Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 11, 1885, Page 4

T S THE DAILY BEE---MON DAY, MAY 11, 1 885. e ———— e ——— —————————————— AN INSULT TO THE ARMY. 'TH E D A I LY B E E ‘| The appointment of Gen. Fitz Hogh Owrtem Mo, 014 axp 918 Fammax By, | Leo, of Virginta, as one of the honorary :‘:‘l Owmen, Roox 6 Tamsowa Bond- | visitors to the national military acsdemy e, at West Point is an lnsult to every man wvery momning, Sunday. THe | ihat weara the loyal blae. It Is not only m"":‘_‘":,’.‘:‘m‘ i a high premium paid to tresson In lts m=|g-_:7:'» 15 | most odtious form, but it isa demoralizing Publibsed every Wednesday oxample to the rising generation of the fature commanders of our armies and navies, The naval and military acad mies of the United States above all other Institutions are entrusted with the tacred guardlanship of the honor of the Amerioan flig. At the very threshold of Weat Polnt academy & solemn oath s —'-m“‘."_'"‘m-mm. taken by every ondet to uphold and de offlos ordera b0 be made DA | fend the flag against all enemles, whether 0 m domestic or foreign. The highest ideal of " | every American officer, educated at West Point, must always be loyalty to his country, even unto death, No obligation rests heavier upon T cold weather Is damaglng Lho base | the shoulders of any officer than ball crop. his oath, and no power on earth can ab- solve him from it ‘When Fitz Hugh Lee was chosen as grand marshal by the marisgers of Grover 7 abont Cleveland’s inaugurationit was, to say the “::';‘;‘l': ':‘l:; .20;.10:&-: ::pl_' lost, decidedly In bad taste. The fact 3 itiensiiigishligiy that he was cheered more voolferously Ir is now the general impression that and recsived with more sathusisem than Gen, Logan will be his own successor. thepresident himself, was, as we are credi- bly Informed, very distasteful to the ———————— tlon? | many thoughtfal demoocratic leaders as Wiz it beoome of the expoatboct | LGB Te s Glevelnd Bimanlt . wt froz by the lar Has it bsen Ll e/ ot Thera was, however, no officlal responst- wave! T Wi —— biiity attached to this cholce. Tae still-hunt for offensive partlsans purely a blunder of the managing com- is becoming tiresomo to the thirsty and | pijtoes who had the Inauguration in hungry. charge. But when President Oleveland GriNT's doctors say that his death is [8nd the secretary of war deliberately se- only a question of time. So it is with |lected Fitz Hugh Lee from among all all of us. others to represent our government at its B e national military academy they set at THERE are too many cattle running at |defiance every pracedent and sll the tra- large in Omal The ordinance prohib- | ditlons of the republic. Thero are thou- iting the nulsance ought to be more |sands of democrrta all over the land who strictly enforced. were loyal and true to the flag during the e war, and whose career would entitle them OaNApA now has the opportunity of [to honorable distinctlon as visltors to learning what an Indlan war really . is.| West Point or Annapolis. Such men as 8he will no longer ricleule the Indian |Generals Slocum, Rosecrans, McClellan, ‘wars that have taken place In the United | Buell, Bragg, Butler and others are States, passed by for such a man as Fitz Hugh Tae Herald continues to publish a e AW RO FUE Hup tilses) ahily liat Yot Nebraskh postinasters’who recelved a mlilitary educatlon at the country’s expense, and who swore un- Rave roslguod. | rhe Omaka democtats 30| ywerving idlity to tho natlonal omblem, Postaakton lObataRE and then turned traltor, is utterly un- worthy of any such honor as vlsitor to ArBITRATION has settled the rallroad West Folot. Rebellion ' may be war, but whether it will settls the Anglo- forglven and {reason has been con- Russlan diffioulty depends upon whether doned, Fitz Hugh =~ Leo has tho International arbltrator possesses ag [Doen restored to cltizenship —and clear a head as Judge Lake. his own state may confer upon him any honor that it may see fit, but there is one THE recent death from alleged hydro- place at least in which he, and all like phobla is suggestive, In the first place bim, should never be allowed to sot !"."t’ there ara too many dogs running at large and that Is the milltary academy. Like in Omaha, and In the next place there aro the traditional arch-angel with the flam- too many dootors who cannot agree. ing sword at the gates of the garden of Eden, the national consclence should Bios will will be received for the re- |stand at the doors of West Point to bar moval of the new court house to the va.|out every scoundrel who violated his oant lot adjolning the Republican oftice , | oath, ralsed his sword agsinst his own which Is in danger of taking a tumble to [ country, and trambled the flag In the {tself unless it is propped by something |dust. How can the cadets of West substantial, § Polnt saluta a man like Fitz Hugh s Lee when they remember his base ‘Wr understaud that the Republican | betrayal of the highest trust of a soldier? will file with the county commissloners a | How can they reconclle the lessons of petition for the immedlate removal of the [ yndying obedlence and fealty to their new court houss from its present slte be- | oathg with the act of the commander— oause Rosewater and tho B Publish-[{n.chief of all the srmies In ing company own a half block facing the | appointing as one of thelr honorary visit- court house, ors one of that olass of West Polnters —— who had no regard for the teachings of Tae postmaster at Aurors, Illinols, | their alma mater? agalnst whom charges of a political na-| This is no partisan raving, but an ex- ture had been filed, has been removed, | pression of the mober sense of loyal not by the president, but by the hand of | Amerlcans regardless of party. There death. He was one of the few who|must be a llne drawn somewhere, We would rather die than have no desire to revive the lssues of the SRR e war, or wave the bloody shirt. We have 'Wazmx such an invetorate offico boggar | spite to vent upon ex-confederates be- s Tom Hendrloks says that he can hold | .\ 0 they are democrats. We would outmo hope to such democrats as are regard the sppointment of Longstreet, or anxlous for a general and rapid change in Mosby, or even Mahone just as execrablo the olvil service of this country, and that | /1o ’lmpropor n S that. ol Fitx Oleveland will probably continue his Hugh Lee, We know that Grover present polloy, 1t bogins to look as 1€ the |y vy ng g governor of New York office-soekers will have to ourb thefr Im- | 414 pardly have dared to select among patlence and glve up thelr frantio appeals | ) 4, oitizens of hls state & man who o thio prestdsnbto rushithings, bad doffed the blue for the gray. Then why should he do #0 as president of the United States, when his constiluency comprlses the whole republic? E— X HAVE we no offensive partisans outside of Plattsmouth ? p——— A MOVEMENT is on foot to establish a Baptiat college in Nebraska., It is pro- posed to secure a sultable site and erect st o 205, to i i 4. A ::::{m‘:i':fl::t htli.bo mffl?fl ‘::: Marsaan CumiNgs has an important Iish an endowment fand of $100,000 to |40t¥ to perform, and 1t must be done at pay the current expenses. The olty or | 8% There are too many thugs, slug- town that offors tho best Inducementa will [ 8ere and thieves In Omabia, and - conso- secure this institution, It strikes us|99enty the slugglng and robbing of our that Omaha, If a proper etiort s made, cltizens has become an almost nightly ht to be able to get ize, oocurrence. Therelhas recently located i 2 8blo Jo 43t thld priss n this oty a portion of the old Canada Tae Baltlmore postmaster, who has | Bill three-card monte gang, and It been removed, eays that he 1s now well | fair to presume that among them are s satlsfied that the appolntment of Mr, |number of sluggers who are doing all Pearson as postmaster of New York was | this villalnous and murderous work, the payment of a political debt, and that Marshal Cumings is not responsible for he can and will proveit. It is entlrely | thelr coming hers, but he Is certalnly unnecessary for the deposed Baltimorean | responaible for their remalning here, 1f to offer any preofs, as the administration | he does not know them he can easily find has virtoally scknowledged what he|out who they are. It s his duty to im- charges. The sppolntment of Pearson [ mediately rid the oty of this gaog, and waa in response to the demands of the | then drive outall the other desperate mugwump press and politiclans, and it |charasters. 1f he does notact at once in was nothing else than the payment of a | this matter, the cltizens, among whom political debt. Civil service had nothing | there ls great indignation, will probably whatever to do with it, make up a round-up for him and make e 1t safe for people to be out after dark. Bovp WiNCHESTER, who has the repu- | These villalus have been driven eut of tatlon of being the best poker player in |Denver, and there Is no reason wby they Kentucky, goes to Switzerland as consul- | should not be compelled to move on, general, instead of to Nice, and gets an increase of ealary from $1,600 to $5,000| Tur supreme court of Massachusetts by the ehange. This will enable him to | has just rendered a declsion of great im- play his hand & good deal higher than if | portance to the people of that great and he had accepted the berth at Nice. Mr. |good commonwealth, The publlc statates Winchester is under obligations for this |dec’are that ‘‘wheever travels on the plece of good luck to editor Watterson, | Lord’s day, except from necesseslty or of the Louisville Courier Journal, with | charity, shall be punished by fine not ex- whom he bas had many a it at poker, | ceeding ten dollare for each offense.” It Watterson is anxious for Winchester to | was upon this law that the court was have a large salary because he thinks he fcalled to pass judgment, snd in doing so stancs some chance of winning 1t from | it defined what a Sandsy walk o Massa- Mim, chugelts must be ln order to be lawful, A short walk for alr or exercise or to oall on a nelghbor is not, In the opinfon of the court, a violation of the Sunday law. It would seem therefore that Sunday oalling 1s not a sln, but the declsion Is defeotive In that it does not glve any Idea of how long a walk must be In order to be punishable. There certalnly must be a limit, and until that limit Is fixed the matter must be left to the opinion of & jury. ——— Tur great deslrs of General Grant Is to complete his memolra, and ths probability {s that he will succeed. His Improved conditlon permlits him to dlotate for sev- eral hours each day to a stenographer. The first volume s written and revised, and only about one hundred pages are needed to finlsh the eecond. Each vol- ume will contaln sbout five hundred pages. It having been published in sev- eoral newspapers that the work was in reality belng written by General Badeau, General Grant has sharply replied that any such statement is wholly false. Gen- oral Grant says that the composition is entirely his own, which assurance adds value to the work. It is gratifylng to know that these meomoirs will have an Immense sale, and consequently prove a source of revenue to the suthor. It Is sald that over 150,000 orders have al- ready been recelved by the publishers without solicitation or advertising. They expect to lssue the first volume about the 1at of next December and the second about March 1st, 1886. Senator Dawes s authority for the statement that the last days of the Indlan 1n reservatlons are near at hand. Itls about time that the reservation rystem be done away with and the vast tracts of land thus tled up be given up to the actual homesteader. Nearly all the game having disappeared and the support of the Indlans being entirely thrown upon the government, they should be allowed to have no more land than a white man. If it continues necetsary to support them 1t will be just as easy for the government to take care of each family on 160 acres of land as it is on the reservation plan, To make the Indlans self-supporting s only a question of time, if proper and systematic steps are taken. Witheach succeeding year they will need less assist- ance and less instruction, and finally they will become not only self-supporting sitl- zens but will have a surplus for a ral day afler the manner of industrious and economical agriculturistsand stock-ralsera among the whites, Dr. Me1ere, of Colorado, will not go a8 consul to Nagasaki, Japan, after all. His appolntment has been revoked no because he got drunk, and shouted that he was a rebel and glad of 1, and wasa rebel atill, but for an entirely different reason. It was supposed that by giving him an office and getting him out of the country, a great favor would be conferred on his wife by securing sapport for her, but just as his commission was about to be delivered to him it was discovered that on the very day that he got drunk to celebrate his twenty-fifth wedding anui- verssry, as he sald, Mrs, Meiere got a divoree from him on account of his con- tinued’ brutal treatment. This elegant gentleman was Indorsed by a petition longer than the moral law, and the presi- dent is more than ever convinced that petitlons and testimonials as & rule are not worth the paper they are written on. e Mgz, LEErEr, the defeated leglalative candidate In the thirty-fourth dlstrlct of Illinols, declared immediately attor the election that it was falr and honest, and that he would not make any contest. Mr. Leeper's declaration was a little too previous to suit the leaders of the dem- ocracy, who summored him to Chicago. The result of his visit to that clty Is that he has been persuaded to change his mind, and has signed the necessary papers to contest the election. It is falr to pre- sume that the promise of a fat federal office in the near future was the induce- ment that led him to take this step. It {s a desperate moveon the part of the democrats, and possibly by delaying mat- tora it will prevent the election of a re- publican senator, and thus after all leave the appolntment to be made by Governor Oglesby. Tae Wisconsin high license law, owiog to some overalght or triek, permits brew- ers to refall thelr own beer without pay- {ng a lice The supreme court having been called to pass upon this polnt held that under the law the privilege was un- questionable. The consequence s that Milwaukee brewers have re- cently purchased & quarter of 8 milion dollars’ worth of cor- nerlots In the central part of the city and are now opening *‘agencles” for the sale of thelr own products, The license paylng liquor sellers are not pleased at the prospect, as the brewers will natur- ally monopoliza the retail beer trade. — Hox, G. W, Frosr has recelved a letter from Rev, J. P. Newman who esys that he has no doubt that Gen, Grant's improved conditlon is in answer to prayer, It is true that Gen. Grant began to lmprove almost immediately after Rev. Dr, Newman offered up prayer! in his behalf, and it has strength- ened his falth in the power of prayer. —— Our private opinion, publicly expressed, o 1s that the credit for Gen. Grant's tem- porary recovery should falrly be divided between Rev. Newmsn's prsyers and Lord Stanford's clover tea remedy. E———— TuERE are nearly 52,000 postoffices in the United States, and they will all, with a fow exceptions, be supplied with a new postmaster within six months at the far- thest. So ssys & prominent postoffice officlal. This ought to afford some little comfort to the hungry democrats In gen- eral, but the Omaha democrats here- aboutd would like to know whether the Omaha postoffice is included among the exceptions, 15 Valencls, Spain, they are trying in- oculatlon with the cholera virus asa means of lessening the force of the scourge, and suocess appears to have at- tended the experiment, the persons inoc- ulated generally recovering from the dis ¢case within forty-elght hours afier the | head operation. Whether cholera Inoculation, even If conceded to be a success, will be- come popular, Is a question. Speaxer Harxes, ot the Illinois house of representatives, has been robbed in New Orleans of $400. When he far nished & deacription of the men whom he thought committed the robbery, the po- lice expressed the opinlon that the thieves belonged to the Iliinols excarsion party. This is rather rough on the Suck- ors, Tae offensive partieanship charge works like & charm, It has been trled in Ne. braska on a ronte agent. It Is sald that he made himself very obnoxious during the last campaign, and he has accordingly been let out. 1t atrikes us that dny republican office-holder s and always was obnoxlous to the democrata. Mzr. Lataror, the Michigander who goes to St. Petersburg as minister plen- Ipotentlary, is oredited with having been & warm supporter of the government during the rebelllon, Among the many forelgn appointments he Is; therefore, a notable exoeption. TN the contest between roller skating and baseball, the former plainly has the advantage. lao;ltl of a knock out.—[Philadelphia You ought to come to Omaha next Sat- urday, and soe the olrcus get away with everything. CrevenaNp has been president two months, and there have been only about ha'f a dczen Nebraska democrats re- warded with cffice. Are we never golng to bave reform ? Are the rascals never golng to be tarned out ? STATE JOTTINGS, Hartington's creamery s ready for business. Papillion has four saloons and six churches, Grand Island is manfacturing a base ball club. A weekly stage runs from Gordon to Rush- ville, Eight tramps were;fired out of Fremont one day last week. The West Point ocreamery employs fifty men and women, A new bank is to be opened up in Hartingt ton on the lat of June, the Clay county fire-bug, got d 850 fine, 7 el The business at the Niobrora land office keops five clerks humpirg. Imperial is the latest town and prospective county seat of Chase county. The professional tramp and footpad are be- coming dangerously numerous 1n Blair, A Nob Oty brewery plugged its bung holes r&u than pay $1,000 llogegu. . Twenty thousand dollars will be expended in improvements at Fort Niobrara this season. . Nebraska City claims to rank third tn size in the state, while Fremont travels on her shape., The commissioners to select the site for the new postoffice in Nebraska City are on the ground, The board of public lands and buildings are examining four plans for the Norfolk iusane asylum, ‘The temperance revival in Fremont yielded 8 large crop of moderate tipplers and several veteran soaks, C. D. Olin is confined in the Osceola jall, awaiting the certain approach of death from bydrophobia, . Building material is 5o scarce in the White riyer country that intending settlers are ad. vised to bring tents along. York county has a bonded debt of $90,500, all but 8500 being railroad bonds, which are to be refunded in six per cents, , The equatters on the Santee reservation are organizing for protection against a possible raid from stampeders on May 15, Thirty Baptist pastors concluded a_*‘profit- able season of prayer” at Contral Oity last week. 'This explains the cold wave, Dr. A, Bowen, a man of sixty, fell down the hatchway of ‘the packing house_in -Ne- braska City, and was severely injured, Settlers and squatters along the Niobrara are getting into trouble by cuiting timber on government land. Several have been arrested. Effrots are being made tc secure a new mail route between Wakefield and Ponca. ?nngrulmnn Dorsey has indorsed the peti on, The Northwestern trausportation 2 com- pany will transfer its entire freighting busi ness to Chadron or vicioity by the middle of Augus Mr, Camp, a Kearney business man, was knocked down by a frightened team in Shel- ton, and thres dangerous gashes cut across his scalp, Dr, Witherapoon, of Fremont, claims to bs the possessor of the watch worn by his grand- father while signing the declaration of inde- pendence. Humboldt is bulldiug » large brick school- house; and a firm in the same town is build- ing a [arge factory for the manufacture of & patent churn, The Columbus Water Works and_Gaslight company has been incorporated. The com- pany proposes to illuminate and liquidate at an early day. { iUentral Oity's bank account shows s bal- ance, for the year ending May 5, of $134,89. The municipal expenditure for the same time ‘was $3,888.79, Quinn Bohanan, the condemed spelling | v, rofessor, has improved his dreary hours_ be: ore death by inventing a corn sheller, which be has patented, Kaasascol nies are ing western Ne- braska for speculative poses and perma nent settlement. Many Nebraskans return the compliment. ‘Henry Fiok is Nebraska City’s missing man, Ho was in poor health, has been missing some time, and is thought to have drowned 'flmull in the Platte river, Disappointed burglars, evidently amateurs, unable to crack the safe in the granger storé at York, made kindling of the till and sur- rounding shelving, A gang of ten or twelve confidence men are flsecing everything green in the neighborhood Valentine. The oitizens sigh for the regulators of other days, e long-drawn-out school contest in Cen- tral Git{ was brought to an end last week by » majority of one in favor of building, The election was & close and lively one. The report Is_sbroad in Gage county that the Burlington & Missouri is_abou to bull braoch from Beatrice to Fairbury, Con. tractors are looking over the ground, to build a $10,000 opera house at conditional on the do: of bas not as yet been acoepted by spirited citizens cf that town, Valley county never {ay came than this year, The plowing for corn is well under way, and quite a number of fields are already planted. W. B. Cushiog, of Juniata, lost an eye by fatling to hit & nall squate Jo the hend: T¢ fio‘w #t his eye and instantly the light went out. The stand pips of the Lincoln water works wiillnot be o ompleted for several woeks yot. Monntime the old stuff can be had till 10 p. hout & prescripsion, Eli Porkina is fabricaf a new theme to be sold by the yard in tha‘inhrim towns of the state. It is reported he is lying low in ‘western counties at the present time, The editor of the Humboldt Sentinel mournfully crics, *‘The fact that we are bald- led seoms like a God-send to our enemies,” Contiacts have been let for the Burlington & Missourl branch from Republican Eoty south into Kavsas, The line will be seventy- l’;flm miles long, and will be completed by Will Dill, an emploge in the West Point K:pcr mill, was caught in the shafting, and fore released hia clothing was entirely torn from his body, bu, fortanately, without in- jury to his person. Four companias of the Fifth United States regular cavalry have left Fort Niobrara for their now station in Texas, They will be re- placed by the Ninth United States colored regiment, now in Texas, Hastings builds hich b i extonon of the Chicago & Norihwestern o "I‘hl:‘ i:)ny in c‘e” the n:;d is built to Lincoln., e Democrat urges that o aoti taken to offer lnl;?memm:ll. g sy L A widow in Boone county calls of th bondsman of two n.loonleepar’n nlor. l;,wfle damages for the death of her husband, who was killed w under the influence of liquor purchased of said partner, The B & M. has built a depot at Blue Springs, The attempt of the company to glye the town » perpetu 1go by, n?dmo to jaw compelliog railror uild de i I towns of over 500 fahabitanta, T " ht society young ladics of Hastings have organized & couking oclub to perfect them- selves in the culinary m hey recently gave a recaption to thelr gentloman frionds to test the quality of their viands. None of the cases are reported fatal, Several towns in the state have adopted an Ingenious method for diverting a portion of the liquor license from the school to ths town tromnuty, A plain, nnvarnished liconee costa 750, but the trimmings in t! f b g8 e form of a town Broken sidewalks are more dangerous to town treasurios than the average eafe cracker, A verdict of $1,000 has just been rendered It oven glves the olrcus a | ogal man named Mitchell, es & thonsand, Pedagogue Dortheimer, of Central who diecarded text books in teaching morals to the youvg girls of his school, was tound over to the district court in the sum of $1,000, One of his un villing pupils, ohild of thir- teen, is about to become a mother, The amateur base ballers of Plattsmouth threaten to challenge the Omaha team and knock them out with stuffed clubs. They are the remnant of that famous nine that did such muscular blowing last year when the victors were thirty miles away, _Duriog a heavy rain and wind storm at Kearney last week a heavy coor, blown from & livery stable, smashed 1n its flight a buggy, & cart and a fa mer's wagon, A pumber of lighter buildings were also shifted from their foundations, but no one injured. ‘We are prined to observe the serious effect of that Laffin joke, the jsint production of Drs. Nye and Calhoun, hurled by them at an unsuspecting and undeserving state press. The equally unfortunate authors of that con- solidated pun did not know it was loadsd. We cancerriously condole with the fraternity. Three horses, two cows, onecalf, buggy and harness, 500 bushels of corn, 100 bushels of oats, fifteen to twenty tons of hay, two bar- rels of meat, one barrel of flour, et carpen- ter's tools, at all hisagricultural machinery and many other valuable articles were des- troyed by tho burning of the barn of V. P. E&nbody‘ in Nemaha City on the night of the City A baby cyclone struck a portion of Dawson county on the 28th ult. For fifteen minutes pigeon-egg hailstones fell, smashing 1,500 lights of glass in Plum Cieek, Seversl teams cavorted wildly around the atreete. The edi tor of tho Pioneer measured the whirligig of wind and found it was 38 feet around the ‘waistband, The U. P. is eaid to be getting away with the stock_and baggage of the 15, & M. at Crete. Droves of ~cattle are driven to Lincoln and shipped over the for- mer road, effecting a saving of $20 per car. The Vidette suggests that the B. & M. re- duce rates and give cattleshippera the price of the prod, P.J. Nichols has made a_proposition to ople of St, Paul and Hfi o to plant twenty miles of the Uni. branch in that county, 1t the proper financial ragement is given; if not, only three of the road will touch the coun P, J. lays great stress on the point that if the county votes ald it will seoure ample retu in the increased mileage of road to be tax The people ae thinking it over. prospect of abundanc: the gardcns of Blair the Re- publican. ¥ Grapes have winte: well and lum trees are full of beautiful bloom. of fsmall lanting trees, fruits, and shrubbery and gen- eral improvement of lawns and grounds bear a promise of future usefullness and beanty, Such improvements are cheap, permanent, and within the reach of all who own homes. The Ulysses Dispatch thus comment the Bxe's scoop of all would-be rival OuamHA BER is the most enterpri io the entire west, Last Wednesday it gave Gladstoue's speech on the fifty-five million dollar war cred t. The dispatch contained nearly four tho d words, and in order to expedite matters it was transmitted over five wires for Chicago to Omaba in forty minutes, The cost of the same must_have run up into the hundrede of dollars, The Bk takes the lead for news.” The Lincoln Journal cannot ses any *‘fur- ther necessity fer the B, & M., holding ite headquarters at Omahn, on a switch off from its trunk line.” The Journal does not want to The business of the y in Omsha is 8o great as to require an addition, 22x132, to the present headquarters, making & buiding 78x182, and four stories hich Twelve traivs a day are devoted to the city’s business, But the company forgets not duty to the capital, and the” Ashland cut-off is speclally de ed to bring the Journal fif- teen miles nearer the Union hog yards, Tho unloaded shotgun continuss on 1its teavels, Up in Dakota county last week & farmer pamed Tattle removed the caps from bis muzzle loader aud started for town, His STRIKING OIL BY TORPEDOES, |[t{he magsz'ne with as many quaris of n|lm~gl{mflne a8 may be needed. At Interesting History of an Important |the well the contents of these {ins are Factor in Opening Oll Wells, emptled into a long torpedo, and this is P I :owendd.;nto !hnlilmhs. The greatest care St. Louls Post-Dispatoh. s noe to avold explosion, for the com- and goes off with If . ago, Col. Drake complsted deilling on |op, ™ Only o fow weeks ago six thoussnd the flats, near Titusville, Pa, the Brat(ponnayof nitro g'yoorine exploded in & oil well ever sunk in the United States. factory near Bradford. Several men were It was, compared with some of the groat | prguant at the time, and all that remained wells afterward diecovered, & ‘“small|ofthom, o fow pounds In welght, conld affair,” pumplog only twenty-five bar-|}ave been pat in a bureau drawor, Ma- rola of oll & day, but It was aufliclent to | yarialy subjected to the action of this fear- oause an inflax of adventarers from sll| gy} axplonive seemn to be vaporized. An- {;L:nnrinu;:.glzl;;, a;z:. n':r:m-norlflg%x other sirango thing to be noted abont W houauniss of welld were soon pus dowh nitro-glycerince explosions fs that the foroe acts principally In & downward di- S aovehe Posk pome new phencraome|T22H00, 885oping sn Lmmense bale n the In the new lndustry.d Ahmong othafi [ — . things It was disoovered that one wel aunk within s few feot of another wirendy | TEST YOUR BAKING POWDER TO-DAY: producing was not certain to get oll, [P o Often one dry hole was drilled in the CONTALN A ACOEA, space between two flowiogwells. This fact and others gave TI8e 10 the *‘Cravioe | piuea san topdow on Hosnere unth held, as water ls, in a sponge, In all the rocks in which it und, but runs through the rocks in seams or veins. Thete velns of oil wind through the strata of sandstone by thousands, and la zigzsg tortuous coursee. Now, although these veius are very olose together it is poesible that the drill can enter the rock and pass through it without touching or breaking one of them,and hence the well s dry. It oocurred to several men in. dependently and about the sime time that were a torpedo lowered into the well hole and oxploded at the bottom it would | &3 shatter the rock and open the fissures to the oil velns. Of the several men who had the Idea, only ona carried it to prac- tlcal results. In 1866 Col. E. A. L. Roberts, of the army of the Potomac, now deceased, visited Titusville with six torpedoes which he had constructed in the fall of the previous year. People looked upon the invention rather oddly at first, and 1t was not un- til the 21st of July, 1865, that he was al- lowed to put up two of his torpedoed in the ladies’ well on the Watson flats to the east of this clty. The well had been pumping oll, but after it had been tor- pedoed it commenced flowing. People began to think that theremight be some- thing in this torpedo after all, and in De- comber, 1860, one was lowered into the [ For Light, Healthy iread, The Hest Dry Hop Woodin well on the Blood farm and ex- FOR SBALE BY GROCERS. ploded. The well had never prodaced a|cHicAco. 2 7. LOuls, drop of oil, but it now commenced ylelding from elght to forty barrels a day. Th ey smflgm mfi Hcafl One month later another torpedo was THE BEST SIIOES ueed, and the productlon of the well in- creased to elghty barrels. This aesured For Gentlemen's wear, in the world, for the money- are made Ly the success of the torpedo for purposes Stacv,Adams & Co. LS R DOES NOT CONTAIN AMMONIA. TS MEALTHFULSESS HAS NEVER BEEN QUESTIONK., In & million homes for & 11004 the consumors’ reliable te THE TEST OF THE OVEN. PRICE BAKING POWDER (0., MAKERS OF Dr. Price's Special Flavoring Bxtracts, The strongest, most dollelous and matarafavor known,and Dr. Price’s Lupulin Yeast Gems other than destroying ships by blowing them up. After the result at the Woodln well the torpedo came into general use throogh- out the oil reglon. A company was formed with a capital af $300,000 to work the patent, and a torpedo factory was erected in Titusville. The effcot of torpedoes upon the production of the oil regions was mar- velous. At the time the Woodin well was shot (1866) the production of cil was declining rapldly,and alarmists were pro dictlog a speedy collapse of the petrol - eum industry. With the Introduction of the torpedo the conditlon of affairs rapid- ly changed. In the summer of 1867 the output of the wells on Oil creek was in- creased many thousanda cf barrels. In A fact thoroughly and unequivocally estab- ished by the unparalleled success and ocon- stantly inoressing demand for them. Thetr shoes combine edi- | 1866 the total productlon was 3,697,627 | Comfort, Style and Durability. barrels, Wells that had never produced a drop of oil were torpedoed and caueed to flow; wells of amall producting were converted into ‘‘gushers,” snd old wells| o o oy ate maderof | the ) bast h oearly exhsusted were revivified and n | snd Dongestio stock, Ki Abost ey et arondilesss et IreNaiaTaore TLiam| A e seocle (K azgaron bove) ini Hend r before. (o] & d e"But the great part played by the tor- oNngress Button - fX AND EVERY PAIR WARRAN 3, pedo In the oil _business did not really 4 Tirrell & Cook begin until the opening cf the Bradford 13006 Farnam Street, ASK YOUR DEALER FOR THE 8tacy, Adams & Co,, Shoe. blackish and hard, and ylelds its oll re- thirteen-year-old shouldered the gun, bor- rowed caps of & neighbor, and commenced ex- perimenting. ‘Three caps were exploded, but the charge would not waste itself on nothing, As son as the boy's little sister appeared 1n range the gan was ready the boy. The charge entered the child's breast, killing her almost instantly, John Wirn, of La Platte, has commenced suit in the county court of Sarpy sagainst Henry Schuman, for the value of & horse promised him for service rendered in securn) & wife lorus buman, Bohuman, the vistim o irn’s wiles, is & pros) oung German {armer, and hls new wite 18 & wiasotke Gorman malden, As the story goes, Wirn bas been worklng on Schuman's credulity for months, and finally really did bring him in contact with and induce his present wife to marry him, Schuman was to give Wirn a good young horse for his services In bringing about the match, but after cullns his bride be had no further use for Wirn, and refused to give him the horse. The snimal was valued at two hundred dollars, and Wirn sues for that amount, s Corn Contracts Awarded, New Yous, May 9.—The board of Indian commissioners to-day awarded corn contracts for the ensuing year The principal awards are H. 0. Slavens, 200,000 owts, to be deliv- ered at Caldwell, Kansas, for Cheyeone and Wapahoe agencies at 95 cents per cwt,, B, ¥, Moorhouse, 300,000 cwts., to be delivered at Gordon City, Nebrasks, for Pine Ridge agen cy, at 81,13 per owt., and 400,000 cwta., to be delivered by some contractor at Valentine, Nebraska, for the Rose Bud age at gl 09 5 per cwt. The highest price g r .lawt arded to H, 5 Blav ,830 cwt, for jo sgency, and the lowest | on the list of awards Is 10 cents per owt., at which price Asel Keyes is to delives * 000 cwta, at Sioux Oity, e ——— Big Whale at the Old Museum, luctantly. The district, ho great extent, and contains thousands of wells that have been steadily roducing for years. Had it mnot gun for the Bradford field the iImmense field in 1876. The sand fu this field 1s Sole Ag¢nts for Omaha. " | stock of ol above ground, now amount- ing to 38,000,000 barrels (of forty-two gallons each), would not be. It s safe to say that fully one-half of the produc- tlon of this field is directly due to torpe- does. There are to-day nearly twenty thousand produecing wells in the ofl re- glons, and there are thousands of ex- hausted wells abandoned, and thelr der- ricks slowly roiting, It is estimated that on the average three tori;aduen bave | spection Invited. been put in every well drilled. Many JOHN HUSSIE wells are torpedoed pretty uearly every month for the purpese of cleaning away | 2407 Cuming 8t., Sole Agent for Omaha, the parafine in the hole, opening fresh fissures in the rock, and thus maintain- ing the production of the well. The Medoc well, on the McGaire farm, in the Ohurch run distrlct, near Titusville, was torpedoed twenty-four times. The first torpedoes were comparatively inoffensive when compared with those now in use, The torpedoes with which Col, Roberts made his firet experiments in the Ladies’ well and the Woodin well were small cylindrical tubes, from four tosix Inches in diameter, and holding a few pounds of gunpowder. These were lowered Into the well hole, coverad with water so as to prevent the force of the exploslon from acting upward, and were fired by means cf 8 weight dropped upcn a fulminating cap fixed at the top OAPITALTSUMLUS of the torpedo. Later on nitro-glycerine was substituted for gunpowder, and the 8500.000. charge of exploeive increased until now torpedoes containing as much as 350 > pounds of nitro-glycerine are not uncom- mon, A few dsys ago such a charge was used at the Markbam well In Thorn creek, and the expleslon was felt for VAULXTES. nty-five yards on the surface around | g0 and Burglar Proof Safes. Fox rend at rom §6 10 §60 por anoum UNITED STATES l ' covered gun-cotton, This was immedl: a Iuna a" H ately loflu'ed by the dlwnlvnry ofb- score of analogous exploslve sub- stances, such #s starch, dextine U, 8. DEFOBIIORY., and sogar, with & mixtore of nitrlo|§, W. Cor, Farnam and 12th Sts 3 aa 0. WiLy HAMILION, acid, density 66 degrees Bavme, sud Acoounts solicited and kept subject to sight volume nitrlo acid, density 43 degrees, in | opooy, & freez ng mixture, and into this Pour| ™ o, tig.ates of Deposit lesued paysble in 8, glycerlue, with agitation so as to prevent | =0 0 oo, “pearing Interest, or om de- When a well is ordered Is ordered to be +shot” & wagon constructed in numerous | Draw sight draits on England, Ireland, small padded compartments, osch large | Sootland, and all parts of Eurove, enough to hold a can containing three or| Bell European passago tickets, fourpounds of theexplosive, departs from Collections Promptly Made. PERFECTION Vapor Stoves are Warranted. In- Omaha National Bank, U. 8. DEPOSITOKY. J. H. MILLARD, WMIWALLAQ Presidont, 9 Cashle well-hole, The torpedo was down 1,600 feet In the earth. Thousands of pounds of nitro-glycerine are dally used in the ofl wells; indeed, nitrc-glycerine was firat brought Into commerclal use in the oil reglons. In 1847 Schonbein dls- acld and sulphurio rh:«:ld. Tgu manufac- ture of nitro-glycerine was described as a 1847 On July D7ihof that your | CBPItAL, $100,000.00 paper was read before the French acad- | O W. HAMILTON, Pres't M, T, BARLOW, Osshies DIBECTORS! B, ¥. 8w, M, T, BARLOW, elevation of temperature. The entire : wmixtare is to bo emptled into water, The | ™44 without nbereste e o spproved alteo-glyoerine collects as an iy Mquld fyocriten at markot rates of intorest Throughout _the oil Feglons there are | Tbe latarests of customers aro closely L many manufaciorles of nitro-glyoerine, | ¢3 nd every facility compatible w aid ples of sound banking froely exteaded,