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

4 . THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSORTPTION ¢ fly m:vm#g Edition) includin e, Disreputable Journalism. The infam>us scoundrels and monop- oly cohorts who prostitute the respecta- ble profession of journalism in the state of Nebraska, continue in their base and disreputable practices of slandering and i , ] i Py Yor Bix u:nu-.a. ‘2 0 | traducing the editor of this paper. Tae TR Dok nna 250 | Bee's thousands of friends must not address, One Year. 200 | be misled by the ingenious falsehoods ot the confederated monopoly press. Thoy 7A OPPICE, N, 814 AN FARNAM STRERY. Eflv A R A R g T must not believe that Mr. Rosewater ASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. 513 FOURTEENTH BTRE skipped’’ or attempted to dodge the in- yestigation which he had demanded alone in the interests of good government. At the proper time the damning proofs against bribe-solicitors of the judiciary committee of the house will be presented. The people will be given an opportunity to discuss the merits and strongth of the evidence, and the expense of a legislative white-washing committee will be saved the tax-payers. It was made impossible {or Mr. Rosewater to proceed last week with his investigation. The reactionary work of the house defeating his plans was neither more nor less than the execution of a conspiracy conceived the night fol- (CORRESPONDENCE! All communioations relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed Lo the Epi- TOR OF THE BRE. BUSINESS LETTRRS All business letters and remittances should be addrensod to THE BER PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAHA, Drafts, chocks and postoffico orders 10 be tnade payable to the order of the company, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS. b E. ROSEWATER, EpiTor. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska, }__ % County of Douglas. P Geo, B, Tzschuek, smuryl of ’{’he Bee | Jowing the afternoon that the committee 5 R‘:‘flm‘:‘,fi“m m‘,‘.’.'g,gm,"'{h*‘.'";‘,,’u o ¥See | Was appointed and instructed to adduce ] ‘week ending Mar. 15th 1887, was as | theevidence by examining charges and i Mar.12, bringing witnesses before it in secret ses- y Mar, 13. sion. 1t was & triumph of the boodle . Mar. 14 gang. It was a victory of wrong over esday, Mar, 15, ead insulted decency. The editor of the Br lm‘r';d- nyfll?:ri# o too well remembered tho infamous pro- lday, Mar. 18... ceedings of the Howe investigation, the Average more recent exoneration of the school- land thieves and other grim parodies on justice by former investigating commit- tees of Nebraska legislatures. i R0, B, TZ8CHUCK, Subscribed and sworn to before me this 21st day of March A, D., 1857, [SEALI NP et e | Mr. Rosewater specifically and posi- Geo, B. 'l'zschuck, Mln‘ first duly sworn, | tively stated to the chairman of the com- deposes and says that he 1s secretary of The | mittee on the morning that it went in Bee Publishing company, that the actual av- eraze daily circulation of the Daily Bee for themonth of March, 1886, 11,587 coples; for April, 1886, 12,191 eopies: for for May, 189, 13,- copies; for June, 1886, 12,208 coples; for Juz.‘ 1836, 13,314 coples; for Aucust, 1886, 18, coples; for September, 1886, 13,030 gopies; for October, 18%. 12,980 co) secret session, when a public examina- tion was talked of, that he could not suc- cessfully give his evidence with open doors. He was positive, as the facts in his possession gave him reason to be, les: for | ¢ eral bers of tho judiciar, N ber, 1 ' " 3 that SE!V( ral members of 0 judiciary 1“"""35:.?0":2?‘«';"'&“02‘5:‘3.'.;“; '?rlglse{” ':‘é‘,’&{g committee were guilty of one of the 2opies; for Fobruary, 1887, 14,198 copies. @ro. B, TZ8CHUCK. Subseribed and sworn to before me this 0th day of March, A . D, 1887, fl‘!fiu.ulrc. ey . Notary Publle. gravest crimes for which the law has fixed a penalty. He well knew that if they had received or solicited bribes,they would not scruple to continue in their villainy and corroborate the lies of one another, The fact that Mr. Rosewater gave to Mr, Dempster, chairman of the committee, his memorandum of facts, on which his action was based, and from which he then believed, as he yet hon- cstly belioyes, sufficient evidence could be gotten to conyict the alleged bribe- takers, furnishes unquestioned proof of his sincerity. The great howl raised by the bummers and mountebanks in de- fense of the corrupt and deba ached mem- bers would be considered ina court of justice as circumstantial evidence in es- tablishing their guilt. The kind of an investigation wanted by the accused bribe-solicitors will not be given them unless they demand it. The editor of the Bk will return in ample time to appear betore the commuttee if he is really wanted. His evidence has not been lost. It has only grown stronger. And when it is presented, one way or another, as it will be, there will not be an honest man in the entire state who will not say his proceedings were justified. The other charge just now filling the mouths of the procurers and henchmen at the capital, and being reiterated by the organs of state thieves, barnacles and blatherskites, to the effect that Mr. Rose- water went east to escape an assault, is the most flimsy statement yct made. It is very unreusonable to say that a man would prefer charges against men whose organized] band of conspirators freely made threats to take his life; remain at the capitol while the grave accusations were being read with his name accompanying them, and circulate among the accused and their pals in the legislative halls un- til after the gang had stopped the pro- ceedings and placed themselves beyond the reach of outraged law, would three or tour days afterwards go east to ‘“‘es- cape assassination.” Doubting ones can rest assured that 1t was very important business which called Mr. Rosewater east. ‘Those who know Mr. Rosewater per- sonally and those who have watched his course in Nebraska during the last sixteen years as editor of the BEk, must admit above all other things that he is no coward. He has stood up fearlessly and manfully and exposed the acts of dishouest politi- cians, knowing the time that plots were laid to murder him. He has been assaulted soveral times by brutal bullies employed to do the work., Scoundrels like Paul Vandervoort, who is the most prominent lobbyist in Lincoln to-day and who barely escaved indictment for incit- ing an assault upon Mr. Rosewater, have applauded and. Tplanned such damnable l\wrocnad\ngfl. he charge of cowardice may be made, but facts brand it false. The Bee hbas done more good hon- est work for the state of Nubraska in two weeks than the hired traducers of Edward Rosewater’s character have eyer done or ever will do. N. P.Fr i Asz;l(z]; bii hicago packing located in Omaha. Westward the hog- killer takes his way. Mgr. HiLr, of New York, has a boom. He has been called upon to sign the high }lpumu bill and the boom seems to bother him, T Baltimore & Ohio railroad com- [ pany was always considerable on the ad- vertise. Mr. Sully makes a splendid ad- vertising agent. THE Ohio and Missour: legislatures ad- Journed yesterday morning. It is sad to remark that the Nebraska legislature + .- Temains in session. —— Tur Chicago Twmes correcspondent at Lincoln, was very much mistaken when he telegraphed that paper that the res- olution introduced by till-tap per Garvey ¢ b was adopted. ——— A NEWS item says: ‘‘Citizens ot Wash- 3 ington have organized against the ‘‘bob- | tail” car nuisance in a way that will be ‘auccessful if they stick to it.” Now what the congressmen should do at Washing- ton when there is to organize against the *‘bob-tail flush’’ disappointment, and the national capital will be a more desirable city in which to live. — AN Oregon lobbyist has sned a firm for nearly a thousand dollars’ damage for certain services alleged to have been per- formed by him during the 1ast session of the legislature. It 18 sincerely hoped that Lincoln lobbyists will not be obliged to go into the courts. If they did the blinded goddess, Justice would tear the rag from her eyes and take to the woods. Em———— THE news comes from Chicago that South Omaha is to have another big pack- ing house. It will be bullt ana operated by George F. Swift & Co., one of the largest packing firms in this country. This gives another boom to South Omaha, and shows that this city is to become the great packing center of the country. gher large establishments will soon fol- w. —— Forty members of the Ilhnois legisla- ture were called upon by the Ohio & Mis- sissipm railroad company to return their annual passes. The statesman complied with the requests and immediately a dozen bills were introduced to lower pas- genger tariff to two cents & mile. It hag been dlssovered that Nebraskn sylong gontinue to ride on passes and raiway logislation 1s regarded by them as en- tirely out of the questio ‘TAE present legislature of Maine, by large majorities 1 each branch, has abolished capital punishment. In 1876 capital punishment was abolished in that state, In 1883 the death penalty was restored. The advocates of the change olaumed that during the seven years ‘when there was no death penalty only twenty-four murders were committed in the state, while in the four years since it ‘was restored there have been no less than thirty-seven. Queer statistics, Reciprocity. The bill introduced in the Forty-ninth congress by Mr. Butterworth, a short time before adjournment, looking to commer- cial reciprocity with Canada, and the let- ter of that gentleman recently published in a Toronto paper referring to that sub- ject, have brought extended attention to the genia! Obio congressman, who, how- ever, did not need this introduction to the eountry by way of testimony to his wide-awake interests in affairs and his good common sense. The letter and other expressions of Mr. Butterworth show that tus bill was introduced not as a piece of mere buncombe, but from a sincere conviction that full commercial re- ciprocity between Canada and the United States is a desirable and logical policy which the people of both countrieashould earnestly seex to bring about for their mutual interest and welfare. An un- prejudiced reading of the arguments of his letter in support of his position must credit most of them with soundness and force. He points out that in the nature of things commercial reeiprocity, which 3hall break down all barriers and all'an- tagonisms between the two peoples, is the only wise and safe condition, and the persistent disregard of it must eventuate in establishing forts and maintaining guards along the whole frontier by both countries, the patfol of the waters divid- ing them by armed vessels, and sooner or later a hostile collision. The bill will nndoubtedly be heard of — EieuteeN bills asking for normal schools at different points in Nebraska were consigned to the groaning legisla- tive waste basket on Monday. If that work was part of the new ‘combine's” labor, the combination has aocomplished a little good. The cost of printing the bills, time taken introducing and discuss- ing them has cost the state enough money to bmld a dozen normal schools. The one school at Peru is all sufficient for Nebraska, and it is hoped that the pres- ent session will set an example for the ~ mext school of statesmon on this one question, if it can do no more. e——— ‘Tue BEe's special cable service con- tinues full and complete. The three col- umns published yesterday morning, in- cluding a full account of the royal cele- bration 1n Berhin, 18 proof of this. This morning is another complete report of | yesterday's proceedings from the me- . tropolis of the German empire, and every foir - as the weeks come and go will * be found in the Bex's columns, attract- avely written, all the- news direct by . eable from the principal capitals and all ~ important news centers of the old world. | in the next congress, sod its author is The Bes, beings cosmopolitan paper, | confident that it will prevail. It 18 also umbers its constituenoy people | to be noted that the proposition is receiv- vilized nationality, and | ing a good geal of friendly consideration t the Bxx to socure | in Canada. In the meantime possible old bomes. Yetin a | ovents may tend to give the subject ‘in- interest disoussion THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY. MARCH 22, 1887 of 50 serious & nature as to entirely subordinate reasen to passion, it is not unlikely that six months hence there will be developed both in this country and in Canada a very large and influential een- timent in favor of commereial reciprocity. 1t isnot doubted if the question were now submitted in good faith to the Canadian people, even while they are under the in- fluence of some feeling of resentment, the expression would be surprisingly general in favor of reciprocity, as would also be the result of a similar appeal to the popular judgment in this country. Our past expericnce 1n. this direction was certainly not entirely reassuring, and the latter course of Canada has con- fessedly not been such as to inspire confi- dence in future relations that might be effected, but a little equitable and honor- able concession on the part of both coun- tries would remove all cause of difference and easily bring about a renewal of friendly intercourse and relations that would ultimately be to their mutual ad- vantage, The Officials Responsible, The investigation of the bridge disas- ter on the Boston & Providence railroad has developed facts suflicient to convince any candid mind that the responsibility for the calamity rests largely or wholly upon the officials of the rond, who culpa- bly neglected to strengthen the bridge after they had been warned of its danger- ous condition by competent authority. As long ago as December, 1881, the rail- road commissioners of Massachusetts ad- dressed a letter to the superintendent of the road pointing out the odd character of the bridge and suggesting that it be tested then and at intervals thereafter. The superintendent stated that he couldn’t remember what was thought of these suggestions, which was a virtual edmission that he paid naattention what- ever to them. This model official also testified that no special test had been made since 1882, He further said that he had always deemed the bridge sound and good, and this notwithstanding the ex- pressed doubt of its security by the rail- road commissioners, the fact that his attention had been called to it by a civil engineer of experience only two weeks before the accident, and the circumstances of its safcty having been questioned to him by others who had fre- quent occasion to pass over it and the common sense to observe its condition. That material of the bridge was defective and the construction faulty has been amply demonstrated by the investiga- tions of competent engineers and others since the disaster. Itcannotbe admitted that these could not have been discovered by adequate examination and tests of the standing structure. ‘The systematic attempt to ascribe the cause of the accident to a broken rail has failed. There has been no evidence to sustain any such hypothesis. The only fair conclusion from the evidence must be that the disaster was due to causes which had long existed, which could have been readily discovered, but which there was no ctfort made on the part of the proper officials, even after being repeatedly warned, to find and remedy. There ought to be some severe and sum- mary punishment for those guilty of a most criminal deroliction, which has had its penalty in the death and injury of more than a hundred human beings. An Attractive PPoint. Over 300 people each day arrive in Omaha from the overcrowded east for the purpose of permanent location. Many of them go to the western and northwestern part of our growiug state, purchase land and become valuable eiti- zens. A large portion of them locate and become important factors in the growth and commerecial importance of this city. Nota few of recent arrivals have brought with them money for in- vestment here, while others represent large amounts of eastern capital. Scions of millionaires arc among us doing their share of the great work of building up our material interests and successfully grappling with old-time citizens for the accumulation of wealth, Many young men have left the east and located in Omaha during the last five years. This infusion of young blood has increased all branches of business and attracted other young men to locate in the metropolis of the great west. "Uhe long processions of humanity crowding the pavements of our principal streets, street-cars filled with passengers, carriages and other conveyances bring- ing new-comeérs from the depots to crowded hotels, all go to show that Ofuaha is booming. It is not only a town-lot boom, but it is increasing in population, new manufacturing onter- prises, men embarking in aifferent kinds of business and on every hand palatial blocks are being erected. The improve- ments to be made and chauges wrought during the ye ar of 1887 will surprise the most hopeful citizen of Omal Sse——— Candid Democrats. The democrat of prominence who has the frankness to acknowledge, with the certainty that it will get into print, the shortcomings of his party, is sufliciently rare to attractattention. Two such have recently spoken, One is Senator Mc- Pnerson of New Jersey, who said some very disparaging things of his party and its prospects to the representative in Washingtou of a democratie journal. The senator told his interviewer that the last democratic house of representatives fell quite below the expectations of the dem- ocrats of the country, and he gave to the republican senate, what could not be de- nied it, the credit of having originated or put into the torm adopted, most of the successful legislation of the Forty-ninth congress that was of national import- ance. This is so distinctly a matter of reeord that any effort at denial would be useless. Senator McPherson ought to have added that but for the zeal shown by the senate in the public interest sov- eral of the appropriation bills wmight have failed, owing to the dangerous pol- icy which the democrats have per- witted its appropriations committee to carry out, and an extra session been thereby forced upon the country. The senate could have found ample justifica- tion for refusing to rush through in two or three days bills appropriating hun- dreds of millions of dollars, which the house committee had been dwelling on for months, but with a commendable con- cern for the welfare of the government, endangered by the course of the house, the senato yielded a right which it might have defensibly exercised. Another critic of the course and man- agement of his party is ex-Senator Eaton of Coonecticut, who' piaced quite as mapy faults to its uuntudumlowl Jersey senator. Neither of these intelli- gent and reputable democrats, whose opinions are as worthy of respectful con- sideration a8 are those of any other two democrate in the country, regarded the outlook with s: ine hopefulness. Neither of them, ently, is heartily in favor of continuidg the present adminis- tration. Yet h seemed to feel that Cleveland will inevitably be again the candidate of the par Tuere are no new reports from the Ponca diamond fieldd but it is generally understood that the ighabitants of Dixon county are stringing necklaces of the magnificent brilliants. ‘To fully appre- ciate the Ponca discovery 1t must be re- membered that in Dixon county an active voleano is located. Scientists will pre- sume that the *‘action of voleanic tufta’™ is in a great degree responsiblefor the wonderful transformation of antiquated buffalo chips into brilliants larger than a “man’s hand.” Nebraska unquestion- ably beats the world in all things, and while we boast of our legislature, it should be remembered that there are yet ofher natural curiosities for sight-seers togaze upon. Tur president has finally named the commission under the inter-state law. It is gratifying to know that mr. Cleve- land did not postpone this important matter until fall, RINGS AND QUEENS, Queen Victoria and Henry of Battenberg will depart for France on the royal yacht March 20, On the birthday of Emperor William eighty-five members of relgning houses will assemble, with 350 notables in suit. Prince Albert Victor of England is in the habit of wearing collars of such extraordi- nary dimensions that his head can scarcely be seen. A drama entitled “Le Chateau de Kron- burg,” and written by the king of Sweden, is shortly to be produced at the German theatre at Buda-Pesth. It is in one act ana is founded on an episode of the war between Sweden and Denmark ana in the seven- teenth century. ‘The Empress Haru-ko, of Japan, has in- vited the German consul at St. Petersburg, Herr O. von Moll, to undertake the charge of minister and head master of ceremonies at her court for the purpose of introducing European etiquet. Herr von Mobl has ac- cepted the offer, aud has departed for Japan with his family, The queen ot the Belgians has had a tele- hone of great power constructed between rhs palace at Brussels and the Paris opera house, and between the palace and the Brus- sels opera. Her majesty Is an_enthusiastic musician and a fine. er on the harp. Once every fortuight M. fiasselman, the dis- tin:uished French artisficonies from F'aris to Brussels expressly to give the queen a lesson. _The Russian empress leads an active and simple hife. She riscs eady, and walk a great deal; goes to bed -late, Jreads enormously, and, although she loves dress and dancing passionately, she busjes rlamelf at the proper times with works of charity, which she gen- erously patronizes. During the holldays she does not change her habits, except by the dis- tribution of aims and long sessiona atchurch, ‘which are more frequent than usual. Queen Margaret, of Italy, has literary tastes, and, following in the stops of Queen Elizabeth, of Roumania, has published several of her works; which, however, have not met with the same success as the writ- ings of ‘‘Carmen S ‘fiflw Not long azo it was rumored in I a .new volume of “Adventures”’ by D was in the press, At s recent court ball the Fronch ambassador expressed his ragret that of the public at the non-appearance of:the promised novel. “Believe ine,” sald the queen, “your regret would have been far greater had the novel lfl)fiared." and continued to tell the ambas- sador that not long ago she had sent her MS. under an assumed namne to one ot the best Roman periodicals, and how it had been re- turned to her with the one ominous word, “'cestinato” (rejected). *“'Since then,” con- tinued the queen with a smile, ‘1 am content with one crown, and shall no more strive after that of the author.” —_—— At Ninety, Chicago Times. Emperor William will be ninety this week. Bismarck’s temperature reached a like tigure some time ago when Germany’s reichstag dared to oppose him. e L Is Endicott Frightencd? Grand Rapids Eagle. The report from Washington that Secro- tary of War Endicott is about to resign from the cabinet starts a suspicion that possibly the war secretary is afrald war is coming. — - The Failure of Congress. St. Pa:l Pioneer Press. ‘I'he revenues of the government exceed the average rate of a million dollars a day; but congress left untouched the heavy taxa- tion incldent to tariff duties levied for war purposes, and which Is not needed now. This congress was perfectly aware of, yet did nothing to remove or modify the bur- den. —_——— Rum 1n Name. Boston. Courier, Despite the outwardly rigid enforcement of the liquor law, there is not a city or vil- lage in Maine where one cannot obtain all he wishes to drink—if he only knows how. Atall the summer resorts, on the coast or inland, one can get his cocktail or beer or wine at the better elass of hotels, either served in his room or some room devoted to the purpose, which is changed from day to day. When a hotel keeps a moyable bar, the location of which is only disclosed to trustworthy patrons, the supply of wines and hquors visible Is always ineaure, the k being concealed elsewhere. Then, in case of sudden search or seizure, the loss is usually trifling, i Old ana Young, Christopher Cranch, ‘They soon grow old who grope for gold In warts wg:m all Is hauxm‘:m soT 4 Who live for self. and on some shelt In darkened vaults hoard up their pelt, Cankerea and crusted o’er with mold, For them thelr youthitselt is old. They ne'er grow old who gather gold Where spring awak tlowers unfold; ‘Where suns arise in _joys skies, And till the soul within thelr eyes. For them the immortal bards have sung, For them old age itsgif 14 young. oL A Gorgebus Baron, St. Louis Globe Damocrat: Baron Zed- witz, the military attache of the German legation, was the most flxrguoun thing n regimentals there. is light blue coat, his tight, white breeches, and his beautiful patent leather 'boots made one soberly uniformed envions and when it came to aigrettes, and loops and cords, and frogs, and medals, any American bandmaster would die of envy. He car- ries a helmet that, with its white horse- tail, is as larg: s a beehive, and fills his arm like a debutante’s biggest bouquet, his patent-leather boots, that reach up over his knees, donot look like real war- fare, or even ;Xdin* academy practice, and the ferocious looking silver spurs that ring musically every time.he sets bis heels down in'the decisive Prussian marching step, have no point in- the rowels at all, simply littie round pieces of silver, that only look dangerous at a distance, and warn the wearers of tulle dreases to keep away. The First National bank of Helena, M. .~ has on exhibition $4,700 in Caour 'Alene gold that was pounded out in mfino men in two weeks. It includes two nuggets worth §350 each. STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings. mA gun club has been organized at Hil- n. The sinners of Ames are wrestling with a two-ring revival. Every town worthy of the nume is en- Joymg a spring rise—-either in real estate or local creeks. Fremonters are disenssing plans to corral or turn loose the stock of a street railway company. The assessors of Otoe couhty, follow- Imf the example of Douglas, have raised valuations 20 per cent, Lincoln was too slow (o cutch Swift. He rlnnked down a quarter of a million dol- ars for a packery on the main line in Omaha, Plattsmouthers are fervently prayin, these days that the Missouri freshet wi embrace the consumptive depot on the river bank and land it on the sandy shore of some other clime. The spring building boom has opened up with such a tremendous rush in Umaha that master mrplcntnrs are obliged to hire extra help for the sole purpose of fanning the hammers to keep them cool. Mr. T. J. Caffee, of Ponca, has bought the Dakota mammoth cow. The animal 1 over six feet high and more than eleven feet long, of short-horn breed, and is, perhaps, the largest of her species known, The Missouri Pacific will probably tap Hastings before the dog days wane.” The Rock Island and Elkhorn Valley aro heading for the same common center. With all these roads in operation Hast- i will be the railway Lub of central Nebraska, lowa Mems. Butler county has 5,321 school children. Muscatine is floundering under a debt of $359,316. There are 17,000 persons engaged in the insurance business in the state. Work will soon commence on the $10,000 brick Methodist Episcopal church at Creston, which will be completed this season. The burning of the agricultural ware- house at Delmar, Clinton county, caused a loss of $200,000. The town also had a pe. sian well is now supplyng Chariton with beautiful water = mixed with some river water, 'The well is bored 1,100 feet and is still going down. ‘The trial of Dr. Cross for the murder of A. B. MciKune in Council Bluffs, three years ago last fall, is set for hearing at the June term of the district court 1n Montgomery county. At the examination in Oskaloosa last week Frank B. McAuley won the honor of being selected for recommendation for a cadetship_at the naval academy. A young man from Shenandoah stood sec- ond. Sherifl Axtell, of Hardin county, re- turned from the east the other day with Jud Talmadge, the late station agent on the Mirnesota & Northwestern rail- road at Elma. A fow weeks ago Tal- madge fled to Canada, an embezzler of from $2,000 to $3,000 of railroad and ex- press money. S. 1. Burnham, of Ottumwa, recently employed a green hand to attend his horses, among which was a Clydesdale stallion valued at $2,000. The verdant yoath gave this horse six quarts of shelled corn and a big feed of oats in one day. The result was that the gran fer- mented and ruptured the stomach of the horse. Twenty-two locomotive firemen of the Q. at Creston have resigned within the past week and are seattering throughout the west 1n search of positions. The dis- satisfaction was caused by the order taking off one fireman from each mogul engine, The work being too heavy for one man is causing wany of the boys to look for work elsewhere. A competitive examination of aspirants for naval honors will be held in Des Moines April 14, to fill a vacancy, be- longing to that congressional district, in the naval academy. The eligibility of candidates is conditioned npon their being actual residents of the distriet, not under fourteen nor over eighteen years o1 age, physically sound and robust, and possess a good constitution. Added to physical soundness spplicants will be re- quired to possess a fair knowledge of reading, writing, spelling, arithmetic, English grammar, history and elementary algebra. The examination is to be open to all young men 1n the district. Dak The Jamestown brewery, valued at #20,000, was burned up last week, The Dakota Packing company, of Sioux Falls, intend to do summer packing, and are making the necessary nrrangementa. The Big Sioux river is tearing a wide path through Union county, with nu- merous bridges dotting the crest of the tlood. By order of the Sioux Falls city coun- cil, $60,000 in bonds—120 in number-- given by that city to aid the Burlington, Cedar Rapids Northern last vyear, were burned o the 18thinst. They were found, after issue, to have been worth- less, as they had not been legalized, and therefore new bonds had to be issued. Colorado, W. H, Cox, the builder of the Alle- heny hotel, was shot and _instantly illed at a grading camp near Dillon last week. One of the largest mountain fires that was ever known in this vicinity is now raging on Cheyenne mountain, six miles south of Colorado Springs. % ‘The Colorado senate, like the Nebraska upper house, has blocked railway legisla- tion by rejecting all bills giving the state commission power to fix rates. The Chicago and Northwestern road is said to bo heading for Denver, The re- port has foundation in the fact that the comEnny is building to soutwest Ne- braska. Shliisni g PLATTE COUNTY PROGRESS, Railroads in Working Order—Coal Operattons, CoLvmsus, Neb., March 21.—([Cor- respondence of the Bre.]—An enthu- siustic meeting of the board of trade and business men resulted in an unanimous resolution to build a new bridge across the Louw Fork and repair the Platte river bridge, carried out by the ice last week. In thirty days we shall be ready for travel. The loss of the Loup Fork bridge isa great inconvenience to the contin- uous trains of emigrants pushing to the western part of the state. This great thoroughfare, which was laid out by the government for a military road in 1856, and bequeathed to Nebraska upon her assuming statehood, must be kept open as a highway to the millions of acres of eminent domain, access to which is sought through the great natural arteries of travel, that the early pioneers to the golden shores of the Pacific and the military engineers, following up the foot- steps of the great ‘‘pathtinder,” John C. Fremont, whose energies. dari and perseverance opened upa new world—the wondrous west sought. Our county will be ealled upon thissummer to construct a substantial, permanent bridge commensu- rate with the growth and demand of ‘our hitherto hidden resources, that daily influx of three thousand persons, as set forth in yesterday's Bre. The tide of humanity and wealth from the east that is now flowing all over our state is but the harbinger of the undurin&boom that every town and city of Nebraska will erjoy that has any reasonable preten- sions to business loulu{. Platte county, and Columbus in partie: ', are ukw favorable atten- tion, and are partaking of the wonderful be rewarded. a negro and a dog. struck the shepherd played upon his feet. negro in Spanish was no repl given, and arms. turns the hands about. ground, ;ienrs before he coul impetus given to every branch of indus- try by the outgrowth of the Northwestern railroad along our northern tier of town- ships and the rrojeutea line of the B. & M. railroad either from this place or Schuyler, The present lndications are that the B. & M., nstead of running up the Shell creek valley will diverge north- ward near Becker's mill, along the Las. eke creek, touching Stanton and onward to Yankton, seeking a_northern outlet into Dakota and the Northern Pacific. Two junctions are already eatablished in the county, one _at Humphrey with the “Union Pacific's Norfolk branch and the Northwestern, and one at Dorrance, about ten iniles from Colum- bus, the Norfolk and Albion branch reaching out to Genoa, Fullerton, Cedar Rapids, with extensive preparations to push on into new territory, which will all be tributary to the main line of the Union Pacific at this place. A party of Cornish and Welsh miners have mdicated goodicoal prospects with five miles of our new depot, which about ready for occupancy, and steps are being taken to bore for coal, or gas, as may be developed, and while we are not selected by the legislature for any marked favors, we have the bonus it takes to se- cure them, and can use them for any le- itimate Senterprise, that will bringshe- cls, and not barnacles and parasites to Hupsox. —_——— CELEBRATED CLOCKS. Marvels of Horology Made By Cun- ning and Ingenious Hands, F. G. Mather in the Popular Science Monthly: Another king of Spain came to Geneva to see a clocl made by Droz, a merchant of that city. which had been Upon the clock were seated a shepherd, As the hour was flute, and tho dog played” gently at his But when the King reached torth to touch an apple that hung from a tree, under which the shepherd rested, the dog flew at him and barked so furiously that a live dog answered himand the whole party left in haste. return_one Venturing to of the courtiers asked the what time it was. There y, But when the question was repeated in French an answer was ‘This frightened the courticer, who rejoined his companions, and all of them voted that the clock was the work of the evil one. We are told of a strange clock that is said to have belonged toa Hindoo prince. Al rgufung was hung on poles near the dial, and all about upon the ground lay a pile of artificial human heads, ribs, legs The whole number of bones in the pile was equal to the number of bodes in twelve perfect bodies, but the pile appeared to have been thrown to- cther in the greatest confusion. “When the hands of the clock indicated the hour of 1, out from the pile crawled first the number of varts needed to form the frame of one man, part coming to part with quick click; and, when completed, tho figure sprang up, seized 1 mallet,and, walking up to the gong, struck one blow, ‘This cone, he returned to the pile and fell to pieces again. When 2 o'clock came, two men arose, and did likewise; and at the hours of noon and midnight the entire heap svrang up, and, march- ing to the gong, struck one after another his blow, muking twelve in all; then re- turning, fell to pieces again as before.”” A clock made by a Parisiun consists mfiyrly of aglass dial and two hands, whicl the other side of the center. are only about an inch in balancoed each with a ball on ‘These balls diameter, and vet they contain all the machinery that ‘The back of the dial is a perfectly smooth surface. You may turn the hands round and round with your cane, and when you let them alone they will swing back and forth for awhile, and then will stop at exactly the right spot to show the true time. A clock are in Brussels is so placed over a chimney or vipe through which the air goes up- ward that the draught keeps it wound up all the time, The most remarkable clock in America, 1if we consider the place in which it was built, is she one which was made by a miner in the Hallenback colliery, at Walkesbarre, Pa. This clock was made out of bits of board and iron, and with the roughest tools that can be imagined. 1t was madoe nearly half a mile under- and it occupied the maker nine say it was done. 'he clock is about nine feet high, and there are sixty-three figuros that move by machinery. There are only twenty-two noying figures in the Strass- burg clock. On the tront of the W ilkes- barre clock—the one we are speaking of —there are three sholves or balconies, Along the lower balcony a mounted meral lead a file of continental soldiers. 'ho liberty bell rings and a sentinel sa- lutes vhe procession. A door in the \|r< er balcony opens and shows Molly itcher, who fires her historic cannon, the smoke of which is blown away from the interior of the cloek by a fan. ‘Lhen the ])orlrliu of the first twenty presidents of the United States pass along in a kind of panorama, the Declaration of Inde- pendence being held aloft by Thomas Jefferson. On another of the balconies the twelve apostles go by; Satan comes out, the cock crows for the benefit of Po- ter. When Christ appears a figure of justice raises a pair of scales, while u :j:.:llllru of death tolls the minutes upon a ell. —————e A Plain Woman. San Francisco Ckronicle: She was a vractical, hard-headed woman and de- spised poetry, especially on tombstones. h'!;m had lived a life of great usefullness, haying subdned four husbands an brought up three families. She was on her deathbed, and one of those good friends who sometimes like to cheer up the sick began talking of the funeral and the coftin and the headstone. “Mebbe I'm going to die,” said’ she “and mebbe I'm not. But if Ido go 1'll have trouble enough lookin' after m husbands without comin' back to lool after my funeral, Now, when I'm buried 1 don't want no cpitafly. You just put a plain stone with this on JANE McCORKINDALE, i A PLAIN WOMAN. § i Barled Four Men and Brought Up Four- : teen Cuildren. LBt A clerk in a St. Louis store fell ill and was likely to die, and a telegram was sent to his relatives in Springtield, Ill., saying that he was not expected to live long.” The answer that came back was: *Can't come at present. When he dies ship body to us. T Notice to Bridge Contractors and Builders, N OICE is heroby given that sealod bids wil N Ve recoivod ut the county clerk's oftice, of v county, nt Fullerton, Nebraska, aay of noon of the for the ~ercction of & 1887, bridge across the Lou{\ river, co the village of Genon in suid county, said bridge 13 to be about 1,275 feet in length, twelve feet i width, longli of spans sevonty feet, with two tirn outs, o huve houvy onk plling for plers, and subst antial ice breaks at each pler. "The bridge is to be similar in_construction to the Loup bridge at Fullerton, Nobraska., A1l Didders are required to’ accompany their biids with plans and specifications of the works Ril'bids whi be publieully opened and examinod by the county bonrd of suporvisors, on t dity of April, 1887, at two o'clock in’ the f noon of said'duy, at the court house in Fuller- ton, and the contraot for the erection of said bridge awarded to the lowost responsible bid- Baving the most suitable pimug. Tue oouaty board, however, reserves the right to roject any and all bids and no money will nufi for o rejected plans bids must be so addressed to Frank Gay, chairman of of county supervisors, in cure of A. M. u- maks r.m.fi Fullerton, Nebrasia, and the same sh e endorsed thercon: * for the erection of the Loup By order of the county board of of Nance county, Nebraska. Given under my scal of this 14th day * OB County e at Genoa." R, Clers. A CARD. TO THE PUBLIC— With the approach of spring and the increased interest man- ifested in real estate matters, I am more than ever consult- ed by intending purchasers as to favorable opportunities for investment, and to all such would say: ‘When putting any Proper- ty on the market, and adver- tising it as desirable, I have invariably confined myself to a plain unvarnished statement of facts, never indulging in vague promises for the future, and the result in every case hasbeen that the expectations of purchasers were more than realized. I can refer with pleasure to Albright's Annex and Baker Place, as sample il- lustrations. Lots in .the “Annex” have quadrupled in value and aro still advancing, while.a street car line is already building past Baker Place, adding hun- dreds of dollars to the valueof every lot. Albright's Choice was se- lected by me with the greatest care after a thorough study and with the full knowledge of its value, and I can consci- entiously say to those seeking a safe and profitable invest- ment that Albright's Choice otfers chances not excelled in this market for a sure thing. Early investorshave already reaped IArge profits in. CASH, and with the many important improvements contemplated, some of which are now under way, every lot in this splen: did addition will prove a bo nanza to first buyers, Further information, plats and prices, will be cheerfully furnished. Buggies ready at all times to show property. Respectfully, W.G. ALBRIGHT SOLE OWNER, 218 8. 15th Street. Branch office at South Oma- ha. N. B. Property for sale innl parts of the city E