Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 23, 1886, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. OMATIA OFFICE,NO. 914 AND gIAFARNAM ST Nrw Yonx Orrr Room 6, TRIRUNE BUILDING WASHINGTOX OF¥iCck, NO. 513 FOURTERNTH ST, Published every morning, exeept Sunday. The only Monday morning paper published in the state, TRNMS BY MATL: £10.00Threo Months. .. . 5.00/0n0 Month One Year., Eix Month: Tux WeEkLY Bre, Published Rvery Wednesaay. TERMS, POSTPAL One Fear, with premium One Yoar, without promium 8ix Mont without pr um. One Month, on trial . ) 100 COMRESFONDENCE: All communieations rolating to_news and edi- torial matters should be o sed 1o the Bk TOR OF , BUSTNFSS LETTERS: All bu siness lotters and remittances shonld bo wadiessed 10 TE DER PUDLISHING COMPANY, OMARA. Drafts, chooks and postoffice ordors 10 be mado payuble (o the order of the company. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS E. ROSEWATER, Epiros, e THE DAILY BE Sworn Statement of Circulation. State of Nebraska, | o County of Donglas. { % % N. P. Feil. cashier of the Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the ac- wal circulation of the Daily Bee for the past fifteen publishing days of April, 18%, was ag follows; Date. Morning "Ianrfl ditton. Evening Edition, SE5SERZezasnwn~ Total Daily nv'ago b 5 Sworn to and subsetibed b 17th day of April, A, D, 188, Stt0y J. Fisne Nofary Pu N. P. Feil, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is cashier of the Bee Pub- lishing company, that the actual averaze daily eirculation’of the Dally Bee for the month of January, 1586, was 10,378 copies; for February, 1888, 10,693 coples; for March, 1886, 11,537 coples, Sworn to and subscribed before me this 17th day of April, A. D, 185, Suoy J. FISHER, Notary Public. Tie general prosperity which was looked for this year has been knocked into a cocked hat by the striking epidemic. Had it not been for the striking mania 1886 would probably have been one of the best years that this country has had for some time. Tre march of improvement throughout Nebraska is keeping pace with the rapid settloment and development of the state. New public buildings, court houses, schools, gas and water works, plants for electric light and street car lines are be. ing constructed in numbers of our in- terior cities and towns. Enterprise is holding the fort with a strong hand and paving the way for such an enlargement of municipal boundaries as promises to double our urban as well as our rural population at the next census. Back of all lies tho state, fertilo in resources, and rich in soil and thrift, From a statement prepared by the civil service commissioners it appears that the whole number of federal ofll 18 110,000, and of this number 52,632, or «nearly onc-half, are postoffices. The number of appointees subject to confirma- tion by the senate is 4,013—more than half being in the postoflice department. Only about 15,000 offices, or one-seventh | of the whole number, come within the scope of the civil service law. This number onght to be suflicient to satisfy the most voracious patronage-hunter, ——————— \ MucH of the anxiety felt by thoughtful | citizens of the United States concerning { the accumulation of enormous fortunes | by successessive generations of wealthy families would be removed if the great |‘truth were more constantly kept in mind ' that a child born rich is seldom the equal of its parents in the power of increasing or even retaining property. If history teaches anything positive or unmistaka- ble it is that a luxarious childhood wsual- dy results in an enfeebJd! manhood, and that a few genoerations of wealth and ease laro almost always suflicient to re- ce a vigorous stock to helpless- mess. All the devices of primogeni ture and life 8 which have 'been framed at the expense of justice and | ‘the best interests of the state to perpetu- {ithe power and wealth of the aristoc wof Great Britan have scarcely sufficed to ~save old English families from the ruin- +ous effects of luxury and idleness, and, ‘under more equitable laws, their wealth sand social power would long since have \passed away. In this matter, nature is fever ready to do her part to prevent the serushing of the many under the feet of ishe few, and it is only necessary for man ito:sce that the rioh are made to obey the same laws as the poor, and obey them with the same adherence ta their spiritas stheir letter in order to make impossible the existence of an hereditary moneyed Aristocracy. rERE ave signs of a revulsion of feel- Ang manifest throughout the country in wogard to the labor troubles, which is wing stronger with every display of ~ dorce on the part of the strikers. Public sympathy was not withheld at the begin- ming of the strike on the southwestern 3 ‘system, but is now being slowly with- - drawn. In thoe east, where the epidemic " of strikes is raging as furiously as in the " west, the performances of the striking ear drivers in New York have aroused general indignation. The public, and without the public no general strike ean proye successful, bave declined to accept as an excuse for paralyzing the trafic of a great ecity, the explanation that seven men on a single line did not belong to a protective union. When to this inconvenience was added the terro of an incipient riot, people generally de- glived all aid to the men who were responsible for the trouble. Labor has a xight to organize for mutual protection. Buch organization is proper and com- meundable. Jabor to others is also undesirable. But * organized labor has no right to assail the freedom of action of these who do not own allcgianve to labor organlzations. P Phe moment that they do so they place " themselves in apposition to the laws and iy an orderly organization of society £ i opinion, which is the ruler, in a because it sooner or later o8 itself felt in the enactment and enforcement .of laws, will not sustain aess, When labor organizitions ge thewselves in opposition to it they _@aly invite certain downfull. | pools could not regulate it and ofore me, this | Their right to rofuse their | Why They Oppose It The house of representatives 'as de- clined to set a day for the consideration of the Hennepin canal bill. This action probably kills the bill for the present sos- sion. Every railroad from Chicago to the Missouri is interested in the defeat of a measure which, if passed, would reduce the cost of transportation to farmers of the west at least one-half. And this is the true inwardness of the opposition to the improvement of the intand water routes and government aid to great enterprises for the furtherance of closer and cheaper commercial connection between sections of the country. Every mile of the Mississippi and Missouri made navigable, every harbor on the lake ren- dered safe, ev deepened or constructed which parallels a line of rail road, means a steady and growing com- petition and a formidable enemy to ex- tortionate charges. Whan (4o proposition {5 throw oven the Erie canal to the trafiic of the west freo of all charges for tolls was pending in New York, the railre lobby at Albany moved heaven and ¢ to prevent its submission to the people. For years, the canal had held the mono- polics in cheek and a steady rrduction in rates on all products which the canal could transport was in consequence. Meetings of managers could not adjust that sort ot competition, the pur- chase of legislatures and raiivoad com- missions was fruitless to remove the re- morseless reduction which a free and open wWaterway forced upon the com- panies, The railroads are shrewd enough to know that the moment the Hennepin canal joins the waters of the 1 wnd the Mississippi the same results will fol- low But sooner or later the people of the United States, consumers of the cast as well as producers of the west will unite in demanding that the government shall devote its energles and o portion of its plus to cheapening food products by improving the interior avenues of trans- portation. F is to-day expending millions in enlarging and extending her canal system. England is proparing to follow in the swme path. The United States w ill be obliged to imitate their ex- ample. The Building Ordinance. After a three years' fight led by the Beg, the city is at last in possession of an ordinance to regulate the construction of buildings, provide for the safety of their ocoupants and register the progress and value of private enterprise in Omaha. Details of the ordinance as passed by the council have ulready appeaved in our news columns. It provides for a joint board of inspection consisting of a super- intendent of buildings, the city engincer and the fire chief, The only new oflice created is that of superintendent, whose sal: will be derived from a system of fees proportioned to the value the buildings for wh permits are granted. The office work of this oflicial will be heavy, and it seems to us that provision should have been made for proper clerical assistance. This matter can,however, be regulated by the council at some future date when the workings of the system are more freely developed, The ordinance is the result of careful study of thuse in operation in other cities and follows them in the most valuable features. Its rigid enforce- ment will be of the greatest advantage to Omaha in improving the character of buildings and lessening in- surance rates. There have boen scores of buildings ercoted in thys city during the past five years which, while appar- ently substantial and fire-proof, are mere fire traps, and would never have been built if their plans bad been officially spected before their construction. The rapid growth of Omaha and the large amount of property stored away in the heart of the city demanded long ngo a careful supervision of buildings. This will result from the enforcement of the now ordinance, while we shall haye an official record of building operations by which to compare our progress with that of other cities. Intolerable Negligenee, The property owners on Farnam street and other streets have paid out hun- dreds of thousands of dollars for paving. With proper care and timely repairs these pavements should last a lifetime. But the gross negligence on the part of the ofticials in charge of our public im- provements is liable to result in a general wreoking of the costly pavements in a very fow years. A ride down Farnam or Sixteenth strect speaks for itsclf. ‘Irenches have been dug by gas and water companies, and plumbers in almost every block. No sort of care is taken to relay the pavement. Broken rock, sand and dirt are dumped in without tamping, and the stone is 1aid loosely on the sur- face, or loft in heaps by the side. On the streets paved with asphalt these holes haye been covered with planks, 1t is about time that the board of pub lic works, and especially its chairman, should show some signs of life. Mr, House is a very competent man, but the :st man on earth is worthless if he fai to attend to his business. If this w ing of our strects goes on much longer we might as well prepare for repaving bonds on the paved streets within the next three years The leniency shown by the board to property owners on the principal streets with regard to sidewualks, is sim- ply aggeavating. If a man owns prop- erty worth from 00 to #1,500 a front foot he ought to be able to lay down a substantial sidewalk and keep it in repair If he refuses to do so the city should lay it down for nim and tax his property. More than nine months ago the cily council ordered all sidewalks on Farnam and Douglas and other leading thorough- fares to be put to grade and paved with stone or coucrete, The board of public works went to the expense of adver- tising the order of the council and there they stopped. A fow enter- prising property owners obey der, and the others were allowed to defy the council. To-day we have the most wretehed sidewalks in front of the most costly buildings for no other reason than the lack of efficiency on the part of the ofticials in charge of our streets. Every stranger who comes here notes the con- trast 11l thig respoet petween Omaha and otber cities of her pretensions. Our stroets ure elegantly paved, while our sidewalks are wrotched and unsightly. They remind one of a man with a fine broadeloth suit and a pair of worn out and torn shoes. How mueh longer (his condition of wf- | fairs will be permitted we do not kuow, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1886 but our most enterprising citizens feel that weare paying enough for public improvements and for supervision to haue our streets properly taken care of and kept in a passable condition. —_— Read Them Out. A republican senate has flatly refused to carry into eflect the third Edmunds resolution. Only sixteen out of the entire republican majority in that body could bo whipped into line to endorse in execu- tive scssion a position inst which, some two weeks ago, Charles H. Van Wyck had the manhood to openly pro- test on the floor of the senate. Even the thunderous eloquence of Scnator Ed- munds failed to secure the rejection of a nomination which the senate had plodged itself " to reject under the resolution referred to, When Seng. for Yan Wyck bravely protested against the passage of the resolution which pledged the senate not to confirm nomi- nations of the president made in opposi- tion to their ideas of civil service, he de nounced the proposed action as imp! ticable and declined to vote in public for what he with dozens of other republicans would certainly decline to endorse in pri- vate. For this action he has been read out of the party by the yelping hell honnds of monopoly in Nebraska. And now what does the kennel propose to do with the remaining republican sen- ators who swung promptly into line with Charles H. Van Wyck the moment the question was put to test? Has George 1. Hoar severed hislife-long connection with republicanism? What will Vermont do without the valuable services of Justin §. Morrill, who must also leave the party ranks with Van Wyek? Who are to fill the gaps left by the retirement of adozen other prominent republicans who refused to follow Edmunds' leading in a revolu- tionw and idiotie conrse with which thewr party has no sympathy? Read them out! Republicans who havi the manhood to decline to commit the republican party to a poliey which would certainly wreek it if carried out, and those who refuse to carry out the polic when the question is put to the test are certainly dungerous charactors. Tre public spirit which prompted the erection of the exposition building scems to have vamshed. The directors have actually n under consideration a pro- position to rent the building for a ary goods s ase tho public does not patron enough the twenty- five cent concerts. If the stockholders wanted to build a dry goods store why didn’t they do so in the first place accord- ing to proper plans and specifications? They are evidently weakening a little too soon, notwithstanding they have so far sived a very fair income from the building. It was their boast that they did not expeet to money for some time out of the building, whick they built more for the public good than for peivate specu- lation and profit They better giv Omaha a fair chance before abandoning the enterprise. We venture to assert (! at the end of the year, when the rc from public meetings, balls, conventions, neerts, the exposi- ainments and gath- re counted up, they will find t the enterprise is by no means a losing one. Wesay again, give the exposition building and the people ot Omaba a fair show. TEMPERANCE advocates are finding comfort in the clause in the English bud- got recently presented by the ¢ of the exchequer. The chancellor an- nounced that the diminution of revenue from alcohol was £071,000 below the e mate, and £1,179,000 below the rece 1884-5, and that within the last ten years there has been a decrease in revenue from alcohol of £4,500,000. his has been due,” says Sir William, ‘“to changes in the habits of the people, and has been concurrent with an enormous increase in revenue derived from the comforts of life.” The falling off in r ceipts from aleohol, the chancellor found, had been compensated about one-half by ine ed reccints derived from tea, to- bacco and fruits. The moral pointed is o strong one, and is doubly valuable in consideration of the source from which it emanates, The figures in so carefully prepared a document as the English budget do not lie. Tug “treacherous Van Wyel has pioncered the way for a republican re- volt agamst the tyranny of party gov- ernment by resolution. The action of the senate on Wednesday knocks the everlasting underpinning out of the yawping numsculls of the Nebraska press who have been reading their brainy tor out of the republican party. In the face of the vote in executive ses- sion on the Bradley nomination a few more editorial leaders from the kennel brigade about Van Wyck’s treachery will be very much in order. Every republi can but sixteen in the senate endorsed the senator’s position. ACCORDING to Mr. Powderly the entire membership of the Knightsof Labor does not exceed 500,000, though the order ha been credited with ten times that num- ber. A half a million workingmen could be made an immense power for good in following out the peaceful and protective features of the order, EASTER eggs are ge ) and the tapping of bills on the shell heard in the land, It is nothing, how- ever, to the tapping of bills for E bonnets which will be heard when collee- tors begin their monthly rounds on May 1st nd the clatter of ¢ to which the song will be Tae whirr machinery is the mus of Omaba’s future prosperity set. — EvERYBODY secms to be on the strike except farmers and editors. They will continue to work sixteen hours a day, AN epidemic of strikes is unfortunately often followed by a tedious conyalescence spent in idleness CLEAN your back yards and alleys. Disense loves a well-filled swill barrel, Daxora is still striking for statehood. The following states have regular bu- reaus for the collection of statistics on the lubor question: Callfornia, Connecti- cut; Indiana, Hlinois, Iowa, Merylund, Massachusetts,” Missouri, Michigan, New orsey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania aud Wisconsin, THE FIELD/OF INDUSTRY. The Knights expeet tofincrease their mem- bership to 1,000,000 within the next twelve months, ! There are 238 coke-making firms in this country, having 20,116 ovens, and turning out coke with §7,630,118, A co-operative tobaeco company has been organized at Raleigh; N, C., with £10,000 cap- ital, in shares of $20 each. The factory is in full trim, and the management 1s compotent. The latest war cry entored by the Knights of Labor is that all striking and boycotting be stopped aud thatall energies be conecen- trated against what is termed the Gould tyranny. In Connecticut the employment of children under 13 years of age in factories has been prohibited;also in mereantile establishmen: The bill for weekly payments and for ten- howr law failed to pass, The demand for foot-gear is inereasing, and there are several projected enterprises, but work is delayed until business is more settled. Many employers believe that the terms of settlement of disputes botween them and their workmen will not be permanent, Germany is growing rapidly as a textile manufacturing country; her cotton produets have increased since 1850 in the proportion of 80 to 563 her wool products from 15 to 513 flax from while her imports of textiles haye greatly declined, "There is a project on foot on the part of a number of German textile manufacturers to fit out two large ocean steamers, each to be furnished with an assortment of samples ot overy kind of textile goods manufactured and to visit transatlantic countries, French syndicate is undertaking praet: the same thing. There are comparatively few strikes now throughont New England. ~ With all the duliness a great deal of wachinery is going in. Uhe temodeling of mills and the put- ting in of new machinery point to the exist- ence of great confidence among textilo man- ufacturers generally, el iron-makers are beyond doubt with the scrious problem of over- production. The oversupply now reaches 000,000 tons of iron. The only remedy sug- gested is nsevere cut in the rafe of wages to all blast-furnace and mining labor. "The textile manfacturers of New N, especially those of cotton goods, have pooled their issites and have cffected a'comblnation by which mutual protection can be extended in caseof strikes.” A number of mills now lying idle in Now England without any ex- planation to the work-people are drawing support from the general fund to reeom- pense the owners for the' silence of their ma- chinery Railivay managers, especially on some of the trunk lines, are considering the ady bility of relaying a portion of their track with eighty and’ ninety pound rails, rather than fifty-six to sixty pound rails, because of the increasing loads of freight cars and the inereasing -weight of locomotives. I makers can easily adapt_their machiner the making of heavier rails, but the incre cost of such rails will likely prevent any sud- den or great demand for them, About 3,800 operatives are on a shut out in New Eneland, against 7 2o and 8,500 & mgnth ago. A hun- of these are in the Yoot and shoe tr among the cottoh gobds mills and 560 among the woolen mills,+ Among those who recently returned to work were 4,00 boot and shoe operatives at Heverly, Mass,, and 800 hosiery will hands at New Britain, Conn. et A Big Job. Chicago Herald, Boycotting the Western Union telegraph company will be a good deal like boycotting air or the United States niails, Sl Every Employer Not a Jay Gould, Chicags Tyitune. The trouble with some 8f - the strikers some ports of the country'is that they Jay Gould'in_every bush! Every employer 1snota Jay Gould ejther in instinct or prac- tice. cally strike or 50 three e P 31 w2 Speaking from Personal Expericnoe, Philadelphia Record, Mr. W. A. Croffut, a New York journalist, has been lecturing to the effect that capital and corporations are the wage-earners’ best friends. Mr. Croffut has just published a his- tory of the Vanderbilt family, and is proba- bly speaking from personal experience. —iesulleni Street Signs Wanted, Columbus Democrat. If Omaha has any self-respect, and desires to make it convenient for her visitors to find their way about, whether they aro on busi- ness or are sight seeing, she will go to work at once and paint the names of her streets on the street lamps. Even old residents are obliged to inquire the way in some parts they do not frequent, and visitors, well, they just swear, — An Unsuccessful Venture, New York Sun. “No,” saida bankrupt merchant, sadly, “advertising doesn’t pay. I tried it just be- fore I failed, so 1 know what I am talking about.” “What newsvaper did you adver- tise in?” “Not any newspaper. I pasted 500 dodgers on a barn just ont of town, and I'm a sinner if a wind storm that same night didn't scatter that barn overa teu-acre cow pasture, Don't talk to me about advertising.” Smiles. Carrie L. Bonney, 1 met her Easter morning, In the oid cathedral aislé, And, early at the servic 8Shegave me bow and smilo, ‘Che sexton old had vanishea, The organist asleeps I asked if ancient customs It were not well to keep. “0h, yes,” she gravely answered, 10 which do you refer?” s one the Greeks now practice; "Tis pleasing, I aver.” “0h, something !llmlllt and olden ! And could we do it here?” Slyly I glanced about us, And saw 1o one was near, “1 think we might,” [ answered, For how could 1 resist? * * # 1 wonder if the preacher Knew some one had been kissed? — BTATE AND TERRITOKY, Nebraska Jottings, Boston! The misguided bury are culti ng their > by sacrilegiously slinging bean Hi the maidens of musc| nocratie papers are budding rapidly ous points in the state. The Pul- e throtving dust in the eyes of Ulysses voter's this week. Amid the epidemlp of strike out the country, nong will start an auroral blaze of lordly eheer equal to that of the Rusavilie husband "with. st against kindling the kitchen fire last w. “The Wahoo base ballists are pounding sand on the Platte bottoms with a yiew to toughenipg theit hidgs for the summer campaign, The sheris an ex-drummer who has dis pro stop. An ingipient hydrophobi tacklod Nebraska City. Andrew Roas, the brewer, was bitten by & foaming cur Tuesday, and the usual fears of a fatal result are entertained by his friends, The measly bark was silenced Here's a Pool chip from the Johnson County Journal: *“The tendency to do wrong increases toward mght," says u well known minister, and this is very likely to be true, for when Adam ate the forbidden fruit it was near Eve, A sad accident robbed Mr. and Mrs. Alec Dobson of their household treasure a4-year-old girl, in Ulysses last week The little one had climbed on the edge of 4 water tank, and unknown to any one bad fallen in and was drowned Neopolis is the naige of a new town lo- eated in the northeastern part of Buffulo through- scare has county, at the crossing of the Union Pa- cific and the Grand lsfind and Wyoming Central, about equally distant from Koar- ney, Grand Island, St. Paul and Broken Bow. A bank isto be started at Doniphan, under the management of Mr, Schwyn, and backed by nmple capital for the lo- cality. Mr. Schwyn worked a fow years go as a farm hand for §15 a month, and his success in gathering up a fair compe- tence is a liminous example of what am- bition and energy will accomplish. A shocking accident occurred at Au- Saturday. The son of who had been load- cartridges, Jeft a quantity of loose powder in a bowl, In tho even- ing his sisters went into the room to light the lamp, -lrn||>pmg the mafch into the powder, which eXploded, burning the vounger child very badly. It setiire to the honse, and but for the timely arrival of help, house and girls would "have been burned. Towa Items. Dubuque claims a population of 4,- 000 The total approp legislature foot up & 5 e Steinberger, a brewer Oak, suicided by hanging, Tuesday. hibition drove him to it. A petition is in circulation at Marshall town to get the saloon men imprisoned there out of jail. Their families are suf- fering. A Davenport genius has secured a v “lightning bung push and It 1s a third cousin of tho at Red Pro- W. M. Garrett, of Des Moines, lenges any mun in the state to walk against him for a distance of 200 yards for $300 a sid chal- living near Scranton, was smothered to deathi in n well which he was cleaning, He loaves a large family of small children. Bill McComb, a sample en suflering from ttack of s oux City, caressed u policeman with a pitcher, mangling his fico heyond recog nition. " A brother cop then sailed in with a billie and velted McComb to the city coop. Real estate values are rapidly advane- ing in Woodbury county, under the in- fluenee of the two new railroads which are now being built through the county to Sioux City. It is estimated that these roads will distribute $300,000 in wages in the county this year, Under Warden Martin all_ newspapers were excluded from the prison at Ana- mosa. This order Warden Barr has re- voked, and he will allow the prisoners to vive and read all the newspapers they choose to send for or that their friends choose to send them. James Bruce, a well-to-do farmer r Rockwell, Cerro Gordo county, shot himself Sunday morning and was found dead in his granery by & member of his amily. He had been despondent by spells, and it is supposed he committed the act while temporarily insane. Schncider Bros., brewers of Spring- field, Ohio, have bronght suit against the state of Towa for $30,000, based on the re- cent decision ot Judge Brewer concern- ing the indemnification of citizens whose y sufter injury through the of the prohibitory law. Schneider Bros. were brewers at Marion when the prohibitory law went into and they were compelled to leave and go to some other Their build- ings have stood idle ever since. a farmer ing Dakota Natural gas has been struck in a well near Hillsboro. Buflalo Gap claims to be the best trad- ing point in the Hills country. The water works now in course of con- struction at Rapid City will be owned and controlled \)y the city. The New York mica mine near Custer is astonishing its owners. It is now yielding up gold and silver in paying quantities, in addition to mica. The estimated cost of the sewerage tem to be put in at Sioux Falls this year is $25,761.40. Of this amount tle “city pays $15,257.40, the property holders the balance, The artesian well at Aberdeen cannot furnish suflicient power for eightcen clec- tric lights as expected, but gives enough for ten, and the city will soon be lighted with clectricity. Plans for the new Hotel Harney, at Rapid City, have been adopted, unn? the work of vation has already been com- hotel will be one of the ass in the territory. B Sporting Notes, Tuflield, the runner of the Lincoln hose team, will arrive jn Omahg on Saturday, and will make a twenty-five-mile match with John Hourihan, the sprinter of the Thurstons. The latter offers to give the Lincoln man~ two miles in the twenty- five. re will be for $100 a side. W. R. den, the champion “dead- shot™ of the” South Platte country, in the city yesterday greeting his brother nimrod: A game of base ball men and policemen, will probab next Saturday. l\l.n‘gn-r}eu), of the Athletic park, concluded arrangements yesterday with the Leavenworth base ball club for a game with the Union Pacifics on May 28, , botween the fir s on the tapis. It be played one week from A Burprise Party. Miss Carrie Lenge, who left yesterday for Europe, was tendered a very pleasant surprise party Wednesday at her. residence on South Fourteenth street by a number of her frieuds. The evening was pleasantly passed with music, refreshments, ete. Among_those present were: Miss Touy Metz, Miss Annie Richard, Miss Tiue Richaxd, Miss Polly Marschner, ippen- cter, Miss Pomy, Mixs Pomy, Miss Ititte Kemper, Mis. Henry Richard, Dr. Ko Messrs. dulius Peycke, Henry Richard, 1. Jobst, ¥red Metz, jr., H. L. Balse, Mr Pomy, jt., Max Becht, Mr. Eppeneter, jr., A, Suith, Synagogue Notes. The Passover vices at the Jewish synagogue were brated with unusual solemnity thi r. The attendunce both on the evening and morning scr- vices were exceedingly large The closing day of "this Hebrew feast will be next” Monday. Services will be held Sunday evening and Monday morn- ing. The subjects of Rabbi Benson's lectures will be announced in Saturday's Bk, Rabbi Bensor re. At the Jewish synagogue this evening Rabbi Bensou will lecture upon the following subject, “I'he Indie Solu- tion of the Problem, Who is Entitled to the Kingdom of Heaten ” Divine ser vices at the synogogue will commnence at 7:30 o'clock. A 1 invitation 15 ex- tended to the Omaha clergy. He Made Threats. Burt Patterson, an ex-waiter, was ar- rested yesterday, at the instance of Mr, C. 8. Higgins, Mr. H. says that Patterson came to him ana wanted some money to get out of town with, and upon his refusal to give up the cash, threatencd all man- ner of personal violenc Patterson will have u hearing to-morrow, Lily Division, Lily Division, Uniformed Rank No. 8, Knights of Pythias, will be instituted on Friday aight, at the Myrtle Divison 3 xu urgent request has been is- all Knights of the uniformed rang to be present. A BOSTON BOOK AGENT. Her Address to Two Poor Buffalo Re« porters. Two Buffalo Times men were recently bosieged by & Boston book agent, who took possossion of the only remaining chair in the sanctum and began to pour in her broadside. “My name,” said she, ‘‘is Miss Alice M. \!fi-h-r. and I come from Boston, the seat of culture and the home of all good women." “What made you leave it Allie?" said the reporter, sceing that the combined indifference of the two newspaper men had brought the woman of culture to a sudden halt. “I'm a traveling advocate of women's rights and a wandering book-worm, " The reporter was about to ask her it the walking was good, but by this time she had shaken oft what little embarrass. ment she might have felt at first, and would not give the reporter- a chance to utter a word, ‘1 have been to all the eastern cities, and am only stopping in Buffalo for three months'to take a fow orders on this work of ‘Eminent Woman.” 1 am no every day book agent, as you will per- ceive. 1 carry my samplé book in my mufl, in which I had a pocket made for the purpose. I do no advertising throngh the pape I dospise very young men and yery old mon. Neither ean appro- cinte my work. Ifind out the names of cvery man in the oflice and what i tion they hold before 1 enter it, s t I can call every person <by name, 1 pay no attention to the signs over doors W)II("{I forbid agents to enter. They never know U'm an agent until Um fairly settled, and then the whole. oftice usually makes up one or two subseriptions for my book s0 08 to got vid of me. Lam never in hurry. If people do not subscribe, or 'remain immovable ufter 1 have used up all my exertions, then 1 faint and work on their sympathy. 1 got into a railvoad oflice onee, and thoy gave me a pass to Chieago if I would leave the town, [ once recited the first of a poem of my own production in a_news- paper office, and the editor offered to subseribe for my book if T would omit the remaining stanzas. When I called around to collect my y that he was dead, money left after paying his funer penses,” All this, and even tho threats of the lady that she would recite this enti Inn-m and sean every meter, failed to have effeet on the newspaper’ men, who ould witness anything up to a'death scene, or listen to u funeral oration without flinching, and she departed in ing that <he would neyer call thiat newspaper men had no Canyhow, and that, if they did subscribe, - they could never be found when she wanted to colle So the lady a walk to nerve herself for a new attack. ST John C. Fremont, Donver Tribne. General Fremont and his wife have set tled in Washiugton City, where they are both at work on his memoirs. Mrs. Fre- mont is a daughter of Missouri’s great senator, Thomas H. Benton., She has much of her good sense and strength of ¢l , and she is of great assistance to her husband in the work upon which he is now engaged. In these duys when 50 many of the public men of the country are writing books in which they collections of the ey of the last thirty years in the poli history of the country, it is a pleas see that a man so well qualified as Fro mont is to contribute interesting material to the historical record of the United States is engaged in writing hre memo The jority of such works soon drift away into the oblivion to which they be- Tong, but it will probably not be so~ with the work that Fremout is engaged upon if he live long enough to complete it. He occupies now a strange position be- fore the punlic. So lost to sight has he been during the past ten or fificen years that probably the > many persons of the y en wiio, although familiar with him as an his 1 char: , hardly know that he is still alive. He see s one risen from the dead. He belongs to the past, and although hs active work was n great and important one, it is now all done. There is nothing for him to do now but write for the bene- fit of future gencrations the record of his eventful life. He is well named the “Pathfinder,” for he opened the way across the plans from the Missouri river to the Pacific c and to him belongs the credit of th capture of California during the can war. He scems to have recognized from the beginning the truth of the fa- mous declaration of Benton who, speak ingof the inportance of a fransconti- neiital railway, pointed wu»g\{ur the Pacitic ocean and suid: the east. Tl s India. and Fremont were carly construgtion of a railw ocean, and although th fore the first t continental road was built, the lattor has lived long enough to see five different transcontinental rail- s routes open and in operation. Fremont hus adso lived long enough to see the character of the conntry lying be. tween the Missouri river and the” Pacilie Oceun changed, When he first marched out from the Missouri river toward the Pacitic Ocean the country before him was_an unexplored wilderness. 1t was the home of roaming tribes of savages and of droves of thousands of buffuloes, Now the buflaloes are gone, and the In dians are driven away into reservations ‘The country that then was a wilderness is now looked upou us, in many respects, the choicest part of the National domuin, e Postoffice Changes. Postoffice changes in Nebraska and Towa, during the week ending April 17, 1886, furnished by Wm. Van Vieck of the postoilice department: NEBRASKA. stablished--Bodare, W. Hunter, . M.; Di Moses H, Smith, £, M.;( Robert Farl P M; Christoph Hagense Postmasters Appointed--Almeria, Loup Co., Mrs. Gabella Bower; Bassett, Brown Co., Mrs. Susie C. Dalton: Hooper, Dodge W, F. Basler; P nt Home, York Co., Mra. Rebecea Brabhain; Ray, Holt ux Co., John sherman Co., -not, Custer Co., Joy, Holt Co., STRICTLY PURE. IT CONTAINS NOOPIUM IN ANY FORMW IN THREE SIZE BOTTLES, PRICE 75 CENTS, 50 GENTS, AND 81 PER BOTTLE 2 CEN! BOTTLESs aro put up for the & commodation of ‘all who desire & goo and low priced Cough. Coldand CroupRemedy THOSE DESIRING A HEMEDY PR CONSUMPTION ANY LUNG DISEASE, Bhould securo the large $1 bottles. Direotion accompanying each bottle Co', Wm. M. Wetherell: Tufford. 'Custer Co., Mury C. Bunning; Westerville, Cass Co., Jumes N. Peale; Wilsonyille, Furnas Co', Witliam 8. Dart. 10WA blished—University Place, Polk Thomns O. Mershon, P, M.; Wood- lge, Cedar Co., Charles Dickinsou, ostmasters Appointed —Coldwater, nklin Co., William Kernan; Gilmore lontas Co., J. E. Beers; dewell, ton Co., John P. Clark; Mount Pis arvison ¢ y L Peyton; Pet Clay Ca Dimfler; Sand Delay ‘0., L. loflfetholz; 0., John D. 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