Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 11, 1886, Page 4

THE OMAHA The New Congress and the Adminise THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERWE OF 8IRIORIPTION ¢ g Faition) Including Speculation as to the probable attitude representatives next house toward the administration has est, even with the understanding i« merely speculation and therefore Yor Bix Months For Threo Montha The Omaba Swnday e, widress, One Year. . . ot the political events possible A great deal dey inee 1o the int QUAMA OFFICE, No. 014 A 910 PARNAN STREFT S CTRINCNE BUILDING WASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. 615 FOURTEENTH 8 FREET csts of both the administration and the demoeratic party That was shown in the which as to some of the consequences to party and disciphine of the want of el between the majority of NEW YOoRK OFpIcs CORRESPONDENCE: All communioations relati torinl matter saoukl be o news and od DUSTNERS LETTRRSE All bueiness letters and remittances should be | addressod 1o Tk B ¢ v Drafts, ehe ks 10 potoMco orde 10 be made payable 1o the order of the compuny. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPAIY, PROPRICTORS, F. ROSEWAT matter for mocracy whether this condition is to con d ninistrat on bronght inte aceord and for the promotion of democratic ures and poliey. [t is not probable that the democratic | opposition in the present conaressio the ading policies will be Tess determined at tha cor sion than it was at tho Tast resson to suppose that there has beenuny lossin the ranks of those who are hostile Sworn Statement of Circulation. State of Nebraskn, 1, County of Douglis. | * stary of The Tiee administration solemnly 8w tion of the Daily Bes for the week ending Nov, bth, 1596, was as Publishing com that the actual ciren Cleveland's constitnents v wonld not pro- Neither 18 it probable demovratie the lessons of the ele duee that resnlt that the finaneial policy of the tration, which w'th Mr. Mannina of the treasury adhered to, will have any larcer supnort, The men who condemned the views of the administration regarding i It is not doubted thar Mr. Randall will be able to rally the full foree of the opposition to tarifl’ rev sion which he commanded at the Iast se strong probability tha It does not appear likely, therefore, that the relations petween the adminis- tration and the present congress will be improved, unless in the most improbable event of the president yielding his posi- tion on some or all of the questions of policy upon which there is a difference A number of the most active f uable supporters of the adm nistration in shelved by their others were de- Sworn to and_subscribed in this 6th day of November, A, { doubtless be . B, Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, and says that he is secretary of the Bee Publishing company, that the actual av- erage daily cirenlation” of the Daity Bee for the month of January, 185, was 10, for February, 1856, 14 11,537 copies: 1855, 12,208 conies nst, 155, 12,404 copies: for copies; for M 1853, 1245309 copies; for June, § i wion, with Gro. B, Tzscnuck. Subscribed and sworn to before me this Sth day uri.\'n\'tim Notary Publie. Cruanrrer d order of the day. cussion should now be the Jonx I BLAtk thinks the Northwestern will build-directly into Omaha sooner or later. The sooner it begins the later it will be before other railroads will strike out 1o the territory now mon- opolized by that corporation. ent house wore constituents, and sev last Tuesd: successors of sucl crats cannot be elassed tion men, and the administration gained in the de; clection of its pronounced number to of its avowed supporters sequently have less strength in the next than in the present house, with a reduced ajority that a i In the light of the late election it is not pronable democrats in cong the administration anything to surrender, but s of the party require to adhere to their coarse morally certain that Mr. Randall will so construe the resuit, and it is quite cer- able to hold his fol- It seems to be conceded that he will hold the key to the position, administration can Meanwhile, what mugwump from Omaha administra- t of republicans or the in the additions outside of the city limits as in Omaba itself. One of the tures of the new char- n pormitting first class to extend their most important ter should be a provisi cities of the limits at disc THE agony of the railr over the question whether V. &ood enough republican for senator is excruciating. The qu turbing the republican party of Ne- sterling republican- ism has been proved too many times dur- ing his political career to worry the faith- ful as to its future, Mn. BLAINE might throw his influence for Allison as a presidential candidate, a Washington dispatch imtimates he 13 osed to do, but it will be only when nas found his own cause to be utterly nggestion that Mr. Blaine is ut present giving favorable consider- ation to any other possible candidate is entirely incredible. Tue defraude lamented Loyal L. Smith are denied a new trial on account of the expense to Mr. Swith, although a ’unadian by residence, will now doubt- less admit that there are publican form of gov he has been ignorant. trials in the refuge for absc It will con- n Wyck isa ess who have opposed that the inte tain that hy will be lowing at least. and in that case for little favor. may the president counsellors adyise pveless. The 1do soitscems safe to predict that the next house of representa- tives and the president will apart as that body and he are at pres- Tof the late The Chorus of Diss: Messrs. Charles Callaway and John M. Thurston read with a broud griu the charge that Senator Van Wyek is the preferred didate of the Union Pacific corporation of United State Mr. Thomas L.Kimball, whose (i hand has traced its in times past upon the pages o1 Nebr: will be no less surprised at this startling information. If it should happen to go hunting with a protracted pole for & senatorial persimmon the Union Pacific will not knock down Charles H Van Wyek into its political gunny sack. Burlington bosses who are howling so vociferously the charge that Van Wyck bas been captured by the Union Pacific would be only too glad if they thought ould prove it. Meantime, asif in the ridiculous rumor, from Washington that all the thieving corporations of the capital city are unit- ing to prevent the return of Se anti-monopolist their sideo, and the government. ancis Adams, virtues in n re- rument of which The expenses of federal courts form another nding defranders. for the oflic 'k Browns, Mortons, Hollmans and other leading democrats are being roasted by the Herald for no other reason than that they refuse 1o sneeze when its editor ‘These men are being called “‘political assassins” and other pet names because they refused to trade with the Iate political firm of Boyd & Miller, which has been succeeded by John A, McShane, M. C. takos snuft. PECTOR ~ WiITLOCK doing good work, but he finds it impos- sible to cover the ground as thoroughly Omaha has s bad habit of bunching all her building oper- ations in the last half of the year and of scattering them over a great many miles of territory. At present strong legs and vlenty of shoe leather are two of the principal requirements of an cflicient building inspector. hollow ssreasm as he could wish. has been a thorn money can prevent it they do not pro- to sufler tor another six yeurs from inquiries which he has instituted into their charters and the inquis tions which he has put as to thew divi- dends and lobbying. dustriously circulated that Van Wy will vote with the democrats Iy paid for by the corporations of ioual capital in their influence may be felt in Nebr to his detrimient Pusric Priy his partisan hand. roplace the printers whom ie dis from the government oflice with men v is unquestioned. service regulations do not apply to this branch of the public scrvice, and the Jacksoman doctrine can thercefore be ob- served to its fullest extent. dict’s prerogative in this respeet must be the envy of other democratic ofticials, ik BENEDICT is showing is preparing to The reports so in- Burlington, which now arrogates the right of run- wska politics, is mo and earth to convineo General Van Wyck is not a good enough t to suit its kindly heart, h has so long overflowed with geuer- osity to the producers of this st Mg, Hexgy WATrEssoN having re- turned from Europe, the star-eyed god dess, who has been rather quiet during his absence, may be expected to brace It is observed herseif again. Watterson doesn’t have a consuming taith in dewmocrs Buceess two yeurs hence, and he retans all his contempt for civil servico reform while bravely maintaining that vision should be the cardinal puticy of the demoeratic par | for the offica, snd shyster attorne the skirts of the corpor serious doubts about the scustor's fituess mall bore politicians s who hun; The chiorus of dissent will fail in 1ts ob- Luckily for the peopl | mone of these slements, whi ! of the people's, will de i has been eleeted on the Eulightened by the of Nobraska ing democ seem to be different affairs. defunet politi finished theiv wor were as happy as two clams at high They boasted bad bfen wiped out in the democracy, the crushing defest of their | “slatter honse' clection returns have come in from vari- ous districts the tune has changod. With nine-tenths of the democrats elected to ature opposed to the methods | and men of the *'packing-house™ outtit the editor of the HMerald foams und froths at the mouth as he hurls all sorts of ad- jectives at the heads of bis victorious op- | & speetacls oyd & Mil- question at stake, Hastings they popular vote as to the popu will make its choice in the wishes of its con corporation or eowl corporations will be permitied to eontrol aeccordance with nation of foreign Lord Mayor's Day. r weeks feared would be the celebration of lord rialize, but the London had mayor's day did not mu clements from whicl the i icignt demonst | that the apprehiension wus well founded, andthat the ample precautions tu ion to shuw for republic avert an outbreak of violence were wise and necessary. The vastidle and worth 1ess population of London, estimated to exceod one hundred thousand, is always ready to take adyantage of every nppor- tunity to present its grievances and to prey wupon the commumity No other city in the world tains s0 great an army of lawless and desperate people, who for the most part | are pot susceptible to any other argument | than that of wol. It i< this element, composed thisves and vagabonds, whieh comes forth from the 1owest haunts and by of the great metropohs on nvubl gions and s respons hle for the v and depredations incident to such oc con sons Ttis undoubtedly unjast to eharye socialism, or the whole body of soemlist Steachers in London, with the outrages commi ted by this vagabond eluss, whose { *ale purpose in living is to vlunder and nd which ncither under- socinlism nor eares any about it exeept s it furnshes in its public manifestations, an on portinity to commit violer and rob. bery - Doubtivss there are many evil- minded and recklcss men connected with t zntions of London, but we do not understand that these bod s eneonrs and plunder, and cotainly the princivles they profess to represent do not reqrire of ineite to such conditions. I may be sonnd objeetion to them that ther pub lie cathermgs tarnish an excase for the colleetion of the duamerons JEN but this would not just ty ehirsing them with the vhole responsib fity for lawles koly th ne the oe alist org violenco necessarily ness and ong IFa « N whose mission 0 is in the dircction of poj ular enfrandbisen ont and improvenent reqoires that onid not be d 1o the Awencan peopte, as tl Iy sirein it ri misre) il dispateles ot new Wr o corres pundents, T'o the world at Ivice there was little of interest conneeted with the observe anco of lord mayor's day, nnless it boe fourd in the reterence to the Buluarian situation m the speech of Lord Sudizbury., ‘Fhe remarks of the premier save cmph s s to the generalty understood et the lish sympathyis strongly with Bul nober strugele for independence, nd were chictly sien Wwoin d claving his conviction the jority of the ment that evoked chec time when such ad Lish prime minister would have helped the eunse in bebalf of which it was made, but it is questionable whether it will have any present effeet either in strengthening Bulgarian hopes or retard g Russian domination in that couniry. Judicial Redisteicting. The State Bar association have lately been diseussing various questions of dieial reform, among others the tricting of the s! n enl nouur redis: in the number of district court creation of munmicipal conrts and in- creased salaries for jidges. The sub- jeets were important and timely. Sinee the last distribution of judicial distriets, Nebraska has doubled in population. The work demanded of our judwzes is now ¢ and the poblic saffers from the mability of the beneh to transact the bus‘ness which crowds the dockets Iu some of the western districts the judge is expeeted o hold sev of court a yearin from cight to twelve counties, and to travel anywhere from one o three thousand miles in so doing. The mere statement of the provosition carries with it 1ts own argument Here in barely able to handle the mass of busi ness which is foreed upon its attention from a single county, while are divided hetween Burt and Washing- ton and Sarpy in adaition. Every I excessi the result, With worked, and the public sufli is urgently demanded, and relief can only come from legislative ennctment. The suggestion made by the bar assovi tion that Douglas county bo made a si gle district with two judge: with the wishes of the Dougias bar, and will meet with general approval. In additio and greatly in need of a municipal court with criminal jurisdic tion, and which could alsu be empowered to finally decide a majority of the wetty civil enses appealed from the justices’ conrts, This would aflord & much needed relief to the district bench So fur as the salaries of all Nebraska judges are concerned, that is a subject with which the legi to deal. The 3 of the judiciary ure fixed by the constitution and a constitu tional amendment must be passed before they can be mcreased, When the ques tion is tnken up in constitutional con- vention wise poticy will dictate a gener- ous and liberal iner our judges. The best jud cheapest, but the cheapest means always the best, are the iro by More Publicity Ne rded, I'he 5 a strong probability that the constitutional amendment voted upon at the last election hus fuled to receive the requisite a jority of all the woles cust. The changes proposed by the amendment were proper and in the line of legislative reform. They would have added to the efliciency of our law making branch in affording more time for matured action on measures and greater inducements, through the increased pay, to good men to stund as candidal Had the aims and bjcets of the amendment boen thorough Iy cunvassed and well advertis the people the vote would doubtless have been amply large enough to carry it through Uniortunately for the people, our goy £ site of their position to be par- celed out to their personal friends amon the editors without regard to the eha o tor or circulation of the papers in which 1t is printed. We venture the assertion thut out ot the 12,000 registered voters in Omaba there was not one in ten W ever saw the governor’s election prosla mation which included the legislative amendment. The same complaint comes from other nties where that doe uweut of general public interest was buried out of sight in the readerless col umns of the patent bowelled concerns whose principal ciroulation was among DAILY BEDL cognize their duty to enforee the n treaty, and England wounld not be tound buck- ward in co-op g with them, an an- There tion from i terms Omaha our district conrt is s duties wyer and every litigant in the district knows the ablest beneh in the state, businessis retarled, the judges over- 5. Relief in a lne county lature is powerless o in the pay of N0 ed nmong felt that the state sdvertising CHHURSDAY NOVEMBER 11 exchs s This i3 all wrong. Evety effort should be made to give the e ection pro-lamation the greatest pub- licity by scearing for it the widest ciren- Intion and the latgest number of readers Irrespective of porkonal and party feads and state house prejudices the Labor Vote, their The comments of the party press thronghout the eonntry upon the start- ling inerease i the labor vote are sug- gestive reading, The nctive interest taken by American workingmen in poli- ties daring the date campaign and the great strength wioh they developed s a soparate political eloment i universaliy rogurded as the feature of paramount significance in the elections just clos In New York the workingmen, br loosa from both poiteal partiss, polled G400 votas for a candidite whose ean- vass was hisad on the promise of great ecconomic reforns. In other scctions ot the country the votes of the luborers quite irrespective of party were thrown for men who were believed to have at heart the suceess of mensures for which labor is striving, Three membersof cong- ress wore eleeted squarely as labor ch prons and s score of others owe their de- feat to the bolet that they would faithivtly represent the interests of Ameri ean workimemen than those of greateor porations and organized wealth, Labor has at last entered polities and OF this there ean be bat little determina- to s doubt Whatever the origi tion of the Knig) tsof Lanor *hat mighty las disecovered that theiv the law m s is di- reetly dependent upon their ubility to ‘'t o fent men who make the laws, | grent inerease in the lubor vote | <that economie qiestions will bo el more and more to front at Linoton. Politieal expedieney hus been with i widered as identieal hoparty to dodge The men ans that politi- ater co- Lhility of « consideration of gres of the Tibor vote eal exvodieney must sonner or incide with polit: duty. Church Can't Slip In. According to the Lincoln correspond- entof the ferald, Mr. Mctirew, one of the representatiy from emaha county, has been induced by Church Howe to withdraw, *‘leavir vacaney into wiich the late irrepress and at present repressed gentleman from issnes, Nemaha will endenvor to slip™ into the legislatare this winter. Weare in n position to brand this re- port as a le out ot the whole cloth. There will be no vacancy in the delega- tion from Nemaha unless some member should die between this and the first of Mareh, as the following pledge, of which we hold the original, will show: Octobe: , 1886, We, the underzigned candidates for the legislature on the republiean ticket, if elected, will in person iepresent our people, and under no cirens auces resicn thatany one may ull our places, I J. MAJons, 5. W. Motiew, L J. ALuxasorn, nid that he would live to see tne day when he would enll the muster roll of s slaves at the foot of Bunker Hill monument. Dr. Miller ex vected to call the roll of his “brass colla democerats at the foot of the state house at Lincoln next winter Since the elee- tion he has changed Lis mind. There is not n corporal’s guard left in the legisla- tnre to do his vidding. Like Bob Toombs after the war, the doctor is left without a “nigger” to his name Bon Toonps one AN increase in the salary of the chair- man of the board of public works would be well enough if we could bhave an in- crease in the efficiency of the ofiicer him- eelf. At present the raise is not war- ranted by the work. PROMINENT PERSONS. Secretary Lamar rides an old brown nag that stands without hitehing, George W, Cable, in writing, does not av- erage over 1,000 words a day. v Gould has a superstition in the matter Ho always climbs the steirs. Editor Escott, of the Fortnightly Reyiew, hins become hopelessly insane through over- work. President Cleveland not infrequently joins his wife in singing sentimental sonzs in the evening. Bishop Ellicott, of the chureh of England, is acrack billisrd player, and vaints c: lent pictures, George Francis Train announces that he has now quit talking to ehildren. He writes as much as ever. Congressman Smulls, colored, of South Carolina, has had his daughters educated in Massacliusetts seminaries, Munager Hoxie, ot the Missouri Pacilic railroad, who has been alarmingly 11l in New York, is now out of daoger. Aundrew D. White, ex-president of Cornell university, has a library of over thirty thou- sand volumes, which he intends to leave to Cornell, Theodora Roosevelt has sailed tor gurope, He will while oad rry Miss Edith Caron, of New York, Mr. Roosevelt bas been u widower for two years, Judge Albion W. Tourgee 18 a man whom no reverse will erush, 1le has invented a set of harness of brass and steel, No insurance or book agent can afford to do without it, Prince Bismarck has resumed his little din ner parties, He iuyited a few gentlemen to each, prefers to see them informally dressed, insists upon frank Lk, and gives them two wines only, a good rad wine fivst and a very dry ehampagne afterward, Miss Kate Field, the charming literary lady, says she 18 tired of the world and would be glad to live apurt from the fashionable bustle, Thatis where she difters from the wmajority of her sister ladies, who evidently like to have the bustie abont them all the tim: Very Comtorung. Philadelphia Tim s, It is comforting to remember that the priv- ilege of going to work still remains for those who were elected to Stay at howe. il — The Presidént's Message. Lowisv e Commercial, Noindications have yet appeared of what the president's message to congress will con- tain, other than that he is considering the best plan of reducing superfluous flesh, Doubtless he will imake some recommenda- tions upon this subject. - .— The Men Who Got There, and Those Who bida't. Washington Critie, “The men who got there rise to say They have good news to tell T'ue country’s safe. While those who lost Are sure it's gone to—well, itdoesn’t make any difference where, 50 long as it is gone. - - Mwrs, Hazen's tile Undertaking, New Yok Sun. Mys. Hazen, wife of the chief of the signal service bureay, has & scrap beok ©f newspa- per cuttings which she entitics, “Some Evi- dences of My Husband’s Capacity for Get- When she learns ome new absurdity, she presents hersell at his office, serap book in hand, and selecting an avpropriate chapter, invites him to read. ting into Hot Water.” that General Hazen is contemplati Then she silently withdraws, - He Was tnsulted, Washington Critic. “You have insultea me, sir, and T demand " angrily said one politican to an- an apolo other, “How? inquired the other, “You said I was a liar, sir,” “Oh, did 1 “Yes, sir, you did, and I want an apology " “Well, you ean have it. 1l take it bac! T don't know whether you are a liar or not. “Thanks, Come have something.” i Auntuma, Charies K. Boltom in Brooklyn Magazine, *Tis autumn by the half-clothed trees, And all the land is seeking rest; The binebird, robin and the bees Are now in quest of winter ease, ‘The acorns and the wainuts fally The milkweed turns its leaves to gold, And thistles nod, and blue stems tall Grow slowly old at Nature's call. The skies have donned their br'ghtest blue, And trimmed their robes with fleecy lace; For autumn’s task is almost through, And winter's PPOATS i1l View, - STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings, voters refused vl Broken Bow is happy. w churches, Baptist been completedin Franklin, Clarence Pateh, a former resident St Edward, was neeident killed while out hunting recently Ex-Attorney General Roberts, of 1, W clected distriet attorne, Alturas county, Idaho, last week. Lanham, the sec the senate in Saline, was goose-eg Big Blue precinet. he received 0. Fremonters never do things 1 Mr. Veedenberg tackled Capp; week and netted 6 pounds each, Steve Kizer, an old man, off a bridge by n locomotive bra thongh no bones were I'he county Two i eran, hay v halye broken. Senutor Van Wyek has received assur- 1t red on the rail- and and Broken ances from the mail service will be orde rond between Grand I Bow in a few days, The Creighton Transeript has cottea the anti-Wyk and its def of the postmaster general ) boy- ers and advertise The temperance 1. ee lunch for the They wer es of Crete set voters on didate for congre Valley county. The residents fpas toral people and sing the praises of their E in simple of nd fertile surrounding es in the Gazette, the first number which was issued last Saturday rvey Brown and Taylor Fritchie shingling o house "in_ Nebr City, slid ol the roof and fell to the venteen feet, ground, a distance of s They feel a trifle sore over th Jack Thornton loped off a h ¢ mishap. e belons g to his employer in Buffulo county Iast spring, and st ¢ turned thie animal into eash, was captured by thy and sent back to Kearney for trul. A Hamilton connty kid named Ash playfully pulied u gun on Georgie Dun can, the shot plowing his face and ruin ing the Grecian contour ot his nose. boy lives. J J. Neligh, Omaba’s dude detective, who was arrested in Nebraska City some weeks ago, on complaint of Julius Nor- mand, for obtaining monecy under false pretenses, was discharged by the court Monday Normand wi ase, but deelined to | costs, and the churge was dismissed. Nebraska City sports a local tough who trides townrd the peni- He has long since earned the right to a six by twelve in the former, and would make a tearless His name is Willis Brown, and he isx a coward at Sunday night is making huge tentiary or the gallows. armament for the latter. heart and dago in action. ne called at the residence of Mart Glass, a l-‘lmet. inoffensive man of forty-five, asl assaulted him with a knife thrusts were made at Glass, ped mjary. mings. b Iowa Items. A rich find of peat 15 report western part of Winnebago county The total amount expended in eriminal wrosecution in Des Moines county for the past year foots up to 16,417 80. Prophet Yoster, of Burlington, pre- diets fine weather until the 138th. Keal winter weather is booked for Decem- ber 1. Wight Burns, a Des Moines saloon spy, suicided with 2 revolver He was weary of spotting bottles and smell- in corks in obscure corners. Austin Galvin, si rs old, has been missing from his home st Daven t. Sic vort since Thursday I d his mind supposed to have derung The annual report of the he: of Duvenport, the numbe: in that city 1or the year ending October 1 at 363, of which 167 resulted from diph- theria, W. P. Stratton, a farmer of O'Brien county, skipped out Friday last, creditors at Sheldon, Hospers and ville, and an aggregate nearly $2 A grand liter: and musical celebra- tion has been arranged by the peeple of Marshull county on the oOccasion of the services of the new Louse wlltown on the 19th nst, A one-cy nnamed Frank Ashton was captured at Davenport Saturday lust_ by Sherift McCann, of Dubuqud ving 1 his possession & number of ar icles of jewelry and several picocs of gold coin of small denomnations as ev idence of his recent visit to the lat city. Among his collection w 1wo rold wedals, Siznifying the gradustion of 1r. Peter F. MeCullongh from the Notre Duame university. Ashton was bound over to the grand jury. Dakota, Rapid City has & free reading room Deadwood and Rapid City are now connected with a Western Union wire Harrold merchants weleome the Indian as a customer. He pays spot cush and spends his last cent before leaying A stock company, with a cupital of $25,000, has been o for the purpose of ing house. Rapid City has the prospect of new smelting works for the treatment ver and lead ores. Half the required cap ital has already been subseribed A bad man named ack McAllister made things hvely for a time on the streots of Kupid City Friday, beginning fully pounding un officer over d with a six shooter and win up by getting crazy drunk. In tl dition he was landed in the under a fine of §60. Tue sext morning the lockup was wide open und whereabouts unknowe r C-building the pack to divide Custer and Luth- of shot and of on boss who ran_ for d in Out of 145 votes cast I ke last > fish, avernging threo pitehed near Ne- kn City and dangerously injured, s of the town, ng candidates was wellowed by the loss of sixteen subserib- up clection » rewarded with a poll of votes in Saline county for their can- ame of anew town in days ago ho itfof Hall county The doctors rigged a patent smeller and the anxiousto worry ctive and asked o continuance of ive boud for d him out for aprivate talk end everal ugly but “he Brown dissoived in the n Of course the police are after him as usual, but such ruflians require a double dose’ of 3-3-77 with hemp trim- din the ness is th oflicer of deaths indebtedness of court anized at Sloux Falls | caluboose | Juck's | GOULD'S GREED FOR GOLD. His Ambition to be the Amerioa. Over $20,000,000 Profits in View— His Love KFor Books and Home “'chest Man in ~A Great Walker and Early Riser, New York Journal: The understand- ing m Wall street is that Jay Gould now has in hand the biggest deals in his ¢ reer. Itas estimated that he will from £20,000,000 to $25.000,000 ¢! money in them. ke the land line fight, the cable contest and the stock-ticker w He will make §10,000,000 out of this thing alone in the appreeiation in value of the sceurities owned by him. His other great gains will be in the Wabash railway reorgan- ization and the adjustment of affairs con- nected with his Soutiiwestern system of ruilroads, Gounld’s greed for money has grown of late years, until he isas grasping as a miser. somo nature that covets a picce of cheese and s ing as neastaway. The Hon, Russel wihose name for economy has spr o the furthermost ends of the civilized globe, seem to have inspired Mr, Gould with his wave, tis Mr. Gould’s ambition to be the vichest man in America, John Jacc Astor enjoys that distinction at _prese He is worth in round numbers $150.0 000, Mr. Gould’s wealth agaregates about half that sum, but he may take only a year to make it cqual that sum Alldepends on the sate of the stoek market. If values inerease as Mr. Gould would have them his fortune wounld grow 80 tast that a few months would give him the distinetion he craves, Gould is @ most remarkable man, It has been said that he has not a pleasure in the world, and nothing to brighten his life but his gold. Mereiess and unseru- pulous as he is in - business, it is doubted if there evera man who loved | home more. There are not many even- ings that he r.-mh away from it. 1e s a reader of book: Ihere is not He has lost all his old venture- He is as cunning as arat ave much in the way of reading in standard works that he is not thoroughly posted on. He does not read books but thoroughly weizhing § Mythology is a hobby of Mr. Gould's hook work. He can” talk more intelli gently on obelisks and other Egyptian wonders than most men. Itis a desire of his to go around the world in bis yacht and visit every an tiquity accesgible. Few are aware that Mr. Gould 1s a writer of as elean-cut English as any literary person in the land. When he was‘hauling tan-bark in Penn- sylvania i said that he could be rin the state drawing up a deed that “clinched on both superficially, every wor pett e never had much book learning. The g picked up what he knows. iden is that he does matical securncy. satisn is enongh” to remove the mmpres. sion. He prefers his own thoughts to any diversion or sport. He 1s alwavs thinking; not one mao inamillion thinks as much. It is true that his thougnts are not as to how he shall benetit his fellow man, but rather as to how he shall bene fit himself, Nowhere does he feel more contented than on his yacht. He goes the first thing to the bridge und stands alongside of Captain Shackelford, the commander. - brietest conve He shoves his hands down in his side sockets and sets to thinking. Nobody but himself knows what he is thinking about. He is thoroughly attached to C: Shackelford, who'is a g bearded man. Ptain at rough. red He never oes anywhe. without him. ‘T'he eaptain stalks into privacy any time he pleases, and will some day be made n rich man by Mr. Gould, just as E. P. Morosini, the latter's old private secretary, w. Mr. Gould uses a car dom. He comes down in the morning on the Elevated railway, and walks to all the points that he has to go within re: sonuble distance. His office is on the Western Union Telegravh building. He uses the elevator less than any clerk or messenger boy in the building. In fact I arcoly ever rides in it. He has not time to wat for it. He bounds up and down stairs with the greatest agility, and is so rapid in his movements that he passes and re-passes persons who are waiting for him without their recognizing him. He has not anidle minute in the His interviews are brief and to tie ‘point. He rarely says wore than “yes” or *no" to questions Mr. Gould'is n_very early riser. The first streak of light in sminmer or winter secs his eyes open. He is out of bed once, and as soon as he cun get his b fast is at his work, which he said is never-ending SAM SMALL SQUARES UP. Settling with a Cincinnati Jeweler- An Interview with the Evangelist, Cincinnuti Commercial Gazette, Nov., 5: The case of Sam Small, the evangel- ist, on an attachment snit, was called in the court of 'Squire Bloom yeste y morn Two letters which 1 Ly 11 and Ste! showed that a fected. Ster derogatory reports against thi ist., and added that everything hu honorably adjusted and fally paid. Sam Small on'his part withdrew the indignant tetter he had written Steinan The bill of Steinau for si second floor of the ofte! itemized aud amounts to § as follows: poon : spoon Lee-cream spoons (Lwely ¢) N [ ¥ ) " " 1 0 | ! i Ln 1 e 1N 0 leecream plat (plated) . nm Dinmond lo 0 00 | The Rev. Mr. Small was soen in i room at the Gibson house lust night In reply to questions the following statement coneerning his own ouse part in th “I yery foolishly permitted myvself 1 Wi into these trades by Steinau by ! ofessions of frien dshin and pron isis o indulge me with time for pay) when 1 hesitated from lack I money. [ had no knowl 1 form that he was aneasy aboit the mat ter untill I got notice t he was 1 " { ening to employ dets o wateh for and nrrest me. 1 ndiznant and caused me 1 m s | i 1 i gonds u ( ot at B ) 1 received a tel wife ut That was the I at once too wnd uriived I pusahe torneys, Pa wagted W d upon payment, promises, 1 freely paid him in folt and took an order to dismiss protessed to Ye deenly wounded by my fetter to him, and secured my withdrawal of it by writing one to me denies that he ever at { his defamatory reports concerning moe by his own anguage in the interview of last Satur day, by his statements to W and by that gentleman to D seems to me that when a man thus delib paper that conviets hiny 1 can well afford in which be of downright tal | to withdraw any characterization 1 pit upon him ana leave punishment Iy as 1T knew how and | was advised | The principal one of | them is the telegraph matter invoiving | see through Steinau’s | wilesand kent my better judgment in control of my desires.” “Do you owe any other amounts here clsewhere? ! will be paid when he presents his bill, and a note December 1 at home,and some old debis before my conversion, atother 1 huye been paying up my dbis lily for a year past. and will soon them all eleaned up. 1 was in debt largely to my wiio operty of her own, inher ted from Among other < in unhappy These purenases made for her You may nol bankruptey, I once went ust as Steinnu onee did wnd up ali those bankruptey debts as it Ilhad v s from them st all inau is treating that els He onght not kunow how § of s ereditc to be interes attended to nis own better than vublie opinion oredits him BUTTONS IN THE PLATE. Some of the Curious Things Dropped into Church Contribution Boxes. dropping of buttons into chur more than ordinary incredulity fact that in some of the wealthiest con gregations such donations towurd the support the christinnity are found with a trequency that o i nonly be ch The writer was ina bu and found i e <8 of small coin o him, which s house the other duy an with & great ma 1d out on a tablo he was sorting and _counting, savs the Pittsburg Chronicle-Te trade 1s not such as would cause such un urprise on the fuco drew forth the following f a church and rae of all the money collected, ©d o nice time I have of wve oot so they will not take this nee i abulk, and I am com rt, count, and put the diftfe tions un in rolls of §1, $, ceording to the sizes of the coin, at the same time keeping a sk lookout for bowus and punched p. which are nunre: "The banks of small chs People who would scorn to pass acounterfeit coin in the reg- ular way of trade do not hosila contribution punched and mutilated pice Just looked over t tion,” said he handing out n god vaper box containi you see, are coins in all s of mutilation, from those mc that have lost ull semblance instance, is sowme- t could not poss.bl sirculating med ‘b eollection,” and picked out a numb varions sizes, some numbered and some each *“The punched of silver, we sell at a big dis, nking house on Fifth avenue, which vrobably returns to the mint for i The other stufl’ we allow to umulate for n time and then throw it simply with a holc coin, where count to a t AY. “Buttons? Yes, plenty of them, They the collection are frequently who thus at- Do we over discovi tempts to cheat? have got 50 wo keep a ver: contributions, und several who drop in’ buttons and such close watch have located mostly young men, and among the most ed people in the rular dudes some of the They would feel extremely were aware we had tieir little game of brag. It, ns we are taught to recording angel every human action, these giv perfect gifts will ha when on the final settlement they hear it read out that on such fashionably-dres: burning checks an oceasion thoy lord off with a button, or n bogus dime, or & punched nickel, or a worthless pices What Explorer S The London common council rec of thanks to Mr. H Morrison said tey Has Done. voted a resolution on the oéeasion: 1 tribes along the Congo river into a native confederation under the flag and ausp of the International a isted as one of the delegates (he bemng a t the late Berlin on of which a (on which 1 couneilor) the explored regions of Atr he had thrown fight by the continent had subsoquently developed) were o by the European vowers as the nd which he under the influe tion, Stanley having planted seve tionx for the purpo-e in 1877 was now poli and 700 miles of navign 0 hrOWn open 1o commerce co of light and eiviliz settlevients snd themselves country, hafl establi explorng tiis There were o per mont} atelegraphic eab! the wist const reach the Congo