Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 18, 1888, Page 4

o s THE DAILY BEE, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERME OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally (Morning Edition) fncluding SUNDAY, Bik, One Year b For Six Months V Wi ForThree Months. Trw OMAnA Suxnay BeE, mailed to any adaress, One Yoar 410 0 DMAHA OFFICENOS, NEW YOUROFFICE BUIiLminG, WAs VOURTEENTIT STI CORMESPONDENCE ommunigations relating tonews and edi. rorinl matier ghould he nddressed to the Epixoi OF THE DBLE ISINR Allbusiness Jetter addreseed 1o Tk HE Osalty, Drafis, ehecks and posioffice be iun e payable 10 the oFder of (e company. Ty6 B¢ Parkishing Company, Proprictors 1. ROSE THE DALY BE )t Circulation, Sworn Statement Etatoof Nelraska, | County of Douglas, | 3 . 1%, Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Pub- ing compuny, does solemily swear that the Al clreulntion of T DALY DBE ending September 15, 1683, was as follow 18] CIK00 11 Average. 15,04 HUCK. Sworn o befc L in my presence this lath day LA D, 188, N. Ftate of Neb ( ) frst duly sworn.d he ix secretary of The i hat_the actual avers daily eirc DALY BER o month of mber, 18T, was 14,540 copi Getober, 13,550 copies: N 147, 10 s: Tor December, 1 i 5 1 ; for June, 1E58, 1 July, 188, coples; for Augus VUK. bed in my A D, 1585, £worn to before me and ence this sth day of Septe SEVEN greenbackers met in v convention the other day and drafted a long resolution to the effect that wo, the people of America, need more mona Disauis may, masquerade it under any namo they please, the new political club organized by our German friends"is a democratic organization, made up almost wholly of democrats. “SADDLE BAGS” MCDONALD is au- thority for saying that the democrats of Indiana are thoroughly organized and happy. That may explain where Mr. Cloyeland’s ten thousand dollars went to. It wouLDp never do to elect Tgnatius Donnelly governor of Minnesota this fall, The finances of the state are in bad enough shape now without calling upon Donnelly to add move ciphers to the state d CAN any man explain to the taxpaying public why no stepsare taken to protect the wallsof the city hall busement from the weather? Would any prudent business man neglect proper care of his property? Tuk deslers in dried apples and kindred fruits of Californiahave formed atrust. Thre is danger, however, that in watering their stock they may swell their expectations so high as to burst the combine like the Colman horax trust. Tue Comte de s is anxious to spend no less than twenty million francs on election expenses at the next gen- eral election. Has Cal Brice, of the democratic campaign committee, got the count’s address? JAY Gourp issaid to pay his physi- cian, Dr. Munn, twenty thousand a yeur us lohg as the doctor keeps death from his door. Gould, itseems, standson the “bull” side of the health market, and is evidently willing to pay hanasomely to “‘eorner” it. Tue bank clearings for the country last week do not show a marked in- crease of business as compared with the correspouding time last year. In com- parison with other citics,” however, Omaha has the satisfaction of leading in the rate per cent of increase of the amount of clearings. LINCOLN is about to embark in the extensive manufacture of paving brick. Next to granite and asphalt pavements paving brick is by all odds the most durable paving material, The time is not distant when Omaha will emulate Lincoln and discard the cheap wooden block pavement altogether. IN A recent intorview John Sherman sizes up Grover Cleveland asa man possessing average ability but of poor information; a man who originates nothing, and who is better able to pick flaws and find faults in legislation than to suggest oviginal measuves, In & nutshell, this isa pen picture of Mr. Cleveland which everybody will atonce rocognize. 1@ Time promoters of the Omaha bi- cycle rink were less pretentious about their “coliseum” common place people would appreciato and applaud their en- terprise more readily. To talk about duplicating the Paris coliseum with a wooden shed that will seat seven thou- sand people is simply ridiculous. There is no coliseum in Paris, and there never hus been. The coliseum at Rome had seating ecapacity for over eighty thou- sand spectators and standing room for twenty thousand more. Its walls were highor than any twelve story building of modern construction. emTee————— A QUESTION which the council will be called upon to deal with presently is the lighting of our streets. The con= tract with the gas compavy for lamp- ligt sorvice, will expire within a day or two. It behooves the council tdse- cure the best and most economic ser- vice, The price of gas 1n Omaha as compared with other cities is extrava- gautly high. But even the high priced gas is cheaper than the low priced pe- troleum lamp. The oil-lamp service on our suburban streets bas cost this city an enormous sum of money, and there is well grounded suspicion that the con- “ tract was prooured by boodle methods. T4 remains to be seen new whether the eounecil will exercise business-like pre- caution in entering upon new street lighting contracts. Protense and Humw bug. Thiese are ‘the terms with which ex- Governor Long, at the rocont Massa- chusetts republican convention, de- ibed the civil service reform pro- sions and practice of the present na= administration. They are justi- fied by the facts. As Governor Long justly said, o pledge has been broken, every principle of the reform has heen deliberately violated, every loud profession in its favor has been but the humbugging pretense that con- cealed a blow at its life, The country has long been familiar with the state of affairs in Indiana and Maryland, where the sincere friends of civil sorvice reform, many of them formerly democrats, have boen treated with utter disvegard by the adminis- tration and the enemies of reform per- mitted to pursue their way unchecked, The appointments made in Maryland obedient to the demands of Senator Gorman, now prominent in the man- agement of the demoeratic campaign, were in shameless defiance of reform principles, yet when the true chur- acter of the officials was made known to the president he paid no attention to the matter, preferring to allow proved scoundrels, who defiantly dis arded the civil service law, to retain their po- itions rather than run the risk of in- curring the personal ill will of the democr boss of Maryland. The con- duct of the postmaster at Indianapo- lis was for a long time in fla- grant violation of the civil service law, but all efforts to induce Mr. Cleveland fe tional to discipline this official were unavail- ing, and simply beeause he was sus- tained in his course by influence which the president’s ambition suggested it would not be well to offend. All over the country federal officeholders have for mouths past been offensively active in politics, manipulating caucuses and conventions. yet no one has heen pun- ished for violating a eardinal principle of civil service reform. At this time the bars are level with the ground, and the ofticeholder is free to mingle in poli will, if indeed he is not e to do it A cabinet minister has been stump- ing in Wisconsin, thus opening the way to any employe of the govern- ment who may wish to publicly talk for the administration. None such need have any fear that ‘his ‘‘pernicious activity” will encounter any vesentment at Washington. But far more signifi- cant than this was the example set by Mr. Cleveland in contributing twenty per cent of his y alary for cam- puign purposes. 1In doing this he not only set the assessment machinery in motion all along the lin but he vir- tually notified every stipendiary of the administration what proportion of his income he is expected to give up to the cause, if not indeed as the price of re- taining his position. One of the most serious charges urged against the republican party when in power, before that party enacted the eivil service law, was the practice of levying assessments on federal officeholders. The popular judgment condemned it, and the republican party placed in the statute books a law intended to put an end to the practice, and which prac- tically didso while that party continued in power. Whatever vestige of the practice remuined, through the opera- tion of evasive expedients, the country expected would bo removed under the present administration. The attitudo and pledges of the president regarding civil service reform, before and some time after he went into office, wal ranted this expectation. His con- tribution, however, is not only autho ity for restoring the assessment prac tice, with such guards and precautions as will avoid a palpable violation of the lotter of the law, but as an example it goes farther than the extremest exac- tion under republican administrations in preseribing the amount of contribu- tions expected of officeholders. No em- ploye of the government can be com- pelled to contribute for political pur- poses, but every employe will be made to clearly understand what is meant by the president’s exceptional liberality, and it is notorious that this is already being done, The democracy made only the merest reference to civil service reform in its national platform. The president re- ferred to it but bricfly in his letter of acceptance. Neither the party nor its chief hasany interest in the subject at this time, Itisindeed not an issue in the campaign. But it isa matter not to be ignored in discussing the char- acter and conduct of the present admin- istration, and an investigation of it jus- tifies the verdict that the course of the administration respecting reform in the civil service has been a pretense and a humbug. ————— Congress and the Trusts, Tt is almost certuin that congress will give the country no legislation at thoe present session relating to trusts. A score of bills have been introduced from time to time, the most important of which are those of Mr. Sherman in the senate aud of Mr. Braekinridge in the house, but if either of theso measures should puss the branch of congress in which it originated it would doubtless halt in the otker branch. The subject is one regarding which the great majority of the members of congress seem to be either entirely atsea or afraid to deal with. That many of them do not under- stand it, for the reason that they have given themselves no concern about it,is to be supposed. That others are more or less under the influence of the great combinations is not at all improbable. But very likely political eonsiderations have more than anything else to do with the evident indifference of con- gress respecting this very important question. There seemed to be a little time ago a disposition in both parties to run a race for the popular approval in proposing anti-trust legislation, but the zeal manifested was short lived, The bill introduced a week ago by Senator Sherman as a substitute for all bills before the finance mmittee of the senate to declare trusts unlawful, appears to be a sufficiently strong, comprehensive and judiciously guarded measure, but it is note- worthy that 1t has encountered adverse eriticism from demoeratic sources, which may be accepted asan assurauce that it could not pass the house. Tt is interésting to remark, also, that the day preceding the introduction of the Sherman bill Mr. Bacon of New York, chairman of the house committee on manufactures, which has prosecuted an investigation of trusts, made a spece in the houso in which he expressed o strong doubt as to whether the federal government cun interfere with these combinations. “The right to issue stock and the right of stockholders grow out of state legislation,” said Mr. Bacon, “‘and the states granting those rights having imposed no condition upon the use to be made of the stock, or upon the stockholders pooling or com- bining their holdings, it is not easy to see how the federal congress can vro- hibit any use that the owner of stock may lawfully make of his certificates under the state law which authorized their issue.” If this view be correct, the states, and not the federal govern- ment, are the power which alone can deal with trusts and similar combina- tions. The view will hardly be gener- ally accepted, however, that no author- ity vesides in con to protect the people against this form of monopoly by rey e legislation, Taking all things into account, there is very slim promise of anti-trust legislation at the pres- ent session, or even of such prog- vess in that direotion as would give reasonable assurance of such legislation at the next session. In these cum= stanees the subject should become prom- inent in the attention of the state leg- islatures next winter, and very likely will in most of them. THe veports from Columbus regard- ing the physical condition of Judg Thurman are calculated to arouse auni- versal feeling of sympathy for the v eran statesman. The fact is apparent that he has been urged to do more than a man at his time of life and with hisail- ments can safely perform, and it is cruel to require him to further expose himself now when the inclement season is at hand and strong and healthy men need to exercise care to retain their health. It is undoubtedly a fact that Judge Thurman is the most valuable mau for his party in the campaign, but he should not be asked to endanger his life in the contest.and that is what he assuredly will do if he complies with the wishes of the national com- mittee. He should not be called upon toimperil the honor of possible vietory by putting his life in jeopardy to gain it. The proy nbition of the “old Roman to doall he can to promote the cause of his party should not be imposed upon. If the national committee can- not appreciate these things it is the ob- vious duty of Judge Thurman’s family to vigorously interpose for his protec- tion. THE refusal of the senate to recon- sider the passage of the Chinese bill places that measurs in Mr. Cleveland’s hands. There is no doubt but that the president will sign tho bill for the ex- clusion of Chinese from our shores. The bill was rushed through the house by a large democratic majority, and Mr. Cleveland at this juncture is bound to stand by his party. He will not in all probubility —await definite information as to what the Chinese government proposes to do with the treaty regulating emigration to America. The Chinese embussy has not yet informed Secretury B whether the treaty has been accepted or rejected by his government. As a matter of diplomatic courtesy, to say the least, it would only be proper for Mr. Cleveland to withhold action on the present bill until he heard from China. But political considerations at the pres- ent moment far outweigh questions of international policy, and Mr. Cleveland is playing for place regardless of con- sequences, It 15 to be hoped the board of public works will show no favoritism to prop- erty ownersin enforcing the sidewalk ordinances. Parties who own lots on our principal business thoroughfares, whethor they ba resident or non-resi- dent, wealthy or moderately well off, should be compelled to substitute suh- stantial material for plank walks. It may be a hardship on some property owners, but it has become a necessity. Quite apart from being a nuisance the plank walk is a source of danger in case of great fires. We have done admir- ably this season in displacing the wooden sidewalks, but if the good work be pushed vigorously from now until winter sets in, Omaha will be able to boast that she has the broadest, most substantial and most uniform sidewalks on her business thoroughfares of any city west of New York, — Wy can’t our county authorities ke the necessary steps towards secu ing the free use of the new ron bridge for Towa farmers who desive to trade in Omaha on certain days of the week? This will do more towards cheapening the cost of living in Omaha than any other enterprise. Re- duced cost of living to our workingmen is the key-note to industrial enterpri We cannot successfully compete with eastern factories as long as our work- men are compelled to exact higher wages by reason of higher living ex- penses. Give them cheaper food and veduce the housd rents, and you will place our mechanics in condition to manufacture a certain class of commo- dities as cheaply in Omaha as they can be produced east of vhe Mississippi. E——— KaNsAs Crry is steadily losing her claim to second place as a pork packi.g centre, As compared with last season that city so far this year shows a falling off in its packing of two hundred and thirty thousand. Omuaha, on the con- trary, is gradually pushing her way to the fore. With the completion of the new packing houses, almost finished at South Omaha, tha capacity for handling hogs in this market will be greatly in- creased. It may be counted upon by the 1st of January, 1889, that Omaha will supplant Kansas City in the pork packing industry and begin to press Chicago for first place. e Oampaign Tricks. News, **Here, Jack,” said the editor of the Croak- erville Democratic Door-Kuob to the errand ' T%HE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBHR 18. 1888 boy, “run over to the ofice of the Republican Tooter and borrow the type of that article 1t printed on Cleveland's lotter, It was a scorcher. Toll the aditor that I want to print it, too. I'll change it a little so it whil refer to Harrison's letter instead of Cleveland's, but you needn’t tell him that. — Behind the Sc Pioncer Press Stage Manager Brico — Thank heaven Cleveland doesn't have to go on again for another uct until the grand transformation scene, November 6, An nes, Mect of the Message. Toronto World, Thero has been a mavied faking-oft in.tho play of American flags and Amarican de- ‘08 of late, wher you could not walk about town on a holiday without mecting Am r Lincoln Journal. Tn 1870 Mr. MeShane was a cowhoy with- outa cent. This should point out to the young the possinility of achieving wealth by well dirccted effort. In 1588 Mr. Meshane is floundering hopelossly in a quicksand of politics and journalism, and will doubtless illustrate to the young the possibility of ‘un- louding wealth by well direeted effort. Mr. McShane is an amiable gentleman withal, and promises to furnish the world with a valuable moral example right away. et 4 An Honest Democrat. Chieago Tribune, wasa democratic speaker at a mass He had held forth for more than hour,and the audience was becoming bored. In the midst of one of his glowing periods the audienc sight of one Col- onel Reed, a favorite orator, who had enteved the room unseen by the gentleman who had the floor, and a call was made for him, which presently grew into a roar, The speaker was tearing the republican platform to shreds when these loud yeils of “Reed ! Reed ! assailed his ¢ He paused and said, impressively: “Gentlemen, [ know the platform by heart, but I'll be frank with you. I can't read.” b s Strong With the People. N. Y. Tribune. He meeting. an Mr, Harrison is to y far stronger with the people of the United States than he was when he was nominated. Malico has be utterly unable to do him harm. As well by his actions and words, since the decree « the convention bade him take the leadership of the republican party, as by his record already made, has ho impressed the heart of the counts There has been no cant or humbug or hypocrisy in his attitude as a can- didute. His specches have been full of dig- nity and force. His manner has proved how sincerely and deeply he feels the responsi- bility that may be contained in tho voice of the electors. And in every word and act he has shown himself a man and a patriot. lentoies s In Ca bt War, Commercial Advertiser., The first effect of war between two or more first-class pofvers of the world would be to destroy the commerce of those who wereen- gaged in it Swift cruisers would swarm on every sea, and floating islands of iron would blockade the coasts. The only refuge of trade would be to hange its allegiance to those nations that had the sense not to be drawn into the fray: and in the keen rivalry that now exists in every kind of business, this alienation of the ¢ ie would be apt to be permancut if once brought about. No nation could afford this loss, Great Britain least of all. Not to k other and higher considerations, therefore, trade is & peace-maker, or rath peace 50 potent of itself as almost to pre: possibility of another great war. PROMINI eper, ude the I PLIRRSONS, Patti has not yet found a purchaser for her castle in It is cheaper for a man to build a castle in Spain, studi law in Samuel J. Randall never ite of the fact that most people have the ion that he isa lawyer. . Thurman has never had a photograph But her husband has recently had al pen pictures made of bim that were not at all flattering. Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher has aged ve rapidly of lute. She has made no plans for the winter, but is very anxious to have a home of hér own again. John L. Sullivan is still suffering consider- ably from the gunshot wound which he re- ceived while holding a nickel up for an ex- pert marksman to shoot at. Somebody has discovered that the names of the three judges in the Parnell commis- sion—Hanuen, Day and Smith—make the anagram: “In thy hands—amen Levi P. Morton, republican candidate for Vi resident, won eifht prizes at the Buffalo International fuir for his eight c hibits of improved stock. ‘There is reason believe that he will be equally successful in his efforts to improve the stock of vice presi- dents. J. Lambert Tree, of Ilinois, has been nominated by the president for ‘minister to Russia. The rapid growth of this particular Tree i a diplomatic way is very gratifying to his friends. The senate should permit him to remove his trunk from Brussels to St. Petersburg. The pleasing information comes that Miss Artie Cody, the daughter of Hon. Buffalo Bill, sets the styles at North Piatte since her return from Europe, but that all the honors that she received in ' Englaud could not turn her head, which is chock full of hard, Ne- braska sense. Alexandre Dumas 1s oneof the few wealthy authors in the world. ~He has a magnificent home in Paris filled with art treasurcs. Near Dieppe ha owns a_beautiful chalet coy- ered with ivy and decorated on the inside with handsome furniture aud vare paintings. Dumus is 64 years of age, but stroug and vigorous, General Sherman has moved int8 his house at No. 75 West Seventy-first strec ew York. It isunderstood that he ote a large part of his time to the p; ion of his i cation, and there is talk that he may write a book for which he has been collecting ma terial for a long time. B BROROH STATE AND TE Nebraska Jottings. Auburn’s schools opened with meunt of 350 pupils. The crying need of Nen school house or two. West Point citizens secure a system of sewerage for the town. The West Point Lepublican begins the nineteenth year of its existence this week e town of Harrison will vote on the fuestion of water works bonds October 16, Arapahoe farmers formed an clevator com- pany last week with & capital stock of 82,000, Will Seward, & Holt county young man, hus been arrested on the charge of forgery. The district gourt of Browa county will holda special term in Novembor to try Andrew Lowe for murder. The Journal says that Falls City has the prettiest married women and the ugliest married men of any town in tho state, Fritz Piper, a West Point_youth, has be- come iusane from injuries received by being thrown from a colt which he was riding. The increased attendance at the Columbus sehools has warncd the board of education that more room is ueeded for pupils, sud steps towards securing additional property have been taken. A widowers' club will be formed at Hay Springs. The object is not stated, but th marriageable ladies of the town are rath suspicious that the organization is iutended to promote female Immigration. Falls City brewerics are said to have a scheme on {00t t0 run pipes to Hiawatha, Kau,, to supply the needs ¢f the thirsty Kan sans wio cannot afford to psy for the trans portation of beer, but must hive it. an enroll- ka City is anew working hard to Davenport has 9,174 children of school age. A little Sioux City girl named Ada Govers was hit in the eya by a stone thrown by a smalt boy and the sight entirely destroyed, Marshall county will raise 12,000,000 bush- els of corn this year, Chiolera morbus carried off the postmaster at Galva, W. G. Savage, last week. Next month tho Towa suprome court will hear argument in the Billings murder in rogard to granting a change of venus for a new trial, Superstitions people at Keokule were al- mosat seared to death by asinging buoy which was placed in the river by the governwent. They thought it wus a ghost. John Williams, a young man living at Bloomfield, was caught up by the tumbling rod of athreshing machine ono last week and_severely thumped und entirely stripped of his clothing, A man named Titus, living near Moville, was filled full of bird shot from u f gun_ while hunting Sunday. The about a hundred holes in various pa his anatomy, but ho will recover. During o heavy thunder storm at Algona, Miss Laura Watson, daughter of H. I, Wat- son, was struck by lightning, knocking her hat off and burning it completely up, also talemg one shoe ent off. Hopes uro en- tertained of her racovery The board of superyisors has decided to dis- pose of Sionx county’s fancy cattle. “Tho county paid something over #15 a head for this stock,” says the Independent, “and the board hus wiscly concluded that it is rather an expensive luxury for a poor farm,” Editor Sperry, of the Oxford Journal, w! has been reporicd by the state press to have had seven children during his soven yoars of marriage life, puts in_an_indi denial, He says he his only six, and e the_im- pression that he might fave bad more if had wanted to. he Dakota. The population of Lead City is rapidly in- creasing. Seven infants wero ushered “iato the world in three days last week, use furniture in The assessed the territory is 2336 The value of car- riages amounts to more than $2,250,000, of horses less than $1,000,000, of Forks ral soci 1 as a donation a check for £00 from James J. Hill of the voud. Pembina cans have adopted the prohibition and farmers’ ulliance plat form, and a number of their nominces are upporters of this platform. ock shipments from the Black Hill ) 2o and Omaha are now in W are proving the heaviest ever yet made in any single season. Not far short of 100,000 head have been shipped out and the country is richer by about §5,000,- 000, The Pioncer males the follo ment: “Frank Lyneh, er in Deadwood sprinting gained some notoric hippodrome with I aves, has left the country and many confiding creditors in the lurch. ~ A warrant is out for his arrest, the complaint on which it is based charging fraudulent insolvy the g state- ror V'S SAKE. The Poor Department Expects In- creased Destitution, The coming winter is evidently going to be ahard one on the poor, The city at the pres- ent time is fall of unemployed men, not necossarily unemployed though, as there i avast quantity of building, water-pipe lay work upon the streets and street rail- s going on, aud there 18 but a flimsy ex cuse at best for idleness on the part of any sound and healthful man, Still there has been, and always will be, a class of shiftless AR and unworthy men and grown boys, who rather than make an honest dollar by the sweat of their brows, claim inability to sup- port themselves and foist themsel the charitable authorities as dese res upon viug sub- < the mouths of Detember, 1857 and February in the neighb nd our severest months, hood of $12,000 fo. id transport it cost fuel, food, clothing, medicine tion for the cit In a talk w ent of the Y P A Mahony, noor m and o the city's poor, a B porte that it is the opinion of tho: med on the subject,that the coming winte I beas hard uponthe poor fund winter within the history of the cit more applications. for known at this se times past Phie appl transport best in- There d now than was sonof the year in ations on last Saturday alone for ion by indigent” people. would, if all had been granted, have amounted to over &0 One woman, with eight small_children, wanted transportation o Washington Territory, which would have amounted to §140 alone. The case is a worily one, however, and proper assistance iven her, In fact application for ity in all channels is far in excess of any previous y The wanner of serving the poor good one.. If a stranger applies fc out the endorsement of a known no assistance is granted him until his has been thoroughly inquired into. worthy he is sure to%ct help, if not he fails, Ty A ssisted materially in this laud- able work by the different churches and religious i Mrs. Pearson, taxpayer, the burcau of charitics, is v prominent in the good work, und there is a Swedish and a Danish _association who do much in the way of ameliorating the condition of their own poor. Mr. Mahoney is of the opnion that it will be impossible for one man to attend to the numerous duties of poor oy s winter and do it properly. There ty- inmates at and the probubilitics > that the capacity of the institution, only hty-five, will be taxed before the lapse of ny week © fuel and food alone necessary to pro- for the city’s poor during the four se- T'his ¢, which is drawn ast yeal vide yere months ca 1 fund is mad 1 estim; from the fund. mate was 29,000, and thi Just £10,000 more. The poor authorities cla searching out the poor, the, fow of the anarchistic claim that the wi not fall short of $7,000. the esti- 000, or m that in their meet with not a who nd Id owes them a liy, they ure going to have it at any cost There is much grambling ab the iuequality of this world's goods, A great preponder cucy and destitu nce of the city’s indig- is * attributable to strong drink, worthless, dissipated hus- bonds who abandon home, wife and chil dren, and make them shift ‘for themselves. Subjects of this kind are of daily occurrenc The poor department is now caring fc sixty fawilies, and by the time cold weather sets in it is estimated that this number wall be swelled to at least three hundred The four moi d to last sea- son entailed an expenditure upon the city for 10 less than five hundred tons of coal und five hundred s our. The correspond s four months this scason will see these gures doubied. During the summer months the i poor iven oraers on groceries and stores for th wants, but in the winter the articles them- selves re distribnted from the head- quarters at the court hou n - nection with the poor-ov s ofice court house, is a dispensary, where pres tions ave compounded and i lar prescrintion clerk is emplo; of §25a_mouth, which expens frays, while the room and medi pro. vided by the county. 'This oflica was first created on the lIst of Murch last, since which time 1,553 prescriptions have been deal month, k t, or over three hundred pe ounl this out until spring this ay- erage will be greatly increased. ~The jail is provided with medicines from this dispen sary, as well as all the sick poor who h caso | IN THE COURTS, The Doglas County September Term Opens, Tho Septembor torm of the district court has opened. Thero woro over ono hundred lawyers prosent when Daputy Sherift Hou ma nd besides tho large numb of lawyers thore was about an equal attend- ance of Jurors and visi Judgos Wakelog, Groft and present. Judge Hopewell Blair holding court. He will be joined thero Wednesday by Judge Doane. Judge Groff presided at the beginning of the morning session, and made a large num. ber of entries in dockotod casos. At the close of the peremptory business Judge Wakeley rendered his decision in two cases ho has had under aqvisement. The first case was Holen Livingston against George C. Livingston, fnvolving the heirship to property in the city, in which George C. Livingston, a8 a half-blood heir, ims an cqual share with the full-blood heirs to the propes o court ruled in favor of the plaintiff, giving the heirs of Helen tho exclusive right to the property. The ruling was excepted to. The other case was that of Mary Husted ainst Charles Husted. The plaintif and ofendant were somipaupers in a charitable institution_in Chicago, the former first as a charge and later s a nurse. Charles was a cripple who supported himsolf by selling pa pers and. shining shoes. e slept in the county’s hospital. While there he cultivated the acquaintance of the plaintiff and both came to Omaha and lived together for somo time and_were finally married. With their Joint earnings they purchased property inthe city, which was paid for and deeded to them Doano wero was absent in jointly. In due course of time their married ro: lation was broken off by a divorce, and Mar sued for the possession of the property on the ground that the money used in the pur- chuse of it was hers and had been purloined by Charles and mvested and, by fraud, he had had his name included in the deed, The held that the s ol the propoe: be given court owne could not right to it County Attorney to dismiss the fo Wasserm etenses, ur were joint and equal aud that the plaintint ¢ sole and exclusive imeral asked the court owing criminal obtaining m anted; Nellie ases: aoy under Unashi, lar- from_the person, dismissed without prejudice: Jobu Lisco, obtaining money un- der falso'protenses from his partner, dis- missed; Theodore D kiduapping, granted. Draw is the blind lead pencil vender, who employed a twelve-year-old boy in_this city w lead him about town. The boy was taken to Council Blufrs and was to be returned to s parents when his work in the Bluffs was_ended. Instead of being sent home the boy was taken to Chicago. There Draw was arrested and pught to this city. County Attorney Sim- the case will have to be taken up in courts or Draw must be_tried here charge of being a fugitive from justice eral say: the Tow of eriminal cases will be begun this morning. > Doane announced the names of the following attorn.ys as an examining board for the admission of candidates for member- ship at this bar: Warren Switzler, G. . Covell, W. awn, E. R. French, A. M Ferzuson and J. 8. Coole The were read as constituting for this term of court: John I O'Riley, Henry Echelberg, John Kopp, Angust Wol Sehrocder, James Carro nk Boyle, Joseph T the petit jury ckstrom, Tim . HL. Maclure, ch, August arney McGinn, . R. Richa son, H. H. Freach, William 'Anderson, J. D, Chilmberlain, Henry Glade, Pat Broderick, Schroeder, John _Gorman, Abnor s, M. M. Cu ler, Pat McArdic n, C. D. Loyton, A. C. William Donnéll H. Walker, G, H. F th, J. P. Southard, Henry W. Ci Joseph But- Jer, William M. Henry Osihoff, J. 8. Bennett, 'F v The judges appointed the following bailiffs for the smbor term: Messrs. Louis « John Norberg, Douglas Davis, Henry Hunt and Henry Cirebe. Deputy Sherift Louis Grebe yesterday served informations on the following pris- oners for the crimes following their names, and they will be arraigned in the district court this morning Henry Johnson, nurde M. el- Frank cee; for bur, in the second d Austin, larceny from person; Joseph O'Connor, burglary : John slary ; Thomas ' White, 'burglar Ball, norse stealing; Kdward Sampson, robbory ! Frank Gould. burglary: William Murphy and Joln Riley, burglary; John Me- Grath, burglary; Mary Dube curess; A. Connor, grand George Hageoman, horse stealing; Bllis, getting money under faise pretences; Peter Creely, shooting with intent to killy John Lockwood, grand larceny. Jiliza has begun suit in the district court against her husband, Peter C. Robinson, to whom she was married August 21, 1865, in Louisville, K asking for a divorce on the ground of cruel treatment and habitual drunkenness. She also asks for a division of their property in Rock Island, which is valued at 00, and the custody of their four children. The Chicago Lumber company has begun A me ic's lien suit against Johu T. Me- Maunis et al for $206, resided in the city less than six months, Ior that time they are a charge belougiog to the city, aud are waited upon by the city physi cian, after that they becowna a charge upon the county. Mr. Mahony is working hard to get things in shape for the run that will be made upon his department in the next few months 10 come, Three Was Too Much For Him, Vie Mills, an_ex-bartender, entered Hig gins’ saloon on Douzlas street, yesterday af ternoon, and got into an_altercation with a couple of hackmen, He was “knocking thom Sut’ iu a very scientific manner. Tho bar- tender, not wishiug to sge his friends worsted in the fray, came frow behind the bar with a billy and struck Mills thrae blows on the head. 'Mills sustained o bad scalp wound, and a long cut acrass the fore: above the right oyer A warrant will bo sworn out to-day tor the bartender. Chr his wife on the ground of desertion. were married in Canada in 1878, and the wife abandoned her husband three ycars ago. County Court. Judge Shields gave Bdgar C. Swith a de- cree for $255 in his suit against Edward Haunon on a promissory note. - Pun With Major Martin, St. Louis Globe-Democrat: Not long ago the democrats of the Second Texas district renominated Major William L Martin for congress, There was pract cally no opposition, but a fow of ti move irreverent statesmen and newspas per correspondents in Washington em- braced the opportunity to have some fun with the major. On the day of thecon- ~vention th secreted themselves be- hind a friendly partition in the sar- geant-at-arms’ room at the capitol and sent for the Texan. When he arrived there was only one of then number in sight. He was a newspaper cor pondent. “Major,” said he, “TI have just re- ceived a 'telephone message from the convention hall in Palestine, by way of New Ovleans and Richmond, and they want to talk to you.” “1s that s0?” queried the major in re- sponse. **Well, T never would 'a thought they could talk elear from Texas. What are they sayin'? You talk to em, and I'll stand where [ can lis I can’t run one o' them tellyphones. You go ahead with it. And the newspaper correspondent went ahead, while the hidden listoners enjoyed the performan “Hello! Palestine,” said the corre. sponden Is that the convention hall? Yes? Well, Major Martin’s here., he is not at the 'phone, but he’s ne: Then a long silence ensued, during which the young man at the telephone ostensibly listened to his Phieatine com- munieant. *“Major,” said- he, finally, torning to th xas statesman, ‘‘the convention is in session and the com- mittee on resolutions has gone out. There scems to be some doubtas to whether your nomination will go through without trouble. That man reenway, who has been posing s your warmest friend and _supporter, is ‘pre- yaring to lead a bolt, 'They saw a row ls expected.” Oh, Lord!” groaved the major,in evident alarm, "1 never ’sposed Green- way would do that. But that’s just the way with pollyticks. Tell Greenway te come to the ielephono, 11l fix him.” The correspondent called for Green- way and talked some more through the telephone, and finally turning to the major, "Phe Groenway crowd wants to know how you stand on the inter-state com- e question. They say they ap- on the tariff, set rove oW ‘urlh i _your speech favoring the Mills bill, and they know you are not a civil service veformer, butthey want to know commorco, ! “Of course T am, | form say on tho question?" anxiousl queried the major, as it he had struc an idea, | want to know your views so the | embody them in the platform, waiting to he added su ¢ can r from you; and,” he stively, “they're getting wtient about it.” s suke, tell ‘em to hold on & plaintively appealed the ma- rushing for the door. Wait till T wnd see Reagan, He knows all about this interstate business; Il bo hanged it Id Hold “em till 1 can sco IRea~ gan. in a wild seitch but for the co the committeo on platforms tions had reconsidered its detormina- tion and concluded to leave out all re- ference to the interstate commerce law. “But they want to know, major,” he continuod tening at the telephone, i you aee in favor of the deop-water project? This proposition was new to the ma- jor, and his fuce took on a puzzled looks Deop water?” he quoried. **Wall, I don’t kno [ didn’t know them fellors ever used water at all, Of course, if a man ever uses water [ spose it might as well be deep water, Is deep wator a prohibition heme? What kind o’ water does the convention want? 1f i anything like Pollyaris water I'm ag it. But say, don’t mention it till you find out what the convention wants, I don’t take much stock in nd resolu- water, any- how, but, of course, if the conven- tion—* “Major,” exclaimed the correspon- dent, interrupting him in _ ovident alarm. “Phe Greenway crowd is open= ly threatening to bolt, and Greenway declares he will beat you unless you pledge yourself against ‘o third torm. They siy if you will solemnly promise to rétive at the end of your sceond term and give somebody olso a chance, they will support you, but if you don't’ thoy will beat your nomination now.™ Oh! Lord,” was all the major could say, but he looked the picture of des- pai “Greenway says for you to come to tho telephono dnd tell him you will promise,” said the correspondent, pgof- fering the major the “phone. An 1den s ed to strike the major, and his countenance brightened up as he wh 1 his remark might he xas, “Tell him I'm not here; that I'm gone, and can't be found. And before anybody could head him oft the major shot out of the door and disappearcd. ol ooy Turkish Baths For Horses. The most curious development of the latest eraze is a Turkish bath for horses that is in process of ecrection in West Tenth street, in connection with a large boarding stable, writes a [New York correspondent of the Brooklyn gle. It is o very W..puh.r place for the winter boaading ‘of the horses of fashionable men, who have come to the sage con- clusion tl if Turkish baths are good for themselves, they should be good for their horses. too, and the result is that, their suggestion, the ownoers of the stable are putting up elaborate facilities for their aristocratic equines, who would sha their masters’ luxur There is a large tiled room, with a ment floor, whe the horses are stenmed. It has a sort of gutter run- ning arouud the four sides. at the edge of the tloor, from which the water es- cupes, and is fitted with A pipes and water cocks. There ave three of these with varying degrees of heat and moisture. In them the horse to be athed begins s led and stands until the sweat to start. The second room is and the third is heated to such a temperature that the sweat pours in ams from the horse’s skin, Here they are swabbed off with big mops dipped in water as hot as they will bear without remonstrating with their heels, and after the ordeal is over, are led to adrying-room, where the temperature is warm but without moisture, and here the attendants rub them with gloves and brushes until they are entirely dry. The horse is then carefully blanketed and allowed to remain a couple of hours before conducting him to the fifth room, which is rather a covored passag not artificially heated, and here he is walked up and down for twenty min- utes and finally veturned to the stable. It is claimed that is of infinite value to the lors Horsford's Acid Phosphate mparts New Encrgy to the Brain, g the feeling and wense of ine creascd intelle power. Sl Your Own Volce. New York Telegram: *Thero is singular thing about Ldison’s perfec phonograph that I don’t think has ever heen made public,” said an ex-licuten= ant of the United States navy, now the manager of a Pennsylvanin H)nlnlr_\',m reporte “It teaches you how your own voico sounds. Almost everyone naturally thinks that he can recognize his vo when he hears it, but he can’t. T was at Menlo Park the other day vis- iting a friend who is one of Edison’s chief assistants. Of course the phono- graph was tested. After talking into the wonderful machine a few minutes [ stopped and the sounds were ground out one ed again, [ never was more astonished in my life. The words were mine, the manner of speaking was mino, but the voice was that of a perfect stranger, I would never have recognized it, “*Can that be my voice?’ I asked. SOf course; don't you recogniz my friend replied, No; If I had a voice like that I'd disown it “4So most everyone say I don't linow exactly why it’s so, but it is a fact can't hear oursclves as others rusany more than we can see ours Jlves as others do. Let’s have a test. iv?? You go into the other room and shut the doo Tulk into the phonograph, and nnot recognize cach speak- it 15 ho porfect] did so, and the r dicted, Every tou 3 produced, The voice of my friend would have been accepted as his own be- fove an) in the land. We all 1 ognized it, but he alone could not. Now let some scientist explain it if he can.” R Drink Malto itispleasant, S ekvsacd Death of Colonel Hatoh. §r. Louis, Sept. 17.—Colonel George F. Hateh, assistant United States d torney, died in this city at 11 o'cl morning, aged 5 years. Colonel Hateh came to St. Louis from Keokulk, In., four aeo, though for twenty years ho was a dcut of Hannibal, Mo, "He was u brother of Congressman Hatch, Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria, When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria. When sho was & Child, she eried for Castoria, Whion sho beearne Mias, 1o clung to Castoria, ‘When sbe had Ohildren, she ga<e them Castoria, whether you are with 'em on intor-state What's their plate “That’s just what puzzles them: thoy They're And the major would have bolted out for the Texus senator spondent, who pacified bim with the pleasing information that N