., Its principal business ls attending to the state falr 'and figuring out how to make both ends meet, U~LEss prompt actlon is taken by the county commissioners and city council In providing the necessary mesns for bulld- ing the retalning walls around the new court house there will be very great dan- ger to that building. There are now fis- sures extending in the ground to within five feet of the north porch, and the cracks all along the north bankjare liable at any time to cause a serlous landsllde, and particularly .o when the spring ralos begin, Something must be done imme- diately to provide concrete foundalions st least for the retaining walls to the height of the foundation of the bullding, The county commirsloners inform us that they have only $2100 on hand with which to carry on the county government until the end of the fiscal year. This will not be sufficlent to pay the salaries and court expenses. They have spent since January, outof the general fund for this THE DAILY BEE--THURSDAY MARCH 26, 1885 year, $51,000 for forniture, steam fixtures and construction of the court house. This has exhausted the entlre general fund, with the exceptlon of the small balance on hand. Inasmuch asthe clty owns seven-tenths of the property in the county It would seem to us that it is the manifest duty of the mayor and city councl to take Immedliate steps to aesist the comm/ssioners In ralalog the neceseary fands in some way. If the new court hoase front should be dlstarbed by sett- ling in any way, owing to the caving in of the banks, it wonld be an Irreparable damage which 8100 000 would not repair. GOULD AND ADAMS It is & very cold day when the rallroad monopollsts get left. During the late csmpaign it was an open secrct that James G, Blalne gave a very willlog ear to hisdear frlend Jay Gould, and if Blalne had been elected there is but little doubt that Gould, who contributed 80 liberally to the Belshazzar feast, ex- pected to exerclse a controlling influence over the adminlstration. It goes with- ont saying that Mr. Blalne's electlon would have been Jay Gould's salvation, and the Unlon Paclfic directory would not have been recrganized by Gould's retirement, On the other hand Charles Francis Adams, who represents Boston capital and culture, was a very out. spoken and unreservod supporter of Cleveland and reform. It was his good fortune to enllst with the battalions of the Lord and the winning candidate. Through Mr. Adams the Union Paclfic has secared a friend in court. It Is now conceded that it was his iufluence that kept Allen G, Thurman out of Mr. Cleveland’s cabinet, and subatituted Mr. Lamar, who always has had a warm regard for the vested rights of the rallway moncpolies. It was in perfeot acsord with the eternal fitness of things chat the man above all othera in the democrstic party who had a etainless record as an outspoken exponent and de- fender of the rights of the pecple as against the aggressions of corporate mon- opoly should be sacrificed as a peace of- ferleg to the distinguished mugwump from Massachusetts, who 1is trying to help the Unlon Pacific stockholders to save what little there is left of the wreck made by Gould and Dillon by their pecu- liar methods. The spectacle to the American people of a reform president playing into the hands of a wrecked monopoly is not very encouraging, to say the least. The only difference between Cleveland’s subser: viency to Charles Frrncis Adams and Blaine's attachment for Jay Gould ls that the former pass:s for highly respectable, but to the patrona of the road, however, whoaremercilesslytaxedto meet the infer- est and dividends upon fraundulent debts and fictitions stocks it is a distinction without a differance. —_— THE board of education adopted a rea- olation to the effect that it would not ob- ject to the quarterly payment of liquor licenses, provided the liquor dealers pay $1,000 during the year. This seems to be in accord with the general sentiment, and we do not think anybody will object to this system if the quarterly payments are made In advance. It might be well for the board of education to employ and pay a speelal policemsn to attend to nothlng else but the license business. He oould more thaa eatn his salary by looking after the delinquents, and seelng that every liquor dealer takes out a license. There s considerable liquor being sold without license, and this illicit traflic should be stopped in justice to those who pay, if for nothing else. Acting upon the resolution of the board of education the clty council unanimously passed an ordinanoe which will probably prove satisfactory® Under this ordinance $260 must be pald at the firat quarter of the municlpal year, and a like amount at the opoxdng of each subsequent quarter until the end of the year. The ordi- nance also provides that if an application {s made after the commencement of the first quarter of the municlpal year and before the beginning of the second quar- ter, the applicant must pay $500; and if the application {s made after the second quarter, $750 will be required. This provision is Intended to secure the full payment of $1,000, so that a saloon- keeper cannot do business for a quarter or half a year, and then escape payment for the other quarters, The law dls- tinctly says that no license shall issue for less than one year, and the ordlnance has been drawn to comply with this re- quirement, Tur Republican's support of Mr, Boyd does not necessitate an atrack, open or covert, upon Mr. Murphy, who was yestorday nominated by the republi- cans of this olty for msyor. Had such a reault been absolutely gusranteed pre- vious to the nomination of Mr. Boyd, it is probable that there would have been no eltizens’ movement,— Republican, Now will the Republican be kind enough to explain whether It was afrald that Hascall would be the republican nominee! Hascallis ont and out for Boyd, and the Republicanfis for Boyd. To a man up a tree {t would seem that the Republican jumped the fence about the ssme time Hascall dlscovered he could not"get the nominatlon, That's about the size of it, — AvrovcH Eogland s at present dane- ing to the liveliest of music, an Irlsh pi- per, adeserter from the Britlsh army, has been kidnapped from New York and forced to complete his engagement, There is a preselog call for wind lustro- ments on the Afghan border, TaINK of a city council with such men a8 Goodman and Hitchcock in it! Let the dawn in the emst bo watched; the millennial dsy will be upon us soon,— Republican Is this a left-handed compliment, or s it Intended as pure tarcsem’! The Zc- publican will please riso and explain, There are ninotecn retail and two wholesale saloons i Lincoln, Considerable wheat has planted in Dodge county, A shiogled honse is an unknown quantity in the town of Gordon, Harvey Thompeon was slugged and robbed 200 in the Beatrice postoftice, The embryo town of Pender on the Omaha rerervation lands, will be formally christened April Tth, Three policemen sustained the majesty of the law in Lincoln since the legislature ad journed, The North Platte Nebraskan expresses a world of sentiment in these words: *'Chilly, for democrats,” The soldiers of Sidney will have a twenty- five-mile go-as-you-please walking match next month, ‘‘More_hell fire for Lincoln,” shouts the News, It is a home product always on tap, All the bridges over the Niobrara between Fort Niobrara and Niobrara City were car- vied out by the breaking up of tho ice. Mr, and Mrs, A, N, Nabe, living near Mapleville, Dodge county, will celebrate their fiftieth wedding anniversary on Apnl 2, Tho big slough in Dakota county will be drained by a ditch which will require the removal of 45,000 yards of earth, One hundred and nine carloads of immi grants’ moveables passed through Lincoln in ono day last week, all beund for points in the western part of the state, A proposition will be submitted to the voters of Cherry county to bond the county in the sum of §15,000 for the purpose of build. ing six iron bridges over the Niobrara river at different pointa in the county, Tt cost Norfolk §1,190,60 to pay the bills of the lobby which engineered tho asylum ap- propriation, The chairman in his report states not & dollar was expended but what was absolutely necessary, Frank Moore, a conductor on the U, P, brought down a swan weighing thirty-seven pounds and measuring scven feet from tip to tip. The bird was watering in the Platto when Frank drew a bead. Some six months ago & young man married a handsome dining room girl employed in & Harvard hotel. Last week the wife gave birth to a ten-pound babe as black as the ten of epades, with distinctive African features, One of the new laws provides that sohool lands shall be a) pnimr by the county com- missioners of each county instead of appraisera chosen by the county clerk. Applications for lease or sale to be madein all cases to county treasurer and not to the land commis- sioner, Frank Stanley, aged 16, and his would-be bride, still younger. eloped from Juniata. Oa their way to Minden, where they proposed to lawfully wed, they became lost on the oven prairic ut night, drove into a washout, broke down, and walked nine miles to their destina- tion, where young Stanley lstened to the roading of a warrant charging him with ab- duction. The wedding was postponed. Reports from Niobrara indicate that there will ba a grand rushtor the Santee lands which will bo opened to settloment May 15, The Indians have selected the valley lands, leaving about slxty-eight scctions of upland to b3 taken on the day of opening. Competent land lawyers eay that a homestead settlement can be made any time after midnight of May 14, and that the timber culture filinga cannot gO "back of 9 a. m., the hour the land cffice is opened on May 15, So there are likely to be no timber claims filed, As high s $30 is offered in vain for gurantee of a timber claim on the reservation, e —— WESTERN NEWS, slready been of & DAKOTA, Yankton’s woolen mill is ready for opers. tion. o Deadwood courts are uuraveling a GIOO OUI) mining swindle. ‘There were 725 bills introduced in the last leaumure. A prospacting shaft will be sunk for coal on the Jencks farm, near Yanokton, ‘The Douglas county treasurer is reported as being §3,000 short m his accounts, The Sioux_Falls Polishing works will open up with a full force o f wen in a fow days. Mandan has procured dynamite to use in the Miesouri river in case of an ice blockade, Dakota will capture about the whole of the coming season’s Russian Mennonite immi- gration, Highmore has elected to issue $5,(00 bonds for an artesian well, At present water is hauled a distance of several miles. 1t is estimated 3,000 Manitobans have found homes south of the line in the Turtle mountain country during the past year, 1t is claimed that the 120 men employed by the Sioux Falls packiog-house have been wholly exempt from the winter's epidemic of that town, 1t is said a colony, consisting of 500 fami- lies, tho headsof which are mostly Gran Army men, is being formed in Cleveland, O, to settle in Morton county. Business at the Deadwood land office fallen off to o marked degree sinco tho journn ent of conpress, with prospect of non-repeal of the pre-omption laws, Mercer comnty has b: en divided by a lino running from east to west, croatiog a new county of Oliver. Tho new county lies be- tween Morcer and Morton and is forty-two wilcs 'ong and eightoen miles wide, 1tsymond is to be the county seat, The Ipswich artesian well is 1,200 foet deep, and cost $5,000, 1t 18 eaid to show o pressure of pinety-tix pounds to the square inch, which would raise the water in a stand pipo to a height of 220 feet The supply, through the pipe now used, will be about 160,000 gal- lons. A Scandinavian on the Winnebago reserva- tion « few days ago refused to vacate the claim ho had jumped, when s committeo of twelve good mon and tru, well heeled and intent on busincss, gave hwm final orders to move. The fuirhaicd, bluseyed Norso sys ho saw arguments enough in_the dozen Win- chester rifles he was g;rmh.led to look into to changs hismind, He moved, has ad- the WYOMING, Cheyenne has & Reil live mayor, a democrat at that, The sisters of mercy propose to build a $30,000 convent in Cheyenne, Cheyenne claims 10,000 out of the 50,000 people in the territory, A drunken soldier tumbled from a moving train near Rawlins and was killed. Mr. Allen, one of the big ditch builders of Larawle, was thrown from his horse and in- stantly killed, Uinta county capitalists have orgavized a company to develop the oil territory adjacent to Evanston. Cattle in the vicinty of Fort Laramie are in splendid condition, but zorth of the North Platte they are not looking so well, A prominent stockman, with more bullion than seuse, fell desperately in love with a Cheyenne woman of the town, and failiog to secure a monopoly of her vlrlo{lud charms, attempted saicide, He is alive bus penniless. The Des Moines cattle company, capital $200,000 has been incorporated at Cheyeone. The unmpun{vvlll transact business in John- son county, Wyo., and will have its officer at “I'he trustoes are G, W, Clark, Oscar Buffalo, foiffer Volland and Jobn 1. Pleiffer, William H., Holland, Jobn De Belport, a railroad employe in the ds at Cheyonne, collided with & freight a and parrowly cecaped being crushed to cath, The drawhead struck him between houlders, and one car and the front of the zcar car passed over him. He 0 rolled about fifteen feot beneath & brake beam and would have been killed had Bot the engine been suddenly stopped. COLOBADO. Farmers all over the state are busy with their plowing. 8ix Denver boys Barrowly escaped death from eating pignuts. Fully 500 acres will be sown to wheat 1n the vlclnlty of Grand Junchion, Thos, G. Andrews, mayor of Silverton, in & fit of temporary insanity, blew his brains o Thousands of young catt'e will be placedon the ranges of Eagle and Garfield ¢ounties this wpring., The coal miners of the state are becoming remarkably well organized for mutusl aid and protection, Custer county got her work in first, The name of anew postofice created last week was Cleveland, The First National bank of Danver has had its charter ranewed for twenty yoars longer, $17,000,000 was handled in 1884, There is an openiog for a democrat in the Denver postoffice, One of the clerks tumbled out of & window and broke his neck. Wages are to be reduced at the Bessemer blast furnances from l.»m 20 per cent, to go into effect April 1. No trouble is anticipated an the furnaces are to be run continuously, o= Western Colorrdo promises to blossom this year, Thousands of fruit trcea will be planted in the Grand and Uncompahgre valleys, while acres and acres of small gram will bs sown, Leadville scoms to be returning to its glory of enrly days, A great deal of mystarions work and bloody transactions are being per- formed at night in the city and contiguou gulches, A subterranean passage, miles in cxtent, fins boen found near Garfield Chafte county, and the people of that vicinity are a triflo excited over it There is said to bo a large quantity of rich mineral on-the siden roo, Straight-laced peoplo of Greeley have dis- covored another ontrace. There aro rude people who actually chew tobacco and smoke cigars and pipes in the postoffice | uilding. Quite a furore has been created by the discov- ery, and somebody in liable to be talked to real hard. Governor Eaton signed the new charter bill for Denver, The new bill has the effect of legislating out of office nine membera of the city council and nearly all tho city officehold- ers, The new charter provides for two branches of the city governwent—or upper and lower house, Tho amendment of the old city charter makes an election fall due on April 7, when an entire new set of city officers are tobe elected. The new city directory of Denver contains 25,00) names, indicatiog a population of 75, 000, The difectoryshows that thers are nine regular conrts in tho clky, ten Lospltals, nsy.. lums, orphanages and reformatories, seven banks and banking institutions, thres home insurance companies, seven railroad oflices six oxpresa oflices, ten daily, weckly and monthly newspapers, twenty.six public and parish schools, five o six schools and colleges, soven libraries of a more or less public charac: ter, some thirty churches and parishes, sixtoen Masonic organizations, seven Grand Army post, two camps_of Sons of Veterans, five organizations of Sons of Awmarica, four lbdgea of Knights of Pythias, four lodges of Kuights of Honor, eleven lodgés of Odd Eellows, four of the Red Cross, oue of the Royal Arcaaum, five lodges of United Workmen, one Council of Chosen Friends, one lodge of Elks, six of GGood Templars, fivo trades unions and some fifteen benovolent and social organizations, and IDAHO. Proliminary surveys have been made for a railroad from Kelton, on the C. P., to Shos- houe Falls, Idaho, It is thought that the D. & R. G. W, or the C, I, are making pre- parations for the bailding of a line into that rich and comparatively undeveloped country A railway hotel is to e built at Caldwell, Idaho. Itwill bs commodious in size and attractive in appearance, and is £ be operatad by the Pacific Hotel company of Omaha. Tho building will be three storica igh and will have a veranda 120 feos long, Charles Dellone, a young man about 21 years of age, left his home in Omaha about o year and a half azo and it is now thought he went to Wood River, His father, Frank Dellone, gave him money to buy stock and sent him west. The boy bought thestock and shortly after sold 1t, and with the proceeds started for the Wood Riyer country, His mother died some two years ago, and his his two sisters, now in Omaha, and his father, who is now in Hailey, are endeavoring to as fisrl.uu bis whereabouts,—[Salt Lake Tri- une MONTANA, Helena now uses 135 teleohones. Anaconda wells are dry and water solls at 50 centa per barrel, 1t is expected that there will be a big stam- pede to the Little Rockies this sprivg, The treasurer of Lewis and Clark county 1 behind $37,000 in his accounts. Twenty-two young Picgaus are being edu- cated in the Catholic school at Helena. Deer Lodge county owes $43,490,69, has $19,747.42 on h:ma, leaving a net indebted- ness of 823,749.27., Some gold float quartz recently picked up near the headwater of \Vlllnw creck, Beaver head county, assayed $4,00 Some imported book ahnm has discovered that General Thomas Francis Meagher, ex- secretary of Montana, (drowned at Benton soveral years ago), is behind in his accounts $6,706.41, By a snowslide in Bridger canyon, Gallatin county, four coal miners—the two Hazard brothers, Peter Smith, and one Schlosman - were burted. The bodies of three of the men bave bgen found, the missing man being one of the Hazard brothera, The danger of land slides ou_the Northern Pacific between Balknap and Huron has bsen prevented by driving two rows of piling a% exposed points and plauking them so a8 to prevent the peculiar and treacher- ous 8ol from sliding upon the trick. FORNIA. Napa county rejoioes in haviog nearly the sum of §104,000 in her treasury. The now courthouse at Santa Rosa cost just $84,709.84, and Is all paid for, The work of constructing tho cable road in Lioa Angelea is being vigorously pushed, No Chinese are employed, A San Francisoo widow cstimates bor loss by the violent death of her husband at 255, 00 At that valuation no man is safe. J. P, Whitney obtained last season $10,- 000 worth of raisins—sold for that amount - from his 250 acre vineyard in the foothills, near Rocklin, The Bancroft library, San I'rancisco, con- tains a larger number of volumes, collected for a specitic purpose, than any other in the world, Itis a collection of remarkable in- terest and value, for this reason and also on account of its character otherwise. It has grown to be a unique feature of the Pacific coast metropolis, For each one of the states and territories newspaper files have been gathercd, until they .gpin,znt(- 400 in number, and make over 4,000 volumes; United States government doc- uments, numbering 2,000 volumes, are here to be drawn upon for the congressional history of the Unlurf States; while scrap books of choice information, and pamphlets on every subject germane to the history, swell the enormous maas of materlal, amounting in all to cver 35,000 books, nd manuscripts. SNEEZE!SNEEZE! BNEEZE, untll your head sooms ready fo fly off; until your noso and oyos dischiarge excosive quantities of thin, ir. ritating, watery fluid; uckil your head aches, moutl ard throat parched, aod, Llood at ever Ledt. This fs au Acuto Catarrh, and ts instantly relicved by 8 singlo dose, aud porma- neutly cured by ono bob t1: 0 Sanford's Radical Cure for Catarrh. Complete Treatment with Inhaler $1, One bottlo Radical Cure, ono hox Catarr) vent, and ono Iwproved Inkaler, In one ,packay may now be had of all druggists for §1.00. "~ Ask fo Banford's Radical Cure. lgolute specific we know of."—Med. © best we have found fn a lifetimo of ev. D2, Wiggln, Boston. *'After a loug h Catarrb, thu Kadical Cure has con quored.” Wov. 8, W. Monroc, Lewisburgh, P “Ihiaye not found s caso that 1t 'did “nt relieve st once."—Audrew Lee, Manchester, Mz l’m.bur Drug nnd Chemi X LLINS o VOL"W& Covgha, Colds, Wekk Back, Bla " Co 4, Colds, Weal . L) v\v o wals, Bhookiay & 2 2ar l'nlnl, Numbness, Hysterla, Feo /, @ N palpitation, D: - wia, owplaiot, 27 Fover, Mularis, nd_ Erbdonion / uuwcu PLASTERS use Collin's Plasters (sn Electrie Battory combloed with & Puroue Plastar) sad laugh st paia b evorywhore. THE HOMES 0F STATESMEN. of Their Residences. Senatorial Mansions and Congres. sional ¥ res—Fortunes Invested in Brick, Stone, and Mortar, Special Correspondence of the Leader, Wasnixarox, March 17.—Thirteon hundred new bulldings, worth about $4,- 000,000, were erected in Washington last year, Fine resldonces are going up all over tho city, and It is fast becoming the custom for a public man to own his own house in Washington. One of the leading real eatate agents here is my Cleveland Don Cameron’s big houss on Boott Circle is worth £80,000, and It is one of the fineat fir Windom's house, just across the way, A Real leal Ag m @ives the Val nc\ £10,000, and negroes own land all over Washington worth from one cent to §5 por squaro foot. ‘‘Some of the newapsper moen alto own good houses here, Genoral Boynton, of the Oinolouati Com- morcial Gazette, has a home worth about $14,000, Scott Smith, of the New York Commerclal Advertiser, has a house at Lodroit park worth a little more, and McKee, of the Associated Pross, has o mansion on Connecticut avenue which is as fine as any one owned by a senator, McBride, of the Cincionatti Enqulrer, has a houte on () street worth $10,000; Jim Yourg, anothor newspaper man, Tina one of the same value next door, and Charley Murray's houss, which was lately photographed n Harper's Magazlne as one of the wsthetlc howmes of tho capital, is worth 13,000, and will rent for the interest on §15,000, THE MONOPOLY OF LAWYERS, Cleveland’s cablnet. Dan Manning is the only one who is not a lawyer The hed houses in Washington; | president Is a lawyor, Endicott made what reputation he has practicing law, which cost him his place in the senate, is| Garland is of course a lawyer and Lamar, worth $60,000 and ought to rent for a good interest on that amount. Pendle- ton’'s house just above Cameron'’s cost $40,000 to build, and {s now worth $60,000, and the big brlck of Secretary Robeson which adjolns it is valued at twico this sum. Bell, the tele- phone man, also lives on Scott Circle. He paid §115,000 for his house and stable, and it i one of the most valuable properties In Washington. Omar D. Oonger has a house on M street, just off of Thomas Circle, which Mrs. Oong'r bought at a bargain. She gave $20,000 forit. It was built by a pawnbroker, and {tis, I should say, worth twice a1 much as {t cost. Mrs. Dwhigren, the wife of the admiral, has a mansfon lonk- ing out toward the Thomas statue worth $05,000, and just across the way, ina brown atone house, on the corner, which is cortainly worth $35,000, lives Poker Bob Schenck. ‘‘GENERAL SHERIDAN'S HOU fs worth about $30,000. Sunset Cox has the prettiest little house in Washington, mwade of green stone, and this his wife bought for $30,000; and Scnator Allison, of lowa, has a brick, piinted white, just opposite the Portland flats which will briog any day $156,000 under the ham- mer. John Sherman’s home on K street is worth at least $50,000. He bought the ground for a rong when Franklin Park, which it faces, was a cow pastura and a ball ground, and his friends laughed at the idea of it ever being worth any great amount, Now 1 sup- poss you could not buy vacant ground there, if there were any, for lees than $10 a square foot, and the best houses of the capital are all around it. Sherman also owns much other real citate about the clty. He is far scelng and would make a fine real estatc man.” *“What {s W. W. Corcoran’s house worth?" It lios, you know, just acress from the white house, and includes a whole squars of ground. It could not be bought at any price, but I supposc it to be wer h $150,000 at least. A little further up on H street Bancroft, the old historian, lives in a $35,000 houss cf painted brick, and catacornered across the way s the home of John McLean’s father-in-law, General Beale, worth, 1 should say, $40- 000. The McLeans own a great deal of Washington real estate. John recently p2id ous $51,000 for the Holmead ceme- tery lot above Blaine's and he will divide it up into lots and sell it. Washington McLean, John's father. owns a houss on one of the best corners of 1 street worth several times the salary of the chief jus- tice of the United States, and he has just bought Dan Sickles’ old house near the white house for, I think, $37,000. Speaking of THE SUPREME COURT,” the real estate man continuad, ‘‘Walte owns a house on H street worth $25,000, Miller’s house is worth $40,000, Math- ews has a home on the corner of I and Eighteenth streots, which fs :vsthetfcally bullt and would bring, I should say, $ 000. Itisin the heart of the bes buildipgs asross from the capitol which used to be a prison, and thls s worth about $10,000. Thers is falk of appro- priatng the ground of which it stands to the new librery bullding, and if so the judge will probably move to the north- west part of the city.” Across the capltal platean from Fleld's is Ben Batler’s big stone mans!on, which ought to be worth as much as Blainc's, and which, it {s sald, is mortgaged for §£80,000. Tats kas four great divisions and Js large enough to accommodate four families. Part of 1t is rented to the gov- ernment, and part to private parties. SENATOR PALMER, OF MICHIGAN, {s building & houte on K street facing McPherson Square, on ground that is worth perhaps $8 a square foot, The house is an immense brown stone as big s & college, and It has a stable ballt on to 1ts back end. Just next to it on the corner ia the manslon of Judge Lowry, of New England, a man who Is related in same way to Levy Woodbury, the secre- tary of the treasury under Van Buren and afterward supreme court justlce, Lowry Is wealthy, and s = yery nice fellow., At the side of his house he has a beautiful lawn, and Palmer in building his house expected to have the benefit of this for his back win- dows, including hls dining room snd so forth. With this in view he fiaished this part of hiy house In pressed brick aud put up a beautiful bay window on the Fifteenth street side of it. Lowry askod Palmer as & speclal favor to put Lis stable somewhere else than on the back of the house seylng it would ba of- fensive to him and would injare hias view aud lot. Palmer, however, the story goos, refused to pay any attention to his wishes and made the stable a wing of his big mansion, Now Lowry to offset this has bullt up a pres:d brick wall on the back of his lot high, almost, as Pal- mer's second story, uompletaly shutting off the view trom Palmer's dining-room and dolng more Injory to his property than tho value of tea stables,” THE HOUSES BELOM aro few. l‘trry Belmont has one for which be psid §25,000, William Walter Phelps has invested sume of his m lliony in Washingrton real estate, though I be- lieve he now lives ln a rented house, Sawm Randall has & house on Capitol Hillwerth authority for the followlng cstimate of | Lawyers are fast monopolizing tho blg the homes of some cf the leading men of [offices of the government. They the nation: ‘‘Blaine’s house cost §20,000, | form the groat msjority of and it rents for 10 per cent on $130,000; | both parties In congress and of sec- tlon of the capltal, and its back windows ot e ecoptlon oo o e, Bk [ Harriaon, Taglor, and Graut, havo been a brick house modeled out of one of the | idmitted to the bar. Buclanen s scholar that he is, practiced law before he came to Washington, General Walthall, the man who takes Lamar'a soat n the senate, has been making §10,000 o year at the law. Senator Spooner, of Wis- congin, has been earning for the past ten yeara 810,000 as counsel ot the Omaha & St. Paul toad. Leland Stanford Jald the foundation of his $75,000,000 studylog lnw, and Mr. Evarts has a law practico In New York runuing very near $75,000 a ven. Senator Kustics, of Lmlalnnn, Is a fine lawyer and is worth half a milllon, Payne began as a lawyoer and for years raked In blg fees In Cleveland, Teller, a farmer's boy, stndied law and through his practice in Denver got Into the mining speculations which made his m'llions. Tom Bowen did the same, and Edmunds, having got to the senate thmugh his reputation as & Iawyer, kecps up his practice hore and $50,000a year In addiilon to his sa'ary, Juhn Sherman started Life by practicing Jaw with his brother Charley, at Mana- flold, O., and when he was fisst marrled xleclded to save $i(0a year. Ho has eropped the practice sinico o camo to \Vn.shm;,tnn and his 500 yearly savings must have jumped into several times am wany thousands. Sam Cox began life as alawyer In Zomneaville, O., and his firat fee was 25 Bayard studied law with his father after h\llmg a3 a merchant, and Frelinghuysen, noted lawyer of New Jeraoy. studied law. S8herman is one of the finest constitutional lawyers In the country. Hoadly was msking §30,000 & year when ho was elected governor, and the suprame court is, of course, a zet of lawyers in black gowns. Coukling made a reputation in politice, lost it and went back to the law, and gossip says be makes $100,000 a year. Ben Butler makes nearly as much, and Jerry Wilson and Judga Shellabarger, both of whom new maks thelr acore or so of thoussnds here, yearly, got Into politics through the law, and they left politics to go back into the more money-making legal profession. Joe Brown, of Geergls, now worth his millions, made his start at the law. Bob Teombs, who hates Brown, did the same, and Senators ingalls, Cockrell Coke, Cclquitt, Conger, Halo and l‘l]o are all limbs of tho law. Michigan on his predecessor, was Pendleton Couger left Ohio for ascount of a little trouble which he had in a law cas2, and so I might go on from Allis>n to Wilson, from the begiuning to the end of the scnatorlal alphabet, and show you that more than three-fourths of the senators have made thelir begmmng in politics by thelr eminence or cunning before the courts. 1t s the same In the house. Tom Reed tralned his surcastic tongue by pettifog- ging. Holman got his economical ideas by culting down the judgments of his legal oppnnenls, and Joe Blackburn's flowery sentences aro the product of train- ing bzfore a jury and the Fourth of July celebra‘ions whi:h the lawger is expected to address LAWYERS IN OUR PAST POLITICS, The braivs which have governed this country in the past have been those which have undergone legal training. All of the pretidents, except Washington, making o forture at the law when ho got into politics. Andrew Jackeon was a young lawyer when he insrried his wife. Millard Fillmore was Itke Cleveland, a lawyer from Buffalo, and tho fortune which he left was found- ed on Jaw fees. Andrew Johnson could r ad and did rcad law books when he was still unable to write easily, and Abe Lin- coln was called to take charge of a ecan- dal caseat a bar at which Bob Ingersoll was then practicing, before he was olected president. Daniel Webater, tho groatest of statesmen, practiced law botore the supreme court hore, and Henry Clay, it i3 paid, usad to stop in the middle of an argument beforo the ohfef juatice, and a8k him for a pinch of snuff bafors he went on, J¢ff Davis made a legalreputa- tion before he came to Washington, away back in the fiftics or more, and John C. Calhunn, though he devoted his life to po'itics, lw'xm as a lawyer. Hamilton was a lawyer, and a good one, Aaron Burr madec a big thing at Jaw after-he was dlszraced by hix duel and bis consplracy, and Reverdy Johnson, Chief Justice Athey, Salmon P, Chase, and 8 score of others I could name, began as lawyers, mado great nsmes, aud then went Into the sphere of politics, and succeeded there, Webster, it 1s 531d, used to consider his scrvices in the senate in & leyal lght, and charge fees for them, I(uvurdy .Johulun did the same, and 8o did other statosmen of the good old days when all was pure, and God ruled the land, 8ince the begioning of our government the law has becu the only school for pol- itics which we baye had. It will prob- ably contioue to be so in the future, or until we have a class of arlstooratlc weoalthy familles who can have their sons educated for politicsl life, as {n Germany, France, E Enropunn countrl Alexander is now done Des Mum:w Leader, Postmaster-General Clarkson must have & good deal on his mind, 'Thus there is the scrapo he got Sherman Into, G 1o MEMBERs or [thinkirg to distract attention from the prohibluon question and do a good turn for the monopolies at the eame time. It was easy cnough to hiss Sherman on, but it i5 next to fmpomsible to choke him off But itterer worm- wood to the great -in his own wind republican leader, whose portralt is 1ot to goon the postage stamps fora fow perhaps $7,000, and Hitt, of Illinois, bas | years, is the fact that his chieftain, also agood residence, Jud;,o Lawrence, Blalne, the shinivg ealnt of republican- of Ohio, bas a house on Towa Circle worth | ism, has called on Clev:land and Is golng $10,000. and it is cne of thoee, I think, [to bave him to dinner, which Grant bullt, And sfter he Senator Bruce owns | bad telographed Clarkson (o “publish the a house on M sirect worth $10,000, Fred | Boflalo scandal,” Douglass’ estate at Unlontown, comprle- The public will hold its breath to ing the house snd pirs of the plantation |know what Olaarkson 1s golng to do of the negro hater Van Hook, s worth | about it.