Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 26, 1887, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION ! D‘ny fllnrue. Edition) ineluding Bunday ORr. .. The Omaha day Bi address, One Year.. ABA OPPICE, NO. 914 AND 918 FARNAM STRREFY EW YORK OPFICE, ROOM 68, UNE BUILDIN ASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. 13 FOURTEENTI STREAT. CORRESPONDENCE: All communioations relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressod to the Evl- TOR OF TUE BER. BUSINESS LETTERAL A1l burinesd letters and remittances should be dressed to T BEs PUBLISHING COMPAN OMARA. Drafts, checks and postofice orde: 0 be made payable to the order of the company, THE BEE PUBLISHINS CONPARY, PROPRIETONS, E. ROSEWATER, Eorron. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraski County awou.?’u. }* L) Geo, B. Tzschuck, secretary of The Dee Publishing company, does solemnly swear 3, that the actual circuiation of the Daily Bee for the week ending Mar. 15th 1857, was as Batu Mar,12. Bunday, Mar. 13 Monday, Mar. 14, Tuesday, M flf‘ ¥h’u‘t=dnv Mar. 1’ Friasy, Mar, 15, Average, B, CK. Subscribed and sworn to be fore me this 21st day of March A, D., 1887, N. P. FEIL, ISEAL| Notary Publie. Geo. B. 'I'zschuck, belnli first duly sworn, s leposes and says that he Is secretary of The [l Bee Publishing company, that the actual av- eraze daily eirculation’ of the Dally Bee for themonth of March, lsw’ 11,637 coples; for &ru. 1886, 12,191 eopies: for for May, 1888, 1, copies; for June, 1886, 12,208 coples; for Jnlfi.‘ 1886, 12,314 coples; for Auzust, 1886, 13, copies; for September, 1856, 18,080 coptes; for October, 1836, 12,080 copies; for November, 1886, 13,348 copfes; for December, 1880, 13,237 copies; for January, 1887, 16, copies; for Fobruary, 1887, 14,108 copies. GEo. B. TZSCRUCK. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 9th day of March, A. D). 1887, [SEAL.| P. Friv. Notary Public. JACKSON MARION was hanged at Bea- trice yesterday. It might be safe to say that capital punishment punishes. ALL the sait in the 640 acres of Saline land wanted by the West Lincoln syndi- cate would not “‘save the bacon™ of the member voting for the steal. WHEN the anti-gambling bill was made a special order for Friday, at 10:30, Mr. Blayter fortunately received a telegram announcing gerious illness of a relative. MR, ScuA¥ER, 8 New York lawyer, threatens to shoot Mr. Pulitzer, editor of the World. Mr. Pulitzer continues to edit his paper. Freedom of pressis guar- anteed, but 1t seems that 1t is sometimes necessary to fight for it. SENATOR PAYNE, of Ohio, is reported to be one of a syndicate formed to pur- chase iron ore lands in Canada. With seventy-six years on his head and availa- ble resources amounting to at least ten million dollars, one would suppose the senator could find life tolerable without these side speculations, Tae New York Star, in speaking of the beggarly fire escapes of hotels 1n general, says: 'he poor bauble with which the burned meun and women decked themselves were recovered unhurt from the safe of the burned hotel at Buifaio. When will the time come that human life is reckoned as valuable as gold and diamonds and as safely housed?” — oo Mg PowDERLY, with the concurrence of the general executive board of the Knights of Labor, has proclaimed that no money can be voted from an assem- bly, district or Jocal, for political pur- poses. The immediate cause of this dec- laration was the action of a Chieago as- sembly in voting $50 to the campaign fund of the united labor party, but it is general in its scope, and therefore im- portant. Tne New York boodle alderman, Tom Cleary, testified in his recent trial that the position of janitor of the equitable building pays him $00 a month, The revelation will have a tendency not only to raise the character of this vocation, but the envy also of thousands of edu- catél and trained professional and busi- ness men in New York who must be con- tent with a third or less of this sum, But Jjanitorships of this kind are even more . exceptional than are men of the char- acter of Tom Cleary. Tue scarcity of one and two dollar bulls, which had become a source of con- diderable inconvenience to bankers and business men in the east, has been re- lieved within the past few days. The printing of ones and twos had been tem- porially suspended for fives and tens, and meanwhile the demand for the smaller denominations became unusually heavy. The printing of ones and twos having beon resumed the treasury is now under- stood to have an ample supply to meet all calls made upon it. Tue legislative bribe solicitors will have to stand from under. The web of proof which surrounds the conspirators implicated in the gambling bl plot is now almost complete. Link by link the ovidence of the infamy has been welded together. The proofs we had on nand when the investigating committee met have been supplemented by admissions from contributors to the boodle, and stakeholders. Step by step the plot has been watched and reported by trusty de- tectives. When the full particulars are reported to the people of this state, as they will be within forty-eight hours, leg- islative blackmailers will have an oppor- tunity to ask a yindiction at the hands of their colleagues, EE—— ‘THE legislature has decided to adjourn sine die Thursday, March 81. If we have been correctly informed, some of the members when they reach home will not be met by their constituents in a body, headed by a brass band, Buton the con- trary, the little school house will be crowded to suffocation by earnest and reputable men, who will publicly ex- press their loathing and indignation at the miserable record made by the man ‘whom they elected upon solemn pledges that he would honestly represent them, but who sola bimself, body and soul, to the enomy. The political atmosphere of not afew of these outraged constitucncies bas a strong sulphuric odor. The fires of ‘wrath are burning. : A “Plebald " Committee. . According to Mr. McShane's paper the committee of fifteen which framed the Omaha charter was a piebald committee. If by this is meant that the committee represented many shades of opinion, Mr., McShane's paper is correct, The com- mittee consisted, as we remember, of five members of the council, Messrs. Bechel, Daily, Bailey, Lee and Lowry; five mem- bers of the board of trade, Messrs, Max Meyer, John Evans, Hugh G. Clarke, C. 8. Chase and E. Rosewater; and five leading citizens, Messrs. Herman Kountze, James Creighton, Guy C. Bar- ton, Frank Murphy and A. J. Poppleton. This, then, was the ‘‘piebald’’ commattee. No doubt that it represented diverse in- terests, with & strong predominance of corporation influence, But its work, when finished, was highly commended by Mr. McShane's editor, who, how- ever, was converted after the legisla- ture met by the roustabouts and oil-room loafers at Lincoln to the belief that the charter “prepared by this com- mittee was full of jobs and steals, when in fact the cry of ‘“‘stop thief'’ was raised by the the stool-pigeons of the thieves and jobbers. When Dr. Miller returned to Omaha and found his vaper edited against the manifest interest ot our best citizens, he called off the fresh editor and ordered him to re- main away from his haunts at Lincoln. Mr. McShane, who has large interests in Omaha, and Mr. Kountze, who bas a small interest in his paper, ought to make this reckless person understand that the community will not countenance or ap- prove the dirty work done at Lincoln through Colby, Russell, and that class of rogues. They owe it to themselves to do justice to the staunch and true mem- bers of the Douglas delegation, and especially Senators Lininger and Tzschuck, who have firmly and faith- fully upheld the interests of Omaha against the conspirators who are teying to deprive us of parks and boulevards and injecting provisions in the charter detrimental to taxpayers and workingmen in the letting of con- tracts. Itis a shame and disgrace to Omaha that any paper pretending to de- cency and owned by reputable citizens should countenance the abuse of honest representatives, whose fidelity to Omaha nobody dares question. Costly Dinners. Two or three weeks ago a free dinner was given to the state senate at the prin- cipal hotel in Lincoln. While it was given out that this entertainment was generously provided by the hotel pro- prietor out of respect for the honorable gentlemen and free-lunchers, it is sus- pected that this costly dinner was paid for out of the funds set apart foroil- room expenses and incidentals by the railroads. At any rate the fact that the railroad regulation bills had been de- feated by the senato just betore this free dinner was tendered gives a good basis for the belief that it was a very costly eatertninment to the taxpayers of the state. And now another very costly dinner has been given at Lincolu to distin- guished law-makers. This time, how- ever, it was a more exclusive affair. It appears that the report of the special commuttee charged with apprais- ing tho saline lands at Lincoln, which were.leased for fifty years by authority of the last legislature, was not satisfac- tory to the saline land syndicate, which now wants to gobble the lands. This committee reported that the lands were worth $500 per acre. The syndicate managed to get & new committee appointed with more delicate stomachs and less tender conscience. This committee, consisting of Agee, Peters, Sullivan, Norris and Schamp, all of them reliable ringsters and railroad- ers, took a ride on Thursday evening with the syndicate bosses to view the saline lands through the jobbers’ tele- scope. Upon their return to the city they were given a grand supper at the Wind- sor by the generous syndicate. The immediate effect of this elegant repast- materialized intola report which recom- mends the sale of 240 acres at prices ranging from $100 to §300. In other words the viands and wines with which this committee was regaled will cost the state somewhere in the neighborhood ot $75,000, based on the first appraisement. As a purely business transaction this supper will prove a very paying invest- ment for the saline syndicate, even if it paid $25 a plate for each member. In fact, it can dine and wine the whole legislatvore after the bill is passed and still have some money left. But we sus- pect that the costly dinner will have to be supplemented by something more substantial if the bill is pulled through, inspite of its glaring violations of the constitution and its reckless disregard for the materiel interests of the state. S Sherman in the Senate. _Senator Sherman has justified the state- ment made when he started on his south- ern trip that the journey was mnot - tended to be wholly one of sight-seeing and pleasure. He has spoken several times to southern audiences, his most im- portant speech thus far having been made on last Tuesday evening in the state capitol at Naghville, Tennessee. The attention and consideration everywhere accorded the senator has been gratifying and highly creditable to the people. There has been manifested a general and eager desire to hear his discussion of pub- lic questions and party policies, and his exposition of republican principles, which argues an earnest willingness in the people of the south to hear the other side from that which has been preached to them, and to hear it from a party leader who is fully equipped by experience and capacity to present it fully and ably. There is in this evidence of the growth of a better feeling and sentiment in the south which is at once gratifying and en- couraging. When a people have reached the point of a willingness to learn, and indicate that condition with hearty earnestness, the problem of teaching them loses most of its difficulties. It is apparent that this is the state of a large part of the southern people, or at least of the region thus far visited by Senator Sher- man, and there is no good reason to sup- pose they are exceptional. Senator Sherman has shown a discreet and judicious appreciation of the circum- stances and the situation. His spoeches, and more particularly his carefully pre- pared address at Nashville, have indicated & consciousness that he was talking to a people who have a great deal to unlearn and a great deal of right political in- formation to acquire. It is not necessary to follow the line. of treatment of the policies that have been pursved, and those which should prevail in order to illustrate this. It is sufficient to say of his utterances thus far that they have been a full and candid arraignment of past, and to some extent still existing, errors, and a clear and straightforward presentation of what he believes to be the wise and just course of the future. Ho has spoken plainly, but temperately ; earnestly, as becume a man of sincere convictions, but with none of the aspe- rities of the politician ; comprehensively, ns o statesman and leader should, but with no compromising concessions. It is impossible to estimate the extent of the impression which the viows of Senator Sherman may make upon the people of the south whose political opinions neced reforming. They will undoubtedly find some receptive and congenial soil. But if the immediate results in this direction shall not be so great as may be hoped, the visit of the senator to the south will be a wholesome stimulant to the repub- licans of that section, while it marks the beginning of a larger and more zealous effort on the part of republican leaders to promote there the principles of their party. Mg, RANDALL, it is stated, has recently become a member of the American Pro- tectionist association. A leading object of this organization 18 understood to be to prevent the clection to congress of all democrats who favor a reduction ot the existing tariff. If 1t be not misrepre- sented it will use its money and influence to defeat democratic congressional can- didates opposed to the protection policy in any part of the country where the prospect of defeating them is aftorded. Its purpose also is to defeat every effort to revise the tariff in such a way as to re- lieve the people of the needless burdens itimposes. Itis pretended that the as- sociation has nothing to do with party, yet its membership is almost wholly composed of extremo tariff republicans. Its declared objects clearly distinguish it as a political organization, What nust democrats think of Mr. Randall's con- nection with a body whose chief aim is to make war upon and whenever possible defeat the candidates of his party who are mol protectionists? What else can they think than that the democracy of Randall is a very thin veneering, a mere cloak worn for an utterly selfish purpose? A movement was started in the Pennsyl- vania legislature to change the congressional district of Mr. Ran- dall 8o as to make a safe republican majority against him. It was abandoned. Did he join the American Protectionist association in order to give additional assurance to the Pennsylvania 1ariff defenders that they could depend upon his fidelity, and as the price of sav- ing his district? Mr. Randall has doubt- less found congenial company, He has fully qualified himself for membership of this association. But he has lost the right to the title of democrat, and no sin- cere member of that party ought to coun- tenance his assumption of fellowship. Mg. WiLLiaM WALTER PHELPS, who is engaged in writing a biography of Gar- field for Appleton’s Biographical Ency- clopedia, is reported to have found some new facts bearing on Garfield's connee- tion with the De Galyer contract. As the result®of his investigations, Mr. Phelps will exonerate Garfield from blame in the Oredit-Mobilier affair, but will be obliged to censure the ‘‘singular lack of fore thought which characterized his associa- tion with the De Galyer business.” It could be wished that this delicpte task might have fallen to some other hands than those of Mr. Pheips, the wisdom of whose judgment and discrimination may not command universal confidence and approval. Mg. WHITMORE, chairman of the rail- road committes, now wants e the house to cut the vitals out of the railroad regulation bill, house roll No. 192, and then pass it, 8o as to satisfy the railroad man- agers and their lackeys on the floor of the scnate. For a man who was elected on his anti-monopoly record, Mr. Whitmore seems very anxious not to irritate the railway bosses. He remindsus of the month of March, which sometimes comes in like a roaring lion and goes out like a bleating lamb. ——— THE most celebrated room 1 the ex- ecutive mansion at Washington is the east room, but whatever may have hith- erto been its claims to popular interest and perpetual fame, they pale before the fact that it was in that apartment Grover Cleveland *‘popped the question.'” What wonder he should want to linger through a second term where there is such a delightful memory, Mg. NEWCOMER wants to punish wife- beaters with thirty-nine lashes. Very good. But what would Mr. Newcomer do witha man who deserts his wife and family? It is currently reported near Red Oak that there is such a man serv- ing in the present Nebraska legislature. Other Lands n Ours, The battle in the British parliament on the coercion bill of the government, which was begun last Tuesday, isstill on. Promptly upon the announcement of the measure, Mr, Morely offered an amend- ment to the motion for urgency declar- ing that *‘this house declines to set aside the business of the nation in favor of a measure for increasing the stringency of the criminal law in Ireland while no ef- fectual security 18 taken against an abuse ot the law by the exaction of excessive rents.” Insupport of his amendment Mr. Morely denied absolutely the govern- ment's assertions as to the lawless condi- tion of lreland, afirming that compara- tive statistics of crime would show that beyond a certain very narrow area the country had never been quieter, He de- nounced the proposed measure as de- signed to enable landlords to extort ex- horbitant rents, throwing the law on the side of the rich, removing all coercive or protective power which the tenants de- rived from combining, and putting co- ercion upon the unfortunate tenants. The wisest policy, he said, was remedial legislation which would destroy the roots of discontent. Mr. Gladstoue addressed the commons in opposition to the urgency motion on Thursday even- ing, in which he said that no greater ca- lamity could befall the house than to be subjected to the pressure for the passage of the proposed measure which the gov- ernment had threatened. In his parha- mentary experience he had never known 80 grave a state of affairs, due now to the extreme abuse of power by the majority, which, if persisted in, would leave behind a sense of intolerable wrong. The terms ot the propased measdre are not yet known and will not be until the house passes the motion under discussion, if the government supporters are strong enough to do that. This result may not bo reached for some time yet. Meanwhile the strain in Ireland grows every day more severe and the situation more seri- Flh( secretary, who has ous. Balfour, earned tho tithe of “bloody,' is said to have issued orflegs to all the resident magistrates in Ircland that the policy re- quired by the government is one of thorough-going, unflinch- ing repression, and that when- ever resistance is offered to the law they should not hesitate toshoot. The enforce- ment of this policy may at any time bring forth bloody fruit, a consequence which the government appears to invite and desire, * a*e The festivities throughout Germany in honor of the ninectioth birthday of the emperor culminated on lsst Tuesday, but happenings of a more or less interesting character have continued during the week. The event has been 1n most re- spects the most memorable ot 1ts kind 1n history. In the universal expression of loyalty it evoked from the German peo- ple, in the assurances of friendship from the soverigns of other nations, and in the utterance of peaceful sentiments, in quarters where they were not supposed to be entertained, for which it gave op- portunity, the celebration has had most interesting developments and caunot fail to vroduce salutory effects. To the re- markable old man whose years of life cover the most wonderful period of the world's history in political and material triumphs it must be regarded as the most honorable and glorious ex- perience of his great career, X Unwonted quiet still pravails in Russia, and except the manifesto of the constitu- tionalists, repudiating any connection with the attempted assassination, em- merating the sins of the present regime, and setting forth their demands, there has been no ripple on the current of politics in that empire. The czar re- ceived many congratulations on his es- cape from assassination, but it is said he does not find in his good fortune an augury of future escapes. His father sur- vived four attempts to take his life —one being made by Zaragazoff, in 1866, at St. Peotersburg; a second by Berechovsky the following year at Paris; the third by Solovieft, in 1878, at St. Petersburg, the fourth occurring soon after at Moscow. Yet all these were to end in his falling a victim to the assassin’s bomb in March, 1881, In like manner the present czar must recognize only too well that the revival of plots to kill him means also their repetition at convenient times, and with all the de- vices which modern science puts at the command of the nihilist. It would not be surprising to find another attempt made, as caution in the public appear- ances of the omperor is a little relaxed. Czar Alexander i1 elings to his despotic traditions, but he is carrying on the busi- ness of autocracy under serious disad- vantages, ? fl** The demands of the jubilec seem to have an unsettling effcot upon the not exceptionally ¢trong mind of Victoria. Her mental peculiarities, it is said, are becoming a general topic of conversa- tion, and the opinion that she is demented 1s freely expressed now in quarters where it would have been scouted a year ago. Her sudden freak for hayinga circus and theatrical performances given .for her solitary delectation naturally suggests the mania of the late King Lows of Bavaria. Some other actions are scarcely more sane and infinitely more offensive. On the occasion of her recent visitto London, she made the Life guards ride without cloaks and sit for hours in the saddle thus exposed, although the mercury was only eighteen de- grees above zero, with a bitter enst wind. Only at the last mo- ment was the order rescinded compelling several hundred police, who were on duty at the approaches to Buckingham palace during the drawing room, to go without their overcoats, PeopMPare aiready gets ting very sick of the jubilee business, with endless subscribtions being rammed down their throats. All over England busy- bodies, who hope for honors, are making house to house collections, and all the in- numerable flunkies in the land are crowd- ing over each other with schemes to ad- vertise themselves in connection with the thing. A strong effort is making to in- duce the queen to abandon her decision to have the celebration on Tuesday, June 21, and have it instead on the actual an- niversary, which 15 Monday, and thus enable people to combine it with the natural kolidays, Saturday and Sunday, but she is very obdurate. The commons are gong to be asked to voto $100,000 for fireworks. It will be the first public out- lay of this sort since the celebration of the peace of Paris after the war in the Crimea. e England has its political scandals, as well as this country., Ope of the oddest of record is the charge brought against the corporation of the city of London of haviug spent a large sum from the muni- cipal funds, something like $250,000, in getting up bogus. meetings to protest against the bill introduced by Sir Wil- liam Harcourt to reform the municipal government, At thése meetings every- body, including thé audiences, was hired. Indeed, the “hire of the audience” was set down as an ltcr{\ In the accounts. Of course these hired hdiences were small. One composed of “indigaant London Irishmen"” consisted of only five persons, and was held in a tavern. In some cases the hired men were sent to capture liberal meetings, 'and if mnecessary ‘‘storm’’ their platforms. Among them on all occasions a small party of men is set down as ‘‘chuckers-out,” who per- form the functions gsgigned in this coun- try to “bouncers,” -aud were doubtless men of similar build and character. The charges have been brought up in the house of commons by Mr. Labouchere, and he offers to prove them to the letter, having the accounts and other docu- ments in his pocsou.il?. 03 Reports from nearly all the conntries of Europe show that they are having a cold, dreary, backward spring, and, in fact, that the season in Europe is an *‘excep- tional” one, It always is. The old and toolish tradition about ‘‘sunny Italy" and “sunny France” is exploded. ‘T'he weather all over Furope is abominable, as a rule, all the year round, judged by the American standard. In this country there are twice as many sunay days as ~__THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 1887. dark days; in Europe the revorse is the case, and the foul days greatly outnumber the fair. Even in the spring, which isthe only “‘brag" season in Europe, it gener- ally rains fully half the time; and a per- fectly clear day, such as we have here in plenty, is a great rarity there. In cli- mate and weather, as in almost every- thing else, this country has the best, PROMINENT PERSONS, Jay Gould says he has no intentlon of assnming any new business burdens. A town in Texas has been named after Miss Frances E. Willard, the temperance champion, * Ex-Senator Wallace of Pennsylvania, is sald to have made $1,500,000 since he left Washington, Instead of recelving $1,000, as roported, for his month’s work in Boston, Sam Jones re- ceived only 8750, Julian Hawthorne and Pulitzer are out, and Julian is no longer literary editor of the New York World, Gieronimo Is employed in making gardens at Fort Pickens—raising cabbage and onions instead of hair, Henry E. Abbey’s profits from the amuse- ment business this year foot up over two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Senator-elect Reagan is sald to be a model of kindness and good humor in his domestic life. He is never cross and never swears. Jokn Boyle O'Reilly never does any liter ary work at his newspaper oftice. e can write no poetry or stories except in his own Louse, Professor Bell, the teiephone man, is re- building his home in Washington, It was recently burned, and the negroes say itis vossessed by a devil of bad luck. M. Philippoteaux, the French painter, has been engaged for six years to paint huge pictures for cycloramie exhibition in the chief cities of Europe. The first will repre- sent Niagara Falls, and will be shown in London next fall, Mr. Alfred Sully, who has recently ac- quired such sudden prominence in the rail- road world, wrote a volume of poems in his youth, A correspondent wrote the fact to his paper, with this startling result: “Mr. Sully is & widower who sometimes flirts with the muse.” The types brought it out in this way: “Mr. Sullyis a widower who some- times flirts with the nurse.” e i, Sir Knight Pullman, Macon Telegraph, Pullman, the sleeping car mannfacturer, had to wait for some one to knight him, If he had been a porter upon one of his cars be could have bought his title long ago, pelirzbmal ey Is the Queen Crazy? Cablegram in New York Times, ‘The mental peculiarities of the queen are becoming a general topic of conversation, and the opimion that she is demented Is freely expressed now in quarters where it would have been scouted a yearago. Her sudden freak for having a circus and thea- trical performance given for her solitary de- lectation naturally suggests the mania of the late King Louis of Bavaria. e A Composite Production. Chieago Tribune. A Chicago photographer has been much interested in the subject of composite photo- graphy as illustrated in the March Century. A few days ago he took a negative of a Chin- ese idol by way of experiment, and by snc- cessively superimposing thereupon the nega- tives of a rhinoceros, a donkey, a King Charles spaniel, a pelican, a gorilla, a Flat- head Indian, and a Dutch cheese he has secured a pretty fair photograph of a mugwump. Wire Obstructions. Phiadelphia Record. The telegraph wires as well as the electric light wires, were in the way of the firemen when those emergency men herolcally ex- erted themselves in order to save life at the burning of the Richmond hotel in Buffalo. A paragraph condemnatory of these wires might well be kept standing In every news- paper office for use whenever it may be neces- sary to make comment on fires at hotels. Both life and property are contantly endan- gered by just such obstructions: and, al- though the work of putting the wires under- ground has been begun in several cities, it is being done slothfully rather than with an en- ergy commensurate with the Importance of the subject. 3 Anticipation, New York World. + Whilo the sun is slightly starting And the Lenten times departing, ‘While just the slightest verdure is preparing to émerze, The musings of the malaen Are with summer pleasures laden, With the swinging of the hammock and the sounding of the surge. She judges twilight flirting An amusement most diverting With its toolish conversation so incessantly renewed; With the eveninz sun descending, She delights to watch the blending Of the verdure of the landscape with the verdure of the dude. Her tancy dwells with flowers 1In the shade of pleasant bowers, ‘Where the fairy-footed summer winds most np&onunely steal hen the verdonks and rambles Bhall suggest romantic rambles Through the old Druidic woodland or the pages of Lucille. —_— STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Frontier county is out of debt and flourishing, Charles Cook, in jail awaiting trial for burglary at Central Cl;y, broke jail on Saturday night last and made a success- ful escape. The Omaha barber who went to Beat- rice commissioned to give Jagk Marion a farewell metropolitan shave, exclaimed when the job was done, ‘Necks gem'man.” John Bell, an emigrant from Maxwell, h a wife and six children, arrived al cill a few days ago to locate in Holt county. He died soon after his ar- rival and lKe old soldiers of the place took charge of his funeral. The aflairs of the First National Bank of Blair are being wound up in a_ very speedy and satisfactory manner. Every depositor will be paid in full with inter- est, Receiver Street will soon surrender his trust and the liability of the stock- holders will be less than was expected, The rising generation of Plattsmouth threatens to form a mulitia company. Before the project reaches the formative stage 1t would be well to critically ex- amine the pedal dimensions of the candi- dates. It would be fatal to the dignity of the squad to march into the country for room to turn around without stub- inkley, of Pierce, presented her husband with triplets a few days ago— two girls and a boy, weighing six, seyen and eight pounds, respectively. Mr. Hinckley was presented with twins less than two years ago. A purse was raised in honor of the first triplets in Pierce, and contributions swelled into a fund of $100 for the trio of spring buds. Lincoln county's assessment lists will receive a vast accession this year by in- cluding lands not heretofore taxable. All railway landsin the county are now to be and have been added to the tax rolls of the various precincts by County Clerk Evans. These amount to almost 500,000 acres. Hesides these, there havo been certified by the state auditor to the clerk for taxation 163 parcels of govern- ment land that homesteaders and pre- emptors have proved up on during the year. 'hese amount to 25,460 acres. Those lands at the lowest possible assoss- ment valuation will add '$260,000 to the assessment rolls, lowa Items. A grand uhoonnitournnmonl has been lrrunged at Spirit Lake for June 18, 14 and 15. A park scheme at Spirit Lake has been undertaken by the board of trade of that summer resort. United States Senator Allison will de- liver the annual address beforo the state university of lowa in lowa City next June. Rev. B. Hall, for more than fifty years a preacher of the Presbyterian church, died at his home in Waukon Iast week, wkere he has resided twenty-threc years. At Mason City while a lot of boys were engaged at play, Walter Serviso ran into » barb-wire fence and cut his throag from ear to ear, but not fatally. He also cut a big gash in his cheek that will disfigure him for life. The supreme court at Des Moines de- clares the law authorizing cities to make assossments for building sewers and street improvements against abutting property is valid, and such assessments ao not create a debt against the city. Of thirteen lendlns Towa cities, Dubu- que teachers are paid the lowest average salaries and West Des Moines the high- cst—the former pnyln# an_average of ?41.20 and the latter $60. The average for tho thirteen cities is about $49.60. Towa has more cattle thau all the terri- tories combinced; more than any other state 1in the union except Texas; more milch cows than Texas: more hogs than nn{ other state; more corn to feed them and more miles of railroads to carry her products to market than any other state except llinois, Dakota. John Erickson has sold the Fargo opera house for $28,000. The real estate boom is visiting Flan- drau with profitable results. Stonecutters in the rluurries at Sioux Fallsearn from $4 to $5 per day. The Unitarian church society of Sioux Falls are raising a building fund. Several Indiana parties have authorized investments in Yankton real estate. There are already about four times as many candidates s offices to fill in the municipal election at Sioux Falls. The places do not pay a nickle in salary, while the positions give plenty of work and criticism., The Pacific Coast. Millions of feet of Arizona pine rail- road ties are being shipped to Svuthern California, Surf-bathing at Long Beach, Los Angeles county, has begun for the season, and is enjoyed by hundreds of excursion- ists. Scott Bar has the tallest postmaster in the United States. He stands over seven feet in his stockings and weighs 280 pounds. A sixty-stamp mill is to be erected at Daggett, San Bernardino county, by the Oro Grande Mining company, at a cost of $250,000. Under the cigarette bill, which is now a law, and takes effect on and after May 1, the penalty for seiling or giving tobacco or cigarcttes to a boy under eighteen years of age is a fine of $200. The total cost to thestate of the Nevada lcFisIn(ure just expired was $52,484,04, ‘The salaries for members of both branches foot up about $380,000, and mileage and stationery $11,200 more; pay of attaches, $12,000. Captain A. C. Henry picked up a speci- men of pink quartz on his ranch near the mouth of Green Vailey, Cal.,, a few days since, one of the handsomest and richest ever seen, It is said that it would assay $40,000 to the ton, e Beecher in Politics. Springfield Republican: Mr. Beecher was one of the most ardent, constant and effective of the anti-slavery forces from the time of his entrance inio active life. Plymouth pulpit was the source of unceasing stream of anti-slavery senti- ment and service, When the free state men of Kansas were sinvolved in their life and death struggle against the slave power, novoice in the east was more energetic and effec- tive than that of Henry Ward Beecher. His speeches at public meetings in Brook- Iyn and New York fired audiences with active sympathy necessary to support the cause of freedom. He and Plymouth church with him were foremost in the dispatch of Sharp's rifles to “bleeding Kansas,” and he was honored by the south and the ‘‘doughfaces” with the nickname of ‘‘Sharp’s Rifle Beecher,” and many other less graphic and more abusive, In the first campaijgn of the young re- ublican party for *‘free soil, free speech, or men and FKremont,” in 1856, Mr, Beecher had spoken frequently, and in that for Mr. Lincoln in 1860 he was inde- fatigable in his labors. When the war broke out no man was more vigorous, efficient and untiring whether in raising troops, in helping the sanitary and chris- tian commissions, or in keeping the spirit of patriotism at a white heat, not only in his own flock but wherever speakers were wanted in the great cities which were his field then. 2 Except while he was absent in Enrope in 1863 he never intermitted his pulpit labors or lessened their fervor and elo- quence. During his trip there came to Mr. Beecher one of those rare opportumties which win for the orator the lasting grat- itude of his country. He had gone abroad for rest and recreation, but he found pub- lic opinion in England was so poisoned by prejudice nfinfim the union cause,and 80 1gnorant and blind in its hatred of this country that he yielded to the persuasion of American and English friends and de- livered a number of addresses in the great cities, which contributed more than any other single influence to revolution- ize British feeling. Greater triumphs have seldom been won by an orator than he won, standing be- fore the mobs of Manchester and Liver- pool—bound that ke should not speak and threatening him with violence. Fear- less, persistent, impertubably good hu- mored, he silenced the hooting crowds, and taught them what the cause was they opposed, what the issuc of the strug: gle'must be, and what the duty of Eur pean nations, und their nation in particu- lnr, was_towards the United States. Mr. Beecher's speeches 1n all his hot political campaigns were singularly free from personal animosity, his denunciation of slavery and of rebellion did not prevent his charity for the slaveholder and the rebel, and after the war he was quick to assent to Mr. Greeley's programme of *‘universal suffrage.” “He went so far in hig confidence 1n Andrew Johnson's hon- esty, and the policy of reconciliation even without safeguards, that he alien- ated for a time many of those who had been his warmest frient 8he was Discharged. Elia Berlin was arrested for selling a lot of clothing, her own personal apparel, and other goods, which it was claimed she had previously mortgaged to one Bernstein, in violation of the criminal statutes. She had an examination be- fore Justice Ber! yesterday mornin, and was discharged for failure of proof. A Lecture by Miss Field, Miss Kate Field, who 1s the guest of Mrs. General Crook, has consented to de- liver a lecture for the benefit ot tho Women's Christian Temperance nnion. The lecture will be given at Boyd's opera house next Tuesday evening and the sub- ject will be *“I'he Mormon Monster.” The admission will be 50 cents; reserved seats 75 cents and gallery 25 cents. A CARD. TO THE PUBLIC— " With the approach of spring and theincreased intorest 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 hag been 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 are 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 secking a safe and profitable invest ment that Albright's Choice offers chances not excelled in this market for a sure thing. Early investorshave already reaped large profits in CASH, and with the many important improvements contemplated, gome of which are now under way, every lot in this splen: did addition will prove a ho 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 Btreet. Branch office at South Oma- ha. N. B. Property for sale inal) parts of the city