Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 25, 1887, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRTPTION. Dally Morning Edition) including Sunday BEER, One Year. o #10 00 onths. 500 ’5!;“!0% lt;mlflh! 20 e Omaha Sun rese, One Year ‘. . 200 OuMAnA Orrice, N 916 FARNAM STREET. NEW YORK OFFICE, ROOM 86, TRIBUNE BUILY ING, WASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. bl3 FOUR- TEENTH STREET. CORRESPONDENCE. " communications relating to news and ed?llxl:rhl matter_should be -fidmefl 1o the Eviton or THE Dk, BUSINESS LETTERS: All business letters and remittances should bo addressed to Tk BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMANA. Drafts, checks and postoflice orders to o made payablé to the order of the company. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietors. JE. ROSEWATER, Eprror. _——-— THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska, s County of Douglas, ol Geo. l{. Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Pu Ushing company, does w""ml{ swear that the actual circulntion of the Duily Bee for the week ending Oct, 21, 1887, was as follows: BSaturday, Oct. 15. Bunday, Oct. 15 onday, Oct, 17 Puesday, Oct. 18 vednesday, Oct. I ursd; friday, Ocf - 1 det. 2. 21 Average.. . o, i Sworn o and Ifllhux‘fl:}nlllu my presence this d f October, A, D, 187, 22ud day of Octobe G (REAT Notary Publie Btate o aska, 8.8, County of Douglas, {5 % Geo, B, Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, de- s and suys that he is secrotary of The Bee ublishing company, that the actual average dally circulation of the Daily Jee for the month of October, 1886, 12,68 coples; for Novem! 1 348 coples; for December or Janua 7 14,198 coples; ' for Mu 1 T April, 14,510 cop oples: for June, 1887, 14,147 copiei for July, 187, 140 coptess for A g 83 for mber, 187, el i GEO. 1. 17 Eworn to and subseribed in' my p oth duy of October, A. D. 1857, N P. I, (SEAL) Notary Public. ary pure. THE citizens’ meeting at the Grand opera house Tuesday night will express public sentiment on the judicial ques- tion with no uncertain sou HEeNRY S. 1vEs, the late Napoleon, etc., has not joined his companion piece, Mr. Ward, in Sing Sing, but he is spending a few days in Chicago. ‘WE are soon to have another inflic- tion of lean and hnngry English high tragedy. Henry Irving and Ellen Terry have taken ship for New York. Tnesilk industry in New Jersey is more extensive than is generally known outside of the state. The out- put for the present year is estimated at $30,000,000. e — COLONEL FRED GRANT, as a candi- date for secretary of stato of New York, is receiving cordial support in high places and his chancesof election are undoubtedly good. Tue afiction of Gladstone has re- stored hope to the playcd-out poli- ticians of the tory party. With Glad- stone dead, the cause of Ireland will have lost its safety valve. IT is estimated that about 2,000 Balti- more & Ohio operators will be thrown out of employment by November 1. If the report is well founded such a sweep- ing dismissal must cause a great deal of hardship during the coming winter among those who have nothing but their salaries to rely upo; THE announcement that Henry Vil- lard is undertaking to regulate the land grant policy of the Northern Pacific company in such a way that the land owned by the corporation can be more easily settled than has heretofore been the case, creates considerable interest among the people of Northern Dakota. Tur American News company of New York has become such a monopoly in the handling of periodicals and news- papers throughout the country thata reaction against them has setin. At the ‘“‘Newsdealer’s” convention held in Chicago recently, it was decided that the retail trade should no longer pat- ronizo the American News company, ‘but endeavor to build up a rival con- cern. This is alaudable enterprise, but to make any headway against the ex- isting news monopoly will require very extended and persistent efforts. AN instructive lesson on special ses- sions has been furnished by the Georgia legislature. That body was called to- gether to consider questions deemed to be of urgent importance, and after being in session a month adjourned without having finally adopted u single measure. This legislative picnic cost the state, at a very moderate estimate, not less than fifty thousand dollars, and very likely a good deal more. Perhups the people of Georgia are to be congratu- lated upon this exceptional experience of a thirty days’ session of the legisla- turo with nothing consummated. Had any legislation been accomplished the cost to the state might eventually have been much greater, besides other pos ble ill consequences. But the moral remains that special sessions are gen- erally to be avoided, both on economical snd practical groun e— THE most disgraceful spectacle is pre- sented to the voters of this judicial dis- trict in the desporate scramble which three of the candidates for the district judgeships, nominated by the rousta- bout convention, are making to have themselveselected to placeson the bench. A striking contrast with the bar-room and corner loafer canvass which is being made by these men, is afforded by the dignified course pursued by Judges ‘Wakeley and Groff, who are devoting their entire time to the arduous duties devolving upon them in the courts. Every citizen who desires to maintain the dignity of the courts and retain for it the respect which a pure judiciary should inspire, cannot but feel it to-be 'his duty to keep up the standard of our courts above the debasing level of the political ward burbmers and office-seek- ing shysters, g Honorables Were They. The Hon. H. C. Russell, chairman of the house judiciary committee has taken it upon himself to vindicate the honor- able members of the late legislature in goneral, and himself and his dishon- orable associates on the committee in particular, a8 to the responsibility for the consequences of tampering with the Omaha city charter. Mr. Russell begins his vindication by o general denial that he and his com- mittee bungled up the charter, and winds up by asking the editor of tho BEE to inform the public why, if there were boodlers in the legislature, he (the editor) skipped out of the state at the time when the charges were being in- vestigated. The clincher of Russell's card is, however, in the fol- lowing sweeping proclamation of integrity of the entire legislature: “The truth is, that there were ninety- nine members of the house, and all honorable gentlemen, no one of whom could bo induced to do a dishonorable act.” For sublime impudence and undiluted gall this certainly caps the climax. Just look at the record of the last logislaturo, with its dastardly betrayal of the ex- pressed will of constituents; its reckless wasto of the people’s money; its beastly debauches in the oil rooms and Lincoln dives, nnd its corrupt bartor with job- bersand railway cappers. Honorable gentlemen were they alll And who did tamper with the Omaha charter if it was not Russell and his associate rascals in the judiciary com- mittee? ‘What business had they with the charter, anyhow? There was a committee appointed on cities and towns expressly created to report on municipal charters, That committee, made up of representatives from the principal cities in the state, was cer- tainly more competent to deal with the Omaha charter than was Russell and half adozen village lawyers and shy- sters who knew little or nothing about the wantsof a great city. Russell and this brace of knaves got the churter into their clutches by conspiring with the oil room lobby of which Paul Vandor- voort was chief bugler. They made the most absurd changes and after holding the charter to the very last day of the session, they forced .its passage in its mutilated and ill- digested shape. The direct consequence of this outrage upon this city is that its projected parks and boulevards had to be abandoned; the city limits have been curtailed; its po- lice organization made a cause of di cord, and last, but not least, the city is left without any registration law. But Russell and his fellow renegades were all honorable men—every one of them! I"'rom Russell to Slater and from Slater to Conger, they have all had their re- ward—either in alleged G. A. R. trophies, railroad pap, or gold watches. And now a word about the honorable boodlers of the judiciary committee. The Colfax county renegade impu- dently asks why “Rosey went out of the state when his charges against them were to be investigated.” Docs the crafty rogue remember that memorable midnight conclave at which he and the boodlers arrvanged to pack the investigating committee so as to make the investigation a farce and get themselves whitewashed? Does he re- member how this plot was consummated by the combined efforts of all the job- bers and railroad strikers? Has he forgotten that the editor of the BEE furnished the original investigating committee a sworn circumstantial state- ment of all facts known to him about Russell & Co’s. conspiracy with the gam- blers, together with names of witnesses, dates, etc. Does he remember that the editor of the BEE, after returning from Cleveland where he had been called on urgent business, sent a telegraphic message to the house through Speaker Harlan, offering to come before the leg- islature to make good his charges, but that the infamous combine which con- trolled the house refused to proceed with the investigation? ‘Will the honorable renegade explain on what business he and Slater were in Omaha during the latter part of the session ¥ Why did his running mate, Hon. Mr. Slater, and the highly Hon. Mr. Caldwell, hold secret conferences with Omaha and Lincoln gamblers? Do honorable men levy blackmail? Do honorable men engage in conspira- cies to defeat good laws to punish and suppress gambling? Do honest law- makers consort with corrupt lobbyists and spend their nights in dissipation and debauchery as the boon companions of legislative jobbers? If they do then every member of the late legislature was an honorable man. Keep the Judiciary Pure, The republicans of the First judicial district have fallen outof the frying pan into fhe fire. They have defeated Colonel Colby, the Gage county jobber, and nominated Humphrey, the Pawnee county blatherskite and railroad capper. Such a choice is not only a disgrace to the district but a menuce to the people whose property and personal liberty would come within the power of this monopoly henchman. It is a matter of history that Humplirey was elected speaker of tho house five years ago on pledges pub- licly made that he would exert his au- thority to secure much needed anti- monopoly legislation. No sooner was this knave and traitor in the chair by the votes of credulous republicans who sincerely desired railway regulation than he showed the cloven hoof by pack- ing the railroad committee with mon- opoly cappers. Throughout the session Humphrey boldly and defiantly blocked the way of every effort to relieve the people from extortion and diserim- ination. When the session was over he was lionized by the railroad managers. Two years ago he played decoy for Church Howe by protending to be o can- didate for eongress, and when the con- vention met at Beatrice he delivered his followers over, bag and baggage, to Jay Gould’s Missouri Pacific attorney. But even if Humphrey was an honest | and reputable man, he is by nature, un- fit to sit on the bench. He s passion- ate, impetuous, bigoted and vindictive, A man with his violent temper and .in- tense prejudices would make a good executioner,but a very dangerous judge. —— Dakota's Progress. The annual report of Governor Church of Dakota is an interesting and gratify- ing exhibit of the progress of the terri- tory during the past year. The popula- tion is stated to be 668,477, the guain in the last year having been 68,477. Of the foreign immigrants a large propor- tion came from Canada, constituting o depletion of the Canadian province bor- dering the territory which has been made a subject of inquiry by the provin- cial government. About 2,667,281 acres of land are estimated to have been newly filed on and purchased by immi- grants during the year, ‘“ an area,” says the report, ‘‘quite four times greater than Rhode Island, about three times that of Delaware, or nearly that con- tained within the boundaries of tho state of Connecticut.” The vacant area open to settlement contains nearly twenty-four million acres. Railroad extension in the territory during the year reached 717 miles. There was a very decided increase in agricultural development. The grain producing area of 1886 exceeded that of the previous year by 1,278,157 acres, and the product by nearly twelve million bushels. The estimated area sown to wheat last spring is 8,892,389 acres, which is expected to yield 60,000,000 bushels. The stock growing interest was also largely advanced and it is in a most promising condition. Nearly 43,000,000 troes have been planted under the timber culture act, and the wooded area of the territory is placed at three million acres. Very fair progress has been made in the growth of industrial en- terprises. The statistics regasding pub- lic education show a steady expansion, and the proportion of pupils enrolled to the number of school age will compare favorably with that of any of the states most careful in promoting public educa~ tion. In all material respects Dakota’s con- dition is certainly most satisfactory, but what her people need, desire, and should have, is the right to govern themselves. The question of division will be voted upon on the first Monday of next month, and the indications are that division will carry by a large ma- Jjority. But as Governor Church says, whether admitted as one or two states the people should not be longer deprived of the right to manage their own affairs. The ac- knowledgment of this right is due them on every ground, and the partisan con- siderations which have thus far oper- ated to withhold it must not be per- mitted to longer exert an influence. Justice to the citizens of Dakota and sound public policy demand that the question be disposed of at the next ses- sion of congress. A Salutary Lesson, By the demonstration on Trafalgar square and Westminster Abbey the unemployed workingmen of London have taught the police a valuable les- son. Possibly they themselves and the workingmen of this country may also profit by the day’s experience. A mob of unemployed men had been dis- turbing the peace and quietof the great city for several days. Itscomplaint was “no work,” and *‘murder and fire” were its threats. For lack of work it held the municipality of London responsible and punishment it proposed to inflict upon the police and the officers of the nation. Its vengence was to extend to America and it took up the cause of the soven condemned anarchists of Chicago. People were fearful that the end would be a dreadful conflict with the police, in which men and women would be slaughtered and much property de- stroyed. And there was every reason to expect such a result. The whole city of Lon- don was busied with preparations for a grand mass meeting to be held in the square Sunday. Inflammatory speeches and infuriated men aroused the people to anticipate a bloody result of the meeting. It was reported that the police would clear the square and all were advised to carry weapons to prevent this. Had this actually occurred the strong arm of the city authorities would have swept back the people with awful effect. Bloody noses, broken heads, a few dead bodies would have marked the day, but worse than this, the resentment of the people, the fury of the mob and the madness of the leaders would have broken outagain, and with increased effect. Conflicts be- tween English police and the -people herotofore have always had this result. But wisdom suddenly came to the authoritics and the officers were or- dered not to interfere with the mass meeting. The people gathered in great numbers, but their .bloody programme was not carried out. The speakers came full of curses and complaints against the authorities, but they were not needed. Yull freedom of speech was allowed and the meeting so much dreaded became simply & Sunday incident in London life. One wing of the mob swept into Westminster Abbey and disgraced the edifice and disturbed the services by tobacco juice and cat-calls, but here, 100, the police kept back and the dis- turbers went home after a time, thor- oughly ashamed of themselves. No one was killed or hurt and no property was destroyed. Certainly there is every reason to be satisfied that the result was such. Al- ready the men who were in the mob have had time to think over the af- fair and their good sense doubt- less has shown them the folly and stupidity of their course. The wisest and best of them see the madness of the speakers in the square and the disgracefulness of the leaders in the Westminster Abbey mob. No amount of police clubbing could bring about this result. The people can not be driven to reason. Folly may finally lead them there, but force cannot drag them to it. Certainly a little non-in- terference is a very good thing. THE malcontents among the Knights of Labor seem to be bent on making trouble, even thoughin doing so serious damage result ' to the whole cause of labor.. The element in Chicago which was unable to do-any mischief in the lute.general assembly, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, OOTOBER 25, 1887. supported by & few disturbers elsowhere, has already begun a warfare on the ox- ecutive board, against which a long in- dictment charging maladministration and worse has been formulated. will undoubtedly make a desperate effort to foment discord and dissonsion, but it ought to have no success with in- telligent members of the organization, who will see that such a method of re- It forming abuses, if there are any to be reformed, would: be far more likely to lead to destruction than to any other result. The action of these malcontents is playing directly into the hands of the encmies of tho Knights and they will no doubt receive abundant encouragement from those who would be glad to seo the organiza- tion destroyed. Members of the order who have faith in it as a means of ad- vancing the interests of labor, who de- sire its perpetuation and growth, and who can understand that whatever ro- forms may be needed can be more safely and surely made from within than by outward attack, will give no heed or support to the policy of the disgruntled element, which being unable to rule is now disposed to ruin. MR. BLAINE has written a very cor- @ial letter to Colonel Fred Grant, ex- pressing hearty sympathy with his can- didacy and an earnest desire for hissuc- cess, surances of friendly concern from Gen- eral Sherman. not be without value to the candidate, but there is one man whose voice, if he could be induced to use it in the cam- paign, would be worth very much more than anything that might proceed from Mr. Blaine, or General Sherman, or anybody else. Conkling. that were Conkling to enter the political arena at this time the effect would be to electrify the republicans of New York, and it would mean thousands of additional votes for that party next The colonel has also received as- These expressions will That man is Roscoe There can be no question month. It should assure the success of the republicans of New York, and it would inspirit the party throughout the country. But Mr. Conkling will not be induced to do this, though he may fully realize all the good he might do for the party, and even the urgency thero is for such aid as he could render. Rejecting this call upon him, with the opportunity to resume political leader- ship which it prosents, there need be no further doubt that Mr. Conkling has permanently retired from politics. HONEST GEORGE TIMME has figured it out to his own satisfaction that he was entitled to double or treble milage and pay for 313 days in the year when he only attended 107 commissioner ses- sions. We know honest George has a very elastic conscience but we can’t for the life of usunderstand how he could draw pay honestly for every week day and all the holidays, ONE of our contemporaries wants to know why Mayor Broatch did not send the name of a new appointee for park commissioner to thc council on the first Tuesday in October. Perhaps Mr. Bechel, who was acting mayor at that time, can give the desi THE FIELD OF A new wire-rod mill is to be built at Tren- ton. Three blast furnaces will be built at Flor- ence, Ala. A large number of Italians are preparing to return home this fall. Excellent fire clay is being found in the ‘western part of Colorado. The Cumberland (Md.) rolling-mill has been generally overhauled and improved. One of the latest industries organized in St. Louis is a toy manufacturing concern. Great preparations are being made at the ‘Watervleit arsenal to manufacture field guns. A Chattanooga paint company is making paint that contains 55 per cent of metalic iron. The manufacturing stationers throughout the country are quite busy on holiday and winter work. There is enough coke and coal in the Con- nellsville region to supply the whole country for fifty years. The Norfolk & Western railroad company is building iron steamers in order to increase its coal trafiic. A Virginia zinc mine company is working an eight-foot zine vein of unknown depth at a profit of §12 per ton. During the past twelve months 5,836,601 barrels of flour were shipped from Minneapo- lis by seven railroads. A syndicate of capitalists will erect a large blast furnace at Duluth under the manage- ment of a Philadelphian, Large importations of specialties and novel- ties will make the holiday stationery displays especially attractive. ‘The producers of petroleum are more seri- ously inclined to restrict production now than they have been for years. A Pittsburg firm has a contract for several thousand tons of steel to go into the hulls of two government cruisers, England recognizes that the custom of the German manufacturers working on Sun- day is putting it to a disadvantage. English car builders are having a groat de- mand for iron and steel cars for Hindoostan, where the climate is against wood. The principal proprietor of a Rome (N. Y.) locomotive works was once & day hand in Colv's pistol factory at$1.50 per day. The sewing machine manufacturers are running their works nearly full, andare find- ing profitable markets in the far west. A Massachusetts shovel manufactory has been removed to Terre Haute, Ind., where it will turn out 150 dozen shovels per day. During the past few weeks the manufao- turers of jewelry were favored with an in- creased amount of orders for the holidays. A Frenchman has been found who pro- poses the building of a bridge across tho Dover channel. He spggests a cantalever. —_— A Want That is Not Filled. New York World, ‘What theocountry seems to need is bank officials whose characters dovetail with their reputations for uprightness, ——— A Dangerous Load. Memphis Appeal. Free whisky, free beer and free tobacco, with a heavy duty on sugar and other neces- saries of life, is & load the democratic party cannot shoulder with safety, e More Such Surprises Wanted, % New York World. The. passengers on the Croton ' special trains on the New York Central & Hudson river railroad were agreeably surprised - when they got aboard at the various stations _one day recently to find the cars comfortably heated by steam direct from the locomotive, and all tho stoves removed. —_——— The Worst of Robbers. Chicago Herald. The bunko man has more milk of human kindness than tho coal conspirator. strosses and widows, strect car drivers and street sweepers, —— Detroit Free Press. Let the price of coal go up to 8§20 per ton, and it won't bo two years before American genius will invent some way of beating our houses without it. Just let the coal dealers make & note on't. m—— Hurry up the Equipment. Philadelphia Times, In the future, when & reporter goes armed with o vest pocket detective camera and an the public man who gets himself interviewed for the purpose of denying the interview will dis- improved Edison pocket phonograph, appear from sight. —— Autumn Leaves. Judge. The autumn leaves aro here, , dear! My wife will gather them, ear, She says ul‘:lx?y'u look “real sweet” when pres: I suppose she must know best, But 1 mysclf am 8o distressed. 1 drop a tear, If in any of my books 1 look, ) Or my papers they are “took" And shook, A shower of leaves from them will spring Like robin redbreasts on the wing, Covering np most everything, Lxcept the cook. I have begged upon my knees The breeze ‘Would not another leaf blow oft The trees; Tor it makes me really wilt To see the house that I havo built * ‘Transformed into a crazy quilt By these Blankity blank!! blanked!!! Autumn leaves. ———— STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Benkleman is agitating for a 85,000 school house, The Ord broom factory cannot keep up with orders. There are seventy-three schools in full blast in Antelope county. rank Havalack, of Ravenna, while delirious with typ‘-l by jumping into a well. A gray whiskered Uncle Tom’s Cabin still lingers in the state hounding the natives for surplus pennies. Nebraska Cit, of the new B, & M. bridge and testing the water works. Whipping posts for wife beaters would grow luxuriantly in these parts, even in winter. There is a gcuuru{ need of such timber, and liberal patron- age is guaranteed in advance. Fremont’s packing house is nearly ready for the winter slaughter. The main building is 132x106 feet, five stories high. The walls are up and en- closed and the machinery is being put in place. The Norfolk high school boys are running a legislative assembly on the heroic plan. without an oil room and its stimulating influence. ing for a prominent boodler to open the lobby. The W. C. T. U. columns of the country are acquiring flavor and variety with items of this class: editor sat down to a game of poker the other evening and went_away richer to the extent of $15,000. The Iuck of the American editor is changing in & gradual but cheerful manner.” The Plattsmouth Journal calculates on a big boom for that burg “if the Mis- souri should build next spring into Omaha, by way of Plattsmouth, from its station at Union, this county, and thus save eighteen miles of distanco on its through line between Kansas City and its Omaha terminus.” That measly “if” is the rub. The South Sioux City Sun draws on its imagination to say that the BEE has fallen on the neck of Dave Mercer and called him blessed. The BEE has not changed its opinion of Dave in the slightest degree, nor can Dave change his spots as an oil room lobbyist nor dis- prove his incompetency for the position e seeks to ornament with cheek. Al Fairbrother has sold his interest in the South Sioux City Sun to W. C. Fairbrother, who will divide shines during the winter with Will Jay. Al goes to California to recuperate from recent exhausting labors in polishing off the wicked in the northeast. Al- though haggard and woebagone in poetic appearance, he retaiua his ceme- tery smile, and will attend several po- litical funerals in the southeast before he hies to the golden coast. As a po- litical funeral director and dissector his peerless presence fills the corpse with cold chills and makes glad the heart of the sexton. Here is the way the Ainsworth News commends Omaha’s reception of Cleve- land: *‘The Omahadailies devote more than a solid page to the visit of the president_in that city, and the display }ur exceeded anything which that proud city eversaw before. Everybodyseemed individually interested in doing his or her share in the two-hours parade, and Nebraska may well feel proud of the honor conferred on this distinguished official by the proud Gate City. The northwest sends greeting to Omaha for her successful efforts in entertainment. If flags, bunting, triumphal arches, military, plumed knights, thousands of people and a long parade column have any weight, Nebraska must have se- cured grand recognition.” Towa 1tems, The interest bearing debt of the state is $429,413. Dunlap, it is said, has a candidate for the suffrages of the people who has not taken a newspaper for fourteen years. Dave Swearingor, a carpenter, died very suddenly at his home at Creston Thursday. There are suspicions of foul play. There is joy in the camp of the wicked in the state, A prominent preacher, at $50 a night, announces that hell is an extinct crater. Burlington expended during the past year 535,000 in support of its schools. Total number of pupils was 4,455; num- ber of teachers employed, 80. James L. Estes, a former resident of Keokuk, died in Chicagolast week aged eighty-two years. In 1845 he was sheriff of Lee county and effected the capture of Hodges at Nauvoo. Wyoming. The Cheyenne & Northern road is operated on the go-as-you-please plan. The Burlington company is overhaul- ing the Warren mercantile building in Cheyenne for depot purposes. The soda works at Laramie have been loased to eastern men and will be en- larged and operated during the winter. The Northwestern road will be ironed to Glenrock this week, where it will No bunko man ever confessed to robbing seam- oid fever, suicided will illuminate her section of the valley on] Thursday night of next week by laying the corner stone They are Russel- ‘A Dukota camp for the winter; In a very fow days the company will be ready to ship coal from the Deer Creck mines, whic! are reached by side tracks, ote., and which are now being worked by a large force of miners. The Deer Creek coal is claimed to bo of fair quality. From all accounts, the Ogallala Land and Cattle company is likely to absorb no less than a dozen of the smaller brands now located in the country north of Douglas. The purchase of Charley Campbell’s outfit, with soveral others, is reported, unofficially. Mr. Paxton received seventy-four cars of cattle from their old Nebraska range lust week, which was dr! rih. — BOOK REVIEW. Stall’s Lutheran Year-Book and His- torical Quarterly for 1887, complete in four numbers, is now for salo by the edi- tor, Rev. Sylvanus Stall, A. M., Lan- caster, Pa. The Lutheran church in the United States has grown more than twice as much during the last twenty years as during the 250 years provious. Stall’s Year-Book and quarterlies present this “Mother Church of the Reformation” and is of value to all who would acquaint themselves with this branch of the Chvistiun church. The May and August numbers combined in one issue, contain 133 pictures of Lutheran institutions, churches, pastors, ete., ete., is called the Art Edition andsells at 25 cents, The Year-Book for 1888 is promised by November 1. * s “Julian Mortimer; Or, a Brave Boy’s Struggles for Home and_ Fortune,” is o late book issued by A. L. Burt, 162 ‘Williams street. and written by Harry Castlemon. You can count on the fingers of your two hands almost, the writers of boys’ stories which the boys themselves really like, and to whose work no ex- ception can be taken by ‘mrcnm. Harry Castlemon is one of these, and his stories of western adventures and sea- faring life are the best of their class. “Julian Mortimer” is as good as any- thing he has ever written and is a story that all boys will take delight in read- ing. Itis the first of his stories obtain- able in a cheap form, and the second of the excellent *‘Boys’ Home Library,” a series which is to include boys’ books of the highest grade at a low price. It is for sale at J. S. C:xumold's. e The Millenium is a late and yaluable addition by the publishing house of Peter Paul & Bro., Buffalo, N. Y. In this_interesting book of over one hun- dred pages, Bishop Kohr accounts for the great diversity of opinion among religious people regarding the Millen- ium and other subjects, and takes the novel but positive position, that in- stead of the Millenium coming in the future, as is generally looked for, it is hero at the present time, having com- menced at, tYm day of pentacost and will continue till Christ will come again to judge the world. The positive scrip- ture ground given for each assertion made is noticeable, as contrasting with the theoretical reasoning usually em- ployed in treating on the Millenium. Tho subject of church unity is_briefly treated on, in & concise, convineing and conclusive manner, with the same no- ticeable featuro of scriptural ground clearly given for each position taken. In conclusion Antichrist is vividly portrayed from the same charac- teristio scriptural ngthority. ' A book edtitled “Jack Hall; or The School Days of An American Boy,” by Robert Grant, author of “*Face to I'ace,” “The Confesslons of a Frivolous Girl,” ete., is a late addition to the boys li- brary. The book is published by Jor- don, Marsh & Co., Boston, and will be found to be excellent reading matter for the boys. PERIODICALS. The October number of The Writer begins the sccond half year of that bright magazine with the addition of eight pages, the best of proof that the enterpriso is meeting with the success it deserves. ‘““What is the Ideal Dra- matic Criticism?” {8 a question an- swered by fifteen of the leading dra- metic critics and theatrical managers of the country, among them Daniel Froh- man, J. H. McVicker, Harry M’Glenn, Howard Malcom Ticknor,George Edgar Montgomery, Alfred Ayres, Elwyn A. Barron and Stephen Itiske. A ver witty article on_**A Country Editor’s Trials” is by E. F. Burns. Henry W. Blake, long city editor of the Spring- field Republican, writes of ‘‘Reporters —Traditional, Actual, Tdeal.” = Other articles are: ‘‘Fine Points of Punctua- tion,” M. T\ Bigelow; “A Desk Editor’s Nightmares,” H. L. Richards, jr.; “Methods of T. S. Arthur,” D. L. Mil- i “The Country Paragrapher,” H. S. Canfield, and “How to Make Writing Pay,” C. M. Hammond. The address of The Writer is Box 1905, Boston, and its price is $1 a year. The November number of the *‘Popu- lar Science Monthly,” will contain tho fifth paper of the Hon. David A. Well's discussions on the ‘“The Iiconomic Dis- tuabances Since 1873.” 1In it Mr. Wells will show that increased facilities and cheapness of manufacture and transpor- tation have been the chief factor in de- pressing prices, while scarcity of gold has had but little to do with the mat- ter; in fact, that gold is not scarce, but is more abundant, in proportion to the need of it, than ever efore. ' Within recent wecks an amusing story has gone the rounds of the press, to the effect that the American Maga- zine was to be conducted for the benefit of its contributors, who would receive stock in payment for their litcrnri\; work. The }mmuruph has called fort] much pity for the editor of a magazine 80 managed; wasted tears, s _the story never had any foundation and is wholly untrue. In its new volume, beginning with the November number, the American Magazine will add some very i features to its monthly de) these will include book views by Julian Hawthorne, a ‘Calendar of Health,” by Dr. Hutchinson, and ““Houschold Art,” with illustrations, by Jennie June. - Scribner’s Magazine will signalize the completion of its first yoar by the pub- lication of & superb Christmas number, Its contents will be chiefly poetry and fiction, and literature appropriate to the season. The number of illustra- tions will be greatly increased, and will represent the best and most original work of American artists and engravers. The cover is to be enriched by a special border. printed in gold; but notwith- standing the fact that the preparation of this number has necessitated, of course, a greatly increased cost, the rice will remain as usual, 25 cents, Klinn Olive Risley Seward, the adopted duughter of the ex-sccretary, will tell in the November number of Scribuer’s magazine a hitherto unwritten chapter of the diplomatic history of our coun- try; regurding the abortive treaty with Denmark for the purchase of the island of St. Thomas. » v The Engineering und Building Rec- ord is the title of the paper hitherto known as the Sanitary Engineer, the old name being retained as a sub-title, On making this change it says editori- ally: “We have decided to change the name of this journal to the title given in this issuo. Our objoct is simply to convey by the first part of the name adopted the scope of the matter it regu. larly gives its readers,” - AMUSEMENTS. Revival of “Evangeline” at Boyd's Opera House, Last Night. “Evangeline” died a natural death many yoars ago. Sincoits domise, many of the netors, actresses and vocalists who brought it into life, or rather, who nursed and cared for it after it had becn born, have, alas, fol- lowed it to the grave. To thousands tho memory of those men and women is still sacred, but the piece lives only in the mem- ory of thoso who love tho past. ‘“‘Kvange- line” was a burlesque. It is & burlesque to- day. Itthrived when burlesques were in demand. It fuiled, when the publio grew weary of rotten puns and indifferent pun- sters, and it wus supposed, buried for all timo when comic opera bid for and ‘was nccorded popular appreciation, “Evangeline” has been revived. But it is only un alleged revival. It is simply a ro- newal of the heretoforo unsuccessiul effort to galvanizo a corpse. For a time there may bo momentary cvidence of the successful ape plication of tho battery, but when the arti. ficial moans of resuscitation are removed the cadaver will return to the quiescent state which nature {ntended for it. *Evan geline” is now being gulvanized, but the re- vivification will lust' for but a seison, The compuny which produced the pioce ad Boyd's last night is well dressed—by this is meant that tho costumes in main uro new and become tho wearers, The women aro pretty, or at least most of them appoar protty under flossy curls and in attractive vesture, But tho singing of all is scarcely above mediocrity. Comparisons are odious; but it woud be dra- matic ' sacriloge to comparo tho oid companies us vocalists with the pres- ent one. Last night there were but two or three picces encored out of about two dozen, and tho encouragoment those received was not very warm. Some of the vocul numbers are new and p belongs to tho of the audionco Moflit as the Lo fisher, Barney R and Sherman Wado as ric policeman. The puns provoled groans, and the audience sat out the whole performance admiring the few features above outlined. THE OLYMPIC. Tho Olympic theatro opened with almost an entire new bill last cvening. The first Jurt, was completely changed,” and ‘Junio cCroe mado it as interesting as usual, The new people are Morriscy and Stehle, change artists: Emma Leon, vocalist; Jeromo, con- tortionlst; Aggic Wells, vocalist and_change artist; Frank und Clara Marion, Irish sketoh artists. Tho entertainment olosed with the laughable farco entitled “She,” in which Junie McCree, Bessie Saunders, Joo Byron and John J. Sellon took part. CITIZENS' MEETING. To the People of the Third Judicial District of Nebraska. ‘We, the undersigned citizens of the Third judicial district of Nebraska, horeby join in a call for a public meet- ing to be held at the Grand opora house in Omaha, this Tuesday evening, Octo- ber 25, and name the following citziens as an exocutive committee to name chair- man, and have full control of all ar- rangements: John L. McCague, Charles A. Coo, J. 3. Brown, James W. Savage, W. V. Morse. The object of said meeting shall be to urge upon Judges Wakeley and Groff that they permit their names to remain upon the non-partisan ticket, and to in- augurato a people’s movement to assuve the election of that ticket. Samuel P. Morse, G. M. Hitcheock, Fred Nyeo, Frank Irvine, W. N. Williams, H. B. Hodges, Alfred Millard, D. C. Patterson, Howard B. Smith, W. F. McMillan, J. R. Lehmer, Louis Bradford, 0. N. Ramsey, Alexander L. Pollock, Jos. R. Clarkson, E. W. Simeral, W. O. Bridges, Wm. A. Redick, Burkalow Bros., W. L. Parrotte, 1. J. Dovis, L. Drake, H. R. Gould, L. H, Korty, G. M. Nattinger, Charles R. Sherman, D. J. O'Donolioe, Alfred C. Kennedy, J. E. Wilbur, Leslic & Leslio, C. H. Fredorick, C. 8. Raymond, Thomas F. Boyd, William Fleming, . B, Willinms, H. H. Bright, Milton, Rogers & Son Thompson Bolden&0s rg L.0.Jones & Co, Chus. Ogden, Wm, H. Megquire, A. Shiverick, . P. Stebbins, H. W. Yates, W.H. S Huglies, V. L Vodickny George D. Adams, Wil W. McBride, Max Meyer & Co., _J. H. McConnell, John Jenkins, Fought Twice For a Woman. Jacob Swartz, better known as “Dutch Jake,” the proprictor of a bawdy house near the corner of Eleventh street and Capital avenue, was arrested by Oficer Horrigan yesterday morning for giving Edward Smith a severe flagellation with a cane the day be- fore. The affair happened in the White Elephant saloon, on the corner of Thirteenth and Dodge strects, a resort fre- quented by abandonéd women. Swartz had met a woman at this place whom he had solicited to take up lodg- ings at his houso. Smith, however, per- suaded the woman not to go, and us a_ Tesult he was assaultod by Swartz, Yesterday tho latter was fincd $10° and costs. Upon being released he hunted up Smith_and gave him another beating, and inside of twohours was back behind the bars again. M. H. Curry, the proprietor of the White Elcphant, put up $500 for Swartz's appearance, and ho was again roleased. While at the police station Curry himself was arrested for keeping disorderly house and will have his trial this morning. Turner Affairs. The Omaha Turnverein met in Germania hall last evening with a very large attend- ance of the members of the organization. President Heimrod occupied the chair. A committeo was appointed to work in co-opera- tion with tho ladics in making arrangements for tho fair in aid of the German-American school, which is 1o take place Novembor & and continue two days. The committee was composed of K. G. Grube, Honry Kummer- row, Robert Roscnzweig, ¥Fred Braudes and Fred Wells. Preparations were also mado for the twenty-fifth annual convention of the Missouri_valley turn_district, which will occur at Germania hall November 13 and 14. The following delogates were appointed to represent the Omaba Turnverein: Louis Heimrod, Philip Andres, E. G. Grube, Max Hemple, Robert Rosenzweig and Henry Kum- merrow. Cornice Makers Want Nine Hours. After the adjournment of the mecting of the tinner's union at G. A. R. hall last even- ing, a branch of the tinners, the cornice mak- ers, held a meeting to discuss the nine-hour system. It was unanimously voted to adopt it, and a committeo was n]?mhtlul to wait on the various proprietors and persuade them to shorten a day's work to nine hours. Another meeting is o be held Wednesday cvening when the committee will report, and action is to be taken accordingly. Chris Specht, & cornice manufacturer, who employs about fifty men, acceded to "the request before it was made, and hereaftor his men are to get ten hours pay for nine hours work. It is thought the other employers will also readily graut the request. The cornice maker's sca- s0n, like the bricklayer's, is short, but the boys only get from $3.50 to $ por day. Two Cases Continued. J. G. Rutherford, the alleged attorney who was arrested Saturday for kecping $20 that belonged to a client of his nwncd Floran Herman, had & somewhat lengthy hearing before Judge Berk sterday, but secured a continuance until Wednesday at 3 p. m. Ofticer Newman, who is charged with as- saulting & prisoncr, was arraigned before the police magistrate yestorday, but had his case continued until OCtober 26°at 2 p. m. Our readers are requested to use Sal- vation Oil for all pains. It is a sure cure. Price 25 cents, “For forms of government let fools contest.” For ordinary life it is enough to know that Dr. Bull's Cough Byrup cures coughs and colds,