Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 9, 1887, Page 4

HE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY TIHHE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. M8 OF 81708 Dalle (Mornlae Baition) fncluding Sund Bep. (no ¥ ear or 8% Montes For Thrma Montha 000000000 The Omsha Swnday ee, matied to' any addres, One Year.... . o 810 00 120 20 P YORK OFFICE. OO 05, TRIRUNE ASHING [ON OFFICE, NO. 513 FOURTEENTH COMMESPONDENCE: All communicat.ons relating to news and edi. | torial matter «nould be addressed o the Ebi- TOR OF THE BRE. BUSTNES8 LETTERSE 'tiors and remittances shovld be Addressed 10 Tin BEs PUBLISMING COMPANY. OMANA. Drafts, chocks and postoffico orders o be made payable to the order of the company, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS. E. ROSEWATER, Eprron. — e THE DAILY BEE. t of Circulation, s, Al brieinees Bworn Statem State of Nebraska, | County of Douglas, | Geo. B. Tzsehuek, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circuiation of the Daily Bee for the week ending Feb. 4th, 1887, wus as follows: Baturay. Jan, 20 Sunday, Jan. 50, Monday. Jan, 51 .. Tuesday,Fob, 1 .. Wednesday, Feb. Thursd Friday, Average Subscribed_ana sworn o in my_presence thisdth day of February A, 1., 188 N. P. F) [SEALI Notary Publie. Geo. B, Taschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he Is secretary of the Bee Publishing company, that the actual av- erace daily cirenlation of the Dally Bee for the month of January, 185, was 10,378 copies, for February, 1886, 10,505 copies; for March, 188, 11,537 copies; for April, 18%, 12,101 copies: for May, 188, 12,439 copies; for Jine, 1856, 12,208 copies; for July, 185, 12,314 copies; for Augnst, 15%, 12,404 copies:for Sentomber, 1886, 18.030 coples; for October, 1856, 12,080 coples: for November, 188, 13,348 copies; for December, 1856, 13,257 copiee. i Gro. B: TZ5CHUCK, Sworn to and subseribed before me this 1st day of January A. 1), 1887, [SEAL.I N, P. Frir. Notarv Public. TrriNots has had an earthquake. Itwas folv in Chicago. Poor old St, Louis. Tur Chines aim to have discovered natural gas centuries ago. Again Mr, Ageco is left as an imitator. UxnpEer the Cullom bill railroads think all passes must be surrendered. Rail- road strikers had better hurry home. JonN A. LoGAN, jr., is now figuring in the papers. Robert Lincoln is another, whose father's name has given some notoriety. Wirn Washington Territory lost, and Nebraska more doubtful than ever, Miss Susan Anthony should either contem- plate suicide or matrimony. Tue Ilinois legislature has passed a bill making in unlawful to scll wlisky unless it is two years and nine months old. At that age the are larger., Iris said that Colonel Dan is not rejoic- ing over the arrival of the Whitney baby, as he does not know just how long it will be until he is a grandpa. By proxy, you know. It was said of old that “the wicked walk in slippery places.”” If the pave- ments bear not false witness, then all of Omaha walked in slippery places yester- day. Tur Woodstock, Vt., horror, should cause our legislature to pass one of the many bills compelling railroads to warm all cars with steam. The time is here. Act while in session. Tur season of rain on the Pacific coast has setin, and it is predicted that the wheat crop will be large. An induce- ment to settle in California is that there will be no toboggan there. Qur dispatches yesterday stated that Dr. Miller had been to Utah instead of Mexico. Now the explanation of Brigham Young's resurrection is no longer shrouded in mystery. Tue son of the alliterate Burchard is now trying to explain what his tather meant in-his New York speech, and ex- planations are no doubt gratifying to Mr. Blaine and his many friends. AN attraction in & London muscum is an Austrlan eight feet and nine inches high. An attraction at the Nebrassa leg- islature was a railroad lobby occupying forty rooms of a promiment hotel, It is said that Lady Colin Campbell hesitates between the lecture platform, the stage and a book, Those who wero 50 unfortunate as to read the evidence supposed she was hesitating for a di- vorce. Mgs. Ay Farcus, widow of Hugh Conway, has been compelled to again defend the memory of her dead husband by denying that he was the author of *‘Bound By a Spell,” a novel now being published over his name, If Tennyson wonld onty dicand give his widow a chance. “Dror your clause relating to loca taxation of railroads,” said a prominent railway official, and your charter will o through all vight,” Therein lics the milk of the coconuut, All the howling and misreprosentation of the railrogue organs about other sections are only in- tended to mask the concerted attack on that one clanse. AN Otoe coun man journeyed the fifty oight miles from Nebraska City to Lincoln to impress upom Legislator Wat- son's mind the ne ity of opposing the bill which undertakes o make it unlaw- ful to shoot geese inthespring, A special correspondent from our Lincoln corps interviewed Mr. Watson, and we here- with scoop our drousy coteroporaries by announcing that he is sound on the goose. 5 A Jonxson county debating society is struggling over the question: Was dgar A. Poe addicted to drinking” The knowledge of many years must be rolled back, we suppose, to decide whether or not the sorrow stricken genius who mourned over his lost Lenore really "~ drauk coffin varnish ana gin-slings. If Edgar could only hear the proposed de- bate, it is not a debatable question, but a foregone conclusion, that he would be driven to strong drink, Extending the City Limits, The pretended alarm of a few capital- 1sts over the damage which the new char- ter would work to South Omaha is very amusing. South Omaha will not be - cluded in the city limits if the charter is passed. That may as well be understood at the ontset. It is nnderstood by every- one who does not wish to wilfully mis- represent matters for other ends than those of South Omaka. Under the pro- visions of the eharter as it came from the committee of fifteen, all incorporated vil- lnges were to be excluded from the operation of the clause permitting the council to estend our city lim- its. W hen that clause was drafted it was supposed that South Omaha was the only village which could thus be exempted. Later it was discovered that several other communi- ties close to our present city limits were preparing to incorporate n order to secure the exemption intended for South Om one. But one course remained to be adopted if our city limits were to be extended at all. The ity council re- quested the delegation to strike out tho clause, and passed a resolution by unani mons vote pledging themselves to ex- clude South Omaha from the extension of the limits which they will make next spring in case the charter is pas As no further extension of the limits can be made until after federal census of 1889, or for four years at least to come, the owners of South Omuha ar re until that time against ny effort to include theit village within the corporate limits of Omaha, "There is no reason to doubt that the sentiment now existing against taking any step which will eripple Sonth Or will be as strong then ag it is now. It is safe'to say that just as long as South Omaha desires a scparate corporate existence it it, so far as Omaha cry raised by the South Omaha 183 ter is fals: ing in th istract attention from the real objections which the corporations have to the new charter. it city the ilroad lobby that ssailed by the new cl Liko the other slo Keep itin View, The legislature of Nebraska, before whom the Omaha charter is now brought for consideration, must not allow them- selves to lose sight of the real issuc in- volved, The question upon which, ac- cording to the ralroad managers, the defeat or success of the new charter is to turn, is whether corporations enjoying all the benefits of municipal life are to bear their share of city taxation. This is the point at stake. All the hubub and up- roar about the board of public works South Omaha, the removal of the city treasurer and a half a dozen other mat- ters, are raised simply to befog this issue. The railroad strikers in our last charter meeting preferred to adjourn the mecting rather than to de- bate publicly the question of how to stop corporate tax shirking. They prefer in Lincoln to-day to leave Omaha without any city government rather than to con- fine the discussion of the new charter to the four lines on which slone there is any difference of opinion among honest men. Aro the citizens and tax-payers of Omaba to be allowed to make their own charter adapted to their municipal needs and the pressing requirements of a great and a growing ci Are the voices of a few railroad to” weigh more with the Nebra. ure than the united demand of five thousand tax- payers? Will honest representatives of Nebraska turn a deaf ear to tho just claims of its leading city and listen to the specious arguments of a few corporate tax shirkers? Is Owmaha to be retarded in ber splendid growth, checked in her work of rapidly extending ber marke! for the state, thrown into municipal ehaos and blocked in her corporate advance- ment because her citizens at this late day insist that 2,000 city lots owned by the railroads shall contribute something in taxes to the municipal treasur, Let tho legislature of Nebraska keep #t in view that there is no raid to be mude on the corporations. Let them under- stand that equity, justice and public policy are all on the side of the people and that arrayed against an overwhelm - ing public sentiment stands only the railroad managers and the corporation lobby. As Far Apart as Lyer. There evidently was no trustworthy authority for the statement emanating from Washington last week, that an er- rangement had been effected between Mr. Randall and Speaker Carlisle by which the revenue bill of the former should be accorded certain privileges that would bring it at once before the house. The correspondence between these factional leaders since published does not indicate that there was any such understanding, It shows simply that thero were negotiations, and that they were a complete failure, It also shows that these leaders and their following are as far apart as ever on this question,with not the slightest indication that they can be brought nearer together at the present gession, The concessions required by each of the other, as esscutial to concur- rence, are insuperable obstacles to the union of the two factions. Mr, Ran- dall having submitted his bill to the con- sideration of Mr. Carlisle and the democratio members of the ways and means committee, it W subjected to wholesale prunings and changes, wholly at variance with its purpo and re- turned to its author. The reply of Mr. Randall bas not at this writing been made publie, but it 15 known that he will reject enough of the sug- gestions submitted to put all hope of agreement upon this bill out of the question. Neither will he acquiesee in the proposal of Mr. Carlisle to submit the measure to a caucus, all ties to be bound by its action, knowing full well that action would almost certainly be taken. He will also sce no advantage in the proposal of the speaker to go mto cominittee of the whole on the bill, the wajority faction r action. The evidence of this correspondence is that the hostility of the Randall and the Carlisle factions is as marked and well defined now as it hus been any tim during the present congress. Not th least progress has been made towar bringing them together on a plan of rev nue reduction, The Randall ment is still stubbornly determined that tanft taxes shall not be reduced, and Carlisle and his following are no less firm in insist- ing that there shall be no red uction of in- ternal taxes unless equivalent reductions are made in the tariff, There i no probability that this breach wiil be closed, but there is reason to believe that it may be widened it Mr. Randall takes the position, which it is understood he will do in hisreply to Mr. Carlisle,that the atti- tude of the opposition to him violates the pledge of the party in its last national platform, This situation accords with the views presented in these columns at the begin- ning ot the present session of congress. It was perfectly obvious, after the result of the last elections, that Mr. Randall would gain increased contidence in his position, while the public declarations of Carlisle and Morrison made it certai that no concession could be expected from them. There was a small hope that the influence of the administration might prove to be strong enough to effect a union on a middle ground, but it is evi dent that these leaders are quite as wary of conceding anything to the administra- tion as to each other. It may be safely id that nothing will be done in the pres- ent congress to reduce the revenues, al- though the country is standing face to face with a dangerons surplus, and the popular Gemand for relief from taxation grows more urgent. Is there anything better to be hoped from the next con- gress, in which the friends of tax reduc- tion will have less strength than in the present? We eannot sce that there is. Canaaa's War Strength, People who talk glibly of what an easy conquest Canada would be in the cvent of a war with the United States do so un- der the mistaken impression that the Do- minion has no military reserves worthy of consideration. Tt is true that Canada does not maintain a standing army, but she has a militia service which if not so good regular force would neverthe- less prove a valuable nueleus in ease it beeame necessary to organize anarmy on alarge scale. The Dominion is divided into twelve military districts, and the total strength of the active militia in these districts on the Ist of January, 1886, was 37,350 men, including 860 ofti- cers and men belonging to the nttle reg- ular foree distributed at Kingston, Que- bee, Toronto and Fredericton, who are constantly under military discipline drill. This militia is fully equipped could be put in the ficld ona week's notice or sooner. This force is subjected tomilitary drill and discipline for a short period every other year, onc-half this and the other half next year, The en- rolled militia and re e num- bers 600,000 men, and although not soldiers can be called upon when required to do military service. The vpolicy of the Dominion gov- erpment has not been favorable to the creation and maintenance of a mili- tary establishment. The opinion has always prevailed that it would b v less extravagance, since the Umited States is the only nation with which Canada could possibly have any serious trouble, and if this country wanted the Dominion it could take it anyway. Whether or not this opinion will undergo any change hereafter, and Canada will conelude that it is expedient to maintain a standing army, is a question of the future. There is, of course, nothing in the above figuresto reassure Canadians, or ereate a doubt in the mind of Americans, as to the result of a land conflict between the patriotism of the Canadians would lead them to defend their soil with all the heroism and sacrifice of which men are eapable, still their defeat would be mevitable. As soon as men could be moved, the United States government, if it pleased, could pour into Can quarter of a million soldiers, the gr part of them veterans. However bravely resisted the march of such an army would overwhelm every obstacle, and in a few months would give it pos- m of every vital and strateg cal position m the Dominion. But it must not be supposed that it would be a bloodless eampaign on our part. The Canadian people arc not without patriot- 1sm, and they would undoubtedly defend their homes with all their might. Even those who deprecate the policy of their government would in such an exigency rally to the common defense. We should conquer, but not without cost and per- serving full hberty of | haps the victory would be more dexrly bought than most people 5 posed to think, The boundless fidence of the American people lead them to regard too lightly the ability of others. Such an exigency, however, is an ex tremely remoto possibility. The Ameri- can people do not desire war. There are other methods which will just as surely bring the justice they demand, with much less cost to the nation in money and with- out any sacrifice of life. We can refuse to have anything to do with a people who deny us our rights and repudiate their obligations, In pursuing this peace- ful and legitimate course we shall main- tain our national dignity and commend ourselves to the approval of mankind, a4 Situation, The business situation shows few changes from last week. The flurry in foreign financial centers growing out of the Franco-German war scare has had an unfavorable effect on the speculation in stocks and in cotton, but has strength- ened confidence in the breadstuffs and provision markets. The prospect of war in Europe contributes to the favorable promise of general business in this coun- try, from which the wastes and wants of the warring nations of the Old World would have to be to a great extent sup- phied. Wool has been in better demand, The markets are strong in view of mod- erate stos and a furtber advance of 1 c¢ent per pound in colonmal wools at London; but the up- ward tendency i prices of domestic wools seems to have been checked for the present. The dry goods trade is moder- ately active, and cotton goods are very firm, with a continued tendency to im provement both in trade and prices. The iron and steel warkets are less ac tive owing to the high prices and gener- ly oversold condition of mulls and furnaces, but there has been no weaken- ing of values cither of crude or finished | prodnets. ‘The markets for food taples have been strengthencd by the coutinental war seare and local influenc such as the showing of light stocks of hog products in Chicago and a smaller run of receipts of grain und hogs in nearly all sections of the country. These features of the situa- tion bave checked short selling and caused a more netive covering demand 1n all the speey . arkets. The rise in wheat prices varies from § to 1 cent per bushel, The Bus not only | and Is noteworthy because it marks a 1 change 1 speculative sentiment in the face of a sluggish legitimate demand and a decline in actual exports. The latter is due in part to the labor troubles in New York. Corn prices are § cent per bushel higher in Chicago and about 1 cent higher on the seaboard. The strength of the corn market has been largely due to | the activity of the home consumptive de- mand, but has been helped by larger ex ports, an im\roving foreign inquiry and the advance in previsions. The country movement of corn js compavatively light, and invisible stocks are beginning to de- crease after a steady growth for several weeks following the rush of receipts of the 1866 crop. D 1t appears from a Washington dis- patch that Representative Glover, of Mis- gouri, who has & quarrel with Senator Vest, of that state, has had recourse to an expedient very common before the war between parties in the south who had serious grievances against each other, but which has not been much prac- ticed since, that of publicly “posting a man by distributing and displaying on dead walls circulars denouncing him. In this case it seems that the congress- man had written an insulting letter to the senator, which the latter refused to y any attention to, whereupon the con- gressman had the letter printed in cir- v form and scattered freely in the public places and hotels. Twenty-five years ago such a procecding wonla have been v ure to eventuate in a shooting affair, but there scems to be no danger of such a result in the present case. The duel is mnot mow so much a necessity to establish the honor and courage of a man as it was in the d. of southern chivalry, And doubtless in the present instance, ju dicious people wilt conelude that ir at tempting to show Mr. Vest vile, Mr. Glover has fully suceceded in proving that he is himself capable of being a blackguard. Tk old charter proided that no city official couta furnish any material for the city. Under this clause it Mr. Caul- field happened to be a councilman ho was precluded from selling a dozen lead pencils to a contractor on the streets. If Mr. Fried held an office he could not sell a keg of nails to a carpenter laying side- walks even if the contractor had already made their bids and received the award. This was the only effect of the old clause, It did not prevent city oflicials from con- tracting with the city. That was already forbidden as it isin the new charter. It simply closed the doors of legitimate trade to citizens who happened to be serving the eity in any capacity. There was no resulting benefit to the city in the clause and it was cut out by the com- mittee of fifteen on that account. TuE bill raising the age of consent in girls to eighteen years passed the house yesterday at Lincoln by a elose vote. The closeness of the vote is accounted for by the high limit of age placed by the bili There seems to be serious objections to the measure as it finally passed. Itis very doubtful whether it will prevent marriages below the age mentioned, and whether the marital relation before the age of eighteen under the provisions will not be a penitentiary offense. There is no doubt that the age of consent at pres- ent on our statute books is too low. There 15 considerable doubt whether by the present bill it is not placed at too high alint. SAN FRANCISCO requires ber city print- ing to be done in papers having at le: 8,000 circulation, and which have bee! continuonsly published for at least two years. No one in San Francisco saw any printing steal” in such a proviso. But when the new Omaha charter proposes that “‘circulation shall be considered,” the readerless organs fitl the air with shricks of ‘“steal,” *“‘swindle” and “pri- yate benefit.” No oNE who attended Saturday even- ing’s mass meeting doubts whatis the cen- timent of Omaha tax-payers on the char- ter, If the railroad lobby succeeds in defeating charter reform the responsi- bility will be placed where it belongs, PROMINENT P SONS. George W. Childs is steadily improving at his country p Wooton, near Philadel- phi James P. Murdoch, the actor, celebrated lis seventy-fifth birthday anniversary at Cincinnati last week. Sam Jones deelined to preach to the news- paper men of Boston because he eame to call sinners and not the righteous to repentance. General John O, Fremont recently cele- brated his seventy-fourth Dbirthday anni- versary, leand his wife enjoy very good health, Miss Phabe Couzins has been sick for some time and has not been able to attend to her duues as deputy United States marshal at 8t. Louis, Samuel Simpson, General Grant’s uncle, is reported on his death-bed at hLis home near Bantam, Clermont county, O, 1le Is ninety- two years old, Miss Minnie Welsh, granddaughter of the late Minister Welsh of Philadelphia, is to marry John Wanamaker, and her parents do not like the mateh. Abbie Carrington, the Fond du Lae opera inzer who has achieved a 8 is the guest of her fatlier in Fond du Lac, Mr, Edward Beeso Mrs, Emma D. N. Southworth gets $10,000 a year for writing for the New York Ledger, She lives in a littla dingy cottage in Georgetown, near Washington, Dan Riee the veteran cirens clown and temperance lecturer; has fallen into bad habits in Cincinnati, and spends most of his time in a maudlin condition from drink, Eleanor Carey, an Awerican acvress, by her marriage with W, F. Blood, has become a near relative of Lady Colin Campbell, and consequently & conneetion of the Princ Louise, and the rest of the royal fawily, ‘I'ne ltev, Milton M¢ Tyllhll-'n editor of the Marysville (Cal.) Demdperat, is on trial for murder, and the Ban Francisco Post mildly Bays s a journallst, Mr, MeWhorter our sympathy, butas a elergyman his con- duet wust be considered irregular, if not fu- proper,” n Facts, itizen, “Advertising always pays,” to he sure, but we are sorry to say that advertising is not always paid for, e High License Worth a Trial. o York World, The object of all legislation of this sort should be revenue and restriction, not probi- bition or proseription. ‘Tbere is no question | | | | | | that the liquor business should pay, and can | well afford to pay, a bigher price for tho privileges given to it under ghe license laws. By tar the laxger share of the criwinal and poor expenses of the state and local goverus | or ment {8 aue to this traffic. And, while expe- rience has proved that it cannot be prohio- ited, it ean be restricted. kept In responsible | hands, fmproved in character, and made to pay a fair price for its monopolv. A high license law that will accomplish these results is worth a trial, The Last Farrow. Charles Edwin Markham, The spirit of earth, with glad restoring hands, "Mid ruin moves, gropes, And mosses mantle in glimmering chasm and the bright flower opes; But fip]mh. the ploughman, wanders in all ands, And to the last of earth his furrow stands. The grave is never hidden; fearful hoves Follow the dead upon the fading slojes, And there wild memories mect upon the sands, When v\lmu\vs fling their banners to the plain, ‘When rumor of winds and den showers Disturb the dream of winter—all in vain The grasses hurry to the grav the flowers Toss their wild torches on their windy towers; Yet are the bleak graves lonely in the rain, ND TERRITORY. sound of sud- STATE ! Nebraska Jottings, A creamery at Wahoo is an assured fact. The state owns Boone county. Sioux county ha the fence law. The deals in Hastimgs real estate last week amounted to $17,657. The town of Algernon has refused to grant liquor license, even to drugaista. The county of Box Butte] has been formally organized and election called for March 8. The Grand Army boys in Plattsmouth will attack the frisky Dean and luscious oyster next Saturday night, “Must we whip our mother?” shouts a country contemporary. That depends on the size of her slippér and the vigor of her arm. Harry Ketterly, a lad of seventeen, whose parents reside in Long Pine,1s in jail in Logan, Ia rged with house reaking and robhery Henry Troutwine, aged twen fell aslecp in his room in- Burnett day night, and awoke Sabbath morning on the vright sude of the Stix. Anepilep- tie fit ferried him over, The sad news comes from Nebraska that the Bachelors' club is dis- A few more arrivals of rosy-cheeked charmers will put the so- ciety's regaha on the auction block. ‘Phe impression has gone abroad that the charter meeting in” Omaha_Saturday night was a free-for-all fiisteuff. This is a monopolistic mistake. It was five to one in favor of the charter on a fair and open count, The talk of pistols having been drawn is the rankest rot Ex-Senator Schoenheit, of Richardson county, died in Falls City Saturday night, Jage of sixty-five. He was a native emig 1 to the United 1 , and settled in Nebraska in 1860. IHe was engaged in the mereantile business in Omaha for several years and moved to Falls City 1n_ 1864, ITe w lawyer by profession. He was may Jity one term, county attornéy one term, candidate for attorney genersl on the Greeley ticket, and state senator from his county’in 1881, He leaves a wife and a large family of children. 6 acres of land in declared in favor of an Wyoming. The stone work on the uni ing at Laramie is finished. The little town of Peru, cight miles from Laramie. was destroyed by five re- cently. The rails on the Ch are laid to a point five miles beyond Chug station. Raymond & Campbell have fin- ished their bridge building contract he report was current in Cheyennc Saturday, s the Sun, that another ac- cident oceurred on the Short Line Wednesday night. In running into a station the ar brakes on a passenger train failed to work and a collision with a freight train resulted. It was said an engincer named Bemis and a fireman were killed, but no further particulars of the aftuir could be learned. sity build- nne & Northern Colorado, nver rejoices over the passage of a blishing a military post at that D bill ¢ point, rs. R. A. Long, of Denver, has fallen heir to one-fourth of an estate valued at §76,000,000 in Holland. It is announced that the railroad com- pany will build a $50,000 hotel in Chey- enne for the Pacific Hotel company. The building will contaun about fifty rooms. A woman tried to cut her throat with a knife in Denver Wednes, and failing to do so completely, she ealled for assistance and bids fair to re- cover. ‘The buildings for the glassworks in Denver are nearly completed. Furnaces and machinery have been put in place, and operations will begin early in the shting. Tho works will bura. oab plate and window and “‘vassamania’ glass. A shouter named Fred Schiverea is doing the revival act in Denver, and mangles the gospel and language as flu- ently as Sam Jones. Here is a specimen of last Sunday's sermon: *“What is soci- ety but a poor, miserable, hypocritical wreteh? Thousands of your society are oing to hell every day. Thousands of husbands, I don’t “doubt, would profess Christ but for their fashionable wives. To hell with your wine suppers and your euchre parties, and you'll go there, too, if you're not careful. That's where the suppers and euchre partie lnelonF. You'd better let ’em go there. 1'd rather go to heaven alone than go to hell with a crowd. The teeming multitude is going there, I tell you,” N Zola at Work, Aligemeine Zeitung: Zola writes every- thing himself; he never has a secretary for his extensive correspondenc even seals his wrappers and addresses them when he sends his friends brochures or his translators material, He als writes his hterary manuscript himself, QOut of it the printers compose what are called “placards,” » pages with four gigantic columns of text, ‘These are sent to the anthor ecarefully revised and fre from errors, then Zola begins to correet. He tills the wide margins a1l round with hundreds of marks and letters; ink lines cut through the text, then threads run crossways and diagonally, cntwining like a lasso a sentence scribb! in an open epace; scarcely a line is exempted from the hicroglyphics of the master. Here a note of interrogation must make room for one of exclwmation; here a semicolon is changed into a full poin comma before or after the et eficetively divides & phrase; participles are replaced by adjectives; substanti take the place of pronouns rbs must also d i sub- stituted for the ;" more de- scriptiye words supply the place of tame ones: for an expression repeated in five X pages a synonym is introduced; whole phrases are remodeled, sentences are condensed into two or three words, and n balf columns are ruthlessly consigned at once into the compositor’s tynhe case. - Brownell's Reception, Ou this evening the blessing of Brown- €l hall will be performed by Bishop Worth- ington, atter which “a reception will take place from 8 until 11 o'clock. The invi- tations are extended 18 the name of the rec- tor and faculty, Indignation in Otoe County. Doxsan, Neb, Feb, 7.—[To the Editor of the Brg.]—The following expression of opinton was read at the last meeting of the Lyceum in District No. 99, Otoo county, and by a unanimous voto it was resolved to sond a copy to the Beg for publication. A largo proportion of this neighborbood are strong Van Wycek sup- porters and desire their feclings known throughout the state: One of the greatest outrages that was ever perpetrated onan honest publie has just been by the so-called representa- raska, assembled at Lineol C H. Van Wyek received 51,000 votes as prefer- ence for United States senatory many of the countics did not oxpress a preference, which, if they had, woula have larzely increased the number of votes of preforence, so that it would be a safe estimate to say that, “‘the old man,” as he is called, would have received 25,000 majority 1f we could have voted for him directly.” With the knowledgze of this staring our representatives in the face, utter- 1y regardless of their constituents’ wishes or desires, they have elected a man who did not receive a sincle vote as preference for United States senator. No wonder that there is uni- versal indignation turoughout the state among the honest voters. No wonder we denounce it as one of the most damnavle plots since the days of Cataline, to defeat a man becanse he is honest and ‘upright, and not afraid to denounce fraud and erime on any and every oceasion. As his cause is our cause 8o is his defeat our defeat. Then let us mark each one of those traitors as God did Cain, indelibly: and on no oceasion what- ever east a vote for a man who was instru- ment: Van Wyek, A victory gained by the cor porate monopo- lies against the people’s will can only be of a transient character, and we carnestly believe that this victory will be mora costly eventi- ally to the victors than to the vanguished. W believe also that the outraged people will now be awakened and will o to work in carnest to make thosa traitors and. monopo- lists regrot their acts and deeds of January 20, 1557, That there has been *boodla” wiven to'the representatives, there is not a shadow of doubt, The monopolists were never more lavish with their money than in the instance referred to. The Union Pacttie railroad has, according to reports, spent more than $.00.000 in defeating the people’s choice. ‘The B, & M. has been even more liberal and “the land grabbers and caitle kings have als ) lavishly squandered their shekels in his defoat, The opinion of some of the best informed men is that at least one million dollars were spent in defeating Van Wycek, or the people, as we prefer to term it Can it be possible that the honest voters of Nebraska will re- gard this as a mere joke? Can it be that they will be so indifferent as to meckly submit to this outrage, and quietly go to the next elec tion and continue to vote for those little o horse lawyers who have not as much honesty As A first class horse thiefl We belleve, we trust, we love (not “we (Ilink"? that this outrage will remain fresh in the minds of the honest voters and that they will yet teach those unserupu- tors and thieving monopolists that aisnot tobe run’ on a montebank sed by such treachery as has oceurred recently, Will assert and defend its rights at any and all haz There is but one way that we can see by which this ean b accomplished: Throw party ties asunder, for nothing remains of hem except their names > under the name of honest government, to light the one creat_enemy of our best interests—mo- nopoly. The dy begun, and if the monopolists getus to hold on to those old party lines, as we always have done, they will simply’ “pluck the plum,” as they did at Lincoln ‘a few days ago. ' Our boasted free government will no longer bo one ruled by the people, but ruled by the most corrupt and_unserupulous monopolies that ever existed on earth. We want to abol- ish all laws that forbid us voting directly for United States senator and president of the United Stat We want the laws in regard to elections amended so that heavy fines shall be Imposed upon any person atteinpting to obtain votes by “‘treating” or the use of money in any Torm, We want a law that will prohibit candidates, saloonkeepers or any other persons from sending jugs of liguor throughout the county a few days pre- vions to an election for the purpose of influ- encing votes. ‘The time has farmer, the iaborer, tho me a every honest man—should unite in one coni- mon cause against monopolies, Denouncing a M DANNEBROG, Neb. 7.~To the Bditor of the 13 The following reso- lutions-were adopted at a meeting of a large number of citizens of Dannebrog and vicinity held at Danncbrog, Thurs- day, February 3, 1887 Whereas, We recognize in our senior sen- ator in the Umited States senate, Gener: 11, Van Wyck, Nebrasia’s ablest and great- est statesman; the true chem pion of the in- terests of the mas in thelr strug -le azainst the dommeering, grasping corporate monop- olies of { Where By the united eTort of organized capital and by the corruption of our Tegisla tive members, they encompassed the defear of this glorious, untiring advocate of the peo- plers Tihts in,our youns and prosperous state, and Whereas, Our representative of Sthis dis- trict, Jens Wilhelmsen,who was elected to the honorable position he now oceupies on his #olemn pledge to stand by C. 4. Van Wyck for re-election to the United States senate, if he at the election, November 18:6, should receive arger popular vote than any other candi- . basely treacherously yed his faithful constituents by disre- warding his solemn pledies and persistently voted for different and other candidates , ani not eyen once casting his ballot for the ypeople of his distriet, although the [lon. Charles H. Van Wyck at the election in November received in this district a popular vote of about 65), and other candidates com- bined less than 100 votes, thereby showing himself a willin - tool to do the biddines of the prople and obedient servantof the cor- porations; thorefore be it Resolved, ‘I'nat we, regardless of political afliliationg, hereby freely and voluntarily express our utter contempt and indignation for said Representative Wilhelmsen for his false and foul betrayal of his constituents, and the Interest of the peopie of his district in votng against enur so emphatically ex- pressed cholce, and becoming a servant in the hands of the money power and monopo- lies. Resoly ‘That we hereby declare our un- alterable dévotion to our friend and champ- ion, C, H, Van Wyck, who has gained world- wide fame for his noble efforts in the United States senate in behalf of the peonle of his state and join with the Knights of Labor i their request to the president of the Uni States to place him on the interstate com- merce commission, asa fitting mark of es- teem for his faithful service; and be it further Resolved, That we tender our hearty thanks to the noble representatives of the ln-uul' who, regardless of all attempts at bril nd ' eorruption by the corporate egardless of party affiliations, ro- ic, in_our house ntatives and senate, firmly and thont flinehing stood by their eon- and cast their baliots for Van of repre: solidly v stitie Wyck, Resolved, to the Oi That we also tender our t ha ey, Grand 1 ent, Stjernen and all other representatives of the press of our state who from first to last fou:zht for thas peonle’s choice for United States senator and showed their noble aevo- tion to the cause of right and justice and the best welfare of our state. And be it further, Resolved, That the secretary turnish copies of the above resolutions for publication in the columus of tie Omaha Daily Brg, Grand Island Daily Independent, Stjernen, Free Press (St 1'aul) and Dannebrog (Omaha), and also request the ed tors of the Stjernen and Dannebrog to transtate and puolish (e same 10 the Danish lan and also that a copy of same be sent to our “misrepresenta tive,” Jens Wilhelmsen, house of represen- tatives, Lincoin, Neb. A D, ltasMuUsseN, Chairman, retary. ks and Indepena- e County. Pawni 5. ~To the Editor of the B Noticing the gallant fight the Bek has made in the interest of Gen- eral Van Wyek and the general indigna tion exy at hisdefeat doubticss a vord from Pawnee will be inorder. Twelve hundred out of 1900 votes east in this county were for General Van Wyck as the preference in spite of the machine effort to lay the old man out. At the conveantion the *machine” succecded in foisting upon the peovle candidates who were known 1o be opposed to the senator sul the result was that uowinees of the democratiec party so turned the tables that the “machine’’ showed signs of fJoe. | mg out of order, The situation was fast changing and something had to be done | and the only alternative was to give up | the “‘anti-Van Wyek” horse and mount | the other, This they did by agrocing to vote for him in case a majority of thoe peonle nreforred im. This satistied the Van Wyck republicans and enough aid as given to clect the ticket by a smuall oIy, fter election put in order and the inachine could bo to make it run they claimed tho majority of republicans did not support Van Wyck and the men elected were in no way bound to support him because of democratic support. The manner in which these men con: ducted themselves s now a matter of ord and indignation runs high, so much so that strong republicans claim that they should bo publicly ignored for all time a8 a warning to future gener- ations. The majority has agam suffered, but that prmeiple for which they fought livi and though the organ of the ma- 1 this county now hoists Van rk's name for congress in order to pacify an outraged people, time will show that false pledges and deceitful bickerings only canse resentment at the poll This onee called “burnt distriet” will show up sadly to the disadvantage of republicans in the future. L What C¢ Conconn, ence of the B money marke facilities have cord has and Wants, ob., Feb. 6.—[Correspond 1=The stringenc and inconvenient raillway n times rather hard in this section of cbraska during the Iast three years. At present, however, new and more prosperous state of aflairs seems at hand. The benefits sure to arise from railroad and trade compe- tition between Omaha and Swoux City will surely develope during the coming season, and make this scction—*“North- st Nebras| -a favored part of the te for commercial and agricultural residence. Tho little town of Concord has two general, one ha combined drog and groce lumber yard, two coal deale stable, two stock dealers, a blac cto, with a good all-around There 18 a good lurge school s all paid for. Concord wants more business houses, and a hotel must be built this sprin The surrounding coun- anxious for more first class settlers, y fine land can be purchased near n at from §10 50 to §14 per acre, and at a much less figure farther away from the station. Tho farmers and Lusiness men in this Jocality are all indignant at the acfeat of Van Wyc S. A BURGLAR'S CAREER. A Farmer's F'right at a Negro's Hand —A Lonely Grave in the Forest, Milledgeville, Ga., Chronicle: It will be remembered that about one y ago much in t was excited at the eapture by Sherifl Ennis, of tkis county, of one of the most notorious negro burglars that ever lived in middle Georgia. His namo was Alex Ethridge, alias Tko Watson, After committing many daring robberies in Hancock county he was captured by the authoritics of that connty, but by a hrewd artitice escaped. He “was next captured in Macon, and lodged in jail there to awmt irinl. But so well did ho play the insanity dodge that he was de- clared insane and sent to the asylum at this place. After ashort confinement he suceeeded in vreaking out of that institu- tion and resumed his midnight burglaries and was a terror to thissection for a long while. He was finally eaptured by Sherift En- nis and lodged in jail at this place. As s00n 08 ptured he took up his role of msamty, But this ruse 1:||Iml to operate, thongh earried out to the greatest per- now dware and a store; one s, a llvery being ndietments in Hancock rs of Hancock were sent sive him, But before they came Snnis concluded to put” Alex's mental condition to a test. He ap- proached bim in his cell and told him that for a larze moneyed consideration he would liberate hun. At once Alex be- came all attention, and eageily eanght at the chance. He promised a large sum for his liberty. “‘But, where is the moncy?” inquired the sheriff. “You shall _bave it,” he replied. “T have $700 buried in the woods betwoen this plzee and Eatonton, and if you will let me out the money is yours.” “But how am 1 to know that you are ling squarc with me?” asked the sherifl., “You and I can go to the vlace to- gether, anda if I do not produce the money you ean bring me back.” The sherift’ then left him, telling him to Iy to accompany him by @ certain hour. At the hour designated the sheriff went to his cell and found Alex ready for Lo re Sherift u ready?” inguired the sherify 1 glibly. , Alex. Tho of- ficers from Hancock are here for you now. You must go with them.” No sooner had the words issued from the sherifl’s lips than Alex begun ing incohercntly, and looking eve the senseless lunatie, The oflicers took county and Jodged him in jul. was taken from jail by u band armed men, and nothing is known of his fate unless an incident which recently came to our cars throws sone light on it. A short time after Ethridge disap- heared, an aged Hancock county’ farmer ]u.\( somoe g9, and thinking that he might get some clue to the thief, he be- gan searching the woods and fields with the hope of finding where they had been killed. At last he came to a place where the curth had been freshly removed and thrown back. He was satistied that hero the hogs had been butehered and tho offul buried. 'Po satisfy himself, he be- gan to serateh away the earth. Suddenly he tore up from the loose dirt, not a_part of the hog, but negro's hand He sprang from the ground and in terror tled fre spot, nor stobped until he had plac miles between himself and the He was so much 1id ot being ¢ el with murder himsolf, that he told no one of the discovery until a short time ago, 1t is not amprobable that the bones of Alex Ethridge are mouldering in this forest, over which the long, leaf of the forest onk are tossed in undulations, throngh which the winds woun & requicm 10 the dead, while crouching shidows whisper to each other the story of a midmight scene of blood and horror. to Huancock He of him restless THE SCOTT PAMILY, on 1o be Relieved Diless Words, ‘I'he children of Centre school will con- witiute to the relief of the Scott family, the destitute condition of which was mentioned in Monday's Bre. Little Fannle Seott, who w waed on Sunday, was a pupil in the Centre school. Shie was a bright girl and anxions to learn. The exireme poy erty of her mother compelled her t attend in elothes whieh were by no means the best. [t was only last week that some of the better clad vupits of Centre sehool tauntingly called her a it to aceount for for the suduet very sensitive about h daintively remarked to her “How can | who thony bt abhy e have reealled this und “shamed the The young . il w appearance. wid teacher wth Leats in er exes help being poor®” “The chilaien Jessly taunted tie wisl about h would have given anything 1o their eruel words. “Pellets”! enve sick tomacli, aud and ald Dr. Picrce's billous headach our billrous attscks.