Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 3, 1885, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. Osmana Orpice No. 914 axn 916 Farvaw St New Yonk Orrice, Roos 65 Triscse Bunio 186, Pubished evers morning, except Sund only Monaag morning daily pablished i ¢ © Months The 1.00 §ix Months = ednesday The Weekly Bee, Published every TR, TOSTRAL One Year, with promium One Year, without premi Bix Months, without pre One Month, on trial 00 2 76 10 1] ws and Editorial EDIToR OF THR All Communieations rel A taatters should be addressed to Bxn. HUSINRSS LETTRRA, All Business Tetters and Remittances thould be sddrossed to Tie Brr PURLISTING COMPASY, OMATIA Drafts,Checks and Post office orders to be made pay- ble o the order of the company THE BEE PUBLISHING CO., Preps. E. ROSEWATER, Eniton, A. H. Fitch, Manager Daily Circulation, Omaha, Nebraska. It will probably bs a cold day when Thomss Ballard s hanged. Hls execa- tlon 13 to take place In January next. S— Dr. Mitier's assertlon that Omaha and Douglas county never donated a dol- lar, or the fraction of a dollar, in bends to the Unlon Paclfic Is as refreshing in theso hot days as a Manitoba wave, It 15 a cold dsy when thedootor haen' somothlng to say In defenze of the Union Paclfic plrates. Mn. Laxe, the saperintendent of the ocensus, has placed himself batween two fires in attempting to mettle the popula- tion fight between Grand Ieland and Has'ings, He will find that hisdeclsion, whatevar It may be, will be as unsatls: factory, to one party or the other, as the declsion of a bass ball unipire upona disputed polnt. Tk Lincoln Journal In dlscussing the Omaha viaduct problem, which does not in any way concern that paper, shows that It does not know what it is talking This 18 nothing unusual, how- over, with {hat skeet. The fact Is that nothing cin be done in Omaha without the Journal poklng its nose Into 1t and Invarlably making falee statemente, about. Junce NeviLue has sentenced Thomas Ballard “‘to bs hanged by the neck uatil he fs dead, and to pay the cots of (hs prozecution.” We do not hesltate to s2y that this eentence is altogether too revere. The hanging part is sll right, but it is cett2inly domardiog too much, under the circumstances, to ask Mr. Ballard too pay the costs of his trial. Mr, Ballard will probably refuse payment. Dr. MiLier,who expected a csbinet po- sitlon under Tilden, and ale> under Cleve- land, is otill harping about ‘‘the fraud” 0f 1876. The less eald by De. Miller on that subject the better it will be for bim, Tho people have not forgotten the part which ho played in the conspiracy to steal the state of Ocegon. Tt comes with very poor grace from tuch a man to stig- matiz) the republicans as thieves. Such torpedoes are harmlese, A TEN days’ tour over that portion of Ne- braska visited by the Butlington & Missouri locomotives has persuaded the writer that he has hitherto possessed but vagne notions of the progress snd prosperity of the state.— Lineoln Journal, The writer happens to be one of the quasl $2,000 railroad commissioners. His notlons of the rallroad question in this stato are about as vague as hls notions of the growth and prosperlty of Nebratka hava been. AN iNTERESTING and novel church trlal was held in Kearney last week, the de- fendant, a prominent and plous member of a leading church, belng accused ot ly- iog In makirg bls aeccsyment returns, We_are not snrprised that the defendant, who is branded by one of the lccal pe- pers us a money stark, lar, ccoundrel, etc., was roquitted. Lylog about asses:- ment returns, end committing perjury in swearlrg to false etatoments of prop- erly, I8 a very common gractice, Tue huogry democrats of Nebraska would like to know why it was necessary for Presldent Cleveland to appoint an Tlnols man to the superlutendency of the Indlan school 8t Genca, They in- dligosntly malntain that this is not o square deal, as there are enough patriots in Nebraska to fill all the offices In this stats, and In several other states, and that it Is entlrely unnecessary toimpcrt Illinois suckers, They would also like to know what the Nebraska bosses cf the demo- cracy and the supposed dispensexs of fed- eral pap ave thinking abount anyhow? Why are they not awake to the materia] interests of the epoils-huniers of this state! {Why sro they not dolng some- A MENDACIOUS CHAMPION. The Unlon Paclfic is very unfortunate at this time in haviog Dr. George L. Miller ns It foremost epokesman and champlon, Hls shaitered memory Is very defective, and his dlsregard, for verscitg. ia simply “astounding. If the managers of the Union Pacitic had been " | personally Indlcted for grand larceny or burglary. and Der. Miller was the attor- ney upon whom devolved the task of acquittlng them before a jury he could not posslbly have done greater vlolence to truth In defente of bis clients than he has done In his recent open letters to Mayor Boyd and the ocltizens of Omahs. In fact ss an attorney Dr. Miller's audacious denlals of well established and notorlous facts would have been sare to result in convletion, even It the prosecution bad not produced a ecln- tilla of evidence. The doctor’s last let- ter certainly caps the climax of down- right falsifioation, He boldly awerts that Omaha and Douglas county never donated a dollar, or the fractlon of a dol- lar, In bonda to the Union Pacific Rall- way compsny. This Is 80 notorlonsely at varlance with the trath that it seems In- credible how sny man po ed of a grain of self-respect would resort to 1t. There ls not a man In Omaha who has llved here sluca 1868 that does not know that §450,000 in bonds were voted by this clty and county as donations to the Unlon Paclfic rallroad on condition that the road should bridge the Missouri at Oma. hs, walntsin its headquarters and ma- ch'ne ehopsin thls city, and carry on the tranefer of It terminal traffic on the weet sldo of the river, It fs true that the £200,000 city bonds wero not donated directly to the Unlon Paclfic rallroad, but the proceeds of the bonds were used to purchace the depot grounds and right of way which wore donated to tha read, under the con- ditlons epecificd in the conteact, recently published in ths Ber, Was not the do- natlon of the depot grounds, hought with the bonds, cquivalent to the donatlon of the bonds? Would any shyster lawyer dare togo before a conrt with such a con- temptible quibble ¢ Aud how about the $250,000 in bonds fsaued by Douglas coun- ty ? These bonds were voted to the Union Pacific bridge company, and that company was jast &s much the Union Pacific railroad then es it has been tince the supreme court declared the brldge to be a part cf the maln line. Dr. Miller works himself up into a fit and gives himself away completely when he declares In his last letter: “Any man who says that any conditions were made either about transfer or terminus atates what ia personally known to me to be falre, All such conditions were expressly ex- cluded from that contract by the decision of the directors of the company, and this decis- ion was unanimously acquissced in by the members of the Omaha committee. “The continuous falsehcods that have mis- led even such men s Mayor Boyd to teach this community that a good amount of money hasever been ‘donated’ to the Union Pacific company for depots and transfers require cor- rection when they are usod to array this city against the great author and founder of its prosperity and progreas,” Any man who, for the sake of afew thousand dollars worth of railrond patron- age, would so lower himself as to fly in the face of recorced facts and assert what everybody knows to ke untrue, is bereft of all manhood. The a'mighty dollar is his god. If, as the doctor asserts, no con- ditions were made withrezard to tranefer or terminus by Omaha with the dir.ctors of the Unlon Paolfic, why were these conditions embodi:d In the con- tract now on record in this clty [and county? Theat contract was slgned in the presence of a large number of oltizens by the ofticers of the Union Paclfic before the Douglss county bonds were delivered over. Wers these officers traltors to the company, or was it a meg- nanimeus conceesion volunterily made with the menta! reservation that the con- tract should never be kept ? If it s true that no condltions were exacted by tha commlttee, of which Dr. Miller was a member, he hss plec:d himself and the commiltee fn an onenvlable attltude. No Inteliigent person belleves for ono mo- ment that the commities, made up of leading cltizens, would have agreed and contracted on bshalf of Omaha to mort- gage this ity and county for $450,000 without some guaranty of concesslons that wou!d mcre than make up In com- merclal advantago the subsldy glven to the road. But where does Dr, Miller stand be- fore thls communliy? He tells us that Augustas Kountz> telegraphed Herman Kountze *‘to send me (Dr. Miller) on the next train.” Ho went, and accord- ing to his confesslon he agroed to give away property and bonds worth half a willion dollars, without exacting the slightert guaranty from Darant, thiog to [ prevent the Importatlon of car- pot-baggers] —— Tae Hill-Sharon divorce case continues to furnish sensatlons for the public, Every time there ls a hearing in the case thera ls either a fight or some other ex- olting incldent. Not long ago, the judge fearlng a general shootlrg match, which had been threatened, crdered every per- son in the court room to be sesrched and relieved of weapons, and the 1esult was the capture of enough *“‘guns” to stock sn arseasl. The judge, however, neglected to take a eimllar precautlon yesterday, snd the result was that Sharon’s lawyer was assaulted by Terry, one of the attor- noys on the other side, with a cane. Tie asssultcd lawyer, Kowalsky by name, drew a revolver, whereupon Terry, who 16 will be remembered killed Senator Broderick in the early deys of California, whipped out his shooter, at the tight of which Kowalcky turned avd fled, This is ratke: a forcible way of seitling law polnts, Lur it scems to be the prevalent ou.tum Iu Sag Francizco courts of justice. Dillon and the other highwaymen who had threatened to destroy Omaha If she did not etand snd dellver. It would seem now that the late S. 8. Caldwell told the truth when he charged Dr, Mil- ler with playinz spy and traitor in that committee, and selllng out Omaha to Durantand hispa's for paltry galn, Cald- well was a member of the committee, and the rccent controversy shows that he koew what he was talkiog abont. Dr, Miller bas corroborated Mr, Caldwell. The allusion made by the doctor to a second repudiation on the part of Omsha referspwo presume, to the euit brought by Douglas county agalnst the Union Pacifio t) anoul the county bonds on the ground that the compapy bad falled to comply with Its contract obliga‘ions. That such & suit was brought shows con- clusively that the cltizens of Omaha had been chiseled out of & qusrter of a million by a gwg of sharpers, who bad opera'ed on their feare, and never intended to carry out thelr part of the contract until compelled. That euit WA, THE DAILY BEE-~MONDAY, AUGUST 3 1885 were not very reputable. Had we tlme |once Incressed the value of all abutting or space to glve the true Inwardness of [ preperiy, sll the way from 100 to 300 per of that transaction it would not be very |cent. The charch society slladed to has creditable to the dcctor's cllente, Why | just sold its lot for £10,000, which Is the doctor should persiat In defending |abcut 86,000 more than it was valaed at the Unicn Pacific against the acta of for- [ before the street was graded. Thls Is a mer managera, which Mr, Adams himeelf | financlal godeend such as It never would would not approve cr defend, passes|have recelved had not the street been comprehenslon, unlers, Indeed, the|geaded. With this money It Is enabled Herald s so pressed for pitronsge that | to purchate a new rite, to move Its chareh {ts owners feel compelled to thrast theic | building, and pay all its debte. Com. services upon the railroad company in|ment s unneceesary; suffice It to ssy that order to cbligate Its managers, If it laab. | this incldent demnostrates the scundness solutely necossary that the Herald shell|of the polley, which has slnce been be rubsidized, would It not be more prof- | adopted, of taking Into consideration the ftable to the railroad to hire Dr. Miller to | benefits derived from atreet Improve. keop slill? No one would bave stirred | ments, and making them a tet-off for up or reopened those old mores had it not [ damages claimed. been for his open lettera bristling with wanton misstatements, Such brazen| THE Leader is opposed to the State Registar falsehoods had to be contradicted, even |ruoniog the democratic politics in Iowa, It when there was no dlposition to create | i* high time we proceed to manage our own 7, affairs without the impudent dictation of the ‘l')""l';"d'y feeling towarda the Unlon |, ' iican bons.— Des Momes Zeader, acihio. Having falled tn its recent efforts to successfully ran the republlcan politics The Chleago Zlerald of Saturday of Towa, the Des Molnes Register is nat- {ssued an Interesting supplement. It was arally “'kl“'z" oW, §°,d f'f' the exhibi- » fac-stmile of tho Vicksburg Citizen, of 100 of Me. Clarkeon's abllity asa bors. Thursday, July 2, 1863, conslsting of four columna printed on the white s!lde of year 1a In tho front rauk, Thero Ia prob- gold:leat wall-paper, an ovidence that ably not astate in the union that oan the supply of printing paper had been |y, 0ot of more abundant yleld. exhausted. The Unlon army took poe- sesslon of Vicksburg on July 4. For some reazon the publistcrs of the Citisen | Boston Advertiser, had not completed the Issue of Ju'y 2,| Toa philosopher, of conrse, the dlapos. 3 Tusion | itlon of the lifeless human body seems a probably having come to the conclusion mhitor of amall’ BiGHARY: Bk t6 ihe that tho city would bo captured inafow | groat hody of the people the funersl hours, Somo printors in the Union srmy | riten and resting placo of one of its great put the form to press os they found it, | heroes are matters of keenest Interest. with tho exception ol tho last parageaph [ 10 View cf the appraaching obacquics of h our own great national hero, it will bo In the last colump, In which|jyoresting to recall the bonors pald after they announced the capture of Vicksburg. | death to some of the groat captains of Some of the “'itoms” in thls fesue of the | history. Citizen ura st thls time both amusing and |, A0 long years were contumad tn the Intorenting a1 thoy wote tn the nlon sol. | (CT¥idable praparstiona for the funcral (U2 O-16f Alexander the Great. Dying at dlers lmmediately after the capture cof | Babylen, he directed thst hls body, Vickeburg. For aix weeks tho city had [ which was lmmolln:ll’ly embalmed with been closely besloged, and the garrison |¢/nborate care, by Egyptan —and L O e D B e a3y ) Chaléean adepls, should bo deposited in storvation, The Citizen said: ‘“We are the Temple of Juplter on on Eyyptien satiefied that thers are numerous persons A SOUVENIR OF VICKSBURG. Ix the matter of crops Nebraska this ocals, Undoterred by tho enormous dls- within our clty who have breadetulls so tance, the processlon set forth creted, and are doling it out at the most exorbitant figures to those who had not the foreeight or means at their command to provide for the exlgency now upon us A rumor has renched us that parties in the cily have been, and are now, celling flour at five dollars per pound! molas- soes at ten dollars per gallon! and corn at fen dollars per bushel!” The editor, whote name was Sworde, gave to these scoused partles a terrible scoring. Notwithetanding the mournful situation Editor Swords indulged in several at temps at jocularily, no deubt with the expectation of inspiring the Vicksburgers with hope. The following ftem will no doubt be read with more than ueual in- terent at the prezent time: ON Dir.—That the preat Ulysses—tho Yankee Generalissimo, surnamod Grant, has expressed his intention of diningin Vicksburg on Saturday next, and celebrating the Fourth of July by a grand dinner and so forth. ‘When askea if he would invite Gen. Joe Johnston to join, he said,** No! for fear there will be a row at the table” Ulysses must et into the city before he dines in it. The way to cook a rabbit is “frat to catch the rabbit,” etc. The last parageaph in the Citizen— Inserted by the Unlon printers— was as follows: ROTE. July 4th, an army of workmen having been sent forward to repalr the roads and bridges. The funcral car was drawn by sixty-foar mules, chosen for their strength and size, splendidly caparisoned. The car fttself was of surpassing magnificence, thesp. kes and naves of the wheels snd tho axels being covered with gold, the platiorm upholding a royal pavilion fncrueted with geme, supporting a throne and a coftin, the latter of eolld gold and filled with costly eplces, But the body never rerched its destination. Ptolemy ar- rested its progress and buried it at Alex- andrla, which cliy may be sald to have {tself proved the enduring monument of the conqueror. Very different way the funeralof Julius Caosar. The clrcumstances of hls death were e0 tragic,and such enormous crowds gathered to the ceremony, that they could not be formed into a procession and the different claescs of the paople wero accordingly asked to come togetber under their appropriate Insignia in the Field cf Mars, The body of the great Romsn was exposed lylog upon a gilded bed, covered with scarlet and cloth of gold, and placed under a magnificent cancpy in the form of atemple. Alter the funoral ceremonies were over a question arose where they should burn the body. Some suggested a temp'e on the Capltoline hill, others the eenate house where he had fallen. The senate, Jess willing to pay him extra-rdinary honors, propoted & mora retired epot. The discusston was fast becoming a dle- pute when two eoldiexs, with drawn swords and blazlng torchea In their hands, forced thelr way through the crowd and Two days bring about great changes, The | set fire to the bed. In a moment there banner of the Union fi ats over Vicksburg, | Was the wildest excltement, The mul- Gen. Grant has “‘caught the rabbit;” be has | titude fell to work directly bulld- dined 1 Vicksburg, and he did bring his | 198 'h"hf“‘“‘;'l Pyfs) upon the spot. dinuer with him, The “Citizen” lives to eco E’"‘h theyibrane zl {)xgnl. and then it. For the last time it appearson “Wall- | 20RcAaes from tio neguvoring porticos, B sy = and next any combuastible material they paper.” No moro will it eulogize the loxury | GGu1d find, and at longth, as the excite: of mule-ment and fricassed kitton—urge | ment grow, tho soldiors threw In thelr Southern warriors to such diet nevermore. [ grms, the matolans thelr Instraments, This is the last wall-paper edition, and is, | while others strlpped down and throw excepting this note, from the types as we found them, It will be valuable hereafter a3 a curiosity, Verlly time works wonderful charges. To-day a united ration mourps “the old commander,” and tha eouth through its representatives, Gen., Joe Johneton, one of the mcst distinguished eurvivors cf therebel commanders, ard Gen, Buckner, whosurrendered to his schoolmate, Grant, at Fort Donelson, will shake hands over the grave of the illusirious hero, with Gen. Sherman, Gen. Sheridan, Gen, Logap, Admiral Porter, and Rear-Admiral Worden, the war repretentatives of the upon the flames the trappings of the funeral procession, 8o fierco was the fire that it epresd to the nelghboring houses and was only with the greatest difficulty extingolshed. As a fitting monument the people eracted to the*‘Mighty Julins” a lofty colamn surmouated by a star. Coming down to modern times, the acorunts of the obrequles of the *‘Iron Doke,” perhaps the greatest ever known in England, and the second funeral cf Napoleon muzt sl bs borne freshly in mind by msny of the veterans to.day. The Duke of Wellington, sfter lylog in T0 THE ROCKIES AXD BEYOND. Progress of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Up the Missouri, Events and Incidents of the Trip— The Rocky Mountains Reached Orossed—-Some Milltary Comment. Written for The Bk, No. vur, The writer left Low!s and Clark at the foot of the lofty knollon the west slde of the river, on what is now the Omaha reservation between Burt and Dakota counties, on which knoll the great war- rler and chieftaln, Blackbird, was burled, mounted apon his battle horse, with all the trappings of war. He has lingered 8o long with the Omahas in writing up these annals that he now leaves them with re- gret. There Ia much In thelr former his- tory, great and powerfal natlon as they once were, to awaken a deep interest with those to whom it is a pleasant task to delve down into the histories and tra- ditions of former times. And this leads to the thought of how much there ls, back and beyond anything upon which he has touched, of anwritten history In all this reglon between the Mississlppi and the Rocky mountaine. How many cruel and desolativg wars have been waged by savage nations; how many battles have been fought, how many vlotories have been lost and won, what crimos have bsen committed and what misery en- dured on thess plains and in yonder mountsins. If the volces of the centuries could speak, what a history of these very plains and moun(ains would they not un- fold ! For It must be borne in mind that tho ages have bsen maklng this history that {s unwritien; 1t must be borne in mind that yonder mountalns looked down upon thens pralries long before Pilate satupon his judgment seat and condemued unto death, Him feom ths Heavenly Kingdom; long beforo ths Persian hosts were stsyed at Thermo- pylae; long before Homer sang the song cf the tirgo of Troy and Virgll wrote his leys of .Flaeas sailing over t ho ‘an sen; long before Jacob sent his children down into Eyypt to buy corn, thess plalne and valley and mountains wero here awsiting oar comirg to change ths wildernets Into fruitful nelds; and t ey havo walted patiently through the long rall of the centuries to greet the dawn oi enlightened clvilization, coming to take the p'ace of barbarlsm, aud it fell to cur lot to help to Inaugurate tho change, Here in Nebraskn are eeen the wonderful results wrought by civilization ina brief perlod of time, and nove ate more cou- scious ¢f It than the more advanced in edacatlon and civilization, of the Omaha tribe. Oneof them whom the writer met not long ago and entered into con- versation with him, said in broken Eng- lteh, ‘‘Me Indisn, when me travel over the prairles now, feel heap wender at what we see.” It is to the honor of men and women who leave old and well established commanliies in old stetss and strike out into new regiuns and help to found new communities and to build states. Those who do thus leave soms- thing behind for which to be remembered for gocd. Liawis and Clarke with thelr party ro- sumed their journey up the Miesourf, and on the 20th of Auogust went Into camp on the east sido of the river, ac- cording to the deccription a little below whera Sioux City now stands. While there, Sergeant Charles Floyd became serlously 1lI, and died. He was baried on the top of the bluff with honors due to o brave suldier, and the place was marked by a cedar post on which was iv scribed his nsme snd the day of his death. To the bluffs they gave the name eent’s Bloffs,” and to o small river near there they gave the name of Floyd’s river, names familiar to all who have journeyed in that vicinity, The place where one is lald away, does not affect the person, but there 18 something fnexprezsibly sad in the thought of being laid to rest in desolate and uninhabited regions where the sllence s unbroken save by tempests and storms, and the war whoop of 1he savage, snd where, it may be, no human footatep will ever come, axd which spot no loved ono can ever visit to badeck 1t with tears and gar- land it with flowere. The writer once paseed a lonely grave awsy out upcn the plaing, with o rough plne board stsnding at the head, and upon it were cut in Lt tors the pame *‘Edith Allen, aged 16 yoars,” There her kindred were obliged to leave her—in the solitude of the d ert was her perpotusl home. Sad fndecd must it have been for a father aud moth- er tolay o loving child away to rest in such rolitery reglons, The writer gatk ered a few wild flowers growivg near by, s'ate five days at Cheleea hospltal, was borne to his latt reeting place in St. Paul's on a car drawn by twelve horees, accompanied by a vast milltsry and civic nerth, and thus emphssize the immortal woeds, “Let us have peace.” With twho burisl of Grant let all sectional strife and bitter memorles be forever burled, Tue Bre suggests that the Grant me- morial services be held in the open sir, as Boyd's opera house ls altogether too limited ia its eccommodations, Not mora than two thousand people can find room {n the cpsra house, while there are probably twenty thousand who desire to attend these services and pay tho'r re- spects to the memery of the old com- mander, The memorlal gervices of Lin- coln and Garfield were held at the high school 'grounds where all fcund room. There s no good reason, the weather per- mittlog, why the Grant memorlal services should not be held In the open alr at some sultable spot. Porhaps no better place could be eolected than the bigh echool grounds, If the programme can be chaoged in accordance with this eug- gestlon, 1t cerlainly cught to be done, as it will meet with general spproval. In case the weather should be unfavorable then the opera houss is the proper place, end even if an out-door wmeeting Is held it would e qaite approprlate to hold either openleg or closlug services in the opera house. At any rate the opera houte should be reserved to cover any emer- gency. A cuuren soclety in Omaha was re cently allowed & gocd round sum for damages claimed by reason of the im. provement of the street on which it had concourze, the latter incluiing Princo Albort, both houses of parliament, jadges, nobles, public budics, the mourning coackes ‘of the queen and royal famlly, and an innumerablo throng of the people. Napoleon's faneral, as a parade, re- mains unparslleled in cur tim T) cherished romains of thelr hero, having been recelved by the French from the English nineteen years after his death, it was not 8o much a funeral s a vast tri- umphal procission thav followed, during which all France resounded with boom- ing cannon, tolling bella ard strains of martial musle, while the excited paople llned the banks of the Selne and filled the alr with frenzled shouts end cries and tobs of joy and gratulation, The resources of funeral art wero exhausted upon the psgeant, and the Imagini n s upable to distinguish the de'alls of a pro- ceeslon in which the catafalque, the cen- tral object of Interest, was borne on a moving mound of gold and velvet drawn by sixteen blsck horses and guarded and escorted, It 1 sald, by an army of 160, 000 soldlere. Compare wilh thess splendors the qutet and slmple funeral rites of our own Washington, 8 befitting republican slm- plicity and the character of him who was, neverthelesr, ‘‘firat in the hearts of his countrymen ” A gatheriog of the digoataries of the neigbborlng town of Alexandris, with the wmilitia snd Free Masone, his friends snd nelghbirs, his own war horse, duly csparlsoned, led in the midst, one vessel in the river hard by firing miouts guus, and tha whole prooession confiaed to his own private grounds, where his tomb was made and stl!l ie, C ~John Pratt, an old man about 73 yeirs of Jage was ridieg in North Omaba Eatarday afternoon when bis team bessme ucruly and van awny. He was thrown out of his buggy and rustained dangerous biu Lr, Hos- was withdrawn by man'pulations which a lot, The fmprovement of the ntreet at totter was called in and dressed his wounds, and it i believed that he will rezcver, snd laid them upon the lcnely grave, There must be scmotking solacing ia the thovght, that, when wo ehall have paered into ke valley of silence, we shall be latd by the e!de of luved ones gore before, or who are to come after. There was some- thing so touching and tender in tho thought of Grant, that, wherever he might bo lald, It must be where his life companion, who had shared with hlm his +xials in the days of his advorsity, as well ho | 88 his glorles iu :he daya of his triumphs, would be Iald by his sida, Lewls jand CLko pushed on through the region ceeupled by the Sioux, and en- tered the country of the Mandsns, a light eolored race of Iudians lving far northweet of the Slonx, There they wic- tered, 1,600 miles from thelr startivg place. In the spring of 1805 they moved on and reached the Yellowatone, pasing through the hot springs reglon, now known as tho geyeers of tre Natlonal Park, of which ttey were, undcubtedly, the first white dls:overers, They arrlved et the falls of the Missouri In June, and transported thelr boats, luzgsge and sup- ples across a portasge of eighticn miles, and - arrlved at the head waters of the Missourl, Capt. Lewis took a part of the force aud explored the country by lsnd, arcendlug the mountalns, discov- ered the headwaters of a branch of the Clumbla, the balance of the parly pro: cacding up tho river. When they came together agaln they left their boats, and procuring horacs from the Indi crossed the mountains and were soon smor g Gen. Howsird's cld friends, the Nes Perees Indisns, whose cescendants he pursued 80 relentlessly for two months or so, glv- fng them no re:t until he drove them right into Gen. Miles' commazd, which was waliing for them; and Miles’ friends undertook to capiure all the glory for him. Gen. Howard does not belleve lo luck as having had to dowith Gen, Gran.'s career, and in that caeck c isright. But there are oflicers of the army with whom luck has bad a heap to do. 1t was & lucky thing for Gien. Miles that he married a nlece of the two Shermans and a slater-in-Jaw of Don QCaweropn; and he vas always lucky eroigh to have plenty of newspaper backing. The wri'er is not to be understocd as detracting from the merits of Gen, Milee. He Is a brave officer and 8 good Indlan fighter, bat there are others in the army just &8 good, not yet colonels, If John Gibbon had been lncky enough to have had (he extraneous influences which Miles has had, he would have been a brigadier general ten yoars sgo. That march of Gen, Howard, putsning tho Nes Perces, is one of the moat ra- markable marches on rosord. There wi no letting up or haltin found they must make ot keep moving, and rapldly too, and they chose the latier, and they were fol- lowed perslstently and unceasingly They must have thought that vengesnce was after them. The record of that march {s worthy to rank with X enophos Anabasis, or with that of any of the re- markablo marches of history. Jonx M. THAYER, Graxp Tstann, Aug. lat. it ot Sty STATE JOTTINGS, The Dodge county hog crop promises Iarge returns this year, Wahoo and Fremont will cross bats and crack shins the coming week. A gang of horee thieves and traders were muzzled at Red Cloud Inst week, The mercury rcored a home run at 1109 in the shade at Wilber on the 30ih A herder named Engens Rink was killed by lightning near Culnmbus Saturday. Frra Bowlin, a colored boy, sged 11, was drowned while bathing in the creok wu Dea- trice. Hamilton and Platte countios were deluged :(m rain last, Saturday, No great damage oue, William H. Case and Alex Stowart were kitled by lightniog in a barn at Aurora Sat- urday. The contract was lat for the building of the new packing houss at Nebraska City last week., The Madison county Madison on September 23, 23 and 24 next. 8. 0. Campbell is president and W, 8, Ramey, secretury. lantine Jand cffics has turned into tnment coffers 2112000 durivg the faie will bs held at commenced inSaline caunty, aing have dons some damage hocks, John McKeen, foreman of the rip rip gang at Blair, hat his leg crushed ot ths knee by an engine in the yards, The manngers of the Platt county fair are preparing for an_exceptionslly fine exposition September 8, 9, 10 and 1L Light hundred people participated in tha connecration of the North Nebraska M. I Conferenco seminary at Central City last Taesday. The president of the Holiness camp meot- ing ground at Bennott has refused to sllow the use of the grounds for the Grant wmemo- rial services, “North Bend is all peace and quiot,” says the Flail, two or three hours before its editor waa thrashed out, The next issue will furnish a different picture, New steel rails are being put in on the Jive of the B & M, A gang of about thirty men have been at work near Crete for the past six weeks doing the work, A dastardly act was performed by some de- praved wretch nesr Homer last week in the poisoning of ten head of horses belonging to a tarmer iu that vicinity, The stage lines expect to make the distance from Chadron to Deadwood in sixteen hours. This pla es Deadweod within fifty-eight hours’ run of Chicago, Talking about July corn, A, W, Thornton, of Furnas county, comes to the front with stalks measuing 11 feet S inches, and well eared, He basa forty acre forest of it, Plattemouth bas abandoned electric light and retrogrades to the pale glhmmer of com- mon gas. A proposition to grant a frauchiso toa gas compauy is now before the couneil, A band of Indian children passed through Fremont last week bound for the Linco'n igstitute at Philadelphis. There were eight boys and eleven giris under the charge ot J, M. Johnson. e _John Cleary, a Nebraska City bsat of the firet grade, wus hauled into court lait week for sluggivg his wifo, A whippiog post Would bea welcome improvement at the ancient metropolis. The two-year old son of Mrs. McLaughlin, iving on French creek, Custer connty, fell into a spring and was deowned, Chacles T, Lehr, a cow-puncher, was drowned in Beaver creek, sume county, The Nebraska City Press attempts to off on the public a picture of Col. Tom. Ochiltree, the famous liar of Texas, as that of Maj, Pearman, The similarity in reputa- tion, however, 18 strikiog and timely, The Indian who raped the young school- marm pear Valentine n few doys s, is cou- fined at the Rosebud agency aud has been identified by his victim. No_Indian is al- lowed to enter the towa cf Valentine eincs the outrage. Miss Alice Sherfy,"an Avoca waiden of ro mantic tenaencies, sligped out of the old home one night recently and hurried to Lincoln wich George (ioodwater, where they were marriod, They then weat wess to grow up with the country, alm mony, This struek the girl like a “phat taks at 2in the morning, and Frank returoed his pi-box with his upper case over flow ing with all -orta of prospective enjoyment. A steaight week's work brought him coin enough to se cnre o license and bo burried oncs more to th bower of his rural beauty and bueied himeel with the old foiks in preparing for the tle-up In response to a sudden call from town Frank borrowsd the old man's horse, traded it in Grand Island for a watch and #10 in oash and disappesred. The wedding wae declared off and the guests who had asseabled fell upon the prospective bride with congratulstions on her escape feom the clutches ¢f & horse thief nnd ingrate. e Bouncing the Boys, BuAMOKIY, Pa., August 1.—In acsordance with the act of tha legislature prohibiting the employment of boys under twelve years of ago in conl hreakers and under fourteen in mines, abeut five huadred boys will bs dis- ‘clhlrged from the colleries in this vicinity to 4y, OAPTURED THE CROOKS A Trio of Western “Roughs” Run to the Ground, Detectlve Emery has just returned from Stenandoah, Iowa, where he has been engiged in battling with a party of crooks,—smong them one or two well known In Omahs,—who have hcen en- geged In terrorlzlog that qulet village, Some weeks ago, a party of strangers arrlved In the town, and shortly after- wards, the house of a man by the name of Harlich was enterea, she family was chloroformed, and & consldorah’c amount of valuables carted away, Susplelon fell upon three parties who were banging arouad town, bat the crlme could not be fastened upon them. Shortly afterwards it was discovercd that eysromatic attempts wers belng madeto black-mall tho saloon keepers by threatenivg to divulge their scerois and bring them into trouble, unless large sawa of hush money wero immediately paid, Detective Emery went to Shen- andoah, and, in the rols of & “‘tough” ba- coming intimately scqualnted with the tdlo. ~ Melching, Comestock, . and Rowdys, who wero suspooted of the chloroform trick, discovercd that they were also implicated In'the Dblack- maillng scheme. He scon succoeded in eocuring their cenfidence and galning poritive evidence of their gulit had them srrested. Upon promiso of releaso one of the threo made a clenn brenst, and* gave awsy” all the detalls of the chloroform robbery. The two who are trled for the crime have had preliminary hearing and have been bound over to the distriet court, These crooks have operated pretty ex- teneively in Miseouri, Nebraeka and Iowa bus {t now looks as though their career was forthe present at least, ended. — ———— An Old Fraud, Denver News, The congresstonal Investigation of the Plne Ridgo Indian egancy msy possibly result in trouble and disaster. Red Cloud fs one of the few *‘good Indians” who s quite well known to the Indian phllanthopists of tho cast. He dreses ltke clvll paonls aad, to a grost extent, apes their bablts and modes of life. But with all this, those who know him best represent him »s &n old frand, with all the Indlan cunning and decett character- fstle of Lis race. Wkile lu the east, at the expense of the givernment, he Is an advecate of Indian education, yet not one of his own children or grend- children 1n & pupll of the Indian echool. The little village over which he control, comprsing probably vo hundred souls, eends in In- dtan chlldren to the school provided by the general goverament, He is meddle- some but not dangerous, and Agent Mc— Gillicuddy has been able, withcut much trouble, to keep him and his followers in perfect subjection snd control. What these Indians need, 1s a firm head to guide them, one that has eufficient nerve t do his duty, 88 bo understands it, cven in the presence of the 1cpresentatives of the law-mskiog branch of the national government, Squaw men have no busl. nees on an Iodlan reservation, — Service Keform among sioux. Civil the New York rterald. Our report, by telograph from Omaha, of Mr. Holau's committes’s pow-vow with the Sloux, which way concluded yos'erday, dlscloses differences among them on tho sukjest of civil mervice re- form. One McGlilicuddy ls the Indian agent ‘The harvest has opened in ernestin Velley county, and neurly every firmer is cutting geain this week. Samll grain of all kinds is surniog out well, aud the yield will be un- u-ually good, for there bava bsen no Ktorms, except in a few peighborhoods, to do soy dumage, Grand Island thus mourns her collapse as tho coutre of high art in base ball: "If there is auy one redeeming virtus Graud Teland has, {6 certainly is not in the scienc) of base ball. Wo thought we could pluy the national game to perfection, but there exists only the mem ory of a game won by our local team.” At Waco, Thursdsy, the barn and gracvary of Johu C. Roberteon ‘wes destroyed oy fire, together withe 2 0 bushels of coro, L0 bushels of wheat, 2 huthels of onts, eight tons of bay, a threshing machive, con planter, plows, harnees and other farming implemonts, i cludivg ove $40 set of barvess, The estimated value is $1,200; insured for 8050, The fire was caused by children playing with matches, Miss Mary Curtin, an Ctoe county youvg lady, who has heretofore epjoyed robust health, suddenly bicams unconicious last Sunday morning, and, with the exception of one short interval Tuesday evening, has re- muined 8o ever since, all cfforta to arouse her being in vain, and the doctors are mystified. The last news from there, her unfortonaste attack had assumed the form of wild de- lerium, While practising for the taurnsment Satur day, the Kouk aod ladder team of Grand Islaud was badly used up. Their leaders not being able to keep up, one of them fell and otbers fell on him, the truck brnging up sgaiost them all, The wjured are Frank Koenig, spine hurt; Fred Kouse and Frod Wable, legs bruised; Jobn Kospke, two ribs broken Toey were ruoning at {ull speed at the time of the accident, and were unable to stop the truck, A railroad meeting was held in Red Cloud last Tueeday to consider the propusitioa of a Kapsas line for » bonus of $1,000, Tha lice of the road is now surveyed from Dodge City to Hayes City, Kauras, and will be completed to Red Uloud ' in sbout fifty or sixty daye. From the former place to 1ied Cloud, $1,6.0 has been subserib d towad the prelimiiary work snd the company asks $1,000 additional from the people ot Red Cloud. * A committee was sppolnted Lo pars around the hat, A new enemy of the farmer has made its sppaarance in two or thren localities and is dolag some dwinage to the growiog crops. 1t is & emall white worm, who:6 base of opera tloos seews to be at the roots of thecorn, which it eats cff allowing the stalk to fall to the ground for want of support, Some slarm is naturally felt leat the vuveg:s of the worm should prove geperal aud of « seafvus charac tor, Advices | Osop county ate to the effect that th post 1s working on the corn in portions of Lhat county, Frank Howard, a space-bender on the North Platto Telegraph, swapped gum drops with a *bright, ivteliikens wod 1espag § wowan, pot quits 18, o residrt of county, wod finully proposed that th thelr forws in the imponpg stone of at Pine Ridge, and Old Red Cloud, who is called “‘a discontent” and ‘‘distarber of the pescs,” and seemn to be a kind of Hendiicks demccrat, thinks it s “time to have a change.” ‘‘We have a now great conncil snd & rew great father at Waehingtop,” he says, *and we want o vew agent,” Bat, on tobe other hand, Young-Man- Afrald-cf Hle-Horses and Plonty-of- Bear aud White Bird, who sre evidently mugwumps, s'and by McGillicuddy and eond thelr compliments to President Cleyeland, taylng that thoy are astisfied with the present management. o — They Will Differ, Fremont Herald, Democratle journals will differ, Kor Instence, while the (mahs Herald seys Benator Van Wyck !s a dangerons man to the people, and that Its editor is a simon pure moncpollet, sud 1s poud cf ft—on the other hand the Tecumeeh Jouroal “There is mcre abllity snd true Van Wyck's lttle finger than in Weaver's whecle anatomy, Although a rrepubl'can, Senator Van Wyck is nearer the liearts of the masses to day than any other man in Amerl POOLPRIVILEGS. POOL BIRTH AND OTHER PRIVI LEGES FOR SALE ON THE GROUNDS OF THE OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FAIR. A1l hids must be on fil+In the Secretary’s b onor befo, e Aug. 16, The right 13 rescrved to Jact sl bids, s : Purses and other pramiums offered, $16,- 081, FAIR HELD SEPT. Ath Address, DAN, H \\'uli‘r a ¥ 11th, to Room 1, Crelebton B'ock, O Notice! THE MA! To all who are dise: tandin re 1 [t e, come sl sud Le beale , the ouly sure cecape fom any dis: ¥or exaniuation, our oba ¥os 810 $1. 105 ehoh \reabuwnt, oF visitations §2; teru's strictly ¢ J H. PAGELAK, North tate 81, one mila wast of ¥alr Grouade wahs, Neb, P.'0, Box 64