Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 2, 1886, Page 4

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REPUBLICAN STATE TICKF For Governor—J OTIN M, THAYER. For Lieut. Governor—1L 1L SHEDD, ForSecretary of State—G. L. LAWS. For Treasurer—C. H. WILLARD. For Auditor—IL. A. BABCOUK For Attorney neral—WILLTAM LIZESE, For Com. Public Lands—JOSEr:l SCOTT. For Supt. Publie Instruction—GEO. B, LANE. presen REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET. For Senators: GEO. W. LININGER, BRUNO TZSCHUCK. FLOAT DISTRICT: E. ROSEWATER, For Representative W. G. WHITMORE, F. B HIBBARD, GEO. HEIMROD, R. S. HALL, JOHN MATTHIESON, JAMES R. YOUNG, T. W. BLACKBURN, M. O. RICKET For County Attornesr EDWARD W. SIMEKAL. For County Commissionor: ISAAC N. PIERCE WiLL Douglas county permit itself to be overawed by the Burlington bosses? Winrsorrk and Hibbard represent the country precinets on the republican ticket. They arc able, honorable and first-class candidates in every respect TrE worst political investment that the Burlington bosses have ever made will be aninvestment in gravel train votes to flood the Douglas county polls. Let them try 1t and take the consequences. Mg. CAMPBELL, the democratic candi- date for float senator, knows nothing of Douglas county. He will be quite un- fitted at this orisis to guard her interests or to direct legislation in her behalf. Vork for George Heimrod, Mr, Heim- rod is ono of the most enterprising of our suceessful Gormans, He is president of the German American school, & heavy wroporty owner and anhonest, sble and valuable citizon It transpires fthat the contribut ion of Mr. Cleveland to the caraprign fund in New York was $500, instead of $5,000 as first reported. It is also noted that Gov- ornor Hill “saw’ the presulent by con- tributing an equal snm. Wio is Mr. Stow? Who brought him to Omahat s Mr, Tower interested in him? If 8o, why? The idea of the labor- ing men voting to put Mr. Stow in the stato senate whon they ought to know that he1s the B. & M. candidate is pre- posterous BRUNOTZ5CHUCK was seeretary of sf four years. While in office he stopped the printing steals of the Lincoln dournal and several of Boss Stout's jobs. He knows all the leaks in the state house ‘Phis is the reason why money is being sent np from Lincoln to defeat honest Bruno Tzscliuek. Tiiv rush of building 1 the city now that winter is approaching is unpre cedentod But why sbould our citizens de foreed every yeur to wait until the end of the scison for building material with which to commenes operations® Why bo we not have a half a dozen brick yards whose owners are not con Lractors? sty YOUNG, the brainy, honest and hard working mechanic should poll avery republican vote and the entive voting strength of Omaha workivgmes, He is cool, conservative, cloar-headed ana en- orgetie. Reprosenting the wotkingmen and not the jaw-smiths,James Youug will be an able member of the Douglas dele- gation. Mg, Srow is a democratic eandidato for the st sonate. He is a lawyer of very woderate ability. No one knows that he owns & dollar’'s worth of proverty an Omaha. His residence in Omaha has been just long enough to entitle him to bo a candidate. Mr. Stow is not to he named beside such rival cundidates as o W Lininger and Bruno Tzschuck. Each has been a resident of Nebraska for twenty years. Eaoh is & large property owner in Omaha. Both are thoroughly conversant with her interests. Chiaf Porats of Political fnterest. In the elections which take place throughout the country to-day. there are many points of interest, but among ¢ there are only a few which will ¢ command the attention of politicians erally as bearing most largely wpon the future of politics. One of these is the mayoralty contest in New York, which is not only regarded witht lively concern in this country, but as well in England, | the London press having recently given | extended consideration to it. It has been | conceded sinee the nomination of | Hewitt and Roosevelt that tue importance | of the result of this battle was more than | local. It would certainly be so in case of | the election of cither George or elt In the former case the effuet would un doubtedly be fo give a great impetus to the labor movement in politics, and it i« | not difficult to sce what the congequence of this would be to the old pavty organi zations everywhere, With such encou agement it is not to be doubted that labor | would unite to make a fight for victory | on a broader fl¢ nd probably become a formidable power m the strugizle of two years henee, A ean victory wonld greatly encourage that party thronghout the country It would give most substanti ground for hope of republican success the state in presidential contest would divic rrol of the polit muchine fsion the repub licans would really have the best of it | Demoeratic suceess i New York is im possible without the full democratic | of the metropohs, and that cannot be de- | pended upon uniess the mmense patron- | ce of the city is in democratic hand There is no other ¢ity in the such a numerous body of voters whos controlling principle 15 to act with the party in power. A vepublican adminis tration in New York city wonld redoce the usual democratic majority there quite twenty thousand, The election of Hew- itt would be in the regular order, and ove national | publi vole union with | therefore would excrl a less generan in- | flucrce, yet it would not be wholly with out effect in sirengthening democratic expectations. Massachusetts is a point of command ing interest. ‘I'he republicans ongit to be successful, but victory for them is not assured. The argument that their can- didate for goveruor owed his nom ination solely to the circwmsta of his wealth has not been without weight, and besides there arve dissatisticd elements in the party that have dis its harmony and had n depressing intlu enco. While there is no doubt popnlar confidenee in Mr, Ames, there is no very cornest witerest or sympathy resneeti him. Andrew, the Jdemocratic eandy date, however, commands a good deal of both, and isn't inferior to his opponent m popular confidence. There ay b some vaine in his name, thougzh that is not very great; but he unquestion ably has the interest of the younger class and of those people who think it proper and wise to advanee the worthy ambitio of young men in polities. He will not perhaps get the full demoeratic vote, for the reuson that he has been identitied with the democratie party only two years and made the acceptance of the nomina tion conditional upon the cendorsement by the convention of evil service roform, which offen areat many Maseaehu- setts demoerats of the Jacksonian kind. But it is not unlikely that he wiil draw enough republicans and independents to make up for the democratic loss The danger to the republican ciuse is in a dimished vote, which the lack of inierest in the candidate foreshadows The result i Pennsylyanta is a matter of grent it t. It has been conducted with extrs ary vigor and zeal, with the tarif question as the foremost, issue on the part of the republicans, while the democrats have made enti-monopoly their chief battle-er ‘I'he indications are that the republican organization is compact and harmonious, and it has had the strong help of Senator Sherman and Mr. Blaine, which has served to give in- creased prominence and significance to the campmign. So fur as the declarations of principles of the two parties in the state are concerned, there is really not: much to cho between them. Both favor a protective tariff, and both de- mand the rigid execution of the laws against monopuly. But the demoeratic cansc is heavily handicapped by the fact that the work of the convention wus done according to the dircction of Ran- dall, and there are thousands of demo- crats in Pennsylyania who are tired of his rule and will repudiate it. 7Tne tem- perance vote is expected to be consider- able, and will probably be drawn most largely from the republicans, as usual, but the loss in this direction will ba more than balanced by the dissatislied demo- crats who will not vote their ticket. There appesrs to b no reason to doubt republican suceess in Pennsylvanis by a large mujority. An Important Dectsion ‘The decision of the Supreme Court of the United States vendered last week in the case of the Wabash, St. Louis & Pa- citie railrond company, plaintiffs in error, against the people of the state of Hiinois, is of the highest importance. ion was in fuvor of the raiiroad, and re- versed the decision in the case of the |1 linois supreme court. The law of Iilinois forbids the charging of an equal or greater sum for o short bhaul than for long haul, and this statute is declured to be unconstitntionnl when applied to transportation that1s pavdy within and partly without the state. The Wabash vailroad contracted on the same day to transport a ceriain amount of freight from Peoria to New York for 15 cents a hundred pounds s nd a cer | New York for 25 cents a hundred pounds, the distance of the latier haul being cighty-six miles shorter ti the former. Suit was brought against the 1ailroad for violating the law of 1llinois, and the su- preme court of that state held, while dis- clafming avy right on the part of the state Lo regulute inter-state commerce, that as the transaction was partly within the stute and partly without it, the state® might ascertain whether there was diserimination sgainst Gilman on so mineh of the baul a8 was within the stato, and further that as it was a trans action part of which was unquestionably under Hlinois jurisdietion, and the rest of it had nover boon legislated on by con- gress, therefore the state could legislate regarding it. The 1linois court based its opinion in part on the devision of the su preme court of the United States ren- red several yesrs ago in the case of Munn against the Liinows Ceutral, which | its own methods to prevent dis | dom of The decis- | n amount of | ihe same elass of freight from Gilman to | allowed the state wide lutitude for action in cases which, though subject to con- grossional action, had never lated on by congress The supreme court decision held that the shipments from v and Gilman must be regarded az a unit, like continn a steamer, and that they \ commerce, which the { by the constitution from cven if congress docs not I'he view presented was tempted to apply to transportation through an entire series of states the principle maintained by the limois court, and each one ot the states 0118 YOyAZes ¢ nter were state legislate on it that if it wer or of half a dozen states shall attempt to | cstablish its own rates of transportation mina- . or to permit it, the nfluence upon the free commoerce umong the and upon the transpor tation of goods through these states can not be over-estimated. ‘This species of regulation is which must be, if established at all, of a general and na. tional eharacter, and cannot be safely and wisely committed to local rules and local regulntions. [t is n regulation of commerce that should be done only by the congress of United States A g opinion’ concurred in py the chief justica and two of the justices held that in the absence of regulation by con gress the state does not lose its power to regulate the charges of its own railronds inits own territory simply becanse the wonds or persons tiansported have been bronghit from or destined to a point eyond the stat rders, Itisuot doubted that the very general popular view of this question will con cur witl minority of the court, which is vivtually in line with the the Munn case upon which the [lino s conrt largely relied in mak ing up its desision Phat former deci- sion wis a concession of the rights of the state in this matter, popularly belivved to b= last and necessary, which are demed by this last decision, of which it1s observed that it is nstep considerably in advance of any sly taken by the supreme court in the direction of expand ing the powers of the federad government tricting within their narrowest limit the powers of the stat - wnt. The effect of the decision will of course be to destroy the anthority that has been ised by legislatnres and railroud ons in regulating the vates of freight and fare on goods and except as 1o transportation witiin a state, leaving the power of regulating rates of inter-state transpor- tation entircly with the railroads. It is therefore a decisive and im tant vie- tory for the railronds, but it is one that curing speady and intion on the subjeet from tion n rate deletorions one the opmion of the seision previe Zov com passengoer whoil, ought to result in s effietive e congress A Final Appeal. The eampaizn has practicadly closed. The work on the plattorm and through the press for good government and hon- st candidate finad b of the ea now to be followed t the e al the polls e issnes. vass are made up ¢ he peo- ive judgmenc througi the Let ns review briefly w Citizens of the First di are to decide between two cand dawes for congress. ‘e republican nom- is u notorious politician, whose gen- al veputation for trick wnd - corruption is so flagrant that his beat friends have made no pretense of defending it. There is not a republican with whoin Clinreh Howe has been asso- ciated who would place the slightest d pendenee on Wis word or repose con dence in his pledge. For twelve years hisvecord has been one of treachery and deceit, cunning and politieal blackmail. i been o member of a half a dozen polital parties and has sold each out in turn when it suited his interests to do so. The faithful fool' of consolidated wo- nopoly, he has helped to rivet the corporation manacles upon the hands of overy merchunt, every working man, and every producer in the state. He R prostituted the oflices with which he hos GLeen honored to his own base ends, nd now boasts of & comifortuble competence wrung from the hard enrnings of neighbors, ex- tracted from the bank accounts of threant- ened citizens and communities and ex- torted by political blackmail from inter- ests wenaced by his unholy methods, His opponent i< a reputable and honor- able business wan of this city. Ten vears ugo a clerk, John A, McShane has Tisen 1o his present position by hard labor. and the wise investment of inheirited wealth. His record is that of a clean, far-sighted and entorprising man of business. ITis lifc has been sed us and his record is open for inspection Who can doubt in making a decision be- tween the two candidates, 'wo legislative tickets are offer voters of Douglas county. Ench has been inated to carry out certain policies on e questions. These questions are he senatorinl electiou, the prohibition problem and municipal reform. Voters are ealled upon to decide which will more fully answer the requirements and meet the wants of Douglas county. T'he repub- hican ticket is headed by those sterling business men and stauneh advocates of Omaha's interests, Geo, W. Lininger and Bruno sehue Every eandidate 18 pledged wiust prohibition and most ure comwitted to the eleetion of Senator Van Wyck. All will work and voto for an amended chartor suited to the needs of Omaha. Several of the repunli can nominees have had previous legisla- tive experienco. The democratic ticket is the weakest ever put up in these parts Its weakness would be a bar to its ef ficieney in the fight against prohibition id in the struggle for new charter. No matter how favorably some of its members muy be inclined towards Sen- ator Van Wyck, they cannot enter a re- publican eaneus to sceure his eleetion Business men, owners of laige real es- tate interests and friends of General Van Wyek are all interested in the elcetion of the republican legisiative ticket ple ba those ined ito the To Thoughful Vorers A sceret eircular, dirceted to thought- ful yoters, bhas been mailed to every reg- istered yoter in the city, over the sign ture of “'Independent Committee.” This thoughtful committee consists chiefly, if not entirely of & young aristocrat, who bas inhierited lis father's and lus grand father's money, but not their brains Before he assuiwed the vole ot the mod- Atlas, with the adea that he was stined 10 enrry the world ou his shoulders, he wis glud to avail himself of the good will, friendship and influence ] | heon fegls l | Jority of Am NOVEMBER of the Ber and its editor. He was anx ious and willing o have his name on {he Rosewater ticket in the Fourth ward as a délegate to. the county convention when the national campaign was pend- i He stood on the floor side by side th Rosewater; and battled with him against Thurston and his cohorts. When he was a candurate for the council against Beehel he again had the support of Rosewater 1n the republican caucus. But when Bechelowas nominated the By gave the publican candidate its earn- est supvort and its editor worked for him at the polis. A’ year ago last spring when this “thoughtful mugwamp'’ was nominated by the republicans tor coun- cilman the support of this paper was very gratifying to him. But there came a change. The “thought ful independent” beeame an editor and took it into his head to achieve fame with the pen as well as by the chattel mortgage, He satlied forth with a pomp ous prospeetus, in which he promised to clevate the standard of journalism in Omaha by keeping out all personal con- troversies, planting his flag upon the battlements of high moral ideas and scorning to belittle himself or his paper with petty quarrels and abuse of other editors. The perfor e fell shott of the promise almost from the firsy day The “thoughtful young man" has de- voted more time and space to Rosewater and his paper than to all other questions put together. He has ally gone in- sane on wiping ont Rosewater, and we have serious fear: if the “thonghtfut voters,” whom he advises to vote tor Campbell as the fost, ablost and best man for Douglas county, should pocket his tickets and vote for the other maun, el for his recovery THE president has issued his proel mation designating the day—hursday, November 25—for the observance of Thanksgiving in ample time to enable every one to make due preparation for the festival oceasion —for such 1t has be come m modern preetice. In the ma- ican homes the sumptuous dinner is the matter of chiet interest and consideration on Thanksgiving day, in coutrast to the character given 1t by New England founders, with whom the oceasion was one of earnest and pro- longed religious devotion, to the subordi- nation of all other matters. Nowadays i great many persons not only do not have the time, by renson of the exactions of added domestie duties, which must be performed a good deul better than usual, to observe the duy in its true spirit, but the extrsordinary demands upon them are not conducive to thankfulness. Toil- g beside a superheated stove, watching the progress of the baking turkdy, breath- ing in the hot air from the oven, worry ing over the stenming pudding, with all the other perplexing details of the big dinner, do not contribute to that peace of mind and cquability of temper which neeessary to enable one to feel grate- ful. N rtheless, it i8 a most merito- vious holiday, worthy of being preserved and universally honored by the Ameri- can peoplo. It is a very cheap and mean de which the demoeratie congressional com- mittee adopted to evade the civil service rogulation prohibjting political assess- ments of governifient clerks, in soliciting them to purchase the “‘campaign book' issued by the commitiee unc an 1m- plied threat that if they do not the ful- ure to do so will be recorded against them to their disadvantage. Even if the book were not for the most part a tissne of misrepresentations, the scheme would be reprehensible. The committee charge dollar for this cooked up statement pro- fessing to show the number and extent ot defaleations under republican adminis- trations, which our Washington corre- spondent says can be had at anv sccond hand book stall for thirty cents. Such a method of obtaining poiitical contribu- tions may not be unlawfnl, but 1t is quite as much robbery as direct assessments, and of the two plans of mulcting the latter is the less unworthy Tur republican legislative ticket es- pecinlly commendsitself to business men. It commends itself first because it is largely composed of successful men of business, familiar with the needs of Omaha und pledged to work for her in- terests. Much of the future prosperity of this city depends upon the legislation of the coming session. The charter is to be amended for the extension of the city limits. Changes must be made to afford us increased police protection. The ridiculous two mile limit must be abol- ished and revenue reform secured. The volume of business transactions and the values of realty will hang on the work of the Douglas delegation. Vore for E. W. Simerul for county at- torney. Vote for him because he is hon- est, capable and a hard student and worker. Vote for him because he has never been a eandidate for office during all the years 'n which he has worked for republican sug Vote for him cause he is a self-made young man, who hus gained lus present position at the bar by a strugele against poverty and in- fluence by hard work, unflinching hon- esty und sterling integrity. Vote for him because in his hands overy interest will be safe and the legad atlairs of Donglas county will be handled with fidelity and energy, be Eartuay Conrkge in Virginia has expelled five of itsstudents who went to see the play of * Riohard Third." 1t is supposed that Goorge . Miln is the actor who did the business. No atelli- gent college can afford to countenanee the average barn storine ——————— CURREN TOPICS, Maryland gives enfiloyment to 60,000 per- sons in cauning foit’and oysters, the esti- mate being 150,000,000 eans anuually, John MeGrecor, a California coa lias by the death of an unele in fallen heir toa fortune of $100,000. This is better than running away with the dauglier [ with an iraseible temper. Ihe grave of E. Z C. Judson betterknown us “Ned Buntline,” is appropriately marked by a monument of sulphur stone. Clara Barton, writing of the much-shaken Charlestonians, this: **They say it was worth an earthquake to_ ind such sympathy as has been meted out to them from tue north,” Sam Jones s attempting to found a college at Cartersville, Ga., o be ealled “The Saw Jones Colle, If Sww Jones theology is taught there it will be a great schiool. Of the $3,000,000 gi by Mr. Peabody for educational purposes in the soutn, one-third \man, England 1886, ¢ 2, hias been lost by the repudiation of southern state bonds, A “ball” is a hollow globe of pure rubber, about an inch in diameter, lm:\l fillea with v, whisky, sherry ot other stimulant. You bite a whofe in the rubber and swallow the drink. These balls are tho latest thing ont, and are believed to be invaluable in pro- hibition communities, at the theatre, In chureh, or wherever humanity is likely to lirsty. They may be carried in"the pocket like marbles, and cost £1a dozen., M. de Lesseps, haviog been reported to be in faling health, senta few days ago a tele- wram to the general secretary of the Sucz company, saying: “Invite the author of the bourse canard to follow me on horseback in my daily rides. He wourd soon be overcome with fatigue, and find to keep up with me is more difficult than to pocket differences dis- honestly obtained on the bourse,” Manly N. Cutter,a New York architoct, was engaged to build a £5,000 bed room fof Mr. Jolin A, Morris, the wails of which wero to e thoroughly dowdened to alleyiate any aisturbance that might arise from Mr. Mor- Hs tendency to excessive and violent snoring. “The arehitéet presented a bill for §25,000, but Mr. Morris thought that if e snored this was “paying throueh the nose” tor it, and he was sded. The architect’s suit was dismissed, “The “big trees” of California will soon be extinet. Seventeen Tamber companies, owning from 5,000 to 25,000 acres of red wood forest ench, are waging the war of extermi- nation with all the weapons known to the modern ogging camp. “Ihe_demand for the wood is unlimited. and all tie mills are kent at work tothe limit of their capacity. ‘The forests are laree, but the forces employed against them are siwift and irresistible, Laditianzing Some Will Get Badly Yonkers Statcaman, The warmer the canvass gets the colder it becomes for some of the candidates. - They Are O Color, Too. Pittshury Commercial Tr veler, Defanlters skirping to Canadn at this sea- son of the year way be classed among the autuinn leaves, Left. - Too Good for This Side. Merchant Travier. An exchange inguires “what lins become of the man who doesn't drink, smoke, chew, ar or bet?” Most of bimis over in Canada, &, The Woods Are Full ot *Em, Fall River Advance, There's many a politician now arouna Wiio from the people would some fat job plucks “Thare’s many a candidate for office bound Who'll shortly be the deadest kind of duck. B Strength for To-day. Boston Transcript. Streneth for to-day is all that we need, As there never will be a to-morrow For to-morrow will prove but another to-da Witlh its measure of joy and sorrow. Then why forecast the trials of life With much sad and grave persistence, Andl wait and watch for a erowd of ills That as yet have 1o existence? Strength for to-day ; what a precious hoon ‘or sarnest souls who labor, For the willing hands that minister To the needy friend or neighbor, Strensth for to-day, that the weary hearts Tn tiie battle for right may quail not, And the eyes bedimmed by bitter fears In their'scaren for light may fail not. Strencth for to-day on the down hill track For the travelers near the valtey, That up, far up on the other side, Ere long they may safely rally! Strength for to-day, that our precions youth May happily shn temptation, And ‘build from the rise to the set of the sun On a strong and sure foundation. Strength for to-day, in house and home To practiec forbearance sweetly : o scatter kind words and loving de Gl trusting in God completely. Strength for to-day is all th As there never will be a to For da With its measure of joy and sorrow, Lost Crecks in Soutn Carolina, Chicago Tritune., One of the items in the river and har- bor bill that was passed last s on anthorized the war department to exam- me and suryey Mingo creck and Clark's creck, in south Carolina, and appropri- ated $75,000 for that purpose. Lieuten- ant F. V. Abbott accordingly was sent to that state to make the reviired examina- After an absence of seyeral weeks he wrote, under date of the 16ih inst., to sssiman Aiken, from Charleston: required to make an_examination of Clark’s creek, S. C., and Mingo creek, S, C. After careful search [ have been unable to determine satisfactorily the location of these crecks, and if you would be 8o kind as to let me know definitely where the crecks referred to in the act can bé found it will enable me to make the examination. The congressman was as much in the fog us the Ticutenant and sent the letter to the News and Courier, with the follow- ing remarks appended: Since I first_entersd congress year after jear Lroluctantly voted for’ the river and harbor bill as presented from the committe for approval by the house, not becanse I di approved reasonable appropriations for the improvement of our harbors and natienal streams, but simply because annua lly ther was a “Mingo Creek” or some sueh othe “niggar in the woodpile” in every one of them that would shovel money into some pri- vare individual's pocket, as I believed, rather than deepen the bed of a stream that floated our products to the sea. But L think the in- elosed letter presents a case that does not be- long to the Third district, and was certainly never presented by me, for L do not remem- ber ever baving asked a dollar of appropria- o Tor this oL any other erecks and there. fore I suggest that the engineer must go probing about in some other section of the state less hilly than the Third district before he will find’his Mingo creck, or, quite as likely, his Clark’s creek, into whose dry be water must be dipped from elsewhere 10 es- tablish « commereial stream, ‘The heutenant mado further search for Clark and Mingo crecks at the News and Conrier oflice, where there is & full line of state maps, but they could not be found, nor lias anyone in South Carolina to this da heen able (o locate them, The person has yet to be found who has ever heard of them Meanwhile the money walts in the treasury for their improvement. Licutenant Abbott may orgamize an expedition to go probing for them, or he may advertise and otfer o re ward for them, It may he that they are ditches thut are only il once s yedr, or possibly there may have been such ereeks and the seismice disturbances have swal lowed them up. Perhaps they have evap- orated or thelv sourco has dred up and they have sonked into the which event geologists might wlentify their forme channels by wrinkles in the earth and remains of vegotation, young bnllbeads and poly wogs. 1Uis rather distressing that these creeks should have got away. before the money could be expended upon thew. It is no uncommon thing for the money to disappear, but when the duck crecks and goose ponds themselve get to disappearine in one stato it | horrible suspicions that other come addieted to the same habit. Woald itnot be wel! hetor »bing the whole state of Sough Cavoling, which is already pretty well torn up with seismic eracks and holes, to go to headquarters and find the eonzressman who wunted to buy £75,000 wort: of influcuee among his stituents and compel him to locate O] and Mingo before the war department goes any further or Licutenant Abbott wastes valuable time in summoning a selentific posse aud raising the hue and ery. there is suflicient disturbanc: we need, OrTOwW § ut another he uble to already under the South Carolina erust, | and to go round prabing it in blind search for Clavk and Mingo may let loose no one knows how many shakes, geysers, aud sulphur yoleanoes upon an alveady overaftlicted people. * The perplexitics r which the war departmeut is boring elearly iilustrate the manner in which river and harbor billswre made up. ground, in | f | imaze BARRETT AND BOOTH. How One Great Tragedian Another, GEORGE H. BOKER'S NEW PLAY. Manages Booth and Barrett to Anp gether Next Season, Philadeiphia Times: There wasa on the door of Lawrence Barrett's pri- vate parlor at the Hotel Lafayette, Thurs day morning at 9 o'clock, and one of the colored bell-boys entered with a telegram in his hana. Barrett was sipping a cup of French coffee. o set his cup on the little table before him, tore open the brown envelope covered with big blue letters and a picture of amessenger boy running his legs off, and then the actor's brow knitted for an instant, relaxed, and in a jifty he had answered the telegram. It was from Bdwin Bootn, who is pl ing this week in Chicago. Barrott is hie manager and besides acting six nights a week and two matinces he his own company to look after and Booth's too. Half an hour later anot telegram eame and that also was quickly answered. Then Mr. Barrett began to onen a pile of letters that had just come by post. He read about twenty letters quickly and by noon he had written re- phies to a dozen of them, Then he had breakfast and at one o'clock he was ofl to the Chestnut Street opera house were he conducted a rehearsal of George 1 Boker's new play. At four the actor was ofl for n watk to Fairmont Park and back. He seldom drives. Dinner at ( and at 7:30 he was baek in his dressing room at the opera house. At midnight he was walking to his hotel with George H. Boker, after having played the chant of Ve nd David € That was the day’s work, not a lazy ute from the time he got up until he went to bed at middight. o rises every morn ing at 6:30 and gocs through about the SAI0 PrOZEAMME every ¢ He do drink nor smoke and retire soon ns s night's work is done, be- Tieying in doing his thinking and man: gerial work in day time. Mr. Burrett besides this hw found time in the pas two_or three months to write biographies of Macready, Forest and Edwin Boot which will shortly appear in the fourth volume of “Lives ot the Actors,” HOW BARRETT BECAME BOOTH'S MA R’ Booth was visiting Barrett at th ter's country place, nf SCohassett, in the summer of "85 Tt was w hot, lazy da and the two tragedians, who have been very intimute since they were quite young and inexperienced actors, sat on Barrcit's porch and the conversation driftod into shop talk amd Booth com- | plained that harsh criticisms had beea madoe about his company's support. “The trouble iz, said ott, “there’s too much time spent 1nmanaging you on the outside and not enough attention piid to stage managing.” SWill you try managing me? Booth, smiling. o1 will, said Barrett. Tt was settled then snd there, and Bar- rett immediaely selected a good com pany for Booth. Since then he has managed the t lian personally and with the aid of several licutenants, “t mcked out men and women whom 1 knew to be earnest workers,” smd Mr. Barrett Thursday, I knew that Booth himself was all right, that all that w necessary was to announce his coming and that the prineipal part was to the players who were to pport hm. 1 have watched that part of Booth’s this season carefully. He is having unusually brilhant on, which e tend over forty weeks from M California. Ho _is playing with gr warmth and writes enthusiastically on his suceessful season. " 1t is safe to say that Fdwin Law ce Barrett wili be seen all of ame stage in the same ott deelined to say pos y that he and Booth would play to- ther. Headmitted that he and Booth had en thinking aboutit, but that the plans had not developed into a certainty, A friend of Mr. Barrett’s, however,suil that the two grent tr: would begin their seasons togzether next year in New York; that the Inrgest and [ company ever brought together would support them, and that the prices would be about double the regular rates of admission. It is known that Mr. Barrett has already been looking the theatrical tield over and noting with his mind’s eyc actors whom he will probably secure if the seheme is carricd out. As to the su cess of the undertaking Mr, Barrett had little to suy, preferring not to talk about plans that haven't thoroughly matured Te issatistied, however, that the under- taking would 'be « finaneial suceess. and that n season of forty weeks could be played m the principzl eities to big houses. " said Booth you enn tuy all'the whisky you want for 15 conts n ghss.” My friend, do you think 1rat's riglt™" “No, 6f course [ don’t.” 'm Beattily glad o hear you say so, my friend.” No,we ought to. get two drinks for tha nione - The Best Trme to Vote, Cleveland Leader In the morning is the lest time to vote [liere i8 less whisky and nore homo in the carts and heads of many citizens than Jater in the day, and the ealier a man casts a ballot the move likely he will be to cast it right. - il Notes Will Pike, of the general superintend ent's oftfice has returned from a months vacation visit in Waco, Maine, Thomas Kimball of the Union Pacifie, leaves to-day to attend a meeting of the Southern and Southwestern railway associntions m 8t Lonis Superintendent J.J. Dickey went to Lincoln vesterday to supervise the eree tion of some wires in that city In a few months thirty tive new en gines for general atl-aronnd work will be added to the rolling stoek of the Union Pacific. Ten of these are now contracted for by the New York Locomotive works in Rome, N. Y., and fifteen by the Bald win Locomotive works he Rafle Practice, Yosterday morning two companics of the Scconds@infatry, company fil com- munded by Colonel Daggett and iy 1 commanded by Captain £t the Bellevue rifle vange, where we been practiomg for some . and marched to the fort udes the scason of rifle practice no more firing will be done on the tange nntil next spring. In the meantime ex tensive improvements will be made on the ground, meludin bringing it to de, the ercction of a store house and ck bake oven A GREAT ENTERPRISE Tur CextTURY MAGAZINE with its enor s circulation(edition of November num beris a quarter of a million) and great re sources, has never unde \a more im portant work than the one which will be its leading feature during the coming year This is a history of our own country in its most eritic set forth in OF LINCOLN. his Confidential Seerctavies,John G. Nicolay and Col. Johu Ha; 1t work, begun with the sauc- President Lin- <oln,and continued u der the authority of his con, the Hon. Robert I'. Lincoln, is the on- 1y full and authorita tive record of the lite of Abraham Lincoln. Its authors were friends of Lincoln before his presidency; they were most_intimately” asso- ciated with him as pri- vate secretaries throughout his term of ofice, and to them were transferred at Lincolu's death all his private papers. Here will be teld the in- side history of the civil war and of Pr dent Lincoln’s administration, important details of which have hitherto re ed unrevealed, that they might first appear in this authentic history. By reason of the publication of this work. THE WAR SERE which has been followed with uniligging interest by a_great audience, will oceupy less space” during the coming year, but wil be by no means entirely omitted. Stories of naval e 1 life, ete., will appear S AND STORIE NOvE include a novel by Fraik R. Stockton two stonies by novelettes by Ged. W. Cable, Mary Hallock Foote, “Uncle Remus,” Americar Eggleston, and other com ynes, they weeks ' con- . and a b tion of ciments, pri 1 au- SPECIAL VEATEURES, (with illustratios ude a series of arti- cles on aflairs in Russia_and Scheria, by George Kennan, author of “Tent Life in " who kas fust returned rom a most it to Siberian prisons; papers Labor Problem, English Cathe- Eggleston'’s Religious Life in a Colonies: Men and Women of Queen Anne's Reign by Mrs. Oliphant, Clairvoyance, Spiritualism, Astrology, etc Astronomical papers, arficles on Bible History, ete. The NOVEMBER CENTURY. Sraz IRST €514 THE ; LINCOLN De crited above, including the editorial presenment and author's preface, with new frontispicce portrait of Lincoln, and nineteen illustrations. This instailment en Lincoln as Pioncer,"gives the ances. try of the Picsident, and the relation he- tween the Lincoln family and Daniel drals, Dr the America GEORGE 1. BOKER'S NEW PLAY. Barrett 1s very muach in love with H. Boker's new play, “Caluylos® \e is Inid in Spain, just affer the expulsion of the Moors from Granada, in the fifteenth century. Barrett, of conrse, plays the #=2e role, und he says it is oy a bitter pluy than Mr. Boker's ercation of *'F ca di Limini,” The con pany have justhegun rehearsing it, and it will be rehearsed every dny for the next cight weeks, It ha produced for the first time in Washington'in the early part of December, and will be played here for the first time next February. SWhy dow’t I play it heré for the first time:™ sad Mr, Barrett. “‘Beeause u nlay has to produce itself. I wouldn't think of producing & play until every part has been thoroughly rehearsed down to the most minor charnetor. Eight weeks of rehearsing will make my com- pany famiiar with their parts, Then T shall have no fear of the play goir smooth! would rather vehéarse for a year than run the risk of a single hiteh on tho ifest night." Mr. Barrett was ussed about the v £en tion of actors, 1'% hard to tell about & new aetor,” he said. dian may spring upin one night. 1 cannot tell you how a great netor becomes n great netor, OFf conrse, it's study and hard work and a combination of things, but how the world \ds him out T dou't Know. He becomes suddeny.” My, Goithoid, Bavrett’s leading man, asked Is Barvett a strict stage man Y s, the sty st 1 ever saw, il the better for the company play. e sees 10 everything quently everything is perfoet - A Weleonme Caller, un e By ing o' and and and it's the conse- Among our none 1t comes with bill and brings the Some other bees it Sunday Bee is lovld o to ore more welem the regelavity of 4 ga world with it. Like kuows when o sting. I the viciest thing in print and 1atae in Nebrask Worship in a Circinnali ¢ Jittle brown'iuz s betore which, on these Atlanta citicens fall down and | arto gt things in their proper wh \ wol and betore | fall down. Frohibiticn in low 1o WS probibition out e eastenni elergy i ofa il Jowan, hibiiion be daniged! Thereas 't any. Dry Tow Eng 15 L0 be the o ven itation | Suniday worshiy seruier they which the kil Roone, alvo Lincolu's boyhond and early manhood, and a graphic account of thie frontier states in the nys. OLD CHELSEA. By Dr, B. . Martin. Describing a pictur- esque suburb of London, once the home of Queen Elizabeth, Nell Gwynn, George Eliott, Carlyle and other famous chara ters. lustrated by Seymour Hayden Joseph Bennell. n A Siony lier O A VYOI sy Many Hactoek Foorr, v of “Led Marse Claim,” *foin Bodewin’s Testimony,” ete., with full page lvsteation by the author. MACHANE POLITICON 1IN MNEW YORK Rosivery, Heelers,” “The Her in 1% By Turon Including chapre Social Siae tic:, t LKs OF Nrw Novii life *Th trom anyt dertahen. 1t will 1 mbers of the CrNTURY 26 NEED of TIRADE SCHOGO0S Prade Schoobs, with iilisiation. WHIE BATVLE OF The Viesi 0y of Getiysbu g Henry 1 Hunt, Chiel of with maps of Gett Doublediy, ar Frank R Srocy This love story of real dredth Man,” is di the authior ha throuzh 12 n er of Ger Hery burg ¢ aign, by Gen I numero jsiration GEN, HOOKUIS GENTVENT and KEMOVAL scutleman who i Washingion AN A AR By Cuakt War On the Temy andother rec Tk he C Balunce sheel oper 1 A Siberian I Pime Reckon Mtrinug N DEPARYE