Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 15, 1885, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. R. ROSEWATER Editor. e e —————— Taar Bllad Tom defenss of Mr. Wea- vor Ia slmply & oase of blind staggers. e Now thn‘tior.t:a mahdl is reported dead, the English no doubt hope that he will stay dend. ————— GrNERAL SHERIDAN has taken the field, while Prosident Oleveland proposes to tako to the woods.” . Tie New York World ought now to get up a fund for a pedestal for Mr, Kelley, who islooking for & permanent e foothold. New Yorx papers have glven the ro- vised name of Sheol Gate to Hell Gate. The bible revislon has caused some re- form oven In New York. ————————— Iz soems a difficnlt matter for the mem- bors of the board of educatlon to keep oool when they engage ina dlscasslon over a heating apparatu: ——————— Goversor DAwEs 1s sald to be nursing » United States senatorlal boom. As botweon Dawes and Weaver we are for Assistant Adjatant-General Hoffman, —— Onances A, Daxa’s preferred candl- date for the presidency, the great Amerl- can objector, Blll Holman, of Indiana, will bo In Omaha to.dsy with his congressional junketing committee. Tris ramored that Seaator Van Wyck will put the Nebraska City Pr2ss on its feet, and that Mr. D, C, Brooks will edit it.—Omalia Repudlican, How would it do to pat the Republican on Ita fect, and let Mr. Brooksedlt it sgaln? Tue latest conundram propounded to ue is whether Charley Banks is still adem- oorat, or has gone back to the republican party. To answer this questlon correctly 1s more difficult than to solve a Chinese puzzle. From present appearances Mr. Banks has found the democratlc trough rather dry, and unless something happens protty soon he will come out as & candl- date for councllman of the Third ward on m_sl_'gp_ul)‘l‘lpan tlcket. Tue clalm made by Riel that he Is an Amerloan cttizen may after all prove of somo service to him, He ls under in- dlotmsnt for tresson, which {s a ecrlme that cannot be committed by an allen. Should he be able ta establish his Amer- fcan cltizenshlp, the indictment agalnst him will of course fail. An eminent lawyer says that if Rlel isan alien, the only proper charge that can be made against him Is levying war inthe domin- lon of Canada, for which he can be con- vioted and punished. — JEFFERSON DAvis has baen heard from again, This tlme he appears In print to severely critlcise a northern ¢‘School His- tory of the Unlted States.” There are no doubt wany things in history that Jefferson Davis would like to have wiped out, or changed to suit his own peculiar ideas, but now that the history of the oountry has been pretty well complied and written up to date, the eliminatlons and changes that he desires will notin all probability be made. The old and un- repentant reprobate will have to grin and bear it. SenATorR MoRGAN has resently been in the Indlan territory, and has been in- vestigating the Oklahama question, He exprosses the opinion that the congress. ional committee will not be in favor of letting the Oklahama boomers seize and monopolizs it. We venture to say that Mcr. Morgan is in favor of the cattle-kings monopolizing that reglon as against everghody else. Hls record in standing by the railway monopolies in their at- tomp'ed steals of unearued land grants wonld leal almost anybody to this con- cluslon, —_— FismiNc seems likely to become the popular amusement with our presidents. Mr, Arihur, while presldent, acquired great fame as a fishorman, and he ia slill addlng to his reputation. In three days ho and his party cavght 300 pounds of salmon recently. And now Presldent Oleveland lcoms up as an engler, and Is credited with being almost as enthusias- tlc with the rod as his predecessor. Mr, Cleveland has demonpstrated cne tking, and that 1s that fish will bite on Sunday, as he learned last Sunday when fishing for trout at Woodmont. Whether the Sabbatarlans wlll approve of president- ial fishing on Sunday remalns to bs seen, In looking around for a government director cf the Unlon Pacific from the great state of Onlo it does scem a little strange that Governor Hoadley shoald not have named the noblest Roman of them all, Aflen G, Thurman, Althcugh the president Ineisted on having a repub- lican appolnted from that state, for rea- sous best known to hlmself, he could not have solected a better man for the place than Mr, Thurman, even if he Is a demo- erat. 8o far as the Interests of the peo- ple aro concerned no man would have protected them better than Mr, Thurman, He knows the rights of the rallroads and the righis of the people be‘ter than any man In this country, in all probablilty, sad hls sppointment would bave been unlversally approved by the people. The sludicd overeight of such an eminent democrat s Mr. Thurman leads the Chi- eago Herald to sek: ‘What bas Allen G, Thurman, the wisest aud beit of democrats, doue that the first democratio admivistration In twenty-five years ehould be, to all appearances, uncon- acious of bis existence?! This question will bo propounded & good wany times in the next campaign, aud it will bave to be snswered, A COMPARISON INVITED. The Brz's editorials on the state census stolen from the Repuilican’'s Lineoln specials, were very Interesting at first band, It costs us a good deal to keep the Bir in the ranks as & nowspaper, but we have to do it.—Oma/a Republican, The comments of the Ber upon the census were not based upon anytbing that appeared In the Republican, but upon our own reports obtalned from our Lincoln bureau. It will be a very cold day, Indecd, when the Bre looks for news In the columns of the Republican. The Brr pays out every month more money for Its speclal dispatches and ocor- respondence than the Republican ex- pends for the associated press dlspatches and speclals together, The Republican 1s one of the biggest news pilferers in the whole westorn country. It cllps colamn after colomn from the Chicago papers, and palms the matter off on ite readers by patiing the dates one or two days ahead, thus attempting to make 1t appear that theso stolen clippings are dispatches that oame by wire and are sent out by the as- soclated press, Its local columns are also largely dependent upon the city news dopartment of the Bre. These atate- ments can easily be proven any day by a comparlson of the telegraphlc and local columns of the two papers. In the Bee of Batarday ovening there appeared & speclal from Plattsmouth concerning a elagelng affasir In that olty. In Tues- day's Republican the Bee's dlepatch 1a published without a single change ex- copt the date, which hasjboen put ahead one day, from July 11 to July 12, The publicatlon in the Republican of a piece of news that had appeared In the Bek three days before Is in strlct keep- Ing with the news-gathering principlos of that slow-golng Institution. Here is an- other eample. On Saturdsy the Bre contalned a epacial dlspatch from Clncln- natl regarding the proposed appolntment of L. V. Harrison as Union Paclfic dl- rector in place of Ex-Governor Noyes, This same dispatch appears in Taesday’s Republican, three days after, among its amoclated press telegeams, the Intention being to make its readers belleve that it was sent to that paper in the ragular courae of business, The account of the Evanavllle slugging match, after haviog been published In two editlons of the Brx, 1s reprinted by the Repubdlican. So also with several other matters that were news when usad by the Beg, but which by the time they were appropriated by the Re- vublican were stale and second-hand. We find no fault with the Republican for pursulng the business of a second- hand news dealer, but we do objact to its attempt to drag the Bee down to lts owa level. WILD-CAT INSURANCE A few days ago Attorney-General Leese commenced proceedings agalnst one of the numerous mutual insurance companies which have been organized promliscuounsly in this state during the past twelve months. Thersupon the Bee expressed ta views in the following terse paragraph: Under the pratext of patronizing home in- dustry the wild-cat insurance sgents are hay- ing a big harvest in this state. Nebraska is liable to have more trouble with wild-cat insurancs than she had ten years ago with grasshoppers, And now the representatives of local insurance companies have taken umbrage and want us to certify to thelr solldity and rellabllity. We cannot comprehend why the manager of any solvent and solld company should feel hurt by what we Lave sald concerniog wild-cat insurance. Suppose a dozen wild-cat banks should be started In this state, would any solid banking house expect an apology or an endorsement, 1fin general termy the Bee should warn people against wild-cat bank- Ing? When wo sald that the people of Nebraska were in danger of belng over- ran with wild-cat insuranse agents, who would appeal for patronage uader the pretext of helpiog home institutions, we meint jast what we said. We already have a ssore of Insurance companles, for all sorts of riske, on the mutual plan. Bosides life, fire, hall- storm, and tornado companles, we have mutnal benevolent marriage associatlons, imporled trom Lowa, and we may expa ot the Pennsylvania graveyard insurance and the London baby rlsks to ba intro. duced here as homos induatries, Wo have no desire to Injure the buslnes of any reliable, honesily conducted Insurance company, because it is a home {nstitution, but we conslder ii our duty to call attention to the impositions likely to ba [ practiced by wild-cat insurance concerns, under the plea of home protec- tion, We have the example of Iowa be- fore us. In that s'ate wildcatshave flour- ished and Imposed upon people by the use of names of prom\nent merchants and bankers, who had very little interest In the companies or who were seiling the use of thelr names for stock without paylng a dollar, Such confidence gamblors be- come Indignant when the solldity of thelr {nflated concorns is ques tioned, but when the crash does come, the only partles who lose are the dupes who thought that they wereinsured, Thls Insurance question 1s a grave problem, and if there is any duty incumbent upon ths press a guardisn of the public wslfare it ehould bs exerted In the direstion of caution agalnst bogus insurance companies and wild-cat agents, who thrive upon pre- miums taken without affording protestion azalnst losses to which thelr patrons are exposed, Tk last leglslature of the little state ot Rhode Island passed a woman sufirage bill which proves somewhat of a dlsap- pointment. The law of the etato requires that the bill skall paes both branches of two successive loglslatures, and then be ralified by a three fifths vote of the peo- ple; also that, alter passing the firat leg- sletare, it shall be announced publicly 1o |t2e towa moeticgs which choose the THE DAILY BEE---WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1885 members of the mext legislatare. Al- though the bill passed both branches, it was at #0 Iate a parlod of the sesslon that many of the town meetings had been held and the members choten, Thus the work must all be dene again. By the time this blll becomes a law Little Rhody will be many years older than she Is now, and the majority of the women who ex- pected to have the privilege of suffeage conferred upon them will have climbed the golden stairs to that blessed country where politics and ballot boxes are un- MOOWIL | it THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK. ‘While there Is little doing just at pres- ent in the leading markets, an Increased activity 1s soon looked for In trade olrcles owlng to the near approach of the fall season. An excellent fall trade Is ex- pected, owlng to the eettled conditlon of the crops and the fairly prosperous state of affaira prevalling nearly everywhere. The business failares last week In the United States and Oanaia were 185, as agalnst 204 the previous week., Trade troubles In the east have been light and un. important. The Improvement in bual- ys the New York Commercial Advertiser, begins naturally at points nearest to the great farming and stook- ralslng interests, and spreads gradually to other parts; the city of New York, as the chlef storehouse of capital and the banking center of the country, feels it last, but must begln to feel it soon, The forelgn trade of New York continues re- markably steady, but its domestlc trade needs considerable stlmulation before 1t rises again to what 1t should ba, Money is as superabundant there as ever. The present prospects of the export trade are not, the Advertiser thinks, in favor of any great increase; but the proportion between exports and imports {s also not likely to be eerlously disturbed, unless prices take a materlal advance, The iron and steel trades show rather bettef Inquiry, without much Increase as yet in actual busineas, The demand continues to bo varied, as most of what Is bought Is for Immediate aee. Some revival of Jdemand for steel rails and other railroad items is noted, but this is a mere hint of what will occar if the pand- ing rallroad negotiaticns result as favorably as they seem likely to do. Of the coal tzade, even at this mideummer season, the reports show that it Is steady at the eastand rather better at the weat, which s certalnly as much as could be} expected, Manu- factures generally are practically un- changed, with some improvement In the woolen trade. The stock market Is sus- talned by a growing belief thut the trunk line railrcads are settling their quarrels, and that the better rates of frelght already ordered and contemplated will thus have a good chance to be main- tained. Events march quickly when negotiations at last take a favorable turn, and it will not ba surprising if we shortly see the whole rallroad eltuation changed from deprestion to declded hopefulness. MORE PRACTICE AND LESS THE- ORY. The result of that national convention of agricultural cplleges, as it was called, is just as we expected. Mr. Colman, the commlssloner of agrlcnlture, has been obliged to admit that the methods and work of the sgricultural colleges of the country are not by any means what they should be. Had XMr. Colman come to any other conclusion we should have been obliged to consider him as a man not well balanced mentally, Although the government has munificantly endowed the mo-called agricultural colleges, the result of thelr teachings have not justified any such liberal asslstance. The students acquire some knowledge of sclentific princlples, but learn nothlng prac- tical. Mr. Colman ssys that ex- perlmental work is what 13 needed, and that college farms shonld bs made the means cf encouraglng and daveloping tn the fullest extent the practical farming Interests of the locallties which they sev- erally represent. Mr. Colman saggests aplan of a national experimsntal farm near Washington, haviog connected with 1t a natlonal expositlon of the agricultural products of the country, We fear that the commisslonor of agelculture Is coneid- erable of an experiment bimself, and not- withstanding his unfavorable opinivn of agricnltural colleges in thelr present con- ditfon we are led to the concluslon that his national experiment farm would not prove apy more of a success than some of the so-called agrlcultural college farms, If Mr. Colman, who has done all his farm- ing through the columns of a weekly ag- ricultural paper, had come cut flat-footed and sild that agricultural colleges and the farms in connec'ion with them are humbugs, we would have believed that he knows something about farming, In these days of cheap lands’and modern methods of farming it sirikes us that anyone who wants to practically learn the art of sgricultare should either ap: prentice himself to some first-class farmer in Nebresks, Kansas, Iowa, Minnesota, or Dakota, or elss buy a farm and hira some farmer’s boy to show him for a sea- son or two how to run it, What I8 needed In farmiog is more practice and less theory. ArrgouGs Omsha has over 60,000 population, her mayor believes that the cows shoald contlnue to make a pasture of the streets and front yards. 1t is to be hoped that the councll will pass another pound ordinance,and that the mayor will not veto It as he did the first one, Mgz Sriusoy Hurcnins has introduced & high license law In the New Hampshire leglslature. This ls coming pretiy close to the prohibltion state of Malce, and we woald not ba snrprised to sse the Ligh license wave roll over the boundary line into that state at no distant day. Mr. Hutohins' New Hampshire bill pro- vides for the license of any qualified voter ‘who shall present to the authorities of his town or olty a petition to that effect, signed by a msjority of the qualified voters of his town or city, the full names and addreates belng glven. The license 18 to be good for two years, and the fee to be 81,000 in every olty and every vown of 5,000 Inhabltants, $700 In towns of from 4,000 to 5,000, $60C in towns of from 3,000 to 4,000, and $100 less for each 1,000 decrease in population, A1 quiet In the Indian territory and no more troops will be needed. Now let the Cheyennes be promptly disarmed, and there will be no need of the military hereafter to keep them qalet. \\'ESTEB; NEWS, DAKOTA. Mandan's population is 2,435, 3 Efimpbell county claims a population of The popu'ation of Day county is about 6,000, The estimated value of cattle in the terri- tory is placed at $8,000,000. The contract for the territorial school of mines building, at Rapid City, has been lot at 88, A family of thirteen children, containing three pair of twins, has been unearthed in Dayison county, The wild mustard plant is hecnmln? the cause of much complaint in’ various localities in the territory. Redfield, with a population of 8,000, cast only thirty votes for delegates to the constita- tional convention, TRock has boen found on Two Bit, in the Hills, which carries forty to fifty per cent of first-class saltpeter, The Russian colonists McPherson Co. are eaid to have in cultivation some 10,000 acres of promising looking flax, Toster county has voted aye on the question of 18suing $10,£00 7 per cent bonds to ba used for fundiog warrants, improving roads and building a £5,000 court house, A farmer near Oaeida tied his work oxen in the stable and bullt a “smudge” nesr by to deep off the moequitoes. Tho neglocted “emuige” became a fire, and the cattle be- came roast beef, Grant county ie being advertised as a suc” cessful sheep country, Oae sheap raiser in that locality states that out of 160 had started in with last fall all came through the winter in good condition except two. A young lady teacher near Mitcholl, on the approach of a etorm last week dismissed her echool in a body to a neighboring tree claim and stationed ‘each pupil at a stout cotton- wood, instructing them to hold on in case of a blow. The old placer grounds in the Deadwood district are eaid to be yieldive about $8,000 in dust per month; Rockerville district, Spring creek and Pa'mer guiches, 8%,000; Custer dig. ging, $3,000, and Bear gulch, Sand creek and Nigger hill, about 1,000, A scourge known as the heel fly paid the Black Hills country a visit this season. Ttis a fly that has testh equal to a enake. They take a cow when she 1s laying down and Dbite her in the heel, and a moment later the cow will run, jump and rear up as though shot through the heart. It makes them crazy. They were there three weeks and then disap- peared. A movement is on foot in Sioux Falls to put up a ouilding solely for the accommoda- tion of the law firms of that town. The Pres says it is proposed to fit up the building with handsome offize rooms, and in the center of the buildiog to have a large room which will bn used as a Jibrary, into which the lawyers’ offices will open. “All the law firms who occu. py the building are expected to place their books in the liorary for the accommodation of all alike. WYOMING, A driving park is to be added to Laramie’s attractions. ‘Water rents, licenses, etc., netted Chey- enne £17,827.20 during June. Laramio experienced a coal oil famine last week and tallow dips enjoyed a momentary boom. The forger, Schauckenburg, has arrived in Cheyenne after a_liyely trip from New York in company with Sheriff Crag, Six hundred head of Hereford and Short- horn thoroughbreds are to be added to the ‘Warren Live Stock company herds, 7The Munchausen of the Laramie Boomer- ang vouches for the truth of the story that the three-year-old daughter of Frank Pickard, & Union Pacific_engineer, swallowed a mouse and euccessfully digested it, The moral of this novel mousaic is that children should keep their mouths ehut. Ex-Delegate Post is buildiog up an exten- sive horeo ranch near Cheyenne, The ranch is thirtecn by eight miles” in extent and it and is watered by Horse and Pole creeks, Targe irrigating ditches at no small expense have been constructed on both sides Jof Pole creek, and over 5,000 acres of meadow land can be flooded, Cross fences have been run catting the land up into separate pastures, and at two points on Polo creek houses, barns and corrals have been erected, It is certsin. ly a very complete outfit, and now embraces 2,700 head of horees and colts, To those whose memory of the Custer mas- sacre on the Big Horn is not dimmed by the lapse of the fow years which have passed since it happened, the following from the Big Horn Sentinel will be very significant: *Not only the citizns of Big Horn are taking a lively interest in the movement to hold a fair in Big Horn this fall, but from each locality in the county comes to us the highest cooi- mendatiozs a8 to the ultimate success of the project, Notwithstandiog that Johnson county is ono of the infant conaties of Wyo ming, we will make one of the grandestex hibits this fall of stock and agricuitural pro- ducts ever known in ths history of a terri- tory,” COLORADO. Weld county's assessed valvation this year will foot up at least $10,000,000 and probably more. The smount of the assessment valuation of Las Animas county is $5,001,237, on all property. Aspen claims to ba the only postoffice in the Colorado showing an incresse of businers during the past fitcal year, A npewspaper correspondent states that thore are about 15,000 head of cattle and 4,000 horses in North Park, Colorado, Boulder claims to have raised a strawberry measuring ten and one-half inches in circum: ference which was grown in that vicinity, The salaries of ten Colorado postmasters have recently been reduced $200 por annum This is worse than disc:veriog offensive parti- eanship, Thare are 800,000 acres of unoccupled land in Dolores county which is capable of sup- borting 20,000 head of cattla, Lt is one of the best stock counties in the state, The Denver News charges that thy “Coio- rado Cattle company,” which has been flood T bo. ast with olrculars of its vaat. possea- sions, and selling shares on the strength of its olsime, is & bogus concern and has no _exist. ence except in tha mind of its chief swindler, Tne Union Pacific railroad have determined %0 extend their line from Longmont to Lyons through St Vrain canon, Orders for bridges have been sent in and it is expected thata large force of men will rush the work through 4o as to avoid being behiud the Denver, Utah & Pacific railroad who are now rapidly com- pleting theis extension to the eawe point, M A, Helena had » heavy snower of sulphur last Wednesday, 'bis proves that the capital is entitled to the name of Sheolena, The Moulton Mining company during the hast year has paid six dividends aggregating él.’u.( 00 and carries over & handeome surplus to this year's account, (e thousand Crow Indiavs congregated on the ig Horn last wosk to & the demise of Iron Bull, their war Taey wade Rome howl for three daya. Oae hundred and seventy-five head of cattle were killed by lightning near Black Butte re cently. The rnimals were bunched together and must have been killed by one stroke. The smoky weathor of 1883 which prevailed in all parts of Montans and which at times obscured the timber mountains north of Hel enn, began on the 3d of Augnst and continned every day until the 1st of October, when a steady rain set in at 8 o'clock in_the morning and continued until the 6th of October, when the emoky weather was passed, From that time it was clondy and cool until the first snow, on the Sth of Octoher, On the 9th there was more and the trees hung fall of snow. The appearance of the sky now in- dicates another visitation of just such smoky weather, CALIFORNTA Ground equirrels are multiflying on the Santa Rosa plains, They are rapidly becom- ing a devastating nuisance, The increaso of mannfactories in Los Ange les is much hindored by the want of some chenp fuel for steam power, Kxperiments are being made with crude petrolenm, Tt is estimated that the raisin orop of River- side will reach fully 100,000 boxes this yenr, which will net the growers, while_the rai are in the sweat box, $120,000, The income will be an average of §120 per acre tor all the vineyards, John Baxter, ot Tndependence, from ten acres of land, has cut_ thin season forty-three tons of alfalfs hay, About the end of July he will mako a second cutting, and s confi- dent the yield will not bo less than fifty tons; a third cutting will be made later in tha year that will yield over forty tons; total yield for the whols seaton from ten scres of ground, 133 tons of hay. Mosos Hopkine, one of the mushroom millionaires of San Francisco, has been sued for breach o1 promise by Hariiet A. Moore, & buxom widow of ripa age. The estate of Moses is valuod at $24,000,000, and the strained heart strings of the widow will be reduced to their normal condition by & poul- tico of §225,000., The plaintiff alleges that, by reason of the defendsnt’s refusal to marry her, her heslth has been_impnired to such an extont as to compel her to employ skillful physicians oversinco sho eard nbout the do: lendant's marriage, on February 1, 1884; that she is now, and has been ever since, mentally and_physically prostrated, unable to do any kind of work whatever, and has exponded over $1,000 for the services of physicians in trying to restore her shattered health, but that palls and potions cannot assuage the grent grief which is_consaming her through the loss of the affections of the venarable cap- italist, GENERAL GLEANINGH, The combination shaft on the Comstock is to be suuk to the 8,200 level forthwith, Things are looking mighty bluo at the Car- son mint, and there seems to_bs no prospect for its starting np for rome time, The Hailey (Idaho) land offica disposed of nearly one hundred thousand acres of gov ernment land duricg the last fiscal year, Tho postmaster goneral has curtailed the mall gervice upon the star route from Kelton, Utah, to Weiser, Idaho, thus effecting an annual saviog of $17 500, White Pine county hng $80,000 per cent, bonds to dispose of, and Lander county $160,- 000 of tho same kind of securities; but with money going begging in SanFranclaco at 4 per cent., no one seems anxious to securo these Nevada bonds. The recoipts in Salt Lake city for tho week endiog July Sth inclusive were $73,246.10 of bullion, and $11,072 of ore; » total of $87,- 315,10, Theweek pravious tho receipts were in aggregate $83,008,50, of which S(1,653.50 was bullion and $18,335 was ore, Ab>ut four weeks agoa shipment was made of 40.00) pounds of silver-bearing ore from the Old Dominion mine, a few miles east of Fort Colville. It went to San Francieco, Returna wera received this week and they far exceed the most eanguine expectations, the thipment having realizad a triflo over $15,000, or 750 per ton. —— CIVIL RIGHTS, Damages Awarded Against the Pres- ident of the Chicago Omnibus Line For the FEjection of a Colored Pas- senger. Springfield, Illinois, Special, Amongithe new and somewhat Interest- ing dec!sions comprised in the vol. 112 of the Iilinois supreme ccurt reports, soon to ba published, ia one coming through the appellate court for the firat district, feom the supreme court of Cook county. It is entitled Ferdinand W. Peck, va. Timotby Cooper, belog &n gction brought to recover dsmeges clatmed to have been suttained by the plaintiff by being forcl- bly ejected from an omalbus operated by the defendant in Chlcago. The trlal court rendered judgment sgalnst the appellant for $2,600. The appellant was the presldent cf the People’s Omni- bus and Baggsge line, & c'mpany incorporated under the laws of the state. Acting as such precident, he gave ordeis to the driyers fur the company to exclude colored persons from riding in its omnlbus:es, and in obedlence to these crders they excluded the appellee in his acticn, who therevpon brought sult for damages aga'ns: the president of the company inaividually, The court hold that as the appellee had the right con- ferred upon him by the law to travel in the omnibusees of the company, the per- son by whesa authority the appellee was injared in the exercise of this right, is lfable to respoud in damages. The jast of his committing the illegal act in tte excreise of his functions as an officer «f tho company does not constltate a pro- teeticn to him as an individual, nor does 1h fact \hzat the corporatin would also bo llable exonerate him frem liatility. The cpinion was _celivered by the lste Justice P. H. Walker, and Mr, Chief Justice Sch.fisld dissentod. e ec— A Barbers History vf the Machine Clip. Chicigo Herald, ¢“Woll this down cast Yankee went to work on the mowing machlae ides. In two weeks he had his machlne construct- ed. ‘Here Sam, he rays to the brush boy, ‘I've got a little machine here for catting huir, an’ 1 want to try it on you.' The trial was made. Bat it wasn't a su-cess, Hair flew a1l over the rcom, the chalr was turned over, and Sam screeched like a strawberry vender. You #oo the first machine was geared a little too strong, and it polled, ‘Dat's no mowln' machine,’ eays Sam, eays he, ‘Its @ potato d'ggeh, dat’s what it am * That night Sam res'goed his place, The next night tho ew boy quit with a white stresk down the sldo of his head. The third boy stayed two days and hls mother then apprenticed him to & wig maker. The foarth boy etuck nearly a week end then jolned a juyenile pantomime troupe to play ‘Humpty Dumpty. “But in less than a month the Yankee had his machine down fine. She worked like a charm, Just then the farmer came along ta have his halr cat, The barber hitched up his little wachioe and pranced around his head, making the thistle down fly like chaff cut of s threshing machine, *Gocd job,'says the farmer, says he, ‘how much? *Ten dollars and & quarter,’ says the batber, ‘What, $10.25 for a hair ent?’ ‘Yes, an’ sbell out or I'll let the elckle bar down two notches an’ mow your halr up by the roots,’ He got his money, borrowed $4.756 from snother man, and applied for a patent. A patent was ssued and he made $200,000 in five years, When they first came out, the cligs sold st §10 cach. Then they came down to 87, aod now they are only $4. Every bsrber shop in the United States that's worth havivg & painted pole has a clip, and soms of 'cm have a dozan.” BALM FOR THE BOURBONS. Hoge Chanks of Ioed Consolation for Perishing Peliticians, The Tussle for the Spoils of Office in Nebraska Spiced with Offen sive Partieans of National Repute, Written for The Bex. The Herald recently contalned a dis- patch from Washington, staticg, It was supposed a new collector of internal rev- enve for Nebraska would be made this woek (last woek), but that so many pro- tests have been filed agalnat the removal f Collector Post {t was probable there would be no change for several months. This plece c¢f Informatlon suggests two qulerles, which Oaptain Scuttle would think, are deserving conslderation, And the first is, are republicans besleg- ing this demooratic adminlstration for the retentlon of republican oflice- holders ! Are they interforing with Mr. Cleveland In regard to filllng the ofticoe? Or, are the republican office. holders Implorlng him to retaln them fn thelr present poritions; or, Induclog thelr frlends to do #0? They must bear in mind that they were on board the Blaine traln, which was snowed under, only slightly, it is true, but nevertheless suffi- clently eo to be Ineffectual, though only temporary. THEY TOOK THEIR CHANCES with the Malne cap'ain, and they cor- tainly ought, like good ' soldiers, to be roady and willing to share the fortunes uf war with thelr chlef. It was taken for granted thet they earnestly eupported him for the presidency last year; that they contributed fands for that purpose; and that they as heartlly opposed the electlon of Cleveland. 1f that b3 so, what reason have they for expecting favora from him, now tbat he is president. 1t eannot ba possible that repubdlicans were decelved #n to their trus position; it cannot be poe- slble that they were waiting to seo whose star would rice to the uscendant. If they were waiting to see which party should waive the banner of victory, then they shonld be removed as “‘offensive” dis- semblora. But their republicanlsm can- not be questioned. Then how is it that they can ask for favors at the hands of a party agains the success of which they fought and con’ributed the sinews of war; yees, used the very means, which the gov- ernment offices gave them, sgalnst the success of the democracy. There ls some- thing about this that is mysterloue—tho writer cannot comprehend it. Who are they tbat doth thus protest, and why? JUDGE CROUNSE WAS A GOOD COLLECTOR, No complalnt was ever heard sgainst his administration of the office, but he was bounced by a republican president at the demand of a republican delegation—un. ceremoniously bounced without warning, not even permltted to stsnd upen the order of his golng. Why are these things thus? The other query ls thir: Is it possible there cannot be fourd in Nebraska a democrat competent and hobest enough matket place for fifty years he could not ATONE FOR THE VIOLENCE AND WRONG he Ioflicted upon every prirelple of sound ethical doctrine by hia politieal terglver- sations of last year. 1f he lled abont the democratlo party, then he was a publie slanderor, 1f he told the {ruth about it, then he did violence to every attrlbate of honor and of seif-respect by joinlng that party, and urging the people to sup- port it. He was guilty of a helnous crime sgalnst overy moral precept, every moral convlction, and against the publie contclence and the public judgment of mankind, Time the country was done with such chaplitary and hypoorits, who attempt the role of publio treachery. Samuel J. Tilden has kicked back from the grave again, this tlme against ex Governor Noyes, of Ohlo, appointed governmont diractor of the Unlted States, who went to Florlda in 187G with others to head off and defeat the attempts of Tilden's agents, such as Smith Weed, Wooleot, of Ciccinnatl, and others to buy up the returning boards in the Inter- ost of Tilden, as was attompted In other stater, Governor Noyes did nothing but what honor and duty required on that oceaslon. He is incapable of engaglng in anything wrong. Governor Hoad- ley, the present governor, was one of Tilden’s counsel before the electoral commission; he knew all about the Fiorida buslness, and yet It was upon his (Boadley's) recommendation that Cleve- 1and appointed Gov. Noyes government director of the Unlon Pacific road. If Noyes bad been guilty of any dis- honorable act fn Florlda, ctn it bs sup- posed for a moment that Gov. Hoadley would have endorsed Noyes to the presi- dent for his appolntment! THE NAVY, A word for Willlam 0. Whitnry, sec- retary of the navy, if the writer ‘18 not mistaken. Will not some good democrat whisper {n the ear of said Whitney, and atk him to tell us something of what is golng on In the navy department? Tha public has heard nothing from him in a long time, and Is getting impatlent. Tell us s mething about tha Portsmouth navy yard, the Leagne Isfand navy yard, the Maro Island nevy yard, falsy accounts, false bookkeeping, slleged corrupt con- tracts, and overything else of Interost to an auxiously waiting public. If he should ask for another opinion of the attorney pencral ia regard to the Dolphin contract, he need not take the trouble ot sending his letter to that cfficer but band it to the re— porters at once. If he does notadopt theso suggestions the public will be in, danger of forgeitlng we have a secretary of tho navy. LINCOLN AS AN ORATOR, In the brief allusion to Lincoln as a benefactor and statesman, and tho rank he will hold in history in these reepects, 1n a letter last week, the writer failed to rofer to him as an orator. He never heard him speak iu public. but has heard thcse who have listened to him state that Lincoln was, at times, very eloquent. The man who de- livered that Gettysburg memcrlal ad- dress, **with charity forall, with malice toward man,” must take high rank as an orater. That address, wlth the reply of Webster to Hayne, will be read and spoken by the student and the school- boy a thousand years hence, as the ora- tions of Demosthentes and Cicero are read and epoken by the student and the school-boy of to-day. to manage the offica of collector of Internal revenne? Why, the very supgestion Is positlvely shocking, and the writer feels constrained, in be- ha'f of the democracy, to resent the af- front. Who, says my frlend Herman, 18 not competent, or Sherwinof Fremont, or (falhoun of Nebraska Oity? The man who says they are not,—well never mind. They are competent, especially the first named, and then, he isa brother-In-law of the vice president, and the vice-presi- dent has asked for Herman's appoint- ment. More, cennot the V. P. command this little favor from an administration of which he 1s a part? Must the second officer of the government be snubbed in the presevce of the whole natlon in order that republicans may retain thelr office? Upon what sirange times have we fallen? Judge Post s a good collector, un- doubtedly, for we hear no complaint egainst bim; but then, he 1s largely en- gag ed in banking business, which neces- sarily requires much of his time and at- tention, and this keeps him away from his cfli-e a good deal now. Herman has no such difficulty to contend -with; he can give his undivided, valuable time to the duties cf the oflice. Agaio, has any one any life lease upon offices? In a letter last week, the writer failed to glve due mention to one of the visit- ing statesmen from N -bratka, invited to Washington by Prerident Cleveland to advlse as to Nebraska opvointments, and not desigoing to tlight any of them, he haetens to make smende row, R:fercnce 1s made to our old frisnd, Toble Castor, ONE OF THE DEMOCRATIC WHEEL HORSES, 1t fs said when he left the white house sand jolned with his assoclates Boyd and Miller in giviog expreesion to their pent up feelings by exclalming “What are we here for 7 Toble used the morse emphatic King Jawmes versicn of sheel, snd uttorly Jgnored the new translation. He would be d-—d if he had come all the way from Nebraska by lovitation from the prest- pent to be told by him that all vacancies by desth or redignation will be filled with good, sound democrais, He could have written that, 1t Is ssld that the air grew eu'phurous for a time. The writer 1s obliged to say that Nebracks democrats are being badly treated by Grover, and he can't refrain from an expression of’hls eympathyjwith them in thelr tribulations, Last autumn after the election they were ehouting “Oh ! this is the time we long bave sovght, And mourned because we fuad it not,” And now they are compelled to mourn because they have fouad it. They are ermitted Lo look over Into the promised and, but not to enter. It is cruel treat- ment, An itcm has been travellng around In the papers stativg that George Wiliism |» Curtls' hair and beard are turviog com- pletely white, Woaderful fact ! but then it 18 stlll more wonderful that he should have had sny hair at all upon his head, after standing up in the Chlcago republi- can convention and declaring that the democrat'c party was then engaged fn “‘a ccnsplracy for plander snd epoils,” and immediately afcerwards shoutlog for de. mocrecy as the parly of reform. Old Sam Jobnson, Boswell's Sam, onoce tured fo serve one day In h's father's stcad o hls stail in Ustoxeter market, when that father was slck and could not attend; but the undulifal son repented of his disobedl. ence, and loog afterwsrd endured a self-| ™ irflicted penance by golog into that fath- er's stall, long after the grave had closed over him, and standiog there uncovered, amid the jeers of the jostling multitade, for one hour, as a punishmert for hi: filla! dlsobedience commlitied fifiy ye before. If Georgs Willlam, above nsu ‘c. etand in @ pillory of repentance, 'd-ueaded and bare-headed, In a public | Joux M. Taaver, Graxp Isuanp, Neb., Jaly 14th, e ————— NEWSPAPER OUTFITS. TO PUBLISHERS. 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