Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 30, 1888, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, gl iy TERMS OF RURRCRIPTION. inctding Sunday, BER, Ono Year i Months . i, One Year. i, s, No! N AM STRERT. glnumm. AsHINGTON Orriom, No. 613 FOURTEENTH BTREET. CORRESPONDENCR. aedl communications relating to news and edi- Pl matiek should be addressod to the BOITOR B OFTHE BER v orn 88 LETTERS. R Ul bnmn‘fman and remittances should be 6&«.«"« Te Bee PUBLISHING COMPANTY, IMA! Drafta, checks and post orders to payable Yo mads 10 the order of the company. * The Bee Publishing Company. Proprietors E. ROSEWATER, Editor. ~ THE DAILY BEE. Aworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska, e euaFcireutation of the DuT}y Tioe for thie week 858, was as follows: 21 L1850 1820 e 00 Sworn to and ummg?o‘n'nymfi:‘c’ffiiu 5 orn to and sul in my f April, A, D., 1888, . P. FELL #5th day of Ap: 1s, | NPFRUL Btate of Nebraska, de- Dee R circul 8 Daily Bee for the mont 11, 1887, was 14;816 coples: for May, l!!}'l.: i for i gopless dor June, T Litr 1647, 14,008, Copled for - ta: for Septentbor, 18T, 14340 copl &mr, . 14,38 copes: for I j copies: for December, 1887, 16,011 coples January, 1888, 15,206 coples: for Februar; 15,9 coples; for March, 1888, 19,68 copies. * 0&. B, 175(7"(](?](. and subscribed in my rfl, A. D, 1888, L, Notary Public. m"m anTene duy of AR5 N ——————————— OTHERE are altogether too many thugs and confidence men in the city, es- pecially about the depots. SOUTH OMAHA councilmen in order to raise funds to increase their salaries ‘have taxed everybody and everything ~—except themselves. eEm———— As it takes 412 votes to nominate the presidential candidate at Chicago, a great many dark horses are figuring where to get the odd 411. E——— WHEN Senator Ingalls makes his re- ply to the caustic speech of Dan Vor- hees he will literally pull up the tall sycamore of the Wabash roéots antl all. Sep—— ‘WHEN ex-Senator McDonald, of In- diana, gets through with Governor Gray, who is said to be Cleveland’s choice for vice president, the Gray boom will look decidedly blue. m— WHETHER the Omaha and Council Bluffs bridge is to be a railroad or a wagon bridge or a combination affair, it can not be denied that the work is ‘being rushed forward at a rapid pace. CEp—— MR. HENRY CABOT LODGE, the pop- ular Massachusetts congressman, is said to be quietly canvassing his chances for the vice-presidency. There is nothing againet Mr. Lodge, but Massachusetts is not a doubtful state A. D. 1888. S—— Ir it be true that the street railway company is trying to get out of paying for its share of the paving between the car tracks on South Thirteenth street, the council when sitting as a board of equalization can assess that corporation for its ratio of the expense. p—— THERE will be nothing but commend- ation for the action of General Joseph E. Johnston in applying to become a contributing member of the Grand Arwy of the Republic, and for the Phil- adelphia post which unanimously grant- ed the application. General Johuston was one of the forémost soldiers of the confederacy, and he has been since the war one of the most earnest advocates of pacification and good will between the sections, His joining the Grand Army attests the sincerity of all he has said, and sets an example which cannot fail to have good results. The Grand Army can honorably welcome the asso- ciation of such men BRAZIL'S new cabinet, which re sents the progressive element of Brazil- ian politics, is about to take prompt and definite action to liberate the slaves of that Gountry at a single stroke. Public sentiment is with the government on this issue. THe process of the gradual extinction of slavery now in force since 1885 is too slow to suit the spirit of the times. The law at peesent provides for the liberation of slaves over sixty years of age. By this humane act over 40,000 negroes have become free. It is almost certain that a general emancipation act will pass this year, and with it, slavery on the continent of America, oxcept in Cuba, will be a thing of the past. Sm— _ THERE isa vigorous revolt among the republicans of Virgima against the 1eadership of Gengral Malone, and un- less he voluntarily retives, which it is not at all likely he will do, the proba- bility is great of a bitter fight that can hardly fail to badly demoralize republi- canism in Virginia. The candidate who is most seriously affected by the revolt is Senator Sherman, who mistakenly committed his cause to the care of Mahone. The feeling has been that Virginia was likely to be promising fighting ground for the republicans in November, but in view of the existing state of affairs in the party theve that notion will have to be given up, EEeem—— TaEeelectric lighting business is about 1o fall into the capacious maw of a trust. At a recent meeting at Philadelphia, the Eleotrical Trust company formulated aplan to consolidate all the electric lighting companies in the United States. The electric lighting franchises of sev- eral of the large cities have already been absorbed by this new trust. It is therefore merely a question of a few months when the syndicate will control the business all over the country. Itis doubtful whether the public will be benefitted by the comsolidation. Ex- perience with trusts so far has been anything but satisfavtory. The chunces are that consumers will not ouly be obliged to pay & higher price but will be given poorer service. a Who are the Wreokers? The managers of the Burlington rail- road, through tieir pubsidized mouth- pieco, the Omaha Republican, charge the BER with encouraging train-wreek- ers, who are said to be picketed all along its lines, for the purpose of mur- der, rapine and vandalism. The corpo- ration organ goes so far, even,as to chargoe that the editor of this paper wants the assassing and vandals to have a chance and gloats over the corpse of every one of their victims. If this charge were maie over the names of any of the managoers of the road they would be promptly called to account in the oriminal courts. O But while they escape direct responsibility behind the screen of cowardly mercena-~ ries who prostitute journalism to the basest of ends, we do not propose to pass such an unwarranted attack in silence. It is a matter of common notoriety that for two months the people of this section have patiently submitted to the reckless exposure of their lives and property on the line of the Burlington railroad by reason of the frequent wrecking of trains by incompetent and overworked employes. Those who are compelled to travel over or ship their freights by the Burlington system have suffered costly and damaging de- lays. Quite apart from the iucidental risks the enormous losses entailed upon the company are purely a question be- tween the stockholders and their managers, but indirectly the public is interested in these losses because in the end they are expected to make themup by high tolls. Asa common carrier the Burlington railroad is expected, how- ever, to be operated for public con- venience, and 1ts patrons have a right to demand and enforce safety, prompt- ness and convenience in the carriage of their chattels and persouns. While it is true that uilike other newspapers in this section the BEE has refused to suppress the reports of the numberless wrecks and fatal accidents that have oceurred on the Burlington road within two months, it is not true in any sense that the BEr has encour- aged violence or destruction of prop- erty, unless, indeed, its vigorous pro- tests against the employment of Pinker- ton mercenaries may be so construed. On the contrary, we have been very chary in censure of the Burlington management, and up to this time have refrained from seriously discuss- ing the obligations of the road to put an end to the wholesale slaughter of em- ployes and travelers. But they have insolently thrown down the gauntlet, we pick it up, and dare them to a full and frank discussion. ‘Who was responsible for the Creston collision, when two mail cars were burned up and several persons were maimed by the wrecked trains? ‘Who was responsible for keeping con- ductors, engineers and brakemen on duty forty-eight hours? ‘Who was responsible for the killing of a switchman at Lincoln, three or four weeksago? Did the BEE ask Manager Holdrege to employ an ignorant brake- man to run a switch engine? Is the editor of the BEE respousible for the slaughter of five passengers at or near Alma by reason of defective roadways? Is the BEE responsible for the scores of collisions, break-downs and switching accidents that are occurring nearly every day all along the line of the road? Are not the managers of the Burling- ton road who recklessly jeopardize life and property, cause the destruction. of the mails, paralyze commerce and traf- fic, just to carry out their own sweet will and like petty tyrants show their great power, responsible for the appall- ing consequences of their course? — Pernicious Activity. There is abundant evidence that since Mr. Don M. Dickinson became postmas- ter general the political opportunities of that position have not been neglected. The attention of Mr. Dickinson has been ditected chiefly to his own state, Michigan, which the democrats cherish a hope of being able to carry next No- vember. Several circumstances have been noted which show that ti master general has been “pernic active” in the wolverine state to an ex tent thut dwarfs all the political efforts hitherto made by his cabinet associates. At the same time he has had an in other directions where the interests of the administration seemed to require attention. All this confirms the view that Mr. Dickinson was taken into the administration family to manage its political business, and he is performing the duty with energy. It appears, also, that Mr. Vilas has grown “‘perniciously active” in politics, and that the interior department has hecome a place of uncertain tenure for those who have republican antecedents. It is intimated that the secr 'y showing astrong desive to surround himself with personal friends, pre- sumably with reference to sQme boom which he may have m mind. It is glwiys iobe remembered of Mr. Vilas that personal vanity is one of hisstrong- est qualities, and nothing is more natu- ral than that he should desire to asso- ciate with him those who will guatify this weakness. As to his political activ- ity it is not a matter that need trouble anybody. It is not apparent that he has a very extended influence, and it is pretty safe to prediet that whatever he undertakes to do he will make a mess of. But the interesting question is, does Mr. Cleveland know of the pernicious activity of the cabinet officials, and if 80 does he approve of it Isthe country to understand thatuntil after November there is asuspension of the presidential decree whieh required men in public office to vefrain frow active participation in politics? m——— Protected and Unprotected, The ways and means comumittee will call upon the secretury of the treasury for information regarding the number of persons engaged in gainful occupn- tions, the products of whose labor may be subject to competition from foreign products of like kind, the number wholly free from foreign competition, aud the number occupied in production for export. Such facts, though it may not be possible at this time to obtain them with abselute accuracy,are just now especially desirable in order that the people may know what properbion of their number is pr scted by the high tariff and how mar, got no pro- tection whatever. Thero is a great deal of loose stalement and as- sumption regarding this watter which needs to be corrected, and nothing short of official figures will do this. According to the census of 1880 there were employed in all kinds of manufac- toring industries 2,788,050 persons, and the average number at thistime is prob- ably aboyt three million. DBut doubt- less not to exceed one-half of these are employed in industries whose' products are subject to competition, and who are therefore to be regarded asderiving some protection from the tariff, the other million five hundred thousand getting no protection for the reason that the products of their labor have no foreign competition, or if any it is so small as to be of no con- sequence. The number of people occu- pied in production for export is perhaps nine million, the very large majority farmers, and to these must be added those in the professions, n trade and transportation, and otherwise employed, none of whom are directly protected by the high tariff, but all of whom must pay tribute to the few who are. We have no doubt it is a liberal estimate to place the number of persons whose labors can fairly be said to be protected by the tariff at two million, and the pro- tection which these obtain, when meas- ured in results by the returns of labor in the unprotected employments, will not afford a very striking argument in behalf of the tariff as the defense and bulbark of labor. It may safely be expected that the treasury statistics will effectually dispose of the evidently false assumptions of the opponents of tariff rovision and national tax reduction. S—— THOSE two hundred dollar Chicago, Burlington & Quincy display cards which have recently adorned the front page of the Omaha Republican have produced a most lamentable effect upon the wretched mercenaries who turn the crank on that monopoly organ. Like those pagan idols that have eyes and do not see and ears and do not hear, these monopoly paralytics are unable to hear or see anything except through the Burlington ear-trumpet and telescope. They deliberately ignore what is most notorious in this section of the country, namely: the utter demoralization of the Burlington system since the engineers’ strike, and beraté the BEE for publish- ing the reports of wrecks and accidents that are pouring in upon us almost daily from the maiu line and branches. — THE prediction that between eight and twelve thousand miles of railroad tracks will be laid this year ought to make the Bessemer monopolists ex- tremely happy. Thbey are protected from foreign competition by a duty of 817 a ton. Having fixed upon $31 a ton for rails and 245 for building beams as the minimum price for the en- suing year, the Bessemer combination is assured of a margin of profit any- where between 810 and $20 a ton. As the duty of 817 a ton is said to be for the protection of American workmen, it would be interesting to learn just how much the striking workmen, who were shot down by the Pinkerton mercena- ries at Carnegie’s steel works,are bene- fitted by the enormous profits of the Bessemer monopol, THE state conventions of both parties* thus far held, have been characterized by an interest and enthusiasm which promise an exceptionally active and vigorous presidential campaign. The republicans everywhere manifest quite as much spirit and confidence as their opponents, and are preparing by thor- ough organization to go into the national battle with all the earnestness and vigor of the past. The national league reports 2, membership of over half a million, and new clubs are being formed in most of the states. It is already assurcd that the convention at Chicago will be one of the greatest in the history of the party, and altogether the republican situation presents no feature that can be regarded otherwise amended alien bill, permitting foreigners to acquire mineral lands in the territories, a Jarge amount of foreign capital seeking ven- turesome investment will turn in that divection. Mining speculation has al- ways been a tempting field for venture- some foreign investors. The immense coal, mineral and petroloum beds of Wyoming and the other territories need only an impetus to be fully de- veloped. — VOICE OF THE PRESS. The Republican says that Hon. J. T. He- drick, of Tecumseh, is prominently men- tioned with the office of state treazurcr of Nebfaska, The Sterling Sun states that Hon. J. 8. Dew, of Tecumseh, would accept the republi- can nomination for state lana commissioner, if tendered him on a silver platter. “Mr. Van Wyck met Crane at Burwell the other day, and when thg ex-sendto? fot through with the unclean bird its feathers were drooping,” says the Scotia Herald, The Madison Republican says: ‘‘Valen- tine, the West Point statesman, has a longin’ for the Chicago conyention, He ought to be sent as a reward for his support of Jim Craw- ford." “Thomas Darnell,” says the Custer County Leader. *‘was in the city the first of the week looking after some political fences he is sald to own in this county. Tom wauts to go to congress 0 bad he can taste it.” ‘The Schuyler Sun say “General J. C. Cowin, of Omaha, is mentioned as an avail- able candidate for congress this fall frcin the First district. 1f you waut a man of ability, an honest man, and a man who can down McShane aud his ‘barrel,’ Cowin can doit.” “Some of the better people of Omaha," says the Beaver City Tiumes, “‘are tryiug to organize a fight on the ‘wine room.’ It will take along, hard fight 1o overthrow this in- iquity, but it ought to be done. The wine room is the hatchery for every abowination imaginable.” In casting about for a preferable candidate for congress from the big First, the Tecum- seh Republican draws this conelusion: *With referonce to the coming man for congros sional honors from the ‘big First,’ we are of the opinion that Connell, of Omaha, will take the plum: Mr. Cohnell was a prominent can- didate two yoars ago, aud received a good support, and had he received the nowination DAILY BEE: MONDAY, he wouid haye bean elected over MoShane.” Hon, N. V. Harfan, speaker of the last house of the state lefislature, says the Fre- mont Tribune, “‘is Yoing pushed forward as a candidate tor congréss in the second district. Mr. Harlan is recofhized as a good lawyer, a man of strong and eonservative convictions and sound on the Faflrond and transportation goose. He would be an honor to $he people of the socond district should they decide to honor him.” “The wreckers of the Burlington seem to be still in control of that great corporation,’ says the Plattsmouath Journal, “‘and are ap- parently as determined to ruin that company as ever, notwithstanding their sad experienco of the past eight weeks. Possibly when the stockholders meet noxt month they may bring them to their senses. The fact is, however, that the road is doing only about one-third of its former through business.” The North Platte Telegraph indulges in this bit of sarcasm: ‘Some of the republi- can papers in this locality are booming Reilley, of Sidney, as a delogate to the na- tional convention. Although, perhaps, it may be not our business, that individual would rattle around like a pea in a meal bag ‘when he would rub up against the greatness contained in the personages of Willey Walley Phelps, Steve Dorsey and other statesmen of similar calibre. Better sclect some one with a greater reach to him." The York Times refers to what it terms an evil in this manner: ‘It scems that it would be only just to relicve real estate from taxa- tion to the amountof encumbrance upon it. A mortgage is an interest in the real estate, and this interest is owned by the mortgagee, and of course can not be held by the mortgagor. 1t is plain, therefore, that the man who holds the deea to real estate only owns what there i8 1n it in excess of the mortgage claim, and this is all that should be assessed to him."” The Sutton Register makes this prophecy ““The name of General L, W. Colby is men- tioned as a candidate for cgngress in the First district. If Colby is nominated John McShane will not have to spend as much money as he did two years ago to secure his election. It will take an Omaha man who can carry the party strength in Douglas county to defeat John A. McShane with all his wealth and family influence to aid him. Connell or Cowin can do it, but Colby would be beat worse than Church Howe was two years ago.” The Beatrice Republican makes this state- ment: “It is now conceded that the republi- cans of the First district must take their eandidate for congress from Omaha. The Hon. W. J. Connell seems to be the most available candidate at present, and it is be- lieved that the Omaha delogates will be solid for him. If so, his nomination is a fore- gone conclusion. His success in the canvass will depend upon his ability to cope with Me- Shane's ‘barrel.’ Mr. Connell is aman with a clean record and a pleasant address, and would make a strong candidate.” The Ulysses ."ispatch serves this notico to the republicans of , Butler county: ‘Jim Laird’s central committcemen have called the second district congressional convention for May 14, thinkitg, no doubt, by this un- heard of carly day to take advantage of the farmers' busy season and capture anothor nomination. The Dispatch will have more to say on this matter next week, and in the meantime republicans can make up their minds that no stone will be left unturned to again capture Butder county for Jim Laird. Republicans have submitted to three terms of Lairdism which is about enough. Give us a change." The Crete VidetteTooks over the situation in Omaha and concludes: ‘*‘The political mountebanks who bave hung around the Omaha Republican office since the pristine days of ‘Dick Adams, Yost, Curry & Co.,” all are like a horde of mosquitoes infesting a flickering glim. They always want ‘blood,’ but usually get ‘scorched.’ They lose no op- portunity of running their poisonous proboscis into the supposed tenderspots of oneE. Rose- water. Their last effort was in nursing a set of resolutions, denouncing him for employing non-union men upon the new BEE building Mr. Rosewater gives a caustio and scathing answer and denial to their statoments and’ leaves the whole gang, like a flock of fright- ened ostriches, floundering, as totheir heads, in the sand, and their nether parts rudely ex- posed to the cold, contemptuous look of a frowning world.” As to its preference for the presidential candidate, the North Bend Flail remarks: “Give us Judge Gresham for our candidate and we can sweep the country as never™was known since Grant. Walter Q. Gresham is the Flail's idea of aman. As a soldier he never quailed before tho bullets of his ad- versaries, as a member of the cabinet he was n, cautions and consistent, as a judge he is incorruptible and impregnable, and as a president he would be the noblest of the line. Walter Q. Gresham could marshall the hosts of the west into a solid phalanx in his sup- port. Outhere we are weary of the ag- grandizements of corporate greed. We sick of railroad aggressions, discrithinations and robber and we want a man at the head of this government who is known to sym- pathize with us. ve us Gresham for presi- dent and let the ¢l co of the nation be manned by men of his spivit and calibre,” peaking of the democratic politics of the state, the Fremont Tribune, says: “The Nebraska democrats are not welded together very solidly this year. There is to be a lively squabble between old Miller and Mor- ton factions for the honors of delegates to the national convention, An effort was made in Otoo county to squelch Morton and his friends, but the eminent free trader came up smiling with victorious eagles, and other birds, perched upon his banners, It is under- stood that Collector Calhoun was the insti- gator of this plot, There will be an effort made on the Morton side to oust Boyd from his position as a member of the national com- mittee. This is to be done in retaliation of Mr. Boyd keeping Bierbower, his republican sou-in-law, in the position of United §tales marshal for Nebragka, 1t js confifently ex- pected by & numbeFol Mnterested spectators 41t there will be a quantity of gore spilled before the battlé ends.” As a tonic, Dr. Kelley, Don’t you thinkit rather risky To prescribe protected iron And unprotected whisky ! i —— No Foel Friends. Chicago News, Another circumstango in Gresham's favor: He has no fool friends. e Told 4m a Line. St. Lanis Republican, The whisky tax must stay. The tax on clothing must come down. The tax on raw materials used in manufacturing wust go. — A Fayorite Grandson, New York World, The “‘favorite son' industry has been some- what overworked of late, but Iundiana has capped the chimax by putting forward a fa- vorite grandson. MLl Doesu't Know Our Jum. COhicago Times, Congressman Dingley, of Maine, says that service in the house he member drunk. Where can he have been all this time? ——e Railroad Barbarity. Philadelyhia North Americau The Burlington and Quiney road should be wade o pay heavy damages for the wreck PRIT, 30, 1888 that was caused by the carelessness of om- ployes who were compelled to work fifty hours without sleep. It is not only barbarous to work men in that way, but eriminal for o raiiroad to take such risks when so many lives are involved. There should be state laws holding any officer of a raroad com- pany who forces conductors, engineers or brakeman to work more than a reasonablo number of Lours craminally responsible. The lives of passengers or employes should not bo jeopardized in this reckless manuor, STATE JOTTINGS, Thayer county will prospect for coal. Aurora will have an electric light plant. Ord’s butter and cheese factory is in operation. The total enroliment in the Albion school is 800, Stromsburg will license three saloons at 81,000 each. Grand Island’s nowspaper editors are still at swords’ points. Antelope have returned from the western plains to Logan county. Hastings' new morning paper project collapsed before it materialized. Beatrice reports the finding of val- uable clay deposits and pottery works are talked of. Teoumseh’s canning factory has been completod, and is now contracting for vegetables. In order that the party may be bettor ropresented, Fullerton is to have a democratic paper. The Beemer Times reports the loss of many cattle in that vicinity, caused by some unknown disease. The hopeful citizens of Culbertson claim that their town will be the rail- way center of Nebraska. Lightning rod swindlers with. faces devoid of guile have victimized the farmers of Nance county. A. C. Beebe retires from the Custer County leader in a double leaded col- umn of scalding nonpareil. A Johnson county philanthropist has. ugum hlet for free distribution entitled, “Hard Sins and the Way Out.” Grover Cleveland is to be raffied off in York at $1 a chance. The Grover Cleveland in question is a fine bird dog. There are 50,000 acres of land in Dundy county subject to homestead, pre-emption and timber culture entry. The paper of Perkins county states that there will be 20,000 aeres of land turned by the plow in that county this spring. Ed Martin, a careless boy of Ban- croft, in trying to extract a shell from a gun caused it to explode. He will lose his sight. Because of a cold and unfeeling com- munity, the editor of the Greenwood Leader will pack his printing office and move away. The eclection to vote on the proyosl- tion to bond Stockville precinet, Fron- tier county, to the amouut of $2,400 for court house purposes, carried. The Holt county® teachers’ assooia- tiog and the Brown ecounty teachers’ association will meet together at Stuart on Saturday, May 12, 1888. ‘With apparent knowledge that the early bug catches the corn, the festive chinch bug is silently and patiently waiting for the future in Polk county. Father Martin, of Dakota City, the oldest active newspaper man in the state, is soon to lead to the altar a fair young girl whom he calls a diamond in the rough. . Aun_attractive young lady of Edgar was chewing gum and engaging in a uflkinfi tournament at the same time, A skilled physician finally dislodged the gum which had lodged in her throat. Herman Huberman, the young boy who stole the horse in York county, has been duly installed in the reform school at Kearney. He is under fifteen years of age and was a fugitive from the Kearney institution at the time he ap- propriated the horse. A man named Davis from Wano, Kas., called the ‘‘gentlemanly and urbane’” B. & M. ticket agent at Benkleman a liar. Theagent transformed the face of Davis into a war map, and caused the arrest of the Kansan, who contributed $10 to the school fund. A Hastings paper says that ‘“‘unless worl is rapidly pushed on the new in- sano asylum and the building com- pleted fears are entertained that it will be necossary to transfer the patients now temporarily kept in the stone bYock to Lincoln, They are becoming quite bad.” The Wayne County Gazette finds that it *‘seems to a man up a cottonwood tree that the business of the Norfolk branch is good enongh to warrant the company in giving us a decent train with asmok- ing car, instead of the present worn out coach and the miserable leaky baggage and mail, which now do duty.” City Attorney Dilworth, of Hastings, has been instructed to prepare o call for another clection to vote upon the bond proposition to extend the water mains, the vote taken at the recent city election being declared not constitu- tionally large enough to entitle it to the respeet of being considered u healthy cendorsement of the people. Reports from all sections of Nebraska convey the gratifying information that the weather has been generally favor- able this spring, and crops are well ad- vanced, The corn crop is for the most part planted, and the acreage this year will be greater than last. The recent ins have left the soil in mostexcellent dition, and the indications for a largoe crop are promising. A Plattsmouth man who vainly waited for o leap yeur proposal, adver- tised in a St. Joseph paper for a’ con- fiding and berutiful’ woman. The mintor's ink did its work—and the Journal reports a marriage. They stood upon the streets—oblivious to all surroundings. The Journal says ‘‘their love was so lovely, and of such calf-like vavity, that they should be placed in a glass case and fed on ginger bread for the rest of their haleyon days.” A tramp gave an exhibition at Sid- ney recently. His programme was to permit himself to be tied in a chair and then unloose himself in half the time it had taken to tie him. He repeated the performance Saturday night, but the boys put up a_job uns when they got him tied "pelted Lim with cggs. He took it good naturedly and made good time untieing himself after which the crowd raised 88 and he went on his way rejoicing. e A Curious Will. Pittsburg Dispatch: John A, Robin- son, a wealthy gentleman of Norwich, Conn.,who died recently, left a vemark- able provision in his will. This docu- ment %ireuwd that his remains should be kept for three days before they were pluceg in the grave where the lid to the coffin was to be removed and the grave 50 closed that a person could readily get out. It isalso provided that food and water be placed in the coffin, A ham- mer, too, was to lie near his right hand, while a lamp was to burn in his sepul- cher for three days and three nights. Every one of the provisions was rigidly enforced, Corsages ru e to extremes, are either short,round aud very fully draped, or else preternaturally long, stralghtand slender; both in outline’and in ornament. POLITICAL DRIFT. Obsorvations Upon the Preésidential Possibilities. In a recent issue of Harper’s Weekly, the following observations are made upon the question of candidates for president: Botween April and June and hetween the white house and th, hall of the na- tional democratic convention there may oceur many strange chances and slips, but unless all prusenul%nsshould prove decoptive, about June bth, at St. Louis Grover Cleveland will be chosen the standard bearer of his party for the presidential campaign of 1888, That Mr. Cleveland will be renomin- ated by his party tosucceed himsolf seems as assuredly indicated as was the renomination of Mr. Lincoln in 1864, or that of General Grant in 1872, There is no particularly turbulent or danger- ous stream at this time to cross which forbids the swapping' of presidential horses, to use the homely phraseology of President Lincoln, as there was when the war of the rebellion raged, but neither was there when President Grant was nominated. [t is with Mr. Cleveland much #s it was with the dis- tinguished soldier-president; he has won the #anoml favor of his party, and the confidence of the country. The democrats feel that if they can elect anyone his successor they can most easily and assuredly elect him, There is something almost unique in President Cleveland’s position. ot by a single word that he has said since the day of his inauguration, not by any- thing which he has done personally or officially, can it be trulysaid that he has given any sign of his desire or will to secure a second term of the presidential office. Indeed he has said some things —and done others—which, at the least, seemed injudicious for him to say and do as an aspirant for re-election. Itwas courageous, but it was not politic for him to declare himselfso radically upon the subject of tariff reduction; it was honest to veto so many pension bills,and especially the important dependent pension measure of the last congress,but it was not shrewd in view of the offense his vetoes, both in substance and form, gave to the brave soldiers and sailors who survived the war. Mr. Cleveland. no doubt, thoufht himself justified in his removals of tens and scores of thou- sands of faithful and efficient revubli- cans from federal office,in order to make places for democrats, but, considering that he did it at the cost of losing the confidence and support of the civil ser- vice reformers, it was not sagacious. But, though the president has turned from him every democrat in the land who favors the polioy of protecting by high duty the wages of domestic labor and the profits of capital, {"iough he has offended the voterans of the war for the union by his pension vetoes,und though he has disappointed the civil service re- formers, it appears that he not, at this time, a single compétitor for the nomination of his party. It is his to take if he desires it, or to refusc if he does not. In his letter accepting his original nomination Mr. Cleveland expressed himself strongly against a president be- ing eligible to re-electipn, He declared that a single term was suffiolent for any one citizen, and lhat there should be no second term president. Those tylurnnls, republican and democratio, which are opposed to him are at present making much of this %rm..r, but with but little effect. The New York Evening Post, which has vecently arraigned the pres- ident with fm" sevapity for abandon- ing his civil serviee reform position, de- clares that the astemptto bind him by his letter of acceptauce is rather sad business, and the St. Louis Republican closes a long and able editorial article upon the subject by saying, **Mr. Cleve- land is not a candidate, but when the St. Louis convention renominates him he will have no escape from being his party’s candidate for re-election.” The drift of democratic journalistic criticism upon Mr. Cleveland’s second term declaration may be fairly summar- ized as follows: He, as president, has the liberty of entertaining whatever opinions seem to him good regarding the eligibility of presidents to re-elec- tion, but it is not part of his duty to either amend the constitution or to change the practice of partiesin con- nection with the succession of presi- dents. He may, it is said, hLold any view that suits him, about prevailing law or custom, and he may, like any other citizen, vote for a change, or labor to bring it about, but he has no right to try to impose his views on the country by declining to accept any oftice which the majority of the voters asks him to aceept. Republioans and democrats very gen- erally agree that Grover Cleveland will be the presidential candidate of his party and the principles of his tavift message to congress the ehief plank of the platform. Should that prove to be true in June, Mr. Clevelund will cer- tainly have reason for self-congratula- tion.” No othor president to a greator degree than he hasever kept himself out of sight in purely political matters during the first th ar of his term. If his hand moved the puppets, or shifted the scenes, no one has perceived it, He has gone upon his way, discharging his officinl duties as if his only care was to discharge them well and acceptable to his countrymen. He has been indus- trious, honest and full of courage, and, more than all, he has been pre-emi- nently ervative except in the mat- ter of taviff reduction alone, and it is wholly likely that, with the above noted exception, the same ru,vulur con- servatism which feared and contended against his election lest disaster should be the sequence of the election of a dem- ocrat to the office of dent, will, now that its doubts and fears have been dispelled by him, do battle in his be- half. There are no such conclusive signs iy respect to the republican candidatds as therg are in conficiion with the demo- cratic, Who the choice of the Chicago convention will be is not sufliciently iu- digated by the unanimity of "an{m per opinions to render even intelligible conjectures possible. There awe hosts of aspirants for the nomination, sev- eral of them being loaders of confessedly great ability and attractive popularity.” Of them all, however, there isno other who the political class that com- monly largely influence the choice of conventions 80 commonly m&‘i for nomination as Mr. Blaine. To them it avails nothing that he has declaved he is not a candfdate for the wvresidential nominatiop; that he bas distinctly u,tlwrizud the correspoudent of the New York World to state that he must not be considered a candidate, and that, if nominated, his candidacy would pro- voke again the independent republican oppwitfion of 1884, and with the proba- bility of the same result, a republican defeat following it. Personal aflection and admiration have a great deal to do with this revival of the demand for Mr. Blaine to bethe standard bearer, and republican journals and leaders of good reputation for political sagacity are op- posing it, fearing lest it may grow so loud in the convention as to secure the success of a nomination which may not be followed by success at the polls. The common fecling of the republi- can party, especially in the west, tainly grows stronger apparently in favor of Gresham, Allisan axd Sher- man., Popular sentiment, iu contradic- tion to that of the politicians, seems to demand the nomination of either one or the other of those three distinguished men, and, as it is velleved that Judge Grosham could roadily carry the doubt- ful, but important eta’e of {ndinnn, the general preference is aprarently for his candidacy. ‘‘The presidential election of this year will not tura exclusively upon the tariff, but the discussion will (;e of great service in maturing the question asa real issue. President Garfleld said that he was for the protection that ultimated in freo trade. President Arthur and his three secretaries ‘of the treasury, Folger, Gresham #nd MoCulloch favored the reduction of the war tarift to n moderate protective point. The Minnesota, Towa and Nebraska republi- cans demanded last year n revision and reduction of the tariff. So long as Mr, Nelson is a republican representative, and the Chicago Tribune, the Provi- dence Journal and othar loading papers are republican journ~ls, and manufac- turers who demand free raw materinls are members of the republican party, ?lgh Pymtectlnn will nolge a true party ssue. A Diamond § owor Arrested. Cincinnaty m?ulrnr: Information was roceived at police headquartars yes- terday of the arrest in fhnnoha or, England, of John Prescott. Prescott is probably one of the best known sneak robbers and jewelry thieves in tho country. Ho was better known in days gone by to the police of this city and” the west under the name of “Jonny” Curtin, the famous diamond swallower and burglar, It is but a few months ago_since ho was arrested in St. Lows by Detective Des- monde, of that city. ith another no- torious thief he was taken inon sus- E{clon and given time to leave that city. e went from St. Louisto Chicago, thence to New York, and shortly after- wards left for Europe, where in Paris he was the boon companion of the fu- gitive boodle alderman, Jachne, of New York, who for a time conducted a fence in Paris. The offense for which Prescott has been arrest in Manchester is for an at- tempted theft of £11,000 from a bank in that city. Prescott attempted to work the old-time American ‘‘drop trick.” A few days ago he followed a_wealthy de- positor in the bank rsferred to. The de- vositor left his bank book and a pack- age containing £11,000. No sooner had he stepped away from the receiving teller’s desk than Prescott took his place. Purposely dropping a bill upon the floor,while the cashier was engaged, he then called that gentleman’s atten- tion to it. As the cashier stooped to pick up the bill Prescott grabbed the package of money. He was making away with it in good shape when a policeman, who had been watching his actions, placed him under arrest. Curtin, who has also been known un- der the name of Reynolds, began his criminal careor as uhnpulur,flaaing out into a diamond thief and swallower, a burglar and jail-brenker. He escaped from no less than six differont isils in as many states from here to California, and was well known to nearly every chief of police throughout the unjon. His associate in crime was ‘“‘Eddie” McGee, equally desperate and successful as a bank burglar and belonging to one of the most notorious gangs. Sn Sep- tember 11, 1879, he entercd a jewelry ostablishment on Broadway, in New York, in daylight, and stole fifteen dia- mond rings valued at 3800. Before the police learned of the theft he wason a west-bound train. One month later Curtin was arrested for the larceny of a diamond ring in Chicago. He gave the name of Cunningham, and represented himself as a jeweler from this city. The police fortunately searched him and found nineteen loose diamonds. They were identifled as the property stolen from the New York establish- ment, and he wag held for trial. Ten days later he broke jail and returned to New York, where he was arrested. He })lc:ulod guilty and was sentenced to our years and six months at Sing Sin on November, 1878, under the name ol James Roberts. In June, 1882, Curtin and McGee arrested in Philadelphia for shopli and were_sent to the Eastern pen.t tiary for eightoen months. Upon being released they were rearrested for the robbery of Theodore Starr’s jewelry es- tablishment in New York, wimm $1,200 was stolen. After their release they went to Paris, where they were captured and sentenced to four years. Through some unknown influence the sentence was reduced to two years, and before the expiration oi that time they were at liberty, on April 15, 1886, Upon his return Curtin went to Troy, N. Y., to see “Billy” Porter, who was then confined in jail, and there had somo difliculy with ‘a policeman, whom he severely whipped. For this offense he was hen fined. Immediately after his ase he went to telling his friends that he on be joined by “Billy” Porter ank Buck, alias **Bucky” Taylor. trio were to work under the di- on of old Adam Worth, a noted receiver of stolen geods, and formerly the vival of Mother Mandelbaum. On June 7, 1886, Curtain walked into the store of a dinmond merchunt, No. 6 Grand Hotel building, Charing Cross, London, and asked to be shown some diamonds, A purcel containing £6,000 worth of loose diamonds was opencd. He managed to divert the clevk’s atten- tion for a moment and slipped some of the diamonds into his pocket. A boy saw the movement and gave warning before the thief got away. He was ar- rested and gave the name of John Col- ton, On the way to the police station he swallowed tellfale papers before the officers could stop him, but enough evi- dence was found to_establish his iden- tity, For this ewime Curtin was sen- tenced to eighteen months imprison- ment at hard labor at the Middlesex Sessions. Hg hed Teen out but a short time when arrested a fow days ago. e Woman's Five Senses. Would you believe that in this en- lightened nge there remain women who will swear the moon is made of green cheese if a man tells them it is so¥ But they do remain, and advancing civiliza- tion must blush clear behind her ears every time she stumbles across one. have they, but they see not; ears ave they, but they hear not; hands havae they, but they'feel not. You re- member imw it stormed last Wednes- day? About 8 o’clock a man and woman started out of the Windsor just back of me. As put up my umbrella the woman stopped short and exclaimed: “Why, it’s raining, Charley; I am not going.” The man stood right out with the beau- tiful, wet rain uring right into his face and stoutly declared, ‘It is not raining; come along.” “Why, it is, too, raining. 1 shall get dress all spotted. 1 will not go.’ *I tell you it is not raining,” he re- peated, getting madder and wetter overy migute. You come along.” And the foolish one actually went, saying meekly and pentinently, “It seems to me as if it were raining quite damp rain.”—St. Paul Globe. ———— A There is a fund. of $50,000 beiug raised among the leading dye merchaunts aud man- ufacturers in New Englaud to cstablish & departmient of dycing and printing in the course of 1ndustrial chemistry, iu the Massi: chusctts wnstitute of techuology