Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 7, 1887, Page 4

- . o THE DAILY BEE. Daily B Tha Omakn toriul matter should be addressed o the Eui- TO OF THE DRk, addressed OMATIA. o be made payable to the ord'tol the compauy, PUPLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMA OF KUBSORIPTION ¢ Morniaz Bdition) lm,llu.uur Sunday dny Bk, maiiod to any nddross, One Year. ... K i i WG To¥ Divice, No. 61) FOUNTRENTH STRES CORRESPONDENCE: All communications rolating to news and edi- PTTERS ! All businoss Inuni romittanans should be " UBLISHING COMPANY, ks and postoffice orders Drafts, ch THE BEE PUBLISHING CONPANY, PRUPRIETORS. E. ROSEWATER, Eorron. THE DAILY BEE. Bworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska, 1, o County of l)Ollkll.!- ] Geo. B. Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, does adlemnly swear that the actual clrculation of the Daily Bee for the week ending April 1st, 1557, was as follows: Baturdav. Mar.26. H Bundav, Mar, Monday, M: uesday, Mar, ‘ednesday, Mar Thursday, Ma Friaay, April 1 Average.. Rubseribed and nwnm |n|n~(un. me this dayof April A, D., 1857 ISEAL! Notarv 1" "I'zschuck, being first duly s deposes and says that he s secretary of Bee Publishing company, that uw actual av- eraze daily circulation of th themonth of March, 155, 11,5 April 1 12,191 copres: for for .\l:\). 18 450 coples! for June. 186, 12K copie July, 184, 12,314 copies: for August, 12,464 copi, Tor September, * 180, copies; for October, 1596, 12,050 coples: for November, 188, ‘m.nnhw for Deceriber, 47 conies: for, .lmnmr\». for Fobruary, 1887, 14, Gr HUCK, Subseribed and sworn to Refore me this dth day of \quh A. D18 [SEA N, P. FEIL, blie, for 1856, 13,050 B, copies Notarv Publie. Mavor Bovp is willing to compliment Chariey Brown with a tender of the nomination for mayor, but he wants the nomination himself, 2 new school board reminds us j sent of the ten little “‘Injuns’ sit- ting on the fence. The question is, how many will drop off within the next sixty days? Tne New York World says that, for a man who had no reputation as a national financier, Mr, Manning turned out well. That 15 so, but he shuold have turned out sooner than he did. Tue Chinese companies now have 2,000 sets of celestial bones awaiting shipment to the flowery land. The mongolians are sent back too late. There is room enough here for all after they are dead. Tuenew war tment rules at Yel- lowstone Park will, itis thought, prevent the frivolous pr: » of boiling shirtsin the geysers. [tis claimed that b'iled shirts jar on the picturesque effect of the whole Yellowstone region, BUFrALO BILL is not in the state of Ne- braska, yet he still is on the State of Ne- braska, a steamship, a sailing away to sweetwater lands where squaws, cow- boys, greasers, buffalo, elk and bronchos aro sights to be seen. Show 'em to 'em, William, and charge 'em well for it. Ex-Fire CHier BUuTLER is said to be setting his pins for chief of police. But- Jer prides himself more on his record as city marshal than on his reputation as fire chief. Mr. Butler went out gunning after a colored man once, and bravely shot him down in an open Tk 1ate railroad co mmissioner, who has fattened on republican patronage for more than‘twenty years, bolted the regu- lar republican nominee for mayor at Lincoln, and helped to elect a straight democrat. Mr. Gere's disloyalty to party isnot only the basest of treason but the meanest of ingratitude. A NEAT hittle scheme to vindicate Mr. Russell, hatched by his law partner, Hoxie, was nipped in the bud by the citi- zens of Schuyler on very short notice. Russell was to have been made mayor of Schuyler to show the esteem 10 which he is held at home. Russell was not vindi- eated, however. Another and better mun was elected, THE interstate commerce law hits some rank abuses hard, This may be guthored from the early attucks on the oommissioners. Already two of them, Judge Cooley. and Captain Bragg, have ot it necossary to deny that they trav- eled on passes after the 1st of April, when all other deadhends were refused free passage. It1s well when a law THeE late Ehza Weathersby was pernaps the only one of the “British blondes” who after lence of the tinsel tableaux and the “Ficld of the Cloth of Gold" variety show, managed to catch onin a regular dramatic way. When she came over, she wus one of Ly Thompson's best looking women. T'h outfit comprised Fhompson, Bland, Mark ham, and Weathersby, and it did a gr deal to run Shakespeare to cover and de- teriorate the moral character of the stage. It was the beginning of the reign of “light" entertaimments, the secretary of the navy has been u sort of Ever since the close of war, the fifth wheel, a ruler of the deep blue sca, who went down the Potomac in a dis pateh-boat with his cousius and his aunts, The late seandal touching the outbrenk of fevi Panama, where a war ship was stationed to accommodate s lady whom the secretary had met at a dinner, is of a piece with the height to which empty and undeserved power is always earried in the red tape offices at the eapi- tol. Ancnsign who had nearly died at Panama while the fever raged, was taken to the hospital at New York, and though his wife were only three hours' nde away, be was not permitted to go home to be nursed back to a fair d of strength. And still, to oblige a ban- tering lady, who, with her fan, probavly dared the seeretary to think of disobey- g her, a shipful of those brave soholars and sailors were compelled to lie in & hot ~ harbor natil there was searcoly a well man on board. Better to bave no such doiugs. The Vetoed Libel M J '8 velo of the libal bill will meet the approval of reputable news- papers of all parties, The veto message filed in the office of the secretary of state with the bill commends itself to fair- minded men in or ont of the newspaper vrofession as a clear and comprehensiy enunciation of sound prineiples applied tothe abuse of the license which the press enjoys under our form of govern- ment. The libel laws on our statute books are ample for the protection of the reputation of every citizen, whether humble or prominent. They make the writer or publisher of any libel responsi- ble for ci damages to reputa- tion. Our criminal code also mukes libei an ndictable misdemeanor punishable by ftine and imprisonment. To go beyond that and make the pub- lisher or editor of any paper liable to prosceution for civil damages in any county where his paper may regularly or accidentally eireulate, whether personal service there can be had upon him or not, wonld not serve the ends of justice. If the publishers and editors were con- stantly in daniger of annoying and costly lawsuits on trumped-up charges of libel, the risk of conducting a newspaper would become too hazardous for any prudent man. [t is a’fact well known to publish- ers that in nearly every instance libelous articlea areinspired by interested parti who acity is not questioned by re- porters, or find their way into the news- papers through careless or malicious cor- respondents. Nine times out of ten the editor has not seen these libelous articles until they appear in s paper. 1t would be utterly impossible for any cditor or publisher to nscertain the truth or falsity of every report that reaches his paper through hund- reds of channels home and abroad Now while publishers and cditors are properly accountable for the damage 1y innocent person may sustain i his putation or business by a libellous pub- lication, it would be unreasonable to make libels actionable without personal service wherever the paper eirculs and let the party who claims to have been libelled choose the county in which he can place the publisher at the gres |lr'~l disadvantage. The e! of such n could only serve to make bad men ‘ml 1 and defiant and suppress the trath con- cernming them when the public interest would be served by their exposure. No matter how fearless and outspoken a newspaper might be, the constant menace of costly prosecution and persc- cution would prove a bar to free excr- cise of the liberty of the press and an in- centive to rascality in the conduct of public affairs. Half of the rogues in this country are kept in wholesome check by the dread of ¢ on Deductions, There are some interesting and instrue- tive deductions to bo drawn from the spring elections. Usualiy not much at- tention is given to the results of these municipal coutests, which are assumed to be largely influenced by lc consider: ations and the personality of cundidates. But 1t is every year becoming more ap- parent that the cities are getting to be the storm-centers of our volitical system, and therefore claim a steadily increasing attention from our students of politics. It is in the cities that the political ma- chinery reaches its fullest developments. It s there that the elements and con- ditions of political agitation are most nu- merous and active. 1t is there that party lines are most vulnerable to the assaults of new political forces. The rural popu- Iationc are more steadfast than those of the cities, They do not yield readily to new influences. This was strikingly shown in the February elections in Ger- many, in which the government sccured the greater part of its support from the country districts, most of the larger cities electing candidates opposed to it. The new political forces had been more suc- cessful in the municipal than in the rural districts. Of the elections just held, that at Chicago was perhaps the most important in 1ts political bearings. It resulted in a n republican victory, which, besides its value in transferring the administra- tion of the city to honest and capable hands, demonsirated that the republican forces there are compact and well or- ganized, There is reason to believe that, had the democracy not been hopelessiy demoralized in the campaign by reason of the remarkable course of Carter Har- rison, the result would have been the same. The time had come for a repudia- tion of the dishonest and incapable demo- cratic machine. No one saw that more clearly than the shrewd politician whom the machine insisted upon renominating for mayor, But a hardly less interesting feature of the result, in its political sug- gestiveness, is presented in the increased labor vote. ‘This irdeed was not so great as some of the more sanguine labor lead- ers had predicted, but it 1s sufficiently marked to command attention as further evidence of the advaneing power of this new force in our polities. A party that can cast nearly twenty-three thousand votes in the city of Chicago, with condi- tions against it more than ordinarily hos- tile, makes a claim to consideration which the old parties must respect. The election at Cincinnati also pre- od interesting results, due to causes hat similar to those which ope- at Chieago. The democraey of the city had become obmoxious by son of many and great abuses, and met with deserved repudiation. And here again the successful republ found its most formidabln oppones nlmlh(‘ labor party. The labor vote wag consid- erably larger than the democratic, and very little less than the republican, Showing in this instance that it had drawn from both but mainly publican eity on u st it issue between the ol parties), the democrats were suc- cessful by a large majority, due to the support of the labor vote. There was no labor ticket 1n the field, and the republi- can organ in that eity having antago- nized the organ:zed labor, most of that vote went to the democrats. On the other hand, at Dubuque, a democratic stronghold, the entire labor ticket was clected, while at Milwaukee and Cleves land the labor vote showed great and growing strength, The lesson of these clections is en- couraging to the republicans. It shows the party generally to be in ex- eallent form, with no apparent disintegrating tendencies. On the other hund the results demonstrate a idespread democratic demoralization, which 1s especially remarkable in view of the fuct that & demoerstic national ad- ministratiol 1 o, is but half through with its term. But the vital fact to which the student of politics, as well as the practical politician, must ad- dress his thoughtful consideration is the evidence of the growing strength of thiat new force in our politics—the party of abor. Where this 18 likely to be found, and what it may possibly do next vear, are questions that have a serious import for the old partics A Railrogne Republican Victory. The election of Mr, Sawyer as mayor of Lincoln is haiied as a glorious victory by the railrogue republicans at the capi- tal city. Mr. Sawyer is a square-toed democrat from away-back, and would re-: sent the intimation that he had one drop of republican blood in his political make- up. ie city of Lincoln is republican all the way from five hundred to fifteen hundred majority. M. Sawyer's opponent, the regular ro®| publican eandidate, was Hon. E. P. Rog- gen, who for many years had b i vublic life, and during the past four years had filled the honorable and responsible position of secret. of state. Mr. Rog- gon is a Grand Army veteran and always has been an uncompromising repub- lican. But Mr. Rogegen, in the faithful discharge of his duty to the state, had re- to fused prostitute himself to the ends of the railrog machine. He dismissed Charles H. Gere from the railroad commission and ap- pointed in his place Judge O. P. Mason. He followed up this very offensive parti- to zanship by a point biank refusal award the legislative printing to G job printing concern at an extra price and saved the state $10,000 yiting new printmg bids. Such con- duct on the part of Mr. Roggen was a surprise to the ra ilrogue clan. Failing to defy him in the republican conven- tion, they organized a bolt, and tarned the eity government oyer the demo- to his is not the first time that the po- litieal Pharisees, who pride themselves on being stalwarts, have betrayed their party and delivered it over to its politic: enemy. The same breed of re supported Jame Boyd, the Neb member of the national democratic com- mittee, against the republi candidate for mayor of Omaha two ye ago. That 3 ats - differ- s, who ence is that the railvogue stalw prate about their love for com- 1 arms, have defeated an old sol- ason than that he could not be corrupted or made the tool of jobbers and public printing thieves. The Business View Of It Because this paper has seen fit to dis- cuss the eity water supply trouble from an impartial and cowmon sense stand- point, the syndicate sheet, formerly owned by Dr. Miller, makes a fling at the Bre as the organ of the waterworks monopoly, Itis hardly necessary to re- fute this silly innuendo. Our views of the situation were inspired by no out- side influence. No responsible person will dare charge collusion on our part with the waterworks company or any other public corporation. As a mat- ter of fact nobody connected with the water company has been in this oflice within the past month, and no conference or interview has been had between the editor of this paper and any oflicial or employe of the water company in or out of the BEE office. There is about much sense in asking the council to cancel the contract and buy ont the waterworks at this time as | there 18 in the scheme to organize a grain exchange in Omaha. ‘The project is not feasible. We have no money in the treas- ury to buy out the waterworks: much less to build new works, It would tuke ha!f a million dollars to buy outthe present plant, and another half million to build a new one. The company may or may not be in good faith in its promise to construct new works near Florene season. If it is merely trying to]stavef off the needed improvement in our water sup- ply, the council has a remedy. It can hold back the hydrant rentals or begin swit for damages against the company for failing to comply with the provisions of its contract Prohibition Defeated in Michigan. “The latest figures place the majority agawst the pruhibilnry amendment in Michigan at 5,000. Abn analysis of the vote will undoubtedly show that this ma- jority has been obtained in the towns, but the signiticance of the result is not thereby much lessened. The defeat of prombition is due to experience under that system and under the preyailing tax Stutisties collected by Mr. D. lle\hlmc Duflield, a distinguished jurist of Michigan, show that under the prohi- bition law the state had in 1874, 6,444 sa- loons, or one for every 207 inhabitants. v, 1875, a tax law was pussed which ed every retail setler of spirituous or mixed liquors to pay an annual tax of £300, every wholesale dealer $300, and every retail or wholesale dealer in malt liquors alone $200. In 1876, one year after the law went into eflect, the returns showed that the number of dealers had been reduced from 6,444 to 4,807, a de- crease of 1,577, In 1877 the return showed only 8,996 dealers, a further re- dunction of 871. In 1882, six years after the law had gone into eftect, there were in the state only 3,461 saloons, or one to every 536 of the population. Here was o decrease since 1874 of 2,933 saloons, nearly 50 per cent. ‘This had been ac- comphshed 1n spite of the increase of population. 1f the ratio of saloons to tion which existed under the pro ion law had continued under the tax the state would now have 10,000 instend of 5,000, while the law, saloons publie treasury would have been de- prived of the more than the eight million dollars of revenue which has been col- lected under the tax law. Such stubborn fucts, supplemented by the similar expe- rience of other states, arc the influence which accounts for the defeat of prohibi- tion in Michigan, This counstitutes a weighty argument of general applica: tion. The trials ol l.hs Iate city boodlers will Legin next Wednesday. Chicago—has three systems of local government, town, city, and county. There are three town administrators, and the county governs the city people as a part of its jurisdie- tion. The frauds recently discovered appertain to the county ‘government, which resides in a board of fifteen com- missjone Seven nommissione! six ex-commissioners; the wardons of the hospital and the insane asylum, anda dozen contractors and minor employes await trial. The county has four great woney- spending centres, the hospital, the in- sane asylum, the cgurt house, and the jail, or criminal it building, The thefts when investiggted werc in the first three institutions. The jail, usually a subject of much suspicion by grand jur- ies, goes scot-froe. The social compaet in a city of 700,000 inhabitants is such a comvlex thing that, to understand it, a citizen must give his whole time to its study. Inother words, he must *‘go into politics.”” If he be a business man, this at once hurts his credit and interferes with his regular en- gagements. This leaves the field, except having eras of re-action from frauds ifree to the class of men who so often prove to be boodlers. The heavy tax-payer rogu- lates the business of running all the city governments to those who have a taste for it, and for whom there is profit and honor—or dishonor and hoodle. The county hospital at Chicago is said to be one of the largest public charities i the world. [ts indicted warden is named McGarigle, and was formerly chief of police in the city government. The expenditures in this institution were knowa to be enormously excessive, and the complaints of patients grew rather than diminished with the rapmdly in- crensi ppropriations. But it was the painting of the court house that brought about the collapse of the robbers’ organ- ization. For the job of coating the out- ace of this building, the ring, or majority of the board of commissioners, audiwed county warrants for £100,000. In its audacity this charge outdoes any one item in the forays made by Boss Tweed's New York ring, fift before. Although the public prosecutor at Chi- eago is a democrat, and deserves great credit for his able and honest course, which eredit his party may ta self, 11 most of the alleged thieyes are also democrats, and to the terror and den alization of these manipul of the bourbon muchine may be ¢ ted the tr complete disintegration of the city dem- ocratic organization last Tuesday, when no ticket was presented for the suffrages of the party. This ought to create a sen- sation at the White House. ‘The honest tax-payers of Chicago, and the friends of good government cvery- where, are to be congratulated on the sharp hunt which has ended in so many arrests. To be sure the tricks will prove no less costly than the operations of the boodle butnoone hates to go to state’s prison worse than the prosporons boodler. Doubtless the business of run- ning the public works will soon drift back to the clement which congregates in bar rooms, but that trust will seck ad- ministrators, who, as,a result of the pun- ishment of their whilom friends, will be tar more cautious in their financial op- erations. About City Halls, The talk about the proposed city hall being too small for the Omaha of the future is all bosh. “Fhe building is to be five stories and basement, 182x126 feet. It1s planned to accommodate the wants of acity of 250,000 people. If Omaha ever grows to be more populous the re- moval of the public library and police station will afford ample accommodation for any additional demand which may spring up by reason of further growth. City halls nowadays are purely office buildings for the use of citv officials and employes. Tley are not intended to be pablic halls for mass meetings and have no uneed of lawnsand parks for wet nurses, babies and tramps to air and sun themselves upon. We can name half a dozen cities of larger population than Omaha will have for many years, whose city halls do not provide as much office room as the plans adopted for Omaha. In fact the city hall of New York is not as large and does not con- tain as much office room us the proposed city hall will have when completed. Way Austria-Hungary waited two years before shie abpointed.a representa- tive in Washington cannot be guessed. Had his imperial and royal apostolic majesty Franz Josef chosen to stay dis- pleased over the Keily incident, he could have done so, and the United States would have saved $12.000 a year and the expenses of a legation. However, the comity of great people should not be dis- turbed for the sake of a few thousand dollars or « little wounding of our pride. Mr. Keily was shamfully treated, but wo can afford to give the chevalier Schmit von Tavera a cordial welcome. Mean- while there is a fine place open at a thousand a month near the proudest- court 1n christendom, as Mr. Kasson can tell you, that grew so distinguished 1n the presence of the throne. Who will takeit? Do not hang back so, demo- cratic statesmen. You ave all a good- mannered lo. — It is a very grave question now among our councilmen which ward Mike Meany should be allowed to live in. Why not cut out a ward exclusively for Mike Meany and Pat Garvey, and let both of them come 1n as members of the new council. By all means, give Mike the Tenth ward. He will seeto it that no planks are loose in his ward. JOHN SAHI mission would make adandy. would have an oil room opened exclusively for the use of the police and fire depart- ments. We nominate Frank Walters for chief of the tire department. He always carries a ved lantern in front of him, PROMINE! : a3 one of the police com- H Tennyson’s latest alleged poetical produc- tion may be justly spoken of asa rare ode— that is to say, not well done. Emma Weathersby Goodwin left an estate estimated to be worth $50,000. She be- quenthed it all to her husband except $3,000, which goes to her mother. Colonel Frank James, formerly of St. Louis, has secured employment and settled in Denison, Tex. After his exciting career the dulness of life fn St. Louis wearled bim. Miss Frances E. Willard is to be connected with the Rev. Jo Cook in the publication ot the new prohibition journal. Miss Willard is expected to furnish the intellectual motor and Mr. Cook the lung power. Mr. Sol Smith Russell Is going to settle in Minneapolls with his father-in-law, Mr. William T. Adams. The latter, best known as *‘Oliver Optic,” i3 now nearly sixty years old, and has begun to iose health. President Cloveland is said to be nervously sensitive on the subject of funerals, and this is given as the reason why “the pressure of THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1887, publie business™ always prevents his attend. ing the obsequies of distinguished men, Senator Jones of Nevada, is azain rapidly pushing to the front rank of willionaires, His mines in Alaska are proving much richer than heretofore represented, and the stock i3 now paying a dividend of 500 per cent a year, Professor Richard A. I'roctor, the cminent scientist and astronomer, is hercafter to be a citizen of Florida, having purehased a tract of land on Orange Lake, Iesays the lower atmosphero of Florida is so clear that con- stellations stand out in wonderful brilliancy. Miss Carrie Bartlett, formerly city editor of the Oshkosh Times, now occupies the pul- pit of the First Unitarian church at Paul. Her manner is described as earnest and pleasing and her diction finished—un- doubtedly the result of her newspaper edu- cation. e Why They Drink. Teras Siftings. There are a great many things that cause a man to drink, and one of them is thirst. ="y Campaign Ammunition. Washington Critic, Kentucky has an overpluss of 42,000,000 gal- lons of whisky, and her people are praying for the opening of the democratic national campaign. Jubilee Ode. Louis Glob-Democrat. “C nrlnnn Sacculare” is the title of Tenny- son's jubilee ode to Quaen Victoria. ne of the latest efforts of the poet laureate have been veculiar if not strictly erratic, but on this oceasion he appears to have started out with a deliberate intention of ignoring the rules alike of common senseand rhythm, ‘That he succeeded is evidenced by the follow- ing lines which make up the whole of tho ninth stanza: Fitty vears of ever broadening commerce, Fifty years of ever brightening science, Fifty years of ever widening empire. What would be said of an anonymous or unknowm poet who wasted ink and paper thus reckles: Surely the poet laureate is not growing sareastic in his old aze, renny}.,.‘ - To Critics. The Century, When L was seventeen I h From each consoriou “1'd not do that if I were wous Yol £66 you e rather young.” Now that I number fort I'm quite s often told Of this or that I shouldn’t do Beeause I'm quite too old. years, O carping world! If there’s an age Where youth and manhood keop An'equal poise, alns ! s Have passed it iy STATE AND TEREITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Ainsworth juveniles have organized a brass band, Rubber hose were fashionable n Platts- mouth yesterday. © Plattsmouth and Nebraska City have voted for the bob-tail street car. _Grand Island's cannery will reston the foundation west of the Missouri. It is estimated that $00,000 are spent annually in Fremont in stimulating irri- gation, The Plattsmouth Herald has been sold by Robert B. Windham to A. B. Knotts, of Council Bluffs. The school ce 1s of Fremont shows 1460 children of school age, an ncrease of, 180 o ast year. The grading force of the Kansas City & Omaha road is approaching York. The rails are laid to Sutton. One hundred homes are going Nebraska City and one hundre are needed to meet the demand. York is enjoying n healthy growth. A large number of stores and residences are gumz up as well as prumrty values. The Wabash :)slun is amn fhirting with Nebraska City and tfr»-uuuugw make a call. antics are delusive. At present the ro'\u' engaging in calling on ‘‘my uncle,” exclusively. The real estate transfers in Hastings since the first of the year foot up tf snug sum of $2,271,02. This is more than double the business of 1886, and sho'vs that the metropolis is coming to the front in fine shape. The *‘beardless cubs” of the newspa- pers have their revenge in the veto of llmrsmn county. Governor Thayer mingled with the cubs in recent years and knows that the pen is mightier than the widest mouth. ‘The newspaper rustlers continue neering new towus and counties. Jefferson County Record, dicott, by Frank T. Pierce, and the Soath Sioux City News, }»\lblled at Covington, by J. L. . Kroesen, ure among the latest wokusm the wheels of pro- gress. John Pohlman was drowned in_the Platte river near Grand Island last Sun- He had shot a wild goose, waded n the stream to get it, and d - peared in deep water. He leaves a wife and lour children in deslitute circum- of improvements under way in Nebraske towns is growing to such pro- that it is_almost unpumblu to in sight. This accounts for the on ot McCook of the list of cities waterworks in operation, making up in more io- he published at havin, a total of seventeen plantsin the state. When the s three epochs t astrous conseque ch of old divided life into did not foresec the di es of modern don tic lite. No period in man's existence so impresses him with his utter helpless- ness as when he finds two suspender but- tons gone and his wife down town exam- ining Ester bonnets Hastings 1s determined to have all the rairoadsin sightif it takes the last dollar. ‘The people have decided to give a bonus of $60,000 to the Elkhorn Valley exten sion, und a proposition to vore "~ $125,000 in bonds to the “Pacific Railway Com- pany of Nebraska,” will be submitted to ors of Ad county this month. It will doubtless carry. Nebraska City News says *that zal lightuing is about to strike several promiment and immaculate citizens, for tion with a corruption fund and dubious transactions during tho Simpson in the |||'|il|l’v ‘The grand jury is in- vestig uugnn- matter and a'sensation 1s promised The story comes by way of Plattsmouth party of graders are at work in ass county, just south of Oreopolis, and working dué south. ‘Lhe people up the river are divided in opinion as to whether they un Atclison, Topek: Santa Fe force, headed for Nebrask City, or one in the interests of the Omaha & Southwestern. The suryey of the lat- ter road is not yet complete, it not even being decided yet whether it will strike Palmyra or Syracuse, in Otoe county, lowa 1tems, A creamery supply factory has been started in Dubugue. The electric light and gas of Davenport have consol The old glucose works in Des Moines is to be turned into a starch factory. Henry George's lecture in Burlington Saturday night was a financial fadlure. The corner stone of the soldicrs’ home at Marshalltown will be laid on the 22d inst. There wero forty-four sixty-mine births in month, There have been 15,814 porkers kiiled at Cedar Rapids so far this season, against 12,423 the corresponding period last yea The plans for the new Tarner hall in Davenport have been completed. The companies d. and last ths Davenport building will be <140, three stories high, and will cost $70,000. Pension Agent Lake at Des Moines hos £15,000 to pay Mexican war pensions, 1t is estimated that a list of 5,000 names will cover the Des Moines ag Some time ago a \num: man killed himself at Columbus Junction because his girl went back on hin. Last week a married woman of that p , whose hius band had gone back on her on account of the same girl, met her on the devot platform and strewed the planks with nut-brown hair snd small dabs of blood. The newspapers up along the line are waiting for the nesttragedy of the series, Dakota. Governor Church has proclaimed the 5th of May arbor day. T'ho vast shale beds around Jamestown contain un excellent article to manufuct- ure into pottery, aud industries in that direction are much talked of. North Dakota has as many newspapers as the five territories of Idaho, Wyoming, Utab, Arizona and New Mexico com- bined, and as many as the two territor- les of Montana and Washington. A Redfield man has invented a straw burner which, when filled, 1l hold a steady fire from six to ten hours. It is claimed that it will heat three rooms of a moderate sized house in the coldest weather The excavation bemng made at Sioux Falls for the cracker factory is i a solid rock. Outside of the rock necessary for the foundation walls of the building, there will be 600 cords of stone left, and all out of the ar. A Deadwood miner who visited Omaha during thé flood, returned home with the f’uru that the smeiting works were de- uged with water and practically idle, The D. M. evidently imbibed too frecly and lot his imagination run to wet goods. Wyoming. Cheyennese ave rolling on the waves of a real estate boom. Sev have invested in M The new Union Pacitic depot in Chey- enclosed. 1t will ady for oe- y by July and will cost Suflicient stock has been subsc warrant the belief that Laramie will have £ n operation before the se: $50,000. gla son closes. The plant will cost ‘I'he Union Pacific has od to buld a new line from Laramie to meet the Col- orado Western line from Denver, unds title of Union Pacifl V' I T'hhe board of penite ers has decided to around among the county j proper building is erccted. torial convicts have been b, the penitentiaries of Nebrs nois, where their labor WS po among of the pleasing results of organized free labor. Grading on the Cheyenne & Northern ow in progress between the end of the ck and section 120, where the work at ‘n sent terminates in the Platte cunon. 118 not now expected that the work of tracklaying over this uncompleted portion will be commenced until the early part of June, for the reason that it will be necessary to give the bridge builders a big start so that they may keep ahead of the other forces. The terri- 18 Colorado. Every department of the steel and iron at Pueblo is running full time. isfeared that the workings of the nln-n law will diminish sales of mnes to foreigners. The Denver Republican confesses that Omaha is several laps uhead of the Colo- rado capital. 1f one kept account of the new towns springing up in eastern Colorado he would m.ul to make a new geography every day. There is now one continued line of agricultural claims from the mountains castward into Nebraska, over a route which, three or four years ago, was con- sidered an arid region. The intelligent deliberations of the leg- islature, just ended, were a magniti success, senate, like its Nebraska neighbor, wall of metallic rocks ngainst wi ducers and shippers thumped in v: relief. —_—— LAID AWAY AT REST. rom a raiiroad standpoint. The was a The Funeral of Patrick O'Grady Yes- terday Morning. The funeral of Patrick O'Grady, the oung fireman who was fataliy in- ilred at Valley, wasone of the hlr;i t which has been attended in this city dur- ing the past M and one of the most im- nosing. At 9:30 0’clock ve: y morn- ing the Ancient Order of ernians in full regalia, preceded by the society band, marched from Cunningham hall to the late residence of the dec eused where lho preliminary services were held. rocession” thence proceeded to \t hilomena’s cathedral and there the requiem high mass was said by Rev. Father MeCarthy, who also preached o very appropriate sermon. The cathedral was crowded with the relatives, members of the An- cient, Order ‘of lm.mu as “and many was am glnilu.llt i motive firemen an a shield picce uem]) fourfeet in hcight from the Brennan brothers, which bore the inseription i colored flowers “Last T'oken of Respect to our Friend,Pat.” The procession from the cathedral to Holv Sepulchre cemetery where the mterment occurred, was nearl o half mile in length. Fuily onc hundre members of the, H, were_in lino, The flowers which could not be placed in the hearse nearly filled another carriage. On the easke galia of the de Hibernians. The pall | ke Drenan, Ward, Govern, reposed the re- ceased ns 4 member of the rers were John Rush, T. Dominick Mulhern, John Brennan and Thomas Me- Business Change. €. W. Beall & Co. have purchased the well known commission bu 1y on & Cole and will continue 11 ness at the old stand. “The ne v omen whe the hi les. ‘I 11 i cir p business y will undoubtedly ma “hum” for b oy arc busy bee A Western Bird of Evil Omen, Cuieago Tribune: The “'devil hawk’' of Avizonas a vare bird and an_interesting one. Ho is desevibed as baving remark ably handsome plumage, but a very ugly bexd. s talons are long and stroug, and lis bes almost 18 sharp us needle and very powerl The bivd, hut for his head, when on the wing would pass for a pigeon. When secking his prey he plays pigeon, and flies in among them unnoticed on account of s similarity and easily captures what he pieture of grace and and speed. It 18 there ‘ll not more than u doze in the territory. ‘The Mexic cstimated that of them superstitions about him and re appearance as an ovil omen. e An eminent Presbyterian divine noune: to his congrogation must take a vacs bronchitis, the elders raised his salary and gave him Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup. He was cured. My daughter nmlur: ol greatly with nea- ralgin in the face and forehead and was unable to secure any relief. I sew Sal- vation Oil advertised, sent for a bottle and one application gave entire relief, . McCaurLey, Policeman, Residence 204 N Bond it., Baito., an- that he ation onaccount of The B. & M. Lets Hoavy € an Airline Route to the While an éndless aumber ot (on paper) are being constructed to the nortiiwest, it develops that the B, & M, has set auictly to work and is now build- ing an air line into the rich northwest of Nebr For various reasons the B, & M. ofticials have kept the matter very quiet, preferring to work silently and unostentatiously to making a loud talk about uncertainties which may never de- velop. Beyond the filing of various ar- ticles of incorporation, which, being placed on record at different times wero disconnected and meant little or nothing, absolutely nothing of this great schemao has been brought to e publie notice, It 18 now absolutely certain that Omaha will haye her de- desired road to the northwest before the endof the present year, More than that work on the road has already commenced. A prominent railroad man outlined the secheme to a reporter for the Bek yester- day It is this: The B. & M. has let a con- o Mallory & Cushing, the well know railroad builders, to build 400 miles of from Central City to the northwest, ‘This line will run from Central City, through Merrick, Howard, Greciey Wheeler, Garfield, Brown and Keya Paba counties, This brings the line to the northern tier of the Nebraska count, and from this point itis said the B. & M. will soon push its line into the rich Black Hills country. ‘The southern terminus of this wostern line, as alveady Central City. Now there Central City to Aurora, Neb, on the Grand Island brauch of the B. & M. So that as soon as the Northwestern branch is constructed from Central City to Keya Puaha county, Omaha will have practieal connection with the northwest, v! the B. & M, though 1t is true the route is a trifle circuitous. But the B, 1. is al ready preparing to obviate thi nd giv Omaha an air line connection with th nclu\m thwostern country. ““The scheme nunply this,” said the BEk's informant, North- 'he B. & M. has already let the con- tract for a branch from Wahoo to Then tho lino from to Ashland will soon be ready, whereupon, as you can see by referring to the map, the B, & M. will have a direct line from Omaha to Schuyler. From that point a line will be run to Cedgy City, Neb, the midway point of the Northwestern line from Central City to Keya Paha county. Tlus once completed Omaha will have her air line to the Northwest, running through Douglas, Sarny, Saunders, Butler,Colfax, Platte, Boone, Wheeler, Garficld and Brown ecounties.” Messrs. Mullory and Cuching have commenced work at Cedar City, the mid- way point on the northwestern line, and wili grade and construct track both ways. Fifteen hundred teams, with a propor tionate number ot men, are at work al- ready and this force will soon be i creased to 2,000 The contractors are re- quired to complete 300 miies of the track this year. and may complete 400. And thus” Omaha's b ! NEBRASKA ( Knowing ones the nln-pm of tha the Nebraska Central rond will be located about Fourteenth and Cass streets. The work of serving notices upon the owners of the property condemned for the roud is being carried on rapidly. James Way is chief enginecr of the new road. Surveying parties are busily engaged at the different points along the proposed route. ———— Vain At(‘l nnl-tlnnu. New York World. The art collection of A. T. Stewart has gone the way of his other accumulations. The immense business which he built up with rare sagacity and energy has dis- appeared. His whole fortune, indeed, is broken up in fragments, It is compara- tively few years since he died, and yot notwithstanding his remarkable career his obliteration’is almost. complete. It will not be very long before it will be diffi- cult to find any trace <of him, unless the wstitution at Garden City b the single exception. Rarely has the vanity of mere accumu- lation been more strikingly —illustrated. How much that he labored to get to- gether is bemg put to the use that a wise man wouid have had it put to? His property is distributed among peopla whom he never had the_ slightest idea of exerting himself for. Nor s there any renson why he should have eared tole more than a comfortable provision for his widow, unl he had con- templated chanty. What a differ- ence between record and those of other childless men who can rmuh]’\" bu amedt Stephen Girard Jolns Hopking »rge Peabody, Samuel J. Tilden (f bis intentions are not thwarted) are examplos of successful lives, because they left them well rounded by the spivit ui true humanity. George W. Childs rhumms to enjoy the luxury of charitable dee he'goes throughlife, and in this pol is o long way ahead' of many fortunate men in realizing on his success. Stewart had bequeathed his palace for a picture gallery and left his works of art inat for llu, good of the public, he would have done something, at least, to vindicate his ¥ money-get- . Asitis, there is neither rhyme nor onin it. It is as objectless as that of a nuser, und all that he has buiit falls hopelessly to picees now that he is dend. But there is a moral left by the dispersion of the great estate, andit refers to the folly of purposeiess’and useless aceumu Iation. -~ r of s, All the Year Acound: With regard to the yellow color of the ry bied, and its testimony to Mr. Darwin's theory it is said thut after domestication in Belginm, Germany an nd, (1 point with hich temperature or chimate way have | omething to do,) the birds threw feathers Lighter color, matching these birds nimber of these p longth, and after a ¢ cablo perlod. succceded in obtaining a bright and un form yellow color, more closely " h]mw what wlled the “eles ||‘||m“umn of th to indic B Pl e to Le found of ma eds are green; and by fe peppor and other *seods \ produced of cinn L and of rel; und, izzard variety, bird, though vy in the crown, ‘is elsewhere shaded spangled in the most lmnlv manncr. b Whole b on b and He Was a HI Kl Worker. Concord (N, H.) Monitor: A Concord genticaan relates the foliowing intorest- Tng aneedot During the war of the rebellion, while I was in charge of tele- "ny)nnu in Boston, I went to Governor Ry hasatasaut midnight one night with an important message. To my statement of my errand the governor's ood wife answered: ‘You will al 8 lind the governor at his office atthe state house nntil "In the morning.' And we always did.