Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 4, 1887, Page 4

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F ednesday. ‘hursday, Fel riday, Feb. %, Average...... cersaeieies Subseribed in my pres o fore we this 26th day of February A, D)., 1857, N. P. FriL, [SEALI Notarv Publie. Geo, B. 'l'zschuck, he!mi first duly sworn, deposcs and says that he s secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual av- rage daily circulation of the Daily Bee for he month of Fobrus 6,wns 10,505 copies; for March, 18%, 11,557 copies; for April, a8, 13,101 copres: for for May, ' 1886, 12,450 coples for Juno, 184, 12,28 coples: for Jily, 18%, 12,314 copies; for August, 185, 12,464 for September, 1886, 13,050 copies coples; s; for October, 14%, 12,989 coples: for November, 1556, 13,348 conie: 251 ), 13, or December, 1856, copies for Janual 587, 1 E0. B, 178CHUCK. Subseribed and sworn to before me this Sth day of February A. D, 1857, [SEAL.| N. P.Fr otary Publle. Wirn Miss Van Zandt in wax and Spies 4n a noose it would indeed bea quict fam- Aly. Tue adumbrant form of Sara Bern- dardt this week appeared before a Wash- Hngton audience. I | | | | | I Sries will get a new trial pretty soon. /Then he will know for certain whether he lovely Nina is to be a widow. Tue man who called Eli Perkins a liar ertainly had no acquaintance with that faman Parks—the reformed informer. | ANY member of the Douglas delegation ..} Who allows lumself to be tampered with " by the o1l room lobby will be called to a strict reckoning. | ANOTHER bridge across the Missouri, a eablo car line and countless brick and Rranite blocks are a few things enumer- ated in Omaha’s boom. Conaress adjourns at noon to-day and 4f the legislature of Nebraska could have %een induced to terminate its toil there would be great relief to the people as Well as the papers ession of the senate will doubtless be called by the president to act upon appointments, and Nebraska's democratic congressman will now come forwarda with his requisitions for pat- ronage. AN extra | ? S————— i MR. WATTERSON devotes considerable | of hls valuable time in writing articles to show that Mr. Cleveland cannot be elected agamn. Sofar he has not given an opinion | i as to what chance Henry George would stand, ¥ Mg. Youna held out bravely ngainst i 8 the blandishments and threats of the xailroad and pavers’ lobby. If he weak- ens now the workingmen of Omaha, whose representative he is, will know the Teason why. AMONG the proceedings of the last day of the forty, in which bills may be intro- duced, it is written that ‘‘Mr. Colby in- troduced two new bills.”” Of the several Bundred presented by the Gage county statesman an anxious public wonders how many of them will be passed. SE————— AND now Russell Sage is in trouble. A woman for whom he speculated, sues Jum for losses sustained by what she is pleased to term his ‘‘bull-headed ignor- ance.” Before Mr. Sage is through with this matter, he will doubtless be- lieve that woman is a greater institution than our navy. CE—— THERE is a brief reference in a recent mumber of Science to a remarkable case in which the breath of an individual, or rather the eructations from his stomach, . took fire when brought in contact with a lighted match. The article did not say, but it is supposml the person referred to ‘was a Lincoln lobbyist. E————— Mz, Boyp is playing the same old game, He doesn’t want to be renomi- pmated mayor. He would'n have the office if it was tendered on a silver sal- ver. But his underhanded work against the charter shows that he is not only dis- gruntled, but has a lingering hope of another term. Those are his old tactics. He not want the oftice two years ago, but quietly worked up s boom by the bogus citi- zens' movement, When he found the council against him he threatened to re- mgn. At the end of the first year he was still mayor, but warned everybody that the re-election of Bechel and a majority against him would bring disaster on © Omaha in the shape of his resignation. Bechel was re-clected and the council re- mained adverse, but the disaster has not yeot occurre e—— IN the Chicage Ttmes of last Monday appeared a special from Lincoln with a sensational report about alleged bribery " in the senatorial campaign. Several . members of the lower house were named " 28 having been offered bribes in the in- terest of General Van Wyck. Two of these members were prompuy inter- ~ wlewed by the editor of the Ber about this report, and both very emphatically declared that they knew nothing wha ever that would in any way justify such report concerning themselves. They expressed much surprise that their names “should be coupled with such a charge, ‘and thought that it emanated from a . seasatiopal reporter. Now another party, ng after notoricty, has stiruck the mare's nest, but he cautiously re- from naming his informant. McShane's Organ. *The purchase ot the Herald at the price paid, including the real estate, is doubt- less a good venture if regarded as a com- mercial epeculation. But as a move by o lucky and ambitious politician to secure a personal organ to still further advance his political fortunes, we predict that dis- appointment will ensue. In the castern states the practice of ownership or con- trol of mnewspapers by politicians to sound their praise, print their spe defend their votes or acts and at all times to advocate their political advancement has long since grown into “inocuous desuetude.”” As the press grew strong its members found more protit, independ- en and self-respect in serving the ple’s interests than those of any individ- ual, and even where the service of the public to that of an individual was not preferred, the papers worth buying be- came too valuable to be bought by poli- ticians, whose usual eapital consisted in personal ambition and the hope ot gain from the public oftice they sougnt. But as too often happens the worn out theories and practices of the east, in this as in other respects, e been transferred to the west, where the rapid acquisition of fortunes in mining, grazing and real estate usually begets the desire for political distinetion and leadership. Great and rapidly ac- quired fortunes seem unsatisfying to men of the west unless they can be made instrumental in securing political pre- ferment, and to this end most of them lavish money recklessly and unscrupu- lously at primarios and conventions, at the polls and in the legislatures, and in the purchase or subsidizing of newspa- pers, until it has become the reproach of the west that quickly acquired wealth controls all the avenues and steps to political preferment from the ward caucus to the United States eenate. Colorado is a case in point, Ex-Sena- tor Hill paid $180,000 to buy, and thus to silence the opposition of the Denver T'ribune, the paper itself not being worth probably a third of that sum. He also partially or wholly owned many other papers throughout the state, andin hi political contests he has squandered what would be adequate fortunes for many men of moderate desires. And yet all his money and newspapers failed to sccure his re-election, Ex Governor Tabor is another man suddenly become rich, who was infected with political am- bition. He was made lieutenant gover- nor, then strove to be governor, then United States senator for a full term, but only secured the sop of a thirty-day va- cancy, during which he made himself as ridiculous as a man of his antecedents might be expected todo. Then he strove again to be governor and failed, and will doubtless continue to strive for that or other office so long as his life or his money last. In all these contests he has been the most credulous and easily-im- posed upon man conceivable; he has bought his newspapers, as usual, and poured out his money like water. In these examples and others that could be cited there is & warning for John A. McShane. Of course his eye is upon the United States senate. His election to the house as the result of an unworthy republican nomination has given him the idea that he is the coming man of his party in the state, and he believes that a personal organ and the closing of the breach between the packing-house and slaughter-house factions of his party, which he hopes thereby to effect, will pave his way to Senator Manderson's seat. But it will be strange if in his case, as in that of others, his organ does not prove his runin. When a man's own paper lauds him, it is to the public ear like the tinkling of brass and the sounding of cymbals. The independence of the paper is known to be gone, and its influence goes with it. Personally John A. Me- Shane is a worthy man; as a politician he has made the mistake of buying an organ. A Small, But Happy Surprise, Oceasionally there are happy surprises. They are in store for us all. They are slow sometimes in making their appear- ance. Yet they generally come along. The gratifying information comes from Lincoln that the governor has signed senate file number four, fixing the maxi- mum passenger rates in Nebraska at three cents per mile. While this has been the rate in eastern and central Nebraska, onrailroads known as *‘first-class,” those living west of the 100th meridian have been compelled to pay four cents per mile; while on roads rating below first- class, three and one-half cents have been exacted throughout the state. Now all roads in all localities in this state will charge the same—three cents per mile. While railway legislation is badly needed, it has appeared from recent happenings at the capital that no relief whatever would be oftered. Tws new law offers and guarantees relief from extortionate passenger rates in the locality where relief is most needed. An imaginary line isno longer considered. The bill presumes that in a state so populous as Nebraska there can be no ‘‘class” of rail- roads. On the principle that a half loaf is better shan none, so small a slice will be accepted if that is all that is offered or can be obtained. The reduction is not much. It is a little, however, and & step long needed in the right direction. And while it 1s but little, it is yet a happy sur- prise. The citizens of the western part of our state, those who open up the coun- try and make it possible for railroads to operate, will yet be compelled to suffer the outrageous freight charges which have crippled them in all past years. They will be ruthlessly plundered for two years more. And if it continues lawful for railroad managers to swarm the state capital at each session with their hirelings and henchmen, the hope for relief at any time remains a dim picture. When the inter-state commerce law is put in opera- tion we shall look for a more hiberal rate. But even then,with classifications to mys- tify and experts to explain, the merchant doing business in the country town, who purchases small bills of goods will no doubt continue to pay unreasonable tolls. The government law will regulate tain kinds of transportation. Yet abs lute relief cannot be offered, It gener- ally requires state luws to govern states. ‘They must conform with government laws., Certain restrictions and require- ments may be necessary in Nebraska, while in other states the needs and wants might be direotly opposite. What is needed now and what has long been wanted 1n Nebraska, is, plainly, a law preyenting railroads, operating within the boundaries of our state, from wreck- ing towns, plundering the populace, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1887. monopolizing necessary articles of food and fael —and at the same time compel- ling them to carry products of the farm to eastern markets only at reasonable prices, The duties of common carriers should be defined. 1t ought not to be their privilege to have a horde of town-site barnacles following in their wake preying upon prosperous communitics by exacting “bribes” and “gifts,” or wrecking towns when their illegal demands are not granted. We hold that a railroad company has no right to organize or countenance the or- ganization of bands of vultures and bum- mers and give them its protection. Almost every town started in Nebraska during the last ten years has been com- pelled to experience the raids of these unserupulous schemers, The people of this state ve been long- suffering and kind, They @ seen their intercsts absorbed and their wishes laughed at. They have given and given when they knew the exactions were legal- ized robberies. As a rule the masses are slow to move. They act with caution, but always with precision. They will suffer just so much and no more. Mark this prophecy. Unless more railway legislation is secured than the simple re- duction of passenger tarifl, there will be a grand uprising of the people two years hence. And it will be a sorry day for those who have been so prominent this year in defeating the people’s expressed wants and desires. The Knights and the Pope. In view of the hostile attitude of the suprome head of the Catholic church to the Knights of Labor, as expressed through Cardinal Taschereau, of Cunada, Iast year,the published report of Cardinal Gibbons to the pro on the same subject is worthy of special notice, not only as showing a wide difference of opinion between the heads of the church in Canada and the United States, but as giving evidence of a change of views by the pove himself. For it is clear that the propaganda would not have given out for publication so strong an argu- ment against its previous decision it 1t did not foreshadow achange of that de- cision. Cardinal Gibbons reports how care- fully and thoroughly the commission of twelve archbishops, which assembled in Baltimore in October last, considered and investigated the constitution, laws, pur- poses and practices of the Knights of Labor, and that only two of their num- ber voted for their condemnation. He explains how entirely free the order is from the objection of the church to sceret societies, and explains not only its entire accordance withour laws and institutions, at least in its aims if not always in its methods, but the social condition of labor and 1ts relation to capital which justify some kind of organization of the former to secure fair treatment from the latter. His defense of the aims of the Knights of Labor is very frank and logical, and can= not fail, we think, in presenting the mat- ter in so new and convincing a light to Leo XIIL as to secure a reversal of his previous decision. In summing up the cardinal suggests some prudential considerations why the church should not be arrayed against our American labor organizations, chiefly because American Catholics do not admit that it is a question affecting any doctrine, and therefore not within the province of the chu to deal with. He plainly tells the propaganda that its condemnation would be rebelled against and could not be enforced; that it would be dangerouns to the reputation of the church in our democratic country, and ruinous to its finances by the cutting off of Peter's pence. Itis one of the strong points “of the cardinal's plea that he urges the propaganda not to allow the church to be branded as ‘‘un-Ameri- can.’”” His entire argument, as well as the events connected with the suspen- sion of Father McGlynn must make it clearer to the council at Rome than ever before that whenever the church is ar- rayed against the individual and political libertics of its votaries in free America, the church will have to go to the wall. The far-reaching power of the church in past ages, or even in the present age, in old Catholic countries will not be sub- mitted to here. When Daniel O'Connell said: ‘“As much religion as you please, but no polities from Rome,” he exactly expressed the feelings of Catholics in this country. So long as the church con- forms to the spirit of our free institu- tions it will maintain its power and ex- tend 1ts influence on our soil, but when it forgets that this is a democratic country, self-governed by a free people, it will find the rebellious spirit of 1776 latent but living. But the church is wise, and it will find reasons enough in its varied history and experiences for gracefully yielding where prudence dictates. It could gain nothing in a conflict with its American children, and it would lose its strongest supporters in the world to.day. For these reasons, more than because the cardinal thinks the organization of the Knights transient, there will, we think, be no condemnation and therefore no contlict with Mother Churel Not a Happy Political Family, The New York ZUmes is authority for the statement that the democratic party in that region *is in a condicion of v unstable equilibrim.” *It has,"' s that journal, ‘‘more leaders than it can safely carry, and as many opinions and policies as there are sides to the promi- nent public questions of the day.”” This will answer very well as a description of the situation of the party as a whole, and still representing hostile policies regard- ing tie distribution of patronage with Ran- dall and Carlisle pulling in opposite direc- tions on the tanfl,with the secretary of the treasury arrayed against the majority of his party on the silver question, with the representatives of the party in con- gress aivided into hostile factions and waging+ against each other a re- leutless warfare, surely the democratic party is more severely afllicted with war- ring leaders and different policies than any other political organization in this country has ever becn. Nor does there appear to be any promise that this situa- tion will be improved in the near future. On the contrary the indications are that it is likely to become worse. Recent cir- cumstauces are contributing to a dissen- sion and an in¢reasing disturbance, But we are immediately concerned about the state of affairs in New York, which it may be remarked has more than a local significance. Whatever af- fects the unity and harmony of the de- mocracy of New York during the next fifteen months must have a national in- terest. The situation which is described by the Ziomes in the danguage we have quoted appears to be due entirely to the now celebrated letter of Mayor Hewitt, contributed to the literary part of the banquet of the Young Men's Democratic club of Brooklyn, but suppressed by the president of the club i deference to Governor Hill, and since made publie by its author. We have heretofore called attention to this precious epistie, sug- gosting at the same time that it was likely to create a commotion. We are therefore not at all surprised that it done so. We now supplement our first suggestion with the prediction that the commotion created will be felt far enough in the future to have an import. ant effect upon the demoeratic vote in the next national campaign. The present consequences are very marked, and from a party point of view serious. Mr. Hewitt stands unfal- teringly by the v s expressed in the letter, which were unfriendly to the methods of organized labor, while he at the same time reflected sharply upon democratic leaders who uphold these methods in order to gain the labor vote, It was a startling attitude for so promi- nent a democrat as Mr. Hewitt to assume, but it is found that he lias many reputable members of the party with him. On the other hand, some of the leading local demoerats are forcibly disclaiming any sympathy with the attitude of Mr. Hewitt and allege that he misrepresents demo- cratic sentiment, A speech of one of these, Judge Power, delivered at a dinner of the county democratic committee, in which the cause of labor is extolled and the policy of calling the labor vote back is urged, is referred to as the true ex- position of the fecling of the democratic party toward labor. The friends of Gov- ernor Hill, too, are disposed to resent the imputation upon him conveyed in the letter of Mr. Hewitt. Thus two f; holding opinions sharply at var have been ecreated in the democ New Yerk by this controversy, and the two most prominent party leaders of the state are distinetly ar- rayed agamst each other. At the same time serious dissensions have broken out in the ranks of the Brooklyn elub, which threaten to destroy that organiza- tion. It is diflicult to conceive of « more unhappy and inharmonious political fam- ily. Mesnwhile, what must the labor of the country think of the unmasking which this contention has cflected? Must not the effect inevitably be to shake its confidence in demoeratic professiors of friendship? Mr. Hewitt may not have been discereet in this matter, but he was honest. He candidly eonfessed his hos- tility to organized labor, and with equal candor he exposed the insincerity of other democratic, leaders who coquet with labor simply to use it. Disintegrating Tendencles. It cannot be doubted that in the course of time the British possessions in North America will declave their independence of Great Britain. This may not happen in the next or for several gencrations, inevitable that with the growth possessions in population and wealth, with the succession of people upon whom the constraints of tradition and the sentiment of loyalty would rest very lightly, with the progressof the now advancing idea of home rule, with the incentive to independence that comes of self-conscious power, and with the ex- ample of the United States constantly exerted as a powerful influence, Great Britain wili sooner or later be compelled to surrender her colonial possessions on this continent. Practically imperial con- trol in the provinces of North Ameriea is now little more than a matter of form. The government of Canada never makes a demand that is not acceded to by the imperial government. There was no dif- ficulty, and not much delay, in securing che assent of the crown to the legislation greatly enlarging the power of the Cana- dian authorities for seizing American vessels, although palpably hostile to the United States. The disposition of Eng- lish statesmen in recent years has al- ways been manifested in the direetion of cajoling and placating the majority sen- timent of British subjects i1n North Ameriea. Otherwise the existing policy of the Dominion, which antagonizes that of Great Britain, would not have been permitted tostand. Otherwise the course of the Canadian government in relation to the fishery dispute would not have been allowed to go to the extremily it has, compelling this government to adopt a policy of aliation. English statesmen have for more than a genera- tion understood that the price of colonial loyalty oa this continent is concession to the colonial sentiment that is in the majority. Nevertheless this has not wholly stayed the progress of the disintegrating ten- denc They have been growing steadily, and in some quarters rapidly. They are most conspicuous in the mari- time provinces, but they are present in greater or less degree everywhere. The more active growth of the spirit of re- volt against the imperial government in the maritime provinces Is due to the fact that they have been made to feel most severely the displeasure of the loyal ele- ment that wiclds the power, Their in- terests have been neglected, their rights ignored, their appeals disregarded, all by way of punishing their past contu- macy. The effect has certainly been dis- astrous to them. 'They have suffered and are suffering, as the recent accounts of deplorable, hardship and privation in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia amply attest. ' Andl they are bear- ing disaster and sufléring with most ad- mirable courage, while proclaiming with greater firmness than ever what they be- lieve to be their rights. ‘The recent addressof the Newfound- land legislature to the imperial govern ment voices the prevailing sentiment in the maritime provinces, and may prove to be the first act of a most interesting crisis, in which all of them will be in- volved. The one condition against such a crisis is of course the comparative help- lessness of these provinces, which are not so well able relatively to assert and maintain their independence as were the American colonies, poor as they we The aggregate population of the mari- time provinces of the Dominion and New- foundland does not exceed a million and a quarter, and they have few resources and little eredit. But the deliberate nd taken by the people of Newfound- land will not be abandoned without some sort of a struggle, notwithstanding th e adverse decision of the colowal secre- tary. They will attempt a resistance of the further nvasion of the nghts they claim, and the force and extent of the resistance will depend upon the outside sympathy and support they can com- mand. It may be feeble and short- lived, as the circumstances would seem to suggest, and yet it might become serious. In any event, it must be re- garded as striking evidence of a prevail- ing temper hostile to imperial control which is not confined to Newfoundland, as later events wilt undoubtedly show, and which is very certain to grow under the influences we have already indicated. —_— Tue senatorfal dead lock in New Jor- sey has been broken by the election of Rufus Bloodgett, a democrat, by the aid of republican votes. The election of democrat, or no election at all, has ap- peared from the beginning to be the only possible outcome of the contest, and in that view the defeat of Leon Abbett, who has resorted to every disreputable, illegal and revolutionary party device to secure his own clection, is a subject for congrat- ulation. In the senatorial elections so far the net republican loss is only one. We lose one in New Jersey, but we gained one in Nevada, The Turpie elec- tion in [ndiana will doubtless not stand, and the one really lost is in California. The republican majority in the senate is small, but it is solid. — By asking for a too extended scope of retaliation, the house periled the success of the measure altogether, and it is a sub- jeet for congratulation that it has re- ceded and accepted the senate's bill, which conlined retaliation to the precise subjects and cases involved in Canada’s untriendly and, as we hold, illegal con- struction of the existing treaty of 1818, and of the commercial arrangements made in 1880. When retaliation in kind has been tried, should it be found inade- quate it can be extended. Better that than to go too far at first. —_— Tue Rev. Henry Ward Beccher after endorsing ain brands of soap as “'su- perior,” now comes to the front attesting the excellence of certain newspapers. Mr. Beecher, in his way, isa wonderful man. It might be added that as yet he has not endorsed either of our esteemed contemporar —_—_— CarDINAL Ginpoxs defends the Knig of Labor. He maintains that the spi of the orderis in accord with the teach- ings of the church, and predicts that the order will finally accomplish gratifying results to all classes, A BILL appropriating over three thous- and dellars for the relief of Otoe county in the prosccution of Quinn Bohanan, has just passed. This murderer has proven ail but a mascotte to the state of Nebraska. RATHER than be called a back-pay grab- ber, Mr. Majors files a protest on the twenty day extention. The Nemaha statesman could avoid any such sus- picion by refusing to accept over $3 per day. A GREAT deal of trouble, according to reports, is caused in Chicago by money counterfeiters. 1f they would try to counterfeit decency there this would be a far better world. Ir Mrs. Druse had lived to see some of the wood cuts purporting to be her pic ure, she unquestionably would have thought that after all it was well that she was to be hanged. SE—— Tresk balmy days suggest the thought that tha actor of high tragedy who has about completed his winter's engage- ment, will soon be looking for a situation. Ir the charter isn't worn out in going through the hands of different committees we have an abiding faith thatit will finally be passed. S— Nor at all a sporting man, yet Cleve- land has his Trotter, just the same. —_— THE F1ELD OF DUSTRY. Electric light enterprises are sprirging up by the score. Twenty-four strikes are reported in varlous parts of the country. The spinners of Fall River have sent in their request for an advance of wages. Wages have been advanced at six places in Pennsylvania within the past few days. ‘The Harmony miils, at Cohoes, New York, run more looms than all the mills In the state of Georgia. Material for water works and gas works and pipe material of all kinds Is in very active demand. Cotton manufactories are to be built at Charlotte, N. C., at Tuscaloosa, Ala., and Columbus, Miss. Some of the New England cotton goods manufacturers are feeling the pressure of Georgia competition, Atnotime have as many manufacturing enterprises been projected as at this time; they cover almost every branch of maunu- facturing. An immense iron works in Illinois, nearly opposite St. Louis, bullt by a German syndi- cate twelve years ago at a cost of $1,500,000, is to be started up. Notwithstanding the high perfection which the German cotton spinning industry has reached, & large number of spinners have kept their plants running at a loss, There are nearly 130 New York journey- men plumbers receiving strike benelfits, and they have been out six months, The ap- prenticeship question 1s the trouble. A law has been passed in Maine forbidding any child under fifteen years of age working when the public schools are in session, and that minors under twelve years of age shall not be employed at any time, The Pittsburg bricklayers have agreed to work nine hours. The puddlers are all dis- cussing the change to be made in the July scale ot wages. Pittsburg will soon have 653 puddling furnaces in operation. A Philadelphia firm has just closed the largest single blast furnace contract in Ala- bama that has ever been made in America, and work will be begun at once. It will take nearly a year and a half to complete the en- tire work. The makers of mining machinery, hy- draulie pumps, ore crushers, and of all ma- i d in gold, silver, copper and coal mining, are busier at this time than they have been for many years. The output of gold and silver is inereasing. Some of the large corporations of Magsa- chusetts propose to test the constitutionality of the weekly payment act, on the ground that if a corporation and an elll;'ploye soe fit agree to monthly or other ments the state has no right to Inzerleu. ks A large amount of English capital 18 find- i-!'g lflwmwfll? Awflcnr mines. ”l‘{'w inglish are Ing 0 niner: of the Unhed i }yh‘.“fi’. States and are apparent] ‘mined to eapture the most desir; ne pre their utmost capaci wl bluuu' and will work them to y. ‘The Knights of Labor movewent s pro- grossing steadily In the southern states. Richmond alone has twenty-six local assem- biies which meet every week, besides two district assenblies which meet twice a month, There are more Assemblies being organized at the present time in the southern states than in any other section of the country. The dyers’ strike in Paterson is closing down a good many mills; there are only about 8,000 silk operatives now at work., One concern has given in. For all this, capital- ists are Interested in silk mills and the fu- ture of the f soems bright. American silks are making their way, and silk is being stimulated all ove culture Thisis Lent. So isa great deal of money at extortionate rates of interest, if legislators are not mistaken. A Sclfish Look Ahead. Minneapotis Tribune, The Indiana legislature has appropriated $50,000 for the erection of a home tor the feeble-minded. Preparing a place where they may pass their declining years in peace en? —_— The Real Obstructionists, Clevetand Leader, 1n Ohin, and in this country generally, practical temperance reforms may be looked for from the republican party, while little else than obstruction can come from the third party prohibitionists. i Worth Consid Bost Gl If some of our theological brethren would stop quibbling over probation after death and look after the poor souls who are enduring probation here it might be the salvation of many. PSS =N— Waste of Golden Hours, Harper's Magazine. Like to impatient children when the sky Frowns on some morn of longed-for festal day To clieat their happy hearts of out-door play, We fl"ul when seuds of 11l above us fly, And every cloud and menace magnify, Till thus we waste our manhood’s strengti, as they Their zest for pleasure in some in-door way, Our age scarce wiser than th r infancy. se the clouds afar d gloom upon them If we could ehafe and el Rather than borrow bring, Our gain its lack of erace might palliate, But leave us yet with manliness at war, That brave defiance to all fate would fling, And by endurance make us strong and great. —— STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings, _Hog cholera is again running loose in Frontier county. Schuyler is preparing to don the toga of a city of the sccond class, Plattsmouth is talking up a milling company with a capital of $40,000 to build and operate a plantin that city. Ira Davenport, a well known politician m New York, has purchased a tract of acres of land near Fremont for $23,000. The Nebraska City News hails the sale of the Omaha Herald as the dawn of peace and good will in the democratic ranks. A Nebraska City inventor has perfected a machine for regstering hogs. He ex peets to reap a fortune among real estate agents. Soap ! The two railroads passing through Nemaha county, the B. & M. and the Missouri Pacific, pay $20,000 a year taxes into the treasury of that county. A fool burglar in Hastings, after load- ing himself with cutlery 'in Brasen's hardware store, tumbled into a yawning cellarway and yelled for help. A police- man helped him to jail. A number of Ponca's enterprising small boys haye put up boxes around town which will be used as receptacles for orders for work of all kinds which may be suitable for the youngsters to do. The Wymore Reporter apologizes for endorsing J. M. Fuller during the fall campaignas a reliable, trustworthy, hon- est man. Fuller holds down a seat in the lower house of the legislature and works his mouth. “Do you sell these buckwheat cakes by the acre®’ whispered a rural statesman to a wail in a Lincoln restaurant re- cently. “No,sah; dey hab advanced and we holds dem by de front foot.”” “Well, give me a few inches and as much depth as the market will stand.” ‘‘Notes from Lreland’’ is the title of an innocent looking little pamphlet sent from the “ould sod” to all the daily news- paper offices 1n the United States. It is a weekly collection of crumbs for the ta- bles of Irish landlords, detailing the ‘‘valorons” deeds of the eviction army 1n driving from their homes the aged and bedridden, and the ‘‘glorious’ work of the flaming torch and erowbar. This ash-barrel of Irish tyranny is filled and distributed gratis throughout the United States by the “‘Irish Loyal and Patriotic union.”” Seratch it and you will find an Orangeman and an infernal opponent of his country’s progress, or an Irish rene- §mle purchased by the quecn’s shilling. me& 1ilf a small space in the waste bas- ket, 2 lowa ltems, The town of Wilton 18 out of debt. Jackson county has a first-class stock of open saloons. ‘Wright county farmers are losing cat- tle from some unknown disease. Hartley citizens are agitating the question of starting a cheese factory. Keokuk paid $27,975,45 in teachers’ salaries for the school year just ended. The Des Moines Leader declares that the reports of natural gas wells in the state are ‘‘all vapar.” The internal revenue collections in the Davenport district for February amounted to $97,757.11. The salaries of teachers in Des Moines last year amounted to $47,782,08. The gas bill was only $17,363.20. A pevmanent injunction has been is- sued against the city council of Des Moines, prohibiting the further increase of the city debt. The will of the late John C. MaCaus- land of Davenport is to be contested by dissatisfied relatives, The usual plea of undue influence and diseased mind is set up. The Burlington assessor reports there will be a decrease of at least §30,000 in the amount of personal property there this year, owing to failures, removals and retirement from business. ‘The annual report of the oflicers of the Dubuque Home of the Friendless shows there were thirteen adults and twenty-one children in the institution and the receipts e $4,050.66 and the expenditures §2,582.07. Montana, The legislature has pagsed a bill pro- hibiting variety shows. Silver bar shipments from Butte for the week ending Febriury 26, were valued at $114,832, Tke output of the Helena Mining and Reduction company for the last six months of 1886 was $515,901.81, divided as follows: _Gold, 7,66{ pennyweights; silver, 203,068 ounces; lead, 4,830,596 pounds, May next is set down as the time when the [/tah & Northern will_widen out_to broad guage from Pocatello to Butte. The advance of the main line from Dillon to Helena will _probably commence in earnest early @ the spring. Advices from all parts of the territory show that the chinook, which commenced on Suturday, eontinues with unabated force. It has carried off a great part of the snow, except in the mountains, and the cattlo are again feeding and re: thing from their recent severe experience. The her, if it continues, will cause a flood in the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers and other streams, Butte is a hve city. The conspiring elements, blockading the r;\ilrnn'h_) u..]? surtinlly checked its stapendous mininj; industries. The great silver and copner bonanzas are showing undiminished out puts of ore, and the aggregation of mil and smel.ers are as actively operated s at any time in the hismrf— of the camn The volume of mereantile business i past year was equaled by no preceding year, and in sympathy with the vast ¢\ pansion in nnuin;i development, the ¢ty promises a wonderful advance and increase in proportion t| presentyear. Butte has plenty of 1 sources, and its prosperity is assured for deeades to come. The commission created by the United States senate_to treat with the Indians of northern Montana has concluded its labors. The agreements they have made with the Indians will, as soon as ratificd by congress, restore to the public domain in Montana about 17,500,000 acres of land. The huge rescrvation, which occu- pies the northern half of the territory from the Rocky mountains to the Dakota border, containg about 23,000,000 acres About six million of th the Indians will n in three differe located at Fort Peck, Fort Belknap, the Blackfoot agencies. For the cession of this enormous tract of land to the government the Indiang are to receivo $1,300,000 in yearly installinents, The Pacific Coast, Fresno and Merced farmers are begin ning to use the steam plow in cultivating their fields. A male child with three legs was born i amtly in San Lwis Obispo Red Bluf'is a healthy eity. The loeal tombstone maker has been compelled to file his petition for insolvency. ,I.'l.““r" are more men at work in the lombstone, A. ‘I, mines at the present time than there has been for the past two There is more demand for mining prop- erty and more sules have been made in New Mexico and Arizora in the last six months than there has been for seve eral years. The town of Woodland, when incor- porated in 1874, had an assessed valuation of property amounting to $664,5 At the present time the valuation has in. creased to about $2,000,000. A mica mine near Moscow, Nez Perco aounty, Idaho, recently sold for $90,000 has been rasold to other parties 000. The deposit of mica is said to be very large and of fine quality. Indian Jerry, of Fresno Flat, recently ended n sentence of 1,000 days for killing another [ndian. He celebrated s return to camp by the murder ot a second Indian and is now in jail awaiting trial. A scheme is on foot in the Nevada log- islature to appropriate $250,000 as a starter toward making a tunnel four miles in length to tap Lake Tahoe, so lhu{ Carson City can secure water power and become a manufacturing town. AFTER TWENTY-FOUR YEARS. Dr. Jobn Taylor Finds His Wife and Daughter After Long Separation- Cleveland Leader: John Taylor was born in this city about forty-five years ago. He was the son of a Presbyterian minister. y resided in Cleve- s before the rebel- d to the south. The secured a pastorate and his children became imbued with the southern spirit. Before leaving Cleve- land John Taylor married a handsoma young lady, but the alli without the consent of hi wife went south with him, how aking out ot the war Taylor en in a confederate regiment. Hig cedily recognized by hlg superior and promotion was rapid. The time came when a trusted emissary had to be sent to England on an important mission. ylor being aquick, intelligent man with diplomatic qual ties, he was detailed to go. The trip oc- cupied several months, and when Taylor returned found that a danghter had been born to him during his absence, ‘aylor had peen but a short time with his family wheu the rebel government again needed his service and he was des- patched to England for a second time. A great sorrow was in store for him, and when here turned to his southern home he inquired for his wife and child. He was told by his friends that both were dead. The war was soon ended and a fow months later Taylor’s father died in Cin- cinnati. His estate was divided among seven children, and John received #3,000 as his share. With this money he went to England and studied medicine in Lon- don. Graduating, he setiled in a small city not far from London. His practice was not very lucrative, and, after return- ing to London for n short time, he went to Australia. Here he fotlowed his pro- fession successfully. During all these years he searched for his daughter, not believing that she haa died. " In pursuit of her he twice came to this city, but could not find the slightest trace of her. Mrs Tay.or was told, so it has been as- certained lately, that her husband was dead, and soon after she came north, and has resided principally in Cleveland, The daughter became a” young lady and about a year ago she married a machinest named Meyer. She told her husband that the believed her father was not dead, and her reasons for holding that opinion. Meyer determined to find the father if he was alive. He wrote several letters to London, and received an answer that Taylor had studied medicine. Further mvestigation was made, and it was learned that Taylor had gone to Austra- lia. Knowing that Dr, Taylor had al way en an interest in sporting mat- ters, his daugiter caused advertisements to be placea in the leading sporting journals of London and New York city. Nothing was heard in response to these notices,and letters were addressed to Dr. Taylor at Melbourne and Sydney, 1n Austrailia. The letter addressed to him at the latter place fell into his hands about four months ago. He immediately answered it, and soon after reccived one from his danghter, stating that she and her mother wede still alive and living in Dr. Taylor did not wait to answer the last missive, but, packing up, he took the first steamer for Sun Fran. cisco, and arrived in Cleveland two weeks ago. He met his wife and daugh- ter after a separation gof twenty-four i - S ———————————————————