Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 29, 1885, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. Oxana Orrics No. 914 AND 916 Fansan St Nuw Youk Orrice, Roos 65 Trinone Brito- 186G, only Monday morning Aaily published in the state One Year $10.00 | Throe Months.....8 2 50 Bix Months 5.00 | One Month. 1.00 The Weekly Bee, Published every Wednesday RIS, FOSTPAID, One Year, with premium One Year, without premiu Bix Months, without pre One Month, on trial.. . CORRRSTONDRSCE All Communications relating to News and Editorial taatters should be addressed to the EDITOR oOF i Ban. 8200 TN 75 PUSINRSS LETTERS, All Businoss Totters and Remittances thould be addressed to Tim Brr PUsLisiino COMPANY, OMATIA, Dratts,Checks and Post office orders to be made pay- Wble to the order of the company. THE BEE PUBLISHING C0, Preps, . ROSEWATER, Eniror, r Daily Circulation, Tuese is no hostility to railroads in this clty, but there s a determination to enforce contract obligations which the Uanlon Pacific has failed to perform, Ir1s Indeed gratifying to the people of the north to see the unanimity with which the south has offered up tributes of respect to the memory of Gen. Grant. Tue cholera contlnues its ravages In Spaln with unabated vigor. The total number of deaths so far 1s over 25,000. Only fourteen of the many provinces of Spain are free feom the plague, which, howover, Is likely not only to extend to every quarter of the kingdom, but to psy a socond visit to France. — Yousc Kun, who was graduated first in his claes at Wenst Point a few wecks a0, had a trlumphal reception on his return to Loavenworth, His father s a pocr blacksmith of that place, and he got his appolntment to & oa detship by win- ning a competltive examinatlon. Tue fact that Ex-President Hayes is overwhelmed with ordersfor thoroughbred fowls has compelled him t> emphatlcally state that he 1s not engaged in poultry ralsing as a buslness, and that he ralses only enough chickens for his own ute. That hen-ralsing story has caused him almost ar mucix annoyance as that Omaha saloon has given bim. 3eN. HowArp is belng commended by the leading papers of the country for his timely action In regard to the trouble that was expeoted to occur in Salt Lake on the 24th. There 1s no doubt that the retention of the trnops at Fort Douglas nad a reproslve_effect upon the would-be rebels among the Mormons. An ouncs of preventlon is worth a pound of cure. A ouerk who levanted to Canada from Sedalla, Mo., with his employer's funds, has returned, and restored $9,000,8aying that he would rather go to the penlentlary than live In the Do- minfon. If all the American embeazlers who are trylng to take life easy in Cana- da with thelr stolen funds would follow thls clerk’s example the treasure boxesin tho United States, as woll as the penlten- tlarles, would be filled to overflowing. Tue Atlentic cable s kept hot during these July days by the transmisslon of English scandals. Hardly a day passes without some cholce morsel being sent out. The Pall Mall Gazette nastinees was followed by an account of the fight between two marrled lords over the Jeraey L'ly, and now comes still another soneation fnvolving no less a perzon than 8ir Charles Dilke. When this epidemic of scandal among the English aristocracy will end 1t Is very difficult matter to say. —— Prorir generally have been led by erroneous statements to belleve that there aro about 200,000 persons In the United States postal service. The fact is that thore are considerably less than one-haif of that number. On June 30, 1884, the exact number of employes was 71,071, including the postmaster general, This 18 039 news to the hungry democrats whose chances for berths in the postal servlce are thus reduced more than fifty per cent below thelr calculations. ONE of tho Union Pacific decoys de- sires to Impross upon the oltizens of Oumaha that that corporation could ma- terlally damage this city if its managers were 8o dlsposad, No doubt of {t; but oould they dsmage us very much more tnan they have during the past two years! But Manager Callaway, who Is roputed to be an oxcellent raflrosd man, 18 10t likely to adopt the policy of the man who cut off his nose to spite his face. Besldes this Omahs is too large a vlllage to be snuffed out. REVERSE the poeltions. Suppose that the Unlon Paclfic had built a magnificent dopot and a costly wagon bridge on con- dition that Omaba should lssue half a milllon dollars In bonds to the company a8 » bonus, Suppose that these bonds had been duly lssued and Omaha was not ouly In defsult in the interest but should attempt to repudiate the princi- pn'. Now what would the managers of the Union Paclfic road do? Would they quietly submit and take threats or prom- fses in settlement for thelr olaime? ‘Would they not demand payment of the bond, and enforce it if it were within their power? — Tue assossora’ returns for city property are outrageously low, and the elty coun- oil 1s In duty bound to exercise Its suthority to ralse them. But 50 percant is altogother too high at one jump, Porhaps 8 ralse of 25 per cent wonld suswer the purpose, If that does not yleld sufficlent revenue for carrylng on tho proposed lmprovements, the bond proposition can ba submltted so as to make sure of an amount that will cover every necessary expendlture, The mere authorlty to lseue $50,000 {n improve. ment bends would not compel the city to disposo of tho entire amount this year. A portion of the bonds could be would give the city an early start with the fwprovements that remain unfin. shed, retsined until next sprivg, snd that|pim, ll DUPLICITY AND TREACHERY. Two things have cursed Nebraska, and par ticalarly Omaba, 1n the relations of the peo ple with the Union Pacific railway company. These are on the one hand the outrageous and calumnious abuse by the Ber of everything done or not done by that corporation, and on the other hand the unfailing and truckling support given by the Herald to every step of that corporation's course,— Oviaha Republican, This is Indeed refreshing, coming as it does from a paper whoee editors were for years on the pay-roll of the Unlon Pacific—a paper that wonld have gone to the wall years ago had it not been for the rallroad patronage. This caustic reference to the Herald's truculency would pass current for honest resent- ment were it not for the notorlons fact that the Republican ls only a eilent part- ner with the Herald In trying to play the confidence game on the community. The role which the Republican has taken upon itself is to find fault with ita slent partner and protend to takea high- up, falr-play and no favor position, with a view of making the public belleve that its advice is strictly dlsinterested. Thl 1s a8 Ingenlous as it s hypooritical, The Republican may decelve some people outslde of this city, but it cannot play decoy and capper success- fally in thls clty. Why did the Republican refuse to publish Mayor Boyd's letter to Charles Francis Adams ? Why doen It publish officlal interviews with Manager Callaway thatshow on thelr face an intent to hoodwink the public? Why should a paper that pretends to bs untrammeled and impartial adopt & policy which reqalres its reporters to color all thelr statements i favor of the Unlon Paclfic, and prevents them from making public everything that is lisble to provoke popular rosentment for maulfost abuses which need to be remedled? So far as the Ber s concerned It is willing to stand before the public upon its racord and polley. What the atool- pigoons and csppera are pleased to call calumny and abuee has slmply been a fearlese, firm and unswerving fidelity to the publlc welfare, instead of a cringing subserviency to the beheat of glant cor: porations, Certalnly the present mana- gers of the Unlon Pacific have no grounds for complaint about the Bek's treatment, Even Mr. Kimball has admitted that Mr, Adams made a great blunder in hls lotter to Mayor Boyd, and while he has always been bltterly hostile to this paper he has privately approved its course with regard to the vladuct controversy. Whatever concessions the company wiil make to our cltizens will be due to the firmness of Mayor Boyd and the councll, backed by public opinlon and a newspaper that has never betrayed the Interests of Omaha for rallroad pat- ronsge or favor. Dapllcity and treachery msy be necessary for readerless nows- papers, but the managers of the Union Paclfic will find In the end that they have nothing to galn by such support. A MUCH INVESTIGATED AGENT. The most thoroughly investigated agent in the Indian servicels Dr. McGillicuddy, of the Plne Rldge agency In Dakota. He has just passed throvgh another In- vestlgation, which we have every reason to belleve will result, as all the prevlous examinations have done, in his favor. He has at least demonstrated to Congress- man Holman’s committee his ability as a disclplinarian, his nerve as a man,and his determination to conduct the affalrs of his agency according to his best judg- ment, based upon his many years of ex- perience. We gather this much from a very full and authentlc account of the recent Indlan council, published In to- day’s BEE. Red Cloud as wusoal fook apeclal palns to reiterate his grievances agalnst McGillleuddy, aud to denounce him In unmeasured terme, as well as to make terious thrents, He intimated that if Mr. Holmen did not take McGillicuddy away with him, ke would not be respon- sible for the preservation cf peace st Pine Ridge. McGillicuddy has heard euch threats before, but he still holds his poeitlen and continucs to maintain peace. He more than ary other peraon fs respon- slble for the precervation of peace, and he personally has no fears of Red Cloud. The fact is that Red Cloud Is a confirmed growler and a disturber, and will alwaye continue to be until he suc- ceeds in getting an agent whom he can influence sod control. We questlon whether he would even thea be content, for he willnever forget hls deposition from the chleftainship of all the Sloux in 1876, by Gen. Orook who elevated Spotted Tall, one of the grestest Indian states- wen that ever lived, to that poeition, Nelther will he forget that Gen. Orook took from him all his horses, numberlog over seven hundred, for which he con- tinues to demand reparation in money from the government. Red Clcud and his followers are malcontents, They do mot like McGillicuddy, because he is not afraid of them, They fear him, ard that ls the kind of an sgent that Is needed everywhere among the Indlane, who do not respect an agent unless they do fear him, 1t must indeed have been gratifying to McGilllcuddy, after having received the ueval scoring from Red Cloud, to hear the able and elcquent epecch in his de- fence made by Young-Man-Afrald.of-his- Horses, who 18 one of the most Influential hereditary chiefs among the 22,000 In- dlans on the Sioux reservation, This cblef, in endorelng the administration of McGilllcuddy, volced the sentlments of sll the Pine Rldge agency Indlans, wiih the exceptlon of Red Clord and his three hundred followers, He stated, what is well known, that the Indians under McGillleuddy are progressing rapldly to- wards clvilization, snd are satisfied with They want no new sgent, The epeoch of this chbief certsinly cught to have more weight with Congreseman Hol- - THE DAILY BEE---WEDNESDAY, JULY 29 1885 man’s eommitteo than the stale growls|many months past. The cotton market and griovances of Red Cloud. has been the swene of greater We do not hesitate to say that|speculative actlvity and some McGillicuddy has done more for the|sharp fluctuations In values, Sloux Indians under his charge than any other agent has ever done for any other tribe, He has encoursged many of them to bulld houses and live like white people, He has assisted them to establish a system of echools. He has given them employment as team- stors, and tanght them how to become farmers. Many of them bave made great progrees, as In the case of Young- Man-Afrald-of -his-Horses, towards olvil- tzatlon and self.support. McGillicuddy has shown his confidence in them by selocting the most rellable men among them and organiziog them Into a well disclplined pollce force, who carry out his orders as promptly and as falthfully as 1f they were soldlers In the regular army and under the command of an experienced officer. In the organization of this police force MoGillicuddy’s army experfence has proved of valuable service to him. The Indians generally respect and fear him, as they know bim to be & man of his word and of unquestioned nerve. Un- der all these clroumstances we say {hat Dr. McGlllicuddy should remain just where he ls, He ls a man in whom the settlers along the northern frontler have the utmost confidence, and they do not wish tosee & new and inexperienced agent take his place. We hope McGilli- cuddy will now be given a rest from in- vestigatlons for a while, and that the eastern philanthropists who are all the tlme sympatbizing with such old dlsturb- ers as Red Cloud will cense thelr Inter- ference In matters about which they know litle or nothing. DEATH OF SIR M(}Slig MONTE- FIORE. The cable announces the death of Sir Moses Montefiore, the dlstingulshed Hebrow philanthroplst, at his home in Eongland, Had he lived until the 24th of next October he would have besn a hundred and one years old. His ono hundredth birthday last year was made the occaslon of a notable celebra- tlon among the Hebrows for whom he had done so much during his long life. The ancestora of Sir Moses Montefiore were of Spanlsh orlgin. Persecution drove them Into Italy, where the family acquired great wealth., Moses Monto- tefiore, who was the son of an English merchant, passed his earller years In Italy, where he was educated, and for atime was engsged in buslness. He married In 1812, a sister of Nathan Meyer Rothschild, the founder of the great Rotbschild banking house in Lon- don. Montefiore from his early man- hood exhibited the greatest Interest in the promotion of the welfare of the Jews, whose abject condition in Palestlne par- tlcularly excited hls deepest sympathy. It was In 1827 that he went to Palestlne for the first time to Investigate thelr con- dition, aud the result was the establlsh- ment of the Palestine relief fund, of which he was made adminlstrator, a po- sltlon which he held up the time of his death, In 1837 he was appolnted sherlff of London and Middlesex, and was hon- ored by the queen, who made him a knight the same year, and aftorwards, in 1846, made him a baronet In recogn!- tlon of his services In behalf of his race. He extended his efforts and exerted his Influence In all parts of the world to aeslst the down-troddenand persecuted people. No potentate was too powerful and no country was too dlstant to be beyond the philantrople efforts of this noble man, Hls people will ever remember with gratitude his Inflaeuce with the pacha of Egypt and the sultan of Tarkey in 1840, after the massacre at Damascus, his untirlng efferts with the Ozar Nicholas in bohalf of the Russlan Jewa In 1846, his successful labors with Louls Phillippe, king of France, In refer- ence to the persecutlon of 1847, and his pleading with the Spanish aathoritles in 1863. 1t was tho great object of SirMoses Montefiore’s life to see a Jowish empire established In Palestlne, with Jeru- malom as its capltal, and to that and he gave his .bast labors. The world has been made better by the life of such a man as Montefiore. He was one of the greatest philanthroplsts that ever lived, and the tributes to his memory will be offered from Jew and Gentlle alike, and by the people of every civil- Jzed race. THE TRADE SITUATION. No marked change in the condition of trade is yet notlceable In th> great con- ters, although the prospect of a good fall bualness has a tendency to produce a bet- ter feellng among the jobbers, Already among miny of the jobbers preparation for the fall season has begun. It s be- lieved that the fall trade, which will be under full headway within the next elxty days, will} be much heavler than that of the same season last year for the rea son that, owlng to the depression, deal. |} era everywhere have limlted their stocks to immedlate requiraments, The orop outlook, with the exception of the dimin- ution In wheat, is very favorable, a fact that glves strength to the business sys- tem evergwhore, Laat week's fallures in the Ualted States and Canada num- bered 215, as agalnst 225 the prevlous week, Most of the fallures are reported from the western and Iaclfic states, In other sections of {ke couatry the number is below the average, Some little activity isnoted inthe wool trade, there having beena slight advance notably In medium flacces and fine de- lalne wools. Woolen goods, however, are qulot, the business belng most con- fined to the completlon of the ssascn’s orders for fall welghts; but there are In- doations of an early openlug of thetrade in ep:ing fabrles for men's wear, and the s'tuation and outlook for the manufactur- {ng teade sre more encouraglng than for Crop prospects continue very favorable, and polnt to a yleld of fully 7,500,000 balee. The cotton goods trade Ia qalot, but there 1a a fiemer feeling as to values, In consequence of the reductlion of stocks In first hands by tho recent large cloaring sales and jthe widespread curtalling of production. The anthracite coal trade continnes dall, without indlcation of early lmprovement. In the Iron trade the more active prodacts are bridge ma- terials and plping, for which there Is a a good demand, The general sltuation is quiet. Tho Philadelphla Record in its weekly review says: There was a slight advance in wheat prices early in the week, as the result of speculative manipulation and rumers of damage to the growing crop in the Northwest; but this im- provement has since been loat, and themarket bas gradually declined under the weight of stocks and freer “'ehort” selling, encouraged by the continued apathy of exporters and cable sdvices indicating more settled westher in Evgland, The unofficia! reports of injury to sprivg wheat by insects and unfavorable weather conditions lack confirmation and are generally discredited, English buyers show littlo disposition to purchate at any price, but a few inquiries and occasional orders are bewg recefved from the Conti- nent. It is probable that I'rench require- ments of foreign wheats will be fully as large a8 they were last year, as the law imposing an import duty was enacted too late to stimulate any increase in the production of native wheat this year, The only notewcrthy change in the statistical position is a further decrease in afloat stecke, by which the supply in sight [ 1930 bushele, as egainst buchels last week, Corn prices ruled a little lower early in the week, but the close Friday thowed no important va from the figures current a week ago, Specu- lation has been comparatively quiet, but there has been a fair demand for export and home consumption. The hot weather 1s an olement of weaknees in the general market for bread- stuffe, as it creates uneasiness as to the keep- ing quality of stocks in store, and thus re straing active investment both by legitimato traders and speculators, WESIERN NEWS, DAKOTA, The exact population of Huron is The Plankinton new high schocl buildivg is to cost £6,000, Thero aro soventy masonic lodges in the territory and 2,644 members. A rich striko of free gold ore is reported in the Pocahontas mine, Deadwood. Cass county has put out $15,000 more court house bonds at four per cent premium, Contraots for the construction of the $10,- 000 dormitory bulding for the Sioux Ialls deaf mute school have been let, Fargo, Huron, Aberdeen and Bismarck are all in the field bidding for the September en campment of the Dakota militia, A scarcity of houseflies is remarked in Yankton, and there are those who predict much sickness in coneequence, Aurora county was organized four years sgo the 20th of August, mn the depot at Plankinton,and beer kegs were usod for seats. Yankton has discovered a crow of men who are suspected of sounding for river bed rcck, and bridge pomsibilities are now being talked of. The g-pher crop is liksly to ' bankrupt La- moure county. Over 4,000 gopher tails wero pwesented in ono day last week and paid for in county warrants, A now town is to be laid out on the Chey- enno river at the proposed or expected cross- ing of the Black Hills branch of the Sioux City & Pacific raliway, McCurdy, the Pactola Black Hills miner who sawed off an_ear from his pard’s head, has been held in bonds of $500, to take chances with the grand jury, On Sunday morning Frank Neal, of Grand Forks county, was instantly killed by light- nirg while lying by tho side of his wife, An infant daughter held in his arms was badly shocked, but recovered, WYOMING, The Cheyenne Tribune through lack of funds, Burglars raided a_barber shop in Laramie last week and carried away all the mowers and scrapers in the shop, Mrs, Mary Potter, wifa of a_telegraph line repairer at I'ort Fetterman, suicided there on tho 2ith, becauso her husband while at a dance wsltzed too freely with other girls, It is cstimated that 50,000 head of Wyo ming cattle will be fed this fall and winter, “T'his is an increase of more tham 100 per cent, in this business over that of last seazon, Peto Hamma who has besn shipping stone from Colorado to Wyommg the past thres years now proposes to turn about and furnish Colorado builders with stone from Wyowming A Denver firm of o'l brokers ara in the vi- cinity of London for the purposo of locating 100,000 acres ov oil lands, They represent Pennsylvania money to a very large amount, and are well pleased with the outlook, Themayor of Cheyenne stirred up a Reel live hornet's nest last week when he callod upon the city treasurer to hand in his resigna- tion, 'The latter declined the invitation and told the mayor to @0 to, The cash keepar ap- pears to be an “offensive” republican, The Wyoming Land, Ol and Transporta- tion company are sinking oil shafts on the top of Beaver mountain in the Sweetwater coun- try, Oil traditions claim this summit as the richest deposit in the sestion, A great flow of water has been struck, and it is thought a living stream will henceforth flow down the mountain side, died last week COLOBADO, There is reward of $2,800 offered for the capture of the dynamite fiends of Denver, Leadville has abolished the offices of city solicitor and city physician, to save $10,000 yearly to the city. Boulder county ranks high in three I ing industries of the stats, agriculture, min- ing and stock raising. The Omaha and Grant swelting works of Denver have nine furnaces in blast, and are treating ten tous of gold, sllver and silver- lead orus per month, The railroad property at Salida that was d last year at 871,040 was assessed this 000, a difference of $30,080 reduc ces of the town about §2,600, nger who has traveled over sixteen \ys that Salidais the banner saloon town—sixteen places in which to wet your whistle and not a church spire to be seen. Five men and women were arrested last week for planting & torpedo under a locomo- tive in the railrond yards in Denver. The polica think they have struck a nest of dyna- miters. The Bessemer steel works, at Puoblo, has started up sgain on a large new contrack, ‘The iron furnace and steel converter is also in blast, having been bauked for two months, The rail mill presents & scane of bustle and activity. Chung Sing, the Chinese doctor of Pueblo, has a sult against bim for malpractice, The suit is brought by Mrs, Carrio Duebell for $200 damoges, The doctor was treating her for sore eyes aud after expondiog $150 she fcund herself totally blind and without means, The ranchmen of Guonison county bave done more this yearin agricultural pursuits than any two years previous since tillivg the soil began in that vicinity, Many of them will have good crops of oats, rye, barley, po tatoes, turnips, cabbage, peas, onions aad lots of other yegetables, Thora is one railroad company in Colorado which, notwithstanding tho dull times, is ex tendiog its line, This is the Denver, Utsh & Pacific, which now runs from Denver to Long mont, and which is in a special sense & Don ver rond. The extension will be from Lovg mont to Lyone, a distance of fifteen miles, Work is beiog pushed rapidly, and it is _be. lieved that the the road will ba completed by August 15, MONTANA Counterfeitors are flooding Montana with the “quoer.” The Helena police judge fined a father £100 and costs for beating his son. The judge was # boy once himself. The Monlton mills at Butte is making one of the longest runs on record and is producing between $50,000 and £60,000 per month, A highwayman laid for Postmaster Whip ple, U, 8. A, last week, but the armed encort soared him off, Heo shot & sheep herder in revenge, A man in Miles City gave it out that he had been bitten by & dead rattler, and secured & donation of a quart of whisky, He waen't sober at Iast accounts. Of the entire number of United States aseay offices that located at Helena ranks second In_importance- the New York offico standing first on the list, The business of the Helena assay office, compared with any ether, shows the greatest increase, For the first six months of the present year the number of procious metal deposits—principally gold the Helena office was 600, as against 270 for the corresponding period of 1884, an increase of considerably more than one-half, 3 The number of arrests in San Francisco in 18834 wa 25,5015 in 1884.5, 24,486 —equal to about ten per cent of the population, In R. R. Morrison’s garden at San Diego there are coffeq, custard apple, golden guava and cinchona trees in full bloom and produc- g, Yolo has 2,746 acrea in_grapevines, which produced 150,000 gallons of wine and 15,000 boxes of raisins, bosides those sold for tablo use and those shipped to tho east, This season 120 carloads of fruit have been shipped from Sacramento to Chicago, nenrly all by passenger traine, and 100 carloads of fruit” and vegetables, mostly the lattor, to Denver, Stanslaus county land owners are going to construct an irtieativg canal from the Tuo lumue river that will be forty feet wide and carry five feet of water, and be from thirty- five to forty milaa in length, Sinco the commencement of the shipping season there have been forwarded to market from Santa Ana dopot 28,708 boxes of oranges. 1t is estimated thst an equal number of boxes have been thipped from the orange depot, George W, Tyler's olerk, McLaughli reported to have found but little enjoyment in the pozscssion of the fraudulently obtainod money with which he retired to Honolula, Ho i thero shunned by sll whose society he would value. Though he lives quietly and pays his bllle, ho has been unable to find em- ployment, The assessment hooks of Merced county for 1885 ehow the valuations of property for tax ation as followe: Valuo of real estate and 22.505; value of personal, alue of all property, ¢xcopt sesed by the state board of on, $10,842 Add the_assess- ailroads for the year 1884, 81,480, 001, it gives a grand total of $12,822,224 The farm residence of Gov, Stoneman, of Caiifornia, at San Gabreil, was burned on tho Tth. All of the furviture upstairs was lost, but part of the furniture was eaved. The governor's army uniform, eaddlo and various relics wera loot, together with tho ofl paint ings, o book of eogravings worth $100, his private papers and documents, also & piano. “The fire is said to have been set by Mexi- cans, in revenge for the refusal of the over- nor to save two Mexican murderers from tho gallows. IN GENERAL, Tacoma has a baby that weighs one and three-quarter pounds, Spokane intends to construct water works, having just dispored of 850,000 worth of bonds for that purpose, The population of Shoshove, Idaho, is Flaced at 1,000, about 230 men being in the employ of the Union Pacific railroad. . The Wood River Mining company's works in Idako have besn cloand by orders of Mr, Nash, secretary of the Omaha Smelting works. Two of Gen. Crook's scouts wero recently killed, by wmistake, 1a Mexico, by an American pamed Woodward, who mistook them for hostiles. The banks of Salt Lake report the receipt for the weck ending July 15th, ivclusive, of $67,592.44 in buliion, and $15,456 in ore, & total of $:2,078.44, The gold bullion chipments from Novada last month, by express, were $150,000—an in- creass of about $23,000 over those for a cor- responding period last year. The Digger Indians on Rancho Chico have taken renewed interest in their musical studies, and are now constantly having practices with ther brass bands, The ““children of the forest” are quick to learn, and make sweet notes with the braes instru- ments, The July run of salmon at Astoria, Ore, which started in pretty heavy the first week of this month, has fallen off, and it locks now as if the prophesies of a short pack would come trua. The best informed men as. sert that the aggregate will fall 200,000 cases short of last year, The outside estimate is 475,00) cases. — Tho Oar at Malvern Hill From Gen. Fiiz Jokn Por of the last of the revon da s’ b 2 the August Century we quote the follow- ing: *Whilo taking Mesghor’s brigade to the front, I cr seed a pordlon of th: ground over which & large column had advanced to attick us, and had a falr op— portunity of jadgivg of ths effucs of our fire upon the ranks of tha enemy. It was somothing fesrful and sad to contor. plate; fow steps couli be taken withonr trampling upon the body of a dead or woundedl soldler, or without hearing » pitecus cry, bsgging our party to be caroful, In some placen the budics were in continuous lines and in heaps. In Mexico 1 had seen fields of battlo on which our armles had been victorious, and had lstened to pitiful sppeals; but the pleaders wera not of my country men thon, and dld not, as now, cause me to deplore the effects of a fratrloldol wer. **Sadder st!ll were the trylng scenes I met In and around the Malvern house, which at an early hour that day had been given up to the wounded, and was soon filled with our unfortunate men, sufler: ing from all kinds of wounds, At night, after lssuing orders for the withdrawal of our troops, I sed through the build- ing and the adjolnining hospltals with my senir medical officer, Colonel George H. Lyman. Oar object was to inspeot the actual conditlon of the men, to arrange for thelr cara and comfort, and to cheer them as bost he could. Here, a8 usual, were found men moxtally wounded by meceeslty left unattended by the surgecns, so thet prompi and proper care might be glyon to those In whom there was hope uf recovery. It seemed as if the physiclan was cruel to one in doing his duty, by being merclful to snother whose life might be saved. “While pssslng through this im- provised hospital 1 heard of many sad cates, One was that of the major of the Twelfth New York Volunteers, a brave and gallaut officer, highly esteemed, who was believed to be mortally wounded. While breathiog his last, as was sap- posed, a friend asked him if he had aoy me:ag to leave. He replled, ‘Tell my wifa that In my last thoughts were blended Lercelf, my boy, and my flag.’ Then he asked how the battle had gone, and when told that we had bsen saccess- ful he eald ‘God bless the old fla. ) and fcll back apparently dead, For a long time he was mourned as dead, and 1: was bolleved he had expired with the now, for recrantion, engages contests of politiosl warfare, On the ccosslon of this visit we fre melt the stoutest heart; to others near and dear to them, burlal. On every side we heard the ap peals of the unattended, the moans of the knifo of the surgeon. cheer we conld, from those mournful scenes. e — HERE YOU ARE, GIRLS! Comfort for the Achiog Hearts of the Wymore Beanlics. Four Proposals from Woube-Boe Hus- bands, with More to Follow. The Brx sends greeting,good cheer and four proposals to the two Wymore beau- tios whose request and desire for hus- Tt must be noted that each correspondent, some In pairs, is psrmitted to tell his own story in his own stylo as nesr as the types csn imitate tho manuscript. These lottera will be filed awsy uatil the final bauds was published rocontly, selection Is made: Wymore, Neb,, July £7th, 1885, Ed. Omaha Boe: Dear sir: paper from Wymoro, sign questing you through the valuable journal to procur. dJ. &M, matrimonial Blessings, we ¢ 0 8orry to bave not learned of said facts in the case be. fore as they would undoubt them sati generally ahead, as for us, wi not be lost by no means, all over the united Kingdom, procuring for them a husband, Signed + J.&8. Wcon Lak, Cherry Co., Neb,, July 27. Editor Omaha Bie: Dear Sir: aro bachelors, ago 26 snd_30—and desirous of securing housekeepers. a fine ranch with 3,100 head and 550 ponies, the young ladies and greatly oblige. Yours truly, E. S, Theat. J. W. THOMAS, ‘Woon Lakg, Cherry Co., Neb, r loft unfinished on bis closlog lips, still en lnvalid, so@.rlog from & Harlan, July the 24, 1¢ Mr Editor T saw A advertisement in your Last Weak papor fo A cupple of laidies that Wanted you too give sone information in re- gard too Whar thoy might get A Hu.band Would Like to get maried and I am Amari- ken 21 years old aud Way 185 pouns and Have dark hare and blua eyes and A pirty fare boyand I shink I Would soit one of those faro damsels I Live in Shelby Co Towa M1 postofice is Harlan if you think this Worthy of publishing or think this V eas thoso aiking Harts of those too Laides pleas put it in I 4tiil remain a3 ever yoars Jaxes Froop, Near Edgar Nebr July 26, 85, Editor of the -0 Dear sic seeing & advertisement in your paper of last weeko of two Girla that was ded crackod to got Married their is two young gontleman keeping Batch to gether that air alittle cracked to get married if they choose wico them full par- to anawer this wo will ticlers pleas diract to Box i igar Neb Olay, co. o ———— His Last Battle, No guard of soldiers stood around him there, Ready to dravely charge at bis commaud, No banuers waving proudly in tho a Tnepired him on, to deeds of valor The foe was uot in battle guise arrs or was there heard the noise of mu. Ay No shout wus beard to tell of vic the battle we call drath, n round him eaaly wealy night with Our hero foug] The while & ni Anl through t hreath, Sadly and silently tha vigil kopt. And was ho victor in that awfal fight ? Sometimea the veil which hides eternity From time is 50 tranaparent that the light Of heaven doth seem so near, we almost 106 Tha pearly gatas, the radiant angels thero, Wa hear the ‘authem graud which never dies, Chanted by countless throngs of beings fair, Who people all the courts of paradite, ‘We almost hear the burat of loud acclaim With which the heavenly choirs .our hero grost; ‘We see his record without spot or atain, Placed in its grandeur at his Maker's foot. Aud on it read the words, in lines of gold, Therr glory is beyond our earthly ken, The story of his life, thus briefly told, He loved his God and then bis fellow-men, Boston, July 24, 1685, S, J, CONBOYE, Says o Washington correspondent: Gen, Van Vilet is the owner of the larg- est noso In Washington, Its roundness, redness and stupendoas proportions are a cauge of amusement to the General and his friends, There are few men that get the amount of joklng sbout thele noses that Van Vliet does, and he never tires telling storles at hi; penso, One of the best he related time slnce, He sald: ““When I was c2n- slderably younger than Iam now I at- tended a masked Fall, Idid not go in costume, but I mingled with the dancers. Among them was a youog lady who had a divine figure and the most musical volce I ever lstened to. We promenaded, and 1 bogged her to allow me to see her faco Success crowned my efforts, and I was charmed to find that she was a remarka- bly handsome woman, While we were chatting the suddeuly tarned to me and sald: *Bat you haven't removed your als- guise.’” I was eomewha eurprised, and assured her that I had none, but she looked porfectly serlous whon she said: ‘Please do take off that falee noge,’ " J. T. Newson, & Cedar county farmer, while engaged siasking hay lust week, maneged to get under the harpoon hay fork just at the woment it fell, The sav- age instrument passed through the fleshy part of the arm and toro 8 icng, gepig wound down his side, pioning him 10 the load of b His wounds are not only tn'el dangerour wound then reccived, that cflicer recov- ered to renew his oarzer in the war, and i lively quently mot with econes which would bearded men plteonsly beggiog to besent home; qthers roquesting that a widowed mother or ot phan sisters might bs cared for; more sending meseages to wife or shildren, “c;r o anw the amputated llmbs and the bodles of the dead haerled out of the room for the dylng, and the shrieks of those under We gave what | Attorney Bartlett received from Post- and left with heavy hearts. There was no room for ambitious hopes of promotlon; prayers to God for peace, spoedy peace, that our days might be thereafter devoted to efforts to avert another war, and that never again should the country be afilloted with such a soourge, filled our hearts as we passed Secing the small article in your ro- Jlumna of your for thom o remedy for the dé-sid-e-ra-tum usually found in the earn that the promincat young men of wymore ly have given tion on said subject long before this as they are always up with the times and are always ready todo all we can for eaid parties to keep them in wymore their Socioty should Although mot yet reported at the headquarters of Batchlordom and somewhat deprived of cur good looks novertheless our fiom as capitalista 18 known let thom ap- pear at_onco at headquarters and eee what can be done for them, and you will have the pleasure of reaping ‘the rich and bountiful harvest which will undoubtedly follow by Enclosed find clipping from your last issue. Wo the undersigned would like very much to confer with the youog ladies with a view to matrimony of coutse we are very We own of _cattle Pleasa give us the address of s battls had no peal of cacnoande, & A CURIGUS CASE. An Bx-Soldier and Ex-Lawyer Writes Lotters and Gets Into Tronble, Bethard's Martisge and What it Led To—A Queer Plan of Revengo, A ocurlons ocase has just tarned up In the United States court and will shortly £ | be tried In that tribunal. A fow days slnce Asslatant Dlstrict mastor Genoral Vilas a letter which had been written to him by a clergyman at Utbana, Ohlo, Rev. Thomas H, Pearne, complalning of obscene letters which had been malled to him by one George H. Bethard from different polnts In No. braska. The lotter in substance was as follows: UrpANA, Ohio, July 15, 1885, ~Sir: I re- ceived on Saturday even ng Iast from the clerk at the postoftice hero several postal oards and letters, and I have since then re- ceived four others, of an obscene and ecurril- ous naturo, I encloso them herewith, except two which to.day I refused to take out, re- questing the postmaster here to correspond with you to have the businoss stopjed; and two others, one a postal ecard and the other s letter, which a friond snid he would enclose to you and sub- mit his wishes on my behalf,” * * I enclose you the remaining postal cards and letters, ‘ou will see they are sll addressed from dif- farent postoffices in Nebraska, whilo evidently written by one person, In the yellow envel- ope marked A is n letter written by “logos” —G. H, Bethard, whilo he was here two months ago, and your dotectives will readily see that Bethardis the writer of them all * * * The clerk here says that he corres- ponded with the department about delivering the same to me and was directed to deliver them, Your early attention to this subject will be appreciated by mo. I am a reputable man. o pastor for forty years in the M, I, church, Yours obediently, Tuos H. PrArNk, A bill of information was at once filed by Mr. Bartleit in the United States court, and a capies fssned for the arrest of Bothard. The papers were placed in the hands of Dopu‘y Unlted States Mar- shal Showalter, who eince last Friday has been chaeing Bethard from place to placein Nebraska. Yesterday a telegram was received from Showalier to the effect that he had nabbed hia man and weuld shortly bring him here for telal. The lotters which Bethard la alleged to kaye written to the Rav. Pearno are ta possession of Mr, Bartlott, and are writ- ten In a scrawling, legal hand, on varlous note heads borrowed by the writer in his tramping through the etate. They are of the mest shockingly obscene character possible, reeking with filthy cxpressions and still more filthy thoughts. The history of the case, as learnzd by a reporter for the BEE from a variety of eources, is somewhat pecaliar, Bethard, some years ago, was a resident of Omaha, where ho was ecgsged In the practlce of law. He was known ss a temperance agltator, anda crank of thefirst water. The readers of the Bee will doubtless romem- ber him as the hero of a seneation in which he caused a couple of Iowa's young ladles to become involved, promlsing to marry each of them, thon going back on both. He was also ia a number of cther amusing scrapes which need not be men- tioned here. Some months ago Bethard took it Into his head to make an eastern trip. He went to Urbans, Ohlo, whera he has friends, and soon becamo acqualnted with a reputable young lady there who was possessed of some wealth, The young lady, who was highly respectable, snd a member of the M, E. church there, for some strange reason or another be— came Infatuated with him and an engsge- ment was formed between the two, They songht to be mariied by the Rev. Thos. H. Pesrue, the lady's pastor, but he knowing Bstherd’s character refused fo tle the knot. Another preacher was sought and the two were united. The act of Rev. Pearne In refueing to perform the marrlago ceremony cauced Bethard to turn bitterly agatnst him and to write the obscene lotters which have caused hls arrest. A short tlme after this DBethard “bobbad up eerencly” in Omaha, and confided to friends that he had been cast, and had experlenced the happlest mo- ments of hislife in Ohle, where he mar- rled a weslthy lady—that, however, all his happlnesa kad flxd forever, for bo had discovered that shs wasunfalthfal to bim, Accordingly hy had left her in the Buck- ege state. Since that time Bethard has place to place through- ato, playing the *'dead beat,” living &3 one of the “old boys in bl Whilo on this tramp he nes baen writing the cbicene letters which will laxd bim in jall. Bethard managed, 1n 1882, to besome of rattonst notorlety. Ho was placed unde= arrest, it may bo remewberod by tho publle, foe uttcring threats sgalnst Gulwes, and for monacivg actions against him, belng subsequently rolcased a® & harmless crank, e (liticura A Positive Cure for Fuvery Form of Skin and Blood Diseases, from Pimples to Scrofula. 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