Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 15, 1887, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERME OF 8t PTION Daily Moeniag Edition) including Sunday Bee, Ono Year M) veus For 8x Months . For Threo Months . 0000 The Omaha Swndny Bee, malied to any idress, Oue Year. ... 10 00 Rt 200 200 MATTA OFPICE, N 918 FARNAM STREFI FW YORK OFFICE. A, TRINCNE BUILUING. WABHINGTON OFFICE, NO. 513 FOURTERNTI STRELL. CORRESPONDENCE ! All communiontions relating to newa and edi. torial matter should be addressed to the Eore TOK OF THE BRE. BUSINRSS LETTRRS! All bueinees lettors and romittancos should be addressed to THE BEr PUBLISHING MPANY, OMAnA. Drafts, chocks and pstoffice orders 10 be inado paynble to tho order of the company, THE BEE PUBLISHING CONPANY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, Epiron. THE DAILY BEE. 8worn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska, | County of Donglas, { % * Geo, B, Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual eireuiation of the Daily [ for the week ending April 8th, 187, was follow Baturday. April 2. Bundav, April 3. Monday, April 4 Tueaday, April 5. .. Wednesday, April6 . ‘Thursday, April 7 Friday, April 8. Average........ GEO. B, 'IZ8CHUCK. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 9th dayof April A. D., 1857, N. P. FrIr, ISEALL Notarv Public. Geo. B. 'I'zschuck, beln:i first duly sworn, deposes and says that he 1s secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual av- erage daily eirculation” of the Daily Bee for themonth of March, 1856, 11,557 copies; for April, 186, 12,191 copies: for for May, 185,12, coples; for June, 188, 12,208 coples; for , 1886, 12,514 copies; for August, '18%6, 3 for September, 184, 13,050 186, 12,980 coples: for s 3 for December, 880, 13,257 copies; for January, 1587, 16,200 copies; for February, 1837, 14,198 copies. " @Gro. B, Tzscnuck. Subseribed and sworn to before me this 9th day of Ma A. D. 1887, [SEAL.I P. Feir, Notary Publie, OmAHA must have cheaper brick and a better supply of building materials. —— MeMBERS of the republican city com- mittee should not forget to attend the meeting of the committee next Saturday. CANDIDATES for mayor are not very numerous this spring, but candidates for councilmen are as thick as blackberries in June. Tue New York World informs the Pacific investigating committee that there must be no whitewashing. Better dismiss the commission then Tur Con Gallagher banquetters passed a resolution recommending an appropri- ation of $500,000 for the enlargement of the postoflice. Inasmuch as that settles it, they ought to have recommended a anillion while they were about it. HEREAFTER, according to a new word by a neologist, the word “jugulate” will describe the act ef a man who cuts his throat. Jugulator would properly des- ignate the cut-throat Jay-Gouldator road agent. Tue eccentric Mrs. Emmons, of Wash- ington, continues to amuse the public. If Barnum was not too old to know what a drawing card is,"he would at once secure Mrs, Emmons and Dr. Mary Walker. There would be millions in it to his own and only greatest show on earth, Tieroo Tis, a delicately shaded indi- vidual who has all his life been engaged 1n the Congo slave trado, is to have a sal- ary of $1,800 a year in the Congo Free Btate as ‘‘governor of Stanley Falls.” But Stanley is denounced at Brussels for giving countenance to such a salary grab, Tre vresident has agreed to visit a county fair in Georgia during the month of October, The example set by Mr. Hayes, of Ohio, Grover doubtless thinks 15 worthy of imitation. Mr. Cleveland’s views on pumpkins and cabbage heads will be eagerly devoured by his follow- citizens, Derecrive Humphrey Moynihan and Bill Gurley have been banquetted: as “leading citizens” of Omaha. It does not take long residence or great promi- nence in business circles for men nowa- days to be feted, dined and wined as leading citizens. The credeatials can be had in any bar-room. THERP. are methods of booming infan- tile dailies which are strictly novél and unique in this neck o' woods. A gang of tramp canvassers is drilled to circulate the story that the popular paper of the town is on the down-road and that its ed- itor is all broken up in health and has to £0 to Europe for a few years to recuper- ata. E———— *T'aE blood of relationship is thicker than the water of partisanship.” This was the most appropriate as well as sug- gestive toast atthe postmasters’ banquet. Although Gallagher and his father-in-law wore not tearing their shirts for McShane, Con comcs into the postoffice by inheri- tanco, It wasa sl;lctly family appoint. ment. OuR estimate of each member of the Nebraska legislature as published, will muke valuable pages 1n a political se book. Two years hence it will prove o handy compendium in making up legis- lativo slates. Weshall add more scrap- book material concerning the peculiar- ities of some of the members as oceasion suggests. The public ought to know the truth, WE are asked whether the people ro- siding within the territory recently an- nexed within the city limits will have a right to vote for members of the board of education at the coming school elec- tion. Inour opinion every resident in the nine wardsof the city who is entitled to vote at school elections will have the right to take part in the election of the now board. SECTION 18 of the inter state commerce law says: “‘Witnesses summoned before the commission shall be paid the same fees and mileage that are paid witnesses in the courts of the United States.” When the board is in session at Washington we will not be surprised to hear of numerous complaints being made by oftice seekers who want to pay their own way to the white house. A Gloomy Crop Outlook. Very discouraging reports upon the prospect for a bountiful harvest this sea- son come from the far southwest. The want of rain was never more keenly felt. The fact that a drought should come on 6 carly in tho season, so early in fact as to absolutely check spring planting, is a circumstance which certainly justifies the grave alarm of suflering and want, manifested by the farmers and ranchmen of that unfortunate locality. In northern Texas cattle are dying in large numbers from the want of water. Rauchmen find it almost impossible to sell their stock at any price, us the long distance to wells or rivers where wate could be secured, would consume too much time or inyolve too great an ex- pense to drive it th All the small streams whic re have furnished an inexhaustible supply of water huve dried up or are drying up. In some localities of Texas starvation threatens the settlers, and aid has been askod by the off . rn Colorado, the ground gen- s at this time of od, and peoplo are deserting their homes to escape starvation. (n Clay county, Missouri, it is impossibie to ob- tain water for stock, while driking water is brought from a great distance. Only twenty miles west of Independence, Kansas, people are compelled to go to the Missouri river for water. Farmers know the folly of sowing or planting in such dry ground, and unl rain comes before the season is much further advanced no attempt will bo made tormse cropsin these drought- burned sections, The outlogk in the east- ernand western and northwestern states is more favotable. In Nebraska It is in- deed cheerful, The bountiful rains of the past two weeks in all parts of the state give ample assurance of a growing spriag. The Bad Kffecis of a Good Law. a Reports from all sections of the country show that railroad companies are stand- ing heavily upon the letter of the inter- state commerce law, and in many in- stances utterly ignoring the spirit of its provisions. The strict and unswerving enforcement of the new law plainly shows that the railroad companies pro- pose to do all within their power to force its early repeal. The report comes from Ohio to the cffect that railroads within that state have refused to grant excur- sion rates to velerans who wish to attend the state G. A. R. encampment at Spring- field this month. After considerable cor- respondence on the subject, the secretary was finally informed t| no reduction whatever would be made; that under all. circumstances ‘‘the companies proposed to act strictly 1n accordance with the inter-state commerce law.” The secre- t: at once went to Washington and had a conference with Judge Cooley of the commission. Mr. Cooley said ‘“‘thut, as attendants to the state encampment would come from within Ohio, and the affur was strictly an Ohio one, the question of rates was one over which the commission would have no control. The railroad might make rates as they choose.” So itwould appear that the railroads want- ing to get rid of what to them 18 entirely objectionable, and remembering Grant's advice on a bad law, propose to enforce it to the letter. It is reasonable to hope, however, that public opinion 1nstead of following on with the railroad managers will demand a revision of the law with more stringent provisions sgainst exist- ing abuses in the transportation system and tixed tolls for inter-state traflic at rates which commerce can bear. The German Poficy of Expulson. The great German population of the United States will be deeply interested n the degree just promulgated by the German government, that Germans who have become naturalized eitizens of other countries are subject to immediate expulsion from their native land unless they have re-acquired German citizenship. ‘The principle involved is not new, but in the present case it is given a more radi- cal interpretation than ever before. While the German government has always, or for many years, insisted upon the right to expel those born on German soil who have become citizens of other countries, it hes from time to time made more or less generous concessions in the matter of time. A number of contentions have occurred on this subject between the &overnment of the United States and the government of Germany in the last twenty years, and very generally, if not n all cases, our government has been isuccessful in carrying its point, A few years ago this matter was in & measure the cause of an exhibition of considerable ill-temper on the part of Bismarck toward this country. Since the negotiation of the Bancroft treaty of 1808, which was the forerunner of similar conventions with nearly every other civilized nation, thereby establishing the right of expatri- cation and naturalization as a principle of international law and disposing of a controversy ot long standing, the Ameri- can claim has been that a German-Ameri- ean citizen could remain in Germany two years before becoming liable to the German law of expatriation. While the German government has never conceded this claim, it has, as already observed, gonerally yielded to the American view, 1ly, it would seem, from a desire to maintain comity and good fecling be- tween the governments. That govern- ment appears, howover, to have now determined to insist upon its own con- struction of the treaty, which'does not concede any period of domicile for a German naturalized in this country, and toenforce tho policy of expulsion sum- marily. This detormination has doubtless been brought about by considerations both politicaland economie. Thoso makeiti m- perative upon the German government to employ every practicable means at its command to keep its people at home. Just now the enlargement of the military establishmunt creates a special and urgent necessity for checking emigration, towhich it will of course be an incentive, The decree will undoubtedly have a re- talning tendency. The German love of fatherlaud will assert itself more strongly with thousands who may contemplate leaving it when they know that the penalty may be permanent expatriation. The cconomic consideration is also urgent with the government, Armics maust be paid for, and the German gov- ernment as & whole is an expensiye af- fair. It bas got to have more revenue, and this canuot be obtained from & diminishing population without exces- sively oppressing those who remain. For the past ten years the government has been trying numerous expedients deemed to be in the interest of all classes of pro- ducers, one of the chief objects of which was to prevent emigration. Factory in- spection, the policy of protection to home industries, the institution by law of sick and invalid funds by employers and their men, theaccident insurance law, applying to workers on farms as well as to workers in factories, » among the measurs which show that the German govern- ment is exercising u watchful care over the concerns of its peopls, and which have doubtless deterred many from emi- grating. Nevertheless Germany has continued to supply a liberal percentage of the immigration to this country. The situation now seems to be that the influ- ences which have in any degree retarded emigration are either losing their force, or ara outweighed by others that are likely to impel large numbers to seek an escape from the burdensome obligations of German citizenship. Therefore the government decrees the soverest penalty it can upon cmigration and naturaliza- tion. --An official of the state dopartment at Washington is quoted as saying that the enforcement of this policy will involve the United States in diplomatic dilficul- ties with Germany. This government will doubtiess endeavor to maintain the posttion it has always held, but it seems probable that it will not find the spirit of concession on the part of Germany so flexible us hitherto. The indications are that fora time German-Americans will not find a visit to the tatherland a com- fortabie or profitable undertaking. Pacific Railroad Investigation. The commussion appointed by the president under the act of congress to in- vestigate the affairs of the Pacific rail- roads will probably organize this week and enter upon the duty it has before it. It will be a laborious duty if faithfully and houestly performed, and the com- mission will have no time to spend 1f it shall get its report ready for submission to congress next December, as the law providing for the 1nvestigation requires shall be done. The inquiry called for is as comprehensive as it could well be T udu‘, Eyerything connected with the financial policy and management of these corporations, past and present, their business affairs and methods, their relations to other corporations, their ob- ligationsto the government—in a word, all facts, from the least to the most im- portant, it will be the duty of this com- sion to inform itself of and communi- o0 congress. Its authority over the ns necessary to obuain this informa- tion is unrestricted, and any denial or obstruction of this authority 18 to be visited with adequate penaltics. While we have regarded this investiga- tion as wholly neediess, we have hopea that having the law the president would appoint as commissioners under it men who would command the unquestioning confidence of the people. ‘The commis- sion named is hardly up to this stand- ard. Ex-Governor Patwson, of Pennsyl- vania, has been a moderately successful politician. He may have been recom- mended for the commission on the score of having caused procaedings to be nsti- tuted against the railroad corporations in the anthracite pool, but he me to this action very leisurely and under great pressure. It might not be fair to infer from this that Mr. Pattison is at all in sympathy with the corporations, but it is not a good mdication of character for prompt and decisive performance of duty, regardless of consequences, when man in exeeutive position must be forced by public sentiment to defend agamst violation a part of the funda- mental lav Perhaps under different circumstances Mr. Pattison may exhibit groater zeal in pursuing tho line of duty. Mr. Littler, of Illinois, has even less to commend him. Heisa provincial law- yer and politician, who from what 1s saia of him on trustworthy authority, is not fitted either by acquirements or experi- ence for this work, Mr. Anderson, of New York, may hiave special and super- ior qualifications, but if so they are not widely known. The best that can now be hoped 1s that the commission will do 1ts work so well, the progress of which will be carefully watched, as to create a confidence it does not now possess. The investigation will be prosecuted chiefly at Boston, New York, Omaha and San Francisco. o Toasted at Two Banquets, The newly appointed postmaster of Omaha, Hon. C. V. Gallagher, possesses a happy faculty for toast-speaking at convival gatherings, The grand banquet which took place at the Millard Wednes- day night in honor of the retiring and in- coming postmasters was an event long to be remembered. The toasts and specches were as sparkling as the champagne that made glad the hearts of the select com- pany. Mr. Gallagher's remarks on this occasion forcibly brings to mind the re- sponse he made at the banquet given in honor of the Irish painter, Mulvaney, on the Oth of January last, to the tonst of ‘“Our Next Fostmaster." Mr. Gallagher is quoted as saying in sub- stance: *“My friends, soon after Grover Cleveland became president a petition signed by leading democrats of all fac- tions was sent to Washington asking for my appointment as postmaster, But no altention was paid to it. = Coutant still holds the oflice, and when his time is out I presume a republican will be appointed. I have no use for this mug-wump administration. If Grover Cleveland is a candidate fo re-election in 1883, and Jim Blaine 1s renominated against him, 1 shall cast my vote for Blaine.” Ths little speech was made in the pres- ence of the editors of democratic and re- publican dailies of Omaha who were with Gallugher, guests at that banquet. The banquet being somewhat private the speeches and toasts were not reported We presume Mr., Gatlagher may be in- duced to support Cleveland in '88, since the mugwump administration, as he was pleased to call it, has dumped Mr. Cou- tant out to make room for him. TE—— Tuar Governor Hill, of New York, would veto the high license bill which was fought through the legislature by one of the hardest struggles ever known in the history of that body, was a fore- gone conclusion. His action in inviting the supporters and opponents of the measure to present their views before him was a proceeding that deceived no- ®dody who has an intelligent idea of the motives which direct the course of Gov- ernor Hill. Me®is a politiciari pure and simple, and being §democratic politician his obligation wag glain, more especially as the measure appBed only to the cities of New York and Brooklyn. The fact that the bill wak passed on stiict party in itself sufticient evidence of s action of the governor would be, if indeed it did not show his influence with the democratic members of the assembly. The matter possesses a gen- eral interest merely with respect to the possible effect the veto may have upon Hill’s political chances. Tt will doubtless strengthen him aweith the great demo- cratic constituencies of the two cities to which the bill applied, but it will have the opposite eflect in many of the rural constituencies. It1s the former, how- ever, that he is most concerned to keep solid, and the veto Las given him a fresh grip upon their controlling elefients. Tue promise of a ltigation, growing out of the Baltimore & Ohio deal, which will disciose all the inside facts connected with the scheme, is one that the public vill hope may be realized, Such a’ dis- closure could hardly fail to be very in- teresting and perhaps exceedingly in- structive. The plots and counter plots, the motives and aims of the schemers, the methods of the syndicates, the re- sources that were depended on—all these things would shed a light more or les valuable upon the character of the men engaged in this notable deal, and of the corporations they represent, which might make an instructive addition to railroad history. Pending such disclosure the appearances are that Me. Garrott has made the deal a rather profitable matter for his company. The original syndicate is understood o have putup a large sum to secure an option, which of course re- mained in the treasury of the Baltimore & Ohio, and a tirm of brokers clmm to have parted with $100,000 as forfeit money, which Garrett declines to return. ‘The president of the Baltimore company seems to have fully maintained his rep- utation for getting the best of a bargain. Hugn Mureny and Charley Fanning had as much right to hold down ten- dollar plates at the grand postmaster banquet as ‘‘leading citizens” as Bill Gurley and Humphrey Moynihan, wino were introduced i that capacity. The new postmaster seems to have gone back on'his old chums because they don't wear tile hats. Mgs. IsaBkLLA Bekcner HOOKER, of New York, in recent speeches, has tried to prove that at least half of the police force should be woten. This would be very embarrassing to the force as well as the judge. It wauld bring too much bustle into police cpurt. A POSTMASTE hela the office thi in’ Alameda, Cal,, has ears, Thirty hun- gering democrats are now wrying to work up se of pernicious inactive activity aguinst him. STATE AND TER ORY. . NebraskaJottings, Norfolk will open bids for the con- struction of hor street car line next Wed- nesday. The north Nebraska reunion of the Grand Army will be held at Norfolk August 23 to 27. Otoc has sent half a dozen crooks and criminals to the pen for terms ranging from one to ten years. Wahoo has sent out a water works ex- amining committee, with ordery to sample everything on tap in neighboring towns. The Democrat’s enthusiastic apostro- phe to Lincoln, *This 15 a City,” will be mounted on the water tower in letters a yard long, It will relieve the strain on the lungs of brakesmen. There is no mistake about 1t this time. Norfolk has struck a vein of anthracite coal of first quality. It was stored in the basement of the burned Pacific and was uncovered in clearing away the debris. Wing Lee, the Celestial shirt mangler of Plattsmouth, took flight last Saturday with all boodle in sight. Young Ling, of Omaha, was taken in for $200. The mon- 2ol 18 an apt student of the *‘lam Melican man.” The test of the Plattsmouth water works Wednesday was satisfactory and fully up to the requirements of the con- tract. The pumps have a capacity of 2,950,000 gallons o day and the stand pipe, eighty feet high, will hold 22 gallons. The entire machinery of the distric court and a jury of twelve devoted half a day to the equities of trespass in Platts- mouth this week. Farmer Carper had a cow with an ungovernable weakness for the cloyer in Farmer Ossenkop’s pasture, ‘The latter lassoed the cow and demanded damages. Lawyers, court and jury ex- ereised their lungs as extensively and diligently as if the case involved millions. A verdict for 40 cents was the result. A similar cow case collapsed in a vordict for the plaintiff for 1 cent. ‘The blind goddess has done such re- markably good work in the past three or more months in the state that it would be unjust to keep her record entirely in the dark. ack Marion felt the pressure of her wrath in Beatrice a fow weeks ago. A pair of frenzied cowmen in Anselmo spurned the commands of a subordinate and were overloaded with ofticial lead. A medical quack was hushed informally in Hastings and the courts saved unnecessary expense. A Sherman county horsethief disputed with a sheniff last woek and died suddenly. In addition to this list of trovieal recruits, there are five more billed for an early de- mise. Bohannon, the spelling professor, awaits the action of hgher courts in N ska City, with: Shelienberger, the child murde hafer, the terror of constables, in Minden; Jeff Long, the exterminator of the Bascomb family in Lincoln cotinty, and Dave Hoffinan, the Missour: Pacilic, train wrecker, It will be seen from this brief outline that Nebraska applies the leaden pinch or hempen tie prompily and persuasively, according to the merits of tho casi Either way wins. | b lows Items, Museatine is endedvoring to pierce the surrounding gloom by offering premiums for railroads and fitotories, Judge Labour, of es Moines, sneaked out of town last webk ostensibly to wit- ness the base bail mateh in Omaha, but a deficiency of $4,000 1n his accounts has scattered the belief that he has taken summer quarters in the queen’s domin- ions. The judge is one of the many pa- triots who will represent Uncle Sam at the jubilee festivities. Prof. Charles Asmead Schaeffer, who has been elected president of the state university, is forty-three years of age. Heis & man of ripe scholarship and large experience in the field of educa- tion, having been a professor in Union college and Cornell university for fully eighteen years, occupying the highest rank as teacher and administrator. The statistics of the internal revenue office of the Second district, located at Davenport, furnishes reliable inform: tion of the progress of prohibitiol ‘There are fourteen breweries in oper: tion in the Second district. ‘There are live 1n Davenport, one in Buffalo, two in Cedar Rapids, two in Muscatine, one in Oskaloosa, three in Iowa City, ono each in DeWitt, Maquokets, Bellevue, Lyons, Adlantic and Council Bluffs, and three in Des Moines. These institutions manage 10 supply the locul demand. The inte: nal revenue collected in Iowa last year amounted to $3,271,460.50 in the Daven- port district, $192,000.05 in the Dubuque district, and $83,877.22 1n the Burlington aistrict—a total of £2,517,850.04. The closing of the Des Moines distillery will lessen the revenue receipts by the amount of $1,800,000 yearly, but will not aflect the consumption. Wyoming. * Douglas is figuring on a modest little opera house to cost #5,000. Edwin Booth will illumine Shakespeare in Cheyenne Monday night. The Denver & Rio Grande threatens to follow the railroad procession into Chey- enne, The Wyoming commandery of Knights ‘Templar has purchased a site for a 000 hall in Cheyenne. The Union Pacific depot at Cheyenne will be completed about the 4th of July, and the town will indulge in a double distilled celebration. Cheyenne is enjoying a genuine real estate boom, and rustiers from Omaha and Kansas City are boosting 1t along. Trans| are lively and prices well up in the thousands. Stock Detective Towner, who has ox- amined the ranges around Laramie, re- vorts that cattle are quite thin in appear- ance, and estimates the winter at 10 per cont, The Grand Istand & Wyoming Central has been 1ncorporated in the territory by the officials of the Burlington. The r will run through Lincoln, Albany - bon, Sweetwater and Uinta counties to the western boundary line. Colorado. Pueblo is to have an opera house cost- ing $100,000. The real estate transfers in Denver for the last week amounted to $1,250,305.46, The city debt of Greeley, over availa- ble asscts, is a little over $14,000. It costs about §12,000 per year to run the town. A section of the Y, M. C. A, of Denver has disearded gospel hymns for the sea- son and taken up base ball, The Free Amerien mine near Black- hawk, owned by Fred Kruse and Will inm Kelley, has been sold for $40,000 to Indiandpolis partie: ‘The People’s ,Gaslight company of St: Louis, will erect a plant in Denver and furnish gas to the city at $1 por thousand and to consumers ut $1.25. ‘I'ne mountain resorts are preparing to harvest an unprecedented number of tour- ists and health seckers with more ducats than digestion this season. A Denver syndicate has bought Mrs. Augusta Tabor's property on Brodway for $6.000, and will build an immense hotel there to cost $1,000,000. Fifty-five miles of iron have been laid on the Midland. The end of the track is South Park. The Hagerman tunnel is progressing at the rate of 800 feet per month, and will be completed by May 20, The road is expected to reach Leadyille in July. The first annual ballof the printers of Denver Monday night was a tremendous Over 100 disciples of the art ative, and scores of friends, justi- tied their lines with an equal number of fair maids iclined to unionism. I'wenty ‘“‘phat takes™ were on the hook, but L were run out before “time” led at dayhght. lorado’s coal ficlds embrace an area of about 10,000 square miles, or about one-third of the entire state. In this area, geologists now estimate the coal bearing strata at 30,000 square miles. The out- put of coal in the state last year amounted to 1,436,211 tons, worth $3,375,5095. The production of coke from this coal is 126,279 tons for 1885, and 145,162 tons for 1356, Wholesale land frauds of the most brazen character have been discovered i the vicinity of Trinidad. A syndicate of rascals homesteaded a vast ‘area of valuable coal land, using Mexican names, but the federal authorities were open-eyed and vigilant. The entrics have been cancelled and prosecution commenced 1n the United States court. —~~——— An American’s Experience in Algeria. Pail Mali Gazette: We take the follow- g amusing description of life in Algiers from the private letter of a distinguished American at present residing there: “‘Life here 18 very pleasant most of the time, and ought to be all the time. We have a small villa, with garden and orange tree. Weride, drive, read, and gossip with the natives, The only draw- back is a damnable tendency on the part of the inhabitants to drag one perpetually before the juge de pai. Soon after our arri I had to discharge my carriere for impertenence and other crimes. H thinking he would catch me without r sources in a strange land, demanded six months’ wages for being discharged with- out suflicient wnmlu*{. 1 offered him a week’s wages and fare back to Paris. He got at the judge first and poisoned his mind. I was summoned, and then the fun began. For a month I have been nfipenrlnu in court swearing that the man had been a servant, he making himself out to be n sort of gentleman interpreter who ought not tobe discharged. The judge, as I say, was entirely in favor of the carriere, though I had "all the law on my side. The joke is coming. A week ago we had an audience agam, and the judge said he would pronounce sentence that day week (to-day). On Saturday last I wrote a letter to the judge calling his attention to certain points in the case which he had ignored in court and finally appealing to sa haute justice. That nli‘xm the poor man took to his bed and diea on Sunday. Whether my letter killed him I don't pretend to say. We must wait for another judge to come before we pro- gress. I have another process, in hand. The man who let us our horses pretends that L hired them by the month. I don’t rec- ognize any such agreement, and have summoned him to accept my offer through the Hussier for each ride or drive wo have had. The good man had a row with my wife yesterday because she told him he must be tres nigaud to suppose we would pay him any such sum as he asked. He at once became very angry, and said: “Madame, je ne suis pas nigaud. Madame, je vous vaux bien! Monsicur, madame m'a appele nigand!” ete. Ifeel more or less sure he will sum- mon her for insulting bhim. Really I never saw such people. They look upon a stranger as common prey. I now have a lawyer in steady pay to protect mo in case of emergency and seldom go out alone. [n other réspects the place is per- fectly enchanting—climate, scenery,food, and wine and tobacco. Send me books and [ ask for no more. s Thieving Gypsies. A resident of the city who lives near Hanscom park complained at police head- quarters yesterday a band of gypsies which has for two weeks encamped near the park. He says that since the gypsies have been thero robberies and depreda- tions of all sorts have heen of nightly oe- currence. The eitizens in that locality want the police to drive thom away, Deaf Muges, The following officers were Weodnesday night elected, for the ensuing year by thp Deat Mutes' society: F. L. Reld, vresi- dent; C. A, Corey, vice president; S. F, Buckley, treasurer; Miss L. Butrick, sec- retary. All mute friends are cordially invited to Sunday's service at 8:30 p, w., at Trimty, and the business meeting at 8 p. m., which is held every two weeks. ADDITIONAL LEGISLATIVE WORK Laws Passed atthe Last Scasion W out the Emergency Clause. The different acts passed at the last' session of the Nebraska legislature with emergencey clauses, thereby giving them immediate legal force as soon as signed by the governor, have already been pub- lished in the Br The following laws were enacted without said clauses and will go into effect on or about July 1, when the time required by the constitu- tion will exvire: SENATE. Mr. Colby's senate file 1, An act prohipit- ine non-resident aliens from acquiring - or holding real estate in Nebraska. A joint resolution In relation to pensions. Mr. Colby's senate file 4, An abt to fix the maximum rate of charges for railroad corpor- ations in their transportation of passengers and bagzage at three per wiile and to amend ‘section 1 of article 9 of chapter 72 of the compiled statutes of Nebraska entitled Railroads and to repeal said original section. Approved March 2, Mr. Colby's senate file 9. Anact to amend sections 17 and 24, and repeal section 5 of chapter 25 of the compiled statutes of Ne- braska entitled Divoree and Alimony, and said original sections 17 and 24" Ap- proved March 95, Mr. Colby’s senate filo 10. An act making the age ot consent lifteen years. Mr. Colby’s senate file 10, An act to rogu- late the practice of dentistry and to punish viglators thereof. Approved March 24, Mr. Lind senate file 20. An act amending section 1011 of the code of eivil procedure and repealing original section. Mr. Snell's senate file 2.~ An act amend- ing section 1 chapter 53 statutes, < 2. An act to companics, corporatio combining or entering into any agr contract or pool or fix the price to b grain, hogs, cattle or stock of any k ever, and to provide punishment f tion 'of the same. Approved Al r. MeNamar's senate file 38, amending section 2! chapter 23, *decedents, McNamar's senate tile %9. An act amending section 1000 of the civil code. AL Sterling's senate file 41 An act regu- lating railroads, preventing discrimination and providing for a board of transporta- tion. Mr. Linincer’s senate file 51. An authorizing relizious, charitable and edu tional associations to change their names. Committee on township _organization. An act relieving parties holding contracts for the sale or lease of state lands, unless the sama contracts have been first offered for public sale, Mr. Sne a viola An act entitled act An act reguiat- s senate file 60, An act to in- corporate cities of tho first class having less than 00,000 inhabitants and regulating their duties, powers and government. Approved hger's senate filn venting persons from unla i A R badyes. {olnies’ senate file 76, An act provid- ling and for the suppres- at . An act pro- ully wearing or Mr. Bursham’s senate file 78, An act ding sections 13 and 14, chapter 92, en- warehousemen. ichol’s e file 81, An act incor- metropo! cities, and defining saud power of government. 's senate file An act author- izing the extinction of a relinquishment of title to real estate Mr. Burnham’s senate file 99, An act legal- izing deeds heretofore executed and acknowl- edged. % Mr. Colby’s senate file 94. An act provid- ing for the intervention of third partics claiming an interest in suits pending in the courts. Mr. Snell’s senate file 95. An amendment to sections 214 and 215, criminal code, providing for the recovery of money or other property lost in gambling. M nell enate file 101 An act amend- Ing section 47 chapter 7, criminal code, en- titled libel and threatening letters. Mr. Lindsay’s senate dile 119. An et amending sections 144, 145, 146, relating to revenue. Mr. Burnham's senate filo 130, preventing the spread of contagious dis- eases and appointing a live stock sanitary commission. Mr, Tzschuck’s senate file 131. An act amending sections 53, 54, 5 chapter 18 of the An act amending sections 63, 70, %9, 06 and 97 of chapter 77 of the statutes regarding revenue. Mr. Kehney's house_roll 158, - An act to amend sections 4, 5 6, 7, § 9 and 10 ot chap- ter ULstatutes relating to the leasing of saline Iands, . Mr. Dempster’s house roll' 104, A foint resolution asking congress to give a silver mgdal to all veterans of the war, Mr. Watson's house roll 105" An act to amend seetion 5% of the code of eivil pro cecdure, Avproved Merch 20, Mr. Kaymond's house roll 170, 0. An act to extend the contract for the leasin, of the venitentiary grounds and conviet labor to C. H. Mosher, assignee of W. I B. Stout. AQproy Maten s Mr. Derupster's Tiouse roll 105, An act pro: viding for the disposition of ~unclaimed moneys collected for taxes or as penalty by county treasurers, r.Sullivan’s house roll 1 the relief of Columbus, Mr. Heimrod's house amending section 4% lating to fees. Mr. Fuller's house roll 26, An act amend- 23, statutes, entitlod do- Anact for roll 201 An act chapter 25, statutes, re- entitled counties and county ofticers Mr, Tzschuck’s senate filo 132, An act amending section 22 of the statutes, relating Vright’s senate file 143, An act to I person for the giving of provocation tor assaul E Mr. Kent's senate file 145, An act to amend sections 4, 6 and 9, of chapter 3, ot the compiled statutes of Nebraska, to repeal said original sections. Approved March 24, Senate file 153, An act to amend sections 63,70 and 97, article 1, chapter 77, ot the statutes, entitled *‘revenues,” 3 Mr. Co Iby’s senatetile 19, An act provid- ing security for the public against errors, omissions and detects in abstracts of title to Teal estate. Mr, Schminke's senate file 197, provide for the more eflicient ma and care of cemetery grounds in eities of the second class and villages, and for the incor- poration of lot and to repeal pa 69, chapter 14, d class and villages.” Approved Mareh 25, Mr. Colby’s senate file 202, an act amending section 118, chapter 7, entitled pleadings in civil actions. 5 Mr. Heartwell’s senate file 220, an act to amend section 68, chapter 33, of the compiled statutos. ) 4 Mr. Moore's senate file 233, an act requir- ing clerk of district court to tile with_ the county clerk certilicate in case of fore- closure, Mr. Brown’s senate file 437, an act amend- ing section 24, chapter 9, statutes relating to assignments. i Mr. Heartwell’s senate file a joint reso- lution granting to Hastings coflege a set_of the roparts of tha suprome court of Ne- raska, Mr, Colby’s senate file 25), an act exempt- ing from levy or attachnient vension woney and property purchased by the same. Mr. Sprick’s senate filo 267, an act defining the boundaries of Wulllm’nnn county. Mr. Colby’s senate tilo 273, an act abolish- ing arrest and imprisonment for debt. Mr, Colby’s senate tile 275, an act amend- ng section 85 of the code of eivil procedure inregard to ils pendens. HOUSE, Mr. Hayden’s house roll 3, Anact provid- ing for the election of a register of deeds and defining his dutfes. Mr. Green’s house roll 11, Av act to amend section 82 of chapter 78 of the compiled stat- utes and to repeal said section 82, ot chapter 78 of the compiled statutes. Approved March 29, Mr. McConaughey’s house roll 19. An act 10 regnlate the practice of pharmacy and salo of polsons, and to provent adulteration in drugs and medicinal preparations in the stato of Nebraska, and to provide a penalty for the violation thereot. Approved Mareh 24. Mr. Andres house roll 35, An act provid- ing for a burean of labor and industrial sta- tistics, Mr. Gifford’s house roll 46. relief of the city of Beatrice. woet's house roll 45, nlty to animals taymond’s housy An act to An act for the An act prevent: Inelndin g eanines, n nct for An act amend: Seriminals.” & An net y venting the employ ment of childien in Tac- tories nud workshops, Mr. Smyth’s hodse roll 82, An act to nmlmul sections 323, 534 and 827 of the clvil code. Mr. Nichol's house roll 84, vide for the payment and employes of the twe K logislature. Approved January 29, ‘Ihe amount appropriuted is 30,000, M. Sullivan's house roll 110, An act to provide for the building, waintaining and ropairing certain bridges in counties i township organization. Approved Ma Anact to pro Mcers, menmbers oth seysion of the ) Mr. MeGrew’s house roll 113 thorizing countles, precincts, lages to compromise thair ind issue bonds to pay the same. Mr. \Wardlaw's house roil providing for the ereotion of a An act a owns and vil- Medniess and 118, An et tone buildi .house of commons M it the idstitute for the feevie: atrico, The amount appropriat g £ Mr. Cole's house roll 157. " An act to™aw saction 35 of an act entitled an act to provide systom of revanuo. Approved March 10 Tho amount appropristed is $15,000. Mr. Shamp's house roll 142 An act to ap oropriate $2,000 for the reliet of Maggio Pribbia. 3 Mr. Andres' house roll 0 act to amend the election law for citigs of the tirst c‘fi:; Cannon's house rell 15. An act Mr, Burnham's house roll 213, Providing for the valuation and salo of stats lande through which railroads desire right of way. Mr. Dempster's house roll 216, An act in corporating the Baptist Edueational associn- tion of Nebraska, “Approved March 29, Mr. Liesveld’s house roll 220, An act pro- viding for the organization of the students of the university into a battallion. Mr. Raymond's house roll 822 An act providing tor a Grant memorial hall at the state university at Lincoln, The amount ap- propriated is $20,000, Mr. Wright's house roll 223, An_act to re- fund to Dixon county, Nebraska, the amount ate tax illegally collected and paid into the state treasury, and afterwards refunded by said Dixon county to tax-payers therein, Approved March 2 Wilsey’s bouse roll 251, An act en- 10 salo of all unsold stato lots in the city of Lincoln and devoting the proceeds to the completion of the capitol. Mr. Riet’s honse roll 355. An act for the relief-of Grand Island, Neb. Approved areh 20, Mr. Hayden's house roll 271, An act for the relief of John Lanham, The amount ap- provriated was $10,6: Mr. Diller's house roll 20 reliet of John M. Price. Mr. Newcomer's house roll 518, An act to provide for astate inspector of vils and depu- es and to define their duties anaprovide s for tho same, and prescribe penalties for olation thereof. and to repeal acts and part of acts in coniliet therewith, Approved March 26, Mr, Watson,s house roll 823, An act pro- viding for stenographers for the judees of the supremecourt. Tiie amount aphropriated is $6,000, Mr. Dempster’s house roll 343 An act re- quiring children between the ages of ei:ht and fourteen years to attend scl weeks during the yeur. An act for the o0l twelve An act prohib. iting the catehing of certain cases, Mr, Peters’ house Toll 352 An act for the relief of the village of Albion. Mr. Sweet’s house roll 305, An act estab- a second regiment of militia in Ne ’s house roll 381, An act amend- 3 of chapter 14 of the civil codo ntitled executions. _Mr. Watson’s house roll 503. An act de- fining the criine of larceny from the person and providing a penalty therefor. Approved March 14, Mr. Babeock’s house roll 306, An act di- viding the state into senatorial and repre- sentatlve districts and fixing the number of the latter. Mr. Kaymond's house roll 408, An act amendin ction 12, chapter ¥, statutes, re- lating to municipal bonds. Mr. Cope's house roll 414. An act provid- ing for the establishment and governnient of the Nebraska Industriad home, Mr. Caldwell's house roll 41 An act mak- ing further provisions for the erection of the state capitol at Lincoln, ’a house roll 420, relief of Kdgar ). Everett. Committee tinance, ways and means, house roll 416, An_ act providinz for the pay and salaries of the officers and members of the legislature, An act Mr. Hayden's house roll 449. ction 8, of chapter 25, statutes re- An act for the amending s lating to fees, Mr. Bowman's house role 451. An act amending section 69, article 1, of the statutes, Mr. Lowman’s houso role 460. An act amending sections 4 and 5, article 4, chapter I8, of the statutes, entitled *“township organ- ization.” Committee on claims’ house role 461, An article making approbriations for miscellan- eous items. Mr. Cole’s house role 464, An articl orizing the auditor to transfer $:6,202 thie hospital insane fund to the general funds. Mr. Diller's house role 4 An act grant- ing theright of way to telegraph and tele- phonecompanies aton public highways. Mr. White's house role 485, An act for the relief of Cass county. Approved March 25. Mr. Dempster’s house role 495, An act as sentling to the establishment by congress of expermimental agricultural stations, auth- 2 from ——— TRADES UNIONS IN ENGLAND. Some Enormous, Wealthy and Long- Established Workmen's Organ- izations, London Standard: By order of the rs. Hansard have Just printed an appendix to the returns of the chief, registrar of friendly socie- ties for the” year ending December 31, 1885, giving a list ot the registered trade unions in the United Kingdom, with the dates of their establishment, and, in somo cases, particulars of their funds, incomes and membership. From this it appears that the oldest of all trade unions in the kingdom is the Steam Engine Makers' society, Manches- r, which was established on November 2, 1824, and has now £10,435 accumulated finds and a membership of 5,063, The union possessing the largest fund of those which have sent 1n returns (thoughs it must be remembered that several of the largest socictics, such, for example, as the Amalgamated Society of En- gineers, have given no particulars of th finaneces), is the Amalga- mated society of carpenters and joiners, with headquarter: Munchestor, The funds of the organization are stated. at £50,851; annual income, £63,122; and membership 35,71, 1t is, however, closely pressed by the Amalgamated So- ciety of Railway Servants of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, whose beadquarters ave in City road, London. The funas of this society are stated at £30,78), with an annnal income of 14,375, and 9,054 members, “The Targesy annual income—£70,702—is claimed by the United Society of Boiler Mukers and Iron Ship Builders of New- Tyne, with 27,695 members, sumulated funds amounting to Toe Durham Mir i socin- Ppe: 1o be so tar as the returns show, numerieally, the strongest union m the kingdom, having 55,000 members, with an mecome of £46,153 and funds amounting to € 3, Some of the titles show the extensive of trades unionism, there is a Warchousemen's Philanthropic society in Bradford should 101 N0 Surp! , but the sume town of a Stull’ Makers-up Provident . with considerable funds and an inconir of more than one thousand pounds a year, ‘The eard-setting ma- tenters, dritlers and cutters Yof the W Dateh yenst importers, and teemers, erabbers and sl bullers, potters’ mouid boot-top cutters, hammermen, ter mukors, earri tra chippers wnd dritlor finishers, the amalgamated eps, the amicable wool und the rundlet coopors and many more have sepa trade organizations of their own for mu- tual protection, 3 Waomen, 100, have learnod the utility of combination, a8 ba gathered from tles of the Weattuinster and Pimlico branch of the London Tniloruss union and the 4 mnlo Card ond Jlowin, tign. ipyard Helpers Birkenhead po: baing the he clety of Holde Treland, which has 517 nual income of £355 una chimney § s nd Operas d there y and