Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 14, 1887, Page 4

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Tuesdav. Sept Wednesday. Thursaay, Sept. Friday, Sept. Average... Sworn Stal of Nebrask Gro, 1. T2 Sworn to and subscribed in my presence this 10th day of Septewmber, A. D. 1857, N. P. FrIL, [SEAL.1 Notary Publie. Btate of Nebraska, *- Douglas Cou Geo. B. Tzscl being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual average dally circulation of the Dally e for the month of September, 1886, 13,050 copies; for October, 1846, 12,989 copies; for Novem- ber, 1886, 13,348 coples; for December, 1556, 15257 coples: for January 1887, 16,268 coples; for February, 1857, 14,195 coples; for Mareh, 18 14,400 copies; for April, 1887, 14,316 copies; for May, 1847, 14,227 copies; for June 1 4,147 coples; for July, 1887, 14,- 093 copies; for August, 1857, 14,151 copies. Gro. B TzscHUCK. Sworn and subscribed in my presence this 5th day of Nept. A. D, 1857, [SEAL.| N. P. FerL. Notary Public. By the way, when was Mike Lee made acting vresident of the council? We notice Mike's name on some of the ordi- nances over that high sounding title. Now we shall hear what Pat Ford and Maaville know about advertising by the folio. Cadet Taylor, no doubt, has had time enough to coach these experts on printing. Tre New York World wants to see Lincoln and Grant head the republican ticket of 1888, These are great names, but why cannot somebody trot out a de- scendent of George Washington? George made a very good president, didn't he? Mgz, McSHANE insists that the police commission must go inte court to assert its authority. This is very kind advice, but what about the committee which Mr. Poppleton and Jim Creighton had appointed in order to harmonize matters? ‘TuE defense of Baltimore in the war of 1812 makes one of the most interesting chapters of the memorable conflict. The battle of North Point, on the 12th of Sep- tember, splendidly exhibited the heroism and endurance of the American soldie and stands out among the most conspitu- ous military events of our history. It was this battle that inspived the muse of Francis Scott Key and produced the “‘Star Spangled Banner,” which at once became the national hymn and willso re- main until the end of the republic. The seventy-fifth anniversary of this battle was celebrated in Baltimore last Monday with interesting and elaborate exercises. THERE 18 one proviso in the new elec- tion law which the council has probably never heard of. It reads as foliows: ‘“‘Section 83. Hereafter it shall not be lawful for any of the authorities,oflicers or agents of the city or county government, in any city governed by this act, to num- ber or renumber any street, avenue, alley, lane, road or y in any city, or to in anywise change or alter any such number, save between the first day of May and dhe first day of October of any year.” In other words, if any changes are to be made this year in the naming or num- bering of streets they must be made within the next seventeen days. The object of the clause in the law is to pre- vent confusion or fraud in registration of voters. MR. EDGERTON, one of the civil service commissioners, i8 being made a target for the shafts of the reformers. Heis not orthodox, and some of his declara- tions are construed to mean that he has no sympathy at all with cvil service re- form. His disagreement with the ma- jority of the commission in the case of the Chicago collector was radical, and he has roundly condemned all civil service reform leagues as political organizations as designed for political effect. He finds the commission to be powerless. There is no punishment for a violation of the provisions of the law except removal by the president, and there has been no case where the president has removed a person as n result of any investigation by the commission, It is evident that Mr. Edgerton regards the whole business as & good denl of a farce and humbgg, and ho has the cournge to say pretty plainly that he thinks. Ho may also have the satisfac- tion of feeling that a great many people agreo with hum, both as to what is said and what is implied. He will certainly have the support of four-fifths of his fel- low democrats in all he may say depre- catory of civil service reform as a prin- ciple, and few republicans will fail to coneur in the view that the reform as practiced greatly needs reforming. But of course Mr. Edgerton is out of place asa member of the commission. One of the understood duties of that body is to defend the system and the practices under it, and this obviously cannot be made effectivo if there 15 ono recaleitrant in the company who refuses to sce things in other than their true light. Hence there is a dewmand that Mr. Edgerton shall go. As yet this takes the form of a suggestion that he go voluntarily, but if this tail of effect, as 1t probably will, un- doubtedly the president will be invoked to take action., That would be Mr, Ed- gorton's opportunity, for nothing conld happen to him so sure to give him 2 boom in the favor of his party. THE OMAHA DAIL The Government Bond Purobases. It seems to us the prosident is right in what heis reported to have said regard- ing the oriticisms upon the treasury's latest refusal to buy bonds at prices thought to be above their value. Such criticism is more than inconsiderate, which is the moderate term the presi- dent 18 said to have used; it is essentially unreasonable and unjust. In offering to buy bonds for the requirements of the sinking fund, and as a means of reliev- ing the money market, the treasury sim- ply proposed a& business transaction which it was 1ts plain duty to carry out to tho best advantage of the people. The interests of the bondholders were not to be considered. 'There was question in- volved regarding the credit of the gov ernment as represented in the vprice of bonds. The policy of the treasury was not either to bull or bear the market. About $26,000,000 of bonds were required for the sinking fund during the present year, and they were called for at the present time because the money market was believed to need some help from the treasury which could be lawfully pro- vided for in this way. 1f the holders of bonds were really wanting money it was expected that they would seek relief in this way by offering their bonrds at such figures as the treasury, in justice to the people, could accept. The bond holders, however, showed at the outset their willingness to take ad- vantage of the opportunity, apparently oblivious of the fact that the ofter of the treasuary was not due to any urgent necessity, but was dictated chiefly by the desire to afford assistance to the money market. Provision for the sinking fund could have been postponed to a later date in the year. ‘Thus of the more than £5,000,000 in bonds first offered for sale, all but a little were a quarter of # million, were rejected because the prices asked were materially above the vrevailing in the market. A New York bunking firm which had been most zeal- ous in its efforts to alarm the country by pointing out the certainty of a disastrous financial panie, if the treasury did not come to the aid of the money market, and had been bringing togear upon the secretary of the treasury all the influence 1t could command to induce him to buy bonds, was among those who offered to sell at the very highest figures. Had the secretary of the treasury shown any favor to these would-be speculators upon the necessities of the country 1t is cgrtain that they would not have been satisfied with the first price obtained and that sub- sequent offers to sell would have been ut higher figures. But the secretary of the treasury fully understood the situation, and by his ction very promptly and effectively noti- the speculators that the treasury was not to be plucked. He was prepared to pay a fair price, not difficult to be ascer- tained, for bonds, but nothing more. While willing and anxious to assist the market to the full extent of his authority, he did not propose doing so at the oxpense of the peoble in the interest of the bondholders Subsequent offers to sell were gencrally at lower prices than that paid for the first block of bonds accepted, thus justifying the course of the treasury. If the secre- tary now believes that the government ought to buy bonds for less than he has thus far paid, it is his obvious duty, as a plain matter of business as well as in the interest of the public, to reject every offer that 1s above what he thinks a fair price. It is simply justice to say that the policy of the treasury in this business has been entirely discreet and judicious. It has protected the interests of the pco- ple while giving confidence to the money market, and 1t will receive the popular commendation regardless of the com- plainis of the disappointed bond specu- lators. Sorghum Sugar. In his last annual report the commis- sioner of agriculture spoke somewhat hopefully of the prospect of producing sugar from sorghum by the diffusion proc expe tent, s, which up to that time had been mented with only to a limited ex- Subsequent experiments on an ad- equate seale, carried on at Fort Scott, Kunsas, appear to have fully jusuiied the faith of the commissioner, and to have demonstrated the entire practicu- bility of producing sugar from sorghum bp this process on a profitable scale. Commissioner Coleman returned to Washington froMPFort Scott a few days the Iatitude of Washington and St. Louls extending to the western boundary of Kansas or Nebraska, raaking an immense territory to be benefitted by this industry if its developments shall be what now seems promised. The sugar countries of the world, which are now seriously iroubled over the subject of bounties, and to which the American market is not the least valuable, will hear of this new com- petition with no little dismay. It fore- shadows a revolution in the sugar trade of the world, which will have great sig- nificance for France, Germany, Svain andjother countries, By all Means Investigate. The boodlers’ own on lower Douglas is trying to pave its way for another raid on the city treasury. This time it is not 60 cents per square but 30 cents per folio, whatever that may mean. With his usual cuttlefish tactics, the man who charged $4 a pound tor 15-cent ink in the national printing office, tries to cover his crooked tracks by flinging slush and throwing dust. He has the insolence to intimate, what he dares not charge openly, that systematic fraud has been practiced upon the city by the proprietors of the Bk in their bills for city advertising. This charge, made by cowardly inuendo, we resent as an infamous slander, and dare him to make it specific enough to be called into court for the proofs. He says the council should investigate the printing expenses during the period covered by the BEE'S contract. Let the council do so by all means. The Bee Publishing company 1s perfectly respon- sible. Its property is not covered by blanket mortgages. If the city has paid adollar more than it was entitled to the money will be cheerfully refunded with interest. By all means let the council investi- gate and let them not forg.t, when the committee looks over old printing bills, to measure up and report upon the bills, which such readerless organs as the Re- publican have pulled through for useless advertising at double the price paid by the BEE under 1ts contract. Let its com- mittee also investigate and report upon relativo circulations. Our books, records and press-rooms are open for a thorough overhauling by any committee. No Time to Lose. ‘When does the council propose to take action under the new election law? The act requires the mayor and council to cause books of registration to be prepared which cannot be gotten up in less than two or three weeks. These books must be in the hands of the registrars before they can enter upon the duties of their offices, which begin in October and con- tinue until the November election. The council is also required by law to appoint judges and registrars during the month of September each year. The section relating to these appointments reads as follows: *All judges and clerks of election and the poll clerks in said cities shall hereafter be selected and appointed by the city council. * * * * It shall be the duty of sailcity council annually in the month of Sep- tember in each succeeding year for each election district in said cities and coun- ties to select to serve as judges of election four persons two of whom on st issue shall be of olitical faith and opin- ion different from their associates. * * * ‘The persons so selected shall be noti- fied by the city clerk to appear before the mayor who shall examine them as to their qualifications, and if he shall be satisfied as to their fitness to serve, they shall each take and subscribe before the ity clerk to the oath required by law.” These judges are to hold ofice for one year and will also perforam the functions of registrars, It seems to us thatit is high time for the council to take action, in order that the parties appointed may be able to qualify before the registrars hold their first ses- sion. The law directs that their first ses- sion for general registration be held on Tuesday, four weeks preceeding the day of election, which this year will be on October 11, the general “election oceur- ring on the 8th of November. Reason Why. The Republican wants to know why the official advertising for last year, at about the same price, amounted to nearly three times as much as it did three years previous? If the man who propounds this conundrum had been in ago, and he is reported to have expressed himself as entirely satistied with the result of the experiments and confident that the sugar problem for this country has been successfully solved. If this shall prove to be so it is one of the most important economio achievements in our history. It will render this coun- try independent of the sugar growers of the rest of the world, and keep at home nearly $100,000,000 that now goes abroad to pay for foreign sugar. It will operate also to reduce the price of this necessary article the world over. All efforts to produce sugar from sorghum of a marketable quality and in paying quantities by the old process, were complete failures. The new pro- cess is purely American, and the results obtained are very thorough. The machinery employed is the joint invention of Judge Parkinson and Pro- fossor Swenson, and the experiments have been conducted under the auspices of the bureau of agriculture. We learn from a recent 1ssue of the Fort Scott 77i- bune t the sugar works have been in operation only since the first of the month, and in less than one week manu- factured more sugar and molasses, and of a much better quality, than they did during the entire season of last year, It was shown that the cane yields from 104 to 110 pounds of sugar and twelve gallons of molasses to the ton, more than double the yield obtained last year from much better cane. With such a product there ean be no question as to the profitable character of the industry. Assuming the complete success of the new process, which it would seem might be safely done in view of the showing of results and the statements of the com- missioner of agriculture, it would not be ensy to overestimate its importance to the country, It marks the beginning of a great industry which must be of vast importance to thousands of farmers, give profitable investment to millions of capi- i tal, employ a great deal ot labor, and add rely to the national wealth, Regard- ing the area in which sorghum for sugar can be suecessfully cultivated, the com- missioner of agriculture descrives it as embraciug all the region south of a line » hundred or two miley north of Omaha three years ago he would know theveason why. The registry lists of 1887 had over 14,000 names, while in 1884 they had 6,000. The public improvement advertising had more than trebled, and frequent special elections increased the advertising bills very materially. The whole of last year's advertising in the BEE did not cost the city over §6,000, while the Herald and Republican have taken $864 for twenty days' pnblication of Boyd's election proclamation. In other words, the city has paid the Bk only seven times as much for the entire year's advertising, including all of Boyd's proclamations as it paid to the Taylor- Rounds-Mc¢Shane combine tor a few days’ worthless advertising. All that time the Bk circulated more papers in Omaha in one single day than either of the other two dailies circulated in any week. GENERAL MANAC Porrer congrat- ulates himself on having saved the Union Pacific $100,000 during the month of August. This will be good news to the stock speculators. Now, if Manager Potter can keep up reduction of ex- penses at this ratio, the road ought to give its patrons cheaper freights without repairing its credit. WEe are told that the motive power of the Motor line is to be horse and mule power until electricity can be applied more economically. The question is, what improvement will the motor-horse line be over the orainary horse ruilway? PROMIN T PERSONS, Sarah Bernhardt has been on a pilgrimage to Lourdes. Victoria Morosni-Schilling Hulskamp, the once notorious, is now in a convent in ltaly, ‘The Emperor Franeis Joseph has conferred upon M. Pasteur the decoration of the order of the Iron Crown, with the title of baron. Managing Editor Cockerill of the New York World says there is not a shadow of truth in the story that he las been invited to take charge of Mr. Benneit's paper. William Cleveland, of Orange, N.J., who has just died, was a cousin of President Cleveland’s father. He was bora at Guil- ford, Ct., 80 years ao, and becama a cotton broker in the south, and afterward a shoe BEE manufacturer at Orange, where he made a fortune. General Tohernalcff, who succeeds the late M. Katkoff in the editorship of the Mos- cow Gazette, Is & man of far more liberal views regarding popular rights than the dead Journalist. Parks, the artist, has prepared a model of his bronze statue of the late Vice President Hendricks. The bust, which is of marble, has been pronounced perfect by friends of Mr. Hendricks. Mr. Walter Besant only devotes three or four hours a day to producing copy. The rest of his working time he devotes to revision and to gleaning fresh material from the world about him. The soclal life at Oak View has been very pleasant ot late, Speaker and Mrs. Carlisle have proved themselves delightful guests and their visit has been one of the pleasantest features of the year to President and Mrs. Cleveland. J. T. Trowbridge, the author, ona of the earliest discovers of Kennebunkport, Me., a8 & summer resort, has grown rich from the of property. and is one of the principal stockholders in the company which now owns all the land available for cottages. Simon Cameron is back from Europe as sprightly as ever, for all his nearly 90 years. He didn’t gro out of his way to meet Blaine or to shake hands with sovereigns, but ho had time to hear some of Depew’s funny storiesand to hobnob with Andrew Car- necie. Bret Harte has grown so gray that those who have not seen him since he left this country to accept the Glasgow consulate would hardly recognize him now. His hair, which is rather long and lies In masses on his forehead, is snow-white, while his mus- tache, which s very heavy, is still streaked with brown. His complexion I8 florid, but he is not at all stout, nor does he look like an old man yet. Mr. Harte makes his home in London in the family of the Belgian minister. s ot The First Political Bet. Chicago Madl. ‘The first bet on the result of the next pres- idential election was made at the Russell house, Detroit, Tuesday, when Michael Jef- fers, of East Saginaw, bet W. (. Allen, of Plymouth, $400 to $300 that Grover Cleveland, if he lives, will be the next president of the United States. ——— Keeping Up Their Fame. Eachange. Mahone and Riddleberzer, Virginia’s fa- vorite sons, had a prospect of being entirely lost sight of by the public until they shrewdly became parties to the litigation, Mahone has two suits against Riddleberger. In one case the jury has disagreed and the other case has been continued. So these great men are in no danger of passing into immediate obscurity. o e The Platform of Democracy. Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle. The platform adopted at Allentown, will become the platform of the national demo- cratic party upon which President Cleveland will stand for re-elegtion. Our friends who hold free trade views, or who are in tavor, at best, ot a taritl for revenue only, may as well make up their mindg to accept the situation gracefully, No natlonal convention of the party, so long as we have a larce public debt, and so long as our industries and pro- ducers need discriminations in their favor against foreign products, will ever fail to in- sert a plank In favor of protection. e A Successful Oonference. Springfild Republican. The annual gathering of charitable work- ers and experts which recently closed at Omaha was sialler in numbers than the con- ference at St. Paul last year, or those at Washington, St. Louis, or Louisville; but. the Omaha conference probably produced as much result as either in the extension of the national work in charities and prisons to re- glons where it was but little understood be- fore. Particularly the states of Nebraska and Kansas,and ths coming states of Dakota, will profit by the impulse which such gather- ings give; and the cities thatare so fast spring- ing up there will learu how to deal with the problems of pauperism, insanity, and erime which start into prominenceas soon as city life, under modern conditions, vigorously begins. - One Good Life, From The American. A sunbeam plercing the forbidden shade Of some drear prison cell has often brought Quiet to troubled spirits, and has made Dark, morbid brooding change to perfect thought. So one zood life will prove a guiding light, To brighten pathis’ Weak mortals "oft tind drear— A beacon in the narrow way of right, ‘L'o lure the fallen to a higher sphere. —_— STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings, Pawnee City has voted $28,000 for wa- ter works. Dan Shaw, a western Nebraska horse thief, was captured at Kimball. ‘The big distillery at Nebraska City shipped its first carioad of pure fire-water last Monday. The Methodist Episcopal church at Tobins, was dedicated Sunday evening and a debt of 700 wiped out. Henry Burch, of Glencoe, Dolge emm({y knocked forty bushels per acre out of his wheat,patch this year. The railroads in the state have organ- 1zed a serivs of harvest excursions at re- duced rates to and from the east. Four horses and ten hogs belonging to farmer Bensonburg, of Hall county, were slaughtered by lightning, Sunday nhight. ‘I'he Missouri river has worked up a fall swell at Nebraska City and tempo- rarily stopped work on' the railroad bridge. The grade of the Cheyenne & Burling- ton branch of the B. & M., will be com- pleted to Cheyeune, in weeks. An_agricultural and stock grower's fair, in conjunction with a local reunion of old soldiers, is to'be held at Kimball on October 15, Prarie fires will soon be ripe, and the negligent farmer will plow fire-brea around the site of his homestead afte the ashes have coolad. Lincoln papers ujter a joint cavernous howl against the proposition to ecrect a soldiers monumentam Omaha. Gangrene {s Igu:uv‘uu,' the magrawbones of the capi- al. John Flavert, a yeung lunatic, turned loose on the populsdion of Geneva Mon- day, knocked out three or four boys and was straightening the bangs of a woman when help arrived.3 Flavert will be sent to the asylum. ‘ Donald Maccuaig, the newly appointed postmaster at Nebraska City,’is a promi- nent business man and a vicin of that strauge walady, the oflice seeking the man. Mr. Muccuaig is tifty-two years of age, a native of Scotland, and a resident of Otoe county since 1857, To-morrow the United States land of- fice will close up shop at Beatrice. The event 1s the natural result of the growth of the state, all the public land in the district having been disposed of. The office was one of the most important in the country. ‘L'he first entry under the homestead law was made 1n Gage coynty during the war. A curious conflict over the county fair question is going on 'n Cheyenne county. A county 5mr society was orgavized almost simultancously at the village of ing in the northern part, and at ey, the county seat. The former made haste to get the official recognition of the state authorities aud the. Sidney society “stood in'" «* . the county ¥ a few allowed to the county ciety, but Sidney will no doubt get it. several months negotiations operation of a st stock coripany to build a $5 Laramie, capital corporated. the Blair mine near Rock Springs, the vroduct of which is pronounced cqual to any 1n the territory. MecC tion. Judge officials.[) Both claim the county money cultural so- 8. H. H. Clark, of the Missouri Pacific, is trying to clinch a bargain with the “authorities of Nebraska city. For ve been romises liberally dis- the building and railway. Clark has finally reduced to writing his wants and wishes, and they are by no means small, and will if granted, shut out all opposi- 3 in pre and tributed concernin tion in local transportation for this and coming gencrations. To start with he wants a ninety-nine year charter allowing the use of horses, cable, electric or other motive power, excepting locomotives, and the right to streets within the corporate Where streets are to be paved he wants the city to furnish the paving material and he will lay it at his own exnense. the oity grants all these little favors and places a street railway choker around its own neck, Mr. Clark thinks an agree- ment can be reached and the road built and operated in a first-class manner. use tho same on all limits, If Wyoming. Johnson county is too large for its clothes, and must be divided. One hundred men are at work on the railroad extension west of Douglass. Laramie capitalists have organized a ,000 hotel. The territorial fair at Cheyenne last week was an “‘unprecedented success.” It was ler first eftort. A train on the Union Pacific picked up a gang of section men near Carbon, last week, and threw them into the ditch, killing one man and seriously wounding two others. A Union Pacific passenger train ran into a herd of horses west of Laramie, and narrowly escaped a dreadful wreck. ‘Two mares with colts were killed and tro others so injured that they had to be shot. The Rock Springs coal company of 100,000, has been in- The company will develop The capture, trial and conviction of for the murder of a deputy sheriff, s a sample of the cost of civiliza- y the time McCoy has stretched hemp_the cost to the people will range from $15,000 to $20,000. This little bill is what makes taxpayers sigh for the palmy days and expeditions methods of Lynch. The Pacific Coast. Sacramento and San Jose are the latest boom towns. A mile of electric railroad has been completed at Los Angeles. T'he assessment roll of Los Angeles county foots up $99,416,402. A smelting company has been incorpo- rnltcd at Tacoma with $10,000,000 capi- tal. Exhaustable beds of iron ore are to be worked by the Portland lron and Steel com y. tirst will of an Indian ever filed in the court of Washington Territory was admitted to probate at Tacoma. During thefpast month nearly two hun- dred mineral locations have been made 1 Siskiyou county, and several large mining sales have n recorded. Mining is reviving all through south- ern Arizona and around Olive camp, twenty miles south of Tueson. Ore shipments are rapidly increasing. ‘The tirst Jewish synagogue erected in California—that near the corner of Stock- ton and Broadway, San ncisco—is being torn down to make room for a four- story business biock. The will of Senator A. A. Sargent has been admitted to probate in San ¥rancisco, and Mrs. El\en C. Sargent anted letters testamentary thercon. The estate is valued at $137,000. Manderson’s Mistakes, Schuyler Quill, Senator Manderson has made several mistakes and be himself will be the vie- tim of his blunders. His mistakes are political ones and as he is credited as being a shrewd politician 1t is strange he should be thus wronged by himself. e did not make his mustakes officially as his senatorial record is fairly good, al- though he has not madea lively servant of the people, being a drone rather, yet quite a statesman. He made his mistake by not throwing nis power and influeuce last year in the return of Van Wyck to the senate. 1thas been a fact that no man has ever been his own successor to the United States senate from this state (with one exception and that was in the earlv days when Tipton was & republicam member_ from Nebraska) and the return of Van Wyck would have tablished that mode, nd would be a boom tor Manderson next year 80 when Paddock was allowed the seat Charles ¥, made mistake number one. Van Wyckis the only man who could down Manderson in 1838-) and if he had been given his old seat again he would be out of the way and by mnot assisting 1n the return of the ex-senator, Charles F. made mistake num:ber two. It is an un- deniable fact that General Van Wyck is the most populur man in this state, also with the republican voters of the state, and had Manderson assisted in the re- election of Van Wyck nhe could have made himself popular with the eommon people, and when he aid not Charles F. e number three. “The op- s passed and Manderson will retire at the end of his term and Van Wyck will take his place. Manderson will die politically a victim of his inac- tivity. Lt Revelry at Strasburg. Strasburg is the greatest place in Eu- rope now. What iigh old times they are having there. Sixty-five thousand sol- di he flower of the German army,are at Strasburg, and the oflicers, o representatives of all the great- est German families, There is no leave of absence for them, they are here all the year round, and here their relatives and friends visit them. There is a great ball 'y night; all kinds of amusement and sipatioas are here in their own capitol. slry is king. There are soldiers cverywhere. You are awakened i the morning by the drums and bugles; while you are eating breakfast you hear the tramp, tramp of marching troops, you go out and ay long you see infantry soldier: Iry soldiers, huss: goons, artillerymen, oflicers in resplend- ant uniforms, pacing horses, marching bands, crnon, all the pomp and splendor of the armed camp. And in the cven- mgall the oflicers in the outfit on a spree. Itisa great place for mothers with large families of marriageable duaughters. s A Remarkable Accident. New York Star: Lawrence Kennedy, six years old, was accidentally shot in the forehesd by his playmate, Tomy Pal- mer, Tuesday. The shooting was done with a small pocket pistol which the lad found in his grandfather's vest. Young Keanedy after the shooting played for three hours with the bullet in his skull, On arriving home his mother noticed the wound, and at once sent for a doctor. Two doctors probed for the ball, but i was firmly lodged beneath the frontal bone, and they could not extract it with- out danger of killing the littie fellow. A skilled physician of Philadelphia will be summoned, and he will try to extract the bullet. The doctors regard the voung- ster's indifference toward his injury as remarkable, and they say they never be- fore heard of any one who remained conscious and unconcerned for three hours with a bullet lodged at the base of the brain NESDAY. SEPTEMBER 14, 1887 VARIOUS TOPICS OF THE DAY A Beries of Paragraphs About Prominent People. HENRY VILLARD'S RISING STAR. Robert Garrett's Love of Ease—Eadie Gould as a Speculator—Bonner on Trotting—Victoria Moro- sial Hulskamp. Henry Villard is on his feet again— there is no reason, eovidently, to gainsay that. Itis not entirely certain that he has control of more capital than any other man on Wall strect, as has been said, despite the fact of his alliance with a wealthy German syndic ate, for Jay Gould can control enough money, prob- ably, to buy and sell Villard several times over, and if Villard 1sn’t careful he may find that out to his further sorrow. But he is a power in the financial world again, and he owes his rise mainly to s own energy and effort. Within a week he has purchased $6,000,000 worth of the Oregon Navigation company’s securi- ties, and on the 15th of the present month he will be elected a director of the Northern Pacific if he desires. Move- over, the gossips say Elijah Smith will soon drop out of the presidency of the Oregon & Transcontinental company and that Villard will drop in. The time he spent abroad after his own disastrous failure was far from being wasted, as the greater portion of the money he 1s now handling was picked up during that time. Mr. Villiard is now fifty-four years old and 18 believed to be worth a million or more. Heisun arian by birth and his real name is Heinrich Hilgard, although he long since abandoned it for reasons of his own. Some say he dropped it as soon as he landed in this country becau: after soveral vain attempts to procure situation, he was advised to ‘‘try under another name,’’ and others say he did not think it euphonious é@nough and so dis- carded it after leaving home. To his per- sonal friends he never mentions the sub- ject and if others are rash enough to question him about it they usually go off with the proverbial flea in their ear. Although a newspaper man in early life, he is now one of the most reticent of the Wall street leaders, rivalling the little Wizard himself in the manner in which he forgets to tell his plans. At fifty-four his health and nr etite are good, and he is said to sleep like a conscience-clear boy of twelve. His friends believe in him thoroughly and they are willing to bet that ten more years will see hun in possession of all his former prestige, with considerably more added to 1t. He mar- ried a daughter of William Lloyd Garri- son in 1866. -+, e Robert Garrett is now nearly thirty- cight years oid, Ho has no liking for an executive position, obut is intenscly fond of drawing-rooms, clubs and swell assemblies. 1f he had been obliged to depend on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad for his fortune his fate mught have been different, but the fact is he would bo a many millionaire if_he had no holdings y m that road. His interest in the b ing house of which he is the head 1 valuable, and furthern:ore, the ( are to Baltimore what the Astors are to New York. In other words, they are the largest real estate owners in the place, ve ets *"e Young Eddie Gould, the second son of the Wall street boss, recently turned his twenty-ficst year. If there is any truth i Wall street gossip, he turned the §300,000 profit mark about the same time on pointers given him by his father, making $530,000 on the July “slump’ in a smgle d In person he is short like his father, though more inclined to stout- ness, of dark complexion and compact build. ~ He dresses finely, but not in ash” styles, holding to the rule of rich simplicity in general. He has studied pretty hard i the Columbia col- lege school of mines, and is a civil _engineer in_ the bargain. Several months ago Mr. Gould took him into the office for the purpose of train- ing him, as he had his elder son George, Amony the first things he did was to have him made a director of one of the big companies, 8o that he should have a direet and vital interest i his st company with engineers of experie has inspeeted the new aqueduct tion very thoroughly and he e: many coal and mineral properties with the iden, of course, of becoming pr: cally fanuliar with such things. Young Gould 15 a member of one of the New York canoe clubs and is fond of all ath- letic sports. Notwithstanding the daring spirit he has displayed in Lation the young man is timid and reserved i pri- vate. », »te Robert Bonner's enthusiasm over the fast time made by Maud 8 in a road wagon last week knows no bounds. ‘'L am positive,” he says, ‘‘that she can trot faster than ever, though I'do not much ual trotting against her Few people appreciate what s accomplished in carrying arond wagon on a three- in 2:13t. No matter rters of o mile time. a feat she ha me & mile in quarter-mile trac how well the th may be laid out, the turns are necessarily bad and the friction caunsed in whirling four wheels around them is very great. Yes,” he added, with a smile he can beat her best record at any time and she is without doubt the easiest animal to drive.” Mr. Bonner, by the way, wants trotting races to be lengthened instead of shortened, as the ting of short dis- tances will soon have a bad effect on ing horses for u"h\ ious reasons. A friend of Mr. Morosini said the other day that Mrs. Victoria Morosini-Shilling- Hulskamp is now in a convent in Italy, and will not return until the memory of her escapade has grown dim, 1ler sister meanwhile is having a much livelier time. On Tuesday was in Saratoga with her father and attracted wnusual attention, both by her clever sayings and the dress she wore, e bo of the dress atawny white, At the skirts, cufls and collar the white changed into varying colors of an autwnn onk leuf Miss Morosini is tall and well formed, and has blue s, vellow hair, and plump ligure. She has n pretty smile, and knows she is good IV he, Her father’s moustache is long enongh to knot at both ends, and he lavishes all his - tions upon his second daughter since her sister ran away with the huan, o' The recent attemipt by French aero nauts to reach a great’ height has not been produetiy ular seion Its. T h ver 20,000 feet withoat the occapant the car experiencing any ill effect excopt A passing faintness on the of one of , whio quie from But it was “instrumental in bringing to light the alinost foigotten when a similar sttempt was fact that made twelve years ago and 25,000 fect was re 1, th titude of ut of the Do I Cariouns 1 | | | His companion was similarly affected, though not to so great an extent, beln nblefo pull the escape valve with his tooth, From the meagre reports which have been made on this subject it would appear that but few are dangerously affected before passing the 20,000 feet line. Yet something depends on the season 1 which the ascension is made and the atmospheric conditions at the start. Above the Rimaluyas and the Andes, heights of 20,000 feet have been on several occasions reached without any inconvenience. In such cases, however, the ascent has always been gradual. Could a slower rate of ascension be made practical 1t mni’ be that there would be no danger to life nt the as yet unreached altitude of nine or ten miles. **s Arrangements are now perfected for the removal of the remains of Napoleon 1L and the prinoe imperial from Chisel- burst to the new mortuary cryptin the mausoleum on Farnborougn Hill, bat the date of the ceremony is not yet stated. Two great red granite sarcophogi, not unlike the one at the Invalids, have been placed at eitner side of the altar. That of the emperor was the gift of the queen to Eugenie, but the latter buys the other for her son herself. Meanwhile the cof- fins are in the church at Chiseihurst. ‘Their removal will be the occasion of & solemn and magniticent function, it being the queen’s command that full military honors be paid to both father and son. An immense crowd is expected to go over from London. e il i THE PANAMA CANAL. Two Hundred and Forty Millions Al- ready Kxpended on it C. Christopher 1 Kansas City Star: I have just returned from South America where I had been for five years. Waork on the Panama Canal is contiuning under the superintendence of De Lesseps. The contractors are all Krench uxceiyt one firm of American dredgers, H. B. Slaven & Co., of San Francisco. Two hundred and torty millions of dollars have been expended already upon the canal. De Lesseps lxllul{ raised twoenty million more in France by subscription. Stock is sold in small quantities there and even laborers take some. They have every confidence in De Lesseps. The work will require one hundred and fifty millions more. Twenty thousand men are working on the 1sthmus. The canal when completed will measure forty- seven miles. It stretches from Colon, or old Aspinwall, on the Atlantic side to the city of Panama on the Pacitic. De Lesseps has raiscd all the money used thus far, The laborers aro nearly all Jamaca negroes, with a few Africans from the English colonies and African coast. The country 18 very unhealthful and tho people die off rapidly of chagres and yellow fever induced by the swamps and marshes. The Chagres river runs along the railroad, the canal crossing it at several pomnts. In excavating the smell is terrible, and the men working the drodges can remain only a short ime without heing relieved. Fully 25 per cent. of the labor- ers die annually. 1 have seen entire towns depopulated by disease. Not more than three hundred on the isthmus are Americans, d they are principally railroad men. he Panama railroad 18 owned by Americans and is doing a tre- mendous business. When completed the canal will injure the business of the railroad. In the shape of railronds the Panama isthe best pay n‘; institution of its proportion in the world. I estimate the canal will be completed in 1500 or 1891, Work on it is progressing fast. n the beginning the projectors worked very extravagantly for two or three years. Much money was expended in ry outlay. There is no finer ystem ot hospitals than thy hmus pre- sents, i There ure from lifty 1o seventy- five hospital buildings on the Panama side :at impediment is the rain, during cight or nine months of the year. ‘T'he rainfall meas- ures twenty-one feet. This interferes disastrously with work and health, Veg- etation is aiways green, the water con- tributing to this. ~ When it is ripe it de- cays fast. ‘The only product of the isthmus wre annas and cocoanuts. In Colon a special dead car leaves for Monkeyhill cemetery morning and evening. A novel and economic mode of burying is practiced. After bodics are picked up on the streets, thr tom. The box or coflin is lower grave, a spring frees the bottom, the odies pass ihrough and are burjed coflin| on top of cach other. The 1ne box is taken buck for future service. The business people of the isthmus aro and every nationality may In Colon the reut of a or one year would almost buy it. 2 i8 80 much swamp and poor build- ing ground and the population changes so frequently through deaths and re- moval that nobody wants to build. T buildings are all of wood, and insu companies will not write them up, risk builders run inercases the rent fabu- Jously. Fully 100 per cent profit is charged on everything sold in the place. It is quite common for a merchant to puy $600 or 700 a month for a store room. In 1852 I went to Ecuado, I and Bolivia to examine mines. 1 re mained there oighteen months and qu on necount of the Chilian and Bolivian war. ‘Che richest gold, silver, copper id tin mines in the known wurll‘ ure located 1n_ those countries, Some aro beiug worked, others uare lying dle. Thousands of old Spanish mines are un- worked, Fourteen million pounds of fruit have been shipped t from Sacramento this ear, ‘The freight charges smounted to izw.uuu. BABY HUMORS And all SKin and Scalp Diseases speedily Cured by Cnticura. Our little 500 wiil bo four, yours of axe on the 20th inst. In May, 1855, Lo Wwas wttackoed with u very pamnful breaking out of the skin. cullod in & physicinn whe « K8. Wao more o distrossing. We were trot 17 obligad to zet up in the night and rub him with sodu o wa Wiy, we cille ¥ 20th of lnst LY RN CUTICUICA 30AF oX 1] August o wis S0 him only one doso and i1 hns never heen tre horribie malsdy. 1i kil wo used Inss than o half of u bottle OF COTICCIA RESOLVEN iesk thun one box of CUTHCUi, tnd cake of ( )an yuka, Livingston ¢ Letore me this C. N. COE: UTICURA 8 RYAN SCROY Last spring | wis vory s T of serof il MORS. K, boing covercd Tile doctors could 110 try tho CUFLCUIEA N very 1o Skin und Biood discase trom plinples t il )i evorywhere. oor four acronauts sucenmbed to the strange | S48 s atmospherie conditions and il betore | Cuksican O y could descend. Per A B0 0t | and for PHow 'to Au other itrepid voyagers zono to i |y MPLES, Hackiouis, in_ Bise similar heigh b osafoly, Mr. | PHEL Guby stutmars, use Cuticui Boa e Glaisher, ac his own p- | unt, reached A g cofoton et | KN ONE MINUTE. highest ever rpeached by any Itheumatic, Noursigio, . oming partly unconscious 000 feot high and losing the power to mowe his limbs even betore he sank aown in the bottuig of the car. Nervous I the i A Al druggists, 2 © Cuemigul Coy, Hos 1OUKA A