Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 3, 1887, Page 4

4 THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMB OF SUBSCRIPTION ¢ Dallr Moeniae Baition) including Sanday Bee, One Yoar..... . Tor 8ix Monthe Tor Throo Montha s The Omaba Sendny Hir, nddress, One Year. £10 00 od to any vesireons S0 OVATA OPFICE. No. 814 AND 016 FAR RK OFFICR, ROOM YGTON OFFICE, NO. Ax BTREEY PRIATNR BECITDING 15 FounTEEN CORRESPONDENCE: All communications relating to news and el torial mattar should be addressed to the Lot TOR OF 1k BER. RUSTNRSS LETTRRS: All bueinees Jottors and romittances should bo Addressed to THE BEx PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAHA. Drafts, chiocks and postofico orders %0 be made payable 10 tho order of the company, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPARY, PROPRIETORS. E. ROSEWATER, Eprro THE DAILY B Sworn Statement of Circulation, Btate of Nebraska, 1, o County of Do e secrotary of The TBes oes soleinly swear Y the Daily Beo for the week ending Dec, S1st, 1556, was a8 follow Satur Sundav. Dec slonday, D Tuesday, Dor. Wedne«day, Thursday, Dec Friday, Dee. 31, Average 13,100 1200 . 15,259 i GRO. B, TZ8CHUCK, Subeeribed and sworn to before me this st day of January A, D., 1857, N. P, Frit, ISEA LI Notary Public. Geo, B, Tzschuek, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he |5 secretary of the Bee Publishing eompany, that the netial ay- erace daily circulation” of the Duily Bee for the month of January, 189, was 10,75 copies, for February, 18%, 10,605 copies; for M 158, 11657 copiess ‘for April copies: for May, 155, 1 1856, 12,208 copies: for Juily, 184, 1 copies for Auzust, 186, 12,404 copies:for Sentember, 1886, 15,050 copiess for October, 155, 12,950 coples; for November, 185, 13,548 copies; for Decomber, 155, 1 Gro. B, Tzscrroek. WOIn to and subzeribed Loforc me this st of January A. D). 1857, (SEAT N. T Frir, Notary Publi —— e e Arrvonds m Nobraska {o-day 1 the legislatore at Lincoln — OME of the professors in the Univer- of Nevraska arc beginning to study *‘the labor question.” A more extended practical acquaintance on the part ot the fraternity with the subject would be of material benefit to the institution. ad to Tur. Lincotn Journal predicts a pri- mary cancus for the speakership this morning and arges “straight men” to be on hand. Straightness on the lines lnid down by the railroad organ meanscrook- odness to every interest but that of the Burlington managers e balanee of trade in fuvor of the United States for 1836 will undoubtedly show much larger figures than those for the calendar year 1885, Tor the eleven months of last y ending November 80, the exports of dis amounted to $613,9 1y four- teen mullions less than for the same period of 1885, A glance at the other side of the yearly makes more strikingly apparent the diffevence in our favor. mports of merchandise for the first eleven months of 1t were $555,007,158, or more than zixty millions Iess than for the corresponding period of 1885, This seems to indicate that while we may not be increasing our sales abroad we are co itly increasing our ability to supply our own wants at home, an exceedingly gratifying inference, 1t 18 not to be supposed that the American people bought less or consumed less in 1886 than they did the preceding year. The business record of the past year throughout the country does not warrant any such conclusion. They simply sup- plied their wants more largely from WARDEN Nones has o his rosignation. This i mity for which the state was not prepared. What will become of the Nebraska penitentiary without Nobes, and what will become of Nobesville is a matter which puzzles the brain. Nobesville without Nobes would be Hamlet 1 its melancholy Dane left out. But we really doubt whether Mr. Nobes has vesigned with an idea of va- eating the place m which on a s $1,500 & year ho has grown quite woalthy, Maybe, like the late ex-chief of the Omaha fire devartment, Butler, he has resigned ouly to cause a sensation and have him- solf begged to remain. Only three weeks 2o, Mr. Nobes mailed a petition to our congressmen and senators at Washing- ton which the delegation was to sign. This petition was signed by Senator Man- derson, but the other members of the delegation did not foel like 1nstructing Governor Thayer what he should do with the penitentiury management. Other pe- titions have been seut out all over the stato asking the governor to rexppoint Mr. Nobes. We do not know who started thls petition, but we don't believe Mr, Nobos would be displensed if the new governor shonld beg him to recor Tue holiday recess of congress will ter- minate with to-day, and that bo resume its session to morrow, Some of the eommit of the house | Leen laboring more or less industriously dur- ing the recess, and it is said that there wili be more bills ready for pre sentation when the session is resumed than there were at the corresponding time of th: forty-cighth congress, On reassombling the appropristion bills will be in this condition: Sundry civit and army bills pass military demy, In dian, diplomatic and pension Wills re- ported and on the ealendar in the order named, It is expected that Mr. Randall will hiive ready the ill he was asked to frame for a reduction of the revenue, but it is not possible (hat this will be brought forward for some little time, or nntil he ean have an opportunity to feel the pulse of the house rogarding it. In the senate Mr. Cullom will doubtless renew his offort at an early day to have the report of the conference committee on the inter- state commerce bill considered, he bav- ing given notice to that eficet hefore the irecess. Mr. Reagan is said to be espee- aliy anyious regarding this matter, as be wants to go to Texas as soon us possible to look after his senatorial feuces. The session will end in a short two months, and there Is » great deal of important business Lo reccive attention in that brief time, 500 | Legisiative Oancnses he first vital question that concerns the legisiature that is about to assemble at Lincoln 1s & proper organization of tho two houses. If an honest, impartial speaker is chosen the committees will be mude up with & view to giving the people wholosome laws. If the corpora- tionsand jobbers who are always confod- erated to defoat good government are al- lowed to dictato the choice of speaker, the pr t legislature wiil be powerless to do any creditable work. 1f the clerk of the house be a man of the stripe of Gad Slaughter, who s anexpert in count- ing 1n and connting ont candidates and bilis, decent and noeded logislation will be blocked and thwartoed. If the scnate allows Mr. Shedd to pack the committees as he did two years ago in collusion with Church Howe, the peo- ple of Nebraska have very litile relief to expeot. It is notorions that the monopoly bosses and the railroad organs expect to dra- goon'the republican majority 1n the | lature inio the caucus under the that the party must organizo tho houses with the cancus machinery. an overwhelming ropublican « both branches of the legislature there is no necessity for a eaucus. There is no possible danger that a demoorat can be clected cancus or no caucus. The only ament in favor of caucus rale 1s want- L'he advooates of a caucns support it for a different reason. Thoy know that there is no responsibility for votes castin a eaucus. They not- recorded and spread on the vrinted page. Anx- ious constituents cannot put their fingers on them, The party patriots who are shricking so londly for & caucus are either the attorneys of the corporations orinsome way pulled by strings that lead into the monopoly camp, Awmong the most active in tlus respect are the Burlington employes. Why do the man- agers of that corporation want a caucus? Beoanse a cancus will serve their ends much botter tha recorded vote in the open session of the legislature. They know that a large majority of this legis- Iature is not for sale and cannot be reached by money or bribes of any kind. But they hope to bamboozle a majority of the republicans mto their drag net and to tie the honest members to their chariot by binding them in advance to support the caucus nominee, What do the railroad managers care for party? Their object is to control legislation and to dictate the choice of senator. plea two With Reckless Statisties, ¢ only valuable as the reliable. Reliable figures of municipal growth, of commercial advance and manufacturing development as published each yearin the Ber's annual review form milestones by which the journey of Omaha can be marked along the path of vrogress and her rate of growth can be compared with that of her rivals and neighbors. In full recognition of this E ve have,year by nestly and with infinite care and pains, used every cndeavor to make our reviews as fa possiblo ahove criticism, Every st ment collected has been verified and r verified, every tavle subjected to the re- vision and criticism of experts and the footings and comparisons have been summed up and made without inflation or expansion and asimpartially as if they referred to Sun Francisco or New Orleans and not to a city in which all our readers are vitally interested. Iis accuracy has formed the chiet value of the BEE's annual showing of the trade and business of Omaha, Merchants who have followed it on each recurring anuniversary know its worth and appreci- ate it for the insight which it regular gives them into the commercial and in- dustrial advance of a great city. When the hoteh poteh of figures pub- Lished by some of its contemporaries is compared with the ax iow of the Omaha Brr the contrast is at once ap- parent, The New Year's sheet of the Omaha Jterald i example of inflated statistics, guess work, and worthless figur had been made up in the office without any investigation it could scareely he more valueless as an index of Omahu's adyencement. Its building record is filled with duplicated buildings, with estimates of structures which are only in contemplation, and with the names of stores and buildings built and occupicd more than a year since. On a single street the Zerald has credited this ety with noeurly o million dollars worth of buildings, which have not yet reached the sccond story. A hole in the ground which it cost $700 to excavate at the cor- ner of Tenth and Farnum is put down at $150,000, The Merchiants tional bunk building, where they are still driving piles for the foundation,is estimated at an cqual sum, while the foundation for the First National opposite is generously counted in at $225,000. The Paxton building, barely begun, is figured in this remarkable showing of buildings con- structed at §200,000, the Y, M. C. A, building still on paper at #50,000, and the Congregational church, rep- resented by a hole in the ground and a foew cart load of bricks, at $30,000. More than a hundred errors of the same nature run throngh this one particular in the Herald's estimate of Omaha's growth, An exmmination of the erald's stat ties of business doue by the jobbing trade in this city during the past year shows scarcely fewer errors. The whole list appears as if mere guesswork, 1t quotes Omaba as baving manufactured and “held on commission” §1,000,000 of jew- . This is about on a par with the ading that the Herald has the largest actual paid eireulation in the & No- body knows what is meant by *“held on commission” any more than what is weant by “actual paid civculation.” The fact is that Omaha does not maaufacture $20,000 worth of jewelry in a year, and there has never been $100,000 worth of jewelry held on commission at any time. On the other hand the Herald places the wholesale lumber trade in 1886 ava f tion over $4,000,000, when 1n fact it was rly §6,500,000, and exceeded $4,250,000 In the same reckless spiri guesswork the Zorald has underestimated the wholesale grocery trade by three millions and a half and figured it out as over two millions less thau it amounted to a year ago. And so it runs down the whole list A milhon or two more or less is nothing to the imaginative writer who tigured up the trade statistics for the Herald. Wholesale sales of dry goods are quoted at $150,000 when a single house sold $750,- 000 last year, and tho combined sales of dry goods and notions are given by the Statistics reckless 1f it THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, commorcial agencies at over $2.010,000 There is not a single feature of the so- called review of the Herald which is even approximately correct except the statistics of city and county expendi tures taken directly from the books of the oflicials themselves. To eap the cli ax of fraud the pretendod 1llustrati of South Omaha were copied bot Christmas cdition of tho which presented them to its read- pictures of the projected packing interests on the upper Mississippi. Stolen bodily from that papar and tr. ferred to the pages of the Herald, that impudont humbug attempts to palm them off on the public as actual views of pork and eattle packing as carried on at the stockyards. Such a patchwork of guesses and fraud is worse than worthless, It places Omaha in a faise position before the country. It is a positive hindrance to our growth where it has any influence at all. Itis an imposition upon advertisers who are called upon to pay tor it and to circulate it abroad to the detriment ot this city. SECRETARY Bavann do the eredit of being the most faithful and industrious member of tho cabinet. Ho hias taken but one bricf vacation since he beeame seercinry of & and during the holidays just passed, whon most of the other eabinet oflicials were either away from Washington or giving most of the tume to the festivities of the sea- son, Mr. Bayard was at his post of duty. When, & week ago, he was reported to be rogaling himself al a cabinet dinner party, he was found by a newspaper cor- respondent in Ins library poring over state papers, with apparently no thought of the outside world and mjoyments, and with no other refreshi i than a cup of t Mr, Bay: sion from society is duo largely to the b ments ho experienced during tho last year, the senso of which must have been intensified by the recurrence of the ve season, But he was never con- icuous as asociety man, though his home was formerly the scene of most delightful and elegant entertainmonts, and it is dve to Mr. Bayard to say that he has always been assiduous and con- scientious in the performance of his du- ties, From the cloud that now shadows s hife there is more velicf to be found in the pursuit of duty, however arduous, than in the most inviting paths of pl *“Tie American peoplo, d Mr. Car- lisle in a recent interview, *‘cannot be made to realize any situation until it is actually upon them. There is hardly everany legislation passed in regard to the distant future." There is a good deal of truth in this, and it is perhaps to be regarded as the weak point in American To bo pr red for any pos sible exigeney is not an Ame 0 char acteristic, so far as nationa) affuirs are concerned. The country was not in full readiness for any of the wars i which it has engaged, and it is not now in a con- dition to defend itself should an emer- geney arise that would suddenly bring down upon our sea and lako coast cities a hostile flee With all the deference that has been paid to the wise and patri- triotic counsel of Washington, littlo re- gard has been given to lus advico to make the time of peace one of preparation for possible war, We have lived and arc still living in the sunhight of & boundless confidence in our patriotisim and prowess, and in our ability for phcnomenal achievement on short notice. Such a feeling is doubtless to a certain degree commendable, but there is already too s to justify an exaggerated in emergencies, s the risk. The sound for na- and every year increa policy of preparation tions as it is for individu No member of congre better quali- fied than Speaker Carlisle tosay what the democratic majority will probably not do, and the opinion of that genticman that there will not be any legislation at this session to reduce the surplus may he accopted as good authority. It is an as- surance to the country that the load of taxation is to be maintained for another year at least, and that m the meanw the accumulution of money in the of the treasury is to be largely in All beyond the ne of the government will be kept from the use of thoe people, unless tho plan of Mr. Hewitt, or some smilar measure, for anticipating interest on the public debt in allowing the treasury to loan the sur- plus to the banks, shall be adopted. Lhis, however, cannot be regarded as prob- able, as there are strong objections to anticipating the interest, while it 1s not likely that with such a plan more than halt the surplus would be disposed of. ‘The whole responsibility for the obstruc- tion to the necessary legislation rests with Mr Randall and the few men who dance when ho pipes. It is a great misfortune to the country when a little faction like this can block the way to the accomphshment of what men of all parties agree is a most urgent necessity. ults ased. ssary expenditures Austria claims that the decision be- tween peace and war resfs with the czar, But, owing to his excessive drinking, there is no telling how soon he will be raving with delerium tremens; and hence Austria must be re: gency which the besotted ate. When Europe's destiny hangs upon intoxieating drink it is time to eall a halt, Gurapy, of tho Atlanta Constilution, whose recent remarkable speceh on *The New South' is said to be the finest speci- men of after-dinner oratory heard for two genorations in New York, insists that no other name but that of Cleveland is mentioned for the presidency south of Mason and Dixon’s e, This will be sad uews for Brother Dana, of the Sun, Silver Discovery Near Hay Northwest News: The greatest excite- ment 1 the history ot Hay Spriugs now prevails here over the recent discovery of a silver lead on Dr. Wood's claim. Mr, Chilson has placed a sample of the silver at the Bank of Hay Springs for public in- spection. A stock company is being or- ganized to work the mine and already principal business men of town aie ar- ranging for shares. Omaha may boast of her dirty coal but this lays over such rospects to that extent that Omaha will ook west withenvy. Now for a boom, — O The Albany County National bank, pital $100,000, has been organized at Cheyenne. Ora Haley is president and Eli Crumrine cashier. ves at least | Ji\NUARY 3, 1887 10ST BEFOKE THE BATTLE A Fierce and Desperate Engagement Im- nding in Organizing the Legiclatare. THE FIELD VULTURES OVER OMce-Secking Deadbeats, Honorable Bilks and Barnacies Button-1ol ing Members—Monopoly One slanght Along the Line, Laxcory, Neb,, Jan. 2.—[Editorial Cor- respondence.]—Once more we are on the ove of a ficree political conflict to bo fought out on the otd battle ground. It is to be a pitehed vattle in the open field, and not an ambuscade from behind the of the p cancus. Sucl always intensely exciting, be anse every and movemeat re ring in plain view. These pitched bat- are by no means tho exception in Ne but the general rule his is tho orial contest in which 1 have 1 active part and only one of these was decided by party cancus nomi- nation. During eight legi ions in sixteen years only two speakers have been seated iy the deeree of King Cau T'he political atmosphere at the capital is charged with explosive com- pounds, in which snlphur and salt petre predominate. Ko the calm that precedes n gr storm, it only requires coneussion to bring about s territic out- burst of the elements. The onslaught of the cohorts will begin at an early hour to-morrow when a majority of the mem- bers have been rallied under their re- spective leade In ordinary battles the vultures only appear after the work of death and de- struction has been completed. In polit- ical battles the voracious birds of proy are always hovering over the field bofore the first shot has been fired. If there is any- thing Ldetest in this world it is the od political vagrant who makes s n playing the spy for eandi- dutes, jobbers and corporation bosses who 1 around hotels and pick his teetl in their corridors from day to y, during every legislative scs- sion, vesdropping upon wewmbers and’ fecding on the crumbs which are thrown to him at the capitol. A full brigade of these shysters, dead- beats and bilks 1s already quartered here, giving advice and instruction to mem- bers u8 to what they should do and how they should conduct themselves. Omaha hus sent her quota of this cluss of polit- ical lopers whose very touch is infecting and deadly to any wan who values his reputation. There is the redoubtablo Dr. Biair, who hung around the oflico of the Capital hotel all summer as political Jeswit, under the of a certain de- funct condidate wliom the party has spewed out. This political medicine man has devoted most of his time since election to loaling around Omaha hote and bunking on the position of postmns- ter of the statc senate, upon which he asserts he holds a perpetual ore-emption. Then there is that ballot box stufling renegado, John Sabler, who Deen tramping all over the state fixing up members for the can- and laying the wires for some of the jobbers' schemes. Last but by uo means least among the honorable bilks comes the railrond granger, Pat McArdle, who i tasto of tho flesh pots oneg aud cannot live content on s farm. This statesman_ started out as a democrat, worked himself up into the greenback harty, ly tumbled a somersault nto the ralroad” republican camp. Pat is very modest; he ohlf' wants to be ser- geant-ut-arms of the house or senat with the privilege of assisting Frank Walters in the zood work of conv members to the caueus on their through the B. & M. oil-room. any mission down here it “will be to rid the legislature of the gang of arnaecles, bummers and mounteban who — have at every session besieged and sed membe nd intertered with legislationr There should bg a new departure fo, once, The barnacles and professio crs should be given a wide berth, and @ grade of men should be ap- pointed and cmployed whose reputations for sobriety, cy and honesty nre above reproich. 1t would be imy hours since my action ative se: If I have this time ble during the few rrival to make any re- ble prediction 15 to the contest ove organization of the ture, Much depends upon the course which the democrats will prrsue from the out- The same influences that are secking the republicans into cancus arc stively ab work in the demoeratic camp to induce the democrats to throw awiuy their votes under the pretense that by so doing they will not become responsible for what linppens, I feel eonfident that fully four-fifths of the domocratic mem- bers will prefer to do their duty and as- s1st honest republicans iizing the legislature in the interest of their “con- stituents. Those who want to shirk this responsibility may be sat down as mo- nopoly cats-paw: With the exception of electing the United St nator, who bound to be a republ 1 _ecan conceive of no partisan issue that is likely to come be- fore this legislature. The talk about party divisions on questions which in- volve purely the material interests of the taxpayers is the meres RosewarTen. STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings, Ponea's building record foots up §100,- 000, Ainsworth improved year, Neligh has grown § the yeur 1856, Trenton has a new school building and a G. A, R. pest. Creighton claims provements this year, Hastings has addedi 1,000 feet of hose {0 her fire department, Hotel girls in Norfolk ure dressed in dark blue and pink ribbops. 000 during the worth during ,000 worth of im- y, progressed Loup City presents & total of $117,146 ex- pended inimprovements during the year. O'Neill figures out a total of §110,000 spent in improvements during the year. The annual meeting the State Bar as- sociation will be held at Liucon next Thursday. Prainview wants more hounses, Fami- lies are bourding in hotels for lack of lings. joicing over her htening prospects in a manufuctur- ing point of view. The editor of the Ashland € been treated to an elegaut roc for editorial comfort, Plattsmouth makes a very creditable showing of the year's progress, the tu amount expended being §253,825. Indianola’s improvement record for the past yeur amounts to $100,000, with 33 per cent inerease in population, A carload of coal relieved the famine in Gothenberg last week. There was a lively scramble for it, and several got left, T. L. Ackerman, of Stanton, won the champion medal for the second time at zette has ing chair | the Nortolk shooting tournament, haying made a clean scoro v Tle Chadron artesian well is now down over 600 feet, and as yet no water vein nas been tapped. The projectors, how- ever are in 1o wiso discouraged, and will push tho work still furthor. Twenty-fivo thonsand dollars been offered and refused for the ( farm of 200 acres near Gilmoro acres of Mart ns farm in the same neigh- | borhood have been sold tor £12,000, - . An old gentleman named Newberry, ing near Willow Springs, while labor- insanity, drove off an embankment and fell a distance of sixty feet. He is still s ng from mental aberration, . A “Povorty Bell" was the sooial event in Central City' Now Year's ove, - ticipants were elad in rageod clothes and a rageed fiddlor sawed tho broast bono off his “Cremona.” It cost 24 cents to getin and 2 ts to fill up on “‘seraps.’” _A compnny has been incorporated in f t Id & railroad from North Neb., vin Lakin to the south- west corner of the state, thence into the coal ficlds of Colorado, and _thence into the vanhandle of Texas to Tascosa, The | estimated length is 500 mules. Capital stock, $6,000,000. Ira Price and Miss Della Rempry were married at Inman, Holt county, Tha | bride, after twenty-four hours experience, coneluded that matrimony was not the seventh heaven she bargained for, s her husband and returned to the pa roof. Ira has appealed to the courts to compel his bride to live with him The admiring friends of I1 . Glove of Grand Islund, have presented him with a pictare of himsclf astride of an angular broneho n pursuit of a Texas steer—a favorite o cwent. The wild affoction of the animal's spinal whipsaw is painfully depicted on Glover's counte- have the end of the year final proof had n made on 16,000 acres of government land in_the northern haif of Antelope county before the clerk of the distriet court at Neligh, This is equal to 100 farms of 160 acres each, Final proof has been made on about half that amount at Niobrara, making a total of 150 new farms for the noith Lalf of the county during the year 1856, The complaint of certain land owners living n Watcrloo, Douglas count: whose land v damaged by the ove flow cau by the i stigated by the railroad commissioners, and’ that body recommended that the embankment be removed and a trestle-work be put in of | suflicient length to pernsit the free pas- sage of water, The road will accept the recommendation and act upon i A zood story is told of a lady living on Hurney street. A neighbor's tu monnted atreo back of her res ce. The bird appeared weary of i and in condition to greas of inner man or woman. messenger of peace and good will,” whis- pered the Iady to a friend; “let’'s go out and get it."" They had scarcely roused the bird from its slumbers when the owner appeared at the fenc “‘Oh, M ) is that your turkey?' “Yes, I believe it i “Oh, 1 thought it was an eagle,” sighed the lady, and the k door | slummed on the'seene A Burnett justice fined a dozen men $t and costs for’ card playing on ‘I'his reminiscence of the” Blue paralled by a ease which recently vened in Westhiold, Mass men were fined £ Sunday offense. The judge said he did not make this statute,” but admini. the law as he found it; t according to | the statute the playing of any game or ging in any diversion on Saturday vening, without being duly licensed, is just as much a violation of law us if done on the Lord's day. A pair of fool footpads hailed a N braska City vrinter one eyening last week. Theé typo was not on familiar terms with the “‘gentlemen of the rona,” and politely informed them that they | “were a pair of gec W lien, however, they reached for his purse, be swelled out with wrath and indignation, danger- ous fire kindled in his eyes and a gleam- ing rule did duty as o knife in_the moon- light. He slasbied around with the fury of a stage villain and comvelled the foot- | pads to Ny for safety. “I'ma buzz saw on stri nd my name is Bill McGinty,” sbouted the typoto his departing guests An unfortunate occurrence and a dis. play of bratal - oceur near Wisner lust wi Witliam Fuell- a_load of hogs, al cond Soon cight h for a eral small children 5 gone, realizing assi protection neces: the mothe; children for her neighbor, about amile distant, being at home she neighbor's, another reaching the the uvon her, took refuge in a chicken house. Finally the eries of an infant arouscd the people in the house near by, | Rushing out, they carried the mother and | child into the house, summoned a mid wife_and made them an comfortable as possible, Soon after the husband came along with bedding and nsisted on ing wife home. This being refused aroused his anger, and abusing and ap- plying the vilest epithets to everyone, he seattered the bedding, clothing, ete. broadeast over the praivie and returned homnie alone, left her nearest No one started for the next mile away. Befor dreaded “crisis was Dakota, Watertown has declared war on g blers. A stock exchange will be Deadwood, Tho postoflice at Lead City was burned last week and the postmaster lost §300, The artesian well at St. Lawrence has reachied a depth of 00 feet, but the vein has not yet been siruck, R, Justin was arrested at Rapid City for jumping a $3,000 bond in Richland county, Lowa, whero he was under indict- ment for embezzlement. Editor McManus, of the Rapid City Re- publican, was the Christmas rocipient of a diamond scarf-pin of I:t-uuii(ul design and a_gold-headed cane, monogramed, from friends m California lowa Items, The total tax levy of Ottumwa for 1856 is 10 wills. A new 810,000 school honse is being erected at Missouri Valley. Dickinson county will pay in taxes the coming year $46,906, of which 16,536 will be for sehool purposc. Two ladies of Creston are about to em- bark in the whole ¢ manufucture of suspenders in that Cresco millers have opened war on out sude tlour and feed and the people of that happy town are laying in 4 good supply of both articles, H. C. Rutherford, financial secretary of the Burlington Typographical union, suddenly left the city the other duy with about $100 of the union's funds A number of guests of the Onawa house, Onawa, were relieved of various sums of sh on Thursday morning, anmounting to a total of ¥117.60. Tue thicf escaped, The court dockei for the new distriet court of Dubuque county is the largest ever issued in that part of the s The number of cases will not fall far below 600, of which 280 are agninst on- keepers. The state university of correspond ence, of Jowa City, has filed articles of in corporation. Capital, $25,000. The ob. jects of the institution are lo Students for higher grade | and the giving of instructions by corre: | spondence. The law regulating the practice of medicine and surgery 1o the stute bee wholly eperative Japuary 1 and ubysi- stablished at | itwid | tin | would hdv ch cians found practicing without having complied with its provisions and securing a certificate from the state board of medi: eal examiners incur the risk of arrest and the imposition of severe ponaltics, The ceremony attending the sesions of the supreme court each day 18 as follows The judges assemble in the consultation room, then file into the court chamber, headed by the chief justice. The marshal ealls wp the waiting audienco, lawyers, ete., beforo the legal sages file in, Upon the judges taking their respective sta tions, the marshal eries out: “God save the commonwealth of Towa and this hon- orable court. All thoso who ness to transact will now draw nigh,” ach judge then bows to the bar, who re turn the salutation, All are then seated and tho routine business goes on The weat citizens paint their teeth noses from freezing, The cou s that keap their ity commissioners of Albany county have accepted the first fifty miles of the Cheyenne & Northern, and “turned over $160,000 of tho $400,000 bonds voted in aud of the road. The legislative appropriation Uill for the fiscal year ending July 1, 1856, cnn- tains the following items for the terri- tory: Salaries of officials of Wyoming £13,400; conting, L2500, Lo lativo cxpe § ) Two Rock Sprin toughs, well filled with coal tar, were placed in'a cell in the town jug with the dead body of Georg Lynch. They beeame angly becauso would not drink with them, and begs pounding some into what they sup- posed to be the slecping form of somo bum. They pounded the body to a jelly before they realized thatit was cold, THE LIME KILN CLUB, The Members Enhightened on Several Interesting Suhjects, it Freo Press: Mr. Johnzon w He said that the cur- reney was exciting much interest, and he would for his subjeet. **What am Currency?'’ he inquired as he toed the scrateh and looked up and down the nall, “If you hev money you hey en rency. If'yon am dead broke, den you haven't any currency. It nm ealied cur rency beeause it floats from hand to hand If sote of you should lend me a dollar, dat would be currenc beeause it wounld flont. If I had all de” mon n de world “d up and wouldn’t pay out_any, we shouldn’t hev any currency. Probably dat time will never arove, though you can’t teil what may happen, “You has probably heard about de vol- ume of currency? Dat means de amount of money out. I hevno doubt dat some of you sometimes hev as much as $3 in your pocket. Dat signifies dat de vol- ume am rushing along hke de current of a great riber, sweeping hen roosts, rai fences an’ hoss barns befo’ it wid ir sistible fo'ce. Den agin you nm down to two bits an’ de ole woman hollerin’ fur a new kaliker dress and de chii‘en weepin’ fur shoes. Dat means dat de volume of curren has been contracted, an' de grocer lnin't gwine (o trus® you fur cod- fish much longer. Iis subjick of currency shonld 1 iben deep thought Lots of tol sloshin’ around widout_eben refleetin? on why dey didn’t make $20 gold picces outer brass. L hold hewh in my hand a dollur greenback dat Waydown Bebee has kindly loaned me for de oceashun. It am but’s piece of paper. Why can't you cut a piece out of a paper bag and pass it ofl for n dollar? ~ Why isin't do half of a noospaper as waluable as a $100 bill? Why am « hunk of gold any more waluable dan a hunk of lead? A "nickle am twiee as b as a dime but it am worth only haff as muneh. Why? Sich am a few of de questions yon should pon- der over an’ post up on, an' de furde: you enter de subjick dé more pleased yon will be. Wid dese few remarks I will resume my seat,”” : wed to deliber on natural phiiosophy,” said Hon, us he sdvanced to the edge of the platform. “Natural philosopy am sum- thin’ dat am goin’ on all_around us day an' bit not mo' dun one pus- son_in_ 2’ millyun ps to think of i ler Toot instance, gits ready to sonk his feet befo woin’ to bed, He pulls off his socks an’ drops one of nis bie fect o de dish-pan. Woosh ! cut de water am bilin, hot. What made itso? De fiah. What makes de finh? 0 ole woman bringsm o pail of eold n’ keeps pourin’ in till the eider n sitdar wid his hoofs immersed an solid comfert. Why did she put in cold water? To cool off de hot, of course, but she hasn't the least ide. v or how it comes about. Why shouldn’t hot water mako cold water hot? De elder has seen dat fiah heats water, but he doan’t know why. He knows'dat water soaks up de knots on his hoofs much faster dan cold, but why should it? “You sot heah ised by | ht. Why does de il s dle wick to take de ocensbun for lamp? Why doan’ dese dsrkness instead of lightr Dese thoughts hev nebber oceurred to you, You Sce a stone roll down hill instead of up, but you ncher nsk yerselves why dis am so. If it rotled np you'd be just as 11 satistied. hin has winder. What fu hot, an' experience warm air will rush out. He can’t tell you. brief ad- dres y on a eanse jist lowered an alley Do room am too teaches him dat de What makes it? Samuel knows dat de warm air gocs to de top of de room, but why it does he has nchber stopped to think. Natural philosophy am . subjick dat kin be studiod wid pleasure an® profit, an' I hope dat by my nex’ visit to disg beautiful eit h an’ ebery one of you dtotell me why a boy cs de ground when he jumps off de kitchen roof insteading of stayin’ up in 1i|: ;lil‘ antii his fadder pulls him down by de leg.” “What am astronomy?” asked Profes- gor GGreen as he came forward, “‘Some of you may think that astronomy has sunthin’ to do wid railrouds en’ steam- boats, but such um not de case. We hey us as we walk around y, an’ it nehber runs away night. Al sturs an’ sich, Da body kuowed dat dis w revolved around, Everybody s'posed it wns a great big hunk of sunthin® dumped down nke a rock in o muod hol It was o long befo! anybody knowed dat de world hiad an axis 10 revolve on, A good many folks felt sorry for it, an’ most eherybody ped in to buy an axis an’ | present it to her. It was good while arter dat befo' any one diskivered dat de world moved around de san, Doy saw de son 1z in de east an’ sot in de west, an’ dey Howed dat it moved “De'study of astronomy am sunthin® dat de cuil’d man orter be at day an’ it Jtam like sweot buttermiik--you t git too much of it W hen yon has know aat de moon am inhabited ce of people 'leven fi three eyes--dat de & r as de ity hall--dat each how vests on a gotd mine n you come to git astronomy right | down whar' you kin pick out Mars un' | Saturn an’ Golinh an’ Sampson un' Lot's , you won't keer 2 cents whether your rent'sm paid or not. “I hey wil me a few pamphlets on de subjick of aswonomy, an' arter de meolin’ adjourns de same can be hed of of meat 25 conts each—no trust." Fhe meeting then adjourned 1o give the visitors opportunities to mak? personal acquaintances, and when our reporter I come t byar hevin an ns b 1887. 1881, Ke anew start with the now year, and sce what “Omaha dirt™ can do for you in the coming | year. Take the experlince of others for the past year and sco i you can do ns well fn 1887, We have men living in Omaha who are worth 30,000 made in ISS6, with o start of Iess than £5,000. and the prospects for 1887 are greater than eve fore. - We have atarge list of bothi slde as well ns outside property, which we would be plensed to show you ot any time. We are sclling South Omaha property very rapidly, and people are making from 100 to 300 per cent on money invested in 1 than 90 days. We are cnts Archer's addition, This addition contains about 20 acres of land and is perfeetly fevel, To see the P would hardly Know h fot to choo This nddi. been on the market about one week, an one r the lots ave sold. Erices range from §250 to §300. I YOU WANT TO DNEY INVES for Cotner & TIAKE NOW, Seeil a side pro thing in this [ist of in- riy suits A .$21,000 4 000 500 2,800 4 lot with store and d-ro above, in Jacoh's addition Tull lot 1 Marsh’s i 9-room house, barn; houso he by m, 'located on enue, A bargain, . Housoe on 15th strect, in Improve- ment Association, with 6 roon lot Y9x154. This is a b; House, § rooms, new, all modoern improvements, in ldlewild, fino location % House, 9 5 fora howmo, i gain at..... House in Om View rooms, with lot 100x120. bargain. . . cierecs House, U rooms, i nscom Place. This' is ono of the best built houses in tl und for a por- s0n wanting a hone it would puy them to lool it. seases i lot, 30x140, Horbach with two houses, one of 1 and one of 3 100ms, rents month. A bargain av 20x140 in Horbach’s addition, with 1¢-room house, Rents tor §27 per month 305140, Horbach's addition, with room house, barn, ete House, 8 rooms, in Windsor Pluce, with two lots on corner .. Lot in Hunseom Place, block 4,500 5100 7,760 3,500 6,700 .. 6,000 with 7 A great 3,300 5,700 rooms 30 per 4,000 3,000 9,000 5,600 2,500 Wa have unimproved property in all parts of the city. Inguire ahout them, We have a few choice hargains in businass property in South Omaha. Full lot in block 79, South Omaha. .$2,000 Full lot in bloc . South Omaha., 1,300 25x60 feet, lot 7, bloc 1,600 Tl lot :n' block 72 1,350 These are a few of the har- gains we hava on our list. We are agents for Baker Place. We have 50 acres of land with- in 3-4 of a mile of tha packing houses in South Omaha, west, Price $800 per acre. We have lots for sale in Rush & Selby's addition, or in any of the additons in South Omaha. Call or write us. We have money to loan on city or farm property improved for from one to five years at the low- est rates of interest, We can sell first morigage notes. Special attention given to ex- i change. Cal: or write us. D.R. Archer, C. H. Sohotker Room 9, Redick Blck, 1609 FARNAH STREE withdrew Waydown Heebe was still iooking for the dollar he had lonned Mr, Johnsou 1o illustrate the curreney ques- tion with ZND FLUOR. bo® ( | |