Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 13, 1886, Page 4

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P, Feil, cashier of the Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the ac- * tual circulation of thé Daily Bee for the - week ending May 7th, 18%, was as follows: 3 Morning Evening Date. Edition, Edition, Saturday, 1st.... 6,500 6,0 Monday, 8rd.... Tuesday, 4t Wednesday, 5th.. 977 hursday, ~6th... 12,790 day, Tth.... 12,450 Averago........6,008 12,465 “ing N. P. FEIL. Sworn to and subseribed before me, this 8th day of May, A. D). 18%. * "Siioy, J. Fisnr. Notary Public. N. P. Fell, bulnf first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is cashier of the Bes Pub- lLishing compmw. that the actual average dally circulation of the Daily Bee for the * month of Jnnuw. 1856, was 10,378 copfes; for February, 1886, 10,505 copies; for March, lflflflr 11,537 copies; for April, 1886, 12,101 § coples. g iworn to_and subscribed before me this Bth day of May, A. D. 18, i 8oy, J. Fisurr, 1 Nofary Public. HorpFAsT is the dog that wins in grow- ing cities, especially where real estate is the bone involved. A Minneapolis man ‘was induced some years ago to purchase & house and lot for $1,200. for which he 'was recently offered $165,000. This dis- oounts some of the remarkable advances in oity property which Omaha has wit- nessed in the past five years. —— PETITIONS for paving and grading are pouring into the council. If the necessary | funds were at the city’s disposal, Omaha could easily invest double the amount which she will expend this year in sub) stantial public works. ‘Our ciuzens and tax payers haveé learned the lesson of the . past fiveyears that every dollar wisely spent in needed improvements is re- * turned twice over in increased values of | the adjacent property. INCREASED activity in real estate after [ the fall of the past two weeks evidences . the returning confidence that the danger ~of labor troubles is over in Omaha. While there is a certain amount of specu- Jative trading a large part of the trans- fers recorded will be followed by imme- diate improvement of the property [ purchased. There is no better invest- [ ment to-day in the west than Omaha | realty and eastern capital seems at last ~ to have opened its eyes to the fact. }° THE movement on the part of the rail- roads centering in Omaha to put on su- ¢ burban trains 15 a commendable one, b The better the facilities for reaching Om- | #ha the groater will be the patronage of Omaha merchants by country tradesmen | and retail purchasers. Within a few \years the growth of the city north, south and west will result in the building up of [ suburban trains and a large railroad pat- I ronage. Nothing will stimulate the wth more than rapid transit facilities dnto and from Omaha. —_— Mz HoLMAN is again objecting. He inks there are two many military posts und Indian reservations. Last sum- Mr. Holman visited Pine Ridge mey to confer with Red Cloud. Sev- ity-four hours after he arrived the posier statesman, who is distinguished L fly for his boast that he never wears '® night shirt, was breathless with fear lle he telegraphed to the nearest mili- post to have troops in readiness to ct his committee from a threstened tbreak of the Ogallala Sioux. A thous- . miles distant from the Indians none "8 braver than Congeumln Holman. ' Tne steady and continued complaints strangers und new citizens of Omaha out our noglect to have our streets pro- identified by signs ought to rouse council to action in the matter, Ey- corner should be marked by a sign on building giving the name of the street it lines. Strips of glass inside the it lamps are valuable for use at night, small signs with the name of the t in plain white letters should be d on every corner building. Much and patience are now wasted every by strangers in attompting to find way about this city. Thecity coun- 1d not expend a few hundrea dol- from the general fund more econom- and wisely than in marking aud titying our streets. eem——sa——— Exview of the fact that the anarchists | Burope have for years been dumped Indiseriminately on our shoves, would | not be well to require from im- nts in the future a certificate of oter signed by the ‘chief oflicial of vities from which they come? Thore re fully 1,000,000 people out of work in United States at present, and a cheek some kind upon immigration would D 8o harm, especially 1if it canin any Keep the scum from floating across Atlantic to this country. 1f imuwmi- on is to continue, we ought be able to sclect from multitude such as are will- and able to become good and ous Ameriean eitizens. Wo want those who appreciate the benefits of country. We want no wmore an- and paupers and cheap im- jod. laborers, who come here under notwithstunding the ' law imported -contract labor. In Pt Wo Want 0o xaore enemies of lubor, 8chool Land Frauds. A correspondent of the Bee from Bloomington notes the indignation of the farmers of Franklin county over the action of the commissioners in the ap- praisal and sale of school lands in that county: Section 15, chaptar 85. laws of Nebraska, 1885, makes the eounty commissioners the appraisers of school land, and says that “any lessee of any educational land may apply in writine to the board of county commission- ers * * % to have the land embraced in his lease appralsed, for the purpose of the sale; and it shall be the duty of said commis- sioners, or a majority of them * * # * * to view the land so desired to be purchased by such lessee, and return a true and correct value of said land, under oath. After the foregoing proceedings have been had, the ap- plicant to purchase ‘may pay to the county treasurer the appraised value of said land, and shall then be entitled to re- ceive a deed for the same, upon forwarding the proper evidence of such appraisal, and payment of the purchase price to the com- missiouer of public lands and buildings.” This same section further provides that the purchaser need pay only 10 per cent of the purchase price in advance, giving twenty years’ time on the balance at 6 per cent in- terest, and further provides “that no land shall be sold for less than $7.00 an acre.” After calling attention to the law our correspondent say: “‘Reference to the statutes is necessary in order that the following facts may be more clerely understood. Section 16, town 3, range 16, in Franklin county, is the finest whole section of Jand in the county. Two years ago this section was appraised by disinterested parties, under the old law, at $13an acre. Land around it, decidedly in- ferior, is held at $20 per acre. The lessee of this section—a non-resitlent speculator—pe- titioned the board of county commissloners to appraise it for sale. C. H, Townsend and D. M. Wiant, of the board, appraised theland at 87 an acre—the lowest penny they could put it under the law—and it was sold at that figure, These men are on record as having sworn that $7 an acre was the true and cor- rect value of this land, when either and both of them knew that the land is worth at least $12 an acre. If they do notknow it, they are 100 ignorant to hold any position of public trust. If they do know it, then they are branded as too tricky to occupy any trust. This is strong language but it is fully warranted by the tacts if as ed. The school lands have been for years a frui fulsource of fraud and chicanery. Hun- dreds of thousands of acres have been leased for merely nominal sums through collusion with the appraising oflicérs and criminal negligence or worse on the part of land commissioners. Sales like those in Franklin county of fine farming land in a well settled country at the mini- mum price are not at all un- usual. . They will continue to be frequent until public opinion throughout the state brings itself to bear upon the officers accountable for such transac- tions. Nebraska lands have become so valuable that they are eagerly sought after for investment and speculation, and the legion of land sharks are on the keen look out for school sections wherever they can be purchased at way down fig- ures. The law is elastic, and properly so. If applied with a fair regard to the interests inyolved 1t is mutually benefi- cial to the state and tothe settler. But it must not be distorted into a bonanza for the land sharks and non-resident specu- lators. If other correspondents, and the newspapers published 1n counties where transactionsof the kind reported from Bloomington would make public such frauds, there would soon be an end to this species of robber; Mr. Hewitt Protests. Mr. Abraham Hewitt, of New York, whom the democratie party has no sound- er or abler representative in congress, felt called upon the other day to raise his voice against the ‘“‘Jeffersonian simplici- ty’’ which has been ladling appropriations without stint from the public treasury under the banner of the star-eyed goddess of bourbon reform. The occasion for Mr. Howitt's remonstrance was a bill strongly supported by Laird giving bounties to veteran oflicers of the late war. Mr. Hew- itv spoke as follows: I remember standing at the eorner of the speaker’s desk when the bill giving arrears of pensions was under consideration Dby this house, and I heard the question put to the gentleman In charge of that bill, Mr. Rice, as it has been put here to-day by my friend from Kentucky to the gentleman from Nebraska, what will the bill cost? And the answer was, after the most careful computation, it could not exceed $20,000,000. And yet under that bill some hundreds of millions of dollars | have been paid out of the treasury, and I sup- pose hundreds of mitlions more will have to be paid. 1 did not vote for that bill. 1 was told it would not be safe for me to g0 homo to my district. I have never heard of it in my district. I went back; I have been often a candidate before them since, and no mau hag ever reproached me with that vote, And I now say here, whether I shallbe a candidate or not for office, I am prepared to take the responsibil} ity of sayiug that It Is time to call & halt on these bills giving untold sums from the treas- ury of the United States, which can only be got out of the “colned sweat,” as my friend from West Virginia called it—out of the coined sweat of the laboring men of the country, We have not any money to give away. The working people of this country ure to-day in the presence of starvation. The avenues for work are being closed up, and closed, as I believe, mostly as the result of overtaxation. These were brave and manly words from a sound, clear-headed business man. ‘They emphasized broad and vital proposi- tions which the people of the country, irrespective of party will endorse. There are no party lines drawn in the great game of grab at the national capi- tal, Congress has been gutting the treasury and the men who have had the the courageto protest have been threaton: ed by their associates with the wrath of indignant constituents, Constituencies are not apt to rise in political wrath oyer the honest positions taken on grounds of national policy by their representatives. What the people demand is an honest ad- ministration of the government and a cargful guard over the public fuuds, The City Police. The passage of Councilman Kaspar's ordinance to properly unitorm the police force of the city is a step in the right direction. It should be followed by others more important in the line of a complote reorgunization of the force. Sooner or later, and the sooner the bet- ter, the police must be taken out of pol- ities. The system which makes the ap- pointent of the police dependent upon the will ot the city council is a wrong one. lncompetent officers are sure to creep into the force, and arve almost as certain to stay in after they have received their stars, Our city police force suffers fromi two causes. It is ridiculously smal! in num- bers and the system under which it oper- ates places no premium on efficiency. The personnel of the force is not what it should be and what it would be if a police commission had it in charge. Small ana insignificant looking officers of the law can not act as efficiently as men of size and strength. A tall, muscular, well- built policeman of the Broadway squad kind carries enforcement of the law in his looks. A reorganization of the police force, with rules requiring applicants for positions to come up to a certain physical standard, is greatly nceded. 8o long as the funds available for po- lice protection are what they are the po- lice force cannot be increased. Low and unequal assessments are responsible for this, as they are for so many other defi- ciencies of our municipal administration. been putting Leland St ack of a cross- mination into the methods of the Cen- tral Pacific railway in erushing out com- petition in transcontinental traflic. Mr. Stanford frankly admitted that 1t was the policy of his corporation to suppress all ““ruinons competition,’ among which he pretended not to melude sailing cls which had the audacity to carry freight from New York to San Francisco around Cape Horn atcheaper rates than Mr.Stan- ford’s road charged across the continent. But Mr. Sanford negleeted to add to this information particulars the nous *‘special contract’ He might have thrown a great deal of light, 1f he had desired, upon the ingenious plan whereby the merchants of San Francisco were taken by the throat and threatened with financial ruin in case they dared to ship & pound of freight by the elipper ships from New York. For months Cen- weific detective baunted the and checked the ad- of merchants who pre- not to patron| the great Exorbitant tariff rates were ferred monopoly. charged these rebels against Central Pa- cific rule whenever they were forced to ship by rail, while their competitors were given heayy rebates in consideration of binding themselves not to use the free water route around the South American continent. These are some of tho meth- ods used by Stanford and his Central Pa- cific gang of highway robbers to throttle *“‘ruinous competition” and to drive the remnant of American shipping from the California trade. Fortunately for Cali- forma the scheme was not entively sue- cessful. The ship owners had money to d in the fight, and 8an Francisco con- tained a number of merchants brave enough to defy the great monopoly and to conduet their business as best suited themselves. KaNsas Crty has disproved the truth of the popnlar belief that tornadoes do not strike large of The terrible wind storm which wrought such a loss of life and property in our neighboring city is deseribed as exactly similar to that which so recently passed through Minne- sota. The tornado is extending i year by year, and the season ope two of this class of calami more lives hav n which been sacrificed than fell iclims to the whole of last year's tor- nadoes. GENERAL HOWARD predicts that Gener- al Miles will have better success in pursu- ing Geronimo’s Apaches with mounted infantrymen than if he had followed Crook’s plan of using Indians to catch Indinns. General Miles is a good soldier but he is likely to discover the difference between pursuing the Sioux on the open plains and teailng the Apaches in the Arizonian and Mexican canyons. THE depot improvements of the Union Pacific are beginning to materialize. The big freight depot will, we are as- sured, be begun in a few days, and the construction of the union passenger depot will be commenced in the r future and completed at about the same time with the new Union Pacific bridge. IN Omaha trade is good, the streets are thronged with busy people, buildings are being orocted in overy quarter of - the city, real estate continues to hold up, public improvements are going ahead, and there isno apprehension of any labor troubtes. In fact everything is moving along pretty smoothly in this metropolis. PRESIDENT ApAMs, of the Union Pa- cific, is heavily interested in Kansas City real estate, and Vice-President Ames 1s buying some splendid business property in Omaha, he haying decided to put $509,- 000 into real estate in this city. Honors fire even between Kansas City and Oma- A, OMAHA needs foreign capital, and it is beginning to getit, The opportunities for profitable investment in real estate and business enterprises are becoming noised abroad, and investors are coming to this city to look over the field. —— THERE was o time when Jeff Davis could have been hanged with justice and decency. It was a great mistake that the government made in not hanging him, but 1t is too late now to even express regret for that mistake. The loyal peo- ple of the country will have to grin and bear it. OMAHA'S streets are bustling with an activity that comes from the use of spades and shovels and picks in the hands of in- dustrious workingmen, The striking epidemic, fortunately, failed to gain a footing in this city, and the danger of 1its appearance is now oves THe suburban trains which the Union Pacitic proposes to start in the near fu- ture will no doubt prove a profitable en- terprise for the company. They will, unquestionably, prove a great benefit to Omaha, ‘Tie union freight depot is one of the first of the proposed railroad improve- ments to materialize. Now for the union passenger depot. WiLL some one please give us some relinble information as to when the Belt Line railroad will be completed? | Now if a tornado would only strike congress. When wind meets wind then comes the tug of war, | GEN. HazeN's patent cyclone prophet must have been off duty on Tuesday. | Herk Most is at last under arrest. He is & dynamite sgitator. He ought to be e made a target for ajbomb. A dose of his own medicine would cure him. FACTS. INTERESTX tven Kansas has 664 nowspapers and periodicals, 1t costs Malne £3,000 annually In bounties for bears, y Over one million trees were planted in Ne- braska on Arbor day. The Kentucky legislatite has just defeated a high license bill by a close vote. A special police force is towe organized in Rhode Island to enforce the new prohibitor laws, 1 Santa Anna's cork 16g has been presented to the state of Illinois, and placed in Memor- ial hall. ‘The largest silver-producing mine in the world last year was the Ontario of Utah, which yielded $2.313,887, During 1885 Colorado produced $4,600,800 in gold, and 815,427,073 in silver, a total decrease of $202,128 as compared with 1884, There are at the present time 23,000 school libraries in the United States containing 45, 000,00 books, or 12,000 more than all the pub- lic libraries in Europe combined Millais’ celebrated painting, ““Bubbles,”has been bought for 811,00 by a L ondon soap manufacturing firm, and a lithograph copy will be used for advertising purposes. —— What is Needed in Chicago. Cleveland Leader. The American people sincerely trust that some hanging will be done in Chicago before many days—strictly judicial hanging. Proclamations Don't Proclaim, St. Louis Republican. Gov. Larrabee, of Town, having discovered that prohibition doesn’t prohibit, and having issued a proclamation for the enforcement of the law, is about to discover that proclama- tions don't proclaim. —— A Warm Spot in Their Hearts, Couneil Blufs Nonpareil, On next Saturday night Gen. Thayer will address the Grand Army boys at Lincoln, Neb, The surviving members of the Fourth Towa have a warm spot in their hearts for Gen, Thayer. e Jun no Legs. Pantaloons on Pi; Chicago News. Sinee that Montreal judge convicted a jeweler of criminal indecency for exposing for sale copies of Michael Angelo's famous fignre-pleces, “Night” and.“Morning,” the people of that city are putting pantaloons on their pianos and otherwise making offorts to et well within the Jaw. — Character Counts. Philadelphia Record, Chicago and Milwaukee both boast fre- quently of their rapid growth of population. Both cities could spare several thousand of the elements of population that have made themsclves conspicuous during the week. Thegreatness ot cities, as well as of states, does not consist in the number but in the character of their inhabitants, —_— A Tale of Threg,Months, Tid-Bits, In May, will the river gntice the small boy? 1t will. oh, it will, oh, it will, oh3 Wilt sport, and not'selibol, bring him solace and joy? 3§ < 1t will, oh, it will, oh, it Will, ohs Will'he'tly his big' kite irom the top of the i > 9 1 And be, \_\l'{lcu there's fishing, for study too i Will a tho 1t will, oh, it will, oh, it will, oh! t of his arblps insure him a In June, will the sea shore iciaim fair Isabel? It will, oh, it will, olx it will, oh; Will each wave have tale of flirtation to el It will, oh, it will, oh, it will, ohs Will her ?1““' lips melt the soothing Will her yes on the dry goods drean? It will, ob, it will, ob, it will, oh! anul?: will the weather be awfully hot? 1t will, on, it will, oh, it will. oh; Will remorse and despair be the poor plumb- er's Lo 1t witl, oh, it will, oh, it will, oh; Will the'sheep in the churches decide it is To give trIS(:i\; dear shepherd a much-needed Will the dude wear a bang and a polka-dot It will, z‘l’: it will, o, it will, oh! STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings. The Kissahl *lambs’ of North Bend are not a Littel out. The contract has been let for a $10,000 hotel at Broken Bow. Eighty marriage permits were issued in Kichardson county in the last four months. A catfish weighing yanked out of th ast week. sixty pounds was ¢ Missouri at Niobr: F. L. Sisson, grocer at St.Edward, failed last Saturday. —Liabilities about §1,000, assets about $700. Hastings despairs of a new depot this season. The old shed is being patched up and painted red. A Valentine youngster, named White, dropped two fingers while polishing the business end of a loaded shell. A dehorned elk has been captured near Gordon, It is believed to have escaped from Omaha, and will be shipped hence. QThe new towns of Mason and Ashley have been planted on the line of the Grand Island & Wyonming Central, and town lots are on the run, The Sioux County Post, with Thomas Jefterson Smith on'the pennant, made a Chesterfield bow last week and proposes to Post up the locality on current affairs for a moiety of tribute. Broken Bow is congratulating itself on becoming a railroad center in two years. Branches of the B. & M., Union Pacilic and Elkhorn Valley roads are expected to converge there within that time. The Fillmore County Democrat, of Geneva, another eandidate for local provender and promingnee. It prom to become a live papery. with Jeflerson virus surging through:its veins, A mad dog ran the gawitlet of a score of guns, pistols and clubs in Nebraska City Sulurdu[y. but finally barked against an ax in the hands of " muscular pork acker. The cur was sune enough to now his preserver. ' A lightning bolt tagRled’the residence of Joséph Snyder near Republican City, one aay last week, smashed the chimney and stove, tore up a segtion of the floor, and knocked the oceupants out of breath for a moment. It way a stunning hot one. 5 . Nebraska City refuses to be comforted by anything less thaa an iron bridge over the Missouri at that point. All eyes are now focused on a number of moneyed men who are organizing a bridge com- pany with a capital of $800,000, The papers will be filed in a few duys. Seven hundred men and 400 teams are lu\'cling( the route of the Elkhorn Valley road from Fremont to Lincoln. The firade to Wahoo will be completed by une 10. Speeulators are }mn{,{iug on the earies of the railroad oflicials, unxi- ous to secure a nod ora wink as to the location of new towns on the route. The newspaper field in the state is being pretty thoroughly cultivated this spring. Neéw pastures are to_be plowed u]l) and patent inside poesies planted where they will do the most good and make money, Fully fifty uew papers have blossomed since the 1st of January and eyery week adds two or mare to the list. The Wisner Chronicle, by G. A. W. Davison, is the 1atest candidate for local patronage and power, A gang of country toughs near Broken Bow forcibly expressed their approyal of the marraige of Mr. and Mrs. X Pred- more. Guns and gongs renled a merry lay, and an occasional clod erashed through a window. The door was broken in and a bullet shaved the jaw of the bridegroom. Finally the sheriff in- vited the boys to town, where they were treated to a fine amounting to $300. There were cleven of them. Clarence Barbee, the 12-year-old tumbler in the Nickle Plate™ circus, jumped out of tinsel and tights in_ Fre- mont and_scught the protection of the police. He clmms to have been kid- napped from his home in Savannah, Ga., and has received for his work nothing but whippings and poor grub. It the camel-shaped girl would now shake her patent hide and assume the garb of her sex in publie, the country would be one humbug less. 4 lowa Items, The Cedar Rapids packing house is now packing 1,000 hogs a day. The treasurer of Polk county gathered in $25,772.70 during April. A company has been organized at Ot- tumwa to invest $100,000 in a hotel. Burlington proposes to plant a packing house on the site of the soldiers’ home that wasto be. A series of caves of vast dimensions have been discovered on the banks of the Iowa river near Coralville, Johnson county. 4 Fairfield furnishes a prohibition vointer. Only four arrests for drunken- ness have been made there this year. The population of the town is 3,500. A teamster was fined $100 and costs b a Knoxville justics of the peace for heul- ing eleven of beer from Ouumwa t Styles, well knowu among Ne- teachers, received a certificate the county superihtendent last t s old, and has com- ¢ pleted his 1 RURY a2 EHO01; A neat and merited compliment was paid to brave Kate Shelley at the recent organization in Boone of a lodge of the Brotherhood of Railroad Brakemen. The official name given was that of ‘‘Kate Shelley Lodge, No. 204, : Aleather-lunged socialist from Rock Isiand (){)(-ncll Jiis mouth at a meeting of his kind 1nDavenport, and the city maurshal put his foot in it. He was es- corted out of town, and ordered to scour his brains before recrossing the river. Mons. O. P. Smith and Professor Brooks, ditto, collided in a_street corner X City Saturday. Smith climbed ¢ of Brooks' form in an_in- p Tus- il, and the pil stant, and painted his mug a d can, Both spent Sunday in ed in $20 each next morning. Friday afternoon, at Murray, Clarke county, Mr. Howard, proprietor of the Howard house at that place, was struck by a mail pouch thrown from the fast mail train which - passes thiough that town without stopping,and was seriously, it is feareu fatally, injured. On Saturduy a farm house owned by Frank Benoit, in Silver Lake township, inson county, twelve miles north- west from Spirit Like, burned up with his three small children, who had been ked up in a room while the , Mrs. Benoit, had gone to work in the field. Mr. Benoit was also absent from the house during the fire. Dakota. ermullion is offered a flour mill for a small bonus, t steam whistle woke the echoes pid City last weel Brown county is six years old and re- ports 2,945 school children ‘The latest specimens from the tin dis- trict received 1 Rapid ( re from the Equinox, owned by Francis Brothers, Mark Thomas and Charley Jones. The vein is seven and a half feet thick and be- tween granite and slate walls. The de- velopment consists of a forty-foot shaft. The owners have several offers for the claim. In arecent ease in Hutchinson county, Judge Palmer gave a decision virtu.\lf’y settling the question ‘that in Dakota parties cannot recover damages from counties for neglect to keep the high- ways and bridges in order, or to build bridges. Persons who travel must take t:xcir chances on theroads as they find them. Wyoming. A hook and ladder house to cost £8,500 is to be built in Cheyenne. Forty miles of the Cheyenne & North- ern road will be graded “and ironed this year. The bids for plans for the capital build- mgin Cheyenne are all in. There are six competitors. The Cheyenne printers unanimously agreed to raise their own wages 20 per cent last week. The publishers kicked hard but had to come down. The striking brakemen who got the bounce at Laramie, were photographed ina group. They solemnly agreed to mcet, if living, jn Laramie two years hence for a reunion, The Owl Creek portion of the Shoshone reservation is to be thrown opel tlement. This region is thirty miles long and ten wide. 1t has rich hay and farm- ing lands, with an_abundancé of water and timber. The foot hills are fine graz- ing grounds, Laramie enjoyed a variety of weather in a single day recently. A strong wind prevailad duting the {oronoon, at naon there was a fall of snow and hail that whitened the ground in a few moments and at 1 o'clock the sun was shining down with summer heat and not a breath of air stirring. Utah, The 12-year-old son of Charley Welch vlvus killed by the cars at Ogden Satur- day. R. B. Young, the Royal dcscendant of the sainted Brigham, Lus beon convicted of supporting too many wives, Goyernor West was bangueted by the Gentiles on the day of his ul, feasted with the Mormons the next day, aud on the third took the oath of office, The banks of Salt Lake City report the receipts for the week ending May 6th, inclusive, of $123,776.49 in bullion, and $28,327,01 i ore, & total of $152,108.50. The Utah & Northern is getting a large lot of new steel rails for relaying its track north of Pocatello, Idaho. The old Utah & Northern shops at Logan are ing torn down and shipped to E Rock. It is understood that the Wasatch build- ing, in Salt Lake City, is soon to be cou- verted into a hotel, "On the removal of the court and federal oftices from the building it is to be overhauled and fitted up at & cost of $10,000 or §30,000 for a first class hotel ‘Lhere was shi during the week 8. twenty-nine cars pounds; nineteen pounds; four cars ore three ears sulphe ing a total of fifty 1,5’35,47(& pounds. ped from §: ending Saturd of bullion, 70 cars slag, 630,078 23,850 pounds and pounds, mak- © oars, aggregating A New York turniture dealer, speaking of bogus antique furniture, By know men who can take a modern ward- robe and in a few hours make it look as if it were built a century ago. Some dealers buy up all the old furnnuru they can around at auction sales ard fix itup a little, and then sell it at a high price. There 1s a kind of stain made which, if used properly, will transform 4 hemlock pluiuk mto 8 good imitation of English bak, " The Eagle of the West. New York Commerctal Advertiser. The fact is that America is now the fashion, and the old mother is fast be- coming proud of the naughty boy who wouldn't be spanked and who left home in a pot “‘to forage for himself.” A groat company of Englishmen have been com- ing over here of late years, to hunt, to earn a living and to lecture, and their united voice of astonishment has at last beat it into the head of stay-at-home England that this is indeed “a great and glorious land.” The latest witness is Mr. Carnegie, the wealthy Scotchman who is a large iron manufacturer of Pittsburg. whose book, “Trinmphant Democracy,” we reviewed ynnmnl:\f. This is in many respects a remarkab'e volume. It states broadly and frankly that the United States is the best country on the globe, the freest, the purest, the happiest. And what is even gratifying, the author provesit. We vish every American who has fallen into the contemptible habit of sneering at his own country would get this book and read it through. It he is still discontent- ter the reading, he ought to emi- grate As we said yesterday, it is impractic ble to follow Mr. Carnegie through his 500 pages of olusul.;»p:u-kv«l figures, tions and proof: {e sums up his s toward the close of the volume in hape of ‘‘the record of one century’s ryest of democracy.” These fruits he as follows: The majority of the ish-speaking o under one re: can flag at peace; a nation pledged international arbitration; the nation with the ¥mallest proportion of illiterates; the nation that spends least on war and the most on education; the nation that provides most liberally ' for those who stak i defence; the nation in which the minority is most secure; the nation whose flag is the symbol and guar- antor of the equality of the citiz the nation which has a_perfect cor and is contented with it; the nati the ideal second legislative chamber, the the nation with the best suvreme court; the most conservative and yet the most progressive nation; the wealthiest nation in the world, There, that is a ca tions for you! And, have said, the author fortifies every_ position he takes with cogent proofs. ‘Nor does he spare old England’in his comparisons, though it is easy to see he is & loyal Briton still, olds her more in sorrow than anger. But it would be almost worth a trip to typical country squire read Mr. Carnegie’s fiuok. We can fancy the pufts and bluster and high color and strange old English comedy oaths with which this amiable but archaic person would respond to the author’s sharp thrusts at the leaden weights of tradition and privilege which have kept England tied down while her truant offspring has been *‘foraging’’ with such dazzling suc- cess that he has now come to be the hope ot the world. D logue of perfee- st e Love and Politics. Chicago Herald. Secretary Bayard’s son, appointed to a territorial office some time ago when he was said to be under his father’s displeas- ure, is soon to be married in West Vir- ginia to the young lady who was the in- nocent cause of the estrangement be- tween father and son. As the matrimomal question appears to have taken precedence of all others in ‘Washington, it is not strange that the so- ciety gossipers have turned from the ap- proaching white house wedding to con- template with more or less interest the fortunes of young Bayard and b pros- pective bride. = He met her quite romanticaily. Stopping at a ruaral hotel m the mountains of West Virginia after a day’s sport, he noticed that the girl who' waited on the table at supper was a vision of loveliness. He loitered bout the place, made her acquaimtance sted her in himself, proposed ma and was accepted. Here the stern nt stepped in, Mr. Bayard. senior, had other views. He = was prond,gnd, as evil-minded gossips bad already circulated a story to the effect that the young man intended to marry a waiter girl, the secretary of state threat- ened to disown the youth 1f he persisted. After a stormy scene the young man solicited an appointment in the far west and Grover Clevelund, who had been a young man himself, gave it to him with- out consulting hi retary of state. It now transpires that the young lady is the daughter of the hotelkeeper, and that she sometimes in a rush of business officiated at the table; that she has had a fair education, and that, so far as good looks and amiability go, she can double discount some whole families of would-be Washington aristocrats. Wherefore Mr. Bayard, the elder, pleased with his son’s independence and devotion, revokes his refusal, and promises at’tlie proper time to sanction the marriage and to bestow his blessing. 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