Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 27, 1888, Page 4

4 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 d THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. i1y (Mo rnlnn Mm:.m 1ncludlng HUNDAY, p’!y’u m’-o Ye 410 00 5 00 250 For bk Monthi.. For Threo Months THR OMANA BUNDAY T3k mailed to nny ¥ address, One Y ea 2 00 OMAA O FFICH,NOK, 618 A% 018 FARN A STRERT. EW YORKOFFICE, ROOMS 14 AND 16 TRIBUN S BUILDING, WASHINGTON OFFICE, No. 013 FOURTEENTI STREET. CORRESPONDEN Al communications relating to nows and edi- torial utier should Dbe addressed to the Eptton OF THE BEE, BUSINESS LETTERS, All business letters and remitiances shonld be addressed to Tue BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMA Dratts, checks and postoffice orders to be made payablé to the order of the company. The Bee Pablshing Company, Proprictors 1. ROSEWATER, Editor. THE DAILY BF $worn Statement ol Circulation. Stateof Nebraska, 1o County of Douglas, { ™"+ Robert Hunter, clerk for The Omaha Tee, v swear that the actual circulation JAILY BEE for the week ending Sep- 2, 1848, was as follows: Tuesday, Bept. 18 Wednesday, # Thursda; Friday, Batur; Average. .. . ROBERT HUNTER. Sworn to hefore mo and subscribed in my presence this #d day of September, A, D 1855 Seal. Y pr FH NG P, e | County of Douglas, { % & George 11, Tzschuck, heing first duly sworn,de- ro)l nd says that lm is secretary of The ilee Publishiug company, that the actual average daily circulation of THE DALY BEE for the month of Nplumlmr IN‘.' 14,344 coples; fox October, 187, 14,551 N 18, 1680 coptos for D 5 fen: for January, 15, 15,206 copies; f IM IfiMF’(‘nle‘ for March, IF&8, Hl! April, 185 18 7idcopies: Tor Fit Sworn to before me and subsc ribed in my Presence thissth day of September, A. D, 1888, N.P. FEIL Nnmry Public Wit tre tail and pulling China's queue, the de- partment of state nas'nt been so flust- ered for many a long day. WONDERFUL man is this Bdison! He not only bridles the lightming in the clouds, but he thinks he holds in his hands a simple remedy to kill yellow fever microbes. I¥ Grover Cleveland, the “Falstaff of destiny,” thinks he can secure re-elec- tion by blustering with Canada, and by beating up a war with Moxluu, he is mightily mistaken. THe talk 0{ putting Mr. Van Vyckon the democratic ticket to oppose Mr. Connell is the veriest bosh. Mr. Van ‘Wyck would not accept the nomination for congress even if tendered to him on a silver platter. WE do not hear so much democratic praise in favor of Cleveland’s retalia- tory policy as we did. Tt is the habit of the unterrified to cheer lustily at every- thing done by their leader, and then to lapse into a disgusted, disgruntled and deep silence. THE doctors and the undertakers have arranged to play a game of base ball. The railvoad ticket agents have chal- lenged the press gang, and the real es- tate agents are aching to doup the champions. What has Omaha done to be thus afllicted? E—— GENERAL FISKE and his prohibition supporters will be glad to learn that the hop crop this year is small. But their joy isshort-lived when they contemplate the possibilities of the quantity of Juice which can be extracted from the enormous corn crop. SECRETARY FAIRCHILD is paying a pretty steep price for his bonds. Last week he purchased two million five hundred thousand dollars worth of 4 per cents at a premium of thirty cents on the dollar. Paying three-quarters of a million dollars tribute in order to in- duce bondholders to sell their securities 48 reckless extravagance. WE DO not obtain much insight into the yellow fever scourge in the south from the dispatches sent, for they are rather confusing than otherwise. But it does seem a strange coincidence that there should be a similar spontaneous outbreak of the same malady at San- tiago de Cuba at the extreme eastern end of Cuba. Is it in the air, this yel- low fever? E———— EveRry foreigner who desires to vote at the November election in Nebraska must take out his declaration papers be- fore October 6. This is the law of the state. The constitution requires a resi- dence of six months in the state, and a declaration to become a citizen of the United States at least thirty days be- fore election Toe wan whom Mr. Cleveland en- dorsed for district attorney of New York has just been summoned before the courts of that city on a charge of wrong- fully withholding the money of an es- tate for sixteen years. ButColonel Fel- lows has been too good alieutenant among the rank and file of the demo- oratic party to have his standing af- fected in Mr. Cleveland’s eyes. IT 18 impossible not to regard the rumors of fighting at Rio Grande City on the line between Texas and Mexico with some apprehension. The danger isless in the situation itself than in the fact that Secretary Bavard isa weak creature given to bullying whenever he thinks he can do so with impunity. And he may convert a border skirmish into a misunderstanding from which there can be no alternative save a war with Mexico. . em——— How poEs President Cleveland relish being stabbed in the back by Editor Dana of the New York Sun at every op- portunity? The peppery Dana ealls upon My, Cleveland to testify hisiater- est in the efforts made by Governor Hill of New York for re-clection by u de- clded and emphatic ackunow!ledgment of his support. It is quite evident, how- ever, that Cleveland dreads any en- dorsement of the candidacy of Hill, as a burnt ohild dreads the fire. Politician or Statesman? The New York World has obtained the opinions of a large number of con- gressmen, including representative men of both political parties, regarding Pres- ident Cleveland, This symposium may not possess any very great value, since the views are necessarily more or less colored by partisan bias, but it has a tain intorest as showing the impres- sion which Mr. Cleveland has made on the minds of the men who have had the best reason and thé best opportunity to study his qualities of mind and charac- ter. The conspicuous fact in the presentation is that most of theso congressmen esteem the president u much better politician thau states- man. There are some, of course, who profess to regard hima great success in both. There ave others who pretend to think that he is very little of a poli- tician and very much of astatesman, But the larger number entertain the opinion that Mr. Cleveland has not de- veloped very marked statesmanship, while he has been notably successful in ing and practicing the arts and s of practical politics. One re- an representative said: “As a statesman Mr. Cleveland is a failure. As a politician he is a success. Pro- fessing to have convictions, they do not stand in his wayf they constitute a bar- rier tosuccess.” A democratic represent- ative, after implying that Mr. Cleveland had not had the study, observation and large experience nece: to states- manship, said: *“Asa politician he isa success. He knows what to do in an emergency, and has the faculty of turn- ing apparent adversity to a good ¢ count.” There was much more said in a similar vein, coupled with a proper recognition of Mr. Cleveland’s strong will, energy and industry. If Mr. Cleveland is anything he is a politician. A review of his record made in the most gencrous and candid spirit must show that he is not a statesman. Where is the evidence of statesmanship? In what direction has he given any sign durving his public career of an ability and breadth of view higher than that of the politician seeking the advance- ment of personal ambition? In what respect as governor of New York did he show any of the qualities of a states- man? That state never had a more commonplace executive, and it is notor- ious that during Cleveland’s incum- bency the administration was largely directed by a few bosom politicians who had achieved his confidence, chief among whom was the late Daniel Man- ning. Mr. Cleveland, however, devel- oped an ambition, and improved his opportunity to learn something of prac- tical politics, of which he knew very little when he became governor. Until this time Mr. Cleveland, so far as the world knows, had given no con- sideration whatever to affairs of state. He was a very ordinary lawyer, and his general intellectual equipment was by no means great. How could such a man develop into a statesman in a public life of five years, having at the beginning absolutely no knowledge of statecraft ? ‘We think of Webster and Clay and Cal- houn as representative statesmen of this country,and Gladstone and Bismarck of Europe, but no one who cares for his judgment would associate Mr. Cleve- land with any of these. He has originated no new policy and carried his party to the sup- port of npo mnew principle. He did have the courage to shape a course for the party regarding the tariff, and succeeded in uniting it in support of the policy he outlined. But there was nothing new in this policy, and since it was proclaimed Mr. Cleveland has found it expedient to exphin to the country that he didn’t mean what the general judgment of the country ac- copted as his meaning. It is the polit- ician, not the statesman, that balks and hedges in this fashion. What sort of statesmanship has been shown in the management of the financial affairs of the government, when the money in the treasury that should have gone di- rectly to the people was deposited to swell the gains of the banks, and to-day the treasury is paying four per cent more for bonds that it could have purchased them forlast January? Where is the statemanship that has distin- guished our international relations, which under the present administration have humiliated the country as it was never before humiliated? And so with respect to the whole course of President Cleveland there is not to be found a single evidence of statesmanship. But on the other hand the proofs of the politician’s planning ave abundant. They are found in the open violations of the civil service law that have been permitted in the foisting on the pub- lic service of men having neither capacity nor character at the demand of political boss i the course that has recently been pursued in turning out competent and faithful republican clerks in the railway mail service to make places for democrats: in the effort to increase the complications of the con- troversy with Canada; in the course pursued regarding the Chinese question, and in other respects familiar to all in- telligent observers of eveuts. Noris Mr. Cleveland an altogether skillful politician, for he has never been ablo to conceal the motive of his conduct. The idid judgment of the country is not in doubt as to Mr. Cleveland’s position as a public man, and it does not regard him us a statesman, Cheap Campaign Capital. At the outset of the campaign, the chairman of the democratic committee announced that the canvass was to be free from all personalities so far as the democracy were concerned, and purely educational in its character. The party organs professed to beagreeable to this, and except a few misstatements regard- ing the republican candidates that were easily shown to be such, they have quite generally coniined themselves to a dis- cussion of the campaign issues. The temptation to get out of this decent and respectful course has, however, been strong, and whenever an opportunity has bresented to make a drive at Mr. Blaine in particular it has been fully improved, Such an opportunity was furnished a few days ago in the publication of a let- ter of Mr. Conkling, written nearly twenty-three years ago to a New York politician who is now an octogenarian, in which the writer said some bitter things against Mr. Blaine. The letter was written shortly after the time when Blaine and Conkling had their encoun- ter in the house of representatives which caused the breach between them that never was closed, although many efforts were made by mutual friends to effecta reconciliation. The old politician towhom the letter was written was an ar- dent friend of Mr. Conkling, and conse- quently became an enemy of Mr. Blaine. He now intends to vote agsinst Harri- son on the assumption, wholly gratuit- ous, that if the republican candidate is elected Mr. Blaine will occupy the chief place in his cabinet. The main object in publishing the letter at this time is to influence the friends of Mr. Conkling against the re- publican candidate for_the presidency, and generally the New York demo- cratic organs have given it all practi- cable prominence. We do not helieve, however, that such cheap campaign capital will be found to yield very large vesults. Mr. Blaine las ve properly declined to discuss the letter, saying that nothing could induce him to enter into a controversy over Conk- line's grave. Itis to be regretted that the old friend of the dead statosman did not have this proper considoration for the man who reposed confidence in him, for the publication of the letter is more likely to harm the memory of Mr. Conk- ling than to injure the possible polit- ical aims of Mr. Blaine. The whole country knew the hostility that existed for more than twenty years between these two republican leaders, but the death of one of them should have obliterated all the memory of it, and it is a grave and unpardonable wrong to the dead to drag into a political canvass expressions made almost a generation ago in confi- dence, and which undoubtedly he nov intended should be given publici ‘We have no doubt every sincere fr! of Mr. Conkling will repudiato an which can do his memory no good, which cannot injure Mr. Blaine or in the slightest degree influence the course of the campaign, and which only serves the purpose of supplying a little cheap campaign ammunition to divert the attention of democratic organs in New York from more serious matters. BUILDING Inspector Whitlock plumes himself on living up strictly to the city ordinances relative to the construction of buildings, but he persistently ignores the plain letter of the law as laid down in the charter for metropolitan 8. The charter vests the power of building inspection in a hoard composed of three members, two of whom at least shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of the business of the board. This hody is constituted of the building inspector, city engineer and chief of the fire d partrrent. In defiance of the Jaw, Mr. Whitlock has monopolized the oflice and ignored his colleagues on the board, which is never called together and has had no part in building inspection. Such arbitrary action on the part of a public officer lays him justly liable to criticism, to use a mild expression. It makes void all his acts which the chavter expeets the board to perform, and leads to abuses of power of which the permit to the New York Life company to permanently occupy a public thoroughfure for private use is a strik- ing example. It 18 high time for property owners and taxpayers to combine for their own protection. They must hire their own inspectors if they expect the paving and sewering for which they are taxed to be done according to specifications. They must retain their own legal counsel to invoke the power of the courts if they wish to protect themselves against im- position and fraud. No reliance can longer be placed upon contractors of public works. No faith can be put upon the integrity of city inspectors. The few officials in the service of the city who are trying to do their duty are laughed at for their pains and are powerless to enforce obedience to law and obliga- tions. The people can expect no re- dress when taxpayers sit helplessly by and allow themselves to be robbed. Let an example be made of some of these robbers. An appeal to the courts by property owners directly interested in public improvements will huve a most salutory effect. BASE BALL in the west is by no means the one deep, soul-absorbing pursuit which it appears tobe in the east, if the loeal papers may be trusted. In Brook- 1yvn and Boston and Philadelphia, three cities which plume themselves on being intensely American, it is considered a solemn duty to be posted about the re- spective nines, and every male inhabi- tant from seven to seventy is expected to be able to criticize the battery and the run-getting abilities of every mem- ber of the team. This will pass away, as other fads have done The farmers of Nebraska must have noticed that as the price of silver as- cends, so does the price of wheat. It is known to all who have studied the sub- ject, that if the secretary of the tre ury would coin the full amount of silver every month, which he has power to do by act of congress, silver would be at par, and wheat would go up with it, But what hope is there of such #isdom under a democratic president who hates silver, and a subservient sec tary who has no convictions of his own. THE new industrial exposition of Augusta, Ga., which was to be inau- gurated October 10, has had its opening postponed until November 8. The change is due to the terrible flood which swept through the city recently. Right on the heels of this disaster came the yellow fever affliction, casting its pall over the entire south. In spite of these discouraging aspects the people of Augusta are going right ahead with their enterprise. Such pluck deserves encouragement and success. § e e e A Sucker State, Pioneer Press. The remarkable ease with which one James Edward Bedell raised the sum of $250,000 on pothing painfully illustrates the fact that in ow York some men are born suckers, some achieve suckerhogd, yhile others, by a cer- tain idiosyncrasy of nature, have suckerhood thrust upon them. T T A Sunday Campaign. Globe Democrat. The spectacle ofea president holding a con- ference on Sun@y with the bosses of his party for the pufose of promoting his own interests as a canflidate for re-election is the Iatest novelty of fhe campaign; and it is also an additional reason why all good citizens hould unite in bringing the political carcer of Grover Cleveland, to a close at the earliest opportunity. Where He Could Watch Him, San Franciseo Chronicle, Mr. Cleveland says in his letter of accept- ance that he has “an unalterable hatred of the schemes of trusts, and that he counts on checkiog their baleful results,”” We suppose that his object when he put the son-in law of Standard Oil Payue in lns cabinet. He wanted to keep Whitney, the bold, bad man, where he could wateh him - Civil Service l)(‘!(‘rll'll. Cleveland Le Now the warmest suppc srtors of the Clove- land administration acknowledge that the rause of ¢ vice reform has been de- d by the president and his subordinates, rted openly and brazeuly, in spite of foe- ble protestations, now and then, of regard the principles to which Cleveland owes al prominenc The New York Post, the ablest newspaper organ of the mugwump, has flatly declared that the ad- ministration is utterly discredited touching the question of civil sl reform, and hundreds of undisputed facts coming to light in various parts of the country h shown the complete supremacy of the spoils- n in the national government. 2 - The President Still In a Hole. Chicago Tribune. The president is still in the hole which he digged for the republicans, and unless he can pull himself out by his boot straps, he will have to remain there. The reasons why China refused to ratify the treaty, which the administration declines to make public, have at last 1eaked ont. It now turns out that had not the ofMicious Scott rushed his bill through with such unseemly haste the Chinese gov- ernment would have ratified the treaty: but when the Chinese minister cablod that the house had passed the treaty and subsequently that it had gone through the senate also, no other resource was left that goverament but s his hole. sign the bill the situation ra- old and undesirablo order of If he sigusit he convicts his ad- ration of an unfriendly act towards a ign government, involving a breach of courtesy which is tantamount to an insult, andall the morean insuit bec we ware on terms of cordial intercourse at the time it oy Colleria Morbus. Waslington Critic. um ol orrow, friend Thur How go.the augurics? ‘Thurmanicus —They greatly favor us, Gro s much as 10 to & Groverius—"Tis woll, how art thou ¢ g Thurmanicus (lightly)—As skittish as a colt unbroke, Groverins. But yet withal a little weary from sitting up lust night witi one Colleria Morbus. Groverius (jealously) —And wio, is this Colleria, so fair! Anoth Port Huron maids? Methinks, Thurmanicus, the kisses that thou kisseth have tongues to tell the other maids wnkissed the story of thy ot are dumb when they do hurmanicus; and prithee, oune of those Thurmanicus — Groverius, your— Groverus —OfF I'm on to you. B disposed. I doubt me not the Morbus family is quite large, and.votes for kisses is such fair ex- change I would not have you lose a vote for worlds. Get gone, Thurmanic you're off me no offs, Thurmanicus. v POLITICAL POINTS. There are but fourteen Catholics house of representative: “Every female womau” is the way an In- diana senator introduced a bill into con- gress. A Kansas City man estimates that $1,000,- 000 will be paid out for campaign oratory this fall. Mr. Charles H. Treat is a candidate for congress in Delaware., The bumwmers of both parties will go for him, Miss Bertha Miller, fifteen years of age, is making spoeches for the assistant dewo- crats in Kansas. Bertha is too young to know any better. ‘The Swedish-American republican club of Chicago has had over 100 porsons natural- ized in the last few wecks. They will all be expected to vote the repuolican ticket. Ex-Governor Foster of Ohio announces his candiducy for the senatorial seat now held by Henry B. Payne, whose term expires nexu year.” Foster's republican _competitors will be Governor Foraker and Congressmen But terworth und McKialey, There seems to be some anti-prohibition victory at the primar, i last weel in the hitch about the Atlanta, Ga., lation candidates 'he democrati cutive cowm- mittee claims that the primaries wero not properly couducted, nnd refuses to declare the result. Graham, Mo., cently had a novel barbecue re- Members of the three political par- emocrats, republ aud prohioi- —met for three days and devoted a y cach to the presentation of their several doctrines. Nineteen oxen were slaughtered and 2,000 persous ate of the flesh and heard the specches. B 2 STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings. The Southern Nebraska Medical society met at Hebron Wednesday. A large numberof steers are being shipped into Hroken Bow from the northwest for feeding. p Two citizens of Broken Bow have sud- denly become wealthy by drawing prizes in a lottery scheme, Silence D. Sweeney, an old resident . who settled there in the John Sullivan, of Howard, s suffering with a couple of hmka?«r so he tried to ride in a buggy an lky horse. M. A.B. '\Ln:‘, of Broken Bow, is tistics abdut the old settlers of and incidents of their life on the froutie A four-year-old son of Silas Morse, living near Alexandria, was lost in a corn field lust week and was only found after the whole Semhborhuud had scarched for hiz a whole ay. General Brisbin, ‘wRo was to have ad- dressed the Dawes cougly veterans at their camp fire at Crawfordyivas unable to attend, as he has not recgvered from his recent stroke of paralysis. Harry L. Bennett, a footsore and hungry tramp, was taken in and cared for by W. G Willoughby, of Harvard, weeks u.m After being stall-fed for tén days and allowed 1o recuporate, he repaid his benefuctor by stealing a watch and skipping out. A re- ward is offered for his arrest. Vigilantes in Blaine county are after a far- mer named L. Rutter, living near Hawley Flats, and have seut him the following warn- ing: “Friend. you are uotified by the presences. and. I. congure you by the. living God. Not To Trouble. yourself About Con- tesTing or causing to be Gontested. Lands. in. your Gountry Or. The vigeleut Comity will wait on you in full Force. We Defend ma Richts oF Man, ViazLixt Comrry.” A correspondent of the Brewster News fron Edith Valley says: *“‘We read in Tug OmAHA BEE that lightning skinned a oat in ‘Waverly recently, and that the feline prom- ises to survive for many years with her other eight lives. Wo have an almost equal for the above. During the recent cyclone that so demoralized things at J. Rodenbous’, elec- tricity entirely dispossessed poor pussy of her coat of fur, and a more pitiable, ema- ciated species of the foline kind we never witnessed, and it lived. Now the auery is, if the Waverly cat had eight lives left, how many Lives will the pussy in Edith bo entitled to without fur" Towa. The Congrogationalists of Creston will bo summoned to worship by a §2,000 bell. A Dyersville farmer named Charles Harris fell from a load of straw and broke his neck. Fifty-two naturalization papers have been issued during the present term of the district court at Davenport. There is no coal dealers’ trust at Spencer and the residents are reaping the advantages of lively competition. Joseph Muchmore, a_young man_twenty- one years of age, was digging o well near a cesspool in Osceola, last Friday, when the cesspool burst through the wall and buried him. e was dead when he was taken out. An Towa exchango has this to say on the subject of prohibition: The saloons are wide open in the Bluffs, proportion to the pop- ulation there are twico as many as there are in Omaha. 1f compeiled to pay a license half of them would close at once, Why is it that the police can not see this, and act upon it. Prohibition increases drinking and increases crime, It is a dangerous and an_inadequate remedy, It calls the scoundrels who seil poison, liquor dealers, and it allows them to dispose of liquor insanity atan unusual price. The old rule of allowing all liberty, and mak- ing a man responsible when he passes the boandaries, is the best one after all. 1fa person were to be suddenly put down in Couneil Bluffs (which is & prohibition town) und sce the gambling shops at work on floors facing the street, he might think that there was somcthing wrong with the morals of the place. It might strike him that the manners of prohibition were somewhat peculiar, He might recollect that, in high license states, the infamy of public gambling 18 absolutely forbidden, and that there is something pecul- iar in finding it so pleasantly recognized in a prohibition state. These are what are called inconsistencios. The Great Northwest, Helena, Mont., will build a system of sew- erage costing $147,834, Many counterfeit shipped into Wyoming recently. The Wickes tunnel of the Montana Central will be open for trafic October 10, The assessed valuation of Gallatin county, Montana, property is placed at 4,000,000, A £320,000 hotel i8 to be built at M:nitou, Colo., before the opening of the seas. n next year. The Montana grand lodge 1. O. G. T. will hold its aunual session in Bozeman Octo- ber 10, John Misner, a citizen of Rock Wyo., has mysteriously disappeared. 1 missing since July 1 Charles E. Corker cleaned up §1,490 at his plucer claim near Glenu's ferry, Idaho, this season, working ouly one man, C. M. Russell, the ‘‘cowboy artist” of Mon- tani, is going to Italy to study and rope in a few pointers from the old masters. The Presbyterian synod, composed of dele- gates from Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico 4‘m|| Arizona, will meet at Cheyenne Octo- ber 10, The murderer of S. Morris Waln and Charles L. Strong, the two Philadelphia men who were killed' in Wyoming by a treach- erous guide, has been arrcsted ut Lander and is now in jail at Rawlins. Edward Young, sou of an Episcopahian minister, was found dead in a Chinese opium Joint at Walla Walla, W. T, Death was y paralysis of t heart produced by ver indulgence in the deadly drug. sther effort is to be made to save the life arter, the condemned Carbon count oming, murderer. It is said that the case will be carried to the supreme court of the United States if funds for that puipose can be obtained. The Spokane (W. T.) Hers 50T s been scen at Hy ke by Portland wen, They claim it was a real live reptile us round as a barrel. It not in a bottle, as most snakes are, but was crawling along the lake shore. The shipments of ore from Aspen, Cols last week amounted to 2,760 tons, of which 1,154 tons went over the Midland and 1,576 over the Denvi Rio Grande, 2,002 tons going to Denver, 532 tons to_Pueblo, 108 tons to Leadville and 205 tons to Kansas City. ‘The Laramie, Wyo., city council has passed an ordinauce making itobligatory for a suloon keeper to secure the signatures of a major- ity of the property owners on both sides of the street in the block in which the saloon is to be located before he can obtain a license, 3 from Grant county, Tdaho, report e Malbeur, a body of water that covers more than scventy square miles and has been without an outlet, is rushing through a sublerrancan passage With o great roar, It is said that miles of formerly sub- merged land is now visible. Mrs. Shannon, the Nevada woman who is under al v for committing night orgies with drunken Indians, is the mother of three little children. Efforts will be made by of- ficers of the law and the board of orphans’ home at Carson will be nterceded with in behalf of the children to have them admitted in that institution as half orphans. Their father died a few years ago. nd §1 bills have been Sorings, He has A sea - AMU 'flm\lh TS. Nat Goodwin In a Double Bill at Boyd's. Nat Goodwin occupies an cxclusive and couspicuons niche in the temple of comedy. Among the comedians of to-day he bolds a place as distinct as in the past W. E. Benton and Charley Burke beld, and it is a place not less nonorable than was theirs. Absolutely original, he stamps his individuality so strongly on whatever he undertakes, and achicvement, ' that whoover shall in the path he has trodden must run the risk of suffering by comparison. An analysis of his comedy suggests a spontaneity and an unstudied ef- fort which denote the highest order of talent, All there is of humor in u ol ho ast detail. He never leaves the ith a scnse of insufficiency, a ing that something has been ignored or ighted. Every part is rounded out to its full proportions and given all the expression und meaning the is in it, and this be- cause the actor is always full of his part, apparently enjoying the humor it compels of him not less than those to whose Ploasure he contributes. Mr. Goodwin's art, if he may be said to practice any art, rather than following the plain and simple prompt- ings of temperament and intuition, is com- plete at all points. Every attitude and ges- ture and fucial expression is to the purpose iling effect, the more 80 because it never appears to aim at effect, us it is tho habit of the average comedian to do. We should expect a man, under similar pes conditions in which t ated by Mr. Goo in are placed, to act quite as he does, and it is this natural and seem ingly unstudied portraiture which gives to haracterizations of Mv. Goodwin their htful charm and -indellible effect, and s the oldest of thein in perennial fresh This being conceded, it goes without saying that the audience which wd ed B > last night enjoyed most n's Golizhtly in “Lend Shillings” and Caraway Bones in .um..\ U b, two characters which give an excellent idea of his versatility and scope though certainly not exhausting the possi- bilitics of his talents, Mr. Goodwin is ex ceptionally well supported, and has evidently infused his company with something of his own buoyant spirit, which it way be re- marked, extonds itself beyond the stage. Where all did so acceptably, it might be deemed invidious to particul For this evening there will be another at- tractive double bill, embracing the new one act comedy, ‘A Royal Reveunge,” and the comedy which Mr. tn)ml\\m has_rendered widely popular, “Confusion.” It is cutirely safe to anticipate another crowded house. Pounded an lnull’cmdvo Man. - John Bishop and four of his companions were drinking in o saloon yesterday cvening on Seventh and Leavenworth streets. D. Jacobson, a Swedish laboring man who was on his way home from work, walked into the saloon and drank a glass of beer. The other fellows tried to start a row with him but did not succeed. Bishop and his friends wanted to slug some one, 80 they piled on to Jacob- @ was baaly used up, and when the lioe hove in sight Bishop's pals ran awsy. B hop was caught and arrested; the others PRE-EMPTING THE HICHWAY. The New York Life's Pre-emption of Seventeenth Stroet. WHITLOCK'S STRANGE PERMIT. He Accords Them tho Privilege Excavating Almost to the Centre ofthe Strect for Their Boller and Engine. of The Power House Under Ground. Tuesday ‘morning several drivers and toams with plows made their appearance on Seventeenth street at the New York Life In- surance company’s building and commenced to plow up the street. They were followed by & force of men with teams who began to excavate to within eight feet of the middle of the street, a stretch which extended sixty- eight feet southward from the ulley north of Farnam. The superintendent of Tur Ber building in course of erection on the opposite corner, dirccted Mr. Rosewater's attention to the matter and informed him that the ex- cavation was bemg made to enable the Now York Lafe people to put their power house under ground and under the street. “There must be some mistake about this," said Mr. Rosewater. It is not possible that have the right to excavate and occupy the streets for such a purpose. I'll see and put a stop to it. This was 5 0'clock in the evening and at that time the ¢ was nearly three feet de age water went to Mr. Nhitlock, the superintendent of buildings, That official informed him that he had issue permit to the New York Life people to make an ex- cavation forty-two feet out from the building line, “How does it come," asked Mr. Rosewater, “‘that you gave to the New York Life peop such 4 permit to _occupy the street twenty two feet beyond the curb line when you would not allow us an area of two feet b of our new building in the alley, which com- ze our plans and close up vé which we had designed for light?™ I'hat's another thing,” said Whitlock, “We don’t allow any projections i the alley. I gave the permit to the Life insurance peo- ple because they are putting up such a costly building,” “It seems then,” said Mr. Rosewater, “lel citizens of Omaha, who have been here five years and helped to build up the to be discriminated against. Wo hl\\n pretty nearly as good a building as they have, but you have given them a privilewo whi vill seriously interfere with our con- ience in the street without consulting us or anybody else on the streetor adjoining the New York Life building.” “Well,” said Mr. Whitlock, “I consulted Mr. Balcombe and several councilmen and they thought it was all right.” a dangerous precedent to set, to t power houses intothe street. “No, up to this time, we have only allowed them to go to the curb line. The I'irst Na- tional bank has a boiler under the sidewalk, and 80 have several others,”” “That's all right,” said Mr. Rosewater. “I should not object to their excavating un- der the sidewalk and using the space, but 1 most decidedly object to your allowing thoe streets to be torn up and used by anybody opposite our building.” In the evening, several of the councilmen who had gathered at the chamber expressed their very great surpr that the building inspector should allow the streets to be un- dermined and occupied for any purpose. Chmrman Balcombe denied that Whitlock had had any conversation with him on the subject, or at least he could not recall such a conversation and was equally surprised with the others that the street was to be torn up. Mayor Broatch said that it was an_unwar- rantable proceeding and the building in- spector should have consulted the council be- fore allowing such a thing. Ex-City Attorney Connell, who was called in, said that the ordinance left a wide lee- way for the inspector. It was not expected that he would exercise his power to such a dangerous extent, and ln' would advise the council to amend the ordinance and repeal the clause that would permit the streets to be used beyond the curbstone for anything ex- cept for public use, Mr. Whitlock was unable to name more than one councilman whom bhe claimed to have consulted, and that was Mr. Kierstead, Mr. Kierstead, when called upon yester day, denied that he had ever had such a con- versation, Chief Galligan and the city engineer, who are members of the board and who have au thority to issue permits, denied that Whit- lock had consulted them about the permit, “Do they want the earth!” asked an upper Farnam street man yester- day, when told about this = new departure of the New York Life. *“They fenced in the street to within three feet of the horse car track before they started for a distance of half a block, and actually went 80 far as to sell advertising space on the boards of their fenco for two years in ad- vance. They haven't had any use for this fence for more than two months, but Whit- lock allows them to monopolize the street with that unsightly board. They've had Soventeenth street, to themselves, blockaded with sheds and mountans of rubbish, which should have been carried away long ago. We appreciate, of course, the advantage of hav- ing foreign capital invested in Omaha, but why should foreign cavital and foreign con- Lractors have privileges which o citizen of Omaha ¢ Upon investigation it was found that the original plans did not contemplate a building beyond the curb line. A year ago last spring, before they began building, the New York Life asked that the curb line be set back from thirty to twenty feet. The council com- plied with the requ boiler and engine house covers an area uN.’x- 68 feet which areto be all underground. were two permits issued, the first one for twenty feet under the sidewalk, was no date to the last permit, Mr. Rosewater yesterday notifi tractors to cease work 80 us to until the matter could be settled by the coun cil or in the courts, but no attention was paid to the notitication, Mayor Broatch yesterday instructed Inspector Wintlock to have the work in ex- cavation stopped until the council could act, but at last reports it was still in progress. HUNTING A CANDIDATE Local Democrats at Sea on the Cou- gressional Question. The Douglas county delegates to the demo- cratic congressional couvention held a cau- cus carly last night at the rooms of Julius Meyer to decide on their course of action in to-day's coatest at Ncbrasia City Mr. Euelid Martin was in the chair at the start, but, being called out, yielded the gavel to Mr. J. J. Mahoney The chief purpose of the meeting was to agree upon a candidate to receive the solid support of the delegation. John Fitzgerald, of Lincoln, and Charles H. Brown and A. J. Poppleton, of this city, were dismissed as being out of the fiold by thier own declara- tions. Judge Broady, of Gage county, und Judzes Savage and Wakely, of this eity, wero mentionea ' and their availability canvassed. usion reached was that the d ould support Judge \\'uln aly Messrs. C. J b appointed & o wishos of the delegate and rep Judge Walely declined unequivocally to be the democratic candidate fo gress. There were a dozen reasons, he said, but two or three would suffice. If he were young and ambitious he might have been tempted, hut he now felt himself too old to engago in ac tive political campaigning. Iis position on the bench was congenial aud one he desired. He felt fitted for it and thought he ought to keep it. He thought the democracy could find @ younger and better man 1o enter the lists. “As for Limself, he would not like (o & compelled to go to Washington and leave family, and he declined to permit the use of his name. Judge Savage is in Boston, and a telegram was sent him asking if he'would take the nomination if tendered. He is expected to send an answor to Nebraska City to-night or in the morning. The Douglas county democracy foel that they should” be allowed to nuaé the candi- 1o to the judge, et Lis date. They think tho thing should be kept in the family, and will make that domand in the convention, Some of the dolegates went to Nebraska City last night, and the others go down this morning. On the arrival of the latter another caucus will be held for the purpose of agreeing on a caudidate to be sup- ported, It may be Judge Savage if he con. sents, but one of the most influential of the lh‘h‘m\(o- snid last night he believed it would be Charles H, Brown. He believed the latter would yield to & pressure that is to be brought to bear on him this morning, Mr, Brown was chosen chairman of the delega- tion, Congressman MeShane, Mr. Euclid Mar- tin of Omaha, and Major James K. North of North Platte, members of the democratic ex- utive committee, held & long meoting at headquarters last night to discuss plans for the conduct of the campaign, Not: The republicans of the Second district of the Ninth ward will hold & meeting Friday cvening, commencing at 8 o'clock, in Hortz- mann's hall, corner of Mercer and Kuroka, Important measures are o be considercd. A number of young women in the Second ward completed the organization of their rances Cleveland club Tuesday evening, Tha meeting was held at Sixteenth and Willinms streets, The following ofiicers were elected : Miss Shaw, president; Miss Mary Holmos, vico presidont; Miss Nast, socretary, and Miss Dalton, treasuror, is the intention of the club to meet at 7:30 . m. every Tues- day. IN THE | HOLE. The Democratic National Committeo Almost Swamped With Debts. W Yomrk, Sept. 20.—[Special Telogram to Tur Ber.|—There is most serious troublo in the democratic national committee. Thoey are in the hole. They know not which wi toturn for succor and the outlook is dark and forbidding. In a word, the committee hns no money, has overspent its exchequer, and is now engaged in the extremely dispir- iting occupation of retrenchment, and re- trenchment so radical and unprecedented that old heads in politics are simply beside themselves. Mr. Br has beon swinging things for soveral weeks and he has so far mired the democ that there appears to be no hope for their extrication before the November day which shall bring the two part into close conflict. The committee ten days ago was $180,000 in debt. Bills are accumulating and being pro- sented daily. At the time indicated the com- mittee had expended more than was paid out for all campaign purposes in 1884 and more- than was ever known at an equal period in any past campaign, ‘Thoy have simply gone klessly head over heels into debt, autis pating an carly recovery of therr f ortunes, and '||\(l themselves now money and nearly £200,000 in debt. In struggling to escape from its entangle- ments the committee proposes to make the first _attack upon i's own extravagant meth- ods by wholesale decapitation and retrench- ment. Nearly 50 per cent of the employes of the national headquarters will be discharged, and then those who are left will experience the severe pang of a reduction o amounting to 33 l)()h()l“;ll) ODD FELLOWS, Members Fraternize With Omaha Brothers. The colore 1 lodges of the I O. O. F'. enter- tained their brethren from Lincoln yester- day in this city, to the number of about threo hundred people. The entertainment ocourred position hall, and at the announced hour the Lall was crowded. Mayor Broach address of welcome, which w - 10 by Mr. Crampton, of Lin- coln. Dr. M. O. Rickets made an eloquent reply, There were m happy specches whick were interlarded with musical seloc- ticns by the Lincoln colored band and the xcelsior band of Omaha, At 7 o'clock last evening the colorod Odd Fellows fell into line and gave a grand pog rade. There were at least one hundred nn fifty men in line in rezalia. The Lineoln anc Excelsior bands marche 1 with them, and the parade Wns a Success iu evory wa; The Odd Fellows met again at the Exposi- tion hall and held a hterary and musical en- tertainment und banquet. It was opened with an oration by Dr. M. O. Rickets, who was followed by ‘songs and piano solos. were made by A, W. Parker and U W. F'ranklin, interspersed with vocal and instrumental music. Mr. M. ‘I, Singteton was master of c:remonies. Tho banquot fol- lowed and was not the least enjoyable featuro of the evening. salary coln Want the Roads Run Right. New York, Sept. 26.—The London corre- spondent of the Times telographs that for- eignistareholders, not only of the St. Pau road but also of the Burlington, Santa Fo and Northwestern, propose to take action to secure the running of those roads in the in- terest of investors instead of the directors. » Ohief in Trouble. 2 »Mu)ol‘ Brown to- Reis of this charges nzmmfl, Reisaro punhng investigation by the board of police and fire commissioners. Ch Rosewater, son of the editor of ‘Iue leves for Baltimore this evening, He enters the Johus Hopkins university next week, He is accompanied by Miss Nellio Rosewater, his sister, who returns to her studies l;\l the, art de.utmcnb of Cooper In- dorsed by 1 the stroi faking Powde onts ammonia, lime or wlum, Hold only in cans. s RICE BAKING POWDER CO. Chicago, §t. Louts Yor sk and s calp troublo such as Eezema, Tetter, Ring. worm, Scaly Eruptions, (iround Tteh, Polsois Ouk, Dandraff, ing Ha & DHONAPITINAL 5 Lo ali othier local ¢ 4 pute Medicated m 0 urious matter. cditls pleasan for the tollet, does ot New York., WORTH THEIR WEIGHT IN G60LD COIN 10T the general purposes of & disinfectant, BEABUKRY'S Bul- ANDELES uro ghly o4 Py Qisinfoc ing tor Cellars, Siuks, Ships, Insurance Companios mend them as a safo m employiug Sulphur, 7" Alwiys use DENeON'SPLAS T for uches wnd Puins. g4 JUSEPH CILLOTTS STEEL PENS GOLD MEDAL PARIS EXPOSITION 1878, Nos, 303-404-170-604. THE X0ST PERFECT OF PENS .