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

4 THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. g TERWA OF RUBSCRIPTION © Showing His Hand. ‘The Herald has not sald much of late upon the subject of Omaha’s proposed new charter because the subject has already been amply discussed in these columns. It begs leave to assure the gentlemen of the legislature, on the eve of action, however, that the instru- 250 | mentas reported from the judiciary comimit- tee of the house is wholly satisfactory to nine-tenths of the people of Omaha. It ATIA OFrICR. NO. 01 Avn 018 FARNAM Sraery, | WOUld further particularly recommend that vw York OFFice, Roou &, TRIRUNE BUILDING. | the majority report of the Douglas county - bl OURTEENTH STREET. | qalegation on the section in relation to the d CORRESPONDENCE: board of public works be not heeded, but P All communications relating to news andedi- | that the judiciary committee's substitution of torial matter should be addressed to the EbI- | the clause in the present charter be adopted. e —Omaha Herald, B 1 ETTRRSS T ¢ : AT businoss Jottors antiromittanoosshouid be | _The Acrald does not voice the senti: dressed to Tre Bew PusLisaiNa CoMpaNy, [ ment of Omaha on the charter any more than it has voiced public sentiment on MARA. Drafts, checks and postofico orders 0 be made payable to the order of the company. s any issue during the last ten years. A paper that eirculates less than twelve THE BEE PUBLISHNG CONPANY, PROPRIETORS, ‘ hundred copies in a city of 80,000 popula- tion, is 1n no sense a representative of popular sentiment. The truth is, that the only parties in Omahe that oppose the charter as compiled by the charter J itte d revise Douglas Dougl 88 committee, an 1 revised by flm g g::.n:’y %’,m‘fe::' }srvrflury of The Bee | delegation, are the monopolies and rings Publishing company, does solemnly swear | that seek control of our public works. Shat the actun! cireuiation of the Daily Bee | This fact s patent toeverybody in the com- ontha Omaha Sunday address, One Year.. B, malied to any nlaremeivions A0 Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska, 52?m..°~"‘"" b L L e munity. The sccret of the opposition lies gltunun Feb. 2. in the fact that the provisions of the new unday, Feb. 27 charter are very stringent with regard to y ifl%‘,, ';fl’,‘. Mi_ the regulation of gas companies, street ‘ednesday, Mar., 2 railways and telephone companies. The hursday, hn‘r. [ composition and the power of e o111 the new board of public works, AVErage.......oue make jobbery by contractors much GEo. B, Tz 3 Eubseribed in my presence and sworn to be- fore me this 7th day of A\Iflr"th A.v!).. 1857, . P. FRIL, Notarv Publie. more dificult than it has been, under the present charter. Hence we find the own- ers and managers of the street railways, Gro.mi!l?"]:chnet. being first duly sworn, | &1 compavies and telephone companies deposes and says that he fis secretary of The | combining with the contractors and cer- Bee Publishing company, that the actual av- | tain syndicates to mutilate the charter. erage daily circulation of the Daily Bee for the month of Fuebruary, 1886, was 10,505 copies ; for March, 11,637 copies; for April, 188, 12,191 comes: for for May, 1886, 12,430 coples; for June, 1856, 12,208 coples lnr.lulg‘. 1856, 12,314 copies; for Aucust, 1856, 12,4 The new proprietor of the FHerald is evidently in full accord with this class of patriots. He wants the charter amended in the interests of monopolies, rin coples;for September, 1886, 13,030 coptes; for | land speculating syndicates. That i: October, 185, 12,080 copies; for November, 4 {81, tis8 i 4 886, 13,348 eonies: for December, 195, 13,237 | ® desire which does credit to a man occupying his position. e The City Campaign. Charter or no charter, the city cam- paign is now open. Unless the law is changed within a few days the city elec- tion will take place on the fifth day of April, just four weeks from this day. The importance to Omaha of this cle tion can hardly be exaggerated. It is not merely a question of offices and spoils, but of good or bad government. eopies for January, 1887, 16,266 copies, GEo. B, TZ3CHUCK. Subscribed and sworn to before me this Sth ‘l{‘flf February A . 87, SEAL.| N. P. Frir, Notarv Publie. Tug Herald was mju;enn ad, but its policy remains the same. MaNY great men have died during the last century. None of them were greater than Henry Ward Beecher. Tur. dream of every Englishman's heart, just now,1s to see Buffalo Bill's :)f tho next mr\yflr‘ ""11 o cuunci‘i | jorned ,orse, from that blarsted Hamer- | P¢COMe mere eIl LRILED e ica, you knaw. stool-pigeons of contractors and large corporations the city will i be drivenon the highway to bankruptey and ruin. History will only repeat itself. With hundreds of thousands of dollars to be expended on public works during the next two years, it is but natural that contractors’ rings would make an organ- ized and desperate cffort to capture the city government. It remains to be seen whether our citizens will sur- render these vital interests into such hands. TaE world is selfish. No matter how | many years of usefulness a great man ! may live, there is always deep regret at fi s departure from the material world. i3 o s l MEexico is getting ahead of us. Another bull tight down there. Just wait until Mr. Sullivan’s arm finally recovers and this country will make Mexico ashamed I of itself. 28 Tr the inter-state commerce law has | For our part we shall support no can- 18 been properly interpreted, those holding | didate for any city office who has a t; passes had better do their riding pretty moon. ‘The first of April is rushing rapidly toward us. up with contractors or corporate monop- olies. We hope to see honest and com-, petent men nominated for every .ity office. Butif the jobbers and plunder- ers pack the conventions, we shall exer- cise the privilege of opposing bad and dangerous candidates, just as we have always done. e E—— Tne junketing orowd of senators and pongressmen who were going to Florida ‘and Cuba are getting afraid of the yellow @ever, and the outfit will be smaller | than was the original intention, Beecher's Death, 1n the deathof Henry Ward Beecher the country undoubtedly loses the most distinguished and influential minister of the century. Many others have been for a time marked figures in our history for their eloquence, their influence and their power for good, but no one has for so many years continuously held the front rank in the religious world and so fore- bly fmpressed his mdividuality upon his generation as the late Mr. Beecher. A man ot marvelous eloquence, great orig- nality of thought and vivid imagina- tion, he never spoke, whether %rnm pulpit or lecture platform, without cap- tivating his audiences and sending them home to think, Mr. Beecher was pre- eminently an earncst, single-minded, gonerousand unselfish man, He thor- oughly believed in his work, and what- ever he did, he did with all his might. More than any other minister of this century, perhaps more than any other i our history, Mr. Beecher was a political as well as religious force. More than any other man who has essayed the double role of re- ligion and politics, he has had the genius to so acquit himself in both that no one could justly charge him with a mis- use of eitherin behalf of the other cause. Above all he was a8 man who had in an unsurpassed degree the courage of his convictions. In the darkest days of the rebellion, with a heart overflowing with patroitism, he conceived it to be his duty to goto England and stem the sympa- thies of the ruling classes there with secession. He faced hostile prejudiced thousands in tho largest halls in London, and spoke with the boldness of the prophets and apostles of old for the cause of truth, justice and freedom. As Nathan faced David to charge him with bhis crime, saying: “Thou artthe man,” 5o did he face those in power there, and with fearless manner and ringing words, pointed out their errors, their inconsis- tencies and their injustice concerning the eause of the north, and without doubt did more than any other one agency to change public opinion and official conduct there in regard to our cause. The same courage of his convictions has been shown in all his rehigious teachings. IHe has always refused to be bound by the nar- row dogmas of a creed, and while gen- erally comforming to the principles of s secthe has not hesitated to dissent from its teachings in behalfof a broader, more WiTH pain we read that Mr. Lowell #ays Shakesveare did not write ‘‘King Richard IIL.” And 1t is gratifying to know that Mr. Shakespeare was never accused of writing **Biglow Papers.” — I¥ the legislature finally passes the bill providing tor a geological survey, it can- not do better than recommend that the state geologist cage Mr. Agee as a rare Fossilized figure of the asinus vulgaris. It is to be regreted that death called Mr. Beecher beforo he had completed the second volume of his “Life of Christ.” However, “Life Thoughts” will be read . #nd treasured through many generations. Tue dashing colonel of the state mili- tia is these days busily engaged in mov- #ng that bills “do not pass.” The colonel ‘was elected by a very small majority, yet ‘he imagines that he is the most promi- fent man in the senate, Four weeks from to-day the city election takes place, unless the law is ohanged. 1t is almost time to make up slates to be broken. It 1sto be hoped that none but men with character and * mbility will attempt to be clected. . THe Omaha charter bill has been made . mspecial hearing for 2 o'clock this after- . moon. The unbought members of the 3 slature should see to it that a charter = meeting the wants and demands of a * | great and growng city is granted. THE bill to pay members and employes for the additional twenty days, together with the increase of salary to $300, calls for an appropriation of $55,000. This modest little sum comes from the tax- payers. 1 they can stand it the members sad clerks think they will manage some ‘way to get through it. INone of his most beautiful sermons, delivered quita recently, Mr. Beecher elosed as follows: *'Inthe great invisi- ‘Ble toward which we are going, we shall #ind ten thousand vibrating strings which ‘we have made musical, which the whole heavons shall chant, and which the whole mmiverso will hear.” With such beauti- #ul thoughts, learned in his younger days mnd remembered throughout all his life, . death to one so thoroughly confident pos- © sesses no terror. —— Tae tailing army of short-haired - women and long-haired men must again give tle country a rest, They will necos- ~ sarily be compel’ed to postpone their un- liberal and more loving religion. hobby of woman suffrage until an- | fle was never frightened at a r two yoars have come and gone, | charge of inconsistency. When his convictions led him to discard any pre- vious belief or to change his political ac- tion he did it promptly and without apol- ogy. Allin all, a great man has gone to his rest, and many generations will come and go without producing his equal as a moral, religious and social force. —— Defeat of Attempted Monopolies. Among the incidents of Wall street during the past week, nono have been more interesting than the tumble in the price of the stock of the American Cotton Oil Trust. This company is a creation of the Standard oil people, and has been in existence about & year. It was forwmed For a right that is *divine” and ‘“God- n,"” as the female freedom shrickers ly and unblushingly maintain, it is # long time gotting here. And it 1s al- ost cortain that in its defeatin the na- nal congress, its death was at the same $ime recorded. So far as our own state " concerned, local agitators will contin- ly attend to the question at the neg- of their households. No hobby was ridden harder. The question of pan suftrage has been bofore the peo- ever since Miss Anthony has been of - But as it is the policy of this paper ver to disouss ancient history, we will THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1887. and has been conducted on the plan that has made the Standard Oil company the | greatest monopoly of this age, and the | corner stone of the concern was secret | railroad rates such as the Standard was largely built up on. It aimed to monop- olize the production of cotton-seed oil. Although the making of cotton-seed oil 18 in itself an entirely legitimate business, the affairs of this company were carried on with the same studious concealment that characterizes the affairs of the Standard. While the stock of the con- cern was placed on Wall street, quoted on the exchange, and traded 1 aaily, no public statement has ever been made, not only of earnings and expenses, but even of the fact of how much stock has been 1ssued. It i3 a disputed question in Wall street whether there are 000,000 or $38,000,000 outstanding. Efforts made to ascertain of officers of the company the amount of stock issued have been met with the statement that it is none of the public's business. On the strength of statements, proceeding from no one knew what source, that the company was earn- g 5 per cent, on its unknown stock, the public blindly gambled in this stock until the price reached 63, where it halted. The company is understood to have ob- tained control of about nine-tenths of the oil factories of the country and was push- ing out its tentacles to draw in the others, Two events came very close together to check its designs. The first, and not the least important of these, was the passage of the inter-state commerce law. The effect of this was to remove the corner- stone upon which the intended monopoly was to be erected, and without which the plan must necessarily fail of its cardinal object. Under the old conditions, fol- lowing the well known and until now successful tactics of the Standard, this company would have been able by means of secret low rates on the railroads to crush competitors who would not come into the pool, or to drive them out of the pool. But under the new conditions it can enjoy no advantage over competitors in the one direction in which it expected to have all the advantage, that of ship- ving its seeds and oils at lower rates than could be obtained by others in the samo line of business. Under the law it must stand on an equal footing with all other shippers of seeds and oils, and whatever success it secures in the market must be obtained by other methods than through reduced rates and rebates from the rail- roads. The other event, which the pas- sage of the inter-state commerce law in- vited and rendered practicable, was the organization of a competing company with a large capital that proposes the es- tablishment of cxtensive cotton-seed oil mills at various points in the south. The projected monopoly having been thus defeated, the price of its stock fell dis- astrously, the quotations of Monday showing a decline of twenty-three points in a week. It 18 probable that the pro- jectors of this enterprise will not lose a dollar. The people who have blindly gambled in the stock will be the sufferers. But whether or not the men in the scheme have lost or gained, the country is to be cangratulated upon the fact that what might have become another powerful monopoly has been defeated bofore it had an opportunity to do much harm. On a similar plan was another pro- jected monopoly which the passage of the inter-state commerce law put an end to. Before the law was enacted it was proposed that the manutacture and sale of flour should be controlled by a corpora- tion to be called the Flour trust. If this project had been carried out the great flour mills would have entered a pool, and an attempt would have been made by means of special freight rates, and all the other instruments used by the oil monopoly, to absorb or crush other mills, and success would have enabied one cor poration to control absolutely the supply and price of that great staple. The pas- sage of the law killed this scheme in its inception, These examples are sufticient to show the yicious course we were moving in under former conditions, and to establish conviction that the remedial legislation came none too soon. Senator Jones of Florida, In connection with an apparently well authenticated report from Detroit that ex-Senator Jones, of Florida, will be a candidate for re-election to the senate from his state, the stalement is made that he has not been in Detroit on a courting mission at all, but that while in Washing- ton he became possessed ot some tremend- ous secret, and had to get away in order to keep it. It 18 said that when he goes before the Florida legislature to ask its votes, he will reveal this great sccret, which will not only relieve him from the suspicion of haying been in love, but that other suspiciov of being more than half crazy. Moreover, it is claimed that his revelations will not only vindicate his own course, but create a national sensa- tion in the character of charges that he will make and the high standing of the statesmen that he will involve. Here at least is something in the Jones episode with meat init. 1f the alligator senator has for so long been in possession of so tremendous a secret that its revela- tion would not only shake the solid foundations of the capitol and cause the goadess of Liberty totremble on her lofty perch aboye the dome, but startle the whole nation and involve the ruin of statesmen whom the people have trusted and honored, he did well to get out of the way of Washington reporters by secking a rural retreat inthe Wolver- ine state, and seeming to be crazy by affecting to be in love. He thusdisarmed suspicion and was enabled to nurse his secret without fear of molestation, But think of the moral courage which this course illustrated! Consider how hard it was to bear the ridicule of the press of the whole country, any one of whose representatives would gladly, had he suspeoted the truth, have pledged the revenues of his journal for a year to learn m advance of all hated rivals what the senator knew. The agony which this mental travail caused had to be smilingly concoaled by ilirtations with the closed blinds of Miss Palms’ windows. He was forced to make life & burdento Miss Pals by the daily love notes and floral olferings with which he besieged her, and now it appears that while he was a seeming votary at Cupid’s shrine, he was really a voluntary sacrifice on the altar of state, sutfering from love for his country, enduring ridicule from charity forhis fellow statesmen. Noble Jones ! Brave senator! Considerate friend ! And yet when the sacrifice of revealing is only greater than that of concealing, he is prepared for that greater sacritice. He will tell the truth though the heavens fall and guilty statesmen be crushed. The stars may gather on the corners of tho milky way to listen to and discuss the awful disclosures ; the moon may hide her face in pity and shg€un may stop in his course to see the wreck of reputa- tions, but Jones will do his duty, Let the crash come ! — Success of the Septennate. No one doubted that the demand of the German government for, a continuance of the septennate, which would have ex- pired in April, would be acquiesced in. The return of members of the reichstag in favor of this policy rendered the res.it a foregone conclusion, But it was to have been expected that the opposition would have made a somewhat more vig- orous contest than they appear from the cable report of the proceedings to have done. The leaders of the opposing fac- tions talked against the measure, but it seems evident that they were burdened by a sense of the hopelessness of their op- position. It is reported, indeed, that Windthorst, the leader of the center, showed in the moderation of his lan- guage the effect which the outcome of the elections had exerted upon him, In short, the whole proceedings bore evi- dence to the fact that the government was in complete command of the situa- tion, and that protests or efforts to ob- struct its will would be idle. The result is that the military establishment has been made secure for another seven yeats. ‘This, however, is but one though perhaps the most ant, in the programme of the government, and it remains to be seen whether it can carry through the others with equal ease. It is not sufli- cient that authority is given to hold men to military service for seven years. The army must be maintained and the people must pay for this maintenance. The propositions ot the government for this purpose are yet to be presented. They will involve financial changes of a very important nature, against which there has hitherto been developed a very larze and vigorous opposition. Among the propositions certain to be brought for- ward upon which an extended contention is probable are tobacco monopoly and an increase of the tax on brandy. The adoption of these propositions would be to increase the government’s exactions upon the people, and they will doubtless be vigorously opposed. But if the gov- ernment determines that both or either of them is absolutely necessary to its re- quirements it is hardly questionable that, as the reichstag is now constituted, it will ultimately have its way. Bismarck un- doubtedly knows his men, and it is also not to be doubted that he intends to get the full value of his yictgry. WHEN the K.msz people conceive a dislike for a man they do not hesitate about showing it. Kansas is a republi- can state, aud the republicans there hold St. John responsible for the defeat of Blame in 1884, To emphasize their dis- pleasure at this result they have several times burned the prohibition presidential candidate in efligy and have practically ostracised him socially. ; The latest man- ifestation of their dislike for him is the legislative act of wiping out his name from the map of the state. A countghad been named after him in the days of his popularity, but a bill has just been passed and promptly signed by the governor changing the name of that county to Logan. During its discussion a member said: “I have a dog which I named St. John. The dog sucked eggs. If you will change the name of St. John to Logan I will shoot the dog.” Whether the dog was to be shot for bearing the name of St. John or for sucking eggs the mem- ber did not explain. The -appropri- ation of eggs was the dog's vice; his name was only his misfortune. Perhaps the changing of his name might have re- sulted in his reformation, if, as the honor- able member seemed to imply, there was a logical connection between the name and the habit. Or he might have meaunt that to obliterate St. John's name from the map would not cure him of the vicious habit of electing democratic presidents, and that to shoot him would be the only effectual remedy. Anyway, it was rough on St. John to compare him to an egg- sucking dog. step, import- THE duty devolving upon a newspaper to present the pablic acts of public indi- viduals is an imperative one, and although at times exceedingly unpleas- ant, it cannot be avoided. No matter how high a man may have stood in the estimation of the community, if he proyes to be a rogue, heshould be handled without gloves and exhibited tothe world in his true light. The Chicago news- papers are just now working harmon- iously together, in the great work of pointing out the thefts of public officials. Newspaper fumigation is always profit- able to the community. THE numerously signed petitions cir- culating in each judicial district of the state, praying Governor Thayer to make certain appointments for new judges, had better be withdrawn. As yet the bill bas not passed, When it does the origi- nal will be modified. We have reliable information that the different districts are absolutely flooded with long peti- tions. The man possessing the necessary qualifications to make a good judge, would hardly ask for the 1mpossible. —_— AccorpING to alleged confessions of dying men in Sioux City, at least a dozen have admitted that they killed Haddock, CONGRESSMEN A D SENATORS, Congressman Mitehell, of Connecticut, spends daily from 4 to, §5 for bis lunch. Senator Voorhces wears the largest silk plug in the senate. His sice is seven and five- eighths, o Senator-Eleet Davis and wife have gone to New York for further treatient of the sen- ator's eyes. Senator Edmunds is reported to be advo- cating the nomination of Senator Allison, of Towa, for president. ; Senator Ingalls, when he delivers his satir- leal and striking speech, never raises his voice above a monotone and rarely gesticu- lates. Congressman Paze, of Rhode Island, will get 810,000 for his five days service in the house, e gets back pay for the two years during which he contested his seat. Senator Fair's senatorial term expired with this session of congress. During the six years he Las been in the senate he has never bored his brethren with a speech of any Kkind. Senator Camden, of West Virginia, is said to be noted for his absent-mindedness. His absence of body from the United States seu- ate chamber may also be hereafter noticed by the close observer. Senator Farwell, of Illinols, says that he and his brother and Mr. Taylor, of Chicago, will make about $20,000,000 out of the land given them by the state of Texas in payment for state buildings they are putting up,which will not cost over $1,000,000, Senator Edmunds can make a soup un- equaled for delicacy, can prepare a beef tea *‘that would make & professional smack his lips,” and sometimes recreates by taking off his coat, putting on an apron, and preparing a calt’s foot jelly afteran old Vermont recipe. Senator Spooner will be among the wan- dering stars of congress this summer. Ie and Mrs. Spooner will sail next month for Europe, for a tour of—at present—indetinite length and duration. It is probable, how- ever, that he will be back before the opening of congress, ——————e The Manufacture of Dudes. New Orleans Picayune. It may take nine tailors tomake a man, but one tailor may make a dozen dudes, so far as clothes are concerned. itttk Gut What He Went After, Atlanta Constitution. The Constitution office was visited by & mind reader yesterday. We need not say that the professor had his lily-white hands full. ———— How to Oure Sleep-W alking, Detroit Free Press, It is said thut somnambulism 1s on the in- crease in this country among married women. Theonly way tobreak 'em of it is to hide your wallet outside your bedroom. sl How Oapitalists Are Made Here. North Wales (Pa.) Record. A correspondent wants to know what a capitalist is, anyway. Well,in this country & capitalist is generally a workingman who has learned how to live on less than he earns. —- No Favors From Railroads. New Orteans Picayune, A statesman yesterday asked a prominent railroad man for a light for his cigar, and was handed a card on which the following words were printed: “Would be pleased to comply with your request, but caunot do so on account of the Inter-state commerce bill.” 1t seems that statesmen can receive no favors from railroads e e The Mortgago. Will M. Carleton. We worked through spring and winter, through summer and through fall, But the mortgaze worked the hardest and the steadiest of all. It worked on nights and Sundays, it worked each holiday, It settled down amonz us and never went away. \Vlll‘\‘(e\’rer we kept from it seemed always a hoft; It watched us every minute, and ruled us . rightand lefty ‘The rust and blight were with us sometimes and sometimes not; The_dark-browed, scowling mortgage was forever on the spot. The weavil and the cut-worm, they went as well as came; The mortgage staid forever, eating hearty all the same. It nailed up every window, stood guard at every door, And happiness and sunshine made their nome with us no more. Till with failing crops and sickness we got stalled upon the grade, And there came adark day on us when the interest wasn’t paid; And thers came a sharp foreclosure and the farm was cheaply sold. The children lett and scattered, when they hardly yet were grown ; My wife she pined and perished, and I found myself alone. What she died of was a “mystery” the doc- tors never knew; But I knew_she died of mortgage—just as well as I wanted to. 1f to trace a hidden sorrow were within a doctor’s art, They’ ha’ found a mortr%nge lying on that woman’s broken heart. Worm or beetle, drought or tempest, on a farmer’s land may fall, But for first-class ruination, trust a mortgage "gainst them all, e STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings. A new directory is sprouting in Lin- coln. Sterling offers a bonus of $1,000 for a cannery. Chadron has established a dead line for wooden buildings. A 16year-old at Stanton lost an arm while playing with a gun. The Grand Army post at Pierce pro- pose to invest $2,000 in a hall, J. W. Owens has retired from the Cal- loway Standard. C. A, Sherwood now runs the machine. “If Omaha wants the reunion this year,”” says the Grand Island Indepen- dent, “we believe it would be a good Klan to give it to that city, and afford er an opportunity to entertamn the veterans of the late war.” The new postoflice building at Beatrice was opened to the public for the first time Monday morning. No postoflice in the state, except those in government build- ings, 18 80 complete in all its appoint- ments. It has 1,000 lock boxe® of latest improved pattern, and is fitted with gas, steam and water. The government is having trouble in securing a building for a postoflice at Hastings. There are but two or three buildings suitable for the purpose, and the owners do not care to rent them for the rental the government wants to pay. A speeiul agent will be sent to Hastings to examine into the matter and make a report. A pair of rascally cloth peddlers are doing the country around North Platte selling job lots of dress goods. They are accommodating cusses and prefer notes to cash every time. They tackled Dan McNeal, secured an order and also a note for $35. Light broke in upon him and with the aid of an officer captured the note before it was raised. Grand Island does not take to the mnnl.y art to the paying limit but a female scrap distances a dog fight in bringing out the town. A free fisticufl between two women took place on Wal- nut street Saturday evening, in which bustles and bangs swung around the cir- cle, in perfect time to an exhibition ot chin music more expressive than elegant, The star wore a scarlet top-knot, and displayed pugilistic qualities calculated to inspire the observer with a feeling that distance lent enchantment, ete. All the abusive language in the voeabulary was hurled at the victim of the aught, in tones which vibrated across three blocks. The fight was all on oue side, as the assaulted party was too much of a lady to even make an effort to strike buck or talk back, her fight being to get away from her enraged antagonist, Towa Items. Red Oak expects a sxty-stall round- house and railroad machine shops. A census just about completed shows that Eagle Grove bas a population of about 2,000. A Dubuque man is the posscssor of n speckled hen which lays three speckled eggs during each twenty-four hours. At Red Oak the mayor is Fuhl a salary of §200 a year, and councilmen are al- lowed 20 cents an hour for actual service. Andrew Brown and Chloe Robinson, the colored fiends who recently whipped # boy to death at Montezuma, have been indicted for murder in the second degree. Near Corning, on Saturday, John Mc- Kenzie shot and instantly killed John Riggs. Both were farmeis, and a quar- rufwlmm over the ownership of some cornstalks. A new method of flirtation ‘has been discovered at Cedar Rapids. The gallant lover writes on & piece of paper in a bold hand what he desires, and his lady reads it from her retreat on the other side of the street with the aid of an opera-gluss. The temperance people of the Fifth congressional district_ will hold a con- vention at Cedar Rapids, Thursday, March 17, for the purpose of consultation and the insuguration of plans for the bet- ter enforcement of the prehibitory laws of the state. John Philiips, who six months nago stole a lot of hogs from a Rock [sland train near Homestead, was arrested at Bioomington, 111, on Tuesday, taken to Iowa City Tuesday might, nquar i court and pleaded guilty Wedne 3 morning, and was sentenced to the peni- tentiary for three years and a half and started for Anamosa, all inside of thirty- six hours. Dakota. Watertown is to have an opera house to cost $25,000, A colony from Blunt, Hughes county, will emigrate to southern California this spring. In some sections of north Dakota the wheat was shipped out so clean that seed must be imported. The Homestake product for the past year is ofliciall ed at $1,046,221. The product for ry of this year was 85,018.64. anu The Deadwood-Terra's gold product The product for for 1880 was $600,585. 31.15. Judge W. W. Brookings,of Sioux Falls, made the first pre-emption filing and re: ceived the first patent ever given to a set- tler in Dakota. Trouble is anticipated between the In- dians and the white settlers in the Turtle mountain region. The whites have ap- plied to the government for protection. A party of Russians caught in a bliz- zard in one of the new counties on the Missouri river, used their sleds tor fires, and for three days feasted on mule meat, their only provision. As the mule cost them 75 they lived high. O ADDITIONAL COUNOIL BLUFFS, e Music and Mirth. On Thursday evening Roland Reed is to appear at the opera house in the farcical comedy ‘“Humbug.” The New York Mirror says of him and hi I notice his play “Humbug,” compared with most of the so-called com- edies of the day, isa gem. In the first place, it has a clearly definite and thoroughly legitimate plot; its situations and developments are the result of nat- ural evolution, and it contains very little of the element ot improbability. Tk dialogue is bright and witty and there no horse play. Mr. Reed’s performance 18 very entertaining and entitled to the highest praise, and we have at last an opportunity of seeing him at his Dbest. His pocket edition of “Mikado,” by the way, is & charming interpolation, and makes us eager to see Mr. Reed in his famous role of Ko-Ko, which we now feel sure he can sing as well as act. The company rendered good support. A MUSICAL TREAT. The Council Blufts musical society have arranged for a special feast at the opera house Friday evening, having secured Madame Fannie Bloomfield for one of her brilliant piano recitals, She will be assisted by Nahan Franko and his tal- ented wife, Edith Edwards. The Etude, of l’hilnllcllphin. gives Madame Bloom- field the following words of praise: ‘“The event of the evening, practically, was the henomena) playing of the young pianist, liss Fannie Bloomtficld. Her fire, en- thusiasm and repose were wonderful. Since Rubinstein played it, I havo never heard his concerto given with so much breadth and nerve. Her cantubile pl. ing is genuine, and she made the instru- ment sing with her beautitul single-fin- ger tone. The rondo was clectric and played at a terrible tempo, but always with a power of reservve that never made you nervous; indeed, I felt more nervous for the orchestra. Such ripeness of con- ception and such technique has been sel- dom heavd, and all the foremost pianists of the country pronounce her a genuine pianistic phenomenon. Sheshowed hike- wise great power, breadth and subtle delicacy in her solo selections. “EVANGELINE.” Saturday evening Rico’s company will present this old, yet ever new, play, with new_ costumes, scenery and accessions. It will also be given as a matinee Satur- day. — The War Song Concert. This entertainment at the opera house last evening wasa novel and pleasing one. A number of the best musicians in the city took part. The following was the program. ART I—BEFORE THE WAR, Amori . Full Chorus 2 'The Battle Cry of Freedom.............. o Solo and Chorus iun and Go, John ...5010 and Chorus b s Merkel. 4. “Kingdom Coming”.. Male Quartette 5. Gratted Into the Army..Solo and Chorus Miss Anna Merkel. PART 1I--WAR TIM, 6. Fancy Drill . . 7. 'Trio, From arbar; Picket Hans Song of the Cunp ... Recitation i Vacant Chair. Miss 2, Tramp Chorus . L M. S0l0 and Chorus ... Solo and Chorus ‘oynor. P THE WAR. PART II—AT . Marching Through Solo and Chorus .M. Treynor, Red, White and Blu Juet and Chorus The Misses Me . Tenting To-Night On the Old Camp Grouud.. .Solo aud Chorus M. Treynor, 16. Star Spangled Banne ...... nd Chorus ‘The Misses Merkel, Mr, ‘Troynor and Prof. MeDermid. 17, Brave Battery Bo; 2 e THE BIG TOWER FOR PARIS. The Futile Protest Against It and the Ideas of Its Constructor. Paris dispatch to the London Times: The famous el tower, nicknamed the ““Tower of Ba a3 being likely to uartet Male Cliorus cause a confusion of tongues. has ulready caused a confusion of opinions. The most distinguished literary men and artists of France, the engineer who de- signed the tower, and the minister of commerce, who' presides over the ex- hibition, have in turn indulged in the strangest and most fantastic veasoning. Here is, first of all, the remonstrance now being signed by the leading authors, artists and dramatists *We come, writers, painters, scalptors, architects, passionate lovers of the hitl rto intact beauty of Paris, and protest with all our might and all our indignation inthe name of disregarded French taste and menaced French art and history against the erection in the very heart of our capital of the useless and monstrous Eiffel tower, which publie sarcasm, so by common sense and a sp ice, has already christened ‘Tow abel.’ Without falling into the fanaticism of Chauvinismp we Ez\vu [y rightto proclal oud that Paris is a city without a rival in the world, Above its” strects and its widened boulevards, along its admirable quays,amid its splen- did promenanes, rise the noblest monu- ments to which human genius had given birth. ‘The soul of France, a creator of masterpieces, gleams amid this august inflorescence of stone, Italy, ‘Germany, Flanders, 8o justly proud of their herit- #ge, posscsy nothing which can vie with our own, and from every corner of the erso Paris attricts curiosity and ad- ton. Are we about to let all this be pro- faned? Is the city of Paris about to " as sociate itself with the grotesque and mer cantile imagination of a machine maker, irreparably to disfigure and dishonor itsolf? For the Eiffel tower, which even commercial America refuses, is, rost as sured, a dishonor to Paris, Everybody feels it, everybody says it, everybody is deeply grieved, and we are only a feeblo echo of the universal opinion, 80 legiti mately alarmed, “Lastly, when forelgners come and visit our exhibition, they will exclaim with astonishment, ‘W hat! is this hideous thing what the French have devised in order to give us an idea of their vaunted taste? knd they will be right in ridicul ing us, for the Paris of sublime Gothics, the Paris_of Jean Gou- on, of Germain Pilon, “of Puget, Rude, Barye and others will have become the Paris of M. Eiffel. It is enough to consider what we put forward. Imagine for a moment a dizzily ridiculous tower, overlooking Paris like a gigantic black tory chimney, overpowering with its barbarous mass Notre Dame, La Sainte Chapelle, the tower of St. Jacques, the Louvre, the Invalides Dome and the Aro de Triomphe—all our monuments humil- iated, all our architccture dwarfed and fated to_disappear in this stupefying dream. For twenty years we shall” seo tapering like a spot of ink over the entire city, still thrilling with the genius of so many centuries, the hateful shadow of the hateful solumn of bolted sheet-iron." From the Pall Mall Gazette: *“‘What is tnis hideous thing,” the Parisian artists ask the governmont in the high-flown protest published this morning, ‘‘which has been devised in order to give foreign visitors an idea of our vaunted tasto?” M. Eiftel, the constructor of *‘the hideous thing,” answers the question himself in the interview, of which one of our Paris correspondents sends us the followin, report: “Paris is to have the greates tower in the world, after all. M. Eiffel's tower, which the government has author- ized him to raise on the champ de mars, will dominate all Paris, and surpass, in fact almost double, in height the highest existing structure. Liberty, to whom such homage was paid the other week for her granageur and greatness, is but a pigmy of the statue world cume\rcd with this gigantic monster, Lord Nelson's monument is 162 feet, the “Monument” 202 feet, Lab- erty 220 feet, St. Paul's 860 feet, the Great Pyramid 460 feet, St. Peter's of Rome 507 ¢ the Cologne cathedral 523 feet, the Washington monument, at preseut the highest in the world, 555 feet and the Puris tower is 1,000 feet.” In order to tind out what M. Eiffel had to say to the various objections which have been made to his tower and to get his opinion on 1ts utility, I called on him the other day at his works at Lenallois-Perret. To him his great production is synonymous with the success of the exhibition. “They begin by deolaring,” he re- marked, referring to his adversaries, “‘that my tower is not French, It 18 big enough and clumsy enough for the Eng- lish or Americans, but it is not our style, they say. We are occupied more with littlo artistic bibelots than giants of bad taste like your tower. ~ But though we are occupied most with art and musie, that 1s no reason,” said he, emphatically, “why we should not show the world what we can do in the way of great engineer- ing projects. And as for its being in bad taste, why, on the contrary, it will be one of the chief ornanients of the town. One of the most frequent objections made to the tower is that it is use That is 1 another error Take its importance, for instance, from a meteorological point of view. It 1s not e Wday that meteorologists can get up athovsand feet above the soil. This tower will enable them to study the decrease of tempera- ture at different heights, to observe the ions of winds, find out the quuntit, n that falls at different heights and the density of the clouds, Indecd, in all that relates to uemr-mum. hygrometry, air currents, and the composition of the air, the tower will afford opportunities for study and research, many of which have hitherto been impossible.” It will be equally useful to astronomers. Here ex- periences with the spectroscope can be carried on with great facility; the laws of refraction and the physical aspeet of the moon, pianets, and nebula studied in most favorable conditions. I have re- ceved testimonies from savants on all these points. Then there is its utility from a military point of view. 1In the event of another siege of Paris see how import- ant this tower would be. Communica- tions could be kept up by means of optia telegraphy for a great distance around Paris, for from the summit you have a magnificent panorama extending 120 to to 130 kilometers. Paris by night, deco- rated and illumined as it will be 'during the exhibition, is a sight which before wuas only within the reach of mronauts. In fact the tower will be the chief attrac- tion of the exhibition.” Maverick National Bank BOSTON, MASS. 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