Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 23, 1887, Page 4

4 'H DAILY BEE PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERME OF SUBSCRIPTION Daily (Morniag Edition) including Sunday Brr, Ono Year........ - 81 For 8ix Months For Three Montha . The Omaha Swnda; address, One Yoar. . 0 M 600 260 200 finm OFPICE, K0, 014 AND 018 FARNAM STREFT. 3 iied to any W YORK OFFICE, RooM 65, TRINCNE BUILDING ABHINGTON OPFICE, NO. 011 FOURTERNTH STREKT CORRESPONDENCE! All communications relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed to the Epi- TOR OF THE BRr. BOSINEAS LETTRRS! All business letters and remittances thould be Addrossod to THE BEr PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMARA. Drafts, checks and postofice orders o be made payable to the order of the company, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS. E. ROSEWATER, Eprron, THE DAILY BEE. Bworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nobraska, | County of Douglas. { & & Geo, BB, Tzschuck, secretary of The Beo Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circuiation of the Daily Bee for the week ending Feb. 18th, 1857, was as follows: 3 Baturday, Feb. 12, 14,500 Sunday, Feb. 13 14,000 Monday, Feb. 14, Tueada Wednesday, Fe ‘Thursday, Feb. Friday, Feb, 18.. ). 7. Average...... U GRo, BT SCHT Subseribed In my presence and sworn to ! fore me this 19th day of Fcbnfilr{' Al;‘ D. 1857, RIL, ISEALI Notary Publie. Geo. B, Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual av- eraze dally eirculation of the Dally Bee for the month of Fobruary, 1880, was 10,595 cop! for March, 1886, 11,637 l'nl)l(\s; for ~April, 1886, 12,191 copies: for for May, ' 1886, 12,459 copies: for June, 1856, 12,208 coples: for July, 185, 12,314 coples; for ' August, 153, 12,404 coples;for September, 1885, 13,030 copies; ‘for October, 1886, 12,080 copies; for November, 1886, 13,348 copies; for December, 1886, 13,237 copies for January, 1887, 16,206 copics. GEo. B, TZ8CHUCK. Subscribed and sworn to before me this Sth day of February A. 1. 1857, [SEAL.| N. P. Frir, Notary Public. BerLiN scems to have cast its vote against Bismarck, but Germany is still to be heard from. . Oxana can stand the defeat of her charter if the remainder of the state can afford to shoulder tho responsibility. LookouT MOUNTAIN has been sold for a large sum. The point of the sell will be gooner or later aporeciated by the capi- talists who have purchased it for a sum- mer resort. Exovau outside additions have been platted for ten years to come. Real estate agents of farm lands should now devote their attention to making collee- tions on contrac WiHEN Omaha real estate agents follow the Kansas City plan of receiving all payments in checks and checking back to customers for whom they are the agents our clearings will doubtless reach the old figure. 1r Senator Plumb’s amendment to the river and harbor bill is adopted by the house the Missouri river commission must go. This will be a clear saving of some $7,000 n year to the government with little resulting detriment to the Big Muddy. A rerrer from the capital of Corea says that the king’s winter palace has been newly finished and furnished with American furniture, costing $18,900. The large contributions of American lumbermen for forcign missions are now explained. ACCORDING to the babbling Burrows, of Indiana, Matthews, the colored man who has been twice appointed recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia used to play poker with President Cleve Jand. Mrs. Cleveland may now be ex- pected to join her protests to those of the senate against Matthews' confirmation. Ar the conservative conference on Monday, it was decided to push the change in the procedure rules first and to inaugurate coercion afterwards. The plan is to choke the Irishmen in parlia- ment and to follow it up by stranghng them in Ireland, Lord Salisbury is evi- dently preparing a winding sheet for his conlition ministry. Wit a whoop and a yell like a wild Indian, the Herald bounds into the ring with the startling announcement that the city engineer has bought and sold eity lots during the pust year. Well what of it? We presume the dreadful charge is true. The Omaha citizen who hasn’t m- vested in real estate during that period should be put in a glass ease and labelled as a curiosity. Mg, Ropert FowrLer has ordered plans drawn for a large beef packing house at South Omaha, Mr. Fred Ames will shortly construet the largest busi- ness block in Omaha, The Northwest- orn has purchased grounds for shops. These three incidents of a day are re- spectfully commended to envious Kansas City contemporaries as reasons why Omaba does not weep. The boom keeps right up. ‘“‘Business is business” }and business secks business. It will conunue 1o do so as long as large profits and quick returns offer inducements for invest ment, TiE impression that the union effected between the Tammany and county de- mocraey, in the last New York mayoralty election, was the beginning of an era of democratic harmony in that quarter, the advantage of which would aceure to the national administration, appears to have been & mistaken one. So, too, the re- ports which have been since current that the antagonism of Tammany to Cleve- land had died out, and that if the demoe- racy or the country wanted him again as & presidential candidate there would be no opposition from that source, seem to have been erroneous. The latest announcement is that Tammany is re- lentless, and that if possible that organi- zation is now more keenly hostile to the president than it has ever been before, and proposes to show him no quarter. Irving hall, also, has its tomahawk poised, and promises to do its humble vart toward slaughtering Mr, Cleveland with infinite satisfaction, Developments of this kind must make the president feel that efforts to harmonize the democracy of New York are well nigh hopeless. T RN BN S T "I‘HE‘ OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUAKY 23, 1887 S Ry AT AN The German Elections. The result of the German elections will probably not be accurately ascertained sooner than the end of the present week. A second ballot will be necessary in a number of districts. The facts at hand are somewhat confusing, but the indica- tions appear to be favorabloe to the gov- ernment. It seems to be evident that the joint efforts of the vatican and Bismarck for the disintegration of the center have not been fruitless, and that the faction under the leadership of Windthorst, the most formidable against which the gov- ernment had to contend, has been mate- rially weakened. [t appears, also, that the liberals and the progressists have lost ground, the latter more especially, the eeceders from these factions having doubtless swelled the ranks of the social democrats, who have made gains all over the empire. The progress of this ele- ment will be regarded as one of the nota- ble and significant eireumstances of the elections, and it is casy to understand that its development should have cansed some anxiety to the imper In Ber im the government candic s, with single oxception, were defeated, two of the three districts of Hamburg social democrats, were clected. The fa is to be remarked that the soci gaing woro almost wholly in the ities, and the organi zation of this clement seems to hay very thoroagh. The statementthat it re ceived both moral and national encour- agement from Fre and America 18 not incredible. Most of the factional leaders were re-elected and wili be pres ent in the new reichstag to renew their ovposition to the governmeat, though with poor promise of success. The districts from which there are complete returns show a considerable majority for the septennate, and the gov- ernment is eredited with again of twenty out of the forty necossary to carry through iws nuhtary measures, The sources from which returns are yet to come make it reasonably cortain that the other twenty will be secured by the gov- crsment, and it is not improbable that the supporters of the septennate, and of the other military demands of the gov- ernment, in the new reichstag will have votes to spare. In this event Bismarck will undoubtedly improve lus advantage to put the government in a position not to be again easily balked 1 its military designs by an adverse parliamentary majority. Granting the success of the government, which the facts at hand appear to assuro, how will it effect the peace of Europe? It has been proclaimed by the organs of Iis- marck that a defont of the government would mean war. Logically its victory should count for peace. Europe has been assured by both the emperor and his prime minister that Germany desires peace, and that it is to maintain the peace that the government has projected its military i measure and advanced its warlike preparations. The world will not have long to wait for a demonstra- tion of whether or not there was any sincerity in these assurances, We were not astray inassuming that the Foraker episode at the republican gather- ing in New York would cause some un- casiness among the friends of Senator Sherman in Ohio. A dispateh from Jumbus, O., says there is no disgui the fact that the friends of Mr. Sherman are greatly annoyed by the events of the vast week, and it is generally conceded that the speech and presence of Governor Foraker in New York have had the effect of enlarging the list of possible prc dential candidates. It is also suggested that the retirement of Foraker from pub lic life would be very gratifying in cer- tain quarters, and that a determined ef- fort will be made to smother him. It is not diflleult to sce that the information proceeds from a source friendly to the governor, but it is not therefore to be di. regarded, nor does it stand alone in evi- dence of what it aflirms. Foraker has been getting since his speech a large amount of complimentary attention from some of the leading republican papers of Ohio, most of them, 1t is important to remark, exceedingly friendly to Mr. Blame. It is not for an instant to be suppo that any of these journals seriously regard the Ohio governor as among possible presidentis candidates next year, but if he can be kept n that position it may serve their purpose to obstruet the chances and per- haps defeat the nomination of Sherman, which is & desire doubtless much stronger with them than that of promoting the poiitical fortanes of Forak The obvi ous fact is that Senator Sherman will have to again confront an insidious op- position in his own state which is alrcady developing. Meanwhile the friends of Senator Sher- man will find gratifying evidence that he is gaining ground in other directions. The careful and mtelligent Washington correspondent of the Boston Advertiser says of the Foraker inecident that it isnot made much of there, and as the result of his inquiries and observations respecting the Sherman boom remarks that it “is slowly but steadily commending itself to publie sentiment,”” The thoughtful men of the party are disposed to consider other qualifications than that of per- sonal magnetism as of supreme value in the next presidential candidate of the republican party, and a comparison of records cannot result to the disadvantage of Senator Sherman, So far as Ohio is concerned, there are honest and able republicans there who, remem- bering the loss of influence and charac- ter which the state suffered in cons quence of the course of her delegation in the last national convention, will do their utmost to prevent a recurrence of the blunder in the next convention. It should be hoped that the influence of this class will not be wasted, A Damaging Defense. Dr. Miller has no other defense to make for the Murphy-Gallagher paving ring whose champion he has made himselt in trying to defeat the charter, than an at- tack upon the city engineer. He im- agines that he can hoodwink our eiti- zens by filling the entire editorial page of the Herald with assaults and pretended exposures. That official is able to take care of himself, and needs no defeuse at our bands. Our exposure of the paving ring depredations on Omaha tax- payers was not inspiwed by him or any other outsider. Most of the facts were gathered from various contrac- tors who have suffered at the hauds of the Murphy gang. The engineer was, however, called upon to verfy these chatges ead incidentally was requested to explain the operation of the present méthod of vontract-letting and execution of publiec worksunder the beard as now organized, Our conclusions as to the objects which the paving gang have in view in fighting against the proposed change of the board of pub- lic works were reached without any out- side inspiration. 'I'ha facts are plain and clear that a radical change in methods of contract letting and supervision is essen tial to protect the community against swindle, fraud and imposition by econ- tractors. It certainly is not in the inter. est of property owners, or for that mat. ter, of working men, that the arter be amended to suit the contractors. Ratsing the Rates, When the railrond magnates of the country procured the questionable opin: jon from ex-Judge Ditlon that the inter state commerce law, which prokibits un- due advantage between patrons, meant that all passes except those to employes would be illegal, the people did not feel aggrieved in the least, It was generally assumed that tho abolition of passes everywhere would naturally result in the reduction of passenger rates. But even if passenger rates were not reduced there would be general sutisfaction n the knowledge that the dead-heading and dead-beating system of free travel had received its death blow. The evident purpose of the abolition of passes is now becoming manifest in the edict that freights are to be raised be- tween nearly all important commorcial centers, This means that our railroad rulers propose to punish the American people for daring to attempt to regulate public carries. The raise of freights at the opening of spring on lake ports, as well as at Missouri and Mississippi river points, shows that a conspiracy has been entered into to make the law as odious as possi ble and foree the whole country to revolt against inter-state commerce regulation. What else can these railway managers mean by the general advance in freights on all classes of products, The law cer- tainly was not enacted for the purpose of inereasing the earnings of railroads, but to reduce and equalize tolls and indirect taxation. It was expected that an honest compliance with the iaw might raise the ratesina few exceptional instances where special favoritism had ruled. On tl other hand it was expected that the rates would be reduced in other in- stances where they had been excessiv We are yet to hear of those places. The railroad manogers have faled to discover any Jocality entitled to lower rates. The immediate effect of this wholesale levy upon the country’s products will of course decrease the farmers' profits, duce the merchants' income and rob workingmen who are buying provisions and fuel and clothin, while the railroads will increase their earnings and dividends. This will only be temporary, however, Politicians who cannot travel any longer on passes nay feel indignant at the law makers, but their clamor will be overborne by the curses loud and deep that will pour upon the heads of the rail- voad highwaymen from ley, hill- top, village and eity. It is n trite saying that whom the gods wish to de- stroy they first make mad. Nothing but sheer madness could impel the confed- crated railway bavons to do the very thing which will drive the people to de peration and force the 1ssue botween them and the railroads in the very camp: The vitable imum rates o ates, follow reduction through congressional enactment. In- stead of forcing a vepeal of the inter- state commerce act the country will com- pel cong to make it more etlective by laws which will cut down existing maxi mum tarifts ahd bring the railroad dic- tators to their knee! will bo stri lic by the What Abont the € We have been asked o hin the past thre days whether the Omaha charter bill will pass. Onran swer has been and is “We nnot Tell.”” Nobody else can give any assurance of its passage. e bill1s now in the hands of the judiciary committee of the house whose members are for the most part, m active sympathy with the opponcnts of the bill. The judiciary committoec expected to point out the features which are claimed to be unconstitutional, but we presume the committee in reulity will bring in amendments on all sorts of subjects, merely to satisfy the clamor of Dbilks ana blither- skites of the lobby who are in the pay of the railroads and the paving gang. The committee may re- port the bill back Thursday with snch amendments as it sces fit to recommend and then the bill will have to takeits chances among the hundreds of others now pending, If it 15 amended by the house it goes back to the senaie, and that body may and probably will, refuse to concur to any amendment except such as the Douglas delegation in both hou will concede to be satisfactory. In case the senate fails to concur in the amend- ments, the bill goes back to the houso, and if that body does not recede, the bill goes into a committee of conference, which may cr may not agree. If the re- port of this committee is not adopted by both houses, or if the house absolutely refuses to recede then the bill will fail There is, however, another serious problem, and that is whether the bill will receive two-thirds of the house, 67 votes, on its passage. If it does not, it cannot go into effect until June, and Omuha will either be governed by the Lincoln charter from tne time that passes, or haye anarchy in its municipal affairs for the next year. This is the real situation without varnish or colorin, If the bill does not become a law by March 5, 1t will hardly be possivle to organize and elect the new city govern- ment under it. The eity election comes off’ the first Tuesday in April, which will be April 6. It requires thirty days to reorganize the city into new wards, pro- vide additional registrars and get out proclamations for election, Aud who is to blame? Fifteen of the most prominent citizens and taxpayers labored twenty-seven days to perfect this charter, after earetully comparing the existing charter with those of other large cities. The work of these men was pub lic and the papers that have since denounced most of it as dangerous and full of jobbery, had no fault to find until the charter had been reported back favorably by the secnate committee on cities and towus. Theu we beard for the rter, hundred tinmes 08 first fime that an outrage wae per petrated by the charter committee m continning the clanse that requires each councilman to be a freeholder, which really means nothing more than interest, in any lot even f the interest does not exceed $10. Then the ery was raised that the new board of public works, ereated by Guy Barton, Frank Murph Herman Kountze, Andrew J. Poppleton, Hugh Clarke and a majority of the com- mittee was an'infamous pieceof jobber, But beneatn all this clamor from sporting editors who never paid a dollar of taxes and never wili, from hireling shysters who have not paid for the clothes on their backs, from the claim agent of the Union Pacific, who owes old Mrs Wyman over five hundred dollars for board, gotten years ago; was the prim ary grievance of the railroads thatthe charter required them to pay city taxes on their grounds and Jots. At the 1n- stance of certain citizens, who went to Lincoin as peace-makers, the delegation agreed to modify the railroad tax section upon assurance by Judge Savage and Henry W. Yates that this concession woald put an end to warfare on the charter by the railroad lobby and ensure isspeedy passage. It was, however, understood that no change would be made in the senate. These promises wor repudiated by the railroad attorneys who did their tevel best to de feat the charter in its passage in the sen ate and finally had it sidetracked in the house so they could make it a foot ball in conneetion with railrond legislation. And now Onu presents the humiliatiog spectacle of a great and growing city which pays onetenth the entive state tax, but whose representatives in the legislature are not permitted to se- cure for her a law for local seli-govern ment framed by her leading eitizens and tax-payers and approved by 99 out of every 100 of her citizens, It iscertainly g commentary on the wretched sub- serviency of our eapitalists and business men who have not the manhood to resent villainous interference of the railroad munagers with the vital interests of the community. In any other ety there would have a v been a popular uprisive that would stamped out the disrey has had the insolence to hound the mem- bers of the legislature under > pre- tense that it voiced the wishes of our peonle. The Legwslatur, The legislature reconvenes to-day after its three days’ recess. It is a serious question whether it would not be well for it to adjourn for another week. By that time the recount of the vote on the con- stitutiona) amendment will have pro- gressed far enough to determine whether the life of the legislature is to be ex- tended and whether the session is to con- tinue for cight or for twenty-cight days. 11 the sion 15 1o extend for nearly four weeks longer, as seems probable, there is no reason for haste. There will be ample leisure to digest bills and kill off the bad d g the good ones. On the othier hand, if only cight actual working ones shoand pass the solutely esscntial to the it is useless to count on any session Insting more than a day or two after pay isstopped. A majority of the members are not in condition to work for glory hout rations. An Important rves Witness. notiee upon the legislature that it will expose and send to the penitentiary « number of persons whom the editor of that sheet knows per- sonally to have given or taken bribes, In other words, the editor proposes to turn tes evidence against certain of his as- sociates whose bosom companion he has been at Lincoln. In the interest of good government, about which this man al- ways prates we hope he will be ealled upon promptly by an investigating com mittee. When o man like him sleeps in the sume bed and wallows in the mire with 2 of whisky drinking, gam- ling and dissolute bummers, hired to do the dirty work of jobbers and railrogues e is just in position to purify the govern ment. Such a witness wanted for a long time. We have been trying very hard to get somebody to squeal on this gang and we rejoice that ne has turned up. Up to this time the Zepubli- can has rather been a disappointment under the new management to its moral and conscientions patrons, but now that its editor hus decided to turn informer the paper may do gomething to redeem itself. It is currently reported that the pres- ent proprietors of the Omaha Herald are about to dispose of the paper to a syndi- cate of democrats, whose sympathies are more in accord with the rank and file of that party than Dr. Miller and his asso- ciate wrecker have shown themsclves to be. This change, if made, will doubtless prove beneficial to this city, whose inter. ests have time and again been sacrificed by the Herald's selfish policies and mer cenary methods. This city has become populous enough for a well-conducted metropolitan duily, demoeratic in poli- tics and honest in 14s expressions on every question vital to this community and the state at large b —ee Tug fishery industry of the United States is a more extensive interest than 18 generally supposed, The last ofticial returns are as follows: Number of ves- sels, 6,605; tonnage, 208,207,820; persons employed, 4205 eapital invested, & 055,849, The New England states make the following report for the past y gaged o all branches of the wcluding: oyster and whaling, 30; men employec Phe fishing interest is New £ land’s oldest indusiry. In its early his- tory it was carried on in small vessels or boats, which had no oceasion to go far from shore, on account of the abundance of the fish. In those days the near-shore fishing grounds along the New England coast were well supplied with all the leading and desirable varicties of salt water fish, and were of great value to the producer. But siuce the general introduction of the purse seine in 1870, mearly ull the mackerel cateh has been on the high seas, or more thap three miles from shore. Of late years mackerel, in common with nearly all other kinds of fish, have ceased to be found in abundaneé within three miles of jand. ~‘Though scientitic re- search his added much to the knowledge of the fisheries, yet whore ‘the mackerel come from in the spring, where they go late in the fall and spend the winter, why they ave found in great abundance off the New England coast for a series of years, and perhaps the next year in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, remains as much n mystery and matter of theory as 100 years ago. The fact remains, however, that while the nearshore fisheries of New England and the British provinees are (o a small extent valuable to the fish crmen adjacent to them, they are not to others, the amount of fish there caught, compared with the aggregate cateh, being insignificant, the bulk of the cateh being taken on the distant fishing banks of the high seas ——te STATE AND [TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings, Wahoo amiles with rays electrical. ‘The Chaaron coal vein is said to be fifty inches thick, Knox county is tnlkmft of voting bonds nk a prospect hole. Falls City is strugglingwith two dailies ~the News and the Reflector, The main question in Stuartis to bridge or not to hr‘u]gu the Niobrara. Brass founders are shoving large quan tities of snide jewelry in the northern counties Now comes W, find ninety f ticuls Point with a coal from the surface. Par- rs are wanted to case the anxicty of doubter: Hevry Furhman of Fremont [s talking brick in Rapid City and wants to buy a fow thousand to ship home in_his grip- suck. lenry carries ‘‘rocks” i his pocket. The Coope creditors of winsome of Weeping Water, ANX v watching the list of arrivals in Montreal., Cooper hooped them up to the amount of $10,000. D. W, Clancy, one of the pillars of Cuming county. demoeraey, has been ap- pointed deputy internal revenue collee tor in the Nebraska district. Mr. Clancy has held the oftice of county treasurer for a number of vears, and ran forstate treasurer on the demoeratic ticket in 1881 The people of Amsworth were treated to a beautiful mirage view one morning last week. The banks of the Niobrara river, thirty-five miles distant, stood up in their majestic splendor, while ordinar- ily they canuot be se Johnstown and Long Pine were visible, both towns being hid by high eround at any other time. Twenty-seven miles of telegraph wire and poles along the Union Pacitic in we: 1 Nebraska were laid out by 1 wee Cheyenne papers say . c:\ll?\: were killed in the by the trains during the con- of the D rd. ‘Lhe entire country, as far as the eye can re presents an endless succession of deep and bewildering snow drift. ice lowa Items. Creston has 5,000 inhabitants and two daily and six wee There are five building associations and two savings banks in Clinton, and all are highly flourishing. he people of Cedar Rapids will again decide by batlot whether it wants §100,000 worth of sewerage. Creston has contracted with a New York firm for a complete water syctem, with fifty hydrants. Alex Anderson has been sent to jail for iftoen days in Dubuque for polishing his with a broomstick. Creston has granted the freedom of the city to the town cow Sunflowers will soon bloom on the sidewalks. The amusement managers of DesMoines have entered into an agreement to play alternal ttractions at a uniform and higher per cent., giving bonds to insure the closing of one house while the other is open. There is to be no rivalry what ever, even in the way of amateur per- formances, concerts or conventions of any Kind, Wyoming. s of Cheyenne will indulge in pigeon shooting match for §500 a side on the 19th of March. The Big Sandy Colony and Cianal com- pany in Sweetwater county has 20,000 ueres of land under ditehes. Twofemale shoplifters w10 enjoyimg i d quarters in the Laramice “jail, pilferings amounted to $1 ed Kieker horrowed a livery team in Clieyenne last week and skipped for Nebi He was overtaken at Ante- tion and boosted into jail, Willinm Nye writes to n the territory from North it he feels as brisk asa Chey- . He has corralled & book of which w him §200 a 1 thinks his condition is a trifle w that of a preacher. last coach on the Black Hills line out of this city,” su the. Cheyenne Sun, ‘‘left ~for the north Friday morning. It was with a general feeling of regret that our citizens witnessed the departure from this eity of the large coach with its six handsome horses attached, he Cheyenne & Black Hills stage line bas so long made this city its headguarters, that it seems like bidding adicu to an old pioneer custom to have no more stages running into the city, Al who saw iv depart were vividly reminded of the days of the iron coach, the road agents and Indians with which the trayeler had oiten to contend.” — rromi ' PERSONS. Millionaire Representative Scott cooks his oysters in the tlouse restaurant, Senator and Mrs. Frye will sail for Europe on March 12 Sarah Bernhardt will be in Washington the last week of the congressional session, -United Slates Senator Bruce is lectur- ing in the northwest on ““T'he Race Problen.” Leon Gambetta’s father lives at Nice. le is seventy-four years old, and lives on the proceeds of his fruit business, Ex-Governor . B, S, Pinchback paid §10,000 the other day for the race horse Mon- gent, at Lexington, Ky, a Wheeler Wilcox has been engaged, so they say, to write the words of an opera, to be sung by the American Opera company next season, Charles Longfellow, & son of the noet, was one of thice yachtsmen who crossed the Atlantic in nifty-foot sloop Alice, from Boston, Congressman Reagan, of Texas, now sen- ator-elect, was with Jeft Davis when the lat- ter was captured. It is sald that Davis had more confidence in Reagan than in any other of his cabinet ministers. e ‘e lEuropean Objector, Chicago Tribune, Russia appears to be the Congressman Hol- man of the Kuropean situation, A Strong Frobability. Chiciago Times. Out of ten Harvard students recently ex- amined for the medical staff of the pavy, nine failed. The nine failures were proba- e buse ball nine, -~ How to Cure His Delusion, Chicago Times, A man in New York has been sent to an insane asylum affiicted with tae delusion that be can knock out Jobn L, Sullivan. The New York Herald thinks that the best way to cure himof this delusion is not to put hiwm into an asylum, but let bim stand up before My Sullivan for 8 reund o= twa page, better t “The stage Deserting the Sinking Snip. Cleveland Leader., Any man who will resign the seerotaryship of the United States treasuty 1o become pres- ident of a second or third class bank, must bave a poor Idea of the administration of which hie wasa part. . - fope. Maemillan's Magazine 1n lonely vigil till the day be born, Whose one stat glimmers pale the clonds among, She hears the volees of the human thronz, The hopeless murmer a world outworn, The tumult o immitigable scorn, The old ancestral ery of mortal wrone, Sound like the weary butdens of a s Love loveless left,” and faithless £ sWorn. hears, eyes Keep still undimmed the glory of the view Which once was hers, when all the world WAS NeW | [fer ears, that catch one atrain which aever dies, Hold tirm, throngh chance snd change of earth and skies, Her_dumb, unswerving faith in Good and True. h for She unheed Her selt-blinded S A HUNDRED YEARS AGO. What Was Golng on in the Year 1786 After the “First War." Jud Annual: What was doing 1n the world a hundred yoars ago—in 17867 Let us sce, now. Here are newspapers, magazines, and an old pocketbook. What is this? The story of the queen’s neck Jace. Cardinal de Rohan had nursed for ten years an insane love for Marie Antoinette; and the Countess de la Motte, to make capital of this foily, induced the cardinal to believe that the queen recipro- cated his passion, and, after extorting various sums of money, persuaded him to buy a diamond nccklace, made by Boehmer for Mme. Dubarry, as a present for the queen. De Rohan swallowed the bait, handed the necklace to the countess to give to the queen, and received a letter of m‘knm\'h»hguu-m signed Marie Antoinette do France. The countess in reahty sold the necklace in England, but, the jeweler not being paid, applied to the queen for his money, and, as the queen denied all knowledge of the matter, brought an action against her. ‘The trial lasted nine months and created immense scandal. The Comte de la Motte was fully convicted of contempt of court, and condemned, when taken, to be whipped and marked with the letters G A L, and to be sent to the galleys for life. Mme. Jeanne Valois de la Motte was or- dered to be whipped and marked with the letter V upon her two shoulders, with « halter round the nec nd contined for life in the Salpetriere. Vilette was ban- ished. The Cardinal de Rohan and M. de Cagliostro were discharged from all aceu- sation, while Mlle Oliva was dismissed the court. The sentence on the unfortu- nate lady was carried out June21. When the sentence was read to her it threw her into the most frantic rage and she uttered fearful 1mprecations against the court, the parliament and the cardinal, but her courage deserted her when she felt the hangman placing the rope about her neck, while at the sight of the instru- ments for her further punishment, the brand, ete., and red-hot fire, she cursed and swore in the most unwomenlike manner, 1t was with difliculty that the kot iron could be applicd to her shoulder, She rolled on the ground and kicked at the executioner with such violence that some strength was required to perform the ignominious operation, The instant 1t was accom- plished she conducted to the Sulpetriere. What was doing at home. Here is an English cheat—a dangerous one, too. An imposter, under pretense of bemg a eripple, had long been a charge upon the sh of Godstone, in Surrey, and, on being detected by a sur- geon of that town, threw a handbill at that gentleman’s legs as he was proceed- ing with s son to the poorhouse. He then pursued, and overtaking the; brought the father to the ground I blow from his crutch, This was fol- lowed by a repetition of blows on the head with his handbill, until it was ac- tually buried in the skull, The unfortunate surgeon’s hand was also severed from the arm in endeavoring to save his head, and a thumb was afterward found some distance. At this terrible moment the little boy, seizing the murderer’s cruteh, “struck him such a blow that it staggered him, but fearing his fatiier’s fate he ran to call « ance, and in the meanwhile the villain made ofl, though soon after he was found hid in acopse. On being seized he lamented that the overseer had escaped his ven- geance, They hanged people in the streets a hundred yearsago. In January John Hogan, a milatto, was executed on a gibbet in Charlotte street for the mur- der of a servant of a Mr. Orrell of th street. It appears that the last gibbet crected in England was for George Cook, a bookbinder of Leicester, who was exe- cuted for the murder of Mr. Pass, a Lon- don commercial traveler. Cook’s body ns put on a gibbet th re feet high ¥, August 11, 1832,in Safiron lane, Aylestone, near Leicester, but, owing to the graat disturbances which arose among the erowds of people who thronged the place Sundays, it broken down by order of the seceretany of state, and buried on the spot wheré the gibbet Stood. T Shooting a Pilot to Save His Boat, St. Louis Globe-Democrat: One of the bravest as well as the most notable river men who ever navigated the Ohio is Captain David M. Dryden, who now lives in Bullard Count, Kentucky. Captain Dryden is seventy five years of age, and spent sixty years of his life on the river, In 1836 ke was pilot on the Swiftsure, a mail lime packet plying between Louisville and Cincinnati, The Paul Jones also ran in the same trade, and a great rivalry existed between the two boats. One cold day in January, 1836, both boats puffed out of the Lousville harbor, and the cap- tain of each resolved that his craft should be the first to land at Cincinnati, Pine knots,coal oil, bacon,and e hing that would make a blaze were thrown into the furnace, and the engineers received orders to turn her wide onen. For some miles they were exactly side by side, and although both engines were doing their utmost, neither had the advan . The captaing and crews were gre ex cited, and the boats quivercd under the immense steam rr.mmnru, Finally the Swiftsure hegan slowly to forge ahéad of its rival ester Edwards, pilot of the Jones, s was lost, and in- d that it he could not di ] ftsure he would sink he He accordingly turned his bow toward the side af the other boat Cuptain Dry- whistled and shouted to himn to keep off, but he did not heed the signals, and i n'a few moments the sharp iron-covered bows of the Jones were nearly against the Swiftsure. Captain D; d at once that unless something was « his boat would be sunk and his passen, drowned. Hastily snatching a rifle from the floor ho fired through the window, and, the | siciking Bdwards in th center of the forchead, killed him in- stantly. The Jones then veered off and the collision was averted. Captain Dry den was tried at Burlington, Boone county, and acquitted. -~ A Check for Over $14,000,000. ew York Mail: The biggest check 2 States was that wn by John D. Taylor,-now dead, but then trensurer of thé Pennsylvama ruil road, to Lee, Higgins & Co., of Boston, in payment for ‘the Boston stock in the Philadelphis, Wilmington & Daltimore in his old age and he was unable to fulfill the coriteact. Enough ot out to pul the Pennsylvania people on their guard, and their Fepresentatives met the Boston bankers in thi¢ city, and never adjonrned until the papers were drawn up by which they agreed to deliver a majority of the stock in the road at 140 on the do which was about 10 por cent more than they had ever been able to sell it at, ai] the individual stockholders being allowed to come and sell their stock at that figure They brought 1t to the Boston bankers, and”on the first day of July the Boston K:lrl\' received Mr. Taylor's check on the National Bank of Commerce of this city for #14,256,410. T'his is belioved to bo thi largest cheek over drawn in thiscountry, LARAMIE AND KIT CARSON, Recollections of a Pamou: Famous Sco In view of the fact the opening up that vast region of Wyoming territory which is drained by the Laram g and North Platte rivers its ‘carly history rows more important and intercsting. Fort Laramie 18 situated immediately in the point of land at the junction of the North Platte and Larumie rivers and the spot is a center of mmch historic interest, In 1812 General Fremont and his oxploting party visited Fort Laramie, and with them as giido was the famous frontiersman Kit Carson To those who have never read a persona description of Kit Carson it is generaliy cupposed that the famous Indian fightcr and guide was a bearded and leather- clad giant, loaded with death-deal ing weapons, savage of peet, and voiced like an enraged lion, with the Dearriage and swagger of 4 pirate King or " boss brigand. o was, fin reality, a plain, good-nutured, silent, and unobtrusive little man, with mild 'blue eyes, slender form, pleasant face, delicate hands, curly brown hair, sott voice, and the suave mannerof aquiet and thorough gentleman; but when the best type of manhood was needed on the pliins he wus all there all the time. He was the kero of hundreds of desperate fights with outlaws and Indians; was the chief plamseraft and border knowledge; did 00 boasting; avoided notoriety; blushed when applauded; and wept at 'the sight of human suffering. Ho was over vigi- Iant, keen of eye and scent, never had a quarrel, and never took a life, except in self defense or as o measure of justice, and then he did it unhesitatingly y matter of course. He wasnever p ulways strictly temperate, rode Comanche, and s slllut \, alw: erring. General Fremont, in hi oirs, says of lnm: “Mounted on a fine horse without a saddle, and scouring barcheaded over the prairies, Kit was one of the finest pictures of a_horsem: Lh; ever seen.” He was a Kentuckian by birth and a frontiersman by nature ana was considered by General Fremont to ve the ideal scout, and the best guide that ever crossed the Rockie 1lis almost countless deeds of heroism gained him marked attention and distin- guished consideration from leading peo- le when he once visited Washington. e was then the guest of Senator Benton and under the patronage of Mrs. Fremont he was the lion in society. President Polk appomted him a licutenant in the army and sent him home with an cscort of eavalry. The jealousy of army oflicers in Washington had the “efleet, however, of defeating his coufirmation by congress and when Carson heard of this he wus so diggusted that he dis ed his escort and went to his home in T . M., where he was a ranchman until the day of his death, except during the eivil warin which enlisted as a_private but > to the coloncley of a Colorado regiment. In 1868 he died'at Fort Lyon, Col., sixty pears of age, from injuries received ciglit rs before when the mule he wes vid- ing fell with himupon a pile of stones. He is buried at Taos, and there is a handsome monument to him in the pub- lic place at Santa e, In 1848 the United States bought Fort Laramio and made it am post for the protection of the “*Oregon route’ but the post was not so well garrisoned as to numbers in the days when troops were most needed there as it has been since, Many romantie, and Land trying incidents are connected with its history, the recital of which would be too voluminous for a news- paper article and this sketeh shall th fore close with one incident of serious importance during its carly occupancy by ited States troops. In the spring of 1854 Licutenant Grat- tan, who was a_cadet of the West Point academy from Vermont, joined his com- mand at Fort Laramie and was without experience m Indian warfare, In Au- gust of that r a Mormon emigrant {ruin, bound for Salt Lake, cneamped at apoint about ten miles cast of the fort., Near their camp was a village of Oga- lalla and Bruie Sioux. A young brave returning from an unsuceessful hunt willfully shot a cow which belonged to the Mormons to give vent to his ill-feel- ing over his luck. The Mormons v ing at the fort complained to the com. mandant, and he sent young Grattan out, with twenty-eight men and orders to bring in the eulprit. Sioux chief pretended to desire to give up the of- fender, but the latter went to his tepoe, and lus relatives retused to allow him to be taken, Lieutenant Grattan rashly en- tered the camp, and, the Indians said, aftorwards aimed a howitzer at the tepee and fired, killing several Indians, where- upon the entire viliage fell upon the sol- diers and] killed all of them but ono. He was mortally hurt and was drageed mto some bushes on the river banks by a friendly Indian, who during the night managed to convey the man to the fort, where he was wildly delivious for three days and then died without giving any uccount of the affair. The men of ‘LI u- tenant Grautan’s command were buried on the spot, which is to this day marked by a hoeap of stones, ‘The body of Licute- nant Grattan was sent to Vermont, After ithis incident the fort wasin a state of great anxioty and alarm, there being only thirty men for daty in the garrison, and all expected to be. massa- cred by theinfuriated savaves. To their astonishment, however, the Indians on the following duy struck camp and went Spot anda ailroads ara mem T'6-day, a few miles north of the sc of the G cre, arail lie over-which rattling trams and se " locomotives are running. All of that vast arca of country of which Fort Lar- amic is yet a trading center, and which, less than half a century ago, was the grazing ground of countl thousands of buflalo, with herds of clk, deer and antelobe, 18 now covered with flourishing ranches and mighty herds of cattle, ‘I'n place which was then the fighting-ground of warlike tribos of Indians, each of which claimed the region as thar own, contains now one poor, old, sad-eyed, blinking Ogallala Sioux, and amie, gur- risoned by four or five companics of the Seventh infantry, is a delightful vine- embowergd place, where the oflicers and their wive, sisters, daugiters and their mothers » a delightful society, in- dulge in amateur theatrieals, bathe in the Platte, play croquet, and enj s ing, the least known of all the territorics, is a great empire of itself which the railroads will rapidly develop. It contuins vast deposits of soda, enongh to supply the world for centuries for all uses; it bas almost inconceivable quanti- ties of the finest petroleum, immense for ests of excellent timber, inexhaustible s of the best building stone, un « wines of gold, silver, copper, road. About ten millions of it was owned in Bostou. Nathaniel Taylor wus the largest stockholder, snd he had agreed to deliver to Jay Gould enough to giv, him a controlling interest and uuul:lvlinlu 1o bring the road into inrmony with the Jersey Central, and then disposc of the ote,, and a great urea of rich soil which irrigation will yet cause to bloom 88 a garden - A wopderful gold_mine lias been dis in Sonors, Mexico. Thewiuets got pure metal by breaking the. quarts two as he thought best. But Mr, Taylor wus i with hawwers,