Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 9, 1888, Page 4

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B TZSCHUCK. e me and subscribed Inomy s ith aay of Augnst, A, D, 1888, P Notary Pubile. v of ‘The Bee ual average Ly Bee f the was 1,101 coplos; 14340 Coples; for Nov 1 Octover, 1 ( Rworn to ‘vefore me and presence this 1st dny of A T first blast of the campaign from the democrats will be sounded at Port Huron, Mich., on the 22d of August. Thurman and his bandana will be there. WHEN American defanlters begin to bleed the Canadians there is some pros- pect of a treaty between the Uni States and Canada for the extradition of boodler: Mi. CLEVELAND has been signing so many pension vetoes of late that he is suffering from writers’ cramp, That is one way to explain the long delayed letter of ncceptance GOVERNOR MAR of Kunsas has appointed thirty-two delegates to the Denver deep-water couvention. Does the governor intend to capture the meeting and locate the Texas harbor in Kansas/ GENERAL FISK, the prohibition can- didate, has some scathing words about the drink that inebriates in his lotter of acceptanci But he has failed to give the seductive drug store soda a drubbing. It was altogether too bad that Coun- cilman Kaspur should have ruflled the happy mood of Councilman Hascall by referring to such a little matter as “free gas and water” at the council meeting. NEBRASKA'S bountiful crop is the mother of invention. According to the Chicago Herald the carpenters in Min- den, Kearney county, have goneinto the " business of making stilts for the farm- ers to pick corn. IF MRr. CLEVELAND goes on quarrel- ing with his trusty lieutenants like Matson, the democratic candidate for governor of Indiana, he will find him- self deeply planted in the political graveyard next November. TuHe five dollar emigrant rate from New York to Chicago which goes into effect this week, allows the overcrowded east to send industriousmen and women into the booming west where there is room for everybody with stout hearts and willing hands, THE arrival of Mr. Blaine, Thursday, will be celebrated in New York City by & monster procession. Fully 40,000 men are expected to be in line on the night of his coming. As a political demon- stration, the ovation is destined to be one of the grandest ever tendered to an American, THE universal reports of good crops all over the country have infused some life into Wall street. For many a long day the stock market has been in the dumps. If Wall street be the barometer of financial confidence and quickening, it bespeaks a picking up of business all over the country. Our enterprising cotemporary on lower Douglas wants to add ten thousand names to its daily subscription list be- fore new year’s. Nothing easier than that. Take a few theusand names out of the city directories of all the towns in this state and throw a few thousand papers over the back and front yards'in Omaha, and you've got 'em ‘WiLL England be obliged to prepare for a war with China as well as to fortify India against & Russian invasion? An army of thirteen million Chinamen, avmed with rifles, as the emperor boasts, is somewhat different from a horde of barbarians armed with tom-toms aud hideous battle flags. There is a thing or two in the new China war which western nations may well ponder. Tuere is to be another ticket and snother platform in the field just as s0on as the **American party” holds its convention at Washington on the 14th inst. It is championed by a few news- papers and by some men of political prominence. But the organization is destined to cuta very small figure in the presdential election. The party’s most strenvous advocate, the Awmerica, mukes the “cardinal principles” of the i Fivst, restriction (regula- movome. Raig tion) of immigralion; sogond, extension of time required for naturalizatiom o) fourteen years; third, protection of the American free school system; fourth, American land for American settlers; lastly, no public funds for sectarian pur- Washington Territory. The bl for the admission of Wash- ington territo as 0 state holds the po- sition of unfinished business on the l¢ islative calendar of the senate, and is therefore likely to be acted upon at any time. T1 ow days ago tothe v in the house by Del s in favor of ad- mitting Washington hood. Although it is not probable that the people of this territory will have their territory to state- desire for self-government gratified at the present session of congress, it can- not be without interest to note upon what facts they base their claim to the right to govern themselves, The area of Wash- mgton terrvitory is about equal to all w England, and is divided by the seade mountaing into eastern and western Washington, The western por- tion, which is the smaller, has a mild and moist climate. The mercury rarely falls much below freezing, and then only for a few days. This portion of the territory is heavily wooded and has extensive tracts of rich hottom land. In the eastern portion the winters are colder, yet in the southern part and the viver bottoms of the Columbia the farmer may plow any month in the year. The population of the territory is claimed to be two hundred thousand, and it is doubtless very near this number, The are about twelve hun- dred miles of ilroad, and the ter- ritory is hardly surpassed in the richnoss of its agricultural resources, which are rapidly developing. It is estimated that within the last twelve months quite one hundred thousand acres of farming lands have been added to that previously under cultivation. Tastern Washington, long regarded as a cold, dry and desert land, is rapidly becoming one of the rare garden spots of the west. It has a great variety as well as good quality in its range of pro- ducts. Stock raising is a leading in- terest, and the best breeds of cattle, horses and sheep are found there. The mining lands abound in iron, gold, sil- ver, copper, lead and coal. With the exception of coal the mining in- terests have not been developed to any great extent, The coal deposits cover an area thus far ascertained of nearly two hundred thousand acres,and the product mavketed acording to the latest and most trustworthy statistics amounted to over three million tons. The timber supply of the territory is not surpassed on the continent, or per- hups in the world, and finds an exten- sive market. In climate, soil and nat- ural resources, Washington territory is thus seen to ne of the most highly favored scctions of this wonderful country. The population of Washington ter- ritory will compare most favorably with that of any other territory or most of the states. Tt iscomposed of intelligent, industrious and thrifty people, who are anxious to progress materially, morally and socially, and helieve this can be done more rapidly under a state than a territorial government. There isa good common school system and some institutions of learning of higher grade, while there are not wanting other requirements for the intellectual improvement of the people. The atten- tion which this territory has attracted in the last five years is likely to bo greatly increased in the immediate fu- ture, and it is reasonably éxpected that population will rapidly increase, and with it necessarily industrial prosperity. Having now the population necessary to admittance to statehood, the people of Washington territory are urgently asking that this great right guaran- teed by the constitution to American citizens be accorded them. They ask congress to regard their request with- out reference to partisan considerations, which should in justice have no weight. Unfortunately, however, it is such con- siderations that are most potent at this time, and in keeping Dakota out of state- hood bar the way for the admission of any other eligible territory. It it alto- gether probable, therefore, that there will be no legislation at the present ses- sion of congress to enable the people of Washington territory to come into the union of states, but whatever may be the result of this year’s political con- test, it is reasonubly to be expected that before the close of another year the number of states will be increased to at least forty by the admission of Dakota and Washington, The Prohibition Candidates. The presidential candidates of the prohibition party are ex-members of the two great political parties, but there is a very wide difference in the character and civeumstances of thetr former party allegiauce, and the way in which they now feel respecting it. General Pisk was a union soldier who made an excellent record in defense of the government. TFor years thereafter he was identified with the republican party and did able and eflicient service in its cause. He has now no hatred of that party, and his identification with another cause is due to a sin- cere conviction that the moral reform he desires accom- plished is paramount to all other issues affecting the pubiic welfare and is hope- less of attainment through either of the great political parties. He assails these parties only with reference to what he conceives to be their weakness with re- spect to the issue he represents, The vice presidential candidate, Dr. Brooks, lived in the south at the time of the rebellion and acknowledges that he was ardently in sympathy with the confederate cause and prayed for its success, [t goes without saying that he was & democrat until he became identi- fied with the prohibition party. His motive for transferring his party alle- giance. may have been a sincere desire to advance the cause of prohibi- tion, but it appears that he is still im- bued with all the bitter hatred of the republican party that possessed him when he was battling against the union under the confederate flag. Ata speech delivered some ten days ago at Decatur, Hlinois, Dr. Brooks declared that he had béeh a womocrat and thanked God ho had not to answer for we 818 of ever having been a rgpublican. No one will question vthat the prohibi- tion' candidate for vice president had | probably have cleuned up thé right to be a democrat, or that it' is ‘his . privilege now to feel proud of that “fact. But how far he may go in boasting of his former party allégiance and casting reproach upon the party that preserved the gov- ernment, and rotain any claim to the respect and support of former repub- licans now acting with the prohibi- tionists, is n question which all such re- publicans may very properly address to themsolves. The language of Dr. Brooks, uttered with the earnestness of strong feeling, was an insult to Genoral Fisk and to every prohibitionist who has been a republican. There was noth- ing in the occasion to give it ws no circumstance to fy or palliate it. It wasa wholly gratuitious reproach, born of the spirit of hatred and vindie- tiveness, It is evident the prohibition- ists made a serious mistake in their seleetion of a candidate for vico wvresi- dent. The County Hospital. The construction of the county hos- pital is said to be defective in many im- portant particulars, The trouble is not with the plans, but of the failure of the contractors to earry out tho spec tions which and lled mechanical wor blame is not wholly on the cont however, It is the common ex of all cities that contractors on public buildings will slight their work unless they are rigidly held to the specific tions by a vigilant, competent and un- purchasable building inspector. This inspector or superintendent should in all cases be at the building from the time the work begins in the morn- ing until the whistlo blows for them to quit in the evening. An oceasionad visit for fifteen or twenty minutes, or even an hour or two, is a mere farce. No sooner is the superin- tendent’s back turned than the con- tractors will take advantage of his ab- sence, use inferior materials and try to get the most work out of their me- chanics in the shortest time, no matter how poor the job may be, This is the true inwardness of the de- focts at tho county hospital. Mr. Shane, the inspector, has been unable to devote much time to inspection. His visits were only at intervals, like those of the doctors that will be in attendance upon hospital patients. Mr. Shane has contracts of his own to carry on, and cannot therefore devote much timo to the county building. He very properly declines to serve any further, and the correct and business like thing for the commissioners to do is to find a trustworthy and competent superintendent without delay and hire him to remain at the hospital building until it is completed. quire the best materials The It 18 remarked as somewhat singular that the president should retain Mr. Edgerton as one of the civil service Edgerton has never sympathy with the other democratic member of the commission, who professes the most ardent devotion to reform, or indeed with the preten- sions of the president in the same line. It seems to us the matter can be natur- ally explained. Mr, Cleveland knows that of the two democratic members of the civil service commission Idgerton is the more honest and better represents the general sentiment of the party, and he is necessary as a sort of safety valve. Oberly was an ideal spoils hunter before he became areformer at a generous salary and traveling expenses, and like all con- verts he is now a fanatic. The repub- lican member cuts a very small figure. Edgerton is the foil to Oberly, and un- doubtedly has a much closer under- standing with the president than the latter. At any rato theve is good reason to believe that the president has found it to be wise policy to keep Edgerton on the commission,and undoubtedly he will remain in the position aslong as it is the privilege of Mr. Cleveland toretain him there. AS WAS to have been expected, the “'squaw” men are found to be in a large measure responsible for the attitude of the Sioux toward the treaty for opening their reservation. These white rene- gades and desperadoes have a much greater influence with thedndians than is generally supposed, and their pres- ence in the tribes has been the cause of perhaps more than half the crimes and outrages that have been committed. They constitute a wholly bad element, which, if it is not possible to eliminate, should be deprived of much of its power for mischief. This would be largely ac- complished by the bill now in the hands of the president to prevent white men who marry Indian women from the: securing any rights or interest in tri property. With such a law in force very few white men would seek Iadian wives, and the few who did, having no property vights, would be without in- tluence. Legislation of thiskind twenty years ago would have prevented a vast amount of outrage that has cost the na- tion many millions of treasure and sup- plied to Indian history some of its darkest pages, WHEAT has gone up. English ad- vices show that the demand is active and holdersoffer freely., This will bring joy to the American farmer. Owing to the shortage in the wheat crop in Great Britain and France, estimated at over 75,000,000 bushels, the advance in price for American wheat is almost certain. Both America and Russia will be called upon to make up the deficiency of west- ern Europe. India cannot be depended upon for a supply, as the crop there has been smaller than the average for the past few years. Russian wheat has ex- cited the prejudice of English buy on account of its uncleanliness, so it appears that the bulk of Great Britain’s supply will be drawn from the United States. Tue council has voted Fanning & Slaven twenty-one hundred and twenty- eight dollars and sixteen cents for clean- ing and sweeping the streets during a period of five weeks. Four hundred and twenty-five dollars a week for street cleaning is a nice little bill for the tax- pasors of om:}hn to foot. But it is a very fat job 1wé the wnh'uct:)rs, who nalt the THE OMAHA DAILY BEK: TTTURSDAY, twenty-one Luadred dollars in - pure dust, after paying ol the street-swoops ing gung, with their tonms. v of tod t nmitt Tie national #xecutive o« the democratté flarty hus alr the ball rolling by sending out tons o o P tavitf The gressionalyecords containi speeches whieh nobody campaign orator has also been on the rond with a clean suit of cloth a democratic plug hat and a red ban- dann. Ttisan il wind that does not blow 8 mebody sgood. Democrats who make hay while the Brice-Scott sun shines are very sonsibl Tie nice plum which the freight agents had prepared for Kansas City by allowing shippers to sénd grain to Cl engo at through rates with over privileges en route has been picked be- fore it was vipe, Somo of the rouds re- fuse to make any such terms, and the city on the Kaw will have to worry along on the old schedulo rates. stop Why It's Delay dlobe-Democrat the appearance of Mr. Cleve- ptance justifies the suspi- 1s been submitted to some of ipvorters in Ehgland for criti- ision before being published in The delay i land's letter of cion that it h his leading cism and this countr, The & “Which Way T I"ly is Hell,” was the title of a bitter editorial written by Mr. Henry Watterson one day last week. We knew that Louisvillo was a hot city, and that it was hotter than usual last week, but surely Mr. Watterson's description of the tempera- ture must have been overdrawn, —— In Big Demand. New York World. Belva Lockwood is in great demand, She nhas been asked to run as the presidential candidato of a new party to be composed of prohibitionists, green ors, roformers, woman suffragists, ef The anti-bustle en- 1asts hot-water-cure-for-dyspepsia fan- . double-umpire-system-for base ball advoe: and the Salvation army are seri- ously considering the question of joining in the Lockwood movement. Belva Ann seems certain of polling a great vote. - Civil Seryice Keform. New York Tribune. Pizes Busn, Dakota. My deer Groover: Your letter putting me onto as how T had ben appinted P. M. heer was brot to me last nite by Jim Hanner. He happened to be goin’ past, the office and thot he'd ask fer me jes fer a joke and I'll be durned if he didn't git your letter. I'm sorry to dissapint you, Mr. Cleveland, but I don't belicve I kere fer the office. The blamed thing don’t pay more'n 24 dotlers a yoar, and I couldn’t *ford to give up my seloon fer that. I make six thousand out of the seloon. Whiskey two bits, beer 15 cents. Other drinks in proporshun, or more so. I did think at fust that I wood move one pool table @ little and put the office in the corner by the north end of the bar, but I low it will ter to put in another table and deal monteon it. I have faro and haz wheel d and and keno and stud poker now, but they say there is piles of money in Spanish monte. Least, I reckon there will be mora'n in your old postoffice. Better give it to Buck Boble ter—he jest o 4eloon but no sporting lay- out and could give it the attention it deserves. Buck shot a man 1ast month but the jedg: yousent ont cleared him in bout a minit. He is a thunderin’ godd jedge fer this country. He dropped 200 dollars on my south faro table last night and never kicked a kick. Send out some more of that kind, Yours till deth, NIC DURGIN. Thurman's Song. New York Tribune. “Know ye that never took a pinch, Knows he the pleasure thence that flows Knows he the titillating joy That my nose knows! Nose, T am as proud of thee As any mountain of its snows; I gazo on thee and feel the joy A Roman knows!” i A PROMINENT PERSONS. Jay Gould has gone to Saratoga. They say that Mr. Edi3on is worth $5,000,000. ‘Wayne MacVeagh and family are av Bar Harbor for the summer, Robert J. Burdet:e has been taking a ram- ble through the Rocky Mountains. Herbert Spencer i8 working on his auto- biography, but his poor health prevents his making much progress, Dr. Edward Everett Hale is practically the head of the Chautauqua assembly at Weirs, N. H., and is lecturing there daily. Theodore Tilton is often seen nowadays on the Chnmps Elysees, Paris. He much re- sembles Kloquet, the prime minister of France. Ex- Governor Alger, of Michigan, is visit- ing the Cincinnati exposition. He loancd his fine collection of paintings to the exposition art gallery. Dr. Robert Morris, who recently died at La Grange, Ky., was one of theonly two pocts laureate the Freemasons have ever had. Robert Burns was the first. Jesse D. Carr, the rich ranchman of Fresno county, Cal., has been ordered by a govern- ment agent to remove a stone fence which he :ms‘bulll around 40,000 acres of government and. There is an unfounded rumor afloat in England to the effect that William k. Glad- stone will enter the house of lords as the Earlof Flint. It is better 1o be the first commoner in England than one of a useless body of lords. General Boulanger, on a_pension of §1,600 . vear, pays $2,400 a year rent and spends £0.000 & year on himself and an equal #mount on the eetablisiment of his wife and two daughtors at Versaj!!%, French papers mtimate that an American miilicnaire sup- plies the difference between income aiid outgo. Ella Wheeler Wilcox wears a white bath- ing suit trimmed with blue braid, and varies the monotony of a bluck-hosed majority by wearing pink stockings. She is said to look about sixteen in_this short-slecved, short- skirted attire. Shf always attracts much at- tention as she “walks the plank,” but avoid the publicity, courted by many,of promenad- ing the beach in bathing costume, Dr. William Everett, son of the famous orator, 15 possessed of & phenomenal mem- or; He is master of Adams academy, at Mass., and never uses a text-book in room. Virgils “Kneid” and Hor- ace's *Odes and Epodes’” he knows by heart. On account of hid | ipmarkable voice, which combines in a startfihg maunner the qualities of bass and falsetto, he is irreverently re- ferred to as Piggy' 'Everctt among the boys. Edwin Booth's only daughter, Mrs. Giross- man, is petite, with pale sweet face and childlike manners. = _She is wholly domestic, absorbed in her husband, children, and father. Mr. Grossman is a'Hungarian, and speaks with a strong foreign accent. He has dark eyes and prematurely gray hair, and is tenderly lover-like in his manner to his wife always. The oldest child, Mildred, not yet three, has the Booth eyes and a tragic face even in her babyhood. The baby, seventeen months old, bids fair to astonish the world and the tragic Booth family by becoming a comedian. He astonishes his grandfather even mow by his remarkable feats of mimicry. e Big Backing for Gray's Patent. Ricumoxn, Va,, August 5.--The Gray Na- tional Telautograph company has been char- tered, with a capital stock not to exceed $15,000,000. The principal office will be lo- cated in Richmond. The company will en- age in a general telograph and telephone usiness under the systew inveated by Prof, Gray. { | AUGUST 9, 1888, WAS HASTINGS A DESERTER? | A Quoor Incident in the Lifo of a Nebrasko Bditor, 5 MILITARY RECORD CLOUDED. oat the Tor He Served Gallantly Throu War But Is Made for an Unintentional Wrong. to 5 A Steange Oase, W, August 8.—[Special to Tne earthe oceasionally. artment, An instanco comes from Nob- raska, and involves a well-known editor in that state. Two years azo, Loren W, Hast- ings wrote to Washington for his military re- cord, believinz it to be without blemish, was stug the rolls as a deserter, under which Mr, Hastings was scored deserter are interesting. Ho enlisted 1n company G, Sixth Towa Vol- unteer Infantry, at Jowa City, March 20, After about two months service in the arm of the army, he baeame dissatis- ud wanted to enter the n A trans fer was refused him, and when his compiny reached Pittsbnrg Landing, Tenn., he abraptly left it, and immediately entwrod the sorvice of the navy, board the United States ship, Cairo, then lying at Mound City, [l Heenrolied his name asone The cireums! oing on of tho crew. e immediately entered into active s He preferred serving in the navy because he had a number of year: been man before the st, and certainly he was enabled to bo of greater advantage to his country in the branch he was iliar with, and” which he preferrod to serve in rather than the place distasteful and strange to him. ile never dreamed that his leaving one branch of the service and immediate entering into wnother la be recorded aguinst him, and naturally presumed, during all these years of peace, that the record of the department showed'that he had contin- ued in the service of the unjon. It was well known in the company he left that he had I vy, aud he presumed that his aptain would see that his name was prop- since o had made formal Last February Senator Paddock applied to the war department requesting to kunow whether Mr. Hastings’ record could not be cor) 1 under the statute of May, 1556, but the department held that immediate enlist- ment in the navy was not coverea by the law, which applied only to re-enlistment in the arn A bill was introduced in the sen- ate to correct the record, 80 48 to make it ap- r that instead of being a deserter he had simply absented himself without leave from his company commander; that he had im- mediately entered the navy, served honora- bly, and was discharged from that service— making hisarmy record a matter with the navy instead of the war department. Scnator Cockrell has subwit A report favorable on the bill from the committee on miltary affairs, and in his statement the sen- ator sa. ‘“‘Had the petitioner joined some other regiment or company in the army, instead of enlisting in the navy, the charge of deser- tion would be removable by the war depurt- v 17, 1536, id to desertthe n the prosecution of the war for the wce of the union. In other words he did not absent himself without leave with the inteution, ti imus, of not_ returning, but with the expr purpose and intention of joining another branch of the service, for the same purpose, and which was co-operat- ing with the milatary arm in the prosecution of the war. And the telecram of the adju- tant genc toGeneral Halleck, December17, 1, and general order: 4 by General Halleck clearly show that the rumors which reached the petitioners in regard to the diffeulty to pro- cure men to man the western flotilla, and or- ders for the transier of soldiers 1o such sarviee were correc If the petitioner had plication in writing, or if orwarded his name to his commanding officer to be transferred, the transfer would doubtless have been made, The charge, there, fore, of descrtion is not a true one, and should 1ot remain upon the records.” * Py Another special consular bulletin has just Deen issued from the department of state on the subject of the costof manufactured arti- cles in_England in comparison with those in the United States, the object being to submit an official argument in favor of a reduction of the duties on imported English goods into the United States. This report is confined to the ingrain carpet industry and comes from the American consul at Tunstall, England. In the first paragraph of the report it is shown that in America the price paid opera- tives for weaving with our improved ma- chinery, which enables each person to weave an average of one hundred and eighty yards a week, is 54 cents a yard, bringing up the averago earnings for the operative to $9.45. In England the ingrain carpet is woven by hand looms, for the reason, the consul says, that “‘hand loom weaving offers to the manu- facturer the great advantage that he need not sink the greater part of his capital into fixed chargesof costly machinery,” the price of labor being so cheap that improved ma- chinery is not an inducement to English man- ufacturers. Owing to the fact that hand looms are used in England the manufacturer can deliver the carpet at a cost of 10 cents a , which includes the warping, weaving, yoing and finishing and everything else con- nected with the manufacture. Including the expense outside of the weaving alone about the same price is paid for the weaving in Kngland that is paid in the United States; but while an American weaver turns out 180 yards a week, the English weaver, with the best hund looms, turns out but 130 yards in two weeks, which is only about one third as much as isdone by the operator in America, and the English operatoris paid #5 a week. The highest wi paid for power-loom weaving in England is 2 pence, or 4 cents, and the average wages paid is a little below 0 a week in the English carpet factories. Advices have reactied the state department, from Japan, Swedcenand Italy of increased duties on imports. These reports show that nine-tenths of the European, Continental, Oriental and Occidental countries have in- cre their import duties during the last two years, and that more tnan half of them levy duties ranging from 10 to 50 per 1t above those imposed by the laws of United States. This fact is being fiitad out by the tariff protection republi- in congress an argument going to show that there suctild ot be a decrease in the dutics on manufacture.d articles at this time, . An old republican member of the house from oue of the principal silver states, wave meo briefly to-day a history of the bill which created the “dollar of our daddies,” known as the Bland dollar,” or the “buzzard dol- lar.” For several years Mr. Bland, who comes from Missouri, has been clajming prestige and leadership in the louse on the reputation he carnied with this bill, and after all it developes that no more credit is due him than is due the man i the moon, be cause he never wrote a line of the measure and never offered the smallest suggestion to it. Tho member referred to gave me the history of this bill, which is now a law, in words like these: “The bill was introduced by General N, P. Banks, then a member frow - Massachusctts, elected by the independents. When the bill was introduced by Banks it was thought_to be s0 much of a joke that it wasn't diguified by its reference to the customary committee on banking and currency, or even to the com- mittee on _coinage, weights and inensures, but was referred to the committe on mines and mimng. Bland was chairman of this committce, having obtained the position because, some years previously, he had lived in Virginia City for o while, and was supposed to know something about'mines and miding. The committee, haying very few bills before it, took this bil ap simply 0 make a record 'for the com mittee, and Bland, as chaivman, was in- structed to report it v to the house. It was passed by the b and went o the senate, where it re (d some s‘ll'll\\l'f amendmerts by Senator Allison, after whic it passed the senate and became a law. In the consultation in the cowmittee on mines and mining on the bill every membar franily adwitted his iguorance of the subject, no wau Some very strangoe incidents are un- | more frankly than Bland, and it seoms strange that such a circumstance should have brought fame to o man who had actu- ally hothiog to do with the matt pt the profunctory, duty of reporting it from his committee,” The smokers of tobacco who have ever tasted the or of the weed from have wou 1 what gave it that Do ure which par- cind of 8mo; o and ates eon Lo the dep: key oil. John Cardwell, the alat Cairo, has written a vhich con e info! ect of tobacco, country, _for muny years, has made a desperate effort to improve the cultivation of her tobaceo erops and has levied o tax against tho im- ported article which almost amounts to an inhibition, excopt to the specific dealers who rangement with the government bad a tendency of developing the lustry in Izypt. In the course of remarks on the subject Mr. Gardwell Snglish, Moediterrancan and French I Egypt are, it composed of A demund for fo is said, largely can tobacco, but the main s tobaccos is for the man- ufueiire of cisarettes, which are not only larscly consunied in Igypr, bup are ex ported to all parts of the world. Egyptiar, tobuceo has n consumed almost ai tozcther by the common natives for smok mn It hus been the cheapest tobaceo in market, th ian coming next o last named is prepared in imitation of Turkish tobacco, and is packed in_sacks like it. 1t is said some Torkish is mixed with it to give it the more popular flavor, yet its use is_in 11y dise'aimed by the makers of high arcttes. liish tobaceos, including, Syrian, have raoge in_quality and prices, ' They wost altogether light, Some of them, L are dark, being made 80 by smok: ne o in the curing process. packing of all tobaccos sold here is in sac h pack- awe weighing from 12 1s. Much of the tobacco is covered by an internal casing of cheap skins or by baper prepared for the purpose. “I have consulte Hbaceo mer- chants and ¢ manuf rd- ing the importation of The invariable answer is that the, N0 promises us to its use unless supplied with reliablo samples. | was shown some samples received a few days ago from the United States, and they were all pronounced too course, and decidedly too strong. 1 am satis- fied t sht, mild leaves of North Carolina, and similar products of other states, could De prepared to meet the Egyptian deinand.” STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings, The Hall county normal institute has been the nost successful one ever held in central Nebraska. Red Cloud is to have another daily paper, republican in politics, to be managed by M. A. Metzger, now of Beatrice, A turkey at J. Sterling Morton's Arbor Lodge bas adopted an almost full grown quail, and the little bird rests every night under the shadow of its protector’s wings, Beatrice may come to be known as the city Bt nts, There is talk of starting up y factory in the near future, ung lady living near Minden has made herself a dress from flour sacks. It is said ress presents a very unique anl pictur- , With “Straight Grade” in Rises” behind. A business firm in Grand Island received the other day a shipment of goods upon which the freight charges from Batesville, to Rock Island, 111, about six hundred anounted to # while the charge tock Island te and Island, a dis- * not S0 great by 150 miles, was $10.30, onsiderably more than four times s much for one-fourth less dis ce. And the Independent wants to know if it is any won- der thut firm said No! when approachea to sign a petition stating satisfaction with pres- ent rates! ‘I'he Long Pine Chautaugua was the first in the west to establish a school of pedagogy, Javing supported one in the session just closed, It was asuccess, and plans are ma- turing which will make it a far greater suc cess noxt year. Av a meeting of teachers held on the grounds this year an exccutive cominittce was appointed to raise funds and a hall of pedagogy and science. The ttee was given full authority to secure the lease of ground from the trustees of the assembly, appoint all necessary auxihary committ and erect the buildin, Th committee has appointed committees county, consisting of the county superintend- ent, us' chairman, and the principals of the graded schools und presidents of colleges and other mstitutions of high erade in the county, to make a thorough canvass of their respective counties and forward the funds to the chairman of the executive committee, President . A. Whitwam, of the North Ne- braska Normal college, Madison, Neb., who will return proper vouchers, wa. Des Moines real estate men complain of dull business. If Dubuque can raise $600 more she will secure the Lutheran college, A man named Mike Kelly was crushed to death under the cars at Burlinglon Tues- day. A Burlington mechanic walked into an cle- vator shaft Tuesday and had both arms broken by the fall. The “Q" shops ut West Burlington have almost completed six new baggage cars to be used on the “Eli” train, The July report for the boy's reform school at Kldora shows the average number of inmates to be , and the Mitchellville school for girls has 114 inmates. Tho July report for Anamosa peniten shows the average number of convicts for that month to be 254; monthly expenses for convicts, $2,540; for ofticers and wuards, i for improvements and repairs, $2,20: Governor Larrabee has appointed the fol lowing gentlemen as delegates to the deep water convention to be held at Denver August 28: A. P. Chamberlaiu, Polk county; R. H. Spencer, Kossuth county; N. C. Bianchard, Palo Alto county. The following are the dates and places for the regimental encampments of the I. N. G.: First, September 10, at Cedar Rapids; sec- ond, August 20, at Burlington; third, August 13, at Grinnell; fourth, August 28, at Ole- wein; fifth, August 20, at Villisca; sixth, August 25, ut Mason City ‘The Clinton Herald tells of a young man in that city who is serving on the police force while he is educating humself to become a Methodist minister. In the absence of the lms\nr the policeman conducted the services ast Sunday morning, O. W. Weeks is his name. The Herald relates how once he se- cured a position as city cditor on a daily newspaver, congenial the press.” The Coast and Northwe Bozeman is figuriug on e hotel. Qlirla are not s at Los Anj vada has four Indi erves inge SUpmis Ackes, and containing 6,5 dians. A Butte City voted $50,0 v nicipal improvements. For sewers mu, for street grades $15,000 und for improving city hall §10,000. Prof. Leroy, the tight rope walker, is to wallc across the Missouri river at Benton on the 1st of September, using a sicel cable stretehed from towers seventy-five feet high. While Woods, fhe colored wife murderer, now in juil at Blackfoor, Jdaho, was being taken from the jail at Hutte to the cars for return to Blackfoot, a delegation of col- ored Masons, of which Woods ‘is a member, called on and shook hands with him, A locating party, headed by Engineer Bun dack, i reported to be ut work surveying the Biliings, Clark’s Fork & Cooke City rallroad from Rillings to the coal fields. It is thought the citizens of Billings that the road wiil be completed to the coal fields in about two wonths, The Blackfoot and Challis stage robbers who were arrested at Dillon somo w and taken to Challis “squealed” afte to jail xnd gave up the stolen bul brick valued at nearly $2,000 was found where they hidit and was brought down last Friday nud shipped to Salt Lake City. “but his_associations not being with he severed his conunection 1to serve beer in sa- honds for mu- b 225 000, Freight Rates Reduced, ST, Pavi, August S.--Every line leading cust from this city was represcnted at the u ing held here for the purpose of reduc ing freight rates. A proposition was adopted to make rates via Lake Superior and Lake Michigan ports equal, the representatives of all the rouds agreeing except Vice Presidont Fisker, of the St. Paul & Duluth, IIE WANTS T0 BE A SENATOR And the Railroad Influence s Back- ing Him. FIGHTING IN THE TWENTY-FIRST, Blue Hill Furnishes a Strong Man " With a Clean Re rd While the B & M. Has a Candidate of Another Stripe, Will the Feople Win? Rep Croun, Neb., August 8.—[Special to Tie Bee. |~ The political situation is warm- ing w httle in this locality. Drum corps, flambeau clubs and all other necessary ad- juncts, and a lively political campaign is beiug organized for the fray, Local politics exeite but little interest except in the contest for senatoral houors. Colonel Hoover, of Blue Hiil, is the people’s candidate for these honors. He stands well with all classes, His reputation and character as a business man are beyond reproach, In fact, he is ono of the pioucers who came to this country when the wisest could but give that doubtful shuke of the head and say: *I dow't know what the outcome will be.” He has lived and labored side by side with the rest of the tried and trae, until to-day he is enjoying the honors and fruits of a well-planued life. He took about four years of the shot and shell method of baptism along about the years from 1561 to 1565, I'his gives the people im- plicit faith in his republicanism, He is an able, conscientious and upright man, and will be a credit to the Twenty-first senatorial dis- trict of Nebraska, The B. & M. railroads, however, have an- other candidate in the field and in their man- tions at this poiut they arve leaving no s unturned in their efforts to palm - him off on an unsuspecting public. Their eandi- date, A. J. Kenney by name, came beforo the public posing as anything and every- thing for the sake of obtaining the nomina- tion. In tho prohibition camp he is loud in his proclamations against the rum trafiic, Down where the boys “‘take a nip for the stomach’s sake” a tap on the shoulder, a wise nod of the head backed by “I under- stand the situation,” is intended to catch that crowd. As an illustration of his de- coption, a few months ago he startled the members of Garfied Post No. 80 by asserting that he at one time enlisted in lowa and was ready to go to the front, but the news of the surrender of Lee at Appomattox reached there before his command received marching letter written to the adjutant of the state of lowa inquiring if Mr. s name appears among the volun- teers of that state brings back the news that it does not; that they know of no such char- acter and that his ‘“name is not written tharé. Such pretensions are loathsome and disrep- utable, and a business man would not at- tempt to use them whilethe vendor of shoddy goods knows the use of no other, Mr. Ken- ney’s record in the house as float from this district two years ago shows him to be a man, noted more for his mferiority than anything else. ~ While his claims to sol- dier honors cunnot be substantiated, there was a society in Towa known as the “Knights of the den Cirele,” to which Mr, Kenney would vo but little dificulty in proving membership. In fact other members of the same society claim him us a member and r. His ecarly triining, his democratic ivities during the war and his willing disposition to e hing, Lord, for the sake of position,” renders him unfit as a people’s candidate. Mr. Kenney is an un- tiring office r and never permits a cam- paign to go by without asking for something. He believes in the strength and power of cor- porations and relics upon them to carry him through, At this point Id Highland, the roadmaster on the B. & M., is, to all appear- ances, devoting his entire time and attention to Mr. Kenney's canvass, This is the most open and flagrant case of railroad dictatorship that has appeared in the pohtical ficld in this valley. They seem to need Mr. Kenney for some purpose and are determined to have him at all hazards, Drink Malto. — e The Omaha Postoffice Bill The bill providing for the purchase of asite and the orection of a postoflice building in Omaha. as now before a conference committee of the two houses of congress, is as follows: An act to provide for the purchase of a site and the er on of a public build- ing thereon, at Omaha, Nebraska. Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in congr assembled, That the secretary of the treasury be, ana he is hereby,authorized and directed to purchase or acquire by condemna- tion: proceedings, 1n - a0c0rdanos with the laws of Nebraska, a suitable lot of land in the city of Omaha,in the county of Douglas, and state of Nebraska, to be used for the construction thereon of a building suitable for the accommoda- tion of the postoftice, the courts of the United States, and other government offices in said city, at a cost which shall not ex- ceed for said site the sum of $500,000: Provided, that the site shall leave the building, when constructed, unexposed to danger from fire in adjacent build- ings by an open space of not less than forty feet, including streets and_ alleys; and no moneys appropriated for this purpose shall be available until a valid title to the site for said building shall be vested in the United States, nor un- til the state of Nebraska shall have ceded to the United States exclusive jumsdiction over the same during the time the United States shall be or r main the owner thereof, for all pur: poses except the administaation of the criminal laws of said state and tho ser- vice of eivil process the That the sum of $00,000, or so ‘much thereof as shall bo necossary, is hereby appropriated for the purpose of the pur chase of suid site, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropri- ated. - When you need a friend, seloct a true Jones' Red Clover Tonic is friend mankind has for all d .ases of the stomach, liver and kidn eys. The b wd tonie known. S0¢. Por sale by C. I. Goodman, Lt ot North np's Advantages, Nowrn Lovrp, Neb., August [Cor- respondence of Ti - h Loup is a beautiful town of 800 inhabitants, situated in the North Loup valley, with the widery Snown Miraand Davis creck valloys ns its divect sooders. North Loup does not boast of mushroom how.., with every branch of business overdone, but claims to be the source of supplies for one of Nebraska's finest agricultural beits, which alone guarantees a bright future for Valley county’s young eity North Loup and the surrounding coun- try is peopled by o thrifty Slass of Ame icans. From a business standpoint North Loup holds the fort. the large country tribu natu looks to North Loup for its supplies.” Her busi- ness men ave enjoying a good trade in all branches, but there is still an excel- lent opportunity for a first class bank, a livo general merchandise store and a lumber yard. A number of substantial improve- ments are contemplated by the eitizens, among which is a brick block with an opera house in the second story, by Smith Bros.; an implement factory for the manufacture of plows, harrows, huy ete., by 8. Spethman, and an oat | factory, by & stock company. Prospects for a bountiful hacvest were never better in the Loup valley, which means continued prosperity for North Loup. w