Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 18, 1885, Page 1

THIRTEENTH YEAR. OMAHiA., NEB.,, MONDAY MORNING, MAY 18, 1885. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. NO. 232 (adstone in the Hands of a French Jonrvalist, The Grand 0ld Man and his Asso= ciates in Scandal, Sights Behind the Scenes of Queen's Home—Amours snd Tastes of the Rules, the OABINET SUANDAUS, GLADSTONE'S LAURA B. Special Telegram to The Ber- LoNpoy, May 17.—Parliamentary circles aro generally excited over the at. ack on the private characters of Mr. Gladetone, Sir Charles Dilke, colonial secrotary, and the Marquis of {Hartington, secretary of war, mada in letters sent to the Parls ~ Nouvelle Revue revised by Bount Paul Vasali, Advance shoets of the lettershav been sup- plied to a number of English Inpau and the count’s letters give a numbar of scandals againat the three gentlemen named. Some of these scandals are old but many of them are new, It will perhaps be news to most American readers that Gladstone is vulner- able to gossip, especially to gosslp concerning women, But Count Paul Vaeali refers cir- cumstantially to tho premier as haviog been engaged in a not very creditable intrigue with o loviog woman described as “'LAURA B," who is known to many and who is described in the count’s fetter as a woman who has con- tracted some very res able debts in Paris soclety—"*the only thiog about her” says ‘Vaasali, ‘‘which can ba called respectable.” The count, in that patt of his literature in which he sssociates the name of the British remior with that of ‘Laura B.,” declares that *‘the beauty named has occarioned to wend her portrait to her old admirer, and Mrs, Gladstone, who jsalously watches over the whims and fancies of her husband, sent the portrait back.” Concerning the same subject Count Paul Vassali says, among other things, ** T can not tell you whether the relations of the grand old man with Mrs, Langtry have over really stepped beyond the bounds of a certain senti- menta'ism, but I can tell you he has not ceased to pay his court to the woman, He has a paseion for billet doux, and even from his seat in parliament he sends notes to one of his beautiful assistants which, often handed to discreet messengers under the eyes of Mra. Gladstons, are suppressed.” Commenting upon the rumors about Gilad- stone’s alleged relations with Madame Novidoff, the editor of the Nouvelle Roavue, which is publishing Count Vasali’s letters, de- clares a8 a friend of this lady that the reports are false. He adds, however, that he cannot affirm that & woman of such’ intelligence as that possessed by Mme. Novidoff is not flat. tered by the scntiments of which she inspires Mr. Gladstone, but he depics that she has even responded with a shadow of flirtation. HARTINGTON'S AMOURS, Count Paul Vasali refers to Lord Harting- ton’s alleged long connection wiih a celebrated duchess. The count says: “The marquis does not attempt to please any other woman. She governs him entirely and is discreet enough to respect the proprieties of society.” DILKR'S OFF HOURS, Fqually unserupulous is Vasali’s reference to Sir Charles Dilke. ‘‘An advocate of cremation,” the count says, ‘‘he had his youog wife cremated and another woman alive makes him glow with a gentle flame. Fair, intelligent, and distivguished the friend of Sir Charles is not a8 graond a lady as the friend of the marquis of Hartingtor, butshe still takes him away from vulgar life, 1B.ing married she will break tho ties which enchain her to a life which she has conquered.” Concerning the court itself the count says, “The very air about tho royal residence i filled with envy, hatred and malice, The 931 persons attached to the court are all in a ter- restial purgatory. Those immediately at- tached to the queen are the greatest sufferers. Nothing can be compared to the bondage of the chief lady-in-waiting. She must eactifice her personal tastes and even her opimons, Alss for her if she happens to be a better musician or more skillful draughtswoman than the qaeen.” QUEENLY TOPICS, After many more observations of the same kind Count Paul has this to say of her majes- ty: “The queen’s chief topics of conversation are sombre lugubrious thinge, fearful mala- dies, shocking deaths, funerals—everything belonging to the dominion of the horrible hor majesty adores, and she dotes on blood-excit ing stories about murders, exacutions and sutcide, Thus » youog American lady, who, one day_during dinner, descrlbod the suffec- ings and death of President Garfield, became at once a favorite with the queen who made the young lady her guest for threo weeks, KFFOLTS O SUPPRESS THE LETTERS. Tt is rumored that steps will be taken to supp ress the publications «f Count Vaslis in English paperu, BRITISH POLITICS. ROW OVER THE CRIMES ACT, LoNDON, May 16,—The quarrel in the cab inet over the advisability of renewing theIrish crimes act camo to o head this evening, A minority of theministers headed by the Right Hon, Joseph Chamberlain, president of the board of irade, advocated the ennctment of the act, This minority was final'y overcome, and the government has decided to propose a re- nawal the of act for two years in a modified form, The Parnellites are this evening in- dignant at the government for this decision, r. Parnell is a wmaster of parlimentary tactics, and if the renowal of the bill be ob- jectionable to his party there can be no doubt that he will so obstruct it passage as to pro- long the session uncomfortably. He may be able to extend the session for several weeks, and then tire out the government, WORKINGMEN ORGANIZING, Tho approach of the general election cam- paign is bringing forward unexpected political strength among British working men. The workiog men concentrating everywhere upon labor candidates for parlismentary eats. This is noticeable particularly in many of the Iarger boroughs, such, for instance, as Glas gow, Newcastle and other centers of mauufac- turing industry, The working men in these actively engazed in the work of ralsing subscriptions for the purposs of send ing working men to parliament, There is & movement organized in parallel lines to place # number of workmea on the magesterial bench in Lancashire and Yorkshire, and sev- eral members of trades associations have been offered magesterial appointments. Special Telegraw to The Bek, GLADSTONE AGAIN SECOND BEST, . Loxoon, May 17.—Gladstone’s statemen 'n commons last night proves that there is & hitch in the negotiations with Russia. Ramors of this which arose on Thursday were passionately denied by M, Lessar's Eoglsh organ, but are now officially confirmed. Los sar was naturally reluctant to admit that the Russian government had refused to sanction his sgreement. (iladstone was not less 1eluc. tant to own that he had overshot the mark in announcing in the house on Monday that tbe overnment had arrised at an agrecment with ussia. ‘The ratification of this sgraement ho treated s a matter ({ course, saying that ha expected it certaiily from day to day. What arived was mot @ ratification but fiesh demands, As at first reported, theso demards iscluded one for the Englich savction of & proposal of & permanent vesldence of & Russian sgen abul. When ' at questioned yestorday Gladstone said nothing \ day, about Oabul, and answered guardedly that the hitch related to one portion of the frontier, The Standard, which has lately been well informed, says that the point Russia now ralses rolates not to the Zulfikar pass, as sup posed, but to a region that stretches westward from 'the Murghab to the Oxus, Having established herself at Penjdeh, within easy striking distance of Herat, she now bordera Maimena and the other provincea forming the northeast portion of Afghan Turkestan She will thus be ready to invade Afghanistan when 1t suits her convedience from two points at onoe, {GRANVILLE HAD NO S8AND, LoxDoN, May 17.—The final installment of Granville dispatches on the Atghan disputo will beissued duriog the Whit-Sunday recess of parliament. The conservatives will post. pone parliamentary action until all the papers are presented, The publication of the first dispatches engross the attention of political olubs, The dominant feeling among liberals is that Earl Granville's conduct with respect to the negotiations was weak and that he failed to perceive DeGier's intentions until news waa received of the seizure of Penjdeh by the Russians, The liberal paper, the Ob- server, says the dispatches simply show the cynical humor with which Russia pursued her aggreasions, AN ORANGE-CATAOLICERIOT. GrAsGow, May 17. —A party fight occurred this afternoon at Coathridge, s suburb of this city. A procession of orapgemen from Glaegow marched into town with orange flags and regalia and with a band playing orange The Coatbridge catholics resented the demonstration and attacked the procession with stones and clubs, The orangemen broke ranks and a fierco fight ensued. The local constables finally restored order, after several men on both sides had baen injured and after sixteen of the rioters had been arrested. {7 THE ANGER OF THE IRISH CONTINUES, LoxnoN, May 17.—The Irish nation continue to denounce the government fo proposal to renew the crimes act and have resolved to introduce a bill next year to re- form the administration. The bill will es- tablish a_central control board of public works at Dublin and will supercede the pros- ent grand jury system by electing county boards, Mesers, Parnell” and Healey will have charge of the new building in the next house, PARLIAMENTARY STORMS. The session of parliament is certain to close in astorm. After a_prolonged conflict the cabinet finally ugreed on a compromise on the Trish crimes act, the renewal of which Glal- stons last night pledged himself to_pass. He refused to stato the terms, but it is believed that provision for special juries, the power of changing tho venue, the right of magistrate to hold inquiry without prosecution, and some others are retained, The Parnellites will re- sist it just as bitterly as thoy would the whole act. THR ELECTION COMING, A general election is regarded as certain in Novemoer. GLADSTONE DEFINES HOSTILITY, The British government to-day issued dip- lomatic papers which state that her majosty’s government will be compelled to regard as an hostile act any movement of Russia toward Herat. On the other hanfl itis announced that Russin has spontaneously disclalmed any menaciug intentions in regard to Her.t. The British government is therefore favorably in- chned to consider that the question of an issue between England and Russia has reached a settlement satisfactory to both countries, ANOTHER VOTE OF CENSURE, On parliament resuming the Right Honor- able Robert Bourke, inthe house of commons and tho Marquis of Salisbury in the house of lords will propose a vote of cepsure against the government. The intention is to make the debate the last party demonstration be- fore the close of parliament. IRELAND GETS A NEW LORD CHANCELLOR, Lo~DON, May 18 —The Right Hon. Jono- than Naish has been appointed lord chancellor of Ireland. He will be succceded as attorney general by the Right Hon. Samuel Wa'ker, gmen: solicitor general, and thy latter will e succeeded by Mr. MacDermott, Q. C. THE PENJDEH PAPERS, Documents were submitted to parliament to-day covering sthe Anglo-Russian dispute up to the time of the Penjdeh incident, and showing the aggression on the part of the Russian government upon the ameer's terri- tory, of which Herat is the salient point, GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS, Manrip, May 17.—The Imparoyol an- nounces the hoisting of a French fla¢ at sev. eral villages in Spanish territories on the Muni river, The journal is indignant at the violation of Spanish rights, and urges the ne- cersity of the government taking steps to pro- tect the Spanish inerestt in the government of Guinea, THE SOUDAN EVACUATION, Lord Hartington’s annouacement on Mon- day in the house of commons of the final re- solve of the government to scuttle out of the Soudan was received with joers and groans, The radicals alone applauded, Dongola and everything south to Assouan, the railway and the allies at Suakim are all to be aban- doned The collapas stopa just ehort of Cairo. The Sues canal itself would be in great dan- ger of passing under the control of foreign countries if the commission now sitting 1n Paris had power to bind parliament. BUSSIA AFTER GRRMAN TERRITORY, From St, Petersburg c)mes the news that the Russian government has decided upon Russianizing the German provinces along the Baltic. To accomplish this the czar has issned ukase that hereafter the Russian language shall be taught 1n allschools in these provinces and shall entirely replace the German lan- gusge in those schools wherein heretofore it has been taught. A similar edict has Leen issned in Warsaw in the official journal. This edict makes the Russian language the only eleme ntary lmgiuugs to te taught throughout Russian Poland, It is announced that as #oon as the Anglo Ruseian difficulty is settled czarina will visit the princess of Wales in London. ] LOOKING INTO CHOLERA, _The government will send a medical mis- sion to Spain to test the results of a system of innoculation with cholera virus, WALLACE DINES WITH TI BULTAN, CONSTANTINOPLE, May 17, —Gen. Low Wal- lace, ex-United States minister to Turkey, to-day had an interview of several hours’ length with the sultan, during which Gen. Wallace was asked his opinionin_regard to the leading topics of the day The sultan offered him a high position in the Turkish service, but hs declined. Gen, Wallace in- tended to leave Constantinople for home to- day, but postponed his departure until Tues day in order to accept an invitation to dine to-morrow with the sultan and the imperial princes, AUSTRIAN CROPS DESTEOYED, ViENNA, May 17, A terrifice snow storm & prevailing throughout Austria and Hunga- ry. Numbers of persons have been frozen to death, and crops generally have been destroyed. MOVEMENTS OF THE MINISTERS, LoNnoN, May 13 —Erx-Minister Lowell has introduced Mr, Phelps, the new American minister, to Earl Granville. Lowell will pre. sent his letter of recall to the queen to- morrow, Mz, Pendleton, the American minster to Germany bas arrived at Berlin, CROPS RUINKD BY BAD WEATHER. Loxnox, May 17, - Stormy, cold weather is general throughout Europe. Much damage ni crops and proparty is reported from many places, e e— st ba Going tw Shoot, Quenxe, May 17.—Tha steamar Caream, of London, which arrived hero Feiday brought 1,800 boxes containing million rounds of ball cartridges. Bloody Baule Mexion, TucsoN, Arizons, May 17.—Piivate ad vices from Hermosillo, Mex'c), stats that Mexican troops attacked the Yaquia Wedues- near Misa, Three hundred of the Yaqnis fare reported killed, The Mexican loss was eighty killed and wounded, Four Americans wero with the Mexicans. Two were killed and one, named MoKenzie, was wounded, The roport of the battle is not yet_officially confirmed, The government prohibits reports being telagraphed. —————— RAILROAD INTERESTS, WESTERN LUMBER RATRS—REDUCTION OF, PAS - SENGER FARE IN NEBRASKA, Special Telegram to The B, Onicaco, Til,, May 17.—A mestiog of the general froightagenta of ronds interosted in tho Tuuber traffic between Chicago and Coun- cil Bluffs and Omaha was held yesterday for the purpose of arranging the new tariff to go Into effect to-morrow, When the managers agreed to advance the lumber rates on last Friday they made the rate to Council Bluffs 14c per 100 Ibs., and_to Omahs 16c. It has since been discoyered that theso the rates can- not be carried into effect as thbridge toll be- tween Council Bluffs and Omsha is three cents per 100 Ibs , and consequa i ference in rates to the two po threo cents, It was deemed inadvisable to make the Omaha rates 17c because that would have made the rate to Konsas ity one cent lows, It was therofore decided to leavo tha rate to Omaha 16 cefits, as agreed upon by the general man- ers, but to make the rate to Council Bluffs 18 cents. Rates on Nebraska points will bs based on Council Bluffa rates. The meeting to be held to-morrow have & a variety of subjects to consider aud arrange, among [ehem the fixing of a usiform emigrant rate, the conforming of the freight tariffe, and reports a1 to the new situation made by the creation of the Missouri river pools. This out of tha way the meeting will be foliowed by that of the Utah-Colorado association and | to d | the Iater it has quite b new feature to meet an: rogulate. The legislature ot Nebraska recently passed law making the maximum rate to be charged by any road runniog through the state, 3cents a mile on passenger traffic. This s the second reduction made by the state law, it having been reduced from 5 to 4 cents on a previous occasion. The new rate goos into effect June 1, and the tariff will necessarily have to be changed to con- form. e — LOOKING INXO INDIAN LANDS, ENATE COMMITTEE DIVIDES TO INVESTI- GATE OKLAHOMA AND DAKOTA, Special Telegram to The Bz, CHicaGo, Iil,, May 17.—United States Sen- ator Dawes, of Massachusetts, who is chair- man of the senate committce on Indian affairs, rerived in Chicago yesterday on his way to Oklahoma, The committee has been divided for convenionce into two portions, five members beng assigned to the Oklahoma territosy, whilo the other four go direct to Da- kota, where they will be joined in the course of a month or so by the larger portion. Those who will investigate the vexad questions con- cerning land 1n the Indian territory are Sena tors Dawes, Ingalls, Plumb, Maxey, Hamp- ton and Jones, Ths party will meet at St. Louis to-morrow, and from there they will procoed to Henriotta, Tex. It is their pres- ent intention to leave the railroad at Henri ctta, where they will ba provided with an escort by Gen. Schofield, who will also furnish horses and wagons, tents and other necewsary arrangements for traveling. The escort will haye no military significance. The sub-com- mittee propoees to etop at all the capitals of the several Tndian nations and consult with their chiefs and leading men with reference to the purchase of 1ands now nominally held by them, or, rather, by the cattlemen in their names, which the administration desires to have opened up for white settlement. e —— RIEL CRUSHED, THE REBEL CAPTURED BY SCOUTS AND BEOUGHT INTO MIDDLETON'S CAMP, BatockE, vie Winnipeg, May 17.—The camp is still excited over Riel's capture, He is very closely guarded. He has very little to say, looks completely broken down, and feels his position very keenly, Major Bolton and 200 mounted men have been scouring the country in soarch of Dumont, but so far without succzes. He was last seen Friday morning ten miles south of Batoche, White flags are flying from all houses, One hundred and fifty riflos and guns have been handed over by the rebels. Most of the prisoners have been allowed to return to their homes The ring londers willbs taken to Princa Albert Mondsy. THE — — A Treacherous Bridge Gives Way. Yatg, B. O., via Vicroria, May 17.—A passenger train this morning went through a trestle sixty feet in height, The locomotive and all the cars except the passenger coaches went into the gully totally wrecking them and killing Fireman Stanton and Brakeman Peele instantly, Express Agent Oasmenton and Mail Clerk Armstrong were slightly in- jured. The cause of theaccident way the late rains which had caued the river to rise wash- ing away two large bents in the trestle, e — Grest Damage by a Deluge, INDEPENDENCE, Kas,, May 17,—One of the most severe rain storms that ever visited southern Kansas occurred last Friday, flood- iue the Elk and Verdigras rivers, drowning a great number of cattle, Six persops wera were drowned on Oard creek saven miles west of this place, among whom were Mr. Ria, Mrs, Wood and two children, There was great damage to railroads and bridges. ——— Omahas Accused of Playing Ball, Musywvaukee, Wis., May 17.—Milwaukee 5, Tndianapols 2, CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 17.—Cleveland 19, Omaha 1 Sweeney and Sommers of the home battory, and J. Day of the visitors, were arrested at the closeof the game for playing ball on Sun- day. A test case will be made to-morrow. e — Gen, Grant's Condition, NEw York, May 17.—Doctors Shrady, Douglas and Sands held the usual Sunday consultation on Gen, Grant's condition to-day, Dr. Shrady afterwards made the following report: ‘*We find the general’s local condition neither better nor worse, in fast thero has been uo change during the last three days', e — The Weather. WasHINGTON, May 17,—For the upper Mi ippi valley: partly cloudy weather and occasional rains, variable winds, slightly cooler in the southern portion and shightly warmer in the northern portion. The Missouri valley: fair weather, winds becoming vaiable; eooler in southern portion, warmer 11 northern portion e — Forest Fires atan End. MiLwavkee, Wis,, May 17.—Spacials feo; the lumber region of Dortheastern Wiscon: sin, where the forest fires have been raging for the past two days, say that & heavy rain has been falling to-day, stopping all progress of the fire, There longer fears of serious destruction of property, The Week's Olearances, BostoN, Mass., May 17,—The leading clearing houses of the United States report that the total clearancis for the week englng May 10, 1885, were $787,810.520, & decremss of 85 4 per cent compared wish the correspond- ing week of last year, Preforred Death 1o Fauperism, SavanNal, Ga,, May 17.—J, B, Russell, of Cuthbert, killed his two sona to-day and then shot himself throe times, The trouble was caused by financial ditficulties, SLIPPING AWAY. Williams Ab.at o Lose his Commissin a8 Marsha!, The Iowa Congressmen Make an Effective Protest. Ranchmen Want Three Years Quait Oklahoma—Nebraska's Santee Claims Affirmed, to CAPITAL NOTES, THE COMMISSION WITHHELD, Special Telegram to The Bex. Wasiixatox, May 17.—The protest of the Towa congressmen against the appointment of Williama aa marshal has struck home. The president notified the congressmen yesterday that he had telegraphed to have Williams’ commisston revoked and that Csmpbell, their choice, would be appointed, but it seems that there is some hitch in this, It is not a fact that Williams secured the nomination, That document was forwarded to United States Judge Love, at Keokuk, in whose possession 1t now is, and who was directed to hold it until Williams had qualified by filling his bond. To-day it is announced officially that the telegram did not go so faras to revoke the commission of Willians, It was the direction Judge Love to withhold commission until further orders. Meanwhile it is clear that aegotiations of wome sort are to be had between the friends of Williams and the Towa congressmen, Scores of telegrams have been received here from Towa to-day beseeching the congressmen to withdraw their opposition. Williams is ncw endeavoring to secure the support of the congressmeo, which he appears not to have considerad necessary or desirable before he recoived his appointment. It cannot be learned that the congreasmen have any inten- tion of rccading from their position or with- drawing their protest. They appeer to have delivered_their ultimatum to the president. The case is one which attracts much interest among congréssmen from other states, as they are dieposed to vegard it as a precedent, If the president ehall finally conclude to com: mission Williams further interesting devel- opments may ba expected. The sale of 40,000 acres of land in excess of the allotment to the Santee Sioux in Nebraska was not held yesterday at the Niobrara land office, owing to the failure of the lists of ap- proved allotments to reach the land office. 'he salo was postponad to the 19th inst. The point having besn raised that sectious 16 and 36 in the reservation should belong to the state of Nebraska, Land Commiasioner Sparks has decided that as the lands were eurveyed before the Indians were put on them they now belong properly to the state. Where the Indians have settled on such lands othsr sections will ba given to the state in lien of them, The interior department reiterates the dec- laration that no outsiders are to be permitted in Ok'ahoma. Meanwhile the prrclamation 80 long expected, ordering the cattlemen to leave does not appear, and the military au thorities have not been directed to proceed against the rauchmen, The latter, however, have caused it to bo statod through fheir rep- resentatives here that it will notbe convenient for them to arrange their businzes to leave in a shorter period than three years. It fs not known whether the administration is dis- posed to wait the pleasure of the cattle kings. Gen, Weaver, of lowa, who takes groat in- terest 1 the colonists, has recelvad no private advicos, but he says he does not doubt that 50 or 60 of the settlers have entered Oklahoma a8 it is reported, and he believes that there wil be trouble there all summer, or until the gov-1 ernment shall decide to treat the ranchmen and the settlers with the same kind of jus- tice. Gen. Weaver does not think it will be possible for the government to remove the settlers from the Crow creek reservation, He maintains that the legal questions which might have been raised as to the opening of the reservation are, go far as the tettlers who have entered npon it ara concerned resadjudi- cata; that the rights of the settlers have vested there; that they cannot be divested of them at the point of the bayonet and thatif the Indians have any remedy it is by a claim for damages against the United States, Emi- nent lawyers who have been consulted a8 to the rettlers’ rights give the opinions that this administration is estopped so far as settlers in possession are concerned from questioning their right to enter under the order of Presi- dent Arthur, Secretary Lamar has adopted a new regu- lation whereby all appointments of surveyors general will be restricted to selections from the ranks of practical surveyors, Under ex- isting arrangements; the department finds that the surveyors are dependant upon their chief clerks and deputies for the technical in- formation required to properly transact the business of the office, and 1t is to work a re- form in this reepect that the new rule has been adopted. It has also been determined that the ap- pointments for registers of lands, receivers of the land offices: a~d surveyors general will not be contined to residents of the territories in which the offices are located, as the depart- ment holus that these are not strictly territo- rial offices. — —— Orrgon’s Flattering Wheat Prospects. TORTLAND, Ore , May 17,—The generous, steady rains which fell throughout Oregon and Washington territory for the last week, followed by cloudy and moderately warm weather, huve assured, as far as past weather can, an extraordinarily large crop of wheat. Winter wheat never looked better, but up to ten days ago some fears wera expressed con cerning spring grain. It is the settled judg- ment now that every field of spring-sown grain will mature, The conservative estimate of the surplus for western Oregon is 6,000,000 busbels, and of the ivland empire, comprising the grain fiolds of eastern Oregon and Wash- ington territory, 6,500,000 bushels; total, 12, 500,000 bushels, This is an increase of 30 per cent over last year, and i3 based on the fact thiit the acreage is about 19 per cent groater and the condition far better than at the cor- responding date last year, The harvest will be about two weeks ‘earlier than usual this year, — Buffalo Bill Obeys the Small Boye.} | CHICAGO, Tl , May 17.~Buffalo Bill's wild west show opened here at the driving park this afternoon to an abdience of upwards 36,- 000 persons, The number of tickets sold was 35,887 The grand stand was den and at one time a disastrous pa: imminent, A lot of boys who had_climbed onto the tin roof raised the yell *fire” and made a tremendous racket, Instantly there was a stampedo aud had not Buffalo Bill with great presence of mind calmly resumed his shooting many lives would bave been in danger. —— Michigan Forests Still Burning. SaaiNaw, Mich., May 17,—The forest fires to the west and north are still raging with unabated fury and much destruction of prop. erty is feared, Specials from several points along the line of the Flint & Pere Marquetta railroad to-day ssy that the fire in many iplaces along the line has reachod the proxim- tty of wharves and depots, At North Bradly this afterncou Morrison's shiogle mills and Nhe owner's houir were destroyed. The buorth Bradley railroad b idge cuught twice, Bt the flames were extinguished. On the barnard Brauch railway a large tract of tim- ser has been destroyed and the fire is still awoeping ouwad. On the Harrison branch & large tracs of timber has b.ea destroyed and the fi till sweeplng, On the Harri- son branch & large force of mea with engines have been working oll day snd have succeedod in saving the railroad property. Similar ro pyrta have been received from other points Tnless rain falls soon great damage will be cased, o — ANEW YORK NEWSBOY, HOW HR FELL IN WITH AN OLD SHAKER AND GREW TO BE WEALTHY AND WELL FXED, Rev. 0. W. Savadge, pastor of the First Maethodist Episcopal church, preached a ser- mon yesterday on the life of a Nebraska man, which in substance is given below. My usnal custom is to preach a short ser mon to the children. But this moming in stoad of preaching to you I will tell you a true story. And we will call this story the children's senmon for to-day, Now for our story. A little boy, whom we will call James, was born in the city of New York April 23, 1842, He first remembors his father as & kind and industrious man, Every Saturday night he brought home provisions, and something for James and his pisters, but soon the father began to drink, Ho abused James' mother and would provide nuthiog for the family, His mothor took in washing to make a living. Sometimea the father would be taken to jail, and the mother would pay the fine out ‘of ‘money she had earned by washing. His father drove a hack, aud James would sleep at the barn to open the stable door for his father who would often be out very lato at might, If the door was not open na soon s the father thought 1t should be, he would whip James most unmercifully. Thiogs went on in this way growing worse and worse, till the family_woro compelled to move into a damp, dark basement on Broadway, The mother geew ill from overwork, Tho. father, turned into a beast by strong drink, pawned the mother’s dress and shoos and even the bed clothes for liquor, His mother would often read the bible to the children, and one day she put her arms abont her son’s neck an prayed, “May God take care of my boy,” and she made James promiso that he would nover drink strong drink. James was then only 6 yoars old, and to this day James says that for thirty-seven years he has kept that pledge. When he sees a man drinking ho always thinks of the pledge ha made his mother, He advises mothers now o pledgo their boys against drink, His mother died soon after and was buried on the 25th of December, 1818. The fathsr was not at home when the wife died, and when some of ths friends sent for him he came to the fu- neral drunk. Jawmes lived poorly enough after this, Ho would sleep in_a butcher’s cart, or o_charcoal box, orin an alley. Often men would stum- bloover him in the dark and sometimes they would almost kick tho life out of his poor lit- tle body. Now, sinco his mother is dead and_his father s 80 cruol to him, James looks about to see how he can better his own condition. Ho engaged himself as a cabin boy on a vessel which satled to South America, He was abrond two years, When he came back ho went on a trip to Liverpool. When James returned from England he received the news from nome Of the stable men that his fathor had died of delirium tremens, and I suppose James did not shed many tears, How Gould ho cry at the loss of such a father Now James goes to selling matchea and apers, There was one incident while he was inthis work which has greatly interested me. Oue Sunday morning, as he was Roing up Bleecker street with an armful of Sunday papers, a gentleman hailed him, and he went upon the stoop and sold him & paper. The gentloman handed him o half dollar in pay- ment, James tojd him he would bring him the change in the morning. But at that time he had no thought of doing 8o, The next ‘morning, na he was pasaing the same place; & voice in the boy's breast said: ““Give the gen- tleman his cbange.” He didso. _The gentle- man was surprised, and said: “Well, my boy, I nover expected to see you or the change. And I would not havecared much, for soem to need the money, ButIam glad to seo that you are honest.” The gentleman told him to briog him a paper every morning and he also spoke to others concerning the honest newsboy, And a8 a result of that one honest act James soon had fifty regular customers. Ho found that doy that honesty paid, and it has paid him all throagh his life. One day when James and his chum Dick were sitting on the curb stone a Shaker passed along the strest and Dick called out, **Hello, Broadbrim, want to buy some matches?’ The Shaker did _not want to buy any matches, but he talked to the boys, and when he found they bad no father nor mother ho askod them if they would not like to go into the country to live and have some good warm clothes, for it was winter, and lots of applos, and nuts. James said, *'Let’s go and try it swaile any- how.” Tut Dick said, “No; he will work us to death,” To this James replied: “If we do not like 1t we can run away, They can’t keep us if we don’t like their style, You know two or three times we were sent to the house of refugs on Randall's Tsland, and we swam over the river and got away.” Dick refused to go, but James decided to_go then and thero, - He gave Dick what stock he had, and said good bye and was off, Ho has never seen Dick since, but_he has often wonderod how he has prospered. Nor has James ever been able to find his sister, though he has often tried to find them, The two Shakers who wero in thocity of New York that day, took out to their homes four boys and two girls, James was one of tho boys. They reached their home about dark. They were soon invited In to supper. James says he did ample justice to the meal, Aftor sup per he took o bath and was given a clean, warm suit of Shaker clothes, and they put bim in & clean, beautiful bed—a feather bed, He says ho thought that night he was very near heaven, Tho next day he was shown around tho place and was old to halp himself o o bareel of applen and nuta which st nonr at hand. Soon he was sent to school and was given some light work to do, Afterwards he was taught £0 do several kinds of work well, Ho learned how to drive & team, to work In wood and te do many useful things, These were the New Lebanon Shakerse in the state of New York, who showed kindoess to James. How kind we should be to the poor and neglected about us A good womanin Germany spoke a kind word to Martin Luther when ho was a boy, and this changed his whole life, A lady in one of our citics saw a little barefoot boy slip down on the pavement on Sabbath morning, She took him by the hand and led him into the Sabbath school and was kind to him And truly she helped one of the brightest minds, and truest hearts, and pureat speakers our Methodism has developed—our own loved and now lamented Bishop Wlla& In May, 1860, James left the Shakers. Not because they did not treat him well, but he- cause he did not believe in their religion Soon after ths he enlisted in the war for the union, He served three years in the war, seven months of which time he was in the rebel prison. Here he suffered much from bunger. He lost sixty-five pounds weight while 10 the prison, but in due time he was mustered out of the service and again took up the battle of life, 'Ourboy James came to Omaha in July, 1867, He worked down on the river stacking lumber, He was married by the Rev. Mr. McCandlish to an excellent lady, He worked & farm out where the deaf and dumb institute now stands; he worked hard andsaved a little every year. Now James takes another step up; he becomes a christian, Mrs, Van Cott was holding reyival services in the First Maethodist Fplscopal church, on Seventeenth street, He thougnt 1t would be nice to hear a lady preach, He attended the services. He was deeply interested, He brought his wife aud two little childran every night for six or soven weeks. He thought of many others who ought to become christians, but he did not feel his own need, till one night Mrs. Van Cott preached from the text, *‘What is that to thee. follow thatme.” Thenvhen he folt he ought to be® & christian he thosght God ought to save him there withcut his gong to the altsr, But God does not come to the terms of men, Then H James made up his mind to seek God at the altar, He arose to go, he was converted that moment, His load of sin was gone, Jameos was a christian, A we close let us take one more look ‘At this boy whose life We havegiven in outline, Two woeks ago to-day he entortained me' athis home in Springfield, Neb, He has a valuable farm worth §10,000 of any man's money, His large barn is full of stock, well cared for, Hehasa pleasant home, a woll ses lected library, in which are found the best temperance books, He s an officer in the methodist church, He is liberal to help every good cause, He has four children, two boys and two girls. These children are obodient, quiet and indue trlous, Truly God has wonderfully blessed this poor boy. May his life long be spared to honor (iod, is my prayer, Let us thank God for his %mlt goodness to ue, and let us not despair of the help of God coming up even from the lowest place,~ ———— Too Much Badge. Quite a lively runaway occurred on Cumings street yesterday, caused by too much whisky. Pat Noonan, pipsman at No. 2 engine house, had hired a livery rig of N. E. Dillrancs & company, of 210 South Sixteenth street, and proceeded to take three friends riding with him in a single buggy. All of the party had been drinking heavily, and they made llvely time golng down Six‘eenth sireet Im attempting to turn the corner of Cum- ings street the buggy wheel caught in the streot car track, frightening the horse into s run. Owing to his Intoxlcated condition the driver was unable to check the horse, and after making a circle the rlg was run over a pile of beer kegs In front of a saloon, where two of the fel- lows jumped to the ground. The horse continued on its way down Cumings street, landing in the ditch, together with the buggy and two of the men, The men managed to ezcape without injury, but the horse was nearly rained, the cord on one cf the hina legs being severed, It was «c firat thonght best to shoot the suffering animal, but it was finally declded to try and save it. The herse wea one of the best in the barn, and was a favorite with patrons, The buggy was only slightly injured. e —— Another Greenhorn, Auother greenhorn, August Swartz, who works in the Unlon Paclfic yards, went wrong yoeterday and thereby lost his en‘ire earaings of a hard month’s work., Darlng the day Swarlz and a felend of his, Bernard Kueper, were drinklng qulte f:eely, and they pormit- ted two very ornery colored srlens to lure them into a den on Twelfth street jast back of the Metropolitan hotel, where Swartz soon lost all his money, $23, by having it stolen, and was then kicked out. He got an officer, went back and had the thieves, Maud Miller and Mag Johnson, both very hard characters, arrested and taken to jall. Both Swarlz and the women were locked up, and will appear before his honor this morning. ——— —Polica sircles were very lively yesterday. At 2 o'clock this morning the city jail was full, ® —Goorge Whiting, Harry Taylor, and John Ryau, another trio of suspicious characters, were run in last night, —A boy who loafs much about the gamb- ling houses and hard holes says he could tell all about the tricks that John Bull and Geo. Tappan have been playing here, but to do so would cost him his life, —A crook giving his name as PeterMurphy attempted to * hold up” Mr, Kile, on Tenth street, last night, but soon found out that he had tackled the wrong man. In just eight minutes by the watch Mr. Kile had Peter thrown into a dark cell at the city jail. —J., H. Jacobs mounted a high horze yes- terday and threatened to do Mrs, Jacobs all sorts of bodily injuries; also brake up every- thing about the house, But she quietly called o policeman in and had him marched off to jail, —Mike Gilligan, » well known character of the town, died about 2 o'click this morn- ing at the old Red Light house on Eleventh street, He was seizad yesterday afternoon with an attack of paralysis, and nover revived, L — For the best perfumes and toilet prep- arations go toSaxes Opera House Pharm- acy. e —— Dr. Hemilton Warron, Physlclan and Surgeon, 619 N, 16th strect near Web- ster, Day and night calls promptly at- tended to. —e— Lunch baskets of all elzes and shapes at Wm, Gentlemsn’s. e —— Buy Millinery and Hair Goods ab the Acknowledged Leading Millinery and Hair Goods Ewmporlum, Atkinson’s, Crelghten block, 156 h st., south of the poetofice, —— COAL, COAL, Prices reduced on Whitebreast Lump to $4.00 per ton. Whitebreast Nut to $3 75 per ton, Nepraska Fuew Co. Next to Omsaha National Ban THE REVISION, Sermons Preacted Thronghont the World on the New Old Bible, Immense Orders Issued for the Revised Edition. English People and Papers Divided a8 to the Success of the I flort ~—Frospective Indifference, THE TRANSLATION, IT8 FIRST SUNDAY, Special Telegram to The B, LoNnoN, May 17.—A large majority of the nonconformists and a respectablo minority of the churchmen do not favor adopting the re- vised bible in public worship, and it is doubt- ful if it will ever displace the King James version, Besides this, the fact of the revision belng a copyright in the hands of two pub- lishing houses adds to the difficulty of making its use popular, There is an immense demand for coples, but publishing exparts say this i from curiosity and literary interest, which will soon decreass, The average English pross opinion may b summed up by sayin that the revised version is a good, useful an learned work, but its chief value is in the showing how excellent and, on the whole, how taithful a rendering of the old testament we have in use which, for more than two and o half centuries, has been received, It is expected that many sermons will be proached onthe event this Sunday over the wholo country. So faras the press is concerned, the revised old testament is not_given nearly &0 much sttention as the revised now testa- ment received. The Pall Mall Gazette says: *‘There is lit- tle probabilty of its_being appointed to bo read in churchesat all, even in ourtime which expresses the general ides, Tho scholarship of the revisers is praisad, but much regret is expressed at the number of sacrifices of poetic and familiar forms to grating literalness.” It is interest.ng that the Antheneum was the only weekly that was gvien copies in ad- vance. The Academy, the Saturday Review, and others appeared with notices, and the Daily News says: *“Tho rovisers have erred, if they have erred at all, on the side of obsti- nate conservatism ratber than on the side of rash innovation.” The Antheneum says: * The revision is a literary success. There are no pratensions to scholatly completeness, and practically no al- terations in the text The revisers can be congratulated upon the wisdom of their de- ceeion in declining to make a new text of the old, as the other company did with the new testament.” The rush for press and authentic copies of tho revised old testament 18 unprecedented in England. The Pall Mall Gazette states this evening that the London correspondent of a great Now York newspaper offered $500 for simply an advance copy of the revised old testament at one of the university publishing houses, The officsrs haying the printing in charge were obdurate in refusing the corres- pondent’s obstinate request. The correspond- ent, the Gazette says, was suthorized by his paper to spend $2,500 in telegraphing the main feature of the new version. The first orders for the issue of the revision amount to over one million copies, e —— Priority of Saloon Injunctions, Muscaming, In., May 17,—Judge French of he circuit court reudered an important desi slon yesterday, being upon the injunction pro- ceeding under the state prohibitory law. French holds that the first injunction pro- ceeding instituted against a ealoon shall have priority to any injunction proceedings against the same saloon, The decision was regarded a8 a great victory for the saloons, as sham in- junction proceedings have been instituted by the friends of the saloons against neurly eve: ealoon in Muecatine. The temperance dl? ance will appeal the case to the supreme court,. e —————— Commodore Jonothan Young Dead, New Lowpox, Uonn,, May 17.—Commo- dore Jonathan Young, commandant of the Now London navy yard, died of remittant fever at tha Crocker house to-day, aged b8 yoara, The disense was contracted while he v.as in Washington six weeks ogo_as & mem- ber of the Wales court martial. He entered the navy as midshipman from Iilinois in 1841, went around the world in the ship Columbus in 1845 and '46, and forced an_entrance into Yeddo, Japan, to deliver o lettor from the president to the emperor. ———— Surrendered as an Express Robber. Brooyixaton, Ind, May 17.—Chesley Chambers, who is charged with the robbery of the express safe on the Louisville, New Albiny & Chicago railway on the night of April 20, and the dangerous wounding of Davis and Webber, was again placed in jail this afternoon, A gearch warrant rovealed the presence of $I40 in Chambers’ trunk in bills, which bore » mark n.ade by the passage of the express needle, These facts bacnmlnfi known to his bondsmen, they surrendere Chambers to the authorities, e ——— Drowned in Going Over a Dam, Des Moines, To., May 17.—Aleck Stavast and John Van Nieuport were drowned in the Des Moines river to-day at the dam, whil boating. Stavast’s body was recovered They saw the boat was geing over the dam and both jumped out, Both were Holland ers, one twenty three and the other twenty eight years of age. e The Pestilence at Plymouth. 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