Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 13, 1885, Page 4

1 B e — TII E D AILY BEE. DISARM THE INDIANS. The promp’ concentration of a large Owatia Orrice No. 014 Asp 016 Farvay Sr, | number of troops in th} vlclnity of the New Youk Orrice, Roox 66 Taisoxe Buip- | Cheyenne reservation in the Indian ter- NGy ritory shows that the government means The | business, Itis not only the Intention Pabrished every morning, except Sunday only Monday morning daily published in the state. |4 completoly corral the Cheyennes, but One Year ';f‘y.vv?.”f‘u‘,‘.'.:‘\mn, " in all probabllity to disarm them also. Six Months 5.00 | One Month...vien L 1d be disarmed there Is no The Weekly Des, Published every Wednesday | Tuab they should be dis questlon, They are supplied with the 9200 | bast Winchester rifles and have an abun- . 17| dance of ammanition. Theso arms and 19| ammunition they have not sscured from 1|the government, but have purchased them from time to time from the traders DUSINESS LETTRRS. and merchants in the frontler towns. All Business Totters and Remittances should be | After {he Cheyennes are disarmed, every :fi:;fl%&:&lfl;’h“fiql:‘m‘“::‘v"\\:l'r;'{‘u“l'y:\vvvhg::-ln‘,\‘i other Indlan tribe ought to be treated in Sls %5 $ho ordet of ths cOmpRRY. the samo way, and at the next session THE BEE PUBLISH[NG [}0., Pl’fll]i. of congress a law ought to be passed mak- B. ROSEWATER, Eprmor. —— |ing It a penitentiary offense to sell arms mfiihr-{’}}:-i\'fi,.‘.'ktlwmr Daily Gircalation, | gnd ammunition to the Indlans. They - - have no more use for rifles and guns than Tar paving contractors on upper the people of a clvllized commanity, The Farnam streot have dissoversd by this |game Is all gone, and therafors there Is tlme that Mer. Goos Is no pring chicken, [no hanting for them, and In fact no ——p_ i necessity for it as they depend for thelr 1Ix orops Nebraska and Ohlo this year |subslstence upon government rations, In rank above all other states, bat In the |place of thelr rifles the government orop of offices Ohlo 1s still way ahoead. should give them agricultaral {mplements, e and In place of ammunition they should Dr, Miuien belleves In free trade for |y, glven seed of yarious kinds, and rallroads, and he therefors opposes pro- taught how to tlll the soll. This plan teotlon to thoe people who are compelled | ity 1)t an end to Indlan outbreaks, be- 18, TOSTPAID. Ono Year, with premium... Ono Year, without premium .. Bix Months, witho miufi One Month, on trial..eiee.. .. .e CORRRSFONDENC All Communications relating to News and Editorial mattors should bo addressed to the EDITOR oF Tum Ban. 0L to traverse thelr tracks at dangerous orossings. Just s we are about to have a little skirmlsh between James E. Boyd and Oharles Francls Adams, Dr. Miller as usual packs his geip-sack and leaves his frionds to fight It out among them- selves, Dr. MiLier thought that Mayor Boyd’s opistle to Oharles Francls Adams was written for mere buncombe, but Mr. Boyd resents the Intimation as an fnsult, He declares that he was in dead earnest, and meant jast what ho sald. Two robbers dlegulsed as plumbers entered a residence at Chicago, and after binding the lady of the house ransacked the premises, Perscns who have pald plumbing bllls will not very likely con— sider the disgulse adopted by those rob- bers as any libel upon the plumbers. THE uso of the electrle light as a loco- motive headlight has been demonstrated to be a succese, and a great improvement on the oil lamp now used. An englneer who trled the first electric light for a lo- comotive headlight recently says he can g0 the track plainly a mlle ahead, while with the oil light he can sse only 136 foet ahend. Tue Nebraska census glves state cause without thelr arms they can do no harm, The sooner thls plan is put in general operation the better 1t will be. WEAVER’S INGRATITUDE, The basest tralt of man is Ingratitude. This detestable {ralt in Its most mallg- nant type is personified In A. J. Weaver more than in any public man we know in Nebraska, When Weaver was a candi- date for re-electlon to congress we pre- dloted that he would reward Senator Van Wyck for his ald in that campaign as he had rewarded Gen. John M. Thayer, who had trusted him and had been betrayed and traded off by bim. It Is only afew months ago when Weaver, who was des- perately strugglicg In the political mael- strom, appealed to Van Wyck to save him, Despi'e the warnings of his warm. ent frionds, Van Wyck plunged in and extended a helplng hand to the notorlous ingrate. He vouched for his loyslty to the popalar cauee and commended him for his dillgence and fidelity. 1t wasa blunder which Senator Van Wyck will rue to the last of his days. Hardly had Wea- ver got seated in the saddle omce more than he dropped the mask, and be- gan a bushwhacking war upon, the sen- ator who had helped to resarrecthim from the politlcal grave. For months there has not been an issue of Weaver's THE DAILY BEE---MONDAY, JULY 13, 1885 with land scrip, 1n Kansas, Towa, Minnesota, or even in Wisconsin or Michigan at that early day., He chose to locate in Nebraska because he was far-sighted enovgh to recognize that this would become the garden spot of Amer- ica, Had he taken the land for speculation alone, he would bave sold it years ago, at a round profit, and invested the proceeds in other and cheaper lands in this state that were su o to advance, But Van Wyok has held on to his Otoe county farm even at the risk of becoming notorious as a land-grabber. This was written on the spur of the moment without exact data as to the Van Wyck farm, but if the champlon In- grate of Nebraska desires full particulars, we will produce them jast as soon as we can convenlently interview the senator. NEBRASKA DESERVES CREDIT. It s rather slngular that most of the welters upon high llcenss and prohibitlon fail to credlt Nebraska with belng the firat ntate to adopt a high llcense law. With fow exceptions they all refer to other states that have simply followed the examplo of Nebraska, That the Ne- braska high licenss law has not only proved a groat success but has done a great deal of good In establishing a pre- cedent for other states there Is no ques- tlon, and she ought to have the credlt for {t. Onoca in a while, however, we see the Nebraska law discossed In an Intelligent manner, and the proper credit glven to our state for its enactment. Joe Gazette, for instance, says: Nebraska has $he moet stringent license law that has ever been enacted, and it is therefore the best. It is high license, with open doors, and no ecreens, and with ample polica surveil- lance and ample protection. It is seldom ¢hat complaints are heard in any part of that state on account of the liquor traffic, With strong bonds and heavy penalties the dog- geries and dives are forcad out of existence, and the business is made more reputablo than in any other western state. The Springield (Mass.) Republican, In commenting on the above statement, eays: *‘The Nebraska papers, too, are proud of their license eyetem, and the liquor questlon Is not an appreclable factor In state polities. In Iowa, on the other hand, it Is a leading feature of the eltuation, nearly as prominent In the dlecassions indeed as It is in Ohlo, where the traflic is not regulated at all.” ‘We are surprlzed, however, that such a person as Gail Hamilton, who has made high license and prohibition a study, should make no reference whatever to Nebraska in her article on ‘‘Prohibition The St. In Practlce,” In the July number of the North American Review. In her efforts to show that high license is far preferable to prohlbltlon, she cltes statlstles from Minnesots, Illinols and other states and fromfabout twenty citles, where highest licenee prevalls, but not a word does she ssy about Nebraska, where the high may please him, bat it Is not at all appre. clated by the oltfzens ot Omaha., The population of Omaha Is not based on any census directory, but upon the state cen- sus of Nebraska, which is now belng compiled at Lincoln from the reports from the various counties in the state. According to this census Omaha has 61, 835 within her city limits, Add to this the population in the suburbs of South Omaha, West Omaha and Saratoga, which together contain over 4,000 people, and it will be seen that Omaha, with fta subarbs, has really nearly (6,000 popula- tion. Omaha does not need and doos not want any exaggeration In her popu- Iation figures, as 1t Is not desirable to bulld up our clty on falso pretenses. Weare having a steady and sabstantisl growth, and are satlsfied withit. We hope the Tribune will gee fit to correct Its state- ment, We cannot understand wky It should wish to bellttle Omahs, especially when there is no oceasion for it to do o, SINcE her victory over Commissloner Black, Chicago’s falr pension agent, Miass Ada C. Sweet, has blossomed forth into poetry. “‘Summer In Town” is the title of a contributlon to the Current from her pen. Had she not trlumphed over the penslon commlseioner she might have written “‘Sommer in the Country.” Tuere has not been an unkind word sald In this psper about A, J. Weaver sluco the last campalgn, but he and hls friends don’t know when they are well treated. Hence we are compelled to pay our compliments In a manner that is more emphatle than polite. ‘WaEN two high-toned Baltimore law- yers settle a dispute by a sot-to at fisti- cuffs, and then make up and take a drink together, it is pretty good evidence that the duello is loaing its grip in Maryland. He that fights fight another day. with fists wlil live to Tue June report of the agrlcultural department estimates the wheat yiold cf 1885 at 363,000,000 buchels, This will glve every man, weman and chiid in tke Unlted States about seven bushels apiece to carry them through for the next year. TaERE I8 no truth in the report that the Union Paclfic has elevated Its spinal colamn and proposes to show its Inde- pendence of Omaha by erecting a viaduct entirely at its own expense. Tur. Cheyenne Indlan scare Is now said to bo a hoax, Nevertheless if it results in the disarming of the Cheyennes it will be productive of a much desired result. Omsha a population of 61,835, Thehome organ, the Falls City Journal— federal census of 1880 showed a popula- | which, If not owned by him, as {s gener— tion of 30,652, Omaha has more thar | ally understood, Is absolutely under his doubled her populatlon In five yeara. At |control—without contalning the most the same ratio of Increase she will have a | pitter and mallgnant assenlis on Van licenee is exacted. The clty of Omoaha conld have furnished Gaill Hamliton her strongest argument in favor of high license. Not only has the number of salcons been confined to a reazonable GENERAL BLACK, the commisiloner of penslons, s himself a pensioner, drawlng $1,200 a year on account of disabilities received during the war. population of 122,000 when the next natlonal census is taken, Omaha does not clalm to have a Kansas City boom with 40,000 population In the suburbs within a radlus of ten miles, but she makes a very satisfactory exhiblt of the people within her clty limits. Missourt s a great agricultural state, and it has produced two great farmers, Mr. Coleman, the head of the agricultur- al bureau, and Col. Switzler, of the sta- tistical bureau. It was eminently proper that theso great sgricalturists should orlginate and conduct the national con- vention of sgrlcultural colleges. What Mr, Coleman and Col. Swilzler do not know about farming s not worth know- Ing. As the publisher of a farmers, weekly In the fourth story of a St. Louls block, Mr. Coleman has had abundant Wyck. The vallant blackguard who de- lights In such contemptlble warfare at the behest of his master {s none other than the young man whom Weaver sent to West Point as a cadet, without giving the boys of this district a chance to com- pete, and who disgraced Nebraska by falling to maintain himself in the mili- tary academy. A specimen brick of the desploable work of Weaver’s hireling libeller s contaired in the following edi- torial In last week’s Issue of the Falls Clty Journal: The OxaHA BER talks about ‘‘ vigilant and vigorous efforts against land-grabbers and land sharks.” If the Bez knows of a worse land-grabber in Nebraska than Van Wyck, will it please name him, By the way, the Bee has never published Van Wyck’s land- grabbing record, And yet with brazen ef- frontery it has the cheek to call itself an anti-monopoly sheet. Rosey will no doubt limil, but they have been kept under regu- lationsthathaveraised thelrstandard, and, furthermore, with a license fee of $1,000 a year the [echool tund derives an In- come from thls source of $140,000 yearly. ‘We do not belleve there Is another clty oatside of Nebraska that demands so high a license as Omaha, yet the ma- jority of liquor dealers are well satisfied with it. The people certalnly are, and there is no probabllity that any attempt to reduce the license or change the law will ever be successful, opportunity to scqulre valusble practleal | consider it sufficiont answer to the above to experience, while Col, Swlizler, who | call the Journal a *“ hoodlum " paper. has edited a country paper for half a cen-| While these systematlc and cowardly tury, has, as we learn authoritatlyely |attacks have not been resented up to from the Kansas City Journal, printed |thls time, they afford ample proof that in senson many posters for the stock [ we had not placed a wrong estlmate upon breedera of Boone county, Missourl, Mr, Weaver's character when we declined e to recommond him as a proper represen- Tax colobration at Niagara Falls next | tative for this distrlct la congress, 1t Wednesday, upon the ozcasion of the for- | will e just like Weaver to deny that he mal surronder of the reservatlon to the | djctates or Instigates vhe assaults upon state of New York, will be quite a nota-| van Wyck, but even the most credulous blo event. The first thing on the pro- | wiil refuse to beliove him in view of his gramme is the firing of one hundred |pelations to the Jovrnal and its editor. guus. Tho invited gaests, smong whom | Porhaps Weaver wlll explain why he are President Oleveland, Governor Hill, | wanted such a notorlous land grabber as and the governor-general of Canada, will Van Wyck to vouch for him in his travels bo conveyed incarriagas to Prospect park, | through this distrlot last summer. That whoro & choras of 300 volces aided by | wroyched Ingrate knew as well then, as an orchestra of slxty pleces will farnish | e knows now, what trath muslo, the reservation will bo accepted by | there is in that land.grab- ths governor, J. C, Carter, of New York, bilag story. 1f he had any manhood, wlll deliver an oration, and the presl- principal or decency he would not allow dont and governor-general ara exp ected | yuoh Infamous flings at his colleague to to make short addresses. There will also go unrebuked. He would not compel be a parado of themilltla,and a big dinner, the BEE to report what it eald only a fow The work of drafting resslutlons and by- | woeks ago to Charles H. Gere, In refuta- laws for the government of the reserva- [4on of the same libel. In the case of tlon has boou dolegated to Shorman S. | Gere there was at losst the exouse that Rogers, of Baffalo, and Presldent An-|pg s hopelees monomaniac upon the dorson, of Roohestor university, subject of Van Wyok, sud goos into GROVER OLEVELAND ls the first presi- | PAVmE Bt the favorable mention of his dent, slnce Lincolo, who has oxercised | 2#me as & mad dog does at the slght of his prerogatlve as o mmander-in-ohief of | Water: For the benefit of Mr, Weaver the armles and navies of the Unlted and all the rast of the dlsgruntled crew, States so far as 1o order the general of | e herewlth reprcduce what we said In the army away from Washington and |the BeE of May 28:h: Into the fisld, Even Grant, when pres. “v'" w’;kl':n: geab, h:: . ot‘h,“ S silly canards which emanate from the dis- deat, nover ordered Genoral Shorman to | ¢, 38 %N Gere, has somo foundation take the fleld n peeson against & band of | ip fact, but the foundation 16 so fiimsy that no Indians, It strlkes us that thera are |sane person would attempt to build upon it & sovoral major-generals and brigadiers of | charge of fraud or intention to monopolize the regular army lylng around loose who | the public lands, Van Wyck came to Ne- ought to be competent to suppress tho |brasks immodiately followiog the Kanam- Obeyennes or any other troublesome red- | Nebraska excitement, Nebraska bad only sklns. It ls ocreditablo to General been carved out of Louisiana five or six yeirs . before, sud land in the territory was almost Shoridan, however, that he promptly |worthless. At the time Van Wyck pre- oboyed marching orders, jus: the same as | empted his Otos county farm, land within the if be wera only a lieutenant acting under | present city limits of Omaha cculd be bought orders from his superlor officsr, Sheridan | from Uncle fam for one dollar and twenty- bas been In the field and the saddle be- | f¥® cents per acre, The so-called land grab fore. Presidant Oleveland ovidently pro. § hich the Van Wyckphobla-siricken canine is PEO 1, king about so furiously was nothing more poses to go down In hlstory as & military | or 1o than an exbibition of confider oo in the sarvice reformer as wall as a reformer of | future of Nebraska, Van Wyck was then & the clvil eervice, young mau, He might have located his farm, A sTATEMENT In a recent Issue of the BxE to the effect that a man In search of free lands, accompanied by his wife and three childred, reached Ipswich, Dakota, nct long ago, trom the state of New York, kaving traveled the entlre distance on foot, and the head of the family push- ipg all thelr worldly possesslons In a hand-cart, leads the Philadelphla Record to remark: *‘So wonderful are the vicls- sltudes, 5o boundless the poesibilities of American society, that one of those chil- dren, pushed to Dakota in a hand-cart, msy come eist twenty years hence in a palace car—on a congressman’s pass.” — Eves the cltlzans of tne zlsepy old town of Leavenworth have at last euc- ceeded in inducing the railroads center— ing at that point to erect & commodlous unfon depot in that clty, It will be 50 feet wide and 150 fect long, and three storles in the center. When tuch a slow- slow golng town asLizavenworth cansecure a ualon depot, {t strikes ug that Omaha ought to bs able to get somethlng <f the kind out Jof the railzoads that have obtained 8> many privileges and contrl- butions from this city. Cuarces Francis Apays hes within the past two or three days Invested heav- {ly in Kansss City roal estate. For one plece of property he pald $50,000, and for another $120,000, and is said to be negotiating for more. Perhaps his fond- ness for Kansas Clty explains why he wants eome of the priccipal streets of Omaha fenced tn, If he will only per- mit us to keep our strests open we shall not cara if he Invests a million In Kanaas City. Ar the Nebraska Chatavqua assembly Jim Lalrd's alter ege, John Barsby, cf Feirmont, entertalned the Sundsy school people witha song, Mr. Barsby hasa rich baritone voice, and his vocal effort was highly appreciated, according to the Omaha Republican. The people of Falrmont must feel highly complimented Mr, Bareby's baritcne volce has hitherto been applauded only by the bartenders and patrons of negro minstrel showa. OxaHA has a directory population of 60,000 and & census population of 40,000, It would bs a poor hand at figurss that could not tell on the spur of the moment that Omaha’s popu- lation is exactly a round 100,00).—Chicago Tribune, T'he attempted wittic!sm by the would- be funny man of the Chloago Zribune STATE JOTTINGS. Dakota City is assessed at $10,000, Doga thrive and grow fat on a three dollar tax in Clarks. Surveyor-General Gardiner has assumed the chains of office, The Table Rock postoffice was robbed of $10 the other night. The Katio Rease ploughs the raging Mis- souri at Plattsmouth. Kearney’s celebration was a suncessful fail- ure, owing to the rain, Gas and electric light companies threaten to illuminate Fremont. The Ponca Indians received a cash annuity of $2.35 each, last week, The foundation of the college building at Central City is being laid. The contract for the $12,000 school building at Central City has been let, The_North Auburn creamery was burned down Wednesday afternoon. The colored soldier who was shot by the marshal at Hastings is recovering, Henry Goetz, a lunatic from Laramie, was confined in the state asylum last week, A first grade certificate is necossary to se- cure a job in the Central City schools, The Red Cloud creamery made 14,679 pounds of butter for the month of June, There is not n vacant store in Grand Island —a eure indication of the city’s prosperity, Crete is agitating the subjact of water works to round off her claims as a summer resort, William Wentel, of Denton, patriotically blew off & portion of his right hand on the Fourth, The coal prospect hole at St, Helena has a depth of 100 feet, with plenty of yellow clay in sight. The Ponca city counci! and the saloon men are having & go-as-you-plesse tusslo on the question of license, Alonzo Mecham, a former resident of Otoe county, was thrown from a horeo at Niobrara and severely injured, ‘Western Nebraska, the center of the an- cient American Sabara, experienced fifteen days of rain during June, George Dulany, & Blair svorekeeper, is un- dor bonds for arson, his store having been fired on the night of the 4th, The Nebraska City Guards, a company of thirty-two youths of warlike_disposition, will soon seek the van of the N, N, G. The city council of Nebraska City refused to limit the flow of booze to 11 p. m, Mid- night is considered *‘the propah capah,"” A storm on the 8d did considerable damage in Antelope county. The hail shattered a large amount of window glass in Neligh, Ned Gere, of Kansas Clly, visiting Table Rook, got & souvenir of the “glorious Fourth” in his nght leg, Doctors extracted the ball, Grant City is the name of a new town laid out by the Lincoln Land company on the new railroad southweat of Alma about ten miles, Congressman Dorsey now holds the ribbons on Arlington Bell, a Fremont horee of conzid- erable speed. The price approached $10,000, A Columbus elevator, weighing thirty-three tons, was moved a quarter of a mile on flat cars Thureday. The building is forty-two feet in height. A monster steam tiip hammer, for model- ing locomotive frames, has been addad to the equipment in the Burlington & Missouri shops at Pla‘temouth., Dick Bunker, an employe of Wilson & Da- vis, of Niobrara, attempted suicide last week by taking eugar of losd, Richard had a weak- ness for “'sugar in hig'n.” Fred Keyser, of Nebraska City, played the Smith confidence game on a emall scale on the business men of Ta'mage, and fled with ali the money he could gatherin, Surveyor-General Stevenson was caned by his samirers in the Plattsmouth cffice prev ious to his rethement last week, The stafl 18 » maasive gold headed ebony one, R. J. Skiles, the victim of an incontrolla- ble desire for other people’s money, who is now in jail in Omala, left a trail of “crooked- ness and quarrels in and around Oakdale, The Mulhatton of the Plattsmouth Jourval is responsible for the story that a dog belong: ing to C. M. Holmes, which that gentleman carried to Kearney and turned loose there ia the hope of potting rid of him, tramped home ward, distance of 190 miles,'with no other pilot than his smeller. That canine Is pos sensed of more soents than the average of the race, E, W. Barnum, of Liberty, was thrown in front of a reaper by a runaway team, Wednes- day, and narrowly escaped death. One heel was cut off and ho was otherwise bruised. An old resident of Unadills, past 70 years of age, is a native of the island of St. Helon, and entortains the village with tales of the great Napoleon, whom ho knew in his exile, Tnquiry at Weeping Water failed to discoyer the family of Chatles’ B, Fitchner, the man who was drowned in Chicago on the 4th, The note found on his bedy stated his' wife lived here, Ground has been broken for a 830,000 flour- 1ng mill at Rod Cloud, Mer, Skeen, the owner, proposes to equip it with the roller system throughout. It will have & oapacity cf 100 barrels a day, The free-for-all purse of the firemen's tour- nament at Grand Tsland will contain S600, and it is expected that the Thuretons, of Omaha, Blaff City, Clinton and Waterloo toams will run for it. It will bea red hot race. Mrs, Armbruster of Plumb Creek, orazad by the brutalities of her husband, suicided on the 3d by eating the phosphoric ends of matches, She had praviously attempted her life with dull raz>r but only caught a sore throat, David Keys, of Weeping Water, fell among strangers at Avoca on the Fourth and was €0 badly pounded that his friends did not recoz- niza him when he returned., Iis injuries resulted fatally, The asenilants have not be:n capturee, McCook ia vettiog big. Tt has just had its roller rink sensation, A pretty young wife was _crushed by the winning ways of a rink dude, and whilo the latter was oscorting her home the hubby came along and painted him rod with cano. A woman, sald to ba 100 years old, died at the Santee Indian agency lnst_week, ' At ths time the Americans and British fought in the war of 1812, she was a woman grown, and had children who wera also neatly grown Sha lived to see her great, great grandchii- dren, fiva generations at one time, Earl Hawkins, of North Bond, was thrown from his horso near town Thursday, In the fall one foot was caught in the stirrup and he he was dragged some distance by the fright- ened animal, His bead was badly lacerated and his back and_eide covered with bruises, His injuries are dangerous, A couple of Fremont’s society young mon, accompanied by thoir sweethenrts, storted to- gether to attend a country dance the other evening. Troublo arising over soms old soro, they halted the team, which ths admirivg young ladies held whilo the two young ban- tams blacked each other’s eyos, when the jour. Dey was resumed. A traveling quack from Towa was arrested at Dakota City Tuesday for having abducted a_sixteen-year-old girl from Akron, Iown, The quack is said to be a veteran rake of sixty years, and claims to be incapable of commit- ting the crime confessed by the girl, As a cousequence all local medical experts are sit- ting on the quack., TLove laughs at parental locks in country as well ns city. IHenry B, Tomlinson, of Plum Crook, and Misa Minnie H. Rica, of Ring- gold, celebrated the Fourth under the eyes of the latter's parents, but toward dusk they ekipped out of Cozad and hurried to Plum Creek, and wound up the day’s festivities in marriage, Tt is hoped;the young couple will ay succossfully olude the storms and tempesta of life. Governor Dawes has appointed Julius Gerth, recently from Washington, as state veteriniarian, It will -be remembered that Dr. Gerth was sent west by the authorities at Washiogton for the purpose of making in- vestigations into tho hog dizease which has prevailed in Nebraska to such an alarming ex- tont for a yoor past. His observatione in Douglas county wero teken from the cushioned seat of o carriage and occupled nine minutes by the watch. Filindia J, Schurr, the legal rib of Joseph 0., of Weeping Water, solernly affirm3 that her pugilistic husband “'did cruelly and_with clinched fists” beat and blight tho felicity of her honeymoon ere they had been married two months, and that tho said Joseph has ex- ercised his maulera on her regularly since Jan- uary, 1883, Besides she was continually com- pelled to broathe tho fumas of stsle boer and decayed whisky which Joseph swallowed to keep his musclo up. A divorce is prayed for. The premium list of the tenth annual fair of the Hall County Agricultural eociety is received, The fair will be held at Grand Is- land September 218t to 25th, Premiums to the amount of $6,000 are offered exhibitors, and the cash will be paid as soon as the awards are made, Hall county has always captured the lion’s share of the premiums at the stato foira, and when her paople unite in showing their products at hcme, the exhibit will un- doubtedly ba a credit to the county and state, Referring to the Omaha and Lincoln fairs the Blair Republican says, ‘‘An undue amount of feeling generated as between the state fair and the Omaha exposition will have tho effect to make both fairs more complete and representative of their peculiar sections, Previous Omaha fairs have been conspicuous for an absence of exhibits from] various South Platte counties, Lancaster in particular. There are abundant reasons why each section should bave itsown fairs. The state is broad and varied in resources and productions, Con- venience and cost of transportation will be materially lessened, consequently the aggre- gate of attendancs and exhibits will ba largely increased and corresponding benefits must re- sult, Lavely competition betwecn Lincoln and Omaha will conduca to the fnlloess and and excellence of each exposition,” e —— Evolution of an Undergarment, I know I shaull astonish a good many poople, eaps a writer in The Boston Her- ald, when I say I think tbat vulnerable and highly-respected arficle of female dresy, the chemite, may advantageou:ly ba wholly dispens:d with. Everycne la supposed to have a chemlee o her back’ but that this supposition fs not wholly true was proved tome some time ago, ‘When at tho scaslde, last antomn, two girlr, mucusl friends of mine, and whom Iintroduced to each other, weont one A BUILDING BOOM. The Exposition Bnilding Contract---A New Hotel in South Omaha, Notes of Buildings, Large and Small Golog up in Omaha, The exposltion bullding directors held a meoting Saturdsy evening and opened about twenty bids for the constraction of the edifice, No farther ac'ion was taken, however, than to merely open the bids, as rome of them propose to turn over the bullding completed and others only propose doing part of the work. The board will meet agaln to.day or to- morrow to award the contracts. The dimensions of the building will be 120x164. The clear space Inslde will be 80x144; around the sides cf the interlor will be galleries 20 feet wide. The outer wall will be brick to a height of 40 feet, the total helght of tho bullding being 50 feet. On Fiftecenth street and Capltol avenue, the first floor of the build- ing wili bo oocupled by stores. A NEW SOUTH OMAHA HOTEL, South Omaha Is to have a new hotel, and that immediately. Mendels:ohn & Fisher are now a% work upon the plans which will be ready very shortly. The designs contemplato the erection of a brick structure, three stories high, with Mansard roof, giving practleally four etorles. The maln etructure s 40x100 feet in alz2, with a wing 40x100. The lower floor will be occupied by oftices of stock and commieslon men, together with a bank, while on the upper floors will be rcoms for guaests. The con- templated coat is absut £40,000. BUILDING NOTES, warm day with me to bathe. Oae said to the cther: “I am afraid you will be awfully shecked when yoo seo me undress.” *‘Shocked! Why?' “Well, I hardly like to tell you; but the fact is that I have so llitle on.” “TIdon't wear much,” sald the other. ‘‘all I have 1s combinatlons, staps, and ore petticoat under my drese,” Carlously enough, both those gicls were dressed In precisely the tame way, in woolen comblinstions, stays (well-xhaped and not tight), one petticoat, end a dre:s, which, from ite eleganco, gave no euspiclon of the atate of affalrs underneath, AsIhad an nF- portunity of observing, these young lsdies were dressed In pertectly sanitary style, although none but myself had any idea of the faot; and, in splte of 1, they paescd for two of the best-dressed girls at the fashlonable watering:place wijere we were staying, 1 have slnce had several opportunities of observatlon, and I find that quite a number of the best-dressed women of my acquaintance have renounced the use of the enemiee in fayor of woven combina- tlons, The msjority, however, I balieve, are not Induced to do 8o by ssuitary con- slderations, but eimply because the chemlss is a bulky article and makes them laok stouter than is natural to them, whereas tae comblnations, belng made ln a stretoby matealal, fit eomewhat closely and show the symmetry <f ihe figure, Thais 18, to my mind, a very good resson why the chemise should be glven up; bat, from a health point of view, we can find a etill better one. Chemises are gener— ally made of linen or cotton, both of which materlels, as I have already said, are unsultable for clothlng, because they are good conduotors of heat, bad absorb- ers of molsture, and bad ventilators. e —e J. B. Lippiocott, the book publisher, will [ £ summer at Atlantic City. A inrge party from Nashyille, Tenn,, bas i arcrived at Asbury Park, The four etory brick buildings of Clark & Co. and J. B. Kitchen on the north slde of Harney strect, have reached the third story. The bulldings promlse to be handsome ones, and will kave ornament- 8l front telmmings of terra cotta and stone, The concrete foundatlons for Col. Clowry’s block on North Sixteenth streot near Chicago, are nearly in, Thls block will be of pressed brick, foar stories in height, the lower psrt to furnish room for six stores, the upper part for flats, Work I8 rapidly progres:ing on_the double store building of Higgins & Les, on Howard street, between Sixteonth and Seventeenth streets, The building will be three stories high, with bacement. The members of the Danish church are also talking of bulldivg cn the corner of Eighteenth and St. Mary's avenue, a large trick church butlding, though this ia by no mesns definitely declded apon. Henry Bolln will have a one story brick addition to his store on Sixteenth stroet, Meyer & Reapke are putting up a foar story brick building on the south side of Harney street, between Fourteenth and Fifteenth. The story brick building of F. Streltz, on Twenty-third and Cumings is nearly ready for the finishing touches. Dr. Mercer will have a magnifizent four story brick resldence ¢f very ornate and substantlal design, in Walnat Hill additlon, to cost $35,000. C. L. Erickson 15 going to build in Walnut Hill addition a lsrge frame re:i- denca, as aleo Frank D. Cooper. J. A, Wakefield will erect a two story rasldence corner Farnam snd Twenty- fifth, Dr, Jones will build a residence corner Oalifornta and Twenty-sixth, F. Gaylord will put upa new house on Georgla avenue, in the vicinity of Hans- come park. The Bohemlan Catholics ars puttlng up a frame church bullding on the corner of Fourteenth and William streets. An addition os large as the present bullding will be made to Poor Clara convent in Shinn’s addition this season. Two-story frame dwellings arein pro- cess of erection on Eighteenth near Grace, for Mrs, Baumaun, and John Smith, and Councilman Dalley Is having two residences put up on Slxteenthstreet near Grace, A double brick block of three story houses is belng pat up on Twenty-Second street, between California and Webster. W, A. Olark is putting up a fine two- story resldence nesr Hanscom'’s park. On Harney street a frame residence is nearly completed for Fred Metz, The building association 1s doing a great deal to build up the city. The Walnut Hiil additlon aseoclation has in process of constructlon eome twenty-five houses, the cost of which rangefrom 81,200 to $2,500. The Westside assocl- ation will erect th!s season slxteen new houses, of different des'gn, ranging in cost from §1,600 to $2,500, In south Omaha Mr. George Wasson, of Plainwell, Mich, has purchased a block, and is pattiog up four new houses. The plans have beon prepared for M- Cord & Brady’s building on Thirteenth strest, Tho stracture w1l bo five etorles high, of brick very substantially built and finfehed, Work has already commenced upon the new additlon to the ampitheatro at the fair grouuds, which will add one- third or cne-half to the present capacity of the structure, The bullding willbe of rubstantial and ornamental design, and will have four towers, Itis to be com- pleted by August 20. —— A Sudden Death, Mrs, E. F. Cock died very suddenly about 10 o’clock yeeterday at her resi- dence, No, 522 north Twenty-second street, She arose yesterday morning apparently as well 8s ever and eat a very hearty breakfact, Soon thereafter, how- ever, she was attacked with a severe hemorrage of the lungs, and bled to death, Oook hed been a resident of Omaha several yer large circle of friends, who with cne common feeling of sorrow, extend thelr hesrtfelt sympathies to the grief stricken husband, The time for holding the funeral has not yet been announced. i Target Practice, The fol'owing are the figures and order of merlt of poats and reglments in the department of the Platte in rifle firlng for the period ending June '85: ¥ M, ORDER, Fort Bridger. . " Douglas ** Laramie. MoKinne ¢ Niobrara “* Robinson + Ruusell “ Sidoey. “ Steelo. [ “ Washakie 1 Fort Omata not having any range ls not counted, 4th Infantry. ... 65 1 Q) A S arooraace 2 Cos, CFand H 4 58 Tth ¢ 08 1 Jih ¢ coes B2 8 A ¢ 1 b Dept. Platte. | The highest companies are K of the Seventh and Ninth Infantry, with 88 for figare of merlt. The lowest company Is B of the Seventh infantry, with figure of merlt of 44, At the end of last sea- ton the lowest figure of merlt was 37, and the highest of any company was 124 that of K of the Ninth infantry. The highest post, Latamle, had only 84. The prospact 1s now, unless the [ndian troubles Interfere with target practice, that the figuro of merlt of all the com- mand at the end of October will be far ahead of last year. That of the depart- ment is now G1 againat 55 Iast yoar, FROLIC AND FUN. The Knights of Labor Plcnic at Has« call's Park Saturday. The spirit of Satarday enjoyment for workIng people, recently inaugurated In the largo castern citles, scems to have ronched Omaha and is destined to be- como a permanent feature. On Saturday last the Knlghts of Labor here held a pionle at Haszcall's park, which stands per-eminently the most succossful event of its kind ever held at that popular pleas- ara resort, Fally 3,000 people were in attendance durlng the day, and all sorts of attrac. tions wore announced on the programme to furnish enjoyment and mirth, The Union Paclfic shops ware closed, and from every establithment In tho eity where members of the soclety earn thelr dally bread went tquads of happy men with thelr wives, children and sweot— hearts to enjoy the bright sunshine, the cooling shade and oracing alr, Prizos were offered for waltzing, raclng, ote., and varlous Innocent games were Itberally patronized. The prize for beat lady waltzer, a fino gold watch, was won by Miss Mary Oa ney, caughter of Mr. Thomas Cascy, over several competitors. Mr., James C, Ma- honey carcled away the gold-headed cane a8 belng the best gentloman waltzer on the ground. A throe-legyed raco created much fun, and the prize in that, consisting of five sllver gold-lined cups and eaucors, was won by the Stevenson brothors. Charles Meldrum took away tho aflver water pitcher and gold-lined goblet for belng the best and ewlfiest man in the sack race, All day tho best of crder provatled. Not a solitary unpleasant feature oc- curred. It 1s to bs hoped that the Knights will turn out #gsin soon In this most delightful manner. CARVED WITH A KNIFE, An Old Man, Driven to Desperation, Arises in His Wrath and Oreates a Sensation, Saturday evenlng, people who live at the City hotel on south Tenth atreet, witnesesd a bloody cutting affray in which John Eberline, the assistant cook, and Charles Hochstein, a porter, wero the principals, Eberline is seventy-five years of age, and very much depressed with the wearlng effacts of a hard lifo. He was sitting in the back yard esaturday evening, peellng potatoes, and a pet pig lay near him, granting filend- ly appreclation of an occasional bite tossed over to him by h's aged keep- er. Hochstein happenel to pass by and stoppad to have some fan with the plg. He carrled his sport to the extent of throwiog a bucket of water over the old 1nan and the pig both, At this Eberline arose furlous In his rage, and made a pass at Hochstein with the knife he used to peel potatoes, caught the young man on his left jaw, and slashed a deep gash across the side of his neck, just under the ear about aix Inches long. He also cut him In the left arm, on the right wrist and In the left breast. Eberllne was ar— rested, taken to the county jail and lockep up. After Dr. Edmiston, who was called, had dressed Hochstein's wounds, his frlends moved him to St. Josephes hospltal. Yesterday he was restlng very quistly, but hls wouuds are of & s3rious nature and may prove fatal. —— Milltary Matters, Capt. Charles F. Humphrey, assistant quattormaster, United States army, hav- ing reported at these headquarters, In compliance with paragraph II, speclal orders No, 109, current rerles from the headquarters of the army, Is assigned to duly a3 depot quartermaster, at Chey- eano depot, Wyo., and will ralieve Capt. James H. Lord, assistant (uarter- matter, Unlted States army, of his duties 8 depot quartermaster ab that place. Col. Morrow, of Fort Siduney, was yesterday ordercd to tuke command of the troops that have been scnt to Cross- field, Kan. The thres companies that loft hero Friday night arvlved at their destl- natlon yesterday morning. — — Unfamilliar with Otvil Service Itules, The routine business of the internal revenuo office, In the postoffice building, ssys & Boston speclal to the New York Suap, was enlivened by a little incldent of a humorous character. A man stepped up to one of the clerks and eald ho want- ed to make an application, He was re- ferred to Deputy Cellector Gray, who set abont the prelimInary questloning, “Do you sell liquor?” he asked, “No, sir,” was the reply. *Tobaceo, then! Have you sold any tobacco since the 1st of May?"” “No, slr,” sgain responded the appll- cant, *‘Hold up your right hand,” sald the depuly, and he proceeded to swear the man, Then he sent him to the cashier's desk, where the §2 was pald, and the official license to sell tobacso was handed over, The man departed with a bappy face, but In half an hour he returned, holding the paper aloft in hls hand, “‘What's the matter,” querled the reve- nue official, *“Why, this is a tobacco license,” “Tsn't that what you wanted “‘No; I wae applylng for a position as letter carrler In the postoflice, The would-be letter-carrler got his money back. Ho said ho thought the deputy’s questions were the new civil- service examioatlon, and that the $2 was the fee for makling out his papere. The postftice cashler's rooms usad to bo where the revenue rooms no w are. e — The eilk worm busine in Ozcoola thi and daoghters have s million, Mrs. J, W. Kelley has 8,000, Mes, J. R, Beard and Miss Della Kennedy 4,000 or 5,000 each, Mre, J. M, Beard a number, and perhaps others of whom we hsve not heard, They are fed on csage orange leaves, and grow, perfectly healthy, upen them,