Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 13, 1887, Page 4

2 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1887 : {THE :DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MOKNING. TERME OF 8UBSCRIPTION Dafly (Morngng Edition) including Sunday BEY, One ¥ e 10 00 ix Montlis b 600 For Three Months 250 The Omaha Sunday Tips, mailed to any ad- ¥ CORRR&PC All communications relating — news and editorinl matter should be addressed to the EDIToR 0¥ THE B BUs & LETTERS: All business letters and remittances should be addressed to Tik ek PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMALA. Drafts, chiecks and postoflice orders to Ve made puyable to the order of the company. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietors. E. ROSEWATER, EniTor. e ——————————— THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. Stateof Nebraska, |, o County of Douglus, | %% B. Tzachiick, secretary of The Boe Pub- gonpany, does solemuly iwear that thie circulation of the Daily fiee for the week ending Dec. % 1 Saturday, No: "o % Bworn to and subscribed in my presence this 84 day of December, A, D. 1887, N. P. FRI L, (SEAL) Notary Public Btate of Nebras| v County of Dot s % 'hflfnz first duly sworn, de- Geo. 1%, Tz Jotes atid says this o ds secretary of Tho fice lishing company, that the actiial average y circulution - of the Daily Bee for e month _of December, 186, 13,257 copl for January, 1857, 16,200 coples: for Feb Ty, 187, 14108 copiens for Murch, IR, 1640 2 coples: for April, 197, W30 copies: for Muy, TN, 1422 caplen for Jume, I8, 14147 copt for July, 1867, 141 copte 167, 1 361 coples for 1887, 14, GEO. B. TZ8CHUCK. fworn to and subscribed in_ my presence this 3 day of December, A. D), 18, NP FRIL (BEAL.) Notary Pt AND now the enterprising new v reporter cables from Paris that My Blaine has anunounced himselfl a candi- date. . OMANA is-promised another railroad =--this time a nickle plate. The miles of railroad built from Omaha, on paper, would span the world. Mn. LAMAR is one of fortune’s favor- ites. What can bejeasier,thansitting on a bench and drawing ten thousand dollars per annum therefor? ST. LOUIS can now put 4n a claim of being a literary center with some show . of neason. One of her citizens recently ate nine poungg of heans at a sitting. THERE is favorable promise that the city hall business will be speedily set- tled. When it is, the fact will be wel- comed by a great majority of our citi- rens. X A CONTEMPORARY says that Don. M. Dickinson comes of a New England family whose ancestry can be traced back seven centuries. Don is evidently an Indian, GENERAL SHERIDAN’S little boom seems to have made no progress during the past two weeks. Will some ono please drop a nickle in the slot and make it move. THE cable company will do a hand- some thing if it shall enable the people of Omaha to take a Christmas ride over its line. Thatwould be a gift tothe public which would be heartily appreci- ated. e— ThE daughter of the Rev. Augustus Schwitzer, n Niagra Falls, eloped with a full-blooded Indian. To prove that love is entirely blind, it may be stated in justice to the girl, that she thought he was a Spaniard. AFTER man ern manufactuy unsucecessful efforts east- rs of rubber boots and shoes have succeeded in forming a “rust.” If their business methods are as rotten as their goods the trust will fall to picces of its own accord in ahout two days. THE bank clearings of Omaha last week climbed up to more than three and a quarter million dollars, an in- crease of more than forty-four per cent. over the corresponding week of last year. Itisa very gratifying exhibit for this scason of the year. THE council should no longer ignore the popular demand that unnecessary and unauthorized employes in the mu- nicipal offices shall be dvopped. There are several of these receiving liberal salaries who never would be missed if their names were erased from the city pay roll. THE project of a mammoth hotel in Omaha should be kept in view, There is an iuncreasing demand for it, which in a few years will become very urgent. By the time such a*hotel as will be re- quired could be completed, there would be no question of its being a profituble investmeut. A TELEGRAPI compuny with a cupi- tal of three million dollars has just heen organized 1in Massachusetts. It intends to do business botween New York and San 'rancisco, ostensibly in compe tion with the Western Union, but in re- ality, no doubt, to sell out to that insti- tution when the proper time comds. TRE previous *congress make an ap- priation for collecting statistics in rela- tion to murrvinge and divorce in this country, These a now being gathered. This is uo doubt a laudible enterprise, _ but what the nation needs more than a collection of such statistics is gr swrictness and unformity in the mar- riage and divorce laws of the different stats at hand, those who wantto pur presents naturally inquire, “What house is reliable and where can wo find the best bargai The B adver- tising pages answer all questions, Con- sult them, and you will not be misled. The enterprising merchants, with bar- gains, advertise in the BEE'S pages. The wan who is ashamed to invite spection of his goods doubtless hus few bargaivs to offer, Powderly's Troubles, In an extended interview some ten days ago Mr.. Powderly gave hip version of the circumstances which led to the presont revolt against him in the Knights of Labor. Tt need hardly be said that the general master workman made out a case that could not fail to vindicate him in the opinion of his friends, whatever the effect might beupon the minds of his opponents, He was very explicit in saying that the men most responsible in stirring up st arce atheists and anarchists, and he charged his enemies with resorting to slander, falschood and perjury in their attempt to destroy the ord He asserted, however, that notwithstanding the efforts of these fanlt-finders the order was growing, and he felt entirely confi- dent of its future. As to the reports regarding his intention to resign he snid they were without authority, but at the next session of the general assembly he should turn the affairs of his office over to another and would *‘stand right by him through thick and thin.” He felt entirely secure in the confidence of the workingmen - of the country, and having a duty to do he should per- form it. It is nevertheless evident that the troubles of Mr. Powderly are increasing and becoming very serious. Unless the situation is greatly misrepresented the opposition to him 1s steudily gaining ground. Reports from the east indicate that the work of disintegration there is increasing with alarming rapidity, and while the friends of the Knights of Labor elsewhere will hope that the state- _ments from that section are exaggerated it is impossible to dismiss the feeling that the war on Powderly has reached proportions preguant with danger to the order if ho persists in remaining at its head. It would manifestiy be absurd to suppose that a majority of the men who are fighting Powderly ave of the character described in his interview, nor would it be complimentary to the Knights to say that men of such char- acter could exert the influence in the order which the opponents of the general master workman appear to be exerting. It is evident that this opposition has such substantial grounds of complaint us commend it to the approval of many in- telligent members of the order, other- wise it could not have been maintained and advanced as'it has been. One very strong influence at work in hostility to the Knights is the fede tion of trades unions, which has made great progress in the past year.number- ing now nearly or quite as many mem- bers as the Knights. The policy of this organization is to unite all trades un- ions under a system similar to that gov- crning the relations of the federal gov- ernment and the states—that is, in which each union enjoys a measure of sovereignty. This plan has heen found attractive to hundreds of unions, with the resultof giving the federation a most rapid growth. The first national convention of this organization is now in session at Baltimore, and it is ex- pected to declare hostility to the policy of the Knights regarding trades unions. The effect of such a declaration can hardly fail to be damaging to the Knights, and will almost certainly draw from them to the new organization. But the attitude of a portion of the Knights, and evidently a very active and aggressive portion, toward Powderly is the matterof gravest concern to the order, and ought to induce the general master workman to most seriously ponder the question whether he canunot best subserve the welfare of the organization and the in- terests of labor by surrendering the affairs of his oftice into other hands at once. Ravages of Pirates. The Lincoln Townsite company, or town lot company, which has preyed upon Nebraska settlers for years past not alone, it seems, in its plundering caveer. A story comes in from Dakota of how some of the railroads have stole: millions from honest settlers who have been obliged to submit to the outrages perpetrated, year after year. The no- ticeable difference between the B. & M. emissaries and the hirelings of the Northern road is, that in this state, the territory was not as new, and accordingly the field for operation was smaller, Yet to the credit of the Nebraska outhit let it be said that they have always been enterprising and per- severing, and never, to our knowledge, let an opportunity to own a town-site, pass them. In a vecent interview with a reporter of the St. Paul Post Dispatch, a gentleman who elaims to have full knowledge of the manner in which the railroad companies were robbing the pioneer settlers of Dakota is quoted us suying: 12missaries of the railroads would induce a few people to settle on railroud lands, tell- ing them that a station would be established in their vieinity, This would be done, and a little settlement would spring up. In a short time @ man, ostensibly a land specu- lator, but really ome in the employ of the ad, would come along, talk most ex- of the future of the town, and ing cash for his purchasc. ‘The sellers would at ouce become the most active boomers in the town, and would spread far and wide the news of the great profit they had made. Investors would atream in by hundreds, the railroads would quictly sell off their lands at the price they themscives had set by the origina] purchuse, and the excitemcnt would be kept at fever heat until every cent had been extracted fiom those who had been atlracted to the town, when the watter would be allowed to drop and the land would sink in value until it could be bought for a song. If the original sellers could be induced to reinvest and therefore 1oso what they had received at the begiuning of the boom, and which had much 10 do with starting it, the railroads regarded that their success have boen complete. This scheme must had uetted miltions to the di- rectors, who managed things us they wished, and have nearly all made lage fortunes within the last cightesn months, While the extortiondte freight and passenger tariffs exacted by wostern railroads should be sufficient to satisfy the most groedy und heartless corpori- tion, wo have had ample evidence in this state than the eheapest tool in their omploy becomes politically ambitious and finuncially important. When legit- imate saluries fail to gratify their desires, a ring of small bore politicians form themselves into some kind of a company, secure protection and caste from the railways, and with enyiable neatness and dispatch rob and plunder the settlers as has been done in Dakota, Nebraska and other western states and territories. No remedy has yet been found. Yet there is an end to human endurance, The Question of Defenses. Tn his Paris interview Mr. Blaine suggested diberal expenditures for const defent In its call for tho republican national convention the national committee includes among the subjects conspicuously meviting popular attention “a system of naval and coast defenses which will enable the United States to conduct its international nego- tintions with self-respect.” In his an- annual report the secretary of war makes several references to this sub- ject. He states that on both the At- laatic and Pucific coasts our harbors are destitute of fortifications, guns and armament ' of every description. San Francisco 1s without a gun that can be fired with safety with present charges of powder and modern projectiles. The secretary can see no reason for further delay in beginning the work of fortifying the great harb- ors, the importance of which he earn- estly urges. The report of the admiral of the navy makes a very strong pre- sentation of the neccessity for putting the nation in a better state of defen, The question has nothing to do with politics or party lines, Tt is entirely a practical matter, respecting which Mr. Blaine appears to be fully in agreement with the late Mr. Tilden. The simple fact presented to public attention is that the great harbors of the country— New York, Boston, Portland, New Orleans, San [Prancisco—u inade: quately protected, some of them being ctically defenseless, and the question is whether they shall be permitted to remain in this condition, with hundreds of millions of property at the mercy of a foreign enemy, or steps be taken at once to properly protect them. We do not think there can be any doubt as to 'vhat the popular senti- ment would be if an expression of it could be obtained on this subject inde- pendent of all other considerations. The people do not desire that any por- tion of their territory shall be defense- less. However strong their confidence in the ability of the country to expel a foreign enemy, their intelligent judg- ment tells them that it is not wise to leave open the gates by which an enemy might gain entrance, and which being open is a warrant to other nations to treat us with less respect in our inter- national relations than would otherwise be shown. Our comparatively helpless position is quite as well known to the rest of the world as to ourselves. There is not one of the great powers that does not know of the condition of our harbors as fully as it is known by the and navy department at Wash ington. 1t is not necessary to assume that this information has been obtained with sinister purpose. There is no present reason to apprehend trouble with any foreign power. The controversies we have can undoubtedly be settled with- out recourse to any other method than diplomacy. But there is something in the view that the nation would have greater respect if it were better pre- pared, in its most vulnerable ports, for defense, and it is well to reflect that a country with the broad and steadily widening international relations of the Tnited States cannot be assured of un- interrupted peace with all the world. The government is abundantly able to provide adequate defenses where they are needed. Could it expend a vreasonable share of its accumulation of money more wisely or advantageously than in supplying such protection for the hundreds of millions of property in our harbors as would ren- der it safe against any attack from with- out, and give the nation a sense of com- plete secur] Some one has aptly ¢ erized a policy of const defenses as a system of insurance, which the nation should adopt on sound business principles. Practical men will so re- gard it. There ought to be no sectional prejudice in this matter. It is a mis- take to suppose there is any portion of the country not interosted in it. It is a question of national concern, and who- ever would reduce it from this position is too narrow to counsel or to legislate for the people. — The Fidelity Bank Wrecker. Harper, the man who stole millions from the Fidelity bank of (incinnati, and wrecked and ruined thousands of depositors, gets ten years in the penitentiary. In the account of Har- per’s actions, when sentence was pro- nounced, semi-poetic sentimentalists will find food in abundance. Harper kissed his wife and cried and caused the jurors to weep. Yet during all the years that he was engaged in gambling with his creditors’ hard-earned money, which they had every reason to believe vas in safe keeping, there was no time that Mr. Harper took occasion to weep., On the other hand he was haughty and purse proud. His wife is to be . pitied. So is any good wife to be pitied when her husband goes wrong. But that is all, Harper deserves no pity, and his punishment is light. Too light, in fact, when the enormity of his erime is considered. Yet knowing that he was rich and scores of richer friends were at hisback, it is a matter of general congratulation, that hie is now in prison. The number of unconvicted millionaire thieves is already too large in this country. When Titles Go For Naught. Prof. Sullivan, of Boston, has wor- shiped and fallen at the shrine of glish nobility. The Boston gentle- man gave a sparving match benefit to his most noble excellency. the Prince of Wales, and the wild expressions of his apprecintion caused the slugger to admit that Albert Edward was in fact a prince of good fellows. Sullivan’s in- woduction to the heir apparent to the throne of England, Ireland and Scot- lund, the Empire of India and all other British possessions lying round about, showed His Royal Highness that Boston yetheld high rank as the hub of culture —at least in the new world. The Prince, with a hearty hand- shake, finforgied - Mr. = Sullivan ns. he slig raised his hat, that ho was gUlt—vory glad to know heard much about him. Noticing§Me hat of the prince, Sullivan doffeds his own chapeau in a manner that sighified great strength, and as politely rejoined; “Yes, I've heard a heap about you, too,” This cordial greeting made ‘the two distin- guished gentleman fricnds—presumably for life. AP After the exhibition which delighted the prince, he jysisted that he had never met such'g man in all his life, and ordered Captdin Drummond to see that a proper mark of appreciation be shown the wonderful American. In a burst of enthusiasm the slugger in- sisted that the prince must visit Amer ienagain, “Come over when you've got time,” snid Sullivan, “and ask for me, I'll see that they treat you white.” It was certainly a picture of love and lovliness, to see those two important personages flatter each other in such a reckless way., The Prince of Wales, thoroughly a man of the world, and Mr. Sullivan, pious and polished, meeting on a common level with no barrier be- tween them., Wisely and well it hath been wondered, “‘whither are we drift- ing.” him—that he — She Will Probably Lecture. Nina Van Zandt, happy in the wild hallucination that she is the widow of the late August Spies, to whom she was married by proxy, continues to figure in the newspapers. Ifit wasever suggested, in support of the proposition that uecessity alone is the mother of invention, then the case of the mourn- ing Mrs. Spies proves the assertion untrue. Freaks of nature come and go, and dime museums prosper. Miss Nina was offered rare inducements to become an attraction at a dozen museums, but she refused them all with scorn. Enterprising managers exhib- ited her in wax, in oil, and in other ways to the gaping idiots while some people suggested that she was insane. The wood cut artist of the newspaper wreaked his vengeance by publishing ghastly pictures of the grief-stricken widow; her mother became positively wild on the subject, while her father congratulated himself that the court- ship saved a Chicago gas bill. Yot the foolish girl insists that she mourns for a husband dead, and says in her latest perfumed note: I do not refute the hireling liars of the crazy, juckal (capitalistic) pre: In the first place I never read ghese papers myself. In the second they are not worth answering. But I have just been toid of a tale, hashed and rehashed by, the scandal mongers—to think that there ople to read such stuff —which T recogn| as having originated in the hallucinations §€a ‘society’ mad woman, to whom I am, un unately, related. It is to the effect that [3s ‘heiress’ in an estate owned by an aug§ in Pittsburg, and that upon my marriagéf1 was summarily ‘disin- herited’ and left” to pine. Now, when I joined hands—in spirit, for a cowardly, petty autocrat (hivcling, murderer variety) did not ‘permit’ us even to sce each other through an iron network on thopecasion for cight weary, dreadful weeks aftérward—with my beloved husband, he well knew that I brought him only myself, with a wealth of affection, trust, and reverence.” So it will appear that Mrs. Spies is not | wealthy, neither does she always write words of love. Yet it is certainly high time that she dismissed herself and al- lowed some fresher freak to take her place on the world’s sensational stage. Enforce the Ordinance. There is altogether too much fast driving on our principal thoroughfares. The streets of Omaha are for other uses than race tracks. Pedestrians, delivery gons, street cars, cabs and hacks—in the legitimate transaction of business, occupy the streets. Fast driv- ing is therefore rendered dangerous. Dangerous to all persons on the street— life, limb and property are imperilled, Now that winter is here, the sleigh and cutter call for their place on the streets, necessarily crowding them, The ordinance prohibiting fast driving must be enforced. There is no neces- sity for waiting until a disastrous wreck oceurs, Many days Farnam, Douglas, and other streets are literally jammed, and it is no uncommon occurrence for some fellow with a wild desire to appear prominent to drive his horses at break- neck speed through the mass of vehicles vightfully belonging on the street. There has been no effort, at least of which we have knowledge, to check the evil, Let the ordinance be enforced and violators heavily fined. No other remedy is so certain of good results, THE FIELD OF INDUSTRY. Wheeling has four potterics and will soon have a fifth, A new woolen mill is to be erected at once at Menosha, Wis. Window-glass factories are paying divi- dends of from 5 to 10 per cent. There is an increase in the importations of earthen, stone and chinaware, Building activity will not abate very much during the winter in the south. A Cuthbert (Gig)y cotton mill has closed down und been offerdd for sale. Southern iron manufacturers are greatly disturbed over the scarcity of coke, In Chattanooga ‘permits have been taken out this yeur for 600 new buildings. Jewelors say thak dhere is a great demand for watches and clocits all over the west. The retailjng of $hoes by manufacturers is making trouble amoilg the legitimate retail trade. 3 Three hundred tons of fine textile machin- ery will soon be lifced, in a new Fall River mill. Wi A new rubber shoe, factory is to be started at Naugatuck, Conu.,, and will employ 1,000 hands. o In Newark, N. ., ‘there is a great building activity, and city sites are increasiug in value. A new carpet measuring and winding ma- chine, the best ever made, has just been in- troduced. At Athens, Teun., & $150,000 cotton mill is to be built. also a $0,000 hotel and a 100-ton blast furnace. Extensive railroad improvements are to b made at Decatur, Ala., and fourteen build- ings are to be erectod. Business is booming at all wateh factorics throughout the east, und there are very few failures in trade. The painters expect to be very busy fil winter. Quite a number are goiug south to pick-up extra jobs. A good many eastern textile manufacturers ‘coming in at a steady are obliged to run until 10 or 11 o'clock at night to fll orders, ' A state branch of the American Federa- tion of Labor is to be organized in Albany, N. Y., on January 17, The Brotherhood of Carpenters has now 4% local unions. The number has been doubled within a year, ew York engine builder has just re- an order for horse power of ma- for Glusgow, The projected Standard Oil company pipe- line will be 1000 miles long, extending - from Chicago to New York. A plan is talked of whereby five of the idle flint glass fuctories in the west can be started on the co-operative plan. A hundred houses are to be immediately built at Birmingham for the employes of the Alabama Great Southern railroad. Over 4,500 persons have raised §500,000 in Indianapolis to pipe gas—nine to twenty miles—from the wells to that city. Three hundred tgns of street car rails will be turned out of a mill to be built at Johns- town, Pa., to be completed on May 1. Chicago marine enginecrs are just about shipping a lot of machinery to San Francisco, to be put up in a vessel for Columbo. A year ago 150 nail machines were in opera- tion at Pittsburg, making 1,000 kegs per day; now the output is only about 500 kegs. One of the largest car and locomotive building works in the country, according to a southern paper, is to be built at Anniston. German beet-sugar manufacturers are able to extract twelve pounds of sugar out of 100 pounds of bects at a cost of 2 cents a pound. Among our exports to Australia are rock drills, steam pumps, mill machine Ameri- can stoves, tram cars, barbed wire and lager beer, The usual batch of newly projected mills in the south is unusually large. The returns from investments are strengthening confi- dence. American silk manufacturers have learned from Italy and Japan that silk velues have materially improved, and they expect a sim- ilar reaction here, About 20,000 carats of rough diamonds reach the Amsterdam manufacturers each week. When finished these vary in price from 4 to §53 per carat. During the past eleven months only about $600,000 worth of carpet was imported at New York city, against about $1,000,000 for the same time last year. —— A Thin Diet. Waco (Tex.) Echo. A gentleman just returned from California states that every foot of irrigable land has been cut up into town lots, which leaves tho matter in the shape that you must buy a lot and live exclusively on the glorious climate. ——— When Style is Valuable. New Orleans Picayune. A good style in writing is a great help to a man who has good ideas. It is of no value otherwise. If aman has nothing to say it doesn’t make a bit of difference how it is said. been fined 8300 and costs cach for their violation of the law. The machinery is being placed in the new Rock Tsland shops at |3=.u-n;m|-:. Muscatine has just incorporated acom- the construction of a gon » neross the viver at that point. Will Moore, of Jefforson, avose the othernight in hissleep, crawled through a window 12 by 16and fell to the ground about fifteen feet below, sustaining very severe bruises. ¥ The Davenport butchers are beefing over Armour's enterprise in knocking down the price of tough cow. K. of I, men howl at the imported enterprise and buy a roast on the sly. E. Erickson, of Liberty, who has been compelled to walk upon a wooden leg for twenty-three years on account of his leg being drawn np, had the cords sey- cred Monday, straightening the leg. G. Wash Potts, the foxy prohibition constable of Des Moines, finds that the confiscated contraband and the climate of the town have undermined his consti- tution, and he_anno inces his last pull for Colorado. The fact that the courts caught on to his wholesale fee raids on the county treasury tends to accelerate his flight to the snow-caps. Dakota. The Indians on the Sioux reservation number 28,093, A bill has been introduced in con- gress to open the Sioux reservation to settlement. Sioux Falls has expended nearly $13,- 000 for street improvements during the past seven months. The total amount of land purchased by emigrants for settlement during the y‘mst year amounts to 2,667,271 acres, or 4168 square miles, an_area four times greater than that of Rhode Island. The amount of assessment work being done on the different silver, mica, lead, copper, gold and tin claims in the south? ern hills is enough to make a person belicve that the prospectors known when they have a good thing, and that they are going to stand by their proper- ties until the much needed capital ar- rives to develop them more thoroughly, e THE CITY HALL CONTRACT. Balcombe Explains Why Brennan is Anxious to ilave It Revived. Yesterday Chairman Balcombe wrote the following letter to the mayor, which ex- plains itself: Hox. W. J. Broaren, Mayor—Dear Sir: You are asked to_join with the council and h the Regan Bros. and their bondsmen to revive an old contract for the construction of the city hall basement. I take the liberty of calling your attention to ome only, of the many objections, from my standpoint to the proposed. action. Since Regan Bros.) con- tract was annulled I have had in my hands an old assignment of sald contract by Regan Bros. to Bremnan & Co., 8o that I know it has been assigned; hence, if it is revived it is only to follow the ussignment into Bren- nan & Co.’s hands. Brennan has contended for some time past, and does now, that under said contract the foundation wall is only to be built up to the top of the door and window caps and the b tom of the water table. Those in charge in behalf of the city contended that under the contract the contractors were to construct up to the top of the water table, a difference of one foot, and in_money, $3,500, which, when added to about ¥1,500 of other work, which he claims he s not obliged to do, mukes & total of $10,000. In this old con- tract it is stipnlated that “to avoid litigation, controversy and delay, all disputes rogard- ing material, work or amount due said con- tractors, is 10 bo settled and determined by said architect, and his decision is to be final in all cases on both parties,” With the view of having an early decision and award on this matter of difference the chairman of the board of public works, the city engineer and the superintendent of the building callod upon . E. Myers, the archi- SRRl Should be More Explicit. Merchant Traveler. The melancholy young man who is con- stantly remarking that his life is a burden should be more explicit, 8o that people will Inow whether he means that it is a burden 10 himself or to his friends. s ndgn A Modern Drinking Song. George Sennott. Fill high your bowl with Fusil Oil{ With Tanuin let your cups be crowded ! If Strychinia’s generous juice abound! Or, animated atoms brew— And fill your erteries, hearts and veins, With glee—and Infusorial Glue! toct, for un award, which he rendered us ollows : Ab-h-h! fragrant fume of Kreosote! George W. Tillson, Esq., etc.: In accord- Bewitching bowl of Prussian Blue! ‘Who would not cool his parching throat With your bright oftspring, Mountain Dew? Stronger than aught that wrecked the frame Or shook the mighty brains of Burns! Surely, yowll set our heads aflame ‘When'e'r this festal day returns! ance with your request I hereby state to you that the with the city of Omaha and Regan Bros. for the construction of the foundation of the new city hall build- ing includes all masonry, stone snd iron work below the line of the first floor. This comprises all iron beams necessary for said construction, all stone steps either outslde or inside of said building, us woll us the wator or the B ring on the boer! Fresh Copperas foam, With Alum mixed in powder fine! How could my foolish fancy roam Tn search of whiter froth than thine? Thine Indian berry's essence, spread Through amber wavelets, sparkling clear, Benumbs dull care, strikes feeling dead And narcotizes shame and fear! table and the brick arches nocessary floors below the line above spec short, leaving the fivst floors in per! dition for the final laying of whatever floor- ing may be determined upon_hereaf! Very truly yours, E. MyEus, Architect New City Hall, ete. This award is full and complete and should forever settle the question, but contumacious Brennan still persists that le was right, and if he be reinstated will undoubtedly only carry the foundation to the top of the door and window caps, and stop, and then take his chances of twisting out of doing the balance by hook or crook, perhaps, at the end of the law suit. If it was not for this chance of ob- taining £10,000 for nothing, Brennan would not be anxious to have the contract revived. Now I would most respectfully suggest that any ofMcial acting in behalf of the people of this city, would be justified in declining to aid in bringing a contract mto life again for the simple purpose of glving a contumacious contractor a chance to attenipt to defraud the people out of §10,000; when, as matters now stand, the old coutract being annulled, the people a its, costs and depre Yours truly, Sr. A. D. BavLcoMoe, Chairman Board of Public Works. Far down thy bubbling depths, Champagne, Drown'd Honor, Love, and Beauty lie; They fought th’ unequal fight in vain Shall we, then, merely drink and d Sweet Acetate of Lead forbid ! To ev'ry drink add pangs, and tell What tortures in thy bosom hid Anticipate the stings of Hell! Then drink, boys! Drink! We never can Drink younger—and we never will Be men—or aught resembling man— While poisoucrs have the power to killt Amen! From Frenzy's serecch of mirth, To maudlin Sorrow’s drunken flow, Lev's rave through tho scenes unmalel'd on earth! Aud not to be surpassed below! S STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. A union is the latest wantof Fremont. Rulo’s board of trade is moving for Missouri river rates. Nebrasda City will invest 86,000 in a natural gas prospect hole. The Ainsworth opera house has been remodeled for a church. Fremont capitalists will back . a can- ning factory with a bonus of $3,000. The trial of Meyers, charged with bridge burning, is it progress at Keur- ney. The Beatrice Democrat tersely tells MR. DEUEL'S CHANGE OF HEART. After Twenty-cight Years' Service With the B. & M., He Resigns, Mr. Harry Deuel, probably the oldest rail- road man in the state of Nebraska, and who lias been connected with the Chicago, Bur lington & Quincy system for nearly three decades, has resignod from his position us city ticket agent with that company, and will on February 1 enter the employ of the Union Pacific company. Mr. Deuel will have abso- lute control of the new city ticket oftice to be the story: *“Omaha did not get the | established at the corner of Thirtcenth and republicin national convention, but she | Farnam strects, in the oftice now occupied by is still booming just the same.” the Merchuntsbank, | The great incrcase in South Sioux City is voming to the | the pussenger traff s roud makes u city need, and the Union s an imperati se seleetion in its man fic has mude a W front at the expense of her namesake in Towa. Breweries and factories u sait, values are improving, new buildings planned and under way, and prosperity ilumines the faces of the residents. The Nebraska City News has informa- several nto the vit ug of 1360 he trol of the Hannibal St. Jose ticket office, and rem i Y ! til 1570, when he v ¢ agent tion that Marshal Bierbower will soon | for the I3, & M. and Chicago, Burlington & join the Ym«'uspinn of retired republi Quiney. Mr. Deuel sold the first coupon officeholders, and that his su tlcket ever issued the state. His many friends who regard him for himsclf will be pleased to hear of any success that may at- tend him, Buclid Martin or Fr The News is interesting—if be either Ireland. true. Louisville' has the champion mean mai His name is Chizek. He was born lazy and is now slowly starving to death, Recently his wife gave birth to a child, and during her confinement ek was so weary that he could not mon a doctor or call on the neigh- bors for assistance. His friends should improve his circulation with a three- cornered fence rail, The district court of Nemaha county is wrestling in the case of Schoonove charged with the murder of his mothe in-law. Schoonover, in his testimony, avowed before God that he did not know that it was his mother-in-law he shot at, Pat and Dan in Trouble, Pat Powers and Dan Carrigan are in the cotral police station for stealing thirty pounds of copper and seventy-five pounds of lead from a junk shop on the corner of Ninth and Jackson streets. The two were canght car Yying the stuff away, and Pat was so em- barrassed that when he was asked his nation- tation, he replied, “Oi'm Matrin ndidates. Only one comple applied to Judge McCul lach yosterday for permission to assume marital relations. The canflidates were Jo- seph Miller, aged twenty-three Vears, A Axb, Who is just sweet seventeen, and but was confident that it wasa “‘vap- | Mi¥ mint” of some kind—most likely a | Dot residents of LN skunk. When arraigned he plead “not Competing For the Contract. ilty:” but in giving his testimony ad- {60 eloct Roach proposes to have mitted shooting his mother-in-law, Mys. ounty an oftico well agapted for the disposition of his aflairs in the county buildiug, and has v Schloss, in his corp field on the 6th day of lust August, but that the darkness preventcd his thinking fora moment | gone ubout it in s Lueincas e mannir, Nov that the objectaimed at was other than | erdny b6 SHEEEER L Wio do the a wild animal. work the cheapest and best will win lowa Items. Arensdorf was thirty-six years old the day he was aequitted. Two Watérlpo saloonkecpers Miss Mary Ballantine, of Syrueuso, and Charles Shoppard, of Springfield, Mo., e ata of thelf brathier, W. C. Ll luntine, 1618 Webster street, have B s s ng - whre e THE CGREAT DEMAN Thisis Made of a Well-Known Nows« papor Correspondont. INTERESTING INFORMATION. Wanted, a Miner's Lamp—A road Contractor—A Safe Place to Invest Money in Real bistate, T have conatant requests tofind o certatn things, and refte ted request that urbulent, avail themselyes of my 1 Wide Requatntance in bringing t n- with those who muke and seil anything, from the proverbial needle to the antithetioal anchor—or, as the Wizard of Menlo pauk is re- cently quoted, “from an elophanut’s hide to a bull,” This week & miner from the Pacitle slope sends in a wail for the best kind of miner's lamp, and allthat T cun dc who desiggn, make or vend miner: o leas n rm to build me iles Often, too, as to-day, 1 volunteer information hich Tehiuk will Ueisetit othiers as it lias my- selt, TWO c. “The pretty and White House and the t joys, our pre ¥ be thiem two very cleat heads, ently. “Right, my des thought how AR HEADS. mistress of tha sadd a friend to mo ;but have you ever muich more is meant by tliat e pression than at first appearsy “How very Drobriate an expression 1t 81 “Why, 1o} i What way?® This was cnough to set me fairly goling ou my hobby, and T oXpressed myselt a 1 years ago, it you remember, 1 found was getting dulland stupld, and seemod 10 loxe (terext even i my Sunday chats: and on consultation with a physician I found that 1 had catarrh. Now thix 15, when developed, an un- pleasant disense, uncomfortable and disgusting ind doubly dangerous because so fnsiduous, and having access from the general sturting place— the mucous membranes of the nose and throat intothe stomach and through the Intter into the whole alimentar; aj tem. The pr an_eminent although weeplngs pectorations, tieularly that good N foreman of the Cake Department at Bukery, told me that he had catarrh thewar, und that he had been entirely cured several months ago, and has never had uny sten of its return sis By his advice 1 to visit the office of Dis. McCoy & Henry sultation, and I also heard from other sources that Geo, Ross, the well known driver of 18 on the Green Line, Henry Poterson, fable, and thoroughly Unioh Pucific headquarters, David Edens, who 18 proprietor of one of the most popular re- sorts {n South Omaha, in_addition to numerous other people of prominence, ha successfully by these gentlemen's curative pow- ors, in some instances, a large number of tu- , kuown to the medical fraternity as poly- been removed, After consulting with or or his assistant 1 made the trial with entire satisfaction and success.. My voice, my henlth and my spirits returned; Having been thus permanently benefited, T al- ways will recommend the 0y treatment to my friends and the publie, and 1 will always {n the future doubli. expression, ‘a cléar "us being not only fiy urative buf literal, d aduge, Mens sui ' sound mind ina sound body— g in capite sano'— 1 droopings, my 1 Felt worse @ been treated might be « sound mind Since my rel but eflective have not onl) car head. 1 will recommend this simple medy to my friends who may rdinary colds in the head, but regulat oppressive caturrly, and they will cer- tainly find & murvellously prompt und thorough- ly effective relief. 1tolda couple of gentlemon of my expericnce, and they hesitated about going to his office, ind as they had been made worse by powders, snuffs, washes, douc tubes of different’ ki; M wero | think unfavorably of my choice, but my e ness ought to assure them and { am firmly vinced that a test will conviuce my end n ment. T’ treatment effectually clennses tho nasal passages of all catarrhal virus and even of the ccumulations cuixed by pungent suufs or pow- relfef of catarth and other tron aggravate rather than assist. 'l ment saothes and al tation ders or by drastic smoke, ignoruntly used for the s, protects the membranal lning: from fresh colds, completely hecls the L restores the senses of tasto, mell and ven when the latter has been previous- A by dangerous liquigl remedios. 1t taste and foul breath resulting . Tustead of dying up the secros tlons, it dislodges them and makes them harm- less, impid nnd odoy and finally natural wnd heaithy. Young phildrei are freqiont suferory trom this dread dise nd are skillfully treut- ed with perfect safety by the MeCoy-Heury treatient, CATARRH CAN BE CURED. The Successfal Methods as Used by Drs. McCoy & Henr The treatment for arrh, lung trouble, asthe yheumatism and other chronic diseaxes can e applicd succesfully by one who hus - igatedtand made a Lfelong study of such - Carel th particnlar business as has nry, will succes Nothiug but t known to medical % glven atients, and it can bo A0 That those gentlemen are masters ot s now known of consumption and ofher With them it s uo safely all tha chronde diseases up o dato. sp culation and Jghtforward tretamern Al il v under the g s of medicine and surgery. huve wdded o the exhRuSLVe tation for moderate chi bul #1, whethe by mail. follow nt regarding Drs. M (« and He upon good authority “Sinee these eminent physicians have heen in the west. they have treated and cured over sic thous- ekl el of cataryh and ehronie thyoal and ung e o these casea 40 e, Cort i b declared and pronounced incurable.” DOCTOR J. CRESAP M'COY, Late of Bellevue Hospital, N AND DOCTOR COLUMBUS HENRY, Late of the University of Penna., Have Offices 310-311 RAMGE BUILDING, c 15(h ana Harney Streets, Omaha, Nebraska. Where all curable ¢ sy, Medical discases (r mption, Bright's Di and all N ) Cor es are treated with wkflifully, yapepsin, Asks, Al dis alty. CATARII e CONSULTATION by mallor at office, 81, Oftice Hours 416 11, 1; 204 .0 m, Bunday tncluded, sfully by Drs, i i1, 40 it b4 this possible for those unable to make & Jour ney 10 obtain successful hospital treatiuent at their homes, No letters auswered uuless accompanied by ¢ n starpe, g Address il letters to Drs, McCoy & Tienry, Rooms 310 wad SN Mamge Buildiug, Ommbi Nobraska.