Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 4, 1885, Page 4

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S0 long as the fine weather continues the buile in Omaha keeps up Nothing will stop it except a very cold wave. hould be OMPANY, yrcrs mpnny is a invasion prisoner to the As four KiNg THesAw English army of specinl commissioners have left England to govern Burmah, Thebaw's kingly title may by considered a thing of the past Derkcnive Pousp, who kil Jeggod vietim of u put-up jol purdoned by Goy, Dawes. This unexpeeted. 1t was a case in which the svernor and the deteetive had to stand by each other, 1 the one has heen Wis not Mexico is having another revolution. Itis the whirl of Mexican polities caused by a change of federal ofl The United States dovs things botter. With- out waiting to be kicked out the oflice- holde if there i< no chance for the retention of th e S resign ONE of the first vesults of Sheridan's trip to investigate Crook an enls ment of his command Ly the addition of the distriet of New Mexico to the depart ment of Arizona. This is the kind of censure which will not be sutisfactory to General Eruvarons in buildings hecome w necessity, Theman who invests in a threc-story brick and neglects to provide elevator accommodations L fatal mistake in these days. People seriously ¢t to climbing stairs when they can e time and labor by using the cle- Hok's encmic vator, Sl alE sy ttorney has his hands full ading the eity against damage suits. These extravazant claims agninst the city for cl 1de and fractured ribs are very much like libel suits agmnst newspapers. They generally terminate with o verdiet of live cents, Tue republican senatorial caucus is called for Friday. The choice of presi- dent pro temof the senate lies between Edmunds and Logan. So far as qualiti- cations for the oflice are concerned, Sen- ator Edmunds s s head andshoulders aboye any of his colleagzies. The u ments used jn favor of Senutor Lo clection are purely seutimental. Ir begins (o Jook hike business when substantial three-story brick buildings are being torn down in Omaha to make room for five-story structures of more modern design. There i nty of room, how- cver, in the business center for three- story buildings, and we wish we had more of them to take the pluce of the wooden rookeries that yet remain to mark the pioncer period. 1ERE i8 10 use of a controversy with the erald over the law and order meet- ing. When Dr. Miller returng and looks over the list of signers to that call he will at onee plant himself in the edi torial chair and hurry off an editorial be- ginning, “Nothing that the Herald has 1id can in any way e construed as un- triendly to the organization known as the law and order le R Our: weather-cock eontemporary can take due uotice and govern itself accordingly Justier Miwl of the supreme coury at Washington takes the gronnd that Senator Edmunds is still president pro tem of the senate and remains so until his successor is eleeted; and the Boston Globe vefers to this opinion as & novel one. Inour view, as expressed on the night of Mr. Hendricks' death, it is the only reasonable ground to take in the emergency, It is in accordance with the theory of the tenure of oflices held by the senute, viz: that they are continuous Arom session to session and are never vacated, The speakership of the housc Inpses with the session, the pre- siding oflicer ot the senate bolds over till eved by his suceessor. Tae city these days in de anges of g rgu- gun's s p an introduction to an wis certain to win for its sim and honesty commend to us Farar’s remurks before opening his lecture in Chicago: “‘I am perfcetly destitute of any power of ovatory, and I have had absolutely no training in elocus tion. The Amevican pross, whick a marvel of perfeet frankness, has said that my voice is monotonous, and that 1 do not know what to do with my hands, and with equal frankucss I am con- strained to admit that what the press has said is s0.” If some other lecture less gifted understood as well their de ciencigs the locture platform would g Dy their ab; widicnee which plicity Canon M1LLen is quoted in Washington as being of theopinlon that Edmunds is still president pro tem of the senate. He holds that the senate 1s a bady {n perpetuo, and that when it has elected a presiding offic er e holds the place until bis successor is elect- ed. This, it will be remembered, was Mr. Thurman's view a fow days 820.~(Lincoln Journat. ‘I'his is the position taken by the Beg without cousulting sny great constitu tional lawyer. It is the natural and comnion sense interpretation of the con stitution and the laws passed in pursu- anco thereof, coupled with the idea that this government does not expirve with the death of any one mag, espocially as 1he United States sena ntinuous body, whose president cannot vaeate his oftice natil relicved by a duly elected i W | The Coming Scesion. Congress will convene on Mor For the first time in more years the adn.inistrution and louse will be in political day next than twenty the lower The cord | senate remains republican by a_ majority check large of cight, and will prove a valuahle n purely partisan legisls A number of important questions are press ing for early tion. Foremost among them is the presidential succes- | sion. Mr. Hoar's bill the sue | cession through the cabinet, favora- bly acted upon by the sen the last session, but failed in the ho Th death of Vice President Hendricks, and the fact that the country has been twic during the past four years without either | a president of the 1 spesker of the house doubl of congross action ¢ admitted one of pected to bees jon consider passing was at sanat the Limportance upon the attention Fhe necessity of immediate forees subject with | universall measure, Jnay be ex e alaw before the Christ- Another question which de nds uetion is of coinage of the Bland dollars, and the islation to maintain the | value of silver as the cirenlating medinm Congr divided upon the proper action to be taken upon this issne It is safe to predict that nomeasure look ing to the adoption of a single standard will bo passed. The west is a unit gainst the demonctization of silver while at the same time itis prepaved to support any rational bill which will ¢ the value of the silver or decrease the ratio botween the metals, Tl is no reason to expeet that tarill will not again a distur issue at the coming s Both part wre pledged to a reform of the iniquitics of the present laws regalating the tax on imports and the leaders of each are strongly pledged to leave untonehed im portant industries in which they are di reetly or indiveetly interested. Any bil introduced, however much of & compro mise it may be, will meet with violent opposition questions which alution of inter-state commerce, Senator Callom has alveady prepared a bill whieh will call for strong legislation to prevent extortionate charges and un- just diserimination between shippe The passage of a national bankrupt luw will also demand attention. A bill for this purpose passed the senate at the session but failed in the house. The ne- cessity for such n measure is 0o appar ent for discussion. Among other ques- tions which will force themselves to the front that of the wupholding of our merchant marine. We are now pay ing a bundred and fifty millhon doliars annually to foreigners to do our carr) ing trade. A wise policy would scem to demand such stimulation to Ame enterprise s will enable us to maintain the existence of our fi in foreign waters, from which it has been steadily dviven. With American steamship lines to South American ports our export trade i would receive an mpetus which would | well repay the cost of such bonuses. Da- kota, New Mexico and Washington ave | as wdiission to of states. Whatever may be the arguments | 1st the admission of the first two, justice demands that Dakota’s plea should be granted. She has the perm nent population and possesses all the v matter is so Mr. Hoar's characte 1 the that similar the suspension necessity for le, WIS ghontly enl de ent lur pres he sion. as will is the sisterhood quirements for stutehood, and congress | will fail in its duty if it declines to re- cognize her claim. The passage of proper electoral bill, and of measures to carry into efiect our commercial treaty with Mexico, are also demanded at the coming session, together legislution for the mmprovement of the navy, the strengthing of our coast de- fenses, and tie improvement of onr in- land waterways. All these questions call for the exercige of broad and liberal views. The most cursory examination of them shows that the long session of the forty-ninth congress will have ample work to occupy its attention. A New Motor, While Keely ments on “ctherie force ets of the stockholders in motor which does not move, a practical experi- ment in explosion a5 a motor has bheen made in the launch of the Burcka from a Brooklyn ship yard This little vessel, which has been quictly undergo. ing construction for nearly o your pust, 0 continues lis experi- his is oxpectod to prove the cfliciency and | economy of explosions of gas from the submerged sides agaiust the water as a propelling force and a substitute for stewn, The Burcka is a vessel of ahout 75 tons, being 100 feet in length by 12 in width, with a depth of about 7 feet, Two lid-covered port holes are placed on cuch side about B feet forward of the stern post. They are connceted with ehambers those of the two aft ports pointing to ward the stern and those of the two for- ward ports toward the bow. The dis charges will bo through these ports from A central point, the stern battery for dewving the vessel forward and the ot for sinking her. While the exact explo- sive material used is kopt o secret, it is generally supposed to be gas, generated from conl oil and ignited hy olectricity Several successful trials of the new motor have been made and there are strong hopes entertained that the inven tion will prove one of the most valuable of the century. A rate of speed of six teen miles an hour has beon seeured and the difficulty fivst experienced of control- ling and graduating the explosions has at last been overcome. Any number of pulsations up to forty a minute can readily be obtained and the rate of speed ean be regulated accordingly. The groat point gained in the Eureka is the saving in the cost and cumbersomencss of machinery. The New York Sun, from which t) acts in in relation to the vessel have been ob. tained, states that the engino takes up only u space of six feet in the length of the vessel and presumably the space o cupied would be proportionally smalier in larger vessels. Enough power ouly is required in the Euveka to compress air into a steel globe two feet in diamoter, where also vaporized petrolenm has been forced. *“I'he sime small coul boiler runs a litthe dynsmo engine to furnish the the | made Among the o<t important | be raised is the | panies with | eloctric spark that causcs the explosion. | & rulo the vilegtaff1s not sold_for what taken up by coal seems to bo clear The in the spac How ceonomy in coal and over, with this device, as with suhmarine boats | be : vanta The present expe the | | sapposed that the | reliability insured it is destin | ! | | { in Denver. 1 th and manageable balloons, the main point is to first find whether it will suceessful for nniversal application. With that determined, prospective ad < will take c of themselves imerit, meanwhile, has an interest among the many now making to drive steam from the throne which only a few years agoit scomed certain to s Street Lighting. proposes to try the experiment streets with electricity The Denver municipal clectric lighting system will comprehiend twenty circuits, with twenty-seven lamps to a circuit when each civenit has its full comple- ment. The lamps will be placed on the prosent gaslight posts, extended up some four feet, whence the light will be thrown a greater distanee than if nearer nind. The light will be fully three times greater than t The lunps will be of the latest improved Edison make, wviz, the incandescent Tamp with a filament hamboo earbon are burning in a vacuum the same asin the platinum are lamps, We have always illamination of the streets conld not be done as cheaply by clect with gas. It was only a few » that the statement was made in the New York papers that the aldermen of that city were diseussing the proposition of doing away with elee ity on the streets on which it had been oduced, and 1 ng to gas, a saving of £i00,000 & year could thus b It may be that gas ean be pro- duced cheaper in New York than it ean The cost ner cleetrie laump. S per year, inst offer the com- would m thus saving the city on its 450 lamps, $3,150 per yoar. The street cleetrie-lighting plant for Den- ver will cost only $20,000, and it is ex pected to have it in operation within thirty 1t the Omaha electrie com ) do the strect lighting as cheap 15 the gas company, or cheaper, we have no douht that propositions from them would be favorably considered by our city council. The cost of producing electric ty has so far been the main obstacle in the way of its coming into general use, and another drawback has been the un- certainty of the light. . The expense, however, is being gradually reduced, and the light is constantly being made more steady and reliable by the improve- ment of machinery and material. It is certainly the most desirable of all ilhuini- nts, and with the cost reduced and its the g o present gas flame m Denver is §2 the lowest ag Zas pany to be- come the universal light for streets and buildings in cities, both The Banks and the Currency. ‘The report of the controller of the cur- rency has been made publie. To tl majority of the business men it will be the most interesting of all the govern- mental roports because it mdicates the internal exchange and the char- acter of the great bulk of finaneial trans actions which are conducted throush the medium of the national bay g systen The number of national banks now in existence i5 2,272, OF all the banks or. anized since the fownding of the system only 104 have pussed into the hands of re ceivers, T ot speaks volumes for the safety of the system to depositors and for the publie confidence which has been the bulwark of the banks during their curcor. During the past year 145 new banks have been organ- ized hooan ageresu capital of mearly seventeen million dollurs. Notwithstanding this increase in the number of institutions, the deerea ion mounted to §15,515,161. In the opinion of thoe controller, this con traction in the curreney is due to the tax oncirculation and for the purpose of preventing ats continuance he advises the abolition of the tax and that the banks be allowed to issue notes equal to the par value of the bonds deposited with the government to sceure circula- cirenl and the pock- | tion. We believe that the coming congress will take no such action recom- mended. The continuance of the national ik currency is no longer o necessity to procuve & market for the government loans, Treasury notes and silver certificutes - be sufely issued to take their place as fast as the bouds are called in. The national banking system will be continned even if the associations under it eannot issue circulation at a profit. Expericnce has shown that it is for the best iuterests of both the banks and the publie that the business should boe carried on nnder w general luw having effeet throughout the whole country, As a matter of fact banks ure no longer or ganized for the more purpose of issning circulation, and in the great majority of cases only the minimum amount of bonds requived by law is deposited for the purpose of securing civeulation. The people have heen educated to o knowl- edge of the governmental supervision of Lanking system and the mere title of national bank is yaluable in seeuring patronag as Tk Omaha commitlee on law and order will moeet to-night to perfect some sort of permanert organization. A certain amount of attention o Jaw aud order would not be out of place inthis community. For th past seven years burglaries have been ex tremely freguent in Omaha; during that time netasingle hurglar has been punished by he law. The deteetives in and out of the police foree have hoen as powerless to pre- vent or punish burglary as a child in arms.— Republican. Any mun who makes such absurd sertions does not know what he is talk- ang about. If he will search the records of the district court or go to the penitenti ary he willfind thut quite a number of persons have been sent up for burgla from Douglas county. —————— I is to be hoped that Nebrasks dairy- men, who are to assewble in annual con- vention at Fremont next week, will not overlook the fact that there is altogether 100 much bogus butter, commonly called butterine, palmed off on the unsuspect- i aple of Omsha und Nebrasks. As | being continually imposod upon | Dle that the democrats | the | synugogues, the 1 The gro a customer butterine when led for is guilty of a crimin- alo oblaining money under false pretenses—and He can and ought to be prosecuted for it. The interests of the dairymen are being materially injared Iy these compounds and the people are It is Wt the dairymen should take this matter with a rine sold as butter it actually is, hut for butter clls & cer who butter ense high time ¢ vigorous action in view to having butte ine and not as creamery butter. —_—— PERSONAL AND POLITICAL, Senator Cameron has chosen Frank Bure for his biographer, and the biogtapher of his father, Simon Camcron Baroness Burdett-Coutts worked beaver to secure the election of et and he was returned. husband, Henry elilest into a political ceonomist. O1d Simon ( Harrisburg, Pa.. George's son is heading up meron is still in polities at in an advisory cvpacity. h, of New York, sit still five minutes at a Congressman Burl is fidgety, can’t time, aud O Connor isa Miss Fhomas Power She was o oThe wife of handsome American girl. White, Governor Hoadly his law prac in him $50,000 & year, Mr. Hend fortuns estimated at £100,000. Mrs. Hendricks has for a long time had charge of their business interests and in- vestiments, Josepl Areli, the English agi is a preacher of the primitive dist persuasion, Ileds a candidate parliament, General Longstreet is writing art he war which will appear in the mag: of Ohio, will Cincinnati, which to pays ultural lae Metho- for the los on Century - A Soft Sardd There was a soft sardonic smile on the face of the Wall street hroker when one spoke of Gould's retirement from Wall stree Wanted—A Level Headed Chicago Inter Ocean. in choosing a president pro tem, the senate should make choice of an neknowl edged and level-headed statesman rather than @ mere partisan, - Iget and Budgo, Chieago Tribune, We notice that the German enjoyed a hoated debate on th the other day. We don't anticiy thing of that kind in our own r which meets in a few days; but, judging from the actions of the whisky men, it i3 not improhable that there may be a heated debate on the budge E - Dakota and the Democ St. Paul Pioncor Press, Governor Piercd thinks it quite proba- cong agree to the division of Dakota into two distinet tervitories, as this cour: would whle the president to appoint two sets fial officers. There is little oubt that any plan which involves an increase of patromige will find a demo- cratic weleome [ nte. Star. 5 Atesman, B reichstag ta. in ress will e A New Editor's Salutatory, Lijay (Ga.) Courier. We close with the trast that when th corrading tooth of time shall harrosw us no more and the tangling perplesitivs of Tife shall no longer havass the soul, when we shall gather ourselves torether and surrender to the black banner of death, may the comfort ofa life well spent and ciousiess of duty performed ander realities. where els is hushed 1n the cor usher us into g the refrai song of eternity. - Fay Templeton Sued for Divoree, Chic: Times, 30th: William H West, the “negro™ minstrel, will ask the superior court to-day to grant him a di- voree from his wife, lny W bett known Fay Templeton. The bill for divorce will he filed this morning “Billy” claims that Fay has deserted him. “They were marricd in Nashviile, Penn., May 20th, 1853, A few days aftor the mar e went to New York, whither his minstrelsy called nim. Ten days later Fay followed him, and for three weeks théy Tived in Now Yor man and wife. ~ They then eame cugo, where tor three wee connihinl happiness him and went back to her firs profession. Mr West says that when Pay married him she promised to renouned the stage and attend strictly to domestic duties, but that she has forgotten her promise. Duving his six weeks' expericnee as a hushand “Billy” says he did the very best he conld to muke Fay happy, and that sinee she deserted him he has used every endeavor to get her to return to to him, She, however, refuses to live with him as his wite, 0r to give up her profossion He nsks that she be summoned hefore the court at the next Jauuary term to make apswer o the bill Mrs. West is at present pl Rice's *‘Evangeline” company York. —-— The Champion Pedestrian, Springficld (Muss) Ropbli The wholo story of Rabbi Brownc his funcral mareh w Riverside park is very picturesque and of no little moment to the Hebrow communities. He was in- vited by Gen, Hancock to rvepresent the Jewish faith in the Grant funeral proces- sion and the duy boing Saturday Rabbi Browne asked permission to walk us the use of 4 earriage was a violation of th Jewish Sabbath Fhrovngh the unpro nouncenble stupidity of somebody, the request was denied lum, but the (irant family learning: tho facts, overruled the Vi W the distinguished and honored walked in the procession 1rom th hall to the park—some eight miles Now it is known that theve is an ortho dox and 4 progressive wing o the H brew faith in this ceuntry, and the jour- ney of the rabbi has since then been the theme of shi g with in New orm Jews being an noyed that he should have undergoue so miich personad discomfort m efder to rebuke progressive idens, The orthodox party eluim that Rabht Browne got there just as quickly #34f ne had takén a ear- riage, an that this was progressive b for any one. 8o improsscd have | the case was called | day, Nover | be lové—her | p: dispute in muny of the | his orthodox " friends become with ths | theologico-funeral jaunt that during the Thanksgiving corémonics Kabb Browne's temple the representatives of ten synagogues presenied him with a zold wmoedal vepresenting him in high re ef murching **From City Hall to fliver side Purk,” while on the obverse was th Hebrew: ' “Blessed be he who sanetified the Sabbath.” Rabbi Browne thus be- came the champion Hebrow sstrian, having broken all previous orthodox cords - Favorite Proseription” is acknowledged to be the vdy for femule complaints 1t is sold by drugg Dr. Pierce's everywhere stundard and weaknesses STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings, Sheridan county has organized an agricnl tural society A cemetery promotion socicty has been anized at Chadron. Frank Kendler, o B, & M. brakeman Taid up with a crished ankle at Holdrege. The Masonic fraternity, of Beatrice, have decided o build a teniple et season that will cost £50,000, Two strect railway organi on the couneil fora chart The wnsold school lands of the state nount 1o 1500000 actes, suflicient to kecp the school fund out of poverty for some tine, The pile bridge at Nebraska City has pra tically Killed the Towa suburb. Trains now pulled over the road by a pony e South Bend, Cass connty, has discarded the duds of babyhood, and is now 1in the red top boots and’ short pants of an in. corporated village, Thie 20 per cent money Tenders of Nebraska City are afraid to invest in n canning face tory lest some of the profit would be lost in varnishing the label Doe Ttenner of Nebraska City slid down the stair bannisters in the Stagts Zeitung building and cracked his shonlder on the newell post. e was hurried lone hack, In addition to a court housed union depot, a fow ehurches and a windmill factory, the iing void in Rushyille is a_roller skating k. The wre ansious to polish it shins. An enthusinstic Wayne man has prepared amap of a feasible” route for the Omaha Northern road which he proposes to exhibi 0 the atiginators of the schome m this o Tho e. W, 1., is probubly unaware of the faik that the brilliant prospeets of the road are on the wan A costly Bit of gosssip was reci distriet court at Nebraska City o azo. Mrs, Ewh, wife o mage physician, wa Boud, ani sued for o is companies have been and both will operate natives tl ed in the - Wihen Mrs, Bon A to ap- pear, and judgnient was entered 1or the {ull amoinit, Bennett Bell, of Cass county claims tobe the cliampion corn Jusker of e in chatlenging the world he says S pat in the erib tive loads of corn, each Toad eontain ing twenty-five bushels, and one. load fifteen bu 2 140 bushe! and suppe The corn was mes inth w by etting the contents in cu feete and taking four-tenths of it for Disli One hundred and twenty-four i weighed seventy-tive pou one bushiel, and the total number of ¢ husked was estimated at 17,000, At the election on tast Wednesday in West side and Westmark townships for bric honds to build a bridie over the. Plat south of Overton, the former township sixty votes for honds and none weaiust, and the latter township east sixty-nine vot and none against. The people of the towhships have done just as we should lay done had we been onc of their nnnhor, fact that wheat brincs from ten to fifte cents more per hushel on the Union Pacitic railroad than on the Burlington & Missouri is suflicient in itself to drive these farmers all to the Union Pacific murk [Holdreze Nugget, the ears Towa Iten 1e court docket shows at the December ter The sup set for tria Motnes. “The wife of Jolm Davis, connty {r of Jefierso niy, died suddenly of discase at Fairticld Tast Friday night. Davenport Is preparing to treai itself to a ntral Pavk,” thirty-three acres in extent, bf surpassing beauly in its natural cases s heart “( and state. Samantha A, Hunt the eireuit court at Keokulo nd hu band a in elta pirti- valued at has commenced s inst Aumi others for estate Dickinson tion and ownership of 1ea £20,00, Frank ildridze, living near Des Moines was frightiully injured last Saturday aiter noon by the runni i away of his hoise and dragired by one foot eaught in the st Lis ankle’ was broken, his leit wp) ud he was Kicked rup. arm was fraciured bruised upon nearly all portions of his head and body. Hewas insensible for hoirs, bt atlast reports there was some hope of his final recovery. Abe Trott, of Creston, wi i who wals killed in an_aecic the hill east of Red Oak last sprii ha taken *o the asylum tor insane at ant. Her hushind’s death left her destituie and with four young children_to provide for. The shock of Ter suddon aiflietion and the strain of Keeping the wolf of hunger away from the little o 5 too much for he and her mind beeanze unbalanced. of {1 nt on Deci Dakota. Wheatland has a married_conple whose combined ages are only S3—the boy 1% and the girl 1 The stage fare hetween Bul Rapid Cily is 35 by the day eon the night coach. The anetion sale of lots in Buffalo Gip last week was unustally lively, Some of thein sold as high as £1,750. The Deadwood Tetters of Gen, Br the Bep, says he and the Bla statisties, **Hi: fables of 1580, hasgrown m The Jast consis shows 0% cattle on the ranees and a valnation of 825 000,000, 1 nterest s i o Gap and I and 55 by imes, commenting on the recently published in a5 0ot given the Loitory gurcs are denved (ron Lie Since then the eattle interect Dtily in this territory of Dak ot Dk i her This ¢ th pens, w thut the | tions are all m formation, it is easy wealth of the west is still la eral shows. In the Black ills country the inerease has been much more than that east Herds fyom every direction nually headed this wa, il attle now in this neichborhood, west of the viver, can be pliced at over 460,060 hiead, with a valuation of 0. to see that the eattle r than e gen- bout 512,01 = Property Exemption Froy Clevelond Leader. With cach passing year there is enormons inerease in the property ex ompted from taxation, According to recent statement made by the tux com missioners of New York to an investign ting committee of the state senate, the vilue of such untaxed property in the muniolnallty alono amounts to $207,000. 000, The figuies ave simply amazing and the question may well a, what i3 the sum total of exempt property axation an be ask 1 throughout the country? The great ma property in the city of New York, belongs to sectarian und some little ot it, such s the my of Medicine and the Masonie 4ompl: to'secular organizutions, 1t is not church which ¢ 1 Jands and institutions whicl money-making to included in_ the the Bloomingdal puys no faxes, and yet no ono ¢ coine an intnato except COSt i from %15 to #30 per week, I of the Suered Heart cujove o r uge, its doors heing scholurs, apd yet th pays nothing to” the support oroy from which it recerve tion. One of the coninissione the committce that it was becomin common for a few men to huy up o ing properties, consisting of old sions aud grounds, nume themn some saint, supply them with a fe digent inmates, secure exeniy from taxation, and in few years find them solves 1 possession of fivst-cluss myest s property becomes yal uable the inmates ave turned adrift, but in the meantime the owners have caped all taxes. Through these methods and the temporary investment of their means in government bonds by the wealthy, the city treasury is robbed of willions aunually. The practice which obtuins in New York is followed in all parts of the country, to the ‘i‘ eut detri- ment of honest taxpuyers. There shonld bo somo means of reaching the wealthy who shirk taxation by & temporary con version of their weulth. Sueh trunss tions ought to be nade misdemennors, punishable with tine and imprisonment, for it is ns much of & criwe W clest the of the exempt hodics, el escupe but valuable © a source ol Whers are Tor inslance lis ylum il uing 1 pitron entive proper 1 o5 ina| Mi. Pleas- | i Hill country a air show iu his | | of the 1ssue. | | snswered Mr. state or the municipal corporation as to rob an individual on the public highway It is time too, that the attention of legis. lators was turned to the property now wrongfully withheld from taxation. No property except that belonging to the uational, state and local governments should be exempt. L n the absence of any union between church and state in this country there should be no support given to sectarianism, asis now done_ by the exemption of ehurch property, Tt isdu to the public that every dollar of such property should be taxed for the sup port of the government which gives it protection - THE BLIND EDITOR. Uncle Billy Cramer, A Remarkable Willinm Cramer is one of the most conspicuonus, and by all odds the most re markable, journahsts in the northwost He is almost totally blind, and has deaf sinee his boyhood, and yet he is one ot the hardest workers and most thoroughiy posted men in the newspaper profession. The of informa tion is really vemarkable when aflictions are nd n vegarded as a veritable encyclopedia, His infirmities have, it anytiing, sharpened and quickened his naturally .bright intelieet, and his memory is something to be wondered at The loss of his eyesight is die to exces sive work in and ont His deafness is the result of ident when hie was o mere by Mr. Cramer, erybody calls him, figures of Milwai and he is known by sight at least to nearly every man, wom an and child in the city, Although gon erally accompanicd by w little hoy, Mre Cramer can without the least diflicult 1y point or house in the city, and round about as well as the or finary vof people who are in- possession their eyesight. Mr. Cramer has been the cditor-m-chicf and ‘senior owner of the Evening Wisconsin for forty years. Iy rd work, frugal habits, aud the elosest application to his business ie has amassed avery large fort He is marri but has o childeen, and lives in handsome apartments at the Plankinton hous Mr, Cramer was born_at Wat Saratoga county, Noew York, Oct 1817, He duated ot Union colleg soon after attaining his majority subseguent studied Iaw and v mitted to practice in the court of cery. Mr, Cramer bogan his per work in 1843 contributor to mny Arguas, the organ of the New democr: Mr. Cramer came to Milwaukee during the year 1810, upon a yisit 1o a brother who “had sot tled here three years previous. He was atly ple with the village and d the jaaintanee of many prom- democrats. In compliance with lies of several leading politicians of Milwnukeo urnalist. been rung lis his lias considered he long be walk senson or oy inent the wi of that politieal flatterigg inducemen'ts oftered, Mr. Cra mer returned to Milwaukee in the spring of 181 Mr. (€ mer has always held aloof trom ofticescekmg, although' i presidential elector at the second tion of Gen. Grant. in Cajifornia., cord-enion. High License Sacramento 1 Whot the ten ve noted ion of r has closely observed dency of public opi I its rapid drift toward the applic the high license system in municipalitios. Ihe pocket nerve of the ta been tonched, snd has bron, them toa realization that the tratiic can justly be made to bear more of tho costs of government than it n without launching any temperance thunderholts he two ends high licenso accomplishes are to reduce general taxation licayier burdeis upon the liguor lxury, nd to Jessen the nnnber of low grogg ies t arse all communitics of a considerable siz¢ In tHer aceom- plishment it =0 happens that the better class of liguor dealers sce good vesulis for themsclves, and so th very ge erally falling in with the idea of Igh liconse, It 13 argued that the system ents short the right of the poor maun to make SR T TS R AT this to be truo—though it cannot be shown that it demunds any ter eupi to be invested in the business—it may bhe replied that if that was o prime object in advo, cating the system it would be defensible on the ground that nothing betier ean he done for the poor man than o make it extremely difficult for him (o engage in the business at all. In nine cuses out of & hundred the poor men who will ad vimee the objection referred to will be found to he keeping places of such low dog that that they are immedi- ¢ ngeneies for their degradation and final ruin, and are Jooked | upon by communitics generally ns nuisances of the worst order, ‘The high licens peviments in Colusa and” Los Ang counties will be watched with ereat terest by both the friends and the nents of the system sented for seve fon must myers has his i 0 ks the current ar- cuments of the license side of the ques- tion, with many citations of tiial of the systein in various parts of the Union. Since then observation of the experi ments has strengthened the affirmative -~ A Natural Salmon Trap. C.F. Holder bas an interesting paper, entitled “How Fishes Climb Hill," in the Christiuas St Nichiolas, from which wo extrnot the following: The salmon, the cousin of the trout, 1s fumous for wethod of going up strean; it darts at fulls ten or twelve feel high, leaps into ing water in wir and rushes up the fu determined many S0 n the high and 1 marvelous the salmon to I waters, that in some placed beneath the the tish tumble in their v to clear the hill of water. Other than uman hunters, moreover, profit by theso scrammbles up-hill, Lrayelers roport that on the banks of the Upper St. John river, | in Canada, there was onee rock in which a large civealar well o pot-holy, had been worn by the action of the water, At the gulmon season rock proved a | avorite xesort for be nd for s | Havi n gapecial taste for sal L at the pot- | Tashing up the foree into the would quickly pot-hole, and the | belore they into whic tempts peatod thrown by n, the bei them out of the Imon world be eaten had time to wonder at this tion. The Dominion iy authori L party of 1y the pot-hole,and thus brc 1i-hing ground. - ble Candidate, her Randall, will you plea your pollytackle enflooence to i uppintment in the navy yard I fear the yard is prict Rands s will be done until necessary appropriatio the work on the new steel eraisees."” “Phe custom house would shuit me just as well,” rejoined Pat “But are you not awave, Patrick, that covernment requires thut all appli s must pass i civil service Fovernw hunters | to | )1l up the | use me an Iy closcd con [i! cants for plac eaanfination 7 “Oh, sure and 'm all vight there, its the examination I waut. T nothing the matter with me at-all-at-all Uil sthrip olf torninst any s, amiliar | of | uth, and tempted by the | putting | oppo- | A year ugzo we pre- | ts | loealities nets | | | stood the unlooked-for 4 ¢ RAILROAD ADVERTISING. | The Varvions Devices to Attract Pubs | lic Attention. | One of the most important depart. { ments of a railroad says the Chicago News, is that which has charge of the ad- vortis Ruailroad advertising has bes come scionce, ospecially hore Clhic and you can wager your under - most simoleon that the printers and lithographers are doing their. best 4o make the roads think their salvation de- pends on it Rival roads running thiough (he same territory or botween the same points find itnecessary to tempt trav lers ovor theiv lines by means of | multiplicd advertising, from' the plain folder'” costing o cent or two to the ex- | pensively gotten up guido books costing { several doll Fhen there are o thous and vavieties of printing, such as litho- graphed card-honrds, tacked against walls nd fenees or framed and placed in hotels, | theaters or depots. The fashion in these [ is capricious ns & woman's fancy,and the contintial vivelry inspires quent changes, each one necessitating a |ngu { ontlay of money, The simple “folders’ | are @ large item, the clianges of time ote., enusing froquent issues. Ench ses | son of the year brings a change in the advertising of railronds. The advorti | ing agent is mel:xll_\' a live business | man, Keen and” alert, quick to scize a | passsing eventor a prontinent personago | and utilize them to the eredit of his road. | He is continually watehing public events { and popular fancies, that he may tak uivintage of the same in his { work, The methods of agents dif- | fer, but the genceral privcipal is the same—i. e, to “get there” The waent, nmong other things, has to keep irack of all the newspaper advertising. Ttis this elass of work that brings to the ™ | frugal editor of the conutry weckly his |l Phese papers all have to witched (o see that the d'" is not pped out, rates of publications which ) charge have to be Kept track of, and 10,000 patent-medicine almanacs, theater | programmes, and other Vertising siaps” hawe (o be favored to the exten € of aninch, a half or a whole colmmn, as the case may be. Some of the roads, the | Alton notably, have issued burlesques od | Gilbert and Sullivan’s operas, illustraten incolors. T'he same road has issned beau- | i phs of Mrs. Langtry and. Mary Anderson, the line of the | road with'the towns thercon being out- lined in the trimmings of the la- dies’ Another rond has issued g g . | eolored lithographs of Messionicr's and oth Cer rlists" paintings. The Michigan | ral has several beautiful photograv- ures of paintings representing scenes on | that road. Any of these pictives framed | would be a ereditable work of art. Onu | Clicago rond has now in preparation o | doh which will cost $50,000 when finished. Some of the advertiting departments omploy pwiirds of biirty poople. - CONKLING'S GREAT CATCH. How a Reverend Gentleman Secured a Fortune of $:3,000,000, Th Natianiel W. Conkling of New York appears entitlod to rank ‘ ev. | “little magician™ in financial operations. | | as a According to the account given in New York this “fascinating clergyman” in- dueed Mrs, Mary Jaue Morgan, an old in ler sccond childhood, to i rto hun fortune aggregating | about 53,000,000 The old woman was | the widow of Charles Morgan, formerly known w5 the owner of “Morgin's Loun ana & Wl and Steamship Tine.” and out of his estate, which was valied at 11,000,000, reecived some- thing over three millions m ind Mrs. Morgan a «d the adininistrator s not worth over millions had Conkling was Iviser, and in ministrations induced woman to transfer more than half her entire estate to him, | She Legan by presenting her dear, good clergyman with a house valued at and Turnishing it an expense of $15,000. Then she sent him and his family on a | pieasure trip to Europe, wnd shortly | after they left forwarded %110,000 for | traveling “expenses. About two years | o Ars. - transferred o” Mr. | Conkling )in 4 per cent govern- ment bonds, The other grifts have not | all been teaced ont in dotail, but there is litile doubt that the clergyman secured | the lion's shave of the larie fortune leff | Mrs, Morgan. Weak in mind and sink ing into second childhood, the old woman ‘l,. od her declining years fransfe hor fortune to the fascinating pastor, whose financial transactions stamp hin | as an \u»r:m»r without a rvival or peer, | It wonld be hard to s Stany means getting o fortune in practice or more shameful in character than that | employed in this instance. e lel Story, ! woman transf a | #500000 in cash | short time ago, found that her estate F300,000. - The othe nished. The R | her spiritual and the course of his the old Wy three Mr whostly asien A Big Bel and an wiford Courant: There is a mons- s cel now ealmly reposing or swime in the big fountain at Heablin's res- wirant under the opera house. It is 4 foet long, weighs 74 pounds and is what is eneraily known as the silver eol, How it came 10 be vaptared is told by Dr, Bullock. The doctor and Mr. Henry Roberts were out riding yesterday morn- ing, and were going along the west road in‘the West Park, near the tool house, when the horse started at o long durk object lying in the rowd. Tho. doctor jumped” out and invesbigated and {Tomml this monstereel covered with dust. Apparently it had started to make an overlind trip, It was well |k 1 that ecls can make good progress over grass, especially when it is wot, and | they have often been seen some dist ] | from the water in the ly morning | when the dew was on the grass, going just like snukes. This ool presumably started early and went all rizht until he rea the'divt, where he stuck nntil found. Many weople who heard the tory of this find ot Dr. Bullock's were inelined to think a gigantic hoax was be- ing perpetrated and that while the eel wit we it wis sent here from some | other plaee, That ecls of this sort live in Pavk viver is, howoyor, undoubtedly the faet, In 1857 Lient, Ryan was living on the old Biiss stroet, in a house n wheve the tool house o the park now stands. A little up the stream had old mill long smee hurned n, and below it was a deep pool. One evening the licutenunt went out nfter supper, and. without uny special exp folbne Gata line u.m..»} Presently had u bite and pullod in'a big cel. 1 1ext move was to swash the eel’s head, and in teging fo do this the hoold was o) andd the cel wigeled into the wa- I'he next dduy Eyan was near th of the river and saw u big cel in shallow water swi near the sur- fuco. He plunged in and scooved the ect out in his hands, and finally got it out on the bunk aud Killed it e vl wus like the one caught \-,a.-nm? of the sil- ver ioty, and weighed three pounds and one-quarter. e - He'll Do, “You desive a position s g writer?” Applicant-—Yes, sir “You cau write o vigorous Applicant—"Yes sir. Nail ign lio, und fittingly rebuke the malicions menducity of the facile fabri- cutor who penned it, repel ealumnios prick bubbles, make stinging retoits, i live hot shot in the cwmp of the cnem, Editor--*1 guess you'll do. - you buy lumber anywhere, without st getting Honglund's prices pou will monoy. Editor ]."'!'m ditor editor u ey