Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 21, 1886, Page 4

T SR S 2SS e " DATEN TUN e I ALY B " e 14l iy 1), 1 NP g olnry Publie firat dily aworn coretary of the 1A LIAE 6 Aetunt Ay Hon of the Dalty Bee for W toplen; for Mareh for Aptil, 1%, 19,101 1AM voples ; for Jiine fut 111y, 190, 19,514 0o 18,404 voploafop & T, | Gro 10 Teci e Mubsetibed Al sworh (o before e this 2 day of October, A, 1), 1w0, N, I, Frit FAT Notary Publie HEPUBLICAN STATE TICKIT, olhg Ay AL e ) Pow | e IR ity Ao oty of dan for Fubitinty 1w, 1| | oo for May, 18 19, 1 Aol for A 1, | entember, 0 eyl For Governor JOHN M Yor Lisut, ( 1 For Secretary of State G, L, LAWS, For Treasurer C 1L WILLARD, For Auditor- 11 A, BABCOCK For Attorney General - WILLIAM 1L ERSF, For Pablle Lands - JOSEPI SCOTT For Supt, Pablic nstruction —GEO. 13, LANI IHAYEI SIEDD, REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET. GEO, W, LINING BRUNO TZSCHUCK, For leprescntativ W Go WHITMORE, Fol DA KD, GEO. HEIMROD, R K HALL, JOHN MATTHIESON, JAMES I YOUNG, T. W. BLACKBURN, M. O, RICKETTS, For County Attorney: EDWARD W. SIMERAL. or County Commissioner: ISAAC N, PIERCE THE populnr vote will not go by de- fault. Honco the shifeks of anguish from tho rallrond organs. Tk oity of Cloveland is bragging over a0 increnso of 35 per eent, in bank clear- fngs. When Omaha fails to reach an Inerense of 60 per cent. her people feel that times aro rather hard. Now that the council has deeded the property to the company who propose to bore for natural gas, we shall soon see whather the city 18 to become the great- ost manufact uring center of the west. Let the drill revolve. — Anrast HEWITT is o great sufferer from »l sness. An clection to the New York mayoralty is not the best of pre seriptions for such adisense. Mr. Hewitt, if looted, will have some twenty import- ant oftices to divide among the clashing olans of the Now Yor k democracy. Buxser Cox, who left cong) oopt a Loreign mission, threw up his seat wt Washington because “he was tired of thrashing over the samo straw year after your." Aftor u yoar's absonce Sunset bus concluded to take up the congros- gionnl flail ngain. This is * Why We Laugn.” —— Acconping to n Paris letter inn New York vaper, Mr. Cherreul, the cminent oentonurian, bonsts of the fact that he Sived to see four kings in France, That's pothing. There are dozens of men in Omaha not half so old who have seen . four kings time and again and didn't bonst of it, even when thelr opponents ¥aked in the pot, —— Coronen voters of Douglas county Bave an ablo representative on the re blican ticket in the person of Dr. loketts, Mr. Rioketts is an enterpris- ang and aggrossive ropublioan and stands Bigh among his poople. He should poll g-r* colored vote in Omuha 1 spite of it Ford and his boasted intluence. —_— Axp now the Northwestern will cheer fully honor itselt by building direct 0 Omaha if arantoed a handsowe sub- sidy. Why not' Any other railvoad would do the same. Douglas county will mever vo'o another dollar in bonds to gorporation which is not controlled in Pouglas county sl operated for the ben- ol of Lor citizens ts started Omaha's s to ao- PusLio improveme adyance in real estate by sttracting popu Intlon and w enterprises to the city. Publie improvements are maiotaming walues by the iucrewsing demand for property which they foster, and the in oromsing vopulation which they draw Public improvement have been, and will gonlinue Lo be for yeurs, the lode stone of Omaha's prosperity Epr——— Cuusen Howe would hardly @nough to forge those perfunct folendorseniont which he is with so mueh pride. They s Ble enough for that. What doss ox Prosidont Arthur know about the Ne maha fraud that his congratulutions & which he oxtends to him over his nows- Slou should influence & voter He would pond the same words of cheer to auy re o “ nominee who wrote as Chyreh did to sohoit big sndursement, It | Arthur bhad knowa half Uhareh Howe's history he would have ined smphatieslly to cheor him in W) canvass. J be fool y lotters exhibiting not valua | tw Tirisstant f tag Howie how and how 1t clection canvasser No jud e, and ne 1 ballot contain prefor the e, The courts would promptly right any such attempted I'he gang of boodlers and anti Wk who are ting in agony over the prospect of Linavy popular vote for the people's ean didate only making themselves ri 1118 oquatly ahsurd to assert that print ing the name of any candidate for the sennto on the party a violation of th was de ignod to protect rogularly nominated \tes from conspiracies under guise of the party name, It twisted to apvly to oxpression of opinion which the state conven tions of neither of the parties tackled. Any eandidate for senatorial honors, has the right under the law to cull out the vote by having his name printed or pasted on the state ticket I'he statute makes no provision for o allot, It does make provision nvass of the vote by the legisla which eanvasses the vote for state s, (ehapter 26, section 51), Compiled tutes, ‘Canvass of vote for state offi- oera.'' The law expressly provides that the senatorial vote shall be canvassed with the vote for officers on the state ticket. ‘The only ballot in the absence of other special provision, throngh which popular will can be expressed is through the ballots for state oflicers. All the howl and cry of the railroad brigade over the method proposed to voice the popu- lar will under the law is only intended to defeat the operation of the law itself. 1t will not succeed in accomplishing its object. nee on Vin ruilrond howlers tiekets i clection law. The 1 candid the cannot 1 v mere upon an issue soparato for the « ture The Nemaha Chameleon. Natural histories inform us that the chameleon ean change his color at will. Church Howe in his rapid transform: tions in politics can give the chameleon points and beat him st i own game. In 63 Ciurch was marshal of Wyoming rritory as n republican federal appoint- mont. He stalwart of the stalwarts and bragged of his fidelity to party as one of his most characteristie virtues. Those who knew him best at the time do not hesitate to say that his faithfulness to republicanism was only excelled by his fidelity to the interests of his pocket hook. He left a bad odor benind him in Wyo ming whose scent still lingers among the sage brush and greasewood. When he lost his federal oflice Church Howe made his first vault. From ardent republicenism he became a ram- pant independent. Shocked at what he termed the “hideous corrup- tion in the rty"’ he bade it a tearful furewell, The grange was then flourish- ing and he became a_granger hoping to ride into influence on the crest of that movement., As grand master he discoy- ered that there was more money to be made from the railroads and he slaught- ered the grange and turned a somersault into the ranks of the railroad lobby as a legislative free-booter. His political spine having become limbered by these two acrobatic feats, Church Howe found it no trick at all to turn a handspring into the demoeratic camp, When Nelse Pat- rick made his memorable campaign for thesenatorship,Chureh Howe made $3,000 by pocketing the campaign fund and sasting his vote for that sterling bourbon nominee. In 1876 this convert to democ racy placed himself on record as pro- testing against the canvass of the vote in Nebraska for Huyes and Wheel and boldly voted in the succeeding legislature against a resolution atlirming their title to office. A year later, when a republi- can administration for at least four years was assured, the mountebank from Nem- aha made a startling flop over into the republican camp. He wisely omitted all references to his previous performances, but howled himself hoarse for the grand old party and the interests of his dear constituents. As there was no other party organization to tackle, Church has since remained a republican for revenue only. And this is the man who is appeal- ing to republieans to support him be- eausa he is a republican, and to overlook his checkered carcer because be suc- coeded in capturing the party nowina tion. For County Attorney. ‘I'ne nomination of Edward W, Simeral for county attorney is one of the strong- est of the strong nowinations on the re- publican county ticket. It appeals di- rectly to taxpayers who under the law vow about to go into operation will be furnished with a legal adviser of their own sclection. Formerly the county at- | torney was chosen Ly the board of com- missioners, and his duties were purely advisory to the board. The office is now | combined with that of prosecuting attor- ney, who is clected by direct vote of the people. Mr. Simeral is an able, experi- enced, honorable and upright young re- publican, who bas manfully fought bis way upward in thig eity. He has been known from boyhood to our people and tus record aud reputation are without spot or blemish. Taxpavers who know him will feel every confidence im his in. | wgrity and in his ability to baudle the legul affairs of this community . But Mr. Simeral's: eandidacy appeals even more strongly to the young men of Douglas couaty, smong whom he has been prowinent for a number of years. His success in life and in- his profession tae been anotable example of what 8 : ean accomplish by untiring young ma %40 accomplish by wuk enorgy snd hard staly, The enthusiasm OMAHA THE DAILY BEE: ngor mombers of the bar, and | succsed again ng men of both pol for Simeralye \cos the pop this im The no mis st hi € candidacy lass of o r citizenshin, vo make iSdward W y, by st Simera L a majority What Depends on the Mayoralty Cons test in New York ymes from Washin ude o Hon, A ind that Hewitt | more than that 1 himself freely and in ymplimentary way of Cleves methods. Thi o the willingness of Mr gives anew Hewitt to retire from congress,whore his oppost tion to Cloveland could at best amount protest only, by wl ind to accept the nomination for mayor of New York City, in which office he could make his opposition a power to be felt in the presidential election of 1888 When Cleveland appointed Hedden collector of the port of New York, he soon tound that he had pat into the most iportant federal office in the country a friend of his most dangerous rival for the presidential succession. When it beeame munifest that Hedden was using his oflicial influence and power of appoint ment in the interests of Governor Hill, Cleveland removed him and sub. stituted Daniel Magone, a po litical lieutenant of Tilden’s, and who conld therefore be depended upon to support Tilden's presidential heir. This appeared to make the stronghold of New York democracy safefor the Manof Destiny two years hence. But now all is god. Hewitt is nommated for mayor by Taummany, which, by grace of Joln Kelly, only came Iate and half-heartedly to the support of Cleveland in 1834, and is endorsed by the county democracy. Hewitt's opposition to the adwministration must be as well known in New York City as m Washing- ton, and it is quite natural to infer that t opposition, it not the controlling actor in his selection, yet had much to do with it. With Hewitt as mayor con- trolling the city democraey, and Gover- nor Hill that of the s it is not difficult to predict that the New York delegation in the next national convention will not be for Cleveland. But what of M. snecch, ton yote char Hewitt’s chanees of success? Twice in recent years—in 1850 and in 1882, there were clean-cut elections for mayor of New York: the democrats were united on one candidate, and the republican candidate constituted the oni opposition. The demacratic vote in 1850 was 101,760 —the republican 98,715, In 1882 the democratic vote was 07,802—the repub- lican 76,385, It will be scen therefore that 3 votes withdiawn from the democe- racy in 1850, or 10,700 in 1882, would have alected & republican mayor. In the present contest Henry George, as the workingmen's candulate, started out with a pledged support of 30,000 votes, and his supporters claim that he will get ,000 or 60,000 votes. As the Irving Hall wing of the democracy has endorsed George, the estimate of his vote appe reasonable. Without doubt, too, ti lnrgest portion of that vote will come from the democratic rank An the election of 1885 irving Hall and Tammany united and the county de- mocracy stood alone on local olficc: ‘The vote stood on sheriff: itepublica County democia 55,489 Tammany and Irving Hali... 4,151 But on governor the united democratic vote teil off 9,037, while the republican vote increased 9,858. Without George in the field there 15 a democratic majority ordinarily to be depended upon of about 50,000; with George, and so popular a re- publican as Theodore Roosevelt, who will receive the hearty support of all the mugwumps, Mp, Hewitt can at most expect small plurality. 65,500 but a and should George's vote unexpeetedly go beyond the estimate of his friends, it would doubtless elect Roosevalt. The democratic majority in New York city is very largel ro-workers, and these shmen, with whom Henry George is very popular by reason of his lectures in England and Ireland on land reform. The Irish have hitherto constituted the strength ot demo- cracy, but in 1884, 25,000 of them in New York voted for Blaine, and this defection will inerease, for their example will be contagious. It will be seen, therefore, that if George's candidacy does not elect Roosevelt and so strengthen the repub- licans as to give them the state in 1888, Hewitt's election is likely to lose it for Cleveland. Henry George may therefore deterwine the next presidency. e Against the Tyranny of Conventions, The Omaha Republican on Sunday con- tained an editorial under the caption of “Good Sense,” which was conspicuous for the absence of that quality. Its bur- den was the old ples to stand by the party nominations and the party organization under all circumstances ana conditions. If things that are old are entitled to ever- lusting veneration; if things that are es- tablished must never be disturbed; if ac- cepted theories, moss-covered policies, uutiquated principles, are not to be que tioned, then the teachings of experience and the lapse of time add nothing to huwan knowledge, and we should seek in the catacombs of Egypt for guidance in the present. History Is strewn with protests which led to reforms. All progress is a protest against the past. The barons of England, protesting sgainst old polieies, demanded and received Magua Charta from King Joha. Qur revolution was a protest against tyrauny, and the right prevailed, LThe abolitionists waged a war against slavery for more than thirty years, and they tri- wmphed. David Wilmot, by his proviso deelaring that the territories were of right free, carried the best part of the demoeratic party into what became the republican party, and the election ot Lincoln resulted. ‘‘Resistance totyranny 15 obedience to God.! Opposition to error in parties, to corruption in men is the duty of eyery eitizen. A successful party inevitably draws to itself the adventurers in polities as camp followers gather about an army for spoil The men who make a trade of politics become more skilled than those who simply read and vote incidentally to their ordinary vocations, A thoroughly un- scrupulous and skiliful manipulator of priwaries and conventions will too often lofty prin differentto ¢ tance 1 trutl und When men morali v man has things 1« and Lis public conrse is colored as Joseoh peatedly partics, ar s cont; whe his friends worn his prin on his coat slecve, not be pecked at but to b for, the rc nublican varty stultifies itself by making If the republican party is not strong enough to take purg ing physic to remove its wicked bile, it is not merely deathy it is dead already. Church Howe has secured g pomins tion for congress in this distvict. He is a gambler in politics, and has been play- ing a brace game throughout his politi cul career, He is a soldier of fortune. Lverythin 1sh that comes to his net The pica that the next congress may be close is used to justify the party in sus- taming Howe, but ¢ on that plea what has Howe done in the past to jusufy thie belicf that he ean be depended upon in a crisis? His convicuons have been in the market for years, His vote and voice haye gone to the highest bidder. e has made rc publicanism the mask behind wihich he concealed his politic With record which his warmest ad mirers dare not defend, he stands as the republican nomimee for cong in this district only beeause its overwhelming parly majority was believed stron enongh to carry through any candidate whose name was horne on n republican ticket. Every republican who has the interests of the party at heart should as sistin burying him under a mountain of adverse republic: bid him its representative approaching on charlatanism. 1 voles MARKED inerease in the annual min- eral production of the country is shown by the report of the United States g logical su for 1885, This is intere ing as a zood indication of the improve ment in business. One of the first of - dustries to suffer wlien money is tight is the mining business. There is alw I speculative -plengent involved m carrying it on and jeapital, proverbially cautious, becomes stilf more timid in times of depression. The present vol- ume of the government reports on min ing is the third of the scries prepared by the division of miningl statisties and technology nd - known “‘min- eral resources repobt.’' The st tistics in hand point out that the year 1835 makes a better showing than cither of the two previous years. The totals given may, as the Teport says, be duc to more complete returns and closer estimates, but they indieate at the same time, in the opinion of those who collected them, a more profitable business Year than cither 1883 or 1834, It would be interesting if the extent of the min- eral product for the first six months of the present year could be ascertained und brought into comparison. st ge, as M. THORNDYKE RIcE has been fully compensated for the indignity put upon bim by Minister Phelps, Ho has been twice admitted to the presence of his Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales,and has thus been permitted to bask in the smilos of prospective British sovereignty. The liberty of the press in this conntry is still spfe. PRESIDENT GREVY has, it is said, de- aded to annul the decree of expulsion of the Duc d’Aun Can it be that the oift of Chantilly has already borne Truits If the report be true, however, it only shows that France hasnot yet got down io any appreciation of the nece: sity of holding fast to definate prineip The Gallie nature is swayed to much by impulse, KINGS AND QUE The German emperor is extremely fond of fishand has trouton his table every day. “The crown prince of Germany is o thrifty perion and not ashamed to turn an honest penny by selling milk from his dairy farm near Berlin, “The empress of Austria being out of health would seek aid ac the shrine of Lourdes only she dislikes the French government too much to go upon French soil, even incog. The queen of Italy, “the Marguerito of Marguerites,” as King Umberto calls her, dressed by Worth, changing her gowns four times a day. danelng like & sylph and riging like an amnzon, has vet time o fill the quiri- nal and her palico at Monza with crystals from Venlee, earving in ivory, old jewelry and in taglios., Prince Albert was the first of the royalties to dabble in land speculation, and there is no doubt that a considerable portion of the vast fortune that he left was the truit of those tr actions, The precise nature of the royal interest in South Kensimgton has never yet been made clear. When the tull and true his- tory is made known there will be some quoer revelations. The sultan of Turkpy i a cousin ot the late ewvroror of the Freuchi, He is directly descended from Mlie, Dabue de Rivry, who was captured by Algesine pirates and be- came the favorite wifeof the then Sultan Selims and shewas a greole, first cousin to Mile. ‘Tascher de In Pagerié—the Empre s Josephine, grandmothef of Napoleon 111, Prince Henry, of Batienbpre, hias recently incurted the disbleasurd of fie queen by his earnest protest against the kilt in which he was compelled toarray himséll last autumn, and jn Which he never dppeared: without in- eurring the derisive eomment of all be- bolders. Her majesty evidently tinks that as 8he Is compelled to fusnigh clothes for the Impecunious prince, s should be permitted to select the patiern. Queen Victoria, it is sald, is now in favor of placing Prince Waldewar, of Denmark, on the Bulgarian throne. Prince Waldemar, in leppunlhlu{Inuqmmmm ut to him by the czar as to whether he would come forward as Kussia’s candidate, consented upon the con- dition that he be given freedom of action in all internal affuirs, and, if he saw fit, to be rnitted 1o rwse Bulgaria 0 the rank of & kingdom, The ezar, as the story goes, hesi- tates over these stipulations of the prin T'he sultan of Moroeco is fond of trieyeling, bt too lazy to work the pedals himself; so ne bas had a gorgeous wachine constructed. propelled-by slave power. lle sits cross: legeed uvon an embossed couch, curtained and canopied with silk and silver and gold Athis right band is a clock, and gt bis feft & compass, in order that when beyoud the reach of the muezzin's eall the faithful Mohamme- dan may obserye the exact hour of prayer and the exact direction iu which his orlsons are o be addressed. OCTOBER 1886, 21, Keep It Before Republicans. The republicans of the First distric uld mselves ther a man vin re of Church upon th sh skt whe onjoc isnot to be o s Wy by ng it one of Ro ma pro noune cious campaign slanders I'hs recor of the legis] Church Howe was a m contain the onable ware of wh in it proofs of the treas and no denial can stand against evidence furnished by his own pen. Briefly told, the history of this plan to hand over the country to Tilden and democraey is as follows In 1816 Nebraska elected Strickland, Amasa Cobb and Connor presidential electors by 81,616 as against a voto of 16,951 cast for the Tilden and Hendricks electors. After the cleetion it was discovared that the canvass of this vote could not take place under the then existing law before the legislature convened. The electoral vote had to be canvassed in o Deccmber at the latest, W the reg sion of the legislature did not begin until Janua In order to make al canvass of the clectoral roturns, Governor Garber ealled a special session of the legislature to convene on the 5th of December, '76, at Lincoln, for the pur pose of canvassing the electoral vote of the state. The democeratic effort to cap ture republican electoral votes is historic. Tilden’s friends, notably Dr. Miller, had Deen plotting for the capture of one of the cleetors from Nebraska, and it 1s also historie that 1 large bribo was offered to one of the electors, General Strickland. The call of the legislature broke into the plan of the plotters, and they found a will ing ana reckless tooi - Church Howe Wien the legislature convened at the capi- tal,Chureh Howe fled a protest which may be found on vages 6, 7and 8 of the Ne braska House Journal of 18 The fol lowing extract makes interesting reading , Chureh Howe, a member of the legisla- ture of Nebraska, now convened by procla- mation of his excellency, Governor Silas Garber, for the purpose of canvassing and declaring the resalt of the vote cast m Ne- braska for electors for president and vice prosident of the United States, hereby enter my solemn protest against such act, denying that the governor has power to eall this body in special session for any sueh purpose, or that this body has any authority to canvass or declare the result of such vote upon the following grounds: First. "This lexislature now convened hav- ing been elected under what s known as the old constitution, has no power to act in the premises, the new constitution of the state having been m foice since November, 1575.” The second and third clauses deal with technical objeetions and arve somewhat lengthy. The concluding sentences of this precious document are as follows: “For the foregoing reasons I protest against any canvass of the clectoral vote of the state by -his body, and demand that this, my protest, 5¢ entered upon the journal” (Signea) Church Howe, member of the legislature of Nebraska. The demoecrats did not respond to the call 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 member. The protest en- tered by Howe was doubtless prepared by the Tilden lawyers in Omaka and Howe had the glory of being the sole champion of Sam Tilden. The legisla- ture 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 height . Washington, Church Howe had ehanged places from the house to the seru arly in the session, a resolution was introduced expressing the conviction on the part of the senate that Hayes and Wheeler haying received a majority of the electoral votes were en- titled to their seats. This resolution gave rise to a very lively debate which lusted two days. Church Howe askea to be excused from voting when it first came up and was so excused. On the final passage of tho resolution the record [page 376, Senate Journal 1877,] shows the following resuit: Yeas—Ambrose, Baird, Blanchard, Bryant, Calkins, Carns, Chapman, Colby, Dawes, Gar- fiold, Gilham, Hayes, Kennard, Knapp, Pepoon, Powers, Thummel, Van Wyck, Waiton 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 logisla- ture, Church Howe's vote on United States senator for the first three ballots is recorded as haying heen cast for E. W. Thomas, a South Carolina democrat, [pages 198 and 208 Senate Journal.] All this time Church Howe professed to be a republican independent, republican on national issues and & temperance granger on local issues, Wo simply ask what rignt a man with sueh a record has to the support of any republican, mber indelible conspiracy Silas A n. vote of s08 Becoming Used to Bhakes, Chicago News. The people of Charleston are becoming so familiar with earthquakes that they ring thel gongs and yell “chestnuts” every time the dishes begin to rattle. Earthquakes are nothing when you get use to theui. i b bcat A Brilliant Record of Failure. Albany Exrpress. One by one the democratic errors hav been developing, and yet when it is consid ered that the party has been in power but cighteen months the sum total of sins of omission and commission I3 nothing less than startling. -~ Not the Stage, but the People who are on it Chicagos Herald. “Is the Stage Lnmoral ' continues to stare at people as the headings of newspaper arti- cles aud sermons. No, the stage itself is & very exemplary piece of carpenter work. Some of the people who strut their brief hour on the boards need to be looked after occas- ionally, bowever. S Giving Away Family Se Brooklyn Citizen (Dem ) Thie officeholder is ho longer notified that he must pay 5o much: he is wmerely invited to contribute, and told what will be satisfac- tory, The reform of which we bave heard ets. H 50 much and mendation is in practi to a change in are seen 8o littlo worthy of com found to be reduced the phraseology of the b - Name M. A S T'wo armies forth to battle went, Decked out in full array In the of' Liberty. I'he other wore t serty I they ery tered long and pondered well, only conld exelaim: SOh, Liberty, how many crimes Ate wrought in thy sweet name.” STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska dottings, The, quahty and quantity of the corn crop in Dixon county this year were never better Ihe business men of Fremont are ar} ranging for an_exenvaion (o Lincolnt SWelll have ajolly time.” The cow must go from the pastures of Nebraska City, peacefully, if possible, or by powder, if necessary. Surveyors of the proposed Sioux City and Denver “air’” line are said to be operating in the Loup valley Fremont is confident that the B, & M will build a branch to that eity from the Ashland cutofl. Surveyors are said to he running a line on the north side of the Platte to the “Prettiest.” Sherifl Nels Andarson, ot Ce purchased o farm of 70 which cost him £15 an ac He will cultivate beats, quashes and in reetings that demand warrants or promise reward, A Kansas man tackled an 1tene Cloud home and reounty, with an achin it tooth-tinker ter rammed his nipper cted a large section of the Kansan's jnw and dislocated the re- mainder. Lhe tooth-tinker escaped on the first train. “The saloon men of Niobrara agree to close up shop and abandon the business if the prohibitionists donate $1,500 a year to the school fund. There is no danger of aceeptance. ‘The drive well agitators will never “'shut up,” much less put up to reform the world A freight train on the St Omaha road went through a brid Emerson Saturday, wrecking the engine and four cars, ‘The engineer jumped and escaped, but Fireman Patrick O'Hern went down into the aby nd miracu lously escaped injur) Fred Granzill, of Fremont, while braid- ing the tail of a’ mild-cyed broncho, was fannea by the latter’s hoels. He lost sev- eral teeth by the contact, besides seeuring a flattened nose and a bruised foreh He will live, but the Romanesque out! lines of his phiz are beyond repuir. Nebraska City is trembling on the brink of ruin. ‘Church Howe threatens to stop the construction of the Missou Pacific to the city unless the yoters pile up a majority for him atthe polls. Every worker for Howe is promised a track through his back yard, with a round house in front, with an annual pass a permanent job if they suceeed in ing the city. The six-year-old son of Daniel ( found a blink cartridge and atonce or ganized a Fourth of July celebration. Pluacing it on u rock, and taking deliber- ate aim, he struck it with a hammer. When the smoke rose above the ruins young Garfl's lamentations followed, His face was like a war map-of Bulgaria puinted red, ‘Fne damages are disfigur- 15y but not scrious, ‘The youthful town of Gr uncommon inducements to young men to stay away from there. Among the advertised advantages of the tow that Adams fall not because there Eves there to tempt; the apple-bl maiden is happily non est; there are no pearl-eyed damsels to break your lower jaw by a vicious left-hander, and there n sh balls to scent the air oren- courage dyspepsia. The case of D. A. Hale and W, L. Mil inst M. Kellner, a stock and g er of Madison, fell through in the trict court last week, and Kellner wus honorably discharged. Kellner was an active business rival of the compluainants and they sought to wreck him by cireu- lating stories that he cheated his patrons, nd had him arrested, When t case came up for trial they were unable to es- tablish the truth of their charges, Paul & nt holds out lowa Items, Onawa claims to have a genui® build ing boom, A Scranton man claims to have fownd a portion of Noah s ark while digginga w near that city recently. A state bank was recently organized Sutherland, and now a national bank to be started with a capital of 50,000, 1t will be the only one in the county. Ed. Vannatta, an employe in the press room of the Sioux City Journal, fell against the pro Monday, und had his arm cut off between the wrist and elbow. Some time during Friday night last six horses were stolen from the farm of L. Stenberg, Beaver township, Polk county. No clue as yet has been obtained us to the thieves. State warrants have been drawn on the treasury ror $26,280 for support of the inmates of the insane hospital at Inde- pendence, and $10,000 for the cottage in course of construction. Two Plymouth girls ran away from their homes to escape a whipping and went to Sioux City, where the police took them m. They were returned to their narents, who hustled them to bed in a hand-some manner. Three boys, whose combined ages sum up to about thirty-six years, left their homes av Carthaze one day last week to o out west and kil Indians, Ofticers are after them’ and they will undoubtadly be taken home and severcly spanked with the maternal slipper. A terrible accident happened in Sioux county one day last week. A scven- year-old son of Jacob Cleveringa, while riding a horse, was suddenly thrown to the ground and s foot caught in the halter. The horse took fright and ran away, dragging the boy after him. One of Liie boy's urms canghtn o wire fence and was literally torn off at the elbow. He was finzlly rescued and iis arm am- putated, and is now in a fair way to re- cover. Bassie, the four-year-old daughter of Mr.and Mrs, Johw Miller, of Ashton, died recently from the efitets of & sad accident. While the family were at sup- por o oldost daughter pmssed o cup of tea over little Bossie's head, and Mrs Miller nocidentully it the eup with | arm, spilling the hot tes over the child's neck and back. The little one, delicate an¢ lacking vitality to rally from the nervous shock, died in a few hours, Dakot A five pound potato is on exhibition in Thomus, A county seat contest is Campbell county A druggists’ association for South Da kota was organized at Mitchell yester: day. Huron has built 150 new during the past year, and double that nuwber next season. St ripening in resigences pects 1o | 1atter shosw the prospority of the pco During . the past month they bund £3%0,081.87, and have on deposit subject to cheek or demand, $196,256.67 The alleged existence of a platinum posit in the Black Hills is exciting sulerable mterest just now among | pectors, and the lucky man who succe | in locating & claim which dev nto a platinum mine will be lucky e metal is valuablo for n commercial value 15 vound ayoird ghal he z over $100 per Wyoming vors on the Cheyenne & N fo los boyond Fort R rails at the rate of two miles 11 iny T'he democratic candidate for clork Laramic county was dropped from | ticket beeavse he conld not put up €100 | for campaign expenses T cmen of the territory deving plans to dispense with by Thie yearly loss tostockmen in hidesis ¢ trnated at §1,00,00, or $2 a hide. A social eventin Cheyenne Jast week was the marringe of James Hughes, colored man, to Mary Crawford, & whiie woman, Highes has a sufficient vile of “rocks™ to soften the color line. - FRENCH CANADIANS. 0w They Have Increased During tho Last Century. All the Year Round: A century and a quarter ago the white population of Can ada consisted ot about sixty thousand wdy French colonists, who, with theit Indian aliies, principally oceupicd the best and richest iands on the shores of the St. Lawrence, between the towns of Quebee and Montreal Some few were settled on the banks of the Richelien, which flows northward from Champlain near the litle town of So formerly called William Henry, aft the sailor monarch who once hon ored it with his presence. The remainder of the vast area now known the Dominion ot inda—which stretehies from the Atlanite to the Pacitic, v, bounded on the south by the frontier line of the United States, touches with its northern boundary the extreme limits keown to Aretic explorers—was then a wild and trackless country, vered in great part by thick forests, teeming with animal life and traversed by wandering bands of savage and crafty Indians, who were supported by the fuge herds of buflalo which roamed over the prairies and by the fish that abounded m oevery Jake and river. The province of Quebec, alone the size of modern Germany, w with the exception of the region botween Quebee and - Montreal, an uninhabited wilderness. To-day the French-Canadians have creased to a number which may be com puted at over one million ana a'h they buve become something more 'than an ordinary factor in the population of five millions, which, including English, Scoteh, Irish and Frenchmen, hias spread itself over British North Ameriea, from Halifax in the east to Vancouver's island in the west. They ure still chiefly_to be found in tae province of Quebee, French names being rarcly met with in other portions of Canada us they are in Eng- land. The spectacle of fifteen hundred thousand Frenchmen, speaking theirown language, following their own manners and customs, and practicing to a_certain extent their own laws, in a conutry i which they ure » conquerad people, is n very remarkablo ouc. How muny nations besides England woutd have allowed this condition of things to continuc it is not very difiicult to say DOUGLAS CASTLE. An Earl Whose Laziness Saved Scots land’s Crown, All the Year Round: Amile or so above Boniton Lynn the Clyde, which flows down toward the fall in™*placid wimplin® course,” receives the water of Douglas whose ' pleasant_valley opens out i a northwesterly dircetion with the quiet old town of Douglas lying high among the moorlands, Close by 18 Douglas castle, itself a structure of ihe eighteenth cen: tury, but with a ruined fragment stillleft of the old hola of the Douglas of whom this was the original seat—that is, if any such word can be applied to o family whose origin_is lost in the mists of anti- quity, as is written in- Wyntoun's rhym- ing chronicle Of Murraye and the Douglas, 1low that their begynnyng was, Syn sunduy men sheuk sundriée, Tean put that in nae storig, building, partly ruin, id partly mausolean,are ry monumental efligies t Douglases—the good Sir Jnmes, Krahibald, frst Barl nnd- Dake of Teurounine in France; Jumes the fat seventh Earl, whose indolent somno- lence at o critical crisis of the famly history saved the crown of Scotlund for the Stuarts—all these may be recognized membered in their stately monu- sadly defaced indeod by the stress of time and the attacks of stono-throwing urching in the days when the church was roofless and uncared for. Above the junetion of Douglas Water the Clyde makes a wide detour about the buse” of Tynto Hill, an outlying and solitary sum- niit, a notable featurd in_the landscape for miles around,and familiar as a house- hold word in the homes of those who dwell thereabouts, Set her up on Tinto toy is also an old rhyme of some purport, noteworthy, in that there is‘an almost_identical rhyme connected with Hydon ball, a comminding point on the sand ridges overlooking the weald and the South Downs, On ‘Tintock tap there is a wist, And in the mist there is a kist, And in the Kist there is a coup, And in the coup there is a drap; Tak’ up the coup, drink off the drap, And set the coun on Lintock tap. The “Hen Minister” Down in Maine, Boston Record: At un island on the coast of Muine, which is much resorted to, there is an esteemed local elergyman who is known to the summer residents, nearly sl of whom are Bostonians, ag the “hen minister.”” This is by reason of his habit of telling, in scason and out of season, 0 certam story which gueerly illustrates the idea of fuith “I preached s sermon one Sunday,” the good minister will say, “on the doc- trine of faitn, in which I taughtmy hearers the good christian doetrine thit ull things muy bo brought about by faith, instructing them that faithis the evidence of things not seen, the substauce of things hoped for. There was a farmer’s wife in the congregation who wus greatly edificd by the sermon, and came to me and told me that she now understood just what faith was “Next Sunday morning I overtook hoe on her way to church, “*'See here, Parson,’ re cor and In a cu partly church, to be found sund of the gre says she, ‘I don't k much of your teachin' about fuith,’ ‘Why not?'" I asked, *Why,” says she, ‘the other day 1 heard my speckled hén a-cacklin’ like all w pay. “Now,"” say I, “hero is a chance to show what faith is. That speckled hen's egg is the evidence of things not seen; the substance of things hoped for, I have faith that she's luuf a0 egg, and I'm sure that when I'll go out to lfie shed Ll find it So I goes'out and looks for it, and there wasn't sny egg there, and that speckled hen badu' Iaid any. Now, what's your faith good for, I'I like to know ?' SAnd then,” the minister will say, *I d her what was the matter with™ her faith. ‘It was meant ag a rebuke to you that _you didn’t find any egg there,' said L *You'd ought to have trusted in' God, and vot in the hent'" - Garfield Tea at Hammond & Co.'s, Rapid City has a population of 8,000 and two bunks. The business of the grocers, Counse Blook, Full purticulars and free sample at store. i -