Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 29, 1887, Page 4

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Sworn to and subscribed in my Juunce this ¥ith day of September, A, D, 1847, . P. FEIL, [SEAL. Notary Public. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County. Geo. B. Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is secref of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual average daily circulation of the Dally Bee for the month of September, 1856, 18,050 coples; for October, 183, 12,089 coples; for Novem- , 1886, 13,48 coples; for December, 1886, 18357 copies: for Jlnnlliy 1887, 16,200 copies; for February, 1857, 14,105 coples; for March. 1857, 14,400 mg}ln' for April, 1887, 14,316 copies; for May, 1857, 14,227 copies; for June 1897, 14,147 coples; for July, 1887, 14,- 003 copiess for August, 1887, 14,151 copies. Gro, B TzscHuck. Bworn_and subseribed in _my presence this 5th day ot Sept. A, ., 1887, ISEAL.| N. P. FriL. Notary Public. REPUBLICANS of Omaha and Douglas county must not forget that the primary elections will take place Friday next. _— Tue veterans in St. Louis are haying a wet time. When they really wish to enjoy themselves they will appoint a meeting in Omaha. GENERAL SRMAN, an interview, says he left St. Lous because it had ceased to be progressive. He does not think that city wall ever have a boom again, Poor St. Louis, Tne Saturday half holiday has been called in in New York along with white hats, ties and vests. This half holiday vlan has become unpopular wherever it has been tried and it will probably be Iaid on the shelf next season. ComMisstONER MILLER, of the internal revenue bureau, is about to make inves- tigations into the purity of the different brands of beer and report the result to congress. If adulterations are discovered he will ask congress to confer power upon the bureau to prevent the making of impure beer. This 1sastep in the right direction. TuiNGs now-a-days are mostly not what they seem. The French supposed that the remains of Napoleon were rest- ing quietly ut the Invalides, and now oomes the story that they were never re- moved from St. Helena. As Artemus Ward would say, *‘most things that hap- pen ain’t 80.”” Next in order is a story that the emperor never died at all. Mg. Powbperry will favor open ses- sions of the assembly at Minneapolis, to which newspaper reporters can be ad- mitted. The knights are evidently learn- ing thut the press is their best friend. They have otten before made the mistake of trying to keep information from the newspapers which it would be better to have published. A WESTERN man tried to bring Sharp, the New York briber, a boctle of medici- nal water at Ludlow street jail the other day, but fuiled to reach the distinguished jail bird. Notwithstanding the reports of Sharp’s physical weakness, he man- ages to hang on to life pretty well. He is more in need of something to tone up his moral than his physical being. Tue Anti-Poverty society of New York city has rented Madison Square garden for $2,500 with the intention of holding o fair, festival, concerts, dancing parties ete., for two weeks. The various devises of the anti-poverty people to abolish poverty look very much like the cele- brated but useless pertormance of trying to lift one's self over the fence by one's bootstraps. A DEMOCRATIC contributor to the New York Sun gives a number of reasons why the democrats should not make Cleveland their presidential candidate again. Among other things he says: “‘He had no special claims upon the party or the publie. He was no great states- man, publicist, jurist, orator, advocate, or politician; nor had he served his country in any capacity. He had never been in any legislative body, nor even seen the seat of government!” Such is the tenor of many democratic papers. And yet all the indications are that Cleveland will be the candidate of the party. They haven't much choice. A VACANOY existing in the office of Jnited States marshal for the Eastern district of Missouri, Justice Miller, of the supreme court, appointed Miss Phoebe W. Couzins to the position. She was deputy under her father, whose death created the vacancy, and is said to have shown superior eapabilities for the duties, which she successfully carried on during her father's illness. But the reason for the daring innovation of appointing a woman to such a position is the fact that fees to a large amount will be due the marshal's oflice from the election fraud cases not yet disposed of, and which Miss Couzins would lose were another person appointed. Her father and her- self having performed the duties thus far, it was simple justice that she be allowed to complete it and get the re- ward. The lady is widely known, and noue will regret that she has been thus recognized, A Dissenting Opinlon. It transpires that the bench of the United States court in California was not unanimous in denying the petition of the investigating commission for an order to compel Leland Stanford to answer certain questions propounded by the commission, Judge Hoftman has filed & dissenting opinion which s pretty sure to attract widespread attontion, not be- cause it can have any effect upon the question, but for the reason that it will appeal to the general judgment as the morerational view of the matter and the view that must obtain if the people, through their representatives in con- gress, are not to be deprived of all right to properly and thoroughly investigate the operations of corporations holding franchises from the government and which are debtors of the peovle. The act of congress creating the in- vestigating commission clearly defines itsduties and 1ts rights. These compre- hend an almost unlimited inquiry into the affairs and operations of the com- panies, in order that congress may be furnished with the fullest possible in- formation regarding the way in which these corporations have been managed, the use made of their moneys, the ar- rangements they have entered into among themselves and with other cor- porations, their relations to national and state legislation, and all other mat- ters material to the most search- ing investigation. The intention of congress was that the inquiry should go to the very bottom of the whole matter, That the commission might be enabled to carry out this purpose, it was authorized to invoke the aid of the courts to require the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of books, papers and documents relating to the subject of inquiry. The first necessity for the exercise of this right of appeal to the courts came when Leland Stanford refused to answer the questions sub- mitted to him by the commission. These questions were relevant to the subject of investigation and necessary to that com- plete inquiry which it was the desire and purpose of congress to secure. The decision of Justice Field, con- curred in by Judges Sawyer and Sabin, denied the nower of congress to require the federal courts to aid the commission- ers in their investigations. It was held that the commission is ““a mere board of inquiry, directed to obtain information upon certain matters and report the re- sult of its investigations to the president, who is to lay the same before congress.” It was declared to possess no jud 1 po wers and to be *‘lhmited in its inquiries into the interest of these directors, offi- cers and employes in any other business, company or corporation to such matters as those persons may choose to disclose.’ It was furthermore held, and this is the most significant and far-reaching de claration of the decision, that ““The fed- eral courts under the constitution cannot be made the ads to any investi- gation by a commission or a committee into the afiairs of any one.” If this is sound law there may as well be an end of congressional investigations so far as the corporations existing by federal fran- chises are concerned, or indeed all in- vestigations involving private interests. But Judge Hoffmav does not believe that this is sound law. He hold that the rights to require information in aid of legislation are necessary, and that in creating the instrumentalities necessary to obtain required information congress has the authority to command the courts to render such aid as may be needed to carry out the purpose. He points out the obvious effect of the doctrine enunciated 1 the Field decision, which not only seriously cripples the present commission in the discharge of its dutios but destroys the efliciency of this method of investigation by denying to congress the right to in- voke the aid of thwm courts to compel the attendance and testimony of witnesses. Judge Hoffman is reported to have said that he knew of no way in which the de- cision made can be reviewed by the su- preme court, which suggests that J ustice Field and his associates were most care- ful to shut the door against further an- noyance or trouble to Stanford and his corrupt colleagues. The later appear- ance of some of these individuals before the cowmission has shown how well they understand their privileges and how well disposed they are to take adyantage of them. They will perhaps tind, however, that the people are not yet through with them, and they may not al- ways be able to command the services of aField. Meanwhile the dissenting opin- ion of Judge Hoffman is reassuring as evidence that the entire federal judiciary of California is not in the coutrol of the cor porutions. A Serjous Mistake. The Fourth ward republican club has passed a resolution inviting Mr. Frank Moores to name the delegation which is to represent that ward in the county con- yention, This is a great blunder. It sets a vrecedent which if carried to its natural sequence will do away with the primary elections and wvirtually place the entire business of nominating a ticket into the hands of candidates in- stead of leaving it with duly elected rep- resedtatives of the party. If Mr. Moores is to npame the Fourth ward delegation, the candidates in other wards are entitled to the same privilege, This method would degenerate into combinations between certain candi- dates, who would thus be able to bar out anybody whom they did not desire to associate with themselves on the ticket. T'his is unrepublican, and would tend to disintegrate the party. Its tendency would be to dwarf every issue and subject every interest to the individual caprice of prom- inent candidates for one particular oftice. Now it would bave been proper enough for the Fourth Ward club to endorse Mr. Moores as its choice for the posi- uon to which he aspires, and request that the ward delegates shall cast their votes for him. There the functions of the club should end, unless it proposes to delegate the individual rights of its members to Mr. Moores, and usurp the rights of the republicans of the ward to select their delegates in the primary. As an active and prominent republican of the ward, Mr, Moores is entitled to the united support of its dele- gation. We doubt, however, if it would be in his own interest to name the entire delegation without reference to the wishes of other republicans, whose sup- port he must have at the November elec- tion if he is nominated. We hope Mr. Moores will decline to exercise the priv- 1lege which the club hae conferred on him, and give the club an opportunity to correct its mistake. REFERRING to the projected salt {rust, the Philadelphia Record suggests to the promoters that the scheme is menaced by hidden perils. Salt is so absclutely a ne- cessity of living that attempts in any country of the world at interference with its natural course of supply have always aroused popular indignation. ‘It is pos- sible,” says the Record, '‘that the deep- seated, yet hitherto unexpressed, fecling of opposition among the people to the vast trust schemes of the day may be concentrated and orystallized against this proposed monopoly with over- whelming force. A man may live without bread or without meat, but with- out salt he must perish, and whoever endeavors to unduly tax the supply of this essential of human lite is simply & public enemy to be promptly extirpated.” Yetit is not at allimprobable that 1t a serious effort 18 made to organize this proposed monop* oly it will be sunccessful, and the American people will stand the extortion incident to it without making a single earnest attempt to rid themselves of it. We are getting so used to these combi- nations thet they are losing their terrors, and as the country goes on prospering and progressing despite their exactions the people are indifferent and take no thought of possible future consequences. A period of sharp adversity may be necessary to arouse the populir mind to a right sense of the danger there is in the multiplication of these monopolistic combinations, and start an earnest and general movement for their overthrow. IN spite of the BEE'S recent exposures of theslovenly way in which the com- missioners of this county conduct their business there seems to be little or no im- provement. The law is expli gard to the publicity to be given to the management of county affairs. It res quires the proceedings of the commis- sioners to be published regularly, but no attention whatever is paid to this law. For more than twenty years the county cierk furnished the press with certitied minutes of the proceedings of every meeting, and that on the evening of the day on which the meeting was held. Now the commissioners employ a special clerk for recording their procecdings, but his records are constantly behind, and the public is kept in ignorance for weeks as to what the commissioners are doing. We insist, on behalf of the taxpayers, that the commissioners shall comply with the law, and publish their proceedings regularly after each meet- ing. There is only one way of doing business for the public satisfactorily, and thatis to transact 1t open aund above board in a business-like way. SECRETARY Bavarp 1s said to have outlined a very comprehensive bro- gramme for the consideration of the joint commission which 1s to discuss pri- marily tho fisheries contro He proposes that it shall take up the Behring sen question and several other mutters about which a better understanding be- tween this country and Great Britain is desirable. Mr. Bayard is a man of am- bitious ideas, but he seldom carries them into effect. It will be no surprise if in this matter he commits some blunder that will humiliate the country and put the government at a disadvantage. Meanwhile there appears to be some difliculty in finding the proper men who will accept a place on the com mission, which will be the creature of the admin- 1stration solely and may find its labor profitiess when congress shail be called upon to review it. Mr. Bayard is not to be blamed for a desire to do something to redeem the record of the state de- partment under his administration, but it is questionable whether the commis- sion project will accomplish anytiing to help him out. 1718 is eminently proper for the bar to express its preference for judges of the district court, and to exert its influence for the selection of candidates who enjoy its respect and confidence. The lawyers ought to know who among them are best fitted to expound the law and admiuister justice. At the same time therc are tricks m all trades, and there is liable to be chicanery in the designation of candi- dates whom the bar endorses for the ju- dicial positions. This 1s frequently ac- complished by packed committees and sub-committees, in the interest of parues who are individually scrambling for of- fico, and make use of the bar to further their own ends. The proper method of arriving at a choice of the majority of the lawyers of the dis- trict would be to have each member designate by ballot or verbally the four men who in his opinion are most ehigible. In other words select the candidates 1n a primary elecuion restricted to members of the bar. Such an expression would carry weight with it, which the choice of a committee could not possibiy do. —— Tue republicans of Massachusetts re- nominated Governor Ames. He will probably be re-elected by a larger majority than last year, when he en- countered a good deal of opposition in the party on the ground of unfitness and for the alleged reason that his nomina- tion was procured by the free use of money. He has made an accentable ex- ecutive, however, and will doubtless this year poll the full strength of the party. The platform presents nothing new. It has the advantage of the democratic platform in declaring explicitly for an extension of civil service reform, which is a strong point in Massachusetts politics, The democrats are not har- monious, and there is every reason to ex- pect a large republican majority in No- vember. Tue council is to be commended for having done one good thing in passing the ordinanee that will do away with wooden sidewalks on our principal busi- ness streets, It now remains for the board of public works to see that the ordinance is strictly enforced. It has been a long-felt want. — Tne republicans of Douglas county cannot afford to make mistakes in the coming campaign. No man who can not show clean hands should be selected asa delegate or nominated for office. — Two of the democratic councilmen have alrendy annownced themselves as candidates for sheriff. They will run about as well as Paddy Ford did two years ago. Every taxpayer in Douglas county has a direct interest in the character of the men to be cladted to the county offices this fall. Only aken of proved capacity and established] 1ntegrity should be chosen. In order that this shall be done the delegates to the convention must be men who can” not bo used by the poli- ticians, and these arc selected atthe primaries. Heeo the great importance of the primnn; clections, which are the corner stone of onr political system. It 18 untortunate that a majority of voters, atleast of the Bftter class, hold the pri- maries in such slight tegard, and thus give the politicians the oppourtunity to poison the political current at its source. To be thorough the purification of poli- tics must begin at the primaries, and it is there that the better class of voters should be found in foren to name the man whom the BEr has described as a ‘“‘shyster, bummer, swindler and forger."" Everybody famil- 1ar with Omaha politics knows whom that shoo fits. The man has not gall enough to deny that he is a shyster and bummer, and the fact that a grand jury once had him in tow for forgery ic still fresh in the minds of many of our citi- zens. His reputation as a common swindler is as well established as his notoriety as a go-between for boodlers, We would never have referred to this debased creature had he not been paraded as a promment republican by Cadet Taylor and his sheet. Tue object of primary elections is to give a free scope to the individval men- bers of a party in the choice of represen- tatives in conventions. When the wish of the rank and file of the party is to be forestalled by caucuses and only the caucus ticket is to be recognized as regu- lar,the primary clection becomes a farce. IN the impending campaign the candi- date who has not a clear record for in- tegrity and sobriety will go to the wall, KINGS AND QUEENS The emperor of China’s wife's nawme is Kan Di. In England they compare ugly things with the queen’s bonnet, Prince George, son of the king of Greeee, is golng to serve thrce years in the British navy. The ex-Empross Eugenie uses an umbrella which cost $3,000. The uandle is a mass of splendid gems. King Humbert, of Italy, is only torty-three years old, yet his hair, long since gray, is now nearly white, Ex-Empress Eugenie is suvject to fits of hysteria after sitting all night looking at the portrait of ber dead son. Kaiser Francis Joseph’s new order of arts and letters numbers the painters Munkacsy and Angell among its first members. The empress dowager of China has se- lected a daughter of Dake a0, & Manchu nobleman, for the wie of the little emperor. Prince Eugenc, youngest son of the king of Sweden, is now twenty years old. He is the artist of the royal Swedish family, and has studied painting in Paris under the guidance of famous French masters. Queen Victoria ig much interested in Bul- garian affairs. She fondly ecierishes the hope that Prince Alexander of Battenberz will yet return to the throne of that unhappy country. She has instructed ‘the foreign office to send her in full all dispatches received relating to Prince Ferdinand. The intellectual capacity of Prince Albert Victor, the eldest son of the prince of Wales, is a huge disappointment to his family, 1t was expected that he wouid rise to the plane upon which his honored sire moves and be able, if need arose, to eat six dinners every day. He can eat only one with comfort. Itisa French journalist who asserts that Queen Victoria is about to publish a novel which she bas had In her desk for thirty years, and which she has been constantly correcting and revising. It is remarkable to what extremes French hatred of **pertidous Albion is sometimes csrried, ‘I have had a conversation with twn‘p(- sons who visited Prince Alexander of Dal tenberg a few days ago,” says the V correspondent of the London Times, *‘and the impression left on their minds that Prince Alexander certainly hopes to return to Bulgaria at some future day. “Prince Ferdinaua is not so rich as is commonly supposed,”’ says the correspondent ot the Londo mes at Vienna. 1e has about £3,000 a year, but his mother has rge capitalized fortune, most of s entirelv under her own control, thongh it is understood that Prince Ferdi- nand will inherit at least half of it. The condition of the queen of Sweden. who underwent an operation last spring, 18 ro- ported far from enconraging, She has daily nervous spasms which leave herin an ex- hausted condition, The queen, who is fifty- rs of age and the duke of Nassau's is now on the shores of Lake Macler, shie allows no one about her but her dame d'lionneur, Mlle. Ekelra. ‘I'he king of Sweden has four sons, ( vus, the crown prince, born in 1¥58: Os duke of Gothland, born in 1850: Charles, du of West Gotnland, born in 1561; and Eugene, duke of Nerike, born in 1565, all of whom studied in the university of Upsal, and are described by a writer in the Berlin Bazar as men of unusual gifts. ‘I'ne crown prince has married Princess Victoria of Baden, a grand- daughter of Kmperor William. Prince Oscar, who Is a captain in_the navy, prides himsel{ on arich ethnologieal collection, the result of his voyage around the world:and Prince Charles, who has also travelled extensively, and has written an account of his journey in East [ndia, i3 sald to have inherited the de- 0 talont of his father. The younzest gene, has studied painting in Paris, id to be an enthusiastic disciple of paturalistic” sehool of novel writing now in vogue in Stockholm as in Paris. -— The Last of Earth, Kate Putmam Osgood in the American Magazine. Death—is it Death? The shadow following still upon the sun, The one same end of all things yet begun, After the glory of Life the sudden gloom, After the strife the inexorable doom, ‘The frozen breath? nna Nay, rather see Where the new grave lies sodden in the rain, How t.nel bare earth quickens to growth again! Waiting the wonder-season’s lavish dower Young rootlets creep, & wealth of giass and tlower . Ere long to be. When Death has passed Into the land of silepce and ot cloud, The leatless land, wherein no bird 1s loud, Life lingers yet with sonz and blossom i Lio! step for step ¢0 over Death and Lite— But Life is ast! Nearly As Profieable as Ball flayjng. Chicagn Times. Henry W. Grady. of Atlanta, has been of- fered a $10,000 employment for next season. And Mr. Gra ly is not a bascball player, nor even a star in farce-comedy; he I3 only & mouth-organ. ———— Charity Should Begin at Home, Harrishurg Siar. There is nothing in all Ireland thatis worse than the wretchedness of some of the Pennsylvania mining districts, and there is no body of men who are more entitled to genuine sympathy and support than the miners. - Where Miners are “Protected.” ’ Washington Post, Thousands of men are in the latest strike in the Penusylvania coal regions, nearly five thousand in Panther croek valley alone, 1t is the same old story—‘‘the men are nnder- paid and they have the sympathy of the en- tire community.” It is, in truth, a remark- able fact, that, in a season of very weneral prosperity, exceptions, which includes thou- sands of workers, continually appear in the one state, which, more than all the others put together, Is beneficiary of our obnoxious tarift system. [P . The Modern King Coal. Chicago Herald, 0Old King Cole.calling for his pipe,his glass and his fiddlers three, was never so marry ns young King Coal advaneing anthracite at a quarter a chip and making the public come down whether or no. Young King Coal is the worst of autocrats. —_—— It Can Flounder All the More, Philadetphta Enquirer, Defore it was twenty-four hours old the Amerlean varty had two wings to it. Herein the party is different from a bird; It gets along better with one wing than with two. oo STATE AND TERRITORY. Fall openings are disastrous to famity purses. Koarney is promised a paper mill in which £80,000 will be invested. The Beatrice Democrat favors flogging as o reformatory for wife beaters. The Union Pacific 1s unloading ma- terial for shops and round house in Beatrice. Oneo of the figuring dads of Hastings has astonished the town by showing that the city will need $85,000 in cash to oil the municipal machine next year. | at Plattsmouth held its regular free delivery Monday night. The crib is so nviting outside that a dead man could hardly be induced to stay within, The Lincoln Fire Insurance company wanted the earth fenced 1n with under- ground polic and got caught it a hole of its own make. A receciver i3 looking up the fragments, Salvation army has thrown up the job in Fremont, being unable to pound @ single ray of hope into the sinners of the town. They r: ' oid Harry but could not dislodge him. The Norden Borealis is anxious to bet o cart wheel that the real estate dealers of that phenomenal city will sell Presi- dent Cleveland a corner lot before he has been in O a thirty minutes, Ereckson, the festive horse lifter in Grand Island, confessed and tarew himself on the mercy of the court. Itis probable he will be given a permanent Job pounding stone for the state capitol. There is an alarming amount of har- mony between the prohibitionists and democrats 1n the stale. A cold water annex to a democratic campaign in an absolute necessity. It allays the fire of enthusiasm withopt injuring the eflect, The stand pipe of the Hastings water- works 15 completed, and the autumn haze of content hovers over the city. The pipe is a work of art and brick and several thousand dollars. It will hold more water than the av alderman, and towers to a height of 125 feet. Hastings News: Tte Omaha lodge of Elks—B. P. 0. E.—Bost People On Earth “banqueted Tom Keene and a_ dele tion from Kansas City. From the num- ber of special “brews,” ‘“‘vintages’” and “‘draughts’ on the menu it looks likely that the closing song was not “Should Auld Acquaintance be Forgot,” but “Tommy, Sweep Out the Cork: Kearney is billing the east with lumin- ous pictures of its advantages as a manu- facturing and investment point, and modestly proclaims that it s the “Minneapolis of Nebraska.” Arrangements have been made with railroads from Ohio west for excursions rting on October 10 and reaching ney in time to participate in the fes- tivities "of an auction sale of lots on the 14th. The Fremont Herald approves the de- cision of the state board of transporta- tion that railroad rates must be reduced in the state, and says: *‘[n the mean- time, when Lincoln gets her *in’ rate re- duced on the B. & M., and her “out” ratereduced on the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley. what does Fremont pro- pose to do with h -omlmmivu il e by the Sioux City & Pacific, which has a terminus about half a mile east of the city? This thing has got to be re- duced all around or there will be trouble!” The All-Round Liars association of 1 looms 1n the land. Bill Nye been seceured at great expense to gi organization fresh and fertile points m their line, and will be followed by an ex- tinguished railroad attorney with'a lueid apostrophe on **How to Work Two Coun- ties with $6,000.” The socicty is in a tflourishing condition, ill’ soon add a real estate oflice to its collection. The Grand Island Canning company put up this season 500,000 cans of corn, requiring about two thousand tons of corn in the car. It expects to put up at a million cans of corn next T, making arrangements accordingl, having already contracted for upwar of a thousand acres of corn, and will continue to contract until 2,000 acres are contracted for, the product of which should amount to at least five thousand tons, and six thousand tons if the season is favorable. The Hastings Gazette-Journal is of the opinion that “President Cleveland will not gain much of an idea of the hooming towns of the west on his_forthcoming tour. For instance, he will remuin in Omaha but one hour. This means that lius train will pull into the old cattle shed known as the Omaba union depot and remain there until the engine can take on conl and water and the engincer eat a hearty lunch, In the mean time the cattle sheds will be filled with a pushing, jamming, sweating, swearing crowd of men who have gathered for the sole pur- pose of eatching u glimpse of the loveiy face of the president’s wife, Of the real beauty, wealth and prosperity of Omaha esident will be able to learn very n one hour. He ought to remain Y his excellency is wiser at s advisers. He hurries to St Joscph to enjoy undisturbed repose with- in her sleeping precinets, men But lowa Items, The Gowrie creamery is making 2,500 pounds of butter per week, The Tribune aflirms that the average Siony City alderman will steal nothing smaller than an umberella. The ground was white with frost Sat- urday morning at Ida Grove. But corn is entirely out of the way of frost. From the report of the commissioner of pensions just issued, there 17,379 pensioners in lowa, who receive quar- terly $516,122.47, Philip Burke, one of the oldest settlers of Calhoun connty, wus killed there Sat- urday, the wagon striking a tree, throw - ing him forward under the wagou The Salvation and Gospel armies are running an opposition campaighin Sioux City, and future options, cool and ivit- ing, are selling at forty per cent below cost. Green county boasts of splendid crops this year. Oats are in many cases run ning as high as sixty-five and seventy bushels to the acre.” Corn will be ver Iarge and of an excellent qualit yield 1s placed at from fifty to seventy- five bushels. A married man in Sioux City sent a 5 bill and an invitation for an outing to & respectable young woman and received pressing call from her father. The human cur was given several rounds of solid, well seasoned advice and will be detained at home for some time, nursing the fragments. Wyoming. Herman Schaup, a prospector from Hairey, 1daho, was found meandering on on the plains near Rock Creek, recently, nientally wrecked. The Wyoming Oil and Mining com- pany, composed of eastern capitalists, has been incorporated with a eapital of 1,000,000, Lts principal oflice will be at Jouglas. Stella Davis, a young woman living at Fort Saunders, approprinted a horse, saddle and wedding dress and startod out to seo the country last week. She reached Laramie in time to be welcomed and cared for by the sheriff. Cheyenne voices the demand for an- other passenger train on the Wnion Pacific. The long, heavy, overladen trains come lumbering along hours be- hind time with disagreeable regularity, causing discomfort and annoyance to the passengers who ure closely packeds like sardines in the day coach or crowded to- gether in the insutlicient sleopers, It is frequently the case that there is only standing room upon the whole train for local passengers. ‘The Blair coal mine, owned by P. J. Quealy, will be worked and the products in the market next month. The vein is ten feet in width at every exposure and lies in elevated Fraund sloping down to- ward the mouth or the inain opening from one side, but with a slight ascent from the other. Fifteen years ago the mine was abandoned owing to the.outrageous tarifis imposed by the Union Pacitic for the purpose of crushing out the owners of the property. To-day the coal which has been exposed to the air during all these intervening years is as bright and firm as ever and not a particle has crumbled or fallen. The Governor's Queer Visitor. Arkansaw Traveler: The governor of Arkansas had just turned from a petition bearing 684 names when a tall, angular woman, carrying a gingham sun bonnct by the strings, entered the room and, drnlminn on a settee, said: “l want to sce the guv'ner.” *I am the governor, “Shore?" “Yes, I am quite sure.” “‘Wall, 1 come to ask you why you did not answer my letter. {Iwu out in the hills. Moved out there lately from In- diany. Sent you a letter by a feller named Steve Spencer Why didn't you answer it?" “Your name, please.’’ “Jane Bromtficld, From as good a family as ever lived in the ftate. Father Wfi“ a McIntosh and mother was a Hark- rider.”’ did not receive your letter, Mra. Bromfield."” “Look here, do you reckon that feller got drunk an’ lost that dockyment?" i ‘L don't know anytning about his hab- ta.” “But don’t got drunk?” “‘Well, it's far from impossible.” “I'll tell you what the letter was. Shortly after 1 got here, Tobe, my hus- band, was sent to the penitentiary. He wasn't a citizen of the state at the time, and didn’t think his senteuce would hold him." *‘His not being a citizen makes no dif- ference.” **And he could be sent to the peni- tis 'y‘llwfm'c he had a right to vote?" madam."” it stand to reason that he ay there just the same as any “Certainly." *‘Shore?” “Of course, madam, I know what [ am talking about. I would like to tell you, before you put yourself to the trouble of pleading his case, that it 1s quite use- He 18 doubtless guilty, and I there- grant hun a pardon.” ) akes alive, man, don't skeer yourself, for I'm not going to ask for a pardon. ‘The letter I writ you at a time when I thought you couldn’t hold him him unless he was a voter stated the fact that he voted at the last election whether orno " *Then you don’t want him pardoned?” “Net much. I've done so much better since he's been in there that I never do want to sct eyes on him again, 1t may sound « little strange, but 1t is a fact, that as soon as they took him away the hens that had been mopin’ 'round on a sort of strike all spring put to layin’, and wish [ may die if 1 didn’t think they would luy themselves to death. One big old dominick the finest hen on the place, but mighty sulky and hard to please at times—hadn't laid a single egg for two months, but when she found that they had took Tobe oft she set in to layin’ an”I neyer seen nothin's to ekel her. She'd walk around the yard and sing awhilean’ then she’d go in and lay. Tobe was sent up for a year. Couldn't you, to oblige a poor woman, make it two, Governor ¥’ *Oh, no; I have no authority to extend the time.'" g “Ididn't know but to oblige a po’ woman you mout."" *'No, [ cannot.” “Well, don’t_you think vou could slip six months on him, anyhow?" *No, can't extend his time a minute,” “But you are sure that you won't let him out under a year." “We'll keep him that long.”” “‘Well, I am much obhged to you for doing what you can,” she said, arising, “and’ believe that if you had the power you woald do more for me. Good day.” - Modern Rome. Albany Argus: Portions of Old Rome are now disappearing,notably the Ghetto, the Jewish quarter, and New Rome 15 in- creasing so fast that 1ts great uprising buildings look not unlike those of New York, were 1t not for the that poetry of color, pink, yellow, terra cotta and pale blue, in which the Italians so much de- light. Great changes are going on all over the kternal City— excavations in the Forum, and elsewhe are being liberally pushed, and sanitary measures enforced. Whole streets of find buildings are replacing injand debris, and, as if its 360 churches not enough, St. John Lateran, where all the popes ave crowned, has been enlarged to a surprising extent, while St. Paul beyond the walls, which to my mind is quite as splended as St. Peter’s, has now a complete facade. Growth and enterprise are marks of our time n_in old Rome, stimulated, no doubt, by the constant stream of tourists but encouraged also by the wise pohicy of King Umberto who loves his people and is idolized by them. A Cat Charms a Ratuer. Portiand Oregonian: The strange power exerc by some cats over snukes was illustrated last Tuesday at the residence of Mr. Royal, who lives near Grant's pass. Attention was drawn to the strange antics of a Kitten recently taken to the house, and on examination it was found that she had a ‘‘rattler’ charmed. The snake, a large one, was coiled and with its head followed every motion of the kitten in front of 1t, until u gentleman who was present des- patened the reptile with a_elub. During the whole occurrence the kitten seemed to realize the 1mportan of the situa tion, and never allowed her attention to wander from the snake, paying no atten- tion 1o & strange dog which arrived upon the scene. The snake nad seven rattles, annual meeting of the Woman's Christian temperance Union of the ‘Third district, will be held at the First Baptist church September 20th and 30th, ana Oc tober 1. Progum for Thursday evening, 7:30: Music: reading of erasade by president; prayer, by Rev. A. W Lamar; music; nddress of welcome by Mrs.0. C. Dinsmore, Oma'ia; response by Mrs. M. Carrigan, Blair; music; original poem entitled “Drifting,” by Mrs. A, H. Richards, Auburn; appointment of com- nnttees; music; collection; adjournmens., BOARD OF EDUCATION. F. R. MoConneil Uhosen to Succeed H. J. Davis=Other Matters, An adjovrned meeting of the board of education was held last evening, the special order of business being the elee= tion of a successor to H.J. Davis, re« signed. Messrs, Coburn and Kelly were absent. Mr. Auchmoedy was excused. F. R. McConnell was chosen to succoed Mr. Davis, on the first ballot taken. A proposition was received from Van Court & Benediet, offering to lay gravolithic pavemeuts one foot thick fa cents per square soot, the base to con- sist of oight inches of brick and cinders and the top of four inches of the best quality of Portland coment and gravel. Referred. It was decided to purchase 600 more desks for the publie schools. ‘The salaries of the janitors of the dif- ferent schools were fixed for the year, ranging from $100 for the care of one room to to $1,340 for the care of fourteen rooms. ‘Two store rooms belonging to James Traill, Lake’s addition, were rented for $35 per month each, to be used for school purposes. A _room was_rented from enry C. Groff, Omaha View, for $35 I:ur month, and one from Gustave F. Cpeneter, Orchard Hill, for #$18 per month, ‘The committee on finance was instructed to report at the next meeting the amount of money on hand for the purchase of a olock for the high school tower, Steps were taken toward the purchase of a_school site on Hickory street, in Credit Foncier addition; also for the sale of lots on Twenty-ninth street mnear Furnam street. Mr. Ballou was ordored to remove hig building from the Paul school site. The ¢hfl'urnnt members of the board of education were empowered to make all necessary repairs, not exceeding n ;my one month, on their respective build- ngs. The rest of the evening was spent in reading the proofs for the new by-laws of the board. What Was Done Bofore the Judges Yuster: The case of Gavin, Gearon & Moore against the Wallace brothers for dam- ages growing out of the sale of the Tumes-Dispatch was given to the jury yesterduy afternoon and at 4 o'clock a verdict was returned for $414 in favor ot the defendants, Judge Groff heard the case of John Fitzgerald vs. Axel Meyer yesterday. This was an action involving the right to & span of mules purchased two years ago by John B. Furey from two lowa men. Furey sold them to Meyer a short time later, and soon after Fitzgerald replev- ined them, claiming that he held a mortgage on them deeded to him from the fowan The evi- dence was all and the arguments made. Owing to the lateness of the hour Judge Groff did not charge the jury and they were dismissed to ap- pear at ! o’clock this morning. Judge Hopewell heard the case of Sampson vs Martin yesterday afternoon, POLICE COURT. In the police court y day morning there were forty-seven cases, mostly va- grants and common drunks. George Was- ser, for assault and battery, got $25 and costs. Mr. Coombs, who was arrested for hauling garbage without a license, was discharged. UNITED STATES COURT. Edward B. Spratlin, of Chicago, has commenced action in the United States court against James Ainscow, D, R, Archer, Edward Ainscow, Charles P, Benjamm and Richard I, Mattice on a note for 5,348 and the foreclosure of a mortgage on twenty acres of land re- cently platted, just westof South Omaha, in section b, township 14. TO TREAT BOTH SEXES ALIKE, Judge Berka Will Punish Lewd Men as Well as Women, Moralists have generally said that there was a great deal of unjust disorim- ination used when the faults of a man or a woman wete taken into consideration. 1 i8 that a man's sianing has al- n condoned while a woman's has always been condemned. Without discussing the nnwritten law of society, where all man’s shortcomings are, as a rule, either excused or forgotten, it may be stated that Judge Berka has deter~ mined that morality should know no sex. He has coneluded that the sins of n man should be looked upon with as close seru- tiny and receive a8 much consideratjon as those of a woman, Heretofore the soiled doves of the city have had to pay $6 a month as a kind of license for their traflic. Each was on record. Should hing ocear that the payment was not de, an arrest was certain to follow. ‘This practice still continues. tlowever, when a house was ‘“‘pulled” the male visitors were either not arrested at all or permitted to go with n remonstrance or a trivial fine. Judge Borka says this should not be. Every man found in a house of ill famo should be arrested and fined. Upon the occurrcace of each offense a fine of $6 should be 1mposed with the costs added. This, it 18 expected, will have a salutary efféct. At least it will do away with the injustice so common in the puwt—-mnkln‘z the woman responsi- ble for the sing of hersclf as well as those of her evil companions. THE PRESIDENT'S REC TION. Meeting of the K. of Jommittee to Take Action, ‘There will be a meeting of the commit- tees of arrangemont for the reception of the graund lodze and annual encampment of the Knights of Pythias, at the oflice of E. B Frenchon Sunday morning at 10 o'clock. This committee will tauke steps for the reception of President Cleveland and transact such other im- yortant business as may come before it. tis expected that a good many of the knights ot this city will attend. This committee will only wmeet once more after this meeting, when all the arrange- ments will be completed. The business men should liberally support the knights and make this conclave one of eyen re- membrances, 1t will bring many peo- ple to the city from all over the world and be a good advertiscment for Omaha, The Nugent-Bloom Case. Jack Nugent sat before Judge Berka yes wy afternoon charged with an as- sault upon Officer Charles Bloom und May Doe. ‘The testimony showed that ut the time of the affair Bloom was officiat- ing as bartender in a saloon at Twelfth und Capitol avenue, that there was trouble between him and Nugent and that in the melee the woman in the ease was struck. One of the witnesses testis tied that Bloom and Nugent were both drunk at the time. Nugent was fined $18 and costs and appealed. Coming Matr fal K The Harris-Moss nuptials are nounced for Sunday, October 16. The vrospective groom, J. H. Harris, of Cheyenne, is the son of .J. Harris, a clothing merehant at 1014 Farnam street, and is well known in this city. Miss Ray Moss, the intended bric trom Brook- lyn, N. Y., nnd is a young lady of most estiniuble gualities. “The dd and banquet will be held at Ge an-