Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 13, 1887, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. " PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. e TERMS OF SUBSORTPTION ¢ Daily Morniag Edition) including Sunday Ber, One Year. 210 00 8ix Months. bW or Three Mon! 250 8 Omaha S wddress, Une 200 ATA OPPICR, NO. 014 AND 918 FARNAM STREET. W YORK OFFICE. ROOM . TRIAUNE BUILDING. ASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. 13 FOURTEENTH STRERT. CORRESPONDENCE! All communications relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed to the Eur TOR OF THE BEE. B LETTRRS! All bueiness nd romittances should be addrossed 10 THE DEg PUBLISRING COMPANY, OMAMA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders %0 be made payable to the order of the eompany, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, Epiro THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Uircalation. Btate of Nebraska, * P Count] of Douvlas, Geo. B. 'Tzachuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circulation of tle Daily Bee rl the week ending Sept. 9, 1857, was as lows: Saturdav, Sept. 3 .. Bunday, Sent 4 Monday. Sept. Tuesdav. Sept. 6. Wednesday, Sept. 7 Thursaay, Sept. 8.. Friday, Sept. 9. Averace.. vee w1442 UoAr—Egg. £0.25; nut, 80.50. range, $9.50; Towa lump, $3.00; lowa nut, $2.75: walnut ock, $3.00; Lllinois, $4.25@4.75, GEO, . TZSCHUCK. Sworn to and subscribed in mysl‘);unnoe this 10th day of September, A}lbi’ll’ . . P. FrIT,, [SEAL. Notary Public. Btate of Nebraska, l Douglns County, (% Geo. B. Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual average dally circulation of the Daily Bee for the month of September, 186, 18,030 copies; for October, 1886, 12,989 copies; for Novem- 1 13,748 coples; for December, 1886, 13837 copies: for J-mmiy 1857, 16,200 coples; for February, 1887, 14,108 coples; for March. 1887, 14,400 coples; for April, 1887, M.fllfloog;-n; for May, 1847, 14,227 coples; for June 1887, 14,147 coples: for Jnlg. 1 4,- 093 copiess for August, 18587, 14,151 copies Gro. B Tzscnuck. Bworn_and subscrlbed in my presence this 5th day ot Sept. A, D)., 1887, [SEAL.| N. P. FrrL. Notary Public. SINCE the exposures of the Castle Garden abuses the railroad pool which formerly had full swing there, has de- cided to lower the rates for carrying im- migrant baggage. Thus the press of the country day by day compels the strangl- ing monopolies of the land to loosen their &r1p upon the poor. not one of Chicago's dis- tinguishing traits, Her latest picce of effrontery is pushing forward the name of Charles B. Farwell for the republican presidential nomination. Chicago is a hard rustler for everything in sight, but in this her aspirations cannot be grat- afied. GEORGE HAMILTON, who has been on trial ut Wyandotte, Kan., on the charge of wrecking the Missouri Pacific train near that place a year ago last April, has been acquitted. He was a prominent Kight of Labor, and the verdict exoner- ating him from the crime will also close the mouths of those enemies of that order who have endeavored to lay the das- tardly deed at 1ts door. Tue lowly dogs prefer death to clean- liness. Sunday three Italian soldiers were sent out to disinfect a little villege near Naples, when they were soized by a mob and ordered to drink the disinfec- tant—carbolic acid. One of them swal- lowed a dose of the firery liquid and died in horrible agony, while the other two refused to drink and were beaten to death. The Italiansoldier's lotis nota happy one. —— As the time draws near for the race be- tween the Volunteer and the Thistle in the New York waters, the nterest in the contest increases. It is generally con- ceded that the British yacht stands a fair show of capturing the cup this time and bets are about even. The owner of the Thistle arrived in New York last Friday. He says that if his boat does not win s other yacht will be built for next year's race. Given time enough and trials enough the day may come when the cup will recross the ocean, SEEE——— SINCE the coercion law was vroclaimed in Ireland the Irishman on the ‘*old sod" 18 restricted in his actions much more thau & subject of the czar. He can not go out after 9 o'clock in the evening; must not attend any kind of mass meet- ing; can not carry a pistol without a government permit, etc.,, andis ham- pered in his individual liberties in many other ways. No wonder that the senti- ment of the English nation is undergoing 8 change in favor of the Irish and ngainst the government, WoRrDp has been cabled from Russia hat Count Milkiewicz is a fraud o far as his claim to nobility is concerned. 1If, however, the gentleman secures a firm grasp on the cool miilion which he is #nid to be likely to obtain from his Chi- nese concession, that little discrepancy will not count. Thd American publie overlook such a thingin a rich man, and he can still retain his noble title, He may even come to be known as the “Grand Duke" Mitkiewicz if his pile in- creases sufliciently. Tue Mexi judge that committed an assault upon Consul Brigham has been suspended and thus another international opisode has come to a peaceful termina- tion. There is one thought in conneos tion with thase little squabbles between citizens of the United States and Mexi- cans which might as well be exvressed. The Americans are generally more to Jblame thun our neighbors. When a eiti- zen of this great, wide-awake republic goes down into that little sleepy one he commences at once to act as though he owned the country, He begins to assert himself. He wants things done more rapidly than they are done there and in & different manner. He wants to wake the people up from their lethargy, make innovations, show how things ought to be - done, give advice, eto. Now the genuine Mexican does not want to hurry. To- morrow is his favorite word. The ways of his fathers are good enough for him, He does not take kindly to innovations, thinks he can get along without precept or example from anybody, and tinally, being master there asserts himself. So there is a clash and the Mexican suddenly makes up and the American comes to grief.’ More Misrepresentation. High license is the thorn 1n the flesh of the prohibitiomtts, The success of that policy, wherever it has been properly en- forced, in reducing and restricting the number of saloons, and therefore aiding the cause of temperance, has been so marked and conclusive that candid and unprejudiced people everywhere are Leing drawn to its support as the only wise and practicable means of centrol- ing and regulating the retail liquor traflic, whichit has been most amply shown prohibition Jaws are powerless to prohibit. The growth of the intelligent sentiment in favor of high license trou- bles the prohibitionists, and they are combatting the poliey with especial zeal and vigor, Unfortunately for their cause, however, they are driven to mis- representation, since the truth is all against them. This1s a most ill advised and particularly dangerous policy for moral reformers. We have called at- tention to the misstatements of the Mas- sachusetts prohibition convention re- garding the results of high license and local option. The New York conven- tion appears to have been no better. The following from the Syracuse Standard possesses a local interest: A prohibitionist speaker at the recent con- vention declared that Ligh licenses have little or no effect upon the number of sa- loons, Ile asserted that in Omaha, wh cre a license costs:$1,000, there are 57 saloons to every 10,000 1nhabitants, and 1n Brooklyn, where the license costs $75, there are 59 sa- loous to every 10,000 Inhabitants. Accord- ing to this reasoning, whiskey which costs $1,30 per glass would be sold extensively as whiskey which costs ten cents a drink. But comparisons like that between Omahaand Brooklyn are misleading. Omaha with 100,000 inhabitants has, according to the pro- hibition estimate, 570 saloons, against con- siderably more than 600 saloons in Syracuse with [ population of 78,000; but in Omaha the average amount of money spent by residents 18 much higher than in Syracuse or Brooklyn. The clearing house transactions are ten times as great in Omaha as in Syracuse. Buildings worthy of New York city are being erected in Omaha, and the town by virtue of 1ts paving, its schools ana its public works s far in advance of eastern cities of twice its population, Omaha is well satisfied with its high liconse system. The revenue gained from the restrictien of the liquor traffic sup- ports its publle schools, and without waiting for a millennium when nobody will drink whiskey, and when, obviously, prohibition will not be needed, the temperance people of Nebraska are making the best of the case, by imposing an annual fine upon an evil which is still necessary in every state of the union. Our contemporary rcasons well, and 1ts reasoning will gain very greatly in force when the reat facts are stated. The figures of the prohibitionist speaker quoted are a gross misrepresentation, for which there can be no excuse. The truth 1s that the number of saloons at this time in Omaha is about 200. or 20 to every 10,000 inhabitants, whichsa considerably lower proportion of saloons to population than existed when high license went into effect. The immediate effect of the law was to close a considera- ble number of saloons, and particularly the more disreputable and dangerous sort, but with the rapid growth of the city the saloon interest has also “increased though nothing approaching ihe extent it would have grown had there been no license law to restrain enterprise in this direction. It is entirely probable that but for high license Omaha would now outrank Syra- cuse in the number of its saloons. We are not only better off than the smaller New York city in having only about one- third as many retail drinking places, but we obtain from those we have a revenue which is utilized for the best purpose to which it can be put, and the great ma- jority of the community 1s evidently sat- isfied with the policy. It was brought about only after a great deal of hard work, persistent effort and earn- est argument, made necessary by the opposition of familiar prejudices, but the results have so en- tively vindicated the policy that the number who would now be found to an- tagonize it is relatively small. Prohibi- tionists make a very seriour mistake when they indulge in such misrepresentations as our Syracuse contemporary reports. They are not the means by which a pro- fessealy moral party can expect to strengthen its claim to popular confl- dence, and their weakness and danger, for those employing them, lies in the fact that they are not easily and conclusively exposed, The Character of “Trusts " At the laying of the corner stone of a new stock exchange building in New York a few days ago, one of the brief ad- dresses delivered was by the well-known lawyer, Algernon S, Sullivan, and de- fined the character of that latest develop- ment of monovoly, “Trusts.” He char- acterized the principle upon which the trust is founded as bad. Its first purpose i3 monopoly, pure, simple and thorough, Its methods tempt and must lead to the ruin of every iadividual who would com- pete. It facilitates and therefore gener- ally leads 1o a swindle of the public, In practice it has generally been carried out on a basis of exaggerated capitalization, upon which a monopoly can forcibly col= lect a dividend. It enables false values to be 1mposed upon a public dealings in trust certificates, be- cuuse its records are secret, and the state cannot, as is claimed, demand publicity and exercise a vyisitatorial power, as it does in the case of corporations, In trade and commerce, and in all indus- trial economues, this new creation is not an agent for sound, wholesome, just and honest business. It is the device of inge- nious wits to get control in unapproach- able hands of the corporations which are the creatures of the law, Mr, Sullivan was clearly of the opinion that a corporation which has become the slave of a trust, in order that it may thus continue with other corporations and smother competition which has been deemed essential tojthe public good, coula not justify itself in a demand, were mado for the amendment of its charter for misuse. The corporation is an artificial person created by wvublio law, The first implication of its duty 13 toserve public use and to harmonize with public policy. ‘That is the law of 1ts being, and this law it contravenes when it enters into the form of combination known as a trust, for the purposes which such combination seeks to accomplish, By such confederation the corporation agrees to submit the management of its affairs to outside parties—that is, to the confederate companies under the trust— instead of retaining . it in the board of di- rectors selected from its own stockhold- B S i ers. In form it observes the law, in spirit it stamps upon and violates it. It 1s well that this new and dangerous form of monopoly, which is rapidly ex- tending and threatens to speedily reach every class of industry to which it can be applied, is receiving such intelligent at- tention, The public mind needs to bo thoroughly informed as to the true char- acter of this latest “‘device of ingenious wits to circumvent the law,” to the end that the people shall become g0 impressed with the necessity for legislation to de- feat the device that their representatives will be forced to take action. There is no fact in connection with cur present economic situation more menacing to the interests of the people and the wel- fare of the industries and commerce of the country, than this newest develop- ment of monopoly, which if permitted to' go on unchecked will in time bring under the control of a few powerful combina- tions, to be manipulated solely in their interest, all the great industries of the nation and the chief sources of its trade. Unguestionably a practicable way is to defeat this design of aggregated capital, which in the very nature of things must be hostile to the interests of the people, and statesmanship enn address itself to no worthier or more useful task. Going Into Court, The chief spokesman for the anarchists of the council, asked Commissioner Gil- bert at the recent board of trade meet- ing, why the police commission had not gone into court to test their rights to make appointments on the police force, if they had any, before the council passed an ordinance for the regulation of members of the police force. Mr. Gil- bert, if we remember correctly, was con- tent with replying to this bit of imperti- nence, that it was none of his business, adding further that the commission had taken legal advice, and would soon ap- veal to the courts. But Mr. Gilbert might very properly have asked, why don’t the council take the case into court if it belisves its course to be legal. Eleven members of the council under Hascall's lead and advice, have declared by reso- lution that Seavey is a pretender and pronounced his title to the position of chief of police to be fraudulent and ille- gal. They notified the chief of police and every policeman appointed by the commission that they were acting with- out authority and no pay would be voted to them for ‘“‘pretended” services as po- licemen, Now, 1f Mohammed Hascall has confi- dence in his mission, and believes what he preaches, why don’t he t. he initi- atve step to oust Seavey by legal pro- cess? Why have not Hascall and his confederates who comprise the majority of the council, ordered the city attorney to bring an action before the courts by quo warranto? In other words, why has the council, which elaims to hold itself re= sponsible for good government in Omaha alloweda “‘pretender’’ to remain in charge of the police force for four months, when by a simple action they could depose him if the courts find that he holds his ap- pointment in violation of law? Will not Mr. Poppleton concede that his clients, who sought to turn Omaha over to the tender mercies of crooks, pickpockets and roughs, during the fair and reunion, have shown very little faith in their ability to sustain their arrogant preten- tions in the courts? It 15 different with the commission. They had no case to take into court until the refusal of the council to appropriate money to pay the salaries of their ap- pointees gave them a cause of action. Had the council dared to interfere with the functions of the police chief and his patrolmen, there would have been no trouble in asserting their right to make arrests of law-breakers. But Hascall is o shrewd trickster. He has made dupes of his associates and used them for his per- sonal ends by making them believe that they stood on solid legal ground. He has taken very great care however that no conflict of authority should occur which would force the issue in court on the main point, namely: whether Seavey's appointment is illegal and s assump- tion to discharge the duties of chief of police is in violation of the charter, The Bee has from the very out- set favored a prompt avpeal to the courts. 1t 1s now in favor of testing the right of the coun- cil to dominate over the police commis- sion and police force. But 1f there is any blame for the present disgraceful and deplorable conflict it is with Hascall, Bechel and their confeds. They have shown themselves capable of the nost villainous plotting and dirty work which decent men ot all classes must condemn as beneath men who are trusted with the government of a metropolitan city. Tue final arrangement of the Baltimore & Ohio has not yet been determined among the railroad kings. There s, con- sequently, a good deal of uncertainty and dissatisfaction among the stockholders. Many stories are afloat about Jay Gould’s activity in trying to get full control. He is reported to have become angry over these rumors the other day and to have threatened a descent upon the market that would make the feathers fly. But it should be borne in mind that most of Gould's fits of passion have been cares fully planned beforehand. A consider- able irruption in Wall street is probable, however, before the Baltimore & Ohio matter is finally settled, There was a rise in Western Union at the latter part of the week and the Morgan syndicate are said to be dissatistied with their new acquisition. ‘THE reported statement of the collector of the port of San krancisco, regarding the methods by which Chinese immigrants are enabled to land there in violation of the law, suggests the necessity for a prompt and thorough investigation. This statement 1mplies that there is systematic collusiop smong the federal judicial au- thorities to defcat the law, and that they all profit by it. This, if true,is a most serious state of affairs, and the treasury department should lose no time in insti- tuting an investigation to the extent of its jurisdiction, and in calling upon the department of justice for such assistance as 1t may be empowered to lend. The allegations having been made by an of- ficial of the government, who claims that the conduct complained of practically nullifies the law restricting Chinese 1m- migration, they make a demand for at- tention which must not be ignored. ———— IN the absénce of Mayor Broatch, who will be actually acting mayor—Bechel or Hascall? ThaE political campaign in Ohio is in full progress, aldgvill doubtless grow in interest as it adiances. It wasopened by the democrutick pndidate for goyernor, Powell, in a spdoch which did not betray the most astute judgment of the demands of the situation, but this may, perhaps, be explained when one reflects what a heavy burden an Ohio democratic candi- date has to carry at present. Compelled to fight almost wholly on the defensive, it was doubtless a relief to Powell to tind an excuse for atlacking his opponent on the part he played,in the Wheeling epi- sode. It is by no means certain, however, that 1t would not have been wiser to allow that circumstance to drop out of memory. It wasan unfortunate mattor all round, but Ohioans are not likely to condemn Foraker for his part in1it. The republicun candidate took the field a few days after Powell had spoken his pieco and went to work in his peculiarly ag- gressive style. There is perhaps no better “'stump’ speaker in the country than Governor Foraker, and he will be at his best in the present campaign, not only because he wants to win, but for the réason that he is looking for something beyond Senator Sherman and others of prominence will doubtless take a hand on the republican side, and among those already booked to assist the democratic cause is Spoaker Carlisle. Mg. CanrvuisLE will make no other de- fense of his right to his seat, which his opponent 1n the last tion, Thoebo, will contest, than that offered by the rec- ord as it stands. This shows him to have received a majority of 815, The determi- nation of the issue will ba left, so far as Mr. Carlisle is concerned, entirely with the committee on elections. The result isnot at all doubtful, and Phoebe will only get some further notoriety. If re- elected speaker, of which there appears to be no question, Mr. Carlisle will prob- able decline to appoint the elections com- mittee, for which it seems there is one precedent, In the twenty-eighth con- gress the seat of John H. Jones of Vir- inia was contested by John Minor Bates. Jones was clected speaker and appointed all the committees except that on elec- tions. Calling a member of the house to the chair be submitted the matter Lo the body and the house authorized the acting speaker to appoint the committee. It is thought likely that Mr. Carlisle will, in the event of his re-election, be guided by this precedent. Our suggestion to crect a soldiers’ monument in Omaha to replace the tem- porary triumphal arch, has met with vopular favor from every direction. Such aproject cannot, however, materialize without concerted action. [t will require the active co-operation of leading mem- bers of the Grand Army to begin with, and citizens of Omaha generally. We shall have to organize & monument asso- ciation, which 1is to take charge of plans and construction, and assume responsi- bility for disbursing the funds, Tur session laws of the last session of the legislature will bear close scrutiny. They present the, appearance of having been hurriedly thrown together. On page 660 » very grave blunder has been made, the effect of which will be to reveal tion 2 of chapter 1V, of the eriminal code, a provision which, in view of re- cent events in this state, 1s very essen- tinl. Itis a happy reflection, however, that Judge Lynch usually takes that sec- tion of the code into his own hands, and that he has vovularized its provisions to a gratifying extent. CATTLE raising on the ranch has seen its best days, but the American hog holds his own. According to the commissioner of agriculture there were 2,382,167 hogs 1 the state of Nebraska at the beginning of the present year. Kansas had 2,161,419, Colorado, Wyoming and Utah have each a much smaller number, but the percent- A f increase 1s very large. While the ng of cattle on the Wyoming and Colorado ranches 1s becoming more and more diflicult, the production and mar- keting of hogs has been greatly facilitated. do not always vindieate an red man. The Grana Island porting its statements ag: Michael, the man whom derson honored with the position held so long by Ben: Perley Poor on the senate printing committ; The Fremont 7'rib- une will doubtless be pleased to learn the result of the trial in Hall county. 5 CROOKEDNESS is contagious. A tramp agent of the Beatrice Insurance company hes recently worked the blind note conti- dence game 1n Syracuse by inducing hon- est men to sign an alleged application for doubtful insurance. The company may not be responstble in this particalar case, but one eannot expect to pluck figs from thist. ONE thing the physicians at Washing- ton ought to have done before dispersing, that was to humamze professional eti- quette nong themselves. Their iron- clad code of conduct is a relic of the in- tolerant ages, and ought not to have sur- vived s0 long among such an intelligent, and in other respects liberal minded, class of men. —— OMAHA is not seltish. After enjoying the pleasures and begefits of the human alligator, the three:legged calf, the flying Dutchman, the pop-corn fiend, the health-lift and the target gun takes, we unhesitatingly part with them that Lin- coln and her state fair may know what it1s to be blest. Mavor Broarcu out of the city. Acting Mayor Bechel will feel like a cat n a strange garret when he takes his seat in the meetings of the police commis- sion. It will be very interesting to hear him explain the piotives for freezing out the commission and starving the police. PURE water is healthful and beneficial. No legal restraint should be put upon a man's desire for it. But there are men in this city who should be enjoined from mixing water with milk—not because the mixture is harmful, but because it isa fraud on their patrons. THERE are only nineteen paid police- men on the force. The others are being etarved by Hascall, Bechel and their co- canspirators of the city council, —— SOMETHING must be done to stop the promiscuous tearing up of streets by street railroad companies. OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY. SEPTEMSER 13, 1887, ‘Tue police cannot do anything to sat- isfy the roustabouts in the counci) who are trying to starve them out. Ther pap-fed organs have not lost a dayin finding some pretext for slandering and abusing them. THE FIELD OF DUSTRY. Ground has been broken at Fall River, Mass., for Globe yarn mill No. 8, L. M. Eastman, Baltimore, Md., will re build his furniture factory recently destroyed by fire. The Alvion Manufacturing company, Al- bion, Mich,, is bullding a largeaddition to its shops. The Englehart Elevator company will soon begin the manufacture of elevatorsat Spring- field, Mass, The Waco (Tex.) Woolen mills have de- clared a dividend of 24 per cent for the year Just ended. & A new company, knownas the Davenport Foundry and Machine Works company, will erect works at Davenport, la. The Anniston (Ala.) City Land company are negottating with capitalists to establish works for building iron safes. J. R. Markle and J. C. Tillotson of De- troit, are forming a $260,000 Edison Electric Light company in East Saginaw. Mich, The Grand Rapids Reed and Rattan Fur- niture company, of Fourth street, Grand Rapids, Mich., are preparing to incorporate. The eight pin factories in New England produce 6,720,000 pins a year. In England the yearly production of pins ic set at 4,605, 000,100, The works of the Cellonite Manufacturing company at Arlington, N. J., which were re- cently destroyed by an explosion, are being rebuilt. T'he New York and New England railroad is said to intend building shops and a round house capable of employing 2,000 men at East Hartford, Conn. Work has been commenced at Manefield, Mass., on a new shoe factory 100x40, and four stories high, to be oceupied, when com- pleted, by Rumsey Bros., of Lynn. British manufacturers are expecting to protit very largely this fall and winter out of the activity in the United States, An English company, called the Moss Bay com- pany, expects to move its entire works to the United States. There are 527 blast furnaces in operation in the United States, producing 125,539 tons per week, and 313idle with a weedly capacity of 1 ,042 tons. The anthracite capacity has sed from 33,702 tons weekly a year ago 278 now. . There is a great demand for freight boats on western lakes and rivers. A Cleveland company has increased its facilities to enable it to turn out a larga freight steamboat every thren months. All of the lake ship and boat yards are doing a good business. The prosperity of the farming communi- ties in the west is resulting in the building up of a multitude of littleindustries near the markets. The larger concerns in the leading cities are discovering comvpetition from these new sources, and are putting forth special efforts to protect their future trade from the Little ones. St A Great Difference, The Judye. When a young man sits in the parlor talk- ing nonsense to his best girl, that's capital. But when he has to stay in of evenings atter they’re married, that's labor. - Taxed Too Much Already. Providence Javnal. Every one who has studied the subject of taxation knows that personal property, under existing methods of taxing, eseapes its fair share of public burdens. The great problem now is, indeed, to arrive at some system of levying and collecting taxes which will re- lieve real estate of its unjust burden, Under these rcumstances, any system, lke Georgi when aims to increase the disparity between the two forms of property, is not likely to receive a moment’s consideration by thinking men, ~—— Potter and Adams, Chicago Herald. The St. Paul directors are watching the relations between Tomr Potter and Charles Francis Adams pretty closely. They hope that the Massachusetts man won’t get along with the rough-and-ready western railroad manager. The writer saw a note from a prominent St. Paul director on this very topic a few days ago. ‘Lom Potter knows there is a good berth for him in the St. Paul president’s chair at any time, and perhaps this way helv to make the intercourse be- tween himself and Adams even a little more strained, ——— STATE, AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottines, All roads 1 to Lincoln this week. hearney contracted for a §560,000 court house. The Youzalin hotelat Wymore 13 nearly completed. The Masons of Kearney will erect a $5,000 temple. 'he Adyentists have the freedom of and Island this week. Kearney's big hotel, representing $50,- 000, is nearly completed. F klin can have a cheese factory if the residents put up a liberal bonus. A sneak ripped the till n the depot ut Shelton a few evenings ago aund se- cured §25. The county clerk of Buffalo county is £9,000 short, and his bondsmen have been invited to pony up. Beaver voted almost unammously for court house bonds. The contract for the building will be let next month. B. & M. furveyors are agumd prowhng around Fort Robinson and visions of new railryads are thick enough to cut. The corn erop of Otoe county this year is swelling out in great shape, and “far- mers are correspondingly happy. A Saunders county farmer named Gu- lick, living near Céresco, found a live young babe, surrounded by barking dogs, in his back ' yard, recently, and hurried to Lincoln in reh of the parents. The youngster was sound of lung and limb. Some jhardened felon has faked the summer pantaloons of the Dawson County Herald. Pending a donation the oflice will be barred to visitors, as the editor is not anxious to open can establishment. Bring on your misfits, Captain Yoder, of the Salyation Army in Fremont, was tackled by a gang of young hoodlums Friday evening und cal- cimined with unripe chicken. The young- sters aped the metropolitan style, but, unfortunately, missed the fatherly em- brace of a policeman’s club. The Lincoln organ of the railroads, commenting on the letter of the Omaha freight burean to the state board of transportation, declares that “‘as an ex- hibition of gall 1t takes the champion belt of the United States.” This expres- sion is in ping with the narrow gauge quulities ot the concern that suppressed all mention of the Omaha fair last week. Chadron has been thrown into a hvely riot by the action of the county commis- sioners in awarding the court house con- tract. The bid of a local bidder, though lowest by $61, was set aside and the con- tract given to a Lincoln man for §28,500. The action of the oflicials 18 vigorously assailed by the Journal, and the courts will probably be asked to step in and pre- vent the consummation of a rmml. lowa ltems. @ There are twenty-three artesiun wells in and around Belle Plaine, The Rock Island Railroud company has commenced the ercotion of a new passenger dopot at Oskaloos: Britt has decided to give a 2,000 bonus for a fifty- barrel per day flouring mill, Gannon was nominated by the democrats in couvention at Lyons for district judge. Dr, Carver, the great shot, broke 1,000 balls in forty-three minutes and twenty« tiiree and one-half seconds at his Du- buque exhibition ‘The present capacity ef the Ynmpu ot the water company of Cedar Rapids is 8,600,000 gallons, and new pumps with a capacity of 3,000,000 more have just been added. The wheat crop of Iowa 1s estimated at 80,000,000 bushels, or 4,260,000 below tho yicld of last year, while the oat yield is estimated at 9,000,000 bushels more than last year, John Moody, of Black Oak, enjoys the distinction of having the largest crab orchard in Iowa, having about 200 trees, and they are certain bearers every year. He has always found a muarket for his crop, which this year will be nearly 300 bushels, Jack Reed, the notorious leader of the Rainsbarger gang, was arrested last week near Eldora, He had been livin, near Iowa Falls with the wife of the dea outlaw. He has been in the penitentiary once and will be again sent there for stealing, The Beo Keeimrs' association met Thursday at Des Moines and elected of- ficers as follows: President, J. Spaulding, of Charles City;: vice president, Mrs, O. F. Jackson, of Sigourney; treasurer, James Nysowander, of Des' Moines; sec- retary, D. W. Moore, of Des Moines. Dakota. Eighty students are enrolled in the Yankton eollege. B. & M. surveyors are at work in the vicwmity of Buffalo Gap. Fargo will enjoy free mail delivery beginning next month, Yankton is to build a new city hall, a laree and attractive structure. The question of local option will be tested by vote in Deuecl and Hughes counties. The Odd Fellows and Masons laid the corner stone of a joint lodge at Lead last Saturday. Civilization is cutting huge swaths among the Iudians. One hundred noble reds attended a circus performance in Yankton recently. Bishon Marty, of the Catholic church, has established Saint Rose aeademy at Sioux Falls and an effort will bo made to ret the cathedral and make that:the ‘atholic see city of Dakota. The building of the bakota Town and Trust company at Watertown, now ap- proaching completion, will be one of the tinest blocks in the territory. It is built of Sioux stone with Duluth stone as trim- mings Three bold highway robberies were v’mflmlml in the Hills last week. B, W, alentine was brutally beaten and robbed of $40 on Elk creek, Lewis Erric, of Ter- raville, was relieved of §75 and Fred Sweeney was hitin Deadwood for $150. —— A Word of Warning. Boston Herald, *niling to find oceupation in the great cities, the confidence men seem to have adopted the plan of following up unsus- pecting farmers in the country, Two or three cases are reported from Pennsyl- vania of sharp practices on the part of some of these swindlers,who have visited farmers at their homes and inveigled farmers into card playing, and in this way cheated them out of considerable sums of money. It is difficult to under- stand the degree of human credulity that would permit a farmer to bet heavily while playing cards with two strangers who came to his house, but the incidents we have referred to show that th ed- ulousness does exist,and as a warning we should advise the New England farmers to be on their guard when in company of respectable looking strangers who seem to betting with euch other, and losing or winning “each other’s money in to provoke the cupidity of a clea man. ‘The trap is usually set in this way, and the farmer will be anything but clear-headed it he walks into it. e To Tell the Age of a Horse. Toronto Truth, “U'o tell the age of any horse, Inspect the lower jaw, of courses The six front teeth the tale will tell, And every doubt and fear dispel. T'wo middle “nippers” you behold Before the colt is two weeks old, Before eight wecks two more will come; Eight monthsthe *‘corners” cut the gum, The outside grooves will disappear From middle two in just one ye: 1n two years, from the second p: In three, the corners, too, are bare. At two the middie “nippers” drop. At three the second pair can’t stop, ‘When four years old the third pairzoes, At five a full new set he shows. The deep black spots shall pass from view Atsix years from the middle two; ‘The second pair at seven years, At e ght the spot each “corner” clears, ¥rom middle “nippers’ llfi)\-rjl\w At nine the black spots will withdraw; I'he second pairat ten are white; Eleven finds the “‘corners” light. As time goes on, the horsemen know, ‘I'ne oval teeth three sided grow; ‘They longer get, project betore Till'twenty, when we know no more, ol THE REVENGE OF A GENTLEMAN, One of Aaron Burr's Correspondents Brought to Terms, Brooklyn Eagle: A neighbor told me a good story the other day which goes back to the time of Aaron Burr, althouzh he 15 not the hero of it. It was about Davis, Burr’s biographer and literary executor. My neighbor 18 a relative of Davis’ fam- ily, Burr placed all his correspondence in Davis’ hands before he died, but would not allow him to destroy a single missive while he hved., After Burr's death Davis sifted the correspondence, making se- lections for publication. He found a vast accumulation of letters from women, and he was so careful about that class of cor- respondence that he not only made no copies himself, but allowed no one elso to copy or even sce the letters. They were all burned, and, judging from the epistles which Davis received from all parts of the country, when it was kunown that Burr's corrospondence was in his hands for editorial purposes, a good many hearts were lighter after the ashes had cooled. Now comes the cream of the story: Among the letters Davis found one to Burr from a lady, then high in New York society. It was that sort of a letter which a lady would not wish to have made public. It so hap- pened that some time before, this lady ad treated Davis in a very haughty and discourteous manuer. lere was his chance for revenge, but being a gentle- man Mr. Davis did not propose to be guilty of an act unworthy of & man. He took his revengze in another way. Armed with the letter he called at'the lady's house and sent up his card. The lady sent k & retusal to sce bi D her re her on business he had a letter back & note begging her to recull fusal, as he desired to of importance to herself of hers to the late Mr. Burr. The speed with which the fair dame descended to the parlor npon tne reccipt of that mis- sive was only ‘cqualed by the haste which avy Crockett’'s coon made to “come down' when the historie rille was pointed at him. Mr. Davis greeted her with grave diguity, informed her that as the literary exceutor of the late Aaron Burr, a coustderable amount of - corres- pondence had come into. his hands. Among other Jetters he bad found this ono from herself to Mr. Burr. Ho b read it, and so found out who was th writer, and he (Davis) was so anxious that thero should bo no possibility of a mistake, or of tho letter falling by chance into the hands of a third party, that he had made bold to come himself and de- liver the letter to her with his own hand, This ho did then and there, and then without further varley, gravely bowed himself out of the house. There isa delicacy, a keenness of edge about that revenge upon a haughty woman worthy ot the old days when social fencing was the most artistic of all sciences and tho most scientific of all arts. Lle did exactl what a gentleman should do, returned the compromising letter to the writer se« crmg, kept her name 1nviolate; but ho had his revenge. But with ‘what impo- tent hatred that woman must have re- garded him ever afterward! i A SNAP, How a Tenderfoot in California Lost His Fortune. Puck: *‘Talk about being bitten on wheat corners,’”’ I heard an old man say the other day, while seated on the piaz of a country hotel. ‘‘T'alk about losing everything you put into it, and having the mortification of knowing that somo fellow got away with you in addition, Why, 1'tell you, [ had an experience that for absolute, downright cussedness was the very worst case of beat thatany white man cun conceive of.” *I didn’t know you ever speculated,” his companton remarked. *'I never did,” continued the old man, ‘‘but this once, and it cured me; yes, sir, it cured me for good. It showed me how lind a man can be to the very simplest details when the glittering possibility of a big profit is before his eyes. 1 wasn't taken in quite so badly as some of our Wall street friends, because I didn’t have the eapital; but, in proportion to our re- spective wealth, the ratio of eflect on mo was just the same.” Here he broke off for a moment and walked up and down the room, laughing heartily to himself, which showed there was some point to his coming story, and indicating also that he had outgrown the depressing result of his loss. In a mo- ment Le resumed: “I was in Californis at the time, at a little piace called ‘the Mission;’ every- body who has ever been to that glorious state will recall this name at once. It's a pretty place, and while 1 had no especial object 1n gufng there, yet I observea the exceeding innocence of the natives, and the idea suggested itself that an oppor- tunity might occur to make a few dollars oat of their innocence, and I determined to bear it in mind. The KFourth of July was approaching, and an acquaintance I had made, a particularly verdant indi- vidual, I had always thought, remarked one evening just before the Fourth that there was a glorious chance to do a little speculuting if anyone was 'so inclined and had the money to invest, incidentally calling attention to his own Inck of funds a8 the only hindrance to his taking ad- vantage of the opportunity mstead o giving 1t away to others. Of couvse wus all attention at once, and asked bim what the idea was. “**‘Well, you see,’ he replied, ‘there 18 always a searcity of meat here, and it sells “high; for that reason everybody wants All the meat we eis brought in by wagons from the city; a lot came to-day; there won't be any more until after the Fourth; this is the second. Somebody could buy up all the meat in town and supply the rush to-morrow night and next day. Itell you there’s big money in it."” 1t struck me the same way, and 1 en- gaged him then and there to go with me and make the purchases. In less than an hour I owned thop and steak in the county, Th tdown and chuckled over the prospective profits,” ‘Lhe old man stopped here for s moment to wipe his glasses, then he continuee: *It was mighty lucky I lauged just at that time."" “*How s0,” asked his friend. *‘Becnuse I didn’t have another chance, Llost all I putin it.”” “How in the world did you lose it?"" “‘How? Well, because the Fourth camo on Friday; every man, woman and child in the township was a Catholic, and they ate nothing but salmon all ““Y' On Saturday my meat was {ly-blown,” i Why Mr. Sheedy Succeeded, New York Sun: Probably no person who has made a business of what is known as a sporting manager has been more sugcesstul in such risky enterprises than Mr. Patrick Sheedy. He has, we hear, accumulated quite a handsome property, and he has also set a most creditable example to every one engaged in business, whether sporting or trade of the value of sobriety, promptne: and honorable conduct in all res| In a bl interview wifh Mr. Sheedy this morning he explains some of the methods he adopted as a business man to whicl he ascribes some of his success, ‘or i nce, he says, says that [ pay attention to the newspalwxs and get too many notices. He iy right. 1do pay a heap of attention to the newspapers, Neither of us would have amounted to much if 1t had not been for the newspapers, There are some men in publie life who do not hold Mr. Sheedy’s opimion about the value of newspaper comment to any person who is engaged in daly toil, Some politicians are fond of exhibiting contempt for newspaper comment, and it is sometimes flippantly said that this or that is only a newspaper story. Yet Mr. Sheedy, as a successfal busi- ness man and an expert advertiser, un- derstands that the average newspaper coinment upon men or cvents very fairly and accurately presents the trath, In- stead of pretonding to despise newspaper comment he not only appreciates. its value fully but does not hesitate to say 80. And he knows that though the Hon, John L. possesses a formidable arm and a capacity to deal a dreadful blow, those gifts would have availed him very htile Innd“nol.mc newspapers made publicity ite right in thus nc- indebtedness to tho there are very many the hint thus given by Mr. Sheedy, would tind that there is nothing that can more 4 ctovily help their business than the pors. his knowledging newsbapers, and business men, who, if they followed with Mitlions in It, r 1se has just came to ligh begin- ning of the ecentu Cume from France with his father and brother and settled in Philadelphia, where they vested largely i real estat few years after Michel removed to Canada, where he purchased a farm in Glengarry and married Margaret MacDonald, niece of the then bishop of Kingston. During the war of 1812 Leblimc, who was ver, anti-British, was taken prisoner and conveyed to Quebee for transportation A Roman Montreal Le to England, and when on board the ves- sel ut Quebée he jumped overboard and to was believed Ihree months garry, where he of pleurisy, and chure have been drowned, he turned up in Glen- wortly afterwaurds died was buried in St His father and r died soon after, but Michel's family, consisting of three girls and ono boy, knew nothing of the Philadelphia roperty. Margaret Leblane, oné of lichel's daughters, married Richard Kennedy of Glengarry, and fourteen children were born to” them. Eight of these are stll alive, six living 1 the States and two in Moutreal. 1t appears tuat the city suthorities of Phaladelphia nave uppropriated the land formerly be- longing to i,n-m‘ e, and the money hng accumulated 10 un enormons amount awaiting the production of “the heirs, who have recently been' advertised for. The necessary steps are being taken by the members of the {amily to substan. tiate their claiws,