Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 26, 1888, Page 4

4 THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Moraing Edition) including Sund‘y BEk, One Yenar For Six Months, %.nr Thr. :)- \|lll||?}l i ke Omaha Sunday dress, One Y . 200 OMANA OFFICE, \l)! 1‘|l A"nN'\F\ImA\!"'nU'T NEW YORK OFPIcE, ROOM 65, TRIBUNE 1 ING. ASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. TEENTH STHERT. CONRESPONDENCE. ANl communications relating to news and editorial matter should be addressed to the LOITOR OF THE BEE. BUSINESS LETTERS, AII usiness |etters and rem nces should be addressed to Tue Hek Prni G COMPANY, OMAMA, Drafis, checks nntl postoffice orders to Do made payablé to the order of the company. The Bee Pnhhshmg Cumnany, Proprietors. 10 0 500 L3 FOU- Sworn Statement of Circulatior State of Nebraska, | [} y of Douglags, . Tzachuick, secretary of The Bee Pub- ishing eompany, does soleninly swear that the Letund cirenation of the Datly Hee for the week gmtie Jan, 2, 2K, wis ws follow Saturday 14 8.8 an Friday, Jun. 2 Average..... GEO, B, TZSC| fworn to and subscribed fn my g 24th day of January, A. D,, 158, Notary Publdec. Btate of an\lrnn A, uck, Deing first duly sworn, de- s that he {5 secretary of The B i company, that the actual average daily circulaion of the Daily e month of .lullllul ¥ 1 1657, 14,400 co ‘tor Muy 1886, v Juiie, 1867, 14,147 coples’ for coptes: for Au.um 184, 14,161 e |m1 M, IOK. Syworn and subscribed to i In m; 'me nee this 2d day of Junuary, A. D, y Public. Tue boys in our cooking-school de- partment are said to be panting for pet- ticonts and aprons. SoUTH OMAHA hasacity government, but its machinery has been clogged up it of a lubricator POETIC justice is sometimes seen out- side of the novels. A Louisville coal dealer was recently found frozen to death in his office. Snatched from his light weighs, as 1t were. PROPERTY owners will soon have a friendly visit from various paving con- tractors, who will persist that they know botter what material property owners want for paving than the man who has to pay for it. THE public may expect some interest- ing disclosures when the methods of the great anti-poverty exponents, Gould and Sage, in relation to the Kansas Pacific bonds, are divulged in court. The counsel who have the matter in charge say they are all ready for the trial. So ave the people. NEVER before in American history bhas there been such an irruption of prize fighting asat present. The ve- neer of civilization is cracking in all grades of society showing the savagery of human nature beneath the surface. Itisa blot on our boasted enlighten- ment. THERE is a dispute between the gov- ernment and the state of Texas as to the ownership of Geer county in that commonwealth, The president recently claimed the land arbitrarily, by procla- mation, but the Texans are not to be in- timidated in that way. A much mo sensible method of terminating the dis- pute is the bill introduced by Senator Coke to create a board of arbitration to settle the controversy. The bill should pass and the decision of the board should be final. THE bell-wether still leads the coun- cil. He pretendsthat the new city hall will not be large enough for Omaha,and wants to abundon the Meyers’ plan for somothing more superb and magnifi- cent. Nothing less than a million-dol- lar city 1 will come up to his ideal. The council very naturally fell in with his stupendous scheme, and ordered the board of public works to get an op- tion on the lots adjoining. With Has- call, a million dollars is a mere baga- telle. There is a surplus of several hundred millions laying around loose in Uncle Sam’s strong box at Wash- ington. Tne Maxwell-Preller tragedy which caused so much excitement in St. Louis in April, 1885, is now drawing to a close. Maxwell, or whose real name is Hugh M. Brooks, after having been sentenced to death for the murder of Arthur Prel- ler, appealed through the state courts to the United States supreme court on the question of the constitutionality of the state law as applicd to his case. The opinion of Chief Justice Waite was adverse to the petition of Brooks and followed the decision as rendered by the same court in the Chicago anarch- ists’ trinl. The last straw for Brooks to grasp at is the governor’s pardon or commutation of sentence. As this is highly improbable, the day is not dis- tant when Brooks will pay the penalty of his crime by hanging. I7 is undoubtedly the fact that the recent victory of the administration in Pennsylvanin was achieved through the active work of the democratic federal office holders in that state, Had they kept hands off it is not improbuble that Randall would have been success “ful. But thissort of interference has ceased to attract serious attention be- cause it has come to be understood as entirely agrecable to the administra- tion, and to be expected whenevor the exigency requires it. Mr. Cleveland has an object to accomplish which he will not permit any sentimental con- siderations to interfere with, and it has been apparent for some time that he had concluded there was very little prac- tical polities in closing the mouths and tylng the hands of the army of office holders, The example set by the col- lector of customs at Philadelphia and others in the federal servicein Pennsyl- vania will be freely and boldly followed by the oftice holders elsewhere, at least until Me, Cleveland is renominated and hears the decision of the pooplo through tho ballot box, Tariff Discrimination, In almost every respect the existing tariff discriminates against the poor man. It places a higher rate of duties upon the cheaper classes of goods which the people of moderate means must buy than upon the classes which only people of wenlth can afford topurchase. It ex- acts from the masses who subsist by their toil the larger hounty on every- thing they wear, giving to the rich the benetit of a lower tax on all the finer and more expensive articles which it is their privilege to have. This is true of everything in the line of woolen goods, and it is even more conspicuously truo of all cotton and linen textile fabrics. Mixed woolen dress goods cost- ing 15 cents n square yard pay a duty of 67.85, while such goods costing 34 cents a square yard only pay 60.60. Woolen hosiery valued above 80 cents and not over 40 cents a pound pays o duty of 65.80, while such hosie over 80 centsa pound pay: y 60.37 duty. Wool blankets valued above 30 cents and not over 40 cents a pound pay a duty of 67.96, while such blankets valued above 80 cents pay but 65.38. So it is thronghout the manufactures of wool, the more costly grade of articles bear the lighter duty, the heavier cx- action of the tariff being placed on the classes of goods which the people of moderate means must be content with, In cotton and linen textile fabrics the discrimination against the consumers whoare compelled to buy the cheaper is equally or more marked. the higher qualities of the fabrics pay duties ranging from 40 to 65 per cent, the duties on the cheaper grades range from 110 to 175 per cent. Thus one quality of Swiss mull, costing 1% pence abroad, pays 110 per cent duty, while the corresponding highest grade, costing 5} pence, pays only 40 per cent. This last rate is made on the finest grades of figured muslin, India muslin, India linen, and tarlatan, while the lowest and cheapest rates pay respectively 85 per cent, 75 per cent, per cent, and 175 per cent. The exhibit could be greatly enlarged to show how appropriately the existing tarifl discriminates against the great majority of the people, but the exam- ples cited are suflicient to make plain the injustice that is being done and the urggnt duty and necessity there is for remedying it by a thorough revision and refcrm. No fair-minded man can examine these figures without admit- ting that they presenta grave wrong and an unjustifiable oppression which ought to be removed. A system which permits such a diserimination against the great majority of the people, and puts the greater part of the burden of tariff taxation on the weaker shoul- ders, is absolutely indefensible. Reason and justice condemn it and it cannot be maintained without most serious injury to the public welfare. Such facts utterly confound the arguments of those who insist upon non-interference with the tarifl. Vas it Unwarranted? A morning paper takes up the cudgel for Building Inspector Whitlock and de- nounces as entirely unwarranted the charges which the BEE makes against that officer for over-reaching his author- ity, and imposing on the city through the employment of needless subordin- ates. Mr. Whitlock was charged with ing his inspectors for services which they had not rendered, and keeping a clerk at $75 a month without proper authority, Mr. Whitlock admitted that he hasal- lowed his two associates $4 per day each for twenty-seven days of December, but he claims that they had worked twenty- seven days during that month, and were entitled to pay for it. There were only twenty-six working days in De- cember, but Mr. Whitlock says that his inspectors worked the Monday after Christmas because some builders who worked on that day had to be watched in their building operations.’ We should like to know what Mr, ‘Whitlock’s stant inspectors w working at in December. Mr. Whit- lock says his 875 clerk issues all the building permits and does all the oftice work. If that is true what is Mr. Whit- lock doing himself to carn $150 a month? If he and his two assistants were com- petent to do all the inspection during the busy building season, what is the need of three inspectors when building operations are practically suspended except in the few large brick blocks, which are mostly fire proof? Does Mr. Whitlock pretend that his inspectors were employed in watching the interior workof the First National bank, the Mer- chants’ bank, the U. S, National, and buildings of that character? What do these inspectors know about fire-proof buildings? What do they know any way about building, excepting the carpenter work? The charter re- quires that the building inspector be an architeet or competent builder. Mr. ‘Whitlock himself is a carpenter. He may have been a builder of frame houses, but his experience as a builder of stone and brick buildings, and es- pecially of fire-proof structuves, has been acquired since he has been super- intendent of buildings. His two ist- ants are also carpenters by trade, and their inspection beyond enforcing plans approved by Mr. Whitlock is a farce, and could be carried on just as well by a blacksmith or machinist. But that is a secondary matter. The question i why does Mr. Whitlock certify to the vouchers of these two iuspectors for twenty-six days in November and twen- ty-soven days in December, when the authority under which he is allowed to employ them restricts him to $4 a day for each day actually employed? This does not mean employed as carpenters, tinkering about the city hall buildi Carpentors can be hived at this season for $2.50 a day, but if they were worth $5 aday their work could not be legully included in the vouchers of the build- ing inspector. In view of the admi sions of Mr. Whitlock, the question is, were the charges of the BEE unwar- ranted? Ts there any valid excuse for his retention on the city pay-roll of in- spectors who have nothing to inspect at this season of the year? What right had Mr. Whitlock to certify to their. vouchers for full time on inspectors’ duty in November and December when THE OMAHA DAILY BEi: THURSDAY. they could not possibly he so employed? The intimation that the BEE is trying to have building inspection abolished is absurd, Tt is notorious that the ereation of the building inspectors’ depurtment is mainly if not entirely due to agita- tion by the Ber. The office of superin- tendent of buildings is permanently established by the charter which the editor of the BEE helped to frame. That office cannot be abolished until a new charter is made. But we object most emphatically to the reckless waste of the city's money on assistants when they are not needed, and the imposition of fraudulent vouchers for services not rendered. Weo object to this method of doing business, not only in Mr. Whit- lock’s office, but in every department of the city government. Profitless Conventi No other country is so prolific in con- ventions as the United States. Almost every separate interest feels called upon to present its claims to public attention at least once a year through a conven- tion or conference. This method of set- ting forth special wants is always most fully developed during the first fow after the assembling of congre and it has been resorted to with unus freedom this year. Last weck Wash- ington was the scene of what has not inaptly been called a carnival of con ventions. There was more than one for every secular day in the week,and of course each was regarded by its promot- ers usrepresenting an object of the gre est importance to the general welfare, The advocates of ship subsidies were at the national capital in force and formu- Jated under the eye of congress thew shrewdly devised plan for building up the shipping interest of the country by a system of bounties from the national The wool-conference was a somewhat imposing and not altogether harmonious gathering which finally agreed that the government should take a step backward in the matter of tariff taxation, and started a contro- versy which is not likely to improve the chances of this proposal. There was a gathering of tobacco growers who, strangely enough, had no suggestions to offer congress, a convention of bottle-makers, prosumed to be seek- ing more protection for the Amer- ican bottle, the national board of trade, which had something to say, most of which nobody paid any attention to, on a number of sub- jocts, and a pure food convention that was more remarkable than any of the others for the dissensions among its members and the disposition of the dele- gates to prefer pleasure to business. The inalienable right of American citizens to convene when and where they please, for any object they may deem proper, will not be questioned, but as to the value of such conventions as those held in Washington thus far, and of the others that are to follow, so far as relates to their prime purpose of influencing legislation, it may fairly be doubted if they have any. They may have a meas- ure of uscfuluess in disclosing to the country the special claims and de- sires of the interests represented, and thereby stimulating public discus- sion of the matters with which they concern themselves, but there is some reason to doubt whether the men who im- agine this to be the best way to get what they want do not make a mistake. The influence of the method diminishes as it becomes more common, while in most cases the devotion to pleasure quite as much as to business of those who attend conventions at the national capital is not calculated to deeply impress con- gress with their solicitude for the cause they represent. It is not always the case, either, that these conventions are composed of men whose ability is such us to give them a claim to very consid- crate attention. The most zealous may easily have their zeal ex- plained by strong personal inter- est, while others have availed themselves of an opportunity for enjoy- ment. Under such conditions it is not surprising that members of congress look upon the average convention at ‘Washington as an organization having much the sume purpose as the unorgan- Call a Halt on Tax-eating. Mayor Broateh is in a position to ren- der the city invaluable service by purg- ing its pay roll of a swarm of pensioners who are employed without legal author- ity and drawing exorbitant salaries for worthless services, Th®se tax-caters are gnawing at the vitals of the city. In many instances they are employed in direct violation of the charter. Their number is constantly increasing and their retention hasbecome an incentive to inefficiency, shiftlessness and down- right crookedness in the various branch- es of the city government. For a city of metropolitan protensions, provided with costly municipal machinery, the fast and loose methods of doing the city'’s business is a burning shame and dis- grace. Thereis not a single depart- ment from city clerk down to city en- gineer operated and conducted under ordinary checks and safeguards usually employed by any well conducted busi- ness firm. The city clerk employs as many deputies and clerks as he pleases at whatever salaries he chooses to allow them. The city treasurer, in flagrant violation of the charter, which restricts him to $1,400 a year for all his deputics and clerks, keeps on the payroll depu- ties and clerks who draw from 85,000 to $7.000 a year. The council cheerfully votes these illegal appropriations under the pretenso that the treasurer needs this extra help, not taking into acconnt that the treasurer is allowed 2 per cent on delinquent taxes to pay for his extra clerk \ln'(\ he department has no schedule of salaries fixed by ordinance and no limit is imposed upon the num- ber of employes. While no one charges the engineer with dishonesty, common business rules would require the estab- lishment by ordinance of the salavies to be paid and the number to be employed. The building inspector’s department is wasting over $400 a month during the winter season, and the, superintendent of the city hall building has drawn $166 last month for loafing, when the ordin- ance auly allows him pay forsupervision when construction of that building is actually going on: “There has been a great deal of waste JANUARY 26, 1888, in the street commissioner’s depart- ment, judging from the amount appro- priated during the dast sencon. The council deliberately ignoves this deplorable state of affaivs and practically gives countenance to these raids on the city treasury, and the increase of the number of pensioners, Unless Mayor Broatch comes to the front to check this extravagance and general lawlessness, taxpayers will be compelled to organize for theirown pr tection and appeal to the courts to en- join the payment of fraudulent vouchers and appropriations’ made without war- rant of law. TiE vepublican papers of California, which ought to have a pretty thorough insight into the motives of Senators Stanford and Stewart, have no hesi- tation in interpreting their vote for Lamar as due to his well-known friend- ship for railroad corporations. The San Francisco Clromele asks: “Why seek far and wide for a motive when one was s0 apparent, so obtrusive and so effect- ive ¥ We question if there are a hun- dred men in the country, able to take a candid and intelligent view of this matter. who do not see what the motive was that led the California and Nevada senators to vote as they did, and who do not believe that their action and the course of Lamar before his confirmation were in pursuance of a compact most deliberately arranged be- tween them. Tt remains to be seen whether the obligations of that agree- ment ceased when Justice Lamar took his seat on the supreme bench, and the opportunity to test this may not be far in the future. PROMINENT PERSONS. Wilkie Collins is suffering from nervous prostration, President Carnot, of France, belioves in his lucky star. Even as a schoolboy he felt that hewas destined to be great. Senator Beck, of Kentucky, has served twenty years in congress, during twelve of which he has been in the senate. A fund for the aid of General Longstrect, started by an Atlanta paper, is promptly stopped by a letter from Mrs. Longstreet. Senator Fair recently paid his divorced wife #500 for a bunch of rosebuds at a Cath- olic fair in San Francisco. This smacks a little of sentimentality on the part of the senator. Mrs. Secretary Vilas has never recovered from the nervous shock resulting from wit- nessing the sudden death of Judge Ellett at the president’s reception at Memphis. There has been little or no improvement since the first attack, and her physician and friends are becoming alarmed. Representative Burnett, of Massachusetts, is the only congresswan who considers his marriage an event of sufiicient importance 10 be embalmed in the congrersional direc- tory. He is evidently proud of the fact that he ‘“‘married the only child of James Russell Lowell in 1872, Representative Presley T, Glass, of Teunessee, has introduced a bill in congress for the suppression of lotteries and church fair raffles. He says they are the abomina- tions of this generation. This bill has been referred to a committee and labelled **Glass —handle with care " Belva Lockwood, man-like, is “in the hands of her friends” for a presidential nomina- tion. She considers that her alleged «can- vass in 1834 “may have been the amusing side of the campaign, but it was an educa- tor and civilizer, and a dense forest of igno- rance has been blazed for a coming woman president.”” e Preaching Out of Season. St. Louis Post-Dispateh. Sam Jones is discouraged at the result of his labors in Kansas City. When a town is ‘wrestling with the remains of a real estate boom it is in too bad & humorto be adviscd. S A Correct Simile. Providence Jowrnal, According to the report of the commission, passing a civil service examination is about as valuable in securing an appointment as a diploma from an agricultural college towards buying a farm, —_— Looks Like a Misdeal. Philadelphia Press, The everlasting Baltimore & Ohio deal has turned up again—more’s the pity. Some of our ablest financiers have always insisted that the Baltimore & Ohio deal was a mis- deal, and it looks as though they were more than half right. e A Pertinent Question. Cleveland Plaindealer, The formation of these trusts and combines 13 & monstrous evil and growing every day, and an ill-adjusted tariff is the soil in which they sprout. How otherwise than by a revi- sion of the tariff can these noisome growths in the world of trade and commerce be eradi- cated? e Not a Novel Bill. Pittsburg Dispatch. The Outhwaite Pacific railroad bill, as out- lined in the press dispatches, seems to be drawn with aview to letting those companies that wish to pay their debt do so at a mate- rial discount, and permitting the others to keep on defying the government as they have done heretofore. P A Prophecy. Atlanta Constitution, Mark what we say—that surplus will be there when this congress adjourns, all except what they absorb. But the noxt congress, elected by the people on this issue, will take the matter in hand and relieve the people from the excise oppression with which they are now burdened. —————— A Stumbling-Block to Monopoly. Philadelphia Record, Some eastern genius has devised a machine for cleaning cottonseed 0il of the lint adher- ing to it, by means of which the seed may be put in condition for shipment to Europe, where it will bring $25 a ton, while the price paid by the cottonseed oil monopoly i § per ton. This is an anexpected stumbling block in the pathway of the oil maguates. el The Coal Baron Speaks. New York World, Lot them strike as much as they boon. the prices fly ¢'s big balloon, sta by bits in the inky Though their children cry for bread, Th nd of the game must be the same— King capital keeps ahead. Absurd. Upon my word, more can the men require ik of the poor—what they eundure, Deprived of their bit of fire, 1f we who control the price of coal Reduc: this time of year, Our dividends, my worthy friends, Would rapidly disappear. ike, Though the; pits, I'm willing to add that the work is bad I “gupply and domand, throng By. that will we stand or fall, We're dealing (n couls, but bodies and souls Are pot inour liue at all the land, STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Dakota county claims a population of ,000. Rushville has been declared the county seat of Sheridan county Nebraska City proposes to secure a pile ns & gymuasium for her bums, Six days without & train and ten day: without mail was the blizzard experi- ence of Coleridge, Cedar count Seventy thousand dollars worth of building improvements are booked to Dbloom in the spring in South Sioux City. The Ponca coal shaft struck a fifteen- inch vein of conl atadepth of fifty-seven feet. The work of sinking the ‘shaft is being pushed vigorous The Yankton Press says a committee of Yanktonians is to visit Omaha in a couple of weeks in the interest of the proposed Yankton-Omaha railroad. The Puget Sound colony hoomers are operating in Plattsmouth. The gilded lmll held out will doubtless catch the fancy of the reckless us well as their spare cash. Broken Bow has heen given to un- derstand that the Missouni Pacific was heading that way, and with propel ducements in bonds and lands, would build to the town. Plattsmouthersare organizing a grand hillslide carnival, and have extended in- vitations to coasters in Omaha, Lincoln and Council Bluffs to participate and crack a shin or two. The supervisors of Butler county have compromised with the dofaulting tre: urer, G. H. Cutting, at 83} cents on the dollar. Cutting cleared $3,500 by the operation. Grand Island is offered a beet sugar plant provided the busincss men sub- scribe stock to the amount of $10,000 and a farm of 3.200 acres. A. Levallee is chief engincer of scheme. Judge Kenney, of Nebraska City, Indian agent at the Yankton agency, publicly denies having made the state- ment that 1,000 perished in the bl rd in Dakota. He declares that a few facts have been tortured into alarming fal hoods. the lowa Items. Sioux City hason the stocks building improvements to cost $1,812,700. The press club of Des Moines will in- dulge in a banquet February 14. The business men’s club of Davenport will blow in $00 in advertising the town The Bremer County Independent says hay is 810 to $12 per ton ARG HGA0EE Y vy searce. The alcohol works at Atlantic are to be converted into a starch factory the coming season. A Marshall county farmer thinks the snow is twenty inches deep on an average in the timber where it is not drifted. The force of telegraph linemen are pushing forward the new telegraph wire between Fort Dodge and Sioux City at the rate of fifteen miles per day, when at work, although the intenso cold weather seriously interferes with the progress of the work. Dakota. Deadwood is threatened with a coal famine. A party from Wisconsin has made ar- rangements to establish a foundry and machine shop in Huron early in the spring. Mitchell citizens are coming to the front grandly with subscriptions to make up the $2,000 for the next terri- torial fair. The American tin mining have 7,000 pounds of stream tin, averaging 65 per cent, that wilt be shipped from Deadwood to New York in a few days. A prominent citizen of Aberdeen said: “T have lived in Dakota and Minnesota thirty-three years and never saw or heard of such a storm. It was phenome- nal, and such a one may not oceur again in a hundred years.” Bismarck is all torn up socially over the Judge Mackey and N ‘Witherbee scandal. That Mrs. Witherbee is seck- ing a divorce is admitted. Many stoutly chimpion the cause of the lady, and in- sist that it will be timo enough to con- demn her when the facts are proved. Dakota hus a large supply of blizzard heroines. Miss Nellie Guernsey, a teacher in Yankton county, is one of them, Her school was in session when the bli: d came and her_orders to her school children were to remain in the building until the storm was over, She then started across the prairie in the midst of the storm to the nearest house, half a mile away, and procured a supply of provisions and returned with it to her imprisoned charges at the sehool house. Providentially the two journeys were made in safety and the school children were enubled to pass the night in com- fort. At the house where the provis- ions were procured were four men, but not onc of them could be induced to accompany Miss Guernsey back to the school house. So she went alone. Montana. The new city directory of Helena con- tains 5,240 names. The bullion shipped from Butte last week was worth 876,192, Six spuns of the Montana Central's mzhl-bvan bridge across the Missouri at Great Falls ave completed. In 1887 at the Helena land office there were entered 252,841 es of land, the receipts for which were $160,5% 47, The mining camp of Burk, in the Carur A’ Alenes, imports 800 pounds of whisky and liquors to 100 pounds of provisions. The production of the Hecla company at Glendale for 1857 amounted to 4 29 ounces of silver, 501 gold, 86 pmmdfl of 4,515,879 pounds of lead. A wealthy Montana man has offered the College of Montana at Deer Lodge $10,000 on the condition that the col- lege raise $15,000 more and maintain a perpetual nlml.u--ln\ for erving givls without means. W. A. Clark and 5. Larrabie have headed the $15,000 iption list with 1,000 each. copper and S - Serenaded General Crook. The excellent band of musicians from Fort Omaha located themselves in the corridor of the Paxton last night and dispensed charm- ing music for over two hours in honor of General 00K. In consideration of the courtesy general invited a large num ber iple to cnjoy with him the my swarmed with the vigor, wealth and beauty of the city, During the instrumental intermissions vocal music was rendered by local talent in the pariors, and the evening was most enjoyably passed. —_— ‘Wants to Oo West. Secretary Nattinger, of the board of t is in receipt of a letter from Samuel B . proprietor of the Golden Anchor llmm nishing Ewmporiuw, of I D, asking for data in refc says that he is on the works in Providencs in the west, and that this city M out with a view of Joc: \I rre st and_ fursished hio copy of the ill ‘~IA.IH|“rI unnual, A. 0. H. Band Party. Another of those pleasant socials for which the A. O. H. bund is famous was given last ight at Cunningham's hall, over 100 vouple being in attendance. A most enjoyable time was had, o, mem a RODBERT BURNS, a Scots Do Honor to the Memory of the Bard. Last evening the Burns club gave their anuual banquet and ball at exposition hall, and over 250 Scots and admirers of the great peasant bard asscmbled to do honor to the memory of the immortal Robbie on this, the 129th anniversary of his birth, A delightful time was enjoyed, and many graceful tri butes were paid to Burns and Scotland. The decorations over the stage were simple, con sisting of two American flags draped over the British flag, in the center of which was the portrait of the vard, whose natal day the Scots delight to celebrate. In the eenter of the hall were five long tables, all surrounded by guests, The banquet commenced at 9:30, and before the toasts were ended it was nearly midnight. The programime was headed with the following graceful senti ment from David Kunox: Each joy or gricf that lights the ¢'e Or melts the heart by turns, Stands forth refined and glorified In Scotin's minstrel Burns. Just before the banquet, the president, Mr. Thomas Meldrum, in a brief but fitting speech welcomed the guests assembled to celebrate this anniversary of Burns' birth. He was followed by . W. E. Copelaud, who as At the close of the h Pennell opened the amme with the song “Cualler H She was warmly encored and most gric 3 responded with My Heart is Sair for Somoe- ' After music, “There was a Lad . Hon. John M. sponded o the toast, “The Memory Burns.” He said in brief: One hundred and twenty-nine years ago in a humble cottage in Scotia a boy was born, well in body, but great of spivit. None knew that then an angel of melody had come to upon the strings of human arly ninety years ago he died in body, but to-night throughout the eivilized world his memory lives. This genius of im- mortal song awoke the slogan of warlike days. He renewed the memory of Wallace and Bannockburn to keep the Scottish char. , brave and true, He sang of sang of Scotland's Mary, the un- queen whose fate aroused of the whole world He sang of nature and of natu God; of bank and bral, of loch and surrounding cliffs, of rushing rivi and eternal hills. He sang of love, the divine nectar of impassioned beauty and made the miracle of love divinely sweet, He rejoiced in the conviviality of 80- cial life. He knew that our best happiness springs from our inner self. He also sang of the greater truth and the sublimer melodies of man. He bent no suppliant ksce to princ or plutus, paid no attention to creeds or priests, but believed and rejoiced in the Justice and power of almighty God. Mr. Thurston was followed by Mr. North- rup, who sang *“Here's Health to Bonnio Scotland.” The delighted auditors fore him to return and he favored them with “Up wi' the Bonnets of Bonnie Dundee.” Mrs' Pettis, & mezzo-soprano, sang “Bonnie ‘Woods o' Craighe.”” She, too, had to return and give an encore picce. After music by the vand, “God Save the Queen” and ‘‘Star Spangled Banner,” Mr, John Wilson res- ponded to “The Land We Left and the Land ‘We Live In.”” He dwelt upon the memor and scenes of bonnie Seotland and with equal fervor told of the onderful growth of America and the principles sho repre- sented. At the close of his speech he was greeted with loud and prolonged applause. Maggie Meldrum, aged twelve years, **Afton Water,” with the " Through the Rye.” Mr. A. with the ‘stirring song “The March of the Cameron Me: After “A Man’s a Man for a’ That" by the band, Mr. G. M. Hitchcock responded most gracefully to the toast “The Press.” The programme ended with songs, “Sea and Sho by Bowie, and "My Love is Like the Red, Red Rose,” by Mr. T, J. Pennell, both of which were enthusiastically encored. The guests then adjourned to the balconies while the tables were removed, and shortly after miduight the dancing commenced and continued until a late hour. Born in Kyl Thurston re. of AMUSEMENTS, A Splendid Minstrel Performance at Boyd's Last Night. There were but fow vacant s last night and the balcony and gallery were literally packed with people. The Gorman Spectacular minstrels was the attraction and a clearer cut or more refined performance has never been seen in Omaha, This com- pany has made a notable departurc in min- strelsy and the different acts are cleverly conceived and excellently executed. Negro minstrels and circuses are closely associated together in the minds of a wajority of amuse- ment patrons on account of the sameness that usually predominiates all porformances of either class. But totho Gormans must ho given the credit of originality, which, above all things, is one element needed to continue the popularity of negro minstrelsy. The vul- garity, so common to performances of this kind, have been climinated, and there is not the slightest thing in the whole programmo that could offend the most fastidious. The audicnce last night was composed of the very best people in Omaba, and the applause wus unstinted. The company is large one and the first part is replete with new jokes, comic ditties and pretty ballads. “The Shepherd Boy’s Return,” by Mr. Harley was finely rendered und reccived & well ‘deserved en- core. Mr. Curran sang, “Under the Acorn Tree"—one of the sweetest ballads ever heard in this city—in a manner that created tumuluous applause. Mr. George Gormian and E. M. Hull on the ends were excellent and kept the audience in a v er City quartette are ac plished musicians and gave u clover uct. “The Dancing Musketcers,” arranged by the Gormans is most praiseworthy and tho dancers are well drilled in boyonet exercise, Add Ryman made ene of the funnicst stump speeches ever heard, while Mr. E. M, Hall exhibited wonderful skill in banjo bl The performance closed with a funny vaganza entitled “The Golden Ball.” ts at Boyd's Plain Talks at Y. M. C. A, The committee on lectures and classes has arranged a courso of informal lectures to be given at the rooms for the benefit of the as- sociation. The course will be both intercst- ing and instructive, embracing hy itecture, modern electricity, ete, given by prominent men’ of the city ll informed and able 1o present th ject in an interesting manner, “Ihese are for the association members and also their friends. On F'rid evening the first of the course will be giv upon the subject of “Sur- gical Anatsiny,” by Dr. J. W. Barnsdall. Al Bl Internal Revenue Collections, Yesterday's internal revenue collections amounted to £13,442.90. Catarrh to Gonsumption, 0 stands next to Catarrh in its destructive fo and undoubtedly teads on (o consumption. It i therefore singular that those atiijcted with this feartul disease should not make it the object of theirlives torid themselves of it. Deceptive ren- edies concocted by fgnorant pretenders to meal- cul knowledge have weakened the confidence of e great maority of suiferers i wll advertisel remedies. They become resigned 1o u life of misery rather than torture themselves with doubttul palliatives. Tut this will never do. Catorth must he met at every stuge and combated with all our might. In ‘matiy cases the disease hus assumed danger ons symiptoms. The bones and_cartilage of the nose, the organs of hearing, of seelng and of tasting s le elongnt a5 10 ) + & constant and d r SANFOID'S RADICAL (0Tt 5 every phiso from u simple hewd cold to the most loathsome and destructive t is local and constitutional tn curing, saf Knoss fnstantly rel PAIN PLARTE Pain, Intlam o, postage AND UHEMICAL Lo, Boston, Mass, REPORTORIAL ~ DUTIES. THE CITY OF UMAHA BY GASLIGHT. What the Reporter Saw—The Dog Fight—The Sermon—The Poverty strickenFamily—The Coroner's nvue Theliteot a reporter on A Ally paper ts Notone of the most happy lots, He 1s east into all kinds n Compaay. from tho highvet to e lowest d tone time I|<~ 1l el to uttend an mquest, to r Writo up” e den death of & man, wh T was known or ¢ way l) ack to the office an give you the (0 at w'cortain rter finds a o N mis. i famishing con nising Lo do all in his power to relieve them tlie scribe wends his Wiy when his tnoughts are turned to his note . Tn an (- stant his eyes are cast on o memorandum whieh — AtTpom Well, for_the 'pencll pusher, - A (i MiNIStor 18 (0 preach & sermon from a £ Which he desires printed and the reporter has promised to do that work, as 50 narked copies of the paper containing e wailed to the ministerial friends of the pas- or, ay 10 be mare HERE 18 A PRETTY MESS." A corone Inquest, a starving hullil\ a dog fight and u I -mm. nt divine s sermon, all to bo written the same person for (o satmo lm]wr pub) l*)ln d next mornfng. Allof the above has happened within s couple of hour: - porter mukes the effort and by holding Fforms' for half an hour s succossful and rid of his load of care, but such was not t case with the gentieman who makes the follow- iy intersting stutvment ‘0 the writer who 1 teamster lcoated at tho § of Hth and Har When I was in Denver KOIIE VOATS 120, % L Crowder, 1 was em ployed by the Union Pacific Railroid Company owder,a corner asalaborer. It was warm weather and I was workinie without any coat on and became somes n by the time | quit work. | started home with my cont off. A sudden st of wind came up and before I knew it | was ehillek and ook a severe cold and it settled in L seemed to get v Amo 50 swol i or wild 1 108t several pOwads 10 NOT SLEEP AT NIGHT, and when Lurose in the morning I was as tired us | was betore 1 retd 1 would have some of the 1 ble. T also became 1oy . and ly. 'Ie fall ‘of the veur ¢ would tuke olds on the least o },4.~.m. My h would feel full, my n Ohend ] wonid Dblow out hard chiink which scemed to be blood. They and emitiod a bad odor, M broath nsive. 1 noticed atter a while t hid a buzzing or ringing nole {n my head, and iy hearing » affected, ot hieur so Diainly s befor re, and somotimes di nignt, when the pillow case would frequ be soiled. 1 found the climate of Colorado did not agree with me and returned to Omalia where 1 have resided ever s “Wall, to make o long story short [ found_out that my trouble was nothing more than catarrh and that it had become chronie, as my bronchinl tubes wore effected. T wax troublod with i huck- ing cough and would have to hawk and spit a ter part of the time in Iln morning. It was of no uncommon oceur me to gug and vomit hefore I could clear my throat. | read the advertisement of Drs. MeCoy and Henry, and something more than'a_mouth ago 1 consultod with themand \\‘us:&urvllm'\l at_the low price they agreed to furnish me with medicine and treat mo for one montli, _They did not promise to ciro mo, but suid they woild help me very material Degan treatment and have only Deen treating for a_little over one month and the remarkable chunge that has come over me is stmply wonderful. ‘1 hear us'well as 1 over did, my nose docs 10t stop up, T do ot lawk and spit any more. my bowels are as_ regular as clock work, my appetite excellent. 1 sleep soundly and donot have those horrible dreams any more,and feel better than 1 have felt for & number of years.” 1 foel very grateful that T am so much better because I nover expectad to feel this well again, eiving my testimonial by Drs. McCoy and Henry and freely recommend” their treat- ment to those suffe g from catarrh, as they cured moafter several other doctors aud nus merous patent medicines talled.’” MRt WILLIAM CROWDE! As ahove stated Mr. Crowder can be found at Farmer's Hotel, corner Wth and Harnoy sts., where he will corrobborate the above, FETID NASAL CATARRH. Its Simptoms and What It Leads To—The Miserable Feelings, Ete. This form of catarrh I8 essentially a disease of the nasal cavity proper, and does not extend to the vault of the pharynX. Forawhile a dry ca- tareh may, and very Trequently does, develop in ult of structural chunges f the mucous membrane, Nhe constst i the aceumulation in 1 canity Of offemsive masses and crusts, ¢ with imore or less of a fhiid discha eavity tinis obstructed the breathing bt or loss dimoult, “The sense of smell i<impadred, if not entirely lost. ‘The especta llability to tuke colds on tho least expostre exists, and the susceptibility to changes of temperature and the inthiene damp atmosphere tion goes on fr membrae the mll sing tieir bullt up from below, rrower portions in s Ianier thit the suifercr 18 unabie o dis them, und they v oven woeks. treme us the res which time the putrefactive cl stantly goin The sufferer i tnconscious of the offe dily notlee it and enc pantouship « lu(ll pe > Face und Features, wherein fotd catarrh vork fn the nasal pass- th, ruining the sense of wnd perceptibly marring tho (s, i long neglected or im- giving them an appear ost deformed There are miny has done its destr poisoning th g and tist features; sometin cuse vi Much that is true has i tho esults of vm.nlhunxumluvllm encral health ilecting the throut, lings and stomach, aud pro- ducing consumption and dyspepsia, or' reaching the e 1eausing deafuess, Buf fow persons neral wre the destructiver results 56 in the nose face wlone y many of thecases of ilatt and oraok: ome from this caise. 'Fhe dstortion nmonly known it Hari riiis about U gamed eyes and nostrils, aliost in s the neglected cntarrhal process fously afte DOCTOR ), GRESAP McCOY, Late of Bellevue Hospita!, New York, Dr. Colurfiyfis Henry (La HA FEICES No. 310 and i1 AN G BUILDING, Corner Fitteenth aud Hirnoy sts., where all o Medical diseases tion, Bright's disea and wll NERVOUS DIS culiar 1o the CURED, ot University of iennsylvania) v Consump- pat, Kheumutism, Aisuses pes CATARRIE mail, § ) AP, T 08Py i prompt att ted i 4 unloss aecompanie nd ‘H 0 Dre, MeCoy iy Oiakiay 10 wnd Gl Kamgeouilding,