Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 16, 1887, Page 4

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April2 14 Bundav, April 3. 18, Monday, April 4. . Tuesday, April 5. Waednesday, April 6 Thursday, April 7. Friday, April 8. Average....... GEO. B, ‘LzZ8CTUC] Bubscribed and sworn to before me this 9th dayof April A. D., 1887, N. P. FRIL, o, ISEALI . B, 'U'zsehuck, be|mi s deposes and says that he is secretary of The Bee Publis| company, that the actual av- erage daily circulation’ of the Dally Bee for themonth of March, 185, 11,557 coples; for :flsrll. 1886, 12,191 mpu‘:’fiur[nr May, 1856, 12, - copies; for June, 1856, 12,208 copies; for Juld.‘ 1856, 12,314 coples; for August, 188, 12, copies; for September, 185, 13,030 copies; for O¢tober, 1586, 12,080 copies; for November, 1 , 48 coples; for December, 1886, 18,287 copies: copies; for Fobruary, 1317. 14, 7 Bubseribed and sworn to before day of March, I\N D, 188 Wirn Rhode Island in the demo party and Sam Randall losing his grip on President Cleveland, the nation man ages to maintain its equilibrium, At Topeka the Salvation army leaders have been arrested for disturbing the peace. And all in a town where there ig supposed to be no *‘no whisky influence ' THE question of prohibition is to be voted upon in Texas the middle of Au- gust, It seems hike folly to submit the prohibition question during a severe drought. FERDINAND WARD is the star singer in the Protestant choir in the Sing Sing penitentiary. Mr. Ward’s motto has always been, ‘‘that which is worth doing is worth doing well.” Corrous rains have at last fallen along the Texas Pacitic railroad for a distance of three hundred miles. There is great rejoicing in the parched and burnt dis- tricts, as well there should be. YANKTON, Duk., at last has a full- grown real estate boom. The epidemic seems to have worked its way up the river. Bismarck is also wrestling with favorable additions “twelve miles from town.” Tne Kissane case 18 attracting atten- tion throughout the entire country. The Rev. Joseph Mulhatton, in his palmiest days, never dreamed of such a creation as the facts connected with the million- aire's misfortunes. S0 many propositions are to be voted upon at the coming city election, that eachjyoter will have to deposit a bunch of tickets at the polls. The danger is that the average voter will be too confused to know what ticket to stick into his bunch. has arrived in New York from Liverpool. This will cause Mr. Sullivan to tempo- rarily suspend work on his new book. The book, however, will not sufler as much as Mr. Mitchell. Tk steamer Nebraska, with Colonel Cody and his wild, wild west, has arrived at London. The deluded natives of thut country will now crave their necks to seo tho ‘member of the United States parliament,” as he has been called by the London papers. ———— Our legislative Blue Book has been pronounced as bad English by one of the olassic writors whose repressed sympa- thies are with the boodlers and railrogues. The Blue Book may be imperfect as a literary composition but it is good enongh English to pass muster with the taxpay- ers and people who work for an honest living. Tue Wisconsin legistature has passed an alien land bill fixing the maximum acreage which may be owned by a man who is not a citizen at 820. 1t wili doubt- less receive the governor’s signature. 1llinos has passed a similar law. If other states will follow in this important matter foreign land speoulators will be watirely prohibited, as they should be. ——— GREENSBURG is the most southerly point in Indiana where natural gas wells have been deyeloped. Seven great wells are flowing at Muncie, where real estate to the amount of $1,000,000 changed hands in one day. All these valuablo pointers should be remembered by the veople of Nebraska. If nawural gas is tound n Indiana, the probabilitics are that it eun be discovered here. ACCORDING to our dispatches, Mr. Sam Jones, of the Union Pacitic, will not be chosen as secretary of the -inter-state commerce commission, ‘The commission wants & man for that position “who knows all about railroads, is a lawyer and a judge, a statesman and & scholar, and has first class aBility. As Mr. Sam Jones is lacking in at least six of the qualitications, he will fail to receive the title of sceretary or draw the salary. Tue Pennsylvania Jogislature has passed the joint resolution proposing a woman suflrage constitutional amend- ment by a vote of 27 to 18. Senator Harlan, the long-haired champion of the enuse, was the recipient of bouquets and loving looks and emiles from the short- haired women who packed the galleries. Kansus' experience will doubtless be a warning to the intalligent voters of the Key Stove state. Oleveland and Randall The relations between Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Randall have never been very clearly defined. It was the impression during the first year of the administra- tion that the Pennsylyvania statesman was regarded with a great deal of considera- tion at the white hounse and exerted a con- siderable influence there. There were some facts which for a time seemed to warrant this view, and their effect un- doubtedly was to estrange from the presi- dent & number of democrats who are hostile to Randall. Then there came 8 period when the country was told that Mr. Cleveland had broken with the Pennsylvani and circumstances wore stated in_evidence of tiis. Then when Randail dictated the last domo- cratic state ticket in Pennsylvania, it was claimed that his power to do this was due to the fact of his having admin- istration assurances in respect to the patronage in the state. On this assump- tion the president was soundly berated and a feeling created which cost the democratic party of Pennsylvania a great many votes. It is now rep- resented that in appointing ex-Governor Pattison a member of the Puacific railway investigating commission, the president y did not consult Mr. Randali, but entirely ignored his well-understood feeling regarding Pattison. This circum- stanco is referred te by a Philadelphia paper of democratie predelections as the best dence yet given of a change in Randall’s relations with the administra- tion, und hailed as an assurance that the president is “finding that foxy person out' as one not to be trusted. If Mr. Cleveland has but just reached this conclusion it proves that either his observation has been very incomplete or that his judgment is exceptionally slug- gish. Everybody of ordinary perception has been familiar with this phase of Ran- dall's character for a long tim He would not have the least hesitation in using the administration for subserving his own end, and when that was accom- phshed abandoning it to its enemies, T'his characteristio is well understood by the politicians in Pennsylvania who use him, and who required of him fresh and stronger guarantecs of fidelity as the price of leaving his congress- ional district untouched. Why the pres- ident should ever have reposed any confidence in Randall, in view of the fact that he has neyer shown any reciprocal feeling, it is not easy to understand, ke has been the arch-obstructionist in the way of every leading policy of the ad- ministration. He has rendered the dem- ocratic majority in congress helpless. He s most largely responsible for the failure of the party to carry out its pledges to the country., For theso reasons he has had no claim for any consideration from the administration, and it was a mistake to accord any to him, If the president has atlast determined to ignore Mr. Randall, and in setting the example shall be fol- jowed, as may be intended, by the demo- craty in congress in sympathy with the dmi ation's policy, we do not be- lieve that either the president or the party will in the end lose by the action. tandall is still in a position to give some trouble, and he will make full use of his ovportunity. But he cannot be improved by coaxing or compromising, as Mr. Springer has suggested. A political party which trifles with obstructionists and disorganizers in its runks fosters an ele- ment of wenkness that is always danger- ous. Randall is of these classes, and the demogratic party would be better off without him. A Flight of Momcntary Confidence. Twenty-five gentlemen were gathered around a convivial board on January 9th to do honor to the famous Irish painter, Mulvaney, ‘Loasts were proposed and drank, speeches were made in honor of the guest of the evening and upon sub- jects as promiscuous as was the com- pany. Among other toasts was that, “T'o our next postmaster,” responded to by Mr.C.V,Gallagher. That gentleman,ns we learned the very next day, treated the toast from a serious standpoint, and expressed mimself most decidedly dis- gusted with Grover Cleveland and his way of doling out federal patronage. Three months have passed away, and Mr. Gallagher has been named postmaster. Another banquet, this time in honor of the re- tiring and incoming postmasters is given, The convivial gathering is con- fined to a dozen persons, the ouly differ- ence between this and the Mulvaney ban- quet being that tho toasts proposed and speeches made are published the next morning. This time, a4 three months ago, Mr. Gallagher was called on to respond to the same toast, “‘Our Next Postmaster,”” but the sontiments expressed Wednesday night were in striking constrast with those uttered at the Mulvaney banqu ot. Becnuse the Bee has seen fit to com- ment on the change of heart which Mr, Gallagher has exporienced siuce the long-sought appointment has been made, & howl of indignation gooes up from the keopers of Mr.Con Gallaghor's conscience who edit mutual admiration sheets of op- posing parties in Omaha. One of these editors tells us that Mr. Gallagher's *‘oflensive partisan” spoech at the Mul- vaney banquet was a flight of momen- tary confidence, which never should have been divulged, Inthe same breath we are assured that twenty-four gentlemon outof tho twenty-five persons pr esent will join hands in denying that Galla- gher ever uttercd the sentiments imputed to Lim.~ It may be rogardod as the esscnce of polite society goutioman never to dis- close what is said at a banquet, and it per- chance a disclosure is made, to deny the truth for the sake of proicoting an indiscreet person who expressed his foel- ingsundor champagne inspiration. Those twenty -four gentlemon may join in such a denial, but it will not in the least al¥ect the truth, which, as the comamon saying goes, is often totd by children and intox- icated people, Our informant may not be very polite or secrotive, Being a republican he was naturally improssed with Mr, Gallagher's remarks as showing a tendency among certain disaffected domocrats to back-cap their administration. A memorandum of this little speech, for future reference, was made by the editor of the BEx as re- ported to him on the day after the quet. Thie has been hia habit of doing with pelitical records and utterances of public men and politicians, We decline to discuss the ethics of banquets, private or public. When a public man makes a speech before a gathering of citizens ho naturally must expect that sooner or later bis utterances SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1887 will be quoted if they are at variance with his avowed personal or political views, Mr. Gallagher has notoriously the reputation of talking one way in one crowd and the opposite 1n another. He has been a Boyd-and-Miller-man with Mil- ler and Boyd; he has been a Brown-and- Morton-man with Morton and Brown. He was a very intense Van Wyck man, with the ex-senator and his friends, and at the same time he was in_collusion with the rail- road factions of both parties to defeat Van Wyc! His remarks about Grover Cleveland ninety days ago wera doubt- less uttered in a flight of momentary confidence, but they expressed the thoughts and feelings of the man at that time. Mr. Gallagher in this instance, was like the Reverend Burchard in his memorable Delmonico after-dinner speech on *'Rum, Romanism and Rebel- lion.” He opened his mouth and put his foot in it. BRIGADIER GENERAL ORLANDO R, WiL- cox, commanding the department of the Missouri, has been placed on the retired list. This will leave a vacancy for eol- onel of the line of the army, aad for some time past conjecture has been active army circles as to who will probably se- cure the promotion. The general opin- ion appears to be tiat Colonel Wesly Merritt, Fifth cavalry, superintendent of the west point Military Academy, is the officer most li to be advanced. He is regarded as one of the ablest officers in the army, and has the rare record of hav- ing been brevotted for gallant and meri- torious service in seven battles. Colonel Merritt stands third on the 1mitial list of cavalry ofticers and eleventh on the list in rolative rank. Thereis also a good denl of interest in the question of who will succced to the command of the de- partment, of the Missouri, which is con- sidered the most desirable of the depart- ments. General Crook is reported from Washington to desire 1t, and being now the senior ofticer of his grade thinks he ought to haye it. General Miles is tired of Arizona and is said to regard his claim to the Missouri department as being as good as that of any other. General Gib- bon 13 also understood to be not adverse to taking the vacated command, and he has the advantage of being a favorite with the president. AN unusual gatheriug of cattlemen at St. Louis a few days ago, when the bids for Indian supplies were opened, enabled the newspapers to obtain authorative in- formation regarding the season’s experi- ence of this important interest. ‘The sub- stance of this was that the losses suffered 1n the northwest during the past winter, in consequence of the exceptionally heavy snow fall and the intense cold, were heavier than ever before known. From 45 to 50 per cent of the Montana and Dakota cattle died, and the cattle that survived came through in extremely poor condition, In Texas, owing to the drouth, the cattlemen lost quite as heav* ily as those of the mnorthwest, nearly everybody losmmg 50 per cent, while in some localities every animal in a district miles in extent was lost. The condition 1n ‘Texas is still very unpromising. But notwitnstanding this disastrous experi- ence, the bids offered were lower than over made before, and in the item of beef in its Indiaa supplies the government will make a large saving. Jir LAIRD's home organ kindly goes out of its way to inform us that the Bre has *'showed’ an “‘ungracious spirit” n attacking the country press. With the same propriety 1t might bo said that the BEE bas ‘‘'showed” an ‘“‘ungracious spirit” in attacking the late legislature. The country press, as a whole, like the legislature that closed 1ts session two weeks ago, 18 made up of a variety of members—good, bad and indifferent. The good have no reason to complain of our strictures, since they cannot apply to them. The boodlers and monopoly henchmen may put tho shoe on if it fits them. THERE is talk abont vigilants to sup- press foot-pads, crooks and burglars on the outskirts of the city. The way to suppress these outlaws is to close un the resorts and dives where they congregate and find shelter. The trouble in this city is that some very good people are not par- ticular about their tenants, as long as they pay exorbitaut rents. Usually the more disreputable the resort the higher the rent. If the good people who rent houses for unlawfunl purposes were called into the police court two or three times & month to pay fines, Omaha’would rid herself of the vicious and dangerous classes ina very short time. e————— Our sidewalks and cross-walks should be attended to by the board of public works and street commissioner. On many of our principal thoroughfares the walks are in adilapidated and dangerous condition, laying the city and property owners liable to damages. Telegraph and telephone poles and hydrants are allowed to stand in the ocnter of side- walks and seriously imperil the life and limb of pedestrians during dark nights. TuURSTON'S graceful letter tothe Galla- gher-Coutant banqueters would have made u good oil-room oration. ‘The only notable omission was the usual refer- euce to that gallant ancestral hero who marched and *fit'"’ in the revolationary war and infused stalwart republicanism into the veing and arteries of the Ne- braska oil-room statesman, Jorx M. TaursToN assures the eminent banqueters over hisown signature that he loves the new postmaster like a long lost brother who just turned up in time to partake of the Thanksgiving turkey. Mr. Thurston is onc of the largest sunflowers we have in Nebraska pol Even a democeratic postmaster is a lodestone m he cannot witsthand. ——— WeeN Omaha has fully organized her motropolitan police, our citizens can look for better police protection. We will bein a position to organize an ef- toctive force and havoe as many police- men as the city ‘can pay for out of the police fund. eeem—pese— THE quarrel over the T'wenty-second stroet grade may yot toerminate by calling out the militia. The combatants should bear in mind that under the law passed this winter the governor has the authority to organize and equip asecond regiment. —— Ir Mike Meany can stop looking for loose planks long enough we would sug- gest that he look after a large number of cross-walks upon newly paved streets, . Other Lands Than Ours, Tihre great anta-coercion demonstration in London on last Monday, in which it was ostimated aY Ighst 150,000 people par- ticipated, was cerroborative evidence that the English people are ready to grant Ireland the right of self-govern- ment. [t proved that the electors who returned unionist candidates to parlia- ment, aud in many eases, pernaps, those who voted for conservative members, have changed their views since the min- istry proclaimed its brutal policy of co- ercion. This monster mecting was held i what was the sttonghold of anti-Glad- stonianism at the last election, and therefore indicated unmistakably that the next appeal to the people upon the Irish issues will result ia the return of a home rule majority to the house of com- mons. Since that meeting there have boen other evidences of the profound popular displeasure with the policy of the government. The reception given the ill-tempered and slanderous speech of Chamberlain at Ayr, Scotland, on Thurs- day, clearly showed that the people are not in the mood to tolerate a defense of the government's despotic volicy by such arguments as Chamberlain em- ployed, and which in themselves are a confession of the weakness of the govern- ment's position. The whole country is aroused to an extent that 1t has never ex- perienced before, and the drift of the cur- rent, so far as the people are concerned, 15:obvious. The second reading of the coercion bill is expected to bo carried on next Monday by a majority of about ninety votes. Itis understood the tories will endeavor to accomplish this without recourse to the cloture, worried by the severe experience of last week. Should they take this recourse, however, it is be- lieved that gladstone will defy the at- tempt to silence him as the recognized leader of the opposition. While the forces supporting the government appear to be still firm, a_disruption is possible, and not altogether improbable, at any momoent, and if & breach should be made the end of the ministry would be speedily reached. In any event its hold on power cannot, in the opinion of the most intelli- gent observers, be long maintained. * e The question 13 agan being asked whether Russia intends to attack Bul- garia this spring. The aspect of affairs in that country is regarded 1n some quar- ters as serious. There have recently oc- curred several circumstances which are thoughtto be very significant straws. One of these, perhaps more weighty than usual is the recent call of the Russian war office for bids for large supplies of medical stores and ambulance equip- ments. Coupled with this are the re- peated and persistont attacks upon Geor- mans and German policies by the great Pau-Slavie organ of Russia, the Moscow @azette. ‘And third, we have the alleged interview between M. Flourens and the correspondent of the Novoe Vremya, ditectly hinting at the probability of an afliance between Rus- sia and France. Theso surface bubbles may not be significant, but it is certain that they are viewed with grave concoern by Great Britain at least, and that work isnow pushed night and day on new cruisers in British' yards. The great powers, it is now evident, will not per- mit the re-election of Prince Alexander, to which the regency 18 clearly tending, orthe permanent establishment of the present government. Austria is again diplomatically backing down and tromulously anxious to preserve the status quo and keep peace with Russia. She is excessively weak on the Galician frontier, where & much superior Russian force is already massed, and which she could nos possibly hold against a Russian advance. e Few European kingdoms have figured moro honorably in history than has the Kingdom of Holland. Since the days when the Frisians fought against the imperial eagles of Rome the story of its sturdy people has been a record of wars for good government a8 well as of splen- aid struggles with the sea. A time of quictude has come, and the pooplo of Amsterdam can well be pardoned for indulging in jubilation over the seventieth anniversary of the birth of their ruler. During the thirty-eight years of this monarch’s reign peace has pre- vailed, the only brenk having been the war waged with the saltan of Acheen, an island near Sumatra. Since his reign began many internal improvements have been made and the national language has been enriched, and the staid old burghers may be congratulated on the material prosperity and freedom from internal dissentions they have so long enjoyed. =" Tne Emperor William's jubilee present to Queen Victoria is to be a dinner ser- vice of the famous Dresden yellow porce- 1ain, consisting of upwards of six hundred pieces. The plates are to have medal- lions representing portraits of her majosty's celebrated contemporarics and remarkable incidents in Europe during her reign. There is to be an immense centre-piecc with a statuette of the queen on the top, and all round 1t there wifl be medallion portraits in relief of members of the royal family. This splendid gift will be a worthy addition to the art treasures in the private apurtments at Windsor Castle, where there is some of the finest Sevres china'in tho world. In the grand corridor thare are three unique rose Du Barry vases which are valued at $100,000, and in the green drawing-room is the famous Sevres dassort service which could be sold to-morrow for $350,000. This service was made for'K'mg Louis XVI. The Empress E)ug:n‘u i3 going to pay a visit to her native !§ad. She has not been in Spain since 1836, when she went there with a double object. One was to bring the Spanish government to send an army corps to Rome td protect the pope and so enable the Frauch to come away. The other was to inflyence the Spanish court of appeal, before which there was a long-pending suit brought by the rela- tives of the Einpress Eugenie on the Montijo side against her imperial majesty. If the suit were decided against her there would be a stigma placed upon her birth. Notwithstanding her efforts, and perhaps because of the attempts of the Dne de Montpensier to frustrate her, sho lost, and there was therefore much sarcasm spent upon her both in Paris and Madrid, All that, however, is now very ancient history which will certainly not be remembered when she is in Spain. The Spaniards will only see n her a countrywoman who has -tasted of the sweots of existence and then of all the bitters save that of poverty. She was an intensely proud woman and she has been humbled to the dust. But although so bereaved and saddencd, her life is not so gloomy as might be supposed, At Naples she received much company and her gen- eral mood was cheerful, e The hop-growers of England are in a woeful state, A large and influential deputation of them waited upon the prime minister recently, and unfolded s tale that must have moved his lordship prrofoundly. They represented that their industry was fast going to ruin. Already from five to ten thousand acres of hop * tields had been grubbed up, and many thousands more were threatened. This, they argned, was especially bad because of all branches of agricultural industry there was none that the laboring classes could so ill afford to lose. On overy acre of hops there is a yearly expenditure of about £30 for manual labor, and while a nundred acres of plow land may employ about four men, the same area in hops will give occupation to some fifty Iaborers, with women and children. The hop-growers told Lord Salisbury they were convinced that the cause of nll their woes was the admission of foreign-grown hops to the Englisi market free of tariff tax, They told him that America put a high duty on English hops, but American hops had free ad- mission to English markets, whero they undersold those of home growth. There- fore they asked that a tanifftax be laid on imported hops, so that English brewers might be compelled to buy home-grown ac a greatly increased price. This, they contended, would not cause an advance in the price of beer, but merely a diver- sion of some of the brewers' profits for the purpose of mantaining a valuable industry. Tuerk will be poor picking in the United States marshal’s oflice about the time Mr. Bierbower gets ready to retire. The law passed by the last congress ex- cluding all cases from United States courts involving Jess than $2,000 is doing its deadly work PROMINENT PERSONS. Paul du Chaillu, who wrote “The Land of the Midnight Sun,” is abont to publish a work on early Scandinavian history. Miss Mary Booth, editor of Harper's Bazar, has gone to Europe, where she will spend five mouths in travel. This is her first real vacation since she took charge of the Bazar, twenty years ago. Mr. Daniel O'Day, president of the Buffalo Natural Gas company, was an Erie railroad workman at £1.50°a day when the oil fever broke out. He went in for oil, struck it, and is now worth several millions. William Ward, who has just died in Seda- lia, Mo., aged ninety-four, was the first man to build a paper mill west of the Mississippi river. 1is father lived to be a centenarian, and his grandmother died at 110. James H. Marr, eighty-one years old, and Judge Lawrence, eighty-four, are the patriarchs of the postal department at Wash- ington. They were both appointed in 1831 by President Andrew Juck: peinihe Sty The Passover. St. Louis Globe-Democrat, ‘The Hebrews celebrated the feast of the Passover yesterday. The railroads celebrated the sawe event on the 5th inst. el e e A Privileged Class. St. Paul Globe. The tramps, whose favorite method of transportation is on the bumpers of a box- car, in their indifference to the inter-state commerce law, hold themselves proudly su- perior to the rest of the traveling public. —— A Point Well Taken, St Louis Globe-Democrat. ‘The railroads have all called in their passes, and everybody is now supposed to be pay- ing the regular passenger rates: but we have not yet heard of those rates being re- duced, and we used to bo assured they would be if the necessity of carrying so many people for nothing could be avoided. e The Inter-State Law. Denver Republican. Ex-Senator afiller, of New York, thinks that the railroads will derive all the benefit from the inter-state commerce law, and that the people will be worse off than they were before it was enacted. This depends upon whether or not the commission shall permit the railroads to wake the law burdensome. If the commission will enforce the law strictly and compel the railroads to make their rates “just and reasonable,” as the law empowers it to do, we have no doubt that good will re- sult to both tha railroads and the people. We hope that Judge Cooley and his conferees will teach the railroadsthat it is gratuitous impudence on their part to presume to trifle with the law-making powers of the United States. Auy railroad manager who attempts to 80 construe the law-as to make it onerous and obnoxlous should be punished for con- tempt. ey The Old School House. 1 remember, I remember, ‘T'hat old school house on the htll, ‘Where in al:ebra and classics We recelved-our daily drill. Iremember all those poplars, Growing gaunt and straight and tall, Where we often used to loiter ‘T'ill we heard the last bell call, Ah, that spot was always sacred, With the churchyard in the rear, ‘Where the sexton, brave, yet silent, Gathered in those near and dear, Master B., 80 calm and gentle, Daily by the blackboard stood, Now erasing, now explaining, L1l each pupil understood. And bis smile ot approbation "That each pupil strove to win, More, yes more, than compensated For the mental toll within. Years have passed, yet memory lingers Round that dear and sacred spot, Like some sweet, yet fadinx vision, ‘T'hat once was, but now is not. ez o STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. The Crete creamery has begun churn- ing. Plattsmouth has invested in a city en- gineer. The Methodists of Crete have decided to put up a $6,000 church. Missouri Pacific surveyors are camping on the Blue river, heading tor Crete. Miss R. Frauks, of Omaha, has been appointed teacner of music in the Fre- mont normal school. Guino Bohannan, the noted spelling professor, is a valued contributor to the Nebraska City Press. Beatrice proposes to raise the roof of her jail so that athletic ctooks caunot kick a hole through it. § North Bend speculators are goin, into the lmvrelup:l the earth s.fiw search of gas or treasure. The voters of Red Cloud having de- clared for waterworks, trouble now begins with regard to pli nd prices. Crete has sent out s committee to tender the froedom of the city and a sugar plum to the Omaha, Lincoln, Hart- land & E| Paso railread. The road begins and ends nowhere. Mr. Bentley, member of the legislature from Saundors county, took a dose of oar- bolie acid the other day, thinkiug it was down eet 1n cough medicine. Heo had a elose call for his Iife, but will probably recover. Paul Duffin, a butcher of Bancroft, on Tuesdny came to the Vincent farm about five miles from Ponca to butcher n cow, Preparatory thereto he erccted a plat- form a few feet above the ground, got onto it and bou d up and down to try the strength of it, when suddenly a board broke, one end of which struck him on the back of his head and Killed him in- stantly. Nebraska City's products comprise al- cohol, bacon, balusters, barrels, beer, boilers, bread, breakers, brick, brooms, buggies, candies, canned goods, cigars) castings, coal tar, crackers, cultivators, engines, flour, gas, grasshopper blows, hams, harn yrakes, head cheese, harrows, iron fences, hominy, stairway and fronts, keys, lard, mineral waters, meal, mill products generally, moldings, oat meal, saddles, sashes, sausage, slip measures, starch, tierces, turners, wag- ons, windmills, wines and whisky. The Plattsmouth Journal says rumors are current there that Wing Lee, the shirt mangler who disappeared Satur- day, was foully dealt with, ‘‘and that the Celestinls who came down from Omaha und took possession of his place are almond-eyed rascals who may know more than they tell regarding his going away. Mr. Golding thinks the ides that Wing was in debt to theso fellows is pre- posterous, as ho always had lots of cash at hand, always paid "his bills and had been doing a big business here ever since he came. Besides he left a great deal of property in his place, which he could y have converted into eash had he been leaving town to stay. 1t is possi- ble that Wing has been e away with in Omaha, and that these two slant-oyed celestials came down here to complete & job begun there.” lowa ltems, ‘The police force of Burlington are to be supplied with new uniforms. The United States grand jury at Du- bugue found thirty-two indictments. U S mery association, of , filed its articles of incor- poration. @On March 81 there were 693 prisoners in the two state penal institutes, against 720 the year previo Several farmers around lowa Falls make considerable quantities of syrup from their groves of soft maple. The other night a beaver weighing forty-five pounds was caughtin fhup\\'cst otna river near Hamburg. n Jowa farmers are this year said to be putting in only sullicient whent tor their own use. Oats will lead insmail grain, and a larger acreage thau usual of corn will be planted. Tho last five indictments against A, L. Tullis, formerly auditor of Madison county, have just been tried, He was charged with embezzlement and was ac- quitted on each charge. John P. Irish, formerly of Iowa City, has been placed at the hoad of u treasury commigsion to select and purchase prop- n Francisco on which to erecta ce and custom house, for which $500,000 was appropriated. Dakota. Tha new mayor of Furgo wants electric lights turned ou to his adminis mn. Hillsboro's si ator, with 60,000 bushels cap: finished May 1. Kimball claims the champion hose- coupler of South Dakota, His name is Waugh, late of Charles Mix county, but now a resident there. The opening of the school of mines at Rapid City has already proven a valu- able advertisement for the Black Hills as a mineral-bearing country. Spring is put up into five and ten gallon casks ac Sioux Falls and sold to consumers. They are willing to pay a reasonably amount any time for drink- ing out of a cask. A few of the periodical rock sharps have put in an appearance at Deadwood, “They always come in the spring and hang out during the sunny portion of the day at the bank corners. They are loaded with speeimen ore for tenderfeet and grubstakers, and always take pieas- ure in showing their samples. Free gold spocimens, horn, native and ruby silver worth thousands of dollars to the ton, are as common at this scason of the year as gypsum at Rapid. e ——— COULDN'T READ IT, A Grand Army t*ost Chaplain Has Trouble With the Ritaal. Oil City Derrick: Lawyer L. W. Wil- cox, the grizzled veteran of Titusville, who was injured by stepping from u moving train at Corry the other day, is the leading character 1 this sero-con meident, which has never before been printed. Ministers were a trifle searce in a Grand Army of the Republic post up the creek, of which Wilcox wus a mem- ber, and he was clected chaplain. His chief duty was o open the meetings with prayer, and never having set himself up us [ praying man the rayer was printed on a card so he could get through with it with lcss mental effort. Wilcox carried the card around in his pocket with his tobacco and things, and when he came to use it for the first tune the })r‘mtinz 'was consid- erably obscured. After the mneuw had been called to order Captain 1leox stopped to the front, took out his card an F:m to scrutiniza it closely. He re- garded it carefully for a moment and then began to read, deciphering the printing with much difliculty. *'O Lord,” e hegan, 80 a8 to get the best possibio light on it, *0 Lord, we''—(then stopping to spell out & dim word)—we thank Thee for Thy"—(another halt)—‘‘for Thy— dammit, boys, can’t read it!"" AP Abyssinia’s Great Warrior, Pall Mall Gazette: Tho great Abyssin- ian chicf Ras Alula is lllprcmul a person of much interest to the Italians, He is the son of Abyssinian peasants. e was born about forty-live years uago in the village of Pumaka, near Mekalle, and served for many years as groom under the un of the Negus Rus Arca, Later he b e of the wardrobe at court, and married the daugzhter of Ras Aas Arca, who died not long after the i He then rose to the rank of n, and was finally made gov- ornor of Tigre, with the titls of Ras. Ras Alula1s of middle height, has a chocolate colored skin and a thin face, but is otherwise rather stout. ever inughs, talks slowly, is poiite ngers but haughty to inferiors. His orders are only given once. If they are not exe- cutord. he horsewhips his seryants, As a rule he wears a white cotton shict and trousers. A red fez hair. On special oceasions he wears a red silk shirt, the rove of the governor, He is an oxcellent horssmar, and it will be diflicult to find an Abyssinian who bears the hardsiips of travelling betts thun he. He ucvum}mmus the N barefooted on all his tours, nover shows a sign of fatigu had no education, he can nei nor read, but is very intellizent and cun- ning, but pious and superetitious withal. His " ‘averice is extreme: ne takes every- where, and gives nowhero. Whereve he goes ne takes everythinghe hold of. On his marches be is accom- panied by his servaats who carry bis wine, made of honey. x ‘The king has promised him the crown of Kassala, if he can earn it. Eight gen- erals fight under him. His daughter is & ood and beautiful woman, who l:as pro- cted Count Sulembeni and his comwpan- ion, and it is due to her influonce that thoy have not been kille | " g itoes from | To keep flies, gnats, mosquil anhoy e your saimals thicken Dr. J. H. | MecLean's Voleanic Oil Limment with lard or mutton tallow and apply on the hair or exposed parts. overs his close SPOR! G NE The Defeat of the Omaha Team— Nowsy Notes. Tho defeat of the Omaha ball olub ‘Thursday by the DesMoines team was not unexpected. It was generally folt, how- ever, even by those who do not rate the home team as highly as others, that tho nine would make an excellent showing against the men it had beaten on Sun- day last. The disastrous defeat, 1t is thought, is to be ascribed to the fact that tho management is as yot experimenting with some of the players in some of the positions. Manager Bandle said before leaving that his first battery would be Houseman and Harter, He wanted to see what the former could do in the box, as up to that time ho had not distinguished himself. The bat- tery in yesterday's game_in _Des Moincs was to be Henley and Krehmeyer, and the series was to close with the ba first mentioned. Whether the re: Thursday's game will change the inten- tion of the manager in this respect, has not vet been ascertained. It is more than likely that it has, because the informa tion received is to the effect that House- man was batted all over the field. Mana- ger Bandle said he had to make these experiments cven if the club lost all the games with the Des Moines men. Those games, however, did not count, ho said, in the championship ree- ord. The uniforms for the C. E. Mayne base ball club have arrived. They are of dark green cloth with red trimmings, the stockings and caps being of the latter wmaterial, —— County School Matters. County Superintendent Bruner is dafly in receipt of the school census of each school distriet in the county. A number show an increase. Omaha gains 3,058, Saratoga 81, Valley 32 and Walnut Hill 51, The greatest increase, however, is at the sto tds, the returns for w have not yet been made. The superintendent has been peti- tioned by residents of school districts 2,and fractional district 3 to detach from the former and attach to the latter, the west # section 9, 14, 10, and the southwest $ section 4, 14,11, The cause of the change is the weakness of the fractional district, both the divisions lying in the southwestern section of the county. The petitions from each distriot are unani- mous, and the superintendent proposes to grant the request. Ross-I'isher. One of Omaha’s well-known young men, Mr. Thomas Ross, was married yes- terday at Cheyenue, Wyo., to Miss Fannie Fisher, the accomplished daughter of a wealthy capitalist of that city. The young couple are on their way east and are expected to stop in Omaha. Mr. Ross is the son of Mrs. M. A, Dunn of this city, and was formerly conuected with the establishment of A.'D. Morse & Jo. He is now in the grain and cattle business for himself at Stromsburg, Neb. Ho is a young man of recognized abilities and sterling qualities, and his frionds will wish him a1l possiblo happiness in his new relation. Stole a Harncss, A young man named Charles Franklin was arrested yesterday for the theft of on | elegant gold-plated harness, worth $125, belonging to Peter [ler. The harness was in his possession when he was ar- rested, but he elaimed that it had been given to him for safe keeping by a man who pretended to own it, His story is regarded as rather thin, He has been a prominent man in the Y. M: C. A, meet- ings. He 15 a special protege of that organ Black erapo hung yesterdy on tho doors of the establishment of Kelley, Stiger & Co., which had been closed on account of the death of Mrs. Goorge W. Kelley, wife of the senior partner of the firm. Murs. Kelley had been in Indianapohis for some time past visiting hoer parents, and was in that city whe F r death occurred. The leaders of the Gospel Army, which is now holding nightly meetings in the Buckingham, say that their forces are to be strengthened in attractiveness by a i Brown, also ngale, who is expected to 0 this evening, Iron Yokes. The yokes of the cable line on Dodge street have been extended as far as Thirteenth, 1t seems to requiro a day and a half to extend those required for each block. styled the nighti arrive from Chi District Court, The divorce case of Nejdl vs Nejdl ia 8till being he: by Judge Wakeley in the district conrt. Ite disgusting details are heing listened to by a number of the countrymen of both the parties. T STEAMBOAT IN CENTRAL CHINA, Engitsh Merchants About to Put & Steamboat on the Upper Yangtse-Riang. Fourteen hundred miles up the Yangtsc-Kiang river, in the heart of China, is the great city of Chung: the chief town of the fertile province of Sechuen, It is a sort of Chinese Man- ohester, where a great variety of native es are manufactured snd distributed far and wide to the value of many mil- lions of dollars annually. A lot of mer- chants in England have within the past foew weeks been putting their loose change together, aud the pile has finally amounted to $30,000. With this money thoy intend to build a little tlat-bottomed steambont to ply on the Upner Yungtse- Kinng to Chung-King. Mr. Archibald Little, a merchant who has long lived in Ching, has convinced them that they eun roatly increase British teater on the Upper Y Buber and Hoste had told th but they did not act until now banks of Stevens wis mobbed and his’ life constantly menaced while he was recently traveling along the coust from Cantonto Shanghat. A journey among the Yangtse would doubtless have becn ensier and less ox- citing. Steambonts run far up the river though the navigation is none of the bust, and three of the treaty vorts arc on the river, the furthest inland being Iehang, 00 miles up the Yangtse. The lish stear intended to ply o Chung-King. ioraign merchants had not been frightened by the Iehang rapdis a stean boat would doubtless have been lsunched on the upper Yangtse before this. It took # long time, however, to convinco the British traders that stout flat-bottomed stenmboats could make regular trips to Chung-King in spite nt' the rapids, through which many junks work their way cvery year, carrying anunually to Chung-King ¥:X,W).000 of British goods. A rather strange clnuse in the treaty | euiavlishing the” troaty ports providud | that Chung.King should ot be opened to foreign traders until a steamer hs | as- cended to that city. ‘The nccessary con- dition is now Iikulr to be fulfilied, and Secheuen with its 50,000,000 poople brought gradually intodircot commercial relations with the western werld.