Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 10, 1885, Page 4

" THE DATLY BEE. Owana Opyrce, No. 0 AxD 01 New Yonk Orvicr, Roow 65, B, 1BUSR . cxeopt Sunday. The only Mor state, A BY MALL 10.00 Three Months 80 e Month ek WenkLy Ber, Published Every Wednosday. TEIMS, POSTRALD. One Year, with promium One e sromiai Bix Monthe, without promium One Month One Yenr .50 Six Monthe, connps nications relat suld be ad: BNCEE ne to_news and AN comm o to i Rt o) matters PUSINESS LETTENS ess Jottors and somittances « [1eF PUBLISITIN OMARA 5 and postof 1o Lo wade Ule 10 the order of the com; THE BEt 4 B yuld bo MPA N any Vasnrumnr's lifo was snufled ont lik a candle, and the public didu't think much about it — OMABA needs better gas, The gas that we now have is so thin that we have to light a candle to find it, M. VANDERBILT may now be esperi ing the course of treatment which he invoked for the public: “The public be d—d.” Mi. CLEVELAND'S remarks upon the anti-monapoly issue will not be widely They failed to materalize in the furnished the read. reports of the mes associnted press, Asusual, the Mormons 1 blows unde message. The and such resentation in the next vention, ive several Mormons haye no votes < will not affuet the rep- democratic con- There are at prosent sixteen pre ial postoflices where the commissions of the incumbents have expired but no sue- 4 to whom been appointed. n postofiices became presidential du ing Octoher, thus making twenty-six offices of that class now open for new appointments, There is a loud chorus from the democratic oflice PriNe :XANDER of Bulgavia has ordered 1,000 yards of blue ribbou for decorations for his soldic It is be- licved that Alexander's treasury will stand the strain. Such an avalanche of medals would bankrupt his governmont and Alexander shows his Battenberg economy in choosing a cheap material for rewarding the martial valor of his army. Presipent CLEVELAND i3 the friend of the oppressed newspaper men,—Albuny Br. Dress. This was written last week when the announcement was made that President Cleveland's message would be only tour columns in length. Since the delivery of the message, the oppressed nowspaper men have ekanged their opinion of Mr. Cleveland, Reronrts of accidents from the exposed wires of electrice light companies contin- ue to roll in. On Monday nignt the roof of the telephone exchange in New Or- leans was sot on fire by one of the wi of the electrie light coming in contact with a telephone wire. ‘T'ho telephone exchange was at onee in flumes and in fow scconds every wire was out of eir- cuit. The coancil is considering a prop- osition to order all electrie light wires underground. A CiicAGo eanning company has suc geeded in introducing American dressed meats into Franco, nnd has socured a contract to furnish 2,200,000 pounds for the French sarmy. This cured with considerable di the pr overcome, nnd was oaly done most thorongh analysis of our meat It may be rogarded as an important vie tory, as the French have hitherto given thoir meat contracts to other countr “This will probubly bs she means of cre ting o new markot for American beef. M. HoLyay, of Indim characteristics are always objocting to appropriations and never wearing a nightshirt, announces his intention of en- forcing rigil economy by congress at tho present session. Now that a dem- ocratic exocutive is ut the appointment helm, Mr. Holman will discover to his sorrow that his old time economy won't bo fis popular as it used to bo puarty associates, It was ) medicine for obstructing republican ministrations, but it is sufoto sy it will not be swillowed by the democratic majority, , whose chief Ir Lias been somctime since we have soen in the public prints any reference whatever to *the ved hended rooster of the Rockies,” and the conelusion arvived At was that he was engaged upon some important work in some secludod spot, far from the disturbing whirl of politics and business, Tho conclasion was cor- rect. Mr. Boliord, as wo Lyrn from one of our estoemed cotemporaries, is at work upon his antobic ohy, It will be ripe for publieation nest spring. Monntime an snxious public will whet | product of the | its appetite for this rar Hocky Mouut ERAL STANLEY has placed himsolp on record as belleving thut army ollicers who play poker with professioanl gam- blors and then squeal whon asked to pay their debts are guilty of “'condact unbe- eoming an olicor and a gontlom: although a court martial at Fort Cl Tuxas, seomod to think other is probably one of the cuses which | tho president to remark in his moessag, YUt some of the proceedings of courts martial wh e L have had occasion to ex- smine preseat the ideas of justico which genorally prevail in these tribunals, I am satistied that they should ba wmuch v formed, if the honor and tho houesty of the aviny and wavy are, by their instru- montality, to bo viudicated and pro- topted,” the belt in the president’s | ident. | aper pubiished 1o the | | | | of the farmer's toil What Nebraska Is Interested Tn, Tho Nebraska delegation at Waehing- Fansaw 8% | ton will not have to look far to find sev- eral subjects in which the state is particn larly interosted and which shonld attract their attention on its behalf. First of all, aska wtiment, {rrespective of party, demands tho passage of a measure for the regnlation of inter-state com- meres. As one of the richest agricultn states in the wost, whose product is markaoted from the Missouri to the sea board, Nebraska has a vital in in of a bill which will curb the extortions of the great trunk lines, who advance their rates with every advance in the price of commoditios and seize upon an unfair proportion of the froits So long as tho srest the ! avarico and greed of great corporations | | { made a sor find free play in onr &t atrictod by enactments of the national legistature, just so long will Nebraska fail to reap the full benetits of the immigration, which is pouring over herborders, and the energy and industry which are turning her un- (illed praivics into the garden spots of the west, Another measure in the same line, beeause a step towards cheaper transportation, will be the bill making | appropriations for the improvement of the Missouri river. Whether in the form of a separate bill, or as an item in the general river and harbor appropri the cordial delegation, river im- by ever sure shouw Ve of our rec ontir Missouri opposed this me support The fact that provement s railrond manager and by every corpora- tion lireling is evidence enough that the transportation monopolies know its ecr; tain effect in reducing rates and enf ing the cheap carrd of the products of the groat Missouri valloy'to the seahoard | When grain can be earried to 1 ol by water 3,000 miles for fifty conts « ton, while it eosts that amount hundred to transport it the same distanceinland, the wce of sceuring a water route to an bo 1 ppreciated. Another matter which should interest onr delegation is thatof seeuring such a mod ification of Land Commissioner arks wders withholding patents from scettlers import the sea | 45 will enable our homesteaders on the frontier to sceure title to their lunds which they havo taken up in good faith. While the pre-cmption elaims of some of the cattlemen need a striet investigation o several thousand settlers in ka who have complied in all re spects with the law and who to a prompt recognition the general land oftice through a patent and a title to their possessions, There is also a demand from the residents of our northwestern fronticr forinereased mili- tary protection and for the maintenance of the garrisons which guaid the Sioux reserve. One of the posts should be re- built at once to preventits abandonment and the loss of the most commanding wilitary position on the northern bord The Wrong Meat Market. A copy of the call for a convention at Kan- sas City, Dee. 20, to consider Missouri rive improvement, has been reeeived by Tae H ald, mailed to it proswmably in expectation of afrec advertisement. Well, it wili et it. The convention will meetand will be attended by the usual number of well-meaning eiti zens and the usual numbor of treasury pliun- derers, "The latter will formulate resolutions which the former will adopt, and po lobbyist or two will be del Washington. Pl stion will be the result of thy orts—and perhaps not. If it does thero will be a divy among the pirates, and the well-meaning will get the sailor's share of the prize money. The Herald is pretty well educated on this topic of Missouri river improvements. It is a delusion and a s a swindle upon the government, rganized system of plunder. “The Missous sannot bo improved, and wouldn't bo worth a cuss to anybody if it could.—Herald. There is no doubt that the parties who led the forn call for the Missouri river convention to the Herald have ous blunder. If, as is inti- od by that sheet, their object w s to ot a free advertisement, they wont to the wrong market for theiv meat, As an advertising mediom the Herald fails Laumentably in keeping up with the pro- cession, If the aim was to awaken an jutorest in the effort to sceurc cheap transportation by improving the western waterways, the friends of the movement had nothing better to expect than abuse and ridicule from an organ whose chicf conductor mado it his boust before the senate com- mitteo ou commerce that he glovied in wenring the brass collur of tho railrond monopolies. Nobody familinr with the policy of the Herald will bo surprised at its attack, Itisin full keeping with its vecent false statement that Major Sutor, in his report to the war office, had placed himself tlatly in opposition to all further appropriations for improving the Mis- sourl river. When, in due courseo time, the board of trade and leading business men of i forwurd putitions to our delegu. tion in congress requesting them to use their influen and g their v support to bills appropriating monoey for improving the river, we shull, as usual, figd among those names thoso of Mille & Richardson, proprietors of the Herald. I'his will only bo in accord with the eter nul fitness of things, The paper will denounce the river improvement asa and a swindle and the proprictors will endorse it as a measure of great public necessity which our senuators and essien are in duty bound to sus- tuin, It is bocause the Herald has oceu- picd such contradictory attitudes thut it hus never been a first-cluss advertising mediwm in these parts. to go to Na AL gas has boon discarded in Cleveland and a weil 8,16) feet doop has been driven to secure a stoady flow, If the gas is no botter than that furnished to the citizens of Omaha, the well should be promptly plugged up. CoTEe—— Tur action of the eity authoritics of Providence in refusing to grant any more licenses for voller-skating rinks is cre- ating considerable comment, and the im- pression is thut this roform wave is liable to spread all over the country. It is a notorious fuet that roller-skating rinks have been pro luctive of more seandals and the ruination of more young girls than any other osuse known for many THE OM years In Providence the mayor had s careful investigation made, and the ro- sult convinced him that roller rinks wers s to morality. The same is, in all probability, truc in regard to rinks in other citics. Omaha, porhaps, 1s a notable exception, as roller-skating rinks have not flourished here to any great oxtent, and as yot no public scan- dal has been ereated by them, although there may have been a few private scan- dals. This speaks well for the morali of Omaha, which, we beli is much higher than the average morality of castern citic The President and Silver. President Cleveland's advice to gress on the silyer question is not likely to be followed in the present session. not conduei con- | Wiale the party leaders on both sides of the house are preparsd to modify exist- ing legislation in orderto increase the value of the silver dollar and provent further depreciation in the coinage, they will hardly dare to plant themsclves on ground which declares for a stoppage of the silver 4 a practical demonetization of silver in the United States. s wonld be the certain result, if Mr. Cloveland's policy in regard to silver should be followed by congress. However much such a plan may be en dorsed by “leading bankers,” it mects with prompt dissent from the vast ma- jority of voters in the country, A There have been two causes of the con- tinued depreciation of silver and its fail- ure to circulate under the coinage act of 1838, and both can bs controlled by proper logislation. The ficst cause is that the government has stamped a false value on the dollar coined in the mint, She sccond is that proper efforts have not been made to seeure its culation. Tho idea that the people are prejndiced against silver as silver is proposterous. If the silver dollar was what it is repre- sented to be, a dollar’s worth of silver, less the cost of coining and “seigniorage, " the prejudice would quickly vanish. So long as the one and two dollar bills are retained in tho currency people will prefer them to the heavier metal. If the government had retived seven years ago all notes vnder the value of £5, we should hear less now about the vast accumulations of silver dollars in the vaults of the treasus Mr Clovelard is careful to note that no damage appears yet to have been dono by the continued coinage of silver, but that danger is apprehended from a further continuance of the coinage. The approhension of danger is chicfly con- fined to the loaning class in the east- With an honest dollar under some such act as that advoeated by Mr. Dorsheimer in tho Forty-sixth congress, all appre- hension of dan, would be removed. With the retirement of the small treasury notes and the d; 180 in bank ula- tion which is still in progress, there will be ample room for the use of whatever silver the government may issue. The trouble has been that every ad. wministration since the passage of the coinage act has been hostile to the ntion of slver as a part of onr national currency, and the treasury de- partment has obstructed so far as possi ble the unimy «ded circulation of the ver dollar. Mr. Cloveland places him- self on still more ralical ground ths any of his predecessors in demanding method of dealing with silver which. if adopted, will inevitably ilestroy a donble standard in this conatry. Whatoever other countries may have done, wo are not yet prepared to demonetize one of the most ble products of our mines and the chicf circulating modium of our peoplo. The waintenunce of a silver coin eems to demand an inere: the weight of the dollar, and con:i reudy to listen to such a propositio to debute its advantazes and di tages. Butany proposition for an cessation of the silver coinaze will moaet with certain defeat, as it should, at the hands of the representatives of the peo- plo. The Viaducts. The council very properly passed an ordinance last week requiring plans to be drawn for a vinduet on Tonth stroot and directing the mayor to appointappraisoers of damages on both Tenth and Eleventh strocts, Mayor Boyd has made the ap- pointments and we shall soon prick the bubble - which opponents of the Tenth street vinduct havo blown. Tho idea that the damages to Tenth street proper- ty by the construction of a duet will amount to $200,00) is simply preposter- ous. The property on each sido of the structure exeluding the lots owned by the railronds would not soll for $200,000 to-da It the via duct goes on Eleyonth strcet it wouldn't bring §130,00). The property north of the viaduet, north of Harney, would doprociate more than th ue of the whole property under the viaduet The appraisers ave expected to consider the damages und the benofits of the improvement, just as is done in apprais ing damages caused by the gra ling of o street which cuts in ‘front of somo lots and fills in front of other The efteet upon the lots of leveling the ground and muking the street passuble is always a factor to be taken into consideration, 1§ a vinduet is built over Tenth stroot it will continne to be w thor- oughfare and will justify the heavy outlay for paving and grading, which has already been made. If it goes on Eleventh stroot, ith will virtually be closed for travel and the real estate which is now rated as good retail property, would be plastered all over with signs, “To Rent.” The wholesale proporty willnot be affected materinlly one way ox the other, but its saleable value must ly depend upon the value of lots below or above. Values are always relative and the shrinkage in rents on the main portion of the stroot would have a depressing eflect upon the whole street. All experi shows that travel will follow the visducts aud do- creuse of travel menns decrease of busi- ness, In Chicago and Milwau- kee 1t lLas been proved be- yond & question that the build- ing of vinducts 50 fur from depreciating property on streets,eyen wheve it was lo- cated way below, has incrensed muateri- ully the value of all adjucont real estute. AHA DAILY BE | Daniels, and not Barty | Collector Post out of E: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1885, tv. the cortainty that a viaduoct will ba built ® Sixteenth street has donbled the value of property ull adong that the to the city limits, and it still ancing. This shows the effect of making @ strect thoroughfare instead of a pocket POLITICAL POINTS, over 8 T'he prohibition managers have laid outa plan to carry the south by aid of the colored vote and then earry the war into the north, The Boston Herald's Washington corres- pondent sees no ghimmer of hope for tariff re- duetion at the hamds of the coming session of congress, sretary Fessonden of the republican 1 tional committee persists in the belief th, Blaine can take more men out of the demo- cratic party than any other man he knows Tt now seems prohabls that Congressn e, will succeed ( eral Mahone in the United States senate. Senator S, Wisconsin proposes to be his own sue pstmaster-General Vilas may be his democratic opponent. Senators Blairand Frye are said to be the only members of the upper house of cong who now indulge in *“cold tea” or wink at the sodaswater cler Hon. James G, Blaine oceasionvlly gives a large party at his home in Maine. It will be some time before he entertaing the once grand old party, howe Although quite number of national nui- sances who disgraced the forty-eighth con- gress failed of reselection, who can say that their places will not be ably filled in the forty-ninth congress? r-General Vilas is talked of lidate for United States sen- sconsin when Senator Sawyer's o) Postima probable ¢ ator from V term expires. THE INDUSTRY. The new fron wiaking plant at Troy, N. Y., will probably be the finest and most complete in the United States, The same company s altering ity Bessemer steel works, Thret thousand men will be employed when run- ning full tine, Chicago is to have a nine-story building for architeets and builders, four stories to be de* voted to the display of building material, three stories for architects' offices, the eighth fora trade-union, and the ninth to be used as an assembly room for architects., Coal is produced in forty-nine counties in Hlinois, and the annual product is 10,000,000 tons. The 10,653 miners averaged 174 days for the year, and 39 miners were killed and 176 disable Stone-workers, perhaps, have heard of tho new saw foreutting stone, A twisted cord of steci runs around the pulleys like a band. . The swit succession of blows from the ridyes of the steel cond idelivered along a nar- v line disintegrates the stone rapidly. nelish printersiare eomplaining that lishimen possess na originality; that very few improvements aro made; that the papers and books printed in England do not show the samo progress made intho art of printing as is made in foreign'countrie: William E, Dodge that too wmuel tention has been given to higher edu producing doctors, law: and colle, aduates fit tor nothing, little attention to techinical and ndustrial edueation, which shonld be taught in all our publie schools, The founders are endeéavoring to establish a cornmon standaid for type, so that wn order for the samo style and size of tvpe. divided amons and furnished by a dozen different makers. ean be saiciy mised, because they would mateh exaetly with each other in face, lining, depth and width. American machinery is going from Penn- sylviania workshops to all urope and South Amer ea. The demand ror skelp ural gas pipe, is so _teat thut ten Shurg mitls aro making it Three 15 of machinery to make niss haye r he western Pennsylvania penitenti put up. A new process s to be tried at Lrentony cost of ) Lant, $100,000, The pay of tanners in Bazland is $7.5) po week of ifty-four honrss in the United Stat s tor a week of sixty b I'ne cost of I hor in a pound i wi on. half cents. Swiss tanners are paid $£5) por French tanners 35 to S erinan taniers <ho0 to S5 trian tanners $4 to 35 per we. Orders for 82,000 steel sleey have lately been given out by rowd builder Gormans, Also, 80,00) sleopors for wls in [ndia, Othor large orders are expected, n in England Tuimber is 50 eheap that’ the sleeper makers cannob cony The relative efliciency of lahor in thecotton mills thromghont the world can b sen by r6 erenco W the amount of cotton which dif- terent workmen will eonsume per vear, dia the ay A0 poun in Enclnd 291 pounds, ) to Lo pounds, and in the Uniteid States 4550 pornds, The cost of gathering aand plantin £ the cotton erop is compted to e S1EAL0). or 56 per et of ils gross value at nine cents per pound, Knights of Labor items: The exeeutive committee of the Knizhts of Labor spent most of last w 1 New York City stiaight- ening out the Yonkers troubles” Straiton & Storm hoycott tronbles, bth, N, J., seven ablies. In New York City the shoemakers are coming in yapidly, The farmi s and labor Vi briskin are coming into the or ani the Knights. The carpenters und A le have been orzanizel, ne the orzanization has been extended ihers are cominz in, In Oregon consideration a ten- Vo been orzan- barbers ™ of Nearly all are wiving holding public wistts, In blics, {0 con* Lexis, Lo 1y W a8 ilwauk have organized, al assemblics Tho ordor iy throuz! 1, M s, ad Eair Wil 1 tinie two woeks. L Fort Worth SKnirhits of Labor and the Earn ance Co-gporative nublishing compiy cen orgiinzed, and the farmers and wo iz men e joinin hands all over the stat sy are two asgonbl es in” Washinzton composedentirely? of liava boen taken fo or Georein s its own district as- wnumber ob new local asseublivs N M -— With Both feet. Pusk, mun when down Never kick he's Jump ou kim, - The Bost Daily West of Chicago. Grand Island {udependent, The Omaha Brek is now the best daily tof Chic ebrasla City News, n Brisays Vit will take a patent stump exteacton” to get Revenue office. The demo- state are willing to con for the neeessary stump extractor, od any one will assure them that 1t vork A prompt and satis- wor. crats of the tribut pros will do th fuctory - Most Refreshingly . St Louis Globe-Democra. The latest scheme of the civil serviee reformers-—-the passage of a law muking it a misdemeanor for nuy member of con- gress to solicit an appointment—is the most refreshingly innecent thing that hus been evolved in many a day. When congressmen shall consent o enaet a law for the special purposo of breaking them- #olves up- in business, there will be no noecessity for furthor effurt of any kind Alll- | in tho line of reform. The millonnium will be upon us in all its glory and com- tanoess, Two Nebraska fnstitutions, wrasha City News. All the states in the union, with the ex- ception of a fow in the sonth, are adopt ing Nebraska's high licenso law, and towns of importance that are diseussing the temperance question favor that law. Arbor Day and high license are two Ne- braska institntions o Randall and the Tariff, Boston Herald, A Pennsylvania paper, having roferred to Samuel J. Randall a “Colossus, "’ the St. Lonis Repnblican responds: “As the principal feature of vasits hrass.” On the con- trary, its most striking i 8 was jts enormous straddle. 1s this the Colossus of Pennsylyania is preparing for on tho tariiy qu stion. D — The Mormon War, Denver News, Preparations for war is often the best ssurance for peace, and on this theory the concentration of troops at Fort Douglas, near Salt Lake City, is com- mendable. The | ons growing ont of the Edmunds ve caused a great deal of ill-fee een the Mor- mons and the Gentil it is well to guard as earefully ns possible against the possibility of violence. An Ounce o St. Lowis Repubili The dispateh of troops and artillery to | Utah g that the war depart- ment has been improssed with the gray- y of the situation at Salt Lake City. It is hardly probable, howover, that the Mormon question will need cither Iy onets or gatling guns for its solution. The prosence of the (roops is to bo com- mended on the, prineiplo that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cur but the Mormons should be handied by authorities. The twin relic of dism must go. It would he shame- ful if its going were mude as barburous as its stay, and yet a little too much gun- powder could eflect this undesirable re- sult very casily. 08 to show - Sparks Must ho Extinguished. Grand Istand Indepondent. Congressman Jumes Laivd, who in congress represents our railronds, has been interviewod in’ Chicago, and has tried to create among tho people who don’t know him, an impression of his g at importance. 1le is going m;] ittle to - Commissioner Sparks, who has the bad habit of speaking the trath about Laird’s best friends, the railroad compa- nies. Theso s rished, as they mi; gre flame, which would consun aivd, with all his railvox Sparks, therefor, according to “u protentious hypocerite who i rading as a reformer, and poses to strip the mask off him aud " luy the r lities of his agents bare. He, practicable the of blackmailing ¥ subjeeted masqiie- rd pro- that honest settl Wi to, and if he were permitted to o’ on as started out he would blast the I of eyer, like Neb: il tis heing developed by i certainly as the sun sh o STATE AND TER Nehraska Jottings. Holt county boasts of elovon nowspapers. wartis negotiating for a 10,00 flour will. Corn count lay's zephyrs spilled a water tank Siduey. Chadron is moralizing on the expedienecy of u skating rvink. s storm level of M. Price al Al A Buffaio connty 1 sold 600 turkeys this “The sealp of o twent: rates the belt of a I8 The Norden Borealis dubs th Lum s ~Tewskbury Nebraska. Hebron's n ew picking house began opera- tious this week. The mstitution lias o ca pacity of 100 s a d The Cass € Asricuitural society g anized for the coming year, with Frod Gorder as president. ses to boost tho proposad iroad, and ke it a TORY. thieves are operating i Adams od the hardware store an has fattened and Som. pound wildeat deco- on hunte insane asy- Thie Hitehcock Contral, publisied by Bur- ton & Harcaurt, at yion, Hitéheoe county, 13 the latést velituro in the jourmalis- i marriage of “a lonz haired son of ' was @ recent soeiul event in 1latis- mouth, The short haired limbs of the sume sire siill vevel in singhe bissiulness, The grand army boys at Creizhton, last buried a horso thist went throuzh Sh tothe sea. The horse cap- csburiz, and was 32 yeurs old “alentine, recently, I Mays, a col- wits Doct b ont "of towi by the vo, May s groal weakness was wry epistles w innocent girls, irl, daagh ter of t to tne reform Several hirbrained yo.ang whiboraood siouid by mde o oMLY publi f Quinn Bohanan's o “lhe Elasticity of lomp, or the Mecianism of a, Gallows,” Nocta' Bead clauims the distinzulsied audhor as a late resi- dent ol that town, W. R Wil A pieking hous conditioned that given him, A ¢ trade is puassi M. MeCoring on o tured & Out ored barber anzry poj sending an to put up and operate WOl L0 cost 3160,0m, subseriplion. of =001 i it of tho board of ound the hat, , of Oxford, has In his pos- ¢ bead-worked wateh pocaot whiel wa: A up on the battle neld of Shiloh the next day after the ught. The old wentleman prizes it very highly, . A farmer named Auzust Clandon, from Ira, Towa, was swindled ouf of 315 at Grand Isiand by the cheek schene, 1o hoids Silurry Dilon's” eheck for 8500 on the Fiist Nutional bank of Sioux City s secarity. Phe son of Mr. Sharp, of Fairbury, while Viding uear Lown, was CIrown Trom ids horso and drazged over e haed roa l for a bl a e, his root b Zcanzht in tae stierup, This leg was so b1y manglod that it is tearcd he will lose it ehing machine passed through Nellgh Liesdity drawn by ilteen or twenty yoho oxen, bearig the lezond: “In God wo tristed s in Dakota we busted. hey e searching fora loeation when' the lnio bliz- zand struck them with a'l sails spread, A i named Colton catzht on toa tumb: ling rod near Friend last weelk and boivie assistance conld reach him e wis whirled about ala rate of speed sullicient 10 throw one of his boots, which was tight utting, clear | besides ¥ ull of hiis elothing fron Rim. ng he own Mtems, Navigation has closed on the Upper Mis- siwnipp. John Throckmorton living near Chariwon, this year raised 1,000 hushels of apples, The Des Moines broad guaze stroet railway has tled its articies of ineorporation. Capital, 100,000, The eriming! expenses of Dubugue county for the year ending Septemb amounted Lo 3,454 A year old child of Vietor Ellison, living near’ Davenport, wis ehoked 40 deathl on the cork of & perfumery bottle. The Western Towa Horticultural socioty will hold its ann meeilug ot Glenwoud, commeneing Decenber 15, W. E. Wellington, of Iluhwsm-, has a 1,900 acre farm under fence in Pocolontas county, Wwith 900 acres seeded to tame grass. Dunlap's big brag squash is selipsed by one w, which i3 seven and onehalf feet umlerenes, and welghs 210 pouuds. Wiittier collége ur Salew, Henry county, | tion. was destroyed by fire on the library anit ceseviling ois was o total loss, orge Cattler, of Magnolfa, reccives a lorse last week that flattencd his broke his npper jaw, and left him in bad Shape wencrally, Atlantic is the first city in the state fo crect A memorial to Geneal Grant, Work is in progress on it Tt is to be a fountain sur- mounted by a lite size statue of the general. Alexander Forsyth, who was once a bank in Pittsburg, Pa., When his personal property whs vRlted at over $00,000, died 11 the Dela ware connty poor house last week, where lie Tins boen for Seven yinrs., Cedar Falls has had sisty prosecutions for violations prohibitoiy . commer esent year, all of which have L to the court, and not a dollar of the fine has becn collected. In a Methodist jndicial con Moines, on the , the case Everly, who was convieted by the Dos Moines conference of imprudent and unministerial conduet, was reversed, and Mr. Everly wi 1éintate State Fish Commissianer Aldrich, infhis re- port, says in the last ten yvears there has been distributed in Towa waters: Shad, 1,540,000; California salmon, 141,00 Penobscot sal- mon, 170,000; lake irout, .18 white fis! 1,000 Tand-locked silnion, 195,500, mukin th. Tho valuablo I the buitding 000 to has offieially de- Teeont state census, of the first class, wiil a population of 19,0505 Manchester, Deliware county, a ity of the second cluss, with 2 poputation, and Missouri Valley @ ety of tie nd class, With 2,305 infiabitants. Dakotn, Plankinton las paid ont over £135,000 tand flax so far this season Azain there is tglk of a braneh railrond from the Northorn Pacific to the Binek Hiils, Ed Bartows was sentenced to twenty days in durance vile, at Camton, for beating Nis wif Turner county wants about twenty more teachers for the winter schools ab from $2 o §10 per month, #'The Aurora Standard thinks that toba will soon become an important and prontable product of Dakots “The probate conrt_at Deadwoold has con- tributed the sum of $60,000 to the heirs ol the Samuel MeMasters, OTho postofiice building at Sious Falls way damaged to the extent of soveral hundred dollars by the storm of the 4th, The Russians have some of the choices, Iand in the territory on Spring river bottomt Campbell county, and are spreading over veral counties. he new state normal Madison has been completed and is now oe- cupied by the teachers and pupils, The build- £ i3 63 by 30 feet in size, that Sioux City is a cf for wol building of THE QUEEN CITY, The Steady Substantial Growth of the County Seat of Gage. Bearueion, Neb,, Dee. 9.—[To the Edi- nt ride on the Bur- on & Missouri down the beautiful and vich valley of the Big Blue, the Brr wan stopped off” at the queen of in towns, 1 o, just as the citizens | 1 to view the trial trip of the new street cars, The venture was a grand success, and as the little beau! teamed ap town under a two mule power pres sure, the average man felt a foot taller v boy thought he was a Gould, Mhe improvements of the present s n would astonish an cast- ern man, bank building, built by the First Natioual, is a thing of beauty and looks as if 1t would be useful forever. It is under conteact by an Omala firm, and is to 0.000. T'he new Methodist church A magnificent structure, and of the design., It is to b 30,000 ro hundreds of fine buildings looming up on all sides. The ap of this city Iv metropolitan: light in all the stores, elegant stocks of goods, street cars, and water works, and the hospitality of this people is only equaled by their enterprise and theiff, Beatric: an excellent water power, which not slow to utilize, as evinced by her mills, foundries Tactories This point cordial support and unogualled facility to the manulucturer, They alrvead have u canning factory, u’ foundrvy, carringe factory, marble | stone works, large flouring mill, besides many smalier - dustr She stands with open hands and purse eager to weleome the bry the brain and the wealth of the east, us- suring them of an abuudunt return for every dollar invested and cvery effort put forth, ‘This young ey contains over 6,000 inhabitants and is surrounded by one of the richest and most beautiful ntry that the sun ever shone The farmers of this county) are not slovens numskulls, but bright intellig business men, who make farming n busi- ness whose réward depends upon intelli- nt divection and persistont etfort. They liove that a high grade steer costs no raise serub, and their [ their t hat not t they s, whose intelligent eyes scan he continent from ocean to ocean and keen intelloet reads the price of grain in the tumalts abroad, C.D. o —— A LUDICROUS PRACTICE TOMPSON, In Which Many Ocean Travelers aro pelied to Take Part, A Cambridge unde luate, now on is wii) pein a trading vossel, sonds the following interesting commu- tion to the Pal 2 of the oldest customs of the s lately, ciume under my notice, andin such a p s b st not Likely to forge after onr 6 o'clock tew, we were sex the saloon enjoying our game at erib- when ablast trom the foghern, fit waken the dead, put an end to our Horriodly wo made for the deck, ight never to be forgotten wet our cyes. Phe evening was davk and cloudy, the moon entirs idden, but the deck was brilliantly ill ted with blue lights. From the forecastie wi S A procession that battles deserip- tion. First walked Fati sptune him- self, leading on his arm his young und beautiful wife, Amphitrite, eptune was dressed in long, white owing robes —=that is, wnight-shirt; weonnd his head wived his locks, blowing betore the windin every direction; his beard reached below his waist; on his hewd he wore a miter of such tremendous si as to drive any bishop wikd with eny in_his hand he bore his tedont. His wite's dress wis evidently on the | Sheauty unadorned,” for o ved i i sl flag, and a pair of red bath- ing drawers constituted her costum Howing this august couple walked the hero of the evening —the b Dressed all i white, weariig a hat the shape of a dice-box, hulf white, half black, with curiy white hair and whniskers, he was faily sublim but the sublin chungld into the awiul when one por coived that he carvied in s hands in- strunients of torture rivaling in theiv | tent cruelty even those of the Inguisi- Diagine standing and guzing unon a bucket of flour and water mixed to nbout the thickness of liquid glhue, of which you know you will receive s L share—on your head. R if you cun, from that sight, and look again.” In his other hand he holds a r { snch magnitude that it woald not be il amiss for felling - trees, and think that soon thar edge of rough, rusty won will L g its meandoring” course ove innocent juw llowing this torturer licemen armed with cudgels and dirk lanterns. Behind them crowded the crow. In spito of the wwful solemiity of | the scenc, one conld not bt admire the durk, cloudy sky, the soa n blias of phos- | ne 1wo po- Iaklck | | lightning, the grouping of the nctors, Ifillillgqn-'uru QE“ a wr‘deok, Neptune, inaloud voice, with such calm disro- asto where ho put his H's as would make any olussical evthor turn in his grave, gave utterance, ring ¢ some of the crew of this ship is such ag they 'ave yot crossed the loine, and bin baptoized, soms, [ ham ‘ere to sce titom done 0. Kyitlently Noptune's ins torconrse with British sailors hias been to | the disadyantago of his_cloquence. The ilora, at the tinish of Neptune's apeoch, cheered Toudly, while from their midst stepped the two brawny policemen, one | of whom was a nigger from Domerara, seized upon 1. Meanwhile the torturet was not idle. He had seated himsolf upon a low stool, with his bucket beforo I, in iz lofe hand s brush like a house- mand’s broom, while with his right he was charpening his vazor on the compans ion-ladder vailings. Alas for poor T. He stood smiling before his exeou- tionor who, vidently thinking the oceasion far too mn to smile at, put an end to his innocent merriment by inscrting as much s ho possibly could of the mixture into his mouth. While he was engaged in choking and spitting out what he could of the concoction, hi:‘fu‘ml | wae heing coverad to such an extent 18 to vender his teatures quite indisguisha- bLle. Then that awinl razor camo into nse, its broad, rnsty edge scraping away the dougl like o plow in a clay sofl, But how ditlicult it is to take the dough out of one’s eyes und mouth with a razor- blade the feet long, one can not ima- gine till one has tried? His satanie ma- i L mean the barber, having seraped oftas much as pleased his faney, two po- licemen came to the fore agal med with buckets of cold water, 1y regardless of what part of the vietim's body received the wator, they threw in quick succession over . 1 was the next vietim, and went through the same teveible routine; but at Tast it was all over, and 1issusd from the cold-water cnre quite ready tosee the fun in treating the others o their dose, It was 0 novel experienc und one not likely to be forgotten. Then followed the others who had not « od the line, some half dozen of them, but two w missing. ‘The polico were soon after them, but it was an hour Defore the fivst was fornd, ving umler- neath the boilers imabout” the tempera- ture of the place Thad wished the barber in when 1 was bemg shaved. Al this o endured r thy lis shaving, or 1 should shaving his face. He was 4Huh tly dingged upon the scen tho pont 1ty of his four by r double dose. Soon after this, the other,n s found concealed ina sail in tho ing; he, too, got what he deserved trying to escave justice. Aftor all aptized we had some songs and boing espi good Wl giving us some excol- lent clog daaces and breakdowns, Poor Neptune had terrible trouble with his wife, who, suddenly discoverin among a ot of sailors, beeame naturally, what woman would not? The song dancing finished, grog handled ull round, and with three choers for us from the erew, we vetired to our eabins to put on dry clothes, and to tenr ont hundfuls of hair in cadeavoring th vid our heads of dough. 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