Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 29, 1887, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERME OF SUBSCRIPTION ¢ Daily Morniag Edition) including Sunday BEn, One ¥oar, 5 H For 8ix Months or Three Month he Omaha address, One Yon OMATIA OPPICE, NO, 114 98 FARNAY STREEL W YORK OFFICE, ROO! TRINCNE BUILDING. ABINGION UFFICE, NO. 513 FOURTEENTH STREET. CORRESPONDENCE?! ANl communiontions rolating to news andedi- torial matter should be addressed 1o the Ebi- TOR OF THE Dk BUSINESS LETTERS All bueinoss lotters and romittances should bo add 0 THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAMA. Drafts, checks and postofico ordors $0 be made pagable to the order of the eompany, THE BEE PUBLISHIVG CONPANY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, Eptror. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebrask: Connty of Donglas. |58 Geo. B. 'Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing l")mfmny. does solemnly swear that the actual circulation of the Dally Bee for the week ending July 22, 1857, was as lows Saturday.July 16, Sunday, July 17 Monday, Julr 13 Tuesdav, July 1 Wednesday, Jul Thursaay. Jul Friday, July 2 Average...... 14. iEO, 18, TZsCHUCK, Sworn to and subseribed in my presence this 23d day of July, A, D. 1837, ; N, P. Frin, [SEAL. Notary Public. Btate of Nebraska, | Douglas County. {58 Geo. B, Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he'is secretary of ‘The Bee Publishing company, that tlie actual average daily circulation of the Daily Bee for the month™ of July, 186, 12,314 copies; for August, 18, 12,404 copies; for Septem- ber, 18%, 13,050 coples; for October, 18%, 1289 coples; for November, 18, ' 13,348 copies; for December, 1880, 13,237 copies; for January 1857, 16,268 coples: for February, 1887, 14,195 coples; for March. 157, 14,400 goples; for Avril, 1847, 14,316 copies; for May, 1857, 14,207 “coples; for June 1887, 14,147 copies. Gro. B. Tzscrrock, Subseribed and "7&' to before me this 1st P, Frrw, Notary Public. day ot July A, D, [SEAL. TroveH the Kansas City crowd got out of the white house the odor of Kan- 88 City hog still remains. SR —— Poor old Kansas City. Its “‘prominent citizens' made the president sick. He is in luck, however, to have survived the wonderful ordeal. A MAN stood on a drawbridge in Chicago the other day whistling “Home, Sweet Home,"” most dolefully, and then jumped into the water and was drowned. 1f the poor fellow whistles the tune now it is no doubt with a preponderence of the variations, No wonder President Cleveland does not desire to see any more delegations waiting upon him to invite him to visit their cities. He isa stout and healthy man, but he could not stand any more after he had taken in the Kansas City crowd. Porhaps there was too much hog to it. Kansas City hog. Dr. Hexey D. CogsweLy, of Califor- nia, has copyrighted tho plans of his mon- ument, a description of which appeared in these columns a few days ago. He re- fuses to let newspapers have sketches of them. Thus he retaliates on the news- paper people who allowed themselves to jest over the statuesque fountains he erected in various cities some years ago. Tuere is a dearth of workingmen in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The brass foun- deries and machine works ot that place have sent for another lot of fifty workers for their forges, from Castle Garden. The demand for labor is increasing all over the country and those who are will- ing to work can find it. For light em- ployment, however, there is little de- mand, and clerks, lower class book- keepers, ete., are floating from place to place in schools. A FORGER came to grief in New York City the other day by bad spelling. He sent some spurious checks to be cashed by aboy who bore a note stating that the sender would be much ‘‘obhidged’ for a speedy service. The teller thought that a man who spelled Like that ought to be looked after, and sure enough investiga- tion disclosed a crook and he fell into the clutches of the law. In this connec- tion it is interesting to note that both Ar- temus Ward and Josh Billings are dead. They also spelled badly. — A CENTENNIAL celebration of the pro- mulgation of the constitution, at Phila- delphia, in 1787, will be held in that city on the 17th of September next. A large number of the eastern states have already made appropriations for sending their governors, with a military escort, to take part init. President Cleveland isto preside, and General Sherman will have command of the federal and state troops assembled. Judge Miller of the supreme court will deliver an oration, and other suitable exercises will be held. Tue situation up at Halifax begins to bear evidence of assuming proportions. It might not be u bad idea to open up the fight at once. Business 15 a trifle dull, and good news very scarce. A gentle reminder to Canada that we are doing business st the old stand would have a wholesome eftect, and help out wonder- fully in the news way until congress con- venes. It scems evident that we must at some time either whip Canada or annex it, and the former would no doubt be the best display of state oraft, —— THERE is a gleam of hope for those who suffer with the dread disease, consump- tion, Dr. Bergeon's method of treating this ill in French, English and American hospitals has been followed with a fair measure of success. He uses sulphureted hydrogen gas which, it is claimed, kills the germs of the disease—the parasitio vacilli, as they are called in technical language. 1f such germs cause the ease, it is claimed that it is an infectious one. But the medical authorities are not agreed on this matter, Some physicians of the highest standing argue that the germs appear because of the disease and are not the origin of it. Be this as it may, it has nevertheless been well established that the sulphur treatment is followed by beneticial results, and an apparatus has been dovised for the application of gas- The Ohio Republican Convention, Unexpectedly, and very much to the disappointment, it cannot be doubted, of the democrats, the Obio republican con- vention completed its work without a single incident of dissension. No con- vention in years exhibited a more all- pervading spirit of harmony or was char- acterized by wmore earnest confidence and enthusiasm. One is compelled to wonder, 1 view of the complete absence of all difficulty and friction, whether there has ever really been any substantial ground for the reports df impending trouble that preceded the assembling of the convention, and whether the friends of Mr. Sherman, equally with those not friendly to him, were not very greatly exaggerating the strength of the element, which was expected to make trouble in the event of an effort being made to en- dorse him as a presidential candidate, The truth is, however, that there was danger, and 1t was averted by the good sense of the party, doubtless in a large measure directed by the judicious counsel of Mr. Sherman himself. When he said on the night before the meoting of the convention that everything had heen set- tled and that the republican course was clear there was no further resson to ap- prehend difliculty. The result shows what it was that had been settled and that the agreement entered into was faithfully carried out. The renomination of Gov- ernor Foraker by ucclamation carried with it the endorsement of Sherman by a similar expression of confidence. It was simply a question of placing these two leaders of the party in their state on equal footing in the convention, and their willingness that this should be done the representations of the party could not refuse to acquiesce 1in. The result attests the wisdom of the leaders and the har- mony secured and the conlidence inspired have placed the republicans of Ohio 1n a vosition to carry on unitedly an aggres- sive campaign, with every assurance of victory on their side. It is not questioned that Governor For- aker will receive the full support of his party, and he ought to get all of the not very large inaependent vote. His admin- istration has been creditable and clean, contrasting very broadly with the preceed - ing administration of Governor Hoadly. 1f somewhat given at times to display, and perhaps not unjustly suspected of aspi g to higher political honors, the politi- cal record of Governor Foraker is with- out blemish, and he has ability of a high order. In the active world of politics he has few pecrs among men of no greater experience. The platform is peculiarly of the Ohio republican order, at least in its tariff features. Next to the.republi- cans of Pennsylvania there are no more uncompromising adherents of the protec- tion policy than the republicans of Ohio, and their last declarations show that the lapse of time and the changed conditions have affected no modifications of their views, There is much in the platform that republicans everywhere can fully approve, and it has the merit of being in all respects direct and unequivocal. Regarding the effect which the conven- tion's unanimous endorsement of Senator Sherman may have upon his presidential chances, there is certainly room for a wide difference of opinion. The senator himself characterized it as simply a matter of sentiment, of no binding force and of no importance unless sustained by the approval of the voters of the districts of Ohio and of the Union. Yet it was due him, and being unanimously accorded 1its effects ought to be materially to his ad- vantage, — Another Victim of Intemperance, Charles Reed, the lawyer who acted as counsel for Guitean, President Garfield's assassin, was recently detected in an at- tempt to rob the money drawer of Reicher’s hotel, Jersey City, where he has been in the habit of taking his meals. Naturally he was forbidden the entry of the house. This 1s but another step in a downward career brought about by whisky, and from which thera is, prob- ably, now no turning. While a young man Reed gave promise of a brilliant fature. He possessed unusual abilities, had excellent ovportunities, was hand- some in person and of engaging manner. Unfortunately he soon began the con- vivial habits of life of a popular young man, which, like countless similar cases, is now ending in bold drunkenness and crime. After his defense of Guitean, ing acqured some notoriety that undertaking he went to New York and opened an oflice on lower Broadway. At first he was fairly successful, but his clients soon began to dwindle awey. Then he got into trouble about a check which came into his hands but did not Lelong to him, and after that episode he has been going down hill more rapidly than ever. In some respects his life resembles that of ex-Governor Moses of South Carolina, who, through drink fell from a govern- or's chair to a felon’s cell. Drink has ruined many such promising lives in this country. There are ex-senators, ex- judges, ex-ministers of the gospel, who are to-day leading the lives of muserable outeasts through its influence hav- in Less Whisky and More Beer, The recent movement to organize a whisky trust, having for its object the regulation of production, said to be now Jargely in excess of the demand, and doubtless ulso a combmed effort to in- crease the demand, is explained by the receipts of the internal revenue burcau from taxes on spirituous and malt liquors for the last fiscal year. These show a falling off in the reccipts from the tax on distilled spirits of nearly $5.000,000, rep- resenting a decrease of nearly six million gallons, and this result has been achteved principally in those states in which local option and kindred measures have been most ‘successful. It is not surprising that so great a falling off as this in a sin- gle year should have aroused those whose capital is embarked in the business to the demand for some sort of united defensive action, though it seems they have not thus far been able to agree upon what can be practicably or expe- diently done. The recent meeting of distiliers at Chicago, with a view to forming a trust, appears to have encoun- tered difficulties not immediately sur- mountable, and nothing was done. Some of the trade organs have suggested an anti-temperance crusade backed by large sums of money, but it doesn't re- quire very much reflection to show that such a movement would be the most dis- astrous for the whisky interest that it could possibly undertake. The majority of the distillers of the country are too shrowd to sacrifice their money in any THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1887. ‘such losing contest as this would cer- tainly be. The decreased consumption of whisky does not necessarily prove, however, that there has been much less drinking done. While the spirituous liquors have dechned in popularity, beer and native wines have increased in demand. The tax on malt liquors is much higher in proportion than upon distilled spirits, but the revenues from this source for the last fiscal year were $500,000 more than for the previous year, which were also much larger than for the fiscal year 1885. The increased receipts show that nearly two million gallons more heer were consumed last year than during the preceding year. Native wines are not taxed, so that no information can be de- rived from the internal revenue figures as to the increase or decrease in their use, but other statistios show that the con- sumption of American wines 18 largely on the increase. It would be well if it could be shown with cqual certainty that they are improving in quality, but there 18 reason to believe that this cannot be so surely demonstrated. These facts unquestionably count on the side of temperance, even if it be as- sumed that the diminished consumption of spirituous liquors has been fully offset by the increased consumption of beer and native wines, which does not appear to have been the case. —_—— They Must Pool lssues, *‘God helps those who help themselves.”* This old adage is more applicable to the affairs of men to-day than it ever was. When legalized highway robbery 1s car- ried on by chartered monopolies, and the earnings of the producing and industrial classes are confiseated to enrich the bil lionaizes who control the avenues to the markets of the world, it behooves the common people to pool their issues. The other daya number ot farmers from the surrounding counties met at Rochester, N. Y., and resolved to call a convention for permanent organization at Syracnse August 25. Evi farmers’ club in the state is asked to send dele- gates. Resolutions were also passed de- manding a revision of the taxlawsto compel personal property to pay its just proportion of taxes, This is a practical step in tho right di- rection, The farmers and workingmen of America never can cope with the great corporations, syndicates and trusts unless they stand shoulder to shoulder in defense of their rights. A commendable move to enforce the rights of the producers and shippers under the inter-state commerce act has recently been made 1n this section. The merchants and farmers of southwestern lowa and northwestern Missouri have oreanized an association whose prime object is to compel railroads in the Mis- souri valley to give their patrons fair local rates. This association is known as the Southwest Towa and Northwest Missouri Transportation Association, ‘The ofticers of this company, J. S. Bilby, president, at Qutman, Mo., and T. B. Merrill, seeretary, Clarinda, Ta., bave al- ready enrolled nearly 400 farmers and merchants into their association. It is manifestly the interest of every farmer in western Iowa d northern Missour1 to join this association and by 50 doing make its demands respected by the railway managers. The first efiort of this association has, we learn, resulted in a material reduction of local freight rates on hogs and cattle to Chicago, and there is no doubt that the asscciation will, if properly supported, be able to saye the farmers and ship pers hundreds and thousands of dollars, The Soldters’ and Sailors’ Reunfon. All the indications are that the niath annual reunion of the soldiers and sail- ors of Nebraska, to be held in Omaha from September 5 to 10, will be the most complete and satisfactory event of the Kind ever hi in Nebraska. The re- union committee has been lavoring with untiring diligence, and the promise of results is in the highest degree grati- fying. Itis estimated that fully 10,000 Nebraska veterans will ticipate in the reunion, and that altogether not less than | the | 50,000 people will be attracted by event to Omaha. As stated m acard some time since the sceretary of the reunion committee, an ewrnest effort has by made to give the reunion an interstate character, and there is assurrance that this will be in a measure successful. A considerable attendance of veterans from lowa is expec and provision will be made to give all who come right royal welcome and entertainment. A circular of the reunion commwittee an- nounces that arrangements have been eflected by which all Nebraska soldiers an come for one fare for the round trip, and all are assured of the most ample provision for their entertainment and enjoyment, The metropolis of Nebraska extends a most cordial welecome to the veterans of the state and of adjoiming states, assur- ing them that nothing which its citizens can do to make their sojourn here pleas- autly memorable will be omitted. Omahs will puton 1ts gayest attire and bend all its cnergies to the cheerful duty of mak- ing the wvisiting veterans contented and happy. Respond Promptly and Generously. We have no doubt that the committee charged with collecting by subscription the money necessary to pay the expenses of the correction and charities conve tion to ve held in Omaha during the week from August 25 to September 1, and to provide some form of entertain- ment for the delogates, will find their task easy of accomplishment. The mod- erate sum of §2,000 required ought to be sceured in twenty-four hours, and prob- ably will be if the committee reach di- rectly those of our citizens who under- stand and are in sympathy with the ob- jeets of the convention, while at the same time appreciating the value to the city of the good will of so intelligent a body of men as it will bring here. Thus far Omaha has given its visitors such hospitable entertainment that they have had only good report to make of her, and the demand upon us to mamtain this well-earned reputation involves so little that itshould be promptly and willingly met. The correction and charities convention is national in its character, and is one of the most important of the annual assem- blages. Its work is wkolly in the line of philanthropie progress and reform, and therefore deserves hearty approval and encouragement, There is not a question that our citizens will do their part in this direction, and, having done it, that Omaha will secure five hundred new friends who will further extend the repu- tation of the city as a center of intelli- gent appreciation and cordial hospitality. Pool-Selling 1n Nebraska, The opinion of the attorney general, defining the meaning and intent of the gambling act d by the last legisia- ture of Nebraska as applying only to gaming or betting which is done in con- nection with or by means of a table, bank, or other device commonly used for the purpose of gambling, and there- fore not applicable to pool-selling or other betting for which the specified ap- pliances for gambling are not employed, will relieve the minds of supporters of turf sports of a depressing doubt, The apprehension that the law might be construed to prohibit pool-selling had induced many to look with little fayor upon the promise for the fair races in this city, and to all such the liberal interpretation of the law by the attorney general will be very welcome. It is not questionable that pool selling has a great deal to do with giving inter- est and enthusiasm to racing sports, and it is a fact of experience that wherever this privilege has been denied racing has suffered in popular attention. In the eastern racing circuit the movement a few years ago for the total prohibition of pool selling proved so damaging to the sport that it was abandoned by most or all of the associations, While thisis con- ceded, however, it does not follow tl pool selling should be atlowed unlimited latitude. It can be judiciously restricted without being destroyed. Ex-GoverNor Hoapry, late of Ohio and now of New York, is a gentleman of varied und liberal attainments, but as a politician he has been somewhat erratic and he is not altogether reliable, His admimstration of aflairs in Ohio, during his one term as governor, was net at all honorable to himself nor satisfac- tory tothe people, as was very forcibly shown when he sought to succeed him- self. The result of that eflort evidently convinced him that politics, at leastin Ohio, contamed no further promise for him, and he transferred his law plant to New York, He is now quoted as an en- dorser of Powell, the democratic candi- date for governor in Ohio, vouching for his political integrity and general upright- ness. Mr. Powell is not to be congratu- lated upon this. He wiil not be bene- fitted by being made to appear as the puppet of Hoadly rather than of John R. McLean two years ago, for how- ever deep the latter was 1n the mud at that time the former was sunk quite as deep in the mire. There was o time when the word of Hoadly was a vower with the democracy of Ohio, but it is so no longer. Powell could hardly have an advocate who would do him less good, Kwan Kooy, or Jess, the god of China- town in New York city, barely escaped from going up in flame and simoke the other day. Fire broke out in a cigar manufactory located just above the room in which his Jossship was located, pene- trated down through the ceilings, con- sumed the furnishings of the sanctuary and was about to devour the Chinese nity itself when the firemen came to its rescue and the god was saved. Had he perished it would not have been a dead loss, however, for lis thrifty wor- shipers had an insurance on him of $3,000. The idol, with all his belongings, was imported from the mother country at an expense of about £5,000. He was wor- shipped by about 10,000 celestials in New York and the surrounding citi There is quite a number of christian Chinese in the metropolis also, and now would seem to be a good time for them to urge upon their unconverted brethren the folly of worshipping a heathen deity that cannot help himself against o little blaze on Park Row. What vrotection would such a Joss as that be against future fires? ‘THE tobs hit appears to have a steady growth with the American people, and its opponents will find an added reason for zeal in their ovposition in the figures of the internal revenue bureau. "These show the receipts from the tobacco tax for the fiscal year of 1857 to have been $1,500,000 in excess of the previous year, and what many will regard as the most unpleasant feature of the statistics is the proportion of the in- s derived from cigarettes. This shows to what an alarming extent the youth and young manhood of the coun- try—who constitute nearly the entire army of arette smokers—are becom- ing enslaved to the tobacco habit, and ought to greatly stimulate the zeal of the reformers. th the tax entirely re- moved from tobacco, and the cigarette made cheaper, its consumption would probably largely increase and the uni- versal American boy become a cigarotte smoker. PropLe who like to tinker with their stomachs should read the following list of what they ought to take immediatly on getting up every morning. Each article has been recommended by the ‘“‘highest authority:” A pinch of salt 1ce waier; a teaspoonful of salt in hot water, as hot as you can take t; a cold Jonade very sweet; hot lemon juice, salt; a lemon without anything else; i3 strong coffee; tea and toast; the juice of three oranges; a raw egg; figs; beef tea; a hard eracker; water that has been boiled, ete. The list could be extended, of course, but this may do to A persor in doubt as to h might be the best may possibly think it advisable to take them all. 1t is whispered by some that the restaurants of Omaha will soon put a stop to the de- sire of tinkering with one'’s stomach, in this city, by putting that organ beyond any possibility of repair, Mgs. CITIZEN LANGTRY evidently does not take kindly to Omaha. We fail to see wherein she possesses the true senti- ments of an enterprising American citi- zen. While Lincoln and Council Blufls are charming suburbs to Omaha they do not reflect the dash and enterprise of the great metropolis, Can it be that the fair lady is displeased with our hog? A drive through the thriving and busy territory of the hog packing industry would but serve to broaden the views of the wel- comed citizen, and give her additional cause for self congratuiation that she had wisely decided in favor of Amewica and her great institutions, —— A MAN named Charles Palmer, of Lon- don, Monroe eounty, Michigan, suspect- ed for a long time that there was gas in his well as his stomach would become in- flated whenever he drank of its water, The other day he touched a lighted match to the pump and an explosion took place which hurled him against a fence post twenty feet away, He is sure there is gas i the wellnow. A pipe was inserted which emits a blaze a foot and a half long. The people of the place are excited over the find, and hope to profit by it in a financial way. And thus the domain of gas is spreading. PrestpeENT CLEVELAND has committed a very great error in measuring the peo- ple of the west by the St. Louls and Kansas City crowds who recently called upon him. While he may have grown out of patience with thens, 1t is not fair to the representative people of other cities that he should decline to receive delegations from other parts of the coun- try. If Mr. Cleveland will consent to see more western gentlemen it will do him a very great deal of good and he will never have cause to regret it. Mns. PArker, of Scotland, who is called the World's Organizer of the Woman's Christian Temperance union, is in Califormia waiting for the disturb- ance in Howaii to subside. She is on her way around the world and intends to stop and expostulate with King Kala- kaua. She has noticed the secarcity of female servants in this country, i tends, it 1s dred or a thousand Scotch {ill up the long felt want, lassics to help T list of dishonest bank officials is growing fearfully long. The last addi- tion is the name of R. I. Clement, presi- dent of the Citizens' Savings bank, of Leavenworth, Kan. Heissaid to be a defaulter to the amount of §50,000, which he claims to have lost in wheat specula- tions. This will be a hard blow to the poor people who have placed the surplus of their scanty earnings with him. Will the time ever come when this wave of dishonesty among bank oflicials can be checked? TiE convicted boodler has a recog- nized route to freedom. Itis by way of the bath tub. Tweod and other New York crooks have escaped on it, and now the Chicago boodler, McGarigle, has shownthat the way is still open. A cor- rupt official, feeling his lack of moral vurity. instinctively tries to make himself as clean physically as possible. ARMOUR'S new packing house ac the Chicago stockyards was destroyed by tire Wednesday evening. The loss over insurance will be about $105,000, which is but as a drop in the bucket of Ar- mour’s wealth, and will in no wise inter- fere with his pork packing plant in this city. Tne BEE takes both pride and pleas- ure in the printing of genuine news. This we do to-day. The Omaha Base Ball club has in truth won another game. News is news. PROMIN PERSONS, Mayor Francis of St. Louis is only thirty- two years old. e made his large fortune in grain, Rey. Dr. John-P. Newman,General Grant’s pastor, is about to visit the Pacific coast to confer with Senator Stanford about the Stanford university. W. I, Poole, the well-known librarian of the Chicago public library, has been elected librarian of the Newberry library of Chicago, which has a fund of $2,000,000. Travis Van Buren, grandson of President Van Buren, has just returned from Europe, where he has beon spending some of the $40,000 he won at the English derby. Lawrence Barrett and Edwin Booth are to actin the play of “The Tempest” on the Maine coast this summer. They have en- gaged a steam yucht, and I'. B, Aldrich will play poet. . Mme, Popp, the doynne of Belgian jour- nalist, for filty years editor of the Burges Journals, has written up to the present no less than 15,000 articles, euch containing from 3,000 to 4,000 words. General Sheridan said the other day to a New York reporter that he considered the Indian a very uncertain quantity, but denied that he ever made use of the remark, so often attributed to him, that “the only good In- dian is a dead Indian,” President Fairchild, of Oberlin college, i in his seventieth year, and desires to re- sign his position. The trustees urge him to remain, but in the event of his resignation will continue the payment to him during his life of his present salary, John M. Wall, the New York reporter who had®his head broken while accompaniny O'Brien on his Canadian tour, has been pre- sented with a purse of $1,200 and a hand- some diamond rine by his friends among the home-rule sympathizers, A London society journal attempts to des- troy Buffalo Bill’s social prestige by assert. ing that Le eats peas with his knife. This will in no way affect the Wild West hero's vopularity. He might shoot the peas down his throat with o pistol and London would be more amused than shocked. . The Rich Man's Monument, San Francisco Post. Long John Wenuworth, of Chicago, built himself a $30,000 monument, and our own Dr. Cogswell has gone him several better with a $100,000 shaft. Our great men are gradually coming to the wise conclusion that the surest way to get monuments is to buiid them themsclves. ~—— Soulless and Heartless, Baltimore American. The utter soullessness of corporations has again been shown. This time it is by the Delaware & Hudson railroad, which hkas is- sued an order forbidding engineers and tire- men to wink at or flirt with any women they may see as they pass along. Cominent on such wanton cruelty 1s needless. - -— Thurston vs. Newspapers. Seward Teporter, John M. 1hurstoh seems to have a grudge against the newspapers, and he takes every opportunity of attacking them. His latest exhibition of this kind was at the Chau- tauqua assembly at Crete, where he indulged in & long winded and nonsensical tirade against the press. Thurston is making a great mistake, He ought to know that that is not the way to get to the United States senate. Perhavs he thinks he can get there without the aid of the papers, and notwith- standing their opposition. but he can't, Get- ting the press gang down on ' ., he will find is worse than dodging the Union Pacifie investigating commission, ——— The City Goes on Just the Same, Kansas City Star, Gambling is not popular with rural legisla- tors, Wheneverthey geta chance and hap- pen to think of it, they make the way of the gambler unpleasant. The last Nebraska legislature passed an anti-gamblers’ law. 1t has just gone into effect, and at Omaha the official order 15 that the gamblers must go. They are not a productive class ana their exodus never kills a town, bough tie sliost- cropped gentlemen will declare thatit does. ‘The same may besaid of the pool rooms, which have just been closed in Chicago. ——— July in the West, James Newton Matthewss A rhythm of reapers; a flashing OF stoels in the meadows; a lashing Of sheaves 1n the wheatls Of grain-builded streets, and a twitter OF birds in the motionless sky— Aud that is July! A rustlo of corn leaves: a tinkle Of bells on the hills: a twinkle Of sheep In the lowlands; bevy Of bees where the clover is heavy ; A butterfly blundering by— And that is July ! x|um'r. Of leal-hearted lovers; a baying Of far n\vnf' watchdogs; a dreaming Of brown-fisted farmers; a gleaming Of tireflies eddying nigh— And that 1s July! A babble of brooks that deliver Thelr flowe! rpled waves to tho river; A moan in the marshes; in thickets A dolorous droning of erickots, Atiunea to a whippoorwill's ery— And that is July! PN uiristoy Imports and Exports of Cutlery, Philadelphia Record, The New York correspondent of our cstemed contemporary, the Ledger, quotes as a text for some protectionist re- marks tho following from a recent num- ber of the Manchester Examiner: “'The best houses in the cutlery trade are busy with orders both for home and colonial markets, Americn continues to be a good customer for the best descriptions of both hand and pocket cutlery 1n spite of the high tariff duties and the competition of American makers.” The correspond- ent suggests that the Enghsh newspaper paragraph be read to American working- men in our American cutlery shops, and that they be asked what they think of the policy of reducing the tarift which would place them at even greater disadvantage with Sheflield and Birmingham than they arc already. By all means lot this para- graph and the protectionist comment on 1t be read everywhere by American work- i But let it be added that it is which encourages this importa- tion of fine qualities of foreign cutlery. The cnormous duties that are imposed on the fine qualities of sicel required for making the best cutlery render it impos- sible for American manufacturers to sue- cessfully compete with their English rivals in the home market. As a rosult of the combination of steel manufactur- ers to raise prices, steel for making cutlery 18 imported in large quantities. The heavy duties on this steel American manufacturers must pay, and they can- not thereforo compete with Sheflield manufacturers, who are subject to no such taxes on their raw materials. When workingmen in American cutlery shops complain of dull times let them consider a system which puts them at so great a disadvantage in regard to the materials of their labor. Beside the great disadvantage in this respect to which the taniff subjects Amer- ican manufacturers of cutlery, the sys- tem discourages excellence in production, So long as the tariff shall enable manu- facturers to sell cheap cutlery at prices nearly equivalent to the prices of the best qualities they will be satistied with this result. While they can obtain large profits by making common articles under the protection of the tanfl they will not be compelled to pay high wages to skilled workmen and fii;,: prices for the best qualities of steel, since less skill and cheaper stee] will serve their purpose. They will be content that English manu - facturers should continue to supply the American market with fine cutlery as long as the tariff shall enable them to obtain a greater profit on an inferior article. While English cutlery to the value of a little more than $1,500,000 was 1mported to the United States last year, Amer- ican locks, hinges and other builders’ hardware, saws and tools, cutlery, cast- ings and nails and spikes to the value ot upward of $3.000,000 were exported. These exportations were made in the face of a keen foreign rivalry, and in spite of a tarift system which griévously increases the cost of production. During the last year the total exports of Americau manu- freturers of iron and steel amouated to the valuc of nearly €16,000,000. This foreign trade serves to show what Amer- 1can enterprise and skill might accom- plish if afforded an open ficld. When a country can profitably export any of its products in face of foreign com- petition, that fact in itself ~demon strates that it requires no protective du- ties in favor of such products. This 1s a truth in commerce which is as obvious as the axiom in geometry that a straight line is the shortest distance between two pomts, If the tariff obstructions should be noved an immense expansion of the foreizn trade in American manv would follow' and the opportunitics remunerative employment for Ameriean workingmen would be vastly enhanced. A striking proof of this may be seen in what has _already been sccomplished the exports of leather, boots and shoes, cotton goods and iron and steel manu- factures, in defiance of the tariff obstrue- tiol Wittingly or unwittingly the op- ponents of tarifl revision are the worst enemies of the industrial and commercial progress of the country. it IR One ot the Necessaries. Ohicago Herald, The proposition to form a great whisky trust, after the manner of the oil trust, 1s based on the assumption that whisky is & necessity. Trusts are not formed by the producers of articles which people can get along without, nor would they be ef- fectual if there was no tariff tax on_for- eign products of the same nature. They are the natural results of a cornered market, the convineing proof of the aph- orism that wherever combination is pos- sible competition will ¢ No man would be rash enough to a trust in books, in newspapers, es, in prayer-hooks or n tracts. Useful and de- sirsble as these things may be regarded, the people would instantly spiracy calculated to make them g much for them With coal, kerose cotton-seed oil and whisky the situation is different. Coal must be had for warmth, coal oil for ligzht, cotton-seed oil for purposes of aduliciation and fraud, and whisky for politics, conviviality and domestic happiness. They are the nee- s of life, T men who control pir production can name their own prices and consumecrs will pay ot fully. This is the ad gersons who i sthing but a radical chang habits and tastes of the people, or a ref- ormation of the tariff can circumvent them, ——~— Bribery and Corruption, Philadelphia 'ecord, It has been intimated that the revela tions made before the Pacific railroad inquiry commission may result in the prosecution of certain prominent persons for bribery and corruption. C. P. Hunt- ingdon and Senator Stanford have cheer fully, in fact rather boastfully, admitted that the payment of millions of money to cabinet ministers, members of con- gress, lawyers and lobbyists in Washing- ton was for the purpose of ‘“‘explaining matters” couneeted with Pacific railrosd legislation. ‘This is another way of ing that those vast sums of money w voluntarialy paid for bribery or were ex- torted as blackmail, There was a great deal of both brivery and biackmailing during the process of that Paci- fic railroad legislation, in which the governnmient and the people were robbed not only of millions of money but of the best portion of the public do- main, Whether or not prosecutions for corruption could be sustamed at this lato day, there is no doubt that suit should be brought against uld, Huntingdon, Stanford, Sidney Dillon and others, to recover tho millions of money out of which they swindled the government in the manipulation of the Pacitic railroad committees, The Pacific railroad com- mission is getting at the bottom facts, ahd thus is [aying bara the processes these monstrous frauds upon the countr, The committee's official report to be pr sented next winter will contain the evi- dence upon which the law oflicers of the government may act. As the parties im- plicated are all possessed of immense Ith, there will be no difliculty in ro- covering the money should judgment be obtained against them in the federal courts, P — STATE AND RRITORY. braska Jottings. Jacob F. Fox, one of the oldest resi: dents of Cass county, is dead, aged sixty- four. Scotia 18 & great sporting town. Fifteen bundred residents recently turned out to A plug race and were bunkoed out of their spare change. The Burt county teacher: in session at Tekamah, A, B. Atkinson is superintendent, assisted by Prof. D, W. Dennis and wife, of Earlham college, Richmond, Ind The mossbacks of Plattsmouth showed up in“mournful numbers” at tho last election. Ouly thirty-six had suflicient vitality to hobble to the front and vote against progress. Sherman Tucker, a Plattsmouth digger, was buried 1n o well Tues narrowly escaped death. A huge pite of rock and earth closed about him and held him down for half an hour. The B. & M. extension to Cheyenne is being rushed through Keith county at a lively rate, It is expected that the road will be ovened to Sterling by the 1st of September. Work on the Chicyenne end of the line is being rushed with'like expe- dition, The sheriff of Cedar County Ranid City a fugitive named Murtin institute is well ptured in Schmidt, who had an uncontrollable appetite for other peovle's property. e disposed of mortgaged property and sought sccurity in vain in the dark mounds of Dakota. A thoroughbred fakir disposed of a large stock of *Modoc gold'" watches in Lincoln a few days ago. Thoy were built of gilded pewter with paper dials, and formed the worst kind of a swindle at Missouri river rates. It is probable that the capital will send a large deloga- tion to the Beatrice institute before the moon wWanes. For the benefit of love torn swains who study astronomy from the gate post ob- servatory these mellow-moonlight nights, it may be given away without fear of scandal that the seven sisters remain out till early dawn and disappear with a blush when old Sol waves his baton in the eastern heavens. The sisters are forty-tive degrees above the importuni- ties of rude worldlings. Mr. A. G. Wolfenbargor, editor of tho New Republic in Lincoln, and a prohibi- tionist of considerable prominence, was roughly handled while preaching down in Nuckolls county a fow days ago. Andrew McCorkle, of Superior, with three companions, fell upon Wolfen- barger and shamefully beat him about the face and body. IHe was so severoly jured that he was compelied to cancel five engagements to lecture and return home for restand treatment. The brutal assaunlt w: i d by the sherift, but that oflicia eflort to protect the victim, and did not arrest the ailants. McCorkle's attack was in rev for an ittm published in the New Republie, charging him with evicting his father-in- law for being a prohibitionist. Wyoming. Douglas barbers are at war gash a man for a dime. Laramic continues agitating the woolen mill scheme, and the outlook is favor- able. Two herds, numbering 4,300 head of cattle,cut a trail through Lusk last weok, bound for Montana. The freigit rate from New York to San ancisco is $2.25; the rate on the same ;lnss of goods from Omaha’ to Douglas is 2,28, and now Mavericks on the Lander roundup sold at an average of §11. On Sweerwater the average was $15. In the Big Horn coun- he average prices ranged from $11 to of Cheyq v is §,9 2.00 and $3,674,570.00 for the vear 1855 figures’ show a constant and growth Fred Guernsey, brother of Charles Guernsey, took bed bug poison as an an- tidote for disappointment in love, at Douglas recently, and is now taking sweet oil in quart doses to assuage his in- ward feclings. He will recover. Seven cars of Deer cek coal have been shipped to Missouri Valley where it will be given a test. I satisfuctory it i3 believed the Fremont, Elkhorn & Mis- souri Valley company will take hold of the mine, which is now owned by & com- pany of which ex-Congressman Dorsey, of Nebraska, is president and Bill Nuttall manage P. W. Shafer, the Pottsville (Pa.) coal expert, who i% recognized as a lending authority on the subject of conl mines and mming, visited the Twin ereck conl ds in Uinta county a few days since in company with a varty of New York capitalists and sceured a number of ims. The professor declares that the st deposit of coul in the known 1d is in the Twin creek district. The party is now 1l beds on the Union Pacitic ¥5,2 for 1% The healthy A mammoth stone and ivon jail is being J alt Lake City. Fifty-four cars of hullion were shipped from Salt Lake 1ast woeek. The mines in - the 1aho are being abandoned. The Tintie district of Utah shipped 8,000,000 pounds of ore during June The Daly mining company has decided to divide $75,00) among the stockholders. ‘The Mormon church is without a visi- ble head. It has several dead heads, however. One handred and fifty men are con stantly employed in the Shoshone shops of the Union | The stock range tooth region of "acific onnd Shoshone and alone Snake river 1 looked better before f steers in Idaho will carry more fat than usual this fall The banks of Salt City report the k ending July of §6.432.91 10 bulhon 500 in ore, & totul of #125,082 61, Two surveying parties and a foree of 100 graders, supposod to belong to the Orega Railway and Navigation com pany, arein the ficld between Wardner Junction and Mullan, in the Cwur d'Alene country The eipts of the metals in Salt Luke City for the.woek onding July 20 $120,082.64 n , of which ore und 64 was bul cek the receipt #6:3,006.95 in - A Sunday School Picnie, The Sunday schaol connected with the church of Latter Day Saints had a pienie at Hanseom yesterday which was at tended by a large number of the seiiool and members of the eiurch; and the day was pussed in & yery pleasant maoner,