Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 18, 1888, Page 4

A DAILY BEi: SUNDAY MARCH 181888 —STXTEEN PAG THE DAILY BEE, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNI — TRRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Paily (Morning Edition) including Sunday BER, One Y. e 10 ) !lxlflrmmf'.:’ . Three Month: sl e Omalia Sunday BEE, mailed to any ad- ress, One Year P L] A OFFICE, NOS JTAND 016 FARNAM STREET, O Yok GrxIcE, ROOMS 14 AND 15 THIRUNE UILDING. WASHINGTON OFFIOE, NO. 613 FOURTEENTH STREET, CORRESPONDENCE. Al communications relating to news and edi- forial matter should be addressed to the EDITOR BEE. OFTHE DRy g iwmss LETTERS. 1 businiess lotters and remittances should be ressed to TiE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAnA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders to e made payable to the order of the company. The Bee Publisting Company. Proprictors E. ROSEWATER, Editor. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation, e of Nebrasks, bos. unty of Douglass, % ", Tml\u"vl, secretary of The Bes Pub- ing company, does solemnly swear that the actun fln:n\'luon of the Daily Bee for the week ng March 16, 1888, was as follows iny, March 10 ; . March 11 Marc Average. .. X distiened EO. B, TZ8CH Um‘\‘i " Bworn to and subscribed in my_presence 17th day ot March, A. D., 1888, °N. P. FEIL, Notary Public. “Btate of Nebraska, i Gounty of Douglhes, | % Goo. I8, Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, de- s and says that he 18 secretary of The Bes blishing company, that the actual uvor dally circulation of the Daily ee for the monf 14400 coplesy for April for ay, 1887, 14,147 copl 14083 coples: for August, plos; for September, 1887, 14,343 ifor October, 1851, 14383 fof November, , 220 coples; ' for, December, 1887, 16,041 les; " for January, 1888, 16,206 coples; for February, 1888, 15,902 coples. GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. Sworn and subscribed to in my presence this 34 day of February, A, D, 188, 'N. P.VEIL, Notary Public. IN Ottawa, Ont., parliament proposes todo away with bucket shops. A ma- Jority of the members have presumably been buying short. ‘Witnour consulting the weather bureau or the goose bone, there is all the internal and external evidence nec- essary to convince the most skeptic that gentle spring is here. But look out for the equinoxial. A PARTY of Boston excursionists were left high and dry in New Mexico in consequence of the Santa Fe men going outon a strike. It was a beautiful spactacle, no doubt, to witness cultured Bestonians entertaining curious Mexi can greasers and chasing tarantulas ~and centipedes for exercise. ALL reports from the northwest show oattle to be in excellent condition. In the agricultural districts of the west and northwest, also, every indication for a prosperous year is most flattering. ‘There will be tides of humanity come west of the Missouri to find homes— and they cannot come t00 soon. Ir is said that Prince William of Prussia has ceased to be the holder of geason ticket on the railways. His wife always pays the regular fare when she travels to and from Berlin. Prince ‘William differs in this respect from the average American oflicial who, it is meedless to say, seldom pays his railroad are but often charges mileage when he ‘u carrying an annual in his pocket. Tue exhibition of penmanship and @rawing as well as the samples of mod- eling in clay in the primary grades of $he city schools are steps in the right @ivection. It encourages pupils to do work and is an incentive to the hers to raise the standard of scholar ghip. The movement seton foot in ese branches may profitably be fol- wed in some of the other departments. A PHILADELPHIA judge, in laying flown the law in its bearing upon the gonduct of policemen in making arrvests, eaid: ““A policeman owes a double duty. o isan officer of the law, to preserve gespect for the law and obey it himself, and, while acting in that capacity and in the line of his duty, he becomes equally guilty with his prisoner when he exceeds his authority and inflicts wviolence upon the person he has in cus- tody.” The circumstances that called out this explanation of a policeman’s @ouble duty have their counterpart in every city of the country, and are due to a false conception of authority. All policemen should understand that they are conservators of the peace, and not Breakers of both peace and law—guard- s of the persons as well as property of citizens, and that they are not to be 8 law unto themselves, —— Tue women of New York have long Poen knocking at the doors of Columbia tollege. Admission into some depart- ments of that institution of learning bas not been denied them, but the uest has always been granted with re uctance, while in other d@epartments women are rigorously excluded, An effort is now ripe to open wide the @oors of Columbia and give young women an equal chance with their more favored brothers. Mrs. Annie Nathan Meyer, a graduate of Columbia’s course for women, has taken an active part in )rlnging the matter before the trustees ©f that college. She has enlisted the go-operation of prominent New York ople to establish an annex for the igher education of women at Colum- pia. No financial aid is asked for from the trustees, since funds sufficient to place the woman’s colloge on a footing: have already been raised, But the con- pent of the trustees is necessary to es- gablish this auxiliary. It is a mere qQuestion of but ashort time when the yote of the board of directors will open the way for the higher education of women. Columbia must take such a step to keep abreast with the first uni- ersities of the country. ' The age calls 2 broad and liberal views in the matter of the higher eéducation of women, Harvard college recoguized “ghis priueiple and established an aunes where women enjoy the same educa- Sional privileges as men. -'Cornell-owes success to co-education, and Johns pkins university showers its favors _§8 men and women alike, A Judicious Counsellor. At this time, when there is so much professed fear that the social life of this conntry is being threatened, and dema- gogues in public life and pessimists 1n newspaper editorinl rooms are prophe- sying disaster to American institutions do not erect the most formidable iers to prevent further addition to our population from the outside world, itis reassuring to hear a strong and able voice, such as that of Bishop J. L. Spalding, proclaim that there is no alarming danger threatening us, and that it is unworthy of a great people to give themselves up to fears for which thereis little substantial reason. In the March number of the Forwm Bishop Spalding discusses with great elearness and force the ques- tion, *Is our social life threatened?” and very plainly points out that there is no adequate ground for apprehending that it is in imminent danger. He ob- serves that it would be willful blind- ness to maintain that our country and its institutions are beyond the reach of harm, but this is not to be averted by a discipline of fear. ‘“The notion,” he says, ‘‘that there is peril because cer- tain customs and constitutionalities which our ancesters approved of have censed to commend themselves to our judgment, is primitive and provincial. Not only our own history but that of all the civilized nations has been a history of developments, here and there inter- rupted or arrested, and consequently a history of alterations.” This country can- not expect to escape the uniyersal experi- ence, which is in fact a law of civiliza- tion, nor will any one but a reactionist, an enemy of progress, desire that it should. Those who insist that the social lifo of this country isin danger find their chief argument in the policy of immi- gration which still admits to our shores all proper persons from other lands. In answer to this Bishop Spalding for- cibly “The fear of immigration, which the bomb-throwers have inten- sified, is foolish., Known ecriminals, idiots and paupers are excluded, and that suffices. For the r millions who come hither bring to us the best and purest blood of Europe and of the world; and as the great nations of Christendom are of mixed descent, there is no reason for thinking that the intermingling of different noble races on this continent will lead to degeneracy. Rather is it to be believed that a higher type of man- hood will be the result. Let, then, the disinherited of the earth still seck these shores, and if their children prove wiser and stronger than ours let them inherit the land. Here is a fair field and wide; here an opportunity and in- vitation to every man to do the best he can.” What intelligent American, not prejudiced and narvowed by a bigoted sentiment of nativism, will not heartily indorse this generous and genuinely American view? Why should we fear anything from the annual inflow of a few hundred thousand of the ‘“disinherited of the earth” if we have faith in ourselves and in the mer- its of our institutions? After a hundred years of republican government, in which this nation has realized a mater- ial, moral and 1ntellectual progress without a parallel in the history of mankind, shall we now in the greatness of our power and wealth, with such magnificent evidences of the worth of our political system in full view, pro- claim to the world that we are losing confidence in our ability to continue our experiment of government on the lines we have thus far pursued? Shall we send forth a declaration of loss of faith in ourselves which monarchs would hail with unrestrained gladness and which would destroy the hopes and aspivations of the millions every- where who are looking to this republic to vindicate through all time the capacity of man for self-government? Or what would be equally deplorable, shall we give mankind to understand that having grown great, and powerful, and rich, we have become at the same time utterly selfish and are unwilling to ahare our prosperity and advantages with the people of any other land, how- ever worthy they may be or however anxious to do their part for the nation’s further progress? No American worthy of his country will sny that any of these things should be done. We have still room in this land for many millions of the industrious, thrifty and honest people of other lands whoshall come here to make homes, conform to our laws and accept the conditions imposed by our in- stitutions, and all such will help toin- crease our wealth, our power, and our greatness among the nations, The conditions that threatep havoce to the country and its institutions do not come from without, but are of our own creation and toleration. ‘A democracy,” says Bishop Spalding, “where the mil- lions own nothing and the few own mil- lions, must fatally fall a prey to socialis- tic, communistic, and anarchic turbu- lence; and though so far there isno proper soil here for such germs to sprout in, the policy which uses all the powers of government to build nests for paupers who, like unfledged birds, shall eat only when capitalists drop food in their mouths, will soon sup- ply the lacking conditions.” The growth of corporate power and arro- gance, the increase of combinations to control the products of the country and arbitrarily fix their price, and the ex- pansion of monopoly in every form made possible by un onerous and unnecessary fiscal system—these are the conditions, wholly of home production, which are putting a heavy steain upon American institutions, and which, if not removed or greatly abridged in their power for mischief, must eventually do great harm to those institutions and to the country. National Defenses. There is very little probability that congress will at the present session adopt a liberal policy for putting the coast defenses of the country in the eon- dition which all military and naval au- thorities have urged as desirable and prudent, ‘Notwithstanding the fact that the foremost democrat of his time, Sam- uel J. Tilden, sought to impress upon the présent administeation soon after it came into power the duty of ‘providing adequate, defensés for the protection of the " vast property on .the sea-coast now almost unprotected, the party which professed to so hotor him in life and still pretends to hold his name and fame in sacred memory, has manifested - little. disposi< tion to give any heed to his earnest ad- vice regarding the national defenses. Having disregarded it until now, the representatives of that party will not be likely in the present juncture to give it any serious attention. The committee on ¢oast defenses of the senate is favorable to the bill of Senator Dolph which proposes a total expenditure of $126,000,000 for const and harbor defenses, $25,500,000 to' be ex- pended the first year and $0,000,000 a year thereafter. The Cutcheon bill in tho louse only provides for the expen- diture of $7,475,000, leaving other appro- i to be made from yet year. The senate hlil provides for a vomprehensive plan of coast and harbor defenses, such as have been recommended by military and naval boards. The house bill contem- plates supplying these improvements in the piece-meal fashion in which nearly all national public works are carried on. Obviously, if these defenses are neces- sary, the house method of providing for their construction is not the wiser one.’ It would probably result in either a greater expenditure than is provided for in the senate bill foran equally com- plete plan of defenses, or in the aban- donment of the improvements before completion, and thus practically wasting whatever sum would have been ex- pended. A San Francisco paper says that city is defenseless against the attack of any well armed naval foe. *“There is no na- tion of Turope,” it says, ‘“‘which could not, with a few ironclads, compel the surrender of the keys of commerce held by this city, and, through it, of the en- tire Pacific const.” The cities on the Atlantic coast are no better off than San Francisco, and at least two of them rep- resent o vastly greater risk in the value of the property that would be at the merey of a foreign foe. True, there is no present dangor and may not be for a great many years to come. But isit wise for the nation, when abundantly able to provide adequate defenses, to leave populous and wealthy cities on its coast without pro- tection and in a condition vulnerable to any power that has a few modern ships of war? Is it judicious to reason that because danger appears re- mote there need be no hurry 1n making preparations to avert it? Under the Dolph bill twelve years would be re- quired to complete the defeases, and who can say that within that time the nation will not find use for them? The construction of these defenses would distribute from the treasury a consider- able sum to various kinds™ of labor, and thus would be a direct and desirable contribution to the public welfare. Is it not manifestly expedient that the government should use a portion of its surplus revenue in this way rather than in buying up its bonds at a premium to the holders? It being granted that the country ought to have a thorough sys- tem of harbor and coast defenses, and there are very few who question it, evi- dently the wise plan to pursue is to make such ample provision for them at the outset as will assure their comple- tion. Such a plan, however, is not likely to be adopted by congress at the present session. It is much more prob- able that there will be no plan at all. SINCE the terrible storm which, dur- ing the early part of the week, raged in the cast, destroying all communication by wire and rail in the seaboard section of the country, and for two days paralyz- ing business in New York, eastern papers will probable be a little more chary in their assaults upon western winter climate. No storm during the past ten years in the west seems to have so thoroughly blocked business and in- terrupted all communication as did the storm of Sunday and Monday in the strip of country east of the Alleghanies. For three days no trains ran in or out of New York. The BEast river was a solid mass of ice. People froze to death in the very streets of the metropolis and 1o telegriaph instrument clicked in the great building on the corner of Dey street and Broadway. From the accounts which are obtain- able it does not appear that the eastern railroads are . as well equipped for battling with the elements as those in this section. The most ap- proved snow plows, such as are used on the Union and Central Pacific roaas, would soon have cut their way with their rotary knives through the drifts which blocked all transportation be- tween New York and Philadelphia, Western line men, accustomed to re- pair wires in strong gales, would not have refused to climb poles and connect brolen wires as those in Washington and New York arve said to have done on Monday. As a matter of fact, long ex- perience in battling with the elements on the roads traversing the immense strips of prairie and mountainous coun- try in the west have so stimulated the inventiveness of western railroad man- agers that they make light work of the problems which in the east scem to have staggered every one. ep—— THE easy destruction of the Union Square theatre of New York City by fire is another warning that ought not to go unheeded, The lesson has been taken to heart by the fire commissioners of that eity, who forbid the erection of a theatrical building on the site unless it is thoroughly fire-proof. What holds good in New York holds good in Omaha. No building intended for a place of public amusement should be granted a license unless it complies with the city regula- tions concerning entrances and exists. Moreover the city authoritiesshould see to it that in the future all such theatres and halls shall be fire-proof in con- struction, Tue strike is in the ‘air. Over in Pella, Iowa, sixty high school boys struck owing to the decision of the school board not to grant the usual spring vacation, The school was tied up for one day, and although o violence was threatened, not a' single scab took the place of the strikers,. - Contrary . to expectations aud justice, the parents joined themselvesinto a committee of arbitration and came to a unanimous and vigorous con that the strik- ers wore wrong. o strike is over and the strikers ha 11 been allowed to resume’ work. ; A ROCKFORD, Illinois, minister, who has been a promingnt yot unsuccessful politician, has sur] his congrega- tion by announcin, t he would here- after have nothing to do with. politics. In the goodness of his heart he proba- bly does-not know that to ‘‘be out of pol- itics™ is a graceful, yet lifeless chestnut, of which John M. Thurston is a living example. POLITICAL POINTS, T¢ is apparent that the republican party can- not have its Phil. Governor Beaver has a B in his name but none in his bonnet. Senator Butler. of South Carolina, speaks French as he dresses—fashionable, Ropresentative James Phelan, of Memphis, is the best German scholar in congress. The Boston Globe suggests that the Repub- licans nominate John L. Sullivan for presi- dent. Asa “ring candidate,” of course. Thomas D. Tongue is the appropriate name borne by a prominent politician of Washing- ton county, Oregon. He will be heard from during the coming summer. Congressman MeKinley, of Ohio, is said 10 bear a striking resemblance to Napoleon 1. He is also ambitious to become a leader of men, not in war but in the civil contest. Close observers think that the republicans could carry Ohio with either a Sherman- Foraker or a Foraker-Sherman ticket. Such a combination would realize the latest “Ohio idea.” P. T. Barnum comes forward and frankly assorts that he would gladly accept the re- publican nomination for prosident: The P. T, of his signature, he says, stands for Presi- dental Timber. Senator Riddleberger told a senate com- mittee last woelk that he was “a prohibitionist of long standing.” Don't laugh. Riddle- berger knows what he is. 1f he says he is a prohibitionist, why, he is a prohibitionist. German is the mother tongue of Congress- man Leopold Morse, of Massachvsetts, Her- man Lehilback, of New Jersey; Romeis, of Ohio, and Richara Geunther, of Wisconsin, while John Lind, of Minnesota, was Swedish. The presidential boom of Governer Louns- bury, of Connecticut, now weighs fourteen pounds and has cut its first tooth. It has grown a great deal since Lounsbury’s name appeared in @ presidential anagram in 8 Bridgeport newspaper. Colonel R. G. Ingersoll is apparently in no danger of becoming a democrat or mugwump. He recently declared that he would “‘never again vote for a man who is not distinguished for something, who hasn’t made his mark in some calling, who hasi’t got some brains™ O The repuvlicans of Erie and Crawford counties, Pennsylvania, in convention as sembled, took a straw vote for a presidential candidate Wednesday, The result was as follows: Lincoln, 17; Blalne, 8; Sherman, 4; Gresham, 2; Allisot, 1;Evarts, 1; Haw- ley, 1; Depew, 1. s Representative Dingley, of Maine, says that during the seven years he has spent in Washington he has never seen a congressman under the influence of liquor. Bills intro- duced by Dingley stand a good chance of favorable actien by thg Ibwer house: Thomas F."Bayard rsrn‘e only living man who was balloted fo¢ ih#be St. Touis con- vention in 1876, Tilden, Hendricks, Allen, Hancock and Parker, all_of whom had en- thusiastic supporters for the nomination, are dead, and John Kelly and Jon Morrissey, who were prominent figures at the conven- tion, have followed their chiefs, Charles Voorhees, son of Senator Voorhees, is the congressional delegate from Washing- ton territory. Although he kas no vote in the house he can introduce all the bills he chooses. He has presented one measure, at least. which shows that he has statesman’s blood in his veins, Itisa bill to regulste spelling by law, the amended orthography to be taughtin all government schools. The measure makes war on the silent ‘e, as in Slive,” “bronze,” etc., and advocates the adoption of “‘ake” for ‘‘ache,” ‘“‘anker” for “anchor,” and other abbreviated forms for certain words. ———— To Bury Them All. Philadelphia Press. The coffin trust is a grave undertaking, but it ought to flourish long enough to pro- vide all the other trusts with burial cases. e i Will Wear Bloomers. PhiladelphiaEnquirer., It would be just perfectly awful if some horrid republican should turn loose a cageful of mice when the Mrs. Cleveland club is on parade. The Boston Idea of It. Minneapolis Tribune, There has been some great news in the Boston papers lately about the famous John L. Sullivan, the celebrated Charles Mitchell, and one William, who was an emperor or something. Accepts the Trust, Chicago Tribune. Goorge Bancroft (anxiously)—My dear friend, Tam_ still a vigorous man, compara- tively speaking, but I may not live more than forty or fifty years yet, and my history is far from complete. Promise me that if I am called away with my great work unfinished you will complete it. Simon Cameron (with emotion) —George, T accept the trust. 1l do it. ———— Striving for K. ©, P, Cranch, 1 started on a lonely road; A few companions with me went; Some fell behind, some forward strode, But all on one high purpose bent; To live for nature, finding truth In beauty and the shrine of art; To consecrate our joyous youth To aims outside the common mart; I turned aside and lingered long To pluck a rose, to hear 4 bird; To muse, while listoning to the song Of brooks through leafy covers heard; o live in thoughts that beought no fame Or guerdon from the thoughtless crowd; T4 toil for end that could not claim The worid's applauses, coarse and loud, But still, though oft T bind my sheaf In fields my comrades have not known, Though art is long and Iife is bricf. And youth has now forever flown, 1 would not loso the rapture sweet Nor scorn the toil of eatlier years; Still would I climb with, eager feot, Though tawering height ob height appears. ——————— A Just Criticism. Philadelphia Becord, An uriexpected developmeut of the western railway strikes is the disclosure of an as- sumption of power on the part of a United States court to prevent any state board of railway commissioners from performing the duties devolved upon it by state laws. Under the plea that inter state commerce would. be wterfored with, the Union Pacific railway company has secured an injunction from a United States judge in Nebraska restraining the board of transportation of that state from making certain regulations which had been deemed necessary by the ‘board. The attempt to set up fedoral power an opposition to the decrees of the state lawmaking power is full of dauger to the rights of .the, people. 1f the validity of such proceedings should go unchallenged a single fedeval judge might at any time paralyze the eatire police power of & commonwealth in its application to tho reg- ulation of railways in the state. —— VOICE OF THE STATE PRESS, The Ord Democrat denounces the importa- tion of armed detectives in language justly vigorous. The Dundy Democrat finds that Benklo- man will invest 50,000 in new buildings 1888, As another evidence of improvements the same paper findsthat 5,000 acres of prai- rie were broken in the month of February. The South Siotix City Sun longingly lingers in the hope of a never ending spring boom for its town, As the annex of the great pack- ing center of the northwest, the new town up the river will fairly hum. In a moment of confidence the Plattsmouth Journal records the fact that “the farmers of Nebraska are mortgaged to an amount of a hundred and forty million dollars as a resuly of high protection and high freight tariffs.” The Grand Tsland papers are indulging in & personal war—with the Independent well ontop. The Times, a hide-bound monopoly organ, fails to receive itsshare of applause, hence has lashed itself into & harmiess fury. Alliance,the new town in Box Butte county has three newspapers already. All they lack to insure future permanccy is to find Tascott there. All other growing towns in the great northwest have enjoyed this dizzy sC00D. The general expression of the country press is to the effect that honest laborers should enjoy the right to protect themselves against the oppression of corporate power, Accordingly” the brotherhood of engineers finds warm friends in the majority of Ne- braska newspapers. The Falls City Journal says: Judge Gresham gave the “Q" system a black eye in their suit to enjoin the Wabash road and the brotherhood from refusing to haul their cars by telling them that they had no cause for action. Judge Gresham is no respector of persons when action is brought before him. It makes no difference whether the claimant be a railroad with all the arrogance usual to such corporations, or whether it be a penniless boggar, his case is treated with the same degree of fairness. The Oakdale Sentinel very properly says of the most recent outrage in Nebraska: “The armed detectives who are now said to be stationed at important points on the line of the B. & M. railroad in Nebraska calls for prompt and decisive action. Nebraska is a civilized state whose executive is clothed with ample power to protect the life and property of every citizen within its bound- ary. The importation of armed men is ade- flance to the state and should be promptly checked.” In that same dreamy and dreary style of composition that endeared John Bunyan to the people of the earth, the Nebraska City Press clamors for an opera house. “Itis far less important to the present generation, and will not be thought of by the next,” says that vaper, in its wild desire to secure the end, ‘“where the opera house is built.” There is no doubt a long-felt want concerning the amusement palace which papers have builded for years past. Paul Schminke, the Otoe statesman, owns the present barn where actors and actresses storm and wring their hands, and do high tragedy. It wason those boards that Mr. S. first apeared before the world—and the good citizens of the down-river town should spare Paul the humiliation of seeing it rudely torn away. The McCook Gazette very wisely talks upon the subject of congressman in the Second district as follows: “As long as the railroads are permitted to choose legislators for the people 80 long will they have an ad- vantage. Mr. Laird of this district when elected was an attorney for the B. & M., and right well has he served his master. The people should tale deeper interest in these matters, The republican party should select men for their qualifications, instead of their business associations. It is not necessary for a man to be a railroad employe in order to be elected to cougress, or the state legi ‘What we need, and what we must secure, is to send men who are untrammeled by associations with any clique or corpora- tion, but who will do justice to all, whether they be rich or poor. Not that we would have a man elected who would in any way injure or imperil railroad inter- ests, but a man who would not be led by the nose by rich monopolies. Give us a fair man who belongs to nobody but himself. * * * The contest, for congress in this district is rapidly assuming an interesting phase. The latest move to secure the nomination for James Laird, the railroad candidate, and do- feat Mr. Harlan, is to put congressional as- pirations into the breasts of several promi- nent men in the eastern part of the district, and in consequence two or three candidates have already appeared, the latest being Mr, Hastings of Crete. This is a shrewd move, as it is expected that it will divide Harlan’s strength. But we think when noses are counted it will be discovered that Mr. Laird’s strength in the western part of this district has been greatly overestimated. The people are waking up toa fact which the corpora- tions have long known, and that is, the ad- vantage of having a man in congress to rep- resent their interests, We think it is about time the peopie had an inning, e MADE THEM TIRED. Councilmen Grow Weary Over the Plumbing Ordinance. Thirteen councilimen esponded 10 their names last night when called to order by President Bechel. As the meeting was one of the commitiee of the whole to con sider the ordinance for the regulation of plumbers and the repealing of the existing ordinance regulating the sale of liquor after midnight, Mr. Bechel gave way to Council- man Loe, who presided. “Which ordinance will we take up first?” asked Clerk South “Phe plumbing,” responded Ford. “Do you wish it read by sections?” ap- pealed Joe, as he picked up the document, which consists of twenty big pages of type we're_here for an all night session, ounsman, who settled down sleepily into his chair, ‘St. Patrick's day night is a bad one for local legslation hummed Hascall, who seemed discouraged with Couns man's remark that they had come 1o stay all night. “'Where is your green ribbon?" quired Lowry of Lee as he took his seat on the rostrim, to Which inquisitiveness there was Higgins, who was on hand to champion the passago of the repealing of the liquor ordin- made his escape. 'he ordinance inspired a great deal of talk and discussion, ard by the time the clerk had waded through a quarter of it Lowry moved that the committeo adjourn. This received appy second from Ford, and adjournment A Fiendish Crime, Itnaca, N. Y., M h 17.—Robert Barber, @ farm hand, went 1o -the house of Richard Mason, aged seventy, living vear Trumans- burg, last night, and after horribly beating him with a club, he attacked Mason's wife, and beat her head into a shapéless mass. Barber then poured the contents of a lamp over the couple, set the house ou fire and fled: Mason. recovered sufficiently to ¢rawl from the burning building iuto a snow drift, but hus wife's y was burned to a cinder. Barber was caught before murn:l!g and t0dged in jail'in this city. Itis repori amob is forming to Lynch Barber to-night. Mason capnot live.. The motive for the crime 1§ supposed 1o have been robbery. AMUSEMENTS, TALLADY'S AT THR GRAND. Hallady's minstrels will give a sacred con- cert at the Grand to-night, with an attrac- tive programms, The company iaa fine one and has drawn largo housos this week. All next wook, at least aftor Tuosday, at the Grand opera house there will boon exhi- bition the great original painting by Mun- kacsy entitled ““Christ bofore Pilate’ which cost the present owner $100,000. The simple announcement will be sufficient to draw & large attendance. YR OLD FOLKR'S CONCERT. Ye firate publick singinge meetinge of ye Plymouth club will be helde at ye Congrega- tionale meetinge house at ye corner of Nine- toenth and Spruce streets of ye good city of Omaha on Friday ove, Marche ye 28d, Anno Domino 1858, Ye price of admission is but two shillings of ye coin of ye realm, and ye proceeds will be used o pay k in ye house of worship mentioned above. Singminge will begin at yo eighth hour of yo afternoon, On Tuesd AX ORGAN PUSD. ¢, April 8, the Catholic Knights of America will give a grand concert at Boyd's opera house. The proceeds of the cotcert are to be for the beenfit of the organ fund of St. John's Collegiate church, Those who will take part in the concert are the Temple quaftet, Revel France, Miss Fannie Arnold, Miss Potvin, of Lincoln, the Mandolin club and & number of other well known artists. SERICA FOR AMERIOANS, Mrs. Carrie Lane Chapman will lecture on the 90th inst. at the Christian church, corner of Twentioth street and Capitol avenue, under the auspices of the Young People’s So* ciety of Christinn Endeavor. Her subject will be “America for Americans.) Mrs. Chapman's discourses are replete with novel and striking ideas, and she discusses without Dias the most vital subject of to-d i tion. Her subject is an_intensoly & and graphic criticism upon the defects and shims of modern politics, and in n_strong ex- position of the influence of foreign power in the social, political and .moral life of our government. Mrs. Chapman has been connected with San Francisco journals for some time back, having proviously resided in lowa. It was during this period of her life on the coast that she conceived the idea that a new party was iecessary. The foreign element had gaincd such control over governmental affairs that moral, social and political life had been fairly infected with corruption. It is to remedy this growing evil that Mrs, C man is now directing her energics. A ago sho returned from Culifornia and sir that time has been laboring in Towa and ad- jacent states. It is designed to form a club in every state possible 80 that at the proper time the party can. be put in working order. FAUST AT BOYD'S TO-NIGUT. This ovening at Boyd's the German theat- rical company, under the management of baureis & Puls, will give, beyond a question the finest dramatic performanse that has ever been presented in German in this eity. will bo Goethe's immortal *‘Faust,” pro- duced in the original language and by a com- pany of actors and actresses superior to that of the German company now playing in Mc Vicke'r theater in Chicago. The aim of Faust's life, as_interpreted by many of the writers who have selected the same as the subject of their choicest work, seoms to be to sacrifice the future, however' precious, even salvation itself, to immediate gratification. In this drama dre combined the wildest out- bursts of possion, the most sublime and touching innocence of the heart, the flattest and most trivial stages of intellect and_the. highest aspirations and innermost longings of the soul. They form a picture of humau nature to which, probably, no litera- ture has anequal. The piece will be pro- duced with all the scenic resources of the stage_of the Boyd, the original music, and magnificent costumes brought from the ' cast at great expense. There is not a member of the company whose soul is not interested in the production of this piece, which will be played for the benefit of Mr, Eisemann, the new and successful leading man of the com- pany. He will appear in Mephistopheles, u character in which he has in other ei made a great success. Miss Roemer w pear in the always grateful character of Marguerite. Mr. Koch will appear as Faust, and all the othor members of the company will render excellent support. Attractions of more than ordinary interest are announced to open at the Eden Musee the coming week, principal among which is Texas ody, the cowboy pianist. Cody is u boy of eiglitéen who has never had any musical edu- cation, his life to within a few months having been on a ranch in Texas. He plays the most difiicult_music after having heard it but ouce, He has received very fattering no- tices from the press in the east and is justly styled a musical marvel. The tabledux of Clirist_before Pilate remains, as does Miss e Sturgeon, the pedestrian pianist. In theatorium No. 1 the royal Italian fanto par- lor circus is presented, while in the bijou theater John T, Kelley closes his engagement at the Musee with bis laughable farce-comedy, “In Hot Water.,” This come is considered Mr. Kelley's best production, and the cor pany will be materially strengthened for its presentation, THE ARABIAN NIGITS AT BOYD'S, There are said to be very novel features in “The Arabian Nights; or Aladian’s Wondor- ful Lamp,” which will be presented by tho Impegigl Burlesue company st Boyd’s opera houso” Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. Captain Alford Thompson, whose work 1 Robinson & Crane's production of “The Comedy of Errors" has been seen in this city, is responsible for the librotto, and for the designing of costumes and sconery of “The Argbian Nights." Jessic Williams, of the New York Casino, arranged the musi¢ of “The Arabian Nights." The scenery is the product of the urtists of the Chicigo opera louse, where the piece was first produ of New York, made the are the most rtistic and ever witnessed in a spectacular pro duction. In Chicago, “The Arabian Nights" scored a run of 150 consecutive performances. This was followed by 150 consccutive per- formances in Ne York, thirty in Philadel ston, at the new grand posse many of the stmas Pan- Juict action and_comedy of the ar American burlesque and spec- tures, not surpassed _cven in the palmy days of *The Black Crook.” There is a ballet of twenty, led by Mile. M Mile. Dorseamt Mous, Oreste and & chorus of forty trained voices. Nearly oue hundred people will appear on the stae BOOTH-BARKETT COMPANY. The appearance of Edwin Booth and Law. ren. u Owaha next month will be an ev tinterest. They will b in the following plays; Swaur Monday evening, April 9, with Mr. Booth as Brutus and Mr, Bu ssius, *‘The Merchant of Venice” ingz, April 10, the entire play of six acts being per formed, with Mr, Booth as Shylock and My, Barret! as Bassauio. *“Hamlet,” Wedios day matinee, April 11, with Mr. Booth as Himlet and Mr. Barrett as Laertes; and “Macbeth’ Wednesday evening, April 11, with Mr. Booth as Macbeth and Mr. Barrett as Macduff. The priccs for reserved scats will be $2.50 and $3. M nounces that the first ¢ s0ld at auction on Mouday moraing, April 2. This is done to avold speculation in tickets by outside parties, The engagement will un doubtedly attract & great wany people to Omaha. A New Daily in Chicago. CuicAgo, March 17.—[Specal Telegram to the Beg.]—Chicago is to have a new demo- cratic organ, established by Messrs. Hurlbut, Patterson and Goudy. Hurlbut was for- werly recciver of the Times and Patterson has been business manager of the same paper since Storey's death. Goudy is a law ver. It is understood that Colonel Martin J, Russell, who recenily resigned the editorship of the Herald, will take editorial charge of the new paper. One of the incorporators says they are going to make 1t a redhot paper, and a strict supporter of the adminis- tration. There has been much complaiot among democrats here for a long time that there was no out-and-out dewocratic pape in Chicago. Pl S Frightful Calamity in China. SAN FRANCIS00, March 17.—The steamer Oceanica arrived from Hong Kong and Yo- kohoma this morning. China papers confirm rts of a disastrous earthquake in the .of Gunave and Tijechuen and give additional details, Several oitics were de- stroyed and about 20,000 lives lost. The latest reports from the scene of the Yellow river fipods several mouths ago, place the number of lives lost at bekween 1,500,000 and and 2,000,000, A €0LD RIDE On a To13 D:;Tncodamu AND REPORT OF THE INTERVIEW — A Ride on the Cable Lind G#fp Oar o¥ Corroborate Some Interesting Tostimony in the Tarson ©ase—The Evidencs in Falh The m 1 who desires & fafe fAen OF the fru tensity o the cold artic reglons need not take & trip to tho north pole to satisfy his curiosity, & B-cent ric on the grip car of the cable line on & moderat 'y cold day will give him all the infory mation o1 that score he will want, plus & pair of feet €0 (old that they will make his head ach The worl U's cold charity will seem red-hod 13 comparis o, At least that was the experienc of the rej rter on a recent trip in search of ine formation to corroborate ocortain testimony concernin ; & young man whose residence is ad the corner of Cuming and Elizabeth streets, b name Mr. Lawrence B. Larsen, & briok-mowlds by occupa’ion. Tho repo. ter after leaving thoe grip oar, atmosk frozen, me ndered around until the gentlema above refe rod to was found, stated the objeot ol} his visit, w on Mr. Larsen related the followln, lmmng' of his remarkable experionce uufl.n’ the lnst six enrs: s S, *1 am nix ‘tesn yoars of age, & -monldel by trade, 10516 With Ty pAreDtg. QOFRGE o Cuming anl Elizabeth oo A Work af Myers' bric< yards, My trouble n abou 1% years aj.0, 88 the result of a cole uog no| getrid of, From a simple coid in the i gradually s; read until my throat and gars were' also affectcd, My head “generally ached, an When [ wi freo from headacho T wa&xffl roubled it patns thro o8t Dack, and 1 cunently T Wond b .FPM‘%‘:'% both! T think 1 must have had all the sym) tom of chinio Catarrh. My 0080 wopld ‘at U, first on 10 side and then on the other, au at times both sides would be stopped up go tha 1 could ot breathe through it. 1 would havy froquent apc'ls of dizziness, and was troubl With ringing and buzzing sounds had but little appetite o LI L0 ST FLESH AND STRENATI rapidly. I a1 not rest well nn‘l:g and flny" felt tired and languid after arising in the morn¥, ing. 1 had 1o energy or ambition 10 do anys thifig, and thn loast exertion I made seemed to be a hurden fo me, and it was only wjth the greatest difficulty that 1 could remember m! plans for the day or what I wanted to do nexi And then too. T was compolled, to hawk an Ccongh and expictorate until my throat felt ras and sonietimes sore. I became worse day , and had nearly given up all hopo of ‘e i well agal, “AS T sald bofore, T had ringing and Hiige zing sounds in ears, but that did not an. 1noy ‘me mear as much the fact that my hearin was_growing ore fain! every day, and Yhat during conversution persons would hiave to speik very loud to me before I conld understand what they wero talking about: this, with the other troubles 1 have enumerated, had & tend- ency to make me feel low spirited and_despondent, and often felt us though life was not worth living for and_that I would be Detter off dead than to go through life in the condie LAWRENCE B, [ARSEN. tion Iwas and continus ally growing worse. “I'nis was my condltion a few months ago, You could scarcely think such was the case to ee me now. Indeed, ns 1 said before, 1 can hardiy believe 6 myselt now. Hearing o th success of Dr. McCoy and his nssociates In trea ing cases such as mine, I determined to give them a trial, After careful and minute examina. tion the doctor told me he could help me aud that my disease was Catarrh in the head and throat, and that my eustachian tubes were affected, dus from the Catsrrh, and that as the Catarrh got better, with the treatment he would give my ears, my Hearing would also improve, and in hig opinion the tubes would soon becoine normal again and [ would heara well as evor. “In conclusion,” continued Mr. Larse: want to sy that they have dono ail for me suid they could do. "I feel like an entire differe ent man. I eat Nearty, feel strong and well, have no more pains in my head or chest, sleep well, nyisc refreshed in the morning, my former ambition seems to be brightening, and I feel more energetic and like working again. The ringing and buzzing noise in my head has ceased and Ican hoar an ordinary tone of voice in an. conversation, and 1am thoroughly satisfied with the manner in which they so suceessuily treated mycase. 1 have no Lesitancy in recommendin them to the public as men of medical abilit and skill.” Mr. Lursen is a young man of more than ordf- nary ability, and as above stated, resides with Dis parents at the corner of Cuming and Eliz Deth streets, where he can be found to veri the above statement. TWENTY-ONE QUESTIONS. A Few Symptoms of a Disease Tha May Prove Serious to You. Do, you have trequens fits of meutal depres- sion: Do you experience ringing or buzzing noiset in your ears? you feel as though you must suffocata when Iying down? Are you troubled with a hacking cough ahd goneral debility? Aro your eves gonerally weak and watery, and frequently inflam liave a husk, thick sound, sort of twang? hresth frequently offensive from some unaccountuble causo? ifave you n dull oppressive headache geners ally located over the eye il have to hawk and cough froquently in. r your throat? ro you losing “your sense of smell, and 18 your sense of taste becoming dulled, your nose always feel stoppid up, forg u'to breathe through your mouth? u froquently tvel dizzy, purtioularly ping to pick anything off the foor? s cvery little draught of air anajevery change of temperature give you a cold? Are you unnoyed by a constant d o hawk and spit out an ondless quantity of phiegm? Are you always tired and indlsposed to exer; , whether of business, work or amusement Islgreat effort required to kvup your thoughts upon matters that formerly were easily and wonk as you 1 as though you the moriing, which can only be dischurged aftep viofent coughing, and huwking and spitting? Do you occasfonally wake froma troubled sleep with & start wud Toel as i you had just es- caped a horrible ath by chokiug? )1.n.~ynu lost all interést in your calling or all_ambition 1o vou f ut whether tos you alive or dead? oubled with u discharge from the sometimes watery and exs mucus, thick sticking to uches, sometimes bloody and arl ys putrid and offensiver “The above are some of the nany symtoms of catarrh aud the hegining of lung troibles, Not in n hundred will have all of them, s affected will have s few or many of Th r I ur »,m‘)— ondition, “I'hls ry successfully by Tho many Casos her at filled with thuum N business or former and v 1l class of i Dr. McCoy or | i reported through the colums of the daily papers prove this, and each statement published 13 substantinfly the same a3 given by the patient cured. D oy and his associntes, use no_secret nostrums, but cure diseises by their skillful combination of the hest known ré- medcs, applied i1 Lo most approved munuer, and by using the latest and most highly recoms mended appliances known to the pro They thus produce results that speak for thems @ many patients cured, and we as- LEs that these eminent physicians liave nchioved i success in curing disciss w b few or no other doctors can duvlicate, DOCTOR J, CRESAP M'COY. Late of Bellevne Hospital, New York, Has Offices No. 310 and 811 RAMGE BUILDING, OMAHA, NEB. Where all curable cuses dre treated with suc- “Medical disenses treated skillfully, Consump- tlon, Bright s disease, Dyxpepat, Hitoumatisi, and all NERVOUS DISEASES, Alldiseasos pe- cullar to the sexes & speclalty. CATARRE RED, CONSULTATION at office or hy-mail 1. Many diseases are treated successfully by Dr. McCoy = through the mails, and {6 ° i3 thus possible for those unable to make the jour- tey to obtain successful bospital treatment at their bomes. .18 todp.m,; TLo8p, m, SUNDAY HOUKS FROM 9 A M. T0 1 P, Correspondente recelves prompt. attention, No letters auswered unless aocomponled by 4 cents lu stanps, "Address all insll to Dr. J. 0. McCay, Roomy §l0and 3l1Rawge bul lding, OmauaNeb,