Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 14, 1888, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLASHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Darly Morning Edition) meluaing BUSDAY BEY, One Year v Jor pix Montbs or Three Mouth TR OMANA SUNDAY DEF, 10 nddress, One Year. OMANAOPFIORNOS UTEAND NEW YORK OFr1ce, ROOMS 1 AND 1) BUILDING, WASHINGION OFP) TOURTEENTH BTRE R CORRY All communications relating t torial matter should be uddress: ¥ AU k. S DUSINESS LETT £10 0 cos shonld be 1EHING O nidres OMAIA be ma Dratts, ched puyable to the order of the company. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprictors, 1. ROSEWATER, Editor. THE DAILY BE Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebruska, sunty of Douglas, . K, 80 | (88 3 . socretary of The Bee Pub. MUehing company, does soleiiily ar that the nctual circulation of Ty DAILY Bek for the week ending Septembor 8, 188, was us follow Friday, Scpt. ¥ Baturday, Sept. § Average..... 8 370 o ZSCHUCK Bworn to b -V'n’"‘ me llmdl subsori) “llm Kn:y resence this ®th day of September, A, D, 4 v NI Il Notiy Public. Etate of Nebraska 1 Comity of Do e Georgge I8, Tzsenuck, being first duly sworn,de- 5 and v of The Be Blishiug cotipany, the actual averago daily circulation of THE DALy BEE for the month of Reptembor, 1887, was 130 coples: for October, 187, 14,5 copless for Novemie ¢ r Decemnber, 1857, 15,41 co) 152K O] 1S for February, d Malrebi, 158,168 cop Apri, 18, ) Yor May, 189, IK151 coples: for Jure, 1858, 19,743 coples: Tor July, 1583, 16,083 coples; for August, 185, 15183 coples, | B TZSCHUCK. ornto before me and subscribed in my Dpresence thissth day of Septomber, A > VEIL Notiry Publ KANBAS still plucks up hope that con- gress will pass the Oklahoma bill this session, but it is the hope of a drowning man catching at straws. Tom REED, of Maine, who goes back to congress for his third term, must feel that he is a live-oak in the affection of his state, judging from the largoe ma jority just rolled up for him in his dis- trict. A GREAT many anxious hearts are fluttering over the prospects of Uncle Sam sccepting one of the bids submitted to the war department for the sale of six hundred and forty acres for new Fort Omaha. It To0oK Mr. Cleveland ninety-five days to write his letter of acceptance, but it took Tilden thirty-two, Hancock thirty-five and Horace Groely only ten days to express their thanks for a nomi- nation at the hands of the democratic - party. As a letter writer Mr. Cleve- land will not take the pv SOoUTH OMAHA will put on metropel- itan airs when her free mail delivery is established. Incidentally let us remark that the earrier delivery system would have been enjoyed by South Omaha for the lasteighteen months if she had been allowed to remaiu within the corporate limits of Omaha. At best now, she will be waiting another twelve months for the convenicnces which the outskirts of Omaha have long enjoyed. Tie democratic candidate for gov- ernor in Massichusetts, Colonel *Billy” Russell, thirty-one years old, is without a doubt the youngest man running for the office of govornor in any New Eng land state. Just nine years ago No braska republicans nominatod Albinus Nance for goveruor, a stripling of some thirty summers, who had the honor of guiding the ship of state for two torms. Like the boy revivalist Harrison, theso boy governors are generally old enough to have their eye teeth cut. THE ivon trade is said to be the com- mercial baromet The ided im- provement noted in the iron indus- Gy foreshadows a genoral rovival in All branches of business. For several weeks there has been a gradual gain- tng of ground, and lust week was re- garded as one of the best for tho iron industry for the whole y Better prices have ruled the market and there has been a good demand for everything on the list. The prospeects for a heavy trade in all branches of iron are flat- tering, and the whole market h strong and healthy tendency which, added to the tremendons corn crop, cannot fail to stimulate all Lines of busi- ness into ent netivity, THe adage that **a new broom sweeps cloan,” has its reverse in the street cloaning business in this city. Before the old street swoeping contract e pired the old broom of Fanning & Slaven did some very clean sweeping but no sooner had the contract been re- newed than the new broom began move very shiftlossly and the so-c street cleaning be than raking the dirt promiscuously from the center to the gutter. During and since the fair complaints are on the increase about tae untidy cundition of the ma- chine-swept streets for which the city is taxed enormously. Why cuan't the new broom of Slaven & Fanning do as well as the old broom did just proviously beforo the renewal of the contract. to Ned wme nothing move CHAIRMAN BrICE has the natural en- thusiasm of the tyro in politics, To the man who is new in political work every report and incident favorable to his side is enormously magnified and given an importance wholly out of proportion to its real significance. Of eourse the chairman of the democratic campaign committes gets a great deal of cheer- ing information from all the states, but in his freshness ho has so exaggerated its importance that he is already claim- ing protty much the entire country Thore used to be another Ohio demo- cratie politician who held to the idea that it was good politics to claim eve thing, but after a number of defeats his party got tired of that sort of boasting and retired him as a political manager. It is likely to go hard with Chairman Brice wo secure hereaftor the position of campaign conductor if the result of the eloction shall demonstrate that he is strong only as & campaign blower. He will be wise to imitate the silent Quay and keep right along at work. Hill Renomimated, The Hill forces were in indispute command of the New York democratic convention, and the governor was re- nominated by acelamation amid mani- festations of the heartiest enthusi This was not the course that had been expected, Very fow doubted that Hill would receive a nomination, but it was | thought he would Lave to muke a fight for it. A stormy convention had been | confidently prodicted. The result shows that Hill and his feiends w allowed | to control the democratic organization in New York, which is to say that Mr. Cleveland and his friends held aloof. In making a cheice of alternuatives it is plain that the president decided to offend the independents rather than the friends of the governor. For two months pust the independent organs have been insisting that the renomination of Hill would imperil the national ticket in New York, and have urged the admin- istration to interpose for the prevention of such a state of affairs. There can ba no doubt that Mr. Cle land gave very careful and serions con- sideration to the situation, and equally is it without deubt that he concluded not to interfore, therchy, itly at least, acquicseing in the movement which culininated in Hill’s re- nomination. No explanation which be offered can Mr., of a measure of the responsibility for continuing at the head of the Now York democracy per- haps the most arrant demagogue now in publie life, and a man, besides, whom son to helie ruptly used the patronage of his ice in rewnrding politi indeed to his own The record of Governor Hill redounds neither to his wisdom nor his honesty, and in unqualificdly endovsing thi record the democracy of New York puts itself in a position which ought to, and likely will, redu its vote in No- vember by many thousands The independent vote, estimated at about thirty thousand, will s, | ve Cleveland high service, if aggrandizement. unquestionably be very ncarly solid against Hiil, and it 18 reasonnbly expected that he wil lose the votes of a considerable numbar of temperance democrats who favor regu- lating the liquor traffic by a high license. It is possible that the defec- tion of such democrats will be offset by republicans in the cities who do not be- lieve in any liquor regulations, so that the democracy may pevhaps poll the party strength, less the independent vote, 5o far as the stato ticket iscon- ned. Itcannot win with this. Hav. ing the full independent support thr years ago, Governor Hill's plurality was only about eleven thousand. The loss this year of less than half the inde pendent vote will defeat him, un- less he shall gain largely from the republicans, of which there is not the slightest possibility., As the situation is now presented, nothing in polities appes more certain than the defeat of Hill, and the important question is, how are the chances of the demoeratic national ticket likely to be affected in New York? It would seem inevitable that a portion of the inde- pendents must refuse to support Mr. Cleveland on the ground that his tacit acquiescence in the renomination of Hill commits the national administra- tion to the support of the governor, and thus puts Cleveland in an attitude not much less uaworthy of respeet than that of Hill. The president has virtu- ally condoned the shortcomings of which the independents complain. Hay- ing the opportunity to free his party of a demagogue, if nothing worse, Mr. Cloveland has failed, under the prompt- ing of personal ambition, to take ad- vantage of the opportunity. He has shown that his first thought is not, as has been claimed, the purification and clevation of his party, but the reton- tion of the presidency. How can the independents conscientiously and with- out stultifying all their professions, give him their support? The in New York will now open in earnest, and its progress will be watched by the whole country with in- tense and cumulative interest. The re- publicans bave alveady been doing some excellent work, and the indications at this time are most favorable to their su e s General Harrison on the Surplus, There will not be alarge addition made this year to the surplusin the national treasury. The appropriations thus far made will take within twenty millions or less of the yi and there provided for. revenue, re still some things to he "his is not mere surmise, but has the authority of the secretary of the treasury. It was information which, when launched upon the coun- tey, caused the democracy no little con- fusion. The party had been lustily and persistently crying out aguinst the ac- camulating sueplus, and was the demonstration tl by reason of the extravagance of its reprosoutatives in congress there would be no addition to the surplus dur- ing the current fiscal year about which anybody need feel alarmed. [n this country there is no danger to any in- terest in the accumulation of a million dollars a month in the national treas- ury, though very likely it would be wise to maintain an even closer balance than this between receipts and expendi- tures, and to keep the latter down to the lowest point consistent with a thoroughly eflicient public service. This, it is indisputably shown, not been done under the present adminis- tration, which in three years has cost the country ninety-five million dollars more than was expended during a like period under the preceding administea- tion. But thero is a large surplus in the treasury, stated by Mr, Thurman only n few days ago, on the authovity of the secretary of the treasury, to be some- what in excess of one hundred and thirty-three million dollars. The larger part of this considerable sum was snceumulated during the Arthur ad- ministration, and it has sorely vexed the Cleveland administration., The president has dwelt on it at different times as presenting a most alarming condition, which should be removed with the least possible delay; the late here Secretary Mauning: discussed it wil.hl many dismal expr Lension; Secretary several times solemuly referred o it as 2 menace to the national wel- nd democratic leaders in and out of congr in a similar steain again and again recurred to the sub- jeet. As General Harrison says in his lettor of weceptance, *‘they have magni- fied and nursed the surplus which they affect to deprecate, smingly for ti purpose of exaggerating the evil in o der to reconcile the people to the ox- trome remedy thoy propose.” Yet there has been no time since the Cloveland administration came into power that it could not have reduced the surplus, or at least prevented any inerease, if it had been disposed to do so. It had the same authority of law that republican administra- tions possessed to employ the surplus in the purchase of bonds, but it chose to quibble regarding the extent of this authority and to allow the surplus to grow while it waited for congress to that its authority was full and com- plete under laws long in force and never before questioned. There never a plainer case of subterfuge, r gorted 1o purely for a partisan purpose. The course of republican administra- tions had been to purchase bonds with the surplus, and that is the policy which the candidate and leaders of thh party now advoeate. “The surplus now in the treasury should boe used in the purchase of bonds,” s General Harrison; “the peo- ple and not the banks should have the advantage of itsuse,” This administra- tion has had some sixty million dollars distributed among the banks, whici have reaped nearly all the benefit. The purchase of bonds would hav money to the people and ended the in- terest charge on the amount of bonds purchased. It requires a great deal of assurance to attempt a defense of the financial policy of the Cl wd administration, particularly with respect to the surplus, That seemod to offer the hest promise of political eapital against the republi- can party, and all possible use has been made of it. But it must fail of effect with all who will give the matter intel- ligent and candid examination. Omaha and the Union Pacific. The smoothest road to a man’s affec- tions is through his stomach. This rule has its exceptions, however, as has been forcibly itlustrated by Charles Fran Adams. Two years ago this summer Mr. Adams wassumptiously entertained by the Omaha cluband soft-soaped from the crown of his head to the end of his toes, as Allen G. Thurman would say, by thoe toast-master and all the flunkies whom Omuaha can muster. At that memorable oceasion Mr. Adams male a pgood-humored speech, in which ho complimented our enterprise and public epirit and promised great things for us in the way of branch lines and metropolitan depot facilities. Within three days after vhis entertainment the Omaha board of trade beld a public meeting to endorse the Union Pacific branch line bill, then pending in con- gress, and pledged Senator Van Wyck and the whole Nebraska delegation to its active support. Three months later when Omaba was framing her new charter and a clause was proposed that would compel the Union Pa- cific and all other railroads to pay the same proportion of local taxes tnat other property is obliged to pay. the general attorney of the Unton Pacific put in a protest and when our citizens, by an overwhelming demonstration endorsed local railroad wxation the emissaries of the Union Pacific went down to Lincoln and had the charter mutilated and Omaha’s wishes thwarted through the corrupt methods of the oil room, and to the shame and disgrace of Omaha be it said the Union P c lobby reccived very aetive aid and comfort in their effort to defeat equal taxation by some of her heavy shippers and business men, who have grown rich by revates and special favors. Two years have passed away. The promised branch lines have not materi- alized in Nebraska, although the Union Pacific has managed toraise capital cnough to make extensions provements in other scctions. cuse for not building by Nebraska s that congress has not passed the Union Pacifie funding bill, Judgi by past expericnce, the branch lines which Mr. Adams had projected would have been built in Kansas, Colorado and Oregon much sooner than in Nebraska And now Mr. Adams has again been rovally entertained by the Union club. The lunch was still undigested when the usual committec of Omaha business men made a formal eall upon Mr. Adams. Despite the lunch and wine, the committee met with rather a cool reception. Mr. Adams ve politely declined to fix a timne when, in the dim and distant fu ture, he would have those depot plans carried into effect. And when the solitary member of the com- mittee who was not a heavy shipper nor dependent upon railroad favors, mildly veminded Mr. Adams that the Union Pacific had unfulfilled contract obligations with Omaha, Mr. Adams exclaimed disdainfully that he was not disposed to vead up ou ancient history. This ve abruptly terminated the in- The comnmittee, as usual, will stons of appre Fairchild has s5 have terview subside for another season, and Omaha will be asked to bide her time and con- tent herself a few years longer with wretched transfer and depot facilities, which no other city of America of equal population would tolerate for thirty days. After all, nothing more can be hoped for or expected so long as our heavy property owners and leading werchants and manufacturers do not ussert their rights. So long as Omaha is content to send railroad delegations to the legislature, and keeps ou supporting ev scheme that the Union Pacific has pending in congress through our senators and rep- resentatives, she will always remain a mere foot-ball for the greut corporation, and all the dining and wining of Union Pacific magnates will be a mere waste of suvstance. e i Tue large increase of pupils seeking admission to our public schools is not unexpected. Tlie ceasus of last spring :nt the necessity for much more room, The tardiness of the board of education in making provision for the nccommodation ‘of the inereasing numbers has just begun to mako its im- pression. The slow movemcnts of tho board in the pastonly gives warning thata hike occurre 1ce may be an occasion for public censure in the future. The time required last spring in making choice of plans for contemplated build- ings delayed the work of commencing 80 late in the season as to forbid the completion of lurge buildings as carly us the beginning of the new school year. Andafter contracts were let containing conditions of forfeiture if the buildings might not be completed at a fixed dato, the board was at fault in failing to make the grounds ready for contractors to begin operation. The ample umount of money voted favorably upon, iu honds, to be lssued by the school board nearly a yer 70, Wi guarantes to the com= munity that, with good managcment, no lack of school room would occur. And the intention of the hoard was good, but its munagement is not above criticism. made evid Tiere is a faie prospect now that congress will appropriate no less than one hundred thousand dollavs during this session for the preliminary survey of the arid regions to be reclaimed by a tom of irvigation. In spito of the opposition from vavious quarters, con- gress has lent a willing ear to the pro- jecet, as its importance to the people of Colorado and other scetions of the wost became the better understood. The work will be undertaken under the di- rection of the national geological sur- vey and a full report with recommenda- tions will in due time be submitted to congress. The scheme includes the building of storage basins along the head-waters of rivers and a combination of canals and vivers to bring the water down to the arid districts. The plau to say the least appears plausible. Tue republicans of Massachusetts seom to have been well satisfied with the administration of Governor Ames during two terms, as they have just r nominated him for a third term. e has not shown himself to be a man of commanding ability, as were some of his predecossors, but he has proven to be a sensible, safe and practical execu- tive, whose recommendations have gen- erally been judicious, and who has give to his official duties the time and attention necessary to their proper per- formance. He is a man of large wealth, who has done much to promote the ma- terinl development of Massachusetts. His opponent is W. E. Russell, now mayor of Cambridge, and one of the strongest democratic politicians in the state. Of course the election of Ames is assured. Have You Heard K Tribune, Have you heard from the e Heard abouv the Maine election— How the democratic ticket, Poor old democratic ticke Went aflying, went a-fiying, ley west and somewliat e sl Where the Diff Comes In. Detroit Tribune, General Hariison has made many speeches and not one mistake. Mr. Cleveland has made many mistakes and no speaches, P Sy The Only Sample in Stock. Brooklyn Union, A contemporary speaks of Cleveland's £10,000 “*cheek” instead of “‘check.” You can spell it either way, and everbody will admit that nothing like it was ever seen in the white house befo In Advance of His Party. 'k Tribune. “What we want,” said an old spoils demo- crat, “is a president who will put tried dem- ocrats into ofice.” Well, you have a presi- dent who has doue even better than that, for he has put tried and convicted democrats in office. »m Maine? ooked -~ A Political Confab. Chicago Tribune. First democratic politicilan—Have you read the letter of acceptance! Secoud ditto—No. I'm right in the heat of the campaign. Shan't have time to read it until after the election. First democratic politician stically) —What will be the use of reading it then? Second ditto (reseutfully) -Who said I was going to read it then? SLE Coward and Partisan. Kansas City Journal. It would be a wise provision of law—or a salutary constitutional amendment—that con- gress should not sit after the nominations have been made in presidential years. The average congressman during a canvass is an unmitigated coward, and the average presi- dent, if a candidate, is a mere political parti- san, and often a demagogue. LABOR NOT ning for bakers in M is- souri. The proportion of bakers to popula- tion in that enterprising towiis such that one man in Carrolton makes bread for thirt neighboring towns. Work 1s scarce at Hamilton, wages are not very high. from # about y when at musters, 1.7 Soft wood 18 now subjected to a treatment which densifies it and m rkable," with all the properties of good lignum vitae ‘The wood is soaked in oil, put under heavy pressure and then allowed to stand for some mouths, when it has become dry A Pittsburg man has invented a nut ma- chine which has the least possible waste of material. It hamuers, cuts the iron to nut length, takes it to the die box, where irregu- lavities are remedied, and makes tho hole, Thus there is no waste except at the core, An Atlanta (Ga.) toncern engaged in mak- ing pautaloons, recently closed its brauch house at M Ga., because it could not get tailors cuough to' make trousers at the rate of §1 per dozen pairs! Evidently the tailors’ trade is not thriving in Georgia Chicago is one of the few western cities that have successfuily adopted the Euglish hansow cab. Cab-drivers and liverymen in St. Louis aud other towns have fouud that the hansom is uobpopular, and the grades and rough pavemeénts speedily break down wnd kill vhe horses. An improved hammer for carponters has a groove in the side of the head into which the bLead of any kind of & nail may be slipped and the nail fustened with one blow, The ham- mer can be readily withdrawn without dis- turbing the nail, which may then be driven home in the usual way. Carpenters will ap- preciate the value of the tool, especially T driving nails in a place seven or gight foet above the floor, and consequently alwost out of reuch. The tops of pine aud spruce trees are now utilized in the wavufacture of paper. The discovery is of immense value, us it makes murketable & vast mass of what has hitherto been waste waterial. Hereafter the branches of all evergroens will be gathered, and after a process of steaming to extract the resinous matter will ‘be ground into dry pulp, which may be shipped 10 any distauce. It looks as though o, time there will be wbsolutely uo ork; section wen, waste Tn any department of manufact Means of utilizing what has always been wardod as waste matter are being constantly discovered. STATE - AND nRITORY, Nebraska Jottings. i Ulyases' first kiln of brick has just been hurned Johi 8, Miller, a Norfolk grocer, has boen elosed up by his creditors, ‘The Beatrice fire department will have its annual parade Thursday, Septemboer 20 Norfolk firemen will reorganize tho de. partment and form three hose compinies Burglars entered five houses in Te one uight last wi boo! Wooping Water has soveral young men who were mean enough to steal melons from @ blind man. The O'Neill ¥ umsch sk, seouring considerablo rontier made its fiest appear- ance as a daily September 11, It is us neat und newsy as its weekly edition. The Plattsmouth Herald began its second vear of existence as a daily last Wednosdiy and feols proud of tha success it has at- tained. Miss Ida Cox, of Weeping Water, has de cided to go us & missionary to India. She will first take a special course of traintng at Chicago. A thirteen-year-old daughter of 'y tie, li in southern Dodge ¢ struck by lightning Wednesday evenil instantly killed. A hes hail storm did considerable dam- ago at Columbus the cther day, and the Jour nal says it “began work as (though a huge coffee mill were grinding ice.” Dennis M. Gorman, of 1 for trial at Broken Bows last charge of committing a the insane wife of a farmer named Stalecup. A traveling jockey with a couplo of horsos swooped down on Scotia sports last weck, in tending to scoop a big pot But for once he was beaten at his own game and obliged to walk out of town. A Minden man na, was held Tuesday on the minal _assault on traded off a glandered o the other day, but the party who took nimal soon discovered the disease. He fately demanded a retrade, and upon refused drew a rith T'his had the desived effect, after which the glandered horse was disposed of by the sheriff Sheriff ' , of Dawson, had gn exciting rience with'a crazy wornan Wednesday night, He was taking a Mrs. Howe, of Plum Creek, to the Lincoln insane asylum, when she jumped from the platform of the moving train, dragging the officer with her, She was not hurt, but Taylor had his collar bone and one rib_ broke besides recciving minor injuries. The train was stopped and the two iwed up, but Taylor was obliged to stop at Kearn and send Mrs. Howe to Liucoln iu charge of another attendant. Towa. Le Mars’ oil well is now down 700 feet. Dubuque s the latest place to report the discovery of a gas-pipe bomb. A scnsation is expected The mayor of Montczuma has proclamation elosin hercafter on Sunduy. The Gazotte says that seventy-three gov- ernment licenses 1o sell intoxicating liauors are held by parties in Creston. A $10,000 damage suit has been commenced against Fort. Dodge by a pedestrian who foll through a defective sidewalk. Miss Lou M. Wilson and Miss L. T. Mor- row, teachers in the Des Moines schools, signed and will go to Paris and open wlish school there. ches to the state pap issued a all places of business say that ', Father Richardson, of Cedar Rapids, fell from the fourth story window of the Lorimer house at Dubuque \e'u'dnmdny morn- ing, “his skull and right leg being fatally crushed.” Governor Larrabee ghas received a state- ment of the decrease of the number of con- victs in the state penitentiaries in the last few years. The monthly average number of in 1886 was 60 in IS8T, 667145 and during the months of 1553 it was 6074, A runaway saddle horse in Keokuk the other evening dashed through a plate glass window and feil paralyzed on the floor of a store room. The animal had been saddled for u man named Bent, who intended to pur- chase it from Heury Dolan. The owner of the glass front was anxious to ascertain who owned the horse in ovder to collect damage Bent claimed that the purchase of the ani- mal had not been completed, while Dolan de- clared that it had, Dakota. Rapid City people are about to start an- other cemetery. Tyndall Presbyterians have nearly com- pleted their church. The physician’s lot in ported to be not u busy one. It 1s said that the Catholic see for South Dalcota has been located at Yankton. Four teams ran away and one man was seriously wjured at Sioux Falls, all in one day last week. The mayor of Aberdoen has sent for a num- ber of balls and chains, und a chain gang will soon be doing duty on the streets of that city. A carcful estimate mude by an old travel- ing man places the average amount of money left daily in Aberdeen by traveling men ut $250. Rattlesnales g Deadwood is re- said to be migrating from the lower hills, moving far up into the mineral districts, where a few years ago they were entirely unknow n. The Castalia Record and Republiean chron- icles the return of an old citizen fr tant lands, aud remarks that Char county 15 the only place that God really com- pleted. Howard citizens offer any couple who will get married on the fair grounds L of the Miner county fairtne following s vremiums, viz.: A cook stove, set of bed clothing, suit of clothes, silver castor and an elegant cradle, — - YELLOW ¥ V218 VIOTIMS, Residents in the St Greatly in Need of Assistanc To the Editor of Tur Brr: No doubt every citizen of Omaha has read from day to day the accounts of the epi- demic now raging in Jacksonville and been grieved to observe the steadily in- creasing inroads the discase is making. But those who have not lived in the south during the hot month can have no adequate idea of the intensity of the situation. Under any cirenmstances during the months of August, September and Octo- ber Jacksonville has to encounter the several evils of a sub-tropical climate at the fall of the year. A large negro population amongst whom the sanitary lawsof cleanliness are with difficulty en- forced; a general stagnation of business which makes the unecessary expenses hard to meet, and_indisposes even tho most active from that pevsistent appli- cation which is requived to keep a large city in good sanitary condition. his year the evils above referred to are increased to an almost insupporta- ble degree. We hear that there are no business houses in full operation; no one can come or go from the city, and even the intercourse by mail with the outer world is retarded. v the face of these difficultios the town is called upon to meet pecuniury demands which towns very much better situated would find it hard to satisfy. She has to provide the necessaries of life for all those whose wages and live- lihood were drawn from the now sus- pended business enterprises. She has to spend large sums on disinfectunts and the work of cleaning up and de- g everything conducive to the spread of the diseuse. She has to ereet hospit fit them up, and provide nurses. The citizens of the place have met this crisis with courage and gen- erosity. All the leading mon have re- mained to work on the relefl and other committees, and individuals have given their money freely. They have made a heroic fight, but now, with many of them fallen a% their posts, their funds exhausted, as nyny as 650.cases wlrendy reported, “und . fully two months to run ken District before the wenther will give them any aid, their ery comes that they ara com pelled to solicit outside volief. New York, | see, has responded, and no doubt other cities will shortly come forward. The people of Omaha, 1 be- lieve, have only to be solicited through some authorized channel to respond as | they have done before My excuse for thus presenting this appeal is that I have lived in Florida for some yeuars and her sufferings would natur known her personally than to othe who, among their many claims and ealls upon their time, have not had thoir pe sonal attention drawn to this urgent demand for their sympathy and assist- ance. If the mayor or somo other prom- inent pecson upon whom such public duties 11 will address Colonel J. J. Danicl or Dr. Neal Mitchell, Jackson- ville, Fla., the latter of whom is the medical officer of the city, and both active members of the relief committeo, they can obtain any information they desive, and may command the writer in any service he can perform ' J. TILL, Hurpey THE VANDERBILT FORTUNE. Henry Clews' Story of a Most Extraor- ary Accumulation of Money. STwenty-cight Yeu in Wall sot,” Henry Clows relates marvelous stories of the making and losing of for- tunes in that great gambling establish- ment of America, and the stovy of the Vanderbilt millions is of all tho wmost wounderful. Cornelius and William H. his son, furnish the most extraordina instances of rapid accumulation ever seen in the history of the race, writes a reviewer of Mr. Clews book. *‘In seventy years,” says Mr. Clows, “the commodore arose from nothing, finan- cially, to the proud possessor of $90,000,- 000, Willinm H. obtained $75,000,000 of that, and nearly teebled 1t in a tenth part of the time. 1o made three times as much in seven ye his father did or he m; as much on an two and a halfl years as her had done duving (he thre E » and ten of his active business and speculative car This remarkable achievement, ¢ v 10 the usual run of life, which shows that very few mil- lionairas have had children capable of increasing their wealth Me. Clews to the conclusion that William H. V derbilt was “‘the ablest financier which there is any record, ecither in ancient or modern histor It is not generally known that Will- iam H. Vanderbilt had demonstrated bility as a railvoad manager bofore father had fairly begun in that line. His first experience was in conneetion with the Staten Island vailroad,thirteon miles in length. It was bankrupt, and William H. was appointed receiyor at the sccret suggestion of tho commo- dore, who wanted 1o learn the capucity of his son in this direction. In two years the debt was paid off, and the stock, which had been worthless, rose to 175. This pleased the commodore, and when he made his first groat rail- road venture in securing control of the Hurlam, he made his son vice president of the whole Vanderbilt system. Ile became an indefatigable worker, and it was doubtless this habit of Lard work, persisted in for muany years, that ro- sulted in so sudden and” comparatively premature death for a member of a amily famous for its longevity through- out several generations. He serutinized ovory W voucher, and in- specied every engine. He carried on u vast correspondence with his own hand. When emergencies came, he showed promptness and shrewdness in mecting them. s telegram from Saratoga in 1877, ordering the distribution of $100,- 000 among the striking employes of his roads, and promising them ‘that th per cent lately taken from their wages should be restored as soon as improved business would justify it, no doubt pre- vented the repetition,in this city, of the feavful and costly riots of Pittsburg. Tha early history of this vast fortun is almost romantic. The modern h te of ‘‘corners” should read Mr, Clews’account of the gigantic operatior of the commodore. In his Hudson **coi the fighting was forced upon him, as 1t seems to have been in almost all. is said that he had set out for along tion, and was sunning himself on o vile of logs on the Jersey side of the Tudson, while his yacht lay in the stream, when a me: brought him word from Wall stre a bearcligue were selling Hudson stock *‘short,” and that it was going down fast. Io hast- ened to Wall strect and ordered his brokers to.take all the sellers’ options offered in Hudson. All the cash stock in the market was then taken as rapidly as possible. A brief caleulation showed that the buyers had securcd, cither as cash or as contract stock, all the Hudson stock in existence, with the exception of a small number of shures which were not expeeted to come upon the market.” The prolific brain of the commodore then invented a new move in the game. A number of leading “*bear houses” were requested to **turn’ Hudson, which means to buy it for cash from the cornerving party, and sell it back to them on buyers’ options for periods varying from ton to thi This able ruse was intended to impr the buyers with the idea that the o neving party was weik. Itseemed as if they were short of cash, So the lead- ing buyers grasped at the good chance, as they imagined of turning several thousand shares, and instantly threw the cash stock on the marke It was privately picked up by the brokers of the great *corner Then the trap was spru The sellers’ options begun 1o matur there was no Hudson stock Lo be It rose to 180, A few mornings be when the commorlc i sun, it had been | was 36,800, and reontractto deliver Mr, Clews con- s on 100 shares rs were und about 50,000 shares. tinues: But the worst part of the deal for these poor Aot yot to come. The bears who tursed the stock were notified that they must stand and de liver. They complained bitterly of the i titude of the bulls, whom they had 1y appenl quicker to one whohas | speculative as before exception in “‘eorn The Harlem “cornor’ was in some re- gpects the more e rkable, though Mr. Clows considers the Hudson ‘‘cor- ner, on the whole, the gr est of all, Commodore Vanderbilt's first Iarlem stock was bought in 1863, at $8 or §9 o shave, as an investment. hirty years before this he haa refused to buy the | samo ng: “1am asteamboat man, & compotitor of these steam con= trivances that you tell us will run on dry land. Goabend. I wish you woll, but I shall never have anything to do with them.” Te made improvements in the road, and it was predicted that he would loso in lronds all ho had made out of steamboats. The stock gradually rose, however, to 50, Some= thing was evidently on foot, and when the common council, in April, 1863, passod an ordinance authorizing him o build a_steam railrond down Broad- way to the Battery, the cat was out of the by Harlem then advanced to 7, and the Aldermen of that day, who were as keen aftor boodle as some of their successors, bogan to Lit “short.” The schemo was to sell short” all the stock the market would ke, and then repeal the ordinane They expoected to see the stock drop b low 50. Daniel Drew was with them in this plot. The commodore faced them with charactoristic cou e, He ealled his friends to his aid, and they bought all the “‘shorts” that were offeved. The aldermen and their follow-conspirators had sold move Harlem stock than there was in existonce, not drewming that the Vanderbilt clique had itail. When the virtuous law-makers thoughs the time which is a rare ) was ripe they repealed the ordinance, and every one looked to see the stock fall with a crash, burying Vanderbilt under its ruins. But to the amazement of every one it dropped only three points, to whereas they had fooked to see it £0 1050, The “shorts” hegan to buy to buy to protect themselves, The stock went up to 150170 and finally and at last 179, he aldermen had to settle at this figure, and id to have losta million, while their friends lost sevéral more. The commodore’s shy of the profits was six or seven millions Not long after the legislature tried the same trick upon the commodore, but with even more disastrous ults, He had sceured control of the Hudson River railvond by buying stock, and had the positive assurance that the legislature would pass a bill consolidating it with the Harlom. On the strength of this Harlem went up from 75 to 150. The members of the legislature who were in the combin tion sold “'short,” and then unexpec odly defeated th bill, while the com- modore was buying stock heavily, look- ing for a rise. "It tumolod from™ 150 to 90. 1f the members had bought and de- livered at %0, they would have taken millions out of Vanderbilt’s pocket, but they were not content. The stock must go {0 50. This was the gravest crisis in Lis carcer. Dut he formed another, with $5,000.000 in cash as capital, to tcorner” the stock, and went on bu ing, while the men at Albany had gon 80 crazy over the prospect of putéing the stock down to 8 or 9 again and ruin- ing the commodore that some of them were mortgaging their homes for ready money. He wenton ealmly, until he had bought 20,000 more shares than were in existence. When the members came into the market to buy the cover, they were amazed to find” that there was no stock to be had. They were at the old wman’s mercy. A compromis was proposed, but his only r.-,lfi\- SPut it up to 1,000, This panel L being tried too often.”” Some of his friends remonstrated. “If you should carry out your threat,” said Leonard Jerome to him, “it would break every house on the street.” He yielded, and agreed to let them off en nt 285. The stock had sold seven years before, when Mr. Clews first went into Wall street, at $3 a share, e English as She is Taught, New York Sun: A recent investiga- tion into public schools in the large cities of Lngland disclosed the evis- tence of a curious custom indulged in by some of the teachers in the lowel grades of subletting ther work to pupily in their classes, and leaving the class several hours or even for a half day a time whenever they feltlike it. One little fellow six yearsold testified that he was kept busy hearing the younge children say their letters and make m s paid half-pence per week by the teacher. He had twelve children in his charge. Another pupl, a girl of ten, had constantly for three months the teaching of six to twelve girls ranging in age from sevau to four teen years, teaching them to read and giving them dictation, and sect- ting them sums, ome funny experiences of th teachers eame out in the exam Kate Rawling, a nine-year-oid was hearing a ling word w ittle tion. girl, “I'm one of 1l short; rht,” ventured wu bother u said the cher will give you the point 1 sho would. You dare to contradict,” and the too-knows ing pupl had to call it “warrior.” A still younger little teacher testified *“Me and another girl had izs T'homs son's class all Lo ourse 5 this after noon. I think her name w Lorry was teaching two r¢ of girls. I think th girls in a row. Lorry is not nine or ten years old, Lorry stoo on a chair and wrote somc wekbourd; it took b n she made the girl ing write the word She got a ruler off MissThowmson and if the girls didn’t put their hands benind them she rapped their ky 5. I never hit my gir but Is them ometimes, 1t 18 @ great deal hotter for the girls to bo nouncing suro that’s not ri pupils, teaching pupil, “te on their pape hit by Lorry and shaken by me than it would be for'them to be sent out to Miss D., | if we it them out she'd slap them; she said she would if thoy bothered us. Lorry 1556 sought 1o oblige by turning the The bulls we mplacable how- and demanded their property. They proposed a compromise which wis more exacting, They were willing lend ste ant per day, Some of the bea paid this, thinkiong the scorner” would be of short duration, but it eontinued for o two we and after paying 5 per cent a ¢ several days these poor vietims bought the stock at the high rate and settied. This double move in turning the stock wu¥ the ablest trick that had ever been accomplished in cornering. It mude Vanderbilt king of strategists in that line. But the best part of the stratagem was that wherein the bulls saved them- selves from being saddled with with the whole stock and made immense profits out of the deal While some of the bears were purchasing to cover at 170, ‘anderbilt’s private brokers were sell- ing at 140, the cligue thus ceaftily un- loaded at good-paying figures. This wus one of the best inside moves in the whole history of *‘eorncrs,” T'ne bulls thus saved themselves from the risk of being londed with probably the whole, ot atauy rate the greater part of the capitul stock, and through the commo- dove’s able. weoagement the load was compautively light at the end of u..,] for deal, the property remaining as good i ould not keep her girls quict all, she kept saying that d box th ears, and saying how quiet iy were, My girls were littlor than h but if she had not been so fussiy girls would have been quiete mude & great noise herself, The girls would not darve to tell teacher about her hitting them. We are all the teacher’s fuvorites, The mothers might tell, but we don't oiten get rulers to hit the gi.ls. We teach in the hall usually, and there are no rulers there,” e The Charitable, The following contributions were received by the W. C. T. U. duriug the months of May, June and July: Mrs. P. C. Humebaugh, £50; cash B. Wood, $10: R. C. Patterson, #; Woodman, $5; Clinton W. Randall Judge J, M. Thurston, 203 Mrs. J. H Connell, €5; Mrs. D. C. Collier, #; M A. Smith, $1.40; Master Paler, # Florence Harvey, #1; members of the police £10.25; tolal, $125.65. — John Grady, a laborer, presented an order for $10 worth of eclothing to a Douglas street clothier yesterday. The order purported to bo signed by teagan & Fox. tho street pavers. It was proven o be a rank forgery, howgyer, and Grady was run in by Officer Savage, 8303