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

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. e TERMS OF SURSCRIPTION. Dafly Morning Bdition) including Sunday BER, One Year I o Bl Monthe . ‘or Three Months .. " ) e Omaha Sunday Bxm, madied to any , One Year. oos. OMANA OFFICE, NOS.. W Youk Ovrios, i Wasinxgros Orrice, No. CORRESPONDENCE. 68 eommunications relating to news and edi- o mmirer houid be Addressed 10 thie EDITOR OF THE BEE. BUSINESS LETTERS. 11 business letters and remittances should be itdreued to Tue Brp PupLisnixg COMpANy, OMAMA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders to ‘e made payable to the order of the company. e Bee Pablishing Company. Proprictons E. ROSEWATER, Editor. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Olroulation. llsh n! Ne(hmll,,.“ } a8 o , Goor 11, Trsehuck, secretary of The Dee Pub- Jishing company, do6s solemnly swear that the ll‘tu:fdmmon of the Dall for the week ending April Batur A 1 P Aprii i 110... Average.... £worn 10 and subscribed in 215t day of April, A, D., 1888, Btate of Nebraska, unty of Dongl "-'- 20, B, Taschilck, betng first duly sworn, de- and says that he is socretary of The' Hee mlhlmscmnpnn{ that the actunl average daily cirenlation of the Daily Bee for the month of April, 1887, was 14:818 copies: for May, 1857,; 14,227 co) els: for June, l'm AH.l(‘l ples; for Jily, 187, 14,08 coples; for ons for ber, 1867, X . 1867, 6,298 coples: 1867, 16,041 coples: \ ; for Marcl ooples. ooedpldsating GO, B, TASOHUOK. Ewom to beforo mo and subscrived in sy neo this pril, A. D. 1868, 7 R FRIL, Rotary Publtc. IN paving dnd sewerage Omaha will domore work this year than ever be- fore. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND did not ob- ject to Major Bash eating pie which cost him $7,000, but he sternly refused to have the government pay for it. For the council to extort $2,000 from citizens as a dog tax and then to repeal all dog ordinances, is nothing more nor less than obtaining money under false pretenses. EEme——— THE good work.of laying substantial sidewalks in the business district has been taken up in earnest. ~Let not & plank sidewalk on our main thorough- fairs remain. SAM JONES exhorted the inhabitants of Leadville to oust the gamblers. As aresult the gambling fraternity have turned their backs on that city and have taken their stand at Aspen. The great revivalist should now pay bis respegts to Denver. . ——— GRANTING the use of the council thamber for political conventions or any other kind of gatherings is a prac- tice which is likely to be abused. The city is not supposed to furnish desksand chairs and matting for promiscuous use, nor to pay for the light and janitor ser- vice to accommodate conventions. If political organizations want to meet let them hire a hall, E——— Toe Herald is right. If Omaha is to have a celebration next fall which shall be in keeping with her place and importance as a prominent’city of the west, our citizens must become imbued with the old-fashioned enthusiasm which once prevailed among us. The interest of one should be the interest of all. Better to drop the enterprise alto- gether than to contend with half-hearted support which is bound to make a fail- ure of the celebration and make of Omaha a laughing stock in the eyes of her rivals. ] I is expected of the fair association that it will immediately consider the project of building a Temple of Ceres. The question of the cost, location and raising of funds for such an exhibition 15 at present of socondary consideration. The first duty of the association is to call upon some competent person to outline a plan and programme for a spectacu= lar classical celebration, and architects should be invited to give their ideas of building a Greek tomple out of cereals. ‘With definite ideas of what such a car- nival should be, and with an estimate of its probable cost, the fair association will then be in position to say what it proposes to do in the case. e __________] CONTRARY to oxpectations, the peo- ple of Berlin treated Queen Victoria, on her arvival in the German capital, with groot respect antl aceorded her an en- thusiastic welcome. There was not the least demonstration of displeasure by the populace, the efforts of certain par- ties in advunce of the queen’s coming to incite a show of anti-English feeling having wholly failed, It must not be supposed from this, however, that there 8 no such feeling. On the contrary it is general, and has its fountain in so high a source as the erown prince, who, while he saluted his English grand- mother, perhaps mentally pronounced an apathema. But doubtless Victoria will ind nothing but good treatment while shie remains in Germany, for the German people have an adeguate sense of hospitality. C————— Tue comptroller general of Georgia gives in his last report that the amount of property upon which the negroes of that state paid taxes rose from 5,000,000 in 1879 to nearly $10,000,000 in 1887, "Phis shows an average increase of ten per cent & year., But from the same au- thority the property of the white peor le increased only five per cent a year uring the corresponding time, If this record of the comptroller general be an index of the substantial and material progress of the negroes in Georgia, it is ® most gratifying showing for the thriftiness of tho blacks, But there is the lurking suspicion that the paor negro’s hut was valued and taxed for all it would bear, while the rich white man’s plantation was assessed and taxed at sbout one-quarter of its market value, This probably explaine why the negro pays in Georgia 100 per cent more taxes in proportive to his wealth jban the white man, Does Protection Protect? In a speech recently delivered before the Nineteenth Century club, Mr. Thomas G. Bhearman considered the tariff in its relations to wages, and very conclusively pointed out the fallacy of the claim that the wages of American labor is sustained by the tariff. In countries having the highest tariffs— Russia, Spain, Italy and Mexico— the wages of labor is lower than in England, where labor is better paid than in any other country of Europe, The highest wages in the world, nex} to the United States, are found in New South Wales, under a system which has no tariff stimulants. But while a high tariff does not insure high wages, it also has no effect in equalizing the compensation of labor. There is no uniform rate of wages in this country, exocept with respect toa few industries the employes in which are in a position to dictate their pay. The difference between the average rates of wages in the same departments of businoss in different parts of the United States are greater than the dif- ferences between theaverage American wages and the average Eaglish wages in the same occupations. A reference to the lust census will supply the inves- tigator with some surprising facts show- ing the wide difference in the wages of like occupations in different sections of the country. It is not difficult to understand why this is so, but the explanation will be found in the operation of principles that have no relation whatever to the tariff. The testimony of all the facts and of every-day observation is that the poorest paid labor in this country is that which is employed in the factories, and the sit- uation grows steadily harder for this labor. At this time the immense estab- lishment of which Mr. Andrew Car- negie is the head is preparing to re- sume operations ata reduced price forall classes of the labor employed, and to fill the places of the men who were locked out with others which have no connection with labor organizations. There has been no reduction in the tariff protec- tion which this establishment receives, but this fact is of not the least value to the workingmen who have been thrown out of employment, nor will it be to those who will take their places at less pay. It is true that there is a higher aver- age of wages in the United States than in any other country, but the claim of the high tariff advocates that this is due to their policy is not tenable. The facts are clearly and overwhelmingly against it, and none more so than that which shows a steady decrease in the wages of the labor employed {u the protected in- dustries. There is no gatter concern- ing which the labor of the country re- quires to be intelligently informed of greater importance than that of the true relations of the tariff to wages. Se— Prodding the Lion, Opinions will differ as to the propri- ety of Mr. Chauncey Depew replying to the anti-home rule speech of Prof. Goldwin Smith at the St. George's day dinaer in New York, but it is certain to greatly strengthen his popularity with a voting element very much larger than those attending the dinner. If it be conceded that Prof. Smith transgressed in making a tory speech on this occasion, doubtless there is a fair defense for the reply of Mr. Depew. But as a loyal subject of Great Britain, talking to Englishmen many of whom are &till subjects of that kingdom, Prof. Smith might fairly claim the right to say what he did without having it called in question as a breach of pro- priety. It was the sort of thing best suited, perbaps, to please the ma- jority of his hearers, and that was what he went there for. It was an English- men’s dinner, given as much for the purpose of glorifying England as for anything else, and there could be noth- ing more natural than for Prof. Smith, who is loyal to the core, to use the oc- casion for stirring the pride and patriot- ism of his countrymen. It is doubtless just what Mr. Depew would do under like circumstances in London. But apart trom the question of pro- priety, no one will regret that Mr, Depew expressed his dissent from the views of Prof. Smith, and particularly that he did not allpw to go un- challenged the professor’s tion that there is an unfriendly sentiment in this country toward England, There certainly is here a very general and earuvost sentiment of unfricndliness toward the unjust and eruel policy of the tory government of England respecting Ireland, and nothing Prof. Smith or any other apologist for that policy may say will change that sentiment. No American citizen who believes in the political system of his own country could do otherwise than condemn the tory policy. But this fairly considered does not im- ply unfriendliness to England. It is rather the manifestation of a desire that the men at the head of the gov: ment of that country would see more wisely than they do, which justly in- terpreted implies a friendly concern for the welfare of England. The American people do not and cannot believe that the course of the English government is wise, or just, or in the end can fail to be polit- ically damaging, and they would be un- true to their mission if they omittea to declare their disapproval of that course and to exert their influence in behalf of an oppressed people. Unfriendliness does not exhibit itself in pointing out to others what is unwise, unjust and peril- ous in their cond Englishmen resident in the United States ave themselves largely responsi- ble for whatever anti-English sentiment exists among Americans, They have until recently, as a class, refused 10 be- come citizens of this country, enjoying all the advantages of citizenship, except the right to vote, while avoid- ing all its duties and respousi- bilities, In this respeet their conduct has been in bold con- trast to that of every other neople who have come here, and since the ouly explanation is to be found in an intense native pride which depreciates every- thing that is not English, it is but natwal that Americans should have felt a little resentment. Euglishmen are seeing thoir mistake in this matter asse and preparing to correct it. Mean while let it be ugderstood that toward England as a nation and toward the English people Americans are not un- friendly. They merely disapprove of policies that are unjust, cruel and per- nicious, and this they will contirfue to do regardless of what Prof. Smith and other apologists for those policies may think of their sentiments. Politics in the Navy Yards, Secretary Whitney has taken corh- mendable action in formally notifying the officials in charge of the govern- ment navy yards that politics is here- after to play no part in selecting em- ployes for these yards. The reform is a proper one to make, and has long been needed. For many years the navy yards have been utilized by the politicians where they ave loeated, and more or less by others, in rewarding pelitical ser- vices. When there was a navy yard at ‘Washington nearly every member of congress on the right side politically was represented there by a constituent, and it is hardly neeessary to say that the government did not get from these employes, with ‘‘inflooence” behind them, as faithful or as useful ser- vice as would have been vendered by men who secured employment on their merits, and who had no other backing than their industry, fidelity and skill. The same is true regarding the yards at Brooklyn and elsewhere to the extent that politicians have been allowed to supply their working force. Becretary Whitney says the law con- templates that no political considera- tions should influence the selection of workmen in the navy yards, and the fact that it has been disregarded in the past can constitute no justification for the future. If the law were entirely si- lent on this subject, says the secretary, it would necessarily be involved in an at- tempt to make the yardseffective. “The yards should be places where the pub- lic work can be done economicallyand well, and unless they are made so it is perfectly evident that they will not be entrusted with any large amount of public work.” /The fact of Secretary ‘Whitney announcing the reform at this time, when it might be sapposed the ad- ministration would be inclined to use all means at command, however appar- ently small, to strengthen itself, is per- haps the best possibleassurance that the reform is seriously and sincerely made and will be rigidly enforced, The mat- ter acquires its importance from the principle involved, which is one that -all good citizensamust commend. ———— THE American Protective Tariff Lea- gue is out with a pamphlet showing that for March, 1888, the United States im- ported woolen goods from Bradford, England, to the amount of $1,500,000, whereas last year the importation for March from the same place aggregatod only $1,000,000. The league thereupon accuses the American tariff reformers with displacing our home manufactu es and of destroying the home market for wool. But it is a curious anomoly, not often touched upon in a discussion of economics, that these self-same pam- pered industrial millionaires and their wives will wear no other clothes except English or German woolens, and that they themselves create the demand and make the market for foreign dress goods. For the American laborer and American farmer, American woolens are good enough for himself, wife and children. Henry Clay used to say it was the in- herent wickedness of man that made him prefer foreign goods to Kentucky jeans and homespuns. » And it appears that these eastern stylish protectionists possess a double dose of TuE figure which the prohibition vote will cut in the November election is as uncertain as it was in 1884, Much de- pends upon the actions of the national prohibition convention which meets at Indianapolis on May 80. There prom- ises o be a lively struggle for the pres- idential nomination iu that party. St John, in spite of his popularity, appears to have dropped out of the r . Clin- ton B. Fisk, of New Jersey, and Green Clay Smith, of Kentucky, however, are rival candidates and both are eager to fight for the honor. But the question is, can either of these men if nominated hold the party intact? A strong repub- lican nominee would certainly draw hundreds of old time republicans from the prohibition ranks. Threatened also with internal dissensions, it is doubtful whether the third party can exert as much political power as it did four years ago. TUE city of Milwaukee has tried its new ballot law at its recent election and has found it to work admirably. It was the first attempt of applying the princi- ple of ballot distribution by the state. The law under which the election was held provides that the voter should r ceive his ballot from sworn state e tion officers; that he select his ballot without interference; that he enter alone in the room where the ballot box is kept; that he deposit his ballot and pass out immediately by another door than at which he entered. The result of this system preveuted any trouble at the polls, although local politics were at fever heat. There was no peddling of tickets, no intimiaation, no knock downs and no broken heads. Taking heart at this practical test of reform in elections, New York, Massachusetts and other states will pluck up courage to perfeet their proposed ballot laws. [ ] JUDGE ZANE, of the United States district court of Utah, has just rendered a decision that railroads must not ob- struct free access to the aiternate sec- tions of government land along their lines. And if not enclosed cattle and sheep may graze on such government lands, Important as this decision may be to the people of Utah and the other territories, it comes too late to do Ne- brasksa any material good, as almost all government land has been taken up, There wus a time when the railroads of this state assumed a sovereign right as against settlers, not only over their own land grauts but over the govern- ment domain, and in the exercise of this power worked injury to the people. Judge Zane's decisiou, therefore, is of the greatest importance to the cattle in- terests of the west. e npuh!lcla of Pennsylvania and Massaghusetts sthod shoulder to shoul- dereyith those 'of Ohio in demand- ing a continuapce of the war tariff. Nothing glse ywas to have beep ex- pected from fi«nnsylwmin. but it was not unreasonable to hope that the re- publicans of i‘mchuum would be able to go at lepsy as far as the last na- tional platform, and recommend a cor- rection of the inequalities of the exist- ing tariff. These expressions in favor of the tariff as it is should not, however, discourage the hope of republicans who do vot agree with them that the re sentatives of thd party in national con- vention will be guided by wiser counsel. S——————— THE Fort Omaha bill is still pending inthe house, and suggestions for its amendment cannot be out of order. Why cannet Congressman MoShane urge the committee on military affairs, which has charge of the bill, to insert a provigo that the grounds and build- ings now known as Fort Omaha revert back to the state of Nebraska on condi- tion that a military school shall be es- tablished and maintained thereon by the state. That Fort Omaha is admir- ably adapted for a military college goes without saying. err——— THE Texas supreme court rules that a man who openly took a ten dollar bill {rom another man’s pocket and appro- priated it to his own use is not guilty of theft, because he used no false pretext to get possession of the money. This may not be sound law, but when a state has two or three million surpius in its treasury, no one expects her judges to be mean enough to make a fuss over a ten dollar bill. It isn’t Texas style, SSRE——— STATE AND TERITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Plattsmouth is to have a new hotel. The state press in a chorus cries for rain. Springfield complains of too many tramps. Broken Bow will organize an Enter- prise company. York’s hotol and opera house schemo will be consummated. John Kelley, aged seventy-nine, was baptized at York Sunday. Ex-Senator Van Wyck is to speak at the Valley County fair on October 4. The vepublican county econvention of York county will be held Tuesday, May 1. The Rock Island is twenty-one miles from Grant which makes the G rantites happy. During the land office contest Nio- brara and O’Neill don’t speak as they pass by. B The Custer Leader has changed hands—being purchased by Mrs. Har- riet Milter. Miss Sadie Shurman continues to ad- vertise in the Garfield County Gazette for a husband. “A citizen” informs Palmyra people that the park of that town is a park and not a cow pastures The Lincoln land company proposes to boom some towns this year—perhaps by wrecking others. It seems impossible to take up the slack in Brownville’s boom, although the citizens are trying hard. Nebraska City 18 already making ar- rangements to celebrate the completion the bridge sometime in July. It is predicted that Red Willow county will double her population within two years. McCook will then fight for the county seat. A special live stock train of twenty- one cars was loaded at Blue Springs Tuesday, for Chicago, the stock raised in Gage county. Dr. Gandy, now on trial at Pawnee City, objected to Judge Appleget’s de- cision. It is said the doctor made the gravest mistake of his life. Congressman Dorsey writes that the delay in getting the mail delivery in Fremont is due to the negligence of the city council of that place. The sixth annual fair of the Sarpy County agricultural society, will be held at Papillion, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, September 17 t0 20, 1888, The village trustees of Filley have made the saloon license $700 and billiard tables $25 each r such a small town, residen ¢ that high license al- most means prohibitios A couple of Sioux City toughs were ted at Covington recently and ed in the lock-up. During the night they broke out of confinement and went » Iowa side. Now the town mar- of Covington 15 offering a reward for their capture. Dixon county, in the northern part of the state, where the voleano was dis- covered, proposes to bore the artesian well without further delay. T sup- position of resident geologists is that natural gas will be found. he remains of Tom Pepper will doubtless be discov- ered. The Beatrice Democrat tells a story concerning the B. & M. to the effect that a tramp was on a freight train, snugly stowed away in a refrigerator car. In the wreck that followed the tramp left the train, swearing that it wus not safe to ride behind scabs any- way, Towa, Burlington’s rolling mill has been en- larged. Duvenport’s court house has had sixty tons of slate laid upon its roofs. Towa prognosticators make the west nervous by advisipg cautious people to look out for eyclones during the months of June and July. The farmers of K¢okuk county report seeding all done and some plowing for corn. The acreage of oats is large, but that of wheat is small, Towa City is happy because Armour opened a market there. The event was celebrated by blowing horns and wear- ing necklaces of bologna sausages. On the 81st of Ddeember, 1887, there were in Iowa 395 Grand Army posts, with a total membership of 17,746, This num- ber is expected to_be doubled this year, day is Arbodflay, and the indic: tions are that many trees will be planted throughotit the state, The school children have the matter in hand, and all who can will plant a tree, The papers of the state almost uni- versally l}ulumuce the last legislature as a farce. Some papers go so far as to say that the gathering pretending to be law- makers was a burlesque upon the state’s intelligence. The ferry boat at Burlington appears unable to pay its expenses, and the citi- zens have raised a subscription of $1,2 to carry it through. And now comes Davenport and proposes to do the same thing. The Des Moines and Dubugue papers e sparring with each other as to the best hotel accommodations of the respec- tive towns, while the weury traveler pays - his two and three dollars a day, and waits hopelessly for a rebate. The Sioux City Journal is the uas doubted authority for saying thatina ‘consignmafit of toes received from Whitdwood, D. T., there was a single potato that weighed three pounds. here are noextenuating circumstances presented. o strong right arm of the law is rnmxlug nu% nfgur doalers in liquor who sell at Keokuk. The attorney says there must be no mére of the ardent sold, and in proof of his position he cites the law upon the subjeet, which has no charms for the evil-doers. 1t is gotting mighty hard to tell the aifference in uniforms between police- men, railway postal officials, and the members of the Salvation army at dif- forent towns in the state. Up to the hour of going to press no policeman had been seen blowing a horn with hyster- ical accompaniments, An artesian_well has been sunk in Tipton to the depth of 2,010°feet, at a cost of nearly five thousand dollars. The Advertiser says that that is a large sum to put in a ‘‘dry hole,” but the city has made a contract to put the well down 600 feet deoper at an average cost of $4.95 per foot. The money is subseribed by the plucky eitizens of that town. The Iowa declamatory contest to be held in Cedar Rapids, May 18, promises to be well attended. Sixteen schools have already selected representatives, and more are to follow. The schools so far are: Marshalltown, Marengo, Springville, Dubuque, Anamosa, Mouti- cello, Manchester, Wyoming, Marion, Mason City, Clear Lake, Hampton, Webster City, Ackley and Eldora. Blughing sweet girl graduates will con- tend for the honors. Although a H\'ohibfl!on state, where not even spooks are allowed on the streets after 9 o'clock p. m., the wierd sights seen by some total abstainers are fearful. The Liberator, published at Orion, without any reservation says that a man in that village, while mak- ing an excavation, when some three feet down threw out a nest containing a fimy squirrel. The squirrel was frozen ard as o rock and it was curled up in a circle. It required considerable force to wrench the animal straight. After lying in the sun awhile the squirrel began to squirm. A cord was fastened to its neck and it was tied to a post. In an_hour it was as lively as it ever was and was tugging lustily at the cord to get away. Dakota. The improvement going on at pres- ent in Deadwood is quite marked. “Calamity Jane,” of Green river, giving her name as Mrs. Steers, recently had her so-called husband arrested for assault and lodged in jail. The North Dakota fair will be held at Bismarck some time in Su%t:mber. Among the attractions will a coal palace, & wheat palace and a corn palace. The fine building stone that has been found to lie in and around Buffalo Gap which attracted the attention of the Northwestern railroad officials some time ago will this year be placed in the eastern market. Charles Molloy, the young man who is confined in the Yankton county jail awaiting trial for tampering with the Umited States mail, is suffering with consumption, the disease being assisted in its course by his confinement. The Yankton Press and Dakotiay re- ports that the railroad between that city and Norfolk, on the Fremont, Elk- horn & Missouri Valley rail: , will be completed at an early dhy; that the route is being surveyed, and work will commence very soon. This will give a direct route from the Hills end of the tevritory to Yankton. By far the richest and handsomest ore known in Deadwood this year is from the Cora, consisting of lead car- bonates fairly alive with native silver. It represents a recent strike forty feet from the surface in an entirely new lo- cality. The seam is about twelve in- ches in thickness. The specimens re- ferred to will assay several thousand ounces to the ton. An Indian named Louis Frazier be- cause of a certain obliquity in his morals and aconsequent inability to distinguish between his own property and that of other people, which led the untamed son of the plains to corral too many horses to which he had notitle, got him-~ self into trouble with the white may’s law, and for the next three years he will study nature through the bars at Sioux Falls, . e PROMINENT PERSONS, Secyetary Endicott has n fondness for yel- low gloves. ator Hiscock, of New York, ant for polka dot neckties. Senator Ingalls always has a red kerchief peeping out of his vest pocket. Justice Lamar is not particular about‘his clothes, but 1s as fussy over his gown as any woman. George 1. McClellan, a son of the late General McClellan, is named as a yocent addition to the New York World’s editorial staff, Murs. Ashton Dilke says she always smokes a cigarette after dinner. This will remove the impressipn that she usually indulges in a short clay pipe after her midday meal, Postmster General Dickinson is extremely fond of the game of tenpins, In his house Detroit he has a handsome bowling alley, which he greatly misses in Washington, General Sheridan is busy on the proofs of his forthcoming book, says a dispatch. In the light of recent events he should be care- ful to perfect the proofs that he wrote the volume, ‘The widow of Chief Justice Waite is going to Cincinnati to live with her son, General Manager C. C. Waite, of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton railway. The Washing- ton house will be rented. Miss Mary Daly died a week ago at Asbury Park, N. J., aged 101 years. It is not be- lieved that there isa weman in the world who will dispute the claim made for Miss Daly that she was the oldest old maid in the United States, Henry Shaw, the venerable St. Louis phil- anthropist, who gave the Missouri Botanical garden and Tower Grove parlk to the public, has douated nine acresof ground near the park to Washington universary, for base ball and other athletic sports. Mr. A. Bronson Alcott was a vegetarian, aud often eriticised meat eaters harshly. To one of them he declared one day that the eater of mutton becomes a sheep, the eater of pork becomes a hog, ete. *And s it also true,” mterposed the other, “that caters of vegotables become small potatoes ! Ex-Seorctary of the Navy George M. Robeson has given to his law partner, J, E. Hayes, a mortgage covering his entire prop- Mr, Robeson lost money in au unlucky speculation 1n paper bags. Ho has also been indorsing notes for friends who have failed. Mr. Robeson acknowledges that he owes more money than he can pay just at present. Mr. Herbert Gladstone bears a striking physical resemblance to his illustrious father of years ago, and speaks with ‘‘the same seductive sweetness of accent, the same light, silvery tone, the same uafaltering eveuness aud smoothuess of pronunciation. Even in the matter of his speech tho son does o discredit to the sire.” The Duchess Dowager,0f M. on the English race cours: r. Manton," was recently sued for decling to pay 5,250 for 1,000 orchids, supplied for an entertaiu- has a trose, known ment she gave in honor of the Prince of Wales. The eourt made a small reduction and her Grace eventually paid for the orchids at the rate of §4.75 apicoe. There are many deeds and mortagos at Port Washington, Wis., bearing the signa- ture, “Leland Stanford, Notary Public. It whas in this town, forty years ago, that the future millionaire senator, then a poor young lawyer of twenty-two years, just married, laid the foundation of his fortune, and thero he remained until defeated for a county oftice, when, disucartened and disgusted, he set out for the west. The man who defeatod him is now a copyist in a Milwaukee law office. LABOR NOTES. Now York city granite cutters will work for 3.50 a day this year. Freight ednductors on the Grand Trunk railway are paid from $1.75 to £2.15 a day. The journoymen painters of Bordentown, N. J., bave been given an increase of from $1.75 to 82 a day. Fdison, the inventor, has sixty men at work in his labratory. They are preparing something that has first existed in his brain, Ata big mass meeting held at San Fran- cisco, Cal., women representing nearly all the trades in the city formed an organization. The plasterers’ union of New York city has decided that none of its members shall work for contractors who will not pay weekly, Over #15,000 worth of carriages and coaches were shipped to California during the month of February by the Milburn Manufacturing company. Carpenters ond Joiners’ union No. 22, of San Francisco, Cal., elaims to have raised the rate of wagos from $1.50 & day to 83 and $3.50 since its organization. The Foremen's association, composed of the foremen in nearly every kind of employ- ment in Pittsburg, has been organized for the purpose of opening reading rooms for working people. In northern Illinois, where the coal miners are organized, they make from 856 to $60 a month, while in the southern end, where the men are unorganized, the most of them aver-, age but $1 a day. The brick manufacturers of Pittsburg have signed the brickmakors' scale, which pro- vides that wages for the coming year shall be at the same rate as in 1887, exocept thav boys will be employed to sand the bricks. Hereafter the painters and paper hangers of Paterson, N. J., will work nine hours a day and eight on Saturday. These are the first to make the change. Other trades have given notice to the same offect, to bo en- forced on May 1. The Journeymen Bakers’ National Unfon, ‘which held its third annual convention in St. Louis last weok, bas a membeship of 8,183 bakers. It is represented by unions in Brook- lyn, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Cal., Detroit, Indianapolis, Pittsburg, Cleve- land, Newark, N. J., Buffalo, Columbus, O., Denver, Louisville and Cincinnati. It has already gained a reduction in the hours of labor and an increase of pay for its members, “‘Steel made-at last,” enthusiastically ex- claims the Birmingham (Ala.) Age. “Pro- claim it to the world and prepare for tho greatest boom ever known, for it means great things for Birmingham, for Alabama and for the south. Steel has been made from the lowest grade of pig-iron made at the Mary Pratv furnace. Itisno longer a matter of hope and uncertainty, it is a fact. A successful test has been made, steel has been produced and experts pronounce the quality firss-class.” TR TN THE MANUFACTURERS' BUREAU, Fruitful Results Promised if Proper Encouragement is Given. The new mahufacturers’ committee con- nected with the board of trade is made up of an enterprising and go-ahead number of gen- tlemen and their meetings are largely at- tonded. There wus a large turnout at the regular gathering “‘wrd‘{. afternoon, and several matters concerning the interests and welfare of the city were intelligently dis- cussed and movements put on foot for bring- ing them to realty. A number of manufac- turing enterprises contemplating locating in the city, references to which have béen mado in the Bex trom time to time, were talked up, and in reference to questions Chairman ason, of the committee, said that it was pro- posed to establish and maintain the bureau on a permancnt basis as one-of the principal objects of the board of trade, but that the re- sults to be attained will be dependent largely on the co-operation of the general public and the press. Probably no city in the United States possesses greater advautages, or can supply at a reasonable cost more advantageous sites for manufactories of all clasees, or has trackage facilities of greater convenience or importance which.is afforded by our rail- roads, but more especially the belt lines, While 1t is true that comparatively few responses have been received from the snb scription lists sent out for the maintenance of the bureau, those received indicate that with a suitable promulgation of the purposes a sufficient fund can be accumulated to war- rant the conclusion that the results of the efforts will prove of much value and the wis- dom of the establishment of the bureau and that its definite plans and purposes are nec- essary to its maintenance. It is somewhat difficult to explain as circumstances must to some extent control the bureau’s action, but all expenditures are to be controlled by the bureau and be approved by the board of directors of the board of trade. To some extent the judgment of the com- mittee must of course be accepted as correct, yet mistakes may occur, notwithstanding the purpose and intent will be to prevent waste and to procure only the establishment of industries that the location will sustain Over all the bureau’s acta, including expend- iture the board of directors are to have control and their approval be obtained. There should be not less than 2,000 sub- scribers at § per month to support the bureau, but a number sufficient to create an annual fund of $100,000 could be profitably and advantageously used. e THEY ARE NOT BOYCOTTED. The Bricklayers Have Not Refused Htorz & ller's Beer. The report gained some currency on the streets yesterday that the bricklayers of the city had boycotted Storz & Iler's beer be cause they wero employing some non-union men to build & boiler house for them. When Mr. Storz was asked by a Bre roporter for o fucts in regard to the alloged boycott, ho said ; S let the contract to Joe Delss the first of last February, before the strike begau, to build the walls for a new boiler xoom at our brewery. The contract only amounted to about 300, After the strike went on the union men came to me and asked me to take our contract from Deiss, 1 asked them to give us timefto fix] the mattor up with him and if possible get the contract b When I saw Deiss o refusod to give up the contract, but said he would see me again 1n a couple of days and give me u de finite answer. 1 did not see him again before 1 attended one of the bricklayers' moetin s andl in the presence of Mr. Frost, their chaur- man, T told the members of the meoting of our action, aud that I would get the contract for tho work from Deiss if T possibly could. Thoy all seemed perfectly satisfiod with what we had done, and Mr. Frost himself said that the members of the union were aware of the fact that we were iunocent partics in the matter, and that as our con- tract had been let before tho strike went on we were not to blame, This is the way our affairs were with the union, The building is being put up now and there are union men at waork o it, and as far as I can learn they are perfoctly friendly with us, and we know nothing of any boycott against our goods on the part of the union men.’ Mr. Storz left last evening for & summer's trip to Germany. Badly Cut in the Hoad. A boy by the name of Jacob Krautz was soverely imured about the Liead on Saunders street last night. Ho was mcunted on the back of @ horse, which was tripped by the tracks of the strect cars, throwing the oy heavily to the ground. -‘I'ne injured lad ‘was takeh to is home aud cared for. THE REPUBLICAN IV COURT, W. R, Vaughn Olaims They Owo Him 68,608.75. SAYS CADET TAYLOR IS A LIAR. The New Year Edition Defined—~Tho Necessity of a Sworn Statement of Circulation Dispensed With, The Republican Sued, W. R. Vaughn files a petition the first para. eraph of which states that the Omaha Reo- publican company owes him 88,502.75, to s oure payment of which a contract was mado by which “‘ali collections to be made on or before the 10th day of each month, or com- missions to be advanced if necessmy to W, R. Vaugh, 25 per cent commission for all new countr made for Omaha advertising made by said Vaughu with new customers.’ ‘That by virtue of this contract the plaiutift made Low contracs as per agreement for thoe month of January, Fobruary and March, 1888, to the amount of $4,000, for which he is ontitied to 25 per cont commission which is now due and of which “no part has been pai Plaintiff also claims an additional sum of #415.41 of commission upon the sum of $1,001.64 upon other contracts which was agreed to be paid as per contract in writin signed by C. H. Smith, president. *No par of this commission has been paid and is now due.” Plaintiff also alleges that an additional sum of $206.84 is due upon a contract made in January, 1888, signed C. H. Smith, presidont, in which it is recited that the Omaha Repub- lican have standing on their books the sum of $59,207 of which plaintiff is entitled to 25 per vent when same has been oollected, and £ not collected within sixty days the plaintiff shall be permitted to collect the same and shall receive for his services 50 per cent of the amouat in lieu of cammission. Plaintift has no knowledge or belief as to whether the said bills have been paid or not, but avers that no accounts have ever been turned over to him according to agreement, atthough ho has demanded them on several oceasions, “No part of said account has been paid and is now due.” Plaintift claims the further sum of $300, 15 per cent commission on $2,000 cohtracts delivered to defendants by old custor in- crease of Omaha business as pfbm by contract, ‘‘no part of which has been paid and is now due.” Plaintiff claims of defendant $1,500, 25 per cent commission on railroad advegtising ob- tained by plaintiff and not convemplatod as trade advertisements as per contract, ‘‘nd part of which is and w due.” o I i omplying Sonctop 40 penses n employing and time lost in going in St. &lfll A, 1887, :l‘\“lg;)n the false ropresar J:‘J.‘fla of Cadet or, munager o o company, a8 tothe business and ciroulation of the Omaha Republican, said false representition being that said had 8 circulation of 6,000 daily, when in truth it had not 2,000, and that said Taylor knew of this faot." Said trip was attended with great expense and 10ss of time on account of #aid mi re- sontation becoming known to the advertising fraternity of St. Louis. Rlaintiffs also claim $2,000 due for work done asa_book keeper making ontries and keeping office open for tlie Monday morning paper *no part of which has been paid and is now due. . THAT NEW YPAR EDITION. Plaintift also claims $1,500 damages for failure to comply with contracts by not get- ting out & readable ‘“boom™ edition in Jan- uary, 1888, it being blurred and blotted and the cuts so badly printed and executod that advertisers would not pay, thereby imjuring plaintif’s business with the advertising pub- lic. “No partof said amount has been paid and is now due.” laintiff also claims $52 by n?.”‘ of de- fendants failure to execute and print prop- y o s; di ? mu:lot«! for by he document ned myany grost errors and which subscribers refused to pay for on account of said bad work. Catarrh to Consumption, Catarh in its destructive force stands next ta and undoubtedly leads on to consumption. It i therefore singular that those afflicted with this teartul disease should not make it the object ot thelr lives to rid themselves of it. Deceptive remedies concocted by ignorant pretenders to medical knowledge have weakened the confl- dence of the great majority of sufferers in all advertfsed remedies. They become resigned to u lifeof misery ratlier than torture themselyes with doubtful palliatives. But this will never do. Outarrh must be met at every stage and combated with all our might. In many cases tho disense ks ussiiied dangor: ons symptoms. The bones and_cartilags of tho nose; the organs of hearing, of seeing and of tasting so affected as to be useless, the uvuly so elongated, the throat so inflamed ana irritatod W 10 produce a constant and distressing cough. 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It has enred hundreds ufter pliysicians have pronounced them incurable, skill of five physicians oould n curg o of Risdamatian which iad setd) 1R TEae Siees was.climost apos: a was alin " "hrnt o of A hloph &v. B, 1L T A@Eend G cents for ture, ** Mooris! THE ATHLOPHOROS CO. 112 Wall 1. N.Y. IDPHTHERIA, MEASLES, SCARLET FEVER, and other zymotic diseases lurk in the atmosphere and hoyer over every houss- hold at this season of the year when thorough ventilation 18 impractical on account of the severity of the weather, Frequent fumigation of apurtments with Seabury’s Hydronaph- thol Pastilles purifies the atmosphere, de- stroys disease germs, and thoroughly disinfects all earpets, bedding und drapery while impart- Pk delchtful romatio odbr Uhat i O - rious to sliver, bruss or other wmetals, Cellars, closets, atiics, &c., should be made healthy by burning therein eabury's Sulphur Candles, which are pure, cleanly and sa‘e. For the tollet, bath, layatory aud nursery, Sea= bury’s Hydronaphthol Soap should be used exclusively, ¥ Don't forget Benson's Plaster for aches and pains. .3 Proprietor Omaha Business Collegs, IN WHICH 18 TAUGHT Book - Keeping, Penmanship, Commereial Law, Shorthand, Teleyraphing and Typewriling. Bend far Lollage Journal, # E. Cor 16th and Oapitol Avenve.