Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 27, 1885, Page 4

- THE DAILY BEE. Ouana Orrice No, 014 axp 016 Fanvau S New Yourk Orrice, Rooy 66 Tripoxe Brinp: NG, Pub'ished evors morning, except Sunday. The only Monasy morning daily published in the state ’ TRRMS 1Y MATL ©One Vear $10.00 | Threo Months.....§ 2 60 Six Months 6.00 | One Month. 1.00 The Weekly Bee, Published every Wednesday TRRMS, TOSTRAL One Year, with premiom One Year, without promium Bix Months, withe 5 Une Month, on trial 3 CORRRSTONE: : All Communjcations relating to Newsand Editorial toatters should be addressed to the EDITOR OF THR Brr. WOSINESS LETTRRS, All Business Tetters ittances thould he wddressod to Tik Brx 130 COMPAST, OMATIA Drafts,Checks and Post office orders to be made pay- able o the order of the company THE BEE}PUB%ISE!NG‘_UD., Props. Jis Latro's base-ball players are llke his political henchmen. They are pretty good strikere. — “Ir that ungrateful wretch Tipton wants to go back on me and Boyd, I'll show him up by the card."—Dr. Miller, SINcE the British llon has heard that one hundred Texas cowboyaare willing to join Kamaroff, he has slunk away with his tall between his leg Dr. Miiier deplores and laments the legalizad murder of poor Smith, the wife _ maurderer, at Osceola, as a cruel relic of barbarism. Thedoctor ought to emigrate to Indla where the Hindoos] weep over the death of a louse. Jupcixg from a recently published In- tervlew in the Ber with Capt. Frainey, of Council Blaffy, who pummeled an Towa Congressman, we should say that he is as handy with his mouth as hels with his fists. Tue Omaha Republican—in common with other organs of jobbery and plun- der—would D> pleasad to have the fall- are of John Roach made a natlonal issus. A’party that would be foolish enough to mako a national irsus out of a eubsldized ship-bullder would sink deep than any of his loaky ships. Tuk scramble and scufile over the re- mains of Smith, who was hanged at Os- ceola, will b as fierce and desperate bo- tween the rival medical colleges of Lin- coln and Omaha as is the struggle be- tween the lawyers, cherlffs, marshale, credlitors and succassors over the remalns of Smith, the merchant pirate of the prairles, Tue unlon veterans ought to Invite Gen. John M. Thayer to partlclpate in the publlc services In memory of Gen. Grant, Gen, Thayer was not only one of Grant's most trusted commanders, bat numbered also among his most ar- dent admirers. Two years after the war, when Thayer was elected Unlted Staten senator, he was among the fieat, 1f not the firat, to urge Gen. Grant’s nom- Inatlfon for the presidency. —_—— Ir will be a gratifying surprise to the friends of Mr. Louls Weinsteln, formerly of Omaha, to learn that this enterprising Gorman-American has become the man- aglog edltor of the Burlington Rawkeye under its change of proprietorship. The next thing we shall expect to hear is that Mr, Welnstein is a candidate for postmaster-general. The Hawlkeye edi- tors are noted for their high aspirations. MaNY of the leading papers of the country are endorsing Senator Mander— son’s attitude with regard to New Mexico, and under tho clrcumstances he can no doubt stand the assaults that are being made upon him by the pollticians of New Moxico through thelr territorlal organs, The St. Louls Globe Democrat says: New Mexico has a total population of about 125,00), and of these fully four-fifths are of Spanish or Mexican race, the latter denom- ination including Indian half-breeds, while of the remainder probably not one fifth are of the average American intelligence, In other words, to introduce this territory into the Union of States would immediately open the market for brivery and corruption of the worst kind; would be to swamp the fow educated and upright people under thoso of the pur- chasable mob of greasers, and to work incal- culable injury to the country, The United States is a pretty substantial institution, but ono such experiment as Nevada ought to be sufticient for at least one generation, Tue Mormon outbreak falled to mate rlalizo on last Fridsy. If the Mormony really had any iIntention of creating a OMAHA AND THE UNION PACIFIC. Mayor Boyd must stand firm on the platform apon which he planted himself in his letter to Charles Francls Adams. In that position he Is sastalned not only by the property owners of Omaha, but by overy cltizen who 1s not absolutely under the control of the Unlon Paclfie, Omaha atks nothlng unreasonable of the managoers of that road, and we express the overwhelming sentiment of the com- munity when we Indignantly resent as an insult to their lntelligence the attempt of the Herald to act as a modistor between our citizens and the Unlon Pacific. The time has long since gone by for brass-collared mersenarles to mould pub- lic sentlment in Omaha, Mr. Adams THE DAILY BEE- of population It is the ninth., The /nde. pendent Inslats that the proofs are on hand, and It proposes ;to show that the names of Grand Islanders have not only been purloined and added to the popula. tlon of Hastings once, but thst each name was Inserted in several different re- tarns by the enumerators, If this Is true a recount should be ordered with. out delsy. Grand Island probably ob- jeots to being mede a suburban addition to Hastings, GRANT AND THE JEWS, The attempt of an Impudent Impostor by the name of Browne who officlates as rabbl In “The Temple Gates of Hope,” in New York, to give himself notrloty by sadly undorrates the Intelligence and splrlt of Independence of our citizens 1f he thinks that a sabservient and sab- sidizad organ, voiclng the wish and wiil of the Unfon Pacific, can exert any influ. ence In behalf of his road. Dr. Miller, who clalms ‘‘to speak by the card,” pleads the poverty act in be- half of his client, the Union Paclfic, and advlses our cltizans to acquissce in the dilly-dallylng policy which would delay for an Indefinite time the accommoda- tions and safe-guards to which a city of sixty thousand psople Is entitled, If the managers delude themsslves into the be- let that Omaha will tamely submit to such shameful treatment, they will pres- ently dlscover that they are very much mistaken, There is no dlsposition on our part or on the part of our people, in whose be- half we speak, to cripple the Unlon Pa- clfic or make any demands that cannot be roasonably complied with. We re- alizo that Omaha hay some material in- terests ln common with the Unlon Pa- clfic, but we also firmly Inslst that the Union Paclfic shall dlscharge its obliga- tions to Omaha In good falth, and give us accommodations equal to those enjoyed at its Lands by other cltles which hsve never contributed a dollar In bonds or lands, while Omaha has glven mora thaa a milllon dollars in subsidies. The con- ditions upon which these subsidles have been given have never baen complied with, The company has taken our $250,000 county bonds, and bullt a $200,000 depot on the other eide of the rlver. As if to add Insult to lojory the company has erected a mere shed on the depot grounds, donated by this city at a cost of $200,000, and this wrotched depot has been made a thoroagnafara for all ts frelght tralns to ths annoyanca and dls- comfort of the public. Tho approaches to this depot shed are dangerous to life, limb and property and hive become a naulisancs, which the clty 1s in duty bound to abate. When Mr. Charles Francls Adams was respectfully petitioned by citizens and the city councll to negotlate for a vladuct system across the tracks, he went out of his way to make threats and treated us to an insolent and insalting lecture, Mayor Boyd's response was timely bat to the point. It not only expressed the prevatling public senttment but firmly asserted the rights of Omaha under ex- 1sting contracts with ths road, and the au- thority of theclty to enforce proper reg- ulations for the protection and accommo- datlon of its cltizens, Prosident Adams has made no re- sponse, But Dr, Miller has the Impu- dent assurance to present himself as ar- bitrator botween the Union Paclfic and Omaha, The people of Omaha repudiate his asaumptlon to speak or act for them, They have a mayor and council to repre- sent their interest, with ample power to enforca their rights, Mayor Boyd has domonstrated his abllity and willlngness to discusy our grievances and no hlred interlopers will b3 countenancad. I Manager Callaway des!res an awmicable sottlemont of ths local demands, he should deal dlrestly with our clty author- itfes. Right hera lot us say that the ples of no monsy to baild dopots and viadoots in Omaha s preposterous. Suppoze that a pagsangar train with an engine and & dozan coaches wers wrecked by collision or other ascident, would the company walt a year or two to ralse money enough to replaca the engine and cara? Would [t not consider it absolu- tely necessary to purchasa or construct a new traln at once 50 as to keep up Its equipment? The cost of such a traln might be from $75,000 to $100,000, but the money would be ralsed. Why should not the road treat the Omaha depot and crossings as a part of 1ts necessary equlp- ment? For the last fifteen years the road has disturbance on that day, the precautlons |saved from $15,000 to $20,000 ia city of Gen, Howsrd and Gov. Murray In|tsxes every year. haviog the troops retained at Fort Doug- las no doubt had the eftect of induclng It has secured rights of way worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, which If not granted would hayve them to postpone the outbreak until a|taken so much money out of its treasury. more 1taelf, expecting trouble on that day, which was the thirty-elghth anniversary of the set- tlement of Utah, The Mormons alwaya flock into Salt Lake In great numbers to celebrate this anniversary, and it was be- leved that belng etill excited over the Fourth of July incldent, they would at- tempt some similar insult to the flag and favorable opportunily presents Is It just or décent now tv refuse Omaha There was really good groond for | proper facllitles 7 Are not the tax-ex- emptlons alone which it enjoys in this olty more than equal to any outlay it might make for depots and viaducts | WaEeN the Mormons learned that the services of thirty-ive members of the Glendive, Montans, G, A, R. post had been tendered to Governor Murray of the dlsclosure of a great secret concern- tng Gen, Grant's famous order No. 11, impels us to exposo the pretender and glve & correct version to this histortc incident. Rabbl Browne who profestes to have been an Intimate friend of Gen. Grant assorts that the general, ten years ago, made known to him the secret which he had kept these twenty yoars, namely that the order expelllng the Jews from the military divislon of the Mississippi came to him from Washington direct and was promulgated agalnst his (Grant's) will and protest. This ls the first time Rabbl Browne has been heard of outside of an obscure synagogue in the clty of New York, and we venture to say that his in- timacy with Gen. Grant Is as fictitlous as his revelation. The history of order No. 11 is by no means a dead secret, and while there may be some uncertainty as to the orlgi- nator it certainly never did emanate feom Washington, Only three men at Wash- Ington had authority to lssue orders to Gen. Grant, They weroe Major-General Halleck, then the commander-in-chief, Edwin M. Stanton, secretary of war, and Abraham Lincoln, presldent. Inas- much as tho order included clviltans out- slde as well as within the rebelllous atates, Gen. Halleck never would have dared to lesue such an order without di- rectlons from Stanton or Lincoln. That neither Stanton nor Lincoln directed Grant to issue the offenslve order, ls patent on its face. Why should they have directed the expulslon of the Jews from Kentucky, Tenncsseo and Migeissippl, and allow them to remaln in Virginta, North and South Carolina, Georgla, Florlds, Alabams, and Louiei- ana? If the order emanated from the war department why did Lincoln revoke the order within forty-elght hours after it was lssued? The writer was in the war department as & military telegrapher when the order was iesued, and personally received the first copy tranemltted to Mr. Lincoln with a remonstrance from leadlng cltizens in Kentucky, Tennessee and Ohio. He heard the cate fully dls- cussed and ramembers meeting Rev. Dr. Wise and the late Dr. Lillenthal, who had come to Washlogton a few days later to take some actlon to preventjthe repeti- tlon of such orders and also to have General Grant censured by congrees. The redoubtable Rabbl Browne was not there. The chances are ten to one that he had mnot yet landed in this country. A resolution censurlng General Grant for {ssuing order No. 11 was introduced fn the senate by that notorious copperhead, Senator Powell, of Kentucky, and as might be expected was tabled by more than a two-thleds vote. Had the introducer of the resolution been a re- publican or a war democrat It s possible that the resolution would have passed under the state of faeling then exlating. Grant was a democratlc general and had not yet captured Vicksburg, The facts concerning order No. 11, are these: In the winter of 1862-63, while Gen, Graot was operating down In Mls- slesippl the confederates were smuggling supplles and mediclnes through the union lines, and receiving a great deal of ald and comfort through the emug- glers, s majorlty of whom were Jews. Grant became annoyed and exasperated at this class of Intraders, and determined to put an end to their trafic. Darlog the firet week In January, 1863, an order was issued from Grant’s head- quartors, expelllng all Jows, regardless of sex, age or prevlous condition from the enlire department, which included the atates betweon the Ohio river and Lou- islana. Thls order required all Jews livlog in Kentucky, Tennessee and Miss- {sslpp! to emlorate within a few days, and very naturally aroused not only the Jews directly affectod, but the Jews in every part of the unlon, That Gen. Grant had ever glven any serlous thought to thls order fs hardly probable, The rank and file of his own army in. cluded thousands of Jews, and order No. 11 embraced the loyal and law.ablding Jews as well as the disloyal and merce- nary scamps who were carrylng on the business of smuggling, The obnoxlous order was revoked by President Lincoln, but the Jews very natarally came to look upon Grant as & Jew-hater, When the republicans were about to nominate Gen, Grant for president In 1808, order No. 11 was resurrected with a vengeance, and It was almost certain that nearly all the votes and influence of thus provoke a colllslon with the gentiles [ Utah, they immediately subelded and|the Jews would bs thrown against and the federal authorlfiss. Had the|indefinitely postponed the proposed an-| Grantunless some satisiaciory explana roops been sent away from Fort Doug- |vivereary clrous. It had the same effect |tlon was made. At thls junctare the las to the Indlan Territory they very|upon the Mormons as the tender of one|editor of the Bek, who a% that tlme was likely would have made soma hostile de- | bundred Texas cowboys to Iomaroff had | still connested with the telegraph servlce, monstration, The discusslon Fourth of July lncident together with the expected outbreak on the 24th hae newspapers of the country, and the sen. | we expect to see the fur fly. of the|upon John Bull, War has been declared openly be. been quite general among the leading|tween Grand Island and Hastings, and |tien. Grant the propriety ef a prompt Grand addressed a letter to Gen, John M. Thsyar, then United States senator from Nebraska, requesting him to urge upon and definlte explanation of order No, 11, tlments expressed have been carefully | Teland charges that Hastlugs hes etuffad | Within loss than thirty days thereafter the welghed by the Mormons whe, in all|the ballot-box with Grand Island repeat- |late Gen, Rawlins issued a card throogh probability, became convinced from the|ere. tenor of tho prees that It would not do to | by the Grand Island Zndependent that | responslbility for the order, Io other words the charge is made the press In which he assumed the full As chief create any tebellious dlsturbance just at| Hastiogs has Ioflated the cenaue, and|of stafl Gen., Rawllns had drawn a much 4his time, instead of belng the third town in polut more sweeplog oider than was conts-m plated, and Grant had hastily signed it without taking time to reflect upon Its effect. In 1868 when Rawlins fathered the order, Lincoln and Halleck were both dead, and Stanton was at aword’s points with Grant. If, as Rabbl Browne pre. tends, General Grant sgalnst his will and protest was compelled to Issue that order by Halleck, Stanton or Lincoln, he certaloly would not have hesitated to tell the truth and place the responsibillty whera it belonged, A more charltable and more plausible view of Geon. Grant's action is that he was rash in »signing a decree which was much more aweeping than hointended. It was a blunder of the head and not of the heart, When Gen, Grant becamo pres- ident he made amends by extendlng many favors to Jews, and the fact that prominent Jews, and notably Jesse Selig- man, were counted among his int'mate frlends shows that he had no prejudice. As to the Rev. Mr, Browne we would say, In charlty, the less he boasts of his personal relatlons with Gen, Grant thebetter, The great secret he has divulged is about on a keeping with the appellation of ‘‘the second Moses” which he has graciously bestowed on Gen. Grant, Everybody knows that Grant was nelther a law-giver nor an emancipator. He was not a meek and holy Moses, but a Joshus who took de- light In smiting the confederate Phills- tines hip and thigh when he had his fight- Ing harness on, The Rabbi Browne has secured some notorlety, but it lsas an Impoator rather than as a revelator. Tue Sloux City Journal boasts that on Friday last it printed 4,224 coples. That is very good for Sioux City. The Omaha Bk on Thursday last printed and sold 10,128 copies, and on Friday 10,447 coples. Thlis i very good for Omaha. ANOTHER republican office-holder hes resigned. Mr. George W. Wilkinson, agent at tho Omaha and Winnebago rotervatlon, bas volunteered to step ocut. He was not an offensive partisan, STATE JOTTINGS, The Fmerson Echo has vanished. Blair is talking up wator works with wind mull pressure, Knox connty farmers are harvestingla boun- tiful crop of small grain, sus of that town was an_over-production, _ ~“Another brick school house, 82x42, is to be built at Urete, It will cost about §2,000, Red Cloud cries ont for street lamps, tele- phones, muzzled doge, and new sidewalks, Weeping Water is making preparations for the annual show of grain, stock and spude, Burt county threatens to turn itself into a cattle ranch and fatten £0,000 head of stock a year. Candidates for county cflic2s can be singled out in a crowd by the breadth of tneir smiles, The census enumerator is the most_popular man in Hastings; in Nebraska City he is outlawed. Nebraska City’s new packing house will be 112x196, Work on the puilding will begin August 10, £l + The spire of the Episcopal church in Beatrice was splindered by lightning, last Wednesday. Lots in Chadron are selling high, The town expects to be the winter terminus of the Northwestern, Three valuable horses were killed by light- ning, Wednesday, in the barn of L. Batten, near Raymond, Charles Bacon, of Grand Teland, is laid up with a broken hip and arm, having been thrown from his horse. “Thieves plucked 275 from the pockets of J. C. Pederson, of Grand Island, He is loaded for the next caller, The Fremont base ball club is an Alaska brilliant with mckel setting., If you don’t believe 1t feel of their shins. Lighening fired a haystack on the farm of Shadrock Cole, near Plattsmouth, Thursday, and burned it to the ground, *‘Omaha is becowing the Chicago of the west,” says the Columbus Journal, * and is developing at a marvelous rate,” Steve Long, ome of the Drighton ranch thugs, got four years and a halt in the pen for killing old man Province, last spring. A fire bug attempted to malke a bonfire of several stores in Springfield, last week, but the calawity was throttled in its infancy. An old lady named Johnson, living nesr Plattsmouth, sought rest in a dose of strych nine last week, but was pumped out in time, The census gives Holdrege a population of 1,020 and its older meighbor Minden, 1,004, Minden failed to catch on to a grading gang. Kearney county i3 going to suo all road supervisors who neglect to notify persons in the road districts who are subject to road tax, Fremont has resolved that 00 in wator works would be a goud investment, It is proposed to 18sus twenty year seven per _cent bonds, Since a Fromont merchant advertised ladies hose by the yard, the editor of the Herald llnsk\'ulnly eought the foremanship of the yard stick, Minden is jealous of the glory gained by Osceola last week, baviog made several un- successful attempts to have a hanging bee herself, A black trooper, belooging to the Ninth United States cavalry, was found dead along- side the railway track near Ogallala, Tuceday orning, John Beddy, & homesteader in Holt, is said to be heir to £30,000, John has more warm {rieads and advisors now than he had acquain- tances before, A brace of housebreakers tapped the store of Mayor Bros., Plattemouth, Thursday night, and smuggled 8500 worth of clothing over the river, J. D, Stoddard, charged with the murder of James Meehan at ltepublican City July 16th, was bound over to the district court in the sam of £3,000 The ladies cornet band of Ord are all en- goaged ~to Hall county, Grand Island mash- ers are bathiog their heads in ice water to re- duce the swelling, Thirty ministers and eixty echool teachers exhausted all subjects in Tekamab, last week, Solid chunks of silence are now roling through the town, » Anthony Stanek, & Johnson county farmer, was run down while crossing the 4, & N. track Tuesday, and instantly killed, 1o leaves o wife und six small children, W. 8, Stretch, formerly chief clerk in the surveyor general’s office, and more recontly editor of the Falls City Argus, died of sun siroke in Atchison, Kas,, on the 20th, Tobiay Castor, of Wilber, came off victorious in his divorce euit. Ho was given custody of the two children, but must pay 8600 snnually to Mrs, C. The latter will appeal the case, The Salne county fair at Crote this faf will undoubtedly bo & fine one. Stock aud produce will be the principal exhibit, and in those lines of industry Saline challenges the Hastings emphatically denies that the cen- | 59 MONDAY, JULY 27 188 the trigker. e was 36 years old and ought to know better, A noble red man, fed and clothed at the Rosebud agency, entered a_scheol house fcur miles distant from Valentine on Thureday morning and brutally assaulted the teacher, Miss Maynard, Officers are on the trail of the red devil. A scandal of huge proportions threatens to explode in Hastings at an early day. There is considerablo agne among the higher grades of aristccracy in consequence, Omaha will sup ply & carload of disinfectant at the lowest cash rates, freight added, Anton Keyzer, a Butler county farmer, at temptad to resous his fon from & wagon at tached to n runaway tesm. Ho missed his footing and fell under the wagon, The hind wheel crushed his ankle so badly that ampu tation was necessary, Regular passenger and freight trains wilf commence running to Chadron, over the new Northwestern line, August 24, Chadron_is 840 miles from the Missonri, ~ A stage_line will run from the end of the road to the Black Hills a little over 100 miles, Tiditor Sherman of tha Plattemouth Hor ald, was thrashed by S, P, Hollaway for a “'breach of social etiquette,” to put it mildly, The rotund and rotary Journalist should dun his Iady subecribers by mail and not tackle them on the strecta aiter dark, A farmer by the name of Deedley, living near Meadville, had his eyesight badly in- jured a few days ago by the accidental explo- sion of a cartridge, On returning_ home he discovered. blind as ho was, that his wife had just eloped with a neighbor named Rogers. Marshall Field, a boy of twelve, living on the lowa side of the river opposite Piatts- mouth, was instantly killed by lightning Toursday evening. ~The lightuing struck him near the temple and its _course_could be traced down the side of the face and lelt side of the broast. The Union Cattle company of Wyoming has_completed arrangements to feed 2,000 cattlo near Omaha, The Cheyonne live Stock Journal says steamed food is to be used and the first bunch Wil bo put inat an earl date, fattenod and turnod out late in the fall, when another lot of 2,000 will be put in and fattened for the spring market. The unkindest cut of all was that which barred the nobby Nat Smails from a champion base ball game in Fremont recently, The challenge containod the clause, **No bachelor or other unfortunate who has made diligent efforts to marry, but still has not proposed over twelvo timea shall be barred. “'A count of *'mittens” showed eleven for Nat, 8o he sat on hia hools and watched the game. The Nebrasks OCity Press delivers a loft handed slap at the mugwumps of the rebellion in the following prelude to a sketch of Gen, Grant: *‘Here Lurks No Treason; Here No Envy Swells; Here Lio No Damned Grudges; Nothing But Silence and Eternal Sleep, The Dusty Graios of Life are Spent, and the Great Soldier-Staterman of the Age is Dead,” General Manawer Holdrege whispered into Plattsmouth’s capacious ear last week, “Business mon of I’lattsmout can rest assured that the B, & M. will give them every ad- vantage in freight rates that Omaha can get. It is the policy of the company to build up the business of the towns aud’ country ini ts territory." Saline county has a woman who is so chock full of business that she has no time or space for sentiment, On Monday of last week her husband died and on Wednesday his remains were placed under ground amid the lamenta- tions ot the widow, who reasoned. **Tears will not relieve him, therefore T weep.” On Friday the widow shed her weeds, donned her bridal robes, and became the wife of a man named ansen, Willie, the deaf-mute son of Richard Ship man, ot York, miraculously escaped being cruched to death by a lecomotive one day last week. The boy was walking along the track and of course did not _hear the warning whis- tles of the engineer, ~He was struck by the cow-catcher and thrown from the track, = Be- yond a few severe bruises he escaped with- out serious injury, . There is a private poker room flourishing in North Bend. Constable McDonald peeped over transom and viewed the tiger unbidden, A warrant brought the keeper of the zo0 into court and the constable and lswyer wound up the case with a free fight. It was a wild time with justice clapping her hands and shouting, ‘“‘Give it to hun Jimmy; chaw his ear.” The tiger is laid up for repairs and Mac is still on the beat. The amendment paseed by the last legisla- ture makes it unlawful to kill, trap or ensnare any grouse between the first day of January and the first day of September of each year; the time of protection, as to quail and ‘wild turkey, being extended to October 1. The penalty for the violation of the law is a fine of $5 for each grouse or quail killed or trap- , and $'5 for each wild turkey, Don’t mistake the date for August 1st, Joseph Haupt, of Earl, confeases that it 18 dangerous to bo within range of a compan- ion's pun when a_jackrabbit invites a dose of lead. Last Monday Joseph backled on his armor and started out with Fred Schmitzel on a gunning tour. A jack rabbit bobbed up between Fred and Joe, and the former blazed away. A yoll from adjacent shrubbery prov- ed that something_ was hit, and an examina- tion showed that Joe's body was well planted with No, 3 shot. Nona of the wounds are fa- tal and Schumitzel is rlieved of all blame, The Nebracka City News tells of the mean deriugs of the railroad commiseion: The railroad commission who visited this city Thursday, are out on a tour of inspection to ascertain *‘the public accommodations fur- nished by the B, & M. in the way of depots, sidewalks and shipping facilities,” They have a special train of two cars in which they eat and sleep. As one of the railroad boys, who accompanied the train here, remarked: “They had everythiog they could think of or want—except a corkscrew, and that got lost.” Engineer George W, Vroman, of North Platte, was presented with a handgoms badge by the members of the Likhorn ledge of locomotive firemen for substantial services aa a member of the grievarco committee. The ge bears the usual brotherhood monogram "B, of L, I'.” in various colors of gold and ‘Div, 85" in enamel. 1t is about an inch in #iza aud nearly equare, Delow it and at- end of the tached to it by two links ot eacl edal, bearing a wi badg is the monogram o reverse it be Goorge W, Vi pan s & Token of Esteem by Elkhorn Lodge No, 28, B. of L. F., of North Platto, Nebraska, July 18, 18 e An Endorsement of Senator Mander- son, Denver Tribune, Some of the peoplo of the east ara in- clined to attack Senator Manderson of Nebraska for his report agsinst the ad- misslan of New Mexico Into the union as a state. If more were known in the esst sbout the utter unfitness of Now Mexico to become & state, the refusal to admit 1t would be received without a word of disapproval. There are but two territories that are now ready for mistion Into the union, They srs Wash- Ington and Dakota, Dakota ehould be divided, and cnly the eouthern part of it should be admitted. The northern half should bo erested into a new ter- ritory. e — Sowed the Wind to Keap the Whirt wina, Fremont Tribuce, When the Republican endorsed and worked for Jim Boyd as mayor of Omabs, 1t eowed the wind to reap the whirlwind Boyd, true to nature and true to bour: boniem, makes partisan appointments to public office aad turps up his nose at the protests of the mugwumps who roshed to his support without even keing solielt- ed todoeo, The Republican therefore feels grieved that Its counscls are not recognized by the mayor and democratle natlonal ecmmitteoman whoee cause, he says, was only damaged by its sapport. The wages « f sin lu death, — Crooked Scullers, world, * ded i Pirrss uly 25,—The Commercial (ia ylaen bundred men are at work on the B. | ety thig momning states there was shameful pected that the line will be ready for Lusiness | crookedness in the management of the Tee. October 1st, up rapidl A Cedar Rapids blackimith, in & £t of | prowi mental depression, placed the muzzle of & |be beaten, The country adjacent is settling | mer rega 1t states that those who partici pated did not get half the money they were 1 and that Teemer allowed himself to that those who had charge of the loaded rifle under bis chin and his big tos on | affairs could get even on pools, . R R O ————= EARLY LIFE IN NEBRASKA. The Trials and Tribalations of Army Officers on the March. Destruction of a Five Gallon Jug, a Quart Bottlo and & Mess of Doughnuts—Character- istics of the Pio- neers, Written for the Bi NO. VI, Probably-Peter A, Sarpy was the first white settler In what ls now Nebrask: he came to Belleview about the year 1 and established a trading post and con- tinued to live there until after the organ- 1zation of the territory in 1854, when he removed across the river to St. Marys, where he kept a store until his death. He waa a character In his way, and the writer may some time pive a sketch of him. Following Sarpy ay the first set- tlers, were Commodore Decatur, another strange character, and the mission people. About 3,000 Mormons passed the winter of 1847.8, at what {s now known as Flor- ence, but called by the Mormons, *‘win- ter quarters,” while Brigham Young, his twelve, and a supply train had gone to spy out a home in the mountains. Bu! thelr stay at Florence was only tempo- rary. A military post was first establlshed at the mouth of Table creek, now Nebraska City in 1845, and wes commanded by Capt. Ben Moore, till the commence- ment of the Mexlcan war. In the spring of 1847, the president made a requisition upon the state of Missouri for a battalion of five companles of mounted volunteers, to take the place of the mounted rifles of which Fremont was first colonel, which was sent out for the purpose of opening up a line of communications with Oregon, but which bad been dlverted to Mexlco, to joln Scott. This battallon wintered at this post, which had been named FORT KEARNEY. In the spring of 1848 the battalion moved up the Platte and located and ee tablished Fort Childs, on the south slde of the rlver not far from where the B. & M. crosses it. Old For: Kearney at Nebraeka City was then abandoned and the name of the new post was changed from Fort Childs to Kort Kearney in honor of Gen, Stephen W. Kearney. “ 1In the battallon, Gen. James Cralg, of St. Joe, Mo., was captain of one of the companies. Thoee who lived In Omaha durlng the wer will readily recall him, then a brigadier general of volunteers, in commsand of the district of Nebraska, with headquarters in the old Herndon house, now the U. P. offices, as the wrlter has been informed, he being In the sonth at the time. Gen. Craig ls an honored and worthy citizen of Mis. sourl. Subsequent to the war, he sorved his dfstrict faithfully in congress. He is one of the most genial, pleasant and honorable citizens to bs found in the Missourl valley. The writer thus takes care to make himeself all right with the general In advance, for he Is about to disregard an injunction of the Missourlan which was not to publlsh his letter written In answer to one from the writer, asking for some informatton in regard to the establishment of a post at Nebraska Clty, and subsequently of Fort Childs, (changed to Fort Kearney). As the writer does not expect to visit St. Joo In thenear future and has no reason to apprehend that Gen. Cralg will put in an appearance In Nebraska for some tima to come, he will take the chances of pub- lishlvg an extract from the general’s lettor, describing A HARROWING INCIDENT that ocourred to him while engaged in service on the frontler, Ho eaga: While at Fort Kearney (Nebraska City) I was ordered with my command to relieve an- other_company eecorting a train of wagons containing 300 bores of silver_destined to Coancil Bluffa to bo paid to the_Pottawottn mies 08 part of the prico of Western Iowa, ceded to tho government Dby treaty tho year provious, My orders were to guard the money till paid to the Indiane, and protect them from gamblers, thicves and whisky traders, who, at that day, always congreated at In' dian payments. ~ Before leaving Fort Kear- ney, our sutler, Bob Wilson, always watch- ful for the comforts of tho officers, placed a fivegallon keg of old bourbon in my wagon, marked “Capt. Cralg.” As Iay bed Tradera’ Point, where the Indians were as cembled, T found the country filled with Mormon campa and settlers’ cabins, not a few of them prepared to _trade with the Indians, and especially in_‘‘firewater * 1 stored my keg with o Mrs, Fergusor, three mules out, hiding it recuraly, as I supposed. Tho next morning I found it necesasry to igsuo an order crusing all the cabius and campa to be searched, and all liquor found in tho conatry to be destroyed. E ) my sergeants in different directions with the order, and to my utter horror and mortification, the firat rquad that returnsd in tho evening roported the spoiling of five eallons of whisky at Fer guson’s, marked "“Capt. Oraig.” Now, Gen- oral, if you have ever been 150 miles beyond the white settlements, in good_health, dry as a contribution box, and_have had one of your own officers understaud and obey sn order like mine, litorally, you may have some iden of my and my officers’ deglorablo condition. I did not kill’ the sergeant, o is alive to- day. I complimented him in orders but it was my opinion at_the time that ho was too good for this wicked world, and ought to have died young. and Mr. Allen rematning with the wagon and sapplies, we started across the river In single file, piloted by the Indians. When towards midway over, my horse began to slnk In the treacherous qulck- sand, and to flonnder about in his efforte to withdraw his legs from it. I Im- medistely slld off Into the Platte and glviog him a sharp blow with my stick, he quickly extricated him- solf, and gotting on to a firmer bottom, I remounted, and we reached the village In safoty. The whole trlbe were out upon the bauks watching our progross across the perfidions stream, Then the chief and warrlors, and as many more ae the big council tent wonld ho{d, and it was very large, composed of poles and skins, gathered there. The wrlter ad- dressed the chlefs, laylng the complaints before them, and declaring to them that thelr plandering and robbing the set- tlers must coase; 1fit did not, they would be subjected to severe punlshment, The chlefs charged the wrongs upon theie young men, and as having been commit- ted without thelr knowledge. They promised falthfully enough to put an end to them, The calumet of paace was then passed around, of which we took a few whifls, and the council onded. I was In constant dread that we should be invited to partake of a kind of black stew Iu an fmmense black kettle, over a fira In the center of the lodge. A refusal would, of course, have been re- garded by them as a contempt of thelr hospltality; but, fortunately, that hospi- tality was not tendered to us. We re- crossed the river In tho sams manner, thinking of tho supply of tempting food awaitlng us at our camp, when, on arrlv- Ing there, we found to our amazement and horror, some twenty young braves HAD BEEN OVER THERE, overpowered the one loft In charge of the wagon, and had taken every article of the food we had brought, bolled ham, rolls, doughnuts, coffee, and the bottle of brandy. While we were holding councll with the chiefs and they were promlsing everything In the way of good behavlor, the young rascals were robblng us of everything we Zhad to eat. It wae just at night, and wo were cold, wet and hungry. Oar conditlon was_slightly de- plorable. It can ba readily belleved that we started on our return the next morn- Ing with heavy hearts, and with no en- larged viows of indlan good faith and hospltality. The mentlon of Gov. Izard Tan hardly fall, with those who knew him here per- sonally as governor, to call up some smusing remintacences of him. One comes to mind now. On one occagion. when cleslog an address to the leglsla- ture he said: “‘When the final summons sball come for me to go hence, my earnest prayer 18 that my humble body shall be Iaid away in its last resting place on eome one of the beautiful promontories that adorn and embellish the beautiful banks of the lovely Missouri.” He long ago went to his rest, bat not whero ho expressed the wish to be lald, but down in his own beloved Arkansas, on the swampy banks of tho murky St. Francls. The last Intelligence the wrl- ter ever had of him alive was from some soldiers of the First Nebraska, who dur- ing the war passed his place and TOOK SOME MULES FROM IT to replace some in the traln broken down. They recognized him as he stood in the doorway looking wistfully down the road at the mules as they disappeared from his sight, probably feellng very much as the Methodlst preacher, Brother Crawford, felt down In Mississippl, on an occaslon. He had served his etated time with the church and was to start for his next field of labor on Sunday after- noon after proaching hls farewell sermon. Hle mode of traveling was on horseback, with bis saddlebags. After concluding the services he took a position in front of the desk go that all could pass before him and take him by the hand; aund as they did so they exclaimed with tearful eyes and sobbing hearts, ‘“‘Farewell, Brother Craffad;” each repeating, * Farewell, Brother Craffud.” When the last one had uttered the parting words Elder Orawford hastened from the house and mountiog his mare, startod down the road. A few rods from the gateway thero was a pond In the middle of the road, at which the animal shiod, and as quickly laid her rider upon the other side, and then, kicking up her heels and throwing up her tail, she galloped riderloss away. Gathering himsslf up he stood for a fow moments looking anxiously at the rapidly receding mare, and was thon heard to solilcquiz to himself, *‘Ani she also seems to sy, ‘Farewell, Brother Craf- fud.”” GOV. RICHARDSON, mentioned above, was one of the first sot- tlers in Omaha and Nebraska, He had been lieutenant governor of Michigan, and when Nebraska was opened for ocou- pancy, though much older than mosy of the pioneers, he came to Omaha and united hls fortunes with the new country. He and his worthy companion helped to make that pleesant soclety in Omsha In thoss early days, now long gone, but never to b forgotten, They were good and true In all the rclations ot life, and wero held in the h'ghest esteem by all. They lived to 8 rips old sgoand thelr Itves were beautifully rounded out, for in death they wera not long divided, as both, if the writer is not mistaken, were laid away on the same day, into that rest which will remain unbroken till the ush- ering In of the new day. They wore the varents of Lyman Rich The wrlter suffered a more aggravat- ing logs on one ccosston, but not by the same wens, He bad been appolnted in 1855 commander of the militla and vol- unteers, when ocalled out, and conse- quently when the Indlans caused trouble the governor was gure to call upon him, One day in the spring of 1855, Governor Izard came to my house and said a courier had just arrived from the Elk- horn, reporting serlous depredations, stealing cattle, etc, by the Pawnees, and that the settlors were hurrying in to Omaba, snd desired me to proceed to the Pawnee village at once, and hold a coun- cil with the ohlefs and fuslst on these depredations baing stopped. Mr. Allce, the Interpreter, llving at St. Mary’s, was sent for, Ex-governor Richardeon kindly offered to accompany me. The party conslsted of him, Allce, J. E. Allen, and wmynelf, travelling with a pale of horses and farm-wagon. My wife prepared a bountiful supply of ratlons, inclading nearly a half bushel of nice, fresh dough- nutz, and other things to match, for we could not tell how many dage we would be out, and some ome plecsd fn the wagon, & large BOTTLE FULL OF CHOICE BRANDY, The village of the Pawnees was then on the south side of the Platte on a high bluff, a few mlles southeast of Fremont, We drove to the Platte opposite the vil lsge, and slgnaled that we desired to cros to thelr side several of their young men came over and we requested them to pilot us back, for fording the P'latte was not & very safe undertaklng, Governor Itichardson mounting one of our horscs, and I the other, without eaddles, the Indlans furnishing & pouny for Mr, Allce, ardson, Kaq., of the Herald, Mra, night, wife of Mr. Knlght, of the Herald, and Mrs. Gaorge 1. Gilbert. The writer has been flltting around Nebraska and Missourl, keeping Lewle and Clark waiting for hlm two or three weeks, but he willrejoin them next Sat. urday evening and Monday morning fol- lowing, and journey with them to the northwest. JouN M, Tuaves, Granp Isuanp, July 26th, ———— To Sing With Patti, Savannah (Ga.) News, July 18, In 1879 Louls R. Neumsyer, a boy about 18 years of age, came to Savannah to take a position in the shipping house of his uncle, Capt. Jossph A. Roberts, He did not exhibit any speclal liking for the businees, but developed a marked talent formuele Prof. Mallette, former- ly this city, said that he wes possessed of a voice of marvelous power. He will be remembered by many se the boy basso in the amateur concerts and operas produced at that time under Prof. Mallette, His uncle, falling to make a business man of him, sent him off, but the boy clung tc his music, and about two years ago se cured an engagement with the Thomas Orchestra and Concert company. Some time ago Pattl heard kim sing In San Francisco, and requested Col, Mapleson to secure hlm, which wes done, and the firet of September next the young man gees to London, under & five yoar's en- gagement, to slng in Italian opera, This is @ warked and wonderful instance of the development of a speclsl tslent under difticulties, as the youuvy man's relatives and frienda discouraged aud disapproved of his cource in every pcasible way, rome—— i e ——