Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 29, 1885, Page 1

& THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. FIFTEENTH YEAR. OMAHA NEB., MONDAY MO PAID FOR WOUNDS. What Mangled end Impaired Veterans @et From Uncle Sam. Popular Error as to the Method of Paying Pensions, Manning Ohanges a Rule of Service— Whitney Finds Contractors ‘Who Slap Back-Notes, AT THE NATIONAL OAPITAL, ON THE PENSION ROLL, Bpecial Telegram to The Ber, ‘WasnineroN, June 28,—The examination of the official fizures showing the exact amount paid by the United States on account of pensions shows that & very grave misappre- hension exists in the popular mind as to the amount that is being paid out annually for this purpote, Prior to the passage of the arrearage act the annual roll was reduced to Previous to the wae of the rebellion the an- nual pension list was only about $1,000,000, TFor the year ending June 80, 1869, the ag- egato disbursements increased to nearly 000,000, and tho year following they wore swollen to over $16,000,C00. The volume of payments steadily increased from that time until June 80 1871, whon the highest point ' was reached. 'The amount paid that yeaz belng $31,814,000. From this point {the ‘aggregate steadily docreased, until the pas- eage of the arrearage act in 1870 when it in- creased from $27,000,000 to 835,000,000 in one ear. For the fisoal year 1880 nearly £57,~ 500 00 was disbursed for peneions and for the fiscal year 1883, over $66,000,000 was paid, This is the highest point ever reached although the belief 18 general . that nearly $100,000,000 per annum is required to satisfy the pension list, This erroneous im- pression is xuite natural, and has been created by the fact tkat the pension offics was unabla o make even ayproximately correct eatimates a5 to the sum of money that would be re- quired. Relying upon the estimates of the nslon office, congress has always voted the I:ll amount asked for, and therefore it is that the impression prevails that we are paying nearly $100,000,000 per an- num for pensione. Perhaps a majority of persons estimate that the amount of mouey 15~ propriated by congress is the amount equally expended. Ko the fiscal year ending June 30, 1883 the amount edproprinted for pensions was §116,000,000 yet the amount disbursed was but $60,000,000 an excess of $50,000,000 having besn cov- ered into the treasury or made available for the succaeding year. In alike manner nearly £87,000,000 was appropriated for the last fis- cal year, while the payments were but S0 500,000, For the current year only §20,000,~ 000 was appropriated, yet the payments thus far made are nearly $58,000,000. This shows that the appropriations have been made since 1879 without accmate infor- mation as to the actual rcquirements of the ension list, but congress very wisely ocided to vote the full amount by the pension office o that mo worthy pensioner should fail to reczive the money to whicn he was entitled. For the fiscal year which begins with Wednesday next, $69,000,- 000 has been névpmpr[nhed, a sum which wiil be amply sufficient to mest all tho reqire- menta, From 1791 to June 30, 1863, the total amount issued by the United States on ac- count of pensions was $82,669,013, which is equal to an annual average of $1,134,202 From July 1, 1863, to June 30, 1884, 'a period of twenty-one years, the total payments on account of pensions was $697,418,608, which is equal to an acnual average of $33,210,509. This may rmblbly be regarded as the en- tailed cost of the rebellion started and carried on by the southern states, Itis perhaps per- tinent in this connection to observe that upon their return to political power these states find that the expenditure on ac- count of pensions for union so'dlers is the only one that has not beeu materlally reduced by the republicans, Since the pas- sage of the arrearages actin 1879, the total disbursements for pensions were $324,744,932, T fieures furcish the sum total of the actual payments made from July 1, 1878, to June 80, 1884, a period of six years, Putting the payments for the year which will end with Tueaday next at $61,00,000, which would give an sg- ate for the oight years of about $386,000,- oo Which s equal o $18,603,116 per aonum, Thus it will be eeen that notwithstanding the frequent allegations that the arrearage act has cost the treasury $100,000,000 per annum, the ac- tual cash disbursements have been less than $49,000,000, Unless there should be addi- tional legislation on this subject the average annual payment for pensions during the com- ing eight years will not exceod $10,000,000, “ocretary Munning has amended artiolo 18518 of the general regalations of the treasury relating to customs and navigation laws €0 that it shall read as follows: ‘‘Candi- dates for mindr appolntments in the customs service must be not less than 21 nor more than 55 yeara of ago, of suitable physical condition and meptally qualified as required by the rules and regulations of the civil service of the United States, Out-door inspectors must be of robust frame and constitution, Deputy collectors and other employes whose duties are performed exclusively within the custom build] ings apd who are selected on account of pos- sesslng qualifications of special valuo to the seryica may, after actory physical cer- e be eligible for appointment between 7% nty-one aud sixty years of age. = 0 recent instructions to remain at Vienna have been sent to United States Ministex Francls, Shortly after Bayard becamo secref of state, he instructed Francis to romain there uutil his successor Mt‘illd be appointed and arrive to assume his duties, Proposals have been received at the buroau of steam engineering of the navy department m-upplg soventy-five ton floating derrick for the Brooklyn navy yard. They rauged from $66,386 to §92,000, Threo other estab- lishments, the West Point iron works, the Continental 1ron works, and How- den, Robinson & company contemplated buildiog, but in view of the department’s re fusal to ‘accept the recommendation of the advisary board and its inspectors concerning the Dolpbin, they withheld their proposals in- forming the bureau that they did not feel safe in expending time and money upon work for the government when it was subject to_rejec- tion even after the government’s own inspec- tora had reported favoiably upon the work and material, The following is the text of a letter of Burchard decliniog to resign when requested %o do 80 by Sscretary Manning: TREASURY DEPABTMENT, REAUJOF MINT,— ‘WASHINGTON, June 19, —S1i:-~Reepectfully acknowledging your request for my resigna- tion communicated to me on the 15th inst, 1 have the honor to state that after carsful con- mderation I am wot satisfied that duty or propriety require me at this time to resign my office, Were any malfeasatce or miscon- duct alleged or believed to exist, I am sure would have done me the justicelto m.m o partial exawination and given me full opportunity of defense before demanding my resignation. Nor do 1 understand from o that the request is made for such_ reason but it is because you deem the relations of m office to be so intimately connected witl your adminstration of the treasury depart- ment that you should have the privilege of selecting the officer to be 1a charge of this bureau. Were this the case and the intention of the law It might be proper and becoming for me to place the tenure of my service at our immediate command, or perhaps to hare lone o when you became the head of this de- partment, but permit me to say that such has | it; not been my understanding of “the purpose of t rovldln' that the director all hold his office for f five years unless sooner re- the presidon$ upou reasons of moved by to , | congress after his bs communicated to him by the senate, The length of the term, five years, the cond: tions upon which removal s authorized, and the discussions and explanations preceding the passige of the act, indicato the intent that the office of director of the mint should not o changed on account of a change of admin- istration in the head of the department, or for personal or political ressons, nf; predecessor. appointed by Presidant Grant, although of oppsite poolities contin. ued in office under five sucessive secretaries of the treasury until his death. As to my self, having served with acceptance for a full term and upon reappointment and confirma tion the part of another, I am conscious of no fs%on Wiy &n exouptiod to the policy of tbe law should now be made or why I ought mnot to continue in the prformance of official duty until the expiration of my commission, Very Hespectfully, Horatio C. BURCHARD. Hon, Daniel Manning secretary of the treas ury. A friend of Mr, Blaine writes the following to the Baltimore American: ‘'Mr, Blaine has gone to finish the work on his book in the quiet of his Avgusta home. Ho had intended to go abroad this summer, but will hardly be able to complete his book in time, There is considerable talk heard about his returning to political life, It is well understood that he can return to the eenate or to the lower house within two years if he chooses, and if he in- tends to remain In the public view it is more than llkel{ he will accept a seat i literary task has been com- pleted, « Hale or congressman Milliken would retire to give plice to Blaine if he should desire to return to the active duties of the houso or the renate. Hale could become governor, Frye would not yield uniess com- pelled to, There fs a general feeling bere that the matter can ba arranged to accommo- date all the statesmen, There is als> a be- lief that while Blaine may go back into pub- lic life tor a few years, he will not permit himeelf to bo again pushed for the presi- | pr dency, For perhaps the first time on record, the secretary of the navy to-day chartered a pas- senger steamer at his own expense for a presi- dontial pleasure trip down the Potomac. The president has never beon on the Potomac, and was anxious to see the Virginia hills and his- toric streama and catch a glimpse of Mount Vernon, Ho is unable to do so during businoss, and Secretary Whitney planned a pleasure party for this evening, He was unwilling to egiploy the government dispatch boat for s iolal junket, and hired the steamer Co» , and propared & sumptuous collation, it thirty persons, including tho president and cabinet and women, a few other officials, diplomats, Gen. Sheridan and Admirat Porter, wero invited, It rained all day, but the project was not abandoned until nearly time for the startiog, A telephone meesage was sent to the signal office The reply came tbat it would rain continu- ously during the evening, all night and all day to-morrow, The trial was then aban- doned, the guests notified and the collation distributed among the secrotary’s friends Half an_ hour later the showers ceased and the sky cleared up. Official comments on the signal service to-night may be inferred, There are suggestions that the westher mun must go. ‘WasHiNGTON, D. C.. June 27.—The wife of a prowninent Washington merchant was an- noyed last evening while making some pur- chages by the attentions of a dandified young man. She went into a Ninth street store and waited three.quarters of an hour, during which time her annoyer walked up and down in front of the place. Meanwhile, the hus- band had been summoned, and within three minutes after his arrival the youth was thor- oughly thrashed. A policeman took him to the station, where it was found that he was an attache of the Italian legislation, and well known in society circles, e was thereupon allowed to depart, Oharles F. Adams Il BostoN, Mass, June 27,—Charles F. Adams is seriously ill at his residence in Quincy. He has been in very poor health the past two or throe years and now it is said | P! has completely lost control of his mental faculties, Patents and Fortunes, Pittsburg Dus; h. “Do patents cover principles and pro- cesses? I thought you could only patent a device for produclng certain results,” said the lawyer. ““Yes. that’s s0; but you know when there is big money at stake every little thing 1s raked up. 1t often turns out that an immense fortane hangs upon a single fact in sclence. These proceeses for con- veriing fron iInto steel differ only In a striotly sclentific aspect. The ordinary mechanle, or even a clever ironmaker, can see no difference in the operation, yet there are millions dependingupon the question of ecience at issue.” ““If repozts are true there is a chance of several of them getting knocked out by the new process,” observed the lawyer. “Yes, I guess the reports are true, It 1 had & steel patent I would try and got it ashore as soonas poesible. It doesn’t pay to be afloat on a waterlogged pateut and take the risk of getting knocked clean out of the water by some new device.” “‘What partlcular case were you refer- rlng to?” queried the lawyer, taking a toby out of the patent man’s vest pocket and coolly asking him for a match. “‘The case in point s that of the Bell telephone agalnst the Randall and other ‘make and break’ current machines. The case has been tried over and over, until now it is reduced to the mere question of what sound 1s,” replied the patent man, vainly endeavering to palm off a toothplck on the lawyer for a match. “I'd like to know how they can ralse such a question In this case?” said the lawyer. “‘Well, it Is just this way,” explalned the patent men, ‘It is claimed by the Boll people that sound by the action npon the ear of virbrations of the alr of sound waves. Bell clalms theee waves to be continuous and unbroken, while the oth- ers clalm that thelr instruments produce sound by a series of short bresks in the current; therefore the whole thing turns on the single faot as to whether sound 1s the result of a contlnuons wave or a ser- les of seperate Impulses.” “'Is there no dissgreement os to the device or machines for producing or con- veying sound!” asked the lawyer. #No serlouns disagr¢ement, but the oth- er question s a poser. The best natural eclentist in the country are making esch other's hair fly about {t. One eays sound is produced by an unbroken wave, an the other is just as poeitive that it caused by a sorles of taps or lmpuls 8o they go, There will be & plenic here when the cage comes up for arguments.” “‘Who will have the plonic?” asked the lawyer, ““The Judge,” replied the patent man; *‘and I don't envy him his job of decid- Ing when doctors disagree.” “Does the same trouble apply to pat- onts in general?” queried the lawyer. ‘‘Noj; only in those whera t 8 fortune in sight or a good chanca to estab- lish & mono];oly," replied the patent man, “Which side do you think will wini” “Don’c know, Don’t know what sound is myself; don's know whether any other fellow knowe, and don't care much; but I wolfld like to get a few points on electrie- With this the patent man walked off in & thooghtful mood and left the lawyer jnuddng over the plenic in store for the udge, d | forever abolished, NO GHANCE FOR LIFE. Cholera Sweeps the People From the Face of Spain. QOities Devastated With the Most Appalling Incidents, The Government Increases the Hor- rors and Falsifiles the Returns —Afrairs in Politics, SPAIN'S FRIGHTFUL VISITATION, OHOLERA BURSTS THE BONDS OF ALL RESTRAINT AND THOUSANDS DIE, Special Telegram to The Bie. LoNDON, June 25,—A¢t this time Iast year cholera had only taken a few ecores of lives in Toulon and its suburbs, and had just made its appearance in Marseilles, There have now been 4,200 deaths reported from eight prov- inces of Spain, which is much more than half the entire number of deaths in all of France last year, From the start the rate of mor- tality in Spain has been far greater than it was in France, and latterly it has become eater than it was last year even in Naples. he average ratio of deaths to cases now is about four in mine throughout Spain. Roughly speaki the ratio was two in seven ‘rance last year and it was three in seven in Italy within the last week, Notably has this been the case in urcia, Moro than half the people attacked have died and in the new provinces where the pest has appeared within the last fow days the escapes have been the exception All the features of last yesar's siege either essential or eccentric—and who shall say in_this stravge disease which is which— are being repeated, The fearful experience at the Aix mad house finds its paralell in the asylum outside of Madnd, where the Iunatics ave dying Jike sheep. In Murrain the peculiar susceptibility of young soldiers to cholera, which was noted at Toulon and in Campobasso last year, has_been exemplified again at Toledo barracks, The deaths among sisters of charity mow as then are almost wholly confined to the peasant women in the less exclusive orders like the Augustinians The plague finds ninety-nine in a hundred of its victims in the slums or poor villages where hygiene s an unknown word, A wine merchaut who haa just arrived in London from Murcia tells me that it is ubsolutely impossibe to describe the national panic, loss of nerve and reason, and frenzy of local quarantines, Not only has this feeling of panic paralyzed the business of Spain, but it threatens to work more evil by Qderanging the food supply than even cholera has worked or may yet work, It isinterast ing hero to note, in considering the theory that the spread of the disease is connected closely with water, that Murcia and Valencia are the most, nhmtilully irngated districts in the south of Europe, The system of supply dates from the time of Moorish occupation of Spain, and for scientific utilization ~ the water supply there is still wunrivalled in the whole world. The city of Murcia is not 8o desperate an asylum as it formerly was, sinco the great flood destroyed the lower part of the town. 1t was rebuilt with more re- gard to sanitation, but the people are dis- tinctly of the lowest type, mentally and phy- sically in Spain, But here, as as at Valencia the city is surrounded by a perfect network of crowded hamlets, constituting one vast tropical garden, irrigated by & system whicn permits not one drop of water to reach the sea. The system is moat mar\ erous from the engineering point of view. but is simply mur— derous now when the summers sun makes every trench a dispensed of lague and of death. Refugees from the cities were quick to spread the dis- easo through these villages, Now more slow- ly but none the lees surely they are dissem- inating it through the peninsula, When we consider the local mortality at this early date it is frightful to contemplate what the total for Spain may be and almost surely will be duriog the four or five torrid months to come, to say nothing of the probability—nay, al- most the certainty of a speedy outbreak of the plague in other southern lands. Muro, an insienificent town near Alicante, illustrates some of the beautiful results of the Isolating plan, Cholera has broken out there. On May 16 the town was surrounded by cordon, For five weeks there were 260 casee, forty per cent of which was fatal, The labor- ing people are now dropping dead of hunger at Muro, There are twenty-one motherless babes without nurses tosuckle them. The ve- nality and stupidity of the health officers pass belief. They seem to regard cholera as & big paying job, One uuitnrr inspector was taken off yesterday ill. If all the rest were rovidentially removed thore might be some D b roatont fares ol allis the statistics putlished daily by the government. A government employe himself confessed to a frisnd of your correspondent that he deliberately gave wrong figures to the press, Rut the number of deaths acknowledged by the authorities is eloquent enough. On the 22d, for example, there were 455 new cases and 213 deaths in Valencia alone, The total for the whole of Spain the same day s set down as 862 new cases and 42) new deaths, By adding fifty per cent to these figures, one might get near the truth, The epidemic is spreading fast, At Grao, the fillhy part of Valencia, and at Cabanal, an adjoining township, but practically the same place, thore are thirty to forty deaths a day At Cabanal of ail these calamities, comes a;decreo forbid- ding the exportation of fruit from the in- fected region, The misery of this stricken people is now complete, eath THE CABLE REVIEW, SALISEURY CHANGES TOWAKD IRELAND—SPUR- GEON ATTACKS ENGLISH VICE, LoxpoN, June 27.—The only minister of the new government who has up to date pub- licly addressed his constituents is Balfour, chief secretary for Ireland, who is the son-in law of Sabebury, and the only man that ever has been permitted by the present nremier to speak for him, The address has attracted profound attent'cm, Befcro his advent to power Salisbury was the most persistent ad- vocate of coercion in Ireland, Responsibility, however, bas apparently tempored his views, and he feels the necessity of ‘‘letting the tories down easy,” The striking utterance in Balfour's epeech Is the unqualified diclaration that he desires mot less than Chamberlain to ree Ireland gov- erned by equal laws with Eogland and to see all exceptional legislation against Irishypeople The new chis strongly suggests home rule for I contends that this home rule shall extend to locsl interests nnl{. It must be admitted that this is a remark- able change of attitude in the conservative feeling towards Ireland, In fact all reports from conservative clubs and political circles show that TLord Randolph Churchill though nunnvlee exhibiting surprising re- pressibility, has become the prophet in the tory varty on the Irish question. His policy, which from all present portents will prevail with the present government, favors the gradual rl{:llcamen‘ of the vice regal gov ernment at Dublin castle by the formation of an elective central board to sit in Dublin and exposes the power of dealivg with all inter- nal questions of the government, The Rev., Bpurgeon has produced a pro- fovnd sensation by an article over his signa- ture in to-day’s issue of the Monthly Review, he great preacher narrates a detailed story of Justice William's death in & Brooklyn brothel, and the disclosures brovght out in Jeffries case. He makes these examples from high official life the cases of a full fAavored denunciation of Eoglish immorality, and be says: *‘Sodom, in its most putrid days, could scarcely exceed London for vise, The names of the greatest in the land are openly men tioned in connection with the filthiest debauch- ery and the most hideous evil that drags in the walk of vice. Shall not God ba grieved by such & nation as this? What is coming over us? What clouds are darkening our aky?” COURATIERS ON PARADE, THE BRILLIANCY OF THR SALISBURY TION—THE DEPLOMATS, Special Telegram to The Br, T.oxpoxN, June 27,—The first official recep- tion by Salisbury as mecretary of foreign affairs was held at the foreign office yesterday afternoon. It was gorgecus, It lasted three hours, Downing street was thronged with carriages, emblazoned with coats of arms, reprosenting every country in Europe, bring- ing deplomats whose jewelied uniforms, decorations and swords were only equalled in gorgeousness by the reaplendent liveries of their flunkies, Tho Chinese ambassador Tyng, was clad in the silken robes of a mandarln of the first rank. Musurus Pasha, Turkish ambassador, wore a plastron that was stiff with dismonds, and carried a_cimater io_a sheath covered with jewels, DoStael's (Russian ambassador) resence was noted as an a.gury that Russin doen not Tatond to demaud an apology for Salisbury’s fiery anti-Russiun speeches while out of office United States Minister Phelps came In a plain carriage, was dressed like an American gentleman in o black dress suit, and without a diamond or particle of jewelry in sieht, His presence did not add brillianoy, of course, but he was more easily distinguished :h-n :‘he rost, The ceremonies were purely ormal, REORP- DIVIDED OPINION, THE HYDRED CABINET OF GREAT BRITAIN AMONG THE POWERS, Special Telegram to The Bes. Niw® Youk, June 28,—Smalley, in his special to the Tribune, says: “The new cabi- net is the result of & compromise botween the marquis of Salisbury and Lord Randolph Ohurchill. Its formation jretty much ex- hausted the available talent of the tory party, and required the admission of several men whose claims were of the slenderest kind, The tory organizations greet the new ministry with reopect without enthusiasm, The mar- quis of Salisbury’s gravest mistake is in weak- ening the party in the housa of commons by transferring two of tho ablest debaters, Sir Stafford Northeote and Mz, Gibzon, to the house of lords. “The Tnish appointments are most criticised of all. The Earl of Oarnavon is an able man, but is better fitted for snother position than that of Viceroy. § “Opinion abroad respecting the change of ministry 13 much divided. France regrets the fall of the Gladstone cabinet which she pretty steadily abused and cosrced. Russia. remem- bering the Salisbury—Shauvaloff memoran- dum expects to conclude tho Afghan business without difficulty. Italy and Austrin give scant welcomo to tho mew ministry. Berlinalone rejoices heartily over the accession of a cabinet with whom, as Prince Bismarck says, 1t will bo possible to do business. nelish opinion decides broadly on party lines, but many moderate libarals, alienated by radicsl excesses, profoea taom- salves ready to respond to the marquis of Sal- bury’s appeal for support.” ———— BLACK JAOK'S BOOM, THE HEEO OF THE GRAND ARMY REUNION— BLAINE'S ABSENCE, Special Telegram to The Brr. BostoN, June 27,—A. Portland dispatch to the Herald draws attention to the fact that Mr, Blaine was not invited %o the national grand army encamgment, The dispatch says: “But there has been this week manifested right here in Maine that which is not going to please or to help Mr. Blaine, The TLogan boom is a surprise. All this week the Illinois senator has been the hero of the occasion, In Tuesday’s procession he was the one man whom eyerybody knew and everybody wanted to ses, and everybody cheered him, too. At all public meetings, and at the secret or ex- ecutive sessions of the national encampment, Togan was the central figure, On the streets, up at the camp ground, everywhere, he was the man. But why was not Blaine invited ? The answer is that, the leading grand army men, though republi did not dare invite him. When some grand army posts paraded in uniform last August at Strong, in Franklin county, to receive and escort the republican presidential candidate, the grand army inthis department received o staggering biow, It threatened for a while to disrupt the organ- fzation in this ually the !ulinfi ; the harmony which had been broken was restored, After last year’s experience the managers here Jared take no risk, They did not invite Mr, Blaine, The second citizen of the state as is ex-Vice President Hamlin, was hidden at first for fear of being misun- derstood. There is still another element in the Logan business, Mrs, Logan is_conspicu- ous and popular and as much an object of ad- miration and respect to the curious crowds as the general himself, She is not as handsome as those who have read of her without having soen her, expected. She ls not statoly or imposiug, but she knows how to keep hurtolt before the public in o way modest yet profita- blo. Seated in an open carriace before the Fallworth hotel at noon on Wednesday, every body aked who that lady was, and there were enough Iilinois and other men sround by acci- dent to gratify the curiosity, This has been a Logan wesk in the Rlaine state, Perhaps the thing can be reversed, but it is doubtful if Mrs. Llaino could do in Illinois what Mre. Logan did in Maine, - — Mongolians Moviag Eastward, Special Telegram to The Bee, Pir1sBURG, June 27.—A number of Celes- tials passed through Union station yesterday, This morning there were thirty-eight of them on their way from San Franclsco to New York. One of them said that there was too many of his countrymen i Califorma and Oregon, and that a great many of them had decided to try the eastorn states, They say, ‘Melecan man down on them in California,” - ——— McOullough's Madness, Bpecial Telegram to The Bk, New York, Jure 27'~It is now plainly evident that the actor McCullough will be obliged to be sentto an insane asylum, |His dangerous symptoms repeatedly appeared during the past twenty-four hours, For some inconprehensible reasons his relatives refuse to take hum 1n charge, o —— Cowboys Kill Peaceful Indians, DuraNGo, Colo,, June 27,—It is rumored to-day that the Indians who accompanied agent Btalesteimer to Dolores valley to in- vestigate the recent outrages, were fired on by cowboys and that as many as ten Indians have been killed during the present troubles, de of settlers from Dolores and continues, Two families others are on the road, An Escaped Ravisher wobbed, Pavesting, Texas, June 27,—~The sheriff to-day received word from the town of Bells, in Grayson county, that John Martin, one of the two escaped negroes implicated in the outrage and wmurder of Mrs, Hazell at Elk- hart, was taken out of the calaboose last night and hung by a mob, makiog six negroes who pald the penalty of their lives for ths crime, Oll and Gasoline Stoves. Miurox Rogers & Soxs, e — Now is the time to bulld. Get low prices on lumber from Geo, A, Hosgland, RNING, JUNE 29, 1885. NO9 THE 'MISERS' DAY, Moncy Refuses to Enter the Aveanes of [ndesy. It Accumulates by Millions in the Vaults and Loses Value. Dopressing Effect of the Roverses in New York, Philadelphia and Bos- ton—Financial Philosophy, MONEY WITHOUT A UHANCE, SPROULATORS QUIT THE PITS AND HOLD THEIR GOLD WITHOUT INVESTMENT, Special Telegram to The Bee. New Yonk, June 28, —Thebanks have more money to lend than they had a week ago; the trunk line situation is more forbidding, if that were possible, and altogether the prespect for the money lender and railroad investor are ex- tromely discouraging, At Boston and Phil- adelphia the story s much the same. The announcement this week that the Mexican government has suspended subsidy payments to the Mexican Uentral road has given a blue eye to an already blue situation at Boston, Oapitaliats of the hub have been bearing the rincipal burden of the Central enterprise, The officera of the road state that they have ‘money in the treasury abundant for ail near- by needs, It is urged that the esrnings of the road are increasing and the hope is ex. essed that the Diaz government will soon e able to resume the subsidy payments, During the last three years Loston has been hit hard through various wrecks, The breaks down of the Northern and the Union Pacific Iwereseriously feltand now this Mexicandefault comes to make a bad matter worse. Phila- delphia is also suffermg. A goodly number of houses in the Quaker City counted on fat divi- dends from the Northern' Pacific long before this, The deplorable state of Reading’s affairs has cut down incomes and now the Pennsyl- vapia is becoming crippled. Itis given out that the treatment the West Shore is receiv- ing is tobe dealt out to;the South Pennsyl. vania, Tt is now becoming plain that it is next to impossible to get trunk line rates back any where near the old charges, Low rates may now be rogarded as customary, Something in the nature of contract relations is boing established with the public, Some facts have come to light this week which go to show that business in every day industries and trades is not 80 bad ns the state of monoy lenders affairs would imply, A leading New York paper manufacturer and dealer told me this week that his sales was well beyond this time last_year. Similar facts are cropping out regarding other lines, Low freight rates in all directions are ovidently exerting stim- ulating effects upon various minor industries, In relation to the singular absence of specu- lative movements and erowing bank reserves, Mr, Lorin Blodget writes as follows: ‘‘Under normal conditions the proportions of bank reserve are watched with eager interest and are taken as an exact measure of the general security, Yot the now unprecedented growth of surplus is telt as a certain degree of inse- curity. It iz not surprising that the general estimate of value of the large reserve should now materially change, This vast sum is not earning profits for its owners. The; still believe that the business of cannot probably e country qn on without it, but they are mis- taken, There is really no constraint of consequence on current business, and this leads to serious questions as to the uses to which this monoy has been put: What has been done with 1t in the past three or four years? Enormous forces in man- ufacturing and productive industriesare hir:r employod and foreign trade goes on as usual, Thera is no sum of 860,000,000 that has been withdrawn from either or all these sources in New York within a year or within two yesrs, The inference is clear that the money has come from these who kave traded in fictitious or speculative values and that severo adverse lessons in that line have stopped operations more abruptiy and to a greater aggregate than any previous condition gave us reason to bo- lieve was possible, There is an important fact made apparent in one case, which is that money of 1tself has lost muchof its power to control or even agitate the country, For the time being it cannot even move the stock markets, It does not tempt its owners into speculation for they have no contidencs in its ower, What is it good for when a call of oans can be had almost for nothing! And still nobody will attempt the risk of any form of investment recognized as being le- gitimate in monetary circles, 1I( is a new ex- perience when industrial and mercantile interests get so far awsy from the necessity to use money as they have now got If a commission were to make inquiry as to the cause of this new relation it would pos- sibly find that the banks themselves are to a great extent responsible, It wouldalso report that the question of what should be done with this accumulating reseved concerns ita immediate ownersihp and the custodians almost alone, Whetherit is used wisely, or even whether it is used at all, is not supremo to the great interests of actual production and of legitimate exchange, —— Spreckles Appreciates Oratory, | Special Telegram to T'he Bk, SaN Fraxcisco, June 28,—The Spreckles trial will certainly close this week, The speeches of the attorneys for the defense to tho jury havo oocupiod about ten columns n five daily papers for three days. There are two days more speech muking, all of which is bewng published and paid for at advertising rates. The spseches will cost Sir Claus Spreckles about $25,000, e —— Bishop O'Connor at Queenstown, Special Telegram to the Ber, Q TOWN, June 27,—The municipal corporation of Queenstown presented an ad- dress last night to Blshop O'Conner, of Ne« braska, He has been visiting Queenstown, his ve place, the guest of Bishop McCar- thy. Bishop O'Connor leaves by the Sexvia on Sunday, e ——— Cow Boy Council Bluffs Correspondence, George Rudlo, who has just returned from @ trip out Into Nebrasks, tells a good one on a Hebrew who was out from New York, selling suspenders and things. Rudlo made his acqualntance on the traln, and after they had talked for a while Jucob remarked that he did not see but that it was as safe riding on the cars In Nebraska as it was back east. Raudio replied that he didn’t know about that, sometimes the Iadians were quite troublesome, and that the cow hoys were aa dangerous as the Indlans, Jacob sald he had seen Indlans at Niagara Falls selling bead baskets, but that he had never seen a cow boy. Radio told him that he might congratu- late himself that he had not, as they took pecuoliar delight in persecuting a tendertoot, Jacob however perslsted that he would really like to see a real genulne cow boy, and that he was not afrald. After a while Rudlo found opportunity for a private chat with the peanut butcher on the traln, and ar- ranged with him that they would have some fun after the; Rudio weat to the hotel with Jacob, and left the butcher to fixthe job. Aftersup- per Rudioand Jacob repaired to a saloon and made themselves at home. They had not been seated long before the butcher came In and sat down with them, In a few minutes o dashed a fellow who had been fixed up like a cow boy that travels In a olrous east of the Misstsalpp!. Heo wore an old wide rimmed hat, cosrse boots with his pants tucked Inside, and around his watst just under his arms was a leather belt in which was stuck all the revolvers and plstols that cou'd be bor- rowed In the neighborhood. In his boot lags were tucked two blg knlves, and he carrled a big blacksoake whip. He talked loud, swore, and chewed tobasco, taking care to _splt over hls shoulder, and Jacob fairly turned pale. Presently he elapped Jacob on the shoulder and yelled *‘Give mo a dollar, I want some bug julee.” Jacob went down into his jeans immed- Iately and fished up a dollar with which the cow boy sst’em up for the boys. The bug julce mad him wild, and he be- gan to dance, and whoop, and howl, and shoot off his gans. This« was too much for Jacob, who made a break for the back door, with the cow boy after him shoot- ing s fast as he counld fire. Jacob took to the barn and crawled under some loose hay, not daring to come out while the cow boy fired a dozsn shots into the dirt floor, and went back into the saloon. Jacob remalned hidden, and every few minutes somebody would go out to the barn and fire a plstol. About midnight Jacob trembled back to his hotel. Next day he asked Rudlo if he had done right to give the cow boy the money, and was told that if he had not he would probably have been shot on the spot. Jacob declared It was his first and would be his last trlp ont west. Faul Joke, Constable Wesley who went to Lin- colo, Neb., for Requisition papers met several of the members of the maen. nerchor from this clty on Friday night; they were attending the maennerchor ball in Lincoln and Conrad Lanzendorfer of this city, thought he'd have some fun snd put up a 'joke on Chris Faul. He went Inslde the ball room and told Faul, ‘Waesley was outside with papers for his arrest, Then several others told Faul the same thing. Faul thought it best to go outeide and eee If such was the cace and sure enough Wesley nabbed on to him and told him some money was missing in Counci! Bluffs and he belfeved Faul was suspected, 'The poor fellow wilted, and made up his mind to return to thiscity a prisoner when the members of the Council Bluffs mwnnerchor in- formed Faul that it would cost him drinks for the crowd to become a free man. Faul willingly set 'em up to the boys, and breathed easler. PERSONAL, Conrad Geise, who has heen confined to his house by rheumatism, Is out again, George Rudio and John Linder have re- turned from & week's trip in northwestern Nebraska, Miss Hatton, & charming young lady from St. Joe, is visiting her cousin, Miss Minnie Cole, in this city; Miss Minnie Oole, one of the Iowa editorial excursionists, is home again, Sheis charmed with Oregon ecenery, Mr, Harry Atkine, who went to Portland, Oregon, with the Towa editors has returned, He reports a grand time, Among those who are home to |spend their college vacation is Edward Geise, who has been nlbendlnlg college at St. Louis, Nelson Schmidt and Hans Christafersen in- tend to start from this city to-morrow to re- visit the homes of their childhood., Charles and Henry Paschal have returned tn their home in this city to spend the sum- mer vacation, They have just completed the commercial course at the university of Nctre Dame, Ind, They will return there when the fall texm opens. Mr, Vance Lane, from Kearney, comes to Council Bluffs to take the management of the telephone exchange, vice Mr, John Mussel- man, whe goes to Omaha, Mr, Lane is an experienced manager, and the service will doubtless not suffer in his hands, To-morrow Mr, John Ahles, the learned blacksmith, intends to start for a visit to the fatherland. He will spend some time at the home of his parents in Wirtemberk, He will also visit Glasgow, Liverpool, T.cndon, Paris, and Vienna, and promises the BEE interesting letters from these Mr. Witt, of the firm of Wirt & Duquette, returned to the ity Saturday stter a trip up to the northera part of the state on the Sioux City & Pacific railroad, Ho reports crops looking well. He says corn is not go forward there as with ns, but that it has a good start, The farmers aro foeling encouraged., ‘Wells Cook, the would-if-hescould-be post master of this city under the new administra- tion, took a run out into Nebraska Saturday to enlist the influence of the Hon, J, Sterling Morton in his behalf, Dr, Miller, that other shining light of Nebraska democracy, leans so strongly towards [the Bowman sido of the controversy, that it seemed to be advisable to secure the aid, if possible, of some connter- acting influence, e— Friedlander Discharged, The principal event in the pollce court Saturdey morning was the telal of Max Friedlander, the Chicago traveling man for Slegel Bros,, on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses from Julla, Meyer. A, C. Wakeley, exq., and Judge Felker appeared for the defence, Parke Godwln, esq., and Charles Ogden, eeq. for the prosecutlon, In the morning the test!mony of Mr. Moyer was taken, and that gentleman swere that In November, 1882, he had pald Friedlander $65 for a cloak, which, not suiting, was returned, and subse. quently exchanged for another one cost- ing $69; that the firm of Max Meyer & Bro. had remitted $14 for the balance due on the cloak, but that Selgel failed to acknowledge the previous rqmnnt to Friedlander, snd demanded the full amount, Friedlander, on the other hand, swore that Mr. Meyer had never pald him §55 for the firkt cloak, but had slmply consented to destroy two poker- notes for $30 and had done so. The trlal of the case lasted well Into the afternoon, and resulted in the ac- quittal of the defendant. Judge Sten- burg holding that there was not enough noe to warrant binding him over to the dustrlct court. IN'A MAD HOUSE. Jom McCallongh Pleced in a Private Asvium, Cavtaic Connor Engineers the Transfer With Ease, The O1d Actor is Pleased With is Surroundings, and is Anxlons to Remain, —_— COMMITTED AS DANGEROUS, THE DELINFATOR OF SPARTICUS PLACED DRYOND FREEDOM, New Youk, June 28,—John McCullough was yesterday afternoon handed over to the caro of the Bloomingdale insane asylum authorities by threc of his closest frisads, Mr, McCullough's mental weakness had bosn well known for many months, but it had nssumed such alarming proportions Intely that this step, long deferred, was at last considered to 0 necossary, MeCullough spent Friday night atthe St. James hotel, whose proprietor, Capt, Connor, is one of his oldest and dearest friends, The captain went to his guest's room, Mr, McOullough was still on his bed. “‘Hello, old man,” said the captain, ‘“‘ain't you going to get up to-day?" "‘Why, what time is it?” responded Mc~ Cullovgh, It after 9 o’clock.” *‘Well what difference doos it make. I have nothing to do.” “Well, T'll tell you John, I've roteived an invitation from a particular friend of mine,” said Capt. Conner producing a letter he had caused to be sent to him, “‘asking me to meet him a little way up on the road to havea little lunch and I'd like to have you go along, Will you come?" ““All right, I'll join you,” answered McOul- lough, and ho arose to dress, Then Conner went out and called Doctors McBride and McFarland. He introduced thsm as friends of his. The doctors held some conyereation with the sick man. Afterwards both doctors made » further examination of the patient, aud although they could not scruitinize as closely as if they had been willing to let their subject kaow what they were doing, they became eatisfied that the actor needed to be placed in the care of professional nurses, The doctors mado out their certificate and Chief Justico M. C. Adam of the cit; court signed the commitment, McCullough and his thres friends entered aclosed carriage at the hotel door about 2 o’clock in the after- noon. On arriving at the asylum the party was shown into the parlor. Dr, Sanger Brown, assistant medical superintendent of the institution, soon came in with another phy- sician,and made an examination of the patient. At its conclusion Dr. Brown sat down along side of McCullough on the sofa and said to him in a friendl{ way, ‘‘Mr, McCullough {our felends think it will be better for you to leave the city with sll its excitements and that right here would be a good placa for you to stop for a time, What do you think?” ‘‘All right” said McCullough, and he ex- g&emad much pleasure at his surroundings, r, Connor and the other gentlemen soon went down to the office and made arrange- menta that their sick friend ehould remain at the asylum for 13 weeks and was to have a special nuree, Dr, Brown eaid to-day {that McCullough was still very much pleased with his tempo- rary home. " The doctor declined however to eay whether or not he thought the patient would ultimately recover, He wanted further experience with the case before pronounciog an opinfon, Mr, McCallough said this afternoon that ho never had been so kindly treated in his life, His family in Philadelphia have bsen notified to come over and arrange certain legal formes, ————— TELEGRAPH NOTES., The banks of New York new hold a reserve of 863,000,000, an increase of $954,000 over last week, Eighteen persons were killed b, Eloulon of fire damp in a mine at ermany, The Mexican editors are taking in the ele- phant at Chicago, Mayor Harridon has taken them under his protecting wing. The pope will deliver an 1mportant allocu- tion at the meeting of tho next conslstatory upon which occasion Arch Bishop Moran, ,of Sidney, will be created cardinal, The Southwark woolen mills at Philadel- Ehh have shut down throwing about 10,000 ands out of employment, It was done to ayoid a strike for an increase of wages, The president has made the following ap- ointments: For the District of New York, . ¥.—Edward L. Hadden, collector cus- oms; Hans S, Beattie, surveyor of customs; Silas W, Burt, naval officer of customs, The Rey, Sidney H, Russell, pastor of the presbyterian church at Woodhaven, L, I., committed suicide Saturday by cutting hia throat with a razor. He had been euffering for some time from malaria and was given to fita of despondency. Rebecca Samuels, a twelve-year- old nursery singer, has been convicted in the courts of Barnesville, 8, C,, of the murder of a six- months infant, Iebecca was hired to nursa the little one, and tizing of the job she soaked the infant in a pot of concentrated lye, and sent its spirit to the other world, This was her second sucosssful soaking. ; The preliminary trial of Representative James of Chester county, Illinois, for out- raging Nannio James, agad 10, a page in the house, began at Sprivgfield Saturday, On the witness stand Nannie told the story of the outrage in childish language, She aid that James threw her upon & sofa in the commit- tee room, forcibly removed her clothivg and violated her perion, When she attempted to make outery her mouth was covered by the representative’s hand and her struggles to eecapo frustrated by the superior strength of her aseailsnt. The cross-examination was very seaching, but failed to confuse the child, - A BOHEMIAN MYSTERY. an ex- udweiler, A Young Married Man Secures His ‘Wife's Money, Goes to Ohicago, and Has Not Returned. Abont gix months ago, a young Bohemian, August Jelick, of about 25 years of agearrived in this city, and announced his intention of making Omaha his home, He secured & po- sition in Frederick & Co.’s dry goods store on south Thirteonth street, August was some- thing of a ladies' man, and_he laid that successfully, to the heart of Miss Zwrhal, a respectable They wete married about six Jelick’s o had about §1,200 in her own and the young man soon began to ti ut starting i o the dry goods business on his own account, Abouttwo woeks .T;. he made arrange- ments with ‘W, Bartos, who keeps a dry oods store on South Thirteenth street, to go into partoership with him at fonce, Jelick secured his wife's money, aud left on Wednes- day of last week to T.v to Ohi a4 ho eaid, to buy dry goods, Ho_promised fo be home on the following Monday or Tuesday, He has failed to &ul in an spearance since and inquiries for him in Chicago by telegraph were in vain., Toere seems to bea well grounded suspicion that Jelick does not in- tond to return, but having got hold of his wife's money, he will show up in Omaha no more, * e The Favorite Washing GCompound of the day is unquestionably JAMES PYLE'S PEARLINE, 1t dis) with the necessi ty for teating or rubbing the clothes, and dY\m not injure the fabric,