Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 25, 1886, Page 4

e s THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED :EVEW MORNING. TRERVE OF &0 Daily (Morniae Fait " c 8 niny | $10 01 b0 uddress, OMAA OrpIcT Wkt All communient torial matter should be o TOR OF THE BEk. NUSINERS LET einess Ietiers and A to THE ks PUSLISHING CoM Drufts, checks b uade pay able 10 the ¢ 2 ahonld ba compnny, 1o of th ROSEWATER, Eniron. THE DAILY BIE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. State of Nebraska, | County of Doulas, | Geo. B. Tzsehuek, secretary of ‘The Publishing company, does solennly hat the actual circulation of the for the week ending Nov. 10th, 1 follows: Satarday, Nov, 13 Sunday. N Munday, N¢ Tuesaay, N Wednesday, Thursday, Ve Friday, Nov. . 153,085 Gro, B Tesenves, Subseribed and sworn (o 1wy prescrice this 20th day of November, A, D 155, N Frir, [SEAL) Notary Pubiie. B. "T'zschuek, being first duly sworn, s and says thiat h sccretary of the Publishing company, that the actual av ce daily cireulation of the Daily Bee for month of puary, 1884, was 10,0558 coples, ‘hruary, 1856, 10 for Mareh, 11,587 copies: 1556, 12,191 : for May, L for June, 1855, 19 : 314 copie for Aucst, 185, 12,464 copies:for September, 1886, 18,030 coples; for Octoher, 1855, 12,080 copi Gro. B, Tzsenvex ibed and sworn to berore me this sth day of November, A. D., 155, N. . Frir, [SEAL olary Public, Average..... April, Tie readers of the Bee will find in this issue an interesting Thanksgiviy story oy Harrict Prescott Spofford X1 year's orders for steel rals are snid to exceed 750,000 tons. Nebraska will take a good deal than her share of the tc production. It is to be a great year for railroad building in these parts more ANotieR social gone wrong and swindling over $100,000. for the ‘“boodie” nowadays between New Y and Boston dencons, with date shightly in the lead light of Boston has stands convicted of on ont of =omething ce ston up to Tnere has been too muneh lavish gen- erosity displayed by this city in its gifts of rights of way to corporations. It should stop. How much do the railroads contribute in taxes to the support of the city governmennt? How many of our people know that Omaha does not reccive apenny in ety taxes on the rights of way of any of the corporations centering in the city? hobby of nearly all the real estate speculators is to put Fort Omaha on wheels. The scheme offers a broad field for booming outside acre property, which it is expeeted speculators will pue- chase with aview to imaginary boul vards to the new fort, and it will also af- ford a fine chance for speculation in par- cels of the eighty acres now oceupied by the old fort. THE gre THE way that Senator Manderson bull- dozed and bullyragged members of the board of trade, who were not disposed to endorse his Fort Omaha removal bill, was not very dignifi to say the least. ‘The senator was invited to be present, but it was entirely out of place for him to winst the resolutions to modify the bill, and to interrupt speak- ors in order to choke them off by his per- ation of the Chicago, Kco- kuk & Omaha railway meuns another big boost for Omaha. ltis not 8 paper railroad to be built with wind. The backers are Samuel W. Allerton, Nelse Morris and Diamond Joe Reynolds, mil- lionaires every one, and three of kind at that. Allerton and Morris arealready heavily interested in South Omaha,while Reynolds is mterested i Keokuk, The statement is made that this road is to be begun at once and pushed as rapidly as possible. The indications now are that Omaha is to become a great live stock market much sooner than the most san- guine expected. OMAHA continues to loom np as a hog market, ‘The receipts are increasing daily. Yesterday they reached the very reapectable figuro of 9,500, which with those laft over from the day before, made 11,100 head on sale. Yesterday's sules wera 8,600 head The growth of the business at the South Omaha Umon stock yards is exceeding all expectations, and the yards are now found to be ina equate to the demand for room stock yards company should not lose a day in enlarging the yards to a capacity of 15,000 Iy to make needed, whi iper day, and be prepared other wements when h will be in the near future | Me. Joax T. Brun, w to the Herald to make a suggestion in regard to the platting of the poor farm which wo bolieve will meet with general approyal It is briefly that the lots platted be of generous size, suited for handsome resi- dences and eadeulated to greatly improye all the remaiming property of the county which will be put onthe market at sone future day. Mr, Bell's view of the case is that of a number of prominent citizens. They believe that divided into lots of, say 70 to 100 by from 175 to 200 feot depth the property will command mueh higher figures at the outse I'he east | proctamatior front lots will be especially desirable for handsome residence property and divided as sug, will be eagerly snapped up. N beautiful location ean be found in Omaha A1 tho fifty acres to be sold are divided into city lots they will be no more eligi ble than those of 4 dozen additions sur- rounding the poor farm. Let at leasta part of the property be divided into large and ample plots of ground. They will pay better returns, draw a better class of burldings and improve by 50 per cent more than would otherwise be the case the remainder of the poor farm property, The Observance of Thanksgiving In nccordance with the president’s nd those of the governors | states, to-day will be uni- day of gene the country of the sever versully ohserved as a thanksgiving throughont ‘Ihe annual festival of colonial New England, like 0o many other New Eng- Jand idens late to take root, has spread s usnal contines and now blos sin every state of the union. It1s the one holiday on our national ealendar to the Puritan forefathers. not a of festivitios Its doctrives and precepts had an inti- mate conneetion with practical Tife, with the duties of individuals to individnals or to the state. To them Thanks: beyond so1 which we ow: Theirs wa religion of citizen | giving had a deep rehigions significance. ouning table with its turkey, roast not attacked until such 1 been previously atoned for by a morning in tne straight back pews of the mecting house, listening to the weighty exiortations of the village rmster. It furmshed the one sermon in the year, barring the annual election day discourse, when the minister felt free to leave the doctrinal paths for a ramble in the by-ways of politics, and when thanks for a bountiful harvest were joined with a lively castigation of men and measures which feil under the chureh ban. Fhie day we celebrato has lost much of the peeuliar religious signiti eance of a narrow creed which it has become harvest home. Introduced into t calendar of the union by Abraham Lincoln in the dark d of 1862, it w8 sinee been ordained by essive proc Its peculiar even from a secular sense, i 0g- nized, It1s the sugeessor of the vintage fostival of Southern Enrope, and the har vest home of northeren ehmes. Garn ered ficlds gathered crops m smooth its path. Barns and eribs dilled to overflowing with the wealth of mead and farms, furnish it a theme. Whilst eities and towns, which share in the general prosperity resulting from the industry of the tillers of the soil and the rich increase of our agricultural sections, join heartily in the general observance. Thanksgiving has also become w holiday of national retrospection. We are apt to count onr annual sum total of blessings sa country from one fourth Thursday in November to another, A hundred thousand pulpits revise the record. A score of inllions of papers deseant upon prosperity, or chuerfully pomt out in times of depression the signs of future promise It is a pleasant feat- ure of the duy. Croakers have no place in its obsery It is the holiday for optimists I'he gr shout and cider was worldliness b spent once possssed, Tt instead the nationul regulnrly sue thess, ally e lamations e and ows the gen The Business Sitnation. The condition of trade at the middle of another week shows a marked im- provement. The raising of the snow blockade and the adjustment of labor troubles in several industries have pro- better feeling, which shows it- increased trading and a more movement of commodities trom of production to distributing moted a self in rapid huints centers, Production and consumption n departments are well balanced, and both are setive. The resuits of the season’s business show & marked improvement in all dircetions, and it isan encouraging feature in the situation that the change for the better has thus far develoved but little tendency to speculation or over- trading. Aside from the increase in rail- rond building and equipment, and the consequent expansion of iron and steel production, there are few conspicuous evidences of an extension of indastrial enterprises, and the temper of traders generally 18 very conscrvative The iron trade is showing increased y and strength. Demund is es- pecially good for materials for railway construction and equipment; the entire industry is on a good footing and confronts a most encouragmg outlook. H contracts have been placed this week in Pennsylvania mulls for steel rails for svring delivery. The grain markets are featureless from a speculative standpoint, but in better shape for legitimate business for that reason. The public is taking ht- tle interest in grain as a speculative in- vestment, s evidenced by complaints from Chicago and other cenfers of noticeable lack of *‘outside’ orders cither to buy or scll. Export trade is moderately active, and is enconraged by the comparative steadiness of values growing outof the indifference of specu- lation. Demand for corn has been, if anything, less active than it was last week, but the foreign inquiry for wheat is very fair. Exporters show no disposi- tion to buy at higher prices, and their conservatism combines with the full re- ceipts and ample stocks to thwart any attempt to force the murket to a much higher level Bring Them to Time. About threc years sgo the granted to the B. & M. ruaiirond company the right of way across lower Farnam street and virtually do nated large tracts of land in the shupe of streets and alleys in connection with this grant, under the pretext that the Burling- ton road needed a connection with the Omaka & St. Paul road. The eoudition under which this grant wus made was that the Burlington road was to erect a stone pier and iron viaduct across its tracks in conneetion with Farnam street and the grade of Farnam ws m accordunce witn this pl agers of the Burlington ed 10 have the viaduet built within one year, When the year was up they asked for another year's extension, which was granted Ly the council. ‘That year has again expired and the road has done nothing to fultil its part of the contract, Whenone party to an agreement o comply with its share, the compact fulls to the gronnd. It now becomes the duty of the council to take aetion in th premises. The streets of Omuha which the Burlington road now oceupies with out any equivalent should either be re- opened or the road should be compelled to build at one No more promises should be tuken. 'The compsny now oc- cupies half a million dol public property without paying a dollar forit. In other cities railroad compunies which are granted a right of way through streeis and alleys are obliged to pay for that right and to construct and maintain viaduets aeross their tracks costing often hundreds of thousands of dollars. The Burlington road secured this right of way en its. own propesition. It pledged itself - to viaduet its tracks most council fals s worth of | | deputation of within twelve months, and it has taken no steps 1o comply with its con- tract obligations. Meantime lower Far. nam, which formerly was the main road way to the river bank and to Council Blufls when the river was frozen over, is | now and has for two years been closed There is no excuse for farther forbear ance, The { should bo brought 10 time rou Tue action of the president in restor ing District Attorney Benton wasasovere setback to his mugwnmp admirers. Some of the newspapers of thut siripe hve been candid enongh to confess thewr disap- pointment and go that it was A square back down, while others have mada most unfortunate work in their efforts to tind a plausible avology for it. In this, nowever, Mr. Cleveland, who onght to been best qualified for tho task, utterly and ridienlously failed, which should have suggested to his woulil-be apologists the folly and futility of any attempt on their part to explain away this completo and humiliating sur- render, But there is another feature of this miatter which is most aggravating to this Cleveland and that is the palpable rtisnnship which it dis closes. At about the same time and for the same offence that Benton was sus pended in Missouri, District Attorney Stone, a republican, was suspended in Pennsylvama been reinstate eknowle enntingent, Stone, however, has not though He hus 1o senators to tight neither can he intluer the delegation from Pennsylvania to the next national democeratic convention. The disadvantages of - Mr. Stone posi tion are obvions But just men who that there may be justice even in polities will insist that the rule by which Benton, the democrat, was jadged, is cqually applicable to Stone, the republican, and that the failure to mike it so is plain, unvarnished parti-an- ship. Were Mr. Cioveland the high- minded and unpartisan reformer h's friends eluim, he wounld ba ineapable of the discrimination he has shown in this matier; he wonld at 1east have given Mr. Stone to understand that the opportu- nity was open for an explanation and that 1t would be duly and fairly consi ered. The clear inference from the presi- dent’s course in the matter is that repub-. licans in oflice are to be jndged by one rule of fidelity and demoerats by. an- other. N9 one can hereafter doubt that the ambition or inter mvolved he 18 capa. s boldiy and shamelessly any man in the countr, Puiladelphia are itis said he has asked to be his eanse, velieve ble of being partisan s Tue workingmen of proposing to emulate the example ot their New York brethren and nominate a candidate for mayor. ‘The movement is organizing, but it hasnot yet procecded s0 far as o bring forward any one prom- inently identified with or representing the labor interest Pinldadelphia may not have a Henry George, and if the work. ingmen of that city are wise they wili not invite defeat by nominating a man wholly unknown to the gencral public, however worthy he may be from thei point of view. The Pailadelphin Record mukes n suggestion that the workingmen would do well to act upon. It is that they nominzte Mr. Georze W. Childs, of the Ledger, in advance of any partisan nomination. Such an action would bo A most proper recognition of one of the foremost philanthropists of the day, who has been all his life a worker, and whose interest in the canse and welfare of labor has been always active and sincere. He illustrates this kindly and fienerous inter- est in the consideration he extends to his employes, which takes into account not merely their years of usefulness, but mukes provision for the time when th shall no longer be able to work. It is no ured that Mr. Childs would accept anommation. He certainly would not doso for personal gratification. Mo is understood not to have any ambition for political place or honors. But the work- ingmen wonld honor themselves by mak- ing him their candidate, and if the nom- ination was given him as an expression of their confidence and respeet he would very likely consider acceptance a duty. Mg. MANDERSON'S mouthpiec the Republican, goes out of its way to attack Mr. Herman Kountze by charging that he is largely responsibie for the opposi- tion to the Manderson bill to put Fort Omuha on wheels. This is in full keep- ing with the entire course pursued by the senator and his colleagues since the Fort Omaba removal scheme has been set on foot, Mr. Kountze has taken no part whatever in the controversy. he was not present at the mecting of the board of trade when the resolutions ask- ing congress to delay action on the bill was adopted. He has not been present at any other meeting when the Fort Omaha bill was under discussion. He has not inspired one word that has been pub- hished in this paper on this matter. The only thing Mr. Kountze has done is to set a definite price upon his 155-nere tract west of the fort, ut the request of a mem- ber of the board of trade commit- tec. Mr. Kountze vlaced the price at $500 per acre, which Mr. Manderson’s organ denounces as exorbitant, At Washington Mr, Manderson has repre- sented that no land near the fort could be bought for less than $2,000 or 000 per acre. It was by just such exaggerated estimates that the war department has heen led to believe that the enlargement of the fort to 200 or 300 acres would half a million dollar: cost ‘Tee prince of Wales is eredited with o good many semi-democratic santiments, and those who were offended at the at- tentions which he lavished upon Gam- betta will find new eause for disquietude at the reception given by the prince to the deputation of the London trades council at Sandringham. The prince gave them a lunch, and in response to thes | resolution of the metropolitan working- men, thanking him for his scheme of chesp admission to the colonial and In- dian exhibition, he smid that nearly nnllion and a quarter of working people were thus enabled to visit the exhibition Thus little episode, s0 pleasing and profit able to the luboring classes, furnishes o striking contrast to the repeated snubs being administered these days to the un employed workmgmen by Prime Minister Salisbury. His recent letter informing the secial democratie federation that ne needs no advice in reference to the suf fering poor of London, as well as his r fusal 10 remain in London and ree laborers, will' b against him before the oountry upon every oceasion. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: P —— Tar campaign liar is not yet dead The agents of 1he Van Wyek opposition are sending to eastern papers voluminous coln giving the anti Al in the republican telegrams from Li Van Wye! ranks of the at 71, This the gencerai just 23 considerably less than half « dently elatm by his supporters, The liat overshoots the mark. arns carry their own denial on the stror oming legislative session estimate leaves which of the votes aston shing supporte fac They Will Give Thanks, John MeShane will biess his stars that he was rannin - against the easiest man in- the district to beat, Postmaster Coutant raices his voice in praise over thres new carriers and an equal number of cle Jolin Sahler ehants a sonz of thanksgiving that his job of “seeing” the country members of the legisiature in the interest of tho rail- roads stitl holds out, Dr. Miller raises his Ebenezerover the com- rletion of the Belt line to Decriield and Sey- mour park. The turkeys the worst is over PROMINENT PERSONS, nk heaven that the widow of Gen. Custer, is broken in health and is seeking restoration in Herkimer connty, N. Y. Fred Dubors, who has te 10 con cress from 1¢ 1L, only threo years cen eleeted de ho, left Springhield, 1. C. Barnabee, of the Boston Ideal Opera compan, says he is now just old enongh not to wantthe publie to know how old he is. It now transpires that Prince Komatzu,who is traveling in this conntry, s on his way to England to conferthe “Orderof the Chrysan- themum™ on the Prinee of Wale Noah S. Hunt, the rich and eccentric New Yorker, who lived utterly alone in the mdst of G n's millions, is said to have left a will locked upin a safe, the combination of which no living person kKuows, STl Parker, who died in Murray, Idaho, the other day, was widely known and liced in Colorado, where he made and lost more big fortunes than any wan in the state. e died poor, after possessing millons, Dr. Hamilton Griffin, stepfather of Mary Anderson, 1s at present in Denver, Col. He has purchased a ranch in thatstate tor his son Frank, and the two will occupy them- selves with cattle-raising on their 2000 acres of pasture. Mr. Gladstone will soon receivea hand- somie present from his feminine admirers in New Zealand. A number of Auckland ludies are preparing for him an album of native ferns, the colleetion being admirably com- plete, while the album itself isa_fine speci- men of New Zealand woods and skilled col- m ns.p Died of Tnanition New York Tribure, The verdict of the publie, sitting as ner’s jury upnn the wasted body of ci vice reform, is that it died of inanition, 1 ser- e e A Reform Basis, Lowise Ue Commercial, The next president who iseleeted upon a reform basis should understand that the watehword “reform” is used i polities only to call attention from the tricks by which elections are carried, and that it is best to foret it immediately afterward. Had Mr. Cleveland known this he might be much more solid with his party to-day. Thanksgiving Siufling. Full many a turk of fattest form serene The gay and festive farmer rears with eare: Full many a goose and duck of fattest mien Will pourits fragrance on Thauksgiving e A v No Admiration for It Milwaukee Jowrnal, The Journal never had any admiration for the laws or morals which send a horso thief to the penitentiary and a land grant or cor- poration grabber to the United States sen- ate, s A Great Statistical Feat, Minneapolis Tribune. A sealskin sacque for the Bartholdi statue would cost §275,423, a decent bonnet $11,453 and a pair of shoes 1457, The above stat ments are made in order to “scoop” and s lence the statistical fiend. sk Dr. Douglas' Legacy Paid, New York Sun. J. U, Douglas, who was General physictan and sacrificed his prac] and his health in his devotion, maks the fol- lowing statement in the Chureh Union: “On Sunday morning, Nov. 51, I received a note from Colonel Grant inciuding his mother's check for the full amount of the bequest, for which Iam sincerely and deeply grateful. You are at liberty to use this statement as may seem best to you.” There is evidently an error In the date given by Dr. Douslas,but the main fact that he bas been paid 13 cer- tainly correet. ‘The Girant family should be congratulated on having done what 1s right and proper with Dr. Dou, s The Democrats' Thanksgiving. Washington Critie, Ve thank Thee, Lord, that ‘T Our party such a President: “Thro’ heatand cold, O Lord, we stana In every quarter of the land, Wit mouths uplitted. i€ may Qur lips may touch official pa And thankiul are we that we may Stand waiting thus day after day. doour duty by the State, serve who only stand and wait, Some bloody tyrant, wild and ruie, Might ive Cinnocuous desuetude” “To'all our hopes and all our tears, B cuttine off our ieads and crefore we?re thankul to b Witn one who fets us wait We thank ‘Thee tor the mugwumps, oo, “Those noble patriots, leal and teie, Wl get the jobs we want to till And davble i the public till, We thank Thee for the great reform Which, o'er the counlry. like a storm, Has swept with stronsg, resistless tide, nd lett us Democrais ontside To wage a ceaseless, payless strife W ith dull affairs of orivate life. We thaok Thee for all these, O'Lord, Because it is our best rewand ; "'ix noble, after all our toils, To viell th others all the spoilst "Fis noble! aye, and (hat's enough | "T'is noble, but it's p. e Nothing Is Lost, Nellic M. Ward. Notldng is lost: the drop of dew Which t s o thy deal or fhwer Is but exh: D suimmer's thunder-siowe Perchance to shine within the bow nts the sun at fall of diy; Perchance 1o sparkle in the dow O fountains (ar away. u hast sent ha atliing is lost—the finiest seed By wiid birds borne or bieezes blown, Finids something suited to its need, Wherein “tls sown and grown. The language of some household son he perfume of some cherished flower, wugh gone from outward sense, belong 0 mewory’s after-iour. S0 with our words; or Larsh or kind, Uttered. they are not bll forgot; They havetheir influence on the iind, Pass on~but perish not. So with our deeds; for good or ill, “Ihiey have their power searco understood; | Thenlet us use our better will T wake thew rite with good, —— — TIHURSDAY NOVEMBER 25, 1880, STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings, Neligh had a taste of a coal famne last week Hastings has an attack of matrimonial vity T'he West Point papor mill is running night and day, Schuyler hus public sehools A Knox connty pig has like a human hand. Dodge county has been divided into urtecn townships. I'he young men of Seward have organ ized publican elub, Thankegiving motto for the monopoly crowd, “Peace Brr Stil)," Hastings has organized a base ball com pany, with a capital of $5,000, I'ho street ears of Des Moines will be heated with square box stoves, tlon. J. K. Fishburn, of Saline county, will take his cranberry sauce with « long straw Advico to din full tor utterance board'" a rest G. A. Montgomery, a crack shot of N vraska City, fired off two fingers of his right hand in a recent hunting mateh, An Atkinson counter jnmper drew a 100 prize in a lottery. He has bounced "urn prictor and will run the store him Columbna City is jnst now aeitated by anumber of scandils. Two sl of 4-;»"3”: Lintidelity eame to light last week The four-year-old son of William bott, of Ord, who was lost last week the blizzard, was found dead night Tony Noy ska City, was sentenced tofive veursin the penitentiary robhing a man in the strects n few weeks o, ‘The Beatrico Demoerat is thankful that the gracious smiles and seductive showers of tafly of the “young democracy™ will never more saturate its sanctum The Omaha section of the slanghter house democracy will feast on the bird of harmony, dressed with the Second ward returns and “eutthroat’ sauee, P.J. O'Sullivan will send up from the peaceful vales of private life a besom of thankfulness that he is loosed from the grip of delinquents and dead head adds The organization known as the Socie for "Christian Endeavor will hold their first state conference at Des Moines, commencing December 7 and continuing through the Uth A gilded youth of Neligch fathcr's horse, sold it in Norfoll slotionly loaded with corn juice bered up in time to reccive his blessing with a strap. There is a_strong probability that the long felt nuisance of pictorial roosters will soon be suppressed. An eastern genius has invented a machine to pre- vent roosters crowing. Editors Morton, Marvin and Sheman 1 il a “long’ felt want” to-day with the faded remnants of the packing hou bugle, and give thanks devoutly for the hollow privilege of living. The Chambers Journal is a late addi- tion to the rustling ranks of Holt county journaism. In politice it 1s republican straight, with aelubin soak for barnucles and tricksters. L. A, Woodward is pro prietor. Eastern capitahsts are tumbling over one another to place loans on Holt county lands. As the are ten books full of mortgages in the elerk’s office, it looks very mieh as though they had succeeded in their tumbling. Monsieur Morton, P. M., Nebraska City, sends greetmgs to Editor Sherman, of “Plattsmouth, on their bounce from the fountain of bourbon youth. loves company, even 1 ‘the gory corri- dors of the slaughter house, The night editor of the Fremont Tribune deseribes a brilliant meteor h shot through the horizon of his vision recently. It was a barkeeper's shooting stick™ followed by “‘Here, you dufter, pay for those drinks." The bold MeDonongh of the O'Neill Tribune is doubly thankful that an ap- preciative constituency retained him as eader of the home guard by several m jority. The bannister of senatorial fame was not greased for the occasion, William Edgerton and William Cos- ruth, two Platismonth young men who fitted up a scow and started for Florida two wee o, brought np against an gorge near St. Joe and narrowly es- wed drowning. They returned home by rail. Specimen native honesty: Small boy on South Thirteenth street mournfully tells his companion, ‘““I'hat woman in there gave me a five-dollar gold prece in change for a nickle.” “What did you do with it, Jimmic Like o darn sucker I gave 1t back to-ore William Lyons, on a visit to his_father at Red Oak, was' taken sick_during the severe storm last week. While suffering under mental derangement he strayed from his bed out into the storm. When found his hands, feet and face were so badly frozen that he died soon after. A north Nebraska paper cheerfully in- forms its readers: “Our insides this week in a miscellancous assortment of s and foreign news, a scrial story, matters personal and general, a fine mess of cabbuge, a yard of bologna, four pounds of chiecse and about a quart of double-stilled, unrectified wrath,™ shuyler man was summoned on a He walked into the court room, drew off his coat and threw it over the balusters. A large, empty flask dropped out of the inside pocket onto the floor. “The juror gathered it up and meekly in- quired if he was competent to sit. He was informed that if he would get the bottle filled and pass it to the court he could remuin in the box, West Point, at last, has somethi novel in the way of new civie society Muny towns still keep up the good old astom of the charivari, but it remained for the Queen City to org v chari- vari society, whose only of is the ushering of the newly wedded through the fatal portals which lead, perchance, to the beautiful rvealm ot connub lieaty, perchance—alus, you know well, Dan Crowley, n Knox county farmer, pulled up stakes a year ago 10 et out of the reach of railroads, and moved to a point where he thought “no —— ruilroad would cut bim up.”” After Dan had got nicely settled in his new home, the sur veyors returned from Ponea to Martins. burg, and started the line towards Siowx City by way of Eik creck, which survey came along - and deliberately passed througi Dan's gurden, within a few feet of his door. The Beatri dicated with g Visitors wel ne 30 pupils enrolled in her forclog shapad “too festivo rsont: Don't g and giye the nses Ab . in Saturiay stole his and got He so father's aterworks were de enthusinsm Tuesday at the opera house addresses woere made. In the afternoon there was a parade of the military and i departments, A r hundred yurds between the Kilpatrick and No. 1 liose companies, of Beatriee, was won by No. 1in fifty-cight seconds 10 Kilpatriek's sixty-three seconds. Couphing was made and a strezm thrown by each compony. ‘The works are of the Holly system and cost $50.000. There ave six and a halt miles of pipes, two Gusgell pumping engines, an engine house, & A e seventy-live hydrants. T'he contractors’ testin the afternoon was satistactory. towa. Sunday shoving is prohibited in Sioux City. L'he first banquet of the society known as Native lowans will oceur at Des Moiues on the evening of December 28, | make Three saloon keepors in Keithsburg have voluntarily handed in their licenses and closed their saloons, the busines being unprofitable, Three more saloon keepers are still in the business there Des Moines furnishes the first coasting accident of the season. On Saturday a pair of “bobs" loaded with boys and 2irls collided with an express wagon aud one boy was rendered insensit by the the blow, Proper care brought him around-ali right Dako I'he Deadwood jail ¢ The Rapid City Journal prefers the opening of the Sionx reservation to sctt ment, to the udmission of Dakota to statc hood It is reported that west of Miteheli no trace of the snow blizzard exists, That locality is reported to have been pleasant all of last week Business was entirely suspended for a while on Friday at Sioux Fulls to give the business comuiunity a chanee to get even with each othor through the spatlering snow ball, I'he Iron Hill mill shut down on Fri day, having been in operation cleven months, turning out a quarter of a million of dollars. The stock, which six months z0 sold ut §7, now goes begging at 40 cents, aind northwest Railroad Monopoly in Nebraska. Poorman's Raxcne, Ne Nov, 23— To the Ber: Can we siill continue to boast of our republican mstitutions, our American ideaof no aristocracy, of equal ity to all men, when within fifty years power has arisen which, if properly con- trolled, would have been a blessing to onr nation, but managed as it is under the inglish idea, threatens farmers and small eapitalists than is now borne by the Irish under England's yoke? It is the just assertion of the citizens of the United States that we have no ar tocracy by right of birth, and that such aristocracy 18 impossible here, for care was taken by the framers of our constitn tion that no right of primogeniture should oxist, in order to prevent Large secumu lations in the hands of one person When an Englishman comes to this country with his pocket full of raitroad bonds, and sees a farmer drive up to the coal depot and v, “‘Lord So and Sg how much coal ean I have to-day Knowing he can get it only of the rail road’s It in quantities and at prices to suit himsclf, as no one else s allowed to handle it, don’t you think the English- man - has a good opinion of this areat and glorious country, and laughs in his sleeve at the idea of a republic ran on the most damnable uristocratic vlan? Shall we allow the tinue taking in the western coal ficlds they have the eastern? Of 270,000 nthracite coal lands in Pennsylvan 000 are owned by six railroads, whose agaregate eapitalizati amounts o $500,000,000, while the actual cost of the vouds and cquipments for running is 1,000,000, Wil the members of our legislature look into this, and see that they got no more hold on the coal lands of the west? If you take out a charter for the City of Omaha, do you expeat it to me:n that you cun run the whole state of Neb with itz When the sta pany a charter orso slavery to ) rilvoads to con 15k grants to acom allowing right of way throngh the state, it is only for the ac commodation of the pubfic and not to enablea few to speculute in property and locate and control the business of the stat Is not the Iate strike in Chi eago attributable to the railroads, as by their present system of pooling and dis criminating they eanse capital to con contrato in larizo cities? — How many packing houses in small towns have closed their doors and have scen their business swallowed up ntie packing business ot Chie ause the ralroads diserimin against them i freight rates? Why should ralry better rates to packers i if they do not themselves profit by itz Many railvond Is are silent partners in “the many important_industries, as pork pucking, grain, coal and oil traflie, so they may profit by tho special rates. They do not dare to publish the actual earnings of their roads, knowing the people would rise inarmsif the trath were known. What use is it tor us to plant, sow and reap if we have no voice in marketing our products. While Sam Jones is serv ing the Lord we have to serve a higher power —the railroad monopolies I sce he represents the Lora and the farmer in partnership, the farmer plonghing, and having the Lord do the raining and shining. but he does not mention the other partner, the railrond, who comes in after the harvest and says, 1 will take what [want lirst, and the Lord and * the farmer can have the balance DAN Pooryan. -~ An arrow pomt made of wory was lately extracted from the breast of a oose shot near Colusa, Cal, As there are no savages nearer than_the aretic r gions with whom ivory is plenty, the conclusion is that the arrow was made from the tooth of 4 walrus and shot into breast of the bird by an Esquimaux. kin of the goose had grown over - FE EXTENSION, The Probability of to Chicago, 1 y Star: Judge MeCrary, general connsel son, Topeka & Santa Fe, returned from Topeka, this morning, Tu reply to the questions a8 1o the legal status of th Santa Fe's proposed entension from Kan sas City to Chicago. Judge MeCrary A thit the proper companies had heen organized and incorporated in the states of Missourt and [inois and most of the legal preliminaries to the building of such a road arranged, The right of way had been secured at points where it was doubtful and it was only necessary to go on, let contraets and build fiw road “Phe rond will be built to Chicago, then " THE SANTA its Belng Built orge W for the Atehi guestion answer have So far il th proper s been taken with Ui endin v » “Do you think such anextens be a good thing for the Sa puny well as for Kansus € 1t would undoubivdly be n good ¢ for Kunsas City and probably vestmen for the Santa Fe. Tl nas 5,000 miles of rowd west of Missouri, coverin, st amounn territory, now practically its awn whi it ean do no b e Lo protect and secure than by the construction of its own to the lakes. It is the necessity for its own outlet for th domain, inidepend ent of us tradlic arr: with other v which haus Sunta Fo company 1o o nd [ingis and projeel this independent line to Chi “As the matter take well posted railioad m morning *1do not see what better move the Santa | Fe folks could make than to build this | line. It has been wrged that there are 0o myny roads now between the M souri river and the lukes, but that would no ditference to the Santa Feo It would have its extersions o Kansus, ‘Texas, Colorado, Arizona ant its Culi business to turn over to the new Kunsus City. Buasides, the route as surveyed would run through northern Missourt, & county eapable of great de velopment with cheaper lands, better for agrieultu 1y part isas, aid with fower railroads than ny tled part of Kau has now P'ilis country would settle up rapidly -and ngements wried L in Missouri plan of an | and beeame overseer for i Maisl i that if the Santa Fo builds to Chic go the | Burlington or Alton will at once invade | the Santa Fe territory in sonthern Kan | sas and Texas is a mere blufl. They won't doit. The 'Frisco, the Union Pacitic,the Rock TIsland and the Santa Fo have already built a« many extensions in Kansas, or have them now building, as the state ean support in fifty years - AFTER THIRTY YEARS. A Case With Longer 1Afe Than Lawyers and the Litigants. I'hirty years of | brought to a close by the scttlement of the Eubanks « In 1810 & young man named Alfred Eu bankscame here from North Carolina, Dr, Randolph By sharp trading he soon became the owner as well as the overseor of the es tate. In 1857 he died childloss and intos tate. Kight brothers set up claim for the property. Of these brothers tive were whole blood and three were half. I'he tive full-blood brothers enjoined the admimistrators from paying to the three haif-bloods were children of the Elder Bnvanks’ second wife; that she had married him without the formality of a divorce trom her tirst husband, whom she snpposed to b dead; that after the birth of ‘her third child the Enoch Arden in the ease reappeared and ereated a sen sation in the family I'me injunction snit was carried to the state supremo court in 1858, which decided that the half bloods were illegitimate. Anappeal was taken to the United States supreme court, which decided that vhe tnfortimates wer legitimate. The war preventea further settlement until its elose, when the origs inal $£2),000 was roduced to §5,000. This £3,000 had to be eoliveted out of the only solvent sceurity en the list, who fought its colleeton in the conrts until this'year, when he had to pay - over in- stead of tie original $3,000 prineipal, 6,000 in additio s interest, Within that thirty years the estate had been in the hands of three separate administrs tor: All the five fall-blooa brothers are dead, as well as the four lawyers orig nally retaine Even under the settle ment thus reached three surviving ha brothers will only get 3200 a pi the rest will £o to the lawyers, Me That Flehts and Runs Aws Jerome Factotum in St Lonis Globe Democrat: The anthorship of these w known lines (brief reference to wineh b already been madein this department) has for a long period been a matter of disenssion. They were, till a compara tively recent date, sipposed to be im Butler's Hudibras, but they eannot b found in any known edition of that work, T'he first instance of 1the lines being in print oceurs in n_scaree hook, Ray's 1is tory of the Rebellion, where ihey apyear at 10 in an impression of the work printed by Robert Brown, near Christ's hospital, London, 1758, as foilows the been he e that fihts and runs away AMay turn and fizht another dayy Bui he that is in battle sl Will never live to bt azoin. In “The Art of Poctry ona New Plan,’ dio nosearce | published by * whery, at the Bible and Sun in St Paul's ~enurehyard, London, 1762, volime i, p. 147, we o read—the extract bemng quoted a8 trom Butler's Hudi r e who sights and mms away May live to tight another da Bt he who i< 10 the battle skin Can never rise and nght azain But, as kas already been said, the lines are not in Hudibras: n- that portion of the poeni (pto i, eanto i, 1, 241-4) whici is quoted in the Art of Poetry, we have— For those that v may fight again, Which be ean never do tiat’s slaim Henee timely nunnin OF conduet in the wartial art. THE STORY OF A PENSION. The Sufferings of 4 Unton Sotdier— Atlowed the Bigzest Claim v Paid, Journal: The pension oflice in this eity has this week pid the largest pension ever allowed any soldier of The date war. The amonnt is $12,214 11, with 72 1 month hereatter, and wis paid to John I'. Moeref, or, rather, to his suardian, Morgzan Citandler, of Green- ficld, Monerief is a soldier of the Mexi ican war and the war of the Union. In the lute he enbisted in Company G, enth Hlinos cavalry. His pension py 81,1851 when, in netion in Sherman's” capaign, he' was in- jured violently insane, He rd honse, and im mediately after an examination by sur- geons was sent to the Government Tiospital for the Insane, at Washington, where he has been contined since. 11§ injury was to his spinal chord, and was VCCASION horse, whieb had been hot, falling upon lim. * For a long time r this battle his wife, who now lives recnfield, this state, never heard any- thing about him, and supposed him d His whereabouts were then communicated by oflicers of his regiment. Up to the time f receiving his pension his wife and family hava never visited hin re i very humble eirenmstianecs has, however, minaged o rase th children without nelp from anybody. Fitzgerald & Powell, ¢lmm agents, of this city, have been successful in gerting this pension allowed after fifteen” years work upon it. The case was resisied in every way possibie by the governme aud rejected on three different oceasio by the pension department, wh aiined it disability ex sted proor to enlistinent he departmient tried o set up hereditary insanity, but an investigation showed thut Moneriel had peefeet health for five ars preceding his st enlistment. The case wis appealed 1o the seeretary of the interior, who recommended it he given 1o speeinl examners. s dischargo from the army is dated July, 180, o tuke efiect July 2, 186h The government will doubtless, now that his pension has bheen paid, have him tran-ferred o Dlinois and having enlist oavills I'hs [ the in the pens il allowan total disa! From i per montig from Jane G monih; from June 4, 1 month; from June 4, 1571 § from dune 4, i $72 por m wowell ‘the government Hisabled dofon < yet who we place of | Moner Ny WO yeurs in 1t of penson that iy, Though wt is the ln ever puad {0 a pensioner at no compensition and ruined tife | I i furn neis who by money as Moner dratt John 1) Perry connty, is on captiin of ( h sane. During Sh sen he was detun greatstores of surplus army. This wits caplur nd he, witl: othor ue time, wi { posUTC, e b brooding over tii made him insane e of the L ¢ the in sine, hut now $ man, e lives with an on ( ton. The count and rrenrs he has sinee draws Sion money iou n i put 10 the Tndinnanolis iy, rison ) 1 el N § 200, ainl pen 00 in ovir §1 . 0 soon become very - valuabic - for local business, The statcmvut blindness, death, hits - siuge