Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 10, 1888, Page 4

4 THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Pafly Morning Edition) including BEE, Ono Y onr wersow or 8ix Months for Three Moyths. he Omahia Stinday BE dress, Ome Year. . e OMABA OFFicE, NOSIIIAND 016 FARNAM STR KEW Yok Orgick, Roous 14 Axn 16 T BUILDING, ASHINGTON OFFIC FOURTRENTH STRYET. CORRESPONDENCE. Al communications relating to news and edi- torial matter shonld be addressed to the EDITOR or THE BEE, BUSINESS LETTERS. All business lotters and remittances should bo nddressed to THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, OnAnA. Drafts, checks and postofice orders to Ve made payable to the order of the company. E. ROSEWATER, Editor. i ety THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska, fos County of Douginss, (% Goo. 11, Tzschitck, secretary of The Bee Pub- fishing company, does nnhnml*‘ swear that the netual cirenation of the Dafly Hea for the week ending April 6, 188, was as follows: paturday, March 31 Wisksnes unday, April 1. onday, April 2 aesday, April i Wednosday, April 4 Thursday, I\]\r(l b ¥riday, April 6.. Average.. mailed 1o any ad- GRO. B, T78 Eworn to and subscribed in my_presence this %th day of April, A. D, 1588, N. P. FEIL, Notary Public. Etate of Nebraska, bus County of Douglass, {8 Geor 11 Tzschiick, betng first duly sworn, de- oses and says that Lie 18 secretary of The Bee Fabitshing compuny, that e actual avernge daily circulation of the Daily e for the month of Match, 16T 1440 coplest for Aprll, 1887, 14416 cople: for May, 887, 14297 coples; for June, 1887, 14,147 copies for July, 1867, 14083 coples for Auwust, 187, 14,151 coples: for September, 1867, 14,49 . 1867, 15,220 cop} &: for October, 1887, 14,553; for November, for 'December, 1887, 16,041 copies; for Jomuary, 1P, 15,206 ‘copies; for February, 1868, 15,967 coples. GEO. B, TZSCHUCK. Erorn and subscribod to in’ iny presence tils 24 day of March, A. D. 1888, N. P, FEIL, Kotary Public. Tr is pitable to see how officials who have gone beyond their authority in appointing the Pinkerton special police are trying to hedge, TAKING it all in all, the fair grounds are hest located for the purpose and the fair association should be encouraged in rebuilding with first-class structures. “Tirr man on horseback” hasarrived. General Boulanger was elected to the chamber of deputies, and everybody in France is tightening up his sword belt to get ready for the fracas which is ‘bound to come. Ir the Omaha base ball nine will carry out the season in the league with as as good work as it displayed in the practice game with the Dubuques, the league pennant will be run upon the highest flag pole in the country. Toe Missouri river has played no such pranks in flooding the lowlands about Omaha this season as it is doing i the neighborhood of Sioux City. "[‘urhu‘.ont waters, it seems, become meek and humble when they flow by a respectable city. St. Louls hotel keepers are asking 84 a day for a medium sized room during the democratic convention. They are gomg to squeeze the dem- ocratic goose, and get even dur- ing convention week for every un- profitable season since they weunt into business. TiHe advocates of the adm Utah as a state who pledge their word that in such an event polygamy will be made a criminal offense under the laws of the state, have reccived a black eye. In the Morwwn eonference now in sion at Salt Lake City, Rndger Clawson and other dignitaries of the church, who were convieted of polygamy and served several years in the penitentiary, said: “‘We will not make a promise to abandon this (polygamy) any more than any other principle of our faith.” With the po- lygamy sentiment still a cornerstone in the church, the chances for statchood for Utah are slim indeed EiGirr years have elapsed since the taking of the tenth national census, and the full report of it1s not yet finished. Nevertheless preparations for taking the eleventh eensus arve crowding on its heel An avpropriation of £6,000,000 to pay the census cnumeration of 1890 is asked of congress. Mr. S. S. Cox, of New York, has charge of the bill, and ashe is thoroughly posted on the subject, it willnot belikely to miscarry. Whatis needed, however, is much more prompt- ness in getting at results. Twelve months ought to be suflicient for compil- ing and printing all the important and interesting facts which the country ex- peets to learn through the census. ——— v YORK politicians, it1s said, have a neat little scheme all cut and dried to capture the national republican conven- tion for Chauncey M. Depew is nominated he is to thank the conven- tion for the honor it hus conferred upon him, decline to aceept, and in a burst of eloguence Chauncey is to place Blaine's mame before the convention, The burst- Rg of such a bombshell will, iv is pre- cted, cause such an enthusiastic rush o Mr. Blaine that his unanimous nomi- nation will follow with a great hurrah. But suppose at the supreme moment Mr. Depew should change his mind, and in aneat and brillant speech accept the nomination. How would that kind of a bombshell strike the country? How would the party fare with a railvoad prosident as standard bearer —— THERE are many kinds and varieties of papers daily drifting into this office In name and style some of them are unique and curious. The Thomas Cet, from Thomas county, Kansas, growls each week; the Colonel, from Fort Worth, Tex., visits as vegularly, while the Weekly Thunderbolt, from San Fran- cisco, with a motto of *Anti-Boss, Anti- Monopoly and Aunti-Coolie,” crashes through the office, followed by the Pip of Peace, printed at Genoa, this state. It s suggested that when the Colouck hears a Thunderbolt over its head, the Phomas Cat will crawl upon the nearest wood shed and pour out his soul in un- earthly meows for his lost mate, and nothing but smoking the Pipe of Peace would give hiw peace of mind, A Clear Field. The political incidents of the past week are regarded by the New York Times as clearly indicating that “Presi- dent Cleveland’s name will go before the convention at St. Louis, on the 5th day of June, with scarcely a flutter of opposition to his nomination.” In the view of that paper he may alveady fairly be said to be the only democratic candi- date in the field. The political inci- dents which have thus reassured the Times are the action of the Oregon dem- ocrats in selecting unequivocal support- ers of Cleveland ns delegates to the national convention, and the action of the democratic state committee of New York in wholly disregarding the pre- tensions of Governor Hill, thus assuring & Cleveland dolegation from that state. The Hill boom shown by this action to have collapsed, and referring to the idont our New York contemporary “‘He bids fair to be nominated by acolamation and without opposition.” Undoubtedly this confidence is well founded, but there was just as much reason for. it before the occurrence of the political incidents veferred to. Cleveland’s renomination, if he wishes it, has for months past been as cer- tain as any political event could he, but not by reason of “‘his growing strength in his own party.” It has been and is certain because the democracy have no available man to substitute for him. Hill was a possibility until he proved himself to be a mere self-secking dema- gogue, and after him the democratic party, compelled to take its candidate from a northern state, had nota single man with enough availability to carry one state north of Mason and Dixon’s line. The brain of the democratic party is now in the south, and the time has not yet come for utilizing it for presidentinl purposes. It dominates most of the other departmentsof the government and is an influence 1n all of them, but democracy must get a further and firmer grip before that party will venture totake a presidential candidate from the south. Among northern dem- ocrats Mr. Cleveland is the only man the party can nominate without render- ing its cause absolutely hopeless. Never was there a party more utterly bankrupt for available leaders in a mnational con- test than is the democratic party at this time, and hence the renomina- tion of Cleveland will be unop- posed. But what if there were a Seymour or Tilden to contest for the nomination, or Thurman were twenty years younger ? The assumption that Cleveland has grown 1n strength with his party can- not be sustained on the facts. In so far as his course has given offense to the mugwumps he has pleased the radi element of his party, but it does not ap- pear that Vance and Beck, for example, are any better satisfied with him now than they were a year ago. while the list of disaffected has been enlarged by the additions of Gorman, McPherson, Randall, Senator-elect Barbour of Vir- ginia, and some others. These men can do little else than growl, but their growling is very positive evidence that the strength of Mr. Cleveland in his own party has not been growing. They, with thousands of other democrats, will accept his renomination as a necessity of the i uation, d they may support him for the suke of the party, but they will do so with no respeet for the candi- date. Mr. Cleveland owes the cer- tainty of his renomination to the fact that the democratic darty is bankrupt in available men. The cheerful expectancy of the Times in this matter suggests that our contem- porary takes no stock in the reports that Mr. Cleveland may decline to run for a sccond term, pursuant to his re- corded opinion that no man ought to be eligible to two terms in the presidency. Pgrhaps no newspaper has better oppor- tunities to know the disposition of the president than our New York contem- pora wnd since it intimates no con- tingency that might interfero with the realization of its hope we take it that it has full faith, substantially grounded, for believing that Mr. Clevelana will not decline to be again the standard bearer of the democrae; Nebraska Towns The spring opens with cheering ev .dences from the towns of Nebraska that the year is to bo one of improvement, progress and prosperity. The corre spondents of the BEE in all the growing towns of the state bear testimony to an active spirit of enterprise and an all- pervading confidence which ean be pro- ductive only of the most gratifying r sults, The disposition shown by the people of the cities and towns of Ne- braska is to fully improve their oppor- tunities and to regard the wise injunc- tion to ‘“‘make hay while the sun shines.” In a number of places more or oxtensive improvements are in contemplation, which will give employ- ment in the aggregate to a great deal of labor and distribute among the peo- ple a large amount of money. While the completion of these provements will in the conven- iences, comforts and attractions of these towns, making them more desirable as of residence and improving their ary condition, all interests will feel the good effects of the reasonable ex- penditures required for the improve- ments, The merchants of these towns and the neighboring farmers will find in an improved demand for what they have to sell a stimulus to greater en prise on their part. This wave of prog- 1 will pecessarily exwend to the trade centers of the state and beyond, ETving healthful 1ife to all departments of business and industry. There is overy reason why the people of Nebraska's cities and towns should feel an almost boundless confidence in their future and gauge their enterprise thereb; his state has butstarted upon the great career that is before it In the last eight years its population has doubled, and assuming it to be at this ime nine hundred thousaud, it is safe uy that ten years hence the popula- tion will have grown to two millions. This will mean for every favorab located and enterprising eity and town in the state an increase of considerably more than one hundred per cent at the close of the npext decade. Nebraska's less necessa THE advance is assured by almost every con- dition that contributes to progress. Her agricultural resources are great, and as yet are but partially developed, and in the raising of stock, the products of the dairy and other forms of husbandry, Nebraska is cettain to ocoupy and hold a front rank. Nor is the state without the reguirements for man- ufacturing enterprises, though less generously favored in this respect for manufacturing on an extensive scale. But when Nebraska shall have amillion of prosperous farmers, as in a not very long time she will have, her cities and towns will not suffer for the means of progress or a stable prosperity because they have not at hand the facilities for establishing great manufacturing in- dustries. 1t is gratifying to note the enterprise #nd the progressive tendencies of Ne- braska towns. They denote the right spirit, which needs only to be wisely directed to bo productive of the most beneficial results. Disarm the Bogus Policemen. The bogus policemen who have for several weeks been stationed at the Burlington depot grounds in this city should either be disarmed or made to leaye the city on short notice. Armed mercenaries recruited from among the thugs and roughs of large eastern cities under whatever pretext they may be imported are outlaws inall that the name implies. There isno law,national or state,which would countenance, much less permit the employment of armed non-residents by any individual or corporation under any pretext. Pinkerton police is sim- ply another name for the barbarian traflic in flesh and blood carried on dur- ing the middle ages by the robber barons of Burope, and later by proflgate tyrants who supplied cutthroats at so much per head toreinforce the British army in the American colonies. In a republic like ours the state is expected to protect the lives and property of its citizens, and when the state is unable to put down sedition and riot the armed forces of the nation must be invoked by the state executive. & The commissions which the Pinker- ton police have procured in this city from local authorities are not worth the paper they are written on. The sheriff has no right to deputise anybody whom he does not know to be qualified to act as sheriff. Nobody is qualified to be- come sheriff in this state unless he is a citizen of the state and elector in the county. The vpolice commission has no right to appoint Pinkerton’s men as special policemen. The charter expressly confers the power to appoint special policemen on the mayor and council. They and they only are to decide whether the emergency exists for appointing special policemen. The pretense “that the council could not act as promptly as the commission is all bosh. The commis- sion has the right to appoint the police- men on the regular force and it may dismiss them on charges supported by proper evidence. But the mayor alone can dismiss special policemen, and he can do so at his own discretion. It is manifestly the purpose of the charter that the council be consulted as to the necessity or propriety of ap- pointing special policemen and the mayor can dismiss them whenever in his opinion the emergency for their em- ployment has passed away. The Omaha Dogberry. Dr. Saville ventures into print once more with his s assertions about what he calls “the illegal appropriation of the school fund to build a city hall.” If the doctor does not know any more about medicine and surge than he does about law we sincerely pity his poor patients. In ase the old adage, “Cobbler, stick to thy last,” would commend itself most forcibly. According to the great Indian medicine man the whole proceeding on the part of the school board v unlawful. In support of this broad ns sertion the learned doctor cites the fol- lowing section of the law relating to schoois in cities of the first cla ction 23. “That in citics of the first class, in case the purchase of the school sites and erection of buildings shall require un ex- penditure ading 35,000 for any one calen- dar year, the question shall be submitted to votg of the clectors of the districtat the time and place of any city, county or state election.” Pointing to this provision the medical Dogberry declares: This question was never submitted to the qualificd voters of the school district of Omaha, If it is inferred that the submission of the plans and othier propositions submitted at that time covered the question of the school funds, it is an error, for the qualified voters of the municipality of Omaha are not the same as the qualified voters of the school district of Owmaha, In the latter the women, with certain qualifications, vote; in the former they are excluded. Oh, most learned doctor, thy name should be Daniel! Since when has the constitution of Nebraska been changed 50 ns to give women the right to vote on a bond proposition or on any other question for that matter? It is true the legislature has granted certain women of a certain age who pay taxes or have children in the public schools the right to vote for school office but even this privilege is in conflict with the consti- tutional provision defining the right of suffrage. Until article 3of the state constitution, which expressly limits the right of suffrage to male persons of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, who are citizens of the United States, or declared their intention to become citizens conformable to the laws of the United States— shall have been amended by a majority of the voters of Nebraska, women can- not legally be electors although they may vote at school ¢ loug us their right is not challenged in the courts. But suppose women had the right to vote at all elections what proof is there that women who tried to vote on the various propositions then sub- »d to the qualified electors of the ha school district were excluded from voting? As a matter of fact, sev- eral thousand men living in Omaha at that time did not vote at that election. Does that upset the result? Was not the election of November 8, 1883, at which the city hall propesition was'sub- witted both by the mayor and school ave stious so board regular and legal in every re- spect? It it was illegal.on the proposition to spend $25,000 on the city hall building because women did not voto, the school bonds issued in pursuance of authority voted at the same clection are also ille- gal. “Buy,” sags the horny-handed knight of the pill and quill, “this city hall was in no sense a school building, and permission to use a room in a build- ing for meectings of . the board does not justify an approp#iation.” On this point the the Omaha Dogberry to Richard S. Hall, who drew the contract between the city and school board, and to W. J. Connell, formerly city attorney, and now attorney of the board of edu- cation. Toa man with less law knowledge and more horse sense than the good doctor can boast of, it would seem that the board would have as much right to pay for the perpetual use of one story in ing for occupancy by the board of education as it has to pay rents for the rooms in Masonic hall. But if the board has no such right on upper Farnam street what right has it to contribute to a proposed city hall on Jefferson square which the great medical jurist favors. —_— Tne president of the United State: and Brazil steamship company, Mr. H. K. Thurber, has addressed an open letter to members of congress regarding compensation for ocean mail service to South America. Bills are now pending in congress providing for fair compen- sation for this service, and Mr. Thur- ber in his letter presents succinctly practical reasons why the policy con- templated in these bills should be adopted. He thinks there should be applied to the mail service to South America the same principle which gov- crns the postal service on land, that is, paying what the service is worth, with- out regard to the amount of postage earned on the route. This seems an eminently fair and reasonable proposition. It does not contemplate any subsidy, but simply that for a given service, to be regularly and faithfully performed by a steamship company, therc shall be a just compensation paid. There is certainly no good reason why the principle ap- plied to the postal service on land should not be applied to that service on the sea, and the fact that it isnotis clearly an unjust discrimination that ought not to be continued. We are un- changeably opposed to subsidies, but we believe it to be sound policy for the government to pay-a fair and even lib- eral compensation for the ocean mail service, particularly when done by American vessels. Itisa rather hu- miliating fact that while Brazil annu- ally pays the steamship line of which Mr. Thurber is president eighty-five thousand dollars for mail service, our government offered but about four thousand dollars, anid that the company having declined this niggardly sum has ing the mails for nothing, overnment having shown no dis- to deal fairly with the line. Such a fact is disreputable to a wealthy nation, abundantly able to pay the full value of all services per- formed in the interest of the people. An expeditious and efficient mail ser- vice to South America is important as an auxiliary to increased commercial relafions, which it is most desivable to cultivate. A more Liberal policy in this matter is manifestly necessary, and would be approved by the people so long as it is free from anything of the nature of a subsidy. The chance of so- curing such a policy from the present congress is, however, very small. Ber refers AT the opening of the present session Congressman Dorsey publicly pro- claimed himself in favor of revenue re- form. He had it published far and wide that he would vote in favor of reducing high protective war taxes, and favored arcpeal of the tariff on lumber, coal and other raw material which the peo- ple of this section, regardless of party, desire to have placed on the free list. Aud now, when the bill for taviff reduction is formulated, Mr. Dorsey is reported as a backslid He is said to be opposed to the bill reported by the ways and means committee in any shape, manner or form. What does Mr, Dor- mean by such a course? The Mills bill may be objectionable in some fea- tures, but it is open for amendment, If Mr. Dorsey was o sincere convert to tariff veform he would point out the ob- jectionable features and support the bill shorn of its defects, We hope Mr. Dorsey is not disposed to fol- low the practice of bogus anti- monopolists, who- profess to be in favor of railroad regulation before the election and when the legislature meets find fault with every bill that pro- poses to regulate railroads, and always vote with the monopoly members under protests Such men always havea ready excuse for playing false to their con- stituents, but very seldom can find an body credulous engugh to believe their WiILE congressis debating the ques- tion of repaying to thestatestho amount of the direct tux of 3B61, it is interesting to learn what somejof the states have done with the di ;-Hmli(m of the sur- plus of 1837, In Pennsylvania, Ken- y und Virginiaithere is not a penny left of the several millions that were di- vided among them. The money that was voted by the people of those states for the building of eanals, public roads and railroads seems to have heen swal- lowed up with very little to show for it. Curiously cnough the state of Ne York, which has the reputation of bad government, has now in its state treas- ury upwards of $1,000,000 of United States money on deposit from the 1837 surplus. Most of the other st not only lost the principal but a great deal move in ihe wild speculative. fever which followed the distribution, —— Strikes are in the Air. Chicago Mail. The other day all the ministers fc French cabinet took their dinver pails from the row of pegs behind the worksh, rolled down their sleeves, put on their coats, and informed Foreman Carnot that they would work uolouger ou the job, tes » door, THE STATE PRESS. The Boone County Argus indtlges in the followlng dissertation on that rarg old dish called “crow:"” ‘‘After Van Wyck was de- feated for the United States senate two years ago the victors said to the anti-monopolists, ‘You can come back into the party now, your sins will be forgiven, but you must come on probation. You can sit there and view the feast, and yell,and elap vour hands, and pound the floor, but you must do the work to pay for the room you occupy, Yeu must be punished for kicking against railroad corporations and monopolies. The gap in the party was healed on that basis, but a great many anti-monopolists cherished the idea that it had been healed on a plan that would allow them to get a share of the loaves and fishes till they attended the g. 0. p. pow wow held at Omaha a fow woeks ago. Their dreams were rudely disturbed by discovering that they were yet out on probation and that they must still occupy the reserved seats in the rear ranks and see the same old corporation tool, John Thurston, electod president of the republican clubs of Nebraska, and Brad Slaughter secretary. ‘This kind of love feast with the blackest kind of crow for the dish was too much for the Omaha Bre, and that able oxpounder of ropublican doctrine is greatly exeroised and protests in vigorous language. The end is not yet.” After working all day and remaining up all night to learn the result, only to find him- self badly scooped, the editor of the Sutton Advertiser throws himself away to the fol- lowing doubtful degree of — contentment: ‘“Elections don’t settle princinles or make things right or wrong. Elections are mere incidents in the lives of people and of towns, The pendulum of public opinion swings back and forth sometimes for many years ona great principle. It swings this year in Sut ton toward tue saloon, Temperance people have done their duty and will abide the re- sult. Whatever of evil is in the example of the public vote and whatever evil con- sequences may flow from the flowing bowl, the responsibility will rest on those who com- passed the result.” The Emerson Era stands up in the pulpit s its sentiments in the following + “John M. Thurston, political at- torney for the Union Pacific railway and briver of legislators, will be a candidate for United States senator next winter. He wanted to be elected last year, but his com- pany refused to render any assistance—it was the B. & M,’s turn to have a senator. Evidence is accumulating that both compa- nies will unite on Thurston and attempt to secure his election by the next legislatur rogardless of expense. If the people are a careless as they were in '86, and send such men as Bonesteol, Fuller, Baird, Slater and Wright, it will bo an easy matter for the companies to accomplish their purpose.” The Bancroft Journal, not forgetful of the actions of some members of the late legislature, asks the following pertinent question: “It is pretty generally believed that the Union Pacific railroad company will this year clect—or at least make a desperate effort to clect—a United States senator, in the person of its attorney, John M. Thurston, and that it will be aided by the B. & M., which, by the assistance of the Union Pacific, clected its scnator two years ago. Will the people of Nebraska again send such Judases as Fuller, Slater, Baird, Bonestell and Wright to the legislature to be bought up by the railroad companies?” The little white buttons worn by members of the republican league bear the mystic let- ters R. L. U. S. These initials have caused many interpretations. The Columbus Demo- crat insists that they mean “Railway Law- yers United Stand,” while the Boone County ‘Argus says they stand for **Railroad Leaguo of the United States.” Othcr aistricts aro expected to have in reports claiming that the letters signify “Railroad lawyers and Up- Starts.” In any event the badges are re- ceiving more attention than the leagucs. After reading a few of the numerous in- stances of the gross incompetency of the alleged engineers employed by the C., B. & Q.. the thought suggests itself to the South Sioux City Sun “that while Judge Dundy is in the injunction busin it were well, for the safety of the traveling public, to grant an injunction restraining the railroad com- pany from employing cornficld sailors to man their engines.” TLashed with monopoly scorpions for many moons, the Cedar County Nonpareil finds time to give expression to its sentiments by writin, “We grant that we are a mug- wump—we are that because we think more of men and principles than we do of this, that or any other party. We would not vote a mugwump ticket even, if it did not suit us. The Western Wave finds that Jim Laird’s shoes would not be safe in a hotel oftice. It say: om the way things look now it will be lively in this congressional district thjs fall, Already there are three or four can- didates who are anxious for a chance to slip into Jim Laird’s shoes and several counties yet to hear from.” The latest addition to York's vigorous boom is the Daily Times, one of neatest country dai ever printed in Nebraska, It is an offspring of the Weekly and its life promises to be fitled with years and use- fulness. The O'Neill Frontier lustily yells for re- publican clubs and white buttons, e ——— What Would Happen, Washington Critic. If Towa ere the United States, Scuator Allison would be president. - - Crush Them, Toledo Blad, ADbillis before New Yorlk tax thetrusts, Itis @ sham, do is to crush them, —— odest Lawyers, Boston Transcript, In some sections of the country the modest lawyers ave pulling down their shingles and putting up their shutters for fear that then names will be mentioned in connection with the chief justiceship. At such time as theso nobody is safe. — The Song They Sing. go Mail. What, dye soy, That "lection’s neart War tor the kife! Bet yer sweet lif Av' I'm on deck punch de opposition's snout, 0 'em up, an’ knock 'em out, Jump on dere neck ! Let "em go hang Theirselves! Yer bet there'll be some noise! I'm wid de boys. Will boodle Nuff 'l earn de stuff. De alderman as wan's 1o win Must have de tin An’ ante up! as well's this'ere bull pup Atween my knees As 1 walks Money talks! Ther aint no fleas On him nur me. Jest soy this, asa From Mike, de hecler, legzislature to The thing to Ter A rn Madmen Speak the Truth, ! York World, Mr. Flyon, an escal stock exchange, unby I 1 this manner: “Our { frame the constitu nothing left but the fram dave he revalution that woere al by their blood are forbidden. caught in uself in d to there's sacred rs stry and now on sougs of There is uo place for George Washington in Wall stroet. Botter put up a statue to Mammon or a bust of Jay Gould. Liverty and avarice will not mix, and gold stalks abroad in the land sceking who may devour it. The American engle {8 weak in the knoes and liberty totters on its throne, —————— STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings. The municipal spoils in St. Paul, Howard county, were equally divided between the labor and citizens’ tickets, The #25,600 in school bonds voted by the city of York have been sold at par, York’s paper and people are gilt edge. The blacksmith shop of M. Bighta, at Friend, was destroyed by fire Saturday night, causing a loss of $1,000, with $300 insurance. The report that A. Bum was elected mayor of Pawnee City was a mistakc. W. B, Bull is the name of the elect, and the telegraphic bull is cheerfully cor- rected, Omaha boasts of a night echool, the pupils of which *‘emb all nationali- ties.” The cosmopolitan character of the object lessons gives tone and vigor to the matrimonial boom. Ponca has organized a s with a capital of 25,000 and is negotiat- ing with a Chicago firm with a view to perforating the earth thereabouts in search of coal, diamonds, cte. The ton-year-old son of Mr. Gilmore, of Covington, dropped a lighted mateh in a flask of powder a few days ago. An explosion followed, ruining the boy's eyes and demolishing the furniture in the house. Sanford Holbert, of Cloud county, has a yearlivg mule with a passion for to- baceo. Second-hand quids are his weakness; with clear field and fair wind his muleship can paste a spittoon at fifteen paces. Holbert offers to back him against any squirt in Nebraska for money or hay. The lonely belle of Burmell, Garfield county, whose woes and wants, disposi- tion and accomplishments were de- seribed in these jottings, has met a sym- pathetic throb in the bosom of William " Harvey, of Creston, In. William insin- uates in his letter of acceptance that his life is dedicated to the glorious work of rvelieving the sufferings of the softer sex. He is ready, nay anxious, to “gob- bie up that_gal'of Garfield county” and make her his wife, if she will say the word. With the ardor of anew built love he declares, “Iam open to corve- spondence. If I get the prize I will send you a good box of cigars.” ock company Towa Ite A cheese factory is going up at Leon. A creamery is being built at Lake City. Some farmers near begun sewing oats. T'ort Dodge is to have a grain ele- vlutor with a capacity for 100,000 bush- els. Muscatine has a _mechanical genius who has constructed a handsome violin out of Iowa wood. Musicians call it a fine instrument. A Muscatine barber has been sen- tenced to the penitentiary, where he has been given the position of ton- sorial artist {o the inmates. One of the rules of the institution, however, is that he is forbidden convoersation with the occupants of his chair. This is hard. For refined eruelty lowa is still several laps ahead of the rest of creation. Muscatine have Colorado. Denver wants a new jail and criminal court. Government land in castern Colorado is almost cxhausted. Anti-railroad discrimination mect- ings arve being held throughout the state. Cheyenne Wells is the namc of the latest town with a boom platted over the entire county. Utah. The Salt Lake boom coutinues to ex- pand, and the probabilitics are that the temple where Brigham Young held his Mormon elders spell bound, will be turnedinto an emporium for the dissemi- nation of boom literature and recording deeds of all the acre property lying round about. Gentiles from Colorado which lics by Kansas, and {from Wyom- ing which lies by Colorado, and from Nebraska which lies east, are rushing into the territory of Utah to lie to the entire world and take from suckers shekels which they have gathered cls where. e PREPARING FOR OPEN BOARD. Steps Taken For It at the Board of Trade Meeting. President Tler faced nine members of the board of trade at the regular monthly meet- ing held last night. Secretary Nattinger read the minutes of the last meeting, during the reading of which a few additional stock- holders eame into the room. There being some doubts as to whether the revised by- laws were adopted in full atthe last meeting, the records were corrected s0 as to wake them appear that they were. The report of the directors’ meeting held April 5 was read. At that meeting the reslg- nation of C.S. Wal v member of the provision committce, adopted, and it was resolved after Junc 1to dispense with the 08 of tho commissioner of the cight bureau, as it was found that the mer- itile and commercial interests of the city wus not working in harmony with the 1%, Goodman, W. N. Nason, ¢in’ Davis, Thomas K. Tuttle, D. H for, William W. Bingham, ¢, 8. Chasc, Barker, John 1. Evans, William DT 1. H. Korthy, omas A. K Thomas and Otto Lobeck were appointed members of the uian ufacturers burcau W. N. Nuson, of the manufacturers com mitt i nothing to report inquired there was o charter existence for the construction a pontoon bridge between Omaha and Coun cil Biuffs, Anyoue who can furnish the de sired information should communicate with s, one of the committee appointed 3 1o confer with a Council I3lufls committec in reforence to ing a Chau tauqu assembly, reported that he would go over to*the Blufts in a fow days, A communication from the Rapid City, Dalc., board of trade asking for a contribu tion fo pay the expenses of a representative in Washington to e the passage of a bill for opening the® Sioux reservation, wi placed on file and referred to the secretar 10 ans The Peoria board of trade's communica- tion relative to bringing further railroad legislation before the inter-state commerco commission was roferred to the freight burcau; one from the New York produce exchange in reforence to adulterat ing food, was sent to the memorial comumit one'from Chicago, relating to the 1m ion of salt meats was turned over to one in reference Lo {agara ship canal was for he freight bureau al the secre- y instructed to notify each of Nebraska's scntatives in congress and the Oswego, board of tradc that the Omaba board of trade is in sympathy with the object, which is the construction of a canal from Duluth to New York, for the floating v read a proposition from the Irank Leslie's Tlustrated Weekly, in which they agree if 300 yearl: subscribers at $4 each come from Omaha they will print a page of illustrations and two columns of reading matter in their Eng high and Germaun editions 1w refercnce to the city The question occuring as to when trading in open board would commence, Mr. Wake fleld moved that the committecs on n and provisions take the watter in hand and advise the board s Lo favorable time to start . ‘The molion was carried. S, Tho Mightiest Kvent in the Theateical History of Omaha. Undoubtedly the largest and most brilliant audience that ever assembled within Boyd's opera house was there last night. The oc- casion of this nnprecedentod concourse was the first appearance of the groatost living American tragedian, Edwin Booth, supported by that “scholarly actor,” Lawrence Barrott, and a carefully gathered company. 1t was certainly the mightiost event in the theatrie cal history of the Gate City. Ttue, they havo both been here before, but this s the first time the citizens of Omaha over saw them going through the meads of Shakes. peare’s verse togother. Business, wherevor they have played, has been phenomenal, and if uny reliability is to bo placed on tho re. orts of various western and_eastorn papers, Mr. Barrett will build a castle at Cohasset! with a portion of his share of the engage ment's profits. The anxicty o see theso gon- tlemen play Brutus and Cassius was some thing really marvellous, and it is safo 10 say that had Boyd's opora houso been as Iargze again it would have been oqually well filled, for it is a recognized fact that the inability to secure the best scats kept hund reds away. Julins Civsar was tho pla the cast was as follows Brutus Cassius v Mare Anthony Julius Cavsar Decius Casca, Octavins Cosar Metellus Cimber Popilius Len Titinius. . Trebonius.,. . ¢ last "night, and Mr. Edwin Booth Mr. Lawronce Barrett Mr. Charles B. Hanford Mr, John A. Lane r. Charles Collins r. Bon G. Rog Ir, Lawrence Hanloy «oMr. L. J. Heuderson «.Mr, George Warner .. Mr. James Morris Mr. Frederic Vroom ...Mr. Edwin Royle Ir. Beaumont Smith My, Kendall Weston « Mr. Walter Thomas Mr. M. C. Stone Miss Agnes Ac Mr, Owen Iav Charles Koehler Portia Miss Minna K. Gale Calphu 1o Townsend So far as the limitations of the theater per mitted this grand masterpicce was presented in a manner worthy of the reputations of the distinguished artists who enacted” the prin- cipal roles. It should be borne in mind, how- ever, that this is a “passing show,” admir ably ‘equipped for a traveling theatrical com pan far as scenery, costumes and prop erties are concerned, but from which it would be unreasonable to expect that perfection in detail and splendor of scenic effect that one has a right to look for in these modern days at a theater where a great dramatic company is domiciled, In consequence, those who went to sce Julius Casar, expecting to be- hold, in addition to matchless acting, a series of imposing stage tableaux, came away with a faint feeling of disappointment. Thé great Barrett, and the greater Booth, were there, and the rendering of the differont parts was fully up to their expectation, but as a dra- matic representation there was not that pomp and magnificence that properly belongs tc and should environ ‘“‘the noblest Roman ox them all.,” The sketch of the master was there, biut the finished picture was left In the atelier, It is mnot the intention of the writer to be captious or hypocritical, but it canuot be denicd that the largest stages are absolutely essential for the proper production of those of Shakespearg's plays which rc.‘uirc largo scenic effects, For these reasons alone greater pleasure can be lookod forward to when the great artists appear in such plays as the “Merchant of Venice" and “‘Hamlet,” which depend far less on spec- tacular truthfulness for their effects. The mind will not be distructed from the artists and their incomparable acting by any incom- plete or incongruous extrinsic accessories. It can be said of Julius Cwmsar, as it was last night interpreted, is one of the few tragedies of which the adjective ‘‘sublime’ is alone de: ptive. No fuller extollation can be accorded the manner of the perform- ance than to assert that it was worthy of the word. The ‘‘Brutus’ of Mr. Booth and the “Cassius” of Mr. Barrett stand by them- selves, examples of aramatio art, for which there is at this day no comparison, hence it would be the hei of uudacity for the unpretentious pencil to even hint a criticism. A cursory descriptive mnotice, however, will not come amiss. 1f there be any who'wish to flounder in the depths of learned and wise critique, let them flounder. The great charm of Booth's Brutus is its ox- traordinary simplicity and gentlencss., Few characters have lived of such wonderful kindliness and goodness as Booth’s Brutus. To surpass it one must go to the sacred writings and study tho writings of Buddha and Christ. Blessed with all the human virtues, Brutus had but one weakness—pride of his noble birth, and the good state his ancestors kept in Rome. Booth shows us the perfoct prototype of Shakespeare’s ideal. The purc patriot suddenly awakened by Cassius to the thought that Cusar contem- plates tyranny, and aroused by the insinua tions of the cowardly old Casca to the belief that ho intended to grasp a crow broods over his country’s ills until he feels that to v his hand would be a dastardly crime His character is then revealed in all fts grandeur in the line in which he declares-his undiminished love for Cicsar and his greater love for Rome. Again, how great is Booth in the quarrel secue, and how in it Brutus' weaknesses are lost sight of, and the nds before us a patriot ndeed. Barrett's Cassius, too, 18 an adwmirable picce of work, aud is to be favorably com pured with Booth's Brutus, His weak point, however, a desire to poso, is still couspicu ously manifest. Yot be 18 a grand actor, and his ‘portal of the cl it as nepr lcss as it could be don wrles 13 1 Mare Anthony, i descrving of the fullest measure of The part is the most sympathetic ¢ and Hanford did not losc by comparison with tors who had the other roles. an ovation. John and Owen Faw Servius Flavius Lucius First Citiz Second Citizen 1 amounted Lo A. Lane was a good Cisay, cett, us the first citizen, gave life allty to the Rowan mob, Miss Gale's Portia was womanly and nice, and Miss Gabriclle Town seud’s Calphurnia'far above the average As was mentioned in the outsctof this ticle, the house was crowded to its utmost pacity, and of course Booth and Barrett received o most demonstrative outburst of applause when they came on, and after cvery The pluy was most impressi pro- duced, and the I rep ting the plaius of Puilippi, was very striking. SEEE BON OTHER DAYS, Some of to Light on On last Thursday, a force of men was put to work grading the lot on the south side of St Philomena’s cathedral, upon which it is intonded to ereet a new pastoral rosid During the excavating the workind upon a number of bones hicn dently those of human boing they had been buricd or whether they v those of white wmen o Indians, none may tell. y have been for years in their g plac s [ Wi sstablished — fact, because the first part of the present pastoral residence, about ity feet south of the cathedral, wes crectod about oncthird of & ¥ 0. Such a period would, of itself. cnublo tho most aspieing of wmortals, especially in view of the primitive mode of sepulture accorded human beings in those duys, to resolve them s into nothinguess. this respect the sased, 1 this instance at least, secm 1o have been particniarly successfu!, so much %0, indeed, that there i not the remotest pos of ideutification on the part of the of their aequaintances pastoral residen is intended to supplant th W lis long ye s u soue place tion of tho first part, which was of abode, Bishop O'Gormi erccied an additiou, und to this was_added a soction bullt under' the dircetion of Bishe O'Connor when he became vicar apostolie of t part of the count was abandonod several bishop, who is now li dence near the Suc Park Placo. Aty cupied by Fathers MoCarth roll, Mo Manus and Kelley, and will be dismantled when the new house is completed whicu will be within a couplo months. ‘Ihe cost of the proposed structure will be about $6,000, - eagle which measured five inclies and & half from tip to lled in Bremer county, and a , six feet ana seven inches, cd iu in Black Hawk county How long th conve tence is 0c A gray feet nin tip was b bald « was gathe recently. g Sioux City. school building to cost mtragted a 000, South