Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 25, 1888, Page 4

= e o R THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. - TRRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. DPasly Morning Edition) including Sunday h One Yoar onths . AW A OFPICR, NOS.ILUAND 010 FARN % W Yo-l((‘)’rnm ROOMS 14 AND 15 TRLW! UILDING, WASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. 513 FOURTEENTH STHEI CORRESPONDENCE. munioat! relating to news and edi- Al com 1) atter should be addressed to the EDITOR & fil"nn‘ BUSINESS LRTTERS. All business letters and remittances shonld be addressed to The BrR PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMANA. _Drafts, checks and postoffice orders to ‘e made payable to the order of the company. The Beo Publshing Company. Proprictors E. ROSEWATER, Editor. THE DAILY BEE. Rworn Statement of Circulation. Ftate of "O'M‘llm"l?.‘. B o ool Hoechuck, secretary of The fee Pub- Jishin, iny, does solemily swear that the actual circulation of the Daily ee for the week endin ll&lfl 1888, was as fClo ntur nyg i{ 12, v com| unday, May Aoty My 15, o5 Wodnesdag, iy ny, GEO. . TZSCHTOR. Fworn to and subscribed in m; sence this 191 ? Moy, A, D Tose, NP LM BTN Notary Bublic. State of Nebtaska, County of Dougias, l} s @eorgo . Tzschuck, being Brst duly sworn, {lepases and says that He is aecrotary of Tho fles Publishin Nunpnnx; that the actual average daily cireulation of ilie Dally Ree for the month of Ma; ies; for June, 1857, U7 ) ; for {30 Soptes Coptuss for . Novemir, 1887, Th% copless for Deceniber, lgl. 15,041 coples; for January, 1888, 15,206 cop- H ffir&ehnllnry. rIl‘z‘flhm,l:}'.‘ ©o] h'!l'7‘f:“c‘ Hfi‘rnt' h, 15, ok copiec for ApH oples. : BRoL D, FARCHTCR, Sworn to bofore mo und’ subscribed fn thy presence this 24 day of 'Kl A. D, 1888, N. P. FELL. Notary Public. AVERAGE DAILY CIRCULATION 18,230 Tie Bey of Morocco has bought two Dbrass six-pounders, and now he is sorry the United States cruisers were called home so soon. Sme—r— RoBBING court houses in Nebraska for teun dollars has apparently more attrac- tion for the amateur burglar than the cracking of banks for swag. pE—SS——— ONE year ago to-day the averaga daily eirculation of THE BEE was 14,203+ Now the average shows a steady, sub- stantial increase to the tune of 18,230 copies per day. This was all brought . about by publishing a newspaper. THE number of building permits is- sued up to date for the present year ex- ceed in number the permits issued for the same period last year. What better ovidence caa there be that Omaha is growing in population and spreading in all directions. ] THE awe-inspiring spectacle at Find- lay, Ohio, of & human head of immense proportion seen in the sky issaid to have resembled John Sherman’s hand, and that its digit finger pointed signifi- cantly toward Washington. This is a portent which politicians are not likely to ignore when they meet at Chicago. ———— A BOLD attempt was made by some unknown speculators to influence the stock market by putting in a straw bid offering to dispose of $5,000,000 worth of bonds to the treasury department. The ingenuity and recklessness to which unscrupulous men will go 1n order to turn the stock market is almost in- credible. ermemm——— It is estimated that four million dol- lars will not cover the loss to property and crops 1n the submerged districts along the Mississippi river. In Illinois alone the watoer has covered aun arca af over five hundred square miles. How- ever, the worst of the flood is over, and the season is yet young to repair in t the damage inflicted to agriculture. e CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER does not understand how the people of Kansas City can keep up their ‘‘constant nerv- ous strain and grip car life.” I is very easily explained. The national census man will be around pretty soon, and Kansas City must hustle to swell hor population somewhere near the exag- geratod figures claimed by that town. SEEESE— Tne New Hampshire mail carrier who was fined for delaying the mails at Concord during the blizzard by the Washington authorities has received Back his fine with a formal recognition of his courage and fidelity, The fine was a mere technical enforcement of the law, it seems, but still red tape must have its way, even if a mail car- rier crawls through dvifts of snow with his mail pouch on his back to serve the governmont. Sreper—— A XEW competitor in railroad circles Rus made itsappearance to dispute trunk line rates to the seabosrd, By the alli- ance of the Canadian P and the new *S00” route, Boston and New York business will be diverted in part from Amecrican railronds. The railroad prob- lem is becoming more and more com- plicated as the Canadian railroads are reaching over the border and with the aid of American connections tap the mercantile centers. The Grand Trunk was a great factor in lowering through rotes from Chicago eastward, But now that the Canadian Pacific takes a hand in the transportation of grain and other business, American trunk lines are frightened lest that road runs for rates hardly enough to pay for “axle-grease.” e e— Tne platform of the Nebraska repub- lican convention with its tail attach- ment of democratic resolutions will form 8 topic of discussion through the cam- paign. It will set people to thinking what pretences can be embodied as so- called party principles in a platform which the rank and file are asiiod to swallow withont digesting. Many re- publican papers through the state pub- lished this bogus platform aund lauded it to the skies. A few weeks ago they condemned the same resolutions in the demooratic platform. Of course all this is ridiculous. It illustrates how far blind partisans will go in accepting anything which has the ear. *party,” though it be direc: 10 principles or convietious. ¥ opposed A Department of Agriculture. The house of representatives a few days ago passed by an almost unanimous vote the bill to create an executive de- partment to be known as the depart- ment of agriculture. Bills for this pur- pose have had a somewhat eventful ex- perience. The first measure of the kind was introduced in the [forty- sixth congress and failed by only one vote of passing the house. A ¢imilar bill passed the house of the forty-seventh ocongress but did not go through the senate, and this ex- perience was repented in the next con- gress. In the second session of the last congress the house passed a bill to ere- ate adepartment of agriculture, which was also passed by the senate with amendments, but at a date s0 near the close of the session that there was no time for the house to act on the amendments and again tho measure failed to become a law. It will thus be seen that congress has given the matter very thorough consideration, or at all ovents has had ample time and opportunity in which to consider it, so that the last action taken may fairly be supposed to be the result of careful and mature deliberation. The proposition is to very considerably en- large the scope of inquiry and service now performed by the agricultural bureau, and to transfer to the new de- partment the weather service of the sie- nal service bureau. It is thought by the advocates of the bill that a depart- ment of agriculture, adminis- tered by a secretary who will be a member of the cabinet, will have more influence in behalf of the agricultural interests of the country,and can render them more efficient and use- ful service, than is possible to a bureau presided over by a commissioner. This view prevails largely, also, among those engaged in agriculture, and the bill has received strong support from this class, though the farmers of the country are not a unit in approval of the measure. On the contrary, many intelligent men engaged in agriculture regard the pres- ent bureau as a practically useless insti- tution. This, however, is an unreason- able view, for although the bureau is confessedly not all that itshould be, and is perhaps less serviceablo than simi- lar branches of the government in France and Germany—where, by the way, they are ministerial departs ments rather than burcans—the servica of ourfagricultural bureau is not with- out important advantages to tho great interest it has to care for. Tt is quite possible that the defects and shortcom- ings now complained of may be reme- died by the organization of a depart- ment of agriculture, and if this could be assured there would be no opposi- tion to the proposed change. Itis cer- tainly most desirable that our vast and steadily growing agricultural interests shall receive from the government the most careful and liberal attention, and if they can be helped and improved by committing them to the guard- ianship of a department instead of a8 Dbureaw, the shght addi- tional annual expenditure that would bo involved should not be seri- ously considered. Germany, France, Austria and Hungary have ministers of agriculture, whose pesitions correspond with that of cabinet officers in the United States, and ne good reason ap- pears why the agricultural interests of this country, which are very much greater than those of any of the European countries named, should not be equally well represented in the gov- ernment. Whatever considerations have led these foreign governments to afford agriculture the highest oppor- tunities will apply with at least equal force in the United States. S—— Judge Kelley’s Obstinacy. It scems that the republican members of the house ways and means committoe would have little difficulty in framing a tarifl bill to offer asa substitute for that of the majority of the committee, if it were not for the obstinacy of Judge Kelley, of Pennsylvania, nationally known as “Pig Iron Kelley.” The sticking point is on sugar. e repub- lican colleagues of Mr. Kelley ave in favor of putting certain grades of sugar on the free list, leaving a duty on one or two grades sufficient to pay a bounty of two cents a pound on the howme pro- duct. But Mr. Kelley is implacably hostile to free sugar, or to any reduc- tion in the duties on sugar, and all efforts to induce this veteran champion of protection to yield in the least do- groe have thus far been without avail, How to deal with sugar in a revision of the tarifl has greatly perplexed both parties, The democratic majority of the ways and means committoe blun- dered in the matter and then attempted to correct the mistake, but with only partial success, Their bill would give little or no relief to ¢he people from the exactions which the sugar trust is en- abled to make by reason of the dutieg. The proposed republican policy would hurt the trusts, but in cutting off fifty millions of revenue from sugar a redue- tion of duties on all other articles would be prevented, and thus the people would not be relieved from exactions much greater than could possibly result from retaining the duties on sugar. Be- sides, the bounty plan is not popular, and the more itis discussed the more wrks of | unpopular it is pretty sure to become, The attitude of Mr. Kelley is undoubt- odly giving the republicans of the ways and means committee & good deal of an- noyance, but it is understood they will complete their bill and have it ready to offer at the proper time. From what has been stated respecting its probable character, however, they cannot be very hopeful regarding it. Meanwhile it is an interesting fact that the ob- structionists to the policy of the major- ity of both parties in the house come from the sane state—Pennsylvania—and they are equally obstinate in their op- positign, t— The School Board Questiou, The politicians had every reason to kuow where THE BEE would stund on the sehool hoard question, This papor announced its position last year in ex- plicit and unmistakuble tarms, and it saes no reason now to change a single view then expressed. It held then,and it ho now, that we must eliminate political creed as we do religious cread THE OMAHA DAIL BEE FRIDAY ggy 25, 12 choose candidates by reason of their charaoter and qualifications for manag- ing our public schools. We must seek to clevate the standard of our public school system by inducing our ablest and bost citizens to accapt positions on the school board. The only issue on which the contest for school board mem- bership should be fought out is that of individual titness of each candidate and his intentions with regard to the man- agement and supervision of our schools. The tendency everywhere is to di- vorce the public school system from politics, to keep it wholly free from all partisan influence. The wisest and most experienced friends of the system insist that only in this way can it attain the highest officiency and value. That proposition, it would seem, must com- mend itself to all intelligent citizens who will give the matter a mo- ment’s thoughtful consideration. It must be obvious to every such citizen that if the school board is to be annually asource of partisan contention—if the management and supervision of tho schools is to be made a epoil to be fought for every year by the political parties--- improvement and progress will be im- possible. The alternating control be- tween parties would necessarily result in changes of methods and policies which in the very nature of things could not always be to the advantage of the schools. I'rom such a state of things demoralization and deterioration would inevitably flow, and in a few years there would be no settled system. The deplorable consequences certain tosupervene from attaching the schools to the politieal machine demand of the friends of public education the most en- ergotic and zealous efforts to defeat the declared poliey to establish such con- nection. There is no matter of more vital concern to our people, and it calls for their immediate and most serious at- tention. If the partisan schemers aro permitted to succeed this year it may be much more difficult to defeat them hereafter, E——— As mignr have been expected, the injunction asked for to restrain the Omaha base ball association from play- ing on Sunday was denied by Judge ‘Wakeley. The grievauces complained of were not directed against ball play- ing at the park asa nuisance during the weck, but as a nuisunce only on Sunday. The court very properly ruled since the plaintif did not rely on the statute governing Sunday games and sports, that in the face of evidence to the con- trary, the disturbance on Sunday was not so much greater than on week days as to entitle him to an injunction stop- ping the Sunday game. The decision is certainly fair, and Mr. Parmalee can not find fault with the court’s. position on the grounds of his complaint. At the same time, it is in ordér to suggest that the people residing in the neighborhood of the base ball grounds are not without rights which the autharities are bound to re- spect, and among these is thatof having o reasonable degree of order maintained both within and without the grounds. The association must be required to make ample provision for preventing disturbances and unnecessarily noisy demonstrations, and if this is done there will very likely be no further serious complaint against Sunday base ball. 5 o Ee—— THE republic of Poru has fallen into hard lines. It is virtually bankrupt, and is about to fall into the hands of an English syndicate. The helpless con- dition of Peru, about to be plucked by unfeeling creditors, isa sad reflection on the Spanish-American republic. Rich in mineral resources, Peru is com- pelled to hand over her silver, coal, cin- nabar, iron, lead and other mines and her guano deposits to English capital- ists. Other trade and fiscal concessions are made which practically places Peru .out of the control of the Peruvians. The causes of her downfall are many. Peru’s uneven struggle with Chili left her in a deplorable condition. Her internal dissensions, corrupt gov- ernment, misrule and the disasters of fire and floods completed the work of ruin. Peru being unable to straighten out the anarchy and bank- ruptey which overwhelmed her, Eng- lish creditors are about to step in and forecl their mortgages on the whole country. To all intent and purposes Peffa has become the property of an English syndicate, and has lost her au- tonomy as a nation. TuE last number of Citizen Lrain’s Puaper published at Sussex, New Bruns- wick, dated May 20, 1888, has been re- ceived. The reason of its suspension is due to the fact that the New Bruns- wick postmaster general refuses to rec- ognize the *‘Paper” as a newspaper, and in consequence it is barred from the advantage of newspaper vates. But in the editor’s own picturesque lan- guage, **Citizen Train’s Paper was boy- cotted, whole edition was kicked out of postoffice, Omaha was hurled into the Bay of Funday.” We are extremely sorry that the cordial and friendly rela- tions existing between Omaha and New Brunswick are liable to become strained in consequence of this international episode. That the authorities of Sussex ave jealous of Omaha is apparent. The very reason why Citizen Tvain’s Paper was not recognized as a newspaper by the New Brunswick postoffice depart- ment was on the grounds that *‘its con- tents do not belong properly to news- paper publications but intended for another distinct use (‘booming Omaha’),” We can sympathize with Omaha’s old friend, but never mind, Charles Francis Train, we hope you will see the day when Sussex will be annexed as a suburb to Omaha. m—— CuICAGO has & genuine case of Jacob Sharp jury fixing in the trmal of Sumner C. Welch, the employe of the South Side Cable railway who is on trial for bribery. The Chicago Jacob Sharp in this case is C. B. Holmes, the president of the road, whom the grand jury has indicted on a charge of couspiracy to suborn witnesses and jurymen. It looks as though the iufluential bood- ling politicians who are sojourning at Joliet will be joined by & seleet delega- tion of Chicago’s prominent busine men when the evidence of tamperi from our school management. We must | with juries is established, PROMINENT PERSON Waltor Besant, who has gone to Italy to rest, is ono of the hardest working literary men in Londen. Andrew Carnegio says that the coaching trip which he and_ fir. Blaine will take will last at least until July 1. Archbishop Riorfloh, of San Francisco, Is on his way to Ireland, and will visit Rome before returning to America. Mrs. Whitnay, wite of the secrctary, s a fearless rider, and kqeps a beautiful blooded saddle mare for her bxclusive use. President Bernard, of Columbia coliege issaidto be in very poor health. He is seventy-nine years old and very deaf. General Boulanger is steadily protesting with tongue and pen against the warlike notions attributed to him by his adversa- ries. Louise Chandler Moulton, after a six weeks absence, has returned to Boston, where the will steadily pursue her literary work. Kate Field is leeturing in Southern Cali- fornia. Among her frionds in that region are Goneral and Mrs. Fremont and General and Mrs, Mills. Mme. Wilson, the wife of ex-President Grevy’s seapegrace son-in-law, has decided to leave Paris, and will probably come to this country. President Cleveland has had a portion of the grounds at Oak View laid out with fruit treés and will try to raise some garden vege- tables this summer. Associate Justice Stanley Matthews has accepted an invitation to deliver the oration at the commencement exercises of the Yalo law school in June. Lieutenant General Sheridan’s Washing- ton residence is one of the finest in the city, and his petite wife, a deep brunette, is a prominent social figure. Michel Munkaczy, the famous Hungarian artist, has been appointed president of the Fine Afts section of the Austro-Hungarian department at the I'rench exhibition. Commodore Norman W. IKittson of St. Paul, whose death occurred recontly, put the first steamboat on the Red river of the north. St. Paul people estimate Mr. Kittson's ‘wealth at £5,000,000. Henry Villard is looming up again in the financial world and is talked of for his old position at the head of the Oregon Transcon- tinental company. Mr. Villard began life as a newspaper man and preserves his bounce, Ix-Senator Bruce is in Washington think- ing up a new lecture. He likes lecturing bet- ter than speech-making in the United States seuate, because in the forwer case nobody gets up when he closes and figuratively stands him on his head. Commodore Kittson of St. Paul, who died last week, left an estate estimated by himself at $4,000,000. Each of his eleven children is given $100,000 at t!_\d start, and the remaider is to remain undivided until the youngest son becomes of age, which will b in 1896, Judgs AFnold Krekel, of the Umted States district court for the western district of Mis- souri, who is soon to retire to private life, was appointed to tho bench by Preisdent Lincoln. His long’service as a judge has made him one of the best. known men in the stateof Missouri. | "here are only four other Umted States judges whose appointments antedate his. ¢ John Wanamaker's brother has been giving some reminisconces of the boyhood of the great Philadelphia merchant. His first work was done in the clething store of Barclay Lippincott, whem‘?ie received a salary of $1.50 a week, all of i‘wmch he gave to his mother. His dinner, when he had any, con- sisted of a pioce of pieand a glass of milk, costing two cents. Iach year his salary was increased, and at the timo he was twenty he had saved $200. ——— Signs of Summer. Boston Courier. The “festive” goat is browsing On the hoopskirt in the lane, Anad the organ grinder’s grinding In the street his plaintive strain, The robin in the orchard Is singing all the day, The froglet in the evening Trills his teader roundelay. One day we wear an ulster, Next day a duster thin, And so we think the summer 13 beginning to begin. ——————— ‘Will Not Take the Cake. Minneapolis Tribune. ‘Wisconsin has come out for Rusk, but he stands no chance of tali Washimgton Critie, Weight is no longer upon the woolsack of the chief Justice. Mr. Fuller weighs only 120 pounds. et A Royal Fellow Gone. Pittshurg Chronicle, Queen Victoria will probably order the court into mourning for thirty days. Buffalo William left England, —— ., Love Has Soured. Chicago Tribune, Mr. Love deciines to run for vice presi- dent on the Belva Lockwood ticket, Love laughs at Lockwood. e —— Only a Sore Throat, Globe-Democrat. Candor compels the sad admission that it looks very much as though the Allison boom hud discarded its flannels too carly in the season. A The New Congressmen. Boston Herald, Edison has perfected his talking machine, and expects to have it on the market shortly. It ought to get elected to congress. That is its field, ——— Depew-Depot-Fhew! Chicago Herald, It secms to be a growing idea that Depow is too redolent with railroad corporation influ- ences to make an_ available candidate for the presidency. Even the name of Depew sounds @ good deal like depot. 1o Reasons for Congratulations, Chicago Times, Two or throe members of congress were overwhelmed with congratulations by their enthusiastic friends. The tarift debate had closea and these fortupate statesmen had es- caped making speeches on it, e — The Only Difference. Washington Post. The difference between the advocacy of protection by a democrat and the advocacy of revenue reform hu republican journal is that the former works against and the latter with the tide. Protection is losing its grip, and oue of the chicf causes of its rapid de- cadence is the folly of its advocates in resist- ing every movement looking to a reasonable reduction of tariff taxes that were imposed to raise money to carry on a war that ended about a quarter of & century ago, ~ They Give Away the Case. Philaddlphia Record, When the tariff beneficiaries and monopo- lists come to such a pass that they cau offer 1o other plea against the character of the Mills bill than the assertion that it is *an en tering wedge to free trade” they give away their own case. They betray the fact that they have Lttle confidenve in their own orin the intelligence of the people. the judgzes of the ques- tioh, can ralse or iower rates of duty when- aver they chooso to 0 so. The passage of tho Mills bill this yoar wonld commit them 1o no poliey in the futtre except that which their own wisdom snd experi ight dlo- tate, They can put in the “‘ontering wedge' and take it out whenever it may sult them. The tariff systom is not ‘“‘unaltorable,” as were the laws of Medes and Persians, although many votaries of “‘protectign’ seom to regard itas tho perfection of legisiative wisdom, too sacred to be toushed by profano hands, ——— NEBRASKA JOTTINGS. Nebraska City houses will be numbered. Every town in the state will observe Me- morial day. David City's waterworks system Is well under way. Senator Van Wyck spoaks at Leigh Weduesday afternoon. Twenty.flve school children in Beatrice aro down with the measles. ‘Webster bocomes editor and pro- of the Hastirfgs Nebraskan. Stepa aro being taken townrds establish- ing a Presbyterian church at Bartiett, The Great Western watch company, at In. dianola, has gone into the real estato busi- ness. The paved streets of Lincoln are so covered ‘with mud that they are not much better than those which are unpaved. The editor of the Plattsmouth Journal was ejected from the sidewalk at the B. &. M. depot by a Pinkerton bully. Columbus claims better railroad facilities than any other town in Nebraska on the Union Pacific outside of Omaha, A canal four miles In length, beginning at Red Willow and terminating in a large reser- voir near the city, will be built this season. The first annual meeting of the High School slumni of Tecumseh will be held at the high school building Saturday evening, M:U;l‘.‘o, 1888, to which all are cordially in- vited. The Johnson County Journal issues a boom edition showing the advantages of Johnson county by facts and figures. Tecumseh, the county seat, has 3,000 people, water works and an electric light plant is soon to be under way. The farmers and stockmen of Wheeler county will this year organize an agricultural and horticultural association and* hold their first fair at Bartlett. Steps will also be taken to have the stocks and products of that county exhibited at the fairs av Omaha and Lincoln. It ia understood that action will be brought against the bondsmen of Joseph Cross of North Bend, by the family of James Arthur, who recently became insane, as it is claimed, on account of injuries reccived by bemng struck with a mallet by Frauk Vetter while in the former’s saloon. A man by the name of Norton was arrested at’ Superior on complaiut of an imaginary Mr. ana Mrs, Johnson, who stated that the prisoner had threatened to kill them. After quite a lengthy law-suit the prisoner was released, the court failing to find sufficient evidence to convict him. The mathematician who has been holding forth at the corner of Main and Sixth streets for two nights past, and selling watch charms for $2 each that will tell how many square feet there were in the day the purchaser was born, has left the city, says the Fremont Tribune, The B. & M. has opened its branch line “.l',‘_‘.‘lvp north from Greely Center to Eric- son. 'Traing Pun daily. Passengers lc“'"fi Lincoln and Hastings in the morning reacl Ericson at 6:10 p. m. of the same day. Trains leave Ericson at 6:30 p. m., but passengers for points south have to lay over at Greeloy Center until the next morning. Colorado. Denver papers clamor loudly for a new botel. ‘Three miners were killed in an explosion in Ouray. The Colorado editorial excursion has re- turned from Texas. A Denver syndicate has Pucblo fair grounds for $60,00 This year has been the most successful in the history of the state university located at Boulder. k The nzw opera house to be built on the ashes of the one recently burned at Pueblo, will cost £225,000. The Santa e road has paid $10,000 for damages sustained by passengers in the Fountain explosion. Colorado Springs refused an offer of 13/ cents premium on her $30,000 sewer bonds. The council wants 5 per cent. Heary Craig, of Montrosé, died in a mys- terious manner. The corener’s jury could find no evidence to convict parties suspected of causing his death. W. R. Callicotte, late county superintend- ent of schools, living at Aspen, has been in- dicted by the grand jury for returning fraud- ulent bills against the county. Long lists of bogus school visits was one of the counts. A ‘izng' and somewhat festive porter, as- sisted by & servant in & Colorado Springs hotel, appropriated their master's wardrobe, valued at $150, and both will linger in duranee vile. Mr. Shakespeare’s remark, ‘Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,” should have been heeded. Burchnled the e THE RAILROADS. ‘The Transcontinental Meeting—Other General News of Interest. From thie San Francisco papers it s learncd that the roads which have for so long a time threatened war upon the Burlington for furnishing emigrant berths frec of charge, backed down fair and square, and that the only thing done in way of protest was a speech or two by some of ‘the mem- bers, after which the matter rested. As the case now stands all the roads favor the plan and will adopt T'he rate of §92.50, charged the delegates to the convention, was mado against the pro- tost of Mr. Eustis, the B3, & M. tive, who thought that §20 les nt sum, The Southern T higher turiff, and s the del nounced ther mtention of traveling via Central and Union Pacific, of course it was policy to scoop in b will be attached to the Bluffs and at North will be taken to Julesburg 3 where connection is made with the train. Hulul'ninfi, to leave Denver n No. 307 to Julesburg and thence to North Platte on No. FAST TIME, It is reported that the Union Pacific flyer recently made some very fast time. Leav- ing North Bend behind time the train reached Omaha on schedule time, making about fifty- nine mulos per hour, The report published that the train ran seventy miles per hour is erroneous, a8 with the engine used it is u mathematical impossibility, as her wheels are not large enough. IU takes a lurger driver, my son, to wake sevenly miles per hour. A NEW EXTENSION, @¥T'he Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul has opened its lines for the famous Toma- hawk lakes in Oncida county, Wisconsin. For years the Indiaus have enjoyed a monop- oly of the excellent fishing these waters which are full of fish. It is now believed that they will be the nucleus of a new and important summer resort region. 10WA SHIPPERS KICK. . A meeting of the raitroad commissioners was held at Des Moines Tuesday to listen to a grievance on the part of the Millers' Asso- ciation who complain of unjust discrimina- tion on the part of several lines regarding local rates. It is claimed that rates L'lmrt(ml are 8 cents more to Mediapolis, fifteen miles west of Waterloo, than to Chicag ) miles distant, As three-fifths ot the product of the Millers’ association is consumed in lowa it is contended that the present car lot rate will ruin the milling business. COUPLINGS. 1t is rumored that the head | Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe & moved to Chicago. S. R. Callaway, formerly of the Union Pa- cific but now gencral m: sor of the Mo ledo, St. Louis & Kansas City haviug road changed to standard gaug E. G. Jeff of Bt. Pu Browning, of Kausas Ci senger agents of the Chi neapolis & Omaha, are Zach Shrop, a railroad cont has been awarded the contr struction of the three mile Nebraska side of the Ohicago, Burlis Quincy bridge at Ralo. ters of the to be re- or of O s approach on th ton CENTLEMEN FROM AUGUSTA. Distinguished Goorglans Visiting the Nebraska Metropolis. THEIR NATIONAL EXPOSITION. Personnel of the Delegation, Method of Entortainment and Views of Sevenal on Important Questions, The Men From Genrgia. Tho special car “Maritana,” bearing Lien- tenant Governor Davidson of Georgia and party, arrived yesterday morning from St. Jo- seph on the B. & M. The oar is of the Mann boudoir pattern and 18 a model of comfort and luxury and is handsomely decorated. On one side is the motto, “Augusta, the great commercial center of the south, greets her sister cities in the north and west.” The party wero met at the depot by Socro- tary Nattinger of the board of trade, and escorted to the Millard hotel. They registered as follow: John S. David- son, Patrick Walsh, J. Rice Smith, W. H. Fleming, Z. W. Cowle, jr., James A. Laflin, J. F. Bothwell, J. J. Dicks, E. J. O'Connor, A. 8. Gardner, G. Barrett, William Schweigert, ©. W. Deveney, D. Saucker, E. B. Haok, John Jay Cohen, J. L. Maxwell and William Mulherin, of tho Georgia National exposition, Broakfast was awaiting them, and they did justice to the ample spread which Manager McDonald had prepared for them. A lounge was then taken in_the rotunda, cigars were smoked, conver- sation was indulged in, and a number of Omaha’s citizens was introduced to the guests, Secretary Nattinger, of the board of tradej Colonel Chase, of thesame body, and Mr. Nason, chairman of the manufacturers’ com- mittee of the board, were present in their official capacity. The visitors made a favorable impression upon those who called to see them. Among them were all kinds of gentlemen with respect to personal appearance, Some of them wera tall and slight, while others were short and rotund. Some had advanced closely to fifty years of age, others had but slightly passed their majority. As may be infer the names given above, almost every nation of distinction in the world could among them & descendent of an honored family. Lieutenant Governor Davidson is a small and solil man with a round, florid faco and white mustache, He has the demeanor of a courteous and accom- phshed gentleman, talks with ease and in nicely rounded sentences. He told Tur Bes man that the delegation was traveling ou its own resposibility, paying its own expenses, with the intent of advertising the natonal exposition, which 1s to be held in Augusta during the months of next October ang 0. cember, Their origidal intention was to re- turn home from Kansas City, but the receipt of invitations from Omalia, St. Paul and ;\‘}mucn]\olil had induced thera to amend that iden. Patrick Walsl, the chairman of the dele- gation, is the owner of the Augusta Chroni- cle, the leading paperof Georgia. Hois the first vice president of the Augusta expos tion and 4 member of the natiopal demooratic im_ml:nitwe, He is,(i)s his tunmclivflicnn!, of rish pgren agd oue of the leading men fl_mc&’vefgg&cn fi,husouth. He is of ow stature, swarthy tu“t‘r“ with an easy and graceful delivery. He s ah encyclo- scnlmo( facts relatipg to Augusta, and in- leed to the entire south Mr, J. Rice Smith, second vice president of the exposition, is manager of the Georgia chemical works, one of the largest manufacturing enterprises 10 tho state, WhoRG fortiizers. PHOSHRALOR, and acids are shipped to all parts of this country and to other lands. Mr. J. A. Laflin is a wholesale grocer and extensive shipper. Mr. W, H. Fleming, perhaps tho youngest man in thegroup, is an attorney, Mr. J. J, Dicks is ome of the leading cotton merchants and ship- pers. Mr., B. W. Devency, o northern man, the head of the wholesale firm of Deveney, Hood & Co., represents the greatest hardware jobbing house in south- western Georgia. Mr, J. T. Bothwell, of the grocery jobbing firm of Lee & Bothwell, is noted for a somewhat remarkable under- taking—that of placing Augusta on the foot- iug of a seaport town. He was the first one of the merchants of that city wio essayed to make the place a port of direct entry and this he dia by importing cargoes of sugar and molasses and landing them 130 miles from the sea coast. Mr. William Schwel- gert 1s g prominent manufacturlng jeweler. Mr. William sulberin is the senior partner in the obbing boot and shoe house of ulherin, Rice & Co. Mr. D. Sancken is one of Augusta’s foremost merchants and capitalists, ?vlr. B. B. Hook is assoclate editor of the Chronicle and representative of the Associated pross, Mr. Glasscock Barrett is a manufacturing druxxust conducting an enormous business, Mr. A, S. J. Garduer is of the shipping and commission firm of Clark & Gardner, the largest operators in their line in the south- west, Colonel . J. O'Connor is a distiller and wholesale liquor dealer of the firm of O'Connor & Bailey. Mr. John L. Maxwell is sccretary of the Augusta land and improvement com- pany. Mr. John Jay Cohen, a banker and broker, is pertaps as thoroughly identified with the principal industrics of Augusta and the surrounding country as is any man who resides there. The visitors were in excellent spirits, and although it took them about seven hours to ravel here from St. Joseph, they stated thoy d the trip because they made it whilo disposed of, the wethod of spending the was discussed. The plan outlined was a visit to the smelting works, to South Omaha, and a4 drive throughout the city and a banquct in the evening. Owing to the delay experienced at St Je which placed the visitors one day behind, last mentioned feature of entertainment to be dispensed with because it was noece v for them to leave this eveuing at )o'clock in order to reach home at the time intended, namely Monday night, After somo discussion it was also decided 1o abandon the proposed visit to the smelting works, AT SOUTIT OMAMA. delogation took the 11:05 o'clock south Omaha, a h‘n'mul car for n Laving been attached delegation was cordially Meday, John Boyd and minent men at the yards ugh the v; us houses. xamined every feature of tho beef and hog slaughtering, all of which was explaned 1o their sutisfaction. They also visited the several cooling rooms, the tempera ture of which was considerably below zero. As i Kansas City, where the party saw packing houses for the first time, they studiously declined towitness the shedding of the blood of the beef and hogs, nearly all the members sceming to en tertain a feeling of repugnance to such a sight On their return fromd South Omaha the party took the cable cars and were driven over both lines, and afterwards conducted to the power house on the corner of T'wentieth and Hurney strects, where the marvellous propelling machinery of the cable line was in operation. This they inspected with a groat deal of interest. Thoy were then escorted to the Millard hotel, where they were enter tained at lunch, At 0'cloek the party took carriages at the holel and under the escortof Messrs. H. H. Me- v, Mux Meyer, J. A, Wakefieid, H. G. Clark, Colonel Chase, M. Nattinger, John Evans, W. N. Nason, i'rank McDonald, W. F. Grif- fiths, Colonel Hunter and several other gen- tlemen took a ride over the city. The strects traversed were Thirteenth, Farnaw, Lowe avenuo, Marcer ave Cuming street, Saunders, Biavey, Sh an aveoue, B teenth street, Hurney, Ninth, Davenport, Eleventh, Pacifie, Tenth, Williams, Six- entl, Farnam, Fifteenth, Douglas, Six- nth, Davenport, Sixteenth, Douglas, and ulosing at the Millard hotel. r route could scarcely have been se warly the entire distance was over ote of either cedar, Sioux Fall The dummy for their ac to the rec h v of other Is olorado sandstone or usphaltum s strects was oxcellent st travelod of the party y | A seen a better paved city ou The route led ness thoroughfares, the tures which lined them evoklng alm staut expressions of admlration; e dence districts of the thriviug industrial classcs, which exhibited both taste aud . magniicent struc- comfort, and the abiding of the wealthy whigh Nm an almost ceasoly varioty in the dosi d dogree of wealth and elaboration in the at- tractive mansions. Thero was & mild sun beaming from the clouds which made the ride a p&m-l de- light especially, espeoially when the rollin western limits with varigated aspoct of mos and cultivated 1and was reached. Thore the soone was one of entrancing beauty, and to the visitors, who live upon & surface as *‘fint as a tablo," a8 ono gentloman expressed him- self, was 80 great an attraction that the oar- riages were stopped to enablo the strangers to enjoy the prospect. When tho carriages drew up at the Mil- lard, there was not a gentleman in the party who did not freely give expression to the opinion that the evidences of Omaha's pros. perity a8 exhibited in the extent of her terei- tory, and the number, beauty and richness of her businesa places and private residences had excoeded anything they had seen oven in the Bluff city on the Kaw. CIAMPAGNE DINNER, At 5:25 the visitors and escorts sat down to A champagne dinner in the Millard, which their exposure to Nebraska ozone enabled they to appreciate. At its conclusion Mr. H. Meday introduced Licutenant Governor Davidson, who spoke upon the corn of Nebraska, the beef it fed and tho money it brought; the beauiful streets and flelds and structures they had soon in their drive; the kindness and hospi- tality they had been shown, and closed with aref nr:noo to the queen of Sheba, who had not imdgined half of the glory of Solomon bofore she appeared 1n his presence. To her he likened his delegation. They could ex- press but a part of the appreciation they folt or what they had seen and for what they had received. That they would commit to their guests to be cherished while that to which they could not give oxpression they would, lock up within their own breasts as a deeply valued treasure which would never bo sur rendered. OFF. The party then drove to the Chicago, Min- neapolis & St. Paul depot where they boarded their special car. Three cheers and a tiger were given for the Augustans as tho train pulled out, and re- turned by tho delogation, as nearly all of them thronged the platform waving handker- chief adius, Both parties kept the handker- chiefs in the air until the dark car was lost in the shade of the bluffs Sulphur springs. VIEWS OF VISITORS, Chairman Walsh has with him copies of the exposition edition of his paper, the Chronicle, which is largely devoted to adver- tising the groat undertaking which Augusta has on hands. The first page contains en- gravings of a number of prominent manufac- turing institutions surrounding a map with Augusta in the middie. Mr. Walsh says that Augusta is now a city of 46,000 inhabitants, with 810,000,000 invested in' manufucturers, $5,000,000 of which probably are utilized in making cotton goods. She has direct tion with four seaports. Wilmington, town, Charleston and Port Royal, with other connections with the country to the northwest. In Augusta’s fuctories there are 150,000 spindles, uunnu{ulng annu- ally 100,000 bales of cotton, employing 4,800 haids, paying in wages $1,000,000 a year, and turning out a product vaiued at §,000,000. Besides these the Graniteville, Vaucluse and Langley factories of Carolina, representing 50,000 spindles more, have their oftices in Augusta, and draw their cotton and supplies from that market. Augusta has two of the finest foundries in the south, which with mills and other industries are valued at 2,000,000 Besides these sho has a large tobacco factory, the largest and most pros- perous fertilizer factory in the south, and sc\‘cml\fillmr Inflllufflvtfll'iwllfl\itulil)lll. The assessible proporty i 000 and returns an hicome of $300,000, Her four 41¢ per cent bonds are above Mr. Walsh says that the south is making wonderful advancea in developing its industries and this is due to both home interest and the flowing in of capital and brains from abroad. ““There is only one opinion among said Mr. -Walsh, 1 politics, that is to support Cloveland. r- sonally, I do not agree with him upon minor points especially u{wn the tariff. I believe in protecting home industries and protecting them so that they may thrive and be succossful. I do not entirely agree with Mr. Cleveland, either, on tho question of civil service reform. During the twenty years that the republicans were in power ‘was generally understood that no democrats need apply, and now that the democratic party is in power it occurs to me that demo- - crats ought to be given a chance fof all the oftices the republicans held before," Mr. Walsh said their exposition was being gonan up entirely by home money. ey ad not gotten a penny from thegovernment, and they hoped to make ita success. It would include manufactures and agricultural exhibits from all parts of the country, and he hoped Nebraska would be represented in it, Mr, Carwile, one of the delegates, speak- ing about the prosperity of the south said it 'was largely to be attributed to the success of the democratic party—not because demo- ats were Dbetter than any other I8 of people, but because they seemed to fecl now as if they had become again & part of the government. There was no truth in the stories that circu- lated in the north about the bayonet, but it was true that the negro was not to rule, sim- ply because of numbers. *‘Suppose you had hundreds of uneducated negroes here would you think they ought to be permitted to govern you?" asked Mr. Carwile, *As soon us a negro gets property down there he joins the white part Mr. wile then in- stanced the case, to show how the law pro ed the negroes, of the wealthiest nog in the state who resided ut Augu had been left a great deal of mon ) white man, and the heirs of the latter sought 10 set the will aside. court was ap- pealed to, but in vain, aud the woman is now sion of her legacy. wile represents Armour, in Augusta, and ges meat from Omaha, and more from Kansas City, Formerly it came from Chicago, but now it can be had cheaper at the two former points than at the latter, and although the ates of the ' railroads are hig from Kansas aod Owaha than they are from Chicago, the reduced prico of meat en- ables Augustans to deal with us and our neighbor on the Kaw. NOTES The excursionists went via the Chicago & Nurthwestern to St. Paul. — They will loave there to-morrow wight and probably return home vin Omasha, Lf they sflmuhl they will be met at the depot and serenaded, as to go to tho Kunsas City depot. A delegation of Omaha citizens will be formed to attend the exposition in Augusta, Koing thenee in o sp 1 car, The party visited the Palace stables, on Seventeenth and Davenport stre , and pronounced them the finest they had 5 The carriagos used wore from t stables, were uniform in style, with liveried conchuien, and made & most attractive dis- plaay. P an evidance of tho offact wrought by the visit, J. Rice Smith, of the Georgia Chemical works,which yearly sells thousands of dollars’ worth in this city, will estublish a plant in this city. The visit was one of the most enjoyable of the kind ever expericuced by the oldest board of trade men in the city, the s0me Heroes' Garlands, The floral commitiee of the G. A, R. lave inyited the teaciiers of the public schools to take part in the observance of Decoration day, aud they have been especinlly roquestod 10 ask all school children to bring flowers to their respective schools Tuesduy forenoon, May 20. All persons desiring to coutribute to this glorious and patriotic cause are re- quested to mform the floral committee by mail or otherwise on May 20, Flowers will be reccived on this date at Exposition hall, ‘Pho number of graves to be decorated is 180. 'Pbe committoc have decided upon the fotlowing general and large designs: One floral pillow, 16x8) inches, the samo Lo be a Grand one anchor, 20x40 inclies; one rosenting the Sons of Veleraus, 16x , and one floral wreath 24 inches These are to bo po:nts in ¢ Glandered Ponies Dr. Ramiaciottijstate veterinary condemned a team of ponies belougin I, Handy, of 117 south Sixtecoth street, yes terday afte and orderod them shot. The wonies were badly allicted with the slandurl und Offcer Goldsmith took them own on the river shore und killed both and dumped Luew, Luruess aud sil inte s river,