Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 20, 1887, Page 4

‘ ! .s | THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY JANUARY 20, 1887 THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TRERVR OF SUBSORIPTION ¢ Dafly Morniag Baition) including Sunday Bre, One Yoear. veues $10 00 Por 8ix Months Voruoneunies 0ererevey For Threo Montha ... 0000000 The Omaha Senday DBee, mailed to any address, ONe Year. ... ........ ATIA OFFICE, FW YORK OF ASHINGTON OF) AND 018 FARNAM oM 65, TRINCNE B NO. 513 FOURTBENTH OORRESPONDEN: All communioations relating to news and ed torial mattor should bo addressed Lo the K TOR OF THE BEE. BUSINESS LETTERSY AT buelnees Jotters and romittancos ghould be dressed to THE BES PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMARA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders 0 be made payable to the order of the company, THE BEE PORLISEING COMPARY, PROPRICTORS, TI'E DAILY BEE. Bworn Statement of Circulation, Biatoof Nebrasks, |q g, County of Douglas, Geo, B. 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Frrt. Notary Public. Tie BEE's cnmprellcrsiv;ilromslnlh-; reports are appreciated by the publie. —— FOR SALE:—A senatorial lightning rod, made expressly for John A. McShane. Address, ‘“Herald,” Omaha. GREELEY, the Arctic explorer, is the man who ought to be General Hazen's successor, and the probability is that he will receive the appointment. — Wity Is it that Sister Rose has failed to contribute anything to her fame during the lust three weeks? Can it be that she is awaiting the adjournment of our legis- Iature? A MASSACHUSSETTS congressman has « introduced a bill to grant a pension of $25 a month to Walt Whitman. It goes without saying that the Bay State states- man has never read “Leaves o’ Grass.” —— “VaAN Wyck is certainly beaten,” said the Herald in a double-leaded dispatch from its associate editor yesterday morn- mg. Instead of weakining, Mr. Van Wyek gained five votes on the second ballot. For a beaten man Van Wyck is doing quite well. St. PA UL may boast of her ice pulace and admiring citizens continue to blow in their money on something that will melt in the spring, but Omaha capitalists put their money in brick and stone blocks, assuring permanancy and solid- ity. Records written on ice go for noth- ing. YESTERDAY'S complimentary vote to Dr. George L. Miller was not so very complimeniary, Out of 88 votes he re- ceived only 19. The comphmentary vote given the day before to J. Sterling Mor- ton, whom the Herald referred to as n ‘“‘man from the South Platte country,” was 25, THE scene in joint convention when Lieutenant Goyernor Shedd reversed his ruling on changes of vote and played the bold tool of the railrogue ringsters in defeating continued balloting was an in- teresting commentary on representative government as conducted by reckless partisanship. — ‘At this hour there can be no further question of Van Wyck’s defeat,” said yesterday morning's Republican. *“This hour” was 2 o'clock in the nforning, and the predicyion can therefore be excused. Some men don’t know what they are say- ing at 3 o'clock in the morning. P S— Van Wyck ganed five votes on the sec- ond ballot. E—— Miss VAN ZANDT, the Chicago girl who is crazy to marry the condemned an- archist, Spies, ought to be taken charge of by the board for the examination of the insane. Lhe marriage can be pre- vented by the sheriff, who has the power toexclude all visitors from Spiesi cell. He has takon such action, and his course will be generally commended. Ce——— Tae opponents of Van Wyck at Lin- coln are beginning (o discover that com- petition often destroys combination. The republicans who are vainly attempting to band themselves together to unite on a man who can poll the united party strength learn that jealous partisanship is frequently superior to party patri- otism 1n men whose only aim in pulling down Van Wyck is to chmb on his shoulders to his senatorial seat. Up to the time of writing all attempts_to com- bine the field have failed. They are likely to fail in the future or the same reasons which have cause failure in the past. It is the opinion of the supreme court of Massachusetts that sleeping-car com- punies are liable for property stolen from passengers oceupying their cars. In a decision recently rendered it was held that a sleeping-car company holds itself out to the world as furnish- ing safe and comfortable cars, and when it sells a ticket it implieitly stipulates to doso. The law raises the duty on the part of the car company to afford protec- tion. While it is not liable as a common carrier or as an inn-holder, yet it is its duty to use reasonable means to guurd the passengers from theft, and if through want of care the personal effécts of a passenger, such as he might reasonably carry withdim, are stolen, the company is linble for it. The court regarded such a rufe as required by public policy and by the interests of both the passenger aud the company. In spite of the riproaring roorbacks of the ant1-Van Wyekers headed by such political strikers as Captain Phillips and Dewese, the predicted wholesale deser- tions from the Van Wyck camp to the ranks of the rail- rogues failed to materialize 1n yester- day’s joint convention. The second day’s balloting showed no lack of cohesion among the friends of the people’s choice. On the contrary it exuibited ap increased vote and full eonfidence in the final result on the part of the Van Wyck following. The weakness of the field is found in the jealousy of opposing candidates. This was so manifest that many of the most hopeful believers in the possibility of a successful combination of opposing republican interests lost confidence, Adjournment till to-day has only pro- tracted the battle without materially changing the conditions. The crowd of political wiseacres who have been deal- ing Van Wyck his death blow every day ce the opening of the session be- ginning to discover that it is easier to destroy a candidate in the hotel lobbies than on the floor of the house in joint convention. The outrageous snap judgment game which Lieutenant Governor Sheda played upon the joint convention yesterd Lincoln was denounced by all minded men of every faction as the most brazen-faced frand ever perpetrated in a Nebraska legislature. Mr, Shedd saw that a large number of votes would be thrown to Senator Van Wyok at the end of the second ballot. He distinctly announced that after the roll call on the ballot a second call would be made to afford opportunmty for changes of vote. While anxious members waited for the sound ot the clerk’s voice, Mr. Shedd partially an- nounced the vote and refused to permit a score of members who were ready to change to Van Wyck to so record them- sel The action of Mr. Shedd choking off' all chance for revision of the ballots was on a par with the past performances of that pliant tool of the corporations. It was in bold and barefaced disregard of every principle of fairness and justice, and pre- vented developments which would have been highly interesting to the gang of railrogues with whom the speaker trains, Refusing the Widows Pensions, _ The adverse action of the majority of the house committee on invalid pensions on the bill granting a pension of $2,000 a year each to Mrs. Logan and Mrs. Blair, was not entirely unexpected. = It was stated immediately after the passage of the bill by the senate that Mr, Eldridge, the chairman of the pensions committee, was opposed to the measure, and he was able to carry the other democrats on the committee with him, all of whom voted against the bill, while the republican members voted for it. The reported reasons for opposition will not be likely to change the public sentiment of the country which heartily approved the bill and its prompt passage by the senate. Despite the fact that the pension demand upon the public treasury is very heavy, amounting for the current year to nearly or quite $90,000,000, the people felt that the widows of the distinguished soldiers who were to be benefitted by this bill merited that consideration from the gov- ernment which their husbands had so gallantly and worthily served, and the views presented in opposition will not remove that feeling. So far as General Logan was concerned it is mot questionable that he could have made a just ciaim to a pension for disease contracted in the milita service of the country., 1t is the testi- mony of those who were intimate with him, and was so stated on the floor of the senate, that he attributed the origin of the rheumatism of which ho died to ex- posure in the army, more particularly to an occasion when for twenty-four hours he was exposed to ‘a violent snow storm. That he did not claim a pension may have been a mistake, possibly due to a fecling that all the benefactions the gov- ecrnment could afford to its defenders were better given to those in greater need of them than he; but in any event it scems cmmnently proper that the country should to this moderate extent attest its gratitude for the services of one of its best and bravest soldiers. It remains to be seen what view the house will take of the matter when the majority and minority reports are sub- mitted. It is safe to say that the bill will receive the support of all the repub- licans, and it is very probable that there will be a sufficient number of democrats favorble to 1t to pass it. A Dissenting View, The report of the United States fortifi- cations board recommending a liberal system of coastdefenses,has attracted at- tention in England, where the matter would naturally command the largest in- terest. The views of the report were re- cently criticised at length in an article in the Londén Times, and wo noted a few days ago the opmion of Sir Andrew Clarke, an authority on fortifications, that it would be a mistake for the United States to carry out the policy urged by the fortifications board, since it would mvolve an expenditure much greater than is necessary to supply the mostcom- plete coast defenses. He advoeated a sys- tem of coast defenses which should neg- lect fortifications and rely for its efficacy upon heavy guns protected simply by pits, whence they can be raised for firing and operated from a distance by electric appliances. General C, P. Stone, in a recent interview, dissents from the opin- ions of the writer 3n the Zimes and of Sir Andrew Clarke, which he thinks aro hardly to be respected when opposed to the carefully formed opinions of compe- tent American officers and officials, As to the objection that the sum thought to be necessary to establish an adequate system of coast defenses is much too large, General Stone says that after hav- ing given much study to the matter he does not beheve a proper degree of safety can be assured for a less sum. General Stone feels as doubtless most Americans will, that it is not sale to give much weight to the opinion of any British authority on our (uruflcz‘mns when the opinion favors leaving ®ur coasts in a defenseless condition, and it would be especially injudicious to accept the judg- ment of a man, as in.the case of Sir Andrew Clarke, who makes its expression the opportunity to advertise the, fact that he has a special plan of his own' for coast defense to putin practice. . Taking the most practical view of the watter, General Stone repeats the argument he had before used in connection with this matter, that the expenditare of $150,000,000 would bo only a wise financial operation of insut- ance, such as would certainly be adopted by any business man in reference to his property. The ransom of New York city alone, he remarked, would probably be double this sum, while that of Boston would not be much less, and so on with Baltimore, Saa Francisco, New Orleang, <Rortland, Charleston and other ports. But aside from the pecuniary question of ransom, there is the pecuni- ary question of the demoraliz tion of trade and all enterprise which would result from the capture of even one large city. Making allowance for the probable tendency of General Stone and some an exaggerated rers {0 be apprehended, it must still be admitted that their position and opinions arc worthy of most respect- ful consideration, and this should not be withheld because they are not approved by English critics, or those of any other country, whose interests in the mat as well perhaps as their sympath could certainly not be expected to le: them to concur with the views of Ameni- jeet” The question is one which we can properly and most safely answer for oursclyes, wholly re- gardless of outside opinion, and while there does not appear to bo any pressing necessity for answering it hurriedly it may be wise not to unreasonably delay doing so, Enlarge the Boards, The state cavital is besciged by del tions of commissioners from various counties in the state who hope to secure legislation at the present session for tho increuso of the salarics of county com- missioners. What is much more neces- sary at present in counties hke Douglas and Laneaster s an increase in the num-4 ber of members of the board. Our connty boards in large counties are close corporations. Two commissioners decide on all expenditures and make all disbursements. In Douglas county alone these reach an annual total of u quarter of amillion dollurs. Thesmaliness of the county board makes corrupt combinations easy. With a board of five or even seven members this would beg rendered much more diflicult. © A bett®e county repro- sentation could also ho obtained by such an enlargement of the county board, and the wants of the different districts would receive more thorough attention. Before an increase of salaries ot the board 1s passed upon it would be well to sccure an increase in the size of county boards in county boards in countics conts 40,009 inhabitants. NOTWITHSTANDING the cold weather there is a great deal of building being done in Omaha this winter, and mechan- are nearly all employed. The build- ing boom will be resumed with gr vigor early in the spring. The outlook very encouraging, and the probability is that during the r there will be ex- pended in buildings double the amount of money ics Oy % weeks 2go in Omaha in the natural gas have been tempol pended of the “angurs™ in Lincoln flow ot that conl-saving article would be found. With Pat O'Hawes in Lincoln and Dr. Miller in N 0, the idea of finding natural gas in Omaba is prepos terous, e Pullman Car company has an eye on Nebraska. An announcement to the cffect that Matt Miller’s bill to reduce sleeping car rates to about half the sum now charged had failed to become a law, would be received with joy and Jay Ghouldish gice by the company. LIGHTNING-ROD agents have been regarded with suspicion. And this week’s work in the legislature continues to point the moral. No malter whether galvanized iron, copper wire or sena- torial-boom tipped—see to it that you have one before erecting. Tue new lowa anti-quack law is liable todrive a large portion of the grand army of quacks from that state into Ne- brrska. Our reputable pnhysicians should be vigilant and see that the Nebraska medical law is strictly enforced. It remained for youthful Caldwell to introduce a promptly tabled bill to inves- tigate McShane's election. 1f by some natural process the old earth would shriok a little, it would be a size too small for the Lancaster statesman TuE text of a prominent New York di- vine last Sunday was “The Fall of Man.” It 18 no use to attend church to gain in- formation on that subject, as Omaha'’s sidewalks furnish graphic and undoubted illustrations every day. Tag question *‘Is the Cullom bill un- constitutional?” is being raised by the railways. Thereis no doubt that it is does not agree with the constitution of the railway corporations. IN Ohio and many gther states the leg- islature meets every year. Nebraska possesses many advantages to be consid- ered by the home-seeker. OxAHA continues to grow in import- ance as a live stock market. PROMINE! Huvh O. Northcote, of the late Lord Iddesleizh, is a banker in New York, and a son-in-law of Hamiiton Fish. General Thomas L. James, e tmaster of New Y ork eity, was once a printer’s devil in a 8t. Lawrence county, N. Y., newspaper oftice. Jules Grevy, president of the Freneh re- public gets $240,000 a year for his services, aud over $100,000 to pay for entertalnnients and other expenses. Congressman W, L, Seott, of Pennsylvania like Senator Gorman and Dick ‘Townshend, began life as a page. Now he is worth $30,000,000. Congress is the place to get rich Dr. Mary Walker, according to a current itew, begins to show the effects of age. Prob: ably the report arises fromr the fact that when the doctor takes her walks abroad she pants. Mr, Rockefeller, of the Standard Oil eow- pany, has offered $100,000 for the “Angelus, by J. F. Millet. The picture is 21x26 inch in size. Nothing like Standard oil to lubri- cate the wheels of artistic machinery. Jog Emmet, the actor, has wrecently had “something like a cataract removed from nis nose.” Itinjured his voice and luterfered with his singing. There has been an lwe pression that principal trouble with Joseph was the cataract which has boen pour- ing down his throat for a good many years, - In a Nutshell, Deswer Republican. Pools are conspiracies and the rebate a species of robbery, The sooner they are abol- ished the better, L - No Chance For a Poor Man, New York World, The price of admission to the United States senate steadily advances, and million- aires rush in where poor men are unable to tread. ————— Of Course She Conldn't Tell, Washington COritie, “Is hea young man of brains? inquired an old gentler I youth. Vell, really,” replied his daughter, “I had no opportunity of judging. I never met him anywhere except in society.” i Power of the Railroad Monopoly. Denver Republican. Under railroad diserimination and the re- bate system it has come to that pass in Den- ver that only those merchants who “stand in’" with the railrond companies are able to conduet their business at & profit. We hon- estiy belleve that no man, no matter how great his capital, experience and energy, could come to Denver to-aay and build up a profitable business without tho all-powerful friendship of the railroads. YR, Senator Logan's Literary Venturcs, Utica Herald, Senator Logan was at work on a second book when death overtook him. It is said that the manuseript was so far advanced that it Wwill be an easy matter tocompleto it. Prob- ably Mrs, Logan will undertake the duty of finishing it. 1f so, it is to be hoped that she will make a better bargain for its publication than the senator made for his former book, ow known that, although the sale of volume was large, the publisher made most ot the money, leaving the general t0 be satisfied with the fame. —— Unsatisfied. Lilizabeth Akors, For weariness comes of having When happiness means pursuit, And love grows dwarfish and stunted, And bears but little fruit, When the serpent of seli forever Is coiling aboul its root. So lips whieh have met in kisses Grow chary of tender specch— So hearts 1 are bound together Grow burdensome each to each, Since the only things men value Aro thoso which they eannot re: St Cor STATE AND TEKRITORY. Nebraska Jottings, Rock Tsland survesors are operating in Webster county. Platte county has decided to invest §10,000 1n a bridge over the Platte river. The Omaha & North Platte road, extension of the Ashland cut-off, reached Wahoo. A mass meeting will he held in Platts- mouth to-night to discuss the needs of the eity in the way of legislation. The accidental discharge of a pistol put a bullet through the foot of Ston wall Irwin in Gordon and caused his death, The town cow is_temporatily enj the freedom of Nebras Dunt has Ch a sl show: what dent, The blockade on the Elkhorn Valley road west of Chadron has been rais after three weeks in the bosom of snow dnifts, This is the only evidence at hand that the Elkhorn is the snow sure route. The death warrant issued by the su- preme court in the case of Jack Marion ed in the f tapped with ge hammer at Duncan, Monday, ms of recovery. i hit him nine hours after the acei- Indian resi tion fifteen years ago. The annual meeting of the Plutts- mouth eanning company was held Mon- day night and oflicers elected for the en- suing year. The affairs of the company are in satisfactory condition. Con- tracts have been made for all necessary crops for the coming season, and ar- rangements made for a large pa lowa Items, The billiard halls of Des Momes have been declared nuisanc One of the gang of | brutally assaulted Miss Anna Bual near Davenport has be Prohibition makes | days in Creston unaccountably peaceful. As a conse- quence the deposits in the savings banks are inereasin, Mrs, Thom Barber, of Carroll a clock which has been handed down from one generation 1o another in her family for over 165 ) It was made in Scot- land and is still & good time-keeper. Prof. Fostet, the Burlington weather prophet, has broken kis long record of mistakes. He predicted a snowstorm Monday and the storm put in an appear- ance. He s now ready to wager more money on his ability as a weather prophet, United States Veterinary Inspector Paaren, who 15 at Mason City inquiring into the cause of the death of so many hogs in that locality, has sentto Washing- ton for an analysis of the spleen and lung of one of the dead ammals. While givin, no opinion of the disease, he pronounce: it contagious or infectious, and recom- mended that all hogs dying be at once cremated, as simple burial was not a safe disposul of the carcass. endish tramps who chiller-De n captured, Dukota, In Clay county there are fifty schools and 2,193 persons of school age, ‘The number of scholars at present en- rolled in the Rapid City schools is over A measure has been introduced n the Dakota legislature for more stringent marriage laws. A citizen of LaMbure county raised 200 of corn last season from ten 5, notwithstanding the excessive dry- Bartleft; of Minncapolis, has d as pastor of All Souls’ Uni- church at Sioux Falls, and will er at onece upon her dutie The members of the'territorial se soon us they appeare door the clock & The Union has n ductions in freight it the state Judge Dawson, “surveyor gen: the state, died suddeuly in Deny day. The Rocky Mountain will offer purses aggregating $30,000 for the meetings to be held next suwmer, ter-Cotton’s operations cost his ndly supporters between four and hundred thousand dollars. Carter's arters were ut Fort Collins and he led grip some wherealiits are o racing cireuit months mysiery. ago. His e Diptheria, Doctors report that diptheria is prevailing with much violence throughout t severe case is that reported in the James Brush, on the corner of Twenty-first and Harney streets, where ong child slied of the sickness on Sunday last, leaving two other mewbers of the tamily 1 a danzerous condition, THE COUNCIL, A Brief and Unimportant Session Tuesday Night. All of the councilmen were present at the meeting Tuesday night, and disposed of the Tollowing business In short order: COMMUNICATIONS AND PETITIONS. From the Mayor—Approving the ordin- ances adopted at last meeting. On filo. ame~Appointing Richard H. Cooper as special policeman at the exposition building, Approved, The bonds of Rowe & Co. and Michael Curtis as plumbers and drain layers were re« ceived and approved. From the City Physiclan—Reporting that the deaths for the month of January were thirty-two; the births for the same time, ninety-six. On file, From J. M. Woolworth et al—Withdraw- ing objections to the proposed ehange of grade on Leavenworth sireet. On file, The contract between the city and the Po- lice Telephone and Signal company was pre- sented and adopted. & J. E. House—Presenting bill in favor Knowles for $55.84 for sidewalk re- stimate of James Fox. 81, for work on South Omaha sewer. Approved. Ot United States National bank—Asking the privilege of placing old building on Twelfth street until the new bank building is erected, Granted. RESOLUTIONS. Lee—Instructing the eity attorney to Teport to the council the terms of the contract by which the B. & M. had agreed to construct avinduct on lower Farnam street, Adopted. By Lee—Instructing the city treasurer to 2,500 to the Kellogg appraised by the opening of Convent street, By y y—Instructing the gas company to repl I 5treet lamps and street signs that have beew broken and misplaced by lamp lighters. Adopted, By Dailey—That the section in_the %ro- Josed charter for metropotitan itics, relative o the aushority of the council to include or- ganized villages within Jthe city liwits, re- main as it is in the bill ndw before the légis- lature, and that the council agres not to extend the limits to inciude the stock yards in South Omaha, in case of the passage of thebill. Adopted. ORDINANCES, ecial ordinance making appropriations in the sum of $22,140.98 for the payment of liabilities incurred during the month of De- cember, Passed. Levying speciul tax to cover the_one-half cost or paving Tenth street from Williams street to Center stre curbing teenth street from Farnam treet to Howard street; curbing Cuming street from ‘I'wenty-fifth avenue to Thirty-second strect; curbing Far- nam street from ‘lI'wenty-ninth streot to ‘Twenty-ninthavenue: paving Twenty-fourth street from Cuming street to Seward gtreet: i Cuming street from T®enty-fifth ‘Ihirty-second street: eurbing ot from Eighth street to Tenth strect: curbing Twenty-fourth street from Cuming sf ward stroet; grad- ing Twenty-fourth street from St. Mary’s avenue to Leavenworth street; curbing Leay enworth stroet from Thirteénth street to ¥ nth street. Passed. hing the grade of the alley between Hickory street and Pine street from_ Sixth sireet fo Tently street. ~ Grades and Grad- iy Lstablishing the grade of Fourteenth street from Tlerco” ‘street to Williams street. ‘assed, Changing the grade of Tenth street from Martha street to Baneroft strect, and of Arbor street from Tenth street to Eleventh strect. Grades and Grading. Instracting th advertise for ing that are projected on the ol the city during the coming year. Aty o'clock the couneil adjourned. s for the THE BOARD OF TRADE. President Meyer Makes Some Inter- esting Statements. *The O naha board of trade was never in Detter condition than it is av present,” said President Max Meyer to a reporter Tuesday night, in replying to a question of the news- paper man. “How many members have you?” “One hundred and seventy, We only want a membership o and new applications are beinz put in every day, From p nt apvearances, it looks as though we would have the requisite number by February 1sc. ‘The membership fee is now $250, and, as you Tuow, after the 1st of February, it will be £500. You eun judge of the advance we have made when you remember that three years nembership fee was only $23, or one- th theamount that has” been deter- mined upon, to take effect after February 1, and a year ago, § Later on, it was “ad- iced to 0, af hich figure it has re- ined until the present time.” hen no new members will be taken in after the full 250 himit has been reached?” “No,except to fill_vacancies, caused by death or otherwise. Of course a membership can be hought—they'are at a premium. But s those who want to get in, to go in av, beeause they can do so at less ex: It they put it off t0o lon they may \ltogethier 1n securing membership.” Vien does the board of trade expect to into its new building?” ‘By Mareh 1. Steam was turned on to- day. Yes, there will be a grand formal opening, to which we shall invite representa- tivesfroin the boards of tradeof Kunsas City, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Chicago, St. Louis, York, and the other western citles.” Ilow much remains to paid on the building?” “About $75,000. And that on.a property whiech orth about $200,000,” *Ha ny of the offices been rented yet?” “Certainly. Allof the offices onghe base- ment and first floor have been rented, except the banking room, which we are holding for a first class institution. We nave received a number of applieations for these banking apartments, but none of them proved satis- factory as yet. ‘T'he second, third and fourth stories we are holding for the use of grain and cattle commission men, We understand that all the tirms in Sonth Omaha—or most of them—intend to have uptown offices in our building. Wedon’t intend to rent our oftices to doctors, lawyers and real estato men, with possibly a few exceptions. We want to make it a thoroughly representative business building.” hat will the annual rental of the oftices W pense. fail *“Thirty-seven thousand dollars, Figuring in this way—at what I consider a very con- servative estimate—it will requiro at the very outside only three years for the rental of oflices to uluur thebuilding, After that the surplus can b turned into a surplus fund or used to pay dividends with, So that, as [ estimate it,” it will n'l{\llm three years—or serhaps more accurately, two years and a half—to convert our stock into a dividend instead of one calling for At present the ass ber cannot exceed $25 a all tar short of that, “As8 soon as we get the chamber of eom- merce building fully equibped and all th oftices rented, we shall ‘start a sort of wer- chants’ elub, where our business men can drop In and get a wood lunch. There are other worthy features that we propose to in- troduce 1n twe, but you will learn of them later on.” Hamilton Street Sewer Tax, A large and enthusiastic meeting of the property holders in sewer district No. 26 (Ham!lton street) was held last evening in Grace Chapel on King street, between Ham- ilton and Caldwell. The sewer tax question was thoroughly discussed, and it was sally agreed that the tax lev and unjust, A commitiee was appoint obtain fogai advice bearing on the subj and will make a tull report at the next uieel ing, whiel will be held next Tuesday eve ing, January 25, at the same place at 7:30 It is” earnestly hoped that all prop- ts in this distriet willbe present, a8 business of vital lwportance to all such will be transacted. The Marvels of the Mail. New York World, The statistics of the New York post- oftice for the last year prescnt some large fizures. More than 60,000,000 letters were distributed through boxes, and more than 120,000,000 were delivered by carriers. In addition to these, nearly 50,000,000 postal eards were boxed and delivered. 1t would ous development if we could discover the amount of joy and soriow, of pieasure and pain, .copveyed iu this enormous correspoudence. How be a cu many hearts were made glad by tlie post- | man's whistle, and to how many was it the bearer of unpleasant and unwelcome news? Imagine the amount of sweot nouns and glowing adjectives that might | be gathered bg a draft on the love letters which no doubt formed a good portion of the mass of correspondence! What family secrets might bo revealed if the contents of the post bags could be laid open before the eyes of the people! More than 166,000,000 postage stamps, nearly 26,000,000 stamped envelopes and nearly 42,000,000 postal cards were sold during the year. The total weight of mails handled in the post office last yoar was over 193 tons, or 48 per cent, more than five years ago. - We can form some idea trom theso figures what the extent of the mail servico would be if there were no telegraph lines in existence. The telegraph is a strong competitor of the post oftice. Does not this prove the duty the telegraph com panies are under of studying the public interests and convenience nnlf of acting justly by the people? Does 1t not also show that it 1s the duty of the govern ment to hold a check on those corpora- tions and to prevent them from passing under the control of a monopoly. Judicial Districts, _ LoNG Pixe, Jan. 17.—To the Editor of the F Isce by the report of the pro- rdings of the state legislature that there eftorg being ma to readjust the Wl districts of Nebraska. As the stato is growing in population and wealth so rapidly it must necessarily fol- low that the legal business will increase in the same provortion. In some parts of the state the districts are small but have a great amount of legal business on their dockets, and in other parts the dis- tricts are large and unhandy to get through them, and not much law- ing cither. There is no doubt but that there will be large distriets in this state for years to come, and it should boe thus in order to curtail the taxes that would follow from keeping up a great many small districts with but one-tenth enough business to keep one judge busy But there is one thing that should be stricted ns much possible and that is the adjusting of these judicial digtricts so as to be propitious to a certain class of ambitious attorneys who are candidates for the appointment of judges tor the proposed new districts. Thesc applicants are the ones who take tiie most interest in the constructing of these, and they a generally selfish and contr 1, making it so that they will have a better chance to control the elections, and don’t want them arranged for the benefit of the majority, Concern ing their candidacy they will cast off a good county that they are id of, and make poor contracted dis- tricts to meet their ends regardless of what the tax payers may think of the matter. If one third of “the attorneys were only tax payers, there mightbe sorme paid to them, but they either dyade paying them or don’t have any property to tax, and still th would like if every county in Ncebraska was a judicial district. Nearly every one of them have an ideal district, but 'what we, of the,northwest want, is a judicial ais: trict that is reasonable and just, and one that will have cnough business for a {mlgc for atleast tive months in a yedr. v ninth judicial district now is so large and dispropor- would like to have a district Holt, Brown, K Sheridan, Daw ul Sioux counties. These count are on the Elkhorn railroad, and mak continuous chain and this is the most al arrangement that can be had. ¢ is hardly enough_for one judge in these counties, but it will not be long till business inereases in this distriet. If the members of the legislature will take the pains to notice the arrangement of these counties they will very naturally come to the conclusion that that is the proper thing. 1 hope that if th s to be a new district formed here that it may take in these counti M. Sy A Correction, Councrr. BLurrs, July 18/—To the Edi- tor of the Beg: I notice in an editorial in the Beg yesterday that it is stated that the late General Hazen was commande of the fiftecenth army corps. Asa mem- ber of that corps from the beginning to the close of the war, I know whereof 1 speak, when I beg leave to correct the atement. General was com- mander of the second division of that corps, but not ot the corps itself. I en- dorse heartily all the praise that is given to him as a soldier and a man, and call tention to the error not to detract from his name or fame, but simply for the ake of historical ucuur:xc&l L. ®ierwoon, e e Omaha us a Stock Marker, Emexrson, Nes., Jan. 17.—[Correspon- dence of tho BEEk.]—Northwestern Ne- braska is beginning to realize that Oma- ha is one of the best stock markets in the country. Soon as our stock growers and shippers learn they can realize the high- est prices for their stock near home, they will apandon the leng trip to Chicago or other large citles, The time is but short when all “the stock raised in Nebraska will be marketed within the state, Messrs, Frazier, near Wayne, shipped ninety head of cattle to Omaha last weok. Mr. Carrabine shipped three car loads of cattle and one of hogs from here to Omabha, —— The FPurses Against the People. New York World. The United States senate is now nearly evenly divided between the two parties. Twelve yoars ago 1t contamed only nine- teen democrats out of seventy-four mem- bers. In recent senatorial elections the re- publicans sent to the senate Stanford, of California; Allison, of Iowa; Sabin, of Minnesota; Jones, of Nevada; Mitehell, of Oregon; Don Cameron, of Pennsyl- vania, and_Spooner, of Wisconsin, all ot whom hold their seats till 1891, In this year's senatorial elections the 1epublicans add to the number Farwell, of Illinoi Stockbridge of Michigan; Stewart, of Nevada; Quay, of Pennsyl- vania, and perhaps Morton, of New York. Is there a single one of all these who is distingmshed for statesmanship, for ora- tory, tor experience in national aftairs? Is there one who would be made a United States senator if he did not poss p wealth or was not & ereature of corpor: tion? Just us surely as the republican power in the sex ias declined in the past it will continue to decline in the futare, if the party thus ignores the public inter- osts and the honor of the country and lends itself to the purposes of corpora tions and the ambitions of a moneyed aristocracy, The people will eventually overthrow any party which advances the check- book over the ballot-box and secks to establish an aristocracy of wealth in the high oftices of the repnblic. f the democrats desire to publican musdeeds they certainly must avoid resorting to similar acts on their own part. - Russell Smith filed a petition yesterday in the district court to have his marriage to his wife Lizzie, annulled, on the ground that she liad a former husband living at the time of et later nuptials. - For Throat Diseascs, Coughs, Colas, etc, effectual relief 1s found in the use of S Brown's Bronchial Troches.”. Sold only iu boxes, LIPTON: PLACE. Situated within 4 blocks of tke Lip'on & Fowler packing houses, and within 8 blocks of the new B, & M. depot. All the lots are very fins. On Easy Terms Which will be worch double within a year, making several hundred per cent profit on the cash invested. Lumber Yard A splendid location for a whole- sale lumber yard, as the R. R. company has 150 feet right of way each side the track, afford- ing.excellent facilities for load- ing or unloading. Brick Yard. A fine opening for a brick yard adjoins the addition. « otner & Archer’s ADDITION, We also have a few choiee lots left in Cotner & Archer's addi- tion.Iave sold very rapidly, and are increasing in value every day. People are buying these lots for homes, consequently they will prove a good investment to any- bedy. We also have BARGAINS In all Parts of the City. OF Improved and Unim- proved Rroperty. Call and see us hefore purchas- ing elsewhere, Baker Place Situated within 5 blocks of the Walnut Hill depot, on the Mili- tary road. Benson's street rail- way will be completed and run- ning within 6 months, ~Prices from $300 to $500, One tenth cash, bal easy terms. These lots will be worth $800 as soon as the street cars are running which are guaranteed to be running within 6 months. D. R. ARCHER AND .H.SOBOTKER Room 9 Rediek's Block, 1509 Farnam §t,