Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 24, 1885, Page 4

OmartA Orrrce, NO. Vit AND 016 FAnxam St New Youk OFr1ce, Roox 6, Txisuxs BN, Published every mornine, otcopt Sunday. The only Monday morning paper published 0 tho stato, TROMR BY MAIL: One Year $10.00 Thron Months © Eix Months. 5,00 0ne Month i Tk Wrskry Bee, Published Every Wednesdny. TERME, POSTPAID, One Year, with prem Ono Yeat, without p n Bl Months, without premium Ono Month, on trinl COMRESPONDENCE: All communicutions relating 1o news and edi- torinl matiors should Lo addeessod to the K 201 OF THE B DUSINEAS LETTERS: All buisiness ottors and re mddresscd to T Bek P OMARA Drafts, ordors 16 bo Miade puyable to the compuiy. TEE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, Eptron, 0 Forp intends to stand Pat in tho gamo of political poker. P INQuiriNGg Re No, Pat Ford is not the proprictor of Ford's theatre. He is8 un old attache of the council chamber circus. Ex-Junae Vincest, of New Mexico, desires to explain, but as his suc has been appointed, his explanation will do him no gool. —_—— Tuk Boyd-Miller clement had it all their own way in the democratic pri- maries. With the as of Pat Ford it was made & jug Gen. Haze New York pa- per asking that his book be favorably re- ceived and odering to‘pay the necessary “Bexpense.” The paper published tho Jetter with the suggestion that Hazen wus either u knave or a fool FENERAL SHERMAN has Dbeen inter- viewed on the Grant-Johnson controversy but suys he wouldn't tell all he knows about it for a million dollars. Tecumseh i8u little too high priced for the average 8t. Louis newspaper reporter. CoN GALLAG y waiting for the result of that investigation of the Omaha postoflice. If the report is made that it needs o democratic postmaster Con's application will go forward with a special delivery stamp attached. always declared sho when she married. The cable announces that she has mar- ried a Portugese viscount with the for- oign name of Cook As Mr. Cook isa London tailor Tennie will be able to swing the title of Countess de Pantaloons. TENNIE CLAFLL would cut a figure fic telegraph company,a branch iimore and Ohio system, will soon reach Omaha. Omaha experiences the novelty of a competing telegraph linc about once in every five years. The competition frequently lasts for two months at a tim Par Forn is the commg democratic eandidato for sheriff, The report that he has $1,000 to distribute where it will do the most good has attracted to his banner all tho men of “linflooence’ in his party. They are railying around Pat like flies around & molasses Tue deaths from smallpox in Montreal from August 20 to October 9 numbered 1,180, and of these, all but 100 were French-Canadians, who persistently re- fused to be vaccinated. These figures nught to convince the anti-vaccination- ists of thoe foolishness of this opposition to the great preventitive of smallpox, Tug rush for the democratic nomina- tion which will head the county ticket is tremendous, but it will be nothing to the rush at the polls to beat any man nomi- nated against My, Coburn, provided, always, that faithtul work is done by republicans for their ti New York demoerats are loudly eall- ing for the sealp of Postmaster T on of Now York. Asit is doubly fastened on by a good recovd and a four years eommission it is likely to remain in its place in spite of the howling war dance of the Tammany spoilsmen. Every assessor who has assisted to eripple Omaha tinancially in the past is a candidate for re-clection, although the legitimato value of the ofiice is tho smallest of any in'the county. The por- ) x dodgers form the principal part of the milk in the assessorship coconnut, for mathematics and eleetnicity, has re eontly caleuluted that if the entire nery- ous forco of a human body be reckoned At 10,000,000 ohms, at least 5,000,000 ave expended by the muscles of the month It Porhaps Train is, us he elaims, a hundred yours ahicad of the n his plan of gomplete silence s a pradlonger of life, [JAN eastern ex figures up that a troo o year planted now for every inhabi- tant would arly sisty millions & year, which in fifty y or even less, would he worth £300,000.000, not to speak of the merease of forests, orchards, ete In fifty years, if sneh a course were pur- sued, the wenlth of the country would be almost doubled, Nebraska's lessons in tree eulture are attracting o nniversal at- tention, which will bring splendid resnlts in the canimg yours to s country which i8 being rapidly denuded of its forests. Ouk esteemed and more or less pictor- ind eontemporary, the Herald, ndvises the democratic convention to fish hard for the luborers’ voto, and volunteers the startling information that some of tho working classes “are particular us to how and for whom they vote Wo entively agroe with this suggestion, which, thongh mwovel, in coming I the Herald, will Bo gonorally ondovsed. Tho number of workingmen in Qmahs who are pariiou- B “'us to how and for whom they voto,™ isincroasing eyory yoar, and now com- a large eluss, which will oxamine elosely tho tickets and endorso the bust Home Industel ¥very hand held out to encourage home industrios and home enterprise is o love to advance the prosperity of the city and | state, ‘The most enterprising communi. | ties of the west are the most prosperous; and the most prosperous the most enter- prising. The cities which hs shown the greatest proportionate growth since the lust census are those whose citizens have been quick to detect now and profitable investments for capital at home and eager to develop and to diversify indnstrics which would employ homo labor and consume home prodncts Omaha has reached a point where the attention of her people needs to be di- rected to her urgent want of mora indus- tries to furnish employment for her idly increasing population. There o8 of enterprises which once plant would fing root in this city and give prof- itable returns for the investment, Flour- ing mills, oat meal mills, canning f torics, plow and agricultural implement | works, and dozens of less pretentious in. dustries, cach of which would give em- | ployment for fabor and investment for 1, conld be maintained in Omaha. | Manufactures ure what now give life and importance to eitic The artisans and operatives, the mechanics and special- ists in various industries build up and maintain the commercial prominence of great municipalitiea as well a3 of the surrounding country, With the same | density of population in Wisconsin and | Alabama, the vi of lands in the former avernges $28.70 per nere and in the latter $4.1 t is found in the si industrial population, which is 7 per cent. respective- v Similar comparisons between other give similar results Prof. Dodge, who colleeted these significant facts, savs in commenting on them, “It is not merely population, but a harmonious develop- moent of industry that makes the differ- ence. No city ean become great commercial- ly aside from the importance of her | manufacturing interests. In the ten largest eities of the country, which are | gencrally deemed especially centres of | trade and speenlation vather than of pro- duetion, the value of products of manu- facture amounts to one-third of all in States. The more industries which we build up in our midst the more rapid will be Omaba’sadvance in wealth, population and commercial importance. 800 Les J. R, Investigate Teller, One of the tirst duties of the senute when it conv should be the inv gation of Henry M. Teller. The air | been full of rumors and reports of his ofticial malfeasanco while seeretary of the interior, ever since he stepped down and out to take his seat in the na- tional senate. Every dirty pool of ques- tionable odor which has been stirred up in land frauds, Indian swindling, badly filled contracts and whoiesale claim jumping and occupation of government wrritory by eattle and railrond corpora- tions, has been connected her divectly or remotely, with charges ng the ex- secretary of the interior. Senator VanWyck's seathing denunciation of Mr. ler as a pliant tool of the railways, which ecreated so much excitement in the last scnatorial i was followed by a score of editoria assurances from all parts of the west, that the half had not yet been told, Later came the scandal of the Indian leases in Oklahoma and the charges from San Carlos, and now the supervising architect of the treasury joins the ranks of the accusers with a story which, if veritied, ought to securo Mr. Teller's prompt impeachment. Architect Bell charges that when the new public building at Denver was to be t there was & goneral demand that lorado stone should be used in its con- struction. The lowest bidders were the owners of the Rock Creek company, but when Mr. Bell examined the material, he pronounced it wholly unfit for build- ing purposes. At this stage of the pro- according to Mr. Bell's statement, Sceret: Teller put in an appearanc and urged the archit award the contract to the Rock Cre company on the ground that he had a brother who was interested in the quar- ries. Later when Mr. Bell rejected the bid and advertised for others, and when another quarry company was treated in the same way by the supervisin, i cheet, Mr. Teller overruled the of Mr. Bell by sending his own expert to minke 1 favorable report on the quality of the stone and succeeded in getting it ac- cepted, It has been difficult to secur proofs of Teller's operations. but the) a general impression that he has been and is a thoroughly corrupt man, who worked the interior department for all that it was worth, If an investigation which was warranted not to whitewash could only take him in hand, we imagine that several volumes could be 1 with veports of his questior in the various bureaus unde 1t will e No More Tips. The revolt of the commereinl travelers ving of fees to hotel por | s | American. | s | tobo postponed beeanse of the nsual | That ca | on the forward | & vesumption of the pari riters, hackinen and to employes in the Pallman viee, has attracted wuch attention. Their exumple is now followed by the proprietors of the Palmer house in Chieago and Windsor hotel in New York, who have forbidden their em Pl ive tips from guests. Other | leiding hotels in the conntry will, it is | suid, soon follow suit in assisting to put wslop to n pernicions system which hus boen grafied on Ameriea from Englind and the continent. The tip system s o | scheme Tor gouging guests and inereas. ing the prolits of the promr Employes are foreed to resort to the de. grading means in order to cke out the miserable wages paid them by the ployers. In the Pullman ser sulavies given the porters sear them in clothing, and the publi peeted to make up the deficiency. Many of our hotel proprictors put up to the highest bidder sl positions where tips 1 bo extorted from travelers, and de- | vive n good revenue from services w properly should be an item of expense The eustom has become 5o thoroughly wdopted in America aud the ups extorted thoere S0 €8 Lo rec tors, o ome the Ay keep in ex- ice ich | i THE OMAHA DALLY et e e e e s general fevolt among the | traveling public against its burdensome | exnctions. The idea of gratuities for labor not por formed, or for trifling sorvices, is It has only come into gencral | adoption during the past two y L and th no reason wh, cannot bo | res cheeked, if not oradi cated. As soon as employers learn that | the public will not « them in mect ing their pay-roll, and cmployes that they must look to employers and not to the public for their wages, s groat deal will s necomplished is ly ssist itk committes of the eity counocit ap. pointed to investigats the condition of “oose funds,” which might possibly bo applied to grading, has suc in aping enough togathor to grado Har- ney and Burt stroots This needed im- provement will be mady this fall, more by good luck than by Anagement Other grading, as mueh needed, will havo roedoed sarcity of funds in the city treasury. less or ¢ sessmonts aro rosponsiblo e ¥ ing drags march of Omaha's pro cannot be too often rd. year the same men who act as tools and catspaws for wealthy tax shirk @rs come again before the public asking | for a re-olection to the oJizes which they disgrace. Yoear ¥ the Bie has faithfully sought to arousc public sentiment against the assessment onte rages and the diseriminations which per- mit the broad acres of the rich to remain practically untaxed while the small lots of the poor bear the principal burden of | uneven assessment, W vraing ay we have 5o asserted, that the shame- ful inequalities in taxation in this city ure injuring it in the oyes of capitalists | abroad and preventing its rapid progress | through the eflorts of its citizens at home. Some of our property is taxed at | less than ten per cent. of its market valuo, & very large proportion at 15 and 20 per cent,, and the least valuable only averages the third which the nssessors | pretend to make as a basis of valuation, So long as we continue to eloct men who have found it profitable to discriminato in assessments and to serve wealthy pa- trons rather than the interests of the city, just 50 long will the cry of *no funds for improvements” be heard in our city council. The evil is one that no hoard of equalization can handle satis ily. Until a thorough reform is made in the methods of assessments the question can only be dealt with by a change in the ASSESSOTS ew men and new Ssmont books will accomplish. somothing. No change which could be mades ean be for the worse, Tug demands for additional police pro- tection are well grounded. Omaha has too small a police forco in proportion to her population and ter: It has en too small for ten years past. Bu what is the usc in erying for an ipcrease | when tax-dodging citizens and property ng assc ar by year de- treasury of funds which canld be applied for this and other equal- 1y important purposes. *Short of funds' 8 the annual cry of Omuha within o month after the tax levy becomes avail- | able. Reform in the assessments must | precede n good many other reforms in | this city. (e L, the rebellious Canadian, will be hung on the 10th of nextmonth. The English privy council has declined to in- torf and sentence will accordingly be executed, Ricl's execution will be the first for treason which Canadians have witnessed, and for this reason rioting among the half-breed population is feared, Than Ours, Denmark's revolutionary temper broko out during the past w:(»k in an attempt to ssinate He Estrup the Danish premier. Rioting and imposing demon- | strations against the king have become 80 threatening that King Christiun has ordercd the garrison of Copenhagen to be reinforeed. The trouble between | the government and the people is of thirtcen years standing, during which | time the lower house, the folkething, has vainly persisted in its demand for the removal of the unpopular Estrup cabinet. Its attempt to coeree the gov- crnmient by refusing to vote supplies was boldly met; the king authorized the levy of taxes by deeree and dis- solved the rigsdag with a reprimand, This has since been done repeatedly, but ench time a larger radieal majority hus been returned to the lower house, In the popular branch of the rigsdag, which met this month at Copenhagen, there are now searce half a dozen sup- porters of the government, The upper house bas remained loyal to the King. The methods of the government in the straggle have given rise to an emphatie demand on the part of the opposition for mentary sys tem. The demand is rvesisted by the crown by every means in its power. is now the issuc. During the last the situation has been growing mor and it has beeomo elear that the government must either yield or a popular revolution, Everywhere the opposition left is in grent numerical majority. T wenlth, the aristocracy, and the burcaucracy of th country side with the government, Muny eitizens have of late refused to pay the provisional taxes which have been levied by the government illegal, and b resisted the anthorities in their attempt to colleet them by force, Phe attempt W ussassinate Esteapp shows | the height to which popular resentment | has visen and the dangerous voleano on which the obstinate king persists on site ting to the-peril of his throne yenr daily aruve, as " The expectations of the immediste out. k of war in the Balkans have not alized during the past week, and situation romains practicully un- The representatives of the powers have sent another collective noto to the porte urging delay, and the saltan s veplivd that he not begin wul- ry operations until the powers have le one more attempt o restore Turs s empire to the position in which it wus before the Bulgariun union. Mean- | Turkey has that they | & | cipid | of Massachusots BEE: SATU to move. ed not upon diplomati The Turk is evidently to wait much longer Aeliiss, but to strike the | blow for rogaintng his territory before his vassals havo an opportunity to com- bine and to give Austrin and Russin oo- casion for a friendly interferenco wh would precipitaty a general Earopean conflict. It is ovident from the tone of the dispatches that' s painful s added to the war preparations in Servig and Bulgaria by, tho knowledge which more or loss directed from Vienha and St. Poters. burg. The beliof is now gaining ground in diplomatic circles that the only settles ment of the question, aside from the arbitrament of war, lies in the deposing of Prince Alexander and the rostoration of Roumelin to the sultan's empire. Tho Servisn troops on the Bul an border are now ouly held in ehe by the threats of Austria, but the restora- tion of the status quo would remove at once the opportunity for a quarrel in which all the Turkish principalities are only too anxious to engage. is » W Pl English campaign is daily growing warmer and is filled with political sur- prises. The latest is tho decision of Gladstone that Chamberlain the radieal, and not Hartington, shall be his successor as leader of the liboral party. A caveful canvass of the country has convineed the liberal lenders that pacty success is certain in the coming elections, and that it ean bewon on a platform so radical as that on which Mr. Chamberlain is now stand- ing. This decision of M adstone i expected to eanse a more of the whigs from the liberal ranks, a se- cession by which «the tor will gain, Buat the 2,000,000 new voters who will o tend the polls for the first time next month are expected to make up the de- fection and furnish a handsome maj on which the libe power, For this p partics ontending with Hartington, Cham- rin, Gordon and Churchill ave speak ing slwost daily to crowded asscmbl i : south, while the venerable picr will shortiy attempt to renew I s triumphs in the Midlothiun district. * I'he Trish execatives, or rather the Eng- lish executives in Ireland, have entered upon an attempt to cheek hoycotting by means of the ordinary laws against con- sy, und are pushing prosecutions in any quarters. They have gained one 3 by revokihg the licenses of keep- ers of pubiic houses who are jroved uilty of refusing supplies to boycotted persons, thereby eausing the exemption of publicans fromr obedionee to boycot- ting orders. Two hfindred cinzens of Stradbally, county Queens, have bheen rrested, convietgd and ordered to find surcties for their gomd behavior, but on ction to go toprison vather n th anagistrate hesi- tated, and gave © them fort- night ‘o thin over the matt Chere is talk of reviving the “Wiite: boy act.! which, inflicts .seven years exs m act venal servitude on persons found guilty of menace or conspiracy ngainst the e, person or property of “loyalists,” but this would estzblish a very strong specimen of cocreion for which neither poli arly is prepared to take the ves spon Parne!l is letiing the boy- coiiing matter take ciave of itself, though he has expressed I method, and continues to devete hinsclf rfecting the organization of tho party, D for its support ave veely cowing in from both conscivati 1s in the English eamp, and strength of this new weapen will 1ortly be tested against ore or the other England is hastoning her preparations for the subjugation of Burmah, and King of wifekilling are num- bered. English expedition will aseend the Teriwaddy with a foree of 10,000 men fully equipped, and with artil- lery enongh to destroy any rmprompla fortitications which n oppose The probabilitics nre that the conquest of Burmah will be followed by its imme. i mnexation to the Indian empi and the,placing of it under the control of the viceroy. EDUCATIONAL, The number of women in American col- leges runs up to 13,061, The university of Pennsylvania has sue- led in paying off a debiof $140,000 the at year, and_is now 1rce from incun- Fhe most remuncrative professorship in the world is that of Professor Tarner, the heuished anatomist of Edinburg, whic 5l 520,000 8 year, Mr. Andrew Carnegie has given a library building, costing 25,000, and SLOXW for the hurel of books, to the workmen of the eystone bridge works at Pittsburg. The trustees of Dakota university are said to have in shape & pian for establishing college of seience umd industrial art, to” be named in honor of G irant. Dakota has aschool teacher who is worth her weight 0f godl. Her name s lie Franklin, Recently she saved i wheat stacks and house teom the pr by hurnessing the hprses to the plow and tirning over several (urrows which created u substantial wre brake The Minnesota Pre: mecting of their synod ist w Albort Lea college; an Tustitution cdueation of yi Swonien, in which the es- sential featurd Mt Holoyoke semina- vy will be iwdo [ 1 is intended W8 i supplement sl college, the secturiai institutio In the public sehoy having re the i, lad pupils in a concerted the Lond's prayer, the selhool board de Stk while they would not attenpt to contre! thegeonscieuce of the pupil, or make hin dpeabthe praver, ne must at least rise uid assiin o 8 respectinl altitude while it was in pragies e luly weacher '(h%u]‘ threatened to resign ) breach of dise ript: The general statutes continued. 5 provide tiat any woman can vote for sehool committees who is 21 vears of uge, hias resided within the state one rand within the eity or town in which s FihE 0 VOB S1X Mot WXt 1y eleetion, and who las paid by ant, glardinn trusiee, 8 Site, county, city oF town tax, assessed upon her or her trusteo in the staie within two years next preceding sueh election, England's Female Vote, Boston Transceipt. The number of women householders in England is 217, 1y of these are at the head of st estates, and pay n lurge rov- © to the government. And yet they shut out of the parliamentary fran- hise and cannot have a choice us to who shall represent their borough. They, howover, have the municipal vote, which is most importaut @ lerge landholders Boston T disapproval of tho | them. | | RDAY, Apid secession | | Millspaugh is an ev | connce | tion, whije probably not ¢ _OCTOBER 24, 1885 VIEWS AND INTHRVIEWS, The Split in Trinity. . “The trouble in Trinity calminated just as | L expreted it would—in the resignation of Dean Millspaugh,” said & consetvative mem- ber of the ¢ “The tronble b R o tHime a; satistaction with Mr. Millspaugh as rector are said to hnve been suppressed during the lifo of Bishop Clarkson by reason of the fam- ily conneetion. Mr, Millspaugh was brought 10 Onaha by Bishop Clarkson from Faribault, Minnesota. e is said to have been recom- mended to the churclimen on account of his thorough parish work, and certainly none of those who have been most active in pushing hin from his present position can deny that smee his transter to Trinity the same efforts t were so prominent in his ehurch work in the north have eharacterized his tahors here. Mr. Millspaugh lias been very active in all that pertains to tho pastorate, and also in the organization of charities and the visitation of the poor.” »a “What coused the pressure against him then?” asked the Bre's representative. “It was not with Mr. Milispaugh as pastor that fault was found by the faction in Trinity that tinally succeeded in sceuring his resignation, While Trinity parish oceupicd alittle wooden barn-like strueture, the objections to Mr. Millspaugh's ministrations in the caghedral, as it was called, wero fow and far between, The inauguration of the proceedings for building the new cathedral, and the assurances that the present handsoms struture was to be the future home of Trinity people, no doubt gave rise among a certain faction that a more eloquent pastor should bo secured for so finished and clegant a strueture, You day man; a practical worker in the cause of the ¢hurch. He is not a Garrett, There's the seerct of the whole trouble, I believe. A part of owr congrega- tion want a high-priced pulpit orator, who will give them their money's worth in high-flown language and high-toned eloquence man who can wind up the English lanmuage like clock-work and then let the words come forth in the most polished ecombinations and as duent'y as water off & duck’s back. Mr. Millapauzh unfortunately is not that kind of a man, Open expressions of the feelings of these factionists were restrained on ; ecount of the regard for Bishbp Clarkson, who was sincerely attached to Mr. Millspaugh, and who at one time hopes of securing his elevation to a mission- ary bishopric in one of the territories. M ugh himself never gave any evidence knew of any such feeling existing against him in the chureh. He bore himsell like a Christian gentleman, He fostered no jealousies, and listenced to no complaints, His work in Trinity guild and in the parish missions od with Trinity was continued with ‘This was brought against him as an complaint—that. knowing against him on the part of a faction in the church, he did mot at once resign in order to prevent further disruption, The dissatisf nding to a ma- jority of the eongregation, was, unfortu- v for the peace of the parish, voiced by the most prominent of the vestry, Mr. Wool- worth, who had done so mueh for the church, and whose donations to old Trinity are said 10 have amounted to over 000, felt perha more stron, than any other the necessity, as he said, of securing a strong man to il the pulpit of the eathedral and to add to the dignity,of the magniticent ecelesinstical sut- roundings. vizo additional eaus the fecling * * “1 have heard it said that Dishop Clarkson, shortly before his death, exacted from M Millspaugh that he would not resign the clor hedrat until formally re- quested 1o do ko, The issue was distinetly mude at the last Easter election of the vestry, when the opponents of Mr. Millspaugh as- serted that distinet pledges had been made by Joseph Clarkson and Fred Davis- both relatives of the dean—that ‘his resignation would be promptly forthcomi Whether this is true, 1 cannot positively say, but the failture of Mr, Millspaugh to immediately re- sign, was followed by steps to organize another parish in the southwest part of the ity, whi it was intimated, would attract from old 'I'rinity the most wealthy and aris- cratie elements which have so long be in attendunce there. #%s ““I'he publication of Mr. Woolw ter in the erald was the tirst ence trongh the press to this ehuieh difticult; Mr., Mills) tion soon [ollowed, His friends say he has received several flatte Is to othe churches, and that it is a shame and a di grace thata man who has labored so long and faithfully for Trinity in its days of ad- versity should be 50 unceremoniously shifted 1o one side now that thy iy some honor at- tiched to the rectorship of the parish which he has done so wnch towards building up.3 [t israther nsingular fact that since he lias re- signed, many of the ladies who bad sided against him for the Inst two years ha sud- denly switched over to his side and expressed deep and genuine sympathy with the dean on account of his treatment by the parish, What the result will itis diffieult at this time to say, but 1 preddict that there will be, i3 all probabllity, a permanent split in the congregation.” Vs lot- public refer- wnforta Zh's resign Nearer Heaven. I notice the Christian church is being moved to the southeast corner of Capitol ave- nue and Twentieth street, and a new Metho dlist chureh is to be built at the southeast co ner of Davenport and Twentieth streets, observed u Capitol Bill man; *1 don't under- stand why they want to get on the hill unless itds that they wish to be called high-church.” 1" remarked a bystander; “it is sinply beeause they wint to get nearer heaven, and thus have the advantage over the other churehes.” Another Railroad “1 wish Thad time to give you newspaper folks my ideas on the railroad situation,” re- marked W, I Bowen. “Of conrse we want that road to the northwest, but that is bound to come any way, and therefore I think we are wasting time in that direetion, What we want more than anything else is a railroad of uniform grade running due east at least 150 miles. Such a road to transport conl and produce alone would | Majo ] was up at Bisimarek the other da who do you suppose I saw the Omaha commercial traveler, iive it up,” said the Ber wman, It was nobody but Major Fonda, the eranky, irrepressible social- iatie agitator, who used to seii-oceasionully stir up the menagerie in Omaha, The ‘wajor’ I a8 frash and talkative as over, but his field is rather lhmited in Dakota, His new sur- roundings have somswhat subdued him, They eall him ‘major’ up th st as wo did 1n Quaha, and I think they size him up about the same as we did. He owns a farm near Stanton, in Dakota, The major had Just returned from an extended eastern trip, While in Washington he ealled on Clever tand, Lamar and Bayard, and I have no doubt that he wndertook to upress them with and sald an on expressions of dis- | { satdown besid | his head fell back. the territory. At Richmond, Virginia, he was hospitably entertained by Col. Courtnoy, the head of the Denldic order in this country, who commissioned i as one of the visiting gates to the Grand Grove of England, h meets next Jaly in London The v told mo that ho was flourishing, and conidentiall wod e that 1 it wasa hard thing to kesp & good man down.” Quinn Rohcnnon as a Poet. Quinn Bohannon, who 18 confined in the Nebraska City jail under sentence of death for the murder of a young man with whom he hiad & contraversy about the way to spell the word “pedd which is spelled thice different ways in Webster—is a poet as well asa professor of orthography. sent to thisoffee a well-written letter yequest- ing the publication of the following original poem, entitled THE JUDGMENT. Therc's a quiet retreat or a lone, 8! Upon the neutral ground betwe and hell, Where the departed spirits from this mundane shore Wil gather in myriads when life is o'e Tt is the level platean where Father and Son Will at last sit in judgment and justice bo dond, It 15 the place where the soul shall pause for respite, After passing the ba night. It's the chosen place for the great separation, Where souls are consigned to the last reser- vation Iere the divided, And the doom of the soul forever decided. 1t is here the last tears of the whole human ¢ raco Wili be shed o'er the st when the parting takes plac —[Quin Bohannon. ND DRAMATIO. ady dell, n heaven er of death’s dark goats from the sheep™ at last are MUSICAL One Mikado i3 all that Japan_can support. N rk, however, induliges in two. . Lawrenee Barrett is said to be prepar- production of one of Victor Shantytown boasts a gont over fifty y of age. “This old butter probubly traces hi origin to ancient Miss Viola Allen will bein S company during his_coming season and be seen as Desdemona, Parthenia, ete. Chewing-gum keeps up the old st prices notwithstanding that old rul are a8 eheap as rw materinl ever w Miss Stela Rees, of Indinnapolis, is hailed asthe_coming Julict. It i< aunounecd that she will shortly essay tho ¢l ter in New York. George C. Mi'n writes from Atlantie, Tal, il etaracterizes the repart that he' has ciosed his season as an - absurd and madicious Twmor, Ralvini oceuniced o private box at the Union o theater, New Y ork, and was gencrous pplause of Miss Mather s periormance of Julict, A Coney Island man has struck a tune by a recent discovery. e f cows 011 live hens, and the cow turns out egs e Jumbo wonld shi at the sizht of a rat. Poor tellow! tlo conldn't climb ul\ into a with his elothes gathered up about his ? le of war ot boots ¢ ankle A troupe of Parsee actors, comprising twenty-uve men and a nmber of women, is it London, and will appear at Her Maj- theatie in November, Barrett has (1 a new s shown un olessional s cuss is conidently anticipat e brothers Ferdinand and Hermann Carri, with the assi of other i givet 3 ol six Chickering hall on November 4. Mr. Locke Richardson has been giving Shakespearian v Franeisco, and lic has been suce wing good t ¢ Nincteenth tury is on “sol One of the most absurd “solar my ths” is the idea that it fun to get up in time to see the sun ax Muller's e mother of John Drew, the Philadel- phin actress, is 91 vaars old. Sheis a regular attendant at all nrst night performnees. and those who know her say she does not look older than sixty. The | ity of Hazel Kirke be alinc ennial. kiyn fast month, 000, and i 55 00 the r Ellen Terry introdneed in this country the present tancy for short hai Terry's lusbands was a very e tellow, and to him ily, prlips, belomgs the credit ol the innovation, A Boston paper suggests vaecination as a cune for loud taking ab theaters. This would not effect i peraanent cure unless the tongue wits removed about three feet frou the month the operation i3 periormed, Paris Vaudeville theatro has just invention by means of o forded up into inchos, rest for the is0 @ hat stand and a eane the thiel arms and all; lik stand. Myron W. Whitney, the | that e will return 1o operatic " the conelusion of his engagement with dore Thons, It has been stated that he in- tends to devote himself exelusively to orator- ie singing hencoforth. An Orezon man has invented a machine that being attached to a sleoping person wiil ace rezister the dreains of the night, y; nt of family discord such a 1e wou d command & very high prenium, It is no use to talk Lo a man about the beau- ties of the ever-sounding sea and the joyous- ness of the silvery sands when he s just come back from i sea-side hotel where he had Dad to sleep on a shelf in a clothes elo et and Tivd to keep a tack haminer under his pillow o Kill the bugs with. - Customor turhe New York Sun: ywas the greenest ol man you cver saw. He looked uronnd the passen ger coach in a way to prove that bie had never entered one be- fore, und he sat down so0 soltly, and seemed to bo so afeaid of dumaging some- thing, that all the pussengers smiled. By and by i young man went oy iy, Lhis you might havo been divected by ‘tilial tion, and he might not. “Which unclor" he softly asked “Me? Ol I'mogoin' to see my darter in Connecticut,' SEver tray “Phis is the tirst time T was ever on tho keers. D've driv off seventeen miles with the oxen to s ny other darter, but oxen haint no comp: 2 Keors,! I should suy not, k { money to go to Connecticut and back." “Dreetlullot, but 1 jist sold the tarm, | you know." | I presume you con hundred-dollae bill for me SOD, jist as well us not," I may want you to by and The Wrong Again Dis- Wiy, by. This wr fur fall. bout lus corn, James has been wor but I | uess it's all Nothing further was said for son time. the'old man looking out of tho window and the young min reading w paper. The train made o fow stops, and | the car was 5o warm that after s while the old man began to yawn and nod. Ho fought it off for ten minutes, but at last | 1l his gentle snores mingled with the roar of the wheels A slim white hand, with tapering ling: ers. vested on his leg; then it was ele- | vated to his breast Its tonch was that of | ufeather Its moveent was that of a | serpent ereeping forward to strike. The fingers touched wn oldfushioned wallet, | The young man continued to read, wnd | the old man slept of luch by \ the wallot was lifted from its snug rvesting o recently |4 { The Great Invention, For EASY WASHING, 1N HARD OR SOTT, HOT OR COLD WATER. Without Harm to FARKIC or ITANDS, and particularly adapted to IWarm Climates, No family, Heh or poor, should b Withous 1 S0l by all Grocers, but bewara of vile lmh titons. PEARZINE 13 manufactured ouly by JAMES PYLE, NEW YORK: Joner fast, and his voice was heard oall- in “You hlamed skunk! But T knowed all the time whit you were after! Where's the conductor!” Thero was o rush of passongors, and they found w helpless, confused pick- pockot and an indignant, but yet elated old man. ‘on fur an ole h Work roots 'n his picktur,’ but he took me ystack from a back modder! on me, will ve!' Sot a trap fur me and fell into it verself, eh " Even o profeasional p t hadn't cheek enough to urge a single excuso. The fellow hudn’t one blessed word to say, and was walked off to the baggago eur to be kicked to the platform ut” the next station, Yo see, turned to th hadn't orter done it bin constable, Sherifi, ¢ days, travellin® all over all sorts of folks, he hadn't orter play ot r orn and break a young man’s heart like this, but I felt sort o' reckloss this mornin'. L must puta curb on my speerits; I'm gettin’ too old to be playin' Jokes on confilin’ young men! i 2 ) SHE LIVED IN A SHO Incident in the LiteodGeneral Grant's Idolized Daughter Nellie, The Morning Journal: Sr. Lour October 19.—The stories of the domest misery s only duughtel Mrs. ‘Sartoris, strike with peculiar sad- ness, here in St. Louis, where little Nellio Grant first achivved her national reputa . This wus more than twenty years the Mississippi~ Valley ociation, tid tho old man, as ho inquiring passengors. Wihen & man has drover ull his nd moetin® w'th of the entertain- ment was “the old woman who lived in o shoe,” the old woman being oharmingly d by t! ughter of the great general. The fair netted some $30,000, and many a poor soldicr in camp ot hospital t s:ed conforts and delicacics that he owed to the little “old woman who lived in a shoe.” No record is kept of all the sirens who have lured the Brton from Lis e vows, but one who nationil seandal by the Sartoris e on Green Bay ayene or 50 020 ha i from St. Louis. "She was a daughter of federate who drifted hithoi- filled among other yyments i responsible position in the Board of Public Improveme nts, and drifted away, not, however, until i s beautiful dang! tion by throwing hel dow, u vietim of hysterics and unrequited love. el B AR A Tough C York Sun: After beating a Horse Heads lawyer down to $3 *for a few words opinioi,” an old farmer stuted his case as follows: “1 sold a feller 10) bush ples for twenty cents a bush cider apples lins gone and r wek onty h The only an do is to him all d}m and wormy fruit.” “That’s what makes me so hoppin’ mad, you know. [ don't believe I kin skeer up over ten bushols of sich fruit. Huin't thers any legal way to induee tho words to come in on the other ninety?' The lawyer will probably try to some plan to help him out on. —-— To Californin. On November &th the B. &M. R. R., vill start a select excursion party for California, vin Denver and Salt Lako. Forty-five dollars puys one w when you please, First-cluss ¢ press trains through to destination, 8 from any station on the B. & M. R. R. For particulurs n{)ply to A. C. ;u- agent, l.l,ln-n n, Neb., ordm Lustis, gener Passe) n agent, Omaha, Neb. 2 Ll 0 Much Morphia. 1i 7 in a hou Chicago, Thursday ni sixtoen one-eighth gramn morphing pills and started ‘s kitin® " over thoe Jordan Dr. Wilcox was promptly summoned by her riends and with wstomaeh pump ealled She oxplainod on recovering didu’t know the pills were so Now 1s of cider ap- and now to thirty. thing yon windfulls A woman tegnth and swillowed Infantile and Birth Humgrs Speedily Cured by Cuticura. 14\"(‘ clennsing the humors, 1 i, o pRoviusi Fuli and oth « sealp of birth ingg, burni aympl ik erust, seald” heud, e inand blood dises . the o, und Cut curd an’ exquisite skin beautificr, extornully, and Cuticurn ftesolvent, tho new internully, ure infullible. Absolut STERKIBLY AFFLICTED." 1Mrs, Evorott &tebbins, Bolohartown, M, Jur little boy was terribly nillic ed with serafula, salt rheum nad erysipelns M wis born, unl noth i ue we coold gi Dim helped him, until wo teed Cutieurs It dics, which svadunlly eured Bim, untl ho is s Tilr a8 any ehild Mr. o FOR NOTHING." Avlington Ave aving puid about without " hich complotoly kilgom" “E200 Chnr IAD TO FEET, yro Hinklo, Jorsoy Cily Helghts, N, Lwrlies: “My son. n bid 0F twolve years, wis Complotely eurod of w torriblo s of oor'ema by the Cuticura Remodies. From the top o1 his hend o the soles OF hix Tocl Wik 016 nAss o ery other remedy and physiciens tried 4 vain, “A LITTLE BOY CURED. Nash & Nush, Covington, Ky., write: “One o our nors boughit your Cutleurs Remodies for Lin little boy, who tnd & kind of humor in the head, ko that ho was & solid seab of Rores, Ho wis cutirely curod. and lis tather saye ho would not begrudeo §5n for tho good i hus doue hin,™ . w0, 50 conteg onis. Prepared by L Lo, Boston, Muss, cverywhere, P Resolvent, §100; Sonp, Porrei Dida axn Send for “How to Cure Skin Diseases BABY Jii6CUEARMA i, cxavise!s bom KIDNEY PAINS, SPRAINS, RACK ACHE, wouknoss' wid o inens cased by overwork, dissipation, place, and the hand wus almost v ul{ [ remove, it entirely, when somothing hap pened. right hand the o!d mun pisned the inwr- i, Wilking, O UHe Sewing ma chiine, suiod by the GUTI0NIA PAIN Puastei, Now, onid Bl Juralillle, * B With # sudden movement of his l ‘CS , mawn, rogardless of party aftiliations. 80 large that time Turkey has 200,000 men under ariug l and taxpayerd, 1 the idea that Le was oue of the blg guusof