Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 24, 1887, Page 4

Revoked and Repudiated. The republican central committee, through a majority of its members, has issued a call for a primary election and delegate convention. By this puble revocation the committee has repudi- ated the high-handed assumption of po- litical conspirators to overthrow time- honored rupublican usage and arrogale to themselves dictatorial and arbitrary powers. This action on the part of the county central committee will mcet the THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERVS OF SUBSCRIPTION ! Daily Morniag Edition) including Sunday Ber, Ope Year. 10 00 'llfl ATIA OPPICE, NO. 014 AND, 018 FARN, w YORK OPFICE, ROOM . TRI ASHINGTON OFFICE, No. 513 FOU! CORRESPONDENCR! s All communioations relating to news and for rossod Lo the i Eor i :’;‘.‘L‘:rn ‘;E;‘_‘““ . cordial approbation of every honest and BUSINESS LETTRNSS reputable republican. The scheme. to pack the delegation from Douglas county to the state convention was con- ceived in iniquity and brought forth in fraud. Its natural and inevitable nd remittances ehould be ISHING COMPANY, postofice orders 'n Drafts, ch ke inade payable to the orderof the company, THE BLE PUBLISHINS CONPARY, PROPRITORS, and ordered to be paid out of the county treasury. All that is disclosed about the finanoial transactions of the commis« sioners is in the shape of tho vouchers filed away. '[hese vouchers are for the most part in such & shape as would bafile a Phil- apelphia lawyer if he wanted to go behind the returns to find out the quantity und class of material or labor and services paid for. The commission- ers, for all we know, imagine that their peculiar method of doing business is sat- isfactory, but any merchant or firm that would countenance such a loose and reckless system of bookkeeping would soon find themselves on the highroad to ruin. Tue anti-civil service reform demo- cratic papers have secured more positive proot of the serious defects of the sys- tem. Bishop Oberly has announced that he will not resign his office just at pres- ‘ent, owing to the fact that he has not money enough to pay s fare back to 1llinois. Cn1cAGo has broken her record. To- day one hundred divorce cases will come up for hearing in the Garden City. Even St. Louis will acknowledge Chicago's supremacy in this regard. 2 —— Other L Than Ours. Public interest in Great Britain now centers on Mitchellstown, where the trial ot O'Brien under the coercion act 18 in progress. There is apprehension of seri- ous trouble before the trial shall have ended. The popular sentiment is very much aroused, and Diilon, Condon and other leaders have signitied their willing- ness to brave the authority of the govern- | ment in championing the cause of free speech by public addresses. The author- ities have prohibited public meetings during the progress of the trial, and sol- diers will occupy Mitchellstown in antic ipation of a popular outburst. Neither the warnings, nor the preparations of the government, however, appear to have any terror for the populace, who await but the signal from their leaders to mani- fest in no ummstakable way their dis- pleasure. So far as the result of the trial of O'Brien is concerned it may be re- garded as a foregone conclusion that he will be convicted. If there 18 any con- sideration shown him it will be inthe sentence, but that he will be returned to jnil for such a term as the government shall deem sufficient as ar example no- boby doubts. To what extent this will further strain the toleration of the peo- vle remains to be seen. It is evident that the government has no thought of reced- ing from or materially modifying its policy in Ireland. It will endeavor to carry out its programme to the very last act, and every expression of hostility that will furnish an excuse for doing so will be welcomed. Itis feared thatsuch ex- cuses will not be wanting, Michael Davitt, who is now on his way to the United States, 18 reported to have ex- pressed an apprehension before leaving Queanstown that the coming winter would witness widespread disorder in Ire- land. Meanwhile the proscribed National League is maintaining s firm front and loses no opportunity to tell the world that it proposes to pursue its way fearlessly, rogardless of consequences. All these circumstances combine to cre- ate the feeling that a very serious crisis in [reland is impending and may be de- veloped within any twenty-four hours. ** The recent manifesto of the Count ot Paris will be replied to by M. Rouvier, the French premier, before the reopen- ing of the chamber of deputies. It is an- nounced that several of the extremist deputies propose initiating a movement in the chamber of deputies for the expul- sion from ¥rance of all the Or- leanist and Bonapartist princes, and also thet all property of these princes that can be discovered in France shall be confiscated. A good deal of at- tention has been attracted to that portion of Boulanger’s latest address to the offi- cers in his command which shows that the general’s war spirit is as active as ever. The name of Boulanger, however, appears to be no longer one to conjure with, He doubtless still has a consider- 1E OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY. - whereas sl 4 publio is preparing to anncx Uruguay and Paragu: ilo is in n state of high indignation the contract between Peru and he dholders, and Vehe- zuels is on t rge of war with Great Britain aboul'the latter's absorption ot Venezuelan :territory. In the mat- ter of Utuguay and Para- guay, Brazil'will hold in check any undue greed fot empire on the part of the Argentine Republic. Chile seems to be unduly sensitive about foreign enter- prise in Perd. It is true that sho is en- titled to maintain the principles of the Monroe doctrine in South America, but to try to keep out foreign immigration and foreign eapital is giving that doc- trine rather n loose and objectionable construction. As regards the Venezuela matter there is little doubt that Great Britain will bear watohing, After having ngreed to the patural and proper mode of settlement afforded by arbitration there should be some means found of bringing the stronger power back to it. In the event that Venezuela, weak us she is, should prefer war to loss of territory, 1t would be strong testimony to her cor- tainty of being in the right, and the United States could hardly afford to let Great Britain overpower a sister republic without a strong protest. » s A somewhat disquieting feature in the latest news from the Emin Bey expedi- tion may at first seem to be its account of the devastating war between the Uganda nation and the Unyoro, waged in a region not very far distant from that toward which Stanley, at tho latest tidings, was directing his way. But it uppears from this same account that the forfine of war has changed, and that King Mwanga has now been de- feated. This young monarch was not well disposed toward Emin, the king of Unyoro had shown himself to be friendly. It is clear, also, that Emin can co-operate with Stanley, as he has been informed of the latter's approach, and is awaiting him at Wadelai. The route of Stanley would upparently, in any eveat, carry him well to the northwest of the supposed region of war, and Emin’s messengors might also warn him of any danger. The “difficulty of passage,” too, referred to in the Zanzibar advices,may not relate at all to Stanley’s supPosed movements, but only to the experience of Emin's own expedition, which has been explor- ing the Kakibbi, a largo river rising in the Usougura mountains, and of which the dispatch speaks. * " The meeting of the family of the king of Denmark which hus just taken place at Copenhagen oals for mention of the fact that the family 18 an unusually re- spectable one for 4 king to have—it being remembered that he is not responsible for any wild oats that may have been sown by his sons-in-law. His daughters particularly do him credit. The Princess Dagmar, now Empress of Russia,and the Princess Alexandra, one day to be queen of England, both are women much be- loved and respeeted for their parsonal qualities. They would not be out of place in respectable society anywhere. Their brother, the king of Greece, does not make a greatstir in the world, but his behavior is notsuch that he would be excluded from ady of our best clubs if he wanted to become A fiiember of it. Con sidering their advantages, the king of Denmark’s children have done renmarka- bly well in establishing good reputations. - T Richard Dudley Baxter, the eminent British economist and statistician, de- clared that the sim of English statesmen should be to reduce the imperial debt as rapidly as possible, 8o as to be prepared for the serious contest for commercial su- premacy against the United States when the natural resources of England should begin to fail. Robert Giffen, another em- ment British statisucian, has just been pondering on the same subject, but he takes a less gloomy view of the matter than Baxter entertained. He appears to realize that the time is rapidly approach- ing when the iron and coal deposits of the United Kingdom will be exhausted. He believes, however, that the cost of imported raw materials of this class o E. ROSEWATER, Enrror. effecct would be the concentration of B dangerous powers in a fow men who THE ”A_" BER occupy posivons on the central commit- 3 Sworn Statement of Ulrculation. tee. It would put them in position not iy State of Nebrask: 88 o 3 County of Dongias. only tooverride the will of the party by i Pubining 'I;ommh“flf mmp";'n;h:"m preventing fair and free choice of dele- that the actual circuiation of tha Dallv Bee | gates,but would practically place them in 5:{,,',';:. week ending Sept.10, 1557, 'wa8 88 | 1,50i0n to perpetuate themselves as po- urdi litical dictators. To establish a prece- onday, Sept, dent that would recognize the authority Y '{v‘fii‘flflafi”&e}l 14 s | Of & sub-committee to appoint state con- Thursaay, Sept. 15..... 1...14.102 | vention delegates would be subversive Friday, Sept. 10.. 4075 | of the rights of the individual members Average. e fl7 L T 4.927 | of the party. It would introduce methods Sworn to and .\,mfi'.i‘,’a'.’;, .,f;"','-:',';‘,‘.'c. which are clearly unrepublican and at this 19th day of September, A, D. lfiz’h variance with every vital prinerple that [SEAL.I Notary Publle. | underlies our political system. Btate of Nebraska, | Do“’l;h"“‘z:::gif being first duly sworn, Advising Extravagance. ge“vofi mdhslnyu that he'is sficra‘lw of 'l‘h”- Certain newspapers whose Iabors are month of 'ptember, copies; 4 ol - for October, 1886, 12,949 coples; for Novem- | yity is kept busy in framing arguments mrl,,w,'ml&:“ mluj“f‘?r "wf&“fl?“'la‘% to prove that the people must be required coples; for February, wfl.‘?‘.m coples; for | to continue paying tribute to monopolies, fll“rgle.o lfifl, ‘(‘4.;‘00 o In'hfg' A”"l';,.“’{,"": when confronted with the question of June 1 "',“J:, ;,’,,‘,": for :,“l,'."‘“;m: 14,- | What shall be done with the surplus reve- 003 copies; for August, 1857, 14,151 coples. nue from our present system of taxation Bddi ind mblodbuodmir}' E’}fl“"’"’“;';w d? not hesitate to seriously advise o sye- this 5th day ot Sept. A, D., 1887, tem of extravagant government expendi [SEAL. . P. Fr1L. Notary Public. tures in oraer to dispose of it. Such ———— ====== | counsel was heard in the last congress, Ci N BecHEL and his extra-select | from men who enjoy a considerable de- committee ot political anarchists have | yree of public confidence, and it will been kaocked into a cocked hat. doubtless be heard in the next. It has a % b very numerous body of sympathizers Cmicago can only account for the | throughout the country, and they are not Drsslden( 's refusal to make a !ong 8tay | gl of one party or one class. A policy of in that city by attributing his motive to | extravagant outluy on the part of a gov- delicacy. Chicago expeots the demo- | ernment possessos an attractiveness that cratic national convention next summer. readily commends it to many people IN view of the fact that Nebraska has ;”t“’ LD p“"'”“"‘rllylc""m’;"ed "ls. t‘o forged well to the front as a corn pro- | 1tWT® SONNCGUEN008: & o am DO LOY W B0 ducing stato this fall, it would have been | o0, be advocated without the danger of quite appropriate for some of the cities tedd s uncl:;uj OF, t,a s vml:u,e. Dr‘; of this commonwealth to erect corn. | PIausibly and cloquently urged, as it ad- palaces also, they are doing in lowa, mits of being, it can be made to appear * | entirely philanthropic and for the good Tue faction opposed to grand larceny | Of eversbody, 3 in Douglas county republican politics | The forms which government extrav- was said to be “‘very insignificantin num- | #88nce might take are endless, but bers and without influcnce,” according | % fow would be .‘&’.f““,',‘i'e‘:eni" e to the organ of the virates. It appears, Lh however, that it is sufliciently powerful | Of revenue over necessary expemhfum& to knock tho feet from under the solf- | Lhe construction of a large navy, an ConRtitutadibossed elaborate system of coast defenses, an ex- tension of internal improvements, and Ir General Hawley ever had presiden- | increased facilities for commeice by tinl aspirations they have now been | granting general subsidies for ship build- torever blighted. His anuounced en- | ing. are the ways in which we can easily znz;:mcnt;;n\n English hlulyl seulles the ;1151:0!9(;&;1;\“:'::?‘:0‘1 I:l;:::m; u‘:s 2:?:;\ matter. o man with a love for any- | yeal 0] N 0 - thing English stands a show of rucamuyg sources inerease and national consump- the highest gift at the hands of the | tion becomes greater, if the revenues of American people. : the .government shall still be found to — leave a surplus, there will be no difficulty Twe agricultural fairs held in various | in applying that also in the same direc- p;wtu of the state this fl;ll indicate a year | tion, and so on until we have a navy that of great prosperity. Farmers are con- | would be the envy of the world, tented, all ‘clusses ol|lnborinz veople find | fortifications covering every rod remunerative employment, the cities | of exposed coast, all sorts of internal im- growand advancement is the order of | provements in every quarter of the land, the day everywhare. The time is not far | and fleets of merchant steamers on every d‘mmt when Nebraska will lead all her [ sea. What should be done when all these sister states in progress. things hud been provided is a matter —m— about which we of to-day need no! Tre American vendetta still flourishes. | pother. No one now living would prob- It h(lmelhis;mlrbnrounrellc of a bloodier | ably survive the consummation of =all age were abolished. Public opinion | these grand national enterprises, and which laid dueling’ on the shelf could | posterity, huving all this gencrous pro- soon do away with these bloody feudsif | vision made for it, could very properly its seal of condemnation were set upon | be left to look after its own interests and themi li.vnrrhiml nn|fl :nurdurll&u; qulnrruls affuirs. Meanwhile monopoly would are twin relics that should be thrown | grow in strength and power, wealth upon the rubbish heap of outiorn abuses. %vouhl pour into the coffers of wealth, and | the people—the people would vay the i Tue pretended appointments of the mh\pnw”nnd beur‘:hopbllrdeus. % pretended county central commitiee | The intelligent masses of the United ‘ have been revoked by a majority of its | Statos will not be deceived by the plausi- ¥ regularly elected members. This relieves | ple assurance of those who counsel a Hascall, Bechel, Mike Lee and Pat | policy of extravagant government ex- N Hawes from the delicate duty of stealing | penditures. “They understand that such < thirty-two delega-es w tho state conven- | g policy would not only impose a contin- ) "'O:hh‘ hope of Pllflr“fll "‘d: coming ll;dC: uous and perhaps endless burdep upon of the supreme court under personal ob- | themselves, but be a source of danger to ligations. — the government itself, They knovf very C. P. HuNTINGTON, who is being put | Well who would be the chief benefloiaries through his paces, as a liar, by the Pa. | of such a policy, and they have no wish cifié railroad commission, shows himselt | to see this class enlarged and given pe. somewhat inferior to Stanford, as to | Rreater power. They seein the proposal : cheok. While the latter claimed that | of this policy the evidence of the the government owed the road $03,000,- | dauger inherent in a surplus, aud 000, Mr. Huntington places the indeb ted- ;hey dde;_ml to :xert the dmx:e; ness at $3,000,000. The brass of these | by estroying e cause. e men, like their pilterings, is monumental. ::3::!::113 ;l::lyo"";:t;;;lvi:lb :.:?::'n ':f e r—— e ALTHOUGH the various rmlrond com- | war lO;nri(fon t}w}uucns;iliol of lifu':hi;fih missions now at work may not accom- | can be secured in only one way, by the ™~ plish all that might be desired 1n the way | reduction of the tax levied on nearly of roform and the correction of abuses, e‘\l'arylhinzbtho,l-uox?luml}s& T!w_lrlcli;:f the fact that such commissions are at | that may be giveu in this way wi e i work at all shows that the raiiroad monop- | direct, cortain and safe. Every consumer olies are no longer masters of the situa- | throughout tho entire land would feel b tion, l.lhut the 4llny of :I\uir 1:\l|tocrmiu il‘. (U‘l' “;Iwofuh:. ::lfl:lfll 'm?i"uwp;“:lm'w % power is over. In time they will be the | him in the fact that his dollar had in- ) servants and not the taskmasters of the | creased im purchasing power. This is veople. Tue complaint of the farmers of Jof- forson precinet regarding the Benson motor line has had its effect. Yesterday o the proprietor stopped the running of - cars and announced that horses wounld ¥ be substituted for steam next week. The fact that since the line was opened at least twenty runaways have oceurred by reason of horses being trightened by the engine, causing considerable damage to proverty and endangering life, consti- X~ tuted an indictment against the opera- B :lgn of the road that could not be ig TWENTY on a strike 1 the Lehigh region, Penn- sylvania, and anxious to deaye the mines altoguther. This is one of the causes for the scarcity of coal and the rise in prices. ‘These results have been deliberately bronght about by the coal brigands. Tkey hrst reduce the wagos of the miners until a strike is nevitable, and coal pro- duction being thus stopped, advance the price. Wide-spread misery this winter will be the consequence. Our prisons nocence itself compared to the outrages ocowwitted by these coal robbers. are full of oriminals whose deeds are in-. the policy which the farmers and work- ingmen of America require, in order that they shall receive more nearly the full fruits of their toil and have for their own use a part at least of the tribute they now pay to the protected monopo- lies. County Book-Keeping. By all odds the most wretched system of book-keeping which we know of pre- vails inthe county court house. The records of the commissioners' proceed- ings and the general method of transact- ing business that involves over $200,000 & year would hardly do for the owner of a peanut stand, The proceedings of the commissioners are not re- corded for weeks, although a spcoial clerk is retained and paid by the com- wiggioners for this service in addition to the county clerk. And the wretched mess which comprises the so-called pro- ceedings i3 deficient in the most essential particulars. There is no record as to which commissioner introduces or sup- ports a resolution or order for the most important expenditure, no - record how any member has voted on any proposition or scheme, and 1o mention of the respective sums voted would be only a small disadvantage, which would be moce than compensated for by the capital, skill and facilities for manufacturing, in which particulars, he assumes, Great Britain will be pre-emi- nent among the nations, * able following whose faith is undimn- ished, but 1t would seem that the masses of the French people have become satis- fied that he is not the man to be largely entrusted with directing the destinies of the republic. He is too fond of empty show and personal advertisement to im- press even mercurial Frenchmen that he possesses any of those solid qualifications necessary to the wise exercise of elevated power and grave responsibilities, He can be more useful to France at the head of an army corps than anywhere else, ' l.and speculators in Tokio and Hiogo, inefapan, have suffered from the delay 1n the signing of the treaty opening the country to mixed residence. Thess shrowd fellows anticipated a great ad- vance in well-located villa sites near the large oities; so they bought heavily on margin, counting on speedy sales to re- imburse them. The treaty commission has carried on business with Oriental de- liberation, and the result is that the bot- tom has already fallen out of the boom before the treaty is signed. It 1s an awful warning to booming on a narrow mar- gion. »7s ‘The modern methods of the European powers for acquiring new territory find an illustration 1n the course adopted by Germany to obtain a better foot- hold on the Samoan Islands, in the Pa- cific. ‘T'he first stop is to send a for- midable gunboat, in order to produce a strictly moral influence. The s to demand of Malietoa a h What for does not make the slightest dif- ference. If Malieton pays 1t, then the diplomatic opportunity is lost, and the commander of the squadron must cither wait for or else make another chance. If Malictoa rebels, then everything is in proper trime for a business operation. Troops are lunded under plea of quelling the rebellion, and in the interests of peace the squadron quietly takes posses- sion of all it can lay its hands on. Inthe old dnys this was called conquest. But in the refinement of modern times it has been christened diplomacy. * e Queen Victoria, doubtless with the de- sign of proving her claim to the title of LEmpress of [ndia; is learning Hindustani, The shade of the gillie John Brown would rend its celestial robes should she take an Indian attendant to practice her new accomplishment upon. eo—— PROMINENT PERSONS, M. Renan’s “History of Israel” will ap- pear in December., General Greely, chief of the siznal ser- vice, has gone to Eurepe for two months. John Russell Young, is collecting material for a history of the eivil life of General Grant, Robert Browning and his sister have been much improved in health by the mountain alr of the Kngadine., Nellie Grant's little daughter, Vivian Sartoris, resembles ‘her mother and her grandfather, tne general, John Ruskin inherited $35,000 a year from bis father, but he has spent all his innented wealth on paintings and books. W. W. Corcoran, whose health was much impaired In the early summer, has returned to Washington from Deer Park in a robust condition. a Louils Kussuth, now well on in his eighty- sixth year, is in capital health of mind and body, and constantly busies himself with literary work. George Francis Train has declined in his boisterous way, to deliver an address at the Erle county, N. Y., fair. He says he will never appear as a public speaker ag; Miss Phelps has a new “‘gate” story ready. It is entitled “The (iates Between,” and re- lates the possible experience of a hard and seltish nature in the life after death. ' Mrs, Cleveland has received the fleecos of e The diplomatic situation in Europe, with respect particularly to the Bulga- rian question, continues to present a puz- zling variety of phases. Considerable significance is attached to the abandon- ment of the proposed meeting between Emperor Willium and the czar at Stettin, and credence is given to the report that Germany will unite with Austria in de- manding thut the powers shall preserve a neutral attitude toward Bulgaria, and that Ferdinand and the Bulgarians shall be left to arrange their affairs in their own way so long as they do not interfere with outside mterests. There appears to be very good reason to believe that the feeling between Germany and Russia is very far from being friendly, and it is by no means an improbable surmise that the former will hereafter be found obtruding in the way of the, latter's ambitious de- sigus. », There is & good ds.ll.(!' politieal activity among the South American states. Itis feared in Brazil that the Argentine Re- two merino lambe descended from her Grandfather Folsom's flock; has bought & oalr of cards and under her mother’s direc- tions has been earding and spinning wool, with the ultimate intention of knitting some winter stockings for the president. Charles Dickens, jr., who Is to lecture in this country, Is about as unlike what the pub- lic would expect in a son of Boz as a parlor match Is like a comet. His round face and rather feable cast of features are scarcely re- deemed by a large pair of spectacles and in his delivery he has neither physical nor dra- matic power. A writer who recently met Georwe W. Childs in Philadelpbia thus describes him: *Hlis rosy cheeks are like the blushes of a school girl of fourteen or fifteen. Ilis eye is as clear and bright as it was twenty years ago, his step just as agile. His dress is al- ways the same, and yet he looksas Il his clothes had just come from the tailor's, they are 80 spotless, He is a wonderful man,” it ol A Long Felt Want. New York Trihune. ‘What 1s needed at Washington is a state- manship characterized not only by resolute courage in the defense of American rights, butalso by breadth of view iIn forecasting the development of a continental policy. Ssaiffieicines Encourage Olergymen Boston Globe. ‘We hope that Mr. John Lawrence Sullivan will leave his diamond belt where clergymen and teachers who are struggling along pn £300 a year can see it when they come to Boston, Such people should be encouraged. Teachers. ikt iy His Tour Will Not be a Mute One. Philadelphia Fecord. Tho president will be accompanied on his western and southern tour by correspon- dents of four New York, threa Philadelphia, two Boston, one Baltimore, one Chicago,and one or two Cincinnatl deilies. They will probably travel in a car attached to the presidential train, —————— — A New Kind of Epithet Wanted. Lincoln Demnerat, We observe that our esteemed friend, Ed- ward Rosewater, is cnaracterized by the op- position as *‘a political upas tree.” And yet we seew to notice that the candidate whosits under the shade of Mr. Rosewater's friend- ship does not wither away and die. On the contrary, he generally gets elected to what- ever he wants. 1n the interest of literary ac- curacy we call for a new kind of epithet for application to Mr. Rosewater. ———— Enthusiasm and Indifference. Philadelphia Record, ‘The convention of the American party in the exuberance of its proceedings bears a striking resemblance to sessions of the So- ciety on the Stanislaus, as thus described by * Truthful James” in Bret Harte’s poem: Abner Dean, of Angells’, raised a point of order, when A chunk of old.red sandstono hithim in the abdomen; S0 he smiled a sickly smile as he curled upon the floor, And the subsequent proceedings in terested him no more. We Should Smile. Siowz City Times, ‘I'he Omaha Ber is another newspaper that can smileat Satan’s rage. Last winter the Nebraska legislature passed a drastic libel law, containing the most oppressive and ar- . bitrary provisions, worthy of an English house ot commons act for the regulation of Ireland. This law, as was plainly stated at the time, was almed straight at the head of Rosewater, editor of the Ber. Now it so hapoened that the Bee has hummed richt along unmolested by this libel law, while several of the papers that urged its passage and giegled over the way it would worry Rosewater, have themselves been brought into court as defendants under this most un- just law. There be many Hamans who are banged with their own rope. —_— The Drummer. M. M, Folsom, A little chaff, & merry lauch, A word for every comer; ‘There is nota man in all the land But who extends a ready hand T'o greet the jolly drummer. Inbusiness wise, in enterprise As thrifty as a plumber; So chivalrous and debonair This favored one that ladies fair All 1ove the gallant drummer. His latest joke will provoke A roar from every bummer ‘That hangs around the village bar Retlecting lustre from his star, ‘The gallant commercial rumimer. With work and wit he hits the grit Fall, winter,spring and summer, Alert and watchful day and night— The world would go to ruin quite But for the busy drummer. A skull that’s numb may beat the drum, But, ah! it takes a hummer— A freak of supernatural brood — Some beins most supremely shrewd It takes to beat the drumner. e STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings. ' North Bend is offered a fifty barrel flour mill for a bonus of $15,000. A number of Winnebago Indians are encamped near Wayne, and are employed in cutting broom coran. It 18 announced that Crete's new and beautiful $8,500 M., E. church will be ready for dedication the second or third week in November. ‘The city council of Crete 18 considering bids for waterworks, with the chances in favor of the Strang company, of Omaha, beiug awarded the contract. The works are to be in operation by next July. Track-laying upon the Hastings exten- sion of the Fremout, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley road is reported completed to within almost ten miles of Harvard, and will, it is expected, be in that city by the close of the present week. The fifteenth annual meeting of the Lutheran synod of Nebraska will con- vene in Beatrice next Tuesday evening. ‘Tne woman's home and_for o mission. ary society will meet next Monday and remain in session two days. The Crete Vidette has earned sixty days by perpetrating the following: Mutter- ings from the anarchists: Does the world deSpies me?” “I'll enter another Field-en near futare,”” "It does little good to Fischeround the d—d country for substantial sympathy.” *I want to be an Engel aund with the angels stand.”” “We'll not Lingger 'round this mundane sphere many weeks.” Christian Chrumpf, a Plattsmouth laborer, recently invoked printer's ink for u wife and secured one. Yea, and more than he bargained for, His aflinity proved to be a true born Irish lass, dark- eyed, brown-haired and muscular. “The attempt to hurmonize the tiery Celtic and sluggish Teuton tempers proved a miser- able failure, and a few days ago Chris applied to the police of Plattsmouth for protection agmnst his wife's persistent raids on his pocketboox and 8 weukness for pounding him when his frame sighed for peace. The courts are considering the calamity. lowa ltems. The ten cent bastile in Sioux City en- joys a delivery every week. ‘The October term of the supreme court will convene at Des Moines October 4, with 831 cases on the docket. Britt is quite sure of a new fifty-barrel Alnurini mill, or perhaps of larger capa- city. bopus is being raised. Rev. Dr. Burrell, of Dubuque, has ac- cepted a call to the Westminster Preshy- terian, the finest church in Min neapolis. ‘The karmers' Mutual Fire and Light- ning associatio =~ of Story county, has SEPTEMBER 24. 1887, filed articles of Incorporation with the socretary of state. The Des Moines conference of tho M. E. eburch proposes mext year to raise 3!8‘500 for foreign missions, $2,500 for omestic missions and $25,000 for Simp- son college, at Indianola. Mr. Henry Miller, of Vinton, has about forty swarms of bees, and while he had about two tons of honey last year, this year the bees have not made enough for their own use, and not a single new swarm has come off. Utah and Idaho. Lacrosse 18 the craze at Salt Lake. Arrangements are being _made to ship grain from Eagle Rock to Kansas. The Snake river canal project has as- sumed such shape as to call forth a pub- lic meeting for an expression of opinion by the citizens of Cassin count{. one; for a preliminary survey is being rased. Last weok's mineral exports from - Salt Lake city were: Tweunty cars bullion, 477,034 pounds; twenty.nine cars silver and lead ore, 87,750 unds; two cars copper ore, 53,800 pounds; total, fifty-one cars, 1,409,584 pounds. The Boise City Statesman says: The output of gold and silver in Idaho durin, 1887 will exceed by severai million dol- lars the output of “any former year, and will brinfi Idaho well up to the front— possibly the fourth in rank of the great- est producers of precious metals. Express Messenger Bennett has ac- knowledged the theft of a $10,000 pack- age of money from the Pacitic Express cnmrlnv. and, in_company with the sheriff, went to Huntington to show where $1,800 of the boodle had beecn cached. He failed to find the place it had been buried. The remainder of the monay had been previously recovered. A little nine-year-old daughter of a mechanic named Thomuas met & horrible death at Pocatello. The little child had been sent on some errand, and on re- turning home found her way, leading across the track, blockaded by a train of cars being made up, and in her hurry to reach home, she attempted to pass under the cars. Just as she was beneuth the train a sigpal was given the engineer to start ahead, and in 2 moment more the child was caught under the wheels and crushed to death, Monta Church and school property in Helena is worth $176,000. Ballion shipped from Butte last week was valued at $84,018. The Masons and Udd Fellows associa- tions of Helena own property worth $150,000. Snow covers the mountain tops near Helena, while in the valleys the grass WAS never 8o green as at presont, e The territorial legistature has repealed the bounty law after it had cleaned out the surplus in the treasury. Rabbits, squirrels and gophers now enjoy the freedom of the ranges. The smelters at Butte have delivered an ultimatum to the Unioa Pacific on salt rates unless the company delivers salt in Butte at $7.50 a ton they will close dewn on the 1st of October. Manager Potter has promised to visit the. city and settle the difliculty. The Pacific Coast, There are 2,000 men employed in the Southern Pacific railroad shops at Sacra- mento. Strawberries measuring three inches in circumference are to be found in the Santa Rosa markets. San Jose is in the midst of a repl es- tate boom. A city hail to cost $117,000 has been contracted for. Over $20,000 has been raised for the proposed building of the Young Men's Christian Association at San Diego. Seattle had an illumination, music and public speaking in honor of Henry Vil- lard’s return to the Northern Pacitic management. A bee tree which contained 600 pounds of honey was recently discovered near Truckes. Three hundred pounds of sweet obtuined, the balance of the honey being destroyed by an accidental fire. Butte and Plumas have the finest and largest sugar pine forests in the United States. Lumber from this region is now being shipped to Australia, and before long large shipments will be sent east. There were 30,000 acres of wheat har- vested on the Glenn ranch this year, which yielded 850,500 sacks, or 787,500 bushels, This is 49,550,000 pounds, 24,- 775 tons, 2,477 ten-ton carloads, and 150 trainloads of sixteen cars each. Twenty gentlemen 1n Los Angelos have made a somewhat novel bet upon the re- sult ot the coming vacht race between the Voluntebr and the Thistle. Ten of the gentlemen are Americans and ten of them Englishmen, and the terms of the bet are thatif the Thistle wins the race, the ten Americans are to pay for the best dinner which can be served to the ten Englishmen for $100, the Americans waiting upon their guests. If the Volun- teer wins the Americans are to eat and the Englishmen will wait. el County Domocrats Organize. The democratic county committee held a caucus in Julius Meyers' rooms yester- day afternoon to take steps to organize for the coming campaign. The meeting was well attended by some of the fore- most democrats. uclid Martin was chosen chairman and Louis Heimrod sec- retary. - There were also present Julius Meyer, J. J. O'Connor, Charles Kauf- man, E T Morearty, Thomas Casey, T A. Megeath, Charles Van Camp, Patrick Ford, Gustave Kaerner, George Timme andJ. D, Rustin. It was decided to call the county nominating and delegate convention about the latter part of Octo- ber, after the republican convention. Permita 1o Wed, Judge McCulloch issued the following permits to wed yesterday: Name and residence— William McAllister, Omaha, 1 Litazie Brown, Omaha { Konrad Wais, Omaha 1 Elizabeth Waldvogel, Omaha. % Andrew B, Haley, Omaha Maggie Cusick, Onaha... {Joseph Krajieik, Omaha. 1 Vance Duifacek, Omaha. { John Bolster, O\ 1 Annie Wanle yJonas A, v t Annie Age. 31 Douglas count rson, Douglas county Suing For Right-o1-Way, The Union Pacitic railway has brought suit in the United States court against Frank Barnholdt, of Colfax county, to get the right-of-way through his farm. Barnholdt has constantly opposed the company since 1881, and it not only asks for the right-of-way, but also for $100 rent from him for use of that strip since 1831 Three Suits, George A. Hoagland, by his attorney, Warren Switzler, filed three suits in the distriet court yesterday. They were against tho following persons: Hamil- ton & Wooley for $2,67, for goods sold and delivered; W. H. Binksley, for $317.57, due on promissory notes;, Nicho- las B. Heim, for $1,457.16, due on goods sold and delivercd. Wants » Divorce, Joseph Fishback filed a snit in the dis- wict court yesterday for u divores from Catherine Fishback. He alleges that they were married Mareh 17, 1830, and that she abandoned him & year later. A peculiarity of [ood's Sarsans that while it purilies the blood, it impurts new vigor.to every function of the body. MRS, JACKMAN AGAIN. . To Be Examined As to Her Sanity— Hor History. Mrs. Jackman is still an objoct of at- tention. Aftor being liberated from ar- rost on the oharge of theft und hiding i & hay-loft for a time, sho was taken to the residence of Mrs, Dr. Cuscaden. Here she commonced to act ina decidedly strange manner. Application wild madi to the prover authorities to have her examined as to her sanity. Dr, Tilden, of the board of insanity, res quested Mrs, Dr. Cuscaden to keep Mrs. Jackman for a weok, until arrange- monts could be made for the examinas tion, Last evening she seemed some- what subdued, but wns stil. raving, imagining herself ona railroad train. Mrs. Dr. Cuscaden and Mrs. Gelf (from whom the ring and under- clothes were taken) are both doing they can for the unfortunate wom Her 1nsanity is ascribed to the starvation diet upon which she has been attempting tolive for the past five. months. Kor weeks she has had but one meal a day, and that often but a solitary biscuit. Street car riding was too great a luxury, and on the hottest days she walked to ex- treme portions of the city to give her music lessons. About six weeks ago she was prostrated by sickness as a result of this method of living, and it is now re- membered that since then she has not acted us before, although then it was not at all suspected that her mind was de- rng{n-d. % uod Mrs. William Doolittle, of 813 North Eighteenth street, lived in New Haven, Conn., some thirty-two years ago, and kpew Mrs, ncks man then when sho was a bright young girl of fourteen. Her father, Governor English, was then the chief exceutivo of the state ahd was in the hey-day of his popularity and power. Her mother was a klentomaniac, but Governor English being a very wealthy man no trouble ever came from this strange propensity, Thus Mrs. Jackman has inherited from her mother this in- firmity akin to n curse, that has been slowly developing through the stages of misfortune, starvation and insanity, After the death of his first wife Gov- ernor English married again, and he dying in a few s, left all of his pre erty to his second wife. She still lives in the old English mansion, one of the most beautiful in New Haven, but has re- fused to help the unfortunate Mrs, Jackman since the loss of her husband, and it is thought that she had a great deal to do with pru}udlcing(iu\'umor English against his daughter. Yester- day Mrs. Dr. Cuscaden telegraphed to Mrs. English at New Haven, apprising her of the unfortunate fcondition of her, step-daughter. ¢ CITY RAILWAYS. Efforts of Ch man Balcombe to Make Them Respect the Law, On the 14th of this month, there was passed by the council and approved by the mayor an ordinance prohibiting the tearing up of streets by any railway company without permit from the board of public works. At the time the ordi- nance became a law, Mr. Baltombe notified the several street railway com- of the fact, and urged them to with its requirements. Mr. Bal- combe claims that the Cable Tramway company and the City Streot ralway companies have paid no attention to the matter, ant. for the purpose of finding out whether they intend to respect or defy the law, he addressed them this let- ter yesterday: You are constructing a street rallway with- out permits as required by ordinance No. 1541, This 18 to ask that you inform this office it it be your intention to continue to thus ignore the authority of the city. Hoping for an immediate reply, 1 am Y ours respactfully, L A D. Bal MBE, Chairman. The clause of the ordinance in question provides that no partnership nor associa. tion shall enter upon ml)’ street of the city for the construction of any street car line, without first having permission for the same from the board of public works. Mr. Balcombe has, also aadressed a communication to the motor line, as also to the Cable Tramway company, notity- ing them that hereafter all earth taken from the trenches of their lines belongs to the city, and must be filled into strects requiring it. esterday morning the Cable Tramway company received a massive bed for the engine, which is soon to be put in place in the power house on the corner of Har- ney and Twentieth streets. The casting weighed about sixteen tons, and was drawn to the house by two teams of four horses each, with massive trucks with tires six inches in width, The Benson Motor line has decided to substitute horse car power instead of steam, as now used, beginning on Mor- day. This action is caused by the vigor- ous protest of the farmersin Jefforson precincet, of which notice has already ap- peared in the BEE. WANT TO TRADE IN OMAHA. Marysville, Kan., Citizens Petition For Better Communiuvation. Secretary Nattinger, of the board of trade, received a copy of a petition yes- terdny which has been forwarded to the Union Pacific railway company's officials, . It asks that botter nccommodations be given the citizens of Marysville, Kan., with Omaha. With this copy was the following letter: MARVAVILLE, Kan,, Sept. 2L.—1 enclose herawith & copy of a petition our citizeny have this day formulated to the Union Pa- citic ofiicials at Omaha. It is to the interest of your business men that the requost be granted, for ns tri NOW Iun our mer- chants ‘are compelled to trade with St. Joe and Kansas City, when with equal facilities, a8 we had six months ago, many of them pree fer Omaha, A heavy trade was besinning to move toward Omaha until the change cug us entirely off, Can’t vour board bring a pressure to bear on the nion Pacite offic| ,Il & proper way to have matters chan: Yours, W. 5. GLAbS. The Smith “The jury came in at 10 o'cl day morning and reported that they had disagreed in the e of Charles Smith, charged with robbing James I. Given of a watch and about $40 in money. The o was tried Wednesday, Another 15 placed in the box yesterduy aft noon und at 4:30 o'clock the case was commenced again. At adjournment it was not finished. Clevelan®’s Recontion Committor, Sccretary Nattinger of the board of trade has received a communieation from the city council announcing its cominittee for the reeeption of President Cleveland, and requesting the board to appoint 4 committee to join with t of the council. The committee was ap- pointed y y afternoon and con- dints of Pr nt Max Maoyer, John A, McShane and P, E. Ler, Bank Clearances, The bank clearances for to-day were $421,678 66, Hrevities, sterday's internal revenue collees amounted Lo § 0. ul C, M. VanWycek arrived from est yesterdsy morning and will spend a short time in the eity, The oflices of the board of airectors, secretary and freight bureau of the board of trade are being eovered witls the finess ind of velvet sarpet. g