Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 4, 1888, Page 2

. 'THEY TURNED THE TABLES. The Omaha Boys Paralyze the Blue Uniformed Aggregation. SWARTZEL FEARFULLY SLUGGED. Annis Makes His First Error This Beason, But Redeems His Honor at the Bat—Other Sunday Games, - Western Association Standing. The appended table gives the standing of the clubs, including yestorday's games : Playea Won Lost Pr Ct 5 8 .652 015 585 521 444 880 1833 Des Moines. Milwaukee. ... Minneapolis, Omaha 14. Kansas City. 8 Omaha wins, The Kansas City people were easy victims fin the game yesterday, which was witnessed by 8750 people, actual count, and what a contest it was, to be sure. The home team came to bat and went out with that remarkable celerity for which they are 80 justly celebrated on certain oceasions, Then Cartwright of Kansas City hit to Mil- lor, who fumbled, and the ex-section man reached first. “Banana” Campau hit to O'Conneil and he likewise fumbled and Cart- wright ran down to second and tried to get home, but was put out at the plate, which made him tired. Hassamaer hit bard to right and Campau scored. Kansas City 1. Then Burns and Doran went out at first and Shannon picked up his willow. tit-wil- low stick, and hit the ball way over among the carriages for a home run, but some chump with more agility than good sense picked it up and threw it to *Dago" Campau and Shannon only made three bags, owing to a grovnd rule made before the game, which compelled a man to take what he could get, and no more. But Wilson made a hit and Shannon scored, after which Miller flew out to Hassamaer. Neither side scored in the third. In the fourth O'Connell hit to Ardner,who %lmhlud Then Burns went out on a foul tip. oran made a hit and O'Connell crossed the piece of marble across which the pitcher throws balls. Doran actually stole second and was left there, Shannon and Wilson going out. Omaha 2. Then Hassamer hit to O'Connell,who again fumbled. Hassamer got second on Ardner's hit and scored on a two-base hit by Manning, ‘which also brought in Ardner. Then Johnson and Swartzel went out. Kansas City 4. But at this juncture something struck the Omaha team, or the Omaha team struck something, for Miller made a hit to right, A hole in Clarke’s bat prevented him from hit- ting the ball, and then Thomas Lovett, Esq., made a hit which sent the corngr inder to second. Then Father Annis made a two- bagger and Miller and Lovett came in. Then O'Connell made a two-bagger and Annis scored. Burns made a hit and O'Con- nell scored, Doran made a two-bagger and Burns scored. That was all. Doran went out at third, and Wilson struck out. Omaha 7. In the sixth both sides were kalsomined. In the seventh Aunis came to bat, fecling very tired, having made his first error this season in the previous inning by mufting Ard- ner's fly in the yeilowest manner possible, and rapped out a double; O’'Connell hit to Bradley, who muffed his fly, and Annis went to secoud on the error. Then old man Burns made a hit and Annis scored. Subsequently Doran was hit by the ball and Shannon made B two-bagger, and everybody but the last named gentleman scored. Wilson tore a gap in the atmosphere. Miller made a hit and Shannon scored, after which Clark and Muller went out on a double. Omaha 12, In the clxhlh Lovett made a hit and scored after Annis went out on a hit by O’Connell, who was put out at third. Burns, Doran and Shannon were left sitting on bases by Wil- Bon’s out on u foul tip. Kansas City blanked. !n thu ninth Omaha madeone run. Kunsas Read it; chlo 14t0 3. Here it is. . su. ro. A, E Lovett, rf... 8 0 38 Annis, cf O'Connell; Burns, If. Doran, 3b. Shannon, 2b Wilson, c. Miller, s Clark, p. Bl amaamemme | lal wmmcocwre Cartwright. Campau, 11| Hnunmt‘r, r Ardner, 2b... Manning, s . Johnson, 3t Zl mamwascoo? |l ommorrcoo? Doran 1, Shannon 1, auning 1. Three’base hits-Shaunon 1, Miller 1. Double and triple plays—Lovett- Bhannon, Ardner-Manning-Cartwright, Man- nln -Ardper-Cartwright. Bases on_callod ff Swartzel 1, Bases from being hit c{‘plu:hed balls—Doran 1. Struck out—By rk 2, Swartzel 8. Passed balls—Wilson 1. ‘Wild pitches—Clark 1, Swartzel 1. Time of game~—1:55, Umpire—Brennan, fillulh 2, 0'C nnmll 1, Minneapolis 1, Chicago 9. Cnicago, June 8.—[Special Telegram to Tue Bee]—About three thousand people delighted Sam Morton’s heart this afternoon by attending the Western association championship game. To turn his simple de- light into rapture the nine maroon legged Dall players kept the Minneapolis boys down to one run and piled up nine themselves. Only three base hits could Minncapolis get offt Dwyer, and the one run secured was made off a fly which Moriarity muffed as he struggled through the mire, Long made a queer but sharp play in the soventh, when he struck at a wild ball purposely and reached second on a missed third strike, It did him no good, however. When Nicholson first ‘went to bat he was presented a handsome ‘baskot of flowers by Chicago admirers, and luwhmly responded by striking out, He pitches a strong game till & man chances to mak fo hit, and then he goes to picces us tent hit with @ cyclone, Score: Minneapolis... ... Pitchers—Dwyers and Nicholson. hite—Maroons 11, Minneapolis 8. Errors— rnmnn 4, Minneapolis 2. Umpire - Fessen- en, St. Paul 11, Milwaukee 5. MiLwavkes, Wis,, June 8.—[Speciul Tele- gram to Tus Bee|—Milwaukee lost her third game of the series to St. Paul to-day. Harner was in the box for the locals, and he pitched a very effective game up Lo the sixth funing, when St. Paul made seven safe hits, whieh, coupled with four errors by Milwau- kee, ylelded six runs. Duryea was hit hard, too, and the game was a slugging match throughout, Lowe, Maskroy aund Reilly hwckd home run-. and Pickett and Duryea 8ot three-bagi Shafer got angry at a de- nalon of v.hu um qu and lug:'thu xmund ro- fusing to W, guv. Was coaxed back. Score 100100210-5 00100681 x-11 Enrufl runs—Milwaukee 4, St. Paul 5. Duryea 4, off Harluf 2, ol ), A;ru;..wumbg@ L B fi:-‘—bwe. Carroll, Morrissey (8). Threcbase hits— Pickett (2), Duryea. Home runs—Lowe, askroy, »my. Double Cussick. balls perfect mechanical device. It is wax, of beautiful workmanship, the jaws are hung so naturally that one unacquainted with the fictitious character of the doll would imagine that they belonged to a genuine flesh and blood infant, The body of the doll contains a miniature motor and the smallest phono- graph ever made. The phonograph and the jaws are worked simultaneously and the fictitious infant talks for just one minute by Edison’s golden chronometer. Of course the human voice is reproduced and this doll will sing, speak, lavgh and cry as if alive, Edison has also made a clock that says one o'clock, two, otc., as the case may be. Edison said that Prof. Murybrid ‘the instantaneous photographer, had visited him lately and had proposed to him a scheme which, if carried to Lomylcunn. will afford an almost end- less feld of instruction and amuse- ment. The photographer said that he had been eonducun a series of experiments recently and had almost perfected a photo- graphic appliance by which he would be en- abled to accurately reproduce gestures and facial expression of, for an instance, Mr. Blaine in the act of lnlklnk @ speech. This was done, he said, by taking some sixty or seventy instantaneous photographs of each ‘mm«m assumed by the speaker, then throw- ng them by means of a magic lantern upon a" screen. He proved to Edison that the phono eraph should be used in conmection with his invention; that photographs of Edwin Booth as Hnmlut Lillian Russell in some of her songs, and other artists of note should be ex- perimented with. KEdison, he said,. could produce with his instrument the tones of the Voice, while he would furnish the gestures and facial expressions, The scheme met with the approval of Kdison, and he intended to perfect it at leisur ——— One ot Jim Fisk's Charmers. New York, June 3.—[Special Telegram Ter Bee.|—The trial of Ann Odelia Solomon, Luther Marsh's deposed spiritualistic me- dium, and General Diss dc Barr will be begun Monday in the court of general sessions. Judge Gilderseeve will preside. It is not ex- pected that very much time will be consumed in selecting a jury. A peculiar fact which will probably come out on the trial forms a connecting link between Colonel Jim Fisk and Ann Odelia in 1860 and 1870, She was then of attractive form and pleasing fea- tures. She had left her life of shame and ‘was stopping for a few days at a residence on Second avenue, between Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth streets, The third day Jim Tisk drove up to the house with his splendid rig and Ann Odelia drove off with him. She ‘was heard of from time to time, but she did not return. The madame and General Diss de Barr will be tried on the indictment for conspiracy. ey Stabbed Him Thirteen Times. Crstox, Ia., June 8,—[Special Telegram to Tus Bre.]—Charles Shreeves, a hard- ware merchant of Murray, kilied Lon Wiars, a farmer living at Orient, nine miles north of here, at 11 o'clock last night. Their quar- rel grew out of Wiars’ objection to Shreeves, paying attention to his sister, and Wiars had After they had been Shreeves returned to towu cian to Wiars, whom he said rs was brought home, where he died in a few minutes from the effects of thirteen stabs inflicted with a inife, Shreeves made no_attempt to oscape and claims that he killed Wiars in sclf-defense. He is of good family and has borne a hith- erto good reputation. Wiars had been drink- ing, and when in liquor, which was frequent, He' leaves a wife and Shreeves gave himself up to dared him out to fight. out a short tim and sent a ph, was hurt. W was quarrelsome, three child au ofticer. ren, ———— Spoiled Her Kuropean Trip. NEWw York, June 8.—[Special Telegram to Tne Ber]—Alice Woodhull, the famous female forger, who victimized old Gill, in whose family she was employed, and finally fled to England after getting $150,000 by forging his name, w on the steamer Ohio, States marshal, low street jail, s brought back to-day in charge of a United She was lodged in the Lud- - Murder and Suicide, L0GAN, O., June 3.—In a log cabin ona farm four miles from here the dead bodies of Jumes Phillivs and his wife were found yes- terday. 1t appeared from n note left by Phillips and from the testimony of their children that Plillips had cut his wifc's throat with a pocket-knife and then had used the same upon his own throat. B They Fought Over Beer. KaxNsAs Crry, Mo, June 8.—[Special Tele- grain to Tur Bee.]—Andrew Paxton was fatally stabbed by S. O. Brady in a room at No. 537 McGee street yesterday morning. Paxton assaulied Bradyin_his own room be- cause the latter joined his employer in buy- ing beer, and in the fight received a mortal wound, ' Both men are colored. et Fatal Arkansas Storm, KANsAS City, June 8.—A Times special says o furious storm swept over Washington county, Arkansas, causing much loss of life and property. Inone hamlet twelve houses were destroyed, 1t is rumored that seven persons were kilied and seven o cight. wors adly injured. —— In Favor of Diaz. Ciry or MExico, (via Galveston), June 8.— A monster demonstration was held here to- day in favorof the reclection of President Diaz, Twenty thousand workingmen marched through the principal strects and called upon the president at the national palace. s The Fire Record. PANAMA, (via Galyoston), June 8.—A fire origiuating in the Hotel Roma this morning, entirely gutted ten large houses, The loss is estimaied at §300,000 For Nebrasks and Dakota: Fresh to brisk southerly winds, warmer fair weather fol- lowed by rain. Light to fresh southerly winds, warer fair weather, ~ DYSPEPSIA Causes its victims to be miserable, hopeless, confused, and depressed in mind, very irrita- ble, languid, and drowsy. It is a disease which does not get well of itself. It requires careful, persistent attention, and a remedy to throw off the causes and tone up the diges- tive organs till they perform their duties willingly, Hood's Sarsapailla has proven Just the required remedy in hundreds of cases. 1 have taken Hood's Sarsaparilla for dys- pepsia, from which I have sulfered two years. 1 tried many other medicines, but none proved s0 satisfactory as Hood's BSarsaparilla.” Tiomas Cook, Brush Electric Light Co., New York Oity, Sick Headache “For the past two years I have been aflicted with severe hieadaches and dyspep- sia. I was induced to try Hood's Saisapa- rilla, and have found great relief. Icheer- fully recommend it to all.” Mg E. F, AxNApLE, New Haven, Conn. Mrs. Mary C. Smith, Cambridgeport, Mass., was a sufferer from dyspepsia aud sick head- ache, Bhe took Hool's Barsaparilla and found it the best remedy she ever uscd. Hood's Sarsaparilla Bold by all druggists. $1; six for §5. Made m:,’al.nooncm,mcu. 100 Doses One Dollar, M Iays—Warner to arner 1. Wild xnlrh l)nryu 2, Umpire—Hagan, Time— —— EDISON'S LATEST. Some New Contrivances For Instruc- tion and Am ment. Cntcaco, June 8.—[Special Telegram to Trae Bee.]—It looks as if Wizard Edison has for some time been expecting that he would have to provide playthings for a little girl, for now, just after the arrival of a beautiful little daughter, comes the news that Edison has invented a talking doll. This is a most » FARMS IN THE FLOWERY LAND Consul General Kennedy Writes of Chinese Tillers of tha Soll. THE WAY THEY PLANT COTTON Perquisites For the Pages From Auto: graph Hanters—Senator Stewart's Veto imiting Proposition— Lawler's Constituents, Celestial Agricultural Methods, WAsHINGTON, June 8,.—[Special to THE Ber.]—~Consul General Kenn has sent to the state department from his post at Shanghai, Chica, some interesting observa- tions about Chineoe customs. He pays special attention to the provinee of Kihg-Su. He says that a complete network of canals and navagable streams. exists, ihroughout this province in such a way as to make a complete system of intercommunication by boats, the same as exists at Venice, Italy. Every three years a census is supposed to be taken, and the local oficers make a preten- tious effort toward doing the wWork. A cer- tificate is posted on every door, on which should be written the name of every inmate, their age, and their occupation. A reportis transmitted through the provincial authori- ties to the capital. The system 18 not honest- ly carried out, the tendency bemng to exaggerate, and the true certificates are often filled in according to the census-taker's own opinion of what it should be, thus saving him the labor of veri- fication. Everything official is done, as far as possible, by casual observance. The busi- ness of this province has greatly increased, however, the cities having a busy look, the canals and rivers being crowded with boats and the fields presenting scenes of rural ac- tivity and industry. The Kiang-Su farmer does not turn up his soil deeper than eight or ten inches, but he labors with this thin cov- ering of earth perseveringly, and in the course of twelve months, in some instances, five different crops are obtained. The farmer usually cultivates two or three acres of land. Successful farmers may acquire more land than this, but their ambition does not lead them to it. They prefer renting. KN There are no fcnc('s, wrnen Mr. Kennedy, in this purt of China. Boundary stones mark the different holdings, yet disputes over boundary lines are no less frequent than in other parts of the world. The sys- tem of dividing the province into depart- ments and districts and redivisions of dis- tricts extends until the Tu is reached, which includes but a small section under the super- intendence of an ofticer called a ti-pau. He keeps a record of the land transfers and re- ports them to the magistrate of a district, ‘who grants title deeds. He holds his office for a year, it being the custom to rotate the office among the responsible men of the section. When & piece of land s sold a conveyance is drawn up and signed by the principals and also by several friends and brokers who lend their services to the nego- tiation which is never conducted between buyer and sellor alone. These middle men, as they are called, receive a small commis- sion,and the ti-pau exacts about 5 per cent of the purchase money for his fees; but the partics often conspire to defraud him by naming a smaller sum in the conveyance than is actually stipulated. While theoreti- cally all the land of China is the emperor’s, and his subjects may do no more than rent 1t, yet they buy and sell land freely. A father may leave a quantity of land which is to be divided between two sons, and to_avoid the expense of securing separite deeds they cut the original deed diagonally in two parts, the the half being recognized as a good title to one-half the original lot The Chinese wnlum of planting and culti- vating cotton strikes any one accustomed to our methods in the southern states asex- tremely crude. The seed is sown broadcast inamong small grain crops about the months of March or April, or sown broadcast if planted by itself. When the wheat or oats are cut the small plant can then be seen, In either case, when it gets six or eight inches high,from time to time, as it is growing, they pour or sprinkle over the beds liquii manure. 1 may remark thatall of their crops are planted in beds rounded off from the top to a water furrow on each side. They hoe in among it the best they can ap- parently without thinying it out. It s as thick almost as small grain, The stalks rarely attain a height of more than two and one-half to three feet on land rich _enough naturally (and 'y richly fert od besides) to produce under our system a_heavy bale to the ac) Tha stalks are spindling and the balls are so small that it will qake from forty to fifty of them to make a pound of seed cotton, while they will not average more than six to the stalk, Tho cotton is rather dingy in color and of very short staple. They never use a plow in its cultivation, and when preparing the soil turn it up with wooden plows, the pattern of which is as old, I presumo,’ as the days of Confucious. The experiment of using Ameri- can seed has been tried, I am informed, but without much better results than in the case of their own seeds, but the reason of this can be readily accounted for in their system of planting and cultivation. They gin their cotton on a gin worked by @ pedal, which, while very crude, yet seems to pound the nnt off the seed pretty well. An American hand gin ought to take well, and some of our in- genious mechanics should invent one that would answer the purpose. The gin works on the principle of a clothios wringer, with the exception that the rollers are made to re- volve in opposite directions. The cotton 15 wound through and the sbeds squeezed out as they meet the prossure caused by the rollers, e The Chinese have a very limited supply of timber. Such as they malke uso of in {:ufld- ing is from small and inferior stuff, and is sawed up by hand. They make good bricks, which form the universal building material’ After the burning process reaches a certain stage the piles are flood>d with water, ana in this way the bricks are turned out & grey oolor. The roofs are usually made of tiles, and nearly every province has its own style and size of bricks aund tiles. The latter are made in a very simple mauner. Clay is plasterd® around the sides of a tub evenly and then scored off into the desired si: They are baked the same way s tho bricks, The houses occupied by the masses aro small and flimsily constructed. This is not due to their inability to build well, but %o their poverty, which may appear inconsistent with the industrious and simple habits of these people, but it is ape of the many paradoxes of China, Their bridges anu temples and the walls of their citios give evidence of thewr skill in building and engi- neering, but the tendency to huddle together in villages and cities and the drcad of ap- pearing o be possessed of wealth prevents any departure from the rule of cramped, un- comtortable and unha.lllh) dwellings, Throughout this provinee it would be hard to find a farmer's dwelling that would be considered good enough for a pig-pen with us. A wooden floor isa rarity, and with all that 1s saia about *‘feng-shui,” or lucky loca- tion, it would be hard to find a single house in central China where any attempt of a san- itary nature exists. No building is construct~ ed without certain divinations which have ref- erence to auspicious days, and are a part of the absurd series of practices which come within the term of *feng-shui.” This term literally translated means wind and water, aud it is claimed that originally the Chinese bad a regard for sites favorably situated in respect to wind and water, which during centuries has degenerated iuto superstitious rites by which the fiends of the air may be tharted. There is no doubt that the miser- able dwellings of the Chinese cause the great number of discases and suffering they en- dure. With a malarial climate to begin with, and utter ignorance of the principles of the laws of health, the result could nol be other- wise than @ race of comparative physical in- feriority. Malarial complaints are of great variety, wnd where the pronounced fo; wmay not be visible there exist dull, enervat- ing ny.wmu unnulnx people for .ny more work thas will sufiice to keep body aud soul together, and no doubt lead to the opium habit, the curse of Chtua. The pages in the prosent honse of represen- tatives say they have had quite a harvest during the sedkion paking up autograph books, Strangers wl )m gomo here and people at a distance emp boys to procure the signatures of oml»('r! in_autograph books, and pay them from £10 to $25 for their work. It takes a boy about a week, durin his leisure moments, to procure the names o all the members in_the house. Soma of the boys hawe manipuldtéd shrewdly, and when they go about with ene autograph book they carry three or four, procuring as many copies of the member's autograph at the same time The other day I was, amazed to see a sign hung upon the wall' facing the door at the vest entrancd e the house;a notice read like this: ‘‘Fac-similes sf members’ autographs made at the card-writer's stand in the lobby." A page told me that this card-writer, who looks like ex-Congressman Wellborn, of Texas, has workod the matter of imitating members’ autographs down so fine that he can fill out an autograph book in a couple or three hours, and make it as satisfactory to the stranger as one procured by the pages at the expense named above. The eard-writer will write these autographs for about 20 per cent of the expense necessary Lo procure a book of genuine autographs. It is a custom among a large class of peo- ple throughout the country to collect auto- graphs, and the never fail to preserve the names of senators and representatives and government officials who have the franking privilege. Thorefore, public documents re- ceived by these people are from public men are a two-fold blessing; tho document is appreciated, and the wrapper in which it comes contains the autograph of a senator. These people will be interested in learning that, on an average, not more than once in a hundred times is the signature of the official written by his own hand where it is used as a frank. Clerks do the work. There are senators who are sending out bushels of documents every week, using their franks a hundred times a day, who do not write their names for the franking privi- lege twice a month. Their private secretar- ies do it. I have no doubt that there are thousands of people who have in their scrap books pasted the autographs of public men written by the clerks or secretaries of the officials. The recent amendment mado to the franking privilege permitting the use of rubber stamps in producing fac similes of the autographs, will make it almost impossi- ble for the recipient of public documents to procure a genuine nulA:gruph Tho specch of Senator Stewart of Nevada, in favor of his proposition to limit the veto power of the executive, has attracted wide- spread attention since it was delivered. It has been commented upon, criticised and abused in all sections of the country, and yet it is but the preliminary movement of what promises to be a very formidable one toward clipping the chief magistrate’s claws, and de- llrlvlnx him of some portion at least, of what has proved to be a powerful prerogative. It is argued, and with good effect, that when the constitution made the prequlcul of the United States a co-ordinate branch of the legislative government, the idea was not that his judgment should be set up in opposition to a majority of both houses of congress, but it was designed that he should have a super- visory power, and that the veto should be used solely to prevent violations of that bul- wark of American liberty, the constitution of the United States, The growing fre- quency with which thesveto power has been used in the last fifty yoars, and the extremely liberal sprinkling of yeto messages whi the present chief exetudtive has scen fit to put upon the country, hhg led to a more wide- spread desire than gver before existed for the curtailment of his power. President Cleveland vetoes, in‘many cas: ave been condemned by his party leaders in the house. But unfortunately thése allies are dependent upon the chief mughuutu for political pap and official patronage; They real that the mind of the man whom they have made chief magistrate of 'this nation is of such small caliber that he would resent personally, any official differenc? ip opinion between his own views and thoseof his party associates. They realize, too, that .in giving a vote de- ned to aid in_over-riding the president's veto each individuall member lays himself liable to the ill-will of the chief magistrate, and they know that the ill-will of this man may, and frequcmlvuqe-, amount to politi- cal ostracism. For this reason it is the mos difficult thing in the world to secure enough votes on the democratic side to join with the republicans to set aside the executive disay proval to any bill, no matter how meritori- ous the measure may be in itself. While it mprobable that Senator Stew- art's pr upomuon to give to the majority of the power to over-ride v.lll be ready to submit to the people just yet, the time will surely come when a xud]ol ity of congr will be able to enact such legislation as ma be desired in spite of the disapproval of the self-constituted censor of all congres- sional acts. — - A SALT CITY. Hutchinson, Kan., the Center of a Rich Briney Deposit, HrremxsoN, Kan, June 8. —(Sncoial to Tne Bee] -The discovery of salt at this plece was made'by Ben Blanch- ard, of South Hutchinson, in the fall of 1887, in drilling for gas, coal or oil. Salt was un- expectedly struck 465 feet from the surface and the bormmgs showed it to be 300 feet thick and practically pure. The drill was sunk 1,100 feet, and not far from the salt passed through a twenty-seven inch vein of coal of splendid quality, This well is to be sunk 2,000 feet or more to find gas, and test wells will be drilled ovér a large area to determine the extent of the coal deposit. The Gouinlock Salt company, of Warsaw, N. Y., was the first to commence the manu- facture of salt here, Their works were planned to produce 500 barrels per day, but owing to the brine being stronger than at any eastern works, the output is considera- bly greater than anticipated. The next com- pany to sink a well and erect buildings was the Wyoming Salt company, composed of four partners, also from Warsaw, N, Y., where two of the partners still manufactura salt. They struck salt at 450 feet, and found the bed to be over #00 feet thick, Ca- pacity, 1,000 barrels per day. These people, under the name of Hawley salt company, took the first premium on salt used in butter at the Missouri State fair at St. Louis, 1857, and at a display and testof American salt for general uses at the Chicago” Fat Stock and Dairy show, 1887, But they assert that the natural salt here is as valuable as any of the eastern refined. Henry Hegwer, an old citi- zen of this place, will in & short time com- mence making salt in another .part of the city. He contracted for a well 750 feet deep, and struck the. rock, ata dopth of 423 foct, Capacity of works, barrels per day. Other wells have bee Kk showing about the same results, These are in various di- rections and actually determine the fact that a bed of rock salt undthities this city and the surrounding country, utia depth of 400 to 475 feet, being 800 feet in thickness. The area thus testsd includes aboyt six or cight square miles. The new organizations are: The South Hutclinson Salt and Mining company has en- listed capitalists at Meadville, Pa. ~This is the company which has contracted for test holes to determine the extent of the coal de- posit, Capital, 200000 The Diamond Salt company, capital $100,60, is backed investors and have commenced a well, Hucthinson Salt and}Miuing company, 8300 000 capital, is to mive salt and manu from it soda-ash or the cAustic soda dUHllnlll cleaning, and m making al 8 Frow this they will also produce bi carbonate of soda. The president of this company 1s Dr. N. B, Wolf, a Cincinnatti capitalist. The treasurer 18 John A, T of Tobey & Booth, pork packers of Ch and Hutchinson, and @ member of the N. York produce exchange. The Tobey brothers now reside here and express entire satisfaction with the salt, as it comes from the pans, for curing the finest grade of hams The Sun Flower company is composed of prominent business men of this city, Capi- talists who are interested in the business at various salt conters in the east, have exam- ined this salt field. They agree that with the advantages offered for the manufacture of salt, and facilitics for its shipment by the various trunk lines of railroad, coaverging and radiating heve, it must command the eu- tire market of the traus-Mississippi and mountain region. —— Jobn Bright Still lmproving. Loxpoy, June 8.—Mr, Bright is steadily improviug. - He sleeps well, MR. SAMPSON, OF OMAHA, SAYS: The Burlington takes the lead. AND IT IS TRUE THAT It was in advance of all lines in developing Nebraska. It was in advance of all lines in establishing g dining car service between Missouri river points and Chicago. It was in advance of all lines in giving the people of Omaha and the west a fast mail service. It was in advance of all lines in running its trains from the east into Omaha proper. It was in advance of all lines in reducing the time of passenger trains between Omaha and Chicago. It was in advance and is the only line by which you can leave Omaha in the morning and arrive in Denver the even- ing of the same day. It has been progressive in the past. It will lead in the future. Travel and ship via the Burlington. Ticket Office 1223 Farnam Street. Depot on Tenth Street. M. E. GENERAL CONFERENCE. A Vast Amount of Business Has Been Transacted. A REVIEW OF PART OF ITS WORK, A Thousand Petitions—The Church Press — Church Socicties — Confe ence Chang g Acts— Omaha in 18 Methodist Aftermath, New York, June 3.—[Special to Tme Bre.]—While the conference pauses briefly in its arduous work, |lll‘|\.u,lh)|\ to final adjournment, and repairs to Riverside to strew flowers on the tomb of Grant, whom it recognized by a resolution, as mnot only the greatest mulitary chieftain, but as atrue Methodist besides, a good opnor- tunity is afforded to summarize and review the accomplishments of the body. In general terms it may be truthfully said that for the spirit of independence shown, {or the supe- rior character of themen placed in oftice, for the mighty debates sustained, for the radical changes made, and for the quantity no less than tho quality of the business brought before it, this conference has had no caual in Methodism since the memorable gathering in this city forty-fonr years ago, when the split. occurred on the subject of Not less than a thousand petitions and memorials have been considered by the body, and upon at least a hundred of these have the great committees ground out some sort of areport. It is only a pity that all of these reports cannot be acted upou, but so much time was spent at the opening on the woman question, and so much more was occupied last week in the elections, while the brethren now seem 8o anxious to adjourn, that such a consummation is not /possible. The episcopal office remains as it was, not- withstanding all the efforts mado to uu)dlf) it. It is still an office, not an order, the pres- ent conference \‘nnfirulingthis by an indirect voto as emphatically as in express terms the same view was adopted by the last con- ference. The tenure, moreover, 18 still for life, and this, by the way, applies also to the mission; hmhn; 8, who have been declared by the conference to be of the same standing with the othors, excepting that their ficld 18 limited. To “ihhlt[) aylor in Africa has now been added Bishop J. M. Thorburn, whose diocese will comprise India and Malaysiu. Both these get their pay from the Episcopal fund, and Bishop Taylor gets his back pay of ?l" 000 from that fund technicall though the episcopal fund is reimbursc this outlay from the missionary treasury. Bishop Mallalicu has been appointed to visit the Bu n conferences this year, and will leay lurope on Saturday. Thé episcopul residences are left as they were, ouly, of course, with additions to accommo- date those newly elected. The new places added are Philadélphia, Omaba, or Lincoln, and the state of Texas. A noticable feature m the election of the bishops is that two of those chosen came directly from the pastor- ate, and that another was a pastor up o a year ago, 'This is a new departure. In the four elected by the last conference not on was from thé pastorate, and only one of the four elected in 1880 held that relation, This change will tend to exalf the pastoral rela- tion, since it shows that one may remain in this restricted sphere and still be in the line of promotion to Ligh oftice, The church press is another institution which remains as it was, excepting that the paper for young people, called Our Youth, is to be made wmore distinctively a Sunday- school paper. To the editorshipof this and the other Sunday-school publications of the church, the position long held by Bishop \mu\nl the Rev, J. L. Hurlbut, long an able assistant in this work, has been promoted. The editorship of the Review, made vacant by the death of Dr. Curry, is filled now by Dr. J. W. Mendenhall of ‘Ohio. Dr. Albert s sds the lamented Marshall W. Taylor as editor of the Southwestern Advocate, and the other editors were all re-elected, as also were all the book agents. Le only election by acclamation was that of the vencrable Dr. William Nast to the Apologist, a position hie has held for forty nine years. The Method- 18t Advocate of Chattanooga, formerly su in- dependent paper, i8 now made a regular or- gan of the church, with a liberal approvria tion, and Dr, T. C. Carter is continued us its editor, In the great church societies the changes are more The Freedmenw's Aid is mow the edmen’s Aid anc Educational society, and this chauge. od, will enable the society to carry on work in that section with less prob- ability of interference on the part of the coloréd people. ‘The venerable Dr. Rust, the father of this society, was thought to have deserved an honorary retirement, and the actual management will rest hereafter with Dr. J, C. Hartzell, formerly Dr. Rust's as sistant. Another veteran placed in the same hon- orary relation is Dr. J. M. Reid, long the chief secretary of the missionary society. Dr. C. C. McCabe succeeds to Dr. Reed tion, and the other corresponding pec are hew men, namely, Dr. A. B. Leonard, of Ohio, aud Dr, J. O. Peck, of New York. The educational society is eplarged in its scope somewhat, and Dr. C. H. Payue becowes its for secretary, succeeding in that position Dr. Goodsell, one of the new bishops. The only other change is that the church extension so- ciety adds to its loan fund an annuity fund. It will, however, greatly delight the chureli to know that'a new society has been formed for the special benefit of conference claimants. Heretofore the worn out preachers and the widows and orphans of deceased ministers have had to_depend for their allowances upon what could be raised for them in their own conferences, the result being, that while none received nearly s0 much as they deser some have got Tauch more than others beciuse belonging to ces better able to give. Under the soment the allowances will be at le and more equal. The society will be managed by a board 5F control, consisting of ten ministors and ten laymen, with a corresponding secretary and all the bishops. 1t is proposcd to raise alarge permanent fund by bequests and otherwise, the intcrest of which will be divided among the annual conferences to supplement their own collections for this cause. Some changes are also to be noted in the conferences. It is very likely, owing to the legislation of this body, that the next general conference will have in it as many r atives of the laity as of the ministry, and I,hm. among tho lay delegates will be a fair sprinkling of women. Upon both these prop- ositions, however, the annual conferenc have yei to vote, "he uction of the confe 1ips, of New York, and_ex-Governor Patti- son, of Pennsylv; vho had been elected lay deleg: 5 ¢ from Mexico and India, establishes the principle that lay con- ferences can_be_represented in the general conference only by bona_fide residents and members in their territory. Formerly it took ouly fifteen to c onstitute an annual con- ference: ||IJ\\ twenty are required, but mis- icos are provided for, which are to have nearly all the powers of annual con- ferences, and which may consist of any num- ber less than twenty. abling acts have been passed by the ling that the Denmarl mi " may becomo anmual confor- u they havo the number of minis- icts were also passed to Louisiana, with West Nebraska, Co Kunsas_conferences to 1ift_the boundurics separating ticm, and the Michigan and De- troit conferences to become four instead of two bodies if they find it practicabla, Touching the much debated question of what the constitution of the general conference is, & commis- sion of seventeen hus been appointed to con- sider the matter, and report to this body four ears hence. : rate is the extention of the te Many think that there are conditions attached to this extension, but the fact is that there are no other conditions attaching to the five year than attached formerly to the threo vear limit, To equalizo matters an addition has also been_made to the term of prosiding elders, This term is extended from four years to six, and though the conference pro- vided that an elder may not preside more than six years over the same districtunil he has been away from it six, it refused 1o say that o man having served six ycars on a dis trict may not be unnw:huu.ly appointed, at the discrétion of the bishops, to some other district. This extension of the term of presiding elders was opposed very strongly by some, but it prevailed at last by even a larger ma’ jority proportionately than the motion to ex- tend the term of the pastorate, the feeling being that it was necessary in order to the proper supervision of the work that theelder be allowed to stay at least & year more than the pastor, The changes affecting the membership of the church are both few and trivial, Perhups the most radical is the establishment of the Order of Deaconesses, This wus for the Telephione 227 special benefit of the good sisters, and as a further proof of the fact that the women are having matters much their own way thess days, it is worthy of note that the conference voted finally to allow all members of the church over twenty-one years of age, female as well as male, to” vote upon the question of whether women should not be admitted to the gen conference. It also established the followmg uniform order of orship: Hymn, the people standing; prayer, ministor and people kneeling, closing witn the Lord's rayer, in concert; lessons from the Old and ither one of which may be rmon: brief ) singing, to end with the doxology, and the whole to conclude with the apostolic benediction. ‘The action of the body on the subject of temperance and nrohibition was, as everyone anticipated, ful! up to the standard of former confercnces, and, if anything, a slight advance wus registered, ' After the adoption the regular resolutions, which were quite as strong as they could bo m de, it was pro- posed to take further action 1 nhn;: for the retention in the discipline of a certain deliv- erance on this subject which was objection- able to some because, as they alleged, it had ed by preachers of third parly pro- es to convince Methodists that they could not be true to their church unless they voted the third party ticke A strong effort was made to have this deliverance omitted from the new dis pline. The de: bate was not only spirited, but it had a pol ical and even un acrimonious tinge. It re- sulted, however, in the retention of the ob- jmllmmbh- pa ph by @ count vote of 207 to 140. This paragraph acclares against log- alizng the tariff in any stablishes total abstinence as the rule for individuals, and legal prohibition as the only proper attitude for the state, and while it disclaims any pur- posa to inter: fere with the political affiliations of its members, it still warns them to be care ful to not give their support to any party manaeed in the interests of the liquor trafic, On the subject of union with the church south nothin nite was done, but the speceh 1, of L(mm\)llc the common re- that 50 bold and advanced a de- nee had not been made to the confer- b since fraternal relations between the two bodies were first established. To the from the Protestant Episcopal made to this in common with all vangelical bodies, secking union by absorption of the whole lot info one fold, that fold to be theirs, and offering to give the acraments for this purpose to all would accept the proposal —to this offer the conference re- turned a polite ¢ thank you," feel- ing, of course, that Methodism could never accept a proposition for union which would require it to acknowledge that it bad never been o true church, though at the same time satisfuction was expressed at the growing liberality of the ecpiscopal church, and the right hand of greeting and lelu“th[) wus extended to that body. The applicants for the sess| hmJ\' four years hence we arleston, S, C. ( hu .\w!, San Francisco, and Omaha, and, to th wart nor'westerners, the lot foll to the last named, where, in 1802, will be re-enacted similar scenes to those to which for a month past the press and public of this metropolis bavebozn treated. ——e iant draught of Tarrant’s Selt- zor Aperient removes all il effects avising from indiscretions in eating and drinking. such as n of this great Washington, springficld, Denver, St. Louit great joy of the stalt e pd ik Fatal Wreek in Minnesota, ANOKA, Minn,, June b—A serious nccl dent occurred on the St. Paul, Minneapo- lis & Manitoba road near here to-ay. A car on a working train jumped the track. John Griffin, of St. Paul, was instantly killed. James Veetulio and O. C. Foreit, were prob- ubly fatally injured, and four othiers seriously injured. MuslanNg MEXICAN MUSTA N\ OLb BukEs, INIMENT o doutt A Cakxy Dukaizy #ad all 1an "'mxf‘i.,