Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 23, 1886, Page 4

TIHE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERV MORNING. TERVE OF Dajly (Morniae Edit Beg. Ono 3 enr For 8 Month For Three Months The Omahn Swnday address, Ono Y ear. nacRTPTY jncluding Sunday o £10 M b 00 2 Tiey, matiod to” any OMATIA O, 1e7 REw VoK OFFIc WAHING 0% OFFICE N0, 014 AND 018 FARYAM STREFT. Ro: 813 o CMMEAPONDENCE! All communications rolating t torial mutver should be addressed 10 tho TOR OF THE DK RUSTNESS LETTER AT Bueiness Jetters and remitt hould b widressed 0 Tik Bie PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAKA. Draflts, che postotice orders 10 be made paybie t0 the order of the ompany. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPAYT, PROPRIETORS, . ROSEWATER PR L= AL N LR T THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraskn, | County of Douglas, | % 1. Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swe: that the actual circulation of the Daily Bee for the week cnding Nov. 19th, 1556, was as follow %) 1000 13310 12,000 N XY Cas010 news and edi- Kot Sunda 4., Monday, Nov. 15. Tuesday, Noy. 16, Wednesday, Nov, 17 Thursday, Nov Friday, Ve 1 200 | 3E0. B, Tz8enuek Subseribed and sworn to In my_pre this 20th day of November, A.\‘l' . [SEAL) Notary Publie. Geo. B. Tzschuek, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he 1s secretary of the Bee Publishing company, that the actual av- erage daily eireulation of the Daily Bee for the month of January, 1856, was 10,578 copie for Fobruary, 1856, 10505 copies: for March; 1886, 11,587 copies: for April, 1889, 12,101 copies: for May, 1850, 12,450 copies; for Jine, 1855, 13,298 copies; for 1556, 12,514 copies for August, 1856, 12,464 coples:for September, 188, 13,090 coples; for Oetober, 1836, 12,950 coples Gro. B, Tzscnuek. Subscribed and sworn to before me this Sth day of November, A, D., 1880, N. P, FEIr, ISEALI Notary Publie. THERE i8 to be another advance in the vprice of barb wire. Ths will not affect the fence riders in congress at the next session., AFTER storm and slush comes a_touch of Indian summer. For varicty and reasonable surprises Nebraska weather leads the procession of the states, not ex- cluding New England. Tue New York socialists have de nounced Henry George, Mr. George will doubtless be profoundly grateful for the advertisement. Only two woeks the Property Defense association was de- nouneing Mr. George as a red-handed as well as & red-headed socialist. POSTMASTER GENERAL VILAS has made his annual report. It would have more local interest if mention had been made that the Omaha postottice is being con- ducted with half the foreo required by the urgent demands of a great and a growing cit GENERAL VAN WycK's competitors and opponents who were busy pooh-poohing his strength for a few days after the clec- tion are now busy trying to figure out ‘where that anti-Van Wyck caucus major- ity 1s to come from. It is a perplexing problem in simple addition and subtrac- tion. THE contest season has opened. Not to speak of the various athletic competi- tions, the filing of contests for seats in various legislatures, not forgetting our own, are as numerous asusual, Two seats in the Nebraska senate will be con- tested on techniealitics and several other struggles of the outs to get in and of the ius to stay there are likely to be recorded before the session gets into full blast. It may not be generally known that by the election Nebraska added another county to the list, Box Butte by name. The new county which was formed by the division of Dawes, contains somethiig over a thousand square miles of terri- tory, among which are many thousand acres of fine agricultural lands. The Broken Bow extension of the B, & M. rond bisects it from tho east to west, while the Northwestern is twenty miles to the north. There will be a heavy im- migration to the Box Butte country next year, and readers of the Bee should keep the geographical location of the new county in mind. Mg, PrrrcHETT i8 coaching up on con- stitutional law preparatory to fitting on the well worn shoes of United States Dis- trict Attorney Lambertson. e has re- cently given an opinion that the state statute providing for throwing out of ballots containing other than the regular nominations, is unconstitutional. Mr. Pritohett as quoted by a stute exchango, says: ““The constitution declares what #hall be the qualification of a yoter, and that settles the matter. 0 say that a man loses his right of suflrage because he votes a ticket entitled republican, but baving a democratic name printed on 1t, is to me somewhat ridiculous. The new 1aw seeks to legalize political parties and to protect politicans from their own de- pravity. But I fear it will not work. You know that we have a law disfranchising a man who makes a wager on clections, Well, Pennsylvania has the same law or had it, I should rather say, becanse it was declared unconstitutional the other day.” Tue whirligig of time brings its re- venges even in social cireles. What & romance is uncovered in the strange his tory of Mrs. Juan Pedro Lerry, whose heirdom to an immense fortune of mil- lionsis told in the same column which recalls her ignominious ejectment from the New York charity ball only a few yenrs ago as the discovered wife of a pro- fessional bank burglar. Beginning life as a barmaid in Liverpool, she was after- wards married to Bullurd, the burglar, whom'she left when she discovered that e bad a wife living. Shortly afterwards she married Terry, the son of the wealthiest planter in Cuba, and shone in the salons of Paris and the continent as one of thewr most brilliant ornaments. Now, by her husband’s death, she becomes oue of the wealthiest of women on the globe, with millions to purchase her way through life, and with an infant daughter who will become the posscssor of & forwune greater than that possessed by any of the women who once wlrew their skirts aside as her mother was slragged from the Academy of Music as wnfit to associate with Munbattan’s aris- ioeracy. The Postal Service, The average citizen does not read with the care which their importance do- mands the annual reports of the heads of departments and chiefs of bureans. Asa consequence, a great deal of the sug- gostive and instructive matter they con tain is lost to the genoral public. An ex- tended article might be written in depre cation ot the popular negiect of these yearly records of the operations of tho government, with which every intelligent citizen should acquaint himself. They are prepared with great care as to facts; their discussion of subjects in which every citizen ought to feel an interest is as thorongh the circumstances will admit, and always worthy of attentjon, and if not in the ordinary sease enter taining, they are richin valnable informa- tion and instruction. No man can know the character and extent of the workings of the executive departments of the govern ment who does not make himself famil iar with the facts presented in these annual records, The report of the postimaster general, just submitted to the president, probably a greater interest for the masses of the people than that of any other de- partment, while it is valuable also as an index of national progress and of the superiority of the American people in certain directions. For example, it shows that the United States leads all other ny tions in letter-writing. That distinetion had long been enjoyed by Great Britain, but the postmaster general states that trustworthy estimates place the number of letters mailed last year in the United States at 100,000,000 more than were mailed in the United Kingdom, and that number more than were mailed in Germany, France and Austrin combined. As a newspaper-reading people, nlso, we are very greatly in ad ance of all other nations. The estimate s made that excluding Germany all other countries 1 the postal union do not to- gether carry as many newspapers in their mails as were tnus carried in the United States last year. Thisis not due to an tvantage enjoyed by the American people in the cost of transmitting mail matter. In this respect the people of Great Britain and the larger nations of Europe are as well favorod as we are. Itis due largely to the fact that the masses of our people are more intelligent and more lous in securing intelligence than are those of Europe. It is also due to the more prosperous condition of our people generally which enables them to indulge in frequent letter writing and have their daily or weekly papers by mail—pri ileges which to millions of the common people of Europe are rare or unknown luxuries. In another respect this report invites a fecling of and gratification, that of the it makes to the great superiority of our postal machinezy and scrvice to that of every other nation. This country was the first to establish the system of railway distribution, now fecbly imitated cisewhere, and which has grown her to be one of the most essential and im portant parts of the postal service. Some idea of the magnitude of mail transpor- tation is afforded by the statement of the postmaster general that the length of lilways employed by the department nearly equals the combined extent of those of all other countries of the world, while the othe more than four timesin extent the totul of any other one country. The mileage last year of mail transportation in the Umted States by more than 125,000,000 miles —live times the circle of the globe—the service rendered to any other govern- ment, The grouping of some of the more im- portant statistics of the report will save the citizen interested in the postal sery of the country the trouble of looking them up. At the close of the last hscal year, June 30, the whole number of post oflices in the United States was 53,61 The appointments of postmasters during the year numbered 22,747, of which 9, were upon removals. 1t thus appear: that during the year the removals of post- mosters averaged twenty-six daily, counting Sundays, which may be regarded as a very fair busi- ness in this lne. 1t als appears that considerably more than half the postmasters who were in office when the present administration came into power retain their positions. The free delivery oflices number 181, with a total of 4,841 carriers. Nearly two billion pieces of mail matter were handled by these car- ricrs, the average to each one being 402,710 pieces. The money order system was extended during the year, and this branch of the service was condneted with remarkable efliciency, yielding & revenue largely in excess of itscost. The railway mail service was increased in eyery res. pect, and at the close of the year em- ployed 4,573 clerks. These men traveled one bundred mnllion miles during the year and bandied over five billion pic of ordinary mail, The pe vice are shown in the fact that fify men were geriously and sixty slightly in- jured during the year, ‘The post master general rencws his recom- mendation that some proyision be made for these public servants who are injured in the performance of their duty. The registration business was largely inereased during the year, an excellentindication of improved prosper ity and business uctivity. The gro revenue of the department for the year was a few thousand dollars less than the cestimate, but the expenditures were con siderably below the estimuted figures, so that the deficit is no ter then that of the previous year. With the present rate of pos| intained, it is probablo t within fivo years the posto ment will become izain self-sustaining. The Town Lot Swindlers, Cowmplaints have been as numerou er during the past year of the pirvatical ons of the various town lot com- panies ops inside rings under the clouks of grent railroad corporations in this siate. The plan of these orgnniza- tions is to control all the town sites on railroad extensions and reap the profits resulting from the differcnce in the value of farm land al $10 an acre and town lots sold at prices ranging from § $5,000 an acre from the sume property. In the progess the corporate disregard of tho rights of private property s shown. Btocks may drop and earnings fall, but the inside railroad construction rings and as ating as town lot syndicate sharpers are not in a position to be aflected by the state of the warket or the groans of stockhotdors vye vanishing dividends. New construction and extension of foeders in a dew country THE OMAHA DAILY are their bonanzas. While there is from #1,000 to $5,000 a mile to be divided in construetion profits among officers of the roaq, there is likely to be no lack of urgent demands for incrensed mileage to ocecupy territory. And as long as farm land can be turned into town lots, owned by the inside ring of raiiroad offlcials, old towns will continue to find 1t difficult to secure depot tacilities withont paying handsome bonuses for their rail- road whistles. No state has been gouged more unmercifully than Nebraska vy the swindling town lot syndicates. Both the north and south Platte countries have been equally sufforers, Flourishing vil- lages have been ruined at the of the Iroad by having th depot placed a few miles trom their lo tion on land secured by the for town lot purposes. Towns of seve hundred inhabitants have been forced to remove bodily to the railroad sites and purchase lots from the corpo- ration ring order to ordinary rai facilities. eral years ago Blue Springs was threatened with destruction by this method of corporate thumbscrewing, and only obtained a depot through a retusal toyield to the extortioners and an appes to the supreme court. The same plan has been adopted with ascore of frontier towns in Burlington territory, until it has come to be understood that no commun- ity is safely permancnt unless it is owned entirely by the railroad ring or has divided up its town site with these high toned brigands, The Northwestern road is even more avaricious, They ins locating their depots on their own town sites and of laying out their towns without regard to previous scttlements where land can be purchased for the least money and sold for the most. The inside ring of this corporation cleared nearly half & million dollars during the past eighteen months by this species of speculation These are the kind of features in west- ern railroading, jomed to elevator monop- olies, rebates to political favorites, corrup- tion of county and state governments, and defiant interference with any attempts of citizens to remedy their grievances, that makes anti-monopoly a. live issuc in this seetion of the country, ure Sev in oad Commning Against the Packers The strong combination of the dressed meatpackers atChicago and elsewhere und itscflects upon the range cattle growing business have been noted inour columns, A half n dozen men control the beef pack ing industry of the country. lmmense ightering establishments have driven out the small butcher shops at every point, and the purehasers of cattle in the Chieogo stoek yards have dwindled in number from hundreds 10 a few dozen complain that they are 3y of a few meat monopolists, who pay what they please for beef and cha hat y choose for meat. As a conscquence attle tnis year have ely pud for their eare. In many instances cntire shipments have scarcely met the expense of transportation from the range to the market. The problem of how to get paying return for their range cattle has been discussed in all its bearings by the ranchmen. It Las been finally decided to establish refrigerator slaughtering hovse indifferent parts of the westadjacent to the ranges to be owned and operated by the International Range ociation. These will be at once independent of and rivals to the ghter houses at the eastern stock yords. One will be erceted on the Northern Pacili second on the Union Pacifie, a third in New Mexico and the fourth in Texas, the four command- ing ail the range country of the west. Denver papers are already calling the attention of 1ts people to the new scheme, and urging upon them the nccessity of making eflorts to secure one of the new packing house: Why should not South Omaha advance s claims? Nebraska is now feeding every year thousan is of range eattle at establishments owned and operated by the ranchmen. Omaha is the natu depot where such beeves should be slaughtered. In addition she is in direct railway connection with all the ranyes ot the central grazing belt. If the dressed beef business is to be diverted westward. as it certainly will be, no Jocation offers so many natural advantages for its- es- tablishment on a large scale as Omaha, several Cattle growers placed at the mer Another Land Byl November is the month when most of the anpual rents in Ireland fall due, and the cablegrams indicate that a teuant war is fast approaching. In some instan the landlords have voluntarily reduc the price of the holdings; in others they have sold the property to their former tenants at an ngreed valuation. But in most cases there is the same struggle be- twoen proprietor and peasant. Rent veing withheld, the courts are again « pealed to, and agrarian agitation is onee more spreading with its old speed and thoroughness. The danger of the situa- tion to the quiet of the approaching pur- lisment has probably spurred the tory cabinet to haste in dealing with the land question. The committee to whom the tenure of lana in Ircland was given in charge have agreed upon a bill which will be presented to parlia- ment when it meets. It 15 a radical measure and will astonish the liberais no less than the tories. Tenants upon holdings of sixty acres und under can by the provisions of the proposed bill buy land at prices fixed by the land commis- sion. The imperial treasury will ad. vance to the land owner four-fifths of the purchase money down, and the other one-fiith when the annual payment of the tenant to the government shall reach the lutter amount. The term of annual pay- ments shall be thirty-nine years with inter- ps 4 per cent. The imperial government by this arrangement will become virtually the landlord, and the act is one of land expropriation, just as the tiladstone land bill was, the main difference being that there is no Dublin government through which *the anuvual installments woutd pass. It will require $125,000,000 to carry out this purchase scheme, which 18 pr: tically what Giadstone's bill called for— ar ount of money that caused Joseph Chamberlain te say that he would never vote to burden the people of England with the debts of Ireland. It will be - teresting to note what the liberal-union- ists, who stand committed against a sweeping purehase act, will do with the asure, If they are cousistent they must vote against the ministey and aid in its downfall. 1f they wish to prevent the government from falling into the haods of the home rute liberals they must sup- BEE: TUESDAY, port the ministry, and by doing eat their own words, The nationalists be depended upon 1o oppose ure which is idependent of rule 1t would be wrirony of fate if the Salishury ministry runson the same rock which swamped 0 can any mienss home A Removal BN The netion of a fragment of the Omaha rd of trade in or the by which a resolution 1o the proposed removalof Fort Omaha was adopted Inst sommee brings Dr. Miller wore to his feet with the cry of Wumping-Jacks” The doctor now takes plensure in rubbing in the insulting with voting to cor epithet, and couples his comment the remark that the Herad was right | when it oustigated those members of the | voard of trade who allowed themsclves | to e made the tools of certain interested | parties in the matter of the | Fort Omaha removal hill. The fact that the board had decided to reconsider its action leads the doctor to “infer that the personal interests of the parties, who yunked the steng have been fuily served, or that the siring has broken under ex traordinary tension, In this ense the editor of the Zrerald is off his base as usual. The “jumping jueks" who adopted ag the sense of the board of trade the resolution that the proposed removal of Fort Oma would be detrimental to the terests of this city and no benefit to the government, were the leading merehants and business men of Omaha, They were not intluenced by interested parties, but neted solely on their personal convic: tions, Thev represented the views and interests of the whole business commun- | ity. The meeting in the board of trade rooms tay was attended by Colonel Chase, the Sarpy county Clark family, who own large tracts of land suitable for the new fort, half w dozen speculators, and abont as many disinterested business men. The whole number of members present was loss than one-sixth of the board membership. The vote 1o recon- sider was taken without discussing the advisabihity of removal or features of the bl which can and ought to be ehanged and modificd, The debate over these questions, and in fact the whole matter of removal, will come up at the meeting Tuesday night We still hold that the proposed removal will prov f great disadvantage to Omana, although it may put money into the pockets of n fow land We insist that if shown to be inevitable, the present fort should be reserved for a military school. or some educational institntion. The ground W donated to Unele Sam, and there is no good rezson why it should now be parceled ont to speculators, and the buildings converted into road houses “The business men and property owners of Omaha cannot afford to destroy the beautiful grounds which ean beeome a Link in the great chain of and parks. It is to be hoped will arouse and attend the me day night and take such action as will advance the interests of Omaha instead of crippling them in retarding her provement. The Worker: Europe. No reader of the Brr w ingman ought to have failed to car peruse the eabled reports printe Sundavof the investigations made correspondents of the New York 7 European burean mto the condstion of the workingmen, or a class of them, in the great capitals of Europe—London, Paris and Berlin, These correspondents selected the masons and bricklayers, doubtless for the reason that these are the best favored among workers in the building trade, and perhaps also repre- sent the least indigent among the work- ing classes. The reports bear evidence of a careful and thorough inves! ion, and we need hardly say that the n be acceptec -entirely urate and trust- worthy No Ameriean workman reading these statements can fail to commiscrate the unenviable lot of the class to which they refer, or doubt that whatever gri may have to complain of here, the opportunities and rewards for his labor, well as the promise of th , are greatly super- jor in this country to those afforded by the most inviting portions of the old world. 0 industrious and pradent mason or bricklayer in this country, who has had ordinary good fortune in escaping sick- ness,isin so unfortunate a condition finan- cially und socially as the average of his brother tradesman n the three great capitals of Europe, and while for these the outlook seems hopcless, there is no workman here, having health and the will to work, who cannot look forward to improvement and progress. In all theso foreign citics there is a large oxcess of supply fover demand, and this diflieulty is stoadily incrensing, In London it not so much a matter of wages about which complaint is made as lack of em- plogment. The bricklayer of the Englis metropolis can earn from $10 to $12 a week working from nine and a half to ten and a half hours a day, but the great majority of them are idle from three to 1 months in the year. Of the 25,000 workmen of this class in London prob- ably not more than half the number have employmentsix month of the year. They and their families necossarily suffer many vrivations, and it is diflicult to conceive of & more unfortunate social condition, for people having an 1dea and perhaps a desire of respectabilify, than thut which the correspondent deseribes. Saving is out of the question, aud for these people there seems to be no promise for the future suve the bitter one of resorting to “the poor house when no longer able (o provide for them- selves, and there ending their ill-starred lives. The sitaation of the masons of Puris is no better thanthat of the brick layers of London. ThEy get rather less wages, but a Frenchman will subsist on less than an Englishman, Still those masons of Paris who have families live very poorly, and can get nothing ahead, They ure a rough class and occupy a low plane socially. The workers in the build- ing trades of Berlin are no better paid D are those of the other cities, and r moderate varnings are all eaten up v their living necessities, but they ap- car to get better results than do those of Paris. At best, however, their lot is not an enviable one. Altogether it is a dark and dreary picture which the corre. spondents draw of the present lot of these European workmen, and the Amer- ican worker who can regard it without in- speculators removal s that boulevards that_they ting Tues- im- ot 0is a work- NOVEMBER 23, 1886, congratulating himself npon his far less unhappy condition is abandoned to hope- less discontent —a—————— KING! QUEENS, King Kalakaua will be fifty years old next Tuesday The queen of Romania is a danghter of the Prince von Wied and a grandniece of Emperor William, She is decidedly literary in her taste The king of the Belgians i< to become the purchaser of the Vilia Ionhenlohe, Quoen Victoria's residence at Baden-Baden, which her majesty 18 now trying to sell. King Leonold inspected the villaand crounds r cently, and hins come to the conclusion that the prirehase is & desirable one, thouch te queen (8 somewlat exacing in her demand. King Charles 1 of Wurtemberg, Germany, and his wife, Queen Olga Nicolaiewua, have arrived at Nice, France, {0 winter. The King s a hopeless invalid ana_must be Nelped by his assistants frow place {0 place, Their residence will he the Villa Boutian, Prince William of Wurtemberz, leutenani of th ¥, will accompany his une the King, and remain with him at Nice during the winter, Emperor William of Germany i much exercised over the health of the King, The German Emperor lias Baden, and a writer in- London “He lovked very hagrard and_worn had & vacant look inhis eyes that - se denote advanced dotage. ~He has given up his daily Crives. Durinie the last fortnight he only drove ont onee or twic On one of these oceasions he ealled on the duchess of Hamilton; he watked from the carriaze io the house—a few paces only—and the effort was a painfol one.” e king of Greece strolied into the Halles, in Paris, the other day, to ook at the dame In halle, or else at” the vegetables, The word pasded around like a lightning flash, “A monarch 18 among us,” when immedi- ately a lovely gitl of some fourteen stone M, very “much embonpoint, sprang tly over the counter regardiess of costu and, with a graceful rever- tha king by placing a fieent lily, full blown, in his cont. T King who was” very much amused, thanked the Iassie heartily, and asked her name and address, been latoly at 1afo says: and e med to - A Republican Majority in Brains, Philadelphia North American. The comrloted election returns show that there is « republican wajority in the brains of congress, A Hint to Reformers, e York Herald, Reform s in the air,but it will remain there if every reformer sticks 1o his own little plan and turns up his nose at all the others, e o is Goetting Weary. ident is said to be_showinz weari- ness in the preparation of his message. This condition will probably be shared by the public at large when it is read. The Anti-Trade Law, erscy City Avgus, Vermont, which is a prohibition state, is now considering the adoption of a law for- biddinz one man to “treat” another. ‘This be a confession that prohibition does not prohibit, seems e How Ensy it is to Reach Fame. St. Louis Repuitican, Mis, Jumes Brown Potter .furnishes an example of how casy it is to reach fame if only the right road istaken. At the expense of no more pains than it takes to read a fleshly poem to an audience, reputed respec- table, Mrs. Potier has raised her name to an equal heizht with Henry Ward Beecher's on soap advertisement: itics Succeeds. Ly Jowrnat Corraption in polities can only suece the apathy of goud citizens, Qontent C. M. Hammond Like abroad and sluggish river in contentment flows along, nits surtace d by ity in it, ach to'thee, no mill wheels turning O its course from pond to sea, \ere’s no effort and no action In its noiseless, dreamy flow It but is, without a purpose Shown above or hid below. Th s N0 progress in contentment; Show me one thing it has done And I'll nan thousand pleasures ‘That ambition’s work has won. STATE AND 3 Nebraska Jottings. Sidney has an ornamental high school with one pupil. There are 327 involuntary boarders in the state pemtentiary. Union Pacific engincers are browsing in the neighborhood of Fuirmont, The business men of Aurora have or- ganized a grain buyers® association York has raised $20,000 of the $50,000 necessary to secare the Methodist uni- versity. Jumus L. Homer died suddenly of heart disense in Beatrice last Friday. He leaves a wife and one child, The Buflulo county jail is full, Most of the sixteen inmates were in the same condition when they got there. The revival at Beatrice is harvesting sinners at the rate of ten a day. ‘Ihe town will soon be too good to live. A plug hat, a lady's overshoe and some inswiance pupers found in a snowdrift are substantial remnants of a social nov- clette in Blair, York is in the midst of a lively fizht on the question of voting aid to the Kansas City & Omaha road, a branch of the Union Pacilie. Fairmont has sceured a brand new hose eart and hook and ladder truck, and only lacks water to muke her fire depart ment complete. Wilham Ferdt, of Otoe eounty, has a colt six months old that tipped the beam on Wednesday at 810 pounds. It takes an eighteenanch collar, Platte Center has added a graveyard and several physicians to her industries, but lucks a sad-faced *'funeral director’” to complete her happine The city council of Norfolk hay sent for City Engineer Rosewater, of Omaha, L0look over the ground and esti mate the probabie cost of water works, With seven in a bed, the hotels of Bro n Bow announce thit their eapacity is taxed to the utmost Snorers are given connection with the sewer in the ba ment. Hamilton county trotsout her favorite, Hon. A, W. Agce, us a cundidate for speaker of the house, Ye gods, what a spectacle for old soldiers to’ weep over. Fortunately the Aurora malaria is not contagious Rulo has taken what will prove u fatal step on the road todissolution und decay. A bachelor's club has been organized in town. The club iscomposed of & solemn, wrinklad, sore-cyed crowd, with a safoty pin as a badge of membership. Grass widowers and divorced males afe not sow steamer Jobn Bertram, em- ployed us a ferry boat at Rulo,” was rudely shoved nto port and thrown on dry land by floating iee last week, Six bents of the temporary railroad bridge at that point bas gone out in sections without orders and are runnivg wild to St. Louis. There are two or three Chicugo wmen now working the state in the inferest of the greatest as well as the iatest snaps of modern times. Their business s with milkmen exclusively, o whom they sell recipes for manufucwuring wilk from chesp sugar in conjunction with water and certain drugs for which they receiye from $10 to %500, The fireman's ball at Fremont will be introduced by a new feature, A torch light proccssion with 300 uniformed fire- men in tine in fancy Turkish zouave marches, headed by & brass band, will open up the programme early in the eve ning. There will also be elegant tab. leaus representing the burning of Bos ton, Chicago, London and North Bend. A Mr, Mathieson, of Blair, tried the ex yeriment of _burning out 8 gaso ine barrel n fow days ago. He stuck a burning fuse into the bung hole and put his head close down to see'if itignited | all right. It didn’t take long to gratify his euriosity, A concussion sont his chii into the hair, while a miniature torch light procession passed in grand parade on the top of his head. He retived with a prize fight cut to his hair and eye brows and a tace that looked as if it had been completely knocked out. N lowa ltema, Des Moines employs ninety teachers in her publie sehools, Keokuk is passing through s marriageable activity, Forty artesian wells are in operation in Greene county. A fine deposit of potter's slay has been discovered near Burlington A cooking school is to be established at Davenport in connection with the indus. trial school for girls. Hugh Spencer was mstantly killed in a coal bank last Thursday at Liberty Cen ter by the falling in of the roof. Sishop Perry, of Davenport, sent his personal check of £100 to wipe out the debt of the new Episcopal church Grinnell Prophet Foster insists that last week storm was a second elass one compare with the breezes that will shake up shiver ing mortals during tho wiltor, The next blast from boreas will touch up the coun try to-day or to-morrow. A young man nincteen years old, by the name of Moore, of Oskaloosa, and of excellent parentag undoubtedly the champion thief of Towa. His father has saved him from the penitentiary thre times. A short time ago he whipped Ins mother. Later he shot at_some young ladies that cost his father $1,000, ‘About two months ago he stole a team from_his father and ran aw Ho was caught a month later at an uncle's residence In Appanoose county. In returning to Oskaloosa the party had to eamp by the side of a stream during the night that was discovered to be too high to cross at so late an hour, During the night young Moore exchanged teams with the officer and again struck out. He had stolen §2 llin gold previous to all this from his mother. season of successful Rapid City capitalists hav build a smelter, 4y day in Lead City puts $175,000 Id'n circulatio Vailey City has marketed 478,000 bushels of wheat this year. “The output of timher in and around Rapid City this scuson is estimated at 6,000,000 feet, “Minnewaukon'™ is the Indian name for Dakota'’s great inland salted sea, known as Deyil's lak The yield of one Dakota farm 18 given as 60,000 bushels of wheat, 8,030 bushels of barley and 12,000 bushels of oats. wldy Norton, Deadwood's pet slugger has started for Omaha to spread himself. His home backers f he will return in a rough pine ho The asscssment decided to f taxation, while it ives bu indieation of the real mers value in the territory, never- theless show an increase of land and stock valuations the past year to ihe ex tent of 10 per cent., and an ne of 1 valuation of some 24 per cent. In few counties did the assessors ap- proximate cash valuations as the law contemplates, A valuable dog was killed at Rapid City on Saturday that belonged to one of thy citizens. The family wttached to the deceas fed it with a shroud and gorgeous catafdlque in rlor and hung crape on the “When the midnight moon serencly shone o'cr natu sweet o pose,” and the roar of the city trafliec had subsided until the bright aurora should again quit the eastern horizon, the corse was slowly and reverently borne to the family vault with imposing ceremonics — Senator Van Wyck. Chicago Hera'd. There is not in tho United States senate a more uncompromising opponent of monopoly than Mr. Van Wyck of Ne. braska. Like all men who incur the hostility of powerful interests, he has suf- fered detraction and ridicule. In polite society at the capital heis known as “OId Crazy Horse.” Inthe haunts of the Jand grabbers, in the lobby and at the headquarters of the gigantic rings, he 1s looked upon as a dangerous man. How to defeat bim has been the study of these various interests for some time In his own state the party which origi- nally clected m is diyided on the ques- tion of his return. The railroad influ ence is against him with all 1ts retainers. The mass of the people, more particu arly the farmers, are in his favor. Knowing that the corporate power, not only of his own loeality, but of remote stafes, would be arrayéd against him,and appreciating the prodigious influence which would thus be exerted over un thinking men, Mr. Van Wyck decided previous to the late election to take ad- vantage of n Nebraska law which per- mits tho people to vote their preferences for United States scuator at the polls. No sooner had he announced his purpose than the organs and cnts of the cor: I.m.umm undertook to make the people holie such an expression of the ballot box would be unlawful and might vitiate their ballots, — These falselioods WEre sc red broadeast over the state until the very eve of clection, but Mr. Van Wyek persevored in his canvas, and in spite of misveprosentation polied a very luvge vote. ce election the rings have intérested themselves in an - effort to prevent e return of the vote thus east, and in many counties no record has cen kept. On the imperfeet return ro ceived at the state eapital it appoars that in the fuce of the most determined oppo sition Lo & harmless expression of the pobuiar will 43,125 citizens of Nebras declared themselves m favor of th clection of Mr. Van Wyck In the legislatare, to whieh the corpor ations have ‘great attention, Van Wyck and ti-Van Wyck republicans are ahout !t in number, while the democrats not numericaily any stronger thas either one of the republi can factions, I democrats and Vun Wyck republicans should unite they could re-elect the man who has given the rings 50 much trouble, but asthere is Jittde ason 1o expect anything of this Kind, it is probable that the anti-Van Wyck men will yet name his suceessor, notwithstanding the fact that the peopie, if given a chunce, would undoubtedpy de- clare their preference for the return of the present ineumbent. The result of this struggle is important as showing how diflicuit ~ genuine populer rule’ has this country. But becowme in for the organized and crafty oppo- hy men in” various greatly They pr out in state the best door. 01 sition of u few wes parts of the country Vi Wyck would be cleoted to succeed himself as a matter of course. Heis popular with the people, and bas served them with rare faithful ness. Left to themselves, they would buve indorsed him without question Attacked by s handful of monopoly men, sneered ut by subsidized organs and viii- | fied by paid ngonts of corporations, e finds himself denied the popular indorse- ment which he has reason to know is his, and confronted by a legislature filled with railroad attorneys and tools not ropresenting the people, but standing there solely as the servants of corporate ‘..\m-u..w_ d with the duty of beating | him Mr. Van Wyck time by every east, the same which go into ecstasies over special ploading in favor of the Pennsylvanin monopolics, as & man who isnot a “safe republican.’”” “He shonld be defeated,” says one of them, “‘because ho cannot always be depended upon.' Ultis to be hoped, " says another, *that Van Wycek will give plice to a thorough republican. He has misreprosented his state Jong enough.”" The record may be searched in vain for any ovidenco that Van Wyck is notas good a republican a8 thero is in tho senute, unless the thick and thin land-grant grabbers, railroad xtortionists, and cattle barons is ae- epted a8 the only sitmon-pure repnb- inism. The lines are being deawn pretty tight when a consistont opponent of unjust laws and crimmal practices cannot be considered a “safe’” republi ean, T is the indictment against Van Wyek, the only republican member of d States senate who in reeent s has dared 1ift his voice m detenso the peoplo as against the selflsh schermers who now threaten his over- throw. is also attacked publican organ t this the - THE SENIOR ADAMS DEAD. The Eminent Scholar and Statesman Passes Quictly Away, It was briefly announced by te in Monday's Bir that Charles Francis Adams, s, died at his Lome in Boston on Sunday. Mr. Adams was tho grand- son of John Adams, second prosident, and gon of John Quincy Adams, sixth president of the United States, being born at Boston, August 18, 1807. His father Dolding diplomatic positions in Europe, he spent most of his fivst ton years abroad, returning to America in 1817, when ho entered Harvard College, graduating in 1825, Ho was admitted to the bar in 1833, but never engaged in practico, hay- ing previously married the daughter of Peter C. Brooks, a wealthy merchant of Boston. Previous to 1818 he had served as a member of the Mussachusctts logis- lature for five years. In 1848 he nominated by newly-organmzed *Froe Soi purts vice presidency of the United States. This party, composed mostly of democrats who were onposed to the extension of slavery, cast but fow votos, but its members finally coaleseing with most of the northern memboers of the whig party formed the republioan party, which came into power in 1860, Moeanwhile, in 1858, Mr. Adams was clected a member of congress, In 1861 he was apointed by President Lincoln ministe ireat Britain, post which he retained until 1568, wlicn ne was ro- called at his own request. In 1871-73 he acted as arbitrator for the United States 1n the commission to settle the respoctive ums of Great Britwn and tie United States growing out of the eivil war, Ho was one of the originators of the *“liberal republican” moy in 1832, but was defeated by Mr. Greeley in securing (b presidential nomination. He subscqueniTy joined the democratie party, by whom he wits nominated for governor of M chusetts in 1876, Ho was turnished man contributions to the North American Ko view and to tue Christian Examiner, and in 1870 delivered before the New York Histo society an able discourse on “American Neutraiity,” which has been printed. e has published “The Life and Works of Joln Adams' (10 vols,, 1850-'56), and “The Lafe and Works of Joiin Quincy Adams” (13 vols., 1874 '30), OF his sons now in the e life seve In power y prime of I have attained “distinetion. and scope of mind it 15 probable that John Quiney Adams maintains the hereditary traditions of o gencrations. His brother, Charles ncis Adams, jr., hus perhaps been more in active nife, and in- his work ns one of the original of railroad commissioners of Massuchuscits muy be smd to have done mor other man to develop the American system ot overnment supervision of railroads lis younger brother, Henry, for some years resident in Washington, has done notable literary work in the department of histor, nd Brooks has found ti from his professional labors at the bar to write a number of wrticies in the more solid reviews. Since 1876 Mr. Adams retired life. About 1876 ticed that Mr. Adams’ brain wasin a clouded state. His friends and famil attempted to hide his infirmity, but it beeame known. He was given consid- erable freedom, however, until 1880, when his famous adventure with Bert kitz- gerald, alias “T'he Kid," ocenrred. Fitz- gorald' tearned of Mr! Adams’ deplor- able condition and at once laid his plans to make him his prey. He met Mr. Adams on Boylston stréct and introduced himself as the son of an old friend. Mr. Adams fell into the trap, and Fitzgerald at once talked himself into the old tesman’s confidence. Fitzgerald pro- posed a quict wame of cards, and Mr. Adams epted the in- vitation. Together they proceeded to a room where Fitzgerald pluyed the usufl three-card monte gume on the un- suspeeting old man. Fitzgerald in this manner obtained all his rexdy moncy and cheeks for nearly $15,000, T'h k were stopped and Fitzge B sentenced to five years in the state prison at Concord, Thix ad- venture was the first intimation which the public had of Mr. Adams’ condition. It created o tremendous sensation at the time and great sympathy was expressed Sinee that time Mr. Adams never ap- peared upon the street without a e tive following in his rear. Heo was ney aware that he had a shadow, but was given the most perfeet freclom. Mr, Adams was very wealthy, and his prope arty was variously estimated at from $1,000,000 to $1,000,000, as led a quict, first. no’ Remedy for Tired Lyes, Herald of Health: Peonle speak about their eyos being tired, meaning that the reting, or seeing portion of the cye, is fu tigned, but such is not the case, s the reting hardly ever gets tived, The fa tigue is in the wnner and outer museles ttaehed to the eyehall and the comumodations, which su lens of the eye. When a near o w be looked nt this muscle relaxes and allows the lens to thicken, mercasing its retractive power. The inner and outer muscle are used in covering the ey o the objeet 1o be looked at, the inger one being especially used when a ooked at. It is in the three museles mentioned that the fatizue i felt, and relief s secured tempor- arily by elosing the eves or gazing al far distant objeets. The usial indication of straon is o redness of th the ey lid, betokening a of i'e inner surfaee, acconpg o pain. Sometimes this v ind cates the need of glasses rightly to the person, and in o " remedy is 10 massage and surroundings as far with t hand wet iu cold water The botunist of the ugricultn ment has made a report on region, but fails to throw any the extreme changes in At Providence A few days o Sou 1 muscle round the bieot is near object wer G the ey s may b - s A wachin the I Florida railvoud car shops at- San ford wis mukin repwirs’ on s ¢ gine, lie was confronted by a ground rat tler which had orawled o a joug: bols e to keop out of the wet.