Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 24, 1888, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, —_— TERME OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily (Morning Edition) facluding SUNDAY BFB, One Year. Wovaesrinie v For Six Months ¥or Three Monthis . Tk OMANA BUNDAY BER, mailed to any address, One Y. s 2 OMANA OFFICENOS. UTEAND 16 FARNAM 8Tie NEW Y ORK OFFICE, ROOMS 14 AND 16 TiIBUNE BUILDING. WASHISGTON OFFICE, NO. 613 FOURTEENTH STRERT. CORRESPONDF All communications relatin torial matier should be add e Bre. b BUSINESS LETTERS, All business letters and remittances should be addressed to THE BEE PURLISHING COMPANY, OMANA, Drafts, checis and postofice orders to De made payable to the orier of the company. The Bee Pablishing Comyany, Proprictors. ROSEWATER, Editor £10 00 0 5 CF. tonews and edi- sed to the Eniton THE DAILY BEE. $worn Statement of Circulation. Btatoof Nebraska, i, o County of Douglas, { Robert Hunter, clork for The Omaha Ttee, @oes solemnly swear that the actual circulation of e DAILY BEE for the week ending Sep- tember 22, 158, was as follows Bunday, Sept. 1 Griv Monday, Sept. 17 Tuesday, Sept, 18 Wednesd, Thursday, Se| Friday, Scpt Baturday, § CEYTR . 2 Average....... Bworn to hefore me and subscribed in my prosance this 2:d day of September, A Soal. N. P, FEIL, Notary tate of Nebraska, | County of Douglas, | George B. Tzscnuck, being first duly sworn, de- oses and saysthat he is secretary of ‘The Beo ublishiog company, that the actual averigs duily circulation of TnE DALy DEE for the month of Feptember, 187, Was 14,540 coples; fo October, 1847, 1 cople embol 667, 15,226 coples o les: for Junuary, 1155, 17 T6e%, 16,6612 coples’ for March, 15 April, 158, 1 coples; for June, 1555, 3 coples 18,053 Coples; for Auguat, 18, | GEO. B, TZSCHUCK. Sworn to befors me and sub: Presence thissth day of & 9 coples: for ay, 1888, 15151 or July, 1485, It MUsT have been Mr. Cl grape-vine cable to China which in- formed him of the rejection of the treaty by the Chinese government. Tne democrats must be priming their guns with that new noiseless explc powder. Up to this time the comp: on their side has been very tame. It migur do the young war-lord of Germany good to read the diary of his father. Lausting peace and the liberal development of Germany were the ideals of the late Emperor Frederick. Cavort- ing ou a charger at the head of his columns seems to sutisfy the ambition of his son. NEBRASKA might well follow the ex ample of Missouri where state, count, and city funds ave deposited in those national banks which offer by public proposals the highest rato of interest. The interest on all such mouey should beplaced to the credit of the people and not, as is customary to-day, swell the perquisites of a state, county or mu- nicipal treasurer. Tue cause of civil service reform can- not be in high favor with the postmaster general. He recently removed two trusty republican postal route superin- tendents who had served the depar ment in New York for more than twenty years, in order to make room for two democrats. And still civil servico re- form is one of the cardinal principles of the administration. — T shortage of the grain crop of France may lead to the recurrence of bread riots during the winter. The Floquet cabinet has entertained the proposition to suspend the import duty on wheat in order to insure cheap food. This is a matter of considerable im- portance to wheat growers of the United States who will soon be called upon to make heavy shipments of breadstuffs to France. —— IT WAS not necessary for the New York Woild to inform the country that Mr. Cleveland 1s warmly in favor of the re-clection of David B. Hill. Every- body, unless it be the independents of New York, understands that there is a political partnership between these two aemocratic candidates, and everybody, save perhaps the independents, appre- ciates the extent of Mr. Cleveland’s abasement in making such a partuer- ship. It ought to insure the defeat of both, and there is a very fair prospect that it will. THe Mormon question is not alto- gether confined to Utah., Nevada and Idaho have laws on their statute books disfranchising all adherentsof the Mor- mon church and excluding them from the rights of suffirage whether they are po- 1lygamists or not. The constitutionality of this statute is to be tested in Nevada. Strange to say, the highest tribunal of Idaho has sustained the law. It isa serious question whether any territory can disfranchise men on account of thei creed. The natioual ant 3 laws do not go so far. Their citizen- ship is taken from them asa punishment for crime. They are not punished on account of their adherence to the Mor- mon religion. —— A RECENT examination of the coal de- posits of Colorado and Wyoming has been made by Dr. John Newberr) the geologist, in the interest of certain eastern coal magnates. The report calls attention to the rich coal resources which need only the investment of cap- ital for their full development. It has ofton been asked why these great car- bon fields have been neglected so long. Itisnot difficult to give an answer. Grasping railroads for years have kept their grip on a large area of the coal fields. Private enterprise and private capital could not compete with monopo- lies which controlled the transporta- tion toand from the mines. In conse- quence the development of the mineral resources of Colorado and Wyoming has been held in check, while railroads have grown fat by limiting the supply and fixing the price for coal. Compet- ing railroad lines now under construc- tion will soon raise the embargo on coal. ‘With improved transportation facilities and low freight rates, it will not take long for private capital and enterprise to fully develop the mineral resources of Wyoming and Colorado. < Aspeet of the Situation, : The campaign continues to weara most favorable aspect for the republi- eans. Unless the signs in all'quarters are deceptive the party is steadily gain- ing ground. Democratic hope of ac- complishing anything in the west seems wholly vanished nade to the chairman of tho campaign committee on his recent visit to Chiecago, and while all effort will not be abandoned 1n the states where the democratic managers professed to helieve a little while ago the party had a fighting chance, it will net be made on any such sc us had heen contemplated. The second thought has evidently led to the conclusion that the party can afford to wasto vone of its am- munition by using it outside of the doubtful states, with New York as the great battle ground. The intelligence from these states is la cept, pe N Con- scticut republicans confidently predict BUC in that state and give excellent ons for their confidence. From New York there is trustworthy testimony to the continued interest and enthusiasm of the republican campaign, which is being carvied on with gr vigor and courage. The repu- diation by the independents of the democratic candidate for governor is undoubtedly having an effect unfavor- able to the national ticket, for it is opening the eyes of many of the inde- pendent voters to the obvious absurdit of supporting Cleveland while opposing Hill. The facts that the governor could hardly have sccured a renomination without the acquiescencs of the presi- dent, that an understanding hotween them is confessed by the friends of ench, and that the supporters of Iill claim that Cleveland is friendly to his re-election, place the independ- ents in a dilemma from which a very large number ot them will escapo by withholding their votes from the democratic candidate for the presi- dency, even if they shall not vote for the republican candidate. In Indiana the battle is being waged with notable vigor, and the result in that state be close, but the probabilities are in favor of its being cavried by the ve- publicans. We referred a fow days ago to the outlook in the Pacific states, and see no reason to alter the conclu: then presented. It is probable that the republican na- tional committee is not so well off in a financial way as the democratic commit- tee. Its resources for obtaining mon are not so extensive. The disparity in this respect can be largely made up for by the zeal of republicans everywhere. As we have before said, the danger of over-confidence must be avoided, and all along the line the nextsix weeks should witness a steadily increasing vigor and activity in the republican campaign, as they doubtless will in that of the democracy. A Promisinz Fighting Ground. ght years ago Hancock’s plurali in West Virginia was alittle overel thousand. Four years ago Cleveland’s plurality was forty-two hundred. The congressional clections of two years ago showed a democratic plurality of only nine hundred. The decline of the dem- ocratic vote in West Virginin is thus shown to have been rapid, and there is no remson to suppose that it has not con- tinued to fall off, Intelligence from that state warrants the opinion that it is a most promising fighting ground for the republicans in this campaign, and they are mak- ing a very active canvass there. A correspondent of the New York World, who could have no motive for misrepresenting the situation in be- half of the republicans, describes the outlook as very favorable to republican success in the state. "Nheeling is a manufacturing center, and he found there a very strang sentiment aguinst the democratic tariff policy in which a number of manufacturers who hav hitherto been democrats heartily joined. He names half a dozen of the converted manufacturors who employ over a thousand men, and states that therc are others of less prominence. These manufacturers not only intend to vote the republican ticket, but are actively exerting their influence in its bebalf, and some of them will ex- tend finaucial assistance to the national committee. The whole tendency of the state, ac- cording tothe World correspondent, is strongly in favor of the protection s tem, due to its great possibilities in the way of natural wealth, The value of the coal and ironin the state has heen estimated by experts us greater than the supply of Great Britain. Itssup- ply of timber is enormous, sufficient, it has been said, to pay the uational debt twice over. These facts explain the sentiment of the manufacturers and a large part of the people against the ratic taviff policy, and the repub- s, under the able leadership of neral Gofl, are making every effort to ase this sentiment, apparently with good effect. As we have shown, the democratic plurality to be overcome is very small, and thers is evory reason to regard West Virginia a promising fighting ground for the republ Labor Endorses Miller. The action of the convention of the united labor party of New York, in en- dorsing the candidacy of Warner Mil- ler, is significant and important. It is significant as showing the drift of senti- ment among the largest organization of workingmen in the Empire state, and it is important because of the influence it will exert upon other workingmen, not only in New York but in a number of other states. Very likely no one knows the actual strength of the united labor party, but the fact is certain that it is the most numerous labor party in New York, and for that and other reasons the most influential, Its vote is a factor of very considerable consequence, cer- tainly suficient in a close election be- tween the political parties to give suc- cess to the candidate to whom it will be thrown, Its preference for the republi- can candidate gives hima very material advantage. This action of the united labor party under the dis- | MONDAY oan hardly fail to be advahtageous also to the national republican ticket, for, although the party has .a presic candidate of its own in the will undoubtedly be many of its mem- bers in New York cast their vote for Harrison for the samo principal r that they support Miller, namely, cause ho represents a national fiscal pol- be- | iey which they regard s most favorable rests, The effect of this action is therefore to strengthen the entire republican position in New York and add to the favorable outlook for the party in that ¢ to their int salt has formed in Engi like the tru i | i syndicate heen and which is very much sts in this country both in on and aims, It is elaimed that the salt industry in FEngland has become unprofitable, and efforts to put it on a paying basis have hitherto failed because of the secession of individual member: Hence the organization of the syndicate, which has obtained con- trol of most of the salt works of the kingdom and could carry out its pur- pose ol inereasing the price if it were not for the obstruction ofone man. This individual is John Corbett, the member of parliament who is known salt king, and is the owner of enormous work He has steadily refused to have anything to do with the syndicate, oc cupying in this respecta position n v similar to that of Claus Sprc ed the sugar trust of this and so long as Corbott holds salt of s the ckels to- country the *s plen of making the peo- ple pay move for its product must ha fire. The Ei h salt king has thus far been mor ssful in protecting the people than the Amorican king. though the course of the has not been without good effect is a little comfort in kno nopolistic combinations fined to the Unit out, sugar latter There ing that mo- not cou- THERE heavy short northwes make o tondency s to be no doubt of a 3 in the wheat erop of the Although yet too enrly to acear estimate, and the being always to exaggerate the extent of the damage done, still conservative men believe from the cvi- dences at hand that the erop will he one-third less than last year, a promised decrense that very greatly disappoints the expectations of a month ago. It is also said that the average quality will not be so high as last year. The St. Paul Pioneer Press, in referving to the situntion, figures that unless the ad- vanced price of wheat this yoar over that of last your has not reached tho maximum, which it thinks improbable, the farmersof the northwest wi nearly oqual results in a money roturn. v 0, but dearer bread for the meansa higher prico for o nmodity, of which the farmer have on whatover he must 510 benelit for anybody short erop of bre ITORY. Jottings. ilization is noted at Me- the plug hat. ide Rock is again in s band has disbanded en sold. etty, a well-known Neb: igs disappeared, leaving poorly provided for. An effort is being made to have a por ma neat hog market at Ponca, and a compan y is being organized for that purpose. J. M. Hawkins has purchased the Fairbury Democrat, changed its name to the Enter- prise, and will run it as a republican paper. Michael Pisher, a Humphrey man, had his arm wound up i eshing maching duy, mangling the limb in a terrible manne The ISdgar canning factory has putup 100,000 cans of corn, 53,000 cans of paas and beans, and will finish the season’s work with 50,000 cans of tomatoes. Prof. Foster, who was hired by the board ot education to teach the Chadron school and then notified that his services were not needed, has secured u judgment in his favor of 3600, Kight temale camp followers at the U States military camp in Dawes county, woro arrested and fined last week. General Hateh is bound to drive this dissolute class aw from the soldier: Albert Sammons, n Holt county boy dropped a gun frow his shoulder whila ou hunting the othe y, and received a charge of shot in his heel, which will necessitate the amputation of his foot. A four-year-old living at Ganby, swal- lowed u tin whistle last week, p fatal results, as the the local paper nounces that *‘the little fellow will use plaything in the other world.” The Washington county court house Blair was toand to ve in_an uusafe conditi lust week, and eightoen heavy timber pr were placed o nd the outside of the ing. It doesn't look very pretty, dungerous, Tom Shu lu the hard and Its stiu- City u large ited the but it isn't t, an old and entri of Beatrice, was found dead iu his c: the outer part of the city Friday nigat body was badly decompdsed aad he h dently dicd ina fit. He was a years old and unmarried. The David City Press has started in on its sixteenth year, and while Editor Casper ac- knowledges that in th he has | many things and corrocted S he has still failed to rectify his ono great error—he is still a rock-ribbed democrat, A novelty in the way of an_exhibition is proposed for the Lincoln county fair next mouth in the shape of a “‘roping’ contest. A 1 swindlers have worked a nees living near Fairmount, ling ag ra Of course the newly appointed had to sign o draft to se- cure tho royally, and then the swinglors skipped. warrants @ been issued for their arre Prospecting for coal at« Ponea ha abandoned, The conviction is being forced on the drillers that thoy have been duped by some wicked individual who “salted” the hole put down eight years ago. The Journal goes into paroxysms of grief and rage over the result, and says of the man who caused all the trouble: ‘‘His memory should be handed down to poste: on a vlatter of moiten brass as the champion liar of the un- scalped west. He deserves that the fing of fate pinch him, the palm of sleepless wrath slap him, the uutiring foot of Provideuce kick him, and the landlord of the hotel de Sheol brand him, And finally, when ho has been slapped, pinched, kicked and branded until he realizes the enormity of his condition, he deserves to be loaded into a red hot bombshell and fired by the kick of a 10,- 000 Lorse-power mule unto the boundless regions of interplanetary space." Towa. The Hawkeye advocates a well managed house as @ solution of the tramp prob- lem in Burlington. There are some great nlungcn in Wapello, izen recklessly bet another $10 that Cleveland would be re-elected. A potition is circulating in Clinton asking the mayor and city council to return to the regulation of the saloons by the license sys- tem, A young man named Ellis B. Vannest, who is under twenty-one years of age, appeared in the district court at uuanmn and pro- cured a divorce from a young lady whom he bad married over @ year #go aud who de- hyd:o-c been ntial | field there’| Ason | 1 | | serted him aftef five days ‘of married -biiss, The divarce was, granted and’ immediatel he procured a hicehse to wed Miss Carrio Hoft. A project to tinite the Baptist, Congre- gational and Prdsy an socicties in Toledo tailed, and each will continae to do good in the old way The state university's enrollment in the ollegiate department for September, 1888, is ninst 210 last tembe and in the law schoo X A letter toa Des Moines gentleman from iaptain Guston, of Ames, says that in pros pecting on his land near Ames he has struck a fine vein of coal and a fiftecn feet stratum of mineral paint A young lady Hying near Hopeville is said to have sustained life for thirty-three days upon nothing but water. At lust accounts she was still fasting. At times she appears very weak, then again she appears to have some strength, so she can sit up in bed and dress herself.' At this tune she is still alive numbor of the Ana, mosa goutry in attendance at the Mechanics- fair got left by investing too freely of sir cash assets on’ g foot r: One of the aners was a colored gentle ud it was supposed he had boen properly “‘fixed an easy vietors s his compotitor. parties who had put up their surplus on him heard of the alleged sell-out, and just before the race occurred one of his backers informed him that if he econd he would get very L of *shot-gun rted that a " No pastor has yet been secured for resbyterian church in Flandreau, 1t is now sottled that thore will b horss At Rapid City October 3, 4 and 5. ihe enrollment at the University of Da- kota, at Vermiliion, is nearly three hundred. Sports of Sioux Falls are trying to get up hunting party to o to Nicaragua next win ter for a month's hiunt. The Deadwood flouring mills have sever: and bushels of wheat on hand sud a t full capac . 1 liard whoat in the 13is- ity is the best i the torritory s holding for 2100 a bushel. of education has do- primary schools all seven years old before the 3 mit to the cn who will be Murch 1, 1589, Billy the Water actor gonfined in wrpced Wil rape, has escaped, an airing outside of the juil in charge of a deputy, 1 he made and got a; Wise was eaptured and hanged ntes whilst ol His stolen Cunacla the so was well connceted in Pe his old Tiome, John Fugelborg eaused the tegard for the violation of Sioux Fails, “ugelberz into tended to mak ent, and some £ od Fugoibor with a gun and ost of Knuto o local option rd, the novelist, is i ing a new story, for Stowe was able the 1y to partake of solid food for the first I Marion Craw Vallombrosa 3 Mrs. Harriot Bov other at that the prohi to reopen the si Justice ¢ court has e i Washingtor in stone and b farm house. W. T. Col il be able nber 20, \tes supromo v _house cularzed copy K of a typicel Now England nan & Co. of San ¥ ¥ the Unitod States in 186 imed to be due on an importation om Caleutta. The case has o to trial. az0.0f sixty- invalid t. Thomis® Her sp injured mean war, the effects i A, Proctor will and. Of hun ve - more scientific man he was unsur- conversations of the day pas: His fugitive and letters have famiharized outsiders with the deepost thou of experts. A ver tent force and a stimulating factor is extin- guished.’ Major Barttelot, the leader of the Stanley soarch expedition, who 18 reported to have been murdered in Africa, w member of the Royal fusilieps, which reziment he joined in 1 He served in the Afghan war of 1877-'80, took part in the defense of Can- dahar, and was present in the battle before that place. He was alio in the Bgyptian campaign of 152, and took part in the Nilo cawpiign of 1884785, William R. Merriam, the republican candi- date for governor of Miunnesota, entered Ra- cin llege at fifteen and was graduated at twenty-one. e led in as well as studios istorian and va torian of his ¢ r. De Koven's ite student. He is Supposed to he the youang bank president on record—he is thirly now. o has “worked up' fr 4 clerk in the I'iest Nationai bank of St. Paul 1o the head of that institution, et How to Pronounce It. “It should be observed,’ Joseph Thomas, in corvesponds to our V, 1y case, pronow therefore, Sebastopol is an inc :lling. Dr. Thomas is the autho who is followed in Wabstor's Dictionary, and is the editor of Lippineott’s Peonounc- ing Gazetear of the World, he young lady who right out loud” in last SUN- DA B is not correct in saying that ~Worcostor gives as the preforable pronounciation the plain English one of ‘Sebastopol’ accented on the second vowal.” Worcaster puts Sebastopol and Sevastopol in alphabeti- ilorder (pronouncing both with ac »nt on the second syliable), but gives no preforence to pronouncing it with the **b" to pronouncing it with the **v.” Dr. Thomas says that it is now gene ally acknowledged that the only r tional and sacisfactory way of pronounc- ing geour 1 names is to pronounce them ¢ ; as possible as they are prououic the nducated people of the respective countries to which they belong, pting only those few well known foreign names which appear to have acgu an plished English pronunciation, such as Paris, Florence, Most of these nameshave received ish form of spelling, to which an English’ pronunciation has says D Rssian nevoer in B smiled o natural ation of this word Sevastopol, that it may be stated that notonly the inhab- i town itself, but edu. whisre, invariably s it with the accent on the first and third syllables, In Englind, he says, al- though Sebastopdl (accent on second syllable) isa common pronounciation. pvastopol (accent on third) is said to gaining be ground among the educated classes. - Let the young lady read the remarks that preface Worcester's geographical vocabulary for the pronounciation of Paris, and other words, Is it “‘sheer affectation™ to pronounce this word Sevastopol (accont third syl- lable), according to Webstor's diction- ary, which is recognized as standard authority by the courts, by the govern- ment printing office, and which is rec- ommended by state superintendents of schools in thirty-six states and fifty college presidents? WEBSTER, i — Angostura Bitters, the celebrated ap- petizer, of equisite flavor, is used all over the world. Dr. J. G. B. Siegert & Sons, sole manufacturer ¥ po-. JOHNNY TILVER'S SAD DEATH. A Suspicion That It Was the Result of Criminal Carelessnoss. THE CAPITAL'S SUNDAY GUESTS: Proceedings to be Instituted Against the Burlington for Extortion— The Reduction Order—Lin- coln News Notes, LiNcoLy Bureavu or Tue dvAnA Ber, } The terrible death of Johnn on the Burlington track, noar Stock- well's brick yard, yesterday ovening, has created a profound sensation in Lincoln. The impression prevails that the tragedy was the result of a piece of stupid carelessness on the part of the engine wnd it is not without some foundation. Morris Turner, the young man who was in the wagon with Johnny, says that they were chatting along pleasantly, paying no attention to the track, for it was past the hour for trains, He further states that it was so calm that the moving train made but very little noiso, and that it was an aceident that he discovered its coming aund eseaped the same horrible fate. He indignantly repudiates the idea that the whistle was sounded at the signal post or as the train od the crossing at vound of the curve, and his statement is supported by the word of several traveling men who were on the teain, 1t is also certain that the engineer could have prevented the tragedy, whether on the out or in- side of the curve his post_in the en- gine had he been on the leokout ahead, ine struck the front wheels of d the boy and one one hundred feet, sed by the side of i condition Tilver of the mules ne when they were ek, tho hoy and the mule dead. that the fact that the train was time should have made the 1t and cautious. velers would be behind engineer It is cer- less cau- A 1o the ber she buried her husband an older son who is helple i stained a short time vailrond company Undertaker Roberts to prépar for burial, but the gathe ple refused to 1ot him touch the re until after the coroner and jury viewed them, beeause, as they put it, “pemoval might hide traces of the ac dent.” The Burlington and scab en- gineers have been sever criticized since the accident, perhups unjustly but the late intality on this v is be- coming notoriow « me 3 following jur, ing testimony” to-morrow the e of the iden Gran Kn- sign. orge Boselman, John B, Wright, Robc MeReynold John ittle and Bdwaed Goodman, LINCOLN'S SUNDAY ¢ ‘apital —H. W. Haberle, Chi- % Kuez, St. Joe; J. F. Per i 01 John A, Ladd, St. G. Rinfro and wife, Chicago; C. iral Cit . Gillespie YT and now s from 0. called the peo- ns had socured the menee ternoon Louis; Hostetter nsns Cit; Musgrove, idney: C. Linn, Hastings; L. 1. son. At the Windsor—H. F. Hubbard Louiss L, Masou, St. J H. G hardt, Chicage . J. Sickne . Joes orge 11 Isman, Johnstown, Pa.;J. N, an, Nebraska City: George J.Cote, St. Lonis; George H. IHoover, Roch Meonnell, Chicago; Georg BufTalo; Irvine Ellis, Leba- non, Mo.; Will Clouston, Omahag D. E. Humilton, Chic 2d Straus, Cin- cinpatiy I, , St Joe; 1. M. Baker, At ony W. 1 s, Lewis. ton, Idahoy €. L. MecDonald, Kansas City; R. L. Dunevan, Chicago; A. B. Carson, Kansas City, J. Stembach, Louisville;M. 8. Woodward,Des Moines; W. J. Conner, Chicago; T. J. Ritten- house, Connersville, Ind.; J. K. Weir, St. Louis; D, L. Carpenter, New York; J. Markwitz, St. Lou W. D. Stoc man, Chicago: R. C. Miller, St. Louis; W. N. Decker, Omaha; B, B. Lyon, St. Louis: C. J. Ullman, New Yor H. 1 Goldsmith, Omah . Tibbetts, Chi cago: C. L. Rich and wife, New Brunswick, Canada W. Whitmore, Chicag . B Patte ew York: J. B, Cooley, St. Joseph: ( i engo; W. W. | H. Catlin, Chi Louisy mlins AL Opohts—H., Linton, K Chicagos Mycoff, Chic Moines; M. 1 G, Ralsh John Jensen Jolmson, Kansas City: J. Griflith, Nel- St Leich- Spencer, . Auburny John ; W. Buebe, Des Binghom, Chicago; G. . Ashland; Wolfe, F. A, Pollavd, St. Joseph; and Willinm Harr Larrison, Oma W, A, Or . Curtist W. T. Runyon, Des Moines: Mrs. M. M. Monsen and Mrs, “lla Lee, Marion, O.: George W .Clark, Isaac Moths, St Joe; Wobster, Chicagos C. Gill, St. Loui Charles Rinlke: 7 John M. Struck, Kansas Milwaukec; Johu puth Bend, Ind.; T. H. James, Kuan vi T. D. Querean, Chicag 5 s, Detroits Kaunsas City: M. T. W. MecCullough, Mile: Springfield, lgeport, Conn.y Lows; C. Q. Alber- Richardson, St St. Louis; N. 8. Charles Shaifes, Mau lowa City: C. M. Kinnc Chic Scot! ston, Chicago; Joseph; A. H. & d, Minneapoli icago, PRINCIPLE NOT MONEY. A. J. Gustin has engaged an at- and will institute proceedings in veplevin to secure possession of a bill of hardware, purcha aveland, O., the shipment of which was guaranteed to him at 62 cents on a through rate, The Burlington sought to collect 81 cents yestorday, on the arrival of the goods, to which Mr. Gustin strenuously objected, and suit will be instituted to- morrow upon the guarantee, not only to obtain possassion of the goods but to test the validity of the agreement en- tered into with the railroad company for the shipment of the goods. The an- noyance of the overcharge does not fig- ure, but the prin@iple of the thing in a small deal. WAIT UNTIL AFTER THE ELECTION, It comes as a gentle rumor that the state board of transporwation will not consider the “reduction order” again until after the election in November. There is reason in some kinds of mad- ness, but the citizens of Lincoln can see none in this, Invastigation leads to the statement that tae roads have not yet given any manner of answer to the information sought as to the relative cost of the different roads in the state, wunted by the hoard very ba or not, TitE BEp representati positive means of knowing. but it is avi- dent that such information as is'sought by the late order of the board cannot be furnished by the ronds in a long time, and it will give plenty of time for the roads to hedge, so that rate reductions by the board will not be advisable. But the attorney genoral says that he proposes to agitate the question from time to time, untilsuch disposition is made of thera nestiol as will tend to do the people of the st some good. CITY NEWS AND NOTES, Hon. Ed Roggen and Dick Johnson returned from Omaha this morning. They went to the m s to attend sing exhibition of the sicge of topol. The First regiment of the uniform rank, K. of P., will attend the corn palace celebration at Sioux City, Ia. the 26th, The boys wili go over Burlington, Walton was committed J of Warden rs from Dodge county yesterday, for burglar, He is in on an eight months sentence. George H. Clarke returned to Lincoln last evening from an eight months trip through the south. He was glad to get out of the panie stricken country. The fall term of the Lancaster district ourt has been postponed from October 15 to November 12, Judge IMield con- sented to this at the expressed wish of the solid bar of the county. This gives the boys an_opportumity to indulge in polities to their hearts' content. Elder Waupiere, of Hastings, supplied Elde Newnan's pulpit at the Fivst Christian churceh to-day, both morning and evening. N KISSING. A Subject Kver O1d, Yot Ever New, Discuss Kissing o Adam It ‘o in the seriptu ence, submission and alfection. The osculum pucis, or kiss of peace, was anciently given by the faithful ono to the other as a testimony of the cor- diality of affection. Aftér the priest ven the salutation of peace the ‘on ordered the people tosaluto with sly kiss, 0 to this mem- of certain sects kiss cach other, in accordance with the injunction, **Salute the brethren with o Kiss.” Henry I1. The Epoch: rsin has been in cissed live in frequently re- s as indicating gauge of 4 fevt 83 inches should be used on all new roads, except those ' already sorved by ‘the 7-foot. gauge. Tha first German road, from Nuremberg to. Furth, was built with o 4 feet 8§ inches gauge, which is now used by the principal ronds of German though there is a very consider mileago of narrower gauges, main metre, or 3 feet inches, il conters of 4 foet 11 inches, which has led to somo slight variations of wigos, according to' rail width, The lator roads have beon built with a gauge of 4 fect 81 inches. Holland began with a 6-foot 4-inch gauge, but has now tered all its roads to 8 feet 8} inclhes. The railrond congress at Berne in May, 1886, adopted the following resolutioi, which is to apply to Germany, Austria: Hun I'ra witzor- land: “The gaug ilronds mons- of England refused to give Becket the kiss of peace, the usual pledgo of rec- oncilintion in vogue in 1169, There are historical kisses on record, some of which were important enough to shape political events. It is supposed that the kisses exchanged by Antony and Cleopatra and Henry VIILL and Anne Boleyn shook an empire and de- stroyed a religion. When Cardinal John of Lory presented to the Duchess of Savoy she cave him her hand to kiss,at which the groat churchman became indignant. Tl not be tr »d in this manner,” he angrily said: ©1 kiss the queen, my mis- and shall 1 not kiss you, who ar y o duchess?” Though the proud little Portugese princess resisted he kissed her 1y on the mouth. ught his seeretary S daughter at mid- . She carried him home on he back, 8o that his footsteps might not 1)31 aced in the snow. The emperor b of it.and made her take him for the rest of her life. Voltaire was once publicly the young and lovely Couniess do V ar Georginna, Duchess of Devon- hire, gave Stecle, a buteher, a kiss for his vote, and the Duchess of Gordon, just as handsome, re sruited o regiment in asimilar manner. In ancient Rome a kiss was a religious ceremony. The nearest friend of a dying person ceived his soul” by a kiss, for the soul was supposed to 1 the body throuzh | the lips. Pliny intimates that the Roman women began to de when they indulged in indiscriminate kissing. The poets knew how to appreciate kisses and classitied them to some ex- tent. There is the stolen kiss— | The kiss {n:lwh'd hasty from the sidelong maid. Thompson oxpresses it. There is the clinging kiss of which Byron speak A long, long kiss, a kiss of youtl and love. Then there is the soothing 8 re- ferred to by Lady Mary Wortley Mon- tagu: Be plain in dress and sober in your diet; In short, my dreary, kiss me and be quiet. tial to kisses fr though in T not object to an sed by LV ght he doc ar, for he s Then come kiss me, sweet-and-twenty. Lord Lanslowne, in his “Heroic Love,” was a believer in the instan- tancous exchange: The kiss you take is paid by that you give; The joy is mutual, and I'm still 'in debt. Thomas Davis’ **best” 1 must have used him pretty cleverly, don't you think? Kisses and welcome you'll find here before you, And the oftener you come the more Plladore you. Cumpbell, it would s his swoeetheart’s first Kis: How delicious is the winning Of a kiss atlove’s beginning Thomas Carew didu’t go into rapture over the permissiof 1do not love thee, for those soft, Red-coval lips I've kissed so oft. Charlotte 1. Bates has her fling at kisses in an apostrophe of intese regret- fulness: All the kisses that T have given [ grudge from my soul to-day, And of all I have éver take ild wipe the thought away, of the soulless flirt is scored in the subjoined couple by Parne Then in a kiss she breath’d her various arts, Of trifling rettily with wounded hearts. Probubly no verse on kissing is more sprightly than the one by Leigh Hunt, founded upon an incident which befell him when he bore Carlyle news thatthe government had just granted the great Scotchman a pension of £300 sterling a year: Jenny kissed me when we sat Jumping from the chair we sat f, who love to get our list, put them in! m, never forgot T'm growing old; but b Jenny kissed me! There exists an old social custom of claiming a pair of gloves by a kiss given when asleep. Allusion to this occurs in Seott’s Maid of Perth.” Cuther- ine Glover, on St. Vulentine’s day found Henry of Wynd asloep in a chair in her father’s house. She stole a ki from him, thercby choosing him as he valentine, and winning a pair of gloves. fler fathey, who was a glovemaker, says: “Thou knowest the maiden who ventures to kiss a sleeping man wins of him a pair of gloves. Come to my booth. Thou shall have a pair of delicate kid- skin that will exactly suit her hand and arm.” —_— Raflroad Gauges of the World. From a comprehensive review of the history and developmont of the railroad gauges of the world by Herr Claus, in Glaser’ , the following partic- ulars in regard to the gauges of the world are extracted. After a battle of the gaugos—4 feet 6 inches, 4 feet 8} inches, 5 feet and 7 feet—it was agreed in England about 1545 that a uniform ured between the inner odges of the il heads shall, for railroads built or tered as to gauge aftor this resolution takes effect, not be loss than 4 feet 8§ inches on steaight line )¢ more than 4 feet nehes on curve: In Russia the first road opened in 1538 from St. Petorsburg to Zarskoe-Sclo, about sixteen miles, had a six-foot gauge. When the second road was made in 1842 from St. Petersburg to Moscow, the czar, at the instance of our countryman, Major Whistlor, fixed the ian gauge at five feet, which in- @ over tho English guage was thought desirable for locomotive pur- posed. Major Whistier thought as wide g as six f uncalled for. Thoe uge has continued the stand- ard in Rus: but that it was made dif- ferent from the German gauge for mili- tary reasons seems to be proved by the fact, instanced by Herr Claus, that the lines built under impoerial direction from Warsaw to Vienna,and from War- saw to Bromberg (the Berlin), were rried out with the German gauge. o history of American gauges is »lly and intelligently reviewed, with- reference to the narrow gauges, the author confining himself to the standard gauges of the world for the most part. Lrcland has a standard gauge of 5 foet inches; Spain and Portugal, 5 foet 6} weden and Nor have the 4 foot 81 inch gauge over the majority of theiv railroads, but 20 per cent of tho Swedish roads have other gauges, vary- ing from 2 fect inches up to 4 feet. Norway has kilometers of standard gauge and 970 kilometers of 8 feet 6 inch gaug In Asia, of the British Indian roads with a collective length of 1£,866 miles, about 7,450 miles have a gauge of 5 feet 51 inches, the remainder being divided among six gauges from 2 to 4 feot. Of the narrow gauges, the most provalent, embr: the meter, 3 The Ceylon railronds andard Tadian gauge. The n tran spian lines have the sian standard gauge of 5 feet. In Asin Minor the line Mudania Rrussa has a gauge of 8 feet 7¢inches. The island of Java has 449 miles of feet 6 inch igeand 126 with 4 feet 84 inches, In Japun, with the ception of an eight-mile piece begun in 18 with a auge of 2 feet 9 inches, all the roads In “Afr amounting to 8} inch gauge. n railroads, , are of the 4 feot giers and Tunis, with 4, had the 4 feet 8} nch stan 11 except 155 miles, which had a 3 feet 74 inen gauge. T English Cape Colony had in 1855, 1,5: miles, all of 8 feet 6 inch gauge. In Ameviea, apart from the com tively small mi o of United roads with 3 foot gauge, practically tho whole of the United States and Cana- dian railronds are of 4 foot 84 inch to 4 foot 9 inch gauge. In Mexico, in 1854, miles were 4 foot 8} ch, and 944 8-foot gauge. In Brazil, at the end of 1884, the vore 859 miles of 5 foo 3 inch guage and 4194 miles of various gauges between 2feet and 4 foet, 7 inches, sothat this may be considered the standard gauge of Brazil. In Australin the different colonies, rather singularly,have different gauges, that of New South Wales being 4 feet 8% inches: Victoria, 5 feet inches: outh Australia, 5 feet 8 inches and feet 6 inches, and the other colonies 8 feet 6 inches. The total mileage in operation in the world at the end of 1885 was 803,084 miles. Of this length, 74 per cent were of the 4 feet 84 inch to 4 feer 9 inch standard, 12 per cent had larger gauges and 14 per cent smaller, Sl Novel Tramway Design, Chicago Herald: Something ncvel in the way of an elevated rond is on ex- hibition by model in D. C. Cregier’s office 1n the Rialto building. The i icorge 5. Curtis, is a practical machinist and has boen a resident of Chicago for thirty years. He has spent soveral years in perfecting his railway, which, he thinks, posscsses advantages over all others, either as a surface or an clevated road. Tts distinetive feat- ure is that it is a wheel track road. The wheels are on the road instead of on the car wacks, and the cars rest on them and run over them, The wheels ave placed three or four foet apart, and the ear which runs over them, on what might be ealled ivon runt rests on ten or a dozen of them at once. The lo- comot is provided with similar run- ners which sustain its weight, and with drive wheels which *‘gear with the track wheels,” Mr. Curtis says his road ean structed and operated much cheaper than other roads; that the cars cannot possibly leave the track and are com- paratively noiseles: The weight of the locomotive and ears is reduced more than one-half, and is so distributed that the tramway need not be built as heavy and strong i is nocessary with othor roads, and will not cost half as much. Fooling a Conductor, Conductor Ambr suys the New York Sun, who ran for nine years be- tween New York and Boston, had a good gag played on him tho other night, and he enjoys it as much as the vest of the boys. = He runs the midnight Shore Line express to Providence, ind often carries some queer pussengors. One night last week a half ticket was handed to him by a full-grown man wearing a full beard. Ambrose looked at the ticket, then at the man,and then he nearly fainted at the display of so much nerve. “See here, my friend, you'll huve to pay more,” he said, The passenger didn’t 1ift his eyes from his paper. Ambrose touched him on the shoulder and repeated his demand for the remuinder of the fare adding that he Vi surprise to see o full-grown man trying to palm himself off as a boy. The pas- senger dropped his paper and began an nimated conversation with his fingers, HCan’t you hear?” asked the conductor, The déaf mute wiggled his fingers frantically to say that he could not. Ambrose couldn’t speak that language, 80 he d on. The deal man streteched out in the scat and went to sleep. When the train rolled into Prove idence Ambrose opencd the door and yelled,"* Providence! Providence!” The deal mute was the first to hear the an- nouncement, although to all appenrs ances he was sound asleep. Ashe passed the astonished conductor a broad smile adorned his face. ‘‘Well, that's a good one on me,” exclaimed the- victimized joker. “I've had about every gag tried on me, but this one takes the cake.” be con-