Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 1, 1887, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY. THE DAILY BEBRE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERME OF BURSORIPTION | Dafly Morniag Baition) Including Sunday Bir, 006 Voar............. ¢ For Bix Months Pr'rhm Months ... . . he Omabn Swnday Dik, mafied to any ddress, ONe YOOE. ... ..c..... 0. 914 AND, 010 FARNAM fTe ROOM 65, TRIAUNE B ABHINGTON OFFICR, NO. 513 FOURTEENTH 87 CORRESPONDENCR? All communiontions relating to news and ed! torial matter should be addressed 1o the Kol TOR OF T1R B s wnd rem|ttanons should b B PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMANA. Drafts, ohocks and postoMos orders 10 be mado payable to the order of the company, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPRNY, PROPRICTORS, ROSEWATER, Enrror THE DAILY BERE, Bworn Statement of Orrculation, Btate of Nebraska, . o County of Douglas, | * & Geo. B. Tzechuck, secretary of Tho Bee Publishing ecompany, does solemnly swear that the actual circuigtion of the Dally Bee for the week euding Doc. 2ith, 159, was s follows: Thureday, Friday, L (s Subseribed and sworn to day of December, A, D)., 15 Frin, AL v Public, 3. Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he 18 secretary of the Bee Publishing company, that the actual ay- erace daily circulation of the Daily Bee for the month of January, 18%, was 10,378 copies, for Fobri 836, 10,505 copii for March, 1886, 11,687 copies; ‘for April,’ 18%, 12,101 copies: for May. 1850, 12,459 coples: for June, , 12,208 coples: for Juily, 1599, 12,514 coples for August, 1654, 19,464 coples:for September, 189, 15,080 copies: for Ootohar, 1590, 12,089 copies; for November, 188 M8 coples, Gro. B. Tzscnuor. Sworn to and subseribed betore me this th of Noyember, A, 1), 1456, dny [SEALJ " "N, P. Fiiw, Notary Public. THE railroads are preparing to un- blanket their dark horse with the open- ing of tho legislative session. It is noedles to remark that his other name is not Charles H. Van Wyck, ——— Tue county comm gioners are now busy with bridge plans, while the plans for the new county hospital still lie un- adopted upon their table, There is such & thing as suspicious slowne: Wiy should railroad corporations be oxempted from city taxation on thewr ronl estate lying within the city limits, while every other corporution and citizen Is forced to divide the burden which the railroads shirk? I CoMmING as a letter weriter was his ruin as a thief. The clue to his discovery was found in his letter Bent to the Globe-Democrat for publica- tion. Contributors to the waste-paper basket should take the moral to heart. — Russta, 1t is said, has called out her re- serve troops. Lhis looks decidedly like war, and especially so since the czar not declared in favor of peace. The only way in which Europe may have a long continued peace is to give Russia a good thrashing so that she will stay thrashed. Tur year closes with no attempt made by congress to reduce the burden of national taxation. A few more years of such neglect will work a political revolu- tion among intelligent and honest voters, The obstructionists of tariff ref.rm wherever found will be held responsible for the result of their work., Taxation for monopoly only will not long be per- mitted to be a nationat rallying cry. It will take twelve tons of paper to print the Bee's annual review, but there will be twelve tons of valuable and abso- lutely correct and uninflated statistics printed. The growth of Omaha up to the Iast day of 1886 will be clearly and con- cisely, but fully presented to a halfa million readers of our mammoth edition As an advertisement of tho resources and prospects of this thriving metropolis the Ber's annual review wili be worth its weight in gold, twelve tong down weight and even sixteen ounces to the pound, — THE new year opens brightly for Ne- braska and her leading city. The year st closed has been the most prosperous in our history. In the state at large a heavy immigration has been steadily pouring into the frontier countics and Sottling up regions which two years ago wore given over to the ranchmen and prairie dogs. Iroad construction has been pushed, in every direction. New Jines and extensions of old systems have followed in the track of sottlement and alon tha rails towns and villages have sprung up like magic in spots which twelve months since were desolate patches of prairie and sandhills, Junar WAKELEY'S decision that under the law the railroads in Nebraska are not Bubject to municipal taxation on the same basis as other corporations, renders prowpt action by the slature impera- | tive, The revenue law which waos jug gled through at Lincoln with a pretended view of benelitting interior counties by giving them a Jayge proportion of rail- road taxes, was so dvafted and passed as to exempt the corporations from all mu- nicipal taxation on ninc-tenths of their property. 1t issafe to say that in Omaha alone fully five millious of real estate has been withdrawn from the tax lists and is now occupied by corporations who do not contributo one dollar in taxes from ths immense domain to the support of the eity government. With hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of property claiming the protec- tion of our police and fire departments, the benefits of street lighting and clean- ing, the aid of the city treasury in paving * Btrect iutersections and promoting public improvements, the corporations under the shelter of o law of whose workings tho state at large had no conception when it was passed bolaly refuse to as- sume their burden of the expense of maintaining mupicipal government and do'y this people to help themsclves if they are ablo. The answer to the chal- lenge must be given in the prompt remedying of the wrong throngh a elause in the new charter for the benefit of Omaha, and through un amendment to | the revenue law which will protect every Gthor city in the state from the tax * shirkipg of the corporstions, The and the New, The departed yoar contributed liber- ally to the pages of listory in all depart- ments of human affairs. If not a period of exceptionally grave and momentous events, its course was still marked by oo- cnrrences of very serious concern in the present, and of possible consequences 1n the future, the effcot of which the wisest may not be ably to foresee. In the ag- gregate of results, it not be doubted, the world has improved and advanced. In all material possessions most of the nations are richer than they were a year ago. This is unquestionably the fact as to the Umited States, and there is good reason to bolieve that it is also true of the chief countries of Europe. The moral and intellectnal forces have been active, and everywhere there have boon growth and progress, The march of political imprevement has met with obstructions in certain directions which for the wo- meont ereated misgivings, and secmed to threaten the defeat of the efforts and hopes of those who are battling for polit- ieal justice, but these are disappearing, and as they fall the promise grows stronger. that when the march is resumed it will not halt again until victory is achieved, The clouds which for nearly a year have threatened to break in the mightiest war of modern times still g loweringly over Europe, but the light ning flashes t bespeak the angry im- pulses of nations have become less fre- quent, e is botter promise that the reign of peace will not yet be broken, Our own laud mourns the lossof an hon- ored citizen, yesterd ay entombed, and of this sorrow the departedyear gavo us more than our share, but save this no shadow darkens the record ot the old year or mars the outlook of the new Tlhe very important events in Europe during 1836 were not numerous, but somo of them were attended with grave eir- cumstances and complications which gave them momentous importance. 1he Bulgarian difliculty, still awaiting sottle- ment, is familiar to all readers of current Instory. Not lees important, though n- volving possible consequences less gen- egal in their eflect, were the ‘electians in Great Britain which resulted in the de- feat of the Gladstone ministry on the is- sue of Irish home rule. In Spain the death of King Alfonso for a timo threat- ened serious consequences to that govern- ment, but the great majority of the peo- ple accepted tho regency of the queen and thus far with satisfactory results, T'rance experienced some political dis- turbance, culminating in the retirement of the Dy Freycinet cabinet and the for- mation of anew ministry, since which affairs in that country have as- sumed o more peaceful aspect. Ger many has attended closely to her dom tie aflairs, while keeping a watchfuleyo on the conduct of her neighbors, with particular referencoe to ¥rance. Austria has been playing & conspicuous part in connection with the Bulgarian question, and assiduously preparing for a possible exigency. Italy’s career during the year was peaceful. The record of tho other countries of Europe presents little in which the world at large, and the Ame cun people particularly, can find any in- terest, In the United States the political events of the past year were not of great sig- nificance. The year was exceptional in the number and extent of labor contro- versies, but notwithstanding these the business of the country increased, and it is undoubtedly the fact that the average prosperity is better than a year ago, The occurrence which gave the country the most complete shaking up during the year was the great earthquake of August b Another memorable event of the year was the dedication of the Bartholdi statue, Except these there was no na- tional event that demands to be held m memory. As already observed, 1886 wiil be memorable for the number of distinguished public men who died dur- ing the year. In this respect it probably exceeded any other year in the country’s history. Hancock, Seymour, Tilden, Dayid Davis, Arthur, Charles Francis Adams and Logan constituted o galaxy of soldiers and statesmen whose peers it would be difficult to find m any other country. The record includes also sev- cral other public men, less conspicuous than those named, but whose lives had been usetul to the people, though m a less extended field of uction. The new year opens with favorable promise for all interests. 7'ho improve- ment in the trade and business of the country which has becn in progress for the past six months is likely to be ma- teriully enlarged with the opening of spring, assuring better profits to the manufacturer, botter wages to labor, and better returns to the merchant. In the general advance Omaha is certain to se- cure her share, and she may do more than this if her business men show the encrgy cnterprise and pluck necessary to win 1t. There is a hearty welcome for 1887, in the full confidence thatt will bring to the country and to our city a greatly angmented prosperity. ——— The City Attorney and the Mayor, Muyor Boyd's organ has been placed between two fires by the opinion of City Attorney Connell, Itisa stab under the fifth rib of the paving contractors whose mouth-picee the Zerald has been for months, At the same time 1t endorses in ofticial form the private opinion of the mayor regurding the legatity of the p posed contract for which Creighton, Murphy & Co. have been working tho couucil tor weeks past. ‘Che Herald tri to squirm out of the dilemma by a ing the city attorney and endo the mayor, It wisely assur readers th after such an opinion it will be impossible for Mayor Boyd to approve contracts made in 1886 which wust be paid for out of fundsto be se cured in 188 This is amusing. Mayor Boyd does not need to hide behind the opiuion of the city attorncy. Weeks ago he openly declared that he was con- vinced that the proposed contracts would be illegal and that he should declhine to sign them if passed by the council and transmitted to bim for his approval. No one knew the position of the mayor bet ter thun the paving contractors them- sel The game was to have the contracts rushed through the council aud spproved if possible by act- ing mayor Bechel during Mr, Boyd's absence from the eity. Mayor Boyd him- self was not unwilling that Mr, Bochel should shoulder the responsibuity of of- | ficial action which whould furnish lns political opponents with forty rounds of ammunitiov to be used ngainst him when oveusion might demand. . As the mutter ver reaohed the acling mayor he was not called to paee upon it. 11 opposition to illagal contencts s evi- dence that General Van Wyok's friends are interfering in oity business, we sup- nose Mayor Boyd must be classed among the senator's followers. Perhaps the Herald will make the correction, Needleas Alarm, Omaha business men have no canse for alarm when they view the prospeots of inter-state commerce regulation on the lines of the Cullom bill. The men who fear that the interests of the woest will be unfavorably affected by the long-haul proviso are men who have not read the provision referred to, That proviso ig flexible enongh to meet overy neces s It does not vide for pro rata, as been mistacea.y proposed, but simply prohibits a greater charge for a short hanl than for a longer haul, in the same direction, ‘“‘under similar conditions," with full power on the part of the commssion to waive the opera- tion of the Jaw when occasi may demand. “Under similar con; tions' gives amplo leeway and olasticity to the operation of the law, while inter- mediate ratea can be adjustod to what- ever scalo the railroads may sclect, pro- vided only that such rates are not more than tho rates for an equal dis tance. For instance, the rate from Coun- cil Blufls to Chieago must not be moro than the rate from Omaha to Chicago. But it ean be made tho same under the law. Nothing whatever is eaid about proportioning rates in accordance with the distance. There is absolutely nothing which would requiro the prorating, which somo of our business men have as- sumed will so greatly injure the com mereial interests of this city. or Other Lands Than Ours, The cabinet crisis in fngland has been the one topic of foreign news which has awakened widespread discussion during the week past. Lord Randolph Church- ill’s resignation has left a vacancy in the cabinet which is still unfilled. All the ef- forts of Lord Salisbury to induce either Lord Hartington, Chamberlain or Goschen to stop into the breach and form a coalition ministry have failed. The disorganization of the tory government seems complete. Parliament has been postponed until February, by which time Lord Sulishury hones to rcorganize nis shattered forces. 5 ' The resignation of Lord Randolph Churchill has been followed by another sensational event—a remarkable spoech by Joseph Chamberlain at a mecting of the Birmingham liberal council, which he and his friends organized aftor he failea to carry with him the liberal federation of caucuscs. Mr. Chamberlain's posi- tion during the present Saiisbury minis ry has been worse than political oblivion, By the compact of the unionists, so called, he has been compelled to stand by and ery “‘me t0o,” whenever Hartington made his repeated calls for coercion in Ireland and medievalism for tho rest of the kingdom. But the retirement of Churehill naturally opens Chamborlain's mouth. Although the liberal declarations that Chamberlain and his faction are not wanted in the opposition are not a month old, we find Mr. Chamberlain in- dnlging in the most extraordinary tone of concilintion. He feelshis liberty and he uses it freely like a thirsty man at a spring. He reviews the whole situation that led to the hberal split, and the more he looks at it the more he is convinced that the points of difference are few in- deed. “Wao liberals,” he says, “‘agree upon nincty-nine points and disagree upon only one point,” and he adds: *“‘If we do not agree on every point at least we can agree to carry these important re- form on which there is no difference of opinion between us, and leave 1t to time and a frank discussion of the subject to say whether, when we have accom- vlished these reforms, we may not go a step further in the divection of the views of those who arc now, unfortunately, our opponents.” This has the defecl of all of Mr. Chamberlam's political utterances. It is not as frank as it scems, and is simply a bid to the Gladstonites to muke con- cessions also, **s Austria, especially the Hungarian half of the empire, 15 getting very uneasy over Germany's plai ention to avoid a rupture with Russia, now or in the fu- ture, and there is talk of nsisting that Bismarck shall choose between his south- ern and his eastern neighbor, Such sput- tering must be very amusing to the Ger- man chancellor. The vital difference ve- tween the position of Germany and Aus- s that the former power can sel allics anywhere, while the latter must ac cept any in the market, in time of need. Bismarck knows perfectly well that Aus- tria will gladly join him whenever he wishes, no matter how much she may protest meanwlile, and can deal with Russia exactly as if the question of Aus- trian friendship did not exist, The dual empire of Hapsburgs has not o natural ally in Burope, except, possibly, Great Britain, and in this one case the sympa- thy of common fears and hazar strong enough to make a thoroughly re- liable alliance, while each nation greatly doubts the power of the other to do ef foctive work agaist Russia, Tho proud and pugnucious Magyrs may fuu and threaten, but they will note muke a se- rious attempt to coerce Bismarek or | burry his decisions, % 1t was quite snporfluous on the part of the Journal de St. Petersbourg to state that Russia’s refusal to necept the candi- ducy of Prince Ferdinand of Saxe- Coburg-Gotha for the Bulgarian throne isnot due to personal objections. Any and every action which the Bulgarians may take will be disapproved by Russia —or rather by the czar, for it 15 the ex- treme of absurdity te speak of Russia doing anythirg, there is no Russia except in the czar’s sole person, Their present- ation of Prince Ferdinand, like their ad- herence to Alexander, their clection of Waldemar of Denmark, their retusal of the Mingrelian puppet, is an act asserting self- government, How long the other pow- ers will allow the czar to carry on his dog-in-the-manger policy is the question. They would do well to stop the nonsense bp adopting the nomination of Ferdi- nand, which is by far the most promis- ing step yet taken, There is no telling how blind and besotted the obstinacy of Alcxander 111 is, but itis hardly proba- blo tudt Le is beyond the reach of such an argument as the amted action of England, Austro-Hungary and Germany, The French allisnce, if France be indeed so foolish as to think of making an alliavce, would not cover the odds, l.l The latest of the outbreaks against Portuguese rule in Mozambigne promises to be also one of the most formiduble, gnee the hostile natives soom to have al- ready routed a combinea force of Portu- guese and friendly nutives in a great battle, in which the killed on both sides are thought to have numbered 0,000, The uprising becomes the more serions from its reputed origin in a rofusal of natives in tho Inhambane district to pay Portu- guese taxes. Hitherto Inhambane, one of the princinal ooast towns, at which, 18 at Delagoa Bay, Mozambique and Quil- imane, the Natal stoamer calls regularly, has been faithful to the Portuguese, who in return have supported its native chief or king against the encroachmen of surrounding tribes. Tho town, which at latest accounts was barricaded and awailing attack, is opposito Gasa, whose chiof or king seems to bo the leader in the present sttack. The Portugucse have done very little cither to develop the ro- souroes of Mozambique or to oxtend their sway bevond an occupution of a narrow strip on the sh Nominally the col- ony extends more than a thousand miles along the East African coast botween Delagoa bay and Capo Delgado, but practically there are only eight sottled ports, and these carry their jursdic- tion vory little further than the fire of their guns. Praguo was rocontly the scone of a great German demonstration in honor of the sixtieth birthday of Dr. Schmeykal, leader of the moderate ( 1 party in Bohemia for the past tw An address bearing 100,000 sig: representing over 1,650 pohitical corpora- tions was presented, and congratulations cume from all purts of German Austria and the German empire. Itissignificant that the great hall of the German Casino, wheroe the festival took place, was adornod with a statue of Germania ERAL LOGAN'S fur wus worthy of a great soldier and a slatesmun who, more than any other, was hold in affec- tionate esteem by the suryiyors of the war of the rebellion. Longevity of the Dominant Type of English Statesmen, The longevity of famous statesmen is remarkable. Imagine Lord Palmerston acling vigorously us br England when over cight; vast British empire wi muking speeches three honrs long in the house of commons, and rising next day froshas a 0! Think of the venerabie Guizot, the French statesman, who. at the age of eighty-seven, wi writing his- tories, presiding ovor religious conven- tion, and carrying on lively discussions in the Fronch Academy, The late Tord Lyndhurst made able specches in the house of lords when he had passed his ninticth year; and his long time rival, Lord Brougham, wrote his autobiography, in three” goodly volumes, when he had nearly reached ninoty yeurs, Tno Marguis of ‘Lansdowne, who, s Lord Henry Petty, was a leading mem- ber of the **All the ' cabinet of 3l s the chiefin still an active member of the of lords mearly sixty years later, nd died in that year avthe age zhty-threo. The Duke of Wellington took part in public affairs until bis death in 1852 in is cighty-third year. In former gencrations encrgetic states- men in advanced years are found thickly seattored through the passages of history. There was the old Marquis of Winches- ter, who could remember Edward IV., the tirst York soverign, in 1643, and who, when he died in 1675, at the age of uinety-seven, was holding oflico under Queen Elizabeth, As to the presidents of the United States, it famuliar fact that John Adaws and Thomas Jefferson, the sce- ond and third presidents, both’ died the 4th of July, 1826, just half a century from the day on which both signed tho declaration” of independence, Adams being ninety-one and Jeflerson eighty- three. President Andrew Jackson lived to be cighty-two, John Quincy Adams to cighty-one and Madison eighty-five. e 2 Prohibition in lowa, fid Trohibition fully in Des Moines. A m has just returned from that city while there he folt a little quamish one day and coneluded that he would like a nip of something calculated to warm the nd promote a healthy action of 80, sceking a friend, he made s longings. The friend led him at once to the saloon of a heading hotel, behind thy of which there were no j ‘spiritous or vinous liuuor The white-aproned attendant set ont two f il , however, one-half of eing empty and the other half 2 tho usual quantity of cold water which is customarily thrown into o dram. For an instant he was puzzlea as to where the “conversation water" was to come from, but in the same moment he observed a sad-looking colored man, whe had followed the couple in, and who took from | pocket an old fashioned *Pik Nlask containing red liquor,” which he placed upon the counter, They poured out as much as they ddesired, whereupon the darkey de- hibérately stoppled the bottle, placed 1tin his pocket and walked buck to his stand just ontsido the barroom entrance. They paid the barkeeper twenty-five cents for the water he had furnishod and left, the poor dar gewing nothing whatever for the whisk works - Where They Use Stilts, It isin the s plaing called “Llan- dees," in southwest France, that people use stilts as a matter of course. These lains are generally flogded, though not to a suflicient depth to €nable peovle to zet about in boats. The stiits are not ield in the hands hike those we are accus- tomod to see, but are firmly s od to the side of the log. Hib e aring them earries a long pole to balance him- self und aid bim in wal! This pole has usually @ crosspiece at one end so that by putting it at aslant on the ground behund him, the perso on stilts cun slt down on it and rest, is a common occurrence in that country to sec men and womon sitting and kmitting in this exalted position, while the sheep they are tending wander about the plain, They wear their stilts all .day long putting them on, when th £0 out in the morn- ing and taking them ofl only when they - Sounds and As the ear cannot distinguish between two sounds occurring at an anterval of less than one-sixteenth of a second, that time must necessarily elapse between the utterance of a sound” and its return to form an echo. An echo igsimplya sound reflected from some opposing body, which must be thirty-five feet away from the cause of the sound. The sound will haye to pass through seventy feet, and this will' take about one-sixteenth of a second nee sound travels at the rate of 1,100 feet per second—so that the direet and reflcoted sounds may bethe same. The further the reflecting body is uwaf the longer of course will the sound take to reach the ear after reflection. - e An ocean steamship is said to have used $20,000 worth ot coal on a recent voyuge. GATHERING OF THE CLAN Gaunt and Huogry Statesmen Waiting to Swoop Down Upon the Legislature, THE WIRE-PULLERS AT WORK The Lincoln Journal *Corners” Mo lasses For the Purpose of Giving Legisiators “Taffy” — Boss Stout to Be On Hand, Before the Battle. LiNcoLN, Nob., Dec. 81 respondence of the Bek.]—The clans & gathering. The ciiy-like appearance of Lincoln, presented once in two yoars, and continuing somo forty odd days, is again manifost. Even the street carsare patronized. The state house will be bo sieged in & day or two, The hotels are comfortably filled, and it is indicated that to-morrow’s arrivals will number several hundred. 1t is the same old crowd, composod of the same statesmen ing every two years. They are guant and hungry. Thew patriotism is produced by promises and their wayor- ing allegence commuted by the dollar of our daddics, The button-holing hns boen begun. The anti-Van Wyck henchman end railr ies are thicker than tiddlers Trip pusses are being i and moro bummers will arrive to-morrow. But fow members of the legislature have yot arrived. The strikers, who get board from their maz- ters, commenced to come four days ago. Tho air is rent with crios for cancus— cauens—when there will be no eaue The rumor is abroad in the land that the Lincoln Journal company has pur- ed all th um molasses in the state, with which it will mako *‘tafly,” with the designed view of eatching the members. Every “heeler” and ward politician will be puffed by that groat home newspaper. Every sealawag will be an honorable and all sinners suintsin the cyes of that great reform sheet, for the next two months to come, It is predicted that its editor will slop over cach morning with gushing effu- sions, congratulating crch’ individual member until, at loast, that oflice is awarded the consract for printing hou. bills, ete. The Journal has a job offic In jobbery 1t 18 unexcetled. Tt is said that its editor b been chewing coco leaves, for six s past, in order to write with that sublime candor nec: to catch, To do this well, it is necessary tochow the coca, ns a rational human could not exhibit the brazen impudence required at this timo, i Boss Stout, who always yells himself hoarse for the dear old flag and an avpropriation, will bob up serenel, and show hishand at the right time. Placo hunters arc more numerous than Chinamen in 'Frisco or pauvers i don, They all want a_winte '] vho labored hard atthe polls for n, and who had “been promised #nd expected w “sit," was to-day figuring on going home. He had learned t hid friend had promised twenty positions and would not be able to cem a gingle promise. This anccounts for the great rush, White folks laughed at the colored man's credulity, when'he believed that Lie could get a farm and a mule by goin ] This winter will " furnish ant evidence that some white men the moon is made of green ch immon known as the ership’ is just now being reached for by many politicians. It is belioved here now lan has the longest pole. The ex- licutenant, governor, Mr. Agee, has been in town again this week. 1le is goetting the shake from the railroad 'flooence, and his name will be Ague. I saw him at Seward yesterday. 1His face wore & troubled look, and I think he was quoting from Shakespeare, something about in- gratitude, Ho was %uiuz inthe direction of Brol Bow. lany broken-howed politicians will go that tion is complete. A t has been reported by some politicians and his home newspapers that the Hon. John Watson, of Otoe, would be a candidate for speake the bouse. While Mr. W. has many frie sesses the nece y soon after the es at distinetly will not be a eandidate, Unlike otber years, Church Howe has not yet reported. It is wondered among o few of his ds if he has a senatorial bee bugging in bis bounet. They think his chances as a dark horse arc excellent, Whether he is actually a candidate not be learned, If he is, beo is as disustrous bat buzzed in his bonnet, b think a nest of hornets has oper [ree-for-all roller rinktum in the “The plot deepens, dent from tion was made po: by Colby's nomination, ented rooms and will put up a lightning rod, He thinks it might be struck with some of the senatorial electricity this winter. F. 5. Hassler who was in Lincoln to- day, reports an amusing incident occur- g a few ago at Pawnec. When llu‘l}utlurllulums contest. was in prog- ress, In taking made a statement regs roy that that gentleman ted to know if'it was an intimation that he had hed. lkd- wards bluntly told him that was the in- forence that he at liborty to draw, Humphre Edwards a left hander —about like Laird gave Cobb—and the consequence was a peeled proboscis and the first bloood for Humphroy. N lly—not a brag—but a quictinoffensive i is Judg t Edwards. He is an older man than hisadversary, Conclud- ing to resent such an impudent insult, Edwards plokod up & chatr, and piced himself in position to scatter the orginal poem fiend all over the corporate con- ines of Pawnee City. With the courage of a lawyer marks Humphrey's made for the door, and it is whisphered that he didn't stop running until he resched Table Rock. Sheriil' J, H Judge Br whose > years ugo evidence Judge Ldwards ding Humphrey, his claim as & corporation stalw asks to be made warden of the penitent- inry Dr, Knapp stepped into son’s moceosins, York county, caving in, to the demands of nature, wants the earth, Ed Carns, the bloom- ing blusterer, who luxurintes upon the corruption of the legislature, &nowing ones say, is io the city, to boost Humil ton, ‘Uhe inconsistent sweating and groan- ing stalwarts, who coin lies with the freshness of creation, have s new nut to crack, and_wonder how they can explain why D. P Newecomer is entitled to the position of speaker of the house. I am informed upon excellent anthority, that this man Newcomer who now 5 of his loyalty and patriotism to the republican party, was. before he trod the blooming prairies of Webster county, & Maryland democrat, and that he was in the ruoks of those who followed Lee, and sang the song: “Where my is Longstreet. where is my Lev-= | T'hree eneers for old Maryland; ‘Ihree cheers, and follow me, AL, FAWBROTHER, Richard M [Spocial Cor- | THE SON OF A SLAVE, A Kentuckian's Atonement For the Sios of His Youth, A Chicago special to the St. Lonis Globe-Democrat says: Whoen the exten sive land owner and banker, J. K. Mo- Callister, died at Henderson, ' K last August, ho loft an_estate valued v ously at from $120,000 to $200,000, the in come of ono-third of which was by queathed to his widow during her life time. The testator h been married three times, and had a son and duughter born to him by his sccond wife, The daughter died when qaite ng, but tho gon hived until he was «wenty-one years old, and also died, leaving Mr. McCallia- ter without any known direct issue, Near on Mr. MeCallistor owned nino fine farms, and for m any years was president of tho Farmers' bani of Henderson. He had been a menmbor of the Kentucky legislatur Wl was o prominent figure in hi e Before tho war he owned a aumber of slaves, and among his retainers in 1848, employed as #nurse for his son, was a young woman known as rlizn Dooson, described us pos- sessing striking bouty, but diselosing in her features a trace of African blood. Ske remained at the MoCulister home- stead until 1859, and then wont rth into Onio with & young «on of ten_years, who took.tho namo of Charles H, McCallistor. In the will of the Kentueky banker a be quest is made to Charles 1, McCallistor of throo farma, comprising i all 630 acres, and valued at §18,000, ACKNOWLEDGED BY HIS FATHER, ho will also provides that upon the ot the widow the testator, Charles McCallister, 18 to receive as his por tion one-fonrth of her portion, and is also given a reyersionary interest'in other vortions of the large estate, The legatee thus naumed resides in Chicago, where ho is tollowing his profess on us ' physician, On one ot the walls of his oflico is the picture of the Kentucky banker whoso name ho bears. “The picture 1s that of o mun of possibly 70 years, with a rugged and strongiy marked face, having s sile growth of whiskers. Looking at the other MeCuallister there is the samo strik- ing characteristics of countenan , very ncarly tho &ame growth of beard, and exeept perhaps in stature, & man of most unquestionable resemblance. ‘The Chi- cago McCallister is stated to be the only living ssue of the dead Kentuckian, and is recognizod as suchan the bequest made in his Bohaif. In u conversation after he had at first declinod to speak of his life, except in a goneral way, Charles H, Meo- Cuilister said, pointing to the picture: Yo my patron, and liborally ar- ranged for my edueation aud 0. He was my father, have always felt that. I did not cure to have the world know the story of my life, as 1 cherish the memory of my mother; but [ am led to think the Amoricun peoplo are beginning to recog- nize more clearly tho peculiar social con- dition of the south before the w and that it also recognizes such a parentage as mine as the logitimate outcome of of such u strange relation ship betwoen the whites and " those who had even a slight strain of the biood of the darker race. 1 haye many letters from my tather, writion to mo during all the years since 1 left Kentucky, exhibiting the groatest concern inmy welfare, and exprossing a desire to see mo succeed in life." READ THIS NEW YEARS PRESENT FOR ALL! Cotuner & Archer's addition to South Omaha, consisting of 101 of the finest lots ever laid out, is a Every lob beanty. outh Omah Can be seen and the entire surrounding country is visi- Dle, Tt is located ONLY 7 BLOCK ; From the PACKING HOUSES. SOCIAL LIFE IN THE SOUTH BEFORE waA The narative of the carcer of Charles H. McCallister, linked with that of his mother, combines to make & romance which, probably, i parallel in 3 s in the social life of the south ing the rebellion, but in this instance there a palpavle desi to make a restitution, which Zivi narrative something of a romantic As near as counld be asces ned from the nz. ive of her son, Eliza Deeson was the daughter ot a slave motbor in Louis- fana, und was the offspring of her mother's owner. She developed into o child of extraordinary beanty, Her half- sister, the logitimaio ofispring of her mother, marricd a New Orleans wer- chant named Deeson, who, owing to cer- tam financial troubles, remoyed as north as Henderson, Ky, The girl E who assumed the name of Deeson, a companied thom to that point. Mr. Decson became involved m some trouble of a financial charncter in the new place, and moved to some point further south, leay- ing Eliza pennilees at Henderson., She then entered the service of Mr. McCallis- tor as a nurse, and he becamo deeply en- amored by her beauty. Her son s was not a bond-woman—or at leus never understood so--having been giv her freedom in Louisinna. In 1845 she had a son born to her whileat the McCal- lister homestead Mr, McCallister was at that time a widower, his second wife naving died. The young boy remained on the plantation until 1859,” and then, Jjust prior to the br ng out of the war, his mother took him to Obverlin, 0. where he entered the school and coliege at that place, remaing the about seven years. She afterward went with him to Alfred university, near Hornellsville, N. Y., where he studied for four s, His mother afterward returncd to Kentueky, and died in 1874, nd is buried on the Indiana side of the ver, opposite Henderson. Young Me lister studied at the Jeflerson Me tieal college at Philadelphin_for three years, and graduatea, receiving his diploma He #fterward went to Vineennes, 1lnd., where he taught school for two years and continued his medical studies " with an old practitioner there. He then came to Chicago und has suceceded in ih Lishing timself here, $: OTHER BEQUE 5 The will ot J. E. MetUallister provides that if Charles H. McCallister shiould die without issue the property will revert to the other heirs m ned in the will. In addition to the direet bequest of £185,000 to Dr, McCallister is & bequest of $15,000 to John 8, McCallister, a nephew, and $18,000 to Laura J. Barnett, a nicee of the testator. A bequest of $5,000 was also made to William Knight, an orphan, who was adonted by Mr J. K. McCallistir, Dr. Charles McCallister hus a photo- graph of his mother, which he is having arged for rraming. He speaks of her as & woman of great oficetion and kindly traits, and says that her memory is re- vered at her former Kentucky home for her charities and the simple mode of life she led. He says he visited the old home- stead twoor three times after resching nanhood, but hus not been there since the death of his mother, The lands be queathed to Charles .- McCallister, while fixed at a valuation of $15,000 1n will, are & worth consider- ably more These incidents were retated by the re cipient of the portion of the estate of o | father whom he had hardly known was such during his life, and with great hes itation, but with extree fraukness when he finally decided to spoak of any of the | ineidents of his car He had only slight memory of his life at the MeCu lister’s homestead, and what he knew his mother’s carly life in Lou ) been explained to bim by her. He be lieyed that if the dictun’ of society had not interposed his mother would have been married in due form to McCallister, whose tenderness and regard equaled that he could have bestow under any cireumstances. | Mr. McCalligter exhibited a bundle of | letters addressed to him by the testator, one of them dated just prior to nis death The legatee is not married, but says that he now thinks seriously ‘of marry- | | THE 1pposed to be in ing, in view of the bequest and the terms | of the will headache, female neuralgic paing 1o the head J. H. MeLenn's Little Liver and Pille 2b cenis @ vial, Miss Ella Calhoun, present ecashier of Tireel & Cook's, leaves this evening for troubles, Yor sick tuke 1y Kidney iss B. Cameron, of the Prince cow puny, are st the Millard lvull 5 home at Marshalliown, lows, where she | da fow weeks' vacution, H 5 Minutes Walk fro: the New Brewery. 1 - 1 Andona perfectlyleve__ Co They ave now onfhe Mark. Piece of Land. As there are no poor lots, ) you can either buy them By Mail Telegraph, Or Telephone - Do not wait for every lot will be sold by Jan, 1st. COME EARLY AND AYOID THE RUSH Lots Sold the First Day. Or you will be left. From 100 to 300 PER CENT R Madeon money invest- ed in these lots in 3 | | months, Price $2560 to $500. Terms Easy, Title Perfect. For sale by D.R. Archer, C. H. Sobot 1609 FARNAN STREET Room 9, Redick’s Block 2nd ¥loor.