Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 26, 1886, Page 4

4 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1886, THE DATLY BEE. OMATA OFFICE NO. 014 AND OT6FARNAM ST REW Y Ork Orr1ce, RoOM 8, TRINUNE BUTLDING Wassizaros Orrice, No. 513 Fourterstn 81, Pablished every mornine, excent Sunday. The only Monduy morning paper published in the #taie. TETNE BY WATL: $10.00 Three Months 500 Ome Month £2.50 1.00 o Yoar. ... ix Monthe. Tar WeekLy Bre, Published Every Wednusday. TERMS, PORTEAID: 6 Yonr, with premium : Year, without premium ix Mchithe, without premium 0 Month, on trinl £2.00 i COMMESPONDENC Al communieations relating to_ news and edi- torinl matters should be addressed to the Epr- HOR OF “HE DEE. nees ghomld bo %0 COMPANY, Al bu tiness ot cssed 10 THE 1A, Drafts, 10 be made payabl THE BEE PUBLISHING CONPARY, PAOPRIETR E. ROSEWATER. Epiron. ma. The nal 1 D Lessers is still at date of his sailing throngh the not yet been determined. Cyrrs p is rebuilding his dyna- mited Andre monument., Nest time the dynamite fiend may make a mistake and blow up Field instead of the monument, —_— NeBRASKA farmers propose to do their own eampaigning this year and to cast their baliots for men who will vote in cordance with the expressed wishes of their constituent Tue health officer of Nei annually reccives $30,000 in fee legislature proposes to make him whack up, otherwise it will abolish the fee sys- tem and put him on a moderate Tur crop of spi ning to make its appes 0 vent of March. Some of the candidates that will march in like a lion will go out like a Jamb before the end of the month. throughout the west report their stock in very fair condition. Re- ports in advance of the spring round-up are not worth much. An hour of actual count is worth a month of guesses in the cattle bus Lorp RAxpoLPH CAURCHILL has fin- ished his visit to Ireland, where he has been doing his best to arouse the Orange- men against home rule. When it comes to the fight which Churehill predicts, the Orangemen will not be on hand. Nearly half of Ulster is already Parnellite. TaE rumor that China has issned an imperial proclamation requiring all her subjeets in this country to return home before May 15 is denied. This is an un- pleasant surprise. The Chinese govern- ment would relieve the United States and itself from much future embarrassment by removing its coolics from our shores. TaAT there is an immense profit in the manufacture of gas is shown by the statement that on its capital of $2,000,000 the Washington Gas company has for twelve years paid an average yearly divi- dend of over 18 per cent. Gascompanies in other cities, Omaha included, make an average yearly dividend as large as that, KANsAs Crry is organizing a combina- tion of 500 business men to compel fair treatment by the railroads composing the southwestern pool, and the Zimes pre- dicts that “‘the first work of the Missouri legislature at its next session will be to break the railrond combination and re- duce charges to such a basis as will satis- £y the just demands of the people.” T New York assembly has passed a bill requiring the sale by cities of all streot railroad franchises to the highest bidder. This is getting down to business principles, If a franchise is worth any- thing to a corporation itis worth some- thing vo the ciyy. A considerable reve- nue canbe derived from such a ree, and be of material assistance in lighten- ing the burden of the tax-payers. Trr Chicago Current is to-day a better publication than it was under its former management, and this is saying n great deal. It is evidently prospering, as promise is made that it will be enlarged and otherwise improved at an early day. It is avaluatle literary publication, and should meet with liberal encouragement from the people of Chicago and the morthwest. SENATOR SEWELL, of New Jersey, is mot at all ashamed of his ownership by the Pennsylvanin Railroad company. Hoe ‘has written to the comptroller of that state in reference to the late decision of the supreme court declaring the railroad . tax unconstitutional and assures Lkim . that the Pennsylvania road will do the | wight thing. Mr. Sewell for years con- ““trolled the railroad lobby in New Jersey = and obtained or obstructed legislation in I mecordance with the wishes of his master. He was sent to the national senate to serve the same interest and is a promi- ment tigure in the group of millionaire * Jobbyists who represent the corporations ~ in the senate chambe ' — Pae real reason for the determination . of the St. Paul road to build an extension " to Kansas City s statod to bo the desi #ito divide up the vast Jumber business ~of which the St. Paul & Omaha has had 0 Y tical monopoly for some yeurs. The © Wall Btreet News, which has heen investi- b the matter, suys that the market the lumber which the St. Paul & Owmaha carnies i3 chiefly found _ in the region of which Kansas City is the - distributing center. The Milwaukee & * Bt. Paul alrcady taps most of the gi ~ lumber producing points of the St. & Omaha, but it has not the fucilities * of the latter road to reach the Kansas City markets, The division of this vich * Jumber business will injure the Omuha " yoad terribly, and the knowledge of what ‘was coming is undoubtedly the reason _ why the big insiders have for some time ’ unloading their sl The build- S of the Kaunsas City extension will a heavy biow also to the Chicago Northwestern, which gots a good deal " of the lumber haul, and for this reason it . s rumored that the Chicago & North- ‘wostern managers have under eonsidera- " gion the extension of the Omaha road | divest to Kansas City in retaliation for b action of the Milwaukee & St. Paul, is possible that the Jancoln extension the Elkhorn Valley road may be con- tod with this schewe, The Eastern War Clound. The situation in the Balkans is not im- proving as the days go by. Although the union of Eastern Roumelia is an accom- plished fact and Turkish opposition has y before the alternate threats and cajolery of diplomacy, the irritation resulting from the change in the map of southeastern Europe is still making it solf felt. Russia which had hoped to champion the union of the two provinces, in order to secure their assistance i her next struggle for po: ion of the Dar- danells, mnow finds the union only another obstacle to her am bition. Prince Alexander sei the provinee, proved himself a brave and pru dent officer in the field, and has added to his lanrels by a diplomatic stroke which has won Austria and England to his alli- ance and has bound Turkey and Bul- garia together for the defense of the Bal kans, The czar was outgeneraled in the war, earried to a successful close withont Russian officers, and he was outwitted in the diplomatic mancuvering which fol lowed. There are strong reasons for be- lieving that Russian intrigue is stimulat- ing the war fover i Greeee against Tur- key. In spite of all the warning notes of the powers, four times repeated, and the threat of blockade, persists in her determination to fight unless Turkey concedes to her the ter: tory granted her by the treaty of Berlin nearly eight years ago. The ministry promise to yield to the wish of Europe, but the Greeks scem determined to push King George into war whether he wishes itor not. Asthe Greek minister i Lone don recently declared, Greeece has noth- ing to lose by the stroggle. It could not leave her worse off' so fai territory is concerned than she now is, while the fear of dragging Europe into an eastern war might compel the powers to extort from Turkey the territory which belongs by treaty to G When the Cat's Away. Mr. Rosewater had scarcely turned his back on Washington before Senator Van Wyck introduced a bill fayorable to the Union Pacific. Mr, Rosewater is not doing his whole y by the country; he should camp with Van Wyck right through the ses- sjon, or the senior senator from Nebraskna will wreck the anti-monopoly party.— Herald. Mr. Rosewater was fully aware of the contents of Senator Van Wyck’s bill to authorize the Union Pacific to build branch lines in Kansas and Nebraska be- fore he left Washington. The subject was very thoroughly discussed by him with Senator Van Wyck and the measure had his unquahfied approval. Thero is no design now, and there never has been, on the part of anti-monopol the railroads. All they dem guards against railroad wrocke rates on honest construction and honest capitalization. The bill intro- duced by Senator Van Wyck embodies these provisions. While it permits the company to direct the sinking fund to the building of necessary feeders, it prevents all the abuses which in times past have well-nigh wrecked the company. There will be no watered stock and no duplex mortgage bonds, and there will be no construction ring if this bill passes. It was eminently proper that Senator Van Wyck should introduce this bill. It gives the lic to the assertions of the r organs that Senator Van Wyek is r ing the development of the state by op- posing everv measure which would ena- ble the Union Pacific to protect tory and give the people better r fucilities. The Gas Company’s Threat. The implied threat of the gas company to shut oft its supply for private consum- ers unless it is allowed to charge the old price for gas is ill advised and ill-timed. Our people are in no humor to be bull- dozed. The right of the mayor and council to regulate the price of gas is be- yond dispute. In granting the privilege to the gas company to use the streets and to establish what necessarily is a monop- oly in the supply of gas for illuminating purposes, the city ncquires the right to regulate the quality and price of the light furnished to consumers. The only restraint upon the exercise of this power is the right of the company to earn a reasonable income upon its invest- ment. If the price fixed by the council is unreasonably low, the courts will do- clare the ordinance void. The question is whether $1.75 per thousand foet is un- reasonable. Water gas can be manufac- tured in Omaha for 68 cents a thousand. At $1.00 per thousand the company would not only cover actual cost and interest upon capital invested but a very fair surplus for a rainy day. Grant that the company has been put to [ good deal of expense in rebuilding works owing to the growth of the city, and in relaying pipes on account of changes of grade, the fact remaing that Omaha, with its rapid growth and incrensing consumption, is a very profitable field for the gas company. It is not worth while to discuss the pro- pricty of leaving this city in the dark in order to nullify the gas ordinance. Such a course would bring about a reaction that would be much more damaging to the company than to the people in the long run, — Cheap John Paving. The latest attempt to boom wooden pavements comes through an interview with Mr.T.C, Bruner,whose membership of the board of public works is supposed to add great weight to his utterances, Mr. Bruner went to St. Paul, Chicago and Milwaukee and returns with a positive conviction that cedar block pavement is the proper material for Omala. These cities, Mr. Bruner says, laid many blocks of cedar block pavement last year and will continue to do so ‘Chis fact has always been All these cities and several others have squandered millions of dollars on wooden pavements against the advice of boards of public works, engincers nnd health officers and the protests of thew citizens, Had Mr, Bruner extended his trip to other citics whose experience in paving dates back a quarter of a century, be might have been able to reach more sound conclu- sions. The editor of the BRE has visited during the last six months, not only St. Paul, Minneapolis, Milwaukee and Chicago, but Detroit, cland, Buftalo, New York, Pliladelphia, Pittsburg, Alleghany. and Wash- ington. Tho city that has more wooden paved streets thun any . otber in America is Detroit, and Dotroit has the most wretehedly paved thoroughfares i this country. Michigan cedar is v clicap at Detroit, but the very best begius admitted. to aceay and sink within two years after it is laid, and its condition at the end of five years is rougher than the worst Phil adelphia cobblestone, The city of Cleve- land wasted about a million dollars in wooden pavements, but ste repented her folly. In Cleveland the soil is sand and the pavement can be readily cleaned, but onr Omaha mud will stick like cement. The which has not dropped wood as a paving mate The best that can be said for it is that it1s very cheap. It was the ex- treme cheapness of that ma 1 that induced the people of St. Panl, Minne apolis and Milwaukee to use wood. They don’t need a conerete base hecause their soil is gravel and nd. In Omaha, where cedar block pavement without a base, must at best be keshift, the wooden pave- be dearer in the end than Be 7 block granite. The Cheap John principle in paving 1s no different from the same principle in any other bus- iness, The dearest material in the begin- ning is the cheapest in the end. Wood will cost less for the first five years, but at the end of the first ten years the pro perty owner will have a perpetual paving tax hung to his neck which he can only vid of by replacing the wood with more durable material, with stone or asphalt laid on an eight inch concrete base, under a long-time guarantee of maint nce. Ten years hence Mr. Braner will not point with pride to his conclusions on the advantage of cheap wooden pavements. conercte a costly m ment will Tre removal of Inspector Robinson is jumped at by Dr. Miller’s paper as a glorious vindication of that dead beatand fraud, Postmaster Morgan, of Kearney. We are told that Postmaster General Vilas in sitting down on Robin- son has demonstrated to the people of Ne- braska that the Herald is a power with the postmaster gene As a matter of t Mr. Robinson is only one out of twenty-seven postoftice inspectors who have been relieved to make places for democrats, Mr. Robinson’s treatment of Morgan had nothing to do with the case. The Herald’s powerful influence upon Mr. Vilas is not discoverable in Wash- ington. He cares no more for the vaporings of that sheet than he does for the singing of an old tea-kettle. SENATOR LOGAN has introduced a bill to pension survivors of rebel prisons. Theve were 108,000 federal soldiers thus held by the enemy of whom about 60,000 died, leaving 48,000 for exchange. It is not believed that more than half this number are living. General Logan’s bill provides that those confined for two months and less than four months shall receive $2 per month; for less than six months’ confinement, $4; for six months and lessthan a year, $6, and $8per month for those confined one year orlonger, and ation for rations, quarters and 1 ottendance at the rate of %2 per uine case of civil reform in the promotion of Mr. Charl J. Brown. Mr. Brown has been in the inspector’s department of the postofiice for more than eight years. The only thing we fear is that in his ca in many others, civil service promotion is only to serve the temporary purpose of the democratic bosses. In any event Mr. Brown is by all means the best man among the twenty-seven new appointees, even if he doesn’t know the exact distance from the sun to Jupiter, and cannot name the rivers that empty into the Cas- pian sea. THERE is a ge THE Herald’s method of making politi- cal eapital for itself is an casy one. It counsists in demanding that republican federal officials must go and in claiming a victory when the oflicial guillotine finally reaches their heads. As there are many scores of republican postmasters, who have not yet been displaced in Nebraska, Dr. Miller's paper will b; plenty of op- portunity for eackling while the admin tration is getting in its work in these regions. Tur sudden death of Judge J. L. Mitchell, of Nebraska City, while attend- ing a reumon of the pioncer law-makers of Towa at Des Moines, will cause con- siderable surprise in this state, and especially in the Second judicial district in which ho presided as judge. The full account of the sad event will be found in our telegraph columns. NATOR VAN Wryck's bill to quiet titles acquired under the rulings of the land office made prior to Mr. Sparks’ appointment has been submitted to the land commissioner and mects with his ap- proval. The organ of the packing-house democracy just discovered that the Dbill is in existenco. It was introduced neurly six weeks agoand freely discussed at that time. —_— Ir is three weeks since Mr. Myers for- warded the detailed plans of the city hall to this city., They have been on file for this space of time in the oflize of the city engineer. It is singular that the atten. tion of the council hag not been calle this fact. [ building o} be begun this spring the matter ought to be taken up at once. Tue Uorald published on Wednesday a timely poem, giving advice to letter writers, ‘The opening lines are: All writers of letters this warning should take: You're sure to be caught, you're sure to be caught. Dr. Miller knows how it is himself, and no doubt appreciates the situation. Mu. BurckexripGge, of Kentucky, is 1 iz up the subjeet of adulterated liquors. The distinguished congressman finds & marked differonce between the bourbon of the capitol restanrant and the simon pure bugjuice of the blue grass region, — Mgi. Bruzek neglected to eall on the chairman of Chicago's board of public works, whose opinion of cedar block pay ment recently published was that the, had no redcoming quality except their cheapness. m— UNDERGROUND telegraph wires have not yet become fashionable this country, although in Germany Bismarck bas declared thut the Poles must go. m—— Tue Omaha Gas company threatens to shut off illumination if it cannot. collect its bills ut the old rate instend of at the « is not a city eastof the Alleghenies | reduced price. This may be said to be the very latest natural ghs discovery. THE FIELD OF INDUSTRY. T weeks past 2,000 hands at Gloversyille, Y., have been on a strike Employers generally are exhibiting a position to abide by arbitration. The Knights of Labor are taking in new assemblies at the rate of fifteen per working day. At Hamilton, Ontario. the manager of the Grand Trunk railroad has vestored the 10 per nt cut. 1t is estimated that there are 20,000 Knights in Montreal, where a fow months ago there was not a single one, New England manufactorers say there is a decided revival of business in the factory dis- triets of Connecticut, Riode Island and Mas- sachusetts, dis- thousand lroad have scheme of Sixty-five per cent of the forty employes of the Pennsylvania ¢ accepted the new life insurance the corporation, Coats & Co., of Philadelphia, Augusta, Ga., & cotton-spinning factory, with a capacity of 10,000 spindles. The firm find cheaper labor and motive power in Au- gusta. In the Otis Steel works, Cleveland, 30 acei- dents oceurred among 600 men in and up to the middle of last week cur- red this month. ‘I'he men pay their own sut- geon to pateh them together, Complaints are made in ) that the cotton spinning worse, Wages disputes continue. The cot- ton manufacturing trade, as distinet from spinning, is improving on all sides. Baltimore is the headquarters for the fertil izing trade. The total shipments last year from that point were over 800,000 tons. The business is rapidly improving, as farmers find it to their advantage to increase their ex- penses in this direction, The labor lyceums are crowded, and the lectures, as a rule, are studious presentations of the labor question, ‘Iliere is yery little ap- peal to passion or prejudice. The member- ship is taught that mere legislation can uc- complish but little, and that the real reform must come through education, intelligence and combination and the adoption of meas- ures for the ascertainment and enforcement of justice. Several inventors are devising improved clevated railways, The Nack elevated rail- way is one of the latest. Manufacturers of structural iron, who have been giving partic- ular attention to the possibilities of elevated railway building throughout the country, are of the opinion that the demand for this kind of milway bullding will vory er atly in- crease within the next twelve” or eiglteen months, The forty-five brick vards at Haverstraw have a capacity for 40,000,000 bricl “There are 2,000 men_employed beside the river carrying trade. Ninety-four barges and vessels are constantly employed in tr porting the products of these yards, 'They 12,000 tons will erect at is growing use 35,000 cords of wood per, of coal dust and 4,000 tons "« Two hund 1 costing $1,0:0 each, 3 year's outpub last ‘The other day two modest workingmen— one from a Michigan saw mill and another froma Hocking Valley conl mine—introduced themselves as members of the general exeeu- tive committee of the Knights of Labor. It took but a short time to induce the emplo; to agree to arbitration which is now in pro- gress. ‘Uhe efforts of the Knights to establish arbitration will do more good and accom- plish more practical results than all_ the re. ports of the special investizating committees sent out by congress, and wore than all the paper laws which conggess can pass. e s The Island Grabber. Chicago News. Let us hope that Bismarek, in Lis desire to gather in all the islands of the sea, will be entleman enough not to take Coney Island from us, ——-— A Beautiful and Attractive Ruin, St. Paul Pioncer Press. When the ice palace begins to fade away about the time the scientific spring begins, i will make, by all odds, the most heautiful and attractive ruin on this continent. e Cutting Its Own Throat. Nebraska City News The Omaha Herald, in its “war of exter- mination” is simply cutting its throat and the throat of its friends, The News will live to attend the funeral of those ‘bush- whackers.” g Two Department Commanders, New York Journal, Gens. Howard and Terry are said to be practically gazetted to the vacant major-gen- Iships. Both men have grown gray in se vice, Ioward is the Havelock, Lérry the Clyde of the veteran army. — e .— They Made Rome Howl. Fremont Tribune. The absorbing question with the packing- house democrats now Is who furnished Rose- water with those letters now on file at Wash- ington which revealed Dr. Miller’s duplicity? But Rosewater got 'em,all the same, and they have made Rome howl. e The Effect of Oil on Troubled Waters. Philadelphia Record. ‘The wonderful effect of oil in a storm has again been shown by the report of the bark Neptune, which has just arrived at Boston from Cienfuegos. Having encountered a furious gale, a small quantity of oll was put inbags and dragged overboard. The effect was magical. The water was 8o quieted in the pathof the vessel that she kepton her course without difficuity, L, Wooden Pavements, Hostings Gazelte-Jowrnal, After discussing the paving question pretty thoroughly the Omaha papers, or a part of them, have arrived at the conclusion that wooden pavements are dirty, unhealthy, shortlived and expensive to repair. The guly compensative ady ntage seems to be that its first cost is - Overlooked Hastings Gazette~Journal “The president is reported fo have sald to an Ohio man the other day: I would rather dispose of a dozen offices to any other state than one in Ohio, They are the worst set of wranglers I have to deal w The presi- dent ~ has evidently owerlooked ° the “wranglers” of Nebraska or he would have qualified his remark. ot TR A Waft of Perfume, lla Wheeler Wilcor, A stranger passed me on the street, And left upon the air Awalt of perfume subtly sweet— When lo! before me there “The past, long buried fxom wy sight, Arose in all its grac A{ulu 1 saw a tender light Tpon my sweetheurt's face; Agaln we drifted down the room; Slie was 50 young, 0 fair! A guaint and euriois perfimo Canie floating from her bair, Our hearts keep rhythm with the waltz— Our love was in the bloon —and then the stor And eloses with a tomb. How strange that such a simple thing— A walt of perfumed air— c alin old heart should bring Youtl's rapture and despair, -~ John Simmons, of Forsyth, Ga.,in a sudden fit of insanity, thinking he was pur sued by enemies, jumped into the Ocmul- gee river, and remmned there, with the water up to his neck, until discovered by a duck hunter, twenty-four hours He seews to_suffer little ingouvenience from his bath. STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. s threatens to establish a can- A subs! conrt house will be built at N summer. Lyons never had a licensed saloon, and in only one instance has any person had the hardihood to attempt to sell Tiquor in the town without a license. The old settlers of Antelope connty met at igh on Monday and formed an association, The first annual encamp- ment will be held September 20, 1586, A plot was discovered last week to rob the mail earrier from Ainsworth to Browster, forty-two iles south, by two men, one of whom has but lately seryed rdian of the publie peace, and as ch_in Ainsworth, but night sfrustrated. The mail the plot w had just re Machinery s al for the k- horn Valle bridge over the Platte are being sent to the front in large quantitic he bridge will span_the river at a point five miles west of Fre mont. The bridge itself will be 2,800 feot in length, built of forty-seven spans of sixty feet each. The abutments will rest on foundations of oak and_ecypress piling, of which there will be 1,361 pieces inall. The pile driver to be used in put- ting these “long poles” in place is an immense standing at present on a 1 of its own so that it can be moved without trouble, and the ma- chinery and uprights are pon platform not unlike a turn table for loco- motives, so that it can be easily turned around in a circle, "o uprights arve fifty-five feet high from the ground, and the whole machine, with the exeeption of the hammer, looks like any pile driver, but the exception noted is where the improvement comes in, It is a steam hammer weighing 5,500 pounds in a framework which rests upon the top of the pile when in position, and this im- mense hammer delivers blows upon the top of the pile at the rate of seventy-five blows per minute. It is ¢ with this machine, under favorable eir- ances, from 5 to 100 piles can be ‘en in o Towa Itoms, Cherokee's telephone exchange has col- lapsed. Christopher Columbus teaches school Tabor. There is not a republican postmaster within the borders of Cass county A company has been organized in Man- chester to build a railroad to Davenport, A G-year-old youth at Greeley with a revolyer and vut hole thre is breast. He will recover. 'he net rece of the chari given by the railrond conductors Moines last week were $1,061, Mack Botts lond and_long under a load of revival in Exira, and v fined $10 for his pa Thirteen years ago Mrs. s Gage, of Newton, aceidentally dropped a pin in one of her ears which afterwards dropped into the back part of her mouth and was swallowed. Last week a doctor removed the pin from lier left log near the ankle. Mrs. S. Schmidt was at work in her house at Burlington Monday, when she heard a 4-year-old child ealling to her from an outside staivway. Going 1o see what was wanted, she found the Tow lying at the foot of the s v a buteher knife in_his mouth, which had cut the tongue and entered the back part of the neck, severing the jugular vein. The ehild died m a few minutes. estive Burlington youth Peterson, got inside of a cawboy suit, in-- cluding fortyrod, and started in to whoop up a seetion of the town last Sunday. He was armed with a huge snake whip and revolve: b hich he used on every person e his trail. For three hours he kept the neighborhood housed, and not a policeman could be found to tackle him. The easualties were trifling onu;hlmulg the amount of ammunition used. t Des named Dakota. A farmer in Potter county sewed forty acres of grain last week. A republican editor has been appointed postmaster at Manchester. DORapid City wants water works, fire department and other metropolitan luy cuit court at ors was found ary Rapid C to be so into to put him salaboose to sober up. The Buffalo Gap 4 ance thus tells of a bold robbery at'the Gap: “Some high- man went to the eabin of one of the termen, knocked, and when the door opened he made a demand for what- ever money there was in the house, at the same time having the occupant of the place covered witl a revolver. The elean- up was $16. If the history of other west ern towns oan be taken as a criterion, a telegraph Ynl.- will resemble a jumping- jack one of these mornings, Two horse thi choked off at Lander last week, ns for the proposed $40,000 depot ived in Cheyenne. stimated cost of running the city government of Cheyenne the present year is $75,000. Cheyenne is afflicted with legislative insomania, due to the forensic brilliancy ervitorial law makers, Laramie has already contracted for ,000 worth of buildings and expeets to double it before the close of the year. youthful scamps confined in the enne jail, tunneled under the wall \wlm{ out of the erib and the town, well sunk to a depth of 1,155 feet at yonne, at a cost of §5,000, is to be pushed 500 feet further into the bowels of the earth in the hope of strik- g a gushing vein of wate "Phe Northwestern company has secured 500 acres of fine land near the present Fort Fetterman, and will boom & town e the coming summer. It is expacted to rival Cheyenne for a time, and make a good dividend for the construction ring. Invitations are out for the farewell re- ception of Bill Booth at Buffalo next month. They are signed by the sherift and read: “You s|lu'||’ul|{ invited to attend the execution of Bill Booth on Friday, March 5, 1866, at 11 o’clock a. m., at the court house in Buffulo, Wyoming territory.” The artesis Colorado. he copper product of Colorado for 1885 W *mm,wL A bill has been introduced in congress to ncrease the approprintion for the Denver postoftice to §750,000. The product of the Colorado Coai and Tron company is 2,000 tous of coal daily The number of men cmployed is about 1,000. A Longmont colony has just purchased 3,840 acres of land under the Empire canal, enzht miles from Alamosa. The fand will'be plowed up in the spring snd sown to wheat. Several new oil wells in the Arkansas alley have struck oil. The Canon Record thinks that place will soon be able to supply Colorado, New Mexico, Montana, Utah and Wyowming with oil. e Touching the Road Lightly. Chicago News: *You are the ma of the road?” “Yes, sir. What can I do for you?" you are cutting vatesto Cal st i1, [ called to see if Tcould get & pass. Ididn't - like to ask you for one when the ratés were up-—didn't like to be too ha ou know— but new that they 're down, of course 'taiun't ask- ing 50 wuch.” L0G ROLLING LEGISLATORS. The Methods of Oongressmen in Dealing with Corporations, Incidents of the Struggle in the Sen- ate to Pass the Thurman Bill— The O1d Roman Again in His Element, A susceptible congress is much more likely to do strong things than a dog- matic or stubborn one. This is true, however, only when it is watehed and made togo on the record of and nays. This was illustrated on the 23th of January of this year by a vote in the house on a bill to forfeitseveral ancient railroad land grants in the gulf states. The committee on public lands had re- ported the bill with amendment to except from its operation the Gulf and Ship Island railroad. An inconvenienty obstrusive member insisted on knowing the veason for this exception. The reply on behalf of the committee was that to secure the certain and prompt pi e of the bill this exception had been made. hen a member of the committee charged that the Mississippi member championing the exempted road *had gono before that committee and operated upon its fears and induced that committee 1o believ it unless they exempted from the operation of the bill his grant of land he would defeat the entire bill.” This manner of obtaining assent to_n metsure is a “Mississippi plan.” Affter a long debate @ vote was taken on the amend: ment to except the Gulf and Ship Island Iroad from the operation of the bill; on A count of the house by a rising vote the motion was carried by a vote of 99 to 81 By thismode of yoting there was of cou o record as to how any member votho and the railrond mun rs had it the way. But st the inexorabie ndall dem: yeas and nay: Mark now the change! The roll w called and members” had. to go on the record. The 99 friends of the Gulf and Ship Island company dwindled to 83 and the 81 advoeates of forfeiture of an un- carned grant thirty years old were in- creased to 179, This is a startling proof oi the wonderful power of publicit Sixteen men voted yea when they could not be known, and refused to so vote when the record 0 be made. Ninefy- sight members voted in favor of wiping a land-grant thirty years old to arail- road company which had never thrown hoveiful of " dirt toward building its road, who did not so vote until they were forced on to the record of yeas and nays. In other words, the house willing "to fayor an undeserving railroad corpor ation by a m;.i\»rn,\ of 18 when the peo- ple could not know it, but, being_ forced to toc the my and have their votes published in the record, they gave 96 majority in favor of forfeiture ixtv-one did not vote. It wasa painful on of cyc-service. Onedifth of the members ean order the yeas and nays on any question. So long as the inter- ests of the people can command the sup- port of one-hifth of the representatives these can compel the ey to hands, and ti case b of illustration. and nays are fatal to many f: nd sanc schemes | they been ealled in 1861, when, at the bidding of Oakes Ames and C. P. Huntington, the house of repre tativ »d the second Pacifie railvond ill, which gave those wortl nd their associates “the earth,” the nation would not now be treating with the Union and Central Pacific Railroad companies for o new bargain, under which to secure p: ment for the mitlions now secared only by a second mortgage, The ye pfere) S Pacific railro prompted by the ence at the capital of Hon. Allen G. Thurman, late senator from the state of Ohio, and for years the recognized leader of the democratic ty. lHe is, as everybody knows, the loading counsel for the ~ government in the suit about to be brought to test the validity of the Bell telephone patents. He was retired from the senate through the power of the overland railway mag- nates, and John Sherman was chosen to succced him. The nation’s history does not present a_plainer rolation be- tween cause and effect than that of the defeat of Thurman by the corporations d to because of his course in the ate in reporting and nrging the pas- o of a ll to better secure the payment hemto the government of tne loan uld built their roads. he history of that day does not seem likely to be ed. The sturdy “old Roman,” as hig friends delight to call him, wiil not be in the senate this winter to discuss the bill reported by Senator Hoar from the jud committee, which the railroad companies and their lawyers are suid to favor as a substitute for the Thurman act, There is one senator there, however, who wans as offensive to the railway kings at that time as was Senator Thurman, and_that, as_everybody onght to know, is ator Edmunds. men were one in purpose on the sub of the right and powers of the govi ment in i ation Lo the Pacifie country will closely w tings of the senate which it 's this subject to see who of its not hitherto champions of the cornorations wearied of well-doing, kened in zeal, or had their powers dulled by the narcotics with which the wizards foad the very atmosphere when they have purposes to accomplish or to stay. GOULD AND IMUNTINGTON, When the Thurman bill was under con- ion in 1878 Gould and Huntington very conspicinous at the north end of the capitol. ‘The latter was very busy calling out senators and giving them oints and gencral tions. He could e scen AL almost any hour during the sitting of the senate at the outside of ¢ith- of the green cloth doors communicat- ing botwoen the sonate ehamber and _the marble room, in earnest conversation, now with one senator and now with an other, and carrying with him an ca 3 of authority, ns A T a right to command. He and Mr. Gould were $o sure that they had a majority of the senute that whén the vote was taken the latter took a seat in the senute allery to witness their trinmph, But the victory failed to arrive. Thurman and Edmunds had raised dange gnals, The went oft on u side-truck, and d the depot, The vote stood 20, and 10 of the 16 absen- winst 5-thus,_muking the vote really stand 45 to 25, The dan ger signals just alludea o were con- tained in a few words in the deby which, their truth and appropr nesy ul this prosent time, awell Wo of note. Bluine amendment to tie the for twenty ye prevent agitation of it. stock jobbing purposes. Mr. Thurman said in reply ence is a conl 2o o aid on that subject subject has be for 1a0re thun two y fore the judiciary committee of the sen ate;und” in all that time 1 have never dof one man hostile to the railroad companies lobbying congress not o 1 have scen this senate chaiiber filled with the rail lobby; I have ses the gal'eries filled; T bave seen the cor dors filled; I have the committc es paived cl-matler, 1o s ‘he said, for xpert word siegred at their 6wn housos by the railrong obby, but never did I see one man oy hear of one man here urging legislatiog hostilo to these companies.”” Mr.Edmunds, in language no loss ener gotic said immediately afterward: “Tho pressure of the people for justice, for For protection, for fait play 18_Always 5 slow and used pressure. The press ure of corporations for favorable legisla- tion, by bills, by lobbies, by subsidized newspapers, by that concentrated forco that the senafor (Thurman) has alluded 1d that has been seen here on more oceasions than one, is always constant and is always ready. I have seen the officers of tive companios in this very sen- ate chamber on the day a bill was to be np, distributing their passes with an osten. tatious impudence that was amazing, I n 50 cents a iine paid to affect o in the editorials of newspa- ‘hat is & yery small_price now. old times. I suppose th are paid for at rather pri he newspapers which remain - unsubsidized at the present “higher prices” will look to Senator Ed- munds to show the true intent, meani and effoct of the bill of the senate judici- ary committee on the subject of dm Pa- s railronds’ indebtedness to the goy- nment. His keen mind will reduce it to its clements, and discover the cat in the meal-tub, if eat thore be. The bill proposes to give the corporations sixty years during which to pay the millions which will be due in about thirteen, It seems to provide for bettering the pres- ent condition. If the bill was drawn without outside interference, it is no doubt what it secms to be. It, on the other hand, like some of the railway leg- islat'on now on the statute-books, it wus it aain, or in any essential part, the ha vk of the attorneys of the very corporations to be :\l\m‘h'j by it, it may be found, like other work of theirs, to “lie like ' truth, and keep the word of promise _to the ear, to break it to the hope.”” Mr. Edmunds did not report the Dill, and whether he favored or opposed it in committee is not publicly known. But he be relied on to either defend it or oppose it.in the senato, ana in either case Lo give reasons for his vote. - The Inventor of the Circular Saw. California_Architect: In a lonelv, se- cluded spot in the northwest corner of the cemetery, near the ever-beautiful little village of Richmond, Kalamazoo county, Mich,, the reader can find on a pure white rble slab nearly concealed from view v a large cluster of hlac bushes, engray- cod the simple inseription: ‘‘Benjamin Cummings, born 1772, died A. D. *&13 J And who was Benjamin Cummings? He was the inventor of the cireular saws now in use in this country and in Europe. i ago, at Burtonville, nsterdam, this man t his own blacksmith's anvil, the first civcular known to man- kind. H a was a noted pioneer in Rich- mond; a mist cousin to one of the presi- dents of the United States; a slave owner in New York state; a leading Mason in the days of Morgan, whose table the slect of the great state of Now York asted and drank freely of his choice liquors and wines, a_ vessel owner on the North River before the of steam- boats; a captain in the war of 1812, where, after having three horses shot fron under him, with one stroke of his sword he brought his superior oflicer to tho round for insult, and because he was a traitor and a coward; and after having been court-martialed, instead of bein; shot he was appointed colonel in hi place. In this lonely grave are the ashes of the man who, nearly seventy yoars ago, at Albany, N. Y. took up and moved bodily Lirge brick buildings, and, to the wonder and astonishment of the world, constructed a mile and a half of the Erie canal through a bed of rock, and who also buiit, on contract, those st low bridges over the same. He also aided in the construction of the first ten miles of railroad built in the United States, and founded both the villages of Esperence and Bostonville, on_ the old Schoharie, near Amsterdam, The study nd aim of this man’s life appeared to be to do that which no other could accom- plish, and when the object sought was secured, he passed it as quietly Dy as he would the pebbles on the soa shore. ity Beginning at the Bottom, Medical World: Madam, allow me to ¢ for you. Ihave had a long ex- perience in the management of deficate women, and believe I ean give you somo important advice. For the prosent I preseribe only for your feet: Fi Pro- cure a quantity of woolen stockings, not such as _you ~buy at the store under the name of 1imb's wool that yon can read a newspaper through, but the kind that your Aunt Jerusha in the country knits for you, that will keep vour feet dry and warm_in_spite of wind and woathers econd, if you want to be thorough change them every moining, hanging frosh ones by the fire during the night: third, procure thick _calf-skin boots, double uppors and triple soles, and wear them from the 1st of Ootober to the 1st of May; make frequent appli- cations of some good oil-blaeking; fourth, avoid rubbers altogether, except a pair of large rubber boots, whioh may be worn for a little time through snow- drifts or a flood of wat fifth, hold the | bottoms of your feet in cold water a quarter of an‘inch decp just before golng to_bed two or three minutes, nmmwn rub them hard with rough towels and your naked hands: sixth, now, madam, o out freely in all weathers, and believe me, not only will your feet enjoy a good circulation, but as the consequence of the good cireulation in the lower extremities, your head will be relieved of all its full- ness and your heart of all its palpita- tions. Your complexion will be greatly jmproved and your lealth made better in ever J hammered out, et Al Bets Declared Off.) San Franciseo Call: It was in the pans- es of the lottery drawing. Stocks were down and he had heen losing at poker. He began looking around to see what he could gamble on, and after dinner, when voomw besieged; 1 have fscen senators be his wife had feft’ the table and retired, one of his friends by a easual remark threw an entirely new idea into his head. S bet it's a girl,” said he. That started it, and before the evening was oyer the young husband had made a book on the baby. The time appronch- cd, and one evening late there wud unu- sual commotion. — The telephone bell ‘pt going for an hour or two very live: ly; u prof al Iw.hinf_v gentleman and 4 professional-looking old woman wero among those who responded to the mes- anges, The last eall brought a messenger boy ke that down to the —— club,” said the father The note was opened very simply: “All bets oft. 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