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

il THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 188& THE DATLY BEE. OMATIA OFFIC New YOk Orvic WAsHINGTON OFFICE, NO.914 AND graFARNAM ST RooM 65, TRIBUNE BUTLDING 3 FounreesTi ST, Published every morning, excont Sunday. The only Monday morning paper published in the state. TERMS DY MATL: $10.00Throe Months 5.000ne Month One Year. Bix Monthis. e WeekLY Dee, Published Bvery Wednesday. TERME, POSTPAID: Gne Year, with promium ine Y ear. withotit premivin ix Months, without premiuim One Mouth, on trial conrpsroNENCR: Al communications relating to news and odi- torinl matters should be addressed to the Eor- TOR OF "uk Bre, BUSINESS LyTTERS: All bu tiness latters and remittances shonld be nadressed 1o Tiw BEE DU G CONPANY, Omaita. Drafte, checks and postofice ordors 10 be made payable to the order of the company. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS. E. ROSEWATER, Eorron. R, Epiton Mg, Morrison’s new tariff gone to join the Keeley motor. Itdeclines 10 go. JAY Gouvrp says that he does not pro- pose to make any compromise, but the he will sue the Knights of Labor. The AN Towa newsp: soriber a dollar’s worth of sceds as a pr mium. Itis suspected that it s pretty solid with tho Tov Tue eminentl should assist in Tespectable counc do it, he has no r tion. respectable citizen ecting eminently men. If he does not t to kick after clee Now TiaT the company has come to terms the public will not approve of any move against its property interests which scems to be inspired more by a de- sire for private gain than for the benefit of the community. QuITriNG work is no fun. When br and meat bills stare a laborer in the f: astrike is one of the sacrifices of war. It ghould never be indulged in hastily to be vopented at leisure. Governments a fudge the justise of wars on the justice of the causes on which they are based. Socioty gives or withholds sympathy from striking labor in accordance with the justice of the demands for which labor goos to industrial warfare. OMAIA now has an opportunity to se- cure a woolen mill that will employ fifty hands. This in itselt would be an im- portant manufacturing establishment, and would no doubt soon grow to be a very extensive concern if properly man- aged. Besides it would attract other manufacturers to this city. What Omaha weeds and must haveis a large of small manufactories, rather th . fow largo establishments. Now let the board of trade exert itself in this matter, and as a starter secure the woolen mill. ‘T Omaha board of trade has rented Yooms in the exposition building, which it will occupy umtil its own structure #s erected. The exposition building is Jarge one. It is to be hoped that the hoard of trade will enlarge cor ingly nas it changes its r ¥ There is room for it. The board has aragged along for years with apparently little idea of its own importance, or of the value of such an organz ness men, if properly m; ated by tl ght kind of The best of our merchants are enrolled on ats membership list, and all classes of bu: ness are represented on its committees. ‘Whatthe board now nceds is a little more onterprise, n bottor attendance at the ealled mootings, and & knowledge among ity mombers that the orgamuzation enn be of immense value to Omaha in stimulating enterprise and guiding and protecting the commercial interests of a great city. Justicr HUsT's death creates in the supreme court which a democratic president will bo called upon to fill. It Is the first opportunity of the kind sinco James Buchanan was at the head of national affairs “That an able, upright and pure man il be selected tho country Is assured, not only by the carcful course of President Cleveland horetofore in appointments of minor impor- wnee, but from the character of the men whom democratic presidents have in days gone by placed in this exalted position, They were the legal brains and spotless characters of the country—men whose names will be ro- ealled and revered as long as legal authori- tleaand judicial opinion are cited in courts, ~Herald. ‘This is interesting and patriotic. It enly fails in being pointed bocause ex- Justice Hunt's death does not ereate any * wacancy on the supreme bench. Judge ! Hunt resigned in 1882 and his place was filledd by the appointment of Samuel Blatohford of New York. Since that date Justico Hant has been drawing retired wvay. The Herald is consequently only four yoars hehind the times ‘Bur losses which Jabor troubles inflict en eapital are heavy, but the losses which eapitalists ofton inflict on capital ave still more so. Let capitalists denounce as an aet of folly the strike on the Gould sys- tem. It can be watched by the building of the West Shore road by eapitalists who sought to cripple tho New York Central, which loads the Springfeld Republican to pemars: “The bumlding of the West Sh poad inflicted Josses on the constructos Gnd on the New York Central property whieh will not fall short of $100,000,000, which would pay the damages of many strikes like that in the sout west. The traunscontinental railvoads at present are having & reck- loss warfare of rates. Perhaps it is necessary way of sett of su- premacy, but it is indistinguishable in principle from other strikes against the oxisting rates of service. Competiti savikes on the part of ruilroad manage arenot to obts ages, but to o tain more work. aboring men nev strike for more work or more hours. but formcre wages and fewer hours. Ruil- " sometimes strike for sometimes, as in for ne service, A swike is any breach of indastrial ar sangements in the nature of con i . tended to force other parties to the eon- traet Lo concessions of advantage to the \ mwiker. Although the term is usuully ~ mpplied to the demands of the laboring The Expropriation Scheme. 1n a fow days the English premier may be confidently expected to lay hefore par- liament full details of his plan for the re- distribution ot Irish lands among Irish tenants. Expropriation means disposses- sion, and the one feature above all others in Mr. Gladstone's measure which will commend itself to Irishmen is that it proposes to dispossess all the landlords and parcel their estates among the tenant farmers. Amid the reports and denials of the past week in regard to the forth- coming land measure this fact stands be: yond dispute. The bill is to a radical measure adopting no half means and aimed to accomplish the definite end of sceuring Ireland to the Irish, According to the most reliable authori- ties it is probable that Mr. Gladstone in his scheme proposes the appointment of & commission of experts to fix the value of the various landed properties in Ire- land. The estates are to be handed over at these valuations to the government in cxchange for British 8 por cont consuls Ireland will then be charged with the whole amount paid to the landlords with interest, and the whole sum will be repaid into the impoe by installments within fifty the end of which time the lessoes will be- come actual owners. The government of Ircland will make all arrangements with the tenant and will itself be responsible to the imperial government, ‘i readily seen that this scheme nec involves home rule. An Irish parlia ment will arrange all the minor details as to rent, taxes, and the levy to mcet taxes and ereate a sinking fund. The landlords will be paid at once for their land, the mperial government will wait fifty years for the repayment of their loan, but tenant farmers who desire im- ate purchase, or to secure land on d - payments, will be accommo- B and can fix the terms through an Irvish legislature. The more Mr. Gladstone’s programme is the stronger it appears both politically and as a piece of statesman- ship. The empire simply places itself in the position of the Ir landlord, who departs happy. There is no doubt about that. The tenants then pay their rents, much reduced as they should be, to the local councils to bo set up by the Irish parliament. In other words, the rebel- lious Irish tenants deal directly with the Irish home-rulers, while England stands by and becomes somewhat of n spee- tator. The imperial government loses nothing by the change financially, Ireland bears the cost of the loan, and in addition relieves England of the annual charge for local government. Politically also the scheme is much stronger than would appear from the e citing roports which every day brings from London. The disaffection of Mr. Chamberlain gives rise to many contin- gencies ical leader opposes expropri w00 favol to the I there is a possibility that the parli ment partisans of the landlords will seo that the vacant seats of tho radicals in the liberal ranks arc not left vacant long upon this issue. Another stromg pomt is that the scheme will attract the support of the landlord interest The landholders, while.foreed to sell, will bo paid a fair price for their prop- erty. The whig element will be inclined to look with favor on.a plan which paves the way for Lord Hartington to the lab- cral fold by antagonizing the ultra rad- icals, like Chamberlain and his wing of the party, with whom the sentiment of personal rivalry is stronger than their convictions. Liable for Damages. That veteran corrupter of the courts, Mr. Jay Gould, whose 1ll-gotten wealth has been wrung from the sweat of labor and extorted from honest industry and commerce, proposes to enter suit agai members of the Knights of Labor orga izations for damages resulting from the present strike on his southwestern sy tem. Mr. Gould has been advised by Judge Dillon, whom he bought to leave an honorable seat on the federal bench and transferred to New York to do his dirty legal work, that a the strikers, those who abet, encourage or counsel any one in illegal acts are each and all linble for the whole aggre- gute damage done to property aflected. Under this decision Gould proposes to enter suit against all Knights of . Labor on the Missouri Pacific and elsewh rocover dumages, and he sugges shippers that thoy have the remedy. What unblushing and audacious effron- try. What a silly and transparent at- tempt to bulldoze workingmen into yielding submission to the great monopo- list. No one knows better than Jay Gould that any such attempt to crush out orgunized labor by legal opproession would mean social revolution. Such ridiculous blustor and swaggering bray- ado is intended only for efft and was spread broandeast by the monopoli associnted press in order to gain the widest eirenlation where it would do the most good. There is no danger that workingmen, whether organized or unorganized, have the right to refuse their labor to whom- soover they please. They have an equal right to combine in their refusal to work., 30 long as they are quietly and peaceful- Iy within the law they eannot be assailed by the law. law or equity can labor organizations he held responsible for damages resulting from the unauthorized acts of members. As well well might the order of Knights of Pythias be held responsible for the misdemeanor of some black sheep. To make the Knights of Labor legally liable for outrages on the southwestern sys- tem, Mr. Gould’s purchased and pur- ch to prove that the acts complained of were done by the Knights of Labor, authorized by the organization as a whole orindorsed by the partics sued. Such proof would be impossible and no one knows this better than Gould himself But while the great railroad robber is on the subject of liability for dumagoes, why does he negleet to refer to the do- cision of the New York supreme court in the case of the great freight handlers’ strike a fow yeurs ago? ut importapt decision held that common carriers must perform their functions snd that dis. putes botween themselves and their cm- ployes were no excuse for noglecting to serve the public as the law required them to do. The same attempt now being sume alasscs, it applies with equal justice and " fovee 10 wany of the operations of i made in the west was made in New York City to use the public incouveuivnce as a cat's-paw 10 pull the railroad chestputs Nor by any distortion of eable attorneys would be compelled | out ot the fire. Tt failed there as it will here. Let the courts be appealed to, not by the pirate kings of monopoly against the little homes of hard-worked laborers, but by outraged: shippers against com- mon carriers who refuse to perform the duties for whose performance they hold a franchise from the people. Let the question of the liability for the damage to trade and commerce be placed on the shoulders where it belongs, on those of corporations whose corrupt and reckloss manipulation by such highway robbers, and this man Gould lies at the bottom of all the trouble with the smployes from which the public is suffering. Not General Crook. The petition now cirenlating in this city which asks President Cleveland to assign ral George Crook to the command of rtment of the Platte, with head- s at Omaha, is highly complimen- distinguished officer. But is ill-timed. General Crook has pressing business m Arizona. Tho Apache outbreak is not yet quelled Geronimo and his blood -thirsty gang still at liberty, and in many quarters Crook’s alleged mismanagement is heid responsible for the trouble. Every friend of General Crook wishes him to defeat the slandor-mongering carpet soldiers who have Dbeen deerying his abilities and detracting from his record. This can only bo done by bring- ing the Apache campaign to a successful close. To move Crook to Omaha now would be to play dircetly into the hands of his enemies. It would be promptly commented upon as an en- dorsement of the charges that he has failed in Arizona. No friend of Crook would ask him to pay such a price for a return to his larg inthe Dey present advantage would, in the end, be wore than counterbalanced by the disas- ter to his reputation, which would cer tainly follow such a move. General Crook is a b it soldier, a distinguish icator of the headed and al thinker on matters relating to western progress. An unfortunate chain of causes, over which he had mno control, has dimmed the lustre of his name since he left Omaha ng of sharks atSan Carlos,and to pacify ages with no control over agents and the cormo- rants who presided over the destinies of the interior department in Arizona. Through no fault of his own, Crook has not yet reached the full measure of sue- cess in quicting the Chiricahua Apaches, and he has, in consequence, been hounded by the press from the Atlantic to the Pacific as a failure. No one who knows him, as a soidier and a man, doubts for a moment that he will rise superior to cir- cumstances and justify all the expecta- tions of his friends. But he must be given a chance to do it. He must not be removed from his only opportunity to vindicate himself by the swords of his cavalry. A change of command would a confession of failure. Much as Omaha would be pleased at Crook’s re- turn, it is due to tho general that some other officer shall be the successor of O. 0. Howard. > reckle: Ox ders in this country is the Pullman Sleeping Car com- pany. It fights against the payment of taxes at every point. If called on to pay taxes in one state it either sets up the clum that it pays its taxes in anotl state on the samo rolling stock, or makes some other evasive excuse. The com- pany has resisted tax collection suits i Wisconsin, Tennessee and Indiana, and it now proposes to fight the payment of taxes in Jowa. Inasmuch as the Towa legislature is in session we should not be surprised, under the circumstances, to see some action taken in the matter, and perhaps a bill regulating the tolls to be charged on Pullman cars in Iowa will be introduced and passed. The rates on the Pullman cars are simply exorbitant, and especially so in the west. From Council Bluffs and Omaha to Ogden, for instance, the charge eight dollars for a single berth, or at the rate of four dol- lars per day for sleeping accommoda- tions. It strikes us that n company mal ing such outrageous charges ought to be ashamed of itself for constantly evading ment of taxes. We do not be- pays any taxes in Omaha or Ne- , although the headquarters of the Pacific Pullman company are in Om “This is a matter that ought to be iny gated by our assessors. They should that the rolling stock, the car equip- ments and the office furniture are all properly listed and assessed at a fair val- ution. Farnam street sidewalks must be relaid as ordered months ago by the board of public works. Wealthy property owners skould not be treated any differently in the matter of enforcing the ordinances than the poorest tax payer on real estate in the city. It is about time for the republican city central committee to eall the primarics. THE FIELD OF INDUSTRY, Nearly all the machinery manufacturing establishments in Philadelphia are working full time, and not a few overtime, on orders for ull Kinds of machinery, Since 1850 the industrial establishments in Kansas have increased from 700 to %00, and in capital from $7,000,000 to $19,000,000, with an annual product at present of §51,000,000, A large colony of skilled English workmen are preparing to emigrata this spring, and want to buy 1,000 acres of land near some large manufacturing city in the United States, Pennsylvania iron-making interests are buying up considerable coal and ore property in Alabama, and will open mines, build coke ovens, erect two large blast furnaces and one or two mills, Leading knit goods manufactories of the Uuited States at a meeting in New York d cided, owing to the advance in raw material, to make an immediate advance in the price anufactured products. Ihe incorporation of manufacturing com- ge and small, still continues in ul states, and abundant capital is seek- went because of the liberal divi- are being realized. ot and shoe manufacturing interests “ngland states and Philadelphia velopment of business retarded withoit any assignable reasons unless they are to bo tound in the fact that prices are slightly higher and confidence in the perma- neucy of present prices not general, “Phae strength of the labor movement is be- ing threatened 1n some localities by 3 good wary workinguen thrustivg thewselyes for- wward for politieal prefqrment. This is one of the dangers alead_of khe. organization, and one which will eall for the most carefal man- agement on the part of national, state and local ofticers. About 730 of the conviets In Vircinia pris- ons are working for private parties, of whom 58 are working in one shoe shop. A bill has Just been passed fordidding such em- ployment, and directing that prison labor be utillized on country roads and on works of internal improvement. iis offers a better solution of the conviet question than any other. 'he members of the Preston Cotton Spine ners’ association of England desire to buy their cotton some pl; else than in the United States. They desire the British gov- ernment to see what can be done in E supply them with cotton, and they re! to the excellent consular s of the United States and urge that it be imitated by British consuls —— A Pointer for Hoxie. Chicago Herald, Mr. Hoxle, the railroader, is v prolifie proclamation writer. A better caso would re- quire fewer argumen A Question From the Big Bridge. St. Lonis Post-Dispatoh. Is lway company compelled by law to receive and transport freight, or does the dis- charge of this function depend entirely on the pleasure of the manage; - Gould Makes a Discovery, Chicago Herald. y Gould appears to have discovered a town somewhere in Texas whose citizens are ardently in sympathy with him as against the strikers, but nobody clse has been able to discern the place with the naked eye. - tetailers of Oleomargarine. Rochester (N. Y.) Herald, The New York Star thinks it is a positive pity that the manufacturers of oleomargarine should escape, while s bear the brunt of offended justice, , if retailers did not buy oleomargarine there would be 1o manu- acturers of it. A Good Chance For the Republi St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The republicans unquestionably have a good ehance to secure a majority of the next liouse; but the opportunity is not so bright that they can afford to sit still and depend upon democratic mistakes and lukewarmness alone to give them sueh a vietory. They should organize thoroughly in every part of the country and re for an aggressive campaign, taking care particularly to nomi- nate the strongest candidates they ean find, and to avoid issues of a transient and dis- tracting nature, - What the Railway Managers Desire. St. Louis Republican, There is good reason to believe that rail- road managers desire to percipitate a gen- eral strike throughout the country. In the event of their success no one road would lose its business by having it diverted to other lines, and the , labor would be forced to aftempt whole bundle of sticks it once. e The Lauer Verd Kansas City Times., Laver, of Omaha, murdered his wife in cold blood, or, as be claimed, shot her accidentally. A verdictiof manslaughter was neither sense nor justice. Publie senti- ment seems to point to him ds her murderer, and all the evidence brought out at the trial favors that view. Public {ndignation will not be appeased by an apologetie verdict. ‘The result is a farce. — - It Won't Work, Youkers Gazette. A bluebird perched on an aspen limb In the miserablo Mareh glitter, You can’t fool me with your siren hymn Or the twit of your lonesome’ twitter; I know, while of vernal things you blab, ‘Thiat e buds dow’t burst nor the - brooklets bal And that "neath your promissory gab “There’s an ornithological titter. sa chestnut, birdie, so i " This little toot you' You seem to malke 16y T 0 come at_the first saluting Of genial air, and chirp about ‘The dandelion’s coming out, And the rhubarb ness'to sprout, And the verdure’s general shooting, Either is— But the bluebird perched on an aspen limb! This spriug _you sing’s a specter, You can yawp the thing till your senses swim In asea of gold-kissed nectar. But you can’t invelgle o chap that's cute Toshuflle off his four-ply flannel s Orin a moment of rashness, “shoot” 1is all-wool ehest protector. il STATE AND RRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Fairmont will don the regulation suit of officeholders of u city of the sccond class next month, Tho Grand Island creamery shipped 4,000 pounds of butter to New York Tues- day. The factory is doing a rushing business. The Masons of B 1 §30,000 temple th 120, threo stories higl ck and stone. “The present high ys the mont Tribune, “have proven very sastrous to bridges and there is now only one remalning across the Elkhorn river,” Alittle girl named Pearl Henderson on from the passenger train at Grand Island Tuesday morning. She had been_stolen by an unknown Woman from Sterling, Col., and was ticketed for West Liberty, Iowa. Will C, Kistler, foreman of the flouring mills at Madison, was drowned Monday afternoon. He wasin a boat removing some ice in the vicinity of the mill dam, when the boat upsot and be was swept over the dam and down the stream. The political prohibitionists of Nebras- ka City, at the late convention in that burg, recorded a raft of resolutions on the agonies of alcohol, but did not once refer to ‘‘saloons.” The word has been en from the cold,water vocabulary “dram shops” substituted. Tis i u know. Burglars made a raid on the County Bank and the saloon in Sterling on Saturday night last. The safe in the saloon was‘opened and robbed of twen two cents, and some liquors taken. At the bank the thicves broke the safe in several places but did mot suceeed in gaining an entrance to the cush drawer, The balmy zephyrs of waning March haye knocked out the church oyster n bait to hook bullion of the unw i Nebraska City, Last event of the was dubbed the “hard times sociable, owing 1o the difliculty of the mana “seo” a profit in thirteen cent meals. The young ladies were dressed in ealico, without pufis or pads, ornaments or pow- and looked as sweet and tempting sugar coated lump of chewing guni. faking ways stimulated the purse strings of the agad and filled the youthful culine heart w.th poignant hanker- o ye i, propose to ar. - It will and built of Johnson tuken sick night last cramps A Kansas man was suddenly in n Bloomington hotel or k. Huge and harrowi ed each other i his digestive organs, and burled chunks of mi from toe nails to marble top. His better half was awakened and hurried to the hotel kitchen for a mustard plaster. Armed with a half yard of safiron hued suction, the good woman rushed up-stairs 10 where her hub was tossing and writhing in pain. She entered a dimly lighted room. It was not her own, but she did not stop ta investigate. A man lay in the bed with nose and toes pointing ceiling- ward. lu sn iustaut the covers were turned down and the plaster slapped with a bang where, in her _judgment, it wouid do the most good. The yell that followed split the r‘?h-u and roused the house and the Kansan lost his cramps in his cfforts to revive his wife. All recov- red in time fo drink to the stranger's health next morning. Towa Items, k Eighteen saloons are on top in Maquo- kota The Dubuque market is gr butterine The Farmers® State bank, of Paullina, s been incorporated with a capital of ,000. Dubuqua is excited over the report that the Rock Island road will build a branch to that city this ye coal mines in the viemity of Oska- 1oo: run only on half time about 200 car loads daily. Audubon county has eighteen eandi dates for the office of county attorne) and the returns 11in. Willie Hartman, 5 years, Killed by the car Plaine Monday morning, while crossing tho railroni track. 0. R. Green w rested at Storm ko for shoving counterfeit money, He ad hi Hlm‘kvl‘ stutfod with the queer, as disposing of it when nabbed. An arte ade at the ereamery Belle Plaine 205 feet deep, thro ream of water throngh an inch pi five to forty feet in the air. The s excited over it and of the indica- tion of coal deposit sent up by the stream. Artic of wcorporation of the W sin, Ilinois and lowa Brid com we been filed at Dubuque. The cons iy proposes to build a stecl bridge seross the Mississippi one mile north of Dubuque, and is ed, 1t s alleged, on & Northern r: ed with Major D. A. Kerr, president of the Firsf Towa' association, has recently 1for a meeting of the exce- committee, to be Teld at Cedar bids on April 15, at which the time and co for holding the second triennial reunion will be decided upon. Its mem- bership now includes about 900 veterans. kota, Several strong companies are being formol for tho purpose of boring for oil Speartish, in the north part of the k Hills. mpbell county, on the Missouri v is eighty miles from a railroad and has 0,000 acres of good government land untaken, milies will come from one itoba to the Dunseith “The migration from expected to be large this Two of the doctors of Altona were ar- rested last week and taken to Huron to be bound over for the May term of court on u chargo of preseribing too much liquor for their patients. The wedding fosti lan and Mary Heintz at White s, The groom w nd, and_the bride of many o wero 230 i The popular national melodies of “The Birgen on the Rhine,’, *“The Wearing of the Green,” “The Bonnie Blue pangled Banner'. were T dered in five different languages, Ger- man, Irish, French, United States and Norvegian! ties of Will! Wyoming. Tywenty thousand young trout ave to be planted in the lakes in North Park this spring. The city council of Cheyenne has of- fered the City park asa sité for the new apitol building. The late logislature created the oflice of coal mine inspector with a salary of £5,000 a 1 attached. The proposed new town near Fort Fot- terman will_be named Lamar, in honor of the present sceretary ofythe interior. Montana, Cattle on all the ranges s irst class condition. Bullion shipments from Butte last week were valued at $111,508. The Alice and Lexington mines shipped last week eighteen bars of bullion valued at $30,784. A thirteen foot vein of silver ore has been struck in the Golden Leaf mine which assays 100 ounces in silver per ton. The Boston and Montana Gold Mining compuny have paid $430,000 in dividends and the Montana Gold Mining company —Drum Lummon—have paid $300,000. The Montana Western Railroad com- pany, capital $750,000, has filed articles of incorboration. The object of the corpo- tion is to build, equip and ove railroad from Drummond (seventy miles west of Helena the Nort| acific) up Flint C to Philip: ', and eventually from there via the rm Springs to inction with the Utah & Nor Iver Bow. The Pacific Coast. Peach trees are in bloom in Idaho and in Oregon. A rich silver strike has been made the Superstitious Mountains, Arizona, A whole tribe of Piate Indians, with their chief, huve gone to southern Cali- fornia, The proposition to annex the Idaho “panhandle” to Washington Territory the Nevada newspapers to demand ‘ged boundaries for their own state. say that Nevada really needs more population to holp pay her ‘bills. ¢ reported in North in aver Canon, Idaho, veck by United States' authorities. The cause of the seizure is that the lumbe was cut for export out of the territory, violation of the law governing the public use of timber on the public lands. The late James Irvine, of San Fran- cisco, left ¢ s only son, among other property, 180,000 acres of landin one T B R e e e R e the San Joaquin and part of the Santa Anna grants. There are between 30,000 and 40,000 sheep and several thousand cattle upon this land. The actuul cash alue of the whole tract is, at a fair esti- mate, about $4,000,000. )i R LITERATURE IN FRANCE. No Authors of First-Rate Importance Since Victor Hugo's Death, Springficld Republies It cannot be said that the state of contemporary liter- ature in France offers many consolations to the patriotic and glory-loving citizens of the nation \\lli\"rl has suflered the deepest hum! ons of any people of modern times, Greeian literature domi- ated the world long after the Greek na tion had become a mere vassal of Rome A similar statement can hardly be made ard to the literature of France since r with Prussia. Since the death of Victor Hugo, who morcover for all prag- tical consideration belonged wholly to the epoch preceding the war, it would be hard to name any liv- ing uch author of firstrate im portance in the domain ot pure liter ature. Renan, Taine, and Zolx, these are undoubtedly the three strongest writers in France to-day, yet no one of this trio can be vegard, hs.,r the first rank. Re nan, us a critie in the field of religious history, - comnands respect throughout | the loarned world, yet even now the cur- | rent of reaction has strongly set nst | his peculiar theori A similar state ment can be made in regard to I I ug of art, and of literature. But where lies his strength, there also lies his weakness, It is becauso of the extremes to which he has pushed his philosophical theory of necessity (originally developed by him from the theory of Mill), that scholars to. day have to put themselves on their uard in reading his works, Besides, Renan and Taine are great merely as ics, and criticism can never hold the first rank inliterature. The third is Zola. One ean , t0o, that the reaction against Zola_ has already begun. Indeed, it be gan before his advent into notoriety had fully taken place, for Zola "him self, ns hend of the realistic school, ropresents merely the extremo development of a movement itself be come extreme—the movement of the so. called romantic sehool, which has domi ted the literature of Burope du greater part of the century. ‘The o not wanting signs nowadays, especially in England, that the groat romantic movement has run its course, and that we are beginning to see a new literature, especially in poetry, which is yet un- named, but which® will be more akin with the classical than with the romantic school. Fiction, possibly, will undorgo o further development in ‘the direction of realism before the change with it begins. “The days of evil fortune are us, and the men of my genera tion will probably earry them down to the grave their incurable grief, wrote the French historian, Durdy, after tho nco Prassian war, and his forebodings seemed to be realized for the French na- tion in the domain of literature, ns in the domain of politics. Just at the present ance appears to be passing through n period of passivity, it not, as harsher might say, & period of barrenncss and stagnation, but we know that no other proplo of Kuropo is possessed o greator vitality, of groater recuperatiye powers than the French. Henee in the matter of literature T believe that the same is true in France at the present moment which Mr. Steadman, in- his recent book, holds to be true in Ameri after the great period of Hugo, De Musset, Dumas pere, and Balzae on the one » and of Longfellow, Bryant, and of living csentatives of the same school—\Whit nd Lowell—on the other, that there should come a ation, during genius, so to say, for it is but natur: period of quict which the natio a time lies fallow, - WOMAN Two Generals, s Fall Out at Home. Washington correspondence Philadel- phin News: Gen. Alfred Pleasanton i one of the most noted figures upon our street. The dashing and brilliant cavalry leader who drove Price ont of Missouri, who attacked the confederate advance av Gettysburg, and who did o hundred or more other things which ought to havi made this republic grateful, is now a pri vate citizen. He is slightly below medi- ight, and even now walks with the t swing of a cavalryman. Gen, santon will never be ablo to disguise the fact that he is a born soldier. He'l the look of the military man from houd to foot. His hair is now trosted nearly a white, and his mustache and im- of n grayish tinge. He still the black slouch hat of the style in when he commanded the V- the Army of Potomuc, favorite 8 a cupe over- 7 nl one of the in Washington, Speaking the other evening to your cor- respondent he said: “Two of the great- of the war were model hus- ls. ant and Hancock although to command and hold in absolute obedience hundreds of thousands of men, took “buck seats” when they were at home. Pe ps you do not ~ know how the unfriendly fceling arose between Grant and Hancock. It is a most inter esting story and extends back before the war, when Grant and Hancock were both oung men. Both were stationed ut St. Louis at the time I to, and ncither of them had been married a great whilo, Mrs. Hancock cume from a southe family. 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