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

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED ‘E\I:ERY MORNING. TERWE OF 8UBSORTPTT Daily Moeniar Editior Alni BEp, One Year For 8ix M For Thre The O address, One Year QVATA Orpicr Nrw Yon Wa N THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Oirculation. State of County Wil 1 Tublishin hat 1) Tor th follows: hras) Yo of The Bee solemnly swear the Daily Bee sth, 1586, was as Koenig, ea company, d ual circulation of week ending Oct, Friday, Sth 12,340 AVEMARC. ceoovie sonniiiasinrensioass 13,080 Wirr 1 KON G, d in v presence 1. 1580 Sworn to and subseril this 9th day of October, A. N AL, [SEAL) Notary Publfie, Geo, B, Tzsehuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and say of ‘the Bee Publishing al ay- erave d: Bee for the 1 S copies, for Fobri for A 1886, 11 pril, 18% copies: for May. A conle 185, 1 Jiily, 186, 1 12,404 copic entember, 150 copies, Gio. B, T7scnm ek, Subscribed and sworn to before me thi day of October, A. D., 155, N. I, Frir, Notary Public. 2 PUBLICAN STATE T10K For Governor—JOHN M, THAYE ¥or Lieut. Governor—IL, Il SHEDD, For Secretary of te—G. W, LAWS. For Treasurer—C. H. WILLARD, For Auditor—11. A. BASCOCK, For Attorney General—WILLIAM 1, For Com. Public Lands—JOSEPH SCOTT, For Supt. Public Instruction—GEO.B.LANK, REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET. r Senators: iEO. W. LININGER, BRUNO TZSCHUCK. For Representatives: W. G. WHITMORE, F. B HIBBAKD, 0. HEIMROD, 3 HALL, JOHN MATTHIESON, JAMES R, YOUNG, T. W. BLACKBURN, M. O, RICKET" For County Attorney: EDWARD W. SIMERAL. For County Commissioner: ISAAC N. RCE friends of General V the state should work out the popular vote. New York if the bands don't stop p! “Marching Through Georgia." it is worse played out tl army of twenty years ago. Tuk Herald thinks that the prohibition- ists should start a ticket of their own. Nobody will object. In Douglas county, however, they wonld find 1t hard work to find followers enough to fill up the offlces. GROUND is being cleared and contracts Jet for the new hotel on Farnam stre The project is an enterprise which assured of success from the start. Oma is badly cramped for hotel accomo tions. When her leading two hotels were erected it was believed that the demand for hotel accomodations had been fully met for years. To-day there is as much of aneed of additional hotel facilities as there was three years ago. Cruren Howk is parading some letters in the papers which he claims to have re- ceived from eminent republicans who are said to be overjoyed at his nomina- tion. One of these is from ex-President Arthur, another from John A. Logan and one from Congressman Rice, of Massachu- setts. These letters ave altogethor too spontancous. Ex-President Arthurlying on his back with Bright's disease and Mr. | whip Ruce in the midst of o campaign, have rushed to the postoflice to bid God specd to Howe's candidacy. General Logan, who probably doesn't know Howe out- side of the brief acquaintsnce he made with him during the campaign of 1884, dropped all his voluminous correspond- enco to cheor Howe on his rugged wa: It is hardly necessary to say that thise Jettors are in response to an urgent re- quest from Howe for a few words of good eheer for him to the republicans of this district who are inclined to give him the eold shoulder. None of these loyal and distingushed republicans are familiar with Church Howe's checkered career in this state. ————— ‘Tae editor of the Zierald raises no new point when he says that the ability to build a railroad is one thing aud the abil ity to maintain it is quite another matter, In all discussions concerning the new road to the northwest this question has been carefully considered. It will be weighed still further before Douglas county commits itself to subsidizing the enterpriso, Level-headed business men aud heavy camtalists, speaking after full inquiry into existing conditions and con- ference with railway men of experience, believe that the natural business which the nmew voud wauld attract he suflicient to main- it 88 a paying enterprise. ~-#¢isassumed, in the first placo, that the yoad is to be houestly built, honestly oapitalized and honestly operated for the Renotit of the stockholders and in the in- terests of the community. ‘The heavy bonuses to inside speculators, tho still guore heavy interest charges on fictitious indebtedness, and the dividends ou wat- evod stock will be eliminated. These in overy other system of which we have knowjedge form a heayy charge on the ~ dnaintenance of the road. Fidelity we » Party. Once hear the appeal for fidelity which has been rung in the ears of Nebraska republicans every time they haye 1 revolt nst dishonest eandidates and corporation Onee the rty more v in nominces is rai more lash n and eredulous re whosc men with whom nly co Ty same rict rumm trai nd ay told that “for tw has been in active Upon the Upon this record the We a years Chureh Howe political life i record he made he stands. convention nominated him. In making the nomination it sclected him to republican vote in cong Any repub: lican who antagor m is playing in- to the hands of the democeracy which has 50 long dominated the lower house an: cast a in so doing, is antagonizing the repubi can party of the country of which his vote will be a material national part. In no way can this fact be dodged. It should be safficient for any man who be lieves in his party.” We admit the f: has for twelve yo ‘hureh Howe ars had an active politi- life in the state and that he must rord he has made. That a continuous record of twelve vears Church Howe nan aetive agent and principal corrupting Nebraska politics and disgrace upon political conventions. has foot west of the as wel in and er he Missouri river, in Wyoming in braska, his name has been ated with all kinds of rascality, jobbery and bribe T'he republican party owe him no thanks or support. He deserted 1t on very oceasion when it was profitable to do so, and his record shows him to he one of the most danger: ous and treacherous of reprobates. Why should any republican who is a republi can from principle feel compelled to sup- port a man who sought to vrevent the counting of the electoral vote of thisstate for president in 1 ad had contracted tional suprem- y decent republiean owe to a man who voted forabar'l demo- crat for United § tor? What possible assurance have republican such a man would vote with them i emergeney when his vote in the house would decide which party should control? A man who \ since set acy ¢ in "7 willing to give over the whole country to the demoeracy would eertainly not hesitate 1in 1886 to give the democrats control of the house if they made it his interest 50 to do. We are told that *‘Church Howe is the regular nominee of a regular republican convention.”” So he is, but what does this regularity represent? Does it reflect the sentiment of the party or express its choice? Does it expunge his record of twelve years to which the Republican re- fers? Isit not notorious that the G county delegation which nomir Howe was the product of a di outrage upon the rights of republic the primaries? Does anybody pretend to deny that the resident republicans of Beatrice were kept from the polls by hired gangs of democratic ra graders and waterworks diggers did not even claim residence in the county? Is it not lugh time for republicans who desire to perpetuate the principles of their party to resent such frauds by which they were disfranchised, by defeating the candidate who holds his title by snch dishonest methods? The name of Church Howe is the las which should be coupled with an for fidelity to party. Before the party can command the fidelity of its followers its leaders must show themselves true to its principles and worthy of their support. A Northwest Passage at Last. Whatever else may be suid of the gov- ernment and capitahsts of England, it must be admitted that both are keenly alive to the importance of kecping abreast of the progress of the age, and of developing every resource and consoli- dating oevery interest of the vast English ompire. They build extensive railroads in India to reach the wheat and cotton areas of the interior, and by cheapening transportation to seaports stimulate in creased production. For the defense of Indiu against the designs of Russia they build an expensive road from its north- ern boundary to Afghanistan. To shorten the route to India, China, Japan, cte., through their own territory, they build the Canadian Pacific railway, and will establish and subsidize a line of steam- ships from its western terminus. Now, to make a still shorter line rom the great whent fields of Dakota and the British northwestern territory eastward to Lng- land than that via Quebec and the Gult of 8t. Lawrence, it is proposed to build a road from Winuipeg northward to Hud- son's Bay, a distance of three or four hundred miles. At the Hudson’s Buy port, whether Fort Churchill or Port Nelson, ocean steamships can load and clear on an average six months 1 a year, but to reach the Atlautic through Hudson's strait they must go 5° further north, and with the best scamenship and the strongest ships the pussage of the strait s ulwvays onv of danger on aceount of the ice fields, and 1s really not practicable on an averige more than three and a-half or four months in a year. The Canadian Pacific rallway was built notonly to secure a shorter route to the far stover British territory, but also to do- velop the natural wheat fields in that partof the Dominion aud to farnish grain transport to British ports on the Atlantic, Is this new project a taeit confession that after all our roads will reach northward into that territory and carry the grain to our Atlantic perts? This 18 not unlikely. And yet, although this new route from the great northwestern region to Liver- pool, is stated to be from one thousand to fiftecen hundred miles nearer than via who Now York, the great advautage of being | ablo to reach and to ship from New York at all seasons of the year, will in all prob- ability, even after the uew road is built, send the bulk of grain that way. But it is manifest that these British railroads in the north are going to fur- nish lively competion with our transcon tiuental system. With their subsidized line of steamers on the Pacific, they will a republican | | e | further | themselves THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 13, 1886, be able to cut rates serionsly from China | and Japan to the antic sea-board, and in order to get even our Northwestern roads will have to go into their territory and cut their rates. Possibly, however, | an international pool may end to international competition tter off than be miles of tix ent soon put an and the Forty to road, hed this e will be | whole road sixty its gy . and the to b amodern way the aric completed within two fail ym of thosc ire a afforded tha who concieved will be ¢ m Marches € The recent decroe of the queen 1 of Spain freeing the siaves of Cuba from servitude notable event steen years ago, after the d thronement of Isabella, the movement to abolish slavery in Cuba was begun, and it has had « halting progross on aceount partly of insurrect nd partly of the opposition of the masters, About seven years ago the cortes 1 law liberat g slaves on arriving at a certain with compensation to masters, and by | ws since the e of libera s been reduced, until now by final Il are emancipated It will be curious to observe what the effect of this conferred freedom upon the former slaves and upon the mdus trial condition of the island will be. England abolished slavery in the British West Indies by in 1830. The | United States it during our | eivil wi . and Brazl is now ing out gradual eman 1on in a manner similar to tho plan as begun in Cuba. It has often been charged that emancipati to the prospenty of it 18 yot to be and Brazil will our own ¢ the former slaveholders dmit that the abolition of slavery has been no less a blessing to the south than a boon to the ne It is not khown if citizenship is conferred upon the former slaves of Cuba, and it is not to be expeeted that even such inade » offorts to educate them as we are 1z for our former slaves will be un It can hardly be caleulated upon, therefore, that the condition of the Cuban freedmen twenty years henee will be as favorable and encouraging as that of ours to-day. But they will be legally tree, although it would not be sury ng if then s sought to substitute, as our former holders did after the war, a system of veonage for slavery. For a time there will be disturban in the labor market, and tol is Somc suceessiv tion | de purchaso, abolisied su the Bri seon be how Cuba Teeted In i mak dertaken, ceo may temporari men are at all peri ful and eflicient worke American idea of freedom has borne glorious fruit, and soon there will not be a bondman in all Christendom. Our work will not be complete, however until we break the shackles of ignoranc as we have those of physical bondage. Then our former slaves will be free in- deed, Not From That Quarter. The intimation that Jay Gould might bo induced to build the ‘“‘Omab Northern,” if properly approache not awaken much enthusiasm in th . tion of the state. That should be the last resort of the merchants of Omahain their efforts to sccure & competing line up the Elkhorn Valley. Asa way station of Jay Gould’s Missouri Paci vith its long haul to Kansas City, Omaha would be lit- tle better off than as a station on a stub line of the Northwestern, with its long haul to Chicago and the laki If Mr. Gould desires to extend his road north from Papillion to Yankton no one will & inclined to hold him. The field open and it is n good one, We know of no manner in which he could better invest a portion of that latest issue of $4,000,000 Missouri itic stock than in pushing northwards to the D. kota borde But Omaha wants fi built in Omaha's interests tees thut it will not pass out of the hands of men who will sce to it that its con- struction does not throw another obstacle in the path of our commereial prog She has had quite euough of the Jay Gould style of railronding, beginning in construction and ending in destruction. With proper management there is no reason why the road should not be self- sustaining. The people of Omahn are not yet ready to admt that the process of consolidation and absorption has gone s0 far that no railroad can bo profitably operated outside of the oflices of the trunk line managers. Started on a sub- stantial basis, honestly built and run as a business enterprise, and not as the basis for stock jobbing, thereis no valid reason why the new road should not be able to hold its own and to earn a substantial in- come from Omaha and one of the richest and most prosperous sections of the state. t of all a road with guaran The Business Situation, The condition of business during the the weck has equalled expectations, The trade movement has been aetive, and the general promise of commercial af- fairs continues favorable. Reports from the prineipal jobbing centers show that demand in most departments is absorh- ing production and stocks in nearly all anches of the distributing trade are under good control. Omaha clearings now reaching up to the five millions weekly indicate the usnal heavy inerease in the volume of business when com- pared with that of the corresponding period of last year. The iron trede sit- uation 1s strong. Prices are stiffening for both crude and finished produets, and orders for close delivery are far ahead of the capacity of ulls snd furnaces, Wool is held higher and a large amount of stock hus been withdrawn from the market in consequence. Cotton is lower and The grain trade is sluggish and prices weakor. Wheat is from 2} to 2§ cents per bushel lower than last wi his 18 largely the resalt of the inereasing visible supply and the indifference of foreign buyers. According to an observing writer, “‘the dullness of trade in the fac of accumulating stocks forces the disap- pointed bull operator to pay more money to transfer Lis deals into later months than the storage and insurance would cost to accept the alterpative of carrying the wheat himself. As the average speculator cannot afford to do | at | governor a wither & good dealef wh to the control of & cl the principal commereial eentr derive their profit from the obtain at is passing in- in who of ling of operators exeess by s the of the ulty of till price which they can futnr Py n. This s a weak s agains iuses of act featnrs e difli prompt uation f lors for lock free movement grain, to the wing dotrimer market. It m to the whether tl ves up or doy his | ther ind tters not mark ofit is Gener In the ments publ day ther now able to 11 I'he general October 13; at St Fairmont ber 23 It1s our v 1 Thayer's Appointments. t of General Thayer's appoint Bek of last Satur errors, We withoritative Wi al will spoak Panl at Kearney October 14, and Octo on ening of soldicr rousing in the Known morc probably he is announeed to bespeak for candidate for from the He than or of an 150 sure wry and reception localities named nerally in the state her man, and whe to speak he is sur Andi his hear to have republicamsm, pure and unde filed, dealt ont to them. Voters of Kear- ney, St. Pauland Fairmont! Lay aside all other engagements for the time being, 1d go to greet and cheer our next ernor, an voters Ny aundience, ZOv- Tie unqualified and prac mous declaration of N, ation from Dominion confederacy, made at the election held Iast summer, and the report that New Bronswick and Prince Edward's island are also dissatis fied with the union, presents a curions case for England’s decision. The inter- ests of the provinees do not harmonize with those of Quebne, Onta ind the northwest, and they feel that the union i ma burden with no correspond dvantage. But to withdraw which the other provinees ve no right to resist, but which would be rebellion if undertaken without the mother country’s consent. T English government justified and aided the seeassion of the sou es in 184 Would it now think that r its own dependencies which it thought right for the southe do? Or would 1t make a diffe , AS of old, whose ox 1t was that is gored? One thing is very certain, which is that England’s hold upon her American pos sessions is not strong enough to make it safe for her to deny to them wiat form ment th st upon ally unan cotin for sep- 18 by ing means cession, would he then tes to of wove et iy Jonx F. Axprny, of M the first mugwumpto b forms into the demoeratie arty and given place of honor on g paxty ticket. Like George William Onrtis he bolted Bluine's nomination at Chieago. It is time that some of these mugwamps shonld be ce- ded, if only by the:empty honor of a nomination that canr it in an elee- tion. Of course they would rather a recognition should come from Cleveland, for that would mean sibstance inste shadow, but Grover believes in re: ing the old wheel horses of the party fi and he 1s right—from a demoeratic point. chusetts, is 1y adopted Maine, is to have a trian- gular fight this year. The republi party, in obedience to the will of the peo- ple, deelares that it will support prohibi- tion; the prohibitionists want more prohi- tion and the democrats oppose it alto- gether and want the question re-sub- mitted to a popular vote, It is for the republi a to seriously con- i whether our peace and our politi will be increased and improved by adopt- ing the three-cornered situation of other states. ? Tire license law is prohibition whereyer the people so de i county option or in other words pre the kind of prohibition which Georgi experiencing. The people of Nebraska are not dy to change from high license to free license. T South Platte country will make an emyphatic protest next month against the il bossism of the Burlington road, re severnl counties which are Castor The Count de Lesseps will attend the dedi- cation of the Bartholdi statue in New York. 1t is reported that Theodore ‘I'iton is to marry Mrs. Laura Cortis Bullard, a well- known society lady of New York. ¥. Stone Wigzins, the Canadian prophet, has left Montreal for the interior until the storm about his own ears blows over. Mrs. Garlield is going to Wichita, Kan., shortly to attend the excreises incident to the opening of the Garfield university in that city. Christine Nilsson fs staying at present in Biarritz. She will return to Madrid in a few weeks, and will reside permanently in that city. Sir Charles Dllke’'s new position will be that of an unpaid voluateer in the news ser- viceof one of the great press agencies in London, f Xoung James A, Garfleld is studying law with Judge Boynton, of, Cleveland, and is said to be the most like Mis fatber of any of the Gartield family, ( President Cleveland’s purpose in putting a barbed wire fence seven feet high around his country purchasé is Dow apparent. Ie intends to locate his mother-in-law on the in- side and carry the key to the front gate him self, w Common as Ohromos, Washinglon Oritie, It will only be a‘tyw years now until country editors will bh giying away sea serp- ents as premiums to subseribers. Sun Queen is dying, Her beauties arve fading away; The roses are sighing, The lillivs are cryiug, “How feeting, alas ! 15 our stay.” ‘The robin is singing i tender adieu 1o his ne Tl bluebird upspri L southward is His way with a dirge in his breast. Hoar frosts are descending Yo glitter with cold on the grees Tieh purple is blending, Aund royalty mllll}.’ To fhe funeral poip of the Queen, Farewell to thy glory, Queen Summer, o hill-top and lea! We'll tell thy sweet story Wheu hill-top 1s hoary, And cLill is the breath of "the sea, Keep It Before Republicans. The republicans of the First distrie | should ask themselves whother a man of Church upon the Leav- having such a record as that 1 any rightful claim support ot any decent republican uestion his corrupt methods to 1 tron Is very exist we h appeal T 1 party notorious venality we upon cans to Put a premivm md conspiracy ag PuLsC inst blican z lis and cast for Hayes and | to reta party Howe tered into d opublican , when of « for nto the hands the encmy infamon The wroof of it not rest suspieion is not bo e brushed by nouncing it ono of Rosc s malicious doc on It wohed or away pro ater slandors ‘T rocords of the leg Chureh Howe contain the indelible onable stand own pen plan to hand over the and democ campai dature of which member in proofs of the treas nd no denial ean rinst evidence furnished by his Brielly told, the history of this country to Tilden ey is as follows In 1876 Nebraska elected Silas A Strickland, Amasa Cobb and A, H. Connor presidential clectors by a vote of 31,01 inst a vote of 16 t for he Tilden and Hendricks electors. After the election it w discovored that the canvass of this vote could not o plac under the then existing law before the islature convenc The electoral vote to be canvassed in December t the latest, and the reguiar sion of the legislature did not begin until In or to make the electoral returns, arber called a special s ture to convene on th December, 3, at Lincoln, for the pur- f canvassing the electoral vote of The democratic effort to cap- ture republican electoral votes is historie ilden’s friends, notably Dr. Miller, had been plotting for the eapture of one of the ¢l s from Nebraska, and it 13 also historic that a lavge bribe was offered to onc of the electors, General Strickland. he eall of the legi » broke intothe plan of the plotters, and they found a will- ing and reckless tool in Church Howe. When the legislature convened at the capi- tal,Church Howe filed a protest which may be found on pages 6, 7and 8 of the N k Journal of 1877. The fol- ing extract makes interesting roading: *1, Chureh Lowe, a member of the legisla- ture of Nebraska, now convened by procla- mation of his excelleney, Governor Silas Garber, for the purpose of canvassing and deelaring the resultof the vote east i Ne- bra for electors for president and vice president of the United States, hercby enter my solemn protest against such act, denying that the governor has power to eall this hody in special session for any such purpose, or that this body has any authority to canvass or declare the result of such voteupon the wias 69T, conspiraey 508 sion Sthof st. This lozislature now convened hay- been elected under what is known ns the old constitution, has no power to act in the premises, the new constitution of the having been m foree since November, 15 scond and third clauses deal with ctions and are somewhat o conchuding sentences of this precious document are as follows: For tho foregoing reasons I protest ny canvass of the electoral yote state by his body, and demand that this, my protest, be entered upon the journal.” (Signed) Church Howe, mber of the legislature of Nebrask The democrats did not respond to the eall of the governor and there was barely aquorum in the senate, while there were several to spare in the house of which Howe was a moember. The protost en- tered by Howe was doubtless prepared by the Tilden lawyers in Omaha and Howe had the glory of being the sole champion of Sam Tilden. The legisla- turc ignored Church Howe, spread his protest on its record and canvassed the electoral vote in spite of it. When the legislature convened in Jan- uary, 1877, the presidential contest was at 1ts heizht m Washington. Church Howe had changed places from the house to the senate. Early in the session, a resolution was introduced expressing the conviction on the part of the senate that hd Wheeler g Tec ority of the electol titled to their seats. This resolution wvo rise to a very lively debato which Insted two davs. Church Howe asked to be excused from voting when it first came up and was so exeused. On the final passage of the resolution the record |page 376, Senate Journal 1877,] shows the following resuit: Yoas—Ambros Baird, Blanchard, Bryant, Calkin, Carns, Chapman, Colby, Dawes, Ga field, Gilham, H Kennard, Kuapp, Pepoon, Powers, Thummel, Van Wyck, Walton and Wilcox—20. Those voting in the negative were: Aten, Brown, Covell, Ferguson, Hinman, Holt, Church Howe and North—8, During the same session of the legisla- Church Howe's vote on United States senator for the first three ballots is recorded as haying been cast for E, W, Thomas, a South Carolina democrat, [pages 108 and 203 Senate Journal.] All this time Church Howe professed to be a republican independent, republican on national issues and a temperance granger on local issues, We simply ask what right a man with such a record has to the support of any republican. They Sull Primp, Indianapolts Journal. Full-page advertisements of jewelry stores in the Chatleston papers indicates not only that business Is recovering its tone, but that vanily ias not shaken out of the people by the earthquake, - Who dohn Sherman Is. St. Louis Globe-Demaocerat, The Louisville Courier Journal asks, “Who is John Sherman®’ We hasten to say that he s a brother of the man who recently ob- served that the men who fought in the con- federate army occupy the position of paroled “which some of them seem to BRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Gas is rated at in Fremont, Ainsworth is promised a flour mill. F Good corn huskers are in demand in Otoe county. The Bro tasty fall suit. Wahoo has orgauized a board of trade with E, E s ut the head Vast q " been destroyed” by prairie fires noar Kusii ville, George Frye, of Grand Island, is build- Bow Statesman is out in a | share of the product goes to lows ing & roller mill in Broken Bow. Tt will liave a capacity of 100 bushels a day Jake Joss, jr., of Fremont, € throat with & razor and made a nasty job f it. He will recover and try it again The young town of Litchfield, in the valley of the Muddy in Sherman county has & newspaper, the Monitor, published by E. R Bradley Lyman Howard, a carpenter, tumbled from a scaffold in_ Broken Bow, breaking v log and scriously shuking up his inter for departme Chanters of Delinguent Tax List iin, and t ity edi | swelling handsomely Chadron | s of 1 office, a ma 1 round' he evidence vity ton has fo! 5,4 fuee and won. Tl railroad that annual gerial, “The hay s wallet is of % tons of hoso ship o 1wrchandis and p 8,321 tons the ments netted the 103,62 The Beyschlag browery in | Citvisto be enlarged and ats doubled. 1t shouid be statcd benefit prohibitionists that « braska nacity N of Kan A temperance orator from sobered up in the Nebrasks cently. He had fought the Jong range, yet when he the bar for a v stranght knocked out. A Chinaman Maryland il “demon’” o hobbled up to he was soon and Trishman quarreled about a cow in Gordon I'he son of Erin was handv_with his dukes, but un- fortunately the Mongol pull gun and ctipped his antagonis The feeling against everything c ial in tl nian section of the town is so great the even Shanghai roosters brouse on the lee side of thebarn A spiritual fakir gave # seance at In- dianola, re tly, and invoked the ghost of aformer citizen from the realms of torment. A friend objected, and pro- duced a letter showing that the owner of wed ghost was living in Colorado. vivitualist, wn , elaimed that nd heay, m” gave up “in that region for the “edifi- nd benetit of the coun- an instance of Then the eation of fi tey," and the pres o Jarge-nearted generosit lights went out with th Towa Items. St ants ontstanding amount to R IR verish committed suicide at Shell Rock by shooting himself. Creston sehools have an enrollment of 1,338, and cmploy twenty-cight teachers, Alice Hutchinson, of Burlington, took laudanum and died, all because her hus band ran away with another woman. The supreme court hasreversed the de- cision of the Appanoose district court in the of David Archer, convicted of manslaughte Bishop Petry, of the diocese of the ipiscopal chureh of lowa, can boast of as many degrees member of the American Episcopal hierarchy. He sa DD, an LL D, anda D, C. L. Wm. Pfenninger, of Burlington, made an attempt Lo stop a buzz-saw by shoving his left hand into the running gear. He was unsuceessful, but escaped without any further injury’ than the “loss. of hus id. Two colored men were so badly scared by scei a serpent in the river near their complexion has since n three shades lighter. A permancnt inetion ought to be granted against his snakeship. The good ladies of Cherokee have reg- istered a virtuous kick agamst the numerous poker partios that the ‘*boys” of that ity have organized. The *he think that the ladies arc *‘blufling’’ will eall them down A siguilar case is reported in last week’s Decorah Republican, and one for which the guil rty should be made to suffer the severest’ penalty. A man named E. H. Cochran, of Omaha, tele- Brink Ward at Decorah that his it and that the body would reach Decorah Saturday. Of course all preparation for th 1 was made, the g se taken to the fr the corpse, friends asked to act as 1 bearers, ete. The corpse did not e on the train and no tidings couid be learned rogarding it. riends, thinking the body might possibly have been sent to Calmar, went there and found the supposed corpse sitting in the depot. The young lady had been i1l but was aliv nj on her way home, The tolegram was o matter of spite, in rela- fion to some reul or funcied wrong done Cochran by Ward, Dakota, The mills and hoisting work Homestake mine burn wood every day The Pioncer says that the Deadwood narrow gauge will be built to the coai fields early next spring. Tive hundred head of across the Missourt at anundertaking seldom The Synod of Dakg regular session in the of Aberdeen on Thursday, October 14, John Roney, a farmer living near H ilton, is alleged to have deserted his ily and left Tor parts unknown. His bilities will aggragate $10,000. The new Fargo Argus building 1s to be the most complote nesspaper ofli in the territory. 1Itis a large four-story brick building and cost $100,000. The citizens of Raymond have organ- 'd a joint stock eom pany and will ereot agrain storage warchouse which wi ailow farmers 1 that vicinity to ship their grain direct to Chicago. In mining the tunnel on the St. Paul tin lodo a band of fino grained « /i a delicato gray shade, been struck. It is oy width so far as developed. Thisquartzite is new to the mines of the tin di; b, It would take a fine polish and present n handsome appearance, if used in stone or brick buildings. of the nincty cords of tle were forded Inst week, ttempted. will conyene in sbyterian church am. lia- THE FRIEND DISTRICT FAIR, Best aud Largest Stock in Nebraska, Frienp, Neb,, Oet. 12.—{Correspond- cnce of the Bgi]—Last wmonth the ashed his | broken out | | company | for thie | I'ing Chiof, Mattio ¢ | Wil Cody Pacing , B 1 Pilot Billy Button, Charley 1 No-Namo and Pilot. Some of the have a record under 2:20 and them but beat 2:40, Lire eiation everything to make the fajir a « but among them all John Fr | tary, and D. . Burligh, gen tendent, deserve most of the cre WIGGINS' PROTOTYPES | Predecessors of the Canadian € inthe Role of Prophets of Disasie London Telegraph: W the first prophet to foretell the exa of the falfillment of his pred vet the first to create an oart scare. Whiston, an E clared that the world w cend on the 1th of O fs recorded that the y the appointed day, sallied forth to open spaces between Holborn Hampstead to witness the destruet the metropolis, where the de was fixed to begin., Pope and Gay satire on the subject, entitled *A wl Faithful ~Narrative of Puassc in Lond on of the Day of Ju printed in & Swift's quarter of a_ century later two ser | shocks of earthquake did oceur, one | the t end of the town and the other i | the northe 8., Non managers ha n suburbs, the first on the st y, the ond on the Sth of ‘Thicrenpon *a crackbrained fol Bell, o trooper in his majesty's life guards, ran up &nd down the streets shonting out that a third was fixed for the 5th of April, thus antedating Wiggins' notion by exactly a century and o quarter. Many persons laughed it Bell, as their posterity mav bo inelined to smile at his transatlantic imituator;but thousands believed in the prediction and took measures accordingly. As the day drew nigh the exeitement ine , and people ran away to outly ing villages within a eircuit of twenty miles of the metropolis. it is said that the inn-kecpers and poorer sort of houscholders of Islington, Highgate, Hampstead, Harrow, and ' Blackhvath mado a market of {he terror-stricken folk, churging them extortionately for bed and board. When , 1701, came and went minus an earthquake the only thing which suffered a shock was Beli's prophetical reputation, and a fow months later the poor feilow was consigned to an asylum for the insane. We may, indeed, travel much further back along the stream of time and come upon simi manifestations of human ecredulity he in the good city of London. It was pro dicted that Feb. 1, 1524, would witness o swelling of the nes to such a leight that the metropolis must be sub- od and all - living things ¢in drowned. As in 1761 the prophecy met with credence, and many people fled into the surrounding countr ‘sulhm, the prior of St. Bartholomew's, built a at Harrow-on-the Hill, which he with provisions for a’ couple of months and repaired thither with his brethren. Many wealthy citizens pen- tioned the prior’to tind them house room m his retreat, but he would only enter- tain his personal friends, of whom a goodly assemblage was 'forthcomig. When, however, the first of Ieb- raary arriy “‘the Thames, unmindful of the crowd upon’ its banks. flowed on quiet], of yore. The tid ebbed at 1ts usual hour, flowed to_its i wd then ebbed again, just strologers had not pledzed their words tojthe contrary.” The astrol- ubsequently lm( it about that the 8 were right and they were wrong. They had iscalculation by e actly a hundred y Yet it happened that when February 1, 1624, arrived Lon- don was not destroyved by water; but the prophets had passed beyond the rench of mundane m. Doubtless during their after-stay on carth, and when thinking the matter over, these wise men comforted themselves with the re- flection that, whether the astral bodies were right or wrong, they at least had eflfected n profitable time bargan. These fow fact drawn at random from the long and deplorable history of supersti- tion, arc presented with ev mark of and becoming respct to Pro- sor Wiggins, of the United States of America. Eleotr| i1l Chicago Mail; The Pinkerton men and rogular police gathered in a great force about the wholesale cloak house of Joseph Belficld & Co., 260 und 252 Enst Madison streot, at 7:20 last might, pre- e to capturd a gang of burglars’ who were supposed to be ransacking the premises. The place had been seen to be suddenly 1lluminated, but when one of the thicf-catelio od the building by ance through a window, the lights were extinguished as suddenly as thay had been lit. ‘Lhe oflicor, re- in hand, struck a light and lit the gas-jets. The place wently been acated by the burglars,as n close search, aided by some of the elerks who hud been hastily sumwmoned to lend the aid of their knowledge of the intorior, failed to r I'the suspectod burglar. ' Three men were Jeft in charge, and kopt a close ateh until business was resumed this morning. The mystery was explained when an amploye of the Electrie Light Company called around to see if the new dynamos ight had in- cnt burners. sitor to the building had been m of electricity, which had caused ng illuminition that had, of course, censed when the dynamo tess was completed eilecting an e “Horrors” in the London Pre Pall Mall Gazette: No wonder that publishers of shilling shockers ave erying outabout the latness of their once actiye market. Why, every morning the papers arc converted into penny dreadfuls, tull of romuntic and blood-curdling sensa- tions, such as would h deligh Poo, & Le Fanu or a Gaboriau. sheerest nonsense for puristsin literature to decery plots, or to say that the taste for horrors (decent horrors, that is) is on the de . It 08 & constant quantity which 1 varies —that is to say, the taste for murders and disappoarances, if they re- quire unraveling, and furnish employ- ment for the mind more exciting than word puzzles, is inborn i 999,999 people weather interfered with our fair so ti the dircetors postponed it to October 14, 15 and 16, when they D one of the finest agricultu shows ever had in western Some of the largest stockmen in the state have already entered their blooded cattle and expect to be here with their entire hcrds, as this is about the last fair of the season of '86 and there- fore will be the last time in this year to show their stock, Great interest is also manmfested in th tural and horti cultural line and a0 fine display of the products of tne farm and garvden will be the natural result and the farmers ean- notbut be benefited by attending the fair, The vacing will be on the season. All other had th fairs, brings all the best horses to the district fair at Friend, there being alrcady forty well known horses on the ground who will enter the lists, Many of thew have a reputetion not conlined to the boundaries of the state. Among them wo might mention, in the runnin, wees, such horses as Lady Gratie, '\l:lllfi Murston, Harry Eawards, 3 Arban, Duke of Kentucky, e ind, Gray Eagle, Mouud City Belle, and Colongl John Rednan, Trotting---Maud 1., Lyman B., Count Waldemar, Maud Cook, Novelty, Stock- of the events of ounties having out of 1,000,000, Who then i going to pay o ‘shilling for a “shocker” in big type when he can get a whole battery in brevier for a penny? i LI A young horse eut his nasal bone and also great gashes in his neck while en- e in & iarhed wire Totos &t Ren: dolph., A veterinary surgeon has pieces of ordinary” garden hosein the colt’s nostrils and throat for him to breathe through, and he is getting along first rate. put - Continental straw hats are maryvelous in shape and color. A Baron or aCount, with a ribbon of some order in his button- hale, sports & slate-color, sailor-shaped hat," or a dead ochre hat, with a long string; or, perehance, by way of variety, a gray brigand hat, with a black band, or rolean brown, with a small feather in the band, reo— Wanted. Five drug stocks and two hardware stocks in exchange for some very fine Omaha property. L. P. Proyn, S Cheap Houses, We have four neat housesand good Jots in desirable locality, which we “will sell cheap §f taken this week. Easy terms CUNNINGHAM & BRENNAN, 1511 Dodge. e Yuttle & Allisou, lns. Agts., 211 8. 13th,