Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 12, 1888, Page 4

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Stataof Nebrusks, County of Donglas, | rotary of The Bee Pub- Hshing company, A0cs solewmily swosr thit the wetual circnlation of Tuk v Bk for the week ending September & 188, Was as tollows: Baturday, L"H( El Average Sworn to befora me and £ib preseuce this 8th day of Kepreyior, A D N' P, FEIL, Notaty Pabiic, Nebraska, ] of Douglas, | * Seorge B, Tascnuck, being fiest duly sworn,d potes andsuysthiat ke fs secretary, ot “The i Publishi that the actual average dadiy € DALy Bee for the wmonth October ID"'n'. 1 18 Apiil, ples: for'Junie, 1858, 19,24 o 18,065 coples; for August, 18, 1 GEO. 1K, for July, 1885, ¥ coplos. B TZSCHUCK, Swoin to befors me and subscribed inmy presence this Sth dl“' of September, A, D,, 1888, N. P. FEIL Notary Public. VERMONT i3 the cloud by Maine is the pillar of fire by night to lead the republican hosts to victory. LosT, strayoed, or stolen, an owner to the rust streaks on Lowe aven ue. Will nobody father the motor line tracks on the above namoed street? Tie democrats of Colorado acknowl- edgo that they have no chance for car- rving that st Their state conven- tion and tickes are put up ouly for the sake of appearance. OvER forty millions have been added to the volume of the curreney in circu- lation during the past twelve months. It has created no glut in the money market as the expansion of business has easily absorbed that amount. Tie September states have spoken with no uncertain sound. If the states north of Mason and Dixon’s line, in No- vember, follow the examples set by Ver- mont and Maine, Mr. Cleveland will ke a back seat, or go a fishing. THE annua’ demand for money neces sary to move western crops to the sea- board nas already set . TLast week in New York de- creased five millions, bringing the sur- “plus on hand in those banks down to about cleven millions. In eous:quence the interest for loans has advanced somewhat whieh is ligble to stiffen rates all over the country PLUCKY Mayor Gleason of Long Island City, who pulled down a depot of the Long Island railvond a few weeks ago, has won his fight. The company dropped its suit tion of property, ven bonds that it will remove its tracksinfringing oun city property within ninety days. It goes without saying that Mayor Gleason has made himself solid for re-election by his courageous course. and it would be a good thing if the executives of other cities cursed with railroad dowination would imbibe a little of his spirit. SHOULD a member of the board of public works remove his family resi- dence from Nebraska to Kansas or Towa, the law would thereupon declare him ineligible to office in this state and city. Mr. Mayne has taken up his res- idence in Council Bluffs, and is no longer o citizen of Omaha or Nebraska. It is not necessary to discuss the motive Mr. Mayne may have for turning his back on Omaha. It is the duty of the mayor und city council toaccept the sit- uation as Mayne has made it, and promptly appoint a man qualified to suc- ceed him as member of the board of public works. —_— THERE is obviously some defect in the inspection of the work done by the street sweepers. Month after month, year in and year out, the board of public works and the council are forced to waste a great deal of valuabla time in the consideration of their bills. The ity engineer inspects the work and reports certain streets imperfectly swept, others swept and the refuse not removed, etc. In this shape it goos to the board and the members are in- volved in an almost endless discussion as to what deductions should be made from the contractors’ bills. Some one should have authority to say whether full pay, half pay or no pay at all should be allowed in each case. THE result of the republican conven- tion of the Twenty-fourth senatorial district, composed of the counties of York and Fillmore, is a very peculiar muddle. York county was entitled to eleven delogates and Fillmore to ten, The York delegates were instructed to vote for Charles R. Keckley for state senator, and the Fillmore men were for P. 8. Real. This insured the nomina- tion of Keckley, but there was one traitor in York’s camp, and on a secret ballot Real received eleven votes to Keckley's ten. A York delegate an- nounced that there must be a mistake in the count,and moved that the bal- lot be declared illegal. Pending the motion the Fillmore delegation with- drew, altor which York’s cleven dele- gates voted in the affirmative, and then nominated Kockley without opposition. ‘This results in there being two republi- caa candidates in the fleld. It is to be hoped that the difficulty will be sestled satisfactorily and immediately. Charles R. Keckley has proved himself too good man in the state senato to be sacri- - on account of @ petty rivalry be- ~ bween two counties. ; Meaning of the Gains It is important to considor the mana- ing of the republican giins in Vermont and Mains, The plurality in the former wt the late eloction is the the w I'wo v tittle over twenty th republican gatn this ubove eight thousand, Veriont gains vory ly in population, her increase in the lust eight years not excooding Lwon thousand, Comyp publican gain with the iner ulation it will be seen to be and only to be the presumption in Vermont, like democrats in Oregon, ed against the tariff policy of the administration us de fined in the Mills bill, ile the pi otic sons of the Green Mountain st were not misied by the retaliation bius- ter of the president. The vepublican plurality in Maine promises to exceed that of any election since 1866, [t will certainly be greater than any since that ¢ exeept that given for Blaine four years ago. The same issues that appealed to the voters of Vermont wore presented to those of Maine, and repnblican gains in the luf ter state can no ore be cribed to increase of population statc largost rs ngo it was a nd, so that the ar is somowhat since ing the ro- s in pop- vory large, acconnted for upon that democrats revol than in the former. The only reason- able hypothesis, therefore, is that sev- cral theusand Maine demociats ve- jecied both the ift and retaliation policies of the adminis . What is the vational inference from this, if uot that democrats in othar states will numerously follow th example of thoso in Vermont, Maine and Oregon? There is obviously no reason why an issue that has carried thousands of democrats into the repub- lican ranks in these states shall not exert a like influence in the other states, and there are very strong indi- cations that it is overywhere having that effeet. ieneral's Protest. The protest of Attorncy General Leese against the late action of the stato board of transportation in post- poning for two months the operation of the rate ordor issuod two months ago, will have the appoval of the great ma- jority of the le of Nebraska. No ot the potency of rail- d influcucee has ever been sented n was made manifest in the last action of the board of transportation. The order issued by the board in July the railroads, requiring them veadjust their schedule of a more just and equitable basis, relutively to vates prevailing in other statos. was made, as the attorney general s, after due deliberation. The railroad companies have furnished no evidence and shown no rea- son in justification of their failure to obey the order, nor have they made any request for o postponement. They have argued, as they were expocted to do, against the authority of the board and the legality of the ovder, and they have had vrecourse to every legal technieality, but they have offered nothing in the nature of evidence to show that the rates ordered by the board ure not fair and veasonable, « Now the pretense is sprung that the board should not proceed to enforce its ovder until it has found certain facts re- garding the cost of the roads, and which the companies are to be given two months to furnish. Reasonably and justly the attorney general asks why this information has not been obtained before, and having given candid con- sideration to the whole matter he r es the beliel, whieh will be very generally acq d in that the ad- journment of the case for the reasons assigned isa subterfuge, having some other objecu in view than that stated, The members of the board responsi- ble for this action are Secretary Laws, Auditor Babcock and Commissioner Scott, the chiof responsibility resting upon the first named. Under whatever influence Laws made a complete chango of front, and there are others besides the attorney general who will be sur- prised at his course, though the *‘mys- tery' counecled with it time will doubt- less clear up. The peopie of Nebraska will not be permitted to forget the men who have in this matter violated their public duty and subordinated the public sts to those of the corporations. The Attorney to New York Democratic Couvention. The most important st couvention of the year will assemble in Buffalo to- day, and if all signs do not fail it will be the stormiest. The democratic party of New York is in a more unset- tled and inharmonious condition at present than it has been before in a number of yeavs, and extraordinary dis- cretion and skill will be required to prevent such a conflict between the fac- tions that will confront each other in to-day’s convention as would throw the party in the state fusion.” The question of renominating Hill is the source of discord. The governor has a strong following, doubtless tho majority of the party, and it isa most earnest, aggressive and uncompromis- ing following. A considerable and forminable part of it is the liquor inter- est, which is understood to have raised a quarter of a million dollars to be em- ployed in aiding Hill. This interest held a convention in Buffalo last week, which is generally regarded as having had for its prime object the hooming of Hill. On the other hand the governor has a considerable opposition among democrats who are in favor of a policy of high license, and he is bitterly opposed by the independents for several reasons. Ata mass mecting held under the auspices of the reform club in New York city a few nights ago Hill was unsparingly denounced for his many shortcomings, while the organs of the independents have been scoring him severely and promising vthe democ racy that his renomination will cer- tainly defeat the state ticket and put in peril the national candidates in New Yorlk. Such is the highly interesting situa- tion of the democracy in the pivotal state which reuders the couvention that will meet to-day of commanding import- ance, The probability is that Hill wiil into hopeless con- Cleveland different be remominated. Mr. might have given o aspect to the situation, but there fs reason to believe that he has not dared to interpose, although it is not doubted that he wonld prefer some other man. Whatover the result of the convention shall be it appears inevit- able that republican chunces of carry ing New York will be improved ther The High School Addition. The board of education has voted to usk the people for nuthority to issue bonds to the amount of 000 for the construction of an addition to the High school building. "This course appents to be necessary, owing to the fact that no part of the bonds voted last year was to be applied to onlarging the High school building, that improvement belng con- tingent upon the sale of school property within the disteict. No such property having been sold, thevo is no fund ap- plicablo to the consteuction of the pro- posed addition to the High school. It is unnocess now to con- sider whether or not a mistake was made last year in the proposition submitted to the people. The condition that confronts us is urgent and must be met at once in the most practical way. 1t would undoubtedly be desirable to build the addition to the kigh school from the sale of school property rather thau to issue additionnl bonds, provided such property could be sold at a fair valuation. But this the board has been unable to do, and probably could not ef- fect at present. to un issue of bonds seems therefore to ba clearly necossary, and unquestionably the peo- ple will approve the proposition. The cduentional welfare,as well as the conve- ience and comfort of hundreds of school children is at stake. Ttis a sit- uation that must stea Lrow wors until the required facilities are pro- vided. When the people fully unde! stand this they will give the board the authority it asks for. Meanwhile the hope may be expressed that the board, when provided with the funds it vequires for the projected addi- tion, will exercise due care that none of it shall be wasted on experimental plans, improper work, the delays of contractors ov otherwise. There has been a great deal of useless extravagance inone way and another in connection with school building in Omaha so that the demand for greator cave and vigil ance in future is not without warrant. Our schools can be first-class in con- nd equipment without sense- less extravagance and reckless waste of money. lecourse Poor’s Manual of the Railroads of the United States for 1888 gives valu- able information regarding the railroad world during last year. The genoral exhibit shows that the year 1887 was vomaakably prosperous. Over thivteen thousand miles of road were built, mak- ing a total wileage up to the first of January, 1888, of nearly one hundred and fifty thousand miles. The total as- sots for the year were more than nine billions of dotllars, the liabili- ti for the me period were oight billion nine hundred millions, leaving a gain to the railroads of over three hundred millions. The gross earnings of the railroads was one hundred and eleven millions more than in 1886, The increase in mileage for 1887 over 1836 was 9.7 per cent; in liabilities 6.2; gross earn- ings 13; in net earnings 11, The new railrond construction of the first half of 1888 amounts to 2,300 miles, located principally in the south, south- west and on the Pacific coast. While this is a large figure for the first half of the year, most of it is the completion of the unfinished work of last season. What the total construc- tion for 1888 will come to is as yet con- jectural. A conservative estimate vlaces it for the whole year at about six thousand miles, or about half of the number of miles of track laid in 1887, in Men's Christian associa- ed a popular scheme for ptions to its building fund. The sum of twenty thousand dollars is immediately wanted, ten thousand to complete the building and ten thousand to furnish it with a gym- pasium, lecture rooms, library and other necessities. This last appeal to the public of Omahaand vicinity should not be in vain. The cause is a most worthy one, and a contribution, no mat- ter how small, coming from everybody would soon swell the subscription to the desired amount. When completed the Young Men’s Christinn association building will not only be an ornament to the city but will become an attrac- tive home for thousands of our young men. Its gymnasium, libravy, free reading rooms, lectures and the like will be open to the people irrespective A mere nominal sum will pay arly membership in the institu- Conducted as it is in the cities of the east, the Young Men's Christian association will become a popular club surrounded with a healthful moral atmosphe An in- stitution of such a character has long been needed in Omaha, and its comple- tion should not be retardod for lack of funds. Let everybody send in his mite 8o that the building may be dedicated with the opening of the new year. THE Young tion have de inviting subsel foray tion. Political Poin The Wiscousin labor ticket was recon- structed yesterday by the state committee. At Washington and New York democrats are talking a good deal about carrying Ilii- nois. Mr. Blaine will make a tour of Michigan, speaking at Detroit, Port Huron, and sev- eral other points. Ex-Senator McDonald, in a speech at ‘In- dianapolis, denounced protective tariffs as unconstitutional. The republicans claim that Congressman Springer is marked out for defeat in the Springfiold district. An effort is being made to conuect General Palmer with the famous Macoupin court house steal as one of the beueficiarices. The democrats of Indiana have 2,500 speak- ers in the fiold. The republican listis not yet filled, but already includes 1,500 names. Ex-Senutor Warner Miller, who has been nominated by the republicans of New York for governor, proposes to make a high license campaign. William Dudley Foulke has returned to Indiana from the east, bringing the most cheerful reports of the republican situation in the doubtful states. General Hov'e{ has formally declined to meot Colonel Matson in joint debate, and Chairmun Jewett claims this to be in toe na- ture of a triumph for the democrats. Geueral Barrison is enjoying comparative BEE: WEDNESDAY. quiet pust now, and he js supposed to be en wuzod on s ledgpe ds accop:ance. ANl of next week will belan up with visiting dol cintions. W John 1. of the Boston po an offset to the ¢ flee employ: , goliector and_custodian building, has issued ¢ sont to the postof y o democratic state com- nees that the men may do ns f edntributions, and that cotrse will ave no effect upon their tenure of oftice. f —-——— Al Talk @aal No Cider. It Judge Cooley fud’ his nssoclates would talk less and apply more of the penalties provided vy the ihtedstacs commores act they would give the paople botter satisfac- tion. When and where have thoy inflicted asingle ponal'y on the railroads that have 50 porsistently defied the law! - b A New Ambition. Chicago Tritune. The president (gloomily)—This retaliation message, Dan, may bo & good stroke of political steatogy, of course, but it weakons my popularity in England, Dan (enconragingly)—Bat you'rs not run- ning for president in Bogland, you know. The president (dubiously) ~I'm beginning to wish I was, Dan —-———— They Need Their Fenoe. Mineapotia Tribune, “I understand the drummers carried away Mr. Harrison's fonce as mementoes of their visit to Indianapolis,” said the president to Lamont, as that faithful servant wuas dust- ing off the office furniture at Red Top. 1 have heard that report, sire, and I am glad there aro no drummers in the habit of ing here,” Your reasons, Daniel. " “Rocanae, most noble chief, T apprehend we need our fence. We must have something to sit——-" “Daniol! Didn’t you hear the bell ring? —~—— Cleveland's Chinese Trick. The republican tricky schemes for delay and i wivinge the president just what he asked and right off. The “administration measure’ went through the democratic house without debate or opposition, and the senato insisted on giving the president equally prompt sup- port and enucting any legislation he thought necossary in consequence of the failure of his negotiations with Cuina, Mr. Cloveland can now stultify himself by vetoing his own bill or approve it and dig out from under his blunder 1 tho best way he can. Ho I8 left in a contcmptible but piti- able plight as the result of an abortive par- tisan trick. An instance cannot be cited where any Awmerican president evor before exposed himseif befora the country and the world in a situation so sorr The Western Railroads, Nuw ¥ Sun. There seems to ba a prospect of an adjust- ment of the differences among the western railroads, and the resignation of Mr. Georze R. Blanchard, of the Central Trafiic associa- tion, is the most oncouraging picce of news that has reached us from the west in somo time, Ttis dountful if in the history of corpora- tious such widespread and fatuous misman- agement was ever manifestod as in the case of the more important lines of the west and northwest. We do mdt know what to at- wibute it to. 1t looks a8 if the railroad man- agers, in addition to being porsonally dishon- est, has no sense whatever of their responsi- bility to the shaveliolders of the properties they administercd. It may be that in some cases this condition’ is due to the fact that our roads are so largely owned in England, Holland and Germany." If we tako a prop- erty like St. Paul, for instance, of which over 80 per cent 18 owned by foreigners, it is possible to conceive that the local manage- ment exhibits a certain freedom and reck- lessucss that would not be seen if it were more nearly allied to the iuterests it repre- sents, There can be little hope for stockholders 50 long a3 the men who manage the railroads act with reference to their own personal in- terests, inaugurate rate wars, and agree to the restoration of rates with an eye single 10 the effect upon the stock in Wall street, S e STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings. Nebraska City is having trouble with poor curbing stone. Hastings colloge opened with a largely in- creased atteudance over last fall. A new elevator is being built at Pauline to help care for Adams county’s great crops this fall. The telephone exchange at Norfolk will have a capacity for 230 instruments and will be in working order shortly. The Nemaha Valley District Fair associa- tion gives its sixth annual exhibition at Falls City Septembor 25 to 29, Hastings is happy over the prospects of a fourth line to Omaha—the Missouri Pacific building a line from Crete to Hastings. Superior merchants have issued a finely illustrated pamphlet showing the advautages of the town and its growth as a railroad and commereial center. The Greeley county fair was a grand suc- coss, and the Leader ventures the assertion that “‘there is not another county in the state where people have done more.” Gandy, one of the men who escaped from jail in Falls City recently, stole a ride on a freight train and was badly injured in a wreck in Missouri. Ho now wishos he had stayed in jail, for he will be brought back and locked up as soon as he recovers sufli- ciently from his injurics. An exchange reports that a Harvard man while boring n well dropped a monkey- wrench into the hole when ata depth of seventy-five fect. Ho gave his little six- year-oid boy a quarter to allow a rope to be tied around his logs and then lowered head first to the bottom of the hole after the wrench, The boy was successful, ho was a quarter ahiead, the wrench was_saved, God reigms and the goverament at Washington sull lives. Dakota, There is a scarcity of laboring men out of employment at Rapid City. The South Dakota board of pharmacy will meot Yauktou October 9. Deadwood no'y pays her city marsnal the prineely salary of 325 per month. Farmers in the vicinity of Sioux Falls are gathering their second crop of hay. Wheat is running from seven to fifteen bushels an acre in the vicinity of Iroquois, The Rapid City board of education has adopted a resolution excluding children un- der 6 years of age from school, An artesian well, o firedepartment and a flouring mill are reckoned among the contem: plated improvements at Parkston during the next month. At a meeting of the Dakota Millers' asso- ciation, at Fargo, one of the interesting mat- ters discussed was the question of establish- ing an agency in the east for the purpose of introducing “flour mavufaetured from un- mixed Dakota wheat. H. W. Carney was arrested at Pierre for incendiarism and theit. On restitution of goods stolen he was released, but having made throats against the lives and property of citizens he was rearrested and held until the train arrived, when he was placed on board with orders to go out into the wide world, never more to return, Wyoming. The territorial convention of the W. C. T. U. will meet at Rock Springs the latter part of September. Six hundred thousand dollars will come into the territory the present season on ac- count of beef shipped out. A Grey Bull farmer reports to the Lander Ciipper that corn is nine or ten feet high and wllY make eighty bushels per acre. Oats will uverage seventy bushels. Thus it is all over Wyoming. Reports have reached Laramie of tha wirike, Lfteen wiles svutliwest of e Siding, ‘it changed, and the last four feet of a rich vein of silver-bearing quartz. The matter has been kept under cover, but enough has leakod out to report that the vein is seven feot thick and the ore taken from it nssays from £150 to §200 to the ton. The otd Wyoming mine at Almy is being reopened by the Union Pacific company. Their No. 4 min in a very unsatisfactory which necessitates their finding a ewhere, and they are falling buck on the old mine. The Central Pacific eom- poany has two excellent mines at Almy in I|;m shape, which are yielding a steady sup- ply. Articles of incorporation for the “Dawn of Light Temple of Honor and Temperance Building Association of Almy, Unita county, Wyoming,” have been filed at the office of Secretary Shannon, at Cheyenne. The com- pany, with a capital stock of 83,000, will ope- rate in the towns of Almy and Red Canon, and proposes to erect a building for its own occupancy and for rental, Montana. Missoula and Great Falls are both lighted by electricity now. Frod Miller of Missoula has lost the use of his whole right side and his tongue, from whisky drinking. Judge Carson of Bozeman raised 000 bush- els of oats this year on ten acres of land. And yet.t is claimed the crop is short. Helena thinks President Adams' visit to the capital means that a scheme is on foot to bl:lld an independent railroad branch to that oity. Frank Walker, the man who shot and killed two men at Alhambra Springs w few months ago, has been indicted for murder by the Jefferson county grand jury. , who killed an old man at Gold 18 supposed to have since committed as his horse has returned with the suddle und bridle on and the picket rope dragging. ‘Three months ago Jonathan Manlove, of Prickly Pear valloy, left his family and wen hunting, He has never by e His horse came home seve days late All scarch for the missing man unavailing. In the right of way controversy at Philips- burg, J. K. Pardee, of the mining disputants, threw a dynamité bomb among the rail ronders, scaring them off, but not hurting any one, The railroad men then had Pardeo arrested, and will probably put their line 1 under the shelter of the crimmal action against him. A fow days ago L. A, Wilson of Gallatin City was unloading hay at his ranch between two ricks, The flying anis wero very troublesome, so he lit a bunch of hay to drive them a ‘When the fire reached his fingers he lct go, the fire was communi- cated to the ricks, all the hay, his wagon, sct of harness and stable werc speedily ¢ sumed. Says the Mining Review: The stock- holders ana management of the Boulder Chief Mining company are feeling vory jubi- lant over a vich strike of galena ore made in their mine a few days ago. Tho shaft is down 130 feet, und a drift started from the bottom of it. For the first eight feet coun- try rock was run through, but after that a fine vein of concentrating ore was struck, which continued for thirty-four feet, whei as been througi solid, high-grade galena. The hang- ing wall has not been struck yet, 8o it is im- possible to say how wvide the lead 18, but at present writing the lead has been crosscut for thirty-eight feet. SEvR o A Town of Wind. Several days ago THg BeEE printed two “boom” letters from Bessemer, Wyo. Since that time letters have been received stating that we had been im- posed upon by the author of the letters. ‘I'he latost is dated at Chadron, Septem- ber 8, under above caption, as follows: T'o the Editor of Tk BEE: Bessemor, Wyoming territory, at present, is a town of wind. with prospects of the same composition. Parties who are not blessed with a superfluous amount of shekels had better hang on to what they have. Parties who are desirous of going to Bessemer woutd do well by taking the Fremont, Flkhorn & Missouri Valley railroad to Fort Casper, the terminus, and continue overland until they come to the Ephemeral City. From one who has been roped in, E. Q. S. has been e —— Small, but Active and Plucky, Kansas City Star: It does not require great battles or events of national importance to bring out the natural traits of some people. This morning small but strongly built bulldog dashed into the middle of Delaware street near xth. Foam dropped from his jaw,and his blood-shot eyes rolled wildly-as he yelped and barked fiercely, He was mad as a March hare. The dog dashed blindly forward and seized one of the spokes of a rapidly moving buggy wheel with his teeth, and was whirled through the air against the ground with force enough to stun a horse, but it only served to make him dart about more madly and howl and growl more fierecly. Pedestrians stopped, looked at the dog a minnte and then fled for safety. Women shricked and made the best possible time for adjoining stores. One old lady, with surprising agility,climbed into a éuggy standing near. Big, pow- erful men, with fists like sledge ham- mers followed this woman, and soon there was hardly a soul left in sight but o quiet looking man wearing a butternut suit and calmly twisting a straw-colored moustache. The aog made at him with a fier growl, and tho foum dripping from his wide open jaws. The little man coolly spat upon the ground and looked around for n weapon. There was nothing handy but a box partly full of peaches belong- ing to an Italian fruit peddlar who had fled long since. The dog reached the curbstone and gathered himself like a tiger for a spring. He leaped at the throat of the little man, but with indiscrivable quick- ness the peach box made a semi-circle through the air, and when the shower of fruit subsided, the little man could he seen calmly beating the animal’s brains out with one end of the box. n stepped out of a doorway *Bully for you,” and the old the buggy climbed down, criti- cally looked at the dead dog, and when she noticed the fine silver and stecl collar, romarked: **Somebody’s pet, I suppose.”’ Then a huge crowd gathered ahout the carcass, and discussed the proper method of killing a mad dog, while the little man with the straw-colored mov tache bit off a huge chunk of toba and sauntered slowly away. o —-— Education in Mo Seribner’s for September of their ancestors has been u great stimulus to study for the Greeks of to- day. The new government had hardly been set up at Athens when a unive sity was eslablished on the German model, and with several German pro- fessors, in 1837. The university v ready made and fully developed,but fe students W prepared to enter it. Since then, Greece has delighted in cherishing sehools of every kind, but better provision is still made for' tha higher education than for the inter- mediato and lower. I'ree tuition at the university and the slight expense of the actual necessities of at Athens have induced many poor Greeks to study {nw, when they should have been prepuring for life as farmers or mechanics. This has unsettled politics W!lll)wll‘\ll. but hus not been an unmixed evil. The univer- sity is vow one of the largest in the worid, with more than three thousand students, of whom at least hall are fr lands beyond the borders of the ki dom. Most of its professors have pur- sued studies iu Germany or Fraice and many of them are brilliunt an learned men. It bas roceived large gifts, its museums and laboratories are endowed by private genevosity, CLAN-NA<GAEL TRIAT, A Member Tried by in New York. NEw Yok, Sept. 11 <[Special gram to Tig BEe A Lady of mon, wter ested in Ir engaged i t scasion, it 1o performunce xtraordine | churacter, i room 55, of the Westmin * city for tho past throo days was not noted by the guests ft 2 all are wide-awake cosmopoli s, an ex-momber of congross, an ist, und the others business various walks of life and from 1 parts of the United States, 1. gramme, ac ling to informatic from authentic sources, of their brethven for high treasc Ireland. They coustituted a cour was to tey decision was final, and members of U aml witnesses were bound by oath to se. re The man on trinl lgured - Lrish William John Moroney, and also as Wil J. Melville. He was trusted t y YOArs ago with a secret mission to Ireland and England, and it is sald traveled over both eountries in who died company with Jolin utly from Mandeville, the brutal treatment he ro- coived “in prison, a8 the nationulists ullege, It will bo sician who committed remembered attended him suicide in that the while in Wost phy- tion ou the wi amination, ) ness stand at the coroner’ their mission, and ¢y and with 1y before placed the areest of Mandeville, and whiclt hia life in peril, that the trial was ordered in this city, The' specific charges m probabiy never see the light., The court comploted its work todny and the members scatteved to thelr howmes, Tho decision they arvived at, which is now an are confirmed more severe penalty Tnown, but it is known by t srds that on many s the men nst whoimn verdicts of treason to Irelund were found by the self-constituted courts suf fered severe penaltics, Another inportant matter which is have been considered appertained to the finances of the order, and in this connection the reports that veached tho out stated that an itom of $57,000 tributed for the Irish nationalist could not be satisfuctorily traced matter has no connection whatever money raised to furthor the home rule mov ment of Parnell and his fellow parliament rians, Awong the well known Irish nation alists who were scen history of the were the an. William I, lelphin, James MeDermott of Philadelphia, Luke Dillon, John Dev: P. Kyan and two gentlemen who came from Nonoe of them would 1 transpired, It was said that Me| u statement, but this ass ve be found. IMMIGRAN They Are Reduc Workingi L w York, a1 Telogram to Tik Bee. | . Crawford, who has Just returned from Burope and knows whereof he speaks, says in the World to-day from Waslington: “There is a gdheral impress- ion in Washington, now that the pr has given out his letter of acceptance, that affairs here will soon be wound up and that the political manouvering which has boen going on here 8o long will givo way to moro active campaigning in the fleld. Seuators have reached an understauding so that it 18 possible for tarift dis- cussion to bo cut short. Whilo a number believe congeoss may romain in session straight through, yet it is among the possibilities that an adjournment will bo reached soon after the 1st of Octoh “Tne republican national convention, I hear, is making prepavations 1o send out, by the hundred thousand, copies of the reports obtained by Nathaniel MeKay of New York, during his recent visit to England. + will be printed upon h to be placed where worki habit of assembliing. the most active of Mr. He is a tall, broaa-shoulde man, who tukes his politics v McKay visited England during one of its worst years, England is suffering greatly from the competition of German working- men. The agents of New York importers now go to Germany for many staple articles of merchandise formerly made in England. The Germans actually compete with the English in their own homes. 1t is one of the stock complaints in London that the Ger- mans work for less and can live upon less than the Knglish of the same class. Kng- land is confronted with many of the problems con sidered in this country. She 1s overrun with & surplus foreign population. The dregs of the labor markets of Kurope find their way to London. Degradcd Poles and Russians compete with English workingmen upon even a lower scale of comparison than do the Chinese in this country. Parlisment is being continually called upon to legislate agamst foreign immigration, whiclh 18 con- stantly pouring 10 upon Buglish soil and is making it more difiicult for Knglish work- ingmen to hold their own."” e PAY OF THE SWEEPERS, A New Question Propounded by the Board of Public Works. There is the usual squabble this month over the Fanning & Slavin sweeping bill, For the month of Augnst theie account with the city amounted to $1,644.70 for tho sw: ing ot the streots covered by their eontract City Engineer Tillson acts as inspoctor, and in hig report to the board of public works has made the following entries opposito tho statement of the number of squara vards: August 1, Douglas streot not wel Jdone; August 2, Fourteonth strect aud the stone pavement of St. Mary's avenue nol wi dono; 3, N not wall done oxeopt on Daven wast end of Cuming not well done xtoenth not well don nonaof the 211 dono, In the diseussion of the report and aceount at the last meeting of tho board Mr. Heimrod claimed that the in the eapac ity of inspector, should, when necessary, the deductitn from the bill instead of e bourd as a bone of con Mr. Balcombe recommended tho {on of $344,70, which would reduce the bill to #1300, No netion was taken on the matter, and tho_ bill 18 eirried over to an- other meeting. The question which now agitates tho various officials (s wnother the board, the council, oF the city the proper authoritios to s are to be pad for, and which not. o - gineer obviously does his duty, and yet the bill comes up month after month as an ulmost interminable subject for discussion. Lost Atlantic Steamships, Harper's Weekly: From,the date of the disappearance of the ill-fated Pres- ident down to the sinking of the Geiser the other day, the annals of the Atlun- tie travel ave marked thickly with epis sodes of disuster, suffering and death, Somo of the finest and staunciiost, stosmships that have over been built figure on the long sad voll af the lost. some of them have beon run down and sunk in a collision, like the Arctic, the Ville du Havre and the Geiser: have boen destroyed by fige, like the Amazon, the Sardininn ‘and the Aus- trin; mpny have rush: eadlong on the rocks in a fog on u dark night, like the Schiller, the Mosel, and the Atlan- tic; a few have founderod at sea in a grale or a eyclone, like the City of Vers Cruz; others have been wrecked oe Hoclety Court Telo natiounl uffiirs, have been hotel in this vir presence otel, for One was 1 ¢ u journal- i dn the differont 80t pro- a'hered one weninst 080 vonrt affaiis us Jail Treland rather thau faco the ordeal of cross oxamina- ox- weville und Melville, as he is culled, were supplied with money by the Irish nationalists in this country to oxecuto it 18 in conneetion with lo will inviolable secret, will not be binding until the findings d to with the 5 at the hotel, and whr | . 1y dited with haviag taken part in the 1 und made rtion could not be fied aud the gentleman himself could not M, Mc- s pootographs. of luborers about M- | sunken ice, like the Canadian, while sevieral, like the Presidant, the Paciflo and the magnificont City of Boston, | have mysteriously disappeared, leavin ot trace hehind to indicate tho caus of their loss, EComparatively few of these shipd wrecls occnered without serious loss of | 1ife, at loast 5,600 porsons having por- ' ished mimong the passongers and erows sou board, When the Atlantio who we | was wreeked on Meagher' head, off the | fatal Nova Seotian const, in 1878, no less than 562 persons woro drowned. With the City of Glassow 180 people disappenred; with the President, 1204 with the Pacifie, i56: ind with the City of Boston, the lasc of the missing stoam= ships, 191, hon Anstria was burned in midoconn 470 Lives were losty with the Arctic, #5280 with the Anglo- Saxon, 872 with th du Huvro, with the Borus i Wand with the Schiller, #11. Th steaction of other vessels caused the loss of fowor lives than the vosscis named, us, hape | pily, fewer passengers on board, | bt with se Lon the List. from 100 to 200 beings perished, [o 1865 no less 1o six laege steamships wore wrecked, i down, or disappeared, the most di w<trous logses heing those of the At lan ind the Ville da Huvee, a total of iss lives. Following is a list of the mor wrecks: 1880, July 16—Bottle picked up off Trish coast containing memorandum, signed by the engineer, stating that the steamship Zanzioar was sinking (vessel left Now York for Glasgow Janue and hus never been he L Uity of Vera Cruz, foun one off the Florida coas run down. Bohemian, wroeked on the Trish Leon, foundered; Moutgomery- L lost, losel, wrecked on the coast of ; Kdam, run down by the Lo- panto. Both losses due to a fog. 1883—City of Brussels, run down off Liverpool (10 Tives lost); Cimbria, of the Hamburg- America line, sunk in the Noeth sea (nearly 400 lost); Ludwig, from Antwerp for New York, with sov- enty persons on board, given up for lost. 1834, City of Columbus, from Boston for S wrecked in Vineyard sound (100 lives lost); Daniel Stoin- man, wrecked off Sambro Island, Nova Seotin (120 Tives Tost): Stato of Florlda and bark Pomonia. sunk in collision in mid-occan (135 lost); Amsterdam, of Nethevlands line, wrecked on Sable Is- land in o fog (3 lives lost). S Allan line steamer Hanoverian, wrocked near Cape Race. 1856, Ovegon, of Cunard line, run fnto and sunk by n schoouer off Firo Island (no lives lost): Rapidan, from New York for Costa Rica, given up for lost with all hands, 1887, On November 19 the W. A, Scholten was sunk nenr Dover, Enghm(l. by cotlission with the coul froighter Losa Mavy (120 passengers drowned). 1888, On August 14 the Geiser was sunk, within seven minutes, by colli- sion with the Thingvalla, of the same line, off Sable Tslahd, Nova Scotia. Sl A Place to Try Mcen's Metal. London Truth: Howover hard gust now the lines of the Irish triot, I think the Irsh minor ofcial is even more to be pitied. Many of theso poor erentures, born of honest parents, would be honest themselves if they dared. They do not like eating divt, they ouly eat it because there is nothing else to eat. Take for instance, the example of that poor man. Dr. Ridley of Tullamore, 1 think his case is, in some respects, evensaddor than that of the patriot whom he helped to put to death. Dr. Ridley would evidently have been orv of doctor in a country town. He plainly knew more about his busi- ness than the averago practitioner; at te, ho knew more ahout it than Dr. Barr did. His instinets and gen- oral charactor, too, appear to have been good and amiable. But, unfortunately he lacked self-confidgenco, ceut ad and butte 1 easy, (huf assuredly a dirty) task for the castle officials, with their swaggering English doctor, to bully the poor youth out of his own judgment and him distrust his own science, which was in reality a great deal deeper than theirs. Before long they had him half persnaded that perhaps his own as it turned out, perfectly correct) opin- jon was wrong, anl then they got him to be an aceomplice in the cruelty on which they were bent. Then, when the vietim, whom the young doctor in his heart knew could not stand **punish= ment diet.” was doad by punishment diet, the full horror of the villiany in in which he had been coerced to con= e, first broke upon his miscrable nd ho felt that there was 1o course open to him but to cut his throat. English and / An American lady, dently does not hail from Chicago, writes us follows to a London paper: “An Eng- lish married woman in your upper classes, asa rule, eatechises and erosss questions her luckless husband when he comes home, worn out. from the houso of commons or from a race course ‘or from the city,and sooner or later he hins recourse 1o evasionsor emissions or sub- terfug i of her vex- atious interrogutories, he happiness of English m aes has boen wrecked by the husband insisting upon knowing ything that the wife has done or ince they last met, and boing equally ex- fault of your huse when richy they enough to do, and about their homes until th tired to death of their pres- ence aud companionship. No home can, in my opinion, be happy unless the huse away fromit every day for many hours. In the United States we have no idle men. Our wives, on the other hand, have time without end to dispose of, and their husbands think it tha most niatural thin, the world that these vaeant hours should be filled upand spent as the wives please. In England the reins are rarvely left untightened on a wife's neck, and she is often tempted to slip her muzzle. In America wives we no reins and no muzzles, and never seok to fix either on their hue pands. Until Englishmen of the higher classes conform in this ua{) to our easy going American ways there will ha reease of divorees and matrimonial \ls among you. The that not « Be Killed. " Artie Garry, nged five years, fell into the river at North Adams Monday afternoon, but was rescued by Elmer Keyes while sinking a third time, and brought to lifo after hard work by Officer Porrows. The child onee dvank forty ns of loud- anum left for his brother, who had hroken a leg. Physicians worked over him twelve hours to save his life. At another time he sot fire to paper in a burcau in his mother's room. and aftor locking the door hid between @ mate tress and feather bed in the atiic. In Murch, 1857, he went to the bath room, turned on the hot-water faucet, got into the tuh and was nearly sealded 1o death, Last summer he caught hold of the spoles of a heavy loaded wagon and | rode uround the wheel twice Lefore he fell off unhurt, Thisis his thivd es- l onpe fromn drowning.