Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 26, 1887, Page 4

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(o e O initntie i o b B e Tre demand for pig iron is now in ex- cess of the supply and prices have been marked up to a point at which it is possi ble to import foreign iron and pay dut onit, Another beauty of a high protec tive tarifl is again exemplified. Tk repulse of the people will be fol- lowed by arally against the corporations which will ioake the venal gang of mon- ovoly henchmen imagine that the lato “soventy-two-hour” battle was a mere skirmish ot the outposts. The sell-ou and frands who betrayed their trusts will be so effectually pilloried on the gibbet of mdignant public resentment that they willwisiy they had never beon born. CALIOUN, of the State Di mm-mf, up the sealpel in opposition to the Herald's sealping knife and handles the instrument in his work of dissccting true from false democracy with o graci and delieacy which is in marked contrast to tho bungling word butchery of the Omaha warhooper. The editor of the of hav- = lived for long years in - Nebraska, of knowing its politics and of having greatly assisted in shaping the course of tie events which he has recoracd. taki K, who will succeed s senator from New York, is u sound and able-bodied representa- tive of the Empire state, who will add to sputation of his state and strength interests in the couneils of the upper He has a commanding presence, anners and a long head. As con- Mr. Hiscock has shown a Jle capacity for hard work and made a positive and excellent vecord on the v issnes of the day. Stranger things might happen than the nomina- tion of Frunk Hiscock by the next national republican convention, ALL :A:U-mpls to whmn I Whitmore will fail in this community. He is too dead to skin suring both his nomina- tion and election as an avowed staunch supporter of General Van Wyck, he was already under the strongest of pledges to John M. Thurston. No one knows better than Whitmore that had this fact been known he would have been buried at the polls by the same votes of honest work- ingmen which sent him to Lincoln to Frank Hisc arner Mil | Tuesday, were work heart and soul for Van Wyck. Eu- logies of Whitmore’s straight republican- ism will not gloss over his shameful treachery to his constituency and his base betrayal of the trust conlided to his charge. Tie movement to secure a reduction in the fees for rocording instruments in the offices of our county clerks has taken form in a senate bill introduced early in tho session. Senate bill No. 53 proposes to reduco the charge for recording from seventy-five cents for the first two hun- dred words to fifty cents. This is a step in the right direction. The charges for re- cording instruments in Nebraska are higher than is necessary. For the same papers for which the county charges the ublic from a dollar and fifteen cents to wo dollars to record it pays its clerks rom twenty-five to fifty cents for tran- Kcribing. Allowing the most liberal esti- matos for other expenses in the county slerks’ offices, the margin of profits is too arge. The fees could be safely reduced ‘with material benefit to the public and no injury to the interests of the county, SoxE of the more reasonable among the Canadian papers donot like the pros- pect of non-intercourse with the United States, which they candidly andmit would be disastrous to the national welfare of the Dominion. The Torouto Globe say: “Non-intercourse hias almost invariably been the prelude to war. Nou-inter- course never inflicted 1n any country such serious, widespread injury as abso- Iute non-intercourse with the United States by land and water would inflict in Canada.” The tamilton Spectator re- mark “A cessation of commercial intercourse between Canada and the United States would be disastrous to some interests. It would be & matter for very grave regret.” The Montreal Herald observes: ‘“I'he Canadian gov- ernment is not blameless in this matter, They have brought on the difficulty which might have been averted. They have brought about the strained relations with the United States, and the only com- fort those who are made to suflor by 1t are to receive is the assurance from gov- crnment organs that it is better for them *hey only knew it." It will be unfortu- dte for the Canadian people that senti- "ents of this sort bave not been more . *wal aniong them, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26 Betrayed by thelr Servants, I Before the first ballot was taken last the republican supporters of Van Wyck to the number of thirty-three had signed a mutnal pledge to stand by him in or out of eus would dec Had this faithtully kept Van Wyck never could have been beatern. Among its signers W hit Rassell, Crane, and several others who ei deserted al- most at the firing of the first played fast and loose between the pledge been more, het gun, or lines of the contending forces, and gave actiy aid and comfort to the enemy. The vo- titical history of this state presents no of dastardly disloyalty to the people and to a leader who had the peo- ple’s confidence. Had Van Wyck's pre- tended supporters been sincere and earn- est in his behalf, they could have elected him on the first s balloting when a majority east for him in each house sep- y would have been decisive. All would have had to do was to parallel they | foree the balloting and refuse to adjourn until the necessary majority was secured But they treacherously declined to stand and voted an adjournment after a single ballot, which on that day is always re garded as merely complimentary. No | sooner had this compliment been paid than some of the cowardly renegades be- gan to talk of a second choice, and nctu- ally declared that they had discharged their obligations to the people and Van Wyck. In the seven senatorial contests which Nebraska has witnessed no such defection was ever attempted at that stage. Six years ago when Paddock came up for re-clection his men stood firmly by him a whole week out of caucus, and even fell with him in a body after it was settied that Van Wyck would be clected. And yet Paddock had no popular support behind him, and his forces were only held together by per- sonal friendship and federal patronage. Four years ago Alvin anders came down for re-election with secarcely a shadow of hope, Out of the whole Doug- las delegation of ten he had only two sup- porters, and from the entire state only cighteen votes, and yet this little band, in the face of a forlorn hope, stood th: for more than twenty days without flinching, casting ballot after ballot, and never yielded to despair. Van Wyek, with a popular endorsemencsuch as no man ever a republican following nearly three s large as that of any other candi- and a reserve of twenty: thirty democrats elected and pl to support the popular choice, found himself face to face with poltroons, mutinecrs and traitors on the first day. This band of conspirators, in con- stant and close communication with the enemy, helped to work up its canens scheme and finally went so far as to bind themselves to change their votes in open on whenever Van Wyck should re- ceive votes enough to eleet, This com- vact was kept a profound secret from \ Wyck and his staunch friends, and only became known to me a few minutes ore noon on Thursday, when Van ck’s election had become an assured unless a serious break should oceur our lines. Just as the joint was about to convene 1 steppod up to Whitmere and asked him whether it was true that he had agreed to change his vote from Van Wyck to somebody else on the coming ballot m e Van Wycek received the necessary vote to elect him. ve answer. or God's sn |L4 * smad T, “don’t do this thing. You will ruin yoursclf and dis- grace our county. Remember that [ vouched for you when you were endorsed by the workingmen.” “Well,” said Whitmore, “I don’t know what 1 will do. By the side of Whitmore at that mo- ment, and through the ent sion, sat Church Howe's capper and Thurston's man Friday, W. . Gurley, and close by him stood Tom Bruner, who, having ved himself out in the preceding leg islature by lis duplicity, sought to drag down to lis own degraded level the mun he was jealous of during the last session. Butthe occasion for Whitmore's treasonable flop did pot arise. Several of the democrats who were clected on pledges to support Van Wycek, and had promiscd to come to him on’ this ballot, failed to respond. What influence held them can readily be guessed. I need only to eite what influenced one of that “‘roll of honor” whom the democratic rail- rogue organ has exalted, Heisa mem- ver from Saunders county, by the name of Simanek. This young Bohemian is at heart honest and was very anxious to live up to his pledge. But during all the balloting Fisher, his brother-in-law, a former member of the legislature, stood guard over him and kept him in the railroad drag-net. Fisher was placed there by the Burlington rai road managers, who promised to give him valuable privileges in a grain eleva- tor which he is about to erect at one of their new stations, Poor Simanck, I know, felt wretched and distracted at the disg which his own countrymen will feel over his disloyalty to Van Wyck. The same blighting intluence that held its corrupting sway over Si- manck controlled the actions of nearly every other member of the railrogue roll of honor. Hayden and Frantz, of Suline, were notoriously controlled by 1obe Castor, the B. & M, right-of-way man and political procurer. Others north of the B. & M. line we charmed by Union Pacific snakes in the grass, But after all, the blame should not rest so much on weakling and venal demo- ats, When Van Wyck polled votes on Thursday eight republicans had voted for him Tue y delibe withheld their support. Those were Sen- nd Robbins and Represent- atives Baird, Crane, Fuller ot Gage, Marshall, Slater and Newton. Had these men been unflinching in their fidelity to Van Wyck, he would have been elee with one vote to spare. Why did they desert when yictory in sight? The only plea they made was that they feared Van Wyek's election by demo- cratic votes would jeopardize republican supremacy in the future. And yet some of these double-dealers were willing to elect Thurston by democratic votes if he dida't get enough republican votes, They boasted openly that six or seven dgmo- crats were ready to vote for Thurston if he carried the caucus of sixty-three or sixty-five republicans. Their kunavery and hypoerisy are more transparent in ight of their conduet in the caucus session s the majority | and its outcome. They first organized themselves into - a little band and threatened to go over bodily mto the railroad cancus of which Deweese and Captam Phillips were chiof manipulators. On Wednesday nignt, al- ready, Whitmore, Russell, Slater, the two Fullers and Robbins tover to the encmy secretly and then came back into the Van Wyck camp to create a stam- pede. They succceded only i part by weakening the spinal-columns of several good Van Wyck men. Failing in this effort they eame back Thursday night into the Van Wyck cancus and there im- posed upon the rank and file of Van Wyck's followers by pledging that in the caucus they would stand firmly by V: Wyek until he was nominated, I they kept faith, there is no doubt what- ever that Van Wyck would have been tri- umphant. He only lacked four votes of a majority, and more than that num ber were pledged confidentially to come over after a few ballots. The traitorous crew cast one ballot for Van Wyck and then began to break, and never nral- lied in full force. The only thing that kept them from mpeding in a body after the first ballot was the fail ure of repeated attempts to take seret baliot. Whitmore, who was to rry off a bloeck of Van Wyck's follow- ers, was most persistent in this eflort showing that the plot to make Thurston he nominee had been cunningly laid months ago. Thurston himself felt confident that he bluntly deelined to keep his name out of the ecaucus, and the most remarkable fact s that his chief support came from Laneaster county and the supporters of Cobb and Laird. Forled and bafilled in the secret ballot scheme, Thurston's name was withdrawn, and in the pell- mell and confusion that followed, Pad dock carried off the prize. Had any other republican been nominated, the self-styled Van Wyek stalwarts who did not want a manto come into the senate by democratic support might have some bottom left to stand on. But they de feated a brave soldier and life-long re- publican by electing a man who stayed at home and lived on federal pap dur the entire war, deserted Ins party and went over with Andy Johnson in its most trying hour; ran as a republican candi- date for United States senator when the state was organized, and within ninety days after his defeat became a candidate for congress on the same ticket with J. Sterling Morton against the regular r publican nominee, and was beaten by union republicans. They have defeated Van Wyek by Paddock whose first election to the senate was se- cured by demoeratic votes under pledges that he was a “conservative’ republican, would never enter a repub- lican congressional cancus, and bound himself in writing to democratic mem- bers of the legislature to give them con- trol of the republican federal patronage in their counties. I say all this merely to show what a set of scoundrels, hypocrites and traitors are now sailing under false colors as stalwart republi cans, In conelu 80 g n, let me do ju men who were steadfast, honorable and true their constituents. Beginning with the upper house, I cannot speak too highly of nators Lininger, Sprick, Duras, Tzschuck, Higzgins, of Col Schminke, Sterling, Cilking, and K ley, on the republican tide. They were earncst, cere. M. Lining ce to the to staunch and sin- respeenally conducted himself in a manner that must inspire respeet and confidence from his col- leagues and entitles him to the gratitude of his constituents. He wastempted with baits of senatorial honors by the cunning opponents of Van Wyck, but he never wavered or lost his head. Senator Keck- ley, ther nervous and exe: showed a good deal of wi the last, but this doubtless is lar, zely due to the insidious influence exerted by Whitmore and Russell, in whom he had the utmost confidence. On the democratic side of the senate, per, Wolbach and Hizgins, of Cass, stand out in vold relict men tried and true, while Bonesteel, Shervin and Wright have shown themselves to be worthy of the esteem and confidence of their constituents, In the lower house the names of Heim- rod, Horst, Jeary, Satchel, Matthieson, Young, meron, Cr isley, Barrett, Lord, Bick, I an, Wilson, Wetherald, Bailey, Ewing, Watson, Overton Under- hill, Dempster, Ballard and Gafford are worthy of the highest commendation. Matthieson, of Douglas, also d special mention, Hoisa poor working- man, employed in the Union Pacific shops, and withstood, not only the pres- sure and threats from the railroad gang, but a tempting bait of $2,000 for his vote. Mr. Tingle of Brown, another man in very moderate circumstances, stood like a rock,resisting an offer of $3,000 to go back on his people, 1t is fit and proper that I do justice to the democrats who refused to be driven into the pen by the railroad strikers and redeemed their pledges to the voters hon- orably and in good faith, They are Mat Miller, Harrison, Bentley, Rief, Gilmore, McKenna, Smyth, Knox, Andres, Tyson, Gamble, Wright, Keiper, Turner, Wolen- weber, Simws, Tracy, Ellis, Schwab. One of the meanest wscals in this legislature is Baird of Dakota, This man was elected and pledged on the Van Wyck issue. When I asked him Tuesday tocome nto the Van Wyck conference he declined and gave as his reason that he did not pro- pose to go into any caucus for fear that Van Wyck's success would be en- dangered. The next day he voted in open session for John M Thurston, and that night joined the railroaders in their caucus. What brought on the change can very readily be imagined, Bawrd's de- fection from Van Wyck to Thurston re- calls vividly the slanderous howl from » Wyck's encmies that he was in zue with the Union Pacitic and would receive effective and guiet support from that monopoly. It is now an established fact that Van Wyck was op- posed by all the monopolies. The corporations in Nebraska,. aided by mouey from corporations out of the state, organized the opposition at lLan- coln against Vao Wyck and the people. The B. & M. were in the lead and were in command, providing elegant suits of rooms,carriages without mum ber, sumptu- ous entertainments, whisky, wines and champagne, and other more substantial considerations, and when the weak or corrupt representatives ot the people were invited into the parlor they were | ike, ushered in and introduced by Captain Phillips and Attorney Deweese. ~ The Union Pacific camo up gently, with cat- velvely troad, because Mr Adams is a mild-mannered man. The Union Pacific forces were few in number but well in hand, and under the neralship of Thurston, its political at- torney, always were ready to act where it would do the most good. All the rail roads were loyal républicans and uncom- promising democrats in beating Van Wye ROSEWATER. Tho Ttetaliation Bill Passed, The bill introduced last week from the foreign relations committee of the United States senate, providing for a retaliatory policy toward Canadian vessels in the event that the Dominion government shall adhere to its policy of excinding Ameriean vessels from the ports of Canada, was taken up in the senate Mon- day and passed by a vote of 6 to 1. This remarkable unanimity in support of the mensure removes it entirely outside of party lines, and demonstrates the pro found conviction of the senato that the time is come when the imperative duty of this government, in justice to its citizens, in vindication of its interna- tional rights, in defense of treaty obliga- and in support of its self-respect, assert an earnest and firm poliey rnst the unwarrantable course and the coereive design of the Dritish depen- dencey on this continent. nglish states: men, and the Canadian people and goy- ernment, will find no room for a doubt regarding the meaning and the sincerity of this action. A few days a mem- ber of the Dominion government was quoted as having said that the talk in congress was simply “wind,” and late dispatehes from Ottawa reported that the feoling in of. fi circles there was that the proposed retaliatory legislation wasonly a “*bluff,” The views of and the nealy unanimous action of the senate on Mon- day will hardly fail to disabuse the nunds of these officials of the misleading idea, which has too long possessed them, that the United States has not really been i earnest in this matter, and that it was only necessary for Canada to e rsistin its attitude of hostility pose of coercing acquicscence in claims. If they have found any warrant in the friendly inclinations of this gov- ernment, in the sometimes dallyig dis- position that has been shown, in the spirit of forbearance, and the generous consideration that has been given to the vessels of Canada in our ports, to infer fhat we have not had full faith in the jus- tice of our claims and were not deter mined to enfored them, they will by this time have learned their mistake. What was alittle while on of chief concern to a small scetion and not a very wrge interest of the country, has now be- come of national magnitude, involving many interests. It 15 not doubted that the people will approve the action of their representatives I'he situation is gr: consequences may be the responsiby for them will st with Canada. country cannot somplain that it has not been amply forwarned of the danger that might result from adherence to un- justifiable policy. ‘T'he diplomatic corres- pondence in conneetion with this contro- versy bears evidence to a most sol d on the part of this government to avoid threatened comvlieations and find a way to a satisfactory settlement of the dispute. In his annual message to con- gress the president recommended o con aliatory and expressed a desire for a speedy and cqui wdjustment of the claims at issue, in which he had the coneurrence of the great majority of the people. At the outset of the dispute the United States made concessions which in interested quarters w eprobated as a surrender. Proposed action in cor similar to that just taken has until now been regarded with disfavor, chiefly for the reason that it was hoped tl ter due and ample reflection the Do- minion government wouid the wisdom, in the interests of its own peo- ple, of conforming to treaty is all the United States has ks shall be done. But to x0 senators 220 4 ques! ve,but whatever its tous policy ble rnings and refuse f santeed by treaty, but to incerease the s of working wrong and injustice to the citizens of this country, sustained therein by the approval of the imperial government., Against this vo and hostile policy, menacing Amer interests, insulting to the nation, violat- ing mternational comity, and destructive of every assurance looking to a fair and peaceful settlement of the dispute, the United States has the alternatives of war or non-intercourse, and the senate I declared for the latter. Aswe have he tofore said in referring to this matter,and as the more judicious Canadian papers admit, such a policy would prove vastly more injurious to Canada than to the United States, but it is obviously the mildest course to be pursued in order to bring the Dominion government and ponph- to a practical realization of their n attitude. (he bill passed by the senate, to which reference was made in a previons issue, empowers the president, whenever he shall be satistied that American vesscls and erews in the waters and ports of the British Dominions of North Americ: denicd or abridged, in any of the priv secured them by the tre are unjustly vexed or harrassed in the enjoyment of such rights, or shall be pre- vented from purchasing supplies as pro- vided for by treaty, tg issue a proclama- tion denying vessel and crews of t British Dominion of North America any entrance to the waters and ports of the United States, such proclamations to be qualified and limited “in the discretion of the president. Severe penalties are pre- #cribed for the violation of such procla- mations, The concurrence of the house in this action may be contidently pre- dieted, ege: The Felephone Case, Bell telephone stock holders will await with interest the outcome of the suit now in progress in the United States supreme court, which is brought to test the validity of the patents under which the great telephone monovoly 1s operat- ing. Previous suits have merely seratched on the surface of the question. The pre- sent trial is expected to fathom all the s of the mooted question whether rder Bell by corrupt collusion with xaminer Wilbur, of the patent oflice, abled to steal the invention of lisha Giray and obtain government pro- teetion for his plunder. All the rival compunies are practi- cally combined m the effort to deny Bell's elaims to priority of invention, and every phase of the telephone controversy will be brought out. There is a remar} ablo array of counsel on botl that the arguments will be as tho and exhaustive as it is possible to make them within the forty hours to which they must be limited by the order of the court. Upon the point of fraud there will Lo presented some new and important reve lations. For example, the brief of the attorney for Gray will show that three days after Boll hadsecured his patent he learned of Gray's new theory, not then perfected, and he at once proceeded to amend his application 80 as to broaden its possible construction. It will also be shown that Bell's attorneys had an under- ground railroad between their offico and the room of Examiner Wilbur i the patent office by which they were enablod to have unlawful knowled 3's papers as soon as they wore filed. v sides, Havl gained this information the attorney Bell filed applications, one of which was to tie up Gray in interference, while the others were to steer clear of Gray and come out with patents before he could get out of the interfercnce. All this was accomplished with the connivance of the examiner, who is charged with having deferred action on Gray's application in order to tet Bell in. It will be shown that between February 14 and 19, 1876, an important invention im was in- terpolated into Bell's specifications 1n consequence of the guilty knowledge which Bell’s attorn had of Gray's o t. | of circumstantis evidence will be presented to sustain this accusation, A host of facts will be pre- sented to show thatthere had been bound- less trickery practiced in conneetion with this business by Bell, that the ord of the patent oflice has been tampered with since 1870 in his interest, and that all the processes by which he sccured and has maint 1 his patent have been of a questionable cparacter. As the conclu- sion from all the evidence it is assumed that Bell knew nothing whatever of the varying resistance current until he saw Gray’s caveat, and did not realize its im- portance nor the uses to which it could be put until some time after. The telephone monopoly has grown to be one of the most oppressive and extor tionate of corporations in the country. Its history exemplifies all the abuses of publie corporations, including wholesale stock watering, outrageous charges and discriminations between plans and indi- viduals. With the nt company ut Boston, owning stoc local companies throughout the union and renting instru- ments at $60 a year whose actual cost is 3.42, the telephone octopus throws its wires around every street, monopo- lizes our thoroug! cendangers property obstrt the proper use of extingmshing appliance and 1 up mmense fortunes for its owners. Concerved in fraud, maint; by wholesale eorruption and wealth wrung from the Deoy lephone monopoly be- eame 8o odious that the publie will join it the resalt of the suits hington may be all that the Bell tele- > may not desire. by fire ng pho: TiEe recent shooting of a boy at Je City by one of Pinkerton’s men, has ited : thoneht it wounld, consider comment not fayorable to the cemploy- ment of these men for police pur, In this particular case there seems have been a degree of justification their employment in - the fact that the mayor refused to allow the regular foree to provide the protection asked for. Re- to this occurrence the New York It eannot be too soon or too ood that as an armed organ- izution offermg itself for hire for pur- of defense in various parts of the ion, Pinkerton’s men , we must all admit, the gr ce that has be- the United such evi- of our sand law- lessness as the vity of this organization const been offered to the world since present overnment was founds Its appear ance in any o y would fill to day every man with shame and astonish- ment. For it is—lgt nobody shvink f this plain nun. an unmistakable retrogro n toward mediny rism. Pinkerton is neither morc than the head of a band such as each great land-holder cleventh and twelfth centuries kept in his pay for the defense of his property and that of his vassals against the armed attacks of his neighbors,” PROMINENT PERSONS, as, v 0508, to for the ier cot The Bostonians are much delighted with Sam Jones' proviucialisms. O’Donovan Rossa now wears a regular cow- hoy’s hat, but retains his broadeloth frock 11 his attention ing Young George Gould give to business, and Is said to be more g than his father, Miss Elaine Goodale, one of the pootieal sisters, has become a teacher at the Lower During the recent cold snap in Detroit ex- Governor Alger supplied 500 poor families with a barrel of flour and a ton of coal each. Nathan Bloom, one of Louisville's leading merchants, died in that city the other day, leaving an estate worth: more than $2,000,000, The late Professor Youmans was a very hard literary worker. Although very ill for months before his death, he edited the Popu lar Seience monthly at his residen; righit k the Ponca maiden wrote the eloquent introduction to t ful Indian story ed Unde ing the na with her ‘I, H. Tibbles, Mr. Pendleton, United States m many, i5 on his way to this husit happens that there s no from this country at either Berhn, Vi Constantinople, Congressman Henley, he made $15,000 practic adjourned last August, and that he will be glad when he is out of sional bus ness in March, as it does not pay. The oldest United States senator is 8. Morrill, of Vermont, who in April next will have cowpleted his seventy-seventh year, He entered public lite in the Thirty- fourth congress, six years before Judge Kelly, “father” of the present Louse. Morrill, in personal appearance, resembles Charles Sumner. He has a most wonderful memory for facts, tizures, faces and-names, o8, ' who apital \ister to country, nister a or 5 ongress of California, g law atter ¢ Justin - The Old Soldier Rack State Democrat, The country Is safe. The rebel brigadie who have long dowinated the eountry will meet their mateh. One Logan, who elaimed 10 hayebeen au been sueceeded by that grand Chatlie Farwell. 18 replaced by General Paddock. 1tis all right, but the next r n that talks in these headquarters abont honor, trust and de- votion due from the country to its old soldiers will hear something drop with & noiso that will make a hundred-ton Krupp gun bire out for a firecracker. - 1t is Fatal to Vight Railroads. Chicago Times. Mr, Van Wyek has probably found out by this time that it {s abont as fatal for a repub- lican senator to fight railtoad corporations as tostand on the track when their trains goby. i i Most Popular Man in 3 St. Paul Globe, Sonator Van Wyck may console himself with the reflection that he fs tho most popular man with the peovle in the state of Nebraska, but unfortunately for him, senators are not elected by popular voto, et i—— Monopoly Methods, Chicago Times An investigation of the methods by which Senator Van Wyck, the foe of monopolies, was defeated would form an interesting in- quiry. and perhaps throw some light on cer- tain items among the expenditures of the Pacific roads, ebraska, e -— The Monopolies Had No Use for Him, Chicago Times. A man strongly in favor of tariff and known to be unfriendly to railroad monopo- lies is out of place in the republican party. As soon as Scnator Van Wyck's party found that ie was that kind of man it dropped him, -~ - The Defeat of Van Wycek, New York World, Owing to the monumental stupidity of the democrats in the Nebraska legislature Sen- ator Van Wyck has been defeated, and a man of small abilities, wno owes his election to tho preference of the money power, has been ehosen in his place. Mr. Van Wyek has been the most resolute and active of any of the senators from the westin his opposition to corrupt corpora- tions. Ile has shown a eapacity for politieal independence where Lis conscioneo or the publie interests were involved, and he is an honest man and experienced legisiator. The democrats could have elected him by turning in solidly to his support. They had no chance of electing a member of their own party. But, instead of acting with the sagac'ty that characterized the democrats in Massachusetts, they stood out in a narrow partisan spirit and permitted the election of ex-Senator Paddock, a hide-bound republi- can, who lacks all the virtues that overbal- ance Senator Van Wyek’s faults, Brain: o very useful in conducting the affairs of a minority party, and the Nebraska democrats are untortunately lacking in this == How Little We Know of Each Other. How little we know of each other, We pass througit the journey of life, With its struzgles, its fears and temptations, King cares and its strite, lone on the surface, fow of us glovy in sing And anunraftied is noindex Of fires that rage wildiy within, How little we know ot each other, “The man who walks quictly by With weaith and with honos and title, Andholds his head prowdly on high, arries dread ts within him, t render existence acurse: that sear his soul over, Ot erime, or misfortune or worse, How little we know of each ofhe ‘I'he woman of fashion who sneers At hier sister whom fate has abandoned To pove ars, May prove cre the sun rise to-norrow More deeply immersed in disgra And the sadness sneered at in vm»lh Be pictured upon Lier own fa Ilow little we know of each otner. Of ourown hearts how little we know, We are all feeble under temptation, Be our station in life high or low. Ah! then let sweet charity rule us And help one anotlier to win “The erown that awaits those who strive for Avoidance of shame and of sin. i STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Jack rabbits are barking the fruit trees lolt county. A bonus of Pacitic to cro. The exper in 100 will induce the Union it Wilcox, s of Lincoln county for the coming year are estimated at $14,000, The chicken thieves of Iullerton re- port a crop of 500 pullets the past season. The Union P r's are within three mi Dakota county, y to Sioux Cit The special eleetion for inyestigating the condition of Valley county has' been decided iliegal by the attorney-general. Joseph O'Brian, a wnt of Cort- o county, has been arrested for curs of the Union n is said to be worth 0,000 and will fight for liberty while his roll lasts. Orin D. Smith homsa, five miles August 18,1856 d thirteen, left hs south of ' Ogallel He has light grey ey light brown hair, florid” mmmh-\mn tall for s age, and is a lictle lame in hi$ right bhip. 113 parents are much dis- tressed af his continued absence, and any information leading to a knowledge of 5 1bouts will. be thankfully re- \)\' IL. Smith, Ogaliala, Keith b, Hon. Richard Thompson, of Hastings, genial Dick of democratic ne, treated to an clegant office chair by his bachelor admirers last Saturday. This implement of elegant ease and luxurious “agony’ has a capacity of several revo- lutions & minute and can grind out “copy” by the yard when the chief is on deck, The Duke was s0o overcome that he simply blushed his thanks and sig- naled the donors to tackle the locker. The Beatrice Democrat sends greting 10 the members of the legislative “*Roll of Honor,” the nid of famo orocted by the Omaha H The Democrat has been there and a YCars ago Mr. Marvin was immor ed in long primer full f; for supporting Cleveland in Chi The blasts of coeding winte pointed ambition ehil ad ahiped. thal pyramid and soatrared the fragments. Some of the “illustrious nine' and Sterling the tenth were hurled from the ground floor of democracy, yet they live and thri il rise up ocea- sionally to smite the Millerites hip and thi Ihe years of stalwarts are i id tall of trouble, Towa Items. Belva Lockwood is stumping the state, thing factory is to be started in glon. loy The Armstre mine 15 sold at put on for Marshalltown enjoyed t der un rain 14 th struts to the front with a 000 | t Surrey storm, S 0k 20,200 30,810 dozen « i) P. A. Kelly, a lumber burg, has skipped out creditors, Dubuque #3,000, The Western Union telegraph com- pany has paid to the state their anoual on lowa hnes, giviog a check for | §9,768.39 for the same mery last uls of butter year poL and aler of Bl Gaying DAmALOa partics suffer over yoar. Advahcing aze isthe of hig action, Denver ¢ Rapid City board s bemg orga De: l\\(\ml. The new Presbyte has been dedicated Mr. Box, of Yankton, hasa war relio interosting to himself at least. It is a minnie ball which struck Mr. Box b the left during the battla of Ge burg, passed downward ani to the right and came out under his spine. Mr. Box was a soldier in the One Hundred and Eighth New York. A singular freak of the wind of last week is visible in a Deadwood building, A pieco of the roof of a store, about s foet wido and twolve feet long was lifte up, carried across the building and de posited some distauce off. The hole has overy appearance of having been made with a saw and hatehet, and 8o artistic ally and clean ent as to give the appear. ance of lm\mg been done by an expert carpenter n chutchat Sturgis Cole The building season h’w already opened up in Denver. Real estate transfers in three weeks of the month amounted $1,000,000. A noted crook and confidence man named Metealf has been eaged in Denver for raising a check from $13 to $120, Thos. A. Green, a lawyer of Denver, who was disbarred from tie state couris, has sned the judges of the supreme court for $5,000 damages, Tho Celestial cleansors of soiled gir- ments in Denver eelebrated their § Year last Sunday, Drums, gongs and fire-crackers streaked the atwosplioro in Chinatown, Denver for to T — THE TYPE-WRITER. it 1s Not a Modern Invention, buy Was Used in 1830, Detroit Tribune: *“The idea that the typewriter was invented by John Burt is a popular error, said Colonel Thomas Sprague yesterday. *1f you like [ will givo youthe of the invention. When John Burt died among lis papers his son found a patent which had been issued in 1829 to his grandfather, William A Burt, for a typewriter. I have scen letters written on this machine in 1820 and 1830, id the work was as perfect as any nted matter you see now Among so were letters written by Burt, then residing in New York, to his wife in Onk- ind county, this state, and to other i chusetts. Mr. Burt then act with some parties in chusetts to manufacturo the chine worked out succee t it about eight ye s, and then |l|mull tho schem The manufacturers also called upon Mr. Burt to refund $75 which had heen advanced to him upon his royalties The reason griven for their abandoning the manufacture of the machine was that the number of letters written was small, postage being so very high. Then the mechanism of the muchine was consid- ered so complicated that no man could hope to keep one in order without an en gincer always with him, “There is no record of this patent In the patent oflice, as the records wi bro burned in 1837, and no effort was ¢ made by the government to reprodu them. The patent granted to Burt for the typewriter was signed by Andrew Juckson as president, Martin Van Buren as seeretary of state and Colonel Berrien as attorney general. It was written on parchment. The machine embraced in its construction all the important features of the LyDewriters now in use. “William AL Burt also invented the solar compass, without which it would have been impossible for the government to survey the mineral lands of the coun- t At the time of the invention M Birt was engaged as survevor, and find- ing that megnetic influences interfered with Ins work, he got up the solar co To perfect this invention he aban! doned the typewriter. Though the gov ernment has used the compass v Mr. Burt never received a dollar for it. An attempt was made by his heirs 1o se- cure an appropriation from Congress, but nothing came of it.” pass, syracuse as It It is somewhat of a reli cnse after the crowds, and beggars smells; and dirt of other Sicilizn towns morcover, Sy is one of the yery fow of which the ideal, formed paihi s longr past, is rewlized, We look and’ stagnation, and sunshine, ida mellow airof antiquity, and we find ther. If we were to find Syracuse a busy, bustling port, or a wretehed, hope lessly decayed place, we should be dis. appointed; we expect to find just enouglh animation to muke it cheorful, and jin 1 quiet to remind us of its ancient associations, and we are gratified Oue fact, however, does not nmaze us, and that is to sce how littleis left of a city which once consisted ot five different towns, of which the circumference was twenty-two miles, and which at its zenith \uulxl muster halt million of in tants. Indeed, all Syracuse, ancient and modarn, can bo conveniently explored in the interval occupied by the Rubattino steamers in discharging and taking cargo, nlthough the conscientious antiquary could soend o month in the country around, which is the site of the remainder of the ancient city. Immediately upon landing we are im- ressed with the character of modern Syracus At any other Italian port we should be almost'torn to picces by the natives to relieve us of ourl: ortod us anywhere, But at cuse we have actually to cull a not from any of men quay, big enongh for u port with five times the commerce of Syracn there are sturdy fellows lounging, lying, slecp- i and, of course, spitting,—but b Tubor s vory ion in the lives of racusans, who like the . ford boatmen, seem to get on tolerably \\l“\\llhllli\. any visible means of sub- porter, for along the usans necd us long. There is . pleasant espla along the wate mh- of the harbor, whithier resort every afternoon the gal lantry, the beauty, and fashion of Syra to lounge under the troes or to drive up and'down in the most primitivo of vehicles, and this esplanade term nates al the famous tountain of Arethu for many years neglected and employod Lwndry—now a neatly fenced:in n which the fish glide and under the shude of the papyrns. In the town whicl < on the cliffs overlooking the bay, 15 little of note. It 15 an oxtraordi- Italian town, inasmuch as Lt ‘is and provided with a smaller mo- stenehes, but other a call il not occupy ducks genuine clust there nary elean dicun than vsuul of wise unremarkable. It h built on to the remains of a temple of Mincrva, which was once famous for its splendid decorstion and its beautiful en- trance, and more especially for a roof of gold which blazed in the sunshine like a ) the iner many leagues out Lhe sturdy pillars still remain, engrafted with the walls of the modern cathedral, but nothing more. We must take a carringe to see the sizhts which lie inland, for the dust on tl wds 15 inches deep; there is absolutely no shade, and the Sicilian sun beats down mercilessiy from a sky of eternal blue. M th tienca at sea The Cedar Ramds | Killed 148 lhogs up mak 11,00 more the saime period last year, President Picka of versity, will withdriw from 1ekinghon to Satur than du General C. 4L Van Wyck [ dency b the cad of the present ruins of t Syracu torlong years of ne and vandalism, are cared for as all monuments of the mighty past under the intelligent and sympathetic regime of King Humbert, uid a government guide, in retury for & frunc fee, allows us to wander whugrwe will,