Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 24, 1886, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERNE OF SURSCRIPTION | % Bunday For Throa Montha The Omaha Swnday Itee, malled to any nddross, One Yoar 200 Ot OFFICeY a4 AND REW YORK OFFICE, Tl WASHINGTON OFPICE, NO. 513 FOURTS CORRESPONDENCE ! All communieations relating to now torinl matter should be addressod 10 the TOR OF THE BER. BUSTNEES LETTERS ness o and remittances should b addressod to BES PUBLISIING COMPANY, OMARA, Drafts and _postoflice order to be made payable to tho order of the company, THE BEE POBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRICTORS, E. ROSEWATER, Eprron, 98 FARYAM STREPT. i Al Y THE DAILY B Eworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska, ! County of Dougl Al Geo. B, Tzschuek,seeret ot the Bee Pub- Jishing company, does solemniy swear that the actual eirculatio of the Dailv Bee for the week ending Sept, 17th, 1886, was as Tollows: Total Saturda Sunday, 1 Monday, 15th. . Tuesday, 14th . . Wednesday, 15th T Aith... Average.. L or Bubseribed ‘and sworn to before 'me this v of Sept., 18%, N, P. Frir, Notary Publie. Geo. B, 'Tzschuck, belng first duly sworn, de- ses and says that he is secrotary of the Beo Pibiishing company, that the actual avera daily circulation of ‘the Daily Bee for month of January, 18%, was 10,37 copies; for February, 1885, 10 copies; for March, 186, 11,587 coples: ‘for April, 1886, coples: for May, 1880, 12,430 coples 1856, 1 coples: for July, 1856, T for August, 1880, 12,464 coples, Gro, B, Tzsenvok, Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 4th day of Sept., A. D, 15, [8EAT. | PUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET. For Senators: GEO. W. LININGE BRUNO JHUCK. For Representatives: W. G. WHITMORE, F. B HIBBAI GEO. HEIMROD, L. S. HALL, JOHN MATTIIIESON, JAMES R. YOUNG, T. W. BLACKBURN, M. 0. RICKETTS, For County Attorney: EDWARD W. MERAL. “or County Commissione ISAAC N. PIERCE. Tiere is blooa on the moon.”" PoLITICAL treachery never pays in the long run. Civren Howe will be snowed under at the November polls. OroE county has given the “oid man” the worst black eye which he has yet re- ceived. DouvGrAs county was solia against Church Howe in the Beatrice convention, It will be solid agninst bim at the Noven:- ber polls. 1IN a contract between Howe and Van Wiyck, in which Howe is to make the last delivery, no one donbts who will get the hot end of the poker. WEEKS ago we announced that we would support any honest republican. The BEE cannot endorse or support & man whom it knows to be liar and be- lieves to be a thief. Cnurcn HOWE can vote vagrants and vagabouds at the Beatrice primaries and THE OMAHA DAILY The Nomination of Howe. In nominating as their choice for eon- gressional honors the most infamous trickster and corrupt political mounte- bank in the state, the republicans of th First district have committed a fatal act of folly, They have in haste | and they will repent leisnre. Weeks | this paper ared that it wonld its hearty and cordial support to any honest republican who should be se- lected as a candidate by the party. The would have been | But 1t cannot and | endor r the of a candidate whe reasoned 20 dec give honestly made, ly earried out not men, political history s with venality and corruption; who used the party as long as the varty useful for his private interests serted it asofien as he deemed it to his personal advantage. It and it will not, support a shameless trickster to whom no friendship has been holy for betrayal, no alliance too binding for pledge hor it will honest nflra, whog honey-combed has wis and de- | | cannot too be ru broken. A renegade to party, a corrupter ot the people’s repre- sentatives, a tool of the railroads and a stool pigeon for overy frand and venal scheme for tapping the public titl Church Howe's candidacy 18 an insult to republican honesty, and a slur upon the intelligence of the rank and file of the party. For months the Be urged upon republicans of the First district the dan- ger of giving conntenance and support to the candidacy of Church Howe. Tt hassup- plied them with ample reasons why his nomination, m its opinion, would be fatal to republican success. In spite of personal solicitations from that infamous trickster that it would remain silen least until after the Beatrice conv and in face of the threats that i tion would reach on the 1 chances of Charles H. Van Wy it hus faithfully and consistently warned republicans against the crowning act of folly which they have at last committed. Its warnings have been unhecded. The rank and file of the party once more find themselves betrayed into the hands of professional politicians, whose only idea of the value of party organization is that it ean be used to register the decree: of their masters. Church Howe must be beaten. He will be beaten. ths boasted alliances with corporations and corrupt tricksters will not il him against the burst of honest indignation which his nomination will excite . Hill Alert and Active. The result of the meeting of the New York demoeratic state committee on Tues- day demonstrated that Governor Hill, al- though somewhat embarrassed polit cally by the events of the past few months, is still alert and active. The commi tee, as heretofore stated, 1s a Hill orgamization, ereated by the conyention which nominated him and composed of men in whom he had confidene: The chairman, John O'Brien, who because of being implicated in the Squire-Flynn ras- calities was compelled to resign, is known to have been preferred for the position at the request of Governor Hill, The committec lost three other members during the year—Hubert O. Thompson by death, John Kernan, who is in Canada to avoid arrest, and William P. Kirk, who 1s under arrest charged with fraud. The last two were owned by the gov- ernor. The important things to be done at the meeting of Tuesday were the fill- ing of the vacant places and the detc mination of the question of holding a convention. In both of these matters the hand of Mr. Hill was apparent. The chairmansiip of the commit- tee was given to a pronounced friend of the governor nominated by Mr. Hill's former law partner. The suc- cessor to Hubert O, Thompson is Edward Cooper, who is understood to be not un- favorable to the governor's ambition, and is at the head of the county domoc- racy, whilo the other positions were filled by men who are not known as ardent supporters of the president. On buy up granger delogates in Lincoln, but when he comes up for election in Novem- ber ho will run short several thousand votes. jons were for Clarke If the chances of both can- didate ual, Mr. Clarke will con- tinuo his drug business at the old stand while tome one elss oceupies a desk at the capital. Sanr and Howe. ne republicans of the First distriet must be taught a lesson. When party su- premucy is so stong that it has no fears of party defeat, no matter what the char- actor of its candidates, the best clements of the party will combine to rebuke its arrogant assumption of unbridled power. . AccorpING to that valuable and suc- cessful newspaper, the Philadelphin Record, "'it is as much of a fraud to sell advertising space without giving the pur- chasor proper information as to what amount of publicity he is buying, as it is to sell oleomargarine for butter.” Quite # true. The Brk is the only paper in this section of the west whose advertising patrons know every week exactly how many copies wero cirenlated during the preceding week, day by day. CONGRESSMAN ATiINs makes the charge of fraud at Pine Ridge because a count of the Indians sbows that too many ¥ations were 1ssued. If the rations were issued, the only fraud that can be shown is on the part of the Indians who con- » sumed them. As the agent has been urg- b ing a recount for years and voluntanly cutting down the rations to save the gov- ernment their cost, the only blame must rost on the interior department which has’refused to carry out the agent's recow- mendations for a thorough listing of the Ogallala Sioux, — Toe wife of the leading attorney for the defense in the Cnicago anarchist eases, Mrs. Black, has issued a plea to the public for the lives of the men son- tenced to dleath. In it she holds out the threat of a reign of terror in Chicago if the convicted anarchists are hanged. In o this s hor mistake. 1t would have been . wiger to appeal to the quality of meroy, instead of challenging the f ot the people, and moreover tho warning, if i ~ be not regarded as the hysteri ance of a misguided woman, will ¢ ~ the authonties to increase precautions _ against anarchist outrages. The one | hope of the convicted men is in the . supreme court of Lliinois, and if that fails them efforts to scare the public by threats of further putrage will be unavailing. the question of holding a convention it was decided mot to do so by an almost unanimous vote, which was entirely in accordance with the wish of the gover- nor. There are at least two good reasons for this, one being that he did not desire any general changes in the composition vions occasion the senator was quoted as saying that the next national campaign will be fought on straight party principle and therefore in all of its cardinal fe will be a repetition of previous cam vaigns, The “‘off-year” in politics al- ways develops more or less factional di turbance, which runs its course like any outbreak then dies out sheer exhaustion. Such years culiarly f for the operations of & of self persons who are in a of dissatisfaction with the r order of things, and avail them of the opportune time to air their views and little temporary noto riety. The politician who has outlived his usefulness and been relegated to obscur ity, erawls out of his concealment in the off year and is heard at would-be reformers. numerous the present year, and doubtless tinds the usual pleasure from the fulmi- nations it makes and the fears it excites among a few timid party men malcontents are not at all dangerous, if they are not encouraged readily return to obscurity if let voradie and from are vorable class cons chronic state existin sel meetings of This class is quite ihese howeyer, Thoy alone, The great scope which politicul 1ssues of national & divide public opinion promise to make urgent a demand upon popular atrention in the next na tional campaign as they have ever done, and no matters of side controversy can be made to supersede them. Howover far people may in the off year 1n politics travel away from the beaten path of volitical discussion to consider foreign and irrelevant questions. they are sure to return Lo the ragular course when sum- moned b national contest. The ex- isting parties—the republican and the democratic—represent in - their well-de- fined principles and policies the divisions of public sentiment on every issue of 1 tional importancs and no citizen can have need to go outside of these party or- gaaizations in order to support a policy national in 1ts cha The fruitless efforts of the an effective and Iasting breach in the lines of these two partics ought to satisfy judicious men of the futility of such an undertak- ing now. The A. & P. Land Grant. The decision of the assistant commis- sioner of the land oftice in reference to : & Pacific grant has caused a well founded commotion among the set- tlers of Southwestern Missourt. The case, apart from its interest to the settlers im- ely coucerned, serves to illustrate the way in which the public lands have been gobbled up by the railroad compa- mes. The Southern Pacific railroad com- pany began the construction of the soutii- west branch of the Missouri Pacitic under a grant by congress of every unevenly numbered section of land to the breadth of s1x seetions on both sides of the road frem St. Louis to the southwestern bonn- dary of Missouri. Subsequently, in 1866, congress granted to the Atlantic and Pa cific Railroad company a grant of the eveniy numbered sections. The former company became absorbed by the latter, ter consolidation the Atlantic & ific company claimed both land nts, although it was loosely provided by the act of congress that “the reserved number” of sections should not be in- cluded in its grant. As the Atlantic & Pacific company could not giv to the sections with uneven claimed under the Southern grant, a test case was made befor and office, and the deci i Atlantic & P By this decision, if sustained, the lands under the first grant will revert to the government and be open for set- tlement. But in the meantime most of these lands have been sold by one or the other of the two companies to actual settlers and are now under cultivation. ‘This decision—no doubt 1 striet aecor- dance with the law—does a great wrong to these purchasers, who bought tho lands in good faith and could not be apuorised of the defectiveness of the rail- way company’s title, Such of them as occupy the lands will, of course, hold possession under the homestead law, ) action will be taken by the land oflice until congress has an opportunity to pass an act for the relief of the settlers. What 15 arkable about the matter is that Land Commissioner MeFarland made a Pacific's the of the committee, which would probably happen if a conveution were held, and the other that the direct influerce of the admimstration will be avoided, which would not be possible with a convention, Furthermore, there will not be this yoar any fulsome praise of the administration. nor any hurrahing at the mention of Mr. Cleveland’s ne, on the part of the New York democracy, The president will hear no acelaim from the democrats of hisown state echoing throughout the land in ap- proval of his policy. 1f anything is said- by the representatives of the demoe- racy of New York it will be done perfunctorily as a matter of expediency. In one other dircetion the hand of Gover- nor Hill was shown. When it was pro- posed to place in nomination for supreme judgo a present vcoupant of the bench who is a Cleveland man, the committes declined to make any nominaztion and adjourned until next week. These circumstances, by no means trivial in their character, show that while the recent partial disruption of the Hill nization may have been somewh at ussing to the governor, he is still ssion of ample influence, and that with admirable skill in repairing the machine he probably has it in as sound and trustworthy shape as it ever was. It may be properly noted in this cornection that the governor has been sowing seed gencrously during the past two weeks at county fairs, talking wisely about agriculture and the rights and in- terests of the farmer. In short, the am- itious governor of New York is playing a strong and steady game, and if he isn't a winner it won't be because he doesn't improve his opportunit A Senator on the Situation. Senator Allison, of fowa, talking with a representative of a Ch o1 a few 8 1go, expressed himasolf as baving no ons coneern regarding the movements which to involve the republican party in eombinations with other partics or organizations, and to saddle it with seck issues under any eireumstances remotely pertinent to the functions and duty of a po'itieal party. thing 15 assured, the country governed for some time Lo come by i tbo republican or democratic party. The eflective advent of a uationai third party is & matter of tho dim future. On a pre- Il ve like decision four years ago, but so little was known of it that the land purchascs from the Atlantic & Pacific Raiload con- pany under its defective title went on as ich decision had ever been pro- Gere's Removyal. Roggen has dismi Iate clerk of the railroad commission for reasons suflicient unto himself. The law under which the railroad commission was ers the powers and duties of railrond commissioners upon the treas- urer, auditor and secretary of state. Euch of these state officers was empow ered to employ a $3,000 clerk with the implied proviso that the work of the com mission should be done by the three hired men. Mr./Roggen has doubtless good cause for removing Gere on the ground of in- officiency and genoral usolessness. Mo made n great blunder when he selected this featherweight to head the commission, His action will meet with general approval. 1f he could his clear to leave a vacancy and induce the other commissioners to dis- wiss their clerks, the tax payers of Ne- braska would be the gamers and the shippers would lose nothing. We hope Mr. Gere will find some other job with large pay and nothing to do. He has been sadly overworked on the railroad commission and he needs a rest. St. Joseph is watching with interest the only | He said one | same work, ¢ war between two rival firms of pavin contractors. 1Lhe Western Asphalt com- pany, who claiw to lay the same pave- ment as the Barber company, reeently de abid for paving in that ety at 81 per square yard, with a ten yours' cuarantee. The Barber company, not ta bo outdone, put in a bid at $1.25 per square yard, with u five years’ guarantee, It looks us if St. Joe would have some cheap paving. Eloven thousand s s to be let. On tie basis of the Barber ympuny's bid the cost would be only 50 for the entire amount. At price which Omaha is paying for the cost to our peovle for an equal amount would foot up $32,790, a rence in favor of St. Joe of more than $19,000, Omaba bas given the asphalt company the over $100,000 worth of paving. This BEE 14,000 yards of pavemont will oity. Much more would doubtless have been contracted if the company @ould have seen it to their interest to re- duce the price. The actaal cost of the pavement to the ¢ontractors is under- stood to bo $1 rd, which, it the pri aves a fhieat mar gin of nearly the same sum as net profit An effort to secure a reduction in this city last fall failed, because the company insisted that to ont the price in Omaha would break their rates ail over the west In the light of the St. Joe showing, the plea looks a littie vidienlot A steckssorto Dr. MceGillienddy, at Pine Ridge agency, was yesterday ap pointed by the president in the person of Hugh D. Gallagher, of Indiana. Mr Gallagher does not know anything about Indians, but Red Clond ecan teach him constderable in a very short time. of this be Iaid class in our sonson I s(uare By the time the fool friends of Senator Van Wyck in Otoe county get sober they will discover that they have sold out at the wrong time and to the wrong buyer. The republicans of Minnesota favor the free coinago of siver, a revision of the tariff for the purpose of reducing taxa- tion on the necessaries of life, and ciyil service reform. LITTLE BITS OF WIT. “I don’t see the point, but I realize its force,” sald the man when a bee settled on the back of his neck, “What a beautiful form!” exclaimed Miss Titelace, the first time she saw an_eel; “‘such a long, thin waist, you know.” Summer is rapidly passing away, and the girl who has a pienic beau who hasn’t pro- vosed, is getting extremely nervous, An exchange says that lce two inches thick will supporta man, In midsummer it generally supports the ice cream man and his entire family aul,” said his mamma, “will you go softly into the parlorand see if grandpa is asleep?” “Yes, mamma,” whispered Paul on hisreturn *he is all asleep but his nose.” ““Father, why does the paper speak of Miss Cleveland’s books as ‘works? " asked little Jolnny. “Well, my son, if you should ever attempt to read one you will find what hard work it is.” A Boston girl was thrown from her car- riage, ard in reply as to whether she was hurt, said. “I really believe I have fractured the extensor ossis metacarpi policls wanus. She had broken her thumb. Chicago Tribune: “If the plural of goose geese, the plural of moose must be meese, says an exchange Not at all:; for the rule doesn’t work both ways in the first instance. Two natives of Portugal would be Portu- guese; but one nativé would not be Portu- goose in philology, 'however he or she might be fitly so deseribed in fact. poaci b 40 A Lively Co Columbis Denwerat. s in Nebraska seems to be a regular d monte game Now you see it and now you don’t. A few weeks azo Van Wyck was considered a goner, and even his friends were preparing to sing his! requiem. Since that he bas proved hithself a lively corpse. Nearly all of the reptiblican candidates for the legislature, so far 15 nominated, are for the old man, It will fake'a good deal of gold to buy off his suvportérs, * A Progressive Newspaper. Chadaon Democrat. The newspapers of Omaha are known far and wide just now the Br: ead, in the latter quality, 1t was the first paper in Nebraska to purchaso and use a web perfecting press, and now it comes to the front with another press of the same wanufacture, which gives it the best press facilities of any paper west of Chicago—being capable of turning out 30,000 copies per hour. —— The Growth of the Bee. Rapid City Journal. better illustration of the growth of the west can be found than that shown in the growth of the Omaha daily newspapers. It has been but a short time since a press of very ordinary speed was considered suflicient to print the cdition of either pavers published there. The Brx then found it necessary to secure a faster press, and put in one with a ecapacity of printing 15,000 complete papers per hour, - A Lesson in Poli Nebraska Watchman, ather, the opposition to Van Wyck on the part of some papers is venomous,” “Truly you speak, my son.” And I am still unable to tell, father, whether certain republican oi democratic organs are the more yenomous.” “That,my son, depends upon the size of the job department attached to the organ. ‘The more railroad job work the more abuse of Van Wyck is ground out. Your political education, my son, has been neglected.” -~ About the Size of It. Wisner Chronicle. The Omaha papers continue to build paper railroads up the Elkhorn valley, and howl themselves hoarse because the Northwestern does not discriminate in favor of Omaha mer- chants. Before the Northwestern developed the Elkhorn valley, the Omaba merchants would hardly own that there was a foot of land in all northern Nebraska that was worth owning and they sent everybody to the southern part of the state that they could. That is the reason why the northern part of the state did not settle up as rapidly as the southern, Omaba sees her mistake to-day and sighs for aroad up this way that will dis- eriminate in her favor, but if she ever gets one it will have to be built by Omaha mon Nawspaper talk aloue will not build a ral . L September, The Sphetator. O golden child of the year ‘Ihat i3 sere,” With robe of e twining; O month that walkest a maid, Unafrad, o Oer meadows withl dgw-pearts shining! Thy rippling laugh is the breeze I the trees. 'hy voico is the stardinglealling; Thy golden dower are the sheaves, And the lepves : From wall and fromw woodland falling. ‘The hills lie purple it haze All'thy days, The cloud slecps over its shadow ; As a ghost in Taiment of white All the night | ‘The mist keeps watch o'er the meadow. Phe splendor thou hast, yet the spleen § Of a Queen; For oft when tlie woods are fairest, Thou darkenest heaven with a trown, And thy erown Withi a tem pest of passion tearest. Yet Last thou a kindly hest, Wayward g And gently break Tuat duys more 1l Of gathering swallows présage. 0, child of the Summer past, Though the fast, Yet dearest of all we tind theel 0, stay with us, and oy thy stay Koep awa: ‘Phe hungering Wiiiter behind theel | in Rushville FRIDAY, SEPTEMB STATE AND TERRITORY Nebraska Jottings. Fairmont schools opencd up with pupils in attendanc A new Catholic school, 50x55, two stories high, is to be built in Plattsmouth “Scooped from Whereas to Amen” 18 highiy recommended a household motto for defeated candidatos Furnas county democrats declare fot Van Wyck in pre to republi can in the field for United States senator, A high toned descendant of Sitting Bull or some other distinguished scalper, purchased a $3% bedroom set for histopeo weeping winds are a late addition to the products of Dodge county the country needs is n breeze that will mop the conntry with the surplus crop ot wlidates Mrs. Lord and her daughter, Mrs. Han. ford, of Fremont, were thrown out of their earriage y their horses running away Tuesday evening. Mrs. Lord ha her right arm broken near the wrist and her head cut and braised. Mrs. Han ford’s injuries seemed to be prineipally & shock of the nervous system, The Glenwood boy who toyed with the wrong end of & pistol is slowly recover- ing, though the weund was a frightful one. The local _medical expert declares the Hawkeye l\ml the “ball penetr the left ~ ingunal region, one inch above the pecussation of the femoral artery, shaved the bun- gastial valve and pouparts hgament, passing down toward the second base and coming out on the home run below the great trochanter of the left femor.™ nds of the kid are confident that he will score without an error A telogr: ently published from "Nohart, Neb.,," by way of Kansas City, tells about a young lady being taken by four young men—to one of whom she was engaged to be married—and ehained in a log cabin for five days while the men d their will with her, During those ble hours of anguish’ she was given y dry erusts of bread to eat. The ar- s written by a sensational chap med Ferrall, of Washington, Kan., and the same person that found” the “wild family in Kansas o fow days ago. He evidently is trying to build up & reputa- i Joe Mulhatton. Nohart and are in the same latitude u Greenwood, Cass county, Saturday night was a severe one for the town. Ten busi were con- sumed as follows: 13, N. Wagner, boots shoes, loss, $3,000; insurance, $1,; Rouse, ~attorneys, library p o total loss, T owden, p: of contents of office. Harney's jewelry store, contents saved. Central hotel, loss $15,000; no insurance. John Suylis, meat market, total loss. E. A. Crittenden, hardware, loss $5,000; insur- ance $1,500. William Roberts, barber shop, contents mostly saved; no_insur- J. L. Phillips, loan broker, loss on T. 0. Moore, altorney, 5 ance furniture $100. l1oss un library about $100, M ront, confectionery and restaur about $1,300; insi Lytle, general merel loss about 28,000; covered by Clem Stevenson, 10ss on building $1,200; no in- surance. A. Haller, Joss on building 2,500; no insuranes loss on building $1,200; insurance § w. Quackenbush, loss en building §500; no msurance. Chev- nt, 10ss Shaw & Towa Item: Work on the new Davenport court louse is at ndstill, waiting_ the ar- ival of theiron for the rafters of the first . Mescopan, a in too mucn red Indian, indulged er at Tama, laid down on the r: d was promptly hurried to the happy henc Mrs. Annie Chambers Ketchum, a well- known literary and scientific lady, for- merly of Des Moines, entered the order of St. Domin shville, 1enun. The weather prophet of the Burlington Hawkeye predicts a great storm in _the west on the 23th, and intimates that Sat- urday will be remembered in the future. sMr. G, E. Way, em, was nailing picture to the wall, the hatchet he was using slipped from his hand and struck his wfie on the tempie, inflicting a serions wound. ity dads of Des Moines have st cured a $50,000 aamage suit because the, granted a charter to a street ralway company in opposition to the narrow c company, As a specimen of cor- te gall this is believed to exceed the best record in that wilderness of prohi- bition. Dakota. The total indebtedness county amounts to $37,110. The Northwestern is doing business 50,000 & month at Rapid City. Stark county has a bonded indebted- ness of $15,000, but no unpaid warrants, South Dukota Baptists will hold their annual convention in Huron, September 30 and October 1, 2 and 3. rgo bonsts of asduder police foree. Three ot its memb I black hats, and every “‘cop a gold-head cane. rec horses, two colts, a harness and buggy were stolen from 'the premi C. E. Low, a short distance from Egan, one night recently. There was a large watch dog kept on the premises, but he had been knocked in the head and a pitehfork run through his body. There is no clue to the thieve: of Kidder Montana, Montana has six millionaires whose piles run from one to five million; A large cave has been discovered in Morning Star mine at Cooke. It is over a hundred feet in length and a hundred feot in width, and is surrounded by frozen ground and ice crys Colonel Wilb 2 pioncer of the territory and a man with a bril- fiant jaw, is the republican candidate for delegate to congress. Mr. O'Tools, lus democratic opponent, is guaranteed a re- spectable funeral Readers of the Jottings will remember the story of Jane McArthur, published foew weeks ago; how she saved “‘Judge” Armstrong and his family from drown ing in Sun river, and perished herself, It was a olever hoax and is thus explaned: Jane McArthur, as she was kuoown in other days, is married and lives on the “Teton, a few miles above Choteau, hay- ing moved to that place with her hus- band some months ugo. The story of hel heroic exploit and lamented death, as first published in the Inter-Mountain, of Butte, was written by herself and for warded to that paper to be made publie, not with a view of creating a sensation, as was the result, but for the purpose of leading a certain porson who Pl o thing of u elaim on or interest in “‘Jane MeArthur'' to believe she was dead and could be no more to him. s was the purpose for which the hoax was intended but the brilliunt imagination of the au- thoress led her to overdo the business, to spread it on too thick, and the end sought was thus defeated. ‘This secrct xplained how such ponderons iie could have been started. The Pacific € Fresno county will produce 1,200,000 gallowns of wine thas year, Three ladi g ppublican nvention of rritory. wnuary 1 the enstoms made eighty-four scizures San Fravciseo, valued authori- of opium at at §48,0 Nickel and cobalt mines at Table Mountain, Churehiil county, Nevada, are to be worked by a London ny, with a capital of $250,000. A bonus of $5,000 is offered for the es tablishment of any sort of mwuutactur- What | ing enterprise at La Camas, Ty which will give employment to twenty men Twenty-five (‘hh\'mmnl “‘(l'rv \\'nrtmg among a large force of Indians picking hops Bon. O Brien's _ranch, on' W hite River, Washington Tetritory. On Thurs day the Indians struck—rofising to work with the Chinamen, and the proprietor of the raneh oconcluded to discharge the Iatter and the Indians returned to work The initial tea trade of Port Moody this year via th Cavnadian P amounts_to five cargoes, 100,000 pack s valued at $£2,000,000. The sir sargo of the Flora . Saflord ackages, required for 1ts transports tring of 420 cars, which in line would oteh 14,000 feet, or over two miles and a half LAND 10N, THE 18181 QU Michael Davitt's Reply to the I lord Pamphiet lecently Published. Mr. Michael Davitt, the onc of the Irish Land League, who is now in California, writes the following self explanatory letter Piie pamiphict issued by the English Loyal and Patriotic union on **T'he Status of the Irish Tenant mer,’’ a summary of which appeared in the American pross of yesterday, is calculated, by its erro neous statements, to mislead the public of the Unitee States. - ] sertion that “there is nothing exceptionally bad in Irish agriculture” is a gl palpable facts. Tho price of eattle and {mu.-r, two of the chief articles of Irish ted fully 80 per cent during recent ye while such products as wheat, corn and flax have become so cheapened by forcign competition that even the rent, apart from the sustenance of the farme family, caunot be earned by their cultivation. —Even in E and Scotland, where the landlor their tenants by defraying cost of dr age and ereeting farn buildings, the con- dition of agriculture has been so depressed voluntary a per cent of thie rental, have by the owners of the land sinc pression in prices set in. In face of the additional faets that a government land court, officered chietly by adherents of the landlord class, has had to grant rent reduetions on various Irish estates, averaging 18 per cont. on the rental, dur ing 1531, 1882 and 1883, and that prices since steadily decreased, the asser- quoted above'is_in keeping with the less character of the remaining s ments contained in this pamphlet. Any one having the most cle- mentary knowledge of the Irish land question will be able to estimate at its proper value the statement that “the rish enjoy greater advantages of tenure t other people.” In_ England and Scotland, as already mentionea, the land Jords de falf cost of 'drainage and other improvements carried out on farms. They are practically ctners with their tenants in the cultivation of the soil. In addition to this, they ave resident upon their estates, and spend a ¢ portion_of their incomes locally, {1 as investing money in manufactur inyg industries, which enhance the value of farm produce. Notwithstanding all these advants English and Scotch tenants have suffered, and are stiil suffer- ing, from the prevailing low prices which Irish tenants nave to compete with with- out a single one of the compensating con- ditions just od; the Irish landlords are v ntees, never 1k any of their rentals in improving holdings or invest money in promoting industrial enterprise. Quoting the prices which some tenants sell the inte in their holdings, is a dis- honest method of proving the value of the landlords rental. The passionate chment of the Irish people to the of Ireland is proverbial. In addi- tion to this there is no alternative em- ployment to that of agriculture for fully 3,000,000 of the povulation. In England and Scotland, with their great manufac- turing center s; and, therefore, the is less competition for holdings than in_Ircland, where there possession isan absolute necessity to human e tence. It is this condition of things which has enabled Irish landlords to lev ch- rent in past years upon a people who had practically no alternative but to agree to the conditions impo: upon their ocen- pation of the soil or leave the country. It ated 1 this pamphlet, with some apparent show of truth, that a tenant cannot now be evicted by his landlord except for the noj ment of a. year's rent or u breach of some other stafutory m of the tenancy. This is the proverbial half truti, which is worse, he cause meaner, than a straight for- ward lie. Under the land act of 1881, the I holders of Ireland, tenants, occupying land comprising more than two-thirds of the entire renta of the country, ure exo benelits, such as they a tions of the land commission. hese, the miost industrious of the Irish tenantry have received no reductions in thei rents, notwithstanding the fall in prices, y Y;mu- rized, anl which depre ciation the writers of this pamph not sulli t audacity to den This is the elass of lrish tenant which Mr. P: nell proposes to suceor in the which he is to introduce on Fri He also proposes to stay evietions, pend ing an_inquiry, by a government tr bunal into the circumstances which ex- plain the inability of the poorcr class of ants reduced rents fixed by the land cour the passing of the act of 1881, These circumstances a well known to those who ure cony with the real facts of Ivish agriculture, that the Irish loader is fully wa pdd in chall ng public and logal investign- tion, @The rent paid by over three hun- dred thousand dollars ‘of the tenants of Ire;and has to be earncd, or otherwise got, from sou ous to the land for which such rent s exacted. The Lon- don Times has admitted this astounding fact, 5o late as the presont year. Mr. Giffen, the eminent statistican of the board of trade, has demounstrated its trath in the February or Mareh number of the Nineteenth Céntury; yet the Loyal and Patriotte Union declires that the tenure of these three hundred thousand tenants is something to cause envy on the part of the farmoers of every other oivilized country This pamphl wrmed hero produce, has depre . in doaling with the number of evictions, only gives tho re- turns for 1884, At least I only sce that year's estimate in the summary printed ssterday’s papers. In the county of , the most Jisturbed district in over 12,000 families have been 1 since 19315 yet this is but one of two Irish counties, in each of which been effected aneceeding years up to the presi The figures given in the pamph showing the moneys subscribed to v ous funds by the Irisn people sine formation of the lund league prov ing against, & ything for, the ment whic Loyal “and P union opposes. The tribute fin Ireland sinee 1879, accordin, to the pamphlet, amounts to about 000. This divided up smong thr lions of people would represe tribution of some thirty cents e this sum is quoted as proof that th tenants and their friends who ach in se yoars, or four F nts per y sre A rich and prosperous class of péople “The facts and igures whieh Mr nell will base his case upon, when he intro- duces his bill on Friday hext, will confirm | hat I have said and will complete fute the misrepresentutions set thus 1 and Patriotic union pamphlot, and od his ch 5 nst the entire landlord system of Ireland the noth ng denial of | ‘BO TAYLOR'S DEVIC | How He Fidalea Himself Out of 0. scarity Into Congress, The political situation in Tenne writes a correspondent of the At ((ia.) Constitution, is an anom alous Two brothers, one a democrat and other o are opposing othor as candidates for the office of excentive of the state. History d ifford a parallel to this remarka tost, “Bob™ Ta , the demcerat | didate, and “Alf"" Taylor, the re date, prior to 1880, were unk save to their intimate ' friends, ‘I they are not only known to all th \ of the United Stat but even nglish-speaking peopde on the sido of the “big_ pond,” are them, I found in'a London lon » this rather astonishi news about them In the pi Tennessee, U. 8., two brothers are ‘running’ for oftice as the candic respectively of the dynamite and o dynamite factions in the labor par “The position they scek 15 that of ma general ot the proyineial troops In tho oftice of the Chattanooga Tin Saturday night last, I obtained some i formation concerning Bob Taylor. 1 1880, the democratic convention of lirst district of Tennessee was held at Jonesboro. The night preceding, a num ber of the younger delegates were on | the porch of the hotel “discussing 1} merits of the eandidates. Bob Ty then a clerk in & lawyor's oflice, was present, and heard the diseussion, Aftor a while he said: “Roys, what's the nse of worrying about a_candidate? Nominato me, and Tl Jead the democratie hosts to a grand triumph.” The “boys” were suggestion. They ylot's and next duy they L him admid great onthusiasn, ¢ of the village' debating socicty Rob T'avlor had never le a speeel, But Bob could play the fiddte. He was asked by an Italian musician upon ong occasion if he conld play tho “wioleen." “Wioleen!™ he eiaenlated, “Inever heard of the thing] But I'm h—I on the fiddle.” He could play the fiddle with his left hand as well'as with the right. “Sus anna in the Gourd,” “0id Dan Tucker “Whoop-to-doode do," and *'Run, Ni ger, Run,” were among the choice solec tions wiih which he was won't to charm his audiences. His friends said to him, one to the other: “Bob Taylor can draw more music out of a tlddle than all the balance of the world, including General son and the ary fter his nomination, Bob Taylor was not inactive. He proceeded at once to entar upon & vigor campaign against his republican opponent, a man name Potti- bone. He bought a carpet bag of tre- mendsus proportions and as flat as a pan- cal What he put into it nobody but himself ever knew: but it is believed that there was more of nothing than anything cise lnd away in its capacious interior. He went among the tree and easy moun- taine of his district and held sweot mmunion with them. Te would begin by playing a tune with his right hand, and follow it with one played with his left hand. Then he would “abuse Potti- bon Another tune followed, succeeded by a little diversion of a political nature, He advocated froe liquor and plenty of it. He shook hands effusively with tho mountainers, complimented” the women until their blushes,cansed their cheeks to glow with even rosier hues than those .produced by mountain breezes, and kissed every baby that he could find— that is, provided it was white. All the world knows the result, Bob Taylor was elected to congress, Petti- poor Pettibone, who; musical educhtion may be properly represented v 0, was relegated to the olscurity of te life. Bob Taylor's carcer in'con- anything” but_brilliant. Ho speech in behalf of the moon- shiners which caused the New York Tribune to ridicule him ~ so unme 1t was fully th after nee of the wstic article be- fore he appeared in his seat in the houso ntatives. What induced the of Tennessee to make Bob candidate for the governor- ship I don Ten days spent in Tennesse ter the nomina- tion, failed to enlighten me. Al Henry George. York Sun: Henry Georze is a turdy man, with a’good physique, upright head, fall red beavd, n big bald spot,and blie eyes. Ho was born in Philadelphia on “September 2, 1539, of American_parents. His ancestors are part English, part Scotch, and part Irish, with a bit of Germun blood. He went to hool until he was fourteen years old, and then went to an ofl to sea. When ho was cig printer in California. He compasitor, changed to reportc be editor, and then b ne pro In 1869 he ran for assembly in mento, where he was the editor of the Sacramento Reporter, He was o denio- nd sided with r Haight in the fight agai nd oth California_monopoli Iroads defeated him for the ly, and n?r buying a controlling interest in the stock of his paper foreed him out of the cditor- ship. 'In 1877 he began to write his work on *‘Progress and Poverty.” It took him until 1879, and when published lifted him atonce into prominence. He went to Ireland in the dark days of 1880 as cor- respondent of the Irish World, and wrote a serios of letters to that paper. In 1851 he went to England on the invitation of the English Land Restoration society, and in the winter of 18845 he wont {0 Scotland on the invitation of the Scottish Land restoration soeiety. He delivered lectures giving his views on the land question all over Great Britain, where his book attained an enormous sale. Ho 1so written hooks on the tarifl and in the Nineteenth Century, the Review, and othe VgL zines. At present he is a publisher,with an nilice at 76 Astor pl The Doom of Overhead Wires, The trician snys the de which pronounced the doom of overhead strect wires in the United states has been en forced with unexpected rapidity and vigor. It was thought in some quarters that compulsory sholition of a “system which had grown enormous proportions during recent years was an empty threat and then its forcible removal was utle out of the question. The law, howe has been complicd” with voluntarily, though tardily, in most cases, and the few excoptional instanees of rebellion have be most energetically put down by the local authoritics. In New York and Chieago notably elcetrie wires of deseription have disappeared, or are rapidly disappearing, underground; and in other places—Washington, for ex ample,—some of the largest” companies have already got their wires out of sight, sged that their progress would Lave been faster hud not an attempt been made to regulate the manner of e wires underground, or rather to upon the proprietors a uniform system agreeable to the recommenda- tions of the local authoritics and thelr advisers. A commission has been sitting to report upon the best means of earrys ing teleplione, telograph, and elevtrice light wires in conduits or tunncls below the payement, and the uneertainty of its final dnolaion Las naturally had the effect of delaying the independent action of the various electric ccmpanics concerned. - The temperance people will be glad to Jearn that M, Chevreul, the great French savant and bas never tasted a drop of w He distikes the smeil of i, and, strange to sey. be has the same “intirmity,” u¥ ho calis 1% 18 regasd Lo can ppear Taylor thei bogan a8 8 rose to riclor ALCHARL DAVITT. Septewmber 14, 1850, fish, aithough he is one of the gresicst Lasberwen in Frouce,