Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 4, 1887, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY. OCTOBER_4. 1887, —————————————————————————————————————————— e —————————— e ————— THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING.- TERWS OF SUASORTPTION : Dally Morniag Edition) including Sunday Ber, One Year.... Jor 8ix Months . ‘or Threo Monthe The Omahs Sunda; address, Ons ARA OPPICR, NO. 914 AND 918 FARNAM STREFY. A Lo LRI LK W LI A AWHINGTON OFYiOR, NO. 513 FOURTEENTIH BTREET. CORRESPONDENCR! ANl communiontions relating to news and edi torial matter should bo addressed 10 the Kot 15 Tue BEx PUBLISHING COMPANY, Drafts, checks and postofice orders 0 be made psysble t3 the order of the eompany, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETOS, E. ROSEWATER, Eptror. THE DAILY BEE Sworn Statement of Circalation. Btate of Nebrask: e ('ounz{"ol Doug! shing compan: 80l that the aetual clreuiation of the Dally 13es ;:;l the week ending Sept. 50, 1857, was as lows : Saturday, Sept. 24 Sunday, Sent 25, Mondav, Sept, Tuesdav. Sep Wednesday, Sept. 28 ' Sept. 29, g:luml day, Sept. 30, Averaz %0, 18, TZBCHUCK. Sworn to and subscribed inmy presence this 1st day of October, A. D. 1887, N, P, Fem, [SEA LI Notary Pubile. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County. tos Geo. B, Tzschucl he|nx| first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that tle actual rveruo daily clrculation of the Daily ee for he month of tember, 1846, 13, for October, 1 12,089 copies: for Noyem- ber, 1886, 13,348 coples; for December, 1886, 15,357 copies: for January 1857, ‘16,200 coples; for February, 1857, 95 coples; for March. 1857, 14,400 14,316 copies;; for May, 1 June 1857, 14,147 coples; v, 1887, 14, 003 copies? for August, 1857, 14,151 copies. Gro. B TzscHuc. Sworn_and subseribed in my presence this 5th day ot Sept. A. D., 1887, [SEAL.| N.P. Fxm.. Notary Public. 'Sk how big I be,” says two-year-old Chadron of this state. Pretty soon it will clamor for long clothes. —_— THE democratic county ticket 18 not yet in a process of evolution. No con- vention to nominate it has yet been called, and nobody can guess when it will be called. A uLirTLE civil service reform in the court house and city hall would be a good thing. Nearly all the officers, dep- uties and clerks have had a political out- ing for the last three days. Par Fogrp set up the pins to pocket the entire Third ward delegation to the dem- ocratic county convention, but the ‘‘corkus’’ was a corker on Pat and he only got in by the skin of his teeth. — NEBRASKA CITY is a booming town with a big ambition. It promises shortly to become the second city in size in the state. Judged from the past its abilities are commensurate with its desires and if Nebraska City sets out to attain the honor of being second to Omaha, we may see its ambition realized one of theee days. EEE————— Now that Mike Lahey, who superin- tends the court house and everybody in it, has got through managing the repub- lican convention, he will join Commis- sioner Timme in supervising the demo- cratic primaries and convention. Mike kuows how to make himselt useful on occasions. — Civir, Service ' Commissioner Oberly has stirred up a hornet's nest among the democrats at the national capital by his recent letter to the llinois democratic as: sociation. But he says he gets fat on abuse, The way his democratic breth- ren are talking about him just now he is likely to become very corpulent before the snow flies. Mg, AND Mis. CLEVELAND ought to be well pleased with St. Louis. They were welcomed to that city with double leads, exclamation points, bunting, musie, por- traits, carriages, and everything else that goes to make life a holiday affair. It is somewhat expensive to the democrats, to be sure, bat thea political capital always comes high, A SCANDAL is said to be brewing in con- nection with the recent decision in the Bell telephone suit at Boston. The re- sult of the litigation, it 1s clmmed, was koown in Washington for more than a week in advance of its publication, giv- ing Garland and others ample time to dis- pose of their Pan-Electric stock at the highest prices. IN nommnating Mr. Frank E. Moores to the best office in the gift of the party the republicans have conferred a merited compliment. Mr, Moores has not only a patriotic record as a volunteer in defense of the union, but has 1 season and out of scason been a staunch and unswerving working repubhican. His ability to fill the position of clerk of the district court is acknowledged, and his long residence i Omaha makes him a very available candidate for the place. Booprer SHARP did not go to prison after all. ‘T'he arrangements for his re- moval to Sing Sing had all been com- pleted when an order for another stay came from Chief Justice Ruger. The *‘old man’' 18 jubilant and not nearly so weak as he was. Unlike the man in the song, he wants to stay. This action of the chief justice caused much surprise. The placing of obstacles in the way of carry- ing out the decrees of justice, by judicial functionaries, is becoming altogether too frequent. Reform in the higher judiciary of the country has become a erying need. S—— LasT sumwer, when the transportation business was dull, there were large quantities of coal at the coal mines in the east ready for shipment. But 1t was not moved. The monopolists who control the market waited till the consumers had to have a new sapply. Then the price and the rates for transportation ware raised until hardship must necessarily follow among the poorer consumers. But not acent of this blood money goes to the half-starved miners whose wages wi not support life decently. It all tinds its way into the pockets of the robbing coal combinations. In a country claiming to be in the van of civilization there ought 10 be a remedy for such barbarous abuses. Liacking Confidencs, The candid New York correspondent ot a Philadelphis democratic journal tells his paper that the demoerats who went to Saratoga last week with a hurrah returned home with a confession of de- feat on their tongues. He states that without exception the New York oity delegates say frankly that their state ticket will be snowed under in Novem- ber, and that the republicans are altogether likely to carry the state. He says that not since the days following the war has the party been so thoroughly settled down to defeat. The Tammany- 1tes and county democracy are agroed in this, and only the federal office- holders venture a different opinion. A prominent member of the counaty democracy is quoted ag seaying, in explanation of the action at Saratoga: “We found the ship had to go down any- way, 80 wa put Cleveland and his civil servico reform baby on board, set the helm, and on the rocks she goes.” The correspondent says hc is surprised at the strength and bittern®us of the anti-Cleve- land feeling in the ranks of the local democracy, *‘and they speak with n sort of grim delight in their probable defeat 1 November.” Ttis believed that Gov- ernor Hill will do nothing for the state ticket, for if it should be defeated he sces that it would leave him in the position held by Cleveland four years ago, that is, as the only democrat who could carry the state. From this point of view, which is the one taken by Rill's friends, there might be more prestige for the governor in the defeat than in the vic- tory of the party this fall. It would seem from this that while the Cleveland forces were permitted to run the state convention about as they liked, the anti-administration eloment did not make a complete surrender and that when the true and final test is made at the ballot box this fact will be conclu- sively demonstrated. It certainly seemed remarkable that the Tammanyites should have suddenly become converted to Mr, Cieveland, after having in every possible way on numerous oocasions indicated their deep-seated displeasure with him, but it was a plausible explanation that the welfare of the party generally being at stake they were induced to forego at this vital time any expression of hostility. It 18 clear, however, that the oantagonism of Tammany to the president, and of a portion also of the county democracy, in implacable, and it is not to be doubted that these factions will manifest it in the only way in which they can now make it effect1 Itis a signiticant fact that a canvass of 335 delegates to the Saratoga convention showed ouly 160 with whom Cleveland was the first choice as the candidate of the party next year, and it is entirely reasonable to suppose that the large minority which declined to express an opinion was not friendly to him. 1t has been well remarked that this was not an encouraging return from a convention in the president's own state the year vefore his renomination 18 to be asked, and that state the acknowledged key to the situa- tion in 1883, 1t need hardly be said that the loss of New York to the democracy this year will be very nearly fatal to the hopes ot that party in the presidential election. 1f the disaffection in the party shall sult in its defeat next November, by way of showing the displeasure of the disaf- fected element with the president, it is not to be supposed that this feeling would fail to be manifested when Mr. Cleveland became the candidate of the party and the opportunity was given to administer a personal rebuke. True, there is a year in which the president may do something by way of placating thedissatisfied democrats of his state, but how shall he do this without offending the mugwumps whose support 1s also essential to hm? It is a perplexingsitun- tion that confronts Mr. Cleveland in New York, with the conditions by no means altogether in lis favor. He will prob- ubly get the delegation 1o the national couvention, though this can hardly be regarded as a foregone conclusion, but it 18 equally nmportant that he should get all the votes of his party at the polls, and it is evident that a very great and un- looked for change must take place hefore .he can be assured of downg this. At present the promise of republican vic- tory in New York in November is exceed- ingly encouraging. How Shall They Be Dealc With? How to deal with the newest develop- ment of monopoly, the *‘trust,” and sim- ilar combinations, is very certain to become a living and urgent question of the near future. The increase of these monopolistic organizations is recognized by all unprejudiced men as a serious menace to the industrial and trade inter- esta of the country and to the welfare of the people. It is in their very nature that they must become barriers to growth and progress, while exacting an unjust tri- bute from the public. Their avowed ob- ject is to reduce competition aud to con- trol the production and price of commodities. They are aggregations of vast capital brought together for the wholly selfish purpose of sggrandizing those in interest not by a free contest in the field of trade and enterprise, but by a policy of destruction, restriction and an arbitrary determina- tion of values. Their object is not to» build up, but to pull down, not to widen, but to narrow, not to enlarge the oppor- tunities of capital and labor, but to limit them. Their design is to withhold from the people the benefits derived from an unrestricted competition in trade and to block the way of enterprise. They areat war with those laws of commerce and interchange, the free and full operation of which is necessary to the public wel- fare and to national progress. These admitted chara cteristics of the trust and hke combinations establish their dangerous nature and impress the necessity of finding some adequate means to remedy the expanding evil. Unfor- tunately, however, those who see the peril most clearly, and are most earnest D pointing 1t out, seem not to be able to discorn a practicable way of averting it. It is a development which the wisdom and foresight of statesmen and legisla- tors did not anticipate and made no pro- vision for. Itis a growth entirely pecus liar to this time and country, and calls for wholly new treatment. There is a very respectable opinion that such com- binations are illegal, inasmuch as they exist without any authority or responsi- bility. The rghts of ecorporations to surrender the franchises they have ob- tained from the state, under specific conditions as to privileges and respon- sibilities, to the control of & body of men representing a trust who are 1n nowise recognized and can be held to no responsibility by the state that has granted franclises to such corporations, has been questioned. It would scem to be clear that corporations which do this may be compelled to give up their fran- chises, But whatever mbrit thera may be in these opinions they bave mo influ- ence in checking the formation of the objectionable combinations, of which nearly every week brings the announce- ment of a new one formed or in contem= plation. The evil is advancing, and it will not be halted 1n its progress by any amount of reprobation and adverse opinion respecting the legality of the method. It must be reached by specific and direct legis lation, national and state, made so plain and thorough that it cannot be evaded or circumvented. The question Is one which the law-makers of the land can afford to give their most serious attention to, for great popular honor awaits the man who shall suggest the wisest method of vro- tecting the people from the threatened reign of these latest schemes of mo- nopoly. — THERE i8 perhaps no reason to appre= hend a deficiency in the world’s wheat sapply for 1887-83, but there Is ‘very great probability that there will be no excess, and that a1l producing countries will find themselves at the beginning of the next harvest with very small reser Since the unprecedented yield of 1881-85 in the United States and Euarope, which enabled this country to carry over a sur- plus of 150,000,000 bushels, there has been o steady diminution of the surplus, which is estimated not to exceed for this year 60,000,000 bushels. The harvest of 1884 in the United States vielded 51! 000 bushels, the largest amount on record, while the crop of 1885 was bat 857,000,000 bushels, and that of Inst year 457,000,000, It seems certain that the wheat reserves of the world were short at the beginuing of the current year, and that the scarcity would have been widely felt but for the early harvests both in this country and in Kurope. This year's crop in most European countries is larger than was that of last year, but the expectation is that the importing countries will have to buy about as heavily as ever, and they will have to procure a larger propor- tion than usual of their supply elsewhere than from the United States. As the sit- uation now appears there can be no doubt that the price of wheat eannot re- main at the low figures that have so long prevailed, which have been below tne average cost of production. American farmers will have less wheat to seil, but there is very favorable nromise of more satisfactory returns than they have re- ceived for several years. It is hardly essary for the Biv to endorse the nominations of competent and fathful oflicials whom the republi- cans have honored with a renomination. Sherift Coburn, Treasurer Bolln, Clerk Needham, and School Superintendent Bruner are all well and favorably known in this ity and county. Mr. Coburn has made an eflicient executive oflicer as sherifl, and 18 entitled by usage as well as upon his ments, to a second term. Henry Bolln devoted himself fuithfully to the duties of his office. He has been a successful business man and has vroved himself competent and rehiable in the position to which he was clected two years ago. His re-election 1s a foregone conclusion. Mr. Needham has been chosen for the position of recorder of deeds as a natural recognition of his services as county clerk during the last wwo years. Mr. Bruner a thorough educator and it is in the interest of the schools that he be retained as their super- yisor. Tk new law requires an entirely new registration of voters in this city. Only four days are allowed for making up the complete list of voters in the respective waids, Itisof the utmost importance, therefore, that every person entitled to vote at the next election shall personally appear before the registrar of his voting district, Therc can be no registry by substitute, and failure to register will place the voter at great inconvenience on election day and may deprive lnm of his vote entirely. IN the scramble for office and contests for the sugar plums, the most important- nominations so far as tax-payers are con- cerned are always allowed to go by de- fault. We refer to the precinct assessors. It is of vital importance to every tax- payer that the men who assess their property for taxation shall be impartial and unpurchasabie Tuk principal speaker at the alleged Second ward Bohemian democratic meeting was E. F. Moriarity. We have no copy of his speech, but as Moriarity 18 about the only democratic Bohemian orator in Omahg, posterity may have to go without any record of lus eloguerce upon this momentous oceasion. —_— MR. (yAMS inclines to the opinion that eleven years is long enough tor one man to hold the most lucrative oflice in the state, But Mr. Ijams may be persuaded by his friends to change his mind, and ask for a four year extension of his lease. It is to be hoped that the registration books and blanks will be completed next Wednesday, when registration begins. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Governor Oglesby, of Illinois, is a Mexican war pensioner. M. Ernest Daudet has become editor of *'Le Petit Moniteur.” Claus Spreckels, the sugar king, is said to be worth over §30,000,000. Congressman Cox presumes that nobody but Randall knows what Randall will do. James Henry, great grandson of the fam- ous Patrick Henry, is a rising young man of ‘Tennessee. Miss Mildred Lee, daughter of the late General R. E. Lee, is at the Hotel de Nor- wandie, Paris, Mrs. Logan expects to remove the dead general's remains to their final resting place in Chicago in a short time. The vault in which they now rest in Washington s guarded night and day by a detachment of regular troops. Editor W. M. Featherly, of the Au Sable (Mich.) Monitor, has been whipped seven times and had eight libel sulits in five years, Thomas Bailey Aldrich Is notrich. He does mnot earn more than $5,000 or $6,000 a year, including bis salary as editor of The Atlantic. At the recent celebration of the Native Bons of the Golden West in San Krancisce, old General Vallelo rode ina charfot made In Spain and use@ by him in 1813, Governor Pennoyer of Oregon, who is go- ing to New YorkiwRh the Pioneers’ excur- sion from that state, will visit New York for the first timo since he weut west thirty years Carl Schurz’s tribute to the newspaper re- vorters Is as follows: *1 have never yet re- fused an interview unless 1 couldn’t help do- ing so0, and I find that I am treated with fair- ness and Justness in ail reports,” Henry W. Lawtos the old hero of the last Apache unpleasanghess, was one of the strik- ing figures at thel Philadelphia celebration, He Is aman of fine presence, undoubted courage, and rare gxqcutive ability. Dr. Holub has reached Engiand after three years of exploration In Africa, and althouch his expedition was broken up and plundered by the savage Mashukulumbe,a tribejfar north of the Zambesl, be has yet saved a large and interesting collection which should prove of immense scientitie value, (Gianeral Sherman has in Lis possession, at his oftice in New York, the original copy of the sonk “Sherman’s March to the Sea.” It 18 beautifully written on the most ordinary kind of note paper, tho verses being sepa- rated by sketches, in pen and Ink, of flags, stars, and other national emblems. Senator McPherson, in a letter to a friend, says he is heartily tired of politics, aud espe- cially of its modern methods: that he wishes never to hold another political ofice, and thathe will notbea candidate for re-elec- tion, if being a candldate means that he is to “engage ina scrambie for the position of United States senator. John R. Walsh is a large stockholder in the American News company, a manager of the Western News company. of Chicaco; a di- rector of the Chicago base ball club, presi- dent ot the Chicago Natlonal bank, and the largest stockholder in the Chicago ferald, A smooth-shaven man of some fifty years, he Mogan lite without any capital but pluck and braius, and is now worth some $4,000,600 or $5,000,000. Cold Weather. g0 News. was any chance that in the predicted coal famine the anthracite monopolists would frecze to death, the country would welcome it joyfully. o SRS A Craze Checked. Boston Traveler. ‘T'he marrying ot Sunday school teachers to Chinamen has received a check by the sensa- tional discovery that one of them had a wife living in China, RIS T An lanImnl:!lnt Featuro Avoided. Chicay News. ‘T'he undertakers of 1llinols, who are now holding a convention 1 thig city, have no complaint from former patrons to consider and act upon. —~ Hard on Sr. Lo pocrats. St Londis Globe-Democrat, kivery man who wishes to walk in the Cleveland procession in St. Louis must not only buy his own drinks, but also pay fifty cents for a hat of preseribed shape and color. In othier words, theaverage Missourl demo- isasked to make a mugwump of him under pretense of promoting the inter- ests of his party. e Wool Hat Dewmocrats. Chiciijo News ‘T'wo eompanies of ériginal *wool hat dem- ocrats” will bea feature of the iedmont ex- position. They will wear “‘copperas breeches, yellow boots, hickory shirts, and one ‘zallus,” with rosettes of corn shuck and coon tail plues for their slouch hats. Readers who were in Washington in the early months of the present administration will recoznize the description at a glance, frepare For tha Worar., Boston Advertiser, urpie is a rattlesnake in a fight,”" 3ays an Indiana admirer of a politician who will ask to be admitted to the senate from that state. ‘Thie deseription is preliminary to a remark that it Turpie and Senator logalls have an encounter 1n the senate there will be ascene which will be worth painting. ‘Uhe country may a8 well prevare itself for the worst, t to paint ,” sd she — aveln your foreground, then? “Whv, vou in my forezround, of course," sald he. “*Oh, yes! this contrast of wiite and blue G ves just the tone that you need,’ d “And the scarlet spot of my sunshads 1s the touch of color it ought to be. But now the background you want for me, To set off the blue, and the white aud rea.” 1ie caught her elose to him suddenty, And on his shoulder he drew her head— “Here is the ba ound I want!” said he. - STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. The bank of Chadron has been organ- ized and incorporated. 3 Nebraska City can now “hello” directly into the ear of Omaha, A street railway is to be planted in Red Cloud before snow flies, The harvest of oats in Dawes county averages forty bushels to the acre. Mr. McFaun, a melodious scraper of catgut, was re d of #5 and costs in Hastings for illegal voting. Red Cloud expects to make a hanl on the B. & M. treasury for improvements, when the Rulo bridge 1s in operation, King Honeywell and George Cessny, two laborers, were nearly buried alive in a gas trench in Hastings last woek. Thay were dug out, with bones unbroken and bodies flattened. Hard coal is resting temporarily at the 13 notch 1 Hastings. A number of conswmers gre kicking at the inflation and_have formed asyndicate to buy the stufl at first hands, expecting to get it to town for $9. W. I. Po “too, has resigned his position as general freight agent in Nebraska for the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley rail- road compary, and aceepted a prominent position with'the Nyve-Wilson-Morehouse company of Fremont, Major John C. Watson, the dashing commander of the troons at Nebraska City, has been decorated with a diamond ving a8 a tesimonial to the valor and vigor he displayed in leading a forlorn hope on the commisspry department at the staie encampment. Surgeon Claude Watson ac! a8 demonstrator and handled his subject with professional tende! 3 A united and painful cry comes from the coun'ry press against the extortions of the vendeors of ready priats. The makers of patent interiors are not satisfied with 40 per cent dividenus, They want all the earth outside of the cities and propose to have it orcancel the patent. The pool is strong and purse. proud, and will continue fleecing their patrons until the latter are brought to their senses. The only way to escape is through organization and co-operation, If the country press will unite on a co- operative house, they can knoek the bottom out of the pool in ninety days. Holt county comes to the froot with some mammoth products, James Cole, of Swan Lake, writes of an “iron-clad watermelon. 36x31 1nches, weighing 554 pounds; a snake cucumber, 35x154 inches, weighing twelve pounds. These were raised on David Cole's farm. On section 84, one mile west of here, I have good corn and potatoes; and A No. 1 va.fa tables of many kinde, and this is the crop after breaking. I have two squashes growing. They now measure 51x48 and 47x49 and _ ‘the weight 1 will take when I pull them. If you find & doubting man who will go a bet that the above 18 ?ntruo. let him put up $5 to $100 and I will meet him," lowa liems. Towa has 2,605 practicing physicians, Real estate transactions in Sioux City last month amounted to §500,000. The enroliment at the high school in Davenport is the largest ever known. Coal is mined in twenty-seven counties in Towa, and 457 mines are in operation. Ex-Congressman Frederick has sold his Marshalitown residence, which cost §12,- 0\:0. for $5,000, and has moved to Califor- nia. In Towa 4 establishments report an aggregate capital of $19,471,485, and 807 report paying during the year in wages, $4,225,758.25. It is believed that the prevalence of diphtheria in the country near Daven- port is due to people drinking water from creeks and ponds, as many of the wolls are dry and those places are the only ones where water can be obtained. Next vear it will have been 100 years since Jutian Dubuque settled st Dubuque. Next year the city will probably cele: brate in a becoming manner that centen- nial occasion. It will also be the 100th anniversury of the first settlement n lowa, Dakota. Jamestown college opened with 100 students enrolled. The as this year is 5 ‘Lhe whneat crop of the territory this year will reach 50,000,000 bushels, A twine factory manufacturing binding twine from Dakota weeds is the latest movement at Fargo. ‘The Yankton board of trade has j issued a circular setting forth particularly the value of Yankton's water power and inviting the attentton of manufacturers to that point, Great consternation prevails among the farmers on raiirond lands in the in- demmity L near Hillsboro, as squat- ters are occupying some of the most vuluable lands in the county, The Sisters of Charity at the Grand Forks convent have been presented by citizens with au_ elegant double carriage and phacton with two sets of harness, double and single, the whole outfit cost- ing over $300. Ll The President’s Western Tour. Denver Republican. The president has started on his west- ern tour. If all goes well with him, and wa sincerely hepe it will, the man who fills the highest oftice in the gift of the American people will to-day for the first time in his life the Ohio river. For the first time in his life he will be as far west as Pittsburg, Pa. He will visit the principal cities of the lake region and the Mississippi and Missouri river val- leys, and will then visit places in the ith, When he returns to Washington City he will have seen less than half the area of the United States, but he will nevertheless be a wiser man than he ion of the territory 5 ¢ rind that the president is mak- ing this tour. It will do him good. He will find that there are other states 1n the union besides New York. He will sce something of the west, that mighty part of the union in the future of whichis in- volved the life or the death of American liberty., The power of the nation 1s gathering in the west, and it is a power before which the east will have to bow. Some glimpse of this truth will be caught by Mr. Cleveland before he returns to the eastern slope of the Alleghanies, 1t wili be 1mpossible for the president to remain unaffected by what he sees upon tins tour, and we may therefore ex- peet that he will be gmided by a more liberal and enlightened policy in the ad- ministration of the executive department of the government than he has heret fore followed. This should be noticeab in his m ¢ to congress, the prepara- tion of which he will&oulxlh-sx begin soon afier his return io the white house. If this hope shall not be disappointed, the west and south, as well as the presi- dent himself, will reap a benefit from his tour. If he is enabled to break through the narrow prejudices which make him blind toany merit but that which is of the ens he west will have good reason to rejoi He would also by this strengthen himself as a candidate for re- election. One great source of weakness with him as a candidate is the dissatis- faction of western democrats with bis ignorance of the west, and with his clan- ish adlierenee to & seetional, eastern pol- icy. ‘We regret that he could rot come to Denyer. In the Rocky mountains he would have seen a civilization differing from the east, and also from that of the central part of the union, or what is commonly called the west. It aiso difters from that of the Pacit oast. It belongs to the Rocky mountaing, and itisin some respects as distinctive as thut of any t of the union except the south, But it is hoped that next year Mr. Cleve- land will come to Denver, and that at the sume time he will visit the Pacitic e * Mostly Vanity, Salt Lake Tribune, The two great political parties are holding their conventions now-a-days. It is the same old and monotonous per- formance with both of them. One ap- plauds the president and claims for his party ull the virtues, a sop is thrown to the laboring men, there are resolves about guarding the interests of the peo- ple; there is a fighting shy of anything calculated to oflend the liquor dealers, and the nsual clap-trup about soulless corporations and oppressive monopolies. The other side can sec no good in the president. arcs that he has be- smirched the eivil service reform record; that while he is better thaa his party, he ix unspeakably bad: it arraigns the oppo- sition for not having fulfilled its obliga- tions ov kept 1ts promises, points to the sarpius m the treasury, to the unsettled fishery disputes, to the multiplicd oflicers that have been created; to failures here 3 ssion and sion, and insist upon a new deal. e is a vast amount of hnmbug and demagogry on both sides, and a seeming disposition to demand recogni- tion and support, not on the ground of merit, but rather on count of the sing of the opposition. Still, there ought to be enough for both parties to advocate. There1s no surplus when thousnnds of of children are growing up in ignorance; there is no surplus when there is no trainng for the eyes and hands of the poor; there is no carry- ing out of the theory on which this government was founded, when men vote as they are bidden, or when they are refised a vote unless they cast it as desired. There is a woeful lack of statesmanship apparent when honest labor receives no reward save a bare livelihood; there is a manifest wrong when the rich ¢secape the just taxation which they should pay to hive their pos- sessions msured. Itisa sad misfortune that about ten thousand politicians can not, in our country, be exchanged for about one hundred statesmen. e te and Skill, represented by Colgate & Co., produce perfumes and toilet soaps more delicate than can American T e made abroad, THE PICMIES OF AFRICA. Stanley May Give Us the Truth About the Little People. A STORYNOT ENTIRELY MYTHIC, The Dwarf People That Are Said to In- habit the Country Through Which Stanley fis to Pass. Philadelphia ‘l'imes: The latest intelli- gence from Stanley in Africa shows that he had not been able to stari on his over- land journey from the Arawini to Wadi- Iai as soon as he expected, by reason of the refusal of the Arab slave dealers of Yarukombe, on the upper Congo, to rec- ognize Tippoo Tib in his new character of a Congo state official. Tippoo T'ib has applied for a force of Free State soldiers to enable him to assert his authority, and until that is firmly established Stanley will have to delay his depariure on his great march to Albert Nyanza, But lit- tle is known of the three hundred and fifty miles of country he will have to traverse before he emerges on the shores of the lake. No weslern traveler has hitherto visited it. It has for years,how- ever, been & favorite recruiting ground for the Arab slave dealers from Zanui- bar, and doubtless Tippoo Tib’s name is well known throughout the length and breadth of it. [n the spring of 1ast year I met at Kilwa Kivingi, on the east coast of Africa, Abed bin Salem, a noted slave hunter, who had just returned from a five years’ residence in the country west of Lake Muta Nzige. He refused to be very communicative about it, but in the course of conversation I gathered from him that it is inhabited by a veople called the Bakonde, who own large herds of cattle and are a fierce and warlike race. Beyond them to the north there is a great river which flows west, and which is very probably the Lukebu of Stanley. The country north of this belongs toa veople ealled the Chikombe. According to Abed bin Salem they are terrible can- nibals and barter human flesh in their markett. Stanley's route should take him through this country, in which case we may hope for a reliable account of them, THE DWARF PEOPLE. Northwest of the Chikombe, he told me, lived the Berriknmo, or ‘“people two feet mgh.” ‘This exactly bears out what the Monbotta peovle told Scnwein- furth, when he was_ wisiting Munze's brother, Mummery. Four days’ journey to the soutneast, they told him, lived the Tikki-Tikki, who lcok like children, but in truth they are men, So many stories have been "circulated as toa race of dwarfs existing in the heart of Africa that it isto be hoped Mr. Stanley will now be able to decide the question, Abed bm Salem had never seen them himself, but he assured me that a party of his people were attacked by them when hunting elephants and were obliged to beat a retreat, being outnum- bered. They are so small thatitis im- possible to see them, as they run through the grass, and, as they are dextrous in the use of the spear they are formidable enemies. Their country abounds with elephants, but he was unable to do any trade with them owing to their fear of strangers. AN OLD TRADITION. It is curious to note how these stories of a pigmy race come to us from the most remote antiquity. Aristotle, the greatest naturalist that perhaps ever ex- isted, declared that the report of trus! worthy witnesses testified to the exis- tence of a minute race of men with minute horses living in the caves which are washed by the waters of the Nile, *“The cranes fly to the lakes above Egypt, from wbich flows the Nile; there dwell the Pygmies, and this is no fable, but the plain trath; there, just as we are told, do men and horses of dimimutive size dwell in_ caves.’'—Aristotle. Hist. Animal. vii. chap. 2, Pliny gives various detaiis regard their habits and their geographi- cal position, and Homer in the Iliad mentions them and refors to their battles with the cranes. T'o warmer seasthe cranes embodied fly, With noise and order through the midway 8ky: To l;;)igrnynltlons wounds and death they rin, [ Aud all the war deseends upon the wing. WIAT LATER EXPLORERS TELL, In the history of the Portuguese West Const settlements in the seventeenth cen- tury frequent reference 1s made to a dwarf nation named Bakka:Bak Dapper in his history states the greater part of the ivory in Loango was brought rom u people who were tributary to the rreat Makoko and called Minos or Bakke- Bakke. ‘‘These little men,” he writes, *are stated by the Yagas to have the power of making themselves invisible and consequently can slay an elephant without trouble.” Further on ag he speaks of the empire of the great Makoko as lying far inland to the north of the river bfilil‘“ (the Congo) and proceeds to specify that “in the wilderness of this country there are to be found the little people that have been mentioned before, who carry on the g er part of the ivory trade thdougl the king- dom. In more J times Du Chaillu and Schweinfurth have both come across diminutive races. The for- mer when in the territory of Ashango discovered & wandering tribe of hunters called Obongo and took the mensure- ments of a number of them. He describes these Obongo as not “ill-shaped™ and as having skins of a pale yellow-brown, somewhat lighter than their neighbors. Their average height he aflirms to be four fect seven inch In every respect i description given by Schweinfurth of the Akka, who are un- doubtedly the Tikki-Tikki,of whom Abed bin Salem told me. URTH LEARNED. me very near solving the mystery of the pigmy face, fur a band of them aclually e d close to him when he was visiting the Manbotta country. He was returning to his camp onc evening when he fonnd himself sur- rounded by what he concluded must be a band of impudent hovs bent on annoy- ing him, 1is misapprenension was, however, corrected by his Nian-Nian fol- lowers, who called out to bim: *They are Tikki-Tikki. You think that y, In truth, are men i After mak- ing some show of fight they disappeared und Schweinfurth determined to visit their camp, which he was told was near, on the fo'lowing morning. He reckoncd without his host, however, for on the following morning they had disuppeared. “And thus,” to quote the explorer's own 5, “like the baseless fabric of a vis- his people, s0 near, yet 8o unatiain. had vanished once more into the dim obscurity of the innermost conti- nent.” In a conversation with Dr. Sehweinfurth in Cairo in 1882, he told me that he regretted nothing more than his inability to visit the Akka country dllrillg his stay one the Welle. “'If any- thing,"" he said, “wound induce me to again visit the rt of Africa 1t would be the hope of visiting these people in their homes and of clearing up the halo of mystery which surrounds them. Stan- ley will pass directly through the coun- try where they are supposed to dwell and not the least interesting result of his expedition will be the light thrown on the much vexed question of dwarfs. " ‘Thousands of cures follow the use all Dr, Sage's Catarrh Remedy. 00 cents, FORTY YEARS AGO, Hot Words In Congress Ending in a Disgracefal Scene. A wild seene occurred on the floor of the house of representatives on the 23d ot April 18M4, followed a specch by ex- Speaker W hite, of Kentucky, whosa sub- jeot was the tariff. He did not, however, coutino himself to the subject. Ho took oceasion to defend Mr. Clav from the charge of “intrigue, bargain and corrup- tion,” urged against him in 1825, when he acoepted the appointment of secrotary of state from Mr. Adams, and also from the charge of having made d speech in which he declared that ‘‘we must have white slaves, if we had not black slaves,'" When Mr. White had taken his seat some conversation arose amongst the members in his neighborhood upon the subject, and Me. Rathburn, of New York, remarked that the ohnrfiu against M Clay were true and could be proved, Mr., White being irritated by the remarks, made a sharp reply. Mr. Rathburn,after the exchange of a word or two with Mr., White, struck him. Mr, White returned the blow, and the parties were immedi- ately en d in & close conflict on the floor. All this was the work of aninstant. The members interfered in bodies. Dur- ing the meelce & young man from Ken- tucky, named Moore, who had been ad- mitted upon the floor, rushed into the crowd of members within the bar in a menacing manner. He was seized by some members and dragged out. Mr. McCauslin, of Obio, thrust him out of the door. The mahogany doors were fastened back, as usual, and green cloth doors substituted. Moore drew a pistol and fired upon MeCauslin through the door. 'The ball, missing 1ts object, took effect upon the thigh of Mr.J. 1. Wirt, one of the watchmen of the capitol. The ball entered the inner part of the thigh and, passing around the bone, lodged. The chairman of the committee re- signed his seat to the speaker, and the sergeant-at-arms appeared among the combatants with the mace, Tranquility was in a moment restored. As to Moore, he was seized by General Dodge and hel, tranquil till he was arrested in due form by the sergeant-at-arms, Mr. Dromgoole moved that the partie: tothe affray be brought to the bur of the house for trial. Mr. Saunders suggested that a commit- tee be appointea to inquire 1nto and res port upon the facts. Mr. White rose, and in a briof and very proper manner, expressed his deep regret at the occurrence, and apologized to the house for his participation in_it. Mr. Rathbun followed and submitted himself to the judgment of the house, apologizing to all around for what he had done through a hasty temper, and declaring that he felt nothing but the greatest respeot and friendship for the gentleman from Kentucky. Mr. Whito thereupon offered his hand to Mr. Rathbun, declaring that after the gentleman’s declaration it was not in his nature to entertain any unkind feelings toward him. This reconciliation had so dramatic an effect that the whole audience on the floor and 1n the galleries began simultaneously to applaud by clapping of hands. Mr. Dromgoole withdrew his proposi- tion, and remarked that he did not con- sider it necessary to pursue the subject. Mr. Saunders thought 1t due to the house that an inquiry should be made. The matter would go forth to the public and would be misrevresented. There should be an authentic revort of the mat- ter, if nothing else was done. Y Mr, Holmes, after some preliminary remarks on the disgraceful character of these disorders, said he felt it due to his constituents and to country to offer a resolution, which he sent to the char, viz.: “That the Hon.John White, of Kentucky, and the Hon. 8. Rathbun, of New York, be expelled from this house.’" Mr. White did the same. It must be noticed that Mr. White called upon the reporters especially to note his declara- tion that the rash young man, Mr. Moore, was utterly unknown to him. ‘Though Mr. Moore was said to be a Ken- tuckian, he vowed that he did not know him even by sight. The end of the matter was that all other propositions being rejected or with- drawrn, it was ordered that a committee of five be appointed to inquire into and report upon the subject. Acts of violence on the Hoor had often occurred, but this was the first instance of a stranger, and an armed man, in the affrays of the house, on the floor and in full session. It was an evil precedent, and the more so because the offender was 8aid to be a responsible and respetac- Lle man. e AN INGENIOUS JAILBIRD. Three Smart Tricks Get Him Out of the Westmore d County Jail. Greensburg Argus: At an early hour last ¥riday mnrnqu John Brown, who recently plead gwlty to the charge of stealing & horse, made a most verilous and daring escape from the jail of this county. Brown by some means obtained possession of some wire, with which he made a netting under and close to the top of a tadle in one of the corridors of the prison and 1ntg which he crawled just prior to the lockIng of the cell doors. After the performance of this duty Jailer Reed retired, but made his usual round avout midnight, when all scemed right. No sooner, however, had the juiler disappeared then Brown decended from his place of concealment, and after wrenching from its fastening a long seo- tion of gas-pipe, he chimbed up on to one of the gaiicries—distant, perhaps, twenty-five feet from the heavy gliss sky-hight. Kirst bending the end of the pipe into the form of a hook he then punched a hole in the glass large enqugh to admit of the passage of his &dy. Then hooking the pipe on the trame work, he ascended, hand over hand, to the aperture. Once here the pipe served him as a double purpose. Pulling up the pipe he again fastgned the hook as before and by its aid he descended the steep slate roof to the stone gutter at the edge. Ten feet distant stands a derrick used in bormg a water well for the jai and just here the most perilous ya tof the performanc: irred, to accomplizsh which required a nerve of steel. Know- ing that the crash of glass would certainly be heard and that his hope of escape admitted of mno delay, he unhesitatingly sprang in the darkness for the cross pieces on the derrick, one of which, for- tunately for him, he succeeded 1in grasp- ing. Having once beeu a sailor, the descent to terra firma by the aid of the braces was an easy matter. Once down 1t was not diflicult to elude those who had been attracted to the spot by noise made by the crashing of the g Had he mis: his hotd he could not have escaped instant death, as the distance to the ground 1s ahout sixty feet. It is well known that the grand jury huas upon different occasions recommended the . hes i reen under the of yhi with a view of security, but the commissioners have seen proper to neglect the performs ance of this simply duty and the above 18 the result. A rr Yesterday the ticket stock records of the Union Pacy which herctofore have been keptin the oflice of the general ticket agent, we ferred to the of- fice of Mr. Win ger ts' necounts, where they w main, under the charge of Miss Needbam. Big Giading. Black & McCann have just commenced the grading of South Tentn street from the south line of Joseph Redlield's prop- erty to the south line ot Tom Murray's addition, n thousand cubic yards of earth will be removed,