Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 21, 1888, Page 4

i THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. —— TERME OF SURSCRIPTION. Pally (Morning Bdition) including Sunday Yeoar ror i Months ; th : Bimmian i e O, NOAG1EAND 018 FARNAN STnmme . STUAND . O Do Oy i, o0 14 AND 1 TRIBUSE BUiLping. WASHINGTON OFFicR, No. 613 FOURTEBNTH STREET. CORRESPONDENCR. leations relating to news and edi- 70?11:\';::'1’?;“5;«“1)4 be Mfih‘efl“!vd tothe EDITOR or e IR s verNpes LETTRRS. AT business letters and remittances shonld be addressed to Tie BER PURLISHING COMPANY, OMAHA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders to be made payable to the order of the company. The Be¢ Publishing Company. Proprictors E. ROSEWATER, Editor. gt v it THE DAILY BE! Bworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nobraska, } Y Dougls il Sl hecvimry ot The e, e craey E:{:}n m":“:l’ln of the Dally Bee for the week ending April 13, 1888, was as follows: Ba ,, April T E.-m |/AI:";"’“‘»’ eanonday, ADF 11 uraday, April idny, April 13,00 ) X . B, M. fworn to and subseribed in my presence this I, A. D, 1888, N, P, FELL, i day of Aprl, A. D, 188, NP EELL tote of Nebraska, B naty o Douglnss, | %8 Geo, B, Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, de- says that ho i8_secretary of The Hee biiehing company. that the actual average ily circulation of {ne Dally Bee for the mon of XPHL 1887, 14,316 coples: for May, WSt coplews fof, June, I, 1414 July, 1967, 14068 coplest 1657, 1161 coples: for_September, 587, 14,33; for ples; ' for December, 1887, 16,04 nunry, 1688 15206 coples; ru-rri,“‘mo. 16,992 coples: for March, 1:88, i GEO. B. TZSCHUOK. Eworn to before me and subscribed in my resence this 16th day of April, A. D. 1888, ima N. D ERIL, Notary Public. coples BRENNAN & Co. have been treated fairly by the council and they should ac- cept the tender of the balance due them without making any more bones about it. CIAUNCEY M. DEPEW will never get the vote of the Massachusetts delegates for president. He has mortally offended that state by referring to the Boston common as the park, S— IGNATIUS DONNELLY sprung his Bacon-Shakespeare theory on a London blue-stocking audience. The verdict was that the theory smacked “Chica- goan.” What do the British nobility know of the smack of Chicago unless they have tasted bacon? S TLOUISIANA went democratic. As only three shooting affairs took place in Now Orleans on election day, the people of the north have the assurance that it was the quietest eloction on record in that state. But the back woods have not yet sent in their full returns. I is in perfect accord with- the eter- nal fitness of things that the organ of the railrogues aud oil-room mercenaries should now proclaim itself the champion of organized labor in general, and the union bricklayers who refused to go to work for 5,50 for a nine hours’ day in particular, THE city clerk has taken another pleasure trip to Salt Lake, but he will coutinue to draw his salary all the same. The business of the city will not suffer, hewever. His three deputies have done nearly all the work in the office for the vast year and Mr. Southard has simply been a pensioner on the city treasury. —_— UNCLE SAM’S dynamite cruiser York- town is nearly completed, and with its four pueumatic guns for the hurling of dynamite projectiles, the ship will be the most destructive war engine afloat. ‘When Nelse Patrick’s great torpedo boat is yoked to the dynamite cruiser Uncle Sam will be in position to talk loud across the Atlanti ‘W are still kept in ‘the dark about that Central Labor union. We suspect, however, that it is another name for the federation of bilks and loafers who bleed candidates of all parties in this city Quring every campaign under pre- teuse that they can deliver to them the labor vote, and who usually get up a trades ticket made up for the highest Didder, ‘WuaEN Mr. Chamberlain got back to London after conferring upon the fish- ery question with Mr. Bayard to his own satisfaction, he was toasted and feasted by his admirers as the only man who could bring the Americans around. Now that the senate has refused to ratify the treaty Mr. Chamberlain’s social er gagements have been abruptly cutshort. S———— TroM $40,000,000 to $45,000,000 were invested by foreign capitalists in this country during the first four months of “ last year. From comparisons of the movements of gold and merchandise in international exchange so far the indi- cations show that foreigners are invest- ing just as freely in American securi- ties this year. Railroad bonds and atocks continue to be most in favor. But railroad wreckers have often played sorry tricks with foreign investors, It been a matter of surprise that for- n investment does not turn toward he purchase of American state and eity bonds, SE———— IN spite of the magnificent faeilities of the Brooklyn bridge Now York has found that it is too small to accommo- date tho increasing travel and traffic, To remedy this defvct a plun is on foot to enlarge the terminal approaches so as to prevent crowding and consequent delay at those points. Two proposi- tious to improve the New York termi- nus came up before the board of bridge trustecs, One of them was a plan in- volving an outlay of $6,000,000; the other called for an expenditure of only §750,000. The cheaper plan has been approved, although it would seem that the American motropolis ought te adopt the wore elaborate proposition, which would afford a permanent solution to the terminus difficulty. The adopted plan gives merely temporarvy relief. But it shows that reckless extravagance is 4 thing of the past in New York and economy has become the order of the day cven at the cost of public con- veniguce. Apologists For Trusts. 1t is remarkable that any one should urge as an objection to proposed legis- lation against trusts and similar com- binations that it might interfere with legitimate business and have the effect to cripple ingustrial activity in the country. Yet this argument is em- ployed by the apologists for these mon- opolistic combines. Their theory is that combination and co-operation on & large scale are among the character- istios of modorn industrial develop- ment, and are a cause and result of in- dustrial progresa. But granting this theory correct, there is nething in it to justify the creation of combinations the avowed purpose of which is to ereet a barrier against industrial progress, while arbitrarily fixing the price of every commodity they control. There is not a single economic prinei- ple, necessary to the activity and growth of business, that the trust is not at war with. It aims to destroy competition, the life of trade; it proposes to put a re- striction on production, which for the universal welfare should be free from all constraint or control; its plan is to despotieally determine the price of all articles which it ean control, with reference solely to its own aggrandize- ment. What the great sugar trust has done in the past six months, in exact- ing from the consumers of sugar several millions of dollars by advances on its product, although in the meantime its raw material has cheapened, is an example of what all such combinations intend to do when they shall have the power. It is absurd to pretend that legislation to destroy and prohibit the organization of these despotic monopo- lies may interfere with industrial ac- tivity and progress. It would rather contribute to that condition by permit- ting the industries of the country to de- velop under free competition, without which it cannot have natural and steady growth. The anti-trust legislation that has been proposed in congress may not be in all respects judicious. The statesman- ship of the gentlemen responSible for it is doubtless erude. But the principle that is behind it is sound, and if the representatives of the people can be induced to give the matter the attention it merits the way to wise remedial legislation on this subject will not be found difficult. It is imperatively needed for the common welfare if, as now seems almost certain, congress shall fail to remove the tariff supports on which the combinations rest. e——— The Oase of Mr. Phelps. ‘Whatever influence induced the presi- dent to think twice before appointing Minister Phelps chief justice of the su- preme court was well directed. Thé admiration of the president for the legal acquirements of Mr. Phelps may be well-founded, although these were brought under just criticism by some very glaring evrors in the papers he contributed to an English magazine ex- planatory of the American political sys- tem. The mistakes pointed out in these papers were unpardonable in view of the claims of M. Phelps, as implied in his papers, toaccurate knowledge of our politics, and the fact that if he had not relied wholly upon his impressions he could readily have ‘obtained correct in- formation. Furthermore these papers disclose sentiments regarding Ameri- can institutions not of a character to commend their author as a “suitable person to interprot the constitution of the nation’s highest judicial tribunal. But objections to Mr. Phelps of more consequence ave that he has been a cor- poration attorney in the pay of Jay Gould, and that all his predilections and interests have made him friendly to capital and corporate power. He isan aristocrat in feeling, association and sympathies. As minister to England he has not hesitated to let it be known that heapproved the tory policy toward Ireland, and his whole course there has boen that of toadyism to the aristoc- racy. JThe extradition convention he signed, and which the senate pigeon- holed, evidenced his desire to make the most liberal concessions to the ruling class in England. The simple transfer of c zenship would make Mr. Phelps more completely an Englishman than he has ever been an Ameris . Still another objection to him is his advanced age, though the president 1ssaid not to re- gard this as of any 1mportance. Mr. Cleveland has doubtless been warned that he would make a grave political blunder in appointing Mr. Phelps chief justice, It would almost certainly lose him tens of thousands of Irish votes just where he will mostneed them. Very likely this is the great objection to Mr. Phelps that has caused the president to take a second thought regarding his appointment, and if so it will probably prove fatal to the minis- ter’s ambition to oceupy the highest judicial position under the govern- wment. Cut It Short. The ecountry will be gratified if an arrangement shall be effected between the two parties in congress for putting a reasonable limit on the tariff debate. There is obviously no necessity for pro- longing the discussion six weeks or two months, Half a dozen speeches on each side by representative men would cer- tainly present the subject in all its as- pects and details, and every addition to the debate would simply be a useless waste of time. Such an arrangement would doubtless not be agreeable ta a number of gentlemen who for personal reasouns desire to air their views, or who may have convinced themselves that they have the only true solution of the problem, but it is not desirable that the country shall be wearied and vexed in order w gratify these gentlemen, If any of them do not have the opportunity to get thelr views printed in the Record, they can bhave them printed in pamphlet form for distribution among their con- stituents, whoare the only people which in any eveut would give them any at- tention. The party attitudes on this question ave evidently already fixed, and it is not likely any extent of discus- sion will change them. The proposal of the democrats to limit the debate is of course due to their de- sive Lo reach 4 vote ou the tarif bill be- THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: fore the meeting of their nati con- véntion. The ropublicans prefér that this shall not be done. We are unable to see, however, wherein there would be any advantage to one party or any dis- advantage to the other from a vote on this bill before the demoorats hold their convention. The politicians in congress underestimate the intelligence of the people when they assume that their de- vices are not fully understood and given their true value. If tariff legisiation is delayed by obstructive tactics and for partisan advantage the people will know who is to blame; if it is finally defeated the people will have no diffi- culty in fixing the responsibility. In any event a decision must be reached before November, and it is then the people will pass judgment on the result. What happens before the conventions is of minor importance. The only fear or reasonable excuse on the part of the republicans for wishing 1o delay a vote on the ponding bill would be their desire to perfect a bill of their own to present asa substitute. There is no authentic promise that they intend to do this. “Unless they have such a purpose, therefore, we be- lieve it will be wise policy for them to agree to a rveasonable limit to the debate. The business of the coun- try is in suspense regarding the out- come of proposed tariff legislation, the effect of which is damaging to all inter- ests. This and the continued strain upon the resources of the people from the absorptions of the treasury are ex- erting a depressing influence wupon the commercial affaivs of the country. It will be an unfortunate mistake for the party that captiously aggravates and prolongs this state of affairs, Sr—— A PROMINENT senator spent a whole day in cireulating a crazy quilt in the senate chamber for the signatures of his brother statesmen. And senatorial courtesy prompted every member to gign his name without the least attempt to obstruct the quilt in its passage. Yet the country is prejudiced in be- lieving that congressmen are wasting their time and are doing nothing for the comforts of the people. S—————— Other Lands Than Ours, The arrest of John Dillon is taken as evidence that the tory government of England is not discouraged at the result of its policy of coercion. Indeed this was avowed some time ago by Balfour, when he declared in parliament that the principle of coercion had been shown to be precisely suited to the con- dition of things in Ireland. Some ex- periences since then have shown that Balfour overestimated the mert of the policy in which he professed to have so much faith, but thesc have not served to induce any mitigation of the tory plan, as the arrest of Dillon shows. Per- haps the explanation of this stgbborn adherence to a policy which nearly the entire world condemns is to be found in present political expediency. The government cannot abandon its attitude toward Ive- land without yielding the only ground it has for retaining power. If the pub- lic opinion of England were made up in favor of a more conciliatory policy toward Ireland, and the grant in any measure of the Irish demands, it is cer- tain that the constituencies would not choose Lord Salisbury and his colleagues to carry out their desives. While Mr. Gladstoue lives he must be at the head of any government selected for this pur- pose. In case of his death, one of his present adherents would necessarily succeed to the task. However willing the members of the present ministry might be to hold office, eyen on the cou- dition of undoing, so far as possible; the work in which they have lately been engaged, it would be a mockery too manifest, both to England and Ireland, to intrustthem with such a work. There- fove, politically, the government has no choice; it must go on as it has begun. The British boast of fair play, but no Englishman will deny that if an Eng- lish government had treated any con- siderable purty of Kuglishmen as the present government has treated all Irishmen it would have provoked and justified a rebellion. English fair play, as it has been shown since Mr. lad- stone was put out of power, practically means that there is one rule for Eng- lishmen and and another for Irishmen, and the difference is justified by Eng- lishmen upon the ground of the ‘*‘cu: edness” of Irishwen. It is not to be ex- pected that sueh a practice, supported by such argument, will endear England to Ireland. Even the jocund Mr, Balfour must have his misgivings when he thinks of the ulti- wmate fruit of the seed he is sowing. He must at least be aware that the persecu- tion of leading Irishmen solely and avowedly because they ave leading Irishmen is not a settlement but an un- sottlement of the Irish question. It may help him and his colleagues to remain in office a few months longer than any other device they could adopt, but it will make the task of their successors far havder than if they had never been in office at all, x The increased anxiety of the past week regarding the health of Empevor Fred- erick, which there is every reason to be- lieve is vapidly failing, recalls a predic- tion made some time ago by one of the experts that the month of April would find the emperor passing through an- other great crisis of his malady. The prediction was founded on the probable course of the malady under ordi- nary cireumstances, and since then he has had extraordinary caves, sorrows and excitements to endure. The jour- uey from San Remo to Berlin and the assumption of the duties of the throne, with the special proclamations and dis- cussions of public affairs which became necessary, have been succeeded by a most trying controversy, involving not oply family matters, but the entive statecraft of the empire. Such an addi- tional burden might have worn out a well man; and the struggle for supre- macy seems to have been sufficient to prostrate even Prince Bismarck, who has had an invalid to contend with and popular favor on his side. The pre- diction of the surgeon went on to say that ghould the emperor survive the April peril, he would probably live through the summer; but, in view of the politieal anxieties that have boen added te a relentloss disease that grants no respite for recuperation, his pros- pects may woll seem gloomy. The con- dition of the emperor engrosses the en- tire pubtio attention, and the matrimo- nial question seems to have entirely lost interest. What the real status of that question is probably no one knows out- side of the royal circle in interest, bus it is improbable that the emoress, as re- ported, has given up the intention of marrying her dmughter to Alexander. ‘While the empgegr’s condition remains as it is, however, the subject of the marriage, whieh’ must have been a matter of great solicitude to him, will doubtless be kept in abey- ance. Russin is entitled to demand guarantees that the marviage shall not have any political significance, Such guarantees would be furnished if the marriage is attended with a formal re- nunciation on the part of the bride- groom of his Bulgarian claims and a formal disclaimer on the part of Gor- many of any intention of supporting them. The circumstances make it prob- able that negotiations are pending to obtain the acquiescence of Russia in the marriage, and that the maternal and grandmaternal ambitions of Queen Vie- toria may be gratified without en- dangering the peace of Burope or evok= ing the resignation of Bismarck, * s The election of Boulanger to the F'rench chamber of deputigs, by a ma- jority that removed all doubt as to his ‘popularity, and the possibilities that may follow, have supplied a text for world-wide discussion. The popular idol has said nothing to create distrust. Language of a reactionary or revolu- tionary character attributed to him he has denied. If he has any progeamme noone has yet correctly guessed it. But there is veason for distrust when a man like Boulanger, famed only for his military association, is taken wup by the people and advanced to position and power against the counsel and the efforts of tried and trustworthy political leaders. 1t is not the idol that is to blame, but the wor- shipers, who refuse to see the danger they may be inviting, In such a state of public confusion and doubt as now appears to prevail in France, men like Boulanger find their opportunity; or perhaps it would be fairer tosay that they who support Boulanger see their chance to improve their own fortunes and pay off old scores. The present ministry is not believed capable of maintaining itselt very long, and no one need be surprised if its retirement is the signal;igor the resignation of Carnot 'apd the elevation of Boulanger to the presi- dency. Some even fear that Boulanger meditates a coup d’etat like that by which Louis Napoleon exchanged hi presidency for thq imperial state, but it is hardly possible, not to say probable. France is morg _genuinely republican than she was in December, 1851, and we think no attempt to found an empire could be successful. The danger to France lies in her distrust of her public men. There is no one statesman who can command the: entire confidence of his own party, to.say nothing of antag- onistic factions, and no stability of gov- ernment can be assured until there can be some agreement, or, at least, recon- cilintion between the contending par- ties. If Boulanger can unite enough of the factions to makea majority, he may succeed in establishing himself firmly in the presidential chair; but if he is the mere puppet of a single party, his tenure of office, should he attain the presidency, would be most uncertain. * *x The gathering in of Pacific islands under British and German sovereignty still goes industriously on. The threc over which the Caroline has just raised the British flag might have been passed by as ‘“‘unconsidered trifles” not many years ago. But there are now no more New Guineas left to seize, and even available archipelagos like the Caro- lines and the Marshalls have become sear Accordingly the picking up of the Fanning, the Christmas, and the Penrhyn Islunds by the Caroline will be by no means disdained. The last named is rveally a small group, lying a little south of the equator, about half way between the Samoan and the Marquesas islands. They are well wooded and populous. Christmas, nourly due north of Penvyhn and just the other side of the equator, is a good-sized island, while Fanning is a little north- west of Christmas, The region in which these islands are. situated is one to which the United States might possibly have set up some claims had foreign an- nexations been our policy; and indeed, an American guano company is estab- lished on Christmas, which has a good harbor. But our government will not object to Great Britain’s taking posses- sion of these, especially as she i poorly supplied with foreign islands. * " Norway and Sweden have an organic provision for the severance of imperial from local affaivs, In Norway the in- stitutions are demqeratic; indeed, the present king wag engaged for many years in o constitutional conflict with the representatives of that country, and was finally defeated, Neither have the German states been swallowed up in an institution like the British parliament. The reichstag hag been formed for im- perial purposes, but the states have in many cases their geparate independent dynasties, and possess their local par- liaments for local purposes, History has also shown that a vigorous sense of nationality is entipgly compatible with effective organic| juunion, tempered by autonomy, The want of municipal, provineial and, generally, local life, en- tails many ills. It is the presence of some of these evils that has caused the submission of the proposed local gov- ernment bill for England, which, not only by the laws of precedence, but by the prinviples of justice, should be tho forerunner of a similar bill for long- suffering Ireland. e Count Herbert Bismarck is from all accounts & man of parts. Stranger things have happened in history than that he should yet succeed his father as German changellor, and if Prince Alexander of Battenberg and Princess Victoria should yet marry—as they SATURDAY, APRIL 21. 1888 prabably will eventually—~the Bismarok feud that began whon the present em- peror married . Vietoria of Eungland might go on extending into the marital inclinations of another generation or two of royalty, Feuds seem to know no extinction in the “bulldog’ blood of the Bismarcks, What splendid ma- terial for the novelist the present royal complieations in Prussia are affording. The historie novel is, to be sure, at present out of favor, but it is likely to suffer nomore than a temporary eelipse, VOICE OF THE BTATE} PRESS, Hon. W. J. Connell, of Omaha, 18 spoken of as a candidate for congress from this dis- trict. He would make a popular and strong candidate if nominated, says the Wahoo ‘Wasp. The Schuyler Herald says of H. O. Russell, now posing for re-election to the legisiature: ‘‘No man with the record that H. O. mado at the last session of the legislature is fit to rop- resent this county. He won't have another chance to play the double role the coming widfter,” E. K. Valentine wants to go to the Chicago convention from the Third district. It is suggested by a Dixon county paper that in- asmuch as “‘Val" gave his support to the very late Judge Crawford and tried to defeat Nor- ris, the ex-congressman’s ticket should read to “'St. Louis and roturn—good until after the democratic convention.’ The Wood River Gazette is ‘“pleased to note the unanimity manifosted by the press of the Second district in favor of Hon. N. V. Harlan, of York, tor congress. There are a few monopoly organs over there that will, as a matter of coubse, stand for Mr. Laird, but to a man at a distance it looks very much as if the Hastings bulldozer must go." The Wahoo Wasp believes that an early ro- publican state convention will be advanta- geous, It says: ‘‘Hold the state convention early, then take its platform as the central object of the campaign; thoroughly organize all over the state upon the principles theroin set forth; make a uniform and aggressive campaign and much of the factionalism and personal spite that have heretofore manifested themselves in the campaign will be done away with, and increased majorities will bo the result. The Wasp is in favor of holding the state convention not later than the md- dle of August.” The Beaver City Times, always a stalwart paper, says: *‘We notice in several of our exchanges that Hon. N. V. Harlan, of York, is looming up ominously as a candidate for cengress from this district. Mr. Harlan is a growing man and has a large acquaintance by his service in the past two legislatures. The time is not far distant when the people will be asked to make a choice as to who shall represent the district n the next con- gress. We believe Mr. Harlan to be morally and politically clean. This ought to and will give him strength with the people.” “Ten years ago.’ says the Franklin Guard, “Thomas Benton was appoint- ed to a clerkship in the state auditor's office. This position he held for six years, and for the past four years he has served as the faithful and intelligent deputy of Audi- tor Babeock. As his chief is about closing his sccond term and will not again ask a re- election, Mr. Benton’s friends will urge his claims for the place.” The republican party will perhaps aim to reward some republican whose services to the party entitle him to reward, and the clams of a boy who has only “‘been a good clerk for ten years” will hardly be considered. “We find,” says the Tecumsch Republican, “that there are very many voters in this part of the state who favor the renomination and re-election of Attorney General Leese to the position he now holds. Mr. Leese has made an excellent record, and one, too, which he as'well as the people can look to with pride. He is just now entering upon the investiga- tion of some railroad irregularities, which should have becn taken up by his predeces- sors, and which have been resolved upon by the republican party and should have been acted upoun ere this. In this great undertak- ing the people should stand by him while he fully investigates these matters for the bene- fit of every producer in the state.” The naturalist of the Lyons Mirror thus muses: “There are a few papers in Ne- braska—a very few—and a few contributors to these few papers—a very few—who are continually ridding themselves of some silly sncer av General Van Wyck. They appear 1o take delight n it, and as it don’t hurt Van Wyck in the least, it is reasonable to suppose that 1o gre harw is committed. We have often noticed the meanest, nastiest kind of pooales running headlong with skioned lip, burking, snarlig aud suapping at some big dog, us he went along about his business. The big dog didn’t care, the poodle’s bark was harmless, lookers on admired, inasense, the pluck of the little brute, but pitied his judgment: and in this conn ion the Mirror will again prophesy that General Van Wyck will be the popular choice of Nebraska voters for the United States senate.” The North Bend Flail has started in for a full valuation and a fair ment, and it will wage the warfare until the reform is ac- complished. It says that in “this we realhze that the warfs s against the rich and affluent, and it will be unpopular, but no great reform has ever had any very popular send-off. The laboring man and the farmer will be with us from the start, and if we can succeed in consolidating these forces the victory will soon be won, When it is real- ized that aman owning inall frow $100 to £500 will be assessed from §5 to §25, while the man Whose enorimous possessions reach to the quarter million can so cover that bis as- sessments ave about the same, it is enough to raise o howl against the present regime. We propose to make the fight bitter. When the Flail opeus its batteries something must fall It has already broken the back of the ele- vator monopoly of the state, and it 1s fresh for this still greater conflict.” — LABOR NOTES, K. of L. farmers, of Hubbard, Minn,, are to establish a co-operative flour mill The output of the 108 salmon cannerics on the Pacific coast last season was 907,000 Cises. A St. Charles, (Mo.,) firm is filling a con- tract for 800 caws for the Mexican National railway. urgers are shipping natural gas in inders to other cities for illumina- ting purposes. At Cleveland, Ta., miners are paid 75 cents per ton, drivers §2 per day, trappers 60 cents a day and wrack and timber men & per day. A bolt and nut company has been formed at Kaunsas City, Mo., with 8 capital stock of $200,000. New York and New England par- ties are the incorporators, Kentucky's whisky industry produces 80,000,000 & year @nd gives employment 1o 800,000 persous, Fifteeu million gallons are produced every year. Wourteen tailors of Minneapolis, Minn,, have struck to have a mewber of the union discharged by the fim because he bLad not paid dues and ussessments. The members of the Missouri Valloy Stone Contractors’ association will not employ union men. The association has wembers in Missouri, Kansas, Nebrasks and lowa. Detroit (Mich.) capitalists propose to pipe natural gas from the Findlay (0.) fielda—a distauge of 100 wiles—in a twelve-duch pipe, S ———— part of the way, and a twenty-two inch con- ductor near the Detroft termimus, The cost of laying the pipe will be about #2,000,000. The following are some of the new mills of Texas: Lime works at Fort Worth, two clothing factories at Galveston, flour-mills at Greenvillo and St. Jo, and canning factories at Jacksonville and Lockview, The Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners has 396 unions, 48,000 members and $1,250,000 in their treasuries, Secretary MeGuire, of Philadelphia, spoke in Pittaburg last week to 1,000 men. He I8 on his way to Denver, Col., and will make specches along the route. The mineral development in Great Britain during 1887 was 178,040,705 tons. Over 500,- 000 people were employed, nearly 5,500 of whom were women, and of the latter 100 were under sixteen years of age, Nearly 1,000 persons were killed during the yoar ‘while at work. It is claimed that the Dominion of Canada awarded the contract to build a bridge over the Frazer river, on the Canada Pacific, to Contractor Onderdonk at $1,500,000, who sub- let the work to afirm of Philadelphia for $400,000, which in turn let the job to another contractor for $100,000, who let it for $75,000, at which figure the bridge was built. ol -autl g The Wonder of the World. Philadelphia Record, Omaha expects to build a corn palace next fall that will be one of the wonders of the world. ——— The Grand Bounce, , Chicago Tribune, President Cleveland's fgvorite beverage is said to be cherry bounce, but the article he ladles out to republican officeholders is la- beled “grand bounce." ——— The Combination no Good, St. Louis Globe-Democrat, For president in 1888, Mr. Barnes of New York; for vice president, Mr. Potter of Texas. This is our one hundred and fiftioth and last ticket. We now turn the matter over to the Chicago convention, ————— An Example for Omaha. St. Louis Republiean. Not content with making a record as against Sunday schools, Recorder Dayenport to-day, after fining two women and a man of loose reputation $200 each, announced that hereafter all street-walkers, female saloon frequenters and the like would be given the heaviest penalties of the taw. If he keeps up this good work Kansas City will soon have the reputation of the most moral city in Awerica. —_— Only Too Glad to Catch On. Boston Advertiser. Mr. Depew announces in the New York papers that he is not a candidate for the pres- idency, but says of Mr. Blaine what others will apply to him, that no man will refuse the convention’s nomination. According to Mr. Depew, Mr. Blaine will accept. We do not think this possible, after the latter's state- ments. In that event, Mr. Depew’s declina- tion may be termed an adroit notice that he will be glad to accept. RS The Outlook in Oregon. Portland Oregonian. Oregon during the next months is going to witness the mosu spirited political campaign that has taken place in the state during many years. Party spirit is unusually high, al- ready. The democrats, being in power, fecl stout, are aggressive, and strongly disposed to press a siraight party issue; the republi- cans are animated to an unusual degree with the inspiration of the history and achieve- wents of their party, and are showing a dis- position to come up with uncommon alacrity to the contest. It will be more nearly a straight party fight than has been witnessed during @ long time. The pressure of the contest between the two parties will probably reduce the prohib ition vote much below the figures it reached two years ago. —_— Don’t. A. Wunner. Don't wear your hat on the side of your head. Doll't&!gfip at night with your feet out of Don’t )lmi;l_(l(l! bad cigars, for they make you oel il ; . Or domt smoke at ail, which is wuch better still. Don't jump with a parachute from a balloon- Dou't dress in the springtime as it it was une. Don’t bet on fist horses or go in for stocks, Or you'll certainly vun with a_crash on’ the rocks. Don’t be too anxious to make a great name. Don't pay fifty cents to sce a “ball” game. Don't tread on a 1oose brick after it rains, Or all up your trousers yowll have wuddy stains. Don't order clothes if you haven't the cash. Dou't be guilty of doing o thing that is rash. o SRR ETATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings: North Bend wants a new opera house. Jay Gould will visit Hastings in May. The republican club of Hastings is fifty strong. Nevins & Co., of Omaha, will pave Nebraska City. The Red Cloud strect railway track nears completion. Ex-Senator Van Schuyler the 28th. Weeping Water l\lnl)ml&ial academy Tramps are stealing every thing that is loose in Saline county. Church Howe has laid out a town near Hastings called Prosser. Bosseth, Brown county, is the latest town to bud into a spring boom, The recent school census gives Me- Cook o general population of 2,600, Tecumseh will have her elevator. iy burned, replaced by a larger on expecied that an adult row will be the result of the recent eity election at Talmage. York has secured another jobbing house, Trunks und valises will he the merchandise, Following in the wake of other Ne- braska towns Avapuhoe must enlurge her school house, While Fairmont lost 75,000 in the recent , all the buildings will be ve- built this spring. Billy Miles, of Weeping Water, who stole the hide of a cow got thirty days in the county jail. The Christian c¢hurch, of Indianola, has raised its debt of $1,155 and is now ' f incumbrance. Pickpockets are around the Fremont, I ouri depot at Fremont. Superior chuckles because the Santa Fe has let a contract for twelve miles of road between Concordia and that gity. Joseph Gilg who was killed by an un- loaded gun near Bellwood, lefta younger brother, the only relative he had in this country. The Auburn Pest is authority for say: ing Nemaha county furmers have their corn in. The soil is reported in exce lent condition. Absalom Rice, of Fairmont, fell from his wagon containing fifty bushels of oats, one wheel passing over his body. He will recover, Crete is hopeful and oxpects great things when v.%w Missouri Pacific is fin- ished inw that town, which will be within a few weeks. The Great Western Watch compuny, of Indianola, gupital stock 850,000, filed Wyck speaks at has secured the orted plentiful khorn & Miss- their articles of incorporation with th county clerk Thursdn;? Y A Peoru minister had a boy arrested and fined #1 for swearing, and all the rest of the boys went down to the river and swore all Sunday afternoon. DO Patrick Coleman, of Wayne ocounty, lost 2,200 bushels of corn by fira Thurs: day, causing a loss of nearly 81,500, in- clmilug barn, corn cribs, horse, ma- chinery, ete. A tramp was kicked off n rapidly moving freight train and rolled dowh an embankment fifty feet high, noar Wood River. He walked into town and was disappointed to find the train gone. The Crete Vidette says it is no un- common thing to see B. & M. freight cars going through Creto, decorated in crayon with tho words: *‘Scab linc; have your life insured before you travel via the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy.” Dakota. l’-‘(urnn is yet enjoying snow duifts. Sioux Falls gets the Norwegian Lutheran college. The Harney Peak company has com- menced to develop 1ts tin mines. Rapld City’s new business directory gives that town 5,000 inhabitants. ) Sundance puts in water works—tha fifth town in the hills enjoying such a luxury, L‘omplnintdil olfll‘ured that there is at resent a dearth of servant girls at eadwood. VR Prof. Blake assures the Hills people that their tin lodes are the most valva- ble of either their metals or their min- erals, ) The political cauldron bubbles fiercely in the southeastern part of the terri- tory—Sioux Falls claiming the delegate 1o congress. Bt Towa Items. 8 Moines will vote $40, { school bonds. R A five-year-old son of F. Lehman was drowned in the Floyd near Sioux City Thursday evening. The Des Moines County Boe Keepers' association will meet in the court houso at Burlington, April 24, Sioux City can not have a corn palace this year if the corn crop in Dakota and fDl'TD" counties, Nebraska, happens to ail, Over four hundred ocases have been docketed for the May term of the su- preme court, the largest number on record. The Towa Eclectic Medical college turned twelve young men out upon the world this week with M. D.’s attached to their names. Wearied of the long journey, north Des Moines citizens have hold & s meeting and demanded rapid transit of the street railways. Miss Thirza F. Hull,of Boone county, has been appointed a notary public, the first lady to be honored by any public office in that section. The sorghum industry, it is predicted, will become epidemic, since the legis- lature Fmssed alaw giving 2 cents o pound for all sugar manufactured 1 tho state from Towa products. The report of State Veterinarian Stalker shows that twenty-seven cases of glanders were discovered and thirty head of cattle at Grand Junction weroe afilicted by a peculiar skin eruption, due to a bad condition of blood. It is technically classified as actino mylosis. The Sioux City Journal says: “A gang is doing up peeple along the line of the Central, and as long as it can he worked successfully it is a very profit- able job for them. A person” rushes into a car just before a train starts and wants to get a $20 bill changed to buy his ticket, as the agent cannot chango it. There most always is some one who can do it, and the man wanting chango thrusts into the hand of his accommo- dating friend a bill all wrapped up which invariably turns out to bea $1 bill. Don’t change money for strangers along the Central until you see what you are getting in return.’ Oalifornia. Riverside voted no license and is now sorry of it. It is thou%ht that the Missouri Pacific railroad will soon extend to San Diego. The Santa Barbara rose fair is now in full blast with g large attendaunce of vis- itors. Six sleepers full of excursionists are daily leaving San Francisco by the east- bound trains. The gold excitement in Lower Cali- fornia continues, with none of the pre- cious metal yet in sight. Calusa furmers are croaking for rain, claiming they have had lessthan eleven inches of rainfall during the winter, s 0f Ontario, San Bernardino , Tuesday. by a vote of 128 to 55, :cided against the incorporation of the town. An_exhibition of California products is to be maintained at Chicago as an vertising medium, Cereals, pros fruit and green fruit in season will be displayed. Los Angeles is soon to have another cable street railroad. Tt is to he doubl making twenty-onc miles of s which will cost, when completed, over H1,500,000. 1t is proposed to employ 700 men in the construetion of the road and to continue the road unceasingly. A FRIGHTFUL SKIN DISEASE. Sufferings Intense, Head noarly row., Body covered with Sores, Curod by the Cuticura Remedies, Messrs. STEVENA & BRUNENR, Monroe, N, C, Dear Sirs,—About two months ago, on your recommen(dution, I hought @ hottle of CUTICURA BALVE, tnd ono a0y 50, g .« and 1 am g ur his head being near W except the gristle, anid his . 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