Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 21, 1888, Page 4

~THE DAILY BEE, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. OF 8UBSCRIPTION, 1ition) ine TERM Moruing p, One Y eny 1A SUNDAY Bup, matled to s ny . One Year D1EAND 016 FARN AN STRUET, Raoye 14 AND 16 TIIBUA Y INGTON OFFICE, NO. 0L} NCE g tonewsand edl- sed to the Enrton All business | addressed 101 MATEA made able to the er of the company, The Bee Padlishing Company, Proprietors. ROSEW R, Editor. THE DAILY BEE ®worn Statement ot Circulation, te of Nebraska, 15 o ounty of Douglas, { % 8 Geo. B, Tzschuck, secretary o The Bee Pub- Mshing company, does solemily swear that the actual cirenlation of Tig DALY for the week euding September 15, 188, was us follows: Bunday, Sept. 0. i0 11 apt Friday, Scpt. 14 Sevt. 15. Baturday Average Sworn to hefore me and presence this Ay «,fs.-| N.P. FEl tate of Nebraska, | !('humy4 Douglas, § 9 Georga . Tzscntick, being first duly sworn, de- e and saysthat he 15 sccretary of ‘The Bee 1ishiug company, that the ctual ave daily circulation of ALY DEE f0 was 14,340 copl . es; 1o November, 15,041 cop- ¥ February, jtembor, A, [ L, Notury Public. ICK. Bworn to before me and subscribed in my Prescice thisstl day of September, A, D, 1885, D, , Pub) Tius is ‘riday™ for a good many congressional candidates who tried their luck at Lincoln. Mg, MiLLs, of has taken the stump and is talking to the Hoosiers. His fivst speech was delivered yesterd day. u sidewalk in ribed stone walk districts are eye-sores and shold be replaced imme- diately. Tnr Standard oil octopus wasdra, fnto the senate by the tail. And every senator who had the opportunity stonped to kick HAD Omaha instituted an inter-state exposition, the city at this time would be full of people, and our merchants ¥ would reap immmense benefits. *= Tug Sioux City Corn Palace will be opened to the public September 26. Meantime Nebraska corn fields are yielding cighty bushels to the acre. THERE 15 a great deal of scratching of heads amony the senior members of the firm of We, Us & Co. as to which 4 one should be named for the board of i pablic works It is snid on good authority that the democrats ave goingito make a thousand | speeches at least every day in Indiana g from now on. Happy the man who lives in Nebraska. A DELEGATION of colored men called on Judge Thurman yesterday and pres- ented the democratic nominee an ad- dress from the colored democrats, Lo which he responded. HEREAFTER the railroads of Ken- tucky deserve a most liberal patronage from southern chivalry, when obliging s conductors stop the trains to allow gen- tlemen to settle their difficulties by duelling. A MAN i under arresiin Minneapolis B[ for stealing 15,000 bushels of wheat from an elevator. He is emulating the 5 example of the Newport (Neb.) man 1 who stole the roof off of asud house : while the owner was slumbering be- neath it. W. J. CONNELL, of Douglas county, | was nominated for congressiman by the | First distriet republican convention | held at Lincoln lust night. The con- q test for the nomination was a spivited | one. Ninety ballots were talken before the tide turued in M Mu.-CLEVELAND in a published lotter denics that he over said, “I believe in free trade as [ believe in the Protestant religion.” DBut General Iarrison has not found it necessary to contradict that he once said, “a dollar a day is @ough for any workingman.” Nobody Ras been found foolish enougl to be- lieve the campaign lie. Counell’s favor. A BONDED debt hangs over the thriv- ing city of Leadville, Colo,, which the gamblers want to pay off if thoy are al- | | lowed to open gambling houscs. Each i gambling establishment is willing to g contributo two hundred dollars a month to the city, and while the mayor of the town is anxious 1o accept the bonus, the council decided not to allow gambling atall, Ave we to understand that the eouncilmen of Leadville are not made ©of the same stull as the average alder- man of other cities The lease which the Cherokee Live Block association held for tho past five vs, giving them grazing privilegesin ndian territory, has como to an end 1 and will not be rencwed. All the valu- ] .able improvements which the syndicate - made revert to the Cherokees who have discovered that thoir lands can be ] made more profitable in their own & hands than by leasing them again to # i white men. This change may more or § les§ affect tho cattle industry of the 8. pouthwest. e am——— i * T bill to make the agricultural ureau an executive department has again been brought into the senate and . It is expected to pass this time without * further delay. There is, however, con- slderable objection to the Dill on the grounds that uothing can be gained by elevating the burcau inte an executive ~ @dopartment. The deparument of agri- _ pulture, as now conducted under the supervision of a commissioner, serves 8 purpose fully as well without multi- plying oftices and incrousing the sal- rios of cortain officials. A Waste of Effort. The National Civil Service Reform lengue intends to Issue a civcular in- structing federal officeholders regard- ing their rights in the matter of assess- ments for political purposes, The de- sign is to supply information as to the provisions of the law relating to assoss- ments, the presumption being that there are some officeholders who are not aware of them, and in theie ignorance may allow themselves to be fleeced. We doubt if there isany man in the service of the government who does not know that the era of compulsory assessments for political purposes closed some years ago, and that under existing laws no man can be required to give a dollar for polities, nor if the law is respected can his refusal to do so operate to his detriment as an official. But what does all this really amount to, when it is so simple a matter to evade the law? No government official is permitted to solicit or receive money 10 be used for political purposes from an- other person in the service of the gov- crnment, but there is nothing to pre- vent u person not in the government service from asking money of those who avo, and when such person makes a re- quest of this kind it is under- stood that it must not be ig- nored. There is no compulsion. but there is a pressure which amounts to the same thing, every man in the service being made to feel that he will be a little safer in his position if he contributes his shave. The old practice assessment has merely given 1o & system of obtaining the sar result by indivection, and if the proc is a little slower it is not the less suve. Very few men will jeopardize their positions by asserting their right under the law to refuse contributions for po- litical purposes. This year there is an uncommonly strong influence brought to bear on federal officcholders in the example set by Mr. Cleve- lund, who not only by his con- tribution virtually authorized assess- ments, but established the percen tage of salaries which those in the govern- ment service are expected to devote to political purposes. Every government employe knows the duty he has to dis- chavge in connection with the cam- puign, and it will be a waste of effort to tell him what his rights are under the law, because he understands that he cannot assert them without incurrving the danger of losing his position. The civil service reform league may there- fore save itself the trouble and cost of issuing a circular instructing office- holders as to their rights regarding assessments. They all know that the right to contribute is the oniv one they can safely regard. An Embarrassing Situation. The president has not yet received the Chinese exclusion bill, and theve is a good deal of interest in the question as to what he may do with it when he does receive it. The passage of the Dbill was due wholly to political consid- erations. It was rushed through the house at the instigation of Scott of Pennsylvania, who is understood to act in all things agrecably to the wishes of and was expected to make political ecapital for the democ- racy on the Pacilic coast. When it went to the senate the more cautions states- men of that body opposed it, on the ground that it would not be proper to pass such a measure while the Chinese government was deliberating on the troaty submitted to it. But the politicians were in the majority and the bill went through the senate. Its trans- mission to the president is delayed, but it will very likely be sent to him this week. Will Mr. Cleveland veto the measura orsioen an act abrogating a trenty now under considevation by the Chinese government? The situation is an em- barrassing one for the president, and feel kindly toward the who placed him in it, ed in Washington that he will veto the bill and justify his action by the explanation that the measure was passed by the house under a misapprehension of the facts. 1l he shall do this it would ex- hibit greater courage than he has shown for some time, for it would wholly de- stroy whatever smail ehance there miy be of the democracy carveying either of the Pacilic states. Tt mizht also have a damaging effect upon his party where with those who could not undc stand the true nature of the matter. Yot if this government is to behave with the dignity and deconcy which should be observed by & great nation in its international relations there is no other proper course for the president, pending the action of the Chinese gov- ernment on the treaty, than to veto tho bill which in offect abrogates that treaty. No politieal exigency can justify the president in approving an act which puts this country in a wrong position before the world, and which under the circumstances is an insult to the Chinese government. IHaving sub- mitted a treaty to that government our obvions duty is to await its decision, just as we should do with any other country with which we were having similar re- intions. There could certainly be nodan- ger in waiting a reasonable time for the decision of the Chinese government, and we should conserve our own dignity and honor by doing so. We do not feel any confidence, however, that Mr. Cloveland will be guided by views of this kind, We have no doubt the political ~considerations will prevail with him, and those will lead him to wign the measure. The Retaliation Bill. The senate conimittee on fore lations, at its meeting on Wedn referred the retaliation bill toa sub- committee, and it is more than probable that nothing further will be heard from it at this session. Senator Sherman has given very clear evidence that he is not in favor of giving the president at this time any greater powers than he already has under the retaliation act of last yecar, and as chairman of the for- eign velations committee it will not bhe vory dificult for him to keep the bill out of the senate. Mr. Sher- man is an earnest advocate of commercial union and annexation, and he does not think it would be to the advantage of either toadopt an extreme policy of non=intercourse with Cana But apart from any considerations of this nature is the fact that there is really no warrant in the present situa- tion for such aliation as the house bill proposes. Not only has Cannda done nothing recently to pro- voke any degree of retaliation, but her government is under the divection of the imperial authority to pursue n ecau- tious and pacific course toward the United States. Uuder these cir- cumstances it would manifestly nov e becoming in this government 1o make a dis- play of bravado and pluy the bully. There is n sufficient law now to punish Canada if her conduct should become such as to requive punishment, and neither our honor nor our interests re- quire any such policy as Mr. Cleveland asked congress to give him authority to proclaim. The calmer judgment of the country now understands that ve- taliation which should destroy all com- mercial intercourse between the two countries could not be all one-sided in its ill effects, and there are many in- telligent men who believe the damaging consequences of such a policy would be quite ns severe on the United States as on the Dominion, At any vate this country could not es- cape a very serious loss. The discussjon of this matter has doubtless been conducive to a wiser ap- prehension than before existed of the commeial relations between the two countries, and has very likely strength- ened the sentiment in both favorable to commercial union. In a speech in the senate a short time ago Senator Sher- man said he believed that within ten rs Canad would be represented either in the British parliament ov the American congress. and he thought most likely it would Dbe in the latter. The time named by Mr. Sherman for such a consumma- tion may be too short, but the fecling is strong and general that before many vears the ties between the United States and Canada will be very much closer than at present. Congressional Elec! Senator Spooner will pretty nearly the entire country with him in his condemnation of the practice of prostituting congress for clectioncering purposes. The senator said that the record of the prosent congress was not one of which an American citizen could be proud, and he characterized the electioneering us an outr: the personalities indulged in ful, the senate having in this re pee the made a far worse record than Thouse. There was probably never before a congress in which the legislu- tor was 80 wholly lost in the politician as has been the case with the Wiftieth congress. From the opening of the session contin- uously the game of politics has been played in both houses, and it is still on. Lvery matter that has been brought for- ward, out of which there was the least chance to make party capital, has been discussed and acted upon wholly with reference to the political considerations. Both partiesarc equally at fault, and cer- tainly the effect has not been good for the country nov ereditable to the nation. Lu its charucter and cenduct the Fiftieth congress has less to its credit than any other in the history of the govern- ment, A DISGRACEFUL scene took place at Castle Garden a few days ago which deserves the severest censure. Two hundred emigrants from Sweden had just landed from the steamer Hecla and were immediately seized upon by the agents of rival railroad lines. They were pulled about and hauled and jos- tled as if thoy were so many cattle that needed prodding. Their railway orders were torn out of their hands by the railroad hirvelings. Their baggage was smashed and lost in the confusion. Families wore separated and subjectod toall kinds of indignities, merely be- eause there had been a quarrel between the members of a railroad **pool” and cach agent was trying to get the bulk of travel over his own line. It wasonly afew weeksago that a thorough inve: gation by the state of New York and 1 Congressman Ford’s immigration com- mittee exposed the abuses of Castle Garden. It was thought at the time that the notoriety given to the arro- gance of transportation companies in their treatment of emigrants would in a mensure cheek the rapacity. But 1t scoms that it has only sharpened their greed. A more summary method of bringing these railroads to a proper re- speet for law and decency might be adopted in order to protect innocent men, women and children from their vupigity. A W weeks ago it was confidently predicted that wheat would bring a dol- lur a bushel in the market. The oppor- tunity has been realized. TFor the fivst time in ten ) cash wheat sold Mon- day on the Minneapolis hoard of trade for one dollar a bushel, closing at one dollar three and one-half cents. The same grade No. 1 hard sold at one dol- lar and two cents at Duluth. Both Chicago and New York felt the quicken- ing, and prices went up immediately. It would not ho a bit of exaggeration to predict high prices for wheat from now on. A combination of a short crop at home and a failuve of the wheat crop fabroad insures for the farmer good pric t. It behooves the wise farmer to take advantage of the fact and profit by it to the fullest ex- tent. Reapens of Tne BEE at Guide Rock complain of the recent publication of special telogram to the effect that a boy there had becu fed by one Baker into a threshing machine with horrible re- sults, The next day TuHe BEE printed a contradictory veport, and since learns that the story had no foundation in fact. TAXPAYERS are not at all intevested whether Paving Contractor Fox hasany real or fancied exocuse fus not being able to finish his work at the time specified in his contracts with the city. If he fuils to carry out the terms of his con- tracts, the penaltips for such. failure should be enforced by the chairman ot the bourd of publieworks, the same as would be exacted in.any private con- teact. The truth of tHe matter is that the city contractors h taken more work than they can reasonably attend to. — fiven He Anticipated Trusts, Daniel W Liberty cannot long endure in any country where the tendency of legislation is to con- centrate wealth in the hands of a few. wter, lowa. John A, McShane, who is engaged in run- ning as democratic candidate for governor of Nebraska, and is runnivg editors out and in of the Omaha Herald office, is described as a man who needs every vote he can get and about 25,000 more, R ann A Difference in Men, Cedar Rapids Gazette, Levi P, Morton, the republican candidate for vice president, is the right kind of a man. e sent £12,000 to the yellow fever sufferers, This is in striking contrast to Chauncey De- pew and his gang of campaign “rioters” who met together after Depew's return from Europe and spent several thousand dolla in having a time and denouncing the grang- ers of the wes Reasons for Smiling. icago New Who can blame General Harrison for smil- ing a greatdeal just now! The democrats who delighted in twitting him on his Chinese rocord have blundered over the Chinese-ex- clusion bill inmuch the same way that a druken man collides with a rocking chair in the dark. The democrats will talk very low about the Chinese question during the rest of this campaign. Afraid They Will Lose the House, New York Commercial Advertiser, Theve is danger that the democratic mana- gers, 1 their anxiety to re-elect President Cleveland, may neglect an almost equally im- portant matter, namely, the composition of the next congress, The democratic majority in the present house of representative is quite small, amounting to not more than six- teen or seventeen even when all the “inde- pendents” ave counted in. itz Keep Your Eye on Congross. Glohe Domocrat, Itis hardly necessary to inform republi- cans, however, that the presidency is not the only stake to be striven for this year. The popular branch of congress is also to be clected. If the democrats should be per- mitted to retain control of this body the re- publican triumph in securing the presidency would be comparatively barren, The repub- lican maj v in the senate will be small in the Fifty-first congress, even in the most for- tunate circumstances, This fact makes it all the more necessary for republicans to gain a good working mujority in the house of representatives, et A Republican House, Cleveland Lender., In 1540, when William Henry Harrison de- feated for re-election the only New York democrat before Grover Cleveland who was ever chosen president, the most remarkable feature of thewhig victory, perhaps, was the revolution it wrought in congress. This year, ‘when Benjamin Harrison will defeat Grover Cleveland, another New York dewocrat, for re-clection, there is likely to be a revolution again w the national house of representa- tives. The result in Maine, where Congress- man Reed doubled his majority of two years ago, in spite of desperate efforts to compuss his defeat, is an earnest of the ef- fect which the tarii¥ 1ssue will have upon the ional election all over the north. News. Why, oh why does every mortal IPind in life so much of sorrow? Stand wo at the autumn’s portal And the white hat goes to-morrow. i S S PROMINENT PERSONS, At Harvard, where he was popular, Will- iam E. Russell, the democratic nominee for governor of Massachusotts, was called “Billy the Kid.” The Hon. D. H. Goodell, the republican nominee for the New Hampshire governor- ship, is the mventor of that fascinating and useful article, the “lightning apple parer.'’ Senator Sherman is said to have made over $300,000 in the last five years by lucky specu- lations i Washington real estate. Since ho has been senator his gains in this way, iv is believed, will reach fully 2,000,000, George W. Cable, the novelist, works only six hours daily. His hours of writing are from 9 to 12:15 in the morning, and from 2 to 5 in the afternoon. He is fond of driving, n{ul spends a great deal of time in the open air. Henry Villard’s private secretary con- firms previous statements that Mr. Villard is only a subscriber to, not a leader in the projected south polar expedition, and ex- presses the opinion that the expedition will not go after the pole this year, Mr. Gladstone says hie can hold out no hope that he will be able to take part in any political work after the settlement of the Ivish question. His one aim in life is to se- cure home rule for Treland. That done, he believes his public work will be ended. Chief Justice Fuller's new gown has been fimshed by a Chicago tailormg firm, and scems to be what Jenkins would call & mar- vel of elegance, no_less thun $100 worth of gros grain_silk being employed in its con- struction, It is made en train, but without the decolette corsage so much cffected in some stylish gowns. Willlam Walter Phelps, just before ad- dressing the New Jorsey Republican clu at Asbury Park the otner night, received a telogram anuouucing that his stables and horses were on fire. It meant a loss of $20,000, but it did not scem to disturb 1 Phelps. e made a rattling and enthusiase specch, apparently forgetting all about the bad news from home. Mrs. Gary, wife of Judge Gary of Ck ago, hires three or four new serv The anarchists of Ci Judge Gary and constantly send him threa ening missives. Servauts are not, as a gen eral thing,'willing to run the risi of dismem berment by dynamite for {he sake of ret ing a good situat adwze Gary laugh the threats of archists, bit his wife finds the servant problem anything but a laughing matter, %11 Major William Warner, the newly chosen commander in chief of‘the Grand Army of the Republic, is a resident] of Kansas City, and represents the Fifth Missourl district in congress, Ha washrought up in Wiscon- in, polting his education at Lawrence un- iversity, Appleton. He served during the war in' Wisconsin reginents, but after peace was established mo¥ed to Kansas City, where be practiced %aw., Here he held various ofices, was eloctéd o the Forty- ninth and re-elected’ to the Fiftieth con- gress, g STATE AND ;nnlll’l‘ufl\'. — Nebraska Jotting A number of cases of typhoid fever are re- ported at Nelson. Thieves at Wymore break up the sidewalks and carry off the boards for fuel. Hastings republicans will organize the “nobbiest flambeau club in the state.” The Dawson county republican convention will be held at Plum Creek October 13, Ulysses claims more handsome houses than any other town in the state of oequal size. The Frances Cleveland club of St. Paul is raising campalgn funds by giving oyster sup- pers, The Beatrice canning factory has quit on corn, having put up 700,000 cans during the season. The pi are all laid for Tecumseh's waterworks and the work will be finished in o few weeks, ‘The stone farm house of Louis Manette, hate . THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 1888, sar Superior, was entirely destroyed by fire lust Tuesday. Plattsmouth people got so excited over & ball game that the whole town neglects busi- ness and othor pleasures to discuss the mer- its of its club, Superior wants a mail route from Omaha over the Northwestern road, which would shorten the time between the two cities about three hours, ‘’he sixth anoual fair County Agricultural socie St. Paul Septembe to 2 n grand success, T Nebraska City Press su that the man who puts up a house in Nebraska City, at this stage of the game, even if it is a small one, is a public benefactor. Traitor Crane, the “‘straight republican, has announced that he will stump his county against Hanna, the republican nomince for representative in the Forty-ninth disurict. Senator J. A. Dillon, of Tecumseh, was found in his pasture in an unconscious ' con- dition one day last week and remained in a stupor for scveral days. He is now on the way to recovery, but can give no account of how he was injured. A number of Schuyler bo made the rounds of the saloons the other night and at each place failed to sottle for their drinks. They thought they were playing a good joke until one bartender took pay out of their hides and then had them arvested and fined The Springficld (Sarpy county) Monitor romarks that one of the doubtful ‘states this fall will be Fairview precinct. The politics of the luborers in tho gravel pits is an un- known quantity, and the 100 democratic ma- jority in our county may be very materially reduced or it may be very greatly incred No teiling, Anyhow, whoever would sec political fame will first have to study the geography of that neck of the woods, and make the acquaintance of this new addition to our voting populace. of the Howard will be held at , and promises to tow The cotton mill at 1 ready for business. The lowa Methodist conference expelle Rev. W. I Daidley for improper i with his servant girl. The Des Moines plastorers have made a demand for nine hours and the coutractors have generally acceded. The Scott county old settlers' celebrated its thirty-second anniv, a pienic at Davenport Wednesday. Tho doctors of Greenfield are busy dissect- ing the body of Ida Harrington. the soiled dove who suicided recently. She had no friends to care for her remains, Tho ghastly remains of a man were found on an island in the lowa river near Marshall- town, and were identitied as being thoso of Senus Thomas, who disappearcd Juue 24, 1585, Suicide was the verdict. A Dubuque young lady is bound to be mar- ried, and the prospeets are that she will be accommodated, for she makes tho offer tha, on the day of her wedding she will give her husvand $5,000, and one year from the wed- ding day, if they are then living together, she will give him $10,000 in cash and £20,000 in real estate. Moines will soon be a ssociation ry with Dakota. A Lead City butcher cut off his thumb the other day while attempting to murder a porker. A farmer near H of potatoes this y ground. Sully county has ten candidates for the office of sherifl, and several precinets to hear from besides. La Grace wants an elevator ora warehouse for handling grain, ana promises a fortune to the man who will build one. C. H. Douglas,an old resident of Lead City, and well known all over the Hills, died on the 16th and was buried by the Masons. The police force of Fargo has been nearly doubled on account of the large influx of threshing and harvesting men returning after the season's work. A band o Sioux favored the of Rapid City with a dance and opon-ai cort last Tuesda They were on the way to attend the county fair at Hermosa, George Wilson, who broke jail at Water- town. was captured by the sheriff and city marshal after an exciting chase of several bours. The man who aided him to escape was given ten days in jail. an at Fargo became drunk on liquor purchased at a blind pig establishment, and while in that condition he fell and injured himself so that he is unable to work., His wife will bring suit agamst the saloonkeeper's bondsmen for 10,000 damag Skl THE GAS CONTRACT. ron raised 7,000 bushels s on thirty-eight acres of A Review of the Case on the Eve of Reletting. Inquiries are frequently heard as to the final destiny of the bill which the Omaha gas manufacturing company holds against the city. It still lies in statu quo, just where it was left last fall after being allowed by the city council. No attempt has either been made to orcollect it. As the matter is to again come up in the council soon, perhaps a resume of the history of this imbroglio, to gether with an outline of the famous con- tract, would not come amiss. The contract was made on the 4th of the present month, five years ago. Briefly, it pro- vided that for the 207 lamps then m use the sum of §34 per an- num should be paid. When the lamps inereased in number to 307 a reduction of #1 per lamp was to be made; when they reached 07 in number 2 was to be the price, and a corresponding reduction of 50 cents for every additional fifty lamps until the number reached 500, For cach now lamp, post, pipe, cte., the sum of £22 was to be paid, with no charge for servico pipe or extr “That con- tract expired the 4th of the present month, but it has been literally voud as a contract for several years. ‘The council elaimed that the gas manufacturing company had not com- plied with the requirements of the contract, ingsmuch as they sold out to the United Gus Improvement company, who came here from Philadelphia to open up in opposi- tion to the Omaha Gas Manu- facturing company. They o get a franchise, but succeaded in se: cal company 80 badly that they made over- tures to the tern capitalists to sell out, which they did. Then the remonstrance i the council came, and the Mutual Gas Im provement company changed their name buck to the Omaha Gas Manufacturing com pany. But this did not prove the open ses- ame to relief, for thereupon the city council reduced the price of gas by o report of a com- mittee which was adopted. In 183 the coun cil undertook to annul the contraet, but failed, the vote being a tie. The gas company went on supplyiug the gas, and swelling their ac count st the city, but they were ignol by the city coun cil. After the expiration of the council of 1556, the new council honored all new bills, but nono of the old ones, under the rates prescribed in the original contract, and 80 the matter stands to-day. The indebted ness of the 10 the gas company, as claimed by the latter, amounts to $16,010, ex clusive of mterest. ' The above allowsfices alluded to do not include any roduction made by a former comzmiilee of the council, ©b January 1 last the committee has been paying all bills presented directly to thei, not under a_contract, as st us it way seem, but at the old contract pr It is & puzling question what is to become of the _ bill incurred in the interrcgnum, from the time the fas company sold out to the time of the in- duction af a new council. If the council would decide to pay_it, 1t would have to be appropriated out of the general fund, but this would cause such an overlap as will deter thew from any such proceedure. Then if the company began suit and obtained a judgment, the amount would have to be drawn from the judgement fund. There is now in this fund $36,087.51. It will be re- membered that the bill was virtually allowed last fall, but has lain dormant ever sinco. The longer the matter is allowed to remain inits prosant tangle the more complicated will it become, s There is another thing about the city’s gas and light affairs that some parties think needs equalizing. The public ofiices are to day paying at the rate of §2 por thousand for their gas, while the private oconsuler gots it for §1.75 and even less. This reduc tion to the private citizen the gas company claims is obtained by reason of the payment of cash on the preseatation of account, which 1s impossible with the public offices. All bills contracted through an ofiicial source must necessarily go through the couucil, and if each month be de- layed from ten days to two tweeks, but at the same time it amounts to a cash payment. The gas company sad electric light company both have bids before the council for illuminating the city, and the out- como is awaited with a good deal of curiosity. - THE PRESBY Y, Interesting Proceedings of Monday Afternoon an ivening, The proceedings of Wodnesday afternoon were principally of @ routine nature. A re port was made by the represontatives of the different churchos of the state of religion, which was very satisfactory and interosting The pastoral relation between Rtev, R. M L. Braden and the church at Frewont was dissolved, at his request. slder Perrine and Rev, William Hamilton, commissioners to the general assombly, ren dered their report referring to tho talked-of union of the churches—north and south. It was approved, and their fidelity commendea. Rev. J. A. Hood, who has held the position of stated clerk for a numbor of years, handed in his resignation. It was accepted, and Rev. D. R. Kere appointed his successor The project of locating an_Indian chapel near Bancroft was discussed, but no decision arrived at, The discussion on the “Relation ot the Chureli to Higher Edueation.” led by Ry erends W. W. Harsha, D. D, and T Hainey, was very interesting and closely at tendo: A resolutiong commending the work and objeets of the Bellevue college was unani- mously adopted. “The resignation of W, W, Harsha as cha'r- man of the committe of cducation, was ac eepted, no successor being appointed. Synodical Missionary, Rev. Thomas L, Sexton, made a interesting report on the missionary work being done in the state, The Colfax county Central chu was dis- solved and Rev. J. A. Hool authoriied to give the members cartificatos of dismission In the evening Rev, Dr. Scxton delivered an address, giving a resime of the home missionary worle dono during the year, tak- ing for his text: Numb nd Caleb stilled the peopl: 10s0s and sald we are It the cou: tl ¢ of his remarks ho referved to divine command, ‘Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every croa ture,’ and continuing said: This mandate will not be fully met until the gospel is ched in every part of the land. From history in this country, the Prasby- tevian ehurch lias been @ ehurch As eal as 1707, on formation of the first preshy we formed that it was recommended ¢ the are in- to every neighboring When the general assembly first formed in 1870 there was only a few work timo there 5 , Hlinois or uting the minister of the body to sup desolate places, wi tute: cons first Presbyterian sermon was preached in Chicago, and in 1816 n St Louis, and the missionarics wiio organized them traveled on horseback from Hurtford, Conn. 'The presbytery of Missouri held its first meeting in December of 181 The first Prosoyterian church in Kunsas City was started in July of 1465, Coming to Nebraska, the minister is still living who started tho first Presbyterian churcl liore, iftecn years Mark the change. Now o have 215 organized churches, twenty-five of which are self-supporting, and 145 ministers, of whom forty-three are regularly installed pastors. Among tho many opportunities afforded for church extension in the west none are more {nviting aud encouraging than those presented by the construction of new rail- ads. Last year no less than 1,100 miles were spanned with iron rails in Nebraska atone. It is a great advantage to have the church planted early in these towns, as it then has a fair start with the evil. These favorable opportunities must all be improyed, and now is the tune to push the work of planting the seed. It has been said and [ firmly believe it that Nebraska can as casily take care of 8,000,000 people as New York of 5,000,000. We have 75,000 square miles and New York 47,000, The love of country should prompt us to move forward in this work of missions, ‘Christ for our country and our country for Christ' should be the watch- word." — - . GATLING'S MURDEROUS GUN, A New Engine of War that 1,200 Rifle Balls a Minute, »w York World: The Gatling ord- nance company has just been chartered under the laws of Virginia with a cap- ital of $1,000,000. everal of the cap- italists, including a number of New Yorkers and Philadelphians, haye taken stock in the enterprise. The company was formed to manufacture Dr. R. Gatling’s new and improved steel cast cannon, which has attracted attention in military and naval circles here and elsewhere, This gun is de- signed for fortifications, the field and the navy. The patents of Dr. Gatling cover many new points in ordnance, and they are secured in this country and abroad. His admixture of alloy with the fluid steel is novel in its peculiar formation of bronze and other metals, which are blended with such wondorful skill of chemical process that when the motals have properly cooled and adhered from their fluid state they become solid, close and combined, and in every wi point the proper adjustment of the carbon controls the castings, closing up all blow-holesand crevices, which insur Fires the safety of the gun. The gun is cast with a tube, which accomplishes the cooling-off process in n short time. “Built-up” guns are put together hy picces of armor steel, ing of an iron horse, with straps or 1ds to secure its formation and hold it together. In such heavy work of making a fifteen-ineh gun there are liable to be blow-hole ecrevices and 8 s, and by such small defects there is 1ger of bursting. It has been d by many engineers and gun experts that cannon eut from steel could not be condensed with rigidity, toulih- like the build- ness and durabilit) 1o bed the of e xplosions of nowder and to throw shot at a fong distance. These points Dr. Gat- ling claims he has overcome by his pe- culiar method of amalgamating metals, having already tested the durability of combinafions. “The value of Gatling’s steel east gun n the saving of time and expenses in construction, while the wilt-up * armor cannon require over nine months for their manufactur The tecl gun ¢ the cente the fluid is of time and mone o government and by fore The works Gatling’s guns will be located near Philadelphia, probably at Chester. It is understood that the work of construc- tion will commence us s possible, under the personal dire the in- ventor, and that the capitol stock of the company will be raised to 5,000,000, The ordnance board, consisting of Lisutenant A. Mordecai, president; J. P. Farley, major ordnance department, and John I Greer, captain ordnaunce department, tested the improved gun of Dr. Gatling and rveported to the chief of ordnance that the improvements were found to be in the method of feeding rather than in the gun itself. The accles drum being on the gun, 500 rounds were fired at 1,000 yards, hitting a target 11x22 feet 411 times in twenty- soven seconds, Thesystem worked y foctly. The crank which had been at the rear was then nsferred side in order to diminish the of fire, and the drum-fead prope ‘ed by the combination drum and feed guide. Then 500 more rounds were fired, hittlng the target 951 times in_one minute and ene second without difficulty. The improved feed maguzinss of the Gatitng gun can discharge 1,2 ri balls a minute, with the nccuracy of a Land vifle. ‘The range is from one mile and a bal! totwo miles. A battery of six guns can discharge a porpetual five to the \id of 5,000 balls a minute and continue it indefinite No number of cavalry J could successfully chargo and silencs these Dbattervies, Before the cavalry conld got within n mile of the guns the liorses’ legs would be cut off as by a saw \ by the bullets, The guns can be elos od at a proper angle, throwing the salls farther up in the air and falling a in the intronched positions of the enemy, rout them ov destroy them by a shower of metal, as the bally will go through & two-inch plank in their descent.” The gun is so light that it can bo carried by one or two men for milos, and conveyed at great speed by one horse, | — - BUFFALO BILL AT HIS RANCH! { How the Cclebrated Scout Lives ‘When at Home. Denver Republican: A little _over i three miles from the town of North Platte, Nebraska, and situated out on ,000 acres of by a prairia barbed wiro 't intervals ing legend: “No hunting ng with guns on the Cody . This denotes to the traveler the exact situation and extent of Buffalo Bill's cattle vanch. A few days ago n while a reporter was at North Platto ha dec it the ranch and met with a novel but unromantic experi- ence, for after passing a very pleasant hour at the ranch a treacherous broncho the plaing, are lands, surrounded fence, and is the follo which he was viding threw him to tho | ground and_playfully scampered of, Jeaving the bewilde scrive Lo tr dust back to the town. The vanch is situated dircetly west from the town and the buildings ¢an be plainly seen from the Union Pacitic depot. On driving out for a short dis- tauce a person can see for miles avound nothing but a long, blac of cattle. They ave spr ) W pasture, and for a moment it scems as though the line reached far away beyond the horizon. Looming up kground to this peculiur pict- ure isa mammoth, oblong building, on cach sido of which, painted in farge white letters, are tho words: HSCOUT'S REST RANCILY This is a favorite name of Cody’s and he adopted it for the ranch when build- and - disgusted b mp through three miles of PN - ——a ing, with the vemark: *If any scout ever comes this way, let this be his home as long us he ' cares o stay, and 1 ghall name it the ‘Scout’s Rest. The ground on which the ranch i3 lo- cated is a beautiful pateh of praivio land, It isas level as aslab of marble, and in some places long, willowy grass, two feet in heighth nods graccfully to the bre The cattle are seattéred all over the six or seven miles of terri- tory taken in by the barbed wire fence, and it is claimed that altogother Cody Las over iifteon thousand head of cattio in the grounds. A visit to the stables wasin order, and the visitor was well paid for his trouble. A score or moro of chunky little Shet- land ponies oceupy one portion of the Jurge barn, and a number of fancy horses of all descriptions take up an- other, One prominent feature of tho stuble is a large, handsome coul-black Avabian chavger, named Auctioneor. This horse is the pet of the on- tive ranch. He is gentle and kind, yot full of life and encrgy, and when taken out to walk about the grounds is ns frisky and full of tricks as a Kkitten. Although guite a colt, not being over three yearsof age, he stands over six- teen hands in heighth, and can be truly said to be realization of Rosa Bouheur's dream of a perfect horse. A visit was next made to the superin- tendent’s home, just adjoining the o Scout’s Rest.” The superintenden 5. Goodman, Cody’s brother-in- Goodman was out. but his who is Buffulo Bill’s sister, and Miss Lizzie Goodman veceived the re- porter and in a very manner bade him home. The pn valls of the little house are adorned with the port raits of Cody, the late Colone!l L. C. Judson (Ned Buat- line), Major Burke and other old-time friends of the scout All _about the voom, placed in pleasing confusion, ave relies, mementoes and trophics of the Wiid West travels and of days when Cody had all he could attend to coping with the terrors of the plaius, instoa of travelingabout the world showing the crowned heads of Europe what someo of this country is and used to be. The sublime confusion with which theso tro- phies are arranged pays rvather a hi tribute to the artistic taste of Misy Goodman, The occupants of the ranch are just now in quite a flutter, and things are being put in readiness’ for the owner, as Cody is to be home in a very short time. His home is situated about a mile nearer the town than his ranch, Ttisa large, spacious frame building, built in the center of a twenty-ac lot, and fronting on the rvailroad tracks, Cody, whom the repovter visited, is a covdial, hospital make himsell at tall; well-preserved and - well-educats woman of apparently about forty years of She is greatly interestod in the t show,and tlks nimation of tho time e enacted, willions, four children, ess of the Wild We. with interestin 1cn such scene an amusement for stern reality but two & oldest, is tw Trma, the bal weoked protty ntand deeid- Just now she is learn- 1o, and expects Lo bo ‘prise hor famous futher when ho returns. Miss Arta, the eldest daughter, was Lincoln when the reporter hut from a photc h she ap- pears to be a tall, handsome girl, much resombling her father,” She {9 also snid o possoss r of Lor father’s (raits of cha , and some very pretty slories of hor pluck and de- termination ure told, one of which is that while she wa t quite agivl Cody had a very treacheorous and dangerous broncho 1n_his stable. This horse Arta After having him ed the girl mounted him, hut in a tr wis thrown to the ground, severely bruising her face. Kn- vaged at the conduct of the horso, she jumped up, exelaiming, “1'll ride’ him now if ho Kills me,” and, jumping into the saddle again, and by frequent ap- plications of the whip she soon had the broncho as docilo as a lamb, Her last_exploit was to travel all alone from North Platte, Neb., to Lon- don, England, to meet her father, and later traveling alone through Italy and Spain. She is said also to be quite a scholar in German and French, us well as being somewhat “up” in the arts, —~— determined to ride, securely sadd go Reunion, Ciicaao, Sept. 20.—(General Roseerans has boen electod president of the Society of tue Army of the Cumberlaud, to succeed the late General Sheridan, General Koscorans pro- sided at the banquet at the Grand Pucifio hotel this evenlng. The menu card was heavily bordered in biack in respect to tho wemory of General Sheridan, At the con clusion of the banquet brief addresses wero wade by General Michael, Thomas J. Wood, Russell A. Alger, Samuel L. Clewmons, T, Meyers, of Ohio, and Judge Fugens Gary, of Chicago. The banquet lasted untii @ ‘late physi- liour. by nfl’ whole- gert & Sons, « e Angostura Bitters, endorsed cians and chemists turdm ity a someuess, Dr.J, G, B, sole manufacturers.