Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 27, 1887, Page 4

i A THE DAILY BEE. kr, One Yens For Bix Months ad OMAHA. Drafts, ohi 40 be made pay! ties have generally been treated 1n a presidential aspirations will be taken tion that the commissioners should ke made salaried officers. Jearned journalist know that the last legislature has already made the position palaried office, and fixed the salary of railroad seventy-five miles in length from xailway across Central America. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMB OF SUBSORTPTION fly (Morniag Rdi ‘or Three Months ATA OPPICE, NO. 014 AND 918 FARNAM RTREEY. EW YORK OPFICE, ROOM 6, TRIBUNR BUILDING. ABEINGTON OFFICE, NO. 613 FOURTEENTH BTREET. CORRESPONDENCE! All communications relating to news torial matter should be adiressed to ti TOR OF THE Bk, BUSINESS LETTERS All business letters and remittances should be d) to Tie Bee PUBLISHING COMPAXY. ecks and postoffice orders able t0 the order of the sompany, THE BEE PUBLISHING CONPANY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, EpiToR. THE DAILY BER. Bworn Statement of Uirculation. Btate of Nebraski County of Douclan. |58 ) Poblihing Company, doss. slomnly SWer shing company, 3 that the u?lll mulyltlon of the Dally Bee week ending August 10, 1857, wasas Baturday. August 13, Bundav, August 14 Mondav,August 15 zyesdnv August nd edi- Epr- edne , Augu Thursaay, August | Friday, August 19.. Gro, B. TZ8CHUCK. Sworn to and subscribed in my presence this 22d day of August, A, D, 1887, [SEA L. Noiaty Pubi 2A L. otary Public. Btate of Nebraska, l i Douglas County, {58 Geo. B. Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual average daily circulation of the Dally Bee for the month of August, 1888, 12,464 copies: for Septem ber, 1886, '18,030_coples; for October, m‘lfir 12,080 coples; for November, 1886, 13,348 cories; for December, 1886, 37 copies; for January 1887, 16,2 onxi or Fobruary, 1887, 14,198 coples; for March. 1887, 14,400 coples: Tor April, 1887, 14,316 copies: for May, 1887, 14,227 coples: for June 1887, 14,147 coples; for July, 1857, 14,008 copies. GEo. B, TZ8CAUCK. Subsoribed and sworn to before me this 11th day ot AII[S:;IL A. D., 1887, [SEAL.| . P. FrrL, Notary Publie. Tue New York Central railroad has banished the coal stoves from its cars. By the time cold weather sets in the cars will be furnished with a system of steam nipes. This innovation cannot be «too quickly followed by other roads east and west. If cars can be satisfactorily heated without the tise of stoves, one of the prin- cipal factors n railroad disasters will have been eliminated. EEp—— GENERAL J. B. WEAVER, who in the past has been more ambitious than suc- cessful, is understood to be getting his tackle ready to angle for the democratic nomination for the vice-presidency next year. The general’s past polhtical actiyi- Jocular way by the perverse public, and it is not probable that his present vice- very seriously except by himself. — “ WHERE 18 the fool-killer? Our repub- Jican cotemporary delivers himself of a very learned dissertation on the impend- ing election of three county commission- ers in general, and the duties and re- Bponsibilities of commissioners in par- ticular, winding up with a recommenda- Doesn't this of county commussioner in-this county a each commissioner at $1,800 per year? It 18 announced that Huntington, the Central Pacific jobber, has purchased a the Pacific ocean to Gautemala City, in he republic of Gautemala, and that he fotends to construct an inter-oceanic This is probably intended as a part of his Amer- Ican transportation system. In an honest man such an enterprise might be looked upon as commendable, but for Mr, Hunt- Ington it looks as though he is merely )ooking for an opportunity to continue his ‘“jobbing” operations, which have been somewhat checked here. ——— A FooL often asks many question which ghe wisest man could not answer, but the editor of the oldest and least-read paper msks questions that any ten-year-old boy ocould answer. He has actually writen County Attorney Simeral, asking him bhow many commissioners are to be :leeh«d in Douglas county this fall. It a8 been an open secret since the legisla- ture adjourned that the board of commis- mioners has been increased from three to five members, which will naturally re- quire the election of two new commis- mioners and one commissioner to fill the wvacancy which occurs in the board each ear. It did not require an opinion from he county attorney to bring that fact to light. —— TnaE scenery and costumes of the Na- tiooal opera company were sold under the hammer the other day. They cost $250,000, but only $26,000 was realized, and so there will be quite a number of dobts unsatisfied. The existence of this tompany was a peevish and unsatisfac- tory one from the beginning almost, and chiefly on account of unfortunate man- ngement and unfriendly newspaper com- ent. The company made its debut in New York, backed by many wealthy and Influential people of the metropolis, and ought to have succeeded. But it became fuvolved in unpleasant complications, futernal dissentions also arose, and a Jarge portion of the press became un- friendly. So this first attempt to render the masterpieces of European opera by bome talent was a disastrous failure. | T ——— It is & wise sovereign that knows her wn subjects. The queen regent of pain is staying at San Sebastian, and by an unlucky chance the other day it was :rnngod to have a te deum sung 1in onor of her arrival and that of her in- fant son during the same hour thata splendid bull fight was to take place. The people were greatly disgusted, as oy wished to show all proper respect to heir sovereign, but they could not think of giving up the bull fight. The queen fortunately learned of their dilemma, postponed tho te deum and went to the bull fight herselt. On the following day, ‘we are told, the people sang the te deum ‘with the possible enthusiasm. Now the only question is whether tha 1ady preferred the bull fight to the te deum or simply went to the bull fight to please her people. A constitute a period of exceptional pros- perity for Nebraska. peculiarly favored, in comparison with its neighbors and in fact nearly the entire west, 1n the eseape of its important crops from the worst effects of the long con- tinued drought. ago, upon the most trustworthy author- ity, the corn crops in particularly prom- fses a yield many hundred thousand bushels in excess of that of last year, and of a generally satisfactory quatity. sides this there is a large supply on hand, 80 that as far as this grain is concerned Nebraska will have a large amount be- yond its own wants to sell. The deficiency in other localities, as well ns the inferior qual- ity of the product elsewhere, make certain a demand for the corn of this state, at & price likely to be materially higher than at present. means an increase of prosperity for our farmers, which manifesting itself in an augmented enterprise on the part of the agricultural class will be felt through all the channels and.arteries of trade. When the farmer is prosperous.the merchant and manufacturer are made sharers in 200 |-his prosperity, so that the favorable out- look for the agricultural class in Ne- braska holds also a promise of advantage to every business man and every wage worker in the state. escape the attontion of people who are looking westward for new homes. and numerous still are in the ments, the shrewd and careful who has determined to leave his eastern parison of localities and "be attracte®® by that one iii which the conditions that are favorable to comfortable and thrifty living, are most numerous, comparison Nebraska must tuke a fore- most place. 1n chimate and fertility of soil no state has a better claim to the re- gard of the sottler seeking a home, and the evidence is at hand that in one of the severest drought years in nearly a gener- ation her farmers are among the most fortunate in the land. There are acces- sible and growing market for everything produced from her soil, and the time is at least very remote when the prod- ucts of her farins cannot be turned into money at the will of the producers. most as well supplied as any of the older states with the facilities of education and all the requirements to intellectual and moral development, the citizen of Ne- braska misses none of the essential ad- vantages to proper and progressive liv- ing possessed by the other states. word, Nebraska offers to people of en- ergy, industry and thrift opportunities unsurpassed by those of any state in the west, and none such need here have a doubt of success. Nebraska is yet in the first stage of its development, but the universal comfort and prosperity of its people strikingly suggests what may rea- sonably be expected a generation hence. suggestion seems pertinent. that the farmers of Nebraska shall have the largest possible benefit from their present fortunate situation it is neces- sary that ralroad discrimination shall not be permitted to go beyond its present limits, would be reduced, as in justice they should be, but if this is not at once at- tainable they at least must not be al- lowed to be extended. The obligation that rests upon the railroad commission to protect the people from corporation extortion has never been more urgent than now, and it is demanded of the commission that it shall if necessary ex- ercise all the authority it possesses in order to carry out this obligation, The temptation will be strong upon the cor- porations to increase their already un- just exactions, and any step they may make in that direction must be met with afirm and uncompromising opposition. SEE—— Nebraska's Opportunity. The present and next years ought to This state has been As wo stated a tew days Be- This of course These gratifying conditions will not Wide opvortunities great west for favorable settle- man as the the selection of home, will make a thorough com- In such a Al- Ina With respect to immediate results, one In order 1t has been hoped that theso A Suspicious Oumbine, Although we have up to this time made no comment upon the conduct of county aflairs as shown by the records which we have published, our morning contempor- aries exhibit a very suspicious anxiety to forestall public opinion and whitewash the parties chiefly responsible for the reckless misuse of the people's money. The Herald very shrewdly makes pre- tense of a desire for radical reform in county management and points to some of the weakest spots in the record as mis- takes that should mot be permitted to recur. And then it makes a furious as- sault on the republican sheriff and county clerk, and tries to lead the public to be- lieve that they are chiefly responsible for the worst leaks in the county treasury. “‘Thus far,” says Cadet Taylor, in talk- ing about our county commissioners, “the county has Leen very fortunate in its selections. The present commis- sioners are faithful servants, and the per- sonal attention they have given county affairs entitle them to double the pay they have received.' This is news to the tax payers of Doug- Ias county and especially to republicans., The present commissioners have drawn on an average $5.00 a day for every day in the year, and that ought to have en- titled the county to faithful service, economic, prudent and business-like management. Have the commussioners made such a record for themselves? Have the affairs of this county been managed with Adelity and eflic- jencyt The tax-payers who have carefully read the commissioners’ pro- ceedings, which had been withheld from publicity for more than a year will hardly say yes. Quite the contrary conclusions will be reached, The fact that the reo- ordsof the commissioners® proceedings have been kept from the public for months, when the law expressly requires them to be made public, shows inexcus- able laxness in business methods and dis- regard of law. And why should a paper professing to be orthodox republican, go out of its way to puff the commissioners at this time on the eve of a campaign? The commissioners are all rock-rooted demo- crats and one of them is up for re-eleo- tion. If George Timme has been so faith- ful, honest and efficient in the discharge of his duties, and furthermore if $125 to $135 per month has heen entirely too lit- tle for his invaluable services, he deserves to be re-elected, doesn’t he? What an- swer will the Republican make when the bosom friend of Frank Walters comes be- fore the county for re-election? .The milk 1n this cocoanut 18, that Com- missioner Timme has been very useful to, -Cadet Taylor by oiling the axels -of the Republican with county patronage, and that makes him, or any other demoorat, and honest and faithful public servant, according to the four-dollars-per-pound- ink standard. ment generally, the BEE never has been, and never will be, actuated by partisan bias. All things being equal, it bas given preference to has given a wide lers what their political been. sioners' doings and inquiry into the management of county affairs has no reference whatever to anybody's candi- dacy in the county campaign this fall. The attempt by the Herald to forestall our conclusions 1s excusable, 1n view of the fact that the organ of democracy 18 expected to come to the rescue of demo- oratic officials when they get into close quarters, but when the Republican, on the very same day, falls in line with the democratic organ for the sake of its pal- try share of spoils, intelligent taxpayers must reach the conclusion that there is something crooked in the court house. of Editor Richardson, who had been on trial for the murder of O. B. Willard, on the plea of self-defense, has naturally created much surprise. was general that Richardson * had used his deadly weapon rashly and without sufficient justification under the strict let- ter of the law. ble witnesses disclosed the fact at the trial that Wiliard was slain in deadly en- counter in which he was the aggressor, and while the prosecution brought to bear all the talent of the ablest lawyers in the state it failed to counteract the prepondering weight of testimony which cleared the accused. upon the verdict of the jury, Its members are reprosented to have been unbiased, and we take it that their conclusion is in accord with the law and evidence. do, however, deem it proper at this time to express our views with regard to the Willard-Richardson controversy, whick terminated in the death of an editor still in the prime of life and full of promise of future usefulness. preceded this tragedy had for its inspira- tion the brutal, vindictive and dastardiy warfare waged through the columus of the Omaha Republican by its late cditor. Mr. Willard took his cue from the bril- liant rowdy, and the article which lter- ally drove Richardson into the publication of the response that led to the encoun- ter, was 1n essense and in language a mere reprint of a similar article that ap- peared memorable assault with the billy by his Omaha model. derous lightly by the judge and dismissed without penalty doubtless encouraged Willard in the be- liet that the same tactics could be re- peated at Loup City with impunity, es- pecially in view of the fact that he was backed by a powerful political faction in his attempt to down Richardson. apart from the blame which attaches to Willard’s course, his death is attributable chiefly to the example set by the vicious Omaha journalist and the Omaha police Judge Had this man been held over for trial a1 Omaha, Mr. Willard would have thought twige before he copied his vile epithets and adopted his tactics. wheat corner engineered by the bonanza kings, various stories about the losses sustained have been set afloat. In county affairs and loenl govern- republicans, but it berth to bood- jobbers, no matter professions have Its publication of the commis- and Richardson’s Acquittal. The acquittal by a Sherman county jury The impression ‘The testimony of credi- We have no disposition to comment We The bitter teud which in the Republican before the The fact that this mur- assault was treated so late Omuha police Quite who set him at large. SINCE the collapse of the California The figure has been placed at $3,000,000 by persons supposed to have knowledge of the facts, Besides this disaster Mackay and Flood are said to have lost large sums in other directiond, and that these millionaires are well on in the road toward bankruptey. But Bennett in his paper says these stories are all false and instigated by Gould in order to shake the stability of the Commercial Cable company with whom he is at war. When financial rognes fall out maybe the pub- lic can have its due., One thing is cer- tain, It has been plainly demonstrated that no combination of wealth, greed and audacity can interrupt, except tempor- arily, the operations of the natural laws of trade, as regards wheat, in this coun- try. The territory is too extensive, the product is too large and the markets of the world are tuo closely knit together by telegraph. For afew years past the tendency in the commercial world has been to set aside that portion of the city lying east of Tenth street to the river for wholesale houses and enterprises which do not have to rely upon a retail trade for existence. In the event of a new wagon and rail- road bridge across the river, at the pro- posed location, a marked transformation of that portion of the city will take place. A hot rivalry will ensue among retail dealers for locations near the bridge and lots adjacent to the bridge will be in active demand for retail stores. Specu- lators will do well however, to keep their money until the bridge company contracts with the city to forfeit the right which may be granted them for ap- vroaches. in case the bridge is {not com pleted and in operation within a reason- able, specified time. ————— ‘WHEN Van Wyck in his speech some weeks ago declared in favor of a two- cent per mile law for Nebraska passen- ger rates, the railroad organs sneered at 1t as an other scheme of *‘Crazy Horse.” Now thatthe republican party ot Iowa bas made a demand for & two-cent passenger tariff a plank 1n its platform, Senator Van Wyck's demand for cheap passenger rates will be sneered at no longer. On the contrary it is liable to be one of the reforms to which the republi- cans of Nebraska will pledge the next legislature. —— MCGARIGLE says in an interview with Alderman Jim Appleton, of Chicago, printed this morning elsewhere, that as warden of the Cook county hospital he was compelled by the commissioners to co-operate in their steals or lose his job. If honor is to McGarigle a matter of volicy he might have saved his pride. The wide and honorable field of safe- blowing was opened to him, where he need not haye been associated with and responsible to a crowd of flm-flam artists, coytidence men and pick-pockets. Russia's positive protest usurpation of Prince Ferdinand has no uncertain meaning, and while this may not be made apparent in im mediate ac- tion, 1t foreshadows difliculty if the pro- test 13 not respected. ported to feel isolation, but he has shown a disposition tocarry things with a high hand. This was manifested in his declining to re- ceive the foreign consuls in the unof. ticial character they wish for the present to assum stances it is only proper for them to as- sume, ble for Ferdinand, that he will remain, if he cide to abandon the position, recognized ruler of a nation status as such is stiil accession, by displays of ardent zeal for the young nation’s independence and greatness, _THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY. AUGUST Other Lands Than Ours. The proclamation of the National League is the foremost subject "of public attention in Great Britain, and the week has witnessed numerous expressions of vopular disapproval of that action. On Thursday night Mr. Gladstone brought forward in the house of commons his res- olution representing that the league had been proclaimed without information being farnished to justity the nction, and praying that tne proclamation be not continued in foroe. this resolution in an elaborate specch, in which he arraigned having proceeded in most arbitrary way, and forcibly pointed ont the injustice of the action. feebly answered by Balfour, who on be- half of the ministry declined to produce the claimed the government justified its pol- icy. But despite the clearly shown wrong and injustice of the government’s arbi- trary action, 1t will undoubtedly be sus- tained, The coalition is strong enough to do this, and although many of those acting with the tories may feel with Mr. Russell that the coercion of the league should be condemned, they will, like him, not refuse to give the government the powers they demand in order to fully carry out the scheme oppression. It isdoubtless the purpose of the present government to uttack the National League as a whole, and, if pos- sible, extirpate it. crimes act upon which it relies is com- prehensive; punishment may be inflicted by a upon any one that attends a league meet- ing, reports its proceedings, or takes any part whatever in it. will fall upon persons found to have been engaged in boycotting, intimidation or committing outrages upon persons or property. The ingenumity of the leaders of the league is adequate, may be supposed, to enable them to ef: fect their aims under a new name and by methods not yet tried. full of interest, with the situation differ- ent from what it was in 1881, England, Scotland and Wales opposed Mr. Parnell. a large party in England are on Mr, Par- nell’s side, with the Grand Old Man, a politician of great experience and infimite resources, to ussist. there 18 now no second Gladstone whose conversion hopeful nat ionalists may look forward to. Strength of hand and skill in the game to be played will be the deci sive factors of the result, He supported Tm government for his matter in this He was information upon which .it was of repression and The section of the trate, without judge or jury, Like swift sentence however, it It is a contest when all Now Scotland, Wales and On the other hand, The trumps are all out, e The Bulgarian issue grows in interest. against the The prince is re- somewhat lonely in his and whieh under the circum- The situation looks and s ery favora- 18 certain Il not de- the un- whose very open to dispute. s, if ne 18 not to forfeit the en- m which has gree ted him on his and which he tries to nourish he inust assume also the government of eastern Roumelia—the southern Bul- garia—to which he, however, has no legal or international title whatever; for his predecessor was acknowledged by the porte as ruler of that autonomous province, after the coup d’etat of September, 1835, not in the capacity of prince of Bulgaria, but as imperial gavernor, deriving his powers from a special personal appointment. Ferdinand's entering Philip popolis as prince will thus be a new usurpation. Add to all this the certai nty of continued intrigués by tools or par tisans of Russia, of Zankoff and his fellow conspirators, of King Milan of Servia, and Prince Nikita of Montenegro, and surely the prospect is disheartening enough. But Priace Ferdinand reckons,ou the strength of accomplished facts; on the rivalry of the powers, which will not allow inter- vention by one or two against him; on the we akness and apathy of the porte; on his dynastic connections as a scion of the house of Coburg and Orlears; on the sympathies of the central European na- tions, and especially Austra-Hungary, springing from anti-Russian 1mpulses; on the favorable disposition of Rou- mania; and chiefly on the patriotism of the Bulgarians and his own resources as a corageous adven turer. », e The controversy between France and England regarding the occupation by the former of the New Hebrides is not yet closed, and while a final amicable settlement is not improbable the conten- tion may develop more - angry feeling than it has thus far done. The trouble arose out of the French occupation of the islands during the summer of 18386. In March some natives of Port Stanley killed several agents of the French New Hebrides company. This was an associa- tion founded four years before in New- Caledonia, which had established itself around the best of gge harbors, where coffee and corn wefe cultivated. The natives took the crops’of their plantations to the company's gtdrehouses, whence they were shipped to New-Caledonia or elsewhere. When the acts of violence occurred the surrender of the guilty was demanded; and us they were not given up a couple French . war ships from Nouman ! landed troops and established a { nfilitary station. Under the agreement between France and England the New Hebrides were to remain independent; and accordingly Lord Lyons demanded of the French gov- ernment its reasons for what appeared to be a violation of the compact. M. de Freycinet, then prime minister, recounted the facts, promptly disclaimed any inten- tion of annexing the archipelago, and in- vited England to arrange for the joint maintenance of order there. To this, nowever, Lord Rosebery, the British minister of foreign affairs, refused to consent, and the matter has dragged along unsettled to the present time. There are two sources of difficulty in ef- fecting an agréement. The British mis- sionaries in the islands who formerly had things ‘much their own. way, complain that the Fronch company scized the lands of the native christian mission, al- leging prior title, and that the French commandant threatened the natives with force it they resisted. It is also urged that the company has ocoupied many miles of shore in the best islands of the group, involving the rights of British subjects. But apart from the question of infri nging upon in- dividual rights, Australia has resented with singular bitterness the temporary French occupation. Four years ago, at Sydney, the congress of the Australian colonies declared that the acquisition of any Pacific islands south of the equator by any foreign power would be pre- judicial to Australian interests. ¥ rance has in vain tempted Australia to consent to the acquisition of the islands by her, offering even to cease transporting con- victs to tho Pacific as compensation. She secured, last spring, G ermany’s con- sent, but the bitter opposition of Aus- tralia has made Great Britain's out of the question. In sheer ve xation France may persist in retaining her temporary hold in the New-Hebrides until Eng- land is ready to relax her own upon Egypt. * »"e The marriage of the emperor of China, having been postponed two months, it is said on account of his 1llness, has given rise to the suggestion that the empress dowager is disposed to continue practic- ally to exercise her former degree of control over the flowery kingdom for a while longer, 1 spite of the installation of young Kwang Hsu, on the Chinese New Year. It is no doubt conceivable that the empress dowager, who has been arranging all the details of the proposed marriage, is unwilling to risk, as yet, the influence of others ever him, and accord- ingly contrives the adjournment of the ceremony. For some time the empress has been represented as hard at work on preparing an agreeable residence for herself on her retirement from the gov- ernment; but if she still holds a largo degreo of control over the young em- peror for a time, it doubtless will be for the public benefit, since her activity and example have usually heen commended by the foreign residents at Pekin and elsewhere. e Paris appears, on the authority of M. Pierre Delcourt, to be the worst place in the world for food adulteration. He says that most of the butter sold in Paris is largely composed of fatty river scum which has been collected at the mouths of the great drains that bring the sewage of the great city down to the Seine. M. Delcourt deliberately states that there are speculative and energetic persons who follow the butter-tasters of their rounds in the central market and carefully col- lect the butter which has been tasted after it has left the mouths of the offi- cinls. This refuse is sold to the peram- bulating or stationary fried-cake ven- ders, to the al fresco makers of pan-cake and fritters, to the simmerers of fried fish, and to poor people who look for cheap- ness and quantity before high prices and rare quality. He also pomnts out that everything used in Paris ae food 1s boidly and unblushingly adulterated. Bread has been made with old worm-caten sea biscuits and damaged flour, and it has in tiis way caused an epidemic of typhoid fever more than once. Green haricots, looking in the market quite green and fresh, have been made out of old vege- tables, which have been steepel in water, caused to swell, and then colored by chemical means. Now green peas have been manufactured out of old ones col- ored with verdigis. Wine is made chem- ically, the necessity of infusing the es- sence of grapes into it being absolutely ignored, and the very corks which are put into the bhottles of popular vintages, both real and sham, have been picked up out of the river. »* The necropolis of the ancient city of Carmona has just been discovered about half a mile beyond the Arab gate of Se- ville, The inhabitants of Carmona were the most ¢ zed of the Iberian penin- sula several centuries before the Chris- tian ora, and it said that their laws were written 1 verse. The excavations which have recently resulted in the discovery of alarge number of coins, and between the two fields known as the Quarries and the Olive Groves the excavations have brought to light a great many sepulchral chambers, hewn out of the rock, with fu- ueral urns in the sides. The roofs of these sepulchral chambers are some of themn vaulted, while others are flat. There are several furnaces either inside or just outside the chambers, and it wasin these that the incineration took place, the ashes being placed in black earthetn urns. Among the other objects found was a mirror with a handle, a lamp, a lachrymary, a bronze statue, several pieces ofiron, libation cuns, nuts, the re- mains of a repast, and some pipes com- municating with the inside and outside of the sepulchral chambers, A Shameful Situation, Missouri Republican, 1n deciding whether Stanford shall answer, Justice Field will pass on the right of the government to investigate. The danger is rather of indirection than of direct denial of vlain justice. The corporate power is so great on the Pacific coast that it may be shielded by technicalities, as has 8o often happened be- fore. But the issue was never so directly joined as now, and never before has there been such an opportunity to brinz to justice the men who have been the devil’s agents in debauching the representatives of the peo- ple. Itis shameful that a United States senator should stand as the representative of these men, claiming for his corporation the right to bribe and buy as it sees fit and de- nying that itis the business of any one except the parties to the crime—the purchaser and the purchased. ——— An Unknown Political Foroa, Philadelphia Novt’-Zmerican. An Independent politico-social movement that cannot be traded with isalways an un- known force in politics, and it is of the un- known forces that politicians are afraid. It cannot be denled that in such men as George and McGlynn each party must fina powerful opponents. They are none the less danger- ous because neither is a politician. They are men of brain and nerve, and they do not ex- poct to win this year or next. It is the men who wait and never tire of waiting who are to be feared In such movements. e You Oannot Always Tell. Shelbyville (Ind.) Demacrat, Many things may happen between now and the time for making the next democratic nomination, It may be the part of wisdom to renominate President Cleveland, in which event everybody will amen! On the other hand, circumstances may render 1t sulcidal o do so: . " STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Valloy wants a foed store badly. The Cass county jail holds twenty-two prisoners. A new $12,000 hotel is to be opened at Fullerton soon. The Sunday school convention opened ot Wymore Wednesday. Seward is to have an oatmeal mill, 50x 60 and four stories high. The Plattsmouth Journal is soon to is- sue another boom edition. The Creighton Pioncer celebrated its thirteenth birthday Thursday. The Catholics of Plattsmouth are mov- ing for a denominational school, The material for North Platte’s water- works plant has commenced to arrive. MoCook's oity marshal is ridding the town of worthless curs by the shotgun route. Prof. W. S. Webster has resigned the pesition of principal of the McCovk schools. Harry Fuller, an amateur cyclist of Crete, iell from lus machine and broke his arm. The St. Paul races have boen poat- poned indefinitely on account of the weather. Hog cholera has carried off thirty pork- ers belonging to George Young, of Weep- ing Water. Dr. E. M. Williams has retired as ed- itor of the Valley Erterprise and is suc- ceeded by J. B. Ferree, Nuckolls county has nine republican candidates for sheriff, and all the demo- crais yet to hear from, The Ord broom factory is turning out about five dozen sweepers per day and is behind with 1ts orders. Dakota City 1s troubled with a female slanderer who is warned to hold her tongue or leave the place. Emil Schutzl, of Haigler. now lan- quishes in jail because of too many mortgages plastered on a team, The docket for the Sentember term of the district court in Cass county contains 143 cases, 130 civil and 14 criminals. The fifth annual fair of the Sarpy County Agricullurul society occurs at Papillion September 20, 21, 22 and 23. A Russian farmer, a horse aad a bull became badly mixed up in a tumble near Sutton, and the farmer had his chest and shoulder crushed. Hitchcock county's third annual fair is to be held at Culbertson September 20 and 30 and October 1, tickets for which the BEE acknowledges. Miss Vesta Greer, of York, started Wednesday for Pekin, China, where she enters upon missionary work under the auspices of the Methodist society. The Methodist church at Blair is en- tirely out of debt and is thankful ac- cordingly. ‘To prove their gratitude the members have raised the pastor’s salary. The engine used by the B. & M. bridge puilders rolled duwn a canyon near Ord last week and is now laid up for repairs, del u_viulg the begihing of work on the new bridge at Ord. The ‘‘gymnasium club’’ at Stromsburg hasbeen broken un by Sheriff Hamilton, who arrested William Donelson, the “‘boss’’ of the institution, for selling liquor without any license. Some little excitement is prevalent at Chadron from the report that Ute ruuners had passed west of there en route for Pine Ridge, their purpose being to secure aid from the Sioux. One of the stations on the new branch of the B. & M., west of Schuyler, has been named Cushing, after R. C. Cushing, of the raitroad contracting firm of Cushing & Mallory, of Plattsmouth. George Smiley, a brakeman on the pas- senger train from Red Cloud to Lincoln, was terribly crushed between the bump- ers while coupling the air brake in the Crete yards Wednesday., He will re- cover. J. Sterling Morton has received an in- vitation from the democratic central committee of Ohio to stump that state in behalf of the demorratic party. As yet Mr. Morton has not signitied his inten- tion as to whether he will accept or not. A Bohemian living at Clarkson beat his wife until his neighbors could stand it no longer. So one evening a mob with a rope visited him and gave him the al- ternative of promising to desist or hang. He chose to hang rather than forego the pleasure of thrashing his better half, The committee strung him up, but let him down soon. He was arrested later and will be dealt with legally. The Crete Vidette's religious editor says: “Itis said that Rev. Bennett has been given a month's vacation by the stees of the Congregational church. The members and those who have been in the habit of attending this church are to be congratulated. A skip of four long- winded written sermons is something that don’t happen every month.,” The commenting cnplion of the above is *“‘Bully, if True.” wa. An alleged discovery of gold isreported from Lina county. District court convenes at Des Moines a week from Monday. The corn in the southeastern portion of Dubuque county is a total failure. ‘Washington has raised $600 to bore for natural gas, and is now trying the ex- periment. William Frehnour, who was so brutally beaten by Policeman Crowley, at Ot- tumwa, will probably die. The preliminary examination of Con- stables Potts and Hamilton for the shoot- ing of Hardy will occur at Des Moines September 1, The third biennial convention of the Hawkeyo State Association of Deaf Mutes is to be held at Des Moines, Sep- tember 6, 7 and 8. Frank Goodwin, aged thirteen years, was run over by the cars Tuesday at Marshalltown. His foot was crushed and amputated and he was injured in- ternally. Onc of the mines at Cleveland was closed by a gencral settling down, it oc- curring in one day. By 1ts being aban- doned 500 miners are thrown out of em- plo]vlment. The name of Blackhawk, the noted Indian chief and warrior, has been freshly brought to mind hy the presenta- tion of his portrait at the old scttlers’ meeting at Fort Madison. During a storm Saturday evening two children of H. Thorson were stricken down by lightning in Seneca township, neur Algona. They were sitting together on & hay rake. Their bodies were fairly crushed to the earth. R. L.. Wood, of Grinnell, fell from the window of a room in the third story of the Downing house. and in fallin, struck the window sill of the evonn‘f stofy, breaking the giass. Ko fell to the ground, however, but was not seriously injured, Dakota, Ereight car thieves have been &t work Zu the line between Chadron and Rapid ity. Two farmers near Gary have gone to Nlinois to purchase 2,000 thoroughbred sheep. The Western Loan and Banking com- pany is the name of a new Yankton busi- ness organization. A report comes from Rolette county that hightning struck sn onion bed the other day and cooked the onions. Felix Ingram, of Deadwood, took aride in company with a loaded shotgzun and 15 now nursing a bad wound in his leg. Two or three companies of the territo- rial wilitia will participate in the sham battle at the Minneapolis exposition next month, Johu Benny, s youagster of Le ud City was struck by a ball two weeks ago Sun. day, from the cffects of which he died Fri- day night, Ten years residence in the territory en- titles one to the title of old scttler, and is recognized as long enough to admit a person to old ssttiers’ organizations. An eastern capitalist offers to build a $40.000 building in Sioux Falls if the board of trade will secure a rental of it for ten yonrs at 10 per cent of the cost. The grand jury recently in session at Deadwood censured the commissioners of Lawrence county for granting liquor li- v:(lwlsc.fl to disreputable characters in Stur- Kis. A young man of foreign parentage, but born in Wisconsin, attempted to take out naturalization vapers at Yankton, but was foiled by the vigilance of the officers in asking questions. Captain C. B. Sears, the government ongineer who visited Yankton to view the Missouri river and familiarize him- self with its habits, did not give the board of trade any satisfaction regard- ln%tha danger of the river cutting or its liability to cut into the Dakota shore. Tuesday afternoon R. L. Smith, an old time citizen and Iendlng merchant of Wahpeton, while ill with fever and de- lirious, got out of bed and locking the door secured a pruning knife , it 18 thought, stood in front of a looking glass and cut his throat. He has since died. Wyoming. Laramie now supplies the whole terri- tory with lye. This weck witnessed the first harvest of ripe grain on the Laramie plains, just opposite the city. Lee Jones, the last of the six prisoners who escaped from the Albdny county iail, has been recaptured and is once more behind the bars after a brief but exciting bit of recreation. A movement is on foot to_establish a pottery at Laramie City. The clay is satisfactory and if the contract can be obtained to make the required sewer pipo the enterprise will be started. H. P. Johnson and family, living on Lower Horse Croek ranch, started for Cheyenne the other day, but were iost in a fog and suffered terribly from cola and other misfortunes before reaching their destination. Bort Scongall, an alleged companion of Henry M. Stanley on two of his Afri- can expeditions, is in Cheyenne and has been telling the reporters about some of the explorer’s traits, Stanley is repre- sented a8 gong on periodical drunks, and that he wouldn't have started on this last expedition had it not been for an American woman. The Pacific Coast. Charles A. Clayton has been held with- out bail at Butte for the murder ot Z. C, Maddux. L. DeTurk, of Santa Rosa, will ship, via Cape Horn to New York, 800 cases of brandy and 100 cases to Chicago. N. A. Harding, a despondent gambler, committed suicide by blowiu§ out his brains with a revolver at San Francisco, The express messenger, Bennett, who was arreSted on suspicion for the 10,000 eapress robbery, is in jal at Eagle Rock, W. L. Curry, of Portland, brought down a deer with one shot and a woll with the second in less time taan it takes to tell it. The new salmon cannery at Seattle, built by Nottingham, Wyman and Kirk- wood, was destroyed by fire, Loss, $20,000. Miss Lydia Denyer, aged twenty-two, was hurled twenty-five feet into the ait by a passing train in Oregon. She struck the earth unhurt. The county board of trade of Solano has contracted for the publication of 10,100,000-page illustrated pamphlets do: scriptive of the county. Alfred Kriser; while riding into Butte, was plunged, in company with his horse, down a forty-foot embankment, sustain- ing fatal injuries. The horse's neck war broken by the fall. Old Wine in New Bottles. Robert J. Burdette, From the Book of Judges as I read— “Make me a sling,” wee Robbie sald, “Like those you were reading about in there, ‘That hit the “mark to the breadth of a hair.” ‘‘And make another for Richard, too, And we'll sling as the Benjaminites used to do; And make another that baby can whirl— A litile one, mind, she's only a girl, So I made him a sling Qike unto that Swung by the men ot Jehoshaphat; “May songs of victory tune fimr breath Like the slingers who smote Kir-haraseth,” I smiled as I heard the exultant cry Of the hosts of Benjamin marching by; 1 smiled in time—ON, foolish man— For I'smiled no more when the fight began. For the stones crashed through the window- ne pan And rattled down on the roof like rain: They velted poor Sport clear out of the fray, And battered the rectory over the way, ‘The air was blue with the flylng stones, And shrill with shouts and walls and ¢roans: For people who looked and people who ran Were pelted alike by the slinging clan, Richard and Robert, the two mighty men, Weru“nllnalng six ways for Bunday; but ion Baby was weeping—the sweet little mald— For she smote herself in the shoulder blade. Then I learned that no right-minded boy can bring A left-handed Benjamite's skill to a sling, For the aim of a left-handed, cross-eyed man Corrects its obliquity—none other can. 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