Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 26, 1888, Page 4

- scope, an instrument much more effe - argument made by Joaquin Miller in an ‘ D Mortgaging South Omaha, The special election which takes place to-morrow in South Omaha vitally con- cerns every person interested in the growth and prosperity of that magic SiE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, TERME ( ISCRIPTION, Illn‘ylMorulm{ Ydition) including BUNDAY 0 00 " Montbe. .. ‘ 000 | city. o propositions submitted to the Three Months 20 | vot of South Omsnlia involve the crea- THE OMANA SUNDAY THE nddress, One Year, OMAHAOFFICE, N malied to any tion of a bonded debt 1o the ameunt of one hundred and eighty-seven thousand LGTEAND 116 FAIN, + Nww Youxk Orrice, ROOMS HAND 15 TIIRUKE BUiLoiNG, W AsHINGTON OFFIcE, No. 613 | dollars, FOURTEESTH STRE First. Shall the city of South Omaha issue sixty-two thousand dollars of six per cent twenty year sewer bonds? Second. Shall the ecity of South Omahn 1ssue seventy-eight thousand dollars in city six per cent twenty year bonds, the procceds whereof shall be used to construct one viaduct across Q reet and another viaduet across L Btrect? CORRESPONDENCER. All communications reiating to news and adi- torial matter should be addressed to the EpiToi ¥ HE BEn . IUSINESS LETTERS All business letters and remittances should bo nddiessed to THE BLE PURLISHING COMPANY, DMANA. Drafts, checks and postoflice orders to be mindi payable t the order of the company. The Beg Publishing Company, Proprictors. . ROSEWATER, Editor. —_— e Third, Shall the city of Sonth Omuha SRE RN B fssue twelve thousand dollars of Bworn Statement of Circulation. ten year six per cent bonds, the procecds to be street intersection Etate of Nebraska, sxpended for paving County ot Douglas, ' {8 co. . Tzsohuck, secrotary ot The e Pub- | fo i ; b, olty o o Eoth iy, ddes oty sweat that tho | Fourth. Shull the city of South wetual ciroulation of Tre DAiLy Bee for the [ Omaha issus thirty-five thousand dollars roek ending August 2, 1886, was s tollows, | of ten-yenr six per cent funding bonds, the proceeds to be used to pay off the floating debt ereated by the city since it was incorporated in 18877 A strong sentiment in favor of voting all these mortgages has boen worked up by the owners of large tracts of land, which are to be improved at the expen Monday, August ncsday, Angust 2 Vednes: ay, August 22 August 2)° Baturday, August 23 Average... GEO. 1L TZSCHUCK, o and subscrived in 1y A ust, A, D, 10, tAURish A yittic. |of the small taxpayors, by contr O Sty S Dovatas, WK tors who expeet handsome re- eorge B, Tzscnuck, being first duly sworn.de- | turns out of sewer and viaduet osen and saysthat he 1e secrotary of The 1o blishiug company, that the actual averag construction, and lastly by ly cirenlation of who have bought up the wa croditors nts that e A P wies i fof | coustitute the floating debt. A combi- et e T i oon: | DOtion of such elements is very formid- Jon: for January, 155, 15,20 copies: for able in any community. This is only a I, 182 coples; for Mareh e i coplest ©8 | 1ootition of the history of every city coplea: for Yurie,It+s, 10,204 copies; for July, 1, | that has been plunged headlong into pefore me and '-ui,.«,-“ny;.lww my | debt without rellecting about the nat- ural consequences. Viewed [rom an ex- perience gatherod during the early his- tory of Omaha, ‘he bonding scheme, with one exception, issure to be fraught with financial disaster, and will inevit- ably result in enormous taxation with comparatively small benetits. South Omaha has a3 yet no general plan of street grading and no well-ia- tured plan of surface drainage and un- derground sewerage. No city managed on business principles will undert sence this 1st day of Augnst, A1 e NP VIIL Notary Public. P ECTERL ML st il bl BY AND 1Y America may get back to her former glories in fishing and fight- ing it Miss Canada acts ugly. Poor stricken Florida! The dreadful scourge of yollow fever is spreading its gaunt arms over her people despite ail efforts to check the epidemic, e —— THIRTEEN crocodiles on their way to the Zoo at Hamburg escaped | extensive public improvements, involv- into the Elbe and frightened the |ing an outlay of ten per centon its Germans out of their wits, | assessed property valuation, without Here is a chance for the young | carefuily matured plans, especially de- emperor to declare war and tost his XKrupp gun on the backs of the saurions, signed by engineers who have large ex- perience in sewerage and grading. To do otherwiso and simply leave such As THE end of the base ball season | work to an ordinary surveyor or approaches the public feels great velief. | cheup engineer can only result The national game has become a in & system of public improve- tional bore and is degenerating from year to year. While 1t affords a profit~ able field for professional players, pool room gamblers and the betting class, it has gradually instilled a spirit of gambling among the common people which bodes no good to the rising gen- eration of Americans. ments that must sooner or later be done over at heavy expense or have to be abandoned. Itisa very serious matter to vote mortgages upon South Omaha that will compel an annual tax of over ten thou- sand dollars for interest alone, inde- pendent of tho sinking fund to pay off the principal. With over one hundred thousand population, the interest-bear- ing debt of Omaha is only about one- seventh of the proposed mortg on South Omaha, and Omaba has over half a million invested in school buildings and another half-million in sewers and viaducts, Whatever the temptation and pres- sure to vote all these bonds may be, overy citizen that has the wellure of South Omaha at heart should pause be- fore he casts his vote for them. There is no danger that South Omana will lose anything by delay. The main thoroughfares to South Omaha ave sure to be graded and paved within the next year by the county and the street rail- roads. The demand of heavy traffic com- pels these improvements at the expense of the county, as well as of the street car lines. The proposed sewers and vinducts should never be touched until surveys have been made, grades established to a uniform system, and a general drain- age plan has been prepared and adopted. The twelve thousand dollar bonds for paving interscctions might be voted if the material is stone, because any ma- terial change in the grades that com- pels the taking up of pavements would not involve its destruction to the loss of taxpayers. THE new observatory about to be erected in Colorado is promised to excel the now famous Lick observatory in California. It will be built high on the mountains, 5,000 feet above sea lovel, which in itself insures an advantage, pwing to the clearness and rarefaction of the air. Moreover, the obscrvatory will be equipped with a 20-inch tele- e Live for general astronomical observa- tions than the 86-inch lens possessed by the Lick observatory. Between these two great stations the study of the heavens will be prosecuted with unusual real, and the celestial regions will be- come almost as familiar as the map of bné’s own country. IN connection with the scheme to re- elaim the great deserts of the west, the nrticle on the ‘North American Nile” Is plausible. He makes the point that _dhe land instead of always being a des- ort, like Sahara, was once the garden spot of the world. The ruins of Arizona are older than history—as old as the pldest ruins on the Nile of Egypt. The Indications to-day show that the region Wwas once densely populated. No allure- ments of gold, nothing butthe generous :?:ilas“dmn%un‘:lw.fil;;n M?n b‘:l‘,'l' | Astothe funding bonds, it is a ques- B i o l‘..", "ot | tion whether paying off the floating 2 9. 08 OF MENPY: | gopt will mot stimulate further -Jf then these early Americans made a = A Moomin B Aise ki AL R IARAR Y I Ton recklessness and waste. If the council & pay can have its overlaps funded right now is a desert, can we not do some- thing with our enlightened education and improved methods to reclaim the waste? Facts also bear out Joaquin Miller. Wherever irrigation has been tried the soil hasyielded to its influence nnd has yielded tropical fruits like dates and bananas. Under the circumstances the poet of the Sierras is right in call- fng the rock-bound Colorado river the North American Nile, along it will keep on piling up the city debt and in a few years, when the day of reckoning comes, South Omaha will either have to repudiate its obligations or ruin its small property ewners by enormous taxes. The proper thing to do will be to vote down the funding bonds now and let the debt float until a stop can be put to overlaps through the legislature in the shape of laws that will make the mayor and council give sufficient bonds and hold their bondsmen liable for any debt linmu'rml unless it comes within the tax ovy. T last few days have brought news of a shortage in the wheat crop of the United States and of Kurope. In con- soquence there has been & sharp upward tendoncy of values in both the home and foreign market. Aeccording to the caveful estimates of a Paris market re- port, there is a prospect of a deficit of no less than two hundred and forty million bushels in the world’s supply of wheat. The calculation of shortage may have to be revised in favor of a larger deficiency if late reports of dam- age to spring wheat in Dakota and Minuesota turn out to be seri- ous, and if the unseasonable weather in PFurope continues much longer. This condition ought to bring to the farmer some rich returns. But the in- fluence of elevator men may to a certain extent keep prices down. It is to their advantage to buy up all the wheat in sight at current prices, and profit by the rise of price later on. On the other hand, there is the enthusiast who pre- diots that wheat will bring a dollar a -bushel if the farmer holds his crop. There is danger of course in the excite- ‘ment of a bullish market that the farmer will lose his head by keeping his wheat too long or at too high a figure until reuction setsin, when he will sell at any ce. No rule, therefore, can be laid wn as to just at what moment the farmer can realize the highest price for his wheat. DBut this one fact is certain, the great shortagoe in the world’s sup- ply has raised the price of wheat and the farmer has the opportunity of largely profiting by the advance. Highhanded Robbery. On the first of September anthracite conl will take another advance of fifty cents a ton. This will be due to the action of the coal carrying railroads, which a couple of weeks ago decided to advance the freight rate by the above amount—that is, ffty cents from the Penusylvania mines to Chicago. It is quite possible that dealers here may ad- vance the price of coal more than half a dollar. It is thought probable that by December 1 there will be at least two more advances, o that there is cver likelihood that the merciless coal tr will squecze the people more s verely this winter than ever befo r There is not tho slightest justifica- tion in the business of the coal ecarry- ing roads for advancing the freight rate at this time, With but one exception they all did a larger business in the transportation of conl during lust July than for the same month of 1587, They are all making money, the outlook for them at this season of the year was never more favorable, and the only ex- planation of their action is that having the power to do as they please they take full advantage of it. Itissimply and purely extortion, against which the corporations know the peo- ple have no present redress, and in utter disregard of all intercsts but their own they go on piling ex- action on exaction, wringing from the l country an enormous tribute that falls with most oppressive weight upon more | than half the people. [ suffer and are patient. | not fe | hood s the question of . ditions which inv r to be found a remedy for this sort of high-handed robbery? The combination of railroads and mine owners in Pennsylvania violates the fundamental law of that state, but the Innueice of the corporations appears to be sufficient to vent procecdings against them, Congross hesitites and Is there neve dailies with proposed legislation to des § stroy such combinations. The people But they will © ver submit to oxtortion und op- pression. The Idaho Pan Handle. An obstacle in the way of the admis- sion of Washington Territory to state- iding to the nt area of the territory what is 1 the [duho Pan Handle. Thisis a rip running up north to the Canadian Doundary between Washington to the west and 0 mountain range on the enst which separates it from Montana, and is the best part of Tdaho, being well ivri- and containing some mineral de- This addition to Washingion would bring the population up to the requisite number for admission. But the people of Tdaho stoutly resist the proposition to deprive them of any portion of thei territory, and they are not without sup- port in Tt is argued that it would not ho right, alter twenty years of the privations that belong to fronticr life, for congress to say to the poople of Idaho, just as they are beginning to sco fght and to be entitled to admission as astate, “we will tako off twenty-five thousand squara miles off your area and twenty thousand of your population and attuch them to some other terrvitory, and put you buck twenty years lons Tho reply to this is that the people of Idaho are not beginning to see day- light snd are not likely to for half o century to Tho present population of the tevvitory is about forty-five thousand, and an in- crease since the last census of thirteen thousand. At this rate of growth it is evident that 1t will be fully fift hefore it will have a populatior enough to moet the present require- ment for representation in which is nearly two hundred thousand, e CONZIOss, see it come and as the basis of reprosentation will doubtless be increassd from decade to deeade it may he o grent deal more than half o century before Tdaho will be prepared for statehood. A great deal of the territory dc not possess a soil and elimatic con- e settlemont, and its growth in population outside of the ar embraced in the Pan Handle must ne essarily be very slow. There are other cogent reasons in favor of annexing tho Pan Handle to ‘Washington in order to give ti terri- tory the required population for ndmis- sion, among which is the fact that the people of the coveted strip have now much greater commercial relations h Washington territory than with South- ern Idaho, and would be very mg rially benefitted if a prrt of the forr when admitted to statehood. this reasoning does not ove strong desive of the Idaho peoy erally that theiv territory wain intact and take s chanc statehood at some time in the fit which they, of courso, believe will como sooner than appears possible on the hasis of the pres»nt population®and the in- crease since the last census, It is doubt- less true that if the Pan Handle is an- nexed to Washington the effeet will be to annihilate the tevritory of Idaho, as the southern part would very likely bo annexed to Nevada, but nevertheless it is probable this will be the final action of congress in the matter. That action, howev er, will not be reached at the present session Lawlessness in Indiana, Tt must surprise the intelligent for- eign reader of American afuirs to learn that the state which furnished a candidate for the presidency has for a year or more past harbored a secrot organization of allegod social regulators who have tercori the people of a portion of its territory,and in the name of social order have committed outrages against law and soviety. The natural supposition would be that a state in which presidential material abounded to any extent must be made up of people of exceptional intelligence, hav- ing the most careful rvespeet for the law, and tolerating no exercise of force or authority outside of the law. Yet an orgavization known as the “White Caps™ has for along time com- pletely dominated several counties of Indiana, and it is only within a few weeks that the authorities, aroused by the reports of lawlessness and bratali have taken steps to suppress the organ- ization. The region over which the White Caps have extended their reign of terror is doubtless not the most moral in the state, and the oviginal purpose of the or tion may have n measure of justification in the existence of social viceand corruption which those ecnurged with the execution of the laws wer not sufficiently zealous in combnt ting But most naturally the toleration of thi unlawful method of punishing the vicious and the evil-doer led in time to the transformation of an instrument to supplement the law and to accomplish what inefficient officials did not do into an engine of violence and outrage, grow- ing finally to be a more seridus evil than any it was designed to punish and press.» The members of the organiz tion were bound together by an oath described as blood-curdling in its pro- visions, the penalty of its violation being death. The candidate was required to swear that he had been accessory to some crime, which was held over him to prevent treachery. It is said that a considerable number of prominent and respectable citizens were drawn into the order, and having taken the fearful oath and learned the penalty of its vio- lation, subscribed to the mock morality and assisted in carrying out the purpose of punishing citizens for alleged offenses without appeal to law. The organiza- tion does not countenance murder, but has frequently halted little short of it in the perpetration of its brutalities and barbarities, of which women as well as men have been the victims., deal with organizations =~ of this charncter in a community where the laws are ample for the punishnpnt of evil doers and the correction of Social vices, and where the authority and machinery are sufficient for the enfordpent of the laws, and that is to summérily suppress them, at whatever cost to the state. This appears to be the intention of the authorities of Indiana, and for the credit of that state, wird indeed of the American pecple, it is to be hoped thnis iutention will be persisted in until the brutal organi tion shall be broken up completely. The far too little popular coucern in this country about the existence of secret organizations outside of the law, and the sooner there shall be an awak- ening of public opinion hostile to such organizations, under whatever plausi- ble disguise they may exist, tho better it will be for law, order and good government. There have beeu haif a score at least of such orgaunizations, for one purpose and another, all outside and in disregard of the law, within the last twenty-five years, andall exereising A certain tervorism and tending to crime and social demoralization. It is time such unlawful orders ceased to re- ceive the least toloration in this countr, THE experiments made ernment in silk calture or e in several western states where silk stations have been es- tablished. Itis proposed to locate a sxperimental station in Ne- braskan which appears to be admirably the gov- been more s suceessful simily adapted for the purpose. Our repre- sentatives in congress, notably Senator Paddock, will takke the matter in hand and endeavor to securo a part of the ap- proprintion for the state, Silk raiuing is peculinely suited for farmvs® and children. quiring but little manual labor. The care of the silk worm, however, de- mands some knowiedge and experience which it will be the duty of the state silk commissioner to impart. As aninvestment sitk culture is said to bo extremely prefitable. A trained haud with two hundred mulberry tr on two neres of land ean S0 asilk crop to the value of 31,000, and it is esti- mated that two or three such erops be raised in o year. There aesultory attempts of silk culture braska, but it has been negle to the iack of proper knowle subject. But with the estab! 0w ional silk wobrm station under the care of a practigal silk ealturist, the - dustry can b F le both itible and popular in owm€raral communities, wives Tt is a ploasant task ve- " have beea u Ne- ted owing: goon the unent of itk placing of a bloek of five million dollars” worth of Novthern Pacific socu- viti ucipally in Europo illustrates the huge fin usactions of the of foreign in day and t vestors in Amdbican railvoads despite the scurvy trieks so oiten played on them by Ar wn linanciers. In o an- other i is impoi- Lant, and P money markct o i Lhat beriin ith the Loudon, inyg New York and Boston. | s eapltal keeps pouring into Amy ni, it will not be long before tho bankess of the e he foirced to lower their rate of interest in order to compete with d. capilal fr T me frestuing bit of news from the norihwest for o long time is that tho Sioux indisns dre "Pnis change of he after the commission iped talkin and bogan feeding them on juicy gov- cenmont beel and biack coffee. D QU An equestrian statue is to be erected to the late Emperor Witliam at Stettin, Ger- mal at a cost of about 35,000, Young Bmperor Willian has | the production of Wagner's ap th shall continue cmpire is thresten, villing to sign. came about only S, mised thut, s ap Bay ud the harmoney of of tho late Bmyeror Frederick, which he 1oft to his consore as her private wr sion. She has en some valumes of notes on- puteiy y subjec’s o tho state archives, mili "he kking of Corea is not the w his cnemics represent him, In fact, he s a strong, kindly, progressive man, who has o 1 rond to nd whose tleness s dtimes mistulen for lack of str have kuown him ling that ricans who As the queen r with her two daug! nt of Spain was driving tors recently she noticed cring out of a b The ? pod, the priest helped to a init, a quesn and her children got and walked, The crowd who saw it were delighted. e queen of England never sends hes al correspondence through the il as her subjects do. Every trival com of a personal or private au its destination by ¢ n's mosse She is the only sovercign who does this. The other Ates ure democratic enough to use the ve zular ication, whethe ure, is d vered u que pean pot mail, Emperor William I1. has made the king of Portugal a colonel in the Gorman army, Slowly but surely the Germau military or- ganization throws its tentacles upon the po tentates of Kurope, The czar of Russia high rank in the German army cuperor of Austrie. Queen Victoria is o colonel in the samo éstablishment. If Em- peror William could now persuade General Boulanger to aceept a lieutenancy or cap- taincy in a German' regiment the peace of Europe would be established on a firm basis At all events, any fature war in which Ger- many may engage will be practically a mutin | Speaking of Bismarck, a correspondent says: “If the priuce is not a lover of paint- ngs—it is said that he has never put nis foou inside the Berlin museum—he is fond of music, and when Pauline Lucca used to sing at the opera house he was one of her most assiduous listeners. Bismarck knows and appreciates the great poets, Goethe, Shake- speare and Schiller, and quotes from them frequently in his discourses, He aiso likes to read sentimental and dramatic novels, Weak in science, he is strong inhistory and modern languages. He speaks French and Englinh fluently, and knows Russian, Italian and Spansn well.” —— PERSONALITIES. Blondin, who is & graceful cyolist on the rope, cannot ride an ordinary bicycle on the ground. Sir Edgar Vincent, the financial adviser of the khedive of Egypt, is making a tour of the United States. s $0 has the Of course there is but one way to Secretary Bayard’s vacatiom so far this s8nson conslsts of & two days’ trip to Middle- town, Md., fo attend a funeral. Luey Stone, one of the first champlons of woman's right and the abolition of slavery, has just colebrated hor seventieth birthday: Mmaé. Patti-Nieolini wants to sell her Craig-y-Nos castle, Wales. The estate cov- ers 830 acres, surrounded by picturesquo mauptaing, Amelic Rivers, a Richmond critic says, wrote her tragedy, *Herod and Mariamne,” some five years ago, before she was twenty- one years old. J. K. Emrast, the actor, has just paid £,000 for the St. Berhard dog Plinlimmon, said 1. be the finest of the breed in the world. This is the largest price ever paid for a dog. Mr. Justice Lamar, of the United States suproma court, awardéd the prizes at the an- nual conching parade at 2othlshem, N. H., Monday. No appeal was taken from any of his decisions and no fault found with any of his rulings. Young Hearst, editor of the San Francisco Examiner, gradiated from Harvard in 1584, and was especially noted in college as the oc- cupant of u room whose fittings cost $1,000. His father, the senator, made him a_preseut of the Examiner on commencement day. The Disraolis are not extinct. A descend- ant of the two great men of that name hopes t0 continue its prominence and honor. Mr. Coningaby Disraeli, who is still at Oxford, hus u strong rosemblance to his illustrious . He is an enthusiastic musician and of devoting his life to studyiug the “language universal,” General Sherman has just paid 25,000 for whouse on Seveuty-first streot, New York, within a square of Central Park. ‘The gen- eral now lives in the Fifth Avenue hotel, but hopes to bo in his new house sowe time next month. A vise of 35 per cent in the value of surrounding property is predictod on aceount of the general’s purchuse. It is said that when Jay Gould is very much absorbed in thinking out some vig rai roud scheme ho seems to be very idle, for ho sits tipped back in his chair toaring bits of paperinto thin strips. He is v particular to have the strips of the same width and per- ind is appavently ais diversion, while he 18 really atall of what he is doing with his hands. ‘Tne new chief justice is the smalilest man of the supreme court of the United States, izhing 125 pounds and being five foot six hes high, Associate Justics Gray is tho larcest, measuring six feet five inchies high ana pulling the scalos at 500 pounds, dustices Bradiey and Blatehford are about an inch igiior than the chief justice, and woigh twenty pounds more. ~ Associate Justico Harlan is next to Gray in hoight, six fect two betne his distance from the ground, and 250 pounds Lis weight. The othor justicss arc e even height, being between five fost nino nd ten inches, With the chief justioe in the center and the two big men at each end, a V is formed when all id in line. e~ Our Servant Girl, St. Louix Globe. We hired her, but she could not cook; o kunew not how to make a bed; And T owill swear upon the Book She could not bake a loaf of bread. She into corners swept tho dust; A dust-pan she had never soon; The range took on a coat of rust; Pots pans and Kettles woere uncloan. Till it was black she boiled the tes The pan in which sho boiled the fish useid unclean for frica o ssce; At ev meal she broke a dish. Alth alth and strong, OF work cmed 0 b afenid; she n aned the lamps as long As sho could see without theiwr aid. Ay rights she had no doubt, And did not fear of them to speak; She wanted Sunday o1 And th its, ulso, " eve My wife to her becommg cool, She left us, sulky, black as ink. She 15 n0ow instructress inoa school, wining servant gicls, 1 think. - CONNUBIALITIES. 1 does the hone 100u end, tell me, 1 she self in the honey 1 woon ends, 1 believe, on the day 3 fe says she must have some (Neb,) man was hanged in efigy ut, because he had married the od Wil of anotaer vesident of the town, The heart fominine is appraisod at $5,000 out in A At lcast that sum has Doen uw by & qury in Barl county o the plaintift in o breach of promise At w great italian wedding the other day one of the giits presented o vhe bride was a wagaitic necklace, representing the na- tional olors, coinposed alternately of large Jonds, cubies wnd emeralds, all picked Lones. I'ne second daugh in or of Marquis Tseng i as Lady Blossom in Pokin, a fow weoks wember of the Chinese co und son of a viceroy, The quite imposing. Giplomatic s COTCLONIES Wer Tu what moaths do people mar) try t A coun- gland has married ro married in De- ) in January, § cach er, 7 cach i March, Apr G in August und 4 'e; unister in New Of the. 14 in Septembe and Oct Draury and July. Nlizabothtown, Ky, bewailing its > which, however, consists wholly arc sixty-one in the bur Just six wido T 80 It is not strange that but three widows have got second husbands there i the last thirty-five yours. lter of " a very wealthy nty, Kentucky, loved ! outh. . Her father ob- jected, and when she declared she would inarry no other the parents drove her from howeé and will disinherit her. Miss Carlin souzht refuge with a friend and waote to her at Louisville. The young couple ar- married. i s Iranciseo of Fung Lee for trom her husband, Chan Lee, is sad by Chroniele o b first appearance of Chinese in a divo court in the United States, This is un ervor. Several years ago the late Charley Hee Sing, who keépt o sail ors' boarding house in New York city, ap- plicd for divorce from u woman whom he bard married in England, Deputy Sherift Vaughn lodged a queer elopine coupie in the county juil wt Cheyenne whom he captured at Indian creck, near the Platte river, on insiructions sent from the authoritios ai Sidney The runaways were Loe L ged nineteen, and Lillie lulin, ag ve. ‘They left their homes dney weeks ago, and travelod une county, Ne- br. wnd custern Wyoming. Sherift Eu banks, of Sidney, took " charge of the pair and returned them to their pa There is & big seusatiol loveland, Teun., over the swapping of wives by Wil linm Van Patten and R Brooks, which nas just coiic to light, The trade took place thres weelks Van Patten and Brooks cal uth two years from Michigan, and bought far land, ae fam best of terms, children in cach family, the conseut of both hus bands and’ wives the two men traded part- ners three weeks ago, and the trade proved very satisfactory until yesterday, when Van ou wien to Clevéland and ‘consuited a law, to ascertain if he could not cowpel Dencer L it poor two mestly on 100t ucross ys been on the Brooks to trade back. Levi W. Sawyer and Miss Sarah Cunning, of Broadalbin, N. Y., have just been mar- ried. He 1s fifty-four years old and she is twen ix. The disparity of ages, however, is not as much the pecullar feature of the marriage as the fact that Miss Cunning was the step-daughter of Mr. Sawyer. The father of the bride was killed in the civil war. When she was two years old her mother was married to Mr. Sawyer, and the family lived peacefully till the death of the wife, three years ago. By her father, sons were born to Mrs. Wy to whom their half-sister is now step-mother. One of the sons has o wife and child, and another holds the position of guard in the New York house The two others live under the L Too Orthodox.—Mother (after church)— What & good old soul Rey. Dr. Goodman s, If there ever was a saint-on_earth he is one Daughter—Ye-cs,mamma; but did you notico how awfully his trousers bag at the knees! D ! This is what the Sunday-school teacher said to Johnny: “Moses was the meekest man who ever lived.” This is what Johnmy said to the Sunday-school teachor: *Moscs may have thought it wus fun to be meek, but 1 bet you he never made any wouey at it THE BEE SCRAP BOOK. The Siege of Sebastopol. 'The history of the “Siege of Sebastopol''— one of the grandoess achiovements in military annals- has boen written by one who was an eye-witnoss to all the movements in the Crimean war, The city stands upon an inlet of the Black sea which extends east and west inland about four and ene-half miles. The entrance to the inlet is about half a mile wide but im- mediately opens to the width of one mile, making one of the fiucst natural harbors in the world. On the right or north side,as the inlet is entered, may be seon thé ruins of the famous city and fortress of Sebastopel, 1 will be sufficiont to stato that the city was held by the Russians, that the beseiging force consisted of English and French troops, with occasional help from the Turks. Early in September tho fleet of the allics camo to anchor in the Black sea. On the 14th the Fronch commenced landing. In about one hour 6,000 men had reached shore, There was no enemy in sight. They wore rapidly followed by the English until the en- tire force was landed, consisting of 28,600 French troops commanded by St. Arnaud and 27,000 Eoglish commanded by Lord Raglau, On the 20th of September the bat tle of the Alma was fought and won by the allies. On September 35 the troops com- menced moving preparatory to inv esting Se- bastopol. On Soptember 20 Mars! Arnaud, the t'rench commande suddenly ill and died. He was sn General Caurobert, Up to this date and lal cholera raged fearfully. On count states that as many men we lost cholera as fell at the Alma. Neither age rank was |'uwnw‘lml The Euvglish army particular suffered terribly ons. Step by step o L on the night of Octobe topol was completely invested. Soon af daybreak, on the morning of the 10th, tho Russian batteries opened a heavy fire on tho right of the allies, which was kept up durin the entire day. ‘The Russians, who usually cease firing al sunset, were ab this particular time on the alert all night, and continued their fire against the wholv line of the allies almost unintercapicdly. Bvery instant tho dariness was broken b flash which bad all the offect of summer lightning; came darkness again, and in a few onds a faiuter flush deaoted the bu of a shell. We period of the gy 3 4 . m. on the 17th the bombardment of Sobas topol commenced and continued until night fall. The allies had 117 guns to 13) of the Russians. The fire was rvencwed on the morning of the 15th soon after daybreak. At the tirst dawn of day, on the 19th, the bat. terios opened on both sid and again con tinued with great furce until darkuess fol| Each day was but a repetition of tho precod- Tor e alli the want of ing one, until the 25th, the day of the great cha Beforo this event is deseribed, it will asaist the reader to fora & better concop- tion of this remarkable chargo if wo sketh tho position of the “Light Brigade” prior to the 2oth. Tt appoars that a feeling existed in the army, in80me quarters, that the cavalry wero' not as usoful #s they might be, that they had lost golden opportunities from the indecision and caution of their leader: that the *Light Brigade’ in partiou- lar wero utterly useless in the programme of on of their most important duties—the col- lection of supplies for the army—that they were “ubove their business aud too fino gen- tiemen for their work.” This fooling, in time, reachod tho ears of the ofiicers and men of the “Light Brigade” and as a natural consequence they were stung to madness. Tho probability is that & vow was made th they would show the world that they wore not too good to fight upon the first oppor- tunity they had. They had their opportunity on the 1854, During the excitement and confusion at- tending the tervific bombardment from the 17th to the 2ith the enemy suc coeded in moving a force of e alry, infantry and artillery to the rear of the allies. At half-past ¥ on the morning of the sthoan orderly galloped to the headyuarters of Sir Colin Campbell and communicatod to that officer the fact that the enemy were in their rear, This Information was immed ately communicated tp Sir Georyro Catheart and the duke of Canibridge, and also to the Frencn commander, who immediately or- dered out the Third division under General Bosquet. Soon all was confusion in tho camp of the allics. Aides were scon scam- pering in all directions carrying orders to the various commanders; here were seen batteries moving up to positions over across the valley could be seen the cavalry trotting to the front; soon the bagpipes wers heard; in_ & moment tho Highlanders marched down to the front to the post of danger to receive the shock which General Cawmpbell knew must come, AtS o'clock Lord Raglan, the commander-in- chief, rode down and surveyed the ficld, then retired to the rear, The Russians advanced in six masses of infantry, supported in front with a line of artillery, while still further in front were two batteries ot light guns supported by cavalry, The Light Brigade com- manded by Lord Cardigan, the Hoavy bri- gade by General Scarlett, the whole com- manded by Lord Lucan. The redoubts down near the end of the valley, which had been held by Turks, were rapidly captured by the Russians. Quickly the Russians formed into line, one moment then halted to breathe, then in one grand line they charged upon the Highlanders. When the Russians cume up within 600 yards, down went that, line of steel in front, and out ranga rattling volley of musketry. 'The Russians wera not checked, On they came, but ere they came within 250 yards another volley flashed from the rifles. The Russians are checked, They reform. The trumpets rang out again_ through the valley, then the greys and Ennis-Killeners went right at tho center of the Russiun cavalry. There was a clash of steel aud a light' play of sword blades in the air, and they the groys and red couts disapoear in the midst of tho quivering mass. Additional forces rush at the enemy, aud put them to utter rout. THE GREAT CHARGE. About 11 o'clock General Airly gave an order to Cantain Nolan in writing to take to Lord Lucan. When Lord Lucan recoived the order ind had read it, he asked, it is suid: “Where are we to advance tof" Captain Nolan pointed with his finger in the dircetion of the Russians, and, according to the statoments made aftor his death, said : “There are the enowy, und there arc the guns,” or words 10 that effect, It appears that, in order to remedy a defect in the arrangement of the Dritish fo Lord Raglan sent two orders to Lord Luc; In th or W advance, that the ca would 1 ted by in fantr Here' is the **blunder.” “Therc appears to have been some misunder standing about the infantry support. The Duke of Cambridge and Sir Geo; art, who communded the infantry, stated that th vere not_in receipt of orders to support th avalry. Lord Raglan's second order ¢ 1o advance rapid the front, fol enemy, and try to prevent them from ing wway the guns,” Lord Lucan wtal v to Lord Cardigan, who manded the Light brigade. What wi thoughts which like lightning the mind of the com the flashed noble earl when 1! Did he think of Old or was giv id, his home, his wife and childre: for a_ moment, then the reius w drawn up with a jerk, and ten minutes p; cleven the order was given to “‘char, ¥ “Forward the Light brigade! Charge for the guns,” he said, Into the valley of death Rode the six hundred They advanced intwo lines, At a distance 200 yards the whole iine of the enemy 1 forth, from thirty mouths, a flood of and flame. Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of death, Into the mouth of hell Rode the six hundred, “In diminished ranks with a halo of steel above their heads, and with a cheer which was many anoble fellow's death-cry, they flew into the smoke of the batteries, but ere they were lost from view the plain was strewn with their bodies. Through the clouds of smoke their sabers could be scen flashing as they rode between the guns cut- ting down the gunners as they stood.” By a tremendous effort the heavy cavalry succeeded in covering the retreut of the few who survived that wonderful charge, o When can their glory fade? Oh! the wild charge they made, All the world wondered, Honor the charge they made, Honor the light brigade, Noble six hundred. Further comment upon this vever-tobe forgotien event is unncoessary. The Eoghsh lord has told the story @s no one else can tell it The detais of the slogd <o of the grand. est in_military annals—cannot be iclated here. 1t requires volames to do the subject justice. Or_September 8, 1855, the Ridan and Malakoff were captured, The Russians at once evacuatod the place. d Ono glanco at the battlo by an eyewitnoss: “Inside the sight was too terrible to dwell upon. The French were carrying away their own and the Russian wounded, and four dis- tinet piles of dead were formed to clear tha way. The ground was marked by pools of blood. and the smell was noisomo; swarms of fhos settled on dead and dying. Descending from the Malkaoff we cama upon suburh of ruined houses open to the sca—it was filled with dead. The Russians had crept away into holes and e 3 0f every house, to die like pois- oned rats, Every houss, the chureh, public buildings —all altke were broken by eanon and mor Of all the plotures of the hor- rors of war which have oven been presented to the world, the hospital of Scbastopot of fered the most horrible, heart-rending, and revolting. Inalow room, lay the wonnded Russians. The wounded, did L sayt No, but the dead—the rotten and festoring corpses of the soldiers who were loft t_dio packed us closa as they could bo stowed.” Joo's Wife. The Judge. 1 am feclin' mighty triflin® An' right low spereted; An' ef 1 worn't sixty year N hedn't this geray head, I'd jes, turn in an' hev' o ory On yan four-posted bed, We'n Laury Bell wuz marriod I never shed a chear; But ven she wuz a darter An' got ‘er settled near; I knowed her man was stiddy, N dedn't seem to keor. But Joe's a-marryin’ ternight, My only boy, thet's Joe. L7 v right well I'm losin him, Thet's why 'm priovin' so; It's “bout like burym’ a son Ter see him wed, yor kuow. I'in_sartin’ thet thar Susan Bates PUIL set him ‘gainst his maw; 1 hev no grudge agin her, wish to pick a flaw; 1 on'y jes' despise her To be my dartor-'n-law. Sho's mighty cute an’ pratty, ' not gainsayin® sichy Hor skin oz white ez taller, Her cyos oz blaok ea pitch, An' if she hedu't stole my Joo, I'd like thoslittle witch, She's hed a heap ‘o offers, T'vo heerd my dartor say, But never gin ' a shuck for none Till Joe stepped down hor way; 'N) nen, but Joe's like mo, an’ Wuz harnsum in my day. Awe, well; T 'spose each mother Is harried jes' like this, It's playin’ secon' fiddle i '{:):nl‘ ‘m;kx‘lmhu; feol amiss; ‘lievo I'll bafo my eyes'n an' An’ gin thet gyurl a kiss. > St BINGULARITIES, Out in Now Mexico thoy caught the other day a rabbitt with the tail of a cat. Houston county, Georgia, is the home of a chicken whose feathers are so like hair as to the effect of fur. Of throe oggs laid by a Georgia hen one is a8 big ns & goose egy, one as small as & part- {xidlllw eig, and the third about as big as a ritle all. A ‘“milk-white gopher snako, soventeen feot six inches lon, and part of his tail out off at that, has just been slain down in Glynn county, Georgia. August 1, at Oil City, Penn,, H’{huflnk struck u house, and, while sparing all its hu- the nine man oocupants, ot away with all lives of the t. Oue of the curiosities found in Maine is a pine tree near Hallowell that smokes, A column of vapor us large around us a man's arm rises from the very top of the tree and extends for several fect into the ai - phenomenon is of periodical occurence aund no one is able to explain it. There comes from India a canine anecdote about u terrier who, when given a bone, was sent to eat it on the gravel drive in front of a vungalow. Two crows had sought often to snatch the meat from the dog,but had always been defeated. Finally, they discussed the matter in a neighboring tree, after which one of them flew down and_ pecked the dog’s tail, and while the terrior was attending to this divertisement the other one came and seized the bone. At Castagnola, near Lugano, in Switzer land, & wowan, aged thirty-six years, re- cently gave birth to six chilaren—four boys and two girls. They were born alive,though prematurely, but they all died in a few sec- onds. Thoir united weight was only threo pounds thirteen ounces, and the length of their bodies, which were perfectly formed, varied from eight and three-fourths to ten and onc-fourth inches. The case, which is said to beat all previous authentic records of human fecundity, is vouched for by Dr. Francesco Vussalli, of Lagano, who attended Fruluunimmlly on the occasion, assisted by Drs. Blanchi, Reali and Solari, of the samo place. From the Rockies comes a story that threo vutures attacked an oagle n his “nest on a mountain peak the other day. Although at- tacked from three points, tha king of birds gallantly held his own and slew two of tho vultures. The manner i which the eaglo did this was peculiar. Singling out one of the attacking birds it grasped it tighcly about the neck, bury s tulons deeply “in the flesh, and then, rising almost perpendicularly for about one hundred feet, allowed the pris- oner to drop in a_stunned condition on' the rocks bolow. Two falls served to kill tho first victim, but three were reauired to knock out the second. The survivor, seoing the fato hich had befallen its companions, turned 1 und started rapidly down the mountain side, uttering shrill cries as it flew, sl it RELIGIOUS, The Rev. Phillips Brooks is the onl. clergyman of the Episcopal church who hal preached at Chautauqua, At the famous Y. M. C. A. convention now going on in Stockholm one of the most prom- inent of the delegates from America is Mr. D. A. Budge of Montreal. A church in Pekin, China, sends a contri- bution to the Presbyterian board of church erection for the building of churches on tho western coast of our own land. The Catholic Review, of New mates that there are now about ored Roman Catholics in the United States, and that the pumber of con , from com- munions varies from *'5 por cent in sowe dio- ceses 1o 12 per cent in oth The Lutheran church is doing a grand work and _uchioving wonderful success in America, -In 1570 the number of communi- cants in that denomination in this country was less than four hundred thousand. Now there ar one willion. Bolivia,which has an area of 500,000 squaro miles und a population of 2,000,000, is with- outa single Protestant missionary. ‘Two American teachers, encouraged by Bolivian gentlemen and recommended by the Presby- terian board of missious, expect soon 1o os- tablish a school in La Paz. Aun appeal has been made to the govern- ment by the Missionary society of the Meth - odist KEpiscopal church for the privilege of exercising tho right to prohibit the exporta- tion of liquors into Africa. The measure is favorably regarded by church people gengr- ally, who hold that the privilege demanded is but u legal right. The fact that the Church of the Holy Trin- ity in New York has really been compelled to pay @ flne of $1,000 for bringing Rev. Dr. Warren from England as its rector ought to onyince our legislutors that some less clumsy scheme than that which they have put into law might be devised to restrict immigration to this country. Is there another nation in the world that would have bungled so badly wabout it? The conflicting reports concerning the probabildy of the pope's leaving Rowe are meeting with general denial. He is much dis- satisfied with his position in relation to the Italian tewporal authoritic Grispi, the prime minister, is exceedingly Lostile to pap- acy, and apparcntly desires 1o do away with the exterritoriality privileges beeh wllowed the pope ever Emanvel first grauted them, G move—a proposition to take the elementary schools under the care of the state -is par- ticularly exas| Ling, wud the vaiean re- seuts it bivterl York, esti- 70,000 col- e te————— P