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il 1 e " s man by one of Pinkerton's detective hire- THE DAILY BEE.] PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING For Throo M The Omab address, A Sapday 1 Ono Y oa WATA OFF post vl Jerof the compauy, ANY, PROPRIETORS, Emron OMAN A 10 be tmad THE BEE PUBLISKING CO F. ROSEWATI Drait THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. State of Nebraska, | . County of Douglas, | Geo. 13, Tzseliuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circuiation of the Daily Bea for the week ending Oct. 15U, 1556, Was a3 follows Saturday, Oct, 9 Sunday. 10. 3| Monday, 1 Tuesda . Wednesday, Thursday, 13 Friday, 1 Ave G Sworn to and subseri this 16th day of Octol L] Notary zschuck, being first dul y sworn, and says that he is seeretary of the dep Bee Publishing company, that the act Al av- wrawe daily circulation” of the Daily I the month of L 1856, was 10, 505 copiess f April, 1 January 1850, 1 r A 886, August, 155, 12,464 co) 030 copies. G0, Subseribed and sworn to before me this 2d day of October, A, D., 186, _N. P. Frit [SEALI Nofary Public. REPUBLICAN For Governor—JOHN M. TH For Lieut. Governor—I1, I SHE! ForSecretary of State—(i. L, LAWS, For Treasurer—C. H. WILLARD, For Auditor—I1. A, BABCOCK. For Attorney General—WILLIAM 1,1 For Com. Public Lands—JO Il SCOTT, For Supt, Public Instruction- 0.B.LANE. REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET. For Senators: For Representativos: W. G. WHITMOR: F. B HIBBAKD, GEO. HEIMROD, R. 8. HALL, JOHUN MATTHIESON, JAMES R. YOUNG, T. W. BLACKBURN, M. O. RICK For County Attorney: EDWARD W. SIMEKRAL, For County Commissioner: ISAAC N, PIERCE —— e A FEW more retirements of democrats from the Douglas county ticket wil! make the politicians even more tired than the party. Every friend of Senator Van Wyck should work to eall out the popular vote and see that the General’s name is on his ballot on clection da; 3 R has not yet discov- that he is running against anyone. An expedition should at once be organ- *ized to hunt for the furthest north. 'zschuck at the head of our legislative delegation equal in ability and staading any candidates which the republican party of Douglas county has named in years for the state senutors. Bora of the proposed constitutional amendments should be adopted by good majoritics. If put into efloct they will work a long needed reform in the con- duct of public business at the state capitol. — finds that his of the kind thut counts, His constituents appreciate s faithful and hard work by turning out and work- ing for a majority which promises to be the heaviest ever given for a ropublican congressional candidate in Nebraska, S ——— Vorers of Nebraska should search the records of every candidate for the legis- lature. The men who have betrayed their trusts and refused to voioe the wishes of their constituents in times. past should be left at home. Traitors and tricksters ought to hitve no place in the next legis- lature. — Crurent HoWE hus been an abolition ropublican, & Johnson republican, an in- dependent republican, a railroad republi- can—in fact every kind of a republican but an honest republican. In addition he has been a granger, an independent democrat and a Tilden bovrbon, For variegated politics Church Howe's po- litical rocord should tuke the first prem- am of dyerwhelming defeat at the hands honest men e—— Tur Nemaha fraud is dealing lmflviliy | in political blackmail Ly tareatening alt 7 interegts which oppose him in the First district with the wrath of his masters in uhse they refuse to change front. He tried to bulldoze the Lincolvites by threats of the capital removal, and warned contractors on the Missourl Pa- cific that they would be thrown out of their jobs it they failed to vote straight. This is the kind of & man whom voters of integrity are asked to support on the sole ground that s name will be printed on republican tickets on election day. ————— Tuere should be a rigid investigation of the shocting of a Chieago working- lings. In times of excitement working- men's lives are held too cheap nowadays. Omalia workingmen remember the cold- blooded murder of one of their number several years ago at the hands of a militiaman. They also remember Church Howo's defense of the dastardly deed and his bard work in the legislature to pass the bill appropriating the taxpayers' money for the whiskey und free lunches sensumed on that occasion. His Claims for Support. Senator Van Wyck is the first.candi date f re-election to the senate who has ul ness to appeal to his con tituents for an endorsement of his can dida Lalone on the record” which has made. Other candidates have de pended upo ! uils, upon combi- | f) \ on the rivalries of osing candid Senator Van | ind voiced by their representatives, Heis | willing to st e fall on the issue which | 1 wkes. Six years ago when sclected for the high office which he now holds, | Charles H, Van Wycek pledged himself to | certain measures and a certain line of policy. He announced himself asthe un fultering advocate of principles of | wniti-monopoly, as the determined oppo- nent of fraud and corruption in high places, and he vledged himself to work | wnd vote for the interests of the people | which he represented. The pledges then made have been carried ont. Senator noec Van Wyck has g L national reputa tation as an able, uncorruptible and un swerving advoeate of laws regulating in- ter-state commerce, as an active and ag: gressive worker to render th ate more subject to the effects of popular opmion, and as an undeviating assailant of land grant steals, land syndicate frauds and land rob- bers of the public domain, His speeclics and votes on material issues have always been m rd with the sentiment of the state which he repre sented His views on the currency, on the tariff, and labor in its interests © voiced the views of his constituency. Above all, no taint of fraud has scente his record. His bitterest enemies hay, never dared to assert that he was owned or controlled by est or any in dividual. Such 1s the record, whose de- tails are known to every reader of the Washington dispatche, It is one of which Nebraskans have a right to be proud. Itis one on which Senator Van Wyck oan fearlessly base his claims for re-election, confident that it will not be 1gnored by an honest andintelligent con- stituency The Two Tests Applied, There are only two national grounds upon which Chnreh Howe can appeal for the support of republicans of the First district. The first is his loyalty to the purty which he now claims ; the second 15 his record as a seryant of the people. He muast fall by either test. No matter by whit means he has secured his present nomination at the hands of a republican convention, every citizen of Nebraska familiar with the history of pohtics dur- ing the past twelve years knows that Church Howe has no claims on republi- canism. He not only deserted it when defeat was staring it in the face, but he enemies In allied himself with Yts and sought its destruction legislatures he voted for democrats for United States senators. He rejoined the party for revenue only and is in the ranks to-day for the same purvose. As a representative of the people Church Howe's career is equally dishon- crable. From the day when he put his foot in Nebraska his hand two has been thrust up to the elbow in every dirty job hatched at the state cap- itol. As grand master of the grange he sold it out to the railroads, as member of the house he acted as an open stool pigeon of the monopolies and from his seat in the senate he strangled and throttled all anti-monopoly legislation which the friends of the peo- ple sought to press to n passage. His entire legislative career is sullied with seandals which have not been and can- not be denied. His vote and voice were always on sale to the highest bidder and his influence was used in favor of black- mailing prohibitory and anti-gambling legislation, which was only withdrawn when the assailed interests purchased his silence. The strongest advocate of Church Howe dare not endorse him as an honest man, The most stalwart of republicans make no attempts to defend his party apostacy, Voters are asked to cast thein ballots for this prince of trick- sters on the sole ground that the nomi- nation of the Beatrice convention “washed him white as snow” by throw- ing over lus corrupt carcass the mantl of a party endorsement of his candidacy. Presidential Prospects. Certain democrats appear to be casting about to see if a presidential candidate for their party in 1888 could not be found in the west, From 1864 to 1830, their six candidates were from the east, four from New York and one each from Pennsyl- vania and New Jersey. One only, the last from New York, succeeded, and many shrewd men of that party resegnize the truth that that was a *“scratch.” On the contrary, from Lincoln down, with one exeeption, the republican candidates have been from Illinois and Ohio, and the castern exception was beaten. We have in the western or middle states men who could carry New York, even if that state were indispensable, which it is not, but no democrat west of that state has ever been suggasted as at all likely to be able to carry it. Itis morally certain, therefore, that the demoeratic candidate in 1888 will be again an eastern man the chances lying between Clev 8 Hill, Randall and Carlisle, while the re- publicans have the western, middle and eastern stutes to choose from To the democracy it is indispensable to carry New York; to the republicans not, Had- Blaine carried Indiana and cither Connecticut or New Jersey he would have been elected without New York, yet with Indiana, Connecticut and New Jersey, bat with- out New York, Cleveland w2i% have been defeated, This shows how much better the republican chances, or rather how much broader, in 1888 will be than the democratie. Claveland’s plurality in Indiana was only 6,527, in Connecticut but 1,206, and in New Jersey 4,858. The changing of 6,001 voles in these stutes would have given all to Blaine, and a change of 574 would have given him New York. The prohibition vote alenein Connecti- cut aud New Jersey lost us those stutes. How long the prohibitionists will con- tinue thus to be s bob to the democratic kite cannot be predicted, but we do pre- dict that St. John will be far less a power two years hence than he was two years ago. He accomplished nothing in Maine and we think he has had his day. In our nomination it is evident that as mueh if not more consideration should be given to Connectieut, Indiana and New Jersey as to New York. We could not have a better show for enough of th states to elect with more than one man | that could be named, while to keep New | York will be a life and death strugglo for | the demoerats — | United States Depositoriecs | A Boston exchange calls attention to fact that in the Jast gix months the national bank ¢ wtion has decreased £11,199,324, and that the redemption fund for the notes in the treasury has in creased during the same time §3,140,220, By adding th two amounts together it wrgues that the currency of the country has been contracted during th six months 10,339,558, mainly as ault | of bond calls. That some contrac \ has resulted from these ealls there is no doubt, but the Bek showed a few days since, on the statement of a treasury official, that the contraction is very grad ual, is in good part offset by the increase of silver ¢ and that to eall the increase of the rodemption fund a lock ing-up of currency is misleading, since it | vesults from crediting the banks with the | 90 per cent of the bonds called, out of | which eredit the bank notes are redeemed as they gradually come in, but that no steps are taken to foree them in Our Boston contemporary, however, makes a very good suggestion, viz., that the treasury should more liberally avail itself of the depository featuro of the national banking law, which empowers the sceretary of the tr to place all monies received by the government cept customs duties—with such national banks s he may make *designated de- positories,” taking as collateral sccurity a corresponding deposit of United States bonds, This would leave a la portion of the government receiptsin the chan- nels of trade, to be drawn against as needed, just as a merchant’s bank ac- count “is, while the varying balance would be subject to the bank's usein «is- counting business paper, just as the sum of the balances of all other depositors is. Of course United States bonds as col- lateral security for these deposits isun- questioned. Any man having bonds can borrow their in currency for use at the very lowest rate of interest, and bank depositories could well afford to pay the government 2 or 3 ver cent for its average depusits to be used in ais- counts at a higher rate. We do not know if there is any restriction i prac- tice as to the number of these depositor- ies, norif there is any difliculty in secur- g a designation, but there certainly should beneither. Where the operations of a government are so extensive as ours, its working balance of funds must needs be large, but, except where specifi- cully provided by law, as in the case of custom duties, these funds should be sub- ject to the people’s use in business inst of lying idle in the sub-treasuries. The sub-treasury system is an admira- ble one, and 1s the only good thing that has come down to us from Van Buren'’s administration. When Jackson with- drew the deposits from the United States bank, the public funds were de- posited with state banks with- out proper seeurity, and the government lost thereby many millions. With the better financial methods of the republican party, these sub-treasuries are not now so indispensable as when created, vet we should be sorry to see them abolished, as some democratsin con- gress have proposed. But the large: portion of the funds may now be d posited in banks with absolute secur and it should be dome atevery point where collections are made. This would make our circulation flexible. It would tificates, ox- | ce place all the money of the nation, except s always the customs dues, at the service of the nation, and it would ebh and flow in the channels of commerce with the regularity of ocean tides. Tennessee Beaten. It has been supposed that the campaign of the Taylor brothers in Tennessec was without a parallel in our politics, but it 1s double discounted by the contest in Ed- wardsville, Madison county, Illinois, for nate, which is thus describes W. R. Prickett, who represented his di trict in the lower house last year, is now democratic candidate for the state senate. The republican candidate is his brothel in-law, Hadley, and as soon as the was nominated the fun began. Prickett isa partner with his father-in-law, Ed- ward M. West, in the banking busines who is also a very strong demoerat and who has always aided Prickett in all his political fights, but this time he considered that he had done enough for him and that it was about time to help his republican son-in-law. Hadley 15 a lawyer and a shrewd one, and although the district 18 a strong democratic one, he and West have done yeoman's work for a few weeks and weakened Prickett not a little. Mrs. Hadley. however, has espoused the cause of Prickett because she doesn't want her husband to go to Springfield, and young Eddie Prickett has gone back on his parent and taken sides with Hadley. There are still further comphications, but these will serve to show to what extent the fight is mired up, Hadley od in by giving his professional services fr to thos whom he wished to conciliate, and Prick- ett gained & good many republican votes by loaning money, interest free and with- out security. Then Hadley bought and distributed ten gross of teething-rings among the infants in Madison count; and Prickett began a tour about the dis- trict kissing all the bubies, but struck a snag in the shape of a negro settlement, His son swears he will vote aguainst his father, and his father swears that the son hasn't a vote. Alleyes are turned toward Madison county to see the result of this unique confliet, The Forum for October contains a well- written article on “The Fisheries Dis- pute,” but it adds nothing to the general stock of knowledge on that subject. It merely states the situation succinetly, as has been done before, and shows that all real trouble now existing springs from arbitrary action of the Dominion under the Canadian law of 1868, and isintended to force us to restore the vrivilegeswhich were granted to the provinces in the Washington treaty of 1871, but whic were abrogated by instruection of co groess after July 1, 1885, by proclamation of the president. By an act of the imperial parliament, passed in 1867, the exclusive legislative authority of the parliament of Canada was recognized as regards the regulation of trade aud commerce, navigation and shipping. It was by color of this author- ity that the Canadian law was passed in 1868, intended to explain and enforeé the l | matter has arisen from the BEE: o I'he en unjustifiable he troaty'of 1318 the hatsh ani provisions of forcement o provisions of that aet jed to the treaty of 1871, by which this government granted reciproeity of trade to Uanada, and under which the Halifax commission adjuc that we should pay 500,000 indemnity for certain fishing s which it was held the ol ty did not confer, and by cunningly devised st tisties were muda tor appear of value Aft fourteen years' experience of i it was apparent that we had paid & large sum for vrivil s that were worth very little to. our fishermen, and concoded privileges to Canada which were very injurious to us, hence ve abol ished it. But be of great value to Canada she is now striving by a revival of the law of 1868 to so annoy and harrass our fishermen ause 1t was to induce our FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1 government to restore the privileges withdrawn. The chief difficulty in this | unjustitiable assumption of Canada, under imperial authority to regulate trade and com merce, navigation and shipping, to ex plain and enforce a treaty between this courtry and England. This she has hada no right to do by any international law, and England is eulpable for permnt ting her to do it. It is held in law th man has no right to punish his bor’s child, but he may eail that neighbor to account for the child's wrong-doing When we do this nd that we had better give her ehild cookic sugar plums and all sorts of v concessions, to the great injury of our own eitizens, it we would have peace The fishing business has greatlychanged Proposes since 1818, and the uniform testimony of our fishermen has been that they do not need toenter Canadian ports for any conceded, other purposes than those viz., shelter, wood, But around the. tions thrown by the C rities as to amount to a practi denial of them The evidence taken by the senate sub-committee of the committee on foreign relations, of which Senators Edmund anda Frye are members, at Glou cester, Boston, Provincetown and Port- land, as stated by Senator Frye, contirms this view. Our fishermen want nothing from Canada but treaty rights. They say for fifteen years the fishing imside the an autho three mile limit has been absolutely worthless, and they would give nothing for the privilege. About the pur- ch; of bait they care little, for, although it may mot be so con- venient, they can carry their buit from home, What they do complain of, howeve that construction of the treaty which draws the ‘]inv from head- land to headland jot bays, nd thus illegally excludes thém from bays which may be ten or twenty miles wide. They ask only of our government that Caunadian fish shall pot 'be admitted to our ports free of dufy. Jhere is not u market to-day to which we export fish in which we do not have to,pay duty. Our duty on salt or cured fish is only one cent per pound and Canada’s is bigher, while on fresh fish we lay noduty at all. Thus with ice and the wodern refriger ator cars, Canada “gends thousand; tons of fresh fish to us free of duty, and her ve are almost treated as pirates in their ports. Our fish market is an absolute n to Canada, while hers is .valu In many other directions, also, our ma kets are exceedingly v le to them, and they are deliberately and avowedly practicing & squeezeing process of out- rage and denial of rights and common commercial privileges upon our fisher- men with the hope of inducing our goy- ernment to give them again the rights so valuable to them, but equally injurious to our own citizens. " But by 'the exclu- sion of our vessels their people on the shores lose much valuable trade, and Sel or Frye thinks when they see the of its intent they n it is that what settlement of this question is wmade, must not be of the jug-hundle kind, as before. CoLox &, one of the oldest and most influential of Missouri journal- ists, and at present chief of the bureau of statistics at Washington, has been spending a few days in Omaha, the guest of his son, Warren Switzler, Esq. Since his appointment President Cleyeland, Colonel Swi: been de- voting to the duties of his- office all the energy and experience which made him s0 successful & newspaper man, A por- tion of the results of his labors will soon appear in areport upon the industries of the south, upon which special agents of his oflice have been industriously at work for a year past. In a passing con- by versation with the writer Col- onel Switzler remarked that the mvyestigations carried on would prove the amazing statement that no section of the country was show- ing such marvelous industrial progress as the eleven states between the Mississippi and the Atlantic and the Ohio and the gulf. The mineral resources are prac- tically limitless. The iron ore is superior to that of Pennsylvania, the couls equal to any in the United States, while the cheapness of labor and the increasing transportation facilitigs will render it a suceessful competitor With the most favored manufacturing ‘fections of the north, Colonel Switzler believes with Speaker Carlisle that the south no longer needs sympathy for her Yoverty, Before long she will prove herself a bitter com- mereial rival of the porthern industrial centers and one of the wealthiest sections of the union, Sovrin Sixteenth Bhould be paved among tho first of ourupaved thorough- fares. When the viddugt is rinished an immense amount of travel will pass over it betw. the city and the stock yards, and the adjoifing country. Property owners mterested are already circulating petitions for paving from Howard to Vinton streets. Tlus, when completed, will give Omaha a north and south busi- ness street nearly four miles in length, and paved for three-fourths that distance. THE cost of opening and widening streets in order to make them conform to those in the main part of the eity is a he: one. The expense could have been avoided if the council had enforced in years past the ordinance demanding that all additions laid out should eonform in their streets and alleys to those already existing. 'That ordinauce canuot be too rigidly enforced. | onable | stand « | own pen ! 99 22, 1886, Keep It Before Republicans. o republicans of the First distrio 14 ask whether a nian such a record as that of Church rightful claim upon the lecent repnblican themsclves Howe 1 et of any ing out of q s any siip Loay methods we Wl to re ml retlect upon party trea racy against its very exist stion his ecorrup ity notorious v prng nim n \pp ns cfore put a pr len party every electora ago, when the slic of ¢ repu was on the verge saster, e ea Wicelor was needed to e in power, Church Howe ( a conspiracy to deliv republican Nebraska into the hands of th I'his infamous plot is not a ¢ tur I'he proof of it does not rest on surmise It to be way by pro mere con or suspieion is not brushed nouncing it one of Roscwater's malicious pooh-poohed or campaign slanders I'ha records of the logislature of which Church Howe was a member in 7637, contain the indelible proofs of the treas conspiracy, and denial can inst evidence furnished by his Briefly told, the history of this no plan to hand over the country to ‘Tilden and democrucy is as follows In 1876 Nebraska elected Silas A, Strickland, Cobb and A, H. Connor pr clectors by a vote of of 16,951 cast for the Tilden and Hendricks electors. After the election it was discovered 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 December at the latest, and the reguiar sion of the legislature did not until January, In order to make a legal canvass of the clectoral returns, Governor Garber called a special session of the le, ature to convene on the 5thof December, '76, at Lincoln, for the pur- pose of canvassing the electoral vote of the state. The democratic effort to cap- ture ublican electoral votes is historie. Tilden’s friends, notably Dr. Miller, had been plotting for the capture of one of the electors from Nebraska, and it 1s also historie that a large bribe 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 and reckless tool in Church Howe, When the legislature convened at the capi- tal,Church Howe tlled a protest which may be found on pages 6, 7and 8 of the Ne- braska House Journal of 1 The fol- lowing extract makes interesting reading: “1, Chureh Howe, a member of the legi ture of Nebraska, now convened by procla mation of his excellency, Governor Stlas Garber, for the purpose of canvassing and declaring the result of the vote cast in Ne- braska for electors for president and vice president of the United States, hereby enter my solemn protest against such act, denying that the governor has power to call this body in special on for any such purpose, or that this body has any authority to canvass or declare the result of such vote upon the following grounds: First. This lezislature now convened hav- ing been alected under what is known as the old constitution, has no power to act in the premises, the new constitution of the state having been i force since November, 1575, The second and third clauses deal with technical objections and are somewhat lengthy. The concluding sentences of this precious document are as follows: “For the foregoing reasons I protest against any canvass of the electoral yote of the state by -his body, and demand that this, my protest, be entered upon the journal.” (Signea) Church Howe, member of the legislature of Nebraska. The democrats did not respond to the call of the governor and there was barely aquorum in the senate, while there were seyeral 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 1 Washington. Church Howe had ehanged places from the housa to the senate. Early in the session, a resolution was introduced expressing the conviction on the part of the senate that Hayes and Wheeler haying reccived a majority of the electoral votes were en- titled to their seats. This resolution gave rise to a very lively debate which lasted two days. Churoh Howe askea to be exoused from voting when it first came up and was so excused. On the final passage of theresolution the record | page 876, Senate Journal 1877,] shows the following resuit: Yeas—Ambrose, Baird, Blanchard, Bryant, Calkins, Carns, Chapman, Colby, Dawes, Gar- field, Gilham, Hayes, Kennard, Knapp, 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- ture, Church Howe's vote on United States senator for the fivstthree ballots is recorded as haying been cast for E, W, Thow 4 South Carolina demoorat, [pages 198 and 208 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 & record has to the support of any republican. Mg, TiLpeN's will hins been admitted to probate without opposition. A couple of hundred thousand to the two nephews who protested against the dfvision of the bar'l js supposed 1o bave smoothed tho way for a settlement, pointed persons are th The only disap- lawyers. Mg, Jases CREIGHTON has withdrawn from the democratic legislative ticket, following Mr. Donovan's example. Rats are said to desert a sinking ship. Messrs. Creighton and Donavan are wise enough to stand from under the impending ava- lanche. TOPIOS. During the fiseal 5,452 postoffices were established and 1,120 were discontin ued. The French minister of marine wants $40,000,000 for the improvement of the navy. Rents are steadily declining in Ireland because of the refusal of the tenants to come to time. It is stated that the Inmah steamship com- pany has entered into voluntary liguidation for the purpose of reorganization. George H, and Samuel J, Tliden, the sons of Heury A, Tilden, have tinally determined to enter upon a contest of tha will of their uncle, the late Samued J. Tilden William J. Sherman, theé Brooklyn priest whose marrlage some time ago cansed wuch excitement in Catholie circles, has concluded | to enter the Baptist min i expeets to be ordatned fn January, Mrs Grant has sent her check to th New York Sun for 8500, the amount paid by tha paper to Holmes & Co., for embalming the body of General ( but claimed that the family re 1 the billas improper and un t We eannot t that you should be constrained by our action to pay what you do not think was due.” - Orthodos on th » Sea Serpent. I N1 North Amcrican Here is Bob Ingersoll is no God, admitting that there thing in the theories about ) believes there may be W - Great § Kansas City Times Over eight thousand sales of liguor in Shawnee county, Kan., we ted to the probate judee in one month, iibition is aliowl g success. - Certain to Have a Good Mayoi, Chic Times, No matter who wins, New York is certain 1o have a good mayor. Chieago congratulates New York, with the hope that some day New York will be presented with a similar oceasion for congratulating Chicago. - Prohibition Fanaticism, Boston Herala, Among the numerous prohibitory measures ented to the Vermont legislature’ is one h makes the possession of a United g se to sell proof of a “nuisance,” and subjects the possessor to §100 tine, six months’ imprisonment and the summary closing of his place ot businoess, - A Queer System. Boston Herald. Wiy don’t the Pinkertons buy Chicago and run it to suit themselyes? Or, if that would be too expensive, they will soon have an army of their own with which they can capture it without buying., ‘Taat a single firm 3 and send them where the aly under and a "Trouble is bou tems if it is allowed to gre - - After Years, I J. MeGinniss., The summer’s iled, the leaves are shed On country path and open highways; The trees are bare, and wintry care s stealing through once pleasant by-ways. And yet it seems that after dreams From olden haunts can ramble never, But fondly show in love's warm glow Those summer walks as bright as ever. i to our institu- to come of the sys- Somay it be in yearseihat we Will hackward view this life together— Lit by the sun of labor done, Forzetting all the adverse weather— That thus we may with fancy stray To golden days no trials sovere, And, Tiearing chimes of those 1oved times, In memory be young forever. e D TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings, Forty-five thousand sheep are feeding in the neighborhood of Fremont. The anti-Howe Republican club in Nebraska City has one hundred stalwart members. The Emmet Echo is a recent addition to Holt county pap Phil T. Jacobs is editor and proprietor. % Prohibitionists are nursing a coal bore in Holt county. Experie is worth the STATE P with the tools thrown 1n. The Sherman County Transeript has become a journalistic fixture in Loup City. G. L. Barton is the editor. The Big Spring Sentry is out of woods after a month's re P. G. Ruckman holds down the editorial chair with an mmported toothpick and pen. Jeremiah Wilson, a farmer living near Buda, pulled a gun'nozzle foremost out ot his wagon last Saturday. His funeral was largely attended. Hon.J. Sterling Morton will paint the gloomy horizon of Dodge county demo- cracy a tarif red some day next week. The situation is alarming” according to Webster. Miss Brogan, a Seward schoolma’am, is richer by $20,000 by the death of a rela- tive, gold-ined Brogan would fill an aching void in the average masculine heart, and rob cold feet of then terror: The revival in Beatrice is said to _have strangely affected the young men, Their desire to embrace religion, howeyer, is not as spontaneons and tender as the embrace of the religious on the journey home. Two Hastings colored sports quarreled or a fifty fought two rounds without satis| ult, and blew to settlement of ane is useful us a court $24 to secure a leg: he the ownership. toothpick for a j Tho O'Neill Free Press, by W. D, Matthews, is the latest. The Press has sugceeded in tumbling into the boodle political camp since shedding post- oftice toga, and is now a fecble crank pin in the railrond organ system, The Quill, an ind dent paper, by John C. up the mosshacks at staunch supporter Wyck, and is of hound to cut o wide swath in state and county politics and progress. Rushyille has taken decisive steps to Senator secure & cemetery. It is of the utmost importance to the (‘,omumuilg to fence in a temporary boneyard by November 8. There will be a sufficient number of polit- ical stifts by that time to giveita respeta- ble start. Saturday night's wreck on the Elkhorn Valley road at Hay Springs wus a seri- ous one. Two engines and four car were demolished and Fireman Hary killed, His remains were taken to No folk for buri The wr was caused by & misunderstanding of ord A street fukir started a little game in Red Cloud, one last week, having paid $20 for the vrivilege. On the first turn of the wheel he ruked in $10 and a policeman. It cost him $27.77 more to get out of the law's clutches and leave the country. Thetown treasury is rolling in riches, ‘The Plattsmouth water works contrac tors have had another spasm of progress. The contract for the M"llinfi hasin has been let. A carload of pipe has arvived, and the work of laying them has begun’ Sanguine citizens assert that the works —t wu tha bie H & 11 ha a4 s intad M. Lupivave epot, Towa Items. Ground has been broken for th datiou of the opera ho trade building in Sioux C Patrick Ryan fell off a sand and under the wheels in Sioux City Tuesday. He was erushed to death. The woman suffragists of Ottumwa are busy |vreanArini; for their state convention which takes place in that city on the 2d and 8d of November. The capacity of prohibitionists is illus- trated by the statement that in Ottumwa beer is drank by the car load. In law and order, high license communities beer is drank by the schooner. A chapter of St. Andrew's Cross Brotherhood, an outgrowth of the Epis- copal church, has 1, oigavized at Davenport. Its obje Baid to be “for the spread of Christ's kingdom among men." Creston lady recently canght her husband in the act of kissing the hired girl. She said nothing at the time, but she pitehed into that domectic knocked her out in one round, and nse hard gloves either. The Lady i doing her own housework. T'he Dubuque police_broke up o fight Monday night. The sports o to the intrasion, pulled their and threatened to make it warm | slicemen if they did n withdraw, 1 woflicers withdrew, and w took several of the toughs, who wfterwards heavily fined for their Dakota, The tracklayerson the Milwauk reached Faulkton Clay county’s corn crop 1s turning | mech better than was anticipated 1 City is look forward t « shment of an ice rink for winter Husking bees are all the rage at pr | ent, and rod ears were never more 1 | microus this year | Sixy ro the sonthern part of D Kota was entirely blockaded by snow, f | & period of dve days, from the 14th to 1 | 19th of October Two verdant youths recently attempted to take Yankt by surprise. They concluded to be wi and woolly cowboys, 8o putting spurs t their horses, with a whoop, they started from the country down the main street of the eity. 1 were run in and fined $15 and costs cach i Colorado. state and county tax levy in Don 9.17-100 mills The Morning Star Mine of Leadvill l.».ulmnlmu-fi‘ $050,000 1 dividends to date. The mventory filed in the probato court of Denver” shows that the estate of the late Senator Chafice is worth $300,000 J. G. Hubber, of Golden, subsisted for five weeks on beer. On sobering up he gorged himself with food and an hour later was a corpse, ate board plected 1,400 a castern part of ricultural colleg Miss Laura B. Marsh, daughter of the editor of the Durango Herald, has beon awarded the Youth’s Companion prize of £500 for the best story written for the magazine in o given time, of agriculture has s of land in the norih Ibert county for the ag- The Pacific Const. anta Barbara rejoices in a pumpkin that weighs 240 pounds. The monthly pay roll at Mare is nay « for September was $16,000, hine months of 1886, 32,174 passen gors haye arrived in Oregon by sea and rul. There are 8,235 children in nd amento county between the ages of tive and fif teen, and of these eighty-seven are col ored and 283 native born Chines A company has struck natural gas and petroleum in San Mateo count bout four miles from Half-moon_ba The yield is abundant, and the oil of a high grade. The Southern Pacific company's roll ing mills, in Sacramento, are now manu facturing thirty tons of iron every day, in all shapes, for railroad work. The roads now being built are causing a great demand for it, There is a lady in Santa Cruz who pos- sesses a neckls locket and bracelets once owaed by the empress of Germany. She purchased t it an while in Europe I'he necklace i of three vows of small gold together by small ¢ large and has on it the locket was the roy: been taken off. The bra ts ars of sil- ver, very large and old-fashioned. Willie Brough, a lad ten years old, has the hen mado bars, linked The locket i diamonds, On rest, but it has created the test excitement among the superstitious people living n "ur- lock, Stockt Cal., by appar- ently setting tire to objects by a glance. On Son st he is held responsible for the destruction of $9,000 worth of farm property. He has been expelled from the Madison count; hool near Turlock wonderful freaks. 's five the boy’s family re- e anything further to do with bim, believing him to be possessed of the devil. The boy was then taken home by & farmer and the following day sent to school. The first day five fires oceurred 1n the school, one in the center of the ceiling, one on the teacher’s desk, one in the teacher’s wardrobe and two on the walls, The boy discovered all these outbreaks and cried lustily from fright. The trustees immediately met and expelled him from the school. The same night one of the Turlock msurance agents gave notice that he would cancel ali policios of PropaEty oocuplet! by, the ount of Sunds on Aft fus ac boy. f —— The Private Detective and His Win- chester. St. Louis Republican, Oct. 10. The power of the state of Illinois is represented in Chicago just now by o force of 500 mercenaries Winchester repeating rifl They are from the lowest cluss of society, a clasg notoriously unprincipled, worthless and venal. All this can be better expressed, perhaps, in two words—they are “‘private rmed with detectives.” The question presented is a very serious one. These men are first hired and armed by private purtics. They are furnished by an agency at 50 much a head, like cattle. They are as unrehable as unscrupulous, and as little bound by any obligation of morality as any band ‘of Ianzknechts that ever rode “after a freehootin, German baron in the Middle gos. Yot when they have been hired in a body, they are sworn in in a body as officers of the State of lllinois, with the po' life and death in their hands. Sug Yt ing is as foreign to the American n of government, and more menauc- it, thun the conspiracy of the anar- chists who have been justly condemned to suffer death for murder. The time has not come when the authority of any American state for the maintenance of law and the preservation of the peace must be vested in such a class for lack of popular support. It never will come unless it is forced on by a resort to such disgraceful means. Governor Oglesby, of Mlinois, has the whole force of the state syste ing to at his back — thousands of good citizens, honest and de- tormined men, available in any emergency which the otlicers of the state, chosen by the people and paid by them, are not competent to meet. If it be nec- essary to take lifein maintaining the law 1t should be taken, but the men wostad swith bha — a4 o e evviw v wus BULIOTITY Of LOO 1AL 10 such an extreme should “be carefully se- lected oflicers ot the state or its militia, not a rabble of Hessians, picked up from the slums af a great city and reduced to such desperate circumstances that they hazard their worthless lives for money. Governor Oglesby talks like a dema- gogue and acts like & republican. He Is persuing the same courge in Chieago that he pursied in Kast St. "Louis last spring, to the disgrace of the state. —— A Beautiful Present, The Virgin Salt Co., of New Haven, Conn., to introduce Virrin Salt into every family, are making this grand offer: A Crazy Patchwork block, enameled in twelve beautiful colors and containing the latest Fancy Stitches; on a large Lithographed Card having a beavuful gold mounted Ideal Portrait in the cen- ter, given away with every 10-cent pack- age of Virgin Balt. Virgin salt has no equal for household purposes. It is the cleanest, purest and whitest Salt aver seen or used. Remember that a large after ber husband had gone to his office Y package costs only 10 cents, with tlie above present. - Ask your grocer for it,

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