Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 8, 1885, Page 4

THE OATTLE MEN, The Wyoming Stock-growers’ assocla- tion, now In sessfon at Cheyenne, points with pride to the fact during the twelve years of existence it has Incressed from a membership of ten cattle owners, with a total of 20,000 head of ocattle, valued at $350,0004 to & membership of 400 stock- grewers, with a total of 2,000,000 head of THE DAILY BEE. @xana Ovwion No. 914 Ao 918 Fanwax Br. Maw Yoax Ormen, Roox # Tamows Bono- mwe., 3 Sunday. The T, T e, e T The Weekly Bes, Publihsed every FIRA, FORTPAR Ons Yoar, with promiam. Ons Yoar, without promiun. Bix Monthe, withoul premi ©ne Month, on brial o iborial All Communications relating to News and Editerial matters should be addresssd 4o ihe EDITOR OF THA nd Remittances should be AD Bustnom Latlers and Remithnos, P e Posn Ohecks and Post offios orders b0 be mads pays ahle 0 the order of the company. THE BEE PUBLISHING CO., Props. R ROSEWATER, Eorom . Witch, Manager Daily Oirculation, A(-). Box, CB:,OmAh Neb. A7 the Jast sesslon of congress Mr. Cox had the salary of the minister to Tarkey ralsed to §10,000. Ho had no idea that it would ever benefit himeelf, He now goes to Turkey todraw that ealary. That {a why ho laughs. Prestorst CLEVELAND says that hia appointment of Pearson as postmaster of New York was an acknowledgement of the services rendered to htm by the Ilboral pross. Mr. Cloveland believes in paylng his debta, Fraxz Apr, one of the best known and most populer song writers, has “climbed the golden stairs.”” He was the author of *“When the Swallows Homeward Fly,” a song peculiarly ap- propriate to election day in Omahs. Tue Now York Zribunc says that a good many of Mr. Oleveland’s nomina- tlons were no more of a surprise to the politiclans than they were a nuisance to the newapapers, as it Is hard work to pro- care accurate blographical details about men whose chief characteristic s their obscarity, Our of the 125 appolntments made by Cleveland daring the speclal session of tho sspate, there were only two, so far a8 18 generally known, glven to Union soldlers, Col. Vilas and Gen. Black, The St. Louls Globe.Democrat says that “‘this fs probably a very falr proportionate racogaitlon of the halp glven by Union soldiers to the democratic party in the last electlon.” IN view of the fast that the St. Louls Globe-Democrat artist was recently stabbed for illustrating the members of the Texas legtslature, it strikes us that the Denver News {s rather a bold sheet to commit a similar outrage on the Colo- rado leglalature, a3 there ace probably as “bad” men In that assembly as there are in that of Texas. Wa venture to say that the ANews' artist has flad high up Into the mountains to ezcape the temporary wrath of the gentlemen whom he has carved In wood. ONE of the first things the city councll ought to do is to provide for the laying of flagstone crosswalks on the streets that are paved with the rough and sharp- polnted Sloux Falls granlte, This should be done at least on Farnam street. The crossings in their present conditien are patnful to persons wearlng shoes with thin soles, and this {s particularly the case with ladles, The expense of this much needed improvement will not be very heavy, and the work should be done at onoe, Tne action of the law-abiding cltizens of Philadelphia iIn preventing, by legal proceodings, the Sullivan McCaffrey watch from takiog place, {s certalnly to be commended. The ko called boxing match was to be carried on to a finish, that {s to say, until one or the other should be exhausted cr otherwise ‘‘done up.” It was clesrly a prize-fight, the en- casing of the fists in gloves bolng merely an evasion of the faw, It {s high time that the lovers of law and order every- where should follow the example cf the Philadelphians, The public has alrendy * contributed too much to the support of prizo-fighting brates, whoeo so-called ex- hibltions of the manly art are not only demoralizing but frauds, Intended to ob tain money by false pretences. cattle and other property, valued at 10 | $100,000,000. This is indeed a remark- able showing. It indicates that cattle raising Is one of the most important as wellas oneof the thriftiest industriesof the country. Tho vast grazing plalna that formetly wero unoccupied except by the baffalo and the antelope, and whose nu- tritlous grasses went to waste year after year, have been utllized and converted into wealth-producing regions. They bave proved more valuablo than gold mines, and they are capable of producing more fortunes than all the mines of the country. Wyoming Is essentially a cattle growlng reglon, and always will be, as its lands aro unfit for agrlcultural _purposes. Yot that territory can afford to depend upon other sections for its agricultural supplies 5o long a8 it contlnues to grow woalthy {from the graeses of its vast paature fields. Omaha naturally takes a grent Intorest in the welfare of Wyom. ing, aa that territory Is tributary to this city to a Iarge extent and ought to be wholly 80 now that we have stockyards, alaughter houses and packing houszs, and are establishing a cattle market. Tho cattle growers of the Wyoming associatlon find considerable fault, and justly so, with the misrepresentations that are made from {ime to time by the prees concerning cattle-men. They maintain that inasmuch as they have built up the only Industry practicable upon the arid, sandy pra'rles and created millions of taxable propertg, and risked their lives agalnst the INdians when they first started In the business, they ought new certainly to be_treated with due consideration. ’Thoy e constantly charged with obstructing and preventing by force and violence the settlement of the lands by the farmers. In answer to this charge they truly state that about eighty per cent of their lands are wholly unfit for agricultural purposes, hat ten per cent is mountsin and can- yon, and that the other ten per cont Is being taken up by the ssttler withont any objectlon or interference ontheir part. The people of the west know that this statement is about correct, bat the eastern critlcs, who know little or nothing of the western cattlo regions, are continually fighting the cattle interests on the ground that they are npposed to the homesteaders. So far as Wyoming is concerned every one west of the Missouri knows that anyone who would attempt to become an agriculturist in at least nino-tenths of that terrltory would be consldered a fit subject for a lunatlc asylum. As to the claimthat the cattle-growers ought to pay something for the use of the lands which they oc- cupy, they naturally make reply that they are willing to do eo, but they ask how are they to reimburae the govern- ment, when the government will nelther sell nor lease the lands to them. They are ready at any time to have thero mat- ters equitably adjusted, as it would be advantageous to them to have an end put to the agitation which continually annoys and unsettles their business interests. At present the cattle ralsers of the plains sva technically treepassers on the public domain, and it is but natural that they should be deslrous of acquiring some rights and privileges which would glve thom eome show of permsnency in thelr various locations, particularly in re- gions where the land is adapted for no other purpose than that of grazing. Per- hsps the best way to solve the problem ia either to sell or lease the grazing lands and to do this legislation will be neces- sary, but whatever lsdone in the way of Jegislation should be to protect the in- torests of the public as well asof private individuals, The questionis a serlcus one and should be carefully considered. The cattle industry is altogether too im- portant to bo crippled by hasty and ig- norant legislation, Tae office-secking democrats, whocom- plain that President Cleveland is alto- gether too slow In oustlng the republi- cans, have been figuring on the number Distwicr Arror~ey Esrerie, who lives | of appointments that he has made so far. in Burt county, should mske Omaha his | They find that all told they number only permanent home and headquarters dur- | 126, Of these, seven were members of ing his term of office, unless he has|the cablnet. Thirteen on the list of already done so. He certainly cannot | thirty-two ministers have been changed, properly attend to his dutles in a city of |and only seven consuls out of a poeslble sixty thousand people unless he is a resi- | 192 have been appointed. Five new as- dent of the city. Nine-tenths of his busi- |slstant secretarles, besides one to fill a nesa ls in Omaha, and it is here that his| vacanoy cauted by death, and six heads services are mcstly required. However, | of bureaus have been named. Among this {s the last term of district attorneys | the sixty United States marshals, and of in Nebraska, as the last leglalature abol- | the corresponding number of United ished the office, and created the office of | States district attorneys, only two or county attorney, whose dutles are almoat | three changes have been made In each identlcal with those of the district attor- | class. Fifty-elght postmasters havebeen ney, while his jurlsdiction 1s limited to|named out of the three thousand who the county. This is an Improvement|come Within the presldential appoint- over the old system, particularly {n such [ment. But these complaining demo. a large county as Douglas, cratic statisticlans, If they will only continue thelr Investigation, will AMONG the bllls passed by the last con- [find that Mr. Cleveland has made as gress was one providing for a retired llst |many appolntments as any other preal- for enlisted men. This s certaloly a|dent daring the ssme length of time. If most excellent measure, as 1t will give to | they will only have a little patience all the enlisted men who have served nearly | the best offices will be distributed. Al all their lives in the army something to | though there are not enough offices to go look forward to. Besides this It will | round, yet there are s great many good have s tendency to make the common |positions yet left. There are still open- eoldier more contented with his lot to |ings st Brazll, with a salary of $12,000; know that If he rerves the required num- |at the Argentine Bepublle, with ber of years he will be pensioned in his $7.600; at Anmu.‘ with §12,- old age. So far about forty applications |000; at Belglum, with $7,600; at have boea made to be put on the list. [Bolivia, with $5,000; at Central There are in the army sixty-five men who | America, with $10,000; st China, with have sorved thirty years continuously. | $12,000; at Hayt!, with 85,000; at Id- How many there are who have served |borls, $5,000; at Paragusy and Urugusy, thirty yeare, but not continuously, is not | with $5,000; at Spaln, with: $12,000; at known, Bwitzerland, with $5,000; and at Vene- THE DAILY BEE~~WEDNF.SDAY APRIL 8, 1885 ruels, with £5,000. There will be no Immediate change at Madrid, because Mr. Foster s still Intrasted with the re- Iations relating to the treaty recently withdrawn from the senate. The mis slons at Pekin, Vienna, and Brussels are held by New Yorkers who are more or lees In favor at court. ORIGIN OF ARBOR DAY. The question has recently been asked by varlous papers through. out the country who It was that origlnated the laea ¢f Arbor Day, or, as it is sometimes oalled, troe-planting day. The people of Nebraska generally know, or at least ought to know, that the honor belongs to Hon,}J. Sterllng Morton, It was in accordance with his suggestion that the Nebraska state agricaltural society In 1872 deslgnated the 20th day of April In that year to bo observed as Arbor Day. It was clalmed that on that first Arbor Day 12,000,000 trees were planted In Nebraska, Since that time the day has been deslgnated each year by the governor ina proclamation. The result, accord- Ing to the best authorlttes, is that Nebraska now has 260,000 acres of cultlvated woodland, and her example has been followed by Kans Dakots, Jowa, Minnesota, Penneylvania and other states that were once well tim- bered, but whose forests have been well- nigh exhausted. At the meeting of the Amerlcan Forestry Congress, In 1883, a resolution was adopted recommending the establlehment of Arbor Day in all the states and In the provinces of Canadas, and & committee was appointed for the purposo of bringing the subject to their attention, This action has secured the adoption of the custom in several states, and Mr, Eggleston, of the forestry burean of the department of agriculture at Washington, who properly credits Mr. Morton with orlginating Arbor Day, ssys that there 1s reason to believe that in a fow years its observance will be estab- lished throughout the entire country. THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY. The man whom Preeident Cleveland appointed as minister to Russla is a man withouta country. Like the infamous Jake Thompeon, the rebel General Law- ton never spplied for restoratlon to citl- zenshlp, and therefore is an alien. His rebellious spirit has never allowed him to take advantage of the amnesty law. A confederate who has lived in this country for twenty years since the lost cause was buried and has not even asked to bs re- stored to citizenship in the re-united na. tion is indeed an ungrateful person and a rebel still, It won’t do for him now that alucrative and honorable offics fs thruat vpon him to claim as he does, that he was pardoned without any application on his part by one of Andrew John- son’s proclamations, If Mr, Cleveland still inslsts on sending Lawton to St. Peters- burg, it strikes us that the man without a country ought at least to manifost his gratitude and relleve the president from further embarraesment by manfally applying at once for restoration to clti- zenship, which is & mere formal matter. 1t would certainly be establishing a bad precedent to have this country repre- sented abroad by a man who is not a citizen. It would simply be giving a premlum to those whose persistent dls- loyalty and hate deter them from asking for the removal of their political disabil- itles. There are two classes of confeder- ates—the unrepentant rebels and the reconstructed rebels. Itis but due to the south to eay that the former class, which includes such man as Lawton, is not very namerous. Wirs oneexception,and that not a not- ablo one, the democratic nowspapers of New York have commended the action of President Cleveland in re-appointing Mr. Pearson as postmaster/of New York City. Tho paper that objects is the Buftalo Times, whose edltor claims to have *‘dis- covered” Cleveland and pushed him to the front. This rampant editor says that it {stime for an anti-humbug crusadeagainst the ““further encroachments of the so- called reform associations, composed of dudes, therorists, aristocrats and fanat. ics.” A« the Buffalo Z%ncs man is seek- ing the appolntmept of public printer, it is susposted that he has become con. vinced that his claim is not likely to be recognized, | Hence his wrath, which rather amuses the Now York Evening Post, and other representative papers of the independent element. & large number of cases of pension claimants great difliculty has been expe- rlenced In finding the comrades or commanders whose testimony was nec- essary to support the clalms. To msslst such .clalmants a speclal division was created a year ago in the penslon office, under the name of ‘“‘Army and Navy | Burvivors,” for the purpose of opening and maintaining a record of the residence of every veteran whose whereabouts ocould be ascertained. The record now embraces 500,000 nam nd ciroulars of fnquiry have been directed in 945,000 cases. It Is proposed to obtain, if posti- ble, a complete record of 1,350,000 ex- soldlers, and until this is sccomplished the work will be continued. This fea- ture of the pension office will prove of great service to veterans who are really entitled to pensions, but as yet are unable to produce the necessary proof, Irnow transpires.that Dr, Sunderland, pastor of the Presbyterlan church in Washington where President Cleveland has become an attendant, was a rab'd Blalne msn, and duriog the campaign was very outspoken in hls denunciation of the democratic nominee, being almost a9 emphatic as Dr. Ball in his opinions and utterances. When, therefore, Mr. Oleveland recently put in an appearance at his chorch he was considerably aston- ished, The plucky clergyman, however, says that everybody knows his sentl. ments, and he shall not retract anything he sald, but that he can’t refuse to re- ceive the president or anybody elte who wants to come to his church, Mr, Cleveland no doubt will be pleased to loarn that he can't bo barred out from attendlng divine service. —_— WESTERN NEWS, DAKOTA, Thirty.seven studenta are on the rolls of the Piere nntversity, The assessed valuation of Hughes county for 1884 was $1,637,611. A single Black Hills firm has ordered over 100,000 pounds of barbed wire, Edmunds county has 1,600 vacant claims, and McPherson county has 2,600, There are claimed to be nestly or quites100 farmera’ alliances in Dakota and more form- ing. . The Episcopal college building, at Sioux Falls, is nearing completion, Its proportions are maguificent snd its architecture hand some, An artesian well is being put down at Coo perstown, and a depth of 400 feet has already een reached, At 28 feot gas was found that burned fresly, Petitions are being circulated _and numer- ously signed in the Black Hills counties Qraving fur, annexation to the tarritory of Wyoming. The prees of the Hills country are not favorable to the scheme, It is an ill wind that blows no one good, It now appears that the Indian uprising in the Snskatchewan country is turning many in- tending Manitoba immigrants toward the mode peaceful prairies of Dakota, Business is steadily increasing at the Yank- ton postoftice, The sales of atampa for the quarter just ended were $205 in excess of tha sales for the previous quarter, and $500 in ex cees of tho enles for the same quarter in 1884, A Mr. Beecher, of Doland, Spink county, enjoyed s peraonal interview with President Cleveland, while in Washington a short time ago. Mr, Cleveland expressed himself as favorable to the early admission into the union of Dakota, and he said he eaw no reason why we should not be speedily be made a state, WYOMING, Laramie claima the title of the “‘Giem of the Rockies.” The jims are numerous there. The oil wells at Asnen, in Carbon county, are beginning to attract increased attention, The governor has fssued a quarantine proo- lamavion agaimst contagious cattle and Texas pilgrims, Cheyenne has raised the $2,500 necess: seoure the annual encampment of the rado G. A, R. The reports from the ranges are all good. Tewer dead cattle than ever are to be seen along the railroad tracks. 1t is considered a very dull day in Chey- enne when one or more irrigating ditch com- pany’s are not incorporated. Twenty thousand New England trout and 3,000 rainbow trout were planted in territo- rial streams the past weel. Cheyenne claims to be the Mecea of health seekers, whera ‘‘dry air and beautiful drives” abound. but no reference is made to the clouds of sand sailing promiscuously in that vicinity. The territorial treasury is flush, containing 838,000, There wasan overlap of twenty cents in favor of the outgoing treasurer,which was unsnimously appropriated to “set‘em up” for the auditing committee. Bill Baker is the tall kicker of Fort Fetter- man. In a recent exhibition of his pedal prowess he kicked out one of J. B, Wood's eyes, and danced a Highland fling on his prostrate form. Both were howling drunk. The Rawlina Tribunereportsthe Graff OilCo, aro taking active steps to place the product of their wells on the market. The company has applied to the Union and Central Pacific for special rates, and tho first named has agread to take twenty five barrels a day of the pro- duct of the well for its own use. The Conti- nental Oil company has also offered a_good figure for fifty barrels & day, to be delivered at San Francieco, 1t will be scen that alaost tho entire product of the first well has already been spoken for. Should the English compa- ny decline to_conclude the negotiations now pending, the Graff company will at onca put on a train of _about filty or seventy-five oil- tank wagons between Rawlins and Dallas, es- tablishing refineries at one end of the route, and with bull teams haul the oil in and ship it from here, to Jolo- COLORADU, It is said ex-Senator Hill has sunk at least $100,000 in Denver newspapers, Douglas county commissioners offersd $200 to the person who would first strike an artex- ian flow of water, At the last meeting of the Aspen city ouncil appropriations for the ensuing year, of $39,500 were made. The camp is becom- ing quite metropolitan, Four colored women attacked a Denver constable and battered him with hammers, flat irons and razors. The coons were jailed and the constable sewed up for repairs. The Denver, Utah & Pacificroad will ex- tend their line up the 8t, Vrain cannon as soon as possiblo, where they have purchased some of the rtone quarries, and will put o large working forcs on at once. The Colorado legislature is made up as fol- lows: In the senate there are six miners, six stockgrowers, five merchants, one banker and eight lawyers, Inthe houss there are tix winers, nine stockgrowers. three ranchmen, fifteen lawyers, six merchants, two hotel men, d one each of the following: Banker, sur- yor, editor, real estato dealer, brewer and mechanist, COASTERS, There are 70,000 tons of ore in sight in the Belmont mine'in Montana, The deficit in the accounts of the treasurer of Lewis and|Clark country, Montana, is be- tween $38,000 and $40,000, Block tin, in paying quantities and of su- perior quality, has been discovered in the Cascade range, near Quartzville, Ure, (Catfish are so numeraus in Owens river that whole families camp on the bank and gugle for bullheads, whilo the young ones make mudballs and thrive amid the sprouting grass, A movement is cn foot amoug the princi merchanta of Portland, Ore., to estab) fruit cannery there on a larze scale, It is proposed to raiso from $20,000 to $50,000 to carry out the plan, Nogales, which now contains about 1,200 inhabitants, is built across the boundary line between'Mexico and the United States, about one half of the town being in each of the re- publics. Besides beng beleagured by California lions and overbung with a perennial fog, Mon- tere; me fishermen, who, one day last weak, caught a jewfisb, six foet in longth and weighing 300 pounds. Ite scales were an inch square, H, B. Luckhe,of North Butte, Sutter county Cal., shows & singlo stool of barley, picked oz amonn Ll ghowiog wheat whlol e tains 121 stalks,and is over five feet in height. The barley is in full head, averagioe 85 grains to the head, makiog the enormous production of 10,285 grains from @ single head. The eleven surviving ostriches which were hatched at the farm of Anaheim, Cal., six or a%ht months ago, are growing fast, and have all the promise of makiog fine birds, They have already some valuable white wing feath. ers, Several of the females are now “‘setting,” and the incubators will begin their part of the work in two weeki e — Frozen Bees, The great dread of beekeepers In the northern states Is loss in wintering. Every cold winter—especially If the cold is savere and long contlnued—brings diarrhca and death to hundreds of colo- nles, As very few winters have equalled this one in severity, so pwhnbl{ the pres- ent loss will be without parallel. Already the cry is heard of the entire loss of whole aplariee. As I have long srgued he past fow days, have given Interesting esults, One large aplary, where the bees were fed only sugar syrup In elean combs last fall, bat where the bees wore left out- doors, though well packed, has not live bee. Examinstion shows the Intertines moderately distended with Indigested sogar mmp. The syrup seemed not at all changed. In this case there was not the least_appearance or odor of the ususl diarrhwa, Cold checked vitalit; diges- tlon was checked and the life-fire went out. Might we not wsay that these bees actually froze to death? ~That they wonld have remalned hale and strong In & good cellar, there can be little doubt In another aplary—boes all dead—I find the look and odor of fatal diarrhces, The faces are awarming with bacterla and loaded with pollen-grains. The pollen.gralns In the hive are precisely like those In the bees, in alze, form and markings. These bees were wintered in a cellar where the thermometer marked 20° forsome days. Very similar was the conditlon of bees dead of diarrhoea left unprotected on the summer stands. These beos, atimulsted by cold, tried to punch up the vital-fire by unduo eating, especlally of the hoarty" nitrogenous food, and as bees do not void exoreta in confinement, they, become loaded with In- digested matter and died of diarrhas, Had these bees been kept in a temper— ature of about 45° F., they would have eaten very little, and with no evil re- sults, Cculd they have flown from the hive they would have unloaded the intes- tines and escaped death, If they had had only honey or sugar syrup, the irri- tation would have been less, and they would not have dled o soon, if at all, 1 bave also examind some bees, sald to have had only sugar syrup, but which did considerable breeding In February, but which are now all dead. Many of them show no pollen in the Intestines; yet the bacterla, the diarrhoetioc odor, and the distended bodies all show diar. rhoa, Some of these bees have polien; I think all have nitrogeneous matter in tneir intestines, The bacterla, theic breeding, and the odor of putrefactson, all suatain this assertlon. Some of the bees may have eaten brood and the jelly food of larvi: bees—and so would have taken nitrcgen without eating the pollen. The apiarist who sent these bees said they had no pollen. Yet they did have, ss both Dr. Besl and myeelf found some of the bees quite distended with the pollen-grains, Comb from the hive sent me showed con- slderable pollen at bottom of cell when examined with microscope. Very likely those bees may have gathered flour ov meal and stored It on warm days quite late in the fall. I have known bees to do thls. Our own bees, wintercd in the cellar, seem very well; aro small, bright aud give not the least indicatlou of diarrhoea. Upon examination I find almost nothing in their intestines; a little light colored, mucus-like liquid {s all. These bees have probably eaten not more than three pounds of honey or syrup in all winter. The conclueion, then, is that, to winter well, bees must, In_our lorg, cold win ters, be kept in & cellar where the tem perature may not vary much from 40 deg. F.; and that they are safest when fed only the carbhydrates, though in just the right conditlon pollen does no harm.— [Frof. A. J. Cook. e SOUTHERN ENTERPRISE, The Development of the Irom Re- sources of Alabama, Correspondence New York Commercial-Ad- vertiser, BirviNemay, Ala., Aprll 2,—To a northern man who travels In the south the most interesting features of this sec- tion are those that relate to its growth and enterprlce. We_have heard a grest deal of late regarding the ‘‘southern iron.” A parsgraph or two in regard to it may bo of interest not only to the iron producor but to bucine:s men at the north. Birmingham and vicinl!y seems {to be the most disadvantageously situated point in the eouth for the production of cheap iron; thero aro seven out of eight stacks theae and at the neighboring polnts of Oxmoor and Wheeling in blast to-day. Thero furnaces are constructed upon the most approved plans, and no money has been epared to make them fully up to the highest northern standard. Each faxnace is equipped with Whitwell ovens, fine engines, abundant boller capacity and every other necessary and aproved appllance. The chfef advantage at Bir mingham, and indeed in the whole south, Is the chesp ore which 1 ensily mined and abounds In slmost Inex- haustible quantities. The veln in this vicinity lies vertical in Red Mountain, from twelve to twenty feetin thickness, and costs delivered at the farnaco from 90 cents to $1.12) per ton. It takes aboat two and one half tons of ore to the ton of iron; the ore yleld- ing on an average of 40 psr cent.” The ore is red foset), and is of two kinds, hard aund eoft. The soft contains from 48 to 52 per cent. metalic iron, about 11 per cent. of silics, and nearly one-half of one per cent. of phosphorus. The hard ore yields from 28 to 34 per cent, and from 20 to 25 per cent of llme, The icregular character of the hard ore s the causo of much of the unsatisfactory workiogs of the furnaces, making them difficult to handle and produce a uniform quality of lron, COAL AND LABOR To thislast objection may be added the Inferior quality of the coke. The coal from which it Is made does not ual that of the Connellsville district in Ohio, mor of the soft coal district in Pennsylvania, and the coke produced therefrom is much lighter with s higher per cent. of eulphur and ash, It re- ufres two tons of this coal to manu- uc.ure one ton of coke and from 3,800 to 4,000 pounds of coke to make a tonof Iron In pigs, The average price delivered st the furnace coke ovens —each furnace makes its own coke, the ovens belng at the furnaces—Is about $1.26 per ton, In the case of all except one furoace, that situated at Wheeling, the coal and ore ls brought from six to twelve miles, the limestone thirty miles. In regard to labor, there does not seem %0 ba much If apy advaatage here. The labor s colored, chiefly, the places of the englneer and other skilled positions beng filled by white men. They pay common labor 80 cents per day with a proportionate advance as pald by northern farnaces for keeping, filling and helping. Thls labor, however, is not as efficient or rellable as that ob- rained at the nortb, and therefore the difference In wages may perliaps be In favor of the north. THE COST OF PRODUCTION. With the possession of these facts, the 9. in the Tribune, the cellar is the only sure | cost of producing a ton of iron can be st such dlssster. This|iotelligently figured, when it ls remem- Ex- | be: i repaire, relining expenses are very dlarrhoss, under varied condltions, made | great, owirg to the short time the fur nace remains In blast withont relining. The Iast Is the result of the varlable lime In ores, which glves rise to repeated roaf] folding. With poesibly two exceptions from three to eight months Is the aversge life of a lining. ~The Iast, however, wi | no doubt be remedied by longor experl- ence In working thelr cres and by the us- usl methods of purlfying the inferlor grades of coal beforo coking. A consarv- ative expert estimates the cost of making Iron at six or elght of the furnaces in Al- abama ab from §12 50 to $13.50 per ton. This would represent the cost of all the grades, The alm of the farnaces in Alabama eeems to be to manufacture as large a portion of foundry iron as possible; the mill iron being uted by pive worke, otc., In & mixture with Lake Superior ore Irons, by rolllog mills, Tho irregular work of the furnaces makes the product of No. 1 foundry small, » great porpor- tlon being No. 2 and the mill grades The character of the iron, which is cold, short and weak, makes its uee preferablo for light castlngs and other grades of foundry work., These grades brivg comparatively low price, and the profisgo the furnaces ia therefore much less t would be conld they make a ui bigh grade of fron. Hore, drawback is want of uniformity, HELPED BY THE RAILROADS, “ Much of the euczess of these mines is due to the co-operatlon of the rallroads. The two trunk lines centering in Bir- mingham are giving the furnacos there very low rates to northern points, £3.75 per ton to Philadelphia and New York, abont the eame rate to Chicago, with pro- portionately low tariffs to all other desir- ablo shlpping points. In addition to this, they haul the ore and coal from the various mines at a very much lower cost to the furnaces than pald at any fron manufactory polat in the north, The roilroads can afford to do thie, for they local traflic in freights that {s worth no- ticing THE IMMEDIATE PROSPECT, Thero scoms to be no doubt that Blr- mingham and the viclnity is destined to be a very important factor as an {ron produclng district of the United States, whilo the surcst methods of working these ores succersfully are not fully mas tered, nor the bost rosults from coking this coal cbtained that are possible. It ls but a matter of time until both are accom- plished. While do Bessemer ores have a8 yet been discovered in any quantity In Alabsma, and the manufacture of steel is therefore Impracticable, yet the de- mand for this coarser grade of pig iron will neceesi'ate better railway accommo- datlons to the iron valleys of Pennsylva- nia and Ohio. There appears to ba no present danger to the morth from the Alabama iron becsuse the distanco 18 too great for the trans- portation of plg iron. But if the south- ern raflroads should make still more fa- vorable rater, orif the trial of flat boats on the Tennesseo should be found a suc- cones these mines of Alabama might have a declded brush with the northern iron centros. The ssme thing might happen also if the quality of the coke, and therefore of the iron, should sudden- ly increase for the botter. e— EWSPAPER OUTFITS, TO PUBLISHERS. 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Drs Mcris, Towa, April 7,—Tho wife of ex- State Senator R. C. Wobb, died after a long and painful illness this afternocn, aged fifty nine years, She hasbeon o resident of this city about twenty vears. BfAu‘fBLuun. INHERITED CONTAGIOUS B4P, BLOOD, arotalous inherted and Gontagious Hurors, with Loss of hair, Glandular Swelllngy, Ulcerous Patehes in toe Throat'and Mouth, Abscors” Tumors, Carbunces, Blotches, Sores, Scurvy, idneys and Ur.ury Orcans, Diopsy , Chronlc Kheumatism, Conetipa- og and most diseases aris ng from an improverlshod condition of the Blood are speodily cured hy the Cuticura Resolvent, the new Bloot Purifiar, interually, assisted by Cutioura. th great Skin Cure, and Cutioura Soap, an exquisite bkia Beautifier, externally ALMOST INCREDIBLE, 57 Washington stieet, Beston saye ed for one y.ar and nine nthe rs called rupis. 1 was taken with dreadful pains fn_the head and body, my feet became 8o awollen that 1 was porfectly helploes soros broke out on wy body and fase, my appetite lefe me, T cou'd not sleep nights, I los fitah, and 8oon beosme 80 wretched that I longed to die icinre talled tohclp me My disease d inge beoame tevrible, The eruptio great burrowlng, foul smell reddish matter constantly pot thickness. Oher eorcs appeared on of wy body, and I heoame 80 weak thy not leave my bed In this ccndition and by savice of & well known phytician, 1 b to use the Cutl- curs Remedies, wna In tweive s waa perlectly cured. STILL MORE S50, Javks E. RICiARDSON; Custom Honss, New Orleans o8 ovth Ta 1870 8orofilous Ulowrs broke out on my body unti] | was & mass of corrupilon. Every- thing known to the medical faculty was tried in vain. 1 became a mero wreok. At times could votlift my bands (0 wy head, could not turn in stant pain, and looked upon 1ifo as liet or curd In ten yea cura Romediey, used Bworn to before riectly cured. AWFORD, ; Rasol- Hold by all druggists. _Price Cutiours, « Dt vent, 41.06; Soap Propared by the P AND CilkMICAL €0, Boston, Me Fend for “How to Cure 8kin Discases:" BLAC - St. Charles Hotel, O BTKEET, BET 7th and 6th, - - LINCOLN, NEB Mrs. Kate Coakly, Propriotorees. 4 Nowly and clogantly furalsbed, Good ssmple 100ma on Kret foor, 49 Terms - §1.60 0 4% por day. Bpecial rates given meabers of the exlalatise, BoVI0-1w-ise HEADS, Plwples, Rough Tauned and Olly Skia, uee Cuticurs 8oap. o (world over. y|of Durability, Conven- ‘lience and Economy of THE LINE OF IMBRACE EVERYTHING KNOWN IN THIS CIASS OF GOODS. AND AIE SOLD AT PRICES TO SUIT ALL CLASSES. Their Superior Mer- its are well known the Im point Fuel they are absolute- ly the finest and best that can be made. EXAMINE THE "GARLAND" LINE BEFORE MAKING A PURCIASE, SOLD EXCLUSIVEL LANG & FOITICK, 318 ani 320 South 13th St, near Farnam. YOU CAN BUY AT THE Grand Onion Tea Co Silver Loaf Japan Tea at 40¢, 50, 600, 70¢ and 80c. Uncolered Japan Tea at 500, 60c, 700 and 80c. Mcynue® ® Powder Tea, 400, 60c, 603, 70¢, 80, Meyvre YewagHyson Tea, at 25c, 49¢, 50c, 60, 70¢ Pormy Oelon aud §L Enginsh Breakfast Tea, 50¢. 600 700 and 80c, Dust Toa, 25¢ or b Ibe for $1. Also s combination Coffee, fresh roastod, that beats all competition, 85¢ or 3 Ibs for §. 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