Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 20, 1885, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. Osana Orrice No, 914 Axp 916 Fanvan S, New Youk Orvice, Roox 66 Trisong Buinn 186G, Pubished evers morning, excopt Sunday. The only Monaay morning daily published in the state. TRRNE Y MATL One Year $10.09 | Three Months.....8 2 50 8ix Months . 5.00 | One Month.... e 1.00 The Weekly Bee, Published every Wednesday TRRNS, FOSTPAID. One Year, with promium .. One_"ear, without premium Bix Months, without premmim One Month, on trial, con All Communications relating to News and Editorial tattors should be addressed to the EDitor of Tile i, BUSTNRSS LETTRRS, All Business Tetters and Temittancos ehould be ddrossed to Tim Brr PURLISITING COMPANT, OMAHA. Drafts,Checks and Post office orjers to be made pay- ablo to the ordcr of the company. THE BEE PUBLISHING CO,, Props, E. ROSEWATER, Eprror. A. H. Fitch, Manager Daily Circulation, Omiaha, Nebraska. Tur path of a Nebraska democratlc boss is by no means strewn with roses, —_—— Dr, Mitter never was muci of a mathematiclan, and he freely confesses that the atudy of Euclid rather stumps him, — Tue politleal porsimmous are not being knocked down very fast In Nebraska. The poles of the fighting factlons don't quite reach, 8AN Francisco hay a yellow fever moare. The arrlval of & vessel with Yellow Jack on board has created almost as much alarm &8 a case of cholera, Has Unlted States Marshal Blerbower taken any steps towards compelling the cattlemen In Westorn Nebraeka to re- move their fences from the public domaln? To Aman up a tree it would seem that in the Grwo Roman contest that is now going on smong the Nobraska spoils- huaters the Brown-Morton combination s on top. Mg, LrewernyyN has resigoed his post- tlon as sgent of the Mescalero Apacher, Hore isa good opening for rome valiant bald-headed democratic warrlor from Nebraska. Mz. GuipsroNe s In praity good physical conaitlon, The alr of Norway has braced him up conslderably. Oa Mouday he walked a distance of elghteen miles, without apparent fatigne, and it 1s gaito probable that on his return to Eogland he will walk back into power. A Cororano ranchman, who refased to remove his fances from government ? | have natarally trled to keep alive the THE DAILY BEE-~THUR 170 MORE DESERT IN NEBRASKA. | considered anythlng but » gross outrage. There wis a time whon weatern Ne- | These coontless reofs and islands lis due Draska—all that part lylng west of Kear- | east of the Paillippines, They were dis- rey—was considered a part of the Great|covered by Spaln, have always been Amerloan Desert and totally unfit for|owned by It, and bear the name given sgricnitural purposes. This belief has|them In 1686 In honor of Charles II. proved very beneficial to the cattle men | They are many of them lslands of great whose herds have for years ranged over |productivencss, and are of sufficlent value the nuteltious grass-lands undistarbed by | to make thelr selzure somothing more the Invading homesteaders, who looked | than a sentimental wrong. elsewhere for locatlons, The cattle men - Tuat Livsoln pspse which objects to impreeslon concerning western Nebraska | the Omshs Bee prying Into the affairs of in hopes that they would never bs dls- | Lancasier ¢ unty evidently does not like turbed, but durlng the last few years it |tho establisument of a news bureau in has been practically demonstrated that|that clty by the Bee. Tho Lincola paper the so-called desert lands of western|ssems to forgat that the people of this Nebraska are as productive as any [state are laterested in the business trans- In the state. The result Is that mottlers |acted at the cipital, and it makes the aro ocrowding Into that section, and are | mistake of calling the business of the state rapldly converting the ‘‘desort” into pro- | the affalra of Lancaster county. The maln duotlve farms and blooming gardens and [object of the Bee In maintalaing orchards, There was a time whan a[bureau at the state capital fs to furnlsh scarsity of raln was the great drawback in | the people with full and rellabls nows re- that seclion ef tho state, but climatic | poris from the seat of government, changes have no dcubt been brought B about by the rsilroads, the planting of | TuE Chicigo Tribune cannot see why trees, and other causes, and now there is the rallroads east of the Missourl—mean- an abandant rainfall every season, 1t is|Ing the Towa trnnk lines—should help evidsnt that the cattle-herds must go, as | the Union Paclfic In bullding up the they are now being constantly pushed to [ Omaha stock yards. The people of the west and north by the set-| Omaha cannot see why the eastern rcads tlera who are taking poesession of tho |ehould wish to obsiruct the progress of lands in the countios of Dawson, Liocoln, | this city, nor can the Omaha merchants Keolth, Oheyenne, and other western |and shippers understand why they should countfes tributary to the Union Pacific, |any longer be compolled to assist in The oxtreme western county of | building up Ohicago If they gat nothing Oheyenne, 1s among the last to lnvitothe | bat ubjus: discrimination in retura, farmer. Thers was a time when a farmor | Suppose ths trade of Omaha was diverted would have becn called an idlot to looate | to St. Louis, how would Chicago like hf In that county, snd besides he would | It can be done If retalistion is necesrary. have fared hard at the hands of the cat- tle-ralsers, It I8 nob o tc-day, how- ever, a1 he Is welcomed thera by the peo- ple of the entarprizing Ittle city of Sid- ney who have discoverad beyond ashadow of a doubt that the lunds in that county are well adapted for agrioultural puor- Tur Chleago papers seem to have a good desl to say aboat the howl made by the poople of Omaba concerning the treatment of this olty by the eastern rall- roads, Tho howl had the derired effect of cauring g thorough discusslon of the land, and resisted arrest, has been shot In the leg. This is a warnlng to Ne- braska trespassers who have fenced In the public domain. Unless they obey tho presldent's order Marshal Bierbower 15 likely to get after them with a gun. ' Mr. Parree fnslats on raising the rent for the room cccupied as a clty jail. We would agaln suggest that the clty vzcaie tke entire bullding and s:care better quarters elsewhere. Mr. Pattes will find 1t very difficalt to ecoure tenants for his old rockery, which is nothiog moro nor loes than a dangerous fire-trap, and it ought to be condemned nuiwance, Tuk fight batween the Miller-Boyd and Morton-Brown factlons of the dem- ocracy has been renewed with redoubled vigor. With reference to thls fight the Berls In the positlon of the Californla woman who, while witnessing a rough and tumble sorimmsgs between her hus- band and a bear, kept shouting, “‘Go it, husband; go it, bear!” Tue hackmen, who psy an ennual li- cense, very properly sk the city counc!l topass an ordinance compelling every perzon who engages in the transportation of passengers to snd from the fair grounds to take out a yearly license, It s hardly fair for thoe owners of all sorts of vehicles to take advantage of falr woeek without coctributlvg to the city revenue, and belog under clty regulations the same as licensed backmen, with whose business they serlously interferas, SeceETARy ENDICOTT has received a great deal of credit from the newspapers, more especlally from the democratic and mugwom) sheets, for his rocent order rolleving detashed officers from thelr prismt dutles and orderlng them to joln their reglmorts. This order has been pronounced the ‘‘resurrectlon of the aray,” as it was generally supposed that thoro were hundreds of officors who had for years been on detached duty and leading a holiday 1ife in the large cltics aud elsewhere, The faot is, however, that there are only seventesn officers who ara affected by this order. So It will be seen that this ls not very much of o rosarrectlon afterall, But the order is & good one, even if there had bsen only poses, and there 1s more to bs galned by thelr cultivation than In permitting thom to remaln as mere pastara grounds, THAT our asresement valuation /s out- ragcously low no one will deny. It Is lers to-day than it was In 1870, when Omaha had less than one-third of its populatlon and less than one quarter of its public and private improvements, and when property was generally depressed. The lncrease in the value of property in the last fifteen years ranges from 200 to 1,000 per cont. That the assessment has not bsen Increased proportionately s a fact known to everybody. The result is that the city finds itself in an embarrass Ing financlal condition and something must ba done. The only re- llof 1s In ralslng the arsesarnent, and the proposition now before the city council fto increase the vaiuatlon of property to 25 per cent should be begun a vigorous antl-prohibltion cam- |,/ g adopted by the board of equallzatlon, to which it has been referred. It is the only way out of the difficulty. It is ergued by some that this assessment will subjoct, and a postponement of definite actlon upon Commissioner Faithorn's un- fair proposition. We would suggest that Omaha get up more howls—long andloud —in the future, whenever she I8 not fair- ly treated. Wo ought to have begun howllog years 2g). TuE resignation of County OClerk Leavitt imposes upon the commissioners the duly of appolnting a euccessor to fill the unexpired term, which runs to Jan- uary lst. As a matter of courtesy, the commissioners ehould appoint a sompe- tent and honest repablican, as the repub- licans elected their candidate to the offica, but 8s the board is composed of two democrats and one repablican, the chances are two to one that Mr. Leavitt's succeesor will not be a republican, Ture fact that Senator Coke has paign In Texas the temperancs politleal movement, Intended to overthrow by declarlng that movement is ‘‘a almed at and the demo- that is tvking aay interest in base ball this season, —— Bicyele riding Is becoming very popular at Atlantic City, The Thousand Islands are said to by almost 1,600 in number, Artesian woll water is sold at Asbury Park at five cents per gallon, A young Philadelphia widow is the most daring batber at Oape May. At I arraganeett Prer it is the widows that do most of the flirting, Not many titled noblemen are seen at the watoring places this season, The prevailing rate of bosard for pugs In the White Mountains is $3a woeek, Old Ocean Besch has been overrun and is n0 longer the famous place it was, Atlantic City has more southern vieitors this reason than ever before in its bistory, At all the places th-re fs a wail about thero not being enough young men to flirt with, One of the belles at White Sulphur Spriogs decorates hor pony with red and white roses. Some of the young ladies at Cape May are wenring flesh-colored stockings with their bathing suits, Big Gainsborough hats are all the go and are '“f popular with ultra fashionable belles, especially tor driving. Sevoral old admira's are at Richfield Spriugs, and they sit on hotel piazzas and spin nautical yarns by the hour. Private poker games are the rage among the men at Uspe May. and in some instances high stakes are played for. ‘Ycung men are ecarcer at the resorts than they ever were, At some places crowded with %nls there is actually not a dencing man. There is a crying need of men—young men— in the wilderness of wonten ut Narragansett pier, Tha hotel piazzas look for all the world liko the piazzas of young ladies seminaries.} | Immense white sun shades are the proper things to carry at Saratoga. They complete white costume better than any color, soft or vivid; and, robed in lace or crape, with a white ehawl lying on the cushions besids her, and a white sun shade over her head, tho Saratoga girl feels that wings would be a suporfluity, Thus far porfect peace and abeoluto quict have prevailed a Lake George, whare thear- rivals col'ectively do not number as many as of old, Hotel keepers have the appearance ond manners of men who have eaten large quantities of indigo—they aro so blue; and the only th'ng that really ple:ses them is to hear of dull times elsewhere, On a clear aay, when the wountain outline is distinct, it may ba obzerved that tho three southeru peake, as saen from Castkill, form the figurs of a man lying on his back, the eyelids closed, the knees elevated, and from the kneea down the nppearauco of a Grecian female face, in profile, resting agninst them, ‘This may bo poor old Rip Van Winkle and his wifo—botn asleep, and for once, at least, in harmony. e — Lo Grand Reportago, The Fortoightly Review. Le grand reportage, which means gon- erally an iaterview, wes lntroduced into French journslism after 1870, and was ostensibiy borrowed from the Americana. Thiers {a looked upon by the Frinch re- portara as thelr patron saint, becauss he was the first who conrented to be crora- questioned by M. de Blowlitz and certaln of his own compatriots—a fact which al. lowed the wily statesman to communfeate to the world a quantlty of things which he was dslighted to publleh, and to which he gave added Importance by seeming to allow them to ba wrenched out of him againet his will, Gradually “‘reportage” has extended its domaln to all classes of mociety, even to the demi- monde, whose heroines now have thelr dinner parties reported in the Gl Blas botween an_exquisite ‘‘fantsisie” by Theodore .. do Banville, a profound brilliant philosophical arti clo by Henrl Fonquler, and an arfistiosl- ly pornozraphic story by Catolle Menden. The promiecaity of Farleian life under the third republic 13 naturally reflscted in the press.” The Frenchmsn, too, was oparate more against the poor than|Cratlc party,” loads the Philidelphia |born to b interviowed; he likes it, and against the rich. It may be trus, and it probably is, that the poor pay more taxes proportionately than the rich. Bat whose faunlt is 1t? Are not the olty authoritles to blame for it? If they would only compel the assessors to make an impariisl appraisement of property then the rich and poor would The trouble has been that the assessore, as a rule, have put altogether too low a valuatlon on the property of the rich, who assessors, while the property of the poor haa been apprals:d at a much higher rate proporifonately, The rich are cnabled to conceal much of their property, while evergthlog belonging to a poor man s in sight. When wo have a fair assessment not before. not only to raise the assessment but to soo that everybody is troated alike in the appratsement of property. Ir, as i3 stated in the petition In that fnjanctlon suit, the Unlon Pacific derlves over its own axd tributary lines, and that “the rapldly-growlng city of Omsha requlires the extersion of tracke, switches, etc., lnto every portlon of the clty for the purpess of reachlng warehonses, manu- factorles, etc.,” then why has ro! the Unlon Paclfic proceeded with the con- sllowlng tho enterprizse to die a elow are with money to com- plete i, stand in the way of ita rerurrastion and progress? Can it glve to the people of Omaha any surance that 1t wounld—zven if it ob: tained an Injunctlon agsinst the belt line syndicate—go on with the work? The ready who bullds the balt rallway o long as it is built. Valuable lands having been two or three officera to whom 1t applied. Tae Chicago T'ribunc of complalnt filed by the Ualon Paclfic against the Omaba ;Belt Railway com. paay ‘‘reveals as neat a ltile echeme for gobbling up & railecad as has ever ccme to light, and unm'stakably shows Mr, Gould’s fine Itallan hand.” As Mr, Gould ts the most successfal rallway gok- gler In this country we should not be surprised to see him get away with the b:lt railway. Ha knowsa goad talng when he sees it, and 1t he will ouly go on and complete the enterprise, upon the success of which cortaln important Ouwaha rallroad ¢xienslons copend, the people of this cliy will te g'ad for onca to shake hls fine Italian hand, 1t ls cor- taln that the Uailon Puclfic hya noither tho fnclinstion nor the money ta fa'sh the balt line, and ia accordance with its do, in-the-maoger polloy 1t doesn't want 1o see any body else do it, condemned and the right of way granted, thus exempting a great deal of properly from taxation, it 1s oaly r matter of right that some one should be permitted to complete the belt rcad. Hereafter no rallroad rlght of way should be grantcd unleas upon condition that the road shall be complited withia a certain perlcd, A Barmise church in Dakota has de- vlaed a new echeme to ralie money. A 1 beral mew Yer gava a large tract of land, aond the psople held a ploughing bee. Next senson the church will have several thousind busliels of wheat if the weather 1s propitious and the grasshoppers do not put lo an appesrance, Tug Spaulsh peopls are very indignant over Germany's assumption with regard to the possession of the Caroline lslands, snd declare her conduct is an inexcusable violatlon of interustionsl law, Thoe seiz: ure of the lslands by Germany cannot be Record to offar to wager a small amount that Mr, Coke did not regard this move- ment as quits s> alarmlng when It was noticed in Ohio and almed a% the repub- lican party. THE blll of compleiat filed by the Unlon Pacific against the Omaha Belt| which, even at this late day, Is decidedly refreshing and comforting to the pesple of Omsaha. The Unfon Pacific admits, in of Omaha furnishes it a large amount cf businers, and that it I to a large extent the eastern terminus” of that railroad. THE only privilege Dr, Miller asked } for in the distribution of spolls was the late in the season, and winter will soon bo here, It is feared that Mr., Pritch. otl’s commlesion has been sidetracked, and that he will be left out in the cold. B P e Every eminent Kaglishman who visita a big gon a3 Canon Farcar isno exception t> the rula, He is soon to visit the United States, and the annouucsment is made that he has “‘consented” to lecture In tho large cltl A5 betwoon the Unlon Paolfio and fhe Ohorles Francls Adsms and Jay Gould, fence. When forced to fall over on one sldo or the other, it Is safa to say that it will tumble on the Unfoa Pacific sfde, Tae Congo country Is proving nothing but a grave-yard for the Earopeans who have gone thero, Filly per cent, of 1lable to follow sult, to keep away from, Itisa good country Ir has been sometime slnce we have heard anything of Ex-City Clerk Jowett, Ho now looms up as a candidate for county clerk, and hopes to be appointed eucezneor to Mr, Leavltt, Tre geometrical * probloms «f Eac'id sroa little too ccmplex for solution by the ZZerald matbemsticlan, who has been obliged to call upon Charles H Brown for inforamation, Tur crop of candidates for county offices promises to be as large this teason as in any previoua year. Tak fizht between the Unlon Pac'fic and the Omaha Balt Railway company is geltlog to be a pretty lively family row. SEASIDE FLEASURES, Atlantic City is the only resort on the const sends his card and compliments to the re- porter, who on his side epjoys his task and flattérs himrelf that hls articles, which he ccllects in a volume at the end of each year, have given the death blow to those old-fashioned sacret memoirs, which used to relate all sorts of trivial and smuslog facts jash fifty years after they had lost all intereat. The firat-claes French reporter, qul prend une conver- pay) their proper proportion of taxes. Railway company contsins a confession |eation a ’homme du joar, earns 15,000 to 25,000f, a year, and even more, in his amusing business of recelving the con- fesslona of kings, mountebanks, and other members of soctety. He 18 a skilled are able In many ways to influence the|langusge that is plain, that “the clty | workman who deserves encouragement and admiration, for he contributes very largely to the amusement of hls cotemporaries, besldes glv- ing satlefaction to the vanity and self-love of the mosi eminent and notorious of {hem; farthermore, he s to o certain extent a writer, an srtist, and a critie. He must know how to present then we will bave cqual taxation, and|appointment of Mr, Pritchett as Unlted | his matter with a certsia Hterary ele- The duty cf the council in | States district sitorvey, It is getting [gance; and asin writiog a plecs for the stage 80 In writlg = reporting artlcle there fg, as M. Sarcey would eay, always la scene & faire, the one great scene on which the cffect of the whole pleca de- pendr. The very lsagusge, too, helps the reporior. Tho convereational qual. {ty of the French tongus explalus many features of the' modern French news- from Omaha a large proportion of the|this country reems to think it his duty to |paper. The French jrurnallst naturally frolght and passenger business carried | dellver a courso of lecturas, Even such | 1K@ to his raxdars, and excels sbove all things in the cauoeeris, a form cf litera- ture which not only favors the manifes- tation of .the writer’s pereonallty, but in- deed owes its savor aud plquancy to the free expresaion of that persoality, Henca the averslon of the French to the edltorfal “we,"” and hence the pravalence of eigned and personsl journallsm. o —— strucilon of the belt railvay Insteid of | Omaha Belt Line rallway, and as between | The Iemeodics Nature Supplics is Vegetables, death? Why does it now, when men|the Omsba ZZerald is just now on the | Good Housekeeping, At this particular scason of the year, nature bountifally supplies us with much that 1s cooling in the way of frult and summer vegotables, which are not only del'c'ous artloles of food, bat ero really health-preserving for often a slight Indis- positlon of children, or older persone, b3 readlly cared by the free use of thess cullnary rexedles. Spinach has a direct prople of Omaha do not care very mach |them have died, and the balance are|e¢ffects upon complaintsof the kidneys, the common dandelion,used as greens ls excellent for the same {rouble. Aspara: gus purlfies the blood, celery acta admic- ably upon the nervous systzm, and fsa sure cure for rheumatisw, and neuralgls, tomatoes act upon the liver, beets and tarnips are excellent sppetiz:rs, lettuce and cucumbers are cooling in thelr effccts upon the eystem, beans are very nautri- tious snd strengthenlog vegetables, white onions, girlic, leeke, onives and shallots, all of which areslmilar, posse:s meilcal virtues of 8 msrked character, stimulat- Ing the circalatory syst« m sud the ronse quent incresss of the ealiva and the gas: wic juioes promoting digestlon. Ked onlons are au excellens diuretic and the wh nes are recommended erten raw as uremedy fr fosomois. They are tonlo and nuteittous, A soup made feom onioxs is regarded by the French es an exccilent restoratlva in debility of ths digettive organe, We might go throngh the entire list and find each vegetable possesring 118 especlal misston of cure, and it will bo plaia to every housekeeper that a vigetuble diet ehould be parily wdopted at this period of the year end will prova of great advaatage to the kealth of the family. e — 1nsure in the Home ¥ire of Omaha, SDAY, AUGUST 20, 1885 A HARROWING BOENE, A Btricken Mothor Forbids the Al- mighty to Take Away Her Boy. A harrowing death-bed scene ocourred at Erie, Pa., last Frlday night, which will probably result in a chargs of mur der or manslavghter sgalost Mra. H. S, Sohell, who some weeks ago, it le sald, strack Eddie Oook, a fourteen-year-old boy, on the back with a broomatiok for treapassing on her premites. A hideous oancer-like growth appeated on the epot, and soon Involved the entire trunk, desth belng declared inevitable. The dlatelot attorney took the Iad’s ante-mor- tem statement, first directlng the physi- clan to tell Eddie that in a few hours he would be desd. The announcement oauted the little fellow to tremble for a moment and tears glistened in his eyes. The mother, who had cherlthed hopes until now, threw herself across the bed and passionately forbade the Almighty to take her ohild. In the hope of occm- forting her Eddie sald, *‘It won't be very hard to die, mother, Pray for God to make it easy.” Tho cfficers led the poor woman out, and the ehild, ralslng his wasted hand, was sworn by the magls. trate. Tho oath was taken opportunely, for shortly a heavenly ocalm succeeded and death came easlly. Mrs. Schell has been placed under arrest pending tho in- vest'gation, It is by no means certain yet that her alleged blow originated the fatal growth, o — The Cable Roads to ChicAgo, Chicago Tnter Ocean, All of the now methoda for shortening time and space In great citles the most porfect hitherto is that of the cable car eyctem. If one horee can supply the placa of a dezen, and still more, if a sta- tlonary engine two miles away can elimi- nate horses alm et entirely and furnlsh mors and more rapld accommodation, tho ga'n dircetly in comfort and indl rectly in the epread of the population ls incaloulable. That the cablo aystem pro- nonts tho highest degreo of excellonco yet attalned for clty travel needs no dem- onatration. A short experienca was nec- cesary to habi'uate the public to the ca- bl cars. Bat, now that we are all famllisr with them, every one koows precisely how to deal with them. The cablo company have done a work that thiuking peoplo will not f.il to recognlza. Abazed and villified, as all good thiogs are; denounced, ay overy step of pro- gross hos been; overy man, woman, and child in Ohicago now points to the cuble cars as one of the most valnable and pro- gressive enterprlees in Chicago, The citi- z:n enjoys & qulte chuskle as he does homegs to hls own superlor knowledge at the cxpense of the mystified locks and questions of his country consin, We all feel ourselves on a higher plane of Intelligence from our belng # part of the clty with ita cable rallroad, as well as the other instltutions that constitute the pride of Chlcago. No wonder this system has been a saccess Over 100 ¢rlp cars and more than 300 box cars constantly pass'ng, slways occu- pled ani {a the mornings and evenings crowded, an ermy of workmen, anda finance system away up in the millions, present the {dea of great public usefal- ness. There I8 not one man of us who wculd not be proud to own a slice, not- withstanding all the detrastion of *‘early deys.” I:is woll known that the cable road has not only Incressed ths valus of sll real proper'y along the rcut everywhera within convenlent ac: that route. The extension of the same system through those porti ne of our chief thoronghfares not yet occupled will be halled with delght by every man owirg a fifty-foot lot. No man can contend that tho cable company has not provided locomotion good, cieap, and effactive They dezerve thelr success, The rate of speed is far grenter than that attained from s motive power of horses, while the conditlon of the track {s infinitely soperlor. The cable car system constitutes the st method of locomotion ever introduced here or elsewhere. e OHOUERA, bost and _surest preventitive Durky’s Pukk Mar WhIsKEY, Recom- mended by loading Physicians, Sold by Drug- gists and Grocers, Le Petic Journa The Fortnightly Review. The greatest French nawspaper is the one-scu Petlt Joarnal, the circa'a‘ion cf which at the preeent moment excecds 900,000, and befors the end of tke year, thanks to the excitement of election timer, it wili cortainly reach the unpar- alleled c'roulation cf 1,0€0,000 copies a day According to the latest statistics, there sre in Frarcs about six millicns of peraons who read newspipers, and admit- ting that cazh copy of the Peti: Journal {s road by throe or four perscns, which is a low average, one msay say that the Petit Journal is read by half the reading population of TFrance. The Saturdsy literary supplement of the Petit Journal, although ic has only jus: comple:cd the fiet year of 1ts existonce, has already attafoedl a olrculation of 200,000 copics, end s able to ise its ronders original contributicus by Zla, Halevy, Sardon, Damar, Cler- ette, Daundet, &e, The results obtalned by the Putlt Journal are certainly mar. velous, and its chief editor, M, Henri Esccflier (Fhomas Grimm) hes displayed rcmarkable tact and moderaticn in work- ing the papsr up to fts present position. Owing to the Immense number and varl. ety of its readers, its articles must be ab. solutely m:derate, unmilitant and unob- truslye in the expressicn of opinton, A slogle wozd too strong, t30 deetded, too pasitively expressive, lu one direction s enough to caure an immediate decrease of 80,000 or 40,000 in the circulation. Even in the otatement of mere news—of a strect eccident, for Instance—the slight- est departure from strict moderation is {mmediately folt in the sales, The choice of the feuilletons is equally dell- oate. Bolsgobey, Jules de Gastyne, Jules Mary, Moutepin, Bouvler and Emllo Richebourg, are the favorltes, and tho publicatlon cf a seatimntal romince of the latter gentlemzn io the Petlt Journal suflices to attract 100,000 read- ers, whils a fenilloton by some other writer will caus) a correpondiog dimina- tlon. The millitant fofluence cf the Petlt Journal may bs very great, At the time, for inttnoe, of Maratial Mac- Mshen's sttempied coup d'etat ia 1877, the steady, calm,snd fw perturoably mod- erato campalgn of this liule paper in favor of the republic was decleive in se- curing Frazes from the grip of the reac: tloraries, At this mowmeot, now that politics are dull, the Petft Joural owes the incresee f its circolation malnly to its excellont and useful ¥riicles on pras cal matters, saviugs bauke, snd every- thing that concezns the econowy snd in- tereata of thoss who work. Wo must not feaget, lao, tho great attraction of two rowans fouilletonr, Since this mathod of publication way discovercd by the fcunders of Lo Siec'e, abous 1840, no newep:por in Frauc: has beea abla to extat without a feuilioton novel. Tae lest attempt to dispenss with It was Y iade by 1he Franco Americ in Matin, but fow woeks sufliced (o convince its pro. prietors that 1t was useloss to struggle | E agalost a traditlon which was backed up by all the women of Franoe, — RY MATTERS, MILITA Improvements at Fort fRussell—An Interesting Collcction of Army Itoms, Gen, Dandy, Department Qaartermas. ter, returned yestordsy from Cheyenne where he has been for the past for days, overlooking the work of construction of the new bulldings which are belng erect- ed at that post. The new balldings comprlss slx com- pany's barracks, one set field offisers quarters, one commlsslonary bailding, one ofl house and one engine house. Gen. Dandy ssys that tho work of con- straction Is progrossing rapidly and that the buildiogs will probably by ready for occupancy November 1st, Msj. T. H. Stanton, piymaster at Salt Lake, has boen granted leave of ab- sence for ten days. An order has been lisaed by Adjatant Geueral Drum as followa: In view of the great tumbar of applicints for enlistmont it has bacoms necessary to re- strict all recruitment for tho teryice, to re enlistments within the prescribed limit, and original enlistments of the very best men, Ava court martial recently held at Fort Omaha Commissary Sergeant George L Stoney way found guilly of belog drank and sontonce has been passed upon him to tho effoct that he aball forfelt out of his woges the eum of $6 per month for the perlod of slx months, and be con fined to the limits of the post for four monthe, Adjatant General Breck, how- over, romitted two months of tho con- finemont and forfelture, Firat Licutenant Balard 8. Humph. rey, of the Ninth cavalry, has besn de- tailed recruiting ufficor for the depart. ment of the Platte. He will have his heaéqnarters at Fort R binson. The o-mmanding officer at Fort Doug- Tas haa bean crdered to rend by way of Carter Station, Cheyenne and Owaha, to Fort Leavenworth military prlson the followlng convicts, recently sentenced: Albert Keep, Patrick MoCarty. Thomas A Daltoo, M J. Maloney, Thomas Hileand Robert O. Hoeft. ~ Along the route the guard in charge of thess men wlll recelve additfons to the lis';at Carter Statlon Frances Gathiel, from Fori Bridger, at Cooyenne, Jawes Greene and Thomss R:mmer, from Fort D. A. Ros- sel, and this clty, George Miller, from Fort Omaha, RESIGNED HIS OFFICE. County ©lerk Leavitt Signifies Ris Xatention of Stepping Down and Out, For some tlme the county commission- ors hiva been in a quandary as to what course to purue with regard to the irragularities of County Clerk Leavitt, The master has been thoroughly dlscussed by Mr. Loav. itt, County Attorney Cowin and A. R. Dafrne, one of Mr. Leavitt’s bcndemen, and the outcome of thia talk has been tho lotter of res'gnatlon presented bslow: OuaHA, August 17.—To the Honorable Board of County Commissionars of Douglas County, Nebraska: I hereby tender my res- ignation us county clerk of Douzlas county, Nebraska, to take ¢ffcct when accepted by your koard, I respectfully request that an immediate settloment: of my account with the courty commiesioners ba had., I am coufined to my bed, but will give what aid I can in making settlement, and if it shall bs found that thera is anything due the county from me it ehall be paid at once, H, T. Leavirr, Mr. Points, to whom has been deleg - ted the work cf eximin'ng the books of Mr. Leavltt, says the deficlency would amsuot to about $2,000. Of thisamount §1,660 is scoonated for by reduction in fees and $340 in omissions, Mr. Loavitt clalms as an offset to this, $1,700 for meking cut the tax 1's; of 1884, for which he has not been pald, and several cthor small accounts, The matter of Mr. Loavitt's reeizna- tlon has not been alscusced yet by the commissloners, but will come up at theiz Saturday meelicg. o —— New Querters, For come time the Commerclsl Nation- al bauk psople have been talklng of moving Int> quartors largar and more commodious than those furnished by the bullding now ccoupied on the corner of Thirteenth and Farnom sireets. A meeting of the dircctors of the bauk has been held, and arraagem3n’s have nearly been consummated for the erection of a buildlng ¢n the corner of Fifteenth and Farnam strects, on what s known as the Barker property, to be put up by Barker Bros, and loased to the bank, This strociure ss now contsm- plated will be a very handsome four-story structare, brick, with stone trlmmings, of the Qaeen Anne style of architec.ura, It §s claimed that it will be tho hand- eomest bank bailding in Omaha, should tho present plans be adopted. There ls but one contingency which may provent this moveon the part of the Commerclal Natioaal bank people. 1t s understond that the O Sr P, M. & O., and the Northwes tern roads are figuring on the question of leasing the same prop- erty for a lsrge four-story bulldicg to be occupied by their local offi Those concerned are retlcent on @ sub- jeot, but it is understocd that the matter will be settled within the next twenty-foar hours. o —— The Brentel Suicide. The funeral of Henry Bechtel, who committed sulclde yesterday at the fort, by blowiag his brains ou’, will take plaoe this afteraoon at 1 o’clock. The deceased has three brothers llviog, one in {his olty, Jacob Bechtel, one in Obio and one in Colorado. TP.IG two brethers who live ouftalde of this olty have been notified of the sad sffsir, bat will probably not be here in time for the funeral, e Boclal Pleasures, evening the members and frlends of Unlty church gave a plearant lawn sosial a% the resl- dence of Mra, Polack on North Twenty- first street, The eveniog's enjoyment coneisted of danciog, games, and & mu- sicale, to which Mistes Rustin and Chym berlain and Mr. Kuox coatrlbated sev- eral vozal uumbers. The ladies of Unity ohurch deserva no little oredit for the very successfnl way ln which thay con- dugted the affair, A party of Omaha young genilemen, Nate Creary, Charles Deuel, Will Ham- Taes Wara Foster, Cloment Chase snd COornlsh went over, to Counoll Blufts Taesday night to attend a moon- light pienic given by some of the talr Blo flites. Some of the lady boarders at the Pax- ton hotel went out to Hanrcora patk yesterday, and enjoyed a pienic dloner. — A Prairle Dog Village, From Outing. Staylng over n'ght and the next day at Rawling, I made the eixteen miles to Fort Fred Steele next moraing hafors breakfast, there being a very good rosd between the two places. This fort a'ands on the west bank of the North Platte river, and a fow miles weat of the river I rldo through the first prairle dog town encountered in orossing the continent from the weat, though I s*all see plonty of thess interasting liitle follows darin the next 300 miles. Thess animals sft nesr thele holes and excitedly bark at whatever goes by. Nover before have they hid an opportunity to bark at a bi- cycle, and they secm to bs making the most of thelr opportunity, 1 sse at thls vlllage nona of the small” speckled owls, which, with the ra‘tlesnake, make them- solves 60 much at home o the pralrle dogs’ comfortable quarters, but 1 sse them fariher east. 'Theee threo strange- ly astorted companlons may have warm affectlons toward each other, but am In- clined to th'nk,thegreat bond of smypathy that binds them togethir s the tender aegard enterataed by tho owl and rattle- enako for the nice, tender young prairie pups that come at intervals to Inoresse the joys and oares cf the elder animals. I am now getting on the famons Laramie plains, and Elk Moantaln 1homs not over ton miles to the south—a s)lid, towering mass of black rocks and dark pine for— ests, that etands out bold and dlsticet from sarrounding mountaln chains ay though coneclons of its own strength aud superlori'y. A enow storm ls raging on its upper slopes, obscuring that por. tlonof the mcuatain; but the dark for- est-clad elopes near tho base are In plain vlew, and also the rugsed peak which olevates its whito crowned heoad above the storm and repozes peacefully in the bright sunlight in striking contrast to the warrlng elemets lower down. I have heard old huntera astert that this famous ‘“‘lankmark of the Rockies” {s hollow, and that they have heard wolves howling inside the mountaln; but some of these old hunters sco and hear strange things. ilton, 8. G, ST TR A Chance for the Litdle Girl When She Grows Up, Pretzel’s Weekly, Alit 15> girl with a smail scxr on her chin seemed to be the objzct of carlosity of a little boy, who looked udon her and her misfortune with corsiderable won- der, Hia thoughts dwelt upon the little g'rl with the scar until he got home, when he said to h!s mother. *‘Ain’t you sorry for that little glrl "cauee she's got such an ugly soar on her face?'’ “Cartainly I am,” renlied the mother; “‘the is disfigured for 1ifa.” ““Well, mamma, when she grows up [ guess her whiskers will cover 1, won’t they?” ——— New York Democrats in Session, BARa10GA, Aupust 19—The demecratic state committe has decided to hold the demo- cratic state convention at Saratoga, Thursday September 24:h, and the stite committee will assemble at the Grand Union hotel, it head- quarters, on the evening previons Resolu- tions of respect to the memory of the late Sidney P, Nichols of New York; Chas. W, MocCune, of Buffalo, and Edgar P. Apgar, were adopted by a standing vote. Jobn O’Brien wus chosen chairman in placs of Man- ning, resigned, HAGAN'S Magnolia Balm is a secrct aid to beauty. Many a lady owes her fresh- ness to it, who would rather not tell, and you can't tell. R.R GROTTE Beneral Western Agent 719 South 9th §t., Omaha, Telepkone 602, POOLPRIVILEGS. Correspondence solicited POOL BIRTH AND OTHER PRIVI LEGES FOR LE ON THE GROUNDS OF THE OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FAIR. All bids must be_on Al I the Seoretary’sofiice, onor before Aug. 16, Tho right 15 xeserved 1o rom Jeot all bids. Purses and o'hor premiums offered, $20- 051 FAIR HELD NE. 4th to 11th, Adiress, DAN, H WHEELER, Room 1, Orelghton Bogk, Cmsha. i, H, ATWOOD, Plattsmouth, Neb, Bree O of thoroughbred and bigh grade Here:o d and Jersey Cattle, Aud Doroe and Jersey Red Swine,