Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 1, 1885, Page 4

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Miss CLevenAND does not glve away any of her photographs, We take it that Mies Cloveland is not & handsome woman, Tar floot footed Maud 8, queen of the tarf, has eclipted herself, At Cleve- 1and on a slow course, she trotted a mile on Thuraday in the wonderfal time of 2:08§. Tue crop of winter wheat in Rusla Is below the madlam yleld and spring wheat Is a fallare. This may have the offact of creating a llvely export demand for Amerlean wheat at good prices. Sinck the killing of Barnam’s unruly elephant, the vicious elephant story has becomo a notable faatare In ciccas adver- tlslag. Hardly a day passes withou! an account being telegraphed all over the country of goms angry elephant’s attack on his keoper. 1t is about time that the elephant should bo gensrally sot down upon, Tur Panams canal company has not made a pablic atatement of its financlal condition in two years, 1t Is therefore not surprisiog that Premier Brisson re- fuses to grant the request of the dlrectors that the French government sanction a new issue equal to the amouunt of money already expended upon the cansl, It begins to look aa if the project would bs dec'ared a failure at an early day. Tuk Canadian Pacific telegeaph system will be thrown open t> the pablic within the next thirty days. As usual, Jay Gould endeavored to gobbla this system for the Western Unlon anaconds, but his negotlatlony wara paramotorily rejacted. Had he succeeded In this schems 1t would have proved a profitable ploce of strategy, | azd directors of tha Unlon Pacsfio. D, as 1t Is proposad to connect the Canadian Pacific lines by a csblo with Australia, [and at that ime he was not a member of the committeo. Chinaand Japan, thus astually enclre- ling the globe with the electrle carrent. In the little controversy between Boyd and Miller it should not be forgotten that | Omaha was not made as a matter of econ- under the origlnal contract batween the [omy, but beciu:e the Credit Mobiler clty of Omaha and the Union Paclfic|chief had a mistress who was Intereated ground do- road unless it is railroad every foot of nated to the to the city aotually used right of way. Every leass made for such grounds to outside partles is vold* The supreme court decislon on the ter- minus does not abrogae that part of the contract, Tae alleged ehortage of $20,800 in the accsunts of Dr, Loring. ex-commissioner of agrlculture, s not by reason of his having appropristsd the money to his own use, but it s for money that he spent for certsin department work for which 1t was not intended. It Is not charged that ho stole a dcllar, or that tho government has Icst a cent by his trans- actlons. He s!mply ueed $20,800 In an honest disbursement for unauthorizad purposes, yot the government got value recelved. For thus exceeding his au- thorlty, he is now called upon to make up the $20,800. It will be rather diflicalt, we should thluk, to recover the money undcr such circumatances. A questioN of jurisdiction has osused a ravolt In the Iowa agrl- cultural collega. Darlng the saum- mer vacatlon two mambors of the wenior class comm'tted a slight offsnse, snd when the collega re.opansd Prest- dent Huat caused their expulslon. The senlor and junlor classes demanded their roinstatement on the geound tha’ the prerident had no jurlsdiction over stu- donts durlng vacation, President Hant refused to comply with the demand, aud thereupon the two classes seceded from the collego, This withdrawal leaves the Institution withoat a graduating class this fall, This is Professor Huat's firat yoar as president, Perhaps bafore the ond of the year the other classes will leave him blooming alone llke the last rose of sum) A *'00NSTANT reader” asks the Bee to anywer the followlng question: *‘What does the interrogation point slgnify when placed In the middle of a sentence, en- closed in parenthisls, thus (7). It is used In that way to throw doub’ uwpon a statement made lo the santence, or to questlon the use of the particutar word which it follows. For instanc:, In the sentence,‘ Loyal L,Smith lost $100,000 (7) in a recent whoat deal,” it slgnifies that the editor, who has inserted the iaterro- gation, doubts the statement, In the sentence, “*Mr, Smith s a very erotic (1) fellow,” 1t lmplies that the wuse of the word erotio {s wrong, and that the editor thioks that the author of the sentence shou'd have used some other word, prob- ably erratic, ay Smith—referring to the ex-merchant prince of Omaha who has wandered off to Canada—has glven con- vice'ng proof that ke is more erratic than erotle, reverts [ hood of the bridge. for depot purposes; or [playlng toady and lacksy for Darant MAYOR BOYD'S POSITION. There are fifty thousand people In Omaha to-day wko did not reside here during the period of sgitation over the loostion of the Union Pacific brldge in 1868, This class cannot judge for them- selves of the merits of the present con- troversy between Mayor Boyd and Dr Miller, For thelr benefit we shall breifly review the history of the negotlations, When Abraham Lincoln, in Decembor, 1863, looated the esstern terminus of the Unlon Paclfic at Omaha, the power to locate It elsewhere was taken away from the corporation man- agers, The locatlon of the terminus was by no means an acoldent. Omaha had exerted a powerful Influence to secure the location agalnst such rivals ss St. Joseph and Leavenworth, then leading cltles on the Missourl river, Augustus Kountze, an Omaha banker, was named as a charter director of the road, and other friends of Omaha were in the board. The charter of 1862 and 1864 re- quired a bridge to be built at or nesr Omaha for connecting the Unlon Pacific with the Iowa system. contemplate & Childs’ Mills, But the Credit Mobiler buccanneers, not content with robbing thelr owa road outof fifty millions, com- manded the people of Omaha to hold up They threatened to lsolate thelr hands, snd ruln this clty by a change of terminus and brldging the river at Bollevae or Childa’ Mills, Frightened out of their wits the cltlzens appointed a commlttee to visit tha robbers’ headquartsrs in New York and make the best terms porsible. To show that Mayor Boyd is right and Dr. Miller Is wrong, we have ouly to re- fer to the address of the commltteo, *‘To the Presldent and diractors of the U. P. R. R. Company,” datel New York, March 11, 1868, and slgned by Alvia Saunders, Franels Samlth, Augas'us Koantzs, Ezra Millard, Eaos Lowe, O. P. Harford, committee, and to the fol- lowing dispatch: New Youk, March 26. 1868, To ths Preas of Omaha: Bridge located at Train Table, pledges depot grounds and two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, Council Bluffs pledges two huadred thousand dollars and lands. Groundsand right of way will be condemned. (Sigaed) ALYVIN SAUNDERS, Eara MiuLarp, Sec'y. Chairman, The commltsee (excopt O. P. Harford who was absent at ths tlme) employed Savage and Manderson to draw up a contract in accordance with the verbal understanding made in March, 1868, and oach and every member of the committen when the contrast was real to them agreed that there was not one word In it bat what way promizel by the prealdent Omaha Miller was the only man who objacted 1f anybody doubts this statement let hlm call on Savage and Manderson. The locatlon of the bridge In Sonth in a large tract of land futhe nelghbor- According to D: Miller, who was and Dillon, the people of Omaha azreed to donate twentyacras of depot grounds to [the Unlon Paclfic upon the sole condltion that the bridge should be located here instead .of at Bellevue or Childs’ Mills, That statement is refuted by the committee’s report, but it may be inferred that the depot grounds be- longed to ths clty and wore at that time almost worthless, As a matter of fact the depot grounds were private property, la'd out in lots and occupled by dwell- Ings and stores, There lots had to be purchased and pald for., The city lssusd $200,000 in ien per cent. bonds to pay for the grounds, and as the bonds were not negotiable at par they were allotted to the leading property owners who were each required to cash the bonds, and if they were unable to hold them to dlscount them at a heavy loss. After the depot grounds had been transferced to thorcad, together with $250,000 of D>uglas coun- ty bonds, the highwaymon bulli a $200,000 depot a% D.lonville, whore twe've hundred acres of land had been bought by Dlllon to lay out a rival town to both Omaha and Councll Blaffs, and from that day to this Omaha has had nothing but threats and promises In exchavgs for her princely donatlons, Mayor Boyd would be recreant to h!s datyif he did not at this time firmly assert and malntain the rights of Omaha, The present man- sgers of the Unlon Pacific should also baar in mind that thls commaunlty fs no longar a village, and wlll not be content with promlses or patiently submlit to threata, S——— Mg, HENDRICKS' man Jones Is causing about as much trouble to the administra- tlon as Mr, Mannings' man Higglos Some one ought to slt down on Jone: Like Higglns he has no use for ofvil s vice reform, Mr. Jones is postmas'er at Indisnapolls, and for a postmaster in a second-class city he has stirred up con- slderable o. a fi He has removed the competent as nt postmaster to make room for a broken-down political hack; he has made hls own son cashier; he has bounced the stamp clerk in order to provide a berth for a democrat who mixes religion with politics and calls himself a democratic clergyman; he has made Hendrlcks' nephew ochlef ¢f the registry department; and he has put another son of his own ln the place of the old rellsble janltor, Among the vie- tims of his displeasura are an ex-general of the wunion army, 8 union #oldier, and @ soldier's widow, a nlece of General Burnside. Bat the most un- gallant thing done by thls old Jacksonlan bourbon was to tarn out four poor women, who were earning This dld not transfer of the terminus to Bellevae, or a bridge at THE DAILY BEE--SLTURDAY, AUGUST 1 1885 & soanty livellhood by repalring mail sacks, In order to provide places for four atout able.bodied democrats. Mr. Jones, who Is an old moes-back, and has evl- dently not heard cf civil service reform, when called to account for this conduct replied that the cffices belonged to the demoorats, and that he had Improved the serylce by making the changes. Charges have been proferred sgalost him by the olvil service reformers, who are indignant that Jones should have appointed his sons to positions In his owh office. The civll service commission, sent by Preal- dent Cleveland to {nvestigate the charges, will probably find them all true and will very likely recommend that Mr. Jones be given his walking papers In order to make room for a democrat whose 1deas of olvil service re- form are more In accord with those of President Oleveland. We can not s00 what else the commission can do, bat whether Mr. Cleveland will act In sc- cordance with any such recommendation and make an example of Jones, remains to be seen. If he does not, hls aincerlty a8 & clvil service reformer will be ques- tioned, The faot Is that the conduct of Jones placea President Cleveland in a very delleate conditlon. If he removes Jones he will antagonizs Hendrlcke, who stlcka by his postmaster. If he permits Jones to remain, then Hendrlcks and his friends, who believe that the presldent dare not Interfere In the matter, will tel- umphantly crow over Mr. Cleveland, and at once proceed to esrry out the spolls system in every clty and town of Tndiana, Under all {he circumstances wo wlll wager that Mr. Jones, like Higgins at Washiogton, will continue to hold the fort., — Tug Westorn Unon telezraph company has authorlzed its office managers through- out the country to reccive and recolpt for eubscrlptions to the fand for a monument to ba crected in New Yorkclty to tho memory of General Girant, While the c'tlzens of Omaha will no deubt centrib- ute liberally to a Grant monument fund, there s a feeling that their contributions shculd be devoted to a Grant monument in Omaha. New York {s aburdantly able to eroct a magalificent monument to perpotuate the memory ol General Grant, without calling upon the country at large for contributions. The probabllity is that a Grant monument will be erected in eyery large city cf the country—in Boston, Philadelphia, Chizsgo, Washing- ton, St. Louis, and other places. Chi- oago has already inavgurated a move- ment to secore funds for a hand- some monuwent In Lincoln park, Every newspaper In that clty is acting as an agent of the fund. Now It strlkes us that Omahs, which is the headquarters of the milltary department of the Platte, and the metropolls of a state whese pop- ulation is largely composed of soldieas of the civil war, ought to have a Grant monument of its own, elther In Hanscom park, or on Jeffirion equare, or at Fort Omaha, Gen. Grant was well known In Omaha, baving psid this city several vislte, and among our clt'zens he had point of view he dererved the com- plimenta showered upon him. The task of reatorlng the supremacy of crown law in Ireland was as aiffionlt and dangercus as It was thankless, Ho took tho crimes act for which both Eoglish partles had mado themselves rerponsible and en- forced it with vigor and tact. If he made some mistakes this was Inevitable; but In the main he acted prodently and suoceeded In the end in securlng the punishment of criminals. The Irish people naturally hated him because his success was a trlamph for English admin- istration. He paclfied the lsland and re- stored the supremacy of law by means which the Irlsh unite In denounclog. The firat coerclon act had falled, whereas the crlmes act had accomplished Its pur. pose; but In the estimation of Mr. Par- nell's followers the messures were equally detestable. It Lord Sallsbury takes a serlous view of the perdicament In which the lows of his Irish alll as placed him, the two watllke generals from the Soudan and from Afghanistan will be kept in sus- pense. SirPeter Lumsden hurrled home from the ecene of hostllities in Asia, breathing all sorts of defiance at t| Gladstone ministry, and had the pleasure on his arrlval in London of finding the torles In power. His happiness was made complete by tho extraordinary honor of an Invitation to dlne with the queen, with Sallsbury as the only other gues*. General Wolteley came up from the Soudan at the rame time, in high wrath with the Gladstone minlstry at the fallure of the Soudan campaign. Wolseley had not kept his appolnt- ment to dlne in Khsrtoum at a cer- tain date, and he wantod to show the world that the Gladstone minletry was the parly at fault. Both Sir Peter Lums den and General Wolseley had a personal ambition to gratify by war, One wanted war In the Sondsn, the other In Afghan- isten The check Salisbury has received, even if he doea not take the hint and go, wil place thess genorals on tho anxlous seat. A minlstry that is likely to be voted down apy day on a trivisl matter is nota safe minlstry to tle to. There 1s a vast difference tetweon an invitation to dine with the queen and the premier and one to dine with the queen ard an ordi- nary noble of her court. Itls quite po:- sible that the people will be wiee enough to keep there two self seeking generals waitiog a long time The new tory adminlstration in Eng- land has given & quask-assent to the prop- osftlon of the Parnellites to Investizate tho late criminal administration of Earl Spencer at Dablin, The torles are divided on thissubject, such journals as the St. James Gazette and the Saturday Revlew taking strong grounds against any review of the actlon of Spencer imprison- iog certaln parties in consequencs of the Masmtrasna, Castle Island and other maurder cases. The Parnellites 1inslst that the parties sre wrongfully imprie- oned, and they seem likely to have the matter reviewed. It secms strange that the torles, or the officlal por- tlon of them, ehould ba taking a pro-Irlsh position; and yet the Irlsh question has developed to the point whero the posi- tion of a political pariy on the subject is almost declsive cf 1ts conlinuanca or fail- urein power, Lord Churchill has wrought the change in his party’s posttion sni the recent debates ehow that a vory iufluen— tlsl tory elementis in favor of attempt- ing to govern Irsland more in accordauce with the wishes of the Irlsh people, Hence the tory support of the land many warm personal frlends. Let us have a Grant monument of our own. We make the suggestion, and hope that It will receive due consideration, IN his appolatments yesterday Preal- dent Cleveland kindly remembered Ne- braska by giving the clty ¢f Valentine a new postmastor, His name is George A. Paxton., Presldent Cleveland is elow but sure, and the best thing the hungry democrats In Nebraska can do s to possess thelr souls in patlence, The postotfices will all ba peddled out among them In the courze of two or three years. Tae walters in thie Dlceron hotel, In New Jereey, siruck ths other day for a ralse of §10 a month, glving as a reason that they do not rocelve as many *‘tips” from the guests as heretofore. The polnt was coneldered well taken, and the proprletors granted their demands. It is evident that the hard times have had the effect of closing even ths puree- strings of the seaalde summer vlsitors. TaE Scientific American expreeses’sn oplnicn to the effect that the Bell tele- phone monopoly cannot be upheld by the supreme court, This opinlon will have ccnslderable wefght, coming as it does from the representative newspaper above all othera cf the inventors of the United States. Tur members of the Hastings base ball club have blood in their eyes, They propose to challenge the Union Pacifics to play thres games for one thousand dollars and the state champlonehip. Now let the Unlon Paclfics put up or shut up. We admire the spuok of the Hastings boys, Ir thers Isany poet in the land who bas not yet written an ode to Grant, we would like to hear from him, OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. Ou the eve of the most hotly contested campalgn that has been fought for many years, the tory cablnet Is on the verge ¢f disroption. The unnatural alllance be- tween the tory leaders and Parnellites has caused a split not only among the assoclates of Lord Sallsbury in the cablnet, but threatens tc make an lrre- parable breech among the rank and file of his followers, The alllance between tne torfes and the Parnellites is s fantastic arrangement, as the defeat of the govern- ment demonetrated fow nights sgo, but i% has served to draw the liberal factions closer together., The lesders In opposi- tion who could not when in office agree upon Irlsh polley now unlte in vindl cating Lord Spencer from the charges of cruelty, injustice snd mirgovern which have been preferred him. From the Enoglish ment agalnst purchsss bill and other ameliorative meneares whose inception wasin the lib- eral party. Lord Csrnavon has fallen in with the tendency of his party, and, al- though the movemen* is protably an elecuoneerlng trick, the Irish leaders do not care. They will take all the fish that come Into thelr net from whatever source. Michael Davlitt and a few other malcon- tents stlll clamer in the old style, but Mz, Parnell’s scheme of reform by legit- imate parllamentary actlon {s the winning game, Sir Stafford Northcote, now known as Lord Iddeslefgh, gave expreszions ro- cently, ata farmers’ meeting, to idess that would have scared his earlier tory as sociates out of thelr wite, If there ever was a thing that could scare apy tory it was any proposition to meddle with the crust grown systems of land transfers that had 250 years of prescription and stupldity behind them, = Lees than haif a century ago it ccst a8 much in labor and expenee t» change the proprietor— ship of a little plot of ground In Eogland 8s would have cufficed to copquer an Indlan provincs. Con- sequently land {rapsfers were exceed- inly rare and none but the most wealthly cou!d efford to tuy. This fs one of the reasons that led to the gradual accretions of vast landed cetates in a fow hands, and thie, In a certain sensc, wos the eub- structure upon which the tory party reared and maintsined its power. “Toush the land snd you touch the country,” used to be a femlliar tory cry. It is, therefore, the more surprising to hear a man like the Eurl of Iddleelsigh speaking avowedly as a land-owner, and declaring that it 1isthe truo interest of English land-owners that ‘‘and should ba as avallable for transfer a8 any other prop- erly,” If this kind of thing goes on much longer it will be difficult for ordinary people to understand what ie the precise distinction between torles and radicals, At present the only difference that can clearly be ssen ls that one party Is out and the other in, and that the *‘outs” wish the conditions to be changed. Similar conditions have arlsen in the Unlted States, but it Is something strange to hear the rankest conservatlve leader of Fogland ready to sell out his party traditions in a fight of the kind, It s enough to make ‘“The Rupert cf Debate” turn In his coffin. The D:lish government, quletly and decisively, during the dispute over Pend- joh, eelz>d Port Hamilton, on the Nan How group of fslands, commanding a fine barbor, dominating the Corean stralls, the eouthern entrance to the Sea of Japan, This poiot {s between fiveand six hundred miles south of Ras naval station of Vladlvostock, which is on the upper Japan sos, noar the Chinese and Corean frontier, fifty miles south of the point where the great Amoor river enters the Sea of Okhotsk, The Brlush government has thus moved its base of cupplles 1,000 miles nearcr Viadivostock sud can get any quantity of good coal at Nagasakl, Japun, valy 146 miles off In the event of war, the Rasslan floet csn be cooped up In the sem cf Jepan by placlog a few firet-class lron clads io the straits of La Percuse and Teugar. Thls was ope of the fincst strateglo movements of the Gladstone adainlstration, end it 18 one to which the Gladstonites can cer- taivly point with pride. Port Hamilton bas bsen bricfly referred to in tho dle- patehes of late, and an examinatfon of a good map will reveal its value to the Brit. 1eh government, Privce Bismarck seems to have had cne of his attacks of heavy German humor. O:herwiss It s hard to account for his advice that the Zalfikar Pass should be made neutral. The notlon of malntalning the neutrality of the high- way from the Rueslan posts into the Afghan territory may seem fonny to Prince Bismarck. It ocannot seem to anybody, and as Ilttle to him 85 to anyb:dy elss, & merious sug- gestlon. ““The powers would scarcely guarantee a pass which they oan- not get at as if it were the Saez canal, The guarantee must be glven by the con- tending partles, which are Russla and Afghanistan, the latter belng for thls purpcse an English dependency. This would be very like two dogs guaraniee- Ing the neutrality of & bone that lay be- tween them and was coveted by N If the suggestion has any algnificance at all it Indleates a Cprfeerence for the Rareslan oclalms on the part of the German chancellor. The seml-officlal announcement that Russia will not relinqulsh these claims Indloates the same wlllingness for war that has all along given the Rueslan navigators an advantage over the Eoglish It eeems also a plece of bad falth. The pasy Iteclf © | having boen formally conceded to Afghan- Istan, the refaral toconcede Ita approaches is a refusal to cede with the pass what in law would be called its *‘eatements.” The Germans have always called the Removed. MisfitGlot Ll OINNJS X hingParlors 1119 YARNAM ST, 1119 Formérlyj of 1312 Douglas Street. THE MIDSUMMER H VoL xx%, AUOUST, 1t "o T¥ CENTURY provinces won from Fiance the “R:ichs- land,"” or the empire’s domain, thus em- phesizing tho fact that it was the common reward of the whole emplre for prowess in war, The emperor’s son-in-law, the grand duke of Baden, whote country constitutes a ribbon on the east of theeo pravincer, covets them, bat Blamarck has always stood in his woy. Hlis wife, the emperor's daughter, lately got tho con- eent of her aged father and of the crown prince, but Blemarck sgain intervened and defeated the scheme. To be gover— nor of the Refcheland is a high honor, a3 it is the ontpost towsrd France, and the adminlsiration of a reluctant and con- quered people is cfien a delicate matter. Prince Hohenlchs eucceeds the grim Manteuflel in that capacity. Whatevor tho result of the recent re- vival of alarm over Russlan movements in central Asis, tho lndleatlons that Rus- #la has been “'treating as her own the ter ritory of Pereis” will be likely to subj the frontisr of the latter country hereaf- ter to a watch as cloee as that which is habitually kept upon tho frontler of Af- ghanistan 1t has been alleged that Rusaia obtained specifio permlssfon to place her troops for cortain parposes upon Persfan terel- tory. Bothst as it may, the military conritlen of Persla is such that Russla cou'd hardly find much more difficulty in forcing her way to the Indian ocean through its domalns than through Af. ghenistan, It s true that an attempt at whe conquest of Eastern Persia might sticr up general opposition from Earopean powers, but the prowess of that country iteelf could hardly have terrors for Ruesia. The appoint— ment of a Raesian commiseion to inquire into the trade movement between the Trane-Caspian terrltory and Afghanistan and Persis, msy mean s breathing epoll in the Muscovite aggression In the east. The announcement of the commlssion i gccompanted with tho word of the Moe- cow Gazetto that the governweat con- slders its ventures in Ocniral Asla at an end. Persia may well tremblo at the thought ot a Russlan commission in- trusted w.th the inspection of its trade routes, Now that the difficulties between Franco and China have been tettled, the French are fres to turn their arms against Madagaecar, snd are taking active meas- ures to atone for thelr defeat in Tonquin by the conquest of ‘‘the great African island.” For several years we have heard much of certain French olsims upon Madagascar and alleged rights to largs parts of its territory. These pretenslons of the French are of a very shadowy netare. They have no snclent right to the Is- land, for tbree Earopean natlons, the Portuguese, the Dutch and the English, were established there bafore them. Re- peated attempts cf the ¥rench to cettle on the island have falled, and, at the be- glnniog of the present century, they had slmoet no connection with it, Having no snclent 1ight to the lsland, they are endeavoring t> support their postiisn by means of treatles made in 1841 with some rabellfous tribes by a repudlated and abandoned treaty made In 1862 with a drunken king, and by a tresty made In 1808, which gives the French no more righis to the !slacd than any cther natlon which has made a (reaty with the govern- ment may claim, Ths Hovas, the domirant {rlbe, who have corquered almost the entira island, are vigorcusly reeis Ing these Fr.men sggrisyions. They clatm the disputed territory by right of conquest, and sy that rebels canmot dispose of lund by treaty with a forclgn power. Tho con- quered fribes have rendered fealty to the sovere'gn of tho Hovas, militaiy posts havo been establiehed in auvd custom duties collected from the subjogated country by Hova cflivials, without avy complaint from the Fzeuch. Finally, the French, in their treatier, have recogn'z:d the ruler of the Hoves as soverelgn of Madagascar, — MUSIOAL AND DRAMATIO, Mme, Hudio opens her Boston engagement on October 26th, Roee Eytioge will tour the far west next season with a new play, The New York theatersare draped in mourning for Gen. Graot, Laura Don has gene to Southern California for the benefit of her health, Mr. Irviog bas finally declded to produce Mr, Willig's “'Faust” at the Lyceum in Oc- tober, Miss Auzie Pixley opens the regular dramatic ceason atthe Boston theatre on Heptember 7th, Mr, Henry E. Abbsy has engaged Mume, Gerster for o season of concerts in America this fall and winter, Col. Mapleson has engaged the tenor, Ra velli, for ths coming fall season of Italiun opera at the Academy of Music, Grau's “Mikado” died at the Grand Opera House, Brooklyn, last Thursday night from poor business and unpsid salaries, The Kiralfys will make & new move next season by pu tiog on a three-sct comedy with- out apy spectacular ¢ffects whatever. Mr. Harry Richmond is to take & company on the road in & burlesque of *‘Richard I11." Richmond and Richard for ‘onge will be of one mind, Herr Adolf Nenendorff 15 to ba the mansger next season of the Bijou theater in Boston, Lignt operas will be given, Flotow's 'Stra- della” opaning the eeason. H Nilason is_sbout to wake her first profes- | sicnal tour in her native Sweden sinco eho be- } came & great sibger. 3he was born 10 & wood- chopper's hut 1o the forest of Wexio, forty tWo yeurs ako, Tha dome on the ceatre of the ceiliog of the ILLUSTRATED New York Academy of Music is to ba painted o light blus with a cloud design, o as to rep- resent the sky, with tho chandelier as its luminary. Misa Clara Lo iso Kollogg and her concert compavy have reachad Winnipeg, whence they intend to proceed to Washiogton Territory and British Columbia, Signor Perucini recently sang befora the Prince_avd Princess of Wales at Marlbor- ough House. He will arrive in New York early in October, having been engaged by Rudolph Aronson to aesume the principal tenor role in the opera comique **Pfingsten in Florenz.” A paper piano has beon manufactured at Paris, The material for the case was com- pressed and took a perfect pol sh, and the tone of the instrument, though not loud, was very sweot—n koft, full, (uasi-continuous sound, resemblicg somewhat that of the organ, The new Patis opara house has fallea into disfavor. The corridozs are dark and low, the salon i3 too far fiom the boxes to be con veniently used as a promenade, the facilities for « isplaying toilets are bad and the zcoustic qualities are mizerable, Nothing except the fimnd staircase seems to b considered tolera- o, It in 6aid that the two Wild West shows of Buffalo Bill and Dr. rer will shortly meet aund have areal fight, in which Buffalo Bill’s Indians will pucsue Dr. Carver’s stage coach and Dr, Carver’s cowboys will lasso Buffalo Bill's greasers, Feeling between the two shows is high, Mary Auderion's tour throuehout the Eog- lieh provinces was very unsatisfactory, the businers sho did havir g been exceedingly foo- ble, The ehops are stul filled with her pic- tures, and she is to te eeen in all ths favorite attitudes in nearly every prominent window from Regent street to Chariag Cross, Great thirgs are ead of Mile, Fierene, a native of Flanders, who has carried cif the first prize in the singing competition at the Royal Coneervatory at Brussels. She is 18 years old; has a Roman profile and blonde bair. Her voice is compared by an enthusi- astic admirer to that of Pauline Viardot. Miss Emma Thurehy is on the point of re appearing in the concert room, She will de- part upon a concert tour, commazcing 1n St John, New Brunewick, in early September, andin due coureeis to be hesrd no nearer home than the Dritish provinces, Miss Thursby has placed herself urder the guidance of Mr, Max Strakosch, To be a leading actress, rs the phrese now R06#, i8 not ouly to be familiar with the priu- 2ipsl female roles of great plays, snd to be able to give the lines their fu ing; it implies aleo the poss wardrobe, the maintainiog . ment more oc loss elegant, @ wide acqnain tance with lcading managers, ciitics and pro fo:stonal people geserally, and a suave and agreeablo munner by which ull there thicgs may be rendered available, Patti holds her own among the peopls of London, Upon & recent appesrance an Margherita in Faust the St. James said of her: There is no other charactar in the whole operatic report ry which has been filled by singern «f such diverso gifts and acquirements as Titiens and Nilsson Patti, Lucea and Albani, If now it be asked which of the in- numerabls Margherita+ who have appesred on the operatic stages of London must bs re garded as the best, most pers ns will certainly reply, Mme, Adelina ratti; whilo if any qu-stion were to be reised as to who is the most perfect Ma gherita ot the present mo- mout, the dame of Patti would ba pronounced without one dissentient voics, S o sings the Jewel 8ong, with its appropri.tly dazz'ing orcamentation, as b illiautly as _ever, and the scoue of the prison with more dramatic force than cver eince, gome twenty years ago, she firet assumed the part, Mme, Pat'i L lost nothing and has gained much. Fven us & singer the has improved; not, indeed, in the art of vocalization, for that was impossible; but as regards her voice, which is richer and more capable of expressing emotion than in former days, when its ligotness and bright- noss wore its most noteworthy characteristics, —— BTATE JOITINGS. nd true me Grand Inlavd is looking around for pavs and estimates of water works, Survayors are out on the propsed line of the N« braska aud Kunsas narrow gusge. Sheldan Drew was drowned while bathing in the Missouri river at Plattsmouth Tuesday, The Grand Island Indepsndent figures it out that Hastings pidded hor census roturns about four thourand, Fremont has progressed far evough with the water works sgitetion to submit a propo- sition to vote bonds. Roso, the daughter of William Elis of Bentora, started up o fire with kerosene and lived thirty hours after, Tho P attemouth Herald having carefnlly examined the field states that Sepator Van Wyck's fences are in excellent repair and the prospects are good fur a heavy crop in the next legislature, Cedar couuty has been settled by the whites for thir-e yeurs and her incresse of population for th last five years s cqual to her eutire populstion at the close of ihe first quarter of & century in her histoy, J. D, Woud of the vew town of Hay Sprivgs; L > t of Rushville,and T, B. OLIDAY CENTURY.” ‘ TABLE OF CONTENTS. "A Canoeing Paper with eleven illustrations, | A Story with a Hero by Jas. T. McKay. | The Indian Country, with map, by 11 "ypical Dogs, by experts .....with lliam Lloyd Garrison, by his Sons and by ‘T W. Higginson. With several portrait Panforte di Siena, Ly W. D. Howells; On Hotel-keeping King ustrated. 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Mrs. James Benuett, residing near Deat- rice, was lighting a fire with keroseno last Baturday morning, when the oil exploded and set hor clothing on fire. Dsforo the fire was put out she was terribly burned and died twelve hours after in groat sufferiog. She was a young woman, wmarried six months, The funeral took place Sunday afternoon, Valentino and vicinity continus excited over the outragenus assault made by the red. skizned vagaboud from Rosebad agency upon the person of the youug school marm near that town last weck, As it is known the ravishor would certainly be lyuched should he be turned over to the Valentine authorities, the agency officials rofuso to surrender him, Jamen Seaman, of Ainsworth, has been proepecting for coal near the brara river for eome time, sinking through 125 feetof tlate and bed rock formation, and_has now ordered a 86t of drills and attachuments for continuing the sinkiwg. 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