Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 13, 1886, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE DMATIA OF P11, NO. 014 AND 916 FARNAM St NEW Yok OFrice, Roos 05, TRIBUNE BUILDING WASHINGTON OFFicr, NO. 618 FounTeestn 81, Publishod overy morning, except Sunday. The Only Monday mornink paper pribiished i the staie. mn Yonr. . Monthe.. . 5.00 One Month o WeRKLY Bir, Published Evory Wednesaay. TERMS, POSTPAID, §:e Year, with preminm TERNE BY MAIL: $10.00 Threo Months, 0 Yenr, without pi x Montli fthout p One Month, CORREEPO) oR: All communfeations relating to news and o1i- tters should bo addressed to the Eot- DURINESE LRTTERS: All bu tinees Iotters and remittances should be wodrossed 10 THE TEE PUBLISHING CONPANY, AA, Drafis, checks and postoflice orders 10 be made payablo to the order of the company. THE GEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS. E, ROSEWATER, Epiton. Frow ried in th orn on the corsage or car- 1d have gone out of fashion This will be good news several Senator Van Wyck has in- troduced a bill for & hund thousand doltar public building in that thriving city. Dr. MitLer is not a square deale He deals from the bottom of the pac whenever he gets an opportunity. His double-dealing method in letter-writing proves that. Crests are now in style. ‘The Herald ghould promptly swinginto line. Wesug- gest a cipher dispatch couchant on a pork barrel rampant with the motto, “I endorse no man,” Tue Herald admits that ‘‘doubtless Morton is at work,” but adds, “where is the fruitage of it all? Has he become infecund and impuissant?” We give 1t up. Ask us something —_—— MANY of the Missouri Pacific annuals that are being distributed in the First congressional district by Church Howe are being returned to him. *“Cry not the pass”, the old man said. It won't work in this distri During fourteen years consumers in this country have been taxed $117,271,000 as the result of the enormous tariff on steel rails. All this money has gone into the hands of protected rail-makers and has been added to the cost of our facil- ities for transportation Some people think Dr. Miller ‘Washington, but we are led to believe he is in Omaha. The Herald’s savage assault upon Inspector Robinson, to whom it applies the epithets of skunk, ruflian, infamous blackguard, rascal, character- assassin - and chancrous excrescence, would in e that the doctor is at home —perfectly so. The elegance of expres- sion is peculiarly the doctor’s own. HANcock's death reduces the list of living ex-candidates for presidential honors to six. Of the ropublicans only John C. Fremont, Rutherford B. Haycs, and James G. Blaine survive, while all the democrats arg dead save Horatio eymour, Samuel J, Tilden and Grover Cleveland, 1tis a remarkable fact that elght candidates nominated more recent- 1y than Fremont are dead, and that both candidates in 1876 still live, while the two nominated four years later are gone from earth. WaEN the change in the house rules was agitated the public was informed that a division of the appropriation bills among separate committees would groat- 1y hasten the work of reporting these measures to congress for action, More than two months have passed but only one, the pension bill, has been reported and this comes from Mr. Randall’s com- mittee. Ttis noted that in the short ses- sion of the Forty-seventh congress ten of the bills, and in the short session of the Forty-eighth, eight ot them had been re- ported before this date in February. Pk ndvantages of manual training s an adjunct to theoretical education are now generally admitted, and a number of our larger cities have added courses in handiwork to the usual school cur- rioulum. In New York, owing to the fallure of the board of education to pro- wide for manual training, a number of prominent educators and merchants have earried on a school of this nature by pri- wate subscription. The course includes mathematies, languages, natural sciences, metry, drawing, carpentrv, printing, cksmithing and , decorating. The pupils are boys, but classes of girls are received twice n week in the gymnasium and soroll-sawing room. The school num- bers thirty-three pupils and has a machine plant worth $10,000. Omaha has started an a small way a course in mauual train- ing, and the results are so satisfuctory that there is every reason why the facil- ities should be extended. Tae plans of the Union Pacific for rail- road extensions in Nebraska have not been made public, but General Manager - Callaway is reported as hinting that his regent purchases of rails will lay 400 miles of new track and that a large portion of this amount will be planted in Nebraska, At will not do for the Union Pacifle man- ers to wait for the passage of the Hoar ;fll before meeting the competition which i8 tapping their territory at a score of nts. Both the Burlington and the jorthwestern systoms are aggressively pushing into and across the coun- try north of the Platte which for yoars the Union Pacific claimed and held as its own peculiar property The transcontinental trafiio is now di- vided up among four competitors, the Deuver and Colorado businessis sphitinto half a dozen pieces and the cattle carry- ing trade has passed into other hands. If the Union Pacitic permts its local bus- iness to be wrested from its control, iv might as well shut up shop at once. Yor these rensons we incline to the belief that the instinet of self preservation will force the company to extensive building in Ne- braska during the coming scason. Not- withstanding the repeated sworn state- aents of Tom Kimball to the legisluture thgt the loeal business of the Union Pa- gifie scarcely pays oxpenses; the govern- ament directors scem to be convinced to the contrary and are urging cbntinued ~ extensions of local lines in order to save b #the roud from bankruptoy, Here's a Pretty Howe-dy-do. For a man who has retired from poli- tics Church Howe is pretty handy with a railroad pass-book. In his capacity as a Missouri Pacific contractor he has moved the executive department of that railway from St. Louis to North Auburn, Neb., and this explains why he is flooding the First congressional district with annual passes, accompanied with the following laconic note: ixecutive department Missouri Pacifie railway, North Auburn, Neb,, Feb. —, 1836, Dear Sir: Please acknowledge receipt of enclosed, Yours ¢, Chiureh Howe.” We congratulate izens of North Auburn upon the I of the Missouri Pacific head- quarters to that place, but if Church Howoxpects to reach congross by the Missouri Pacific route he will find him- eelf sidetracked. The wholesale dis- tribution of annuals will not give him the right of way to Washington. His generosity is a little too thick, and soma of the passos which he has placed in Omaha, where he thought they would do the most good, are being returned to him. Mr. Howe is a vocy cunning politi- cian, but we advise him not to re-enter the arena of active polities after having announced his retirement. Whether the Missouri Pacific management will por- mit its annual pass-hooks to bo used for Church Howe's political schemes remains to be seen. Wages of Wives. v York Sorosis have come to the opinion that wives should bo paid regular wages by their hushands for porforming household and carrying lousehold responsibilities. The subjoct opens up a wide field of d tressing possibilities. Of course the by gain for compensation would have to be made before marringe. Otherwise a number of men would be heartloss enough to declhine to enter into such an engage- ment after the nuptial knot was firmly fastened, The embarrassment of con- ducting negotiations tor the payment of labor to be performed in the future with no definite knowledge of how extensive it was to be or how capable the employe was to per- form it, can at once been seen. Some one would be very likely to get the best of the bargain, and the knowledge of this fact would add another cause of irri- tation to the usual amenities of married life. Naturally, disagreements as to terms would arise, and if an arbitrator were called in the mother-in-law would certainly be on hand to place her esti- mate on the value of her daughter's ser- vices. The ardent lover and pro- spective husband could not well de- cline the decision whatever it might be, or sccure rele: from the engagement if it turned out to be a bad bargain. Tho Sorosis scem to have made no provision for rises and falls in the home labor market or for a sliding scale of wages adjusted to the emptiness or fullness of the husband’s pocketbook. The question of the frequency of pay- ment, whether weokly or monthly, now so freely discussed in the Massachusetts mills, is not settled in advance here as it should be. In fact, the decision of the New York sisters is made upon such in- dofinite terms that its adoption gen- erally would be quite a domestic misfortune. Unless all the conditions and qualifications of this scheme arc more clearly defined we must decline to en- dorse it on behalf of our readers. The labor problem is complicated sufficiently at present without adding to it the cer- tainty of strikes in the parlor, lockouts in the front hall, and coercion in the dining room, all of which would follow the general adoption of the plan pro- posed. The Ne revolution WEe are forced to take issue with the Herald upon the value of a wood block pavement laid on plank and sand. Even conceding that the blocks are of the best, the foundation evenly laid, and the topping of blocks properly constructed, the life of such a pavement is short. It soon rats and sags and is more diflicult to replace in its original condition than if the foundation were a rigid one. The best wood pavement in the world is used in London with the blocks thoroughly creosoted, laid on a concrete base, with water-tight joints, All other wooden pavements have proved in the end unsat- isfactory in all oases where travel is heavy or frequent repairs to underlying pipes have been necessary. The grave objections to a wooden pavement are its porosity which causes it to retain moisture and fluids, its short life, the dit- ficulty of repairing it properly, and the trouble which it makes when changes aro required in the water and gas mains below its foundation. The conclusions of the best paving experts are that stone is tho most durable paving material, the easiest to repair, and the most conyenient to disturb and roxirl:wo. that asphalt takes the second place in these particulars and that wood falls into line last. For all this, wooden pavements have the heavy advantage of cheapness and of noiseless- ness. The best laid wooden pavements will last for from five to eight years on streets of moderate travel, ———— Other Lands Than Ours, Parlinment stands adjourned until the 8th inst., in order to afford the members of the cabinet taken from the commons an opportunity to obtain a re-election, The recess has been marked by three notable events, the speech of Mr, Morely on the policy of the government, the rioting in London, and the reported split in the Irish parliamentary party. Mr. Morley's speech boldly proclaimed that coercion had failed in the past and that the government would now adopt the only policy by which the great problem can be solved. He intimated that the first step would be a bill introduced by Mr. Gludstone to stop evietions in [re- land, that this would be followed by home rule und land purchase bills, the two be- ted to cach other, as were the and redistribution of seats The suceess of the latter bills, one a conservative and the other a liberal measure, will give prestige to the inter- dependent home rule and land purchase bills. A great deal of curiosity is ex- cited as to the scope of Irish logislation now maturing in the mind of Mr. Glad- stone. The use of the national eredit in buymg small holdings, the strict limita- tion of evictions and the scheme to force landlords to sell off their estates in small parcels, are the main features of the Glad- stonian plan as understood by his political friends. Such a plan of returning a peo- ple to the soil is nothing more nor less than a social and economic revolution brought about by the point of the pen in- ] stead of the sword. When the public demanded a railway from London to Edinburg, certain lands were condemned and & way secured. The question is, how will it work to condemn the whole land system of a grand division of the empire in order that a people may have the right of way? This is indeed advance ground, but is much better and more just than Prince Bismarck's plan of first buying a people out and then kicking them out. Tt means Ireland for the Irish, politically and cconomically, local government and local ownership of land. w"s The London riots of Monday and Tues- day will no doubt prove a serious embar- rassment to the government when it meets noxt weck. The tories are pre- paring to ply it with questions as to the eficiency of the home office, which failed to suppress the mob before it had dam- aged property to the amount of a half a million dol and there will be strong pressure brought upon the ministry to provide prompt means for farnishing work to the unemployed by the expendi- ture of large sums of money in public im- provements. As this means fresh taxa- tion, the probability of further separation of the whig property interest from the radicals is imminent. e The vote of the French chamber of deputies to sell the crown jewels, and to devote the proceeds to the establishment of homes for aged workingmen, is good poetie justice and fair enough democracy. The hard hands of the people earned the money that hought these treasures, and they can well be turned to account now that crowns are no longer the fashion in Tho voto is 1 particulurly char- ic declaration of confidence also * e All seoms quict along the Balkans for the present, at least. A Turco-Bulgarian agreement has been entered into, which confirms the appointment of Prince Alex- ander as permanent governor of eastern Roumelia; provides for mutual help to repel a foreign invasion, and gives Tur- key control of some Mussulman vil in Roumelia by means of a commi appointed under the ction of Prin Alexander. In other respects the agree- ment is drawn up in accordanee with the provisions of the Berlin treaty. Mean- while the Greek government, replying to the second note from the powers, say it considers any restraint offered to the free disposal of the Hellenic forces incom- patible with Greek independence, and therefore declines responsibility for an eventual conflict. Turkey supports the demand of Bulgaria for a war indemnity from Servia. e The general elections in Canada take place within the next two weeks, and, like the people of the parent country, the Canadians have to deal with a new elec- tion law. Heretofore, it seems, people who earned their living in one place and lived in another have been enjoying the advantage of a double sufirage. They could vote on their incomes in the city, for instance, and on their residence quali- fications in the suburbs. The new law does away with this peculiarity and con- fines the franchise exclusively to the residence distriet. e In view of the expulsion of 30,000 Rus- sian and Austrian Poles from the eastern provinces of Prussia, and Bismarck's dec- laration that the Prussian government intends to drive out the large Polish land-owners by buying up their estates and converting them into small holdings at a perpetual rental, it may be of some interest to know the proportion the Pol- ish population bears to the total popula- tion in their respective districts. There are in all 12,684,000 Poles, of whom 7,000,- 000 live in Russia, 8,280,000 in Austria and 2,454,000 in Prussia. In the latter country only the four eastern provinces are inhabited by Poles, ana in only one of them—Posen—are they in the major ity, the proportion being: In East Prussia, 1,434.000 Germans, 850,000 Poles; West Prussia, 936,000 Germans, 470,000 Poles; Posen, 810,000 Germans, 890,000 Poles; 8,168,000 Germans and 740,000 Poles; in the aggregate 6,348,000 Germans and 2,450,000 Poles, or seventy-two Ger- mans to twenty-eight Poles in a hundred. As will be seen, the German population outnumbers the Polish nearly three to one, and it appears strange that, such being the case, the moral weight and in- fluence of the majority, assisted as it is by its higner civilization, should not be suflicient to Germanize the minority, and that so broad measures as the expulsion of whole families—widows and even orphans—involving the destruction of great business interests, should haye been found necessary. After many months of exasperating warfare, conducted in guerrilla fashion, and at an immense expenditure of money and with great loss of life, the French hayo at last concluded a treaty with Madagascar, & consummation that might have been reached without spending a dollar or losing alife. It now remains to be seen how long the French will be able to maintan in Madagascar a doubt- ful advantage gained at such cost, against the combined intrigues of English and German agents, w*e There is no doubt some truth in the r port that there is an Austro-German movement quietly gathering strength for union with the German empire. The steady absorption of Slav races by the Hapsburg dynasty has disturbed the Ger- man subjects of Franz Josef, and Bis- marck has given every encouragement to the Austro-German desire for unity. In- deed, his persistent programme has been to give Austria every opportunity to ex- tend her bounds nto the Balkan pen- insula and make her a Slav pow When the proper time arrives the wan-speaking provinees in the west will be taken into Fatherland without much ceremony. * e Mr. Gladstone’s accession to power is not unlikely to strengthen the purpose of the Greeks not 20 be quiet withouta I accession of territory from Turk more than one occasion he has expressed hiwsel( as favorable to the extension of ¥ 'lenic rule over a very large part of Macedonia, and his well-known partiality for Greece will encourage them to hope and act. Yet when asked by the people of Athens what advice he would give Greece in the present conjecture, he very strongly dissuaded them from acting counter to the representations of the great powers. There may be a war, aud the powers may or way not leave Turkey to its fate as they did in the case of Bul- garia. If there be a war, England at lenst will not unite 'in ‘acts for the sup- pression of Greek claims and activities, e The German government proposes to make the manufacture and sale of spirit- uous liquors in Germany a monopoly and constitute itself that monopoly. This is another long step in the direction of con- verting the empire into a huge despotism, but there is no doult that the German people will submit to this new piece of tyranny as quictly as to preceding ag- gressions. There is not'likely to be an) material change in the poliey of the Im- perial government during the life of Emperor William, but the crown prince is said to be unfriendly to the chancellor, and it is barely possible that a change in policy may come with a change in sover- eigns. - The fact that the Chinese emporor re- quests the pope to send a representative to the court of the Celestial kingdom 18 not an indicatlon that China is being Christianized, but t its government is learning some of the tricks of ecivilized diplomacy. France is at present posing in the east asthe guardian of Catholie interests, and the Clinese government has had enougn of France and French in- erence. 1f the pope has a ropresenta- tive resident at Pokin, this august person- age will have general supervision of Christians and Christian interests, and the influence of France will be graatly ro- duced. Thisis the real meaning of the emperor’s invitation, which is therefore not intended as a hint that the millions of China are reaay to turn from heathenism. T anybody in the First congressional district wants an annual pass over the Missouri Pacific, he can get it by apply- ing to Church Howo, retired politician, “exceutive department, Missouri Pac railway,” North Auburn, Nob, torR ROBINSO: idently a hard case. He declines to back Post- master Morgan of Kearney and was ap- pointed under the last administration. e CONGRESSIONAL GOSSIP, Senator John F. Miller, of California,now dying, i8 worth £6,000,000. Senator Leland Stanford is put down as a staunch supporter of woman suf Senator Chase, of Rhode Island, who isa great cotton manufacturer, says raw cotton is dearer now than it was before the war, Speaker Carlisle is a great joker. He seems to have appointed Mr. Dunn chairman on American shipbuilding because he hails from Ark, A correspondent, writingof Senator Black- burn, of Kentucky, says you don’t have to wait till after dinner to find him in genial mood, Perry Belmont studies 'so hard that a cor- respondent says he has 'mental dyspepsi He rides horseback occasjonally and avoids soclety, £ Representative Henderson of South Caro- lina advocates two .sessjons of cong yearly. Some men never know when they have enough. There are some hearty eaters in the house. A number of them are.centented with simple bread and milk, but others are found order- ing a full course of dinner: Congressman Tim Campbell, of New ork, is said to furnish as much fun in Wa shing- ton as Sunset Cox used to, though in a some- what different way. Nearly all the senators, in pronouncing eulogies on Hendricks, read from manu- seript, in a very nonotonous way. Spooner of Wisconsin was the notable exception, When Senator Evarts sits down in the large chair specially provided for Senator Joe Brown, of Georgia, he is said to look likea very thin nubbin in a very big hus Congressmen who are known to be opposed to further silver coinage are furiously berated for not speaking out. They ought not to be blamed, however, for keeping thelr fingers from under a trip-hammer. Perry Belmont, of New York, is one of the most particular men who come into the house restaurant. His order must be cooked ex- actly as he orders It, otherwise he will not touch the dish when its set before him, Speaker Carlisle has his meals scrved in the speaker’s room. He is a dainty eater,and while he consumes but little yet he is fond of a complete assortment. The speaker usually washes it down with some rare old wines. Librarian_Spofford says the congressmen generally draw on him for the writings of Alexander Hamilton. James ist, and other works treating of constitu- tional subjects, They also read poetry, Shakspeare being the favorite, Congressman Robertson, of Kentucky, is the oddest member about his food. He is extravagantly fond of onions, Usually he ordersa large dish of theso vegetables cut raw and eats them all with wonderful relish. No matter how crowded the house restaurant is Robertson always las an entire table to himself, —_—— Our Foreign Trade. Buffalo Express, At present we are supplying France with frogs. No doubt very soon we shall be ship- ping fogs to Londol AR i A Butler Reminiscense, Chicago Jowrnal. Tt will be recollected that Gen. Butler was one of the most conspicuous speculators in Credit Mobilier stock, when it was placed by Oakes Ames *‘where it would o the most good,” SN Only One Coclitail. Atlanta Constitytion, President Cloveland has been during most of his lite *‘a man of the world” and a social drinker. Some fellow saw hia taking o cocktail during the campaign and made a sensational dispateh about it. He was never much of a drinker, and mow takes wine only at dinner and then in great moderation, e They Are Murderers. Washingron Star, 1t will be diffieult to explain why the out- law Apache chief, Geroniuo, should not be treated like any other gut-thioat who gives himself up to pursuing justice when the chase behomes too hot. It is ridiculous to treat this bandit and hisgaug as a “nation.” They are murdorers. Howard and Te St, Paul Pioncer Press. ‘The death of Gen Hancock and the immi- nent retirement of Gen. Pope will bring into the highest permanent rank in the army the only two brigadiers left in it who were so conspicuous for thelr services during the war as to have received the thanks of con- gress. The ranks of the heroes of the civil war have been sadly thinned in twenty years of peace. s T Eugene Field W a Consulship. St, Louis Republican. Maj. Eugene Field, of 1llinols, formerly of Missouri, will, it is understood, make appli- cation for a consulship in some quiet place like Nice, where he can complete his forth- coming book of short stories. Unfortunate- 1y, Mr. Field is a republican, but his brilliant services 1o the poople of Missouri as a war correspondent at Jefferson City should count as something in his favor. vl Ao Avout the Size of It Philadetphia Call, Pl 68 other handles that time to tell, Came into Yankeedoodledum For money by his blow Ujon a most stupendous point 1e'd have us all to know. Wepull him from the steamer and We fold him to the hearty We dine and sup and ball Kim With the most consummate art; We fil i till and pay his bill For grub and boat and car We name the collar, cuff and coat From this potential star, The universities of fame Implore him to reveal That wonderful, gigantic thought No mortal shonld conc “The halls are packed, t T'he giant takes the flo And talls the gr Ameriean That—two and two are four. The Women Who Work, New York Commercial Advert The chaptor of the recent report of Commissioner Charles I, Peck, of the state bureau of statistics of labor, which he has devoted to “Working Women, their Trade ges, Homes and Social ents a pitiful picture of lation in this city that zatiou. In all trades, exeept a few in which the female laborers are organized, man is given the advantage in work and wages over the woman, and all such con- tingencies o temporary lack of work and partial cutting down of s are borne by the weaker sex. In the sewing trades particular crimination against woman’s work is di astrously common, and the report in- forms us that in many of tho branches necks are craned, misc isad as the report ¥ only a suflicient ) oul together or the other eight, Ce i r Peck shows that a sewing woman i ed to compete, not o 1,‘- with those of her own sex who sew for home occupation, with inmates of charitable institutions, who work for nearly nothing and are support- ed rdless of this labor, but with a large army of ng men, who are bet- ter pad for the same work, or who hire her and her earn their wages as well as her own, The report insts the tailor's trade in particular, and that out of her pitifully smail’ woman pays for the gas, rent and insur- ance that are avoided by the manufac- turer and the two middlemen—the con- tractor and the ‘‘sweater’—all three of whom virtually live upon her labor. The manufacturer of clothing gives his work in bulk to a contractor; the con- tractor lets it out in parts to various “sweaters’-—so called because it is upon the veritable sweat of the working womun that they 1i nd these sweai- ers employ women at starvation rates to do the work that has passed through so many hands, each one grasping o greater percentage of payment than will come to the woman after the Labor 15 complete. She takes the work to her miserable tenement home, paying one- quarter of her earning for the use of a fl,u.gle wrefched apartment, besjdey pyr- chasing the machine with which Sne labors, paying for the fuel and oil to warm und light hér roem, and” insurance on the material she works upon, less fire in the rookery she inhabits bring loss to her taskmaster. She is paid $1.50 per dozen for making trousers, and fifteen cents each for mak- ing vests. Two women, by the utmost application, through long hours of labor, can 1 one lady’s cloak, for which they will receive onc dollar, or fifty cents each. Commissioner Peck inadveriently on- tered a room on the attic floor of a wretched rookery in Hester street, where he found himself in the midst of a num- ber of cloakmakers. Ho says ““The room was possibly ten feet square, The ceiling was low and slanting, and its only source of light was through the be- grimed panes of glass of a small gable window opening out onto the roof. In these cramped quarters were six women and four seving machines. Piled up on the floor were stacks of clothes ready to put together. The air was stifling to one not acclimated to a temperature well up in the nineties and odoriferous with sewer aa The women were scantily clad, their hair was unkempt, and their pale, abject countenances, as they bent oyer their work, formed a picture of physiczl suffering and want that I certainly have before, and_trust that T may n be compelled to look upon. working asif driven by somo unséen power, but when I learned that they were enabled to earn but fifty cents for sixteen,and perhaps more hours'labor per day, it needed no further investi tion to convince me that the unscen power was the necessity of broad for their own and their children’s mouths, Inquiry elicited the that the strong smell of sewer g seemed to permeate every crevice i broken plaster that still clung in patche on the walls and filled the room with a sickening stench, came from the sink in an adjoining apartment, Curiosity led me to venture within this ‘inside’ room. It was without ventilation or light, save that which came through the door con- necting it with the front room, and it was only after standing several minutes that I could distinguish the black lines of the walls and sink from which rose in clouds the deadly gas. Upon the floor was spread a mattress, which in appear- ance partook of the general filth to be roughout the whole building up; and it was upon such a in such quarters that three rs, tired and weary with the work, and with n scanty, if any, per, threw themselves down to sleep and awaited the coming day's ful toil for bread!" Hugo, Tourgueniefl, or Dickens ever drawn n picture of misery more terrible than thi An anonymous lnlmphl calied *“The Bitter Cry of Juteast London,” two years ago, stirred the British metropolis’ as it had never been stirred before by a si appeal; but that narvati 1 not contain n sin- 2zle instanc hip or suftering so extreme as this related by the labor com- missioner. If the report were published and distributed by some of our local charitable organizations, New York ight be awakened to a sense of the op- pression with which its working women are borne down, e iy A MONTE BOY. A Youthful Manipulator of the Three Cards Who a New York Mail and well-regulated club m this Sorosis, is said to have its it will never be known how much money is lost and won at games of chance in single night, much less in a_month or u year. An old gambling device has been newly introduced which the watehful pa- trolman has failed to supp This is ing more or less than the game of te, which is being con- played in the hall-ways of busi- ness houses m the down-town districts. Ahose who eonduct the game are over- srown Italian boys, who -y blacking tux«*-& on their shoulders as a pretense by which to deceive the pohice. For some time past a gentleman ( mu,Tl a large busi- ness in Park place was much aunoyed by a gung of old and young men who crowdod the entrance of his place. The police were at last called in, but the gam- Lh scouts g them timely warning. Frank Georgor, one of the engineers of the business, was arrestod and sent 1o the bed and cloakma Express: work house. He made the astounding statement in court that nis share of the three-card monte gain per diem rarely fell below §7. Before the youthful gambler was re- moved to his new quarters up the river a reporter had a talk with him. Hoe is a bright-looking young fellow, and_rather seemed to like his position, intimating that it wonld make him a hefo among his fellows. He was born in Oak street, this city, and speaks English well, but with a foreign nccent. According to his statoment ho is nearly 18 years of age, although he looks five years younge and has been engaged in the three-c monte game for over cight years, during which time he has made money enough to bring dozens of his relatives to this country, and from whom in course of time he gets his money back with a handsome bonus or interest. “There are as |\|1I|\?' as fifty Ttalians that I know of engaged in this business They all earry blacking-hoxes, so as to wceive the cops, The reason we uscd to congregate in the hally 3 houses was that it was e . Some would go up-stairs as if looking for a customer, and others would \\'u|t outboldly as though thoy had just fin- ished a job." “What class of people played most with you?" was asked, “Difterent kinds Young clerks and bookkeepers patronized us largely. Some of those arc only paid once a " week, and v we used to get them was_ this, fore their pay day we would let them win a stake or two, but you bet we ot it back when pay day came. The hangers-on at Washington market also great lovers of the game, and we used to skin them beautifully.” “Ts it true that you used t0 make from hare?” between four of L had $100 to divide. T doesn’t come often, During the Christmas holi- days was our best time." “You were arrested for swindling some How did you succeed with “They are easily gulled. You shuflle the cards slowly at first, show him the ace a fow times, and he becomes so ¢ tain that he ean pick it out that he will wager anything from his boots to the quid of tobacco in_his mouth that he can name the eard. Then they o easily managed, and, by letting them wi or twice, but taking it from them a they go away contented, saying that it is their unlucky day.” “Are there any of your patrons who win often from you? “There is a butcher in Washington Market that we had to rule out, but we made lots of money from countrymen in the market.” DIARY OF A BURGLAR. He Put Down the Rich Places of Earth as Fast as He Spotted Them. N. Pollard was arrested the other night in Pittsburg for burgla In his pocket s found a queer « nd book of ref- ence. ‘Lhe mind of the writer seemed to run on the rich places of the earth. Diamond, turquoise and gold mines are jumbled up curiously with the residences ot many rich men, both native and for- cign. The volume, an ordinary-looking book, is prefaced with the statement: 1 have thought it necessary to wi my namo and address taking into cor ideration the uncertainty of human life. 1 wjs born in Burgessville, Oxford coun- Janada, (the present residence of Alfred Pollord) in the y 9th of March) 1866 was christ Norman Clark Polla ‘This is followed b, ertions to the fect that in the valley of the Santee ri in Peru, is o great gr: d very cient. ~Also, the statement that N Nelly Harrison goes to Boston onco a month from New York. A personal ex- perience is e follows: Tn the year 1885 it became necessary 2o to a hospital. I found thatthe dif ent nations were represented as follows Ircland, 13; Amenien, 8: German England, 1; Scotland, 1; Cana colored, 1. The richest man in the world is Han ua, living in Canton, China. Frankfort-on-the-Main has more rich people than any other city of the same size. John W. Clark, Third and Market strects, McKeesport, has a very old book, if he has not disposed of it. Gold and silyer bought at 1,642 Ninth avenue, third flat, New York. Just boyond the Lorimer street hridge, in Denver, is a shop for the manufacture of tools. Human hair, bought at 60 Market strect, New York Georgo Kabrick, a very rich man, lives “1_\ ‘ll(m)h!c) Mountain, Mineral county, Santa b a turquoise mine. In the empire of Anam the Emperor keeps his money and n hollow logs in a pond with alligator The nuthorities think that Pollard is wanted in the east, but not so far cast us all that, o GRANT’S MILITARY SECRETARY. The Death of Gen. Rowley, the Inti- mate Friend of the Old Command Ggn.Wm. R.Rowley,of Galena, Iil.,who in Chicago on the 9th inst., was the last of the members of Gen. Grant's origi- nal staft tlurin¥ the rebellion, Gen. Rowloy was probubly more intimate with Gen, Grant from the time the latter en- tered the army in 1861 to the date of his death, than any other person outside of the old chief’s “immediate family, Their first acquaintance was dated from the night when the historie war meeting was held in Galena—April 16, 1861—at Which }l]lt!“! n) Capt. Grant presided. On the ollowing day Rowley and John A. Raw- lins, fired by the wav spirit, set out for the patriotic” little town of Hanover to hold a meeting similar to the one they had attended at Galena, and to open an enlistment roll for volunteers, They were accompanied l,_\v(".lpl,«. nt, who rode out with them for the purpose of aiding by his presence as an_ex-military man to further the interests of the gathering, It was on* this rht that Grant indulged in his remarkable prophecy concern- ing the ion inaugurated by the south ngwinst the north. On the way home, according to Gen. Rowley'sstatement, the contest just then opening was the chief subject of conver- sation, in which Rawlins and Rowley PR R R that fighting in their judgment would be of short duration, aud that the rel would sue for pe on almost any ¢ after thedivst decisive movement on the part of the fo government. G " said Gen. Rowley ha recent interview on the subject, wained silent and thoughtful during the greater part of U conversation, and when requested Rawlins to express his opinion in re, to the subject under consideration, | plied, in a_manner which strongly im- pressed itself upon the minds of both my- | self and Rawlins, maintaining that the | war would be a long and vigorons one costing thousands tpon thousands of i and millions upon millions of | treasure.” | 'HAMBURG - AMERICAN formed the basis of Grant's aspertion against Wallace for his failure to partici F‘““ the first day's fight at Shiloh. otwithstanding the partial retraction h)' Gen. Grant just before his deatn of his former criticism of Wallace Gen. Rowley believed and strenuously naintained whenever questioned upon the subject, that had this division comman- der obeyed the orders ho personally gave him, he could have gotten his force, com- posed as it was in the main of experlonced tioops, on to the field in ample time to have participated in the first duy's battle and prevented the disastrous defeat sus- i the union army under Grant., This_opinion was shared by Generals wlins and McPherson, who were sent by Grant to hunt up Wallace and sscer- tiin the cause of hisfailure to observe the orders he ha sent him. LATES When Gen, Grant was ing the greater part of 1880, ho mado Judge Rowley's office his headquarters, and was almost the constant companion of his old military secretary. The latter was the custoc for a time of most of the presents n to Gen. Grant while he was traveling abroad, and which were stowed in the family residence hore, nnd versonally superintended the packing und shipping of the articles to their own crin New York after the removal of the Grant family to that cit During the Jatter part of his old chief's illness he was furnished with almost ly reports from his sick-bed by Mrs. Grant and hor n Fred, and was from ing with the al in - his st hours by the protracted illness of . Rowley, and her ultimate death a days previous to the death of the general at Mount MeGrege The loss of his be- loved wife, together with the death of his old chief, preyed upon nis mind, and being far from” a physically vigorous man, he broke down under the weight of sadness with which his friends could I .inl{ see he was overwhelmed, and died from ten to twenty years sooner than he would have done, in the opinion of those who know him well, had the cir- cumstances above detailed been of a less trying natur Arehbishop Gibbons of Baltimore, is to bo made a cardinal. Forty-two per cent of the attendance at Michigan uni y are church menibers, ‘e Fijians have just been celebrating the ublico of the introduction of Ch nity nto the islands, ‘The latest catplogue of Andover Theologl- cal seminary has this summary: Resident centiatas, 31 advanced class, 12: senjor cluss, 13 middle class, 165 juniorclss, 10; total, A negro preacher in Cobh county, Ga.,puts a definite amount of his salary debt on each member of the congregation and when the; have no money he makes them work on his farm until they pay off the debt. The bishop of the Catholic diocese of Ful- da, Georze Kopp, has been avpointed a lifo meimber of the Ile\]wr house of the Prussian landtag. 1t is the first time a Catholic bish- op has thus been honored by Prussia. The Andover theological seminary has three Turkish students named Christakes Apostolus Derebey, Caspar Hagop Bulbulian and Hovhannes "Kervork Santikian. ho think that their nes are almost unspeakable. _ Rev. Dr. Henry J. Van Dyke, pastor of the Second Presbyterian church in Brooklyn, s been called to the chair of sy: ¢ v in the San Francisco se he severs his ties rty-three years’ standing to go west, Ereshyteriun, curch at Loch Ranza, Arran, Sec ds it hard to get the kingd of amin The last ecandidate was dismissed in short order because he with a frivolous eait. The elders I that his convel fon was all right, but nis walk was decidedly heretical, Fathier Le Pallieur, founder of the famous and beneficent or of the Little Sisters of the Poor, is still living in Pavis, where the order was started in 1540, His zolden jubilee was celebrated last month, The tivst sister, Marie Augustine de la Compassion, is residing in the mother house. There are now 240 houses and nearly 4,000 sisters within the order. Politics, it appears, can have a beneficial effect on religion, sometimes, Rev. Dr. Sun- derland’s church in Washington, for in- stance, is just now onj]o)'lllz a boom in the president’s favor and attendance. A year ago the church was poorand behind in its expense account, but the president’s regular patronage has changed all this, At t nual meeting the other day a | in receivts from rents and contributions wasreported. Dr. Sunderland’s salary was raised and provision was made for a paid choir. ———— In Japan wealthy owners of cats have a high respect for them even when they are dead. In Yeddo, at a recont eat’s funcral, the coffin was covered with a white silk 1 Festering, Watery and Raw from the Finger Tips to Wrist Cured by Cuticura, NTHE SPING of 184 an eruption appoarod on the backs of my hunds. 1 supposed I was poisoned by ivy. 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