Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 6, 1888, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. fi,m ()flu eAT. 0 Omaha Funday Bk, maiied One Year #r1cs, NO.014 AND 016 FARNAM STRERT. bl ROOM 66, TRIBUNE BUILD- Orrice, ASBINGTON OrfFICE, NO. 613 FOUR- Srazer. CORRESPONDENCB. \ munications rels to news W mnu“ should be addrossed to ITOR OF THS BER. BUSINESS LETTERS, 11 business letters and remittances should be 'He_ B PUBLISHING COMPANY, aAI " flice orders t0 D'l"’-(‘&. checks and postof payable to the order of the company. - ‘The Be¢ Publishing Company, Proprietors E. ROSEWATER. EDITOR. THE DAILY BEE. Bworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska. Ly5, g-;un! o clerk of The 1 Mshi m"""“"fi'hm lenis Eweer fhas tho doss sole P A ‘circul mym of ‘h..ol)‘“ leo for the week ding Feb, 3, “!;. ‘was as follows. and the NTER. Sworn to and subscribed in my &rflm day of February, A. D., 1888, . P. FRIL i Notary Public.” fos ‘mon{ s ay, m‘f'fl.:m : for' July, 151 copies: tol Sworn and subscribed to in my presence this 2dday of Juuuary, A. D, 1888, N. P. FEIL, (3 Notary Public. STATE republican leagues are multi- plying. Nebraska republicans must not delay until compelled to fall in at the reur, THE Grant monument association has again been heard from. A circular has been issued to architects and sculptors inviting designs for a monument to cost $500,000. It is the duty of the postoffice authori- ties to keep the steps and corridors of that building clear of loungers and loaf- ers. Permitting these fellows to congre- gate there is offeusive to all respectable people who must go to the postoffice, and especially 0 to Indies AN argument in favor of the open sa~ loon on Sunday is contained in the dis- patches from the Pennsylvania coal fields. The rioters refrained from vio- lence on the day of rest, preferring to drink beer and talk blood in barrooms rather than actually spill gore. R . It is reported that another eight-hour agitation has been started among the packers of Chicago, which is expected “to promptly extend to those of other packing centers. There is some mem- orable history connected with the first agitation, which it is to be hoped will not be repeated. ENTERPRISING Chicago capitalists have formed a corporation to remove the famous Libby prison to that city for the purpose of exhibition. This move will probably prove a honanza to the originators of the scheme, but Libby prison on exhibition will not be half the ‘bonanza it was to the confederacy when in actual service. . e—e————— MILWAUKEE has just had a one- armed pugilistic entertainment. Both contestants had lost their right arms, ‘but nevertheless considerable slugging proficiency. was shown. It is tobe hoped, however, that both men are unable to write, in which case they will be more of an honor to the profession than the Sullivan-Mitchell-Kilrain-Smith style of bruiser. E— THE lumbermen of Omaha scem dis- posed {o make a united and determined effort to secure a reduction of freight rates between Chicago and this city. ‘They have a good cause and should push it. As between Kansas Cityand Omaha the discrimination against the latter is. 85 per car load. There is no good rea- son why this should be so. A united and vigorous effort will remedy the dif ficulty. THE copper interests of the United States are almost wholly under foreign control. Englishmen have just secured a long lease of the Sunrise mine at Hart- wville, Colorado, while the great French syndicate has nearly everything else that is desirable. Perhaps the foreign- ers will not be more ungenerous to American consumers than their own countrymen who now constitute the cop- per trust have been. THE blizzard-blown west can never forget to be generous, whatever its own suffering and needs may be. Mark the touching evidence in the little town of Pierre, Dakota, sending two carloads of potatoes and other food to the blizzard sufferers of Kansas, while Winona, Minn., votes ten thousand dollars to ve- lieve the snowbound communities of New York and New England. When these communities receive this splendid contribution, about Aprill, we are much mistaken if there is not a large exodus to the free and generous west. s EiGuTyY millions of dollars will be re- quired to conduct tho pension office during the next fiscal year. This enor- mous sum is chiefly the legacy of the ‘civil war, and must be added year by year to the financial cost of the great struggle for national unity. The larger part of eighty millions to be expended 4n 1888 and 1880 among pensioners must be collected from taxation, levied upon the people of the country by customs duties and the internal revenue taxes. ‘With such a sum to be collected to pay the debts of the war what folly it is for the bogus revenue reformers to prate about the injustice of continuing war taxes on liquors aud tobacco after the war has elosed. It is true that the war is ended, but its finmucial effects are still and will be for many years to come ap- parent in the annual demands upon the treasury for pension moneys. There is @0 injustico in making whisky and tobacco pay theirshare towards meeting the national obligations. ) > Reform of the Land Laws, The usual nurmber of bills to reform the land laws has been introduced in the present congress. Honest adminis- tration of the general land office under Commissioner Sparks’ efficient manage- ment has accomplished one end if nothing else. It has opened the eyes of congress to the urgent necessity for revision of existing legislation if the scanty remaining portion of the public domain is to be preserved for the honest and worthy settlers. In the face of the exposures of the last three years, the wholesale frauds uncovered and the gigantic steals unearthetl, even the thick hide of the partisan congressman has been pricked and the need of re- form has been made manifest. The repeal of the pre-emption, timber culture and desert land acts will again be urged at the present session. The pre-emption law, originally passed to aid in the rapid disposal of government lands, has outlived its usefulness. It has been the refuge of speculators and land jobbers. Forgten years past its operation has done more than any other cause to throw. western lands into the hands of non-resident owners. The same’ in a less degree can be said of the timber culture and desert land acts. The first has been of some value, in proving the practica- bility of timber culture on the praries. The desert land act has disproved almost every argument urged in its favor at the time of its passage. Both have been used as the instruments of specula- tion and fraud to a degree which makes their repeal more than advisable. The homestead law will remain and it will be ample for all purposes of settle- ment. Its generous bounty has built up the west with actual settlers whose five years’ residence on their farms has been worth more to the commu- nities which they have helped to upbuild than a scode of bogus pre-emptors. The large tracts of vacant lands in the west held by eastern capi- talists in nine cases out of ten can be traced back to pre-emption and timber culture entries, while the home of the homesteader, secured by honest im- provements und long j residence, gener- ally pays local taxes through a local taxpayer. ] The repeal of the useless land laws will discourage non-resigent land own- ing. It will force actual settlements in- stead of temporary claim holding. It will take away the inducement for job- bery and corruption in connection with the public domain, It will conserve the interests of the west by compelling land holding and residence and local taxa- tion to go hand in hand. At the same time it will afford every poor man who is not the owner of land and who is hon- estly desirous of securing a home the opportunity to obtain one free of all cost after five years’ residence and im- provement. The Revised Rules. The president has made a pretty gen- eral revision of the civil service rules, and as they now stand they ought to be quite satisfactory to the reformers. The evidence they will extract from them is that the president has not lost faith in civil service reform and that he still has the courage of his convictions. Those servants of the people who are subject to the authority of the president will be interested only in those rules which circumscribe their political priv- ileges. The revision has not reduced the restraints upon political activity. It is made an offense punishable by dis- missal in any officer of the executive civil service to use his official authority or influence for the purpose of inter- fering with an election or controlling the results thereof; or todismiss or use influence to procure the dismissal of any person from any place in the ser- vice because such person has refused to be coerced 1n his political action, or has refused to contribute money for any political purpose, or to render political service. The rules are very explicit in prohibiting all grades of ofticials from soliciting or receiving money from other officials for political purposes, the pen- alty for a violation of these rules being dismissal, If these rules are regarded by the officcholders there will be very little contributed to the democratic national campaign fund from this source, and these persons will also constitute a very small factor in the campaign work. But will they be regarded? Experi- ence warrants a negative answer. The old rules have been repeatedly and con- spicuously violated when the incentive to do so was merely a state or municipal election, the result of which could not affect, or only very remotely, the ten- ure of federal officials, It is not prob- able that they will keep out of election contests or fail to find a way to aid the general fund in a national campaign, the vresult of which will be vital to their ioterests. If these rules shall not be regarded, will the penalty preseribed be inflicted? Again experi- ence urges that it will aot. The viola- tions of the past, some of them of the most flagrant and defiant character, brought no punishment to the offenders, and this not because the president was not maae fully aware of the violations. Having condoned, or . permitted to pass unpunished, offenses against the civil service rules and his executive ordes, in cases where his own interests were not at all or only very remotely involved, it is not probable that he will be less lenient when the stake played for is of the very highest interest to himself. The civil service reformers, very few of whom are in the democratic party, need not flatter themselves that because of these revised and more stringent rules there will be any less political ac- tivity on the part of democratic oflice- holders, either in the way of campaign contributions or personal effort. When the battle is fully on the **boys” will be found as usual in the thick of the fight, und there will be nobody to call them to account. They will be certain of complete amnesty if Mr. Cleveland should be re-elected, and if otherwise, they will be sure of getting no worse than they would receive if they re- mained only impassive spectators of the contest. There will be very few shirk- ers in the democratic army this year, S——— The New Tarift Bill. It is undevstood that the democrats of the ways and means committee have practically completed their draff of & tariff bill, which they will present. to the house. The new bill, as reported, proposes to put wool on the free list, together with salt, lumber and a variety of other raw materials and to make a material reduction in the tariff on sugar and tobacco. The programme will not have clear sailing. The rock on which the vessel of tariff reform will first strike will be free wool. It is safe to say that as long as woolen manufacturers are protected by the present enormous duties on their products, American wool growers will make an interesting fight for the protection of the raw material. The sugar tax is of course indefensible, but the usual tie up and déntrigues of the representatives of the sugar interests will be made in combination with those of other industries; and the same can be said of the lumber and salt interests. This is the most.dangerous and men- acing feature of our protective system. Its permanency is due to the selfish fear of individuals that any equalization of the tariff taxes is a covert attack on the system itself to be resented and opposed by a bargain between the interests likely to be as- sailed. Every attempts to reform the shameful and needless impositions of the tariff is met by a closing of the lines and a shoulder to shoulder opposi- tion of the wool men, the iron burons, the glass manufacturers, the lumber lords and the salt kings. While the in- dustrial monopolists combine the people suffey. The shrieks of the organs of the high priests of protection cannot deafen the ears of the producing classes to the real issue involved. The cries that American industry will be destroyed by any revision of the tariff however made are deceiving no intelligent stadent of the history of tariff legislation. The difference between a 20 per cent average duty, which is the lowest reduction that could be made to provide for the revenue requirements of the government, and free trade is too ap- parent to the most careless student of political economy to need any commen- tary. Workingmen when informed that the greatest possible reduction which can be made to leave the govern- ment funds sufficient to carry on its operations, will still leave the United States with the highest protective tariff on the globe, are not likely to be frightened by the free trade nightmare. The struggle for tarviff reform is simply the contest of the producing masses against the protected classes. It is the protest of fifty-three million of taxpayers against exactions levied presumably for the benefit of less than seven millions of workingmen but in re- ality to bolster up the fortunes of a few thousands of industrial millionaires. Keep It Bofore the People. Let these facts be kept before the people: That one of the first acts of leg- islation by the republican party after it was formed was an act revising and re- ducing the tariff; That the same republican party has twice since the war made important re- visions and reduetions in the tariff; That with each reduction a decided increase in general prosperity followed; That in no single instance did such reduction lessen the wages received by American workingmen, and finally That frequent reductions in wages, many strikes and much discontent and suffering have occurred when no change had been made in the tariff. The old republican party was a tariff reforming party, a workingman's party, a party ‘‘of the people, by the people and for the people.” What is it now to be? e——— HENRY GEORGE having intimated that he will not run for president, the situation may be said to have become materially simplified and the chances of the other fellow to have greatly im- proved. We violate no confidence when we state that the possibility of Henry George running for president was a matter of great perplexity to a few. peo- ple, including Mr. George himself. The splendid ability shown by that fearless leader in reducing his supporters fifty per cent in about a year made him naturally an object of profound interest and concern. It was an achievement which we believe distinguishes the record of no other fearlessleader in this country, and easily makes M, Henry George pre-eminently the party annihilator of our history. It is very kind of Mr. George to relieve the two great parties of the doubt that had been weighing upon them regarding his presidential intentions. They will now be able to go on with their organization and plans unconstrained by any per- plexities or apprehensions, How much clearer and brighter the field looks now that Mr. Henry George is out of it. ON the eve of the meeting of parlia- ment London is thrown into a scare by the police announcement that enormous quantities of explosives are stored in the city, of course with evil intent. Such a discovery would not be surpris- ing, in view of the iucentives to the wvast idle population of London to wreak vengeance on those who have given so little heed to their appeal for help, but reports of this nature are due about this time. It may be convenient for the gov- ernment to make use of them in connec- tion with some proposed legislation, and they will be useful in preventing the friends of Irish members of parliament obtaining admission to the house of commons, They sound like tory tactics and are therefore entitled to very little credence. IT seems to us the employing masons are not acting judiciously in disregard- ing the desire of the workingmen for a conference, with the object of arrang- ing rates of wages for the coming season. We believe it would be to the mutual advantage of both parties to reach an understanding before work opens that will remain in force through- out the season, and we are quite con- fident such an arrangement would be to the advantage of the community, It would enable the bhosses to know the exact wage basis for the whole season in making their build- ing contracts, it would obviate issues between employers and workmen by which work begun would be impeded, and it would aliow all building improve- DAILY BEE: Y. ‘ments to proceed’ out interruption provided both pa! were faithful to the compact made, as it is to be supposed they wayd he. As the matter appears to us, a conference should be held and a fair arrangement effected, with satisfactory guarantees that it will be adhered to. 1 A smora time. pgq & Mr. Murdoch was buncoed in [Pitfsburg out of ten thousand dollars., The detectives at work on the case lm\'é caused the arrest of a boss plumber.” ‘Do you remark any- thing suggestive in this? e——— DESPITE the bad weather of the past week Omaha's bank clearings show a large increase over the same time last year. Poor old Kansas City's, however, fall on the wrong side of the line. e—— STATE JOTTINGS. Fremont has contracged for electric light. A republican elub has been organized in Hastings. Holdrege has signed a contract for waterworks. Hastings has 10,000 tons of ice in store for summer drunks. David City people are planning to put $10,000 in a v.oml all, 5 Nance county’s products last year reached a value of 81,501,545, West Point expects the Omaha and Yankton surveyors next week. Another victim of the blizzard was found near Stuart, early last week. Plans for the pro, d new depot at Plattsmouth are moving by slow mule, to town. Some enthusiastic but unknown citi- zen threatens to invest $125,000 in a grand hotel in"Hastings. James M. Ray has retired from the North Platte Telegraph and John M. Dyers steps into his place. The Dundy County Pioneer has changed hands, E‘runf; Israel & Son having sold to M. L. Thomas. Covington and South Sioux City are entertaining the outcasts of Sioux City. A number of gamblers and keepers of dives have been jailed. The statistics of the state auditor shows that Saunders county, for 1887, heads the procession in corn and Wash- ington county in wheat. The Blair Pilot advises the residents toawake up and get a grip on the wheels of progress, or settle down con- tentedly as the Brownville of north Ne- braska. The Grand Island Beet Sugar com- pany, capital 500,000, has been incor- porated. The managers propose to have the plant in operation for next season’s crop. i The wreck of the court house at Fre- maont is growing handsomely—to the ground, and the residents rejoice with the descent. The ptospect of an elab- orate successor crlarges the enthusi- asm, 10010t The body of & baby boy was found in a hogpen in Grand " Island last week. The inhuman mother has escaped detec- tion for the time 'being, but the brand of Cain will (ollmb)xel:iconscience to the grave. John D. Moore, of Gtand Island, gave a stmn{wr an impressive lesson on de- cency last week.' ‘Thé fellow had in- sulted some you% %h',h. who reported to Mr. Moore. e latter took him in hand and kicked him to jail The Chinese troupe of dramatic mur- derers which has stormed interior towns with drumsticks and mangled English, stranded at Crete, and are now mang- ling linen for a living. They found their level after considerable effort. Beatrice proposes to invest 810,000 in printers ink, and illumine the homes and dead walls of the east with pictures and praises of the city. An effort will also be made to suppress local ‘‘hards” who are firing poetry at unarmed citi- zens. Frank Prather, of Butler county, an- nounces that his wife Lida has left ‘*his bed and board” and that ‘‘this is the third man she has tried to live with and the second time she has left me.” Lida displays great taste and loye of variety, The city council of Holdrege has closed a contract with B. S. Clarke, of Ashland, for a system of waterworks. The town is to be supplied with fifty- two hydrants at a rental of $65 each per year. The plant will cost about 6,000 and will be completed in one year. The arrest by an Omaha policeman of an Iowa lawyer as a suspicious charac- ter, a very natural conclusion, gives the Plattsmouth Journal an opportunity to lame “the finest” at long range again, All these results will be treasured and an accounting hadsthe first time Sher- man lands on Tenth street. He could not escape. The freshest member of the force could not resist taking him in. The Grand Island Independent and Revivalist Brown, now at Fremont, are dueling at long range. The Indepen- dent accused Brown of notonly refusing to subscribe to the fund of the crippled teachers, but would not permit an appeal to the charitable to be made from his stage. The attempt to deny it and im- peach the veracity of reputable citizens ntensifies the belief that Brown is a revivalist for revenue only. Lew Weeks enjoys the distinction of lx\twem:\kur in a church at York. Until ast Sunday his authority and hooted eloquence passed unguestioned. He had cuffed and spanded unruly boys till a diminutive David appeared, sleeves rolled up and contless. “If you want to whip any more kids, try me,” hissed the disciple of John L., and Weeks reached for him. Hisaim fell short, and the next moment he was on his knees, while David danced about him and softencd his lumps. The scrap was over in less than a minute, but Weeks will glide by before the pugilistlc beadle loses all trace of the cyclone, One of the smoothest dead-beats was run out of Crete last week. His name is John Hausener, a Polander. He works the charity dodgé with a stock of heart-rending, pocket-touching stories of privations and prowess in the old world. He soldiered with the Turks, in the war with Russia, and his overshad- owing bravery fitled the czar’s heart with intense hatred, Since then he has been hunted on land apd sea by the minions of the despot. | He searches for an uncle one day and an aunt the next, is always foot sore, and frequently frozen, and works a wealth of poverty wrinkles, and an emaciated, give-me-a- dollar face. He had canvassed the town up to the collection point when his ca- reer was ssuddenly exposed, and the news hastened his departure. The fate of Congressman McShane is sealed and delivered, and his position in_political history stamped with the obloguy of disgusted constituents. The voice comes from a dark canyon in Richardson county bearing the eatarrhal strains of the *Lakeside lyceum.” By some unaccountabie means the members had heard that the representative of the big First had introduced a bill to grant a pension to the widow of Gen- eral Logan. The mnews brought the lyceum loaded to the town hall, and the valves of a score of lungs were threwn. wide open. The eflect was _peinful, and precipitated the fog which stifled this section last Thursday and Friday. The deliberations of the l‘y- ceum were fln.\l'y boiled down to this: ““The tendency of our national legisla- tion is chiefly in the interest of the wealthy classes, which, if persisted in, will ultimately result in the overthrow of republican government and the estab- lishment of a plutocracy; therefore, re- solved, that Congressman McShane de- serves the unqualified censure of every hard-Working man and woman in this land.” Truly the path of the public nl;nn is studded with steel-pointed thorns. - ALL PASSAIC IS AMUSED. How Gen. Spencer and Artist Groocock Exchange Neighborly Courtesies. New York World: The good people of Passaic are much dis- turbed over ‘certain peculiar struct- ures with which Paulison avenue, the town's most fashionable thoroughfare, has been marred. These are the re- sults of a peculiar quarrel between Brigadeer-General Bird W. Spencer., once treasurer of the Erie railway, at present a member of Governor Green's stafl, president of the Passaic & New York railroad, receiver of the Tona- wandp road, ex-mayor of Passaic, and well known in New York, where his of- fices are, and Samuel Groocock,an artist and a pillar in the Baptist church. Several years ago Mr. Groocock bought a lot at the corner of Paulison and Pennington avenues, and running back perhaps 200 feet. Next to this was General Spencer’s mansion. In the courso of time the latter had a cupolas put on the house, and it was the most imposing structure in the vicinity. He placed statuary about the yard, and grew to think if he owned Groocock’s lot the view presented by his property, covering the whole corner, would be very pretty. oGroocock’s lot, tho neighbors say, is worth about $3,5600. When the general wanted to buy it he set the price at $8,000. This the general refused to pay, and Mr. Groocock laid the foundation for a house close to the sidewalk. The general at last yielded and said he would go the $8,000. Then Groocock wanted pay for the foundation he had laid. That was adding insult to com- gulsion. the general thought, so he ade Mr. Groocock do his worst. The determined Groocock hurried up the builders, and soon his house was completed—a strange and forward in- truded among the conservative struc- tures of Paulison avenue, which stand stately on lawns of greater or less ex- tent. One day, out in the gencral’s front yard, some workmen were seen making something that looked like a big dancing platform. *'Is General Spencer going to give a awn party?”’ people queried as they pn.-isutf by. Wnen the painters came and daubed the platfoam all over black. the lawn party idea was rather knocke in the head. Groocock thought the black paint was ominous. It proved so, When it was dry the workment hoised the big platform up along the division line of a fence. It almost overtopped Groocock’s house. The inward laughter with which the duufimy general greeted the accom- plishment narrowe gfuduully and van- 1shed completely when, after a few months, Mr. Groocock showed no signs of wounded feelings, but lived on under the shelter of the fence, paying small coal bills and enjoying vast comfort Life appeared to have no charm for the old warrior unless it was replete with vengeance. Groocock kept on smiling in his gro\'okiug way and so down came the big barrier. Groocock was expectant, but patient. One day a man appeared and began to dig with a pickaxe on the general's lawn. Was it for a grave for Mr. Groocock? Nol Merely the foundation for a house,ton the division line and even nearer to he thoroughfare than Groococks own. The frame went up. Every one cuold gee that it was to be a pretty Gohtic cottage. Mr. Groocock did not remain idle. One fair mornini, when Carpen- ter John Tellamy and his men went to work on Gen. Spencer’s house, lo! there was a_lofty barbed wire fence along the division line, bearing this provoking sign: KEEP OUT! KEEP OFF! This fenco is eight inches Jfrom the line. : Eight inches was just enough to rasp the feclings and overalls of the carpen- ters, who that day had planned to put clapboards on the general’s pretty little house. They got there just the same, and the general crowed in his turn, but there was an unseemly bill for blue jeans. $ ‘When the house was finished the men }mt up, by the general’s orders, a huge ence at the rear, running along the disision line and making Groocock’s back garden look like a dungeon. It's morning sunshine and its hollyhocks were things of the past. Then pros- pective tenants came around to look at the cottage General Spencer had for rent. It is apretty one, and it wasn’t hard finding a renter. But Mr. Groocock had been left out of the calculations and the contract by mistake. A short time ago Mr. Groo- cock purchased some cedar trees and had the limbs lopped off. They were the size of telegraph poles and twice as ugly. Out came a big ladder, and the workmen began nailing planks on the posts. Up, up. The neighbors thought as they looked at the unsightly affair, that the joke had gone far enough. The townsmen say now that General Spencer’s laughter is all stilled; that his promised tenant hasseen Mr. Groocock’s disfigurement and won't rent the new cottage. at any price; that General Spencer proposes to sue Groocock for damages to the amount of a year’s rental. This statement the general stamps as untrue. If he does sue, his lawyer will be J. . Stoutewberg. sterday morn- ing that attorney held a consultation with General Spencer at the office of Campbell, Morrill & Co., of which firm the general isa membe The lawyer advised this sort of a letter for publica- tion: Mr. Groocock owns his property and can do as he wishes with_it; Town my property and can do as I wish with it. Other people, it is to be hoped, own theirs, Let them do as they wish with it. No epistle was written, however, and the question of who will come out ahead # one which the people of Passaic ave | puzzling over. The funniest part of the whole business is that Groocock and the general are the only members of the two families who are at all disturbed about the matter. The ladies visit with ench other, and_their relations are ap- parently as cordial as though no fences nor houses had bé®n built. ——————— Safe, permanent and complete are the cures of bilious and intermittent dis eases, made by Prickly Ash Bitters. Dyspepsia, general debility, habitual constipation, liver and kidney com- plaints are specdily eradicated from the system. It disinfects, cleanses and eliminates all malaria, Health and vigor are obtained morve rapidiy and p«"rmnnunt‘{ by the use of this great natural antidote than by any other rem- edy heretofore known. Asa blood pur- ifier and tomic it hrlnfl health, re- pewed energy and vitality to a worn and diseased body. ECENBER APPROPRIATIONS. What it Costs to Run the City Government. SUM Three Appropriation Ordinances Showing an ixpenditure of One Hundred and Twenty- three Thousand Dollars. A LARGE EXPENDED. Below is given a transcript from the comp- troller's books showing what the city council expended during the month of December, 1887. In a former statement made in the Bre an error occurred in gaying that the month of December was included where in re- ality only the month of November was given. The general ordinance for December was as follows: From General Fund, MAYOR, W.J. Broatch, mayor. COUN Eighteen algerien, at §0. COMPTROI C. 8. Goodrich, comptroll J. €, Coulter, deputy. 30 W. Fead, deputy.. John Ruab, treasure E-D. Kitton, deputy ¥. P. Gridley, deputy J. H. Evans, clerk. . C. F. Drexel, clerk. P. Burke, cler] Total.... J. B, Routhard, clerk H. G, Manville, deputy D! J. Burgess, deputy H. G. Counsmian, dep Paid for type writing.. Total.... .o ATTOR: John L. Webster, attor) H.J. Davis, assistant a Ly PRI EN G. H. Tillson, enginey A. J. Grover, assistant T Shaw, cofputer rpenter, as: randall, assis . Kohlman, assistant 8. W..J. McKat v C.J.C G. H lor , assistant computer. E. Donahue, rodman.. M. Hughes, ‘rodman. C. Robertson, rodma; J. Cowls man Postage Hixpross Chiarices | C. Ltobertson, use of t £3 J. Kent H. Olsen, carpenter, I7 days at M. C. Meéaney, team, 16 days at P. Davitt, laborer, 16 6-9 days at etzgar, laborer, 17 days at laborer, ! ez F. Parker, Iaborer, 14 . Cogan, 1aborer, 16 days at 8 J.'Corrigan, laborer, 14 1-9 days al J. Pamuska, ER.ZETIRE ILIC §t. A. D. Balcombe, chairman W. F. Wappeck, secretary. ‘Mayne, mombe: imrod, membe: G. C. Whitlock, superintendent. F.J. Campbell, clerk.. F. A. Tompkins, inspector, 2 8. Cook, inspect Sas] 75 00 108 00 103 00 100 =xS23% & T.J. McLean, inspect @, Reed, 30 days at # W.H 30 day: W. McVior, 3 days at . Hutton, 4 days ut 53, Hi. Shepard, 1% days at ss8s28 8 & 8 2 si83 & 8 BOILEK I J. H. Standeven Postage Total... E §|.E R. Duncan, in: Postage.... Total. J. Allan, tns g F. Hickstein, fnspector. W. Farr, inspector. Total... g2 E|.8 8 g2 slss = g SUNDRY OFFICERS, L Berka, police Judge......... oo J. B, Ralph, secretary hoard of hoaith H. Ramacclotti, surgeon. J.'H. Butler,sergeant-at- L. Gramacher, janitor. 8. Anderson, tireman, annex buliding Total... J. {. McDonald, keeper, 31 days Boarding eagles and repairing Total... . L. 8. Reed, grade.. Total general fund From Fire Fund., FIRE DEPARTMEN John Rush, treasurer, m vanced for freight charjes. FIRE ALARM John Rush, treasurer, money ad- vanded for freight charges...... Total fire fund.. From Po Mrs, M. J. Schaller, feeding prisoners. .$ From Library Fund. PUBLIC LIDRARY. N. B. Falconer, rent for December. lon, fibraian............. ™ cash pd asst, Janitor., rien, asst. libraian sesped E ssssss 2 = 2 8 3o gig k Co., meyelopedia. epublican, budin, Kimbad & Hungaté, ice for Oct. Noy. ? Total, From Curbing an J. C. Corby, repatring. ... C. . Woodworth, repairing Total. | From Judgment Fund. POLICE DEPARTMENT. Guttering Fund ¥ H. Murphy, s on Dodge besweon E. Martin, damage worth. .. . Total... : L8 1,510.8 FIROM CURBING AND GUTTERING PU J. 0. Corby, repatring sewers. .. .. th and 27th grade on Leav Total of amendments. ... RE General fund. .. Fire tund.. Police tund 1. 5 ‘Amendments Total of General ordinance, ... ¥l Stuht & Hume, firs Plercest., 10th to 1t .. Stulit & Hume, final estimate Stuht & Huwe, first estimate grade ¥, between Pos, Mason, 10th and 1th. "8 247 60 Stunt & Hume, final estimate, same. ... 7 10 foul & lith. ® Stalt & Hume. Saal estimate, Mmo.. 4 09 ALY Cimiw do, otc,0oth " y BT Sl 1119 '.J G. W. McKinney, Total, 1] a, W. McKinnoy, finai estimate grade 0th, Cuming to Grace ¢’ 0180 McKinuey. final est L‘;” ‘mxlll film to uT. Rt O B IAmMs, second, estimal 16th, It & M. 'to Willfams...... .8 ©. F. Williams, third estimate, same. .. L F. i Davenpcrt, 24 to d6th. .. C. E. Fanning, second estimate, grade, oY Pater, e ave, to Wtk n"'"l:‘ Shrphy. eat estiats, grad ugh' Murphy, first estimate, DOdige, B0 0 BOUH. 1o+ verersoons” Total general fund......... DISTRICT PAVING J. D, Urquhart, inspection dist. PAVING DOND FUN Hugh Murphy, final est, interest dist 08 Hugh Murply, extras, intorest dist 96.. ‘Total. Hugh Murphiy, sece Hugh Murphy, extras, int Hugh Murphy. third est, int dist 47, Hugh Murphy, flual est, Mt dist 97. Hugh Murphy, extigs, fat dist 97. .eces 612.00 . Total paving bond fand. CURBING AND GUTTERING FUND, J. D. Green, inspection, Aistrictis. ..., Amendments GENERAL FUND, B. F. Baker, superintendent salary October. .. B. F. Baker, mlmflnwnflcnt city hall, salary November. B. F. Daker, ml‘)’:r salary Deécember. Total. .. ... J. €. Cowin, legal sérvices G, W. Ambrose, legal services Total....... Total general fun DISTRICT PAVING PU IK;:‘lglm Bros,, final estimate dlstriet Reagan i 'Fo!ll C. F. Haman, inspecting district 88 G. Hume, inspecting district 83, Total paving fund Total of amendmonts General fund... District paving fi Paving bond fun Curbing and gut Amendments. .. Total special ordinance No. 1.., Special Ordinance No. 2. DISTRICT SEWER FUND. Dantel Delaney & Co district 4 John F. Behi Jul.. oo John' ¥, el August John F. Beh, Septemby John F. Octover, John F. I3el November. i John F. Behm, inspection district 4, June Jul ; 8.8 Vi iior, inspection district 4, August. . e A, R. Hoel, inspection district 4, Sep- tember. J.F. Dal 5.8, Van Horn, tuspection district 4, August. . .5 Vi e, September . 8. Van H October. 100 00 )ber. . 8. 8. Van Horn, " inspection district 48, November. 100 00 623 00 5,062 31 78 30 100 00 100 00 5,335 AL 124 47 % 15 1,797 16 474 63 . 70 inspection 100 00 Total P. I Me B8, . A. R. Hoel, inspection district 58, Bep. tember A, R H SH vember . Total P. H. Mc trict 39, Hugh M C. ¢ Thrame, inspection district 50, Oc- ‘tober. T Hugh Murphy, n C. G, Thrume, in . 8482 final estimate district61 2,680 81 nspection district 81, No- tal 9 2,054 Murphy, final estimate district 62 1,808 60 Thrame, inspection district 63. 0 65 Thrams, inspection Aistrict &2, Total district sewer fund............. 1086 24 DISTRICT CURBING AND GUTTERING FUND, C. D. Woodworth, final est, curb 15th Davenport to Webster, $ 242411 J.D. Green, inspection ‘enport to Webster. . 4190 ieen® 400,01 ) um‘énrfi‘im.k R Bros. & Co., balance final es engan Bros. & Co 1 . WATER RENT FUND. American Water Co., rent of water hy- drants and repairs for 6 months end ing Dec. 31, as allowed by city coun: N Barber Asphalt Pav! pairs. ... Charles Turn treasurer acco i District sewer fund............ District curbing and gattering find. District paving fund. Water rent fund, Curbing und gutt General fund.. Total of Special O1 General ¥ General ordinanc Specinl Ordinance N Special Ordinauce No Total expenditures for December. 8122678 34 el iz, Thie broke into the barn of G. W. Cook, 2223 Dodge sty Saturday night and stole a flne set of harness. There is no clue to the sneaks. \ »c;oking Catarrh. Have you awakened from a disturbed sleep with all the horrible sensations of an assassin clutching your throat and pressing the life- Dbreath from your tightened chest? Have you noticed the languor and debility that succeed the effort to clear your throat and head of this catarrhal matter? What s depressing influence 1ts exerts upon the mind, clouding the memory and filling the head with paiys and strange noises! How difficult 1t 1 to rid the nasal puss- aiges, throat and lungs of this poisonous wucus all can testify who are afilicted with catarrh. How difficult to protect the system against ity further progress towards the lungs, Hve and kidneys, all phvsicians will admit. It ble disease and cries out for relief and other remedies utterly fal : CAL CUILE, ave attested by thousands who grate- fully recommend it to fellow-sufferers. No statement 15 made regarding it that cannot be by the most respectablo and rell- contains one hottle of the RADI one box 0f CATARRHAL SOLVENT, and iy nd direc 00, OVED INHALRIL, Willh treat and 15 s0ld by all druggists & CHEMICAL C » tions, PoTTER D . BOSTON, KIDNEY PAINS With thelr weary,dull, aching, liteless, all-gone sensation, KEL VED IN ONE MINUTE by the CUTICURA ANTI-PAIN PLAsTER. The first and ouly pain-sub- Quing plaster. Absolutely unrivalled # au in- Stantaneous and infallible antidote to pain, in: Hammation and weakness. At il druggists, 3 s Bvertor 81.00; OF, postage res, of BUTTER Ditua AND Ciaumicaw Co., Boston, Mass-