Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 24, 1886, Page 4

;[[~ AILY Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska, County of Dot (Gieo. B. Tzsehck Publishing comymny, that the actual circt for the week ending Nov follows: ee swear Daily B 6, wus a8 ation of 10th, 1 Date Saturday, Nov. 1 Sunday, Nov. 14 Mondav, Nov. .15 Tuesday, Noy, 16 Wednesday, Nov Thursday, No Frid Average, ... 3,05 . 1Z8CIUCK Subsoribed and sworn to n' my. preserice thig 20th day of November, A, 1), 1585, N. P. Frir, [SEAL) Notary Publie. Geo. B, Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, eposes and says that he Is secretary of the Bee Publishing company, that the actual ay- erae daily cireulation of the Duily Bee for the month of January, 189, was 10578 copies, for Fubruary, 18%, 10,50 copies; for Mareh, 185, 11537 coples: for April, 1%, 12,101 for May, 1% ) coples: for Jun 18%, 13,208 copies; for 14 copies: for Auzust, 1856, T2,46 coples:for Sentember, 1886, 18,090 copies: for October, 12,080 copies, Gro. B, Tzscnue Subscribed and sworn to betore me this Sth day of Noveniber, A, D)., 155, N, I Frir, ISEALI Notary Publie, Tne cold wave flag’ waved the signal properly for oncen its lnstory yesterday. Overconts are now at a premivin Trr seven feondemned now anxiously looking to Justice for salvation or condemnation, EvERY proposed charter amendment should be carefully considered and fully discussed. Omaha has been fortunate in rters up to the present time be- cause this method ha adopted, It should be followed out before the final druft of the new charter is sent to the coming legislature. anarchists are Scott Oxana should have well graded streets lending over the hills. But there may be such a thing as overgrading an entire street to benefit the property of individ- uals, Itis the business of the city engi- neer and uncil to prevent this. The courts are not likely to hold that any cut or fill however deep nnd high fully compensates by resulting and permanent ntages for the temporary discom The @ point where benefits to the city and to the property owners are not identical. ' ENGLAND now imports from Russia 5,000,600 hundredweights of wheat, against 10,000,000 fifteen years ago. In the same interval the import from America has increased from 12,000,000 hundredweights to 20,000,000 Even more striking, however, than thisincrease is the ense of India, which fiftcen years ago exported only 8,000 hundredweights to England, while at present it 18 export- ing annually 11,000,000 hundredweights. America will have to look to her laurels, or rather to her wheat heads. OxABA’S bank clearings did not reach the usual figure last week. There was an increase over the corresponding week of last year of only 41 per cent., with a total of something over $4,000,000. With our streets for three days blocked with snow, and no business doing in most of the retail stores, this was a far showing. Forty per cent. increase is not to be despised. But Omaha has been showing up 75 per cent. for so many weeks that thing I looks smail. ‘I'he winter trade is now opening. Then look out for the clearmgs SOME one in the board of county com jssioners seems wounded by the criti cisms of the press over suspected tie-uns on the plans for the new hospital, If there is no truth in the rumors there need be no soreness over the publication that such rumors were flying abroad Omaha and Douglas county is vitally in terested in sccuring the best plan, 1f Mr. Cochran’s is the best let us have it by all means. If Mr. Mendelssohn's better it should be adopted. The best should be chosen 2t all hazards, criticism or no criticism, Criticism which is groundless cannot hurt. NCE congress has adjourned, $63,000,- 000 of the 8 per cent bonds have been called, About the same amount remains uncalled. If revenues continue to exceed expenditures as materially in the imme- diate future as they have in the recent past, and if the present treasury polioy is pursued, tho entire outstanding 8 per cent bonds will be exhansted by the mid- dle of nexv January. No other govern: ment secyrities will mature before Sep- tember, 1891, What is to be done with the $100,000,000 a year surplus, which represents just so much excess of tax ation? The voice of labor 1s likely to be neard on this question before many months roll by. SCRINERS' MAGAZINE will appear on tho 15th of next mouth under the old und familiar name with & new management It will signulize its resurrcction by a reduction in the price of §1 1 year or ten cents n nwmber, This bold attack on the older popular magazines is s bold blow below the belt. It gives thom the alter: native of reducing their subseription price or of bemg handicapped in the race with a youthful and able competitor Will they do it* Their prices are now too high, The newspaper is now en- croaching so steadily uponthe provinee of the magazine that thoy aflord 10 lose & pomt in the straggle for pre-ci inence among themselves. annot S0ME provision should be made in the new charter for sprinkling the streots Herc is the provision of the Minneapolis charter on the subjeet The city council shall have power to spriuklo the streets, avenues and public grounds of said city, or any part tiereof, and may make contracts for so sprink- h"fi the same for such streets, avenues, public grounds or districts of said city as it may deem best, for any time not to ex cecdd three years, on such terms und con ditions for such portion of each year as it may deem best. - Water for sueh sprink « ding shali urnished from the city wa- tor works free of charge. The supply of guch water shall be decwed the propor- tion of the expenses for such spr lllk‘hi g for the strect erossings and all parts of such strects fronting on land ‘exenpt from asscssment. ‘The wnole cost of sprinkling such portion of tho street T e b B ey upon the lots and lands fronting on that part of tho street so sprinkled, and which are subjoct to assessment by un equal rate per front foot of such lowe sud iands. Sueh levy shall be wade anoually. THE OMAHA DAILY Straight Ont Inc nsistency. A two line paragraph that appeared in the Beg the other day stating that the had no significance for or Blaine, has furnished certain papers opposed to Senator Van Wyck with the pretest that he should be de feated because he is opposed to the man from Maine. It isa notorious fact that on the night before the late election, Senator Van Wyek, in a public speech at the Expeeition veterred to Jumes G| 1he greatest statesmen Ameries produced, and $ A man per in country today Does this show Van Wiek to be an enemy of Blaine? While Mr. Van Wyck not control the of this paper and eannot be hela responsible for what we say, we need hardly state that this paper has not arrayed itself against Mr. Blaine. Itis premature tor any re publican paper to advoeate, at this time, the candidney of any man for president twe years henee. Availability will then be the one question to ba considered, Two years may put a very different aspect upon matters, But we note thut the R publican of this rity has already draggea Senator Allison, as 1t tally Mr. Edmunds, into a controversy which should be left for the future. With re gard to Mr. Allison that paper in a late number has this to say There 18 a renewal of the ol story that if Mr. Blaine cannot wet the nomination in 1554 hie will throw his strength to Senator Allison, of Towa. Primarily there is nothing in this Mr. Bluine ne in such a way that same one else will win, He always puts Lis own nawme on the pool ticket and takes his chiance: Indepondent of this, Mr. Allison is not s much of a leader in the west as he ouzht to be. e represents lowa but he votes with Vermont on every unancial question. Tne surplus resolution would have passed the senate at the last session in its orizinal shape bat for his position. His sympathy with the eastern idea of finance forced the amend- ments which tinally went throuh and landed unsigned in the president’s pocket. Mr. Allison 18 opposed to the free and un- limited coinage of silver. His inchnations are fowards the peculiar political econ omy of Wall street. Hemay always be counted upon to take the eminently conservative course from the eastern standpoint, which is particularly rough on his constitnents, e votes with the creditor when he represents the debtor. He must ehange all this before I can expect to arouse much enthusiasm in the west. Phereis a quiet common sense wiich made itgelf manifest in the recent Towa elections whieh will spoil any such booin. Hepburn, as strong a republican as there is in the present con . ress, was dvfeated beeause he was doin < in the house what Alli- son was doing in the senate. Besides, we do not believe that will make any attempt to deliver hisstrength. Hu is not making trading capital out of the loyalty of his friends. e is enough of a politician to know that, if he tried to do so. he would have neither strencth nor friends, What can all this mean? Why this ar- ignment of Senator Allison? The strong western and republican state of Towa scems entirely satistied with Mr. Allison. It has honored him with high oflicial position and for years has kept elections inst Mr \ine as one of had cver without a this does columns has incide Mr. Blaine him in its service in the honse and senate. By this time they probably know whether he is a leader and whether he represents Towa by voting with Vermont and wWall stre But Neb: snior senator, who reprosents Nebraska because ne votes for Nebraska and not with Vermont and Wall street, 1s denounced by a few self-nssumed leadors and organs for his y independence of outside nfluences What does the Republican mean by the llowing: “here is 4 quiet common sense which made itselt manifest in the recent Towa elections which will spoil any such boom?” What boom? “Hepburn, as strong a republican as there is in the present congress, was de- feated beeause he was doing in the house what Allison was doing in the senate,” If the editor of the Republican would keep posted about the politics of this tion he would make fewer mistakes. Mr. Hepburn defeated because he favor the Cullom bill and not the Regan bill, because he was supposed to be more watchful of the interests of the railronds than of his constituents. It was the same “‘quiet common sense” that defeated Hepburn in Iowa which buried Church Howe in Nebraska under a mon- umental majority of votes cast for his democratic opponent. The Republican is a beautiful stickler for straight repub- liewnisin, justifying in lowa what it de- nounces in Nebraska. It is fine repub- licanism to intimate that Allison should be defeated when justifying Hepburn's defeat, and declaring that it was because he wus doing in the house what Allison was doing in the senat Clevelaud's Exclusiveness, My. Cleveland is i his personal rela- tions with the people the most undemo- cratic president the country ever had. More than any other of the chief magis- trates, not excepting the cold und aus- tere federalist John Adams, he manifests adisposition to keep as much as possible aloof from the populace and to maintuin n position of exclusiveness. No other president found it necessary to publish announcements, as he has done, that at certain periods he would not be accessi ble to the publie, and none other evor di rected the closing of tho white houge grounds, as Mr. Cleveland has just done, in order that he and Lis wifo may take their waiks free from the contact and ob servation of the people. This peculiar characteristic of the president has been frecly remarked upon by citizens of Waushington, and more particulnrly by the older residents, who are enabled contrast 1t with the cnstom of former vresidonts. Said one of these recengly “Cleveland scems destitute of hon hom- mic, and has never been seen out of a o riage on our strects. His polie personal bearing towards the people of the District of Columbia give him exceed ing fow, if any, disinterested friends here.”’ This is corroborated by our eor- pspondent in the stutement that “Mr Cleveland has boen scen less on the thoronghfarcs, and is seen less by the public at any place, except the theatre, than any president for very many years," ‘I'his conduet on the part of an exo:u- tiye is so conspicuously exceptional that it could not faf® to invite eriticism, and particularly so when practiced by M, Cloveland, who only a fow years ago was not at all averse to mixing with the peo- ple, nor generally over-solicitous as to the character of his associates. How different the course of the president is from that of his democratic predecessors may be instructively indicates The most distinguishud exponent of modern democracy, Andrew Juckson, whose ro- to | bust and unaffeeted dignity nover de- serted bim, was as free and earnest in the cordialicy of his relations with people as he was firm and uncompror ingin maintaining the principles and docirines which him of the chief idols of democracy. tle was always accessible daily on the streets of public man of h iar 1o the made one almost No famil- and he could b Washington time was more In th and affability most n house nis conrtesy on puly lic occasions were giving ntieman in t that of compeers. James schooled — in the hern period and of re him a reputation as a g best sonse unsurpassed by most d of Ik Polk, although the of ar stocracy that [ un sorve with to suflicientiy close to the people any unfavorable criticism regardfg his relutions with them. If nid | cordial than Jack<on ling with the populace, he attempred no such ex clusivenoss us marks the conduct of t present democratie president. Martn Van Buren owed much of his popularity 1o the uniform interest and intimacy he maintained toward the veople, which strongly characterized his whole publie carcer. Franklin ‘L. Picree kept near t the people and enjoyed their respect His diily habit was to take a morning horseback about Washington, and there were few more familiar tigures on the sireets of that eity during his presi dentiad term. He was not unbike the late ident Arthnr in 1 and beeoming dignity associated a relined and hearty cordiality Juames Buchanan, who, when he @ president, had reached the age most men cense to have any respeeting popular favor, and whe over had never, or at least for years, mingled mumately with the ple—a man whose life was shadowed a sorrow, and who livea more within himself than any other American who attained voliticat this haunted and ding man, who closed what wmight have been a glorious earcer in gloom and dishonor, never for a moment while he was president forgot the claim which the people had upon his interest and at- tention, nor neg 1y of those con- siderations anl amenities which due to the source of position power. The same is true of the othe presidents, and none of them made any sacrifice of the dignity that should hedge a president or of their self-respeet in rec ognizing their obligation and duty to the pecple. The notion that DMr prompted to his exclusiv of personal d tion is due 1o an his importance, which itself in far greater matters than that of keeping aioof from the people, and to an overmastering sellishness which renders him incapable of eompreliending those obligations which are not defined, and are matters of custom rather thun ot luw Retrospect and Porecast. There is no reason why ex Senator MeDonald, of Indiana, should feel any great amount of affection for the ad- ministration, and he takes no trouble to conceal the fact that he doesn't. He worked hard and well for the clection of Mr Cleveland, and he was repaid for his services, ns were & good many other prominent democrats, by being ignored and snubbed when the new administra tion was being constructed and the dis- tribution of patronage was entered upon. Not only did the president leave Me- Donald entirely out of consideration in making up s cabinet, and in hise ap- pointments to other places of promi- nence, but he treated him with humili- ating disregard in connection with the patronage belonging to Indiana. The ex-senator, recognized by his party as one of its mostfaithful and useful leaders, and the peer of any democrat in his state in popularity, found himself wholly without influence with a national demo- eratic administration which be had labored bravely and untiringly to elect. It was a bitter experience of politieal in- gratitude, and MeDonald hasn't forgotten it. This fact, however, doesn't detract from the value of his opinion regarding the chief cause of democratic defeat in In diana at the last election. He suid im- mediately after the election, and has re- peated the statement, thut it was the civil service policy of the administration There democrats who desire to be in favor with Mr. Cleveland who will tell him differently, but no democrat of In- diana could kunow the sentiment of the party in that state better than MeDouald, and he has no motive in misrepresenting. He desires that his party shall be strong and victorious, and he sces that is not possible under present conditions, A ma- jority of democrats are of the same view He is quoted as saying that he belicy Cleveland will be renominated, He did not say he helieved he would be re-clected, though he implied as much in the event that the republicans renominate their ndidate of two years ago. This the will probably not do. But what course will MeDonald ana those who think with him pursug? Will they allow the mug- wump influence to force the renoming- tion of Mr. Cleveland, with a certainty that in a second term he would muke his civil service policy more rigid than now, thus increasing party disaflection? Or doing this, will they help to re-clect a president whose eardinal policy they be lieve tends to the disruption of the party? Would the democrats of New York, Pennsylvania aud Indiana, who have re cently expressed their dissatisfaction with this policy, vote two yeurs hence to continue it, assured that it would be en- forced with inereased vigory questions are teresting, if not immedi ately urgent. They will have to be con- sidered by democrats, more particularly by those of the clase to which My MeDonald belongs. They will become pressingly pertinent before the summer of 1883, Meanwhile there is u suggestion for republicans to think of in what Mr MeDonald 1s reported to have said. That is, thut the ability of Cleveland to carry certain republican states,and thus greatly strengthen his chance of ro-cloction, will rest upon the contingeney of the republi can party again nominating Blaine. In the national eleetion two years hence it is possible that disuffection will not be contined wholly to the demoeracy. — Wait a Little The various estimates of the pelitical lexion of the next legislature are rather puzziing. No two editorinl com- | puters wre agreed upon the strength of the his tliatities 80 of maint to avoud less frec in mir ride possessing o came which solicitude more many bre were s and Cleyeland s ness by a1 His ¢ is ineredible inord These BEE: WEDNESDAY: the difictont ‘patties or of the wings in the On the one side wo have the railroad republicans boasting of jor yinto cancus mae L nd on that Gen e than 1 is made n 1ro. tarned upon the ¢ + will b of men insis etter position to kr ity democrats elected by rep s on ple Van Wyek w ballot in who to W, a ros to i wvor s for str tcaucus o 1 before, this is ver ne one i8 eviaently badly 1 several without honor i their own Appealed to by friends for format the Bex would coun L e outlook for General Van llent. It is more than that if p) worth anything, and expressod will of respected for country its further i onstituer is to b Tho Park C ssity f nerally that a proy body shatl be in mumission, The nece » no im sition ereatin e in universal our new ¢ ter mects with assont, Omaha has r pressing need of parks and boulevards to add to the attr: of the city and enhance the value of real estate in all sec ger be denied. It is tole t now A longer deiay will doubly diflicult soonoer that steps are taken iched o point when the etivenes wn no I¢ is the time to act make the werk pensive. Tl looking towards a comprehensive and sustained effort to promote and maintain the establishment of parks, parkways and bonievards, the better. To do this we must lave an ageney equal to the task, work ing by anthority and in pursuance of an intelligent plan and other words, a 'k commission, St. Paul is NOW preparing to organize such a body on the lines which were adopted several yeurs ago by Minnoapohis with such re- markable As of the value of u system of parks and boule- var that eity, we mformed by the St. Panl Pioneer Press that the park commission “has de re for the ma ity of Minucanolis than tt establishment there of a score of new in- Let us see whether Omaha cannot learn something from the provis: Minneapolis charter in this respeet, which is quoted with such Ingh s of approval by her siste 1 The Minneapolis park commission is composed of well known and prominent citizens vested with the amplest powers in the performance of It has full authority to acqui pur- chase, by gift, by condemna or by any combination of any two orv all three of these methods. It s ered to pay for lands so procured for park uses cither in whole necessary, by subscriptio drawn trom the direet asscssment of fits, or by the issue of public improve- ment bonds. And it is also at liherty to employ any or all of theso to any extent that the ecircumstances of each particular case may requige. The commission has within its jurisdie: tion not only the supervision of parks and parkways, but also the straighten- ing and boulevarding of strects. It is empowered to cploy and secure the as sistance of experienced landsenpe gar- deners and engincers. Its powers cnable itto be of general and wide reaching use. In drafting the scction of onr new charter regarding a park commission it will be well to bear in mind the success- ful experience of M and ex system—in suceess an eviden teriad prospe of dustries.” ions of the wor on, cmpo in part, as may be by money funds, by s und hene- public damay, methods PROMI Waslimgton MeLean is one of the heaviest buyers of real estate in Washinzton, The great Bartholdi has had & Dakota post- oftice nawied for him, with appropriate cere- monies, ' Leland Stanford is conspicuons for belng the only senator who displays absolutely no Jewelry on his person Senjamin Folsom (“Cousin Ben”) re- turned to Buffalo from Omaha, and is pack- ing up to go to his post ac Sheflield. Mis. Cleveland is an active member of the Horsewoman's elub of Washington, Grover isno equestrian,and is 100 fat to mount a horse. resident Hayes did not lose much through the stealing of bis valise, but if they had tackled his chicken house they would nave had him fowl, Mark Twain is vetting old very fas he does ot like to bo told of it 11is nearly white, but Mark persists that this was caused by sitting in dwmp ehurelies, Mine. Patti recerved the handsome sum ot 17,000 francs to sing at a concert on Oct, 27, Thisis the highest sum, necording to the Paris Figaro, that bas ever been received for nging at asing Ui London, Justice Gray, of the supreme court, is the largest man that walks Pennsylvania ave nue. o has to stoop for most doorways. He s a tremendons worker, never tired, but retired, e is & stout, rosy, happy clor Mr. Johin M. Kasson, Who has served ered- bly In congress and A3 foreign minister, as nearly finished a diplomatie history of the warof the rebellion, which will show the exact relations which the European powers ocenpied towards the confederate states. Ho has not only consulted the files of the state department. and the confederate arch now in the rebellion record oflice, but he spent much time infEhrope studying the archives of the foreign oflices of England, France aud Gerniany. ong es Fhar He §I8tes News: Suracuse $it@ndard Cleveland owes hi® to the agencies that clevate a baking powder or soup; yet e hates newspapers. Stran apers, 50 S Next Govern of Missouri, Tuledo Commercial, Jim Cummings will probably be the next democratic candidate for governor of -Mis- souri—provided the detectives detect him. - The Supply Keeps U mand, Cleveland Leader. In spite of the activity of the prohibition- ists, 7,824,950 gallons wore liguor was manu- tactured during the fiscal year 1556 than dur- ing 1855, With the De- e Dan Should Help Him. Kanags City Journal. President Cleveland Is at work jupon bis his anuual messace. Dan Lawont should &ive him the benefit of Lis newspaper ex- perience and teack biw the art of condensa- tion. NOVEMBER 21, 1886, A Pointed Question. Dallas News (Demd) What shall it profit ‘a president if he gain the whole world of mugwumps and lose bis own party? - Chester AL Arthur. Ma clouds to le ast wped the helin and bray hosen 1 when were thickens ly faced his nof hate and whose ground- nly, with ¢ passion t knowledge of his Iofty end »f their plaint and covert sueer, ed his foes and made them his w { beloy wied, he stepped oS 1" the nation thronihs he bravely lived and cted the homage of the good and true, v nadion mourns ¥ Wy w war his honored clay. - Worshipping Wealth, is not surprising, all sidered, that the pursuit of wealth has be como the all maniaavith most of the men nntry who have opportuniti direetion. Wealth Ihe men Tooked up 1o, and peo to the mighty almost things con rhing in this « < in that is worshipped everywhere ple tind themselves bowin | bag overeignty of the g ng un- consciously. An aceident happened to the team of Tol 1 New York the other day. It was not a ser affair. One horse slipped nto an excavation and ther after him everal men difliculty was ex o the ocenpants of the earriage and rescuing the hovses, 1f this shockmg catastrophe had befallen a mun whose dncome was in the neighbor- hood of #5000 1t would have reccived no attention wt the hands of the newspaper men of the metropolis, The John Jacob Astors being interested, the situntion was quite different, Thus' m England the wishap which befalls John Smith is not noted, but if his highness the Duke of Somebody slips up on an orange peel much ado 18 made over it for days to come. FFor the purpose of simplifymg the ado. ration of wealth in this republic the newspaper chronielers should adopt a new system in describing events in which the mighty rich play @ part. The Astor episode might huve been dished up some- thing like this: Mr. and Mrs. John Jacob Astor, the wealthiest couplein the world, whose fortnne, all in real estate, is now mated at §200,000, went shopping yes terday in a carriage drawn by a spirited tewm worth at least 6,000 at anction s Leaving a Broadway store where M Astor had purchased a £2,000 seal dol- man, ana stopping a minute at a well known j ry store to receive a $10,000 Srooch that hivl been teft for repairs, the conchman, whose ary s $1,000 and found, was told to_drive to Sixth avenue. Atthe corner of Twenty mnti street an X( ion is in pre and, not notie- ing it, the $4,000 conchman turned too sharply, and one of the #6,000 team dipped and fellinto the hole, drawing the other horse ter him. Mr. and Mrs. Astor kept their seats with we presence of mind, and work- ren who were near went immediately ir assistance. kortunately the car wgre, which isone of the best in New York, and which cost this spring nearly 2,000, was not damagod, but the harnes nt gold-plated affuir, having the family arms in gold and brilliants on the breast plates, And _which, with its orna- ments, wis worth $3,000, was sadly dam- aged, the crupper being denuded ” of its wold pate and the belly-band losing in the strain put apon it several of its most costly embellishments. A laborer afte ward piched up ahatfnl of zold chunks that had been shaken off in the: conrse of the effarts that were made to disengage the horses, and on returning them 1o the butler at the clezant Astor mansion, which is worth notless than $500,000—the butler being & person who had long served the Farl of Willowgrass, und who salury of $9,000—-he was pre- i with #1 in recognition of s hon- slight reward for his ser- Alter the Torses had been taken out of the hole Mr, and Mrs, Astor re: sumed their seats in their clegant ringe, and the %4000 conchman, taki his place on the hox, was directed t drive to the palatial family mansion This was done, and the trip” home was accomplished without further incident, Something in this style is needed. The motronolitan newspapers are approach- ing it, but their progress is slow. v s it Cofree Houses in America. Chicagy Herald, \e proposition to open in American cities coffee houses after the pattern of those which have gained snch celebrity in London has been received with more or less enthusiusm in various places, As a practical temperance mensure it is known that the institution of coflee houses in London has been a success. Morcover, it has had its effect in driving out of existence the coflee houses which previously were but thinly disguised places of assignation. Tomake the new- fangled London coffee house a suceess in this country it will be necessary for the projectors of the enterprise to take into consideration the fact that it is not so much eclegance of furniture which in- duces men to go to saloons s it is the unconventional surroundings there to be found. Th this fact has not been fully digested ny the promoters of the enter Prise at the east is shown by the deelura- tion of one of the persons interested that if the collee house is not made as attr: tive as the oon it will not be pat ronized, Modern 1 Jacol Astof ous were at han perienced in , and 1o Coving 0 saloons are about the most gorgeons Tesorts 1o he met with in cities, With their costly ornaments, plate glass claborate mirrors, ravest paintings and statvary and other decorations they in MY Cases Surpass in extray 1ce of display anything that is_to bo seen in private or public honses, Nothing in the vewil line approaches them in magnif cence. The merchant prinees of the day do pusiness in_places which, frequented as they are by besuty and fushion, are so plain is to appear shabby in comparison with the ee of the retreats where voung men in white aprons, and with gorgeous expanses of siwrt front relieved Sy i gleam of diamonds, dispense a poor rticlc of liquor at two drinks for a ter. But it is not for the patrons of the )luces thut eotles honses are to he es Fishod. "Tho. coffo houso i London is for the workingman. It was found by many workers in the temperance teld in England tuat the only way in which a cotfve house could be imude as atractive to o toiler as u sa loon or ule house was to make them much alike. English workingmen fell wto the habit of eating their dinners in ale houses because by purchasing s mug of ale they were given the privilege of spreading out th lunch, whieh was brought fram home, and eating it on the premises as they sipped their be The coflee houses afford the sume opportu nity, and, though seiling food, they do not object to n patron of the coflee pos who may bring his own victuals with him. The sult has been that the Engiish coffee houses, which are as un conyentional as the taverns, are patro. nized by the same elements, and in - most cases have been financially successful Introduced in this country on any other Lasis thiey will be dismal fuilures, -— Natural gas acenmulating in the stove in u Pittsburg publie school exploded the other duy without hurting any one, bt the children all guined a half holiday. Arthur's Southern Friends. Chicago Horald: - “If Mr. Arthar had been nominated for prosident in 1884, he would have been elect ed” This remark was made to a Herald man by a merchant of Lowisville, Ky., who has no reason for becoming conspicnous n the public prints, Hero is s stor; ‘'On the evening of the 81st of July 1883, a carriage containing fogr gentl men stopped _in front of the Galt hous in my city. One of the occupnants was Mr. Arthur, then pre States. The others were members of the committee of citizens in charge of his re ception, The eity was decorated in_an elaborate and tastefnl manner. T'he building of the ex-concderate was more ostentations in its display than that of his neighbor, who was of the president’s political faith. The homes of the peopls whose sons had fallen in defense ot what afterward beeame *a lost cause,’ were wrappedin a profusion of American flags and hung with portraits of the president, Grant, Lincoln and notables of the north, I'he streets of the eity were cleared and guarded by Colonel Dick Taylor, an ex confederate oflicer and a relative of *Oll Zuchary I'he guns which thundered A welcome to the chiel exceutive had done some service under the folds of the red, white and red. The committee in charge was composed for the most part of gentlemen who had espeused the eanse of the south. At the reception i the eveni the women of the aristocratic city of Kentucky and from New Orlean Atlanta, Charleston and Mobile were present’ Uhere was something about Mr. Arthur which charmed these people His meeting with them was of the most cordial character. They had watched his administeation and had become im bued with the idea that he was the first president sinee the time of Buchanan who was atriend to the south without mo tive. There was a dignity about lim which our people admircd, [ do not know whether you folks up here’ understood it or not, but the women of the south hav aver exercised a wonderful influenc over the men, It was the women of the south who infused the fire into what you all call the ‘war of the rebellion.’ “These same women or their dangh ters came up to Louisville to show the president of the United States that th regarded him in his oflicial capacity ns one who was worthy their homage. Our women have a pardonable amount of vanity, the same as your With these women were representative men of the south. I cannot tell you now, for 1 haven't time to go into details, how it came about that what at first was sugr gested as a pleasantry, perhaps, and as a compliment, between these women and men, was afterward seriously considered by leading men in the south, But I can tell you this much: It was agreed or ui- derstood that, in the event of the nomi- nation of Mr. Arthur, and in the event of the nomination of Mr, Cleveland by the democratic convention, that the south would _quietly cast its vote for the for- wer. You may remember that at that time there asortof distrust, a lne of faith or something of the kind, in the minds of our people about Mr Cleveland's democeracy. T again. our people were - well-n heartened. They did not b was any victory for any democrat. did belive that Mr. Arthur w man whom they could trast implicitly. ‘T'ney honestly believed that if they showed hitn that they had suflicient faith in him to cast their vote for him; that he w who would do more than the aliowance with them; that he of cluvalry in_him - which would cause him to recognize quickly and gladly the | trust of the south. “Now, that notion sprang from the n of a southern woman—a Kentuek- an, who lived and still lives i Frank fort. She mentioned it, as 1 have said, rather us a compliment to General Buek ner, who was at the Galt house reception, and General Buekner repeated it to ® retary of the ‘Treasury Folger, who w one of the presidential pariy: That w on the evening of the al of the presi- dent “The next ieve there Thev y Tresident Arvthur pulled the silken cord which started the mn chinery of the southern cotton exposition Louisville. It was a grand day for ‘ntucky and a grand day tor the south 1 in the south all my life, 1y seventy years, and I never saw a weleome so genuine that which was given to President Arthur on that oc Sion. I remember mecting old Dick Taylor, an ex-confederate oflicer, then chicf of police of Luuisville, while th band was | . Columbia, the gallery. threw b about my neck and cried for joy God," said ho, ‘that the south his dent whom it can trust and love. was the sentiment everywhere, “In the evening of that day President Arthur was entertained au the Pendennis club, the wealthiest club, perbaps, in- the south, It was a private recention and very eoxclusive, At it were the repre sentative merchants of Louisville and other southern eities, ‘There were also present a few of the more conservative leaders of the democratic party of the soutn. The reception was protracted presi- That ident of the United | HOLDRLGE BAPPENINGS, | The Terrible Storm and Trs Desteucs tion of Live Stock, Howorece, Neb, Nov [Cor- respondence of the Beg.J—Since our last unigation thisendof the stato has the worst storm ever wit- nessed by the oldest inhabitant. District conrt convened on Monday, the 15th, also the county suporvisors met in spe day. The 2 al ses morning was bright, but during the day it clonded up dark rain began to tall, which 1 to snow during the nigut. Tues. which sion tho samo | and at chan, day morning a blizzard was on grew worse and worse as the day away At 5 o'clock business men to draw on their coats and home. BanketJohn Ei sel with L_L.Johnson and Mr for their homes in- Weost Holdrege, but roing hail the distance they 'were compelled to go back. Mr. ° Kinsel offered $15 to any man who wonld make trip and report o s wife that he 1d not get home. Bankers Clatk and Mctirow, “who lived but three blocks north of the conrt house, eould not get home, MeGrew and the county clerk, P O, Hedlund, each paid messengoers $10 to take word to their familics that they could hot get hom Phe editor of the Nugget, apler broasting the storm half wiy home, wave ip up and was thankful to find his way back to a hotel. Dur- ing Facsday — might — the snow coased faullin and — Wednesday worning the sun ¢ wut, but the winid continucd to_drive snow and piie it Pupall day, “The town was full of farm ers, who did not dive to start home until Phursday. Such dritts and such a fall of Sow hus not been seen in this country since the fall of 1880, As expocted, ail railroad trains were abandoned, and for seyeral duys no mails were reccived, At this writing the trains on the Colorado branch are’still snow bound end near Moorticld. We exp orextensive losses of stoek, and we are not disappornted. Here is alist of losses. which will appear in the Nugget to mor: row, and reports are still coming in, A Engman, 3 head fat hogs; Hors Moon, 12 hovs; Vietor Johnson, 25 hog Holdrege Levi Stock comy fat steers, Walliam Murphy, 7 Willinm Cowan, 800 head of sheep; C. Moon, 25 hogs, 1 cow; . Winther, 1 hogs, 1ealf; S Johnson, seueral hogs and calyes; George Rowland, 17 hogs; Brun- 8 hogs; i <ome hogs) sJacob Davis, 1 Uiford, s hogs; W. D, Fraland, 2 heifers; Gule Bros.,” 85 hogs; G. I Racine, 7 hogsy J. W, Johuson, 8 calves; S Amprose, 5 hogs; Samuel Dale, 5 hogs; W DL Bird, 8 hows; William Shel ling, 50 hogs; A. D, Eckiund, 8 hog®, ) € Fairman, 5eattle; Me. Fuils, 4 Mrs. John Strand, 1 yearling' ealf, hogs; Robert Dale, "1 heifer: 2y, 2 hogs: John Ridluna, 2 hogs; Al Bros.t 1 eow, d fat hogs. This s notover one half the loss i this county The committee atmecting as reported in onr last will confer with” the B, & M, oflicials — at Omaba this week in veference to the location of their shops and round house in this city The committee consists of Senator Fin sel, W. C. Rittenhous -, P, 0. Hedlund, T M. Hopwood and Will N. King Elwood J. Theron, a povular young man of this city, was marricd to” Miss Emily Sergeant. of Juniate, at the bride's home, last week. Holdrege will be their home at present Last week afive year old child of J. 1T Ellingsworth, while playing out doors, felt headlong into a tub of water and was not discovered nntil Life was extine Miss Annie Eckofl, who has been sick at the Arlington botel for some time, was tuken to her home in Harlin county lust wi From the exposure she took a ro- ]:lkm' and d ed Villiam Welch, who was convieted of anatiempt Lo commit rape, wis son- teneed by Judge Gashin 1o two years in the penitentiary, and Sherift Erickson took the bird down last Friday Last Wedneaday Silas Latta's took tire and burned. s cows cight or ten head of horses wer out before the tire rencned them F500: no msuranc began broak for in company ank, started i the C.J. Carlson, John Landblocm mure; Willin barn and taken Loss, Telephonic as Livi- dence. Chieago Herald: A number of lawyers happened in & Madison street resort one evening Inet week, snd in sowe chanced to begin talking about the missivility of telephonic conversations s evidenee in trials at law One lawyer was quite confident that such conversa- tions would ne: be admitted in court, while another was equally confident th; they would be. A thivd cume to the res- cuc of th cond with a clipping from a legal paper showing that this very ques- tion has niready beon decided by Judg, Barclay at St, Lonis. As th's i5 1 new question, Judge Burclay's decigion is worthy publication i u paper read by somebody besides lawyers. In the caso Globe Printing company vs. Stahl, on mo- tion for new trial. the judge suid until the small hours. After the president had been driven to his hotelmany of ont ot the Pendennis reception rem Incidentally the remark of the lady from Frankfort was repeated, and _then its consideration beeame serious. In fino, the conclusion was just as I have stuted—that 1 the event of the nomina tion of Mr. Arthur, and the nomination of Cleveland, that the eflort was to be made quietly, and effectively, if possible, to throw the vote of thesouth to Mr Arthur. I would say to you further, without mentioning ‘any names, that when the republican convention met in Chicago in 188, & committee irom the outh” was here to muke this pledge to certain delegates. But Mr, Phelps had the rems, and the few delegates who listened to us and belieyed us shook their heads mournfully and said it was too late, “There will be no more sincere mourn ing anywhere in this country than in the south to-morrow when the ‘minute guns are living over the buriat of ex-President Arthur.” — They Always Dot Chat Way, Chicago Herald: Chavley Maskins, of | Milwaukoe, an old t Phoman, wus in Furope recently und he tells some funny stories about the way the tele graph business is managed over there instance, he tiled mMessuze 1 an in London, out of curiosity, wattted to see what boeime of it The re ceivin did not place the mes in ahittle teather cup and shoot it up the | pieun e to the operating room, | s 1 sriean receivi clerk doe Instead, he hung it on a file hook, with « | number of other messages, and went on taking i more ! placing them the same hook. In about Palf an hour the cook was full, when the elerk ealled out to a boy, In five minutes the boy was o his wity up stuirs to the oper ating voom with that bundle of me aod he wasn't in mueh of o hurry, No wonder Mr. Haskius says the grapher couldu’s stand in that country are slow over in England, but For iastance, when they aph pole in the street of a oy plant it fully us taying the foundation of a miltion-dollar building = With the pole onee up they are not Sitisfied to brace it with the service wires, but to attach o it and extend eut and tasten in every diree: tion heavy guy wircs, as clumsy as they are unnecessary. There is no use tryin, to tell the Englishman anything, vither r to suggest any better ‘methods, His invariable reply, in a tone which scems to teave no room for farther argument is it to live very erect a town or if they w us car | and ordinary uses of | the telephione CAL the trial it was proven th the plamtil’s ngents had a cony concerning the matter in controversy nere with defendant personally thosh the telephone in the usuad manner. This witness testified that he recognizea d fendant's voice, which he knew, and ug to the admissibility that conversation cnelant had raised no objection. The dificulty relutes to the tsstimony of another witness, who stated that he didn't know defendant’s voire or those of his clerks, and who was brought into communseation with defondant” solely through the telephone. He stated thut he ‘rang up’ the defendant’s number on the telephono list, and after being duly connected by the eentral oflice, he ashed s tins Stahl?! (the defendant). The an swer wiis ‘yes,' e then had some con versation “with the answering party, which defendant urgontly objectod 1o 14 incompetent, on the gronnd “that there was no satifsactory evidence of ident of the purty answering, At the trial the conrt admitted the evidenee and on a motion for a new trinl the court hus ben 1skea to review the ruling, and ha 50 with some cure “Phe conrts of justice eannof desive to ignore the groat modes of intercommunication which introduction of the telesraph and phone tave aceomphished. IUiscerta thhe duty of the courts to take judic notice o1 sueh facts of wen selentiiic knowledge us are part of publie eontem vorary hstory. The nature, operation courts sl t one of ion anddonot in 1 ehanges sueh fucts, and the ingly tuke such notice of them person places hiwself in conneetion system aving a e phone in his b 1nvites communieation in 1 business thro it medium conyersations, so hield uln as personal conver customer with an churge of an would b, “The fact that the fendant's telephone was not dentifi that of def; fant or ot hi does not reader the conmunication wiss ble “The ruling here snnonuced is inten o velate merely 1ot missibility in e of tions in such circin determine the eileot after it is admittod by 1 1o his Such Atic wre us ations by a bn unknown « ordering bu question of o cli couyersiv but 1ees not 1o The fence luw . i the efleet £ unrestrained tiy 0 had the + the which s 5 o Fon s the woods, hus of shinks siat Hogs ipe pubtic young skunks, and devonrad aby nereasing thiroughout the alarly - fond of nuany of “Welt, we. have always donv it that way." i when the woods wire opes 1 s10ok,