Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 19, 1888, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, MAY 19, THE DAILY BEE, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. ——— TRRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Patly (Morning Edition) including Sunda; BEE, Ono ¥ ear ’ or 8ix Months ‘or Three Months. . ... The Omaha Sanday Ak, mafied to any ad- dress, One Year.. soives § OMANA OFFICR, NOSTIUARD 010 FARNAM STREET, Nrw YORK OFFICE, ROOMS 14 AKD 15 TRIBUNE BUILDING. WASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. 613 FOURTEENTN BTREET. CORRESPONDENCE. 11 communications relating to news and edi- M?":l ‘matter should be addressed to the EDITOR ® BEE. o DUSINRSS LETTRRS, All business letters and remittances should be pddressed to Tne Bk PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMANA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders to ‘be made payable to the order of the company. T Bee Publishing Company. Proprictors . ROSEWATER, Editor. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of N'H)‘::nl'u s Geo B, Trachiick, ‘secretary of The Bee Pub. Jshing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circulation of the Dally Bee for the week ending May 11, 1885, was as follows: fi-mnh{{ May 6. Bunday,May 6, Monday, May osday, Ma) ednesda) Fhursds M priday, May i GEO. B. TZSCHUCA., Eworn to and subscribed in my presence this 12th day of May, A.D., 1888, . P. FEL Notary Publio. Btate of Nebraska, ta.s. Oounty of Douglas, e George B. Taschuck, being first duly sworn, Qepones and says that lie is secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual average daily circulation of {hie Daily Bee for the month 1867, was 14227 copes; for June, 1887, o '\ o 14,1 7., 188, 1408 coples; for Ala“lt, rfllf' 14,151 coples; for Se&t’em r, 1887, 14,349 coples; for October, 1887, 14,533 coples; for November, 1857, 15,28 copies; for December, 1867, 16,041 'copiés: for January, 188, 15 fes; for February, 188, 15,902 coplesr for Marc 1888, 19,089 coples; for A%fl ‘! \ 18,744 coples, 1B, TUSCRUCK. Sworn to betoro me and’ subscribed in thy presence this 2d day of Ma % s T . D. 1888, Notary Public. THE mixing up of a pars of the dem- ocratic platform into the republican resolutions adopted by the state con- vention has been satisfactorily ex- plained. The muddle took place in the committee room, where it is safe to say the majority of the committee were in as muddled a condition as the platform which was adopted. THe people of Denver are bemoaning the failure of the million dollar hotel project that has been talked aboutin that city for a year or more. The trouble is the lack of liberality and en- terprise on the part of local capitalists and business men. This is an experi- ence in which Denver is not alone. Omaha has had a great dealof it, and therofore knows how to sympathize with the Colorado metropolis CONGRESSMAN DORSEY has returned to Washington with the understood in- tention to remain there until the close of the session. It is to be inferred from this that he is satisfied with the situa- tion in his district and does not feel cailed upon to give it any further per- sonal attention. Mr. Laird left his cam- paign for a renomination in the hands of his friends, and has been content to communicate with his constituents through the mails. Itisto be hoped these representatives will find oppor- tunity in the remaining time of the ses- sion of congress to do something that will give the people of Nebraska better reason than they now bhave to be proud of them. S— ‘WE should be glad to believe that the proposed amendments to the river and harbor bill, appropriating $425,000 for the improvement of the Missouri river at several points in Nebraska, would be adopted. There can be no question that the improvements at the points specified, which include Omaha, Nebraska City, and Plattsmouth, are needed, and the sums proposed to be ap- priated are not extravagant. But we apprehend that “should these senate amendments be accepted by the house and go through congress, they, with other features of the bill, will encounter the disapproval of the president. Mr. Cleveland has already indi- cated. his purpose to continue the role of economist in government expvendi- tures, so far as they relate to public improvements, without much reference to the necessity or urgency of such im- provements. He evidently believes that such a course will serve him in the campaign. We are therefore con- strained to doubt whether there is much chance for any extensive Missouri river improvements during the easuing year, or, indeed, whether any river and har- bor bill that provides for a liberal ex- pendituve, fairly distributed, will get exccutive approval, Fr—— I the Union Pacific railroad were as considerate toward Omaha as the board of trade is solicitous in urging congress to extend the time of the indebtedness, there would not be to-day the long roll of empty promises made and repudi- ated by that road to thiseity. In con- nection with the appeal of the board for clemency toward the Union Pacific, the interview of Mr. J.Sterling Morton does not come amiss. Mr. Morton very plainly indicates that the passage of the Outhwaite bill, which the board of trade favors, perpetuates the Union Pacific as a grasping monopoly. Re- lief to the people of Nebraska is not assured when an extension of seventy years is asked for the payment of a debt of $100,000,000. It fastens on the com- munity an additional tax of 83,000,000 a year merely to pay the interestof a defaulting company. In seventy years two hundred and ten millions of dollars of interest alone must be raised by the people of this state, principally in order to continue a bankrupt management in power, Does this look like a fair, just and equitable basis of tlement between the Union Pacific and the government, and a ben- efit to this state, when a debt of over three hundred millions is saddled on the people? What guarantee is there that the Union Pacific will in the future live up to its agreements and promises? There will be backsliding in this new pledge to the government as there has been in the past. But the people will be bled without merey. The tax raised from the products of Ne- braska that should go to liquidate this enormous debt will be swallowed in the quicksauds and maelstrom of railroad mismanagement. McShane Not a Oandidate. Congressman John A. McShane will not again be a candidate for congress from this district. The information comes from a gentleman who holds inti- mate and confidential relations with Mr. McShane, and who is not in the habit of making haphazard or sensa- tional statements. The decision of Mr. McShane is said to be based wholly on business grounds. He has not tired of congressional life, nor has he lost polit- ical ambition, but his absence from the management of his very extensive busi- ness is a serious drawback to it, and he is not willing to make the large sacrifice of his practical affairs which a continu- ance in congress would require. He will doubtless still give more or less at- tention to local and state politics, but only to the extent that will not interfere with his business affairs. The retirement of Mr, McShane may somewhat complicate the democratic situation in this distriot. It is hardly questionable that did he desire a re- nomination he could have it. There are other aspirants, but none of them has any better claim to the support of the democracy of this distriet than Me- Shane, and while they might make him a little trouble, it is not at all proba- ble that any one of them could de- feat him. With McShane out of the field, however, thero is very sure to be a lively fight among the several aspiring democratic leaders who would like to succeed him. On a straight party vote the district is republican by fully five thousand ma- jority, and in this presidential year there will be a straight vote unless the republicans make the mistake of nomi- nating an extremely objectionable can- didate. On the presumption that they will not do this, any democrat’ who re- ceives the nomination of his party will have bestowed on him a merely empty honor, from which he will acquire at a good deal of outlay only a little passing notoriety. The Mississippi Floods. The disastrous floods along the Mis- sissippi river have already done very great damage, and threaten to make this a memorable year for the destruc- tion of property from this cause. For several days past our dispatches have chronicled the progress of the irresisti- ble floods, by which hundreds of people have been rendered homeless, many thousands of acres of crops destroyed, and damage done amounting tomillions of dollars. The Sny bottoms in Missouri, forty miles long and five in width, and one of the richest agricultural stripsin the world, is now covered with water, its one hundred thousand acres of crops probably de- stroyed. Elsowhere large areas have been inundated and the promising crops will be largely or entirely lost. Levees have been swept away which it will cost a vast sum of money to replace. The worst may have been experienced, but if this should happily prove to be so the destruction will still be so great as to render the floods of this year memora- ble. There is believed to be a remedy for this if the government had the liber- ality to apply it,and a remedy which would also give to wgriculture a very large arid territory which can only be made of value by irrigation. Major Powell, of the geological survey, has suggested a vplan which it s believed would effectually check these destructive overflows and reclaim by irrigation not less than one hundred thousand square miles of now worthless country. His proposition is to dam up the canons of the Rocky mountains from Canada to Mexico, in which are the fountain heads of the tributaries of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, and thus form vast reservoirs or storehouses of water to irrigate the arid lands. These reservoirs would retain the water which, collecting with great rapidity, forms the floods which are so disastrous along the two great rivers. In the opin- ion of Major Powell it would be possible in this way not only to redeem the arid lands, but also the flood plains. His plan of irrigation is as follows: The waters which ordinarily flow into the ocean through the Missouri and its tributa- ries and through the Arkansas, the Red, the Rio Grande, the Colorado, the Sucramento aud the Columbia rivers are to be dammea up at their fountain-heads and stored in vast reservoirs, We will thus have a chain of storehouses in the mountains from the C: nadian to the Mexican border and the water can be utilized by letting it out upon the land through irrigating canals. This method of redeeming land is not new. It has been practiced for 5,000 or 6,000 years. The earli- est agriculture known 1n history was by irri- gation in the valley of the Nile, and as early or even earlier irrigation was known in the val- leys of China. In the region of the five rivers of India agriculture was wholly dependent upon irrigation, and the same can be said of Peruand Mexico, Long before the humid regions of the earth were cultivated the des- ert lands were redecmed by irrigation, Al- ready there are great areas in Cualifornia, Utah, Colorado and other arid states under irrigation, but ouly a small portion of the water is used, and consequently a small part of the land is redeemed. Thereare many ad- vantages in irrigation. The farmer does not depend upon inconstaat rainfall. He has to deal with no drouths, no storms, no floods, The water is poured ypon his land where 1t is wanted and only in such quantities as are needed. In reply to a senate resolution of in- quiry some time ago, the secretary of the interior gave his full approval of Major Powell’s plan, both as a means of reclaiming a great amount of territory and of mitigating the severity of the effects of the floods of the Mississippi. No doubt seems to be entertained any- where as to the feasibility of the plan, and the only question is one of money. Major Powell asks but a quarter of a million dollars with which to begin the undertaking, and in view of the vast interests at stake the government could certainly afford this moderate sum for the purpose of experimenting. If the result proved satisfactory there would be no hesitation regarding the further expendituré necessary to render the plan complete. In a matter of such obviously great importance, affecting the welfare of thousands of people and the permanent utilization of a vast ter- ritory now valueless, there ought to be 1o picayunish economy. F———— THERE can be no question regarding the soundness of the decision rendered by Judge Shiras, of the United States district court at Sioux City, against the transfer of the brewery cases from the state courts to the federal court. These cases being, as stated by the judge, of & quasi-criminal nature, involving the question of the police power ot the stato, the *federal courts can properly have nothing to do with them. When such cases have been passed upon by the highest judicial tribunal in the state they may reach the highest fed- eral tribunal only in the event that there is developed a foderal ques- tion, as for example the right to manufacture exclusively for export. Late decisions of the United States supreme court have defined pretty clearly the scope of the police powers of a state, and the authority of the legislative and judicial branches of a state government to enforce these powers. These decisions leave little opportunity for federal interposition, and it is clear that none is presented by the Sioux City brewery cases that would warrant the federal court in assuming original jurisdiction. In fact,it may be stated as a general proposition that any case which has relation to the police powers of a state the inferior federal courts can properly have nothing to do with. THE supreme court of the United States has just ended its session of 1887- 88, after disposing of a large number of cases of unusual importance. The pres- ent term has been significant in several respects. The accession to the bench of the first democrat, Lucius Q. C. Lamar, since the appointment of Stephen J. I'icld by President Lincoln in 1863, and the more recent death of Chiel Justice ‘Waite,are in themselves noteworthy events. Had Melville W. Fuller re- ceived the prompt confirmation of the sonate when his name was sent in by President Cleveland, the session of the supreme court just ended would have been signalized by the promotion of the ficst democrat to the high office of chief justice since the time of Roger B. Taney. In the decision of cases of a constitutional nature, the leaning of the court has been on the whole towards state sovereignty. In but one or two instances has federal supremacy beeu favored, notably the lowa whisky cases, in which it was decided that no state has the power to prohibit the importa- tion of liquor, or any other article, into its boundaries from another state. In other cases affecting questions of sover- cignty, the rulings of the court have reasserted the supremacy of the state. The appeals in the anarchist and Max- well cases were denied by the court on the ground that a federal court has no right to interfere with the criminal procedure of a state unless a federal law has been violated. In the Kansas prohibition and the oleomargarine suits it would seem that the court has gone a step further and has extended the do- main of state rights. The court ruled in the former case that a state has full power absolutely to prohibit the manu- facture or sale of liquor within its bor- ders without making any compensation for property destroyed or injured; while, in the latter, the judges held that’a state has power tosuppress any industry or render any trade unlawful. I7 is proposed in congress to make a thorough investigation of the cattle business so far as relates to the al- leged existence of rings, transportation arrangements, and such other matters as will throw the light of official in- quiry upon the methods by which it is charged the cattle men are oppressed and the consumers plundered. The statements of Senators Vest and Plumb have led the senate to regard such an investigation as demanded in the in- terests of tne people, and it is con- templated to appoint a committee to prosecute the inquiry after the ad- journment of congress. It is prob: ble that a good deal will be di closed in advance of that time, since the Chicago and Kansas City beef men are already hurling against each other accusations of using unfair means to secure trade. The chances are that the country will get a good deal of information on this in fing subject to everybody, and that it will show quite us much regarding the objectionable operations of the cattle rings as any- body has charged. Other Lands Than Ours. Public nterest in England continues to center chiofly upon the controversy regard- ing the condition of the army and navy. Their inefficiency has been long notoriou This is due in some measure to the peace in- clinations of the liberals, who do not, on principle, uphold the maintenance of the war institution for purposes of foreign aggres- sion. It is due in still-greater measureto the stupid and fraudulent economy of the tories, who have held their seats more securely by an appearance of cutting down expenses. The desperate situation of the Irish landloras and the impossibility of en- forcing the coercion act without using nearly 40,000 men in addition to the 15,000 armed constabulary in Ireland have compelled the ministers to spend so much for the peace of that country—a peace atany price being indispensable for their continu- ance in office-that they have been prevented from including in previous estimates an ade- quate appropriation for the improvement of the army and navy. The result was pictured recently by the two highest military authori- ties in the empire. The utterances of Lord Wolseley regarding the almost helpless sit- uation of England for defense aroused almost @ war panic, which was not entirely dissi- pated by Lord Salisbury’s censure of Wolse- ley's statements. The government finally saw the necessity of responding to the popular scare with something more practical than reassuring words, and have asked lib- eral appropriations for military and naval purposes, - Thus soothed the English public will return to its wonted state of confidence, all unmindful of the enormous cost of its de- fensive establishment. e ‘The sentence of John Dillon, the most con- spicuous of the Irish leaders next to Parnell, to be imprisoned for six mopths, must com- pel Englishmen to reflect upon what it is that the policy of the tories toward Ireland really signifies and portends. How can Englishmen fail to ask themselves wh ether it is pessible to govern Irishmen as “‘natives’’ by means of & British resident and a force of military police! The course of repression and persecution which the Salisbury government has again adopted has at times been success- ful in Ireland. Cromwell made an unques- tionable success of it for the time being, But the notion of reviving the Cromwellian systew of governiug Lrelaud, and especially of sombining it with a constitutional system under which Ireland is actusily represented in the legislature by the very men who are the chief objecta of persccution by the gov- ernmont they help to constitute, such a mixture cannot_possibly be successful for moro than a fo eks at a time, Mr. Bal- four might almo: suspected of a wish to expose the abs ity of the crimes act by his solection of men to be persecuted under its provisions. If the Trish continue to send 1o the house of commons the same men whom the government treats as malefactors it will at last become evident to the dullest tory that it not possible to treat a country at once as & conquered provinco and as an intogral part of an “empire” governed by its reprosentatives in parliament. b Emancipation has' boen accomplished in Brazil, after a strugglo of nearly twonty yoars, the senate having a fow fays ago passed the bill abolishing slavery which had boen approved by the chamber of deputies. The venerablo and philanthropic ruler of Brasil, Emporor Dom Pedro, has boon from the first & consistent and enthusiastic advo- cato of omancipation, and the news of tho action of the Brazilian legislative power will bo Joyous tidings to him on his sick bed in Milan, whero he is now lying stricken unto doath. Partial measures of emancipation wore passed in 1571 and agam in 1585, under the provisions of which it had beon antioi- pated that all slaves in Brazil would bo freo by the ond of tho $ear 1502, The timo of Lib- oration has accordingly beon hustened by at least four yoars through the action recently taken. According to the official returns tho number of slaves still remaining in Brazil 18 000,000, their valuo being estimated at §200,- 000,000 As n partial compensation o tho slavoholders for this sacrifice the freedmen will be oblizod to work for them at wagos for a limited period. Under the new law the exit of frocdmen from their respective coun- ties is 1 rolibited for two years, and sovero ponalties are imposed for idleness or dissi- pation. Cuba and. Porto Rico are now the only slave holding countries on the American continent. . e The fact that Bismarck, at the direction of the cmperor, has requested the sultan of Turkey to depose Ferdinand, the ruling prince of Bulgaria, indicates that in the affairs of that country Germany and Kussia are acting in harmony. The principality of Bulgaria was created by the treaty of Berlin, signod in 1878, By that treaty Bulgaria was “con- stituted an autonomous and tributary princi- pality under the suzerainty” of the sultan of Turkey, and the treaty also further provided that e prince of Bulgaria shall be freely elected by the population and confirmed by the sublime porte with the consent of tho powers.”” The “powers” who were parties 1o this treaty were Germany, Great Britain, Russia, Austria, France, Italy and Tur- key—seven it all. Alexander was elected reigning prince in 1579, but was forced by Russian intrigue to abandon his throne in 1886, and Waidenijao of Denmarl was elected to fill his place; Bit, as Russia objected, the prince declined. In 1887, Ferdinand of Saxe- Coburg was elected ruling prince and to him Russia has always been opposed. In fact Russia would object to any ruler of Bulgaria who attempted to perpetuate that govern- ment and opposed the pet scheme of Russin, which is to unitd the slav race under one government to be dominated by the czar himself. Ferdinand swears he *“will lead Bulgaria to the goal marked out for her in history,” wherever that may be, and he shows signs of holdg the throne against ail encmics. The dispute is quite likely to lead to something serigus, if Ferdinand has the courage he profeses. i The emperor of Brazil, Dom Pedro IL, is a somewhat remarkable figure among mon- archs, and would leave a noticeable biauk m the gallery of contemporary royalty. He is, perhaps, the most unconventional of his caste, if not the most accomplished. In ad- dition to his native Portugucse, he writes and speaks fluently five European languages, and he is an active member of half a dozen learned societies. He is the greatest traveler of all the crowned heads. When stricken ill he was in the course of making his second tour of Europe; in 1876 he visited the United States. He has been a shrewd as well as a liberal-minded ruler, but the highest dis- tinction of his reign is the edict for the gradual but total abolition of slavery in his empire. He is not yet an old man, being in his sixty-third year, but he has had a long experienco on the throne, having been de- clared of age while he was in his fifteenth year. He will have been forty-cight years a sovereign by next July, should he live, and nd of liberalism will hope that he spared to see this and many more an- niversaries of his coronation. While news from Stanley is still lacking, the recent tidings from the Comgo give a favorable view of the condition of at the cxplorer’s base. The rumors of treachery on the part of Tippoo Tib have been wholly dispelled, it being made clear that he is not only in the region of Stanley Falls, but has subdued the turbulent Arabs there. It appears, also, that everything is ready Tor organizing the carrier cxpedition with which to proceed to Wadelai to take supplies and bring off Emin Pasha's tons of ivory, according ‘to Stanley’s plan, At least, therefore, therc is no de- fection in his rear to fear. The con- tinued lack of messages from Stanley himself at Tambuga up to the end of February or later is certainly strange, Yet it 18 in no re- spect alarming, since a large part of his course luy through unexplored country, and he may have been forced by natural obsta- cles to depart very far from a direct march. After reaching Wadelai he may have con- sidered it shorter to send or go to the Zanzi- bar coast, and from there communicate his directions to the Comgo region again for completing his work, instead of retracing his steps or sending back messengers. s Last Thursday was the national holiday of Norway. The constitytional history of mod- ern Norway is one of the brightest chapters in political annals. It shows a people who, in spite of the most adverse circumstances, had the courage to prochaim their independence and the wisdom to establish a free govern- ment as thoroughly Jiberal and democratic in principle as it has pfoved tobe stable in prac- tice, The I\'urv{l lan people have a king, but they' flo not allow him to meddle in politics, They gov- ern themselves, in, township, county, and nation, making all laws, whether local or national, appropriating all moncy to be ex- pended for local or ‘mational purposes and keeping o vigilant wateh on the administra- tion of the laws. ‘When they come to this country they kuow the principles of govern- ment obtaining here from the constitution of their native land and soon become familiar with the administration of the details of gov- ernment because they have been exercising the rights and discharging the duties of popu- lar self-government in the old country. * s The progress of exploration into unknown rogions is goiug on rapidly. *In Asia the most noteworthy rescarches have been incidental to the schemes of military aggrandizement cherished by Russia. The road to India has been surveyed in spite of formidable ob- stacles, untii now we have precise knowl- edge of the main geographical features of the great region that stretches from the Ural to the Himalays mountains. The ex- Dlorer has also been busy in Persia, Thibet, Yuunau, Cockin China, the Corea and the 1888, intarior of China, 80 that few geo- graphical problems of magnitude are left un- solved on this, the greatest of all the oconti- nents and the one which until rocently guardod its secrets most joalously. Nor are the isles of the sea forgotten in this universal curiosity, Within a few years our knowl- odge of the continental islands and the re- mote groups of Australasia has been much increased. Thus the only considerable por- tion of the earth’s surface with which we are still unfamiliar is the antarctic region. But evon this has lately been attacked, and we shall doubtless soon be told the more import- ant facts concerning it. R STATE ITEMS. Nebraska. The Fremont Tribune is six years old and very healthy. The Holdredge Progress will be fssued somi-weokly, The Tekamah creamery is turningout a flne quality of butter, The democrats are organizing olubs throughout the state. Aurora has four saloons—one for every 400 men, women and children. The Hastings board of trade, according to the Journal, seems to have lapsed into obso- lescence. Kearnay's canning factory is expected to prove the stepping stone to other similar en- terprises. The population of Phelps county is re- ceiving accessions this spring direct from Sweden, H, W. Hardy, ex-mayor of Lincoln, Neb., is addrossing the people of Nebraska on pro- hibition politics. Owing to the prolonged wet weather thero will be more corn ground listed this year than ever before. Complaints are frequent against partios in Broken Bow for working on Sunday. The strong arm of the law, it is threatched, will be applied. The town of Chadron is to have a new hotel, 75x100 feet, to cost $17,400 without the furniture, and the contract’ for which has just been let, A lively interest is awakening in the matter of natural gas at Beatrice and it is likely that steps will soon be taken for making practical investigation. The Beem suicide mystery, which occurred near Stanton, Neb., has been the talk and wone the rounds of the press, and still re- mains a myster, The Ord Driviig Park association will hold their meeting on May 81 amd June 1, 1888, The prizes offered amount to $500. They in- tend to have some good races. The Nebraska Sunday School association will hold its twenty-first annual convention in the M. E. church at York, Neb., Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of next week. Acoording to the Sherman county Tran- script Senator Conger attended the republi- can convention at Omaha by proxy by send- ing his plug hat down on the head of one of the delegates, The well at the waterworks at Norfolk has | been abandoned at a depth of 287 feet, there being no sign of finding the bottom of the strata of soft rock through which the drill had been working for a distance of 235 feet. The Madison County Soldiers’ Picnic asso- ciation eill hold its next meeting in Switzer's grove, Emerick, on Friday and Saturday, uneland 2, All old soldiers and their friends are invited to attend. Good time. Superintendent George Buchan, of the construction work on the Nebraska City bridge, slipped from a piling and fell into the river, a distance of some eighwen feet. The boys fished out and aside from a wetting he was all right. The university cadets will go into encamp- ment at \Kf\'more on Friday, May 18, and re- main till May 22. There will be three com- panies and the university band, They will take part in the sham battle on May 21, and the affair is expected to thrill the gay soldiers —even as roal powder wo1ld. Beatrice has a population of 12,000, being the third city in the state, a position she has won and held on her merits. From a mere village in 1850 she has grown to be a beauti- ful city. Each year her increase has been greater, and in 1887 she added more than $1,000,000- to the substantial improvement column and expects to more than double her 1887 record before the dawning of 1859. The Lyons, Burt county, Mirror tells this story of poor Lo: Willie Harlan, an Omaha Indian, lost a child by death on Sunday. On Monday he brought a load of corn to town to sell for money with which to procure a coffin. Before reaching town he became so drunk that he could hardly sit on his wagon. Just as he reached town he fell off in deep, soft wud. He managed to creep or roll out of the mud the muddiest biped that was ever on our streets. He was placed on his wagon again and went about two blocks further and again fell from his wagon. This time another Indian came up and took care of the team and washed some of the mud out of the eyes and mouth of the drunken man. The Broken Bow Republican records the fact that Sheriff Penn and the state veter- inarian returned from Arnold this afternoon where they had been fo_investigate reports of diseased horses, which resulted in killing one for W. H. Gunnison, another for An- drew Bizer and a fine stallion for E. S. Allen worth £500 or $6(0. Mr, Bizer's horse was purchased of partics that brought in their liorses this spring from the cast. From the number of glandered horses reported over the state we think it would be a wise plan to quarantine the state against diseased horses, by requiring all shipped Lnto the state to puss an examination, towa. The Cedar Rapids condensed _milk factory receives 8,400 quarts of milk daily. There has been but one tardy pupil at the Logan. high school during a period of 104 days. Des Moines base ball men are of the opin- ion that Kennedy's greatness far outshines that of cither Allison or Cleveland. A number of buildings previously occupied as saloons at Keokuk have been reopened for the public sale o1 non-intoxicating beverages. A movement is on foot at Fort Dodge for the organization of a local company for the manufacture of beet root sugar under for- eign capital. The Carroll Herald says the late frosts have been fatal to small fruits n low places, and reports the strawberry crop pretty gen- erally destroyed. “The sinking of the new cannel coal shaft of the Craig Coal company at Fort Dodge is pro- gressing finely, and the mine, with all its wealth of supcrior quality of these dusky dismonds, will be opened within two weeks, Lucy White, o young lady of Duck Hollow, Council Bluffs, in a fit of jealousy, on Wed- nesday took & dose of concentrated lye with a view of ending her life. Her condition is sorious, and her relatives fear she cannot recove A holiness convention will be held at the Methodist church in Storm Lake from May 19 to 27, conducted by Rev. R. Oak. of Cau- ton, . 1. He is said to be an able exponent of the doctrine of entire sanctification and boliness. The Fort Dodge high school class of 1859 has requested the board of education to allow all those who s0 wish to graduate next year without taking the extra year, in case’ the course is extended by the addition of caother year's work. PR SRSk Out of Poli ic Te Bee published an interview two days ago setting forth reasons why John A, Me- Shane would not be a candidate for re-elec- tion to congress, Yesterday the gentleman whose views were then expressed said to Tue Bee man: “Less than au hour after I spoke to you about McShane for congress, the other day, I saw McShane himself, and he told me that he did not think of running for re-election, that he would not run for it, and nothing would induce him to again go to congress. He meant what he said. His assertion wus positive and absolute.” The _circumstances first interview which we impel Mr. McShane to this determin- ation were injury to business, loss of health, which Lo felt would sooner or later come to him because of the arduous work which he has been compelled to do since bis election. Being the ouly demo- cratic congressman from this part of the country, his wail of inguiries is four 'times as la as that of any congressman and uecessitates four stenographers 1o answer. As a COnSEQUENCe, sluge Lis election, Mr. McShaue Las beco & mentioned in the caloulated to lave to his constituents at the sacrifice of s worlzh and health, ‘Who will be his suc- cessor —n Politioal Notes, C. B. Yost, of this city, was a member of the committee on resolutions in the republi- can state eonvention on Tucsday last, and when asked yesterday how he explained the presence of the democratic planks n the republican platform which his committee had constructed, said : “The democratio party stole outright all our forts and arsenals twenty-flve yoars ago and now they have stolen three planks of our platform, It is probable thata meeting of the joint committoe cousisting of members of the young men's republican club of this oity ‘and the state exccutive committes consisting of Mossrs.Sealoy, Egan, Hill, Han- lon and Breckenridge, will be held on Mon- day next. Mr. Secley says that the number of applications made for accommodations at Chicago during the convention is greater than was ever exporienced 1n_this stato, and the first work of the committee will be to at- tend to these, Word has been received that seventoen rooms and one parlor have been kept at the Grand Pacific hotel for tae Nebraska delegation, which comprises twenty people, exclusiveof those who will be accompanied by their wives. The idea seems to bo gaining ground that Nebraska should in some manner attract to herself the attention of the people at the convention. Many minds are now at work to _decide what plan, with this _end i view, should be adopted. The general inclinafion scems to be in the direction of a hortioultural dis- play, whioh could be made in the hoadquar- ters. It was'such a display which so greatly advertised this state in New Orleans. The state, at the last convention, achieved some notoriety through tho red-painted hat of George A, Brooks, of Bazile Mills,which was followed by thousands of peoplewhen Blaine was nominated. The same hat, somewhat worn and battered, is still preserved by Mr. Brooks in a glass case at his home at the place mentioned. Board of Public Works. The board of public works met yostorday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock and approved the following contracts: Sewer in district 71, to Mount & Griffin; storm water scwer on Twentieth strect, from Cass to Nicholas, Mount & Grifiin. The lowest bidder on this work was D. Keleher. In a communication to the council, Chairman Balcombe says that Keleher fs interested in the completion of the north Omaha sewer with Delaney, Thomson & Co., and the board declined o award the contract to him because it was advisable that the firm in question should devote their entire energy, credit and money to the completion of their old contract. The Dboard consequently awarded the contract to Mount & Griftin, the next lowest bidders, who agreed to take tho work at Keleher's figures. The contract for the extension of the South Omoha sewer, west from Twenty-second and Picrce strects to Twenty-seventh, was awarded 1o J. Ryan & Co.; reconstructing sewer in district 4, A. R. Hoel; west branch of South Omaha sewer, Hugh Murphy. The contract for building a sewer on Doug- las street, from Twenty-eighth avenue to Thirty-sixih street, has been awarded to Mount & Griffin. fi iy Mr. Cohen's Boomerang. Emil Cohen, a tailor who has a shop at 111 North Sixteenth street, owes Joseph Fergu- son, a furniture dealer at 715 same street, a bill amounting to something like $30. Cohen went to Ferguson's the other day to settle, and got into a dispute about a quilt, which he says he purchased of Mr. Cody, one of tho clerks, but which Mr. Ferguson says he can prove he stole from in front of his store. Bo that as it may, Cohen became boisterous and abusive, and was finally ordered away from the place by a policeman, Then he hied him- self to the station and swore out a_warrant for Ferguson’s arrest, charging him with disturbing the peace. After the affair had been thoroughly ventilated before the court v the lawyers for and against, Ferguson promptly dismissed and Mr. Cohen re- quired to pay the costs, which fairly para- lyzed him. Dr. Mercer's Fishing Pond. When Dr. Mercer laid the tracks for his motor line along North Fourteenth street he left the crossing at Dodge street in & very dilapidated condition, and whenever it rains a small lake forms inthe vicinity, making travel dangerous and inconvenient. The late rains have again flooded the deep cavities, and last night somebody, with irony 1n his heart and humor iu his soul, posted the fol- lowing bulletin on the lamp post near by: ““Mercer's pond. Fishing reserved for the city council.” Tne Bee has it from good auihority that the pond is well stocked with various species of fish, among the most notable being “sucker taxpayers” and “mul- let-headed freeholders.” —— The Poundmaster's Story. The following was received yosterday: Editor OmanA BEE—Sir: Referring to your article in the edition of last evening regarding the impounding of a_horse belong- ing to Mr. Maybright, I desire to make a statement. Mr. Maybright resides m thealley between Nincteenth and Twentieth streets and Cum- ing and Izard; now the horse was picked up in an open lot'on South Sixteeuth and Pierco stroets, several blocks away from Ma bright's home. Section 3 of the ordinance governing this case distinctly prohibits the herding of animals on any open grounds within the' city imits, With regard to'the demand of ‘the officer making the arrest for $1, it is false, but ho did make a demand for 75 cents which under the lnw he was entitled to. The horse was held for redemption for the period allowed by law, was advertised for sale and sold at auction to the highost bidder for §12. With regard to the horse being worth i3, that is simply nonsense. 1 consider §12 his full value and would not give that much for nim myself. J. HENNESsY, Poundmaster. As stated in yestorday’s BEE the horse sold for 812 at auction and was afterward sold by the purchaser for §20. These are the facts us can be proven. It would secm from the above that the statements made by Maybright and Mr. Hennessy are somewhat at variance as regards the locality in whicn the horse was fonnd, e Losses Due to the Fhylloxera. London Daily News: A writer inthe Economiste francais estimates the total loss to France from the ravages of the phylloxera since 1875, when this scourge of the French vineyards first made its appearance, at the enormous sum of 10,000,000,000f, or about £400,- 000,000, The estimate is based upon French official statistics giving the aggregate arca of vineyards destroyed in the country about 2,500,000 acres, and on the assumption that, in addition to the acreage of vines thus utterly de- stroyed, the extent of vineyards more or less infested with the phylloxera amounts to about 500,000 ucres, making thus together 3,000,000 of acres. The value of these latter, which according to the writer should be caleulated from the gross, and not from the net, revenue formerly derived therefrom, is esti- mated at £280,000,000. On adding to this amount the loss occasioned through the outfall in labor iu the destroyed vineyards, as well as by the vast impor- tations of foreign wines and grapes for winemaking necessitated by the dimin- ished production durlng the last thir- teen years. which is taken at £120,000,- 000, the above mentioned sum is ar- rived at, Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria, When Daby was sick, wo gave her Castoria. ‘Whea she was a Child, she eried for Castoria, When sho becaiae Miss, sk clung o Castoria, ‘Whien ahe had Children, she gave them Castoris, HE FELL IN THE MUD The Undignified Position of a News« paper Writer. —— He Tries to Leave a Bob Tafl Street ©Oar While in Motion, and is Pitoh- ed Ignomiously Into the Mud.—Hoe Seoures H Interview In Spite of the Mud, — The rain and mud that has reigned suprem for the past two weeks proved to be an "‘;etll Injunction against Hunda‘ base ball, causi; polllfim&l games with the Minneapolls, St, Paul and Milwaukee clubs, the former and Iatter be- ing Sunday games. The aforesaid rain and mud has also farnished several humorous incidents, one, of which mention was made during the week, 0f & horse being inirod on Park avenuo, and another of & well-known newspaper writer who having business in North Omaha, hied him- self to that locality on one of our famous bob- tall street cars, over oceans of mu d on at- tempting to lenve the car on North Ninsteenth street was unceremoniously thrown into tho mud,which was at that particular locality about twenty inches deep. He emerged from the mire ring vengeanoce on the condition of our streets in general and on bobtail street cars in particular. Well, nin luck because there are but fow peo- ple here to see nie; but what did I come out here for? soliloquized the bespatiered young mat Wwho had for the time forgotten his business ang )‘\ld w"{flur to his note book for the desired in- mation. 'An Interview with a gentleman on North Twentieth street, and I am {n & nice condition fo interview anyone; but it must be done, and here goes,” and he did. The gentleman to b interviewed proved fo be Mr. eoras Handsrson residing at No, 1121 North __Tweutlef stroet, ablacksmith employed by “the car company At their shops at the corner of Twenty- first and Ouming stroets. Mr. Ran. dercon has resided in Omahia for abous fivo years, and for throa years of that time has worked for tlie CAF company at the above place, ““Mr. Randerson, T hear you have betn and have some- thing to say about it that would interest our readers, and for that reason I have called on you,” said the writer. “Well, yes, T had been sick, but am not now, asyou kos, but for about eight years I was o prétty sick’ man, not o sick that I had to re. main’ indoors, but_sick enough to feel miser- able all the time, During tho last eight years Thave been a_constant sufferer from cafarrh, my nose would stop up 5o that I was compelied to_ breathe !hrnu;z’;’\y mouth. Every fres cold would cause 16 more sufforing, until it bo came almost ufibearablo, 1 had & continuous dull pain over wd fn thy buck part of 1uy eyes. Tscarcely knew what it was to be wit Leadache. 1 was continually hemmis spitting to remove & lump in niy throat, which I could never displace, In the morning It would cause me 5o much annoyance that by the time [ was ready for my breaksast I had lost all my appetite forit,in fact,my appetite was for long time as 1y stoniach was continually out of order, n_constant rising of wind and of sour water in my throat, n_dull heavy feeling in the it of my stomach and u pain on one side or the other under my ribs which made me feel as though I could not take @ long breath.’ My Tungs felt sore all the time, but the doctor tol me 1t was due_more to the condition of my stomach, which T afterwards found to be true, for as so0n as I felt better in my stomach the pains in my chest left me. My condition was such as to alarm my wife and my friends, my sleep was broken, and I would arise in' the 1aorning feeling as tired and languid as 1did the previous night. As 1 said, b and condition alarmed my wife and T made up my mind that something had to be done, for I had suffered enough. I consulted several doctors and tried several patent prepa- rations, but it did mo no good. I was advisod by a friend of mine to cousult Br. J. Cresap SLoCOY, andas I had read considerabie abouf 5 tho daily newspavers. I concluded I would con- sult him, I visited his office about two months ago ana consulted him in regard to iy case. took treatment and began to improve at once? after the first treatment my nose becamo clearer and 1 could breathe through it once moro—some- thing T had not done for o long time—and it Aid not take long until T began to feel botter in every way, and to-day I feel like a new man; I have a good appotité, my stomach is all right and I can eat three good meals every day;l have no more trouble with my throat, and the pain over my eyes is & thing of the past; Ihave 1o more headaches, and, to make a long story short, I think Dr. McCoy has cured my eatarris.’ Mr. Randerson' resttles at No. #i11, Norit Twentleth street, and i employed as a black- smith at the car ‘shops, corner of Twenty-first and Cuming streets, and wiil corroborate the above statement to any one doubting it. A FEW QUESTIONS. A Few Symptoms of Disease That May Prove Serious to You. i D0,¥ou iave frequent fts of mental depres- 0 Do you experionce ringjug or buzzing oises 10 your ears ou feel as though you must suffocate when lying down? ro you troubled with a hacking cough and general debility? 5 Ao your eycs generally weak and watery and trequently inflamed? Does your voice have a husk, thick Sound and. a nasal'sort of twang? I8 your breath freqilently offensive from some unaccountable cause? ¥ Have you a dull, oppressive headache, gener- ally located over the uyes? 0 you have to hawk and cough frequently in the effort to clear your throat? Are you losing your sonse of smell and is your sense of taste becoming duliod? Does your nose always feel stopped up, forc- ing you ‘to breathe through your mouth? Do you frequently feel dizzy, particularly - when Btooping 1o pick anything off the floor? Does every little draft of air und every slight chango of temperature give you & cold? Are you annoyed by a constant desire to hawlk and spit ont un endless quantity of phlogm? Are you always tired and_indisposed 1o exer= tion, Whether of business, work or amusement? s reat cifort required to keep your thoughts fixed upon_matters that formerly were easily performed? Do you rise fre were the night m bed as tired and weak as you foro aud feel as though you ro forever? 18 your throat filled with phlegm in the morn~ ing, which can only be discharged after violent coughing and hawking and spitting? Can Catarrh be Cured, ast age might bo called o superstitions . Tle present can more properly be called ong the impovcibilities huve now becoms yday possibities. It would be superfiuous The one, to enumerate them. Buthave we roached the utmost limit? Have we? Physiclans who claim tomake certaln atlments thie human body {8 subject to & special study” and clutin to be ablo to sure such diseases, are pronounced by other selt-satisflod practitioners as presutnpruous;but does their suylng so make it 507 The man who gomes tho heareat to overcoming the weetn ‘oy or his associates do not mak anytling marvelous, such as raising the dead and giving them new life; nefther do they claim 1ght to the blind; but by their new and method of treating catarrh they have s well as bronchial Thoy make catarrh & speciulty because it 15 one of the most prevalent and tronbleso climate are heir to give clentif treated with succe other physicians bave tola thelr diseuse Wis classod among the fncurables. Do they ne 3 from wel k in tho daily pap rson making the ment, that the doubting and skeptioal may call and interview the said people prior to visiting tho doctor's oflices for consultation. The peopls advertised as cured are by no means ubnt\lr.‘nlr i one suffering from catarrhal affections to those whore statements are published, or consult with tho doctoror his nssoclates at i oftice. Pemaneatly Located. Dr.J. Cresap McCoy. late of Bollevus Hospl: tal Notw Vork, and Lis asioclatos, lately of th Unliversity of New York City, also'of Washing- ton, D G have located permanently tn tho Ruinge Biock, Omuba, Neb. where all curable cases’ are treated skillfufly. =~ Consumption, Dright's Diseuso, Dyspopsla, Tiheumatiat, an all nervous diseases, All diseases peculiar to Bex a specialty CATARRHCURED. Consultation at office or by mail, #1, Office hours, 40 11 4. m., 210 4 p. 1k, 740 8'p. . Su Da. m, to1p m Corespondence recelves prompt attention No letiers answered unless aecompanied by 4 Ccllhh‘lll alm:lllpa. 9 nes o R Address all mall to Dr. J. C. McCoy, Ramy Block, Omahia, Neb, ¥ * ADYION VREK, HOW TO AGT, AP . Siomach Modic RDNG. 4 Troa: (sgscut (16808 app cation. 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