Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 22, 1886, Page 4

T ————— . i . Verily, the ways of justice are some times . rangemen(s to be absent for six months. - the arrogance of the government, THE DAILY BEE. OWATA OFFICR, NO. 114 AND 818 FARNAM ST NEW YORK OFrICE, ROOM 06, TRIBUNE BUILDING WASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. FOURTEENTH ST. Published every morning, excopt Sunday. The only Monday morning paper published in tho state, TERME BY WAIL: $10.00/Three Months 5.00 One Month One Year ¢ 22.50 Bix Months, 1.00 Tue WEEKLY Brr, Published Every Wednesdany. TERME, POSTPALD? One Year, with premium One Yenr, without premiuin Bix Months, without premium One Month, on trial . CORRESPONDENCEL Jating to_news and edl- ldressed to the Bt ANl communieations torinl mattors should TOR OF "HE Ik BUSINESS LETTERS! mittances shonld b All b tinoes lottors ane wadiessed to THE BEE PUBLISHING OMATA. Drafte, checks and postoft 10 be minde payable to the order of th THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS. F. ROSEWATER. EDITOR. Sworn Stateme State of Nebraska, | o County of Donglas. { % 8 ? N. I, Feil, cashier of the Bee Publishing company, dovs solemnly swear that the ac- wal circulation of the Daily Bee for the week ending June 15th, 1556, was as followi Saturday, 12th. Monday, 14th i t Average. . N. P, Feil, being first duly sworn, deposes says that he is cashier of the Beo Pub- \ing_company, that the actual average daily circulation of the Daily Bee for the month of January, 18%, was 10,378 copi for February, 1883, 10,505 copies; for March, 184, coples; y ) copies; ‘for April, 1886, 13,101 or May, 1856, 12,450 copies, N. P. FEIL. Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 12th day of June, A. D, 1856, S1MoN J, Fisnr Notary Publie. Tue proprieters of the Paxton house have no more right to obstruct travel in defiance of law than Tom Murray. WEe can never hope to secure honest and impartial assessments until we re- peal or reyise the present assessment WS, OmAnA agam ted the procession in the percentage of increased bank clearances Iast week. Her increase was sixty per cent over the corresponding weck of last year. A CriicAGo paper has a lengthy article on “‘Chicago’s big bores.” A caroful pe- rusal of the article failed to reveal any biographi sketch of Mayor Harrison. There has been a big oversight on the part of some one. A NEGRO who stole $13 has just been imprisoned for life in Kentucky. If he had stolen $13,000 he would haye been rich and respectable, and in hardly any danger of going to the penitentiary. past finding out. Wity does the board of public works allow Harney street, which has just been graded, to be obstructed by monstrous cottonwood trees planted thirty years ngo in the middle of thesidewalk? Why does it allow property owners on that same street special privileges . leaving their sidewalks above grade?. J. STERLING MORTON is going to Eu rope, and it is now an open secret that Dr. Miller intends also to visit the old world once more, he having made ar- ‘The question that now agitates the friends of the two gentlemen is whether Europe is large enough to hold Miller and Morton at tho same time. Favorrmism should have no place in @ur public improvements. We cannot countenance a privileged class of prop- arty owners, who may at pleasure yio- Iate sidewalk ordinances, obStruct the streets, and defy the city authorities. The law is no respector of persons, and the officers whose duty itis to enforce the law have no right to favor anybody. ACCORDING to advices received from Washington the bill to re-locate Fort ©maha is being pushed by the partics in- ferested and it is expected to pass the house during the present week. If our citizens desire to defeat this job they must bestir theniselves, A remonstrance, mumerously signed, stating the true facts of the case, would, in our opinion, cause the committee on military affairs to hold the bill and make inquiry as to its merits. The senate rushed the bill through with- out consideration or discussion, UnmiL a few days ago New York had a law, one of the “relics of barbarism,” authorizing unlimited imprisonment for debt. Last week a new law went into ef- fect limiting the time of imprisonment for debt to six months, and yesterday the fnmates of Ludlow street jail, the aebt- ors’ prison, who had been incarcerated there for six months and over, were re- ~ leased. Great injustice and hardship re- sulted from the old law, and it is not itable to the former logislators of lew York that it was allowed to remain until now on the statute books of the state. Tue voice of Nova Scotia is overwhelm- ingly for sccession from the Canadian eonfoderation. The United States can- mot consistently encourage the sentiment, but it is undoubtedly approved by the majority of the people of New England. What effect the determined stand of the ® peoplo of Nova Scotia, which reflects the foeling in all the maritime provinces, will have in shaping the future policy of the dominion in its commercial relations with the United States, cannot be cer- tainly foretold, but it ought tv be safe to assume that it will tend to at least reduce — Tue decision of the supreme court of I Ohio, sustuining the action of the state senate in unseating the Hamilton county democratic senators and giving the seats 1o the republicans and declaring the sen- ~ e to have heen legally constituted and . 10 have had & legal quorum, notwith standing the democratio desertion, ¢ as important in its practical as in volitical bearmngs. The principal ~ measures thut would have boen destroyed # contrary decision are the bill author- the state to borrow half a million ; “dollurs, for which there is most pressing ity; the Dow bill taxing the sale of or,from which & large revenue will be od for wunicipal use, and the bill ring the congressional districts as wore before the domocratic gerry- der of four years ago. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 1886 Reprobates and Renegades, The war is on. The curses that the would- be bosses have so carelessly expended during the past ten years are going home to roost. The men who have been abused are prepar- ing to sccure reprisal and immunity, The republican party of Nebraska is making ready to assert itself and to punish the dema« gogues who have attempted to ruln it.— Omaha Republican, This is an excellent text, but it comes | with bad grace from reprobates and rene- gades. The coarse and vindictive tirade to which the Young Men's Republican club at Plattsmouth has been subjected, because forsooth it had committed the unpardonable offense of inviting Senator | Van Wyck to its annual banquet, shows what a small pattern of manhood can pire to party leadership in Nebrask He has the conceit and 1nsolence to institute comparisons between his per- sonal labors for republicanism and those of General Van Wyok. He has the arro- gance to hurl curses and threats at re publicans who dare to ignore his proten- sions of political autocracy. Van Wyck was expounding republican doctrine in the halls of congress while this pusil animous blackguard was still in charge of his wet-nurse. Van Wyck was fighting the battles of his country in the ranks of the Unjon army while Nyc was a mero stripling. “On what meat doth this feed that he is grown so great?”” Have the reprobates who assail the Plattsmouth Republican club forgotten that they live in glass hous What right bave they to set themselves up as model repub- licans? What have they done to make the party strong, honored and respected? Let us retresh their memory, and present themto true republicans in the light of political history. v When republican supremacy was im perilled by the political treason of An- drew Jolinson after the close of the war, Casper E. Yost and many of the swashbuckler stalwarts who now seck to rule the party deserted and went over to the enemy for a mess of pottage. Yost and his clan supported J. Sterling Mor- ton for governor of Nebraska in 1867 against the regular republican nominee. As a reward for political perfily Andrew Johnson retained Yost as United States When Grant became president he promptly dismissed these renegades from office, and put tried and truc publicans in their places. Then Yost and his associute stalwarts hurled curses loud and deep at Grant. General Thayer, who was then repullican sena- tor from Nebraska, came in for his share of abuse and slander, just as Van Wyck isreceiving it now. In 1870 Yost and the rencgades turned bolters aga the regular republican legislative ticket in this county,which was to elect a successor to Thayer. They imperilled republican success in the elec- tion of a_senator out of rank venality and vindictiveness. When the republi- can legislature metin caucus to nominate a senator, they broke up the caucus, and finally defeated Thayer by a combination of renegades and democrats. Eleven of the democratic members were bought outright with money. This was the beginning of a reign of jobbery and reckless public plundering that must forever remam the most dis- graceful page in the annals of Nebraska. Six years of renegado rule, in collusion with the railroad bosses, who made use of the republican party to subserve the greed and rapacity of Jay Gould and his minions. From being the party of equal rights, free speech, free press, and an honest ballot, the republican party in Nebraska degenerated into an engine of oppres- sion, a cloak for robbery, and a refuge for plunderers and embezzlers, Those were the days of chain-gang republican- ism, when an Omaha postmaster boldly broke open the seals of letters containing returns of the vote on the new constitu- tion of 1871, and had these returns changed before they were returned to the secretary of state. Those were the days when Boss Cunningham earried on sur- veying frauds with a high hand, and a small army of political bummers was quartered upon Uncle Sam from the pro. ceeds of crooked surveys, Those were the palmy days when Paul Vandervoortjpacked republican primaries and conventions with vagabonds and re- peaters, and honest republicans were driven by rowdies and roughs from the polls. It was chaingang republicanism that foisted Dick Adams upon the Deadwood postoftice, and kept the embezzler there until the penitentiary yawned for him, Tt was during the reign of these confed- erated plunderers that jobbory at the state capital became popular, and honest re- publicans who dared to raise their voice ngainst the corrupt leaders were do- nounced, hounded down and ostracized. As a natural consequence the better elements of the party resented this ty- ranny, and thousands ot them rose in re- volt. What else could they do whiler: road attorneys, section bosses and subsi- dized editors were at the helm, deter- mined to rule the party or to compass its ruin? The young republicans of Plattsmouth are old enough to remember all this, Some of them remember how John M. Thurston was defeated for district judge by the Omaha Republican bolters. That was before Thurston became Union Pa- cific attorney. They remember how that staunch republican, W, J. Connell, was bushwhacked and beaten by order of the our Crwsar Republican, when he was a can- didate for district attorney. remember how Yost and J treacherously defeated the party fifteon months ago and helped to elect James . Boyd mayor of Omuha, They remember that lust fall and again this spring the Republican gave no active support to the republican county and city tickets. From such model republicans, good Lord deli- ver us! “‘But the war is on,” and curses, like are coming home to roost. The ican party of Nebraska has been cursed long enough by treacherous lead ers. It is making ready to assert itself and to punish the rogues, jobh) and railroad cappers who have brougit is ter and disgrace upon the ty by their nefarious schemes and misrule, ] A Sigoificant Result, Republican polities in Vermont—ana there 1s none other worthy of serious consideration--is of general interest, not $0 1nuch by reason of immediate eflects in promoting the ambition of local leaders and politicians as of the influence likely to be exerted by the results upon eveuts two years hence. We some davs siuce noted the apparent fact that s | great formidable opposition to Senator Ed- munds had developed in his state, and that according to the estimates of corre- spondents, evidently sent into Vermont to give the opposition to the senator as much importance as possible, there was probability that Mr. Edmunds would not find his pathway to a renesal of senatorial honors so free from obstruc- tionsas it had hitherto been, if, indeed, he did not find it quite imp: Yle. Tt was given ont that the course of the sen ator in the last presidential cam paign had created wide dissatisfaction, and that if Vermont consented to further honor him it would be chiefty because the republicans of that state were mag- nanimously disposed to subordinate their own feelings to the wish of the repub licans of the country that Mr. Edmunds should continue in the senate he re publican convention met last week and its result demonstrated how very little there was in the reports, surmises and predictions that preceded it. Out of o vote of 603, the pronounced Edmunds op- position conld muster only 56 It is charged that the effort to organize an opposition to Mr. Edmunds proceeded from the close friends of Mr. Blaine and was encouraged by that gentleman, Herein lies its far-reaching signifi cance, for whether or not it be true that the Maine statesman was a party to the scheme to dofeat the senator, having entered, as is alleged, into a combvination with Poland and Ex-Governor Smith for that purpose, it1s hardly to be doubted that he will be compelled to bear a very considerable share of the responsibility for the move- ment, and that his encruies and the friends of Edmunds will not be back- ward in giving it all the importance it can have. Equally is it a matter of cer- tainty that the unquestioned unfriendli- ness of the Vermont senator to Mr. Blaine will not be diminished by the alleged fact of the latter having used his influence to foment discord and dissen- sion among the republicans of Vermont, her may it be expected that when the proper time comes it will assume a much wore pronounced form than it did two years ago. In short, Mr. Blaine and his friends have good reason to count Senator Edmunds hereafter among the most formidable opponents of the aspir- ing Maine statesman, and to expect not rter from that source, but an ity that cannot fail to be A Blatant Demagogue, Of all the demagogues who have ever sought cheap notoriety in this community none could hold a candle to the blue- blooded editor who proclaims himself as the only outspoken foe of the wealthy tax-shi 24 before this impudent hypocrite had taken possession of Jay Gould’ boodle, which came to him by inhe: tance, the BEE had denounced the out- rageous part and ex- posed the operation of the system by which the burdens of taxation have been shiited from heavy capitalists and wealthy corporations upon the shonlders of the middle classes whose homes are often mortgaged for all they are worth. Three years ago ex-County Clerk Man- chester was employed by us at consid- erable expense, for the special purpose of compiling the assessments upon prop- erty in our principal streets and acre property held by heavy land owners in We then published a comparative exhibit of assessments, and urged the commissioners and oity council to equalize them. Last year the Beg hired a special reporter to compile the list of property exempted from taxes in the city. After three weeks' labor this report was presented to the public. It made the startling exhibit of 660 city lots exempted from taxes as railroad right of way. This exposure was followed up by a call upon the assessors to do their duty impartially. The tax shirkers were severely overhauled and the present system of tax evasion thoroughly ventilated. [t was mainly through our efforts that the assessors last year raised their assessments very mater- ially., The wholesome sentiment in favor of tax on created by the BEE has had its salutary effect this year in one or two wards at least. It is the height of impudence for a pampered nabob, who never carned a dollar by his own lahor, to pose as the valiant champion of tax reform in behalf of the laboring classes. It takes sublime che: for such a person to claim all the credit for the sentiment that prevails in Omaha in favor ot impartial assessments. 1t is the essence of meanness for him to charge the BEE with shirking this issue, and mounting the fence for fear that it would injure the chances of Van Wyck, 1t is decidedly amusing to hear the closest landlord in Omaha, who inherited $200,000, and has never been known as a philanthropist, rant about tax-shirkers, and proclaim himself as the only man in Omaha who has the courage to grapple with glaring abuses. Would it not be well for this coneeited young man to use the broom before his own door before he runs the sweeping machine in front of the premises of his wealthy neighbors? The Business Situation. There is but little change in the busi- ness situation, the tendency being towards greater quietude, as is generally the caso with the closing days of June. The vol- ume of trade, however, is fully up to the summer average, and in some depart ments there is a much better demand than had been anticipated at this stage of the season. Crop gonditions have been much muproved b¥ timely rains, which have materially benefitted the growing grain throughout the west. There is abundant evidence that the commercial and industrial interests of the country arc on an improved footing as com- pared with this time last year. While the business of the half year shows a de- cline in some directions, the gain in others more than balances the loss, Pro- duction and consumption per capita are larger in spite of the discouragements of the labor strikes and agitation, but the profit on employed eapital has been rela- tively small, and in the unsatisfactory rveturns from such 1nvestments is to be found the chief ground of complamnt n business eircles. The situation as a whole is an improving one, as indicated by the growing contidence of traders, the encouraging erop outlook, the actiy- ity and rise in the wool markets, and the large prospective increase in rail- way construction im the west, The change for the better is not likely to become general for some weeks yet, but there is growing expecta- tion that it will be widespread and pro- gressive s soon as the midsummer lull is over, There was a large decrease in the failure list in all sections of the coun- try last week. Thetotal for the United States and Canada was 155, as against 209 the previous week and 187 the week before. Cotton prices are a shado easior on en ocouraging crop reports and slow trading. Exports for last weck were comparatively light, and speculation was very tame Cotton goods have been more active, and a few leading makes of bleached shirt- ings have been advanced 2} per cent Printing-cloths also a shade higher, and all standard brands of staple cottons are steadily held, with supplies under very good control. Wool prices advanced 1 to 2 cents per pound us a re- sult of larger purchases for consumption, reduced stocks of old wool and stimulat ing reports from foreign and domestic markets, There are indications of a growing consumption of fine wools, which have stiffened the views of grow- ersin the washed-wool sections, The primary markets everywhere show an in- creased firmne: nd activity. The rise in wool values at home and abroad has caused a firmer feeling in the woolon goods trade, but there has been no ap- preciable advance in prices. Buyers show more confiden but are still oper- ating conservatively in all lines. Whest prices have declined and par tially recovered under speculative in fluences in great part governed by crop conditions in this country and in Eu- rope. The foreign crop advices have caused some covering of short lines in domestic markets, which has contributed to strengthen prices. There has been a better export demand for corn, but very little speculation, and price fluctuations have been unimportant. The market is a shade weaker, however, on account of timely rains in the corn belt. eamer Great Eastern will be used as a coal barge at Gibraltar, A solid bed of alum 500 feet thick has been discovarad {n Graham ounty, Artzona, A New Haven firm manufactures over 400 kinds of barometers and thermometers. In the fifty-two Maine savings banks on May 1 the deposits aggregated $56,193,564.05, A lock is on exhibition at the French Crys- tal palace which has 3,747,3 vbination: The object glass for the Lick university telescope weighs 450 pounds, and cost $51,000, The Japanese government has ordered 120,000,000 feet of lumber from Oregon mills. ‘The presents sent to the white house for Mrs, Cleveland are estimated to be worth $100,000, Bell's Life, which recgntly threw up the sponge in London, was started in 1582 by John Bell, ( It is thought that over 3/000,000 tons of iron ore will be shipped from Lake Superior ports this season, This season’s orange crop in Southern Californfa aggregated 720,000 boxes, or 108,000,000 oranges. Seven hundred babies have been named af- ter Cleveland since- he became president and their photographs fill the drawers ina white house cabinet. What is claimed to be an original water color portrait of Washitgton, painted on ivory in 1856 by J. Lacon,/owned in Spring- field, Mass., is offered to the government for the moderate little sum of £250,000, An immenso drove of rats recently took possession of the premises of S. W. Gaines, near Scio, Or. Although he has killed about a thousand there are many left. They have killed about $600 worth of chickens and other fowls. —— Minister Lamont, Louisville Courier-Journal, Colonel Daniel S. Lamont will hereafter be known as the envoy extraordinary and min- 1ster plenipotentiary at the court of Cupld. —_—— A Representative Man, Chicago Herald, There |8 something very appropriate in William 8. Holman's renomination for con- gress In a district where nearly every demo- crat is kicking over the distribution of the federal patronage. He is a chronic fault- finder himself, and thereforo isa thoroughly representative man, S A o They are Rarely Punished. Kansas City Journal. “The names of many of the Iynchers are known and steps are to be taken to prosecute them,” says a dispateh from Nebraska, after Teciting the death of a horrible lynching af- falr, The lynchers are often known, the steps are always taken, yet how rarely are the lynchers punishe T The Mortons Should Be Just, Chicago News. City News has said some very mean thin recently about the late Wiibur F. Storey. ‘The editorof the Nebraska City News is near of kin to the Hon, J. Ster- ling Morton, who owes his prominence in life to Wilbur F. Storey more than any other man or men. Therefore the Morton family should be just, if not kind, to Storey's mem- ory. But perhaps the Mortons no longer care for Storey, since he is dead, and since his paper preferred not to be edited by the Hon. J. Sterling. e Not Creditable to Nebraska. Kansas City Times, Nebraska's adoption of what has come to be recognized as the Kansas idea is by no means creditable to her. Not that it may be believed that Kansas will be at all s of the attempt to deprive her of the questionable privilege of lynching criminals, for some months have elapsed since she exercised that privilege. But a lynching usually means that the law s inadequate, and that can hardly be saia of Nebras! In another year we trust it may not be said of Kansas, The Nebrask: il cadethtay A Big Advertisement, Chicagg News. When Colonel Chatlgs ¥. Hasbrook, busi- ness manager of the Kgusas City Times, heard that Dr. Munford, edifor of the paper, had been shot at by a granky lawyer he was sojourning at one of the Atlantic coast watering places. His first care was to learn whether the editor was seriously hurt, and upon learning that the wound was a very slight one he indited instractions to his sub- ordinates at home, a8’ folow Send out double orders to all néwsdealers to-morrow and boom the thing all you can, It's the big- gest advertisement we've had in ten years,” e Mutability, Joseph Dana Miller in the Host n Transeript. The king hath power for a day! What then the monarch’s smile or frown? Miter and crozier, what are they? Scepter and signet, sword and crown? A narrow grave hath Timour, him ore whom nations bowed them down, And Himalayas rising dim, With austere irony look on, See Becket mount the steed, the King Holding the stirrup for his grace; But later see the bishop's brains Dashed redly on the altar place, See Cromwell from a gibbet swung! A wass of poor, dismewmbered boles— Who wrou zht a nation’s freedom, hung For London mobs to pelt with stones! Power! an airy, baseless dream ! Gilories ! they vanish at a breath ! Only the mind hath rule supreme Ald tricmphs over tate and deatht The Fort Omaha Job, In the scnate of the United States, March 12, 1886, Mr. Mandorson intro. duced the following bill, which was read twice and referred to the committee on military affajrs, April 6, 1888, Reported by Mr. Manderson without ameudment: A bill to providg for the sale of the site of Fort Omaha, Nebraska, the sale or removal of the improvements thereof, and for a new site and the construction of suitable build- ings thereon. Be it enected by the senate and house of representatives of the United S America in congress assembled, That the sceretary of war is hereby authorized to sell the military reservation known as Fort Omaha r the city of Omaha, in the state of Nebraska, and such of the buildings and improvements thereon ns cannot be economically removed to the new site herein provided for. In dispos ing of said property the sceretary of war shall cause the grounds to be platted in blocks, streets, and alleys, if in his judg: ment it will inure to the benefit of the rovernment in making sale of said site, aving due reference to the requirements of the houses and buildings located on said grounds, in such cases as they may be sold with the ground, The secretary of war shall also cause the lots, lands, and buildings to be appraised and sold at public fl!‘(”‘lv'{l/f sale, at not less than the appraised value, having first been offered at public sale. ' The expense of advertis ing, appraiscment, survey, and sale shall be l!.uv ont of the proceeds of said sale, and the balance paid into the treasury of the United States, Sea. 2. Thatthe secretary of war is also authorized to purchase suitable grounds of not less than three hundred nor more than five hundred acres, in extent, to be situate within a distance of ten_miles of the said city of Omaha, state of Nebraska and construct therecon the mnecessary buildings, with appurtenan suflicient for a twelve company military post to be known ag Fort Omaha, n “accordance with estimates to be prepared by the w department; and a sufficient sum of money, not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand dollax is hereby appropriated, out of any mone in the treasury not otherwise appropri ated, to enable the sceretary of war to comply with the provisions of this uect Provided, That the titles to the lands au- thorized to be purchased under the sec. ond scetion of this act shall be approved by the attorney-general. See. 8, That section one of this act shall be of effect when the purchase of a new site provided for in geotlon two shail [ have been effected. e e STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. The Lutherans of Sidney have organized a church, Blair 15 laid in a supply of fuel to fire out tramps. Blair's canning factory started up tlis week on peas. Cherry county has organized an agri cultural society. Logan valley corn is looking up and over its neighbors. _ The town of Shickly has been platted in Fillmore county. The Waterloo mill on started up lu Tecumseh will treat to free lemonade and straws on the Fourth. The bazar of the Episcopal guild at Sidney last week m-m-fll $400. An elevator with a storage capacity of 25,000 bushels is to be built at Neligh. The new Presbyterian church at St. Edward was dedicated last week. It cost 2,27 Adams county prohibitionists will rally at Hastings on the 3d and celebrato on lemonude and soda. Grand Island is extending her hands to the Northwestern people in the hope of inducing them to puild to that town. Ed Stagg attempted to boost his flnan- cial condition by forging a decd for forty acres of land, and landed 1n the Cuming county jail. L. C. Newell was run over bya team at Algernon, Custer county, last week. His injuries are serious and™ his age so great that it is feared he cannot liye. Nebraska City is brightening up under the cheerful sunshine of two railroads heading toward her. The Missouri Pa- cific and B. & M, are surveying routes toward the city. A ynunp;l miss about fourteen years of age was killed over in Logan county on Thursday. She was riding a horse” and was thrown, her foot catching in the stirrup she was dragged to death. The railroad bridge which will span the Platte river at Douglas, the new town near Fetterman, Wyo., is being putin shape at the company’s yards at Fremont, 1t will have forty-six spans sixty feet each. Tho bond craze is spreading rapidly through the southern tier of counties. The enthusiasm of the residents proves that the Rock Island ha slick and en- ergetic corps of political engineers at work, Says the Sioux City Journal: “F. H. Whitney, of Atlantic, not long since of-. fered #27,000 for the lot iulf that John ree bought a fow months ago of Weare & Allison for $22,500. The ofier was refused, and Mr. Whitney went to Omaha and inyested nearly $75,000 in real estate.” There was an interesting poker game in a grading camp in Custer county, one night last week. The ];Iul)‘vrs became so cagerto scoop the pot that they pulled revolvers and commenced to shoot. One was shot through the leg, and a horse was killed by a l!ll'n]y bullet. The pot was emptied during the row. the Elkhorn ” counail of Dubuque appropriating $25, 000 to aid i{l aoross the ) The estimated cost of the work 000. building a_pontoon bridge Mississippi river at that point is $84, ightning struck a house In Rockwell and demolished most of the furni ture. G. W. Randall had his hand on the door knob at the time and the eleetric current ran up his arm and down his body. Strangely enough it left no mark upon his body, but his feet, which were were horribly blistere overnor East 1 & monument in_the lora to his memory. It is nine feet high and weighs It bears the_inscription for the Washington than over three tons, composed by him more monument: Towa—The affections of her people, like the rivers of her border, tlow to an inseprable union, Dakota. tiers’ and ilors’ reunion be- siitehell tos tablished at Custe The Masonic gr session at Bism: 215 memb subordins A large force of carpenters is at work in the railroad yards at Scotland, fram- ing the five depots for the ions on the extension west of that place. When Mitcheil aldermen get into a warm wrangle they adjourn to a com mittee room and ° settls it with bare knuckles, prize ring rules. Itis a rare sight to sea & member with unclouded nd Rapid nd lodge of Dakota, in k last week, numberod re, including 118 members of A couple of over-zealous north Dakota lawyers got into a dispute in court lately. One offered to bet £50 to $10 on a pointof nd was promptiy taken. The judge phointed stakeliolder, aud when the money was put up he fined both attorneys for contempt of court and appropriated the stakes to pay the fines. Wyoming. Laramic is talking up a $20,000 hotol. John Connors, a fireman, was killed in the yards at Laramie last Friday, Father Nugent, parish priest of Chey- enne, has been transferred to Rawlins. s, I guess I'm called for," was the exclamation of N. L. Parke, at the new town of Douglas, as the bullet penctrated his abdomen and caused his death. The gun was in a trunk from which he was taking elojhes, and was necidentally dis: charged. Parke was a former resident ot Grand Junetion, I he bounty of five cents for each and B g sealp by the territory 5 1 the effect of greatly diminishing the number of these pests in the localities afllicted by their presence. In Sweet Water, Carbon, Fremont and Johnson Waco's prince of dudes and low priced merchant, Monroe Sayre, collected in all the collateral he could possibly get and departed for ada, or some other sea- port, ono day last week, leaving his cred- itors to mourn his departure to the tone of about $4,000, Monroe is a Loyal L. on a reduced scale, Bill Barlow’s Budget says: “A very singular incident came under my obser- vation, recently, on the train between Omaha and Chadron, A young lady boarded the cars at ¥remont, rying a small satchel, a purse and a handker- chief. In placing the satchel in one of R A top of the ear, her handkerchiof, which was exceedingly fine and small, fell into the lap of a near- sighted gentleman, who was looking out of the window. On turning around he beheld what he thought was the end of his nether garment, and proceeded with due haste and modesty to remove it from view. The young lady at once changed her seat to one in the further end of the car, and tried to interest herself in a book. lowa ltems. Potato bugs are busy in Greene county. A $20,000 school house is going up at Algona. Grasshoppers are county. The Burlington high school tarned out sixteen graduates this year. There are sixty open saloons in Bur- lington, six school houses and thirtecn chureh There will he no change in the date (June 80) of holding the democratic state convention. Winnebago county will refund 1ts out standing bonded indebtedness, amount- ing to ¥50,000 in 5 per cents, The Widow Van Cott met with ill suc coss in awakening a godly feeling Sheldon, and she went away sorrowing to Emmetsburg Mr. Shontz, 4 Burlington business man, rescued two drowning boys from the Mississippi Saturday and positively re fused a reward An ordinance is now beforc the city stirring in Davis counties, scalps are pouring into the clerks’ offices, and warrants aggregating heavy sums hivo already been drawn in favor of prairie dog slaye The oil can and the domestic encmies and the cause is the samo the world over. TFor instance at Fetterman, Delia had a little oil can, as the Rowdy West did learn; she poured some coal oil in the stove to make the p. clm burn; then bustles, bangs, and other things went flying through the air, and modestly we closed one cye as she climbed the goldcu stair. ‘e bitter Colorado. Four lots on Sixth and Curtis streets, Denver, recently sold for $105,000, Sitver CIif is without anewspaper, and talks of running for the county seat. The Utes have organized a nights of labor assembly. They operate on con- venient stock ranges. The recent rains have great the grass, and cattle of the ing ren ly well, considel hard winter passed through. Six engincers are now located between Golden and Coal Creek, surveying ground for the Burlington & Missouri river rail- road, a new road to be constructed through Middle Park via Rollinsville. It is reported along the Santa Fe road that that company has contracted for the shipment of an enormous number of oat- tle, which will be brought up trom Texas this season and come through Colorado on the way to Montana and Wyoming. One report says that during the season the company will transport 80,000 cattle, which will be 4,000 car loads. Compulsory College Prayers. New York Commercial Advertiser: Harvard college has at last decided to make the attendance of students upon religious exercises voluntary instead of compulsory as heretofore. This is a step in advance which has already been taken by some other institutions, but which Yale, Harvard and Princeton have hitherto resolutely refused to venture upon. We call it a step in advance upon more than one ground. Those persons will so regard it who hold that an_institution of learning should be a seat of intellectual, moral and religious freedom, where stu- dents are trained for life by practice in the art ot self-government and by having daily to regulate their conduct upon such principles—moral and social—as they may aceept. On the other hand, those wlhio most stoutly contend for the necess- ity of a religions clement in education should find no difficulty in seeing that to make attendance upon religious exer cises compulsory is to degrade such ex- ercises to the lével of ordinary college duties, and therefore that the removal of the requirement tends to elevate the in- fluence of the religious exercises and to i se their effectiveness as educa- es. Itis diflicult to believe ody was ever mmiv benefitted by prayers which he attended unwill- ingly and under compulsion of college aw. wn this ground alone some of the most enlightencd and most devoutly religious of educators—the cou »f whom has been mentioned in these columns— have resolutely set their faces vgninst the compulsory system, in full conviction that to muke attendance upon any relig ious service compulsory is to degrade the service and rob it of its power to work good. The course pursued by Harvard will doubtless be followed by Yale and Prince ton, though hardly yct. A ballot by the faculty of Princeton—where young pro- fessors abound—would probubly result even now in a vote for freedom; but tra- dition is strong in colleges, and it will probably be some vears yet before the rule of voluntary attendance i generally adopted. — AL Trotters of the Day. 1t is just tifteen yoars ago next fall since Goldsmith Maid “beat Dexter's time of 2:174. The fest was accomplished at Milwaukee in September, 1871, It was regarded as & wonderful performance, and so it.was. Think u} 2:17 fifteen yoars ago! Now look at this arruy of horses (hat have gong below it, whilo the names of Goldsmith Maid and Dexter are well nigh forgotten ude S ... Jay-Eye-See St. Julien Rarus ... Maxy Cobb e ay { 21101 2:100 16 Darby *Jerome Eddy hil “I'hom p- | Majolica son 3 Suiuggler 14/Charlie ‘Ford ClemmieG. . ... 2:155 Occident . 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