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

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Datly Morning Edition) including Sundsy Eflll. Omne Year T OMAnA oa.'l:m.'lunnll FARNAM STRERT. 0B, ROOMS 14 AND 15 TRIBUNE i:ru:-nn. W saiTNGTON OF¥iom No. 618 FOURTERNTI BTRRET. CORRESPONDENCE. it \cations relating to news and edi- Soria mmtier ahouid be addressed 10 the BDITOR OF THE SINESS LETTERS. All business letters and remittances should be A0 ressed to Tk BER PUBLISHING COMPANY, IMAHA. v‘;-m. checks and postoffice orders to made payable to the order of the company. e Bep Publishing Company. Proprictors . ROSEWATER, Editor. THE DAILY BEE. Bworn Statement of Circnlation. of Nebraska, e .fi.'fl i i of The Bes Pub- lllhlnf mwy, dm -.omr;l the Sniing May ""s;:;i s a8 fotlows: day, May 18. A GEO. B, 'm; Fworn to and subscribed in 19th day of May, A. D., 1888, # . FEI otary Btate of Nebraska, ta.s oA i, being frst dul @eorge B, Trschuck, being first duly sworn, i sayn thAL e In secrotary of Tho Bos shing company, that, tho nctanl nverngs Glroulation of e Dally Bies for the month vy, 18, was 4327 coples; for June, 187, 47 coplest, for July, 187, 1400 coples fo Atgust, 187, 14,151 coples; _foe September, 1887, les} for October, 1857, 14,333 coplea; foF 1887, 15,228 copues; for mber, 3687, 16,041 copiés; for January, 1888, 15,206 coy fes:' for Feb 1888, 16,902 coplesr for Marcl 168, 10,050 coples for ApHI, 1885, 18744 coples. Sworn Eu"z‘&'h’.’ mfs"nml ;"S"fiégfld in my resence of A . D, L . 5. WL, Notary Pubite. — e e RoswreLn P. FLower, like a full blown rose, will lead the New York democratic delegation solid for Cleve- land to St. Louis. But the unexpected may happen, and like the last rose of pummer, he will be left blooming all alone. OFFICIAL notice has been received at ‘Washington of the action of the parlia- ment of Brazil in abolishing slavery throughout that country. If Cuba will wash the stains of slavery from her garments, the last vestige of barbar- jsm will have disappeared from the American continent. — 5 EVERY prohibition convention in the country declares for the entire prohibi- tion of the liquor traffic in all forms, for female suffrage, for tariff reform,for rgompulsory observance of Sunday. This looks like heralding the approach of the millenium, but before all these re- forms can take place, the thousand years will have rolled around. EE—— THE serious breaks in the levees at Quincy, 11l., and other cities along the raging Mississippi have caused con- siderable damage to property and se- wvere suffering to hundreds of families ,along the river bottoms. The annual floods in the Mississippi and Missouri valleys ought to convince congress without further argument of the ne- cessity of making liberal appropriations immediately for these rivers under the river and harbor bill. E—— ‘WaiLE Berlin, Paris and Vienna are putting on their gay holiday attire, the czar is busily weaving his web to trap the gay butterflies. He has determined that Bulgaria must fall into the capa- cious maw of Russia. The recent enorm- ous Russian loan, and the extensive military operations and works along southern Russia, are grim evidences that Alexander is ready to let loose the dogs of war. The Russian autocrat will find the provocation to attack Bulgsria and will brook no opposition from Austria or any power. THE local authorities of the Missouri Pacific railroad committed a contempt- ible act when they threw several car loads of earth into the cable tramway trenches at the intersection of the Mis- sourl Pacific tracks with the cable’s line on North Twentioth street. When it is remembered that the Missouri Pacific confiscated the rightof way in defiance of the protests of property owners, and built their tracks at night and on Sundays leading up to the alley between Izard and Nicholas, the out- rage on the rights of the Tramway company isall the more aggravating. The Cable company has had enough ®pposition from the Horse Car company and from other quarters already with- out deserving this uncalled-for spite work on the part of the Missouri Pacific, SEm—— THE resignation of Mr, Edward L. Merritt, who has been editor-in-chief and manager of the Omaha Herald for nearly a year, has created generat sur- prise among all classes of our citizens. Mr. Merritt is a genial gentleman and has conducted the Herald with more than ordinary ability, in view of the many obstacles which he had to encounter when he was placed in charge. The policy he pursued, especially on local issues, was in the public interest, and he rarely spared jobbers and boodlers when he found them preying upon the taxpayer, whetber they were of his own party or not, Asa journalist Mr, Merritt has been courteous and never trenched upon the proprieties of the profession, THE BEE sincerely wishes Mr. Merritt prosperity and success wherever he may chooso to cast his lot. em——— NEBRASKANS, one and all, will learn with pleasure of the safe arrival at New York, after a prolonged stay abroad, of Colonel William Cody, of this state. The colonel’s peculiar business was that of “booming” one of the industries which once flourished in this part of the country. It is safe tosay that Nebraska was never better advertised abroad, and that one of her citizens was never en- tertained in a more royal manner. A certain Mr, Albert Wales, of Eungland, had the kindness of introducing “‘Our Bill” around, and as a return for his hospitality, Colonel Cody presented Mr. Albort Wales with a quarter section of Nebraska soil. If Mr. Wales and his numerous family will emigrate out here, the colonel assures him, that he will make a good citizen of this state. Nebraska's Crop Prospects. Tir BEE this morning prints raports from its correspondents in every county of Nebraska showing the condition and promise of the orops. Asa whole, they are most cheering. In the southeast- ern counties the corn is all in, and thus far all the conditions have been favorable. The advices from the west- ern counties are in the main satisfac- tory, the farmers generally reporting the outlook to be almost as favorable as at this time last year, although the season has been more backward. In the northern counties the continuous rainfall has delayed corn planting, but this will be completed with- in another week. As to wheat and oats the general outlook is excellent, and the promise is good for an abundant hay crop. The season has thus far been very favorable to the smaller grains. The corn area, it is indicated, will bo considerably larger than last year, and if the present prom- iso is realized this most important of Nebraska’s cereal products will this year add largely to the wealth of the state. Tt is expected, also, that other grains will show a considerable increase over the crops of last year. Conditions may ot course occur that will hereafter somewhat change the present favorable aspect and indications, but there is no necessity for borrow- ing any trouble on this score. It is sufficient now to con- gratulate the farmers and peo- ple of Nebraska upon a favorable state of things which holds out the promise of a generous harvest that will materially advance the prosperity of the commonwealth, and have an im- portant influence in attracting to it population. ‘We have not to wait for this year’s crops to demonstrate the superior ad- vantages of Nebraska as an agricultural state. Her position in this respect is already pretty generally recognized. But with all the other benefits of abundant crops from year to year, the 2ood they do in attracting to us the less fortunate people of other states is not to be lost sight of. Our exceptionally fortunate experience last year is to be credited with no small part of the large increase in population since. On every account, therefore, the promise for the present year gives cause for congratu- lation and confidence. S— The Debate Closed. The tariff debate in the house of rep- reseatatives, memorable rather by rea- son of its extent than for any important addition it has made to public enlight- enment on the subject, came to an end on Saturday. Every man who had an ambition to contribute of his wisdom on the all-absorbing question hasgone on record, the acknowledged leaders of the opposing opinions appearing last in the discussion. The debate has had its hu- morous, and even ridiculous, as well as its serious features. Several members have won a perhaps enviable notoriety in being able to find in this dry and practical subject something to amuse. Mason, of Illinois, and Allen, of Mississippi, are on the list with Cox and Knott as congressional humorists, while Martin, of Texas, oc- cupies a wholly unique and original place, without rival or peer. Of the leaders on either side, McKinley of Ohio and Reed of Maine have well sus- tained their reputation as among the ablest defenders of the protective policy, while Carlisle and Millsand Brecken- ridge have not disappointed those whose views they represent. On the whole, however, it has not been from any point of view a great debate, and no one of those who contributed to it has really increased his claim to be regarded as a statesman. It is somewhat to what will . be pursued regarding the tariff bill now before congress. The disposi- tion of the democratic majority ap- pears to be to bring the matter to a vote as soon as possible, while on the part of the republicans there seoms to be a question whether it is better to allow this to be done or to insist upon having the bill considered by sections, so as to enable ' the minority to offer amend- ments, upon each of which a debate of five minutes would be allowed. 1f the latter course is pursued, which in all probabilivy will be the case, the final vote on the measure could certainly be postponed until after the St. Louis con- vention. The considerations affecting the disposition of both parties is purely political, but whatever the determina- tion may be, the country is to be con- gratulated that the house debate has been concluded. Inno event can the discussion in the senate be equally ex- tended, Meanwhile there is promise that for at least a week the house will give its attention to other matters than the tariff, » uncertain as the course E——— The Governor and the Pinkertons. In stating a few days ago that Gover- nor Thayer, in an interview, had said that on the application of local authori- ties for the removal of Pinkerton de- tectives he would take action for their expulsion from the state, it appears that Tue BEE misinterpreted the language of the governor. We learn from him that he has never claimed the author- ity to expel these mercenaries from the state, and that he does not possess it. The only way of getting rid of these armed invaders, whether they come in singly or by the hundred, seems to be by proceedings in the courts, It is the privilege of the Burlington or any other corpora- tion, so it appears, to overrun the state of Nebraska with these irresponsible hivelings, and our citizens can get no proteciion except as they shall obtain it through the tedious processes of a prosecution, in the way of which the corporation employing these men would of course interposé every possible ob- struction. We had no desire to misrepresent Governor Thayer, and we suppose him to be correct in disclaiming any author- ity to interfere with the Pinkerton mer- censries. We feel confident he does not approye of the employment of these men in Nebraska. But we would im- press upon the people of Nebraska the full significance of the governor’s ad- mission, to the end thata demand be made upon the. next legislature fora, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE law that will give the executive of this state the authority to protect its citi- zens against these invasions, the brutal: and bloody consequences of which have already been roalized. This intolerable systom of importing armed hirglings into the states to overawe ecitizens, must be suppressed. It is repugnant to our governmental principle, and a growing menace to the liberties of the people. There could be no greater peril to the peaco and freedom of the oiti- zens of this country than to permit vhe growth of this insidious and treacher- ous evil, and it is the duty of every state to deal with it firmly and summar- ily. The people of Nebraska, knowing what this evil means and that they aro virtually without protection against it, will not fail to provide such sateguards for the future as will effectually keep out of this state armed hirelings from other states, under whatever pretext it may be sought to bring them here. ——— THE senate investigation touching meats and meat products of the United States is likely to have a wide applica- tion. Senator Vest, who is pushing the investigation, has made a careful study of the subject, and is satisfied thata ring of Chicago packers and railroads have depressed the industry through the country. He finds that the price of beef is steadily declining despite the fact that heavy’ losses of cattle took place last winter, while to the con- sumer the price is gradually increasing. Mr. Vest wants to know why this fact is s0. He therefore proposes to make an investigation of the cattle industry begining with the cattle growers and extending the inquiry through all its modifications uatil it reaches the con- sumer. Especially will he try to find out why Chicago is the heart, lungs, brain, liver and stomach of the cattle trade of this country and of the world. There can be no doubt that a selfish Chicago combin- ation rules the meat marketof America. Five firms in the city of Chicago control the beef and pork supply at every large city on the eastern seaboard—from Bos- ton to New Orleans. They have driven local competition of butchers in the background, and the price of meat to consumers is fixed by the Chicago syn- dicate. But the ring has also de- termined the price of native cattle shipped to Chicago, which allows west- ern cattle growers hardly a living mar- gin of profit. That something is wrong and artificial in this distribution of the profits, which ought to be equitably di- vided between grower and packer, is self-evident. It 1s hoped that the senate investigation will be prompt and thorough, and that the clog which paralyzes the cattle industry will be removed. — AMERICAN protectionists have talked s0 long and soloud about protecting home-labor against the competition of foreign pauper labor, that their voices have found an echo in Sweden. In the Swedish Diet, a tariff bill was under discussion in which extracts were read from American congressmen and statesmen pointing out the necessity of protection to home-labor. If American labor needed protection certainly Swedish labor needed it also. This seemed good logic and the Diet acted upon it. A bill was passed which puts an almost protective duty upon Ameri- can pork. The measure is not intended as a retaliatory meas- sure, but is designed for the sole purpose of protecting Swedish pork raising against the competition of the American hog. The diet was con- vinced that something must be done to protect Swedish labor. And as Amer- ican statesmen said that they had found the remedy, Sweden is going to try the American plan. It will next be in order for the British farmer to demand vrotection for his home-laborer by kbeping out American wheat raised by ‘cheap labor of the west.” THERE is a general shaking up in railroad circles over reports of actual or prospective reductions in rates. The lake and rail lines have recently cut their tariffs between Atlantic seaboard and important western points along the Missouri river. Live stock rates have dropped 80 per cent and dressed beef rates have likewise been reduced. Col- orado business is said to be down to an unprofitable basis and eastern trunk lines refuse to prorate with the western rvoads. The next turn in the game will be watched with interest. There is something back of this bearish move- ment. Itis said that every road will reduce its dividends, but this is hardly warranted when the reports of earnings from the principal lines of the country show an increase over corresponding months of last year, s THE opening of the Sioux reservation is likely to be opposed by the Indians themselves, who know enough not to give up a good thing when they have got it, A grand council of Sioux chiels and their followers is now in progress near the agency. They object to the opening of their reservation on the ground that in that event they will be obliged to work for a living like the white man. Aseach Indian has on an average 1,000 acres and is supported by the government, their present lot is not on the whole an unhappy one. —————— VOICE OF THE STATE PRESS. The Gresham Review, probably edited by a woman, complacently says: “Women hay- ing been excluded from seats in the Metho- dist conference, they can now console them- selves with the certain knowledge that there is at least one striking difference between that conference and heaven.” The Oxford Standard abuses Van Wyck for his anti-monopoly views, whereupon the Holdrege Progress says: *Whenever a pub- lic man has the temerity 1o espouse the cause of the people in legislative hall, or elsewhere, he is tabooed by the power behind the throne within the republican party, and marked for defeat if he again aspives for oftice. How long will the mass of the republican voters submit to these indignitiest The Greely Leader, a little late say: ‘At torney General Leese has scored another vie- tory for the republican party against monop- oly. This time it Is in the caseof the consoli- dation of the Atchison & Nebraska road with the B. & M. The interpretation of the law by the courts, the consolidation of con- tinuous lines are lawful, but competing lines canot be'used for other thau competjng lines else bouds Leld by thei would uot need be filled. Thisis a victory: for the republicans and farmers generally.” The Columbus Derhodrat figures the ques- tlon in this way: “Rot in the Omaha Re- publican is not unusual, but no rot of so silly a oharacter has appeared therein for months as the editorial saying that a tie up has been made between MoShane and Van Wyck whereby they were to run against each other for congress, and the bfie that is defeated Is 1o use his influenco t& hoost the other into Manderson's shoes. Ffom the fact that @ defeated candidate for representative would not make a strong caudidate for senator, it would soem that the Republican editor was badly mixed when he warote that artiole.” The Statesman, published at Broken Bow, contains this idea: ‘‘Nebraska republicans are making a record this year, at which hon- esty and intelligence may well hide their modest faces and blush. In the Socond congressional district, thoy have nominated a scamp and in the Third a fool, to represent the people of Nebraska in the national logis- Iature, Laird and Dorsey. Who will be put up in the First district is yet to be seen, Their delegates to the national convention do not represent anything in the world but the different railroad corporations doing busi ness in the state, At the state convention on Tuesday, Van Wyck introduced a set of res- olutions denouncing trusts, monopolies, high taxes and railroad interference in the affairs of the state, but he was hooted and snubbed and told to take his resolutions over to the democrats."" The Sherman Conty Transcript, under the caption ‘“‘Farmers,’” thus murmurs: ‘‘When the farms of the country are coverod with mortgage upon mortgage to the amount of hundreds of millions, when the honest farmer toils from early morning to late at night, when the good housewife labors beyond her strength and economizes in every possible direction, when every child who is old enough, and even before he is old enough, sweats under the heavy burdens laid upon him, when all unitedly work under the burn- ing sun of summer and in the cold of winter, and then, when all this has been done, only & living has been obtained, and in many in- stances a poor one at the best, there is some- thing wrong. The Shylock of old demanded the pound of flesh nearcst the heart. The shylocks of to-day take the hard earned money from the poor farmer, take the bread from the mouths of the toiling millions, take the education from the children of the indus- trious and patient farmer." Commenting upon the subject of recent conventions, the Grand Island Times says: ““The carelessness of the people and the close attention of the monopoly tools to the polit- 1cal business of republican primaries, county, congressional and state conventions has had the expected results. The Nebraska dele- gation to the mational republican con- vention for the nomination of a prosi- dential candidate consists exclusively of railroad attorneys and railroad tools con- trolled by these attorneys. The leading men among them are Johm M. Thurston, the chief attorney of the Union Pacific and direc- tor of the Lincoln oil'réoms; Charlie Greene, of Omaha, attorney of the B. & M., and C. A. Bates, of Gage county, attorney of the Rock Island railroad. ''What a farce it is to call a convention of railroad attorneys a peo- ple’s convention, and thig delegates of the rail- roads a representation of the people of Ne- brsica. Botter turn over the whole govern- ment to the railroad, corporations and be done with the humbug of so-called ‘self-gov- ernment.’” « Upon the subject of elevator trusts, and in a general way, the York Times says: “There is a class of elevator men in this state who are not satisfied with the ordinary way of doing business, according to true business principles, and who are constantly trymg to form a trust or pool or general corporation. ‘Whatever name they may give their compact, the object is to organize in such a way as to destroy all competition in the grain trade and give them entire control of the local market. There is another class of elevator men who are averse to this method, and much prefer to do business independently and on sound and equitable business princi- ples. These men will stay out of a combina- tion as long as possible, while the others will use every endeavor to drive them into it. If a combination be strong, embracing a large proportion of the best elevators and heaviest firms, and extend throughout thé state, it would be mext to impossible to do business successfully outside of the combination, and thus good men who de- plore the necessity are compelled to acoept the situation and go into the 4rust or for- feit their business and their property. 1t re- quires no argument to prove that these combinations are detrimental to the country, though they may be temporarily advant- ageous to the elevator men. Yet, if they undertook to use the power which they thus become possessed of, the result would be alike disastrous to themselyes and the pro- ducers, as the amount of grain raised for the market would be greatly diminished. The very best thing to do is to discourage their organization at the outset, and after they are organized, the men who refuse to go into them should be sustained both by public sentiment and in the more practical way of giving them the business to do."” ——— LABOK NOTES, At Bloomfleld, N. J., carpenters get $3 a day. An asphalt company is being formed at Rochester, N. Y, There arc about eight hundred Knights of Labor in Albany, N. Y, Some Brooklyn bakers' unions have gained advances for their men, A Cincinnati soap flrm just distributed $14,000 among 200 employes as their share of the years' profits. The American Wheelmakers' association met at Washington, D. C., last week. Trade was reported dull. The furniture-workers' union of San Fran- cisco has adopted a label to be placed on union-made articles. A Corning, N. Y., contractor was at El- miras few days ago (offering bricklayers #3.50 and a nine-hour day. A Hadley, Mass., thread company is put- ting in 6,400 new spindles,which will increase its production 25 per cent, Non-union men of Hamllton, Ont., have formed the Independent Workingmen's asso- ciation, with fifty members, A planing and lathe mill with a daily ca- pacity of 50,000 feet, is to be removed from Michigan to Armistead, Miss. The Coopers' union of New York is to re- establish a co-operative cooper shop 1 con- nection with the co-operative brewery, At Laredo, Tex., 100 miners have struck for $1.50 a ton, an advance of 10 cents. The boss says he will import men from the north. St. John (N. B.) masons have struck for 80 cents an hour and @ nine-hour day, and the carpenters want an advauce of 15 per cent. Many of the master painters of Toronto, Canada, have granted the demand for twen- ty-two and a-half cents an hour and a nine- hour day. The largest wood alcohol works in the world are at Calera, Ala. The weekly out- put is 20,000 bushels of charcoal and 700 gal lons of alcohol. The Carpenters’ union of Portland, Ore., has 1ssued a circular warning carpaaters and all other workingmen 10 keep away from Ll gity, aud Lo Leke Lo Lolice of the State MONDAY, MAY 21, 1888 monts of speculators published to boom the place. Unlicensed plumbers in Brooklyn oannot obtain material bocause of a deal between the master pumbers and tho dealors in plumbers' material. A Warrensburg, Mo., company with a cap- {tal of $100,000, will mine coal, ire-clay, iron and lead, and manufacture fire-olay goods, sewer pipe, drains, tiling, eto. ‘The carpenters of Plymouth, Mass., have without an excoption signed an agrosment that on and aftor May 14 nine hours shall constitute a day’s work, prices remaining as before. A mass meeting of loomers and drawers was held at Blackburn, Eng., lately, ana & new unform list was adopted. It was decided to present it to the masters at once and give them one week to consider it. ‘The shoemakers of Borlin who work from fourteen to eighteen hours o day and aver- age from $1.75 to §3.60 per week areon a strike. Their circnlar, printed in full in the Chicago Engineer, says they cannot be in a worse condition. A demonstration of unemployed workers numbering some 8,000 has been held at Grenada, Spain. Deputations were sent from the meeting to the local authorities to ask them to institute public works for the benefit of the unemployed. Gambrinus assembly of St. Louis has adopted resolutions not to enter into a striko at presenttigainst the Brewers' association, but instructed the secretary to keep an ac- countof the men discharged, and in case of further oppression the brewery discharging the greatest number of union men will be the first one with which they will engage in a fight, it it ‘What the Other Booms Are. Globe-Democrat. The Gresham boom is about all there is of real, active movements in the republican party just now. The other booms are made up of buncombe, boodle, blather and blovia- tion. This is official. ————— Eight Daughters, Eight Planos. Minneapolis Tribune. If patience be one of the qualifications of a chief justice of the supreme court of the United States, Fuller 1s all right. He has been thoroughly disciplined by his eight daughters and their eight pianos. . ——— Gets There Just the Same. Chicago Tribune. Muley Hassan has backed down completely and Mr. Bayard feels quite big enough to “lick Sullivan,” The secretary’s foreign policy 18 not particularly spirited or spectacu- lar, but like the bug that hath no wings at all, it gets there just the same. —_—— The Round-Shoulder Students. Pioneer Press. ‘The great colleges of this country are de- generating. Dartsmouth has restricted foot- ball, Harvard confines athletics to very nar- row limits, and Cornell has instituted strict rules against hazing. If this thing goes much further we mnay hear that students are re- quired to put in most of their time studying at college. ——— Placed Once More. Wall Street News. President Cobin arrived in Havre last Sun- day morning, and the unwearied bulls had the Reading 4 per cent loan all placed once more. Itisquite probable that the Roth- schilds and the Bleichroders chartered a tug and went down to meet him, so as to cut off the horde of hungry bankers only too anxious to relieve him of the new Reading 4's upon his own terms, The frequency with which this new loan has been placed reminds us of the way in which the members of the Mack- eral brigade in Orpheus O. Kerr's truthful narratives were wont to take the oath of alle- giance—with three fingers, —_———— The Farmers' Trust. From the Western Rural of May 5: I heartily wnc\g with the view of your corraspondent, E. L. R., in The Rural of April 14. Trusts are combinations to limit supply for the purpose of forcing a higher price from the ‘f)ubliu. The principle is pernicious and the object of the combination is immoral and dishon- est. If the srinclplc is wrong, all com- binations under it are wrong. I would regard a combination of producers to raise by artificial means the prices of farm roducts as_especially wrong. The old adage, “When rogues conspire honest men must combine” and ‘“You must fight the devil with fire,” give us no justification. Combinatious of honest men to enact and enforce just laws, to repeal bad ones, and to resist by legitimate efforts iillegal and unjust combinations are all right, and there is now an imperative necessity that all good men should enter such combinations. But we do not *‘fight the devil with fire.” Knav- ery does not justify knavery. I am quite well satisfied that farmers are not organizing any trust. Iam in frequent communication with many leading farmers of Kansas, and no such scheme has been broached to me by any farmer of that state. I think some de- signing sharpers who want to get special facilities for handling farmers’ products may be manipulating this trust scheme, il anyone is. The great injustice which our present tariff and financial gystems are inflicting upon the producing and in- dustrial classes, and the nervous unrest which prevails among farmers, give to snch schemes a plausible ook to men who are merely surface thinkers and offer an opportunity to demagogues to play upon the credulity of farmers and get them- selves boosted into prominent positions. A case of this sort has just come to the surface in this state. A man named Butler, a former governor of the state, who was impeachéd for misappropriat- iog school funds, has with two associates f. rmulated a scheme for the organiza- tlon of an ‘*American Farmers’ Union,” the principal salient feature of which is that said ex-Governor Butler is by the constitution made president of the Na- tional Union (when it shall be born) for two years, Such schemes have a short- lived existence, fool a few favmers and are then exhaled into thinair, The so- called ** farmers’ trust” will also be one of the same sort. J. BURROWS. Mr. E. G. Grube, who has been elected delegate by the Omaha turners to the na- tional convention of that association which assembles in Chicago on Sunday next left for that place Friday afternoon, The convention will continue about five days. After its con- clusion, Mr. Grebe will make short visits to Milwaukee and St. Louis. He will send daily lotters to the Nebraska Tribune, the German daily of this city, during the con- veution, . The Catholic Benevolent legion was organ- ized under the laws of New York state on September 1, 1581, and has now a member- ship of 14,000. The objects arc to give Catholics a cheap life insurance, and the mutual assessment, and social and int lectual improvement. There were but six- teen assessments last year, and §1,000,000 was paid to beneficiaries. — A THB special session of tue Grand Castle of New Jersey, Kn ights of the Golden Eagle the past chief’s decree was counferred upon forty past chiefs, and the secret work of the order was exemplified by Grand Instructor Strang. A committee was appointed to make arrangements for the proper representation of the state of New Jersey in the parade in honor of the supreme castle at Washington, D. C., during this month. —— The Supreme Lodge A. O. U. W. weets at Louisyille in June. Amniang other features au effort 'will be made to have the next conven- iom beld in Bt Louis. A HOME FOR THE HOMELESS. Some Faots Regarding the Retreat of the Friendless. AN EXCELLENT Kincoln Would Receive the Rock Island With Open Arms—Internal Strife in the State Uni- versity Faoulty. INSTITUTION. LiNcouy Bureav or Tig OMAna Bes, EET, } LINGOLN, May 30. One of the state institutions that pursues the even tenor of its way, doing & great deal of good, is the Stato Home for the Friend- less in this oity. The home 1s located on Bouth street, in one of the handsomest and ‘most prosperous sections of Lincoln, and since fts location it has scen wonderful growth and development around it. The grounds at the home are ample, with a pro- fusion of shade, a large lawn and play- ground, a fine green house, and every eon- venionoe in the way of roomy grounds for out- door exercise for the inmates, The history of the home dates back to 1879, when an in- effectual attempt was made to secure an ap- propriation from thoe legislature for tho es- tablishment of an institution of that kind. In 1881, however. a similar attempt to secure an appropriation resulted in securing $5,000 from the state to be used in the building of & home at tho town that would give the great- est bonus to receive it. Lincoln subscribed $2,000, and the home was located here. Ou January 1, 1883, the home was opened, with Mrs. A. B. Slaughter as matron, and one in- mate. Two thousand dollars was granted the institution by the legislature that year, and appropriations since that time have builded the home and its surroundings to their present dimensions, The prssent number of inmates is 102, twenty-three of whom are adults and seventy-nine children. As an example of the incomings and outgoings, during the month of Adlril. there were admitted one adult and five children, and during the same month there were dismissed four adults and thirteen children, three being sent to the reform school, six going to friends and cight being placed in homes. One im- portant feature in the work of the home is the aid that is extended b{wtho system of auxiliaries located at a number of towns in the state. As a greater partof the expense of support, olothing, etc., is roceived only by contributions from the geonerous, these outside societies are of the test assist- ance in maintaining the work and many of the local societies have tound ahome for deserving inmates at this institution. The home, it might be stated, has up to the last few months been indebted a groater or _less amount, but all have been paid off and the management is now free from any incum- brance save the regular running expenses. The state has wisely taken the home largely in charge in a financial way that has made the ’)rmnt work in the institution possible. The appropriations for 1887 and 1888 from the state were as follows: Salaries for officers and employes, $10,000; light and fuel, $4,000; repair _fund, 00, Oflour Iu-mi g o, stationary, an stage, paper, tolo- gzuph, telephone and other lncidgnuh, $500; iler house, laundry, baking and furnish- ings for same, $6,000; clothing, bedding and furniture, $,000, making a total for the two years of $32,500. The present officers aud employes of the home are as follows: Superintendent—Mrs. A. B. Slaughter, Physician—Miss Alice Huff. Matron—Mrs. M. R. Wing. Teacher—Mrs. Senie Swensson. Governess—Miss Loule Appleby. Kindergarten Teacher—Miss gie Coyle. General Assistant—DMiss Ella Adams. Head Nurse (lst nursery)—Miss L. M Carpenter. Night Nurse (lst nursery)—Miss Lillie Murphy. Assistant Nurse (1st nursery)—~Miss M. Koumisky. Assistant Nurse (Ist nursery)-—Miss L. Trunkey. Assistant Nurse (20 nursury)—Mrs. E. Hawley. Special Nurse—Miss A. Hillis. Y Charge of Dormitory—Miss Eva Tabor. Cook—Mrs. Eliza-Stahmer. Assistant Cook—Miss Mattie McCulloch. Laundress—Miss Olive Anderson. Engineer and Florist—Otto Geischwender. Gardener—Peter Swensson. ROCK ISLAND MOVEMENTS, “The Rock Island willbe in Lincoln within a twelvemonth,’” remarked one of the most active members of the Lincoln board of trade to-day, and the indications all point to a con- firmation of the gentleman’s faith. The re- quest made by the citizens of Fairbury that the Lincoln board of trade send a committee to that place this week to confer with Presi- dent Cable of the Reck Island. and other officials of the road who will be there, will be complied with. The result of this conference will be watched with interest by Lincoln citi- zons generally. The actions of tho Burling- ton road, both toward this city and its busi- ness men and toward its employes, who are no small factor, in this city, have been such that a new Chicago line of the policy of the Rock Island would be ree:ived with open arms by the capital city., Said a business man sud heavy shi) pper in discussing the coming of the road: ““The Rock Island people would be astonished themselves at the vol- ume of business we would give them if they came to Lincoln.” Jt is a fact very generally known that the Northwestern road and the Missouri Pacific both completed to Lincoln within the past two yenrs are doing & paying business al- ready. Church Howe, in conversation re- garding the Missouri Pacific, stated at a ro- cont visit here that the management of that road were more than pleased with their Lin- coln Line; that it was a paying institution and far exceeded the expectations of the man- agement in the volume of business trans- acted. When the Rock Island reaches Lincoln 1t will approach the city from the east and will secure independent depot grounds of its own on the Antelope bottom in the eastern part of the municipality, convenient to business and unhampered by other roads. A prelim- inary survey for a road coming in the city on this side was made a year ago, and made by the Rock Island, although- not generally known at that time. ‘The proposed Lincoln, Red Oak & Des omes road has a survey completed from Lincoln eastward through Lancaster and Cass counties, that could undoubtedly be secured, and it is a survey that traverses one of the richest sections of country that the Burlington has heretofore enjoyed almost entirely to itself. At the present time the city of Lincoln would greet the Rock Island with more than customary friendship from the fact that the yoke of the Burlin, has worn deeply in the neck and its studied and persistent efforts to make the civy, in busi- ness and in politics, subservient toits ends have been repudiated. The coming weeks will be watched with eagerness for a definite and settled outcome from present anticipa- tions. AN INTERESTING SESSION, The coming meeting of the regents of the state university in June promises 1o be an interesting one. At the last meeting of the board the internal strife in the facuity was apparently bridged over for the time, but the armistice was of short duration and the war is evidently on sgain. To discern all the great and portentious causes that lead to present dissentions is almost impossible, but one cause s evidently from the fact that there are 100 many professors who think they should be the chancellor. It is gener- ally understood that the chancellor is the head of schools of this character, but from indications in the Nebraska state university every man desires to be his own chancellor. The threats that were abroad prior to the last session of the regents that some must go if others staid have been renewed. Iu the experimental station the proof that Dr, Bil- lings has discovered the be all and end all of hog cholera remains to be proven as it has fors year past. A bulletin, bowever, is promised soon, when the disease will be cured on paper. ‘The recent bulletin of Dr. Billings on the southern oattle plague bas recently been reviewed in o eritical manner by Dr. Mansfelde, of Ashland, aud the review is anything but an unqualified endorsement. To the contrary it points out some of the vagaries peculiar to this most prolific author of bulletins. In the meantime the coming session of the regents will be watched with uuusual uterest. A Girl's_Invention. In a remote but decent part of Boston, says the Horald, has lived for about fif- teen years an English family of rathor unique interest. The father served in the war of the rebellion, and, being a partial invalid in consequence, recelves a small pension, which doos not far toward supporting a family, and he can do little bosides draw his pension and suffer his constant pain. e mother is a small woman with large brown eyes and palo cheeks. She has had a toil- soma life, indeod, and has done all sorts of work to eke out the family support. Two daughters, the elder somewhat noted in her neighborhood as a beauty. and a small boy make up the balance of the household. Although desperately r, tho family has been as proud as suoifer and seemod bound to accept no more charity than was absolutely un- avoidable, t quh there are plenty of well-to-do people around them who would have gladly contributed in their aid, s every member of the family commanded respect. They have come to be known even outside their narrow cirole from their constant efforts to bot- tor themselves, trying now this thin and now that. Everything failed unti a short time ago; but at last the family has struck something that will give them ease and comfort if not com- arative wealth. - The handsome aughter is oredited with the discovery which is simply a new method of treat- ing photographs in reproduction. Her name has been given to it and her work is getting more and more ociroulation every day, with, of course, an increased inflow of dollars to the family treasury. She has secured a fiawncon her process. All the photographers are puzzled by the work and would like to have it for use 1n their business, as they see that this girl is getting as many orders as she can fill at the good price of $2 for each cabinet reproduction. The pic- tures are the same size as the original cabinet photographs, but softer and more pleasing in tone, and are mounted under thick platé-glass with beveled edges. How she makes hor copies no- body has been able to find out as yot, but, in the slang of the day her work goes.” e e Uncle Jo Monopoly . Washingfon Post: Uncle Joe is one of thp most ingenious darkies in Wash- ington. The other day he contrived to make a rude wheelbarrow for himself. The morning after it was completed he went out to try it, but was dismayed to find it gone. “] 'clah to gracious!” he exclaimed, “I knowed dat wah a mighty nice wheelbarrow, but I didn’t *spec it gwine to run off by 1ts own se’f.” He presently found itin use in Jake Turner’s garden. ““Jake, what you doin’ wid my new wheelbarrow, I'd like to know?” ““W'y, Uncle Joe, 'taint none uv yo’rn. Hit belongs to de community. For you to keep it would be a monopoly.” ‘‘Haint I done made it?” cried Uncle Joe. ‘“‘An’ haint it mine?” ‘No, it haint.” said Jake. ‘“T wuz yo'rn afo’ the wheel was put on to it, but when you put the wheel on you done los’ it.”” ¥ *“What’s the wheol got to do wid it?” “W'y, you see, I done hear Cun'l Beck, the Kaintucky senator, say dat when a man writ a book ’twuz his’n, but ef he print it ’t wuzn’t his'n. An’ printin’ makes a book go, an’ a wheel makes a wheelbarrow go. Cun’l Beck said dat it wuz a_monopoly to give a man the book he writ arter itwuz printed. So I sez it’s monopoly fer ncle Joe to have his wheelbarrow when the wheel’s on.” [ *“You g'lung,” said Uncle Joe, going off with the wheelbarrow; ‘I done made it, and it’s mine, wheel ur no wheel. What good’s a wheelbarrow ’thout a wheel?” “Well, what good’s a book that you can’t print? An’ Cun’l Beck he said—" “Oh, you shet up, Jul Some niggahs gits so smart it mak em fools. An’ as fer Cun’l Beck, T don’t want to be dis’pectful, but ef he ever said any sech stuff I don’t reckon he meant it. Any way this aint Kaintucky, an’ of you £ off with my wheelbarrow agin TlL huve you tuk up. You heah, now?” EDWARD EGGLESTON. e Black and White. A special dispatcn from Baltimore to the Philadelphia North American says: Mary Meredith,a delicate blonde, about thirty years of age, with auburn hair and a face that hud once been protty, was arraigned before Justice Hebb to- day on the charge of burning her hus- band’s clothes, and, to use the languuge of her spouse, of “being crazy.” The women is white, and the husband, who stood by her side to make the charges against her, is as black as the ace of spades. Hisname is John P. Meredith, and he is said. to be one of the finest cooks of Bultimore. In reply to Justice Hebb's questions, the woman said she was far gone with consumption. She suid her husband had treated her very badly and she was B anxious to get away from him. sband admitted that she was broken down in health, and at the suggestion of the magistrate ho said he would take her back to her mother in York, Pa. The charge against her was then dismissed. The woman came from York about ten years ago and opened a little notion Btore on Park avenue, near Mulberry. She managed to make a scanty and pre- carious living there, and in the course of time the negro Meredith became ne- quainted with her through dropping into the store. At this time he was a cools at Renuert’s and was making good wages, He took a fancy to the woman she consented to marry him, They were wedded about six years ago by a Baptist minister in this city. They lived happily together until the last fow yoars. They had no chuldren. The woman had a letter in her pdcket from her sister, Emma Sheff, in York. The sister told ber to come home if she did not find life pleasant with her husband. e L Eight Hundred Greatcoats Stolen. London Daily News: A short time ago a rn-murku{lo phenomenon was ob- served at Lyons, the second city in France. One fine morning & number of cabmen were seen attired in. cavalry overconts ana capes. Some of the Jehus patronized the cuirassier garment, others that worn by the smart hussar, nor was the artillery greatcoat unrepre- sented in this bevy of uniforms. The next day local carters, similarly traves- tied, cracked their whips gayly in the faces of admiring pe(!:m ans. This transformation naturally attracted no- tice, and some of the officers of the gar- rison took the liberty of inquiring how these gentry had come by their mili- tary habliments. They were frankly informed that the coats had been 6»!4 for honestly at sums varying from 10f to 12f., according to their splendor and dimensions. 1t so happened that from time to time divers capes and overcoats kept in the garrison storehouses disappeared mysterially, so the officers, putting two and two w%eumr, determ- ined on starting a searching investiga- tiou. Suspicion soon fell on several cpirassiers, gunners and military tal- ors, and these persons, numbering eight in all, have just been brought to trial, convicted, and condemned to various terms of imprisonment. No less than 800 greatcoats had been abstracted. An- other affair of a similar kind is at the present moment in course of examina- ion, nine men being uuder lock and key-