Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 3, 1887, Page 4

B R 2 R, 4 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, JUNE 3. 1867, THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERME OF SUBSCRIPTION ¢ Dajly Moeniag Edition) including Sunday Bre, One Year. o € For 8ix Months For Threa Montha The Omaha Swr address, One Yo ATIA OPFICE, No. 014 AND 917 FARNAM STREFY EW YORK OFFICE,. K TRIBUNE B . ASHINGTON OFFIC 515 FOURTEENTH STRELT. OOMRESPONDENCE! All communications reluting to news and edi. torinl matter should be addressed o the Ept- TOR OF THE BER. T . Drafts, checks and postofico orders to be made payuble to the order of the eompany, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, Enrrol THE DAILY BE Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nevraska, ulas, uck, secretary of The Bee ny, does solemnly swear that the actual circniation of the Daily Bee for the week ending May 27, 1857, was a8 lollows : Saturday, May 21 Sunday, May 22 Monday, May 2 Average......... & . b, 15, T7soiUCK. Bubseribed and sworn 10 before mo this 255t day of May, 1857, N. P, Frrr, [SEAL.) Notary Public. Geo. B. Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is secretary of Tho Bee Publishing compan that the actual average daily circulation of the Daily Bes for the month of May, 1556, 12,439 copies; for June, 1886, 12.208 copies : for July, 1856, 12,514 copies; for August, 155, 12,404 copies; for Septem- ber, 185, 13,030 coples; for October, 1854, 1208 copies: for November, 13,348 coples; for December, 189, 13,337 coples; for January, 1857, 1 coplies; for February, 1857, 14,108 coples; for March, 1857, 14,400 coples; for April, 1857, 14,316 copies, GEo. B. TzSCHUCK, Bubseribed and sworn to before me this 7th day of May, A. 1), 1857, ISE/\L.{ N. P. FeL, Notary Public. EDITOR GRADY'S ! taken its departure. —_— CHIEF OF POLICE SEAVEY appears to be giving general satisfaction. zens of Omana exert every c!Turt to secure the Lutheran college. LET the citiz A RUBBER monopoly is now announced. The world seems running to combina- tions. 17 is said mt slowly yet surcly the an- nual passes are again finding their way into the pockets of politicians. O’BRrieN has not been stoned for sev- eral days, and he isalready complaining of the monotony of Canada. been found in Iowa, an abundance of natural gus. What is the reason no scarch for it is made in Ne- braska? THERE ha ASTRONOMERS claim that the star of Bethlohem cannot be seen. [t has can- celled its date. All stars haye happy plans of advertisin Ir there is any importance to be at- tached to the floating rumors, and some of them apparently well-founded, there will be dozens of new railroads built in Nebraska this year. SeNATOR VEST'S physician has ordered the Missouri monument to take a rest. This same learned opinion has been en- tertained by a long-suffering constitu- ency for many, many months. THE residence of General J. Warren Keifer at Springfield, O., was burglarized Saturday night and most of his silver plate carried off. It 15 a pity that the general was not stolen. The burglars evidently had no use for brass plate. — WHILE the farms of Texas and south- ern Kansas are drought-burned and bar- ren, Nebraska's agricultural districts show fields of growing grain, and every indication is favorable to a good crop. Those secking locations should make a note of this, J¥RoM the musings of a scavenger we take the following philosophy: Filth and dirt are n league with every influence which breeds disease, invites epidemics, and produces pestilence. Cleanliness is the enemy of all these scourges. As a rule the healthy city isa cleanly city, and the unhealthy city is the eity with dirty alleys, filthy streets, unwashed scw- ers and a surface putrid with decaying garbage. The only way to secure clean- liness is to remove all that is opposed to it. This is within the power of ciues to do, and 1t is the duty of city authorities to do 1t. THERE 18 a large amount of political clap trap in circulation, a part of which involves Senator Sherman. One example of this is the statement coming from Albany, professedly on the authority of a gentleman who had been in conference with the Onio friends of Sherman, that the senator is organizing a New York gnmpnlzn n his interest, to be managed y Levi P. Morton, who the story says Sherman wishes to be his companion on the presidential ticket in the event of his mnomination. 1t is not 1m- probable thac when the proper time arrives Mr. Sherman and fhis friends will make some effort in New York, but the senator is too shrewd & politician to handicap himself by an attempt to carry Mr. Morton or any- body else. The eftort that he will make o secure the nomination we believe will be made in the open, straightforward way which has characterized his entire political career, and that ne will engage in no compacts or en- tangling alliances of any sort, and least of all would he make the grave mistake of even implying a preference for any man for the vice presidential candidate in advance of his own nomination, Should he be nominated he mught con- cede the importance of selecting a eiti- zen of New York for the second place, as doubtless republicans generally would. But even in that case it 18 questionable whether he would indicate a preference. People who attach any importance to statements of this kind involving Senator Sherman do not give bim the proper credit for thxnhpouucnl judxmenlt and foresight which he unquestionably pos- Besses. A The Fatthiers Favor ‘The quiestion of commerclal union be- tweon the United States and Canada has been growing in popular consideration in both countries, since Congressman E erworth, a little while ago, eluci- dated his policy and plan to an assem- blage in New York, on the invitation of representatives of Canadian interests, The author of the bill introduced in con- gress, providing for trade reciprocity with the Dominion, may at least con- gratulate himself upon having set the two peoples to seriously thinking upon and discussing the subject, whether any- thing now practieal comes of it or not. Interest in the question at this time i somewhat keener in Canada than with us. There are obvious reasons for this, one ot which is that reciprocity or commer- cial union would effect a ready settle- ment of an issue which Canada can- not surrender without a good deal of humiliation, and cannot maintain without the certainty of more or less serious damage to her commercial inter- ests, In her present condition Canada can ill atford to make any sacrifices of this kind. She has an enormous debt for 80 poor a country and it is increasing. She needs every source of revenue that she now has from which to squeeze out ecnough to meet current expenditures, and to weaken her in any way indus- trially or commercially would be a severely felt afiliction. It is this situation that causes a large number of the Canadian people, and par- ticularly the farmers, to strongly favor the scheme of commercial union. More- over, the farmers believe that such an arrangement would operate directly to their benefit. They have experienced no advantage from the protection policy, and they are entirely ready to sece it abandoned so far as it affects trade relations with the Uuited States, The leading agricultural province of the dominion is Ontario and 1t is said the million and a quarter of farmers there are nearly unanimous for commercial union. They are dissatis- fied with the prevailing condition of things, because the national policy of Canada will not allow them to dispose of their products in a market that lies at their door, but compels them to seek one 8,000 miles away. The expericnce of these farmers during the past two years has been discouraging. Shipping nearly everything they had to sell to England, the aggregate result has heen a loss. What profit they have realized has been obtained from live stock and commodi- ties exported to the Uniied States. Furthermore, as would naturally result from this state of things, the farm- ing land has decreased in value, the total shrinkage in three years, according to government valuation, amounting to nearly seven million dollars. This decrease and the cause of profitless farming is due, it is claimed, to the unfavorable character of England as a market, and the restric- tions placed upon intercourse withthe United States. The farmers of Ontario, almost to a man, are satisfied that they will fail to lift themselves out of their difficulties until they obtain unrestricted trade intercourse with this conntry, and in their organizations this question takes precedence of all others. The determination of this question does not, however, rest wholly with the farm- ers, and even they may be divided if it should be made a party issue. We pointed out some days ago a few of the objections and obstacles that any plan of trade reciprocity or commercial union must ‘encounter, and if not absolutely insuperable these must at least tend to postpone indefinitely any ar- rangement. The protected manufactur- ers will of course steadfastly oppose any change, and they will have with them the very considerable element which would regard an assimilation of the Canadian tarifl’ to that of the United States, thus discriminatiug against England, as a policy of supreme disloyalty. Yet it is conceded on both sides that such an as- similation would be an essential condi- tion of commercial union. It is not diffi- cult to indicate the advantages to be ex- pected from an equitable system of trade reciprocity, not the jug-handle arrange- ment that formerly existed, between the two countries. Propinquity, the mutual interests of neighbors, and sound princi- ples of trade, are arguments in its sup- vort. But they must not be expected to immediately overcome the hostility of special interests and the even more obsti- nate antagonism of national prejudices. The discussion of the question, however, will at least have an educational value for the people of both countries. S—— An Opportunity to Learn. A displeased eorrespondent of the New York World, wrote to that paper, and asked it to answer, if it could, ‘‘what un- patented American industry is a monopoly in this country?” So this ques- tion the World replied: b It our correspondent is really skeptical on the subject, we advise him to go into Penn- sylvania, buy some oil territory and set him- self up as an independent prod:ucer, refiner and shipper of oil. He will very soon acquire knowledge enough to satlsfy him as to the existence of one monopoly. If he desires to extend his search for in- formation, let him then buy some coal lands and undertake to mine and ship to market this article of universal use. He has a per- fect right to do it. **Competition is the life of business,” Let our doubting friend try to compete with the combination that abso- lately eontrols the production of coal and arbitrarily fixes its price. He will come out a wiser and a poorer man. ‘There are many other cases that could be cited, but they are matters of common knowl- edge. The tendency of the times is towards gigantic combinations of capital in different lines of business for the purpose of abolish- ing eompetition and controlling the market. ‘Their success effectually prohibits Individual enterprise aud leaves the public at their mercy. If the correspondent wants further in- formation let him come west—come to Nebraska, and gaze upon the workings of both patented and unpatented monop- oly industries, We can show hum where railroad companies not only own coal mines but where they fix a price that is beyond all reason and make the same price within 100 miles of the mines the same as they charge 400 miles farther east. Wo can show him where unpat- ented lime is owned and handled exclu- sively by one railroad company and ped- dled all over the state at the same price— distance making no difference. We can show him where salt from great salt works is sold in the same manner. We can show hin how unpatented deslers get special inducements, and how out- rageous freights are charged on unpat- ented railroads. Wo can show him unpatented wmem- bers of the legislature--unpateénted be- cause there 18 no idea in them to patent-— who are controlled and monopolized by shysters and sinners of the railrogue stamp. We could show him “anpatented Amer- ican industries which are monopolies,” by reason of the aggressions of great corporations, until his eyes would water and he would gasp for breath, Come west, young man, and grow up with the country—and while growing up learn the ways of the world as they are here presented A Unanimous Verdict. The papers of Nebraska, almost with. out exception, have hurried to the de- fence of Governor Thayer. John M. Thayer is too good a man and is too well known by the old residents of Ne- braska, to be harmed by the vicious char- acteristics and methods of newspapers edited by grudges, dyspepsia or hatreds. The inward obliquities of the conductors of the papers attacking the governor are well known, The governor is doing his duty, and if the press of the state voices the sentiment of the people, he is giving excellent satisfaction. The Nebraska Signalno doubt expresses the opinion of nine-tenths of Nebraska's people as fol- lows: The governor, in making his police ap- pointments, was guided by his usual good judgment, and the masses throughout the state approve them and the views he ex- pressed in his letter to the cominission as to its duties are the views of the people. The services of Governor Thayer to the republic and state, in the forum and in the field, can not be blotted out from the memory of Ne- braskans by the harsh_criticsms and vile epi- thets, born of personal disappointment. There is no honest man in the state who will believe that Governor Thayer attempted to do anything but what in his opinion was for the good of Omaha. The sclf exposed editors who are urging a personal warfare upon an honorable and worthy man will accomplish nothing. To Suppress the Pistol. It appears that in Washington too many concealed weapons are carried by the residents of that city, The Washing- ton Post is excited over the practice of carrying revolvers on the street, and demands a suppression of the dangerous habit. The Atlanta Constitution, whose editor has recently been elected vico president of the United States by the New York Herald, offers as the only solution to the perplexing problem the suggestion to make it # penal offense to manufacture or sell pistols. In support of its proposi- tion it says : Perhaps our contemporary is not prepared to go so far. Why not? Our suggestion is directly in the line of the precedents estab- lished in our legislation concerning other evils. In prohibition districts, for instance, it 15 not unlawful for a man to drink whisky. We simply make it a penal offense to sell it, and, in some places, to manufacture it. Let us apply this method to the matter of con- cealed weapons, and get after the man who make or sells a pistol, instead of making it hot for the poor devils who carries it. The suggestion Is at least worth considering. This is rather queer philosophy to come from a district where the ‘*honan’’ of men has been maintained a thousand times by the mpistol. To abolish the pis- tol means farewell to the boasted chivalry of the south. It would mean that roughs and desperadoes would be obliged to carry murderous looking knives and billys and slung.shots and sabres and scythes, The Atlanta paper forgets thatin all states and cicies and vil- lages, where laws are made, there is a statute prohibiting the carrying of con- cealed weapons. Pistols and coffee may £o together, but whisky and pistols make a bad combination. A pistol is a good vocket-piece on many occasions, and if the law is enforced, as it can be, there will be no great danger. Unless a man's lifeis in actual danger, and he knows that a positiye threat has been made to attempt to murder him, he has no busi- ness to carry a firearm. Aund mnine cases out of ten where a man carries revolvers uuless a threat of violence has been made, it will be found that he is a coward and would not shoot under any circum- stances. Let us hope that our southern contemporary will hereafter discuss the Navy or the Fourth of July. THERE is & demand on the treasury for notes of small denominations far exceed- ing the supply, and owing to the nearly exhausted appropriation for printing silver certificates relief cannot be had until the beginning of the new fiscal year, July 1, when the appropriation for that year will become available. Ihere was a similar expericnce last year, with the consequence of a good deal of annoyance to the busi- ness of the country, more particularly in the matter of paying wages. There does not seem to be any good reason why the appropriation for this purpose should be pared down so fine, and 1n view of changing conditions in the demand which cannot be anticipated there should be a liberal margin allowed the secretary of the treasury in this particular. A gen- eral scarcity of small notes, which is the currency of the workignman and the retail trader, may become a quite serious matter, and since it may be easily obvi- ated 1t ought to be. —— THE Ohio State Journal is in favor of the proposed general celebration of In- dependence day, and it suggests that the old fashioned Fourth of July oration, ‘‘new dressed to make it accord more with the great strides the nation has taken within the last quarter of a cen- tury, should be brought again conspicu- ously tothe front.'” Thisseemsto be thequite general sentiment this year. Omaha must not be behind other locali- ties in manifesting a similar feeling, and the promise is that it will not. Let there be a grand outburst of patriotism all along the lin “The spirit of opposition to the inter- state commerce law, which grew out of the determination of the ralroad com- panies to construe it in the light of their own advantage,’ says the Philadelphia Kecord, *'is dying out. It is dawning on the minds of the shippers, both for long hauls and short hauls, that while the railroad construction was necessarily the first application of the law, the inter- state commerce commissioners and the courts will have the final say. It will be time for a conclusive judgment when the law shall go into operation under the ruling of an impartial tribunal.” GENERAL BeN BUTLER, the cock-eyed dosa of reform, has recently given a lew morsels of counsel. to a class of grad- uating attorneys. The venerable fraud talked upon his own experience as a law- yer, and advice flowed freely. He failed to impart to the young men just starting out in the world any information con- cerning the volitical campaign. GENERAL VAN WyCK has arrived at his Otoe county farm, He is said to be in xcellent health, and the politicians of the railroad school are already unsasy. Sturny John Sherman, in addressing the [llinois legislature, failed to moralize on the evil of long sessions, and did not advise the Suckers to adjourn. A GERMAN writer has found that the present year is the one hundredth anni- versary of the birth of the waltz. The waltz is very lively for its age, ELra Wi R Wi X, the poectess of passion, whose verses have been read by almost everyone in this country, is hovering near death’s door. — G OF LABOR. The Cincinnati knights are to hold a grand picnie June 20, A ladies’ assembly of knights has been or- ganized in Wheeling. I'be San Diega (Cal.) knights elected a full ticket at the recent election, ‘The Chicago ship-carpenters expect soon to have an assembly of their own. District Assembly No. 41, of Baltimore, now includes the entire state of Maryland. The New Haven knights will forma co- operative association to run a grocery store. ‘The Holliday (Pa.) knights will shortly start a co-operative store with a capital of 815,000, ‘The Chicago boot and shoe knights have organized & co-operative shop with $25,000 capital. A Mississippl assembly fines any member caught intoxicated §2 for the first offense and 85 for the second, and for the third of- fense the penalty is expulsion. John W. Hayes, of the general exccutive board, has received $5,000 for the loss of an arm while employed by the Penusylvania railroad company several years ago. Mrs, Emma Smith is master workman of an assenmbly of temale stitchers in Chicago. District assembly No. 24 of Chicazo, will have an excursion and picnic on June 7. The Knights of Labor lecturers are greatly encouraged in the west with the development of a more intelligent comprehension of the purposes of the order. The western knights take more interest in lectures, libraries, books, papers, etc., than do those of the east- ern states. ‘There are now nearly 10,700 1ocal assemblies of knights—that is, that number of charters has been issued. ‘I'he Jowa farmers are com- lllli into the order su:ldllr. The Titusville knights are building a hall. New assemblies are belng organized, in Virginia. Catholics are joining the knights in large numbers in Canada since the issue of the notice that knights might receive the sacrament. An- other national district is b n%’ formed of painters, wall-pape¥ hangers, brushmakers ahd kindred trades i New York and some other eastern cit| Ll St Brains and Character. Beatrice Free Lance. Governor Thayer chose wisely in his selec- tion of the new judge for this district. Thomas Appleget, of Tecumseh, whom he appointed, is a gentleman of brains and ster- ling character,and Is.admirably fitted for the bench. i by Solemn Truth, Nebratka City Press, 1t really looks asthough Editor Rothacker and the beggar on horseback in charge of the Herald are making more kinds of tools of themselves, in their attacks on Governor Thayer, than was supposed to be within their capacity. That sentence may bea little tangled, but there is a solemn truth in it just the same. AT LT This is Disappointing. St. Paul Pioneer Press. The Kansas City papers assert that their new city directory, about to be published, will reveal a population of 150,000. This is disappointing. From the sky-scraping talk of these journals duribg the past six months one would suppose the population would foot up not less than 600,000. Evidently Kan- sas City can’t keep up with St Paul. —_ stands in With the People, Bertrand Journal. Quite a number of republican and most all democratic papersof Nebraska make war on the Omaha B Rosewater, its able eaitor, continues to keep the B buzzing all the same, with the latest, freshest and most re- llable news of the day. Its circulation con- tinues to increase and grow in popular favor. Rosewater stands it with the people and is 10 tool of corporation, hence his popularity. s Can We Belleve This World of Ours? Can we belleve this world of ours 1s but a snare that we must shun, Grasping the thorn and not the flow'rs, Seeking the gloom and not the sun? When by sweet music’s voice invited, Qught we in scorn to turn away? When with the joyous dance delighted, Are we to blaine 1f we delay? Must we renounce each art and science, As we would shun some hatetul spell; And from each social fond alliance Turn to the cloister and the cell? No, it is not to gloom and terror Virtue will fly from harmless mirth; Kind to misfortune, mild to terror, Blessing and blest she walks the earth. —_— STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings. Free postal delivery has been ordered in Beatrice and Hastings. Broken Bow complains of an influx of peddling sharks with packs of snide gouds. Surveyors of the 5. & M. are reported in the vicimity of the Cheyenne river, heading for the Hills. ‘I'he Elkhorn Valley is plowing a fire- break on both sidesof the road between Long Pine and Douilu. a distance of 831 miles, ‘The limit of base with the name of Joe at the tail end lame excuse in fly tude of ciphers. ~ # A sad feature of cises in Albion was Samuel Johnson, boy was in the pre of school children, pired in a few wini A syndicate of Bol purchased 160 acres Island, paying $150 has turned loose a railroads, shops and other great futur- ities, Enthusiastic prospectors are aiggin, 1ron ore and ooppper from the bowe‘fn :5 the earth in Nemaha county. The find is reported to be thirty feet thick, and so pure that 1t can be beaten into tin wafers and served hot. Hon, Lew May, the lone fisherman of Fremont, has closed his professional career. The presidential fish stories from Saranac lake have impressed him with the utter folly of eompetition while Cleveland is in the wilderness. There is a radical defect in the under- pinning of a man who, having success- fully withstood the breakers of fifty years, goes off to a shady grove and de- liberately hangs himself to get rid of his wife. Valllhm Siedschlag, a dent of Madison county, is the latest victim of iliation is reached itha tacked with St. e league race. A @ screens a multi- oration day exer- sudden death of of thirteen. The on with a number in a faint and ex- speculators have domestic torment. And yet the diverce courts of the country are holding exira sessions to keep up. with the rush, A pleasant family doubling n;{ took nlxm- near Scotin, last Sunday. Mr, B, S. Madison and his sister, Florence Ella, were paired with Mr, E sister, Frances: Emma, The dual knot was tied by Squire Daily and the appar- ently happy couples have settled down to honie rule in the young town of Parnell. Lientenant Patten,of the Twenty-firstin- fantry, has invented a self-registering target, which is now being tested at Sidney barracks. It similar in size and shape to the ordinary targoet. It is made of iron plates, three-fourths of an inch thick, arcanged on four planes, and covered with paper. The essential feature ef the target lies in the enunci- ator system, by which fifteen different sfgnals are obtained over four wires that connect the firing point with the target, and promptly register each shot. The work of markers is thus dispensed with and the dangers of rifle practice di- minished, 3. C. Dennis and lowa ltems. Herndon has six gas wells spouting. The Journal remarks for the edification of rivals that Sioux City proposes to be the first city in Iowa. Muscatine bums are for the first time groping in a wilderness of prohibition. The last brewery has been corked. Real estate transfers in Sioux City and Woodbury county during the past five months amounted to four and a half mill- ion dollurs. During the last term of court at Mus- catine the cit?‘ was mulceted in the sum of $2,300, as damagos for injuries caused by defe e sidewalks. F. Aprisz, of Burlington, sent his family to church Sunday morning and when they were away he improved the oppor- tunity to hang himself to a rafter, and was stiff' and cold when discovered. health and melancholy was the cause. A great lawsuit has been commenced by the Westinghouse Car-brake company against the Carpenter Car-brake com- ny for infringement of patent. ‘The suit rises out of the exhibition of air- brakes near Burlington the past three weeks. Dakota, A prominent minister in Aberdeen works for his board as a base ball um- pire. A colony of about 200 Bohemians will arrive in Bowdle this week to settle in the immediate vicinity. The Pierre Packing company will begin the erection of a commodios two- story brick packing house next week, to becompleted by December 1. ‘The cocner stone of the Dakota Con- Frt-mmmml college at Redtield will be a1d July 4, and *he building will be com- pleted 5o as to open in September, The Yankton board of trade has agreed to pay G. A. Archer $1,500 on condition that he will ercct an oil mill in that town, and the proposition has been ac- cepted. Work is to commence at once, -~ Omaha and Yankton. Yankton Press, Under the arrangements inaugurated at Omaba, Yaukton and the Jim river valley are to be given a much more de- sirable rail conaection with the south than had been contemplated under any of Yankton's previous long continued efforts to procure a rail line to Omaha. The most we had ever hoped for was a spur of one of the great southern systems, more particularly of the Missouri Pacific or the Burlington & Missouri. But the provosition of the Omaba Southern, when carried out, will give Yankton an mnportant place upon a trunk line which will eventually reach across the inter- vening northwestern and southwestern states to the gulf. Operating in connection with the great Manitoba system of the north, the twin lines will cross from the northern to the southern boundaries of this great country, affording a readily practicable interchange of the eommodi- ties of every latitude under the flag of the republic and drawing upon the foreign domains which hound our country upon the north and the south, We need not remind our readers that Yankton's po- sition upon this artery of commerce will be an advantageous one. With the plans of the builders carried out this line alone will make Yankton a great city, Itis the Manitoba and the Omaha Southern here clasping hands across the Big Muddy which are to bring about this desirable change 1n our material condition. Ina contemplation of this prospect,mere local rade and ic sinks into insignificance and our provincial ambitions are swal- lowed up in metropolitan aspirations. At the Omana meeting Mr. Young pre- sented ovidences of his financial stand- ing entirely satisfactory to the million- ares who on the spot voted three hun- dred thousand dollars in aid of the pro- ject. Yet with the careful methods of successful business men they are now en- ed in a full investigation of the aims of the syndicate and when their committeo is through they will know to a_cent just how much capital stands be- ind the Omaha Southern. Then the final contract will be made and commun- ities will be notificd that they are ex- to make good their promises. P From Mr. Young's letters of credit and identitication placed in the hands of the Omaha committee there i3 no question in the minds of the Omaha gentlemen asto the strength of the company he represents. Extensive capitalists of New York and Chicago are in" the syndicate and their purpose is far reaching and founded upon business principles. They are building railroads where they think railronds are most needed. They are constructing & line in Nebraska and Kansas (the nucleus of their intended system) and have already built a road in Georgia and Tennessee and another in the Michigan pineries. Their ultimate design 18 to group these fm%mont! together into a system with the Omaha Southern as its backbone. With un- limited means this is practicable, It has been found that many of the capitalists interested in this enterprise are financi- ally connected with the Manitoba sys- tem, soit will be a natural course of events that the two operato in harmony, one reaching to the far north and the other to the far south. It would seem that Yankton is particularly fortunate in securing a position at the llnllutiul) point of the two systems, It could hardly horo for anything so advantageous out of the multitudinous: moves upon the board of railroad manipulation. L R @8 New Use for Mother Hubbards. Savannah News: ‘Lhe other night a novel game was played on Conductor Harris of the down fast Georgian railroad train. When the train stopped at Point Captain Harris noticed two pegro women get aboard, and one of them was dressed in a loose Mother Hubbard, When he went through the car he failed to find one of thoe women, and upon questioning the nalgro she said that some- body had snatched the other girl's ticket away and she got off. The captain did not suspect lngthin wrong, but when the train reached Barrett the missing woman came from under the Mother Hubbard of her companion unnoticed by the conductor, bui to the amusement of the other passengers who saw her when she made good her exit from under the loose-made dres: On Friday, May 6, William Shearer, of New Westminster, B. C., killed J. C. Muir. On Saturday the murderer was indicted; on Monday the trial began, and was concluded that week. Shearer was convicted and sentenced to be hanged on July 4. ODDS AND ENDS, Stray Leaves From Reportorial Note Books. J. M. McDonough of the Herald, who won fame in O'Neill, isa young man who attracts attention wherever ae goes. This is beeause Mae is, as the ladies would put it, “an awfu nice fellow.” He has a distingue air—in fact, all the requisites for making an impression upon the heart of femininity. Yet it would be unjust to term Mr. McDonough a masher, Heis as many degrees removed from this commonplace individual as an in- eandescent electrie light is from a tal- low candle. Mr. McDonough went to seo Langtry the other night and created a great sensation. He wondered why so many opera glasses were leveled in his direction by the ladies and why the n stared at him with varving ex- pressions on their faces, It finally be- came too much for Mr. McDonough's serenity and he retired to aconvenient mirror to see if his necktie was disar- ranged. As he passed out the mystery was explained by one usher pointing him out to another with the whisper, *“T'here t;m's Freddy Gebhardt!” The audience had caught on to the remarkable simil- arity in np\w:\r:mvv between Mr. Me- Donough and Langtry's Freddy, 'They thought it was the ‘devoted Gebhardt quietly taking in from the body of the audience the appearance of his fur morata. Mr. McDonough did not tlattered. * v John Drexel and Mike Maul are part- ners in the full acceeptation of the term. They are firm friends as well as being a business tirm. Each belongedto a differ- ent sceret society and each jomed the other organization because the other man belonged. They sleep together, go out to sce a man together, eat together, and as far as practicable k together throughout the day. Recently Mr. Drexel acquired a little alking ck with an alligator head; straightway Mr. Maul procured a black thorne cane. The friendship between the two has lea to their being called the modern Damon nd Pythia: is generally believed, mong th who_Kknow them, that the sceret of their confirmed bachelornood is due to the impo: ty for one to break away from the other. X, o The reporters have arranged for another tilt with the advertising men at a game of base ball. The game on Tues- day afternoon was replete with ridicu- lous features, The score ot 25 to 1l in favor of the ‘ads'’ contributed a great deal toward the soreness—physical and mental—which the “reps” feel. They are growhng deeply as they mourn their bruised and swoolen hands and shuflle their stiffencd joints along in search of the elusive item. They will challenge the “‘ads™ and be prepared next time with their strongest material to ever- lastingly knock their victors into figura- tive “pi.”’ * e While the city council is endeavoring to down him, ward politicians are rustling to aid and abet aldermanic scheming, and the general public is agi- tated over the captious efforts to over- throw the commissioners, Chicf of Police Seavey unobtrusively and with exceeding calmness proceeds with the work of or- ganizing his department. And to those who are scquainted with the the work- ings of the old und the new, a great provement is already noticable. f aman of quiet determination rts out well. If he continues to the ond as he has begun he will make a chief than whom there could be none better. THE COURTS. But Little Business Done in Them Yesterday. Thomas Wolf was on trial before Judge Groff this morning on a charge of arson, the house burned being one of O. B, Sel- den’s near Thirteenth ard Center street. The firc took pluce on the 12th of last March. The cigar makers international union brought suit to perpetually enjoin Hen- dricks & Frick from using a fac-simile of the lable of 1he union HKU" the cigars which this firza makes. temporary in- junction was granted, Henry Millholen and Jacob Jaskalik going onthe bonds of the defendants for future hearing. Another suit of Benzon & Johnson against the Belt line was in progress be- fore Judge Hopewell yesterday morning. The plaintifls yesterdiy, in their appeal from the award of x\yprni#urn. receiyed a verdict of §2,075.90, the award being $300. Judge Dundy was confined to his hou. yesteday by illness. There was cons quently no session of the United States court. WILL THEY HOLD OVER, A Rumor ThatSix ofithe School Board ‘Will Hold Over, It was rumored yesterday morning that Mr. Coburn had received an opinion from Mr, Lune, state supcrintendent of edu- cation, which was upheld by a private opinion of one of ‘the most eminent judges in the state, to the effect that the six members of the school board whe were latest elected, had arightto hold over after the en- suing election. The opinion was read by Mr. Coburn and afterwards for- warded to the judge in (vmslion in Lin- coln for hisapproval. When this opin- ion returns it 15 understood that several of the members who were among the last six clected will take some steps to retain their oflice, —— O. F. Davis Dylog. P. L. Perine of this city received an- other telegram yesterday morning, an- nouncing that O. F. Duvis of this city was in Waukesha, and to look out for telegram announcing his death. As mentioned in the BEE of yesterday, Mr. Davis has been in Waukesha since last Murch, where he went to avail him- self of the curative properties of the min- eral waters at that place. Beth-Eden Sociabllity, On Friday evening of this week the ladies of Beth-Eden Baptist church will give a social and literary entertainment at the St, Mary’s avenue Congregational church. Rev. H. L. House, the new pus- tor of the former church, and his wife will be present. The programme will consist of vocal and instrumental music and recitations. Cruelty to Animals. Property owners in the vicinity of Twenty-second and Douglas streets com- plain that the graders in that vicinity shamefully overload and beat the horses at work on the contract. Ladies who re- monstrate with the men thercabouts are repulsed_with scorn and profane lan- guage. The matter has been reported to the humane society. Filed a New Bond. Superintendent of Buildings Whitlock vesterday filed & new bond and was sworn into office by Judge Berka. Under the new charter it was necessary to select a new inspector, the council re-electing Mr, Whitlock to the position. Hence the new bond and oath of oflice. Pugilistic Negroes. Georgo Phillips and H. A. Fields, two golored gentlomen of pugilistic tenden- cies, hud a light yesterday. at a saloon on Ninth street, near Dodge, in whigh | ment, Phillips got. a whack on the hoad that Iaid open his scalp, The men were ar- rested, and paid $10 and costs each for their amusements. —— The First Order, Chicf of Police Seavey yesterday fssued the tirst formal order from s depart- It notifies Captain McDonald to see that all lewd women, saloons, cabs and hacks, expressmen, ete., who should pay heenses are brougnt to time, - Bound to Go to Omaha, The St. Paul Globe s already jealous of Omaha’s proposed Yankton line. It says the business of Yankton naturally belongs to St. Paul, and she is not likely to glve up what is hers by right.—-Omaha Brg, Yankton will hardly concede itself to the ownership of St. Paul or even adnat any great commercial sympathy. The feeble tie could be severed without a re- gret on our part, St. Paul and the St. Paul newspapers have always been the unrelenting enemies of Yankton's politi- cal pref nces and ha unever lost an opportunity to take the side of those who opposed us. While politics and trade do not runin the same channel men who are interested in trado are also interested in pohitics and would much rather take their business to an all around fricnd than to one which stabs their aspirations with one hand while reaching for the cash in their pockets with the other. St. Paul may claim that the traflic of this section belongs to that commereial center, but it will have noth- ing beyond the empty claim aftor the Omaba road is tinished. Yankton owes St. Paul no good will, Besides Omaha will bo eight hours ne: ind will have 200 miles the advantage in distance. The business of the southern Jim valiey is bound to go to Omaha,—Yankton Press. e il Flights of Genius, Chambers' Journal: “You look,” said a Irishman to a pale, haggard smoker, “as if you had got out of your grave to ght your cigar, and couldn’t find your way back again.” A scheolmaster, describing a money- lender, Heo serves you in the pres- ent tense, he lends you in the conditional mood, keeps you in'the subjunctive, and ruins you in the future.” A close ob- server of human nature remarks: “Time es on: with tho slow, measured d of the man working by the day." A Fronch suthor is charged with the pre- diction that France will throw herself into the arms of the liberating sword. This is not quite 8o bad as the démocrat’s speech: “We will burn our ships, and sail unfurled, steer boldly out cenn of frecdom!” A clergyman on board a ship began a sermon in the following manner: “‘Dear fricnds, I shall embark my exhortation on the barge of my lips, in orler to cross the stormy ocean of your attention, and in hope of arriving safely at the port of your ears." ned counselor in the middle of an effecting appeal in court on a slander suit, treated his hearers to the following flight of genius: *‘Slander, gentlomen, like a boa-constrictor of gigantic size and immeasurable proportions, wrap the coil ofits unwieldly body about its un- fortunats victim, and heedless of the shrieks of agony that come from the uttermost depths of its victim's soul— that rolls in the heavens—it finally breaks its unlucky neck upon the iron wheel of public opinion, forcing him first to desperation, then to madness, andfin- ally erushing him in the hideous jaws of mortal death.” A young American law, employed to defend a culvrit charged with stealing a pig resoived to convinco the court that he was born to shine. Accordingly, he pro- ceeded to deliver the following brilliant exordium: “May 1t please the conrt and gentlemen of the jury, while Europe 1s bathed in blood; while classic Greece is struggling for her rights and liberties and trampling the unhallowed altars of the bearded infidels to dust: while America shines forth the brightest orb in the polit sky—T, witn due_difi- dence, rise to defend the cause of this humble thief.” “‘Pray, mv Lord,” said a gentleman to a late respected and rather whuosical udge, “what is the diflorenco botwoon aw and cqui(f courts?'’ Very little in the end,” replied his lordship. ~ At com mon law you are done for at once; in equity you are not so ensily disposed of, The former is a bullet, which 18 instan- taneously and charmingly efloctive; the latter is an angler's hook, which plays with its vietim before it kills it. The one 18 prussic acid, the other laudanum,” Millions of Postal Oards. Chicago Times: At the postal-card factory in Castleton, Pa., between two and three tons a day are manufactured the year round, The largest order ever filled for one city was 4,000,000 cards, or about twelve tons of paper, for New York city, where they use about 6,000,000 cards o month. Clicago comes next, with about 3,000,000 ca in the same period. There are 450,000,000 postal cards manufactured annually. Two-cent postage did not lessen the use of postal cards, but checked the use of their growth some little time, The check hns been overcome, and the public are using more postal cards every d. A A man in a car on a Maine railroad thought that he felt a bug crawling on his neck, and grabbed for it. Then there was a scream, and the man found him- self clutching the back hair of & woman who had been sitting behind him with her back to hi; ;l‘llE PERFECT Sell Revolving Churn Dasher Quickest Selling Article Ever Inveuted, PRICE OF DASHER, $1.25 Noedsno talking, but really Is the Prettiost Showing Artiolo on the Market. This i Omana, Neb,, April 24, 1857 ify that we, the undersigned, h: this day witnessed a churning by “Thi Perfect” Self Revolving Churn Dashers,” which resulted in producing 34 pounds of first class butter from ong gallon of cream in inst one minute and fifteen seconds, w. Wrlght, propriotor gilee: ! Pr Bl toren: ;i Marey' Mirriam, 0ftor © Bithin Will 3. Dobbs, It B Agt ¥rank K. Gro rali Dr. 3. W. V. Dr. €. M. G. Biart, BUIL Ball. ronl esiate, John Rudil, Jeweler. State and County Rights for Projits Will Surprise You. AGENTS WANTED. Call or write 10 us at once, Qu ck sales and large profit. Very truly, J. W. & A. Poruam, Prop's. Koom | Crowuse Block. 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