Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 5, 1886, Page 4

A Rl ST s st day of May, A, D. 18 - 86$100,000 for taxation purposes. THE DAILY BEE. OmanA Orrice, No. 014 AND 018 FARNAM St New York Orrice, Roos 65, TRISUNE BUILDING WASHINGTON OrFicE, No. 513 FourTRENTH ST. Poblished evers morning, except Sunday. The gniy Monday morning puper publistied i tho . TERME BY MATL: £10.00 Three Months One Yenr.. Bix Months. 5.000ne Month. . " Tum WeEKLY Ber, Published Every Wednesany. TERME, POSTPAID: One Year, with premium “ One Year, without preminm . Rix Months, without premiv One Month, on trial, CORRRSPONDENCE: ATl communieations relating to_news and odi. torial matters should be addressed to the Epi- TOR OF MK BEE BUSINESS LRTTERS: All bu iness Jottors and remittances should bo nodressed to THE BEE PURLISHING COMPANY, OMaftA. Drafts, checks and postofice orders 10 be miade payable to the order of the company. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS. T. ROSEWATER. Epiron. THE I Sworn Staten te of Nebraski LY BEE. snt of Circulation. a ougl! foe cashier of the Bea Publishir solemnly swear thai the s ulation of the Daily Bee for t woek onding April 30th, 15%, was as follows: Morning Erening Edition, Edition. 8,500 5,970 Monday, 20th.. ... 7,100 5,005 Tuesday, 27th Wednesday, 25th Thursday, Friday, 50tl Average. Sworn to and subseribed before me, ON J. Fisnen. Notary Public. N. P. Fell, bel"f first duly sworn, deposes andsays that he Is cashier of tio Beo Pub- lishing_company, that the actual average daily circulation of the Daily Bee for the month of January, 188, was 10,378 coples; for February, 1883,10,505 coples; for Mareh, 886, 11,537 copies, Sworn to and subseribed before me this 17th day of April, A, D, 185 S1yoy J. FISHER, Notary Public. Notice to Agents and Subscribers. Hereafter all orders for papers, all complaints about postal delays, and all remittances should be directed to the Beg Publishing compuny, Omaha, Nebraska. Mr. Fitch will still ecntinue as manager of the circulation of the BEE, west of the Missouri. When butterine is legislated and taxed out of the market, the dairymen will hold their festivals. Now that the strike in the southwest is over, the chances are that the striking epidemic will have run its course in a very short time. THE board of education has re-or- &anized for the year and exhibited’a good deal of non-partisan feeling by electing two democrats and a mugwump as ofli- cers. THE New York Commercial Advertiser - asks why Crook doesn't catch Geromino. General Miles has that job in hand just now and he isn't feeling very cheerful about it, either. GourLp returns his personal property Sev- eral of Omaha’s most wealthy capitalists use the same kind of arithmetice in deal- ing with the assessor. —— LAw and unequal assessments cut both ways. They prevent local enterprise in the way of public improvements and frighten away foreign capital by causing an apparent rather than a real high levy on the assessed valuation. ‘WaiLE manufacturers are protected by a high tariff, labor is assailed by the open competition of immigrants from every eountry in Europe. A tariff on foreign laborers would benefit labor more than a tax on the products of labor. ‘WHEN the red flag is hung ou of an auctioneer's store it is a his stock is to be “‘knocked down.” red flag, when displayed at the head of a socialistic procession, ought to be a sig- nal to the authorities to knock down the outfit without any further ceremony. TuE democratic New York World gives the following hint for the consideration of southern democrats: ‘‘“Lhe people of “the south should be careful not to overdo the Jofferson Davis business.” The sug- on i8 too late. The damage has been e. Let the south look to it that the eohocs of the cheers for the arch traitor do not reverberate unpleasantly in the -mext national canvass. EuE Herald is blowing hot and cold as msunl on the labor question. Its working aditor talks loudly for the rights of labor sad the down-trodden masses and against monopolies and the tyrrany of capital. Pr. Miller, who boasted before the senate ‘eommittee that he was proud to be & mo- mopolist, would like to have the strikers and Knights of Labor blown from the -mouth of a cannon as the British did with she Sepoy mutineers in Indi; — FHERE is no doubt that the position of Mayor Boyd on the question of raising she salary of the building inspector is goxrect. The inspector of buldings should not only be a practical mechanie, but & man versed in reading plans and eompetent to detect their defects. We Bave had so much delay in this needed rm, however, that it seems to us that ;> he mayor should loose no time in send- in his nomination. The council can the salary at its pleasure. e — WhaeN the board of public works se- foots the inspectors of paving and sewer- fng, great care should be taken to secure “tho proper kind of men for the positions. Omaha has suffered greatly from the wretched jnspection of her pavements while being laid. Shoemakers, tailors and men of avout every trade except those connected with public works have been chosen to supervise the work, and #he result speaks for itself. Take, for in- stance, the Farnam street pavement. The Blocks make no pretensions of following ut the specifications. They are badly eut, irregular and poorly laid, although Ahey were put down under the very nose of inspectors employed to protect the in- ts of the city. The inspectors in the place should be competent men. y should also be honest men. We it no inspeotors controlled by con- ctors, and who feel that there1san way of making money than by ing their cyes open and attonding 10 the business for which they are English and American Railroads. A member of the American Society of Civil Engineors, Mr. Edward Bates Dor- sey, has published the results of his pro- fessional comparisons between American and English railronds, Mr. Dorsey notes a8 the most striking contrast, the differ- ence in the cost of construction of rail- roads in the two countries. The average cost per mile of English roads is said to be about £200,000 while that of Amorican ronds is fixed at £60,000. This sum in the latter case represents the cost to the stockholders. The actual costis prob- ably less than half that amount, the dif- ference being made up of construction ring profits. The difference of $140,000 a mile outlay in the ease of the English roads is due to the expensive permanent ways, the solid stone bridge: rehes, the costly road bed, the du tions and buildings, and tho higher land damages. All these of course count in cheapening the cost of maintenance, but Mr, Dorsey finds by caleulation that this enormous expendi- ture on permancnt way in England docs not earn its market interest for the balance sheet. Operating expenses are also found by the author to be heavier on English than on American 1ailroads. This is stated to be owing to the small size of the car loads, the rapidi- ty of the freight trains as demanded by English merchants and the | fewer labor siving devices used in the handling of freight. English shippers insist on rapid transit for their goods, and asa consequence freight is trans. ported over the English line: rate than passengers between Chi and Omaha. This of course entails ditional cost and must be taken into con- sideration in com z froight c in the two countries. According to M Dorsey's tables a comparison of ts on American and ays is decidedly i favor of country. Taking M wsetts and New Yrok as a basis, he finds that the number of passengers killed for each billion p ied one mile is in England 5.15, in New York 5.78, in sachusetts 2; injured, in England 143 this run on the many gi both thes ngs, while in s of danger are entirely lacking. Fogs would probably explain some of the accidents on England roads, but in spite of this unfavorable condition the ratio of casualties seems large. * In regard to speed, the writer makes a very satisfactory exhibit by a list of the dozen fastest trains in each country, taken from official time-tables. The fastest schedule is a train from Baltimore to Washington on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, forty miles in forty-five minutes —fifty-three miles per hour; the next on the Midland of England, London to Not- tingham, 125 miles in two and one-half hours—just fifty miles per hour, but for a longer distance; then follow several others of somewhat less speed about equally divided between the two coun- tries. On longer distances the Enghsh trains do rather better, the run from London to Glasgow, 444 miles, bemng made at the rate of 48 miles per hour, while of the two American instances ot trips of almost precisely the same length, the ride from New York to Buffalo on the New York Central is made at the rate of 31, and that from Jersey City to Pitts- burg on the Pennsylvania 89§ miles per hour. The Chicago cxprosses on the New York Central and Pennsylvania rail- roads, which run nearly 1,000 miles at respective rates of 39 and 87 miles per hour, of course lack a similar length of linc in England for comparison. In common with all observers, Mr. Dorsey finds our railroads superior in the provisions made for the comfort of pas- sengers on the trains in the roomier coaches, and the system ot baggage- checking. i The Senator from New York. Senator Van Wyck has often been sneeringly called, the senator from New York. A little incident in his career while he was a representative in con- gress from the state of New York shows *that Nebraska, and especially Omaha, had a very warm triend in the senator before he ever resided in Nebraska. It has not generally been known, but is nevertheless a fact, that Omaha is in- debted to Gen. Van Wyck for the appro- priation that secured for her a postoflice and custom house far in advance of the plans originally proposed. The follow- ing extract from the Congressional Record shows that the senator from “‘the state of Now York" has done some ser- vice for Nebraska in the years away back: The house on Feb, 27, 1571, having under consideration the sundry eivil appropriation bill, Mr. Taffe, of Nebraska, moved to amend. the clause making appropriation for the post- office at Omaha by making the amount $50,- 000 instead of §25,000. After remarks by Mr, Taffe Mr. Van Wyck sald: Mr. Speaker, let me say In this connection that we have already done the thing which the chair has decided is in order. The postoffice building at New York city was limited to §3,000,000, Before this bill was reported the cost of that bullding could not exceed that sum by ex- press provision of this law. Yet in this ap- propriation bill, as reported from the committee that restriction upon the cost of the New York city post- office has been repealed. Now another mil- lion will be added to the cost of that buildin ‘The proposition of the gentleman from Ne- braska is to add only $25,000, It was limited by previous legislation to $125,000, Omaha is the only place in Nebraska where any pub- lic building at present is located, and it is only just to the government, as well as to that growing city and growing state, that this bullding to be erected there should be commensurate with the wants of the peo- ple, abullding of which the government shall be proud. I hope there will be no ob- jection to the appropriation. Considerations of usefulness alone do not control in the plans or architecture of public building: They are constructed or built with & view to be ample in size, a1l also grand in architecture; otherwis: wo would not be justified in spendin: over $4,000,000 00 a postofiice in New Y and over $2,000,000 for one in Boston, The gov ernment should not construct a building which will be iuferior to any already buit iy that distant city by private subseriptio the eity authorities, The population ol Omaha, the growth of Nebraska already justitios all asked for by the gentleman from that state. While we are levish in our appro- priations in other localities, let us be just if not generous to & people who have paid $25, | United States | the charter which confers upon 000 for a location for this building; just and generous to one of the youngest iu the sister- hood of states, whicn has sprung up as by magic on the plains of the west. 1 hope there will be no serious objection to this ap- propriation asked tor, Mr. Dawes. Is the gentleman willing to limit it to §150,000¢ Mr. Vao Wyck. lam wiling to consent to what Is agreed to by the gentleman from Nebraska. Mr. Dawi representative. Mr Van Wyck. I will not object toit. I onlydesire such legislation as will secure a a building suitable to the wants of the peo- ple, and somewhat in keeping with the sur- roundings of its location. Mr. Taffe. The work isalready commenced, Ttis commenced on a scale different from what seems to be understood by the chair- man of the committee on appropriations. 1 am willing for the present that $150,000 shall be suggested as the limitation, although I do not believe it will be sufficient to complete the building as contemplated by the secre- tary of the treasury. Mr. Dawes, 1do not object to the gentle- man’s proposition. The amendment was agreed to. The Week in Business Olroles. The tendency of business operations during the past week has boen to restrict destribution to the actual wants of con- sumers. In most branches the movement has been moderate in volume: Business conditions are not favorable for the in- ception of new enterprises or for any ex- tensive dealings in advance of assured requirements, and merchants and manu- facturers are disposed to pursue o safe volicy of conservatism until calenlations tor future operations can be made with some measure of security against new and unsettling complications in the adjustment of the labor troubles. Crop prospucts are uniformly encouraging, and the g ul situation is favorable for a gradually improving con- dition of trade were it not for the preva- lent uncertainty as to the effect of the labor agitation; but for the present this tion outweighs all others as a disturbing factor in the world of business. Tle western and Pac tes furnished about half the total of 207 failures re- ported at the close of the week in the ind Canada. This was an increase of thirteen as scompared with the week preceeding. Wool remains much depressed and there are no impor- tant changes to note n the dry goods market. The iron trade is quiet and without feature. ‘The produce markets remain inactive and weak. Wheat shows a heavier de- cline at the seaboard than in the interior, dueto the expectation of large ivals by lake and 1, the effect of which is belng discounted by speculators. The visible supply of wheat sho lecrease of 1,250,000 bushels, but this decline was smaller than had been expected and con- tributed little strength to the market, which has been adversely affected by the quicter political news from Europe and the industrial disturbances in this country. A good deal of spring wheat has been contracted for in the west, which is probably intended for export, but there has been little trading in winter wheat except in a smail way for domestic consumption. The growing crop of winter wheat remains in good condition, and the promise of a large in- crease in the yield and of a surplus from the present crop fully up to the ave of previous yemrs are discouraging in- ment in anticipation of any material advance in market values in the near future. Corn prices are from 14 to 2 cents lower than a week ago, owing partly to the luil in export demand and partly to the absence of speculative support. Corn is grading badly, and, as the germinating season has commenced, there is a gencral di vosition to avoid the in as a specula- tive investment Several lots of corn have been alreadv posted as out of con- dition in the New York market. Hog products are moving fairly for export, and there is a good distribution on home trade orders, but prices are a shade weak arule, in sympathy with the recent decline in hogs. Iask youasan Independent The Chicago Riots. Law abiding workingmen and all true friends of labor have no sympathy with such outbreaks as those which for two days have disgraced Chicago. They seem to have beon incited by a gang of ignorant and worthless blathorskites who for years past have been trading on the name of labor in that city and living from the earnings of mdustrious work- ingmen. Such men always come to the front in times of trouble, and put them- selves at the head of move- ments tc array labor against law and order. If no one else suffered in the armed conflicts which en- sue, the public would care little. Unfor- tunately an excited crowd is easily moved and hundreds of well meaning working- men are led astray by the mflammatory harangues of men of the Herr Most stamp who use the red flag as a rallying standard. With such agitators Amerioan workingmen have nothing in common. Their cool, level headed, sober common sense tells them the cause of labor can never be advanced by the torch and the revolver methods. Every dis- turbance such as that which - took place in Chicago is a blow to the efliciency of labor organizations as means for the promotion of labor inter- ests. Public opinion is a court of last vesort in all questions between large bodies of citizens and their fellows. Popular agitation to be successful must be popular. The moment they clash with the laws either they or the laws must go under. At such a crisis there can be no question which will succeed. The worst enemies of labor to-day are the conscienceless agitators who urge upon workingmen that defiance of law and social order is the readiest means to secure the advancement of their in- terests. Ar the last council meeting the mayor scnt in the names of a large number of sewer and pavement inspectors. The ordinance which authorizes the employ- ment of these inspectors provides that the board of public works shall choose aud employ them. The ordinance may not be in conformity with the spirit of the mayor the power to appoint all city officials that are not elective, But as long as the ordinance is in torce the | mavor has no authority to override its provisions, Unless the ordinance is re- pealed or overruled by the courts the in- spectors of sewers and paving will have to be ewployed by the board of public works. ‘THE executive committee of the Knights of Labor has declared the strike in the southwest off. This ends a struggle h has been protracted for more than six weeks, and in which millions of dol- lars have becn sunk. The causes of the contest will be fully investigated by the congressionai comuitteo,which is now on | the ground, and the public will await its forthcoming repért with much interest. Whatever else the geat strike has taught it has forcibly illdsttated the truism that strikes are wars, cos}ly to all parties, and conflicts that Allol\%d never be entered upon except as the last resort, when all other means of settling difficulties have failed. —— Gov. LARRABEE, of Towa, has issued a vigorous proclamation regarding the en- forcoment of the prohibition law. He strikes straight from the shoulder, and says the dram shops must go. So far as the enforcement of the law is concerned Gov. Larrabee is ‘cinmently correct. 1f the people of Towa really want prohibi- tion they ought to have it and “have it straight.”’ Itis unfair to entorce it in one part of the state and not in another. CircAGo policemen to the namber of two hundred found themselves amply able to handle a mob of three thousand men on Monday withiout calling for “trupes.” Firm and determined action on the part of civil authorities in nine cases ont of ten can auell symptoms of disorder in thi i 2 Ir Weaver—Weaver of Nobraska— keops on with his graveyard jokes he will soon establish a reputation as a humorist. Pook Quin Bohannon,’ exclaims the Herald. ‘That paper always s o great deel of sympathy for murderers. SENATORS AND OONGRESSMEN, Senator Mitchell, ot Pennsylvania, is seri- ously ill at his home. Gen. Logan s said to be working regu- larly four hours a day on his book. Congressman Loutitt, of Californin, was born in a stable and educated in the common schools, Senator Blair, of New Hampshire, has hopes the presidential lightning will strike him in 1888, According to the Florida Times-Union Senntor Jones has been made the vietim of a political intrigue. Senator Dawes has been In the senate so long that he wants to stay. Some people ob- jeet to him because he is 70 years old. The Philadelphia Record accuses Mr. Ran- dall of being haunted with what Emerson called a “hobgoblin of little minds, a fool- ish consistency.” A Washington correspondent declares that it is astonishing how miuch is being said In a quiet way in favor of nominating Senator Hoar for the presidency. Senator Beck would liketo see Allen G. Thurman, Jos. E. McDonald and Roscoe Conkling appointed labor commissioners at salaries of $10,000 g, year. Congressman Houk of the second Ten- istrict has the lonor of receiving the tion tokthe fiftieth congress. He ving his fourth term, lis last ma- Jority having been 10, The Philadelphia, Prgss reminds Senator Frye that a fishing gmagk carrying the Amer. ican flag has been seized. in Canadian waters, and that he may now have an opportunity to ke zood his promise to introduce a bill closing all American poets against all Cana- dian vessels, £ Congressman James Buchanan, of New Jersey, was thought t§ be so lazy thut he would never accomplish anything, but con- trary to expectation be has pushed alead into prominence. :Oneof the chief worries of hislife is thathie has: a double, a brother lawyer ot the same name, with an office in the same block who ts always getting his mail. +Senator Dolph, of Oregon, is regarded by the Indies,” says the Washington Post, “as the hundsomest man in the senate. e is tall and broad shouldered and speaks with a rich, deep bass voice. But his chief claim to admiration Is his magnificent full beard, which falls in wavy profusion to the miadle of his waistcoat. 11e has, besides, a striking face and a majestic bearing, which attract immediate attention.” Saying the Country. Philadelphta Times. The true patriot will now save the country by sturdily pushing on the handles of the plow. e e Campaign Ammunition, Chicago Herald. The amfable southerners who are toting Jeff Davis around may not know it, but they electioncering for a big republican congress next fall. —— Plenty Large Enough. Chicago Times. The addition to the white house will cost 300,000, and almost double its capacity. There are persons mean enough to declare that the present white house is quite large enough for all the reform of the present administration. e Base Ingratitude, Kansas Oity Jourwal. ‘The president has vetoed the bill to make Omaha a port of entry. This, in spite of the intimate relations which exist hetween Mr. Cleveland and the editor ot the Herald, and in spite of the lnvitation he bad received to visit Nebraska during the summer. What ingratitude. el b May Call for the Correspondence. Cedar Rapids Gazette. Cleveland will marry Miss Folsom in June, sure. O, Grover, you old dude, look out, or your appointment will be rejected by the senate. They will send for your correspond- ence in regard to the matter. —— Rallroad Soap. Papillion Times. The Times is Informed that the railroad cappers have already attempted to establish anti-Wyck agencies in Sarpy county. The fight has opened rather early, but we take this late opportunity ¢o inform the half doz- en enemies of the people’s senator in the county that by the most lavish use of rail- road “soap” they wil bd unable to send a railroad man from this county to the next legislature. Mark the wrediction, and save your money. yind Not Always What They Seem. New Orledns Picayune. Dere’s a mighty lot'df pedple w'at’s got heaps o' common sensej Dn(':inl alluz perticular about dere mood an’ ense. You passes lats of pretty gals dat’s hid be- bind a ve Av deres ilés of *§ponisibility rests on an ron rafl. ! Haint de bigges', slickes'hoss that makes do quickes” time, 1 "Taint alluz fron'de riches’ man the poor one gits de dime. It's & mighty slender policy to go tar out to sea In a boat w'at’s rotten to the core, to show . how brave you Yoo iga crop ob apples is a gwine o bust e Tim An’ de gal's I:Ffl alluz tas,t best w'en de light is kinder di B et BTATE AND TERKITOKY. Nebraska Jottings. ‘There are nine divorce cases on the courtdocket in Plattsmouth. George Kohls, of Cedar county, owns 1,500 acres of land in that and Y’uukluu county, Dakota. Track laying on the main line of the Elkhorn valley road west of Chadron is now being pushed at the rate of a mile or more a day. A man named Bond, living near Fair- bury, became disgusted with the endloss toil of life, and strapped his throat to a ratter in his granary. He was dead when found. The Waterloo Gazette has been disoon- tinued, the editor moving to Napoleon, Dakato. Bryant will become the Col. Sellers of the new burg. ‘“There are mil- lions in it."” Boone county employs sevent; teachers, nineteen male and fifty-seven femalos, at an _average salary of $38.68 per month. The county has $,200 school children and eighty-six school houses, valued at $87,000. Fred Ashton, a Syracuse boy of 14 ried & loaded revolver in his "hip pc while plowing. The gun went ol disastrous results, For the next woek or two Fred will take whatoever comfort there is in life standing. The prospective inauguration of prohi- bition in Fallerton has strred up, the in- ner cussedness of all the bums and mod- erates in town. Painting expeditions are of nightly oceurrence and the town con- stable has both hands full of business. A L. Fees, of Broken Bow, took his best girl out for a ride, and 1n a moment of mental weakness permitted her to driyy Both were dumped in the ditch and fragments of the buggy scattered over a mile of rond. Fees has recovered sufficiently to propose and will hold the lines in future. The young son of 8. A. Krrickson, of Harvard, toyed with a kernel of corn and lnismk‘nz it for the flexible end of the milk bottle, squeczed it into his mouth. Although three doctors wrestled with the youngster the kernel strangled him. It has came to this that Nebraska mouths must be enlarged or corn reduced in sizo. At Springview, Keya Paha county, a man who had recently lost a horse ook a pitchfork and going to a neighbor de- manded for the loss of the animal, saying that he had received orders direct from heaven to kill the neighbor if pay- ment was refused. The neighbor con cluded the man was insane and had him locked up. The artesian well n b feet deep and flows at the rate of 1,680 gallons an hour. About twenty rods dis- tanta second well is being sunk with a view of testing each strata and determin- ing whether or not ¢ really exists ]m_\'iugu antities. A dep has been reached and a four-inch vein of coal has been struck. lowa Items, All saloons in Silver City have been closed up. Roed Oak Baptists have decided to build 2 $6,000 church. Sioux City’s new hotel has been sold to an Atlantic man for 28,000, A prominent real estate man in Water- loo is thedefendantin a breach of promise case, dumages $30,000. The Grant memorial fountain recently }vl:\ced in the public park at Atlantie will be dedicated on Decoration Day. An ancient tomeat belonging to John Thomas, in Monroe county, is ru family of eight timber squirrels. The railway telegraph operators of the state will meet at Cedar Rapids June 9, to organize an association to promote their interests. A Creston man advertisesiceat the of 100 pounds f families washed and p That beat: ge number of farmsin the vicinity icer will remain unworked this year, the ownershaving hired out to work on the new railroads which are being built in Ne and Dakota. The Burlington small boy goes loaded and is n menace to life and limb. The youngsters carry and use a small rifle, and residents on'the outskirts of the city have petitioned the police to suppress the nuisance, Knoxville is considerably excited overa f‘h"“ in the cupola of the Baptist church Bvery night a light may be seen from the south, resembling in appe: o the light from a transom of a well-lighted room. No cause can be given for the phenome- non, The citizens of Knoxville ought to straighten their drinks. The ‘‘intelligent compositor” is the most generous and commodious piece of furniture in a printing oftice. He shoul- ders, without a murmur, all the mistakes and blunders of the rest of the shop, and i8 the convenient and abused pi-box of journalistic salvation. The Des Moines Leader accuses him with mutilating a puff for a contemporary, charging the new. disciple of Greeley with being of the ‘free love order’’ instead of the ‘‘free lance order.” As the i. c. strikes a ton, his funeral was indefinitely postponed. A correspondent_at Castana, Monona county, writes: ‘‘Farmers are very late with seeding this season. Buad weather has delayed operations and roads are almost impassible, Railroad excitement is at a high pitch. The surveyors of the hicago & Northwestern are busy locat ing towus along the Maple valley and setting grade stakes. Castana is working hard for a station and round house. Tho Milwaukee road has commenced work on the grade east of Sioux City with 100 teams. ‘The Maple Valley is one of the most beautiful in the west,and can easily accommodate two railroads,” Dakota. Fargo is troubled with a vein of natu- ral gas. Buffalo Gap is agitating the water works question. Chas. Mix nounty farmers plantea corn last week. There were hundreds of ncres put into the ground. The flow from the artesian well at: Kimball increases, and is now estimated at from 15,000 to 20,000 gallons in twenty- four hours of pure, clear water. Trackiaying began on the Black Hills extension of the Elkhorn Valley road &t Buflalo Gap Monday. It is expected that the iron will be laid to Rapid City in fort; working days. And then the natives wil paint the earth. * George W. Poussin, of Pierre, is the possessor of a map of the United States which was published in 1778. It shows Dakota to bo a desert as well as an unex- plored conntry. At the time of the date of the map, the maker located the west ern town of the states in New York, and everything west of there is a howling wilderness. rate Wyoming, The school expenses of Cheyenne for ;lge coming year are estimated at 22,600, J. C. Howe, of Fort Collins, is nmkinfi arrangements to erect a $40,000 flour mi in Cheyeune. Recent assays of ore from the Gilehrist mining district, near Cheyenne, show 560 pounds of lead to the ton, which is said to be “'encouraging. The plans and site for the territorial umyersity at Laramie have been secured, k on the building will begin be- fore the end of the month. The cost of the building is limited to $50,000. Utah and ldaho. The truck patch of Chambers & Whit- ney covers 25,000 acres in Bear river valley, Utah. Five million dollars' worth of ore is piled on the dump of the Ontario mine near Park City. Three hundred and fifty men, including shop men and ditch diggers, are employ- ed at present at Eagle Mark Levi, & San Francisco jewelry drummer, was chloroformed and ‘robbed of $140 and his watch in Salt Lake City The mining districts of Idaho are opening up ib fine shupe, and a large army. of prospectors are already in mountain and valloy. The Decline of the Duel. Atlanta Constitution: It has been loss than twenty-seyen years, loss than the average lifetime of a meration, since Robert Toombs delivered in the senato of the United States a eulogy on Senator Broderick, of California, who had been killed in a duel with Judge Terry. In referring to the manner of Broderick's death Toombs said: “'He fell in honorable contest, under a code which he fully recognized. While I lament his sad fate, I'have no word of censure for him of his adversary. 1 think no man under any circumstances ean haye a more enviable death (han to fall in vindication of his honor.” When those words were uttered they probably expressed the sentiment of o argo majority of the senators of the United Stat: There was probably not a senator from the south at that ‘timo who, if he did not approve the ‘‘code,” would have been bold enough to de- nounce it Thie speech, which was in flmrn||¥|| accord with the manliest spivit of the time when it was uttered, is a moral mile-post from which we can measure the great advance made in the popular opinton on the subject of duelling in a comparatively short time. If a member of either louse of congress were to-day to apologise in a speech in the eapitol for the practice of duelling, it would prob- ably be the death-knell to his ||ul|||nf\| ambition. It would, at least, mark him as o vietim of that uncompromising pub- lic opinion which in every part of this country has set tho seal of its condemna- tion on - duclling and abolished *‘the code." This sudden and almost universal abolition of a custom so entangled with the highest conceptions of honor, so firmly fixed in social ethics, and 8o soft- ened as to the real foaturesof its barbaric cruelty tleness and courtesy that presery romance of mediwval knighthood, is indeed remarkable. [t is probably the bestsingle proof that could be offercéd of the advance of our people in good morals and true culture. It had been twenty-one years sinco Terry killed Broderick in *‘honorablo combat” when he received a signal blow of popular condemnation for the deed. He was a eandidate for electo on the Huncock and English ti California in 1880. Hancock state. Every district was carried democrat tion was sent to congi ran thousands of vol and was defeated, while all his asso 8 on the democeratic ticket w ected. The only argument used against him was that he had Killed Brod in a duel. t of the doomed custom After it had been abjured where else 1t seemed to This was_because of the peeuliar political complications in that state which brought men into sharp per- sonal antagonism. In the heated cam- paigns of 1880 and 1881 personal diflicul- ties were numerous, and frequent expe- ditions were made to the “field of honor.” While most of those engaged in this de- ble business were men of unques- tioned courage, the percentage of dams age to the number of duels was so smal g these combats into genera he term **Virginia duel’” was ned, and is still extant, to express an ir with all the pomp and ceremony of a blondy encounter minus the blood. Gentlenien were known to fight two or three terrvific duels a day at ten paces, with pistols carrying a si rapeshot, and at 6 o'clock on the ening of the eventful day to show up at the club as serenely as if nothing had happened. Ity hing besate: ritllalona hnd ftho sensible people of Virgina laughed duel ing out of cxistence within their bord as Cervantes smiled away the chivalr Europe—but much more speedily. An intelligent Virginia gentleman, who was, until late cliever in “the code, told me_ ti duelling was dead i that the erystall est public opinion in'that state against it within the past two years had been simply wonder- ul, and that there was not a connty in Virginia where a man would not now ele- vate himself higher in the opinion of the people by declining a ehallenge than by accepting one. There never was a time in a truly civil- ized country when men did not revoit from the thought of slaying or being slain in these deliberate combats. Men who faced each other with deadly weap- ons to fight to the death had no animo- sity. They were slaves to a_custom which had drifted from barbarism into civilization; to an idea which had held its place in some hard portion of the pop- ular conscience untouched by the influ- ences than were beautifying and refining all the other sentiments of the popular heart. Public opinion bolstered Juuning into an_unnatural prolongation of its sway. Now that public opinion has not only withdrawn its support, but hns lifted its implacable cry against 'the miserable custom, it must go. The world seldom_ been liberated from a tyrannical or a more eruel habit. 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