Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 19, 1886, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: . THE DAILY BEE. | MATA OFFICE. NO. V1A AND 018 FARNAM § New Yok Orrice. ROo 85, TRIBUNE BUILDING Wasmixaros Orrice, No. 513 FourTeenTi ST Published every morning, exoept Sunday. The Y Viondey moening paper published n the a TERME BY MATL: 10,00 Three Montha 5.00.0me Month.... Tne WerkLy Bee, Published Every Wednesaay. TRAMS, POSTPAID! e Yenr, with promium. . 6 Y ear, without premim ix Months, without promium One Month, on trial. ... £2.00 1% ™ . 0 CORRERPONDENCE: Al commtniontions relating to_news and edl- forinl matters should be addressed to tho Epr- HOR OF Ak BEE. BUSINERS LETTRRS! All bu sinees fottors and remittanoes shonld be rossed to THE DEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, AfA. Drafts, checks and postoffico orders 10 be made payable to the ordoer of the company. © THE DEE PUSLISHING CONPANY, PROPAIETORS E. ROSEWATER. EDITOR. "~ THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. State of Nebraska, }&”‘ County of Dougla Geo. B. Tzschuck,secretary ot the Bee Pub- . Iishine company, does solemnly swear that 6 actual circulation of the Dailvy Bee for the week ending July 10th, 1886, was as 12,375 k0. B, TOR. Bubscribed and sworn to before me this 17th day of July, 1836, N. P. Frin, . [sEAL] Notary Publie. * Geo. B. Tzschuck, belng first duly sworn, de- and says that he is secretary of the Bee Ffilul\lnz company, that the actual averace ~ daily circulation of the Dally Beo for the ~ month of January, 1! 8 copies; g Frlfehruary.mw 10,508 ;"for March, 656, 11567 copie 5] pril, 1886, 12,1 es: for May, ), 12,430 copies; for June, 12,208 2 Gro. B. Tz8CHUCK. Subseribed and sworn to before me, this ~ Bth day of July, A. D. 1586, B N, P. FEIL, Notary Pubile. [8EA! AN electrical battery will not revive the aireulation of the bantling papers whose weakness the Bee has been forced to - expose. THERE has been no storm yet in these parts, but some of our local contempor- aries act as if they had been struck by AxorsER French duel has been fought - and as usual neither of the combatants ‘were hurt. The French duel is about as . much of a fraud as the French bluster. THE question in lowa now s, “Will Brown Run.”” Brown showedno inclin- [ ation to “run”’ during the bombardment ~ of that auditorship trial, but it looks wery much now as if he proposes to make 4 8tiff raco for re-electio) SPEAKING about how to spend vacation, “anumber of Omaha school marms will " employ it in preparing wedding trous- gus. This method of getting ready to ph the young idea how to shoot has quite the annusl fashion in educational circles. - Bix St. Louis aldermen have been m- for drunkenness in office and bery. The reform movement which gan in New York with Jaehne and his pwd is spreading rapidly over the y. Municipal corruptionists must E—— GERONIMO is still in the dim distance ith General Miles puffing and blowing in the rear. If General Miles had had “puffing’’ and done more blowing fore he took command in Arizona he ould receive more sympathy under the present distressing and humiliating cir- - cumstanees, . nty is pluming itself for putting on dress of a city. Its directory shows population of 7,500. Beatrice is one of group of Nebraska inland cities o rapid and substantial growth is d equally on the enterprise of its enship aifd the abounding fertility of gurrounding country. e * In the matter of bank clearances, a did herself proud last week. Her pances not only footed up larger than any previous week, but her percent- of increase over the corresponding 4 gk of last year was larger than that of _any other city. The hgures show that her ‘glearances amounted to .$4,482,894, and ‘that-her percentage of increase was 80 Congressman Reagan, of Texas, be ncoepted as authority, congress' do very little, if anything, for im- ving or adding to the const fortifica- of the country at the present ses- Notwithstanding the note of alarm punded some time ago by Mr. Tilden, ongressional democratic mind does ~#cem to have been aroused toa realization of the danger which ns the country, as graphically d out by the sage, from toe ab- of const defenses, and improve- in this direction must wait. Mr. stated, however, that there is o sentiment in favor of creating & d first class navy and providing dant supply of ordnance of the bost kind. If congress will give the miry & navy of which the American jwon need not be ashamed, the matter fortifications may safely be post- STmTTT————————— ONAL anti-saloon conference, to d of men who claim to havo ith the republican party and pro- to be still republicans, is soon to be Chieago., Tho project has not re- | o great deal of attention, and we that it is entitled beyond mention as event, The probability is that eut originated with sorae of impracticables who are b adjuncts of all political nd that the proposed conference The Best 1s the Oheapost. Less than n year ago the proprietors ‘of the Bk ventured upon changes in the mechanical department of this establish- ment which involved an outlay of 000. The investment in fast presses was fol- lowed by an enlargement of the paper, an mcrease in the editorial staff, and largely improved telegraph and news- gathering facilities. Tne result of these costly improvements has been the pro- duction of ametropolitan daily that is ex celled by no paper in any city of 200,000 people. Another important and cos tly feature has recently been added by the purchase of the New York Herald cable seryice. The running expenses of the BEE now reached $500 a day, an increase $2,300 per month, or over what they were one y at our venture was justified is shown by the fact that more than 4,000 subscribers have been added to our daily list since July 1, 1885, Having covered the field as no other paper west of the Mississippi has succeeded in doing, the advertising patrons of the Bex have recoived the full benelfit of its enterprise. They have been taken into our confidence, without ro- serve, We have given them access to our press room and kept our books open for inspection to verify the sworn state” ments of circulation. No other paper in this section has beenin a position toshow its actual subscription list. The true value of an advertising med- ium is in the extent of its circulation. ‘While our rates are much higher than those of other papers, the BEe is asa matter of fact the cheapest as well as the best advertising medium west of Chicago. No other paper in America covers the local field so thoroughly. The exhibit-of city cireu'ation, which we make else- where in this issue, demonstrates that the Ber has no competitor in Omaha. We have gone to the trouble and ex- pense of this newspaper census with no design to make war upon any particular paper, since we have not for years had any business rivalry with them. We bave undertaken this task solely with a view of justifying the advertising rates which the Bre exacts for the use of its columns. This is by no means a novel undertaking, It has been done by papers in other cities where bogus circu- lation claimants have imposed upon an unsuspecting public, and have obtained money under false pretenses. The enterprising business man who de- pends on the newspaper largely for his success will now be in a condition to Jjudge whether he is getting his money’s worth by patronizing the BxE, and thoso who have heretofore felt outraged when bills were presented by us that were higher than those of the readerless dailies will no longer regard themselves as vie- tims of extortion. Owned by the Corporations. The action of the judiciary committee of the United States senate on the Beck resolution finds no reputable apologist outside of the senate chamber, which is unfortunately dominated by the influence of the attorneys of subsidized corpora- tions. The arrogance of this action, in the face of public opinion, is unparalleled, and the shamelessness ot the men respon- sible for it is well illustrated by a state- ment of the Washington corresnondent of the New York Evening Post, who states that within a few weeks the two most dis- tinguished members of the judiciary com- mittee loft the senate to go into the su- preme court to argue cases for subsidized roads against a state government. This correspondent also states that the com- mittee undertook two years ago to enter into negotiations with the Union and Central Pacific railroads, guaranteeingto prevent the passage of acts affecting those companies for a certain period, The committee has béen trying to frame a bill that would be acceptable to the rail- road companies, and has drawn three bills to this end because the railroads objected to the first two and approved of the third, but it has deter- mined to lay the whole subject over until vext winter, The session of next winter will pe short, and the "attorneys of the railroad companies io the committee and their associates who are mnot in employ- ment, but who have the natural ten. dencies of lawyers for rich corporations, will get the whole subject postponed again for a year. All this shows unmis- takably that the senate committee on the judiciary is to all intents and purposes owned by the great railroad corporations which the nation has subsidized, and that 80 long as that committee is constituted as at present no legislation obnoxious to those corporations, however urgently aemanded by the public inferests, will be had if the judiciary committee can prevent it. The fact, so amply demon- strated, that the leading committee of the senate is the mere oreature of great cor- porations, solicitous only of their inter- ests and wishes regardless of those of the pfiple. is alike disgraceful and deplor- able. e A Declining Statesman. It is & fact to be noted with regret that among the public men of the country none has lost so rapidly and surely in the confidence of the people during the past few months as Senator Edmunds, of Vermont.. The telegraph has noted that in the course of a rather sharp colloquy in the senate a few days ago General Logan applied the term *“‘pestiferous” to Mr. Edmunds, and unhappily the char- acterization is amply justified by the re- cent course of the senator. Two years ago, and since that time, Mr. Edmunds was regarded by a large body of the pee- ple as pre-eminently the representative in public life of the highest order of in- tegrity and inceorruptibility, The small contingent which guve hini its support 1n the Chicago convention as a presidential candidate, did so in the proud conscious- ness that whatever question there might e réspecting hisavailability, his upright- ness of character was unassailable, They pointed to him as a leader “without fear and without reproach,” and their claim was not soriously disputed. There may have been men at that time who knew that Mr. Edmunds was receiving a larger credit at the hands of his admirers than he was eutitled to, but if so they did not proclaim their knowlodge, and the fact that bis supporters could marshal so fow under bis banner was held by them to be & tribute to his great honesty of charae- ter, which the politicians feaved. The coutingent would be found ex- tremely small whbich would to-day have the" hardihood to support Mr. Edmunds 08 a prosidential candidate, and we ven- ture 1o suy would not include one of the ubu«:-a:‘mum * them o sup| years What is it that bas destroyed faith h'g My integrity of the Vermont senator? ll|sT distinguished ability as & lawyer is still acknowledged. His great services in ad- vancing the principles of his party, through which the general welfare was promoted, are not and eannot be denicd. The loss of faith is due to the circum- starce that Mr. Edmunds has been found capablo of prostituting his position as a servant of the people to the willing sory- ice of corporate wealth and monopolistic power owing existence and all the rights apd privileges enjoyed to the generosity of the peoplo. It is because in all the efforts that have been made to check the rapacity and oppression of corporate greed and power, and to compel the crea- tures of public magnanimity to conform to the contracts which give them the right to exist, in order that the publie in- terests shall be justly subserved, Mr. Ed- munds has always been found on the side of the corporations. And all the world knows that this is not a service of duty or conscience, but of hire—tne return made for princely retainers as an attorney of wealthy corporations. Mr. Edmunds’is unfortunately not alone in this prostitution of senatorial duty and position, but he has been more conspicu- ously audacious in proclaiming it than any of the others who are equally culpa- ble with him. If there is any merit in bravely doing a wrong thing, it must be accorded to the Vermont senator in con- noction with his course in this matfer. He may have had recourse to devious ways, as in rospect to the Beck resolu- tion, but he has not gone behind the bush. He has not permitted any doubt to prevail as to the direction in which his favor would be extended, and he is known of all men, and most surely of the men who manage and manipulate the great subsidized railroad corporations, as the outspoken and faithful advocate and champion of corporate power. No man can serve two musters, and in serv- ing the corporations Mr. Edmunds must inevitably be unfaithful to the people. In this light the people are compelled to regard the recent sourse of Mr. Edmunds, and that confidence in his integrity and respect for his wisdom, which onlya little while ago he possessed to a degree hardly equalled by any other man in public life, are no longer his. In a few brief months he has demolished that which it took him ye of honorable se vice to acquire, and which is the fairest and surest monument a man can have— the faith of the people. An Issue That Must Be Met. When the high license law first went into effect it was nullified by Mayor Boyd and City Attorney Manderson. The law very distinctly requires that each appli- cant for license shall pay $1,000 before he can legally vend liquor. It as distinctly gives the board that issues the license discretion to refuse license to any appli- cant. It expressly prohibits the issue of a license to keepers of disorderly houses or to parties who are notoriouslaw break- ers. The right and duty of the board to exercise its discretionary power to refuse license to any party who proposes to plant a saloon next to a fire engine house, a school house or a church, can hardly be called into question. When a protest is made against the location of a saloon in such a neighborhood by respectable and law abiding citizens, their duty becomes imperative. This was the position upon which wo planted ourselves five years ago, when the editor of this paper per- sonally appeared before the board to pro- test agninst the indiscriminate licensing of saloons without regard to the character of the keepers. Had this protest been heeded and the law been strictly enforced, Omaha would not now ity in Nebraska where the provisions of the high license law are openly disregarded by the city au- thorities, The position which Judge Dundy has taken as the represeutative of many other citizens and property owners in the Second ward, is eminently correct and should be sustained. Judge Dundy expounded the high lcense law before the license board, exuctly as the supreme court has ruled upon it and would rule upon it again. The supreme court has decided that the right to refuse license 1s absolutely wvested in the board, and its manifest duty is to reject any application for license where order and public safety are endan- gered. Mayor Boyd has from the outset treated thissubjectas he has treated other municipal law-breaking. He says ‘“they all do i or ‘“they do it elsewhere,” therefore I propose to keep down the bars and to license everybody that can get up a petition and has the money to pay. We do not hope toinfluence Mayor Boyd on this issue. He wants to make political capital out of a controversy which involves no politics whatever. It 15 simply a question of law and order and the exercise of police powers, The issue must be met and the board should carry out the spirit as well as the letter of the law. There isnocharge that Raflerty keeps a disorderly house or that he is a disreputable citizen. The ques- tion is whether the board will respect the wishes and rights of other citizens whose religious exercises would be disturbed. and whose families would be annoyed by Mr. Rafferty’s bar-room. There are many places in the ward where no protest will be made. Let Mr. Rafferty locate there. Incidentally we desire to warn the friends of high license, as well as the liquor dealers, against the inevitable re- sult of the connivance of city authori- ties at the open violation of the plain provisions of the law. Unless high license is made effective by a repeal of the fast and loose ordinance under which the sale of liquor is now regulated, we shall have the turmoil and bitter conflict which prohibition will precipitate. The wise thing and the proper thing to do will be to repeal the illegal ordinance and replace it by one drawn in perfect accord with the law. The law-abiding and reputable class of dealers are in favor of such & change for their own protection, and those who are always outside of the law should not influcnce our law makers. A scoRk of candidates are anxious to explain to the railrogue gang that they have not pledged themselves for Van Wyck. Theyare equally aunxious to let it be known among the farmers that they are not committed against the senator, e—— SouerHING should be done to expedite business in the district court. The law’s delays in Douglas county are too pro- tracted and seriously inconvenience the probably as usual full of *'corn juice.” Il'yoo:'lww The Situation in England, The Bek special cableg bring a com- plete roview of the political situation n England. The defeat of Mr. Gladstone is 80 overwhelming that all hopes of re- tention of office by the niinistry are dis pelled. Lord Salisbury will shortly ro- sume the reins of government and the tories will be forced to shounlder the heavy load of administration with three factions in opposition with a heavy com- bined majority against every principle of tory policy. As: Justin McCarthy aptly puts it, the tories will be in office, but not in pewer, They cannot maintain themselves 4 month on lines op- posed to home rule. The only hope o Salisbury will be to reproduce Disracli's historic somersault on the reform bill and to discomfit his enemies by educat ing his party up to the home rule level. Rumors are already current that one of the first acts of the new government will be to bring in a comprehensive measure for local self government, which is only another name for “home rule.” James O'Kelly in his letter makes a suggestion that a coalition with Harting- ton as premier and Salisbury as minister of foreign affairs is one of the possibil- 1t In this case Mr. O'Kelly predicts a war with Russia under Salisbury’s ag- gressive conduct of the foreign office, and hints that the Irish members will gladly assist in transferring British troops from Ireland to the plateaus of central Asia. ANDp now a family has been poisoned by eating chicken salad. Tce cream deal- ers will please paste this item on their show cases. Up to the present time they have had a monopoly of the business of hidden death in expensive luxuries NeBrASkA CiTy is to have a sausage factory. The Nebraska hog is gotting there in great shape nowadays. A ricip enforcement of the high li- cense law is the surest preventive of prohibition. INTERESTING FACTS. Since 1852 Egypt has cost England $175,- 000,000, ‘There are about cight thousand cattle breed- ers in Montana. The last New York directory contained the names of 2,442 Smitns and 1,254 Browns. It requires 1,210 daily newspapers to keep the American people up to the times. The French senate has adopted the bill au- thorizing the city of Paris to lisuea loan of 850,000,000 to inaugurate public improvements for the purpose of furnishing work to the un- employed. & The census returns ffor Paris have just been issued. The population numbers 2,254,- 806 souls, showing the small increase of 14,87 since the last census taken five years ago, in 1881, 1n ten out of the twenty arron- dissements the populatién'has diminished, The days of help-meetism are not vet passed. Within the past twp months Duke Charles Theodore of Bavaria, has treated more than 1,000 eye'patients: and performed 132 surgical operations, in all of which he has been ably assisted by his wife. She is an In- fanta of Portugal. =iy There are 671 artists’ models in Paris, of ‘whom about one-half are italians, 120 French, 80 German, 60 Swiss,50 Spanish, 50 Belgian 45 English, 50 American and#1 Jrish. Of the 671, 130 have passed themwsmajority, all the restare young girls between sixteen and twenty years of age. ‘The network of railways of the kingdom of Saxony covers nearly five miles less in winter than in summer, a fact which Direc- tor Klauss recently proved in a lecture before the Dresden industrial society. It seems that a steel rall of 73§ metres 1in length, ata temperature of fifteen degrees Reaumer con- tracts eight millimetres. Saxony having 7,438,000 metres of rails. (not tracks) the con- traction from cold aggregates a total of 7,900 metres. ————— Omahogs. Chicago Herald, ‘The jealous rivals of Omaha, infuriated at its prosperity, have taken to calling its inhab- itants Omahogs. Aol EReversing the Order of Empire. New York Star. The cowboy is no longer a novelty in the streets of New York, Neither is he particu- larly ornamental. . ‘Why Doesn't Gardoer Go? Stuart Press, The Omaha Herald has sung the song, “@Gardner Must Go,” so long that it resembles “Grandfather’s Clock” in tone and melody. 1f Gardner must go, why in thunder doesn’t he go? e Daily Growing Stronger. O'Nefll Tribune. ‘Van Wyck s undoubtedly getting stronger with the people daily, Whatever doubts there were some months ago as to his suc- ceeding himself they may now be set at rest. 1t is hardly possible to defeat him now, Pt 1s This Softening of the Brain? New York Sun. Ella Wheeler Wilcox writes better and bet- ter poetry. We congratulate her on this fm- provement. 1tls evidently the effect of real oulture of mind, aud of that beautiful discip- line which matrimony surely brings, L Ay Religion or Horse Sense? Kansas Clty Journal, Sam Jones’ latest epigrammatic remark: “A person with more sense than religion is generally 8 rascal anda person with more religion than sense is generally a fool.” We fail to remember just at present whether it is his religion or nissound horse sense upon which Mr. Jones specially prides himself, ————t Miss Cleveland and Mr. Elder. Washington Uritf. Miss Cleveland has alfeady begun to lay down the law to Mr. Elder, proprieter of the paper which she will éuit; and right here we will suggest to Miss O. that one of the most inharmonious and’ alsikrecable under- takings In the journalistic pipfession is for the editor of a paper to sttempt to edit the vroprietor, 490 Gerald Maksey. ) Up Alma’s hill the ensign Went, A ho{ul. but terribly intent: e st i st W e et 01 and 1t w He looked round only ‘tfilw to tind The men a moment hind. SBring back the colors o them " cried e colonel. But the lad replied : “No! lead i 0 who la; ANd bring g Forward to the fa v f,"" i m-eown.ulflg o W Llflfll"l uty 1s to lead. ———— Golng to Watch Hill Cricie, MONDAY, JULY 19, 1886. “Where, Daniel?” queried the president, rousing from his reverie for a moment, only L apse again. 'o Watch Hill, sire.” “Um-um,” soliloquized the president in an almost inaudible volee, “that’s kind of Man- ning. I'm going to wateh Hill myselt this summer, and next winter and next summer, t00. B N Ought to Adjourn Sine Die. Chicago News. After a trial, which lasted eight weeks and cost 830,000, Auditor Brown of Towa has been acquitted of everything he ever did and some hings he did not do. Now that this case is out of the way there seems to be no good ll:‘.h'nn why lowa should not adjourn sine die. - STATE AND Nebtraska Jottings, Neligh cries out for a public hall, Now is the time to prepare for prairie fires. Beatrice swears to a population of 7,518, Tocumseh will stand or fall by the gal- lon law. Norfolk elaims to have a certainty onn £30,000 hotel. “Black leg" is ravaging herds of stock in Custer county. Water mains are going down in Beat- rice at alively rate. Orcd will celebrate the advent of the railroad next Friday. Buiglars rifled the Park hotel of Seward and gathered up $35. An unusnal amount of buildingis going on in Juniata this vear, Dodge county ranchmen are turning their attention to alfalfa. Grand Island is troubled with a surplus of sneuks and housebreakers. Prairie fires are raj inF in the reserva- tion, just across the Niobrara, The Omaha short line bridge over the Platte at Ashland is nearlv completed. WJohn Jhade was drowned while bathing m Maple creek, near Scribner, last week. Western Douglas and Sarpy counti are dotted with railroad grading camps. Gambling devices and shooti [lguliu- ies will find no sheiter at the Falls City T, Photographs of the proposed new depot in Plattsmouth would sell well in that city. The Schuyler Sun has completed 1ts fifteenth year, and shines with matured vigor and warmth. . The vpeovle of Milford propose to rigidly enforce prohibition. Milford has water privileges to sell. “The tramp who robbed the officers’ car near Blair,cracked a window in the Wash- ington county jai The Grand I pendont is put- ingup u three-story ck building, 198 feot frontage, as an evidence of its pros- perity. Frank Mitchell disappeared from Bellevue last Tuesday, and friends “fear he has carried out his threat to commit suicide, Tho Blair Republican has entered on 1ts seventcenth year, and shows every evidence of prosperity in its teeming columns. 3 Hans Callislottam wants to represent we county in the legislature. Hans onl{ wants the honors® of the position, and is willing to stand up to it. Ed Staggs is badly wanted at Pierce. A few weeks ago he cribbed for raur- dering Ford Cumpbell but the lock-up was toslender too hold him, aud hees- caped. The commissioners of Butler county propose at an carly day to demolish the present delapitated court house and erect in 1ts stead 2 stately structure to cost $30,000. Y This is the summer of Nebraska City’s discontent. Waterworks and a mashing big distillery fail to satisfy her craving, and she has now_ attacked a plan to bridge the Missouri. The winter of her Joy 18 nigh. B. B. Hill, an old soldier and one of the vioneers of Osceola, has received notice that an old pension’ clum was allowed last week, and in a few weeks he will draw_$1,5600 back pension and $10 per month. “No town in Nebraska,” says the Times, ‘‘can offer better advantages for a creamery, a canning factory, a broom factory or live stock feed Fur(ls than Papillion, Omaha will furnish a market for every thing manufactured here, while the railway fucilities are equal to any in the state.”” The Nebraska editorlal excursion will start westward from Omaha on the n- ing of August5. Residents in the vicin- ity of the great Salt lake, where the brethern exvect to bath their pedals, are already moving their household effects to the highlands to avoid the flood. Bill Piety, a wily insurance agent, has distributed for ~cash a number of bogus notes in Seward county. His win- nings, so far as known, will reach $100. Bill is an accomplished, small-bore swin- dler, He could distance a deacon in lewding a prayer meeting, or swear like o Greek editor. During the month of June, 1885, there were forwarded from Ponea railway station 866,598 pounds of freight, and the earnings on the same amounted to §1,- 238,88. June, 1880, shows 1,056,350 pounds forwarded, earnings §3,152.75,an 1ncrease of shipments of 187,752 pounds, and in earnings $1,019.87. A German named Kroll got craz drunk on Hastings alchohol, "scattere his family from his hearth and mude a ass at his brother-in-law with a shotgun. ’I"na Iatter caressed him on the jaw with his tist, and Kroll was soon a corpse. The doctors are now discussiug the question mhul.her the alcohol or the blow stiffened m, J. A. Pike, a Custer county pioneer, azed unfeelingly from a fence post at the struggles of a pony under the "brand- ing iron. A sudden lunge and a cloud- crashing kick, and Mr. Pony was danc- in, louble shuffle on Pike's bones. His chest and face were mangled out of shape, but at last accounts he was liv- ing. Towa Items. Cole's circus took in 17,000 persons n Sioux City, General Logan is expected at the sol- dier’s reunion at Spirit Lake on the 28th. Nine veterans of Davenport’s quota in the Mexican war survive and reside in that city. A pickerel was recently captured in Storin lake which measured four feet six inches in length, A Des Moines druggist compounded 2,200 whisky preseriptions in twenty days, The drought in the vicinity is alarming. Since the beginning of Cleveland's ad- ministration there have been 640 changes in lowa postoflices, out of 1,633 in the state. _ The Iowa State Sunday School associa- tion will meet at Chariton July 28-9. All workers in the vineyard of youth are ex- pected, The erop of onions is short in the neighborhood of Davenport, but the shortage is more than balaneed in strength, Walterloo’s system of waterworks was completed and tested and found to work satisfactorily. They are of sufficient ca- pacity to irrigate 25,000 inhabitants. Wilton, with a population of a little more than 500, has furnished seven sui- cides since the opening of the present year, and thirteen within two imxi The water of the Mississippi at Daven- reached port has the wonderful warm| af 86 d, days du not Sowe ve zero, and for several nk below 80 degrecs. sharp swindiers flecced & Ger- man farmer living near Chariton out of $750, but wero afterwards caught at Fair- tield and promptly arrested. Upon re- turning the full amount of money they were released. Another swindling scheme developed in Boone county lnst week. sleek looking gentleman visited private houses taking orders for cheap books, as his yic tims supposed, when in realivy the orders were notes. In this case the rascal se- cured over four hundred dollars of the notes in Boone, and some forty dollars 1 Boonshoro, sold the notes and left be- fore his victims realized what they had done, Dakota, Norfolk brags of 1139 weather. Timothy and clover, which has hereto- ore been a scar in Dakota, is quite plentiful th A new democratic pa, is to be started at Deadwood by A. W, Merrick, the man ablished the Pioneer in 1876, Tho colony of *Menonites who sold about 3,000 acres of land to Tiedeman, 4 * county, near Aden, in 1884, and a, returned to Dakota 1 e are twenty-five fam- ilies in the party and about 100 able- bodied men. They have come back to stay and will purchase a large tract of land in this part of Dakota and make it their fulure &mmu. Slugging matches are all the rage in Deadwood at present. 'he population of Yankton has in- about 20 per cent since July 1, 3 . Huron has decided to invest §20,000 in new schools, —— A POPULAR PREACHER. He is in Demand in Two Great Citles, Omuha and Chicago. The Omaha presbytery have not yet passed upon the request of Rev. Thomas Hall, tobe permitted to retire from the bastorate of the south-west Prebyterian church. They will doubtless have an unpleasant task when they untertake to consider it in connection with the re- monstrance against the request which has been filed with the same body, by Mr. Hall's parishioners. No matter what may be the decision of the presbytery one of the p will be more or " los pleasantly affected, If the de should refuse consent to Mr. Hall to dissolve his relations with his church here, 1t would compel him to do one of two thing,s to come back to Omaha or decline to be holden by the finding. 1f it shonld result in tavor of Mr. Hall's going to Chicago, it would be a serious blow to the members of the Southwest Presbyterian church who seem inconsolable over the leaving of Mr.Hall. Strongly as he is appreciated in Omaha, he isnot less admired by the people of Chicago, whose spiritual” charge he bhas now assumed. Thelatter haye been en- deavoring to secure him for several months ~ back, and have writ- ten him a number of let- ters on the subject. To all of these he steadfastly gavea negative answer. A short time ago,however,a committee of the members came to town, and after a long ssion, returned home with the as- surance that Mz, Hall would be their pastor, The church whose call he has accepted is situated on Wabash avenue, near For- -third street, in one of the most aristo- er: tricts of the city. Its member- ship 15 composed of the most in- telligent and wealthy people in that part of town. They have guaranteed to him a ary of $4,000 a {oxu, which has already commenced. hey have also promiséd to build a church to cost $10,000. Besides this, he is to have a furnished parsonage, which will be ready for his occupancy when, a few months from this, he returns with his wife from a trip to Europe. From a secular standpoint, it readily ap- pears that most pastors would be likely to accopt such handsome inducements, when contrasted with others by no means so advantageous, such as Mr. Hall ex- erienced here, His salary had been 700, but is believed recently to have been raised to $1,000 per year, His parsonage he had recently bought, or at least de- cided to buy it, when he found that an eastern party, learning his appreciation of it, anticipated him by paying what it cost and making him a present of it. The church, so to speak, wasmainly built by himself. His eastern connections are such that contributions pourea in from them in such amounts as to practically put the building out of debt. Yet, with this statement of facts, it i not believed that superior pecumary adyantages induced Mr. Hall in making his change. He is almost independently wmll(l\lv himself, while his rather, R John Hall, of New York, is also poses of a liberal fortune. 'Che salary the son received is known to have been spent in charity, thus compelling him to fail back on his income, which is ample enough to enable him to cu’uy life, The sole mo- tive of Mr. Hall’s change, therefore, is believed to be based on the fact that even with superior surroundings, he 1s capable of doing much more good. The action of the presbytery will be watched with interest. Court Decisions. Judge Wakeley granted decisions in the following cases Satueday Jmorning; Kahun vs Schoonbrum. Motion for new trial overruled, Stitt v Steele. Demurer to petition sustained and leave of plaintiff to amend petition in sixty days granted. Elliott vs Wakefield, Demurer to amend J)em.lon overruled. Thirty days allowed to defendant to answer. Esterbrook vs Hathroth, Motion for new trial overruled. Forty days allowed plaintiff to prepare better petition, Alstadt vs New. Motion for an injunc- tion sustained and excepted to by de. fendant. Forty days allowed for a bill ot exceptions, VACANT MINDS, Disposed of by the Oounty to Save Ex- penses, Lou Grebe, bailiff of the district court, was placed in charge of two crazy men on Thursday last with instructions to conduet them to their homes in Iowa and place them tor safe keeping with the proper legal authoritics of that place. One of these was John Beck, an old man who was also accompanied by his son, who, however, was entirely rational. These were left oft at Fort Dodge, The other was John Mosher, who was jailed a few days ago becuuso of o fierce assault made by him upon his father, in which the latler lost a part of his cheek and quite a section of his car, This man, it was found out when it was sought to have him foisted upon Donglas county for care, had but recently came from Cedar Rapids, lowa, where he had also been msane and gu inmate of the asylum st Independenco. The commissioners fols that the young man should be eared for by Iowa and directed that he conveyed 0 Cedar Rapids. This was done. The local authorities at first refused to aceopt the unfortunate, but, upon his bejn, recognized by two citizens, they ch: ;fi thelr minds. Grebe arrived home Sat- urday mornng. Third District Contral Committee, To the Central i L L aaiiermn for e Thid There will be & committee meeti the Eno hotel, in Fremont, Neb., on oy day, July 38, 1836, at 7 p. m. Al mem- bers ure reguested to be present. J. W. Lovk, Chuirman, ¥ PERRY DAVIS &1 PAIN-KILLER 18 RECOMMENDRED BY Physiclans, Ministors, Missionaries, Managers of Factorics, Work-shops, Plantations, Nurses in Hopitals—in snort, every body evorywhore who has evor givon it a trial TAKEN INTERNALLY IT WILL BE FOUND A NEVE FAILING CURE FOR SUDDEN COLDS, CHILLS, PAINS IN THE STOMACH, CRAMPS, SUM- MER AND BOWEL COM- PLAINT SORE T, &o. 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