Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 17, 1886, Page 4

b k- blo 1 ' THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1886, THE DATLY BEE. OMANA OFFICE,N0. 014 AND gIFARN AM ST ROOM 65, TRIBUNE BUILDING il WASHINGTON OFFIC 613 FOURTRENTH ST. Published every morning, excapt Sunday. The only Monday morning paper published in the stato. TERMS BY MATT: £10.00 Three Months......$2.50 L 5.00/0ne Month.. 100 otz WmwwLy B, Published Bvery Wednesday. TERME, POSTPAID: One Year, with premfum One Year, without p ix Montlis, without p Ono Month, on trial. CORRESPONDENCE: Al communieations relating to news and edi torial matters should be addressed to the Epie ¥OR OF “H1k BER. BUSINESS TRTTERS: All balness lattors and remittances ghonld bo padcersed 0 THe ek P HING COMPANY, oo 10 be made payable to the order of the company. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS. E. ROSEWATER. EpiTor. .00 1 but we want good le pavements. The WE wavt pavin pavements and dur best is the cheapest. Mg. BA. “EY, of the council, has charge of the drafting of the much necded building ordinance. What is the cause of the delay? ting tho sensational theatre and packing the district court room to listen to the Lauer murder trial, More school houses are on the pro- gramme for Omaha. Our school popula- tion is keeping pace with the growth of the city and already indi atotal pop- Tie Waco, Texas, gas works have been blown up. The Omaha gas works have been blown up several times—by the newspapers—but the bill collector con- tinues to get his work ry month, JAY GouLp has returned to the United States from Cuba in time to profit from the strike on his railroad system. It is the ill winds on the stock ange from which the great railroad wrecker profits most, . AN automatie railroad, operated en- firely by selt-acting machinery, says {he St. Lounis Republican, is the contrivance that would net the inventor a handsome fortune and make glad the heart of the great railway magnate. NEBRASKA is the most profitable field for the railroads in the west. Her pro- ducers are to-day paying more in pro- portion to the servicesrendered for trans- portation facilitics than any state in the union, KABOR troubles are in nine cases out of tem caused by the troubles of lahorers which in turn owe their origin to the trickery and greed of corporate capital. This is the reason why peaceful adjust- ments of such difliculties are the order of ys that the question of & new devot is still held in abeyance. The bonds voted years ago by Omaha for a handsome structare of this kind are Iroad vaults, but they con- tinue to draw interest with unvarying regularity. — NEw YORk is shocked by the discovery that one of her aldermen kept a “fence’ for thieves, and that tho chicf of the de- tective forco and the district attorney combined {o protect him from exposure. The ghost of Bill Tweed seems to haunt the corridors and lobbies of the city hall on the island of Manhattan, —_— A LIVELY meeting of the English stock- holders of a Wyoming cattle company held last week in London ended in a gen- eral row. We suppose the promised 40 per cent dividend failed to put in an ap- pearance. The large cattle syndicates of the west have taken the cue from the rail- road syndicates and stock-watering and dishonest management are bringing the usual results, THE temperance question continues to be hotly discussed in New York, and there is a lively fight going on between the Methodist and Episcopal churches. The Eviscopalians, through their Churc Temperance society, advocate moderate drinking instead of total abstinence, and resented to the legislature a & high license for alcholie bey- erages. The ministry is requested by the socety to promote the high license © measure in the pulpit and elsewhere. The Methodists, on the other hand, are unanimously and enthusia Iy in favor of total abstinence, and propose to urge the submission to the people of a consti- tational amendment prohibiting the man- ufaeture and sale of liguor in the state, The Methodist ministers are now preach- ing. prohibition, while the Episcopalian ministers are advocating high license and a conservative drink-us-you-please policy. “No serious consequences need he feared from the strikes in Ameriea,” says M. Cernuschi, the aged Italian econo- mist. “They are merely a natural and - healthy struggle between capital and la- bor.” This is the voice of common . sense. Diflerences between labor and - eapital in the United States in a large majority of instances result from the . natural attempt of labor to secure the ~ highest markot prico for its wor the equally natural undertaking of tal to hire labor at the lowest cost in wages, Capital labor to hire. Workingmen have labor to sell, Labor disputes are i the terms of the con- E No serious consequences need he feared in Amer labor is intelligent enough to drive its © bargain to the best advantage without resort to the revolutionary methoo . foreign workingmen of less education and less social and politi * General strikes in Europe mean general demoralizatio) America they mean " ashort lay off, during which the contend. ing parties argue the questions in d aad settle upon a mutually satisfuctory ‘basis of agreement. The men who are ing the American workingmen as handed revolutionists are shooting * far wide of the mark, and they it. The record is against them. eountry in the world suffers so little “from labor disputes, and in no manufae- “taming country on the globe are labor whles so often settled with so little rbance to the public peace or less to @ pockets of those concerned. , and Over Capitalization in Corporations. The solid basis upon which most of the complaints of the public against char- tered monopolies is founded on excessive capitalization, or ‘“‘stock watering.” The cost of operating a railroad furnisies one of the chief elements upon which trans- portation charges must be based. To maintain its ereditand financial standing interest must be paid on the bonded debt, and dividends upon the stock. “Fixed charges,’ representing obliga- tions ineurred in the construction of rond or assumed after its construction by the purchase or lease of connectmg lines, must be met before dividends are de- clared. In other words, the patrons of the rond in addition to paying for actusl operating expenses must pay interest on bonded debt before the road is in a “solvent condition.” If itis on a “pay- ing basis,” interest on the stock must be earned in addition. Th are the facts which disprove the statement t stockholders and not the public ested in over issues and inflation of the capital stock. Revenue must be earned, and earned from the public, to mect every obligation of the corporations And the greater the amount of interest to be earned the heavier must be the tax upon patrons of the road. The United States has the unenviable distinction of leading the world in reck- less speculation inthe securities of com- .. In no other conntry has ng'’ been carried on with iance of the principles of commercial usage and disregard of the rights of both the public and of the min- ity stockholders. he total cost of all ailroads in the United States up to the close of 1883, estimated on a basis most favorable to the companies, is stated to have been $400,000,000. The excess of issues of stock bonds and float- ing debt over cost at the same period is given by no less an authority than Mr, Henry V. Poor at $2,500,000. In other words more than half of the capital represented by deben- tures and stock of the railroads of the United States is ‘‘water,” representing no more solid basis than “paper and ink*" and the supposed capacity and willing- ness of the public to be taxed sufliciently to pay income returns on the bogus in- vestment. Splong ngo_ as 1869, Mr. Charles Fran- o1 Adams, Jr., now president of the Union Pacihic company, in an essay upon that railroad, said: “The line from Chicago to New York rep- resents now but $6000 to the mile as the results of many years of inflation, while the line between Omaha and San Francisco begins ‘e with a cost of $115,000 per mile. It would Dbe safe to say that thisroad costs considerably less than one-half this sum. The difference is the price paid for every viclous element of railroad construction and management. Costly construction, entailing future taxa tion on trade; tens of millions of fictitious capital; a road built on the sale of its bonds and with the aid of its subsidies, every ele- mentof real outlay recklessly exaggerated and the whole of it some future day to mak: itself put as a burden on the trade which it is to ereate.” Mr. Adams’statementof the case in 1869 is as true now as it was then. The heaviest ‘‘stock watering” has taken place since that time. Including the Kan- sas Pacific $50,705,000 of ‘“‘water” has been injected into the Union Pacific. More than $47,000,000 was squirted into the New York Central by Vanderbilt. Erie suffered to the extent of more than $20,000,009, the Gould southwestern sys- tem received “water’’ by the bucketful, and now holds with Wabash $50,000,000 of evidences of indebtedness above its cost, while every smaller system has been manipulated by the same means, to the public detriment. The fundéd debt of the railronds of Nebraska amounted to $138,814,385, while that of all New Eng- land, with nearly four times the mileage, was only six millions greater. Facts speak louder than any argument based on mere theory. The charges of tocked rouds are found to bear ady proportion to the amount of water which they ecarry. 1n 1883 the earni from freight on all the New England roads was $30,436,784. In the same year Nebr: producers paid the railroads of this state = $14,414,263 for carrying their products to the market and merchandise to their doors—mearly half as much as the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Ver- mont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut, with their 6,202.89 miles of road operated, as against 1,905.16 miles m this e. Excessive capitalization means exorbit- ant charges, whether the *‘watering’” be in the stock of railroads, gas, water com- panies or other corporations with power of taxing the public. 1t may in the end regulate itself by the excessive competi- tion which it stimulates, but the publi. the meantime pays the piper and su for the erimes of the railway jobbers, The Radical Parlisment, The present house of commons is & s to the strength of radicalism in England and of the growing demo- cratic tendencies of the realm. The re- form bill of 1885 has placed Hodge in the saddle. The working classes and men of moderate m now hold the des- tines of Graat Britain in their grasp. For the first time in English history parlia- ment fully voices the public sentiment and that voice is striking alarm to the hearts of lovers of preeedent and stickler: for s rule. Even the whigs are d mayea at the free-thinking and sclf- assortive assembly which an enlarged franchise brought into oxistence. Within two months the radieal parlia- ment has endorsed the compulsory divis- ion of the great estates into small hold- ings, has barely missed condemning the whole theory of hereditary government, favored woman sufliage, come within twelve votes of advising the disestablish- ment of the Welsh church and has voted in spite of Mr. Gladstone’s eloquence, to reduce the appropriations for royal parks. Such an s record is without precedent, and wl and tories ahike stand aghast as they consider its tremendous import. The English radicals are cordially supported by the Irish nationalists. In many respects their aims are identical. Both s wide reaching land reforms. Each ommit- ted to a fuller loeal representation in the government. - Together they form a group nearly large enough to control the house. In another eleetion, if the Irish strength in English voting constituencies w thrown into the * balance with the radical votes, the majority would be - still ‘greater.” For all = pur- poses of ‘geueral . legislation in .the present parliament the Parunellites and radicals may be counted to work together. The very strength of the radical element in the commons is a source of disquiet and perhaps of danger to Gladstone and his ministry. It may be counted upon to give support to his measures for Irish re- form if they meet their views of oxpedi- ency, but it may also be expected to do present damage by stampeding the whigs into the ranks of the tories if its leaders continue to knock down John Bull's most cherished old C} from the shelves of his heavy old political crockery shop. The absence of a written constitution gives radicalism full sway in the proposal of measures of political and social re- form. There is no supreme court which can finally set asi legislation and bar the doors against radical changes in the lIaws and methods of government. The house of lords may refuse its sanction to the deerces of the commons, but long continued obstruction would certainly re- sult in a politie evolution as the last resort of English discontent. As it glances over the present parliament, with its boldly expressed contempt of rished institutions, the English aris- ain as they once were that the American constitution is such an inferior piece of workmanship when compared with the legislative ehecks and balances with which custom and precedent has supplied them. Bogus Butter. A careful microscovie analysis of the various kinds of bogus butter has been made by Prof. Nachtrieb, of the Minne- sota state university, under the dircetion of the dairy commission, and the result shows that the vile stuft’ is not fit for a human being to cat. The best and clean- est looking sample had a butter odor and taste, and o all appearances would pass for butter, so perfect have the swindlers become in their imitations. This sample small variety of living organ- good many spores which, under favorable conditions, would probab) v germinated. It also ‘contained sses of dead mould, bits of cellulous wood, various colored particles, shreds of hair, bris- tles, ote. - The other two samples teemed with life and yielded microscopic prepa- tions of the moulds and bac- terin that would have gladdened the heart of the student of DLiology, The microscope révealed the fact that the greatest variety of life existed in theinner portion of these samples, and that the outer portions contained the greatest quantity of active bacteria. The animals found in the butterine belong to the type of protozoa. Doubtful portions of worms were aiso noticed. Many of the protozoa, under favorable conditions, pass into an encysted stage or within protected capsules, and in these condi- tions lie dormant until the environment is again tayorable, and it can hardly be doubted that some of the many spores found in these butterines were merely in a dormant state. The great number and ricty of organisms found in the samples, indicate the use of foul water and a crim- inal filthy process in making it. Prof. Nachtrieb says “‘there can not be the slig on who cats 8o promiscuous and so lively a mix- ture as the butterine examined, is run- ning great visk, morally as well as physi- cally. Tho peace and happiness of fu- ture generations is greatly involved in the life of the present gencration, By in- dulging in our homes articles of food filled with spores and seeds of the vari- of the lower organism arc increasing the dangers of para: n. Spores that now are harmless, may, by gradual adaption through mcre or less circuitous routes, become} inimical to the health and happiness of countless mil- lions.” With such proof as this 1t would scem that the demand for a national anti-but- terine law ought to be promptly complied 5 eral states already ne laws, and if the daj commissioners, wherever there are any, would only do their duty, the law could be effectually enforced. Nebraska has a stringent law regarding the mavufacture and sale of butterime, and it can be en- forced if interested parties will only take the matter in hand. The Nebraska dairy- men should see to 1t that special agents are employed for the proscceution of the bogus butter dealers, and the proper place to begin is right here in Omaha, The dairymen by so doing will not only promote their own mterests, but will pro tect the public health and receive the thanks of ‘the peopl Give Them More Time, On behalf of the tax payers of Omaha we ask the city council to extend the time within which property owners shall make choice of paving material on streeis that are to be paved this year. There can be no possible injustice or in- jury to any one by extending the time for filing such petitions thirty days. Spring has been very backward this year and paving cannot be safely begun be- fore May. There is no excuse whatever for rushing these paving contracts with- outgiving the people ample time. There would be no need of our appeal for mor time on behalf of the tax-payers if th signatures to petitions were the mature exp on of thoir choice. The intent of the law giving tax-payers the choice of paving materials was to prevent jobbery on the part of contractors and collusion with eontractors on the part of the coun- cil. But the methods by which signatures ave been procured are within them- selyes proof that the choice of materials, such as the law contemplated, has not been made. The petitions » hawked about by interested pa and the people are bulldozed into signing them under all sorts of representutions Half the people who have signed peti- tions this spring have been led to believe that they are going to save themseclves from taxes by taking the cheapest pave- ment. They were actually told that the paving tax would only be levied once up- on their property and that the cost of re- paving will fall upon the city, Even if this were true, it would be an outrage to ose upon the tax payers who have luid down durable pavements the cost of repaving stieets that have been paved with short-lived mate But it is not true that the cost of repaving will be borne by the whole eity. The charter ex- pressly authorizes special taxes on adju. cent property for repaving For this reason and because hundreds of the signers desive further time in erder. to revise their judgment an this vital mat- ter, we ask the council to.extend the tine for thirty days. There is n6 doubt what that such a step is legal: The courts never abridge the right of the tax-pa, to an honest and matumy exprossion of their judgment. I'hé ceurts are here to protect the tax-payer agsinst imposition and jobbery. Andin view of the wide latitude which the faw gives, they will sustain the council in giving property owners ample time to decide upon such an important matter, This is a question which affects the rights of all the tax-pay- ers of this city as well as the owners of property on the streets to be paved. The interest of the contragtors should be sec- ondary to the rights :lml'in(vrosrs of the tax-payers. D and his company are setting the isthmus ablaze with enthusiasm. They have been received with royal hon- ors at Colon, and the great engineer in an eloquent speech, prophesied the com- pletion of the canal in three years from date. Meantime, the engineers employed by the French governmeat to inspect the canal had not waited to join in this demonstration, but hgd set out for France with, as is rumored, a report ad- verse to the practicability of the scheme and against the proposed lottery to provide means for its continuance. Six years ago M. do Lesseps declared that the canal covld be built for £140,000,000, and three years ago he st the rato of excayation at 2,000,000 cubic metres a month. At this moment only 16,000,000 metres have been excavated, but $153,000,000 has been spent, and there re- main 104,000,000 metres of the hardest digging to be donc. At this rate the canal will not cost less than $988,000,000, and be finished in the year 1919; unless, indeed, the Paris papers are telling the truth when they report the mortality among laborers as forty per day, and predict the extermination of the popu Ince by discase in advance of the possi- ble completion of the wor! AFTER it has concluded its ‘expose of the Herald's conncetion with railroad jobs and jobbery the republican organ of the corporation can do the pub- lic a scrvice by printing its autobio- graphy. Our estecmed morning con- temporaries are the two dromios of the railroads. KINGS AND QUEENS. ine Theebaw has 8 weakpess for rubies and b Theebaw in yellow Emperor William can speak only in a whisper. Do Pedro is planning the erection of an academy of arts in Brazil, the first of its kind in South America. N The czar of all the Russtas has had an- other birthday, the saddest thing about which is the fact that it reminded him of the day he was born, [ i ‘The queen of Portugal is named Pia. She ought to be popular,for pverybody thinks Pia thing nice enough o eat, says a punster noted for his piety. Princess Beatrice rides 'well, preferring Scotland and fleet, sturdy Scotch ponies, however. Her favorite pony1s a tidy little hill pony named Brenda. ‘The princess of Wales' health has been so bad for the last few months that there is be- ginning to be serious axlety and fear that shie may become an invali King Milan of Servia wears armor. Oh, pshaw ! what of it? Dr. Mary Walker we a coat of male, and nobody worries about it. Nobody is going to armor. King Humbert of Italy, in an economic mood, has given instructions to his court en- Jnining it from drinking the high-priced wines. What ho, without there! Bring hither zwei lager! ‘The prince of Wales retains enough inter- est in Mrs. Langtry to visit an artist who has Just painted her portrait and give his judg- ment upon the likéhess, which he declared fo be almost perfect. Quoen Natalie is said to be the most boauti- ful woman in Servin, but it is thought that unless she 15 grossly Libelled by the lately ex- tant pictures of her, the statement Is pretty rough on the other Servian women. Princess Isabella, heir to the throne of Brazil, Is extremely religious and sometimes the astonished subjects of her royal father have beheld her sweeping the floor of the chureh, clad in a coarse gown and humility of spirit, When the queen of Madagascar attends Sunday school she passses into the chapel, where guards, with fixed bayonets, stand ten deep. Within the chapel, where 1,000 per- sons may find seats, the queen sits high upon a throne on the side of the pulpit. An exchange foolishly remarks that King Thebaw ought to be happy, for his prison in Madias is next door to a distillery. Our con- temporary should bear in mind that next door to a distillery is a long way off some- times, especially when a man doesn’t happen to havo credit with the proprietor, s queen imagines she looks pretty Lost Her Prestige. St. Louis Republican, Missouri has lost her place asa train-robbar state and Lilinois goes to the frout. Poorold Missouri! - An Able Man Wanted. Grand Island Independent. The feeling is ripe in Nebraska tor placing an able man in the governor’s chair, and all eyes seem to center upon Gen, Thayer, declati s eaitiatn 1 Perhaps His Head Was Tnrned. New York Jowrnal, It was very wrong In Jules Verne's nephew to attempt to kill his uncle, but jthe novelist has slaughtered a great many truths in his time, and perhaps the young man’s head was turned, - A Good Opening For the Chicago News. It is sald a conspiracy has been discovered in Japan to overthrow the mikado's govern- ment. If it succeeds there is a good opening for the mikado to come to Afherica and go on the road. ¢ Mikado. e A Presumption, Chicago Herald. In his annual report the city marshal of Portland, Me., shows that of the 1,053 arrests in that city during the past year, 1,520 yere for drunkenness, presumably of people who had come from Massachusetts, as Maine isa prohibition state, H -~ Some Ohlo Products, Peoria Transeript. The Ohio legislature has decided that a bushel of turnips shall weigh sixty pounds. More advanced legislation, in the shape of how many bushels shall grow on an acre of ground, is now expected. In the meautime it may be remarked that Ohio turns out some remarkable beats, - Mugwump Expe Harper's Wie There is no doubt that the character of fhe nominations of both parties in 1555 will show conclusively that the mugwump spirit is stronger than ever. A nomination which should defy that spirit would be the weakest that could be made, tion, — - Legitimate Object of Labor Combi ation. Waterlury Americgu, The leiitintate object-of labor combination is not to disturb industry, trighten capital, and stop wages by stopping work. but to ‘get Its share of the returns of industry, and to ret it by the most effective and least destrue- tive mea ———— Water, Water Everywhere. Burdette, Mauad Muller's brother Ben one day Grew dry as dust while raking hay. Down on the ground his rake he threw And said: “By jingo, I wish I knew.” Tle walked “four mild" that afternoon And paused before a closed saloon. And then, as no one noticed him, With stealthy tread he entered in, He sald, with sundry dreadful winks, “1 see you sell but temperance drinks,” “Yes,"” said the man behind the bar, Said Ben: “Alittle cold wa-tar.” And then, to make it tart and thin, e squeezed a little lemon in. And then, to make it rather sweet, He poured somie sugar in the treat. And then, to make it strong and tough, 1ie poured in Whisky, quantum suff, e tossed it down, he said, with glee, “Cold water is the drink for me.” STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jott Madison county's debt i Coal is reported near Nelson, Nuckolls county. Citizens of Jackson, Dakota county, sent §78 to the Parnell fund. Creighton bouasts of a union of sixty sweet singers. They are not pa The MeCook land oftice boa cash receipts than any oflice in the Graders ave throwing dirt on the Ash- land cutoff' on both sides of the Platte river. A democratic paper will soon be start- ed in Sidney, in advance to the proposed land office. . Citizens of Culbertson have resolved to build a $5,000 court house and present it to Hitcheock county. Arlington is at pr ge doses of temper: like forcing the spring. Eggs are only eight conts a dozen in Ord, and producers threaten a strike against peppering their grub. The rolling mill at St. Paul, Howard county, during February made 12,000 }mrl"cls of flour and 180,000 pounds of 'he Poultry Review is the latest addi- tion to horticultural publications in the It is published in Nebraska City W. Neihart. foun of Liberty s tho cotnopelis of th¢ Southéin scction, Popuiation ng- ured One thousand wagon loads were marketed there last week. Jook genius has invented an an- necktie holder. — Evidently the hioned slip-knot of hemp is going fashion ou the frontier. Filipi, of Wilber, flipped up on dewalk and dove into the ba: ment of & business block, breaking ki neck. He 65 years of age. Jim Kern’s hog, a South Auburn pork- er which subsisted on snow balls and ici i t for three months, more , has alveady entered the ring for the fall races at the state fair. The late Judge Mitchell earried $10,000 of life insurance, which is now 1 process of collection. He held a pol in the Mutual Lifc of New Y £2,000 in the Knights of Honor, and $3,000 in the Royal Arcadian. The Rock Island road i for bonds in the southern tier of counties, inaid of the proposed extension. The company's terms are $2,400 per mile, and the people take kindly to them. A large strip of land in Chase county, owaned by a Colorado cattle baron named Brush, has been cancelled by the govern- ment, it having been obtained by fraud. The land was retaken by homesteaders in two day: swallowing This looks skirmishing ands, a modern Syracusean, stood at the bottom of a well seventy feet from the surface and watched a “fifty- pound crowbar falling towards him. He succeeded in dodging it and raising a crop of gray hair in a moment. Rising City is the proud possessor of a grain merehant who blushes from chin to car-tips every time he secs a woman's petticout on a clothes line. Heis & con- irmed bachelor, and his blushes are in- voluntary congratulations on his condi- tion. A meek and weary broncho, while grazing patiently on'a wire fence in- closing baled hay, at Rushviile, was tapped by an officious expressman. Sud- denly, like a shot, the animal's llery was let loose in avain but vicious attempt to catch the dr 's bustle. The second shot took off'a front wheel of the wagon as neat as if cut with a cl The driver tumbled to the ground, but the wagon saved his life by falling on him. Ho did not know it was loaded. y to letters from a memberof, the board of trade of Grand Islund i ey of the Union working force in the Grand I “I have talked the matter of increasing the force at Grand Island over with our general superintendent, Mr. Smith, and we will, as soon s circumstances admit, mect thecommittee and yourself ut Grand Island, which time I cannot definitely state, but think it will be in the course of a week or tgn da Our expenses have of late been very heavy and i have wonderfully decte made it necessary for us to re forces to the lowest possible minimum, but notwithstanding that, we will meet you and discuss the matter over at the time mentioned above."” The Eligible Young Ladies' Protective ion of Fremont is getting in some icks on the dudes and mashers of the town. The lady who holds the hon- ble position of front door bouncer was ly accosted on the street by a masher ‘nights ago. The historical secre- tary of the association thus pictures the subsequent events: **When she got as far as the high school building he again laid hands on her, and attempted to pull her towards the school house, but she let drive “straight from the shoulder” and hit him on the mouth, knocking him off the sid She again proceeded on her way, while he meditated a moment, then spoke up, ‘You are a fighter, ain't you?" ‘You bet I am!'she replied, ‘and if you don't let me alone I'll give you an everlasting thrashing and pound some sense into you.! Knowing that he at tacked the wrong person, he hastily re- traced his steps down town.’ Towa ltems. Rockwell City is building & §6,000 school hous The Jeflerson county jail has not had a tenant in & month The Motor company of Sioux City has purchased a tract of 600 acres of land near the eity tor $10,000. A couple was recently married at Keo kuk whose combined age was 161 yours. The new Heart church to b huilt at Dubugue this year will cost $96,- 000 Mrs. Mary Hughes of Clarion is one of the heirs to'a New York estate valued at 300,000, Willie- Wingert, a boy of 13, attempted to steal a ride. on the ¢ day. He fell under the wheels and was crushed to death The Floyd county grand jury failed to indict the Niles school teacher who, u few weeks ago, punished a pupil s that he ffml from the injuries tillery company being organized at Dubuque will adopt the name of ““Hay- den's Dubiique Batiery,' an organization that became famous during the war of the rebellion. Cedar Rapids topers have found a now way to get their boer. 'l‘lu!{ oton saloon, fill up and start out. ‘When the saloonkeeper demands pay they threaten :lim with prosecution tor violating the aw. Shelby cormty's new poor house will be a fine building The main building will be 31x52 feet, with two wings each 24x30 ze. The structure will be two stories high, will contain forty-five rooms and will be heated by steam. John May, residing near New Albin, Allamakee county, was 100 years old on the 15th inst. He'is now i fuug arrango- ments to go to Dakota to take ap a_claim? He says he does not expect to die for a of a century yet. Dakota, big hotel has been christ- ney house, Alexandrin’s improvements projected for this year will amount to $100,000. Kidder county has a bonded indebted- ness of $50,000, and its treasury orders are worth only 49 cents on the dollar. John Rocke, treasurer of Towner coun- is missing. So is $0600 which he so- cured by mortgaging property which he <((hl not own. He has been traced to ‘an N Yankton is excited just now over the spect of becoming the center of a coal mining district. Di. Le Baree, of € fornia, is interested in the question, and is now in Yankton inyestigating the mat- T, D. Allen of Fargo, had taken from s right leg a piece of glass that been imbedded inthe flesh for nine It was a fragment of a window one of the cars in an oil tran that w demolished during the Pittsburg riots of 1877, A farmer in Brule county has hit upon a novel way to shell corn,” It is no more than running the cks, husk and cob through an ordinary threshing machme, from which the shelled corn is deli in fine condition at a rapid rate, the trial giving eight bushels of shelled corn in eleven minutes, This saves the labor of husking and does the whole work in a few minutes. Colorado. An cighty acro farm near Greeloy sold last week for $3,000. The two Pucblos have consolidated their population, debts and asscts, Sterling is badly in need of hotels, Juastern emigrants “continue to pour in and the town is full of people. Evans expeets to have a ereamery this spring. She is in the center of one of the hest \i'\u_ny seetions 1n the state, The farmers m the northe the state begin to think they more money by raisi making more butt, Leadville is putting in more new mining machinery than ever before to work the second contact, and in that camp the people seem as much excitec in 1879 Akron claims to be on the eve of a building boom, lar than has ever been in any town west of Hastings, Neb., on the Burlington & Missou lroad. The sale of town lots in one day, recently, reached over 800. Ames Smith, the “partner” of Ho ner, who was found dead on the prairie near Sterling recently, has been found dead in the Pawnee pasture, ten miles from Sterling. Smith came originally from Pittstield, T1l. He lost $10,000 in mining o skenridge, suceumbed to opium and was dead broke most of the time. He was 50 years old, and apo- plexy kitled him —_— America’s Cardinal, Chicago Times: Suflicient time has clapsed since the announcement that Archbishop James Gibbons,of Baltimore, was to be promoted to the position of cardinal to justify the assertion that his appointment will meet with the unani- mous approval of the Catholic church and clergy of the country, as well as _the press of that denomination. The cardinals owe_their appointment solely to the pope. They have for many cen- barigs buen faken in part trom all the great Christians nations of Europe, though the number of Italian cardinals has always }n’cponllcrntml. The appointment of a uture cardinal is announced by the pope in consistory, but the name is reserved in petto, At a subsequent consi it made public. The actual appointment m the cuse of ecclesiastics residing in Rome, procecds as follows: On a day named the candidate goes to the papal palace, and receives from the pope the red biretta; afterward, in a public c sistory, at the close of an imposing ¢ monial, the pope places upon his head the famous red hat.” In a second consis- tery he “closes his mouth" (os cluudit)— that is, forbids him for the present to speak at meetings of eardinals; in o third, ho “opens. his mouth”—that is, he removes the former prohibition, ving him at the same time a_ring, and igning to him nis “title.” If tho can- didate is absent, being prevented by just cause from ng Rome at that ‘time, the red biretta is sent to him, and on re- ceiving it ho is bound to make oath that he will within a_year vyisit the tombs of the apostles. 'I'lie duties of the cardinals are of two kinds—those which devolve upon them while the pope is living and those which they have to discharge when the holy sec is vicant, As to the first, it may be briefly said that they consist in taking an active part in the government of the Universul church; for although the pope is in no way bound to de: opinions of the sacred college, in pr he seldom, if ever, takes an important step without their’ counsel and concur: rence. Such a school in the science and art of government in all its forms as the college of cardinals exists nowhera else in the world. All th ardinals now of bishops, arch-bishop even patriarchs, This was not so for erly; the change was gradually intro- duced, They have muny other privileges, which eanonists—who generally hold that the rank of eardinal, in its temporal aspect, is equi zalent to that of a reigning p have elaborately defined in their Aia vacancy of the holy see, the duties of the rdinals become con- fined to protecting the church and main- taining all things in their due order, till ve can be assembled for the elec- tion of a new pop: rt of can make - Among the Cowboya. San Francisco Chronicle: In the even- ing the boys sit around the stove in the log house, some writing letters before they start on the round-ip, others braid- i mending bridles, playing singing, and all smok- sation 15 sketchy, for troe vanquero is 4 wan of few ud terse phr . Big Nose Jim goin’ to ride for the Horseshoe Bar X this round-uj “'No; old Jack bounced him gathor; shoulders your Wo! beef the ast two bronks in lamed roweled till he unyway, that Jix the break he made at the nto the post trader's store an’ for gm. Faty, thatv used to work for Cros was tendin’ bar, and he told Jim the s nothin’ but whisky Jim got riled, an’ shot leaks into four barrels of liquor. Got oft without a hole in him, too.” ! , Bill, thought you went back to to stay last year.” did, but the gal I was took up with & grange died of hog choleri, so'l Mt out | again, Didn't suit me, unyway. Wont | to bed with my spurs on, one night, feel 1 hor | ing kind o' goud, and the “old mun called we @ wild beagt, Lain't a darned en herder to take that kind of talk ard husk corn for $16 a month.” “Where's Squintin' Joe workin't" “Nowheres. He was going to run wild horses with French Pete, but Pete is ridin’ spoiled horses for Buffalo Bill's show, and Joc is working the tin horn game with the other daisics in town.” “What's the tin horn racke! “Putit in a free Junch stew and blow 80 the meat comes to the top.” 4 But the great staple of conversation is horse, horse, horse; and if it is not & sublime topie, it1s at any rate discussed in a_ worthier light than the average Enelish gentleman throws upon it, tor & compunctious conception of a horse is not limited to his use as a gambling utensil. One hears, too, a great deal ol talk about saddles and bridles, ropes and rs. Every “waddy’ nas his own ney about a saddfe, although as a general rule the stock saddle, modified from the old style Texas treo, is used by the common riders, fancy men and “broncho busters” preferring tha Caly ifornia saddle, with only one cinch—a “center fire,” as it is called. For heavy work the back cinch of the common saddle is useful, keeping the tree frony working up on the horse’'s withers and giving the horse a better grip when ho throws himself back on hig haunches to stop a cow; but for riding the singlo cineh is more springy, and is for this reason infinitely proforat ble for riding pitching horses R must not be su ||Hn>~<-|| tha ause the cowboy is a rough looking customer he has not his own ideas about el His clothing eut to look rough, use be despises the “dude,” but he takes great pride in his accouterments, and will spend a month's wages (from $30 to $50) on a pair of silver mounted spurs, give 70 for a stamped leather saddle, any sum he pleases for a horse hair bridle, it he is not an expert at working hair hims self, and his chuparajoes, or loather overs alls, are often covered down the front with seal or some other costly skin, Bits too, and silver conchos, or’ medallions, on the check piece of his bridle and his spur letters ubsorb a “swell buckero's' wages, — - EXTINCTION OF THE BUFFALO. Suffering W ulted Among *lans for Their Relief. The tribes of northern Monta within a few i come from the also dried lar, na, until large in- le of buftalo robes, and antities of buffulo meat for fooc s the Leadville Frequently the Indians of a ey would bring in, from the ulo-hunt, five or six thousand i they would for $5 5o wore dlush times fg ‘Lhu oy Wil E‘..fy fof ;.-.? Vaufi in goods’at " a large Profit and then se! the Tobes at a good advance. But now customers arc few and poor, and the wder’s life is not an active and inspir- ing onc. The bullulo disappeared sud- denly. A good number were killed in 1882, a Vi few in 1883, and not one in 1884, Since the disappearance of the buffalo the northern Montana Indians have suf- fured much from want of food, and thero have been too many cruel deaths by starvation. Congress, however, has 1 appropriations for their T ved them from extinetion, Two years ago last winter they ate a good ‘many of their ponies, and the traders made a good speculation by buy- ing horse-hides, and loarning afterward that they could mnot sell” them for cenough to pay for shipping. ‘The plan inaugnrated at the large issue agencies, several years ago, of hav- i s Indinns do the freighting; that rown supplies from the t steamboat nding on railway tion at the ordinary rates ot freight. The Indians took to the notion very kindly. The government furnished harness and wagons—to be paid for, however, from the first earnings—an the Indians broke their ponies to tho work of hauling. They made good freighters. They soon paid for their wagons and harness and commenced to have moncy. The effect was good, A beginning in s made. At the Pine Ridge g last year, while was 100 miles, the payments the Indian froight used to he $50,000. —~— Fines amounting to $300 were collected in Boston a day or two ago from flsher- men who violated the law by catching }nbslnirs less than ten and a half idches in ength. General Paine’ flower, which is to outdo the Pu e ready for laum i ECZEMA Itching, Burning, Oracked and Bleeding Skin Cured by Cuticura, new sloop, the May- %8 at this season when raw winds and ohlly blasts wake into activity ccze o8 of itching und birn 8, that the Cuticura anda s LA wa io application of Citie skin cu . {natantly wllags itehing, romoves orusts and’ soalos, and pormits rost and sieop, This ropentod daily with two or three (cags o Cuticura Resolvent, tho new blood puritior, (o Keop the blood cool, the porspiration pure fnd unfrritating, the owels open, tho liver and Kidnoys netive, wil spoadily Curp oczom, tettor, rm, pRoviasis, lichea, pravitus, sonid houd, Y, fid every spocios of itol aly and pimply Bumors of tha skin th loas of hir, whe known remodics fail, K JURED, About two years sinco 1 was hadly affioto with a form or eczema, and ordinary modics wiléd 10 cure mo, 1 then Remodios, and in & fow weoks was porfectly curod, 1 think faithfully used tho will oure the worst. skin diseases known, A GrO. 8. DICKENSON, Homo for D, V., ampton, Va. M CURED, vhoum for a numbor trely came off ono of ¥ hainds from the fngor tips to the wrist, T iod romod 18 presoriptions Lo’ no urposo until 1 commenced taking Cuticura k , and now T am entirel . . T. PARKER, 479 Northamptom §t., Boston, Miss, I'TOHING, SCALY, PIMPLY. For the last year I have had a specis of ftch ing, scaly, and pimply humors on my face 19 which huve applicd a g w ||I\' methods of treutment without y and which way speadily and entirely eured by Cuticuri, BIGS, 15AAC PHELPS, Ruvond, O i R 14 evorywhere, Juticura, 5 conts: Resolvent, $1.00; Soap, cents. Prepared by tho Porien ' DiuG AND 1EMICAL Co., Boston, Mass, Send for "How to Cure Skin Diseases,"” PIMYLES, Blackheads, Skin Blomisios and by Humors, use Cutleuri Soap. 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