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

_THE DATLY BEE.| D t] " OMANA OFFICENO. 014 AND gTaFARNAM ST New Youk Orvior, ROOM 6, TRIBUNR BUTLDING WASHINGTON OrFiCR, NO. 513 FOURTERNTH ST, Published every morning, except Sundns. The gnly Monduy morning pnpor publisued i the stafe. TERMS BY MATL: ne Year.. $10.00 Threo Months. ... 8250 ix Months........ 6.000ne Month.... 100 Tae Werkry Dee, Published Bvery Wednesaay. TERME, POSTPAID: One Year, with premium 6 Yo, without premium ... jx Monthis, without premium. . ... Onie Month, on trial i CORRPEPONDENCE: ANl communications rolating to_news and edi- forinl matters ehould be addressed to the Bk WOR OF “HE BEE. BUSTNPSS LETTRRS: ATl bu tiness lotters and romittancos shonld be @dvesced 1o THE BEE PURLISHING COMPANY, MATA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders 10 be made payable to the order of the company. THE BEE PUELISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETONS E. ROSEWATER. EDITOR. Now THAT the gas company has d eided to give ns cheap gas, the anxious will be on the look-out for a slow FARNAM street sidewalks should be all brought to the curb, and all wooden walks should be replaced with stone, granolithic, asphalt, or other durable material. Tue Missouri river at this city has been falling for the last two or three days, but when the ice-gorge above Elk Point breaks we may look out for a flood that may do considerable damage. OMAHA must m gessments this year. of taxable property in Douglas county is fully $100,000,000, Nine millions as a ba- #is for a tax leyy is an outrageous con- vession to the great tax shirkers, orially raise her as- The market value Tue mikado of Japan has sent a éon- tribution of 00 to the New York Grant monument fund. The mikado tloman and a scholar. [t is inti that his contribution the result of the recent visit of Hon. C. H. Dewey, of Omaha, to Japan paved is Capitol avenue from Sixtcenth street to the high school. Capitol avenue is the widest street in the eity and it could be greatly beautified on the hillsida _hy)m ing it in the center and putting a Onmana will be largely what the enter- prise, pluck and spirit of her business men make her. Let all differences be sunk and a united effort made to further her interests, and a fow years will see us with 100,000 inhabitants and a trade Which will bo only limited by the requre- ments of the tributary country. Work wins. Pluck and push win. All com- bined make success certain. THERE is a good deal of sense in the bill, recently passed by the Towa senate, to suppress intemperance. It punishes the drunkard as well as the liquor dealer who sells to him. The penalties pro- yided for drunkenness are made very se- ' Vore. While this is an_imuartiyi mons. urs, it does scom strange, however, that it should be necessary to pass such a law ina prohibition state. It only goes to show that prohibition does not prohibit. SENATOR VAN Wyck has passed his bill in the senate which confirms land entries made under rulings of the land office prior to Mr. Sparks’ arrival. Now let the bill be pushed in the house. Mr. “Sparks 1s honest and foarless, but he has made some sad blunders in his rulings which have affected the rights of western sottlers. Ho has been so straight that he has leaned backward. Between Secretary Lamar's overruling pen and Senator k’s contirming bill the western homesteaders and pre-cmpters need have no fear that injustice will be done to their interests. ‘TuE vote in the English house of lords to open all national museums and gal- leries to the public on Sundays is agreat victory for liberal principles. The reso- lution declares that this Sunday reform is demanded ‘“in the interest of religion and education.”” Not a member of the bench of bishops voted for Sunday open- ing, but the resolution was supported by all tho peers of ability, including Gran- ville, Spencer, Ripon, Wolseley, Napier and Bute. Lord Bramwell, formerly Justice Bramwell, in advocating the re olution referred to Prince Bismarck's recent dismally humorous description of an English Sunday,but the high authority of Bismarck and his contrast between Sunday observance in England and Ger- many made no impression on the bench of bishops. There is no doubt that tho house of commons will speedily concur in the resolution, and the change will have & most salutary influence on the massos of people in London and other Jargo citios, for whom Sunday is the only day for intellectual re creation and enjoy Mz, HoLyaN will be given a chance to ng voice when the bill comes in for Senator Miller’s funeral, The extravagance of congressional funer- als and the manner of condueting them i8 1 public scandal. It cost the govern- ment about $20,000 to bury Senator Mil- Jer. A special train of four cars was con- sidared necessary to convey his wife and danghter, his remains and one senator and five congressmen to the Pacific coast, ‘What the expense would have been had the death boen better timed for a pleasure trip and thus attracted a full committee of senators, it is only possible to surmise, All congressmen do not, however, come from so distant a state, and the ordinary oxponuso of a funeral is from $5,000 to §7,009, luxurious apartments at hotels, champagne ad libitum and genorally high living, being, according to con- gressional usaze, essontial for the proper cxpression of poignant grief, The ia- proprioty of turning this kind into a junketing trip was em- phasized by General Hancock when he was n charg * body of Goneral Grant from Gregor to New York, Arom his co: Mt. Me- Looking back saw some Penusylyania militia oflic ing thomaelves with fheir wine sed cigars and sent a polite sequest that the smoki be stopped. Pha play soldicrs declined to sccede to his wish, when he ordered the conductor to drop the car containing the offenders st the next stetion if the smoking did not y within five minutes. The cigars m earod and was not resumed during the irip. funeral journey of | The Boss Headsman. While the president and the senate are quarrelling cheerfully away over a mat- ter in which the party and the public have little interest, First Assistant Postmaster General Stevenson is going right along with the work of beheading republican fourth class postmasters, and filling their places with fourth class democrats. Tt matters nothing to Stevenson whether the senate acts in executive session, or declines to close its doors on a curious publ His machine has no such elog to its efficiency. He is the appointing and confirming power combined, and the sole Judge of the qualifications of the demo- cratic Nasby. From March 4, 1835, until February 1, 1836, Stevenson’s guil- lotine cut off several hundred heads a_ week. By that time the pressure had beon so much relieved that only sixty or seventy removals daily have gince been made. Mr. Stevenson is naturally the idol of his paity. He has played no game of sham civil service re- form. He needed no charges to bolster up his partisanship. Believing in the grand old democratic doctrine of spoils and their relations to victors, he has con- ducted his office on that basis. Ho is de- serving of a good deal more respect than some of his official associates who have accomplished the same ends while hypo- lly singing hymns to the goddess of civil service reform. Efticiency within the partyis a good cnough qualification for ofice. So long as parties rule in polities it will bo the principal recommendation for official recognition, Spelling bees and classesin geography will not affect it. A few clerk- ships may be apportioned out on the sis of a knowledge of astronomy, but the bulk of the offices will be parcelled on the old basis just as they have been done under Mr. Cleveland’s administration. Much of the antagonism which the presi- dent has aroused within and without the lines of his own party can be directly traced to the belief that his professions of devotion to compe minations and such nonsence are hollow and insin- s, made to catch and hold votes, not ceure and retain an improved class of T Stevenson seems to be a good official and he cerfainly is a good parti- san. Why should rebublicans object? Their turn has come. It will come again. Solong as the active headsman of the postoflico depar nt keeps within the law, who has a right to object? The guillotine is not the perpetual property of any party. It changes ownership from time to time. Its glittering blade will rise and fall with equal regularity v Stevenson sleeps witla other uu~|.-.: an and & republican first assi tmaster general touches the spring. st little The Principle Involved. No change 1s reported in t tuation of affairs along Gould’s system of rs roads. The railway ofticials whose duty it is to exercise their public functions as common carriers are still- standing . out obstinately for an unconditional surren- der of their striking employes. Tho workingmen are as firm in demanding that the question which gaused the -7t | shall be gettled Selor the embargo is Toi%ed. Meantime the public is suffering, trade is being seriously injured, traffic is suspended, and labor is living on its small surplus savings. What is the question which organized labor insists so strongly is involved in the present dispute? So far as can be dis- covered, it 1s the right of labor to organ- ize. The discharge of Foreman Hall was made because he attended a Knights of Labor meeting in Texas, His brother laborers are resenting such a cause for throwing & man out of employment. They claim that when employers boycott organized labor, organized Inbor in turn has the right to refuse its services to em- ployers and all who assist them in main- taining such a principle. This is the un- derlying cause for the extent of the pres- ent strike. The discharge of a single man is a small part of the real rea- son for the existing troubles. The Knights of Labor feel that there is a principle at stake and that principle is labor's right to organize, They are persuaded that the trouble on the Texas Pacific has made a test case which must be settled decisi in one way or the other as the ground for future peaceful re- lations between organized capital and organized labor. The public who are suffering from the effects of the strike have a right to know the reason for its continuance. They are entitled to learn on whom the blame for the struggle rests. Organized labor does not deny the right of employers to discharge incompetent and characterless workingmen. They do not insist that capital shall be forced to employ labor which does not give full returns for its wages. That would be to reduce the value of every competent and faithful w orkingman, and to place him on a par with the poorest and most worthless of his fellows. If the foreman on the Texas Pacific rond had been discharged for in- competency there would have been no strike. But the blow aimed at Foreman Hall was aimed at organized labor, and organized labor is returming it with in- terest, The public should understand and understand clearly thatthere is noth- ing standing in the way of a settle- ment of the strike on the Gould system except the pride of the railroad oflicials. The strike would cease the moment that the haugnty rail- road magnates yielded the point atissue. Recerver Brown and Manager Hoxie are in one and the same boat. Itis & miser- able subterfuge to talk about courts and the offended dignity of the law. Mr. Brown needed no decree of the court to rge Foreman Hall. He will need decision to reinstate him. Mr. Hoxie is standing on his royal dig- nity and posing as a champion of assailed pital, while he in fact oceupies the po. sition of an oppressor of organized labor Both Mr. Brown and Mr. Hoxie are draw ing their salaries, however, with unvavy ing regularity, and will continue to do 50, strike or no strike. Public sentiment is rapidly turning to the side of the striking workingmen, People are beginning to see that the dig- nity of offended railroad magnates, who #re too bull-headed to adimit tueir blun- | ders, is sovely responsible for the contiu- uance of the trouble. Receiver Brow: and Mr. Hoxie must yiel Organize labor will never yield its right to organ- izo, or admit thaf such organization gives omploying capital the right to refuse it employment. SENaATOR MANDERSON'S specch mn veply to Scnator Hale's remarks on Mr, Logan's bili to incrouse the eflicacy of the army, is spogen of in the dispatehes as qu able THE 1886, offort. Mr. Manderson appealed in strong terms for increased military pro- tection for the settlers on our northern frontier, and pictured very vividly, be cause from personal observation, tle dangers to which they are exposed under existing conditions. The facts as stated are beyond dispute. The entire northern line of Nebraska borders directly on the Sioux reserve. The Indians therelocated could rally an effective fighting foree of 9,000 warriors. To protect the frontier the government has two small garrisons containing barely five hundred men. The neerost other military garrison by rail is Fort Omaha, four hundred miles away. In case of outbreak the entire northw ern section of the state would be at the i of the Sioux before assistance could reach it. Ifthe army in the west is intended for service it should be eon- contrated largely in positions of danger The most important posts are those which guard the flanks of the Inc country. They should be made the largest and the strongest. The time for *posts of observa ation” has gone by, We need posts for offensive and defen operations, garrisons of such ¢ that their yery importance and ability to make short work of Indian outbreak that may occur will be the strongest guarantee that no such outbreak will take place. Two regiments of troops ought to be stationed in northwest Ne- braska in the two posts of Robinson and Niobrara. Both garrisons are now on the line of the railroad. They can be maintained as cheaply as any posts in the west. In case of trouble their com- mands, if needed elsewhere, could be at onee moved by rail to the scene of dis- turbance. Every argument of military expediency, public safety and economy demands that whether the army is in- creased in size or not, that portion in Ne- braska shall be concentrated where it _is most needed =) Revising the Retired Lists, Messrs. Thomas, of Illinois, and Rea- gan, of Texas, are inaugurating an in- vestigation of the retired lists of the army and navy which is already causing many tlutterings of hearts in Washington. Mr. Thomas is particularly devoting himself to the navy and the sub-committee, of which he is chairman, claims to have made many alarming discoveries in the coursq of its researches, Tt is agserted tiat the list {s filed with oftigers who have been retired on three-quarters pay Decause of incompotency, drunkenness, and incapacity for the servico resulting from dissipation, that in many instances men have been shelyed from active eer- vice because they were. morally and physically unfit for command or were mentally incompetent to pertorm their and that the tendency for yea ve officers from court-ma and dismissal by ordering them be- a retiring board and making them a ‘ge for life upon the national treasury. gan, of Texas, proposes to do rvice for the army. He has resolution calling on the ary of wor for T Tist of all . 1 oflicers of the armv with the specific reasons for their retirement. Mr. Reagan doubtless mclines to the opinion that the frequent cause for retirement, ‘““disability incident to the service,” like charity, ‘‘covers a multitude of sins.” K There are doubtless some such ¢ but we bLelieve that investigation w prove them to be infrequent. Dissipation in the army is yearly growing less. The heavy drinking and carous once considered & necessary incident of army life, has gone out of fashion. The strain for promotion Is so intense that officers who disgrace themselves and their profession are very apt to find themselves brought promptly before court martial with a prospect of dis- missal staring them in the face. There are many applicants for places on the re- tired list whose disabilities were actually the rosult of hard duty in war and on the frontier who cannot secure retirement because the list is full. Retiring boards are not apt under such circumstances to n favorably towards those who seck to make their habits of dissipation the ground for securing a life annuity, especially as the law permits such men to be “wholly ro- tired,” or virtually dismissed by action of a retiring board and without the publici- ty of court martial proceedings. In the navy the proviso of the law which places on the retired list ofticers who are found on examination to be incompetent for promotion has undoubtedly acted in swolling the list to its present bloated di- mensions. This abuse could be checked by changing the law so that such oflicers should be wholly retired with a year's puy and allowances. That would bo & cheap way of getting rid of officers, who, while perhaps faithful in the perform- ance of tl duties, are mentally incapa- ble of rising to positions of higher com- mand. It should, however, be borne in mind that the retired lists of both the army and navy are now much I ] than they will be twenty years or ten years from date. The veterans of the wars are dropping off rapidly. Four- fifths of the oflicers on the disability list were retired for wounds and disabiliti resulting from the war of the rebellion. Many are old and feeble and cannot re- main long on earth. Others in the nat- ural courso of time must in a few years be dropped from the rolls. Twenty years from now there will be little cause for complaint as to the size of the army retired hst. There will be suflicient va- cancies to accommodate all found dis- abled by reason of service. Theseparate list on which the names of all officers reaching sixty-four are placed will rap- idly adjust itself to the size of the army and after a fow years will remain as a constant factor” to be considered in the annual appropriations a similar offered a seere Tue announcement that the Burling- ton road has let the contract for grading an additional 150 miles northwest from its Grand Island extension, making 800 miles in ali, has no basis in fact. No such contract has been let, as we are in- formed on the best authority. Work is being pushed on the present contract through Custer county and the road is pointing significantly towards the Dako- ta boundary, but that is all. Whether the main line of the present extension will turn uorthward or whether it will strike west along the val- ley of the Niobrara or Runuing Water is us yet undetermined. But for all that, it is not at all a question of doubt whether the Burlington system proposes to invade thoroughly this summer the still undeveloped country of northwest- ern Ncbraska. It will streteh its iron ng which was OMAHA DAILY BEE. THURSDAY. MARCH 25. arms in several directions through that promising region, opening up an empire of rich grazing and agricultural land to the settler and giving to Omaha new rail road facilities with' a section which rich in possibilitios to our merchants. It is highly wprobable that the Burlington officials will not leave the Black Hills in the exclusive contro of tho Northwestern, and equally prob- able that they will divide the traffic of northwestern and = western Nebraska with that system and the Union Pacific. There are significant symptoms of a de- sire on the part of its officers to cross the state line west and reach into the rich mineral and range regions of western Wyoming. Aggression is to be the motto of Nebraska railroads during the coming spring and summer, It is a free for all race for traffic in whichno one's territory will be respected m secured the “old man Ben- Tue Republican has a arrest of its penitentiary der,” alias John Pierson. Pierson’s value as a sensation has long ago been played out, and this latest effort to boom him as a dime museun attraction will at- tract a languid interest on the part of the public. KINGS AND QUE 3 The emperor of Germany does not like the piano, King Humbert of Italy never looks a gift glass of champagne in the foam. The Emperor William has sanctioned the erection of a monument to the poet Les: near that of Goethe in the Thiergarten, Queen Victoria has given her royal com- mand that a real Boston bean-pot shall be in- troduced at Windsor Castle. *Poor Carlotta,” the once beautiful em- press of Mexico, i8 reported as nearing the close of her tragic career at the old castle of Bouchot, near Brussels, The Crown Prince of Germany needs two trays to carry his orders when he appears in full regalia. He has more orders than a dev- enth Regiment veteran, Prince Augusto Leopolo, son of the empo or of Brazil and admiral of the Brazilian navy, will visit the New Orleans exposition, and will probably be invited to visit Wash- ington. King Ilumbert of Italy dislikes court balls and royal fetes, and when he has to attend thom he looks painfully bored. His majesty prefers to remain in his private apartments playing billiards. 2 Prince and Princess Edward of Saxe- Weimar are rapidly gaining popularity in Ireland They are pleasantly cultivating the acquaintance of the Irish themselves in- stead of setting up an exclusive circle. Prince Napoleon figures in Cora Pearl’s memoir Duke Jean,” and the story of her relations with him is unblushingly re- lated. She says that she received from him hundreds of thousands of francs. The Princess Isabella, heir to the throne of is extremely religious, and sometimes tonished and far-from-gratified subjects of her father have beheld her sweeping tho floor of the church, clad in a coarse goyn and humility of spirit, The ™7 lery of King Thebaw's reckless bluff at the British lion when he had nothing at all to back up the buld face he assumed is oxplained. Mo 13 said to be inordinately fond of playing poker and applying his fa- vorite metliod of play to the game of foreign affairs he was caught, The erown prince of Portugal, who is to marry Princess Amelia of Orleans, has an abundant supply of names, Wheh he signs s namas in full they are Charles Michael Raphael Gabriel Gonzagua Xavier Francis of Assis, Joseph Simon of Braganza, Savoy, Bourbon, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Braganza. e Fur no Indicati: Ofl City Bilzzard. You can’t tell an actor by the amount of fur on his overcoat. ————— The Mugwump Stamp. St. Pai.. Pioneer Press. ‘Whatever the occult reason behind it, the fact is clear that the most violent and uncom- promisingforgans in the country to-day are those which bear the mugwump stamp. e Py A Chinaman Who Went. Chicago Herald. One Chinaman has obeyed the command to *go,” and everybody I8 in mourning. His name was Hop Sing, and he was a banker at Yakima, Wyo. All the deposits went with him, —_———— A Crusher. Louisville Couricr-Tournal. ‘When a woman wants to tike a mean re- venge on her husband for some fancied slight or injury, she has only to read aloud to him one of his old lovelciters four years af- ter his marriage, e NoNeed of a Talking Machine. Chicago News. Prof. Faber, who is exhibiting his talking machine throughout the country, has come at a very inopportype time. There is too much competition, Congress is still in session. —— A Word for the Boys. Boston Post, A Cincinnati paper invents the word weircumbicyeling.” This is such an express- ive word that it is feared that strangers to the language wlll mistake it for profanity, Several other good words could be built on the same model. Why can’t the boys talk of “eircumbumming the town,” for instance? S0 Wh, Slashed and Flopped. Lincoln Journal, The Omaha Bek publishes a tally of the ballots of the jury in the Lauer case, from the first to the entieth, 1f the record is gortect, tho jury slashod and flopped and bushwhacked atound about as much asa democratic convention nominating an alder- man in a city where the oflice is more lucra- tive than honorable, e A Good Word for Eh, Deonver Tritusje. Unless the president shall be able to givo good reason for the removal of Gov, Murray, of Utah, men of all parties will con- demn his action ! for the entire country has great faith in Murray and believe that lie has done much to bring the Mormon evil directly under the eye sf the Iy, He is the wan of all others for the place. Brookln Eagle, T'm tired of its danéing, its lancers and tHorles” and its “Five s 800 its gossip entrancing. 1 sigh for the desert, to live as I please, Avd now I aflirm it, and time will contirm it, I'm 50 tired and poor that my sins I'll re- pent, ) And I'll be, as they term it, a pious old hermit-— ‘The holiest man on the earth—-during Lent. Innocuous Desuctude, say, ma,” shouted Jimmy Tuffboy, as he rashed into the house, “'are you up on dictionary words®" “Not very much,my son. What troubles you now " “Nuffin much, ma. only teacher said this morning that I?v the way I acted she should think your slipper had fallen into innoeuous desuetude, that's all.” “There shall be no further complaint of that kind, young man. You walk up- stairs.” Jimmy saw that he hud made of bLis curiosity a decided enemy STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Wymoreans are wrestling with the waterworks problem, Hastings' new cemetery is ready for the spring crop of defeated candidates. The bridge over the Elkhorn river at Crowell has been swept away by the flood. Workmen have begun digging the trenches for the water mains in Grand Island, The opera house burned at Central City recently will be rebuilt on an en- larged pian. The Ponca Journal asserts that the town only lacks a coal mine and capital- ists to discount Sioux City in size and population, The *‘beardloss cubs’ of demoeracy are getting a firm grip in the interior of the state. A new automatic organ will be tuncd and turned loose in Sidncy this week. John Reines, a recent arrival near McCook, while in the act of hanging up his gun, ‘the weapon fell from his hands and its contents plowed his abdomen. e dicd in two hours, Amud a profusion of premiums offered by citizens of Plattsmouth for big pump- kins, prize calves and fat babies, Hon. William Neville rises above all rivals with an offor of $10 for the largest and best assortment of packing house pro- ducts in the state, a slaughter house com- mittee to act as judge and jury. Another republican paper has been radely fired from tho fodoral fleshpots in this state. The editor of the North Bend Flail, whose antique thresher ornumented the postoflice of the town, was ejected last week to make room for Herbert Williams. It was an outrage on vested rights, the Hiatt of infan, The Union 1s by twenty miles in the r ace to the north- west, T . & M. company, however, is making giant-like strides o close the gap, and by the 1st of April cont will have 1,600 men and 1,000 work on the Grand Island & Wyoming Central grade. It is expeeted that both roads will reach Broken Bow July 4. The outcroppings of mineral wealth continue flgl(:\lini; land speculators in various parts of the state. Coal veins have temporarily subsided, and gold _di come to the front. Two years ago a farmer near Scotia, Greeley county, found a gold nugget in the craw of a chicken, » “dome of thought” has been wor ersince to discover whence that eraw fished the nugget. His researches now u,umur to have placed him on the threshl ufil(l of wealth, with its train of idleness and evil. Deep down in awell, seventy feet from the brow of Mother Earth, he discovered the glitte ing sand, laden with gold nuggets var ing in size from a_pin's head to a pea. Scores of people flocked to the find and were permitted to fish up the rich sand and analyze it, but no thought of salt penetrated the unsophisticated mind. An old miue vrospector was found, and_ his opinion thut it was pay dirt inereased the excitement. In addition to her golden laurels, Scotia promises to unearth a coal vein of paying [xropm'limls in the course of a month, Chicken “craws" now gomy: mand a premium, ST U = Yowa items. " A calf without eyes or tail is a Spencer product. Cheese factory meetings have taken the place of cuchre parties at Orange City. Oskaloosa wiil add a gas works, paper mill and street railway to her list of im- provements this year. A medical fakir ran up u&{ninsl the license law in Mason City, and w23 fined $00 for offering to enra all the chronies in town Without a permit, A Burlington alderman’s “greatest ef- fort” was the capture of 3 burglars and marching them te ihe calaboose a few nights ago. unanimous clection as city marsg catencd. Frank Relly, in jail at Sac City for a berglary pe ited at Storm Lake, eg caped on Wednesday and stole a horse from the barn of John McClosky to aid him in his flight. He has not yet been re- captured. Creston has a doctor whose name is Othello Sunrise. He was arrested on Friduy for practicing without a license and fined $16 and costs. The doctotr would not pay the fine, and went to jail to serve it out. The house of Charles black, who lives about two miles éast of Fort Dodge, was struck by lightning Thursday night. ' The gable ehd of the building was torn out and a stove in one of the rooms was de- molished. The inmates barely escaped injury. Jacob Ginther, of Manning, has just had a large beetie extracted from his which crawled in there tw ye: ago, while Mr. Ginther was on the attle fields of Kentucky. His hearing, which has been imperfect during that time, is now as good as ever, The soldiers’ home committee visited Dubuque Monday. The city offers to the home, if located there, 100 acres of choice land _commanding an excellent view of the city, river and surroundings, which is value $400 an ac The' visitors ad- mitted that Dubuque is far ahead in point of healthfulness, and beautiful grounds, and scenery, any they had yet visited. Dakota. The treasure coach from Deadwood last week took out $250,000 bullion, The Deadwood telephone line will be oxtended to Custer City, Hot Springs and Buffalo Gap. The advance guard of the spring in- flux of gamblers, lmli:h and free booters has luufic&l in Rapid City. The Dakota Agricultural and Live Stock association organized at Mitchell, and resolved to give $10,000 in preminms, The authorities of Deadwood are economizing by cutting off the supply of sonp and candles from” prisoners in” the jail. At Huron one day recently a hungry follow at one meal ate twenty-eight eggs with ham, turkey, bread, ete., in propor- tionate quantity, and the necessary trim- mings ol & firsb Alass meal. The Deadwood ro: genis are deter- mined to punish Von Bodungen, who re- cently swore that Bill Tillson was one of the gang that murdered Johnnie Sla ter, & stage driver, in 1877. He has arrested for perjury and if that charge fals he will be prosecuted for failing to squeal before, A four-story brick hotel, with steam levator, an Odd Feoll Q trie light, artesian w zht k blocks are a few of the improve- at Huron for 1856, s have been built this spring, them two sto Vast deposits of feldspar have been dis- near Custer City. It is as white s from mica and other n be utilized in as alabaster, fr foreign substances, and c: the manufacture of wares much superior to any hitherto manufactured in this country, and equaling the celebrated wares imported from China. Custer City proposes to bait a hook for the B. & M. if that company builds into the Hills. The ression prevails there that the com will build north via Cheyenne, as the route will be northwest from Grand Island. The will be known as the Omaha, Piatte & Wyoming Central. Thousands will be employed on the line this Beckman, & prosperous farmer thropist in the north part of La Mourc county, recently published an article in u Chicago paper setting forth and phi ta much after the Donan style, and eluding with th mlhuslnsfloo&i’mlgv himself find husbands for 10,000 for- orn fernnles. Itis learned that a great number have taken him at his word, and the little postoflico of Barnes is flooded with missives, Active operations on the grade betwoen Buffalo Gab and Rapid_City have been inangurated, 878 men and 200 teams being now valoyed, and the nufber is being constantly increased by squads of labor ers arriving by eastern trains. The big rock cut at Lame Johnny ecreek will be completed in time to prevent delay. ‘Lhe ties will be all delivered during this month, and trocklaying, it is stated, will be commenced by April 1. Superintend- ent Zach Shrop has threo cight hour shifts at work on the big cut on Lame Johnny, who work through sanshine and rain, and the Rapid City Republis ro- flects the unanimous sentiment that the town will hear the toot of the whistle on the 1st day of June, when the grandest celebration ever witnessed in the Black Hills country will take place. Jumping Klectricity, Chicago Tribune. Our columns of yesterday contained a report of an excursion over the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad t Fri- day. A couple of hundred railway, tele- graph, and newspaper men assembled to witn@ss a practical tost of the latest in- vention with which the name of I is prominently associated. They were treated to a wonderful exhibition of power over the forees of nature obtained by the knowledge that comes from ex- crimental study when rightly applicd. 'he electric current was made to jump back and forth between the tels -g{n III wires by the roadside and the roof of the car, a distance varying from twenty-five to one hundred toct cach w e ried with it m zh “tho in- trenchant air’ to stations on the line. In the baggag at an oper- ator with a couple of receiving-cups buckled to his ear, and on a little table before him an ordinary Morse dispatch- ing key. The metal roofs of the car were ged with electricity by means of a simple clectro-magnet, the wires ran thence to the operator, and from him to a conper ring around one of the car-wheels. This gave connection with the iron ra and)j they in turn were connected with the wires on the roadside by means of a ground wire at an intermediate sta- tion. That tendency to “induction’ (leakage of the lightning ), which so often interferes with the practical telegrapher at his work, did the rest. That 1t did so was amply proved by the effective sond- fng of some 200 messages during the Jjolikney. One "of theso messages was the first train order ever sent toa running train, It read: “Pass No. 18 at Oakland and run to Minerva regardless of No. 10.” These words are probably the precursors of an infinite ies which will revolu- tionize tho business of train-dispatehing, as all orders hitherto sent them' by wire could only be received at stations, and i case of ‘intermediate stoppage, 1t i3 highly probable that the e ditional f; y and seeurity which this method commupiatiion affords will ecause GOM% into general use for the regulation of traflic on our lines of railroad, in spite u(f the increnseq expense which it may be thonght t¢ entail. 1t is open to question, however, if this greater cost will not bt more than compensated by the introduc- tion of ew order of business on our moving hich may be the ion of the news of the d: B y that he now utilizes the telephone and the telegraph wire while standing at one end of the line of communication. This would actual- 1_{ place the merchant, the doctor, the lawyer, and all other classes of persons whose advice or direc- tion is needed in more ready communica- the demand for marriageable females in tion with the Wworld than that whick most of them enjoy at their homes, and equal to that which they command at their oflices and stores. Not the least wonderful feature of the innovation is found in the fact that this method of tele- firuphingdacs not interfere with the or- inary nse of the wircs. They ean be utilized to the same extent as now, un- hampored by the passage over them of the mysterious messages which at the word of command leap’ through mid-air to earry news of weal or woe to upnum- bered thousands of the traveling public. The megsnges are sent by the Morse method of infi!cu!'m'g lutfers%)y reater or less intervals between the clicks of the sounder, but they are received by the telephone npll:]hmce, which permits the signals to be rd without interference by the moving train. tors have demonstrated théir abil- ity to couvey the signals through an air space of 580 fcet, and it is thought not improbable that' cre long the limit will be increosed to half a mile. Perhaps it um{bc:\ good while before this distance Is much exceeded, but it is far from hcin[:hnmong the impossibilities of the future that the electrical impulse can be sent through leagues instcad of feet. l’urh:\})s also the water as well as the land will yet bo employed to form a ‘‘ground’’ connection, and in that case the sending of messages to ships on the ocean would be no more strange or un- common than will be witnessed a few ears hence with regard to moving tr: 8 Still another step forward into the do- main of the at present unattainable, and our successors on this earth may find themselves placed in communication with the inhabitants of other spheres, ex- changing ideas and facts with 1he people on far distant Neptune, and perhaps even h[gnh]ulg with the domain of the fixed stars. Who e rwit- nefsing tho progres ast fow years to set bounds to the possibilities of the future? Mrs. Elizaboth Sh Walhut, Iowa, a few 106 years. 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