Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 12, 1887, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, aily (Mo Fdition) i sunday nlh'-. m Priiii . #10 00 For Six M. . b oo 200 fikk, malled to any ad- it ot Three Months e Ot ¥ dress, Ome OMARA OFFICE, NO. 014 AND NEW YOoRK ROOM ING. WASHINGTON OFFIC TRENTH STRERT, CORRESPONDENCE, ANl _communieations relating and ditorial matter hould be addressed to the news DITOI OF THE B BU 1 All busine nd remittances shonld be address E PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMANA. Drafts, ch postoftice orders 1o ks u e made payublé to the orde The Bec Publishing Company, Proprietors. of the company. E. ROSEWATER, Epiton. Bworn Statement of Circulation. Etate of Nebraska, 8 L, County of Douglas. hoas Geo, fl zschuck, secretary of The Bee Pub- lishing euu?mm.dm. solemnly swear that the a actual efrculation of the Daily fiee for the week m(lllli( Dec i, was as follows* Saturday. TR i Bunday, N Mondas, Tuesday, Nov Wednesday, Thursday, De: Friday, Average SCIUOR. Eworn foand subscribed in’ my presence this 30 day of Decernber, A, D, 15§ (SEAL) ¢ of Nebraska, ] s County of Douglas, |58 Geo, 5. Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, de- otes and snys that he i secretary of The Dee Paliehine company, that the actial average duily cireulation ~of ~the Daily Tee fi the ‘month of December, 186, 257 copes; v, 187, 16, 3 W cop for March, 1 i coplets g0k M 8 4,147 cople 16 1 for A r ?‘l‘) 1,88; for November, 187, 1 GEO. B. TZSCHUCK., gworn to and subseribed in_miy presence this 4 day of December, A, D, 18 . P. FEIL, (SEAL,) Notary Publie, — e caples. St OMAITA milmfw get the (“t‘m vention— 80 let the city hall be built at once. e —— Tue fast trains seom to be giving satisfaction to the traveling public. —_— THEY are arresting bogus butter men in Philadelphia. 7he custom is a good one and should be imitated in many other cities. —— THe real estate boom in Wichita, Kan., has subsided and the inhabitants are now booming beer. They are try- ing to see how much of 4he beverage they can guzzle in defiance of the law. A GEORGIA court has held that a pub- lisher of a newspaper cannot be com- pelled by the grand jury to testify in a case whoere he had pledged himself not 1o reveal the source of his information. SAN FRANCISCO has a rger assort- ment of wicked officials than any other city in the union. The latest expose is that of a judge who granted fraudulent passports for the importation of Chinese women. GENERAL SHERIDAN proposes to move Fort Omaha ten miles from the city. He says the soldiers should have o society.of their own and not mix with the Omahogs. But would ten miles be anything to a soldier? A TOWN in Arizona has been swal- lowed by an earthquake. Many lives were lost. Those who are now rushing that way to obtain the gold mines re- cently discovered in its territory,should be prepared to be taken in. — THE sub-tropical exposition, to be held at Jacksonville, Fla., commencing in January and continuing until May, is now in the hands of the boomers. Sem- inole Indians, alligators and real estate agents constitute the greater purtof the attraction, T Panama canal is rapidly becom- ing a grave for the whole world., It has swallowed up Americans, Europeans, Ethiopians and now a large party of Chinese huve been contracted for. The big ditch will no doubt also be De- Lesseps’ last. e ———— ) BROOKLYN has developed a new vari- ety of political misdemeandor. A young man who recently passed a civil service examination and obtained a high stand- ing can neithor read nor write. He hired a substitute to do the mental drudgery of the oceasion. AN effort will be made during the present congress to prohibit the intro- duction of private bills in open session, and require that such measures shall reach the appropriate committees through the medium of a petition box. This would be a good innovation, as both time and money could thus be #aved to the government, Tue New York Central has put a ‘vestibule train” on the track torun between New York and Chicago. The platforms of the cars are enclosed, mak- ing one long open car, from which pus- songers cannot fall. Heat is supplied by means of steam and hot water, There wre some things which the slow-going cast doos quite as well as the west. The arraungement would be a good thing to imitato by western ruilvoads. Tue St. Paul Pioncer Press notes the fact that the slot in the cable line in that city is playing the mischief with horaes. It states that the calks in horses’ shoes are readily caught iu it, with the result, if the horses are on a trot, of throwing them, and sometimes breaking thoir legs or tearing off their hoofs. There have been numerous accidents there of this sort, and the advice is given to drivers to take the precaution to reduce the specd of their horses to n slow walk across the cable line, A similar warning may not be amiss to drivers in Omaha in ing the cable line. We infer that the dungerous slot in St. Paul is wider than that in the cable line in this eity, but it is possible that accidents may happen heve similar to those that have occurred at St. Paul, and therefore drivers should “go slow” in passing over the sable line. Cross- At the Merey of the Railways. The BEE recently mentioned the fact that the business men of Helena and Jutte City, Montana, were u the old freight wagons wherever practicns ble, clafming that in this way they could have goods sent from ndjacent towns and camps much cheaper than the railrond compuny would do the sume work., Thomas J. Price, of St Paul, was ntly interviewed by a St. Louis and his account of the ravages of the railroads upon the people of the northwest furnishes ample food for re- Hection, The condition of affairs in Dakota is equally as frightful as in Moutana. Mr. Price. after personal observation, says the following: The farmers of Dakota are, us usual, in a very bad position as regards their crop. Whether the season is good or bad makes little difference to them, as the railroad com- panies have so arranged matters that they reap whatever profit is to be derived, leaving the farmers with a bare living. The condi- tion of affairs at the present time is a fuir sample of the manner in which the farmers are bled. Fully 40,000,000 bushels of wheat are now harvested, and much of it sacked, but it cannot reach a market as there are no cars to haul it, and no prospect of any being obtainable. This refers to the lands along the Manitoba road, with which T am person- ¢ acquainted, but I understand the same nof affuirs prevails elsewhere, The re gencrally in debt and can not af- v their crops until transportation can be obtained, and no one wants to buy the grain with this uncertainty hanging over them. Here the railroad company, or rath its divectors, step in and offer a low price for the wheat. The farmer is obliged to sell, and when once the sfer of all the wheat in a certain district is made, it is ustonishing how easy it becomes to obtain enough freight cars to hundle the grain. Hill and Ryan, the Paul millionaires, make hundreds of thousands of dollars every -year, and others make smaller butstill very considerable sums. The plan is to pay the farmers just enough to prevent them from abandoning their lands, and so hold out hopes that in futurce no lack of transportation will oceur, The plan works admirably for the railroads, but is highly disastrous to the farmers, The situation in Nebraska is some different than,in Dakoka, yet there are many of our people who remember when just such a programmo was enacted here, yedr after year. And it is not much better yet. The remedy lies only with the people. It takes years to ac- complish the desired end. Yet by clect- ing honest men legislators laws can and finally will be enacted, effectually check- ing the raids of the public highways and the highwaymen who manipulate them. furmers ford to e English Opinfon. 1f the London press, in commenting upon the president’s message, would give fair and intelligent consideration, there would be no reason to apprehend any ill effects from the discussion. The ne papers of London, however, have chosen to talk of it asa free trade manifesto, and this misrepresentation of the char- acter of the message isnot only mislead- ing to the English public, about which we need feel no concern, but it is being employed in this country to influence popular opinion, and will undoubtedly have great effect upon all that portion of the population which is prompt to array itself against anything that re- ceives English approval. It is very easy to understand the mo- tive of the London press in taking a false view of the message. There is o large and growing element in England that is greatly dissatistied with the prosent fiscal system and is demanding a change. If this discontented portion of the English people can be made to believe that the president recommends a policy for the United States that would be a material approach to that of England it would do much to silence the demand for a change in the English policy, and all the leading papers of London desivre that there shall be no change. It is hardly possible, however, that the de- ception they are practicing can bé maintained, and so soon as it shall be exposed there is very likely to come a reaction that will give the fair traders a very vigorous boom. The politicians in this country who are making use of this English opinion are also likely to find .in due time that they are giving it a much greater value than it really possesses. It will have perhaps a lasting effect with some, but the great majority of the reading people of this country form their own opinions, and such will not be persuaded that the policy recommended by the president means free trade or any material approach to it. The message explicitly declares that the tariff duties cannot now be wholly'dispensed with, but must be maintained for many years in order to provide a part of the reve- nue of the government. He also insists that in any readjustment of the tariff reference must be had to the duty of preserving the industries of the country and protecting labor in the enjoyment of ample work and liberal vemuneration. There is no possibility of any man of in- telligence and candor misunderstanding or misconstruing these scntiments, which clearly imply the continuance of a reasonable protection. With a right understanding of the motive for the misrepresentations of the London news- papers no one ought to be influenced by the expressions of Bnglish opinion on the president’s message, or the mani- fost absurdity of associating Mr. Cleve- land, as & champion of free trade in the United States, with Cobden, the great apostle of that policy in England, A Troublesome Loophole. The effort that will be made by the vepresentatives of the Pacifie const in congress to seenre additional legislation for restrieting Chinese immigeation is confronted by the troublesvie fact that however drastic a measure might be adopted it would be likely not to prove entively effective in keeping out the ob- jectionable people so long as their com- ing to this continent receives the en- convagement of the Conadian govern- ment. ftis stated that since the estab- liskiment of the Canadian line of steam- erd across the Pacific, Chinese mer- chants in Vietoria have been busily en- gnged in prepavations to import Ching- men from Hong Kong im large nunibers, and that considerable money has been invested in the business. It is also d that since -the completion ' of the Cuanadion Pacific railroad fully Jfour R A Wt 2 Ko o AT AN N " THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, DEOEMBE thousand Chinamen have found their way from Victoria to the United States, It is understood that at the next session of the Canadian parliament an effort will be made to repeal the 50 tax now | levied on Chinamen entering the Ca- nadian domain, in the interestof the Canadian Pacific vailroad company. Referving to this phase of the situation, the Sun Franciscon Chronicle says: 1ts grave feature arises from the seeming inability of onr government to cope with the evil. The whole streteh of country from Vancouver to Montreal 18 a illicit transit of Chinamen into the United States: it is impossible to guard so long a 1 And when United States oft catel Chinnmen in the act of sy iselves into this coun % to do about it! When this question put to the government at Washington in ence 10 ome Chinamen who bad sur- reptitiously crept into Washington Territory, and whom the Canadian authoritics refised to take back without the payment of #0 head money, the sapient reply came: “Put then in jail.” Nobody in the interior department was aware that such a doom would suit the Chiy It is suggested that we usk Canada to adopt our exclusion act. We can ask, but why should they comply? The Dominion parliament is not concerned about excluding Chinese; it knows they will mot stay in Canada: but it is very gravely concerned about building up a Canadian Pucific line of steamers und a great Canadian seaport at Port Moody torival San Francisco, SirJolin Macdonald would tell Mr. Bayard that Canada will take care of her own interests, and will leave the United States totake care of theirs, The difficulty presented by this feature is obviously important and serious, and it is not easy to see how it may be: avoided. The Shooting of v The strong feeling of dislike and dis- trust entertained by the radical republ caus of France towards found a not unusual expr attempt to assassinate him. Whether it shall be shown that the act of Auber- tin, was, as he claims, in pursuance of a conspiracy, or was morely the concep- tion of a rash zealot, the incentive must still be traced to the bitter hostility of the radicals toward Ferry, whom they fully believe to be insincere in his pro- fessions of republicanism and more a friend to Germany than to France. There is very likely no justice in this view. Ferry prefers peace to war, and his influence has been exerted to avoid hostilities between France and Germany. He has undoubtedly been willing to make some concessions in the interest of peace, a thing extremely distasteful to nearly all Frenchmen, and especially so to the radicals. His course in the Tonquin matter was regarded as humi inting to France, and it cost him a great loss of populavity. But whother just or otherwise the view of I'erry held by the radicals is deap-seated, and the eventof Saturday shows that the threat of civil war in case of the election of Ferry to the presidency was not meaningless. Jules Ferry is a very able man, and undoubtedly patriotic and con ntious. The assumption that his relations with Bismarck gives the man of blood and iron an undue influence over him is doubtless without. warrant. But being largely held, it has very greatly impaired - the usefulness of Ferry as a statesman, and it is not probable that he will ever reach any official dignity outside of the chamber of which he is a member. It is thought that the attempt to assas- sinate him will diminish his unpopu- larity and un@oubtedly there will be many to sympathize with him who have been his opponents. But the element that distrusts him is not likely to find any reason for giving him its confidence in the fact that the assassin did not ac- complish what he intended. ' Ferry will get well, and when he resumes political activity the hostility to him will be renewed with, perhaps, increased bit- terness. Words Not The Chicago News continues to read the riot act to *“*coal robbers™ and ‘‘land robbers” and *‘gas thieves.” Yet it is to be regretted that all these polished gentlemen who prey upon the publie continue to exist and do business at the ol stand with their same charming can- dov. There was a time when it would have been considered a trifle out of place to notice a company of men en- gaging in business that was deemed re- spectable, and refer to them as robbers, and thieves and conscienceless plunder- ers, but in these days when centralized capital constitutes the motive power that moves the world, no other terms would properly describe them. And the question is, shall custom continue to tolerate daylight robbery, and must the poor always pay their earnings to the rich and not get value received? What good result can come from naming these men thieves unless the theft be proven and the violutors of law made to pay the penalty of their crimes? If it is not a crime for capital to pool and prey upon wage-workers and the poorer classes, let a law be enacted to make it such. If it is now a crime, then let the powers act and bring to justice the blood-sucking leeches who arow more impudent as they grow vicher. Something must be done, or what might prove an undesirvable re- action is inevitable, PHILADELPIIA has enjoyed a little boom on the leprosy scare starting a fow weeks ago. Now, comes the St. Paul ilobe and says that there seems to be good reasons for believing “a form of leprosy actually exists in certain por- tions of the state. Though not the ter- rible discase which has decimated the population of the Hawaiian islands, it is nevertheless allied to it, and should receive us careful attention from the authorities. The disease exists exclus- ively among those Scandinavian immi- grants who, at home, were accustomed to an unvarying fish diet, and hasnot yet beon observed nmong those of that race who were born in this country.” The Globe calls upon the state board of health to investigate the matter fully, and reminds that body, which secms to be but little interested, of the fact thatin ather countries where leprosy exists it Lis regarded as distinctly contagious, and the moment the disease appears the unfortunate vietim is at once isolated from the rest of the community. —_—e OMAHA cannot fail to derive advant- age from the better knowledge which its candidacy has given the country of AV TRIET P-a e BRI 77 0 o = its present commercial position, its. ex< tensive resources and its almost bound- less possibilities. The youngest of the metropolitan cities of the west has made a showing, net a fact of which was overstated, of progress almost un- precedentod in the history of rapid and substantiul municipal growth in this country, and of. the possession of all the condition of future prosperity unsur- passed by those of any other city in the west, These facts have been sown broudeast, and they will not be ignored or forgotten by the enterprise and capi- wl which ave seeking move promising and profitable ficlds. STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Talmage reports a petroleum weil. The Grand Island Light and Fuel company has inereased its capital stock to $}"fl).(lll William Duffey. who grabbed a time- iece and flew from Fremont,was caught by the forelock in Lincoln. R. M. Frost, of Tecumseh, assaulted Slocumb recently, and was fined $610 for doing 8o without a special permit. A. M, Emerick was thrown from his wagon by a runaway team, near Grand Island Friday, and instantly killed. The Hastings Guzette-Journal tips a foaming beaker to Omaha and salutes: “Here's hoping for better luck next time.” The losses to insurance companies caused by the vecent five in York have been afljusted. The amount paid was $17.682. A young man named Cunningham, son of a railroad contractor, was Blair last week, charged w $450 from a butcher. Holt county bonsts of twelve news- npe d renches for the pennant as a iterary paradise. Modesty is contag- TR blooming land: Fremont's packing house was inaugu- rated last Saturday. Myerson & Buch- anan, of Omaha, are the lessees, and they propose to carve from 700 to 1,000 porkers a day. The Nemaha Granger is tear-stained and troubled and sore in the interior department. The editor missed a wed- ding feast where the tables “‘groancd v h stealing with good things.” One of the operators at Oreopolis tried to sidetrack the moon at that point_recently, and_is now dispensing ihe cigurs to keep the boys from rolling off the trains when the subject is men- tioned. The Hastings Gazette-Journal strug- gles painfully against the growing con- viction that Blaine will lead the repub- licans next year. The Journal believes that he will lead them as he did in 1884 ~—into the ditch. The prohibtion: spirit is said to be quite strong in Washington county, but the Blair Pilot has not yet heard one of the coldwater refuse to sell corn at_an advanced price to the dis- tillery in Omaha. The News gives assurance that Nor- folk’s future is beyond question, yet she needs for immediate consumption a cracker factory, carriage factory.imple- ment factory, packing house and a few other frills to give'color and variety to her shapely person. The Elkhorn Valley road standsa good chance of losing the bond bonus voted by Wahoo. ‘The state auditor re- fuses to register the bonds, claiming that the village trustees had no author- ity to issue the call, as Wahoo was then a city of the second class. The hoodlums_ of Curtis, Frontier county, decorated Judge Mason with commission eggs on his recent visit to the town. The railroad commissioner intended to investigate the relations of the B. & M. to the county seat fight, but his remarks on his reception are to0o voluminous for cold print. The postmistress of Blair is about to fit up a private room for the accommo- dation of a bunch of gawky gum chew- ing girls who flock to the postoffice lobby when the males arrive. The at- traction seems to be mutual, and with slight cultivation might be induced to take the halter without bucking. The sad news comes from across the sea that twenty smacks were lostin a recent gale. dently the old gov- ernor’s boot was vigorously worked, and the puinful result is left to the imagina- tion. Webster is wofully deficient in words to express the sensations that course through an amorous form when a hot toe fans the spinal base of a ve- treating lover. Johnson county witnessed a singular union of “freaks M. Schlimscher, of Missouri, six feet ten inches tall and as slender as a shadow, wabbled to the altar with adarling ducky of 340 pounds by his side. The bride was the widow Jane Walden and went through the ceremony without bursting a smile ora button. Mr. Slim- sure is blessed in being able to twist himself around the throbbing sections of his Hmrtuer and have two feet to spare to keep off the flicsat his Missouri home. The Yankton Press continues a staunch advocate of a railroad to Omaha, and will not be content until the two cities are connected by bands of steel. The Press sa, “Omaha will accomplish destiny in time, but it is losing millions by procrastination. The valley of the Jim is wide open and Omaha needs only to build the hopper 10 secure the products of its acres and to furnish its people with the necessarvies and luxuries of life. There is no good reason why the valley of the Jim should be compelled to go to Chicago when Omaha 1s 50 near.” The Holdrege Nugget pains an intel- ligent public by inquiring why it is that the BEE distances all compe i reaching that city. The ar easy, The BEE never sleeps. Ever) hour of the day and night its hive is a busy workshop, where the news of the world is put through the varied processes before being presented to its army of readers. And thedg¢mand is so great for its teeming pages that no obstacle ean for an instant block the path to its patrons. While pretended rivals are grinding out consumptive editions on hand presses, the BEE rolls out at a gait of 80,000 an hour. 1t is the, *fiyer'” of western newspapers, regularly sched- uled and always on time. It has no com- petitor. —— Towa ns. Carroll has a cheese factory boxed. Fort Madison wanf a street railway. Fayette county will have a rope] pull in January. The German orphan ‘asylum at Du- buque has 116 inmates, A financinl cyclone has demolished the base ball park at Creston, Cedar Rapids people kept their diges- tion in trim last month with 17,500,000 gallons of water. A double-headed calf, native born, has been added 1o the industrial freaks of Burlington. A number of farmers in Cherokee county propose 1o organize a grain ship- ping association and dispense with mid- fimm. The bold burgalier make life an un- broken nightmare in Des Moines. To- gether with prohibition constables, they make a team of nuisances of unequaled strength. The management of the insane hos- pital at Clarinda wants an nwlmprin- tion of #200,000 to build an addition of six wards and a Kitchen, Dakota. There are 852 newspapers in the fer- ritory. The Nlinois Central track has the £outheastern border of the The beewess boomers of Cass county hive vaised $£20,000 to entorce local op- tion. Artesinn water has been struck at a depth of 250 feet on Schleuning’s ranch, near Rapid City. It has been shown that there is an in- crease of 9,000,000 bushels this year in the Dakota corn crop. The roofing slate recently discovered in the Black Hills 1s pronounced by experts to be of good quality. ched A MOVING TOWN, Virginia City Traveling Rapidly Down the Il‘lf (Nev.) Enterprise: V from the Chollar and Pc tosi on the th to the Ophir ou the north, and from what is known as the Virginia ledge on the west for an in- definite distance on the east, but inqyg| cluding a line from the C. and C. shaft north and south, seems to be an ani- mated mass of sliding and raising and falling earth. Some sixty feet above Summit street, commencing at the Savage and running to the Chollar, the point of departure between the moving earth and the firm west country rock is clearly mark without a break, by a slide var from two feet to nine or ten feet in depth. It is plainly visible from every part of town, and ninety-nine persons out of every hundred believe itis a roud built there by the county or the water company. [t winds around the little gulches and around the meuntain as regularly as though it was built for an even railrond grade, and the wall it exposes is as clearly defined as any miner o look at. At the Ophi “hlogsom,” or croppings, just balow tk tank, the lowest depression is attained. The waler works system of Virginia and of the mining companies runs north and south, with lateral lines, on the princij ‘ots, and s crosscutted on all the cross stréets. If the reader will consult & map of Virginia and follow the following description he will see ex actly how she is a-wiggling: 'The water-tanks are all situated on the firm west country. From the Savage to the Ophir the wal -uik)uu all pull avart on every street until they get to C street, and from there east they jam together. This pulling and jamming’is considera- ble. Where the water mains leaves tank one and crosses the break noted above the pipe pulled apart and the east side sunk two feot and traveled east nearly three feet. At the corner of Flowery and D streets, where Chief ison recently put a fire main, the s found jammed five inches. The Ophir company have had to put in sleeves above Carson street several Virginia ginia, Nev ing tim On Sutton avenue, Union street and Taylor streét Chief Pennison has had to do the same. thing, and the milling company, which re- cently put a 16-inch main down Tayl treet, has already had to repair it three times on account of the fris| nature of the street. Ry the Choitar works the west country must, be much further w than %t is north of it, for their water tank and their entire system, as well as that of the city, is moving east so regularly and even that there is but little difficulty to keep things in re- pair around there. The pipes that run north and south from the Savage to the Ophir on B and C streets act just about alike. At the junction of Flowery on C and a corre- spouding point on I3 street the water })i])cs jam righ together. Fourhundred ect north they pull apartf and at points 400 and 300 feet still north they again pull apart and sleeves have to re put in to lengthen them. Opposite the Bank of Nevada the pipes pull apart, and from teere to Sutton avenuo t;le movement east is steady and slight. At Sutton avenue they jam and crowd so much that pieces have to be cut out to shorten them. Once they jammed right into a valve and a new valve had to be put in. From Sutton avenue north everything glides smoothly with the country. While things are restless enough on the surface there is genuine activity un- derneath. This is, in fuct, so great that it is almost inconceivable. Of course, all this disturbance is due to the im- monse(}u:\utitius of rock which have been taken out of the mines since the first hoisting plant was set upon the lode. Itis impossible to account for every movement on the surface by the ebeavations that have been made un- derneath, but the greatest depressions and longest slides visible on top are in- variably opposite or in the neighbor- hood of paying mines—mines in which the largest stopes have been made. All the old ‘maps which have been mude of the Consolidated Virginia and Californin mines during bonanza days, tocite particular instances, which are now only about ten years old, are to-day absolutely worthless, se far as they may be consulted for the purpose of makin connections or re-opening old drifts an: stopes. As the Irishman would say, “They are not there.” They have moved. How much have they moved? The map shows that from a certain wall to another, giving two points that are almost impossible to mistake, the dis- tance is 354 feet. Since the fire has been extinguished the points have been found; the walls are there as plain and ever saw them, but they are 50 feet apart now. One can y believe it. A stope which is down on the map as having sixteen sets of square timbers—112 feet—was found. ‘The timbers for the sixteen sets arve all there, but so jammed that the sixteen- inch timbe re only four inches wide, and an entire stope is not more than ten feet wide. And so it is all through the worl s, The reader could form a fair idea of the immense pressure that is brought upon stope timbers only by seeing them, When a stope is bulkheaded, timbers are put in aboutas thick as they can wet, and everything fitted neatly.y On the 1600 foot Tevel of Consolldated Virginia there isa dvift, one side of which is under almost continual repair for a distance of about 100 feet, and the other side does not move at all. The moving side is planked. The rock is taken away and the planks are set six- teen inches from the timbers and wooden pegs are set between the planks and the timbers. The moving rocks press against the plunks and crunch the pegs until they reach the timbers, when the same work has to be all done over. Appurently solid walls that look s smooth as a slate, and which seem im- movably firm will sometimes commence to crumble and erack., When tile mine was full of oxide gas the subtle fluid came right out of wells of this kind, and that is what made it so dangerous and difficult to handle. This agitation will doubtless go on as long as mining work is doneon the lode but 1t will olways be of the same .char- acter that itisnow. There will be no sudden downfall—so long as the mining is not done too near the surface, and so long as proper timbering is done. So, timid people need lose no sleep on ac- count of our immense mining opera- tions. | passing” along canne: e A HOOSIER HERMIT, He Has Plenty of Money but Lives in Solitary Wretchedness and Squalor., A Plainfield, Ind,, correspondent writes: There is situated four miles south of here an oudly’ construeted hut of two rooms. Tha house is located somid distance back from the publ highway, and to the ensunl observe The place is comple all view by a dense g which of itself is a curiosity in this cii mate. A well-worn path iy is the only passage that leads up to door of this rude dwelling, where lives one of the most amusing and eccentric characters ound in Indiana. name of the person is John Moon, and his age, to judge from appearance, is about cighty years, He is yot strong, and in summer often makes long jour- neys on foot, attending all |";nh-~. s sales and shows of all kinds for v miles around, where he is well known by almost every man, woman and child. He goes barefooted both winter and summer, and is fond of boasting that his foct never knew a covering. Of his carly life but little is known, except what he chooses to toll. He came to this country many years ago, when the country s new, and entered 160 acres of the richest farming land, which he yet retains. He was never married, and is not kuown to have any living relative. Up toa few years ago he worked industriously on his farm, and mu. by his labors have accumulated a small fortune, but he alway! ts, when asked congern- ing his wealth, that he is a poor'man. 1t is supposed ' that he has his tr ure buried, from the fact that the busi- ness men of this place are often called upon to exchange gold coin for silver and paper curreney hy him. Evil dis- posed persons Liave upon more than one oceasion made nocturnal visits to his farm and hunted for the money, but with no success. This extremely pocu- iiar individual claims that his DHoyhood days and i of his early manhood were spont in the Rocky mo and he has cousiderable evidence in the way of hunting relies to support his declu tions s lonely hut, which is on ccupied by himself, is a veritable curi- osity shop, and poss great interest for any person, who is o lucky, as to gnin admittance thereto, o A veporter reeently happened in the vicinity of Moon’s premises, and de- termined to pay a visit to the abode ot this strange character, both for the pur- pose of sutisfying his own cu y and sccuring, if possible, a morsel for the readers of his paper. The old hermit, or miser, was found in a small inclosure adjoining the hut feeding his poultr numbering several hundred, wh flocked around him without fear. His income from their sale alone must amount to considerable. Your corre- spondent, by playing the rolo of a hun- ter and complimenting the flourishing condition of his poultry, finally suce ceeded in gaining the confidence of the old man, and upon expressing a desire to view the interior of the mean hovel was unceremoniously invited inside, The rooms were almost entirely de- void of furniture. An old cupboard.with a few Yivmes of old crockeryaind cooking utensils; a broken-backed ‘chair, and an iron pot or two completed the list. The style and number of the decorations, however, were astonishing. Over the door, which was the single entrance to the cabin, was the old flint-rock rifle, which, the old man said, was his con- stant compunion in all of his hunting exploits in the “Rockies.” No carpet covers the rough-hewn board floor, but instend there are thrown carclessly around numerous bear, panther, buf- falo, and many other wild animals’ hides. With each specimen an interest- ing tale of daring bravery is con- nected, which Moon, when in the right mood, is very fond of relating. He entertained your corre- spondent with a few of these wonderous stories, which, if space would permit, would make good reading for those ad- venturously inclined. Ranged upon shelves around on all sides of both rooms were the mementoes of his early travels. A few were from Mexico; where he claims to have spent a number of but the greater part of the curi- osities were from what was then the “‘wild and unscttled west.” They em- brace collections of Indian darts, toma- hawks, stone axes and various othe articles used in Indian warfare, besides rious stones and nuggets of wold and silver, kept as a rembrance of the Cali- fordia gold excitement of 49, of which Moon was an active participant. It is surmised by some that he pros- pered there and has his fortune hidden in some secure place upon his farm, One of the curirsities that interested your correspondent most was seve pairs of elks’ horns of tremendous size, which ornamented the walls of the rooms. Previous to the departure of his attentive tut somewhat inquisitive vis- itor the queer individual extended a polite invitation to partake of a frugal repast which he bhad hastily preparced. The bill of fare consisted of havd bis- cuits and fried squirwel, well seasoned, cooked over an old-fashioned fire-place. The meal was relished. .It was served standing, there being noseats to occupy, in the simplest manner. Upon leaving your correspondent was heartily en- joined to *‘call again Moon, like most. other persons of his character, is con- sidered by the people of this section us authority upon weather prophecy. SRy A Story of Stolen Diamonds. - Chicago Herald: Last winter social circles were startled by the publication of a paragraph which announced that a well-known Washington socioty lady had been robbed of a set of diamonds valued at $20,000, the thief being said to be a well-known man in social circles. In a few days names began to he men- tioned in the the lady being iden- tified as Mrs. Scott-Tow d, while the culprit was said to be John Schuy Croshy, & well-known man about towr Mrs. Townsend is the daughte Wl tt, of Lric, PPa., the mil- lionaire congressman, while Mr. Cros Y is of a prominent New York fam- ily, and served for some time in the war on General Sheridan’s stafl. He was appointed by Presid Arthur as governor of Montana te tory, and subsequently wis made assistant postmaster general. Both he and Mrs. Townsend denied the story but it found many believers. now been discovered that the diamond: were stolen by a servant in the employ of Mrs. Townsend, who, after the theft, escaped 10 ifornin. and recently opened negotintions through an attorney for their return, his price being $5,000 and a mise that he should not bo prosecuted. It is now understood that Governor Croshy will prd te the peo- sle who flrst put the story in eivculation. l]'hin will invite a well known male newspaper writer and the of a prominent democratic . sonator, * from whom the correspoudent is said to ob- tained her informatio o Mystic Jewels. Popular Science: But when the ring was not plain, precions stones of some Kind constituted the settingg, and when the selection of the stone Wis. in ques- tion the dominay of fashion was ab- solute. In the fo nth ce y o an Italinn writer set forth the virtues of the. various gems, indicating the month in which it was proper to ‘wear. purtic- ular stones. The idea took, and for some time it was the fashion in several Ttalinn cities to have the precious stone of the ring determined by the month in which the bride was born, I in Jans uary, the stone was o garnet, believed | to have the power of winning the | woarer friends, 1f in February, her ring w st with an amethist, which protected her from poison and « { from slanderous tongues, The blood= | stone was for March, makin her wise and enabling her with v domestic res. for April, keeping her heart innocent aid bure, so long ns she wore the gem. An emorald for May made hee a happy wifo, while an seate for June gave her health and protection from fairies and ghosts, 1f born in July the stone w ihy, which tended to keep her free from jealousy of her hus- band, while in August the sardonyx made her happy in the maternal refa- tion. In September a sapphire was the proper stone, it preventing quarrels be- mticnce 1o e The Giamond tween the wedded pairg in October a carbuticle was chosen o promote her lo: of home The November bhoru bride wore a topaz, it having the gift of making her truthful and obedient to her husband; while in December tho turquoise insur her faithfulness. Among the German country folk the last named stone is to the present day used as a setting for the betrothal ring, and, o long as it retains its color, is ho- lieved to indicate the constaney of tho e i s The Dude of Yautepec. Correspondence hy Fannie Ward: Yonder goes the dude of Yautepee, wealthy young sugar planter, whose an- costral acres streteh away beyond the limits of the vision. He bestrides a oifheing steed . the pace of which is here known as “single step,” and the gorgeous suddles and trappings that cover the animal almost out of sight must have cost moderate fortu Observe how goldheaded whip mond sparkles in the end of its! Seo his pearl inlad revolvers protruding from the sash of erimson silk, which his short black jackets imperfectly conconls. His pantaloons, light as two candlo molds, are decorated with double rows of genuine half dollavs up the outside scums, set so closely together as to overlap and bra together with gold cord. The pointed toes of his tiny shoes are thrust into silver stivrups of enormous size, and from his heels dangle silver spurs that ten to one outweigh his foet. His great sombrero of white felt has a gold cable large as your thumb wound round and round it, and its broad, thick brim bears o heavy arabasque of gold. His horse 18 80~ perfectly trained that tho rider never the rein, but bends slightly to the right or the left Lo indi- cate his wish, The mozo, or groom, who ridesbehind at a vespectful distance, forms an_ ad- mirable foil to the gorgeousness of his master, whom he constantly eyes with an air of excessive pride and dignity, as one who says: *There he goes; just look at him! Ain’t he o duisy? His hacienda covers 1,000 square miles, and that white sombrero cost $100 if it cost a cent.” The mozo is a good rider more soberly dressed than the dude he follows, though his sombrero is equally broad and the coins on his breeches are madros cent pieces), instead of half dollars. Besides the dagger and brace of pistols whicn he sports in his cotton sash, a broad, savage looking sword, called a mechate, is stuck in the saddle-sheath. This warlike rig, though scarcely needed now, is a survival of the timo when personal defense was a matter of daily necessity How a Landlord Beat Three Lawyers, Atlanta Constitution: Not far ‘from the city of Montgomery, in the state of Alabama, on ong of the rouds running from that eity. lives u jolly landlord by the name of Ford. In fair weather or foul, in hars tfmes or soft, Ford would have his joke whenever possible. One bitter, stormy night,or rather morning, about two hours before daybreak, ho was aroused from his slumbers by loud shouting and knocks at his door. Ho turned out. but sorely against his will, and demanded what was the matter. Tt was dark ns and us he could see no one he cried out: Vho are you, there?" hree la % from Montgomery,” was the answer. “We are benighted and want to stay all night.” “Very sorry I ean’t accommodate you genflemen. Do anything” to oblige you, but that'’s impossible.” The lawyers. for they were three of the smartest lawy in the 'state, and ‘veady to drop with fatigue, held a con- sultation, and then, as they could do_no better and were too tired fo go another step, they as SWell, ean’t youstable our horses, and give us’ chaivs and a good fire until morning? T can do that, gentlemen.” :d and legal friends were soon their clothes by bright i they composed themsel to pass the few re:naining hours in their chairs, dozing and nodding, and now and then swearing a word or two of im- patience as they waited till dayiight did appear, The longest night has a merning, and at last the sun came along, and then in due time o good breakfast made its ap- but to the surprise of the law- . who thought the house was wiad with guests, none but them- selves sat down to partake. “Why, Ford, T thought your houso was so full you couldn’t’ give us a bed i Fsatd one of the travelers. 50, Ford replied. “you didu't? What in the nume of thunder, then, did you say?” “You asked me’to let you stay here all night, and I said it would e Jmipos- sible, for the night was night on to two- thirds gone when you came. If you only wanted beds why on eavth didu’t you sily 50 The lawyers had to give it up. Three of them on one side, and the landlord alone had beated thom all. e Black Hills Tin. The anxicty to know whether this country contains o really valuable tin mine, one that ean b ked practi- Iy, is not coufined to Americans by any means, It is shaved by a good miny English lw.-,.l of 1 and low degree, who happened to be stock- holders in the company formed to work the Harney peak mines in the Black hills, committee of the investor has recently been in the country to in vestigators. Just before they sailed one of them, John Taylor, a banker, told William I%. Dodge, of New York, that he thought the mine a good one, while another, s Mr. Price, considered it valuable, #No doubt there are ing indications of tin ther vid Mr. Dodge 1 but, the general impression he t tho deposit is of 1o commer Tho company cstablished something of a 1o, but 1 do not know ever taken out, a good many ‘pockets yntry, but none of plant two yer that y t There hav of tin found in this them has ever paid for working; but when we do get a good mine hero there’ll be no necd to go 1o Eugland for capital to develop it Leland hotel, Chicugos