Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 25, 1886, Page 4

THE DATLY BEE. OMANA OFFICE NO.014 AXD 016 FARNAM ST New York Orrice, Roow HINUNE BUILDING WASHIGTON OFFICR, NO. 513 FOURTERNTH ST, Published every morning, except Sunday. The Onl? Monday morning paper published In the TERME NY MAIL: £10.00 Three Months. 2250 500 One Month 1.00 gm- Year. . ix Months, Tur WEEKLY BER, Publighed Bvery Wednesaay. TERME, POSTPAID: (g):o :'t-nr with premium......... o | ear, without promium % Months, without preminm. ... * One Month, on trial. “ CORRESPONDENCE: ANl communications relating 1o newe and odi. | worinl matters should be addresscd to tho Epl | TOROF “HE HEE. » il b tinees latters and s ehould ho addressed to THE NEE PURLISHING COMPANY, OMamA. Dirafts, checks and office orderd 10 be made payable 1o the order of the compuny. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PAOPRIETORS £ ROSEWATER, Eotror. Tue acking-house democrat ploying George L. Miller “Hsticker.” are em- chief ——— Turre will be more bunilding in Omaha during 1886 than in the three previous years put together. Tug postoflice officials at Washington say that Nebraska is growing more than any other state in the number of new postoflices and postmasto Having provided for the presidentinl succession, congress will now devote its energies to making capital to prevent the puceession passing out of the hands of the dominant p: divided king-house d the under the Tur Nebraska democracy is ‘into two factions—the pac democrats, headed by Boyd, glanghter-house democrats, “leadership of Morton. FEHeNry M. StaNpey has acquived a world-wido fame. He now has an op- portunity to make an immense fortune. He has been appointed manager of the work of building a line of railway into the Congo country Tue short-horn breeders of the state have had o meeting at Lincoln. We unable to say whether they have made contracts with the slaughter-house or packing-house democrats, The latter have the most money. Trt CAMPBELL of the New York papers as the sue of Sunset Cox. So f: we have been able to observe, his antics would lead some persons to regard him as a suc- cessor to the red-headed rooster of the . Rockies, Ar a recent meeting of the New York Farmers’' club twenty-seven members, representing $30,000,000, down to the table. The particular branch ot agricul- mm that the mml is not stated, but it saring “lambs” in W x||l street o(‘(upwd the (l.nl\ attention of most of the honest grangers repre- sented. ACCORDING to the HMHerald Mr. J. J. Brown, the republican brother of one of the slaughter-house democrats, is a lead- ing stockholder in the Brr, and ther fore is properly held responsible for the . conduct of this paper. Itis true that Mr. Brown owns stock in the Omaha Beg. He owns one share out of the two hun- _dred. That gives him the lead. GENERAL SHERIDAN has been before a congressional committee to recommend the transfer of the weather burcan from the army to the civil service. This is a lively back handed slap at General Hazen, who has made himself exceeding- 1y unpopnlar in the service by the free way in which he criticized the stafl' some years ago and the unpleasant prominence in which he has kept his name before the public ever PurL. Aryour recently informed the Wall street operators that “‘God is in joint account with every lholder of St. Paul stock. He has left his earmarks all through the west “and northwest where the St. Paul runs,” This is the first time that we have -ever heard of the Lord being in partner- ship with a railroad. Perhaps it is be- cause of the saintly name of the soulless eorporation. At any rate, the assurance of Mr. Armour ought to send St Paul -8tock up about fifty points. TrirarTITE Commissioner Vining, who - draws $5,000 a year in Chicago from the railroads on a five years’ contract for pre- siding over the tripartite commission, has been rudely waked from his reveries on Chinese hieroglyphics by a call for a meeting of the managers of roads for which he arbitrates, Mr. Vining.is a L T uccess as an author than as a Failroad man. His traflic sheets used to areate a bigger sensation among shippers than his books do among readers, but they were not half so interesting to the outside public. SENATOR PAYNE denies any personal - knowledge of the bribery which securcd ~ him his seat in the senate. Of course . mot. It was entirely the work of his friends. The senator's friends must be a culiarly disinterested lot to put up 180,000 out of their own pockets for the urpose of securing the election of the ndard Oil munupulm to the senate, imagine that when the investigation for which Mr. Payne is clamoring, is fur- nished, it will be discovered that his do not differ materially from * those of any other millionaire candidate . whose only claims for position are based Nl the size of his pocket-boo! ——— Dr. MiLLER goes off doubl, aded and nst the slaughter- e democracy. He protends to haye covered a great couspiracy to mirch the character of as Lonest a B as lives in Nebraska, whose only in having reccived the appoint- nent of postmasto Kearne would like to hear the lonest pi of James E. Boyvd, the ehic packing-house democracy, concern- this honest postma Over in eil Bluls and on this side of the he has the reputation of being an ble bilk, and it is currently be- that his principal backers ave ors -~ who expect to repay them- out of his sulury. Mr. Juan Boyl the financial conce which backs 0, could give some information this pointif they were not inte sted ..'ln s ability to double-shotted a; A Monopoly Combination. stmaster General Vilasis to be the ct of a combined attack of a powerful ionopoly lobby, composed of represen: atives of the Pacific railronds, the Bell telephone and Western Union compa- nies, the Pacific Mail steamship com pany and the New York Zribune. This state- ment is made on the authority of a prom- | inent Wisconsin politician, Col. Knight, who says that the cause of the attack is the refusal of Postmaster General Vilas to pay over to the Pacilic Mail steamship company the £100,000 which the last con- left in his hands to pay of not, as Hhe might see fit. The Pacific Mail steamship company is one of an aggregation of corporations, consist ing of the Central, Union and Southern Pacifie railroad companics, the Western Union telegraph company and the Bell telephone company, These six cor- porations are owned and con- trolled by substantially the same per- sons, and for years they have brought their combined powet te bear upon con: gress for a subsidy to their Pacific Mail steamship company, and, failing to get it in that form, succeeded in getting §400,- 000 appropriated by the last congress to expended for their benefit, under the tion ofthe postmaster gvnmnl s combination owns the New York 'Irv[rmlr and other papers, and has a corps of newspaper correspondents at Washington who are paid to write such letters as may be dictated to them by the ¢. Tho postmaster general has cer- offended a most powerful com- bination, but in all probability he will not be driven from the eabinet by the corporation strikers. Incidentally it may be inferred that the same monopoly ring will wage an equally bitter warfare upon Sceretary Lamar, on [aceount of his recent opinion regarding the Bl telephone patents. It would seem that the members of Mr, Cleveland’s cabinet are rapidiy developing into anti-monopo- lists; and it is to be hoped that their sup- ply of backbone will earry them through in the fight with the corporations and jobbers, whose lobby is said to be more powerful at this session of congress than has ever been known in Washington. gress Tin-Can Rallroading. The method of running trains hetween Omaha and Lincoln by the B. & M. is, if such a thing could be, more annoying and inconvenient than the Missouri river transfer between Omaha and Couneil Blufls. No reliance can be placed on the time advertised for the B. & M. trains to start. They may start at 8:10 or 10:08, keep their passengers between o sw and a freeze in the Omaha depot until even or twelve o'clock. When they do start on time, they very frequently are held for two hours at Oreapolis June- tion, or go down to Plattsmouth to await the arrival of a delayed train from Pacilic Junction. These anunoying de- Inys and the uncertainty of departures are by no means merely an incident of bad weather or blocked roads in Ne braska. The road from Omaha to Hastings may be inexcellent condition, but if the Burlington train from Chicago has been delayed somewhere in Towa the Omaha passengers and mails are held until the delayed train puts in an appearance at Oreapolis or Plattsmouth. Omaha is treated about like a water- tank station or some viliage at the end of ized and accommodated as the metro- polis of the state should be. In this matter Omaha people are not the only sufferers. The people of the whole south Platte country are also incon- venienced. They can make no da- tion as to receiving their mail or reach- ing their destination if they happen to be traveling. Now it may be economy for the B. & M roand to attach the Omaba trains to the Burlington’s Chieago and Denver trains, like a tin can to a dog's tail, but the tin-can method will no longer satisfy a city like Omaba, which has given |.lu, Burlington system the lion’s share of eastern and western business. Why should the trains running between Omaha and Hastings, which are usually erowded, be held or delayed because a train, run- ning 500 miles between Chicago and the Missouririver, has lost time from some cause orother? Why cannot the Burling- ton run its Omaha trains on their own schedule time, regardless of what con- nections they may make or miss? 'lhh city and state are entitled to loc al road trains running on fixed time, people of Ilinois and This uncertainty in r: avel has become a positive nui- sance. The managers promise that when the Ashland eut-off is completed they will give us local trains, but these prom- ises are a little too remote to satisfy the presentdemands. It seems to us that the B. & M. can well aflord to do away with the stub-tail trains. Our citizens are willing to make ‘due allowance for bad weather, snow block- ades and floods, but when the road is in good condition between Omaha and Red do not feel content to be held in the Omaha depot, or side- tracked and switched around at Orenpo- lis and Plattsmouth to await the arrival of delayed Burlington trains from Chi- engo. A Mistake Corrected by a Funeral. The recent tragedy in Chicago as usual provides a text for sermowmzers and moral lecturers. A young man of wealth and position shot his mistress and then killed himself. He had married only a few months ago a beautiful and accom- plished young lady. At the coroner’s in- quest it was shown in the testimony that before he married he told this young lady about his mistress, and thus exposed to her his true character, At the same time he expressed the fear that the mistress, whom he had known and supported some years, would give him trouble. In spite of this warning—and it was a warning that should have been heeded by the young lady about to become his bride ~—she married him, The most pointed moral to be drawn from this tragedy, apd one which we have not seen referred to by the mm'ullzurs, is that it is a dan- gerous thing fora woman to accept as her husband a man whom she knows needs reformation, and whom by her evangelizing efforts she hopes to reform after marringe. Thereis, of course, a possibility of reformation after marriage, but the chances are that nine times out of ten the rake will always be the same. The young woman who has boen lefta widow by the Chicago tragedy has learn- ed this to ber cost and sorrow. Yet she was herself largely to blame, if she feels at all grief-stricken, for she well knew of | that will p | feels confident { | tor { the means by whi stub road, instead of being recog- | the hazardous character of the athiance nto which she was to enter. There is only one thing that can correct the disas- ter of an alliancewith a bad husband, <nys the Rev, DeWitt. Talmage, and that is a funeral. The Chicago woman ought to rejoice that her disastrons alliance has been corrected, even if it required a funeral, n Important Inventio Henry Guy Carleton, the author, has invented a eontrivance which promises to e n success as a preventive of fire-damp explosions in mines, No occupation is so franght with danger as mining. Hardly aday passes by withput the occurrence of some terrilile mining disaster, either from fire-damp explosion or some other canse. The most frequent accidents, however, are cxplosions, and anything went their frequency wiil be by the hundreds of who compelled to hailed with joy thousands of men | make their livelihood by digging beneath Mr, Carleton it his contrivance®will be of great sevvice. In that event he will prove a_groat public benefactor, as he proposes to bestow his invention g upon the world, in the hope of saving life. Experts pronounce it precisely what has been needed ever since the annals of coal mining. In this invention the Chieago 7ribune s The great desideratum of a fire-damp indi cator is to enable an observer from the super- intendent's office to test all parts of the mine hn even £mall pereenta The chief of all systems yet devised are: ying barometric pressures: second, ing degree of moisture: third, the fact the pressure upon which all diffusion apy atus works is only moment Mr. nstrument is independent of moisture, barometric and works on spe- cifie Vy with a given pereentage § is constant. The main achievement is the means by whi hance of a spec -urately meast the surface of the eerth delieate dis- nee may be v distanee and 1t is made independent of barometrie pressure and kept free from the influence of moisture, The experiments Wit it gave indications to one-third of 1 per , With a balance sensitive to one-tenth of gram. The number of explosions caused by making tests with safety-lamps makes it obyious that other and more accurate means re greatly to be desired. The recent explo- sion in Wyoming was caused by the testers Wwith safety-Jamps, Shifting the Responsibility. A Dov county farmer has taken it upon himself to defend the county com- missioners in their method of selecting juries. Like a hired attorney who has a client with a bad se, this farmer in- geniously sets up a straw man for the purpose of knocking him down. He as- sumes that we have nsured the com- missioners because the grand and petit juries for the next term were drawn from the farming and laboring element instead of from the nking and reantile element. He asserts that the judges wonld have excused the merchants and bankers if they had been drawn, and therefore the commissioners were fully justified in choosing men who could not get excused on account of their husine This may be a sati ry excuse for the commissioners, butit will not be accepted by the people. Nobody contends, and least of all the Beg, that juries should be made up of bank presidents and vich merchants, although this class should not be exempt from doing jury duty any more than they should be from military service in case of war. Nobody pretends to find fault with the commissioners for putting farmers and Iaborers on jury duty. Our protest was dirceted against the selection of profes- sional jurymen, bar-room bummers, and men who have notoriously been law- breakers. It is not necessary to hunt among the gambling dens and low re- sorts when the commissioners want farm- ers and laborers to serve on juri The attempt to shift the responsibilit upon the court because judges often ex- cuse plumm\\t business men from serv- ing on juries is too transparent. Ity the duty of the commissioners to place the names of responsible and reputable citizens on the jury list. They had no right to presume that the courts would excuse them from service. They certainly must have been aware that the grand jury was called to take action in the Lauer case, and they knew that powerful influences would be brought to bear to prevent an indictment. IN lus semrannual report of the finances of Douglas county, ex-Treasurer John Rush has made some valuable and timely suggestions, which the county commissioners should adopt. The sys- tematic transfer of the money in the sinking fund to the general fund is not only contrary to the intent of the law in defeating the purpose for which the sink- ing fund was created, but this practice will seriously affect the credit of the county. There should be some provision made for the payment of the bonded debt of Douglas county. What has been done cannot be undone. The commissioners cannot levy a new inking fund tax to replace the money taken from the sinking fund, and the only way that they could replace it would be to take the amount out of the general fund. If that were done during the pres- ent year the whole general fund would be e usted, without leaving the county in condition to meetits running expenses. But a halt must be called from now on to any transfer of money from the sink- ing fund. The proceeds of the sinking fund should hereafter be carefully invest- ed, and principal and acerued interest should be applied to the payment of the county debt, e GENERAL SHERIDAN has not a very ex- alted opinion of the brave cowboy, whose reputation for fighting is based mostly on his ability to fire his revolver in bar- rooms and rviding rough-shod through the streets of frontier villages and terror- izing over peaceful eitizens. In support of his opinion he cites a case in which seventeen cowboys asked military pro- teetion ogainst five Indians. He could have also cited the case of the cowboy idon a Texas village the other day. Nine cowboys, who attempted to run the town in their unuul bull-dozing style, ran against the sheriff, who killed five of them and captured the survivors. Dg. EasoN of New York has begun a erusade against brass beer faucets on the ground that they are unhealthy. As presi- dent of the New York health department he issued 2,700 orders last week to saloon keepers to substitute iron faucets lined with poreelain. This is a uew form of temperance agitationwhich the manafae- turers of beer faucots will be inclined to resent even more than high license, THere are 858 casdés oh the docket of the Douglas county district court, and 67, or about one-twelfth of them, ave divorce suits, This shows that domestic infelicity is on the increase in Omaha, but the in- creise is probably only in propottion to the city’s growth. There are probably no more divoree cases in Omaha than ther in other cities of 65,000 popula- tion. ————— VIEWS AND INTERVIEW The Chandelier at the Opera Hou so, “Inever see the opera house chandelier lighted any more,” said a steady theatre- goer. ‘I think this is a mistake on the part of Manager Boyd. It may be a litlle extra ex penseto light up the chandelier, but it ouglit to be done all the same. The cheerful effect of the illumination upon the andience is well worth the extra expense. The doma of the opera house I vo fve whoen illumin- ted by the chandel and 1 hope Mr. Boyd will order the gasto be turned on hereafter, The anditorium of the opera house is gener- ally kept too dark anyway.,” Business at the Stockyards. “If you want to see business transacted on alarge seale you ouzht to go ont to the stock yards,” remarked a business man, I have business out there several times a - week, and every time I visit the yards the more con- vinced Tam that they and the packing houses are bound to be immense establishients at no distant day. Cattie and hogs find ready buyers there, and the supply just now is hardly equal to the demand. 1 suppose this is owing partly to the severe cold - weather, Horels, “Omaha conld easily support another first- elass and one more good second-class hotel,” remarked a promivent citizen, *Me. Paston contemplated the erection of a utifal six-story hotel building, 152 feet square, on his property at the mu-||mu~| cor- arnam and Sixteenth streets, to cost 500,000, but has given up the idea, and will put up a handsome and substantial business building instead, next summer, It his nam had not been used in the naming ot the 3 ton house I believe he would have carried out his hotel iden, but as he could not yery well call it the Paxton he gave it up. However, the people will not grumble it he puis up a five or six-story building. T understand a prominent business firm has already made arrangements to lease o large portion of it. The Murray building, on Fourteenth street, next to the Paxton, is to be used as a hotel, T understand that Murray has altered his plans s0 as to make a hotel of it. It is to be leased to Mr. Joslyn, who is to run a first-class §2.00 aday house. Joslyn understands the busi- ness and I believe will make it pay. The house will be conveniently arranged, well furnished and equipved with all modern con- veniences. It is to be called the Murray house.” i A The Best Patrons of Hotels. “Omaha is a good hotel tawn, and no mis- take,” continued the gentleman, “It has become headquarters for the drummers in this part of the country. They all try to get lere on Saturday, sothatthey can spend Sunday comfortably. If it were not for the drummers some hotels wollld have a hard row to hoe, There are about 50,000 traveling salesmen in the United States. Their ex- penses, at an average of $1,500 a year each, foot up $120,000,000 a_year, and their salaries amount to $200,000,000 a'year; This immense s is scattered all over the United States. It Keeps up the hotels, aud is one of llm MOSt Important- items of railroad passenger receipts. . The charaeter of the traveling salesman has changed within a decade past. You will find very few boys and fewer drunk- ards upon the road. - The competition is so great and_the expense 50 heavy that firms to send out their best men, and sa 3,000 and 000 a yearare by no uncommon.” The Traveling Salesman. A prominent salesman recently said to resentative of the Cleveland Leader: e traveling men sell all sorts of goods. Some of them carry a half dozen heavy trunks and others carry their samples in their overeoat pockets. One man I know gets $3,000 a year for selling the skins which butch- ers put around sausages. He dresses like o Broadway swell and carries his samples in a bag no larger than a lady’s shopping satchel. The best of such skins are made in Europe, and butchersbuy of him everywhe Then there is a man I know who travels from Bos- ton to San Francisco and sells nothing but one grade of boot blacking, Some travelers sell by pictures of the articles they have to sell. Clothing forms the largest class of drummers, and next come those who sell boots and shoes. Then we have the dry goods salesman, the grocer, the hardyware men, hats and caps, and others as numer ous as there are trades and factories. Traveling men are as a rule bright, gene- rous fellows. ‘They spend freely and nitny of them when they become old and leave the road find themselves poor. We have now a project to take care of disabled traveling men. 1t is a traveling men’s home, to be endowed by traveling men and to be devoted to thelr use, The ideais that each one of the 80,000 traveling men is to give $1 a year for the next three years to such an Institution, ‘This will makea total of $240,000, and trom this we will buy a farm in Kentucky or some othe good locality and erectcomfortable buildings with reading-rooms, parlors and chambers, 50 that the occupants can haveall of the com- forts of life during their declining years, We will further endow the home by a year or two more of contributions and the institu- tion will be under the care of a competent board of managers, This projeet is, I under- stand, to be submitted to the next annual meeting of merchant travelers, It has many supporters among traveling salesmen and [ will not be surprised if it is carried out.” A Little Chec Drummers, “What's new in the hoot and shoe busi- ness?” asked a Cincinnati Inquirer repre- sentative of a traveling sfl]osmun recently, “Prospects good. Fewaer fallures in the last six months than ever beforel but we are in- troducing u new system with regard to trav- eling men—something in the nature of a re- form. You know that herctofore traveling men were sent out with samples, and were supposed to take a certaih ronte, Well, from time to time orders came'in, and by and by, in the course of two o¥ tutee months, the man turned up, But we never could tell where he was. He slike: the Irishman’s flea. He might be telling stories in Omaha, singing songs in Yokohama; flirting with a rried wowan in Hong, lumg or chasing a e on the sand bars of New Jersey. It rrible on the house, Well, now, there Ar traveling men that go out from Cin- cinnati in the boot and shoe traae alone, drawing salaries to the mwmount of $500,000, Now, each of these traveling men is provided with a number of postal cards endorsed to the home house; on the backs are blanks for statements showing when the agent arrived, when he leaves, his destination, where he re- ceived mail, and orders mailed. These cards are mailed each day. Then, besides this, the agent makes a weekly report, which is de- signed to facilitate the work of the oftice by having theaccounts of the traveling wan in a permanent form convenien t for reference, but it is also intended to make it a record to which the ofiicers of the company can refer atany subsequent tiue OW W hat par- ties were solicited and viewed, The wholesale clothing men ha tl suuwllnm.' like it for something o overs Capt. -lnck, the lm Scout, Capt. John W. Crawiord, better kuown as “Capt. Jack, the Poet Scout” of the Bluck Hills, is in New York preparing to publish & volume of frontiex reminicences and poetry. He was formerly a resident of Omaha, and was for a while employed by the Beg, which sent him to the Black Hills as correspotident, and équipped him for his scout with General Crook in the Siowx campaign. “ile is a striking figure in his walks on Broadway,” says the New York Tribune, * with his long and silken light-brown hair floating on the breeze, covered in part by a huge white som- brero. His clothing smacks of & desire for notoriety, being light-colored and somewhat loud for New York style. But I doubt if any one would care to tell the captain so, He has the reputation of being one of the best plainsmen and scouts of the west. He is a mative of land, whence his parents came in Itis fath- er was addicted to strong drink and died from alcoholism. The son never touched liquor, He was one of the first men to enter the Black Hills, and founded several towns in Dakota, He distinguished himself in the Indian campaign of 1876 by a ride of five days, in which he covered 400 miles, pass- ing through a country alive with hostile In- dians, The ride was made in response to a telegram from the governinent, which sent Biim from Medicine Bow, on the Unian Pa- cific road, to the Rosebud and Little Big Horn, where his presence was needed. e was again in government seryic was instrumental in securing the fr action of Chief Ouray and his Ute followers, with whom Capt. Jack was a favorite, In spite of the lack of cultivating influences and edueation, T am told that the tain has wiven evidence of rude but creditable poetic talenty which has found expression in one volume already published, and the poems 5001 to be brought out. THAT 1 Iln SUIT. Cedar Rapids (Neb.) Republican : S. Hoffman, private secretary to G has commenced a libel suit ag water, the editor of the Omaha Beg, claim- ing 830,000 damages. It is founded on some sin the Bre of last March, ¢ ing with horse stealing and other like offences, The outcome of it will be that the elaimant will give greater publicity to his past crookedness, rhury Gazetie: Milton v, Dawes- nst Rose, M. Hoffman, private or, has sued E. Rose- for libel, placing is dam- Rosewater, we believe, ealled him a horse thief and various other pet names, 1t seems a small thing for a fel- Tow to go to law about however, and the suit will be likely to convey the impression that there may be some truth in the chaiges, Chicago Herald: There is limit, it seems, to the patience of ) tari An O newspaper W ing lots of fun with the youngz gen- tleman who holds that relationship to the governor of Nebraska, and he sued it for libel all of a sudden because it intimated that he once had a great fondness for other peo- ple's horses, As the private sceretary asks for $30,000 there is a prospect that lie will have some fun with the newspaper betore he gets through with it. - OUR NATIONAL e, of the Bre, ages at $30,000, LEGISLATORS, Speaker Carlisle is rarely seen in soc oty He is a worker like the president. The lowa congressmen are unanimously in favor of letting the silver law alone, Senator Leland wford frets twenty-five begeing letters every day of life, Senator Gorman took Hizgins with Lim to the demoeratie canens at Anapolis and not a vote escaped hin. A correspondent says the new congressnien are carrying off the honors for wind and bottom in speech-making. Representative Bland has been a citizen of California and of Utah, He Dbecame acquainted with the silver in its home. Senator Edmunds has got himself into a serape and has no one but himself to blame forit. He has thanked a poet fora poem sent him, Senator Evarts’ legsare pretty long, but he cannot ride the gold horse and the silyer lorse too. ‘They are about to turn off on different roads. The advancement of Congressman Bel- mont to the head of the foreign affairs com- mittee, is, in New York, aseribed to the in- fluence of his father with Secretary Bayard. The United tes senate is without a Jones. Both the Joneses are absent from Washingtou, and it is said the Florida Jones is courting a sweetheart in the hope of early matrimony. A republican senator says if the president will tell the senate that he removed oflicials for party reasons his appointments will be confirmed at once, but they intend to being him to that. Representative Holman says he has dviver thirty miles at a stretch over fine land in Da- kota without seeing igle house, yet he learned that every acre was taken up under homestead, timber culture and other laws, A Republican Washington correspondent s Senator Wilson of Maryland is a little, white-haired man, who sits down mcre to the front, and who is the very opposste in all re- speets or lis colleague, Gorman. He is small aud retiving, Gorman is 46 years old and Wilson is 64, e A Plain, Truthful Publication, Pittshwrg Chroniclo, We like the Congressional Record., It never prints landscapes and labels them with the names of plflu||nel|( individuals, —.— about his Diplomatic Secret Revealed. New York Star, Ata recent chavity fairin Berlin the erown princess of Germany sold small sausages at $isapicce, No wonder that Bismarck will not admit the American hog. —————— Oan't Be Very slck. Chicago News. King William has just opened the Prussian As the Prussian diet consists in part of sauerkraut, Limburger cheese and Frank- fort sausage, llle king can’t be very sick, - No Use to M it Better, Chilcago Times, A popular clergyman in Boston deliverod a sermon last Sunday, entitled, “Maka the World Better,” But what's the use while so many persons want the entire earth just as itis? e o LS, One Way to Make the Correction. Talmage. There is ouly one thing that can corvect the disaster of an alliance with a bad husband, and that is a funeral. The police courts of the world cannot eorrect the evil. A ais- take once made about warriage is mude forever, e How Will It Work in New York? New York Morntng Jourial, A license? How shocking! the girls ex- elaim. Why can’t we get wmarried in pea Shall bald-headed lawyers with souls like parehment deal romance out, like law, by the piece? Instead of a license the city should pay a bonus to lovers to wed us, we "Tis) s0 nice to elope by the aid of arope. Now must weddings be prosy as home without 50ap. -~ To the Point. Chicago News. Senator Cullom’s bill to regulate inter-state commerce provides that no common carrier shiall eharge n greater rate for a short- hau than for a loug one, exeept when i can be shown that such charge does wot constitute an unjust diserimination. Seénator Cullow is 1o be congratulated 6u having prep: ) bill which s as far backward and stops ay almost pr v ‘the point of ' beginwing. [ sucd However, as the bl provides for the ap- volntment of fiye commissioners at a salary of §1,500 each it cannof be said that the sena tor's bill accomplishes absolutely ne reform S e He Never Wounld be Missed. San Franeisco (hronicle, Some punishment ought to be devised for the criminal carelessness which results nearly every day in the wounding or killing of sonie one by the man who didn*t know the pistol or gun was londed. The fact that no malice ex- istsin such cases does mot exonetato the guilty person any more than in the cases of hunting accidents of which there hins been so large a number this season, - - A Shot at Stanley. . L Mr. v M. Stanley. late of Congo, and not unknown in 8t. Louis, advises the Eng- lish people to settle the Irish troubles by “fighting” the Trish peovle. - Stanley, sinee Nis alleged exploits in Africa, as beeh mueh potted and patronized by the English aris- tocracy, and so sides with them in their views of the situation in treland and the best reme- dy therefor. e should either go back to Congo or come to America. n either ease nie would be likely to have a wari reception, -2 Eriends in Afiction, Yorl: Sun. Cold i the meal that the white hear On lis table of fee Al snow : Cold s the sil that the walrus tnkes 1 his shaliop of drifting floe, eats, Cold is the pliimber’s heart when his eyes With exultation shine: Cold i< the breakiast cofi At this boarding house Cold is t! 1 his per Colil is ti By the b But colder than all things wnder the heam O1 (he twinkling noither TS two-mile ride of awinter's night 1 a Broadway surface car, - STATE AND THRRITORY, Nebraska Jottings, The waterworks epidemic has Ashiand, A sixty-neve cemed near Hastings. Holt county has a cash balance of $10,- 11410 the treasury. The 1k of Stel incorporation. Capi Quail and pr chicke ns were killed by the thousands in the late storms, Ihe voung and growin aunders eounty, has been incor Thirty thousand do! was laid out in school fnprovements in » county last year. Plie express company has made good the loss by the robbing of the Chadron coach, The waterworks forees in West Point are bucking Jack Frost vigorously, and making good progress, The commissioners of Richardson county estimate the expenses for the present year at £L11,600, Four school hiouses and fifteen teact guide and shape the young idea of Bl At an annual cost of kwood, l»nm ¥y, lac candidate, is gathering in the small towns of the o served {mine, th that the wild bird finds on the distant hills; wve where the 1l 1ks of the fro ies sleep en il struck vy has been laid out has filc vl n(u les of ayne yonth with a swell front, stipulated sum, to four dozen oyster-fryers in thi minutes, The surveyor general's oflice in Pl: mouth presents o ealm and unraMed ex terior, notwithstanding the “merry war of wind, o died in the in- S week, was formerly i prominent business man and politician of Grand Island. A Madison hog buyer, patrons by false vieted and fincéd §i nmuun(il-" Lo $300. W. Tupper, an old man lhmk](-mm and J. 1L I burtson harnessmaker death in the late storms, Jones, a Dixon county farmer, even'foot vein of coil on his feet from the surface. The coat is said to be of good quality. “Baldy Ford,” the tough w nto eternity, near C s claimed, assisted by a v ,_ll'mu'mmmlltv- A brakeman in the Crete yards slippe ‘l ler the cavs Monday and had s pass over him, Ie was consider: bly braised, but 1 no bones t James Mitchell, the oldest white settler in ) connty, died Iast Thursday, He settled in Bellevue in 1818, He le S family ot seven children well provided or. A Saunders couniy blacksmith is the possessor uf an English silver wateh n_ Liverpool in 8, gnd keeps time with the best watch of modern make, The manag who swindled weights, was con- and costs, the latter o Elkhorn Valley road have pled the estimate of the right of way through Fremont, and the work of buildmg will begin in the spring. The estimate is %25, Mr. A. W. Yardwide, the Ber’s cham- pion corn hissker of Xorth Nebraska, hus been promoted to a leading position in the legislature by the castern press, Un- sought honors are falling thick upon him, The city council of I’Lxll«munlh las passed an ordinauce levying an Soceupa- tion tax” on all classes of business, sums 1 ¢ from §3 to §20 per yoar, Hawkers, peddiers and - non-resident drummer ed by the ds The Magflowor farmers alliance of York has re of May, d that the pm at ull times know liow wuel mone pitys a8 tarift on said goods.” Cards ave_ont announcing the sudden departure from McCook, of Hiram C. Rider and Mrs. Mat Rollins, The former teaves a family behind, as dogs ulm hH fickle companion. 1 is quils and is now supposed to be bask wrinkled smiles of his ma young daughter of Jesse Irw ly injured Greggsport hill, Friday. Youngster collided with o horse’ and avas kicked by the frightencd unim 1, producing concussion of the The doctors think she will re- fore the fir ~l day goods 50 while con cove The city eouncil of I].uhnmulh ll'ls submitted a d ate dinance to Georg luumn of A\(\\ as made a roposition to lo necepts the provisions of the ordinunce, it will be submilted to a vote of the people for rat- i tion or rejection. lowa Items. 1 students in Simpson col- lege at Indianola, The ice harvest at Davenport is esti- mated at 34,000 tons. The treasury of the state agricultural society contains $6,500. The Vinton Canning company har- vested 700,000 cans of corn during the past yeax. Bishop Pel of fowa, has joir of Duycuport The town of Wate damage suits amoun n.uun 5 (0 persots by A Davenport luldy 1 Ler nelaw of the Episcopal diog sd the Knights Temp! hoard, clothing, lumlclled timeel? and wife since .,nm- st. Ex-Goverior B F. Gue, of Des Moines 1s formulating plans fora rewnion_of all the living nllfiflghl-\hu\ of the state, the reunion to be held in Des Moines some time during the coming winter. Notices have been served on the owners of buildings in Des Moines in_ which sa- Toons are located that they will be held Tinble for the costs, fines and judgments obtained against snloonkeepers. A son of Mr, Talbot, living fi from Guthrie Center, whih»fic ng his m preparatory to a hunt, accidentally nlmhnu. d it, blowing away a portion of a 5-year-old brother’s leg.” The little one died five hours later after having the injured limb amputated, ather Lenchan, pastor of St Cathohe chureh, Sioux City, is about “to ltave his charge and enter the Josuit order in St. Louis. The reverend gentle- man is one of the strongest and most ac- complished orators in the state, and his public leetures and memorial addresses always drew large audiences, rar-old daughter of ¢, C. Lin- miles Mary's Decorah, was burned to death ay. The child was crippled and imbeei and her mother having been at o neighbor's a fow minutes, ox returning found the room full of smoke and the child lying on the floor dead, the hair burned off, and the flesh nn!lu-uppvr part of the body b -d 10 a erisp, . . The l‘!lnlmlh conl mmes turn out threg fons of coal per day. A treaty of peace has heen signed by the wa ing ailroad factions at Yankton, Sioux Falls will vote Febriary 9 on the proposition of giving aid to the Bur ton, Cedar Rapids & 3 rey 1o fuel question. The contrivance is and ean be fitted to acook stove, ] renchman arrived s ago and ¢ quite a sef nsation by announcing that he had heen sent by the half- brocd and In: dian followers of Louis Riel to purchaso I arms and make other general uprising nest an well has heen tested found to run_ 9,000 in twenty-four hours, uck at 965 feet, but sinee the extra piping has been taken out adepth of 1,002 feet has been reached, with a flow of 10,000 barrvels a day, which i actory to everybody, Wyomi Governor Wa tion of the ter 40,000 in five ye the popula~ 5,000, 0 guin of has recommended ke steps looking to sitol building. ins & Hm Sseveral counties 1s _Sixty-nine territorial conviets ave con- fined in the Joliet penitentiary, where they are ke 1.! for their labor, ani nine in the Nebraska penitentiar, Will 11, Kent, forme II\ uf Omaha, has l'ul'mll the wl»lumn,v of the ¢, owing to 11l hes |l1 lmlnn» L\]u s the v The assessed v has inere has decre mill the pr T “That was a queer game of pok Vi had ont in Towa the other day,”” said the drammer, s he took some célluloid chips ont of his pocket and put them away his grip; “Sam Slocum, of Omahs two or three more of us were amusi ourselves with a little grine of draw « sped along through the l'mt\ s00n we m.,v,n-.l at nd waited long time While we were there juck-pot for $10, y stayed, ©After the deaw 1 bet $10 more, and everybody dropped out but Sum.” He got his hands on his chips as if he meant to sec e, when a man who had just come into the car, calied out: ‘Here's a telegram for Samuel Slocum.’ Al right,” says Sam, opening the en- slope and loo ing at his message, a smile coming on his face, ‘I w woing to call you, but now I'il see your $10 and raise’you the hmit. I give “you fair l\vul'l)in;;‘ that 1 have a vemarkable and,’ 40 don't hand is,” says more to see wh “AI'm your with an- other chitckle 1 vaise you another back this hand with my life.' % That’s o nice blull, T retorted, ‘but youw've struck the wrong customer, Il el you.” “And at this T was so excited that T threw down my hand showing. three tos.! L nice hand,” said Sam, ing it over and chuc ling again in u Wiy that was quite sperating to me, ‘but it is no good. Gentlemen,' he went on, ‘I've just made one of the most remsrk- AR T et TR (o, took four cards, and now I hold three pair hllln station big how remarkabte your will cost you just yve got.” ys Sam, look- n you have six cards,” I , ‘aid the pot is mine.’ ot so fast,” s Sum, coolly; ‘I two pairs—of scven spots—and ex- haye 1l “And here he handed us the telegram, grinning like a monkey. The telegram wvin hmxlmm to your wife this morning. All well.” *Sam took the pot, guess but hefore the ad spent ythivd pai duy overy in - The Bank Statement, New Yous, Jan. he weekly bank statement shows foltuwing changes: Reser nerease, 51,0 “I'he banks now hold oLs i legal require- ments, A yvell-dress 1 young man, styling himself 2. Whitney, bias swindled the hinks of Kan- sus City ont of 314,000 on drafts purporting 10 be sfizned by Dutaba banks. SNEEZE‘ SNEEZE! i until yo eems ready to 1y o 10se and o s of r head Catuirh, ly relioved b slugle dose, iind pormanently urcd hy of Saxvoith's HADICAL CUIE Ok Coniplete Treatment with Inhaler, 81, 00. One bottle Rudical Cure, one box Catarr Solyent, and G | |vu\u| inhaler, in one pac ull drugglsts for $LO). B varp's Bonioac Coks s only absolufe speciic w host: we hay fi“l\ Dr long striggle wi [ u Cuks has con I. L one bottlo CATARIM, know ¢ found in a life- . Wiggin, Boston. i he Itani: W. Mu uns , mot fouind b caso. hat oo (Andrew Leo, Mune thist uppeals to overy orta isu, Who fluds ters und linim him. %o such t PALY PLASTE is 40 elogint and nov Lailing e of r banishing vhouin neuralgtd, sciafic, suddens,, ini ey puins s by nagle. Now \ (e AL drugglsts, 2. v illed fice, POTTER DUUG