Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 31, 1885, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE-~TUESDAY MARCH 31, 1885 S R ——————— AILY BEE. BOSS MANNING'S PROGRAMME. |of the treasury, and the Turkish missten. The most important polltical contest | It Is no wonder that;the Texas democratic ,lln 914 axp 918 Fanwau By, | this year will cccar In New York. At|Flannagans ara holding Indignation 08, Roox 63 TAsUNE BUILD- | the state electlon next fail a fall list of | meetings cn the street corners and In state oficers will be clected, an event|the bar-rooms and inquiring ‘‘what are which will not occur agaln until 1801, [ we here for anyhow?” owing to the rotatlon in office which Is e completed only once in slx years. Boss { ovory morning, Sunday. Th Pl morning daly pusiahed tn the state. WERMA BT MATL 10.00 | Thres Months. « 5,00 | One Month. - 100 ly Bes, Publihsed every Wednesday WRRMS, POSTPAIR. Dox Cauerox proposes to make the " ommuntcations relating to News aod Editerial .,.Al should be addr 40 the Enrron or s toward determinlng the smpremacy of | the commandants. partles in the fature, The democrats This does not gratify him, for he has given notice to his frlends determined effort to carry the state.|City of Mexlco, Cameron will take all ion at Washington will|hls friends along who want to go. He render every asslstance posible, but|has a sbn.inlaw In the navy, and In whether it can keep the Independents as | order to give him a chance to make this the allies of the democratic party is|tranacontinental tour, he ls detailed by questlonable, All pretense of clvil ser- | the navy department as ‘‘naval attache” vice roform on the part of Boss Manning | to his honorable uncle. CourAR, Yrafis, Ghecks and Posh offios orders b be made pay. 0 46 the rder of the company. EE_PUBLISHING (0., Props, E. ROSEWATER, Epirom H. Fitch, Manager Daily Oirculation, lu.l.()lnh,?lob. U at least Is a mere sham, and the inde- Jony Buir s playing & costly game|pendents are becoming pretty well of bluff just at prevent. convinced of that fact. As a leading newspaper publisher he has never raised hls voice or lifted his hand in favor of civil service reform. On the contrary, Tuis 1s not to be an fsse of good gov- ernment, but boss government, money enough to go around. had some to spare. machine's chief engineer. All the pre- tenses of economy by cutting down the clerkships and reducing the number of federal officers In the castom house and in the revenue service is slmply a cloak for the concerted effort which will soon be made to man the publio service with partisan workers and strikers. However much the Independents may be Inclined Mr, ANGEL is very earnestly in favor | to credit Grover Cleveland with sincerity of Boyd. Mr. Angel, It will bo remem- | In regard to civil service reform and pat- bered, was Mr. Boyd's do nothing mar. | ronage they certalnly do not place the shal. least confidence in Boss Manuing as a re- e former, and they are not likely to get A oo many worklngmen aro befng | much clvil service reform out of Ceal Oil sent for by Mr. Boyd. Ho is taking a | Bjjly Whitney. A new broom gonerally yraat deal of interest in the workingmen sweeps clean, but the dust which the all of a sudden. democratic broom is ralslng is merely in- tended to blind the eyes of the credulons and gullible. Tue Chicago .\’mnsfi :;alls ex-Congress- man Roswell G, Horr the blighted fog- horn of the Michigan peach district, — JEromr PENTzer 18 solid for Judge Boneke. Nobody will blame him. He has had a’eoft job forseveral years, Mgz, Jewerr feels very jubllant over the defeat of the democratic outs, and ¢ho flattering prospect that he will soon be acting mayor again, New features are constantly belng de- veloped in the enforcement of the pro: Mz, Bovp is afraid that the nomina. [hibltory llquor law in Iowa. Under the tion of Jim Sieph nson as councilman | Towa law it is the duty of the officers to would hurt him. Why should it? They |selze l!/quors wherever fourd, and this has are both good democrata. boen done qulte frequently. A few days ago a lot of unstamped beer was seized Ir wag Rum, Romanism and Rebelllon | by the sheriff of Jefforson county and re- lass fall. It will be Boyd, Buck and |moved from the brewery where it had Benoke this spring. Father Burchard |beon manufactured. As the atorage of ought to move to Omah unstamped beer in bull at any other place et T % than that of its manufacture renders it Wakniaibois dsmostat doliberately liable to geizure by the national govern- stacionttobuy s why;Lotojthelusyor ment, the United States Internal revenue office honest republicans cannot connl(: at once took steps to secura the rights of ently help to elect him on the citizens the government. Now, what tho revenue dodge. —— officers will do with the beer after seizing TyroGeArHICAL blunders will happen [it remsing to be seen. Although the even fn the best regulated newspaper [ brewer was vlolating the Jaw of Iowa, he offices, as is illustrated by the Atlanta|wasin no way breaking the national law, Constitution, which eays: and it was po fault of hls that The Consgitution, 1t will by observed, | the beer was romoved without being hoo suporior tactlities for carrying on the | gamped, As the proceedings to seize TAELS Rerpt Out oompcations 1ty (L (ks paet o e medional print “Londor” (n place of Soudan, In|ernment was instituted by the brewer he the language of a gifted eastorn poet, |likely expects to eventually recover fetch on your Arabs. Vz'la EUATALEO | poesomsion of it, but it will probably be- that they will never be able to do any come. very stale by that time, The mors damage after they have been 3 mangled iug our typographical depart- | Burlington Iawlcye spesking authorl- tatively for Collector Bardette says: ment. Thers is in this case no conflict as Micnaes Leg, the republican candl- might at first appear. The eheriff acted date for councllman from the second [under the law of the atate without actual ward, {a a mechaulc, being a shosmaker knowleldgtutotl '-heT}rlmutl:ememu hof the general statutes, o attorncy who rep- By tiade FuEox soreral ycnrlhpuat.hg m resents the prosecution, advised the col- beon a hetel porter, and by his industry | iop of the situation and asked for in- aud economical hablts, together with |structions, Such cases are not unlikely careful investments of his savings, he las {’o arise in|thu nnforcsma‘x:t of plxéol:l:l;;nm:, ut may In every case be avolde: at- accumulated propery In the First and torneys and local officers generally will Socond wards to the value of ‘}0’000' take paine to familiarize themsslves with Ho poesesses good business qualificatlons | the gencral statutes governing the hand- P 8 g A and will make an excellent councllman, | ling of alcohollc liquors. A similar situa '“ {3 not always the men who have large tlon was about to arise at Ottumwa, some time ago, but was avolded by consulting proporty intorests that make the eafost | g/ S CE0 " Ponloving the boor, councilmen, asthey naturslly have too|What ],,mud;,_ |1f |ny‘bm|ly l;u aliuwac: nd are not soliable |state and local officers, by the departmen maDy axes to 7'{“‘?" the conduct of the |2t Washington, the collector is unable to to]bo impartlal in say. As for himsclf, ho is given no_dis. clty's affalrs as mon of moderate means. | oy byt s under heavy penalties, Mr. Lce is neither a poor man nor a rich | ohljged to suffer no Infraction of the reve- wo venture to ssy that asa|nuelaws' In the discharge of this duty, q ri i .| it is his desire to avoid all contact with councilman he will give eminent satisfac e e T tion. Having boon « hard-worklog man | 4 v ional enactments to the position of all his life he certalnly ought to recelve|an assistant in the Mfok:“m:l':t dh “:iy b y B the other han ke pmbflbl]_fl____ cutlon cf any euit by state authorities, thin & few days of the —_— Lix:!’z\'?::n“lr;x::l ra will begin thoir [ Tue Philadelphia Record is a great work of llsting property. The question | paper, and particularly so for a coat. Its naturally arises shall all the property of | Saturday edition fs elght pages, and full tha city of Omaha be listsd impartlally, [ of interesting nows and miscellary, while or shall preference be given to spoolal | the other fssues of the week are eight- favorites and large corporations over the | column folio sheets. The Issue of March emsll property owner who bears the | 2th consisted of sixteen pages, all for one burden of taxeal Within the last sixty | cent, It contalned an exhaustlve review days we have published a complete ex- | of the trade, manufactures and Industrles hibit of the vast tracts of land that have|of Philadelphla. From the statlstics been wrongfully exempted from taxatlon | given wo gather the following Interesting under , the pretense of railroad right of | facts: Philadelphis covers 120} equare wey. Will the county commissloners|miles, and has 618 miles of paved streets, and clity councll allow this to continue, or [ 515 miles of street railways, and twelve shall the rallroads piy taxes for thelr|miles of stcam railways within the clty property the same a3 individuals? Shall||mits. She has apopulation of 1,011,568 tracts of land witkin our clty limits that | Her fron and steel manufacturing estab- arelald outin lots be taxed at merely | ljshments number 709, employing 31,017 nominal figares, 8o as to play into the|persons, She has 1,018 factories of hands of the capltalists who own them, | taxtile fabrics, glving employment to while the poor laborer who owns a little| 60,807 persons. The total number of home must pay taxes on ‘his bedstead, | factorles 1s 12,062, and the total number hils ccoking stove, and every blt of his|of men, women and youths employed in farnitare, while his home upon which |them is 242,482. It lsa workingman's parhaps there I8 a mortzage, s required |city and a great industrial center. The to pay full taxes! Meantimo the owners | Record champions the causs of the work- of mortgages, the men who loan thous: |ipgman and henoce its great success. It ands npon thousands of dollars are al-|huy a4 daily circulation of 100,000, the lowed to go scou free undor all sorts of f14rxast f any penny psper In the United pretenses, although clalming cit'zenship | Siates, away from Omaha. Ot!nr: del’l\:ontul, arj lves and make falee re- :xu:‘{:w g‘\::r:thnu pretend that {he | Cleveland 132,000 majority are swearing money which they loan bzlong to their | because they have as yet got nothing, alsters, couslns and aonts in other states, | while Vermont, which never gaves ma- where, liowever, the properly Is never jorlty for a democratic president, hn_. Lsted and never will be. What we want is | been glven the choice of the diplomat'c an lmpartial, honest and thorough asses- | appolntments, md‘le York with Its seasment of property. Let everybody pay | bare plurality (or_c veland has captured his share of the taxes, and let the rate of | two cabinet positions, the assistant secre- taxation be reduced to the mivimuai, taryship of the ireasury, the solicitorship man, and —— Texas democrats who gave Grover PostmasTER PrARSON, of New York, 11 carrles his cfliclal head, but in a few days he will see it drop into the basket under the democrat'c guillotine, Boes Mannlng has picked out a machine demo- All this please the Independents is all nonsense The demccrats are becominginflated with the idea that they have no furlher use for the Independents, and it is about time that tne independents should come to the conclusion that they have no farther use for the democrata, Tue Cleveland Zeader makes haste to assure the people of Ohlo that “‘there Is no foundation whatever for the Item going the rounds of the democratlc prees that Hon. J, Watren Kelffer will be a candl- date for governor next fall, sabject to the action of the republican atate convention. Mr. Kelffer is strictly occupied with his own business, and, while he will do all in his power to secure the elestion of the state republican ticket, he will not baa candidate for any oftice,” This 1s evidently a case of sour grapes with Mr. Keiffer. — Tue Chieago 7ribune on Sunday morn- ing printed sixty columns of classified small advertisements, On the corre- sponding Sunday, March 20, in 1884, tho Tridune printed fifty-four columns of thess advertisements. This Increase is evidenca of great astivity in all depart- ments of trade and Industry In Chicago, which was hardly expected this spring in view of the general depression that has been prevailing all over the country. SENATOR MAHONE'S 80D, Who recently distinguished himselt by ehootlng at a colored hotel porter, for which assault he 1s under bonds to appeer for trial, was ° [ discharged the other day from a $2,220 slnecure in the senate. The old man, however, immediately read justed matters by appolnting hishopeful eon to the po: tlon of clerk of hls own committee, which pays abcut as well as the other place from which he was bounced. Mg, Puzirns, of Vermont, tho new minister to England, is sald to have been a copperhead duringthe war. He branded Abraham Lincoln as a blockhead, and considered the war a failura, As between thoss democrats of the ncrth who con- sidered the war a fallura, and those of the south who fought bravely to destroy the unfon loyal people prefer the Ilatter. Grover CLEVELAND bas recclved a treasury warrant for $3,888.87, that be- ing the amount of salary due him as president from March 4th to April 1st. 1t was sent him by mail. Boss Manning evidently wanted the president to have enough funds on the first day of the month to settle all the ilttle bills that might be presented to him. — Iris perfectly natural for the Lincoln Journal to rush to the defense of Ken- dall, the defaulting postmsster at St. Paul. The Jowrnal tries to pslliate Kendall's offense by saying that there are postmssters all over the country who are in the same boat with him, 1f that {s the case it Is high time that such ras- cals should be turned out. TaE city council should order the clty records to be immediately removed to the new court house, now that arrangements have been made for thefr accommodation in that fire-proof structore. The fire- traps In which the records are now lo- cated are liable to take firc at any hour and cause Irreparable loss to the city, — Alfalfa for Snoep, Colorado Farmer, Some wool growers are strongly pre- judiced agalnst the feeding of alfalfa to sheep, claiming that it Injures the wool, and for mutton sheep is highly undesir- able. We have never met any onc as yet who could explain in what manner alfalfa injures wool, and regarding matton, a gentleman eald to us the other day ate some mutton not long ago from an alfalfa fed ewe, that, it scemed to me, tasted swecter and better than any 1 ever atebefore. 1t has so thoroughly co: vinced me of the utility of alfaifs as a mutton maker that I shall put some Southdowns on my ranch this spring and try 1t for myeelf, The objectlon has also been made to alfalfa that it scours sheap; but we eaw a flock of sheep brought here from the east last fall that were fed alfalfa from the start, lustead of scouring, they grew fat and llvely much quicker, the!r owner in- formed us, than he had ever known sim- ilar flocks to do when fed on other ha) It wou'd seem that, as alfalfa has proven itself to excallent & sheep feed, our wool-growers, if possible, should give it a falr trlal. To condemn & person un- heard {s consldered Injastice, and it is equally upjust to say that alfalfa will not make good mutton, when the experl- ence of those who bave tried It proves that it will ) 5 Resolutio Bosto: mousl! h March 50,—The h-use unan adepted & resolution of sympathy With Gew, Giant in bls Diness aud bope for his speedy restoration to health. ON THE GOLDEN SLOPE. The Resource, Climate, Blo., of the Humboldt Conatry, An Unlnviting Region—Nothing but Lumber, Rain and Foge. Oorrospondence of the Kansas City Journal, Sax Fraxcisco, Cal, March 28 - Knowing that many of your readers are interested In any facts which they may be able to galn, regarding the Pacifio slope, T venture to volunteer what infor. mation I have boen able to obtatn from observatlon and otherwise, durlng a so- journ of several months on this coast As Iexpect to spend the remainder of my days in Oalifornia I think I can speak without prejudice, and, on the other hand, I shall endeavor not to portray the glorles of California In the gaudy colors In which 80 msny correspondents have scen fit to illaminate them. I may pre- mise my remarks by saying that Califor- nla is truly s great state, possessed of great natural resources, and a climate which on an average s far superlor to that of the Mississippi valley. But the reader should realize that California is great ln extent, belog 770 miles In length by uearly 300 miles In width; that it {s trav- ersed by mountalns from end to end; that a large area in the southern portion of the state is an absolute desert, so that my remarks regarding the climate can only be taken as general, and not appli- cable to all portions of the state. 10 the traveler who is famillar with the scenes of the Mississippl valley, and who drops down suddenly from the summit of the Sierras into the sub-troplcal region which borders them on the west, the tran- sitlon {8 sudden and impressive. The gracefal eucalyptus, the Australian graes tree, the accacias, the red woods, pines, spruces, maganitas, madronas, and an endlees variety of other strange shrabs and trees, contrast rtrangely with the scenery to which he has been accustomed, and lend a charm to his surroundtngs which, however, is but a ‘‘fleeting show.” All these things soon become common- place, and cease to attract attentlon any more than do the wild flowers and grass on the plains of Kansas and Missourl. The mountain scenery, too, becomes ex- ceedingly monetonous. Clothed in ever- lasting green and covered with gray granite recks, they present no change of scenery throughout the year, and one finds himself wishing that they would shift their pesitlons, or change their vendure for the sombre hues of autumn, or dotomething to break the monotony. Since coming to this cosst I have tr versed Califoralo from east to west, have traversed the entire length of the Napn valley, and have traversed the ccast of north of San Francisco as far as Hum- boldt bay, which is 225 miles by water from this city. I will speakof these re- glons in detall, and first of THE HUKBOLDT COUNTLY, Before leaving the east I informed that the Humboldt country was rich in nataral resources, prosperous beyond comprehension and possessed of a climate which was charming In the highest de- gree. As a matter of fact, I found that region to be almost exclusively a lumber- fog country, where lumbermen can ob. tain work at good wazes from four to six months In the year, provided they can got work at ail. The agricultural, horti- cultu.al and grazing Interests are mere ciphers, and comparatively speaking, are unworthy of mention. Fromthevicinity of Cape Mendocina northward, the foot- hills of the coast range hug the coast closely, and the few little valleys to be found here ara mere garden spots com pared with the srea of mountsins and foothills, The little valleys are fertile, but there Is nothing of them Were ev- ery foot of tillable land under coltivation it would not produce one-fourth of what is consumed in the country. Everything 15 SHIPPED INTO THAT COUNTRY from San Francisco, and consequently is high-priced. Even the so-called hay that is consumed by the work animals, s shipped from *‘below” as the saying is. The so-called hay is unthreshed oats, the market price of which is $25 per ton, Immediately along the coast, and in the valleys fn close proximity to it, neither geain nor fruit will ripen. owing to the «xtreme coolness and dampness of the climate. In short, 1t is no agrlcultural country at all. AS TO GRAZING INTERESTS 1 regard it as butlittle better. Compara- tively few cattle ara raieed, owing to the scorcity of food, and whilo shecp are ralsed In considerable numbers in the mountains and foothills, they are of n- ferlor quality and the annual clip per heed is very light. The market price of the wool is also very low comparsd with that of the eastern states. My eyes may ke blinded by prejudice, but looking at the country in as falr a light as I am ca- pable of doing, I can see no great and prosperous fature for it. The TIMBER IS IMMENSE, stsnding thickly on the ground, and many of the trees of immense propor- tlons. A disoription of the mawner of felliog them and getling them to the mills would make an intaresifng chapter, but 1 must forego the pleasure of giving it, as brevity is the splce of life, When the timber 1s removed the land ls worth- less, Redwood stumps never rot, and further, the so!l s absolately worthless for the ralsing of cltner graln or vegeta- bles until bounteously manured, For several months past the lumber Interest has been flagging. Many of the mwills bave ehut aownp, and othersare only running a light force, Whea the lumber businesa flags, times are hard in earnest. Most of tha employes soon spend their wages in the saloons and gambling dens, d then seek a llvelihocd in other por- tions of the state. EULEKA, ity of about 5,000 inbablfants, ls the principal town on Humbolt bay, or on the northern coast of California. Were it not for the fact that the bar at the en- trance to the bay is extremely bad and very difficult of improvement, Eurcka would eventually become s sesport of some {mportanca, As it lsit will be many years before anything but light draught vessels can enter the bay, and even thoy are sometiwes detalned tor weeks after rocelving their cargoss before the bar becomes emooth enough for them to ctoss, The population of all that region consists principally of “ULUE NOsES,” oople from New Brunswick, Nova Bootlu and Maine, They sremnota bad class of people, except for thelr extreme clanpishness. As well might a man from the Misslesippl valley endeavor to get ln- toheaven on a passport issued by satan a8 to get employment in the lumberiog camps «f Humbolt bay. stands no show whatever; but if one hails from New Brunswick or Nova Scotla he is all right, they will find & place for him or make one, I cannot close this letter witheut add- ing & few words in regard to THE CLINATE of that region. Back in the little valleys It 18 fine; scimetimes quite hot bat ne.er cold; nearcr the coast you strike a narrow belt that is delightful —the golden mean —but for fifteen or twenty miles back from the cosst is simply damnable. One seldom sees the oun, cfther in summer or winter. It Is cither an endless raln or an eternal fog. On many occaslons people are unable to sece each other across the strects. When the fogs coass the ralns set In. Twelve imches of rain fell at Eareka during the month of December, and still it rains, If apgols evor vistt that country they will have to go In boats and carey lifs pre- servers. 1 fear that the poor devils who dle therc will never know the ecstatic joys of paradise or the torments of that region which Bob Ingersoll says don't oxist. There will peno resurrection there. Gabriel may toot hls trombone in the deserts of Utah, Nevada and Ari- zona, he may even awaken the moss- backs of Missourl and Arkansas, but never will he venture {n the fogs and mists of Humboldt bay. " In closlng let me say to your readers, keep off the northern coast of Oallfornta. Praiy Tuura, | — Down to the Roots, John Swinton’s Paper, It s because the wealth of the country is held and haudled by a corporal’s guard of money kings that the people are har- assed and confused. Here in New York arc a score of great capltaliets and corpor- ations In full control of all ita interests; thoy have woven thoir network from here over the whole country; thoy are masters of its goll, its labor, its products, its re- sources, its machinery, and its lines of transportation All are used for their own aggrandizement, and all are brought under subjection to them. Hera in New York are elght or ten men owning half a million doilars, *‘with all that the term fmplies,” and controlling five times as much, Over theroe in Boston, Chi- cago and San Francisco are a ecore of othera possesecd of equal majesty, Here in New York is a single railroad nabob who puts half the nation under tribute. Here is a real estate nabob who takes mil- Hous of dollars of rack-rent every year out of the toilers of the city, Here Is a freebooter whose lines extond from the Atlantic seabosrd to the gulf and the Rocky mountaine, levying his blackmail upon tens of milliona of shack- led fresmen. Lcok for a momont at a singls opera tion of the freebooter last referred to. A fow weeks ago he tickled our eyes with a list of his dividend paying stcoke, ran- ning up to sixty-one millions of dollars; le then announced that wages ougat to be reduced to the ‘‘Euaropean basis;” he then jumped into his gilded yacht, sailed off to summer sesr, and touched ata southern port, from which he telegraphed orders for a reduction of the wages of an army of wage-workera, includiog the rallroad hands of his *‘Southwe:rtern sys- tem.” Diasturbauce followed his ordevs, from the prairies of Kaneas to the Gulf line of Texas; labor was thrown into an uproar; many thousands of men were forced Into the pitiful ex- pedient of a strike; two governors called out the mulitia to preserve the peace; the black-flag infantry of Pinker- ST. JOE'S BIG LOSS. The Gregt Conuty Cnu,nt Hon:o Almost Eatirely Destroyed By Fire. Nearly All the Uounty Ofiices Ruined By the Conflagralion—Many Books and Papers Lost, Kaneas City Times, About 815 Saturday morning printers from the Herald office discoversd flames issuing from the court house. An alarm was imme diately given, but to no purpore and by day light the magnificent structure was a mass of ruine. The loss hasnot yet been accurately computed, but it will roach 8200,000 £ or the connty and $20,050 or more for private indi viduals, The origin of the fire is unknown, the first eeen of it being when the flames were burst- ing out of the roof in the west end, over the probate conrt room There was trouble in gotliog water at first, but six streams wore soon turned upon the flames, The flames were smothered from view for a while but they soon burst ont of the windows and short. ly leaped high o the air and attacked the ome, This part of the structure was of wood covered with tin, Inside, in the lower part, waa a shell of dry pine lumber, and lath and plastering. Above it was simply a frame worl of dry pine lumber, THE DOME CRASHES TO THE GROUND, As soon as this part of the building was reached the flames ran up like fiery vipers and leapod high in the air, lighting upall that part of the city not shut out by the high hills on the outskirts, In a short time the dome fell in with a crash that could have been heard for miles, and a volume of sparks shot upward that lent additional light, From that time it was evident that the main building was doomed, 1t was impossible to do anything in the esn- tral part of the building, The floor, doors and windows and stalrcasing were all that was to burn, and these were soon disposed of, leaving the bare walls standing, HOW THE OI'FICES SUFFERED, The chief attention of the fire department was now turned to saving the wings and pre- serving the vaults, The upper story of the southwest wing, whero the Northweatorn mod- ical collego was' located was burned out, but vart of the floor remainod, thus protecting the county court room just below it, The latter room was but little dwmaged, except by water, The United States engineer’s room, oyer the probate court, in the northwest room, was burned out. and all the plans for the river im- provement destroyed. The county clerk’s office was provided with a fire-proof vaule, in which all the records of the offico, with the exception of a few nnim- portant papers, were kept. Nearly all the records were safely in the vault, and it is be- lieved that they have not been materially in- jured, although the interior of the office was ruined, Diroctly above the city clerk’s office is the circuit clork’s office, This was destroyed but fortunately it, too, was provided with a fire- proof vault, a continuation of that in the county clerk’s oftice. Ths records of the court and nearly all of the old papers were in this vault, and it is believed are safe from harm, All the papers for suits now in court and those recently brought, were in cases 1 the room and were entirely destroyod. . Across from this, on t20 second floor, and immediately adjoiniog the rotunda, waa the sherifl's office. Everything in it, comprising the jail records of commitments, etc., wascon- sumed, not a scrap of paper being saved, Down stairs in the central south wing was tho county collector’s oftice. In it was all the contents remaining outside of the vault un- burned. The regular current tax books were in the vault, it is_belioved, but the back tax books were nearly all on tho desks in the office. Deputy Collector Homer Osborne and ton vwere put in the field; vest communl- ties found themselves amid peril; and thelives of many men were endandered —all because the Money King teok a whim as he lay in his gilded yacht hover- ing near the run-lit shores of Caba! What a power thls is to be in the hands of asingle money king! ‘What fools the people are to give any man such tremendous power over them! The money kings and moneyed corpo- rations, with their headquarters in Wall streat, their bulwarks in Washington, and their ramifications everywhere, have brought things to such a pass that prices and markets, products and properties, labor and wages, the wide country over, are all theirs to manipulate, without the slightest regerd to any public consldera- tlon. This {s the root of the evil that Is fill- ing the country with harrassment and confusion, Somehow or other, this condition of things must be changed. The power to rule and ruin must, in eome way, be taken out of the hands of thess madmen and wreckere. Tho masses are plrched and penniloss, overworked and out of work, epiritless and desperate, becanse thoy have allowed theee millionalres and corporations to ab- sorb the public wealth and the means of wealth, to rake in cther men's ctops and control all men’s labor and lives, As long as we permit a few mon, ora few hundreds, to act thu, there is noth- ing pessible but deeper and deeper - poverishment for mankind at Jarge. The remedy Is obvlous; the communi ty muost find ways and means of recover— ing stolen goods and lost rights, o —— General Grant's Uondition, New Yong, March 30,-~(ienoral Grant was astir early this morning, breakfasted, and at eloven the following bulletin was procurred from Dr, Douglas: The geveral was visited at eleven v'clock by Drs, Grady and Douglas, The afternoon had heen a quiet one with per- 10ds of slumber alternately upon the bed and in an easy chair. At one time last night the goneral became apprehensive that the symp toms of the preceding evening might be re- newed, and requested that Dr, Douglas might be sent for. §The appreiensions were al- layed by the employiient of the same means a8 the night before, with success, hut the gen- eral preferred to renain in an easy chair so as to avoid the possibility of their reoccurrence from a recumbent position, His throat was attonded to again at 2 a, m,, and the geperal had altogether a comparatively easy night. He is quiet and free from pain, GETTIN® WORSE, New York, March 30.—There is good ground for the belief that the actual condition of Gen, Grant this morniog is worse than in- dicated by the bulletin just sent out, At noon, the genersl, who has been sitting and reading in his easy chair, was lified by his servant, Harrison, and pliced upon his. bed, where he no 12:10 », M. —Mark Twain, who is interested in the firin who s publishlog Grarts book, called at the house in & coups, He allghted from the oarriage, and was met at the foot of the stairs by Harrison, who told hjm of the eneral’s condition, Lwain did not enter the ouse, Latun,~The rumor is on the street now that Dr. Douglas has stated the general will not live twenty-four hours, e —— Civil Marriage in Uruguay, Buexos AYRES, VI (GALVESTON, March 30, A rupture between the Uruguayan govern- ment and the Vatican is imminent owiog to the order of the governiuent for the arrest of prissts who preach against the governmen! attitude in regard to civil marriage. The bishep declared he could accept the judgment of & police officer &5 to what sermons should come under the ban « { the law and merit pun ishment I risonment, and he has conse priests not to preach 1o any nyuuby'ul;lhuhl-hu[nhlmuke'l Monsignor 1.’ Matera, apostolic delegate resi dent of this city, to intervene. —— Smoke Seal of North Caroliva To-; baeco, €. C. Colt were in_the office until 11 q'clock Just night working on the back tax con- solidating them for colloction. The hight watchman, Sam Tolin; haviog his room in that adjoining the collector’s 1t was not thought nocessary to place the books in the vault, and they were left on tue desk Hil morning. Copies of the delinquent books, however, are in the county clerk’s vault. COUNTY RECORDS BAVED, Inthe southeastern wing, practically do- tachec from the rest of the building, with the exception of the roof, was the recorder’s of- fice. Tt was provided with iron shuttors for the windows, and the ceiline was lined with boileriron, formed in a series of arches 8o that there would be little danger of a fire obtain- ing an entrance unless the upper walls should fall in and crush through the ceiling. Seeing there was a chance to save this wing, showers of water were kept playiog on the upper st ry. The roof fell in and most of it burned, but the tloor was kept intact, and as eoon as poreibla men were putinand the debri cleaned out. Dan Lysaght, deputy recorder, went in while the fire was raging above, and piled the books in such a position thut the water would not reach them, and the resu.t was that not & scrap of paper in the recorder s oftice was damaged. The probate court room. was not greatly injured, the records and pa. peas being in the vaults, LOSSES OF PRIVATE PARTIES, On the west side of the rotunda, in the sec- ond story, was situated the law library, This ocontaina 1 about 3,000 volumns of very valua. ble books, which it is bohieved can not be re- placed for less thon $10,000 This was en- tirely destroyed, not a book being eaved. Adjoining the law library, on the second floor, was the hall of the Mendelssohn Musi cal association, It contained a fine piano, an organ and other fixtures, all of which were ruined, An insurance of $1,600 was carried y the association, which will cover the loss, The law tirsa of A, D. Vories & Bro,, wae, perhaps, the heaviest private losers, They had a large law library, valued at 51,500, be sides office fixtures, Theee wero total losses, and were not insured, M, G. Moran lost everything, e had a fine library, both law and literary, which it will be difficult to replace, as it contained many rute works. LK, Ryan, esq., succecded in eaving about Balf of hiy library, losing about §200 we rth of books and furniturs, c getting out nearly half of B. R, Vineyard's He also succeeded in tooks PRISONERS TAKEN FROM THE JAIL, The prisoners were all locked in their cells, and as the air began to bo suffocating from the smoke and heat, thev clamored to be taken out, ‘The sheriff, with the aid of the police ofticers, t-rned the prisoners out and they marched the twenty-five men to the marshal's office in the city hall building. After the fire was over the men were marched back to the juil sand }nln:sd in the corridor for the day. The roof of this build ing was 50 copiousiy flooded by the depart ment that it suffered no damage whatever, THE ONLY ACCIDENT, After the flames had been to a great extent extinguished, Chief W, 13, McNutt went with his men ineide the bhuilding to throw water on the ruios in the center, nesr the rotunda, ‘While there a brick fell from some of the wails above and struck the chief on tcp of the head elightly to the lett side and & short distanc back of the forchead, Tha missile inflicted & serious wound, fracturing the skull and knock- iog Mr, McNutt seoselese. He was taken home at once. His wound is & very bad one, he will be in a dangerous condition for 1 days. N The Ilinots Legisiature, SeminorieLn, T, March 30,—Herr intro duced a bill requiring that coal ehould be weighed befora shipment, and paying mines for all surplus aud waste coal taken from the mines. Davis offered a bill prohibiting the salo and manufactare of water gas in this state. Tho bill to provide against imporition in 1elation to the canned food was read a sec ond time, The general appropriation bill was read a second time, with some fmportant amendiments, It provides that the punishment for intent o wurder, rape, burglarize and lar ceny shall La not less thon five years nor more than twenvy, and if baviog ly weapoos uot less thaa ten years, Baller's bill against unjust discriination by railroads in charg g for freight or passcogers was read ffirst time. It simply does away with the publish ing of schedules in papers. The senato wet st 1175 but {ransacted Bo businees, e ——— Ulinots Politios, Kaskageg, I, March 30.~At the Kan kakeo county republioan convention to.day the delegates selected for the district conven. tion at Gilman were instructed for . Bonfield, of this city, clecult judge, Bonfield is vice prosident and attorney for the Kanka- keo & Sineca railroad, NO POISON IN THE PASTRY Lemon, Orany Crenms, Puddi e thy omudo. 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