Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 3, 1887, Page 6

ot THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERME OF SUBSCRIPTION Dallr Moenlae Raition) Including Sanday Bee, One ¥ oar £10 00 Tor 8ix Monthe b0 Tor Three Months ... ... . we 20 The Omaba Swndny Tir, maiied t0 any Adress, 000 YEr........ ... 200 QVATIA OPFICE. N0, 914 AND 016 FARNAN Brarcy FW OYORK OFFICE, ROOM €5, TRIRTNE B ASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. 611 FOURTEEN CORRESPONDENCE: All communicationa relating to news and edi- torinl matter should be addressed to the Lt TOR OF THE B, NUSTNRER LETTERE: All by Jottars and remittances should ba Addrosse BE# PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMATA and postoMco order le 10 the orderof the coutpany, THE BEE PUBLISRING COMPARY, PROPRIETORS, . ROSEWATI DITOR. THE DAILY BF Sworn Statement of Ciroulation, State of Nebraska, 1, o County of Douglas, | & Geo, B, Tzschuck, secretary of The Bes Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual cireniation of the Daily Beo for the week ending Doc, S1st, 1556, was a8 follows: Saturd D Sundav. Dec. sonday, 1ee Tuesdny, D Wedne«day Thursday Friday, 1 Average e T28CUVCK e me this Ist Subeeribed ang dny of Janiary A SEA L 0. B, Tzschoek, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he |s secretary of the Bee Publishing eompany, that the actial ay- eraze dally circulation” of the Duily Bee for the month of January, 185, was 10 for February, 185, 10,505 copic 155, 11037 copies; ‘for April, copies: for May, 1846, 12,459 cop 1856, 1 wics: for Jiily, 1846, 13,514 copies | for Auzust, 1846, 12,464 copioss ‘or Novembe ples:for Septomber. Jetober, ‘154, 12,080 13,548 copies; tor for coplest Decomber, 1555, 13,257 conies, : Gro. B, 1 Sworn to and subseribe CIUCeK. we this 1st beto i, Notary Public, —— e Arr ronds m Nebraska to-day lead to the legislatnre at Lincoln SoNME of the professors in the Univer- sity of Nebraska are 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 a pri- mary caucus for the speakership this morning and arges “straght men' to be on hand. Straightness on the lines lmid down by the railroad organ means erook- odness to every interest but that of the Burlington managers. Tne balance of trade in fuvor of the United States for 1886 will undoubtedly show much larger figures than thoze for the calendar year 1885, For the cleven months of last year, ending November 30, the exports of American merchand amounted to $613,976,082, or n y four- teen mullions less than for same period of 1885, A glane side of tue yearly ledger make strikingly apparent the difference favor. The imports of merchandise for the first eleven months of 1836 were $5 7,158, or more than gixty millions Icss than for the corresponding period of 1885, This seems to indieate that while we may not increasing our sales abroad we are constantly increasing our ability to supply our own wants ut home, an exceedingly gratifying inference, 18 not to be supposed that the American veople bought less or consumed less in 1886 than they did the preceding year. The business record of the past throughout the country does not v any such conclusion, They simply sup- plicd their wants more largely from home sources, and there is reason to ex- pect that in the current year this fact the at the other mnore our be War tendered his resignati Thisis a mity for which the state was not prepared. \What will beeome of the No! penitentiary without Nobes, and whe 1 become of Nobesville is 2 matter which puzzles the brain, Nobesville without Nobes would be Hamlet 1 its melanel out. But we really doubt Nobes has resigned with an ide: eating the place m which on a & $1,000 a year he has grown quite we Maybe, like the late ex-chief of ti fire devartment, Butler, he has re only to caus sensation and hay solf begged to remain. Only three weeks ago, 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 tho delegation did not feel like mstructing 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 reappoint Mr. Nobes, We do not know who started thls petition, but we don't believe Mr, Nobes would be displensed if the new governor shonld beg him to reconsider, ik holid 35 of congrers will ter- minate with to-day, and that body will resume its session to morrow, Some of 1y Dane left cther Mr, of va- the committees of the house been laboring more or less industriously dur- ing the recess, and itis said that there wili be more Dbills ready for pre sentation when the session resumed than there were at the corvesponding time of thy for reassembling the appropristion bills will be in this condition: Sundry eivit and army biils passed; military academy, In dian, diplomatic and pension bills re- ported and on the ealen the or named. 1t is expected that Mr. It will hiive ready the bill he was asked to frame for a reduction of the revenue, but it is not possible that this will be brought forward for some little time, or nntil he can 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 confercuce committee on the state commerce bill considered, he hav- ing given notice to that eficet before the irecess. Mr. Reagan is said to be espee- aliy anxious regarding this matter, as he wants to go to Texus as soon us possible o look after his senatorial feuces. The sossion will end in a short two months, aud there is o great deal of important business to.receive attention in that brief time, ighth congress, On It | Legisiative Cancnses, The first vital question that concerns the legisiature that is about to assemble at Lincoln 1s a proper organization of tho two houses. If an honest, impartial speaker is chosen the committees will be made up with a view to giving the people wholosome laws. [If the corpora- tionsand jobbers who are always confod- erated to defeat good government are al- lowed to dictate the choice of speaker, the present legislatare wiil be powerless to do any creditable work. 1f the clerk of the house be a man of the stripe of Gad Slanghter, who s anexpert in count- ing 1n and counting ont candidates and bills, decent and noeded logislation will be blocked and thwarted. 1f the senate allows Mr. Shedd to pack the committees as he did two years ago ion with Church Howe, the peo- ebraska have very little relief to ple of N expeot. It is notorions that the monopoly bosses and the railroad organs expoct to dra- goon'the republican majority 1n the | lature into the caucus under the plea that the party must organizo the two houses with the caucus machinery. With an ove wholming republican majority in both branches of the legislature thero is no necessity for a eaucus, There is no possible danger that & democrat can be ancus or no caucus. The only 1ent in favor of caucus rule 1s want- | he advocates of a caucns support 5[ it fora different reason. Thoy know that thore is no responsibility for votes castin and spi 1cus, They are not recorded ad on tho vrinted p Anx- ious constituents cannot put their fingers on them, The party patriots who are shricking so loudly for a caucus are either tho attorucys of the corporations orinsome way puiled by strings that lead into the monopoly camp. Awmong the most active in this respect are the Burlington employes. Why do the man- agers of that corporation want a caucus? Beeanse a eauncus will serve their ends much better than a recorded vote in the open session of the legislature. They know that a large majority of this legi 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 wto their drag net and to tie the honest members to their chariot by binding them in advance to port the caucus nomince, What do railroad managers care for objeet is to control legisiation to dictate the i Reckless Statisuics, s are only valuable as the Reliable figures of municipal of commercial advance cturing development a: the L reliable. growth manu nd her rate of growth can be compared with that of her rivals and neighbors. In full recogmition of this fact. we bave,yeur by year, carnestly and with infinite care and pains, endeavor to make our r possiblo went collected h used evi ews as far criticism, Every state- s been verified and r verified, every table 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 San ¥) 0 or New Orleans and not to a city in b all our readers vitally interested. Its accuracy has formed the chiet ralue of the BEk's annual showing of the ade and businessof Omaha, Merchants who have followed it on each recurring anniversary know its worth and appreci- ate it for the insight which it regularly gives them into the commercial and in- dustrial advance of a great city. When the hoteh poteh of figures pub- hished by some of its contemporaries is compared with the annual review of the Omaha Bre the contrast is at once ap- parent, The New Year’s advertising sheet of the Omaha Jrerald is o striking example of inflated statisties, reckless guess work, and worthless figures, If it had been made up in the oflice without any investigation it could sca be more valueless as an index of Omaha’ advancement, Its building record filled with duplicated buildings, with estimates of structures which are only in contemplation, and with the names of stores and buildings built and occupied more than a year since. On a singlo street the Herald has credited this ety with nearly a million dollars worth of buildings, which have not yet reached the eccond 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 Merchian ational bank building, where they are still driving viles for the foundation,is cstimated at an cqual sum, while the foundation for the First National opposite is generousl counted in at § 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, rop- resented by a hole in the ground and a fow cart load of bricks, at $30,000, More than a hundred errors of the same nature run through this one particular in the Herald's estimate of Omala's growth, An examination of the Herald's statis ties of business done by the jobbing trade in this city during the past yoar shows scarcely fower crrors. Tne whole list ars as :f mere guesswork, 1t quotes ha as ing manufactured and “held on commission’ §1,000,000 of jew- elry, This is about on a var with the heading that the Herald has the largest actual paid cireulation in the state. No- body knows what is meant by “held on commission” any more than whnat is meant by “‘actual paid circulation." 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 at a frac- tion over $4,000,000, when n faet it was nearly §6,500,000, and exceeded $4,250,000 in 1885, In tho same reckless spirit of guesswork the Zerald 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 ruuns down the whole list A million or two more or L 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 l(lry goods and notions are given by the commercial agencies at over $2.0)0,000. Theee s not a eingle featare of the so- called review of the Herald which is even approximately correct excopt the tistics of city and county expendi- tures taken directly from the books of s thomsc To cap the cli- wmax of fraud the protended 1liustrations of South Omaha were copied bodily from the Christmas edition of the 8t. Paul @lobe which presented them to its read- rs a8 pictures of the projected packing interests on the upper Mississippi. Stolen bodily from that paper and trans- ferred to the pages of the MHerald, that impudont humbug attempts to palm them oif on the public as actual views of pork and ecattle packing as carried on at the stockyards, Such a patchwork of gnc fraud is worse than worthless, It places Omaha in & faise position before the country. It is a positive hindrance to our growth where it has any influence at all. It on upon advertisers who are called upon to pay tor it and to circulate it abroad to the detriment ot this city. es and 1 imposi Bavann de s at least the credit of being the most faithful and industrious member of the cabinet. Ho s taken but one bricf vacation since he e soercinry of stato, the holidays just passed, whon most of the other ecabinet officials were either away from Washington or giving most of the time to the festivities of the se son, Mr. Bayard was at his post of duty. When, a week ago, he was reported to be rogaling bimself at a eabinet dinner f , he was found by a newspaper cor- respondent in lns library poring over state papers, with apparently no thought of the ourside world and its enjoyments, and with no other refreshment in sight than a cup of tea. Mr, Bayard's seclu- sion from soc due largely to the be- reavements ho experienced during the last year, the senso of which must been intens| the recurrence of the festive season, 1S nover ¢o spicuous ns a soc , though his home was formerly e of most delightful and elega nments, and it is dve to Mr. Bayard to say that he has always been assidaous and con- &cientious in the performance of his du- ties. I'rom the cloud that now shadow his Iife there is more relief to be found in the pursait of duty, howe arduouns, than in the most inviting paths of plea ure. Tie American peoplo,” said Mr. Cai lisle in a recent interview, ‘‘cannot be made to realize any situation until it actuully 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 pointin American character. To bo prepared for any pos sible exigency is not an Ameriean char- acteristic, so far as national re concerned. The country was not in full for any of the wars 1 which it , and it is not now in a con- nd itself should an emer- geney arise that would suddenly bring Jdown upon our sea and lake coast cities a hostile fleet. With all the deference that has been paid to the wise and patr triotic counsel of Washington, littlo re- gard has been given to Ins advico to make the time of peace one of prepuration possible war, We have lived and still living in the sunlight of & boundless confidence in our patriotisin and prowess, and in our ability for phenomenal achievement on short notice. Such a feeling is doubtless to a certain degrec commendable, but there is already too much at stake to justify an exaggerated faith inour eapabilities in emergencics, and ever, increases the risk. The for poli puration is as sound for na- tions as it is for individu No member of congress is better quali- d than Speaker Carlisle tosay what the democratic majority will probably not do, and the opinion of that gentleman that there will not be any legislation ¢ this on to reduce the surplus may accepted as good authority. It is an as- surance to the country that the load of tuxation is to be maintained for another year at least, and that mn the meanwhile the aceumulation of money in the vaults of the trea is to be largely increased. All beyond the necessary expenditures of the government will be kept from ti use of the people, unless the plan of M Hewitt, or some smilar measur for anticipating interest on the public debt in aliowing the treasury to loan the sur- plus to the banks, shall be adopted. ‘'his, however, cannot be regarded as prob- able, as there are strong objections to anticipating the interest, while it 15 not likely that with such a plan more than halt the surplus would be disposed of. ‘The whole responsibility for the ohstruc- tion to the necessary legislation rests with Mr Randail and the few men who dance when he pipes, It is a greav misfortune to the country when u little faction like this can block the way to the accomphshment of w men of all parties agree is u most urgent necessity, Auvstria claims that the decision be- tween peace and war resfs with th r. But, owing to his excessive drinking, there is no telling how soon he will raving with delerium tremens; and hence Austria must be ready to moeet any emer- geney which the besotted sutocrat may create. When Europe's destiny hangs upon intoxieating drink it is time to eall a halt, Guaby, of the Atlanta Constitulion, whose recent remarkable speceh on *The New South” is said to bo the finest speci- men of after-dinner oratory heard for two generations in New York, insists that no other nzme but that of Cleveland is mentioned for the presidency south of Mason and Dixon’s hine r Dans This will be sad news for Broth of the Sun, Silver Discovery Near Hay Springs. Northwest News: The greatest excite- ment o the history ot Hay Springs 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 wmine and already principal business men of town aie ar- ranging for shares. Omaha may boast of hier dirty coal but this lays over such rospects to that extent that Omaha will ook west withenvy. Now for a boom. -~ The Albany County National bank, capital $100,000, has been organized at Cheyenne. Ora Haley is president and Eli Crumrine cashier. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: nd during | MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1 JUST BEFOKE THE BATTLE A Fierce and Di pending in Organis rate Engagement Im- ng the Legiclatare, VULTURES OVER THE FIELD Ofice-Seeking Deadbeats, Honorahlo Bilks and Barnacies Button-tol- ing Members—Monopoly One slanght Along the Line, Laxcors, Neb., Jan, 2.-<[Editorial Cor- respondence.]—Once more we are on the ovo of a ficrce politieal conflict to bo fought out on the o1d tle ground. It is to be a pitehed pattle in the open field, and vot an ambuscade from behind the ramparts of the party caucus. Such fights are always intensely exciting, be- cause every action and movement re- mains in plain view. These pitched bat- tles are by no means the exception in Ne- braska, but the general rule. This is tho sixth genatorial contest in which 1 have taken an nctive part and only one of | these was deeided by party cancus nomi- nation. During eight legislative sessions | in sixteen years only two speaker o | | n seated by the decree of King Cau- Thie political atmosplicre at the capital is charged with oxplosive com- pounds, in which sulpbur and salt petre predoming precedes a great e 1 the calm t storm, it only requirc concussion to bring about « territic out- burst of the elements. The onslaught of the cohorts will begin at an early hour to-morrow when a m bers have been rallied spective loaders. In ordinary battles the vultures only appear after the work of death and de- struction has been completed. In polit- ieal battles the voracious birds of prey are always hovering over the field before the first shot has been fired. If there is any- jority of the mem- under their re- thing I detest in this world it is the wretehed political vagrant who makes his living in playing the spy for candi- dates, jobbers and corporation bosse who 1o around hotels and pic his teeth in their corride from day to day, during every legislative ses sion, cavesdropping upon members and’ fecding on the crumbs which arc thrown to him at the itol. A full brigade of these shysters, dend beats and Dilks 1s already quartercd here, giving advice and instiuction to mem: bers a8 to what they should do and how they should conduct themselves, Omaha s of polit- touch 18 infecting and deadly Lo man who values his reputation. There is the redoubtablie Dr. Biair, who hung around the ofliee of the Capital hotel all summe! Jesuit, under the pay of | funct candidate whom the party spewed out. ‘This political me man has devoted most of his time since clection to loating around Omaha hotels and banking on the position of postmns- ter of the state upon which I asserts b perpetual mption. Then there is that ballot ox stulling renegado, John hler, who has been tramping all over the state fixing up members for the can- nd laying the wires for some of the s'schemes. Last but by no means mong the honorable bilks comes railrond granger, Pat MeArdle, who te of the lesh pots once and cannot live content on his farm. This atesman_ started ont as a democrat, worked himself up into the gre yarty, and finally tumbled a some: into the ralroad” republican carp. i y modest; he only wants to be sol of the house or senate, Wi privilege of assisting Frank Walters in the zood work of converting members to the eaucns on their 12 through the B. & M. oil-room. If 1 any mssion down he this time be to rid the legislature of gang of ruacles, bummers mounteb: who I at ged and s and intertered with le; hus sent her quota of this cls i lepers whose vo o it will the ever) membe There should bp a new dey one The acles and professiof ce scekers should be given a wide berth, and @ grade of men should be ap- pointed and ¢mployed whose reputation. for sobricty, deecney and honesty nr above reproqeh, 1t would be impo hours since my arr ible duri the few al to make any re- liable prediction as to the co the organization of the legislature, Much depends upon the course which s will prrsue from the out s indlu thatare seck’ ublicans into in the demoe nicns & slively at wol to induce the ( mocrats to throw away their votes under the pretense that by so doing they will not become responsible for what happens. 1 feel confident t fulty four-fiftns of the democratic mem- bers will prefer to do their duty and a 518t honest republicans in organizing the legislature in the interest of their con- stituents. ‘Those who want to shirk this responsibility may be sat down as mo- nopoly eats-paws. With the excention of el United St be a republican, coting the ator, who is bound to I can conceive of no partisan issue thavis likely to come be- ore this legislature. The talk about party divisions on questions which in- volve purely the material interests of the rs is the merest bosh, taxpay E. RosewarTer. - STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings, Ponea's building record foots up §100,- 000, Ainsworth improved $75,000 during the year. Neligh has grown $18,130 worth during the year 1856, Trenton has a new a G, A, R, post. Creighton claims provements this year. Hastings has added 1,000 feet of hose {0 her fire department. Hotel girls in Norfolk are dressed in dark blue and pink ribbops. aperior, Nuckols county, progressed #50,000 worth during the year, Loup City presents a total of $117,146 ex- pended inimprovements during the year O'Neill figures out a total of §110,000 spent in improvemonts during the ye The anuual meeting the State Bar sociation will be held at Liucon next Thursday. Piainview wants more houses, umi- lies are bourding in hotels for lack of lings. Grand Island is 1 brightening prospec ing point of view, The editor of the Ashlahd Gazette has been treated to an elegant rocking chair for editorial comfort. Plattsmouth makes a very creditable showing of the year's progress, the total amount expended being §253,625. Indianola's improvement r 1 for the past yeur amounts to $100,000, with 33 per cent increase in population. A carload of coal relieved the famine in Gothenberg last week. There was a lively seramble for 1t, and several got left. T. L. Ackerman, of Btantou, won the champion raedal for the second time at chool building and 000 worth of im- over her manufactur- jolcing in a | { | Lorhood h tho Norfolk shooting tournament, having made a clean scor Tle Chadron artc over 600 feet, nas been tapped. Th pueh the work still furthor., Twenty-fivo thonsand dollars farm of 200 acres near Gilmore neres of Mart ns farn ve been sold tor £12,000. An old gentleman named Newberry, living near Willow Springs, while labo ing under a fit of nity, drove off an embankment and fell a distance of sixty feet. He is still sullering from mental aberration, A “Povorty in Central City Ivv']\'ml; werd ¢ a rageed fiddle off fiis “Cremona." getin and 29 cents to fill up on “serap; _A company hus been fncorporated Kansas to huild a railrond from Platte, Neb., vin Lakin to wost corner of the st coal ficlds of Colorado, and thence the panhandle of Texas to Tascosa ostimated longth is 500 miles, stock, $6,000,000, Ira Price and Miss Della Rempry were married at Inman, Holt county, The bride, after twenty-fonr hours experience, concluded that matrimony was not the soventh hoay e bargained for, shook her husband and returned to the parental roof. Ira has appealed to the courts to compel his bride to live with him 11" wag the social event New Year's ove, wed the in the south- into The Capits he admiring friends of I H. Glover, of Grand Island, have presented him with a pictare of himself astride of an angular broncho m pursuit of a Texas steer—a favorite amnsement. The wild affeetion of the animal’s spinal wi 3 is ofully depicted on Glover's counte- nance. the end of the year final proof had been made on 16,000 5 of government Iand in the northern half of Antelope county before the k of the district court” at N "his i3 equal to 100 farms of 160 each, Final proof hs been made on about half that smount at Niobrara, making n total of 150 new farms for the notti Lalf of the county durmg the year 1856, The complaint of cortain land owners living near Waterlos, Douglas count, whose land was damaged by the oy flow caused by the embankment of the Missouri Pacitie, was investigated hy the ilrond commissioners, and’ that body commended that the embankment bo moved and a trestle-work be put in of suflicient length to perniit the free pas- sage of water, The road will accent the recommendation and act upon it. A good story is told of a lndy hiving on West Harney street. A neighbor's tur- key mounted a tree back of her resi- dence. The bird appeared weary of life and in condition to' grease the pathway of inner man or woman. ‘‘Thisis a messenger ot peace and good will,"” whis- pered the lady to a friend; “le Zo out and get it.” They had scarcely roused the bird from its sluinbers when the owner appeared at the fence. *Ob, Mr. 3 is that your tur “Yes, I believe it is.” “Oh, 1 thought it was an eagl sighed the lady, and the back door slummed on the see! A Burnett justice fined a dozen men $1 and costs for card playi inday. ‘I'bis reminiscence of the aws 13 paralled by a e: wh vened in Westfield, Muss men were fined $3 and costs each for a Sunday offense. The judge said he did not make this statute,” but administered w as he found it; that according to tute the playing of any gamo or ring in any diversion on Saturday o . without being duly licensed, is just ns much a violation of law us :f done on the Lord’s day. of fool footpads hailed a Ne- ka City vrinter one eyening I week. The typo was not on fami terms with the “‘eentlemen of the road,” and_politely informed them that they Swere a pair of geese.”” When, however, 1 for his he swelled out with wrath and indignation, danger- ous fire kindled in his cyes and 8 gleam- ing rule did duty v knife in the moon- light, He slaslied around with the fury of in muoelled the foot- pads to Ny for safety. “I'm a_buzz suw on strings and my name is Bill McGinty shouted the typo to his departing gues! An unfortunate ocenrrence and a di of bratal heartlessness occeurred car Wisher lust week, William Fuell- where eight went to town with a_load of hogs, ing his wife in a_critical condition with several small children, on after he gone, realizing ass ce and protection ne y, the mother left her children and starfed for her neighbor, about a mile distant, being at hoy neighbor's, nearcst No one she started for the next nother mile awny. Betore reaching there the dreade uvon her. She took refuge in a chi house. Finally the crics of an infant arouscd the people in_the honse near b Rushing out, they earried the mothe child into the house, summoned a wife_and wde them an comfc possible, ter the husband ea along with bedding and insisted on t ing his wife home. This being refused aroused his anger, and abusing and plying the vilest epithets to ey seattered the bedding, clot broadeast over the praivie and r homie alone, urned Dakota, Watertown has declared war on bler: A stock exchange will be ¢ Deadwood, The postoflice at Lead City was burned last week and the postmaster lost §700. The artesian well at St. Lawri ched o depth of 800 feet, but the v not yet been siruck, R, Justin was arrosted at Re for jumping a $3,000 bond in Richland county, lowa, whero he was under indict- ment for embezzlement, Editor MeMunusg, of the Rapid City Re- publican, was the Christmas recipient of adiamond searf-pin of beautiful design anda gold-headed cane, monogramed, from friends m Californin. blished at lowa Itoms. The total tax levy of Ottumwa for 1556 is 10 mills. A new £10,000 school house is being oted at Missouri Vall Dickinson county will pay in taxes (he coming year $46, of which §16,556 will be for school purposes. Two ladies of Creston are about Lo em- bark in the wholesale munufucture of suspenders in that city, Cresco millers have opened way on ¢ side tlour and feed and the people of that happy town ure laying in a good supply of both articles, H. C. Rutherford, financial secretary of the Burlington Typographical union, suddenly left the city the other day with about $100 of the union’s funds A number of guests of the Onawa house, Onawa, were relieved of various sums of cash on Thursday morning, amounting to a total of $117.60. T'he thicf escaped, The court docket for the new district court of Dubnque county is the lurgest ever issued in that part of the state, T number of cases will not fall far below 600, of which 80 are saloon- keepers. The state university of co ence, of Jowa City, has filed art corporation. Capi 25,000, jects of the institution are lo students for higher grad I and the giving of instructions by corre spondence. The law regulating the ‘practice of medicine aid surgery 1o the slate became wholly operative Jaouary 1 and ubysi- © ian wellis notw down nd s yet no water voin projectors, how: ever aro in no wise discournged, and will have boen offered and refused for the Clatke r Forty in the same neigh- Par- din rageed clothes and breast bone It cost 24 cents to North te, thence into the reeently hap- | The | i cians found practicing without having complied with its provisions and securing a certilicate from the stato board of medi: cal examiners incur the risk of arrest and the imposition of severe penaltics. The ceremony attending the sesions of the supreme court each day 18 as follows The judge: rmble in the consultation room, then file into the court ch headed by the chief justice. The calls np “the waiting audience, ote., before the legal sagos file Upon the judges taking thoir respective sta- tions, the marshal cries out: **( save the commonywealth of Towa and this hon orable court. All thoso who have busi- ness to transact will now draw mgh.” ach judge then bows to the bar, who re turn the salutation. All are then seated and the routine business goes on, Wyoming. The weather is g0 cold at Douglas that citizens nt their teeth to keap ther noses from freezing, Tho coanty commissioners of Albany vo county | ccopted the fivst fifty miles of the Cheyenne & Northern, and turned over $160,000 of the §400,000 bonds voted in aud of the road. The legislative appropriation Lill for the fiseal year ending July 1, 1856, eon- tains the following items for the terri- tor, Salaries of als of Wyomin, , 2500; log F13.400; contingent expen lativo expenses, $26,710. Two Rock Sprin ghs, well filled with coal tar, were placed mn'a eell i the town jug with the dead body of George Lynell, They beeame angry because it would not drink with them, and began pounding some sense into what they sup- posed to be tho slecping form of somo bum. They pounded the body to a jelly before they realized thatit was cold, - THE LIME KILN CLUB, The Members htened on Several lateresting Subjects, Detroit Free Press: Mr. Johnson the fivst speaker. He said t the cu reney was exciting much int nd he would take t tor his subjc “What am Currency?” he inguired as ho toed the scrateh and looked up and down the nall, “If you ey moncy you hey cur- reu. If'yon am dead broke, den you haven't any curre It am culled cur rency beesnse it floats from hand to hand If sotne of you should lend me a dollar, dat would be currency, beeause it would float. If I had all de” money in de world Tocked up and wouldn’t pay out_any, we ghouldn't hev any currency. Probably dat time will never arove, though you can’t tell what may happen, You hias probably heard about de vol- ume of curreney? Dat means de amount, of money out. I hev no doubt dat some of you sometimes hev as much as $3 in your pocket, Dat signifies dat de vol- ume am rushing along hke do current of a great riber, sweeping hen roosts, rail fences an’ hoss barns befo’ wid - sistible fo'ee. 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 currency has been con ed, an' de grocer liain’t gwine to trus’ you fur cod- fish much longer “Dis subjick of currency shonld he giben deep’ thought. Lots of tolks go it Sloshin’ around widout_eben reflectin® on why dey didn’t make $20 gold_ picces outer brass, [hold hewh in my band a ek dat Waydown Bebee y loaned me for de oceashun, It am but'a piece of pape Why can't you cut a piece out of a paper bag and pass it off for n dollar? y isn't de 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 big as a dime but it worth only half as much. Why? am a fow of de questions you should pon- der ovor an’ post up on, an’ de furder you enter de subjick de more pleased yon will be. Wid dese few remarks I will resume my seat.” “Ihas b xed to deliber a brief ad- dress on natural pllosophy id Hon. Smith, as he advanced to the edge of the platform. “Natural philosopy am sum- thin’ dat am goin’ on all_around us ¢ an’ night, bt not mo’ dan one pus- son a’ millvun eber stops to think of it. Elder Toots, fur instance, gits ready to souk his feet befo! woin’ 1o bed He pulls off his socks un’ drops_one of bis bie fect into de dish-pan. Woosh ! cut de water am bilin, hot. Wh itso? De fiah. What makes ¢ Do ole woman brings er an eens pourin' fn n o pail of eold ull the eider can sitdar wid s hoofs immersed an taks solid comfert. Why did she put in cold wuter? To cool off do hot, of conr but she hasn’t the least idea why or how it comes about. Why shouldn’t hot v m;nl\u‘ cold water hot? De elder has seen dat fiah heats water, but he doan’t know why. He knots on 1 nows dat water sonks up de s hoofs much faster dun cold, why should it? You sot hesh m ablaze of glory caused by sehenteen kerosene limps alizht., Why docs de ile burn? What couses de wic ake up de ile? What sbun for a chimney on a doan’ deso lamps® canse dsrkness instead of lightness? Deso thoughts hev nebber occurred to you. You sce a stone rotl down Lill instead of up, but you neber ask yerselves why dis amso. If it rolled npyou'd be juit as well satisfied. “Saumuel Shin has jist lowered an alley winder. What fu; Do room am too hot, an’ experience teaches him dat de warm air will rush out. What makes it? He can’t tell you. Samucl knows dat de warm air goes to de top of de room, but why it does he has nebber stoppedt think. Natural philosophy amn hj dat kin be studied wid pleasure an’ profit, un’ Lhope dut by my nex’ it to dis beautiful city each an’ cbery one of you nay be propar’d to tell me why a boy de ground when he jumps off' d L roof insteading of Stayin' up i de aiv untii his fadder puils him down by de log." What am gstronomy?” asked Profes- gor Green as he came forward, “‘Some of you may think that astronomy has sunthin’ to" do wid railrouds en’ steam- hoats, but such am not de case. We ne it wid us ns we walk around b it nebbor run; nigi stur way when we Astronomy am de an’ Dar Lody knowed dat rovolved aroind, erybody s it a rreat big hunk of sunthin® dumped down Tike a rock in & mud hole, It was o long time befo’ anyhody knowed dat de world had an axis Lo revolve on, A good many folks felit sorry for it, an' most eherybod wonld hdy ehfpped in to buy an axis an’ | present it to h 1t was a good while arter dat befo' any one diskivered dut de world moved around desan, Dey saw | de son iz in de east an’ sot in de west, | n' dey Howed dat it moved “Destudy of astronomy am snnthin’ de cuil’d man orter be at duy an' Itam like sweet buttermilk--you ean't git too much of it W hen yon has come to know aar de moon am inhabited by a race of people 'leven feet high hevin’ three eyes--dat de smallest . i down whar' you kin p Saturn an' Golinh an’ on an' Lot's you won't keer 2 cents whether your rent am paid or not +I hey wid we a few pamphlets on d jick of asironomy, an' arter de in’ adjourns de same cin be lied of am us big as de city hall--dat cuch end of de 1ainbow rests on a goid mine ‘ when you come 1o git astronomy right | ok out Mars un' | i 25 conts each—no trust." Fhe meeting then adjourned Lo give the yisitors opportunities to mak?2 personal and when our reporter was ACQUIINLALCES, withdrew Waydown Heebe looking for the dollar he had 1 atill Mr, Take anew start with the new year, and sce what “Omaha dirt” can do for you in the coming year., Take the experiinco of others for the past year and sco iIf you can do as well in 1887, We have men living Omnha who arc worth §50,000 made in IS86, with n start of less than 5,000, nnd the prospects IS87 are greater than ever be fore. We have a targe list of both ine sido as well s tside property, which we would be pleased to show you at any tim: Wo are sciling South Omaha property very rapidly, and pecople are making from 100 to 300 per cent on money invested in lesy than 90 days, We al cnts for Cotner & Archer's addition, This addition contains about 20 acres Tand and is perfeetly leve see th Know s nddie pint you would hardly which fot to choose., T tion has been on the market about one week, and one-half the lots ave sold. Prices range from $250 to $300, You mw TO MANE WANT 4 NOW, INVE Seeif anything in this fist of in- side property suits yo Block 18, 8 lots Credit A . . $21,000 Y L lot 33x132.. .. 61,000 vitol addition, 7.500 5-room cottage on Ohio street. 2,800 tlot with store and droom above, in Jacob'’s addition Full lot 1 Marsh's addition, . 9-room house, barn; house heated by steam, located on Georgia enue. A bargain. ... House on 15th sireet, in Improve- ment Association, with 6 rooms, lot 99x154. ‘This is a bargain at. House, ¥ rooms, new, all modern improvements, in Idlewild, tine location. . . . House, 9 rooms, new, el fora homo, in Idlewild. gain at, : % House in Omaha View with 7 rooms, with lot 1005120, A great bargain. .. 3 5 House, Y rooms, in Hanscom Place. This is one of the best built houses in the city, and for a por- son wanting a horae it would puy them to look at it. Price. . o i lot, 30x140, Horbach's addition, with two houses, one of 12 rooms 1d one of 3 100ms, rents $50 per month. A bargain at. 3 20x140 in Horl 16-room house per month.. .. 140, Horbs room house, barn, ete. House, 8 rooms, in Windsor Place, with two lots on corner Lot in Hunseom Place, block 5. 4,500 100 7,700 3,500 6,700 cgant place A bar- 6,000 8,800 5,700 4,000 Rents tor 3,000 3,000 5,600 2,500 Wa have unimproved property in all paits of the city- Inguire ahout them. We have a few choice bargains in busingss property in South Omaha. Full lot in block 79, South Omaha. .$2,000 Full lot in block 74, South Omahu. . 1,300 25560 feet, lot 7, block 1,600 Tull lot ' block 72.. . 1,330 These are a few of the har- gains we fiava on our list. We are agents for Baker Place. We have 50 acres of land with- in 3-4 of a mile of thz packing houses in South Omaha, west. Price $800 per acre. We have lots for sale in Rush & Selhy’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 iterest, We can sell first mortgage notes. Special attention given to ex- change. Cal: or write us, D.R. Archer, C. H. Sobotker Room 9, Redick Block, 1609 FARNAM STREE' Jdolinson to illustrate the curr tion with 2ND FPLUOR. for' B | . - -y