Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 8, 1885, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. IAHA Orprcm, No. 014 AND 010 FARNAM S7 Now Yonk Orvon, Roos 65, Trimuse B, Publishod evory morning, exeopt Sunday. The only Monday morning pajer 1 i tho waio, TN By $10.00°T ¢ 5,00 Oine Ono Year. ... $2m Kix Months, Tow Wrenny tiee, 7 THRMS, POSTOALD, @ Manths. Month Ono Yoo One_Ye £ix Montha, wi Ono Month, on trial ORIR fentions v #hould be ows and odi- AN comint o to thoe Bot- torial matt 201 OF TR B e 1o addres EAS LETTRIE: All nittancos ocder of the company. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS, B. ROSRWATRR, Roreon. o of eity additions, re likely to be sold in cast of Fre- Wrrit the inors Omaha town lots the near future somewher mont., Tite ezar of Russia continues to keep himself under lock and key. Alexan- der knows enough to come in when he reigns. e e Hern Gare will be blown up on Satur day next ab 11 4. m. Bob Ingersoll should bo telegraphed for to attend the cere- mony. Bosron is grently agitated over the standard of milk. Omaha has no stand- ard. Most of it scems to have been measured by the pump or thereabouts. A Nunraska flonting mill ha roceived the goternment contract for supplying the Ute agency with flour. Itisunncces sary to say that the mill is not located in Omaha, A vew more blunders like the uncon stitutional appointment of Capt. Mitchell to the bench of the Second distriet would make the fall crop of i _profitable one for the Jaw services in arbitrating the C, pute. The oyt prince for his intor in the chureh in Germany has not yet boen made public T'e Union Pacili dnced rate pope’s yromises greatly re i to delegs to the coming democ! ate convention. This will be an added inducement to warm work at the prima Turre is a general vevolt against the telephone in Maine, and all the doctors of Lewiston and Auburn have orde oul their instruments. Probably to per form a surgi ticn on the com pany. ed appoint Carl Schurz on the civil servic: commission. Mr. Schurz’s luck as chironic office-holder will be envied by many a disappointed democratic poli tiolan. The drummers of the United States have agreed to rofuse gratuitics to Pull man car porters. If the Pullman com pany paid their employes properly ther. would be no necessity for this cu _grudge on tho travelling public. A TRAIN on the Pennsyly 1 by train agents on Tu lnst and the passengers robbed with im punity. A fow more remarks about th rowdy and lawless west will now be i order from esteemed enstern contempor aries. Di. MiLLer continues to congratulate to some extent, Nebraska demoerats anc to n groat extent himself, upon the con tinuance of republican removals through out tho state, As the process will con tinue for many months to como, the tor is not likely to lack cditorial m Anmies are still concentrating on the Balkan frencier, and the ery to arms 1 ringing through all tho - principalities o southeastorn Europe, But the diplomae, of Europe, as it has so ofton done beforc may suve the sick man of the east, th koy to tho Dardanelles and his seat o empire on the Bosphorus. LINCOLN s to vote on & bond propos’ tion of §20,000 for an extension of th Northwestern system from Fremont The day ought to be past in Nebrask whon the peopls build railroads fo others to oporate, Our state is nov thiokly cnough settled to offer enough in ducements in the franchise itself for an trunk line to extend itself without othe aid, “Ricueiieu” Ropinsoy, the Britis lion tail twister, hns been keeping prett, quict Intely, but ho will soon hay chance to do all the tail-twisting that b desives. Ho is one of the chosen band o fifty to go to Ireland to assist Parnell i eleotioncoring. The fiery Finery is als among the number, and with two suc! twisters on Irish soil the Brish lion is no likely to have much of a tail left after th campaign 1s over, Voress should look well to the justic of the peace. Under the law decreasin their number the offices will be aman; the most lnerative as well as the mos Important in the city. The compensu tion nnnexed to the position should se eure men of character and ability. Thesc are the qualities which have heretofor been lueking in the Omaha justice mill: which have beon conducted with mor regard to junk than to justice; to fee than to fairness. Ttis a wise nrmy officer who knows his own ugo and can keep it to himself s the day for compulsory retivement ap- proaches. General John Nowton, of the pugineer corps, always supposed until ro sently that he was born on July 1, 1832, which would retire him on the same date o 4886, Ho has now discovered and proven by court rocords thut August 24th 887 is the sixty-fourth anniversary of hi- sirth. Phis will cuuse mourning nmong ais subordinutes in the engineers who aopedd Lo protit by General Newton's re- A’ Olear Caso. The peoplo of Nebraska wiil awni with great intercst the decision of th. supreme eourtin the case brought before it to test the title of James L. Mitchell now acting as additional in the Second distriet, under appointment of Gov, Dawes. The judiciary of this is the ereature of the constitation, and v only act in conformity therewith tion 11, of sixth, the judicial department, pro Tslature, rds of th all arone thow y Wi it handred and than once in overy crease the number of district ju distriet courts and the judicial districts of state, Tn 1889, the lo ature onacted a law increasing the number of district judges toten, Under the eonstitutional provi jon above quoted, no further incfeas e in the number of judges could logally take placo until the year 1587, without constitutional amendmont. The passed by tho last legislature, and proved in Maroh, 1 doubling the numn- ber of judges in the Second district, wasq manifestly unconstitutional, That Gov ernor Dawes approved this act shows cither gross carclessness or criminal ignorance. Mr. Miteheli's appointment by the gov. ernor, under this sch, is cven more un- pardonable. There might have boe some excuse, amid tho rash of legisladi for the ornor's approve that roceived a Uwo-thirvds there = was mple timo slatara adjonrned, for him his blunder by vefusi business, of a bill vote but after the 1 to have roctified to muke an unconstitutional ment. There must have Dehind the throne to push Mr. Mitehell's ppointme: proseaco aibroad sems to have ne the excentive conscicnee, Me. Miteliell w fuvorite railvoads. He had tendered them e before and ful on the beneh appoint beon u power of the would denbtless as he had nite comin tain Mitchell ¢ commiti the houso title, they togethe WL matter relating to the Gl tho clasing days of tha s they submitted o report th led no of on ne out the wididate on rmly su 1 Ny tion from Do nomi the Of e his own stions ty, nordo we assait y on questions outside of o tion int Rut h ateful man it he did s favors and support which he cived and upon which he depend uture suceess, It is noto ce of the Burliy 11 tion fr wotu no! s he influc sured o Mite) tor county last month, and it is » m justice when men who owo tire existenee, political are pormitted to deal out j he railroads and g vears rdministe polls, late nominated m ro, ging v sspoctive of purty, and suj Iroad attor 'd for this woys and po have commended Attor ieneral Leese on various oc nergy and essnessdn the disehs »f his duty. In this instance, howeyer he attornoy general does notap i sommendable light. - The same that procured th t of Mitehell appear to he pote over him No other rationnl oxplanation can bo nade of his refusal to hwing an action be ore the supreme court, whon asked to do 0. Heshould have done so withont be- ked, Tore wasa judgo foistud 1pon the people in palpable violation of he constitution, administering justice vith no carthly authority. The powcrs of a district judge over lifo, liberty and yroperty ave extonsive and only limited sy the roviowing authority of tho su- reme court. Every judi act of Mr. Mitchell is liable to legal excoption, und mdonbtedly will be declared void if our sonstitution has any binding force. The Political Horizon, A glance at tho political horizon this Wl is both interesting and suggestivo, ‘or an off year the sky presonts mors wtional interest than usual, Local mestions scem to be ot minor importanco vhilo national issues are being pushed into unnatural prominence. The euriou s rele snted of the republicans vaging an aggressive warfare on ques sions which two years ago they would wve walked avound a great many city spuares to have evaded. Prohibition i looming up in Ohio, and the problem is n conrse of solution whether prohibition wnd the demoeracy can pull together in e team. - In Now York the spoils hunt- g democracy are at swords points with he policy of the* administra- ion, while the repnblicans take ipen issue with them, the result being a slearly defined issue. More attention is Jeing bestowed by the orators of both »urties on the tavith and v upon the silver quéstion are beginnin 40 more clearly in party platfory trom the lips of party orators, Addi nterest attaches to the campaigns in New York, Ohio and Towa from the fact hat the legislatures to be elected in these states will choose United States senators o suceeed Miller, Sherman and Wilson, [he present ropublican majority is eight, including the readjuster, and the loss of any of the three senators mentioned would be a party misfortune. Theloss of all three would throw the arbitration of lilfurences botweon tho houses into the hands of the Virginia readjustoer, which, while ploasant for Mr. Mahone and his colleague, is bardly to be desived by cither party. 8o far as the domocracy is congorned, the results of the cowming elections will 20 considered important as showing two things: the popular ondorsement of the THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8. 1885, administration and the powet of patron- agoe, past and prospeetive. There aro thonsands of prizes yot to be drawn from the executive hat, and tens of thous: of patriots evidently to aceopt them. On this aocount as much if not than for any other reason the democrats hopo voat things for the wle Id o Tha mora fivsh state florences, s divided it i y than it lem. railrond purposes and proj for additonal manufacturing enterpri to be lo 1 between the river bank the bluff, marks th ntinuation of Hement which befors many yoars will utilize the greater portion of the flats which line the viver on the Nebraska sido in Omaba and beyond. For raflre wl manufacturing purposes no more ava ablo loeations can be found in this gr snd growing metropolis. The Union Pacifie yards and shops, the groat smolt- £ works, the engine house and rese voirs of the water works are already in possession. Miles upon miles of a con ntly growing not-work of rails spread aver portions like a gigantic gridivon. The long neglected fints are vising st in value and in prospect mosquitos and ima, y malaria musy Place soonot or later to machiner nd groat factories, built within & throw of the river banks. On found her locati agoll and fought for her roquivemen 1, oned f v fortunats one T'ho bond above 1, ha wl’ tions of her by idonee streets h¥ve ex- the only th and are hd valley I'he fats hay o thers | which they ¢ whit vheen n 1s beon 1 n best bo ¢ whan the will be v, inits w it tim iew of O i appr At that ¢ Sinee Bel our hundi Kind e for mailitic L th RSHITEASTERY formed with in o 1The dent Vian of the or ations of bronght hy 1 ns oap! shone ' | funatics { which is depopulating nti nt e impre claimed to he ilip Reis, ed fully thre was patented in o the States. In the interest of his | Benthuysen wontto Wash United pany on to bring the question before the courts, MHis mass of f tending 10w that Bell did not invent the telephone or discover the t of transmitting speech by cloctricity, were torry, of , Iniid the evi- the departniont of justice W pormission to insti- suit Pormission for the ecmployment ttorneys to assist tho Ui I's ofii dence befo and obtaii tuto the so secured of four prominent government in the suit The Bell company will now have to make the issue of the validity of then own patents. Hercetofore in the vavions suits brought agninst combpetitors they have been successiul. In the present issuo they will bo obliged to meet a com bination of capital trong ns their own. The whole histor, teluphone at homo and abroad will ba thoroughly investigated. The claim will bo made that Gray's application for a speaking telephono was ontered at the patent ofiee on the very day on which Bell filed his eaveat, and the telephone of Philip Reis antedates both by twenty- five yours, while the inventions of Blake, Edison, Vanderweir, Pick Cross are all prior to that of the present owner of the exelusive patonts. The chief interest to the country at large should be that exnet justice shall be done. The question involved is sim- ply one of fact. If Graham Boll ‘wus the first inventor of the speaking telaphone, 20 should reap the benofits, even if o bur- densome monopoly is the result. ‘o curb that, the laws are w vo. But if he has no valid claiin, the public will not soffer from the compotition which will result from the division of a business whieh has now become little less than the telograph, « part of the vast ma chinery of the commercial system of the country. of invention re or less el Tue supreme court in referring the matter of Attorney Burr's disbarment to a co mmittee of lawyers, is cvidently en- deavoring to shift its responsibility. Procecdings have been instituted in the court by the attorney-general for Burr's disbarment, and Burr having made an- swer in duc form, an issue has been made for the courtto decide without any recom- mendations, suggestions, or other as- sistance from a committee of lawyers, Everybody knows that lawyers are al- together too apt to stand by each other like that famous jury that tried & wman for scduction, and, although he was gui ty, promptly sequitted him beeause they all bore the sume kind of character s the Iying at de i pay for their drinks a | ments of Mess conmpany. | accused, and had to stand by him. The peoaple of Nebraska expect the supreme coust 10 do its duty in, the Burr case, and not allow him te be whitewashed. His conduet has beon of a most unprofes- s amal character; and he should bo pune ished for it. The tdrning loose of a con- demned murderer by trickery is no small offenso, A 11veELY row hag beon started in the congrogation of Geaco Episcopal ¢ dral at Davenport. The cause was tho light- ing of candles on the altar in acco with instructions from Bishop | . For some time thore has been s contlict hetween the high chureh and low chureh eluments of the congregation, and when andles were lighted the low church s withdrew cn the ground that the ndle illumination was too near an ap- prouch to the doetrines of Catholicism. The low church people, who are in the iy, threaten never to enter the ca- 1 again unless the candles are snuffed out, The result-of this quarrel is awaited with considerable interest. CanrviNat McCroskey, the first Amer- ican prelate who bhas worn the red hat, th's door. In case of his death, Archbishop Gibbons,of Baltimore, is pronunently mentioned as his prob- able successor. At no distant date the United States will be honored by Rome with two cardinalates. In no gountry has the Catholie church within the past ten yoars made more steady or prosper- ous advancement. Wiuex the ordinance submitting the quostion whether the peopls desire the erection of a $200,000 city hall on upper Farnam street, came up for a third reading, four members of the coun- cil voted against the usuul suspen- sion of the rules, Why any representa- tive of tho flople should retuse to lot the people decide for themseives what they wantis a conundram. Tt scems to be a very diflicult thing for some of onr policemen to keep sober. The city council ought to pass an ordi- nance for the prevention of drankenness among the police, by compelling them to nd making it a mi oon-ke to furaish free whisky and An of this character would be 1 to the policemen and profita- ¢ saloon-keepers, deweanor fc them with nee ben bleto t o Herald pommends the appoint- and Nevilla to Platte 1 es to vouch the offices respu for Mr. S vive entine and North stively, hut deel annoh, who Q sonal Kknow v is this thus? Wae thought sidént and bis cabinot never ought of making an appointment in ko without ing Dr. Neb anti-vaéeination rviot has oe- din Montrpal among the Froneh Ca- s, in which geveral oflicers w injured. A preseription judiciously compounded of schooi hooks and lead pitls is geeatly needed for tho ignorant who Hurgo their city and nothing but the u stringent Guarantine prevents from erossing over re o oon a s which ISt | our Lorde Messus, Morris axp Tucker, of the Valentine land office, have cived their walking papers. The North Platte 1oftica also experience The oficial guillotine at ¥ works slowly, but *it gets there " with remarkable steadi- all the same, ness. CorNOILMAN Furay has gone on vecord with Lis vote approving the contract bo- twoen the city of Omaha and Architect Myer exceuted by Mayor Boyd. But Mr. Furay voted against the ordinance to the people of Omaha a chance to decide whether they approve the project or not AND COMMISSIONER SPARKS Propose to stir up the railroads inhis annual r port. They certainly need it. Ho claims to have discovered great frauds, but this fuct surprises no one, SAN Fraxcrs o 8 croma- tion socioty, Tho bitter antipathy to the Chineso in that city leads us to believo that the San Franciseans are preparing for a Mongolian roast. : Tne no lack of eandidates for sherifl this time. The woods ara full of em, They all want to capture Miller's boarding and lodging house. Tue war in the Balkans is nothing to the conflict which the administration is having with the balking democeracy in Nebraska and clsewhere. A lust the Harnoy street improvement has boen ordered by tho council. This is notice for the vagation of Cootsville. Di. MiLLer advises Irishmen to move cautiously. We suspect ho refors more particularly to the ' coming movement in the primarics, Axorner poliveman is charged with diunkonuoss. Tl the raseal out. LJTHE FIELD OF INDUSTRY. There are 18,000 1al6 women in San Fran- cise a Cony in Texas, Machineshop work 18 pleking up all over the country, The Massachusetts worsted wills are start- {ng up again, The American carpet industry is In excel- lent condition. The Boston Knights are gainining rapidly in membership, The Richwond Knights are pledging all auulid.ium to the abolition of the convictsys- 1, A Holyoke, Mass., manufacturer has just shipped thirty tons of mining machinery to Mexico. There are 20,227 locomotives in North America, Noue of the locomotive works are full of orders. Manufacturing stationers and manufac- turers of stationers’ novelties Lave not been as busy for two years. The Muster lumbers’ assoclution, of New ureto build the new state capitol been L at North, Platte, beeauso Dr. | | he York, kns acceded to the demands of the workinen for nine hours as a day’s work. There is o gradual taking up of disemployed Iabor in several lines of manutacture, hut in a fow the summer force is being reduced. An abundanes of orders is looked for by teading P phin manufacturers in_jron, toxtiles, machinery, engines and special ma- chiner. Fuitbanks & conviets i th vol making. por disy A host of new Cliristmus noyeltie ands of bers and teayelin advance in desigiing tal A strike of shopegi fifteen months superintendent es the resignation of th The Fiench Cang L, Ao or i 1 L Asscmblies cxtend state. Six assemblios ar Montreal, Sir Henry Bessemer has patented a method running out tin plates, miles long if v, just as papers are rian off on tho presses. This will vastly elicapen tin plate, Paper manufacturers are movenient in all kinds_of coursc of consumers in_ ¢ tocks. A greater amount ata less ave cost, ‘The print cloth concerns of Fall River alone nuniber twenty-cight corporations, with an aggregate capital of 14,000,000, own- forty-three mills and producing 175,000 es of eloth per week, is 4 moversnt on foot among the sth manufacturers of New Ensiand, to uite all the print cloth corporations in one gizantic pool, for the distribution of their goods through eire seliing agent. The Virginia authoritics have made a con- tract with a Lynu (Mass.) fivm to furnish 500 conviets to Do worked at shoemaki seven years, under a penalty of $100,000. state will crect a new building for that pu pose, The lumber manufacturers of the northwest are organizing to enforee a contract with ir workmon by which they will awrce o < cleven of oleven and one-bist howrs in- of ten, and thus nullifying their reeent- cted Law making ten lours a legal day’s Ccploy a foree of Virginin penitentinry in bar They work fot forty-one conts s in oh Lynn, Mas Ainst o 1 Inst we all_over th 10w Organizing in finding a frear ng i bo easiiy made er the army of miners anthracite region will strike ps one 1 spite the Pinkerton agoncy. They nrew dy for it The murderous wmetic 15 ko threw legili N years, ) and mining labor will talk wiih ¢ tongues yet, _Fhe book pil ity this fall t All prominent pube aro havine a2 good run of busine Nt worl s {re tand work and work i a greateract e pushed | The bookbir ning in dn an o y low, but for fin: Dakota, thousand ars destroying tho | eorn erop along the Missourl river in Dot county. ner near ¢ e from i i htine o wi The Harney Peak Tin Minin: action of building ¢ miiling operations next y ples do finely in ec experiend 55 o the be weor shelt i phiys births “in his p @ been girls laims that iLIs not an aceid Higent provision of naiw demand. an well at and R 15 . company ha belt north ¢ L that een out ¢ Altoona tlows at the | te. The upward ) pounds to the square | the water to a great The arte: rate of C0) pressire is inch, which chit, "Tho sui nie 1ory i ¢ Deadwood "Times soys the @ [hat the grade of the Deadwood brane L& M. VL railroad, will be complete apid this fall, ¥ neer Andrews b sported to the company that owing (o th eharacter of the ground it would 1 fnpossi- blo to work to advautage in thoe sp.ing. Wyoming. A substantial brick school house is up at Lyanston. A dozen Chingmen hay n_ out their first naturalization papers in Cheyenne, One hundved and hty head of cattle have been stolen from one ranch in the Te- ton country this scason. The fivst run of ore from King David mine Ayod ~400 to the ton. A half-interest in the mine was recently sold for 16,000, The Chinamen who were ordered to skip from Cheyenne on the 1st, songht sholter in ro gradually leaving, going | £ el ever recorded in Lara- mie took 1 it week, There were ten animals in the herd and were purchased by D. 1L Talbot, of Sioux eity. ank T. Brown senta bullet through his brain Wl ng from fhe offeets of ehiloral at Laramic, [lo was one of the owners of alarge ranch on the Medicine Bow, “The oil well of the Evanston Oil company is down about 400, They are having sonio trouble and consequent delay on” account of the casing settiing. They aro now boring {hrongh soapstone, which erumbles beneath tho easing and allows it to settlo, necessitat- ing the addition of extralengths on top. The drill will soon reach solid rock. ho Union Pacifie eoal management has ided 10 closo the Carbon mine for the winter, and (o pay of and diseharge all the conl m! t thitt place, about five hundred nen. on' cond i3 rather inferior, and the company prefers to use orn conl for its locomotives, A largo foree of white men will_soon, howdver, bo employed Rock Sprines and Almy, and the w division of the road will b supplicd by coal from theso mines, which furnifh the bost conl yet discovered in Wyoming. —(Cheyenne Leader, Colorado. Tramps and thieves infest tho mountain towns, Denver is turning one of her skating rinks into & market house. The town of Greeley [ gread aedivity in th enjoying u scason ullding Tine. a1 on tho first nap taetory s to be started in | town. A quatette of |I'!1\"|l'l;:i gulled the sports of Denver ot of 2000 by an - attempied exhibi- tion of the *manly art.” The Bessemer steel works at Pueblo turning out steel xails for the Denver & Grande railrond. All departiients of works are In operation, All the coal mines of the Union Pacitie in® northern Colorado wre now closed, Iho mines, how Como and at Gunnison are still working, | The reasons given for the strike by the Colorado miners are that there lave been some inaceuraeics in the weighing ¢ conl, but this is considered by the raflroud ¢ a8 a very stim excuse, ind that itis 1t assist the siriking miners Wyoming. are Rio the Montana. Hard coal costs 818 a ton in Butte. e Chinese are leaving Butte and in Jarge numbers, 3 Phe Judith Basin round up this year turned off about*s, 30 beeve A sampling works with a_capacity of forty tons is to be built at Helena, Infiuential citizens of Virginia City met | resolved that the Chinese must go. uster county has an assessed valuation of $5,000,000, an Increase of over halfa million ina yo 'l'll\rlf ve ounces of gold, the qirst ship- ment, has been received from the Sweet Grass Hills, ’ = A new 11,000 court house is to be bullt at Illllinfis on the site of the one which was burned last summe ‘The buildings of the territorial insane a inity | Tusion with my | me | any [ an“opoen, full, hat |t + Dear £ r;n "'m 0th ult,, and three inmates burned (o death, Consters. The Catico mines, California, bave shipped 80 far this year $1,550,631 in bullion. ‘The cost Lo hulld a brick house at San Jacinto, San Dicgo county, is about five isths that of wood. ~Tho liouses aro all of hrich Diphtherta is raging (o an alarming oxtont ng the children in Salt Lako City. There ixteen deaths from the di Toportud uth, s banks of Salt Lake City cnding 149 in bui tolal of $ILHIS. 5, Thiey have a queer way of doing things in Tdaho, At Siiver City one day last week, schiool was dismissed al noon for the day in order that ihe children might attend the racos in the afternoon. At Alturas, Modoe connty, Cal., last woeek, 8 an W vl by aiother, who took him for . Tho coroner's jury Tound the facts as stated, and “rully exocras ted” the slayer frou all blame, e SPIOY CORRESPONDENCY r. Creighton Pays His Compliments . Woudman—An lnter- esting Contussion. Omaura, Oct. 7, 1885.—{To the Editor.] In view of the fact that Mr. Woodman, o wmember of the board of public works, has allowed himself to be interviewed by reporters of the lacal press, and has de livered himself of statoments reflecting on myself and others, not diveetly, it is true, but by innendo, and otherwiso in- timating darkly that if his statements are called in question ho is in possession of o wholo m no of ammunition which ho is preparad to explode at the proper time, and in a manner that will annihilate these with whom ho has served on the board, together with other parties en, d (as he intimates), in an alioged conspiracy to defraud the city and its people out of something mystorious and intangible, T deem it but proper that this traly good man should bo presented to this community in a full glare of light, which may be shed on his veal character (not by me) but by himself in an open confession in his own handwr wnd over his own signature, 1 de- © to present below a lotfor writton by Mr. Woodman in 1876 to J. W, Gannett, then auditor of the Union Pacific railvoad company, and I desire to state that [ same into possession of this letter not yugh Mr. G tt or throngh any of- ficer, employo sitieer of the Uniox Pacitic raily but in a e mate I the voluntiry vy to whom 1t safo keeping. My pur- nting this letter » Mr. Woodman to velation of any y or claim repor tein| ¢ comp. nd thron of it by the | rntrusted fo 1 1 motive in pr t this time is to indu ke n full angd square information which he ¢ the publieation by him of iny cither do ; or othoer- or (hat he may have procured from contraci democeratio vepubl involy- in omission al, public or | anyono in alleged col- nyone mentic be vate, of mysel S many interview Squires, or the “demo *or any other contractor, or ¢ iber of the bonrd rl,')ul,\n' work ex-member theveof, believing ¢ iir and (horoughls plete and exlizu revelution of s facts or fi s possession, or iy the possession of anyone else, will be fo | the public good, and will inure to the | benent of both the dead and of those who may )i Mr. Woodmuan, in a or your paper, said that ha in my opinions, when I know, therefc me now in my well the letter below s that in it he has “held up to naare, ad the living, after us, munication to «l with mo one, and i the 1 red hims 1f Tt L trae concep tion of his subjeet, and with a complote acquaintance with all the foibles, follie and idiosyncracis of the mottled cha ter whieltis handled like one of the ol masle 1f ns picture of himself shall ever fall under the eyea of his forw employes in Chic they will no doubt feel o pardonable polish and finish of the edueation which they took 0 much pains to give him. The foliowing is the le or confession,or wh it aftor a cavelul perusal, Janmes Cn Oxrana, Neb, Lo 76.—Mr. J. W, nnett, Auditor U, About three years ago the old tirm of Harris, ‘Talt & Woodman sold to your purchasing agent, Mr. Clark or moro barrels linseed oil, slightly over-boiled, which rendered littlo dark for white paint, but it was the better for paint. 1 told Mr. Clark just how it was, and told him that if he could uso it he might have it for three cents less than the regular pric Mr Clark requested me to send ons rel to the shops for teial, which Idid. It rave satistaction, and he subsequently ordered thoe rest sent down, ive or mora barrels. After the oil was delivered I de ont a bill of it and ided it to Clark in Mr. Sickle's oftice. turned to leave Mr. Clark d: you make the dcduction of cents por gallon from your pr 1 replied I had done so. do not now vemember just what M. Clark said, but 1 imagined that there was something in his manner, and 1 presume now it was all imagination on 1oy part that led me to think that perhaps he expected the three cents a commission. When L handed Mr, Clark tho bill, Lonly gave him one bill, My, Clark requested me to send him a duplieato through the postof- fieo, which I did, and either wrote on the hill or on a separate sheet of paper the noto that yon haye se I do not re- member what I did writo, but I think it was to the effset that if tho bill was not isfactory if ho would veturn it Iwonld mauke out i new ona at full price and retund the three conts per gallon to him The note you saw, and eharged me with trying to corrupt your using agent. I did not try to excuse it, as you know, any further than to say that I'believed it hail been a custom by uearly every one who had sold to the U. P, purchising agents to give them a commission. Now 1'wish to word in regard to myself, and [ will frankly and honestly say that Iwill say nothing but what I would freely say _if they were the Inst ~ words I would eve write, Up to the time mentioned above and for over a year afterwards, 1 had led a reck- less and wicked lifo. When quite young I entered the employment of a very wealthy Chicago firm who were speculs tors, grain dealers, ete. This tirm would do almost anything to make money. 1 grew up undér this influence and 1 sup- Pose I was atloctod by it. & know I had one very bad habit, I mean profanity, and up to sixteen months ago I presume 1 was the most profane man in Nebraska, but to the eredit of the Rev. J. H. Pros son and also to Rov. I'. B. Lemon, [ have chunged. Two ycars ago Mr. Prosson was pastor of the Second” M. E. church, now the Eighteenth street M. L5 church. Mr. Presson and [ were boys together in Hinois. When he was sent h I had not n him for twenty years. | never sd any church but wont to hear him proach, callod on him and be- | enme a regulur attendant of his church Mr. Presson and myself were very warm friends when boys, and the old iriend- ship was renewed. Mr. Presson did not chide me for my wicked ways as others ror valentine ay nime Tuin &Y Warne Springs, were destroyed by bad done, but {u & wild wnd Christian ¥ he bronght me to asense of the state Iwasin. Irealized that 1 was & very wicked young man but 1 told Mr, Presson 1 would never make the least profession to be in any way changed till I conld gof rid of the habit of nsing profane ququngn, After thinking the matter ovor said tomy wife, 1 have made up my mind to quit swe . ‘Thiat was sixtoon months ago the Wih of this month and an_ oath has never passed my lips since. I oan now see my other fuu'ts and I ean shun them; but T oannot shun that transaction you hava recc against mo, and whila that stands [ can never move a step fur. ther than I have now gone, When Udid a wronge thing 1 did not endeavor to den it. Ltold you the trath ahout it. 1 wil now be us Trank and knowledge that T did wrong. * 1 have b thinking this maltter over for six months, and the more I'think about it the more it troubles mo. A very serious doubts about the ty of saying anything to you about it, but 1 have made vp my mind ta make all amends in my power, and 1 da now acknowledge the “wrong and ask your forgiven sw, Mr. Qannott, [ trust you will believe me when I say I do not do thi ny mereenary motives, whatever. Wo do not want your trade, and as far 08 that is concerned [presuma we havo it, as Tunderstand you buy oil of Mr. C. F. Goodman, and he buys of us and pays full prices. Wo have no tron- blo in” finding a market for our oil. Neitheor do I wish to b n widate for any oftic whatever, For the trath of m wtements I would refer you to Rev: J swson of Nee braska City, also t T B. Lemon and to N Iaft, my partner. 1 also muko this acknowledgement out of a sense of duty to Mr. Taft, who is a good, christian man, and in - no sense responsis ble for what I have dono. Ploase acknowledge the rvl\nilpl of this at your leisuro. Iwould be plessed to have your views to the prepriety of the step I have taken, Yours uery respeetfullyy Crark Woobyax, A tailroad Peince Dethroned. His carcer was short and wonderful, He rose from almost nothing s the president of several groat Suwddenly his doctors commandued him to ro from busing if ho would save his life. Overwork did it. Be wisa be- fore overwork gets the hotter of you. Take Brown'’s Tron Bitters and koep your Wl your nerve-tone. Ea e St., New Orloans, ing helps mo like Brown's It acts like & charm." - Up Hill Work in New York. New York [erald: We do not belleve Mer, 1 can be elocted, His nomination is tl ort of ros , Bourbons, the oppone: and reform in the democrat sgrain the con- trol which they the nomination and elee! land. Wa bo- lieve th T o and wisdom enough in the demoe: ranks to de- feat this attempt; that they contain a tude of voters who will sea thut the suceess of this reactionary effort wonld threaten the disastrous dofeat of their rty next year and three yoears henco. {Vo Watoh o ramuls of this Iast politionl curiosity, hut, and per- If the Nig with lively only a langnid rn in_the ult. democt rty, vk aud n an in 1834, choose return to its spew, there is a dispositi in the country to leave it there hereafte By the way, wo advise our democratio carrespondent, who asks what he whould do on election day, to stay at home. RIA prevented and Pork N experiment after all, with functor MAY erad K thoroue! 1y AL WIS Sontiment, And now, as I'm about to pross my night kiss upon you lips, 1t 1o tell you that £his is the happiost woment of my Jite,”” gushingly remar] the State stroct dude s he stood ot Jare by's doorw holding fast t Miss Luly at 2 o’clock this morni “And mine, too,” murmured Lulu, aa sho suppross yawn. “Your words fill me with your trusting love that utter them, 15 it not, darling? “No, not that.’" “What is it then, gweet, t the happiest moment of “The fact that you o £0to bed, I'm awful sleepy ——— o which takes a firmer it gains Tho “agony There is no dis grip on the system, when one foothold, than neuralgin. from itis at times unbe: but it s a mistake to supposa that the no remo- dy for it. St. Jacob's Oil has oured thousands of people who suftered so much from it that life almost a bur- den to them, wis D 1y's Motor, y recontly informod the direo- tors of his" motor company t ho ex- pects to complete his liberator in o fow dnys he Lirge 250-horse power engino will bho wly, it is thonght, by Dec. 1, Then he will live complotod ' his groat task, providing the liberator is strong enough to hold the new power whicn the inventor hopes ho will create, Mr. Kealy oxpects to begin work upon tho prepiration of his papers for the patents on his inventions within Vo or six weeks, Ho told a friend that he had ac- complished more during the past six months than for ten years previous. SNEEZE! 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Now, At druggists, 220 ; ) Pories Dava o shafp und norvous origlnal, spoody, safo. for one’ dollur, mailod froe. CHEMDAL CO., Bostoi Many a Lady is beautiful, all but her skin} and nobody has ever told her how easy it is to put beauty on theskin, Beauty on the skin is Magnolia Balm,