Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 10, 1886, Page 4

% 83 @i é E TR ST BT THE DAILY BEE. OuanA OFFICR, NO. Uit AND 916 FARNAM ST NEW Y onk Orvice, Roos 65, TRIBUNE BuiLbisa WASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. 513 FounTemNTH ST, Published every morning, except Sunday. Th .z Monday morning paper published o TERMS BY MATL: . $10.00 Three Months, 500 One Mouth, . Trx WeRKLY Der, Published Bvery Wednosaay. TERMS, POSTPAID: One Year, with premtum. ... One_ Year, without premium. .. Bix Months, without premium One Month, on trinl. v connrsroNDENCR: AT communications rolating to news and odi torinl matters should be addressed to the Epi- HOR OF "HE HER. nusTNPSS 1rTTERS: ATl b tiness latters and remittances shonld ba nudcessed to Tue NEE PUBRLISHING COMPANY, IASA. Drafte, checks and postoffice orders 0 be made payable to the order of the company. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANT, PROPRIEIOAS E. ROSEWATER. Epiton "~ THE DAILY BE Sworn Statement of Clrculation. State of Nebraskn, | o County of Dongias, | & & N, . Feil, cashier of the ee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the ac- tual_circulation of the Daily Bee for the week ending May 7th, 185, was as follows: Morning Evening oDate, Edition. Edition. Total 1st. 500 030 1 2" Brd 5070 I Tuesday, 4th. .. 675 12,095 Wednesday, 5., 12,972 Thursday, ~6th... 12,700 iday, th.. 1 Average...... ..6,608 12,403 N. P, FEtl,. Sworn to_and subseribed before me, this 8th day of May, A. D, | o J. Fisiem. Notary Public. N. . Fell, belng first uly swora deposes and says that he is cashier of the Bee Pub- Hishing company, that the actual average daily cireulation’of the Daily Bee for the month of January, 185, was 10,378 copies; for February, 1885, 10,595 coples; for March, 11,557 copies; for April, 1886, 12,191 ooples. worn to_and subscribed beforo mo this 5th day of May, A. D, 18, S0y J. FISHER, Nofary Public. The Chicago police relief fund now amounts to over $3,000 and will probably reach $50,000 this week. There is noth- g slow about Chicago. Wiy has no action been taken by the ety council looking towards the appoint- ment of a scavenger? Warm weather is approaching and filth is accumulating. Disease and dirt go hand in hand. STRIKES are being rapidly settled all over the country and the epidemic is subsiding. Omuha has been compara- tively free from the trouble, for which her workingmen have every reason to be thankful. THE affidavit at the head of this column shows a healthy increase in the BEE'S cir- culation last week over the preceding week. We are still waiting for circula- tion statoments, sworn o otherwise, from our esteemed cotemporaries. THE leading southern nowspapers are by no me: enthusiastic over the ghost of Jeff Davis who now 18 stalking through the land. The Wheeling Intelligencer thinks the potato bug is more to be feared than Jeft Davis. That's about the size of it. Now that the bricklayers’ strike is ad- Justed, building can be promptly re- sumed. The bricklayers have every reason to be satisfied at the conclusion reached and so has the city. Every dis- turbance in the labor market is a blow to the prosperity of Omaha. JAY GouLp is said to be a good amateur photographer, and on his yacht- ing journcys carries a camera and “printing stock’” with him. Jay’s ex- perience in manufacturing bogus securi- tles for Erio tanght him the value of eameras and printing stock to unload on an unsuspecting public. CHICAGO’S police have covered them- solves with glory., There has been no agonizing cry for troops from a city which has been crowded with idle labor- ers for more than two weeks. The men with the clubs and stars found themselves able to handle all trouble without outside assistance. WORK is going right on in Omaha and it will continue to go on. The level Aeaded, thrifty and industrious working men of Nebraska's metropolis have not st their balance during all the labor ex- eitement. It is to be a great summer for #hés city and working men will reap their #ull sharo of the benefits of the general prosperity. THE river and harbor bill passed the Bouse last wock, and has gone 1o the sen- ste. Mr, Randall helioves that should #he measurc reach the president it will B8 promptly votood. As the larger por- flon of the appropriations are for the I west it is quite hikely that this will be tho © pesuit. The president's ideas of the west _" | MEe A5 vagne as tho policy of his party. EAst Saturday the Bee published near- Ay 400 small advertisements of the kind pocial” or ‘‘want The Brg . 1sthe greatost medium through which ks #bo people of Nobruska are reached by adyertisers. In Owaba, it publishis a i ater number of indivianal adyertise- @ nts every doy in the weok than any or & all of its contomporarios combingd, appointmgut of one Crites to an nt position is considered by thg & soup dispenser asa very impor- " gant matter. Crites muy be the right for tho place, but according to our information the place is not worth _erowing over. It Dr. Miller gives out sny wore soup bones, his hungry con- stituents will demand t the bones have Soiue meat on them, _ ——— Joux Pierson, the ex-conviet, who, aftor being exonerated by one grand Jury, was kept in prisen for several _ months for examination ou the charge of " murdering Watson B. Smith, has b L diseharged from custody. hore was not ascintilla of a shade of proof that the i man was conneoted withthe aftair, The whole treatment of Picrson has boen shameful travesty of justice. Thrown dark cell and ticd up by his thumbs 9 :Wnnlan Nobes, in order to extorta & ponfession, written up for thesake of & . #ensation by a readerless Omaba sheot, !n_dlnlprhoned for months after his in- g nce was admittod by s grand jury, ou may well wouder whether un ex. viet bas any rights whick oflicers of law are Lound 16 respeet, Omaha’s Schools. The report of the board of edncation ‘which has just been issued from the press is one of more than usual Interest. The information which it affords is fuller than thatgiven by any of its predecessors, and the illustrations of the various school buildings a feature which will be ap- preciated. The larger portion of the pam- phlet is naturally taken up by the report of Superintendent James which gives a comprehensive resume of the history of the past year in our schools and what is perhaps more important is filled with many valuable suggestions upon educational questions relating to the needs of our public school Omaha's school population, according to the lastcensus, was 11,202, Of this number 6,273 only are enrolled in our public schools. Mr. James notes a ten- dency on the part of parents to patron- ize private schools, and attributes a de- crease in the per cent of enrollment to hool population lavgely to the opening of the German and chuvch schools. This tendency is general throughout the coun- and 18 not at all peculiar to Omaha. h the growth of cities in population and wealth, private schools invariably onerate in attracting pupils from the public schools proper. Omaha is to be congratulated that the excellence of her 30| free school system has maintained its reputation so well against afl comers that during the past year 397 more pupils wore in attendance that at any previous period. There are other gratifying re- sults tonote in the year’s work. The per cent of daily attendance has materi improved, and the number of cases tardiness has decreased. The mem- bership of the schools has reached 70 per cent of tho total enroll- ment. During the entire only sixteen cases of corporal punishment ve been reported. Commenting on this last fact the superintendent very sen- sibly queries whether the rod cannot be entirely abolished from the school room. Mr. James enters into a lengthy and forcible inquiry upon the proper func- tions of our public schools and the course of study which they should be expected to provide for their patrons and mukes an earnest plea for the higher mathemat- ics, theoretical and applied science and » classics as parts of the free education which the state should afford to its citizens. He believes, and very rightly, that the high school should be the cap stone of the public school system, able and ready to provide a culture demanded by the age and requiredin the ever increasing strug- gle for individuat pre-cminence, He urges an enlargement of the high school course inorderto meet the demands of a con- stantly increasing class of citizens who desire to fit their children for college, and wohif such facilities are not provided will transfer their allegiance to private or church schools. The superintendent strikes home when he declares that the employment of in- competent teachers on sentimental grounds is & wrong to the chil- dren and to the interests of the schools which when once com- mitted can never be repaired. He calls the attention of the board of education to tho fact that Omaha, with the high sala- ries paid, can have the best in the country if she will only take them. Outside pressure upon the board, appeals to as- sist the ncedv but inexperienced, and urgent applications on the part of rela- taves in behalf of needy friends, have too often been successful. AsMr.James says: It sometimes becomes very difficult to re- sist these appeals; but to employ a poor teacher, orany other than the best that can be obtained, on account of a tale of sorrow, or through the persuasion of influential friends, isto defraud little children of what is their rightful due. There are many excel- lent and needy young women, with influ- ential friends, who can never become good teachers; and when to the smallest extent the welfare of needy applicants is made par- amount, and the schools are administered in the interests of others than the children, a great wrong Is done—a wrong that can never be repaired. Theimvortance of maintaining a high standard In the selection of teachers is not likely to be fully appreciated. The character of the teacher is the most important factor In maintaining asyste of schools. A loss of property may be repaired, but an in- ferior teacher means the 10ss of opportunities which can never come again. The school report for 1885 is a re port of progress. It shows that there has been hard and united work on tho part of all the officials and teachers intrusted with our educational system. The results are gratifying. But there is still room for advancement. The concluding words of the orintendent’s report reveal the Ppos ties and point to the goul whose attainment is tho desire of all patrons of our school system: ‘The city of Omaha is pouring out money like water for the support of the public schools. Hardly another ity In the country is as generous, Attention drawn to us from afar for the lavish outlay with which the schools are supported. We who are in charge of them should alm to make them the best in the land, This city shouid be as em- inent for the excellence of her sehools as for the liberality of her peopie in supporting them., LAf any schools costing less thaw ours are as good, or any costing the same are bet- ter, the fact should stimulate us to greater diligence In our endeavors to increase their efliciency. I have nodesiro to see the poople of Omaha pay less for odueation, but I earn- estly hope that the sehasts inay by so admine Istered as to reach the highest degree of ex- cellence. The National Trail. The farmers of western Nebraska are protesting vigorously against the pro- posed national cattle trail from Texas into ouv state. This scheme of the stovk raisers calls for a strip of land six miles wide on which no settlement shall be por- mitted for a term of years, and which shall be open for the use of stockmen and their herds passing from the breeding grounds of tho south to the feeding grounds of the north, The government has been exceodingly liboral with thg ranch men. [t Mhs permitted them to oceupy the national domain free of cost, it has wivked blind- ly whilo the willions of acres of available i agricultaral lands have been taken up under the pre-emption and timber cul- ture laws for ranch purposes, and for yeurs raised no protest agamst the unan- thorized fencing mn of large sectious of country by the eatte barons and their employes. The ssme uments which were used to defend the uggressions of the eattle kings in cccupyimg imumense teacts of country to the detriment of settle meatara now being usad to lobby through | that the land proposed to be set apart is a desert, and that it never can be mude junlul for agrienltuss ‘ the nations! trail job. Congress iy told purpeses. | aasions if he pers| THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, MAY 10, 1886 matter of fact, portions of it are already I vertising medium, becanse its large and ocoupied by Nebraska farmers, and the entire tract in this state will be covered with settlers inside of two years. The best national trail for all concerned is one which will run on wheels upon iron rails. The stock grower mustnot be per- mitted to block the path of the scttler. He roams the ranges in suffrance until the land is needed for the farmer and the settler. The moment that time comes he ought to gracefully retire. Reversing the Pollcy. The advertisement by the Union Pacific for bids for the construction of the Chey- enne & Northern railroad shows that the construction of this important feeder to the system 18 to be pushed as rapidly as possible towards the ranges of central Wyoming. The object is undoubtedly to secure a portion of the summer and fall shipments of eattle which will oth 0 be diverted over the Northwestern. The construction of the road is begun none too early, for the ils of the North- western extension are already within a few miles of the Wyoming line and are going down at the rate of a milo a day towardas Fort ketterman. It has been one of the most singular of the many instances of mismanagement of the Union Pacific property in time past that all the efforts of that corporation seem to have been directed towards securing through traflic on long hauls rather than in occupyng the more profitable terri- tory for local traflic nearer home. The cost of the expensive and profitless Ore. gon Short Line would have built hundreas of mi of feeders in Nebraska which could have been counted upon to pay good interest on the investment from the start. For more than six years every dic- tate of wisdom has urged the extension of a north and south line from Cheyenne into Central Wyoming and towards the territory of the Northern Pacific. The road now unfortunately finds its terri- tory invaded on all sides by active rivals, who, after occupying the local field, are pushing vigorously to claim their share of the less profitable long haul competi- tive traflic. Mr. Adams recognizes very clearly that the salvation of the road depends upon its ability to sccure its share of the growing local traffic of Nebraska and Kansas. With a state doubling its on in five years, the increase ness which must be done by rail is enormous. The past policy of the Union Pacific has been to grasp for what was in sight and to let rival roads lay plans for future profits. The wreckers who carried out this policy s0 successfully have retired with their spoils. The new management is wise in reversing the policy. 'T'he interests of the government and of the stockholders unite in demanding it. Damage By Dynamite. Organized Iabor, through the trades unions ot Chicago, raises its indignant i ainst the red handed anarchists t city whose death dealing bombs have de aggering blow to the nterests of working men and working men's organizations. The scoundrels, who b ded to be advocating the cause of labor from behind the mask of murder and arson, are repudiated by every working man in America who seeks to improve his condition by the lawful methods of a free democracy. The dynamite which exploded in the Eighteenth street riot sent a shock aoross the Atlantic where Americangciti- zens and American working men are now receiving the abuse of the English press as enemices of order and civilization. Even Ireland’s cause is menaced by the report of the Chicago bomb. The opponents of home rule are using the incident asan ex- amplo of the methods used by the pro- fessed friends of Ireland whose money and influence have assisted so materiully in pushing that groat issue to the front in the British parliament. T'he anarchists must go. They araa for- ¢ign growth, a national result of despot- ism, but with no reason for existence in this free republic. Mr. Dana, of the New York Sun, puts the case in his usual con- cise and terse language when he says: Liberty of speech is the right of every man in this country, but liberty of murder is the right of none. ‘The miscreants who come here with bombs and dynamite, and with the avowed purpose of killing those who do not please them, should be dealt with in the sternest and snost relentless manner. There is no room for them in this country, and the places they oc- cupy cannot be vacated too soon. In such a contest as that which has been provoked in Chicago, where the crazy fools who are advocating the slaughtering alike of peaceful citizens and officers of the law have attempted to execute their feroclous pur- pose, there is but one thing to bedone: They must be put down with the strong hand in- stantly, and atterward those who remain alive must be tried and must have justice, but not merey. There is no excuse whatever for their crime, and the courts and authorities of 1lli- nois may be relied upon to deal with them as thelr deserts and the public safety require. AND now come the Buffalo sowing women, following in the footsteps of their Washington sisters, with a vigorous protest against President Cleveland and his bride-clect purchasing the bridal trousseaun abrond. They propose to boy- cott the presidential bridal pair and sit down on Grovor's politioal prospects. Mr. Cleveland will be thrown into a very unhappy state of mind upon reading the following ringing resolutions which were unanimously . adopted by the Buffalo girls: Whereas, Grover Cleveland is about to be warried to Miss Frankie Folsom, and both have been residents of this city and should be interested iv its industries; theretore, Resolved, I'bat the actlon of aiss Folsom 10 Laying her bridal outfit in Europe be dep- recated on the ground that the work ecould be better done in America, particularly in Buitalo; and, Resolved, That we use our best efforts to defeat Mr. Cleveland’s further political asp in haying Ws briae’s trousseau made in Paris, THE Bge isforced by the unprecedented rush of advertisemeats to ask the forbear- ance of & number of its patrons whose adverlising during the past week it has been compelled to reject. There are lunits to the capacity of a paper to meet the demunds of its advertising patron- age, and the BEE has three times within the past seven days had that capacity tosted to the utmost. The invaria- ble ryule of the office is, first come, first served. If our patrons will bear this in mind and send in their spplications for space in advance, they will be less likely to be disappointed. Tie business men of Omaha have long the Be as thew favorite ad- growing circulgtion reaches as many readers as the zom ned circnlation of all its contempdrari It is the only Omaha paper which has advertising space to sell on the basis of the number of papers which it actually prints. —_— HEeRrE we are again. The boodle organ with a republican brahd now assails the Bee for having the hardihood to criticise Senator Van Wyck's position towards the Hall timber outting controversy with Sparks. This paper, which has consist- ently sustained the pyesent management of the land office for more than a year, is accused of a sudden flop beeause it sustains the position taken by Sparks in the present case. Oceasion is taken to belabor the land commissioner and be- daub Van Wyck at the same time. The Repubdlican could not be honest if it tried, and wouldn't if it could. —_— WirAT this country nceds, says the Macon 7Telegraph, is an annual arbor day, upon which 1t will be lawful to plant statesmen who have failed. Nebraska has on hand a big supply of old cotton- wood statesmen who ought to have been planted long ago. A rAINY May is good for hay, but how about the corn? A little more sun and less water is what Nebraska is hankering after. INTENDING builders can now go right on with their work. Omaha will have no serious labor troubles this spri T city council will decline with thanks the invitation to walk into Mayor Boyd’s trap. POLITICAL POINTS. The Michizan republica; walking up though still drov The total vote polled in Rhode Island on the prohibition amendment was 24,410, Tn Georgia the probibitionsts allude to the colored voters as “our brothers in black.” General Gordon s said to be using Jeffer- son Davisas a bait for the Georgia governor- ship. The Chicago Tribune thinks the republi- cans will galn three cougressmen in Lilinols this fall. William H. English of Indianapolis, is in- vesting much money in natural gas. Mo failed to find it work in 1880, The Vermont republican _convention meets June 16, There will be 700 delegates, which is a very large percentage of the voting population. The New York Sun says: We judge that all attempts to reconcile brother Blaine and Senator Edmunds are. doomed to failure. They will fight it out on that line if it takes all summer. And ygt they are two of the most entertalning nen ij the world, especial- ly Edmunds. According to the Brooklyn Eagle there is an obligation upon abeatpn eandidate to sup- vort the nominee who is fairly nominated in aconvention in_wlhich both have sought the honor. The obligation .cannot be forced in court, but it cannot be waived in_politics without grave consequepces. Mr. Edmunds did agreat deal to waive it and very little to appear not to waive it. are said to be S Taxation of Raifroad Lands. Cheyenne Leader, , Senator Van Wyck’s effort to subject rail- road lands to taxatiop shbuld meet the hearty apwroval of every inhabitant or taxpaver of any state or territory through which the route of a land-grant railrond may lie. The great companlies which have recelved enor- mous subsidies in lands, from the conditional sales of which they derive a constant rev- enue, ought to be made to bear in common with all other property owners the burdens of an eoual and fmpartial taxation. ——— The Effort Nota New One. Prof. Adams, of Cornell. It may be interesting to notice that thisagi- tation for eight hours is by no means new. During the labor demonstration that took place between 1815 and 1820 in England one of the common banners w: “Elght hours of work, Eight hours of play, Eignht hours of sleep, Eight shillings a day,” e The Nebraska Metropolis, Ktmball, (Neb.) Observer. All Nebraska should be proud of our met- ropolis, Omaha. Thecity is fast becoming the great market of the northwest, She will buy all our produce and supply all our mer- chants. Chicago factories, packing houses and wholesale establishments are seeking lo- cations in Omaha. The Moline plow works, iron manufacturers, machinists and whole- sale houses from all over the country are sending a constant stream of representatives to Omaha to secure locations there. We nail this evidence by stating the fact that no Omaha men are seeking to move to other cities, Let the 75,000 inhabitants of this famous city lend ali the encouragement they canto the new comers and we will say, “Hurrah for Omaha!” - Neglected Newspaper Mail, Chicago Herald, It is the duty and it ought to be the pleas- ure of the postal authorities to give the same close attention to newspaper as to letter mall, but It is also the fact that the failure to do so-| 18 onspicuous and annoying. A feeling ap- pears to have grown up among postal em- ployes that newspaper mall is of very little consequence, and the result is that in the same proportion as they are caretul of letters they are careless of newspapers, Yet the newspaper is oftén a handy substitute for a letter, and its contents is apt to e quite ag important. The delinguency in this regard is not hew. Mabitual neglect of second- class matter, excused, pergaps, on the ground of the assumed prior jf tance of first-class matter, has been thp e, The situation calls for the serious coOlsideration of the postmaster general, Who otght to secure com- plete reform in this important particular, The Houses We Clean in the Spring. Boston Bughet, The houses we clean'in the spring, Tra-la! ushine— s We sing, Give a blow to all so, And we profanely s - Tra-la! There’s never a pit of the thing, i ra-la But we find that it is useless {o whine, And this the refrain that w= olefully sing, Ob, bother the 4 we clean in the e a-la-la-1a-la-lp. 'ra-la-la-la-la-la ! s we clean i LHG spring, Tra-la! Have puffed put each ague struck face, And it lits like a bat on the wing, A most unattractive old thing, Tra-la! Tra,la! All covered with soap suds and “‘zrace.” And the wen are at sea in this scrubbing- brush fling, : That danced without glee in the height of the spring, Tra-la-la-lala! Tra-lala-lala! Let's fly where the houses ar'n’t cleaned in the spring. -~ STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings. Hastings has declared war on tramps. A Methodist church is to be built at Jackson. Nincteenfmarriage licenses were issued in Cass county during April. Plattsmouth wants another ratlroad, but how to get it, there's tho rub. The contract has been let for the can- ning factory buildings at Tekamah. The cigarmakers and tailors of Hast. 11"“! started the base ball rolling Satur- ay. The editor of the Col grinds out stunning cyclone cave. A crazy passenger_jumped off the tram near Central City, Thursday night, and escaped unhurt, Wayne extracts an occupation tax of £700 from satoon keepers in addition to a license of §500. Bloomington proclaims the fact in ad vance ot the season, that the natives will celebrate the 4th of July in grand style. Dodge county school children are or- anizing to boycott picnics on the Raw- e. gl‘lm willows thereabouts grow straight and strong. Twenty-seven wagons loaded with lum- ber, hay, provisions and farming imple- ments, left Benkelman on Monday morn- ing for Chase county. The proposed Hour mill at 0" cost $40,000 and will_have a capacity of 100 barrels a day. The town gave a bo- nus of $2,000 and the site. The St. Paul & Omaha road wroposes to branch out from Wayne in the di tion of Niobrara. Engincers are already in the field surveying the route. A canvass of ninety-four farmers in Bioomington last wook showed ninety-: one VanWyck men. The proportion will hold good throughout the state. Editor Watkins of Blue Hill Times, sends greeting to Editor Putney of the kdale Journal. Both are under bonds for being too familiar with domestics. The treasurer of Nance county has adorned his office with a mammoth snake which he demolished the other d:\f'. The reptile was born before the prohibition era. Tho pushing people of O'Neill having planted a flour miil on a solid founda- tion, have turned their attention to a can- ning factory and starch mill. Success is sure to crown their united efforts. Nebraska City is still erying out for a bridge over the Missouri. 'Fhe News urges a combined kick and a pull for something better than a rickety pile af- fair. Peter Nelson, of Argo, ended his life "and troubles by jumping into a well. Pote married a widow some months ago and could not shake her in any other way. J. E. Hill, of Gage county, is training for a conspicuous place on the republican state ticket next fall. The title of secr: of state, his friends claim, will sat budding ambition. he Hickman Enterprise was ushered into life last week, accompanied by a d. in name only. J. K. is tame in aw er way, and bears no resemblance to his Dakota namesake. Lincoln’s amateur minstrel troupe tackled Crete for a few dimes last week, and were so coldly received that the fgags congonled beforo empty bonchos. 'hey counted the ties on their return. The climate of Grand Island is fatal to cowboy thugs. An cscaped bull prod named Watkins set out to run the town and fzil\l the pinnacles, but collided with a policeman and is now in jail nursing a broken log. W. H. Jumes of Fremont has received a letter from London which went down with the wreck of the Oregon, and re- mained at the bottom of the sea at least amonth. And yet the writing is perfect- ly legible and almost as distinct as when first written, Some rascally sneak _thi hard working widow in Fre the suvings of years of _toil, hoarded for theé sole purposé of educat- ing her only child, a 3-year-old boy. The heartless villain will get a lively turning over if caught. Mike Hallen, a Inscious drummer from Platte county, toyed with a pet bear at Fullerton last week, and lost his ruffled shirt front and glossy tile in the embrace of bruin. Mike decfares it was tho tight- est squeeze he had since his courting days. The depot building at Fort Robinson will be located about three miles east of the post and near the reservation line. The town 18 to be named Crawford, in honor of the late Lieutenant Crawford, killed in Mexico, and_who for sovoral years was stationed at Fort Robinson. Information is wanted of J. D. Smith, a lad of 13, who ran away from his home in Springfield, Ill., April 23, and is sup- I.;r)sed to pe in Nebraska or Kansas. The oy is tall and slim, with light com- plexion, blue eyes, brown hair, and is ively and good looking. He wore a dark woolen shirt, winter boots, and a buff colored slouch or a straw hat, Prof. Hurshbarger of the Franklin academy, while putting his class through the manual of arms, stood in front of the line, and ordered the class to aim and fire at a button on his breast. The guns were loaded with powder only, but a wad l;r.nmr:m:(l his clothing and entered his ody, causing hemmorrhage of the lungs. ‘The wound 15 considered dangerous. The latest wrinkle in swindling meth- ods is reported from Dodge county. One sharper agrees to buy a farmer’s land— pays him #35 to bind the bargain. An- other comes along and offers him $500 more and gets the promise of it,1f the furmor can buy off No. 1, who soon comes around and insists on the fulfillment of the contract but will give up for $200. This the farmer agrees to, pays back the $25 and the $200 and the second pur- chasor never returns. low: ms. Eight hours is an official day’s work in Des Hloinos. The Brown Xmgeachment trial com- mences on the 19th, ‘I'he total debt of Des Moines on the 1st of May was $603,807.94, 5 “The Mothodists of Humboldt figve con- tracted for a $2,000 ehirch, . The Lows E[fss association will picnic ?l(quts 0 Splrit Luke for a week in uly. A company has applied for a charter for an electric steel railway in Des Moines. John Poterson, a Sac Cit; toyed with a loaded gun, and the golden stairs, Creston has more newspapers in pro- portion to its population than any other city in the state. Jabob Weider, aged 83, who died at Osceola last weck, resided in the state forty-two years. The receipts of the treasurer of Scott county for April, from all sources, amounted to $9,527.51. The Salvation army is making daily sorties against the hosts of sin from the skating hnk in Waterloo A lynx measuring 53 feet in length, and weighing 20 pounds, was killed near Buf- falo, Scott county, last week. The city council and mayor of Daven- port have cabled home rule congratula- tions to Gladstone and Parncll, The buildings for the pickle factory at Burlington are nearly completed. They will ripen with the {Anocent cucumber. The recent rains did considerable damage in Fort Madison. Cellars were flooded and goods damaged to the extent of #5,000. The Northwestern Ritle association meets at Wapello August 17 to 20. A tine range has been selected, and twenty im- proved targets erected. Simultancous with Governor Larrabee's prohibition proclamation cowes the a nouncement that 500 liquor permits were issued in Iowa during the month of April. The city council of Davenport has adopted ai ordinance requiring a license idge Sentinel “leaders’ in & Burt county, robbed a farmer, climbed | l of $100 & year from all who sell lemonade, sor! wator and other beveragos not pro- hibited by law. General Sheridan writes, In response to an invitation, that he will attond the Creston reunion of old soldiers in August, unless mmmhinf transpires in the mean- time to prevent it. During the storm Wednesday the resi- dence of George Draper, seven miles south of Correctionviile, was struck by lightning and Mrs. Draper and child se- riously injured by the shock. Davenport clcrzf'mcn imagine that a mountain of moral depravity is disguised in the Sunday newspaper, and adyise boycotting. The gentlemen of the cloth are too anxious to monopoiize the world's ear on the Sabbath day. The Sioux City board of trade has pur- chased a site for the proposed chamber of commerce for $18,000. The board has issuéd £50,000 in stock, of which $30,000 has been_ subscribed. Work will begin on the building at an early day. Dakota, The population of Wells county has doublod this spring. Jack rabbits have do young orchards in Sully The product of the Iron Hill mine for April was 20,970 ounces of silver. The treasure coach which lo wood on the 8d, took out $149,014 in bullion. The court house at Mitchell has been insurcd against cyclones and a cave has been built for the’ officials. Fifty new buildings are in course of construction at Aberdeen. A party of Michigan eapitalists have purchased land there with a view of building an iron foundry. A ludy recent! 1 several died in Hand county at the age of 80 and the local pa- per feels it necess: to explain that her premature demise was the resultof an accident. Deadwood is the scene of great activity 1 mining stocks. New companies are organized each week, stock is tuken at home, the mines are developed and the gold and silver and tin pour into the laps of the stockholders, Mining. companies are being organized at the rate of four a anda mining stock exchange is now ed of. For the past fiye months the Plankin- ton flouring mull has been run by steam produced by the heat of flax str: The cost in running the-mill by the flax straw power is but a trifle more than half what the cost was when coal used, and the mull is ran with a regularity fully as sutisfactory as when run by coal. it d Editing a Pape: 1: Editing a pa- per is a pleasan s—if you like it. 1f it contains much political matter, veople won't have it. f the type is large it don't contain much reading matter. 1f we publish telegraph reports, folks say they are nothing but lics. If we omit them, wo have no enter- rise, or suppress them for political ef- eot. 1f we have a few jokes, folks say we are nothing but rattleheads. If we omit jokes, folks say we are noth- ing but fossils. we publish original matter, they damn us for not giving selections f we give selections, peop us:ll) lazy for not writing more, and giving them what they have not read in some other paper. If we give a complimentary notice, wo are centured for being partial. If we don’t, all hands say area hog. If we insert an article” which pleases the ladics, the men become jealous, and vice versa. If we attend church, they say it is for effect. 1f we remain in our oftice attending to our husiness, folks say we ave too proud to mingle with other fellows. If we go out, they say we don't attend to our busine: e The Mikado. Philadelphia Pr So much 1s heing said about the Mikado of the stage that these points that follow concerning the real Alikudn may be of interest. A revo- lution brought l{c present Mikado into power in Japan, some seventcen years ago, at wlliuK time he was a boy_of 16. He found a feudal em, wherein ? 000 men were maintained for war. “The empire was a military encampment. The Mikado changed all. “He made the de- pendent the frcemen and the feudal rulers the subordinates He wmade men freeholders in perpetual tenure of _their lands. He insured as great protection to life and property as may be enjoyed. His code of laws he “modeled after th England and the United States,establish- ing a suflicient judiciary. gath about him broad, sound and progr counselors. o already having 560 000 miles of telearaph postal facilitios, with o postal s bank system worthy of imitation_in this country. Ho has built anavy, and can repair ships with the best, ~ As great, if not greater, than what he has accomblished, 13 what he has pro- claimgd he proposes to do, and that is,in 1890 to convert his empire into & consti- tutional empire, with a parhament exer- oising the delegated authority of the people. — ‘“‘For economy and comfort, aver, spring, we use Hood's Barsaparilla,” writes a Buffalo (N. Y. lady. 100 Doses One Dollar. e -— Absorbed. Detroit Evening News, Corporate capital has grabbed, and is grabbing: 1. All the pir ¢ nerthyest, 2. All the graging 12535 os the South- Wask: 8. All the mines of coal and iron of the east and central states. 4. All the petroleum of states the middle 5. All the gold and silver mines of the Rocky mountain region. 6. It handless all the wheat and is fast absorbing nll the which those staples are raised. 7. Tt controls all the weans (railvoads) for the distribution and exchange of these Illlings——lhc primal necessities of human and pork, wd upon Catarrhal Dangers, To be freed from the dungeid of sullocation whilelying down; to broathe I ioop sounds ¥ and undistru Clear, brain netive and froe trom pain or acho; 0 kpow thut no isonons, putrid matter de- files the brouth ur 5 away the deliento ma- chiuery of s aste and hearing; 1o feel that the system does nof, turough ins At €ries, suck up the poison thut is sure to under- wine and destroy, is indecd a blessing beyond all other human enjoyments. 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