Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 7, 1885, Page 4

XHE DAILY BEE. 'nno'nnlo.mmurmum. [Mww Youx Ormon, Roox & Tarsvxa Buiuo- e, od every moraing, Munday. The -m«y morning dally ..'.'u'.'& in Ahe Hate. | Pied : he Woeekly Bee, Publihsed avery W WERMS, PORTPAIR OLEVELAND AND THE SPOILS HUNTERS, The deoclaration of war on the president by the fresh senator from Louislana ls creating conslderable commotlon In the democratlo ranks, While it Is true that Serator Eustis wlll gather around him some of the most voraclous spolls-hanters, who Inslst upon the imporsibility of im. mediste diatribution of federal patronsge and a clean sweep of the republican office- 1# | holders, the more roasenable, conserva- connmaroND! Oommunieations relating e whould be sddressed Vo Ohecks abie 40 the order of \he sompeay. $HE BEE PUBLISHING CO., Props. R ROSEWATER, Eormon . Witoh, Manager Daily Oirculation, :l.‘o‘.!ln. 488 Omaha, Neb, Roscor CoNkrING Is trylog a law case in Oh'eago, where he attracts as much at- tention as & dandy dude would in a coun- try town, e DexMARK may b ittle conntry, but she thinksshe bas brains enovgh to set- tle that blg dispute between the British Lion and {he Russian Besr. EE———— Axz, the demooratic officer seeker needs 1y patlence and sweet oll, as the siying goes. They can get plenty of the lat'er artiole, but patlence with them is vory Tare. —_— Tar leading English newspapers are drawing mournful pictures of Eoglish “humiliation” as they call it. The lion’s tall is evidently being twlsted sadly out of jolnt. Hox, W. L. May, of the Nebraska state fith commission, is at present angliog In the political headwaters at Washington In hopes of catching an office for a friend. Ir the Germans must have themar:hal- ship, what shall be glven to the Bohem- {ans, the Italians, the Fronch, the Eog- 1isb, and other nationalities? How about the Americans? Where will the colored brethren come In? Mavor Bovp has recommendéd to the city councll that the crosswalks on Far- nam streot be improved by belng laid with flat stones. This suggestionis in accordance with the public demand, and 1t is hoped that the council will at once take favorable actlon in the matter. THE olty prisoners are now keptin the oounty jail, and unless an ordinance 1is passed making that jai the legal place of confinement, such prlsoners can be re- lensed by means of habeas corpus. Mayor Boyd bas called the attention of the clty councll to this fact, and the re- quired ordinancs will probably be passed at the next meeting. CouncitmaN Forp, in behalf of the Germane, deslred it understood that the Germans of Omaha had asked for the clty marshalship, and it was no more than right that they should have it. The Germans of Omahs have a faithful repre- sontative In Mr. Ford., He has the Ger- man accent to perfection, and speaks the larguage fluently. SHERMAN avenue is In very bad condl- tlon for drlving. The street commis- sloner has never done any work upon it tokeep it in shape. All that has been done bas besn paid for by subecriptions from private cltizens. Something cer talnly ought to be done on the part of” the clty to put the avenue In first-class ocondition at once, 1t1s the most popu- lar drive in the clty, and it s a shame that it is not kept up better, It can be groatly improved at a very littlo expense. Tae positlons under the commissioner of Indlan affairs and the commissioner of the general land office do not come within the provislons of jthe civil ecrvice law, and hence they are more sought after by the spoils-huntera, It 1s said that there are at least a hundred Indian agents and aesistant agents who will have to go. There willbe no difficulty, however, in gotting men to fill their places, as there are from ten to a hundred applications for every position. The commissioner cf Iundian affairs, however, has no¢ had time to look into the details of his office eo as tobe able to decide satisfactorlly upon the changes. It will probably take him several months, and the same may be #ald of the general land commissioner, in whose hands hangs the fate of the varlous Iand agents, surveyors and recelvers in the varlous states and territorles. —— THE clty councll has very properly taken steps towards compelling the Unicn Pacific to lengthen its Thirteenth street bridge so as to glve the street Its full width, This street has become one of the most important and busy thorough- faros In the city. The horse rallway teack has been laid upon the street, which is to be paved from the Unlon Paclfio south, Unless the street is wideaed at the rallroad crossing It cannot be paved, for the taxes cannot be collect: ed unless the paviog 1s lald to the fall width, If Thirteenth street were but Uttlo used it would be well enough not to disturb the Unlon Paclfic, but now that more room {s demanded, and Inasmuch as the B, & M. has constructed & bridge of proper length, it {s only just that the Ualon Pacific should be required to do the same thing. It was orlginally agreed by the Union Paclfic that when the street shopld be Improved and more room should be required, it would re- place the present brldge with one a hun- dred feet long. The time has now ar- rived for the company to carry cut that agroement, and 1t should not walt to be compelled to do 8> by the actlon of the elly council, tive and prominent demooratic leaders willstand by Mr. Cleveland. While they may be fewer in number than the great army of office-teeking democrats, they will undoubtedly wield the greater In- fluence with the mass of the democratic party. Among the prominent leaders who have taken the pqt of Presldent Cloveland 1s Senator Voorhees, who eays that the distributlon of patronsge lanota proper subject upon which to break with an administration. He probably fears, and with good reason, that there is dan- ger of the party splitting upon the rock of patronsge, and his efforte, together with those of the men who support the adminlstration, will be directed towards harmon!zing the varlous elements, and to do this the office-seekers must be taught the lesson of patlence. With that object 1n vlew, Mr. Voorheos says to the men who are acousing the adminlstration of mov- ing slowly that it ought to be sufficient that the democralic party takes possesslon of a government which has been for twenty-five years In the hands of the re- publicans; that the eenate is etill re- publican; and that if the administration went to work with reckless rapidity in making changes the members of it would theveby prove their unfitness for their places. He holds that dishonesty in office or the adminlstration of the gov- ernment upon false principles of leglala— tion can alone justify a leader of a party in rushing Intoopposition. It Is, in his opinion, highly impolitic for any one who falls to get an office tocry out that the party Is lost and then fall to ralling agalnst the administration. Mr. Voor- hees’ 1deas, while they may be eminently correct, will, however, hardly succeed in convinolng such men as Senator Eustis— and there are a great many like him— that they are making a mistake in assiil- ing the adminiatratlon, The trouble 1s that Eostls 1s one of thcss poll- tlcians who owe their success to the promlses which they have made, and being unable to pay thelr political debts, unlers the federal patronsge is placed wholly at thelr dispoial and dictatlon, they propose to bulldoze the praeldent, They are mad and hot-headed, while Mr. Cleveland s cool and bull-headed. It is not likely, therefore, that Eastls and his followers will succeed in their effort to make him yteld, nor Is it any more likely that the attempt of Mr. Voorhees to qulet the waves of wrath and Indignation, by pouring ofl upon the troubled waters in the shape of as- surances that every man will gat an office in due tlme, will cslm the storm. Every office-seeker will continue to think that the time for him to have an office is duefnow, and not in the dim distant futare. It Is evident that the shrewdent leadera foresee dlscord and danger to the democratic party over the patronage question, and hence their efforis to heal the breech between the office-seekers and the administration. Meantime the republicans are watching events with more than ordinary Interest, in the hope that the breech will continue to widen. A LOCAL EPIDEMIC AND IIS LESSON. It is generally supposed that the death rate durlng the prevalence of cholera is much greater than from any other epldemic. Thls is probably true, as s rnle, but the per centage of deathsfs much smaller than people generally think, The terrible fever scourga at Plymouth, Pennsylvania, has caused more slckness, more dlatre: ud more deaths than probably cholera has ever done In a place of the same slza. 1t Is & town of not over 6,000 people, and there aro several hundred cases of the fever. On Thursday last In the town and Im mediste vicinity there were 146 new cases reported, and on Saturdsy the slck list was tncreased by the aadition of 165 oases- There were elght deaths on that day, and on Tuesday there occurred eleven deaths, while a very large number were not expected to live until the next morning. Great destitutlon prevalls among the stricken familles, The fever is now pronounced to b3 viru- lent typhold, whioh the filthy con- dition of the town and its {mmedlate suburbs fcsters, While the fover may be due t> the negleot of sanitary pre- oautlons, it is & pecullar and {nexplicable fact that thus far the epldemic has not appeared in the shanty distrlct occupled by the Huugerian miners, who live In the utmost squalor in buildings 12 by 15 feet, and contalning but two rooms each Some of these huts are ocsupled by as many as twelve persons, and yet they are fres from the malady, though every c:n ditlon necestary to 1ts production exlsts. This exception In favor of these filthy Hungarlsns, however, is not any more re- markable tkan some of the exceptions that have ocourred during the prevalence of cholera. (Only last year in France persons llving amld filth and in districts that had no drafoage or sanitary advantages of any kind esceped the plague, while peoplereslding in what was considered the most healthy sections of the oltles were etricken down right and loft. A notable instance was the rag plokers’ distriot in Paris, in which, if we remember rightly, not a case of cholera appeared, However, people everywhere should pay more attention to ssvitary masttere, not only in antlcipation of cholera, which has staried on a tour THE DAILY BEE---THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1885. around the globe, but «f such dreadfal fever scourges as that which is now oarry- ing off mo many victims at Plymouth. The mysterlous fever plagne at Memphis, lfennessee, some years ago, WaAS ssoribed wholly to the neglect of sanitation. The lesson was heeded by the olty, snd a complete system of sanitary sewerage was estab: lished as soon as porslble. Memphis Is now consldered a romarkably heslthy clty, and slmply because of Its excellent sewerage, and oconeequent cleanliness. Had the little town of Plymouth been s cleanly place the fever would probably never have developed Into an epidemio, but confined itself to & few persons, A violatlon of the laws of health are protty sure to be followed with severe punish- ment, as it has been In the oate of Plymouth, MR. BENEKE'S REQUEST. Judge Beneke has asked the ocily councll to appoint a committee to Inveati- gate his record es police judge. In hls communioation he refers to an artlole in Tue Beg, whioh, it Is intimated, Is the caureof his making this request cf the council, the Implication being that we have malicloutly reflected upon him. This paper, however, bears mno ill-will toward Judge Beneke. It has suppor ed him in the past on various occasions for public offices, and has thown its good will by suppressing complaints, which, if published, would have been a reflection upon him, What Tue Ber has ssid in regard to the police court records is lit- erally true. We were are informed by Judge Stenberg that when he came into office as the successor of Judge Beneke he found the court docket five months behind. In other words, the clerk of the pollce court, who was under the su- pervision of Judge Beneke, had failed to keep up the books for that length of time. We are informed, further- more, that for more tban one year the docket does not show Judge Beneke's s'gnature as approving senten- ces that have been imposed by him. This showe, to eay the leas!, agross negligencs on the part of the judge, and something worss on the part of the clerk. At this stage Mr. Benoke has no right to aporove the docket beciuse he Is no longer judge, and his succestor cannot approve it be- cause he knows nothing about it. We are not Informed how the clerk has kept the minutes of the varlous transactions of the court, but it will certalnly be very difficult for aay committes to make a perfactly reliable report on a record that {s five months behind. An unsigned and imperfect docket Is sofficlent cauee for the rel:ase of every prisoner who Is not indicted. There Is nothing more strict than criminal law. It s not eimply necessary for the judge to pasa sentence, but the judgment of the court must be recorded, It we are Incorrect in this matter we shall be glad to sfford Judge Beneke all the space neceseary to set himself right. As to Jerome Pentzel we slmply eay that no matter how competent he may be to perform the duties of clerk, he has certsinly neglected those duties, and therefore s not fit to retain the position. There I8 no spite work on the part of the Bee in this matter. It was malnly through the efforis of the BEk that the oftice of the clerk of the pollce court was created. The object of the office wss to have a responsible party to keep the records, and thus relleve the judge from the drudgery of his position. What we bave sald, and say now, is in the Interest of the publlc welfare. It Is a painfal duty to pass strictures upon men with whom we have been on good terms, but duty is one thing and friendship 1s an- other., Tae] Lincoln Jonrnal, followlng, es usual, In the footsteps of the Omaha Herald and Republican, takes great palos to publish ajstatement putting the Brighton ranch company {n & more favor- able light. When it is understood that that statement originates from the ranch company's lawyer—who objects to trying cases in the newspapers but nevertheless uses the newspapers, In this instance at least—-it must be taken with a good meny gralns of allowance. Bat the Journal goes out of its way, as usual, to attempt to belittle Senator Van Wyck, by endeavoring to show that this case, upon which the senator baszd bis recent complaint to the president, amounts to little or nothing. It cradits the Brighton company with alleging that all the trouble hss been made by cattle thleves who have avenged thelr deteotlon by posing as “‘honest homesteaders,” who have been driven off thelr claims by the cowboys. Now we have heard that allegation be- fore, We heard It when Olive and his gang, on this same cattle ranch in Custer county, killed two homesteaders, Mit- chell and Ketchum, Noone in Custer county ever heard the charge of cattle- stealing ageinst them until after they had been murdered, and then the charge was pat in clrculation by the murderers, but it gained Jittle or no credit. So In the case of the Brighton outfit. Accordlug to that company and its cowboy empleyes who bave aws'sted It In king clslms that are, t> ssy the least, of very deubtful valldity, the home- steaders are nothing bat a lot of catt thleves. We don’i belleve It, Farther- more we questlon if the Brighton com- pany has lost any catile by theft, at least ot the hands of homesteaders. Even if it had, 1t has a legal remedy, but it cer- talnly has no right to fake the law lnto its own hands, ——— Tak constant attempts of the monopoly organs of Nebrasks to ridicule Benator Van Wyck have no effect upon the people of this who fully understand the motives of the subsidized press, The people sppreclate the ability of Senator Van Wyck aod his honest and untirlng effsrts In behalf of the farmers snd the prcdacers of this country sgainst. the oppressions and robberies of the rallways, the monopolies, the land- grabbers, and corporation jobbers gener- ally. He bas acquired natlonal fame, and has reflscted oredit upon himself and his state. Nebraska ought to feel prond in having such a represemtative In the halls of the national leglalature, The Naw York Sun says of hi The Atta California discusses that feank and manly stateemsh of the west, Senator Van Wyck, with cordlal esteem for his fear- lees integrity and conscieus pvgnacity. But when it calls him an 'old man” our contem- porary travels beyond the record, Van Wyck was a lively young fellow when e made it hot for Thurlow Weed and the republican bosses here in Now York twenty-five yeare go; he was youog when he drew his sword and rode noble Ulster county charger into the thick of the civil war; he was young when he moved to Nebraska; and he is younz now as he stands up in the senate and speaks his mind freely like a man, If he should live tobe s hundred—and we hope he will—~he will be young at his last hour, fresh in heart, and ready for whatover antaponist may ap- pear in the lists, l Tor arrest of Maxwell, the author of the St. Louls trunk tragedy, shows pretty conclusively that a criminal has but little chance of ezcspe In these days of tele- graphs and submarine cables. When it was ascortained that he had salled from San Francisco for Auckland, In New Zea- land, a dispatch was sent to that place, and when the vessel reached the port on Tuesdsy lsat, Mr. Maxwell walked into the arms of the offisers of the law, who bhad a full description of him. The course of the dlspatch which caused his arrest was given In the Bre about three weeks ago. It pessed over seven land lines of telegraph and over twelve sub- marine cables, and madethe clrcuit on the same da The dispatch announcing Maxwell's srrest was sent from Auckland yesterday morning, and was received in St. Louis and glven to the associated press in time for the evening papers. This may well be called lightning work. WiLL some one please tell us why Mayor Boyd thinks 1t necessary that the marshalship should ba given to the Ger- mans? In ourop'nlon all this talk about the Germaus wanting any particulsr office is all bosh. The great msjorlty of them don't care a_straw who is city marshal. All they desire, like other good cltizens, 1s better goverament. Tue mayor is bound to give the mar- shalship to the Germans, even If he has to exhaust the entire panel. It mav be that the mayor himself will be exhausted before he gete through. It is net necessary to say anything about the fitness of Mr. Callahan’s ap- poictment as strest commissloner. If Mr. Swift falled to eatisfy the councll, Mr. Oallahan will not satisfy that body. ‘Wedon'’t know anything about Mr. Frelck, the latest nominee for city - mar- shal, except that we aratold that he needs the office. — GALVSETON, Texas, is wrestling with a mayoralty contest. 8o it will be seen that Omaha s not alone in such mattere. CHANGES may be neces:ary in our clty government, but they should be changes for the better. S —— WESIERN NEWS, MONTANA, A lady doctor is chairman of the Helena board of health. Custer and Yellowstone counties are lawing for §65,000, or what is left of 1t after the law- yers are pald. The Parrott company of Butte, which dis- tributes $47,000 a month in wages, has re- sumed operations, The Hecla consolidated mining company of Glendale paid its regular monthly dividend of tity conts & share, on the let inst. There is such a bitter rivalry over the site for the new court house in Helena, that it is fearod the commissioners will postpone building. Ten thousand dollars more isto be spent upon the crumbling road bed of the Northern Pacific at Iron Bluff, Tt has already cost al most as much as Mullan tunnel, A Spaniard named Phillips, butcher at Poplar Creek Acency, recently lost one of his children by death, and as a eacrifice cut off his left fiorefinger besides killing a fine mare and a 3yearold steor onthe graveof his child. A. M. Osborne, a former pass*nger conduot: or on the Union Pacific between Omaha and North Platte, was killed {vstantly in Mon- tina by a railroad acoidentrecently, Decaated was formerly a resident of Laramie City, and leaves a family, A stoer and locomotive contested the track right of way a few days since, east of Glen- dive, The train was nmnin1 at at a good rate of lé)!(d. the eteer standiog still—result: $4,000 damage to the looomotive snd $40 damsge to the steer, One night last week William Quinn, a one- legged rauchman of Yellowstone, d ed that & gay cowboy cavaller had come with rope ladder and guitar and beguiled his wife into an elopement by way of & window, Wil- lism somnambustically eprang through the window after his flering spouse, and lit on the hard ground twenty feet below, breaking his remaining leg. The Butte Inter-Mountain reports that the dividends paid by Mont, mines for the first qulrl;}r Lfl )% a n‘iln'.: I-aAh“ compavy, Butte, $50,000, (12§ cents per share.) ~ Moulton company, Butte, 830,000, (7} conts per share.) Elkhorn company Jetferson couuty, §5,000, (10 centa per share. Hecla company, 'Glendale, $15,000 for each %mh of the quarter, making a total of $45,” e CALIFORNIA, 1t is expcted that the school census of San Francisco will show a population of 65,000, Property has been purchased in Sacr to " | ity tor tho aito of a large cathedral for §30,- Eureka, Humboldt county is stlll barred to Chir » 'en. When one gets in town heis es- cor edo1t. Grasshoppers are reported as making sad havoe with everything green in some portions of Coluea county, Francis J, Walker, the famous port, has declined the offer of the p of the State university. Ground was broken for the new cable road ot Los Aogele last week, The estimated cost of the road is $125,000, The sleughter of deer for their hides in Moendooino cuuuty threatens to exterminste shis fine game in that reglon. There are nearly 700 Indians in Fall River Valley, Shasta county, who subsist by hunt- g, fishiog and workiog on farma. The electrio lights in Sacramento can be neen from the high land near Jackson, Ama- dor county, a distance of sixty miles. The Tos Angeles Herald says that the thrifty farmer can make his land pay him at least 8300 per acte o year by raising cabb.gos for the territorial and Texan markets, in in better than a gold mine, STRAT NOTES, Thero are 12,000 bales of hops In Oregon and Washiogton Territory awaiting a market. The O econ merchants and shippers accuse the Oregon Short Live railroad of discrimin: ating againat them in freieht rates. Last week a party of cowboys went out on the desort, about forty miles from Salt Lake, and after running down a hand of wild horses they captured several of the finest, The recent cold sap reverely damaged the frait in Boise, Idaho, Apples were much dameged, peaches nearl {illad, pears not materially hurt, all the best cherries killed, prunes not hurt, and pluma reduced to s small crop. The owners of tha iron claims near Cedar City, Iron county, Utah, contemplata Invest- ing a large amount of capital—a million dol- lara i talked of —in Gaveloping the mines and putting up works for manufacturing the metal. ‘William Penland, the sheep king of the newly created Morrow county, Oregon, who has 12,000 head of sheep and 10,000 nores of deeded land under fouce, offers’ to build & 85,000 court houee and present it to the county, provided the county reat is located at his place. Oa the 18th Inst, a 250 pound fragment of & stump that was blown out of the ground with giant powder, near Tacoms, W. T, flaw past Mr. ¥, Frazior, who w-s witncering tho pro- oess from atandpoint, 420 feot away. Itstruck the grouad close by him, just grazing his per- #on, yot 50 great was ita force that it tore his clothes from his body, rent his boots so that his feet were left bare, crushiog the Mr. Frozior, who Is sixty sears of age, was campletely paralyzed by the blow, and was insentible for twenty min- bones of both feet. utes. e — STATE JOILTINGS, Beatrico has thirty-cight lawyers, Whest ang oats in Sheridsn county are looking fine. Oxford will put up a 86,000 echool house this summer, Sixteen saloons keep down the dust in Ne. braska Oity. The Elkhorn echool district of Douglas county vas decided to build a $5,000 scheol house. The Nebraska State Medical association meet« in Grand Taland Monday, May 25, and will hold a five days’ session, George Craig, a former resident of Dodge county, jumped a homestead in Decatur county and was shot full of holes. Goorge W. Waoolsey, of Elk Creek, set out 2,225 troen and shrubs on Arbor day. George was entitled to the pennunt at last acaounts, The Lincoln News objects to Omaha thisves raiding the stores of that town, on the well- grounded principle that the home product should be protected. The mayor and council of Plattsmouth are epacting the Oaaha deadlock on asmall Io both instauces the smaller the scale, politician the bigger tha bora. Preliminary work kas been commerced on Contracts have been let for lunber, and differont systems of the Lincoln stock yerds. water works are beiog examined, The board of health of Fremont notifies the citizens that they must clean np their prom- ises within fifteen days or participate in a bread-and-water banquet in the city juil. Franklin and Franklio county bonst of the largest cherry orchard in the state. The Rev. 0. 8. Harrison has on his farm, one-halt mile from town, about thirteen hundred trees of choice variaties, A section of the Platte river bridge at Fre- mont, which succe:sfully buffcted the spriog freshet, dropped into the river Monday, under the weight of a herd of cattle. The wnimals safely paddled ashore, The grand jury at Plattsmouth has just ad- journed, bringing in twenty indictments. Fitte n of them were against parties in that city for gambling, Ten of the parties were relehund ‘upon their own recognizance for $100 each. "'he coming Saengerfest, at Lincoln, prom- ises to be one of the best ever held in the state. The dates are June 23, 24,5, 26, and 27, Singing societies with a membership of 1,500 are expected from cities in Kansas, lowa, Miseouri, and this state, A certaln Hastlogs man did a pretty emart thirg when he offered the town of Holdrego $3,0.0 for the_exclusive right of selling iquor there. They could not give him the exclusive right, but they put the license up to $3,000, wg‘ieh is all the same, It froezes all others out, Beatrice is about to lose her court hopse, It appears that in the whitewashed past a fellow deeded the ground to the county with the proviso that it should be used only for the county court house, It pow happens that the court house is situated elsewhere, and an actual settler from out west comes in and jumps the claim. Tre Omaha crooks confined in the Lancas- ter county jail, made a broak for liberty Monday night, but rau ugainst the nczale of a pocket gatling in the hands of the sheriff, auvd reluctantly retired to their cells. The prisoners who made this break were Al Ma- guire, Dug Maguire, Lee Howard and the two crooks who were arrested for tryiog to rob Ensign’s honse one Sundsy a few weeks ago, They are all a hard lot and require constant watching to keep them from carrying out some of the mauy schemes they are perpetu- ally ovolving. ———— FOUR GREAT GENERALS, Why Sherman and Sheridan Ac- knowledged Grant’s Leadersbip —McPherson’s Abilitier, Montreal Gazatte, The four greatest generals produced by the great civil war in the United States on the national tide were Grant, Mc- Phereon, Sherman and Sheridan, [Another name should be added to this list, Thoma:—Old Pap Thomas—is entitled by his genlus and succeeses to rank perhaps next to Grant as the greatest goneral produced on the Unlon side. He was a Virginian by birth, and the fall equalof Lee in military ability. ] One of the most pleasant memories o: American history 1s, and will for- ever be, the fact that between these four great commanders there was pever the shadow of jeslousy or envy. It s the highest honor that Grant ever received from men's judgment of on that these three able capfa'ns gly and always locked ur to him s their saperior, McPherson fell {n bat. tle before the splendor of his abilitles could attract the world's attention, but in his death Gract, he declared, lost one of the greatest—perhaps the very groat- est—of his licuten: Sheridan, as s right of hia Irlsh blood, had the fiercest epirlt in battla; Sherman the greatest in- venticn In council; while McPherson could fight with the one and plan with the other; but thoy all admitted, be- cause they knew and felt, that ‘‘the silent, gray-eyed man” was greater than they. “Why," L asked Gen, 8herman once, “‘did you and Sheridan always acknowl- edgeGrant to be your leadcr?” **Because,” he responded in bis qulck,idlomatic man- ner, ‘““‘whila I could map out & dizen plans for s campalgn, every one of which Bheridan woul ear he oould fight out to vietory, nelther he nor I could tell whioh of the plans was the best oue; but Grant, who slmply sst and listened, and smoked while we hed been talking over the msps, would at the end of oor talk. iog tell us which wes the best plan and in a dozen or two words the resalt of his decislon, aud then it would all be so clesr t0 us that he was right that Sherldan avd I would look at each other snd wooder why we hadn't seen th vantsge of it ourselves, Itell you,” he continued, after a moment's “‘Grant 1s not sppreciated yet. F:le milltary oritics of Earope are too Ignorant of Amerloan geography toappreolate the conditi ns of bis eampaigns, Waoat Is it to march an srmy from Berlin to Parla? Look at the shortness of the distance. Look at ti e multitude of ron Look at the fa. ollitles of transportation. Consider how many times the same ground has been fought over by sucoessive commanderr, Is not every polnt ¢f vantage known? What commander can blunder where all the conditlons lie open to his eye. But I have soen Grant plan oampsigos for 500.000 troops along a front line 2,600 miles in length, and send them marching to thelr objective polnts through sectlons where the surveyor's chaln was never d where the commissariat ne- lone would have broken down any transportation systern of Eorope; and thres months Iater I have roen thess armies standing where he said theyshould be, and what he planned accomplished; and I glve It as my military oploion that Gen, Grant fs the greatest commsnder of modern times,and with h'm only three others can stand—Napoleon, Wellington and Moltke.” e — THE BLACK PRINCE IN LUCK. John Alexander, a Negro Gambler, Wios Fifty Thousand Dollars at Faro, From the Cincinnati Enquirer, John Alexander, the *‘Black Prince” of Columbus, is the only firat.class colored gambler in the country, and for years he has conducted a fino bling house in the capital city. He is & thorcugh gam- blsr, and when he bets, wants to bet high, Of en In his life he has been worth $600,000, owned brown-stone fronts, diamonds, and fast horses, and in a week has found himself broke, property mortgaged for all it was worth, and bank roll gone. He 18 nnt a black man, but is a mulatto, dresses In the helght of fash. ion, and wears a beard. He is very gen- tlemenly, pleasing in appearance, ond noted for his modesty, never obtruding his pretonce where he imagines It might bedistasteful. The *‘Black Prince” got one of his lacky stresks and wanted to buck the tiger and buck her hard. He was accommodated. Sake Webber Is engaged in running a fato bauk at Columbus in company with big good natared Sam Woodard. ~Alex- ander tackled them, and they dealt hima limit of 825 and $50. The high roller planked down his checke, and chafed nn- der the limit until he won out $15,000 from this house alone, and Jake and Sam turned up the box and sald they were through, He next paid his respects to John Col- ender’s game, and, at $25 and $50 limlt, took oat $8,000 of John's capital. The limit was then cut ¢n him 10 $12.50, which ssemed to him no more than tos: sing pennles and he quit. Tom Mar- shall's game next caught it. It stood the racket $3,000 worth, and another liitle box was turned up, and the r»1 wes in Alexander’s posket. Deacon Dent, a re- pablican councilman ia Colunbus, who has Nelse Smith, an old time ‘‘gam”’ ran- niog hs game, imagined he could do something to relleve the high roller’s peut-up feelirgs, but $500 In a single sit- tiog of short duratlon convinced him that luck was zgalust him, and up went ths box. Col. Crouch himself then thought he m'ght do sumething for Alexsnder. He concluded thst the luox of the Black Prince ehould change eoon, and he just opened a private game f.r the big feller t) buck azainst. He got the paraphernalia ready In a back room of his place, and Alexander rolled up his sleeves and waded in. The limit was $25 and €50, and Sam handled the pastebcards him-— solf. In five days Alexsnder won 85,000 without making a losing, and Col. Crouch cjaculated: “John, I am satlsfied. I don't belleve Lecare to run a private faro bank any lenger.” Pbout this time O:t Meader, of thls clty, who shook the dust of Cincinnat off his ~feet the other day when the gambling houses were clored up, rtruck Columbus, and he went in with Tom Marshall. Alexinder could not think of slighting him by not calling, so he went in, snd In two sittings 81,150 were transferred from the bank roll to the Columbus gambler’s wallat, and down went the limit to $12 50, The only C)lumbus shop that escaped ascorching from Alexander was that run by Goorge N. Saviers (“Idaho”) and Aug Waddle, ex-mayor of Chillicothe, It is satd that these gentlomen, when thcy heard “‘Black Prince” was on the war- path, reduced the limit to $2.50, and would only let tdbit gamblers play in anticlpation of a visit from the all-de- vouring cyclone. Alexander's run of luck 1s remarkable- In the lsst three mouths he has won nearly $50,000 at stralght faro, with rcely a lesing, and $30,000 of the amount was won in a single month’s time, — Plans for & Poultry House, The following is from the remarks of A. C. Hawkios at the Saturday farmers’ meeting in Buston, March 21, It wae phonographically reported by the Ploogh- man: Idon-t pretend that I can show the aversge farmer how he can atta'n to these extravegant profits, but I propose to ex- plaln how every suitably lucated farm of uwi nty to 150 ac; can carry from 1(0 to 2,000 fowls net profit of $2 per hen anuually, g enough chickens every year to keep the aumber of layers fall The first necesslty on such a farm will be a suitable bulldiog; still, there are many farmers that could fit up sheds, or a dry barn coallar, that they now have, that would apswer the purpose for a lim- ited number of fowls ~Kor the benefit of those who have not euch bulldings at their command I will explaln the erac- tion of a plain, practicsl building, to ac: commodate 100 he This building can be bullt by any farmer who s haundy with tools. It sbould be shed roof, 80 feet long, 12 feet wide, faclng south; if it stands on a southeastern slope all the better. For a foundatlon use chest- nut or cedar posts seven Inches In diam- eter, set three feet in the ground, and sawed off slx inches above the ground; set these poste ten feet apart, both back and front of building. Upoa these pos's spike the sl sof 216 spruce. Over esch Bt 8t s 214 spruce, seven feet long n front and four f+et long in rear, In center of each ten fuot sectlon, in front, set two window studs of same dimensions other front studs, Upon thess studs spike the plates of 214 spruce. Plamb the frame, and board back, front and ends perpendicularly with dry, matched spruce boards. Upon the plates place the rafters of 2x6 sprace, two fest spar!. Board the roof lengthwiss of building with equare edged hemlock boaras; eight windows in front, 24xb feet. The roof and back of bullding msy overed with the best, beavy tarred paper, sccured Ly laths and nailed ten Inches apert, Cover tarred piper with two coats of ocal far, and it will prove water-tight aad dorable. A vontilator, slx Inohes In diameter, over every second window, will glve suffiolent ventilation during the very coldest weather. The front and ends thould be battened over the cracks and then painted or whitewarhed, The in- sidef bullding should be partitioned, ench 20 feet, forming apartmonts 20x12. Board the paruiion two feet high at bot- tom, to keep the mele birds from figth- Ing through slats or netting, which may form the rest of the partition excepling the three.foot door fn front part oF the bullding passing from one apartment to the next. In the rear of bulldlog inside, and twenty Inches from the ground, make a platform two feet wide running entire length of apartments; e'ght Inches above, and over the center of this platform, place the roosts of 2x3 spruce with top ocorners rounded. Under the platform place the nest boxes. st o= T —— Garland Hatwes Dootors, Washington Letter, 1 was told of another of Attorney Gen- oral Garland’s peculiariiion by a friend the othorday. Hehates doctors. When- ever be hears of a friend belng slck he takes the trouble to warn him that the medical prof sslon is a humbug, and the only way to besura of recovery is to lct it alone, He ssya he never bad a doctor in hislife, and consequently keops well, But the other day he broke faith. He wss taken with ailment, At first he was getting fat, but It w fined to his face, and he did not know what to make of it. Directly his jaws swelled out to an Immerse slze and be- came very painful. He endured it a lon; tlme, but finally grabbed up his hat an wont to seo a doctor who has an office within a equare, He sla he thought he was polsoved, but had no ldea who had doneit ‘'l don't think vou ara pois esoned,” said the dociur, after examining his face very carefully. *‘You've got the mumps " The attorney general loft the office In a rage muttering *‘Mumps! mumps! T wonder if it fsn't cholera in- fantum! Maybe It's a oancer!” and glv- ing vent to other sroastic expressions to show his contempt for the whole medical featernlty. But it was the mumps sure enovgh, and all he could do was to keep out of the way and say nothirg about it. e —— The Best Time to Skim Milk. The best time t> sklm milk in order to get the highest quali'y of bater ss to flivor and grain, is watle the m!lk 1s per- fectly sweet, churning the cream aleo be- fore it sours. This will not, however, give 88 great a quantity of bntter as if more 1ime were alowed. To gt the greataet quantity of butter and at the same time of average quality or better than average, tk'm when the milk has becowme acid bef ro It has thickened, and let the cream get thor ughly s>ur before churning There is no object in allow- ing cream to remain on the milk after the milk thickene, becauso all separation then cearos. No more cream will form, and if thua left, it acquires a bitter taste likely to effec: the quality of the butter. The same injurious effscts result from'allow- ing cresin to become too old after skim- wing and before churning. As to keep- Ing quality, sweet cream butter and sour cresm butter, if thoroughly well made, ought to keep thorougbly well. Thera are various causes for white specks ap- pearing in the buiter, but as a rale they result from a want of judgment and lack of care on the part of the butter-msker, NEWSPAPER OUTFITS. TO PUBLISHERS. The Western Newspaper Union, at Omaha, in addition to furnishing all sizes and styles of tho best ready printed sheets in the country, makes a specialt of outfitting country publishers, botl with new or second-hand material, sell- ing at prices that cannot be discounted in any of the eastern cities. We handle about overything needed in a moderate sized printing establishment, and are sole western agents for some of the best makes of Paper Cutters, Presses, Hand and Power, beforo the public. 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