Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 26, 1887, Page 4

THE DAILY. BEE. _ ticsupply, The excuse is jthe common thelir medicine. Itis a strictly temperance drink. L ats Or all the boycotts' that ever existed_ the most unigue was brought to light at East Liverpool, Ohio. For,some time past mer- chants in that city have been recelving or- ders, such as those of grocsries, dry goods and meats from residents of Wellsville. Why this preterence was shown has now been made public. A leading tailor recently had a call from some Wellsville citizens, and one of the fter having ordered his clothes, sald ‘e will never purchsse anotner arti- Righ License n Minnesota, The new license law for Minnesota went into offeot on the 1st of last July. It provides that in all cities having a population of ten thousand or more the license for seling intoxicating liquors shall be $1,000, and in cities of less popu- 260 Iation $500, Severe penalties are im- m‘:‘-‘..('m.-'w e .'.'f,' 20 | posed for the violation of any of its pro- FAIA orricr, No. w YORK OPFICE, ASHINGTO! financial operations. Thesecretary of the treasnry is very naturally well pleased with the result of the action taken. It remains to be seen, however, whether the market really needs the mouney pro- posed to be let out by the treasury. The circumstances appear to show that no new supply of actual cash was necessary to lubricate the wheels of commerce, and that it was simply confidence that was needed to loosen the grip of lenders. This goes far to confirm the ovinion ex- /PUBLISHED TERMS OF surwmrrlo!x RY MORNING. visions. A large number of saloons can e m:o‘u"”-."rn'-%"‘:mm not be reached by the law uuntil next B T Januvary, so that its final effect in reduc- CORRESPONDENCE! ing their uumber cannot be determined | pressed by several prominent financiers | qls fn our town until the saloons are opened. sl communioutions relating to nows wndefl | until after that time, but what has al- | in advance of the treasury's proposal that We e foemed 8 oranization .“’:"" FOR OF TME BER. ready been accomplished in cutting down | the real trouble behind the monetary strin- | merchaut will be boycotted until the ordi- DUSINESS LYTTRASE All business lettors and romittances should be addressed to Thk BEx PUBLISHING COMPANY, postofice orders OMAnA. Drafts, checks and or %0 be made payable t» the eompany, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPARY, PROPRIETORS. E. ROSEWATER, Epiror. the supply of drinking places furnishes interesting testimony to the efficacy of the high license policy for this purpose, According to the investigation of the St. Paul Pionecr Press, it is found that in those ecities and towns in which the new law is now enforced there has been a falling off of one-third 1n the aggregate number of saloons, while a similar de- crease is with good reason predicted in gency was a general feeling ot distrust which induced extraordinary caution. The situation, however, in whatever aspect it is viewed, carries the impressive les- son that the conditions which render it possible are dangerous and must be re- moved. The money}market cannot be kept dependent upon the treasury, as 1t must be, at least periodically, so long as the present fiscal system of the government nance closing saloons Is repealed.” Investi- on shows that this auti-prohibition elub has many members and is cacrying out its objects to the very letter. e ‘Tur Atlantic cable has probably run through a great big fish, Otherwise it would hardly have published the story to the effect that Blaine would not accept the presidency, even if it were urged upon him. THE DAILY BEE Sworn Statemens of Uirculation, e CiicAGO continues to forge ahead as an Btate of Nomuhi !& & those places where the old licenses have | js maintained. Recent financial experi- lenliof, Douglas, not yet expired. Exopressing it in round | ence very strongly emphasizes the neces- | art center. It now has a cyclorama repre- Geo. B. ‘Tzschuck, senting the erucifixion. m""‘ = mml!u numbers, of 1,650 saloons which thrived m'mn”"dmufiufi“n”u?%u Beo | and flourshod’ under the old license "':' week ending Sept.10, 1857, was a8 | some 550 have been unable to meet the turday. Sept. 14,550 | advance and continue in business under l“dny..' Smr 1 B, 14400 | the new law. In Minneapolis thesaloons ":n‘dluv.g‘i‘:)‘t'. b 1475 | have decreased in number from 334 to ednesday, Sept. 14. 14,235 | 227, though the change there was trom a flllm!y. Sept. 1 +...14.102 | tive hundred dollar to a thousand dollar iday, Sept. 10. sity for thut sort of real and permanent relief which shall prevent the govern- ment from steadily draining the pockets of the people to swell the hoard in the vaults of the treasury. It would be doubly reassuring if there was better pron.ise of this being done. **u ONE of the curiosities to ba seen at tha Grand Army encampmant ip St Louis will be a 600-pound turtle from one of the bays in Lower California. It will ultimately find its ‘way to a monster soup kettle. **e ‘Tue fiftleth congress will ba quite a variae +1407% | Jicunse; in Duluth from 113 to 64; in Still- . A Revelation, gated mixture, as It will contain White, AVEraZe....couiiuiisiniinss 14927 | water from 42 to 82, and in Wi- And now'it leaks out that the plot to | Brown-and Groy. As to temper and disposi- Gro. 5. TzscHUCK. | nona from 93 to 3. St. Paul is | steal the state delegation has been talked | tion, there will bo a great variety, as ono e x,fids::mh:"“?fl“{!g?“““ not yet affected by the now law. In that city the old licenses for her seven hun- dred saloons do not expire until January 1, 1888, the license fae being $100. The expectation is that high license will re- duce this number one-third and pro bably one-half. The Pioncer Press is ofthe opinion that the total reduction of member s Gay, auother Bland, another Crisp and another Wise. In the matter of provis-, fons it will be well off, for it will have Oats Rice, Bacon, Hogg ana Borry, to say nothing of a very large Cobb. One member is Long and another is Hale. s s STATE] AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings, * of and hatching tor several weeks. This information we get from Alibaba Taylor, whose relations to the party thioves are intimate enough to give credence to the revelation. It is pretty certain, however, that the circle in which this willainous plot was discussed was very limited and the talking was done in whispers. The [BEAL. Noissy Tabl o ublic. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County. Geo. B. Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, g;:nu and says that he is secretary of The Publishing company, that the actual average dally circulation of the Daily ee for the month of September, 1846, 13,030 coples; for October, 1856, 13,99 coples; for Novem- ry saloons in the state, when the new law is | manner and method by which tnis con- The Blair cannery has put up 400, ?fm‘r”&&’.‘i”" ?.‘,’E"" ln‘“ w&w');m everywhere in operation, will not be | spiracy was sought to be. carried into | cans of goods this s‘;;uon.l Lot mm: Ilné’l'o}mlln. l!lfl. i %“fi wlh'fli‘;gl' less than one thousand. effect shows exactly who was behind it. | A reunion of the veteran soldiers and 10){1%"60 e e Fo A i %ae | It is already noticeable that what may | The chief plotters were the council | sailors in Holt county will be held at June 1&7_ bo termed the social effects of the law | bosses who want to dictute a successor to | V'Neill on the 6th of October. 2 003 copies: errald g b o] are beneticial. Most of the places that | Judge Maxwell of the shpreme court, and 0 “'Ih‘e S'llrnna :mmpimyk of ()mlf.‘"" knl“ Sworn_and subseribed in_my presetice | Bave gone out of existence were of the | at the samo time fling stones and mud | Weld v‘vifl b:’,:i:'m':g:l j“‘;' o o this 5th day ot Sept. A, D., 1887, lower class, which contribute most to | at the head of Gevernor Thayer. Valentine 18 discussmz' ways and IBEAL | __N.T. Fei. Notary Publie. | socinl disorder. ~The new places started | ‘Lo cover his tracks, Hascall guvo his [ means to secure a fifty barrdl flour mill, - 3 o 7 are of an expensive class, | proxy on the committee to Lee Estelle, | operated by the dew drops of Minnecha- WAt Omaha needs is cheaper brick | ynd have more at stake | who wants to get even with Governor | dusa. and an abundant supply of them. than before. Sunday selling, selling | Thayer for appointing Judge Groff in- | The waterworks in Nebraska Cily will be completed this fall and the town pro- poses to celebrate the event and sample the job. There are six anxious candidates in the field for the treasurership of Burt county and an unknown number “in the hands of their friends.” 8. G. Gorton, one of the oldest residents of the Blue Valley, died suddenly of heart disease at his " home, seven miles from Wilber, last Friday. A fastidious burgitr in Fremont gath- ered up Mr. Firestine’s Sunday pants with 810 in the pockets, and left his old coat with $100 stowed away in its folds. Frank Bogenrider, foreman of a slaugh- ter house 1n Nebraska 4 artery in his right hand with E g knifo and narrowly eseaped bleeding to death, A prospecting party of Ponea chickens returned to thewe roost recently with their crops loaded with golden nugeets, They were slaughtered, and the secret of the “find” perished with them “During the Omaha f: West Point | searcely mac papers” are more muag speak in unstinted praise of the state fair at Lincoln.” The now flour mill of Messrs. Edge- comb & Kelloxg, in Blair, is completed and ready for business. It is a complete roller mill with six full sets of reduction rolls and all the improved machinery known to science. Farmer Grossman, iving near Cheney, attempted to cash 1n s msurance policy by tiring his barn and corn crib, but the job was so poorly done that he confessed and cheerfully released the company to avoid prosecution. oanty fairs, now in progress, eld a large harvest of fees for the mivisters, Next to a corn husking, noth- ing conduces to the growth and pros- perity of the mutrimonial state like a well regulated country fair. The All-Round Liars’ association of Hastings, recognizing their worth and versatility, unanimously elected their Lin- coln brethren to exaited honorary mem- bershivs in the association. The distine- tion is timely and well earned. J. B. Felher has sold the artington Nonpareil to Norman Rapallee, the for- mer owner. The people of Cedar county, for whose interests he fought gallantly, loose n staunch friend 1 the retirement of Mr. Felher. The Bertrand Journal being threatened with a $10,000 libel suit, and tinding the shop worth considerably less than the sm, good will thrown 1n, escaped wreck and ruin by giving the libelled party an eight-line complimentary puff. Great is tha power of the press. Referring to the wild waves of har- mony circulating in the democratic camp in Butler county, Senator Casper’s paper, the Press, says: “Men who have sold out whenever opportanity offered, are its leading counsellors at this time."'* Mr. A. Badham and family, of Mills county, 1a., met with a sad accident at Trenton, last Friday. The wagon in which they were journeying was upset and his six-year-old danghter thrown out and instantly killed, The remains were sent home by train for burial. The Wahoo Wasp notes with alarm that the railroads are catering to the democratic politicians in Saunders county, and sagely remarks thal when *a ruilroad company gets so accommo- dating as to stop out in the country and pick up democratic passengers it is evi- dent that something is at stake.” T'he railroad surveyors have been busi- ly at work for some time running pre- liminary surveys over the divide near Decatur in the endeavor to find the most practicable route. At is believed that a ine will be determined on soon and the towns 1\I(m¥ the Chigago, St. Paul, Min- neapolis & Omaha be relieved of their agony of suspense. The West Point Republican punctures & capital bubble inthe following: *‘Bus- iness men of Lincoln are in a high state of excitement because railway lines running east refuse to give what are known as Missouri river rates R O T to minors and habitual drunkards, and 81. PAUL also claims to havediscovered | 1atq closing are reported as greatly less- natural gas. This will put Minneavolis | onad, In the cities saloons ut a_distance ;"‘ her mettle and s startling discovery | from the business center have been cut n that city may be expected any mo- | off, and the result of this centralization ment, has been to place those still runnming under closer police surveillance. Many of the cities and towns report public order as improved. There has been a decrease of drinking and consequently less drunk- ennesg, a8 the records of the police courts show. Andadded to these advantages is the large increase in the public rev- enue that is employed 1 various ways for the public benefit. It is not surpris- THE state bourd of transportation at | ing to learn that public sentiment in Min- Lincoln 1s doing good work. The board | nesota is overwhelmingly in favor of the has found that the rates of the Fremont, | new law and of high license as the best Elkhorn & Missouri Valley railroad are | means of properly controlling and unjust and nnreasonable,and has ordered | regulating the sale of intoxicating a decided reduction. The road will, no | liquors. b doubt, fight this order in the courts as a | It i8 such practical exverience as that test case. It now remains for our judic- | Minnesota is now having which conclus- iary to do its duty. ively refutes the assertions of the prohi- —— bitionists that high license 18 a failure. ANOTHER formidable strike in the iron | The facts are accessible to all and can- industry of Pennsylvania is threatened. | not be successtully disputed. They con- The manufacturers charge the amalgam- | stitute a solid bulwark of argument ated association of workers with bad | against which the theories and sophis- faith, and they do not propose to submit | tries of the opposition will vainly en- to any new demands. Both parties are | deavor to make any impression. well organized, and if a conflict occurs itis very likely to be bitter and pro- longed. stead of himself to the district bench. Estelle made the open fight for packing the state convention by appointed dele- gates. Pat Hawes, who between drinks devotes most of his time to abusing the governor for not recognizing his claims 10 a place on the district bench, trumped Lee Estelle's card, and other disgruntled roustabouts fell i with them. -With fifteen picked proxymen aud three hon- orary members added by the conspirators through pretended courtesy, the job cur- ried. The plot has been repudiated by the committee. The overwhelming pub- lic sentiment against them among repub- licans has proved a boomerang. — Tae taxpayers of Omaha could save a great deal of money if street lighting was done systematically, The promiscuous planting of gas and gasoline lamp posts regardless of whether they are needed or not is a reckless waste of money. In some parts of the city the lamps are nearly as numerous as fence posts. For a generation Vermont has had nominal prohibition, yet there has been constant complaint there of the amount of liquor selling. The saloon keepers of Rutland were a few weeks ago notified by the authorities that they must keep their places closed on Sundays, as though the law did not prohibit the very exist- ence of such places on any day of the webk. A Middiebury paver recently 1s- sued the warning that the business of selling rum in the community must be curtailed or there would be trouble. Two accidents within a short time resulting from over-inaulgence in drink was the exciting cause of its warning, accompa- nied by a confession that the Jaw was openly violated. Here is a striking in- stance of how far prohibition prohibits. If u prohibitory law cunnot be enforeed in these small towns, what power could make it operative in the large cities of the country? ————— STRANGES in the city who were here three or four years ago can secarcely be- lieve that they are in the same place. The activity in building and other im- provements has hardly a parallel in the country, and the new edifices in various stages of completion wouwld do credit to any city in the world. savs the The Grand Army at St. Louis. The opening of the national encamp- ment of the Grand Army of the Republic, at St. Louis to-day, will possess an inter- est for many outside of the ranks of the soldier element. These annual meetings of the veterans, chiefly social in their character, have always been —— VaRrious parts of Italy have been af- flicted with cholera for some time and pow the scourge has been brought to New York by one of the Italian steam- ors. It 18 not probable, however, that the pest will get a foothold in this | regarded by the whols people with kindly country at this time. Rigorous quaran- | coneern, as they certaily deserve to be, tine measures have been adopted, and | but events and incideats affecting the New York city 18 now in guch good con- | interests of the old soldiers have trans- dition, from a sanitary point of . view, | pired since the last encampment which that rhere is little danger from conta- | the one to assemble is exvected to pass gious diseases. judgment on, and this it is that gives it a special claim to public concern. The action of the present encampment can a strike, are reported to regard the out- | hardly fail to have a certain political look for themselves as hopeful. 'Their | significance or bearing which may have suocess will certainly be desired by all | ita inflnence a vear hence. friends of labor, particularly in view of The circumstances conducing to this the fact that no class of labor is less gen- erously paid than these miners. But | president's veto of the indigent pension unfortunately it is not the coal corpora- | hul, together with the general attitude of tions but the coal consumers who will | the administration regarding pensions, pav the advance and sometbing addi- | and the battle flag incident. It is not tional by reason of the reduced supply. improbable that when these matters are presented for consideration they wili THERE is a clique of capitalists in | arouse a good deal of contention. It is Philadelphia who want the earth, and | not to be supposed that a unanimity of, have made fair progress toward attain- | sentiment will be found to prevail re- Ang their desire. They first secured con- | garding the position which the Grand; trol of some of the New York surface | Army should take toward the president raiiroads. Then went to Chicago and | relative to these matters. There will be parchased the controlling interest of all | some, and perhaps a considerable fum- the gas and electric ights, They were | ber, who will bé disposed to judge the in afair way of building up an outrag- | president's uction regarding the «eous monopoly when the city ‘‘kicked.” | flags with moderation, as haviog The corporation counsel has decided that | been simply a thoughtless mis- the gas trust is 1llegal and proceedings | take. There will doubtless also be some will probably soon bé instituted against | who will not be willing to condemn too the Philadelphia cormorants. harshly, if at all, the veto of the indigent pension bill. These, however, will be in the minority, and while they may have the wheat crop for this year at about | sufficient nfluence to keep in check the 435,000,000 and the corn crop at 1,614,147, | radical element it1s pretty safe, to pre- 000 bushels. As compared with 1886, | dict that the expression of the encamp- there is a falling off of over 20,000,000 | ment will be a very exwlicit disapproval bushels of wheut and over 70,000,000 of | of the president’s action in both the mat- corn. These estimates were made some | ters noted. time ago, and during the latter part of The indications are that the encamp- the fall the crops improved so that the | ment will be very largely attended, its above figures are no doubt larger than | exceptionally important character natur- the actual decrease at this time. Ne- | ally rendering it more attractive than braska, it will be remembered, has a | usuat. It is to be hoped, for the welfare larger crop of corn this year than last on | of the Grand Army, that the deliberations account of the increased acreage. will be wisely directed and the action ‘I'ie anthracite coal miners who are on It now appears that Judge Hamar is not to have a walk-away for the renomi- nation. A very formidable competitor appears 1n the field in the person of Judge Heist, of Cheyenne county, who is eminently qualified for the district bench. E— It is not yet definitely arranged who will tender Grover Cleveland the keys of the city with the frecdom of the corpora- tion. The choice lays between lke Has- call and Paddy Ford. E—— THURSTON'S story about the oil room business as related before the Pacitic rallway cowmission at its session in New York last week is decidedly tishy. ——— CURRENT TOP10S. Tur brawny Scotchman who was sent back by the emigrant commissioners of New York last summer because he had contracted for labor before hand, is back again. He had made no provision for labor this time and so was admitted. Like most things, the con- tract labor law has its curious phases. aETe—— ¥ TRE agricultural department estimates e BAvARIA has stamped out hydrophobla by stringent measures against mad dogs. They should invuke the law to abolish wad kinks next! * e A MAN who looks like Mephistopheles with spectacles, named Messeroff, lectured In Cooper Union, New York, last week on ex- plosives ana scientiic warfare, He said: “One thousand intellectual, brave young men, educated in the science of high explo- sives, would be more than a mateh for a million of the bravest soldiers fighting by modern warfare. The ounly things that war Eemsssme—— taken such as every veteran can con- to the capitul . eity—that is, th destroys are men and property, and those L F e SARE Ny kN0 sophoreerED by u duly equal to sbout | scientiously support. who can kil the most mon and. dosiroy tho | PAS, Tote o0 gads from Chicagy that Omaha has. 'Fhe halt dozen or so jobbers have discovered that unless they ean get goods laid down in Lincoln from Chicago atthe same rate the two hundred jobbers at Omeha get, their business will have to be discontinued; herce the how]. The Lincolnites threaten the railroads with special legislation next winter if they do not discriminate in favor of most property in the shortest time are sure to win the battle. A few men educated in scientific warfare can desiroy more meu and property in a short time than 100,000 soldiers. So if Ireland had 1,000 men educated to use scientitic weapons she could achieve her in- dependence in two years and defend it against all the werld."” Messerof! is ferocious the country are not satisfied, and are now projecting a trust in order to cut down home competition, lessen produc- tion and udvance the price. There are to be sixty-three companies in this trust and it will absolutel y control the domes- The Money Market Ketisve!, The circular of the treasury issucd last week announcing that the government would purchase $14,000,000 of bonds at about the market rate until October 8, and would in addition anticipate the payment of $6,500,000 of interest, had an Wi mx:‘:l overylr‘udncu‘xlm. 1t is -:d 'I.hn. lm;lmdhifil: effect i,n il:nvrovlux the llt‘mo —on fhe plattoru. o .‘.‘.',‘:fi?.i".?.‘n“ ::;‘t:)n;::.illr:d‘; s sugar retiners, also, aro contemplat- | and confidence of the money market, | ;s Verxe, the famous traveler and | through the country trying to work up ing a similar combination, and of course'| which continues in a more favorable con- for the same reason and with the same | dition than before the proposed relief objects. Protection has served so well | was offered. The immediate effect was for the development of these interests | that lenders unbent, call money was that those engaged in them find it neces- | offered in abuniance at an easier rate sary to combine to stop further develop- | and time money became once more a ment, making the people, of course, pay | possibility. Mereantile houses were able a little more in addition to the tax for | to place paper on terms far more ad- o scheme to have a special session ot the legislature. Lincoln it seems wants the earth, and does not care how much it costs, so long as it can figure to have some one else pay for it.” adventurer on paper, goes abroad very little in reality. His habits are methodical and He goes to bed at 8 o'clock, and Is y that the task of the day is finished by 1 0'clock. He uses large maps, and s a close student of geography. IJs dates, he says, give him more trouble than any other part of hus work. Verne is fifty-nine years lowa liems. The valleys around Oskaloosa have had two killing frosts. the use of these nécessaries of life. An ntageous than had been pos- Of age a0d was edllu.te:l for the Jaw. “'gmv mn.fif: :‘::gvo:,'," putup 123,@ Interesting state of things this vresents, | sible for weeks, and there Wwas! fpxpy WATTERSON has now obtained a | Twenty-four ehildren have flown from well worthy of the serious attention and | a gemeral recovery = which made | firm grip on fame. A patent medicine con- | the ophans home in Davenport. reflection of every American citizen, itself felt through all tho channels of | cern has procured his signature endorsing The Ottumwa overa house was fired by ndnmm SE 2 o ot some gamin smoking a cigar in the hay- loft. The United Presbyterian synod of the state, moets in Des Moines to-day. A company with a capital of $85,000 has boen formed in Marshalltown to build an opera house. The woman's sufirage association will hold a melancholy meeting in Des Moines October 6 and 7. There are thirty-five savings banks in the state, with capital gregating 42,125,603, and a surplus of 801, The Cedar Rapids packing house has slaughtered 150,000 to date this season goh ing oft, comparea with last year of . J. Edgerton, of Waterloo, is raising cotton. He planted the seed quite late and has fully 150 plants that now contain cotton balls. Corn is all the rage in Sioux City. There are corn palaces, corn teas, corn jewelry, corn feet, and a considerable number carry corn in their bootiegs. The new gas well which struck gas Wednesday at Herndon in about the same quuntity ns the one near the dopot has been sunk a few feet deeper and the volume is now at least five times that of any other well there, aud can be seen for miles, Waebster City is very much excited over natural gas just now. At a meeting held recently $8,000 was raised in a little while for the ‘mrnow of opening a well. A farmer close to the city has had gas to use in his stove all winter, and it is lhuufnl there will be no trouble in find- ing it. Mrs. Weston, of Atlantic, who was walking along the roadside, stepped out of the road to allow a team of horses to pass, and then stepped into the road again too soon. One of the horses kicked her with both feet, killing her in- stantly. Dakota. The Manitoba is running trains into Watertowu, and hard coal there is only $3.50 per ton. ‘The Manitoba 1s now surveying a line from Pierre to the Black Hills, following the Bad river route. The Watertown Farmers' alliance are building the largest tlat warehouse in the city. They will also build a coal house 50x20 feot. There are now sixty-four organized schools in Clark county, with 1,356 school children between the ages of seven and twenty. The Dulath, wWatertown and Pacific railroad surveyors are now working on what is said 16 be a final survey between Woonsocket and Plankinton. A pelican, the bill of which measured fourteer and a half inches long, and from tip to tip of wings eight and a half feet, was Kkilled at Sand lake, near Aberdeen. estake Mining company i ) among stockholders this 225,000 pard this year and to date, That is the kind company to tie to. Two companies of troops have arrived at the Yankton reservation to protect the railroad surveyors now at work there, The Indians declare they will die before they will allow the survey to be com- pleted. oming. Tho city oflicers of Douglas pay the oo- cupauts large doses of glo but candi- dates are not wanting to look after the pickings. Glenrock, the new coal mining camp west of Dotiglas, is growing rapidly. The Elkhorn \'ufiuy wifi reach the town by November 1. Evanston is one of the prosperous cities of the territory. Substantisl bus ness blocks, fine residences, school houses, a §25,000 hotel and a hospital for the insane to cost $35,000 are under way with # $10,000 jail contemplated. Busi- ness is brisk in all lines. The New York firemen reached Chey- enne last Thursday ou their return home. One of the members told a reporter that *‘they were disappointed at their recep- tion in San Francisco, where folks seemed to want to make all the money they could out of them, charging fifteen cents for even a small zlass of beer. Omaha and Salt Lake City were the {only two places at which they met with such hospitality as they expected. At the former ¢ity the people went fairly wild, and the visitors could not pay for anything., Even the Italian fruit venaers called them to their stands and told them to help themselves, and when they offered to pay shoved their money back to them. Their band was not appreciated, and they were un- able to give concerts in San Francisco as they expected to do, on account of Gov- ernor Bartlett’s funeral, so that the trip had thus far cost them at least $75,000." —— Railway Construction. San Francisco Chronicle. 1t is stated that the managers of three great New England railroads—the Bos- ton & Albany, the New York, New Haven & Hartford, and the New York & New England—have agreed upon a consolidation of those great properties, Betwoeen New York and Boston, a dis- tance of a little over 200 miles, the time will be reduced to four -and one-half hours, and there will not be & grade, crossing or wooden bridge on the entire line. Now and powerful rolling stock is being already built, and the roadbed and masoary are to be as perfect as any in England, Comparisons have been frequently drawn between the manner of construct- ing railways in England and the United States, and always to the disadvantage of the lutter. We have been charged with all the crimes in the railway decalogue, and often with some show of reason. Butit does not seem to have occurred to the critics of our methods of railway construc- tion that we build just as good roads as the condition of the country and the amount of business will allow. Railroads are Kure business propositions, and it should e apparent that the same kind of road could rot be built between two mountain towns or prairie villages as between Lon- don and Liverpool, or Paris and Mar- seilles. No one expects to find a country lane as well paved as a city street, or a mountain road as smooth and even as Rotten Row. Observation will show that as railroad business has incrensed the character of the road-bed and all the appliances of the road bave improved. For example: the ralroad between New York and Philadelphia has been leveled and straightened at enormous expense, Hills” have been cut down, depressions filled up, curves straightened out, the track more solidly ballasted and heavier rails laid--all be- cause the travel on the road warranted it. The same may be said of portions of the Baltimore & Ohio, and, indeed, of all the great railroads of the country. When o railroad is first buil is largely in the nature of an experiment. The first thing to be doue is to get from one place to an-- other, even if short curves and stee gradients have to be used. Afterward, a8 the success of the road becomes mani- fest, changes are made, often at grest ex- ense, both for the comfort and conven- ence of the traveling public and for the protit of the railroad mmpnnz. ‘The principle of evolution linds a prac- tical illustration in railroad building, There is natural selection of ways and ; there 18 the survival of the fittest; there is the continued utrnqgle for exist- ence, and, finally, a state of comparative perfection. Give us time here in America and we will build our railroads so that we need not fear comparison in any re- spect with the best railroads of Europe. o Jie kept looking over their shoulders suspl ‘ cious-like to the cabin whero the doat b men lay ns though they were afraid the X Mqht might encourage ‘em to come oul \ fa ?n pick their company for the next day't . journey. “Si Hawkins tried to jump the fellow that drove the toam up to the camp, bul l SUPERSTITIOUS ~ MINERS. It Takes a Hardy Man to 8tart Prospecting " Friday. he didn’t know anything ‘about it. The coffins had been loaded in by the under. taker, and he brought them up as they were given to him. Hawkins told ue to come into Dutch Dave's, and the boye began to fiet their courage out of a bot. tle, in the natural way. As they gol livened up they began to joke ‘about théir tears and recommend candidate for the vacant honor. *‘Mebbe it's after the feller what stole Simpson's horse,' said Five-fin Jack, in a sort of bantering tone. ‘Ef he't ketched he’ll need it mighty bad.’ ‘“The crowd lsughed—all but Jim. He¢ took it seriouty and tried to argue the matter. ‘He won"t get no coffin,’ he smd. ‘He'll be lucky ter git buried at all. Ye THE FAMOUS TUOLUME CAMP. Most of the BoNs Have “Lucky Stones” or Something That An- swera for Them—Tom Hare rity’s O1d Battered Slug. San Francisco Post: “‘Sveaking of su- perstitions,” said the judge, *‘we used to have a queer lot of them in the early days. Off in the camps we were worse than sailors, and you know a sailor is as full of superstition as a sheep 18 of ticks. 1t was a hardy miner that would have can laugh nll 'ye want ter, but thero’ started out on a prospecting tour a Fri- day. Some of the boys laughed at the g;' '3;‘,“5 be six fancrals to-motrow tustid * ‘Ther's a dead coyote & lttle wa; 1dea, but they observed it as religiously a8 the next one. up the gulch. Mebby ye'd like ter yln U * “There ain't nothin’ in it,’ old Shorty :l;: m:xh l-gththeboys,‘ continued Jack, Forbes used to say, ‘but there must be, 1) . v Ther’ ain’t no use o' riskin’ your luck, 1f Ha#‘:‘nnl, m '.: ?' ?:'::f::;g'm}.::&:} you got any, and anyways Saturday is | of the mountain owl, but it's enough to jest as good a day td start as you could ive a dead man the cold shivers if he's ‘8 tind.’ feelmzn little off color. ‘Hear that! Et - “Most of the boys had ‘lucky stones,” | that doesu’t mean bad luck, I'm a Duteh- or something that answered for ’‘em. Generally they were medals or lockets they had brqught from ‘home.’ They were supposed to have in them some of the good wishes of the folks they had left behind. Sometimes it was a slug that had often turned the luck at the gaming table. Tom Harrity, who usually went as Hairy Tom, had an old battered §50 slug that he used to tell wonderful les man.’ “‘Some of the boys began to look ner. | vous again. **‘Shet up, can't ye!. said Jack, com- temptuously, *“Ye're wuss ner a hoot owl onrw(f' A scared fool like you is a regular Jonah in a camp. Ye'd break it up in A week ef ye had yer way.’ **Who's a scared fool?' says Jim, fir- lnq up like a flzhunf cock. * ‘You air,’ sayr k. “ ‘Yer a liar,’ says Jim. about, “The boys began to climb behind boxes “There might 'a’ been something in it.’, | and anywhere elso they could get out of M ‘ mused the judge, “Idon't know. Leunst- | the way. There had n bad feeling ¢ ways, Tom never lost it. He never | butween the two ever since they came played it till he got dead broke, but it al- | into camp, and we knew it meant busi- ways brought the dust, He wouldn't | ness when they bezan passing compli- ) have tuken $500 for that slug. One day [ ments like that, About as soon as you ) he paid it out by mistake in settling up | could sany Jack Robinson the poppin| for an outfit, and by George you ought to | began. "The two men walked towar A have seen that camp num when he found | each other, firing as fast as you could it out, The fellow had gone, and it took Tom half a day to find out which road he had taken. Well, he chased that fellow half way to Sacramento, but you bet he got him. He persuaded the fellow to swop the lucky slug for two others by sticking a six-shooter under his nose. "Twas rretly ood trade for the fellow, too, let alone the six-shooter businees, for the slug mightened have been so lucky with him. Leastways, ['ve never heard of it since Tow died. “'8till, you can't tell as to that. There was a young fellow come into camp, and he was a fresh one. The second night he was there he steered into the Bucking ‘Iger saloon and run up against the tiger itself. Ittook him about half an hour to put $700 into the bank, and, as that was his last cent.he looked mighty pale abont the gills. Tom took in t ituation and hauled out his six-shooter and his slug. He tossed the slug on the table. “‘Play that, young fellow,’ he said, 'an if you lose it, d—n le. I'll blow the hull top of your head off." He Pluvud it and won. ***Play it again,’ he ordered, when the second trial resulted happily. ‘It won again. ‘Once more,’ ordered Tom. ‘It won for the fourth time. ‘Gimme that slug,’ snid Tom. ‘Now git, and don’t ye look at a card again as long asye live. You ain’t got any luck’. He dropped the slug back into his pocket and the young fellow left camp next morning. ‘I remember another case where a su- perstition squared with the facts, ‘It was at the old Tuolume camp when things had just begun to boom. A tew rich strikes that some of the lucky ones had made haa encouraged the rest of us to hang on, The Jumping Jehoshaphat claim had got in some of the new fangled powder and was blasting nway for all that was out. Most of us looked askance at the new powder and when Uncle Billy Grimes prophesied that the camp would be blown up with the stuff or get pois- oned with its fumes, as his partner had at Red Gulch, we made the Jumpin, Jehoshaphat boys move out of harm's way. So when a blast went oft one tine mormaog when nobody was expecting it, and it Iaid out five of the best men in the camp, we were all able to sav, ‘I told you 80,’ a8 we rushed up to the claim, “The camp was extensely excited, for these were the first deaths since we came in, not counting two sluice robbers and a horsethief that we hung for luck. We stood off a hittle it, for no one but the five boys in the pit knew whether there were half a dozen more to go off. But we sailed in pretty soon and hauled out what was left of "the boys, and it was a sight to make you sick. We were pretty badly cut up about it, and when we had count. Jim dropped to the floor. Five- fingered Jack wavered a moment and fell across Jim's body. “‘We crawled out of our hiding places to view the remains. Si tawkins w the first to get to tHem, and he look down mournfully as we gathered around. “ ‘Gad, boys,’ he said regretfully, ‘we're one coffin short.’ " SRS FAVORED BY FORTUNE, A Hotel Porter Falls Heir to a Large Estate, thiladelphia Cor. Globe-Democrat: The biggest sensation the “little town of Glou- cester has known for many years was sprung on its quiet inhabitants to-day in the announcement that John Anderson, a resident of the place, had received a cable dispatch from Copenbagen that hia mother had just died, leaving him heir to an estate of $300.000. Gloucester is a fish- ing town dowu the Delaware, with a rep- utation for sbad that is not riyaled by that of any other place in the east. Dur- ing the sbad season it is the Mocca of lovers of that touthsome fish, and Land- lord Thompson's planked-raad dinners are a fond memory in the minds of hosts of epicures, who made frequent trips down the river during the early months of the present summer. With the visitors at Thompson's there was no more popular attache of the place than a quiet, good looking,.well behaved young fellow named John Anderson, He is the same man who to-day received the startling dispatch that has get many a tongue in Gloucester wagging and led to his instantaneous resignation of the place he had held since last spring, I'wo hours after he got the telegram he was spinning over to New York, where he intends to take steerage passage in a steamer that leaves for kurope to-morrow. Anderson was drawing six beers when a telegraph messenger walked into the bar room of Thompson’s this morning aund handed bim a dispatch. He was in such hurry that he got ex-Mayor Wyn- koop, who "was leaning against the bar, toread it to him. As soon as he heard the last word he let the six glasses fall with a crash, leaped over the bar and ex- ecuted a wild dance. Then he hurriea to his employer and resigned. The peo~ ple of Gloucester and those who went from Philadelphia to escape the drought of a Sunday in Philadelphia tbat began with Mayor Fitler's strict enforcement of the Sunday law never looked on Ander- son as & man with any romance in him. Yet he was full of romance. Thesteady- looking, mild-mannered young man, who talked commouplace” with a Teu- tonic accent, himself 8o short in stature thrwt, the high bar hid ail but his Danish- blue eyes and his fair hair and beard, » s21d little of his past history and nothing clesned them up and laid them away de- | of the wealth which he knew must, in the cently in the cabin we went down in | pnatural course of things, come to him- front of Dutch Dave's saloon, and Si | galg [3] Hawkins called the meoting to order. *‘Boys,”” he said, in & husky voice, ‘we've got our first chance to start a aveyard, and no town never had a 1E Boniface Thompson, as the summer went on, looked onee in a while at his . bartender, whom he unznfied only two tl months ago, and thought that he had ot tter. Them boys thar,’ and he jerked ¢ A b his thumb over h{l shoulder, ‘would do :,K-,rl‘:,n n‘.}::fl,,‘:m. m::w c;)nl::ur‘l'i.c: tive and tell his employer a little of his rut A Dane hy birtn, Anderson's ather was educated in Paris and gained & commission in the ¥rench .um{. He follywad the fortunes of Napoleon III and was rewarded for his servioes b; being made a brigugjer in the 1mperi ¥ army. Young Anderson's education had been military, and he was a lieutenaut of cavalry when the Franco-Prussian war broke out. Both father and son were distinguished for gallant conduct in several battles of that disastrous war, and when the emperor left France for- ever they returned to Copennagen, Young Anderson grew restive in his native land. He said little of the reasos which sent him from luxury at home to struggles abroad, but he let it be inferred that potitical reasons drove him from any graveyard proud, and we ought to rt them off in style. It's a rotten ame if we don't give em’ the best send off the"mlrkot'n got, and d—n the ex- nse. “‘We cheered this sentiment in spite of the occasion, and he continued: “‘What we want todo is to send for coflins, Any man that's in favor of the sentiment oan just walk up here and plank down his dust.’ *No one could refuse this appeal, and the needed sum was soon raised. n order was written to the Sampsonville undertaker and given to the driver of the down stage, with tho verbal message: “If they ain’t here by to-morrer night a committee of ther boys'll be down thar ter find out why, an’they'll need their cofling ter hum.” *'About sunset next evening a wagon | home, He worked, us he says, at any- turned off the main rond andcame 1nto | tiing he could get when he reached eamp, It wrought the cofli America. He has tended bar, shovele were unloaded, one after the othe shone with all the splendor that fresh varmsh could @ve them, : “Thar's style-for ye,” said Hawkins, with pardonable pride. ‘‘How the boys njoy 'em if they were here. By Harry! he shouted suddenly, i Who ordered six*" “Jim Davis was the man who wrote the fetter, . He turned deathly pale and said: By — there's bad luck coming. There's a'sixth man 1o this crowd. Ior- dered five coflins, and that extra one hasn’t come for nothing." “There was a suaden silence, and most of the crowd turned as pale as Jim, It snow, helped at laying the Seventh ave- nue conduit for the electrical subway in New York, rafted logs on ti delawire, drove mules on the Erie canal, served a milk route City, handled freight a little dnri big strike of last spring, was a “supe,” with half a dozen lines to speak, in a spectacularshow, was a conductor on u Brooklyn sireet car, | went to Chicago and helped to load some of Phil Armonr’s refrigerator cars and worked at no end of other employments, He claims to be a member of the family 4 : made noted by ‘simple Huns Anderson and his genial tales of Danish folk-lore. did look plausible that s coftin A class of embr, was looking tor some ou ach man | were abo felt an uncomfortable suspicion that he | Des Moin: pon their qual was the one. T only one that was | fications to ent ministry, The bold enongh to resent the idea was Five- | amination wers opened. by fingered Jack, who had been born with | prayer, during wiieh the ministor five fingors on his left hand, sod liad ed matters up by shooting oft his prayed: 0O Lord, may these examinera e lenient towards these young candis dates, may they remember the day of then' own cxamination and not be too hard with these young men.” Just then one of the young candidates shouted, “Amen "’ There was no need of that fellow being examined as to when it is proper to interject the umen partofa 1 church service. - Storm Calendar and Weather Forecasts for 1883, by Kev. Irl R, Hicks, with ex- planations of the “Great Jovian Period’ upon which our planet is now ent mailed to any address on the rece two cent postage stamp. Write plainly your name, postoffice and state. The Dr, '“-L McLean Medigine Co., St. uis, ou're a [,vlood one, Jim,' he says, ‘you're the scholar of the crowd, but you can't write straight yet." * *See here,’ said Jim, getting riled, ‘I ain't no scholar, but I don't knuckle down to no man when 1t comes to or- derin’ coflins. | kep' u copy of the letter, 80't the undertaker don’t cut any shines with vs.” He pulled out the letter, and he haa written ‘tive’ as plain as lite. **That coflin has come for one of us,’ he continued, ‘an’ it means business. It stands to reason that when a coflin travels twenty-five miles it's goin’ to get its man.’ “'We gathered round, looking about as solemn as we felt, and some of the boys