Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 10, 1887, Page 4

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Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing r:om!»my. does solemnly swear that the actual circuiation of the Daily Bee lalrl the week ending May 6, 1857, was a8 lows Baturday, April 30. g{undu. May 1. Wednesday, May 4 Thuraday, May 5. ¥riday, Mayo.. AVerage.....ooiuiee . GEO. 8. TZSCIUCK. Subseribed and sworn to before me this th day of May, 1887, N. I’ Fr1L, & [SEAL.) Notary Publie. Geo. B. Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is secretary of The HBee Publishing company, that the actual average daily circulation of the Daily Bee for tha month of May, 1556, 12,439 copies: for June, 1880, 12,208 copies : for July, 1556, 12,914 copies for August, 1556, 12,464 copies; for Septem- ber, 183, 13,030 copies; for October, 1%, 12,080 copies; for November, 1885, L coples; for December, 1836, 13,237 copies r Januaty, 1857, 16,200 coples: for February. 1857, 14,198 7 copl for March, 1587, 14,400 copies; for April, 1587, 14,310 copies. Gro. B. Tzscnuer. Bubseribed and sworn to before me this 7th day of May, A. D., 1887, [SEAL. N. P. Frir, Notary Public. Tue oru;r has ¢u;w forth that th_e English sparrow must go. THE birth of the person who is to suc- cecd the late Beecher has not yet been announced. RAILROAD building is reported very ac- tive in Arizona. Everything in Arizona seems active just now. ACCORDING to Governor Thayer's let- ter to the police commission, police sta- tions must no longer be in saloons. p——— JAKE SHARP'S trial continues. is convicted he wi museum prison. If he be engaged asa frecak when released from —_— NT bronze statue of the late President Arthur, together with a costly monument, will be erected in New York city. DA MAGNIFIC SArAm BerNuarDT hasa new adver- tising dodge. Sam Small slung siang at her in Minneapolis the other night and the opera house was crowded ELevEN hundred Chinamen m onc steamship arrived in the San Francisco harbor one day last week. The restric- tion bill is accomplishing wonders. — ConNEcTICUT, the land of wooden hams and nutmegs, will try the prohibi- tion amendment. The prohibition amendment is having a hard time of it. It should be prohibited. GoVERNOR FORAKER is busv these days denying that he intended to reflect on Senator Sherman in any way, in his Pittsburg speech on, Grant's birthday. Anything to keep before the people is the boy's governor's motto, and he will toy with a chestnut with a perseverance worthy of a better cause. TaE bricklayers of Chicago will not rescind the resolution passed last month making Saturday pay day. The con- tractors claim that it is impossible to get the pay roll made up by Saturday. The workingmen insist that they shall be paid Saturdays, threatening to strike. Trouble is anticipated. Nxw York and Pittsburg papers want %0 ‘‘revive in all its glory the good old styla of celebrating the Fourth of July.” A Ban Francisco paper also blends its volce with the popular clamor. Why not have a national celobrationt Omala, the geographical center of this land of the brave and home of the free, would be pleased to entertain the multitude which would gather from the four corners of the continent. eE—————— ‘Tue first woman ever elected a dele- gate to a couference by the Protestant Episcopal church in Penusylvania was on Tuesday refused a seat in the body. The committee on credentials decided that the constitution expressly provides that the convention shall consist of clergymen and laymen, and this view was endorsea unanimously by the conference. Here is another golden opportunity for the down- trodden sex to raise its voice and shout for froedom. —_— BecAusk of the numerous nterpreta- tious of the inter-state law and general dissatisfaction caused by its enforce- ment, the Chicago 7'imes thinks its author, Mr. Cullom, has rucned himself. It says: “It will stick to him closer than » mother-in-law or & poor relation, It is bis child, and he can not disown1t. It will never be the means of drawing the author to the white house, or anywhere else, except to very private life.” Let it stick to him. To be the father of the law is glory enough, and Mr, Cullom can well afford to retire. A fow amendments and it will be one of the best safeguards against the encroach- ments of corporate power over offored the people. The railroads and subsi- dized newspapers may in a measure snc- oeed in their attempt to make the law unpopular, yet they cannot defeat its in- tent. The grand underlying principle of the measure is an assurance that the law will never be ropealed. After its de- “cots are known it will be an casy matter to secure & remedy. The railroads have too long had unrestricted and unlimited authority. They can no longer control the commmerce of the United States as bas beon their custom hcretofore. The Times may think Mr. Cullom is dead. 1t is necessary to die in order to bua wro, | Hunting Down Land Pirates. Since the president announced his views regarding the publie lands, and they have r od almost unanimous publie approyal, the commissioner of the land office appears to have taken frosh heart in the work of protecting the people against the land pirates of one kind and another who have made plunder of the public domain, Commissioner Sparks entered upon this commendablo task very carly in the administration of his oflice, but continual obstructions and repeated checks and defects of nis efforts must have somewhat discouraged him until the president's position in the Miller case turned the tide in his favor. That was not only a victory for the comnussioner in the special case in issue, but it was an assurance to him from the executive thut the principle had maintained is the true one, which it is the desire and intention of the administration shall prevail. [t served notice on the land pirates of all classes that their influence is ut an end, and that as between them and the people the ben- efit of every doubt will be given to the people. Equally it was & notification to any who may have contemplated this sort of piracy that their schemes may as well be abandoned. Only a very small portion of the people of the United States have nny ideu of the vast areas of which they have been robbed by corporations, syndicates and speculators. Millions of acres have been taken from the people by these plunder- ers who have not hesitated at perjury and the subornation of perjury, at bribery of corrupt federal officials, at fraudulent surveys, or any other available means to the accomplishment of their pur- pose. There have been repeated ex- posures of these robberies. The story has been told over and over again in the reports of the land office for the past twenty years. But the plunderers have always been able to exert an influence 1n congress and elsewhere that defeated all efforts to check their operations or compel them to make restitution. Much the greater part of this pirated land the people cannot now recover. But some of it may be returned to the public domain, and if there be any such Commissioner Sparks is as likely as any maa to find it. He 1s now looking after the interests ot the public in the south- western territories, whero large tracts of land have been acquired by parties who are believed to have no night to them. The commissioner reports that in New Mexico there are four tracts embracing nearly 200,000 acres which do not rightfully belong to the people who clsim them, and he recommends that they be restored to the public domain. But whether or not any part of the lands wrongfully taken from the people shall be restored to them, adherence to the principle avowed by the President will be of great benefit in shutting the door against further plundering of the public domain and preserving for henest set- tlers the millions of acres still ayailable for the use of the people. ———— Not 8o Bad as Reported. A correspondent writing from San An- tonio, Texas, states that the reports sent to northern and eastern papers of the drought 1n gouthwestern Texas, and of the resulting widespread destitution, were a good deal exaggerated. He does not deny that the state has suffered se- verely from the drought, or that there is some destitution, but says the drought is not of exceptional severity, nor are the prudent, the industrious and the econom- 1cal in distress. That the country is not in a starving condition is evidenced by the fact that the ranchmen are con- stantly shipping fat beeves and sheep to every accessible market. During tie past month the finest fat cattle ever sent out of the staté have been shipped from the ranches south of San Antonio. Norare the current quotations for stock such as to indicate hard times. Sheep have been advancing in value for over a year, while cattle are no lower than a year ago, and stock of any kind 1s considered good property. The winter was an unusually mild one, and all stock came through in fine condition. The farmers in the vicimity of San Antonio will suffer if the dry woather shall continue much longer, but they constitute an insignificant part of the farming community of the state, in northern and central Texas the rains have been abundant and the crops are assured. “It will doubtless surprise many at the north,” remarks the correspondent, ‘‘to know that we have plenty to eat and drink, with thousands of beeves and mut- tons to sell them, if they desire to buy; that we gre fully able to provide for our own poor and neody; that business goes on as usual, and that Ainancial stringency is not apparent nor is a panic feared. but these are facts, and facts that should more than counterbalance the sensa- tional reports of widespread ruin, famine and death.” This cheerful statement of the situation in Texas reads much bet- ter than the lugubrious accounts from there with which the papers of the coun- try have been supplied for some time vast, and it is doubtless trustworthy. — Honoring a Veteran Actor. To-day the dramatic profession of New York will honor the veteran actor, Mr. C. W, Couldock, with a great bene- fit incelebration of his fiftieth year on the stage. The event promises to be one of the most memorable of its kind in the history of stage performances. The varied entertainment to be presented will include most of the great exponents of dramatie art in this country, and even the supernumeraries will be actors and actresses of reputation. It is, in a word, & testimonial of the dramatic profession of America to one of its number who as man and actor has throughout a long professional life proved himself worthy of such distinguished consideration. The salo of seats took place last month, and the Star theater in Now York will be filled this afternoon by perhaps the finest audience that ever asssombled within its walls, and a chapter will be added to the history of stage verform- aunces unsurpassed by any that have pre- coded it. The actor who will recelve this honor is known to the presemt generation of playgoers for the unequalled impersona- tion of only a few parts—Luke Fieldiag in the **Willow Copse,” Peter F'robity in the “‘Chimney Corner,” and Dunstan Kirke in the play of “Haael Kirke." ‘Those who have seen him in these char- aoters will hardly look upon his like again, but thoy constitute ouly a very -wall part of the admirable work that THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: I'UESDAY, MAY 10, 1887. Mr. Couldock has contributed to the stage in professional career of half a cen tury. Probabvly no other actor living has had an expertence so broad and varied, and certainly none could have had a better training, tor he grew up in his profession in association with the great est actors the English-speaking stage has produced. Mr. Couldock eame to this country from England with Charlotte Cushman in 18490, and the identification he then es- tablished with the stage of America has never besn broken. An admirable and conscientious actor, and & most genial and companionable man, C. W. Coul- dock merits the honor which the profes- sion will show him to-day, and those who knew him can understand how well he will appreciate it. The veteran is still in “‘the harness'’ at seventy-two, and the indications are that he will remain on the boards for many years to come. Uolonel Cody in England. Yesterday occurred. the opening in Earl’s Court, London, of the American exhibition. The most promident feature, and what to the English visitors will prove most interesting, is Buffalo Bill's Wild West show. While the aggrega- tion, striking in its originality and won- derful in its completeness, has charmed and astonished thousands of visitors in the eastern states, the English people, al- ready imbued with an idea of Ameri ‘“‘semi-savage’’ population, will look with indescribable wonder upon the ‘“‘wild west,” and in their mind’s eye, shudder with fear at the “bloomin’ features of the blarsted country.” The only fear is that Hon. William Cody's show may give the peo- ple of Europe the impression that because he hails from Nebraska his Wild West has been pieked up within the conlines of our state. «This he must guard against. And he must also insist that his collection of “‘wildness'' is not representative of American life. The British aristocracy must be taught that the Indians und the buffalo in Earl's court are only a lingering reminiscence gathered froin the western borders of a great and populous civilized country. Mr. Gladstone at Mr. Cody's lunch party said that “there was nothing more desirable on this side of the water than a true and accurate representation of the American world.” Of course the great European statesman knows that the Wild West show is not in any sense ‘‘representative of the American world,” but his utterance may cause many mis- informed visitors to wrongfully interpret his language. Mr. Cody is as fino a specimen of American manhood as is ever met with, and Nebraska is proud of him. Accord- ingly, as he pockets the sixpence or shil- ling of the curious Englishman he must take pains to inform him that the blood- curdling scenes accompanying his Dead- wood coach-robbery are largelydue to im- agination, and the frontier, where such peculiar phases of civilization were once real, is now confined alone to yellow- backed novels and oral traditions. The Vetoed Gas Ordinance. Mayor Boyd’s veto of the ordinance granting the right of way through our streets and alleys to a corporation which proposes to establish gas works in Omaha, in competition with the existing com- pany, causes much unfavorable com- ment. We have not read the mayor’s veto in full nor haye we been able to pro- cure a copy of the vetoed ordinance. On genceral principles it would be unfair to grant promiscuous rights-of-way to parties who propose to build gas wurks in Omaha because such a grant iu the hands of unprincipled adventurers or schemers might be wused as a means te levy black-mail on the existing Zas company, If, however the ordinance contains pro- visions that would prevent the misuse of the grant, coupled with reasonable guar- antees that the new company will erect works and supply cheaper gas to the pub- lic, there is no vahd excuse for a veto. While we doubt whether Omaha is lare enough to support two gas com- panies, it is manifestiy the interest of our city to secure competition or such con- cessions from the gas company in the matter of rates as will make competition unprofitable. A case has developed in Alabama which, in some of its features, is a counterpart of that of Kissane. One Jo- sephus Compton recently fled from his home in that state, after ycars of ex- emplary conductin which he won the respect and coulidence of the peopls,who honored him with public trusts, Last year he was licensed as a Methodist preacher, and subsequently was eleoted to the leg- islature. He claimed to be from Ken- tucky, but it is learned that thirteen years ago he was making moonshine whisky in North Carolina, and while engaged in this un- lawful business he shot and Kkilled a rev- enue officar. He was convicted and sen- tenced to twenty-five years imprison- ment, but escaped after serving four years. He was recently recognized by a man who had been a guard at the peni- tentiary, and who reported his discovery to the North Carolina oflicials. Papers were issued for Compton's arrest, learn- ing of which he fled, and nothing has since been seen or heard of m. The proverb regarding truth and fiction still holds. e—— SiINCE the New York Herald named Mr., H. W. Grady, the eloguent editor of the Atlanta Constitution, for the secand place on the democratic presidential ticket in 1888, the statement has been made that he was not born 1n the United States, and therefore is not eligible. This objection is disposed of by -Mr. Grady, who states that he was born at Athens, Ga., on the 24th of May, 1851, ‘The date also removes the doubt that has been expressed as to his being of the re- quired age—thirty-five years., These two essential points having been determined in tavor of the talented Atlanta edator, the Herald will continue to boom him with increased zeal, SE————— THE Freneh delegation that came to this country to participate in the dedica- tion of the Bartholdi statue of Liberty bas just further attested its gratification with the treatment it received here by prosenting the New York chamber of commerce with several vases from the ocelebrated Sevres National manufactory, to obtain which the permission of the government was necessary. The gift was accompanied by hearty expressions of friendship and gratitude. Meanwhile the grim and imposing statue looks out upon the sea, but the torch that was to flare the republie's welcome to the stran- gers coming to its shores does not flare, and thus one of the most important fune- tions expected of this embodiment of lib- erty is lost. As M6t have been expected, the two editors who have been carousing in the «aloons with Humphry Monayihan, night after night, have reached the conclusion that Monayiban 1s the only man in Omaha fit to be ehief of police. —————— OxAHA again goekto the front with an increase of over 106 per cent in her bank clearances, as compared with the corres- ponding week of last year, and stands nineteenth among the cities reporting in the amount of her financial exhibit. E—— MR.MONAYIHAN 18 highly recommended for the position of chief of police by the sporting editor whom he generously sup- plied with a slung-shot to ward off imag- ary burglars. PROMINENT PERSONS, Governor Hill, of New York, is a bachelor. Marquis of Salisbury is to be made a duke in a few days, Sir John Dean Paul, Baronet, is earning his liviog as a photographer in London. Roscoe Conkling has been remarkably for- tunate in his real estate investments in Washington, Jay Gould is arranging to make his son George president of the Pacitic Mail steam- ship company. George W. Cable has been suggested for head of the celebrated Tremont Temple Bible class in Boston. George W. Childs’ birthday anniversary occurred May - and on that date special efforts will be mnade to increase the fund of the International tyvographical unlon, to which Mr. CLilds and Mr. Drexel gave $10,000 last May. Next October Charles Dickens wili begin in this country & course of public readings from the works of his father. He is about forty-five years old, with brown hair and mustache and of nearly the same heizht and build as the elder Dickens, but less pro- nounced in dress. Kossutb, the famous Hungarian patriot,has returned to Turin from Naples, “where,” says a correspondent, “he spent the winter with his son, Major Kossuth, who resides in Naples, and who is the magnate—the Tom Scott—of the whole western network of Ital- ian railroads, from the Corniche Ligurian coast to the occidental tip of the boat.” poie ey A Base Hit, Deadwood Pioncer. A Kansas City philanthropist offers to do- nate a town lot to the first member of the Kansas City base ball,club who shall make a base hit. They adopt.n great many plans to get rid of real estatein Kansas City. If such a premium was offered to the papers they would all get thére. i Y can't Hurry Him. Chicag) Tribune. Andrew Carnegie, 'the millionaire, was once a telegraph essenger boy. At his wed- ding the other evening were two guests who had been lus companions as telegraph boys torty years before. Both are now quite wealthy. Lf it would infuse any energy into the messenger boy of the present agze to point out how those three men became suc- cessful by qlckness, promptness, diligence— but what’s the use? - Nothing on earth can hurry him, —aalgal The American Exhibition, Chicago Tribune. We ara pleased to learn, from the regular weekly bulfetin of the American Exhibition in London, that the principal contract for supplying the refreshments at the exhibition has been let to Messrs. Borem & Snodgrass of London, who employ a staff of 700 per- sons; also that the concession—note the felicity of that word concession—for the huge American bar under the grand stand has been granted to Messrs, Fillum & Bouncem of New York, who are assisted by a large staff— particular attention Is requested to the fact that they have a statf—of trained Awerican bartenders. Such facts as these cannot fail to impress the must careless reader with the immensity of the display; and to those who Lave never gazed In speech- less wonder ata fat-stock show or wandered through the imposing galleries of “earth’s rarest curiosities In a dime museum there will doubtless be much to admire In the great American Exhibition. May. Frank Dempster Sherman, in St. Nicholas. May shall make the world anew: Goiden sun and silver dew— Money minted in the sky— Shall the earth’s new garments buy. May shall make the orehard bloom; And the blossoms’ fine 'l:rfume Shall set all the honey-bees Murmuring among the trees, May shall make the bud appear Like a jewel, crystal clear, "Mid the leaves upon the limb Where the robin lilts his hymn, May shall make the wild tlowers tell Where the shining snow-flakes fell: Just as though each snow-flake’s heart, By some secret, magic art, ere transmuted to a flower In the sunlight and the shower, 1s there such another, pray, Wonder-making month as May? e STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraskas Jottings. Bertrand claims a population of 500. The postoflice at Kalamazoo, Madison county, has been resurrected. A syndicate will build twelve cottages m Columbus, to cost 1,000 each, The fashionable craze in parlor mot- toes in Fremont is, "God Bless Our Hum.” Beatrice has three brick and two frame school buildings, yet the rising genera- tion cry for more room. The Nebraska City artesian well is down 325 feet. Nothing softer than stone has been encountered so far. Red Ciloud will hold an exhibition of speedy horseflesh ow the 25th, continning three days. A few fat purses will be hung on the wire. ! The tongues and: throttles of Stroms- burgers are as dry and lifeless as a cemetery in a desert. . The tapping of a semi-weekly beer ¥eg utterly tnfis to stimulate the community. Crawford is a year old and thriving. Over $100,000 have been expended in improvements in that time. Fifty-five houses have been erected, and a grist :mll‘und flour mill gré now under con- raot. A The anti-pass law and the abolition of annuals, have produced a wonderful change in press puffs, a revolution in fact. Here is the latest style from the Ponca Journal: ‘‘The miserable, con- temptible passenger car that humps it- self up and down between Ponca and Covin“ton. would make a suitable *‘black maria” to convey convicts to the peni- tentiary, but it is hardly good enough to be popular with the traveling public. The car is mmsod, inconvenient, stuffy, snuffy, dirty and poverty atricken. Itis distress on wheels, 8 moving wretched- ness, it smells to high heaven of du:nl tobacco and cheese. However, we wil live in hope of another railroad ere long, where such a parody and caricature of a passenger car will not be imposed upon peoble.” The prairie fire near Atkinson last week was s terror. The fire started at Moon Lake and when it struck the hay flats in the vicinity was formed into a roaring conflagration. At one time it was feared that it would strike Atkinson but the wind changed and saved the town. Mr. Nevers, an old man, living six miles southeast, w. helping protect a neighbor's house 'when he was obliged to go through the fire to protect his own house and was quite badly burned. When the fire reached a point about three or four miles southeast where there was much tall dry grass the flames rose in a solid body fully ten feet high and made a beautiful but terrible sight. All day Friday and Friday night and into Saturday and Saturday night the light and smoke were plainly visible until Sunday, when a rain setin and a cold wind from the north blew strong and extinguished the last spark., lowa items, Ackley has a curiosity in the shape of a three-legged cat. 1t is estimated that 300 men and 1,000 horses have left Clay county this spring to engage in ratlrond work. A popular Des Moines clergyman has worked out hig poll tax this year, hand- ling a shovel with decided skill. Cedar Rapids handled 477,090 hogs dur- ing the last twelve months, and the cost of the same to the pucking house there was over $5,280,000. The railroads of the state will carry delegations to the Masonie grand lodge at Davenport June 7, at onc and onc- third fare for the round trip. The railroads all seem to be seriously troubled with tramps just now. They steal rides, destroy property, fool with the s and train men, and at small stations and other unprotected points they make themselves generally disliked. Prophet Foster fixes the date of May storms on the 10th, 16th, 18th, 21st, 27th and 31st. The storm of June 3 will also belong to the last part of May storm period. From May 21 to June 3 will be one of the most important storm periods of the year, according to the Burlington weather sharp. Wyoming. Laramie has a fair association and a new hotel well advanced to a certainty. A committee of Laramie business men is skirmishing for railroads in Colorado. A road from %luvur is eagerly sought. ‘The recorded deed shows that the B, & M. paid $80,000 for the Warren Mercan- tile building and grounds in Cheyenne. Cheyenne will turn out in holiday regalia on the 18th, to give eclat to the ceremony of laying the corner-stone of territorial capitol. The Cheyenne school board has decided to retain the Lord’s }lmyur in the schools. A pious member ot the board declared that for beauty and utility 1t equaled the family bible on the parlor table. The Reed Mining and Smelti nfi com- pany, with paper capital amounting to ¥5,000,000, has been incorporated in the territory. Offices will be established at cnne, Boston, Salt Lake City and ity, Utah. Laramie claims to have marble treas- ures in the surrounding hills. Vastquar- ries of the “‘oriental alabaster” of ancient Carthage are about to be opened aud the product placed in the market. It is said to be unequaled in color and shade and polishes beautifull, The *‘Right" of Theft. New York Commercial Advertiser, The question of the Northern Pacific Railway company's “right’ to certain additional land grants by way of indem- nity for deficiencies in the original grant, ought to be fully understood, It is evi- dently not well understood, even by many who have studied and are sin- cerely interested in the subject. For instance, the Herald, which has manifested a commendable spirit and dilligence 1n exposing the mean- ness aud iniquity of the rmlway manage- ment, s this morning that the North- ern Pacitic ¥is entitied to an indemnity grant of 257,556 acres.”” It makes this concession, obviously, from a deep de- sire to be generous, and to avoid eyen the appearance of injustice in dealing with a matter which would tempt right- inded men to err on the side of undue erity, through the operation of their just and proper teeling of indigi But i fact the Northern P is not entitled to an additional indemnity grant of 257,556 acres in Washington ter- ritory or anywhere else. It is not entitled to any additional land at all. The theor: on which the indemnity withdrawals were based, may have been correct, but there never was any law directing these withdrawals to be made. They were made by permission, npt by legislation. They were obtained by a series of ‘‘rulings’ in the interior department, the adminis- tration of which branch of the govern- ment has been, until now, uniformly favorable to the land grant roads us against the settlers and the public. But even if there had been any statu- tory authority for these wholesaleindem- nilications, it would have been over- thrown and nullified ago, by the simple fact thatthe Northern Pacitic railway company, by its failure to com- ply with the law under which it came into existence, has forfeited its claim, not only to the indemnity lands, but also to at least four-fifths of its original fir-um The reater always includes the s. The orthern Pacific road has no equitable or moral right, to-day, to any of the lands it holds, within either the original grant or the indemnity limits, except the compar- atively small tract adjoining the few hun- dred miles of road which were completed before the expiration of the time named for the completion of the whole road in the conditions imposed by congress, And yet the company has the efironter to claim the whole original grant, an also about ten times as much land, in the way of indemnity, as it can rationally lay claim to, even on its own representa- tions; and in pursuance of these claims it does not hesitate to confiscate the improved farms of old settlers, without any remuneration whatever, The company’s claim from beginning to end is & bare faced robbery and nothing eclse. The senate of the United States 1s_sol responsible for the fact that this gigantic theft of millions of acres of the public do- main has remained unpunished until this time. The senate will hardly dare act much longer as a “‘fence’’ for the North- ern Pacitic. — The Fire Cracker Trade. A dealer in fire crackers says, in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat: 1 have just received my first shipment of Chinese fire crackers for the Fourth of July trade. They left Hong Kon,.;I just before Christ- mas and hayve arrived here in good shape. Altogether in three shipments, the last will be here in a few days, [ shall have 1,400,000,000 crackers, and these won't be half enough for the demand on be half of our youthful population. We et the crackers from China, cause of the cheap labor there, as it is impossible for a man to,earn half a dol lar a day or anything Ifke it, in makin, them to sell at current prices. The Chi- nese never raise the price per crate, but as they acquire civilized ideas concernin trade dodges, they reduce the number of crackers in a pack, of which there are 320 to a crate. Originally, there were 100 in each, then there were ninety, and then eighty. Last year, there were seventy- two, aud now it is lower than ever, hav- ing got down to gixty. But, even now, they arc absurdly chea, e Postmaster Mowry, of Charleston, 8. C.,is in luck. At the opening of the Forty,ninth congress he was appointed clerk to the committee on public build- ings and grounds at a salary of $2,000 per annum. Recently the president appointed him postmaster at Charleston at a salary of $8,600. Under the recent decision of the United States supreme court he will draw both salaries until December next. JEWELS OF POTENTATES The Crown Jewels of France to Pass to Plebeian Hands. HISTORY OF PRECIOUS GEMS Strange and Startling History of Sov- erelgn Stones—Parisians Prepare ing to Purchase Relics of Mon- archs Dead and Gone. Parts, April 30.—The spectacie of a great nation selling by auction the jewels collected by generations of its kings is sufliciently rare to deserve a few words of comment. At the present moment a huge white poster pasted on the blank wallsof Paris announces in large black letters the sale on May 13 of the dia- monds of the crown, or, in other words of the French crown jewels; and in a few days all Paris will be crowding the Pa- villon de Flore to see for the last time these precious relics of abolished roy- alty. According to expert opinion, these jewels are more interesting from the his- torical than from the commercial point of view; indeed, their history is full of curious detalls and meiodramatic incl- dents. The collection of the French crown jewels dates from the time when Francois I. made peace with Charles V., whose cister, Eleonore of Austria, be- came the wife of the French king. Francois I. went to Bordeaux to mest his bride, and in that town, on June 15, 1530, he bequeathed the royal jewels indefeasibly to his successors—that 1s to say, to the o or to the crown. At that time these jewels consisted of a large necklace and six rings, and_ w valued ata sum equivalent to 053. The precious stones composin, thd" treasure came from Queen Anne of Brittany, who ntended them for Marguerite deé Foix. One of these stones was celebrated in the sixteenth century under the naxae of Bolle Pointe. Another still more celebrated was a ruby weighing 206 carats, named Cote-de-Brotagne, and estimated at $120,000. This stone has a history. In 1530 1t was mounted as a neck pendant in the shape of o letter A. Catherine de Medicis had it remounted with eleven pearls and two other large rubies. In 588 Henry IIl.,, being obliged to raise troops to drive back the Spaniards, pawned these threo rubies to one of his sccretaries, named Legrand, for 817,000 livres of Touraine. Legrand died with- out getting repaid, and it was not until 1670 that his heirs restored the three rubies to the crown, after Colbert had caused them to be reimbursed. In 1749 the famous Cote-de-Bretagne was mounted afresh in the insignia of the order of the Golden Fleece, and Gay, the engraver of Mme de Pompadour's cam- eos, carved it into the form of a drs holding the fleece in_its mouth. In this form the Cote-de Bretagne, estimated then at 60,000 livres, was worn by Kings Louis XV. and Louis XVI. In 1792 this jewel was stolen, but subsequently re- stored to the treasury in circumstances which have remamned mysterious, The dragfon Cote-de-Bretagne will not be in- cluded in the sale of May 12; it has been placed in the Galerie d’Apollon at the Louvre as n national rehic and a work of art. In creating the national treasure of the crown jewels Francis I insisted that they should be worn ung by the Kin ueens of France. Nevertheless, o Poitiers, the mistress of Henri IL made use of the royal jewels untl the death of the king, and constantly wore on her breast a cross composed of ninc Iarge diamonds. This fact was the cause of some scandal, whnich is recorded by Brantome. Diane, however, after the death of the king, lnimmilg restored all the crown jewels which she had borrowed, but Francis IL, in order to avoid all risks in future, drew up letters patent in_ 1559, by which he Jjointed to the crown jewels all the jewels which Henri II and he had inherited,and among them was a diamond Le Grande le valued at 65000 crowns. Cath- e de Medicis oftered this diamond to the English 1n exchange for the town of Calais, but the queen managed the nego- tiations so well that she obtained Calais and kept the diamond. Later, in 1569, when the Germans invaded France, the crown jewels had to _be pawned once more. Catherine de Medicis, in want of funds, concluded a loan of 1,800,000 crowns with the Venetians, and gave to the republic as security the Grande Table diamond and the diamond cross of 90,000 crowns which Diane de Poitiers so much admired, HBenri 111 appears to have squandered the crown jewels on his mignons, and, in the troublous times which follow, thei history became very obscure and docu- ments aregvanting.” M. Germain Bapst, who is about to publish an important work on the history of the French crown jewels, has been unable to elucidate the mystery ot this epoch, and all we know is that, by some moans or other, Henri IV recovered pos- session of a wpart of the royal treasure. It was during the reign of Henry IV, that a strange person appears on the soene, the colonel-general of the Swiss guards, Nicolas Harlay de Sancy, who was, it appears, a clever diamond merchant, Sancy’s name has remained attached to a famous stono of 106 carats which he sold in 1604 to James I. of Eng- land. How Sancy became possessed of this diamond is not known. Tradition says that it belonged once to Charles the Bold, who lost it on the battle field of Granson, where it was found by a Swiss goldier, who sold 1t to a priest for a florin. Charles I. possessed it when he came to the throne. At tho time of the English revolution, Queen Henrietta Maria car- ried it away with her, and in 1655 gave it as security, together with another rare picee, called the Mirror of Portugal, to the Duc d’Epernon,who lent her the sum of 460,000 livers. In 1657 Mazarin reim- bursed the Due d’Epernon, and, with the consent of the queen of England, took possession of the Sancy and of her Mir. ror of Portugal. When Mazarin died, in 1661, he bequeathed to Louis XIV, eighteen diamonds, among which were these two. In 179 stolen. the hands of Charle " the advice of Napoleon it was sold. [n 1829 it passed into the Demidof family, and in 1835 it was again sold for 500,000 silver roubles, and now figures in the Russian erown jewels. As for th i of Portugal, like the Grande 'l identity has not been establi nobody knows whether or not it among the French crown jewels. XIV. had these eightecn ~ Maza: monds mounted in a heavy chain, be often wore; and, in 1651, 1 added to them two extraordinary stones, the great blue diamond and the diamond of the housc of Guise, of which ail traces have been lost. ‘The Regent diamond remains. as it is Gesaipat by Sai mon in his Me- moirs in 1717, a_unique stone of inesti- mable value. It was purchased at a stipulated price of $400,000 the interest of which was paid to the dealer until the Regent could pay off the principal. Marie Antoinette u to like to deck herself out with the crown jewels, and affected particulary a ruby set valued at $20,000. The qui with the permission of the king, lv.fdud some of her own jow- els to these rubies, and some of the crown jewels given to her by decree; but the national assemblyin 1701 orvered the res- titution of all the crown jewcls to the nally the state, and the fewels were accordingly deposited in the Garde Meuble, where they were visible to tie publio on certain days. The legislative assoembly finally ordered the crown diamonds to ‘be sold, but the *“Septembriseurs” thought that simpler methods of appropriation were advisable. M. Germain Bapst, who has in his ds all the documents concern- ing this episode, thus narrates the events: During six band of individuals, composed of thirty or forty persons, pen- etrated every night mnto the rooms on the first tloor of the Garde Meublo by means of rope ladders, They broke the seals of the door, picked the locks of the cupboards, "and earried off nearly the whole of the treasure. The police did not notice the theft until, during the night of September 16-17, some national uardsmen eaught two men dropping rom the windows of the Grade Meuble with jewels in their pockets. The depre- dations were then discovered, and the next day Roland, the minister of the in- terior, announced to the assembly that out of 25,000,000 francs of jewcls there re- mained scarcely 500,000 francs, During the operation no regular watch had been kept; the police roundsmen had scen nothing; and yet the tuieves had lighted up the rooms of the Garde Mueble, and had eaten there several nights in succe sion, for the remains of food, empty b tles, and candle ends were found~ sc tered on the floor, Public opinion ac- cused Danton and the advanced party ot the crin Finally some of the thieves were discovered and excouted on tha Place do la Concorde. A cortain num- ber of the stolen jewels were also found immediately, but the most important,the Regent and’ the Sanoy, were hard to find, The latter, “stolen by ona Cottet, was taken out of France, as wg have already scen; the regent was found about a year after the robvery in a wine shop in the Fauburg St. Germain, and on the day of his coronation Nuapoleon I. wore iton the hilt of his sword.” The re- ont which is ostimated nowadays at g-.:,lm).l)mwill not be sold, but will re- main in the Louvre as national prop- erty. .\rmmleon 1. bought 6,000,000 of franes of diamonds in 1811 to increase the crown jewels. In 1814 the whole treasure was taken to Blois by Marie Lowse, and in 1815 Louis XVII1. took it to Ghent for safety. When Charles X. came to tho throne, all these joewols were remounted for the coronation ceremony, and re- mained in this condition until” 1854, with the exception of two sets of mounted dia- monds, valued at 202,000 francs, which were stolen during the revolution of 1848. During the second empire the crown diamonds were f{roquently remounted. 1In 1870, in August, they were intrusted to the care of the governor of the Bank of France, and since 1875 they have been kept ina safe at the winistry of finance. Now that the sale of these crown jew- ols has been decided upon, much curi- osity is naturally felt as to what will be- come of them. “As wo havo seen,some of the most precious objects in the collec- tion of the crown jewels will not be sold, namely, the regent diamond; the 206- carat ruby carved I‘Y Gay; an opal of unique beauty; a reliquary brooch con- stellated with dinmonds, which were out in 1476, and which is valued at $14,000; one of the Mazarin diamonds; the sword of Charles X, which is valued at $60,000, as a specimen of jewcler's work, en- riched with diamonds and a few minor objects which are considered as works of art. As for the imperial crown of gold, it was melted at the mint of the republig last week, together with two ceremonial golden swords, the sword of the Dauphin and the sword of Louis XVIII. There re- mains then to be sold a quantity of ru- bics, emeralds, sapvhires and turquoisos; 51,403 brilliants, weighing 9,910 carats; 21,119 roses, weighing 471 carats, and 2,603 pearls, weighing 7 carats, Iti expected that this le will not produce more than §1,000,000, and the chief ~ buyers will neces- sarily be the deulers who will buy the im- ortant pieces, which they will unmount, for two reasons: In the first place, in order to ret the stones, and, in the second place, because the existing mounts are old-fashioned. Some of the Paris jewellers ave also forming private syndi- cates of customers for the purchase of lots, which will be divided and mounted according to advertised patterns. But where is the guarantee of identiy? During the next few years Paris jewellers will doubtless sell nothing but ‘“‘crown jewels,”” remounted, and the the dia. monds “worn by Marie Antoinette” will become as plentiful as fragments of the true cross. 1n reality, in spite of the tirades of the reactionary newspapers, the sale of the French crown jewels is not a national disgrace, inasmuch as tho jewels having a real artistic value are not included 1n the transaction, but merely a stock of precious stones the equul of which may be seen any day in the shops in the Rue de la Paix. “Indeed, the FKrench republic, by placing the choicest specimens in the national museum and frankly sclling the rest, shows more rospect for these crown jewels than was shown by many ot the monarchs who pawned or squandered them, thereby, it is true, helping to ren- der their history more inwrestinfi; o H. e ¢ A Groat Hattle. i8 continually somg on in the human system. 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