Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 16, 1886, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE., FRIDAY. APRIL 16, 1886, JTHE DAILY BEE. OMATIA OFFICE N0, 014 AND gIaFARNAM ST NEW Y ORK OFFIOR, ROOM 65, TRIRUNE BUTLDING WASHINGTON OF¥ICE, No. 513 FOURTEENTH ST, Publishod evory morning, exoent Sunday. The oty Monday worning aper pubiised fo o ate. TERME BY MATL: $10.00 Three Months 5.00/0ne Month. One Year. Eix Month Tae WEEKLY Der, Published Rvery Wednesday. TERMS, POSTPAID: Ono Year, with promium Qne Yeur, without promitin: iix Monthis, without premiufn One Month, on trinl 2,80 v CORRESPONDENCE: All communications relating to news and odi torial matters should be addressed to the Bt TOR OF “HE DEE. DUSTNESS LETTRRS: All bu tiness lettors and romittancos should be Addiessed to THE HEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMaA. Drafts, checks and postofice orders 10 be mado payublo to the order of the company, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETORS OxAHA cannot manufactures. JAY GouvLp always did detest the smell of powder, and his dislike of Pow- dorly is but natural, Ir begins to look like the genuine old fashioned article of spring. Business will sprout with the buds. Cy cellars are becoming quite fashior People do not laugh at the idea quite so much as they did when it was originated Five heavy guns for sea coast defense have been cast in Boston recently. The next question confronting the war depart- ment is to tlnd a sc st defence strong enough to stand their recoil. Mg. Cmmps, of the Philadelphia Ledger, has presented $100 to the New York Press club to aid in the purchase lot. This ought to secure to Childs the honor of writing the obituary poetry and opitaphs for the New York newspaper men, Mg, PowpERLY'S compliments to Gould are of a pointed character. The master workman, who was so confident a fow weeks ago that a conference with the rallroad spider would cause him to re- lense his grip on the flies caught in his net, has found ample reason to change his opinion. TaE Asphalt company should begin at once the work of replacing their broken pavement along the street car tracks on Sixteenth street. The experiment mado has proved a failure and stone should be promptly laid between the tracks and along the rails. In its present con- dition the pavement is dangerous and unsightly. THE striking epidemic has at last struck the school children. Five hun- dred school boys at Troy, N. Y., struck for a single daily session of four hours, and endeavored to force their demand y throwing stones and mud at tho po- lice. They succeeded in compelling the school hoard to listen to a statement of their “grievances.” Itis now in order for the teachers to do a little striking with their ferrules. e— CALIFORNIA is liable to feela reaction after the rate waris over which will have a very depressing effect upon her com- merce and industries. The cheap fares bave glutted the California labor market, and the merchants have overstocked themselves in their anxiety to take ad- vantage of the cut-throat freight rates. When the artificial boom which natural- iy follows the influx of vast numbers of tourists and !sight-seers suhsides a col- lapse will follow that will paralyze everything in the way of business on the Pacific const. Thousands who will be unable to find work will lack fhe means of returning to their rmer homes, and when the bills ma- ture for the immense stocks of goods the merchants will find themseclyes hard pushed by their creditors. The Paclfic Zailroad war, which bhas foolishly besn zogm'dod by some as a great blessing for Jalifornia, isliable to be more dam- aging than a grasshopper invasion or a drouth, CHI0AGO has a genuive dramatic sen- ~ sation in the person of a young colored tragedian, named Wood, who is sup- ported by a colored company and a golored orchestra. Mr. Wood, who re- eeived his tuition from Prof. Lyman—the gentleman who lost his teeth at Boyd's opera house in this city—made his debut in Richard III. He combines all the gualitics of the cminent tragedians of the 3 past and present if any depend- ence can be placed upon the Herald's coritic who says heis ponderously resonant in declama- tlon, which suggests a study of Forrest; , again, he is softly winning and se- ve, a8 in his scene with Lady Anno, which would indicate a familiarity with #he mothods of Lawrence Barrett. In the it battle scene he shricks to the limit -of a youthful voice, and there, of course, we have Tom Keene. Mr. Wood really L greated a very favorable impression upon ' & the critio, and perhaps he is the coming " fragedian. At present, there is plenty of " goom for him, notwithstanding the preju- © dice of color may work against him. His ‘mext attempt will be Othello. Ir the laws relating to pre-emption, eulture, and desert-land are ro- , 88 they are very likely to be, the tead entry law will be the only one mnder which settlers can socure land. Ppon this subject of the land laws, the Chieago Herald says: The right of pre-emption has been in force since 1843, and was the first of the general Jaws under which peoplo misht acquire title | 10 the public dowain. Under it the greater ions of the vast territory embrac- g the states of Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Ne- . braska, Wisconsin and Minnesota have boen geitled. There 1s no special reason for the of the law now, save that the home- ead law Is practically identical with it, and ore 1t is thought to be unnecessary to m the older act. The timber culture act Joosely drawa in the first place, and has made the vehicle of gross frauds and but usder it thousands upon nds ef acres have been taken by the pecple who, not belng re- to settle upon the land, have no on of ¢oing it, Tue desert land act job in the first place, aud under it Califorola grabbers gob titlo to land for an empire at the ridiculous price conts an aore, ‘I'Le “descrt” lauds that pod for amythiang have long since been , wnd there is no longer any need | ment was one which Home Rule's History, A few years ago home rule and Irish abstraction were considered asone and the same thing. The history of the movement extends backwards scarcely more than a decade. The beginmng of the agitation for local government in Treland by Irishmen arose partly in con- sequence of the disestablishment of the Irisn church under Mr, Gladstone's great “reform” administration which ended in 1874, saw the first organized ment. In the Irish elections of that year the “‘home rulers’” were suceessful in soveral boronghs, The leadership of the new party in parlisment fell into the hands of Mr, Butt man of ability and culture, who had once been & conserva- tive opponent of O'Donnell. The move- English statesmen failed to understand. Mr. Gladstone, in- deed, shared a disposition to understand the new agitation; and this disposition did not help his popularity with those Englishmen who were inclined to disre- gard it altogether. Home rule made no leadway in English politics then, al- though Mr. Butt and his followers had begun what was destined to grow with singular rapidity. The accession of Lord Beaconsfield to the premiership checked the onward march of the home rule agitation, but Mr. Butt and his party kept themselves before the public by obstructionist tactics which made them a sharp thorn in the consery- ative flesh. In 1876 Charles Stowart Par- nell entered parliament as representative from Meath, and at once took Mr. Butt's place as the real leader of the home rule gitation, and his brilliant tactics an- noyed and diseredited the government. One of Mr. Parnell’s first practical move- ments toward the furtherance of his schemes was the ion of the Land League, the distress caused by the bad harvest of 1878-80 greatly aided. Previous to this time his influence among the Irish people had not been particularly marked, but at the many meetings which the league called forth he grew to be the most popu- lar speaker, and his power increased to a wonderful degree. The agitation which was now developed into a movement for wide reaching reforms in Irish govern- ment and land tenures swe pt all Ireland south of Ulster betore it. The objects of the league were, in the first place, a re- duction of rents, which were not to be paid at all in the event of refusal, and in the second place, an entire change in the land laws, by which peasant proprietors were to succeed the landlords. The league was suppressed in 1881, the y in which Mr. Gladstone’s government transformed the whole system of Irish land tenurves, but it was immediately re- vived as the National league. During the previous year Mr, Parnell visited the United States and collected funds for the object of the league. Despite every effort of the government the outrages con- tinued, culminating, in 1832, in the mur- der of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr. Burke, in consequence of which the stringent crimes act was brought into force, a piece of legislation since repealed But coercion and renewed “‘outrages” could not stay the progress of the na- tionalist cause. The last gencral elec- tion was a remarkable evidence of the results of Parnell’s genius for leadership. The nationalists carried five-sixths of the Irish seats, taking in all Ireland except in the extreme north, where Orange sen- timent prevails. “Home rule’” was the battle-cry of the electoral campaign, and the result was the return of 86 nationat- ists to 18 conservative Irish members, the former representing four and a quarter millions of people, the latter less than a million. With his accustomed shrowd- ness, Parnell saw that the more even the balance of British political parties in parlinment the more effective would be the Irish vote, and Irish ballots in Eng- land were cast to further that end. The result was the election of a parliament consisting of 833 liberals and 251 con- servatives. With tho introduction of a bill renewing coercion, the conservative ministry fell by the Irish vote combined with that of the liberals, and Mr. Glad- stona game once mora into power, under pledges to deal with home rule. How well he has carried out his pledges is seen in the introduction of the measure whose advocacy all England is now pro- dicting will result in his downfall. ————— The Prospects of Tariff Keform. Within a few days at the farthest Mr. Morrison’s bill for reforming the tariff will be the subject of debate in congress. The measure as agreed upon in commit- tee is a decided improvement over that introduced at the last session, Under its provisions the tariff taxes will be re- duced by about $34,000,000 a year. The reduction is largely in the duties on articles of general necessity and general use. The free list is largely extended and luxuries are forced to bear the greater portions of the custom’s import. With a view to stim- ulating American manufactures a moditied tariff is retained on most articles of domestic production which would feel most heavily the competition of foreign labor. Taken as a whole the measure is well considered and adapted to the de- mands of the time. It possesses the ad- vantage over last year’s bill that it is capable of division so that if the whole eannot be earvied through parts of it can awved. For all this the prospects of its passage are not cheering. It will not receive the support ot Mr, Morrison’s party despite demeeratic professions of revenuo reform which have decorated all their party platforms for the last twelvo years, The fact is patent that the democracy are as badly split on the question of the tariff as the republi- "The south which for half a century was the stronghold of free trade h 1y industries bolstered up by tarify iminations that it can no longer be counted upon to support a movement for tariff reyisions, Mr. Randall and his fol- lowers are us strong as ever in their op- position to any measure which will affect unfavorably the man- ufacturing monopohies of Pennsylvania. Mr. Hewitt may be expeoted to ‘‘protect’ the protected wire industvies in which he is heavily interested. Senators Jones and Beck have also interests to look after and u score of other demoeratie senators and representatives will be on buud to oppose any provision of Mr. Morrison’s hill which will take money out of their own pockets. 8o far us the republicans are concerned the taviff reformers will find few com- forters. Specific interests find their sup- porters even more genervally in the re- publican than in the democratic ranks, While both parties are pledged to reform the glaring irregularitics in the present tariff each is too fearful of party disad- vantage to commit itself to a measure which may lose votes in different scc- tions of the country. Here lies the diffi- culty of tarift reform. Light the Streets. Next to making a large increase in our police force, lighting the streets is the best means of protecting our ns from foot-pads and prowlers. In many re- speets the money expended for more lights will bring better returns than more policemen. Thirty or forty policemen added to the present force would only have one policeman to about every ten squares, The high price of electric lights prevents the use of that illuminator to any great extent, outside of the business center. The gas mains cover a compara- 1y small area of the city with its three hundred additions. The use of gas must tuerefore also be very hmited if the de- sign is to have a lamp at every intersec- tion on our residence streets. The only cheap and available medium for street lighting where electric light and gas cannot be used 1s gasoline. It is used in some of the vory largest citics in the country. The city of Philadelphia which owns and operates its own gas works, uses five thousands of gasoline street lamps. They serve all purposes which a gas lamp doos and cost but a trifle. The people living in the outlying aistricts are now left entirely in the They have neither police protection, lighted streets or pavements. Itis all a man’s life is worth sometimes to tr S them in the night. These property owners pay their full proportion of taxcs and there is no good reason why they should be deprived of the advantages which the lighting of the streets would confer. Quite apart from the conven- ience of lighted strects for its residents comes in the general conyenience of the public, and the avoidance of damage suits by parties who suffer injury from broken limbs and smashed vehicles. Money invested for street hghting will andsome returns. Tue idiotic dispatch in the Republi- can, about the so-called Van Wyck con- vention at Columbus, is in full accord with the course which that paper has all along pursued. According to th cious sheet ‘‘the Van Wynck syndicate of political wire pullers held their long ad- vertised district convention at Columbus Wednesday, and proved itself to be a very foeble affair.” The truth is there was no Van Wyck convention, district or otherwise, called at Columbus, nor was it ever advertised. The gathering was made up of members of the State Central Van Wyck club organized at Hast- ings some weeks ago. The object was the adoption of a. constitution and the eleo- tion of officers. Tho attendance was as numerous as usual at state central com- mittee meetings. It was a purely pri- vate business gathering of a elub de- signed to promote the re-clection of Sen- ator Van Wyck. There were men pres- ent from cvery congressional and judi- cial district. This is all that was desired or expected. In due time, when the fecble efforts of this gathering make themselves felt all along the line, the Rep ublican will go into a spasm of im- potent rage. THE imports at the port of New York for March show an increase of nearly £3,500,000, and the exports a decrease of $3,000,000, while nearly $1,000,000 in spe- oic was exported. For the month the duties on foreign dutiable goods thrown on the New York market were within $10,000,000 of the value of our merchandise exports, or within Iess than 50 per cent. ¥ SENATOR MANDERSON'S bill to make Omaha a port of immediate delivery for dutiable goods has passed both houses of congress, and will now becomo a law. This is good news for Omaha merchants who have long been subject to annoying delays in importing foreign goods, which are usually delayed entry from three fo Ex wecks, Now they will be able to receive their imported goods by immediate trans- portation, without delay at the port of entry, and they will be on equal footing with the importers who are located at the seaports, This is a great advantage and will benefit this city in many ways. This Iaw makes Omaha really a port of entry for Nel, a and all the territory that is commercially tributary to this city. THE uscfulness of the eyclone cellar as a place of refuge was demonstrated dur- ing the cyclone on Wednesday afternoon near the town of Brayton, lowa. The pupils in a country school house saw the funnel-shaped cloud approaching, and with the families in the immediate neigh- borhood ran into a eave, which had been built for such an emergency. They had hardly reached this shelter when the cloud struck the school house and several dwellings and swept them away. PresipENT CLEVELAND is considering the advisability of making a trip to Ne- braska this summer on the urgent invita- tion of General Thayer. From recent reports on good authority, the president will make a wedding trip about the same timo as our G. A. R. reunion. Ne- braska is a charming elimate in which to spend a honeymoon and Mr, Cleveland will not act wisely if he passes over the advantages of a prairie schooner for a trip on the Tallapoosa. We publish elsewhere the annual re- port of the oity engineor in full with the exception of tabulated matter and draw- ings, and commend it to the careful read- ingsof interested tax-payers. The report is full of meat and contains a comprehen- sive review of the engineering operations in Omaha during the past year with many valuable suggestions which we shall take occaslon to comment upon more at length in a subsequent issue. first appointment proffered the new by Mayor Boyd is a colored police: man, Now, here's @ ehance 10 begin opposi- tion.—Herald, If this colored man is competent, sober and respectable he should be confirmed. If he is one of those wretched bumwers who delivered thew votes to Pat Ford on election day for §2 upiece he should be rejected. —— PErHAPS if more section men were em- ployed on the Omaha & Republican Val- ley railvoad, such an accident as that of Wednesday morning at the Blue river would he less liable to happen, Too much economy sometimes is very costly, at tho port of State ol particularly in the ease of railroad tracks. Dr. MruLer calleupdn the democratio party in Nebraska to ‘“organize.” Com- ing from the man who has done so much to disorganize the Nehraska democracy, this advice will dountless be received with enthusiasm by the rank and file of the party throughout the state. LAND is really going y. Senator Jomes of Florida is dead in love, and now if is reported that Secretary Lamar is abotit to lead a Geor- gin widow to the altar. Cupid is ev dently getting in bis work among the big guns of the democrac, e e e A DEMOCRATIC house refused to give Frank Hurd the seat in congress for which he was defeated by his Ohio con- stituents. For the remainder of the pres- enf session Romeis will be scen, not Hurd. SENATON LOGAN has pronused to at- tend the reunion of the Grand Army of the Republic of Nebraska. He will find Nebraska a great soldier state, and the “hoys” will give him a hearty welcome. Mg. Huep, of Ohio, now knows what a congressional bounee is. THE FIELD OF INDiVRT"\'. The half-holiday mo root in New York. In Philadelphia but a small fraction of its great labor army is on strike. The estimated number of idle wageworkers in the United States is 800,000, In Cincinnatti most of the organizations havo resolved to work only eight hou New knitting mills are projected in New York in spite of the complaints of no profit. iven the grave-diggers of New York and Brooklyn have organized against graveyard wages. A fede cepers and oflice clerks in v York has alrcady become a strong organization, “The number of unemployed in New York city is estimated at 50,000, or less than one- half the usual number. Most trades throughont the conntry seom to have compromised upon a nine-hour instead of an eight-hour day from May 1. The printers in the calico-making mills of Conneeticut refuse to impart the secrets of thelr trade to any but their own sons. Louisiana farmers aro organizing a general movement to plant less cotton and raise more how and hominy until such time as the price of cotton advances. A good many New England textile manu- facturers are improving their plants, putting in new machinery, buying stock, taking or- ders and preparing for a big fall production. A Fitchburg (M flrm has just secured an order for 500,000 projectiles from the En- glish government. $omo of tho most sub- stantial men of England ate members of the company, = Owing to the alleged oppression of the Pennsylvania railrond, the National & Amer- ican Tube works are to, bo removed to Youngstown, Ohio, where a §50,000 plant will be erected. « The master builders of Washington will not accede to the eight-hour day, but the la- bor unions have considered the subject and intend to make the effort. ‘They have strong financial backing. The New York Contyal Labor Unlon, con- posed gf upward of 130 bianehes, hns’ heen Bliged to make a hew con Seon 457 fisel in order o transact the enormous amount of business which is being crowded upon it. The nine_hour system has been largely adopted In Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Daliiwore, Pittsbiirg, Memphis and Sa Francisco. In the latter city some trades have been running on the nine hour rule for three years. The molding of car wheels by machinery is likely to attract wules‘)ruml attention amoneg railroad men. A machine has been made at Scranton by which 600 wheels can be com- pleted In ten hours. By the old process two men mado eighteen wheels a day, after which axle wheels had to be bored.” A com- pany hab been organized to push the manu- acturing. Organized labor will bring a stroneg influ- ence to bear upon congress to pass Senator Blair's bill to incorporate trades-unions. The Federation of Labor is taking the lead in this movement, and the Natlonal Association ot iron-workers, miners, cigarmakers, coopers and other crafts have promised their support. ‘The hardware manufacturers of the United > akin ,M‘:zé“- fth of har dinjz firearms, ails and ornamental iron i malkes about one-third. Foreign countries send us about as much in a_year as we yiake in a week, A great deal of ‘money is being put into hardware estab- lishments, and the export of hardware “Yankee notions” is increasing. wment has taken deep agri Providence Star. The motto of some employers of labor is that of Jeff Davis, They want to be let alone. — - Ought to be Arbitrated. Boston Record, Itwould save agreat deal of suffering if the base ball championship could be settled this year by arbitration, ——— Straddling is Played Out. Philadelphia Record, The democratic party has either got to “fish or cut bait” In the struggle for tax reduction. 1t cannot always staaddle the fence, ciiaisiais A Hint to Florida. Indianapolis Sentinel, When the Florida legislature elects an- other senator it should elect a man with a wife and at least nine ehildren, i Al On a Naughty Little Boy, Sleeping. Bret Harte, Just now I missed from hall and stair A joyful treble that had grown As dear to me as that grave tone That tells the world my plder care, And little footsteps on the floor Wore stayed. I laid aside my pen, Forgot niy theme, anl, listened—tlien Stole softly to the library door. No sight! no sound !—s, moment’s freak Of fancy thrilled my pulses through; “It—no,” and yet, that faney drew A fatbier’s blood Trom heart and cheek, And then—1I found him! There he lay, Surprised by sleep, eaught in the act, The rosy vandal who had sacked His little town, aud thought )t play. "he shattered vase; the broken jar; A wateh still smolderfng an the floor; The inkstand’s purpleaol of zore; ‘The chessmen scattered fiear and far, Strewn leaves of albums lightly pre This wicked “Baby of the Woods { the houschold good This son ‘and helr was seized—possessed. Yet all in vain, for sleep had caught “Lhe haud that reached, the fect that strayed; And fallen in that ambuscade The vietor was hiwself o'erwrought. What though torn leaves and Still testitied his deep disgrace ! 1 stooped and kissed the inky face, With its deniure and calm outlook. ‘Then back I stole, and half beguiled My guilt, in trust that when my sleep Shiould cowe, there wight bé Que who'd cep An equal merey for His child, llyerml book - The Difference, Atlanta Constitution. A Chicago paper has a regular Saturday department headed *“The Week in Ewrope.” Itshould be distinetly understood that a week in Europe is equal to about seven min- utes and a half in Chicago. placeta . A Always Coming to the Front. Waterbury American, The constitutional objection 18 always the first to be brought and the hardest to main- tain against popular legislation, - Also With the Telegraph Company, Boston Herald. There is considerable reason for believing that dispatehes from Texas are not altogether and absolutely impartial. Mr. Gould has a t“ml deal of influence with some peoplejdown here, ——e That Shonld be the Case. Peoria Tyanseript. 1t must be remembered by capitalists and laborers that, while their soparate interests are of great fmportance, above each stands the law of the land, _In its majestic presence both Jay Gould and Martin 1rons, the dweller in palatial ~ bal's snd the inhabitantof the hovel, must stand uncovered. - STATE AND IRRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. There are 141 persons ot school uge in irfield. An £8,000 hotel is to bo built at Tal- mage this summer. Another daily threatens to bloom in in Grand Island next month. There are seventy cases in the district court docketed in Johnson count The corn area in Gage county will be much greater this season than heretofore. Hastings is on the brink of o mayoralty contest, in which Fraud (with a big F) will pose as a chief figure. G. M. Harris, of Pawnee City, has in- vented a machime that will cliew mud and turn out 50,000 bricks a day. George Downoy, a Picrce county far- mer, living in the 'southwestern part of the county, struck in the head with an ax by chman named Saturd 11 die. he town of Hickman has shed its win- terclothes and donned the toga suitable ity. The roads’ in the vi- apidly drying up and farmers e to come to market. Fully 100,000 bushels of corn are cribbed the There are five grain merchants and two large elevators in the town, and all branches of trade and professions are fully represented. A cheese factory, a bank and a doctor are wanted to hll” hor mensure of happiness. A newspaper will bo Invnohiod tharo mext woak, The BEE corrcspondent at Burnett q olumn correction of a ne mistake which erept into these s some days ngo. stated e prohibitionists of the town were boycotting the saloons and the busine: men who supported them, An investit tion proves that there is but one saloon in the town, and that has not been boycotted mnor has a disposition been shown by the temper- ance people to injure the business. The town is now enjoying a season of unpre- cedented prosverity, and all residents are united in upholding the material and moral interests of the town, hoping to it tho bunner burg of the Elkhorn Towa ltems. The estimated expensc of the schools of Davenport for 1887 is $70,000. An Ackley saloon man was taxed $600 for bucking lprohibiliuu, and was sent to jail in defau A. H. Perry, superintendent of the Eurcka Coal ning company, of Des Moines, is short $7,000 in his accounts. Several Salvation army brigadi and female licutenants were jugged in Clin- ton Sunday for indulging in a scrapping match. Mrs. Phaebe A Burt, wife of the vener- able Judge Jumes Burt, died at her home n Bubugue, Spiurday atternoon, aged 77 years. M urt had been a resident of Dubuque for thirty-five years. Mrs. Nancy Frazee, one of the oldest settlers ot Cedar Rapids, died Saturday afternoon, aged 78 years. She has re- sided at Cedar Rapids since 1849, and has been bedridden for the pastsix years on account of paralysis. The grand jury in the United States district court, now 1n session at Dubuque, found a bill of indictment against N. M Pago, for fourteen yoars postmaster at Fort Dodge. His offense was the ombez- zlement of funds and falsifying his ac- counts. John Ryan, a Dubuque tailor, died from strangulation Sunday evening. While at the supper table at his boarding house he suddenly stopped eating and be- gan to breathe hard. He was p 3 lounge, but aied boforo a physioian rived, A ohun pef wedsnd i Tty 4 cunl 0 boef wedzad T Dakota. The arrivals at Buffalo Gap average 100 a day. Ababy show is squalling at Woon- socket. Yankton's skating rink will be turned into a canning factory Beadle county has 1,300 male candi- dates for matrimony. Now, girls, don’t all pop at once. Towa capitalists will build and”operate a flour mill, capacity 1,000 bushels per day, at Buflalo Gap. The pursuit of tin is the principal occu- pation, of Black Hills, prospeciors_just now. The rest of mankind are similarly ocoupied: The Custer County Chronicle thus pie- tures the mineral outlook: ‘It is gratify- ing to know that the spell is broken, that the long period of comparative nactivity has reached its close, and that we are merging upon the advent of u{n'u eressive era that will advance ws to o standard of commercial prestige, unsurpassed by any mining rogion under the canopy of heaven." ‘Wyoming, Seventeen inches of snow fell at Lara- mie on the 13th. The court house and jail in Laramie are lighted by electricity, A Chinese pugilist offers to polish off any sport in Bulfalo for a small stack of chips. Lander, the county seat of Fremont county, is full of strife over the proposed $20,000 court house. Fred H; an, the alleged wholesale lorse thief, hus boen held to appear be- fore the district court in bonds which he cannot give. Beach, of Cheyenne, has cial sensation by “taking her ren, descrting her husband™ and ving for parts unknown. The affairs of tho Rawlins Savings, Loan and Building association were amounting to $ sharcholdor rece wium paid for & Utah and ldaho, A five destroyed $12,000 worth of prop- erty in Ketchum, Idako, last w ‘T'he five-year-old son of Hurry McCar- dell was killed by the cars at dalt Lake last week. Caldwell, Idaho, will soon shin 600,000 pounds of wool, and Ontario about 300,- 000 pounds. The clip of that portion of Idaho 1s steadily increasing. A company of Wood River capitalists has been organized to explore the Lucky Bar claiws, and will at once put on the ground a £27,000 plant of machine The Hailey Times says there are 1daho for y twenty wmen not more than one woman, and urges that an effort be made to induce female im- wigvation, This would furnish wives "$100, less the pre- an, for tho boys, and domestie help, where- by the Chinese would bedriven out of the territory. Omaha cracksmen rifled Sadie Noble's dive in Salt Lake city reeently, and cor- ried off everything portable. They did not distarb the reputation of the house. Farmers along the Sevier river in south- ern Utah are offering five cents per head for the destruction of jack rabbits in or der to protect their crops. Boys corral thousands of them in a bunch and drive them into the river and drown them. John Conley, a poverty stricken polyg- amist, who could not pay a fine of $200, swore in court that his “two wives were worth $7,000 each, and that he worked at o salary of $50 a month,which paid promptly. They would not pay his tine, and he sent back to jail to work it out Colorado. Leadyille is enjoying a real estate boom. Fort Collins is talking of establishing a canning factory. One gentleman stands ready to put up $1,000. Mrs. Van Cott's revival in Denver, which closed last week, netted 600 con om Denver she goes to Emmets- n of driving a great tunnel under the city of Leadville, to_drain the wet mines to the eastward, 1s daily gain- ing in popula W,uud the possibil that work will be commenced in o few months, Sterling is having a building boom. The lumber dealers report heavy sales this month. They are sending out more building material in a week than they sold in . month during the busy season of last yer nd it is with ditliculty they Keep up their stocks. The Pacific Coast, “The knife scems to have taken the {wlucc of the revolver over in Virginia “ity, and its use has become somewhat epidemic. head T of an elephant, ing a nosc above the eyes similar to elephant’s trunk rk on the new Catholie eathedral at amento will, be begun the last of pril or the first ot May, and it is the in- tention to push the huilding to as early completion as possible. During the past four weeks over 500,- 000 gallons of wine and branc Dbeen shipped from Los Angeles. United States gaugers are bus; morning till night in gauging California brandy before it is pluced on the cars for overland shipment. The ladies of San_Francisco have held a meeting and decided that the ‘“‘mash- ers” who hang about street corners to annoy and insult ladies who pass must go. 'They puss 1 resolutions denouncing the corner loafers, and appointed a com- mittee to wait upon proprictors of stores and persuade them to discountenance the “living statues.” — “The Vicar of Wakefield.” Saturday Review: Every one knows Boswell’s carefully worded account of the romantic circumstances i hi Johnson relieved Goldsmi S salling tho manuscript of his novel to some unnamed bookseller for £60. Bos- well's story is professedly Johnson's ‘‘own exact version,” and_correets what ho calls the “strangely misstated” fac of Mrs. Thrale and Sir John Hawkins. With these varying aceounts, Austin Dobson collates that of Richard Cumber- land, and observes, in clusion: *'Bi amrf alone wears an air of ver: nd it has generally been regarded the accepted version.” ~ The novel was published March 27th, 1766, and was advertised in the Public Adver- tiser of the same date, together with ““The Trayelgr,” which, wps published in 1764. Trough the indefatigable research of Mr. Dobson, a matter of great interest that has_hitherto remained obscure i now clear. Possibly through mere care ness, though probably beeause she recollected the date of the publication of “The Vicar of Wakefield,” Mrs. Thrale thought the eventful dinner with John- son, fnterrupted with Goldsmith’s urgent message, could not have occurred later than 1765 or 1766. Johnson, however, told Boswell that the novel ‘‘was written and sold to his booksellers before his “Traveler,’ but published after.”” Although Boswell unfortunately givesno date of the famous interview, it is clear that Mrs, Thrale’s memory served her badly. There is now no need to attempt to re- concile Mrs. Thrale’s date and Boswell’s account of Johnson’s version of the inci- dent. Mr. Dobson has discovered that as far back as Qotober 28, 1763, Collins. tha Salisbury vrinter, had purchased of “Dr, Goldsmith, the author,” for £21.a third share in “Tho Viear of Wakefield.”” Thid interesting fact is disclosed by an old s count book once belonging to Collins, and now in possussion of Charles Welsh, a member of the firm of publishers sue- cessors to John Nowbury. Several cur ious items connected with the sale of the novel are communicated by Mr. Welsh. It appears from the memoranda of Collins that the fourth edition started with a loss, and Collins sold his third share for 5 guineas. ““This unhopeful view,” says Mr, Dobson, ““is borne out by the ecircumstances at- tending the production of the fifth edi- tion, which is generally supposed to liave been issued in 1773, the date upon the title page. As a matter of fact, its issue was deferred till April, 1774, the month in which Goldsmith died; and not- withstanding the statements of Forster and others, the sixth edition wasnot pub- lished until March, 1779.” The impres- sion bas been gencral that this immortal work enjoyed a brisk sale, at least in the early editions, and that the orviginal pur- chaser delayed its publication for some fifteen months, The strange truth is now revealed that for more than three years did its three owners agree to keep it Trom the light, and that one of them was so hopeldss’ of its permanent value that Lo sold his share for a paltry sum four years after its publication. o e R It Doesn't Pay to Be Too Familiar. Chic: “I have only heen away from home three weeks," remarked u young man in the smoking-oar, “*but in that time I have learned one lesson, and that is that man shouldn’t be too in- fernally familiar with people with whom he is mot well acquainted. 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