Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 29, 1887, Page 4

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Sworn to and subseribed before me this 1st day of January A. 1. 1857, [SEAL.| N v Publie, presence The Sunday Bee, The Omaha Sunday Bee to-morrow will he a siateen-page paper, and an_ interesting number. Besides our New York Herald cablegrams from the principal eapitals of Europe, which are an cvelusive feature, and the wsual quantity of special telegraphic news from all American news centers, the Bee to-morrow will contain_scveral interest- ing specialtics, among which may be men- tioned the following: General Adam Badeaw's Aletter from Clara Belle. Two Boston letters. A contribution from Omar James. A splendid Uterary otter from William J. Bok, of New York. A Washington letter from P. S. Heath, Anarticte on the Mormons tn Nebrasha, by A. C. Davenport. Inaddition to all this, there will be the wsual quantity of earefully sclected mis- cellany. The Sunday Bee of to-morrow promiscs to be @ model paper. v York letter. Tii: real estate boom is at fover heat— when Kansas City capitalists are invest- ing heavily in Omal Mr. Goscuen, the anti-Irish liberal mugwump, has been defeated in Laver- pool. ITome rule is muking steady ad- vances in England LEVERY city and town in the state seems to be an applicant for a normal school There is such a thing as overdoing the normal school business. NesrAskA has experienced her first shock ot earthquake. The popular in- dignation over Van Wyck’s betrayal is supposed to be responsible for the phe- nomena, Mr. GLADSTONE was reported in good voice at the opening of parliament. Mr. Gladstone in full powers meansan inte) esting fight on the Irish question during the present session, GENERAL VAN Wyck's defeat is gen- erally commented upon as a national calamity. The Nebras! 5 who elected Paddock are a very small minority of the republican party through- out the union TaE seismic disturbance in the v of Fremont and North Bend is terized by the Kausas Uity Journal as a cheap eurthquake, probubly because it occurred so near Omaha, There is no accounting for Kansas City’s jealousy. SENATOR INGALLS steeped his pen in British gore in his late speech on the fisheries question, Mr. Ingalls, if he would, could find more important ques- tions nearer home for the exerciso of his garcasm. The Kansas monopolies are an instance in point. GENERAL VAN Wyck's friends do not feel unkinaly to Senator Paddock. They nre willing to take their cue from the general’s speech of congratulation, Sen- ator Padaock has his opvortunity to faithfully represent this state. He will be judged by his record, not by past prejudices. SENATOR MANDERSON has become one of the champione of woman sufirage. He voted for the proposed amendment to the national constitution placing women on an equality with men in the exercise of the clective franchise. This will enlist Mrs. Colby and other female suflragists in his behalf two years hence. Ir is estimated by the clerks who handle the bills introduced in the house of representatives that more than two thousand wmeasures have been presented since it beeame evident to any wide- ake member that there was not the mst hope of action by both houses, and that the measures would die, and that one-half of these, the authors well knew, would never be acted upon by either house. Even at this late day a call of the house will result in the introduction of from one to three hundred bills when committes mestings, with a very few ex- ceptions, have been suzpended, and it is improbable, not to say impossible, that any of them will receive attention, Asked why this was so, an old member said: 41t is to satisfy the constituency. Why, I have often received requests from con- stituents during the last month in a con- gress to intraduce a bill, and when I told them that there was not the least possible chance of consideration they vrged that [introduce 1t any way. I tave hud con- stituents insist that Iintroduee a bill on the very last day of a session, and if [ did not do it tiuey would wark szainst me."’ THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1887 The Great Labor Strike, I The great strike of longshoremen, coal handiers, and other laborers employed by the shipping interests of New York, | Brooklyn and Jersey City, has reached | able and alarming proportions, | rday's dispatches stated that nearly | y thousand men wero involyed, and it | is probable this number has been in- creasad if there were any more to be called out. The plan of the strikers is most comprehensi They propose call- ing to their aid every class of workers who are in any degree identified with | their interests, or whose affiliation would strengthen their cause, including even the pilots, They also intend, if it shall | appear necessary, to extend the strike to other ports, Already the consequences | have been scrions and widespread. All | the region in which the strike is centered | has been sufforing for two wooks past | from want of coal, which been a | source of very considerable 10ss to many | and sovere hardship to othe A con- siderable number of factories and mills have been forced to shut down, throwing hundreds of people out of employment. Thousands of families have been unable to get a su nt supply of fuel for do- mestic uses and have to pay two or three prices tor what they can obtain. The ef feets | also been severely felt in New England, particularly at the manu- facturing centers, More than a week ago there was a report of general scarcity, and the supply must now be about exhausted, 1t is easy to under- stand, therefore, that the present status of this trouble and the me it holds out must be regarded with dismay throughout the wide region whose coal supply is affected by it. The strikers are prtiless, refusing to permit coal to be car- ried into New York or Brooklyn by ped- dlers or by boats transporting it free of charge in order that the poorer con- sumers who buy from hand to mouth 1 be supplied. By such stern decrees they expect to more speedily foree public sentiment to d ¢ itself in their favor. Hardly less serious aro the consequences of the diflicuity to the foreign steamship companics, whose steamers have been delayed, and will doubtless continue to be so while the trouble lasts. The ill eflfeets of such an interruption to com- meree, though it should be only for a few days, may be very great. he conflict which now involves all taborers empioyed by the coal and ship- ping interests of New York and New Jer- y had its beginning in two entirely dis- tinet controversies. The first of these is- sues was between the longshoremen and the Old Dominion Steamshin company, on a questionof wages. The company refused its assent to a scale adopted by the longshoremen, and astrike ensuing the company procecded to fill the places of the men who had been in its employ with non-union workers., A boyeott was ordered against the company and other lines were requested not to re cive freight from it, Some of them com- plied, but the old Dominion com pealed to the conrt and got a deerce re- quiring other companies, as common riers, to receive their freight. This vr cipitated the general strike of the long- shoremen. The coal handlers’ strike started in the refusal of the men at Elizabethport and Port Johnson to sub- mit to a reduction of wages from 224 to 20 cents an hour, ordered by the new management of the Philadelphin & Reading vailroad company. Thence it spread to all the terminal points of the coal roads. In the number of people engaged, the scrious consequences al- ready experienced, and the possible dis astrous effects if the difliculty shall be protracted, this strike is one of the most formidabl known in any country. Viadnets and Street Railways, The citizens of Omaha are anxious to et street railway facilities across the railway tracks justas soon as possible. They expect of course that the Eleventh street viaduet will be used for that pur- pose, The only question is whether the mayor and council ean, in justice to the ayers and publie at o, grant to any company which will be- come exclusive. The courts have time and again decided that monopoly in gas, vater, street railways and cable roads is contrary to the letter of our constitution, if it were not contrary to public policy. Without reference to any grant that has been 1 in the past, the council must now act ju- diciously for the future. Unfair or sonable terms should not be im- ilrond company but nly is reasonable and just that 1t be made topay either arental for tho viaduet privilege or bear its proportion of the original cost and pay its share of the expense of maintenance, The rights of the city to grant similar privileges to competing companies should be reserved without reference to any so-called exclu- sive chartérs heretofore granted, It is said the company decline to accent the conditions which the council has en- grafted into its ordinance mainly as is stated, because by so doing they might waive vested rights which ar to be determined in the fed- oral courts this spring. 1f this be true it will be safe enough to let the matter t for sixty orninety days pend- ing the decision of Judge B er, The course of the council at this juncture in- volves practically all vinduets now exist- ing or to be built, and it also involves the right of the city to grant equ to other street railways, in are widened to accommos ileges viaduets we two or £ k bill to re- duce revenue is to exempy from tax al- cohol used in the arts. An inquiry wa instituded by wmembers of the ways and means committee to ascertain the amount of aleohol used in the arts, h the result of getting some interest nformation, They learned that th amount certainly did rot exceed 10 pe cent. of the production of distilled spirits, and this 10 per cent. is not distributed in bulk, as is generally supposed, but is so “thinly distributed,” to use a commerei phrase, that it would be difficult to esti- mate 50 that any benefit would reach the consumer, Of 100 barrels for use in the arts afty barrels would be in single lots and would go to fifty difforent purchasers and be distributed again to from 200 to 800 purchasers. The statements u by some druggists that 50 per cent. the entire product of® distilled spirits is used in the arts are entirely erroncous. The total amount cannot exceed 10 per cent. or 7,000,000 gallons, and if this al cohol is methylated, the quantity would be less, as the use of methyl or wood al- | that the Chicago girl was onls cohol js an adulteration which is as injurious for some porposes of manufac- ture as adulterated liquors are to the human system. The theory of the bill is that aleohol used in the arts is consumed in large quantities,which is entirely erro- neous. e e SoMEBODY interestod In the charactet and credit of Vassar college has taken the trouble to deny that Miss Nina Van | Zandt is a graduate of that institution, for which it is claimed that its aim is to foster and strengthen good old-fashioned common sense. The fact appears to be for one year a pupil in the preparatory school conneeted with the college. Tt Is re- | marked that if this case were an isolated one 1t might not be worth while to make the correction, But the world over one mects similar cases. A lady who has been much in European society says that urope fairly swarms with Amer gitls who pass themselves off as V graduates, though they have but a poor pennyworth of Latin, mathematics or scicnce. Their imagination and that of their friends seem to have been unduly stimulated. Having lived for a y in that wing of the Vassar building devoted to the preparatory school, they believe themselves to have received an A, B, summa cum lande. SUSAN B, ANTHONY was not the least it cast down by the failure in the senate of the woman suffrage amendment to the constitution, She again gaily dances up tothe seratch and announces that the fight will go on with even more vigor than ever. She also desires it to be dis tinctly understood that she is after the scalps of several senators whose adverse vote she alleges misrepresented the sen- timents of their constituents, It is impos- sible to witnhold admiration from such aith and fortitude as that of Miss Avnthony. Govervor THavER | ppointed Reu- ben W. Hyers, of Cass county, as warden of the penitentiary, sncceeding Warden Nobes, Mr. Hyers was backed by the united Cass county delegati less of party. He has been sherill of that county for fiv rs and 1 consid- ered eminently qu for the oftice. He will probably be improvement on Nobes. Other Lands Than Ours, Parliament opened on Thursday., The speech of the queen from the throne was as usual on lines dictated by the ministry. It deprecated the disorder in Ireland and hinted at further legislation to main- in the supremacy of the erown. In fact it is asserted in London that the govern- ment has deeided to bring in a coercion bill whose provisions shall extend over the united kingdom. In this way they will hypocritically evade the appeacsnee of exceptional legislation for Ireland. There is *'no conspiracy, intimidation and boy- cotting” in England, but the measure would meet the event of a cotter’s rebel- lion i Seotland. Tha satirical version of the governsent’s action is “Give me leave to tread on the Irishman’s corns,” s Salisbury, “and to remove any ob- tion you might have, I will tread upon your corns at the same time.” ** Sovi of the English te: have been compelled to mak: to theirtenants in order to rents at all, and some of the landlord papers are quoting this enforced gener- ty as an argument against small hold- ings. One of the most bizoted organs says: “If these estates were divided up, the small owners would be obliged to collect full rents in their own interests, whereas a rich man ean ignore a quar- ter’s collection and not feel it. Tenants find it casier to support one landiord than a numbe A more ridiculous the- ory could not be ady , and itis really equivalent to ing that every railroad in the United States should be in the hands of Jay Gould, since he could aflord to engers and freight free of el Neither small nor large landlords ean get blood out of a stone, or more rent than tenants can pay, but it is in England and all the fie system of large hold- andlordismis a deadly upas tree, absolute 1ecess: ful pursuit of agricu itorial kings remissions get in any say * o Tie German and Belgi are endeavoring to pers petitors in England to ag alliance which would prevent any one of the three natiens importing steel rails made in either of the other two, Such an agreement would be very diflicult to en- force unless the governments of the three countries indorsed it, contingency more thanremote. Tf carried into effect it would have every bad influence attri- buted to protection, without one of its re- deeming features or advantages, It would simply restrict trade and limit competition without materially benifiting either the trade or revenue of either of the three nations. Yet the nogotiations are in an advanced stage, and if the Eng- lishiron-masters prove far-secing enough to stand out, Belgium and Germany will o on with the treaty alone . " The Spanish authorities of Cuba are al- together too free and easy in their treat- ment of American subjects, The experi- ence of Meyer Kaufman, the New York merchant who was kept ina Havana dnn- geon nearly two weeks without the least form of a trial and then discharged with- out an apology or explanation, is different indegree rather than kind from that which many other Americans have undergone, and there is a want of deference to citi- zens of the United States thatis in marked contrast with the ecare taken to avoid offending British subjects, The stupid meanness of the petty tyrants of Cuba ads them to impose upon peaceful for- sarance and toady to aggressive self- assertion, If they had more intelligence they would see that the friendship of the United States was vastly more important to Cuba than that of Great Britaiu, and that if the queen of the Antilles should ever ange masters this country, and not England, wouid sucesed Spain. * com- 1o a triple e The fall of the Goblet ministry in France, which European dispatches show to be probably imminent, would not sur- prise many, and probably the prime min- ister less than auyone. The situation in the chambers is what the French them- selves term “impossible.”” There is no working majority agreed upon any pol- i Either the deputies do not fairly represent the national opinion, in which case 8 dissolution ere long is unavoid able, or that opinion 1s not sufliciently defimte to afford a is of parliamentary governwent, in which case revolution is not impossible. In any event, tho fall of a ministry on a question connected with a loan tor military purposes is not caleu- lated to strengtlien the position of France in the present threatening condition of affairs on the contihent. " Cheap wheat from America and India is rapidly cutting down the wheat fields of kngland and Scotland. Since 1851 the acreage of wheat in Englanc has fallen 184 per cent, while the decrease in Scotland is 25 per cent. The acreage of barley in England has been reduced 8 per cent, but there has been a slight increase in the acreage of oats. In five years there has been a loss of 721,000 acres in the area devoted to wheat and barley. One might suppose that the abandoned wheat fields in a_country so thickly settled could be used profitably for other crops—for market gardening or in raising the variety of products grouped under the name of ‘‘truck” in some parts of the United States—but a great and continuing decrease in the value of English farm property seems to indioate that there is no more profit in the culti- ation of sach produets than there is in aising grain, U.lt The French wine erop of 1836 is very small and of poor quality. The quantit of wine made was only 533,023,000 gallons or less than the quantity produced in an; previous year since 1830, the fiv 18526 excepted. The quanti in 1875 was 1,820,000,000 gallons. The average for the five years 1872-6 1,236,000, 00¢ the average for the five years 1877-81 was 835,000,000, and the average for the last five years has been only 693,000,000, The quality of the wines of 1886 is shown by the oflicial reports to be *generally bad.” Unfavorable weather aided the phylloxera and the mildew in reducing the vint and the alcoholie strength, The wine growers were forced by the poor quality to use in 1886 nearly tive times as tons of sugar as were used in the prec ing year. The importation of raw wines into France from the Mediterranean countries will be increased to make up for the short crop at home. These facts, together with the growth of the wine industry in California and the steady im- provement in the quality of Californis wines, should direct the attention of Am- crican consumers to our domestic supply. i*l— Pore Pros IX has had the distinetion of being the only sovereign to recognize the southern confederacy as a legitimate government, and a letter from that pon- uff to Jeflerson Davis, dated December 3, 1363, just been found in the division of captured and abondoned property at the treasury department at W ashington, which shows to what degree the Vatican favored the south in the war. It has never been denied that Jeftferson Davis sought the pontifical blessing, but high funectionarvies of the church have denied that he or the confederacy ever received it. But this commumeation oflically recognizes Dayis as president of the con- federate states of Amerien, bewails the evils of civil strife in such a way as learly to reflect on the leaders of the north, and continue: as it to us, illustrious ir, to perceive that you and these people were animated with the same feelings of peace and tranquility which we earnestly inculeate; * % ¥ and would that other people also of these region their rulers, would consider how gr and mournful a thing is intestine war, ana be pleased with tranquil minds to embrace and enter upon counsels of peace, The manu: tis written in ecclesi- astical Latin, of course, on parchment, and was found among the records cap- tured at the evacuation of Richmond. *, *% sentiment in Montreal in favor of an English mayor has induced the French majority to be generous and low the protestants to name the candi- ‘The resu It is that the two railread factions led by the Canadian Pacitic and the Grand Trank are engag ed ina pitched battle over candidates, and the French will accordingly h little difliculty in continuig their nationality in power at the eity hall, and honerabl The strong ¥ Bismarck's organ, the North German Giuzetle, shows an eagerness to avoid trouble with Russia, which indicates that its master has no relish for fighting together wath any other power. He probably thinks the Gauls enough for one war, THE FIELD OF INDUSTRY. The Russian government is about ordering a large number of repeating rifles from Con- necticut, and an order for 6,000 Remington guns has just been increased to 11, Since the holidays 3.000 salesmen, women, cash girls and boys have been discharged in the stores of New York and Brooklyn, and they have no prospects of employment until the next holidays. ‘The clumsy Englis ovshels which have heretofore been generally used in South America have largely given place to the lighter and better American shovels largely made in Pittsburg, The workmen in the Joliet, T11,, steel works have received an inorease of 13 per cent in wages. An electric railway manufacturing company, with a capital of $1,000,000, has ust been started at Portland, Me, ‘The carpet trade is beginning to give evl- dence of life, Buyers have waited for a long time to see if last seasop)’s prices would pre- vail this year, Textile ntanufacturers enter- tain yery bright hopes or the future, Plate-glass is in good demand,and factories are overcrowded with orders. The green glass workers are still out,and will be assisted by the knights. Stocks of shades and globes are light. New designs are s00u to be brought out. French and German clothing manufactur- ers expect 1o 0 a larze business in elothing with Japan, The empress recently placed an order for $300,000 worth of fashionable Euro- pean elothing with Freneh amd German manufacturers, L The government has §20,000,000 worth of tools, hardware, nails and stuif ot that kind. Among them wugers and bits, 20,542 Sorews and 146,559 files. There are 1200 tons cast and wrought irow, and 159,600 pounds . h ot this material lls Iylng The Chicago & Northwestern Railway any has estab'ished & mutual guarantee The eost of insurance ranges from sixty-nve cents per 100 the 1irst year to fifty cenfs the fifth year, 1t isa very successful and satisfactory system 10 the employes, and it will probably be extended to other roads, Gunmakers record with satisfaction that not one of the Kodman guns has ever been exploded, even though the pressure goes as high as 200,000 pounds to_the sauare inch. The endurance ranses from 800 to 2,400 rounds. ‘The life of a large steel gun is 200 rounds. The average pressure in Krupp's guns is 80,000 pounds to the square igen. ‘I'he manufacturers are favoring the estab- lishment of relief associations. Several New Enzland employers have started them. One in Portland, Milue, has & membership of 1 All persens whose wages aré over 85 a wee Jiy 31 fee and ten cents her weels, which el itles a mewber in case of sickness to §5 per week nntil $5 has been drawn out and to 825 in cash in casé of death. The possibilitics of a general advance in wages of both common and skilled labor are being considerad by employers in all stations, Many of them think that ‘the establishment of arbitrative mothods will help to increase rather than to decrease strikes and dissatis- faction by offering facilitios for the presenta- tion of demands.” The old time employers imagine they are as able to inanage their business as they we rs ago, and they do not relinguish their supremacy willingly. 1t is apparent that employers will very gen- erally advance wages voluntarily. Hundreds have already done so, even before A!\{ de- mand was formally made by organized labor, Prices are improving, miils, factories and mines are overcrowded, orders are far in e s3 of capacity, and employers, therefore take the opportunity of advancing wages. At the rate business is crowding in, the great majority of employers will not ba in a posi- tion to remain idle long over wages dis- putes, Boston has 1,251 firms engaged in the shoe business. In Massachusetts there are 8,690, of which 1,05 are manufacturing houses New York has 230 shoe manufacturers and wholesale dealers and tanners and leather dealers, Philadelphia has 112 shoo manufacturers, forty-five jobbers, forty-four tanners of morocco and thirty three of sheep skin and calf kid, The number of tanning firms in the State is 666, Ohio has sixty and Ilinois has seventy-two shoe manufac- turers. There are 15,217 retailers of shoes in the United States, e It Wouldn't Pay, Neaw York Tribune. If the government were to tax conscience instead of land, it would derive but an ine ferior support from the Indiana democracy. = i A Few Editors Needed, Baltim e American, With one or two exceptions, all the United States senators are either lawyers or million- aires. What the senate needs is a few edi- tors, - Wouldn [emphis Avalanche. Miss Van Zandt is too dangerons a freak for a dime musenm. She would be sure to make trouble by falling in love with the head baboon, —_— Palmistry in Washington. New York World, “The palmisiry eraze has struck Washing- ton. Great interestis takon zood hands. A full hand is said to indica te an increase of wealth, Gin and Molasses in Maine, St. Paul Globe, The Maine legislature is makinz a great complaint about poor molasses in that state, but whenever it is accompanied by a litile gin no lezislator has zone on record as disap- proving of the quality, s Love's Harmony. W.J. Henderson, IE T shall sing to thee, wilt thou not listen? 1§ Tlet thymthmic whisvers outward creen From whiere rapt fancy murmurs in her sleep, 5 11 they not cause they drooping glisten, g Or make they pulses lenp? W Ilvl'u(fl'n s song, it not to make the bl With knowledge, round and living as the earth, Of that great love which gave the num- bers birth? ion have its way: do not dissemble; Or what is Singing worth? Sing thou in silence, with my sonz agrecinz; Sing in thy heart of love, for he'is lord y “Chus song shall have its ininite reward; And tind in thy pure soul the perfect being Ot absolute aceord. SPRISCH, B ARK, TEET President Heimrod's Address Before the Turnverein Wednesday Night. On last Wednesday evening as men- tioned in yesterday’s BEE, the turnvercin of this city celebrated in & most happy way, the fourteenth anniversary of its or- ganization, Ineidental to the celebra- tion was¢the address of the president of the vercin, Lonis Heimrod, which w delivered in German, and created a @ deal of enthusinsm among all The following abstract, which, > loses a great deal ot its force and beauty in the transiation, was crowded out of the By columns yesterday and is now presented: For the fourteenth time we c reorganization of our society. ences which the Omaha turnverein has had during the past year justify the great hopes and expectations we entertain for the future, The Omaha turnyerein has always acted in_accordance with “the principies of our plattorm, and it will never do otherwise. What we, the turners, have acknowledzed i right and trathtul, we will defend, and n abandon what we' feel to be our conyictions, Our motto, “Frish, frei, stark, tren,® (fresh, free, strongz and trice), shall never be forgot ten and shall always animate our actions. SFriseh.” Fresh we always shall remain, fresh of soul and bo ssh we shall r wain in our youtn; iresh, too, during our. older years. ~ Our’ hearts’ shall alwavs be fresh and youne, in order that we niay enjoy everything which is really noble, good, ery and gentle. Fresh we shall be i our b nines, for a good beginning will lead us to a glorions end. % “Frei.” Free be the turner with soul and body. Independent s nd no other duties which hy ve to perform shall be as those of his proféssion and of humanity. We are not servants and slaves and, there- fore, flattery and submission are impossible properties of our character, Stark,” Strong. United powers ean do much indeed. Therefore the turners shall be tike brethren: 1atred: envy and the meunor passions shall not be found in our ranks. “Tren’ True. This word should r be misused in the dictionary of the tu What is freshness, liverfy and strenuzth, without truth or faith? ‘I'rue and faitht we shall remain to our issues, to our prine ples: true and faithful we shall be to our union: true and faithful we shall stand to our flag in danger and death: in truth shall we_pass the days of our joy and happiness. ‘That the Omaha turnyeréin always will act in this sense of our motto is this, its fourteenth birthday. turners may continue their exer ame laudable dilizence and zeal whi carn prizes and honors as they during the past,is certainly the wi 3 friend of our society, ‘Ihat the Omaha torn - yerein may flourish and grow for many year: to come, is the wish of every turner, Heil,” TOFT AND THE GAS CO, He Secures a Victory in the Matter of Street Connections, The paragraph in Thursday’s Bee an- nouncing that M. Toft had refused to pay his gas bill because it was too high, was a mistake. The objection made was to the service. He has a block of three stores on the corner of Saunders and Charles streets. In the second story is a all, Mr. Toft ordered a meter into this, as also a g connection between ach of the and the street main, He d not ordercd a meter for uny of the stores, and had not burn any gas in his hall. Yet, on Wednesda) last,he was furnished a bill for $37,83 being eye to trem- Lot px ebrate the experi- b j bill and was told that if he did not it inside of twenty-four h his m¢ would be taken'ont, Y fay Mr. Toft secured a restrai zainst the company, and in the e went and saw some of the ofticers of the same. They cut off the price of the th meters charged to him, offered to accept any amount, which, as a reasonable man, he would ofter. Mr, Toft gffered 50 per cent of the bill and the same was accepted The Third Corner Filled, Mention was made in the Bre a few ago of the sule of Hon. John A chhune’s property on - the southeast corner of Farnam and Fifteenth strects to Rush & Selby for §70,000. Yesterday the deed -was ‘hled, the real purchaser | being a gentleman from Kansas City, * Of the consideration §40,000in cold cash was paid _over yestorday. In conversation with Mossrs. Rush & Sclby, who were instrumental in getting the K. C, gentleman to come hitherward, a reporter tor the Brr informed that a six-story brick block wiil be erected at once on this corner Lo cost not less than §125,000, Now that Hon, W. A. Paxton is at work on the splendid building on the northeast corner, tho board of trade headquarters nearly com- pleted on the southwest, Dr. Mereer, who owns the “Redick Relic” on the north- wost corner, will undoubtedly completo this “architectural set” and there will be a general ‘“‘all hands 'round” in Omalha’s cotillion of enterprise. POPPING AT PIGEONS, An Interesting Shooting Tournament Thursday Afternoon. A number of local sports, with several officers from Fort Omaha met at Penroso & Hardin’s gun store Thursday afternoon and arranged alittle shooting tournament that proved to bea very interesting affr, The shoot took place near Athletie park. The first match was a shoot at blue rocks at eighteen yards, The score was ns follows Tarm Brew Tehen . L 001001011 011101101 010100110 10 Cap 000101101000 1 V00000000111 b 200010000111 1--h Capt, Kell 101000000100 Brucker. ©100001100011-5 After thi ch (‘:lrL Parmalee and Capt, Simpson selected three men each and held aside shoot at fifteen birds for each man, for the price of the birds, The seore wi follows 101- 101 1 TParmalee Brew Ichen . Capt. 11 Tot 01101110071¢ Brucker 0100111101 Trimblo 1111110011 Capt. Kelley 1000010110 Simpson Total After the regul matches were held matches a number of In a mateh between Brewer and Brewer killed 38 out_of 40 birds. “Ncbraskn's favorite son’’ broke this record, Killing 48 out of 50 bivds. 1f the weather remans pleasant a number of contests will be held next week. Forced to Pay. “Pve a word to say to the unsophisti- sated,” remarked a stranger yesterday. A certain cheap auction store in this city, not long ago, adopted a queer way of selling watches, The salest anged with & young man not well yersed in the evils of a big city to act as stool pigeon. e was to start the bidding on certuin articles and then quictly drop out. This he did with more or less sue- cess. Ieran the price of the wateh up pretty high one time, forgetting to cease bidding. The anctioncer deelared the article sold and actually foreed him to pay the money. He could not give the seheme away 1o the erowd without erim- inating himself, There are a number of auction shops in this city and it would be a wise plan for the uninitiated to beware of similar traps, aling Mortgaged Property. i MeDonal and his depaty, ubs, came from Sioux City, yester- y, m search of some men who took from that place four horses, four mules, a wagon and sev sets of harness, upon sich Banker Hedges held @ wottgago of £1,000. One span of mules was found between Sioux City and Council Blufls; horse was sccured at the latter Constable Edgerton found Both the Sioux City oflicers b ned that the thieves are between Lincoln and Beatrice, and left for the former place yesterday morning. Costly Improvements. The Northwestern Eleetrie Light com- pany of this city has recently completed the erection of a new steam engine in its engine house on Twelfth street. It is of the Corliss make and represents a power of 300 horses. They expeet to run it ata speed of seventy revolutions per mimute. A number of new dynamos have been vutin. These are arranged in a different manner from heretofore. | feature is the patent friction ) for operating fast and loose pul- leys without shifting be The interior of the building will be refinished through- out and painted. St She bl two lorse spee Heluteh The Union Pacific Signal Service, Lieutenant Powell, who wassent here by the late General Hazen to take charge of the Union Pacific signal service, finds nothing to do, in the connection for which he was ntended, beeause of governmental delay in furnishing the necessary instruments, e has there- made up his mind to return to Washing- ton, which he will domn about ten days, as soon as Lieutenant Greely, now in Washington, can attend to the formalities de ne ry by the death of General en. Hit by a Freight Train. Himebaugh & Merriam’s old offico on Thirteenth street and Union Pacific tracks, from which the firm moved a few days ago, was run into yestorday morning by a backing freight train, The basement demolished and the framoe super- ture badly s n up. The firm have donated the building to the Union Pacitic, who will moye it to Summit and use it as a depot. Myerson, Assignee, Mr. Myerson, of sheely & Myerson, packers of this city, has been appointed assignee by the creditors of Brennan & Sullivan, grocers on Thirteenth street between Howard and Jackson strects. The mortgage upon the stock, at last counts, amounted to 3,800, The assig is disposing of the stock as rapidly and adyantageously as possib A Cure for Consumption, New York Tribune, A novel method of treating p: suffering from phthisis is deseribed in the current number of tne Medical Record. 1t was devised by a French physician, Dr Borgeon, of Lyons, who has been apply ing it for two years to cases of chronie pulmonary and throat disease. The re sults are said to be remarkable, In 0. was | structure of the luigs is permeated by thy | medicated gas and remarkable curative effects are observed ['he earbonic acid gas is practically inert when taken up by the veins of the ntestines, but the st phurous gas reaches every partic diseased tissue in the lunge und throaf, ard is eliminated from the systen in the process of expiration. The volume of gas used is very large. At the outset a single litre is introduced, but the quantity i pidly increased to ten or twelye litres for each injection The resuits of this new system of treat- ing consumption are so well vouched toe that we commend the subject to the crine® eal examination of medical circles in this country. Consumption is the chict scourge of the Atlantic sc Asa departure in the $ this method deserves to be thorou vestigated and _ adequately t American hospitals, Dr. Bergeon is not a serolist, buta reputable physician of arge practice and good stand 1t his method be as effective and successful ng he asserts, it merits general attention from the profession in the United States) - LINCOLN AS A LAWYER. How Uncle Abraham in Court, From the February mstallment of the Lafe of Lincoln in the Century Magazing is found the following relative to the great president’s character as a lawyer: Hisg weak as well as his strong qualitios havo been indicated. Henever learnod the tech- mcalities, what gome would call tho tricks, of the profession, ‘The slight ot plea and demurrer, the legerdemain by which justice 1s balked and a wonk casn is made to gain an unfair advantage, was 100 subtle and shifty for his strong and ightforward intelligence. He met manwuvres sulliciently woell when practiced by others, but he could never get in the way of handling them for him- self. On the wrong side he was always weak., He knew this himself, and avoided such cases when he could con- sistently with the rules of his profession, He would often persuade o far minded litigant ot the injustice of his caso and induco him' to give it up, His partner, Mr. Herndon, re- lates a speech in pomnt which Lincoln once m 1 who offered an ob- able case: “Yes, there is no- rea doubt but that I ean gain your you. 1 set o whole neigh- heads; T ocan distross a widowed mother and her six fatherless children, and therehy got for you §600, which rightfully belongs, it app to me, as much to them as it does to yon. 1 all not take your case, but 1 wall giye a little advice for nothing. You secem a itly, encrgetic man, 1 would ad- ou to try your hand at making $600 in some other ‘way.” Somectimes, after ho had entered upon a eriminal ease, the conviction that his client was guilty would aflect him with a sort of panic. On one oceasion he turned suddenly to his associate and said. “Swett, the man is guilty, you defend him, 1 ean't,” and so gave ub his share of a large foe. Tho same thing happened at another time when he was engaged with Judge S, O, Parks in defending a man accused of lurceny. He said, “If you can say any- thing for the man do it; 1 ean't;if 1 at temptit, the jury will see I thnk he i3 guity, and conv him," Oneo he was prosceuting a il suit, in the course of which evidence was introduced showing that his elient was attempting a fraud. Lincoln rose and went to s hotel in decp disgust, The ju him; he refused to come. *Tell the judge,” ho said, hands are_dirt came over to W them,” We are aware that these stories detract somewhat from the ch cter of the vyer; but this inflexible, incon- venient, and fastidions morality was to be of vast service hereafter to his country and the worle Nemesis which waits upon men of ordinary wit or humor has not no- d Mr. Lincoln, and the young law- of Illinois, who never knew him, Tiave an endless'store of jokes and pleas: antries in his name; some of them as old as Howleg But the fact is that wit and josts, hig frank companionable humor, his gift of Y accessibility and welcome, he w even while he traveled the Eighth eireuit, aman of grave and serious temper and o an unusual innate dignity and reserve. e had few or no special intimates, and there was a line beyond which no ono thought of passing. ~ Besides, he wus too strong a manin the court room to be re- garded with anything but respect in o community in which legal ability was tho only especial mark of distinetion. Few of s forensie speeches haye been ‘u‘\:- od, but his contemporaries all - agroe as to their singular ability and power He seemed absolutely at home in court room; his great stature did _not encum ber him there; it seemed like o natui symbol of superiority. bearing and cesticulation 1 nc ardness about them; they were simply striking and orig- inal. Heassumed at the start a frank and friendly relation with the jury which was extremely effective. He usnally be an, as the plirase ran, by “giving away his ¢ "ny allowing to the opposite side every possible advantage that they could honestly and justly “claim. Then he would present his own side, with » clearn an adroitness of statement A at once flattered nnd convineed the jury, and made even the bystanders his partisans. — Somotimes ho disturbed the court with laughter by his humorous or apt illustrations; somclimes he excited the audience by that florid and exuberant rhetoric. which he knew well cnough how and when to indnige in; but his more usual and moro successful manner was to rely upon a clear, strong, lued ment, keeping details in prop- er subordination and bringing, in a way which fastened the attention of court and jury alike, the essential point on which e b v e one of his colleagues, “‘his statement often rende rzument URDECOSSATY, and often the court would stop him and f that is the cuse, we will hear tho other side,’” Whatey doubts might be tained as to whether he was the lawyer on the cirenit, the wis any dissent from the opinion that h the one most_cordially and univel Jiked, 1f ho did not himself e full share of the happiness of Lfe, he cor- tamnly diffused more of it among his fellows than is in the power of most men His arvival was a little festival in the county seats wie his pursaits led him to pass so much of his time, Some eye: witniesses have deseribed these soenes in terms which would seem exaggerated if they were not so fully confirmed, The beneh and bar would gather at the tavern wheie he was expected, to give him cordial welcome; says one writer, “He brought light with “him.” This is not hard to understand. - Whatever his eares, e never inflicted them upon others, He tulked singnlarly well, but ne about himself. He was ful! of wit which never wounded, of humor which mellowed the harshness of that new and Had Power enter ablest never Wil acute general phthisis there has been an arrest of the progress of the discase and a curcin afew months. In-advanced consumption marked 1mprovement of symptoms is rapidly sccured, night- sweats ceasing and the cough becoming less harassing. ‘Two bundred cases have been treated with singular suceess by Dr Bergeon in Lyons,where the climate 15 un- favorable for consumptives. His method has been ntroduced in the hospitals there and in Paris, and the medical a thorities are favorably impressed with it. T'he treatment consists of daily injec tions by eneian of medicated gases. Car bonic acid gas when introducéd into the system by this method 15 found w be harmless and painless. Sulphureited by drogen is. mingled with- if, the entire raw life of the pra He never asked for help, but was alwa ready to give it. He received everybody's conlidence, and ly gave his own 'in return. He to no mean advantage in eourt or conversation, and, satisticd with the respect and kindliness which he every where met, ho sought no quarrels and never had to decl them, He did nou accumulate wealth, as Judge Davis said, “he did not seem to care for it.”” He had a good income from his profession, though the fees Lie reccived would bring a smile to the well puid 1ips of the great attorneys of o largest fee he ayer gol was or f §5,000 fromw the 11 nois Central ra { he had to bring » pay it. He spent e education of his of his family, and s way-of living, children, in in g pla