Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 19, 1887, Page 4

i { “ published in yesterday’s BEk. L NS —— e T g e A A S THE OMAHA DAILY > BEE: WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 19, 18587 THE DAILY® BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION © Dafly (Morniage Baition) Includ(m( Sunday s Brm, One Year For 8ix Months For Three Months Thedliml’ll “l 200 ATA OPPICR, NO. 814 AND 918 FARNAM RTREPY FW YORK OFFICE, TRo0M 65, TRINCNE BUILDING, ASHINGTON OFFICH, Fou NSTREKT. CORRRSPONDRENCR: ATl communications relating to news and edi- torial mattor should be addressed 1o the Eor- TOR OF THE B RUSINESS LETTERS: ATl bueiness lettors and remittancos ghould he Mddressed to Tnm BEx PUBLISIING COMPANY, OMAWA. Drafts, chocks and postofice orders wblmndopmublalolhaordno!lhewmpxmy. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWAT THE DAILY BEE. 8worn Statement of Oirculation, Btate of Nebraska, | County of Douglas, | % % Geo. B, Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circniation of the Daily Bes for the week ending Jan. 14th, 1557, was as follows: Baturday, Jan. 8 Wednesday, Jan Thursday, Jan. Friaay, Average 0. T2 Bubscribed and sworn to before me lhls 10th dsy of Janaty A. D., 1857, Rotary Public, Geo, H Twhun( hr'n;i first_duly sworn, deposes and says that he 1s secretary of the Bee Publishing company, that the actual av- erawe daily circulation of um m v Bee for the month of January, 185, w. copies, for F\vhnmrv. 1886, 10,695 rnph'a' inr Murr‘h 1886, 11,557 mph-s' Tor Aprll 1556, 12,190 copies: for M ay; 188, 12 les: for Jiine, 15,208 copies: for J uly, 1853, 19,314 copies for August, 150, 18,464 coples:for September. 1886, 15,030 copies:’ for October, 159, 12,080 coples: for November, 1886, 13,348 covies; for December, 1856, 18,237 copies, Gro. B, T2SCHUCK. Bworn to and «uhmnwt before me this st y of January A. AL N. l Fr".. Notary Public. M. WEAVER led the field at the start, but it wasn’t much of a start after all. A rEw more profane remarks from Mr. Con Gallagher, “the prominent northern Nebraska democrat,” will now be i order., Hox. JonN A. McSHANE declined to walk into the Boyd-Miller parlor. Mr. MeShane has not lost his old time politi- oal shrewdness. ———— Tne agonizing truth of the situation 'has at last burst upon the befuddled brain of the Herald editor with Dr. Miller five hundred miles away. Itisa combination of misery and mescal. FORTY-THREE rc|ufi:licml votes on complimentary day must have been a sickener to the political prophets who predicted that Van Wyek’s strength wo;nl\l never reach thirty from first to ust. GENERAL VAN WYCK can win in or out of a caucus. Heis the choice of the re- publican party of the state which he rep- resents as well as the clioice of an over- whelming majority of the citizens with- out respect to party. The first Van Wyck caucus has seitled that fact once and for all. Mr. MokToN still seems to have re- served for him the warm rdgard of the Nebraska democrats, They gever fail to compliment his brainy leadership when the honor of - their confidence can be openly offered. But where was George L. Miller when the pile driver fell in the democratic conference ? It used to be Miller and Morton until the apostle of ‘“‘straight democracy™ at- tempted unsuccessfully to barter demo- cratic votes for railroad patronage, as fully explained in the correspondence Now Mor- 1on is honored 1n caucus and Miller is fanning himself in Mexico. Em— WitH one despairing grean the Herald gives up the fight and predicts Van Wyck's election. It had to come. Every intelligent observer of the situation has known for two weeks that no other out- come was possible. The shouts and hurrabs of the railroad crowd have at- tracted no votes from General Van Wyck's following. Trne Northwestern will consult its own interest by locating its head- quarters in Omaha. The road has made more friends since General Manager Fitch came among us than it did in years before. Personal contact with executive officers does more in brushing away mis- understandings and establishing cordial relations Detween heavy shippers and the railroads than tons of correspondence and complaints fired at long range. m——— FoR a candidate entirely lacking in the contidence of Nebraska republicans, General Van Wyck came very prettily under the string and led the field of small ‘fry at a neat little pace. Forty-three re- publican votes, or nearly three times the number possessed by any other candi- date, was an eveellent showing. It has + sent dismay into the opposition camp. "There was no ‘‘bargaining with demo- wats” 1n those figures. Em— Tue democrats of*the Indiana legis- 1ature scored a point Monday in securing from Judge Ayers, of the cireuit court, a decision sustaining the motion of Smith, president pro tem of the senate, for an injunction restraining Lieutenant Gov- ernor Robertson from assuming the func- tions of that office. Robertson appealed the case to the supreme court, aud it is expected that a decision will be reached by that tribunal to-day before the hour appointed for the meeting of the joint as- sembly to vote for United States scnator, The question involved is the legalty of Robertson’s election under the constitu- sional provision for the quadrennial elee- tion of gubernatorial oflicers, he having been elected to fill a- vacaney declarea to exist by the attorney general of the state, A section of the revised statutes of 1881 provides for biennial elections after 1852 to fill all existing vacancies in office. ‘The majority of the bench of the supgsme court are democrats, but they refused to Interfere with the proclamation of the vote by which Robertson was elected. It seems certain that in any event there will be two joiut counventions held for the election of United States senator, wnd that Harrison and Turpie will go to Washington with certificates. In that case it 15 believed the former will be given the seat by the senate. The Opening Skirmish, The first gun was fired yesterday in the senatorial election when each house of the legislature met and proceeded to bablot for a successor to General Van Wyck, While the result had no more special significance than sach votes gen- erally have, it defined with more or less cortuinty the weakness of the Van Wyck opposition, and verified to the letter the claims of the senator’s friends as to Ifis opening strength, Opening day is always complimentary day. Votes seattered about with a reck- cheerfulness born of the ling that they do not count, snd that their owners can afford to be gener- ous, The most interesting feature of the occasion was the union of the democrats on J. Sterling Morton, who was not, to say the least, the preferred candidate of the railrogne democratic organ, The sudden collapse of the MecShane boom, which died a-borning, and the handsome compliment paid to his bitter political enemy by the democratic members, must be gall and wormwood to the autocrat of the “packing house” erowd, To-day will witness the first genuine contest of the struggle. The Van Wyek torces hold the command- ing position. They have the mon, the votes and the people behind them, Compliments will now give place to combinations and paper ballots will be transtormed into bullets direeted squarely against the opposing candidates. The fight is on and will bo forced. It bids fair to be concluded in short order. It cannot be a protracted one. And the end, as the BEe has con- fidently insisted for long months past, will be the re-clection of Van Wyck and the triumph of the people through their chosen representatives., E are Prospects of the Inter-Stato Com- merne Bill. The refusal of the house of representa- tives on Monday to take np the inter- state commerce bill to the exclusion ol all other legislation has been taken in some quarters as n straw which points to the defeat of that measure in the house or its indefinite postponement to die with the session. Asa matter of fact many of the members who voted against the resolution were in fayor of the bill and voted for its consideration yes- terday when the matter was again brought up. They knew that as a bill re- ported from the conference committeo it had precedence over all other legislation and could be taken up at any time on a mere majority vote. The thorough discussion of the inter- state commerce bilfthrough the pressand the senate has done much to enlighten the public and congress, and to brush away the mists with which the arguments of the railroad attorneys had enveloped its provisions. Most of the opposi- tion to the measure finally cen- tered upon the fourth and fifth sections, the first of which related to long and short haul charges, and the other to the prohibition of pooling contracts. Debate on both these sections has been full and oxhaustive, with the result of rclicving the public mind of the fear that their passage would irretrievably damage the interests of the people. It was shown con- clusively that the long and short haul tion would not prevent the low cha on through traflic which have hélped to build ap the west by facilitating exports, neither would it compel a reduction of local rates. The prohibition complained of would simply prevent unjust discrim- mation between localities ‘“‘through a higher charge for a shorter than for a longer distance on the same line where there was no justifying difference in the circumstances and conditions under which the traflic was carried on.” In other words the proviso was so elastic and the qualifications so applicable to any conaition which might arise that only generally admitted wrong was for- bidden and every facility for the trans- action of business to the mutual benefit of the producer and the transportation agent was left intact. The section prohibiting pooling con- tracts has been assailed as removing the only safe method for securing uniformity of rates. It does nothing of the kind. There is nothing in it which forbids com- peting roads to establish and maintain uniform rates. It simply forbids pools and division of profits as ascertained through such compacts. The roads are left entirely free to agree upon common schedules of rates upon their competitive business and to adhere to them if they see fit. The bill strikes down pools beeause pooling strikes down all legitimate competitions and apportions and divides the traffic with no regard to the wishes of the public or the ordinary usages of trade. If the inter-state com- merce bill is accepted in good faith by the railroads there ought to be no neces- sity for pooling to prevent secret rate cutting and rebates, which pooling is as-, sumed to prevent, A government com- mission will supervise the operations of the roads. Full schedule rates will be published. Secret rates, rebates and dis- criminations to secure business and assail rival corporations will be made crimes under the law. The very evils which pools are said to be maintained to, remedy will be remedied by means outside of the managers’ offices. Getting Down to Business. There are indications that President Cleveland is unbending from the stifl- backed exclusiveness that has character- ized him during the nearly two years in which he bus exercised the executive funtions, and respecting which there has been 50 much complaint on the part of the democratie politicians. It is re- ported from Washington that a few days ago he sent for one of the most promi- nent members of con gress, who is one of the civil service committee of the house, in order to consult with him as to what could be done to 1mprove the civil ser vice, The solicitude of the presi- dent for his favoritesubject did not, how- eyer, entirely absorb his attention on this occasion. He found opportunity to enquire as to the probable fate of the tenure of office bill in the bouse, and showed pleasure at being informed that it would pass, remarking with a smile it every day whenever 1 been unconseious of a degree of incon sistency between the avowed policy of disregarding the law while professing the strongest devotion to civil service re- form and ventured on argument to justify his position. He then manifested an in- terest to know how his administration is regarded in the south. The information ccorded by the congressman, it any,is not reported, but it is said that the presi- dent was eareful to make known his ap- preciation of his pohtical indebtedness to the soui, and his desire that the glmin- istration shall be approved by that sec- tion. He appeared to feel aggrieved that southern men had made war upon him or shown dissatisfaction by their si- lence. He also took occasion to depre- cate the impression that the administra- tion had been run in the interest of New York, and desired southern democrats to feel that their suggestions and advice would have as much weight as any that could come from New York. It will be observed that the south and New York fill the entire measure of the president’s concern. Referring to individuals, Mr. Cleveland apoke particularly of Senators Vance and Beck, who have been the most pro- nounced deruocratic opponents of the ad- ministration 1 congress. The former has been especially hostile to the civil service policy, while the latter has been equally so regarding the financial views of the admini ion. The president re- ferred to these gentlemen in the most cordial terms, expressing confidence in the honesty of their positions and a lngh regard for their abilities. But he thought that diflerences of opinion need not be emphasized by personal alienation or hostility, and expressed the opinion that the time had come when these le: ers of the party and the adminis- tration should be fairly in line, For the first time in nearly two years Senator Vance called at the white house on last Saturday, 1n company with other mem bers of the North Carolina delegation, to protest against the way in which the in- ternalrevenue laws arve being admins teredin the state, It is noted that while the manner of the senator was some- what stiff and formal, that of the presi dent was so exceeldingly urbane as t show not only that he was uncommonly pleased with the visit, but to implv an in- tation to “‘eall ngain, It is hardly possible to misconstrue these circumstances. hey are straws which show very plainly the course of the wind. Mr. Cleveland sees that he has no more time to waste in discord, and that if he is to attain his ambition he must employ the remaining months of his adminstration in efforts to harmon- izo the party and put its leaders and him- self upon friendly ons nee they will not seok him he will seek them. Ie willremove the barrier that has kept them apart by assuring them that their suggestions and advice are desi The course he has pursued has not been sue cessfal, and he will try the other way. These are the natural inferences from the fuets, and it remains to be seen how well they are justified by subsequent expe ence—whether Mr. Cleveland has indeed learned the politician’s lesson and can successfully apply it. Strikes in New York, Commissioner Peck, of the New York labor bureau, has published in lis annual report for 1886 an interesting record of the strikes of the past ye n the Empire state. The exhibit is a valuable one, not only for the facts which it adduces but for the influences and lessons which those faets at once suzeest There were a total of 1,900 strikes reported, with 728 successful, and the remainder admitted failures. The strikes in which labor succeeded resulted in a gain of £037,000 in wages, while those which iled caused aloss of $2,858,000 to wage carners. Employers, foo, were heavy losers, the estimates infheted upon eapital placing the drain at more than $3,000,600. These figures exhibit in plain language the disastious results of promiscuous striking. Nine out of ten of the strikes in Commissioner Peck’s opinion could have been avoided by the exercise of consultation. Itisaterrible record of a bitter feud which the report shows, re- sultless in 63 per cent of the eases men- tioned, except the loss by nearly 6 per cent of the strikers of permanent em- ployment. Strikes, it cannot be too often repeated, are w only to be en- tered upon after all other resorts have failed, and even then to be prosecuted with cool judgment and 4 determination to sccure all that can be secured even in defeat. The Business Situation, The current of business throughont the country during the past week has not been characterized by any marked changes, but such as have been noted have been in the direction of improve- ment, Advices from the eastern markets report that buyers from the south and west are beginning to anticipate spring trade requirements, and the volume of business in some lines is increasing, The export movement of breadstuffs, provis- 10ns and cotton continues to exceed that of the corresponding period last year, and prospects for a continuance of this favorable condition of affairs are very encouraging. Industrial activity has been checked a little by the scarcity of coal, eaused by severe weather and labor troubles in the trade in New York; but the requirements of consumers and the prospects for demand eall for tho full employment of capucity in most branches of manufacturing. Complaints flicient railway equipmentin many cs attest the continued activity of business with the majority of the trans- portation companies, Thegeneral prom- ise of trade is encouraging and a good feeling prevails, Cotton has been depressed by the for- eign political news and the continued apathy of speculation. The export mov. ment continues fair but home demand moderate and there is no activity in the speculative market. Cotton goods are very firm, with stocks elosely sold up and a fair demand absorbing the bulk of l!m current output of the mills. Wool ha3 been in moderately active demand at steady prices. The interest of buyers cen- ters chiclly in co; and medium fleec supplics of which are now compara- tively emall ig all markets. Woolen goods continne quiet, There is a lib eral distribution in exccution of k orders, but demand at the moment is light. Business n heavy weights for next season’s wants has not fairly footed up, as comparatively few full lines of worsteds and cassimeres have been opened by the agents of the mills The coal handlers’ strike at New York is causing great embarrasswent to manu- facturers there and at various powts in New England, where supplies have run $0 low as to necessitale great economy in the use of the fuel and in some cases a partial stoppage of production. The iron trade has been rather quiet so far as new business is concerned owing to a further advauee in guotations, in wiuy departments, which has restricted sales, The position of the market s very strong, and capacity is well employed and largely sold against in all branches of the trade. Thetrifling dechine in wheat reflects the eflect of speculative realizations, resales by exporters, and a good deal of ham- mering by a_few large operators whose interests lic in the direction of lower prices. That tho decline has been no greator undor the cireumstances is due to popular corfidonce in the inherent strength of the situation and to the con- tinued uneasiness concerning political ilities in Europe. English markets were depressed by the weaker tone of speculation here and by the further in- crease in the American visible supply, and the foreign demand throughout the week has been compara y light. Clearances from Atlantic ports have con- siderably inereased, which confirms the previous statements that large sales had been made for puary shipment. Though new business at tho mo- ment is moderate in volume the export situation is strong, and an early renewal of foreign bliying is proba- ble. Indications point to & decrease in the visible supply in next week’s state- ment, 13 the movement at interior points has considerably fallen off at the same timo that exports have increased, Tho smaller recepts at western centers aro due to unfavorable weather for hauling and to a scarcity of cars in the west. Part of the equipment of Northwestern roads is tied up at Dubugue and other points from Iack of elevator room, and a good many cars belonging to the western roads have been borrowed for the transportation of cotton from the south. Corn has attracted httle atten- tion, and prices have inclined in buyers’ favor owing to tho indifferent shipping demand and an inecrease of 1,204,000 bushels in the domestie visible supply. Tue story that Miss Van Zandt, of Chi- s betrothed to Spies, one of the hists under sentence of death in is confirmed by a dispatch stat- ing that the license for their marringe 1ed yostorday. The young wom Il make this extraordinary alli- ance is of a respectable fawmily, andis rep- resented to be pretty and intelligent. She is also heiress to a considerable for- tune. It is evident, however, that she has an abnormal longing for notoriety that will in a measure explain her infatuation for Sy although he is a man who under favorahle conditions might make an mpression on any susceptible gl Miss Van Zandt has undoubtedly pe suaded herself to believe that the object of her regard is innocent of the char; upon which he was convicted; that he1s a victim of conspiracy and persccution, and therefore a hero. In this view she enjoys the association of her name with his as giving her notoricty. She said to a reporter with eyident satisfaction: ““I suppose I'm ‘the reigning sensation at present. U'ye wwken Mrs, Cleveland's place, and pretty seon some other woman will take mine It is the delusi fan that she is playing the part of a heroine, and that the world" so regards her, that has led her to take this step, regardless of the fact that it has caus her parents, of whom she 18 the only daughtc A great d of solicitude, und her mother p almost prostrated oyer the has been no vigorous parental opposition to her course, for the reason that she secms to be one of those self willed girls whom it is Iittle use to op ing, however, to a blind inf: gardless of the feclings and wis s otiall those to whom sh filint oblig: under the existing eircumstance Van Zandt does not commend herself to any person not like herself morbidly sentimental. Asto Spies, he may see a hope for himself inthe marri of this girl, Otherwise, if he has any sense of what 15 manly or bonorable, he should refused to permit her to take a step that may fill her future life with sorrow and self-repronch. wir. There age KINGS The empress of Austria has sold all her fin ddle horses, She s in poor health, The queen of Spain has decorated the count of Paris with the order of the Golden Fleece Queen Vietoria has been pleased 1o accept the first copy of Lady DBurlon’s “Arabian Nights.” The prince of Wales has taken a year's se of New Lords, Lord Kilwarden's man- n in County Dublin, Queen Margaret of Ttaly does all her shop- ping In person, with no more fuss than any of her subjects, and goes early in the avoid the crowd. King George, of Greece, 1 a member of the Lutheran church, and Queen Olga belongs to the Greek church, The king attends a little church round the corner in Athens, Queen Victoria never eats any but stale bread, This, however, s believed to be more amatter of taste than necessity, She Is prob- ably able to buy fresh bread if she desired it, Prince, Alexander, late of Bulgaria, must have mace some millions during hisresidence in the principality. He had not a cent when he went in. He is now buying valuable property in the United States and Europe, The czar has ordered the construetion at St. Petersburg of a large theatre to be en- tirely consecrated to Russia opera and ballet, On the other hand the German theatre sub- ventioned from the czar’s own purse and placed under the direction of the wminister of the imperial household will be sappressed, The extensive covers.on Queen V estate at Osborne, Isie of Wight, wh been kept rigorously wreserved since the death of John Brown, renow turned over to the amusement of Prince Henry of Batten- nee the death of John Brown no- body, says the London*I'ruth, fireda shot in them, save the deccased menial’s friends, Queen Christina was recently informed by the Alcalde of Madridaf the baptism of the 1,000th baby ealled AMonso since the death of the late king, Touched by this mark of sympathy by the citizens of Madrid, the queen made the baby géveral handsome pres- ents, ineluding a book with this inseription: “To the 1,000th Alffiso, from a woman whom two Alfonsos IMye m1de happy.” AND QU S, B ~ The Bee's K Butler County Press. The Omaha Bee is entitied to eredit for its enterprise in giving the most interesting and and complete report of doings at the state capital during the legislative session. e ‘The Friends of Monopoly. Brooklyn Eagle. The sympathies of the millionaires in the United States are with the railroads in their opposition to the passage of any law by con- gress for the regulation of inter-state railroad traflic. ‘T'he roads could not have a support better caleufated to create public sentiment in favor of the proposed regulation. ———— s Chances. Ashland Gazette, From outside observations we are free to confess that Senator ¥an Wyck's chances of A resplection are - exceedingly good. Iis most pronontieed enemies are willing to con- cede this fact. A prominent democrat, & member of the hotise, told us that in his opin- ion the general could be elected without the ald of a single democratic vote, So mote it —it i ¥ Van Wyck's Independence, Kansas City Star.s If the repubricans refuse to return Van Wiyck to the Unlted States senate, the demo- cratic members of the Nebraska legislature ought to see that he goes back, This is en- tirely practicable by a combination of demo- crats and Van Wyek repnblicans. Such a course will make Van Whyck more Independ- ent than ever, and consequently more useful than ever, _ He may be depended npon to ad- liere to_tiPradical democratic piluciple of antagonism to monopoly. Ambition's Bonnet, Columbus Dispatoh, On every politiclan’s head A bonnet you may see Andevery bonnet, it is said, 18 sute to havea bee, Indeed, some bonnets have become A vory hive of bees: And you can hear their busy hum Atany time, with ease. The presidential bee doth buzz The loudest of the 1ot} And buzzinz is not all it does— Its sting is ne'or forgot. - AND TH STAT RRITORY, Nebraska Jottings, Cherry county receives $1,300 1 taxes from the railco O'Neill manages to keep warm with lard conl at 14 a ton, The Be n\'vr('ny National Dank, with 8 The business men i Norfolk were fined id leetured on the folly of dis- A summons to serve on a jury, A ~m ck young man with a crush plug distributed several £ and §10 sily tificates among the benighted in ings. and |1|~;l]vpn:lrud with the proceeds. Blue Springs papers declare that the weight of an Omaha lawyer’s name to a al document cost Gigo county $500. Nothmg strange about that, The county is to be congratulated on getting off so cheap, The ally “remont brewery distributes un 000 worth of “beer among thirsty, and disposes of $10,000 of lm ported beer in the same way. @he “Prettiest” is cultivating a nosegay for immediute use, The Fremont Herald now ‘‘sets” at night and rises in the morning, having changed from an afternoon edition, The Herald is making ecommendable efforts to meet the wants of the business com- munijty, as well as the demand for home news and democratic provender of a spicy, independent sort. An Albion damsel adopted a novel of testing the warmth and vigor of intended. Removing the fire from the parlor stove and placing a lamp 1n- she awaited his coming while the ury retreated below zero. He came, saw, and promptly adjourned the ing. The experiment left o huge feeling of emptiness in the girl's palpita- tor and the parlor sofa. The attorney of the Omah Karsas City & a road gives it ontin Hastings ‘that the Kansas City & Omaha road will be built to Denver right away and that work will commence as soon as the weather will permit. Propositions will be submitted to the various precincts u h the road will pass, right away. The road.will run from Fajrfidld thiough the southern' part of Adams county to Minden, and_thenedsouthwest to a junction with'the B. & M. at Alma. If the townships in the southern part of the county refuse to vote the aid asked by the railrond company the line will mn?' bly run from Hastings instead of irfield, 1f the aid is voted a line will some time be rad out from torm a junction with the Fuirfie at so poiut in Roseland township.” Towa Items. Museatine hus twenty-seven open sa- loons. Missouri Valley claims a population of 3,000, The hant for contraband beer is pro- ceeding vigorously in Sioux City. Williamsburg, fowa county, has found a coal deposit at a depti of 150 feet. v of hogs about Ottumwa is vrmnsly mvaermg with the packing business of that city. d of me al examiners ) ates of practice y-tive applications. There ar ty-two school houses in Des Moines county, with 168 rooms and 168 teachers, ‘They rec ries mmounting to §68, Wolves are troubling the highw. Scott county. The severe cold w is pinching” their stomachs and making the sulky brutes feel earniverous, J. I, Parker, a farmer living five miles from Sioux City, drove his team over an embankment on his y home Saturday night and was crushed to death by the wagon. The annual report of the Davenport postoflice for 1836 shows a profit of nearl; &l 000 a month for Uncle Sum. Each letter carrier handles an average of 1,661 pieces per day during the year, The father of Conductor Al Kern, who was killed at Keokuk the other day, died from the effects of the shock given him by the news of his son's death, He was (ulu' an old man and lived at Ceaar Rapids. Captan J. W. Campbell, of Fort Mad- ison, who is'onc of the oldest citizens in Towd, says that Benj umuJ«'lmm s taught tho firat school in lowa. ‘ampbell has the certificate of John ]&nbns(»n who taught school in Gouge's log school- house, a few rods from where the Mor- mon temple stood in Nauvoo, in 1829, A young frolicsome couple were mar- ried'in Muscatine a couplo of weeks ago from Bufalo, Scott county. The r began on the night previous to the woed ding, \\‘Iu-ulhvy met for the first time. Two wecks of married bliss demonstrated tha ibrupt separation was the most “practicable proceeding to a sommersault courtship and marriage, and conse- quently o % isthe pending lesson in that foolish connubial transac- tion, A sad affliction has befallen the family of D. Scllers, living about six miles west of Wall Lake. Three members of the family ave already dead and three more arc not expected to i It appears that A llers found one of his fat hogs in a benumbed and almost help! con- dition, and thinkIng it had been I smothered, proceeded to kil and'd All of the Tamily that partook of the meat are dead. A friend of Mr. Sellers from lilinois who was vislting him also eat of the meat, He returned home shortly after, and now the report comes that he too is dead. Dakot: Sioux Falls is negotiating for & paper miil, Six hundred persons have pledge in Yankton Watertown has organized s board of trade and a military company The mercury rested at 40 degrees below zero at Deadwood lust Thursday he doctors report that (hA health ot the people of Deadwood 15 *painfully good." The Black Hills nickel mine, to be opened in the spring, is considered one of the greatest bouanzas of the Hills Valuable tin property was disposad ef at Rupid City on the 15thgnst ., the elaims being 500 by 1,500 fect iu size, and the awaunt paid %l; 000, taken the SERIOUS CHARGES, The Proprictor of the Buffalo Medt- oal Institute in a Legal Quandary, A curions lawsnit was yesterdey commenced in Justico Helsley's court by Dr. McMen- amy, proptictor of the Omaha Medical and Surgical institute against Dr. Graham, who reeently came here from Sioux City. This Dr. Graham has quarters b the new Gruenig bloek, next to the Millard on Thirteenth street, where he runs what is known as the BuTalo Medieal institute. ‘The petition of the plaintiff charges Dr. Graham with obtaining money under false prétences. Late last month, according to the statement in the petition, a soldier from ‘ Fort Omaha named Christian Lazarus came to Dr. MeMenamy and placed himselt under his care for treatment of some disease. On the 6th day of January Lazarus sent by a soldier named George Werner, who had a leave n absence to come to town, wet some medicine from Dr. Mv\lnnl\my Werner misunderstood the address given him by Lazarus and wandered into the rooms of Dr, Grabam, “'Is this the Omaha Medical Insti- tute?” he asked of Dr. G. He was answered in the afirmative by Dr, Graham. When he asked if the doctor had the case of a soldier named Cheistian Lazarus on his books Dr. G, adjusted his spectacles solemnly and look= ing over his ledger r Azarus w “Then 1 want to g ! » said Werner, thinks ervthing was all right. V' arner deseribes ns an beer bottle, with a my: tertous decoction, handed it to the soldie telling him that it was to be applied exte nally by the patient several times a day. Werner then paid the doctor §4.50 for the bottle and ity contents. When he returned to Fort Omaha Lazarus at once discovered |h(' mistake that had been made, and sent to Ir. Graham to have his monev refunded. I he proprietor of the Buffalo Medieal Insti- tute positively declined to do so, at the samo time refusing to give any@xplanation of his unprofessional eonduct. ‘The: plaintift charges that Dr. Graham came here from Sioux City because he could not give satisfactory proof required under the lowa law that he was not a quack and » charlaton, ~ He went betore the board ot ex aminers, it is allexed, claiming to have a hait dozen diplomas, but when [l\nhml to tho wall could not produce a single satisfactory one. U indeed under his care. DBORROWED i!z\“l X How Female Offenders Work on His Honor's Feelings. Two or three Bohemian women jab- bering as fast and as loud as they could, an interpreter or two,a lawyer,and a four- months old baby screaming vociferously completed a group which might have been secen standing in front of Judge Stenberg's desk yesterday morning. The woman with the ¥, which by the way, looked half frozen to death, was charged with disturbing the peace and good order of the nelgborhood in which she lived. There was a preponderance of evidence pointing to her guilt, but on account of the baby the judge was obliged to release he, That is an old trick with theso women,” he remarked. ‘‘They bring a small, desperate looking, half starved baby with them, hoping to work on my sympathy. They generally suec- ceed, too. 1 can'tsend a wowan to jail who has )y to support and nourish, for it would be the sure death of the in: fant. And [ can '. fine her,for ten chances to one @ nickle. And so the baby is ing p]v:l for its mother, more cloquent ||mu any lawyer's argument could b known ecases” remarked a Inwyer who was standing near. *‘where women_have actually borrowed babies with thé hope ot sccuring an acquittal by working on the sympathy of the judgo orjury. It 18 an old trick with 3ome female offenders.”” AMUSEMENTS, CLARA MORRIS' COMPANY, The playsin which Miss Morris will ap- pear here on Wednesday and Thursday evening will tax the strength of the entire supporting company. which is as follows: Mr. Henry Miller, Miss Emily Seward, Miss Kate Dennin-Wilson, Mr, Qzden Ste: vens, Mr. Rowlana BuckStone, Mr. H. B. Huu. ML Goor B 1. Mies Motlio Tevel, 0s. Brehnan, Miss Louiso Renning, ra Ozden, Little Angelin Ogden, M. tt, Mr. Geo. Fredericks, Mr. Vietor rles Johnson, ER UR. iro was, litérally packed s ots i The People’s The Iast night and ovel were turned aw; 1irst appe ce here of the Silver & pany. which is one of the best Hllllh which has ever eared in that temple of amusements. ‘The play is a clever one and well ealeulated for lhc 1?1*[:[1\) of the talents of the persons composing the company. STEALING A SFAIJS'\IN. Charles Ray Arrested For Carrying Ofr a Cloak, Constable Edgerton has arrested and now has in custody a seventeen-year old boy named Charley Ray, who Is wanted by United States Marshal Carr of Cheyenne On Christmas day, 1856, Ray went info the house of ill-fame run by May West and walked off with a $500 hl'.ll'(klll cloak. He was captured in the Bluffs when he was try- ing to dispose of the article, Buylllr that i belonged to his sister, 1o will bo taken back to Uneyenne, Ray was formerly a pea- nut vender in the employ of Barkalow Bros, The Hospital Plans, The county commissioners, yesterday morn- ing adopted the following resolution, govern- ing architects in making mew plans for the proposed county hospital: Resolved, That in plans to be submitted by the competing architects on hospital build- ings, the following be the recommendations of the board: The administration or execu- tive bullding shall be three stories with base- ment, with sufficient rooms to accommodate ofticers and assistants fora building with a capacity for from three hundred to five hun- dred patients, to be provided for in the wards or wings to be added when necessary. Wards or wings to be bullt at present to be two storles and bascment, and accommodated with sueh purlt the administration build- ing as veniently be used for hospital vurposes, say 200 pafients, The Mansard 100f to be excluded from any and all of llm buildings, Said buildines to be as near fire proof as possible. All inside stairs to be of iron without the usual riser, Architects are to contine their plans to within an estimate of $150,000. Plans to be presented to the board at Omaha March 1, 1557, at 12 o’clock, noon, - - Architects in Rivalry. The rumor started some days ago that urch- itects other than those who have already sent In plans for the county hospital, proposed to furnish designs, has been found to refer to Messrs, Voss and Smith, It is understood that Voss has assoclated himself with Meyers in this job, with the understanding that. in the "event of their joint plan being accepted, Mr. Voss will be made superintendent. Mr, Smith s sald to have allled himself with Mr. Cochran with a like intent. This will be a home gon- test wiihia vengeance, as tie remaining com- naha tirm, Mendelssohu & an interesting contest to er home and foreign talent shall be wore successful than home talent alone. Obseryer Pollock. Signal Service Observer Poilock was still in & eritical position yesterday morning, and it seemed that the ehances of recovery were against him, 1tis now known that Mr. Pollock lad resigned bis positlon as signal officer, ignation 10 take effcct on the Sth of Mr. Hagan, who is now in charge of the office, 15 here to succeed him either in the event of fallure to recover or of the expira- tion of erm. In either event Mr, ollock 20 DEGREES Below Zeno Reminds the young man, ,that of year the old man, the yout now is the seas hen a GOOD WARM Overcoat Is one of the mneccssary comforts of life, and when £10 to §15 can be saved In the purchase of ono of those elegant Merchant Tailor will not be likely to have much to do with the signal office between this and the s5th of Mareh, The charity ball of the Hebrew Boeney olent society will oceur in - Metropolitan ball next Thursday cyening, Misht Overcoals at such prices ns these OVERCOATS. $25 Merchant 'l‘m]or Mado at$10.00 80 by 3 11.50 40 2% 14.75 45 20.00 50 [ 26.50 o “w 20.00 MISFIT CLOTHING PARLORS 22.00 Itis not only the time, but it pays (o buy at tho only® Misfit Clothing Parlors 1119 Farnam Street where you will find th, their prices on SUITS, made by Merchant Taflors low, arc equal Read this SUITB. $25.00 Mmc nt l‘mlur Mulel $12.00 “ “ “ “ “ You can save the price of asuit of clothes by buy asult and overcont.at THE ONLY isfit Clothing PARLORS Farnam St 1119 -~