Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 5, 1888, Page 4

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Ik there is to be open executive ses= sions of the United States senate, the beginning ought to be made when the Lamar case comes up. The country will be very much interested in knowing how senators vote on that case. THE farmers of Minnesota are dissat- isfied with the existing railroad rates in that state. One granger association has sent resolutions to the governor agking that the correction of abuses committed by railroad monopolies against agricultural interests be not longer delayed. —— IN this age of bombs any method by whach a real infernal machine may be distinguished from a bogus one will be welcome. Dr. Edson of New York, has discovered a simple but conclusive test. He recommends lighting the fuse. If the package explodes and kills you it is goenuine. If not, it is a humbug. —_— RECKLESS driving is altogether too common in Omaha, especially upon the crowded business thoroughfares. The time has arrived to station a policeman at the intersection of Farnam and Fif- teenth, Douglas and Fifteenth, and Dodge and Sixteenth streets for the protection of pedestrians, who at pres- ent arein danger of life and limb from reckless and fast drivers. Women and children frequently are in need of es- corts in making the crossings at these intersections, and it is the duty of the chief of police to station officers at thase points for that purpos THE Chicago Thibune suggests that re- publican politicians who are troubling themselves about an issue may find one certain to command popular attention in the reports of the Pacific railroad commissioners. “What party,” asks the Zvibune, *‘will take this matter up and pledge itself to see that steps are taken to punish the crimes of the Pa- cific railroad wreckers and compel resti- tution?” Itis very likely that neither of the parties will have the courage to do this, for the reason that both of them will have in view the financial assist- ance which these very wreckers . may give, but none the less the issue has been made be- fore the people and they are not hkely to permit it to drop out of consideration. This would seem to be understood by the corporations, which are already seeking to counteract the effect of the disclosures made by the commissioners, for that purpose working over, with some new embellishments, the familiar pleas that have served them in the past. — THE public judgment unquestionably is that all express companies should be subjected to regulation under the inter- state commerce law. The opinion of the commission, recently rendered, is that an express company which is merely a branch of railroad comes with- in the operation of the act, but it does not regard the law as clearly applying to independent express companies, and therefore asks congress to define its powers respecting such companies it it is intended that the act shall apply to them. It is not easy to see how any class of express companies doing busi- ness with the railroads in the handling and transportation of property ean be regarded as outside the category of common carriers, in howeverre- stricted a sense that term may be ap- plied, and if this be admitted there is no further question that the act should be made to apply to them. Itis also im- portant to consider whether, if the law is not made applicable to these com- panies, & wide door will not be left open for evasion of the spirit of the law that would in a measure defeat its purpose. The weight of argument is certainly in fuvor of subjecting express compantes to regulation, whether operated as a branch of a railroad or as independent enterprises, and we have no doubt this view will prevail in congress. Facts For Mr. Blair.' That somewhat peculine old - gentle- man, Senator Blatr, of New Hampshire, quality of persistence is quite as able ns some of his less meritori- ous characteristics; saems determined to challenge another defeat of his educa- tional bill ot the hands of congress. He has now been laboring for this pet measure sin 1881, and though tho close of each session has left him no nearer success than at the beginning, he has seemed to acquire increased af- fection for his hobby at every repulse, and has brought it forward with unfail- ing promptness at the opening of each cossion only to have it knocked about in the most careless and irreverent fashion in order to make way for some other bill or allow some senator to start a debate. It is ngain boing subjected to this sort of treatment, but its kindly old parent is not a bit discouraged and will not think a bit less of his battered and neglected offspring. On the contrary whenever the chance is allowed him he will talk about it and fondle it in the presence of the senate with the same old terms and manifestations of affection that he has 50 often employed. Of course Mr. Blair has not the slight- est iden that there is any loss reason now than there was six years ago for his bill. Te is one of those people who haying settled upon a pro- ject, for which at the time there appears 40 be some ground, can- not thereafter conceive that there may have taken place a change of conditions which nofonger affords any justifica- tion to their project. Very likely Mr, Blair doesn’t want to lcarn any facts that militate against his pet scheme, s will hardly fail to hear from some however, that the south, for whose al. benefit his measure was con- ced, has been making progress in educational matters in the past six years, and that some of the statesof that soction are really able at this time to show a percentage of illiteracy no greater than Mr. Blair’'s own state of New Hampshire. It willundoubtedly sur- prise him to learn that in Virginia, West Virginia and Tennessee the school year has been extended, with a notable increase in the attendance upon the public schools; that in Alabama during the past four years the number of school houses has increased nearly one thou- sand and is now 5,600, aceommodating a quarter of a million pupils; that in Ar- kansas and Georgia the figures show a rapid growth of the public school sys- tem during the past three or four years, and that in Florida and Texas there has been a steady and markea increase in the facilities of pub- lic education and in the ular interest regarding it. In short, all the reports thus far made of school superintendents in the southern states for the past year show that the people of that section are wide awako on the subject of public education, and determined that the rising generation shall not want the advantag a com- mon school education. Perhaps it would be just to Mr. Blair to credit this awakening in part to his biil, but how- ever this may be the fact that the south is pushing forward with most commendable vigor in edueational work is unquestionable, and haying caught tho spirit, with much greater ability to carry it out than ever before, the people of the south can safely be left to take care of their own interests in this particular. If there is any greater interest in the present congress in behalf of the Blair bill than was shown in preceding con- gresses since that measure was first in- troduced, it will be found among those who see in it a way of providing for the expenditure of a considerable part of the surplus revenue from present tax- ation and thereby furnishing an excuse for a less reduction than would otherwise be necessary. We do not believe, however, that the number of such whowilldaredeclare themselves is sufficient to give this measure a chance of success. The party that should become responsible for voting away the eighty million dollars involved in the Blair bill would simply invite its own destruction. —— A Friend at Court. Tt would seem that the advocates of ship subsidies have a useful ‘‘friend at court” in the person of Mr. C. B. Mor- ton, commissioner of navigation. In the report of this official, just submitted, he presents with some elaboration the aids and advantages enjoyed by the shipping of other nations, and presents as his conclusion the opinion that it is impos- sible, without a changeof the present conditions, for the United States to re- gain its lost supremacy in the foreign trade. He says our vessels must be put on an equality with foroign ships, by which he means they must be paid subsidies or bounties, or they must be gradually forced out of the contest. There is nothing new in this statement of the situation. It has been repeated inevery report that has come from the bureau of navigation since the subject of restoring the shipping interest of the country has been discussed, and it has been presented in every possible form by the advocates of ship subsid Yot it hus thus far failed to convince any large portion of the people that it is the policy or duty of the government to go into the business of building up a ship- ping interest by a system of bounties that would almost certainly be of endless duration, and the limit of which in amount, after the policy had become established, no one can pretend to foretell. We do not ap- prehend that the opinion of the present commissioner is likely to accomplish any more in this direction than did similar views of his predecessors. As a matter of fact Americ: ns ave now sailing foreign-built ships, un- der foreign flags, at a profit, and it is said that the Pennsyl- vania railroad company, under another name, is asking congress to permit the vegistry of u fleet of ships owned by itself in order that it may sail them as American ships in the for- eign trade without any bounty at all. This is testimony that the sagacious and thoroughly practical corporation sees its way to profitable re- turns in this business, and merely asks shat the absurd laws which discriminate agninst American ship owners shall be relaxed so that its ships can sail tho sons under the American flag. But if this wero not s, and American ship owners eould not sail their vessels at a profit, under present conditions, why should the government be called upon to maka good their losses? It is obvi- ously no part of the government’s busi- ness to pay any portion of its citizens to carry on a loging business, and clearly if it could be justified in doing so with respect to ship owners it would be very difficult to draw the line at which such a policy should halt. The sentiment that is infused into the ship subsidy argument is all very well, but as a prac- tical question, in which character alone itis proper to consider it, it does not and we believe never will commend itself to the favor of a majority of the people. —_— That Library Building Sche The scheme to cut up and disfigure Jeflerson square by the proposed ercc- tion of a public library building, has at last taken shape inanordinance coupled with a proposition to vote $85,000 in city bonds for the proposed building. We hope the city council will save the city the trouble and expensoe of voting upon this project. Jefferson square should be veserved for park purposes and beau- tified by fountains and monuments, If the only breathing spot in the heart of the city is to be abandoned for public puildings, let it be given up for a great market hou For that purpose the location is admirable and the space ample. Tnstead of issuing $85,000 in bonds to erect a library building which is not needed at this time, let that sum be voted for a market house, which has been sadly nceded in Omaha during the last ten years. Bighty-five thousand dollars will build an elegant markev house, but it will enable usto build only a very commonplace library building, if that building is to be fire-proof throughout. Ifit is not to be fire-proof, there is no object in constructing it. The whole library building scheme is premature and impracticable, The intorest on $85,000 at 6 per c 00 o year. It will cost fully $ year for heat, light and janitor ser- vice. For one-half of $7,500 a year the city can ront all the libravy facilities it needs, with light, heat and janitor ser- vice, in a fire proof building more cen- trally located than Jefferson square. With the present bonded debt of the city, ranging over $1,200.000, there should be no bonds added except for paving, sewerage, parks and public buildings that are absolutely necessary. THE committee of the board of trade appointed to induce manufacturers to come to Omaha should soon give some sign that it is paying attention to this duty. The businessrecord of last year has been published, and there should be compiled from thissuch facts asneces- sary to show the commercial progress of Omaha, which together with apresenta- tion of the special and conspicuous na- vantages of Omaha as a manufacturing point should be widely distributed to manufacturers, particularly in the eastern and middle states. Judiciously conducted work in this direction cannot fail to have favorable results, and it should be done with as little delay as possible. The first thing to be doneis to arouse an interest among manufu turers toward Omaha and encourage in- quiries. There ave many indust enterprises now unsatisfactorily locat that could be brought here were reason- able inducements offered thom. PRrEPARATION i8 being made for the open- ing of the cooking class in the high school. The idea scems to meet with general ap- proval. It will be a new experience for a good many of the young misses.—Republi- can. We should like to know who among the patrons of the public schools have asked or petitioned the board of educa- tion to engage in this tomfool The young misses who have no chance to dabble in dough and wash dishes at home ave not likely to profit vi much by the novel experience in the cooking school. The Omaha school board is more lavish and reckless with the public school fund than any other school board in America, San Francisco not excepted. They employ more useless teachers, and have quartered more pensioners on the public, than any similar body we know of. The addition of a cooking professor ss nothing more nor less than a pension scheme. UNLESS Chairman Balcombe sees fit to step down and out from the board of public works on his own volition, the re- quest that Mayor Broatch should take his head off will be made in vain. The mayor has no such power under the charter. He may invite an appointive officer to resign, but he cannot compel him to do so. The power to remove city officials, whether elected or appointed, is vested in the district court. The mayor may prefer charges of malfeas- ance against any official or member of the council before the district court,and if the charges are proven to the satisfac- tion of the court, the officer must go. That is the only method prescribed by law for deposing officials, and any at- tempt to remove them by any other process is simply a wild goose chase. WHEN the chief of police makes a specific charge to the mayor and license board that a certain resort is disorderly or harbors crooks and thieves, and this charge can be backed by the police au- thorities and the police courtrecord, the board has but one duty to perform, and that is to refuse the proprietor of such resort a liquor license.’ THe commissioner of navigation in his report states that without a change in the present condition of our naviga- tion we can not regain our lost suprem- acy in the foreign trade. The commis- sioner is doubtless not far from right, but so long as we have great inland re- sources-40 develop navigation must oc- cupy a secondary place, Avrrnoven the Chicago Times has, according to numerous reports, been sold to a syndicate, the legend, “By W. F. Storey,” still maintains its place at the head of the editorial page. Even death cannot make *‘the old man” lose his grip. ‘He evidently runs the Z¥mes by a private wire from the spirit land. PROMINENT PERSONS. The marquis n§ rne is threatened with canoer, Weston, the p«‘u ian, is an_ editor on tho New York Star, Tennyson roceives 425,000 a year from the sale of his hooks, | August Belmont, the New York banker, won $21,000 with his racing stable last year. Whittier's coneratulatory letters already number over five hundred and the end is not vet. ] Queen Victorin yefused to allow Mrs, Mackay to be invited to a state ball or con- cert, Jay Gould never smoked but one cigar in his life. It made him so ill that he never tried another. Mrs. Joseph Harrison, the widow of the man who built the first railroad in Russia, is worth £5,000,000. San Francisco has more representatives in the United States senate than any two other cities in the country. The richest socialist in the United States is Courtland Pulmer of New York, who ranks among the millionaires, Mr. Randull has mtroduced in congress o bill to inerease the pension of General Rick- ett's widow to #0 a month. Colonel Robert Ingersoll has been formally pronounced dead by his associates of a Thir- teen club because he failed to attend the last annual dinner. Hugh M. Brooks, alias Maxwell, the young 3nglishman under sentence of death in St. Louis for murdering Arthur Preller, has em- braced the Catholic faith, Congressman “Tom” Reed, of Maine, is compuratively poor. He has nover tuken a house, kent a carriage nor given a dinner since he first went to Washington, Dr. Mackenzie states that for more than a month the Crown Prince Frederick Will has been free from the unpleasant sen: in his throat which he first experienced last January. The prince is hopeful and cheerful. Jay Gould is reported to have said recently that the speculators have made a plaything of his health for years, and that be could shake Wall street to its foundations by simply standing on the steps of the Stock Kxchange building, striking his forehead with his hand and giving o groan, Theodore Tilton is living in a remote quar- ter of Paris in by no means affluent circum- stances, His dress is almost shabby and with his Lair hanging about his shoulders he presents a peculir appearance us he walks about the streets of the French capital. He does a little literary work now and then, but writes with no regularity. g A Nation of Rich Helrs. Slater (Mo.) Index. One of the most profitable kinds of busincss that we know of these days is to be a Chero- Iee Indian. Every child of a Cherokee is born toa fortune of $7,000 and many very valuable government perquisites. A Monkey's: Grip on Fame. Fork World. wonkey that fired the town of Wakefield, Wis., by overturning a lamp can claim a small place it the niche of the temple of fume occupicd by the cow whose kick con- flagrated Ch g The sporti So Safcastic, New ‘Fork Sun. In the west they dei’t think that a town is enjoying much of @ real estate boom unless people are wandering ‘around with lanterns al night ready to clgse desivable bargains. 0. * Classical Kicker Rochester, Paxt-Erpress., There are nine Harvard_graduates in the Fifticth congress. No wonder there is kick- ing there. e The Fight for Life. Robert Louis Stevenson, Leave not, my soul, the unfoughten field, nor leave Thy debts dishonored, nor thy place desert Wit » service rendered. For tny life, U ad defend that fort of clay, ed; whether soon to-day thy friends T years, a man Grown old in honor and the friend of peace. Content my soul, for mioments and for hours; Each is with service pregnant, each reclaimed 1s a8 a kingdom conquered, where to reing. i el One Case of Nightmare Explained. Chicago Herald. Robert Louis Stevenson is a great admiror of Wagner's music. s it any wonder that he has most horriblo dreaws. — Astonishing Modesty. Louisvil’e Courier-Journal The tin and copper syndicate does not want the earth. It wants only a few leading min- erals. e STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. The schools of Fremont have ished the reces; Dodge county is feeding and Shelter- ing 80,000 Oregon sheep this winter. Ogallala is aflicted with a surplus of thieyes, and a vigilance committee 1s talked of to read the riot act to them. The State Firemen’s association will hold its annual meeting at Plattsmouth on the 17th, to sclect time and place for the reunion. There was a solitary exception to the unanimity of the voters of Weeping ‘Water on the proposition to issue $15,000 in bonds for waterworks. The town will experience high pressure at an early day. The daily press of the state, with two exceptions, insignificant and envious, are unstinted in glovifying the growth of Omaha in 1887, and her unrivalled as the commercial and manu- ng giant of the west. The Lin- coln pupers ave appalled and unable to express their disgust at the exhibit, Se il enterprising country papers have gallantly rushed to the aid of the eligiblo girls anxions to swing the pre- rogatives of leap year. Lists of unmar- ried men, their looks, dispositions, pros- peets and piles have been published, and the maidens of the favos towns can safely look before th \p into the surging seas of marriage and divorce. Chase county, with barely two years of settlement, has a ifi)]lulflliml of 4,000, Imperial is the county seat. There are six or seven thriving young towns, with nearly all lines of trade represcnted. The principal towns are Wauneta, Chase, Winchester, Imperial, Cham- ion and Canby, Land can be secured y relinquishment or deed. Deeded lands are selling at from §4 o $10 per acre, while in the remote portions of the county government land can still be had. The republican workers of Nemaha county gathered in melancholy numbers a few evenings ago, to gaze into the empty depths of the political treasury. The defeated candidates had exhauste their surplus in an effort to exalt them- selves and the party and their condition cried out in the wilderness of blighted hopes for reimbursement. The meeting developed oceans of breath but not a !)enuy jingled for the suffering. The nner feelings of the members regard- ing backsliders were thus voiced by Rufus Leech: ‘“They are mugwumps; let them go to the devil and stay there,’ and as he slapped his hat on hishand he declared: “Ym satanic majesty, ,with all his wodern appliances for roasting, abol- bolling, frying, haen't a corner one-halt hot enough for republicans who will vote the democratic ticket, and that's tho kind of acat I am.” Towa Items, Sanborn s free of saloons. Burlington claims a population of 27,000, Coal of the lower grades, for manu- facturing purposes, is delivered ut Bur- lington for 60 cents per ton. The number of hogs packed at Cedar Rapids this year is 96,060, against 166,- 529 for the previous year, The total number of arvests made at Cedar Rapids for the year just closed 13 300 less than the one |u'w'\‘\fing it. Fiftcen hundred head of cattle havo been dishorned in the southern part of Osceola county during the present wins ter. The agricultural department fixes tho average of Towa’s corn crop at a fraction over twenty-five bushels per acre and that of Nebraska at twenty-four. A Chariton man had a carload of broom-corn from Nebraska, upon which the freight was $9 per ton, the same as he had been l\u,\‘luu from Chicago, at which he complains bitterly. Davenport Masons avo feeling good over the completion of their new tem- ple. It is supposed to be among the finest in the state, and is 65x150 foet, and four stories high, Its cost was $75,~ 000, A Washington county farmer gave his hogs so much salt and water on starting to town with them that nine of them died on the roud, end five after he got there and before they were weighed. Has little piece of rascality cost him about $150. The past year was a prosperous one in Davenport. Factories costing $250,000 were built; business blocks $423,000 and sidences $194,700. The Second street, i sended §20,000, and ten miles of the Davenport, lowa & Dakota rail- road were completed at a cost of $150,- 000, The biggest holiday excitement at Des Moines has boen ereated by a bloody butcher. A large cattle firm thought that the butchers should either pay a better price for the 1 ' ing or L lower. The tho cattle firm has put in a first-c market and sells meat at cost, at from 1o 9 conts per pound for best—the loss being acut of 6 ceuts per pound. As the cattle firm has herds of its own, and slenty of capital, an era of cheap meat is on the people of the capital city, with no signs of rebellion on their part. Dakota. '"Possum and deer are getting com- mon in Deadwood. Rapid City’s building improvements for th 1st year amount to 1,000,000, The actual valuation of Yankton city 52,250,000, and_of Yankton county #6,250,00, and both will double in 1888 unless all signs The ) east ritoba road has carried to the om, from Manitoba and 21,000 head of beef cattle and 30,000 head of sheep. Yankton has one artesian well which ) gallons a minute and sr which flows 1,500 gallons amin- utes, the water supply being tapped 600 feet down. The farming lands of Dakota are said to be passing into the hands of actunl settlersat the rate of 4,000,000 acres cuch year. Twenty-five per cent of the entire territory still belongs to the gov- ernment. The noted ex-Indian agent, Dr. V. T. Mcgillicuddy, has been notified that his accounts as agent have been thoroughly examined by the government and a dis- crepency of only $129.56 found. The doctor now resides in Rapid City. Yunkton is the cathedral city of the Catholic diocese of south Dakota, under tho dispensation of Bishop Marty. Plans for buildings which will cost_$2,000,000 are being made. These will be con- structed during the next few years. The site for schools and hospitals has alread, been selected, and the bishop’s dence and convent were built several years ago. wanna is the name given to the fiew coal fields in the Black Hills. The; are ten miles southwest of Hot Sprin and an area of twelve square miles. coal is of a bituminous character but there are thin stratas of a hard, bright and extremely black conl which is believed to be anthracite. If struck with a hammer it breuks up into cubes and is remarkably clean. To the south and between the coal fields and the Cheyenue v is o wide and beau- tiful streteh of valley comprising about 5,000 acres. The B. & M. survey crosses the Cheyenne river from the south com- ing down Cottonwood creek, and almosy touching some of the coal locations. Colorado. Denver turned out 14,000,000 cigars last year. The authorities of Denverare waging war on the gamblers, The San Juan country turned out 12,044 tons of mineral last year. The government mint at Denver handled last year $1.673,453 in gold and $16,491 in silv The total bullion de- posits from all sources amounted to $1,549,258, Richavdson, the collapsed contractor of the state capitol building, has sued the capitol commissioners for $72,000 damages because they refused to accept his style of work, Denver’s improvement record for 1887 shows nearly #30,000,000 in real estate transactions, move than 2,000 buildings erectea at a cost of 5,000,000, and $12,000,000 in value i duction of interest During the holiday cold snap, Robin- son, near Leadville, captured the meteorological icicle. The thermom: ter registered 55 degrees below ze and the mercury was frozen whenev it was exposed. Voree, the Colorado plug ugly, i a Virginian by birth and forty-seven years of age. He was a guerilla under Mosby, lived in Cheyenne when the Union Pacific reached there, and has since divided his time between Colo- pado and “Wyoming. Until he blos- somed out as a full fledged terror he was employed as a cowboy. e —————— The Golden Melt. St. Joo (Mo.) Gazeltes It is well known to all people who know anythlng of the geography of this country, its topography and resources, that the region embracing central and western Towa, eastern and central Ne- braska, eastern Kansas and northern Missouri, as well as all other portions of e lying along the Missouri river, horically a golden belt flowing with milk and honey, and really an ag- ricultural garden, The land is prolific of corn and every other class of grain indigenous to o temperate zone, and the so0il is s0 strong and fertile that not only these flourish with more strength then elsewhere on the habitable glone, but all other kinds of vegetation peculiar to such a climate, flourish abundantly and spontaneously. The region raises the bLest and most succulent grasses for cattle, horses, shecp and swine, the growth of timber {8 not surpassed on- the earth, stone for building and coal for fuel is plentiful, the seasone ‘are faithful, and altogether the l'vFInn is peculiarly the abiding place of this age of man.” The result qh which is that many cities and towns have sprung up within the territory men: tioned almost a8 if by magic,and on every hand every class of the best und most of- fective machinery that human ingenuity has produced is'in constant and sat factory use. The reaper and thresher on the farm, the saw mill in tho forest, the wind mill and pump on tho plain, the telephone and press in the towns and cities, the telegraph and railway where, and all and singular tho ances that man’s handiwork has furnished to help and perfeet caso in everybody's work, from the needle of the housewife to the pile driver of tho bridge builder. . In every way the region is flourish- ing and producing and it rrounded by a vast area of country readv to swal- low up and consume all the golden belt can produce and all that its people can spare, and more too. To the great ¢ panse of Texas and the Rocky mountain region and the grainless territories of tho northwest go our corn and hogs, as well as to lands beyond the sea, and for everything that the Golden Belt pro- duces there is an illimitable market throughout the boundless world. This prosperity makes healthy and pretty women and children, ‘strong, big- hearted, broad-minded men, a popula- tion that is the salt of the earth and pleasing in the sight of heaven. OSSN, “If He Wants It." Phitadelphia American (Rep.). The suggestion has been very cooly made, and is as cooly ived in cer- tain quarters, that Blaine can wants it."” Mr. have the nomination if he This is merely one way of misrepresent- ing the actual situation, in the interest of that sort of ‘boom” which is so much employed and beloved by Mr. Blaine's advocates. As a matter of fact, there is no possibilty of the nomination being tenderod him by the convention. If he should get it at all, which we do not now helieve possible, it would be as the result of a contest, like that of 1884, but more prolonged and severe, The reason of this simply is that the party does not want to load up Mr. Blaine again. It has its own work in hand, not his ambitions and interests. In 1876 he was pressed upon it in 1850 he was again a candidate for its nomination; in 1884 his claims were presonted a third time; and now in 1888 it is still “‘the same story con- tinued.” The party is tired of his case. It has made an earncstand honest effort to elect him, without success, It cannot afford to give o quarter of a century, in & most momentous period of American history, to the effortto carry and elevate a single one of its members. If Mr. Blaine were much more entirvely its leader and representative; if hisservices to it had been immensely more valuable; if his statesmanlike qualitics were mul- tiplied; there would still be neither rea- son nor justice in its forsakingits legiti- mate duties to the country, and becom- ing n mere pack-horse for his concerns, It is perfectly evident, ns we_have said, that there is no general willing- ness to give him the nomination. Any pretense of that sort collapses the mo- ment it is examined. Every test of the public opinion of the party exhibits a thorough distrust of the possibility of his election, and an anxiety to secure stronger candidate. The canvass of the delegates to the New York state con- vention, the canvass of members-elect of the New York legislature, the can- vass of republican members of congress, the inquiry just made among tho re- publican newspapers of Illinois, Kansas and Missouri—all these develop the sume state of facts, and prove the wide- spread prevalence of the wish to take anew man. Moreover, the new men are already suggested. There are cer- tainly half adozen other prominent can- didates beside Mr. Blaine. Mr. Sherman’ will have a large following outside his own state of Ohio. He will have, we believe, delegates from fifteen or twenty other states, including Penn- sylvania. Indiana will send, it is now quite certain, a solid delegation for General Harrison, Connecticut is ve likely to do as much for Gene Haw ley. “And thero will be votes for Mr., Lincoln, Mr. Allison, Governor Rusk, Senator Cullom, and perhaps as many more. Nobody presumes to doubt these facts. They are perfeetly well known. What, then, do they show? Do they signify that the convention is going fo tender its nomination to Mr. Blaine on a silver plate? The absurdity of such a theory 15 manifest the instant the facts them- selves are admitted. It is evident tha the party is seeking its best candi- date. It is undertaking now, not futile attempts at redressing the past, but the performance of the duties of the present and future. The milk that was spilled on the ground in 1884 by the com- bined misfortunes which brought defeat in New York is spilled entirely. No amount of bewailing can recompense tho loss, and no sort of effort can gather up the milk. That capterisclosed,and the plain duty of the ru[publicun party is to o forward upon & fresh line of attack. Its candidates and itself have now a clean sheet. There are no old claims. It owes Mr. Blaine nothing whatev: If there be any debt either way it is from him to the party for the great and fruitless effort which it made to serve him, and for the disaster which his candidacy ontailed upon it. Such a debt Mr Blaine can with difficulty discharge, but one of the means of un- dertaking to do so would be for him to withdraw from the canvass. As it is plain he cannot get the nomination, ex- cept by a struggle, and in all p) lity cannot get itatall, he must certainly sce that the party would be relie by his withdrawal, and that at a time so tre- mendously criti in the history of American affairs he should not seltishly add to the party’s embarrassments and me, let no one be so weak as to ived by the pretense that Mr, s nomination i mething cer- tain, “'if he wants it. of the republican party does not want him, and is showing the fact more openly every day. RS R W. H. MacDonald on Casters, Minneapolas Journal: Those who know W. H. MacDonald, of the Boston- ians, know that he is one of the most graceful actors on the operatic stage, He possesses unusual histrionie talent. But he was not always thus. When “Mac” first went on the stage he used to ke the statues painted in the weep. But he thought he was mensely clever until one duy his brother came 10 see him. “Well, Sam, formance We! hat did you think of " asked Mr., Mac- my pe Donald, “You sang splendidly.” “What did_you think of my acting? T was just a trifle stiff, wasn’t 197 “Well, I think they could moved you about a good deal and you would have made u better a pearance if you had been on casters. That is what wade MacDonald study. have HIRAM HOWE'S NEPHEW. Beating Kentuckiane at Draw-Pokoer on the Coney Tstand Boulovard. Many frequenters of race-courses and trotting-tracks, ns well as rondmen who speod their horses along the Cono island boulevard, are acquainted with Hiram Howe's nephow, Albert. Albert is a remarkablo man. Ie is smaller and we s less than Tom Thumb did when Mr. Barnum took him to Europe and made a fortune by exhibiting him. 1f it were not for a deformity that mars the symmotry of Albert’s form he would be the most famous dwarf in_ Americ; it not in the world, Although he has reached the age at which the hair of some men beging to turn gray, he has the piping voico of u child; but when it comds to nerve he1s the equal of any Loug Islander who ever backed a horse or played an unlimited amount of draw, Heis well versed in horse lore, and often talks about the performances of thoroughbreds and trotters;from Boston and Flora Templo's timo to the prose day. Hoattends all tho great races, and sometimes places moro money on a horse than many club men who are looked upon as heivy bettors, His judg- ment is 50 good that he generally” car- ries more money away than he takes to the races, and he always d hly and in good taste. His chief enjoyment, however, is a quict little game of cards, They tell a story at Hiram's about soveral horsemen from Kentucky who stopped at the roadside hotel aftor a visit of inspection to the thoroughbreds at Sheepshead Bay. Whilo partaking of refreshments a furious -storm cameon that made them rejoice that they were under sheltor, “Leot's have 0 game of draw to pass away the time,” said one of the party. Three others were ready to chip in, but the man who proposed lay objected to sitting down with ess than five, ¢ will join you,” re- haired turfman, whose dollars run up into the million, “Who is Albert?” inquired the Ken- tuckian. “There he is,” replied the turfman, pointing to the dwarf, who sat with his back to the party, gazing at a horse pic- ture on the wall, Albert turned around at this and in a modost way said that he had 1o objec- tion to join the party. Tho voice struck the Kentuckian's ear with astonishment, and Albert's size myde the poker-player’s eyes ox- pand with wonder. *We don't want to play with a boy,” ho exclaimed. “You will find him man enough,” said the silver-haired turfman, with o look of contidence at Albert. The game was soon in full blast. The Kentuckians made the cards sail around the tablo silently and rapidly. Albert tilted his little derby down ovor his forchend to shade his twinkling eyes, shufling and dealing deftly when it came to his turn. e lost his fives and tens like a littlo man in the occasional bots he made in the opening half hour of the play. Then luck began to turn in his favor. Within an hour he had made his losses good, and was nearly threo hundred ahead. The Ken- tuckian who had objected to playing with the boy who had lost more than the others. seling a little nettled, ho proposed to raise the limit for $10 to $100. *Barkis is willin’,”" said Albert. They played on with fluctuating luck, Albert at times increasing his stock of velvet until one of tho party opened a jack-pot for $20. All went in but one of tho party. In the draw the man who was lying for Albert called for one card, Albert took three und the other players two cach. The boy had next to the last s The first man chipped in $20 and the second raised him $10, which Albert saw. Then the last man said, *“I'll raiso vyou $100 my bn{." This drove the other two out. 'he boy perred at his antagonist, and then placed $200 on the pile, saying in a cool ‘;’l see your $100, and go 8100 W The Kentuckian hesitated & moment, and then, throwing up his hand, asked’ “How old are you, my boy?” “Thirty-nine next birthday,” piped Albert. The Kentuckian had drawn to a bob- tail flush. Albert held a pair of cights. echihe o dodl Texas to W. T. Seattle Press: Yesterday aftorroon the steamer Josephine -left Yesler's wharf for Seabeck with twenty-seven colonists on board—eight adults and nineteen children, The Josephine had been ¢! o to take this company of colonists to Scabeck where claims had 1 located by them, Ten people emigrated from and during all these years they struggled to e homes and compctence for themselves, but to no purpose. One misfortune after an- other came on them, and at the end of ench succeeding year they found them- selves less able, ph Ily and finan- cially, -for the battle of life than the i one. Fever and aguo ails in almost every part xas, while droughts and hot uceeed cach other with precision, rendering life anything but enjoyable and property of no determinate’ value, During ten years’ dence in Texas they lost 1,400 head of cattle, the groater part from want of water, though some rom cold winds and lack of pasture. 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